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The Democratic State Ticket,
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE A. JEXNKS,
of Jefferson.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM H. SOWDEN,
of Lehigh.
FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
PATRICK DELACEY, of Lackawanna.
FOR SUPERIOR JUDGE,
CALVIN M. BOWER, of Centre.
WILLIAM TRICKETT, of Cumberland.
FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
J. M. WEILER, of Carbon.
FRANK P. IAMS, of Allegheny.
Democratic District Ticket.
For Congress,
J. L. SPANGLER,
Subject to the Decision of the District Conference
For Senate,
W. C. HEINLE,
Subject to the Decision of the Dictriet Conference
Democratic County Convention.
A ssenibiy, { ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College.
SJ. Ho WETZEL, Bellefonte,
Prothonotary,—M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte.
District Att'y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte.
County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp.
The Democratic Convention.
Large Attendance.—Harmonious Feeling.—A Strong
Ticket and an Admirable Platform. Centre
County Gets a Good Place on the Ticket.
The Democratic state convention which
met in Altoona on Wednesday, was one of
the largest and most enthusiastic gatherings
of the kind that has been seen in Pennsyl-
vania for many, many, years. Every coun-
ty had its full quota of delegates present,
and from many large delegations of earnest
and interested Democrats accompanied
their delegates to witness the work of
their representatives, and show their ac-
tivity in the cause of good government.
The convention was called to order at noon
by state chairman Garman. P. A. O’Boyle,
of Luzerne, was chosen temporary chair-
man, and Matt Savage, of Clearfield, secre-
tary. After a short and brilliant speech
from the chairman and the announcement
of committees recess was taken for an
hour.
In the afternoon the credentials commit-
tee reported in favor of the sitting dele-
gates from the Fourth Luzerne district and
the First, Eighth and Twenty-fifth Phila-
delphia districts, and recommended that
Lycoming county be allowed seven dele-
gates, there being eight on the roll. The
report was unanimously adopted.
Ex-Senator Laubach, of Easton, report-
ed that the committee on permanent organ-
ization failed to agree on a chairman.
Joseph Howley, of Allegheny, and Lev.
McQuistion, of Butler, had been named and
the ballot showed a tie. Michael J. Ryan,
of Philadelphia, announced that he had
nominated Howley in the committee and
now desired to withdraw his name in favor
of McQuistion. The announcement was
greeted with cheers and McQuistion was
elected by acclamation. On taking the
chair Mr. McQuistion made a telling speech
forcibly arraiging the Republican party of
the State for its subservience to boss rule
and its profligate expenditures of the public
moneys. He said :
“There wasa time in the history of Penn-
sylvania when we were proud of the fact of
being Pennsylvania; but to-day our grand old
State, once recognized as the queen among
her sister States, walks with bowed head and
sorrow at the degeneracy of her sons. Then
it was that the people were sovereign and
their officials recognized only as their ser-
vants. A change has taken place, however,
and to-day the debased political machine and
the party boss are the dominant figures in
the Commonwealth. This machine has tak-
en the place of honest officials, and dictates
to the 6,000,000 of people of this Common-
wealth who shall be their rulers. The peo-
ple’s rights have been suppressed, their voice
silenced and rendered powerless to throw off
the debased political incubus that has gagged
them for the past twenty-five years.
‘“The political boss marches through every
department of our State with undaunted
front ; he stalks about through the corridors,
sits behind official desks, enters our legisla-
tive halls and dictates to its members the
character of legislation that will best sub-
serve his ends.
ELECTED BY THE PARTY BOSS.
‘‘Under the Constitution of Pennsylvania
the people should elect their own Represen-
tatives to the State Legislature. These Rep-
resentatives enact laws for the people and
elect United States Senators. Now all is
changed. The party boss elects the members
of the Legislature and these, his puppets,
elect the United States Senators. These
parodies on the Representatives of a free
people jump and how and vote at the behest
of their boss, as his wishes are made known
to them by long distance telephone.
‘Under his directions the executive officers
of the State arenamed and hold their place
at his will. By his directions the moneys of
the State are distributed among private banks
in return for political favors. The boss’ polit-
ical friends are furnished with State money
on which to go into business and build street
railways,
‘In order that his friends may never fall
short of State money he orders that the ap-
propriations to the public schools be with-
held until such time as suits his friends to
return the money to the Treasury. By his
orders his political agent and tools are put
on the payrolls of the State, as holding of-
fices that never existed, and are paid by the
State for services rendered their bosses.
“By his orders the Legislature appoints
fake investigating committees, which never
investigate, or, if driven by the people to in-
vestigate, simply whitewash wrongs that are
known of all men and whose sole purpcse is
to draw money from the Treasury for ser-
vices rendered to political machines. We be-
lieve with a distinguished member of the Re-
publican party that it is unfit, presently
constituted, to rule in Pennsylvania. We de-
nounce it for the distribution of public
money to private banks, without interest,
and in return for political favors done.
“For the use of public money taken out of
the state treasury for private individuals and
corporations in the building of street rail-
ways. For the use of public money needed
by the State for the use of public schools, for
the padding of the pay-roll and drawing of
wages from the state treasury, in return for
political services. For the stealing of the
state money, in fitting up the Grace church
for legislative purposes. For the mortgaging
of men and the State and county offices for
generations yet unborn in return for alle-
giance to the political boss. For the appoint-
ment of fake investigating committees at the
expense of the public treasury, who did not
investigate’.
W. J. Brennen, of Allegheny, moved to
proceed with the nomination of candidates
for Governor. Several delegates protested
against making nominations before adopt-
ing a platform. Word was brought from
the platform committee that it would not
be ready until 7 o’clock and a committee
of three was appointed to wait upon the
committee to ascertain how soon it would be
ready to report. After a short delay Pat
Foley, of Pittsburg, chairman of the com-
mittee reported that it would be anywhere
between 7 and 9 o’clock before the plat-
form makers would be ready to present the
result of its labors and followed up his re-
port my moving to go ahead with the
speeches naming the candidates which was
agreed to.
J. J. Miller, of the Allegheny county
delegation, arose to nominate Mr. Jenks.
| He said :
‘The Allegheny county delegation came
here expecting to nominate Mr. Guffey,
but since we learned that his health does
not permit him to iudulge in an active
state campaign, we have transferred our
allegiance to Hon. Geo. A. Jenks, of Jef-
ferson, a man whose loyalty to Democracy
has never been questioned. I therefore
place in nomination the name of Geo. A.
Jenks, of Jefferson, for Governor.”
The nomination was seconded by D. F.
Fortney, of Centre county, and J. A.
Wakefield, of Allegheny county.
Judge Krebs, of Clearfield county, arose
to nominate Judge Gordon, of Philadelphia.
He stated that there was now in Pennsyl-
vania a splendid opportunity to elect a
Democratic Governor and break the power
of the Republican machine. *‘The Repub-
lican party has hatched a dragon’s brood’’
he said. ‘‘Let us unite in aggressive war-
fare against it, and defeat the power that
is corrupting the Commonwealth. For this
purpose I nominate Hon. James Gay Gor-
don, of Philadelphia.’
Judge Gordon’s nomination was second-
ed by Michael J. Ryan, of Philadelphia in
a brilliant speech.
The nominations for Governor were clos-
ed and the committee on resolutions pre-
sented its report through its chairman.
Ex-Congressman W. H. Sowden, of Le-
high, who read the platform as agreed up-
on by the majority of the committee. He
moved the adoption of the report and de-
manded the previous question. W. J.
Breen, of Venango, read the minority re-
port of the platform committee. It dif-
fered from the otherin the first plank, and
in that unqualifiedly indorsed the Chicago
platform and William Jennings Bryan. It
was signed by twenty-one members of the
committee on resolutions. The minority
report was voted on and rejected by a vote
of 238 against and 184 for.
The majority report on the platform was
then adopted without a division.
The next business in order was the tak-
ing of a ballot on the nomination for Gov-
ernor. It was proceeded with amid consid-
erable disorder, and it was apparent early
in the voting that Judge Gordon would
not come within hailing distance of land-
ing a winner. The ballot resulted :
George A. Jenks...........oo0iei0ne 505
James Gay Gordon... 121
A. H, Coffroth........ .
J. Henry Cochran.. 1
The Chester county deleg cast its
six votes for Robert E. Pattison in accord-
ance with instructions, but changed to
Jenks before the result was announced.
Charles P. Walters, of Dauphin, moved to
make the nomination of Jenks unanimous,
and it was carried with a mighty shout
and the convention at 7:55 took a recess
until 9 o'clock.
When the convention reassembled for the
night session, M. C. L. Kline, of Lehigh,
took the floor and presented ex-Congress-
man Wm. H. Sowden, of the same county,
as a candidate for the Lieut. Governor
nomination.
‘Gerard C. Brown, of York county, set
forth the claims of Geo. W. Bacon and ad-
vocated his selection for second place on
the ticket. Frank J. O’Connor, of Cam-
bria, spoke a few words in urging the
nomination of A. V. Dively, of Blair, for
Lieutenant Governor, and followed up his
praise by withdrawing his man.
Just before the ballot was taken George
A. Jenks, the candidate for Governor, ap-
peared at the entrance of the hall and
walked briskly toward the stage. This
was the signal for the delegates to break
out in a ringing round of applause, amid
which Mr. Jenks mounted the stage and
bowed his acknowledgments. The cheer-
ing continued for about five minutes.
Chairman McQuistion told the delegates
that as soon as the candidate for Lieutenant
Governor had been selected Mr. Jenks
would say a few words. This announce-
ment was cheered and the ballot proceed-
ed with. It resulted : Sowden, 226 ;
Bacon, 193.
Mr. Jenks made his appearance and was
given a rousing ovation. He said that the
would not talk now, but would make his
views known in his letter of acceptance.
He urged Democrats to get together. Mr.
Sowden was introduced to the convention
and in his remarks said that a more honest
man than Geo. A. Jenks never lived.
Candidates for secretary of internal af-
fairs were named : Harry J. McAteer, of
Huntingdon, by Woods Carr, of Fayette ;
W. Hayes Grier, of Lancaster, by James
Atwell, of Pittsburg, and Captain Patrick
DeLacy, of Scranton, by Frank Fitzsim-
mons, of the same place.
The vote resulted : McAteer, 161 ; De-
Lacy, 250. Greir was withdrawn before
the voting began.
For superior court judges there were
nominated Eugene Mullen, of Bradford ;
Dr. Wm. Trickett, of Carlisle ; George A.
Allen, of Erie, and Calvin M. Bower, of
Centre county. Allen’s name was with-
drawn. The vote resulted : Mullen, 151 ;
Trickett, 296 : Bower, 252. Trickett and
Bower are the nominees.
For congressmen-at-large, Frank P.
Iams, of Allegheny; W. Hayes Grier, of
Columbia ; Jere M. Weiler, of Carbon
county, and Hower J. Humes, of Crawford
county, were nominated. The ballot re-
sulted : Iames, 243 ; Grier, 178 ; Weiler,
208, and Humes, 80.
It was decided that the state central
committee should have the power of filling
vacancies occurring on the ticket by death
or otherwise. A motion providing for a
notification committee to wait on the can-
didates was adopted, and a vote of thanks
to the convention officers was also carried.
At 12:40 final adjournment was reached.
THE PLATFORM.
The Democracy of Pennsylvania, in State
convention assembled, renewing their form-
er pledges of fidelity and devotion to the
sacred rights of the people and State, and
true to the convictions and declarations of
the party upon National questions realize
that the issues in the coming State cam-
paign relate peculiarly and transcendently
to the redemption of the State from Re-
publican misrule and corruption, and ap-
pealing to the honest and patriotic citizens
to unite in vindicating the honor of the
Commonwealth and redeeming all its de-
partments from official abuses and corrupt
practices, does declare that the paramount
issues in the campaign on which we have
entered are honest government, home rule,
and clean politics, and hereby pledges it-
self to wage unceasing warfare against the
vicious system of political profligacy and
corruption that pervades our entire system
of State and muicipal affairs. \
It charges the Republican party, which
has had unbridled control of all branches
of the State Government during the past
four years with faithlessness to every pledge
made the people. It promised in most sol-
emn declaration reform in legislation and
the betterment of municipal government,
and it has not only violated these promises,
but it endeavored to perpetuate by most
obnoxious statutes the power of municipal
rings and combinations of corrupt politi-
cians to pass laws for the enrichment of
special interests, and it has, through the
system of hossism, to which it has com-
placently submitted in the past, elevated
these self-constituted leaders to the highest
positions of political honor and public trust
within its power toconfer. It has notonly
needlessly multiplied offices to make place
for party hacks and the subservient tools
of party leaders, thereby greatly enlarging
the public expenditures and made increas-
ed taxation necessary to pay new salaries,
but has without just cause recklessly in-
creased’ the salaries of public officials in all
departments of the State Government, and
so depleted the public funds that the pub-
lic charities of the State have been robbed
of their necessary appropriations.
It has not only tolerated the unjust with-
holding of the public moneys appropriated
to the common school and public charities
that favorites of the treasury might be en-
riched and the funds for corrupting the
elections might be enlarged, but its recog-
nized leaders have endeavored to thwart
and defeat all legislation and every move-
ment looking to a correction of these
abuses.
For the purpose of maintaining large
balances in the State treasury, and to use
them for corrupt political purposes, it has
withheld millions of dollars of personal
property tax from the counties which were
entitled to prompt return of it.
It has created a building commission for
the erection of a State capitol whose mani-
fest purpose is to disregard the plain man-
date creating it, to perpetuate for an un-
necessary length of time its unfortunate
existence to benefit the favorite contractors
of some political boss, the fruit of whose
action will be a large increase of the State
indebtedness.
Controlling by a two-thirds vote both the
Senate and House of Representatives in the
last legislative session, it exhibited a reck-
less disregard of the rights of the taxpayers
of the State, a shameless subserviency to
the dictates of the party boss and a most
profligate appropriation of the public mon-
eys to wholly unnecessary, if not actually
unlawtul, purposes.
To the correction of these evils and the
overthrow of the pernicious system of
which these things are the outgrowth, the
Democratic party solemnly pledges itself to
the people of the Commonwealth.
It further declares that if entrusted with
the administration of the State’s affairs and
the execution of her laws equal and exact
justice shall be meted out to her citizens,
with favoritism for no persons or interests.
New laws prejudicial to the interest of
the State, her cities and municipalities,
shall not be passed.
Needless offices shall be abolished and
salaries cut off and reduced.
The statutes regulating the administra-
tion of the state treasury shall be fearlessly
and faithfully enforced, the moneys appro-
priated to public schools and public chari-
ties shall not be withheld, and these due
the counties shall be properly paid to them.
Appropriations for junketing excursions
by members of the Legislature shall, if
passed by the Senate and House, be prompt-
ly vetoed.
The ballot law shall be simplified, pre-
serving the secrecy intended to be given
thereby and protecting the voter from coer-
cion and the electors from corruption, to
the end that our elections may be honora-
bly conducted and the will of the people
honestly recorded.
Statutes shall be passed prohibiting with-
in the State trusts and combinations form-
ed to prevent the free competition of trade
and to destroy individual enterprise.
We pledge our hearty support to the
Government in an active and aggressive
conduct of our war with Spain.
The Next Governor.
Hon. George A. Jenks was born in
Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, Pa.,
March 26th, 1836. His father, a physician,
was descended from a Welsh Quaker fam-
ily, who were among the early settlers of
Philadelphia. His mother was a daughter
of the Rev. D. Barclay, a Scotch Presby-
terian minister. When Mr. Jenks was a
child his eldest brother, D. B. Jenks, who
was a lawyer, was teaching him to count a
‘hundred, and casually asked him what
business he would follow when he became
a man. The reply was, ‘Wait till to-
morrow morning and I will tell you.”
During the night the determination was
formed, and the next morning communicat-
ed by the subject of this sketch that he
would be a lawyer. This purpose, so early
formed, was unalterably fixed. Thence
forward his every labor and study was
directed to the purpose of his life. To
these early studies is largely to he at-
tributed his capability to deal with orig-
inal legal questions, such as he mani-
fested on the impeachment of Secretary
Belknap, the discussion of the Louisiana
and Oregon cases before the electoral com-
mission, and the debate on the distribution
of the Geneva award.
ORPHANED AT AN EARLY AGE.
When 14 years old his father died. At
16 he entered upon an apprenticeship of
two years to the carpenter and joiner trade.
‘When his term expired he worked at his
trade, taught school and occasionally
was employed at civil engineering, till he
entered college. While engaged in the
latter vocation, in the spring of 1855, he
assisted to lay out Omaha, in Nebraska.
In the fall of that year he entered the
junior class of Jefferson college, having, in
the morning and evenings, while teaching
and working, steadily pursued his literary
studies. He had been entered as a student
of law before he entered college, and the
Hon. W. P. Jenks, who was his guardian,
had from early boyhood directed him in
his legal and literary reading. He gradu-
ated at Jefferson college in the class of ’58,
and in February, ’59, was admitted to the
bar in Jefferson county, having finished his
legal studies under his elder brother, P.
W. Jenks.
At the September term, ’59. he led in
conducting his first case in court, and,
strangely enough, his opponent was Hon.
I. G. Gordon. He won the case, and
thenceforward was employed in most of the
important cases in his own county and
his name soon hecame familiar in many of
the courts of western and central Pennsyl-
vania.
ALWAYS KNOWN AS A DEMOCRAT.
When not engaged in the courts his life
has been one of constant study and prep-
aration. He never sought public position,
but was known asa Democrat. In the
fall of 74 he was tendered the Democratic
nomination for Congress in the Twenty-
fifth district of Pennsylvania against Gen.
Harry White. The district was heavily
Republican, but his personal popularity
and the tidal wave elected him to the
Forty-fourth Congress. Speaker Kerr ap-
pointed him chairman of the committee on
invalid pensions. A masterly report on
the condition and working of the pension
bureau, derived from an investigation by
order of the House, he soon made, and fol-
lowed this by a bill which was calculated
to prevent future abuses. Bounty land
warrants, which, before this, had been per- |
sonal property, had become the plunder of
a dishonest ring which, at one single time,
had seized upon over 100,000 acres of land,
were changed to reality through his efforts
and so guarded that only the rightful own-
ers, their legal heirs or assigns, could ob-
tain them.
The legal prominence he had already at-
tained led the House to select him as one of
the seven managers on the part of the
House to conduct the impeach-
ment of Secretary Belknap, the others being
Messrs. Lord Knott, Lynde, McMahon,
Hoar and Lapham. On the trail, before
tne Senate, the defendent was represented
by three leading lawyers of the nation—
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, Hon. Matt. H.
Carpenter and Hon. Montgomery Blair.
Mr. Jenks was selected by the managers as
one of the committee to draw the pleadings.
He was afterward appointed to make one
of the arguments on the question of the
jurisdiction of the Senate to impeach after
the officer had resigned and subsequently,
in consequence of the illness of Mr. Lapham
he was selected to discuss the facts. His
legal attainments were, on this trial, made
conspicuous to the Senate and the nation,
and conceded to be unsurpassed by any in
the cause.
Soon after the meeting of the second ses-
sion he was appointed by speaker Randall
one of the committee of 15 to investigate
the conduct of the elections in Louisiana,
and on his return was appointed, by the
chairman of the Democratic caucus, with |
Mr. Field, of New York, and Mr. Tucker,
of Virginia, 10 represent the Democracy of
the House in preparing, representing and
discussing the facts and the law before the
electoral commission.
RARE COMPLIMENT FROM THE SENATE.
Mr. Jenks was appointed assistant sec-
retary of the interior July 1st, 1885, which
office he resigned May 15th 1886, to accept
the position of attorney for John DuBois,
the wealthy Clearfield county lumberman.
On the 28th of July, 1886, he was nomi-
nated as solicitor general of the United
States, and on the next day was confirmed
by the Senate without the nomination be-
ing referred to the committee—a rare com-
pliment seldom paid to anyone who had
not been a member of that body. But
this appointment and that of assistant sec-
retary of the interior came to him entirely
unsolicited. He was appointed to the lat-
ter by Secretary Lamar, who had served
with him in the Forty-fourth Congress, and
who remembered his unusual legal ability,
although he had not seen him since March,
1877, and did not even know his address,
getting it from Hon W. H. Sowden or ex-
Governor Curtin. The first intimation he
had of his appointment as solicitor general
was when the place was offered him by the
President after he had summoned him to
Washington by a telegram. This appoint-
ment was made by Mr. Cleveland entirely
on his own responsibility, basing his
judgement largely on what he had seen of
Mr. Jenks while the latter was acting as
assistant secretary of the interior, during
which time he had come in contact with
him frequently in the transaction of im-
portant business connected with public
lands, under the direction of the interior
department. :
Mr. Jenks has always been an unswerv-
ing ‘Democrat, and has been frequently
honored by his party with the most im-
portant offices in their gift. His legal at-
tainments are admitted on all sides and
that he is one of the ablest and most prom-
inent men is conceded by both Republicans
and Democrats.
Hint to the Housekeeper.
When you have learned of a good article,
and made up your mind to try it, don’t let
those interested in selling you something
else “‘bluff’’ you out of it. Many of our
housekeepers have tried the Royal Baking
Powder, and learned how very much su-
perior are the bread, biscuit and cakes it
makes. There are many baking powders
from alum, which cost but three cents a
pound to produce, but which are sold at
about the same price as the Royal, which
is composed only of the most highly refined
cream of tartar and soda. There is a great
inducement to push the sale of these impure
articles, because of the great profit in them.
Consumers are entitled to the best their
money will buy, and should insist upon
having the Royal when they ask for it.
Company B. at Chickamauga.
CAMP THOMAS, June 27th, 1898.
EDITOR OF WATCHMAN :
This week I am sorry to have to report the
illness of Frank H. Taylor, David Eber
Rothrock and E. C. Sheriff. Taylor and
Rothrock are in the division hospital threat-
ened with typhoid fever while Sheriff is in
the regimental hospital. They are all in
comfortable quartersand are being well cared
for and just prior to this writing I visited
them all and found them in good spirits
confident of speedy recovery. Their friends
at home can rest assured that they will have
every care and attention during their ill-
ness.
Our men have a certain amount of work to
do every day and on last Thursday evening
they were detailed for provost guard duty at
Alexander’s Bridge. We were on this line
of duty for twenty-four hours. We marched
from our quarters in heavy marcking order,
loaded our baggage, mess outfitand one day’s
full rations on the company’s wagons and,
arrivingat our post of duty, camped in a fine
strip of woods. From that point we threw
out guards in different directions covering a
distance of several miles. The boys did their
work like regulars and indeed with more
enthusiasm as they enjoyed it and were
benefited by the experience and change.
During the engagement Serg. Gettig, being
sergeant of the detail guarding the bridge,
was obliged to examine all passes presented
and his eagle eye fairly looked through the
paper. A pass presented to him by three
non-commissioned officers of a Tenn. regi-
ment proved bogus and he had them arrested
in short order at one o’clock at night. Gettig
is a careful and exacting officer and in Serg.
Garis’ absence has heen appointed color
sergeant. (aris is home on a ten days fur-
lough on account of the sickness of his little
son.
The 1st and 2nd battalions fought a sham
battle on Saturday afternoon with William
T. Barnes acting as chief scout. He had
charge of the 8 scouts composing the 1st
battalion scouting party and proved himself
to be a first class spy. Private Harry F.
McManaway has been clerking for the com-
pany in N. B. Spangler’s absence. The pay
rolls are made up and the men will be
| paid to June 30th about July 10th.
Recruits for several of the companies
in our regiment have arrived and are
drilling at this writing but as yet we do
not know when our detail will arrive. On
Saturday, June 25th we received by express
a great big box of bologna from W. A. Lyon.
It was certainly good and the boys are loud
in their praise and thanks for Bill and his
friends who thought of sending it. During
the week we also received a check from Col.
J. L. Spangler for a good sized amount for
the use of the company. The check was
turned over to Serg. S. D. Gettig, treasurer,
to be used in buying necessary food, milk
and comforts for our boys in the hospital.
Colonel Spangler has the thanks of every
member of the company for his kindness and
thoughtfulness.
Mr. James Foster accompanied by his
charming wife,to whom I had the pleasure of
an introduction,made us a short visit on their
way from Ala., to State College, Pa., where
the groom’s parents reside. Mr. Fosteris a
graduate of State College and is now chief
chemist for a large iron firm in Sheffield,
Ala. Orders have been received for each
company to pack all articles and clothing not
needed for field service. Marked and labeled
with the name and rank of the owners the
unnecessary articles are taken charge of by
the Government and put in storage, so that
from all indications we will soon be breath-
ing the more southern atmosphere of Florida
or Cuba. The boys send greetings to all
their friends at home in Centre county.
: VOLUNTEER.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The usual morning and evening ser-
vices will be held in the Episcopal church
on Sunday by the new rector, Rev. George
T. Brown, of Branfort, Conn.
>be —
——The Undine band from this place
drove to Clarence last Saturday morning to
furnish the music for the big Hungarian
picnic out there. Part of their work was
to play continually during the march from
Clarence to the church in Snow Shoe, a
distance of a mile and a half.
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——Ome of the most interesting features
at the Undine picnic at Hecla, on Monday,
will be the live bird shoot between Clinton
and Centre county teams. Clinton county
will send four men to shoot at the traps
with the Centre county sportsmen and an
interesting contest may be expected. L.
C. Wetzel will have charge of that part of
the program.
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——A stranger who gave his name as
John Rowe, from Jersey Shore, created an
excitement in the vicinity of McCalmont’s
lime kilns, on Sunday morning, by strip-
ping himself of his clothes and trying to
coat himself with lime. He was locked
up by officer Montgomery and then he tried
to burn the lock-up in which he was con-
fined. He came very near burning him-
self up before his purpose was discovered
and he was committed to jail.
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——Judge A. G. Steiner, of Sioux City,
Towa, was accidentally killed whilein at-
tendance at a circus that was exhibiting in
that city last Friday. A wind storm blew
the tent over, the center pole falling on the
unfortunate man with fatal effect. He
was a son of George Steiner Esq., who
lived in Philipsburg in the ’60’s, but early
in life he went West where he became
wealthy and prominent. He was a cousin
of Mrs. C. T. Fryberger, of Philipsburg.
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RECEPTION FOR C. M. BOWER TO-NIGHT.
The friends of C. M. Bower Esq., our can-
didate for superior court judge, will tender
him an informal reception at his home on
east Linn street to-night. It will be very
informal and all the citizens of the town
are invited to attend the welcoming home
of one who has heen honored as Mr. Bower
has.
CLARK GRAMLEY HAs BEEN DISCHARG-
ED.—Clark Gramley who was arrested by
U. S. Marshall Roe at Rebersburg, on May
27th, along with Valentine Breon and
Charles Bartges, charged with having
counterfeited has been released for want of
evidence. At the hearing at the U. S.
court recently the evidence produced
against him was so trifling that it was
deemed insufficient to hold him.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phans court clerk G. W. Rumberger dur-
the past week.
Frank B. Sprankle, of Tyrone, and Min-
nie Daughenbaugh, of Port Matilda.
Harry H. Bowers and Minnie Miller,
both of Moshannon.
F. W. Meyer, of New York, N. Y., and
Mary J. Twigg, of Rush Twp., Centre
county.
Daniel McGahan, of Huntingdon, and
Lillie Gill, of Pleasant Gap.
David W. Robb and Ella M. Miller, both
of Romola.
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WHAT THE NEW REVENUE STAMPS
Look LIKE.—On the face of the new reve-
nue stamps which are now being distribu-
ted is engraved a representation of the ill-
fated battleship Maine. There is no in-
scription, excepting the denomination.
The color of the new stamps are: One
eighth-cent proprietary, light green ; three
eighth-cent proprietary, salmon; five-eighth
cent proprietary, dark blue ; one cent pro-
prietary, purple; two cent proprietary,
dark brown ; four cent proprietary, light
purple ; two cent documentary, light pink;
four cent documentary, dark pink. They
are oblong in shape. The battleship is
pictured as going at full speed through a
heavy sea. From the two smokestacks is
pouring volumes of dense smoke. The
stamps, millions of which will be used, are
a silent, though an appropriate reminder of
the loss of the pride of the American navy
and 236 of her bravest sailors through
Spanish treachery.
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JOHN GIVEN TO MARRY THE WEALTHY
PicKLE MAN’S DAUGHTER.—The Belle-
fonte friends of John La Porte Given, for-
merly of this place, will be interested in the
following paragraph taken from the society
news in a recent issue of the Pittshurg
Chronicle Telegraph.
Formal announcement is made of the mat-
rimonial engagement of Miss Irene Edwilda
Heinz and John La Porte Given, of New
York City. The bride-elect is the only
daughter of Mr. H. J. Heinz. She received
her education in this city, later taking a
course in an eastern finishing school. Since
the death of her mother she has been a con-
stant traveler, and not the least of her
charms is in the wide awake intelligence and
appreciation of persons and things which is
one of the accomplishments of the traveled
few. Mr. Given 1s a Cornell man, and his
position as telegraph editor of the New York
Evening Sun is evidence of his cleverness and
standing. No date is set for the marriage,
which will be a home affair, and arranged
with due consideration of such an event as
the wedding of an only daughter. The hand-
some home in Penn. Ave., East End, is being
remodeled, and the addition of 2 music room
and billiard room to the lower floor will add
materially to the commodiousness and up-to-
date appointment of one of the most beauti-
fully arranged homes in the city.
Mr. Given is the eldest son of Isabel
Given Bartroff who was a Miss McBride, a
daughter of one of the town’s oldest fam-
ilies. He was born in Bellefonte, but
when the family moved from here some
years ago he located in Altoona where he
worked on several of the local papers.
Later he went to Cornell and State College
to prepare himself for a journalistic career
and since leaving college has had marked
success in that field. He has worked on
many of the big Pittsburg and Philadel-
phia dailies and the fact that he now holds
the important position of telegraph editor
on the New York Sun is a pleasurable as-
surance to his friends here that he is
succeeding
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THE COMING OF THE STATE TEACHERS.
—Next week the forty-third annual session
of the Pennsylvania state teachers associa-
tion will be held in the court house
in Bellefonte and the question nat-
urally arises are the citizens of the town
awake to the duty they will have to per-
form as hosts of this important gathering of
the educators of the State.
The sessions will open on Tue=day morn-
ing, July 5th, at 10 o'clock, when the
speakers will be Rev. Dr. W. A. Stevens,
Col. D. F. Fortney, Gen’l. James A. Bea-
ver and Hon. Henry Houck, of Harrisburg.
At the afternoon session on Tuesday, Supt.
H. S. Putnam, of Bradford county ; Supt.
H. E. Raesly, of Tioga county ; Dr. D. J.
Waller, of the Indiana Normal school ;
Supt. John Morrow, of Allegheny county ;
Supt. A. D. Colegrove, of Erie county, and
Supt. J. George Becht, of Lycoming
county, will lead the discussions of ques-
tions of educational interest. Tuesday
night Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh, of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, president of the
association, will deliver his address.
At Wednesday morning’s session, which
will begin at 9:15, J. P. McCaskey, of the
Lancaster boys’ High school, superintend-
ent E. Mackey, of Reading ; Prof. Green,
of the West Chester Normal school, and
Dr. N. C. Schaeffer, state Supt. of public
instruction, will be the talkers.
At 1 o'clock p. m. on Wednesday a spec-
ial train will leave for State College, carry-
ing the members of the association on a
visit to that institution. While they will
be shown through the various buildings at
the College and hold an afternoon session
in the chapel at which Prof. G. Edwin
Shiras, of New Castle ; Prof. Geo. E. Lit-
tle, of Washington, D. C.; and Supt. J.
M. Berkey, of Johnstown, will be the talk-
ers. At 7 o'clock the train will return to
Bellefonte, where a public meeting will be
held in the court house. It will he ad-
dressed by Dr. Geo. W. Atherton, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania State College,
and Hon. Daniel H. Hastings, Governor of
the Commonwealth.
Thursday morning, July 7th, the session
will open at 9:15 and the election of officers
for the ensuing year will take place. At
this session W. W. Kelchner, principal of
the Williamsport High school, A. E. Cole-
grove, Supt. George Howell, of Scranton ;
and Prof. Wm. L. Tomlin, of Chicago
will lead in the discussions. The after-
noon sessions on Thursday will be taken
up by Miss Georgia Allison, president of
the Penna. state kindergarten association.
The evening session will be given to
Dr. James L. Hughes, of Toronto, Canada,
who will lecture on ‘‘the Relation of the
Kindergarten to Higher Education.”
On Wednesday, July 6th, the Penna.
kindergarten association will hold its own
sessions in the chapel of the Presbyterian
church. At10:30 the meetings will open
and dcring the morning and afternoon
prominent workers from all parts of the
State will discuss the many phases of this
interesting branch of the modern educa-
tional system.
Bellefonte has never done what she is
capable of doing at such times as associa-
tions of this sort have met here and it is
about time that our people waken up to the
urgency of entertaining visitors in a way
that will prove creditable and leave a fa-
vorable impression. Some one should take
the matter in hand and arrange a drive
about town at an appointed hour. All the
private conveyances in the place should be
put at the disposal of the committee and a
start should be made from the court house
or some other desirable place of rendezvous.
Then why not give them a reception in the
armory after the lecture on Thursday
night ? It could be arranged very easily
and an orchestra could be secured to fur-
nish music for the promenade and dancing
and the young ladies could take in hand
the preparation of refreshments for the
evening.
Let us doit and show the visitors that
Bellefonte is alive and fully up to other
places at which this association has met.
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