Pra dan Bellefonte, Pa., February 17, 1905. P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Eprror a - re Terms or SusscriprioN.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance ... $1.00 Paid before expiration of year. we 1.50 Paid after expiration of year............ 2.00 Improvement Funds for Academy Grounds. The WATCHMAN takes pleasure in re- porting the following subscriptions to the fund now being raised for improving and beautifying the ground about the Acad- emy: J. F. Ryman, Missoula, Mont.........cc....... $100 00 JS, HOTT... icrvesrirncrosicsnrirnes Miss Julia L. Reed, Havana, Cuba. The INdeX......ccccccsiininnsinss ownnens E. C. Poorman, Tyrone.... Edward C. Calwell, Mario Chas. S. Hughes, New York Hon. W. C Lingle, Patton.. Jay WoobcocK.............. Mrs. W.s. Zeller... James Mellors.... Budd Walker................ Bpencer G. McLaughlin Edward Roeloffs. David Renton R. Acheson. Fo pe ed pd bd bd Bd pd 1 dd pd ed pd fd DD OD ON C1 SY EN ON 888888888 88888°5S oeSS 888¢ Milford DuBarry J. Jacobs... ..oeense. Christopher Connor... Harper Lyneh.....,...oues soe . An Old Student, Bellefonte............ccueeue. 2 = The contribution which heads the list in today’s issue is one of particular interest, eoming as it does frow far off Montana and being for an amount as to indicate that its donor hasa heart full of gratitude for what the old Academy did for him. Mr. Ryman was a Milesburg boy. Many of our men of middle age will remember the quiet, unobtrusive boy who walked each day aver the two miles from his home to school undergoing hardships that would have dis- couraged most fellows, but the character and spirit were there and bis instructors builded so well on them that today Jim Ryman is cashier of the Western Montana National bank and a man of eminence in Missoula. He merited bis success and he is loyal to the agent that did much in equipping him for it. —How the country will grieve over the expeoted- war between Mrs. FAIRBANKS and Mrs. ROOSEVELT for social leadership in Washington. And how the dressnmiakers will 1eap the rich harvests. News Items. Mr. Thorne M. Carpenter has resigned his position as assistant chemist of the Pennsylvania State College Experiment Station, and assistant in the investigations with the respiration calorimeter, to accept a similar position in connection with the investigations on human nutrition as Weslyan University, Middletown, Con- ‘necticut. The vacancy thus caused has been filled by the promotion of Mr. N. C. Hammer, and Mr. W.A. Smith, a graduate of the College in 1901, has been appointed ohemiss. Mr. J. B. Robb, of the Maryland Agri- oultural College, who has assisted in the respiration calorimeter investigations dar ing the pass three winters, has been tem. porarily engaged for the same purpose for the present season. CZAR GRANTS REFORMS Endorsed Scheme For Removal Ancient Land Parliament. St. Petersburg, Feb. 13.—The news that Emperor Nicholas has endorsed the scheme for the revival of the Zemsky Zabor, or ancient land parlia- ment, which the old emperors con- voked in times of stress, has spread through the city and created intense patisfaction among the liberal classes. The newspapers this morning were filled with articles descriptive of this ancient Russian institution, indicating that word had gone forth that the gov- ernment had decided to listen to the voice of the representatives of the people. Naturally there is some scepti- cism as to whether the government intends frankly to take the step; but the general verdict is that if the em- peror has succeeded in shaking off re- actionary influences and now proceeds in good faith to summon the Zemsky Zabor, he will rally to his support the moderate liberals and perhaps arouse a wave of genuine enthusiasm in the country. The Liberals are convinced that the meeting of such a representative body must be followed by important and widespread reforms. The anticipated renewal of trouble among the workmen was not realized. Neither strikers nor students made the slightest attempt to demonstrate, and the city presented a normal appear- ance. The emperor's creation of a joint commission of masters and workmen, chosen by themselves, to investigate the cause of the discontent among the laborers has made an exceedingly good impression, being considered definite evidence of the government’s purpose to compel some of the rapacious mas- ters who have paid starvation wages to do justice to their employes. of SAMUEL McCUE HANGED Left Ctatement Confessing He Mur- dered His Wife. Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 11. — J. Samuel McCue, former mayor of this city, was hanged in the county jail here for the murder of his wife on Sunday, September 4, 1904. McCue was pronounced dead 18 minutes after the trap had been sprung. Immediately after the execution Mec- Cue’s three spiritual advisers gave out the following signed statement: “J. Samuel McCue stated in our presence and requested us to make public ‘that he did not wish to leave this world with suspicion resting on any human being other than himself; that he alone was responsible for the deed, impelled to it by an evil power béyond his control, and that he recog- nized] is sentence as just.” . ME Senate Mullifies Eight Treaties. Washington, Feb. 13. — By a vote of 50 to 9 the senate nullified every one of the eight arbitra- tion treaties that President Roosevelt had negotiated with foreign powers. It did this as a rebuke for what several senators, including Messrs. Morgan, Lodge, Spooner and Foraker, charac- terized as an attempt to interfere with the prerogatives of the senate when he sent a letter to Senator Cullom de- claring that if the conventions were amended so as to provide for a “treaty” instead of an “agreement” prior to every case of arbitration, he would not ask the contracting foreign powers to ratify them. The senate, af- ter hearing the president’s letter read, did so amend the treaties and then ratified them. The president, however, will withdraw his consent to the treaties. The point at issue is of consider- able importance, for, as the president points out in his letter to Senator Cul- lom, if the arbitration conventions merely provide for “agreements” to arbitrate, then the state department will be free to arrange for the arbi- tration of whatever subordinate ques- tion arises; but if they provide for “treaties,” then the consent of two- thirds of the senate will have to be secured every time the state depart- ment arranges for the arbitration of any question, no matter how small. The second article of each of the treaties, as sent to the senate, reads a8 follows: “In each individual case the high contracting parties, before appealing to the Permanent Court of Arbitra- tion, shall conclude a special agree- ment defining clearly the matter in dispute, the scope of the powers of the arbitrators and the periods to be fixed for the formation of the Arbitral Tribunal and the several stages of the procedure.” As amended the article reads, “spe- cial treaty,” instead of “special agree- ment.” CAN'T CONVICT MRS. CHADWICK Her Attorney Says Indictments Are Not Worth the Paper Written On. Cleveland, Feb. 15.—Discussing the report that the federal grand jury will probably return another indictment against Mrs. Chadwick, Attorney J. P. Dawley, her counsel, said: “Let them return another indict- ment. The five indictments already re- ported are not worth the paper they are written on. They will never be able to convict her on the charge of conspiracy.” Mr. Dawley added that Mrs. Chad- wick is suffering from acute heart trouble, and he feared that the excite- ment incident to the trial would cause her death. ? Iri Reynolds, who held a package said to contain $5,000,000 in securities belonging to Mrs. Chadwick, is seri- ously ill. Mr. Reynolds has been con- fined to his bed for several days with a severe attack of grip and malaria. MITCHELL AGAIN INDICTED Conspiracy to Defraud Government of Lands Worth $3,000,000 Charged. Portland, Ore., Feb. 14—The United States grand jury returned an indict- ment, charging United States Senator Mitchell, Congressman John N. Wil- liamson and Binger Hermann and oth- ers with having conspired to have created the Blue Mountain forest re- serve in Fastern Oregon, with the in- tent of defrauding the government of public lands, and also of conspiring to obtain possession of more than 200,000 acres of public and school lands, sit- uated in several states, of the value of mare than $3,000,000. Fire In New York School. New York, Feb. 15.—Within an hour after 1800 children had been dismissed from public school No. 3, in Grove street, the building was found to be on fire, the flames spreading so rapidly that it was quickly gutted. At the time the fire was discovered there were only taree or four teachers and a few children in the building. These, with the aid of the janitor, made their escape through a covered passageway to an adjoining building and thence to the stre®t. Mary Leach, matron of the girls’ department, found her es- cape oy the stairways cut off, but was taken down a ladder from the second floor. Two small boys were seen to jump from the next window, but es- caped uninjured. The damage is est: - mated at $80,000. Found Aged Woman's Fortune. New York, Feb. 14.—When the po- lice and relatives searched the three rooms in which Mrs. Maria Kull, 73 years old, lived alone in a tenement house in Third avenue, they found more thz = $6000 hidden underneath the covering of a sofa. Deeds of houses valued at $70,000 and bank books showing deposits aggregating more than $18,000 were also found concealed in clc ets. The woman is in Bellevue hospital suffering from chronic gastri- tis, and it is said that her condition is precarious. Ate Poison In Mistake For Candy. Bennington, Vt., Feb. 18.—As a re- sult of eating strychnine tablets -mis- taken for canly, Leslie Elwell, 3 years old, is dead, and his 7-year-old brother, Calvin, is in a critical condition, with his limbs paralyzed. Physicians say that he will be a cripple if he survives. Found Purse Containing $13,000. Cleveland, Feb. 15. — George Put- nam, 15 years of age, found a purse on Superior street containing $13,000 in currency and drafts, together with a bank book showing deposits in the Guardian Trust company, of this city. The lad returned the purse and con- tents to the latter institution and re- ceived a reward. The purse is said to belong to H. J. Bryer, an out-of-town customer of the trust compeany. President on Race Problem. New York, Feb. 14.—As the guest of honor at the Lincoln dinner of the Republican club in this city, President Roosevelt made a speech on the race problem. Following the president, Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, responded to the toast, “Abraham Lincoln;” George A. Knight, of California, spoke on “The Republican Party,” and James M. Beck, former assistant attorney general of the United States, on “The nity of Republic.” President Roosevelt said in part: In his second inaugural, in a speech which will be read as long as the memory of this nation endures, Abraham Lincoln closed by saying: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; * * * to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all na- tions.” This is the spirit in which mighty Lin- coln sought to bind up the nation’s wounds when its soul was yet seething with fierce hatreds, with wrath, with rancor, with all the evil and dreadful passions provoked by civil war. Surely this is the spirit which all Americans should show now, where there is so little excuse for malice or rancor or hatred, when there is so little of vital conse- quence to divide brother from brother. All good Americans who dwell in the north must, because they are good Amer- icans, feel the most earnest friendship for their fellow-countrymen who dwell in the south, a friendship all the greater because it is in the south that we find in its most acute phase one of the gravest problems before our people: the problem of so dealing with the man of one color as to secure him the rights that no one would grudge him if he were of another color. To solve this problem, it is, of course, necessary to educate him to per- form the duties, a failure to perform which will render him a curse to himself and to all around him. Neither I nor any other man can say that any given way of approaching that problem will present in our time even an approximately perfect solution, but we can safely say that there can never be such solution at all unless we approach it with the effort to do fair and equal justice among all men; and to demand from them in return just and fair treat- ment for others. Our effort should be to secure to each man, whatever his color, equality of opportunity, equality of treat- ment before the law. 4 Laziness and shiftlessness, these, and above all, vice and criminality of every kind, are evils more potent for harm to the black race than all acts of oppression of white men put together. The colored man who fails to condemn crime in an- other colored man, who fails to co-oper- ate in all lawful ways in bringing colored criminals to justice, is the worst enemy of his own people, as well as an enemy to all the people. Law-abiding black men should, for the sake of their race, be fore- most in relentless and unceasing warfare against law-breaking black men. If the standards of private morality an:1 indus- trial efficiency can be raised high enough among the black race, then its future on this continent is secure. The stability and purity of the home is vital to the welfare of the black race, as it is to the welfare of every race. In the next place the white man, who, | if only he is willing, can help the col- ored man more than all other white men put together, is the white man who is his neighbor, north or south. Each of us must do his whole duty without flinching, and if that duty is national it must be done in accordance with the principles above laid down. But in endeavoring each to be his brother’s keeper it is wise to remember that each can normally do most for the brother who is his imme- diate neighbor. If we are sincere friends of the negro let us each in his own local- ity show it by his action therein, and let us each show it also by upholding the hands of the white man, in whatever lo- cality, who is striving to do justice to the poor and the helpless, to be a shield to those whose need for such a shield is great. The heartiest acknowledgments are due to the ministers, the judges and law offi- cers, the grand juries, the public men, and the great daily newspapers in the south, who have recently done such effec- tive work in leading the crusade against lynching in the south; and I am glad to say that during the last three months the returns, as far as they can be gath- ered, show a smaller number of lynchings than for any other two months during ! the last 20 years. Let us be steadfast for the right; but let us err on the side of generosity rather than on the side of vindictiveness toward those who differ from us as to the meth- od of attaining the right. Let us never forget our duty to help in uplifting the lowly, to shield from wrong the humble; and let us likewise act in a spirit of the broadest and frankest generosity toward all our brothers, all our fellow-country- men; in a spirit proceeding not from weakness but from strength, a spirit which takes no more acount of locality than it does of class or of creed; a spirit which is resolutely bent on seeing that the Union which Washington founded and which Lincoln saved from destruec- tion shall grow nobler and greater throughout the ages. The southern states face difficult prob- lems; ai. so do the northern states. Some of the problems are the same for the entire country. Others exist in great- er intensity in one section; and yet others exist in greater intensity in another sec- tion. But in the end they will all be solved; for fundamentally our people are the same throughout the land; the same in the qualities of heart and brain and hand which have made this republic what it is in the great today; which will make it what it is to be in the infinitely greater tomorrow. Suffocated Her Children. Bloomfield, N. J., Feb. 13.—Bec~use her two children, aged respectively 18 morths and 3 years, were afflicted with asthma, from which she herself has suffered since childhood, Mrs. Elsie Loux, of this place, after put- ting the little ones to bed, turned on the gas and lay down beside them to die. When the room was entered by neighbors, Mr. Loux having gone away on a visit, the two children were found dead and the mother dying. She left a letter to her husband, imploring his forgiveness, and saying that she had determined that it was better that she and the children should die than suf- fer any longer. Horace Boies Critically lil. Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 156. — Former Governor Horace Boies is lying criti- caly ill at a hotel in Hot Springs, Ark., where he went for his health some weeks ago. His family has been called to his bedside. : Battleship to Be Called Delaware. Wilmington, Del.,, Feb. 13.—Senator L. H. Ball has received intimations from the navy department that one of the new battleships will be named Delaware. The other battleship may be named Michigan. "WATCHMAN. EE ———————————————————————————— ADDITIONAL LOCALS. ——Fourteen degrees below zero was where the mercury descended to Tuesday morning. ——— ——Mirs. George Israel Brown enter- tained the Daughters of the King at a sup- per, on Tuesdav evening. oe -—— Hon. Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, will be one of the speak- ers at the centennial celebration of the Bellefonte Academy, in June. el a ——The remains of Col. D. 8. Dunham, who died in Passadena, Cal., about a month ago, arrived at Howard last Friday and were buried Satorday morning. — eve ——TUp to this time there are six or more applicants fer she pastorate of the Belle- fonte Lutheran church, a vacancy caused hy the resignation of Dr. H. C. Holloway. abe ——A defective flue cansed a small fire in the house occupied hy Rev. Crittenden, on east Curtin street, last Friday. A few huckets of water sufficed to extinguish the flames. iii dee The list of applications for liquor license will be found in this issue of the There are forty-seven appli- cants in all, or eight more than now have license. ——Ex-Judge John G. Love has leased the rooms in the Larimer building on east High street, and will have them fixed into commodious offices for his occupancy by April 1st. ene = —— Miss Mary Ceader gave a party, Wednesday evening, at whioh thirty-five of her young lady friends were present. Refreshments were served and the evening proved a most enjoyable one. rior errr ——Joseph Runkle has purchased the old Runkle homestead on east High street and will move there in the spring, while the present occupant, T. F. Murphy will move into the Schrom house on Lamb street. a ——The latest ‘‘infant’’ industry to claim public attention is the ‘‘white slave’ business in Philadelphia. And true fo their record on the great issue Philadel- phians are seeing that jt is properly pro- tected. ——The $1,000 horse of C. H. Rowland, of Philipsburg, which was in the keeping of J. G. Anderson, of Tyrone, was run down by Main Line express. on Monday, near the Tyrone station, and instantly killed. Sone —— An additional four inches of snow Saturday night and Sunday improved the sleighing very much, but the rain and sleet of Sunday afterroon with the freeze that followed rendered the pavements ina dangerously slippery condition. ——At the request of the ministers of the town Phil. D. Foster and H. S. Taylor, chairmen of the Republican aud Democratic county/committees. have agreed to do all they can to prevent the nse of money at next Tuesday’s election. —— ee ® — -—Mr. Jesse Foshea and Miss Myrtle M. Riter were married, Tuesday evening, at the home of the biide’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Riter, of Blairsville. The Riters formerly lived in Bellefonte and the friends of the young bride wish ber much happiness. ——Mrs. Evelyn Rogers was recently elected a delegate to represent the national convention of the Daughters of the Ameri: can Revolution, in Washington. The local chapter also voted a contribution of $50 to- ward the building of a Continental hall in Philadelphia. I a ——A ‘‘Farmer’s Meeting’’ will be held in the grange hall. near Myers’ cemetery, Filmore, tomorrow evening, to which everybody is invited. Addresses will be made by Professors Watson and Mairs, of State College, and in addition there will Le a program of recitations and music. Harry M. Walker, of * Wolf's Store, has purchased the timber on stump of New- ton Brungart, of Smullton, and Z. D. Thomas, of Aarounsburg. The timber, which it is claimed will clean up about 700.000 feet of white pine and white oak, is located on a tract of land about two miles east of Wolf’s Store. ——eee oD ——A. J. Darragh, formerly with the electric light company here, but now sup- erintendent of the plant at Bellwood re- ceived two electric shocks, last Saturday, while working on a pole that rendered him unconscious and necessitated his removal to the Altoona hospital. At this writing he has recovered aud has “resumed bis duties. : ob ——The ‘Parish Priest’”’ company gave a very good entertainment in the opera house, Monday night, for the benefit of the Loganffire company. The company’s share of the proceeds amounted to about $96. Following the show the Logan boys gave the members of the ‘‘Parish Priest’’ com- pany a little ‘‘lay-out,”’ at their building on Howard street. Les: ——The young man who filled up on red eye, Monday night, then telephoued a Belle- fonte business man to send twenty dollars to Howard to biipg his hody home, as he bad beenlrun over by a train and killed, had lots of time the next day in Fort Tay- lor to reflect how awful it would have been for him ?had ithe telephone message been true, —— Subscribe for the WATOHMAN. { the building of the Central JOHN WESLEY GEPHART. John Wesley Gepbart died at his home on east Linn street Tuesday morning at hall after six o’clock. It would be untrue to say that his death was caused by any particular disease. All the circumstances point to the fact that his energy, untiring and unresting, sapped at his none too robust constitution until the moment came when there was none of it left to support life. For years, in fact from boyhood, he had been a veritable machine. Studying in the schools of Bellefonte the idle moments that his fellows spent in recreative pastime he made count about the composing and press rooms of the WATCHMAN office; so that without ever having served a regular ap- prenticeship he became a finished printer. It was vos of necessity that he did it. Rather let us credit it to the spirit of ener- gy that ever inspired him to do things. When he entered Princeton college, his printer’s trade was made to serve him. For daring the first three years of his course there he worked on the Princefonian and paid nearly'all of his college bills with his earnings. Neither was it at a sacrifice of his standing as a student, for that was al- ways high. After his admission to the practice of law a co-partnership with Gen. Beaver was formed and without militating the ability of the former Governor and present jurist of the Saoperior court, be it said that Mr. Gephart was recognized as the great working force of that successful firm and this he remained until his partial retire- ment from active practice in order to gather up the wreckage of the old Valentine Iron Co. The story of its rehabilitation and financing is familiar to most of onr readers, bus to those who know naught of it the simple word marvelous tells of the part he played. Following in the footsteps of this stupendous undertaking for a man who up to tbat time had scarcely been away from his desk in an attorney’s office came Railroad of Pennsylvania, which gave Bellefonte a com- peting line of railroad, aud stands solely as a monument to the memory of John Wesley Gephart. After this came the building of the great viaduct that gave this railroad acces® to the Bellefonte furnace and resulted in the relighting of the fires in a plant that had been silent for years. We mention these merely as incidents in a life that was remarkable. Whatever may have been his fanlts they are completely eclipsed by the transcendent ability with which his purposes were accomplished. There is no man living in Bellefonte to-day who could interest and command capital as Mr. Gephart did. It is a reflection on none of them to sav there is no one who would have given his life to the work as Mr. Gepnare did. Through all the litigation that sempor- arily thwaited his cherished plan of having the Central R. R. of Pa. secure the tonnage of the Valentine Iiton Co., through the great financial distress that the two oor- porations suffered aud the later task of re- constructing them and adding the addition- al ‘burdens of the Bellefonte furnace, the Scotia ore mines and a mouster coal and coke enterprise in Jefferson county he worked hopefully. And for what? Surely it was not for financial gain. because he is a poor man. Though we say, and with the knowledge of ove who knew him well, that bad he ever attained great riches he would have been as great a philanthropist as he was an organizer. Though youang—in what might be called the prime of efficiant manhood — his conse was rap. Others may accomplish more in a longer life, but few equipped with noth- ing else than their own personal chaiacter will ever equal the record that Mr. Gep- bart leaves behind him. Aside fiom his business activities he had a warm hears for his fellow man, a keen interest in every public movement, an al- most youthful pleasure in clean sports, a devoted life in his family and a faith in his Creator that had kept him a working Christian from his boyhood. He bad worked up to the night before his death. Even then his condition was noth- ing different from what it had heen for Years, though he had returned from New York Saturday with a slight bilious attack. Tuesday morning at abous 6 o’clock Mrs. Gephart heard him going to the bathroom; she met him in the hallway and noticed that he was breathing heavily. As he lay down in his room in reply tc the query as to whether he was ill, he nodded his head. Mrs. Gephars called her son Wallaceand a physician was summoned, but death came in a few moments almost before hey Tre- turned to his room. The funeral will take place this after- noon at 2 o'clock. The hody will be takem from the residence on Linn street to the Presbyterian charob, of whioh he had been a member. After the services interment will be made in the Union cemetery. Tae following are the honorary pall- bearers: Col. C. M. Ciement, Sunbary; Hon. Cyrus Gordon, Clearfield; Hon. Ellis L. Orvis, Col. James P. Coburn, Jno. P. Harris, Frank McCoy, Thomas A. Shoema- ker, Frank Warfield, Wm. Kelley, George Grimm, Isaac Mitchell, Charles McCurdy and James H. Potter. J. Wesley Gephart was the son of John P. and the late Mary M. (Swartz) Gepbart, He was born at Millheim, this county, . May 25, 1853. The foundation for his ed- noation was laid in his native town, aud in the schools of Bellefonte; he was prepared for college at the Bellefonte Academy, and was graduated from Princeton in 1874. He { read law in the office and under the diree- | tion of Gen. James A. Beaver, of Bellefonte, | since Governor of Pennsylvania, and now ; one of the judges of the Superior eourt of | the Commonwealth. Yoong Gephart was i admitted to the bar December 13, 1876, and, at the time, the press thus noticed the | event: ‘Our young friend, Mr. J. W. Gepbart, was ad\nitted to practice law in several courts of Centre county, on Wed- | nesday last. Mr. Gepbhart’s admission is the first that bas ocourred under the new { rule of the Court appointing a permanent i board of examiners, who are guided by a certain set of rules in the examination of applicants, Mr. Gepbart is said to bave | given complete satisfaction to the board, ! who complimented him highly. He isa ! very diligent young man, of much natural ability, avd his reading has been quite ex- | tensive. He bas a logical mind and a re- { tentive memory, and his future promises . brilliant things. We congratulate him.’ Less than two years afterwards the press | again remarked that: ‘‘Mr. Gephart, | though young, is an exceedingly fine | speaker, and gives promise of becominga | brilliant orator.’ After his admission to the bar he be- came a partner of his preceptor, Gen. Bea- ver, which paitnership continued until Nov. 1895, when he retired in order to give his entire time to the Valentine Iron com- pany, with which he was connected from January 1, 1891, to November 1, 1895, aud the new Cevtral Railroad of Pennsyl- | vania, of which he had been made the gen- { eral superintendent. | He stood deservedly high at the bar | hoth’ as a counselor and as an advocate., : He was as eioquent and forceful speaker {and was always to be found on the side of i right on all questions, and in all move. {| ments tending to the elevation of mankind. { His influence has been felt in tne cause of | wayperance, and for years he was an active ! worker in the Presbyterian church. and : the superintendent of its Sahbath school. i Being a man of lesters, and possessing the | qualities of a leader, capable and willing, | he adorned citizenship. {In 1888 Mr. Gephart supported Harrison { for President. He had been edacated a Democrat. In October, 1879, he was married to Miss Ella Hayes, the aceomulished dau- ghter of W. W. Hayes, E-q, toimerly of this place, hus later of Washington, D. C., who almost since her childhood hat heen an inmate of the family of W. P. Wilson, | deceased, of this place. i The ohildren of this marriage ate two sons and a daughter— Wallaor, Wilson and Elizabeth, who with their mother survive. His father and 6w~o sisters, Mrs. Sal- ly Munson of Beliefonte, and Mrs. Mary Dix, of Dayton, Ohio, also snrvive. ASS ——The mission to be held hy the Paul- ist Fathers, in St. John's Catholic church, this place, will begin on Snanday, to con- tinue two weeks. The first week will be especially for Catholics and the second week for non:Catholics. Rev. Juhn R. Dunkerley, a well known minister in the Central Penva.M. E, Conference, died at Shickshinny, last Satur- "day, from the effects of a stroke of paraly~ sis, with which he was stricken on Janu. acy 37.0.
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