CENTRE
VOL. LXXVIL. NO. 2.
HALL, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1904.
LETTER FROM MISS McMINN.
Ri
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
: | HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
lative and executive | FROM ALL PARTS.
f +3
Oi Lilie
TOOK HER OWN LIFE.
CENTRE COUNTY die |
IN THE CIVIL WAR, | mrs. Joseph Spangler Found Hanging in
Corl Shed, at Her Mome lu Free
AGAINST SF'HOUL ROAD LAW,
DLAND, CALIFORNIA. €
EDITOR CENTRE REPORTER,
BIR :—Bome of my friends east have
Mrs. Anna Spangler, wife of Joseph | written me for an eight or
Spangler, a farmer living just east of description of my trip west,
| Freeport, Illinois, committed suicide { oceurred to me that se
By T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. A., 148th Saturday afternoon, the 2nd inst., by |
V hanging herself with a clothesline in
the coal shed. It appeared
Vaurmers' Organization
Will Benefit
Wants Act
All Counties
all at a distance ingredible to us. thnt
o But the hills begin to crowd upon us,
port, Illinois, rg {
Here we pass u post marked on one Phrough its legi
#
the
| Grange has taken
bill
ten page side “Colorado,” on the other “New | committees
It has Mexico
me of my quon-
dam friends in dear old Centre might
dary svivani tate r 3 §1
'e Pennsylvania Btate| 1he fourth month publie
a stand against the
by the last (
se hiool
Ay
W
. " | ter, ix light
A joint meeting of these committees | :
Mrs.
held
lerm bias heen closed,
Ina twinkling we plunge intoa half | Bproul road
passed
mile tunnel dark ss Egypt and at an | Legislature,
minci, Lhe tant
post ras
be expecting something of the same, ing the ‘BIGTS
Now jnstead of writing
elevation of seven thousand six hun-|
Regiment, P.
{To be Continued | like a de- to each ipdi- dred feet, Emerging from it, the train | was in Harrisburg which Myra ! tre Hall,
CHAPTER V1. THE PRISONER'S STORY
The second was, the fact of the con-
dition of filth and misery in Belle Is-
land prison camp, now threatened to
which, with its
packed
might
become a pest-camp,
eight thousand inmates on
about seven acres of ground,
easily and quickly get beyond the con-
trol of the health of the
Confederacy. Chen woe to Richmond
Mauchester, to
In Jan. 1864, broke
out in camp, and many
authorities
and as well as our
camp. smallpox
were carpied
out aud sent to a pest
The
daily increased, and
camp,
of
prospect
AWRY
from the city. numer Canes
the un
der this additional visitation of
tion, made our situation doubly horri-
ble, inasmuch as there was no escape,
and we asked how long, and what
more shall vet be added to the misery
already endured. Our quarantine was
already established, in the vigilant
guards around us During the month
became pumerous that
si
the cases
d Mauchester
alarmed and demanded action
An
gate, requesting all
i, to report
iy
tichmon and becatn
olice was p wied at the
o desired to
wi
vi
} ital
vaccinated nospiiad
every afternoon ; the boys went out by
hundreds ev
In our mess
used, a
isk.
cap d : when it
ha i $
at last come, It
that ?
ed’
the virus
month we es-
For a
seemed that
the greatest
ur ti
was stated befo
inner, Adams
SRIne
night r took sick ; |
ana s
i
to “sick call
ood bim up
looked at hi
wired and returns
hie same day mine away, 1
spring, Our mess was all
for several weeks, fearing that
was in our tent
But scurvy,
in camp |
{ Liem all
r homes
:
never came
For mo % there had been
paroled from Island
prisoners were aliost daily coming in,
tiil, nn
gon of
tes
the and more |
g
1g
th,
thousand prisoners were in the eamp, |
itwithstanading ol sais by rea
sickness and dea over eigl
it
twice enlarged, i
which was nD
a ihe
greater the amount
CORRAL Y
number here,
of misery
a greater the
to be en- |
Is- |
durea by all. Every man on the
land was determined to do his best to
get away by the first oppor
tunity, they
eared not where, for any
ir the
possible
change must be | {
On Dee. 27th squads No. fTteV
five }
in.” lostantly, the
that the
had agreed, and the long talked of pa- |
to begin, The | wyiul
release greatly excited
better
» hundred men, were d to “fall
forth
Exchange
ail
idea went
§
3
ors of i
Commission
i
Toile was
pects {
Camp.
The commotion indescribable ;
yelling, shouiing and runoiong through |
the streets, and packing agsivst the |
gate, a dense, uncontroliable mass of
more than three thousand men, every
one of them determined of
the five hundred. I was a member of
squad No. 68 at that time, but [ work-
ed hard to “flank in,” snd made good
headway ; I began to be very hopeful ;
they were still going out and not a
dozen ahead of me. 1 got into the
gate with several others when the Con-
federate Sergeant shouted, “That is
all I” Bill we were being crowded
forward by the multitude back of us,
still pressing to get out, ‘‘Get back !”
the guards shouted ; we could not get
back ; the guards were armed with
guns and bayonets fixed, Many were
more or leas severely bayoneted ; quite
a number of Confederates had clubs
only, aud the clubbing of prisohers
also commenced, Mauy fell Gnder the
clubs ; my time had come ; they were
up to me. I turned and tried to get
out of reach, but the pack wad too
dense. Oneof the “clubbing rebels’
now took me over thie besd with his
club, and I, too, “went down in a
heap.” 1 wore my blanket like a
shawl, and became entangled in it,
Continuediat foot of next column,
pros-
the!
MH
was
to be one
termined effort of Mrs.
meet death in this manner, for when
the body was found
that
have
close to the floor by stretching
herself she could touched
floor. The body was cut down by Mr.
Spangler, who had just returned from
atrip to town,
Mrs. the
eight children, one of whom
of
a
mother
died
Spangler was
Year ago,
{ for some time and submitted to an op-
eration at Globe hospital in Freeport
| December 8 last, returning to her home
While
condition seemed t
December 31 ber physical
ried over atlairs that no doubt aflected
ber mind, The deceased was thirty-
nine vears old
and much sympathy is expressed
the busband snd mot his
Mr. acd Mrs,
from the Wil
Hall,
“Hy
spangler went west
SOL farm, east
about four
Mrs
of
Years ago,
the oldest daughter
ex-Uounty Treasurer James J.
v
Rebersburg
—
An Old Bible
Aun old
d in 180
ceived by Mrs
German family le, pur-
re-
David Keller, of Boals-
the
reer heirloom,
"
Mrs,
, several dave ago, from west,
eh
Keller's
i vidually, will You give space to the en-
| closed letter 7 And later on to another
Yours Truly,
KATE B. MoMix
1604,
141 Eureka Street,
January 0,
in Beas
the
Leaving my good friends
county, I boarded a
E. R. R. on the
Jetober, meeting my travels
Mrs,
Youngstown,
train on
evening of the 28
oft TR
{ panion, mn
th
found us in Chie
the Middle West
pot, we then
cure our sleeper
office of the =
I.
SER
| proceed
ed to the
Ten
Sears ago
this
yw iedped
it was but a faint
HOW
MT:
a1
1
thiree acres of
the fluest fabric
i
family for
from t!
Keller, who
George Shenel
Ibe book was shipped by freight,
| all ightng nivety
ndit
snd
on
book
acl
well
well
Ugh
read
great-grand-children,
making six generations who have seen
and heard res m 1 Nhene.
fie
(rermat
LeETRer
Centre Counlinns Will Hanqaet
he male
Associa
members of the Centre
nly on
| hold a banquet nt’
ih,
\
fect
© a ie i fis ef it
Mat.
ration.
1 myself ia quickly as
0
ssible | just then one of the guards
Pp
me with a bayonet, |
1o- |
thie
the situation was critical,
g out
life, I dashed against |
the
I pushed several
worst yell of my
the pack of prisoners just inside
gale, Lo =AYVe INN self
head over heels, and fell headlong over
relieved when |
£ JY of
them, aud felt greatly
[ felt others falling on me. 1
were bayoneted, | learned,
and we
the pack
had greatly thinned out, and matters!
looked more orderly,
never
tines
Thia mix-up soon
our feet
ived,
Again .
I must pot omit saying that my
head was well protected by the thick
tough, yellow rebel that |
and under the excitement of the ocean i
sion I never felt the blow that knoek- |
ed me down, although for several days |
I wore'a lump on my head the size of |
a walnut,
int wore
There was no further need of vio-
lence, if excuse for it could be given in
the first place. But the Rebel Ser.
geant, Haight by name, a deserter
from the Union Regular Army, and
the greatest tyrant of all, in charge of
the guard, was not satisfied : he snateh-
ed a musket from one of the guards,
and most brutally bayoneted several
of the prisoners. A poor emaciated,
eadaverous looking prisoner, scarcely
able to keep his feet, tottered by him ;
on seeing him at his right, he brought
the butt of the musket to the right,
and with great force butted the half
dead prisoner on the temple, and he
fell in a heap ; he gave him a thrust
wit: the bayonet, which latter, how-
ever, could give him no pain, ss the
blow on the temple had killed him.
“Get up I" the Reb. yelled, as he once
more drew the bayonet for another
thrust ; “Don’t ! you have already kill
hind’ we shouted ; “take him away,”
he commanded, he was earried out,
and we yelled, "Murderer | murderer!”
The five hundred prisoners taken out
were sent south,
I A APP NAIA
Centre Reporter $1.00 a year,
1
skilled hands in
ries, its de partmen
ported j ery
MOTH Cons
BRE Io
tii
Erie
[44] il Pp
tourist's sleeper, nt
wnfortabile
Kansas (ity
we expected to
No
we decided not
till
where we
next day
I to train
we react
Mr.
of
Harry Taylor,
Our stay
Mrs,
formerly
was indeed a
wider
d
kindness
them their
Their
link belweet a
meniory
Monday
und t
88}
At
Heasand
noon on boarded
and
lly and good natured as
We have ney.
Any of the other
the Pacific OC
nanctors
f
traveled over
through lines to
mat.
and train
other road surpass if equal
hose of the Sante Fe
in intelligence,
Our route now lay over what
truly the “Great West,”
was
We had been
through western
Kansas and Colorado, from an altitude
of four thousand feet the
till as we reached the Hatoon
of the Rockies, we were told
tude was «ix thousand feet,
gan the final ascent to the
many “lofty mountain gateways’
The Ratoon I'he grade
steep that two powerful mountain en-
gines are required to haul the train at
a rate hardly faster than a walk. The
curves are so sharp the wheels shriek
at the strain.
Here we had time to view the ever
changing scenery. Here a beautiful
canon shaded with aspen and pine, |
then, huge bare clifls, and mountain
ranges with breaks through which we
could see far out across to other rang.
unbhove BEA,
Range
the alti
Mere be
first of
Poss
is so
I SA
The Winning Estimates
J. E. Elwell, of Ottawa, Kansas,
guessed within sixty-three of the cor
rect number of clgars upon which tax
at the rate of 83 a thousand was paid |
in the month of November. The cor |
rect number was 678,167 470. Mr. Ek
well got $6,000, for bis good estimate, |
Twenty thousand dollars will be dis
tributed in prizes on secount of this
contest, |
}
seetned to rush down the steep |
Lill
co “A Territory in the Bky It
hal in the Eastern states must
ght among the clouds.”
ad then we cross, or pass in sight of,
the Old Bante Fe trail, over
journeyed every emigrant
thi 134} 11 5 rer 4 x
this Bout Western country ill ear:y
days,
Here our route lay past
ond of
ibid
dead wvolea
OER 8 Inva beds,
YO informed us
the bed
¢ Bunte Fe railroad, Here we pass 8
Lor
making
little adobe Indian
tts—an,
bu
covered with
d. Here
ranchmat
glirred tie
$
tid] recrossed
A great river
came “This is
al washes all this
the rainy season
i= hol =»
Rluiral wonders
“el Lo be appreciated
day al noon we reached
Ash
bye to
left
Phoenix,
tied here we bade
good
LOO
Our passengers, who us
taking a branch road to in
that boone
greatest of all
*
night shortly
wssed “The Needles’ a town
rom two lofty peaks just on
luesday
i
after
i! i
e between Arizona and Califor |
“Now all get ofl if you want to |
think
train
i
res |
enough,
see Iondiaos" 1 fow
the
Indians to the right of us,
ti
miser«ble, homely, tatooed creatures,
their arms outstretched
very
mained on Mure
Indians tol
¢ left of us, Indians all around us
with ~hung |
AnX-
Two
A good many
Returning to the Gar,
berths were made up, and we were
n asleep, forgetful alike of
beads, Indiane, or anything elee tan-
gible. Soon after midnight the porter
roused tis to say that we were nearing
Barstow, Here we left the Ban Fran.
cisco train and our jolly traveling
companion, who pursued her way to
Stockton, while we, after a half hours’
wait, took our seat In a chair car for
San Bernardino, reaching it by 4:20
p.m,
After a wait of several hours we got
a car for Redlands and were soon at
our destination, thankful that God
had so kindly watched over us all the
way.
with beautiful strings of beads,
iously begging, "Havey some ?
bite, four bits, dolla.”
invested our
fast
Wi
Church Conference for York,
The Central Pennsylvavia Confer
ence of the United Evangelical church
will hold ite annual conference in York
opening March 1, next. The sessions
will be held in Trinity chureh, Rev.
H. A. Benfer, pastor, Bishop W, F.
Heil, of Chicago, will preside, and
Bishops Hartzler, Dubs and Stanford
are to be present.
[all classes of properly should bear
that a tax of
TORO
least one mill should be placed
pers nal and corporate property
| raised should be applied to
local taxation.
Hepresentat
{Columbia county, a member
1 3
of
f benefit
iegisialive committee, said
present jaw
Wik
ul one-i
min
Outil
jue i
LAKE Al
i
ward
H
wre
g subscribers
eo H
AR Wy
it ler says
have stated Uw
to
Howard,
ewiabilish
Factory in and now,
glad to announce, that ene
has been sold and the contr
the plant closed, the smount, sixteen
cle At
meeting
thousand liars, being raised
a tiiltlee
the last
und to erect it
have been
The
ploy 150 persons, and every person
on, and they
facts will em-
foside of 30 davs the
erecting the building will commence
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y
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$00 goods
shades
visited the Centre Hall
hit.
« Bid
i Mondays
i He
ited} thie
midwin
i
, died al
Lock Have
under the
Woven
3
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Hi
er,
d
ever,
of
s, AD
AN
us, the
David X
wit i LOT ae pe fats
Meise, t be
Wh
y had an ex-
to
not
He tasking a
m the Centre Hall
Mr iss’ st ; and on
took
the wnole
perience
Merchant
to
ond of groceries fre
ion to
ging
Dat does
repeat
¥
ng Tusses vi is horse
ght and sp ed Dave and
load on the grou I'he animal ran
hoine
Ex-Bheriff and Mrs, C. C, Brungart,
of the latter's
Alexander, this
The Sheriff’ is quite
ve Valley, This is due
of Bellefonte, esis
Mrs
place, Tuesday.
were g
James in
popular in Pes
that Bherifl Brungart was
in office, and remain.
th
was In fore
ed just e same Cyrus Brungart he
being elected to the
ty's chief office,
coun.
Lavi Stump, of Tusseyville, was a
caller last week. He will have sale
March 15th, and will quit the farm tp
move to Bpring Baok, between Mill
heim and Hebersburg at which place
he purchased the Foust property.
James Moyer, of Tuosseyville, will be
his nearest seighbor having purchased
the property across the pike from the
one which will be occupied by Mr.
Stamp.
“Miss Bob White” is to appear in
Garman's Opera House, Bellefonte,
Tuesday, January 10. Those who
want to see a clean comedy opers can
have an opportunity to do so when
Mies Bob comes to Bellefonte. The
Reporter predicts that Messrs. Nixon
& Zimmerman who will present this
opera, will be able to please every per.
son in the audience, It is complete,
delightful and pleturesgue, but not
overdressed or overdone JM the lavish
expenditures have been fir talent and
not for tinsel, which together with
the meritorious book and melodious
music, are a triumvirate hard to beat.