15, 1901. P. GRAY MEEK, re . Epitor Terms or SusscriprioN.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance.......comeneeee $1.00 Paid before expiration of year. 1.50 Paid after expiration of year.......... 2.00 The Empire in View. President HADLEY of Yale University declared in a sermon on Sunday night that we will see an Emperor in Washington within a quarter of a century, unless there is created in this country a public senti- ment which will control the trusts regard- less of legislation. That is a radical state- ment to come from such a source. Presi- dent HADLEY is not an alarmist. He is in no respect an idle dreamer, or mouthy agi- tator. On the contrary he is one of the ripest scholars and most profound thinkers in this broad land. The billion dollar steel trust has alarm- ed President HADLEY. + He sees in such a vast combination of capital a menace to the government. He understands that when such enormous bodies as the federal gov- ernment and billion dollar corporation come in conflict there must be a terrible eruption and he reasons that when such a conflict comes it will be a case of the sur- vival, not of the fittest but of the most re- sourceful. He knows, moreover, that when the creature attains the proportions of the creator the conflict is inevitable. We are almost on the verge of such a condition at present. Unless some unseen but friendly element interposes the Empire is not twenty-five years off, but less than half that distance. The tendency is in that direction and the movement is increas- ing in velocity. . The evidences of this fact are perceptible on every side. It is seen in the profligacy of government. It stands revealed in the corruption and venality of Legislative bodies. The danger may be averted. The people may awake from the lethargic sleep into which they have fallen. Bat it is doubtful. Judge Love Accused of Professional Fraud. The North American Makes Open Charges Against the President Judge of Centre County and Backs them Up With Records Showing that the Fraud was Practiced in the Centre County Courts. Two Quay Judges of county courts, Archhald, of Lackawanna, and Love, are rival candidates for appointment to the judgeship of the newly-created middle district Federal court of Pennsylvania. Archbald seems to have the inside tract, but Love’s daring feats of service for the Quay machine have given him strong claims for the place. The two aspirants .have records. which should entitle each of them to the hearty support and approbation of the machine. Among the documents said to have been presented to President McKinley, in order that he might estimate the character and fitness of these two political Judges for ele- vation to the Federal court bench are the printed reports of court cases in which their reputations for integrity were cast in the balance. The judgment was ‘‘Found Wanting,”’ if the judicial findings in the cases involved are to be accepted. Curiously enough, Archbald was himself the Judge who pronounced judgment against his friend Love’s claim of integrity. After Love was elevated to the bench in Centre county he was made defendant in a suit over the sale of property in which he had acted as attorney some years hefore. He sent for Archbald to come from Scran- ton to Bellefonte and sit specially in the case. After hearing the evidence, the Lackawanna Judge was obliged to render the opinion that Love had been guilty of a gross fraud. Sitting in Love's place up- on the bench Archbald told the former thay ‘nothing but the statute of limita- tions saved him.” The ease in which Judge Love figured was that involving the settlement of the estate of the late Colonel Daniel G. Bush, who left a large amount of valuable real estate in Bellefonte at the time of his death. A trust company held a mortgage against it for something like $30,000, which was a first lien. The second lien was a judgment in the courts of the United States by A. C. Moore, amounting to about $18,000. There were two other junior liens, owned by residents of Bellefoute, for smaller sums. Love was not upon the bench at the time, being a practising attorney at Belle- fonte. He undertook to sell the entire property on the mortgage. He bought up the two judgments of his neighbors in or- der that they might not be adverse bidders at the sale. He advertised the sale upon the mortgage under an old act of Assem- bly of 1705, which required only ten days’ time in which to make a sale. He made a private bargain with the Sheriff to. reduce his poundage or fees to a minima, in or- der to save the legitimate expenses of the sale, and then informed the Sheriff and in- terested parties that his purposes in do- ing all this was to cut out a claim or judg- ment in the Circuit court. In other words, and in fact, Love’s pur- pose was to have the property bid off at a figure far below its actual value in order that Moore would not realize anything np- on the claim. Mr. Moore, living in anoth- er State, would probably not bear of this snap action. LOVE’S SCHEME CARRIED OUT. Love’s scheme was carried out to the jetter. The two judgment creditors re- ceived notes for their claims, and, accord- ing to arrangement, took no part in the bidding. Mr. Moore's claim of $18,000 was not represented because he had no knowledge of thesale. The valuable prop- erty, perbape the most valuable in Belle- fonte, was struck off to Love at a mere nominal sum. Some years afterward Moore’s executors, Moore having meanwhile died, learning of this condition of affairs, employed counsel and entered legal proceedings in the courts of Centre county to set aside the sale on the ground that a gross fraud had been committed, by which they lost $18,000. 1t was sought to set aside this sale on the ground of the above alleged frand. In the meantime Love had been elevated to the bench, and he invited his friend Judge Archhald, of Scranton, to come to Belle- .fonte to hear and determine the case. | SAVED BY STATUTE OF After listening to all the facts and argu- ments, Archbald decided that Love had committed a gross fraud, and nothing but the statute of limitations saved him. In his findings Judge Archbald said, in his opening sentence : ‘It was with great reluctance that I find there was fraud in this transaction.” He then proceeds to the discussion of the case and says: “It is just here. however, that the evidence of direct fraud comes in. Sheriff Walker testifies squarely and with a particularity that cannot be explained away, that in two different conversations it was declared by Judge Love, who was acting at the time as the attorney for Mr. Tome, as well as for Mrs. Bush, the sale was to be a pominal one, for the mere purpose of changing title and cutting off a judgment in the United States Circuit. court on an obligation given by Mr. Bush with others as bail for the Beaver Mills, manifestly referring in this to the judgment of Mr. Moore. This was urged upon the Sheriff as a reason for reducing his poundage, and a reduction was secured from him in consequence. FRAUD WAS EVIDENT. “Further than that, when Mr. Bush and Mr. Harper, as judgment creditors, assert- ed their intention of protecting themselves by bidding at the sale. an arrangement was at once made to pay them off so that they might not be interested to do go. Bat the fact that they were honght off in this way confirms the idea that the purpose of the sale was to get the property for as little as possible, cutting off Mr. Moore just as is asserted. “Nor does this rest upon the testimony of Sheriff Walker alone. According to Mr. Bower, who acted in the matter as at- torney for Mr. Harper, it was repeated in his hearing at Judge Love's office, and he is equally explicit as to what was said. He is not sure whether Mrs. Bush was pres- ent, so as to make the statement evidence against her, but Sheriff Walker is, and this supplies the deficiency. ‘‘Against this, we have merely the dec- laration of Judge Love that he has no rec- ollection of making any such statement, either to Mr. Walker or Mr. Bower, and that he does not believe that he did, but this is not such a denial as ought to prevail against the positive testimony to the con- trary of these gentlemen. Judge Love further says there was po arrangement by which anybody was prevented from bid- ding, and this is true, and I have so found. CUT OUT ONE CREDITOR. “Bus the practical effect of the purchase of these judgments and the manifest pur- pose of it still remain. As lien creditors subsequent in rank to the mortgage, as well as to the judgment of Mr. Moore, if Mr. Walker and Mr. Harper took steps as they intended to do to protect themselves, they would have had to bid until their own judgments were covered, and this would bave paid off the Moore judgment and made the property cost about all that it was worth, a thing that the parties effect- ing the sale desired to avoid, if they were trying to get as much benefit out of it as possible.” Again Judge Archbald says: ‘‘The case really hangs, therefore, in the view I take of it, on the testimony of Mr. Bower and Sheriff Walker, and while I am not pre- pared to infer fraud from any of the rest of the evidence, where it is directiy sworn to, as it is by these gentlemen, I cannot re- fuse to do so, however reluctant I may be. I do not mean, however, to suggest, and 1 cannot believe, that there was a deliberate plan on the part of any one to cheat Mr. Moore out of his judgment. SOUGHT AN ‘‘ADVANTAGE.” “What I think was in the minds of the parties was that, being a non-resident, he might not get notice of the sale, aud so not appear to protect his interests, and regard- ing this as a legitimate advautage they sought to have the benefit of it. He might appear, however, and if he did the proper- ty was put up fairly, and there was noth- ing to stand in his way from bidding upon it. But the chances were that he would not, and of this, no doubt, Mrs. ‘Bush sought to avail berself. “It must be gonfessed that the amicable sire facias and the sale almost immediate- ly following it contributed to this, and we can hardly escape the conclusion in view of the evidence that that was the purpose of them. But the chief mistake was in _buy- ing off threatened bidders, the object of which is unmistakable. This was a legal, if not an actual frand, and the consequence of the two in the eyes of the law are very little different.”’— Phila. North American. Safe Blowers at Bellwood. Daring Onslaught Upon the Bellwood Bank. $700 Worth of Property Stolen. A daring attempt to rob the Bellwood bauk, about 3 o’clock Monday morning, proved partially successful. The burglars gained entrance hy forcing open the doable doors of the bank, using a bar which they | had stolen from H. W. Culp’s blacksmith shop. They forced open the vault door also with this bar. Then they charged the time-lock safe with explosives and, with the touch of a match, a big explosion re- sulted. The racket stirred up the people nearby and the robbers were forced to seek safety in flight. They were seen by rail- road watchman Jacob Bush at whom they fired their revolvers. The explosion was a terrific one and by its force the heavy plate glass window - in the front of the bank was shattered. The burglars secured some hooty in the vault, No money, except a few nickels and dimes, was taken, but they secured gold watches belonging to Rev. Dr. J. H. Mathers, Alex- ander Cornmesser and Dr. W. H. Morrow, and about $500 worth of stamps deposited in the bank by postmaster Cornmesser. The marauders had doubtless expected to make a big haul of cash, as the bank was prepared to pay the employes of the P. & N. W. R. R. that day. McArthur Sends Good News. WASHINGTON, March 11—The following cablegram has been received from General MacArthur at Manila : “General Marian De Dios, four officers, fifty-seven men uniformed and armed, sur- rendered at Naic. This is regarded as very important and indicating collapse of the insurrection. The territory heretofore ob- stinately defended. Insurgent situation throughout the archipelago very encourag- ing. Captures, surrenders of arms contin- ue. Three thousand one hundred and sixty-eight arms surrendered and captured since January 1st. (Signed) MACARTHUR.’ i ———— Botha Said to be Willing. LORENZO MARQUES, March 11—General Botha is willing to surrender. He asked an armistice in order to communicate with General DeWet and Mr. Steyn. Should they decline it is believed nevertheless that General Botha will surrender. The Boers have no artillery or ammuni- tion and are burying their guns. The railway from Lorenzo Marques to Pretoria is practically clear of Boers. LIMITATIONS. NESE ESSE LEEETETEEE A acy Ex-President Benjamin Harrison Passed | came too strong for him, and in July, 1862, Away. he raised a regiment and was commissioned He Died at his Home in Indianapolis at 4:45 0'clock Colonel of the Seventeenth Indiana by Wednesday Afternoon.—The Funeral to be Held on Sunday.—@eneral Harrison Did not Bain Con- sciousness Before the End.—He Will Lie in State at the Indiana Capitol on Saturday. Governor Morton. Col. Harrison with his regiment began service in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was brevetted Brigadier General for gallant conduct at Reseca. and earned a full Brigadiership at Peach General Harrison died at 4:45 o'clock Tree Creek. General Harrison served with Wednesday afternoon at his home in In- credit until the end of the war, and was dianapolis. Surrounding his bed at the with his command at the final grand re- time of death were Mrs. Harrison, wife of view at Washington in 1865. the ex-President; Mrs. Eaton, of Cincin- General Harrison was again elected re- nati, and Mrs. Morris, of Minneapolis, sis- porter of the supreme court of Indiana in ters of the General ; the physicians, Dr. Henry Jameson and Dr. F. O. Dorsey ; Ww. H. H. Miller, ex-Attorney General ; E. F. Tibbett, the General’s private secretar. L } re 2 Neither rly Mary sary Governor of Indiana. but was beaten. His and the nurse. rison McKee nor Russel B. Harrison, daughter and son of General Harrison, ‘were present when the end came. 1864. He served out his term but declined a re-election in 1868 and devoted himself entirely to his practice in the courts. In 1876 he was the Republican candidate for candidature at that time was a forlorn hope. Gedlove S. Orth who had been nominated, having withdrawn from the ticket. Four General Harrison did not regain con- | Years later, or in 1880, the Republicans sciousness before the end. He had been in succeeded in obtaining a majority in the a semi-conscious condition since early Indiana Legislature and then Harrison Tuesday morning and at no time was he | Was elected to the United States Senate. able to recognize any of the anxious mem- Upon the expiration of his term he resumed bers of the household who were at his bed- the practice of his profession. side during the long last hours. It had General Harrison was a delegate at large been hoped that at the last he would be from his State to the National Republican able to recognize the members of his family even if he should not be able to speak. He was taken sick about a week ago with grip, which terminated in pneumo- nia. After the death bulletins were posted, expressions of personal grief were to be heard on all sides. ii Convention held in Chicago in 1884. Four years later, when his name had been at an early stage brought into prominence as an aspirant for the Republican nomination to the Presidency, he remained at home in Indianapolis, carefully refraining from tak- ing too active a part in current political discussion. The Republican leaders in In- Immediately upon the receipt of ‘the diana, and almost the entire Republican pews of General Harrison's death, Governor | Press of the State, had pronounced in favor Durbin ordered the flag on the state house of bis nomination, and his name was pre- to be put at half-mast and similar tokens sented by the solid delegation to the con- of regard for the distinguished dead were vention at Chicago. On the first ballot shown at the federal building and at nu- General Harrison received only 83 votes, merous private buildings. To the sorrowing family the death did standing fifth on the list, with John Sher- man in the lead with 225 votes. On the not come as a great shock, for they had re- second ballot his vote increased to 91, and alized that the result was inevitable and that it had only been a question of hours and minutes since-early Tuesday morning. Dr. Jameson had informed the family on the third to 94. Chauncey M. Depew, who had started with 99 votes, but had fallen to 91, then withdrew iu favor of Harrison, who received 217 votes on the Tuesday morning that the end might be | fourth ballot, but fell to 213 on the fifth. expected at any moment. : General Harrison, it is stated, would On the sixth ballot his vote amounted to 231, on the seventh to 278, and on the have liked nothing better than to come out eighth ballot he received 544 votes, 100 frankly and say to everyone who would more than necessary to a choice. Levi P. bear what he thought of England’s cruelty ; Morton was the vice presidential candidate. it was in his mind coustantly, but he be- In the electoral college Harrison received lieved that the ex-President should observe 233 votes against 168 for Grover Cleveland. the same proprieties of speech which : are 1 observed by a President of the United | 1889 States. He was at all times careful to say ‘nothing which could be misconstrued or He was inaugurated President March 4th, Three days before the assembling of the Republican National Convention at Min- twisted into. a seeming disregard for the neapolis, in June, 1892, James G. Blaine dignity of the high office which he once resigned the poss of Secretary of State, in held. In his semi conscious condition, when the sentinels of discretion and propriety order to compete with his chief for the presidential nomination, The contest in the Convention was mainly between the bad gone from their posts, and the mind of | main supporters of these two aspirants, the man was wandering, he began to speak of the Boers and their hopeless struggle for His voice was weak and trembling. and his thoughts were not con: nected, but the listeners bending over him national life. and on the first ballot Harrison was re- nominated. His pleurality over Blaine, who received 182 votes, was 353. McKin- ley also received 182 votes and 5 were scat- tering. Whitelaw Reid, of New York, could hear words of pity for the dying | Was made the candidate for Vice President. farmer Republic. SKETCH OF A DISTINGUISHED CAREER. Benjamin Harrison, tweu ty-third Presi- dent of the United States, came of a histor- io line, + Major General Harrison, an Eng- lish ancestor, hore arms with Oliver Crom-. well, and rose with him to prominence in the Revolation. It fell to his lot to sign the death warrant of Charles I, and after the restoration he paid the penalty for this aot, being hanged on Oct. 13th, 1660. Benjamin Harrison, the first descendant of Cromwell’s General, who appears in Amer- ican history, was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses, later a delegate to the colonial congress, a signer of the Declara- tion of Independance, three times Gover- nor of Virginia, and a member of the con- Grover Cleveland, who became the Demo- crat candidate for the third time, received 277 votes in the electoral college, to 154 for Harrison, and 22for James B. Weaver, thePopulist candidate. i Gen. Harrison, whose first wife died a few days before the presidential election of 1892, married Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dim- mock, a niece of his first wife. Since retiring from the Presidency Gen. Harrison has studiously avoided taking an active part in political affairs, his most notable departure from which being his implied critizen of the so-called colonial policy of President McKinley in an ad- dress delivered before the students of the University of Michigan last winter. He has, however, continued in the active prac- tice of his profession, frequently appearing vention that ratified the constitution. His | oo important oases, before the Supreme son was Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, whose honorable career as a soldier and statesman culminated in his election to the Presidency in 1840, to be followed by his death in the White House,one month after his inau- guration. John Scott Harrison, the son of President Harrison, was the father of the subject of this sketch. Benjamin Harrison was horn at North court of the United States. He also acted as counsel for the Venezuelan government before the arbitration tribunal which met in Paris 1899 to settle the disputed bound- ary question with Great Britain. Gen. Harrison was occupied for many months in the preparation of the Venezuelan case, and made an elaborate argument before the tribunal, his professional fee for his serv- Bend, O.. Aug, 20th, 1833. He was edu- ices heing, according to current report, cated at the Miami University, from which, be was graduated at the age of 18. After leaving college he studied law in the office of Judge Stover, in Cincinnati, and was ad- the large sum of $200,000. According to the funeral plans General Harrison will lie in state at the State Capi- tol on Saturday and the funeral will mitted to the bar in 1854, before he had at- take place Sunday. ADDITIONAL LOCALS tained his majority. The next year he took up his residence in Indianapolis, where he began the practice of his profes- gion. Young as he was he was already married, and poor, but he boldly took his young wife, the daughter of Prof. Scott, of Miami University, with him to his new home, assaming that it was easier for a ——Wm. E. Gray Esq., expects to re- move his law office from its present loca- tion to the second floor of the Exchange. [Ea youthful lawyer to work for two than for one. Clients were not long in finding him out —— Mrs. Lydia Bridenbaugh, who died suddenly with apoplexy at her home near Arch Spring, in Spruce creek valley, last and from the outset he took an active part | Thursday, was a sister of Daniel Louder, in politics. was one of the leadi was elected. , Cy ol ARN In the campaign of 1860 he | of Oak Hall, this county. She was born in ‘Republican orators | March i - in his State. He been nominated for » 1655, wus & member of the Preshy ! of f Ind ; reporter of the He, ei Lh Tsdians and band, Geo. W. Bridenbaugh, and $wo ohil- more than a year, but the war fever be- terian church and is survived by her hus- dren. ASSL ir SO Mgrs. DAvip W. HoLT.—The announce- ment of the death of Mrs. David W. Holt, which occurred at her home in Philipsharg, about noon last Thursday, was received with deepest sorrow by her many acquaint- ances in this part of the county. Few had known of the fatal malady that first devel oped in 1899, for her heroism under such circnmstances was remarkable. With all the bravery of astrong character she fought for life without alarming her friends about her condition and when all hope of a cure bad been dissipated she lived on to the end, sustained and comforted by the assurance of the eternal reward that bas been promised those who live in Christ. Catherine E. Holt was the daughter of James and Matilda Huuoter Allport. Of ber the Philipsburg Ledger says: ‘‘She came of an illustrious ancestry, her ma- ternal great grand-father, Major Andrew Hunter having been among the early set- tlers of Centre county. Her father, James Allport, an Englishman, who served with distinction in the Peninsular campaign, in Spain, and in the war which ended in the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, was pen- sioned by the English government, the pension to descend to him and his beirs, so long as they remained subjects of Great Britain. In 1816 he came to America and in 1829 settled on an extensive tract of land owned by him, in what is now Morris township, Clearfield county. Here he brought his youthful bride and here raised a family of two sons and three daughters, of whom Mis. Holt was one. Mr. Allport was a man of vigorous intellect and strong character, and took an active part in pub- lic affairs. Inheriting, in a marked degree, the trait which characterized her father and under the guidance of him and her mother, who under the stress and privation incident to pioneer life, developed all the best tiaits of the highest type of woman- hood, Catherine, with all her brothers and sisters grew up in an atmosphere of intel- lectual culture that gave them strong indi- viduality and mentality. In 1862 Cathe- rine became the wife of David W. Holt, of Morris township, one of the best known lumbermen and coal operators in this re- gion. No children blessed their union. In 1869 Mr. and Mrs. Holt came to Philips- burg to reside, accompanied by the latter’s mother, then a widow. To her mother and aunt, Miss Catherine Hunter, Mrs. Holt gave a devotion that made theirs an ideal old age. As a housekeeper and home-maker she excelled, while ever finding leisure for the claims of social and religious duty. For years she bad charge of the music of St. Paul’s Prot- estant Episcopal church, of which she was a lifelong member, and under her guidance the music was a most attractive feature of the service. Mis. rlolt was a charter mem- ber of the local Village Improvement Socie- ty in which her loss will be greatl felt.”’ = Her death was caused by a cancerous tumor that stubbornly resisted several op- erations for its removal. She is survived by her husband and nephew, Llewellyn Allport, who has been a son to her since his childhood, her aged aunt, Miss Catherine Hunter, and one brother, Crammond, of Warrenton, Va., and two sisters, Mrs. M. A. Berger, of Cat- onsville, Md., and Mrs. Matilda Dale, of Lemont. : Funeral services were held at her late home on Saturday afternoon, the Rev. Dr. Clere, of the Episcopal chovreb, having: of- ficiated. : : ood 0 " Mas. F. M. BELL.—Maj. F. M. Bell, who died Sunday morning ab his home in Tyrone, was one of the oldest and most prominent residents of that place. . He was a son of John and Margaret Johnson Bell and was born on the old Go- heen farm, in Ferguson Twp., this county, March 15th, 1826. That was his home un- til 1850, when he moved to Tyrone to em- bark in the mercantile business. He was the first postmaster of Tyrone when that office was established under Franklin Pierce in 1853 and was prominent in every sphere of life in that place until the ad- vance of age enforced his retirement. At the breaking out of the war he was com- missioned ‘as a lieutenant in Co. D, 3vd Penna. Vols. After his return from the three months service he recruited what af- terwards besame Co. A, of the 125th Pa. Vols. and was made its captain, later be- coming Major of the 46th. : : He was an ardent member of the Metho- dist church and a man of exceedingly strong character. j In early manhood Major Bell was mar- ried to Miss Mary Davison, daughter of the Jate John Davison, of that community. To the union were born eleven children, five: of whom with their children survive, viz: Harry F. Bell, of Curweusville; Annie M., Zane G., Carrie L, and Elsie M. Bell, all of Tyrone. Onesister, Mrs. Mary J. Chamber- lain, of Joplin, Kansas, and one brother, W. Irvin Bell, of Derry, Pa., also survive. Interment was made on Wednesday af- ternoon in Tyrone cemetery. I ll I — Mrs. Wm. Brown died at her home in Philipsburg early Monday morning with pulmonary troubles. She was the daughter of Amos Lee, of Colyer, and had been married for nine years. Surviving her are her husband and three children. The eldest is 8 years and the baby only 5 months old. Burial was made Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Myers. of the Baptist church of which she was a devoted member having officiated. i i, 8 ——The remains of Lawrence Patrick, the five month’s old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Menchio, who died at their home in Snow Shoe, on Monday, were taken to Tyrone for burial on Wednesday, JusTIN BROENEL.—The death of Justin Broenel occurred at his home near Miles- burg, on Friday afternoon, very suddenly. He was only 36 years old and bad been in his usnal health in the morning. While engaged at some werk in the wood-house he suddenly fell forward as if in a faint and struck his head on a lump of coal. He was carried into the house, where he died before a physician could reach his side. It is supposed that death was due to a blood clot forming on the brain. Deceased was the son of the late John Broenel. He was a young man of excel- lent habits and all of his life had been a dutiful member of St. John’s Catholic church of this place. Surviving him are his step-father, Joseph W. Folmar, his mother and the following brothers and sis- ters : Leopold, of Plano, Ill. ; Frank, of Clearfield ; Mrs. Adam Reading, of Gettys- burg ; Mrs. Patrick Hayes, Spangler ; Mrs. Emile Lioret, of Ishpenning, Mich. ; Mrs. A. M. Mott, Bellefonte ; Misses Sidonie and Minnie, of Philadelphia ; Pauline and Annie at home. Mrs. James Derr, de- ceased, of this place, was also a sister. The funeral took place Monday morning. Interment being made in the Catholic cem- etery in this place, after requiem mass had been said. I I f GEORGE GARDNER DEAD. —On last Saturday the wires flashed the sad news of the death of a former Centre county boy who died the day previous in a hospital at Allegheny, Pa. Mr. Gardner had an at- tack of grip that culminated in walking fever. No one thought his end so near, but a relapse came and the death angel laid its icy bands on him and called his spirit home. His{remains were brought to Pennsylva- nia Furnace on Saturday evening, and tak- en to the home of his mcther, Sarah Gard- ner, in the Glades, from which place the funeral took place on Monday his 29th birth-day at 10:30 a. m. Rev. H. C. Love, of the Presbyterian church of which the young®man was a member, officiated; Rev. Aikens assisting. Burial was made in the Graysville ceme- tery and was largly attended. Mr. Gard- ner was honest and industrious and highly respected by all who knew him. He was a son of the late Wilson Gardner, who pre- ceded him to the grave several years ago. Sarviving him are his mother and the fol- lowing!brothers and sisters, his twin broth- er Robert, of Pittsburg; William G., of Graysville; Harry, of Pittsburg, and Mrs. Thomas ae of Rock Springs. THE DEATH OF RICHARD K. MCCAFFER- ry.—After an illness that had extended over a period of two years Richard King McCafferty passed away at his home on east Logan street on Monday evening. He was born at Milroy, Mifflin county, Feb. 3rd, 1831, making his age at death 70 years, 1 month and 8 days. He was mar- ried to Katherine Murphy, a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1857, and has been a resident of Bellefonte for the past 54 years. : He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and the following children: James and Mrs. Edward Brown Jr., of Bellefonte; Thomas of Pittsburg, and Martin, of Waynesburg. Three brothers and a sister survive, namely: Charles, of Washington, D. C, Thomas, William and Mrs. Susan Powers, of Bellefonte. . Mr. McCafferty was, iu the days of his active life, one of the foremost contractors ‘in masonry in this community. Many of the old buildings of the town were erected under his supervision and as a mechanic he had few equals. He was a man of consid- erable judgment wielding uo little influence in business and political circles in the county at one time. He wasa member of St. John’s Catholic church, where ,reqgiem mass for the repose of his soul was celebrat- ed yesterday morning at 10 o’ clock; inter- ment having been made in the Catholic cemetery siiewarte i i DIED AT MILESBURG.—Miss Nancy Jamison passed away at her home in Miles- burg on Sunday afternoon, as a result of a prolonged bilious attack. She was a kind- ly christian lady. whose entire life had been one of rectitude and conscientious- ness. i Miss Jamison was 76 years old and was a sister of the late Miss Mary Hoover, of this place, her death having carried away the last member of a large family. Burial was made in the Union cemetery here on Wednesday afternoon, after serv- joes had been held at her late home by Rev. Houck, of the Bug Share: 3 — John Amos Newman. who was born at Hannah Furnace, this county, March 15th, 1856, died at his home in Tyrone, on Tuesday morning, after two months’ suf- fering with cancer of the liver. He was a brakeman on the Tyrone division and for a number of years had been actively identi- fied with the Methodizt church. Surviv- ing him are his widow, who was Harriet Lewis, and three children. His father, William Newman, is still living at Port Matilda. Interment was made in tlie Bald Eagle cemetery yesterday according to the rites of the Knights of Pythias. —— Margaret, the bright little daughter of Samuel Sankey, of Philipsburg, died at the family home on Saturday evening and was buried next morning, her death hav- ing been due to diphtheric causes. She had just about completed her seventh year of life and was at a most interesting age. I 1 tanned) Orndorf, the oldest resident of the east end of Penn's valley, away at his home, two miles north of Woodward on Saturday night. He was 90 years old and died with apoplexy. Inter- terment was made in the Wood ward ceme- tery on Wednesday. SAT 4
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