a 1 i ~arpo P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ep11oR Teese or Susscriprion.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subseribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance......cccoevvveees , Paid before expiration of year......... Paid after expiration of year............ an 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. FOB CONGRESSMEN-AT-LARGE, = ‘ HARRY E. GRIMM, Bucks County. N. M. EDWARDS, Lycoming County. FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS-AT-LABGE, 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. Po HALL: Democratic County Ticket. ld J. H. WETZEL, For Assembly—1 3° Ww. KEPLER, For Jury Commissioner— FREDERICK ROBB. Democratic Meetings. Woodward, Tuesday, October 23rd. Rebersburg, Wednesday, October 24th. Millheim, Thursday, October 25th. Ripka’s school house, Gregg township, Friday, October 26th. Stover's school house, Miles township, Monday, October 20th. Madisonburg, Tuesday, October 30th. Colyer, Wednesday, October 31st. Pine Creek school house, Haines town- township, Wednesday, October 31st. Spring Mills, Thursday, November 1st. Murray school house, Gregg township, Friday, November 2nd. Afraid to Tell Where they Stand. Whatever else the Republicans of this county may be doing as campaign work they are not loading the voters down with reasons why they should support either ArLLisox or THoMPsoN. From the day their names were placed upon the ticket, by order of ex-Governor, HASTINGS, until this time no one has heard a single reason ad- vanced why any voter should cast his bal- lot for them. True, they are both reputable and re- spected citizens. ‘They may be excellent neighbors and good companions, but these, alone, do not fill the bill when i comes to representing an intelligent coustituency. People want to know what mean, who as- pire to be their representatives, will do before voting for them. They don’t send men to Harrisburg to look wise, draw their salaries and vote contrary to their wishes. There will be important questions before the Legislature at the coming session and the eight thousand voters of Centre county have a right to know how those whom they elect as Representatives will vote on such questions. The Democratic nominees are not afraid to tell the people just what they will de. They will be against QUAY in his effort to return to the United States Senate. They will be against a reduction of the common school appropriations. , They will be against legislative junkets and the squandering of the public money. They will be against the Republican state ring and all of its rotten measures. They will be for ballot reform, for tax reform and for reform of every department about Harrisburg. . But what can you expect of ALLISON and THOMPSON, if elected ? Have they told you where they stand on any question? Even the platform upon which they were placed when nominated, pledged them to nothing. The only pledges any one has beenable to get out of them are the ones made to HasT- 1NGS and REEDER that they would vote as they wished them to, and’ would refuse to enter the Republican caucus if Senator QUAY’S name should be presented in it as a candidate. ¥ oF That they are against QUAY is the only thing that any one knows of either of their views. And neither of them have the frankness or manliness to tell their own people where they stand on these questions. Are men who are afraid or unwilling to let the voters know their opinion or their purposes the kind of men who should be chosen to represent an intelligent constit- wency. ! You will know exactly what your repre- ‘sentatives will do if you vote for Messrs KrrLER and WETZEL, for the reason that they are both honest, honorable gentlemen who would scorn to deceive anyone. You don’t know a thing that ALLISON or THOMP- s0N will do, unless you can force the wishes and demands of DANIEL HARTMAN Hastings. They are running as his rep- resentatives—not as the representatives of the people of the county. ; An Attempt that Decent People Re- pudiate. : The smallest thing in politics that has cropped out in this campaign is the effort of the Philadelphia Press to hold Congress- man HALL responsible for the beer-drink- ing and Sunday picnics of the Huns, Italians and other foreign-born laborers of Trust Prices. The trusts have dealt hard with the workingmen. There are but few of the thous- ands of trusts that now curse the country, that have increased the wages of those they employ, while everyone of them have raised the prices of the articles they put upon the market. Then while the workingmen gets but LITTLE more for his day’s wages, he is charged MUCH more for everything he has to buy. . Here are sixteen articles that go into the homes of every day-laberer, every mechanic and every workingman in the country. The aggregate increase in the price of these, under the rule of the trusts, is 50 per cent. Is there a workingman in this broad country whose wages have been increased in like proportion ? Flour, Per Dag. ...c.oeevrunree covivnanesnanns $2.15 to $2.75 ; increase about 27 per cent. Sugar,per 1b....eccenieciiiniiiiiiiiinee. 5to 7; increase ahout 40 per cent. Oil, per gal......ceecvreeniiiiiiieiiiinnnennnnns 12 to 15; increase about 25 per cent. CIOtHEB... .peecerrursreeasinsrssse- sansuansranses — — ; increase about 25 per cent. Tobacco, per lb........ R aiteisaresie alerneses 238 to 38; increase about 36 per cent. Soup meat, per Ib... inne. 9 to 14; increase about 56 per cent. Veal, per 1bo..c. covet rennnnnninnnin WE 12to 16 ; increase about 33 per cent. Beefsteak, per Ib......cc.ooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnne 12 to 16 ; increase about 33 per cent. Ham, per 1b......cceeeiviiiiiiieniiiiiiinnnnnns 11te 15; increase about 35 per cent. Crackers, per 1h. c..oooeiiiiiniinnninniineees : 5 to 10 ; increase about 100 per cent. Condensed milk, 3 cans for 25c., 2 cans : BOP. ifits.siennssinsnsarassaressisesnane 25 ; increase about 50 per cent. Shoes advanceed........... ccceeerrencneeenns — — ; increase about 30 per cent. Rubber boots, per pair, from............... 2.25 to 3.25 ; increase about 44 per cent. Stove coal, per toN.........ccceeviee en cee 1.50 to 2.50 ; increase about 62 per cent. Chestnut coal, per ton..........cccoeeuuennene 1.00 to 2.50 ; increase about 150 per cent. Ginghams, per yard.................. Jitearuse 5to 8; increase about 60 per cent. Increase in living eXPenses .........cccceerieieieiionisnnisanionns Ssusiss Visvenets 50 per cent. INCrease in WAZES .....civererrrseiieieraniitaienisiriestiniiieesnisssnnsesans Garneeveend i ————————— : —— — his district. Wednesday of last week one BRYAN IN NEW YORK. of its staff correspondents who had been sent out to find weak spots in Mr. HALL’S personal actions and opposition to his official record, made his report. In the entire district through which he had nosed with the persistency of a hound-pup, he could not get trail of a complaint nor scent of an objection. Not having the courage to tell the truth, or the fairness to admit the facts, as he found them, he fell back upon the customs of the foreign-born work- ingmen, who, under the rule of Republi canism, have been imported into this conn- try, and charged the Democratic candidate for Congress with responsibility for the Sunday beer-guzzling and picnick- ing that it so universal among them. If the voters of this section of the State were the idiots or. fanatics the Press must imagine them to be; if they did not under- stand the utter absurdity of attempting to hold the employers of labor responsible for the morals and customs of their employees; if they did not recognize the fact that no individual can be held accountable for the acts or beliefs of those over whom he bas no control; if they did not know Mr. HALL; if he had not lived within the dis- trict and associated with its people during his entire life; if its churches, and charities, and moral influences bad never received encouragement or support from him, and if his every effort, from the days, when as a boy, he ran bare-footed about Mileshurg until the present, when he is recognized as one of the most responsible, influential and prominent business men of the State, there might have been hope that people would | take some stock in its untruthful insinua- ion. As itis,it simply shows the depths to | which some pretended respectable journals can descend, and the hopelessness of the cause that it was intended to give life to. It is but justice to the Republican senti- | He arriped in the Metropolis at 2.55 o'clock Tues- day Afternoon. His Reception an Emphatic Ova- = tion—The Sidewalks Were Lined with the Populace. Vast Audience In Madison Square Barden. Col- onel Bryan Entered It at 1.15 O'Clock, and as He Mounted the Speaker's Stand the Cheering Was Continuous— Do What He Could, Mr. Croker Could Not Silence the Crowd—After Nearly Fifteen Min- utes of Cheering, the Applause Began to Subside— The Enthusiasm Nearly Carried the Crowd Away. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—W. J. Bryan ar- rived in this city at 2 55 o'clock to-day. His reception was an emphatic ovation. As t he train steamed into the annex of the Grand Central depot that part of the im- menee building was packed with a waiting multitude. Colonel Bryan was driven to the Hoffman House in an open carriage, in which he sat next to Richard Croker, and, with uncovered head, howed and smiled to the crowds that cheered him. Forty-sec- oud street presented an animated scene. From Lexington avenue on one side to Sixth avenue on the other the sidewalks were lined with the populace. About 2 o'clock Captain Price, oi the Grand Central station, Fegan to take ac- tive measures to open a passageway for the Tammany Hall reception committee to the depot. A squad of twenty mounted po- licemen cleared Forty-second street and about sixty more pelicemen under Captain Price marched to the annex and established police lines, beyond which the crowd could not go. At 2.35 o'clock a loud cheer went up and the open carriages, containing the Tam- many Hall reception committee, rode to the -annex.. William R. Hearst lead the ! way, followed by. Richard Croker, O. H. P. Belmont, ‘president of the borough ; James Coogan, James Shevlin, Leads Nixon, Lawrence Delmour and about a dozen others. were given. Three cheers for Croker BESEIGED BY CROWDS. For hours before the time set for the opening of the doors, 5.30 o’clock, Madison : Square Garden, where Bryan and the head | of the state Democratic ticket, John B. | Stanchfield, spoke, was heseiged hy crowds. | At 1 o'clock, at least 1,000 people were in the amphitheatre, and gained admission on tickets which had been distributed and San Jose, but it is probable that the re- ment of the district to say that it in- | dignantly repudiates this contemptible ef- ! fort of the Press, and in place of encourag- ing the maudlin lie it attempts to give birth to, is so out-spoken and denunciatory of it that not a respectable paper of that | which were given precedence even over box seat tickets. About 200 men from the different city departments were on hand to act as ushers, and at 5 o’clock the police details arrived. DID NOT APPEAR DEMONSTRATIVE. party in the district has copied, quoted from or referred to it. Almost Escaped from the Jail. Attempt to Rescue Prisoners Charged With Counter- feiting in Elk County. Six priseners, bound hand and foot with ropes, shackled and handcuffed, were land-- ed in the Pittsburg jail Sunday night by Deputy United States Marshal W. 8. Blair, of DuBois, assisted by W. O. Stoy and E. H. Cameron. They were arrested two weeks ago, part of them at a deserted lumber camp nine miles from Pennfield, Clearfield county. Two are charged with making counterfeit money and the others with attempting to pass spurious coin. Those charged with having molds and making the coin were James Wyncoop and his wife, Laura, and the others, Verd Wil- son, Marcus Freedman, Leland Hyde and C. W. Bigler. All had heen bound over by United States Commissioner G. G. Messenger, together with two others in the | same party. The prisoners have been confined for the past 10 days in the new jail at Ridgway, Elk county, and if they and their confeder- | ate on the outside had been allowed 10! minutes more time on Sunday evening they would have made their escape. De- puty Sheriff Joseph May, of Elk county, abont 6 o'clock Sunday evening, noticed a man loitering near the rear of the jail, who walked away at the approach of the deputy sheriff. Shortly before 9 o’clock in the even- ing May saw the same man at the window of the jail and going to him ordered him away. : “I did not know there was anything wrong in talking to the prisoners,”’ mut- tered the man as he moved off. s— It was discovered yesterday that he had been very busy while at the window. He had cut out a pane of glass, handed in saws to the prisoners, all of whom were allowed the freedom of the corridor, and then had sawed completely through one bar in two places and was evidently just about to re- move it when interrupted. The prisoners had also improved their time and sawed away at two of the other bars, but desisted when their would-be rescuer was driven away. It was with relief that Blair turned them over to Warden Soffel’s custody Sun- day night, pr An Hill to Talk at Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—Former Senator David B. Hill, of New York, it is unoffi- cially announced at Democratic National Headquarters in this city, will take an active part in the presidentiai campaign in the West. At the request of the Cook county Democratic committee, Senator Hill has consented to make an address at a meeting to be held in Chicago, Oct. 13th. He will also be the principal speaker at the meet- ing of Oct. 19th. Between those dates, Senator Hill will make several addresses at various towns in Indiana. ~——Subscribé for the WATCHMAN, ! The crowd did not appear at first to be demonstrative. When the lights were all turned on there came a brief cheer. The | big semi-circular electrical display over | the speakers’ stand bore the portraits of the two Democratic candidates, the Demo- cratic emblem and the Democratic wateh- word, credited to Mr. Croker, ‘‘We Wish to Remain Free People,’”’ in great letters of light. Then the band struck up a vational air, and, as the people recognized ‘‘Yankee Doodle,” they got up in their seats, with | uncovered heads, and as they waved thous- i ands of small American flags, shouted out the words of the song. The garden was decorated in the national colors only. Streamers radiated from the centre of the roof, underneath the sky- light, to the heads of the iron pillars over the galleries, and festoons of flags, with the colors of different states, lined the gal- !leries. The speakers’ stand was draped simply with American flowers and with the red, white and blue. Colonel Bryan entered the garden at 7.15 ! o'clock. As the face of Mr. Croker, be- hind which appeared Colonel Bryan’s, was seen, the erowd burst forth in one pro- longed yell. Everyone stood tiptoe on his seat and the garden was a sea of waving flags. As Colonel Bryan, escorted by Mr. Croker, mounted the speakers’s stand, the cheering was continuous. The two climbed the stairs and made their way to the front, led by the reception committee. Bryan and Mr. Croker frequently respond- ed to the cheering by bowing to the vast audience, and: the faces of both were wreathed with smiles. : The enthusiasm nearly carried thecrowd away. The throng at the Madison avenue end of the garden jammed down the aisles t i | and the sixty cdd policemen at that point Engl to do sincere battle with the crowd to keep it under control. | When quiet was restored Mr. Croker rose, took Mr. Shepard by the hand and introduced him to the audience as chair- man of the meeting. SHEPARD COULD NOT PROCEED. Before Mr. Shepard could get into the subject of ‘Imperialism,”’ to which most of his address was devoted, the crowd got so impatient to hear Colonel Bryan that Mr. Shepard could not pro- Colonel Bryan stepped to thé railing afresh into cheers. He raised his hand for silence, but the cheers did not subside. Colonel Bryan was dressed simply in the black suit, with a short sack coat. ~ “Three cheers for our next President came from the audience, Colonel Bryan raising his hand in deprecation. FLASHLIGHT BOMB WENT OFF. The crowd was ahout to become quiet when with a boom and a flash of fire a flashlight bomb went off in centre of the room. Women shrieked and the crowd yelled, not knowing what it was. There moment, and calls for the police. A dozen policemen rushed to the spot where the Mr. | about the stand, as the throng broke; was great excitement and disorder for a man sat who bad fired the bomb, grabbed | him and hustled him and his camera out inta the aisle and out of the garden. Colonel Bryan had stood quietly at the rail on the platform. There was another attempt to renew the cheering, but hisses greeted it, and Colonel Bryan commenced speaking. He began quietly, his voice scarcely aud- ible a hundred feet away from the stand, but he gradually spoke louder, and in a moment his voice conld be heard in’ the gallery. The crowd was quiet for a time, but, when the speaker declared that the Democratic party recognized the right of ahility, of mind and muscle to the fruits of ee toil, the crowd broke forth into cheer- ng. BRYAN CONCLUDED HIS SPEECH AT 9. Colonel Bryan concluded his speech at 9 o'clock precisely, havicg spoken one hour an fifty-one minutes. The crowd rose and cheered as he left the platform in com- pany with Mr. Croker, shaking bands as e jeft. Davis Nails Hanna Lie. Denies Story Of Boer Bribery and Stakes his Repu- tation on Bryan's Election. CUMBERLAND, Md., Oct. 15.—Webster Davis addressed a monster Democratic meeting here to-night, creating the wildest kind of enthusiasm. In an interview he characterized the published statement that he had received $2,500 for his con- Beskion with the Boer war as a malicious ie. “If Mr. Hanna made that statement,” said Mr. Davis, *‘I place him on the list with the other liars. In the first place the Boers had no money, and if ‘they had, no man could have passed out of the Trans- vaal with that much money through the British inspection officers. Hanna bad kissed the bloody British hoots for gold and measures every man by money, but his days are numbered, and his corrupt gang will never be able to buy the people this time. ““They are ‘on to’ Hanna, and Bryan will be elected sure as the sun shines. Sixty days ago I did not think he stood any show; now I stake my reputation on the result.” He said he had denied the bribery story often, it heing a chestout in the town, He further stated that Douglas Story was in neither the Transvaal nor British govern- ment, as the British would not allow him to go there. Americans Ambushed. Filipinos Attack a Scouting Party of the Forty-Third Regiment. MANILA, October 14, via Hong Kong, October 16.—A detachment of twenty men of the Twenty-fourth regiment, while en- gaged in repairing telegraph wires, October 10, at a point near San Jose, Nuevo Ecija province, Isle de Lazon, were set upon hy 200 rebels aud were overpowered and scat- tered. Seven of the Americans reached mainder were captured. The enemy surprised a party of scouts of the Forty-third infantry at a point three miles from Takloban, Leyte island, killing three of the Americans at the first volley. Two escaped and gave the alarm, but the enemy succeeded in evading their pursuers. The native police of Takloban had conspir- ed to surprise the Americans. The bodies of the dead soldiers were hadly mutilated. Pettigrew Challenges Hanna. Ready for a Joint Debate in South Dakota or Else- where. Sioux FALLs, S. D., Oct. 15.—8enator Pettigrew today issued a public challenge to Senator Hanna for a joint debate in South Dakota or elsewhere, on the subject of trusts, armor plate contracts and the gov- ernment’s policy in Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. WILL PAY NO ATTENTION WHATEVER. CHICAGO, Oct. 9—Senator Hanna said this afternoon that he will pay no atten- tion whatever to Senator Pettigrew’s chal- lenge for a joint debate. Receiving no Opposition. TiEN TsiN, Oct. 15th, via Shanghai, Oct. 16.—The expedition against Pao Ting Fu had met with’ no opposition up to Oct.’ 14th. Reports received ‘ by courier say that a column of 500 French, marching to Hsien Hsien to relieve a party of French priests, met with no opposition in the six days’ march to the South. The Fourth brigade of the British is now arriving. The Americans have evacu- ated the arsenal, which has been turned over to the provisional city government. ‘Pittsburg Plumbers Strike. PITTSBURG, Oct. 3.—Fifteen hundred journeymen plumbers, employed by 115 firms in Pittsburg, struck today for uni- form wages and a revision of the rules gov. erning the trade. All the shops owned by members of the Master Plumbers’ Associa- tion are affected. | Real Estate Transfers. The following real estate transfers have been recorded during the past week by Re- corder N. E. Robb : C. S. Garbrick et ux to H. L. Trucken- miller, dated Sept. 6, 1900; 9 acres, 106 perches, in Walker Twp. Consideration, $575.00. Tarp : George W. Hollabaugh et ux to John H, Leech, dated Oct. 10, 1900; 165 acres, 140 perches, in Harris Twp. Consideration, Eugene A. High to William J. Potts, dated Feb 12, 1900; 217 acres in Howard Twp. Consideration, $1.00. : David Keller et ux to Annie Patterson, dated July 17, 1900; 4,950 square feet in Harris Twp. Consideration, $300.00 James C. Showers et ux to F. S. Wells, dated Oct. 15, 1900; 3 lots in Walker Twp. Consideration, $1,100.00. er ——————— ADDITIONAL LOCALS. ——Messrs Fiedler & Swartwood, of Tylersville, have purchased a saw mill and expect to go to work on the Gramley tract in Miles township at once. see AA emesis. A UNIONVILLE Boy SHOT.—While hunt- ing on Muncy mountain, in the vicinity of his home at Unionville, Quinter Under- wood, was accidentally shot by the dis- charge of a gun in the hands of Ralph Van Valin. The boys were hunting together when the accident occurred. Van Valin is 16 years old and Underwood 18. The load of shot entered his back, but he was not seriously hurt. He was able to be ont on Tuesday. —— Lyon & Co. are receiving new car- pets, mattings and oil cloths. Mgs. JouN H. Orvis.—Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Orvis, widow of the late Judge John H. Orvis, died at her home on east Linn street on Friday evening, after along illness. It is more than a year ago that her health began to fail and, accompanied by her entire family, she went to Philadel- phia to consult a specialist and undergoan operation, if necessary. It was not deemed advisable though, and she returned home only to find that her improvement was but temporary and to endure months of suffer- ing with the most cheerful courage. Mis. Orvis was a native of Salona, Clin- ton county, where she was born Oct. 14th, 1833. A daughter of Origen and Jane Jagger Atwood, she inherited to a notice- able degree the family characteristies of a pleasing personality and intellectual in- clinations. On April 23rd, 1856, she was united in marriage to .John Holden Orvis, then a young lawyer just starting in Lock Haven but who, soon afterwards, was rec- ognized as one of the best known lawyers of the Centre county bar and who was pres. ident judge of the district from ’74 to ’83, when he resigned. In December, 1862, she came with him and their family to Belle- foute and has had her home here ever since. A woman of refinement, of quiet courteous ways, personal charm, and both mental -and social ability, she was proniinently identified with the W. C. T. U. and most of the benevolent organizations of the town. She was‘a member of the Christian church and as there is no church of that denomination here she attended the Pres- byterian and took a helping interess in its work. But above and beyond all her other interests was her family—her thought of it and her pleasure in it. Judge Orvis passed away Nov. 6th, 1893, and of their five children four are living, Jennie, Mrs. A. E. Canfield, of Wyncote; Ellis L., Annie, Mrs. Harry Keller, and Miss Caroline A., of Bellefonte. Of her father’s family her brother, Nathan L. Atwood, of Girard, Erie county, is living. Rev. Dr. Laurie, of the Presbyterian church, conducted the funeral. services which were held at her home on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment was made in the Union cemetery with the fol- lowing pall-bearers : Former Governor D. H. Hastings, Col. J. L. Spangler, C. M. Bower, D. F. Fortney, Dr. R. G. H. Hayes, James Harris, J. Howard Lingle, and John Ardell. I I IN MEMORIAM: —Alexander Irwin Hen- derson was horn in Baltimore, March 4th, 1816, and died at Howard, in this county, Oct. 11th, 1900. Mr. Henderson’s father was John Hen- derson, whose wife was Charlotte Cochran, both of Baltimore. Miss Cochran’s father dying when she was but a child, she found a home with her grandfather, Alexander Irwin, adding his name to her own, and becoming a favorite with that fine old gen- tleman, who was of Scotch birth and a large geueral merchant of Baltimore. In the course of business and to save a large debt, Mr. Irwin became possessor of Wash- ington Furnace, in Clinton county, just east of the Centre county line, by sheriff’s sale. In course of time and through Mr. Irwin’s estate, the property passed into the hands of his favorite grand-daughter and her husband, John Henderson, and in May, 1820, they moved out from Baltimore and took possession. John Henderson died in 1853, and his heirs sold the property to the Fallous in 1854. In the meantime the subject of the sketch, Alexander Henderson, had married Miss Catharine Essington, of Milesburg, and upon the sale of the furnace, in 1854, moved to Nittany Hall, then called Coverly Hall, and four years later moved to How- ard, which has since been his home. Alexander was a bright youth, and when old Mr. Irwin, who was very fond of him, died he left a legacy of $10,000 for the purpose of educating him for the Episcopal ministry, and this was carried out at Mt. Hope Institate, in Baltimore. The young man’s tastes, however, were in the direc- tion of business, rather than the ministry, and he was never ordained. Mr. Henderson was of a retiring disposi- tion, and a thoughtful, well-read, scholar- ly gentleman of the old school, always courteous, polite and considerate. Con- cerning religions matters he was quite liberal in his views, and in politics was a Jacksonian Democrat, who never swerved nor faltered. Mr. Henderson was a soldier of stainless record in the war of the rebellion, and a member of the Grove Brothers Post of Howard, whose members, in uniform, gently bore him to the grave. The honorary pall-bearers Wm. A. J. Gardner, Thomas Butler, B. F. Shaffer, William P. Lucas, D. P. McKinney, and J. Z. Long. = Revs! A. P. Wharton and I. N. Bair conducted the funeral services. : The venerable wife, now nearly seventy- five years of age, and three children, Mrs. Jane N. Lauth, and William Bigler, of Howard, and Edwin Gorgas, of Winber, Somerset Co., survive him, and two, Mrs. Josephine Latham and Harry Irwin, pre- ceded him to the beyond. Clinton county papers please copy. od fl I : Cyrus B. ERHARD.——A stroke ol apo- plexy caused the death of Cyrus B. Erhard * at his home in Rebersburg, last Friday morning. He had always been a sickly man and seemed to have more than his share of trouble to bear, but he was brave under affliction and died steadfast in the Lutheran faith. i 2 Deceased was born August 24th, 1844, and was 56 years old. He married Catha- rine Brungatt in September, 1866, and their union was blessed with five children : Clyde, in Ohio; Mrs. Rose Hackman, Mrs. Sara Bierly and Lulu, of Rebersburg; and Mrs. Delphia Wynn, of Perth, Kansas. Megs. WiILLiAM TANYER.—The death of Mrs. Anna Mary Tanyer, wifeof W. A. Tanyer, at her home at Pine Grove Mills, on Tuesday evening, was not unexpected for she had had a stroke of paralysis ten days previous and from it she never rallied sufficiently to give the slightest hope of her recovery. A woman of few words but numberless acts of kindness and nnselfish- ness she will not only be missed by her family but the entire community in which she lived. Her maiden name was Eakels and she was born in Ferguson township almost sixty-four years ago. When only twenty- one she was married to W. A. Tanyer, who, with seven of their ten children, survives her. They are Mrs. George Graham, Mrs. Milton Shuey, and James D., of State Col- lege, Mrs. Sarab Vaughn, of Somerset, Alec B., of Pittsburg, Mr. W. H. Imboden of Erbtown, and Margaret at home. She was a member of the M. E. church and an earnest, faithfal christian. Her funeral was held yesterday afternoon, with Rev. Aikens officiating. Interment was : made in the cemetery at Pine Grove Mills. i td MRs. JoHN RossMAN.—After nearly two month’s of suffering from the effects of a paralytic stroke Mrs. Elizabeth Rossman, wife of John Rossman, died at her home at Penns Cave, on Saturday morning. She suffered a second stroke on Wednesday of last week and ‘ was unconscious from that time until her death. She was 68 years old and during filty- four years of her useful, devoted life she had been a zealous member of the Reformed church. Surviving her are her husband and the following children: Howard, of Spring Mills; Harvey, of Gregg township: Louis and Josiah, on the old homestead. Such was the esteem in which this good woman was held in the community in which she lived that four ministers and bundreds of sincere mourners attended her burial in the Union cemetery, near Farm- er’s Mills, on Tuesday. I ll I ——William Walker, one of Rebers- burg’s oldest citizens, died at his home in that place last Saturday evening, after an illness that had lasted since July. He was born in Miles township, March 24th, 1816, and in January, 1840, married Miss Polly Smull who preceded him to the grave in 1897. He was a life long Demo- crat and had missed but one election since 1867. His devotion to the Lutheran church was even more zealous and he died in the comfort of that faith. Rev. Rearick, of Centre Hall, officiated at his funeral Wednesday morning. Of the six children surviving these reside in this county. Mrs. Peter Kessler and Mrs. Thomas Walker, of Rebersburg, and Mrs. Maggie Garthoff, of Coburn, tlle oll ——— Randall Sasserman, the eight months old babe of Mr. Mrs. Frank Sasserman, was found dead in its cradle on Monday morning. Though the child had been ill almost since its birth with troubles in the nature of spinal meningitis it did not ap- pear to be any worse than usual when the family retired Sunday evening, consequent- ly the shock to the mother was very great, when she discovered her little one cold m death in going to greet it in the morning. Burial ‘was made on Tuesday afternoon. ll I I ——Park W. Bullock was killed on the Pennsylvania railroad at Wall, near Pitts- burg, last Thursday evening. He was a resident of Snow Shoe, this county, and was 26 years old and unmarried. He was a freight brakeman and it was while mak- ing a switch that he was thrown under the cars and, ground to pieces. His remains passed through this place Saturday morn- ing on their way to Snow Shoe, where in- terment was made at 1 o’clock on Sunday. Viiv ales 5; —— Mary Elizabeth Sortman Wolf died at the home of her mother, Mrs. William Boyer, at State College, at noon on Mon- day. She was 20 years old and had been married less then a year. Funeral services on Wednesday were conducted by Rev. Black and interment was made at Pine Hall. ; I I I ——Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wance, of Re- bersburg, lost a three months old child on Monday. The little one was buried at Aaronsburg on Wednesday. — Recently the water wheel at the Red mill in Potter township refused to go around any more and an investigation dis- closed the fact that it was clogged up by thirty large eels. A ‘slight rain had dis- colored the water and started the eels to running. ——The women of the Methodist Episcopal church are going to give one of their excellent’ suppers next Thursday night. That means, you know, plenty of chicken, hot biscuits, salad, celery, and a much better menu than you could get at home for the money, so do not let the op- portunity go of enjoying a good square meal and ' helping those poor, persistes$ women along. Py mi. ——Lyon & Co's. new box coats in colors, for ladies and misses. — 4 GG re ——At the annual convention of the State Sunday School Association to be held in Altoona, Oct. 23rd to 25th, Centre county will be represented by the follow- ing: Miss Emily Alexander, Rev. G. W. Kerschner, Rev. W. W. Rhoads, Mrs. W. H. Kreamer, Miss Elsie Geiss,Centre Hall; A. Lukenbach, Bellefonte; Rev. C. T. Aikens, Pine Grove Mills; Rev. D. E. Hepler, Lemont ; Rev. A. A. Black, Hon. W. A. Murray, Boalsburg ; Prof. C. L. Gramley, Miss Winifred Wolf, Rebers-
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