CorrEsPONDENTS.—No communications pub- lished unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY — George L. Williams, of Howard, the expert penman, is labeling the files in the prothonotary’s office. It is needless to comment that a nice job is being done. Two hundred petitions for naturali- zation papers were filed in the Clearfield courts last Friday. It was the first of sev- eral appointed days for hearing such ap- plications. ——J. H. Detwiler’s exhibit of poultry at the Granger's picnic captured seven first and four second prizes. He is pro- prietor of the low comb henneries at Aaronsburg. At the present term of Elk county court three murder cases were set down for trial, but owing to the large number of other cases to be tried Judge Mayer post- poned the murder trials until a special term of court. ——The new officers for the Bellefonte co-operative glass company for the ensuing year have been elected. They are John Knisely, president ; Jacob Gearing, mana- ger ; James Conroy, treasurer ; S. C. Cal- houn, secretary. Bellefonte lodge I. 0. O. F. paid a fraternal visit to Howard lodge, on Wed- nesday evening, and were entertained at a fine banquet at the Syracuse house. The Bellefonters drove down and report having had a splendid time. Mis. Alexander Ford and family will not leave Bellefonte for their new home in Chattanooga, Tenn., until about the middle of October. The prevalence of yellow fever in the South has caused them to postpone their departure. ——The last letter received from Thomas Pelky, who went from Emporium to Klon- dike some time ago, states that that gen- tleman had netted at least $60,000, and that he expects to come home in about a year. Mr. Pelky formerly resided at Williamsport. We are glad to learn that Mrs. James Waddle, wife of the oldest and long- est in service conductor on the Bald Eagle valley railroad, has just successfully under- gone an operation in a Philadelphia hos- pital. She had been unwell for yeas and now permanent relief is thought to be at hand. Mis. H.W. Hoover and friends of the late H. W. Hoover, of Bald Eagle, whose obituary was published in last week’s edi- tion of this paper, feel sincerely grateful to the kind people of Unionville, the old home of deceased. Burial was made on the 15th and at that time the people of Unionville were extremely thoughtful and kind to the bereaved. ——A young man by the name of Show- ley, from State College, got mixed up in a bicycle trouble here a few evenings He works in the laundry up there and rented a machine from a Mr. Long- well, of Lemont, to come to this place. His actions with the wheel became suspicious and our police were notified. They recovered the wheel but Showley gave them the slip. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Strouse are spending their honeymoon with his par- ents and relatives near State College. Tom was a member of the class of ’92, but left college before graduating to accept a posi- tion with his brother W. F., in Baltimore, where they are both prospering. The wedding was a big church affair with four | hundred invitations and took place in Baltimore last Thursday. We wouldn’t like to say that Wil- liam Hepburn, of Spring township, is the boss plum grower of the earth, but in our estimation there are few, if any, ahead of him. We base such judgment on a basket of the very luscious genus prunus that he brought to this office the other day. Wil- liam is not one of the kind so selfish as to keep all the good things to himself and even while experiencing the usual pain that goes with an over dose of such fruit, we didn’t regret his kind gift one bit. ——Millheim’s council is struggling with the cow question. Nearly every small town in the State has had this troub- le to contend with and the banishment of the cow from the streets of a borough usu- ally results in the relegation of some coun- cilmen to the upper shelves of obscurity. The citizens are always glad enough after the cow has gone, but they invariably im- agine they havea grievance against the benefactors who make her go. Millheim’s council has just laid a petition, signed by 101 citizens, on the table because 54 other citizens petitioned against it. The ques- tion will probably be put toa vote at the February election. A very delightful entertainment was given at the home of Mrs. George W. Jack- son, on east Linn street, Wednesday even- ing, for the benefit of the library fund of St. John's Episcopal church. It was a ‘Mystery’ party and as the ‘Mystery’ was supposed to have had its origin on Linn street, one of the fashionable resi- dence quarters of the town, of course so much curiosity was excited that many quarter-dollars were received as admission fees. The *‘Mystery’’ part of it was only a drawing card, however, yet the large at- tendance showed how anxious the public is to see into some one’s skeleton closet. Charming tableaux made a delightful evening's entertainment. ) { | i | | { | 1 | | 1 | The Watchman’s Murder Mystery Causes A Sensation. The sensation that has been caused by “| the arrest of Peter Mendis, in this place, | on Wednesday evening, charged with the murder of James Maria, his business part- ner, is the first chapter in what might be- come the greatest murder case ever tried in Centre county. The exclusive preface given in the WATCHMAN issue of September 10th start- ed the public to speculating as to what it meant, and considerable excitement has been the case ever since, until now it has assumed the proportions of a sensation. The WATCHMAN was two weeks ahead of its competitors with this startling story and now is able to place the public in pos- session of the most reliable information. Peter Mendis an Italian, rag picker, bone, iron and paper buyer and carpet cleaner, was arrested, on Wednesday night, and is now in jail on suspicion of having caused the death of James Maria, another Italian with whom he was associated in business. Maria came to Bellefonte in 1892 and began business as a junk dealer. He operated in various old sheds and sta- bles in the place and is supposed to have made a little money. Later another Ital- ian, named Murdi, went into partnership with him and they carried on the business together until the summer of 1895, when Peter Mendis arrived on the scene. He was poor and went to work for Maria. The two men were together all the time, seemed to be on the friendliest terms and were almost inseparable. On January 3rd Maria was taken sick very suddenly with hemorrhages, superin- duced by vomiting and purging, and three days later he died. Meanwhile Dr. Mullen was called in, but was unable to do the man any good. The day after his death the body was buried by undertaker Harris, the over- seers of the poor had charge of the burial and interment was made in the Catholic cemetery. Both men boarded with Mrs. Ann Spear- ley, in the old ‘‘stone penitentiary,’”’ just off Howard street, and after Maria had died Charley Dan was appointed adminis- trator of his estate. An appraisement was made and a report filed showing that it was worth only $73.30, including his’ per- sonal effects, interest in the partnership and $2.25 that he had coming on a life in- surance policy for $100, which he had al- lowed to lapse by defaulting in a payment. Soon after the appraisement was made Mendis purchased a lot, on east High street, opposite the cemetery for $275. The lot is 80 x 200 ft. and was owned by D. Garman. He has made one payment of $100 on the property. A large frame building was erected on the lot as a ware- house for his junk and in it Mendis put an engine and a fine carpet cleaning machine. He purchased his lumber from Crider’s, at about $225, and has paid all but about $40 of it ; the payments being made in small | The hardware was bought at | amounts. Irvin's for $40 and he has paid that all off but $3. The machinery is partially paid for. This would show that Mendis has paid out about $332 in cash since January, 1896, besides what he has paid on his ma- chinery and carpenter work for the build- ing. Against this he owes Mart B. Gar- man $325 for money loaned him, so that it would appear that if the Italian had made any money since the fore part of 1896 it is all represented in his machinery, carpen- tering and personal expenses. The fact that he has been hard working, and has a comparatively pretentious enter- prise on the ground, but not paid for, has started the tongue of suspicion to rolling off all kinds of charges and the sudden | death and burial of his partner are fresh- | ened in the public mind and Mendis is charged with being the cause. A WOMAN IN THE CASE. The Spearly woman is in jail now for | having kept a disorderly house, but her sentence expired a few weeks ago and it became necessary to serve time for her fine, which she was unable to pay. She sent word and demanded Mendis to pay her fine, which he refused to do, then she be- | gan to talk and Josh Foulk, who is em- ployed at the jail for fear Jim Cornelly might crawl out one of the key-holes, got | stories out of her that led the district at- torney to an investigation. MARIA'S BODY EXHUMED. ~ On Wednesday morning district attor- ney Singer, with Drs. Locke and Kirk, Ed. Harris and Hard P. Harris exhumed the body of Maria to examine .it. All of the organs were found to he gone except the stomach and intestines, which seemed as rigid and firm as if it had been buried but yesterday. Nothing but the skeleton and these parts were there. It was gruesome work, but the stomach and intestines were removed, sealed in jars and expressed to a Philadelphia expert for ex- amination. From the Spearly woman’s story it is suspicioned that Maria was poisoned. Dr. Locke will go down to the city to-day or to-morrow to hreak the seals personally. All sorts of rumors are afloat concerning the case, but it looks very much as if there would prove to be nothing in it. The only really mysterous feature was the condition the stomach and intestines were found to be in. Having died as Maria is said to have done his bowels and stomach ought naturally to have decayed first. Because Mendis is an industrious Ital- ian, who minds his own business, it seems that the big building he has put up and the little business he has started is more than some can stand and now an attempt is to be made to drag hin down with the charge of murder. He was not in the least bit worried when told that the body of his partner had been exhumed and seemed to misunderstand why he should be retained in jail. sent for his family to come on from Italy, but they had not started when he died and word was sent them through a New York agency not to come. He has retained Taylor and Johnston to defend him. If a case is made out of this it will undoubtedly prove the most inter- esting ever tried in the county. The mystery in which it is enshrouded and the experts that will be employed will make it such. oot = ——Farmers institutes for Centre county will be conducted by the state agricultural department at Spring Mills, on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 13th and 14th, and at Hublersburg, on Wednesday and Thurs- day, December 15th and 16th. ——The public sale of blooded dairy cattle at the Pennsylvania State College, on Wednesday, was well attended and high prices prevailed. Forty-one head were sold at an average prize of $42. F. W. Crider, of this place, bought the fine Ayrshire cow with twin calves at her side, having paid $80.50. Some of the graded heifers sold as high as §51. ——The tank for the new glass works in Lock Haven is to hold 5,000 1bs of glass. eee Dennis Luse is erecting buildings for a saw and planing mill and a machine shop in Millheim. ode gers ——The Howard iron and tool com- pany’s plant is rapidiy nearing such an or- derly condition that work can be begun in all of its branches. ee ——There were nearly 300 more cars of coal hauled over the Tyrone division last week than the week before. It made an increase of about five trains for the week. Col. Wilbur F. Reeder intends that his new duties as deputy attorney general of the State shall not interfere with his law practice in Centre county. He will continue to look after the interest of his clientelage. oo ——The Schadd Bros., plumbers and steam fitters of this place, have just been awarded the contract for equipping the new Catholic church, parsonage. school and convent buildings in Renovo. They are to install a complete steam heat plant and were in competition with bidders from a number of cities. = The Schadds do their work right and are about as reliable as any firm that can be found. A CANARD.—The rumor on the streets to the effect that the Collinsiron works in this place have been sold to the Carnegie company or any other concern is wholly without foundation. ’Tis true that nego- tiations have been pending for some time for the purchase of the plant, but no sale has been made and is not probable that a sale will be consummated soon. —- Rd rs A PROBABILITY OF A RESUMPTION.— There is a probability of the Valentine iron company resuming operations about Oct. 1st. We do not make this statement with the intention of building up false hopes, but indications point to such an adjust- ment of its affairs as will warrant the company in continuing. ‘While the business of the Valentine company, as of any other corporation, is private, yet it means so much to the people ‘ of this community that all are concerned and hope for its success. ee >be —->alvatore Di Grazia, the famous ban- joist, will give a recital for members of the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A. Monday evening, October 4th. ea Rev. A. A. Black, of Boalsburg, will preach in the Bellefonte Reformed church Sunday afternoon and evening and at Zion, on Sunday morning. -———Rev. Edward Hoshour has declined to accept the call to the pastorate of the Hellam, Pa., Lutheran church and will remain in Bellefonte, where he is so much thought of and appreciated. ote Two Armenian missionaries were in this place over Sunday and spoke in the | court house and Presbyterian and Metho- dist churches. The stories they told of the horrible massacre of christian Arme- -nians, by the Turks, were indeed sorry tales of almost incredible horror, but they .sim- ply bear out the newspaper accounts of the butcheries that were published at the time. | | ote ——The Pennsylvania state Sabbath school association will hold its annual con- vention at Harrisburg, October 12th-14th. It will be an occasion of unusual interest, for which careful and thorough preparation has been made. A leading feature will he the annual address on Tuesday evening, October 12th, by the honorable John Wan- amaker, president of the association. The people of Harrisburg extend a very hearty welcome to Sunday school workers through- lout the entire State. Full particulars can be obtained by addressing C.J. Kep- hart. D. D.. Annville, Pa. > CHURCH DEDICATION—The new Christ's | union church at Hecla park will be de- dicated, on Sunday afternoon, October 10th, | at 2 o'clock. | Pastors from all denominations in the community have been invited to be present | and it is hoped that the public, generally, | will attend, inasmuch as it is a union | church. | It will be remembered that this is the structure that blew down several years ago, when in the course of construction, severely injuring several school children who were playing about the building dur- ing their dinner hour. Mr. T. W. Dun- kle’s hoy was hurt at that time. Just before Maria's death he had | CouxciL’s MEETING. — The borough | council met, on Monday night, with seven members present, and this is the business they transacted. George LL. Potter appeared in behalf of Margaret Glenn who desires to be ex- onerated from the payment of taxes. She has nothing to keep her except the rent from a small house on the rear of her prop- erty and asked council to exonerate Ler from taxes she is really unable to pay. As the law does not permit the exoneration of taxes where there is real estate the usual procedure of entering a judgment for the amount will be gone through with unless the petitioner makes other arrangements. The Street committee reported hauling stone to the crusher, cleaning of gutters on Logan and Thomas streets and the clean- ing of Blanchard street. There is a sewer pipe over the west side of Allegheny street, at Howard, that needs the attention of the street commissioner. The end of an old iron stack that has been pressed into service there is protruding in a dangerous way and, besides, the pipe is not laid deep enough to make a sightly appearance. The Water committee reported the finish- ing of the new retaining wall at the spring and progress on the repairs to the water works building. : The Market committee reported the col- lection of $26 in fees. Among the bad pavements reported were those in front of Joseph’s and Aikens’ stores and the McClain proper- ty on Allegheny street. A communication from Judge Cyrus Gordon was read stating that just as soon as the sale of his mother’s property, on Curtin street, is confirmed by the orphan’s court he will lay the pave- ment along the Spring street side. Bills to the amount of $332.14 being ap- proved council adjourned. ase JOHN NUTTALL.—John Nuttall, one of the richest and most extensive coal opera- tors in the Philipsburg region, died at his home, Nuttallburg, W. Va., last Friday morning. He had been in ill health for some time and all of his children were at his bedside when he passed away. Mr. Nuttall was born at Lancashire, England, April 19th, 1817. He came to America, in 1849, and worked seven years in a silk mill on Staten Island. In 1856 he came to Powelton, this county, where he had purchased two hundred acres of land from William Crabtree, of Philadelphia. This tract included the present site of the village of Powelton. The mining of coal was his intention and he was the first ship- per over the Tyrone and Clearfield railroad when it was completed to that place. This was the beginning of operations that led to wealth and distinction. Through all of his vicissitudes and good fortunes he remained a constant attendant at the Methodist church and though most of his later years have been spent in West | Virginia he still retained his membership | in the Philipsburg church, being its larg- | est contributor. He was a member of Mo- | shannon lodge 391, K. T. | Mrs. George McGaftey, of Philipsburg, is | a daughter. i ar Li Two DrArns IN MILESBURG.— Wil- liam M. Adams, aged 60 years, died at his home, in Milesburg, about noon last Fri- day, after an illness of ten days with ty- phoid fever. Deceased was a drayman and is survived by four children. Jennie, Mer- | rit and Annie are at home. Another | daughter is in the West. Mrs. Adams pre- ceded him to the grave a number of years | ago. Funeral services were held at the | house on Monday afternoon. i ll li Typhoid fever caused the death of the | | | venerable Adam Shope, at Milesburg, early last Thursday morning. Deceased was 66 | years old and is survived by his widow and | five sons. Burial was made at 9 o’clock | on Saturday morning. ae THE FIRST DEATH IN THE Lock HAVEN | HosrITAL.—Lock Haven’s new hospital | had its first death, on Sunday night, when Miss Lennie Long, of Romola, passed into eternity. Some time ago she had been in Philadel- phia to undergo an operation in one of the | hospitals of that city and was dismissed | and returned home. Later she entered the | Lock Haven hospital for further treatment | and her death resulted. Deceased was 36 | years old. -——Mis Amanda Scruders, wife of John Sceruders. and a native of this county, died in the state hospital, at Warren, on | Saturday morning. She entered that in- stitution for treatment last July. She was 32 years old and is survived by a husband and two children. She was a sister of Mrs. | J. W. Sunday, of Rock Spring, and of William Gummo, of Snow Shoe Intersec- tion. -. Ra ——The body of the late Aaron Wood- ring, of Warriorsmark valley, was buried | at Port Matilda yesterday. Deceased was | 78 years old and had died, last Monday evening, with a complication of diseases. Mrs. Jennie Woodring, of Port Matilda, is a daughter. On Friday evening, Sept. 17th, ! James Benn, aged 66 years, died at his home, in Altoona, with dropsy and heart | failure. Deceased was a native of this county, though he had resided in Altoona since 1882. Helen, the only child of Walter and Mus. Lilly, of Lewisburg, died last Thurs- day morning. Mr. and Mrs. Lilly have the sympathy of their many Bellefonte friends. *de ——Millheim telephone stock went up, on Saturday night, when the principal agi- tator, W. L. Goodhart, got a young daugh- ter. i off. | 19th and Green. | fonte who will wish him success as a student of | son. The Blair county fair at Hollidays- burg last week was a success, both finan- cially and from the point of attendance. aT. ——~George B. Roberts, of Renovo, has been appointed fish warden for Clinton county, by the Pennsylvania fish protec- tive association. ——————e ——To-morrow the Gettysburg college foot-ball team will play at State. The game will be called at 3 o'clock and an admission of 50 cts will be charged. —_— re ————— ——The Beech Creek base ball club de- feated the Salona club, at Beech Creek, last Saturday, in a heavy batting game. The score stood 15 to 4 in favor of Beech Creek. <i nd ——To-morrow the first foot ball game of the season will be played at the Penn- sylvania State College. The team from Gettysburg college will be there and a live- ly contest, at least, can be expected. ——— re ——S. V. Hosterman, captain of the Franklin and Marshall college foot ball eleven for this season, the young man whose picture was published in the New York Werld, on Monday, is ason of dentist G. W. Hosterman, of Centre Hall. News Purely Personal. —Mr. and Mrs. William Crawford, of Coleville, were pleasant callers Monday afternoon. —Miss Mary H. Linn has gone to Dimock, Susquehanna county, for a two month's stay. —After seven week's rest in this place Mrs, James Pierpoint returned to her home in Pitts- burg yesterday afternoon. —Will Wetzel started for Nelson, Neb., on Mon- day morning. He went West to help his brother conduct a meat market in that place. —Grace Mitchell, youngest daughter of Mr. Isaac Mitchell, of Thomas street, has returned to Bryn Mawr for a continuance of her studies at Miss Shipley’s school. —Mrs. R. 8. Lyon, who had been visiting at the home of C. M. Bower Esq., on east Linn street, for a month, returned to her home, at 1812, Taney street, Philadelphia, on Tuesday morning. —Miss Sophia Rockey, of Hublershurg, was in town last Saturday shopping and making a few visits. The one she made us was most acceptable for she is up to-date in other affairs as well as in fashions. —Mrs. George E. Jones, of Osceola Mills, was in town on Monday for awhile. She had been visiting friends at Snow Shoe Intersection and while over in this valley just took a rua down to see her many Bellefonte friends. —Mr. Daniel Robb, ot Eagleville, was in town, on Monday, looking after some business that needed his attention here. Mr. Robb is one of the active farmers of Liberty township and one of the fine-looking men of that end of Bald Eagle valley. —The Misses Buddinger, of Snow Shoe, daugh- ters of T. B. Buddinger the extensive merchant and coal operator of that place, were in town over Sunday visiting Miss Mary Sourbeck, on east Bishop street. Both of the young graduates of Birmingham Seminary. ladies are —Wallace Reeder, the only son of Col, W. I. Reeder, Pennsylvania's new deputy attorney general, departed, eon Tuesday morning, for Bustleton, just out-side of Philadelphia, where he is to be prepared for eollege. Wallace is a graduate of the Bellefonte High school and quite a popular hoy among his fellows. —Miss Agnes Wagner, of north Spring street, entertained Miss Laura Felty, of Altoona, and Mrs. Samuel J. Felty, of Worcester, Mass., during the early part of the week. They were on their way to Pine Grove Mills for a short visit and stopped oft here for several days. They arrived here Tuesday afternoon. —After a summer of pleasure and gayety many of our young people have gone back to their work at the different schools. Jay Woodcock and Fred Blanchard to Princeton, Coburn Rodgers, Charley Harris and Howard Curtin to State, Ned Blanchard to the University and Nell Meek to the Woman's Medical school in Philadelphia. —If we weren’t so sure that neither one of them are that kind of men we would have sworn that Abe Markle and W. IL. Foster, of State College, had been buying liquid goods outside the “three mile limit” yesterday. The next time they come to town and try to frighten our nice, quiet little I place into a condition of wakefulness there'll he a fuss, —Lee B. Wookcocel, our all a round athlete, barytone singer and general good fellow, is home visiting his mother before returning to his studies at the Medico Chirurgical college in Philadelphia. His singing at Asbury Park, where he spent the summer, was most favorably commented on by the newspapers and members of the profession who summer there in great numbers, —Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Sehadd returned trom Hot Springs, Virginia, on Saturday night, and we regret to announce that Rudolph was very great- ly exhausted by the trip. They left here, Tues- day morning, intending to remain at that resort some time, but it did not prove a desirable place for the patient, the altitude being too high and not as suitable to his comfort as that of Belle- fonte. —Charley McClure, eldest son of Mr. James I. McClure, of Bishop street, left for Princeton, on Monday morning. He has entered that university to take a classical course and while he has not yet determined just exactly what he will make of himself we have enough confidence in Charley and his ability as a student to know that what- ever he does will be well and conscientiously done. —Forest Magee and Ed Harris, two of about the “warmest numbers” that have walked down the road in this place this summer, went off to Phila- delphia, yesterday morning, and a whole carriage load of pretty girls were at the train to see them Tears flowed so copiously that Tommy Shaughensy was forced to open the Race street bridge so as to prevent the flooding of the street —we don’t think. Forest returns to the U. of P. and Ed will enter Hahnemann college to learn | to be a sugar pill doctor. — William H. Runkle, éldest son of Jacob Run- | kle of this place, left for Philadelphia, on Tues- day morning. He will attend lectures at the | Philadelphia College of Pharmacy during the winter and keep his hand in at practical work at Billy has lots of friends in Belle- pharmacy. He has already had considerable ex- perience in the drug line through his connection with Zeller's store in the Exchange. It was while a clerk in that establishment that he dis- | | tinguished himself by shooting at a burglar and | perforating one of the large plate show windows. —It has been seven or eight years since Robert I. Sample visited his old home in Centre county and naturally he felt just a little bit a stranger when he dropped in here on Wednesday morn- ing. The first place he headed for was Pine Grove Mills, the village of his boyhood. There the new railroad simply made any other change, no matter low great, seem insignificant in compari- Bob spent yesterday in this place, having taken dinner with Lis aunt, Mrs. Barbara Rankin, at the home of Governor Hastings. At one time he was mail agent on the Lewisburg road but now is making a success of the West End hotel in Uniontown, where he is very popular. He was on his way to Reading as the Fayette representative of the state hotel men’s association. BARN BURNED IN BRUSH VALLEY.— Early last Tuesday morning the large bank | barn on the farm of David Meyer. four | miles east of Rebershurg, was totally de- | stroyed by fire. 600 bushels of wheat, 400 | bushels oats, 60 bushels rye, 3 bushels | timothy seed, 43 tons of hay, a clover hul- | ler, one-horse wagon and two sheep were | burned in the buildin It was insured for $900. It is not known just how the fire origi- nated. OliverStover, a driver for the Coburn creamery, kept his team in Mr. Meyer's barn and before day-light that | morning he went out to hitch up. Hanging his lantern on a peg behind the horses, he started to grease his wagon. When he returned fire was scattered about in three of the stalls. The lantern had either ex- ploded or a horse had kicked it down. Stover gave the alarm as quickly as possi- ble, but the fire spread so rapidly that it was impossible to save the barn, so atten- { tion was paid to rescuing the stock and implements. Owing to the fact that he has no quarters for them or feed to keep them over winter Mr. Meyer will sell his stock. o «. oe ——Quite a crowd of Bellefonte sports gathered at the famous old ‘black harn’’ speed-away, Tuesday evening, to see some of our fast pacing horses go. J.D. Shu- gert’s “Henrietta,” Shem Speigelmyer’s “‘Orabie,” Isaac Lose’s ‘‘Headlight’’ and Mart Garman’s “Mills” were all on the course and every gentleman drove his own horse except Mr. Shugert, who was repre- sented by Will Larrimer. All of the horses have marks from 15 up and they showed some pretty fair clips, but owing to the bad condition of the road no real racing could be done. The interest taken in such im- promptu little spurts goes to show that a good track could easily be supported by Bellefonte. >be ——While Mis. George Harbaugh, of Curtin street, was returning from the Park sisters concert, at Garmans, last Thursday night, she tripped on an uneven place in the pavement in front of the McClain and Graham properties, on north Allegheny street, and tore the muscles of her right leg. The injury was extremely painful and she was carried into the office of Dr. Seibert, where the injured member was dressed and later she was taken to her home. > ——Miss Emily Alexander, a daughter of Dr. J. F. Alexander, a daughter of Dr. J. I. Alexander, of Centre Hall, lost a val- uable diamond ring on the pienic ground, at Grange park, last Thursday night. She was in Hunting’s circus tent when it blew over and in the excitement of getting out she lost the ring. ode During the wind storm on Thursday night a brick blew off the chimney of the Potter house annex, in Philipsburg, and fell on expressman George Sandford’s head. An ugly wound, several inches long, was made on the top of his head. o-oo —D. W. Maddox, confined in the Clin- ton county jail for having broken the show windows in Rittman’s store, in Lock Haven, some time ago, has confessed to having made an attempt to break jail. It was he who dug the hole that was found in one of the cells only afew days ago. *te Harry C. Zimmerman, who lives near Pleasant Gap, has purchased two Bird- sell No. 1, Monitor clover hullers from Mc- Calmont & Co., one of them will be taken into the north side of Benner township. | Patton and Half Moon townships ; and the other one into the south half of Benner i township, Spring and Walker townships. This will prove a great accommodation to the farmers who have clover seed to hull. -o9® Sale Register. Oct, 28 —At 11 o'clock, a. m. at the residence of Robert Confer, near Howard, horses, cows, sheep, young cattle, shoats, Ete. Jos. [. Neft, Aue. Bellefonte Grain Market. Corrected weekly by Gro. W. JacksoN & Co. The following are the quotations up to six o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes press: Red Wheat, old.... 90 Red wheat, new ves 90 Rye, per bushel. 25 Corn, shelled, per bus 35 Corn, ears, per bushel. 35 Oats, per bushel, old. 22 Oats, per bushel, new 20 Barley, per bushel..... 30 Ground Plaster, per ton. 8 00 Buckwheat, per bushel 25 Cloverseed, per bushel... £6 00 to $7 00 Bellefonte Produce Markets, Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co. Potatoes per bushel... 40 OnionS......uneens 50 Eggs, per dozen 15 Lard, per pound.. 5 Country Shoulders.. 6 Sides.. 6 Hams, 10 Tallow, per pound 3 Butter, per pound.. 15 The Democratic Watchman. Published every Friday morning, in Bellefonte, Pa., at $1.50 per annum (1f paid strictly in advance) $2.00, when not paid in advance, and $2.50 if not paid before the expiration of the year; and no paper will be discontinued until all arrearage is paid, except at the option of the publisher. Papers will not be sent out of Centre county un- less paid for in advance. \ A liberal discount is made to persons advertis- ing by the guarter, half year, or year, as follows : SPACE OCCUPIED Sm om | 1y One lines this type. $588 510 Two inches (71101 15 Three inches. 110115 i 20 Quarter Column (5 inches 12 1 20 | 30 Half Column (10 inches). 20 | 85 5 One Column (20 inches)... 35 | 55 | 100 Advertisements in special column additional. ; : : Transient advs, per line, 3 insertions...........20 cts. 25 per cent. Each additional insertion, per line. . bets. Local notices, per line., .20 ets. Business notices, per line...... ...10 ets. Job Printing of every kind done with neatness and dispatch. The Warcumax office has been re- fitted with Fast Presses and New Type, and everything in the printing line ean be ‘executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates, Terms—Cash. All letters should be addressed to P. GRAY MEEK, Proprietor
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