¥ X FRED. KURTZ, Epiror and Pror’r “TERMS: Ona yoar, nea. Those in srroars rms. $2 per year, $1.50, when subject paid in ad to previous Advertisoments 20 conts per line for 3 inser zs and 5 cents for each subsequent insertion, —————————————————— — Center Harr, Pa, Tunurs, Juse 138. You will find G. R. Spigelmyer’s RACKET STORE in Crider’s Exchange, Belle- fonte. under prices, Everything regular LOCAL ITEMS. —-—A large box of clothing was ser to the sufferers dow week from this place, ——-Traing on the main from Harrisburg over the P. & E. Williamsport, and overthe B. E, V, to Tyrone. Prof i to Etters, of the schools will be candidate Superintendent, Prof. Wolf Rerve auoilier term declining Savtion w irom mite, overrun with tramps and beats Lewistown on their way to Batlef Each one was a cripple and sufferer (7) by the flood —-—A four horse team with express messengers and three safes said to tain $600,000 passed through here week on the way to Lawistoan to the train east. Thera haa not been a bright day since the flood, Veather has been damp aud cool, with an occasional peep of the sun thro the clouds as if to “howdy-d 3" — Dr. Ed. Mill on of Miller, dec'd., formerly all his goo t away by the flood, at Johnstowr i tunately he and nis aud two children were saved. ~ This Ha CO * as take full 3 4 84 Rev. J. K wiie ~— Among the farm improvements in this viciuity D. C, Kelley short distanes bel Fort, which is near completion. two story frame with WwW It is ottage front house order, — With few exceptions every in town bas been put io leaving fewer baiidings that might called unsightly than any little town know of we are note fact, tte Milroy & Ce almost eatirely rained the bridges on t tasty bes we tis ns ntre railroad is wy the flood. Al 1@ road are away, and if probable, 1t will fore the trains be several months bes are run, Among the saspnouncements week 1s the yf Prothonotary. Three Pears in the offi have made him known (o all, that we need no peak of his ¢fficie in the position he now holds, @ (On Thursday last the first from outside the county began to in, when we received aa Altoona paper, the first since Saturday previous. Next day, Friday, we began to receive the first mail matter from Lewisburg and other ad joining counties, ~The new mill of Kurtz now under roof and sided; the recent floods having interfered with the rails roads, the machinery and engine are de- layed, which will eanse a delay of two or three weeks before the mill can be ready for grinding. wee Thies gohiool Come & Son teachers employed for the Centre Hall schools, for the fall and winter term, are Mr. Harry Rothroch, of Boalsburg, a graduate of State College, for the grammar school; John Danber- man, for the 24 grade, and Misa Elsie Creiss for the primary school, —As aunounced last week in these colums, Mr. D. B. Brisbin has been ap- pointed post master for this town. The applicants were Mr, Reeseman and Mr. Brisbir; the latter having been in Beaver's regiment, got the weight of the governor's inflaence which secared him the race. He will no doubt make an ef ficient post master. we The Altoona Tribune was tho only daily in the central part of the state that farnished complete accounts of the Johastown horror. The dailies'from the large cities could not get in here because we doubt whether they were able to get any information for several days after the flood, as all telegraph lines were lady and widow, of Pleasant Gap, was a passenger on the day express that was overtaken by the flood at Johnstown. A report reached her friends that she had been sent back to Pittsburg and placed in the hospital; then, again, we were informed on Monday morning last, that no inrelli- gence about her had been received at Pleasant Gap. wer. Clements, who is now drilling for water on the farmjof James O. Boal, at Earlystown, has gone through 90 feet of solid limestone rock already, obtaining only slight indications of water, but he thinks a good supply isnot far off, We understand one or two parties in town think of boring for water this summer. We belisve water could be struck at less depth thau st Earlystown, ~The facts about the drowning of Mr. George Kennedy, at Johnstown, who was formerly of Boalshurg, are re lated to ns as follows: Mr. Kennedy went to a meat market to get some meat snd take it home; while there he was told to flee for his life, ns the reservoir had broken. He said be would hasten to his family and try to have them saved, But that was fatal to him; the waters canght him and he never sax his family n. Mrs Ei. Kreamer had jast called on the Kenoedy family when the awful wave struck the town, the house was ear- ried and drified 1n the direction of some rubbish to which the family of Mr. Kens nedy sod Mrs. Kreamer succeeded in i | Row at State College. AND THE FACULTY, Stale College was excited last week over an un unpleasantness between the boys and the Prof's, The cause of the trouble is said to be as follows: Charles Musser, a Freshman student from Aaronsburg obtained lief of ab. sence to attend decoration his time had expired, alleging that he could not return sooner on account the floods. The faculty notified him that he had been suspended, as the lim- it of his delinquencies had been reachs ed, Upon this the entire Freshman said they would leave unless was reinstated, and they did not class attend fied the Freshmen that they also were suspended, and the class withdrew and encamped in a woods near the college and had a good time. The suspension of the Freshmen roused the Sophmores, who notified the faculty that they and the Juniors would leave the college un- less the Freshman class was reinstat- ed, At this stage Dr. Atherton, President of the College was telegraphed to at Washington. The Dr. has returned; the matter talked over and explained and the fas ture great men of the Nation have res turned to their lessons again —and peace reigns at the college. There will be no martial law declared, no posse comit:s or any other come-at- us, since the young men have agreed to come to their recitations again. was i ai The regular commencement of the Baccas of Lafayette College. Monday, June 24th, Christian Association, by the Rev. T. 1 Everett, of Hargsbarg; Tuesday, June Zhth, Examioation of candidates for mission to College Senior Class Day Oratorical Contest, Hew Washington Bociety: Wed ception by i i ! i n the of gates and Alamo Drill of Chapel) to elect Trustees, Exo bition State College Cadets, sre the : da De fant versily; Thursday. June Presi IHinois State Uni AER of '89, Commencement Address, by Hon. Henry K Boyer, of Philadelphia, ¥ a The Clinton Co. Drowned. y, the i James iam OC were drowned iu this count i Gaiiford, Lock Haven: Wil yo f wife and three children and two « dren of Jacob Karchner, Wavne town ip: Rot Armstrong and sister, tondale; John Harter, Andrew Rhine, his wife and two girls, Mackeyville Alex Whiting and wife, William Embhiz er and wifs and Mrs, Heary Snyder, Sa~ ong; Mrs, Luther Seyler and three chil- ils en froma tres and his wife's dead odged on wu drift p iow where Le was clinging. Mrs. Charles Barper Haven Tell children, Rote.—lock woeral and two a Driving the Witeh Out. Ia Lawhill Backs iately, a housewife was unable to her butter, and the failure was atiriba- ted to a witch. Accordingly the husband fired a shot into the cream to kill witch, but without avail, The wife was neighbor ing a silver dollar hot and into the churn she would drive the witch out, She $m rnabiiy ¥ is Wow nship, county throwing be able tried it, A few years a the houses at the upper end Hall, who put i mouth of his cow to drive the witches out of her, and punched the boards side of his stable fail of holes with dung-fork to make the witches keep out of the stable. 5 8} 1G crf Af sts—— A Ribbon Swindle. The latest swindle is the selling of rib~ bons. Sharpers visit the farm houses, exhibit rieh samples at very low figures, payment in cash and promise to forward the goods,when the remainder is to be paid. Neither the swindlers nor the ribbons are heard of again. - a. Drowned on the Train, Widow Sweeney, an aged lady from Pleasant Gap, was drowned on the day express at Johnstown. She was on her journey home from a visit to but bas found home beyond. years. SE ut que sw ~~ Extract of Vanilla, wholesale and retail, at Murray's, ~—HRead Faubie’s flaming ad, in Re- porter and give him a call, yg. B, Royer, of near Bellefonte, gave the Rerorren a call, See Fauble's new spring stock fore purchasing elsewhere. ~—When in Bellefonte stop and seé E. L. Powers $3.00 dress shoe, ~The new house on Mrs. Curtin's farm, at the jower end of town, is up. Go to Fauble's clothing hoase for, a fine suit of clothing, new spring style Murray's Extract of Vanilla is far cheaper and preeminently superior to, y other make. ~~=Daniel Bohn, of Linden Hall, w among the visitors to our town last week, ~=For cheap) clothinggo to tHe Rochester clothing house, Bellefonte, largest stock in town, ~ «Fable keeps*the finest stock o rea.y made clothing in the cousty an cannot be undersold byany competitor ~-=Vaunce McCormick came home from Lock Haven, where he was work- ing io a plauiog mill, no doubt was flood. ed out, ~—Fauble’s line for eady made cloth- ing is complete in every par icular, and cannct be beat by any dealer in the county, ~The largest and most complete line of suitiog—now on exhibition on our counters—that have ever been shown by us. Suits made to order at the lowest prices, Mosraomeny & Co, Tailors, Bellefonte, lantic Ulty. The Pertnsylvania Railroad Company's | facilities for reaching Atlantic City were | never so complete as they are on the | opening of the present season, During | the past winter and spring the road-bed { of both the West Jersey and Camden | and Atlantic has been greatly improved, | The West Jersey road has been bettered | in various ways apd reballasted; the track of the Camden and Atlantic has been renewed on many portions of the line and track tanks have been added { for the use of fast trainee. The equip { ment, both in locomotives and cars, is | superior in every respect, and will be { ample for the comfortable conveyance of | the largest midsummer crowd, The terminal facilities at both ends of the line possess the advantage of super- ior location. The Market Street station {in Philadelphia, from which the fast | trains of both the West Jersey and Oam- den and Atlantic Railroads start, is the | central seashore station of the city, acs | The P.R. R's Facilities to At» i { i i of street cars, and within fifteen minutes of Broad Street station by the Market Street cable cars, In addition to the central station at Market Street, there is also a ferry from Vine Bireet and a ronning from Vine and Shack.maxon Market Street ferry. At Atlantic City passengers are landed which every part of the city and suberbs are easily reached by the new electric railway. The special excursion travel is cursion house, the Sea View H el, | which is just completed. This is the nost commodious and best house of the class oa the coast, i fers every facility that sionist cond demand. With all their facilities improved and and of failroad Atlantic will grow stronger in favor of the travels { ing publie, i $ { fast trains, the Pennsylvania | Company's branches to > Advices from 10 De well Muackeyyille authenticated, are affect that aside from the great los { of property there was appalling loss of { life. Down through that ion i the ternibie swell that, feat deaths, respector of PETSOLS, i Been i the fed ike In in its courses jt { and many things that were supposed | be stationary and forces of the flood. T. J. Bmull, who kept a general stores | there, was carried away with bis store: Hyan and family are reported John Harter is also among ithe ng aod 1s supposed to be drowned. soos were caught, bat we where they came from, is nol known. personal property was swept down the as stream. The lives lost were 6 wife and two children of Chas, Cole and the wife of Mr. Cal Bar 1 tha Woods, A cuts. ue Gored by a Bull. On Wednesday morning, Mr. tland, of near Centre Hill, wis so riously injured by an Aldergey ball, in one of his felds. The bull had broken { from one field over into another, and Mr. Gilliland endeavored to | back, when the auimal turned on him. | threw him down, aod began to use his horns, which had knobs on the end. A hired man of Mr, Gilliland in sn adjoining { field witnessed the attack { upon him, and hsstening to the spot | grabbed the animal by the ring in his nose and led him away, | Injuries are quite serious, having several ribs broken. REY A RARE CHANCE, Here in our own coanty is an aban dance of evidence of the unparalielled | success of the Oxygen Treatment in its various combinations, in the treatment of all chronic diseases, and which is now everywhere meeting with great repute | amongst all classes, By all means see | Dr. Clemens, the specialist, at the Brocks | erbof House, Bellefonte, June 26th, one day only. Consultation free. 13j2¢, i a» § weit a fly-net, cheaper than elses where, at Boozer's saddlery. ! Howard Homan is still on the | ick Hist, ~—When in Bellefonte stop and see E. L. Powers £3.00 dress shoe. ~-=Mr. William Risheil, of Tussey« ville, gave us a call last week, eA bs, Harter of Millbeim lost two hor:es by death a few days ago. —Fall and winter stock of clothing the Philad. Branch. ~Jerry Miller flitted the — Ready-made clothing of every ¢ scription and quality at the Philad, Sranch, Bellefonte. ~=Mrs. William Bitaer, of Tussey. wos visiting friends in this place last week, ~—Simon Loeb's new clothing store, opposite the Conrad house, is the place ~we Aout two hundred men are en. gaged at work on this side of the tunnel getting the railroad getting it into shape again. Commercial tourists are unusaal scarce in this section at present, and our merchants are enjoying a respite which ig needed. Robert and Ed. Wolf, students at ettysburg College, arrived home on Banday, via Williamsport and Belle. fonte, ~The latest reports we have of Mrs, Sweeney, the aged lady of Pleasant (ap who was on the day express, is that she was drowned at Johnstown, Look out for the * Johnstown’ tramp, who was drowned and loat all he had, and is willing to take all you have. He will be pretty numerous, ~imon Loeb's new clothing and gents furnishing store, opposite the Con- rad house, is the busy place now. Bar gaing is what draws the people. «Mr. Harry Rothrick, the elect rincipal of schools, was married on ednesday, 12, to Miss Ella Frederick, at the home of the bride. in Boalsburg, ~=Lowins beats the state for large assortment of men and boy's [Hathi ng and he beats the world and ali cloth ng stores in it for prices. There's where you save from $3 to $8 on a suit of clothos, Walnut Grove. The roads that have been in 6 very bad condi tion since the heavy rain, are being repaired again. People going to Boalsburg had to take quite a roundabout way, owing to the road at McFarlanes being washed BWAY, Joe Markle, who has been in Nittany valley for several months was home over Sunday, W. H., Bohn and Miss Celis Noll were to Laur. elton recently visiting the latter's friends, On Thursday evening, there will be & temper, ance meeting in the school house, Misses Lizzie Black and Grace Durst of near Potters Mills were pleasant visitors in our vicinity | last week. | John Hope was to Mitinburg several days this | week, PILES! PILES! PILES! Dr. William's Indian Pile Ointment is | the only sure cure for Blind, Bleeding or | Itching Piles ever discovered, It never | fails to cure old chronic cases of long | standing, i Judge Coons, Maysville, Ky., says: | “Dr. William's Indian Pile Ointment i | cured me after years of suffering.” { Judge Cofinbury, Cleveland, O., says : i “1 have found by experience that Dr, | | William’s Indian Pile Ointment gives | | immediate and permanent relief” We have hundreds of such testimoni- | als. Do pot suffer an instant longer, Sold | | by druggists at 50¢ & $1 per box. ap2ly ~——Wm, L. Kurtz, recently of this | | place, now in Somerset county, was at | Johnstown on Monday after the awful | { calamity, He writes: | was up at Johnps- | town yesterday ; was in the town about | 7 hours. One of the first men I saw was | Gen. Hastiogs, who favored me with a | permit to pass the guards. He is very | busy directing some of the operations. | ) In the afternoon [ wen! back to | the morgue again and found Dr. Groff, | {of Lewisburg, It is almost impossible | to describe the wreck The accounts in | | the papers Jo not begin to give an idea | of the destruction, I saw a great many | | dead bodies taken ont of the ruins, aod at the morgoe it was fail were | very busy putting them in and | burying them all day, | Dr. Ed. Miller bad | no houses to be seen for square { That is the place where the river is no they coffins Louse where | 118 office 1s gone and s around, x } running having washed a new chacnel. i - 1 he — { =——Murray’s Vanilla—best—cheapest | try it. — When in Bellefonte stop E. L. Powers £3.00 dress shoe, -1f you want a good fly-net, ligl or heavy, cheap, go to Boozer's saddlery. | . and : on | =——U.D, Osman, on Batorday, return~ ed from his western trip, looking the worse for it, and all were glad to him, ~The teachers’ examinaiton in this place for the boro and Potter twp last Satarday, was largely attended | pumber of certifi none wee | ales were issued ~The pike across the mountain to | "leasant Gap was in a terrible condition, bot is somewhat repaired Deeg bguliies were washed in t 1 in again, ¢ road, and Boe places it was impassable, : 'e have no farther news to print | of the flood on Elk creek, | pivena | | full and substantially correct account in | | our isst week's issue -~=The weather has been ir the last ten dave, with light t intervals, Taeaduy, about noon. there as a heavy shower and Wednesday was | AViDE § insettied showers | —Mr. Ploost, ‘ whose family was | | drowned in th fiood, near Coburn, was | | not drowned up at Wesipo but | ! returned alive to entire family | How sad ! A dollar saved is a dol which can be done by buying clothes from | the Rochester Clothing House, Belle | fonte, largest stock of spring suits in the i county. y : an i ud his gone, { = Dr. Ed. Willer was oa one of the { high places near Johnstown, secing a PAs {ient when the flood came on, The | house ir which his family was, was cnr- j ried away by the flood and fortapately i drifted to a place where the family were able to make their escape, -What the Philad. Braneh does not have in the line of ready-made clothing, i pot worth having. The spring stock | | now on the counters is immense and i goes ahead of anvthing vou ever saw, | Lewins is King for low prices. Judge Farst is laid up from a cars buncle in his side. Rev. Fischer was lnidupadayor so from a fill on a treacherous board walk; the editor wes laid out nearly a week from a sprained ankle got on a Millheim board walk. | ==(iet your boy a nice suit at Lewins | and mave a couple of dollars thereby. | The largest'and best assortment ofspring | suits, latest styles ever brot to Bellefonte, Lewins leads in ready-made clothing for men and bovs, we Robert MeFarlane's hasdware gtore in Bellefonte is headgnariers for the celebrated Link Fence Wire, Have ing bought a car load before the recent advance in price, he is able to sell at very low rates, The link wire Las stood the test of several years in onr county and | has proven first class in all respecte, It | 18 80 easy to haodie and put up and weighs a little less to the rod than any { other. Write for prices, ~Millheim and Coburn are busy fix. ing up. The pike thro the gap hae been | put in passable condition again. me AT M Flood at Milten, I never saw anything to equal it, and 1 hope 1 the water wae in our Paddy mountain, bat the bridges are not yet in repair, The relief sent to Millheim and Co rn does not near meet the damage suf fered —<there are many poor families who feel the disaster more keenly. ~-~For a bargain ia boots and shoes, let it be remembered, yon never go amiss by calliogat A.C, Mingle's boot and shoe store, Bellefonte. He keeps the most complete assortment in the town and the best goods in the market, from the finest to the lowest priced goods. When you go to Bellefonte call Mingle’s, ~The drill on J, C. Boal's farm, on onday struck water at a depth of about 90 feet thro solid rock, Had be kept on until getting a little nearer China no doubt a stream of excellent tea might ave been struck, The supply struck seems to be a large one, and the water in very fresh; it rises about 50 fest in the well. a —— A] ~ButLoise Los, 840 to $60 per lot, § of a mile east of station, for sale on easy terms. Apply to Frederick ap m TRY YOUR KUOK! send us the names of two new subscribers, at $1.50 cash onch, and will send you the Centre Reporter ote year free, and six months for each additional name. This js simply ax an experiment, with nothing in it for us, all for you, and the offer #s only good until July 16 next. Try your iuck at once, day noon. Then we got to work and cleaned the Bouse and got some dinner. 1 tell you we were happy when we could again have a cup of coffee and broiled stake. All the bridges are gone. The town looks droadfal. Our plano i= rained: ail our outbuildings are upset, board walks washed AWAY. A great many people area great desl worse off than we are, » STAR SPRING WATER. Saratoga Star Spring Water for sale in bottles and by the giase by all druggists. ih A A ~-=Joe cream at James Lohr's, all season, ~==There is no better extract of Va- nilla than Murray's, ~— Rochester Clothing House, Belle- fonte, for fine clothing. «All kinds of fiy<nets, light and eavy, cheap too, at I, A. Boozers. sisi MAI SM PRONG 5.56 When Baby was siek, we gave hor Onstoria, When she wae a Child, she erisd for Castoria, Whan she became Miss, she clang to Castoria, Whew she Aad Children, she gave them Castorin, IL. FIND | TIS ETOOT] A A [ite Slr whee ule all a p— " OR ye BW ei roc i | ¥ Aen ) IN ob ™™ "1 } He pr—— pr Mander Fone? nde { .,. whee whe § Soames ~a ELIOT FAUBLE, Ioprietor. Scribner's Magazine for Jre marks the beginning of a new cnlerprise not less notable tha Wan Railway Series commenced a year ago. Iiis the series of popular articles on The Practical Appli Cation of Electricity, a subject which has be Re of chief importance in the so entific, commercial and indvstrial worlds, The opeaing article, by Professor C. ¥, Brackett, of Princeton, is entitled “Electricity in the Service of Man.” It isan in. troductory paper which sets forth, in a clear and precise way, some of the common methods by which sets forth, in a clear and procive way, some of the common methods by which the more im. as the Volt, Ampere, and Ohm terms which have ately come into general use, though not popu- Iatly understood. The principles so looid] y ox plained in this article will be fully applied in the rest of the series, which wil! describe Modein Telegraphy, Electric Lighting, Household Des vices, ete. The illustrations in Profesor Brack. ett's paper show some of the best apparatus ina thoroughly equipped modern laboratory, and in. clude a nowmber of rare portraits and several fig ure places, Among the writers already secured for this ser les aro announced CO. L. Buckingham, chief eles. trical expert of the Western Union, President Henry Morton, of Stevens Institute, Dr, M. Allen Htarr, a prominent authority on’slectricity in Mr Ediwon s laboratory. Bach paper will bo elsbor ately Mivstrated irom special sketches and photr graphs, whioh it has been possible to make through the wousual privileges granted (hi . Magazine by the leading electrical comp antes. MA RS i ~~Soe Faobie's stook before purchas- ng. A —— onte, for fine clothung, © re Dell
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