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War in the Philipp! nes.
A town called Surigao in the Philippine
Islands was captured last Monday by Lad-
rones. That is to say the natives of the
Island of Mindanao made an attack on the
American garrison of that town and after a
spirited conflict conquered it. Happily
there were no American soldiers killed for
they are not called soldiers there anymore .
In support of the fiction that the territory
has been pacified and that civil govern-
ment has been established the troops are
called the Constabulary and the command-
ing officer is known as the Inspector. For
that reason the news dispatches tell ussim-
ply that Constabulary Inspector CLARKE
and several others were killed in the en-
counter.
In Ireland the English troops who collect
exorbitant rents from the impoverished
native tenantry at the point of the bayonet
are called the Constabulary. The name
has a sonorous sound and conveys the idea
of peace and fraternity. Where there is
war there is also military equipment and
titles. The colonels and majors and cap-
tains suggest swords aul bayonets and
rapid firing guns in thesedays of progress
and development. But the Constabulary
is composed of peace officials who have no
thoughts other than those of pastoral and
suburban life. One would hardly expect
to find a constable with a musket. I
would be an incongruous picture which
presented such a spectacle.
In the Philippines, however, things are
different. The Constabulary there wear
uniforms and carry muskets just as soldiers
here do and when the Constabulary Inspect-
or in Surigao, Island of Mindanao, Philip-
pine Islands is killed by the Ladrones there
is a vacancy in the ranks of the subalterans
of the Americar army. The confusion of
sound in giving details of the event de-
ceives the general public but there is no
misunderstanding in the records of the
War Department at Washington. There
it is understood that the pretense that the
Philippine Islands have been pacified is
false and fraudulent, for the natives are
still maintaining an armed resistance
against our usurpation.
Party’s Promises Pigeonholed.
No Effort at Harrisburg io Redeem Quay’s Cam
paign Pledges. Fake Ballot Reform.
Frank Bell, the special correspondent of
the Philadelphia North American, writes to
his paper the following as to the prospects
of reform legislation during the present
session of the Legislature, and the efforts
that are being made to carry out the prom-
ises made the people last fall.
HARRISBURG, March 21.—If the man-
agers of the Republican organization in
Pennsylvania are making the slightest
effort to see that the more important
pledges of the last State campaign shall be
fulfilled by the present Legislature, such
effort is not in evidence.
Only twenty actual working days of the
session remain; yet no move has been made
toward the enactment of laws for ballot re-
form, personal registration or Legislative
apportionment.
At the opening of the campaign for Judge
Pennypacker for Governor, last fall, Sen-
ator Quay personally and through the Re-
publican State committee, of which he is
chairman, conceded the great need of radi-
cal changes in the election laws of the State
and pledged the best efforts of himself and
his organization to the accomplishment
of that reform in the present Legislative
session.
NOTHING OF REFORM IN IT.
Senator Quay’s committee failed to pro-
duce its promised ballot bill. Senator
Focht, of Union, who was not a member of
that committee, has introduced the only
general election measure emanating from a
Republican source. It is said to have heen
approved by Senator Quay.
Except for a purely mechanical reduction
in the size of the ballot, however, there is
not even a pretense of ‘‘reform?’ about this
measure. It merely substitutes a party
“‘square’’ for a party ‘‘circle,”’ making no
correction of the present discrimination
against the independent voter in the mark-
ing of his ticket.
What is more to the point, the Focht
bill remains in committee. There are in-
timations that it may come out this week
‘‘for appearances’ sake,” but even if it
were to be adopted it would in no way ful-
fill the ‘‘ballot reform’’ campaign pledges
on the strength of which, in part, the Quay
organization was enabled to elect the pres
ent Governor.
REGISTRATION BILL SLEEPS.
Pensoonal registration is faring no better,
The bill of Representative Hutt, of Phila-
delphia, introduced many weeks ago, still
reposes in the House committee, with no
indication of ever seeing the light. It is
designed to carry into effect the recently-
allopted constitutional amendment permit-
ting personal registration in cities, but it
has been given as little encouragement as
though the Republican organization were
not under pledge to enact some such law.
As for Senatorial and Representive ap-
portionment, the plain command of the
Constitution, the party promises and the
recommendations of Governor Pennypacker
in his inaugural address have been ignored
utterly.
SMOTHERED IN COMMITTEE.
No one has attempted even to draft a
bill to reapportion the Senatorial districts
of the State, and the single Representative
apportionment bill introduced by Mr. Mec-
Whinney, of Allegheny, early in the ses-
sion, has not heen acted on hy the House
committee.
The determination of the: Democrats to
make formal demand next week that some-
thing be done with their ballot bills is, of
course; merely with a view of shaping’ ap
their own récord, and not with any idea
that they can force the Republican majority
into fulfilling its promises as to election
laws or reapportionment. i,
Epiror |
NOTHING FOR THE MINERS,
Profuse
tion for the m and other elements of
organized labor find no reflection in the
attitude of this Legislature.
Three or four bills of interest to the
anthracite miners have been permitted to
go throagh the House with scarcely any
opposition, simply because the machine
leaders have absolute confidence in the
readiness of their Senate committee on
mines and mining to see that such meas-
ures get no farther.
That committee has been named ‘‘the
graveyard for labor legislation.’” It was
selected with such care that not a single
Senator from an anthracite county got a
place on it.
As a result, the House members are free
to ‘“‘make good records’ on all miners’
bills without endangering in the slightest
degree the interests of the machine’s cor-
porate campaign contributors.
Goes Back on Their Promise of Ballot |
Reform.
Quay’s Promise Thrown to the Winds by His Legisia-
ture. How the People Were Decieved is Shown By
the Actions of the Republican Members of the
House.
HARRISBURG, March 23.—The Demo-
crats of the House of Representatives to-
night made their anticipated effort to rescue
their ballot reform bill from the fatal em-
braces of the committee on elections. They
succeeded only in forcing the Republican
majority to put itself on record against any
ballot reform.
Mr. Ikeler, of Columbia, offered the
resolution. It was to the effect that the
committee be dischaged from further con-
sideration of the general election bill he
introduced a month ago, at the instance
and with the approval of the Democratic
caucus. In a pertinent speech in favor of
his resolution Mr. Ikeler said :
‘In offering this resolution I may be look-
ed upon as inaugurating a partisan move-
ment. I may be criticised for attempting to
make political capital out of the question now
under consideration.
While I would not presume to advise the
majority party in this House, yet I sincerely
believe that the adoption of this resolution
will prove as advantageous to you as to us.
Whatever differences nay divide the great
political parties on other matters, both the
Republican and Democratic members of this
House stand bound to the cause of a better
allot.
QUAY WAS FOR IT 13 YEARS AGO.
As far back as 1890, on the public stage at
West Chester, no lessa man than Senator
Quay himself announced the necessity of bal-
lot reform and pledged his varty to its sup-
port. From that time to this, Republican
platform, Republican leaders and Republican
newspapers have promised our people this
much needed relief. Has it been the fault of
fae Minority that these pledges have not been
ept
In the session of 1901 I had the honor of
introducing a ballot bill, and I likewise had
the experience of seeing it go down to over-
whelming defeat. But even that Legislature,
gone into history as the acme and climax of
all things evil, had the saving grace to allow
the Democratic ballot bills to be reported on
the floor of the House.
Bat in this body we not only refuse to pass
ballot reform; we even disdain to consider
it. For three months we have been in ses-
sion; our calendars are overflowing with bills;
debates have been frequentand prolonged;
but in all this time, out of all this multitu-
dinous business, I have yet to hear one sin-
gle sentence uttered in behalf of the cause
that lies at the foundation of all government
and patriotism—an honest ballot and a fair
election.
KEPT A GOVERNOR BUSY.
Since the organization of this House we
have kept a Governor busy correcting our
grammar and probing our morals. We have
risen in righteous indignation over the
wrongs done to squirrels and rabbits and
bullfrogs and terrapin. We sprang to the
relief of the gentleman from Philadelphia on
the subject of reedbirds, and we debated long
and wisely over ox-eyed daisies and wild car-
rot. But through it all the ballot bills have
slept the sleep of death in the pigeonholes of
the Elections Committee.
I am not skilled in the intricacies of run-
ning a Legislature. I do not understand the
system of centralized power that enables you
to vote down a measure in the morning, re-
consider it before the noon adjournment and
unanimously pass it before evening. I do not
pretend to have caught the full meaning of
that matchless word, ‘‘orders,” but I do de-
votedly wish that there was to be found in
Pennsylvania to-night, or, if not in Pennsyl-
vania, then in some balmy corner of the
Florida peninsnla, a voice mighty enough to
at least allow us a report on this bill, and a
fair consideration of its merits.
I may be told that this resolution is unnec-
essary; that this bill will be considered by the
Eociumiitee in due form and at the proper
time.
Mr. Speaker, there comes a time when
moral conviction deepens into certainty and
I do not believe that the bill will ever be con-
sidered. Certainly, there is not a man with.
in sound of my voice but knows that with
only a few weeks left of this session, if it is
to be reported at all, it must be reported now.
And, moreover, Isincerely trust that what-
ever you do with this resolution will be done
frankly and openly. I hope we will not he
met with that timeworn subterfuge about
“reflecting upon the committee.”
DEMANDS IMMEDIATE REPLY.
Let there be no pretense, let us here and
now, squarely meet this single question :
Shall there be any consideration of Ballot
Reform by this Legislature ?
The answer to thisquestion rests with your
all powerful majority. We have presented
our hill. We have made our fight and our
hands are clean. You can and will do as you
please. But let me say this, in all sincerity
and without bitterness, if you continue to ig-
nore this question of Ballot Reform, if youn
persist in making pledges only to violate
them, if you remain wilfully deaf to the call
of the people, even you will sooner or later
awake tothe discovery that there yet re-
mains in Pennsylvania a power that is high-
er than political ‘‘orders,’”” that is stronger
than any band of political leaders, and before
which your much boasted organization will
disappear like a tissue of cobwebs in the path
of a mighty tempest.”
Mr. Mayne, Democrat, of Lehigh, de-
clared there was abundant proof of the
assertion that anything Senator Quay
wants, in the heavens above or the earth
beneath, or the waters under the earth, he
can have in Pennsylvania. * Therefore, the
responsibility for the defeat of ballot re-
form would rest on Quay.
‘“r00 BUSY,’’ PLUMMER’S EXCUSE.
Mr. Plummer, of Blair, chairman of the
elections committee, replied to tne remarks
of *‘the new Democratic leader and his
satellite,”’ as he termed them. :
Mr. Plummer said that the elections
committee had beer unable to give the bill
in question any attention, because it had
been busy ‘‘investigating Democratic frauds
in the counties of Cameron and Luzerne,’’
where there are contests for seats in the
House.
He admitted that the majority party had
promised the people ballot reform, and said
that a bill embodying the views of the ma-
jority on that subject (the Fooht bill) was
already under way in the Senate and
would likely reach the House some time
this week"
The resolution was defeated, by a strict
party vote of 113 to 37.
! Opening Day's Work of the Methodist
assurances of considera: | *
Conference at Altoona.
Large Attendance and Great Interest Manifested.
The thirty-fifth annual session of the
Central Pennsylvania conference of the
Methodist church convened in Altoona,
Wednesday morning. When at 9 o'clock
Bishop Cranstor called the conference to
order in the Eighth avenue M. E. church,
more than two hundred members of that
body were in their seats.
After devotional exercises, the roll of the
conference was called by Rev. T. S. Wil-
cox, D. D. The transfer of Rev. Josiah L.
Albritton, D. D., to this conference was
announced. Rev. T. S. Wilcox, D. D.,
was elected secretary of the conference and
named as his assistants A. L. Miller, J. F.
Anderson, M. C. Piper and William Brill.
Rev. John Horning was elected treas-
urer and named as his assistants G. E.
King, F. W. Leidy, E. E. Harter, O. H.
Albertson, F. C. Buyers, J. H. Price, H.
K. Ash, A. 8. Williams, M. N. Walker, J.
C. Grimes and W. J. Shaffer.
Rev. R. J. Allen was elected statistical
secretary and named as his assistants G. F.
Boggs, M. S. Derstine, W. L. Armstrong,
J. T. Bell, R.M. Snyder, J. E. Brenne-
man, Herbert Hinkle.
Resolutions welcoming EARL Cranston,
D. D. L. L. D. as presiding Bishop and re-
gretting the illness of Bisbop Merrill, who
bad been assigned to preside over the con-
ference, were present and a short letter from
Bishop Merrill, voicing his disappointment
at not being able to perform the duties
witen Bishop Cranston among other things
were adopted said :
“I am here unexpectedly to do my
best with you and for you. Whether this
conference will be a religious one to you
will depend upon how much religion you
have brought up to it. Idle gossip is the
bane of many a Methodist conference. Do
not gossip about the appointments and so
cause anxiety to your brethren and the
charges. The appointments are not made
by the newspapers or in the lobby but in
the cabinet by the bishop. I belong to all
of you. From 1.30 to 2.30 each day I
shall be glad to see any minister or com-
mittee. The cabinet will meet every af-
ternoon at 2.30 in the parlor of the
church.
Last night’s meeting has made one thing
plain—the person who wants a seat at the
evening sessions will have to get there on
time and the one who comes late will not
be able to get in at all. One thing is cer-
tain there will never be more people in the
Eighth avenue church than were there last
evening® From wall to wall was one un-
broken mass of humanity. Even the vesti-
bules and the side class rooms from, which
it was impossible to see the speakers, were
packed.
Upon motion of Dr. W. W. Evans the
seoretary was instructed to convey to Revs.
E. M. Stevens, W. H. Stevens, B. P. King
and Owen Hicks the sympathy of the con-
ference in their illness.
The order of the day being called for the
conference proceeded to hold its memorial
service.
The memoir of Rev. I. N. Morehead was
read hy Rev. J. L. Leilich, D. D., superin-
tendent of the Utah mission.
remembered that last August Rev. I. N.
Morehead was transferred from Grace
church, Williamsport, Pa., to the First
Methodist Episcopal church of Salt Lake
City, and died six weeks after reaching
that place.
Rev. A. S. Baldwin, Rev. J. P. Benford
and Rev. T. L. Tomkineon also made re-
marks on the life and work of Mr. More-
head.
The Rev. J. Emory Weeks read the
memoir of Rev. A. M. Barnitz. who had
been for fifty-four years a minister of the
Methodist church. The story of his dying
hour, as told by his pastor, Dr. M. L.
Ganoe, brought tears to the eyes of ail who
heard it read.
The memoir of Rev. J. A. DeMoyer,
written by Dr. W. M. Frysinger, was read
by Rev. A. 8S. Bowman. Rev. DeMoyer
bad been an active itinerant minister for
over half a century and bad served many
charges all over this conference territory.
The audience stood and sang, ‘‘Servant of
God well done. Thy glorious warfare’s
past.’’
Rev. 8. B. Evans read the memoir of
Mis. Margaret A. Porter. Rev. A. S.
Bowman announced the death of Sarah
Elizabeth Frysinger, wife of Dr. W. M.
Frysinger, and it was stated that she de-
sired that no memoir of her should be read
or published. The memoirs of Mrs. Mary
E. Gearhart prepared by Rev. W. M. Fry-
singer, of Mrs. Samantha B. Larned, pre-
pared by Rev. J. Emory Weeks, and of
Mrs. Emma Andoyar, prepared by Rev. M.
J. Runyan, were ordered to he printed in
the minutes. A note was also made of the
fact that Rev. Job Truax an ordained local
preacher bad also passed away.
Rev. Joseph H. Smith. who is to have
charge of the pentecostal services, Rev.
Josiah L. Albritton and Rev. Mr. Shannon,
of West Virginia, were introduced to the
conference.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session was largely at-
tended. The church was full by 2 o'clock,
when A. L. Miller, of Catawissa, rose to
preach the annual missionary sermon be-
fore the conference.
The peuntecostal service at 2:30 was in
charge of Rev. Joseph H. Smith.
THE EVENING MEETING.
The evening session was devoted toa
young persons’ rally with the Rev. J. R.
Dunkerly presiding. Among the speakers
were the Rev. Geo. E. Reed, of Dickinson
College; the Rev. E. H. Gilbertson, and
the Rev. A. Bash. .
The following is the program for the re-
maining days of the session. ‘‘Song serv-
ice” to constitute the opening of each
session.
THURSDAY MORNING.
8:30—Prayer service in charge of Rev.
Joseph H. Smith, D. D.
9—Conference session.
10- Corporate session.
AFTERNOON.
2—Anniversary Sunday School Union and
Tract Society, Rev. Isaac Heckman, presid-
ing. Address Rev. Thomas B. Neely, D. D.
3:30—Pentecostal service.
EVENING.
7:45—Anniversary Board of Church Ex-
tension and Freedmen’s Aid and Southern
Education Society, Rev. G. W. Stevens, pre-
siding. Address, Rev. C. C. Albertson, D. D.
Germantown, Pa. Address, Rev. M. C. B.
Mason, D. D - :
FRIDAY MORNING.
' 8:30—Prayer service.
9—Conference session,
AFTERNOON.
2—Anniversary Woman’s Home Mission-
ary Society, Mrs. George Edward Reed, pre-
siding. ‘“A Voice from the Pacific Coast,’
Mrs, T. L. Tomkinson, Address Rev. Luth-
er B, Wilson, D. D., Washington, D. C.
EVENING.
7:45—Lecture, ‘Ghosts, Goblins, Witches.”
by Rev. E. L. Eaton, D. D., Allegheny, Pa.
SATURDAY MORNING.
8:30—Prayer service.
8—Conference session.
It will be’
AFTERNOON,
2—-Mutual Beneficial Association in the
Social Hall, Anniversary Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, Mrs. B. C. Conner, pre-
siding. Address, Rev. James M. Thoburn,
D. I, Allegheny, Pa.
EVENING,
7:45—Anniversary Missionary Society,
Rev. H. C. Pardoe, D. D., presiding. Ad-
dress, Rev. J. Wesley Hill, Ph. D. Address,
Rev. Stephen O. Benton, D. D.
SUNDAY MORNING.
9—Conference love feast. in charge of Rev.
D. 8. Monroe, D. D.
10:30—Preaching, Presiding Bishop.
AFTERNOON,
2—Sunday school.
3:30—Ordination service.
EVENING.
7:30—Evangelistic service in charge of Rev.
Joseph H. Smith, D. D.
MONDAY MORNING.
8:30-—P rayer service.
9—Conference session.
AFTERNOON. .
2—Anniversary Bible Society, Rev. J. W.
Rue, D. D., presiding. Address, Rev. James
Morrow, D. D.
3:30—Pentecostal service.
EVENING.
7:45—Anniversary Preacher’ Aid Society
and Annuity Fund, M. L. Ganoe, D. D., pre-
siding, Address, Rev. B. B. Hamlin, D. D.
Address, Hon. Alex. E. Patton, Curwens-
ville, Pa,
TUESDAY MORNING.
8:30—Prayer service.
9—Conference session.
South African Fruit Barred.
Horticulturists Discover That Luscious Peaches
Etc.. Are Affected by Deposits of the Dreaded
Queensland Fly.
The trade in South African early fruit,
said to come from the great orchards of
Cecil Rhodes, near Pretoria, peaches,
plums. apricots, and nectarines, samples
of which arrived here quite recently, is al-
ready receiving a serious setback, as the
Horticultural Department of California has
discovered that it is affected by the de-
posits of the Queensland fly, so common in
Australia, and all receipts of the fruit have
been burned and destroyed by official
orders.
It is also ordered that all packages of
fruit arriving from South Africa in the
future be burned. This will probably place
a ban on all shipments to this country.
32 Barges of Coal Sunk.
As Many More Had Been Swept Away by Rising
Water At Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, March 24. —Sixty-four barges
of coal belonging to Jones & Laughlin
Steel Company were swept from their
moorings above the Twenty-second street
bridge to-day by the rising water, and
thirty-two of their barges were sunk in
the Monongahela river. It is thought
blasting will have to be employed to clear
the river bed.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
ADJOURNED LICENSE COURT.—On Tues-
day, Judge Love held special court to con-
sider the license cases that were held over.
Arguments and petitions for and against
the granting of the licenses asked were pre-
sented, and, after considering the cases,
on Wednesday morning, filed his decision,
which is as follows :
GRANTED,
John Mulfinger.... Pleasant Gap, Distiller.
Geo. L. Doll........... Bellefonte, Hotel.
REFUSED.
J. W, Coder............ Liberty Twp., Hotel.
Chas. J. Kennedy.. Rush Twp.,, Hotel.
Jas. T. Chambers... Bellefonte, Wholesale Beer
Andw. Summerville Rush Twp., Wholesale Beer
Jno. McCartney...... Rush Twp., Wholesale Beer
Eisenhoover Jones. Rush Twp., Wholesale Beer
— ree
REV. LINGENFELTER. — Rev. William
Howe Lingenfelter, a local preacher of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at his
home in Philipsburg on Sunday morning,
at 2 o’c’ock, after an illness of three weeks
of heart and liver trouble. He was a native
of Blair county, and was aged 69 years, 8
months and 11 days. He was a much re-
spected citizen of the town in which he had
for many years made his home. Surviving
him are his wife, one daughter and two
sons. Funeral services were held in the
Methodist church at Philipsburg on Tues-
day afternoon and the services at the grave
were in charge of the Masons.
I Jue ayy
A VICTIM OF SCARLET FEVER.—Wil-
liam Fred Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.
B. Green formerly of this place, but now of
Altoona, died at the home of his parents at
midnight on last Thursday, after a short
illness of scarlet fever. He had visited at
the home of his grandfathers, F. Peebles
Green, of Water street, and James O’Xryan.
of Logan street, many timos and was auch
of a favorite with his teachers and school
mates. He was sixteen years and four
months of age and his parents have the
sympathy of many friends bere in their
bereavment. Interment was made on Fri-
day. :
I I I :
RELEASED AT LAST—On the 5th, inst.,
at the Warren insane asylum, Miss Sarah
Beck, formerly of Howard, passed quietly
away. She was aged about seventy-five
years, thirty-eight of which had been pass-
ed as an inmate of that institution. Rela-
tive to her life the following facts are fur-
nished hy a correspondent at Howard :
“The deceased with a sister and three
brothers were born in Ireland. Their fath-
er dying, the mother with her five children
sailed for America, landing in Philadel-
phia they took passage on a canal boat
owned and captained by the late George
Peck. In due time they landed in How-
ard where the widow had one or two broth-
ers living at that time, by the name of
Riddle. Mrs. Harvey McClure, and Mis.
Thomas Moore, were sisters of the widow
Beck. The boys and girls were bright,
brainy people. Ill health partially under-
mined Miss Sarah’s reason and she was
sent to the asylum thirty-eight years ago.
So far as we know the brothers living are,
William P., in Look Haven ; Matthew R.,
somewhere in Penna. aud James R., in
Dubuque, Iowa. aid
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SUDDEN Death or Ex-Cousty Com-
MissIONER WoLrr.—While sitting in his
chair on Saturday evening last, apparently
in the best of health and without a strog-
gle. Mr. John Woll, one of the best known
and most highly respected citizens of the
county, passed away at his home in Rebers-
burg. Mr. Wolf had been in his ordinary
health for some time, and the news of his
sudden demise was a surprise and shock to
the entire community. From the Millheim
Journal we take the following facts rela-
tive to his birth and ancestry :
‘Mr. Wolf was born July 17th, 1830, on
his farm, which then belonged to his fath-
er, Jacob Wolf, and at an earlier date, to
his grandfather, Nicholas Gast, who was
one of the first settlers in the valley. His
grandfather, Paul Wolf, was also one of the
early settlers, and owned, in his time, a
neighboring farm of several hundred acres,
being part of the Tobias Pickle tract, now
known as the Centre Mills properties, in-
cluding farm buildings and grist mill.
Both the Wolfs and the Gasts were promi-
nent citizens of Brush-valley in its early
history; they were of that sturdy indus-
trious and honest German element that ex-
erted such a potent influence in building
up our industries and shaping the destiny
of our State. John Wolf, the subject of
this brief notice, succeeded his father on
‘the farm mentioned above, and devoted the
greater part of his life to farming. In his
younger days he tanght school for a short
time, and later in his life, in the fall of
1881. he was elected, on the Democratic
ticket, one of the county commissioners of
Centre Co. being re-elected in 84, for a sec-
ond term. He often held offices in his town-
ship and filled positions of trust at var-
ious times, in the Lutheran church, of
which he was a faithful and consistent
member until his death—the duties of
which offices he always discharged with
efficiency and fidelity. Of the family of
nine children of which he was a member,
but two sarvive him. Dr. Edmund J., of
Gettysburg, and Mrs. Sarah A. Zeigler, of
Miilheim. The courle bad six children :
Mrs. Ciara J. Meyer, Mrs. Annie Zeigler,
Mrs. Mary Frank, Mrs. Ida Harter, Mrs.
Minnie Brungart, and William, all of whom
are living except the last.
Mr. Wolf was a good citizen. a kind
neighbor, and a consistent christian, and
will be greatly missed in the neighborhood
and in bis church. He was a kind and
affectionate husband and father, and will
be deeply mourned by those who survive
him.
Funeral services were held at the late
residence of the deceased on Wednesday
morning, conducted by Rev. Harman.
Interment was made in the Union ceme-
tery. ’
I I I
IsAAc J. BERG.—A conductor on the
Tyrone and Lewisburg railroad, on return-
ing to his home in Tyrone, and while eat-
ing supper about 7:30 o’clock on last Fri-
day evening, complained of pains in his
head and immediately dropped over dead.
Mr. Berg was known to many of the read-
ers of the WATCHMAN not only in the
upper end of the county, but along the
entire Bald Eagle valley. For many years
he was conductor on the valley trains, and
was afterwards transferred to the Scotia
end of the Lewisburg road. He was born
in York county, in 1844, and moved to
Tyrone in 1871. In 1875, he became pas-
senger brakeman on the Tyrone division
and January Ist, 1880, was promoted to
conductor, in which position he continued
until death. Deceased is survived hy his
wife and two sons, Leroy Berg, of Wilkes-
barre, and Randall, at home.
DEATH OF A YouNG WOMAN.—Miss
Mary Bickford, second daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank E. Bickford, of Lock Hav-
en, and a grand-daughter of the late Daniel
McGinley, of this place, died in the hos-
pital at Scranton on Tuesday morning after
a long illness. In December she was taken
to Scranton and there it was found that
she was suffering from a pelvic abscess.
For several months her condition has been
moss precarious and her relatives here were
not surprised to hear of her death. She
was a young woman of splendid attributes
and had many acquaintances bere. Sur-
viving her are her parents, three sisters,
Blanche, Bernice nnd Helen and two broth-
ers Edward and Claude. Her body was
brought home on Tuesday evening and
interment will be made this, Friday, after-
noon in Lock Haven.
2 al I i
Mgs. JOHN D. STEWART—MTrs. Margaret
Stewart, widow of the late John D. Ste-
wart, died at the family home in Tyrone
on Tuesday morning after an illness of four
weeks with stomach trouble. She was
seventy-five years of age and was a native
of Martinsburg, Blair county. On Sep-
Sember 3rd, 1848, she was married to John
D. Stewart, by the Rev. Samuel Linn, of
this place, and for the past fifty-three years
has made her home in Tyrone. Her hus-
band died {last June but she is survived by
two daughters and four sons. Funeral
services will be held this afternoon at the
Stewart home by her pastor, Rev. J. A.
Wood, and interment will be made in the
Tyrone Cemetery.
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——Willis Swanzey, a former citizen of
shis county, and who will be remembered
by the older people of Nittany valley as a
hoy about Jacksonville, died at his home
in Le Mar Jowa, on the 19th inst. Mr.
Swanzey left this county in 1852, settling
first in Illinois and afterwards locating
permanently in Towa. He served as a
soldier during the civil war, and was a
highly respected citizen of the community
in which he lived. His wife, who was a
Miss Reed of Clintondale, and four. chil-
dren survive him. :
‘al,
Hardenberg Withdraws,
Says We Will Try Again for State Treasurership in
1905.
HARRISBURG, March 24.—Auditor Gen-
eral Hardenberg to-night announced his
withdrawal as a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for state treasurer. ‘‘No
use butting one's head against a stone
wall,” he said. ‘The ticket is made up,
and I will support it. But 7 will be a candi-
date two years from now.”
Senator Herbst, of Berks, to-day predict-
ed the nomination of State Senator Joel G.
Hill, of Wayne, for state treasurer on the
Democratic ticket. Senator Hill is a vet-
eran of the civil war ; his father, who is
91 years of age, fought in the Mexican
war, and wis son was asoldier in the Span-
ish war.
It is reported that a bill will be intro-
duced, probably to-morrow, to increase the
salary of the state treasurer from $5000 to
$10,000 a year. It is said that the passage
of such a bill was one of the conditions
which William L. Mathues, of Delaware,
insisted on prior to permitting himself to
be slated for the Republican nomination
last Saturday in Senator Penrose’s office
in Philadelphia.
VERE DOES POP GUOME IN:
[Anent Mr. Blumle’s bill to pension mothers of
large families, in which the paternal side of the
partnership is entirely ignored, Mr. “Ludwig
Saurbier, makes these pertinent comments in the
Philadelphia Record.]
Was machen Sie, Herr Blumle ?
Du bist ein bosest mann,
Zu gather all dose prizes
Und shower em upon
Die mutters von die kinder,
Ach Gott ! es ist ein sin,
It ain’t a fair division—
For vere does pop gome in ?
Bei Wartemburger standards
Villeicht it's alles recht,
But heir im Pennsylvanien
Das ganzen ding ist schlect,
Die vaters earn der money.
Und jezt die mutters win,
Und so bin Ich sehr zoering—
For vere does pop gome in ?
Six sohns—ein golden adler—
Fuer neun ein doppel prize.
Die seventh sohn gets college,
Und learns a pack uff lies.
Ein fuenfsig thaler medal
Die fifteenth kinder win,
Und gives it all zu mutter—
For vere does pop gome in ?
Here—mensch von Pennsylvanien !
Antwortele mein schrei!
Es aind’t no zeit for foolings,
But nun zu thun or die.
Dose Harrisburglar lawyers
Hat besser nun begin
Zu make a few amendments—
For vere does pop gome in !
Who buys der babies rattles ?
Who buys die knaben clothes ?
Wer kaufst der brodt und schenken ?
Does mutter I suppose ?
Ya. Sie kann dust der fluster,
Or sew und snesslich grin.
But Ich wunchst nicht zwolf kinder—
For vere does pop gome in ?
Howard.
James Hogan left on Tuesday for Em-
porium.
John Thompson, of Snow Shoe, is visiting
relatives here.
Rev. I. N. Bair departed on Wednesday for
Millheim, his new appointment.
Hensyl Heverly, who is employed at John-
sonburg, arrived home on Saturday.
Clair Tipton returned home on Saturday.
He was attending school at Williamsport.
George Moore, of Renova, visited on Satur-
day at the home of Grant Swyers.
Rev. G. L. Boggs departed on Tuesday for
Altoona, where he will attend conference.
Sherman Holter and Eugene Pletcher ar-
rived home Friday to spend a week with
their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reilly, of Lock H aven,
were the guests of Mrs. A.J. Weber a few
days last week.
Balser Weber, who is attending school at
Mercersburg, arrived home on Saturday to
pay his parents a short visit.
The remains of Mr. Charles Smith, who
died at Danville, arrived here last Friday on
the 4:14 train and was taken to Jacksonville,
his former home, for burial. 2
Misses Maud and Ethel Sechrist, after
spending a few days with their sister, Mrs.
Geo. Williams, returned to their home at
Lock Haven on Tuesday.
Hublersburg.
Miss Lulu Johnson is visiting friends in
Bellefonte.
Miss Sophia Rockey spent Saturday with
friends at Howard.
Edward and Jacob Ritzman,
were callers in town Sunday.
L. H. McAulay returned home Thursday,
having spent several days in Williamsport.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm Bell, of Bellefonte, spent
Suuday at the home of their son-in-law T. L.
Kessinger. >
Marie Holmes and Mrs. Kate Allison, of
Nittany, were pleasant visitors at the High
school, Friday. 3
On account of the inclement weather the
social was not a great success. Proceeds
amounted to $8.50 for the benefit of the
church,
Harry and John Clevenstine, who are con-
fined to their home with typhoid fever, are
improving under the efficient care of Dr.
Fisher.
A crowd of our jolly boys were invited to
of Salona,
‘the home of Frank Carner, Friday last, to at-
tend a wood chopping. Dinner and supper
were furnished and a good time reported.
The appraisement of the personal property
of Mrs. Julia Brown, lately deceased, was
held last Thursday. . The appraisers were
lawyer Woodring, Mr. John McAulay and
Wm Decker.
James Love, of Wilkinsburg, and James
McCormick, of Allegheny, were called home
on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Mc-
Cormick, sister of the former and wife of the
latter. At this writing her condition is eritic-
Beginning Monday evening, March 30th,
and continuing every evening but Saturday,
of the week, services will be held in the Re-
formed church by Rev. Crow. Preparatory
‘services Saturday evening and communion
Sunday, April 5th. ;