praia
Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 23, 1898.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ebprtozr.
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,
Democratic County Convention.
ore Sf ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College.
Assembly, | 7H, WETZEL, Bellefonte.
Prothonotary,—M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte.
District Att’y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte.
County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp.
Correct, Every Word of It.
The Bituminous Record, published at
Philipsburg, pays the following deserved
tribute to the character, ability and stand-
ing of the Democratic candidate for Super-
ior judge, Hon. C. M. BowER. Every
word the Record writes is true, and if the
people of this section appreciate real worth,
high character, personal integrity, and un-
doubted fitness, in a candidate, Mr. BOWER
will receive such a vote, in this and ad-
joining counties as few men have to be
proud of. Centre county owes it to her
own good name, to see that an overwhelm-
ing majority is polled for him. The Record
says :
‘Centre county has an opportunity in this
campaign of elevating another of her sons to
an illustrious position of dignity and honor
in the person of Hon. Calvin M. Bower, of
Bellefonte, candidate for Superior court
judge. Judge Bower would sound well and
his election would be an honor to our county,
besides being a fitting tribute to the high
professional position he has attained at the
bar of Pennsylvania. He is a citizen of
Centre county and hasbeen identified with
all its modern history ; a lawyer of superior
ability in the very prime of his intellectual
force and power ; of large experience in every
phase of litigation, and of irreproachable
character, he is specially equipped to fill the
office to which he aspires. Of the age of ripe
experience, clear and decisive, analytical in
mind, quick in perception, yet conservative
in judgment, he possesses all the qualities
which enter into the judicial mind, and
which would render him not only a val-
uable associate on the bench, but if elected,
add another distinguished son to the many
that Centre county has given to our State
and Nation. His aspiration to a seat in this
high tribunal is in keeping with the steady
progress he has made as a lawyer at the bar,
which has been all that reasonable ambition
could desire in the practice of the law. Al-
though he. is a part of the latter Democratic
political history of Centre county, he has no
antagonisms to encounter in this campaign,
no old sores to heal, nor enemies to he pla-
cated. His record, both as a citizen and as a
lawyer, is pure and clean, and does not re-
quire the whitewashing incident to so many
aspirants for official honors. His candidacy
is endorsed in the section by all classes of
citizens, irrespective of party affiliations.
We bespeak for him one of the largest votes
ever given a candidate for high office in this
county.
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Will Dr. Swallow Retract, or Will He
Stick to the Lie?
In a number of speeches and at different
points in the State, Dr. S. C. SwALLow,
the Prohibition candidate for Governor, has
made the charge that GRo. A. JENKS is
the legal advisor of a number of corpora-
tions and the salaried attorney of the Stand-
ard oil company. When asked, in this of-
fice, on the day he addressed the prohibi-
tion gathering down at Hecla park, what
he knew about the truth of that statement,
he frankly admitted that he had no other
evidence than that he had seen it stated
that the GORDON Democrats had made
such a charge and he presumed they were
telling the truth. Upon his re-iteration
of this charge, in his speech that day, Hon.
C. M. Bowkr addressed a note to Mr.
JENKS asking as to the truth of the alle-
gations ; in answer to which he received
the following positive and pointed reply ;
showing, not only that there is no truth in
the charges, but that there was no ground,
whatever, for such falsehoods to be based
upon :
BROOKVILLE, Sept. 14th, 1898.
Calvin M. Bower, Esq., :
Bellefonte, Pa.
My Dear Sir: —In reply to yours of the
13th inst. Iam not, NOR EVER IN MY LIFE
WAS THE ATTORNEY OF THE STANDARD OIL
COMPANY NOR OF ANY OF ITS BRANCHES. I
NEVER WAS A SALARIED ATTORNEY FOR ANY
CORPORATION in my life, except in one in-
stance when the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg R. R. Co. was about to build its
road to the Jefferson county coal fields in
1882. I agreed to act as its attorney from the
time it crossed the state line until it reached
Punxsutawney, and as soon as its first train
of cars reached that point I resigned.
My practice has been more largely a prac-
tice with individual clientage than any one
I ever knew of. I expect to see you at Brad-
ford. Iam Yours truly,
GEO. A. JENKS.
It is yet to be seen if Dr. SWALLOW has
the truthfulness to call in the dirty slan-
der he has been circulating, or the manli-
ness to try to repair the wrong he has done
an honorable and worthy citizen of the
State. .
—0Col. J. L. SPANGLER has been
named as temporary chairman of the Demo-
cratic state finance committee, a most im-
portant and responsible position, and he
will fill it well.
‘| increase.
Dishonoring the Flag.
Chairman ELKIN, of the Republican
state committee, should be careful not to
violate the law which prohibits putting
the American flag to improper use. He
might render himself amenable to that law
by such a prostitution of the flag as mak-
ing it the emblem of boss rule and machine
corruption. This is what he proposes to
do when he engages to send American
flags to the county chairmen who are
working to perpetuate the abuses of Quay-
ism in our state government. The prosti-
tution is increeased by sending along with
the flags quantities of campaign hoodle
through which it is intended to exert the
corrupting influence which has so long de-
bauched the elections in the interest of the
QUAY machine.
It is proper that there should be law to
protect the national flag from such shame-
ful misuse. It is an honorable emblem,
and although politicians of the QUAY stripe
have used it too often to cover their corrupt
designs they never before went quite so
far as chairman ELKIN’S intention to
make it the banner of political pirates.
When it is considered that those who are
now engaged in a desperate struggle to
maintain the power of the QUAY machine
have corrupted every department of the
state government and systematically raid-
ed its treasury, chairman ELKIN must be
regarded as having made a mistake in not
sending black flags along with allotments
of campaign boodle to the county chair-
men who are working to maintain the
power of QUAY’S political brigands.
—The welfare of the State requires the
destruction of the QUAY machine. There
can be no healing of the ulcer without the
removal of the core.
Colonel Bryan in Camp.
The Republican papers do not weary of
poking what they assume as fun at Colonel
Bryan. When their sarcasms are studied
it appears that the animating motive is that
Colonel Bryan, uncomplainingly and with
characteristic earnestness, is devoting him-
self to his duties. No word of complaint
has come from him. He responds neither
to malignity nor buffoonery, but goes
straight ahead in the patriotic duty to
which he pledged himself, as other Ameri-
can soldiers did when they enlisted. His
Republican critics would like him to ‘‘slop
over,”” but he is not of that kind.
Recently a committee from Macon wait-
ed on Colonel Bryan to invite him to attend
a carnival to be held next month in that
Georgia city. He declined the invitation
for the reason that his public appearance
would be misconstrued and criticised. ‘I
am criticised for speaking and for remain-
ing silent,”’ said Colonel Bryan to the com-
mittee which waited upon him. ‘‘I might,
however, disregard the criticisms of parti-
san enemies and attend, if it were not for
the fact that my duty is with my regiment.
Iam not willing to leave even for a day
the men who are stricken with fever. If
you want the hero type of this war,”’ con-
tinued Colonel Bryan, ‘‘get General Wheel-
er.”
General Lee accepted the invitation, pro-
vided his visit did not conflict with his war
duties, “‘but,’’ he said, ‘‘yon ought to take
Bryan. There is only one of me and six-
teen of him.”’
All reports from Jacksonville agree that
Colonel Bryan is making a model colonel.
He sees to it his men are trained and dis-
ciplined and protected from imposition of
any kind, either in the way of rations or
clothing. Chairman Ellis, of the Macon
committee on invitations, thus describes
the recent presidential candidate as he ap-
pears in camp :
He spent the Sunday when we were in
camp driving about nursing the sick, provid-
ing them with dainties and relieving the suf-
fering. Ceaselessly, without dinner and sup-
per, he went, until he was worn out by
fatigue. This man, surfeited with the plaud-
its of his fellows, is leading the life of a hero
among the fever-stricken commands. His
tent is pitched with them, out in the open;
his daily place is by the sick-bed, and his
nightly occupation is relieving some man’s
distress. Though clothed in the raiment of
high military authority, he was still the
plain American Democrat, loving his men and
by them beloved.— Pittsburg Post.
Yellow Fever Gaining.
Reports from the South are not of a Reassuring Na-
ture—Many of the Cases are Proving Fatal.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 19.—Reports from
the far South to-night indicate that the
yellow fever epidemic is slowly gaining
headway. The following synopsis was
gleaned from reports emanating in that sec-
tion to-night :
The Louisiana Board of Health to-night
made the official announcement that up to
date four cases of fever have been reported
in New Orleans and five cases at Harveys
Canal, above New Orleans, on the opposite
side of the river.
A recapitulation of the epidemic through-
out Mississippi shows that out of a total of
109 cases seven deaths have occurred, the
death rate being 12 per cent heavier than
that of last year. Two new cases have ap-
peared at Taylors, but Orwood reports no
No new cases have appeared in
Jackson.
Alabama has a strict quarantine against
anyone from New Orleans and other in-
fected places entering the State, and Mont-
gomery also has quarantine guards on
every train.
The department of the gulf to-day or-
dered battery D, First Artillery, from New
Orleans to Newnan, Ga., on account of the
prevalence of yellow fever in the Crescent
city.
General Lawton’s Report.
Nearly 1,200 of the American Troops at Santiago
on the Sick List.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Nearly 1,200 of
the American troops at Santiago are on the
sick list, and General Lawton reports
eighty-eight new cases of fever to-day.
His report sent to the war department is
as follows :
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Sept. 20.
Adjutant General, Washington :
Sick, 1,187 ; fever, 679 ; new cases, 88 5
returned to duty, 289. Deaths: William
Johnson, Eighth Illinois infantry, teamster,
thermic fever, Sept. 19th ; Felix Boswell,
D, Ninth United States cavalry, hilious fe-
ver ; Albert Richardson, nurse, L, Ninth
United States volunteers, pernicious malar-
ial fever, Sept. 17th; John J. Nickoden,
K, First Illinois, typhoid fever, Sept. 17th;
John S. Blake, private, F, Fifth United
States infantry, typhoid fever, Sept. 19th 3
Robert J. Courson, private, B, Third Unit-
ed States volunteers, yellow fever, Sept.
19th ; Walter Gray, private, Third United
States volunteers, pernicious remittent fe-
ver, Sept. 19th.
[Signed] LAWTON, Major General.
Republican Rule Has Bankrupted the
State.
People of the State Heavily Taxed to Maintain
Quayism.
From a speech by Hon. Geo. A. Jenks,
at Warren, on Friday last, we take the fol-
lowing extracts which are commended to.
the careful consideration of every tax-pay-
ers, who reads the WATCHMAN:
‘I desire to speak to you with reference
to our duty to our country. Our country
is one to all of us. Itis important tha
we should give some attention to it; it
should not be left to take care of itself, un-
less you desire it to disintegrate and fall
into disrepute. The impression seems to
be pretty generally abroad that statesman-
ship in 1ts highest sense is different from
affairs of life.
‘There is no necromancy or magic in the
principles of statesmanship which is not
contained in the same maxims which pro-
duce success in private life. It is only
present on a larger scale in the principles
that underlie our form of government and
which are not different from those which
underlie the private business of the indi-
vidual.
‘You want to remember that in the af-
fairs of government you are the principal
and the office-holders are simply your
| agents.
TREATMENT OF YOUR AGENTS.
*‘If in private affairs your agents do right
you approve of their action and reward
them. If they do wrong or injustice, if
they rob or defraud you, or bring disgrace
upon you, it is but natural that you should
discharge them. In fact, it is your duty
to do so. Bear in mind that in November
you will be called upon to elect your agents
to conduct the affairs of the Government,
“You are to elect a Governor and num-
ber of other state officials, includ-
ing a Legislature and a member of the na-
tional Congress. As a sequel to their elec-
tion there will come the election of a Unit-
ed States Senator.
‘Now, in ordinary life, you would in-
| quire very closely into the character of the
men you were about to engage to act as
your agent in important affairs. If you
found them tainted by corruption you
would not hire them. Iask you to take
the same care in choosing your state offi-
cials.
“I say to you that if there arose a ques-
tion between party and country I would
drop my partisanship and vote for what I
considered to be the best interest of my
country.
‘‘Political parties have become a neces-
sity in conducting the affairs of our State
and nation, but you must remember that
the American citizen is the basis of all par-
ties, and that he is, after all, the sovereign
power under a republican form of govern-
ment.
PLAIN TALK TO CITIZENS.
*‘I am speaking to you, not as Democrats
or Republicans, but as citizens of Pennsyl-
vania, who have a voice in the selection of
public agents. It must be born in mind
that in law-making the Legislature is the
supreme power of the State. The Gov-
ernor can originate no laws, but he can
prevent, by veto, improper legislation, un-
less there is a two-thirds vote against him.
“The Legislature can tax you out of ex-
istence. It can do anything not in conflict
with the constitution. It can narrow or
extend your liberties, and this is an impor-
tant matter, when you reflect that the com-
fort and happiness of nearly six millions of
people depend upon the integrity of our
legislation. Pennsylvania was founded on
the principle of justice, and if we still bore
that repute se would:have reason to he
proud of our State, and it is our duty to
retain that repute. Think of these things.
‘Seek for the truth and don’t follow a
boss, right or wrong. The State has prac-
tically been in revolution for 25 years,
your agents have usurped your rights and
have gone so far as to destroy your right of
suffrage. Taxes have been squandered and
you have been taxed unequally and un-
justly. Forty-two millions of dollars are
taken out of your pockets every two years.
LOOK AFTER YOUR SERVANTS.
“Poverty comes if this great income is
not honestly administered. See to it that
you are justly dealt with by your servants.
For many years the Republican party has
been substantially in charge of state affairs
and all the unjust and unequal laws are
its product. The repeal of good laws
should not be tolerated, and the Constitu-
tion of 1874 seemed to give us laws that
safeguarded the interests of the people, but
| the dominant party has played some cruel
pranks with the statutes since that time.
“It is intended by our laws that the peo-
ple should rule and that is the basic prin-
ciple of the Democratic party, but the peo-
ple certainly do not rule in Pennsylvania
at this time. Now a test is about to be
made as to whether the people shall or
shall not rule, and I ask you if at any
time, in the past 25 years, the Democratic
party has forsaken the cause of the people ?
Upon the Republican party with its glor-
ious tradition there has grown an ulcer.
M. S. Quay for 27 years an office holder
twice United States Senator, and again a
candidate for election, has acquired his
power by keeping an eye single to what
benefits him.
‘The Republican platform commends
the state administration, and this means
that the work of the last Legislature is com-
mended. Yet of all the Legislatures it was
supreme in the disregard of the people's
rights and the disgraceful methods adopted.
‘Mr. Wanamaker, in one of his speeches
called upon God to save the Common-
wealth if these things are to continue. All
agree that it was the most disgraceful in
the history of the State. Yet the Republi-
can candidate stands on a platform which
means that the same things are to be done
at the next session, provided they win in
November.
HOW TO DEFEAT QUAYISM.
The honest Republicans are willing to
join with you in electing honest legisla-
tors. If you want to defeat Quayism you
must unite with these men. Pattison
could do nothing to stay existing evils, be-
cause at no time had he a majority of the
Legislature. and yet he did much for the
State.
The ordinary expenses of the govern-
ment under Pattison were $559,450 for
1891-92, and $552,659 for 1893-4. Under
the Republicans the same expenses were
$1,369,816 for 1895-6, and $1,223,502 for
1897-8. More than 100 per cent of an in-
crease in ordinary expenses, not including
the tremendous increase under appropria-
tion acts, and for various steals by which
money is regularly taken from the State
Treasury. and all without a shadow of an
excuse.
“Yet they say nothing was gained by
electing a Democrat. This extravagance is
what the Republican platform indorses.
THE STATE NOW INSOLVENT.
*‘Compare the four years under Pattison
though the Legislature was Republican,
and no legislation of benefit to the people
could pass because opposed by the Quay
machine, with the last four years of Repub-
lican misrule. The State is practically in-
‘solvent in that it has not the money to pay
that which it owes.
*‘The State Treasurer’s report for 1897
shows an alleged surplus of $3,956,811.
As a matter of fact he also reported that at
the close of the year he owed a large
amount of money, which was due in pre-
vious years. The report shows that there
was due the connties on state tax $1,505, -
255 ; due common schools for 1897, $3, -
439,998 ; due University of Pennsylvania
for 1895, $75,000 ; due Western Univer-
sity for 1895, $45,000 making a total of
$5,064,253.
OVER TWO MILLIONS NET DEBT.
‘“There is to be added to this the amount
of $1,034,746, which the state treasurer ad-
mits is also due, making a total of $6,100,-
000.
‘‘Subtract from this the alleged surplus
of $3,956,811, and the State is left in debt
to the extent of $2,143,188. Republican
rule in Pennsylvania has bankrupted the
State. Now, why is this alleged balance
kept idle ? In order that there may be a
fund to speculate with, and a dividend to
carry on the campaign with.
‘It has been- testified in open court in
Chester county that state funds are taxed,
and it is a fair inference that legislation is
taxed to maintain Quayism. His fight for
the state chairmanship was very expensive,
and it is fair to presume that the people
paid for it in some way.
‘‘If legislation is to be bought and sold
you can go on just as you are, but you
ought not to do so. I beg of you to be
men and, Republican or Democrat, to put
a stop to the practices that are sullying the
good name of our State.’’
Mr. Jenks concluded by speaking a good
word for each of his fellow-candidates, and
incidentally declaring that we have two
Congressmen-at-Large simply because hav-
ing them helps the cause of Quayism. He
asked support for the entire ticket in every
congressional, senatorial and legislative
district, and said victory could be won if
full advantage were taken of the spilt in
the Republican ranks.
Looks Like a Democratic Year.
Flattering Prospects in the Eastern and Middle
Western States.—Pennsylvania’s Democratic Dele-
gation to the House May be Increased to Nine.
The members of the National Demo-
cratic Congressional committee are highly
pleased with the results of the elections in
Vermont and Maine. The falling off in
the Republican vote, it is held, shows very
clearly the way the wind is blowing. Re-
publicaus are apathetic. Alger is too
heavy a load to be horne, and Republican
displeasure is to be shown by staying at
home. At committee headquarters every
one feels certain that the next House is to
be Democratic.
Reports from many districts now repre-
sented by Republicans give the most flat-
tering indications for Democratic success.
So encouraging is the news that comes
from all over the land that the Democratic
managers find that their most liberal esti-
mate gives the Republicans but 134 mem-
bers in the next House, thirty-five less
than a majority.
The committee expects heavy gains for
the Democrats in the East. In Ohio, Il-
linois and Indiana alone a Democratic gain
of twenty-five is almost certain. These
States now have only fourteen Democrats
in the present House. Wisconsin is ex-
pected to give a certain gain of one, and a
probable gain of three are a certainty from
Michigan ; three from Minnesota, two at
{least, and ‘probably three from Iowa, one
from Nebraska and two from. New York.
In the East, New York is expected to
elect fourteen Democrats, New Jersey two,
and Pennsylvania nine. Maryland will
certainly elect two Democrats, and West
Virginia one, possibly three. Solid Demo-
cratic delegations from Alabama and Texas
are counted on, as isa gain of one from
Missouri and two from Kentucky.
The committee outlined the result to-
day as folllows : Democrats, 167 ; Repub-
licans, 120; Fusion, 26; doubtful, 32.
The full membership of the House is 357.
Should the Republicans capture all the
doubtful districts they would still have
only 161 votes, or 18 less than a majority.
In this forecast it is asserted that Demo-
cratic possibilities have been under-estima-
ted, the commitiee preferring to rely upon
a reasonable compilation rather than trust
to speculation.
Handing Over Porto Rico.
Spaniards Abandoning Their Positions and Making
Preparations to Quit the Island. —Mutual Good
will.
SAN JuaN, Porto Rico, Sept. 19.—The
evacuation of the outlaying positions oc-
cupied by the Spaniards began to-day.
Aguadilla, San Sebastina. and Lares were
abandoned by them, and Gen. Garretson’s
brigade and the Eleventh infantry moved
in and hoisted the American flag. The
Spanish troops from the abandoned posi-
tions are being concentrated at Arecibo.
On Wednesday the Spaniards will evacuate
the island of Viegues, where a company of
American troops dispatched from Gen.
Grant’s brigade has been landed. Spanish
control is now confined to within a line
drawn from Humacao to Abonito and from
there to Arecibo, less than one-third of the
island. .
The Spanish evacuation commissioners,
at the meeting of the Spanish and Ameri-
can commissioners yesterday, officially in-
formed the Americans that they had been
notified of the sailing from Spain of two
transports intended to embark troops here,
and that 400 Spanish soldiers. will sail from
here to-morrow on a transport expected
from Cuba. The meeting of the commis-
sioners was entirely without friction, and
it was owing to the good feelings prevail-
ing between our soldiers and those of Spain
that it was decided to allow the company
of Americans to land at Vieques before the
Spaniards left. The condition of the
troops is not improving. Almost 2,000
men are reported sick.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 20.—
Messrs. Luce and Damaresq, fiscal agents
of the government, who have established
the bank of Ponce here, are consulting
with Gen. Brooke relative to the currency
situation. They report that business is at
a standstill, owing to the fluctuations of
the local currency just at the time the
planters need money for their crops. They
are offered mortgage loans at 18 per cent.
interest, but they can do nothing until the
rate of exchange is fixed.
Cannot Nominate a Judge.
BLOOMSBURG, Pa., Sept. 21.—The Dem-
ocratic judicial conferees of the Twentieth
district met here to-day and made an un-
successful attempt to nominate a candidate
for president judge. There are but two
candidates in the field, Judge Herring, the
present incumbent, and R. R. Little, of
this place. Five ballots were taken, each
resulting in a tie, after which an adjourn-
ment was taken until Friday next.
Captain Allyn Capron.
His Body Buried With Military Honors Yesterday
Atternoon.
WASHINGTON, September 21.—The re-
mains of captain Allyn Capron, one of the
notable figures of the Santiago campaign,
and father of captain Allyn K. Capron, of
the Rough Riders, who fell in the first bat-
tle of the Cuban war, were buried at Ar-
lington National cemetery to-day with mil-
itary honors. The funeral was attended
by a large namber of prominent army of-
ficers, including Major General Miles and
members of his staff, Generals Rodgers and
Gilmore, and the officers of captain Ca-
pron’s late regiment, the First United
States artillery. Among the many floral
tributes was a wreath of orchids and lillies
sent by the President and Mrs. McKinley
from the White house conservatory. An-
other handsome wreath came from officers
who had participated with captain Capron
in Indian campaigns.
The honorary pall bearers were officers
of the staff and line with whom he had
been intimately associated, while the act-
ive pall bearers were drawn from the non-
commissioned men of captain Capron’s own
battery. The casket was borne to the
grave on an artillery caisson, an American
flag draping the casket. Rev. Alfred
Harding conducted the Episcopal burial
service, after which the impressive cere-
mony was closed by the firing of three vol-
leys over the grave by a detachment of ar-
tillerymen, and the blowing taps of a
bugler.
Will Loan Spain. Money.
LoxNDoN, Sept. 22.—The Daily Mail this
morning says the Rothschilds will loan
Spain £4,000,000 on the security of the
Almaden quicksilver nines, when the treaty
of peace shall have been signed.
——So remarkably perverse is the nature
of man that he despises those that court
him, and admires whoever will not bend
before him.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Democratic headquarters in Temple
Court are to be reopened this week.
a hE
——=Sam Jones is to be one of the attrac-
tions in a lecture course which will be
given at Lock Haven this winter.
rrr a Ee gn
—Mrs. Garis, of near Pleasant Gap,
widow of the late Charles Garis, color Serg.
of Co. B, is ina critical condition with
typhoid fever.
>
——The condition of Mr. Thomas Col-
lins is such as to give no hope, whatever,
of his recovery. At the time of our going
to press, last night, he was still living.
———
—Roy Gillam, formerly of this place,
is seriously ill with typhoid fever at his
home in Tyrone. He is a member of Sheri-
dan troop and was with that cavalry to
Porto Rico.
ei pte cn
John M. Keichline Jr., has gone to
Chicago, where he expects to enter a medic-
al college and fit himself for the practice
of medicine. He left on Tuesday evening
and does not expect to return until his
first year’s work is completed.’
——St. John’s Episcopal church was the
scene of a private wedding Thursday of
last week when, at 11:30 o’clock, Rev. Geo.
I. Brown officiated at the ceremony which
united in the holy bonds of wedlock Mr.
Bateman Saddington and Sarah Irene
Meyers, both of Philadelphia. Only a half
dozen most intimate friends were present
as witnesses.
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——Wm. R. Jenkins, the
genius of the Jenkin’s Tool Co., has a new
hatchet in his mind’s eye and expects to
have a patent granted for the model that
has been made. There is a cast iron ham-
mer and socket portion, into the latter a
steel blade being inserted and riveted.
The advantage of the new idea is in pro-
ducing a cheaper hatchet and one in which
new blades can he placed, whenever needed.
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PRESBYTERIAN FAIR.—A fair will be
held in the chapel of the Presbyterian
church in Bellefonte during the first week
of December next, by the ladies of the
church, for the benefit of the mite society.
All the ladies of the church are earnestly
requested to prepare fancy articles, as well
as any other articles which would be either
attractive or needful in the home. All ar-
ticles are to he sent to Mrs. James H. Pot-
ter, Spring street. Let every one feel it a
personal duty to contribute ‘to this object.
Donations from any source will be grate-
fully appreciated by the committee.
HAVING A HARD TIME NAMING A CAN-
DIDATE.—The Republican conferees of the
Thirty-fourth senatorial district met at
DuBois on Wednesday after having met in
Lock Haven last Tuesday and at Clearfield
on Tuesday of this week. At 9 o'clock
Wednesday evening fifty-one ballots had
been taken with no result, when the con-
ferees adjourned to meet on Thursday.
Yesterday’s meeting brought forth no
choice and they adjourned to meet in Phil-
ipsburg next Monday. Each of the three
counties in the district has a candidate.
Clearfield presents the name of William A.
Osbourne ; Centre, P. E. Womelsdorf; and
Clinton, George P. Miller.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week :
Chas. H. Lee and Sadie Fulton, both of
Walker Twp.
George A. Mark, of Centre Hall, and
Esther M. Decker, of Coburn.
Joe. Valco and Merel Bunca, both of
Wineburne, Pa.
Marcus E. Mark and Elizabeth C. Young,
both of Philipsburg.
Kreider Stover and Bertha Young, both
of Coburn.
Clotaire Lecompt, of Hawk Run, and
Philomene Urbain, of Troy Mines.
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—The state hoard of agriculture will
hold its antumn meeting at Emporium,
Cameron county, October 12th and 13th.
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——An ‘infant child of Mr. and Mis.
James Kane died Monday and was buried
Tuesday afternoon in the Catholic cemetery.
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——The DuBois Evening Express seems
to have rather original views as to the
duties of a College faculty. In its issue of
Tuesday, Sept. 20th, in commenting upon
the arrival and departure of Dodge, the
Bradford foot-ball player at State College,
that journal would lead its readers to be-
lieve that college faculties make a business
of employing foot-ball players. The Eu-
press should acquaint itself with the facts
before publishing such misleading articles.
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The noted Shubert glee club of Chi-
cago will give the opening entertainment
of the People’s Popular course Oct. 31st.
You will do well to swell the subscription
that is now open at Montgomery & Co’s.
store. Should the number of tickets sold
exceed 600 the management agrees to give
two additional entertainments, making the
full course ten instead of eight, all for one
dollar, truly well spent.
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—Mr. Henry D. Lyon, formerly of
this place, will be married to Miss Alice
Zehnder, of Danville, on Wednesday, Sept.
28th, at 11 o’clock a. m. The ceremony
will be performed in St. Paul’s Methodist
church in that place. Miss Zehnder is said
to be one of Danville’s most charming girls
and Mr. Lyon’s many friends here will be
delighted at his good fortune in having won
her.
—During the four months the Fifth
has been in service the regiment has lost
fourteen of its members by death. The
number of deaths by companies were in
company B, three; company C, one; com-
company E, one; company F, one; com-
pany G, two; company H, one; company
I, one; company K, one; company L, two
and company M, one. Company B, thus
had the highest death rate of any company
in the regiment.
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——The new mill of the Phenix com-
pany has been finished and is now one of
the most complete in every detail of space,
machinery and arrangement of any mill of
its size in the United States. Where the
old mill had a capacity of about 140 bar-
rels per day the capacity of the new mill
is 200 barrels. The company began re-
ceiving grain on Tuesday and will have
the mill in full operation by the first of
next week. Wash Irvin will be head
miller for the company.
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—Saturday last, September 17th, was
the anniversary of the birth of Nancy Jane
Barger, Centre county’s centenarian, and
on that day this lady was just 106 years
old. It had been the intention of her
friends to commemorate the event with
some fitting anniversary demonstration,
but owing to the féeble conditicii of Mrs.
Barger because of a broken limb sustained
in a fall a couple of weeks ago, no celebra-
tion was held. Mrs. Barger, however, was
resting easier and appeared brighter Sat-
urday than she had been anytime the
previous week.
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OPERA HOUSE ATTRACTIONS.—William
Garman will manage Garman’s opera house
for the season of 1898-'99, and the list of
his attractions already hooked are as
follows: on Oct. 14th, Vogel’s Min-
strels ; Oct. 18th, Rice & Barton’s, Vaude-
ville; Nov. 14th, Martin’s Uncle Tom’s
Cabin ; Dec. 2nd, Roger Bros. ‘‘Next
Door ;”” Feb. 13th, Keller, the Magician ;
Feb.. 20, Rickett’s Comedians. Applica-
tions for dates from some other companies
are being considered, and it is probable that
a sufficient number will be selected to give
Bellefonters amusement during the show
season.
—Marked improvements are being
made up at the Brockerhoff house, which,
when completed, will change the appearance
in and about the office, and will do away
with the nuisance of having the office a
thoroughfare to the bar. The partition be-
tween the ladies’ entrance and the office
has been removed. The gentlemen’s read-
ing room, upstairs, has heen practically
thrown into the office, and a handsome oak
and walnut railing has taken the place of
the large partition at the head of the stairs.
New closets and wash-bowls will be put
into the wash room. A well equipped bil-
liard room will be fitted. up in the room
next to the office and an entrance from
this to the bar will be made. New paper,
gloss white paint and easy chairs will add
to its attractiveness and the comforts of
its guests.
LookING FOR MORE CoAL.—The upper
vein of coal in the vicinity of Philipsburg
being almost exhausted, property owners
and coal operators are now making inves-
tigation as to the possibilities of discovering
deeper veins of sufficient thickness to war-
rant the expense of shafts and macHinery
necessary to mine it. No less than three
test shafts are now being sunk, in that
vicinity, two of which already promise
splendid results. Philipsburg people are
watching these operations with more than
ordinary interest. To that town the re-
sults are of the deepest importance. Should
the lower veins, now being looked for, he
found to contain sufficient coal and of a
quality that would pay for mining it will
have a boom that will put it away up
among the busy and prosperous towns of
the State. Should the investigations prove
a failure, it will be left as thousands of
other towns, and, under the Republican
prosperity that we are enjoying, with noth-
ing to do and a large population of deserv-
ing but unfortunate people to do it.