Bellefonte, Pa., May 1, 1908, P. GRAY MEEK, . - - Teaxs or susscairrion.—Untll further notice his paper will be furnished to subscribers at the ollowing rates : Eptron Paid strictly in advance... $1.00 Pald before expiration of year.......... 1.50 Pald after expiration of year......... - 2.00 Democratic County Ticket. For Congress: W. Harrisos WALKER, of Belleloute. For Assembly: J. CaLvIN MEYER, of Bellefonte. For Sheriff: FRED F. SMITH, of Rash township. For Register: G. F. WEAVER, of Penn township. For Recorder: F. P1ErCE MussgR, of Millbeim. For Treasurer: J. D. MILLER, of Walker township. For County Commissioners: C. A. WEAVER, of Penn township. J. L. DusLAP, of Spring township. For Auditors: J. W. Beck, of Marion township. Joux L. CoLg, of Walker township. Democratic Sinte Convention. Democratic State Committee Rooms, Harrisburg, Pa., April 1, 1908, As directed by the Democratic State Central Committee, at a special meeting held in the Hoard of Trade rooms, in this city on Wednesday, February 26th, 1908, notice is hereby given that the Democratic State Convention will convene in the Orpheum Theaire, at Harrisburg, Wednesday, Muy 20th, 1908, at 11 o'clock a. m. The business for which the convention will meet will be : To nominate one candidate for Superior Court Judge ; Two candidates for Presidential Large ; To elect in the manner provided by the rules of the party ; four Delegates and four Alternates at, Large, to the National Democratic Convention ; To certify the nomination of thirty-two Presi dential Electors, as named by the delegates from the respective Congressional Districts of the State, And to act upon and determine such other mat. ters, relating to the welfare and success of the party within the State, as may be brought be- fore it. Electors at- Georae M. Dinznixa, P. Gray Meek, Chairman, Secretary. ADDITIONAL LOCALS, LocAL DAIRY NoTes.— Several herds supplying State College creamery with milk are tested each month. Hurd No. 5.con- taining six cows has an average of 152 pounds of butter fat per cow for eight months ending April 1ss. The best cow in this berd prodaced 191 9 poands of fas in this time, while she poorest cow produced 72.3 pounds of fat, which is only one pound less than the average of herd No. 3. The best cow in No. 3 produced only 99.5 pounds in eight monthe while one cow in this herd bas only made 50.6 pounds of fat in eight months, which does not begin to pay for the feed she bas eaten. One cow in herd No. 4 prodaced only 33 9 pounds of fas in the eight months, add to the value of this fat a good calf and these swo cows bave nos paid their way. In herd No. 7 the hest cow prodaced 152.1 pounis of fat in she eight months while she average for she herd is 116 8, In several of these herds the owners have been feeding concentrated feeds and report that their cows have done better than ever. The following table shows the produotion of batter fat per cow in each herd : Best herd produced in 8 months ... 152.8 Lbs, Fat Poorest “ “- ou “" “ ™.5 “ “ Best Cow . “oan “ — 191.9 “" “" PoorestCow * ae « _ upp & 4 “oo Best herd produced in 7 months ... 119.4 Poorest * “ " +058 © Best Cow “ “oa “ wil» Poorest Cow “ oa “ ww B40 © ." EPP Goop NEWS FOR PENSIONERS. — Under date of April 20th, 1908, Capt. D. Ash- worth, the U. 8. pension agent in Piste. burg, Pa., received instructions from the Bareaun of Pensions, relative to the aot of April 19th, 1908, granting an inorease of pension to $12.00 per month to all widows, minois and helpless children now on the rolis at a less rate. No application is re- quired from the pensioners now on tise rolls bat the same will b: paid by Caps. Ash- worth July 4th, 1908, upon receipt of the voucher properly executed which is now in possession of the pensioner. The pres- ent pension certificate should be retained until its resuro shall bave been requested by the pension agent from whom the pen- sion is received. —. For A Goop BATH.—Everybody exocept- ing, perhaps, the very small boy, loves a good bath, and to enjoy it properly one must have the proper appurtenances. One of the neatess shivgs in shis line we have ever seen is the Allen fountain brush and bath system. It can be used either in the bath room or comes as a portable outfit, and combines all the good qualities of a shower bath and massage. Mr. L. T. Eddy, of Milesbarg, has received the sole agenoy for Centre county and bis many sales in the brief time he has bad it, is evidence of its popularity. See his advertisement in av- other column. se A Strate CoLLeceE HicH ScHoon CoM- MENCEMENT.—The annual commencement of the State College High school will be held next Tuesday evening, May 5th, in the M. E. church at that place. Dr. Jud- son P. Welsh bas been secured to deliver the commencement address and the di- plomas will be presented by Prof. Irving L. Foster. The graduating class this year numbers nine, a¢ follows : Charles W. Musser, Edna M. Mingle, Anna M. Glenn, Ethel G. Grieb, Leslie C. Krebs, Mae McMahon, Luoy C. Kemmerer, Gertrude A. Welsh and Effa M. Smith. LeirzeLL.—Dr. J. B. Leiizell, a native | of Centre county, died at his home ln Da- kota, I11., last Saturday morniog, after an illness of two weeks with asthma aod con- gestion of the lungs. He bad practiced medicine in a number of places in Illinois and was very widely known through thas portion of the State. Deceased was born March 16:h, 1828, at Penn Hall, this county, and was shus in the eightieth year of his age. He studied medicine with Dr. Charles Smith, of Penn Hall, ooe of the best known doctors in | Pennsvalley in bis day, after which he com- pleted his studies in the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, from which be graduated io 1853. In 1854 be began practice at Storms- town. He removed to Saloua, Clinton county, aud practiced there onsil 1870, when he removed so Spring Mills, this county. Dr. Leitzell went west in 1883 and first located at Ridott, Ill. A year later he re moved to West Point and four years after that to Lena. Thence he removed to Orangeville, where be practiced for a long time, and then, a few years ago, to Belvi- dere. Two yeas ago he retired from active practice and went back to Dakota to live. The doctor belonged to the Belvidere lodge of Masoos and the Orangeville lodge of Ma SODS. In 1853, while living in Centre county Dr. Leitzell married Miss Emma Blakely, who died on May 18th, 1868. In 1869 he married Belinda Custard, who survives bim. He also leaves two sons and one daughter, as tollows : Dr. C. P. Leitzell, of Dakota; H. B. Leitzell, of Freeport, aud Mrs. J. L. Sherman, of Belvidere. The funeral was held on Wednesday of this week at balf past 1 o'clock at Dakota. Rev. B. C. Holloway officiated. | | Coxpo.— Mrs. Sarah Eleanore Condo, wife of Jonathan F. Condo, died at her home in Howard last Friday evening alter a lingering illness with nervous trouble and other complications. It will be remwem- bered that last fall her son Raymond was #0 badly burned while in the aot of light- ing a street lamp that he died a day or two alter. The death of her son so preyed on the mother’s mind that nervous disorders followed which developed into the condi- tion that resulted in her death. Deceased was born at Ceader Springs in 1865. The early part of her life was spent in Pennsvalley but for afew years alter her marriage the family lived at Ssate Col- lege. Liter they moved to Howard and with the exception of several years spent in Bellefonte have made their home there ever since. She was a member of the Preshy- terian church and a woman whose kind and loving disposition wade her any friends. Sarviving her are her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Josephine Bowes, of How- ard, and one son, Archie, at howe ; also the following brothers and sisters : Mrs. H. 8. Biaoont, Mrs. C. P. Loog and Harry Allison, of Spring Mills; Dr. J. R. G. Allison, of Centre Hall, and Merrill Allison, of Sioux City, Iowa. Rev. William Laurie officiated as she funeral services whioh were held on Monday morning and she same afternoon the remains were taken to Spring Mille for interment. | | | PETERS. —Mre. Sarah Peters, wife of Da- vid Peters, died at her home on the hill above Nittany furnace on Friday afternoon. Her death was caused by dropsy with which she bad been a sofferer for more than a year. She was a daughter of the late Wil. liam Brown and was boro in Howard filsy- six years ago. When she was but a obild her parents moved to Bellefonte and this has been her home ever since. Surviving her are her two sons, William aud Harry, at home, aod one daughter, Mie. Elmer Heverly, of Duncansville. She also leaves one brother, Austin Brown, and two sisters, Mre. Navey Brown and Mrs. Ellen Meese, all of Bellefonte. The funer- al was held on Tuesday afternoon and in- terment was made in the Sunnyside ceme- tery. | | WisTER.—George H. Wister died at his home in Howard on Wednesday morning of a long illness with oreeping paralysis. He was born in Philadelphia sixty-two years ago and was educated at Girard Col- lege. From there he came to Howard and weat to work for Balser Weber with whom he remained for twenty years or more. In 1886 he was given a position io the audit. ing division of the postoffice department at Washington where he remained until last fall when he was compelled to give up work on account of his affliction, returning to his home at Howard. From that time on he grew worse until bis death. He is sur- vived by his wife and two daughters. The funeral will be held this afternoon. | | | WiraeriTE.—Henry M. Witherite died at bis home in Snow Shoe, last Saturday, after a brief illness, aged sixiy-eight years. He bad been a resident of that town ever since he returned from the war forty-three years ago and was one of the best known and most highly esteemed men in that lo- cality. For a number of years he has filled various township offices and was tax ocol- lector at the time of his death. The faner- al was held on Taeeday, interment being made in the Askey cemetery. i i i BarR.—After ao iliness of over two years with rheumatism Mrs, Alice Barr died at her home in Snow Shoe on Sanday after- noon, She was a daughter of the late Joseph Thompson and was about forty- eight years of age. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, a brother and a sister. The funeral was held at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, interment being made in Askey’s cemetery. LEiTZEL.—The very sudden death of Mrs. C. B Leitzel, at her home in Derry, Pa., on April 19th, was quite a shock to ber many friends in this counsy. She bad apparently been in the hest of health, even up until the evening of ber death, at which time she entertained a number of friends. She accompanied ber guests to she door and after returning to the parlor died al- most instantly, without time to even utter : SE | last of April and she first of May. Fortu- pately, however, cold as it is there have | been uo frosts or freezing to hurt the fruit, though yesterday snow fell at Suow Shoe. | Howard. Howard Hurd, a representative employee {of the Orvis brick plant, spent Sunday at | Howard with his family. Howard can boast of a clean, new meat | ONLY TWO BATTLESHIPS ! The President's Program For Four | Failed In Senate. Washington, April 27.—By an over- { whelming vote President Roosevelt's | four battleship program failed in the senate, just as it did in the house. | The amendment for four battleships | was introduced by Senator Piles, and | the fight for its adoptjon was led by a word of complaint aboat being ill. Heart | market, No- 2, under the care of Orrin Alli* | Sonator Beveridge. Twenty-three votes failure was the cause. Deceased, whose maiden name was Miss Anpa 8S. Allen, was born at Boal CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN WEgD- DING.—On Monday Mr, and Mrs. Hemiy W. Hoover, of Unionville, celebrated their golden wedding and the event was made the occasion of the home-gathering of all their ohildren. Of course in addition there were quite a large number of their neigh- bors avd friends present and the ocelebra. tion proved a most enjoyable time for all. A big dinner was one of the features of the day, while the afternoon was taken up with speech-making, music and recounting reminscences of ‘‘ye olden days.”” Mr, and Mrs. Hoover were the recipients of quite a large number of presents as remembrances of their half century of married life. The Hoovers are among she oldest resi- dents of Union township, being pioneer set- tlers in that locality. Mr. Hoover, him- self, was one of she subconsiactors of the Bald Eagle Valley railroad in 1859 and 1860 and built four miles of that road. Since he has been engaged in lumbering until be retired from business a lew years ago. Ore interesting fact in connection with the Hoover family is that it has never yes been broken by death. There are nine ohil- dren, as follows . Mrs. H. B. Esterlive, of Fairmount, W. Va.; George FP. Hoover, Tyrone; R. C. Hoover, Fleming; Mr. J. E. Daley, DaBois; J. Clyde Hoover, Johns- town; Shuman Hoover, Williamsport; Mary Hoover, DuBois ; Martha Hoover, Youngstown, Ohio, and Grant Hoover, Williamsport. —— StoLE BisHOP'S DINNER.—Bellefonte thieves are getting so ‘‘onery’’ they onght to be in jail. In fact they seem to have be- come devoid of all gentlemanly instinots and even do not respect the clergyman’s oloth or the bishop’s dinner. Bishop W. H. Darlington, of Harrisburg, paid the Bellefonte parish an official visit on Sun- day and with having the eminent divine as a guest over Sunday Mrs. Hewitt made preparation for a very appetizing dinner that day. She secured three nice plump chickens, bad them dressed and with every- thing else good that would go to make up the weal stored them in the refrigerator for sale keeping. But when they came to get them Sunday morning they found the refrigerator empty, some sueakthief hav. ing stolen everything nice in the way of edibles it contained. Of course there was a Sunday dinner in the rector’s home, bus it was not the good chicken dinner they had so carefully planned. MARRIAGE LicENsEs.— The following marriage licenses were issued the past week by Register Earl C. Tuten. Geo. B. Casher, of Warriorsmark, and Leoa B. Sigel, of Port Matilda. John Yendrisak and Jobaouna Cipriok, both of Clarence. Robert Rossman end Mabel R. Crone- miller, both of State College. Samuel F. Gordon Jr. and Isabelle Wian, both of Bellefonte. Samuel H, Wigton and Mary A. Pase- more, both of Philipsburg. Halph Moerschbacher and Sarah G. Kel- ley, both of Bellefonte. Blazey Bucha and Annie Nastak, both of Clarence. aoe ~The weather this week bas bzen more like the beginning of March than the He is | son, who understands the business. The mattress factory, under the manage: | ment of Weber Thomas, knows no panie, the | only industry here constantly running. | Prof. L A. Lucas, of Greenfield, Mass., is at present visiting his brother, William | Lucas, on south Walnut street, Howard. | Prof. F. M. Pletcher, of Blanchard, spent | Saturday in Howard. He is at present con® | ducting a summer normal for teschers in bis home town. Frank Strunk, an employee at Joe Diehl, attended the fanerai of his uucle, George | Reish, who was killed by the cars in Belle. | foute last week. | The traveling public are throwing bouquets | at our hotel, for the good meals and veat | and cosy rooms, which speaks well for land. lord MecMuririe. | Our miller, W. A. Long, has added a new industry to bis milling interest hy having | electric motors connected to supply the eiti- | zens of Howard borough with electric light. Joho Mokle and Norman Lightbamer are | the only two men that seem to show no ill effects of the panic. Both zre rapidly erect- ing brick houses which when completed will | be both neat and cosy residences. Mrs. Johnston, florist and gardener, is { busy arranging to accommodate her many customers with plants, garden vegetables, | also the much admired strawberry, for which ! the writer can vouch for their size aud flavor | in last years crop. | Constable Wm. Butler, of Howard town: | ship, esrued the title “Fire Fighter,” last | week. The mountains were abiaze between here and Curtin aod be extinguisiied the fire | thus saving the valuable timber along the base uf the mountain, The supervisors of Howard towuship, | { Robert Confer and Wilbur Leathers, bave | appointed as their road bosses, Frank Coufer { aud Ralph Shank. These four men consti: | tute u quartette of the best. They all are pos: | sessed of govd judgment aud are willing to work. Uader their supervision it will be but ! a short time until there will be models of state roads in this township. Pine Grove Mention. Our mutual friend, Curt Meyers, is a vic- tim of the mumps. Andy Jackson Tate spent Sunday with bis aged mother at Shiloh. Mrs. James Swabb was a Sunday visitor at the J. J. Tressler home. Newt C. Neidigh is having his new house donned in a new coat of paint. Victor Hoy, who has been the victim of puenmonia, is not much better. Mrs. John Strouse, who has been ill with sciatica the past two weeks, is some better. Dr. J. E. Ward, of Bellefonte, spent Sun. day at the home of his youth on Main street. Miss Maggie Peters is spending ber vaca- tion among friends in Pittsburg and Al- toouna. Rev. D. Y. Brouse, of Mt. Union, is spend- ing this week umong his friends in and out of town. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kustaborder, of Belle- foute, spent Sunday with his brother James at Lemont. Most of the barley and oats have been sown and farmers are well on with their spring work. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Thomas, of State Col- lege, visited his brother D. W., on the Brauch Sunday. J. H. Wetzel, of Bellefonte, was here lust week making a survey fora new county bridge at Baileyville, John M. Keichline, one of the legal lights of Bellefonte, was a Sunday visitor at the G. W. McWilliams home. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Glenn came up from Bellefonte to see his mother, who has been sick the past month, and is but little better. Wm. E. Johnson says his wife presented him with aa Easter present. Its a nice little girl and both babe and mother are doing nicely. J. H. Barton, who handles the throttle ou No. 28, the fast line from Pittsburg to Al- toona, is spending his vacation fishing at Oak Hall. We are sorry to note the illness of our townsman, Wm. H. Bailey, who is quite low at his home suffering with a general break- ing down of the system. Our mutual friend, Joe Meyers, was the lowest bidder for the Dempster Meek barn and got the job, the timber to be taken off stump and work to be commenced at once. Joe is a hustler and never leaves a job half done. ‘Spring Mills. The house-cieaning racket is about over, for which we are very thankful. The more pleasant occupation of garden planting is now the order of the day. Our farmers are now very busy with the plow. All the wheat flelds in this locality look unusally well and very much alive, also the fruit trees, and give promise of a large yield. A slight fire on the roof of the blacksmith shop of Samuel Stitzer on Friday last caused by sparks from the flue created quite an ex- citement for a time, however it was soon discovered and subdued before any great damage was done. Rev. Lantz, pastor of the Penns Valley charge, delivered his Easter sermon in the M. E. church here on Sunday evening last to a large congregation, The reverend gen- tleman is a very fluent «nd pleasant speaker and his remarks received close attention. Mrs. Margaret Ruhl has been doing a very lively millinery trade since her opening day, a new department she recently added to her business. The selections have become so broken that she has been obliged to dupli- cate almost her entire spring and summer orders, were cast for the increased program, the number largely being made up of recently elected senators. Fifty sen- ators voted to support the house, and the recommendation of the Senate Naval committee in favor of building only two battleships. It was developed by Senator Allison during the debate that there is a well defined understanding among the sen- ate leaders for the authorization of two battleships each year, until the American navy is regarded as suf- ficient to meet any demands that may be made upon it. As finally passed the bill carries ap- | propriations aggregating $123,115,659, | and provides for the construction of | two battleships and two colliers and | the purchase of three additional col- | liers, the construction of submarines | and other necessary craft, and in- _. eases the pay of officers and enlisted men, as well as increasing botn the pay and the strength of the marine Corps. GIRL DISROBED BY LIGHTNING Stripped of Clothing and Shoes, She Is Not Severely Injured. Philadelphia, April 28—Severe thun- der and hail storms that wrought con- siderable damage are reported from points in eastern Pennsylvania, Dela | ware and New Jersey. In a storm that passed over Lancaster county, Jennie Martin, aged twenty-nine years, of Bird-in-Hand, was struck by lightning and had a remarkable escape from | death. She was denuded, her clothing | being torn into shreds; her hair was burned off, and the shoes ripped from her feet, yet she was not severely in- jured. The girl ran to the barn to close the door when the storm came up. A bolt of lightning struck the barn and ripped off part of the roof. The electrical current struck Miss Martin apparently on the head and passed through her body. Her clothing, picked up near where she was struck, was cut as though with a knife. At Lebanon there was severe light: ning and hail. Telegraph and tele phone wires were torn down and con siderable damage was done to young vegetation in the farming districts. At Hazleton a severe electrical and hail storm was followed by a veritable deluge, and some of the streets were covered with water to a depth of four feet. So terrific was the downpour that some of the paving was torn up in the streets. NO BLOOM UNTIL BISHOP DIED Plants Near Dr. Satterlee’s Grave Sud denly Form Blossoms. Washington, April 27. — Friends of the late Bishop Satterlee are talking with awe and wonderment of the fact that close to the grave of the bishop, who died recently, there have blos somed lilies like those Christ referred to; and that an offshoot of the cele brated Glastonbury thorn of English legend and tradition also is about to blossom in the same vicinity. Years ago Bishop Satterlee received the lilies from Palestine and planted them in the grounds of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul here, but they never blossomed until this spring since Bishop Satterlee’s death. So with the thorn tree—a shoot of which was sent to him some year ago from Eng land. RICH GIRL ASPHYXIATED Miss Lillian MaclLea, ¢f Mont Clair, N J., Had Long Been an Invalid. Mont Clair, N. J., April 28. — Miss Lillian MacLea, the twenty-year-old daughter of Robert B. MacLea, the head of the R. B. MacLea company, dry goods merchants of New York city, was found dead from gas asphyx- fation in her room in her father's handsome home in Erwin Park road. The physician who was summoned by the family said the young woman un- doubtedly committed suicide. It is sald Miss MacLea had shown signs of melancholy of late and that for the last two years she had been in deli cate health. Engineer's Salary $500,000 a Year. San Francisco, April 27.—John Hays Hammond, & mining engineer, has made a new contract with the Gug- genheims to be their expert for the next five years, at a salary of $500,000 annually. This is double his salary un- der a former contract, and which was the highest in the world. By the terms of the contract Mr. Hammond is not to buy or exploit on his own behalf gold, silver or copper mines, and is to choose his own assistants. The Gug- genheims, through the advice of Ham. mond, have Invested millions of dol- lars in mines, and are said to have never made a mistake by so doing. Gored to Death By Fierce Bull. York, Pa., April 28.—Alfred Eichel- berger, a retired farmer, of Anderson- town, this county, was gored to death by a vicious bull. Mr. Eichelberger was visiting at the home of Jacob Felix, and ventured Into the barnyard, not knowing of the wild nature of the bull. The animal charged upon him, tossing him into the air and then, when he fell to the ground, gored him. Several men with pitchforks drove the bull away from the body, but life was I extinct. INJUKED NUMBER OVER 1200 New Orleans, April 27.—About 350 lives were wiped out and at least 1200 persons were seriously injured and millions of dollars of damage caused by the series of terrific tornadoes that swept over the gulf states, Of the in- jured it is expected that not less than 100 will succumb to their hurts. The storm started in Texas and Ok- lahoma with winds of hurricane fury which swept eastward. In the Missis- sippi valley it reached its most terri- lying proportions when it broke up into a number of gigantic whirlwinds. These swept down upon town after town in Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala- bama, Georgia and Arkansas, desolat- ing wherever they touched. A number of small villages were de- molished in western Mississippi early Friday morning, and seven hours later tie towns of Purvis, Miss., and Amity, La., 100 miles apart, were destroyed, with great loss of life. From the Texas border to middle Georgia the path of desolation ex- tends, zigzagging from north to south, and marked at irregular intervals by scencs of utter devastation. Over some areas it leaped without damage and almost unnoticed, and others it swept clear of everything. In places it denuded hillsides of grass and shrubbery and stripped ever- green trees completely of their foliage. In towns thickly settled by negroes it wrought greatest havoc. The plc- turesque darky cabins, noted for their flimsy, happy-go-lucky construction, had been converted by the wind into wholesale death-traps. It was in the fall of these cabins, which went down almost without warning, that most of the negro deaths occurred. In a number of instances babies were snatched from their mothers’ arms and whirled away to fall, bruised and dying, at a distance. In one in- stance a child was carried several hundred yards and fell unhurt into a swamp. Survivors tell of tornadoes that came without warning, snatched up men and women from the streets and carried them away, to be dashed to death. Houses were sometimes picked up and carried whole for a distance and then shattered to pieces hundreds of feet above the earth. Mississipp! bore the brunt of the storm. Reports from that state indicate that the loss of life will be by far the greatest within her borders. Estimates of the number of those who lost thei: lives as a result of tornadoes in Mis. sissippl place the death list at 159, with 650 injured. In Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia the death lists are also large, with loss of life in Arkansas and Ten nessee. A partial summary of the dead and injured is as follows: Lounisiana—Dead, 88; injured, 350. Mississippi—Dead, 159; injured, 650. Alabama—Dead, 31; injured, 113. Georgia—Dead, 25; injured, 100. Tennessee—Dead, 1; injured, 4. Arkansas—Dead, 3; injured, 30. Towns reporting serious wreckage, 46. Habitations and business houses practically complete ruins in these towns, about 2500, The above figures do not include the wreckage on plantations and farms, scores of which were struck and damaged. The number of dead will never be known accurately for the reason that about 300 of them were negroes and they were buried in many communities without careful records being made of their numbers. Air Henry Campbell.Bannerman Dead. Teddy, Jr, Goes Up In a Balloon. Illinois For Bryan—Wild Parsnips Kill Two Boys. Cape May Point, a resort village on the tip of the New Jersey peninsula, was swept by a fire which destroyed or damaged twelve buildings, principally cottages, ruined $100,000 worth of property, and for a time threatened to wipe out the entire settlement. For more than three hours the fire burned, and in that time the village was constantly in danger. The volun teer firemen, working in bucket bri gades, were wholly helpless. Volun- teers from the fire department at Cape May and from the government life saving corps were sent to the place, and for a time they made little head: way against the combination of wind and flame, It was not until four hours after the fire was discovered that they were able to stand against the fire, and even then their efforts were confined to prevent the flames spreading. Nearly all the buildings where the flames had gained a foothold were destroyed. The record of the fire follows: Lankenau villa, erected by John D. Lankenau, and owned by the Mary J. Drexel home, Philadelphia, $75,000. Cottage adjoining, owned by Mrs. Mary Lawrence, Philadelphia, $4000. Wiley cottage, owned by Jessie A. Grant, Philadelphia, $3000. Cottage owned by Mahlon Bryan, Philadelphia, on Ocean avenue, $4500. Surf house, summer hotel, owned by Ammon Wright, $4000. The Seaview, owned by Ammon Wright, $3000. Cottage on Holly avenue, owned by John C. Springer, $500. + Cottage on Alexander avenue, own: ed by Mrs. Ottinger, Philadelphia, $1000. Cottage on Alexander avenue, owned by W. Turner, $500. The origin of the fire has not been definitely ascertained. The Lankenau cottage, in which it started, was being repainted in anticipation of its sum mer occupation by the sisters of the Drexel home and the nurses of the German hospital, of Philadelphia. It is thought that in the process of burn ing paint from the side of the building the woodwork may have become ig nited.