VOL. LXXIV. C DD, RUNKLE IN LUCK, the U A brief telegram sent to Mrs, Runkle, at Pittsburg, by her NS. OKklnhoma Farm Lottery, O as follows, “Fortune struck 1144. Will was the telegram urday by Mrs. C. D husband, who is at El Reno, a part in the Oklahoma whieh was conducted by ment and has a He is the only Pittsburger on the list, and Lis friends will be There story connected with the cirenmstaue- me. Drew letter.” received send Runkle from He took | land lottery claim long gratified little drawn good over the good news, is a es surrounding the drawing. About July 1 Mr. Runkle Kansas on an extended trip Jeet long visit his ter, whom he had not for more than twenty years, He arrived at his + @ lination safely and word from him stated that he was enjoying himself to for Ob left His was to pay a to His sSeell the fullest extent and that he was very glad that he had gone, More than one week ago fetter to his family saying that he bad H e said the gov- away valuable gister. He announced that, in company with oth- he wrotea the Oklahoma fever. eroment giving land to those who would re Was ers, he was about to start for from wheuce the party started, huvdred and seventy-five mil tant from El Reno, the objective point. The trip on a journey Oklahoma. Lilyvale, Kausas, Is oue es dis was made by wagon, the par. ty camping along the route. Ou arriving at El Reno 1 aud took his lot with thous- others. When the drawing took place he was among the His number was 1144, figures are a part of the good old com- bination 4-11-44. At any the figures were lucky ones. he at once regislere ands of lucky ones. which rate, be and Just | good the claim is is not stated telegram. The letter OW in the is aopxiously awaited. Charles D. little Kuooxville, Runkie 245 removed lives in a cozy Rochelle BStreet, to at He ville about ten years ago, Lhiome Kuoox- where he has since lived. For a number of years be | was employed by the xville Tw provement Company, and has a in residents of the bill are much ple Kune arge The ased | sequsinlance that vicinity. over his good luck, as they express the opinion that he deserved it. He is a native of this county, being f Associate Judge, Joho Ruukle, id soul a 20h ou deceased, who owned ar occupied a farm about three miles hi ol this | place. He served duriog the Civil war in a Pennsylvania regifuent for three ic Septembor 20 the Date Seleoted by State Commission—dpecinl Exercises to be Held, Friday, at the Pan-American Exposition, September 20, will be known Buf- observed, The State Com- { mission notified Secretary Gerwig to | properly announce the selection of this date, ri 4 { body, going from Harrisburg and the | { Governor and his staff will be present, | going on a special train with the com- It is propossd to hold mission, np- will Penusylva. There prominent hells on the grounds, addresses by unians, and music by one of the at the Exposition, and during the day open house will be kept at the Penn: sylvania building, where the Governor and the commission will ers. A general invitation will be extend. receive call- ed to Penasylvanians to visit on that day and make the demounstra- tion as imposing as possible, Penusyl- latter oug to show more than ordinary energy io ber Stats The tu... preparing vauia are sister states the innsiration. to trains at a low run special rate of fare excursion froma all parts of Pennsylv ania, Ac ep A STORMY AUGUST. Hicks Says We Uan Look For Awful Things This Month Rev, Hicks predicts rather stormy weather for the month of August, Hear him : A season mnacing storm conditions is due about the 6th to the oth, Warm weather will prevail to- gether with heavy thunder storms, hail and high wiods, A deeided fall- predicted as a 14th. The reverse vill be true from the 17th to the 21st, vthough startliog downpours of rain are in parrow localities, | Along about this the advance! guards of the September equinox, will of ing temperature is Be. quence for the probable time make their presence felt. Intense lo- | cal storms will be the result of very righ Vi thunder wd lightoing may be expected, “Another period of 24th to the sing days of temperature, Hous storms is inclusive, may their Counter would make a terrible aod awe luspiring dem- the forces of at severe from the I'he ¢l marked by igin in the storms from the th, August having Indies, be | storms West P ar regions ost of Dis Lime ration nature an Reformed Keunion This is the last anvouncement of the aud one-half years with credit and! He is in comfortable circum- ; but his fortune | will pot come amiss, bravery. slalices, recent good Four brothers will also rejoice with | him. Thley are, Dr. Btewart CU. Ruuk- le, Puiladelphia; James M. Runkle, pastor of a German Reformed church at Williamsport; A. N. Ruuk- le, at Sauta Apa, Califoruia, aud Ja fue Lily- {uble, of Rev, cob Runkle, who lives io Alaska. Visiting in vale, is Mrs. Joseph He is the father of one son, William, who is well known in Pittsburg, Ihe wife anxiously awailiog the letter which the way, accordiog to the statement made in the telegram. It probable that he will make a trip east sister whom he was Kansas, aud son are i= on is lo arrange sowie busivess allairs before taking pos- According to the tertus of the drawing, the oues will be compelled to live on the claim for five years before getting a clear deed from the government. There are exceptions made, however, in the cases of persons who served in the civ. il war, In this respect Mr. Runkle is again lucky. Boldiers are to be credited with the time they served for their country, Mr. Runkle baviog been at the front three and one-half years he will be re- quired to live on his claim but one and one-half years before getting his deed Some men are born lucky, some rich aud others unfortunate, session of his claim. successful A Ms Three Fires Sunday, Three fires occurred Sunday, and $170,000 worth of property was destroy- ed. At Bhippeusburg flames destroy. ed the Methodist Episcopal ehurch, a furniture factory, a large business building and several stables in the cen ter of the town. Loss, $50,000, At West Newton fire destroyed the dry goods store of Roust & Bro lie, J. F. Schaur’s shoe store and the farm- ing implement store of W, F, Gordon, Loss, $100,000, ’ At Berlin the Mansion Hotel and baros and the Baptist church were en. tirely consumed by fire, Loss, $20 000, BO Degrees, The mercury registered fifty degrees above zero Bunday night, That I» only eighteen degrees above freezing; Reformed charge reunion to be held at Mills, August 15. To make! i the event a success, attendance is nee | CHEATY, interested is irged to be there and get as many peo- | The and religious service will and every one ple there as possible, speakiog begio at 1.50 o'clock iu the afternoon and will The reunion! basket pienie | is last year, families eating iu groups | or separately, as the case may be. The | siring to leave by train, will be io the form of a object is to make these reunions bLeue- ficial in many ways, and there is only one way to do it, namely, each one to do his part, esti Dragged by a Hay Rake, Mra. Hanford, a farmer's wife, near Williamsport, was io the fleld Wed- nesday, assisting io bay making. Her husband was driving two oxea in the rake. The animals stepped into a yellow jackets’ nest. The bees attack- ed the oxen, causing them to run away. Mrs. Hanford ran to stop them, but was koocked down. The hay rake caught her and dragged her fully 100 yards over the ground before the oxen could be stopped. Her in- juries are such that it is feared she will die; if she does recover her back will be permanently injured, a New Home, A. P. Luse, the senior member of the firm of Luse and son, operators of the Centre Hall planing miil, last week broke ground for his new dwell- ing on Main street. This will be the first of several new dwellings that Luse and son will erect on the east side of the street on lots recently purchased from the estate of D. Fleisher. When this gap is filled up Centre Hall will be almost solidly bullt, a dwelling to ench eighth acre from Nittany Moun. tain to beyond the station, a stretch of fully one mile, ul — Bonds Require Stamps, Bounds of administrators and execu. tors, which were formerly held to be exempt as bonds used in legal proceed. ings, require a fifty cent stamp. The bonds of guardians, receivers or trus tees are taxable, Such bonds as are used as protection bonds, injunetion bonds, bonds upon appeal, writ of error, for costs and thwe given In claim aod delivery action for property pretty cool for beginning of August. not taxable, HALL, MUSE GO FULL i PA., TERM, Law Permits Justices Children to of elect, { passe | at the recent legislature and session now in under for the | matter, which has been | sion in the local | year or two, board | the line of attendance. The act it { children between the | sixteen to sevenly per cent but for the makes DEeCessary six not ' school age of attend sehool for of the full teria excepting cuse. The time allowed for four weeks has also been | days. The Irusnis finite than heretofore. vides that act habitual Cali the state by an fur the criminal court to puss ‘$2 for sibscquent school has been placed at first offense and $5 for any oifense. Io default of payment they first offense aud five duys oo the act can with- ft Lf hold one-fourth o tion to a district which is not or carrying manuer satis forcement is placed on Lhe superintend- tent, attendance officer and if they fall to carry out the various fined y- secretary and provisions they may be went lp — Cattie Dying Farmers who have cattle the muca on the wild lands Sandy Ridge are about a» in very alarmed disense that lias Lroken out among their herds that very much sembles anothrax. When that in ISM anthrax was the death of hey recall Cals of Oe hun- thie eighty-one out of Cal to ed sod luvestigate immedi dred and tweuly-four tie on sane range they do well be sie iy. ed Warriors- Mark farmors, being Beck, James Fisher, T those Half amoung th The herds most affect Aare owned oy and valley “10 Isaac Isaiah eck ie Fauge cover hundred acres of mountain land Flat Rock and already five cattle olhiers are reported to be sick. Saturday veterinary W, accompsaied by Dr, F. Beck, of Tyrone, and others, and found serious a= it had | La their return word was immediately seut to the Board of 4 ®ix near lwe about ity have died, while lows SN Shriner, reservation the | beeu reported, afterwards Dr. Pearson, the State Vet. at — Lightning Struck Church Monday during a Leavy thunder storm which passed over this locality between four and five o'clock the Grubb’s church was twice struck by bghtoiug, says the Middleburg Post. Oue bolt striking the large steeple, tore away the northern half of the dome, shatlering the window glass and frame. Another bolt tore through the ceiling, burning the paper all around the rooms playing the most curious pranks in following the paint. er’s brush on the wall paper. Nearly every place in the church both above and in basement shows signs of the lightniug's presence, by burns, spline. tered boards, torn carpets, oil cloth as well as torn plaster and displaced brieks. Lows is covered by insurance. The Kalser's Mother Dead, The Dowager Empress of Germany, mother of Emperor William, died at Cronberg Mooday evening at 6:15 o'- clock. Emperor William, her Majesty's other children, with the exception of Prince Henry, who is at Cadiz, and the Empress, Augusta Victoria, were in the sick room most of the day, They were all round the bedside when the Dowager Empress passed away quietly. It is said that the immediate cause of death was dropsy sccompanying the cancer. The remarkable vitality of the Dowager Empress astonished her physicians. Sbe retained consci- ousness to the end. AA SAP BAN Going Went, Being abou! to remove to Ohio, I re quest all persous having secounts with me to eall at my house for settlement August 19, 20, and 21. Very Respectfully, augs-2t G. H. Loxa. \UGUST | WORK OF STATE ON TUBEKRCULOSES Annus! Report Shows That During Your 1227 Onttle Were Condemned, The annual report of Dr. Pearson, Leonarc Board, year cattle, for for that comprising with More than physically. 1900, shows 614 herds, were tested tuberculosis, examined las! 027 10,004 Were ed, 339 50, or an average of $23 10 per head Dre, American Veterinary ciation in Medical September, 1899, on i tuberculosis of whi h that up to that time ti ber of cattle tested cattle, in | stated 1 Hun under the reguls- och { tious adopted by the State Live Si | Sanitary B 33.147, of i561 were tubercular, | 800 62 oarid was cor the $10. Gir ¥- gs was paid, or an average of 6 per head, We on Rights of School Boards Judge Ferris, of Luzerne county, rendered an interesting opinion in decides that a court of quit irisdiction to flici | directors has no ji BUpeTY jee direct the « al diseretion of when such disere. fraud i ’ tors mt has been exercised without Fhe case was not au unusual one spplication for a pereing | of N ese pee Ktoadmit a a pupii te peck without ¢ Sirong was 1 Young man gas father 1th a bre nde i peck his permanent hon a ras yg in went we lo jive w thers A i d alleged that he inte to rd refused to adm fres pupil y the public gi Was ' be di .- iets io Other Cuuntise, lin, B eged eighty-two year Ms. Heston Bechtol, "e Near Ber At Kally Cross Roads, t Mim No five In Li red sixt , John SCARS linburg Wierick, ag ed wey mestone township, Levi Bilger y-eight years Wayne James township, % : i, aged reventy-five, In Belleville, Mrs of Ba Ruriz, aged 158 lo Lewist Mary Kurtz, wife 'y Cars, 3 owt, Frank Ulsh, aged Years, Wil Ive am F Ly ff stor of Ellict, prop W (Is Liome Lie Haven, in that city Nat He served one term as N died ai night, ¢ fron THE, urd Ay Mayor A —- GENERAL LOCALS Bert Finkle, of Milton, stopped | the C entire Hali hotel over Sunday. of the Boer United Kruger the Ex-President Miss Erie Homan, daughter of Saul Homan, a Williamsport grocer, is the guest of Miss Anua Lutz, F. M. Crawford to-day (Thursday street, opposile ME fonte. Chureh, The tobacco crop in Clinton county, which is considered of the best money crops, is very promusing iu aps pearance, Mra. J one hin O. Beholl, of Altoona, ace- Wim. Beholl east of Centre Hall, Mr. Scholl is employed in the electrie light works in Altoona, Mr. and Mrs. Ramey, of Coupon, Cambria couuty, were guests of the Foremans in this place, and Mrs, Ra- mey's father, John Foreman, near Pot- ters Mills. Tuesday morning they started for Buffalo, and will remain there for several days. The marriage of Miss Cora Ott, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, James A. Ott, formerly of near this place, but vow of Bellefonte, to Mr. Rothrock, son of David Rothrock, of same place, is announced to take place Wednesday, Beptember 25th, Harry E. Bolender, living one mile east of Middleburg, met with a serious accident, while coming home across the fieids irom Rob. Walter's where he had been thrashing. On crosiog a fence, he put his pitch-fork on ahead, and then jomped over, unfortu ately running the handle into the side of the abdomen causing a severe rupture, ol A scheme is now beihg considered in the United States and Ear pe to unite the cotton producers of the South into one great co-operative trust, with head- quarters at 8t. Louis, and central! ware. houses in Memphis and other points, The planters are being persuaded that by such a movement a great saving and better prices can be secured in the mar. keting of their crops. 1901. | THE REPORTER'S SUPPLEMENT Business Firms Seek Trade i Profitable Meldiom i! The readers of the Reporter Through iiecth be continued for at least six « tive weeks, | reading matter and advert] {should be carefully perused j | Other business houses who have advantage of this advertisi Aare Co., gents furnishiog go and merchant tuiloring. £, x Montgomery clothing, of for fine H known throughout Cents Yeager & Davis, | Street, Belle | Bechler & Co, grocers, whose re putation F w shoe deals dfoute, who are busitiess with a vim A ments, who will be able any ki Mrs Bel IIKe ud of firstel AlRkens, who ¢ beef eionte, inaduc any other, Ladies i800, Irvin & dealers, Their tid iis D finrdware Ves, wi or Uniform legininta ists The LVara- the modern creamers | past two sessons were very unf to dairying on secount vere drought, which not onls the pasture but cut the o w. The Was very vara foe i al- into halve hay oron just peed] fair: oats and Iar;ey fi} middling, and the corn crop is very { promising; this, with the spl ture for «flect upon the milk checks for ay i to come, WM Miss Martha Wilson went urday, where the den Hall Nat &e main some Lime, guest of Mr Elmer Campbell Miss Nollie Kerlin went to Lewisburg Friday i where she will be of Miss Estie Ocker, former of this place Ne pends tt newspaper ipeburg, has ind greatly improved, The ladies of Miils churelh will hold an joe cream A the guest ly an inde in Phil. enlarged Record, pihlished Bituminous recently been M. E festival 17. All spring wy the church cordially invited. lnwn, artist Bre pmo fie Reduced Rated Lo the Seashore, The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany ha« arranged for three low-rate ten-day excursions for present season from North Bend, Troy, Bellefonte, Williamsport, Mocanaqua, Sunbury, Shenandoah, Dauphin, and prioeipal intermediate stations (including sta. tionson branch roads), to Atlantie City, Cape May, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Anglesea, Wildwood, or Holley Beach, on Thursdays, August 8 and 22, 1901. Excursion tickets, good to return hy by regular trains within ten days, will be sold at very low rates, Tickets to Atlantic City will be sold via the Delaware River Bridge Route, the only all rail line, or via Market Street Wharf, Philadelphia Stop over ean be had at Philadelphia, either going or returnigg, within Hmit of ticket. For iv formation in regard to specifi rates and time of (rains consult hand bills, or apply to agents, or KE. 8, Harrar, Division Ticket Agent, Williamsport, Pa. 1 Aug 2t, TOWK ANG COUATY MEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM PARTE Allie iis ‘uesday, nd Mrs, spent this ferman, after versal weeks in Centre Hall, Lancs he Eq , where is Das bull team orter f ra Year, opal Church at ££ aunty ’ 8 sup {f an in. dealer i= have ito which his will glireet wn Main F impr his home ie findings of the to the ot believe packed public ai Representative Harris, had organization Treasurer, will be nator W. P. Sayde: who been for State tle ¥ § i. HUY siruck in Benjs- ose in Neitz's ity. Two bolts en- ted the it bs ais { 4 HOUSES RA gn carpet Hn, bu was oxtin- Ww asd one, Og rom efor h damage r, Superintendent issued 8 cirealar i townshi ps nhodvi information wintering t fe new law makin six for EeEnap- township nigh sehoonls Ira C. Kor flew the ( of Oak irill in Mr implement nan Hall, this adver. of work for all here is in it, and finds sale for a large ar ber, TOW inetlo he Reporter Korman is business Cavering Aan ex'mnuive ter. ritory, snyder o who dependent his or wiipport, He and his family picked 900 quarts of huekleber- ries and sold them to Long and Son, atl Crossgrove, and are daily adding to their record. Minty hiss minj«ter a nnt entirely egation f upnn ng Mrs. Wm. D. Ross, of Kansas City, Kansas, and is visiting her law al Linden Hall, spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. J. Shan non Boal, in this place. Mrs. Wm. D. Ross and her husband went west about twenty vears ago. Rufus Strohm, of Philadelphia, ar- rived atl the home of his parents, Mr. aud Mrs. J. B. Strohm, Centre Hill, Monday. and the following Saturday will return taking with him his sister, Miss Lola, who will visit in Philadel. phia, and spend a few days at Atlan- tic City. Rev. A. R. Lambert, at nue time pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Plensant Gap, and was rear. ed in Boggs township, has had cone ferred upon him the degree of Ph. D., by the Taylor University, Indiana, nud the degree of D. D., by the Obio University. Perry Luse, of this place, will become tenant this fall on the MeNitt farm recently purchased oy E. M. Huyett, Mr. Huyett has hai several men work. 4 ing on the farm for some time making Improvements of a minor character, but before another year (here will be decided improvements made hott the dings, ete. is ons, airs in
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