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ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Masoxns INSPECTED SITE FOR MasoNIc
HoME.—The committee appointed by the
Grand Lodge of Pepnsylvania, Free and
Accepted Masons, were in Bellefonte yes-
terday for the purpose of inspecting any
available sites the lcoal lodge had to offer
for the location of the proposed Masonic
home for aged and infirm Masons as well
as an orphanage for children of deceased
members of the order.
In the committee were Hon. George B.
Orlady, of Hontingdon ; Hon. George W.
Guthrie, of Pittsburg ; Spencer Gibbs, of
Harrisbarg ; J. B. Kroase, of Williams-
port ; Hon. L. A. Watres, of Scranton ; J.
Henry Williams, of Philadelphia ; Edgar
Tennis, of Thompsovtown ; David A. Lou-
den, of Erie ; W. T. Gorgas, of Harrisburg,
aud John Gals, of Chester. They were
scheduled to reach here Tuesday evening
bot were one day late and did not arrive in
Bellefonte until the late train Wednesday
evening. The party divided, a portion of
them spending the night at the Brocker.
hoff house and the balance at the Bash
house.
Early yesterday morning, notwithstand-
ing the rain, the committee were taken in
autcmobiles to Center Furnace to inspect
the site offered on the old Moses Thompson
farm. From there they went to State Col-
lege where they were entertained at lunch-
eon after which they were shown through
the various buildings and departments,
Leaving there early in the afternoon they
came back to Bellefonte and took a look at
the site offered on the Mrs. B. J. Valentine
farm as well as that at the intersection of
Wilson and Curtin streets in this place.
While the committee seemed pleased
with the site offered on the Thompson farm
they of course conld not commit themselves
in any way ; and especially not until they
view the sites offered by the eight or ten
other places after the home.
AP csr cons
BasgpALL NEXT MONDAY.—Next Mon-
day, May 31st, will mark the opening of
the Central Pennsylvania baseball league
in this place with a game between the
Bellefonte and Renovo teams. The game
a8 orginally scheduled was to have been
played in the morning bat on account of
the fact that the Renovo grounds are nos
yet in shape for use only one game will
be played between the above two
teams that day and thas will be in Belle.
fonte at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The
reason for starting the game at shat hour
is 80 as not to conflict with the Memorial
services. All the Central Pennsylvania
league games in Bellefonte will be played
on Hughes field and that is where the
game will be next Monday. Now that the
enthusiasts have arranged to give Bellefonte
some good sport this summer the citizens
generally should toin out and suppors the
movement with liberal patronage; and the
way to start is off right is for a big orowd
to be there for the first game at four o'clock
on Monday afternoon. Price of admission
will be 25 cents. for adults and 10 cents
for children.
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CAPT. GEORGE RUNKLE IN PERMANENT
CHARGE OF SCHOOLSHIP.—At a meeting
of the directors of the Pennsylvania Nau-
tical school last Friday evening the resigna-
tion of Capt. C. N. Atwater, as commander
of the schoolship Adams, was accepted and
George P. Runkle wae permanently elected
superintendent of the school and com-
mander of the ship. Runkle being an old
Bellefonte boy and well known here will
naturally have the hearty wishes of all his
friends for his future success. According
to the present arrangement he will make
his first oruise as commander of the school-
ship this summer. With a full complement
of over one hundred apprentices the ship
is scheduled to leave Philadelphia on June
15th and ail to Queenstown, thence south
as far as the Madeira Islande, returning to
Philadelphia on October 15th,
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——One day last week a package was’
received by the WATCHMAN editor and
family which, upon being opened, was
found to contain two shad, and what mon-
sters they were, too. Almost three feet in
length and as to weighs, well we really did
not weigh them but they were the biggess
aod finest we ever saw or tasted. Later is
developed that they were a gilt from Mr,
George White, of Columbia, a nephew of
Mrs. Amos Mullen. Mr. White ie engaged
in shad fishing and baving made an unusu-
ally good bau! on one of his trips down the
Susquebanoa was good-hearted enough to
#0 kindly remember the editor and family,
for which we are under deep obligations
to both Mr. White and Mrs. Mullen, who
vo doubt suggested the gifs.
DECLAMATORY CONTEST AT ACAD-
EMY.—The annoal declamatory contest
for the W. 8. Furst prizes will take place
at the Bellefonte Academy this (Friday)
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The prizesare
for six and five dollars respectively and as
they are always well contested for, the
exercises this afternoon will undoubtedly
prove very interesting. For this reason
every patron of the Academy as well as
friends of the institution are requested to
attend.
Doctor Comyirs SuiciDE.—Dr. Albert
M. Fisher, of MoAlisterville, and a nephew
of Dr, Philip 8. Fisher, of Zion, this conn-
ty, committed suicide as the home of his
wife's father, Jobn A. Fox, of Lebanon, on
Saturday night, by drinking prussic acid.
Dr. Fisher was about thirty-eight years
old and was born at MoAlisterville. After
his graduation from an eastern medical col-
lege he began the practice of medicine in
Altoona, aboat nine years ago, specializing
in ear and throat diseases. Alter several
years épent in Altoona he went to Mioch-
igan where he remained two years, return-
ing to Altoona about four years ago. He
was regarded as an authority on some dis-
eases and had a large and lucrative prac-
tice. He was married a namber of years
ago to Miss Fox, of Lebanon, who left him
two years ago and lately brought an action
for divorce, alleging oruel treatment. His
wife wens to the home of her father, Jobn
A. Fox,a wealthy inmber merchant in Leb-
anon, where she bas since lived, while the
doctor continued his practice in Altoona up
until last December when he was compelled
to quit work on account of ill health, He
stored his honsehold and office furniture
and went to a Philadelphia hospital for
treatment. After several weeks spent there
he went to his former home at MoAlister-
ville where he remained doring the winter.
Three weeks ago he went back to Altoona
for the purpose of re-opening his office but
for some reason did not do so. About two
weeks ago he came to Bellefonte and from
here went over to Pat Gherrity’s in the
Seven mountains, on a fishing trip and as
the time was apparently in good health and
spirits. Shortly after his return to Altoona
he grew very despoundent and about the
middle of last week he left Altoona, saying
he was going to Lebanon to effect a recon-
ciliation with his wife. He made his first
appearance at the Fox home on Friday and
his wife refusing to consider a reconciliation
he attempted to drink the contents of a
phial of prussic acid, but was frustrated in
the aot by his wife's brother, Luther Fox,
who knocked the poison from his hand,
Saturday evening he returned to the Fox
home and being again repulsed drank
prussio acid before he could be restained,
dying shortly afterwards.
The remains were prepared for burial and
taken to Altoona where the funeral was
held on Tuesday.
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BAULAND.—Joseph Bauland, who thir-
ty or more years ago kept a large clothing
store on Allegheny street, died about the
middle of April in Denver, Col., of a gen.
eral breakdown. Mr. Baunland was sue-
ceeded in the clothing business here by the
Goldsmith Brothers, and from Bellefonte
he went to Chicago where he started a large
department store. Some years later he
went to New York and engaged in basi-
ness. He did not stay there very long bat
returned to Chicago where he lived ever
since. The only particulars of his illness
and death obtainable are that some months
ago be suffered a general breakdown of the
system and upon the advice of his physi-
cian went to Denver, Col., for his health.
His death, however, followed within a few
weeks. The body was taken to Chicago
for burial, his widow and danghter still re-
siding there.
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McKeLvy.—John MoKelvy, a veteran
of the Civil war and a well known resi-
dent of Fergason township, died last Sun-
day morning of paralysis. He was well in
the morning and ate a hearty breakfast but
was stricken about nine o'clock and died
within an hour. He was born at Burnt
Cabin and was sixty years old. Daring
the war he served in company M, Eleventh
Penusylvania cavalry. He is survived by
bis wife, who before ber marriage was Miss
Ella Davis, and three children. Rev. R.
M. Campbell officinted at the funeral which
was held on Tuesday afternoon, burial
being made in the Meek cemetery.
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LANEN.—Miss Rath A. Lanen, daogh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lanen, of Bal-
falo Ron, died on Saturday afternoon of
pneumonia. She had been an invalid
from infancy and contracting a severe cold
about two weeks ago pneumonia rapidly
developed aud her death resulted. She
was 15 years, 10 months and 18 days old
aod is survived by her parents, three broth-
ers, Lawrence, Grover and Robert, and one
sister, Anna. The funeral was held at one
o'clock on Mouday afternoon. Rev. New-
ton 8. Bailey officiated and barial was
made in the Meyers cemetery.
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RUMBERGER.—Mrs. Matilda Gates Rom-
berger, widow of John L. Rumberger, died
at the old homestead on Tadpole on Wed-
nesday morning of paralysis. She was
eighty-two years old and was one of the
last surviving members of the older genera-
tion of the Gates family. Her husband has
been dead for twenty-two years and not
baving any ohildren she made her home
with two nieces. Her only immediate
slrvivor is one sister, Mrs. Thomas Bol-
linger, of Aaronsburg. At this writing no
arrangements for the funeral have been
made.
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GEBHART.—Mrs. Emaline R. Gebbart?
mother of Mre. C. G. McMillen, died at the
McMillen home in Dayton, Ohio, on Wed-
nesday of last week, after an illness of some
months, She was almost seventy-nine years
old and while the MoMillens were in Belle-
fonte in charge of the Brockerhoff house she
frequently visited bere. In addition to her
daughter she is survived by seven grand-
children.
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BoYER.—Mis. Sarah Elizebeth Boyer,
a sister of Mrs. Annie Burkett, of Storms-
town, died ‘at her home in Altoona on
Tuesday afternoon. Her maiden name
was Miss Sarah E. Patton and she was born
at Warriorsmark sixty-six years ago. Her
husband, two children, two brothers and
two sisters survive.
BiG FREIGHT WRECK —One of the worst
freight wrecks that bas ever occurred on
the Bald Eagle Valley railroad occurred at
11:25 o'clock Sanday night when extra
freight east, composed of fifty-eight oars
loaded with coal, was wrecked just thie
side of the Unionville station and twenty-
six cars were piled up, the most of them
being so badly smashed that the scrap heap
is the only place to which they can be con-
signed.
The train was banled by engine No. 1156,
and was in charge of F. R. King,conductor,
and George Treese, of Sunbary, engineer.
The train was beiog ron as a through
freight and wae running at the rate of over
thirty miles an hour. Just this side of the
Unionville station the beam air rigging on
the engine broke and dropped down. It
caught in the frog at the switch and threw
the second car on the train from the track.
The engine and first car then broke loose
and ran half a mile down the track before
they could be stopped. The derailed car
leading the long heavy train rao over the
ties a distance of about three hundred feet
where it fell into a culvert and the lollow-
ing train piled np ontop of it. The im-
pact was so great that immense steel
hoppers were jammed together like ac-
cordeous and box cars were brokeu into
kindling wood. The twenty-six cars
were piled up for a distance of two
hundred and twenty-five feet. When it is
taken into consideration that this distance
is not much over one-fourth the length of
the cars wrecked when on the track the
size of the pile-up can be imagined.
The one fortunate part of the affair is
that none of the trainmen were injured and
#0 far as known nobody was hurt. A tramp
who was riding on one of the coal cars was
pitched fifteen feet out into a wheat field
but escaped with hardly a bruise. He
the train, who were likely under the wreck,
but the next morning two strange men
were seen walking down the track toward
Snow Shoe Intersection, and they were
likely the two men.
The wrecking crews from Tyrone and
Williamsport were both summoned, arrived
upon the scene and went to work during
the early bours Monday morning, but with
that it took them until late Monday after-
noon to open the track and repair it for
traffic, though it will be a week before the
wreck is all oleared away.
Geo. W. Rumberger, the great and
nbiguitons reporter, lives within one hon.
dred feet of where the wreck occurred yes
he never knew it notil his good wife told
him to ‘‘get up something has happened”
and they say in Unionville that that was at
half-past seven o'clock the next morning.
Tt is estimated shat there are about one
thousand tons of coal piled up along the
track at the wreck. This the railroad com-
pany offered at $1.00 a ton, but as it is all
in Fisher's meadow Mrs. Fisher declined
to permit would-be puichasers to go in alter
it, nutil the company settled with her for
damages to her fences and grain.
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SEXTON SAYS THINGS TO PREACHER.
—Rev. George I:rael Browne, several years
ago pastor of St. Jobo's Episcopal church
in this place, but now in charge of St.
John’s Episcopal church in Lancaster, had
an unique experience with the sexton of his
church a week or #o ago, the results of which
is that there is now a new sexton. The
pame of the deposed sexton was also George
Brown and whether this was the cause or
not, has not heen revealed, but at any rate for
some time past he displayed a very bellig-
erent attitnde toward the members of the
vestry of the church and particularly to-
ward Rev, Browne. The climax came re-
cently when he locked the reverend in his
own study and then proceeded to eay things.
In very plain language the sexton told the
rector what he thought of him, and it was
not until be had exhausted all the most ex-
pressive adjectives in his vocabulary that
be desisted.
As Bellefonters know Rev. Browne is no
small man and might have broken down
the door but he didn’t. He merely wrote
down the moet expressive things the sexton
said and when the later finally opened the
door he was asked to sign the paper. He
did and thus ended his career as a sexton
while Rev. Browne continues as pastor,
REFORMEDS IN SESSION.—At the West
Suequebanna Classis of the Reformed
cburch held in this place last week Rev.
Daniel Gress, of Centre Hall, was elected
presidents for the ensuing year. Among
the business transacted wae the division of
several charges. Among them was the
Bellefonte and Nittany valley charge, Zion
to be put with Hublersburg and the two to
constitute a charge after October first. Two
new congregations will be organized dur-
ing the year, one of which will be at State
College, from where a petition signed by
filty names was received.
The speaker at Friday evening's session
of Classis was William H. Keller Esq., of
Lancaster, who spoke very interestingly on
the subject ‘“The Layman’s Missionary
Movement.’”” The visiting ministers filled
practically all the pulpits in the Bellefonte
churches Sunday morning.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.— The following
marriage licenses were issued the past week
by Register Earl C. Tuten.
Edward I. Sperring, Lock Haven, and
Mary E. Banchman, of Hublersburg.
Christy C. Packer, of Howard, avd Elsie
L. Walker, of Orvis.
Harry D. Weaver, of Bellefonte, and
Minnie M. Estright, of Milesburg.
Ray E. Weber and Verna M. Smith, both
of Rebersburg.
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| Weston will at once proceed to pat the as
lifting place lor young men to frequent |
stated that there were two other men on | bus a orediseo she townus wall.
| Yarnell, the former pleading guilty and
BeLLeroxTE Y. M. C. A. WoRE.—The
coming of Dr. R. L. Weston to Bellefonte
as the general secretary of the local Y. M.
C. A. bas resalted in a general stir up in
the association which will no doubt put
pew life into it and very likely make it a
creditable organization to the town. Dr.
Weston is ap old Y. M. C. A. man and
when he came here he bad no hesitation in
saying that be found the building in a de-
plorable condition, not at all as it shonld
be for a comparatively new building. He
made it plain as once that there should be
a general house-cleaning and fixing up of
the buoildioglitbronghont. The cleaning
has been done het to do what repairing is
needed will require money and in conse-
quence the secretary decided on a field day
services which were held on Sanday.
A big mass meeting was held in the
cours house at three o'clock in the after-
noon which was addressed by Edward
Buckalew and John A. Eben, of Harris-
burg, state and religious secretaries respect-
ively. General Beaver also made a brief
talk in which he told of the financial ne-
cessities and urged the people of Bellefonte
to rally to the support of the organization.
Sanday evening Presbyterians and Meth-
odists joined in a union meeting held in
the Methodist church which was also ad-
dressed by the visiting workers.
Mr. Baockalew remained in Bellefonte
and attended a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the association in the association
rooms on Monday evening. He stated thas
to put the association on its feet financially
and for expenses for the current year would
require four thousand dollars and that the
work could not be carried on for less.
Twenty-five hundred dollars of theamonnt
was assured from pledges made on Monday
sume the responsibility of raising the bal-
ance. Under this condition of affairs Dr.
sociation on a healthy, creditable basis, so i
that it will not only be a proper and up- |
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Dorsas IN Courr.—At last Tharsday’s |
session of court Judge Orvis imposed the!
following sentences : Boyd Reed and Bruce
the latter being convicted of furnishing
liquor to a minor, were each sentenced to
serve four months in jail,
A. B. Antis, of Philipsburg, convicted of
statutory rape on the person of fourteen
year old Phoebe Ginnick, of Philipsburg,
was sentenced to five years in solitary con-
finement at bard labor in the western peni-
tentiary.
The second week of court began on Mon-
day morniug with a long list of cases on
the docket for trial but alter going over the
same the most of them were continued.
The first case tried to a finish was that of
F. W. Crider, individually, and F. W. Cri-
der, executor of P. B. Crider, deceased, vs.
J. Miles Green, et. al., with notice to the
borough of Bellefonte, terre tenants. Be.
ing an action to recover on a mortgage. A
verdict was rendered in favor of the plain:
tiff for $3853.65.
John Lyle ve. D. F. Houser, an action
for violation of contract. A verdict was
rendered in favor of the plaintiff for one
dollar.
P. T. MeClintic and Helen I. McClintic
vs. W. I. Harter, administrator of eto., of
Fannie Nestlerode, late of Liberty town.
ship. An action brought to recover [or
maintenance of the decedent. Verdict re-
turned for $1064 00.
8S. D. Leitch vs. S. D. Leitob, adminie-
trator, eto., of Sarah E. Leitch, deceased.
Verdict for $812.70.
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—Next Monday Bellefonte will get into
baseball again in earnest. The last cham-
pionehip euterprise of this sort we had bas
faded into memory vague enough to forget
the financial stinging that almost always
follows.
Spring Mills
The Evangelical parsonage is being very
handsomely painted and when finished will
be quite attractive,
J. M. Schock, of Philadelphia, and Daniel
Keene, of Hickory Corners, made business
trips here on Friday last.
The Baldwin works of Philadelphia re-
ceived orders for a couple of locomotives a
few days since. Straightway the city news
papers splurge on the coming prosperity.
What clap trap.
Samuel G. Slack, of Potters Mills, inform-
ed me that there was a peach tree on the old
farm and homestead where he was born and
resides, planted seventy-two years ago, and
is still thrifty and bears fine large cling stone
peaches. A peach orchard with that charac.
ter of hardy trees would certainly be worth
having.
All the stores and places of business here
with one exception will be closed on Memo-
rial day. The 30th being Sunday, it will be
observed here on Monday. The very few
old veterans we still have with us, and their
numbers grow less day by day, assisted by
the K.G.E. and I. 0. 0. F., will decorate
the graves of their comrades and heroes of
grim vissged war in the Union cemetery
(Farmers Mills) at 9.30 a. m. and the address
will be by Rev. B. F. Beiber. Georges Valley
at 2.00 p. m., address by Rev. Haney, and
Spring Mills at 6.30 p. m., address by Rev. J.
Allison Platts, of Bellefonte. Music will be
furnished at each vlace. All of our Sunday
schools will participate in the exercises and
a general invitation is extended to the coms
munity.
Lemont
'Squire Isaac Armstrong has been confined
to the house of late.
William H. Rishel, who has been on the
sick list, is able to be out again,
Budd O'Neil returned home Saturday,
after vieiting for a week among friends in
these parts,
Mrs. Mary Shaffer, of Altoona, visited at
the home of her father, John I. Thompson,
this last week.
Carrie Houtz had the great misfortune to
fall down the cellar stairs, one day last
week, and hurt herself badly.
The rains that fell last week were needed
to bring the corn, oats and plants along, as
the ground had gotten very dry.
The students of the forestry course at
State College, who made the test walk
passed through town Friday morning.
The people of this neighborhood gathered
money, clothing and all that would be need
ed, for the family of Grant Coble, who bad
the misfortune to have his house burned.
John Grove with the aid of the wives of
members of Lemont Lodge. I. 0. O. F., made
up a surprire for the lodge. Mr. Grove left
the lodge on some pretense or other, then
just as they closed he came into the room
followed by the ladies and in a few minutes
they set the tables and served bananas, ice
cream ete, and the feast wound up with
cigars.
Pine Grove Mention,
Ernest Royer is slowly recovering from aun
attack of pleurisy.
Health office Roush paid an official visit to
State College iast Monday.
J. W, Sunday and W.G. O'Bryan were
Bellefonte visitors yesterday.
Leslie Krebs, of State College, visited here
in the early part of the week.
Hon J. W. Kepler spent last week inspect.
ing his oil wells in Forest county.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Grove, of Altoona, are
here visiting friends in and about the town.
Mrs. J. B. Heberling, who has been a very
sick lady the past week, is some better now.
Comrade C. B. Hess has been confined to
bed the past week threatened with pneumo-
| nia.
Harry Allison, our obliging Miller, flitted
Tuesday to the Davy Bair home east of
town,
J. B. Heberling last week gold his mated
team of blacks to A. M. Brown, Tyrone, for
£500.00.
—Mrs. Frank Bowersox is very sick with
an attack of sciatica rendering her helpless
as a child.
Mrs. J. H. Bailey and Mrs J. B. Krebs and
little Mary visited friends over at Centre
Live Sunday.
Getz and Campbell are busy as beavers
roofing the Mitchell farms near town and
making repairs.
Butcher Elmer Houtz went through town
Monday with a bunch of fat cattle for his
flock in Boalsburg.
Clyde Shuey, of State College, came over
Tuesday in his auto and bad with him Aus-
tin Smith and wife.
Mr.and Mrs. C. M. Dale and Mr. and
Mrs. G. B. Mc. Fry ou Sunday visited at the
J. F. Kimport home.
Rev. J. 8. Shultz is attending Lutheran
Synod at Lewisburg this week, with Calvin
Gates as lay delegate.
Rena Moore and John Grenoth, both of
Lewistown, were entertained at the Harry
Bowersox home Monday.
John D. Dannley and wife, of Medina,
Ohio, are here for a week's stay at the old
family tree on Main street.
Mis, J. H. Strouse and Mrs. J. H. Neidigh
are visiting relatives in the Mountain city
and expect to be gone a week.
George Gingerich, of Bellwood, a veteran
of the Civil war, is visiting friends down
Pennsvalley and is quite spry for a man of
his years.
Samuel P. Irvin, wife and daughter en
Joyed a drive over the Seven mountain Sat-
urday to spend some days among old friends
at Baileyville.
Last Friday night a pack of dogs mutilat-
dd and killed seven of Mr. Glenn's sheep.
This is the fourth flock here attacked this
spring and it might be well to get busy with
shot “uns.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grabam, of McAle-
vy’s Fort, tarried a while in town Saturday
to greet cold chums. They wereon their
way to State College to spend Sunday with
bis brother.
John H. Neidigh, of Pine Hall; W. H.
Roush, of this place, and Mis. Helen Peter,
son, of Bailyville, were representatives at
the Sunday school convention held at
Philipsburg this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sunday left this morn-
ing for Gettysburg, to attend the dedication
of the new monument next Monday. They
will remain until after the G. A. R. encamp-
ment the second week of June.
The venerable Thos. Kustaborderand Mr.
and Mrs. O. F. Shaw came over from State
College and spent Tuesday among old
friends in town. Although Mr. Kustabor-
der is past his 82nd milestone he is as brisk
as most men at fifty.
A happy bunch of fishermen left here Sat-
urday fora week’s outing over at the old
Ross place among them were Dr. W. F.
Baily, of Milton ; J. B. Krebs, of Northum-
berland; J. E. Reed, Dr. R. M. Krebs, N. T.
and H. M, Krebs, of this place.
G. W. Ward and wife, of Pittsburg; J. H.
Ward. of Treverton ; Wm. Ward, of Philips-
barg, and Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Ward, of Belle:
fonte, are visiting the home of their youth
here this week having been called here to
theburial of J. A1 Ward, on Teenie.
Cape May Pier Smashed.
The ocean pier in front of Cape
May, N. J., was almost totally demol-
ished in sight of hundreds of people,
who lined the boardwalk and beach
strand.
The barge Robert Campbell, belong-
ing to the Breakwater Construction
company, of New York, loaded with
210 tons of stone for the Cape May
harbor entrance, being built by the
government, broke away from her
moorings and before the strong north-
east wind and high running tide was
driven along the beach for a distance
of two miles until it struck the pier.
Piling after piling was battered
down by the action of the wind and
wave surging the barge. The damage
will amount to about $25,000.
The opera house on the pier was
nearly the first part of it to drop into
the surf.
‘Ring Generalship of Langford En-
abled Him to Win an Easy Victory.
Walsh Draws With Stanley-——Jack
O’Brien and Ketchell Matched %o
Fight Six Rounds.
London, May 25.—“Sam” Langford,
the colored heavyweight of Boston,
knocked out Ian Hague, the heavy-
weight champion of England, in the
fourth round at the National Sporting
club. The fight, which was for a purse
of $9000 and the championship, was
scheduled to go twenty rounds.
The ring generalship which he had
picked up in many battles enabled
ord to score a comparatively
easy victory over Hague, and the
fourth round had barely commenced
when the burly Yorkshireman was
floored by a well directed blow and
counted out.
In the first round Hague was slow to
start. Langford had a shade the better
of it until the end of the round, when
Hague reached him with a hook to
the jaw. This seemed to encourage the
Britisher, and although no damage
was done, in the second round Hague
showed more cleverness than the col-
ored man.
Langford opened the third round
with a hard left tc the face, and he
used this blow effectively several
times before the gong sounded. Hague,
however, partially closed the Ameri-
can’s eye with a hard right swing.
The men came together in a fast
mix-up at the opening of the fourth,
and Langford put a terrific right on
the Yorkshireman's chin, which ended
the contest.
The bout between “Jimmy” Walsh,
the American fighter, and “Digger”
Stanley, of London, for the bantam-
weight championship of England, was
declared a draw. The fight went the
full fifteen rounds. The purse was for
$1750.
Found Strange Reptiles.
Creatures resembling frogs, but un-
like them in that they are whitish in
color and have no eyes, were discov-
ered in a sandstone bluff three miles
west of Denver, Colo, by a gardener.
As he was digging he uncovered a
number of cells, inside of which were
soft, mush-appearing balls. When they
were rolled out they proved to be liv-
ing reptiles, presumably of another
age.
Found Guilty of Killing His Mother,
Guilty of murder in the second de-
gree was the verdict returned by the
jury in Erie, Pa., before which Delmar
. Young was tried on the charge of mur-
dering his mother. Young showed no
signs of distress when he heard the
verdict, his manner being as cool as
at an time during the trial. It is un-
derstood that his attorneys will ask
for a new trial.
Baby Incubator Kills Child.
A baby incubator proved fatal to the
two-months-old infant of Richard De
Spain, a young inventor of Long
Beach, Cal. Soon after the baby had
been placed in the incubator a cork
blew out of a hot water bottle and the
baby was scalded to death.
Filipinos Want Their Freedom.
With but slight varittion from its
action upon final adjournment of the
session of 1908, the Philippine general
assembly, in the closing hour of its
session, adopted a second resolution
declaring in faovr of the independence
of the islands.
Guilty of Double Murder.
Richard Donegan, of Philadelphia,
was convicted at Bridgeton, N. J., of
the murder of Joseph Somerfield and
Mrs. Madge Kinkle at Bivalve. He
was sentenced by Justice Trenchard
to be electrocuted during the week
of July 5.
Searchlight Scared Negress to Death.
Adeline Hawkins, a negress, was
frightened to dedath by the powerful
searchlight of the battleship Missis.
sippi as she passed on her way up
the river tc Natchez, Miss. “It is the
judgment light!” she cried in terror
and fell dead.
A Quintette of Babies.
The wife of Fay Irish, who resides
in Thorp, Clark county, Wis, has
given birth to five babies, three girls
and two boys. All are alive and well.
There are now ten children in the
family. The other five were born sep-
arately, and are all living.
Catcher Hit by Bat; Killed.
Arthur Burroughs, nine years old,
while catching in a base ball game at
Central Falls, R. I, was killed when
the bat which Earle Paine swung to
hit the ball struck young Burroughs
over the heart. The boy died instantly.
Received Gourd Pipe From Roosevelt.
C. F. Srtherland, warden of the
Luzerne county jail at Wilkes-Barre,
Pa, has r-ceived a calabash gourd
pipe from former President Roosevelt.
An autogranh letter accompanied the
gift.
Woman Dead at 105.
Mrs. Gertrude Schouten, who was
born under Thomas Jefferson's admin-
istration, died in her 106th year at
Matteawan, N. Y. For the last sixty
years she has been living in the same
house.
Offers Princeton $500,000.
Princeton university, at Princeton,
N. J, has just received an offer of a
gift of $500,000 for the proposed grad-
uate college. The donor is William
Cooper Gamble, '83, of Cincinnati.
Dr. J. M. Barkley Elected Moderator.
Dr. James M. Barkley, of Detroit,
was elected moderator of the Presby-
terian general assembly, receiving 503
votes, against 292 votes for Dr. Edgar
P. Hill, of Chicago. _