me ——
FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror’r
PA. Traors, May 3
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Cextre HALL,
1, 1888
vance. Those in arrears subject to
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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
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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
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“ 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,
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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{ 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.
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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,
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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,
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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
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DIED.
At the res idence of his dan
near Fort Scot
Mr. William
in the 73d
uey
Peters,
year of his
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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
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remains i
H. Howard te her las
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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.
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BELLEFONTE,
PENNA.