Demorrai aan Bellefonte, Pa., March il, 1904. P. GRAY oA EEK, - - - Epitor Terms or SusscriprioN.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance........cceeeesinees Paid before expiration of year.......... Paid after expiration of year............ Democratic County Committee for 1904. Precinct. Name. P. 0. Address. Bellefonte N W J. C. Harper, Bellefonte hd SW P. H. Gerrity, £6 fe WW Geo. R. Meek, £¢ Centre Hall Boro W. F. Bradford, Centre Hall Howard £6 Howard Moore, Howard Milesburg James Noll, Milesburg Millheim ot Pierce Musser, Millheim Philipsburg 1st W Ira Howe, Philipsburg “ 2nd W J.W. Lukens te “ © 5rd W Ed. G. Jones, € 8S. Philipsburg John Albert, & State College Boro Jno McCormick, State College Unionville P. J. McDonnel, Fleming Benner Twp. N P John Grove, Bellefonte te S P Siney Hoy, A Boggs Twp. N P Ira P. Confer, Yarnell ee E P W. G. Morrison, Roland ke W P Lewis Aikey, Wingate Burnside Twp. A. V. Dougherty, Moshannon College I. J. Dreese, Lemont Curtin 4 Peter Robb Jr., Romola Ferguson “ EP Wm. H.Fry, Pine Grove Mills ¢ ‘“ WP T. D. Gray, Penna Furnace Gregg Twp. N P J.C. Rossman, Spring Mills te E P H. P. Herring, Penn Hall ” WP John Smith, Spring Mills Haines Twp. W P Ralph E. Stover, Aaronsburg ¥ BP J wv. Winkleblech, Feidler Half Moon Twp. J. P. Sebring, Stormstown Harris ge John Weiland, Boalsbur; Howard . A. M. Butler, Howar Huston @ 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 te M P Geo. B. Winters, Rebersburg £8 W PG. Ed. Miller, Rebersburg Patton Twp. Thos. M. Huey, ~ Waddle Penn ¢€ W. F. Smith, Millheim Potter ¢ S.P Geo. Goodhart, Centre Hall 4 “ N P Geo. H. Emerick, Centre Hall e “ W P J.P Spangler, Tusseyville Rush ‘ N P Wm. B. Frank, Philipsburg “ ¢“ 8S P JnoT. Lorigan, Osceola Mills SnowShoe E PE. A. Humpton, Snow Shoe te W P Wm. Kern, Moshannon Spring Twp. N PC. M. Heisler, Bellefonte 4 S P W. H. Noll, Pleasant Gap * W P Jno. L. Dunlap, _ Bellefonte Taylor Twp. J. T. Merriman, Port Matilda Union * S. X. Emerick, Fleming Solomon Peck, Nittany Walker Twp E P ie M D. A. Deitrick, Hiblershure hale of Albert Shaffer, _ Zion Worth *¢ J. A. Williams, Port Matilda H.S. TAYLOR, County Chairman. Democratic State Convention. Democratic State Committee Rooms, Harrisburg, Pa., March 8th, 1904. To the Democrats of Pennsylvania: In pursuance of the requirements of the rules governing the Democratic organization of the State, and the action of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee ata special meeting held in Harrisburg, on the 3rd day of March, notice is hereby given that the Democratic State Convention will meet in the Lyceum theatre at HARRISBURG, TUESDAY, APRIL 19TH, 1904, at 12 o’clock noon. The business to be trans acted will be the nomination of One candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court. Two candidates for Electors at Large. Thirty-two candidates for District Elec- tors, and to elect in the manner provided by the rules of the party: Four Delegates at large to the National Democratic Convention. . Sixty-four Dictrict Delegates to the Na- . tional Democratic Convention, and to act upon such other matters, per- taining to the interest and success of the par- ty in Pennsylvania, as may be brought be- fore it. P. GRAY MEEK, Secretary. J. K. P. HALL, Chairman. Mormonite Secrets Are Being Bared. All Heads of the Church Polygamists. ‘‘Revela- tions from God” Placed Above Law of Land by Witness. WASHINGTON, March 5.—Interest in the investigation before the senate committee on privileges and elections of the protests against Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, was unabated today, although most of the time was devoted to introduction of documents subscribed to as the law of the Mormon church. seph Smith, who again was on the stand, testified that if the principle of plural mar- riage should he attacked it would be de- fended by the church. Intense feeling was exhibited by Presi- dens Smith against individuals who. he said, had spied on the domestic and marital relations of the high officials of the Mor- mon church and for that reason he had fa- vored the passage of the Evans bill to pre- vent prosecution for polygamous cohabita- tion, unless complaints were entered hy husband and wife against the other. This bill was passed, but vetoed by the Gover- nor. ‘Tt ‘was brought out that all of Mr. Smith's predecessors, as presidents of the Mormon church, had been polygamists and that the man chosen to succeed him has more than one wife. Mr. Smith was asked which he would obey, the law of thie land or revela- tions from God, if the two were in conflict. He raid be might obey the revelation, though it was not compnlsory. He added, I should not like to be put in a position where I woald have to desert my children —1I could not do that.” : Russian Forces Overstnted. War Correspondent at Port Arthut Says That No One Has Yet Seen the “Great Army” in Man- churia. : PARIS, March 4.—The war correspond- : ent of the Journal, writing from Port Ar- thur February 28th, says : _ “I was told at the beginning of Febru- ary there were more than 20,000 Russian soldiers between Port Arthur and Vladi- vostok,at Khabarovsk and Blagovestchensk but this estimate is not based upon actual evidence. : *‘In Manchuria everybody talks of the ‘‘great Russian army,’’ but no one has seen it. Before the coucentration was begun the army was spread over a territory as vast as France and Germany put together. ‘The officers at Port Arthur are igno- rant of the number of reinforcements which have reached the north, and the officers in the north know nothing of what is going oun at Port Arthur. To-day the officers of the Russian squadron are anxious and ir- resolute, and even a little nervous. ‘I fancy that these brave men have less confidence in their ships than in them- selves. I think that they are under the impression that Russia is not to fight the enemy on equal terms. There are other things of importance which I know, hus which I will not and cannot tell.” In that connection President Jo- | ‘go to the hotel wit room, Dixon and Miss Corbin: quarreled, Dixon is said to bave shot As Seen from a United Srates Man of War. Alfred Terry Brisbin Writes Entertainingly of Places He Has Visited While on a Cruise of Three Years [The letters which will appear from time to time in this column are from the pen of Alfred Terry Brisbin, a Mid-shipman on the U. 8. 8 Decatur, which is now on a cruise of three years in foreign waters. The writer is a son of the late Gen. James Brisbin, U. 8. A. and it is apparent that he has inherited much of his talent for descriptions from his gallant father, who was a frequent contributor to these columns when he was on Indian campaigns on the frontier. The letters are not really written for publication ; be- ing merely the personal correspondence which he has directed to his uncle, Col. J. L. Spangler, consequently they may be regarded as all the more sincere in their context.— Ed] IIL Malta. February 20th, 1904. Dearest Uncle : I have been trying to get an opportunity to write you a decent letter from here for a long time, but we have been overwhelmed with invitations to dinners, dances and in- numerable other forms of festivities. Rude- ness in some cases is a virtue when judi- ciously used and after trying all known forms of polite requests I was forced to say yes and then fail to appear. Hospitality is an unmistakable sign of friendship, but even this may be overdone and, as in our case, has become a bore. So I bave quietly drawn intoseclusion and al- lurements of every sort have not heen suffi- cient to draw me out. My trip to England bas served to make me no end of trouble, for daily someone turns up to greet me in a brotherly way. Still, on to Malta. These Islands are historical from the earliest time. St. Paul in biblical days figures here prominently. He was ship- wrecked and captured and incarcerated in a cathedral near here. The Islands were originally under the dominion of the Car- thagenians, from whom they were captur- ed by the Romans in the firs Punic war. On the decline of the Roman Empire Malta fell to the Goths and later to the Saracens. It was a dependency of Sicily from 1190 to 1525, when Emperor Charles V granted i to the order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who held it for more than two centuries. Napoleon Bonaparte captured the Island July 12, 1798, and until Sept. 5th, 1800, France retained it, but on that date it fell to Great Britain. This, in a nust-shell, is its history and its various stages of dependency are marked plainly by well preserved relics of the olden days. Around the entire city stretches a mar- velous stone wall with its draw bridges still in use. Built by the old Knights it is as solid now as a rock, after nearly four hundred years’ exposure. Here is the old inquisitor’s palace, with its myraid dun- geons, torture chambers and subterranean passages. You can almost imagine the scenes that took place in these rooms and the many persons who entered their doors never to depart alive. Nearby is the cathedral, with its wondeful mural decora- tions. Here is the place where St. Paul was imprisoned and below, stretching for seven miles, are the catacomhs containing the bones of thousands of Monks, It is marvelous and almost incomprehensible. The Maltese are not an attractive people, nor a thrifty race. They are closely allied to the Sicilians who are the lowest race of the Italians. The women all dress alike and have a noticeable and peculiar gar- ment. It is a black hood and cloak reach- ing nearly to the ground and is known as ‘‘the hood of shame.” When Napoleon captured the Island he turned his army of libertines loose and they ravaged every woman who could be found. To this day all the native women wear ‘‘the hood of shame?’ as an indication that some one of their maternal ancestors was a vie- tim of the Napoleonic lust. The English have established their head- quarters here and have an immense fleet in the harbor at all times. On land they have an army of about 9,000 troops. Its importance is solely due to this fact, for its products hardly suffice to supply the Island. The climate is very pleasant dur- ing the summer, but extremely unpleasant during the hot months. There are no rivers, lakes and very few springs, the water supply being secured from tanks which every house has and which are filled during the rainy months. Such is Malta. Interesting, but nota desirable living place. : ALFRED. Negro Murderer Mobbed in Ohio. : SPRINGFIELD, O., March 7.—A mob gathered about the jail here tonight and at 11 o’clock forced an entrance and took out Richard Dixon, a colored man, and shot him to death in the jail yard. Dixon yes- terday shot police sergeant Charles Collis, who died today. After shooting the negro in the jail yard, the mob took the body to the corner of Main street and Fountain avenue and hung it to a telegraph pole, where the mob spent the next balf hour riddling the body with bullets from several hundred revolvers. : Collis. was shot by Dixon on Sunday morning, while the latter was in his room, in a hotel, removing his baggage. He had decided to quit the place and, fearing tron- ‘ ‘ble with Anna Corbin,a woman with whom ‘he was acquainted, Dixon asked Collis to him. While in his er in the breast. The policeman then attempted to arrest ‘Dixon, when the latter fired into the offi: ‘cer’s body, inflicting fatal wounds: ~~ ! The mob, which nambered fully 1,500 men, forced entrance to the jail by batter- ing in the doors with. a heavy iron rail. They then overpowered the police, the sheriff and the turnkey and deputies and dragged the negro from his cell. Dominicans Lose Heavily. —~y Warship Presidente Driven Off by Insurgents. SAN JuaN, Porto Rice, March 8.—A semi-official letter received here from San Pedro de Macoris, Santo Domingo, dated February 29th, gives details of the bom- bardment of San Pedro de Macoris, Febra- ary 27th, by the Dominican warships Pres- idente and Estrella.. The captain of the Presidente, a Span- iard, and 60 men on board were killed, only six of the crew escaping without in- juries. In all 74 men were killed, and 25 were wounded on the two ships. The in- surgents lost 36 men killed or wounded. The Presidente was driven away at day- break February 28, the insurgents having brought up a field piece during the night, and unexpectedly opened fire on her. Several defeats of the troops of President Morales, with heavy losses have been re- ported lately. General Jose Amador, who captured at Sau Antonio de Guerra quan- tities of provisions and clothing, and $2,- 000 in cash, is now a prisoner at San Pedro de Macoris. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Jon M. DALE IS DEAD.—AS a result of a stroke of apoplexy which he suffered about midnight on Tuesday of last week John M. Dale passed away at his home on east Linn street, on Thursday night at half past ten. Several years ago specialists had warned him of a predisposition to the trouble and while it cannot be said to have been entirely unexpected its coming in the prime of his manhood and usefulness was a shock sach ae this community will not recover from for years. He had heen a leading spirit in greeting a party of fellow Masons who arrived that day from Lock Haven to pay their Bellefonte brothers a fraternal visit, but knowing his danger he had retired from the Temple and gone to his home, where the stroke fell. Though his entire right side was effected he was almost entirely conscious and it was hoped that he might be restored to partial vigor until his heait failed and the end came. A very worthy, indeed a brilliant, repre- sentative of the fifth generation af Dales in Centre county was the man we mourn. His great-great grand father. Christian - Dale, came to this country in 1749. Lovating firs in the vicinity of Lewishurg he moved, in 1790, to the end of Nittany mountain, Le Monte, and there made the settlement which to this day is largely influenced hy the sturdy type of Dale citizenship. A sawmill and a grist mill were the first fruits of their pioneer labors. Then fine farms blossomed in the wilderness and “Dales Mills’ hecame a centre of early day development. They were farmers and millers through successive generations to David Dale, the deceased’s grandfather, who invented a carding machine aud a mill, which were added to the other indus- tries of the family. He died in 1854, leav- ing nine children; the eldest of whom was William. The latter married Mary M.. a daughter of John and Sarah Th ompsen Mitchell, and in 1860" located at Neshan- nock, Lawrence couity, where he was in- terested in a woolen mill. There. on Nov. 11th, 1861, John M. Dale was born. When he was but three years old the family re- moved to the old homestead in Centre county. Their return marked the conver- sion of ‘‘Dales Mills’ into a woolen fac- tory in which his father was interested un- til his death in 1871. Edgar, the only other child of William and Mary Dale, having died iu infaney the ‘mother was left with none but her ten-year-old boy to com- fort her. How well she reared and build- ed for him his many successes stand out in glowing evidence. The emptiness of ker life without him can only be filled by the comfort of “thre-Father who called “hin AWAY. 2 sruinraaiieerh 4 wLH¥ Mr. Dale’s early life was spent about Le- mont, where he prepared for The Penns 1- vania State College. Entering that ingti- tution in 1878 he was graduated four years later: He began the study of law at once, and in 1883 was admitted as a student in the offices of Beaver and Gephart; in this place. January 1st, 1886, he was admitted to practice in the courts of Centre county. Almost immediately thereafter he located in Lock Haven, where he hecanie associat- ed with Capt. W. C. Kress. He did not re- main long in the latter place, however, for there was need of his services in the offices of his preceptors so be returned to Belle- fonte and when Gen. Beaver was called to the gubernatorial chair he was made a member of the firm; which then became Beaver, Gephart & Dale. In November, 1893, Mr. Gephart withdrew to take up the iron business, leaving the senior and junior members of the firm associated un- the title, Beaver & Dale. Then when Gen. Beaver was elevated to the Superior court, in 1895, Mr. Dale was left alone in the practice and with a clientele such as was had by few older practitioners. He retained the business of the office, aye, even in- oreased it, because the public was not long in discovering that he was a safe counsel- lor, a fearless defender and an honest man. Aside from the legal profession he was identified with so many and so great a di- versity of enterprise in this community as to bring him into contact with all classes of people. The Eagle iron works, the Curtin Forge company, the Bellefonte Elec- nn tric Co., the Centre County Banking Co., the Fair Association and the Palace livery knew him as partner or director. He was a trustee of the Bellefonte Academy, presi- dent of the alumni association of his alma mater, a member of Constans Commandery K. T. of the Royal Arcanum, of the Union League and Manufacturers’ club of Phila- delphia, of the Bellefonte club, the Nit- tany Country club and the Logan Eugine Co. In all of which organizations he was actively interested; for Mr. Dale could be passive in nothing. One of his most marked characteristics was the fact that he knew no middle ground in any cause. He was either for or against a proposition and when cnece his sober judgment had set the conrse his in- terest was unflagging and his energies end- ed only with the conclusion of the work. To foe, he was fair. To friend, be was de- votion, itself.” In no sphere of his life was this trait more marked than in politics. A Repub- lican by birth, he continued one from con- viction and though young, as party fealty is marked by years, he organized and car- ried to successful issue several of the most strenuous contests this county has ever seen. He had served his party as chairman and at the time of his death was a candi date for its leadership again. He may bave bad his faults, bat “Whoever thinks a faultless piece to sec Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall ’ 1? be.” and we prefer to remember him for the pre-eminent traits of manhood he possess- ed. Devoted to his family, loyal to his friends, useful to his fellow men there has goue out a life the lustre of which will shine on the Dale name from generation to generation. On October 18th, 1888, Mr. Dale mar- ried Florence G. Fox, a daughter of J. E. Fox, of Leesburg, Virginia. She sarvives him with their two children, Virginia and Joho M. Jr., and bis mother, Mrs. Mary Dale, of Lemont. : The funeral was held from his late home on Linn street on Monday afternoon, at 1 o'clock. Rev. George Israel Brown, rector of St. John’s. Episcopal chureh, read the service, after which the body was taken to Lemont, his old home, by rail. Two spec- ial cars accommodated the funeral party from here and at Lemont there was a great concourse of the friends of his early days gathered’ to follow to the old burying ground at ‘‘The Branch,’” where he had eleoted to be laid away. At the grave only the short burial service of the : Episcopal church was read, after which Rev. Walter Harnish, of the Presbyterian church, offer- ed a short prayer and it, was all over. ~The active pall-bearers were John Blanca- ard, John M. Shugers, J. L. Montgomery, W. Fred Reynolds, H. E. Fenlon, H. R. Cartin,. John. I. Potter and. Dr..Joseph Brockerhoff. : 53 The honorary pall-bearers were Gen. James A. Beaver, Hon. John G. Love, El- lis L. Orvis, H, C. Quigley, 1larry Keller, W. C. Heinle, Col. "J. L. Spangler, Jobn Ardell, James L. Hamil, S. C. Burnside, Adolph Fauble, T. A. Shoemaker, Frank McCoy, James Harris, Dr. George F. Har- ris, Geo. R. Meek, John I. Potter and A. G. Morris. The floral tributes were exquisite :—A. G. Morris sent American Beauties; Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Shoemaker a basket of pink roses; Col. and Mrs. W. Fred Reynolds a ‘shower of roses; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Montgomery a shower of roses; W.V. Lar- imer a broken chain of roses; the Bellefonte club a basket of carnations; the Bar Asso- ciation white roses. THE CENTRE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION PAYS TRIBUTE. Out of respect for the dead barrister the Centre County Bar Association was called to a special meeting in the court house on Friday afternoon. Although the meeting _was calied merely for the purpose of ar- ranging for some more formal action the sadness of it found vent in several im- promptu eulogies. President John G. Love presided and M. I. Gardner was the secre- tary. After the appointment of the usual committees on resolutions and arrange- ments for the later meeting Senator W. C. Heinle spoke of his impressions and rela- ao SRC tions with Mr. Dale. It was a beautiful tribute he paid to the memory of his fel- low lawyer. The regular memorial meeting of the As- sociation was held in the court house on Monday morning. The resolutions were read hy John Blanchard Esq. and at their conclusion he addressed the audience in en- logy of his friend. Other addresses were made by Ellis L. Orvis, J. C. Meyer, Col. Wilbur F. Reeder, Clement Dale, James Hamil, Col. J. L. Spangler, Edmund Blanchard, Hon. A. O. Furst, W. Harrison Walker and A. A. Dale. fi I i LAURA JANE NEILL WILLIAMS.—The death of this christian wife and mother on Friday, March 4th, 1904, at her home near Port Matilda has brought a cloud of sad- ness over home and community. The de- ceased was born Dec. 30th, 1862. and lived 41 years, 2 months and 4 days. Last Aun- gust she was successfully operated on at the Bellefonte hospital and for the -time being death’s hands seemed to be stayed. But it was only temporary. For several weeks Mrs, Williams has been an intense but patient sufferer from a complication of diseases. She died triumphant in the faith of Christ, She had been a christian since 16 years of age. On Dec. 20th, 1888, she was united in marriage with Mr. A. S. Williams, a prominent citizen of Centre county. This union with its happy joy has been severed and the husband, together with three young children, Robert P., Kate M., and Jennie E., are left to mourn her loss. There also survive her two step-children, Samuel T. Williams and Mrs, Susie A. Gray, both of Philipsburg; R. F. Neill, of Pittsburg,and J. P. Neill, of Buffalo-run; three sisters, Mrs. W. M. Zeek and ‘Mrs. J. H. Moose, both of Buffalo-run,and Mrs. F. D. Young, of Fillmore. Funeral services were held in the Baptist church at Port Matilda on Monday at 11 o'clock, conducted by. the pastor, A.C. Lathrop, assisted by Rev. J. B. Durkee, of the M. E. church. Interment was made in the Black-oak cemetery. Through a committee composed of H. M. Miles, Miss Olive Newman and P. W. Young the Bap- tist Sunday school, of which Mrs. Williams was the superintendent, adopted, on March 6th, appropriate resolutions of condolence and sympathy. I foe MRS. JOHN JACKSON.—After being in delicate health for some time Anna Lucy, wife of John Jackson, died at her home in Tyrone early monday morning, her death having been sunperinduced by a slight stroke of paralysis which she suffered ahout two weeks ago. . Before her marriage Mrs. Jackson was Anna L. Pennington and she was born at Pleasant Gap January 16th, 1844. Later they located in Buffalo run valley and liv- ed there until about eight years ago, when the family removed to Tyrone. Since girl- hood Mrs. Jacksen had been a member of the Methodist church, except during the last few years of her life when she had be- come connected with the United Brethren church. She is survived by the following sons and daunghters : H. Francis and Charles L. Jackson, at the Tyrone home; Mrs. George ‘Clark, Warriorsmark, and Mrs. Calvin Robbins, of Tyrone. She is also survived by her step-mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Pen- nington, who resides at Milesburg, and two half brothers and one half sister, viz: Frank Pennington, of State College; John Pennington, of Sandy Ridge, and Mis. Ellen Woodring, of Milesburg. I I I +A WELL-KNOWN WOMAN EXPIRES.— Miss Paella Dornblazer, who died in the Lock Haven hospital on Friday afternoon, was one of the most widely known women in Clinton and Centre counties. Thoagh only 45 years old she bad been so actively engaged in educational, literary and church work for so many years as to earn for her. prominence in these circles: seldom ‘a$- tained by unassuming woman. : She was a daughter. of the late Peter Dornblazer and was born near Clintondale, where she was raised ‘and spent moss of her lite. From girlhood she had manifested the keenest interest in matters sociological and she was always ready with. her voice. and energy to make for the common weal.’ A few years ago she’ located in 'Willjams:' port, where she had charge of a girls’ in- dustrial school and was superintendent of the hureau of charities of that city when she was stricken with the malady from, which she realized there was no relief. Her two brothers, Rev. Thomas F., of Chicago; Pierce W., of Porter township, Clinton county, and her sister, Mrs. Aman- da J. Townsend, of Valley Falls, Kansas, survive her. Burial was made from her brother’s home near Clintondale on Monday afternoon. Interment at St. Pauls. : Mgs. BELLE W. RIDDLE.—Mrs. Belle W. Riddle, widow of Samuel Riddle, died at 9 o'clock p. m. Wednesday, March 2nd, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ran- dolph: MoMullin, in Tyrone township, Blair county. The deceased had been a sufferer from rheumatism for over twenty- three years. She was born in Penn’s-valley, this coun- ty, August 10th, 1837; being the daughter of Robert and Matilda Watson, and is sar- vived by two daughters, Mrs. L. Blanche McMullin, and Bertha L. aud one son, Ho- mer 8., all of Tyrone township, and by one brother, Joseph L. Watson, of Joliet, Ill. The funeral services were held at the home on Saturday morning, Rev. J. E. Irvine, of the third Presbyterian church, of Altoona, officiating. Interment was made in the Hollidaysburg Presbyterian cemetery. four ‘children survive. Mes. HENRY WALKEY.--After a long period of patient suffering with a com- plication of troubles that seemed to baffle the skill of physicians and would not yield to the tenderest nursing Rebecca, wife of Henry Walkey, passed away at ber home on Logan street, Tuesday morning. Throughout all of her long illness she was cheerful and full of hope; begotten of the couscientious christian life she had led from girlhood and when the last hour came she closed her eyes in the peaceful sleep that has its awakening in the home of the blest. Mrs. Walkey was a daughter of Emanuel and Pauline Noll. She was born at Spring Mills October 19th, 1643. On Feb. 11th, 1868, the Rev. G. M. Settlemyer perform- ed the ceremony that made her the wife of Henry Walkey and almost immediately thereafter they came to reside in Belle- fonte, where she has been a respected and useful resident ever since. : Surviving are her husband and son Harry. Their daoghter Sara, wife of H. E. Johnson, of Pittsburg, died in 1897. Her brothers Emanuel, of this place; John, of Kansas; James and George, of Miles- burg; Thomas, of Pleasant Gap, and sister Mrs. Mary Swartz, of Somerset, also sar- vive. : Her death is a sad blow to husband and son especially, for she was devoted to her home in which all the fruits of her ener- getic life blossomed for their comfort and contentment. The funeral was held from the house yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock; the Rev. Ambrose Schmidt, of the Reformed church of which she was a life-long member, offi- ciated and interment was made in the Union cemetery. I I I MRS. JOHN WAGNER.—The death of Mrs. Sarah, relict of John Wagner, oc- curred at her home on Spring street, this place, on Wednesday evening. No particular cause is assigned as her health had been breaking down gradually ever since the death of her beloved grand- daughter Millie. Mrs. Waguer was born at Potter’s Mills 87 years, 8 months and 22 days ago, mak- ing her one of the town’s oldest residents. She was a daughter of Benjamin Weiser, of Revolutionary fame, and was a woman of rare character. Her children, Mrs. Michael Hess, Mrs. Adam Wagner and John Wagner survive her. One son Henry F. died several years ago. Since she was 12 years of age she has been active in the Reformed church and even in her most recent years was just as enthusiastic in her devotion to her church as ever. Interment will be made in the Union cemetery tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, after Rev. Schmidt has conducted burial services. I I I MRs. SAMUEL SLACK.—At the age of 62 years, 2 months and 13 days Mrs. Samuel Slack passed away at her home, near Colyer, on Monday evening at half-past six o’clock. She had been bed-fast for a long time with dropsical troubles. Before her marriage deceased was a Miss Kimport, a sister of James and Lot Kimport. She was a most estimable woman; loving in her domestic relations, charitable with those about her and zealous in her chris- tian faith. Surviving her are her husband and chil- dren Warren and Elizabeth. Rev. G. W. Mellnay, of the Methodist church of which she was a member, officiated at her inter- ment at Sprucetown yesterday morning. I I ——About midnight Sunday John Flynn died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Schell, in Tyrone. Deceased was 74 years old and was originally a resident ‘of Snow Shoe at which place his wife died twenty-eight years ago. Thongh he had long suffered from pulmonary troubles heart disease was the imwediate cause of his demise. = The body was taken to Snow Shoe for interment on Wednesday. Al Al I '.——Mrs. Aaron T. Walizer ‘died at her home in Mackeyville on Sunday night at ‘the age of 45 years. While she had been ill for some time her condition was not regarded as dangerous and when she sud- denly iexpired of meningitis ‘her friends were greatly ‘shocked. Her husband and Interment was made at Cedar Hill on Wednesday after- noon. ta i3iw atediad dt 54 I free DIED AT SALONA.—W. W. Furst died from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, at his home in Salona on Thursday evening. "He was 68 years old and is survived by a widow. Interment was made at Cedar Hill, on Saturday afternoon. a AE ee ——On Monday Irvin Tate caught three suckers in the pond at the pump house at the Bellefonte furnace, that weighed 631bs. 16 is not often that snch whoppers are seen about here. Suckers do not seem nearly as plentiful, nor as large as they were in our streams fifteen or twenty vears ago. On Monday Harry and Maurice Yeager, Ed Harper and Jobn Nighthart went down Bald Eagle dipping and came home with ninety-five and an eel. rrr Sapir 4 THE GoLDSMITHS BURNED OuT.—Gold- smith Bros., well-known dry goods mer- chants of this place when they ran the‘‘Bee Hive,’ suffered a loss of $115,000 by fire at Scranton on Tuesday night. Their store is one of the largest department stores in that city and its destruction is reported as being complete. et ise ——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
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