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Bellefonte, Pa., July 28, 1899.
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The Democratic State Ticket.
FOR THE SUPREME COURT:
S. L. MESTREZAT,
of Fayette county.
FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT:
C. J. REILLY,
of Lycoming county.
FOR STATE TREASURER!
W. T. CREASY,
of Columbia county.
The County Ticket.
Foi Sherif—CYRUS BRUNGARD.
For Treasurer—W. T. SPEER.
For Recorder—J. C. HARPER.
For Register—ALEX ARCHEY.
For Commissioners— { P 5 JENEL AN,
For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
A “Boodle” Victory.
Ex-Governor HASTINGS no doubt teels
good. His actions indicate it; his ap-
pearance avers it. He believes he has won
a victory. He thinks the Republican peo-
ple of the county rallied around him for
the purpose of making him their Moses,
and he may be honest in the thought that
they have done so because they prefer him
to boss QUAY.
Newspapers at a distance, that know
nothing of the actual situation, are loud
and positive in their claim that the result,
which put the ex-Governorat the head of
the Republican organization in the county,
is a victory for reform; that it is evidence
of the disgust of the Republican voters with
QUAY’s corruption and dictation; a protest
against his methodsand purposes. That it
is a rebuke to Governor STONE for his ap-
pointment of QUAY as Senator; for his veto
of the constitutional amendments; for his
cutting down of the school appropriation,
and other disgraceful and demoralizing acts
that have characterized his administration.
We wish, most seriously, that the facts
would warrant these conclusions.
But they do not or will not.
The plain truth is there was no
principle in the fight. It started out
promising to be a fair, straight contest
between the QUAY and anti-QUAY ele-
ments; a contest that would rally to the
one side that class of voters who are willing
to wear a collar and serve a master, and to
the other the decent, reputable men whose
souls should be their own and whose actions
are dictated by no one. But it soon devel-
oped intoa struggle for bossism here at
home, and from that went down to a dirty,
drunken, demoralizing squabble, that end-
ed, showing only the depraved and debauch-
ed condition of Republican politics within
the county.
There was not a single district in which
the contest was waged on the broad ground
of reform. It was not a question of better
government, or of honest and decent ad-
ministration of public affairs, hut a matter
of who could put up the most money and
debauch the most voters.
QuAY’s debauching and dictatorial
methods; STONE'S unwarranted and fla.
grant abuses of power; LOVE’s bedraggling
of the judicial ermine in the filth of dirty
_ politics, or HASTINGS’ pretensions and
promises of reform were lost sight of in the
shameless scramble of the rabble for the
bottles that were furnished by the thous-
ands and the money that was handed out at
every corner.
AND IT WAS THESE THAT WON.—Not re-
form. Not anti-QUuAvYIsM. Not HASTINGS.
Not opposition to the judiciary in politics,
or not the intent of redeeming the Re-
publican party from the disgrace of ring
rule and the State from a continuation of
its corrupt control.
If it was a victory of any kind it was a
victory only for the power of money, aided
by the demoralization that whisky brings.
When we state that of the supposed 4,000
Republican voters of the county less than
2,700 of them were at the polls, and that
to secure a majority of 300, of those who
did vote, it cost Governor HASTINGS over
$8,000, the glory(?) there is in such a vie-
tory can he understood and appreciated.
Whatever glory there is in it he is enti-
tled to and should enjoy.
The effects will be known and felt better
next November, when the mercenary and
debauched host, that is after his money and
of which he has given them a taste, de-
mands their pay for what he may wish
them todo at that time.
—1It will take years for Centre county
to recover from the corruption and de-
bauchery of the recent Republican contest.
Men were paid from $3 to $500, according
as their influence was rated, and liquor
was dispensed in barrels. Some were
actually encouraged to perjure themselves,
while innocent ones were taught the de-
moralizing, good government wrecking
principle of voting only ‘‘for the price.”
The men who encouraged such outrages
against God and his purity loving people
will be made to account for these terrible
wrongs.
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——When QUAY wins a victory he
usually goes to Florida to celebrate it.
Former Governor HASTINGS departed for
Cape May on Wednesday morning.
At Least Two Truths.
There was a good deal of truth and
considerable that was not true told
by both sides, in the struggle among the
Republicans of the county, for each knew
the other and were conversant with their
acts and shortcomings. There was noth-
ing more truthful said, however, than was
expressed on one of the transperencies that
was carried by those who went out to the
‘“Mansion’’ to rejoice with the ex-Governor
over his victory on Saturday night. On one
side were the words:
‘OUR DAN LEADS,
HE NEVER FOLLOWS.”’
and on the other side:
‘THEY BUCKED UP,
AGAINST THE REAL THING.”
The number of times the Governor has
“refused to follow’’ his own party’s lead is
well known and has been gratefully re-
membered by those he assisted. It was
this remembrance, coupled, possibly with
a fair share of the ‘‘real thing,’’ that the
other fellow ‘‘bucked up against’’ that se-
cared him the votes of so many persons
who have not heretofore been in the habit
of voting at Republican primaries.
It is not often that people are willing, to
tell these kind of truths even on trans
perencies.
——No very great length of time has
elapsed since this country was flooded
with letters hearing foreign postmarks and
teeming with cowardly and contemptible
insinuations about respected women of this
place. The very nature of the calumnies
and the absence of all decency in dragging
the fair names of honored women into a
public scandal disgusted every right think-
ing person in this community and convine-
ed all that the author of such letters could
be actuated only by insanity or a most
hellishly vicious nature. No decent per-
son repeated their contents and we venture
the assertion that not a Centre county pa-
per entertained a thought of publishing one
of them Yet in the last issue of one of the
HASTINGS papers in this county we were
amazed at seeing that that faction had re-
sorted to just such vile methods of defama-
tion as the public had condemned from an-
other source only a short time ago. Words
are inadequate to picture the miserable,
wretched, damnable person who could sell
all of his honor for the sum that was prob-
ably paid for such a cowardly article.
——Of course the aftermath of such a
questionable contest as has just closed in
this county could not be expected to bring
other than numerous unsavory and discred-
itable stories about those who were princi-
pally interested in it, but the one among
all others that needs investigation most is
the one to the effect that Mr. WANAMAK-
ER, of Philadelphia, contributed funds to
the HASTINGS campaign. If this be true
—and Mr. WANAMAKER is under a moral
obligation to this community to affirm or
deny it—he has lent financial aid to a
hypocritical, reform movement that has made
drunkards, and perjurers out of Centre
county young men, demoralized Sunday
school entertainments by sending liquor
into the communities in which they were
being held and abetted slanderous attacks
against fair women. Mr. WANAMAKER,
we cannot believe you guilty of having
been a party to such a terrible business.
Were you?
——A fitting conclusion to the disgrace-
ful and debauching Republican fight that
has just been witnessed in this county,
would be the impeachment of Judge JOAN
GrAY Love for acts unbecoming one in
his position and the arraignment of his ex-
excellency, DANIEL HARTMAN HASTINGS,
for the shameful and open bribery of voters
at the primaries.
If a judge of the courts and an ex-Gov-
ernor of the Commonwealth have no re-
spect for the dignity of the bench or no re-
gard for the statutes of the State, what can
be expected of other people?
Hold to Monroe Doctrine.
Our Peace Delegates Give Notice to the European
Nations.
THE HAGUE, July 25.—The objection of
the American delegates to Article XX VII.
of the Arbitration Convention, binding the
powers ‘‘as a duty’’ to appeal to the tribu-
nal when guarrellers threaten to use force,
has been arranged. The article has not
; been molified, but the Americans made a
declaration assuring the desired object of
not being forced to interfere in European
affairs or vice versa.
The declaration of the American dele-
gates was as follows:
“The delegation of the United States, in
signing the convention regulating the
peaceable settlement of international con-
flicts, as proposed by the International
Peace Conference, makes the following
declaration: Nothing contained in this con-
vention shall be so construed as to require
the United States to depart from its tradi-
tional policy of not entering upon, interfer-
ing with or entangling itself in the politic-
al questions or internal administration of
any foreign State. Nor shall anything in
said convention be construed to require the
relinquishment by the United States of its
traditional attitnde toward purely Ameri-
can questions.’’
The proposal was announced to the plen-
ary conference this afternoon and met with
no opposition. The plenary conference
adopted the arbitration scheme without
modification and without debate.
Afterward it lengthily discussed the
question whether a country not taking part
in the conference would be allowed to ac-
cede to the conventions. Although the
Transvaal and the Pope were not mention-
ed, it was generally understood that the
point mainly affected them.
The question is whether the uninvited
powers shall be allowed to adhere to the
conventions by merely formally notifying
the Government of the Netherlands to that
effect, or shall the assent of all the signa-
tories be necessary? Great Britain, Russia
and Italy favored the latter method. Its
adoption would enable Great Britain to veto
the adhesion of the Transvaal. No decision
was reached on the subject.
Sensible Suggestions From Carnegie.
Fulfillment of Predictions About the Philippines
Buying a Rebellion, and No End of the War in
Sight. A Parallel Case That Sense and Courage
Needed. Failing to End it Will Defeat McKinley.
LoNDOY, July 22.—Andrew Carnegie has
the following to say on the situation in the
Philippines:
“The situation is just what was predict-
ed by those who warned the President that
there -—as no substitute for nationality.
When he changed his instructions to the
peace commission and bought a rebellion
from Spain we saw that the Philippines
could not easily be conquered; that a long
:| costly war was inevitable if he rashly un-
dertook subjugation. We have not been
deceived, as the President was, by Otis’
announced intentions week after week to
end the war by capturing the insurgents.
The proposed increase of raw, untrained
volunteers is only leading him into a sec-
ond season of failure.
LAWTON TELLS WHAT IS REQUIRED.
‘General Lawton has told us that 100,000
soldiers are required—not fresh volunteers.
We have not got these, and cannot get
them, since the trained volunteers refuse to
re-enlist.
“The war will probably end next June
for another rainy season without rvesult.
Even if the insurgents are badly punished
we shall not be much nearer the peaceful,
successful occupation of the country which
is necessary to begin the work of the civili-
zation and development of these 8,000,000
of people. There will still be the question
of our keeping there an. overpowering mili-
tary force.
BRITAIN’S PARALLEL CASE.
“There is no solution except that which
makes the people friendly to us, and this
can only be obtained by a promise of inde-
pendence such as was given to Cuba. There
is a recent episode in Great Britain’s his-
tory which I commend to the President.
Two years ago 70,000 British troops were
concentrated, the largest force ever assem-
bled in India, and war was declared against
the Afridis. The campaign resulted much
as has ours against the Filipinos. Lock-
hart published a proclamation stating that
he was about to descend from the mount-
ains into the valley for climate reasons,but
in the spring he would return to complete
the campaign. The spring never came. He
did not return. The Afridis, like the Fili-
pinos had been found such heroic defenders
of their land that the Government recog-
nized that a bad mistake had been made.
The Afridis remain independent. Their
land is their own.
RECOMMENDS SALISBURY’S COURAGE.
‘Such statesmanship a strong man like
Salisbury can adopt. The opposition
party bad denounced as unjust the attack
on the Afridis, rejoiced that it was defeated
and the Salisbury government is stronger
than ever.
“So it would be with our Philippine
mistake if the President only had Salis-
bury’s courage. Instead of sending 12,000
more of our thoughtless. young men to be
sacrificed, he should send a capable states-
man, with a mind of his, oyn, and author-
ize him to negotiate peace and promise in-.
dependence under our protectorate until a
proper government can be established.
FATE OF REPUBLICAN PARTY.
“The Democratic party would stultify
itself if it did not indorse this policy. If
the next rainy season finds us still at war
with the Filipinos it will go hard with the,
Republican party's nominee. No forty or
fifty thousand men, mostly untrained and’
unacclimated, are likely to effectually es-:
not only the dispersipg of the opposing
party, but the TE ae of our
ule by the people, must be obtained..
Without this, victory is only defeat.
WANTS MILES TO SETTLE IT.
“General Miles, no doubt, is our best
general. He has never yet failed. His
greatest victories have been those wou by
conciliation and management. Let him be
sent to Manila, authorized to take all the
conciliatory as well as military measures
necessary in his judgment to obtain lasting
peace, including authority to promise a
trial of independence under our protecto-
rate whenever a satisfactory government is
securely established. I believe his record
of unvarying success will not be broken.
THE FATE BEFORE US.
‘It is either this policy now or another
year of failure. We have nothing to hope
from military forces alone in the Philip-
pines. We are not a military power 15,000
miles from our military base, and I hope
we never will be. A great standing army
is necessary for foreign conquest. This,
the masses of the American people, fortu-
nately, will not approve.’’
War Correspondents Muzzled by Otis.
They Find It Almost Impossible to Write the Truth
About the Situation.
LONDON, July 25.—A private letter re-
ceived here to-day from a war correspond-
ent at Manila, and dated June 17th,
says:
“There seems to be no end of war in
sight. The censorship is constantly be-
coming more troublesome. General Otis
recently established a rule that any matter
relating to the navy must be taken to the
commander of the fleet for his approval,
and afterwards submitted to the military
censor, thus adding to our difficulties. For
some reason, which the censor would not
explain.
1. General Otis refused to allow us to
send the death of Monadnock’s captain
| (Nicholas) for two days after its occur-
rence.
2. The general also refused to let us send
news of the disappearance of Captain Rocke-
feller (April 28th) on the ground that it
would worry his family, or the Killing of
Captain Tilly, of the signal corps, until the
next day.
The correspondents are all very tired of
this arrangement, which simply means that
they must go out and run large chances of
getting shot, several times a week, with no
chance of making reputations, because
their stories must always reflect Otis’
views.
‘“The resources and fighting qualities of
the natives are quite misunderstood by the
American papers, and we cannot write the
facts without being accused of treason; nor
can we tell of the practically unanimous
opposition to the dislike of the war among
the American troops. The volunteers, or
at least a portion of them, were at one
time on the verge of mutiny, and unless
General Otis bad begun sending them
homewards there would have been sensa-
tional developments.
‘‘We have been absolutely refused all
hospital figures.” :
A Wabbler.
From the Clarion Democrat.
It is noticed that the Republican press is
not saying so much just now about *‘‘stand-
ing by the President,’ because they don’t
know where the President stands. He gets
tablish our control there by next June, for-:
Stone in Jones’ Shoes. .
Democratic National Chairman Has Given the Ex-
Governor Power to Offer Resignation.
CHICAGO, July 23.—Apparently the Alt-
geld-Williams-Tarvin-Abbott commission
was not made acquainted with all the in-
side history of last Thursday’s meeting. It
did not known that W. J. Stone was au-
thorized to present Chairman Jones’ resig-
pation in the event he deemed it necessary
to do so. It leaked out after Mr. Stone
left the city. According to a member of
the National committee he had a letter
from Senator Jones in his possession which
virtually transferred to him full command
the party organization. :
“That letter,’’ continued the committee-
man, “named Mr. Stone acting chairman
of the committee, and authorized him to
take control and perform all the duties of
the chairman. Chairman Jones also said
to Mr. Stone that if he deemed it advisable
and would take the chairmanship himself
he could present his resignation. But af-
ter the committee had created the office of
vice chairman, elected Mr. Stone to fill it
and conferred upon him all the powers of
the chairman, it was not thought necessary
to retire Senator Jones. While Senator
Jones was left as the nominal head of the
committee, it is not likely he will ever
again take an active part.
““The understanding is that all the busi-
ness has been placed in Mr. Stone’s hands,
and that he will be in full charge until the
National convention is called to order.
Then the life of this committee ends. Its
successor will be chosen by the convention.
What We Are Fighting For.
General Funston, of Kansas, who comes
out of the Philippine campaign the popular
hero of the fighting, is guilty of ‘‘treason-
able’’ sentiments in a 1ecent letter. He
says:
Strange as it may seem, I am almost a
‘‘peace-at-any-price’” man. When life and
property can be saved, it is almost a crime
not to follow that rule, whatever the circum-
stances be arguing against it. I am a Re-
publican, but I am an _anti-expansionist,
though not a bitter one. Big syndicates and
capitalists will be greatly benefited by the
retention of these islands, but outside of a
few exceptional individual cases I can see no
advantage in their possession by the United
States. The islands are so thickly populated
and labor so cheap there certainly is no in-
ducement for the American laborer.
It is a fact, so far any possible benefit to
this country is concerned, that we are
lavishing blood and treasure, as Colonel
Funston says, for ‘‘big syndicates and
capitalists.” American labor has no share,
save to enlist and pay taxes.
Growth of Epworth League.
Bishop Ninde Reports Nearly Two Million Members
to the Board of Control.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 24.—The
Board of Control of the Epworth League
met at ten o’clock to-day to hear reports
and consider matters pertaining to the
League. Bishop W." X. Ninde, Detroit,
President of the Board, presided. The re-
port ‘of Rev. Edwin A. Schell, General Sec-
retary of the Epworth League, was sub-
mitted, in which he said:
“Many of the great expectations enter-
tained at the meeting of the Board of Con-
‘trol two years ago have been fully realized.
We have steadily grown, until to-day we
number 26,450 chapters, with a member-
ship of more than 1,750,000 in our own
Methodist church alone. New chapters
have been established in Liberia, Hawaii,
Alaska, Russia, and Bishop McCabe is
‘eagerly 'vat~hing an opportunity to plant
us in Manila. A German chapterin Zurich,
Switzerland, numbers 300 members.’
Rev. F. L. Nagler, Cincinnati, German
| assistant secretary of the League, present-
ed a report of the German branch, and a
report of the League’s work among the col-
ored people was presented by colored
secretary Rev. Irvine G. Penn, of Atlanta.
The Board will probably be in session three
days.
Threats of Revolt in Cuba.
Native Veterans Deniand That Uncle Sam Show His
Hand. :
HAVANA, July 25.—At a meeting of
Cuban veterans in this city, who oppose
United States occupation and reforms in
the island, a resolution was adopted de-
manding that the United States make for-
mal declaration of its intentions and sup-
posed rights.
The Cuban Census Commissioners re-
cently appointed were criticised, speakers
saying that they were mere nonentities
and unknown men, in whose work the pub-
lic would have no confidence, and that a
census so taken would be unacceptable to
the Cubans.
General Andrade said the United States
was fast sucking Cuba dry.
Gualberto Gomez said if President Mc-
Kinley would not consider an appeal fav-
orably, the Cubans knew what steps to take
to rid the island of the heel of foreign im-
position.
Fighting Disease Among Horses.
HARRISBURG, July 25.—Dr. Leonard
Pearson, State Veterinarian, proposes to
take drastic measures for the suppression
of anthrax in the State. In Bedford county
six horses have recently died of the disease
and two men were attacked by it, one of
them fatally. A year ago two tanneries in
the vicinity, in which these deaths occur-
red, were impregnated with the germs of
anthrax, bronght into this country in hides
from China, and a number of cattle died as
the result of drinking from a stream near
the tanneries, which had to be abandoned
by their owners in the interest of the pub-
lic health. Last spring a gypsy camped at
the deserted tanneries, and soon after a
horse he had with him died of anthrax.
An epidemic of the disease followed the
occurrence, because the animal had not
been properly buried. The early destruc-
tion of the infected tanneries is possible.
Buried a Wax Figure.
An Alleged Life Insurance Fraud Involving the Pay-
ment of $22,000.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 25.—The
banks at Knoxville and Johnson City,
Tenn., which were intrusted with the life
insurance of Thomas Chase, amounting to
about $30,000, have been enjoined from
paying such funds over to Mrs. Chase, the
beneficiary, as have not already been paid.
The amount yet in bank is said to be $22,-
000. . The attorneys securing the injuction
alleged in the petition that. Chase did not
die as he was reported to have, and that a
wax figure was buried as his remains; that
he was probably the victim of a hypnotist,
who worked in collusion with the bene-
ficiary to secure the insurance money, and
who ‘probably spirited Chase away while
he was under hypnotic inflyences.
—————
——1If you want fine work done of every
description the WATCHMAN is the place
on several sides of every question that he
has anything to do with. SN
to have it d one.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——~Centre county farmers are well
through harvesting their oats crops.
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——Dr. Charles Wood, of Philadelphia,
will preach in the Presbyterian church on
Sunday. ;
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——The Christian Sunday school at Ro-
mola realized $14.50 at its festival on Sat-
urday evening.
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——Rev. Edgar Eugene Brooks. of Ty-
rone, will conduct the services in the Epis-
copal church here on Sunday, while Rev.
George I. Brown will preach in Mr.
Brooks’ church.
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— — Communion services will be held in
the Bellefonte Evangelical church, Sunday,
July 30th, at 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m.
Rev. S. P. Remer will preach in the even-
ing. He will also preach Friday evening
and hold quarterly conference after th :
services.
FR EE
——Dr. D. 8S. Monroe will hold guarter-
ly conferences at Valentines Sat. July 20th
at 10 a. m.; Howard at 2 p. m.; Unionville
at 6 p. m.; Spring Mills, Monday, July 31st
at 10 a. m.; Bellefonte at 7:30 p. m. And
will preach at Bellefonte, Sunday, July
31st, at 10:30 a. m.; Valentines at 2 p. m.;
Coleville at 4:30 p. m., and Milesburg at
7:30 p. m.
DR. GOBBLE at THE Y. M.C. A.—On
Sunday afternoon A. E. Gobble, president
of the New Berlin college, and a well
known orator, will lead a union gospel
meeting in the parlors of the Y. M. C. A.
at 4 o'clock. Everybody in town is in-
vited to this meeting.
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——F. H. Clement & Co. of which Mr.
T. A. Shoemaker of this place, is a large
new $15,000 reservoir for the town of
Barneshoro.
rr
——Arrangements have been made for a
through coach from Bellefonte to Philadel-
phia, for the seashore excursion of July
27th, August 10th and 24th, on train leav-
ing Bellefonte at 6:40 a. m., train No. 130.
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——Col. George Nox McCain, who was
here doing the Hastings end of the recent
fight for the Philadelphia Press, left for
San Francisco, on Wedneslay, to be there
when the 10th Reg. arrives from Manila.
There will be some in this county who
won't helieve much he reports about that
great event.
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——On Tuesday evening Herbert Shef-
fer, DeMont Frazier and Orien Atwood
were driving up Main street, in Howard,
on their way home from a fishing trip.
The night was dark and they did not see
an obstruction on the street, so they ran in-
to it and narrowly escaped serious injury.
As it was the buggy was smashed and the
horse considerably cut.
— The date decided for. opening the
Juniata valley camp meeting at Newton
Hamilton, is August 15th, continuing ten
days. Excursion tickets, one fare for the
round trip, will be sold by the P. R. R.
All the religious services this year will be
in charge of Rev. Dr. M. K. Foster, of
Lock Haven, who will be assisted by Dr.
W. A. Stephens, Dr. W. P. Eveland, Rev.
J. M. Johnson, Rev. F. W. Biddle, Rev.
T. A. Elliott, Rev. J. H. Daugherty and
other ministers of the conference.
>
——S. Harris Rhodes, a member of Co.
B. of this place, an extra freight bhrake-
man on the Pittsburg division, whose
home is at Unionville, below Bush
hollow, was seriously if not fatal-
ly injured by falling under a freight
train near Lilly, Monday morning, about
8 o'clock. Rhodes was running on the
last car, setting a break, while the engine
was backing up to get water. As he drew
the brake up tight the chain broke and he
was precipitated to the track, where sever-
al cars passed over his legs. He was taken
to the Altoona hospital, where the right
leg was amputated at the knee. The other
leg is badly crushed but may be saved.
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——Even if the Quay people in Centre
county are now to be classed among the
“‘has beens’? it still pays to be a Quay man
because the plumsare dropping right along
their way. The latest fortunate is Dr.
John F. Harter, of State College, who has
been made deputy internal revenue col-
lector for the 6th Div. of the 19th Penn.
district. It includes Centre, Clinton and
Union counties and carries a salary of $1,-
200 with perquisites. Mr. Harter’s ap-
pointment secures to the internal revenue
service a very worthy, competent gentle-
man. He served a term as Recorder of
Centre county in a very creditable manner
and is a man who will in no wise sacrifice
the trust reposed in him.
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Two PIcNIcs.—At the meeting of the
picnic committee of the Royal Arcanum at
Milton, this week all the chapters from
Sunbury, Lewisburg, Muncy, Milton,
‘Watsontown, Williamsport, Jersey Shore,
Lock Haven and Bellefonte were repre-
sented.
Milton, Bucknell Grove and Hecla park,
were suggested as places for holding the
picnic, but the territory represented being
too large, and the distance from the ex-
tremes being so great, it was decided to
divide the territory. The Williamsport,
Jersey Shore, Lock Haven and Bellefonte
council decided to picnic at Hecla park, on
Friday, August 26th, and the other coun-
cils at Milton, on ‘Thursday, August 24th.
Committees from the eouncils in this sec-
tion will meet at Hecla park, on the 20th
inst., to complete arrangements.
owner, has been given the contract for the
——Certainly all: those people who
signed that petition for a Sunday train did
not know it, was ‘to run last Sunday or
surely they would have been more gener-
ous in their patronage of the railroad. The
reception committee ‘at the station was
quite large and for the-afternoon train they
‘began to gather on the platform at 3 o’clock
but in dollars and cents the encouragement
was not so great as the tickets sold for
both morning and afternoon trains only
amounted to $25. - As the train will carry
mail, hereafter, the post. office will be open
for a short time ‘after each train for the
accommodation of the public. The train
arrives here in the meérning at 9:28 from
Tyrone. In the afternoon at 4:44 from Lock
Haven. Tro
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Rev. Maurice Swartz, whose pres-
ence among his old friends was spoken of
in last week’s issue, preached on Sunday to
large audiences, both in the morning and
evening, for as we Methodists wonld’t spare
our newly arisen light for even one service
to another church; his outside friends came
in to enjoy with us the many good and
bright thoughts he gave us. We are al-
ways appreciative, but especially so when
it is to one of our owh boys, born and ed-
nucated among us, that we are listening.
Just a suggestion of his energy and success
may be gathered from the fact that since
April he has paid off on his church at
Shippensburg an indebtedness of $2,200, one
old member giving $1,000. We wish this
may be but a beginning of greater things
to come to him.
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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:
Henry A. Yandes and Edith May Gard-
ner, of Howard. g
John Calvin Leitzell, of Patton town-
ship, and Margaret M. Rébinson, of War-
riorsmark. Cri
Edward L. Heaton, of Yarnell, and Eva
May Poorman, of Runville. ot
Thomas F. G. Seixas, of Philadelphia,
and Beulah Myrtle Smith, of Bellefonte.
> or ———
——The Mull property on Presqueisle
street in Philipsburg, between Front and
Second streets, was partly destroyed by fire
on Sunday morning. The building was
insured but the tenants suffered considera-
ble loss. The principal ones were Custer &
Norris, paint and wall paper dealers, be-
tween twelve and fifteen hundred dollars
worth of stock and tools; John Unkerd, the
barber, and W. T. Forcey, dealer in meat.
The fire is supposed to have been of incen-
diary origin. ;
er bits
——Somehow Klondike seems such a
mythical and fabulous country; it is always
rather surprising to hear that people there
are yet alive and able to eat bacon and bear.
A letter from Harry Bush dated Dawson City
tered that metropolis of Alaska after a 2300
‘mile tramp out and back, which he graphic-
ally describes and during which he suffer-
ed the usual experiences of sleeping out
with the temperature 65° below zero, how he
ate his solitary Christmas dinner much like
C. D. Gibson’s pictured Klondiker but says
he has lost faith in a Santa Claus who can-
not brave such discomforts for his hung-up
stockings invited no visit of that child-
hood’s pleasure-giver—in fact that they
were not even dried. He is still purser on
one of the steamers of the Empire line.
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—— Of the four hundred and twenty-
five applicants for license to practice medi-
cine in the State as allopathic physicians at
the recent examination in Philadelphia,
H. S. Alexander, of Potter’s Mills; John T.
Robinson, of State College; George D.
Green, of Briarly, and Lee B. Woodcock
and Eloise Meek, of this place, were among
three hundred and seventy-five who passed
the examination. As each one of the ap-
plicants were obliged to pay a fee of twenty
five dollars the seven examiners represent-
ing the State Medical society netted the
neat little sum of .more than $1,500 apiece
for their four day’s work. Two examina-
tions are held each year and as the list of
would-be-doctors is gradually increasing
they are likely to clear for the members of
the board hereafter more than $3,000 an-
nually.
BusiNEss MEN’s PieN1c.—The follow-
ing additional committees for the Business
Men's picnic, which is to be held at Hecla
park on August 31st, were appointed at the
adjourned meeting of the ‘executive com-
mittee in Lock Haven on Tuesday even-
ing. :
akers—taniod JSechler, of Belle-
fonte, and S. R. Peale, of Lock Haven.
Bicycle Racing—Robert F. Hunter, Belle-
Tonte; Louis Anthony, "Lock Haven, H. J.
Goss, Philipsbarg.
Base Ball—Harry Keller and H. C. Quig-
ley, of Bellefonte, and George A. Brown, of
Lock Haven. nfs
Fireworks — John: D. Sourbeck, Belle-
fonte; Samuel Z.-Martin and Geo. Loder,
Lock Haven.
Music—J. C. Meyer, Bellefonte; W. O.
Bently and Harry Peck; Lock Haven.
Finance—T. A: Shoemaker and A. C.
Mingle, Bellefonte, and: G. L. Morelock,
Lock Haven. pedo
Printing—J. Watson Fredericks, Flem-
ington; John Olewine, Bellefonte, and Oscar
‘W. Miles, Milesburg. :::
Closing Business Places—B. C. Achen-
bach, Harry Linebaugh and H. 8. Satterlee,
Lock Haven; Joha Di ‘Sourbeck, G. W.
Reese and Sidney Kruirine, Bellefonte;
Frank Hess, John G.’Platt and Jack Gra-
ham, Philipsburg; '..' |.
Bellefonte was represented at the meet-
ing by Messrs. J.: Will Conley and Frank
Warfield.
June 5th, has reached ns, He had just en-.