Bement Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 23, 1900. CorrEsPONDENTS.—NoO communications pub lished unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY ——Talk about water, we took more than our share of it yesterday. ——A. M. Mott, the marble man, is ‘‘on the lift’”’ with rheumatism. ——J. R. Kerrhas been appointed poss- master at Powelton, this county. ——Mrs. Lizzie Walk, of Julian, has been granted a pension of $8 per month. ——The thermometer registered 8° be- low zero in Philipsburg Tuesday morning. ——Lumberman Reynolds Shope, of this place, is recovering from a very severe case of typhoid fever. —-The Penna. W. C. T. U. president urges an increased membership in our ‘locals’ for 1900. ——The Bellefonte Central R. R. mail carrier, John Bryan, is ill at his home with catarrh of the stomach. ——Next Wednesday will be Ash Wed- nesday, the beginning of Lent. It will extend until Easter Sunday, April 15th. ——Fred Casey, the mail agent on the C. R. R. of Pa., has been promoted toa run on the low grade division of the Alle- gheny valley railroad. -—So far as the West ward of Belle- fonte is concerned there is no longer such a person as Walker. He is certainly Chain- Lightning over there now. ——The Franklin and Marshall college glee and mandolin clubs were greeted by a crowded house, at Garman’s Wednesday night. The gross receipts were about $230.00 -——The religious census of Bellefonte carried out by the various churches of the town was completed on Tuesday. The day was an ideal one for the work and i was quite successfully done. ——At Tunneltown, the notorious rail- road improvement east of Spruce Creek, on Sunday, two more of the negro residents were shot. A man was hit in the calf of the leg and a woman had her toe knocked off. —— Philipsburg and Osceola are striving for a new fire briok works that is said to be halting between the two places for a loca- tion. The proposed plant is to cost $30,- 000 and employ about seventy-five men aud boys. ——Based on the vote of last Tuesday Bellefonte’s population would be 4,405. But the vote was several hundred short of the registration, which might ran the population of the borough proper, up to about 5,500. : —Nine girls and one married woman arrived to work in the matoh factory on Tuesday. They are all boarding on ‘“Meth- odist Hill.”” The first matches were dip- ped at the factory on Wednesday and they were beauties. —Prof. A. C. Thompson, who recently resigned as principal of the Snow Shoe schools to accept the position of traveling representative for the hardware firm of Potter & Hoy in this place, contemplates moving back to his former home in Phil- ipsburg. ——The Coatesville. Times is responsible for the story that en last Wednesday two boys of about fourteen years of age were. arrested in that place as vagrants. They gave their namee as Gluck, of Tyrone, and John Ammerman. Aesording #o the Times they were youngsters hardened in vice. Inquiry fails to reveal any sash a runaway from Bellefonte as the one described here. ——Dr. W. H. Tate has opened rooms for the practice of dentistry in the Arcade, the rooms formerly occupied by she C. R. R. of Pa. offices. He is from Philadelphia and comes to Bellefonte with the highest testimonials as a surgeon dentist. He has all the modern electrical appliances and invites the public to call and see him. His advertisement appears in another part of this issue. ——The veteran Democratic engineer of this county is that well known old ‘engine driver Jerre Nolan. He has been 1n all kinds of smash-ups and has bobbed up as serenely afterwards as if he had never been knocked off his box, but with all his records in the palmy days of ‘‘the old Snow Shoe’ we have never seen him look any prouder than be was, on Tuesday, when he escort- ed his fine young son Dan down to the West ward polls to cast his first vote, Dan is the fourth Democrat Jerre has given to his party and when Joe is ready, three years hence, there will be half a dozen of them, counting the father, and they will all be good ones. —— Last Saturday, after transacting busi- ness in the neighborhood of Penn Hall, Abe Treaster, of Woodward, arrived at the Gentzel farm near Millheim, now owned by Michael Eby, where he stopped for din- ner. Hedrove into the wagon shed, un- hitched his horses and put them into the stable which is some distance from the shed. He then went into the house for dinner, forgetting to remove a lighted lan- tern which he had placed under the robes to keep his feet warm. While he was get- ting his dinner the lantern set fire to the wagon and before it was discovered the whole building was in flames. The run- ning gears of the wagon were saved hut the building was entirely consumed, along with about 100 bushels of corn. SPRING CREEK'S GREATEST FLoOD.—In the past Washington’s birthday has been celebrated as a semi-holiday in Bellefonte, but yesterday old Spring creek took mat- ters in its own bands and suspended al- most every industry about the town. It had the greatest flood that has ever been known on the creek and what makes it all the more remarkable is the fact that at mid-night Wednesday the water was scarce- ly six inches above the low water mark. About 10 o'clock Wednesday night it began raining in torrents and as the ground was frozen the water ran off as fast as if fell, with the result that there were little rivulets tumbling into the main streams all along Spring creek and Buffalo-run. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning the alarm was spread among property owners along the low grounds, but even then it was tco iate. The water had risen so as to flood everything. It kent rising steadily until noon, when it began to fall. At this office it was nine feet above low water mark; the highest ever reached, except the time when the High street bridge caved in and dam- med it back, making a sixteen foot flood until the floating ice had battered the planks away and let the water through again. It is a straight rain flood this time, no snow or back water to angment it, and at the time of our going to press there were still a few inches of water and filth in the press rooms of this office. No one who has not seen it can have an idea of the havoc the flood has played with the WATCHMAN'’S printing machinery. All of it was submerged and will have to be taken down and the sand cleaned out of the journals before it can be used; causing no end of trouble and expense, not count- ing the large amount of paper that is ruined. The WATCHMAN office has not had such a flooding in years but we are used to it and are thankful that it is no worse. Early " vesterday morning Mr. Harter, the editor of the Gazette, hearing of our distress, tender- ed the use of his presses and shortly after- wards Mr. Kurtz, of the Democrat, made a similar courteous offer, both of which we are sincerely grateful for, but the WATCHMAN contemplated using the presses of our neighbor, the Republican, which Mr. Harris tendered us early in the morning. His press room was under water for a while in the morning, but it subsided in time to run the daily as usual. Last night we were able to get one of our machines in condition to use and if this edition is not up to the WATCHMAN’S meritorious stand- ard we trust you will pardon the short- comings, in view of such a great dilemma as we are in. The water put out the fires in the boilers at'the water works early in the day and backed up so high that the water pumps would not work. Jenkin’s & Lingle’s foundry was com- pletely surrounded but no damage was done there. ‘The match works and Phoenix mills bad to suspend because of the breaking of the main “water service pipe in that end of towfi, where it goes under the bridge over Logan’s branch. The Ardell lumber yards were afloat and the entire flat about the McCalmont lime kilns was afloat. The Buffalo-run train was unable to get any. farther than Hasting’s yesterday morning. It bad to return to this place and ‘wait until evening and then only got through after several bad washouts had been repaired. Most of the houses about the glass workg were flooded, many of the people suffering considerable loss. At Lemont the water was within two inches of being as high as in the flood of 89. No nar: damage was done further than the washing away of fences on the Lytle, Bohn, Schreck, Bottorf and Mary Dale farms. About Morris’ Buffalo-run lime kilns the work was suspended because trains could not get to them, but no damage was done. There was little if any flood on Bald Eagle above Mileshurg, and no damage was reported from below that point. Se aes aftn A THRILLING RIDE AND A BROKEN Lea.—On Monday morning Michael Hess, of Haines township, accompanied by his son, Allen, his son-in-law, Milton Barner and Lewis Winegsrdner, and his daugh- ter, Mrs. Barner, started for Millheim in a two horse spring wagon. When they were descending the steep hill at the east end of Aaronsburg one of traces unhooked and having lost one of the rabber-blocks from the brake, they were unable to hold the wagon which ran against the horses. The animals, becoming frightened, plunged wildly ahead, pulling the neck yoke off the tongue which dropped to the ground and a general smash-up resulted. Winegardner was thrown off the wagon, but the others clung to it until it came in contact with a telephone pole at the foot of the hill, when they were thrown off. One who was not an eye witness to the peril the party was in with the team plung- ing madly and the wagon utterly beyond control will have little eonception of their miraculous escape, but when the first shock was over and they started to extri- cating themselves from the wreck Wine- .gardner was the only one found to have suffered seriously. His leg was broken be- ‘tween the knee and the ankle, but Dr. Musser was oalled at once and reduced the fracture, after whioh thefinjured man was taken home. One of the horses was badly cut and bruised. +0 ——Between $10 and $11 were realized for the soldiers’ monument fund at the north ward school yesterday. At the High school building the amount aggregated. ——Tyrone thermometers registered 0° Tuesday morning. re A ——Rev. E. T. Butz, of Salem, Ohio, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Lock Haven Lutheran church. te fp Qe ——Wanted ! 1000 ‘‘Temperance Light Bearers’’ in every county in Pennsylvania in 1900, including Centre Co. What for? Home protection and the permanent up- building of our local unions for “A little child shall lead them.” rm fp mere —Tyrone will get the hospital sure new. They elected Col. Pruner Mayor up there on Tuesday and we have a photo- graph of the hospital already. Build it good and large, Colonel, for those Tunnel- town coons will make the surgical depart- ment work full time. een pl Qn ——If you use heer and want to get it pure and unadulcerated, free from drugs of any kind and without any doctoring to hurry its ripening, you can get it of Matthew Volk at the Bellefonte brewery. And its about the only place there is any certainty of getting that kind of beer. ~—While Edward Koppenhaver was adjusting a belt at O’Donnell’s saw mill near Rosecrans, Friday, his coat caught on aset screw and, quick as a flash, he was drawn up to the revolving shaft and hurled about it twenty times before the machinery could be stopped. He was badly battered up, but will live. *ro— A TRUE STORY.—A woman living among the mountains of West Virginia read in the Mead ville Searchlight of the ‘‘Temper- ance Light Bearers”’ work in our State and wrote to know if her two month’s old babe could be enrolled ; she and her hushand being natives of Pennsylvania. Literature explanatory of the work was sent her with the result that a new life was opened up to her and she was convert- ed to christianity. Then she set about to work among her neighbors. They all liv- ed thirty miles from a railroad, five miles from a post office and had neither church nor Sunday school to encourage, but with nothing more than these little tracts being sent among them an effective missionary work was started. Pn Hr HENRY WAS BELLEFONTE'S AT- TRACTION” YESTERDAY.~--Hi Henry and his famous company of fun makers have come and gone, and it is safeto say that an audience never left Garman’s .opera house better pleased than the one that wit nessed the performance given by this large organization last evening. Mr. Henry has for the past fifteen years been coming to Bellefonte and has always presented a refined, pleasing programe. But this year the company is larger: and better than ever. Mr. Henry rendered his cornet solos, which have made him so popular with the music loving people of America, in a faultless manner and again proved himself to be master of the instru- ment. The comed.: .~ were great and their jokes mew, the singing of a high order and an audience which completely filled the house was heartily with the boys in their efforts to amuse. It was a pleasant evening and one long to be remembered. Come again Hi Henry. CLE THE LENT AND {EASTER SERVICES AT ST. JoHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. — Rev. George I. Brown, rector of St. John’s Protestant Episcopal church, has announced the following services during Lent and on Easter Sunday. On Ash Wednesday matins and pene- tential office at 10 a. m. ; holy communion, 11 a. m.; even song, 5 p. m. Wednesdays and Fridays services at 10 a. m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 5 p. m. and Tuesdays and Fridays at 7:30 p. m. During Hely week there will be daily celebrations at 10 a. m. and 5 p. m., except on Good Friday, when there will be serv- ices at 10:30 and from 12m., until 3 p. m., and at 7:30 p. m. On Easter Sunday there will be services at 7a. m., 12 m, 3:30 p. m., and 7:30 p. m. The special ministers who will be here during the lenten period will be Rev. Erskine Wright, Danville; Rev. Charles Morrison, Sunbury; Rev. Allan. Woodle, Altoona; Rev. Geo. C. Foley, D. D., and Rev. Edward Henry Eckel, B. D., of Wil- liamsport. SEVEN HUNDRED A MINUTE.—Letters can now be post-marked and the stamps cancelled at the rate of seven hundred per minute in the Bellefonte post office. A very simple little machine has been install- ed for that purpose and one mau can now push through more letters, post mark them clearer and oancel the stamps surer than ten could before with the old mallet and ink ped system. The new cancelling machine isa very simple device when seen at work. There are three wheels lying flat on the top of a small stand, their centers are in alignment and all revolve the same way when worked by a handle on the larger wheel, which is about 12 inches in diameter, with a rim about 2 inches wide. Working against it is a smaller wheel on the rim of which are the cancelling rules and post marking type and baok of that wheel is a still smaller one of felt, which carries the ink. The let- ters are fed from a bunch at one side, pass- ing between the larger and middle wheel, one at a time,and dropping into a trough at the other side, properly marked and can- celled. The middle wheel making one revolution for each letter, and being inked by the ink wheel working against it. It is a wonderful labor saver and post- master Montgomery is delighted with it be- cause it will greatly expedite the work of marking incoming and outgoing mail. Dr. ROBERT HAMILL IS DEAD.—The minister best known in ecclesiastical circles in Centre county and whose work in this section was remarkable for the long period over which it extended was Rev. Dr. Rob- ert Hamill, formerly of Oak Hall. For forty-five years he was in charge of the Spring Creek Presbyterian circuit and many of the earlier years off that long service in the vinyard of the Master were contempor- aneous with those of Rev. Dr. James Linn, who was for fifty years pastor of the Pres- byterian church in this place. Dr. Hamill retired from the ministry eight . years ago and left his fine old home at Oak Hall to make his home at 227 south Twentieth street, Philadelphia, where he died last Thursday after a brief illness. He was 84 years of age, having heen born in April, 1816, in Norristown. Dr. Hamill was educated at the High school of Law- renceville, N. J., and at Jefferson College, Cannonshurg, Pa. After receiving his college degree he re- turned to Lawrenceville and taught for two years. He then entered Princeton Theolog- ical Seminary at Princeton, N. J., and af- ter three years was ordained a Presbyterian minister. For many years he occupied prominent pulpits in Huntingdon and Centre counties, and was prominent in the organization of the Presbytery. The last eight years of his life were spent in Phila- delphia in retirement from active clerical work. He was a director of Princeton Theological Seminary and a trustee of Laf- ayettee college. Deceased is survived by four sons and two daughters : John, Dr. Samuel and Mrs. Margaret Girvin, of Philadelphia; Dr. Rob- ert, of Summit, N. J., James, of Colum- bus, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Armstrong, in West Virginia. Interment was made at Lower Provi- dence, Montgomery county, Monday morn- ing. ll I I ~ ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT GONE.—The venerable John R. Shreffler, the patriarch among Centre county public’ school teach- ers, passed’away at his home on south Pot- ter street, Saturday morning, after an ill- ness of more than a year with dropsy and kidney trouble. He was born in Berks county Feb. 10th, 1835, being a direct descendant, through the maternal side of the house, of the fa- mous Daniel Boone, of Kentucky. Fifty years ago he located in Centre county and followed his trade of carpentering with varying success until he took up school teaching. Being quite successful in peda- gogical work he continued it to the aban- donment of his regular trade and taught up t0 a very short time ago; his last school be- ing the old ‘‘red school’’ at Yocum’s. Deceased was married to Frances Harri- son, of Pleasant Gap, who survives him with the following children: Maud, wife of M. V. Mapes, of Clearfield; Belle, wife of Fearon Hughes, of Axe Mann; Clyde, of Altoona; Allie, wife of Asher Adams; Em- ma, wife of Frank Sasserman; Lide, wife of Charles Houser; Robert, Kate and Grace, all of Bellefonte. Mr. Shreffler was an old Odd Fellow, having belonged to this order for the last thirty-six years. He was a member of Cen- tre Lodge No 153, of Bellefonte. The funeral took place Monday after- noon at 2 o'clock from the house. Rev. W. A. Stephens officiating, assisted by Rev. George Brown. Interment in the Union cemetery. I fl ll JoHN C. SHENEBERGER.—At the home of his sister, Mrs. Daniel Keller,at Warren, Ill., early Saturday morning, December 2nd, 1899, John C. Sheneberger of Rock Rapids, Ia., died of neuralgia of the heart at the age of 53 years, 5 months and 5 days. Rev. J. T. Ford of the Presbyterian church conducted brief services at the Keller home at four o’clock Saturday and that evening a party comprising the bereft widow, John Aaron Kahl, and Dapiel Keller left with the remains for Rock Rapids, where funer- al services were held at 10:30 o’clock Mon- day and interment made in the home ceme- tery. The decedent was born at Boalsburg, Centre county, Pa., June 27th, 1846, and twenty years later married Miss Rebecca Jordan. In 1875 they emigrated to Wins- low township, Stephenson county, Ill., farming there until 1886, when they mov- ed to the present homestead near Rock Rapids, Ia. The union has been blessed with four children, sll boys. three of whom are married; the youngest, eighteen years of age, living at heme. He was a member of the German reform- ed church in Pennsylvania, was county commissioner of Lyon Co., Ia., and a high- ly respected citizen. He leaves a fine sec- tion of land for the support of his widow. ll I I ——Albert J. Mattern died at his home in Tyrone, on Friday morning, at the age of 57 years. He had been in failing health for two years, though the real cause of his decline remained a mystery to his physi- cians even up to the time of his death. For many years he was engaged in the mercan- tile business at Tyrone and Rock springs, Centre county. He issurvived by his wife and the following children, namely : Mary, wife of Dr. T. Stine, of Tyrone; Guy G., of Windber; and Charles C., of State College, Centre county. The funeral took place Meonday afternoon. I I I MINNIE ALBRIGHT.—On Saturday night Minnie Albright, a daughter of Israel Al- bright, died at her home at the Empire iron works, having been ill since last fall with consumption. Deceased was 24 years, 6 months and 26 days old and is survived by her father and two sisters. Interment was made Monday afternoon at Shiloh. ' Mes. JoEN ELriorr.—Mis. Elizabeth Wilson Elliott, wife of the Rev. John Elliott, of Kansas City, Mo., and sister of Mrs. A. G. Curtin, Mrs. George Elliott, Mrs. Lucy Moyer and the Misses Mary and Alice Wilson, of this place, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. O. Deming, in Kansas City, Mo., on Saturday after- noon after a long illness beginning with malaria. Mrs. Elliott was a daughter of the late Dr. Wm. I. Wilson, of Potters Mills, and of her a Kansas city paper says. She came to Kansas with her husband, who was called to the pastorate of the Pres- byterian church, of Ottawa, Kan., in the spring of 1870. Here, and in Oswego, Kan., her busy life was mainly spent. She was prominent in every work which elevates humankind. Her jpresence was a benedic- tion. Her words were few but wise, her prayers were as ointment poured out. Her liberality was limited only by her ability. Her home was characterized by the charity she dispensed and the warm cordiality with which she received her friends. The poor she had always with her. Her gifts were unwritten, and unknown except to the needy recipients. No house was too humble or forbidding for her to enter. No unfortu- nate was so low as to discourage her efforts. In the cold nights of midwinter, in the drifts of the blinding blizzard, and the enervating heat of summer, her work was continued, And when strength began to fail, and she was no longer able to carry clothes to the naked and food to the hungry, her prayers in their behalf continually went up. Her name will not be recorded on the roll of bat- tle-scarred heroes, but she is worthy of a bright record and a great reward in Heaven. Her husband, the Rev. Mr. J. Elliott, and her two daughters, Mrs. R. P. Carpenter, of Neodesha, Kan., and Mrs. R. O. Deming, were with her during her last hours. ll ll ll ——Mrs. Nora Reilly Thornberg, a daughter of Mr. John E. Reilly, of this place, died at her home in Muncie, Indi- ana, last Friday, with quick consumption. Mrs. Thornberg was 24 years old and a sister of James and John Reilly Jr., both of Bellefonte. eee ies ——The information comes from the Interior Department that the various su- pervisors of the census in this State are to make no appointments of enumerators, statisticians or other census workers until April, at least. PEE News Purely Personal. —Miss Simpson and Miss Musser, of Scranton, are in town, visiting the latter's sister, Mrs. Paul Sheffer, of Curtin street. —Mrs. 8. W. Kerstetter, of Reynoldsville, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Furey, at their home in the country below town. —Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Richard, of east Linn street, returned from a two weeks’ visit in Phila- delphia, Mrs. Richard’s former home, on Monday evening. —Miss Jane Furst, of west Linn street, left for Philadelphia, Monday }morning, to visit her brother Wm. 8. Furst Esq., and other relatives in that city. —Mrs. H. A. McKee and her daughter, Miss Mary, returned from a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. James McKee, in Pittsburg, on iWednesday afternoon. —Miss Cornelia Dale,, of Lemont, 'was enter- tained by friends in Tyrone Morday evening during a stop over on her way to visit relatives in Pittsburg and Butler. —Dr. J. M. Brockerhoff departed for West Vir- ginia, Monday afternoon, to look after the exten- sive timber lands the Brockerhoft estate is about closing out down there. —Miss Pansy Blanchard, of east Linn street, sailed for the Bermudas and South American ports on Saturday. The voyage is being made with the Brights, of Pottsville, with whom she is spending the winter. —Mrs. Joseph Beck, of Pittsburg, was a Satur- day arrival in town, accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. L. D. Hite. They came to visit Mrs. Beck’s parents, James Houser’s family, on east Bishop street. " —John T. Harris, whose transfer to the corps of electrical engineers of the Bell Telephone Co. was noted in the Warcuman some time ago, left for Holidaysburg, Tuesday morning, where his services are needed in extensive repairs being made by his company there. —Col. and Mrs. J. L. Spangler spent Sunday with friends in town. Before leaving the Col. gave out the information that the physicians at the Johnstown hospital believe that his brother Howard will survive the terrible ordeal he has gone through as a result of being so badly frozen. —Mrs. John P. Harris is in Washington visiting her grand-daughter Mary Weaver at the Ladies National Seminary there. Mrs. Isaac Mitchell traveled with her to the capitol; having gone as the representative of the Bellefonte chapter to the national convention of the D. A. R. in session in that city. —George Harpster and William Decker were up from Walker township yesterday and while the latter looked after a little plumbing work he is interested in just now George made a few calls on his friends. He seemed very much worried be cause Bellefonte hadn’t made Capt. Taylor's ma- jority the round four hundred. —Jacob Meyer and Ezra Tressler,of Linden Hall, were in town yesterday and when they viewed the flooded press rooms of the Warcaman office they came to the conclusion that some printers have far more serious troubles than the politica! squabbles they get into. The gentlemen came down Wednesday evening for the Franklin and Marshall glee club concert. —John Todd, the Philipsburg ‘coal man and Democratic leader in North Rush, was in town on Wednesday to bring over the election returns -| with him and to report that he had won out on Tuesday against a combination that tried to down him for judge. Calvin Jones and Charles Hud- son, two return judges from Philipsburg, were with him and they made quite a representative trio among the many strangers in town that day. —Mr. and Mrs. James Laurie, of Strawberry Ridge, Montour county, have been visiting rela: tives in Centre county during the past ten days. They are the uncle and aunt of Mrs. J. C. Meyer, of Curtin street, and during their visit with her she entertained at dinner in their honor. The guests were Hon. and Mrs. John G. Love, Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Seibert, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cook, Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Ward and Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Hunter. —Rev. R. W. Runyan, of the Half-moon Meth- odist circuit, was in town on Saturday between trains; haying just come up from a visit to his brother, who is in the ministry in the lower end of Nittany valley. Rev. Runyan has had remark- able success at Stormstown. Every church in his circuit is free of debt, they are paying their pas- tor an increased salary and the new $3,000 parson- age he built at Stormstown two years ago is all paid tor already, except three or four hundred dollars. In addition, itis very comfortably fur- nished; that part of it being looked after by the various appointments each having furnished a room. W. C. LINGLE’S GENEROSITY. — The WATCHMAN takes pleasure in thus pablic- ly acknowledging the receipt of a check from Hon. W. C. Lingle, of Patton, which he has directed us to apply to two most laudable purposes; $10.00 of it to be ap- plied “to the monument for Gov. A. G. Curtin and five to the subscription to pay for the house burned by sheriff Condo.’ Mr. Lingle is a Centre county boy and the fact that his business has called him to other parts has not made him oblivious of the interests of his old home. He is the son of the late Joseph Lingle and was born while his father was serving as sheriff of Centre county and is a brother of Howard Lingle, of the firm of Jenkins & Lingle, founders of this place. It will be remem- bered that he was successful in being elected to the last Legislature from Oambria coun- ty, notwithstanding a Republican majority of about 400 in that county during several years past. He is the superintendent of the Pardee oollieries at Patton and is one of the most influential men in that grow- ing coal field. Mr. Lingle’s graceful act in contributing to two such worthy causes will certainly not be forgotten. ro Sati MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the list of marriage licenses granted by or- phan’s court clerk A. G. Archey dur- ing the past week : Vance Lucas, of Tyrone, and Etta Samp- sel, of Pleasant Gap. Sumner V. Stover, of Wolfs Store, and Jennie V. Hagan, of Farmers Mills. Daniel Charles Kustenborter and Mar- garet A. Beezer, both of Bellefonte. Wm. Rossman, of Benore, and Sallie Rimmey, of Pleasant Gap. Ches. C. Homer, of Zion, and Elizabeth C. Poorman, of Stato College. Edward Freeman, of Centre Hill, and Mary E. Goodhart, of Centre Hall. Jas. F. Stover, of Pogters Mills, and Mary L. Koch, of Centie Hall. Geo. C. Everly and Emma M. Brickley, both of Curtin township. ir os A SAD ENDING.—Monday’s daily papers contained the following telegraphic account of a suicide near West Chester. It will be of interest to people of Comtre county, many of whom remember Harry K. and Thos. Hicks, the hardware men of this place in years gone by, whose brother the unfortunate man was. They will have the sympathy of many friends in this commu- nity in their sad affliction. WEesT CHESTER, Feb. 18. —C. Rodman Hicks, aged 46 years, a resident of Philadel- phia, committed suicide early this morning, at the home of George Baker, his brother-in- law, of Pocopson township, by cutting his throat with a razor. The act wae committed in his room at the farmhouse and the body was discovered by Mr. Baker this morning. For several months Mr. Hicks had been suffering from nervous prostration, and he had visited the home of Mr. Baker for treat- mnt. The disease finally unbalanced his mind. Sr—— AA pe —The national W. C. T. U. suggests ‘‘Home Protection’ the rallying ory for 1900. Announcement. We are authorized to announce J. W. Kepler, of Ferguson township, as a candidate for the nomination for Assembly; subject to the decision of the Democratic county convention.* We are authorized to announce J. H. Wetzel, of Bellefonte, as a_candidate of the Legislature subject to the decision of the Democratic county convention. ee — Sale Register. March 7rH.—On the premises of David Spotts, 3 miles north of Unionville, horses, cattle, shoats and all kinds of farm implements, blacksmith tools ete. Sale at 1 p. m. sharp. MARCH 23rD, —At the residence of Wm. Showers, at Hecla Park, horse, 2 cows, wagon, spring wagon, buggy, some imzlenlerts and supplies. Sale at 1 o’clock p. m. . A. Ishler, Aue. Philadelphia Markets, The following are the closing prices of the Philadelphia markets on Wednesday evening. WHERt—ROA Luis. iirivsiresreensneommsessossas ons 124@73Y : 015272 3.1 Baled hay—Choice Timothy No. 1....13.50@17.00 * 8 te Mixed ~ ¢“ 1...... Bellefonte Grain Masket. Corrected weekly by the Praxix Miruing Co. The following are the quotations up to six o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes Tess : BAL WNORL, ci cre ies ionsnsivssssmasnsipasest es suits Rye, per bushel.......... Corn, shelled, per bushel... Corn, ears, per bushel Oats, per bushel, new Barley, pir bushel Ground Plaster, Ie Buckwheat, per bushel . Cloverseed, per bushel... —— Bellefonlte Preduce Markets. Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co. Potatoes per bushel Onions Eggs, per dozen Cy per pound Country Shoulde: Sides.... Hams... Tallow, per pound. Butter, per pound... 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Job Printing of every kind done with neatness and dispatch. The WarcuMaN office has been re- fitted with Fast Presses and New Type, and everything in the printing line can be ‘executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates, Terms—Cash, All letters should be addressed to P. GRAY MEEK, Proprieto 4
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