SPANISH-AMERICAN’ WAR VETERANS TO
MEET IN BELLEPONTE.—The annual: re-
union of the Fifth Regiment Spanish.
“day and was attended by over two hun-
dred ex-soldiers of that period, Col. H. S.
Taylor and sergeant George Eberhart
representing Company B. The business
session of the gathering was held on
Thursday afternoon when officers
elected for the ensuing year and
fonte was selected as the place for
ing the next annual reunion, which will
take place on April 27th and 28th, 1912,
On Thursday evening the soldiers had
were
Belle-
hold-
by the automobilists of Clearfield.
The officers elected for the. ensuing
, year are as follows:
President, Col. H. S. Taylor, of Belle-
fonte; first vice president, major H. W.
Fee, of Indiana; second vice president,
captain John A. Woleslagle, of Altoona,
who at present is viewing the army man.
ceuvres at Texas; third vice president,
Walter Welch, of Clearfield; fourth vice
president, captain A. H. Woodward, of
Clearfield; treasurer, Joseph H. Butler, of
Altoona; chaplain, Dr. Andrew S. Stayer,
of Altoona; secretary, John C. Dunkle,
Huntingdon.
The president-elect at the banquet as-
sured the regiment that Bellefonte would
give it a royal welcome at the reunion
next year.
BLAKE.—John H. Blake, of Lock Hav-
en, a printer by trade and who a few
years ago was foreman in the WATCH-
MAN office for several months, diedat the
home of his brother-in-law in Harrisburg,
Jast Friday, of cerebro paralysis following
an attack of pneumonia. He. was forty-
three years of age and unmarried, but is
survived by his mother, one brother and
a number of sisters.
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MONSTER SHAD.—Just now when the
trout fishermen of this county are so dis-
couraged over their luck at catching so
few of the speckled beauties we know
they won't be in 2a humor to hear much
about the good fortune of fishermen in
other sections, but the box of shad sent here
last week by Mrs. Amos Mullen, formerly
of Bellefonte, but now living in Columbia,
were such beauties that we simply have
to refer to them. They were part of a
haul of a day's fishing excursion made by
her brother-in-law Mr. George Wike to
the Susquehanna and, honestly, any one
of them was as big as all the troutin Lo-
gan's branch put together. That might
sound pretty strong to you, but you
should have seen those shad.
Marriage License.
_ Amos Wolford, of Mill Hali, and Aman-
“Ua R. Dorman, of Nittany.
George Richard and Alice Devine, both
of Martha.
James McCradie, of Cassanova, and
Mary G. Richard, of Erdon.
Geo. C. Kramer,of Clearfield, and Anna
M. Donley, of Julian.
Fred W. Bechdel and Mabel Confer,
both of Liberty Twp.
——During the past week Jacob Marks
and James Matthews were both dis-
charged froin the Bellefonte hospital.
Mr. Marks is looking very well while
Matthews is already back at work as Col.
Taylor's man-of-all-work. Miss Eliza-
beth Fishburne, of State College, and
Mrs. Lola Crater, of Spring Mills, under-
went operations the past week while Miss
Louise Williams, of Bellefonte, and John
Clark, of Waddle, were admitted for
treatment.
——The clerks and carriers in the
Bellefonte postoffice are having their own
trials and tribulations these days because
they are now carrying into effect the or-
der of the postoffice department to count
the mails. Every piece of mail handled
must be counted and a strict record kept
of the first, second, third and fourth class.
This refers not only to the outgoing but
incoming mail as well and the count must
be continued one month.
——G. Harry Wian, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank B. Wian, of this place, has
been appointed assistant inspector of sig-
nals on the Pennsylvania railroad with
headquarters at the Broad street station,
Philadeiphia. He is a graduate of State
College, class of 1908, and had served
only two years and nine months of a
three years apprenticeship course when
appointed, which speaks well for his abil-
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——Dr. Coburn F. Rogers has purchas-
ed a model T Ford machine and will dis-
pose of his horse and buggy. A. Boyd
Spicher, one of the rural mail carriers
from the Bellefonte postoffice has also
purchased a Ford machine which he will
use in the delivery of mail on his route.
In this way he will be able to cover his
route in considerably less time than with
a horse and buggy.
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——Maurice T. Kelley on Wednesday
opened up a broker's office on the third
floor of the Temple Court as correspond:
ent for Speuhler & Co., of Pittsburg.
——John P. Sebring has broken ground
for the erection of a new house on the
oe m——
—Little Johnnie stood solemn-
man Stag th boy aeons
vid san, ashes: “Well, what is it, son?
was a baby?” .
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PINE GROVE MENTION.
The venerable Silas Gibboney, who has been
very ill, is some better.
Edward Martz is home again after a two weeks
visit in the Buckeye State.
The veteran sheep shearer, George Everts is on
his job making the wool fly.
Miss Laura Gregory spent last week visiting
friends in the Mountain city.
Oliver Scott is minus a finger which he had
crushed between two railroad ties.
DJAllison Irvin, of Ebensburg, is visiting his
sister, Mrs. E. C. Ross, at Lemont. {
Mrs. Belle Lytle, who has been so seriously
the past month, is now able to be around. -
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. From, of State College, spent
Sunday at the J. C. Bailey home on Main street.
Ross Gilliford, one of Pennsy's trusted clerks at
Altoona, was here last week greeting old chums.
Merchant E. C. Ross is having his store and
dwelling brightened up with a fresh coat of
paint.
Mr. and Mrs, J, B. Rockey, of Filmore, were
at grandpa Bowersox, on Main
street.
Mrs. Emma Hess, of Bellefonte, is spending
several weeks at the home of her youth onthe
Branch.
‘Ma. and Mrs. Ben Eberhart and baby Elizabeth
were welcome visitorsat Grandpa Reed's home
on Sunday.
* J. W. Sunday left Monday morning for Lewis.
town to spend a week with his sister, Mrs. Smith,
who is quite ill.
Mrs. Maggie Meek and Mrs. Mary Jane Stew-
art, both of Altoona, are visiting friends of long
ago in this section. 9 {
Mrs. Charles Stover came: up from Millheim
and was a visitor at the W. E. Stover home at
Pine Hall Saturday.
Farmer E. W. Hess is shy a valuable gray horse
that died suddenly Monday afternoon while
hitched to a harrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Felding, of Staten Island,
N.Y., are making a two week's visit among
friends down Pennsvalley.
The personal effects of the late James R. Duf-
ford will be offered at public sale at Pine Grove
Mills May 13th, at 1 o'clock p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. ‘Bailey, of State College,
enjoyed a drive Sunday to see the new fa
on the Ross farm just west of town. :
That famous bird the stork tarried long enough
to leave little daughters at the Johu Dreiblebis
and James Peters homes last week.
The festival on Saturday evening was quite a
success and the youngsters had a royal good
time. Some forty dollars were realized.
Mrs. A. J. Lytle is at Brooklyn. N. Y.. visiting |
her daughter Bessie, who is still in the hospital
but recovering from a surgical operation.
Dr. R. M. Krebs, J. A. Tate, A. G. Archey, J,
A. Decker, Mrs. Al Bowersox, and sister, Mrs.
Gertie Keichline, were Bellefonte visitors Wed”
nesday.
Dr. G. H. Woods and wife, of this place, and
‘Squire W. H. Musser and wife, of Bellefonte, are
packing their grips for a two week's outing in
and about the national capital.
Mrs. Annie Keller, Mrs. J. L. Tressler and Mrs.
sames Swabb, all of Linden Hall, were a happy
trio who enjoyed a drive Sunday and spent the |
day at the J. H. Williams home at White Hall. |
John E. Reed transacted business at the county
capital Wednesday making the last pavment on
the farm he recently bought in the Glades, better
known as the Rankin farm and one of the best
in that locality.
Little Henry,son of W. E. Johnson, tenant farm-
eron the Gen, Beaver farm, fell through the |
cross loft to the barn floor below breaking one |
arm and sustaining some painful bruises about
the face and head.
Last Thursday while Mrs. D. LL. Dennis was
walking on her porch she fell and broke her hip.
As there was no one about the lady was
obliged to lieon the porch until her husband put
in his appearance, when she was carried to bed |
and Dr. Woods summoned. On account of her |
advanced age her condition is serious. i
Find Missing Man's Bones.
Four years ago on April 8 George |
Michael Fetzer mysteriously disap-
peared from his home in Boggs town-
ship, near Bellefonte, Pa. and all ef-
forts to locate him proved futile.
Monday the whitened bones of his
body were found by some boys behind
a clump of bushes not a half mile
from his home.
His discharged gun by his side and
a bullet hole through the skull told
the manner of his death, but whether
accidental or suicide will heme]
never be known.
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Says Alfonso Is Consumptive. |
L’Intransigeant, a Paris paper, as-
serts that King Alfonso is gravely ill
with tuberculosis, and that at a re-
cent consultation of his physicians it
was decided that urgent measures of
treatment were necessary.
It is also said that the physicians
decided that the Spanish monarch
should pass the coming winter at Le-
zins, Switzerland, where the climate is
better adapted to his condition.
Wants $10,000 For Initiation Injury.
A suit for $10,000 damages was
filed in Newark, N. J., by John A. Het-
zel, of Bloomfield, N. J., against the
Bloomfield Camp, Modern Woodmen
of America. Hetzel alleges that while
he was being initiated into the order |
he was struck, while in a stooping po-
sition, with a “slap-stick” containing a |
cartridge. The cartridge exploded and
entered his body near the spinme.
Opera by Yale Men Wins $10,000 Prize |
“Mona,” an opera in English, the
work of Horatio Parser, who is pro-
fessor of music at Yale, and Bryan '
Hooker, of Farmington, Conn., for
merly of the Yale faculty, has been
awarded the $10,000 prize in the Met-
ropolitan opera contest. The decision
of the jury, which was unanimous,
was announced and, pursuant to the
terns of the contest, the opera will
be uroduced by the Metropolitan Op-
era company next season.
Had to Pay Duty on Drowned Boy. |
Roberto and Thomas Rodrigas, two
boys, were drowned in the Rio Grande !
river at Laredo, Tex., and their bodies |
swept away. The bodies were recov- |
» | ered, that of Roberto on the Mexican
C. M. Dale and Mrs. James Hilliard are ill with
rheumatism. .
i bers of
| pressed the opinion after the meeting
Field Day For
Trust Inquiries.
House Plans To Probe Steel, Sugar and
Wool.
Wednesday was trust investigation
day in and its committees.
The resolution of Representative
Stanley, of Kentucky, providing for the
creation of a house committee of nine
members to investigate the United
States Steel corporation was favor-
ably reported by the committee on
rules.
Representative Hardwick, of Geor-
gia, introduced a resolution calling
for the investigation of the American
Sugar Refining company.
A thorough inquiry into the scope
and activity of the so-called wool trust
is asked for in a resolution introduced
by Representative Francis, of Ohio.
All the inquiries have been started by
Democrats.
The Stanley resolution to probe the
steel trust originally contained a pro-
vision that all violations of anti-trust
and other trade statutes should be in-
vestigated, but as agreed to the steel
corporation was made the specific
target.
The Stanley resolution specifically
directs the committee to ascertain
whether the steel corporation has re-
lations or affiliations with the Penn-
sylvania Steel company, the Cambria
Steel company, the Lackawanna Steel
company or any other nominally inde-
pendent steel company.
The committee is further directed
to inquire into the relations of the
corporation with the Pennsylvania
Railroad company “or any other rail-
road company, coal companies, or with
national banking companies, trust
companies, insurance companies or
other corporate organizations or com-
panies.”
Special inquiry is directed as to
whether the business relations of the
steel corporation with other concerns
has resulted in violations by the latter
of the anti-trust laws.
The committee is authorized to sit
during the recess of congress, and the
hearings may be continued throughout
the summer.
Fifty or more concerns that are al-
leged to comprise the combinations
are enumerated by name in the Fran-
cis resolution to probe the wool trust.
The resolution provides that an in-
quiry shall be made by a committee
of five to be named by the speaker,
“for the purpose of ascertaining
whether since the year 1898 there have
occurred violations of the anti-trust
acts and the interstate commerce law
which have not been prosecuted to
final judgment or lawfully disposed of
by the executive officers of the govern-
| ment.”
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The resolution directs that the com-
mittee shall inquire into charges that
the so-called “trust” exercises a con-
trol over the number of buyers of
wool, that it restricts production and '
stifles competition, and that in other
respects operates as a combination in
restraint of trade and commerce. It is
charged further that the woollen com-
pany is capitalized at a figure far be-
yond the actual amount of money in-
vested in it and its affiliated com
panies.
Alleged Discrimination of
Machinery Company.
Hearings accorded to boot and shoe
Against
| manufacture=s by the senate finance |
' committee developed into a vigorou | April 18, 1911, tract of land in Huston
attack on the United Shoe Machiner:
company, of Boston.
The testimony was sensational and
at times startling. Some of the mem-
the finance committee ex-
that the testimony if corroborated
might raise a question as to whether
there had not been a violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law
Senator Bailey denounced the con-
tracts which the shoe machinery com-
pany requires its customers to sign
as invalid. “In some states such vio-
! lation would be a violation of the
state's criminal statutes,” said Sena- |
tor Bailey.
The witnesses were members of the
Western Shoe Manufacturers’ asso-
ciation. Thev came not only from New
England, br* from St. Louis, Chicago
and Milwarkee. They declared they
were practically at the mercy of the
machinery company.
The principal witness was William
D. O’Buch, of St. Louis. He asserted
that the shoe manufacturing business
had suffered because of the lowering
‘of the duty in the Payne-Aldrich law
from 25 per cent to 10 and 15 per
cent. Importations, he declared, had
greatly increased under the reduced
duties, and he inquired what would
be the effect if duties were entirely
removed.
Live Wire Kills Two.
At Dupont, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
Albert Struck, a hotelkeeper, aged for-
ty-eight, and John Waronek, twelve,
were electrocuted by a live wire that
had been blrwn down during a storm.
After the boy was killed Struck met
vi death in attempting to remove the
re.
Train Killed Three Boys.
Three boys, each about fifteen years
old, were run down and killed at
Devil's Bend, near Greensburg, Pa., by
an eastbound Pennsylvania railroad
express train.
The boys were returning to their
homes in Westmoreland City from
Jeannette, where they were employed
in the bottle factory. The dead were
Isaac Cook, Charles Rackley and
Usher Hall
As the boys reached the bend in the
road they stepped from the westbound
track to permit a westbound freight
side of the river. To bring the corpse | to pass. As they stepped on the east
. |. Mexican money was exacted.
out of Mexico an export duty of $120 | bound track they were run down by
' the eastbound express No. 94. :
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Confession in Dynamite Plot.
Epitomized, these were the import.
ant developments in connection with
the bringing to Los Angeles, Cal, of
John J. McNamara, James B. McNa-
mara and Ortie McManigal,
the Los Angeles Times building on
Oct. 1 of last year:
James B. McNamara, called to the
bear from District Attorney Johm D.
Fredericks an outline of his legal
rigths, comes face to face with Mrs.
D. H. Ingersoll, of San Francisco. She
identifies him positively as “J. B.
Bryce,” a lodger in her house in that
city last September.
Dropping the mask he has been
wearing for the benefit of his alleged
accomplices in numerous dynamiting
outrages, Ortie McManigal practically
bas revealed himself as the star in-
former of the William J. Burns detec-
tive agency and principal witness for
the prosecution in the trial of the Mc
Namaras.
McManigal not only has been in
close touch with Burns, but it is prac-
tically certain that he has received
pay from Burns for serving him by
playing his part in all the acts of the
so-called “wrecking crew” to which he
has confessed. His fear of the conse
quences should the McNamaras and
their friends learn his exact relation
to Burns, explains the elaborate pre
captions taken to prevent the truth
from becoming known until all were
safely in jail. Not until Wednesday
| when the train which brought them to
California stopped at Pasadena did
er's arrest and that information given
b7 Muni) led to their apprehen-
Burns evidently learned enough
about McManigal to compel the latter
to go through with his part as com-
manded and tell Burns every move of
the wrecking crew and the location of
every dynamite plant.
McManigal is said to have told in
cases in other cities. The confession
conforms closely to that given out in
Chicago, the trend o' which has heen
printed.
Bloomer Woman Is Dead.
Miss Susan P. Fowler, the bloomer
woman, diedat her home in Vineland,
N. J. She was cighty-seven years old
and she donned the bloomer costume
sixty-nine years ago, when it bid fair
to become popular under the advocacy
of such women as Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others in
the Oneida community of New York,
although she never accepted any of
the doctrines of that community.
Marriage and motherhood as known
today she contended are a farce, and
all because the young men art not
taught the basic laws of life. For over
forty years she conducted a farm on
the outskirts of Vineland and never
would have a man around.
Miss Fowler was highly educated
| and was the author of several books.
Real Estate Transfers.
i Nannie Y. Potter et bar to Cora
M. Estright, April 14, 1911, tract of
land in Snow Shoe Intersection; $300.
i John J. Frank to Andrew Letrick,
April 24, 1911, tract of land in Rush
| Twp.; $75.
i D. W. Woodring, sheriff, to John
Spangler et al, Jan. 26, 1870, tract of
[land in Potter Twp.; $108.
R. R. Richard et ux to H. C. Holt,
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| Twp.: $2100.
Christ Kaufman et to John
. Rowin, March 27, 1838, tract of land
| inHalf Moon Twp.; $677.75.
Henry Witmer et ux to John Span-
gler, April 29, 1876, tract of land in
| Centre Hall; $325.
i Abram FF. Markle to T. R. Houser,
Aprii 19, 1911, tract of land in State
College; $1200.
+ W. E. Hurley, sheriff, to John Wag-
| ner's exrs., May 28, 1910, tract of land
lin Bellefonte; $3050.
|! ¥. F. Robins et al to Mary E. Cole
et al, April 11, 1911, tract of land in
Philipsburg; $25.
John Wagner exrs to E. C. Tuten,
April 20, 1911, tract of land in Belle-
fonte; $3500.
{ John Spangler et ux to R. H. Pot-
i ter, April 2, 1900, tract of land in Cen-
{tre Hall; $1150. '
Wm. Hull to Jane Ellenberger, June
19, 1866, tract of land in Half Moon
Twp.: $2100.
John Rowin et ux to Wm. Hull, May
2, 1843, tract of land in Half Moon
Twp.: $750.
J. McDowell et ux to Christ Kauf-
man, April 13, 1834, tract of land in
Half Moon Twp.; $900.
Caleb Moore et ux to J. McDowell,
April 1, 1830, tract of land in Half
Moon Twp.: $500.
Samuel Gingerich et ux to H. W.
Potter, Dec. 15, 1910, tract of land in
Potter and Harris Twp.; $3000.
U. B. Church trustees to A. 8S. Wil-
liams, April 29, 1910, tract of land in
Worth 3 $360.
J. H. Green to Toner A. Hugg, April
25, 1911, tract of land In Milesburg;
5s,
H. Sankey et al to 8S. M. Sankey,
| April 20, 1911, tract of land in Philips-
burg; $1400. .
John Cole et ux to T. G. Wilson et
al, April 24, 1911, tract of land in Half
Moon Twp.: $375.
to Jane Elienberger,
of land in Half
ux
Elizabe Casey to John Halasz,
April = ¥ a tract of land In Rush
. Wike to Wm. B. Segil
May, 31, 1888, tract of land in Half
Moon Twp.; $26.
Sarah Gil! et al to Margaret Wike,
June 7. 1892, tract of land in Half
Twp.; $30.
John J. Snyder et ux to Sarah R.
Ruger, Aen 1, 1911, tract of land in
State ; $2960.
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given to all those to estate
ME GAIRUDE KEICHLINE,
Executors,
Pine Grove Mills, Pa.
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‘with complicity in the rr Be nrg
office of the county jail, ostensibly to
Jobn T. McNamara know of his broth. | Pa
detail of a large number of dynamiting |
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in Tioga county in 1883,
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