me —— FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror’r PA. Traors, May 3 - Cextre HALL, 1, 1888 vance. Those in arrears subject to terms, Advertisements 20 cents per line for 3 inser fons. and 5 cents for each subsequent insertion. LOCAL ITEMS. — More rain on Tuesday night. —George W, Stover, of Penns creek, is quite ill again. —T.ondon purple, the new vermin destroyer at Murray's. Quite a wet spell last week, con® tinning from Thursday until Sunday. — The strike at the Bellefonte nail works is ended, and the nailers are at work again. fields is becoming so rank that there are fears of its lodging. by rail to Virginia. ~A heavy rain r county on Monday night, accompanied by thunder and lightning. has made our streams qmte high, ing, k is bank full, Penns cree burg’'s well-kbown citizens, was in town this week and gave the REPORTER acall, —%A cold May fills the barn with wheat and hay” is an old legend, and if it provestrue this year there will be heavy Crops. wee NL 1S, Rebecca grandfather Jonatha township, died on Wednesday week, 29. ——WWe are told that 8 new building will be put up near the station, after harvest, to be occupied as a clothing store. — The finest lot of trout brought this town, so far, this season, was by fishermen Wit McCormic and Chas. Kurtz, last Satorday. Spangler, wife of f lat Of IAS to premises near the station and will soon have thingsaround there look trim and a board walk for pedestrians. ——During the -heavy thunder gust, Mon night. the barn of Mr, Alex Burd. in Hartley Twp., was struck by lightnieg, destroying it as well as a cow No insurance. ent frost was heard from ip oll sections. In some parts of Hunting don county the frost of Thursday morn- ing did considerable damage to garden vegetation. Honors have been conferred upon one of Potter townships sons in the west. LY and heifer. "Thi @ Te been mominated by the state prohibition convention for a trusts p of the Illi nois University. seg hi idl the Pennsylvania State College and chairman of the Committee on Industri al Education, who is now in Earope, has been invited by Andrew Carnegie to "Ty iii Seotland. Mr. Carnegie is a member of the Board of Trustees of the BtateCollege. 1. D. 8. Gast, of Mifflinburg, will graduo- ate at the Lutherville Seminary, Md., on Tuesday of next week, June 5th. Our very neat program and invitation to at- tend this “Commencement,” and, altho we cannot be present, we wish ber large credit that day. will be shipped from the Corry batchery streams. Fish Commissioner McDonald will place 25,000,000 shad, from the hannah River. The big fire did McFarlanes hard- all kindsof goods faster than ever. selling line blast their full in going better satisfaction than ever greatest run on any one article they sell be seen to be appreciated. ther abead. The most accurate method, and the one most in use by experienced rail- joints the train passes in twenty seconds. The rails in nearly all cases are thirty feet in length, and the number passed over in twenty seconds is the speed per hour a train is running. a passenger sitting in asleepercan count thirty clicks of the wheels on a rail joint speed of thirty miles an hour, candidates for public office. While a por- and detected a familiar odor, He secured a shovel and dug down about two feet, erable height. A lighted paper was thrown into the hole and a flame blazed up for a number of feet and continued to burn steadily all day. Many people flocked to the scene to see the burning There is no gas well within several miles of the place. we On Thursday morning 24th Hon, Eli Slifer, Ex-Seeretary of the Common-~ wealth and father-in-law of Marshal Dill met with a serious accident while driving his span of grays. Mr. Slifer was driving town, under which the Reading Raiiroad when a train passed by, causing Bie horses to ran away. W {le going around a curve he was thrown violently into a ditch, from which he was taken in an unconscious condition and consider ably bruised. He has been unconcious the greater part of the day. w—eeThe Mifflinburg Telegraph says: We are informed that Geo. os Thompson, who died on the 20th inst. at his home in Buffalo oy 4 by will makes Dr. J. R. Gast his sole heir. The estate consists ofa fine farm, the buildings however being in poor condition, and the liabilities of the deceased are in the neighborhood of seven thousand dollars. As doctor bas been the physician of the deceased and a sister of the deceased for a number of years, it isth t the amount he will receive under the will vin no more than compensate him for A BATTLE WITH FLAMES. BE. C. HUMES" HANDSOME BUSINESS BLOCK AT BELLEFONTE CONVERTED. INTO ASHES, For the second time in the history of Bellefonte fire raged, this morning, over the northwest corner of Diamond Square, red there almost a score of years ago, E. It was occupied by the First National Bank, which bas had the | most elegant quarters of any banking ip- There were six | the time since its erection, bave been oc- | cupied by different business great expense, At the northern end of | the structure was the Opera House, | which, since the burning of Reynolds’ | Hall, has been Bellefonte's only place | of amusement. operative Store Company (a K. of L. in | store. Farther north was Jared Harper's grocery store and Woodring’s book and stationery store, A. C. Moyer & Bros. | was the post-office and then F. C. Monts gomery’s gentleman's furnishing store. lower part of town, first discovered the fire. He came from his bome at about | fifteen minutes of five o'clock when be | saw a thin wreath of smoke curling its | way up the western end of the struc. | ure, about in the rear of the entrance to | the Opara House. The fire apparently started in the upper part of the builds There they met a doable roof, tl Lil | speedily. | one of which was of tar and spread wi { great rapidity, overlapping the entire { structure, and illuminating yet more | brightly the increasing light of day. The fire was vigible to all parts of the | town Mr. Williams gave the alarm. ne in the morning when are d alt to awaken. Mr. Williams, with only two or three others, dragged one of the hose carriages to it. oon all the companies were present aod four or five streams were directed upon the now ragiog But the building seemed fire spread al into the interio mass of flames—so hot as to almost prevent approach to it. We think that the firemen worked well, ise] 1d bravely. At imminent peril into the very heart of the i 3 “ rill. It was . flames, i battle } URANCE given parties who ¢ wned $1 t of this the he lis 118 } 8 insurances morning by the | properties is ] { On the Bank building “ Humes block . : “ A.C. Mover & Bros. {j “Jared Harper's grocery "“Woodring's stationery store “W. W. Moyers dry goods store “Co-operative store ery) Total but his losses not great. We learn that his insurance, that on Mr, Beck's barber shop and other small amounts makes the entire insurance $63 000, ; In the upper rooms of the building J.C. Harper Esq, had his law office. The Sons of veterans has sir head quarters in the bunilding ar was also the place of meeting for ¥i yublican clab, The parties who are mentioned in the list of insurance sustained almost total losses with the exception of the Co- operative store, A. C. Moyer & Brother's grocery store and F. C. Montgomery's gents si store. their stocks being | damaged. A very careful est mts make the losses aggre ! given above—860.000 The post office is movi: ; in the Bush Arcade building And there have comfortable and excell quarters. Mr. Jared Harper will start his gros cery store in a few days in Mrs, Pifer's parior, Allegheny street, The First National is doing business | in the robm in Mr. William Humes brick dwelling house, formerly occupied ed by Dr. Hayes as an office, It was | also occupied by the bank several years ARO. caused by lightning. Persons in the vicinity say they heard an explosion be- tween four and five o'clock, at the time an electric storm was in progress, The theory of the origin of fire from | an electric storm seems more probable, i { The fire followed at just about the time insurance, | pected had it struck the building and ture.~~Daily News, : - -——— SCREENINGS, The wet spell has caused some of the wheat to lodge. Some farmers have replanted their | corn, The communion, last Sabbath, in the | Lotheran church, had an nnusually large | attendance. The slaters have finished their job on | the new Presbyterian church, its centennial celebration in July, some local historic interest. C.D. Runkle will have his headquar- the live stock business, - MORE PENSION AND BOUNTY. | A gentleman representing Milo B. Ste- | vena & Co, of Wasbinglon, D.C, can be | #een at the Cameron House, Lewisburg, { Tuesday June 12; Teller's Bush House, i Bellefonte, Wednesday 1 Philipsburgh, Thursday 14; and Fallon House, Lock Haven, Saturday 16, by per- sons desiring information concerning pensions, bounties, ete, or having claims which they may desire to have prosectu- ted by said attorneys. RE a a DEDICATION, We have received a card of invitation to the dedication of Rev. 8, G. Shannon's new and beautiful Lutheran charch; at Sunbury Sabbath, June 10. This is one of the handsomest church edifices in central Pennsylvania, and great credit is due Rev. Shannon for successfully oarry- ing it ont. ssl A NO LOAFING. Boys in the habit of loafing in the EPORTRR wil please discontinue AES —omtaoe bpeely” AA 10 oho mee v notice is meant for all, rt S——— A ISIN 55154 LIVING IN A GLASS HOUSE, “A MEAN TRICK. Last week’s Gazelte, alias the county robber, shows that its idiot publisher was again duped by some of his sweet abettors of lewdness and such as will not pay a dollar on an honest store-bill. Its list of pals, over here, we set up $100 against $50, will be found to embrace those whom the decent class of our peo besmirched characters, without credit or | standing. Any dollars subscribed by these on the | Gazette's fund, would be their first sample | remain unpaid, Those dollars have, for years, been anxiously looked for in other books, as we are told, How funny that guardian of the mails, yet, common ru- | mor has it, they are not a success in this line, with the females! Better start a fund to liquidate honest debts or found | an institution to protect society against lewdness you wink at. When living in very thin glass houses, as all of the Ga- zette’s pals do, it is very indiscreet for { them to throw stones—by all means res | frain, | The matter printed in the cesspool | false, and the parties interested have | since called upon us to eay that they la- | bored under a mistake; but that matters | nothing with the idiot and his sweet | gang. What we did was perfectly right | and proper: simply asked the P. O. De- | partment “to bave the mail carrier in- | structed not to leave any issues of the Reronren lie here over the proper time.” | This request 18 on file in the Department | at Washington and can be certified to at our home post-office. If the the close of the Gazette's article, Feidler | and Shoup, are the authors of it, we pro- | nounoe them villainous liars, nntil they | show that our statement above is incor- rect, and will put up $200 to their $100 that we give the trath, The Gazelle was simply duped by its pals who are sorely m need of something to draw attention from their own rottenne 's—they strive to | they actually stand the lowest, i Never mind the mails the ill look after that while BgrorTER the dollar guarded, We would despair of such a dollar he- ro ever rising above the dignity of eap- tain over a squad of d far away from would skulk, and then, when the wa i over, claim to» have bled and died for hi ff to make a veteran fran mixing in with true vets and not worth any ther of our powder. The r's list, according to latest telephone, stands thusly : Co. robber, $1 ; ~and nota single cent paid over “fora po’ ole man of 80." erraded darkies, country- CO. Subscribe for the Rus | campaign. - DECORATION DAY. EVERY GRAVE HORCRED Decoration day was observed in every section of our county. Citizens patrioti- cally turned out to do honor to our dead heroes, Spring Mills in the evening bad a large tnrnont and fine display. Post formed in line and was | the Sabbath school. The Knights of the Golden Eagle were present in their fine ance. The citizens also joined in parade, and altogether the colum was imposing. The Spring Mills and Far. nished sweet strains of music. At the cemetery there was prayer, | music by the choir, decoration of the graves and an address. Spring Mills will long remember its Docoration cere -——- DEATH OF AN AGED LADY, i811. Pa Died recently, in Jefferson county, In 1824 her father removed his county. While a girl she visited her friends near Luthersburg, in Brady township, this eounty, where she met of the early pioneers. In 1830 she married Mr, Shaffer and moved with him to his home in the then wilderness farm, at the “Shaffer siding.” burg at the time, | bor was Frederick Shaffer, who lived half a mile np the creek from them. -—— DOTS, | visit, Sunday. | tone mill dam—wouldn’t care to have | office, | When Bimon Harper fits flying then | the speckled beauties will be landed. We hear of another 19 inch trout be- | wild to hear it, | ‘Huoyet will set bis sawmill in o Hoo on a tract of woodland near Pe all, | The big botel at Spring Mills is likely | to remain closed for this season, Bpring Mills had four bands, a fine pas | rade, good address by Rev. Piper, and a {grand time, The committee deserve credit. J. W. Cornelius, Lewisburg’s Photog rapher, will locate a Photograph Gallery in Centre Hall for a short time, as a { branch from his well-known gallery in Lewisburg, The Gallery will be in ope- {ration by the 8 or 9 of June, This will be a fine opportunity for all desiring first class photographic work: The time will be short, and all wanting work should call early during his stay in our midet, soa a WAR. Now is the time to start the war against the caterpillar, before he makes himself too numerous, and then has his tents to whiten every branch of your trees, An easy and simple way to rout him, horse, foot and dragoons, is one we have practiced for over twenty.years: Take an old gun, put in a good charge of poy dor, hold the muzzle to within ten nches of the nest of the pest, pull the - non BURIAL OF A. WILSON NORRIS, THE REMAINS OF THE LATE AUDITOR GENERAL INTERED AT HIS BIRTHPLACE, Lewistown, May 26.—The remains of Auditor General A, Wilson Norris were brought to ta place at 1.07 P. M. to-day, and at 1.20 ¥, M., by special train, were Reedsville, his former home. The fune- ral was in charge of the Colonel Hulings Grand Army of the Republic Post of this place. The remains were buried with the honors of war, Lewistown Lodge, memory. The funeral was largely attended by people in this vicins | ity and the remains were accompanied to this place by several of the distinguished | friends of the late Auditor General. Among them were: Ev-Governor Hoyt, | State Treasurer Hart, William Livsey, | Samuel G. Thompson, Rev. 8. W, Bayer, Bepator M. 8B, Quay, William R. Leeds, Congressman H, H. Bingham, William E. Littleton, B. Brank Eshleman, Thos. McCamant, George Handy Bmith, Gen. James W. Latta, Colonel C. B, Greene, Colonel R. I. Orr, John A. Glenn, Post 19, Represenatives RK. C. Brown and William H. Shemire, > — { HON. ELI SLIFER DIES FROM IN- TERNAL INJURIES RECEIVED LAST THURSDAY. Léwisburg, May 27.—~Hon. Eli Rlifer, who was thrown from his carriage on last Thursday, sustained internal injuries | from which he died this morning. His | afternoon at hall past 1 o'clock, Mr, Slifer did not speak after’ he was picked up from the roadside, altho’ it is | from his seeming to understand what | was said after he was earried to his home. | He was highly esteemed in Union county and was one of the best citizens of this commonwealth, During the war and for a number of | | years previous Mr, Slifer was actively in- | | terested in the affairs of the Btate, hav {ing been elected to the Legislature t 1850 and to the State Senate in | 1855 he was elected State treasurer, afterwards twice reelected to the | office. Foor months prior to the ¢ | his term, in January, 1861, he resigne Commonwealth under Governor Curtin, which position be held until 1867 when he retired to private life with his health irretrievably shattered, After | his resignation as Secretary of the Com- i monwealth Mr. Slifer passed nearly a | year in Earope, having taken | on a Government vessel by 1nvitatior { the national i time hel upon hi authorities, Sin arial i the ss lived in # farm adjoin Own $4 the Lewisburg National Bank, president | of the Lewisburg Bridge Company, presi | dent of the Lewisburg Cemetery Asso- | { ciation and a director of the Lewisburg | | and Tyrone Railroad. -- CENTRE HA | The Centre Hall band, G. A. R. | { and Sabbath schools organized in line a | the lower end of town, at 8. | marched to the cemetery where the dex oration ceremony of some twenly graves was performed. An eloquent and deep ly interesting address was then delivered by Rev. Woodeock, of Bellefonte, when | ithe Post, proceeded to Sprucetown, Georges valley, and Spring Mills to par. ! ticipate in similar exercises, Yesterday, Wednesday the : | of this place went Spring Mills to | cross bata'with the team at that place, | | and added another scalp to their belt i At the end of seventh inning the game | was called when the score stood 13.5 favor of Centre Hall. The principal | features of game were the work of the | battery, Murray and Harpster, who puz- | zled the Spring Mills boys very moch, and the base running and batting of our | boys. Murray struck out 14 men, - SPRING We would respectful announce to | our many patrons in Centre co. that have received an immense line of spring | and summer goods, We were in the market in time to select a fine stock and have opened up the same for your inspec- | tion. We have an unusually large and {| complete line of suitings for our merchant { tailoring department. Altogether new styles in cloth will be worn for spring and summer and can be seen at our store. Remember that if you want a fine spring suit, You can get it much cheaper now than when there isa rush. Our line of ready made clothing complete and low- | | er in price than ever, Come and see the | new styles just received at Puritan, Braxoi, - ana i | i i i i | OYE to GOODS, | iv we ~w Paris green, Murray's Drug Store —London purple io large and small | quantities at Muorray’s. { Don’t fail to visit Pearistine’s new | store when in Bellefonte. i | Fresh bread and yeast constantly | { on hann at Murray's bakery. | —Fauble’s Bellefonte for cheap cloth- | ing. A visit to Bushman & Kreamer' | jewelry store, Centre Hall, will convince | you that they keep as complete a line of | goods as can be found in the county. | | Special attention given to repair work; | i | terms reasonable, | | wBtop in at Flemings, fashionable | | talloring establishment, Bellefonte, and | | see the new styles in gents clothing for | | spring and summer. | awe A large and well selected line of | | trusses of all the latest and most approve | od designs and finish for sale at Murray's Drug Store, London purple and Paris green, the great potato bug destroyer, for sale at Murray's Store, wee A, fll assortment of Spoctasien and pom can ba found at Bushman & reamer’s jewelry store, Centre Hall. wTrusses and shoulder braces, popu- lar makes and designs, at Marray’s Drug Store. wee Rochester Clothing house in Rey« nolds new building Bellefonte, M. Fau- ble proprietor, —t0 cream at Murray's every urady evening. ~Bailding lots for sale, i mile east of the station, at Mikecondoville, $456 to $75 per lot. Apply to F. Kurtz. bons. he A idle NEW MILLINER SHOP The undersigned has opened a millins er shop in Jacob Lee's house near the de- pot at Centre Hall, public is solie- The of the tad Ki ar ivtod,” B Gov. LINDEN HALL. Some farmers are not yet dope plant ing corn. More acres will be put out in potatoes «han ever before, George, son of Cyrus Durst, met with quite 8 serious accident on Monday of this week, which might have Leen fatal Mr. Durst sent the hired hand, John Showalter, and George to the fleid with a mule and sled to bring a plow to the barn, George was riding the mule and in some way fell or slipped off; his one foot becoming entangled in the gears, when the mule started on a run towards the barn, dragging the boy with his head upon the ground. He ran about 150 yds when the mule was stopped by Mr. Durst, who picked the boy up badly bruised and face cui. At lastaccount be was Mies Tamer Shirk, who is living with J. and 1. Leech, came very near being seriously hurt, if not fatally, on Tuesday evening, while going about her evening duties at the barn, She was attacked by a cross bull, which gored her and knock- ed her down and was about to repeat the attack, when the timely arrival of J. © Boal and the Leech men prevented any further harm to the young lady. Fortu~ nately she was not seriously injured If there is another man in this twp who can take ss many duckingsas P. H Meyer has the last two weeks and look as pleasant as he does, I would li ) BEG t« all that spiles him that he cannot call it Cleveland. Henry Swab lost a valuable bloating from clover grass this cow by week. D. Hess shipped two car loads of baled hay to Osceola this week. C.C. Meyer will ship two car loads of baled hay this week to Houtzdale Dune o> - DIED. At the res idence of his dan near Fort Scot Mr. William in the 73d uey Peters, year of his : I BRS, He Was a Wm. Peters Peters Pa. In of Greys was married AF Centre con emigrated wos near Freeport, 11 Du circle wife inter he dt neighbor was | were had i remains i H. Howard te her las - - - London purple Muarray's Drug Store —Snring suits at the REA] — AC MUERAY First class fresh bread and stantly on prices ¥ veast hand al: most 3 ur patronage i IT SWEEPS OVER A V 1} Wheeling, May 25 swept over Easlern O and Western Penosyivani a very destruclivi gregate | to bulidir roads and tele many thous ware also sac ant and Huntington, in glorm was particalaris falling in torrents, whil very violent. Presbyterian Bpecials fro hail falling as In thes and dwell nieve blown de H. A. BELLEFONTE. HARDWARE ! -_ ha! <4 4 41.4 & BRO. ~~ / & i od’ . ey PENNA. HARDWARE ! We and good will of re stock tronage. are to We carry the BELLEFONTE, PENNA.
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