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Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 27, 1897.
CorrEsPoNDENTS.—No communications pub-
lished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
The Wagner mill property, at Miles-
burg, brought $2,100 at sheriff’s sale, on
Monday afternoon.
——Cap’t. O. S. Rumbarger has been
appointed postmaster at Warriors-mark to
succeed Daniel Chamberlain.
——1It required ten coaches to have the
crowd of Jersey Shore people who enjoyed
a union picnic, at Hecla park, on Tuesday.
-—James A. Fiedler, formerly post-
master of Bellefonte and editor and pro-
prietor of the Keystone Gazette, has become
editor of the Williamsport Times.
Rev. Dr. R. Leighton Gerhart mar-
ried Mr. Wilson Boon and Miss Bessie
Brickley, both of Romola, at the Brant
house, in this place, on Wednesday.
—J. K. Johnston Esq., one of the
latest additions to the Centre county bar,
made his maiden speech before a jury, on
Tuesday morning, and did it well.
——The third and last assembly of the
Bellefonte series will be given in the
armory of Co. B, corner of Lamb and
Spring streets, next Thursday night.
Eighty-two persons made up the
Osceola, Houtzdale, Philipsburg and
neighboring points contingent to the Buf-
falo encampment, on Monday morning.
——To use a very slang expression the
Hi Henry show will be very much the
warmest minstrel member of the season at
Garman’s. It comes next Friday night,
September 3rd.
——Miss Powell, of New York, has
rented the Episcopal rectory and will go to
housekeeping in it with her three neices,
the Misses White, who are here for their
health and to attend the Academy.
——Dr. and Mrs. S. Bond, of Baltimore,
who are here for the summer, with Mrs.
~ Bond’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Val-
entine, are being congratulated because a
baby girl was born to them on Monday.
——TFrank Crosthwaite has rented one of
Dr. Frear’s houses at State College and will
make that thrivinglittle borough his home
after next Wednesday. Mr. Reeves, the
organist of the Episcopal church, will take
the house he vacates on Thomas street.
-—-It took Joe Auman and Harvey
Hoover, of Penn township, a day and a
half to smoke a swarm of hees out of a
pine tree, in the vicinity of their home,
and secure seventy pounds of honey. The
combs were seventy feet from the ground.
——The ladies of Coleville will enter-
tain their friends at a festival to be given
on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 28th, for
the benefit of the M. E. church of that
place. Refreshments will be served and a
pleasant time is promised all who attend.
——Samuel Lyon Jr., of the north pre-
cinct of Spring township, is a happy man
just now. Last week he received notice
that an increase of $5 per month had been
made in his pension. Mr. Lyon was a
good soldier and is deserving of all he
can get.
William Moore, of the leader of the
pair of robbers who are in the Blair county
jail for looting post-officers, attempted
suicide on Wednesday morning. He was
shaving and slashed himself across the
neck, but did not cut deep enough to prove
fatal.
——Archbishop Ryan, of the Philadel-
phia diocese of the Catholic church, con-
ducted mass in Lock Haven, on Sunday
morning. He was on his way to this place
to the funeral of his brother-in-law, Mr.
Bowen. Bishop Ryan celebrated mass in
St. John’s Catholic church here at 10:30.
——The Logan picnic will soon come off
and the great time of the season will have
been held at Hunter’s park. Saturday,
September 4th, Labor day, is the date that
has been set for the annual outing by the
Logans. They will have a great barbecue,
dancing, athletic contests, base-ball and
many other amusement schemes.
—Our country readers will doubtless
be interested in the table on page 3 of this
issue, inasmuch as it shows a comparative
test of the productiveness of about all the
varieties of oats grown in this section.
The records have been made at the Penn-
sylvania State College experiment station
and are wholly reliable.
—Hi Henry’s modern minstrels open
here on Friday night, September 3rd.
There is no need of reprint press clippings
to inform Bellefonters of how good it will
be. All of them have known Hi Henry
for years and know that his coming
guarantees a diversified program of the
finest and most refined in minstrelsy. He
has fifty artists with him for this season’s
tour and among them are such stars as
Arthur Deming, T. McMahon, J. King,
Harry Leighton and J. Albert Gates.
——The Imperial mandolin and guitar
club probably made its last appearance, on
Saturday evening, at the delightful musicale
given at the Bush house. Mr. Gerhart, the
leader, will soon leave for his new duties
as instructor on guitar, banjo and mandolin
at the Mercersburg Academy and then the
club will more than likely disband. It
has been a very highly appreciated or-
ganization and the musicale at the Bush
house proved an excellent opportunity to
show it off to advantage. Mr. and Mrs.
Daggett and Miss Minnie Brew received
the coterie of ladies and gentlemen who
were fortunate enough to have heen there.
A PROMINENT RAILROAD MAN
BrouGHT HERE FOR BURIAL.—The body
of the late Edmund S. Bowen, of New
York city, was brought to this place, Sun-
day morning, for interinent. Mr. Bowen
had died in New York, last Friday, with
stomach trouble and was about 67 years
old.
Mass over the remains was said in St.
Paul’s, New York, on Saturday, by Arch-
bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, assisted by
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York. The
funeral left the metropolis that night and
arrived here Sunday morning from Lock
Haven. :
Immediately upon arriving here the
funeral moved to St. John’s Catholic
church, on Bishop street, where friends
were given an opportunity to view the re-
mains. Thence they were taken to the
cemetery, where Archbishop Ryan cele-
brated service for the dead and was assisted
by father McArdle. :
The relatives who accompanied the re-
mains from New York were Mrs. Bowen
and son E. I.; Dr. Ryan Deveraux, of
‘Washington, D. C. ; Dr. John Deveraux,
of Philadelphia ; Archbishop Ryan, of
Philadelphia ; Sebastian Wimmer, chief
engineer of the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western railroad, of St. Mary’s ; Mrs. W.
S. Wilson and son, Edmund S., of Newark,
N. J. ; E.S. Elliott, of Charleston, S.C. ;
G. S. Strong, J. J. Rodrigue and W. F.
Fanning, of New York. At Lock Haven
the following relatives hoarded the car and
came to this place : Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Simpson, Mrs. Strong, Mrs. Dravo, Wil-
liam Dravo, jr., and Miss Simpson.
Those from New Florence were T. W.
Bowen, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Elliott aud
Mrs. E. McNerman. The carriers were
Gen’l. J. I. Curtain, John P. Harris, Jno.
M. Dale, John I. Potter, Hon. Harry Cur-
tin and George L. Potter all of Bellefonte.
Deceased was a brother-in-law of Arch-
bishop Ryan ; his second wife, who sur-
vives with two sous, being a sister of the
Archbishop. Mr. Bowen’s body was bur-
ied by the side of his first wife, who was a
Miss Tammany.
During his life Mr. Bowen was promi-
nently connected with a number of rail-
road enterprises in this country, both as
president, general manager and receiver.
He began as an engineer on the construc-
tion of the P. and E. and had charge of the
building of the Queen’s run bridge above
Lock Haven. At the time of his death he
was vice president of the Georgia and
North Carolina system and assistant receiv-
er of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlaine
road.
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KATHERINE STINE WALKER.—After a
brief illness Katherine Stine Walker, of
Ferguson township, this county, died at
her residence, near Fairbrook, on Sunday,
Aug. 22nd, in the 79th year of her
age. The deceased was born in Half-
Moon township, this county, on the farm
now occupied by Mr. A. Stine. Her father,
Samuel Stine, when but a youth, came to
this county from Hagerstown, Md., and
located in Half-Moon valley, at which
place he was united in marriage to Kath-
erine Gray who was a daughter of John
Gray, who settled in that valley in 1788.
The deceased’s father and his devoted com-
panion selected farming for a livelihood
and by their frugal habits and earnest toil
accumulated considerable wealth and at
the same time reared a large family, one
of whom was the deceased. Four sisters
and two brothers still remain. They are
as follows: Mrs. Mary A. Walker, of
Saulsburg, Huntingdon county ; Mrs. Wm.
Stine, Mifflin county ; Mrs. John W.
Gray, Stormstown ; Mrs. Hanna Nearhoof,
of Tyrone ; Mr. Samuel Stine, of Hunt-
ingdon, Pa. ; and Mr. A. Stine, of Half-
Moon. The last named resides on the
original homestead.
The subject of this sketch, early in life,
found a friend in Jesus as a personal
Saviour. She was led into the experience
of perfect love for her Redeemer and
through all of the sorrows that came to her
she never lost that crown of glory. In her
christian life and work she combined
practical common sense with unswerving
faith and enthusiastic devotion. She
sincerely believed that the rites and cere-
monies of church do not avail much, but
to bave constant communion with the
Holy Spirit in the sacred sanctuary of her
private abode would restore her soul to the
Giver. She would often remonstrate her
children to desist from their personal at-
tentions as her desire was to go to her
Saviour and loved ones in heaven.
Her death was beautiful and triumphant
and as we recall its victory we are con-
strained to say : ‘‘Let me die the death of
the righteous.”
The deceased was married to Andrew
Walker, who still survives. From this
union nine children were born, seven of
whom survive her : They are Mrs. Mary
Hettinger, of Boalsburg ; Mis. J. Henry
Meyer, of Bowling Green, Vt. ; A. S., of
Pine Grove ; I. G., of Spruce Creek ; L.
W. and Clara A., of Fairbrook, and W.
Miles, of Bellefonte. Her remains were
consigned to the grave at Fairbrook.
The Revs. Guyer and Mattern conducted
the burial services at which a large num-
ber of relatives and many sympathizing
friends were present to pay their last
respect to the beloved mother and esteemed
neighbor. :
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——Rev. John Dotterer, aged 50 years,
died at his home, near Clihtondale, last
Friday morning. Deceased was a member
of the west Susquehanna classis of the Re-
formed church and had retired from active
ministerial duty about six years ago ; his
last charge having been the Rebersburg
charge in Brush valley. He is survived by
a widow with six children. Funeral ser-
vices were held on Monday and interment
was made in Mt. Bethel cemetery.
KATHERINE LIEB 1s DEAD.—Katherine
Lieb, youngest daughter of the late John
Lieb, of this place, died at the home of her
brother Andrew, in Bethlehem, yesterday
morning. Consumption was the cause.
She had spent last winter at the home of
Mr. F. P. Green, in this place, and left
here on the morning of June 24th. Miss
Ella Levy accompanied her and has been
with her since then.
The remains will be buried here next
Tuesday morning.
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——James Matley, formerly of Philips-
burg. died in Boston, last Monday, after a
lingering illness. Deceased was in the
65th year of his age and is survived by
four daughters and two sons. Several sis-
ters and brothers reside at Philipsburg.
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——Mrs. Sarah Williamson, of Philips-
burg, died, on Saturday evening, at the
residence of her son-in-law, William Phil-
lips. Deceased was 57 years old and had
been entirely blind for thirty-two years.
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——Wm, Jr., thelittle son of Wm. Mey-
ers, of Coleville, died with diphtheria, last
Tuesday, and was buried that night.
Only a week before his little sister Esther
died with the same disease.
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——The infant daughter of Mr. William
Mitterling, of Tusseyville, is dead and
will be buried this morning at 10 o’clock.
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——Mrs. Burt Taylor, of north Alle-
gheny street, is recovering from the opera-
tion for appendicitis.
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——Mrs. John Reasner, of South Alle-
gheny street, was taken to Howard hospit-
al, in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, to un-
dergo an operation for appendicitis.
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——~Clayton Rider, the Coleville man
who was operated on for appendicitis sev-
eral weeks ago and whose case zttracted
such wide attention, walked into this
place Wednesday afternoon. He looks
very frail, but is recovering surely.
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——The Tyrone shoe manufactory began
active operation on Tuesday. It is not ex-
pected that the place will be in efficient
running order before next week.
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——Hi Henry’s minstrels are great at-
tractions in Bellefonte. A clever lot of
black face artists, with clean, up to date
specialties are bound to win favor any-
where and Hi Henry has fifty of them with
him. His show comes here September 3rd.
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——The Logan picnic at Hunters park,
on Saturday, September 4th, is being talk-
ed of already, because the Logans always
do things right and when they are enter-
taining everyone has a good time. The
monster ox-roast that will be a feature of
the picnic is going to draw crowds of peo-
ple.
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——1In an advertising column of this is-
sue there appears an inquiry after seven
hogs that strayed from the home of H. D.
Decker, who lives on the Hale farm a short
distance east of Bellefonte. Anyone who
has heard of their whereabouts would be
doing a great kindness by letting him
know where they can be found or address-
ing this office.
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CENTRE COUNTY PROHIBITIONISTS IN
SESSION.—The members of the Prohibition
party of Centre county met in the court
house, in this place, last Thursday after-
noon, to nominate a ticket for the fall
campaign.
The meeting was called to order by Rev.
J. Zeigler, chairman, and Rev. Miller
acted as secretary. Rev. W. O. Henderson
opened the meeting with prayer, then Mr.
John I. Thompson, of Lemont, moved that
the party in Centre county adopt the state
platform. It was carried and nominations
were in order for jury commissioners.
John Craig, Julian, and W. J. Dale,
Lemont, were named. The ballot re-
sulted in a vote of 12 to 9 in favor of Mr.
Dale. The naming of a candidate for
county surveyor was left to the executive
committee. Rev. J. Zeigler was re-elected
county chairman for the ensuing year and
all the business having been concluded
Rev. Quincy Lee Morrow, of Maryland,
was called on for a speech. He talked at
length and said many things to please our
cold water brethren.
THEY SETTLED THE DIFFERENCE.—
Ever since the spring ‘election Jos. Shirk,
the saddler of Milesburg, and H. P. Haupt,
the tinner down there, kave been looking
out of the corners of their eyes at one an-
other.
The difference between them finally
amounted to a scrap. A real, old-fash-
ioned knock-down, with a most mournful-
ly draped eye for the tinner which came
about in this way :
After the resignation of the old Repub-
lican chairman in the borough of Miles-
burg Mr. Shirk was appointed to fill the
vacancy. When it came time for holding
the primaries for the spring elections the
new chairman either did not hold them
or no one attended. Haupt found this
out and went around to have some
fun at Shirk’s expense. He teased him
awhile, then went away to allow him to
cool down, but upon his second trip the
saddler could grin and bear it no longer,
so he jumped into his tormentor and soon
had him flat on his back and punched good
enough to satisfy anyone.
Friends of the belligerents tried to keep
the fight quiet, but Mr. Haupt was finally
over-persuaded by the sweetness of revenge
and Shirk was brought up here, on Tues-
day night, for trial before justice Keich-
line. It required several wagons to haul
all the witnesses up and there was quite a
crowd of Milesburgers in town. The case
was settled after they got here.
AUGUST QUARTER SESSIONS COURT Now
SITTING.—The regular term of quarter
sessions court convened Monday morning
with Judges Love and Faulkner on the
bench.
The greater part of the morning session
was taken up with the hearing of various
petitions and receiving the returns of the
constables of the various boroughs and
townships.
The cases were then taken up and dis-
posed of as follows :
Commonwealth vs. William Harkins,
indicted first count, larceny, second count,
entering dwelling house in day time to
commit a felony : prosecutor Jonas Au-
man. This prosecution was for the taking
of a foot rule, pocket book, and a pipe, all
of the value of about $2, from the house of
the prosecutor in Penn township. The de-
fendant plead guilty to the first count, and
the commonwealth entered a nolle prosequi
as to the second count.
Commonwealth vs. Allan Wagner,
charge, betrayal, prosecutrix Clara Shaw-
ley. Neither the defendant nor his bonds-
man, R. S. Wagner, appearing when this
case was called, the recognizance was for-
feited and directed to be sued out by the
court.
Henry Kech vs R. C. Gilliland, admin-
istrator of etc., of Mathias Kech, late of
Burnside township, deceased, plea scire
facias sur judgment, No. 133, January term
1881. Verdict in favor of the plaintiff, for
$1,696.70. ;
On Monday H. Y. Stitzer Esq., chair-
man of the committee on resolutions on
the death of Ira C. Mitchell, a member of
the bar, presented the minutes and reso-
lutions of the Centre county har associa-
tion. Remarks were made by Mr. Stitzer
and Hon. A. O. Furst.
Commonwealth vs John Gueiswhite, f.
and b. Defendant plead guilty and usual
sentence imposed. Sara Jane Hartman,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Sarah Weaver.
This lady resides in Worth township and
was arrested on a charge of assault and
battery. The whole trouble came about
over a piece of fence worth about 15 cents.
The verdict was defendant not guilty and
prosecutor pay the costs. W. T. Patton,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Geo. Hogencamp,
larceny. He was indicted for stealing a
case of beer from W. R. Haines, of Snow
Shoe, wholesale liquor dealer. Verdict
not guilty.
Commonwealth vs. J. Larry Bathurst ;
charge, malicious mischief. The prosecu-
tor was H. R. Curtin, trustee. After hear-
ing the evidence for prosecution a nolle
pros. was entered.
Commonwealth vs. Joseph
charge, malicious mischief. Prosecutor
Thos. Taylor. The jury rendered a ver-
dict of nat guilty and costs divided evenly
between prosecutor and defendant.
Com. vs. Amos Garbrick and Lawrence
Gessner, of Spring township, charge, cruel-
ty to animals. The prosecutor in the case
was Frank Lockard. It seems that on the
25th of July two of Mr. Lockard’s hogs
strayed into Mr. Garbrick’s corn field.
Mr. Garbrick chased them out and one
died from the heat or some cause. The
verdict of the jury found the defendants not
guilty, but placed three-fourths of the costs
on Garbrick and one-fourth on Lockard.
Commonwealth vs William and Jerry
Garner, of Ferguson township. This case
excited considerable interest, inasmuch as
the parties are well-known farmers in that
end of the county and the fact that they
should have been returned for abusing
their aged father made the case rather
notorious. Suit was brought against them
by the over-seer of Ferguson township,
who looked to the stories of hardships old
Mr. Garner had told his neighbors of, to
prove the case against the boys. Many of
the reputable men of that precinct were
witnesses and all testified that old Mr.
Garner had told them most harrowing tales
of how he had been abused by his sons,
but when that worthy took the stand,
himself, he knocked the talk out of them
all and every prop from under the prosecu-
tion by stating that his boys had never
abused him. The court discharged de-
fendents at once.
This concluded the proceedings up to
the Cornelly case, which is now on trial
and a full account of which is given in
another part of this issue.
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Sellers ;
A GREAT BALL GAME AT HECLA PARK
NEXT TUESDAY.—At 1:30 Tuesday after-
noon a special train will leave the Central
station, at the foot of Lamb street, to carry
the great crowd that will fairly push the
boundary of Hecla park over into Clinton
county.
The lawyers and business men of Belle-
fonte are going to have a match game of
ball and if the business men don’t win it
is not likely that the otherside will either.
The game is for blood, no sport about it,
and if you go down there and get slapped
in the face no one will need tell you that
you have been unconsciously permitting
your vocal apparatus to run away with
your brains. The umpire will run things ;
everything but the train to and from the
park. The management has considerately
left that for the rail-road company.
Remember that the train will leave at
1:30 and if any of the lawyers are not on
hand at that time it will not wait. Rail-
roads are not like Centre county courts, to
be postponed, delayed and generally run
to suit the lawyers.
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EXCURSION TO NIAGARA FALLS.—On
Tuesday, Sept. 7th, 1897, agents of the
Ceutral R. R. of Pa., will sell excursion
tickets to Niagara Falls and return at rate
of $5.50 for the round trip. These tickets
will be good for five days, exclusive of sell-
ing date.
News Purely Personal.
—Abe Markle, of State College, was in town on
Wednesday.
—DMiss Laura Rumberger, of Bishop street, is
visiting Philipsburg friends.
—Miss Mabel Boal, of Centre Hall, ix visiting
Miss Mary MeQuistion, of High street.
—Reuben Mull, of Philipsburg, was a guest at
the home of Mrs. J. Murray Andrews, over Sun-
day.
—Miss Margery Knowles, of Richmond, Va., is
visiting her cousin, Mrs. J. M. Dale, of Linn
street.
—Mrs. Abram Valentine, of Atlantic City, is the
guest of her sisters, Mrs. Robert Valentine and
Miss Natt.
—Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wetzel, of Thomas street,
spent Sunday with Mrs. Wetzel's sister, Mrs, C.
U. Hoffer, in Philipsburg.
—Ex-sheriff John P. Condo, of Millheim, with
his daughter, Miss Elizabeth, were in town on
Wednesday, and looked in at the Cornelly trial.
—Marion Killian, Mrs. Amos Mullin’s little
niece, who has been visiting here for a month, re-
turned to her home in Lancaster, on Tuesday..
—Miss Elizabeth Stvart, daughter of the new
postmaster at State College, returned home, Sat-
urday, from a month's visit in Milton, Sunbury
and Muncy.
—William Buck, more familiar to you, perhaps,
as “Billy,” went back to his home at Cumnock,
N. C., on Monday afternoon. Pleasant days were
the two weeks he spent with his friends here.
—Ex-county register John A. Rupp, of Oak
Hall, was an attendant at court on Tuesday. He
looks rugged and happy, as was his appearance
when a resident of this place.
—Roger Bayard, the personal editor cf the News,
is in Altoona on a visit and from the reports of the
Mountain city papers he must be cutting a pretty
wide swath among the pretty girls of that place.
—Mis. S. A. Bell, Mrs. Thomas Donachy and
Emma Schrock were three of the fifty-two ex-
cursionists who left this place, on last Saturday
morning, to attend the 31st encampment of the
G. A. R. in Buffale.
—James Pierpont arrived from Pittsburg, on
Monday, to spend a day with Mrs. Pierpont,
who is here for her health. He is only recover-
ing from a serious attack of pneumonia that pros-
trated him last January.
—Mr. and Mrs. Byron C. Achenbach and their
cute youngster, Earl, are off on a visit to Lock
Haven and other points in Clinton county where
Achy used to make things hum when he was a
boy.
—Albert Hoy is home from Woonsocket, R. I.,
where he has been employed ina large brick
works since leaving the Pennsylvania State
College. He will visit his mother for a short
time.
—Miss Mabel Cowdrick, the charming daughter
of M. W. Cowdrick, Niagara Fall, N. Y., returned
to her home, Tuesday morning, after quite an ex-
tended visit with relatives and friends at her
former home here.
—Miss Lillian Barrett, head operator in the
Bellefonte telephone exchange, is off on a trip to
Potters Mills. Her health has been such as to
make it quite necessary for her to get off where
the strain of work no longer preys on her.
—Miss Lida Mitchell, who has been spending
the summer with the Thompsons and other
friends, at Lemont and State College, has re-
turned to her home in Minneapolis, Minn., where
she is a successful kindergarten teacher.
—Last Saturday L. J. Grauer, the genial man-
ager of Lyon and Co’s., store left for New York to
buy fall and winter goods. He was accompanied,
as far as Philadelphia, by his little niece, Alma
Lichten, who is returning to school.
—Tom Foster, of Philadelphia, a brother of
Hon. Robt. M. Foster, of State College, one of the
best natured, jolliest fellows who comes to Belle-
fonte was in town, on Monday, with H. H. Davis
Esq., a prominent lawyer from Sunbury.
—C. U. Hoffer and A. C. Thompson, of Philips-
burg, were in town during the fore part of the
week, ostensibly to attend court but to do a little
politicking, as well. Both gentlemen are looking
out for an office that they think would suit them
toa T.
—Hard P. Harris is away on his summer vaca-
tion. He left Tuesday afternoon and before he
returns Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington,
Atlantic City and Harrisburg will have had op-
portunity of learning that they are ‘not so sev-
eral” when it comes to having a corner on clever
people,
—Mr. G. H. Hubbard, of Beech Creek, was in
town, on Monday, just calling on his many
friends about here before going off to his work in
the schools of South Willlamsport. At one time
he was one of Centre county’s most efficient
teachers, but better offers took him to Lycoming
and he has been there ever since.
—George Myers, of Rochester, was in
last Friday night to attend the assembly. His
father and brother, J. H. and Dr. Osear Myers,
have gone to the Klondyke with an experienced
miner, four horses and provisions to last them
two years, although they expect to return home
inside of eight months or a year.
—Lieut Erast J. Burkert, a native of Rebers-
burg, this county, but now a resident of Chicago,
has been in this county visiting friends for a few
days. During his stay in Bellefonte Mr. William
Harper was showing him around. Mr. Burkert
came East to attend the Buffalo encampment,
but changed his mind after arriving here and
went on to Philadelphia.
—The venerable Jonas Stine, away up in the
eighties, has been a member of the grand jury
this week and while he has reached a ripe old
age he still enjoys being in town for a few days.
Mr. Stine is one of the good old men of Patton
township and his years of life in this county
have offered him an opportunity of observing the
ups and downs of events in the country and it is
interesting to liéar him talk of them.
—John Gilliland Esq., was in Bellefonte, on
Tuesday, noting the changes that have been
made since his last visit here in 1893. He is in
the Interior department at Washington and
though his vacations have been coming just as
regularly as a well organized system could per-
mit, he had been neglecting his old home here
and relatives in Centre county. Mr. Gilliland
was born in the house, on North Alleghany street,
now used by the Y. M. C. A,, and as he looked
out of our office window on the cool, limpid
waters of Spring creek, he recalled the days
when as a boy, he had coasted from the old
school house, that stood near the spot where the
jail now stands, down the steep hill on High
street, either to stop in the old covered bridge or
t) run down the road into the ereek.
—Among the enthusiastic old veterans, their
sisters, their cousins and their aunts, who left,
on last Saturday morning, with the. intention of
saying to the conductor “Put me off at
Buffalo,” were Samuel Williams, wife and
daughter Rilla, Mrs. Sarah Satterfield, Miss
Lizzie Hamilton, Mrs. John McGinley and
daughter Hester, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Dooley, Mrs.
D. M. Kline, Mrs. William Ross, Miss Mame
Bell, Miss Mary Dolan, John Anderson, John
Noll, Geo. P. Thomas, Geo. Martz and wife, Math-
thew Riddle, J. W. Green, R. W. Bloom, David
Burrell, Joseph Abt, John S. Yearick and wife,
Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Jack Showers, Dr. Christ, Calib
Bathgate and son, Wm. Resides, Samuel Miller,
Chas. Eckenroth, W. T. Fitzgerald, J. I. Condo,
Edward Sellers, wife and son, James LL. Mulhol-
land, D. W. Meyer and wife, Walter C. VanValin
and son and Geo. Sweeney.
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THE HORSE JERKED His THUMB OFF. —
William Masden, the man who has charge
of the toll house on the pike a short dis-
tance on this side of Mill Hall, has had an
experience slightly similar to that of the
boy who tied one end of a strap, with
which he was leading a calf, around his
ueck and was choked to death when the
calf ran off in play and dragged him from
his feet.
Mr. Masden was seated in his buggy,
driving one horse with one hand and leading
another with his other hand. Suddenly one
of the horses frightened. The strap to the
halter of the led horse was wrapped around
the driver’s thumb and when the one
went forward faster than the other would
follow the strain on that member was so
great as to jerk it clear off. The thumb
only stuck to the hand by a little of the
skin whieh had acted as an elastic when
the strain was on it.
The man suffered intensely from his
injury, but drove to Dr. McCloskey’s, at
Mill Hall. The physician cut the thumb
off close up at the hand.
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THEIR HORSE RAN AWAY. — Mrs.
Luther Strunk and several of her children
were driving in a light wagon, near their
home in Nittany valley, on Saturday morn-
ing, when the horse became frightened and
ran away. They were all thrown out.
Mis. Strunk had her arm broken at the
wrist, while one of the children was very
badly bruised.
The horse frightened at the rattling of
milk cans in the wagon.
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A HEAVY GATE FELL oN HiM.—A
heavy farm gate fell on the six-year old son
of George Berry, a well known farmer in
the vicinity of Mackeyville, and injured
him seriously. The accident occurred on
Saturday morning and the child is now
suffering with a broken leg and severe
bruises about the head.
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——One of James Harris & Co’s. de-
livery horses fell on the High street rail-
road crossing, on Wednesday morning,
and it was with considerable difficulty
that the animal was gotten onto its feet
again. It had caught one of its hoofs he-
tween the rail and side plank.
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——Mrs. J. C. Smith, of Millheim, was
thrown from her horse, on Tuesday even-
ing, and narrowly escaped serious injury.
She was out riding when her horse sudden-
ly quickened his pace and unseated her.
She landed on her head and was momenta-
rily stunned, but soon recovered enough to
walk home.
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THE VALENTINE FURNACE IS BANKED.
—The fires in the furnace of the Valentine
iron company, at this place, were banked,
last Saturday, and three hundred and fifty
men are temporarily out of employment.
The cause of the suspension has already
been published in the WATCHMAN and
how long it will continue is not known.
The [condition of the iron market is not
such as to make the prospect of an early
resumption very encouraging.
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——Boy’s suits for school or dress wear.
New goods just opened at Faubles’. It
will pay you to see them.
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PICNIC AND FESTIVAL.—The Hunter's
Run M. E. Sunday school will hold a pic-
nic and festival in the Schenck heirs grove,
at Hunter’s Run, near Howard, on Satur-
day, Sept. 4th.
Refreshments of the usual order will be
served on the ground. A cordial invita-.
tion is extended to everybody to attend.
Proceeds for the benefit of the church.
——The Coleville Methodists will hold
a festival in the chapel at that place to-
Proceeds for the benefit
of the church.
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——The Presbyterians of Osceola are
preparing to build a new $5,000 church
building.
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Boy’s suits for school or dress wear.
New goods just opened at Faubles’. It
will pay you to see them.
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by Geo. W. Jackson & Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
press :
Red Wheat, old
Red wheat, new.
Rye, per bushel.....
Corn, shelled, per bushe 35
Corn, ears, per bushel. 35
Oats, per bushel, old... 22
Oats, per bushel, new . 20
Barley, per bushel....... 30
Ground Plaster, pér ton. 8 00
Buckwheat, per bushel..
Cloverseed, per bushel...
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Eggs, per dozen.
Lard, per pound.
Country Shoulder
Sides...
Hams..
Tallow, per pound..
Butter, per pound.
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