Demon Yada,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
smmarmm—
Ink Slings.
— Election day is near at hand,
Mark Hanna's at the throttle,
He'll try to wreck our dear old land
With money or the bottle.
So freemen vote to kill this Czar,
Whose tyranny’s most tryin’
And send the presidential car,
To Lincoln after BRyaxy.
—Don’t trade. :
~Vote for WETZEL; and KEPLER.
— Make no propositions for trades.
Democrats have no reason to trade this
fall.
"Every Democrat has reason to be proud
of the candidates for Legislature. They
are both good men. Vote for them.
—O0ld General Prosperity hasn’t been
doing much marching over the farms of
Centre county during the past four years.
— Probably the reason that Sir THOMAS
LipToN couldn’ preserve the corner he had
in Chicago pork was because he had forgot-
ten to buy up MARK HANNA.
HASTINGS would like to form .a politic-
al trust among the Republicans of Centre
county. That is, he would like them to
trust everything to him. Will they do it?
—Vote next Tuesday for men who were
nominated fair and square by the masses of
their party and not for two who were ap-
pointed by one man “against the wishes of
many others. :
—1If you are offered a vote for BRYAN
for a vote for ALLISON or THOMPSON don’t
make the trade. Any person who wants
to vote for BRYAN will do so from prinei-
ple and you would gain absolutely nothing
by such a deal.
—Tbe friends of ALLISON and THOMP-
soN will have all manner of propositions to
make next Tuesday. Listen to none of
them, Democrats, but vote for two men
who will be your representatives and not
the tools of any one man.
—TIf either THOMPSON or ALLISON should
be elected Centre county will not be repre-
sented in the next Legislature., All the
other counties in the State and DAN
HASTINGS will be represented; but Centre
county will be without representatives.
—ALVORD; the New York banker who
stole $700,000 of bis bauk’s money, couldn’t
have been a man who cared much for little
things. He weighed 300lbs.and it is rea-
sonable to suppose that now that he is be-
hind the bars there will be no Squeezing
out of it.
—Adjntant General CORBIN has just re-
ported that Uncle SAM’S army numbers
98,790 men. During the past year
74 officers and 1,930 men have died, in adsl
dition to the thousands wounded. Tmper-
ialism comes high, both in life and money,
but MARK HANNA and McKINLEY say we
must have it.
—Director MERRIAM of the census
burean has just announced that the popu-
lation of the United States, on June 1st,
1900, was 76,295,220. Two of the most
important individuals to Centre countians,
who are counted in this great multitude,
are Messrs. WETZEL and KEPLER, the
Democratic nominees for Legislature. Vote
for them. ‘
* Piesidont McKINLEY has definitely
promised to attend the launching of the
battleship Ohio at San Francisco next
April. Next April is a long way off and
by that time the President McKINLEY of
today might he back again to the status of
plain WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Canton,
Ohio. In other words, they will have no
use for “‘has beens’’ at thelaunching of the
Ohio next April. :
" —According to the last census’ Centre
county had a population of 43, 190. ar
KEPLER and W ETZEL are elected to the
Legislature each one of these 43,190 per’
sons will be represented at Harrisburg,
but should ALLISON and THOMPSON be |
elected it would be quite different. They
would represent DAN HASTINGS only and
the other 43,189 could whistle, so far as
having any representation is concerned.
~The mivers won every - point they
claimed in the great strike that has" just
been. called off in the anthracite regions.
Their victory was as. much due to the
sympathy gained by conducting themselves
in an orderly. lawful way as by any’ oth-,
er cause. It was a case of right triumpling
over money and might and nex, Tuesday it
will have a parallel, when thé cause of the:
common pzople triumphs over that of aris-
toeracy and piutocmos,
4
—Every Centre ants farmer who peed. !
fertilizer ‘to ‘sow “with his ‘grain this fall
paid a tribute to the fertilizer trus , of $4
on every ton he used. The leaders of the
Republican : party. say, ‘trusts are good,
things. ?’ “Do you thinkiso, farmers, ‘when
you have to pay ‘$1 extra just because’ a
trust controls the fertilizer market. Trusts
might be good things. for those who have
stock in them, but hete is one thatiis not a
very good thing for the fariiier. $0
~—GROVER CLEVELAND was reported, on
Monday, to. have said ‘‘you will ‘see a
landslide for BRYAN on ‘the day after the
election.” This’ significant prophiésy was
supposed to have been made to R. J. BLACK,
a reputable: gentleman ‘of Vinton, : Iowa.
Next day GROVER denied having made such
a prediction abd Mr. BLACK promptly
made affidavit that he did and now it re-
mains to be proven. whether GROVER or
BLACK is the biggest liar. But that has
nothing to do with next Tuesday. There
will be’ a BRYAN land-slide all the same.
| to-day who comm
wields more personal influence than does he.’
term in Congress and |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 45
Prosperity for Trusts Only,
It is a fact that trusts have prospered
under the rule of the Republicans. If is
equally true that aggregated capital em-
ployed in many lines of business has had
large returns. But how about the farmer
or the workingman? These two classes
make up nine-tenths of the population of
the country and if there is general pros-
perity they should have their share.
How have they prospered ?
If you will ask the farmer he will tell
you that he has worked just as hard and
lived as savingly during the past four years
as he has ever done and that his financial
condition is not improved a particle. - In
fact he is worse off now than he was this
time four years ago. His reapers and rakes,
his plows and caltivators, his wagons and
harness, and all of the many implements
he must have are wearing out and must
soon be replaced. To do this, at the prices
trusts have run these articles up to, simply
wipes out all profit he has had from any
increase in the value of his products, and
leaves him nothing additional to show that
there is prosperity in the country. He
has expended nothing on his buildings, —
made no improvements except such as
conld be made with his own labor, has
added nothing to the comforts of his home,
he has taken no time off, nor has he re-
duced his hours of labor, and yet, when he
comes to balance up matters, he is even
worse off than he was four years ago, with
all the boasted prosperity.
Ask him and he will tell you that this is
a fact. The trusts and syndicates may
rs prospered, but not the farmer.
And so it is with the workingman, He
may have had steady employment, but how
about his gains. What has he to show for
his four years of labor under the reign of
McKINLEY and the role of trusts? Has he
bought a little home? Has he been able to
clothe his children comfortably and send
them to school ? Have comforts been added
to the scanty furniture that his wife is
compelled to get along with ? In fact, is his
condition a particle better, or his future
a whit brighter, than it was this time four
years ago ? 2
Ask him and be ill tell you it is not?
“Where then “that WE
hear so much about? The coal oil trust,
the cracker trust, the sugar trust, the flour
trust, the nail truss, the steel truss, and
the hundreds of the other trusts that have
sprung up and fattened under the protec
tion of Republican rule, can answer this
question. :
Is this the kind of prosperity you want?
Are not the people deserving of some little
share of the good things that are going?
Should the masses be enslaved that the Tow
may live like lords? *
These are questions’ you can’ ‘answer uk
your vote on Tuesday nexbT
If you are getting, out of this boasted
prosperity, all that you want; if your con-
dition or prospects eaunot be brightened;
if you are receiving all that your labor or
products are worth, in these times when
trusts are making you pay double for
everything you must have, or if you are |
satisfied to see the few accumulate by. mil-
lions while you toil on for a bare: living,
| you should vote for a continuation off pres
ent conditions.
IF NOT, YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR A CHANGE
AND A CHANCE FOR YOURSELF.
A Faithful Representative.
Democrats, you have a candidate for
‘Congress of whose record you can be proud
—a candidate whom every citizen of the diss
trict, who desires an active, intelligent
representative in Congress, should delight
to vote for. He began life as a bare footed
boy in Milesburg. He has worked; and
{ won his way toa \ position of prominence,
not only in political, but in social, charita-
ble and business cigoles. In thegreat, State
of ‘Pennsylvania there is mo one man,
mands greater respect or
He has served o
has proven himself one of the most efficient,
popular and worfby Representatives the
district has ever had.
‘He was one of the hardest working mem-
bers of Congress fr m the State.
He is liberal and generous to the deserv-
ing, wherever they may be.
any individual in. ‘the district.
His employees t to a man are for him.
‘He never turned man or woman away, if
he could in any manner assist them.
"He never asked a resident of the district
who applied to Bim for aid or influence,
what bis politics yas.
He never tired of serving the people of
his section of the State.
He never forgot the interests of his dis-
trict. #
He' was always’ approachable and at the
service of his constituency. ats
There is no discounting his faithful-
ness, his ability or the fact that he will be
re-elected.
- The people, however, whom he has served |
so faithfully and well, should see to it,that
he is returned by an overwieluing} ma-
aa rer si
jority.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
Unw orthy Aspirants.
The coming session of the Legislature
will be one of most serious importance to
every voter and to every citizen who takes
pride in the welfare and good name of the
Commonwealth. It will be a session at
which a change of registration laws, a
change of election laws, a change of con-
gressional, senatorial and legislative ap-
portionments, a change of tax laws, a change
of the constitution, and a change of official
methods in the several departments at Har-
risburg will all be considered. :
There is not a voter in the county who has
not an interest in some of these proposed
changes. There is not a citizen, whether
he be rich or poor, white or black, who
would not be benefited by them. And yet,
with these important questions pending,
men are asked to vote for Representatives
who refuse to tell where they stand on any
of them.
Up to this date, and it is now within a
few days of the election, neither ALLISON
nor THOMPSON, nor anyone for them,
has pledged their votes on any of ilese re-
forms. It is not because they have not had
an opportunity or been asked to do so, for
this paper has weekly, since their nomina-
tion, called attention to these questions
and asked of them, or those who speak for
them, where they stood and what they
would do when these propositions are
brought hefore the Legislature.
To this day neither one has opened his
mouth on any of these questions. Neither
one has pledged or promised his support
toany reform, whether it relates to the
ballot, to taxation, to public expenditures
or on any other subject. On what they
will do they are as silent as the Phinx.
Possibly, when we consider how they
were nominated and for what purpose they
were made the candidates of the two or
three individuals who put them upon the
Republican ticket, the fact that they will
make no pledges may be to their credit.
They are not their own masters, nor do
they know where they will be or what
they will do when the time comes. They
are the creatures of ex-Governor HAST-
INGS. If elected they will represent him
/ It will not be the people
and his ie. VO
‘of Centre Gonnty that they will ask” what {down to the tounty nominees in return for |
to do, or what is wabted. Tt will be Gov- |
ernor HASTINGS, who will dictate every
action and who will dominate every effort
that they may make.
Are these the kind of Representatives
the tax payers of Centre county want to
send to Harrisburg? Are these the kind
of ‘men that independent, honorable and
fair minded citizens desire to vote for? Are
such tongue-tied, place seekers, who, to get
an office would sink their manhood ‘and
their independence and become the mere
puppets of a boss, fit to represent the voters
of Centre county ? :
We think not, and we believe that your
vote on Tuesday next will say that you
want Representatives who will voice the
sentiment of the people and who would
scorn to be the tool or'creature of any man.
There Has Been No Deception.’
One of the remarkable features of the
campaign that is fast drawing to a close in
this county has been the courteous and
straightforward manner in which all the,
Democratic caudidates have met the issaes
before thém. No one can point out a sin-
gle instance in which either Mr. WEITZEL
or Mr. KEPLER has spoken. deprecatingly
of their opponents. In fact, both have
been uniformly considerate and fair, and’
whatever the outcome of next Tnesday,|
may be they need bave no regret for the
course they have pana, since entering the’
contest.
LAs the yoangest man on the ticket |
naturally the. most interest has centered in’
the conduct of Mr. KEPLER and be it said’
to his lasting credit that he has faithtally, :
maintained his position as a young man
with honorable wotives. He has kept no
skeletons locked up in his closet, but with’
a courage seldom ‘witnessed ‘in any ‘man’
has gone before the people with. his past |
laid before them. like an. open. book.
Mr. KEPLER has ; shown that he is the
possessor of a rare, character. In all of his
| conversations with men he has been: fears,
less and frank; never hesitating to admis al
| fault nor. equivocating when questioned as’
He gives empldyment to more labor tha
to his future actions.
By reason of his education, by reason of
the fact that he is the only. representative
of the farming classes on the ticket, by’ rea-
son of the earnestness he has evinced ever!
since he was honored with the nomination;
he is entitled to every Democratic vote in
Centre county.
There isn’t a_single reason why every
Democrat should not be proud of Mr. Krp-
LER and. avork to give him the full party
vote on: next Tuesday.
. His qualifications. iy the office he. seeks,
are -equal. to those of either. one of: his op=;
ponents in all, respects and superior in that,
he stands committed; to represent every.
person in Centre county, instead of the one,
man who appointed. and controls his op",
ponents. . »
: LER is an, “admirable candidate.
Ww » awake, alive to the needs of the,
farmers and one of those men who consid-,
ers on effort too much trouble if it favors a
friend.
Vote for KEPLER.
NOV. 2, 1900.
One of Congressman
*
citizen.
" One incident worthy of special notice
of absence.
on Governor’s Island.
of the barracks.
cede for her.
lightfully entertained.
case.
would be sent home to her.
Republicans Resorting to Trading.
We warn Democrats against trading.
It is through this means that the Repub-
lican boss of Centre county hopes to elect
one; if not both, of his candidates for the
Legislature.
From different sections of the county
word comes of Republican offers to trade,
In every instiince it is an effort to secure
votes for their candidates for Legislature.
In some places the proposition is to give
a vote for the entire Democratic ticket
a vote for ALLISON and THOMPSON.
In other places they offer a vote for the
Democratic. state ticket and for HALL, in
return for a vote for their candidates for the
Legislature.
In other parts of the county they offer to
vote for MEEK and HALL in return for a
vote for either one of their Legislative can-
didates, and in other places a vote is offer-
ed for any candidate on the ticket in re-
turn for a vote for ALLISON.
It is the plain duty of Democrats to
spurn all of these offers.
If the entire Republican vote of the
county was cast for the Democratic presi-
dential and state ticket it would not carry
Pennsylvania for them, so that Democrats
would make nothing by trading for them.
Mr. HALL will be elected by the votes of
Democrats and Republicans who appre-
ciate his worth as a Congressman and who
he neither needs nor would he: approve of
such an effort i in his interest.
ciating the friendship and kindness of Re-
publicans who feel like giving him a com-
plimentary. vote, wants no vote of the kind
er candidate on the ticket.
Democrats shold remember | that the
few Republican bosses who are “backing
him is to oarry. the county for his legisla-
give ticket. ' It is only through a trade or
out their full vote that Governor HASTINGS |
and his. erowd have any hope of success.
A fall and “straight vote will elect
every man on, he ticket from HALL down.
Let every ‘Democrat work, to this end.
Centre County must be ‘kept Democratic.’
vote STRAIGHT. 2
DoNT TRADE or dont wait until ev ening
to get in your ballot. :
Poor Men's ‘Homes Under the Hammer.
od
Itisa 16d boast that Republicans have
made about prosperity. So loud that many
people actually believe that everybody,
share of it. is
But this is not so. Nine out of every
ten men in'the country have, neither seen
‘nor felt its effects, except, in the increased
price they pay. for everything: In the oity |
of Philadelphia, proudly’ referred to ‘by
its citizens as a city of homes, and a lo-
cality where Republican prosperity ‘has
sheriff's docket shows | surprising faots =
"In 1898, the homes of "3,294 poor men
were sold under. the sherift’s hammer.
In 1899, +t this number = was increased
six hundred and forty-five, or a total of
3,939, homes went in the same way.
In the nine months that have passed up
‘to October of ‘tlie present year, the sheriff
county, that we want the public to know.
CHRISTIAN BECHDEL, a minor child, without the consent of his parents, joined
the regular army. He served with his regiment in Caba, about the city of Havana,
until about the time the regiment was to be transferred, ‘when he asked for a leave
He was told that he was getting it and, acting on the assumption that
it was all right, he went into Havana to spend a few days. When he voluntarily
returned to his regiment he was court martialed and sentenced to a year’s service
will vote for ‘him without. a trade, so. that.
The editor of this paper, while appre: It would almost double the usual majority |
fall on the floor.
| and Milton moved the keg to get his nickle.
{ In doing 80 he exposed a large -sized roll of
if it is to be had atthe expense of any oo | bills, which had evidently been there for a
chief effort. of Governor HASTINGS and ‘the :
failure ‘on the part of ‘Democrats to get | |
The way’ ‘to do it is to vote only and to
except themselves, has been enjoying a
been boasted of to the greatest extent, the |
‘| pointed as the nominees of his party.
NO. 43.
Hall's Many Kind Acts.
* The popularity of Congressman J. K.P. HALL in this District is unprecedented.
On all sides we hear of the many gracious acts he has done for his constituents
while in office and they Simply: bear out ibe record of his generous lifeasa private
ocourred down in Liberty tomaship; this
After he had been there for some time his health failed. He wrote of his condi-
tion to his mother and his statements were corroborated by letters from the surgeon
His frequent appeals alarmed his mother and she Sousulted. “her
friends about what was best to do in the case. :
They advised her to go to Washington and try to have Congressman HALL, os
With letters of introduction she sought Mr. HALL, who, according
to herown words, ‘‘was very genial and obliging.” He introduced her to Mis.
HALL who, at once, insisted on her remaining as a guest of their family. Mrs.
BECHDEL remained it the Has during her stay in Washington and was de-
: The Congressman arranged for interviews for her with prominent men about
Washington and took her in person to see the President, who heard her state her
‘Mr. HALL went right ahead in Mrs. BECHDEL'S behalf and she states $hat'she
knows that it was entirely throngh his untiring efforts that shortly after she re-
turned home she was rewarded with notice from the War Department. that Berson
CHRISTIAN did arrive home shortly alter and Mrs. BECHDEL does not Tiesitate to
speak in the warmest praises of our Congressman. 5
‘Just as Mr. HALL treated this sorrow-stricken woman from Eagleville he “has
treated everyone else who has had anything to ask of him and for that reason
the people of Centre county will not go back on HALL next Tuesday.
of that same prosperous (?) Republican
city had seized and sold the homes of 2,685,
workingmen and mechanics.
And in the face of these records it is
claimed that the people are prosperous.
Surely there is something wrong and
rotten about this claim. Surely itis an
effort to deceive, and to deceive for a pur-
pose.
And yet this is the kind of prosperity
that Mr. McKINLEY wants to continue.
‘Should Attend to- to Our. Ovni Aaated: |
Don't doit Itisa is a waste of time to sit
around speculating on what other States or
other counties will do at the election. It
won’t make a vote. It don’t help the
cause. It don’t zvsist a particle in win-
ning an election. It is what your own
district will do that should interest you
most. It is right at your own home that
you should be looking. There is where
your work is, and about it your
figuring and speculating should be done.
It is the district you vote in that you
should know all about and when you have
it down fine it is time to give your atten-
tion to and be concerned about others.
The hours that are wasted figuring out
how New York, Illinois; Indiana or some
other distant State will vote, if devoted to
ascertaining how your neighbors feel, how
to capture the doubtful vote in your own
‘district, and planning a way to bave every
Democratic vole at ‘the polls, would add
| from three to a dozen votes to the Demo-
cratic. tally in every district in the county.
and would secure a result that we woul
all have reason to rejoice’ over. wa
- Let us try it from this until the elcetion,
Let us plan and work to get out our own
vote, and show that we are willing ‘todo
that which we can do. :
Other States will take care of themselves.
‘Let us take care of Centre Souls.
will Test There Manliness
~ We have serious doubts if the Republi-
cans of Centre county who believe in regu-
larity and are opposed to the’ disruption of
their own state organization will vote for
ALLISON and THOMPSON. In fact, if they
| do, ‘they are no’ better Republicans than the
‘men they denounce as ‘‘Tosurgents.” Both
‘of these candidates stand pledged against
going into a Republican caucus or abiding
by the will of ‘a majority ‘of Republican
Representatives in case they name M. 8.
Quay. for United States Senator, and both
stand pledged to act as ex-Governor: Hast
IxGs and ‘W. TF. REEDER dictate. © How
‘straight-out and self-respecting Republi-
cans can assist in. building up and strength-
ening a self constituted boss, who is open=
ly and avow edly seeking to carry the conn-
| ty for lis: own glorification and to’ place
‘him in a position to fight his own party or-
ganization in the State, we do. not know.
It is possibly none, of onr. business, how-
ever, and ‘we ean only wait and judge of
the manliness aud independence of the men
who claim. to, be the Simon pure Republi-
‘cans of the county, by the vote that i is cast
for the candidates whom HASTINGS ap-
1 : ie —— ee - —
——The President, by the usual procla-
mation, has set aside Thursday; Nov. 29th,
as a day of general thanksgiving for thé
people of the United States.
- ——Suboribe for the WATCHMAN.
blow: open: the safe without success.
tenth time the safe flew to pieces.
| were seen at Rushtown, n
{ daybreak, left for that placed in Yi of the
Spawls from the Heystons,
T—
John Maxfell, ‘a tramp, aged 3 years,
had his head cut off at Brockwayville Mon-
day, by a freight train running over him.
Smith in Jersey Shore Saturday morning
and stole from the bedroom a gold watch and
nine dollars. Other houses were also entered.
—Chicken stealing is annoying the owners
of poultry in aud around Mackeyville, and
threats are made that if it is not stopped,
shooting irons will be brought into play,
when the visits are made to the roosts.
—While playing with a revolver, William
Knight, aged 14 years, accidentally shot Guy
Harman, aged 12 years, in the hip at Wil-
liamsport Friday. Harmon is a cripple,
having had his foot taken off two years ago
in a saw mill.
—Friday morning about 6 o'clock the
‘pusher’ ran into a flock - of wild turkeys at
Dick’s station on the Bald Eagle Valley rail-
road, and cut the head off a big gobbler slick
as a sharp ax would do it. Fireman John
Priest jumped from his engine and possessed
the bird.
~While returning from a funeral as Mun-
cy recently, the horses drawing a carriage
occupied by Mrs. Edward Bower and son
ran away. Mrs. Bower jumped and was
badly hurt. Her son tripped in jumping
and was dragged a quarter of a mile, but
will recover.
—MTrs. George W. Abbey, wife of a well
known farmer residing two miles and a half
from Woodhill, near Coudersport, burned to
death Wednesday night. She was carrying
a lighted lamp, when she fell and the thing
exploded. Her husband and son rushed to
her aid, but she was so badly burned that
she died soon after.
—George H. Batschlet, of Queen’s Run,
has been annoyed by a bear entering his field
at night and destroying a lot of corn in bags,
The next morning Mr. Batschlet went into’
the field and learned that the bear had
not only torn the bag open and ate a lot of
it, but had attempted to carry a bagful away
as the bag was found some distance from
where it had been placed by the gentleman.
—George A. Goehrig, a local electrician, of
Williamsport, saved his life Friday morning
by turning a flipper in mid air. He had
trimmed an are light at the top of a fifty foot
pole at Newberry Junction and was descend-
ing when he lost his hold,plunging headlong
toward the ground. He knew he would be
killed unless he could right himself. By a
superhuman effort he turned a flipper and
landed sjuarely on his feet, escaping with
sprained ankles.
—The post-office at Lilly, Cambria county,
was entered by thieves Thursday night and
robbed. The burglars secured about 45
cents for their pains. Less than a week ago
the same office was entered and about $1.75
or $2, all in pennies, was stolen. The
thieves in each instance forced an entrance
by breaking the bars off a side window and
raising the sash. Itisthought that the same
parties committed both offenses and that
they are local people.
~=More than 80 per cent of the men dis-
charged from the service of the New York
Central railroad company twenty years ago
,were dropped from the rolls for drunkenness.
Now, however, with 30,000 men in the cm-
ploy of the company, less thay 1 per cent. of
those annually discharged owe the loss of
their situations to over-indulgence in liquor.
This change in conditions is said to be large-
ly due to the beneficent influence of the rail-
road department of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association.
—Governor Stone Thursday appointed
Addison Candor Judge of the Twenty-ninth
Judicial district, Lycoming county, to sue-
ceed the late Judge John J. Meizger. He is
the senior member of the law firm of Candor
& Munson. He was born in Lewistown, in
1852, at the age of 20 he graduated from
Princeton, having taken the full academic
‘course. He was admitted to practice at the
Lycoming bar in 1875, and soon thereafter
formed a partnership with C. Larue Munson,
at Williamsport. He declined the appoint-
ment however.
—Milton Gibson was in a store at Penrun,
Indiana county, recently, purchasing some
article, and in making change let a nickle
It rolled behind a nail keg
long time, as they were covered with dust:
Milton promptly handed the roll over to the
proprietor of the store and went home and
told his wife how honest he was. ‘She view-
ed the matter in another way, and with de-
cided emphasis made Milton return to the
Sw store and get the money, which he did. And
now—Mrs. Gibson has the money.
. —The Methodist church at Stoneville, one,
of the appointments of the Woodland charge,
of which Rev. C. W. Rishel is pastor, and
which recently underwent extensive repairs,
was reopened on Sunday last with very
impressive services.
Rev. W. W. Cadle gave his lecture on his
own personal experiences as a mission
ary for two years in Africa, He also preach,
at night. All the indebtedness inenrred i in
making the repairs, amounting to $300, was
raised in cash, with a surplus of $12. A
series of revival meetings will be continued.
—Saturday morning about 2 o'clock six
small masked men, uniformly dressed, broke
into the station of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad at Danville, through a pan-
el in the door. They all pointed their re-
volvers at Anunon Keiser, the operator,
seized him, forced a gag into his mouth, tied
his arms and legs, carried him into the ad-
joining room, and threw him on the floor.
The burglars then made nine attempts to
The
The burg-
lars secured upwards of $500 in cash. They
then relieved Kiser of his watch and other
valuables and left. About an hour’ later
Kiser ‘succeeded in releasing ‘himself and not-
ified ‘the authorities. The police of that town
and railroad officers, hearing that the men
near Danville at
| men.
—A burglar entered the home of Chatles
On Saturday evening:
ed on Sabbath morning; at the afternoon ser-
vice, Rev. J. W. Rue, D.D., of Cucwensville,s <~
preached and the pastor occupied the pulpitf -
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