ra I REN HEI II Ma this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance . $1.00 Paid before expiration of year - 1.50 Paid after expiration of year 2.0 Democratic Caucus. The Democrats in every election district in Centre county are requested to meet at the usual places for holding caucuses on Saturday, January 22nd, 1910, for the purpose of nominating candi- dates for township, ward, borough and precinct offices, tolbe voted for at the February election. The result of the caucuses must be returned to the County Chairman so that the same may be filed with the County Commissioners not later than January 26th, 1910. W. D. ZERBY, County Chairman. ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. WiLLiAMS. — Last week's WATCHMAN contained the announcement of the very sudden death of A. Y. Williams, of Port Matilda, who was found dead in bed on Thursday morning. Inasmuch as the body was cold when found it is evident that he had been dead several hours. Albert Young Williams was born at Port Matilda September 18th, 1849, hence was 60 years, 3 months and 19 days old. His entire life was spent in the place of his birth, where he was engaged in the mercantile and milling business. Only recently he decided to retire from active business to a great extent and having delegated the management of the mill and business at Port Matilda to his sons he just last week sold his milling plant at Olivia to Hon. A. A. Stevens, of Tyrone. He was one of the best known men in Bald Eagle valley and one whose integrity was beyond question. He was a stock- holder and director in the Farmers and Merchants National bank of Tyrone, and a life-long member of the Methodist church. Surviving him are the following chil- dren: Mrs. J. C. Young, of Freeland; Mrs. A. B. Woodring, Tyrone; John M., of Port Matilda; Florence, Mabel, Edith, Belva and Blake, at home, and Edgar, of Olivia; he also leaves one brother, Ebenezer Williams, of Waddle, and one sister, Mrs. F. S. Morrow, of Port Matilda. Rev. Merrill Ake officiated at the funeral serv- ices which were held in the Methodist church at Port Matilda at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, interment being made in the cemetery at that place. 4 i FrAziEr.—Alexander Frazier, the well known railroad engineer, of Philipsburg, died in Clearfield at an early hour last Saturday morning. He was born near Kylertown, Clearfield county, about fifty years ago and most of his life was spent in Philipsburg and vicinity. In 1880 he ed in his resignation as captain of com- ! pany B. “ | —On Monday Mr. Henry Potter and | sister, who live on the Potter farm west ! of Centre Hall, drove to Bellefonte in the sleigh and while Mr. Potter was in the act of uhhitching the horse upon his re- | turn home he slipped on the ice and fell, | dislocating his shoulder. ——Prof. C. D. Koch, who the past year | has been a state High school inspector, | has been selected as the director for the summer school for teachers at The Penn- sylvania State College to be held during | June and July, 1910. Prof. Koch was | formerly principal of the Philipsburg! schools. ———John F. Carling, of Tyrone, a brake- man on the Snow Shoe railroad, fell from his train at Gum Stump on Saturday last and sustained a number of body bruises, none of which, however, are regarded as serious. He was given temporary treat- ment and then taken on the evening train to his home in Tyrone. 2 ———————_— ——In today’s paper will be found the advertisement of Claster’'s Underselling Store announcing a big sacrifice sale of | the entire stock of shoes, rubbers, artics, and gum boots purchased from Henry Kline, as well as a tremenduous reduction in all kinds of men and boy’s clothing. It will pay you to read it carefully, as they , offer some exceptional bargains to any | one in need of clothing and shoes. . ——We guarantee the quality of our goods. We can, and do, undersell com- petitors, because our large volume of business reduces the proportion of expens- es. Established in 1871 we have a rec ord of thirty-nine years of square dealing. You can depend upon us, the oldest es- tablished harness manufactory in the county. Get prices on blankets, robes and bells.—James Schofield. APP nm —Ex-sheriff Benjamin F. Shaffer, of Nittany, has certainly had more than his share of affliction of late. Less than two months ago he lost his wife by death. On December 6th he cut his ankle quite badly with an axe while cutting kindling. The cut was sewed up and bandaged and had about healed when a pimple appeared on his left cheek which rapidly grew into a cancerous wart. This it was necessary to have removed in an operation which was performed by Dr. Ball, of Lock Hav- en. The sore is now healing nicely and there is every indication that it will heal up entirely, which we trust will be the case. Mr. Shaffer is going on eighty years of age and is in every way a well preserv- ed man, and we hope that his remaining years of life may be free from all petty ills and cares. ——— i - *oe Marriage Licenses. David A. Kephart, of Brooklyn, N.Y., | and Beatrice S. Musser, Spring Mills. : George C. Wiser, of Port Matilda, and | Elanorah Hipple, Fleming. i electors of the district in such manner as the law | | tent of $32,000.00 is submittedfto the candid, sober | judgment of the electors of the district, with the | — a m——— that under the case of Wheeler vs. Phila delphia, 77 Pa., 338, and Pike county vs. ! of a plain duty, as not to compliment him with a nomination and election to the office and position Roland, 94 Pa., 238, that they had a right | he now so ably occupies. to do this without the assent of the elec i tors, inasmuch as the proposed increase : by the school authorities was less than two per cent. of the assessed valuation of i taxable property within the school dis i A DEMOCRAT. PINE GROVE MENTION. Henry L. Dale is laid up with an attack of trict.” la While it is true this later opinion was given | ; . alter the is had tel 410 Me. Ot | Fary 2iler, a vores Airey. shot two ved fox sted, and the money received by the district, it | . nevertheless supported the correctness of the | J. A. Fortney and wife. of Tusseyville, spent actions and conclusions of the board. | Sunday in town. After all this had been done Messrs. Townsend, | Mrs. Amanda Fisher has been visiting relatives Elliott & Townsend, in making further investiga- | in Altoona this week. sow. Soneladed Sak thé qui: ies he old Set Miss Grace Dale has been visiting friends in not . rom MANDET IN | Jersey the past week. which it had been refunded, (this being the third | Mrs. Ira Hi i down. 4 Al Ld time.) it became a new debt, and as such it was | er n ‘rom NORA eNOYING a debt the district had incurred since the adop- ng. tion of the constitution of 1874, and therefore the | Mrs. J. P. Wagner, of Altoona, is visiting her | board could not create so large an indebtedness | Parental home at Boalsburg. as was provided for in the resolution of March | George Grenoble was in town Saturday even- 20th, 1909, without the consent of the electors of ! ing sporting a brand new sleigh. | the district. . { Henry M. Krebs is visiting friends at North: THe Joun Yd. Yowever. had authorized y and | umberland and Milton this week. We dined hin pn Ca Perley iy After April Ist Ed Tyson will be numbered had their value; and had already expended the | “MO the retired list at State College. most of it in the erection and construction of the Dr. George Kaup has been ill the past week, new school building. There is only one thingto | Suffering from the effects of a heavy cold. do to save the honor and credit of the school dis- . Miss Mary Elder's many friends remembered trict, and that is to submit the quefion tothe ' her with a post card shower on New Year's day. John W. Hess has been promoted to engineer provides. ‘on the Pennsy with headquarters at Youngs. The Act of Assembly approved June 10th, 1897, 1 wn. Ohio. in its first section provides that, Word has been received that E. C. Johnson is ‘Whenever any school district in any ill with measles and pneumonia at his new home borough or township of this Common: at Apolio Pa. wealth shall have heretofore created an |, Mule Robert Condo's right bower. is indebtedness for a lawful purpose by an laid up on account of a tumble on the ice Tues: action of the legal and proper officers } day mori i thereof, such indebtedness, being within ay .. the constitutional limits of seven per In our last letter we erred in the date of the | centum, and in excess of the per centum 0. 0. F. banquet which will be held on Thursday | of the last assessed valuation of such evening. the 20th. | Rev. J. E. Bierly is conducting a protracted school district, and not having first ob- tained the assent of the electors therof in | meeting at Meeks church this week which is | quite well attended. favor of increasing such indebtedness Frank Black, of Bellwood. and Wallace Black, as provided by law, it shall be lawful for the proper officers of such school district of Huntingdon, greeted old friends and neighbors hereabouts last week. to cause to be submitted to the electors of such district the question of validating > : i and giving bind force to such indebted: The venerable Adam Felty, who is fast in bed i | with a broken hip, is getting along nicely and ness, theretofore attempted to be creat ! expects to sit up. ed.” | Other provisions of the act provide how this | Andrew Glenn is still unableto walk on ac. | shall be done. . count of a fall from his front porch last week, in The purpose for which the loan was made was | Which he injured his left side. entirely lawful, and the action of the board was | Tommy Glenn and wife and John Shuey, wife taken under the conviction that the board had | and family enjoyed the sledding and spent Sun- the clear, legal right to create the indebtedness | day at the Glenn home out of town. and to issue the bonds. John 1. Markle came down from Bellwood to Any objection tothe debt contracted can be re- | enioy the sleighing down Pennsvalley and spent moved and the debt made valid by the electors of | several days with his family in town. he dikeiot In declaviiie In faves 1 Sieuin Fi | Boalsburg1.0.0.F, boys with their friends except the publication of notice of the election to will hold their annual mid-winter banquet this be held on the 15th day of February, 1910. By do. | F"1da¥ evening in their hall at Boalsburg. ing so the debt of the district will not be increased Atter a vacation of two weeks Prof. W. A, a dollar over what it now is, counting both loans Moyer, principal of the Pine Grove Mills High with the old debt. While the building has not school, resumed work last Monday morning. been completed as rapidly as was originally con: | Geo. Woods and mother spent last week at the templated all can readily see that the district | home of Miles Shaffer, at Northumberland, where will not only have a beautiful, but as substantial a | Mrs. Shaffer is seriously ill with bronchial trou. building as can be found within the State, and ' ble. that for a sum not exceeding in amount $65,000. Two sled loads of borough folks chaperoned by 00. . : | Samuel Everhart and Edward Glenn, sledded to The board, or any member of it. and especially | he Old Fort hotel on Monday evening for a big the building committee, stands ready to give any | g,nner, information about the loan or the building that { Last Saturday afternoon the officers elect of 0 in their Bwer to give. Leonard Grange at Rock Springs were duly quest ratifying and making clearly | Lo yey by nat master, E.C. M fC valic Bo of ‘the district: to the ex" . E. C. Musser, of Center i Last Saturday afternoon past commander W. assurance that they will not allow the fair name | H. Musser, of Gregg Post, No. 95, installed the of the district to be stained by the repudiation of | officers of Major R. M. Foster Post No., 197, an honest debt for which they have received full | at Lemont. consideration, i + Miss Naomi Stover passed her thirteenth mile H. C. QUIGLEY, i stone last Thursday and was reminded of the President | event when the mail brought her a shower of + post cards. Jas. K. BARNHART, hand in the good work of the uplifting of human- ity. The ice that covers the earth and trees is the heaviest that has been known for many years, and with the high winds that have prevailed, is breaking the branches from the trees while the coating covering the land, the farmers fear, wil; smother the wheat. Real Estate Transfers. Mary C. Harris et. al. to Elks Club of Bellefonte, Dec. 20, 1909, house and lot in Bellefonte; $10,000. J. Ellis Harvey to Ives S. Harvey, Dec. 20, 1909, tract of land in Curtin Twp.; $800. John Stoner et. ux. to J. Heary Stoner et. al. Dec. 8, 1909, lots in Miles Twp.; $1. J. H. Reifsn to John Stoner, Jan. 8, 1902, tract of in Millheim; $300. J. H. Reifsnyder et. ux. to John Stoner Apr. 1, 1887, to land in Millheim; $250. John Stoner et. ux. to D. L. Zerby trus- tee, Dec. 10, 1909, tract of land in Mill- heim; $1 Henry Fredericks et. ux. to Alfred R. Lee Apr. 1. 1909, tract of land in Harris Twp.; $2000. Legigh Valiey Coal Co., to Paul Gatsick, Feb. 30, 1905, tract of land in Snow Shoe Twp.; $25. Wm. C. Kramer et. ux. to H. C. Rob- ison, Jan. 4, 1910, lot in Milesburg; $850. Steve Berente et. ux. to Mary Yacle, Apr. 6, 1908, tract of land in Snow Shoe Twp.; $25. H. D. Lindemuth et. ux. to Matilda Lambert, Oct. 23, 1909, lot in Uuionville Boro.; $600. ’ Poor Overseers of Haines T' M. Orndorf et. al. Mar. 11, 1907, land in Haines Twp.; $162.50. Wm. L. Foster et. al. to Judson P. Welsh Jan. 5. 1910, lot in State College; $325. Poor Overseers of Haines Twp., to Isaac M. Orndorf et. al. Mar. 11, 1907, tract of land in Haines twp.; $112.50. Trustees Washi Camp, No. 357 P. O.S. of A, to J. J. et. al. Aug. 4, 1908, tract of land in Haines Twp.; $75. The Spirit of Winter. The Spirit of Winter is with us, mak- ing its presence n in many different sunhine and glistening snows, and sometimes by driv- ing winds and blinding storms. To many it seems to take a delight in mak- ing bad things worse, for rheumatism twists Jade twi 8. sharper, becomes more annoying, ai many symptoms of scrofula are developed aggravated. There is not much poetry in this, but there is fruth, and it is a wonder that more e don't get rid of these ail- ments. medicine that cures them— Hood’s Sarsa; is easily obtained and there is abundant proof that its cures are radical and permanent. J. A. STOBER FOUND DEAD , tolsaac tract of Pennsylvania Treasurer-Elect denly Passes Away. Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 11. — State Treasurer-Elect Jeremiah A. Stober was found dead in bed by his wife at his home in Schoeneck, in the northern end of Lancaster county. He was sixty-seven years old. The cause of death was heart trouble, He had not been in ill health, and his (death was a great surprise and shock. He would have been Inducted into his new office in May. Mr. Stober complained of feeling hadly when he returned home on Sun- Sud- was united in marriage to Miss Alice ! Michaels, of Karthaus, who survives Orlando Williams, of Julian, and Har- with the following children: Mrs. M. S. | riet Straw, Kerrmoor, Pa. Secretary. SPRING MILLS. | The Democratic primaries will be held in Cen. tre school house at 1.30 o'clock Saturday, January Adams, of Chester Hill; Mrs. Duke Perks | and Earl, of Osceola; Jeannette, Andrew | and Rebecca, all at the old home in Phil- | ipsburg. He also leaves two brothers | and one sister. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon, burial being made in the Philipsbnrg cemetery. i i MCENALLY.— Judge McEnally died at his home in Clearfield on Wednesday of last week. He was eighty-five years old, | was born in Cambria county, studied law | and admitted to the Northumberland | county bar in 1849, located in Clearfield | in 1850, and upon the death of Judge i f James E. Symmonds and Jennie E. Wit” mer, both of Bellefonte. Clyde G. Gray and Margaret A. Stevens: | both of Stormstown. | Carl Musser and Cora A. Nelson, both | of Philipsburg. Statement by Bellefonte School Board. TO THE VOTERS OF THE BOROUGH OF BELLEFONTE. It has become necessary to ask the voters of the borough to ratify and declare valid the loan of $32,000.00, authorized by a vote of the school board of the borough on the 20th day of March, 1909, for the purpose of erecting a new public school building. Before this loan was authorized the board, after careful and thorough investigation, believed that | ice from eight to ten inches thick and of a fine | Bloomsdorf. He isjust budding into young man- quality. There evidently will be no scarcity of hood and is really a chip off of the old block. | 2nd, for the nomination of candidates for the John Gray, of Freeburg, and S. G. Chesney, of | February election. Bloomsburg, were here last week visiting friends | Miss Mabel Meyers, daughter of D. W. Mey. in the valley. | ers, met with a bad accident last Friday in a very Since the Holidays it has been very quiet in our { strange way. A boiler of boiling sauer kraut town. The boys and girls skating and sliding on i exploded, badly scalding her face and head. the icy fields is about all the commotion here. | Henry A. Illingsworth, of Marietta, is spending Nearly all our ice houses have been filled with | his mid-winter vacation at grandpa Snyders, at ice here next summer. . G.W. Ward, of Allegheny, has purchased the The shirt factory reported to be started here at ' Ed Bubb property for $600. This would indicate an early date is not yet a fact. There seems to be | that some dav George Washington will return for some misunderstanding as regards the building, | a well deserved rest at the foot of old Tussey. but this may be adjusted. |" Miss Sophia Hunter is ill with heart trouble and All our merchants report a first rate business | Mrs. Felix Shuey is very low suffering with a during all last month, but since the Holidays : stroke of paralysis, which has effected her entire trade has been a little off. Commercial agents | left side so that the old lady is in a serious con. day night, but his family was not alarmed at his condition, although he passed a very restless night, suffering considerably from insomnia. His wife arose, and when she went down stairs to prepare breakfast Mr. Stober was resting comfortably, After she had prepared the meal she went upstairs to call him, but got no response and found him dead. He had evidently been dead for half an hour. The coroner and a physician were summoned, and they pronounced his death due to an affection of the heart. 20,000 Workmen Receive Advance to Euqal Rate Paid In 1907. Pittshurg, Jan. 11.—The H. C. Frick Lynn in 1868 was appointed president | (ney could lawfully effect a loan not exceeding judge of the Clinton-Centre-Clearfield | two per cent,on the assessed valuation of all prop judicial district. Hewas latera candidate | erty in the borough taxable for school purposes, : * which at that time was fixed at $1,643,361.00. for election to the office but was defeated | After the tition of the board ‘was adopted by C. A. Mayer, of Lock Haven, and when | pion, M. E. Olmsted, who held the bonds of our Clinton county was taken off the district old debt, was asked to take the new issue of in a re-apportionment he again was a bonds. He desired to have time to investigate i i " | the legality of the proposed issue and to aid in candidate but was defeated by Judge." Cl Loy cenified copies of the min: Orvis, of this place. He was the oldest ye of the board and all statements required to practitioner in the State. be filed in the court of quarter sessions, under q i i He act tof Abril sith. i. nites fav eucnss : | Mr. Olmsted not only exam carefully into PARKER. —Samuel Blair Parker, one of | , "0 0 0rihe board to make the loan but the best known men of Philipsburg, died | panded the papers to another attorney at Harris- on Wednesday morning after a month's | burg, who, after a careful examination of the illness with a complication of diseases. ' Questions relating thereto, advised Mr. Olmsted that the authority of the board to make the loan He was born at Yall scuien aoa Ye 51 was complete. This being in accord with Mr. years, 9Imonths and 15 days € Was | Olmsted's opinion he advised the board that he a blacksmith and carriage maker by trade | was ready to take the first issue of the bonds, and and had been in business in Philipsburg | they were dei vered to him in October, 1909. % : r. Olmsted had also been asked to take the since hejwas a young man. Hewas twice | Lt "to a0 ine issue of which had married and is survived by his second | pee, authorized by the electors of the district. wife and three children; also four sisters | He reported to the board that he and another and one brother, the latter being Geo. GG. | could do so. In arranging to do this he submitted Parker, also of Philipsburg. The funeral | ertified copies of the minutes and resolutions of the board and records of the court relating to willbe held from fis late home at tWO | pou loans, which had been furnished him, to o'clock afternoon. | Messrs. Townsend, Elliott & Townsend, attor- i i | neys of Philadelphia. who, on November 3rd, i, i brothe: 1909, gave him an opinion on the right of the ae Theat Lasie, a ry board to make the first loan from which we quote te}Dr. dan ; as follows: D., died in Philadelphia last Thursday, | “You have submitted to us for an ex He was born in Scotland and was close | eiaiion awd un. opition Seibel copies to seventy years old. After coming to resolutions and exemplifications the court of quarter sessions of the peace this country he went west and a good | ce tothe two issues of bonds by the part of his life was spent as a rancbman. | school district of the borough cf Belle- About ten years ago he came to Belle- fue Become for thea fonte and [engaged in the poultry busi- borough of Bellefonte for the hs ing, equipment and accommodation of the ness but was compelled to give it up sev- public schools decided to incrense thei: eral years ago on account of failing | jebtednessof the said school district in health. During the past year or so he has been in Philadelphia. The funeral was held last Saturday, burial being the sum of $32,000.00 represented by the series of bonds first above mentioned. This they did by a resolution of the board of school directors passed March 20th, 1909. At this time the school district had an existing indebtedness of $20,000.00. which was the balance of a debt incurred exceeded per cent. of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the school district, viz; $1,643,361.00, we are of the opinion we Prof. John G. Rossman, who has been teaching | Greek, Latin and German in the New Bloomfield Academy for several months, resigned the posi- tion to accept a similar one at Millersburg, Ky. He left last week. The WATCHMAN has certainly made a ten strike, and makes a very attractive appearance in its new dress and bristling all over with bright sparkling news. As a live and ably edited journal it is con- ceded to surpass all country newspapers and is equalled by few in the city. The Nemination for Justice of the Peace in Gregg Township. ED. WATCHMAN.~In addition to T. B. Jamison, present incumbent, one or two other nameg have been mentioned as possible candidates for the nomination of Justice of the Peace but I hardly think very seriously. Magistrate Jamison is unquestionably entitled and deserving of a full term and, in fact, for several reasons should have no opposition, and facts are stubborn things After the decease ‘of Magistrate Hering, the office stopping off here, report business on the road | dition. light. All our roads and walks, like other places, are one mass of ice, dangerous for walking or sleigh- ing. When sleighing one hardly knows where he will land, as the sleigh slides most everywhere you don't want it. The Epworth League of the Methodist church will hold a chicken and waffle supper on Friday and Saturday evenings, January 2lst and 22nd. Oysters will also be served. Everybody is invited to attend. We are glad that a voice from the Buckeye State has advocated the sentiment of the old Pine Grove Mills Academy students for a reunion and an Old Home week, next summer, at Bellefonte. Whoop her up. A jolly sledding party crowded the John Kim- port home east of Boalsburg Saturday evening They took the place by storm and had matters their own way all evening, with plenty of re. | freshments and fun. ! A meeting of the proposed telephone company was held in town last week, when a committee was appointed to confer with the officers at Ty- | rone and urge the erection of a line from State College via. this place to Warriors Mark. Last Saturday while Grant Charles and wife were out for a drive they upset and their horse ran away. After a mile run he was caught with but little damage done. The same day Solomon Lohr upset with a sled load of farm implements in which he got mixed up and was badly bruised, but still able to go about. On Monday while the venerable David P. Henderson and wife were out for a spin behind his high stepper, they upset, but escaped with a good shaking up. LEMONT. John Wasson visited with his mother this last . | week- ‘Squire Isaac Armstrong is slowly improving but is not able to walk yet. Rev. James Reeser preached in the United Evangelical church Sunday forenoon. William Coble moved from Tyrone and will oc- cupy the rooms over Mitchell's hardware store. Philip S. Dale has been housed up for more than a week with rheumatism, but is better now. The people are still busy putting in ice and up to this time have more stored than was stored all last winter. Mrs. Charles Houser was quite ill, Sunday, and it was feared that she would not live, but she is slightly better now. While Mr. Stonebraker was heiping to load a car of props one day last week, he had the misfor- tune to have his jaw broken, and had to be taken to the hospital. The Methodist protracted meeting opened on Monday evening, will continue for several weeks , and all are invited to attend and lend a helping company, the fuel end of the United States Steel corporation, posted no- tices at all of its plants of an advance in wages, to take effect Jan. 18. The advance marks the restoration of the boom wages of 1907, which were cut when the financial panic came on, and the restoration removes the last ves. tige of a great panic in the Pittsburg industrial district. About 20,000 work- men will enjoy the raise directly and about 80,000 others will feel the good effects. D. A. R's Founder Dead. Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, founder Cf the Daughters of the Revolution and of the United States Daughters of 1812, died very suddenly in New York city from apoplexy at the home of her brother, John Quincy Adams. She was preparing to return to her home in Washington when stricken, Mrs. Darling will be buried at the piace of her birth, Lancaster, N. H. Pay $25 Fine In Pennies. Four girls serving as pickets in the shirtwaist strike in New York city paid in pennies $25 in fines, three of $5 each and one of $10, to the clerk of the Jefferson Market court, after Magistrate Kernochan had found them guilty of disorderly conndet. It took the entire staff of court clerks fully twenty-five minutes to count and re count the 2500 pennies. This Railroad Kilis No Passengers. During the decade, Jan. 1. 1900, to Jan. 1, 1910, not one passenger has been killed in a train accident on the Lackawanna railroad. During that pe- ried this road has transported 193. 787,224 persons. Boy Killed While Coasting. While Benjamin Habecker, & school boy, of Lancaster, Pa, was coasting in a fog near the schoolhouse he ran into a tree stump, receiving injuries that quickly caused death. Recently his litle sister was burned to death. HEIRESS AND WAITER FOUND. Chicago, Jan. 11.—Miss Roberta De Janon, the young Philadelphia heiress, and Frederick Cohen, a waiter, who eloped ten days ago, were arrested in a rooming house here. To Captain Reihm, In charge of the station, the girl told a pathetic story of lonesomeness. She said that her mother had just died, and that her father was living in another city. There appeared to be nothing for her but a boarding school. Nobody seem- ed to understand or sympathize with her but Cohen, a waiter, married and forty-two years old. He was employed in the same hotel where she lived. “I did not see my father very often, and on the first of October mother and I took apartments in the Bellevue-Strat. ford hotel. My grandfather, Robert Buist, was with us a great deal of the time. On the second day of Novem- ber my mother died after a short {ll- ness and I was almost heart broken. I cried a great deal and was very lone- some. There was nothing that money could buy that I could not have, vet | was very unhappy. “Then, to cap the climax, soon after my mother had passed away my grand. father said he was going to send me to Mrs. Shipley's preparatory school at Bryn Mawr. “The very thought of going to a place of that kind, where I knew no one and had no idea of the kind of people I wonld meet, made me des- perate, Cohen Sympathized With Her. “Mr. Cohen was a waiter in the pri- vate dining room in the hotel where I took my meals, and to him I talked a great deal after my mother had gone. He sympathized with me and seemed to understand how I feit. He knew what my sorrows were, and it was only natural that in a short time TI told him everything. His sympathy and kind- ness seemed to relieve me a great deal and I began to respect him greatly. “Finally, when I could stand my lonesomeness no longer, I begged him to take me away. He refused at first, even after he admitted that he loved me, and not until I had threatened to kill myself would he consent. Then we made out plans.” When speaking of her mother her eyes filled and her voice sank to a whisper. When she spoke of Cohen it was evi- dent that she held him in high regard in spite of the fact she she was com- pelled to pawn her jewelry to buy food since their arrival here. Beginning with their flight from Philadelphia on Dec. 29, the girl told how they had gone to New York and spent one night there. In New York they decided to go to London, Eng- land, but fearing detection if they tried to embark in this country, they took a train to Montreal. Failing to catch a transatlantic steamer at Mon- treal, as they had hoped to do, they traveled by rail to St. Johns, N. B.. where they boarded the steamer Cor- sican. According to the girl's story. they wouldn't allow her to have her dog “Tootsy” with her on the boat, so they landed when they touched at HHalifax, N. 8. But as their combined capital when they started from Phila- delphia was onlv $140—8125 belonging to the girl and $15 to Cohen—it is be- lleved they did not have money enough left for their passage to England. Passed as Father and Daughter. From Halifax the pair went to Bos- ton, and after staying there one night hurried on to Chicago, reaching here last Thursday morning. “We passed as father and daughter wherever we went,” explained Miss De Janon. “Sometimes we gave one name and sometimes another, but usually we registered as ‘Mr. Robert La Place and daughter.” Reaching Chicago, Cohen secured a room at 68 West Superior street, where he and the De Janon girl have been doing light housekeeping. Cohen has been looking for employment as a waiter, but being unable to find any- thing to do, the girl gave him her bracelet and necklace, which he had pawned for $10. When arrested the pair had only $1.60 in their possession. Elopement Caused Suicide. Asbury Park, N. J.. Jan. 11.—George W. Thompson, president of the city excise beard, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home here. The act is believed to have been caused by worry over the condition of his health and his son's recent elopement and marriage to a maid to Queen Titania IX., whom he met while acting as one of the officials during last summer's baby parade. Girl Dies Playing a Hymn. Huntingdon, Mass., Jan. 11.—While playing the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” in the Second Congregational church Sunday school, Miss Josephine Hannum, the pianist, reeled and, ex: elaiming “IT am gone!” fell over dead. Woman Played Male Part For Thirty five Years. Montreal, Jan. 11.—The warden of the jail here discovered that a person who was committed last week under the name of William Dubers, sixty-five years old, is a woman. - She had masqueraded as a man for thirty-five years, most of the time gaining her livelihood as a deck hand on lumber barges. “William” is now in the infirmary of the jail, wearing a skirt, which she finds most awkward. Refuses $8000 Increase. Pittsburg, Jan. 11.—Rev. J. Leonard Levy, rabbi of the Rodeph Shalom, of this city, has refused a call to the pas- torate of the Jewish Religious Union
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