OrricERs ELECTED.—At the auuval | meeting of the Bickford Fire Brick com- pany held at Carwensvilie on Tuesday of last week the following officers were elect- ed: President, Howard T. Jauney, Wil- liamsport; treasurer and general manager, James A. Bickford, of Lock Haven; secretary, assistant treasurer and sales agent, 8. M. Bickford, Pittsburg; directors, Howard T. Janney, J. W, Tillinger, Allen G. Perley, Williamsport; J. Fraok Torbets Jersey Shore; J. C. Meyer, Bellefonte; 8. M. Bickford, Pittsburg, and James A. Bickford, Lock Haven. -—oe SPECIAL TRAINS T0 STATE COLLEGE.— On account of the Pennsylvania Day exer- cises at State College to day (Friday) the Bellefonte Central railroad company will run two special trains to the College, ove leaving Bellefonte at 9.35 in the morning and arriving at that place in time for the exercises in the auditorium. Avother train will leave Bellefonte at 1.30 p. m. and arrive at the College in time for the Sophomore—Freshman foot ball game and the students parade. Special fare for the round trip. ——William H. Thompson, Samuel C. Berry, N. H. Koves and Alonzo Schenck, of Howard, were given a hearing before justice of the peace Jobn M. Keichline on Monday on the charge of baving illegal fish baskets in the Bald Eagle oreek. They were given the usual fine and costs. Yes- terday H. S. Snyder, Ammon Soyder and L. G. Snyder, of Coburn, were given a hearing at the laster place for the same of- fense. ———————— AU] ——— ~—The Woman’s Home Missionary so- ciety of the Presbyterian church will hold a meeting in the chapel parlors this (Fri- day) afternoon, at 3.30 o'clock. Follow- ing the service a tea will be served in the chapel parlois. Pine Grove Mention. Butcher J. F. Kimport has been housed up with a bealed jaw Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sunday are spending this week among friends at Burnham, Ed. Tyson will be Dr. Kidder's farmer next season, on the old Brisbin homestead. We are sorry to note the illness of little Grace, danghter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hoy. The venerable George Dale and daughter Lillian visited friends in this place Tues | day. | Our townsman, W. D. Port, was up at Al-' toona Inst week, to give his blessing to little | Eliza. l Saturday mother earth got her first vobe | of purity. consequently the nimreds are | happy. John Osman is nursing a badly lacerated finger, which he got in contact with a corn | sheller. Butchering is in full blast and these frosty mornings the porkers squeal can be heard on all sides. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Woods with little Virginia came in from Cincinnati for a brief visit to grandpa Woods, on Main St. The venerable J. H. Holmes, who kas been ill the past three months, is not improving as rapidly as his friends had hoped for. Mrs. Cora Wagner and daughter Helen sre down from Altoona visiting friends in Pennsvalley for the next two weeks. Last Friday I. J. Dreese, of Lemont, got interested in the grain business and bought 8,500 bushels of wheat before 3 o'clock p. m. Cheater M. McCormick, who has been in the Bellofonte hospital, where he underwent a serious operation, was brought home oun Monday. Last Friday Mrs. H. D. Meek and Miss Esther Campbell, with their cousin, Miss Laura Gregory, visited the Harry Koch home at Fairbrook. That popular bird, the stork, after an absence of fourteen years, put in its appear- ance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Markle and left a nice little girl, and on Thursday night left a little son at C. B. Sheasley’s home. The steam threshers all pulled in just be- fore the snow after a busy run. Meyers and Albright head the list as baving threshed 45,000 bushels. Walter Weaver bas 38,000 bushels to his credit, Adam Cramer 36,000 bushles, Charley Corl 35,000 and John Glenn 34,000 bushels. Dr. Jacob Wrenchler and family, who have been over iu (Germany the past two years, will sail for New York on the 28th, owing to Mrs. Wrenchler’s ill health all summer. This will be glad tidings to her wavy friends here and at State College where the doctor will locate. She was Miss Bess Lytle before her marriage. John Bloom, a former Centre county lad, who took Horace Greely’s advice and went west more than twenty years ago to grow up with the country, bas succeeded in forg ing to the front at Sioux City, Iowa. For the first time they are east visiting the scenes of their youth and are so favorably impressed with that great institution of learning, State College, that they are think- | ing of locating there. Lemont. C. A. Houtz drove to Brushvalley, Thurs- day. 0. H. Osman, of Snow Shoe, was in town Friday, R. U. Wasson. of Aasronsburg, came to town Friday. Mrs. Sadie Rishel was to the county seat to do some shopping Wednesday. The hunters went to the mountain Mon- day, for a few days hunt for deer. Mrs. Leah Osman had a new galvanized iron roof put on her house Friday. Clement Dale Esq., of Bellefonte, was in town Friday doing some surveying. Mrs. 8. C. Bathgate has been quite ill this week but is some bettter at present. Harry Boyles drove down from Altoona, Friday for & day or so among friends. John Wasson and wife are visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. Lena Wasson, | for steel engravings. It is questionable if Butchering is on the string now and we ' will soon be able to report some heavy pork- ers. Mrs. Alice Williams visited among friends one day this last week at Pleasant Gap. Guyer Brisbin and bride are enjoying part of their honeymoon visitiog among friends in town. Fred Miller took a few days off duty to go down to Smullton to help his parents butch- er, this last week. Robert C. Jackson moved from town to Roopsburg, Saturday,into the old Pratt prop erty, which be has purchased and intends making his fature home. Saturday brought a snow fall of about six inches, followed Sunday and Monday with quite cold weather. The morving of the latter the thermomeler stood at zero and what makes it look peculiar is that many of the trees still have their leaves on and as green as midsummer. Spring Mills. Very quiet here since the election, we are enjoying the prosperity and good times. On Saturday last we had here quite a snow storm, possibly six inches. It was a cold wintry day in every respect. 8. W. Ward and wife, of Tyrone, and Mrs, B. F. Random, of Columbia, were visiting friends here for a few days last week. One evening last week J. Orvis McCormick by some mishap feil off the abutment of the iron bridge over Sinking creek and sustained serious injuries. Butchering has commenced here in a small way, but will not be in full force ’till about Thanksgiving day,then the very atmosphere will be heavily ladened with a dull, greasy smoke. W. M. Grove, one of our active business men, is improving his property by erecting quite an addition to his residence. The sec. ond floor of the building is for his general office, is being handsomely fitted up, and into which be bas introduced several mod. ern conveniences, and will bave it furnished with all the instruments and furniture nec. essary for his large and increasing business of surveying and conveyancing. Mr. Grove is frequently summoned by parties residing in adjacent counties to survey properties, particularly when the land is in dispute,and owing to his well known abilities and the accuracy of his work. His report is always accompanied with a blue print giving the winutest details of the transaction, and is invariably accepted asa final settlement, I have examined some of these prints, they are beautifully execnted and would almost pass they sre excelled by those votten up by the department in Hurrisharg, CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. Wednesday, November 11. Count Moltke, the new Danish min- ister to the United States, presented his credentials to the president om Tuesday. General Samuel Chamberlain, aged eighty-one years, a veteran of the Mex- fcan. Indian and Civil Wars, died at Worcester, Mass., from infirmities in- cident to old age. The postmaster general announced that the president has decided to re- move George M. Stewart, postmaster of Seattle, Wash. as the result of an investigation of charges that he so- licitated campaign contributions. Thursday, November 12. Solomon Reilly, a negro boy, ten years old, was convicted and given a life sentence for the murder of Mrs. Wilbur Torrence at Savannah, Ga. John Irby a negro, was convicted at Spartansburg, 8S. C., on a charge of at- tempting a criminal assault on Miss Leila Dempsey and was sentenced to serve thirty years in the penitentiary. Duncan Cameron McCallum, late teller of the Farmers’ Bank of Canada, | pleaded guilty at Toronto, Ont., to the theft of $16,495 from the bank and was sentenced to three years in Kingston penitentiary. . Edward Bostwick, sixty-eight years of age, and a former state senator of Michigan, committed suicide by strangling himself with a silf scarf at the home of his sister, Mrs. Benjamin Clark, in Syracuse, N. Y. ! Friday, November 13. ! Charged with cutting off half of Ja- | cob Wynn's whiskers, Thomas White was fined $35 in the criminal court at Camden, N. J. Judge Tayler, of the federal court, named Warren Bicknell and Frank A. Scott as receivers for the Municipal Traction company, of Cleveland, O. Dr. William Kieth Brooks, professor af zoology at Johns Hopkins univer- sity, Baltimore, Md. and since the founding of that institution continu- ously in its service, died after a pro- longed illness. John J. Miller, eighty-seven years of age, who has been employed in the government service continuously fo: thirty-three years, died at his home in Washington as the result of an a tack of acute indigestion. . Saturday, November 14. The general assembly of the Knights of Labor will meet in St. Louis in 1910. Echo river, in the Mammoth cave, near Louisville, Ky., is almost dry as a result of the drought. The president appointed George S. Terry to be assistant treacurer of the United States at New York, in succes- sion to Hamilton Fish. Brakeman Johm Carter, of Wilkes- Barre, Pa, was killed, and Fireman E. T. Bradshaw, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was fatally injured when the boiler of the engine drawing a fast freight train on the Delaware & Hudson blew up near Windsor, N. Y. Monday, November 16. The big cotton mills at Laurens, S. C., are to be greatly increased in ca- pacity. Caught between a car and the walls of a coal mine at Portage, Pa, John Rebosh was fatally squeezed. The University of Illinois may es- tablish a $250,000 veterinary school in the Union Stock yards at Chicago. President Roosevelt has been asked to plant a tree Feb. 12 next on the campus of a new colored school at Lexington, Ky. Falls 110 Teet to Death. Harvey W. Watterson, a lawyer and younger son of Colonel Henry Watter- son, editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, plunged to his death from the nineteenth floor of his office build- ing at 37 Wall street, New York city. His body shot downward for 110 feet and landed on the roof of a ten-story building adjoining. Almost every bone was broken and the head crushed. and death was practically instantaneous. While there were no eye-witnesses to the tragedy, evidently it was en- tirely accidental. Mr. Watterson's hat and overcoat were on his closed desk. Presumably he had attempted to lower the window, and either stumbling over the radiator which was in front of the low sill, or losing his footing in some manner unknown, pitched forward and down to death on the roof below. Mi. Watterson was thirty years old and married. He was junior member of the law firm of Wing, Russell & Watterson. Widow of 81 Gets Fortune. After a life of hardship and pov- erty, which at times bordered upon actual dependency, Mrs. Mary Wheeler Somerby, a widow, eighty-one years of age. of Newburyport, Mass., has vir- tually been declared to be the sole heir of the valuable estate left by the late John Wells Russell, of East Or- ange, N. J. Mrs, Somerby is now liv- ing with her only son in a little frame dwelling, said to be scarcely more than a shack, and almost in destitute circumstances. It is said the estate to which she is heir is worth in the neighborhood of $100,000. Elected Bishop of Washington. Rev. Dr. Alfre¢ H. Harding, who has been for the past twenty-two years the rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Washington, was elected as bishop of Washington to succeed the late Henry Y. Satterlee, at the fourth meeting of the thirteenth annual con- vention of this diocese. Rev. Charles H. Brent, bishop of the Phlippines, who was elected twice, declined both times, and Rev. Dr. Mann, of Trinity church, Boston, elected at the third meeting. ayso declined. Four ballots were taken. Memorial In Honor of Cleveland. State Treasurer Voorhees, of New Jersey, who is also the treasurer of the New Jersey Cleveland Memor- ial association, said that at a meeting in former Senator Dryden's office in Newark the committee decided on a $100,000 monument to the late presi- dent. The amount will be apportioned among the New Jersey counties, with a sub-committee in each. The monument will be erected in Princeton, the last home of the ex- president, and where he is buried. Over 300 Dead In Mine Horror. The greatest mine disaster in many years in Germany tock place at the Radbod mine, about three miles from Hamm, Westphalia. There was a heavy explosion in the mine, and almost im- mediately the mine took fire. Of the 280 miners working under ground at the time only six escaped without in- jury. Thirty-five were taken out badly injured, and thirty-seven were dead when brought to the mouth of the pit. The remaining 302 have been given up for lost. Suicide On Express Train, . B. Frank Hall, a wealthy resident of St. Mary's, Pa., and a brother of State Senator J. K. P. Hall and Judge Harry Alvin Hall, shot and killed himself in a parlor car on the Buffalo express on the Pennsylvania railroad. According to a statement of Judge Hall, his bro‘msr had been “slightly deranged mentally” for the last few days, and at the time of the tragedy was on his way to Philadelphia {o con- sult a specialist. Cuba Elects President. As Indicated in dispatches from Ha- vana, the Liberal party was trivm- phant in the election of president and vice president, according to a cable- gram from Governor Mzgoon received by President Roosevelt. Major General Gomez and Senator Alfredo Zavas, according to the dis- patch, for president and vice president respectively, have a substantial ma- jority in the electoral college. The Aged Man Slain and Robbed. William Read, seventy-eight years of age, was murdered at his home at ineland, N. J. The aged man was struck over the head with a blunt in- strument which probably rendered him unconscious and was then twice shot in the head. Railroad bonds said to be worth $50,000 and about $300 in cash were taken by the murderer. To Kill Diseased Cattle. The Pennsylvania live stock sani- tary board has ordered that a quaran- tine be placed on all cattle in Montour, Northumberland, Union and Columbia counties, because of the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease. All infect- ed cattle will be killed, and the own- ers will be recompensed by the federal and state governments. Surgeon General of Army. The appointment of Cclonel George H. Torney as surgeon general of the army, to succeed Surgeon Genera! R. M. O'Reilly, was announced by the secretary of war. Colonel Torney is now in charge of the general hospital at San Francisco. The vacancy in the surgeon generalship will occur Jan. 14. Mitchell Seeks to Again Head Miners. John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, allowed it to become known through his friends that he would seek re-elec- om | to the office now held by Thomas 8. Documents and Selling Them—He Traced From Original Signatures By Using Glass Top Desk With Electric Light Underneath — Made No De- fense and Asked That He Be Pun- ished at Once. Chicago, Nov. 17.—Peter Van Vils- singen, a real estate dealer, and for years classed among the first of Chi- cago's prosperous and reputable busi- ness men, confessed to having obtain- ed through forged deeds and notes more than $700,000, and a few hours after his arrest, on his own urgent ap- peal to be punished, was sentenced to the penitentiary. The arrest, the in- dictment, the confession and the sen- tence were the work of less than four hours. Taken in the midst of business from his office desk at 172 Washington street, Van Vlissingen, a venerable looking man, appeared before the court and in tears confessed that for from eighteen to twenty years he had been securing money through the sale of forged documents, and that though he had bought back many of these spurious instruments without detec- tion, at least twenty-five people would lose an aggregate of more than $700, 000 through the paper which he has not vet redeemed. In forging notes, he declared, he had perfected an unique device. This consisted of a plate glass desk top. so arranged that by an elec- tric light thrown up from beneath he could readily trace from originals forged signatures onto worthless pa- per. Throughout his arrest and sen- tence the prisoner made no effort to defend himself, but only asked that his punishment be speedy. Asked if he had anything to say before sentence was imposed, Van Vlissingen, bowing his head, replied: “Only that I be given my punishment at once.” His term in the penitentiary was fixed as indeterminate from one to fourteen years. The specific charge which led up to the spectacular arrest of Van Vlis- singen was made by two men who had bought forged mortgage notes. They are T. J. Lefens and William C. Seipp. who have offices in the same building as that occupied by Vam Vlissingen. To the notes for $4500 held by them were signed the names of Joseph and Bertha Grossman. As was customary, Van Vlissingen copied the forged pa- pers from originais, which he disposed of to other buyers. Government Brings Big Sugar Suits, New York, Nov. 17.—Seven suit: were filed by the United States gov ernment against the American Sugoi Refining company to recover $3,624. 121.15 for forfeitures and back dutie: on shipments of sugar delivered at the Havemeyer & Elder refineries in Brooklyn during the past six years. The government alleged fraud in the weighing of the shipments. The seven complaints alleging vio- lations of section nine of the customs act of July, 1890, charge that the! checker at the Brooklyn refinery so manipulated the platform scales as to conceal the true weight of the ship- ments and that the company procured such devices and practices to be used on the scales on which the goods were weighed by the customs weighers as caused the scales to register less than the true weights. MAN FOUND DEAD Hunters Discover Body With Shotgun Lying Beside It. Millville, N. J., Nov. 17.—Hunting dogs with a party of hunters who were going after rabbits brought to light the first murder that has occurred for thirty years in this town. In a clump of bushes on South Third street, not more than 150 feet from a block of dwelling houses, they nosed out the body of a man of about sixty years of age, half of whose head had been blown off. Near at hand lay a double- barreled shotgun, one barrel of which had been discharged. At first it was believed that the dead man was a gunner, whose weapon had been discharged accidentally. The po- lice authorities decided against this, however, because of the position of the wound. Hairless Calf Has Fringe of Wool. Seaford, Del, Nov. 17.—A hairless enlf is the latest freak of nature and is owned by Ollie Williams, who has a farm near here. The calf is six weeks old and has not a hair on its body. Its form is perfect except its head, which is covered with wool, while a streak of wool extends about ten inches down its back. DE CHAULNES HEIR BORN Son Comes to American Duchess After Death of Her Husband. New York, Nov. 17.—A private ca- blegram received from Theodore P. Shonts, who is in Paris, announces that a son was born to his daughter, the Duchess de Chaulnes. Mr. Shonts and his wife went abroad six weeks ago. The Duke de Chaulnes died in Paris last spring under tragic circumstances. Boy Killed While Hunting. Oil City, Pa., Nov. 17.—Adelbert B. Rose, aged sixteen years, was acci- dentally killed by Harry Cordner while hunting near Kinzua. Both the boys shot at a grouse, the discharge from i gun striking Rose in the Stork’s Twenty-second Visit, West Chester, Pa., Nov. 17. — The stork visited the domicile of Barciay Johnson, of Bast Bradford, and left the twenty-second member of his fam- ily. Johnson is sixty-seven years old and hae been twice married. —————, | Peter Van Viissingen Admits Forging POSTAL CLERK SENTENCED Two Years In Prison and $4000 Fine For Defauliter. Scranton, Pa.,, Nov. 17.—Two years in the federal prison at Atlanta and a fine of $4000 was the sentence im- posed upon Patrick J. Messett, the sixty-vear-old money order clerk, who defaulted from the local postoffice several months ago. His shortage was a trifie over the amount of his fine. Father and Daughter Drowned. New York, Nov. 17.—Slipping from the gang plank of the freight boat captained by her father as she was boarding the craft, Mrs. Helen Bloch, a young widow, was drowned in the North river. Her father, Henry Rice, although seventy-eight years of age, plunged overboard in the darkness and tried to rescue her, but he, too, went down and was jost. Who Pays for lLdieness. From the St. Louis Mirror. When idle women spend $10,000 a month aud the bables of the big rich spend $2,000 a year, it is clear that those who ges withont working can only do so ov the basis of the many working without getting. We hear now and then of big pay for labor, bast the laborer’s big pay for a brief time is small pay. The big money that is spent is pot spent by workers at all. Isis dissi- pated by le who ges it as the earnings of securities, and all the people contribute to those dividende. The big pay to the holders of privileges, and all privileges are vested in the land, or to gamblers in the evidences of privilege. Ability is en- but ability doesu’t receive it. lawyer in a community is not the richest one, nor the best doctor, nor the best engineer, nor the best professional man of aoy kind. or band is the poorest paid. The man who ‘‘works” the public ‘‘gets the big money.” Telegraphy. *Ambitious Jouns men and ladies should learn Telegraphy; for, since the new 8-hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Positions pay from $50 to $70 per month to beginners. The National Telegraph Institute of Philadel. phia, Pa,, and five other cities is operated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particalars.” ® Announcements. We are authorized to apnounce William H. Daley, of Lamb street, as a candidate for over. seer of the poor subject to th les and regu | tions of the Stas, ity, = » ord New Advertisements. PHOLSTERING.—Have you Solas, Chairs, Mattresses oF Aupihing in that line to Tepair. If You have, sal} . M. Bidwell on Com one. come about it. ” ly » 83-460 offset by a long time with no pay or very 1L titled to some superiority in Sotapepsation, S The man who works with head | good house, i Bellefonte Lumber Company. New Advertisements. & comfortable home will be given a boy enough to take care of a littie stock and is willing to work mornings and evenings for his and small wages. Address J. b., care of this office. 5346-3 A CHANCE TO 60 TO SCHOOL—and large BY WANTED.—A well grown boy who can take care of several do the chores about a small farm nights an mornings, snd go to school during the day. A com home and wages sufficient to_clothe him gomnfartably will be paid. Address X. Y. Z4 or call at this 53-46 tf. TOR SALE.—A first class fox hound, only thirteen months oid. Will not run anything but foxes but is the best in the country for fox hunting. Inquire at this office. 53-4341 Fer SALE— Horse, buggy and harness. Horse 12 years oid, good roadster. Buggy homemade, in good condition. Harness, and hames good as new. Reason for selling, moving away. Apply to Rev. R. H. BERGSTRSSER, 53-4541 Pine Grove Mills, Pa. EW BELLEFONTE RESTAURANT. Will open SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 7th, in the room next to Schofield’s Harness House, at which Meals, (hot or cold,) Oysters, Game in season, and varyihiag usually furnish ed by a first class restaurast will be served. 53-44-3t. EDWARD MURRAY. EGAL NOTICE.—Notice is hereby given that the first avd final account of William 8. Brooks, guardian of Samuel T. Brooks, will be presented to the Court for confirmation on Wednesday, December 9th, 1908, and unless ex- ceptions be filed thereto, on or before the second day of the term, the same will be confirmed. A. B. KIMPORT, 5344-5 Prothonotary. MALL FARM FOR SALE. — The subscriber, on account of the loss of his eyesight, offers for sale his HOME AND FARM situated near Runville station on the Snow Shoe railroad, consisting of three acres of land with ouse, barn and out-buildings, all in ex- cellent repair. Plenty of fruit of all kinds, and an excellent supply of never Jatiog water. It is a comfortable house in a good neighborh close to church and scheols and will be cheap. Apply to MICHAEL SENNET, 5320-1 Runville, Pa. Eye Specialist. Prior J. ANGEL EYE SPECIALIST. Ar Brockeruorr House, Wrpxespay Axo Tuume pAY, Drcemusn ri axp 10TH, To my Patrons and the Public: On account of being established in Bellefonte for many years and my busi ness increasing all the time as a success. ful eye lin. 1 have decided to make a REDUCTION OF 25 PER CENT. FROM MY FORMER CHARGES so that everybody can have the best eye treatment for little money. All parents having school children who are net very bright in learning or studies shouid have their eyes examined and see if they need glasses. By so doing you may eave lots of trouble and make good scholars of them. Eyes examined free, All work PROF. J. ANGEL, Eye Specialist. I DO YOU NEED ANY : shed NOW. §2-2-1y Bush Arcade, a BA Bi BE BB DE BB. BB. BM BB BB. DM. BA BM. AM DM BM MA BELLEFONTE LUMBER CO, PAINT YOUR HOUSE In attractive colors and it will stand out from its neighbors. OUR EXPERIENCE In combining colors harmoniously is at your serv- ice, with Pure White Lead and Oil to back us up. THE NEW WALL PAPERS We have cn be made to give many novel forms of decoration. We'd be glad to suggest original treatment for your house—They need not be ex- pensive. Wall papers, Window Shades, Curtain Poles, Paints, Oil, Glass, &c., at ECKENROTH BROTHERS, 52-90-11 In a ride along the railroads of Centre county how many farms could you see where there is machinery needing housed? Go back away from the railroads also, and we thing there would be even more. No one doubts that it pays to build sheds for your machinery and stock. Are you one of those who do not have all you need ? Maybe next year you WILL be in bet- ter shape to put it up—BUT you need the Bellefonte, Pa. Bellefonte, Pa.
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