Demonic
Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., July 29, 1898.
P. GRAY MEEK, Ebpiror.
The Democratic State Ticket,
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE A. JENKS,
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 Dictrict Conference
Democratic County Convention.
i ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College.
Assauty, { § H. WETZEL, Bellefonte.
Prothonotary,—M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte.
District Att’ y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte.
County Surveyor,—~H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp.
Annexing Cheap Labor.
Its not always the person who talks the
loudest and makes the greatest professions,
who is the most honest and earnest in his
efforts to accomplish the purpose pretend-
ed. Asa Congressman, WM. A. STONE,—
boss QUAY’s candidate for Governor—pos-
ed as the special friend of labor, and as the
champion of the labor people’s legislation
preventing the immigration of cheap labor
into this country. He did but little in
this matter, however, but work his literary
bureau and keep his name before the pub-
lic as presenting bills for the purpose of re-
stricting immigration. He made a great
ado about what he was going to do but, so
far as doing anything, the cold facts are
that he never got one of his bills farther
than the bill files and never bothered
whether they got farther or failed.
When it came to ‘‘annexing’’ cheap
foreign labor ; to making it part and parcel
of our own government ; to giving it all
the rights, except that of voting, that our
workingmen enjoy, Mr. STONE was one
of the most outspoken advocates of that
policy. He not only talked in favor of it,
but, with a majority of his Republican col-
leagues, voted for it. By his vote and the
vote of a Republican Congress, and the
signature of a Republican President, over
100,000 of the cheapest and most degraded
class of laborers and beggars in the world,
have been tied to and made part of the pos-
sessions of the United States. 25,000 Jap-
anese ; 24,000 Chinese ; 15,000 Portugese ;
31,000 half-breed Negroes and Chinamen,
and 5,000 lepers of all nationalities, have,
by Mr. STONE’S and the votes of others like
him, been given free access to the United
States, to work, or beg, and live as best
they can.
They can come when they please, work
for what they please, and crowd our own
workingmen out of employment when and
where they please. And Mr. STONE voted
for this, while all the time he was pretend-
to be a friend of lahor.
Could hypocrisy be more apparent ?
How to Secure Honest
Reform.
Legislative
1t will not be the fault of the enemies of
the machine in Chester county if a better
class of members are not sent to the Legis-
lature than such as wear the QUAY collar.
They do not propose to scatter their
strength, but Democrats and independent
Republicans have united upon legislative
candidates who will not obey the boss.
The men nominated are not only pledged
to reform, but are known to be of such
character as will fulfill their pledges.
This is the right plan of operation on
the part of those citizens, irrespective of
party allegiance, who want to improve the
character of our Legislature, knowing that
the chief cause of corruption in the public
affairs of the State is to be found in the
kind of Legislators selected to serve the in-
terest of a corrupt party boss and a plund-
ering political machine.
As Democrats and independent Republi-
cans have a like object in correcting this
evil, where Democratic nominations for
the Legislature have been made Republi-
cans who are interested in unloosening
QUAY’S hold on the lawmaking body, will
aid this object by supporting the Demo-
cratic nominees, and in such counties as
Chester, and wherever the great purpose of
legislative reform will be better served by
independent Republican candidates, they
should have the full support of the Demo-
cratic voters.
——The Hollidaysburg Register is of the
opinion that the Rev. Dr. SwALLow will
make small headway in his gubernatorial
canvass by attacking soldiers who are risk-
ing their lives at the front, as is Gen. Go-
BIN, whom the preacher-candidate as-
sailed in his speech at the Prohibition
gathering at Lakemont, Altoona, last Fri-
day. The Register expresses what is proba-
bly the sentiment of everyone who read the
ungallant attack. Politicians are politi-
cians and the legitimate prey of one an-
other, but when a man leaves politics be-
hind him and goes to fight for his country
he should be immune from such scurrility.
As the representative of the rottenness of
the Republican party, Gen. GGBIN must
take his chances of detract‘on, and such def-
amation as conditions warrant, hut as an
individual his friends have a right to claim
his exemption from abuse.
Thomas McGovern, Head of the Harris-
risburg Diocese. Passes Away.
Prominent in Catholic Circles.—Was Born in Ire-
land, But Educated in This Country, Being a
Cl te with Archbishop Corrigan at Mt. St.
Mary’s College, Emmittsburg—Was Assistant at
St. Michael's and 8t. Philip's Churches, Phila-
delphia—Made Bishop in 1888.—Was Priest in
Bellefonte.
HARRISBURG, July 25.—Bishop Thomas
McGovern, of the Harrisburg Catholic dio-
cese, died at his official residence at 5.10
o’clock this afternoon after a protrac-
ted illness. All the distinguished pre-
late’s relatives and many priests in the
diocese visited his bedside the past week to
pay their last respects to him.
The death of Bishop McGovern, although
expected for weeks, has created much sor-
row in this community, in which he was
much esteemed. He was born in the par-
ish of Swanlibar, county Cavan, Ireland,
in 1832, and his parents emigrated to Penn-
sylvania the following year. In early life
he attended St. Joseph’s College, Susque-
hanna county, where he remained two
years. In 1855 he entered Mt. St. Mary’s
College, Emmittsburg, Md., and after four
years was graduated at the commencement
of 1859 with the degree of B. A. Among
his classmates was Archbishop Corrigan, of
New York. In 1861 he received the de-
gree of A. M. After his graduation he
continued his studies in theology at Mount
St. Mary’s Seminary. His first rector then
in the seminary is now the Most Rev. Dr.
William Henry Elder, Archbishop of Cin-
cinnati.
ORDAINED PRIEST IN 1861.
Bishop McGovern always regarded
Mount St. Mary’s as his alma mater, not
only because she honored him with her col-
legiate diplomas, but because she also
called him to important offices of trust dur-
ing his sojourn in the college. He conclud-
ed his theological course in the Seminary
of St. Charles Borromeo, since removed to
Overbrook.
He was ordained as priest on December
27th, 1861, by the Rev. Dr. James F.
Wood, afterwards Archbishop of Philadel-
phia. He was assigned to the charge of
Pottstown and Douglasville after his ordi-
nation and was suhsequently called as as-
sistant at St. Michael’s church, Philadel-
phia, and later to St. Philip’s church, that
city. In June, 1854, Father McGovern
was sent to Bellefonte to attend the station
attached to it, embracing Centre, Juniata
and Mifflin counties. He labored in this
mission for six years; building up the church
in Bellefonte and organizing sodalities, ben-
eficial and temperance societies.
SUCCEEDED BISHOP SHANAHAN.
In 1868 the diocese of Harrisburg was or-
ganized by the Holy See and July 12th the
Right Rev. Dr. J. F. Shanahan was conse-
crated its first Bishop. Father McGovern’s
spiritual allegiance was made to him. He
remained in Bellefonte until December,
1870, when he was appointed to St. Pat
rick’s church, at York. In July, 1873, he
was transferred to Danville. In 1881 and
1882 he made an extensive tour through
South America, Africa and Asia, traveling
over 23,000 miles. He made the tour of
Palestine and Syria on horseback.
In 1888 Bishop McGovern was appointed
the successor of the late Bishop Shanahan.
He was consecrated May 11th, 1888, by the
Right Rev. William O’Hara, of Scranton,
assisted by the Right Rev. Dr. Richard
Gilmour, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Right
Rev. John A. Waters, of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1895 Bishop McGovern visited the Holy
See at Rome.
Soldier Boys at
mauga.
With Our Chicka~-
Scraps of Interesting News Picked up by the
Watchman Correspondent on the Camp Ground
of the First Army Corps.—Something About the
Men of Co. B.
Colonel Burchfield, commanding the
Fifth Pennsylvania, had a return of his
birthday anniversary on Saturday. The
occasion was honored by a fine dinner in
the officers’ mess tent.
The Fifth regiment, has just received a
mascot in the shape of a rabbit’s foot, for-
warded to Camp Thomas by a young lady
of Saxton, Bedford county, to a relative
who is a member of Company A, of Hunt-
ingdon. The ‘‘rabbit was killed by a well
known citizen of Saxton in the graveyard
at that place at midnight during the dark
of the moon, as these conditions are neces-
sary to preserve the hypnotic effects of the
foot,” and ‘‘it is a token of good luck
that will preserve the members of the Fifth
from misfortunes which might overtake
them.”
Six fresh cases of typhoid fever were re- !
ported in the Fifth Monday.
Colonel Burchfield and staff, were pho-
tographed Monday.
From all reports the regiment expect
their camp to be changed soon, as it is on
the list for Porto Rico.
Lieutenant Edgar Stayer is seriously ill
with typhoid fever, and it is feared that it
will result fatally.
The Sunday morning report showed
eighty-eight men sick ‘in the regiment,
eight or or ten suffering from typhoid.
Adjutant John 8. Fair, of the Fifth, who
has been ill of the fever for a month, re-
turned from Lookout Mountain Monday
and reported for duty.
Monday the Fifth Pennsylvania’s camp
was fairly afloat with black, clinging mud.
It was already deep in mud and the heavy
rains of Monday made it ten fold worse,
and camp has a sickening unwholesome at-
mosphere. The regiment has for some
time had filed a request to move its camp,
owing to the very discomforting topography
of the present site.
Two patients from compapy F and one
from company A were sent to the Leiter
hospital Saturday. Color Sergeant Harris,
of Company 8, was to the division hospital
Sunday morning with typhoid fever.
When the regiment goes to Porto Rico, all
the sick will be sent to the division hospit-
al. A board of survey is condemning or
putting a price on all state property.
Quite a lot is being condemned. One man
from company C. was shot at Saturday by
farmer Reed and a gang of men. Three
from other regiments were wounded, one
Kansas soldier fatally.
The favorite resort of the soldiers is
Lookout Inn, a splendidly equipped resort
on the top of Lookout mountain where the
temperature is at least 10° cooler than it is
on the camp grounds. It is an ideal place
for an invalid to recover from the ravages
of disease and has become such a popular
resort for those who are sick or overworked
that it is a standing joke among the sol-
diers for any one to ask permission to go to
Lookout Mountain. No difference what
the ailment is, the sick man who asks to be
allowed a few days’ leave is said to have
Lookout fever.
The hotel is much like the Mountain
house at Cresson. The accommodations
are excellent and the table is very good in-
deed. The mountain is about 2,000 feet
higher than the surrounding country, af-
fording one of the most magnificent views
in the country. On a clear day one can
(reneral Miles’ Expedition Safely 8
Landed on Porto Rican Shores
STARS AND STRIPES RAN UP, FOUR SPANIARDS KILLED BUT NO
AMERICANS WERE HURT. THE ENEMY WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
The Gloucester Pluckily Ran Over the Mines and From It Thirty Men Were
Put on Shore Who Took Possession of the Port of Guanica.
The Skirmish Which Followed Was Quite Brief.
PORT OF GUANICA, ISLAND OF PORTO Rico, July 25.—(2 p. m.)—via the Island of
St. Thomas, D. W. I, July 26.— (Morning. )—The United States military expedition
under the command of Major General Nelson A. Miles, commanding the army of the
United States which left Guantanamo bay during the evening of Thursday last, July
21st, was landed here successfully to-day after a skirmish between a detachment of the
Spanish troops and a crew of thirty belonging to the launch of the United States aux-
illiary gunboat Gloucester, formerly Mr. J. Pierpoint Morgan’s steam yacht Corsair.
Four of the Spaniards were killed and no Americans were hurt. The American troops
will be pushed forward promptly in order to capture the railroad leading to Ponce,
which is only about ten miles east of this place. From Ponce there is an excellent mil-
itary road running eighty-five miles to San Juan. The whole of General Brook’s force,
with the New Orleans, Annapolis, Cincinnati, Leyden and Wasp, is expected here
within twenty-four hours. .
STARTED HURRIEDLY.
The ships left Guantanamo bay suddenly Thursday evening, with the Massachu-
setts, commanded by Captain Higginson, leading. Captain Higginson was in charge of
the naval expedition, which consisted of the Columbia, Dixie, Glouchester and Yale.
General Miles was on the last named vessel. The troops were on board the Nueces.
Lampasas, Comanche, Rita, Unionist, Stillwater, Macon and Specialist. This was the
order in which the transports entered the harbor here. The voyage from Guantanamo
bay to this port was uneventful.
CHANGED THE COURSE.
At noon yesterday General Miles called for a consultation, announcing that he was
determined not to go by San Juan cape but by the Mona passage instead, land there,
surprise the Spaniards and deceive their military authorities. This course was then
changed and the Dixie was sent to warn General Brooke at Cape San Juan. Early
this morning the Glouchester, in charge of Lieutenant commander Wainwright steamed
into Guanica harbor in order to reconnoiter the place. With the fleet waiting outside
the gallant fighting yacth Gloucester braved the mines which were supposed to be in
this harbor and found that there were five fathoms of water close in shore. Guanica
bay is a quiet place, surrounded by cultivated lands. In the rear are high mountains
and close to the beach nestles a village of about twenty houses.
SPANIARDS TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
The Spaniards were completely taken by surprise. Almost the first they knew of
the approach of the army of invasion was in the announcement contained in the firing
of a gun from the Gloucester, demanding that the Spaniards haul down their flag,
which was floating from the flag staff in front of a blockhouse standing to the east of
the village. The first couple of three-pounders were fired into the hills right and left
of the bay, purposely avoiding the town, lest the projectiles hurt women or children.
The Glouchester then hove to within about 600 yards of the shore and lowered a launch
having on board a Colt rapid-fire gun and thirty men under the command Lieutenant
Huse, which was sent ashore without encountering opposition.
OLD GLORY RAISED.
Quartermaster Beck thereupon told Yeoman Lacy to haul down the Spanish flag
which was done, and they then raised on the flagstaff, the first United States flag to
float over Porto Rican soil. Suddenly about thirty Spaniards opened fire with Mauser
rifles on the American party. Lieutenant Huse and his men responded with great
gallantry, the Colt gun doing effective work. Norman, who received Admiral Cer-
vera’s surrender, and Wood, a volunteer lieutenant, shared the honors with Lieutenant
Huse.
THE GLOUCESTER GOT TO WORK.
Almost immediately after the Spaniards fired on the Americans the Gloucester
opened fire on the enemy with all her three and six pounders which could be brought
to bear, shelling the town and also dropping a number of shells into the hills to the
west of Guanica where a number of Spanish cavalry were to be seen hastening toward
the spot where the Americans landed. :
Lieutenant Huse then threw up a little fort, which he named Fort Wainwright,
and laid barb wire in the street in front of it in order to repel the expected cavalry at-
tack. The lieutenant also mounted the Colt gun and signalled for reinforcements,
which were sent from the Gloucester. The Associated Press dispatch hoat Cynthia II
was the only boat in the harbor except the Gloucester.
FOUR SPANIARDS KILLED.
A few of the Spanish cavalry joined those who were fighting in the street of Guan-
ica, but the Colt barked to a purpose, killing four of them. By that time the Glouces-
ter had the range of the town and of the block house and all her guns were spitting fire,
the doctor and the paymaster helping to serve the guns, . Soon afterward white coated
galloping cavalrymen were seen climbing the hills to the westward, and the foot sol-
diers were scurrying along the fences from the town. By 9.45, with the exception of
a few guerrilla shots, the town was won and the enemy was driven out of its neighbor-
hood. The Red Cross nurses on the Lampasas and a detachment of regulars were the
first to land from the transports.
LANDING OF THE TROOPS.
After Lieutenant Huse had captured the place he deployed his small force into the
suburbs. But he was soon reinforced by the regulars, who were followed by company
G, of the Sixth Illinois, and then by other troops in quick succession. All the boats of
the men-of-war and the transports were used in tlie work of landing the troops, each
steam launch towing four or five boats loaded to the rails with soldiers. But every-
thing progressed in an orderly manner and according to the plans of General Miles.
The latter went ashore about noon, after stopping to board the Gloucester and thank
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright for his gallant action.
General Miles said to the correspondent of the Associated Press :
‘‘Guanica and Cinga are in the disinfected portion of the island. Matteo, the in-
surgent leader, lives at Yauco, a few miles inland. Had we landed at Cape San Juan a
line of rifle pits might have stopped our advance.’
GENERAL MILES AND HIS PLANS.
There is no doubt that General Miles’ plans are being kept absolutely secret. The
spirit of the troops, men and officers, is admirable. The town of Ponce is sure to fall
before the attack of our army and navy. The main fighting, until San Juan is reached
will be along the line of a splendid military road leading from Ponce to San Juan de
Porto Rico. But every precaution will he taken to lessen our casualties, even to the
use of the Street shields, of which a supply was brought with the expedition.
Niagara Falls Excursion.
On Tuesday, August 2nd, the Central
R. R. of Pa. will have a special excursion
to Niagara Falls via the Beech Creek and
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Ry., and
will sell excursion tickets from ali points
on its line at the remarkably low rate of
$5.50 for the round trip good for six days.
The train will leave Bellefonte at 7.20 A.
M., and the exceptionally low rate of fare
should result in a large excursion from this
region to the greatest cataract in this or any
other country.
see the western mountains of South Caro-
lina, as well as portions of the States of
Tennessee and Georgia.
There are now about thirty sick and con-
valescent soldiers at the Inn, and quite a
number of enlisted men recovering from
the fever. There is a resident physician,
Dr. George West, a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, but a southern man,
who is very successful in his treatment of
fevers. Helives at the Inn, but goes down
to his office in Chattanooga every day, re-
turning again in the evening. His services
are in such demand on the mountain that
he has very little leisure while he is at the
hotel.
Lieutenant George L. Jackson, of Belle-
fonte, spent five days on the mountain last
week and returned feeling much stronger.
Captain Louis N. Slagle, company G,
started for his home in Lewistown Monday
evening with the remains of George Woo-
mer, a member of his company, who died
at camp Sunday of typhoid fever.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—Milesburg castle K. G. E., will
hold a festival on Saturday evening, Au-
gust 13th.
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——A sociable will be held at the home
of Oscar Wetzel, on Willowbank street, this
evening, by the ladies of the Reformed
church.
The Peace Proposition.
Spain Trying to Save Something—Protests Against
the Attack on Porto Rico After Declarations for
a Settlement Had Been Made.
LoNDON, July 28.—The London corres-
pondent of the Daily Mail says :
Spain will probably protest against an
attack upon Porto Rico after the Washing-
ton cabinet had officially received Spanish
overtures for peace. Should a circular note
on this subject be sent to the powers, it
will contain the exact dates of the Span-
ish communications, making it clear that
the United States deferred its answer in While hauling fond
order to be able to date this after the ~~ ''0lle hauling in hay, ou Monday
American forces had gained a footing in : afternoon, dairyman Alfred Grove, of
Porto Rico. . f : Spring township, fell from the top of a
a Sonor Sagar on es We resily- load and at first was thought to have dis-
known our resolutions to the United States located his Spine. His neck was paralyzed
government. I regard as null and void | for awhile, but he is getting along all
and as destitute of good faith everything right now.
the Americans have done since and I am
ready to protest against it formally.’’
An official dispatch from Porto Rico says :
‘On Tuesday the Americans advanced in
the direction of Yauso, fighting most of the
way. Seven hundred Spanish regulars and
volunteers encountered them and an en-
gagement ensued, which lasted the whole
night, and only ceased with dawn on the
following day. The Americans were oblig-
ed to withdraw to the coast.”
—Frank Rupp, an Aaronsburg boy,
who enlisted in the navy some time ago
and was assigned to the St. Paul, has been
made 2nd Capt. of a gun crew.
——The Methodist Sunday school picnic
attracted 200 people to Hecla park yester-
day. The Coleville band was there to make
music and contribute what it could to the
enjoyment of the crowd.
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——Maurice N. Trone, formerly a law
student in Orvis, Bower & Orvis’ offices in
this place, whose illness with typhoid
fever made it impossible to join his com-
rades in Co. B, when they went off to
var, has joined the new company recently
recruited at Gettyshurg by Capt. Taylor
and has been made its first sergeant.
——Former sheriff Condo, of Millheim,
is mourning the death of his faithful old
dog Fred, who was shot by some unknown
rabskallion last Friday night.
drag
— Because the dog days are here you
are not licensed to bark at every person or
everything that is not exactly as you think
it ought to be.
eve
——The street department of Lock Ha-
ven has just added a new steel roller to its
road making implements. The roller
weighs 5} tons and can be weighted to 8).
It was purchased in Chicago at a cost of
$436.
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——Davy Dunkle, the last season’s Lock
Haven base ball pitcher who started off
with so much of a splurge with Philadel-
phia this season, has been farmed out to
the Wilkesbarre club by the Philadelphia
management.
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—Tyrone is going to furnish a build-
ing free for one year and James C. Watt is
to land a corn cob pipe manufactory in that
place. It is to employ three skilled work-
men and half a dozen or more girls—
when they git it.
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——Though 61 years old Jacob Bittner,
a well known Lamar township, Clinton
county, farmer, went into an oats field with
a cradle about the middle of the morning,
on Friday, and by supper time he had
swung his hand reaper over four acres of
ground.
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——The low rates offered by the Penn-
sylvania railroad company for an excur-
sion to the Sea Shore, Thursday, August
4th, will allow excursionists to go either to
Atlantic City, Cape May, Sea Isle City,
Ocean City, Avalon, Anglesea, Wildwood
or Holly Beach.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phans court clerk G. W. Rumberger dur-
ing the past week.
W. C. Wolf, of Loganton, Clinton county,
and Sadie S. Zeigler, of Wolf’s Store, Cen-
tre county.
Wm. Sprankle and Sarah Cole, both of
Spring Twp.
Antonio Tacavelle, of Benner Twp., and
Tamasina Brumo, of Spring Twp.
A YEAR IN THE PEN.—Valentine Breon,
of Rebersburg, and Chas. F. Bartges, of
Loganton, who were arrested with Clark
Gramley, of the former place, some time
ago for counterfeiting pled guilty before
U. 8. court at Erie last week and got off
with very light sentences.
Breon was sent to the penitentiary for
one year and Bartges was sent to the Alle-
gheny county jail for six months for pass-
ing the spurious coin.
THE FIBST To GET OFF.—Rodger Bay-
ard, the youngest son of Col. Geo. A.
Bayard, of this place, is the most envied of
the young soldiers who have gone off to
the war from Bellefonte. .Qn ..Wednesday
evening he boarded Gen. Brooke's flag
ship, the ‘‘Massachusetts,”” at Newport
News, and is probably off for Porto Rico
by this time.
Rodger was extremely fortunate in hav-
ing been made a mounted orderly on Gen.
Brooke's staff and as the latter is in com-
mand of the Porto Rican expedition Rodg-
er is likely to see the front of everything
that happens.
HAAG’S HOTEL STABLE BURNED.—A
little after 5 o’clock on Wednesday morn-
ing the large brick stable at the rear of
Haag’s hotel, on Bishop street, was discov-
ered to be on fire and as it contained about
twenty tons of hay it was not long in burn-
ing. The fire department was on the scene
early, but it was impossible to do any more
than confine the flames to that building,
which was done.
The building had a slate roof on it and
was valued at $2,000, to meet which Mr.
Haag has only $1,000 insurance.
Proprietor Keller of the hotel lost twelve
loads of hay, his carriage, spring wagon,
two sleighs, hay cutter and some grain and
tools on which he had no insurance.
The fire is supposed to have heen caused
by spontaneous combustion of over heated
hay. Harry Haag and the teamster of the
Commercial telephone company were in
the building getting the latter’s horses
ready for their day’s work, when they dis-
covered the fire dropping down from the
mow above them.
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Lock HAVEN GOLD SEEKERS RETURN-
ING.—The Meyers party who left Lock
Haven early in the spring to go to the
Klondyke and started off with such high
hopes will probably return to their homes
to-morrow. They are now on the road
from Seattle and are expected most any
time.
The party is made up of Robert, Thomas
and John Meyers and John Grittner, and
they have had enough of the deprivations
and hardships of that region. From in-
telligence received by the relatives of the
men, it is learned that the gold seekers left
Dawson City about the 17th inst., and
floated down the Yukon river in their own
boats. They then proceeded to - Seattle,
which city they reached in safety.
Samuel Meyers will remain in the gold
fields. He states that be intends remain-
ing as long as his food will last, which will
be about a year. He also states that no
one should be misled or deceived by the
newspaper articles that are being sent out
as to the rich finds of returning gold hunt-
ers. He states that they are given out
with the hope of inducing others to spend
money to go to that region. The letter
also states that there are many men around
Dawson City and farther north who are very
anxious to return, but they have no mon-
ey to pay for their passage. There are
many disappointed gold seekers, as there
are many more seekers than there is yellow
dust.
—The low rates offered by the Penn-
sylvania railroad for an excursion to the
Sea Shore on Thursday, August 4th,
should be within the means of all desiring
to visit these resorts.
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A NEAT SOUVENIR.—Among the neatest
souvenirs of Bellefonte that are on the
market now are the glass paper weights
that are being shown at different stores in
town. They are neat, useful desk orna-
ments made especially attractive by pict-
uresque scenes about town. One of the
most desirable is the one showing a group
of the Governors Bellefonte has furnished
the Commonwealth.
The weights are the result of the inge-
nuity of Ralph Mallory and Samuel Taylor,
both members of the Bellefonte camera
club, and are for sale at the low figure of
25 cts. each.
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SOCIETY CHIT CHAT.—While the main
topic of conversation, among some of the
young people of the town for the last week,
has been the probability of having a fine
time at the first of the mid-summer series
of dances that will be given in the armory
to-night, there have been other amusements
and entertainments going on steadily
enough to impress the average visitor with
the fact that Bellefonte is a fairly gay place,
even in the hottest of summer weather.
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Last Friday the Lyon-Orvis-Nichols-Kel-
ler family bad a family picnic at Hunter's
park and combined a sort of family reunion
out of doors with a pleasant entertainment
for Miss Ayres, of Philadelphia, and Mr.
Lowery, of Warriorsmark, who were visit-
ing the family of Mr. Stewart Lyon, on
Curtin street. Mr. Lowery is a Princeton
graduate. He took the honors of his class
and is reported to bea very brilliant young
man.
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Two picnics were scheduled for Saturday
and both of them proved delightfully suc-
cessful. Miss Caroline Orvis arranged the
one that went to Hecla park for supper and
a hurdy-gurdy dance in the pavilion.
Mrs. J. Murray Andrews took a wheeling,
riding and carriage party to the ‘top of the
mountain’’ for supper.
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The conversation party at the home of
Miss Lyde Thomas, on east Curtin street,
on Monday evening was threatened with a
deluge early in the evening, but it cleared
off enough, later, for the guests to get there
without inconvenience and the unique en-
tertainment was enjoyed immensely. It
was given in honor of Miss Cloud, of Phila-
delphia, whois a guest of Miss Eleanor
Mitchell, and the Shafner girls, who are
here for the summer.
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A delicious little quid of scandal is just
now being rolled about the tongues of the
very ultra society people of the town, but
there is little likelihood of your finding out
what it is here, for I am too much of a lady
to tell what I don’t know.
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The ‘‘Sitting Sisters’ is the name of a
new society lately organized among the
young ladies of the town. The qualifica-
tions for membership are not very exclu-
sive either, as all girls who sit around and
undertake to hide the wall decorations
while at parties are ipso facto members of
the society.
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A “Drop In” at the home of Miss Caro-
line Orvis on east Linn street, Tuesday -
evening, proved a pleasant entertainment
in honor of Mr. Matthew Laurie, of War-
riorsmark.
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Sedgwick Kistler, of Lock Haven, will
entertain a party of young people from that
place at the Nittany club tomorrow even-
ing. They intend having a hurdy-gurdy
dance on the verandas of the club house.
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Mrs. J. W. Gephart gave a dinner party
at her home on east Linn St., last even-
ing, in honor of Mrs. Dix, of Dayton, Ohio,
who is her guest.
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Twenty ladies enjoyed the duplicate
whist party given by Mrs. W. F. Reeder,
at her handsome home on the hill, yester-
day morning. Last evening she enter-
tained Rev. and Mrs. Geo. I. Brown at
dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Harris,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Valentine and Mrs.
Louisa Bush.
Rebersburg.
Thomas Smull and wife, from Mackeyville,
were visiting in our burg the beginning of
the week.
Harvey Burd, in company with his brother-
in-law Charles Woodling, was to Lock Haven
last Monday.
Mrs. Harry Leitzel and sons from Mifflin-
burg, are spending a few weeks with their
friends in this valley.
T. D. Stover left for Snow Shoe last Mon-
day morning. On his return he will be ac-
companied by his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Burd.
The carpenters are at work on Ammon
Strayer’s new house, which, when completed,
will be one of the handsomest residences in
town.
The United Evangelicals will hold their
annual camp meeting on their old camp
ground, north of Emanuel Harter’s, begin-
ning August 23rd.
The tolling of the Lutheran church bell
last Monday afternoon announced the death
of James Neese, of Wolfe's Store, who died
Monday afternoon between the hours of two
and three o'clock. Mr. Neese had been in
poor health for a number of years and his
death was therefor not a surprise to his fam-
ily and friends. Funeral services, Thursday
forenoon, in the Lutheran church at this
place conducted by Rev. Mumma. Deceased
was about 44 years of age. He was born in
Penn township, but moved to Wolfe's Store
some twenty years ago. He leaves to mourn
‘his loss a wife and one daughter, Mrs. Harry
Bair.