Bellefcnte, Pa., May 9, 1902.
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Democratic Primary Election and Coun-
ty Convention.
The Democratic voters of Centre county
will meet at the regular places for holding
the general elections, in their respective
election districts, on Saturday, May 3lst,
1902, to elect delegates to the county con-
vention.
Under the rules of the party the election
will be opened at 3 p. m. and close at 7
p. m. The delegates chosen at the above
stated time will meets in the court house,
in Bellefonte, on Tuesday, June 3rd, 1902,
at 12 o'clock, noon, to nominate one candi-
date for Register of Wills and Clerk of the
Orphans’ Court, two candidates for Legis-
Tator, one candidate for Senate, one candi-
date for Recorder, one candidate for Sheriff,
two candidates for County Commissioner,
one candidate for County Treasurer, two
candidates for County Auditor, four dele-
gates to the next Democratic state conven-
tion, three congressional conferees, three
senatorial conferees; toelect a chairman of
the county committee, to serve from Janu- |
ary 1st, 1903, to January 1st, 1904, and to
transact such other business as may appear
before the convention in the interest of the
party.
APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES.
The number of delegates to which each
election district is entitled as approved and
ratified by the county committee is as fol-
lows :
BOROUGHS
Bellefonte, N. W .
nets, W,
“WW. W
Centre Hall...
Howard.........
Milesburg..
Millheim...........
Philipsburg, 1 W
“ 2W...
, 3W..
South Philipsburg Potter, North. .
State College...............1 NOUth ....c....oe 2
Unionville...........c....... 1 ft West,........un 2
TOWNSHIPS. Rush, North.. 2
Benner, North 1 South .... wl
‘“ South. 1 | Snow Shoe, Ea we
Boggs, North X $e West. |
oC Tast. 1 | Spring, North ., oR
* West, ol “"South’. |
Burneide....... wid “ West. X
College .. .2 |. Taylor......... wl
Curtin....... 1. Union........ oo}
Ferguson, 3 | Walker, Ea 5
fe ge Midd =
Gregg, Nerth 1 $ West... »X
Cast 2 Worth wu... nein
wd West.. 3 —_
Haines, East..... 2 Motal..co iicnnsind 86
iy West... ...ccoi
Wm. J. Singer, JOHN J. BOWER,
Secretary. Chairman.
Honor Has Been Sacrificed.
We have watched with curious interest
and some concern the progress of the
reciprocity legislation which was promised’
to Cuba, but are now forced to admit that |
it has gotten away. In other words,though
somewhat familiar with parliamentary
practice, we have been unable to keep the
measure in question in view and are afraid
that it is now lost strayed or stolen, lately
a favorite way of disposing of troublesome
bills in the Pennsylvania Legislature, at
least. The last heard of the bill was that
it had passed the House with certain amend-
ments proposed by the Democrats.
When Congress met the first Monday of
December the President gravely informed
the country that we were under moral
obligations to afford some sort of relief to
the sugar growers of Cuba. We had taken
away the market which for hundreds of
years had purchased the product of their
soil and labor and left them without an
opportunity to convert their crops into
money. Having done this, the President
declared, it was our duty to open our own
markets on such terms as would guarantee
them certain and fairly profitable sales.
But five months have elapsed since then
and the best that can be said is that the
bill has been mislaid and is not likely to
pass at all.
If, as the President stated at the hegin-
ning of December, honor required the
speedy passage of a bill what excuse is
there for the neglect of that duty. The
Oxnard beet sugar trust was opposed to it
on one hand and the American Refining
company, which is the official name of the
cane sugar trust,antagonized it on the oth-
er. Between these upper and nether trust
millstones, therefore, the honor of the
American people has been ground out and
our pledge of relief to a famishing people
broken. This is not a verv attractive picture,
but it is one that the President has him-
self made.
Girl Saved a Train,
CUMBERLAND, Md., May 5.—Edith May
Elwood, the 13-year-old danghter of a track
walker, living near Sir John’s Run, pre-
veuted a disastrous freight wreck this
morning, and to-night is the heroine of
railroaders.
She discovered a broken rail in the track
near her home and, seeing a fast freight
coming, she rushed into the house, seized
a skein of red yarn from her mother’s lap,
and hurried back to the track. She waved
the yarn and succeeded in stopping the
train, which was within 50 feet of the
broken 1ail. The engine was in charge of
W. H. Keyser. The train crew will pre-
sent the girl with a handsome testimonial.
Mine Workers to Quit.
The 6,000 Members of the Webster Coal and Coke
Company to Strike.
JOHNSTOWN, May 7.—The 6,000 mine
workers employed in the ten mines of the
Webster Coal and Coke companies in this
county, decided, without a dissenting
voice, at a mass meeting to-day to strike
until the company signs the Altoona scale.
The men ask that the company sign the
mining scale adopted by the joint conven-
tion of miners and operators in Altoona in
March, which all other operators in this
wicinity have signed and observed.
Most Rev. M. A. Corrigan Dead.
The Archbishop Died Monday Night at 11:05. Death
Came -as a Great Surprise. His Last Moments
Peaceful. wi
NEW YORK, May 5.—Archbishop Corri-
gan died at 11:05 o’clock to-night.
The death of the archbishop came as a
great surprise and shock to thosein the
archepiscopal residence. It was ‘more so
to the general public, for the last bulletin
of the day was that so certain were the
physicians of an improvement in the con-
dition of the patient there would be no
more bulletins to-night. Up to 10:30 there
was no evidence of collapse: in fact the arch-
bishop at 10:40 talked with his secretary.
About 11 o’cloek, however, the trained
nurses who had charge at the bedside no-
ticed a change. Acting on instructions the
physicians were telephoned for.
At the same time the archbishop’s two
brothers were summoned to the room, as
well as a number of priests. It was
quickly seen by the physicians that the end
was at band and in less than a quarter of
an hour his grace was dead. His last mo-
ments were peaceful and without evidence
of suffering.
Besides the two brothers of the archbish-
op, there were present in the room a dozen
priests, among them Father Lavelle, rector
of the cathedral; a Mexican bishop, the
Rev. Dr. Starrante, Italian secretary to the
archbishop, and Father Carley, his English
secretary.
THE ARCHBISHOP MADE A BRILLIANT REC-
ORD AS A STUDENT.
NEw YORK, May 5.—The Most Rev.
Michael Augustine Corrigan, D. E., was
born at Newark, N. J., in 1840. His pa-
rents came from Leinster, Ireland. After
having been graduated from the schools of
his native place, he was sent to St. Mary’s
college, in Emmitsburg, Md.
After leaving St. Mary’s in 1859, having
made a brilliant record as a student, he
went to Europe to take holy orders. In
Rome he was one of the thirteen students
who registered in the American college
when it was opened. He devoted two years
to the preliminary studies of the college
and then began the study of theology.
Although ordained a priest by Cardinal
Patrizi in the Lateran basilican in 1863,
he remained in the American college anoth-
er year and won the degree of doctor of
divinity. Dr. Corrigan then sailed for
home and reported on his arrival to Bishop
Bayley in Newark, who at once assigned
him to the professorship of dogmatic theol-
ogy and sacred scriptures, as well as to the
directorship, of Seton Hall college. Later
the Rev. Father Corrigan became vice pre-
sident of the college and, when only 28
years, became president of that institution.
When Bishop Bayley visited Rome, in
1870, Dr. Corrigan became the administra-
tor and vicar general of Newark. He was
consecrated bishop by Cardinal McCloskey,
on May 4, 1873, and remained in charge of
the diocese at Newark for seven years.
He consecrated forty two new churches,
among them the cathedral in Newark. Be-
sides these achievements, he established
many religious communities and founded a
home for erring women and a reformatory
for boys.
Owing to his successful administration of
his diocese, Dr. Corrigan was selected to be
coadjutor of Cardinal McCloskey. On Oct.
1, 1880, he was raised to the archiepiscopal
see of Petra and made coadjutor with the
right of succession. When Cardinal Mec-
Closkey died Archbishop Corrigan succeed-
ed to the see of New York.
Career... of Bret. Harte is Eaded.
Poet of American Mine and Camp Passed Away
Monday Night at Camberley, England. His
Death Came Suddenly.
LoNDON; May 6.--Bret Harte, the Amer-
ican author, died suddenly last night at
the Red House, Camberley, near Aldershot,
from hemorrhage. caused by an affection of
the throat. Mr. Harte had been living
quietly in Eogland for years. Most of his
time was spent in the country, and when
in London he was almost equally secluded,
having few visitors to his rooms at Lancas-
ter Gate and only going to the houses of a
limited number of very intimate friends.
Several months ago, when a false report of
his death was circulated in America, he
langhed heartily and quoted Mark Twain's
old saying about the report being greatly
exageerated. ‘‘Except for a little cold,’’
said Mr. Harte, ‘I have no ailments or
complaints. While Iam getting to hea
pretty old man—pointing to his snow-white
bair—there is life in the old dog yet,’’ and
thereupon he lit a cigar so large that it
would have done credit to any of his Poker
Flat friends. He was hoping, he also said,
to do more work, but he confessed he was
growing lazy. :
Mr. Harte had been suffering from en-
larged tonsils since December, but he did
not consider the attack to be serious. A
week ago he went to visit friends at Cam-
berley, and was present at lunch as usual,
yesterday. He suddenly became ill in the
afternoon, went to bed and died in a few
hours. His end was peaceful.
Bret (Francis) Harte was horn in Al-
bany, N.Y., Aug. 25th, 1839. Early in
life he went to the California mining re-
gion and later engaged in newspaper work.
He was secretary of the United States
branch mint in San Francisco from 1864 to
1867; editor of the Overland Monthly in New
York, 1870 to 1878; consul at Crefeld, Ger-
many, 1878 to 1880, and consul at Glasgow,
Scotland, 1880 to 1885. He since bas re-
sided in London.
Among his best known works are: ‘‘The
Heathen Chinee,”” ‘Luck of ‘Roaring
Camp,’ ‘‘East and West Poems;”’ ‘‘Echoes
of the Foothills,” “Tales of the Argo-
nauts,”’ “Two men of Sandy Bar,” ‘Flip
and Found at Blazing Star,’”’ *‘On the
Frontier,”” ‘‘Snowbound at Eagle’s,”’
‘“Three Partners,”’ ‘‘Barker’s Luck,’”’ and
‘Tales of Train and Town.”’
What the Truth Would Do.
From the Chicago Chronicle (Dem.)
Several ardent but disconcerted support-
ers of the administration are frantically ap-
pealing to Messrs. Roosevelt and Root to
*‘tell the truth’’ about the situation in the
Philippines.
To tell the truth about the little burean
of despotism which Mr. Root maintains in
the War Department would probable cause
an extensive public demand that some-
body should be hanged hy the neck.
To tell the truth on this subject would
necessitate the upsetting of press censor-
ships, the removal of innumerable gags,
the restoration of various capable officers
of the army and navy to positions of in-
fluence and the retirement of as fine an
assortment of lickspittles as the world ever
saw.
To tell the truth would invite the im-
peachment of Elibu Root.
The truth will be told about two years
hence, when a Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives will be in session.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
O. T. Switzer,
Made =a
of Philipsburg, has
Rich Strike in Brit-
ish—Columbta.
Some of our readers will remember
with interest the letters which were pub-
lished from time to time in the WATCH-
MAN of Mr. O. T. Switzer’s journey of ex-
ploration through Alaska and British—
Columbia. >
Mr. Switzer lefe his home in Philips-
burg in 1897 and with two others started
for the land of the midnight sun. After
reaching Seattle the party engaged passage
on the only available steamer, leaving,
that port for Skagway through the
the inland passage. The vessel was ship-
wrecked after she was two days out, and
many of the passengers and crew-lost their
lives. Mr. Switzer and his friends landed
at the nrouth of the Stickeen river, where
they buoilt boats and began to ascend
the river with Teslin Lake as an objecs-
ive point. The awful hardships of this un-
dertaking can bardly be described. ‘The
current being very swift frequently several
of the party by means of ropes had to work
for days pulling the boats from the bank,
while those on board were poling. This
severe toil, coupled with the incessant rain
and the rigors of the climate, brought on
very severe illnesses, and the sick and dis-
couraged taking some of the hoats started
back for the coast and eventually reach
ed home. But .nothing daunted Mr.
Switzer, with true Centre county gris.
pushed his way into the interior and
when the great gold discovery was
made on Pine creek in the Atlin
District of British Columbia, Mr. Switzer
was among the first on the grounds, and
suceeded in locating some of the moss val-
‘ unable property in the entire region.
_ The nomadic character of the average min-
ing boomer is well known. He is never sat-
isfied with well enough and as soon as some
other strike was made miners who had
really valuable claims picked up stakes
and struck out for far off fields which look-
ed greener, but still Switzer stuck and as
these miners abandoned their claims he re-
staked them and after spending four years
he acquired 3 miles of Pine creek, with the
valley on each side,in all 1280 acres, where
he sank shafts to bed rock on every
claim at a cost of upward of $30,000.
He came back to civilization with
the object of securing capital sufficient to
place upon the property a giant Risdon
dredge, the only modern method of
digging and washing out gold in large
quantities. This dredge is being used
on the Feather and Sacramento rivers
in California, with wonderful success.
It consists of an endless chain of
buckets, each bucket weighing a ton. These
buckets dig up the dirt to any depth re
quired and carrying it up over a large cross
beam damp them at the rate of 18 per
minute into a large screen 25 feet long by
8 feet in diameter, filled. with perfora-
tions. A stream of water of three
thousand gallons per minute passes through
the screen as it revolves and the gold is
washed out on gold saving tables and the
gravel and boulders are elevated by anoth-
er chain of buckets to a dump at the rear
of the dredge. Mr. Switzer spent several
months in California investigating this
modern machine and has placed an order
for their largest type, which will dig 5,000
cubic yards per day at a cost of 5 cents per
yard. This dredge does the work of 500
men and does it better.
The prominent banking and brokerage
house of Benj. C. Warnick & Co., of Phila-
delphia have, after four months of exhaus-
tive investigation, decided to finance Mr.
Switzer’s proposition. A corporation bas
been organized called the British- American:
Dredging Co. with a capitalization of $2,-
"000,000, par value $1.00. ;
The first $100,000 shares are being sold
for 50 cents per share and a large portion
of this has already been taken by Mr.
Switzer’s friends. It is indeed gratifying
to note the success which attends ambition,
grit and brains. Mr. Switzer deserves
all the success which he has achieved. He
worked for it, he endured hardships which
few men would have endured, and is des-
tined, within a very few years, to be a very
prosperous and wealthy man.
Memorial Day.
All Should Prepare for the Loving Duty that Will
8oon Be Ours —Honer the Nation's Dead.
Gen. Orders No. 11.
Time, in 1ts flight, brings once more the
season when our thoughts recur to the past,
when war with all its horrors darkened our
land, and rent asunder the bond of unity,
sealed by the blood of the heroes of the
Revolution. Happily to-day, the Angel of
Peace spreads her wings over our country,
which is united under one flag, the Em-
blem of Liberty. Again we approach the
time when, with flowers of spring, we
stand beside the graves, in which lie the
forms of our veteran comrades, who gave so
mach to their country.
I. Our annual Memorial Day ritual is a
simple one, that appeals to the warmest
sympathy of the heart. ‘‘We meet for no
empty show, 01 useless parade, but to tes-
tify from full and overflowing hearts, that
the remembrances of their sacrifices have
not grown dim with passing years.’’
“With sable draped banners and slow measured
tread,
The flower laden ranks pass the gates of the
dead ; :
And seeking each mound where a comrade’s
form rests,
Leave tear bedewed garland to bloom on his
breast.”
II. Posts will arrange for Divine
Service on Sunday. This custom has now
become general, and Post Commanders
should urge upon comrades a full attend-
ance in G. A. R. uniform.
III. Wherever practicable, visits to the
public schools should be made and lessons
of patriotism should be taught to the chil-
dren. It needs no flowery oration to in-
terest the pupils in our schools.
IV. In localities where there are more
than one Post, arrangements will be made
by them for division of the work. Inter-
est your friends and societies in your vi-
cinity, to join in the ceremonies of Memor-
ial Day.
V. Comrades, keep in mind the mean-
ing of this beautiful observance, and deter-
mine you will give this day in remem-
brance of your dead comrades. Excursions,
games and other frivolous enjoyment should
be ignored on this sacred day, by every
Somrade of the Grand Army of the Repub-
ic.
By command of Department Commander
Levi G. McCauley.
How It Goes There.
From the New York World.
It is a fine illustration of the predica-
ment we are in when a Filipino editor in
Manila is put in jail for sedition because
he republished some of the speeches and
articles that were freely circulated without
objection in the United States.
Smith Denounced as a Monster in Ha-
man Form.
For Almost Four Hours a Fiery Discussion of the.
Philippine Question Raged in the Senate Wednesday
It Was Started by Mr. Beveridge. 4
WASHINGTON, May 6.—For almost four
hours to-day a fiery discussion of the Phil-
ippine situation raged in the senate. It
was started by Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana,
who made some sharp strictures on the
members of the opposition, because, he
said, they presist in talking in their
speeches on only one side of the story.
While he admitted that some outrages had
been committed hy American soldiers in
the Philippines. It was true, too, that un-
paralleled kindness had heen shown by the
American troops to Filipino prisoners and
Filipino wounded. Food and medicine, he
said, had heen shared with them, and they
had been succored on the battlefield and
cared for tenderly in the hospital. While
saying that the omission to tell this side of
the story by the Democrats was uninten-
tional, he suggested that it was unfair to
make an arraignment of the American sol-
dier and not tell both sides.
Mr. Carmack and Mr. Rawlins warmly
resented any imputation of unfairness.
Mr. Rawlins declared that no partism mo-
tives had actuated the opponents of the
present Philippine policy, but that they
were moved only by patriotism and love of
country.
Mr. Turner, of Washington, delivered a
scathing criticism of the methods practiced
by the military authorities in the Philip-
pines, dwelling particularly on the alleged
order of General Smith, whom he denounc-
ed as a monster in human form. He nrged
the Philippine committee to turn all the
light possible on the Philippiue question to
the end that the people might be fully in-
formed on the sitmation. Mr. Hoar, of
Massachusetts, briefly defended the action
of the Philippine committee, saying that
already it had farnished much valued in-
formation. He urged that the committee,
in all justice, should call some prominent
Filipinos to testify in their own behalf.
THREE DESKS DRAPED IN HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 6.—The House to-
day adjourned immediately after the read-
ing of the journal out of respect to the
memory of Representative J. S. Salmon, of
New Jersey. This is the third consecutive
legislative day on which the House bas paid
a similar tribute of respect to one of its de-
ceased members. Never before in the his-
tory of the House have three desks been
draped at the same time. The dead mem-
bers are Messrs. Cammings, Otey and Sal-
mon. :
Better That the War Continue.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.)
To say that civilization must fight sav-
agery with equal savagery would be to de-
clare civilization a failure. We did not
find it necessary to exterminate the Sioux
or the Apaches. Neither can we be per-
suaded that it was necessary for a civilized
nation of nearly 80,000,000 to exterminate,
or to menace with extermination, a people
of half a million.
The plea that the order did not mean
what it said is not satisfactory. The Eng-
lish language is not ambiguous. It isa
pretty direct and explicit vehicle of expres-
sion. An order to ‘‘kill and burn’ does
not mean to spare life and property. An
order to kill ‘‘everybody over 10 years’
does not mean to spare women and chil-
dren. An order to make a country ‘‘a
howling wilderness’”’ does not mean to
leave it habitable by women and children
under 10 years of age. As a matter of fact,
the order was worse than -its terms, for the
killing of all over 10 years of age meant
surely that all under that age would perish,
too, of starvation and neglect. Herod was
more merciful. He killed only the chil-
dren, leaving the parents to live. Under
General Smith's order the parents were to
be killed, leaving the children to die. The
exception of those under 10 years was not
merciful.
It may be that the order was effective.
So was the sacking of Magdeburg. It may
be that ‘‘without General Smith’s drastic
measures the war there would not be ended
yet,”” though we do not believe it. Buf
even 80, it would have been better to bave
a year or two more of civilized warfare
than even a day or two of such a campaign
as this order prescribed.
Mrs. Foley's Cure for Drumnkenness.
From the Johnstown Tribune.
To Mrs. Thomas Foley, of the town of
English, Ind., we cheerfully award the
palm for heing a good wife and an original
woman. Her Thomas is not the best man
in the world, and various efforts to reform
him had ended in failure. He beat her.
He came home drunk. And finally he got
80 he occasionally would not come home at
all. All these things had their effect on
Mis. Foley, but she did not sit down and
shed tears over them. She sat down and
shed a few thoughts. Then she prepared
to act. She waited until the next time
Foley failed to come home, and then set
out to find him. She discovered him help-
less, presumably intoxicated, in a pasture.
Mrs. Foley procured a rope and a bag of
salt. = Binding Tom securely with the
former, she rubbed salt into his hair and
clothes and All over his face, and left him
for the cows to do the rest. When Foley
was discovered next morning his hair was
cropped from his head, his clothing eaten
from his body, and his skin was worn raw
in many places by the tongues of the bovine
salt lovers. Tom seems to be an unappre-
ciative cuss, and so has applied for a di-
vorce. Whether from the wife or the cows
is not stated, and probably Tom doesn’t
care.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
—The Lock Haven council has decided
to lay 20 mills tax for city purposes this
year.
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——1If yon come now, we offer our $4
Photos for $1.69 the dozen, at Mallory &
Taylor.
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——John Clouser, of Morrisdale, was
held up near Philipsburg last Friday night
and robbed of $27.00.
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——New patent leather shoes at $2.25,
Lyon & Co.
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——1If nature ever produces a fairer day
than was last Saturday some sort of an
award of exceptional merit should be made.
AA ia res
——The time for the Belford lecture in
Petriken hall has been set for Thursday
evening, May 220d. You should not miss
it.
ee A ern
——The tenth annual tournament of the
Altoona Rod and Gun club will take place
in the Mountain City on May 30th and
31st. LL
——Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, of Philadel-
phia, will attend the eleventh annual cou-
vention of the Altoona district Epworth
League to be held in Philipshurg ou May
15th and 16th.
—An infant son of J. E. Kooney, of
Coburn, died on Saturday and was buried
Tuesday.
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——Rev. John Reams, one of the pioneer
settlers of Clearfield county, died at his
home uear Luthersburg the other day, aged
82 years. He was born in Brush valley
this county, and was a minister of the
Lutheran church. His parents settled in
Clearfield county in 1836.
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——XKathryn Elizabeth Woomer died at
the home of her parents near Rock Miils
on Friday, May 2ud, and was buried in
Meyer’s cemetery on Sunday morning at
11:30. The little girl was born July
27th, 1899, and was just 1 year, 9 months
and 5 days old when her precious life was
ended by diseases that followed an attack
of measles.
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——Thomas Perry Waddle Jr., a son of
the venerable Thomas Waddle, died at his
home in Jersey Shore. last Wednesday
from the effects of heart disease, though
the primary cause of his death is supposed
to have been worriment over the outcome
of an accident that happened two months
ago. He was out driving when he acci-
dentally ran down a child. It died from
the effects of the injury and Mr. Waddle
brooded over the accident ever afterwards.
He was forty-one years old and is'survived
by his father and brothers Benner and
Bryson. A number of relatives live in and
about Bellefonte.
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Mrs. Roy HoOOVER.—Mrs. Maggie
Hoover, wife of Roy Hoover, of Linden
Hall, died on Sunday morning, after a ling-
ering illness with consumption. It was
caused by an attack of grip she suffered
some time ago. Deceased was a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Poorman, of Linden
Hall, and was about 36 years old.
Surviving her are husband, one child, her
parents and brother Sidney, as well as her
sisters, Mrs. Mary Markle and Mrs. Eliza-
beth Homan. ;
Interment was made at the Branch on
Tuesday.
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MRs. JAcoB Hicks.—Mrs. Polly Hicks,
wife of Jacob Hicks, died at her home one
mile and a half west of Stormstown on
Wednesday, April 30th, of paralysis. She
was over seventy years of age and had
lived a most exemplary life. She is sur-
vived by her husband, one son and four
daughters, John D., who lives on the farm
adjoining his father’s, Mrs. Charles Thomp-
son, Mrs. Peters, Sylvas and another
dsughter. She was a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church from childhood and
the’ funeral services on Friday were : con-
ducted hy her pastor, Rev. E. L. Eslinger.
Interment was made in Gray’s burying
ground. ?
A PROMINENT PHILIPSBURGER EX-
PIRES.—L. G. Kessler, one of the early
day lumber operators and merchants in the
Philipsburg region, passed away at his
home in that place about noon last Thurs-
day. He had been in poor health for a
long time, but sustained by a wonderful
vitality it seemed that he might linger for
a long time, when two succeeding strokes
of paralysis cut short that hope.
Deceased was born at Lewistown, March
18th, 1818. Ou October 3rd, 1839, he mar-
ried Susan Wilson, a daughter of Hon.
Matthew Wilson, of Huntingdon county,
and two of their five children survive.
Early in the sixties he Jocated in Philips-
burg, where he afterwards became promi-
nent in business circles. He had always
been active in the work of the Methodist
church and was regarded as one of the
town’s most useful citizens. Interment
was made on Monday afternoon.
I I I
Mrs. C. H. STRUBLE.—The death of
Mrs. Sarah Mitchell Struble, wife of Conrad
H. Struble, mention of which was made in
last week’s WATCHMAN, was not surprising
in-as-much as she had not enjoyed good
health for many years and bad suffered in-
tensely for weeks. The cause of her death,
which cccurred at her home at State Col-
lege on Thursday afternoon, was fatty
degeneracy of the heart. Funeral services
were held on Monday afternoon, first at the
family home at State College and later in
in the Presbyterian church at Pine Grove,
of which she had been a member for more
than fifty years. Her pastor, Rev. Hepler,
conducted theservices and burial was made
"in the cliurch yard.
A member of one of the oldest and most
honorable families in the county, Mrs.
Struble was a daughter of David and Sarah
Barron Mitchell. She was one of a family
of six children and was horn at the old
home near Pine Grove 72 years ago on the
3rd of last January. She was married when
thirty years of age to Mr. Struble and with
the exception of six years residence in
Missouri and Kansas, most of her life was
spent in Ferguson township. In her
younger days she was a woman of unusual
charm and vigor, and a hostess so generous
and able that even after the death of her
mother she kept her old home famed for
its hospitality. The closing years of her
life were somewhat shadowed by ill health
and adverse circumstances, but she retained
her lovable disposition and sympathetic
personality to the last.”
She is survived by her husband, her two
daughters, Sarah and Mary, her sister Mrs,
Eliza M. Campbell, of Linden Hall, and
husband’s three sons, by a former marriage,
to whom she was all that a mother could be.
VERY LITLE DONE AT COUNCIL—Presi-
dent Reynolds and members Potter, Gher-
rity, Kirk, Knisely, Cunningham and
Mallory were present at the meeting of
council Monday evening.
Very little business of importance was
transacted aside from the decision not to
rebuild the foot bridge over Spring creek
at the round house. At a previous meet-
ing of council it was decided to build the
bridge should the solicitor deem council
warranted in doing so. He presented a
lengthy opinion, however, in which he
stated that inasmuch as there is no street
or regularly opened alley at that point
council has no right to baild the bridge.
Besides, being done against the protest of
the P. R. R. Co., should anybody crossing
it be killed on the railroad tracks the bor-
ough would probably be liable for dam-
ages. While the failure to rebuild will be
a great inconvenience to people living in
that vicinity, the fact that council does not
feel warranted to do it does not prevent
them from doing is as a private enterprise.
A few barrels sunk in the stream and filled
with stones would make good piersand $10
worth of lumber would make a walk across
such as could be used by the mechanics
who have to get back and forth there from
their homes to their work.
The matter of rebuilding the board-walk
along Water street was taken up and dur-
ing the discussion of the question Dr. Kirk
suggested that council once for all have the
matter of liability for walks etc., along the
stream settled. The WATCHMAN has re-
peatedly urged council to take such a course
in order to establish the rightful owner-
ship and responsibility for the banks of the
stream and is pleased to see that it is to be
settled, even at this late date.
Complaints were beard as to the danger
caused by blasting at the quarries of the
American Co. It was referred to the
Nuisance committee. A request of the
residents of east High street to have Pike
alley opened to the borough limits was re-
ferred to the Street committee, as were sev-
eral other minor requests pertaining to that
department. »
The treasurer reported the condition of
the borough's finances as follows :
Received.
1902 April 7—H. 8. Taylor........... ceeveens $ 200.00
7—C. F. Cook.... 156.22
— nai. 43.30
11—Thos. Shaughnessy.......... 12.55
19—Geo. L. Potter order........ 2000.00
19—Thos. Shaughnessy... 11.91
21—Hugh 8. Taylor...... 350.00
May 5— ¢ $8 1ivinaee 260.00
5—Thos. Shaughnessy.......... 12.50
$2986.48
Disbursed.
1902—April 7—Bal. due Treas....... $1002.13
May 5—Boro. Orders paid... 947.23
5—Water ow A19:97
$2428.63
Balance in treasury May 5.......ccceveeireennnns $557.
Bills were approved as follows and coun-
cil adjourned.
Street pay roll....cc.ciinireniiinenisine sinseisise
John I. Olewine, hardware..... 181
FE: 'E. Hl. Co: light for streets. 370 40
Polite pay rollin ihin Anan ... 50 00
Bellefonte Gas Co. heating buildings......... 37 00
E. E. 111. Co. lighting public buildings....... 12 00
Water pay YOl...ciniccnssstirinsss inssensssison “ 94 63
Bft. Fuel & Supply Co., coal.......... .. 68 63
E. E. IIL Co., light for water works............ 170
John I. Olewine, hardware for water works 2 50
Bellefonte Republican, printing statements 25 00
Daily News inserting notice....... ee LIN
Boro auditors, auditing sccounts............... 95 00
$303 01
Lr ee TE
——The Coleville band concert in Petri-
ken hall Tuesday evening was a decided
success from every point, except that of at-
tendance. The band played so brilliantly
and there was such a charm about the other
features of the entertainment that it is real-
ly a shame there were not more people
there to enjoy it. If there was one num-
ber hetter than another it was the over-
ture ‘‘Pique Dame’’ by Suppe. Iu its ren-
dition director Bryant's musicians showed
a finish and skill that was surprising, even
to those hess acquainted with the creditable
work of the organization. Miss Elizabeth
Faxon’s readings contributed’ much to the
pleasure of all, while the singing of Mr. M.
F. Hasel, Francis J. Saunders and Russel
Campbell brought forth rounds of {applause
Billy Ryan’s dancing and whistling was
well received, also, and the pictures by
Mallory and Taylor were an ever present
reminder that we have in our midst a firm
of artists who are just as obliging as they
are exceptional in their work.
Sl get
——Children’s slippers, lowest prices,
Lyon & Co.
Seen
——The Y. M. C. A. has issued a very
neat leaflet ‘containing a summary of the
past year’s work and an outline of what is
to be done during the current year.
It is clear that the members of the asso-
ciation have donea great deal of hard
work.
The people of the town have given gen-
erous support to the work and it is grati-
fying to know that the money has heen
well spent. .
That the real aim of the organization has
not been overlooked is very evident from
the fact that quite a number of the young
men who frequent the rooms have been led
to become christians.
On an average, one hundred young men
visits the association each day, showing
that they appreciate the privileges of-
fered. =
* While the past year has been a success-~
ful one, it is planned to make 1902 even
more so. This can be done if the same
generous support that was given last year
is continued during this one.
That the management is good is evident
from a glance at the board of directors,
which follows: Prof. Jas. R. Hughes,
Pres. ; Darins Waite, Vice Pres. ; C. K. Hick-
len, Sec’y. ; Thos. Moore, Treas. ;J. W. Gep-
hart, H. B. Heylmun, C. C. Shuey, Geo.
R. Meek, C. T. Gerberich, H. I. Hartranft,
C. F. Montgomery and Jas. Shook.