Demorvaic atcha. Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 27, 1899. P. GRAY MEEK, - - EbpiToR. Teams oF Susscriprion.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance......ceeeeeennenns Paid before expiration of year... Paid after expiration of year 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. For Sherif—CYRUS BRUNGARD. For Treasurer—W. T. SPEER. For Recorder—J. C. HARPER. For Register—ALEX ARCHEY. For Commissioners— >. 3 Lue Tee AN. /. H. TIBBENS For Auditors— {You YR For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN. A Werd to Democrats. Democrats, it is now less than two weeks until the election. Have you done any- thing to assist your party to win a victory —to change the management of the State Treasury and to pat the business of the county into other hands to be attended to? You know how you are robbed by unequal taxation in the State. You understand how your county expenditures are yearly growing greater, and you know that it is upon yourselves that the burdens of incom- petent and extravagant management falls. You cannot help but appreciate the neces- sity of doing something for yourself, and you can do that by assisting others in se- curing better state and better county man- agement. Under the rule of the state ring the money that is taken from you as state taxes has been frittered away to pay useless debts, junketing expeditions, extravagant salaries, corrupt contracts, or used by those who have charge of them for political pur- poses and to pay partisan heelers, until your school fund had to be robbed to make up this extravagance. Under the management of a Republican board of county commissioners the ex- penditures of the county have increased from forty thousand dollars a year to over sixty thousand dollars. It is upon you, and others in the same situation you are in, that the effect of this kind of management falls. You will have to pay increased school tax because your school fund has been taken to meet the reckless expenditures of the state ring. You will have to pay increased county taxes, to make up the twenty thousand ad- ditional that the Republican commissioners have added to your county expenditures. Is it not worth your while then to devote a little time to try and correct the abuses that have crept into the management of your state and county affairs? A few days work now or even a few hours given to arranging to get out the vote—to seeing that every man who feels as you do is taken to the polls, may change the control of both state and county affairs and insure you honest management in public matters. Do you have a son or brother, or is there any one else from your immediate neigh- borhood who is away from home? If so can you not make some arrangement to get him back on election day ? Have you a neighbor who is undecided about going to vote, or how he will vote— can you not see him and arrange to take him with you to the polls and see that he votes right ? You don’t need to bother about how they are going to vote out in Ohio, or down in Lancaster county, or in Philadelphia, or in Berks, or elsewhere. The voters living in those localities will attend to that. It is your own township, your own school dis- trict, at your own home, that should com- mand your attention. If you see that they are right—that the entire Democratic vote of your district is gotten to the polls, others will attend to the other districts. Remember that there are not many days in which to do this work—that absent vot- ers must be arranged for af once, and that unless you give this some attention it may not he seen to. Will you do it? ——1I¢t is just as essential that good men be elected as auditors of the county as it is that good men be chosen for the other offic- es and for that reason we want to urge you to vote for WM. H. TIBBENS and JOHN H. BECK, both of whom are trustworthy, honest farmers, qualified for the office. No matter whether we are to have a new board of commissioners to succeed the present in- competent one or not we need the very best men that can be found for auditors and that is the reason the Democratic conven- tion nominated TIBBENS and BECK. They are the men who take the last look at the county’s business transactions, to see whether the officials have been faithful and prudent, and should be wide awake, active men. Messrs. TIBBENS and BECK are just such men. Vote for them. ——1If you want a continuation of coun- ty management that is increasing county expenditure and must eventually increase your county taxes, you know how tc have it. A vote for FISHER and RIDDLE will insure just these results. Tough on Decent People. There are many—very many—highly reputable and respectable people in the Re- publican party. There are good men, christian men, honest men, who cling to that organization, and when one sits down to think over matters pertaining to the politics of the State he cannot help con- cluding that it must be awfully galling to these reputable and respectable citizens to consider who their political leaders are, and for whom and what they are working. To say nothing of what that party has done or what it purposes doing the person- ality of its leaders—the disgrace they have brought upon themselves and their party— should be enough to disgust every decent man in the Commonwealth. The thought that they must follow a partisan flag, carri- ed by such men as are at the head of the Republican forces of Pennsylvania must be a tough reflection for any man who has either self respect or regard for his own reputation. Think of following these leaders : M. S. QUAY, chief boss and dictator, saved from the penitentiary within the past year by pleading the statute of limitation against the crimes he had committed. ELLERY P. INGHAM and HARRY K. NEWITT, the former an ex-custom house official —the latter a slated candidate for United States judge, both at the present time under conviction and awaiting sen- tence for counterfeiting and bribery. Col. FRANK REEDER, a disgraced state official, who had to be removed from the office of Secretary of State, hy the Governor who appointed him, for attempting to loot the Treasury. JOSIAH R. ADAMS, the nominee of the ring for Superior court judge, a confessed swindler and financial bunco steerer, and who has just resigned from the ticket be- cause the people found out who and what he was. BoyLE, CosTELLO, KuLp, EVANS and others now under bail for their appearance before the Dauphin county court, to stand trial for bribery and attempts to corrupt Legislators. Do you ever think of the kind of men you are following, Mr. Republican? Are you proud of your leaders? Are you satis- fied with your political associations ? Such is the difference between you, Mr. Republican, and the ordinary Democrat, that if the latter were lead and bossed by men such as dictate the policy and make up the tickets of your party, there couldn’t be enough of them gotten to the polls to carry a single election district in the State. ——If you are against giving county work to personal favorites, regardless of the price to be paid, vote for MEYER and HECK- MAN. —— “Comparisons are odious,”’ it is said but no one could possibly realize to any fuller extent how odious they are than could JAKE HERMAN, if a comparison were drawn between him and CYRUS BRUNGARD. The men are both candidates for sheriff of Centre county and there ends every trace of similarity in them. We decided early in this campaign that we would indulge in no personalities and for that reason we let Mr. HERMAN go without the exposure that he might otherwise have gotten, but if you would observe the associates he hasand the character of the people he is found most with you will realize what kind of a man he is. ——A. G. ARCHEY is making a clean canvass for the office of register. He wants to be elected, but he is incapable of resort- ing to any mean schemes to further his chances and that is why the people are fall- ing in line to his support. They like the maner in which Mr. ARCHEY states his claim and want to see him elected, hecause they realize that he would make just as fair an official. ——1If you want to see the commission- er’s office run in a business like way vote for MEYER and HECKMAN. ——Who helped the poor people of Mill- heim when nearly everything they had was washed away by the flood of ’89 and much of his own property was destroyed ? CYRUS BRUNGARD was one of the first to respond to the cry for help. A poor man himself, he knew the wants of poor men and open- ed his butcher shop and gave away all the meat that was in it. He is a candidate for sheriff now, will you vote for him ? ——Just as was predicted in last Friday’s issue of the WATCHMAN the yacht race that day resulted in a clean victory for the Co- lumbia; making it three straight for the Yankee boat and retaining the America’s cup on this side of the water for another year, at least. ——JAMES B. STROHM, one of the nomi- nees for register, has been in public office in Centre county for twelve years, why not give some one else a chance. Vote for ARCHEY for register. He has never held a county office and is a man who is entirely worthy of your support. ——If you are opposed to county com- missioners who put in every day in the week sitting in their office, when there is nothing for them to do, merely to draw $3.50 a day from the county, vote for MEYER and HECKMAN. ——You don’t want to be put on record as a man who has failed to help re-elect one of the most obliging officials the county has ever had. For that reason remember to vote for CAL. HARPER for recorder. ——If you want to have commissioners in office who will give you a business like answer to a business like question vote for MeYER and HECKMAN. ¢He Spends no Money at the Bars.” About the most complimentary thing we have heard concerning our stalwart nomi- nee for sheriff, CYRUS BRUNGARD, and a matter to which we desire to call the at- tention of the Prohibitionists and clergy of the county was the expression used as the caption for this article. It was given utterance in Bellefonte on Tuesday by a Republican gentleman who was talking over the political situation with a few friends. He was speaking about Mr. BRUNGARD when he remarked : ‘‘The only thing they have against him is that he spends no money at the bars.”” He said, further, ‘“‘while this will have the tendency of losing a few votes for Mr. BRUKNGARD? I know of dozens of men like myself who commend him and will vote for him.” By not spending money at the bars he did not mean that Mr. BRUNGARD is boy- cotting the hotel as a retreat for travelers, in fact he always stops at one when he can, but he meant that the candidate for sheriff does not spend money buying drinks and sending men home reeling drunk to their wives and children. That is the kind of reputation that CYRUS BRUNGARD is leaving in his wake, as he travels over the county and for that reason we feel proud of him, proud that he heads our ticket for the high office of sheriff and proud because we have no fear of him dis- gracing either himself, his party or the peo- ple of Centre county. ——The Howard Hornet has started a malicious little story about candidate SPEER, who wants to be county treasurer, to the effect that he has never voted for a Republican in his life and, consequently, doesn’t merit the vote of any Republican at this time. Now the only injury such a story could work for Mr. SPEER would be in proclaiming him a bitter partisan, which is certainly not the case. A very promi- nent Republican from the adjoining town- ship of Curtin was in here on Saturday and said : “Why I have known Mr. SPEER all my life and never knew whether he was a Republican or a Democrat until he came out for office.”” Now if he was the bitter partisan the Hornet would have you he- lieve him to be don’t you think this man who has known him all his life would have known what party he belonged to? Mr. SPEER is simply one of the nicest, most in- offensive, truest men we have ever known. Vote for him. ——Mr. SPEER will never ask the voters of Centre county for another favor, if heis not elected this time. He is getting up in years and would not care to stand the or- deal of another political campaign. His young opponent can afford to wait awhile. It is certainly SPEER’S turn. Levying Assessments on the Postmasters. Republican county chairman GRAY has undertaken to levy assessments for cam- paign purposes on the post-masters of the county. But if they all treat his requests like the one we know of he will not succeed in frying much fat from them. It can hardly be expected that the QUAY post-master in Centre county will be gillies enough to contribute money for the election of a HASTINGS ticket. ——The only reasons given thus far for the nomination of JOHN I. MITCHELL, the new Republican candidate for Superior court judge, are that as a Republican he helped defeat Governor BEAVER in 1882, and has held office continuously for the past twenty-eight years. These reasons may be brief, but they are clear and un- derstandable, and ought to attract the aver- age Republican voters just about as the odor of a polecat does a crowd of pick- nickers. ——CAL. HARPER is making no other claim for re-election than that of a faithful, competent official. He has done good work as recorder of Centre county and there is no denying it. He asks now for the usual second term and the people are going to give it to him. ——1In addition to JAKE HERMAN’S being just what those who are acquainted with him and who have seen him in his debauch- eries know him to be, the Rev. RHOAD’S cer- tificate of ‘‘good moral character in the church,’’ proves him to be a base hypocrite. A man who will profess to be a member of a christian church at home and when away from its influences and reach, be what JAKE HERMAN is known to be, is not the kind of a man that even a minister’s certificate can make acceptable to decent people. ——QUAY has responded to the popular demand in the State by taking ApAMS from his ticket. It remains to be seen whether HASTINGS will take RIDDLE from his ticket in this county. ——If Mr. JAKE HERMAN is a man of ‘‘good moral standing’’ at home, as Rev. RHOADS declares he is, that is where he ought to be kept. It is the only place we have ever heard of him pretending to have any morality about him. ——No county official would go further, nor do more to accommodate you than CAL. HARPER. He is asking a little accommo- dation of you now. Are you going to vote for him for recorder ? ——If you want to put a stop to using the county money for ‘‘private necessities’’ vote for MEYER and HECKMAN for com- missioners. ———It you think it is time to call a halt to all kinds of extravagances in the com- missioners office vote for MEYER and HECKMAN. Why They Cut Their State Ticket. That the WATCHMAN was right months ago when it said that the principal efforts of the HASTINGS wing of the Republican party would be to run their county ticket ahead of the state ticket, has been fully proven by the course of the ex-Governor’s two organs in this place, during the cam- paign. While these papers have devoted column upon column of space to rally the full Republican vote to the support of the men nominated for county offices, scarcely a line can be found in either of them advising a vote for their state ticket. In fact it has come to be the general belief that they don’t want the members of their party to vote for any man upon their state ticket for the rea- son that it would be endorsing Senator QUAY and his wing of the organization. So strong has this feeling grown that it is cur- rently rumored that trusted friends of the ex-Governor are offering to give two votes for the Democratic state ticket in return for one vote for the Republican county ticket. And there is reason for this. The Republican county ticket was placed upon a platform that endorsed every act and effort of Governor HASTINGS, and just as forcibly denounced the work of Governor STONE and Senator QUAY. The state ticket stands upon a platform that ignores Gov- ernor HASTINGS and commends both STONE and QUAY. To vote the county ticket is to vote approval of all that Governor HASTINGS has done; while a vote for the Republican state ticket is a vote in commendation of the acts of the state ring. It is ex-Governor HASTINGS’ desire to show to the people of the State that with his party at home, resolutions endorsing him are stronger than those en- dorsing Senator QUAY, and for this reason his friends are making special efforts, not only to give his county ticket and platform as large a vote as possible but in order to have it run ahead of the state ticket and platform are willing to cut the latter to the full extent of their power. ——Ex-Governor HASTING’S special or- gan, the Republican, asserts that JAKE HER- MAN ‘‘secured his nomination in a fair and square contest.”” From a Republican point of view this may be correct. Anything that wins with them is right. But when Mr. HERMAN comes to take the oath of office, should he be elected, (a matter that no one need have any fear of) and is con- fronted with the $200 bargain with DAVID RHULE that secured him RHULE’S delegates and made his nomination over Mr. LOWERY, it is possible he will conclude that the law and Republican ideas about nominations are somewhat different. Fair- ness didn’t secure Mr. HERMAN a place on the HASTINGS ticket. It was the promise of cold cash, to be paid to DAVID RHULE, if HERMAN is elected that did it. ——The Republican is so delightfully frank that it is certainly refreshing at all times. Two weeks ago it made no bones about acknowledging that RIDDLE had overdrawn his account as county commis- sioner. The Republican said the records are against him in black and white and it would be futile to attempt to deny it. Yesterday, that same paper acknowledged that all the interest it has in electing such commissioners as RIDDLE and FISHER is so that it can get the county printing, but thedear old Republican is surely rain-bow chasing there, for it is quite evident it reckons without the Snyder county shark. ——*‘0ld man’’ SPEER has been getting over the county as rapidly as he possibly can, but if he has not called on you don’t think that he doesn’t want vour vote, be- cause he does. He wants every vote he can get. No one who honors him in that way will ever regret it. ——1If you are anxious to rebuke men who collect illegal tax on your dog vote for MEYER and HECKMAN. Reformed Synod Sessions Close. LANCASTER, Oct. 24.—The Reformed Synod adjourned finally Tuesday after- noon, to meet at Sunbury on the third ‘Wednesday of October, 1900. The report of the committee on the State contained the following statistics : In the Synod there are twelve classes, 306 ministers, 97,061 communicants, 81,- 031 persons communed, 50,939 unconfirm- ed, 5188 infant baptisms, 428 adult bap- tisms, 4170 confirmations, 2511 received by certificate or renewals and profession, 1619 dismissed, 1922 names erased, 1807 deaths of communicants, 887 deaths of uncon- firmed, 98 students for the ministry, $79,- 428 contributed for benevolent purposes, and $449,105 contributed for congregational purposes. The committee on Missions recommended and secured an appropriation of $30,000 for the erection of a new church at Washing- ton, D. C., and the election of Rev. A.C. Whitner, of this city, superintendent of missions for a period of three years. The following apportionments were made for the year : Harbor missions, $490; home missions, $27,850; foreign missions, $17,- 150; Hungarian and Bohemian missions, $3,450; German missions, $2,500; church building, $3,867; theological seminary, $1,700; Catawba college, $1,000; contingent, $3,175. Rev. D. G. Shirer, chairman of the Sun- day school committee, reported that the schools in the synod number 481, and the scholars, teachers and officers, 83,890. There has been contributed to Sunday school works of the general synod $1,268; to benevolent institutions, $5,157; to Sun- day school sustenation, $30,101, and mis- cellaneous, $5,910. ——Some one has figured out how far a farmer has to walk to plant and attend forty acres of corn.. To plow the ground with a sixteen inoh plow he walks 350 miles, to harrow it thoroughly before plant- ing fifty miles more, and to cultivate it afterwards, 450 miles, making a total of 750 miles, in addition to garnering. Ee — ——Subsecribe for the WATCHMAN. His Record is Wanted. X Ray Haviny 8hown Adams Wanting, the Search- light is to be Turned on Barnett. Mutterings from the Soldier Boys. People Seek to Know What the War Songs About Rice Dikes and their Sneers Real- ly Mean. The Big Ashbridge Blunder. PHILADELPHI14, Oct. 22.—The people of Philadelphia and the eastern end of the State are anxious to secure some definite information about the war record of Lieut. Colonel James E. Barnett, the Quay can- didate for Treasurer. There have been so many rumors about how Barnett conducted himself on the Philippine battle fields, the voters are desirous for details. When the Tenth was brought here in the interest of Barnett a month ago, many of the boys of the regi- ment spoke sneeringly of the man who had become their commander by reason of the death of the gallant soldier they all loved. Some of the Quaker City residents heard the heroes of Luzon singing snatches of that favorite camp song, ‘‘Rice Dike Jim- mie.”’ : Philadelphians have been reading up and learned what rice dikes are. They have found that high walls of earth are con- structed all over the island in connection with the irrigation scheme. These em- bankments were found through the swamps where Colonel A. L. Hawkins led the Tenth in the battles against the Filipinos. After they had familiarized themselves with rice dikes they could appreciate the song. This has whetted their appetite for more information about the soldier record of the machine candidate. He is being pushed forward for the Treasurership on the plea that his great services to the flag and country deserve reward at the hands of the people of Pennsylvania. WANT TO KNOW ALL. The voters know the machine tried to sell them one gold brick in the shape of a Superior court judge candidate. This has made them suspicious of the whole outfit, and they want to know a few things before it is too late. This eagerness for information will be gratified. Men of the Tenth, who stood on top of the rice dikes in the face of a rain of bullets, will be the authors of a complete record of the second officer of the regi- ment. They know just what Barnett has done on the battle fields. They were up in the front and knew who was with them. The men of the Tenth will also deal with the colonel during the days in camp. They could reproduce orders signed by him that spoke of Hawkins’ brave men as a disgrace to Pennsylvania. The closing weeks of the campaign will be warm ones. Perhaps they will be entirely too hot for the can- didate for Treasurer and his managers. When Quay gets home from Florida he will find that his fences are in bad shape in Philadelphia. His lieutenants have blun- dered again, as they so often do. The “old man’’ was playing a strong hand with Mayor Ashbridge. He saw that it was ab- solutely necessary to have the chief execu- tive of the Quaker City on his side if he wanted to return to the United States Sen- ate. It was to win Ashbridge over that he was allowed to name Adams for Superior court judge. This plum did not work. Ashbridge controls about 10 members of the Legis- lature now and with the great army of city employes at his command, he will increase his holdings at least 10 at the election next year. KILLS EXTRA SESSION PLAN. When it was found necessary to kick Adams off the ticket. Quay’s friends made the mistake of roasting Ashbridge. They blamed all their troubles on him. Their very first announcement was that no Phil- adelphian would be considered for the va- cancy. This was notice to Ashbridge that he could not pick a second judicial candi- date. The mayor was not even consulted. He was given the cold shoulder. The nar- row minded Quay lieutenants thought that they were evening up scores, forgetting until it was called to their attention that the ‘old man'’ cared more for the friend- ship of Ashbridge at the present time than anything else. The damage had been done. Ashbridge is not of a forgiving nature. He feels keenly the slight and the brutal things the sub-bosses have said about him. On the other hand it is noticeable that David Martin has made no comment. He has not blamed Ashbridge with selling the party a gold brick, nor will he. Martin always was friendly with Ashbridge, and to-day they are closer than ever. Martin is stronger at the present time in Philadel- phia than he ever was before. With Mar- tin and Ashbridge working together in the next legislative{fight Quay will be shy many Quaker city Members. The fall out with Ashbridge practically kills the plan of the machine to reconvene the Legislature this winter in case the United States Senate turns down Stone’s appointment of Quay, a thing the ringsters expect. The bosses have been denying right along that there would not be an extra session of the Legislature. They have not been fooling anyone. Governor Stone was ready to call the lawmakers to- gether. Some fake scheme would have been worked to give the impression the Republicans of the State demanded the re- election of Quay. One point was the great majority the bosses had hoped to roll up for the ticket. It would then have been said the vote showed the Republicans still bad great confidence in Quay, or they would not have given candidates named by him such hearty support. This plan was knock- ed in the head when it was found necessary to wipe Adams’ name from the slate, be- cause he could not give a satisfactory ac- counting of himself before the people. Now the voters are anxious to have Bar- nett stand before the searchlight. Itis a hustle to get enough votes to pull the ticket through. This wasadmitted, Tuesday, by the party leaders when they nominated Judge John I. Mitchell. An Honest Confession From a Republican Source. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. (Rep.) The Democrats have this year beyond all dispute the honester position as to state is- sues, which should be really the only ones at stake. Wholly aside from the results of the vot- ing on the 7th of November, however, the Democrats are entitled to full credit for as- suming the position of a vigorously aggres- sive minority party, opposed to the notor- icus maladministration of state govern- ment and the abuses of the Republican ma- chine, a spectacular instance of which was exhibited no later than last week in the exposures which compelled the withdrawal of the first choice candidate for judge of one of the highest state courts. The Dem- ocrats have the best of the argument in ex- posing corruption as Harrisburg. They cannot be answered on that score. To what extent they will succeed in arousing public indignation to the voting point only the ballots two weeks hence can tell. F—— ————Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. United Bron Shureh. THE TRANSVAAL RECESSIONAL. God of the jingo—brass and gold— Lords of the world by “right divine,” Beneath whose baneful sway we hold The motto : “All that is thine is mine,”’— Such lords as these have made men rotten, They have forgotten—they have forgotten. The nigger and the Chinee dies; The Gladstones and the Pitts depart— But “bigger Englanders’ arise To teach the world the raider’s art ; Such lords as these have made men rotten, They have forgotten—they have forgotten. They've “got the gold, the ships, the men,” And are the masters of to-morrow— And so mankind shall see again The days of Sodom and Gomorrah ; These are the lords that make men rotten ; They have forgotten—they have forgotten. Drunken with lust of power and pelf, They hold no man or God in awe, And care for naught but only self, And cent per cent’s their only law; These are our lords, and they are rotten ; They have forgotten—they have forgotten ? Their braggart hearts have put their trust In maxim guns and metford rifles ; They'd crush their foes into the dust And treat what's right as idle trifles. For boastful brag and fool “fake The Imperialist must “take the cake.” — London Truth. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. —— The golf links out at ‘‘Burnham’’ have had the effect of arousing considerable enthusiasm over the game and a golf club has been organized for the purpose of im- proving the links and holding regular tour- naments. The officers are as follows : Pres- ident, G. Murray Andrews; vice-president, Rev. George I. Brown; secretary and treas- urer, Edmund Blanchard. S——— A ren BURNED TO DEATH BY AN EXPLODING Lamp.—A frightful accident occurred two miles from Rebersburg, last Friday even- ing, the result of which has been the death of Mrs. Adam Wolfe, a highly respected woman of that locality. It was at her home, where she was en- tertaining her father, Mr. Brindle, who had been there spending the day and was about to retire when she went to procure the lamp with which ‘to light him to his room.’”’ Just as she was in the act of lift- ing it from the table the lamp exploded; throwing blazing oil in all directions and completely enveloping the unfortunate woman. With rare presence of mind Mr. Brindle seized the table cover and suc- ceeded in smothering the flames that were burning his daughter, but not until they had left their fatal effects, for she suffered agonies until 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon, when death relieved her. Deceased was 29 years old and is sur- vived by her husband and four little chil- dren. Her funeral, at Rebersburg, on Tuesday, was one of the largest ever seen in that valley. I ll ——Patrick Kane, the well-known bank- er and Democrat of Renovo was found dead at the side door of his home, in that place, on Friday morning. He had been slightly indisposed for several weeks, but had been feeling right well when he retired Thurs- day night. It is supposed that after get- ting up to eat his usual mid-night lunch he stepped out into the yard and was over- come with apoplexy. Deceased was 64 years old. Though he was born in Ireland he had been a resident of Clinton county for fifty years and was one of its best and most influential citizens. He was a type of the men who have worked themselves up from the bottom round of the ladder and while he enjoyed the position of affluence he attained he was still the friendly, gen- erous Pat Kane who first made a start at railroad building years ago. His widow and seven children survive him. fr baad ——Mirs. John H. Meese died at her home at Roopshurg on Friday evening at 6 o’clock; consumption having been the cause. Deceased was born at Pleasant Gap; her maiden name having been Anna Belle Harrison. She was 66 years old and is sur- vived by her husband and the following children : Edward, Centre Furnace; Scott, State College; Mrs. Fannie Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Sager and Mrs. Ellen Brown, of Bellefonte; and John, George and Femmie. at home. Mrs. John Shrefler, of this place, and Mrs. Ellen Richards, of Julian, were sisters. Funeral services were con- ducted Monday morning and interment was made in the Lutheran cemetery at Pleasant iy. i I Miss Annie Shauver, aged 22 years, died at the home of her parents, on the Curtin farm about two miles east of Bellefonte, on Tuesday morning; after an illness with consumption. Deceased was a good chris- tian girl; being a member of the Lutheran church, but in the absence of Dr. Holloway Rev. Wren conducted the funeral services yesterday morning and interment was made here. I ll I ——Jonathan Ike, a well-known farmer, who lived in the vicinity of Gardner, this county, died last Wednesday, at the age of 85 years. He had been ill about seven weeks and had lived near Gardner for thirty- five years. Deceased was a generally re- spected resident and was a member of the ll ——James B. Wighaman died at his home in Tyrone, on Sunday morning, from the effects of paralysis of the brain, with which he had suffered for four years. De- ceased was 42 years old and was a brother of Andrew Wighaman, of State College. [ I I ——John C. McElwain died at his home near Howard last Friday and was buried in Sohenck’s cemetery, on Sunday, with Rev. A. P. Wharton, of the Methodist church, officiating. I I I —— Mrs. Sager died at the home of Wil- liam Nestlerode, at Salona, on Monday. Her remains were interred as Greenburr on Wednesday. ot
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