Beworraii iad. ‘Bellefonte, Pa., November 20, 1903. P. GRAY MEEK, - - - S— Eprror — TERMS. OF SusscriprioN.—Until farther notice" this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance.........oceeueeee. Paid before expiration of year.. Paid after expiration of year........... More About short Line to New York. The: Pittsburg Post tells this story of a proposed new railroad: ‘From the evergy with whish SIvesiog engineering corps are pushing the route of anew railroad through portions of Arm- strong, Indiana, Clearfield, Cambria, Blair and Centre counties, in this state, itis plainly evident that more than a mere paper’ railroad is to be built between Pittsburg and New York on as near a bee- line as can be had. The Post has learned shat this project is no longer a contemplated move, but it has been absolutely impossible to ascertain the backers of the gigantic proposition. It is known that the promo- ters of the new line have driven over the rouge twice during the past summer. *“The proposed line isto be 73 miles shorter than the Pennsylvania between Pitsburg and New York, and through the mountains is to be constructed on an, aver- agetlevel 75 feet higher than the “Penneyl- vania. “The surveying corps are now at work in the southern part of Centre county in the mountains below Coburn. At present theifarshest point east reached is Cherry Run across the Centre county line in Union county. The route surveyed lies south of the L. and T. the entire distance. The sanie corps of engineers were recently en- gaged in surveying the line through the southern part of Clearfield and the northern part of Cambria county. Along the ous- lined route the trees are cut and a distinct beginning made for the new road. It will pierce through ridges and span valleys through the mountain region. “One of the objects understood tobe in view, aside from the main object of forcing through the Pennsylvania mountains a beeline route between Pittsburg and New York, is that of reaching comparatively undeveloped sections of the state. Thus the north end of Westmoreland, the south end of Armstrong, the north end of Indi- ana; the line of Clearfield and Cambria, the southern portion of Centre, the north end of Blair, Union, Snyder and part of Colum- bia counties will be reached acccording to the [proposition now being worked out. “Tyrone will be one of the objective points east from where the new line fol- lowe the route of the Lewisburg and Ty- rone branch of the Pennsylvania, only bav- ing'a more direct line. The new road will leave the route of the Lewisburg and Ty- rone at or near Pardee, Union county, fol- lowing Penn’s creek eastwardly and reach- ing Sunbury. It will pass north of Shamo- kin, thence through Columbia countv, passing the Black mountain ridge at Le- high gap, on the line between Carbon and Lelfigh counties, thence going throngh Northampton county to the Delaware river opposite Belvidere, N. J. It will cross Warren, Morris and Essex counties, N. J.”’ . Thauksgiving Proclamation. @overnor Pennypacker Follows Lead of President - Roosevelt and Names November 26th as Day of Thanks. In conformity with a custom so long re- garded that it has become a law of conduct and an expression of the will of the people, I, Samuel Whittaker Pennypacker, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby set apart Thursday, Nov. 26th, as a day for giving thanks and prai-e to the Lord for his infinite goodness and mercy. The dearth and scarcity which afflicted our forefathers, he hath turned to plenty. He hath blessed the land so that it is fruitful and:brings forth whatever is needed for the life:of man. He hath saved us from the hands of our enemies and has hitherto pre- served us from all perils. ‘He hath permit- toa ho plague, pestilence or famine to destroy .In good measure, He hath delivered us ly hatred, malice and uncharitableness. He hath so directed and prospered the con- sultations of our rulers that peace and happi- ness, truth and justice, are established among us. Let us then meet in our churches and places of worship and offer up our prayers for the maintenance of our health and pros- perity and the increase of our virtue and piety under His guidance and care; and let us not forget to comfort the sick, to clothe the naked and to feed those who are in hun- ger and want. Given ninder my hand and the great seal of the state at the city of Harrisburg this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and three, and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and twenty-cighth. Greensburg Has Another Murder. Scott Hamilton, Found in Cellar, Dies at Hospital Without Reqaining Consciouness. Drunken Brawl! Said to Have Taken Place. GREENSBURG, Pa., Nov. 15.—Hidden away among rubbish in the cellar of the home of Lewis Gordon, Scott Hamilton, employed at the Hempfield mines, of the Keystone Coal and Coke company, was fourid in an unconscious condition at an early hour this morning. Hamilton was suffering from the effects of a vicious blow on the head and died at the Westmoreland hospital at 1.30 this afternoon, without re- gaining conciousness. Two suspects were arrested his evening—Joseph Colligan 50 years old, and his nephew, Daniel Colligan, 25 years old. Hamilton is alleged to have spent a portion of last night at the home of the older Colligan. Neighbors say that a drunken brawl took place and that Daniel Colligan and Hamilton fought. When taken into custody Daniel Colli- gan. was told that he was wanted ona charge of assanlt and battery. He is re- ported to have asked: ‘‘Did Hamilton sue me for hitting him?" As the jail he admitted having struck Hamilton with his open hand. A post mortem evamination revealed the fact thas Hamilton’s skull had been fractured for three inches, exidently with some blunt instrument. Hotel Men Prosecuted. Thirty-nine hotel men in Clearfield and Centre connties have been arrested on charges of selling adulterated liquors, the information having been made by the agents of the pure fool department. They are charged with selling blackberry wine and brandy and port wine that was adul- terated with salicylic acid, coal tar dye and other deleterious substances, many of the samples having none of the blackberry in them, being purely chemical composi. tions. During the month of September more than 900 samples of blackberry brandy, wine and other liguors were collected in 28 counties of Western Pennsylvania, and of this number the chemist returned about 90 per cent. as adalterated. An Earnest Appeal. That the Teachers of the County be Aided and As- sisted in Their Preparation for the School Room, And That the Important Subjects of Health and Hygiene be Taught from Scientific Knowledge. Dear Friends.—W. C. T. U. and Church Memhers—Will you not arise in. your strength and plan and carry out too a Union Thanksgiving service in your town or township ? At which meeting take up a liberal collection and send The School Physiology Journal to every teacher in your district. Thereby enabling them to do the very best work for your girls and hoys by giving them the most competent help in their methods of teaching physiology, hygiene and the nature and effects of alco- holic drinks: aud other narcotics on the system. The training shey have had for teaching the other branches is the result of centur- ies of experience, but temperance physi- ology is a comparatively new stady, which institute and normal school instructors as yet, have not learned the art of presenting. Oar teachers are obliged, usually, to take a general educational paper and often are not able to subscribe for an other one treat- ing on one subject only. Let us help them in this way and thus secure the good for our own families. If the Union, state, county and local will do this, then the 300,000 teachers in this coun- try will be tanght how to educate for intel- ligent sobriety the 22,000,000 children— our future men and women— who are now under our temperance education laws. A single subscription for the Journal is ,60 cts, In clubs of five 50 ots in clubs of filty or more 40 cts. This is what we want. Small sums may be sent to me in stamps, larger amounts in some reliable man’s check. Let us do onr best and send | amount with all names and addresses of teachers, underscoring those you most desire to receive the publication if the amount secured is not sufficient to send it t0 every teacher in the district. We can send helps on the subject in the form of 17 leaflets for 08 cts. Trusting in God let us go forward. Mgs.) N. J. TWITMIRE, Bellefonte, Pa. Co. Supt. of Scientific Temperance In- struction. Cancer Parasite Found. The alarming development of cancer and the many theories as to its cause and cure are so constantly agitating the public that the following will be of interest : LoNDON, Nov. 6.—A new treatment of cancer, which is believed to mark an im- portant advance in the treatment of the. dreaded growth, has been explained before a meeting of the Ahernethian Society of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital by Dr. Johnson, who has been examining the methods em- ployed by Dr. Otto Schmids, of Cologne. “Dr. Schmidt's opinion,’’ he said, ‘‘is that cancer is conditional on the presence in the patient of a cancer parasite which produces a structural change in the cells of the part affected. The difficulty has been to decide which, if any, of them is the cause of cancer. Dr. Schmidt believes be has isolated the specific parasite. Etkins Bequest Illegal. Provision for a Masonic Orphanage Ruled Out by Register. Made Within Thirty Days of Death. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17.—The bequest of $240,000 or, if necessary, $250,000, for the erection of a Masonic orphanage, made by the late William L. Elkins, has been de- clared illegal by Register of Wills Groff, of Montgomery county. The decision is due to the fact that the codicil providing for the gift was made within thirty days of the testator’s death, and is, therefore, inoperative. It will be necessary for the heirs to make provisions to pay over the sum stated to the Masonic Home of Pennsylvania, if the wishes of Mr. Elkins are to he carried out. George W. Elkins, son of the late William L. Elkins, stated that the heirs will meet in a few days to discuss the matter. The amount specified in the codicil will go into the residuary estate. Ten Thousand Starve. Cape Verde Islands Famine Killing Off the Inhabi- tants of the Cape Verde Islands. Letters received from the Cape Verde Islands dated September 20 tell of a frighs- ful loss of life in the islands as a resalt of the famine. Since last March, when the famine be- gan, 10, 000 deaths have occurred in the island of Santiago alone, and the present death rate is given as from thirty to thirty- five a day. The Portuguese government has taken no steps for the relief of the stricken popu- lation, and all outside aid has come from the Board of Trade of Lisbon. To Panish Bank-Run Talkers. A run was started on the First National bank -at Duquesne, which resulted in $40,000 being taken out by foreigners in half a day last Tuesday. One Polish woman rushed to the bank, leaving her child alone, and when she re- turned she found her baby drowned ina wash-tub. - Detectives are getting evidence against the people who started the run by mali- cious talk. The run bas been stopped. Crazrid Nursing Her Mother. Mis. Mary Norton, of Hazleton, whois. lying at the point of death at her home, was attacked by her daughter, Julia who went suddenly insane, on Friday. The girl’s mind became unbalanced through constant attendance at the bedside of her mother. Seizing a stove poker, she struck the prostrate woman over the head, and when disarmed resumed the attack with a coffee pot. Miss Norton's brother, Edward, then overpowered the maniac. Shut Down at Phoenixville. About 300 Men Idle and Wages of Others Re- duced. PHOENIXVILLE, Pa., Nov. 17.—About 800 men have been rendered idle hy the closing of the steel plant and several other departments operated hy the Phoenix Iron company. It is thought the shutdown will be of short duration. Those remain- ing at work suffered a reduction in wages of five per cent. The ¢Sleeping Girl” is Dead. SALT LAKE CIty, Utah, November 9.— Bessie Knecht, the ‘‘Sleeping Girl,”’ is dead. Miss Knecht was taken to a hos- pital last February in an unconscious con- dition. After forty-seven days she par- tially revived, but soon sank into a coma- tose condition again and never fully regain- ed consciousness. The Pension List. ne spanish war is responsible for a considerable number, of new pensions, says the New York World.. Spanish war veterans have already drawn $5,- 500,000 in pensions, and their applica- tions are pouring into the pension office in increasing volume and will de so for many a year to come. From the com- missioner of pensions’ latest report (for 1903) the following figures, which show the rate at which “new business” is coming in, are taken: : Applications disposed of this year.. . 252,106 Applications for increased pensions this year Applications for increased Sendions: granted this year.......cccceeeneee .. b8,120 Applications for original pensions... 52,32 Applications for original pensions Srante@ .....c.ciiisiresravicersensnscse Applications awaiting adjudication. _ The army, navy and pension expendi- tures of the United States added to- gether already amount to $318,000,000 per year, stated in round figures. Sec- retary Moody’s recent naval estimate calls for $35,000,000 per year more for the navy, and the Grand Army's twelve dollar a month service pension would doubtless call for $35,000,000 more. If congress yields to both de- mands our total expenditure for army, navy and pensions will very soon he close to $400,000,000 a year. That amount will far exceed the present peace footing expenditure for military and naval purposes of any other nation, excepting only Great Britain, whose estimates still include ‘provision for a standing army of 450,000 men, where prior to the Boer war only 160,000 were provided for. On the peace footing (1898) the British expenditure for both army and navy was about $255,000, 000. It is proposed to spend nearly as much on the United States army and navy and as much more besides for pensions as would give us a second navy larger than Great Britain's: csseassscsssesaanisetsssastana ADDITIONAL LOCALS ——A Bible class for men is held every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Y. M. C: A. rooms. bee ~——Mrs. Frank Davis, of East Logan street, who has been dangerously iil with pneumonia for the past two weeks, is slow- ly recovering. ° ——County Treasurer Phil Foster is up {in the vicinity of the Bear Meadows hunt- ing deer and has left his office in charge of ex-Treasurer William T. Speer. ee ——The Direct Supply Co. have moved across the street from the Bush Arcade and now have their goods in the room formerly occupied by Samuel Williams’ paper store. See in —Our prospects for a Thanksgiving turkey seem so slim that if any of our *‘ip- debt’s’’ have one of those cold storage ones from last year—that are now being mar- keted—we might find something to be thaukful for in that it would be. very ten- der. tt ——Through the kindness of the Penn’ Forest company at Mauch Chunk, 8,500: yearling trout bave been added to the new: hatchery at Pleasant Gap. The first large shipment of trout eggs, 300,000 in number, come from the Allentown hatchery last Tuesday nigh. iO ——While Mrs. J. P. Rishel, of Tylers- ville, Clinton County, was visiting her dau- ghter, Mis. C. H. Crebs, at Matsonburg, she entertained her grandchildren on her eighty-second birtdday by spinning flax into thread on a spinning-wheel she used fifty years ago. ire ~——Mr. Ira D. Garman, jeweler, 101 South Eleventh St. Philadelphia, is eend- ing to his friends a very neat little souvenir in the form of a pocket calendar'and stamp case for 1904-1905. Mr. Garmam was al- ways wide enough awake to be several months ahead of time. oo ——Two thousand, three hundred bash- els of corn from twenty acres of land is agood yield. This bountiful crop, the Sugar Valley Journal says, is reported from the farm of E. M. De- Long, which is occupied and cultivated by Samuel Moyer. He found one exceptionally large ear that measured 14 inches and contained ‘more than 1,000 grains of corn. Oa ities ——Of the several critical cases men- tioned in our last issue we are glad to note the fact of a favorable change in all. Mrs. Shortlidge is slightly better, the heart action being more nearly normal and hopes of her recovery are entertained. The improvement in Mrs. Isaac Miteh- ell’s condition is not marked but even though slight is encouraging. Charlie Larimer is taking as much fresh air as possible doing his utmost to regain the ponnds he lost in his severe illness. eh ——The Mill Hall axe plant that has been in the control of the American Axe & Tool Co. for the past 13 years has been transferred to the Mann Edge Tool Co., of Lewistown. families of the original owners who are known to be the best axe manufacturers in the United States if vot in the world and the pioneer axe makers in America. The plant gives employment. to about 200 men. -—A#t the meeting Eot the four different zinc companies—Blue Jacket, Prairie,Clin- ton, Republic—which have their general offices at this place, on Monday, the stock- holders unanimously voted to merge their properties in Missouri under one organiza- tion that in the future will be known as the *‘Pennsylvania Mining and Smelting Co.” Quite a number of stockholders from adjoining towns were present. Application will be made at once for the incoporation of the new company. This brings it back to the | ——All of the Union stores of the town are to be closed on Thanksgiving. Br —— A sharp little thunder storm visited this locality Monday morning, accompanied by heavy rain, lasting all day. According to the weatherwise, thunder and lightning out of season furtells cold weather. ———eer rn rennet A WEDDING OF INTEREST.~-The betrothal of Miss Edith Holtz to Dr. Louis Friedman, of New York city, was announced .in $he early summer. The wedding will take place next Wednesday morning, November 25th, at ten o’clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Holtz on Allegheny street. It will be a quiet one, only the family and a few friends being present. Dr. Fried- man will have bis brother as best man and Miss Holtz will be attended by her cousin Miss Fannie Lebost of New York. Rev. Dr. Kline of Altoona will perform the cere- mony. The groom is one of the rising young specialists of New York, is visiting surgeon for three hospitals and this week performed an unusually interesting and difficult operation before the students of Columbia College. - The bride is a most attractive and accomplished girl and will be one of the season’s loveliest brides. A large re- ception will be given them in New York on the 20th of December. Dr. Friedman is certainly making + sare that this Thanksgiving season will be one of pleasure and bliss for him. ee GO — A CALL TO THE PATRIOTIC.—General James A. Beaver, President of the Centre County Soldiers’ Memorial Association, has called a meeting of all the committees of the association, of the Veteran Club, of the Daughters of the Revolution and any other patriotic organizations interested, to he held in the Court House in Bellefonte on Friday, November 27th,1903, at 10 o'clock ‘a. m. This meeting is to perfect arrange- ments for the erection of a Centre County monument or memorial building. Let us hope it will be a memorial build- ing! The beautiful moument planned by George Gray Barnard is one that any coun- ty would be very proud to possess. Mr. Barnard is the most talented of American sculptors and the fact alone of having his design would make a monument worth while, but we will never be able to erect triumphal arches, or monuments for purely artistic purposes. Would that we might ! AY. M. C. A, hospital or library and mus- eum with historic rooms, would give abun- | dant opportunity for ornament to avy coun- ty, incalcuable benefit to its citizens and yes seem a most appropriate memorial to men who sacrificed . heir lives for fhe best good of their country. amr ARAN nip DICKINSON DEFEATS STATE WITH A SCORE OF 6-0.—If enthusiasm, brass bands, hundreds of rooters and much betting could baver ‘won a foot ball game then State College would have come | out of the game with Dickinson College at Williamsport. on Saturday with flying colors. Their colors did float strenuously all day and even through the score was not entirely to their expectations they gal- lantly hid their woes with a waving sea of the blue and white banners of State. The team accompanied by two hundred and fifty students went down on Friday afternoon while the rank and file of the regiment waited until Saturday morning. Then Bellefonte has seldom seen so inspir- ing a sight as the parade that morning. Between three and four hundred enthusi- astic boys all in the best of humor and car- rying State College banners spent some of their surplus energy in marching around the town while waiting for the train. Head- ed by the cadet band they made sucha good showing thas all the old sports warm- ed up and were willing to het all sorts o odds on State. 477 people went down from here and fully 4000 spectators saw the game. To say that it was a lively game expresses it midly and yet there was not a bit of rough playing. State lost because of errors and yet—there were extenuating circumstances too— for several of the best players were incapacitat- ed early in the game and Dickinson showed unusual strength. The result of the game furnished a sur- | prise to the local football sharps. Whilea stiff battle was expected State was looked upon as a winner by a comfortable margin,’ but before many minutes of play it was seen ,that a hattle of giants was on and. it was to be any body’s game. As play alter play was developed by both teams even the opposing rooters were forced to admire the skill shown. : Dickinson. "State. Positions. Parry... ian Leftend....! ....... i. Cramer Arbuthnot, Left tackle.............cerisnns Seeley White......... Left guard...........cceseee Messner Dunn....... ...Centre Ammerman Woodward.. «Right guard......cccusrenneenne Harry Moseript...... «Right tackle........conereiveenns Davis Yeckley... ....Right end.... Williams Elder........ .....Quarter-back... ....Curtis McElvane..........Left half-bacK......c.cccoovvennnns Rich Whitworth. Referee— Young, Cornell, Umpire—Sharpe, Yale, Linesman—Eiman, Lafayettee, Timers— West and Smith, Touchdown—Seeley, Goal from touchdown—Sadler, Time of halves—25 minutes. State will play W. and J., at Pittsburg on Thanksgiving day. This is anticipated as one of the interesting games of the sea- son as no too friendly a feeling has ex- isted between the two teams for several seasons and W. and J. will put up the best game possible. Mr. Tait, manager of W. and J. says: “We are going to give the people of Pittsburg the best game of football ever seen there. Once 2,600 people came from Washington to see a game here. We pur- pose to double this if possible, and we hope to play to 10,000 people.” RRR SUDDEN DEATH OF REV. SHAVER.— Rev. J. B. Shaver, pastor of Trinity M. E. church of Lock Haven and one of the best known ministers of Central Pennsylvania conference, died Tuesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Smith, in Hazleton. He bad heen in poor health for several months and was away on a leave of absence granted by the official board of his church in order that his health might be regained. No one, though; had any idea that he would dies it had been announced that he was very much better. He was a native of Perry county and a graduate of Dickinson seminary. He. en- tered the ministry in 1868 and among : the thirteen appointments that he successfully filled were Milesburg, Curwensville and six years at the Pine street church in Wil- iiamsport. When conference met in Belle- fonte in 1902 he was sent $0 Lock Haven where he was very much liked. He is sur- vived by his wife and two daughters. YK t A VERY SUDDEN DEATH.—John Riley, a well known and honered citizen of Ty- rone, was stricken with apoplexy on Wed- nesday morning, while at his work as chief clerk in the office of the “superintendent of the Tyrone division of the, Pennsylvania railroad, and died in less than fifteen min- tes. Mr. Riley was aman of sterling char- acteristics and most courteous manners. He was a great church man and a general fa- vorite with the railroad people with which he had been empioyed for thirty years. He was sixty years of age and is survived by his wife and five children., . I [} i : Mgs. JoHN HORNER.—Mary A. Horner, widow of John Horner, died at the family home on Nittany ‘mountain above Pleasant Gap, on Tuesday of last week. Her death was caused by a stroke of paralysis which she had had the Friday previous. She was Mary A. Young before her marriage and she was seventy one years-of age. Sheis survived by one daughter and two sons, Mrs. J. G. McKinley, of Milesburg ; Ellis, of this place, and George, ' with whom she made her home. = Interment was made at Pleasant Gap, on Thursday morning with Rev. A. B. Salter officiating. 4 Py Miss JEMIMA R. SPERRING.—The fan- eral of Miss Jemima R. Sperring, who died Thursday at the home of her brother in law, Dr. G. A. Beck, in Flemington, was held at Howard on Saturday morning at 10: o'clock in the Christian church. Miss Sperring was 53 years of age and had been an invalid for the - past eight years asa result of a paralytic stroke. She is sar- vived by three sisters—Mrs. G. A. Beck and Mrs. W. R. Shaffer, of Flemington and Mrs. J. S. Robinson of New York City. ioe i ——Katharine Mildred, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira From, died on Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. of pneumonia, aged 7 months and’ 8 days. ‘Funeral services were held at the family” home on north Water street on Sunday afternoon by Rev. John A. Wood and interment was made i in the Union cemetery. : v Tem 3 ——The strike among ‘the Snow Shoe coal miners which began last June and has paralyzed business in that section since, is nearing its end, it is sincerely hoped. A$ a meeting of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. in Wilkesbarre Tuesday lass, liberal con- cession to the miners were made by that company. President Gildea, of the Clear- field soft coal district, with Board members William Pokall and George Parks, held a conference with the Superintendents Warri- ner, Chase and Snyder, of the Lehigh Val- ley Coal company, in that city, and wens home satisfied that the men would accept the concessions and return to work on De- cember 1st. The miners went out last June because the Lehigh Valley company. let some work at fifty-six cents a ton straight. The union mine workers demanded sixty-six cents a ton. Bil As the conference Tuesday the company offered sixty-six cents a.ton for low coal and sixty cents a ton for high coal, and promised to increase the ‘latter price to sixty-six cents next April. A meeting of the strikers will be held at once and the concessions will be discuss- ed. President Gilde says there is only one other strike in his district,at Summerville, at colleries owned hy an individual com- pany, and that there is no immediate pros- pecs of its settlement. It is hoped by the time this issue of the WATCHMAN reaches its readers at Snow Shoe, that the troubles at thdt place will have been satisfactorily adjusted. SMALL POX IN GEORGE'S - VALLEY.— There is still need to exercise most rigid board of health laws relative to the spread of small pox. There is, too little diminution in the number of cases .in Philadelphia where public schools having an enrollment of 4500 pupils were closed this week for dis- infection. In Allegheny, Sharpshurg and East End there are many cases. There is a new case in George’s Valley. Last Fri- day Frank Herman of Altoona went to visit his father-in-law in George’s Valley where he became quite ill. = On Saturday evening Dr. Braucht of Spring Mills pro- nounced it a severe case of small pox. Tuesday Dr. C. S. Musser of Aaronsburg was called in consultation and on Wednes- day Dr. Harris, an officer of the State Board of Health. went over to see that proper quarantine regulations were estab- lished. leet ——The passenger train Wednesday evening on the Bald Eagle Valley R. R. was delayed until two o'clock Thursday morning by a freight wreck at Hannah. A PIONEER LUMBERMAN.—John Nestle- rode, ove of the oldest residents of Beech Creek died Monday after a brief illness of poeumonia. He was aged 87 years and 6 months and all his active life had been en- gaged in the lumber business. He is sur- vived by one son John of Pittsburg and seven daughters. Funeral services were held yesterday morning in the Disciple church at Beech Creek and interment was made in the burying ground near hy. ——At the adjourned meeting of the Huntingdon Presbytery in Tyrone Tuesday afternoon, Rev. George T. Gunter was re- ceived into the presbytery, and arrange- ments made for his installation as pastor of the Tyrone church on December 1st. The change of Rev. Walter K. Harnish from the Lower Tuscarora church to the pastor- ate of churches in the Lemont district was approved, as was the application of Rev. W. G. Finney to be transferred. from the Orbisonia and Shirleysburg churches to the Shade Gap church. Arrangements in both cases for installation being made. It was determined to hold the spring meeting. of presbytery in Tyrone on the second Tues- day of April next. — ooo HEROISM oF VARUTEN ANY CURTIN. — ‘At Norfolk, Virginia, last Thursday during a fire on the torpedo boat Lawrence, on which he is,now one of the commanding officers, Lieut. Roland Curtin, son of Gen. J. I. Curtin, of this place, more than distinguished himself, and demonstrated that he is of the material that heroes are made. The following account of the affair was published in the city papers on Friday. NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 12.—The heroism of Liens. Curtin and several seamen on board the torpedo boat destroyer Lawrence to-day saved that craft from destruction and probably preveuted the entire flotilla be- ing blown to atoms. The carelessness of a workman, who left a lighted candle on a wooden hox in the vessel’s forward com- partment caused a fire that destroyed much of the Lawreuce’s woodwork before it was extinguished by Lieut. Curtin and rome sea- men just before the flames reached the magazine in which a great quantity of dynamite was stored In their desperate Bartle with the flames Liens. Curtin and his men were so overcome by the smoke that they lost consciousness after the fight was won, and were hurried on hoard the cruiser Olympia for treatment. Their con- dition is not serious. The five occurred in a stuffy compart- ment, directly adjoining the magazine, and had gained considerable headway when it was discovered. The place was filled with a'dense smoke that baffled the efforts of the crew and caused them to fall helpless to the steel floor. Time aud again Lieut. Curtin plunged into the fire chamber and emerged with the unconscious form of a seaman ‘in his grasp. After a hurried resuscitation the seaman and his officer would return to the fight, only to again succumb to the smoke. Finally the flames were extinguished and then the lieutenant was missed. A sailor planged into the compartment and a second later darted out with the limp body of the officer in his arms. Five seamen in a similar condition were stretched out on deck. All were hurried aboard the Olym- ia in dry dock, and the yard surgeon soon rought them to consciousness. The damage to the Lawrence was tri- fling, but had the flames reached the maga- zine the result would have been appaling. Lemont, ‘Monday brought us thunder and rain. Boalsburg entertained an Indian show this week. Frank Smith is a great suffer from lumbage of late. ; The farmers have finished husking corn and hauling in fodder. William Fry called on his Oak Hall friends the latter part of last week. Clayton Etters and family visited at the home of Ira Corman Sunday. Adam Blazer, of Oak Hall, has been suf- fering with quinsy this week. Dr. J. Y. Dale vaccinated the scholars of the Branch school this week. John Peters is here for his annual outing with the Markle crowd of hunters. William Rishel bas been on the sick list this week with an attack of lumbago. B. F. Homan and Wm. Bressler, of Oak Hall, transacted business in Bellefonte Tues- day. Mrs. Wallace Karstetter and three sons, of State College, Sundayed at the home of M. A. Williams. James C. Williams went Monday to Gar- man’s Mills, Cambria county, where he will work at his trade. Huston Shuey, a son of John H. Shuey, is confined to the house from an attack of ca- tarrh of the lungs. Mrs. Chas. Hoy and Miss Righter, both of Michigan, are visiting at the home of the former’s father-in-law, Benjamin Hoy. The Methodist protracted meeting will open Sunday evening, the 29th inst.,, and every person is cordially invited to attend. A large Normal Sunday school class has | been organized in this place under the auspices of the State Sunday school associa- tion. John Jackson moved Wednesday into part of Mrs. Maggie Armstrong’s house, and as he has always been an industrious young man, we wish him much success in his matrimonial venture. Mary J. Holderman, the little grand- daughter of Abram Holderman, who has been such a great sufferer from lung trouble for a long while, is reported resting much easier at this writing. James Gilliland, of Oak Hall, shipped a car of fine cattle Monday to be used on a vaccine farm. The State first sent a man, Dr. Samuel Gilliland, to examine each one to see that they were perfectly healthy. Peter Shuey came Saturday to visit his father, Jacob Shuey, and to enjoy a bunt with the Markle hunting crowd which he does each year. The above crowd took to the wilds of the Seven mountains Monday in good spirits and hopes of success. Oak Hall grammar school opened Monday with four pupils while the primary, which has been open for a week, had fifteen in at- tendance showing that the small-pox fright is about over. . Mrs. Samuel Bible is regain- ing her health as well as can be expected.
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