Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 14, 1898.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Eb1ToR.
Democratic County Committee for 1898.
Hues 8. Tavror, Chairman,
Boyp A. MUSSER, J. W. KEPLER,
J. K. JouNs1ON, Wx. D Zerby,
Secretaries. Ass’t Secretaries.
Precinct. Name, P. O. Address.
Bellefonte N. W. Jno. Trafford Bellefonte
ts S.W Ed. Brown, Jr. *
“ W. W. Geo. R. Meek, t*
Centre Hall Boro J. Dauberman, Centre Hall
Howard 4 Abe Weber, Howard
Milesburg “ Geo. W. Campbell, Milesburg
Millheim $0 Sam’l Weiser, Jr., Millheim
Unionville * L. P. Brisbin, Fleming
Philipsburg 1st W. J. W. Lukens Philipsburg
2nd W. Ira Howe, "
id srd W. Howard Hysong
State College Boro Dr. W. 8. Glenn, State College
S. Philipsburg “ Henry S. Wilcox, Philipsburg
ene nw x P. L. C. Rearick, Bellefonte
“ Se Soon Ishles mil .
Boggs Twp. N. P. enry Heaton, Milesbur
gE, E. P. John Kelley, Rolan
£* W. P. D. F. Poorman, . Runville
Burnside Twp. Wm. Hipple, Sr. * Pine Glenn
College 6 I. W. Musser, State College
Curtin “ N. J. McCloskey, Romola
Ferguson * E. P. W. H. Frye, Pine Grove Mills
ae ‘“ W. P. Sam Harpster, Jr., Gatesburg
Gregg Twp. N. P. Geo. Weaver, Penns Cave
€€ E..P. Jas. C. Condo, Penn Hall
fe W. P. Jno. Smith, Spring Mills
Haines Twp. W. P., Geo. W. Keister, Aaronsbur
i E.P. R. E. Stover, oodwar
Half Moon Twp. Emory McAfee, Stormstown
Harris 6 Jas. A. Swabb, Linden Hall
Howard * Geo. D. Johnston, Mt. Eagle
Huston $e Henry Hale, Julian
Liberty 44 0. J. Stover, Blanchard
Marion *€ J. W. Orr, Walker
Miles Twp. E. P. Dan’l W. Harter, Rebersburg
oe W. P. Edward Miller, Centre Mills
£8 M. P. C.J. Crouse, Rebersburg
Patton Twp. D. L. Meek, Waddle
Penn £€ A. P. Zerby, Sober
Potter + S.P. Jas. B. Spangler, Tusseyville
t * N P. G. H. Emerick, Centre Hall
Rush ¢“ N.P. Wm, Frank, Philipsburg
“
“ 8. P. Michael Dempsey, Powelton
Snow Shoe Twp. E.P Lawrence Reding Snow Shoe
“ 44 W. P John Confer, Moshannon
Wm. Hepburn, Bellefonte
Spring Twp. N. P.
% S. P. W. H. Noll, Jr., Pleasant Gap
4 W. P. P.F. Garbrick, Bellefonte
Taylor Twp. A. P. Hoover, Hannah
Union * Chas. G. Hall, Fleming
Walker Twp. E. P. Sol Peck, Nittany
* M. P. Harry McCauly, Hublersburg
£e W. P. Wm. A. Royer, $s
Worth ¢ A. J. Johnston, Port Matilda
Boyp A. Musser, HUGH S. TAYLOR,
It Should Have a Corrective Effect.
The Ohio senatorial fight has furnished a
most striking object lesson of the degener-
acy of American politics. For some years
past the elections of United States Senators
have been more or less characterized by
practices of venality and corruption, and
have displayed an increasing political de-
moralization, but it was reserved for an
election with which MARK HANNA was
associated to exhibit these evils in their
most aggravated form.
Nothing else, however, was to be expect-
ed than that there should be such demoral-
ized proceedings in a senatorial contest in
which HANNA was the central figure. A
political worker who managed a presiden-
tial election as a matter to be determined
by the expenditure of money, and who re-
gards boodle as the chief factor in politics,
would naturally consider the senatorial of-
fice as something which money should com-
mand. With a gross and low-bred reliance
upon the power of cash in effecting his po-
litical ends, which he practiced with such
complete success in the election of McKIN-
LEY, it could be looked for as a natural se-
quence that HANNA would rely upon the
same agency to secure his own election to
the United States Senate. There could be no
other result from his methods than that the
Ohio senatorial fight has been more de-
hased and disgraceful in all its features
than any of the contests for that high office
which have in recent years indicated the
curruption and moral decline of American
‘politics.
It should, however, have a good effect as
an object lesson. The American people are
certainly not devoid of common sense.
They surely have discernment enough to
see that if the offices of the government are
put up on the auction block to be sold to
the highest bidder it means the destruction
of our popular institutions. In the election
of United States Senators has this demoral-
ization made the most alarming develop-
ment, an evil that can be corrected by
making the Senatorship elective by popu-
lar vote, thus placing it beyond the reach
of venal and corrupt characters who make
it an object of purchase.
A Colossal Outrage.
One of the greatest outrages that history
will record is the scheme of European
powers to dismember decrepit old China
and divide her territory like a set of rob-
bers apportioning their plunder.
China’s only offense is her weakness. If
she were stronger even the rattle-brain
emperor of Germany would not venture to
send an armed expedition against her under
pretense of avenging alleged ill treatment
of German missionaries by the Chinese.
When it is considered that China is the
most venerable of empires ; that it was a
civilized nation when Europe was in a con-
dition of barbarism, and that it has gone
on in its quiet and orderly way for cen-
turies without injuring or molesting any
other nation or people, the spectacle of
European nations coming down upon her
like a pack of wolves with the intention of
tearing her to pieces and dividing her re-
mains among themselves, reflects rather
unfavorably upon the powers that claim to
stand at the head of the world’s civiliza-
tion.
——One of the neatest and prettiest little
calendars that we have seen for 1898 is
the one sent out by C. I. Hoop & Co.,
of Lowell, Massachusetts. Itis but a tiny
affair, just adapted for a desk, and is so
bright in its design as to make it a pleas-
ing ornament. The design is a big, bright
baby’s head, in an embossed gold frame,
and it looks so healthful and lively that
we are almost led to the belief that it is
a picture of one of the youngsters that have
been brought to a perfect physical condi-
tion by the use of Hoop’s sarsaparilla.
Bemis ifatdpan.
——When a condition of affairs gets so
bad as to be at once a danger and a disgrace
there is a probability of a successful move-
ment for its correction. The method of
electing United States Senators by legisla-
tive votes, which every year has become
more and more debauched, has, in the Ohio
case, displayed such thoroughly disgraceful
features and such an evidently dangerous
tendency that public sentiment may be ex-
pected to make a determined demand for
the election of United States Senators by a
vote of the people.
Se
Last week Maj. THos. F. PENMAN,
of Scranton, was appointed collector of in-
ternal revenue for the 12th Penna. district,
to succeed Hon. GRANT HERRING, of
Bloomsburg. E. R. CHAMBERS Esq., of
this place, is an applicant for his old po-
sition of collector for this district which he
held during Maj. PENMAN’s former en-
cumbency.
Forty Lives Lost in a Tornado at Fort
Smith, Ark.
City Devastated By the Fury of the Wind in the
Blackness of Night.—Property Loss 1,000,00.—
Flames Break Out in the Ruins and Add to the
Horror of the Calamity.
Fr. SMITH, Ark., Jan 12.—Two score of
human lives and upwards of $1,000,000
worth of property were destroyed by a ter-
rible tornado which burst upon this city a
few minutes past 11 o’clock last night.
The storm struck near the National cem-
etery and tore its way through the entire
city, leaving its path marked by death and
desolation. Men, women and children,
peacefully asleep in their homes, were,
without a moment’s warning, awakened to
meet a horrible death in the fearful storm,
while others momentarily more fortunate,
and who escaped the furies of the wind,
met a far worse fate a few moments later
in the flames which soon engulfed many of
the wrecked buildings.
SCENE OF AWFUL GRANDEUR.
The scene following the first terrific
crash of the storm was one of awful grand-
eur. Business blocks, handsome mansions,
hotels and humble cottages were razed to
the ground and scattered in shapeless
masses. Several of the wrecks caught fire,
and the inflammable timbers burned fur-
ously.
The city was crowded with rural visit-
ors, many of whom were sleeping at hoard-
ing houses unregistered. For this reason
the number of victims who perished in Ft.
Smith last night may never be definitely
known.
The storm after leaving Ft. Smith
bounded by Van Buren and continued
down the river, demolishing everything in
its path.
The tornado struck Garrison avenue at
the corner of Ninth street, and made a
clean sweep from there to the Texas corner.
I. Isaacson’s store was totally demolished,
and the stock is a total loss. Babcock’s
grocery store had the rear end blown out.
CHURCHES RAZED.
The Fifth Baptist church and the Cen-
tral Methodist churches were razed to the
ground, and are now only a scattered pile
of kindling wood. The Church of the Im-
maculate Conception and Brownscombe
Memorial church lost their spires and
sustained other damage.
Signal Service Observer O'Donnell, after
viewing the wreckage, is of the opinion
that the tornado started near the ceme-
tery.
At 2 o'clock this morning it is thought
all the persons in the storm wrecked build-
ings have been accounted for.
The citizens’ relief committee has $10,-
000 in hand for assisting sufferers.
The Federal court is in session and
that brought a great many farmers here,
who crowded the cheaper boarding houses
and wagon yards. The National house, a
two story frame, went down in wreckage
with fifteen inmates, but all escaped with-
out serious injury.
George Carter’s house was one of the
first struck, and it was turned completely
over, and it is now supported on the roof.
A half pane of glass was driven through
Carter's body, almost severing his head
from the trank.
Fagan Bourland’s store on South Sixth
street was unroofed, and H. W. Burke’s
foundry was demolished.
The beautiful National cemetery is a
wreck. The huge trees are uprooted, the
lodge demolished and the wall torn down.
Ft. Smith’s $50,000 high school build-
ing, the finest of its kind in the Southwest,
was badly wrecked, It was one of the few
buildings upon which there was a tornado
insurance.
Relief for Cuba’s Starving
Consul General Lee Cables the Articles Most Needed.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The following ca-
blegram from Consul General Lee has been
received by the central Cuban relief com-
mittee. It gives in detail articles that are
urgently needed to alleviate the suffering
in Cuba;
*‘Summer clothing, second-hand or other-
wise, principally for women and children;
medicines for fevers, including a large pro-
portion of quinine; hard bread. flour, corn-
meal, bacon, rice, lard, potatoes, beans,
peas, salt fish, principally cod fish; any
canned goods, large quantities of condensed
milk, blankets and charcoal.” Money will
also be useful to secure nurses, medicines
and for many necessaries.”’
The central committee made a large
shipment to-day on the Wark line steamer
Vigilancia, consigned to consul general
Lee, consisting of 30,203 separate packages,
and in addition 500,000 grains of quinine.
Relief committees are being formed in
all parts of the country. Another large
shipment will be made next Saturday, and
others semi-weekly thereafter.
Conspiracy Among Brazilian Statesmen.
High Government Officials Indicted for Abetting the
Plot Against President Moraes’ Life.
Rio DE JANEIRO, Jan. 12.—A great sen-
sation has been caused here by the publica-
tion of the police report on the conspiracy
to assassinate President Moraes November
5 last, The police allege that there were
several plots against the life of the presi-
dent prior to the one in November.
The report concludes with indicting 20
persons, including vice president Victorino
Pereira, captain Lopez Cruz, of the Bra-
zilian navy; seven majors and colonels,
Senator Cordeiro, deputies Glicerio, Guan-
abara, Barbosa, Lima, Ireno, Mashado,
Terquado and Moreira, and the soldier,
Marcellino, who executed the crime.
Glicero continues to be absent, and the
vice president is still at large. It is assert-
ed he was in close touch with Dioclecisno,
who directed the crime.
Dioclecisno and Marcellino have made
full confessions.
| jointly to ballot for Senator.
Hanna Elected U. S. Senator for Seven
Years by a Majority of One Vote.
Continued from page 1.
more, the effort to secure the influences of
Mrs. Dedge was the last one reported.
The opposition to-day knew they were
defeated before the joint balloting began,
but fought to the last on the charges of
bribery and coercion.
JOINT BALLOTING BEGINS.
At noon Lieutenant Governor Jones and
the senator arrived at the House and
the two bodies went into joint convention.
Lieutenant Governor Jones warned the
crowd that order must be preserved or the
galleries would be cleared. The Senate
journal of yesterday was read, showing 19
votes for Robert E. McKisson and 17 for
Marcus A. Hanna for both terms. The
House journal of yesterday was next read,
showing the following vote for both the
short and the long terms: Hanna, 56; Mc-
Kisson, 49; A. J. Warner, 1; Aquilla Wiley,
1; John J. Lentz, 1; Mr. Cramer was absent.
Mr. Jones then announced that McKisson
was the choice of the Senate and Hanna of
the House, and there being no concurrent
election the two houses should proceed
Senator Gar-
field presented the name of Marcus A. Han-
na in an eloquent speech, and others sec-
onded the nomination.
Senator Burke, the only dissenting Re-
publican Senator, presented the name of
Robert E. McKisson, the Republican may-
or of Cleveland, in a very forcible and in-
flammable speech that commanded the clos-
est attention. In one of his climaxes he
caid: James A. Garfield would have voted
for McKisson if he were alive and a Sena-
tor here to-day. .
Representative Roberts, of Cleveland,
seconded the nomination of Hanna, and
Representative Bramley, of Cleveland, that
of McKisson. The Democrats presented
no name and made no seconding speeches.
The Senators and Representatives rose to
their feet when they cast their respective
votes.
The roll of the Senate was called first,
and there were no changes from the votes
of yesterday—19 for McKisson and 17 for
Hanna.
HOUSE VOTE UNCHANGED.
The vote of the House was the same as
that of yesterday, with the exception that
Hazlett, who voted then for Wiley, and
Hess, who voted then for Warner, to-day
voted with the other Democrats for Me-
Kisson. General Acquilla Wiley was the
only Democrat not voting with the coali-
tion, and he voted again for Congressman
Lentz,
Lieutenant Governor Jones announced
the result of the ballot as, Hanna, 73; Mec-
Kisson, 70; Lentz, 1; absent, 1; and de-
clared Marcus A. Hanna elected for the un-
expired term ending March 4, 1899.
The result in the Senate for the long
term was again 19 for McKisson and 17 for
Hanna, and the result in the House was
the same as for the short term. Hanna re-
ceived 73, MeKisson 70, Lentz 1, and 1
absentee.
From Three Points of View.
Hanna. Kurtz and McKisson Express Their Inmost
Thoughts on the Result.
CoLuMBUS, Jan. 12.—The following
statements were given to the Post cor-
respondent to-night:
“I was not surprised at the result of the
senatorial election to-day. I have been:
confident of victory from the start.
“M. A. HANNA.”
“I have no apologies to offer for my part
in the campaign which has just closed.
Mr. Hanna was elected to the United States
Senate, but my views of a statesman of his
caliber have not changed. I have no state-
ment to make at this time.
“C. L. Kurtz.”
‘The outcome of to-day’s balloting was
no surprise to me after 5 o’clock this morn-
ing. At that hour Mr. Hanna, by his pe-
culiar power of persuasion, gathered in his
last man. I am proud of the record made
by the seven Republicans who voted against
bossism to the last. ‘‘R. E. M’KIsSON?’
The Symptoms Were the Same But the
Causes Were Different.
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
A man traveling on a Bell’s Gap train,
the other day, made the remark that he
could tell by the looks of the passengers
what political party they belong to. ‘‘This
man here,’’ said the passenger, ‘‘is a Bryan
Democrat.” ‘‘Yes,” said the passenger,
“that’s my politics.”” ‘‘That man over
there is a sound-money Democrat.”” ‘‘That
man in the third seat is a Populist.”
Correct you are said the Populist. ‘‘And
that man down further is a Republican,
and voted for McKinley.” ‘No, I am
not,”” promptly responded the fellow.
“I’ve been sick. That’s what makes me
look this way.’’
Improvements on the Main Line of the
Pennsy.
Work was begun this week on the new
third track between Altoona and Gallitzin
on the main line of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. This is only the beginning of a large
amount of work proposed to be done by
the Pennsylvania company for which con-
tracts have been awarded, aggregating an
outlay of nearly $600,000 for the improve-
ment of the road between Altoona and the
Gallitzin tunnel.
Two divisions of this work were award-
ed to contractors Drake & Stratton and W.
E. Howley & Co., of Pittsburg, for a sum
aggregating almost $300,000. Another
large division was given to the McManus
construction company, of Philadelphia, and
the remodeling of the old Portage tunnel
was awarded to contractors King & Co., of
New York, and T. A. Shoemaker, of this
place. Almost 500 men will he given em-
ployment on the improvements.
Between Altoona and Bennington, a
short distance east of the Gallitzin tunnel,
the Penusylvania will lay an additional
track, making three main tracks for the
first ten miles west of Altoona. This ne-
cessitates heavy excavations in the flint
rock almost the entire distance.
No contract has been given for the wid-
ening of the Gallitzin tunnel yet. About
a quarter of a mile south of the Gallitzin
tunnel and off the main line is the Old
Portage tunnel, a single track affair. It is
connected with the main line by a double
track running east of the Horse Shoe curve.
Clement, King & Shoemaker will widen
this tunnel for two tracks. It is expected
that this improvement will cost the rail-
road close to $200,000, as the contract is
given by the lineal foot.
The work on the improvements now be-
gun will be continued through the winter.
The contractors are held responsible for
any delays to trains occasioned by the
work. In some cases it is said blasting is
impossible and rare engineering skill will
have to be used to prevent accidents and
loss of life.
Express Offices at Clearfield Robbed.
The American and Adams express com-
pany of Clearfield, which is operated joint-
ly, was robbed in broad day light Tuesday
morning about 10.30, in plain view and
only half a square from the court house
and two doors from the main entrance in
the same building with the County Nation-
al bank. The safe was left unlocked by
the agent, the robbers using a false key,
gained entrance. The amount taken is un-
known, as the agent is very reticent, but
rumors say all in the safe was taken.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—S8. M. Buck is still critically ill with
typhoid fever at St. Joseph’s hospital in
Philadelphia, where he has been for weeks.
The last news of him was encouraging but
he is not out of danger by any means. W.
F. Reber, who was in the Presbyterian hos-
pital, has been taken to his home somewhat
improved.
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-——On page 2 of this issue will be found
a number of interesting letters from peo-
ple who are well known in Bellefonte. J.
H. Myers and his son, Dr. Oscar, write
from the Klondyke, Will Truckenmiller
writes of the fine farms in North Dakota
and Maj. R. H. Foster contributes an in-
teresting history of the Foster family.
—————
——John Q. Miles, in buying Calvin
Ray’s ‘‘Big Spring Cafe,”” on Water street,
has simply confirmed his friend’s surmises
that he is not so anxious for the quiet and
work of the farm as he would have you be-
lieve. Here is to his success and if he
wasn’t so ‘‘dead easy’’ he could make
money as well as friends. Calvin Ray is
going onto the road as a tobacco agent.
tee
We have so few opportunities of
hearing what the world at large considers
worth hearing that everyone should take
advantage of the chance, next Tuesday
evening, and hear Rev. Anona Shaw on
*“The New Man.” She is one of the really
noted lecturers of the country and the new
man is just what we need here, where most
of the old ones are about fossilized. The
lecture will be in the court house and the
price of admission 25 cts.
“0
— Railroad officer Curtin brought Ar-
dell Campbell, of Bellwood, to jail in this
place, on Wednesday morning. He had
been arrested on the charge of being impli-
cated in the stealing of Jacob Woodring’s
cattle, at Port Matilda, last September.
The young man was committed to jail and
will be given a hearing to-day. At the
November court, Edward Woodring was
convicted of being concerned in the same
transaction.
KorrscH STILL oN TRIAL.—The trial
of Paul Koitsch for the murder of little
Edna Krider, that began before the Clinton
county court last week, had not been con-
cluded up to last night.
Just about the time the witnesses had
:all béén examined judge Mayer became ill
and was only able to resume the case on
Wednesday. The argument is being made
in the judge’s home and the case will
probably go to the jury to-day.
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HE HAs A Goon THING.—Mr. Henry
Woomer is agent for T. Dewitt Talmage’s
new book and began canvassing this com-
munity yesterday for it. The book is a
handsome publication, profusely illustrat-
ed, printed in large, clear type and on good
paper. The covers are in cloth, half mo-
rocco or full morocco, all handsomely il-
lumined and in shape to make it a choice
volume for any library.
The contents of the book include many
gems of thought from the noted divine and
his impressions of travel around the world.
see
——The club house, at Hecla Park, un-
der the management of Solomon Peck, is
the favorite resort these days for chicken
and waffle suppers and sleighing parties
without snow. Sure, only members and
their guests are admitted to the comforts
and luxuries of the place, but that em-
braces most of our pleasure lovers. On
Saturday evening Col. Spangler enter-
tained his guests, Mr. and Mrs. William
A. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Woodal, of Philadelphia, and a party of
sixteen, there amid much gayety ’til time
for coming home, then they were obliged
to get into the train, instead of their sleds,
for the snow had gone. The same evening
Mary W. Jackson, Winifred Meek, Tom
Morris and George L. Jackson were guests
of the house, and a large party from Lock
Haven had been prepared for, but they did
not get there on account of the roads.
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A THOROUGHLY UP-T0-DATE MILL.—
The Pheenix flouring mills of this place
have been undergoing a metamorphosis
since they passed into the control of Col.
W. Fred Reynolds, Joseph L. Montgomery
and Curtis Y. Wagner that is designed to
make them about as thoroughly up-to-date
in equipment as it is possible to be. All
of the machinery has undergone a complete
overhauling and more modern appliances
for rolling high grade flour has displaced
the old.
Though the machinery in the mill was
comparatively new the enterprising firm
concluded that the very latest devices
should be substituted and by the middle of
February the place will be entirely re-
mantled, having an increased capacity and a
process second to none. It is the intention
to run night and day then and in order to
make storage room for the immense
quantity of grain that will be consumed
ground was broken, yesterday, for a new
steel elevator at the eastern end of the
main building. It will have a capacity for
sixty thousand bushels. !
When the whole is completed the Phee-
nix milling company will go into the
market with a superior grade of winter
wheat flour so carefully blended that they
feel sure of its success.
—— While hunting foxes near Hublers-
burg, a few days ago, Adam Yocum shot a
large bear with fine shot. It required three
loads to kill bruin. It weighed 1701bs.
a
——You need have no fear of not being
nicely entertained if you go to Garmans to-
morrow night to hear the opera ‘‘Martha.’’
It is tuneful throughout and has been en-
livened with considerable comedy. The
Andrews company is not a large one, but
they have a fine singing chorus and are
sure to please their audience.
———
A CoMING TREAT.—Rev. Anna Shaw,
who is to lecture in the court house, on
Tuesday evening, the 18th, is one of the
most pleasing and eloquent speakers in the
country. She was born in England but
raised in Michigan and educated for the
ministry. She is a self-made woman and
young girls who have their own way in life
to make should hear her and take courage
for there is a cleverness in her logic and
keenness in her wit that did not come with
her university training. She studied both
medicine and theology at the Boston Uni-
versity and after preaching for one parish
for seven years left that for the wider field
she has since been engaged in. She has
been wonderfully successful in the lecture
field and is recognized as one of the ablest
talkers of the times. Her subject, Tuesday
evening, will be ‘‘“The New Man,’ a lecture
which has been appreciated and praised by
immense audiences from California to
Toronto.
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BoLD BURGLARY AT CENTRE FURNACE.
—About half past one o’clock yesterday
morning a burglar was discovered in the
home of James I. Thompson, at Centre
Furnace, just midway between Lemont and
State College. One of the children having
been sick Mrs. Thompson was up adminis-
tering to it when she discovered a man in
her room. As soon as he found that he
was trapped he made a dash past her and
reached the bath room, where he raised a
window and escaped to the ground over a
shed roof.
An investigation disclosed the fact that
all parts of the house were securely locked,
so it is believed that the man had conceal-
ed himself inside early in the evening. The
burglar was very probably in the bath
room and when Mrs. Thompson entered it
for medicine he slipped into her room and
rifled the clothing and burean.
A pension check for $36 which Mr.
Thompson had cashed for James C. Steph-
ens the day before, $30 in cash belonging
to Mrs. Thompson, and all the small change
in Mr. Thompson's clothes went with the
burglar in his wild flight from the window.
Mrs. Thompson was very badly frighten-
ed, but thinks she could identify the man
if caught. She is of the opinion that it was
a colored man, and describes him as being
quite large.
The whole thing looks very much as if
some one acquainted with the place had
done the job.
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HAs THE WEST WARD POET LAUREATE
ON THE RUN.—The following letter and
‘‘poem’’ from the current number of Truth
reveal the fact that the poetical muse has
been tickling other Bellefonters than the
poet laureate of the West ward and that he
will have to look to his laurels else this
juvenile compeer of Alfred Austin will
wrest them from him.
HE'S A NEWSDEALER.
Self-preservation being the first law of
nature, Truth feels justified in publishing the
following ‘‘Piece of Poem’ with accompany-
ing letter:
DEAR SIR:
Tam 16 years old and this is the first poem
I ever wrote.
Sir : I don’t expect very much for it but
will be very grateful for any amount.
I have a news stand in this hotel and sell a
number of your magazines monthly.
Yours
HARRY BARNES,
Bellefonte, Centre Co., Pa.
In care of Bush House News Stand.
(The Poem.)
A LADY.
While strolling down the one eve,
A lady I did meet,
A lady, that she was to me,
A lady, dear and sweet.
With light golden hair,
And red, rosy cheeks,
With a row of milk white teeth,
And a pair of small, dainty feet.
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OFFICERS OF THE BELLEFONTE AND
CLEARFIELD RAIL-ROAD.—Though noth-
ing more than a survey has materialized of
the much talked about Bellefonte and Clear-
field railroad it has a full complement of
officers and has had them for two years.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
was held here, on Monday, when the fol-
lowing officers were chosen for the ensu-
ing year : President, Charles W, Wilhelm,
of Reading ; vice president, James Harris,
of Bellefonte ; treasurer, Wilfred Hebner,
of Philadelphia ; directors, C. W. Wilhelm,
James Harris, J. J. Walsh, A. V. Hoyt,
Henry Brockerhoff, M. L. Altendcerfer and
L. T. Munson.
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FARMER’S
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE Co.—The an-
nual meeting of the Farmer’s mutual fire
insurance company of Centre county was
held at Centre Hall, on Tuesday, and the
following directors elected : Col. W. Fred
Reynolds, Bellefonte ; H. C. Campbell and
J. G. Bailey, Ferguson ; Frank McFar-
lane, Harris ; Fred Kurtz, Potter ; John
W. Shook and J. W. Evans, Gregg ; Henry
E. Duck, Penn; Aaron W. Weaver, Haines;
Jacob Bottorf, College ; Jasper R. Brun-
gart and George B. Haines, Miles.
The new board, after being sworn, or-
ganized by unanimously electing the fol-
lowing officers : President, Fred Kurtz ;
vice president, H. C. Campbell ; treasurer,
Benj. F. Arney ; secretary, D. F. Luse.
The company now has about one and a
half million insurance in force.
——The seventh annual meeting of the
West Branch Medical society was held at
Sunbury, on Wednesday, and a good time
was had by all who were there. The scien-
tific part of the program was catered to by
Dr. Copelin. of Jefferson Medical college,
Philadelphia; by Dr. Park, of Buffalo, N.
Y., and by Dr. McIntyre, secretary of the
Lehigh Valley association, of Easton.
Luncheon and a banquet were served at
the City hotel. Dr. J. Y. Dale, of Lemont,
the retiring president, made a very excel-
lent address to the association. Dr. R. G.
H. Hayes, of this place, was the only other
Centre county physician there.
—— ee
THE OLD OFFICERS RE-ELECTED.—A#$
a meeting of the stock holders of the First
national bank of Bellefonte, held in this
place, on Tuesday, Col. James P. Coburn
was re-elected to the presidency of the in-
stitution, the position he had so faithfully
and judiciously filled for the preceding
year. Dr. George F. Harris was elected
vice president and the following directors
chosen to succeed themselves : James P.
Coburn, Wm, P. Humes, Newton H. Stone,
Dr. Frank H. VanValzah, Michael M. Mus-
ser, Hon John Blair Linn and Dr. George
F. Harris. Mr. Mose Montgomery, who has
been in the bank for so many years that he
has inspired the absolute confidence of its
long list of depositors, was elected assistant
cashier to Mr. McCurdy, who took formal
charge of the cashiership yesterday. He is
a man of whom so much has already been
said in compliment that no further notice
is necessary to introduce him to our people,
since they are all acquainted with the fact
that the citizens of Gettysburg protested,
almost en masse, when they learned that he
was to leave their National bank to come
here.
It is quite probable that ere long Mr.
William Humes will withdraw as a director
of the bank. His business interests have
become so diversified that he finds it very
burdensome to give it the attention that
his position demands, but if he should . re-
tire as a director his valuable interests will
be continued in the institution just the
same.
——ee
CENTRE COUNTY GRANGE MEETINGS
THIS WINTER.—At a regular meeting of
Centre county Pomona grange, held at Cen-
tre Hall, last November, it was decided
that a series of special meetings be held
during the winter for the purpose of en-
couraging the subordinate granges of the
county.
One day is to be spent with each subor-
dinate chapter and meetings are to be held
at which one or more of the following speak-
ers will be present: Worthy master Leon-
ard Rhone, worthy master George Dale,
Hon. W. K. Alexander, Hon. John T. Mec-
Cormick, I. 8S. Frain, James A. Keller,
Samuel B. Leathers, George L. Goodhart,
W. T. Rearick, John S. Dale, Col. Jas. T.
Weaver and others.
The schedule of dates for the meetings is
as follows :
Howarp—Thursday, Jan. 20th, 9.30 a. m. and
1.30 p. m.
Ux~ionviLLe—Friday,'Jan 21st, 1 p. m.
WasniNgroN—Tuesday Feb. 1st, 1 p. m.
Cextre—Tuesday, Feb. 1st, 7 p. m.
Rock Sprine—Wednesday, Feb. 2nd, 9.30 a. m.
and 1.30 p. m.
Harr Moox—Thursday Feb. 8rd, 9.30 a. m. and
1.30 p.m.
Benxer—Friday Feb. 4th, 1 p. m.
MaprsoNsurc—Tuesday Feb. 8th, 9.30 a. m.
REerersBURG—Tuesday Feb. 8th, 1.30 p. m.
Mmniuein—Wednesday Feb. 9th, 6.30 a. m. and
1.30 p- m.
FripLer—Wednesday Feb. 9th, 7. p. m.
Serine MiLrs—Thursday Feb 10th, 1.30 p. m.
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WiLL JoiN HARRY BUSH FOR THE
KLONDYKE.—The latter part of next week
Harry Bush, a son of Mrs. Louisa Bush, of
this place, will leave for Philadelphia
where his final arrangements will be com-
pleted for his expedition to the Klondyke
gold fields. In Philadelphia he will be
joined by a lumberman from the vicinity
of Jersey Shore and together they will
leave for Edmonton, Alberta, British Co-
‘| lumbia.
Edmonton is a town on a branch of the
Canadian Pacific railroad and is almost
directly north of Idaho. It is twelve hun-
dred miles distant from the region Harry
expects to operate in. There he will equip
for the journey north, taking enough horses
and sleds to carry six months’ provision for
the party and feed for the animals to last
until they reach a point where boats can be
used. They will travel directly north
along the east side of the Rocky mountains,
being in constant touch with the Hudson
Bay Co., stations in that territory, until
they strike the Laird river. Then they
will follow its course through the moun-
tains, thus avoiding the difficulty of cross-
ing them and having the additional advan-
tage of an easy trail over the ice.
After descending the Laird to a point
near Ft. Selkirk, where those who go by
the Chilkoot pass strike the Yukon, he will
branch off to the north again and go over in-
to the McMillan river basin, which is un-
explored and to his mind far richer in gold
than the Dawson fields.
Harry has had considerable experience
in Alaskan travels and has no fear that his
expedition will not reach its destination by
the middle of April. He has panned out
gold in almost every field in the United
States, Mexico and South America and
though not yet thirty years old has seen
about as much of the world and had more
thrilling experiences than any young man
within our ken.
It will take him about five days to
equip at Edmonton. While he is doing
that the other two members of his party
will join him. They are W. S. Hughes,
an electrical and mining engineer from °
Philadelphia, and Harry Lucas, a son of
William Lucas, of Chester Hill, near Phil-
ipsburg. The latter has been physical di-
rector at St. George’s college, Summit Hill,
N. J.