Bellefonte, Pa., February 12, 1904.
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Democratic County Committee for 1904.
Precinet. Name. P. O. Address.
Bellefonte N W J. C. Harper, Bellefonte
“ SW P. H. Gerrity, 4
* Ww Geo. R. Meek, te
Centre Hall Boro W. F. Bradford, Centre Hall
Howard 4 Howard Moore, Howard
Milesburg « James Noll, Milesburg
Millheim ge Pierce Musser, Millheim
Philipsburg 1st W Ira Howe, Philipsburg
££ 2nd W J. W. Lukens ‘
2 srd W Ed. G. Jones, £4
S. Philipsburg John Albert, &
State College Boro Jno McCormicls, State College
Unionville“ P. J. McDonnell, Fleming
Benner Twp. N P John Grove, Bellefonte
+ S P Siney Hoy, te
Boggs Twp. N P Ira P. Confer, Yarnell
if E P W. G. Morrison, Roland
$e W P Lewis Aikey, Wingate
Burnside Twp. A. V. Dougherty, Moshannon
College is 1. J. Dreese, Lemont
Curtin $e Peter Robb Jr., Romola
Ferguson “ EP Wm.H. Fry, Pine Grove Mills
oe “ WP T. D.Gray, Penna Furnace
Gregg Twp. N P J.C. Rossman, Spring Mills
a E P H. P. Herring, Penn Hall
£ WP John Smith, Spring Mills
Haines Twp. W P Ralph E. Stover, Aaronsburg
te E P J. W. Winkleblech, Feidler
Half Moon Twp. J. P. Sebring, Stormstown
Harris 46 John Weiland, Boalsbur
Howard ie A. M. Butler, Howar
Huston 4 John Q. Miles, Martha
Liberty Twp. E P Benjamin Brown, Blanchard
Liberty Twp. W P Albert Bergner, Monument
Marion « J. W. Orr, Walker
Miles Twp EP Jerry Brungart, Wolfs Store
5 M P Geo. B. Winters, Rebersburg
ot W PG. Ed. Miller, Rebersburg
Patton Twp. Thos. M. Huey, Waddle
Penn gt : W. F. Smith, Millheim
Potter “ 8 P Geo. Goodhart, Centre Hall
46 “ N P Geo. H. Emerick, Centre Hall
# “ W P J.P Spancler, Tusseyville
Rush “ N P Wm, B. Frank, Philipsburg
se “ 8 P JnoT. Lorigan, Osceola Mills
SnowShoe E PE. A, Humpton, Snow Shoe
te W P Wn. Kern, Moshannon
Spring Twp. N PC. M. Heisler, Bellefonte
* S P W. H. Noll, Pleasant Gap
fe W P Jno. L. Dunlap, Bellefonte
Taylor Twp. J. T. Merriman, Port Matilda
Union 8. XK. Emerick, Fleming
Walker Twp E P Solomon Peck, Nittany
ot M P D. A. Deitrick, Hublersburg
# W P Albert Shaffer, Zion
Worth J. A. Williams, Port Matilda
H. 8. TAYLOR,
County Chairman.
Opposition to Pennypacker.
Whatever else may be said of Governor
PENNYPACKER'S inlrigue (0 get a seat on
the Supreme court bench, it has now be-
come evident that he will not get the nomi-
nation without opposition. In the Repub.
lican convention of Schuylkill county, on
Monday, while compliments and endorse.
ments were ‘‘ as free as water ’’ not a kind
word was said of PENNYPACKER, or hiscan®
didacy. QUAY was praised, PENROSE eulo”
gized, Congressman PATTERSON lauded and
even Representatives in the Assembly en.
dorsed. But poor old ‘‘PENNY’’ never
got a word of approval or even a sign of
recognition.
In Luzerne and Lackawanna counties,
moreover, there is a movement in behalf
of an opposition candidate and it is intimas-
ed that any man can have the support cf
those counties against the Governor. The
same sentiment appears to prevail in sever-
al other counties and it is said now that the
controversy between the Attorney General
and the State Treasurer is more an expres-
sion of the Treasurer’s antipathy toward
PENNYPACKER than an assertion of con-
science in the performance of duty. Alto-
gether, unless thereis an early and positive
intervention in favor of PENNYPACKER he
will probably be “snowed under. ”’
Of course we are not deceived by appear-
ance or forgetful that ‘‘the old man’’ can
speedily subdue all opposition, if he is so
inclined. But reports concerning his in-,
clination are so conflicting as to create per-
plexity. In fact there are those who assert
positively that QUAY has grown tired of
‘‘the vain old mountebank’’ and is likely
to swipe him with his official displeasure
at any moment. Of course he is attached
to ‘PENNY’ in a consinly way and indul-
gent of him to a considerable extent. But
he is marvelously cruel when exigencies
demand it, as JOHN ELKIN well knows.
A Decision for School Boards.
Miss Ruth Stroop, of Shamokin, who
has been working at the home of S. A.
Wetzel, of Mt. Carmel, for her board and
clothes, with the privilege of attending
the public schools at that place, was the
subject Tuesday night of a legal decision
handed down by Judge Voris Auten, in
the county conrt, which will likely chavge
the governing of tuition pupils all over
the State.
Wetzel, when he sent the girl to school,
agreed to pay for her tuition. She was
accepted and enrolled as a pupil, but the
board later, thinking that they had made
a mistake, decided that as the girl was a
resident of another town, they could not
accept her on the tuition fee.
Wetzel engaged legal counsel and the
board asked Judge Auten for his opinion,
which was to the effect that as the girl
was a resident of Mt. Carmel while she
wae going to school, she bad a right to the
educational advantages without cost of
tuition. The board will be asked to return
to Wetzel all the money paid by him.
The Paramount Issue.
From Democracy.
It is meet and fitting, says the Columbia,
(8. C.), State, that in issuing the call for
the Democratic convention the national
committee should have invited the co-op-
eration of ‘‘all Democratic citizens in the
United States who can unite with us in the
effort for # pure and economical govern-
ment.’’ That is a concise and yet complete
statement of the paramount issue of 1904—
‘‘a pure and economical constitutional gov-
ernment.”’ For that the Democratic party
can afford to stand, because ib is just and
proper and timely, and becanse'‘a pure and
constitutional government’’ is not to be
bad under Republican rule. Excessive tar-
iffs, presidential favoritism and usurpation
of power,disregard of other nations’ rights,
corruption in the public service—these are
the proofs that can be presented against the
party in power.
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Japan Scores First Victory eof War.
Vice Admiral Togo Makes a Night Attack on Russia
Fleet, Lying in Roadstead at Port Arthur, Tor-
pedoes Three of the Battleships, and Practically
Destroys Them, the Torpedo Flotilla Escaping
Practically Unharmed in the Contusion Into
Which the Czar's Men Were Thrown When the Blow
Was Delivered.
I.oNDON, Feb. 10.—In a dispatch from
Chefoo, dated Fed. 9, a correspondent of
the Daily Express says:
*“Phe Japanese have dealt the Russians
a crushing blow at Port Arthur. An ad-
vance squadron of the Japanese fleet, under
command of Vice Admiral Togo, and com-
prising sixteen battleships and cruisers,
with a numerous torpedo flotilla, left the
main fleet off Shan Tung peninsula on San-
day immediately as soon as the news of the
diplomatic rupture became known. This
information was conveyed to the Japanese
admiral by a destroyer despatched from
Tsushima Saturday evening.
‘““The Japanese scouting cruisers had
given accurate information of the precar-
ious situation of the Russian fleet outside
Port Arthur. The squadron steamed
slowly in battle formation Sunday mid-
day towards its goal and came within sight
of Port Arthur under cover of darkness.
It cruised slowly outside without showing
lights. The Russians were lying in the
roadstead apparently feeling secure from
sttack. Nearly all the Japanese torpedo
boats were despatched on their dangerous
and difficult task. They rushed full steam
on the enemy, who were completely sur-
prised. A great rattle of small arms greet-
ed the invaders, who, however, escaped
unhurt, and the Retvizan and Czarevitch
and the Palada were almost immediately
torpedoed.
‘The Japanese dashed along the entire
line of the Russians, exposed to a
terrible fire from machine guns and small
arms from both the ships and the shore.
There was the utmost consternation among
the Russians, which probably accounts for
the Japanese torpedo boats escaping, prac-
tically unscathed and rejoining the admiral
outside. The admiral’s fleet, during the
attack, kept out of range of the Russian
searchlighta.
‘‘Line of battle was then formed and the
Japanese fleet moved in within a range of
two and one-balf miles and opened fire on
the Russians. The booming of guns was
heard far out to the sea by the officers and
crew of a Japanese boat, which has arrived
here. The battle is understood to be still
raging and the wildest reports are current.
The Chinese population of Chefoo isin a
frenzy of excitement at the reports that
the Japanese, whom they now regard as
their friends, scored the frst victory.”
NAVAL BATTLE AT PORT ARTHUR.
CHEF00, Feb. 9.—The steamer Colum-
bia has arrived from Port Arthur with
additional news of the attack by the Jap-
anese fleet upon the Russian fleet in the
roads outside of the harbor of Port Arthur.
The Columbia was in the roads at the time
and felt the first shock of a torpedo explo-
sion at 11 o’clock on Monday night. The
attack continued all night and at daylight
this morning two Russian battleships and
one of the Russian cruisers were seen to be
disabled and beached at the entrance of
the barbor. The craiser was badly listed
to one side.
This morning the Russian forts opened
fire ou the Japanese fleet. which was about
three miles distant. The Japanese ves-
sels returned the fire, hitting several of the
Russian ships, but doing little damage.
The Russian cruisers then went out and
the Japanase vessels disappeared. They
were seen later going in the direction of
Dalny. apparently undamaged. Although
the officers of the Columbia say that there
were seventeen in the attacking party,only
sixteen were seen laterin the day near Foo
Chow.
The Russians left ove craiser ontside to
watch for the Japanese ships. The cruiser
was fired upon bv the Japanese and the
other Russian vessels took up their anchor-
age and cruised around the roadstead. The
Japanese fleet came up within three miles
and a battle commenced. The Japanese
fired on the ships and forts, which replied.
Two Russian ships were struck by shells,
but only slightly damaged. The Russian
fire fell short. The Columbia steamed
away while the battle was in progress, but
later saw the Japanese cruiser, with torpe-
do boats, reported north of Chefoo.
The two battleships disabled are the
Poltava and the Czarevitch. The disabled
armored cruiser Boyarin, and the grounded
battleships block the entrance to the harbor
preventing gunboats from ont and battle-
ships and cruisers from going in and get-
ting coal. Besides this, Japan has the
Russian gunboats, Variag and Koretz,
caught at Chemulpo. They were bound
for Vladivostock.
The Japanese fleet was under the com-
mand of Vice Admiral Togo and consisted
of four fast cruisers, the Chitose, Kasagi,
Tagafago, and Yashima, which circled out-
side, drawing the fire of the Russians.
They then joined the main fleet and all
went in to attack the armored cruisers. In
the Japanese fleet, which consisted of two
divisions, were the Mikasa, the flagship;
the first-class battleships, Ashi, Fugi, Inas-
hima, Shikishima and Hatsuse, and the
dispatch boat Tatsuma.
The second division of the fleet, under
the command of Admiral Kamimura,on the
flagship Idsulo, consisted of the armored
cruisers, Yakuma, Asama and Iwat. When
seen by steamer Foo Chow Tuesday morn-
ing, the fast cruisers were circling in a ra-
dius of six miles. No torpedo boats were
seen and it is possible that they left the vi-
Ginisy after the torpedo attack on Monday
night.
STORY OF FIGHT BY MEMBER OF THE
COLUMBIA’S CREW.
CHEEF0O, Feb. 9.—A member of the
crew of the Columbia tells this story of the
naval battle at Port Arthur:
‘‘The Columbia was lying in the road-
sted, surrounded by fourteen Russian bat-
tleships and cruisers. At 11:30 o’clock
(Monday night), a severe shock was fel
on board the Columbia. The Russians im-
mediately commenced to operate their
searchlights and opened fire towards the
sea. The firing lasted only a short time.
At 1 o'clock more shocks were felt and the
Russians again commenced firing.
. ‘“The Japanese did not return the fire.
At 2 o'clock two Russian battleships went
in and were beached across the entrance of
the harbor. They were soon followed by a
Russian cruiser, which was also beached.
None of the vessels were damaged above
the water line. More shocks from the tor-
pedoes were felt during the early morning,
and then all was quiet.
At 5 o'clock Tuesday morning three Jap-
anese cruisers passed Port Arthur in sight
of the Russian flees. The whole Rassian
fleet immediately weighed anchor and went
after them, but returned in half an bour.
FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPYING FORTS RUS-
SIANS EVACUATED.
LoNDON, Feb. 9.--A dispatch to Reuters
Telegram company from Tien Tsin says :
‘‘A French transport with a battalion of
troops from Tonquin is hourly expected ab
Shan-Hai-Kwan (on Gulf of Liao-Tung) to
garrison the forts which are being evacuated
by the Russians. It is reported that the
tri-color of France was hoisted there this
morning and that the British officer in
charge in Shan-Hai-Kwang protested
against the French occupation. At present
Histe is only a single sentry guarding the
ag.
**The British commander here, General
Ventris and his chief of staff, proceeded to
Shan-Hai-Kwang this morning.”
Japanese Have Taken More Ships.
Two Big Russian Steamers and Four Whalers Are
Captured.
LoxpoN, Feb. 11.—Despatches to the
Daily Mail from Tokio and Nagasaki, dated
February 10, report the arrival at Sasebo,
Japan, of two large Russian steamers.
One is the volunteer flees association trans-
port Ekrterinoziav, which recently landed
troops and arms at Port Arthur, and the
other is the steamer Argun, belonging to
the Chinese Eastern Railways Company.
Both were captured by the Japanese orais-
ers Sai Yen and Hei Yen, in the neighbor-
hood of Fusan, Korea. ‘
The Ekaterinoslav is of ten thousand
tons displacement and had been fitted : p
as an auxilliary cruiser. She bad thirty
rifles on board and was on her way from
Vladivostock. The Argun was going to
Vladivostock from Nagasaki.
The Russian whalers Glorige, Nicolai,
Alexander and Michael, captnred by the
Japanese, havealso arrived at Sasebo.
SAN FrANcisco, Feb. 10.—A cablegram
to' the Associated Press from Nagasaki
states that the Russian cruiser Variag
which was reported to have been sunk
yesterday at Chemulpo by the Japanese
fleet was captured and arrived at Sesebo.
The despatch also states that in addition
to the Russian vessels damaged in the
torpedo attack at Port Arthur seven
other vessels were captured.
It is also reported at Nagasaki that
General Kuropatkin has arrived at Harbin
to take comand of the Russian land forces.
RUSSIA MASSING MEN.
St. PETERSBURG, FEB. 10.—-11 p. m.—
Viceroy Alexieff began to-day the mobiliza-
tion of the army reserves in Eastern Asia.
The publication of extra editions of the
newspapers containing accounts of the re-
ported injuries to Japanese ships during the
Port Arthur engagements, ang the sinking
of the Japanese battleship Shikishima led
to a demand npon the editors for the source
of their information. They replied ‘‘It
came from the British embassy.’’ These re-
ports were received everywhere with mani-
festations of joy. but nothing confirming
them has come from Viceroy Alexiff.
The only additional intelligence the vice-
roy has sent up to this hour is the names of
the wounded officers, among whom were
Lieut. Colonel Zaiontchovsky of the artil-
lery corps, who was on board the tranports
Anogra, and a midshipman on hoard the
battleship Sevastopol,
JAPAN TARES MASAMPHO.
Tok10, Feb. 10.—Japan seized Masam
pho Sunday and despatched a heavy force
there. Japan will fortify the port and es-
tablish a naval and military base there.
Masampho is an exceedingly important
point as it controls the Korean channel
and is an excellent base for future opera-
tions.
A formal declaration of war is expected
to-night. The proclamation has heen. pre-
pared and approved by the cabinet. For-
eign Minister Komura has gone to the pal-
ace to secure the Emperor’s approval.
BRIDGE REPORTED BLOWN UP.
LoNDON, Feb. 11.—The Shang Hai cor-
respondent of the Daily Mail says an im-
portant bridge on the Manchurian railroad
bas been blown up and thirty men have
been killed.
Baltimore Will Rise from Ruins.
Business Resumed With a Will by Men of all
Classes Yesterday.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 9.—Amid ruins still
hot and smoking, Baltimore has begun its
resurrection. With the dawn of a clear
winter day whose brightness was in itself
an inspiration, the apathy of yesterday
gave way to eoergy, and from the Governor
of the State to the least private citizen the
people of this distressed city aroused them-
selves to meet the appalling conditions
that confront them.
It was a day of conferences. The Gou-
ernor, the mayor and various municipal
officials met and threshed out the prob-
leins that are theirs by virtue of public
office. From this conference came a
decision that Baltimore, for the present
needs no outside help but will endeavor
with her own resources and those of the
State to meet the emergency. At this
conference there was developed the ma-
chinery for an advisory legislature com-
mittee to act in conjunction with the
Legislature. ‘
FIRE DISTRICT CUT OFF.
The military officials had unusual prob-
lems to decide aud solved them in a
military manner, for to-night every pass
issued giving entrance to the fire
lines was revoked. No civilian may pass
the cordon of citizen soldiers which after
forty-eight hours of continuous duty to-
night stretches toward = the fire-swept
desert where lay safes and vaults contain-
ing untold treasure.
The stock exchange members mets and
decided to rebuild as soon as possible. The
same story can be told of practically every
commercial body while on every hand there
is evidence of private effort toward rebabili-
tation.
Old buildings long unused, private resi-
dences near the business section, in fact
every available structure bears orudely
lettered signs on board or cloth announcing
that within is the temporary office of a firm.
The names on some of the signs are those
that rank bigh in the financial and commer-
cial circles of the world and in these tempo-
rary offices men who for years bave known
only mahogany desks, work on deal tables
and plain boards.
Hanna Resting Quietly.
Increased Amount of Novrishment Given to Senator.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Senator Hanna
was better to-day and to-night he is said
to be resting quietly. The vital organs
are said tobe performing the functions satis-
factorily. An increased amount of nourish-
ment was given the Senator to-day. In
addition to the pasteurized milk, which
he has been taking since bis illness began
he took some whit of an egg to-day,
nearly all of which he retained on his
stomach.
Daring the day the Senator’s temper-
ature went to 103, which it has done on
three separate occasions, and his pulse up
to 96, the highest yet reached. The rec-
ords of both temperature and pulse are in
keeping with those ordinarily reached in
cases of irregular typhoid, from which
the Senator is suffering.
A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, February 3.
The national commitiee of the So-
cialist party has re-elected William
Mailly, of Boston, national secretary.
The Kentucky legislature has post-
poned indefinitely consideration of a
bill designed to disfranchise illiterate
negroes.
Two children of Frank Bennett, of
Somerset, Pa., ™ 1 burned to death
in a fire which, . 4 “heir home.
A lamp exr v1." cu the fire.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl-
vania, has issued an appeal for aid for
the families of the 184 miners killed in
the Hardwick mine at Cheswick, Pa.
The Traders’ National Bank, at
Clarksburg, Va., has been closed by
the comptroller of the currency. Its
assets are ' $1,250,000; liabilities, un-
known.
Thursday, February 4.
The Kentucky legislature held me-
morial services in honor of William
E. Goebel.
The Servian cabinet has resigned
and King Peter will instruct the min-
ister of finance to form a new one.
Brooding over political criticism,
County Auditor J. H. Miller committed
suicide in his office at Chillicothe, O.
A Canadian Pacific express train
was wrecked by a broken rail near
Halifax, N. S., and three persons were
killed and many injured.
Mrs. Sonora McCarthy, of Scuth
Shaftsbury, Vt., is preparing to cele-
brate her 114th birthday. She is the
oldest person in the New England
states.
Friday, February 5.
The National Republican Editorial
Association held a two-days’ conven-
tion at Washington, D. C.
Boston University will receive $600,-
000 under the will of the late James A.
Woolson, a banker of that city.
Mexico has issued a decree forbid-
ding all percons bearing firearms to
cross the border of the country.
The League of American Municipali-
ties will hold its annual convention in
St. Louis on October 4, 5 and 6.
The army tug General Henry J.
Hunt was successfully launched at
Neafie & Levy's shipyard, Camden,
N. J
Saturday, February 6.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Andrew T. Wood to be pension agent
at Louisville, Ky.
Admiral Schley, who was suffering
from grip, has recovered and is able
to leave his room.
All the cecal operators of Wise coun-
ty, Va., have made a 12 per cent. re
duction in wages of miners. Over 7000
men are affected.
The national council of bishops of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church was held at Mobile, Ala. All
the northern states were represented.
Mrs. Edward Crawford and two chil
dren, of Montreal, Can., were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed their
home. The fire started from an over
heated kitchen stove.
Monday, February 8.
» William J. Bryan addressed an au-
dience of over 5000 people at Nashville,
Tenn., on “Moral Issues.”
Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y.,
has dropped 106 students as a result of
the mid-year examinations.
James Abeel, accused of trying iq
marry Miss Eleanor Anderson, was
held in $5000 bail at New York.
The government has arranged for
early tests off New York harbor of the
four wireless telegraph systems.
From al fall down stairs, whick
fractured his skull, Washington Taylor,
quartermaster general of the Grand
Army of Confederate Veterans, died at
Norfolk, Va.
Tuesday, February 9.
Fire destroyed a block of business
houses at Houston, Tex., entailing a
loss of over $150,000.
The tatal revenues of Pennsylvanig
for the year ending November 30, 1903,
were $21,030,232 and the expenditures
$18,080,480.
Henry M. Oliver, the Pittsburg stee]
master and politician, died after an ill:
ness of two months from a complica
tion of diseases.
Isaac Flagg, a clerk in the New
Brunswick, N. J., postoffice, who was
arrested for rifling letters, was seni
to the penitentiary for one year.
Mrs. Hannah H. Detwiler, of Nor
ristown, Pa., was found dead in bed
She was the mother of Judge H. Wil
lis Bland, of Reading, her first hus
band having been Henry Bland.
GENERAL MARKETS
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 9. — Flour
steady; winter superfine, $3.35@3.60;
Penna. roller, clear, $4.10@4.25; city
mills, fancy, $5.25@5.40. Rye flour was
quiet, at $3.35 per barrel. Wheat was
firm; No. 2 Penna. red, new, 96 S660.
Corn firm; No. 2 yellow, local, b3c.
Oats were quiet; No. white, clipped,
b50c.; lower grades, 49c. Hay steady;
No. 1 timothy, large bales, $16.50@17.
Pork firm; family, $17.50@18. Beel
steady; beef hams, $20@21. Live poul:
try, 13c. for hens and 9e. for old
roosters. Dressed poultry, 13%ec. for
choice fowls and 10c. for old rosters.
Butter was steady; creamery, 27c. per
und. HEggs steady; New York and
oie 33c. per dozen. Potatoes were
steady; 95@98c. per bushel.
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 9.—Wheat dull
and higher; spot contract, 97T@97%c.;
spot No. 2 red western, 98@98%c.;
steamer No. 2 red, 90%c. Corn s
but inactive; spot, b50%@503%c.;
steamer mixed, 48% @487c. Oats were
firm; No. 2 white, 47% @48c.; No. 2
mixed, 443%c. Rye firmer; No. 2, in
export elevator, 64c.; uptown, 6dc.;
No. 2 western, in export elevator, 65c.;
uptown, 70c. Buter steady; fanc
creamery, 25c.; fancy imitation, 19
20c.; fancy ladle, 16@18c.; store pack-
ed, 15@17c. Eggs firm; 32c. doz.
Live Stock Markets.
Union Stock Yards, PRittsburf, Pa,,
Feb. 9.—Cattle steady; choice, $5.10
.35; prime, $4.85@5; fair, $3.40@3.45.
ogs higher; prime heavy, $5.20@5.25;
mediums, $5.26@5.30; heavy Yorkers,
$5.25@5.30; light Yorkers, $5.15@5.20;
igs, $6@5.10; roughs, $3.50@4.70.
Heep steady; prime wethers 50@
4.66f culls and common, $3@%; choice
lambs, $6.25@6.40; veal calves, $7.80
@8 per 100 pounds.
BR ,.
Millions For Her If Like Mother.
Girl to Get Fortune it She
Characteristics.
It 16 year old Mary Agnes Redford, an
operator in a telegraph office has the same
pretty features that her mother, now dead,
had wher a girl, she will receive a fortune of
$3,000,000. in round numbers, says an
Oakland (Cal. ) correspondent of the New
York World. But if this telephone girl no
matter how good looking she may hel
has not a striking resemblance to her
mother, then it may mean has she and her
attorneys will have to ~ossivough a long
litigation. and even thas way not establish
that she is an heiress to millions. Photo-
graph+ of Miss Redford are now being tak-
en to be used in showing her right to the
Has Certain
fortune that is now making another chap-
ter in a romance that commenced forty
years ago.
A grizzled old miner of Cariboo, B. C.,
is to act as judge and jury in this matter,
at least, so long as they will let him, for
he 1s executor of the will which bequeaths
some $3,000,000 to a Miss Mary Agnes
Redford. Beach La Salle is his name, and he
has said that if Miss Mary Agnes Redford,
the telephone gir of that city, bears a re-
smeblance to an old sweetheart of bis part-
ner, who died two years ago, then she
shall receive this fortune.
This is one of the terms of the will left
by La Salle’s partner, whose name is not
koown here. The will provides that the
daughter of a woman who married a man
named William Redford and who died
about 1892 shall be given half of his min-
ing interests, or about $3,000,000. The
will says the girl’s name is Mary Agnes
Redford. Before he died the partner of
La Salle told him that the girl lived in
Oakland. :
Now, Mary Agnes Redford, a telephone
operator in that city, has a father named
William Redford, but unfortunately, she
bas not heard from him for years. Further,
this telephone girl’s mother died in
Alameda in the year 1890. Before her
death she gave her daughter some gold
nuggets of value, but did not tell her child
where she bad secored them. The friends
of this ‘hello girl”? believe that she will
bave no trouble in establishing her claim
to the millions.
La Salle’s partuer loved Mrs. Redford,
but she saw fit to marry William Redford.
This was forty years ago. La Salle says
he can recognize the daughter of his part-
net's sweetheart, and nowhe will be tried
by phtographs.
What Can He do About It?!
{ ¥'rom the Pittsburg Post,
President Roosevelt’s fame as a cavalry-
man and an all-’round rough rider baving
penetrated to the capital of his great and
good friend, the Sultan of Morocco, that
merry monarch has presented hima a half-
dozen of the finest thoroughbreds in the
palace at Tangiers, and dispatched them to
these shores by two trusted palace officials.
The Arabian steeds were brought into the
barbor at New York Thursday, and
although the President is ‘‘de-light-ed,’ he
is in a quandary asjto whatito do about the
Saltan’s gift. Unless he gets a special act
of Congress authorizing him to do so he
cannot accept the horses. If he does this,
then he will have to pay tariff levied by
the Dingley act, which be is now uphold-
ing. This would cost him a pretty penny.
Should be decline to accept the gift he
would insult the Sultan, and this might
lead to trouble. We have already bad one
war with Morocco. Apparently the only
way out of the embarrassing, situation is
for the President to accept the horses in
the name of the United States, and then
turn them over to the Government. But
in this case he might not feel like ordering
them to be kept in the White House
stables for the pleasure of himself and
friends. Thus his predicament is unpleas-
ant all around.
EE ——
What Solomon is Willing to Spend.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Congressman Solomon R. Dresser, of
McKean, bas formally announced his
willingness to spend another hundred
thonand dollars for a second term in Con-
gress. Of course, he does not say so in
that many words, but all the political leg
pullers and grafters in the district know
what he means and what he will do.
Notwithstanding all this money, Colonel
E. A. Irvin can beat him toa pulp if he
consents to ran when he returns from
Europe.
No Peaches The Coming Year.
Says Dr. J. M. Dumm, One of the Largest Grow-
ers in Clinton County.
Dr. J. M. Dumm, of Mackeyville, differs
materially with some of the peach growers
of the state about the outlook for a crop of
the luscious fruit next summer. The doc-
tor has an orchard of 3000 bearing peach
trees and after the recent cold snap he
was of the opinion that the buds bad been
greatly damaged as they cannot withstand
a temperature lower than from 15 to 20
degrees helow zero. Last week he removed
a number of branches from different trees
in his orchard and carefully examined
over 1000 buds, all of which were frozen,
this confirming his fear. Hence it is the
opinion of Dr. Dumm that the peach crop
not only of this section, but all through
Pennsylvania will be a total failure. Here
and there, where a tree was partially pro-
tected by sheds, or otherwise, there way
be a few peaches.
A Rare Disease.
Mrs. Juniper entered the dootor’s office,
dragging by the baud an overgrown boy of
14. She was excited and iwpatient, he
was dogged and glum. ‘'O doctor, he bas
lost his voice ! He hasn’t spoken a word
for two days,’’ she said.
The boy looked at her sullenly and suf-
fered the doctor to hold his face up to the
light.
aa your mouth. H’m!
right.
‘“Ya-ah.”’
‘‘Hold your head up and let me look at
your throat. Seems to be nothing the
trouble there. Push your tongue out. Feel
all right?”
“Ya-ah.”
‘Why, Mro. Juniper, there is nothing
the matter with him,’’ said the doctor, im-
patiently. ‘‘Boy, why don’t you talk?”
‘‘How can I when I ain’t got anything
to say.”’— Youth's Companion.
Tongue all
Young Lady Painfully Burned.
Mrs. Margaret Eberhardt, of Williams-
port. was painfully scalded about the face
by steam on Monday. She was boiling
coffee in a bucket .with a tight lid. As she
was about to loosen the covering there was
a loud report and the steam and scalding
coffee flew into the young lady’s face. For-
tunately she closed her eyes and her sight
will be unimpaired. :
Danger from River's Ice Gorge.
Berwick Bridge Is Carried Away and Others In
Danger from Floods.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The ice and
flood situation in the north branch of the
Susquehanna has become much more seri-
ous since Monday night. There were 25.7
feet of water at Wilkesbarre Tuesday after-
noon and a gorge bad formed at Nanticoke.
At Bloomsburg there were over 28 feet of
water aud the ice has forced up the eastern
span of *h bridge about one foot with the
water flooding the housesin the lower por-
tion of the town. .
At Catawissa the river was rising five in-
ches an hour and the water has again over-
flowed the railroad track, interrupting traf-
fie. A gorge has also been reported seven
miles above Binghamton, with breakwater
overflowing the lowlands.
Ice from the west branch of the Susque-
hanna is now passing Harrisburg on 9 feet
of water.
SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS.
This ice will probably be stopped by the
gorge below and persons interested are ad-
vised to take every precaution for removal
of portable property in the lowlands. There
18 no prospect for immediate relief above
Sunbury, nor for any radical improvement
in the situation, and it is strongly urged
tbat all possible measures be taken to pro-
vide against still greater floods.
Jaater reports received at 9:30 p. m. state
that the gorge below Wilkesbarre has
moved out and stopped at Mifflinville,
taking with it the Berwick bridge. This
bridge also moved the Mifflinville bridge
one-half mile down stream and stopped
about a mile above the town. The river is
still rising at Catawissa,but the great gorge
has not yet moved. :
WILKESBARRE, Feb. 4.—There are hun-
dreds of acres of land between here and
Nanticoke, a distance of nine miles, and
between here and Edwardsville, a distance
of four miles, inundated with from two to
six feet of water, and hunhreds of families
in the lower part of this city, Plymouth,
Edwardsville, Kingston, and West Nanti-
coke have been rendered homeless tonight.
Unless the water recedes between now and
tomorrow morning, the destruction will
be greater than that of the flood of two
years ago.
Westmoor, on the west side of the Sus-
quebapna, is isolated tonight, access to
the people residing there can be had only
in boat. In Kingston many of the resi-
dents bave been compelled to move to
places of safety. In Edwardsville some
filty residences and business places are
sarrounded by back water and much dam-
age has already been done,
BERWICK BRIDGE GOES.
At 3:15 this afternoon the gorge broke
at Berwick and swept away the county
bridge leading to Nanticoke. The bridge
was erected in 1837 and was 1,250 long.
The five spans were carried by the ice to
Creasy, where three spans of the new steel
county bridge were swept away. The ice
moved as far as Lime Ridge, where a new
gorge formed.
At Shickshinny, Nescopeck, Espy, Al-
meda and Beach Haven, all the lower sec-
tions are under water. The ice is still in-
tact at Bloomsburg and Catawissa and the
water is now two feet higher than two
weeks ago.
Railroad officials believe the bridges at
Bloomshurg, Rupert, Catawissa, Danville
and Sunbury will be carried away. The
Lackawanna railroad and the Pennsylvania
tracks are submerged from Nescopeck and
Berwick to Sunbury and Northumberland.
No trains moved on either road today.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
——A double bill “Faust” and *‘‘I Pag-
liacea’ will be sung hy the Metropolitan
Opera Co. at Garmau’s tomorrow night.
——Vogels ministrels, with Lew Bene-
dict, Arthur Rigby and Harry Leighton
in the cast, are advertised for Garman’s
next Wednesday night.
rs Qf
——Houtzdale hotels have posted notices
warning boys under twenty-one years
old against even loitering about the place.
eee QA eens.
——The Metropolitan Opera Co. is book-
ed tosing a grand opera at Garman’s to-
morrow night. It is headed by Mr. Alfred
Danieux, an eminent tenor. They will
sing two acts from ‘‘Faust’”’ and “‘I Pag.
liacei.”’
——Mr. J. C. Briggs, of New York city,
and Miss Emma Shuman, of State College,
were married by Dr. William Laurie, of
the Presbyterian church, in this place last
Saturday afternoon and spent Sunday at
the Bush homse. Monday morning the
bride and groom went to State College
where they gave their friends a pleasant
surprise and prepared for their departure
for their future home in New York city.
Mr. Briggs is an expert wire worker who
had been employed on the new buildings
at State College. His bride is a daughter
of J. B. Shuman, proprietor of the State
College hotel, and a very accomplished
young woman.
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THE SocrAL WoRLD.—New records in
social gayeties were made in town this week
by the number of small entertainments
given. On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. R. G.
H. Hayes entertained the card club at a
bridge party. There were twenty-four
players and the out-of-town guests were
Miss Mary Hibbs and Miss Mary Thomas,
of Philadelphia; Mrs. Edward H. Harris,
of Butler; Mrs. W. H. Galway, of Rad-
ford, Va., and Mrs. Joseph Borches, of
Knoxville, Tenn. On Wednesday afternoon
Mrs. Hayes delighifully entertained thirty
or more of the matrons and older set at a
thimble party. Those who did not indulge
in fanoy work played pit or flinch and an
elaborate supper was served after the
games.
On Wednesday evening Mrs. Frank
Montgomery entertained the card club at a
bridge party. There were six tables and
Miss Thomas, of Philadelphia, was the
guest of honor. Y
Last evening Mrs. Frank Warfield
gave a dinner for her brother, Dr. Ed
ward H. Harris, of Butler, and his bride
who was Miss Jean McNaughton, of Phila:
delphia. Another entertainment of the
evening was Mrs. J. Howard Lingle’s card
aprty.
This evening several small affairs will be
given, for which lavish preparations have
been made and she invitations were issued
a week ago. Mrs. Harry Keller is going to
have a bridge party. And Miss Emma
Montgomery will entertain twenty of her
friends at the Nittany Country club with
a chicken and waffle supper.