VOL. LXXVI.
NO. 40.
CENTRE COUNTY
148th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
By T. P. Meyer, Se rgeant Co.
Regiment, P. V.
{To be Continued.)
CHAPTER 1V.
While this was in progress the
Division of our Corps, it was said,
flanked and captured this battery. In
a few minutes however, several other
batteries opened on us from
quarter. We fell and formed a
line of battle along the edge of
rider
A., 148th
3d
a new
back
wood, behind a high stake and
fence.
In moving off, the dead
were left lying on the field.
a ‘‘conscript” lying
great, bulging, new knapsack, which
a comrade had cut from
to free him. It was a dangerous place
to halt; but I ed, after
ing sure that he wus dead I swung his |
knapsack
carried it with me
the line behind the fer
my prize and found |
there was a full new uniform, under- |
wear, a complete soldiers outfit, worth |
about thirty dollars.
if I would harry 1
new uniform
dead beside a
hall and
over my shoulder and]
ice. I examined
the contents of
I concluded that |
could put the
the battle would
begin again. there, in
tle, I quickly threw off everything I |
had the shoes and
minutes I was dressed
from head to
outfit from this, day (Oct 14
spring of the following year without |
on
Lelore
=o line of bat-|
on, even in a few]
new and clean |
foot. I wore this entire |
to the]
1
change or washing, as will appear
further on in this narrative
I left my own outfit lying
zi
¢
it
packed the minor articles o
razor,
ye prize, |
combs, thread, needles, i
envelopes, stamps, ete, into my own
knapsack.
The division of 2d
unader Gen Warren did the rear guard
fiehtiong;
were cut off froma the rest of the army.
paper,
first the corps |
we were hard pressed and
For awhile our brigade was considered |
captured. We dodged around Among |
the hills and in
lines of battle
Compass, Ihe
which the 148th
the rear guard and the 148th the
the
woods and formed |
iu all directions of the
Fourth to
was attached, formed |
Brigade,
rear |
of all; the pioneers to the rear, as the
Regiment moved out “left in front.” |
Wherever we turned the Confederates
were ready for us. Once
shifted and on the “Double
lef: the field, determined
escape,
along a wood
more we
Quick”
to make our |
ya road ranning
Fhe Co
ed a line of battle through this woods,
reaching the road just in time to fire a |
terrific volley into the rear of our col-
umuo and rush it ia flank
We bolted out of the road and went |
pell mell across a small field, for a strip |
of woods beyond. What are the orders?
The pioueers asked. No orders, I]
said, every man can will
himself from capture. Many
reached the woods but were shot down
in the field because we did
Wels 8
Wem
federates push-
that save
never
not heed
the enemy's challenge to halt and sur- |
render. About two hundred of us|
were captured; while many others,
keeping the field to the leit, escaped.
Twenty million dollars is
{ for the fiscal year beginning the first
| of next July.
The postmaster general may not ask
[directly for this amount in his esti-
| the conditions of the rural service in
{such a way that Congress will under-
{stand how much it will have to appro-
| priate if it desires that the routes now
lin operation be maintained, those sur-
| veyed put in operation and adequate
| provision made for further extension,
| where feasible, during the next fiscal
{ year. The appropriation for the rural
| service for the current fiscal year was
i & little over $12,000,000, of which about
$9,000,000 will be used in maintenance
{and the remainder in extension of the
About
wen established since July 1, and
| 110 more can be established before the
routes have
0
-y
| service
!
I
+, 900 new
Ty
[journal's ideas on the new road law are
ty commissioners throughout the state.
poses i
necessitate. The Press is quoted in full
The County Commissioners of the
their annual convention in Pittsburg
Friday after a two days’ session, in
whith the spirit of reforming things
A very large proportion of the members
the past,
Amoog the things the convention
decided to do, as wa find vur Pittsburg
urge
the repeal of the present road improve-
and
mporaries reporting, is to
ment law a return to the old sys-
tem This is rather remarkable action
for a body of officials presumed to be
the public welfare. The
has not what
Though under its
pays two-thirds
t of road-makiong, there has
been no such demand on the part of
present road law done
was expected of it.
Niate
townships for the as«istance as was ex-
who were most enter-
in getting the act through the
last Legislature, In fact, it now
pretty generally regarded as having
failed to accomplish what was desired.
i sebedd by those
wr
rising
in
That, however, presents no argument
for a return to the old system. Noth-
i greater failure than
Only in t
be a
that was hie rarest iostances
was there even a pretense of having
roads under it. To uader-
to that system would
to definitely abandon of the
irtant under-
years,
even decent
v hae lk
0 DRCK
take to g
be one
most imp movements
taken in the State for many
Ala-
bama, io discusses the
reappearance of the negro issue in the
politics of the country. He puts the
responsibility entirely on President
Congressman Richardson, of
an interview
people are particularly sensitive. Mr.
Richardson say« the reappearance of
the race issue is not the work or the
will of the southeru people, but that
“it is directly traceable to Mr. Roose.
| velit. Our relations with the negro at
| thé time of the death of Mr. McKinley
{ were of the very best character. The
ry asthe battles of Auburn and Biisto
and the entire movement as the cam-
paign of manoeuvres
The Confederates losing the race for
the fortified positions of Bristoe and
Bull run reireated to their former po-
sition ou the Rapidan, the Union ar-
my closely following.
On recovering the Auburn battle
field some of my comrades went to the
spot where in the tumult, they had
last seen me. There were many shal-
low soldiers graves scattered around,
They uncovered one which they im-
agined might shelter me and identified
the remains. They cut the chevronrs
from the coat sleeves and sent them to
my home, together with the story of
my killing.
Three months, during all of which
time I had been dead to my people,
passed by before I succeeded in getting
a letter through to my home, from
Belle Island Prison Encampment, in
the James River, at Richmond, Va.,
informing them of my condition and
“place of abode.”
Here we begin a new chapter of
personal experience and observations
as a prisoner of war.
A Mp
If you have anything to sell, adver.
tise it in the Reporter. A few lines in
the local column will reach every com-
munity in Centre county, and cost
you but a trifle,
The Mifflin county fair next week
promises to be of special interest to
those foud of horee racing. With men
of the type of Joseph Kelley, of Reeds.
ville, president, and A. C. Mayes, of
the sasociation the fair is bound to
come popular, !
%
| Roosevelt has rendered those relations
[strained, suspicious and sensitive in
This appears to be the
| prevalent opinion at the south. It will
| affect the vote of that section, and to a |
more limited extent make itself felt at |
the north.
| character.”
The speeches at Allentown by the |
various Democratic nominees and |
those addressed to them in formal |
notification of their choice by the!
party as standard-béarers proved most
forcibly how many Biate issues exist
in this Commonwealth that demand
settlement this year without prejudice.
ing the minds of voters upon National
questions next year. Careful attention
should be given to the eloquent pre-
sentations and as the campaign de-
velops it may become manifest that a
mwsejority of the people have grown
tired of having the finger of scorn
pointed from every State and direc
tion at this riog-ridden Common-
wealth,
Rf SH
Powerful pressure from Senators and
Representatives, who do not want any
extra session of Congress has failed to
induce the President to change bis pur-
pose of having one. It will be called
for November 9, and will almost cer-
tainly be in session until the regular
session opens in December,
sp —— A A SRA
Governor Pennypacker has appoint.
ed Miss Mary Ethel Rue, daughter of
Rev. J. W. Rue, pastor of the M. E,
church at Banbury, toa free scholar.
ship in the Philadelphia school of In-
dustrial Art,
I AA —————
Centre Reporter $1.00 a year,
~
end of the year with the remainder of
the appropriation available,
It is expected that early in the com-
ing session Congress will make an
emergency appropriation, as was done
at the last session, for the purpose of
tional new routes that have been laid
out before the expiration of the fiseal
year, the expenses of which could not
be met out of the present appropria-
tion. By the 30th of June it is ex-
pected that there will be in operation
about 21,000 routes, the maintenance
of which, in the next fiscal year, will
cost over $13,000,000. If Congress votes
the $20,000,000 for the service which
the postmaster general will indicate is
needed in his report, there will, there.
fore, be about $8,000,000 for extension
next year. This is expected to be
enough to establish all the routes that
are feasible throughout the entire
country.
That
apparently not popular with the coun-
The hesitancy on the part of the com-
Failure as it is, so far as the accom-
road law is a distinet
advantage as showing the disposition
of the State in the matter of improve-
ment. While there may have been
differences of opinion as to methods
and details, there was practically but
one sentiment among the people as to
cerned, the new
the importance of making some prog-
DEATHS,
JOHN M. NEIDIG,
From the Millbeim Journal : John
M. Neidig died at the home of Lewis
Winegardner, at Fiedler, aged fifty-
eight years. He has left to survive
two brothers, Jacob, of Haines town-
ship, and ‘Daniel, of State College, and
one sister, Mrs. Bamuel Kreamer, of
Fiedler. Funeral services were held
on Bunday morning and interment
was made in the Bt. Paul cemetery.
tev. F. E. Lauffer conducted the ser-
vices,
MES, MARY MEYER.
Mrs, Mary Meyer, relict of Reuben
Meyer, died at the home of her son-in-
law, Dr. J. W. Bright, at Rebersburg,
Monday afternoon of last week, of pa-
ralysis, aged about eighty-three years.
Bhe left to survive six children, viz:
Jerome, living on the old homestead
in Miles township; Amazon, of
Booneville ; Calvin, Pueblo, Colorado ;
Daniel, Osceola ; Mrs. J. B. Kreamer,
and Mrs. J. W. Bright, Rebersburg,
Funeral services were held Thursdsy
forenoon following. Interment was
made in the Union cemetery at Re-
bersburg, Rev. Wetzel condaicting the
BETVICeS,
DR. H. H. ROTHROCK.
Dr. H. H. Rothrock, formerly a res-
ident of Hecla, died at the home of his
sou, J. H. Rothrock, in Lock Haven,
Thursday night of last week, at the
age of seventy years,
He survived by the following
children: Mrs. C. E. Weston and Er-
pest H., Tyrone ; Mrs. W. W. Reed,
Johuvsonburg ; J. Herbert, Clifford T,
William C. and Harold, Lock Haven.
is
ress, and a good deal of progress in the
way of road improvement.
The new law has
thiogs that ean hardly be ignored in
future legislation oun this subject, It
has committed the State to the policy |
of State aid in the improvement of |
township roads ani toan official super- |
vision of the work that will make the
roads what they should be when any-
thing at all is done to them. To aban-|
don these now would be to yield ail
hope of securing good roads sat any |
reasonable time in the fature., That
popular sentiment is in favor of that |
we do not believe. What is obviously
wanted is some change in the law |
which will make it more adaptable to |
the conditions in most sections of the
State, not repeal and the complete |
abandonment of road improvement,
which repeal would mean.
done at least two |
Those County Commissioners who |
were in favor of going back to old con-
ditions have not the spirit that import- |
ant public officials should be possessed |
of
represent the sentiment of the people,
We do not believe they accurately
Tour to the Pacifle Const
On account of the meeting of the
National Bankers’ Association, to be
held at San Francisco, Cal., October 20
to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany offers personally-conducted
tour to the Pacific Coast at remarka-
bly low rates,
This tour will leave New York, Phil-
adelphia, Baltimore, Washiogton, and |
other points on the Pennsylvania
Railroad east of Pittsburg, Wednesday,
October 14, by special train of the
highest grade Pullman equipment. A
quick run westward to Ban Francisco
will be made, via Chicago, Omahs,
Cheyenne, and Ogden,
Five days will be devoted to Ban
Francisco, Returning, the special
train will run to Los Angeles, where
two days will be spent among the re-
California. Banta
on
dy
n
Colorado Bprings, Denver, and St,
Louis will be visited on the journey
eastward. The party will reach New
York on the evening of November 4.
Round-trip rate, covering all ex-
penses for eighteen days, except five
days spent in Ban Francisco, $190.
Rates from Pittsburg will be 85 less,
For full information apply to Ticket
Agents, or Geo. W, Boyd, General
Passenger Agent, Broad Street Sta-
tion, Philadelphia, Pa.
nm ———— A ———————
LOCALS,
Miss Grace Bmith, of Centre Hall,
has charge of the fancy goods depart-
ment at the Centre county fair.
Lou Dillon and Major Delmar are
the only ones who ever kept the prom-
Ise held out in the sign, “Will be back
in two minutes.”
Messrs, Clyde Stamm and George
Bearson, of Linden Hall, were in town
Monday. They are threshermen, and
report the crop in their district as up
to the average.
J. W. McCormick, son-in-law of D.
J. Meyer, in this place, is a witness in
the Tillman trial. He heard Editor
Gonzales’ death statement. Mr. Me-
Cormick is an undertaker in Columbia,
8. CU, and when the shooting took
place he and Mrs. McCormick were
only a short distance from the scene.
The deceased was born near Belle-
many years practiced
Nearly twen-
which
he went
to the home of his son where his death
occurred. Death was caused by paral-
Yuin,
George Thomas Sigel, of Tyrone, a
fireman on the Penusylvania railroad,
died of typhoid fever last week. His
was thirty-two years. He was
born in Nittany Valley, and is surviv-
ed by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Si.
gel, wife and two children.
Samuel Brugger, of Unionville, diéd
ss Ms tly
LOCALS
Tailor W, A. Sandoe is employed
Miss Bertha Wolf, of Centre Hall,
spent Sunday in Spring Mills.
After oth,
October laundry sent
Miss Edith Lutz was the delegate
from Centre Hall to the Epworth
League convention at Howard, last
week,
Col. J. L. Spangler donated the
Bellefonte Hospital a car of coal. That
was & good act, and may lead others to
do similar deeds,
J. W. Gobble, of Georges Valley, had
business in Centre Hall Mon day. Mr.
Gobble lives on one of the farms own-
ed by his father-in-law, Bamuel Ertle,
W. A. Alexander, south of Centre
Hall, offers for sale thirteen pigs: six
are four weeks old and seven are six
weeks old. These pigs are in good
condition,
August Geyer, of Loganton, at the
age of eighty-three years, frequently
walks from his home to Lock Haven,
a distance of sixteen miles, to attend
meetings of the Knight Templars.
Miss Carrie Spicher, last week went
to Patton, to visit her brother James
M. Spicher, who has been a railroad
employe at that place for thirteen
years. She will return home this week
The rare musical talent of Miss Do-
ra Meyer, daughter of ComMissioner
Philip H. Meyer has been recognized
by the members of the Reformed
church in Bellefonte, by selecting that
young lady to preside at the new pipe
organ dedicated Sunday.
Charles Larimer, son of W. V. Lari-
mer, of Bellefonte, came home from
Philipsburg suftering from appendici-
tis. Friday morning a Philadelphia
specialist performed an operation,
which proved to be entirely successful,
and there is little doubt of his recovery.
Bruce Stahl, a lad of seven years,
killed a large opossum, which, from
all indications, is the one that made
its escape from the Reporter's menag-
erie. The little animal apparently
was on ita way to Black Hawk where
it was first captured by Veteran John
Coble.
R. A. Kinsloe, a brother-in-law of
Mrs. D. H. Hastings, who for years
was publisher of the Bituminous Rec-
ord at Philipsburg, has purchased the
news and cigar stand in the North
American building in Philadelphia,
snd will take charge of the same in
the near future,
TO SPOIL DEMOURATIO THUNDER,
To spoil a lot of Democratic thunder
by a congressional investigation of the
postal frauds, it is announced that the
Republicans of the coming Congress
will undertake the investigation on
their own account. Assuming that
the disclosures of varied forms of fraud
and corruption have been made by
legal and other investigations started
by President Roosevelt and the post-
master general, it is difficult to see how
matters can be mended by a congres-
gional investigation undertaken by Re-
publicans in the interest of that party.
The purpose is too openly avowed to
be one of whitewash. If it silences
‘Democratic thunder,” how will it
operate on Republican eriminality ?
Can that be suppressed in view of what
has been made known? A leading
Washington correspondent explains
that ‘‘it is realized that the develop-
ments of the last six months have
created an impression that the post-
office department is honeycombed
with ‘graft’ and ‘grafters,’ and that
the party in power must clean the
household.” As the postoffice depart-
ment, with its immense outlays and
income, has been under Republican
control, in root and branch, since
March 1897, it will not be difficult to
fasten the chief measure of responsi-
bility for the corruption in contracts
and favoritiem in patronage.
Sh SIR
That was an apt phrasing of a West-
ern official who said in a speech that
“a politician wants the people to do
something for him ; a statesman does
something for the people.” In Penn-
eylvania we have politicians.
eem———r—— og —
Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, of Minneso-
ta, favors the establishment of a chair
of common sense in Methodist semi-
naries. Buch ipstitutions are not the
only places where similar chairs are
needed. Good common sense is often
overlooked in the curriculum of uni-
versities and colleges.
sersae——————— lf age—
President Roosevelt in ending a con-
ference with some well known labor
leaders by declining to change his ab-
solutely correct position in regard to re
instating Foreman Miller in the Gov-
ernment printing office, he naturally
seized upon the occasion to utter some
far sounding words, but no matter,
He announced a broad creed, and it
may compel him to reinstate Miss
Hulda Tood as postmistress at Green-
wood, Del. He certainly is pot a
President for the Addicks party only.
a —————— a ————
The American Protective Tarift
League, whose motto is “Stand Pat
and Divide,” has issued a pamphlet
inveighing against President Roose-
veit's pet idea of Cuban reciprocity,
They incorporate an argument of the
late Thomas B. Reed, and that the
President will not be so far misled as
to injure the country. They fear the
slightest breach in the walls of Dip.
gleyism. This is thestand pat repulse
of the dying plea of McKinley for
opening a gate in the walls and sailing
through it out tosea. And yet in his
memory a miserable masquerader is
preaching the stand pat doctrine and
shedding copious tears as his bosom
friend
Among those expected to be heard
on the stump, in addition to R. Scott
Ammerman, Ex-Governor Pattison
and the candidates for Auditor General
and State Treasurer, are ex-Chairmen
Robert E. Wright, of Lehigh; James
A. Btranahan, Dauphin, and William
T. Creasy, Columbia; LaRue Manson
and Beth T. McCormick, Lycoming;
Lee Lybarger, Union; ex-Representa-
tive W. Rush Gillan, Franklin; Robert
C. McNamara, Bedford; ex-Judge D.
L. Krebs, Clearfield; ex-Congressman
Simon P. Wolverton, Northumber-
land; State Senator E. M. Herbert,
Berks; ex-Representative John H.
Fow, Philadelphia; William J. Bren-
nen and D. F. Patterson, Allegheny;
Robert E. James, Northampton; Col.
William Fairman, Jeflerson; ex-Con-
gressman A. H. Coffroth, Somerset;
Col. F. J. Fitzsimmons, Lackawanna;
ex-Mayor Horace Rose, Cambria, and
Col, Jackson L. Spangler, Centre.
ss A— A —————.
By the death of Chief Justice J.
Brewster MeCollum the Supreme
Bench of Pennsylvania loses a pure,
upright and able jurist and the Com-
monweéalth an honored citizen. He
was nominated by the Democratic
Btate Convention in 1888, His election
was hopeless at the time of his nomi.
nation, but soon after Justice Trunkey
died in Europe. This event made Jus-
tice MeCollum's election certain under
the constitutional provision for minor
ity representation on the Bupreme
Bench, and he was elected with Jus.
tice James T. Mitchell at the ensuing
election. Their commissions expiring
on the same date, the first Monday in
January, 1001, lots were drawn for su.
periority in rank. Justice McCollum
drew the prize, and on the death of
Chief Justice Green became Chief Jus-
tice. Justice Miller now becomes
Chief Justice.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
Col. William J. Bryan is preparing
for an European trip.
D. C. Runkle, of Pittsburg, is back
for a car load of horses,
the Belle-
dedicated
The new pipe organ in
fonte Reformed church was
Bunday.
The overproduction of coal is a
strange contrast to the situation of a
year ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas GG, Wilson and
children, of this place, were in Howard
over Bunday.
Bamuel] Klinefelter, last week, made
his first trip to Centre Hall since be-
ing ill with typhoid fever.
Col. John P.
minor improving on his farm, at the
Old Fort, tenanted by George Bradford,
The enterprise of Dr. W. O. M'En-
tire, of Howard, is being felt in that
town. He is building dwelling houses,
Mrs. Naucy A. of
Leidy, Clinton county, was in town
last week to assist her sister, Mrs. P.F.
Keller, in moving.
Taylor is doing some
Bummerson,
Jack Frost may not have damaged
the corn crop, but he has blighted the
peekaboo shirtwaist and the
dropstitch hosiery.
J. C.
wilted
Goheen, son of J. J. Goheen,
of Rock Springs, was injured by a
street car in Philadelphia. He is
home at present, for “repairs.”
Dr. Thomas Hayes
Bellefonte, have
Banta Barbara, California, where
has been their for
spend the winter,
of
for
it
years to
and wife,
left that piace
custom
J. B. Spangler, of Tusseyville, the
tax collector of Potter township collect-
ed about one-half the township tax du-
plicate before October 1. A good show-
ing for Potter township.
The extensive lime kilns
ries located in Benner township,
operated by W. H. Walker, have been
purchased by the Centre County Lime
Company. The capacity will be
doubled.
and quar-
Ira C. Corman and J. W. Baunday, of
near Pine Grove Mills, each lost a
horse by being kicked. In both cases
the legs of the horses were broken, and
the animals had to killed to end
their misery.
De
Ira Lepley, A. H. Swanger and Mr.
Marks, of Beaver Springs, shot two
young bears, weighing fifty
pounds each, on the ridge near Man-
beck’s church one day last week. The
mother made her escape back to Jack's
mountain,
about
The Lewisburg fair was attended by
the following persons from this locali-
ty : Mr.and Mrs. Lyman L. Smith,
D. W. Bradford, Mrs. E. W. Crawlord,
Mrs. Milford Luse, J. J. Arney, James
W. Runkle, Miss Maggie Stiver, Wm.
Krape, James A. Keller.
Rev, George T. Gunter, of Union
City, Indians, who recently received a
unanimous call to the pastorate of the
First Presbyterian church of Tyrone,
bas accepted that call and expects to
enter upon the work in his new field
about the first week in November.
The Orangeville (Illinois) Courier
has the following note concerning a
Centre county young lady : Miss I.
Mae Bmith, of Rebersburg, Pa., a niece
of Mrs. J. H. Cook, and Mrs. Isabel
Coy, of Rockford, sister of Mrs, Cook,
were the guests of that lady this week.
W. Frank Bradford Thursday of last
week placed six caus of brook trout in
Laurel Run, passing through the
Seven Mountains, Many of the beau-
ties were three inches in length. The
trout were accompanied by a messen-
ger, who turned them over to Mr.
Bradford.
Among those mentioned as probable
appointees to the judgeship of the Bed-
ford-Huntingdon-Miflin district to fill
the place made vacant by Judge Bail-
ey, are Thomas W. Myton, Hunting-
don; J. H. Long, and Edward M.
Pennell, of Bedford, and Joseph M,
Woods, of Lewistown.
The Reporter during the last six
months lost two subscribers whose
post office address is Centre Hall.
This, however, does not lessen the
number of readers of the Reporter.
These individuals have been habitual
borrowers from subscribers who pay
for their paper out of hard earned oash,
while the borrowers themselves are
well-to-do. “It's a measly shame.”
Four ships arrived at New York last
week carrying an average of 1,200 im-
migrants each. Seven other ships ar-
rived carrying about 500 immigrant
each, During one period of 48 hoy
over 7,000 immigrants were land
Ellis Island. During the three mq
of July, August and Septembeg
year the immigration amou
108,800 persons; during
months of this year it will