INK SLINGS. ~Vote for Lee for Sheriff. —Vote for Smith for Register. —Vote for SPEER for Recorder. —Vote for MILLER for Treasurer. 4 —Farmers ia the western part of county » VL will cut more corn to the acre than for many j years. Some fields will turn out 150 bu of ears to the acre. 4 Gi, —In an operation on Otto Shelly, of Prescott, —Vote for FOREMAN for Prothonotary STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. two pieces of a rusty needle were removed from his spinal column, near the shoulder, but Shelly —Vote for WerzeL for County Surveys or. i VOL. 56. —Vote for Forryey for District At. torney. The Ticket. —Vote for BruncarRT and Hoy ior E ae Dr NACHRS : Rows. nd Grove for Com. | will be found a short sketch of the gen- Ge or on | tlemen chosen by the Democratic voters oo Fisuer for Coroner. He | of the county for the offices to be filled doesn't need it as badly as the others at the November election. To those not because he is nominated on both tickets, | personally acquainted with these men we but vote for him anyway. 'ask their unprejudiced attention to the —]Just a month to hustle, Democrats, | facts therein given, in order that they —The women are some vote getters il | yay know who, and the kind of men, the Bellefonte. : 3 | party presents for the support of the peo- —Anyway the cat jumps in Philadel | ple. ia i ill get a Mayor | Pa as ii ge yer For almost a half a century, under its —Itis agood, clean ticket that the | present management, this paper has giv- Democracy has named and there is nc en earnest support to the Democratic | ticket of the county, but in all those reason why it should not be elected. —The Turks declare that they want a | years, it knows of nor can it recall,asingle holy war and they will be accommodated | ticket that was more worthy of its sup- if the Italian gunners can shoot t | port or that it could commend more high- enough. ly to the good people of the county, than . begin t the : When you 1 lamen fair | the one presented for the first time to- weather because of its effect on the think of Austin and thank God that you day. From the Sheriff down to the Coro- are alive. | ner there is not a man who is not thor- —Italy may be a little premature in her oughly qualified for the position for effort to gobble up Turkey. Of course which he has been named, nor is there there will be no Thanksgiving celebration | o,, wp; js not deserving the hearty sup- a wa Gettysburg | Port %f Very voter who wants to see the Pe Penn last Saturday state has her | county offices in charge of men who will work cut out right up to the limit for to- | care for the interests of the public and morrow’s foot ball game. | prove a credit to the county as well as to —The candidate who can see every! voters who give them their support. voter in the county between this and | election day wasn't named on either tick- et. So don’t “crab” if you are missed. Vote the ticket anyway. —LENA BINKEY, the Austin telephone are all life long Centre countians—men girl, whose coolness in the face of dan- | who are interested in the welfare and ger enabled her to sound the alarm that | credit of the county, and independent and saved hundreds of lives, is undoubtedly | any enough to do that which their best the Jack Bins, of Porter county, | judgment and consciences tell them is er NS the right thing in the interest of our peo- ist, a clerk, a physician and an engineer ple generally. No clique or faction or on the Democratic ticket. That's divid- | ring or boss can control their action, ing them up pretty nicely isn't it. and the public generally will have their ~The primaries were very harmonious: best service from the day the oath of ly conducted on both sides. Not a is | ofice is administered to them. turbance of any sort marred the first big yoo ior Lun desires to see the county job of naming tickets that Centre county has had under the new primary law. | offices taken from the control of the little New York thinks she is going to win | clique of attorneys, who have been domi: the world's series because her players | nating the county affairs, until they have have stolen more bases than the Athletics. | saddled a debt of upward of $150,000 up- Pousibly_ hey harve ba and it | On the people, will fail to cast their votes will all be off | for this ticket, in its entirety. No voter —No, dear reader, the muffler on the ' who wants to see competent, gentlemanly automobile is not to muffle the explosions | and obliging men in office will fail to vote in the engine. It is merely to give the for each and every one of them. driver who has a “cut out" the opportun- | 4 ig the ticket that should be elected ity of producing a variety of noises that | |. overwhelming majority. E } ang abominale. | Its the ticket that WILL be elected if ~ —A blacksnake crawled through a Bho in an Ohio chicken coop. Then | the voters of the county are true to their regaled itself on a glass nest egg. But | own in ‘ alas! When the snake tried to depart! aL through the same hole the egg wouldn't | The Austin Calamity. crush and it was held a prisoner until the | pore are no words adequate to ex- owner of the coop arrived. The obsequies reqs the horror of the calamity at Aus- were conducted soon thereafter. | tin, Potter county, last Saturday after- —The tax payers of Centre county will noon. A dam which contained upwards not soon forget the present Board of of 500,000,000 gallons of water gave way Commissioners. They are the gentlemen ' and released that vast volume into a nar- who come before you with a record of row and, comparatively speaking, popu- ing piled up a dept of something over lous ravine, to work the destruction of and fifty thousand dollars | life. According to the most authentic for you to pay and tied you up so that reports, the loss might have amounted to you must pay interest on it for thirty | nearly 1000 lives. Happily this shocking years. rit | total was not reached but the Grim Reap- —A Boston woman physician is trying er exacted a toll of nearly one-fifth of the to stir up a discussion over “a perfect maximum and nearly two hundred lives woman." Just why the discussion is not | were sacrificed to something. ‘ against whose character, BELLEFONTE, PA. | Look at the returns in Bellefonte for con- Upon this ticket there is not a man | conduct or in- tegrity a single word can be said. They p, ." wore working so hard for their What the Bosses Ordered. : Nomination of §Mr. Blankenburg. The bosses in the Republican organi-' The nomination of RUDOLPH BLANKEN- zation in Centre county today are HARRY | BURG, for Mayor of Philadelphia, by the KELLER, HENRY CUTE QUIGLEY, J. THOM. Democratic and Keystone parties, isa AS MITCHELL and CHARLES E. DORWORTH, | triump of municipal decency SiRxie a quartet of young and aspiring men who | tory for political righteousness. For have insidiously led the party into their generation MR. BLANKENBURG has been own little camp and there it is going to in the forefront of the fight for municipal stay until Mr. KELLER and Mr. QuiGLEy - reform and civic virtue. In early life he came to the parting of the ways onthe question as to which one of them will be the nominee for Judge. ; Their ticket was the one that was nom- inated at the primaries on Saturday and it was nominated because they said it should be. a Just why they should have preferred GEORGE YARNELL to either JAcoB S. party, but for as many years as the aver- age span of life he has consistently and which has been despoiling the principal city of Pennsylvania. Frequently during that period he has been obliged to lead forlorn hopes as the candidate of the didate for sheriff, is their own affair, un- | office-seeker in the offensive sense and less either of the defeated nominees care has always been a willing worker. enough to make some inquiry for them- In the impending campaign for the selves. Asa matter of fact Mr. Down- Chief Magistracy of the city of which he ING'S aspirations were never regarded ser- | is an honored, adopted son, there is no jously. But JAKE KNISELY had reason to great certainty of his election, for the expect better treatment. He comes from full force of entrenched iniquity will be a family of life long Republicans and has ' arrayed against him. During the primary been the man whom most of these very wanted things done in the South ward. | his principal antagonist as a dangerous Service of that sort seems to be soon criminal and sinister agent. But the forgotten by some people. chances are that within a fortnight Re- With the word to throw everything corder VARE will be 1n close communion possible to Yarnell went the order to make | with Senator McNicHOL and that all the JosiAH PRITCHARD, of Philipsburg, the vicious elements will spend their energies nominee for Treasurer. And it was done. to defeat MR. BLANKENBURG. His elec. tion means the moral regeneration of the city and neither faction of the contract- ors’ combine is willing to take the chances of what might follow that benef: icent result. But the election of MR. BLANKENBURG is easily within the limits of probability, In his campaign for the nomination he overcame every evil influence that could be invoked. He was traduced by recreant reformers and maligned by false friends. But an aroused public conscience rallied to his support and he carried the city by firmation of this statement. What reason was there to make PRITCHARD run $0 strong here when both CLEMENT and AL | cousin JOHN S. The only explanation that can be made is that the quartette of gentlemen in charge preferred the suave | JosiaH to farmers JOHN DALE and REU- | BEN COMLEY. Mr. PRITCHARD is more to their fastidious fancy. They like his smooth way much more than the manly, simple manners of the DALES and the COMLEYS. As a matter of fact the Re: | an overwhelming majority. In the con- publican organization has gotten so in | test upon which he is now entering the the habit of “throwing” the DALES that it | same unity and energy on the part of the is simply second nature for the under. electorate which believes in honest gov- though, for they all know that no mat. opposition which can be brought again ter what they do to them they will always | him. So far as the true Democrats of go along on election day. As for ROBERT the city are concerned we feel certain of MUSSER, they never had a worry about ' their fidelity in this great fight and if "him. They merely sent out word that he ' their allies are equally earnest the best ‘was getting too ambitious to want to hopes of the honest voters will be fulfill- jump out of the fat (?) office of auditor ed. ' right into that of Treasurer. , Some people were surprised that the old Board of Commissioners were renomi- | ! | There are a good many reasons to jus- | nated. What else was the combination | . ¥ "to do. CHRIST DECKER was too close to | tify the declaration of war against Turkey ‘ HARTER | by the government of Italy. For fifty J Fonte SF the Gesell, sos Ne years the “unspeukable” Turk.as GLAD- | QUIGLEY, of post office fame, and fine old STONE Shasgetamian Wm, An oa {iaarc MILLER was too independent to] I08I0E every sense of justice an ney please the dictators of Temple by atrocities of one kind or another. The I Court. a All that wis immediate cause ot the present dispute ' left them was WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN, | "723 @ Series of outrages against subjects the hold-overs and past masters in bun. | Of the Italian monarch in Tripoli. In re- gleology. Both very nice gentlemen, bu | PIY to urgent remonstrances against these | neither one of them fitted for the office | 20m the Porte asked for time and arbi ‘ of Commissioner as their records during tration and promised only the several ! the past three years show all too plainly paskas would be requested to practice | to the people who have the taxes to pay moderation. But that was hardly suffi- + in.Centre county cient to appease popular wrath in Italy L" For Register’ they were for WILLIAMS Sol the government concluded to take a i : course. {of course, They hadno use for HALL, "Co "Cory supnman said war is hell, and should be invoked only after all other methods of settlement of dis- | because they thought WILLIAMS would puted questions have failed. Our own war : have a bigger following in upper Bald ‘Eagle than HALL would have with Spain, a dozen years ago, was pred- icated upon grounds very similar to those Italy and Turkey. | Bellefonte. And then, you know, Mr. , WILLIAMS has been Commissionerc -lerk jand the Commissioner's clerk has been OCTOBER 6, 1911. a in the Sinnemahoning valley, before associated himself with the Republican | capably opposed the corrupt machine | better element of the citizenship for one | KNISELY or D. O. DOWNING, as their can. office or another. But he never was an | does not know how they got there. 39 ~The peanat products industry at Bedford has $ flourished to such an extent that the proprietor is hampered by lack of help. He could easily em- ploy many more people, mostly girls. ~The plans of the new building for the Young Men's Christian Association, of Reading, call for a six-story structure, with basement, built of In- diana limestone and brick, to cost $200,000. ~The Indiana board of trade is planning to raise the money necessary to enable the Indiana. Bent Rung Ladder company to rebuild the fac’ tory destroyed by fire and to enlarge its business” —Anthony Neatrour, of Richland township, "Johnstown JO. Austin’s Death List Under 100. i It now looks as though the lid ! would be really lifted (rom the séan- dal of the Bayless dam at Austin, Pa., | and the story told of how the dwellers | their homes were given over to flood | and fire, lived in constant dread of the ill-constructed concrete barrier that { tor two years alone intervened be- died recently at a n hospital, of hy, tween them and death and ruin, but the woind was oly a slight one on Bi : | Harry W. Nelson, of Coudersport, | the district attorney of Potter county, said that he would exercise the power ‘of a coroner and would hold an in- | quest on Friday at Austin, which would | be tantamount to a searching investi. ! gation of the causes which led up to the breaking of the dam. Governor Tener is here to personally inspect the broken dam and the five miles of valley over which the wreck- age of two towns was suddenly spilled last Saturday. Fo While the state and county authori ties are preparing to summon expert engineers and others whose attention before and after the flood has been directed to the faulty construction of the dam, Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, the write it “Morrisdale’’ only and your letter will be a of Williamsport, has received by mail a package containing the dia- mond setting of a ring which was stolen from her himself “An Honest Man.” I ~The judges of Montgomery county have re- quested the newspapers of that county not to dis- cuss the several murder cases likely to come be- fore the court for trial at the next sessions. ‘The state health commissioner, and his as- | idea is to make it less difficult to procure jurors. —Columbus day, October 12th, will be a legal holiday for the whole State under the terms of the act of February 16th, 1911. This announcement sociates are confronted with a grave problem of their own for which they are bending every effort to find a so- lution. : Starvation stares the 500 families that the state authorities are trying to care for in the face, for Dr, Dixon plainly stated that unless foed sup- plies soon begin to arrive it will be impossible to feed the homeless men, women and children that have been suddenly thrust upon the mercies of the commonwealth. The cry for food is going up from Austin, and with less than $10,000 con- tributed, Dr. Dixon declared that the situation had become so serious that something must soon he done if hun- ger is not to add to the sufferings of the survivors. Thirty-six Bodies Found. A force of 500 men are aj work clearing the ruins of Austin. more bodies, a charred skull counting as one, were dug from the ruins, mak | 1oft ing a total of thirty-six bodies recov- ered since the rescue work started on Sunday morning. A total of eighteen "day's search yielded seven. Thé miss: "ing are placed at fifty-four. |, | The flooded district showed that 167 , homes had been washed out and wiped away, with sixty-four stores, four ho- ' tels, five churches, five factories and ! the shops of the Buffalo & Susquehan- | na railroad. = , The property loss In the valley is | estimated at upwards of $6,000,000. i Advices. also were received from | | Costello, Pa., that no immediate help | was needed there, that the community | has several warehouses filled with ; supplies, plenty of money, but that ! clothing for ‘women and children was : needed. Dr. Dixon will take steps tc ' furnish these necessaries and also will . send men to aid in the restoration of i the town if asked. . A large steam log roller was used ! in the attack on the wreckage along ‘ the tracks of the Buffalo & Susque ' hanna railroad, and a lane had been cleared so that trains may be run and , the debris carted away. Beneath one ; building three bodies were found. They are those of a mother, infant and a ‘child about five vears old. All were terribly mutilated. i One body was recovered and identi. Y fled as Mrs. Preston Wolcott. A char. | Bend. was red skull also was recovered, but it recently was in such condition that it was im- possible to determine whether it was that of an adult or an infant. ; The body of a wonan that had been at the morgue for two days was iden. tified as that of Mrs. McCollins, a sis- - general quarantine on live stock is in force in the = § daily output of 2,500 tons and give employment to S00men. MY PA CW AEE upon which Italy stands now and time is tending to condemn it as unnecessary and unjust. During a great many years Spain had been perpetrating outrages upon American citizens and others in Cuba and constantly breaking promis- es of improvement, until finally public | ter of State Senator F. E. Baldwin, ' whose father's body was one of the first recovered on Sunday. . ‘The state police have arrested ten persons, charged with pillaging in the ruins. Fifty-five state police from the | rod Pottsville and Wilkes-Barre barracks ctf wet but the few memwho| Hfsuch Beartrending. disasters were] Yety Rice to Mr. DORWORTH in the mat: Em oe. th dirachors unavoidable one might reconcile himself | {°F Of COuN(Y printing and not quite so will probably be peddling it around as | to the inevitable and accept them at in-! Seto BARTER, of tie Caceths. part of a deep laid scheme to find a tervals as an incident of progressive dit. The tusord of be balloxs oh Satarey woman who will be sprung on Bellefonte | ilization. But as a matter of fact they story Messrs. KELLER, for burgess next time. are avoidable. Business enterprise and | UICLSY. MitcHELL and DORWORTH did commercial progress require the damning | It second floor of Temple Court is ——The primary election results : {in the saddle and all the little near bosses | sentiment and popular indignation were F'% PU ear throughout the State show how prepos- Of waterways but it 1% DSR HE pay ag well make up. their minds that stitfelto the Sghting poise, Then Wer, The a Jeruud afe the siaims ue gad pe absolutely safe. That | they have no hope of coming into their | CeRary influences were brough was equation and the declaration of war was reluctantly made by President MCKIN- LEY. i It is more than likely that the same due to heavy rains. infiuences have produced similar results 2 fe Ears Bo) a | by facturers of war imp "| height of forty-nine It was . ery have prevailed against the wisdom : concrete, thirty-two feet thick at the | and humanitarianism of the advocates of base, and said to be constructed afte: peace. That the atrocious Turk needs a the most approved plans of modern en chastising must be admitted. But the | ! until Mr. KELLER and Mr. QUIGLEY being true recurring calamitlies of the kind °%" are simply visitations of crime and those | catch each other dealing from the bottom responsible for them are criminals. As IB the judicial jack pot. such they ought to be summoned before FT the bar of justice and compelled to pay ~~ W+ M. MCNAIR, of Pittsburg, who fore the ballot. Outside of Philadelphia that moribund party scarcely mustered a . in r ¥ on the streets in New York on Monday | of destruction are possible in this Chris. | Pin. He has an absurd ambition to oc- wisdom of the present method of admin- | afternoon, proved the closing incident in a onwealth andin this enlighten. | CUPY @ seat on the bench and in pursuit | istering it, may be doubted. A war be- ft fg a curious fact that the life of a man who had given his coun- | oy ,00 According to common rumor Of it made an attempt to force himself tween Italy and Turkey is likely to cost the injured is practically ry brilliant service. His many great the danger of this obstruction in the local | : and in life and treasure and after it is waterway has been known for a year or at | more. Yet during all the intervening | the impulses of humanity nor the arm of It! the law intervened to safe guard the lives a brave and able man lifted ' shame. bove it and his memory will tive); °F Tousands. Therein lis the after the names of his traducers are; —Hasn't the weather man been soak- : 5 . ' ing us lately. of
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