Bellefonte, Pa., Sep. 14, 1900. P. GRAY MEEK, - - Epiror ET RTE Terms oF Susscaiprion.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance.......cccocuvnneee Paid before expiration of year. se Paid after expiration of year............ Democratic National Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of Nebraska. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON, of Illinois. Democratic State Ticket. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, P. GRAY MEEK, Centre County. FOR CONGRESSMEN-AT-LARGE, HARRY E. GRIMM, Bucks County. N. M. EDWARDS, Lycoming County. FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS-AT-LARGE, ANDREW KAUL, Elk County, OTTO GERMER, Erie County. A. F. COFFROTH, Somerset County. FRANCIS SHUNK BROWN, Philadelphia. | Democratic District Ticket. FOR CONGRESS. Hon. J. K. P. HALL. Democratic County Ticket. J. H. WETZEL For Assembly—{ J. Wf, KEPLER, For Jury Commissioner— FREDERICK ROBB. How the Bosses Boss. There are others besides Mr. JNO. A. DALEY, Mr. JOHN MURRAY, Mr. SAML. DEIHL and the Philipsburg Ledger who ob- ject to bowing to the dictation of the three or four self constituted Republican bosses here in Bellefonte. The woods are fall of those who refuse to be harmonized with the gold brick that Governor HASTINGS offers in return for support for his choice of candidates. From every part of the county comes protests from Republicans, who have minds of their own, against a proposition that takes from them any choice of candi- dates or any voice in the expression of their political desires. In all the history of Senator QUAY’S domination of the Republican politics of the State there is no such an instance of self asserted bossism as that exhibited in chairman REEDER’S pronunciamento of last week. In it he not only dictates who the candidates must be, but ostentatiously, through the personal organ of Governor HASTINGS — the Republican — announces what can and what can not be put into the platform. In fact he constitutes himself, Governor HASTINGS, and the three other Bellefonters who were parties to the con- tract, the Republican party of the county, while its primaries, its convention and its voters are allowed the privileges of ratify- ing their orders. Asa specimen of boss: ism, heretofore unknown or experienced in any party, in any State, under any cir- cumstances, we give the letter of the chair- man of the Republican party of this coun- ty announcing what is to be the action of the Republican county convention that meets in this place on Tuesday next. It is predicted, upon an agreement entered into between four men who pledged themselves that ‘‘the nominees of the party should be Wn. ALLisoN and JOHN K. THOMPSON, and that they be unpledged by the conven- tion; that the resolutions it shall pass shall not contain aught that will reflect upon the administration of Governor STONE or refer in. any manner whatsoever to the QUAY issue; that the present chairman shall continue in the position he now holds and that all Republicans are hereby pledg- ed to the loyal support of this ticket nam- ed, and to such a platform as shall be giv. en them.” Mr. REEDER’S orders are in words as fol- lows: de HreADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN CoUNTY CONVEN- 710N, BELLEFONTE, PA., Sept. 1st., 1900. DEAR SiR : The Republican primaries will take place on Saturday, Sept. 15th, at the usual places for hold- ing the same. : Factionalism and personal contentions should have no place in this campaign. The success of the party is far more important than the triumph of any individual or faction. With the party united Centre cotinty will surély ‘return to the Repablican column... . i ————————— To this end, it has been determined wisest to nominate for the General Assenibly two Republi- cans of unblemished character, each of whom should be and is acceptable to all factions; who will poll the full Republican vote, and ‘command the respect and confidence of the people of the’ county. 3 After consultation with members of the Re- publican County Committee and leading Repub- lieans of all factions it was determined to present the names of Hon. William M. Allison, of Spring Mills, and John K. Thompson, of Philipsburg, as candidates of the reunited party. Let us now put forth our best efforts to carry Centre county for McKinley, Allison and Thompson, Very truly, WILBUR F. REEDER, County Chairman. ——Hay ought to be right cheap here- abouts, judging from the amount of grass that is allowed to grow up between the rails of the P. R. R. tracks. It is so unusual to see Pennsy property looking ragged and unkempt that the condition of the tracks in Bellefonte are a daily source of wonder- ment. —The so-called American lion is merely what natural history classes as the puma. The real king of beasts is said to be found only in Africa, but the men who wrote the natural histories hadn’t heard of the lion that ate the lamb in Centre connty. A — Still Unplaced. From the Charleston News and Courier. It may take some time to determine whether the looting of Tien Tsin comes under the head of duty or destiny. Horror at Galveston. The Graphic Narrative of Richard Spillane Newspa- per Man. A Tremendous Modern Tragedy. The Waters of the Gulf and the Bay Met and Engulf- ed the City—The People Caught ina Trap in the Darkness. Substantial Buildings Wrecked. HusToN, Tex., September, 10.— Richard Spillane, a well known Galveston news- paper man and day correspondent of the Associated Press in that city, Who reached Huston today after a terrible experience, gives the following account of the disaster at Galveston : One of the most awful tragedies of mod- ern times has visited Galveston. The city is in ruins and the dead will number prob- ably 3,000. I am just from the city, bav- ing been commissioned by the mayor and citizens’ committee toget in touch with the outside world and appeal for help. Hus- ton was the nearest point at which work- ing telegraph instruments could be found, the wires, as well as nearly all the build- ings between here and the Gulf of Mexico, being wrecked. “When I left Galveston shortly before noon yesterday the people were organizing for the prompt burial of the dead, distribu- tion of food and all work after a period of disaster. The wreck at Galveston was brought about by a tempest so terrible that no words can adequately describe its inten- sity and by a flood which turned the city into a raging sea. The weather bureau rec- ords show that the wind attained a veloc- ity of eighty four miles an hour before the measuring instrument blew away, so it is impossible to tell what was the maximum.’’ The storm began at 2 o’clock Saturday morning. Previous to that a great storm had been raging in the gulf and the tide was very high. The wind at first came from the north and was in direct opposition to the force of the gulf, while the storm of the gulf piled the water up on the beach side of the city. About noon it became evident that the city was going to be visited with disaster. Hundreds of residences along the beach front were hurridly abandoned, the fami- lies fleeing to dwellings in higher portions of the city. Every home was opened to the refugees, black or white. The winds were rising constantly and it rained tor- rents. The wind was so fierce that the water was cat as by a knife. By three o’clock the waters of the gulf and bay met and by dark the entire city was submerged. The flooding of the elec- tric light plant and the gas plants left the city in darkness. To go upon the streets was to court death. The wind was then at cyclonic velocity, roofs, cisterns, portions of buildings, telegraph poles were falling and the noise of the wind and the crashing of the buildings were terrifying in the ex- treme. The wind and water rose steadily from dark until 1:45 Sunday morning. During all this time the people of Galves- ton were like rats in traps. The highest portion of the city was four or five feet un- der water while in the great majority of cases the streets were submerged to a depth of ten feet. To leave a house was to drown. To remain was to court death in the wreck- age. Such a night of agony has seldom been equalled. Without apparent reason the water suddenly began to subside at 1:45 a. m. Within twenty minutes they had gone down two feet and before daylight the streets were practically freed of the flood of waters. Very few if any buildings escaped in- jury. There was hardly a habitable dry house in the city. When the people who had escaped death went out in daylight to view the work of the tempest and the floods they saw the most horrible sight imagina- ble. In the three blocks from avenue N, to avenue P, in. Tremont street, I saw eight bodies. Four corpses were in one yard. The whole of the business front for three blocks in from the gulf was stripped of every vestige of habitation; the dwellings, the great bathing establishments, the Olym- pia and every structure baving been either carried out to sea or its ruins piled in a pyra- mid far into the town, according to the vagaries cf the tempest. The first hurried glance over the city showed that the largest structures, sup- posed to be the most substantially built, suffered the greatest. The Orphans’ home, Twenty-first streetand Avenue M, fell like a house of cards. How many dead chil- dren and refugees are in the ruins could not be ascertained. Of the sick in St. Mary’s infirmary, to- gether with the attendants, only eight are understood to have been saved. The Old Woman’s ‘home, on Rosenberg avenue, collapsed, and the Rosenberg school house isa mass of wreckage. The Ball high school is but an empty shell, crushed and broken. Every church in the city, with possibly one or two exceptions, is in ruins. At the forts nearly all the soldiers are reported dead, they having been in tempo- rary quarters, which gave them no protec- tion against the tempest or the flood. No report has been received from the Catholic orphan asylum, down the island, but it seems impossible that it could have with- stood the hurricane, If it fell all the in- mates were no doubt lost, for there was no aid within a mile. The hay front end to end is in ruins. Nothing but piling and the wreckage of great warehouses remain. The elevators lost all their upper works and their stocks crew being swept across the bay fourteen miles to Texas City. I saw Captain Haines and he told me that his wife and one of his crew were drowned. : The shore at Texas City contains enough wreckage to rebuild a city. Eight persons who were swept across the bay during the storm were picked up there alive. Five corpses were also picked up. There were three fatalities in Texas City. In addition to the living and dead which the storm cast up at Texas City, caskets and coffins from one of the cemeteries at Galveston were heing fished out of the water there yester- ay. In the business portion of the city two large brick buildings, one occupied by Knapp Bros. and the other by.the Cotton Exchange saloon, collapsed. In the Cot- ton Exchange saloon there were about fif- teen persons. Most of them escaped. Up to the time I left Galveston three dead had been taken from the ruins. They were: Stanley G. Spencer, manager of the Elder- Dampster Steamship company; Richard Lord, traffic manager for George H. Mc- Fadden & Bro. ; Charles Kelder, of the firm of Lambers E. Flint. How many more co! are there will not be know until the search is finished. The cotton mills, the bagging factory, the gas works, the electric light works and nearly all the industrial establishments of the city are either wrecked or crippled. The flood left a slime about one inch deep over the whole city, and unless fast prog- ress ismade in burying co 3 and car- casses of animals there is danger of pesti- lence. Some of the escapes were miraculous. William Nesbett, a cotton man, was buried are damaged by water. The life saving | station at Fort Point was carried away, the in the ruins of the Cotton Exchange saloon and when dug out in the morning had no further injury than a few bruised fingers. Dr. O. 8. Young, secretary. of the Cotton Exchange, was knocked senseless when his house collapsed but was revived by the water and was carried ten blocks by the hurricane. A woman who had just given birth to a child, was carried from her home toa house a block distant, the men who were carrying her having to hold her high above their heads as the water was five {eet deep when she was moved. Clarence H. Ouley, editor of the Evening Tribune had his family and the families of two neighbors in his house when the lower half crumbled and the upper part slipped down into the water. Not one in the house was hurt. Of the Lavine family six out of seven are reported dead. Of the Burnett family only one is known to have been saved. The family of Stanley G. Spencer, who met death in the Cotton Exchange hotel, is reported to be dead. The Mill street house in the west end was turned into a hospital. All the regu- lar hospitals of the city were unavailable. Half a million feet of lumber was carried away from the new works on the docks and Engineer Boschke says, as far as the com- pany is concerned, it might as well start over again. Eight ocean steamers were adrift from their moorings and stranded in the bay. The Randall Castle was carried over the flats, Thirty-third street wharf, to Texas City and lies in the wreckage of the Inman pier. The Norwegian steamer Gyller is stranded hetween Texas City and Virginia Point.: An;ocean liner was whirled around through the west bay, crushing through the bay bridges and is now laying in a foot of water near the wreckage of the railroad bridges. The steamship Taunton was car- ried across Pelican Point and is stranded about ten miles up the bay. The Mallory line steamer Alamo was torn from her wharf and dashed upon Pelican Flats and against the bow of the British steamer Red Cross, which had previously been hurled through the stern of the Alamo, which is gtoved in and the bow of the Red Cross is crushed. Down the channel to the jetties two oth- er ocean steamships lie grounded. Some schooners, barges and small craft are strewn bottom side up along the sides of the piers. The tug T.ouise, of the Houston Direct Navigation company, is also a wreck. It wili take a week to tabulate the dead and the missing and to getanything like an ap- proximate idea of the monetary loss. It is safe to assume that one half of the property of the city is wiped out and that one-half of the residents have suffered great loss. There are but few buildings at Texas City that do not tell thestory of the storm. The hotel is a complete ruin. The office of the Texas City company was almost en- tirely destroyed. Nothing remains of the piers except the piling. The wreckage from Galveston litters the shore for miles and is a hundred yards or more wide. For ten miles inland from the shore it is a com- mon sight to see small craft, such as steam launches, schooners and sloops. The life hoat of the life saving station was carried half a mile inland, while a vessel that was anchored in Moses bay lays high and dry five miles up the city. The Galveston News asked to have it an- nounced that all the men on its staff are safe. Dead Number 3,000. In Addition 5,000 Families are Reported Destitute. MEMPHIS, Tenn., September 11.—Au- thentic information from the storm-swept city of Galveston reached the Memphis of- fice of the Associated Press shortly after 9 o'ciock to-night. The intelligence came in the shape of a telegram addressed to the Associated Press from Mayor Jones and five of the most prominent citizens of Galves- ton. The telegram bears date of Septem- ber 11th and states that a conservative es- timate of the loss of life in Galveston is that it is not over 3.000. Five thousand families are destitute and the destruction to property is great. Following is the telegram in full : “GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 11.—To the Associated Press, Memphis : A conserva tive estimate of the loss of life is that it will reach 3,000, and at least 5,000 fami- lies are shelterless and wholly destitute. The entire remainder of the population is suffering in greater or less degree. Nota building escaped damage, and half the whole number were entirely obliterated. There is great need for food, clothing and household goods of all kinds. If nearby cities will open asylums for women and children the situation will he greatly re- lieved. Coast cities should send us water as well as provisions, including kerosene, oil, gasoline and candles. [Signed] W. C. JoNES, Mayor. AvusTIN, Tex., September 11.—Official reports from Galveston to Governor Sayers are that 400 bodies have heen identified, 200 more are in an improvised morgue awaiting indentification and many more are thought to have drifted out to sea and their identity will not be known for weeks. A telegram from Adjutant General Scur- ry, who is at Galveston, to the Governor is as follows : : ‘‘Have just returned from Texas City with several Galveston parties, who assure | “me that conditions there beggar descrip- tion. * ‘Accounts have not been exaggera- ted. One thousand lost is too conserva- tive. While a portion of the provisions have heen destroyed by water, sufficient is left to relieve urgent necessities. The citi- zens seem to have the situation well in hand. United States troops and Company C, volunteer guard, with citizens, patrol the streets to prevent looting.’ From reports reaching the Governor this morning it will be necessary to co-operate with the federal troops to place all the mainland opposite Galveston, as well as | the island under martial law. If reports reaching here are true thieves have begun to enter the city for the pur- pose of pilfering the bodies of the dead. e Governor has heen informed that the commander of the Texas troops has been ordered to Galveston by the federal anthor- ities and the Governor will lend his assist- ance with state troops to keep down van- dalism. According to reports to the Governor to- night the work of recovering corpses con- tinues unabated, and while a number of them are so mutilated that they cannot be recognized they are being held as long as possible in the hope of securing their names. Loss of Life Growing. HoustoN, Tex., Sept. 12.—The loss of life at Galveston is now conservatively es- timated at 5,000, while many believe that from 8,000 to 10,000 people have perished. Refugees from Galveston continue toar- rive here and the homes and public buildings in this city have been thrown open to the homeless and distressed. The work of relief is being carried on splendid- ly and thousands of dollars bave been con- tributed for the flood sufferers, as well as supplies of everything. Perhaps the great- est evil with which the relief committee has to contend at present is the endeavor to hold in check .the lawless element. Hoodlums have crowded all the relief trains and boats carrying supplies to Galveston, and it has been found necessary to put a guard over relief expeditions. ! AvusTIN, Tex., Sept., 12.—Governor Sayers to-day made the following state- ment to the Associat@&l Press on the flood situattion : ‘‘Conditions at Galveston are [nlly as bad as represented. Communication, how- ever, has been re-established between the island and the mainland and hereafter transportation of supplies will be less diffi- cult. The work of clearing the city is pro- gressing fairly well and Adjutant General Scurty, under directions of the mayor, is patrolling the city for the purpose of pre- venting depredations. The most conserva- tive estimate as to the number of deaths places them at 2,000. Contributions from citizens, of this State and also from other States are coming in rapidly and liberally, and it is confidently expected that within the next ten days the work of restoration by the people of Galveston will have been begun in good earnest and with energy and success. Of course, the distraction of property has been very great—not less than ten millions of dollars—but it is hoped aud believed that even this great loss will be overcome through the energy and self- reliance of the people. During the day the contributions have fairly deluged the governor, upwards of $100,000 having - been received. = Among the large contributors are to be noted the Standaid Oil company with $10,000; St. Louis Commercial club for a like amount, and the Huntingdon interests for $5,000. Strike Declared in the Anthracite Coal Regiom President Mitchell, of United Mine Workers, Says : ‘All Efforts to Effect Peaceful Settlement Have Failed—Strike Order Issued to take Effect Mon- day.” INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 12.—At 5:30 this afternoon the United Mine Workers of America declared a strike in the anthra- cite region. LAST GREAT STRIKE RECALLED. ‘PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12.—The order of President Mitchell, calling out the mi- pers in the anthracite coal region of this state, recalls the last great strike in the same district, three years ago, which = was practically ended by the tragedy at Latti- mer, in which twenty-one miners were killed and over fifty wounded by deputy sheriffs. The strike inaugurated to-day by the United Mine Workers will, for the time being, terminate operations in the most productive hard coal field in the world. The mune employes in the anthracite district of Pennsylvania number about 145,000. The membership of the union is not kuown to ‘a certainty, but the leaders claim that about 80 per cent. of the miners are organized. The union men do not an- ticipate any difficulty in inducing the un- organized miners to strike. The coal basins extend overan area of ahout 470 square miles and are distributed throughout several counties, the more im- portant workings being in Luzerne, Lacka- wanna, Schuylkill, Carbon; and Northum- berland counties. If all the veins were located in the one place they would occupy a space about twenty miles long and alittle less than twenty-four mileslong. The coal seams vary from six to twenty feet in thickness. The districts are known as No. 1, comprising upper Luzerne and Lacka- wanna; No. 7, comprising Hazleton and the upper Schuylkill region, and No. 9. comprising Shamokin and a portion of the Schuylkill region. The average production from the entire district is 75,000,000 tons a year. In the mines in the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley districts, 80,000 men and boys are employed. Of these 50,000 are distributed through the workings lying between Pittston, in Luzerne connty, and Forest City, in Susquehanna county. There are 25,000" employes in the mines in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Ashley, Xan- ticoke, Plymouth and Wanamie, 15,000 about Hazleton, 20,000 at Mahanoy City and Shenandoah and 23,000 around Shamo- kin, Pottsville and Mount Carmel. The closing of the mines is expected to reduced the regular coal production 75 per cent., leaving free only the Reading Coal and Iron company’s production of 20.5 per cent. of the total output of the region and 5.65 per cent. of the Lehigh Valley’s pro- duction. Should the strike continue over a period of two months, the loss in wages will amount to $84,000,000; loss to rail- roads, $20,000,000, and to mine operators, $20,000,000. = Officers of the miners’ union estimate that the organization has a cash balance of $1,000,000 in the treasury with which to conduct the strike. In their demands the miners ask the correction of ‘many evils, the more im- portant of which are the following : ‘Abolition of the company stores, reduc- tion in the price of powder to $1.50 per keg, abolition of company doctors, = semi- monthly payment of wages, abolition of the sliding scale, wages paid in cash, 2,240 pounds to the ton, an advance of 20 per cent. in wages less than $1.50 and not ex- ceeding $1.75 a day, that ‘all classes of labor now receiving $1.50 and not exceed- ing $1.75 shall receive 15 per cent. over present wages, that all day labor now re- ceiving $1.75 shall be advanced 10 per cent., that no miner shall have at any time more than one breast, gang or other class of work and shall get only his legal share of cara. : Real Estate Transfe Transfers: The following real estate transfers have been recorded during the past week by Recorder N. E, Robb: cv sl Tyrone Mining and Manufacturing Co,, to Samuel Rudy, dated May 3rd, 1900. 77 perches .in Ferguson: Twp. Considera- tion hi vrei } palin ald janis P. Keichline et ux to John Shiffer dated June 2nd, 1859. Lot in Ferguson Twp. Consideration $100. Ms is Daniel K. Geiss et nx to D. W. Geiss dated Sept. 5th, 1900. Lot in Centre Hall Boro. Consideration $1,000. D. W. Geiss to Sarah C. Geiss dated Sept 5th. 1900. Lot in Contre Hall bor- ough. Consideration $1,000. Margarette. Maher to Michael Fahey dated March 6th, 1900. } acre in Snow Shoe Twp. Consideration $1,000. Robert Whitehill’s heirs to D. E. Hep- ler dated Aug. 10th, 1900. 5 acres, 72 erches in College Twp. Consideration 1,400. 4 { Go : Tyrone Mining and Manufacturing Co., to Jacob Harpster dated May 3rd, 1900. 25 acres in Ferguson Twp. Consideration $230.63. : : ‘ ——Dr. I. N. Bush, the veterinarian, has located again in Bellefonte and will have head-quarters at the Palacelivery. He is pager contract for services in the Reynolds stables. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. ——Th € country is being plastered with bills advertising the great Centre county fair next month. a — ——Choiera infantum caused the death of seven weeks old Joseph Walter, at the ‘| home ‘ot his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Walter, at Pleasant Gap, last Thursday morning. ee ——D. Wagner Geiss, of Centre Hall, has accepted the position of book-keeper in E. K. Rhoads’ coal office in this place, made vacant by the resignation of William Dorworth, who has entered State College. rs ——Rev. D. E. Vishanoff, of Thessalon- ica, Macedonia, a son of a nobleman, will appear in his Macedonian dress, on Sun- day morning, inthe Evangelical church and give an address. He will also sing in the Macedonian and Greek languages. ——Bishop R. D. Dubs, of Chicago, head of the United Evangelical church spent Tuesday night at the Bush house in this place. He was on his way to Mill- heim to attend the Bible conference in ses- sion there. There are about seventy min- isters present. ——In order to give more attention to his lumber interests Ellis Shaffer has sold his mail route from Millheim to Madison- burg to Charles Rachau. Mr. Shaffer took his wife to Williamsport yesterday, there to enter the hospital for an operation that is hoped will give her relief from the nervous troubles with which she has sul- fered so constantly for several years past. oe ——The Coleville band will hold a festi- val on the North ward school grounds on Saturday evening and if one fourth of the people who have enjoyed their weekly con- certs this summer were to turn out the boys would realize a nice sam. It is the duty of every Bellefonter to patronize them. They have contributed more to the public pleasure this summer than any musical or- ganization we ever had and Bellefouters of every class should patronizeit. You will be treated nicely and your contribution, no matter how small, will be thoroughly ap- preciated by the boys. er —— Last Sunday morning Mrs. Theresa Tate, while standing on the porch at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Beezer, on Howard street, hecame unconscious and fell off the steps onto the stone pavement and hart her hip so seriously that the doc- tors are not positive yet about the extent of her injuries. She had been at the Metho- dist church and during the service felt faint and thought she would go over to her daughter’s, who lives just across the street, and rest awhile before attempting to go home. She tried the door and found if locked and had just turned to go around to the side entrance when she fell. Mr. Harshberger and several people, who were just leaving the church, saw the accident and hastened to ber assistance. They found that she was badly hurt and lifting her into Mrs. Rothrock’s carriage, which was standing nearby, took her at once to her home on Bishop street. None of her bones were broken but her bruises pain her constantly. = She’ was reported as being better yesterday: THE EPWORTH LEAGUE RALLY AT SPRING MILLs.—Those who attended the Epworth League rally at Spring Mills last Thursday, we feel sure, were greatly ben- fited thereby. We trust that everyone went away from the meeting more thought- ful and earnest in God’s work. We feel ‘that the League work must have received a new impulse, when we remember with what clearness and force the work of the first three departments was brought to our attention. The talks given by the visit- ing pastors were in a spirit that could not fail to aronse enthusiasm. On the whole, it was such a meeting as was necessary to the prosperity of the work. We are sorry that some of the Leaguers were absent, but hope that they may be able to attend our rally of 1901, to be held at Centre Hall on the last Wednesday in August. ® ee QR INTERESTING © COUNTY STATISTICS.— Commissioner’s clerk Boyd A. Musser re- cently made his certified returns to the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the follow- [ing interesting statistics of Centre county. They show the entire amount of taxes collected or worked out for the mainte- nance of State, county, ward, borough and township governments ; the total ‘amount collected for the support of the ‘poor ; the’ total amount collected for the construc- tion and repairs of streets, roads and bridges ; the’ amount . collected : for school purposes ; the amount colleoted on person- al property, on occupations and licenses ; the amount collected on the real estate of railroad corporations ; the amount colle ct- ed on the real estate other than railroads, including limited partnerships in the county of Centre, between the first day of June, 1899, and the 31st of May, 1900, made pursuant to the Act of Assembly ap- proved the ninth day of May, A. D. 1889. FIRST DIVISION. Showing the amount of taxes collected in the county for all purposes. For the support of poor For the construction and repa streets, roads and bridges......... ia For schools and school purposes (not inclnding i ABproprint on received 41,886.38 65,606.95 from the oes ca rnrneamraraseservase: O3y00,13 For any purpose not embraced mm above v items, whether the same be State, = county or local taxes..........tsarsnisrnenees 72,903.32 Total amount of taxes collected for all purposes, as set forth above............. 243,696.78 | SECOND DIVISION. Showing a specific return of all taxes on the subjects named : sl Se , Taxes collected on personal property 16,433.96 Taxes collected on ‘occupations............ © 9,493.83 Taxes collected on licenses of all kinds including wholesale and retail liquor c aessasssraebseriasssri neers us ssinsyavesenien Taxes collected on the real estate of rail corporations........... hrsssashbnschd ’ Taxes collected on the real estate of Sorpearioug other than railroads, in- lading limited partnerships.......... 518.94 11,404.24 KURTZ -HEXSYL.—On Wednesday, Sept. 12th, 1900, at 6 o’clock p. m. a very pret- ty wedding ceremony was performed at Howard. It uanited in marriage Miss “Annie Hensyl and Dr. Walter J. Kurtz. The bride, who is the youngest daughter of the late Dr. L. R. and Sarah E. Hensyl, is a very beautiful and accom- plisbed young lady. The groom, a physi- cian and surgeon, is the youngest child of Isaac and Catharine Kurtz, of Williams- port, Pa., and is a graduate of the Medico- Chirargical College of Philadelphia, and for some time practiced his profession in Williamsport. After the death of the bride’s father, Dr. L. R. Hensyl, which oc- curred Jan. 1st, 1900, he came to Howard and made arrangements to take up the practice laid down by his predecessor. He occupied the same office and boarded with the family. Being thus thrown together, the friendship which was first formed ripen- ed into love, with the wedding as the happy denouement. The ceremony took place in the beauti- ful Hensyl home on Main street and was witnessed by about 125 guests. The house was very prettily decorated with palms, rubber plants, fern, etc. The presents re- ceived were both numerous and valuable. The supper which was served to the guests after the ceremony was such as only Mrs. Hensyl and her daughters know how to prepare. At the appointed hour Miss Maud Hop- kins, an accomplished musician, was es- corted to the piano by Roger T. Bayard, of Bellefonte, and to the sweet strains of Lohengrin the wedding party slowly marched to its place. It was led by Ches- ter Moore and Logan McKinney, ribbon boys, followed by W. C. Hensyl—Miss Susie Kurtz and Dr. Lamade and Miss Fay Heim, then came Dr. Bixler, of Lock Hav- en, best man, and Miss Louise Hensyl, the bride’s sister.maid of honor, Maude Thom- as flower girl, and closely following them came the bride and groom, with Geo. S. Hensyl as their page. Rev. I. N. Bair, the Evangelical minister, met them and per- formed the ceremony that joined them for life. At its conclusion an informal re- ception was held, which was followed by the wedding supper. They left on an evening train for points in the east, but owing to the poor health of the bride they will be compelled to shorten their trip, which was originally planned to be quite an extended one. Dr. Lamade of Williamsport, has been left in charge of Dr. Kurtz’s extensive practice during his absence. The bride’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Heim Hensyl, was the only daughter of Rev. William and Lydia Heim, of Lebanon, Pa.. her parental grand-father being one of the pioneers of Upper Mahony township. Mr. Isaac Kurtz, the groom’s father is a prominent contractor and’ builder of Wil- liamsport,at which place he has resided for the last thirty years. He is now retired from active work and is enjoying the rest he so richly deserves. * —— Gl MARRIAGE LicENsES.—Following is the list of marriage licenses granted by or- phan’s court clerk, A. G. Archey, dur- ing the past week : Wm. Fryer and Bessie M. Rote, both of Coburn. Steve Olay and Lizzie Lengal, both of Clarence. Jerome H. Auman and Anna Bradford, both of Centre Hall. Daniel DeHaas and Emeline Houdeshell, both of Roland. . Frank Gross, of State College, and Lillie Way, of Loveville. John L. Burkett and Ollive B. Mattern, both of Stormstown. : Nelson W. Williams and Minnie E. Houtz, both of Lemont. Walter J. Kurtz and Annie I. Hensyl, both of Howard. — ——W. Gross Mingle, only son of Wm. B. Mingle Esq., of Centre Hall, who has been assistant cashier in the Penns-valley bank for some time, has resigned his posi- | tion and after October 18t will become as- sociated with the Wilson Bros. in their ex- tensive creamery enterprises in the county. It they succeed in purchasing the Thomas lot, on North Thomas street along the P. R. R. tracks, which they are trying to get now, they will build a large cold storage house here and Gross will become the resi- dent manager of it. Such an enterprise is ‘something that has been greatly needed in ‘Bellefonte for years and we hope this firm contemplates conducting it on a scale wide ‘enongh to bring the country trade to Belle- fonte that it should rightfally control. Aside from the advantage to be gained it will give us a bright and progressive young resident in the person of Mr. Mingle. I THE ACADEMY RE-OPENING.-The open- ing of the Academy on Tuesday was the largest in the history of the school. Many students are’ yet to come, indicating, sure- ly, that the coming year will he a banner ODEs AT 4 eh Of the graduate students at the Academy, Charles Armsby, Earnest Armsby, Addams MacDonald and William Merrey enter State College ; Edward Miller and Robert Van Valzah enter Princeton University ; Walter Wood and Frank Sebring go to Lafayette ; Steven Van Tassel will attend Temple College, Philadelphia, while Miss Jane Harris will be enrolled at Wellesley. These are facts that speak forcibly for the merits of the Academy. It is, indeed, a school worthy of our support. — The ninth annual convention of the Keystone League of Christian Endeavorers of the United Evangelical church of Cen- tral Pennsylvania which has been in ses- sion at Millheim since Tuesday will ad- journ to-day.
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