er — a_i AS INA a NY —-—— - oe rerio - . - " - - - pe ——— . GR 0 . or » OAS : ; J. BH GRVIE, LM. BOWER, Be 1. ORVIS THE CENTRE REPORTER FIRES If Al Al WORK immediately went to the Bancroft Davie THE RUSSIAN MISSION Have You Read O*"> BOWER & ORVIS, A & 4 ' i house to seo the secr ; yo i FRAP arn y FRED.KURTZ, Eprror and Pror’s had recovered Ta id Editor Smith's Proposed Appointment. | | ATTORNEY AT-Law, fered « + ol “ aposed Py ent, {ry 3 . ree " y | . ’ hat Sd i : . 91 ~~ Secretary Tracy Suffer: Aw- Hing low the inddes. view of the ter- WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—1f the Russian The / hilad. TIMES | . Office opp is hus 1 wrt Ho MS, Oil. « cretary Cy ouliers an Ww rible affliction which has come to Sccre- | Mission has been tendered to Charles | | floor of Forest's ballding jans ful Affliction, tary Tracy, recalled all invitations to | Emory Bmith, editor of The Philadel ; = the dinner in honor of the justices of phia Press, it has certainly been done i Advertisements 20 cents per line for 8 inser the supreme court of the United States, without the knowledge of Senator | | ; F PORTRES ns.and 5 cents tor each subsequent insertion, HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER KILLED. | which was to have taken place at the | Cameron, i D ! Ad. 4 At nov at Law 7 iii executive mansion on Thursday of this When asked by a correspondent if he | 1 « hy war 12 Cor og : bu dine § week, of had any information about the matter : ) lee in old Conar yailding Centre Harn, Pa, Tuurs, Fen, 5, Fire Destroys His Washington Howe. The calamity that overwhelmed Sec- | he replied that he had not. He was not | The Times fonte, Mrs. Tracy Jumps from a Window | retary Tracy has caused profound grief | aware that Mr. Smith had been agreed Pennsylvania Congressmen Ignorant of | *TERMS;~One year, $1.50, when paid in ad nce. Those in arrears subject to previous rms. §2 per year, This Morning . : 1g the most exis und Sustains Fatal Djuries — mise § throughout the country, and many tele- upon for it or that it had been offered rend newspaper pub grams of condolence have been received to him or accepted. le had a lurking discussion of publi by the president. idea, however, that he ought be ina | #1 | position to know something about it if any one had been slau for the place Congressman Bingham states that report that the mission ha DEATH IN A MINE. Mary Tracy antl a Servant Saflecated, is The Secretary Carried Oat in an Up : Funein! fram the White House, : It is expected that the funeral of Mrs, and Her Daughter Leap from a Win-§ and Miss Tracy will take place at the dow and Escape—Expressions of Syme White House and that the secretary will dered Mr. Smith is news to the be taken there as soon as practicable. vania delegation Secretary Tracy is still at the resi- “If it hi nA ' . "a ; ry ot f it has been done,” he WasHingToN, Feb, 4.--The wife of § dence of Dancroft Davis and will prob. “it has been don . ‘ . . ha ia g > in aries for a agin Prin ne dA ? Secretary ‘Tracy, of the navy, is de ad, § ably remain there for the present, Pres ment without any con Miss Mary Tracy is dead and the secre § ident larrison said to The United Press Pennsylvania repr tary has been seriously injured. The § representative thut he thought in Secre- Bingham wa hy lise house of Secretary Tracy was burned to § tary Tracy's present depressed and pros- story a ruin yesterday and it was only by the } trated condition it would be imprudent ” most desperate efforts of the rescuers § to remove him to the executive mansion that any person in the house was saved, § at once, The secretary is suffering from The family were all asleep when the § the inhalation of smoke and his Jungs Alexander Pleads Guilty to the Attempt - ! i ¥ ; fire was discovered, Two servants were § in consequence are extremely weak, to Assnssinate Hishop Whitaker the only persons awake in the house. — . PHILADELPHIA, Feb. The fire had got headway bevond con- The Tracy Family. CL ander, who tried to a trol before any one became aware o BROOKLYN Fab, 4. Mes. Benjamin F. Tracy, | Whitaker uy The butler and the « Jr were the the wife of Necretary of the : Navy Tracy, Meaded guilty. in th to discover the fam Bofore was iady well and favorably known in } ore It is ee, , { Brooklyn, where her home had Leen for selore Judge raoiq could give an alarm I thed twenty-three years, She was in the oth year | testified that Ale a department postman turned in “ull fof her : : Office N WwW. corner Seven Victims of the Nottiagham Exple- conscious Condition Mrs, Wilmerding ] sion wt Plymouth, Pa WiLkEsSBARRE, Pa., Feb. 3.-—~The Not- tincham colliery, of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company at Plymouth, pathy. was the scene of a fearful explosion of gas Saturday, by which seven men were almost instantly killed and coe so badly injured that his death is certain. The colliery was being pre pared to re- sume work and a number of timbermen were in the fifth and sixth lifts of the west gangway., Fire Boss Dunstan was passing from the fifth to (he sixth lift with a light and probably ignited the | gas. i The violence of the explosion was such that the men on both lifts were dashed about as though feathers in a | cyclone. They knew nothing from the moment the explosion took place. In the upper or fifth lift they were also | ; i wrapped in flames and were horribly : . } d : Pi inrss a C age ef. Tracy, who was born and every olher 1h ject ex burned. In the r lift there was no | 10°F the five department. 1her Vi brought ap in Owego, married Miss Catlin in prohibition, When asks | delay in getting the engines, 1856. They resided in that place until 1865, Arnold what he had to athell found the s tary when they came to Brooklyn, whers their | arose his room unc viOTLS home has s been, Three children have : : x , i Iracy dead in the hall blessed ir union. Two are daughters and trace ike 1 LC Xess oO i UAas X y the ot) men about like straws. Awful Saddennoss loors from first national t CRAZY ON PROHIBITION on 1 $ fire, but the sion as felt in its | a full force, blowing d wops and tim- | and, addressing th bers, s i Personally re. Tracy was s very pleasant - ; § § Fhe rush of air was so violent that on | he house was all abla inside before ly. Bhe h falr complexion and large v a rbeilaa . is : ¥ er avery its exit through the lower air shaftdown i - any Ins Oo i blue eyes, lu helght she was slightly above ° 3 : . : : 5 a“ hl : by 3 & A charges on the flats ‘ edd the fan at the | " the medium. She was solidly built and her ke en iipe ; un head Of the ble 1@ engineer i /7 / face was that of an intelligent WOILAL, Her A, K. Kocher. through the door of the 147] vel k "i ul Yer 4Tay HAIr Was worg BIGOOLLIY brushed i t rom her high forehead. She talked in t tone and expressed hersell in a very rs . racy family, besides Mr. and Mra HAFe De | Tracy. consists of three children and one ck and | grandchild. Mrs. Ems L Wilmerding, the burst is a widow with one child, Mrs, Wii. the win- 1 1 resided with her family since her Murdered lor Hevenge, at i x th, and went with them PHILADELPHIA Fal y AT 5 fire had W ashingion, x rank B. Tracy, the only Oe, Haghey who RV is father 0 appearance and in his * bility. He is a handsome young known person al and unmarried ies now lives at ght nd only spends in Washington what time Le can spare fromm his father's business, Miss Mary Tracy, the unmarried! daughter, of the disaster, was like fico Aloe, Nhe was very Several t of friends who will be sentence wis deferred, 1 of hier dreadfal fate Washington is sito. opposite Farragut of rather Limnos heigl and brick ently been bulll, which ean. ain floor & parior, on un oegupied by Mrs, Wilmer. was standing the Lhird four a chamber used ville when a Mra, Tracy's room was the throuzl tha the second Aoor above the dining LATOR AA the house hind been re. he Seo. paid no attent 1 Yh slit or of nighed and redecorated, thie work relative positions of the We PI LK broke hes rist in the fail and th were t ag Des nally completed on Dec, JL armies or Excited Parker Sion has! ment of IURNED TO DEATH Frightfol Result of a Fire in a Boston Ladiging House, : nh i k } ‘ a ’ . . known v at place at | being wi \ nare of the ’ LN 9 Shortly alter mid- YOUN mal ai ternoot. K } 1 walking toward the i e i pd orang the dwelling HONE in Townsend. th } a4 bet } rd the cori of firs Woase L00-C6. Nortd treet, occupied by ers not Lh : ’ wman C. C. Town- i art to t front of the house and ] au Hubey thing store on the 0 the Young r 01 ped ver 1 il’ yi < S ! inrches convenient Terms vers has ; cted there to : ra, chiefly Italian of h upper floors, was fT 3 supposed to slore, The oil escape by the nates of the baild Mf Ol d h i hia 18a no border into york and were i ] Wi ibang ried Mr Young man and i will be forp is but OiTie one ran mto the Flow the Secreisry Was Saved. ; } More Miuers Newodel . i } : ving their lives . SER . I the staircase wi sblaze He ran . " » Frizaperi, | out of town at » fin : at pl } in rom windows Y LF the flam : cached the se Agh still a great : : i to death, thre % % tm he enter ¢ " ‘ , Monongahela “ 5 y fatally mired anid IX were $ <3 HOOr and . foe Lf : in all the mins on ¥ | n fat: IN Maresd E : among the fortur ved they quickly 3 3 3 : he indo ithe room wa ; 5 3 ved thom all the men they aden Groin may attend t tow 1 sf. titi i i Pui ud Le #4 vy u $ wy ‘4 \ “4 sim 1 i 14 r was alo OYel ’ y had 1 i be mine they an ng re ou : y Y lj cn He dragg the man, wil 4 . : Ranaged bushels of coal a das on Tuesda ning the inter f : 1 ha : Sesish anging . t, Yindows or ‘akg mine abo Kea fov § ¢ yan beospsley i nal eC AY ra into a TOG refuge on the roof. 1o escape the deadls MDC HB iste] ! . A y a window fie Heer's strength » i A ™ their first pool mine is running f Ordinance Mit orbin wiil be in the ; ¥ smoke and fames ihe shrieks and ) . ’ wo spiddiy fa r and he i | : ‘ § : the three are loading about i i prayers of the ferried people were els a day ‘ » ’ 3 mingled with tae cries and groans of y Gay. : ! sare 3 piain ten | CEXTRE COUNTY BANKING . . § : wl and _n with atotal fort i BELLEFONTE, PEXX'A the injured and the scene wis terrible Young Christians te Conver i Bi Ty ¢ | Betelve Deposits and allow | one in afew moments, however, the : i jong 4 i ] imprisoned people had been taken down the ladders, the injured removed to the th eCretar head to i Reading Terminal Town Meeting. eva +1 necount Notes; Buy and Sell Governmen: . thes wing KIONTOW X i } atterwards 3 convention of he A ¢ . # = y hes , ¥ Tr we pial adobe . Lv : A Paper of ( . | JAS, A. BEAVER ; SHUGERT ‘ i t nristian associations of the Jit ; : : i resident aah le a hospital and the dead to the station 2 be bok Na . ‘ ae wr hast 16 ! , Cashier we wind Il and at that moment the |; district will be held Crushed and Sealded to eath. . ’ y HOY a, : . : wu t } rushed . Saturday and Sunday, LANCASTER, Pa. Feb. On the Kil- it was then found that ten persons and 23 The distri i kenny Lumber Compan auiroad, six " had been burned to death, All of their : 4 lest . t Sapam . i 3. G GUTE J : } istance till in exhausted con : " . counties of Allegheny nstrong. But- | A 'aper of iy. i .d miles east of here, a nber train broke " : y 0 wilies were found hnaddied together on tion Wo nn could not carry the | 3 ' in two on stoop grade and the on ; ih 3 i“ the top floor, they having fled from the Wi nt of Lhe seerets DUE DY it Lime $ gineer was speeding to avoid being run | + 4 Lea : ard lower rooms when they first discovered » ; . . iBadvre had been put iH to thie wing a a 1 a : a a} is into by the rear f i i . " hod to take th the fire, the flames having already cut x git arm wire reaches 3 o take . : gine was deo he " i. ar, oh rea ip a Lad off escape by the stairway to the lower train . Haden irom them floor. ‘ithe bodies were burned to a Crouch. of Haverhill, was crust and Lief Parsh's Brave Act crisp, and it was almost impossible to Usioxtows. P . —t " § 5 3 » v / 4 oie £ oy a. Ou i scalded to death. The fireman and Phen Chief Parish of the fire depart identify any of thew, : Ny : : A RET brakemen jum and had a narrow eg. ent did an heroic thing he room in LO his ler Jayette, Greens ; inion and ¢ en fs that The ¥ Pres pil k ! : Dantist Westmoreland, and ain i an ati t narfore associations A large attenda . an intercsling session 1s Some Are Merry and Some Are Mad. : great rejoicing here among the {rien LOTS 8 . fHietion, RVIN HOUSE “ i a - . " » Sa tiOT RON \ shpoint 3 will be “Esther.” 1 Lider in DUSK, cape. which he and tl exhausted officer BLAINE AGAIN BEREAVED of x L } Atlery h over his appoin : Er sBadal. sir ie TE ™ I LOCK HA RX. PA . jo 2&5 vith schiits { %e : rr # . 3 [$ a 3 5 ba, , stood was all on fire and the only es Se — fo ri pask a Dt ol mld : fort 8. WOODS CALLWELL, Proprietor. cape that seemed possible for them was Death of Mr Copplager, His Eldest pth Hea are ory Inuey disappointed, | Terms reasonable. wood sample rc. ms . : — NT . 4 a . . . —— + 3 oy { gure Hers CHARLOTTE, sb, 1.—A special | through the window from which the Daaghter Funeral Arrangements. P. i ous 3h y Were un winner on first floor. to the Chronicle {rom Blacksburg, 8. C., | secretary was taken. The staircase was WasHisaroN, Feb, 3, — Mm, Alice atterson's dei fan Ba ashington ie best oon says J. H. Goss, assistant postmaster | ablaze. ~The chief saw the form of a | Coppinger, the eldest daughter of Sec- and a a Frick's backing undoubtedly ca. Illustration there, was arrested on a charge of rifling | woman lying on the floor in the hall at | retary Blaine, who has been seriously | rd the business. A Woman's Paper. Tie Fostmaster Rifled Letters letters. The arrest was made by post the head of the stairs. It was that of | ill for several days past with brain fever, office department detectives, Much | Miss Mary Tracy. The chief ran to her | the outcome of an attack of la grippe, . money has been missing at this post- | and stooped to ck her up. As he took | died at the Blaine mansion about 5 West Browssvitie, Pa, Feb. 4, office for months, but the exact amount | hold of her arms the skin came off in | o'clock Sunday morning. The funeral | Axton & Son, of this place, closed a . . is not known. Goss stood high socially | his hands. She was then dead, but he | services will take place from St. Mat- | contract with Arthur Stegman, of | A Children’s Paper. tel the same iiheral ywwision for thei and in business circles. le was taken picked the body up in his arms and ran thew's church to-morrow morning at Carthagenia, United Statesof Colombia, | The special department for children is now ad comfort: it 8 lOcttod To the immedi - to Spartansburg where he will be tried. | down the burning staircase and out at | balf past 10 o'clock. The place of inter- | South America, for the building of two dressed 10 the school children and school cenires of business and pine ps of «i oo - the front door. ment has not yet been definitely deter- | freight and passenger steamers, which Ler them | ment and different ad Tepe 0 IRE . Houses Drop Out of Sight. The fire department was then on the | mined upon, but it is expect that it | are intended to ply in the trade on the of to for the Bei i uiight, whole ss all parts of the city Are easily accesibli : WILKESBARRE, Pa. Feb, 1.—Three | scene and plying great streams of water | will be al Oak Hill cemetery, this city, Magdalena river, in that country, se, instructive books, by Street Cars constantly passing the single houses and a double block in the | on the burning building, but already | Rev. Thomas Sherman will officiate, in - Te Clubbing A sent doors. It offors special inducement town of Plains, about four miles from | the terrible work of the flames had Bavrivone, Feb. 3. Cardinal Gibbons Prefer Higher Wages to Shorter Hours mportant ubbing Arrangem . to those wisitineihacity fos» here, dropped nearly out of sight, the | been done. Mrs. Tracy died soon after | was informed of the death of Mrs, Cop- PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 3. Ata meeting By special armngement with all the leading | pieasure cave in being caused by the “robbing” | being taken to a neighbor's house and | pinger, the daughter of the secretary of | of the brickmakers of Philad Iphia ves : ¥ Jeriodioals of Ametion, sats Your patronage respectfuly soi sited of pillars in the old coal mines under | Miss Iracy was dead when taken from | state, last evening. The cardinal will terday it was decided to demand an in Ot] le Tia ODI wh The Weekly Press at JOB M. FEGER. Pronr tor the town. The cavein is likely to ex- | the building. The firemen went to the | assist at the obsequies at Washington on | crease of 20 per cent in wages next | such low r ally makes our great fam- tend to the cemetery and other portions | third story and found there the body of | Tuesday morning. season. The proposal to demand the | ily paver FREE to the suimeriber for one year, of the town. There had been warning | the French maid. She was dead. Her papa — eight hour day was rejected as inad.| Semple copies furnished free upon application. of trouble and the people had taken | body was carried down and sent to the Wanamaker Would Accept. visable. i bi x o precaution, so that no one was injured, | undertaker, WasHiNGTON, Jan, 20.--The mention | ~ a oR Terms of The Press THE UN. Seomtettespetiummsgp—— Mra. Tracy's Death. of Postinaster General Wanamaker as a Treasurer Livesy Conwaloseant. : alan & Crusade Against the Store System. E. 8. Rheem, whose kouse on Seven- probable successor of Senator Cameron Hannmssonag, Feb, 4.- Repor ts from | By mail, postage free in the United States and FOR PrrTsevraG, Feb. A — The United | toonth street runs back to the rear of | In the United States senate is referred | State Treasurer Livsey state that he ig Canada = Miners have decided to inaugurate al the se retary’s house, give a graphic ac- | © by many who call upon Mr. Wana- | convalescing, but not able to leave the Daily {except Sunday), one year wera ® 1890 new ght against company stores. Now | court of the terrible death of Mrs, | maker, at the postofice department. | house. The department employes with | DY (eft Stay), one month 8 yo. that the miners are united they will | Tracy. “I heard terrible swenms,” | His manner of treating such references | Mr.John Stott at their head have charge | hans Inclnding Sunday), ope month ies AD peremptorily demand the abolishment said 4 Mr. Rheem. ‘about 45 and depends Very much upon the source of affairs, | Bunday ome FORE mss wos sives a - x Haine People with I'he Sun . of the system of store" ches ks. The | jumped from bed and ran to the win- from Which they come. To personal Hn Oamphatr Arrested, WESRLY 3 RESE, one FORE +r cm— ps LL ining, ond some peopl esti’ crusade will be commenced in this dis. dow. Mrs. Tracy was hanging by her | ™ quaintances he admits that of course ; > . { Drafte, Checks, and other Remittances should be | wap 00 vever dull and hover afraid 10 Speak in trict immediately after the Columbus | hands from the sill of a window on the | e 18 not a candidate. In conversation Baaprorp, Pa, Feb. 1.—Mrs. M. | made payable to the order of mind. convention between the miners and | gecond floor. She was screaming and he indorsed what Fouitaster Fisld u Camipheil; of Me Reesports BC, Supieine | THE PRESS COMPANY, Limited, I A aA Jor tents Jens The Sun operators. immediately dropped.” iiladelphia is reported to have said in ftv oh ao ciples . Dart . re pon : Tie house of Mr. EA" Kheom, itself | an intorview—that if the office came to | lief Union, was arrested "here charged Publishers. to the tre Interesta Sf the PAY i Nerves wit . i S* ELMO HOTEL A Pan-American Feature, Tt Wi " i 817 & 319 Arch Streei, Philadelphia tre Reduced rates 10 $2.00 per dey. The traveling public will still £nd at this ho- "URITOSE or : tre Interest party Mr. Wanamaker unsought, he would | With stealing a charter of the Bradford fear Intelligence and ibrsated vor at A Yeteran of Three Wars Dead. BCRANTON, Pa., Feb, 83.-~Capt. John Travis, a veteran of the Seminole, Mex- ican and eivil wary, died at his home in Moscow. He wis nearly 90 years of military service from the time he was 19 years old until the close of the civil war. Fourteen Years and a Half for an Assault Hutchins, aged 80, convicted of assault almost captured by the fire, was thrown open for the reception of the dead and dying. Mra, Tracy, still alive, was brought in by a couple of firemen and was placed on a sofa in the dining room. Here she lingered for about an hour, fully cons Scio and apparently suffering but lit- @. It was little after 8 o'clock when she spat up a little blood hardly enough to determined a hemorrhage-—closed her ayes. and, without a moan, ceased to breathe. accept it, Ln Parnell Obtains Damages, Loxpon, Feb, 4, The trial of the suit for libel brought hy Mr. Parnell against The Times was to have begun yesterday, but when the case was called counsel announced that the suit had been com- promised, The T mes paying Mr, Parnell £5,000 damuges, The withdrawal was also announced of the action t by Mr. Henry Campbell, Mr, 's private secre. auxiliary, wo’ A A Cancer Cured by Faith. Waxxsesevna, Pa., Feb, 1, — Mrs claims to have been Cured by faith of a cancer of two years’ standing, after sev. eral physicians had failed to effect a cure v Harrisburg Appointments Ra rere Mon ed William Nn real slate brarian Our years, {ih Bea times opinions have differed as 1 the best means of accomplishing the common purpose; it is not he Suns fault 51 it bas seen farther into the mill: Eighteen hundret and ninety j« the year that will Jirbably determine the result of the Presi. dential viection of 1592, and perhaps the fortunes of the De ww for the rest of the century. View tory in 100 ts a ,and the beginning of 1800 is ihe best time to sant out in company with The TIRE, POF BORN... ooo iesisnsivossonsnonss $0.50 Daily’ Po FOr ons $00 Bunday, and Sunday. aa Sun, one FORE i crsnonssssimmniin se rsmms soma Biveler, at Dunning, last summer, was art against The Times for fect RA Coal | wii italy | EERE Ir HT | Bie ee |
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