Wife of T. N. Gillespie Precipitated
Sensation When She Found Letters
In Husband's Pocket—Father of Girl
Renounces Pulpit Forever.
Butler, Pa., Nov. 9.—Not since the
notorious Biddle brothers were run
to earth and killed here some years
since has Butler had such a sensation
as is now holding it through discov-
eries in the very fashionable First
Presbyterian church. Rev. William
E. Oller, for more than two decades
pastor of the church, has left the pul
pit and tendered his resignation in
shame.
Miss Nell Oller, his twenty-eight
year old and beautiful daughter, has
recently been forced before the church
session with T. N. Gillespie, one of the
town's rich men, both members of the
First church, and the pair are alleged
by the church officers to have made
“confessions” which has set the town
by the ears and kas forced the church
authorities to “discipline” the two.
Just what punishment has been
meted out to the two persons has not
been made public by the church body,
but it has not been satisfactory to
Mrs. Gillespie, who has demanded her
papers as a member of the church be
cause the elders have not sent her
husband and Miss Oller from the
church forthwith.
Gillesple is probably the largest man
in Butler, or was until a few days
since. He is treasurer of the Stand
ard Steel Car company, which is back:
ed by the Mellen millions, and his
work in the past ten years has been
largely instrumental in the advance
ment of Butler. He left Butler some
days ago, but his friends say he will
return to “face the music” within the
next few days.
It was Mrs. Gillespie who precipi
tated the sensation and forced the ses.
sion of the First Presbyterian church
to drag not only her own husband,
but one of the most popular young
women of the town, before it. It is
alleged that a letter from the young
woman to Gillesple was found by the
wife In her husband's pocket. She
fainted many times over the contents
of the letter and then took it to the
officers of the church, demanding that
immediate action be taken by the
church body. Mrs. Gillespie furnished
the church with a copy of the letter,
but held the original herself, turning
it over later to her attorney.
Mrs. Gillespie same days later met
Rev. Mr. Oller, the pastor, on the train
and at once demanded of him that she
be furnished her certificate of mem:
bership in his church so that she could
leave. The pastor demanded the rea.
sons for Mrs. Gillespie's desire to
withdraw, and he reeled when she told
him what she claimed was the naked
truth.
The pastor announced that he would
have the matter investigated fully, and
if it were even in part true he would
walk from the pulpit never to re
enter it. Rev. Mr. Oller has left the
pulpit since.
NICARAGUANS AMBUSHED
Revolutionist Army Kills 100 Out of
600 of Zelaya’'s Troops.
Washington, Nov. 9. — A scouting
party of the Nicaraguan revolutionary
army, under Fornos Diez, discovered
and ambushed 600 troops of President
Zelaya's army at Guatuso, a point near
the boundary which divides the terri
tory still held by the Nicaraguan gov:
ernment and that in possession of the
revolutionists, according to advices
from Bluefields to the state depart:
ment.
The government losses are said to
have been 100 killed and wounded,
while the revolutionists lost five. The
government troops retreated, pursued
by the revolutionists.
The dispatch adds it is expected
the revolutionary government will
soon proclaim a new republic.
Found $4.92 In Black Snake.
Montclair, N. J., Nov. 9.—Edward
Sonstrom killed a five-foot black snake
after it had swallowed two quarters
dropped by his little daughters in
fright when they saw it. Inside he
found his own quarters and one half
dollar, nine other quarters, nine dimes,
fifteen nickels and two cents.
Burned to Death Playing With Matches
‘Washington, Nov. 9.—Matches with
which he was “making animals” on
the floor caused the death by burning
of Robert "pellman, three and a half
Years old, the son of Robert Spell
man, and the severe Injury of Mrs.
98,000,000 Pine Trees Are For Sale
‘Washington, Nov. 9.—Nearly 98,000.
000 pime trees are for sale by Hor
United States Consul McClin-
tock says the government will receive
to exploit the turpentine or sell
General Iglesias Dead.
Lime, Peru, Nov. 9.—Miguel Igie
slas, Peruvian general and statesman,
ldled here.
Explosion and Fire In Factory Kills
and Maims.
New York, Nov. 9.—Iron barred win-
dows prevented the escape from daath
by fire of eight workers in Robert
Morrison & Son's comb faetory ia
Brooklyn. Five other men
were fatally injured in making
escape from the building.
rison. son of the owner of
Jost his life in the flames
ing to reach the safe
doors. His father was
rad .
Many men jumped from the third
floor windows and were injured. Those
who rushed to the rear found the win.
dows barred and there met their awful
doom. Nearly all of the victims were
Italians.
Magazine Rate Beats Roosevelt Re
muneration by 20 Cents.
New York, Nov. 9.—The literary end
of the discovery of the North Pole is
more profitable than that of running
on errands in Africa for the Smithson.
fan Institution. Commander Peary is
to get 20 per cent more a word for the
magazine story of his achievement
than ex-President Roosevelt is get:
ting for his hunting story. Mr. Roose
velt's price is $1, so Commander Peary
is to get $1.20 a word for a story of
about 50,000 words that is to run in a
magazine for the next eight months.
Sends Letter by Photogrhph.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Nov. 9.—A letter
with a novel address reached Mayor
Lewis P. Kniffen from Philadelphia.
On the envelope was a photograph of
the mayor and beneath it the word
Wilkes-Barre. It was from a Republi:
can friend in Philadelphia, and an-
nounced “we have elected everything
on the ticket, from soup to nuts.”
Postoffice Robbed of $1000.
Altoona, Pa., Nov. 9.—Postoffice In
spector Dunn, of this city, was notified
that the postoffice at Expedit, Cam:
bria county, was robbed of $1000. The
safe was blown with nitro-glycerine.
Postmaster Edward Nipps was in
Pittsburg and the robbery was not
discovered until his assistant opened
the office.
Two Dead From Pellagra.
Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 9.—Pellagra
claimed two victims in Rowan county.
Mrs. Julius A. Peeler, a widow, fifty.
seven years old, and a negro woman
living beyond the city limits of Salis
bury, were the victims. Mrs. Peeler
had been ill three months with the
disease. The name of the other victim
was not learned.
Three Killed on Track.
St. Catharines, Ont., Nov. 9.—Three
unidentified men were killed near here
by a Grand Trunk train. To get out of
the way of one train they stepped In
front of the one that struck them,
Bethlehem Steel Company Gives Men
10 Per Cent Increase.
South Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 9. —
Charles M. Schwab announced that
the wages of several thousand em-
ployes of the Bethlehem Steel com-
pany would be restored to the scale
in vogue before the 1907 depression.
In general the increase will amount
to 10 per cent, and will affect em-
ployes in the machine shops, foun-
dries, blast furnace department and
labor department.
Thousands of Miners Back to Work.
Wilkes-Berre, Pa.. Nov. 9. — The
slump in coal mining is about over.
The Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal com:
pany posted notices at all of its col
lieries that there would be full time
the balance of the month. Nearly 8000
men and boys are affected. The mines
of the Lehigh Valley Coal company
were also put on full time. They em
ploy 6000 hands.
Wednesday, November 3.
The yard of the Charles H. O'Neill
Lumber company at Jersey City. N. J.,
was swept by fire, entailing a loss es-
timated at $100,000.
A remarkable money-raising cam-
paign of fifteen days waged by the
Young Men's Christian Association of
Boston has resulted in $510,337 being
subscribed for a new home for the or-
ganization.
Mrs. Alpha Mack, a widow of In-
dianapolis, Ind., learned that she had
fallen heir to a nestate worth $45.000
through the will of John Hastings.
forty-three years old, a suitor whom
she refused.
Thursday, November 4.
Shots were heard in a room at Key-
stone, near Bluefield, W. Va, and
when the door was forced the dead
bodies of Connie Blackwell and a
Hungarian were found.
Twenty-five people were hurt, three
fataily, when a car on the University
place line at Des Moines, Ia, jumped
the track at the foot of Nineteenth
street hill while headed down town.
John Marrooney, a negro, is under
arrest at Battle Creek, Mich., on sus.
picion of being the man wanted in
Chicago for the robbery of $5000 worth
of diamonds from Mrs. A. Hirsch last
August.
Friday, November 5.
Two women were among the twenty-
nine applicants for census appoint-
ments In Chicago who took the civil
service examination.
The new Dreadnought North Dakota
made a speed of 22.25 knots on her
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$35,000,000 T0 RELATIVES
Fifty-five Institutions In All Parts of
the United States and Five Abroad
to Benefit With Large Bequests.
John Stewart Kennedy's will, which
was filed in New York, disposes of an
estate estimated at $60,000,000 value,
of which about $25,000,000 is be-
queathed for the public benefit, being
distributed among various religious,
education and charitable institutions.
The executors of the will are the
testator's wife, Emma B. Kennedy, who
survives him; his nephews, William
Stewart Todd and Robert Eliot Tod,
and Mr. De Forest, whom the testator
describes as his friend.
After quoting the estimated value
of the estate at “about $60,000,000,”
Mr. De Forest said: “Broadly speak-
ing, Mr. Kennedy leaves a little more
than one-quarter of his entire estate
to his wife, a little more than one
quarter to relatives and friends, and
he gives something less than one-half
to various religious, charitable, benev-
olent and educational institutions,
about sixty in all, five of which are
abroad.”
Cooper Union gets $20,000; the Na
tional Academy of Design, $20,000; the
University of Glasgow, “where from
my infancy I resided until I came to
this country,” says the testator, $100,
000; the Tuskegee institute (Booker
T. Washington's), $100,000, and the
Syrian Protestant college at Beirut
$25,000.
Seven of the country’s colleges re
ceive $100,000 each, namely: Yale,
Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Bow:
doin, Hamilton and the Hampton Nor
ma! school. Ten of the educational in
stitutions receive $50,000 each, these
being Lafayette, Wellesley and Ober
lin colleges, Barnard college and the
Teachers’ college in this city, Elmire
college, Northfield seminary, the Mt
Vernon Boys’ school at Gill, Mass.;
Anatolia college, at Marsovon, Tur
key, this latter bequest being made for
the college to the American board of
commissioners for foreign missions
and Berea college in Kentucky.
The American board of commission
ere for foreign missions receives alsc
$20,000 for the American school at
Smyrna. Lake Forest university, Ill.
and Central school, Danville, Ky., each
receive $25,000.
“Mr. Kennedy's residuary estate,”
sald Mr. De Forest, “is divided intc
sixty-four parts, of which Mrs. Ken
nedy receices 16, Mr. Kennedy's rela
tives 17, and public institutions 3. In
addition to the one-sixty-fourth of his
residuary estate given to Mrs. Ken
nedy, she receives his city residence
6 West Fifty-seventr street; his coun
try residence at Bar Harbor, and $1,
000,000 in cash.
“It is estimated that each sixty
fourth part of the residuary estate will
have a value of approximately $750,
000.”
Fells Cashier; Escapes With $14,165
After striking down William Dob
tins, the cashier in the office of the
Canadian Express company, at Nia~
ara Kalls, Ont.,, with a piece of iron
pipe, a lone man vaulted the counter
and made off with a package contain
ing $14,165 in cash. He had a confed
erate, who stood outside the door, and
the two disappeared down the street
All efforts on the part of the police to
locate the pair have thus far been
futile.
The package contained several con
signments of money from the banks
here to their branches in Hamilton
and Toronto.
The first that was known of the rob
Lery was when Bruce Brown, the
agent in charge of the office, entered
the office to get the waybills and pack
age of money. He found Dobbins un
conscious on the floor back of the
counter, with blood flowing from s
gaping wound back of his right ear
Mr. Brown raised an alarm at once
but it was more than an hour before
Dobson was sufficiently revived to give
even a meager description of the man
who struck him down.
Decides Against Labor Leaders.
The court of appeals of the District
of Columbia has approved the jail
sentences which were imposed by
Justice Wright, of the District of Co
lumbia supreme court, upon President
Samuel Gompers, Vice President John
Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morri
son, of the American Federation of
Labor, for contempt of court. Gompers
was sentenced to serve one year, John
Mitchell to nine months and Morrison
to six months. Counsel for the three
Union labor leaders will take an au
peal to the supreme court of the Unit
ed States.
Lone Robber Gets $2000.
A masked bandit, working alone
stole $2000 in cash from the home of
Schuyler Ranier, seventy-two years
old, a wealthy farmer, residing nea:
Florence, N. J.
The crime has baffled the police by
its desperate boldness. Although the
Ranier homestead is less than a hal!
mile from the Florence postoffice, ani
fronts on a much frequented public
road, the robber, after locking the aged
housekeeper of the farmer in her
room, dynamited the big safe, whieh
has been Ranier’'s bank for years, the
storehouse at times for as much as
$25,000 in gold.
Mrs. Jane Nickson, nearly seventy
years old, and the sole occupant of the
farmhouse when the masked robber
entered, is in a critical condition from
the shock of the struggle with the
bandit.
Found Gun; Kills Brother.
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Delmar, Del, Logan and Roger, the
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To Demand Higher Wages.
Thomas L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, in-
dicated in an interview given out at
Pittsburg that the miners will make
a stand for higher wages in the spring.
Mr. Lewis declared that work at the
mines is improving and bound to con-
tinue so. He also expressed his confi-
dence of re-election to the presidency
of the organization, explaining that
about two locals have nominated him
against every one that named his op-
ponent, William Green, of Ohio.
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Killed In Pennant Rush.
Ray Graham, twenty years old, died
from injuries which he received in a
rush following the raising of a school
pennant after a football game at Red
Cedar park between the East High
and the West High school teams of
Waterloo, Towa.
In the scrimmage incident to the
raising of the pennant to the flagstaff,
Graham sustained an injured to his
right temple. He became delirious. He
was the son of a widowed mother.
Raise For Coke Workers.
An advance in wakes of about 15%
per cent by the H. C. Frick Coke com:
pany, the fuel end of the United
States Steel corporation, is booked as
a Christmas gift to three thousand
employes, The news has leaked out
of the Pittsburg offices in the shape
of a semi-official announcement. An
increase of sixteen cents on the pres
ent estimated production cost of $1.04
per ton of coke is the arFangement to
be submitted.
Fairbanks Shaves His Beard.
Charles Warner Fairbanks, former
vice president of the United States
has shaved off his whiskers. Photo
graphs of Mr. Fairbanks taken in
Japan, just received in Washington
Show that he has discarded the
chin beard which he wore for so long.
The deed was committed after he left
this country for the Orient. Mr. Fair
banks retained his moustache.
Football Causes Another Death.
Harry Huston, nineteen years old
is dead from heart failure as the re
sult of over-evertion during a foot
ball game at Crawfordsville, Ind
He suffered fainting spells after a
scrimmage and complained of pains in
the region of his heart. Other players
assisted him from the gridiron. Hus
ton succumbed a few minutes later.
Sulphur Bath Stampedes Buffalo.
Made furious at being dipped in a
sulphur bath to kill the ticks on tham
a herd of thirty-six buffalo stampeded
on Frank Rockefeller's ranch, near
Belvidere, Kan., and are now scattered
over Kiowa county. Five horses were
used in pursuing one bull, whose value
is $1500, but he is still at large.
Old Man Caught In Fire.
William “Tay, seventy-five years old.
who resided with his son, Edward
Hay, about two miles above Reeders,
Pa., met cCeath when the house in
which he slept was destroyed by fire,
the aged man being caught in the
flames.
Boy of Ten Sent to Prison.
Cyril St. Armand, of Thurso, Ont.,
ten years old, was sentenced to six
years in ja for horse stealing. When
eight years old he was convicted of an
attempt to wreck a Canadian Pacific
railway train.
Grew 227 Bushels Corn on One Acre.
J. F. Butts grew 227 bushels of corn
on one acre near Raleigh, N. C., ac
cording to an official state report
This is saaid to break the record in
this country.
New Station For Baltimore,
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
hae decided to build a new
station in Baltimore, to cost about $1,
000.000. The new station will be on the
site of the present union terminal.
Lone Robber Loots Bank.
A lone robbed held up Arthur Du
Chateau, teller at the Farmers’ Ex-
change bank at Green Bay, Wis. an
escaped with about $1000. s
Horse Kicks Child to Death.
Shenandoah, Pa., Nov. 9.—“Mamma,
I'm going to die; the horse kicked
me,” gasped seven-year-old Ralph Gi
ger, of Scott township, as he rushed
into the house. He died within a few
minutes.
Corporations Under Oleo Law.
‘Washington, Nov. 9.—That the law
requiring dealers in oleomargarine to
make returns of their business applies
to corporations was held by the su
preme court of the United States.
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In the Space of One Minute the Di
vorce Was Granted and an Order
Signed Sealing the Papers So That
the Public Shall Know Nothing of
the Case.
New York, Nov. 9.—In the space of
one minute by the clock and without
once mentioning the names of either
granted.
In the railing for the lawyers and
litigants were Henry W. Taft, brother
of the president, representing Mrs.
Astor, and Lewis Cass Ledyard, rep
resenting Mr. Astor.
“I desire to make a motion, your
honor,” said Mr. Taft, “in a matter
you are already familiar with. I ask
that the report of the referee be con-
firmed. Your honor has a copy of the
report and has read it.”
“Yes. I have examined the report,”
replied the justice, “and find that it is
sustained by the evidence. I therefore
file judgment for an interlocutary de
cree of divorce.”
“We have no objections to enter,”
sald Mr. Ledyard.
Mr. Taft then added that he would
make a motion that the papers be
sealed.
“I suppose you gentlemen are in a
hurry,” said Justice Mills, “se I shal!
sign that order at once. There is a
train leaving in a minute or two.”
The justice ordered the papers seal
ed, turned them over to his secretary
for filing at Poughkeepsie, and Messrs.
court and caught the train.
It is said that the court has ordered
that Mrs. Astor is to have custody of
Muriel Ava Alice Astor, her seven
year-old daughter, and Colonel Astor
will take charge of Vincent, the son,
who is at present cruising with his
father on the yacht Nourmabal in
West Indian waters. :
Mrs. Astor's friends say that she
will probably make her home abroad
after the final settlement of the di
vorce proceedings. The same friends
say that Colonel Astor agreed to settle
$10,000,000 on his wife in Meu of ali
wony.
canned goods and dried fruits, Sechler &
Co.
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Olcomargarine.
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Pay 35 to 40 cents for but-
ter when you can buy
HiGH GRADE OLEOMARGARINE
from me at 25 cents per
pound ?
R. S. BROUSE,
Bush Arcade,
54-46-2m, Bellefonte, Pa.
New Advertisements.
UDITOR’S NOTICE—In the Orphan's
Court of Centre county. In the matter
of the estate of William C. Burrell late of Gregg
toynsnip, deceased, dilor iotedk th
e undersigned, an an appoin e
han's Court of Centre county, to iP dis.
ion of the balance of the Lili in the hands
estate, to and a titled there-
to, will meet the in oy at 0 wy
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west street, in borough of Bellefonte,
Pa., 1D mre, the 4th day of December, 1909,
at ten o'clock a. m, when and where all persons
having claims against said estate must present
the same duly authenticated for al or be
forever debarred from coming in on fund,
W. HARRISON WALKER.
Auditor.
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UDITOR’S NOTICE.
PHOLSTERING.—Have you Solas,
Shatin, Mattresses or ap, in
line to repair? If have, call . Bidwell
on Commercial ‘phone. He will come to see you
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Taft and Ledyard hurried from tbe | about it.
OMES FOR SALE.—Two nice homes
in Milesburg dorongh for sale on easy
terms, One $700, one $500, Much better induce
ments for cash,
lL. C. BULLOCK, J
Overseer
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54-3341 of Poor.
WILLARD'S STORE
GENT'S FURNISHINGS, HATS, CAPS, ETC.
1 deal in only the best articles and latest
uyles, but sell at lower than those
Sars jog sheddy and grades. 1
would be pleased to have your custom,
D. I. WILLARD,
Hellefonte. Pa.
West High 8t. 54-8-1y
XECUTOR'S NOTICE —The under-
signed executor of the last will snd testa
——Do you know where to get the fl0est | tgp; of'J. Miles Green, inte of Milesburg Boro.,
deceased, hereby notifies all persons knowing
| themselves indebted ro said estate to make im-
mediate Joyment thereof and those having claims
against said estate are likewise notified to pres
sent the same, properly suthenticated, for pay.
ment,
J. HARRIS GREEN, Executor.
54-43.6t Bellefonte, Pa,
UDITOR'S NOTICE.—In the Cours
of Common Pleas for Centre county, Penn.
ivania. Ib the matter of the estate of Emma
ross, a weak minded person, in re.account of
Anthony Dusling.
The undersigned an Auditor appointed by the
aforenamed Court to hear aud pase upon the ex.
ceptions filed to the account of Anthony Dusting,
fan of Emma Gross and to restate the ace
guard
count of the said isn in accordance with his
findings and de Li of said exceptions
and make return thereof to the next Court of
Common Pleas, will meet the interested
at his office, No. 18, Crider’s on Fri-
day, the 19th day of November, 1900, a 1 o'clock
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