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Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 27, 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.
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.
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——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——
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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.
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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.
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——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.
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——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.
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——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
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——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.
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——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.
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—— Mrs. Sager died at the home of Wil-
liam Nestlerode, at Salona, on Monday.
Her remains were interred as Greenburr on
Wednesday.
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