Minier~William Miller, for many IRWIN.—On Friday of last week Miss ——The Bellefonte Chapter of the D. | ing the recent rainy spell, longer than they cared $50,000,000 LOSS IN BLIZZARD.
years a resident of Taylor township, this | Gussie Irwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. will be entertained by Mrs. Frank | bout. Penss and Sinking creeks are over bank
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full and a trifle wild. i !
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Tuesday night. For several years past ' Bright's disease. She had been a sufferer
he has been a great though patient suf- ' for more than six months during which
ferer with a cancerous growth on his face time she spent some time in McGirk's
and that is what finally caused his sanitorium at Philipsburg and later un-
death. | derwent an operation in a Philadelphia
He was a son of Charles and Anna Mil- | hospital.
ler and was born in Blair county in 1831. | She was born in Snow Shoe and was
county, died at his home in Houtzdale on | James P. Irwin, of Snow Shoe, died of McFarlane at her home near Boalsburg, |
| W.O. Gramley is planting in the passage way |
on Saturday, the seventh of May. The (he road to his barn the California privet for |
members who do not go over in machines | 4 hedge fence, and intends running it along the
will leave here on the early train spend- | field east of his residence on the main road, and |
ing the entire day in the country. | when well started will remove the wire fencing. i
m— cr A, vi——— | Mrs. Sue Burrell has been on the sick list for
~The Leathers Brothers, of Howard, | the past week or ten days. Mrs. Sue Hering. who |
who made such a success of their real | has been ill for several weeks, does not appear to |
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Eight States Are Covered With Snow
and Millions of Trees In Blossom
Suffered—Storm Sweeps the -Great
Lakes.
The most disastrous April blizzard
| improve very rapidly. Mrs. Jane Nofsker still | in & decade in the central, northwest-
Paid strictly in advance $19 | When only a child his parents moved to | less than nineteen years of age. Her par- State deal at State College and disposed | continues quite poorly. Mrs. Lucinda Runkle, ¢rn and Mississippi valley states has
Paid before expiration of year - 1.50 Taylor township and there he grew to ents formerly lived in Bellefonte and their of several hundred building lots there, are | who fell and broke her hip bone a month or two (aused a monetary loss to fruit, vege-
— Paid ahet €23 of yeas n i manhood and lived practically all his life. | friends here deeply sympathize with them now at Northumberland where they pur- | since, ison the mend. | table and grain crops, estimated at
The Appointment of Hughes.
We would advise against going into
ecstacies over the appointment of Gov-
ernor HUGHES of New York to a seat on
the bench of the Supreme court of the Unit-
ed States. Governor HUGHES is person-
ally honest and entirely capable of adorn-
He was a farmer by occupation and a in their affliction. In addition to her par-
man who stood high in the estimation of | ents the following brothers and sisters
his neighbors and everybody in that com- | survive : Edgar, of West Virginia ; Paul,
munity, as is evidenced by the fact that | of Watsontown ; Helen, Claude and Fay
during his life he was elected and filled at home. Funeral services were held at
many township offices and it was only ad- | her late home early Sunday morning af-
vancing age that compelled him to refuse | ter which the remains were brought to
any further local political honors. Less | this place and buried in the Union ceme-
chased a track of several hundred acres
of land, have had the same laid out in PORT MATILDA PICKUPS.
building lots and are disposing of them Our town has taken on quite a building boom |
at good prices. The large classification
yards being built there by the Pennsylva-
nia railroad company will undoubtedly
result in the building up of a new town,
and town lots are in big demand at advanced |
prices. i
Our supervisors are awake to the importance of |
good roads and have been doing good work to im- |
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prove them.
and seeing the opportunity for a good | Port Matilda and surrounding community has
$50,000,000, has wrought havoc to t.
: shipping on the Great Lakes, has
caused death and untold suffering
among the unprepared and has imped-
ed railroad traffic.
The snow and windstorm, which
started Thursday night, still continues
and snow varying in depth from two
to eight inches. covers the states of
the office. As Governor he has gain- | than moved outzdale | ; speculation in real estate the Leathers ' been a very healthy location of late and doctors | Nebraska. lowa. Minnesota and the
pi the reputation of being a reformer. JH Ry go np oe Sd ga proved | ” i i Brothers took advantage of it. | complain because they have so little to do. Dakotas. Wistugaia. Illinois ing Mi
: i " {Our schools h Il closed and a Normal school = #OUrl. while temperatures are ow
He has openly fought the corrupt Re- only too few, in the quiet of a retired LyoN.—William Lyon, probably one of PINE GROVE MENTION. no RR in the High TN a do. ' freezing.
publican machine and insisted upon an | fife, | the oldest and best known residents of Coming as it did with millions of
investigation of some of its looting opera-
tions. He has also demanded reform
legislation along some lines and in other
respects paid tribute to civic righteous-
ness.
But he is an avowed and servile cor-
poration man. He vetoed a bill passed by
the New York Legislature limiting pas-
senger rates on railroads in New York
State to two cents a mile on the ground
that such a law would be confiscatory,
In 1851 he was united in marriage to | Howard, died at the home of his daugh-
Miss Susan Carrier who survives with | ter in that place last Thursday afternoon
the following children: George W., of | a5 the result of a stroke of paralysis. He
Indiana; Daniel,Harry E. and Mrs. Copen- | was 89 years, 11 months and 19 days old
haver, of Ramey; Mrs. Sheets, of Cam- and had lived in Howard and vicinity
bria county; Mrs. Anna Fleming, of Lew- | many years. He was a veteran of the
istown, and Mrs. Philip Sebring at home; | Civil war and a member of the G. A. R.
he also leaves one brother, John W. Mil- | Surviving him are four sons and two
ler, of Ramey, and two sisters, Misses daughters, as follows : Samuel and Wil-
Sarah N. and Jane C. Miller, of this place. jjam, of Lock Haver ; John, Harry and
The two latter left yesterday to attend | Mrs John Schenck, of Howard, and Mrs.
i on the twelfth instant, with a very good attend
Elmer C. Musser is nursing a broken arm. ance. :
Little Ruth, daughter of J. H. Meyers, isill. | The sid sivie Devan ive Ah over Je a |
: : i sul t e elect w! regular Re-
on Beiveer 4 shy agoud horse th died lust | publicans wag their heads and look ‘wise. They,
hl. 100, see the handwriting on the wall.
Wm. Leech is sporting a new horse he bought | We had & fine. old fash 4 winter: which was
of Join Reed, Frijay. | succeeded by six weeks of warm weather, from
Wm. Dale and E. C. Musser spent Tuesday | March 1st to April 15th, since which time we '
with friends at Shiloh. | have had rain, sleet, snow and frost: but with all |
Ed. Riley is building a new house. Fox and ' that, everything looks very promising. Fruit
Poorman have the job. trees of all kinds are covered with blossoms and |
D. H. Krebs and wife spent Sunday at the J. C* 80 far not injured by frost or cold. Grain and
Corl home, at White Hall, grass are growing fine and bid fair to be big |
acres of fruit trees in blossom and
with spring wheat and vegetables all
sprouting. the storm is nothing less
than a calamity. In Minnesota, north
through Dakota and Wisconsin, much
of the grain will have to be reseeded.
The entire fruit crop of the central
lakes region. excepting westward to
the foothills of the Rocky mountains
and soutli~ard into Kentucky and
Tennessee, is almost certainly wiped
out for the season.
Shough 1 ah more sparsely (Fe the funeral which will be held this after- | Emanuel Bowes, of Marsh Creek; he also Hiram Fry is lying at death's door and his fam- crops. Ms Mggind, Sn She priuctyal Jeu
H jj leaves one brother and two sisters, name- ily has been called home. i LEMONT. : lowing dispstches received in Chicago:
ed ample. He opposed the constitutional i i liv: 1 nd M Rishel Du Mrs. L. H. Miller, who was at death's door last — i
amendment authorizing Congress to levy ly: Isaac a rs. Susan Rishel, of ir ata be or he siwalion ever toakifor ith IMino!s—QCreatest damage was caus-
ALE: . - i i : : {Wnt swallows ure here; warm weath- | oq by the blizzard that covered th
an income tax, though Senator RoOT and DALE~~Captain William P. Dale died at Bois, and Mrs. Wheeler, of Marsh Creek. Eeank Welland of Li Hallet albus. CFO by the blizzar cove e
others, certainly his equal in legal erudi-
tion, have expressed the opposite opinion.
his home on Camp Hill, Harrisburg, on | The funeral was held from his late home
Thursday evening of last week, after be- | at 10.30 on Sunday morning. Rev. W. W.
ing confined to his room two months with | Rhoads had charge of the services and
iness here on Wednesday. | Charles Thompson spent Sunday at the home of |
Mrs. Annie Miller spent Monday in Bellefonte, his father. i
entire state. Early vegetables on the
truck gardens in the northern dis
tricts and berry patches, where hnds
viewing the spring fashions. John R. Williams transacted business at the ! re; a
Inevery Poatitle way he has Served the | }eart trouble. He was born at Howard, burial was made in the Schenck cemetery. | George Burchfield, of the Mountain city, was a county seat Monday. > boa ache oa) plvapces Nags $6.
terests of the predatory corporations. this county, and was 72 years and 11 | Pennsvalley visitor last week. ". D. Houtz and son Clarence, made a business | (00,0
As a jurist Govornor HUGHES may be A ! ” C.D Cl a | 000,000.
as honest as he is able. But the corpora-
tions contributed generously to his cam-
paign fund when he was a candidate for
his present office and while he was de-
manding investigations of other things
his friendsiprevented an investigation of
the sourcegofghis campaign fund and the
manner of its disbursement. Besides he
is an intimate friend and enthusiastic ad-
mirer of JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER and one
of his first official acts will be to review
the Standard Oil case. For these reasons
it will be safe to wait.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
—Yesterday Sol Schmidt, of Philips-
burg, was seventy-one years old and as
the Magnolia Lodge of Odd Fellows
celebrated the ninety-first anniversary of
the institution of the order the same day
he had as good a time as if the whole
demonstration was in celebration
of his birthday. And the reason
is that he has been a member of the
Philipsburg Lodge for forty-three years
and is one of the most enthusiastic mem-
bers of the order in the State.
—On account of the rain Saturday the
Bellefonte Academy and State College
Independents were able to play only four
innings of ball when game was called, the
score being 2 to 1 in favor of the College | ried to
boys. Tomorrow the Academy will play
the Clearfield High school team on Hughes
i about 1874 he went to Mifflinburg and | boldt, Neb.; Mrs. Julia Henderson, Chica-
| weeks with a complication of diseases.
months old. When a young man he | McDoNALD.—Mrs. Tamazine McDon-
taught school in Ferguson township and | ald, widow of the late Jackson McDonald
at the breaking out of the Civil war en- | died on Sunday morning at the home of
listed in Company I 136th regiment, ' her son, William E. Green, on Penn
Penna. Vols. He served until the fall of street, after suffering for two weeks or
1864 and for bravery on the field of bat- more with heart trouble. She was born
tle had been promoted from time to time | in Bellefonte sixty-nine years ago and
until he reached the rank of captain.
Upon his return from the war he was Williams, a very respectable colored fam-
young couple went to housekeeping at | band being Alexander Green and of her
State College where Mr. Dale opened a | ten chiidren only her son William sur-
general store. Two years later he engag- vives. She also leaves the following broth-
ed in farming in College township and | ers and sisters: Maria Williams, of Hum-
engaged in the manufacture of cultiva- | go; Mrs. Mary Harding and Isaac Wil-
tors. In; 1891 he sold out his interests there | liams, of Bellefonte. = The funeral was
and moved to Harrisburg where he had | held on Tuesday afternoon, burial being
lived ever since. He is survived by his | made in the Union cemetery.
wife, one daughter, Mrs. Mary Emerick, | I
of State College, and one son. Durbin C.,| yarrMaN.—Samuel C. Hartman, of
at home. The funeral was held on Mon- | ()
day, i being made in Camp Hill cem- | place on Friday evening, April 15th, after
Stary. ! 3 undergoing an operation
i tumors. He was born at Spring Mills
BoALicH.—On Tuesday morning of last | June 1st, 1865 hence was aged at the
week Mrs. A. S. Boalich died at her home
time of his death 44 years, 9 months and
in Osceola Mills after an illness of some | 14 days. Surviving him are his wife, of
Clearfield; his mother,
Her maiden name was Miss Mary Young
and she was born in Spring township,this
county, seventy years ago on January
12th. March 10th, 1848, she was mar-
A. S. Boalich at Centre Hall, and
they lived in this county until 1860 when
they moved to Osceola Mills where they
Lillie, also of this place, and one brother,
Swartz officiated at the funeral which
was held on the Sunday succeeding his
death, burial being made in the Clearfield
field. The Clearfield team has been
have since resided.
cemetery.
| was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Report comes irom New York tha: Mrs. Sadie trip to Penn Hall, Friday. |
Felding, nee Keichline, is some better. Mrs. Belle Mokle came up from Howard to vis- |
| The Reed sisters are building an addition to it among friends over Sunday. i
their barn. The Wards have the job. John W. Getz is busy putting an iron roof on |
i A. E. Zeigler and wife visited friends down Nit. A George Williams’ stable this week.
tany valley in the early part of the week. | Mrs. George Grimes entertained her sister and |
Lumberman B. F. Davis is cutting the timber little niece, from Bellefonte, Saturday.
on the J. J. Goheen tract at Rock Springs. The wheat fields that had been looking spotted
Mrs. Emily and Mrs. Hamill Holmes are visit- | before the rainsare looking better and the crop |
ing Dr. E. C. Holmes, at Harrisburg, this week. = may be fair to good.
for a week's outing among Pennsvalley friends, | for vegetation was almost at a standstill, but now :
1 | everything has started to grow.
\ D. W. Meyers is beautifying the interior of the |
! John Klinger residence with new paper and paint. | One evening last week while George R. Roan
1% Leslie 'Guies i: enrolled ‘as u: stud t at the "ts Nathering the day's crop of eggs he found one |
| Spring Mills school, with professor W. A. Moyer | that measured 8 inches in circumference and 6}
os iat inches in length and weighed 6
: Sl dd |
{+ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stamm, of Altoona, were
; y Explosio Kills Forty-one Miners. |
greeting friends of long ago in and about Boals- Not one of the forty-one miners im:
burg, last week.
prisoned in the Mulga. Ala. mine of |
! David Rossman, a battle-scarred veteran of the | the Birmingham Iron and Coal con:
| war, whose home is at Pleasant Gap, is visiting | pauy hy an explosion of gas Is alive.
friends hereabouts, This bec-ue certain when.
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uncon- |
Jowa—-Storms in lowa have contin-
ued with greater or less vigor for
nearly a week, but the frigid atmos-
phere and snows of the Iaet two days
have done the greatest damage. Not
only fruits and vegetables, but even
the oats crop is threatened. Entire
damage, $10,000,000.
indiana—Apple orchards and truck
gardens were the greatest sufferers.
married to Miss Harriet Gray and the | ily. She was twice married, her firsthus- | | Samuel Kaup and family are here from Renovo The rains that fell the past week were welcome, | The damage. which was confined to
the northern and central districts,
amounts to $5.000,000,
Michigan—Fruit belt almost entirely
gone for the season. All that rema’ns.
according to expert growers, is the
grape crop, which has been damaged
to a great extent, $4.000,000,
Wisconsin—It is estimated that 5°
per cent of the fruit crop and all of
the early vegetable and green stuffs
have heen killed. Damage, $2,000,000,
Kansas—Snew and low temperatures
playing good ball this season and it Surviving her are her husband and two
will likely put up a good game. At least daughters, Mrs. Emma McClellan, of
it will be worth your while to go out and | Moorehead, Ky. and Miss Carrie, at
see it and work up a good baseball en- home. She also leaves a number of
thusiasm.
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RiDER.~—Mr. and Mrs. William Rider,
1 A litle girl baby arrived in the home of Mr. and
earfield, died in the hospital at that Mrs. George Potter on Tuesday, making thethird | gpopt
: fhild in the family.
i jan week among friends on the Branch, the home
| of her younger days.
! Mrs. Earle Smith and little daughter Eliza came
| over from Huntingdon for a week's stay at grand-
! pa Ports, on Main street.
Mrs. William | The genial and obliging miller, Ed. Woomer, |
Reasner, of Bellefonte; one sister, Miss | sou. ha wert dhe ree prt. of the Stake up the shaft of the mine for a distance |
| selling flour, feed and hay.
team of greys at the $500.00 mark.
| The venerable James Kimport passed his seven-
| ty-seventh milestone on Saturday and celebrated
| it down Nittany valley buying cattle.
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|. The Scotia band boys will hold a festivalin their
hall; tomorrow (Saturday) evening, Come and | t0mbed men. hundreds from the sur. | killed by the
i bring your, friends and your pocketbooks. |
sclous from the deadly fumes of the | have killed the buds, and in many in-
Superintendent Johns of the | stances even the leaves on the trees.
| mine and a man named Bonds. who | The corn crop. however, is safe. Dam:
for cancerous ' Mrs. Emily Hess, of Bellefonte, spent part of | \igked their lives for. those who bad B8€. $1,000,000.
| already pe ‘shed, were drawn up to! Kentucky—All the fruits and vege-
fresh air. Long hefore the rescuers tables as well as budding plants an‘
| were revive ' their condition told the flowers, have been damaged by the
| fate of the miners. “ t cold weath 'r and flurries of snow.
| Following the explosion, flames shot | largely bacause of the fact that they
had reached an abnormally early de
"of about 100 feet and the ground is velopment. loss. $2.060.000.
covered with charred timbers around | Missouri-—Clouds and favorable con-
George, of Pittsburg. He was a member | Farmer Frank Gates attended a big horse sale . yp 0 nonin of the shaft. - They were | ditions saved much of the fruit Friday
of the Methodist church and Rev. Morris , ® Wilkesbarre last week and purchased a mated | 1,
ap from the bottom of a 350- | night, but the clear weather and con-
| foot shaft. Every window in the vil. | tinued cold completed the damage. Es.
| lage was broken by the explosion. | timated loss. $2.000,000,
| Around the entrance to the mine, in | Ohlo—Early fruit. particularly wa-
| addition to the families of the en | termelon ard other vines, have heen
snows and freezing
rounding mining districts swelled the
of Bush Addition, are mourning the
Mrs. Robert E. Johnson, who went to Philadel: | crowds, until it wes with great dif.
! phia last week and underwent a surgical opera | CIty that the work of rescue could
death of their two-year-old daughter, Le-
i
——0On Wednesday afternoon Dr.
Joseph M. Brockerhoof was driving down |
to his farms on the Jacksonville road and |
was accompanied by his little dog Gyp. |
| Mrs. John Klinger, of this place. The
brothers and sisters among them being
funeral was held on Thursday afternoon,
burial being made in the Osceola Mills
cemetery.
brain. The funeral was held on Wednes-
Union cemetery.
nora, who died on Saturday evening after |
day afternoon, burial being made in the
Going out Howard street two large dogs
—Col. W. Fred Reynolds is now driv- |
“| tion, will soon be able to come home quite well.
iW. H. Roush, carriage maker in H. M. Krebs’
a brief illness with inflammation of the | shop, went to Philipsburg last week to assist his |
| son-in-law, E.C. Johnson, in the furniture busi-
! ness.
| Mrs. Ella Smiley, of Altoona, and Mrs. Jacob
Goss, of Brookville, are visiting friends in this
section with headquarters at the). W. Kepler
home. '
| be carried on.
weather. Crain has not been hurt.
| Loss, $500,000.
. Nebraska--Small gardeners and the
truck farmers were the heaviest losers
in the storm that, it is believed now.
has not damaged the early wheat.
Loss, $3,000,000,
In the northwes*—Minnesota, the
Dakotas and eastern Montana—farm
crops and garden truck have shriveled
up and died The total damage so far
Hughes Named Supreme Court Justice
Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New
| York, has accepted the offer of the
appointment to the supreme court of
the United States to fii the vacancy
i
ran out into the road and both pounced
upon Gyp at one time and before the doc-
tor had time to interfere they killed the
little canire. While Gyp was only a dog
he was quite a pet and harmless as a two
REIsH.—After alingering illness of more
| than a year Mrs. Susan Reish died at her
| home at Sugar Run, Clinton county, on
' Monday afternoon. She was born in
| Marion township, this county, sixty-two
| years ago on tbe 18th of last September,
ing around in his new Chadwick road-
: : The venerable David Reed spent a day at Sco- |
ster, an exceptionally fine machine. | tia recently, and was much delighted as well as |
——Clyde A. Smith, who for several surprised at the extensive works and the output |
years past has been head lineman for the | * I™ °r®
American Union Telephone pany in | Mrs. Oliver Gibboney, of Saulsburg, did shop- |
| tice David J. Brewer.
| caused by the death of Associate Jus
This announcement was made au-
thoritatively at the White House.
The following statement was given
out at the White House: ~~ ©
“The president by letter of April 32
reached is over $15,000,000, with the
wheat crop «till in doubt.
Fished Baby Out of River.
Walter Powers, an Ithaca, N. Y,
week's old kitten and the doctor is very!" , ih | ping in town last Friday and visited the St. Elmo. | tendered the appointment to the su.| angler, thought that he would tryq his
much worked up over his or ny being a daughter of the late JamesF. and | this place, has been made division man- | where she once presided as chief in the ~ulinary | preme bench yo succeed Justice| luck in the Six Mile creek at the
’ { Julia Hare. She was married to Joel A. | ager for the same company with head- department. | Brewer to Governor Charles BE. Meadow street bridge, where he got
pecially the way it occurred.
——The census enumerators are on the
| Reish on December 29th, 1868, who sur-
| vives with two sons and one daughter,
~ Sofarascan be learned none of the Centre | I i
home stretch in Bellefonte and the work namely : James B,, of Sugar Run ; John
is well advanced all over the county, so | F., of Steubenville, Ohio, and Miss Daisy,
that there is every likelihood that it will at home; She also leaves one brother, J.
take but little over fifteen days to com- | T. L. Hare. Rev. H. IL. Crow, of Hublers-
plete the job. Li case it is impossible to burg, officiated at the funeral services
to do the work in fifteen days enumera- Which were held at two o'clock yesterday
tors have one month to complete task,but | afternoon, burial being made in the High-
they are positively limited to that time. land cemetery, Lock Haven.
county enumerators experienced any McAvoy.—Mrs. Patrick McAv
. i . oy, who
unusual degree of trouble in getting an- | before her marriage was Miss Mary Mc-
quarters at Indiana, Pa. As evidence of | Tuesday evening a jolly lot of neighbors flock-
the responsibility of his new position is ed to the J. H. Strouse home laden with presents |
the fact that he will have supervision pnd reireshments as a reminder of Mrs. Strouse’s |
h birthday.
over a territory in which there are thirty- | Miss Lizzie T visiting friends down at |
| Howard, before going to her new home at Greens-
eight hundred phones in use.
——— coe 4
. burg, where she will be in closer touch with her
——Have you been to the Scenic late- sister. Mrs. Wi H. Knarr:
ly? If not you are missing some of the | yi G Ww. McWilliams, of Fairbrook, is with
newest and best pictures put on the mark- | her brother, G. W. Keichline, at his home on
et. Manager Brown not only secures | Main street, while Miss Gertie is with her sick |
the very latest and best on the circuit
but is always looking for something un-
usually new and extra and that is the
reason he has booked the pictures of
| sister Sadie. in New York.
| Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Adair, of Indiana, Pa., are
| visiting at the home of H. W. McCracken. Mrs. |
| Adair was born and raised in Ferguson township,
her maiden name being Miss Campbell.
| October.
Hughes, of New York. By letter of
April 24 Governor Hughes accepted.
“In the president's letter to Gover
nor Hughes he told him that as the
supreme court would adjourn its hear
ings this week the person appointed
would not be called upon to discharge
any judicial functions until the open-
ing of the October term on the second
Monday in October, and tuat therefore
if Governor Hughes could accept he
might continue to discharge his duties
as governor until his qualification on
the day of the opening of the court in
a most unv~ual bite. His line drifted
inshore, when suddenly he felt a heavy
load on the end of it. Thinking that
he had made a haul, he yanked it in.
On the end of his line was a heavy
bundle of underclothing, and inside
was the body of a seven-months-old
baby. The body was bruised and mark.
ed and dirty, but in a good state of
preservation. Powers was somewhat
alarmed and called the sheriff. The
sheriff is looking for the mother.
Two Killed In Explosion.
Just to see if gasoline on water
swers to their questions, Where it was Gowan, of this place, died at her home | Roosevelt in Africa which he will have | p David Barr and his sister Sallie, “This was a material factor in Gov- would burn, George Meekin, of Sharps,
possible for the persons interviewed 10 i, Kansas City this week as the |on exhibition for one night only on May | will leave next Monday for a six week's visit in | ernor Hughes’ acceptance. Accordingly | applied a mately to : w v In » Suse.
give an answer. ‘result of burns. While burning brush | 5th. These pictures have just been re. | the Sunflower State. During their absence Har- | if the nomination is confirmed, as| !Ine launch at Warsaw, Va. As a re
——— SOP emm— i
‘ her clothing caught fire and before as-
—Centre county farmers have no! .
cause of complaint now on account of | sistance arrived she was burned so badly
dry weather or lack of rain. The rain. | that her death ensued. She will be quite
fall during the past week has been the | Wii remembered by many people in
greatest of any like period in years, and | Bellefonte, as during her residence here
while all the streams in the county have | ht made her home with the family of
been raised considerably the water was Edward Brown Sr. She is survived by a
not high enough to do any damage. The husband and four children; also a broth-
weather during the past ten days has | ©F and sister, John McGowan and Mrs.
been quite chilly but not quite cold | Turbridy, both of Moshannon, this county.
enough in this section to freeze or do any | i i
damage to fruit or other crops. Both WATsON.—James Watson died at the
grain and grass have shown remarkable home of his son Harry, in Snow Shoe, on
growth the past week, and fields of wheat | Monday morning of last week, of paraly-
which ten days ago looked quite spotted | sis, with which he was stricken about two
now look quite thrifty and promise a weeks previous. He was seventy-five
fair crop. In some parts of the county years of age and is survived by three
the oats that were sown early are up and sons, Frank, Harry and Charles, of Snow
look almost as green as a grass field. A | Shoe; and two sisters, Mrs. William Ja-
few farmers in the county had some of | cobs, of Clarence, and Mrs. Robert
their corn planted before the rain and | Haynes, of Philadelphia. The funeral was
with a few days of nice weather the | held from the Advent church last Thurs-
ground will be in condition for general | day morning, burial being made in the
leased and they are said to be unusually |
fine, especially in their exhibition of the
wild animals of the jungle in their native
state. Don't fail to see them and don’t
fail to attend the Scenic every night. Its
worth your while.
PrP
——The old-fashioned singing school
conducted by Prof. Philip Meyer in the
Presbyterian chapel continues with as
great, if not greater, interest as when first
started; and'it is surprising to observe
how many people there are in Bellefonte
who have really fair voices and yet up
until this occasion did not know even a
note of music. The result of this school
will undoubtedly be noticeable in a great-
er interest in choir work and better sing-
ing in church and Sunday schools. The
musical course will close with a big con-
cert for which extra preparation will be
made and then the people of Bellefonte
will have an opportunity of hearing how
much those who have attended the school
planting. Askey cemetery.
have improved.
| ry N. Walker will handle the mail matter.
Miss Margaret Moore, who for seven years has
been connected with the Commercial exchange at
State College, is taking a short rest and njoying |
the comforts of the Dannley home on Main street. |
SPRING MILLS.
Have heard of no catches of trout worth report-
ing.
In addition to Miss Eleanor Long Miss Rose
Smith is also engaged with Miss Anna Cummings
and under instructions in dress making.
To judge from the blossoms on the trees apples
will be very plentiful this year in the valley; pro-
vided, of course, that Jack Frost does not veto it.
The new department store of the C. P. Long
company is quite an institution: all activity.
‘There is not a dull spot in the entire establish-
ment
J. B. Elliot, of Tyrone, and Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Strong, of Bloomsburg, were here last week visit-
ing friends in the valley, guests at the Spring
Mills hotel.
Mrs. A. G. Lieb and her mother, Mrs. Smith,
who have been visiting in Bethlehem fora month
or more, their former home, returned here on
Wednesday last.
Our farmers were compelled to take a rest dur-
there is every reason to believe it will
be, Governor Hughes’ qualification will
not take place until October.”
Man 50 Weds Girl 14.
Eluding practically the entire force
of state authorities and hundreds of
Delaware residents, who had united
to catch th- pair, John H. Hall, fifty
years old, nd Alda May Horseman,
fourteen y~ars old, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William E. Horseman, elop
ed from the Horseman home, near
Laurel, Del, secured an automobile
and speeded to Denton, Md. where
they were married.
They returned to Laurel later and
were taken into custody immediately.
Hall was locked up in the town prison,
sult Meekir and his companion, J. L.
Brann, of Ivondale, are both dead.
The men were in a launch towing a
lighter and a barge loaded with ex-
celsior wood, and had been engaged
in filling the gasoline tank from a
larger tank on the lighter, when a
quantity of the fluid spilled on the
creek. Immediately upon the match
being lighted the explosion occurred.
Meekins body was blown to pieces.
Brann's body was blown high into the
alr and landed in a skiff.
Wolters Guilty of Murder.
Albert W. Wolters, who has been
on trial in New York city for the
murder of Ruth Amos Wheeler, the
girl who wet to his rooms to get em-
ployment as a stenographer. was found
who was soon surrounded by & mob | guilty of murder in the first degree
who threatened to do violence to the
man. The girl Is confined at the resi
dence of Chief of Police Davis.
The parents of the girl say they will
by a jury in Judge Foster's part of
general sessions. Wolters gave no sign
of the slightest emotion. His face was
void of expression as he answered the
prosecute Hall and have already
questions that make up the forwal
taken action to have the wedding an, court record of a person convicted,
nulled.
and his voice was low and even.