VOL. LXVIil. BURNED TO DEATH A CHILD POURS OIL ON THE FIRE. The Mother Has Her Clothes Her Burned ON in Fiforts to Extinguish the Flames Her Condition Critical ‘ i On Monday forenoon a distressing accident occurred at Rebersburg, in which the only child of Wallace Bier- ly was so badly burned that death re- sulted, and the mother received such injuries while trying to extinguish the flames that she now lies in critical condition. a o'clock of Between eight and nine in the morning, the little girl Mr. Bierly, aged about two years, wander- BURGLARS DO BELLEFONTE, Three Houses Entered-Money only Stolen No Clues mitted at Bellefonte few weeks, within the last On Saturday night three houses were entered while the inmates were in blissful slumber ; these were the residences of Albert Mingle, W. H. Wilkinson and Hamilton Otto. At Albert Mingle’'s when they got up Sunday morning they found his coat and pants gone from the bedroom and rifled down stairs in the Kitchen of $21. The thieves had entered by prying open a front window. BSide- Goards and closets were rumaged, but no other money found, the silverware was left undisturbed the burglers be- They worked s0 quietly as not to awaken the sleep- ing after money only. ed into her great-grandmother’s room, | which was on the first floor. The lit- | tle girl had been left alone in the house | for a few minutes, Mrs. Bierly attend- ing to some duties A filled | coal oil can was standing near the coal stove, and it is supposed the little one | outside. took the can’and poured the oil on the | hot An explosion followed, covering the child from head to foot with burning oil. The screams of the child brought the | mother from the yard into the room. | The child was a mass of flames and in | the efforts to extinguish the | flames were communicated to the] clothing of Mrs. Bierly. In a mo- | ment her dress was and coals, them ¢ & her | on fire, neighbors who ». The fipst to ar- screams alarmed the rushed to the scer rive were Henry ungart and Ge Krumrine. They found the mother and child on the porch with the cloth- ing almost burned off them. ge Krumrine took off his coat and threw it over Mrs. Bierly and by that l and the flames blankets 1€ Br y. Creor time other neighbors arrive were smothered, rugs. with and | The clothes were comp off the child and she lay on the a charred and sight, life still in the blackened body. Mrs. Jierly had shreds cloth- ing upon her body but the flames had | come in contact with her person from | her head to her feet. ympletely burned I porch sickening with a few of ori giv Medical attendance was quickly “ en the injured. The little girl linger- ed in terrible agony until in the after- noon when death ensued. } The physician in attendance has lit-| tle hopes for the recovery of Mrs. Bier- | ly. Her injuries are of such a nature that recovery is scarcely possible. She her limbs are a mass of blisters The funeral of the little girl was held morning. Mrs. Wallace Bierly is a daughter of William Haf- fley, of Aaronsburg. suffers terribly, and body and and chars, y esterday I ————————— Too Small for Heads ; Shook’s cider mill still keeps chaw- ing up apples and squeezing out cider. | Election, Nov, 5- tic ticket, Corn husking is nearly over. vote the Demozra- | | Accidents always did happen and al- | ways will, as one sees by reading the “Reporter.” Tuesday night's prospects for rain | had vanished by Wednesday morning. Farmers can’t complain of not hav- ing had favorable weather for gettin in their corn. All are on tip-toe to learn how much | or = George Durst’s big porkers will weigh | when he Kills 'em. i William Sholl, our worthy towns- | man, will go to farming again next | spring, on Simon Harper's farm, one mile east of this place, When the wild geese southward fly, you bet, winter is nigh. a f— > No Hazing for iim It is reported that one of the State College students wouldn't be hazed, pointing a pistol at the fellows who intended doing the job. That was right. Hazing has meant in too ma- ny instances either death, crippling or life-long ill-health for its victims, and if anybody is to be hurt hereafter by the practice, we are heartily in favor of it being those who are responsible for it. i ii i Traffic Too Mach for Cars. The Pennsylvania company has 41 - 71 cars of its own and 40,644 belong- ing to individuals and companies do- ing business over its lines, and, had the company as many more, often could not meet the requirements for cars. Today they are many thousand cars short of filling daily orders, and are obliged to select the shippers who should be first favored. Bn We know whereof we affirm when we state that Ayer's Pills, taken promptly, at the first symptoms of colds and fevers, arrest further pro- gress of these disorders, and speedily restore the stomach, liver, and bowels, to their normal and regular action, Sn “Abraham Miller, deserter.” — Bates’ History. ers. At Col. Wilkinsons they ransacke but found money ; a large piano lamp was upset no but hearing no further noise she fell asleep again. In the morning the family und things badly mixed down stairs awakened one of the daughters, fi but nothing missing. At Otto's nothing was stolen but a We are inclined to think this is the same set that robbed some Centre Hall houses a few weeks ago. — —. Water Famine Notes, Elk and Pine creeks are dry in some parts and where there is water it is lower than ever. Penns creek never before was as low as now, Cedar run up in Harris township is pretty nearly holding its own, and the “rom all sections of the land, out as far are drying up and water is scarce. The Pennsylvania railroad compa- ny is haulin to Gallitzin. Bedford ‘ : or 5 water from Conemaugh has Cases ariel fever caused by bad water, he oldest like this in the central part of the state, season Because of low water not f for more six months the longest time on record. one tow o coal has left Pittsburg than — - Death of Mrs, Fiedler On Monday morning grandmother Fiedler died at the home of her Henry, near Madisonburg. She the oldest person in being 87 years old. the Deceased had been weeks, t was the community, She was a faithful chureh. f Evangelical for member o ailing several She A. the Gazette, only daughter, was the 4 i The curred on Wednesday morning. editor o a Rabbits Plentifal. The rabbit season will open Novem- 1 and will continue until January Hunters who looking » ber have been anusually plentiful this year and they are, therefore, looking for a successful season, very favorable for the young cotton tails, and they are now almost fully a — For the Ladies, Have you seen the nice hats and bonnets at Mrs. Boob’s Millinery store? them; lowest All the ladies are invit. and them. Baxony, Germantown, Zephyr, and all kind of yarns; will be sold cheap to close them out, come and see prices to all, ed to come wee SN OUR farmers know the satisfaction there is in having a prothonotary who speaks German, as they always have business to transact there, and Wm, Smith speaks German and English, Abe Miller, on the other hand, can't speak German, and, besides is a poor English scholar. Smith is the man you want to vote for, ——— A ooh THERE should be no stay-at-home voters this year. Every man should go to the polls, after first having care- fully considered the present situation of public affairs, He will find it well worthy of study, and if he is a just and patriotic citizen he will vote for the straight Democratic ticket and thus aid in abolishing the corrupt practices of the party now in power. ts fl NEW and useless offices, raised sala. ries, a new and useless court, Stand. ard Oil Company robbery and monop- oly legislation, appropriating the pub- lie funds for the benefit of party pets, these are some of the crying iniquities of last winter's legislature that should drive every honest voter into the Dem- oeratic ranks and vote the Democratic ticket on Tuesday, Nov. 4. THE COUNTRY AND MOUNTAINS SEARCHED. Henry Fry Missing from his Home Near Potters Mills Since Tuesday of last Week, No Trace Discovered, Henry Fry, an old citizen of near peared from his home, on Tuesday, at whereabouts to last af- ternoon, grave fears were felt wife and neighbors that the | may have committed a rash up Saturday by i 1 it ian with | himself, he having been somewhat act { unbalanced mentally of late years, | small sum of money from his chest { and laid them upon a shel find them, and {it was also found that his gun was | missing, altho he had not taken | gun, to go hunting, for many years where his | wife would be sure to have committed suicide in some out-of [ the way place. Our informant, Samu- | [el M’'Clintic, said the citizens of that | vicinity had resolved to turn out on | Sunday last to search the mountains | and other parts for the missing man. | On Sunday some 35 persons from the | vicinity of Potter's bank the | day searching for Mr, Fry. 1 | tain section which the in the habit of hunting trips, was scoured as cl #pent he missing man his d ing was visiting i aon ya | AS possible, but the searchers ret i other Fi at the close of LE the day without able to report any trace of him ; parts outside of the mot | gone over with i niains were At different times since Sunday smaller no better results. | parties have be on the search, but got The near A son's factory and this led to suspicion no trace to unravel the mystery. 3 3! V iil { last time he was seen was { he might have drowned himself in factory dam, but this was dispelled by he low f the sls of be readily walter f i we enabling iis body to oun and he i, a | suggested letting off of t d Al was | deemed useless. Up to Tuesday evening last, a week was no clue to his whereabouts the {| with its gullies, } ns } n extensive mountain territory thickets, dis- hollows and be { if dead, his body might covered, never py Centre Hall's Water Supply. The springs which supply with pure mountain water, are than ever known to be, but lower to owing the vigilance of the water managers it | gathering every possible supply and endeavoring to prevent wastage from many hydrants which has caused trou- ble and have had enough of pure | water for all proper uses ; { ures of the supply have thud far been | caused by carelessness, and in some in- v { inconvenience, ou people seeming fail {stances by purposely allowing water to run to By careful usage of water none will suffer just yet, and it is to be hoped our citizens will bear | this in mind and not cause inconveni- | ence to those who are not careless, waste, Wp Cure for Headache As a remedy for all forms of head- ache Electric Bitters has proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded i i | i i We urge all who are afflicted to pro- cure a bottle, and give this remedy a fair trial. In of habitual stipation Electric Bitters cures by giv- ing the needed tone to the bowels, and few tases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once. Large bottles only fifty cents at J. I). Murray's Drug Store, mt————— —— ~~ Has Had Good Luck, Charley Arney, our noted nimrod has killed more game than any one else hereabouts. Rince the season opened he has helped kill about forty- five squirrels, about two-thirds of which he says he brought down him- self. They are plenty, and good and A es ——— ” Change in Firm. The interests of Miller Goodhart in the firm of Dauberman & Goodhart, furniture and undertaking, have been purchased by John Dauberman. Mil- ler has retired and is now in the job printing business, A — New Poreh, Ex-sheriff Spangler has improved his residence by the addition of a fine new porch where he can take his ease this winter while the rest of folks are sleighriding and hauling ice. Tur office of prothonotary is an im- portant one. Wm. F. Smith has been faithful and efficient, hence it would be a serious blunder to elect Abe Miller who does not possess the needed quali fications. 1 i Cases con- PASS THROUGH CENTRE HALL ON With a Livery Rig. - Would Like to See Him at Lewistown A man giving his name as C. Bur- bank and claiming New York city as at the National hotel, Lewistown, say- to men concerning legal matters, Wednesday, {gave landlord Clover his individual | He then hired {le team from liveryman W. H. Felix MeClure, Snyder county, to nothing ing he was expecting meet some mained until when check for £50, a doub- to go to { meet his men. Since then and Mr. aus has been heard of man or team for to | he left a board bill unpaid. Mr. Felix is hunting him. Clover would also like #4 him a T things better Saturday the che the make wk fo endorsement i » I £50 came back with was no good. He is a sleek fel- { low and others had better watch for He- Lx, { him. He drove from there to Be onte, where he registered as Dr. 8. He is about deserib- fi feet | eight inches high, weighing 160 pounds Hendron, Lewistown. of Vv ed as being a man « ve with bushy hair and closely trimmed | English beard and mustache, proba- bly about 30 years of age, and wore a light pair of trousers, white vest, black coat and black slouch hat. Belle Hall, i we 10 i The parties were tracked fonte, left there, came to Centre ty i 5 and from here want to Brush valley. ltl SOMETHING FOR THE FARMER. Ti on the State D partment « t It be f i wire, whether he 11% vear $066 000 { i ~ 11 Will MH judge is enormous drat He will ight on the publie fi niy certal acknowledge What t retary and $6000 for the Deputy Secre- d a Hs axes are lighter. r of $7000 for the he ts a very expensive inl at £5000 The Commissioner of Forest nd Food Commissioner, has ry, the Dairy a the {and State Veterinarian don't tl i to worry themselves about crops rain and blight and interest and mort- gage on farms, with £85000 sal: A Year. The chief ck rkship is an $3200, while the t wrist and ii ii g 1 he economic zool | missioner of Forestry live each a vear, OMcials of the iil Agric at titural Depart- and luxury ment avel in state al tr of $10,000 a year, while the expen- Fomi ( fest $0 i Cost sea of i i Om issi the Dairy an dt up $25,000 a stenographer in this depart- il | the messy ng y Ors Are « Xp is ’ ’ re is $i ment 1 gets $1600 a year, while » i worries along at $1,200 a a year. Of al mer only catehes § fis } i 1 il the MEL xpenditure, the sult of the appropriation of £15,000 re glimpse of a year for farmers’ instittes. Farmers { are you going to continue to help keep | such an expensive political party in power ? Wp i Will Put in Engines The | lower than ever this before streams in county being ‘nown, walter i mills can not be run on full time, con- sequently some of the mills will b# | furnished with engines to i Among be used in | emergencies, those having | this in contemplation arq E. H. Au- iman in Joseph Moyer’s mill at Centre | Mills ; Mr. Hockman at the brick mill, | Millheim, and Ed. Meyer, at Linden | Hall. i — i Baywindows Come Down | Judge Brubaker, of Lancaster, de- cides that bay windows bulging out on second floor fronts of residences are il- legal and must come down. cision is of far reaching consequence as there is scarcely a city or town any where that doesn't have some of those upper story bay windows, a Had Been 11, Major Robert H. Forster, of the in- ternal affairs department, who has gradually growing stronger. The Ma- ty and served in the Mexican war and the war of the rebellion. a ———— ‘ Sale of Farm Stock, &e. On Nov. 7, at 9 a. m,, at the resi- dence of Philip Auman, on the Brock- erhoff farm, about 2} miles east of Cen- tre Hall, Samuel Harter will offer at public sale live stock, farm implements and other personal property. The en- tire stock is a large one. i Married this Evening. This Thursday evening, Miss Ada Kreamer and Mr. Harry Chester Brown will be married in St. Peter's Reformed church, at Rebersburg., The couple will make Calchester, 111, their future home, A a - Good Home at Private Sale, A good home is offered at private sale, situated three miles west of Cen- tre Hall. Good dwelling house and outbuildings, Inquire of oeL10-4t A, W, GARVER, PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET GO TO ATLANTA, | The Presidential Party to Take in the Ex | position in Georgia, ~The British Greed in Venezuela. Was lanta ! HINGTON, el. The he net and most of the ladies of left 21. distinguished On I to At- arty, in- cluding President, his entire cabi- the eabi- here tonight Atlanta, { net families, which ona special train 1c: Car I other Ho banners, brass oands or plements of Wil but their rival will be balled with much more delight by the citizens of Georgia's metro was another party sae city someting 1 amid PT ago, wis and wa Mrs. veland did she was too good a mother to it was deemed injudi- the baby, and ious for so young a miss to make such a long railroad had with the journey. Secrelary {in ey conference today of Ex-Consul vife toy § 10 who 8 sentenced I i mn by Pris a rrench i nieriére with Madagase iis alleged i nee in ar. will be dor In order ing pl at % ard in oper to ant make there, 11 y gu ut one hundred o i 1 ' to have 1s will had m made by con- i i ie Navy department ¥ £3 Lilt , but when the bids were { i eceive it was found that they could . ¢ he waper, and the keeping togeth # r i by t 1 cl : government just as cheaj at the skilled foree of mechanics areemployed in the Government shop turned the scales in favor of ing'the work done there, While I do not that Sherman has chosen this time Know Senator publication of his recollections during forty years in office with the special Benj. Harrison, there are reasons that squint that way. For instance, Mr. Sherman charges in his book, without y or buts, that Mr. Harrison's nomination | for the Presidency in 1888 was brought idea of injuring one any ifs, ands, about by a corrupt bargain with one ! man who controlled the New York | delegation. Although names {used, it is perfectly plain that no are Mr. | Sherman refers to the promise made | by Steve Elkins, now a member of the Senate from West Virginia, on behalf {of Mr. Harrison, to Boss Tom Platt, who was the man in control of the New York delegation, that if Harrison | was nominated and elected, he (Platt i should be Secretary of the Treasury. | The breaking of that promise made | Platt the bitter enemy of Harrison {that he has been ever since. Mr. | Sherman also has a fling at all the prominent Republicans, and he leaves the impression that with the excep- tion of Hayes—who made Sherman Secretary of the Treasury, and allowed bis whole administration to be used to push his Presidential boom-—they were a bad and tricky lot, an impres sion, barring the exception, doubtless shared by lots of people. It is the impression among diplo- mats and officials in Washington that Great Britain is making an attempt to bluff the Venezuelan government out of its boots, in ordering that fortifica- tions be erected upon the disputed ter- ritory, lying between Venzuela and British Guiana, and that it was to gain time to see the effect of the bluff, and not make a European combina- tion against the Monroe doctrine, as has been sensationally reported, that the British government requested fur ther time to consider Secretary Olney’s Inst communieation, which states the position of the United States as to the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine. John Bull is a wise old chap in spite of his occasional bluster. He would i NO. 42 { much rather accomplish his purpose by scaring Venzuela than trying the dangerous experiment of ignoring If the little now that boundary line dispute will by the Monroe doctrine, Venzu- elans only display a backbone in accords if ’i be submitted to arbitration, ance with the original President Cleveland. suggestions « a - — Who Owns the Sidewalk, Judge Clayton, of Delaware county in recently charging a jury in which the rights o in 4 case ¢ a sidewalk id law in reference to pavements in were the bone of contention, la down the rach a manner as to clear BOTTI up frit point to which ther Hi “us Neon. much apprehe owner of real estate al walk in front of his I tot rights of px i ™ i aveling vack ide of this he own much as any other part of : Fab leave, and if they refuse hands gently upon resist, he may necessary oo remon So tly STATE NEWS School Report. hool. in Plum Grov fy male who Messrs Harry I Durst, sreon; Miss- 4 2 % ol yore Weaver i Maurice i Fd 1a roll Lena Poorman, Estie Snvder, Durst, Mabel Mary i Weave and ( imber f : irs four Supt. nna In rst, er. i Breo r Ks 1 iy PAS nong « HK. RB RE visi ur, ar Om was Gramley. D ELLER, Teacher. The Discovery Saved His Life Caillouette, Druggist, Bea- To Dr. y 1if versville, I1l., says: i King's Was i Discovs ry I Owe il v taken with La Grippe and tried al the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could not Having Dr. King's New Discovery in my store I sent for live. a bottle and began its use and from the first dose began to get better. and after up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. | We won't keep store without it.” Get a free trial bottle at J. D. Murray's Drug Store. using three bottles was cil ttm Forest Fires in Mifflin County. Parties in the woods after nuts Monday started fires among the dry on leaves on Shade mountain, two miles from Lewistown, and it spread like a flash, and is burning over a district covering the mountain for more than a mile. All the burned district heavily set with trees and a great deal of valuable timber has been burned. is SP, BI Ce, EVERY day brings new and more sensational and startling details of the corruption and fraud of the city gov- ernment of Pittsburg. The City At- torney and his assistant have now been arrested on criminal charges of official misconduct in appropriating an enormous sum that should have found its way into the City Treasury, and more arrests are likely to follow, with a consequent increase in disclo- sures in corruption and dishonesty on the part of men who enjoyed the emoluments of office by reason of the preference of the Republican party. It is certainly time for the people of the state to take warning by the re- cent disclosures of Republican official corruption, and they have the oppor. tunity this year of placing their disap- provalon frauds in public office by voting for the Democratic state and county tickets, A SI IT is a duty you owe the Common- wealth as a citizen and a true man to £0 to the poils on the 5th of Novem- ber and assert yourself for honest gov- ernment. Pet So excuse keep you away from the polls, aud let no party boss persuadesyou that Quay and misrule can give to the people of Penn sylvania a respectable and honest ad- ministration of its affairs, A os —————— ‘‘Abraham Miller, deserter," — History .
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