The Centre Democrat, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT is pub d every Thursday morning, st Bellefoute Centr uty, Pa. 50 LY] TERMBUash in ad vanoe . oo visemiisman moe $ devoted to the interests ol the ©» IE not paid Ls advance agin ALIVE PAPER hole people. ¢ayments made within three months willbe con dered {pn advance, No paper will be discontinued until arrearagos are paldexcept at option of publishers Papers going out of the county must be pald fer in advance, L Any personprocuring us ten cash subscribers will present a copy free of charge. : Our extensive circulation makes this paper an un- asually reliably snd profitable medium for advertising. 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DIRECTORY. DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICERS. Congress, Hon, A.G. Currin, Bellefonte, State Senator, Hon. W, A. Wattacs, Clearfield, Representatives, Hon. J, A. WoopwanD, Hon, L. Ruoxe, Pr sident (Judge 40th Dist, Centre and Huntingdon | | Hou, A. O. Fuasr, Bellefonte. Asociate Judges, Hon, C, Munson, Hon J. RB. Sain. Quuaty Commissioners, A. J. Gninsr, Jxo. Worr, Jxo. Hexvenson, Commissioners’ Clerk, G. W. Ruxsssena, Sheriff, W. Muses Warkes. Deputy Sheriff, Wx, Dukexax, Prothonotary, L. A. Bemasrrie, Treasarer, Ouas. Surry, Register and Olerk Orphans’ Court, J. A, MoCrary, Recorder, Frans EB. Bisse, District Attorney, J. C. Marea, Coroner, Dr. H. K. Hoy, County Detective, Cap’t A. MoLLay, CHURCHES, Presbyterian, Howard street, Rev, Wm. Laurie Pastor Services every Sunday st 10-30 4 x. and 7 » uw. Sanday School (Chapel) st 230 »r. w. Prayer Meeting (Chapel) Wednesday at 7-30». wn. M. E Church, Howard and Spring Streets, Rev. D, 2. Monroe, Pastor, Services avery Sunday st 10.30 4 sm. and Tr. x Sanday School at 2-90 r. x. Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 7-30 ». x, #0. John's Protestant Episcopal Oburch, Lamb and Allegheny strests, Rev. J. Oswnld Davis, Rector, Services every Sunday st 1030 a. x, and Tr. x Prayer Meeting Wednesday and Friday evenings. £1. John's Roman Ustholic, "East Bishop Street, Rev, P. MoArdle Pastor. Mass at & and services 1830 4, x, wd Tro Reformed, Linn and Ppring streets, Ree. W. 1. 1 Snyder Pastor, Services ev: ry Sunday at 10-30 4. wu andi Rm, Sunday School at 2-30 vr. x. Poayer Neeting Wednesday evening at 7.90, Lutheran, East High street, Bev, Chas. T. Steck, Pastor Services every Sunday at 1030 4. ww. and 7». wu. Sanday School at 330 vr. nm. Prayer Meeting st 1-30 Wednesday evening. United Brothern, High and Thomas Streets, Rev Wertman, Pastor, Bervices every other Sunday st 1030 A. x. ond Tr. x. Bunday School at # 4. n. Pray. ar Mesting Wednesday at 7-30 ». uw. AM. E Church, West High Street, Rev. Norris, Pastor, Services every Sunday morning and evenin M. C. A, Bpring and High Streets. Geners Meating and Services Sunday at 4 r w. Library and Reading Room open from § 4. &. to 10 ru, daily. LODGES, Bel'sfonte Lodge No. 208 A. Y. M., meets on Toes iy + ght on or before avery full moon, Belle » Chapter No. 241, meets on the frst Fri iy night of every month, Jonstans Commandery No. 53 K. T., riday night of every month Centre Lodge No. 153, 1. 0. 0. F. meet every Thurs iny evening ot 7 o'clock at 1. 0. 0. ¥. Hall, opposite jash House Bellefonte Encampment No meets the second and fourth Mondays of seach month in the Hall op- posite the Bush Houes, Bellefonte Council No. 270, 0. of UU, A.M. mesis avery Tuesday evening in Bush Arcade, Logan Branch Council No. 141, Junior Order U. A M. meets every Friday evening. Bellefonte Conclave No. 111.1 0. H. meets in Har ris’ New Buildiag the second and fourth Friday eve niug of seach month. Bellefonte Fenciblea™Co, “B." Sth Reg. N. 4G. P. moots in Armory Hall every Fooday evening. on the second State Convention. Puiaoeirnia, July 23, 1587, The Democratic State Convention to nominate a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, a candidate for State Treasurer, and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before it, will meet at Allentown on Wednesday, August 31, at 12 o'clock, noon, The representation in the Conven- tion will consist of representative dele. gates, one for each 1,000 Democratic votes cast for Governor at the last guberna- torial election, or for a fraction of 1,000 such votes amounting to 500 or more in the nr tive representative districts provided that each representative dis- trict shall have at least one delegate, Darras Saxons, Wu. F. Daxsenower, Chairman. Secretary. Recouxexparion or Stare Covmirres yor tne Avreration or Roiw 1.—The State Central Committes shall consist of one member from each County, and iniiaddition, that is entitled to more than one State Senstor shall have an additional member for each additional Senator, The Chairman of the local county organization shall be ex-officio a member of the State Committee. Ad- ditional members (in counties entitled to them,) shall be appointed in such manner as the local regulations of the respective county organizations may determine. For $ Hus Avrerarion or Rue [11- | searched A TRAINS AWFUL JUMI™ ’ . a From first puye. carpenters were tuiking rough coffins 10 esrry fo their homes the bodies of the excursionists, who, twelve hours before, had left their homes full of plasureable expectations, When the news of the first Aashed over the wires prompt aid wos at ones sent. De. Steele, chief surgeon of the Toledo, Peorip and Western Road had come on a special train, and with him were two other sur- goons and their assistants, and from every city whenece the unfortunate ex- and friends burried on to help them. From Peoria had come also delegations of the Red Men and the Ancient Order of the United Workmen, members of both societies having been on the ill- fated train, and so after 8 o'clock in the morning thers were plenty of peo- { prompt attention. | WAS THE TRAIN DELIBERATELY WRECKED | No sconer had the wreck occured | than a scene of robbery commenced, Some band of unspeakable miscreants | | 4 | plundered the dead from this terrible | accident, and took even the shoes { which covered their feet, Who these | Whether | they were a band of pick-pockets who | wretches were is not known. | accompanied the train, or some robber gang who were lurkiog in the vicinity, cannot be said, Tne horrible suspicion, however, ex- { ists (and there are many who give it | credit) that the accident was a deliber. | ately planned csse of train-wrecking; § j creants who hoped to seize the oppor- | tunity offered; and the fact that the | bridge was so far consumed at the time the train came along, aod the sdded { fact that the train was an hour and { half late, are pointed out as evidence of a careful conspiracy. The robbers went into the cars when pinned there begged them “for God's sake to help them out” they stripped them of their watches and jewelry and their pockets for money: When the dead were laid out in the corn-fields these hyenas turned them over in their search for valuables That the plundering was done by an organized gang was proyed by the fact thal this morning out in the corn-Beld sixteen purses, all empty, were found in one heap. It was a ghastly plunder- ing, aod had the plunderers been | caught this afternoon they would surely have been lynched. AN EXTIRE FANILY DESTROYED There was one incident of the scei- dent which stood out more horrible than all of those horrible scenes. In the second coach was a man, his wife and his little child. not be learned to-day, but it is said he got on at Peoria. When the acciden, occurred the entire family of thiee were His name could caught and held dywn by broken wood- work. Finally when relief came the man turned to the rescuers said: first; I'm afraid the child So they esr. ried out the mother, end s% & broken seat was taken off her crushed br «st the blood which flowed from her lips told how badly she was hurt. They carried the child, a fair-baired, blue- eyed girl of 3, and laid her in the c wn field, dead, alongside mother, Then they went back for the father, and brought him out. Both his legs were broken, but he crawled through the corn to the side of his wife, and feeling her loved features in the dark- ness, pressed some brandy to her lips and asked her how she felt. A feeble groan was the only answer, and the next instant she died. The man felt the forms of his dead wife and child, and eried out : “My God, there is noth. ing more for me to live for now,” and taking a pistol out of his pocket, pulled the trigger. The bullet went through his brain, and the three bodies of that little family are now lying side by side in Chatsworth waiting to be identified. A PASSENGER'S STORY. H. W. White, of Peoria, one of the uninjured passengers, gives this account of the accident : “I was in the second sleeper. The train was going fast when, all at once about midnight, there came o] peculiar shaking rnd jostling. 1 thought we bad been derailed. Our porter said : ‘We are all right.’ Then some one cried: "There is fire ahead Iv I got up and went to the front of the ear, and found the first engine had rushed on, but the second engine had tumbled into the chasm. The first car had tured st right angles with the and feehly “Take ont my wife is dead.” of her dying disaster was | cursionists had come their physicians | the fire was burning fiercely underneath and whea the poor wretches who were | . of them had their legs broken, After an hour and a half we cleared the car relief, | i bodies taken out. Probably there were a dozen TAKING OUT THE DEAD, "y | : 3 { assisted in taking the dead down, We went down on out, sliding them down the plank, they were dead they were putin one A wall-dreased mun was «0 badly injured that bowels were protruding, cossantly for water, and ss he could not { be attended to he finally pulled out nis pile, if alive, in another, his He called in- [revolver and shot himself through the head, decker, about 12 years old, was found on the bosom of his dead mother. { left leg hung by the skin, bis right arm { was broken, and one eye was put out | He never uttered a groan. They pulled {him out and tried to give him a drink [ of brandy. He refused { said : ‘Give me water! I found a head | hanging from a truck, It was that of a i man, and bad been caught by the hair. | | found several headless bodies, who recognized the desd ticketed them. Cuaxraix, | { | | immediately | kL, 14. J | Baker, professor of civil engineering in August | the university of Illinois, has made a {carefull persons! examination of the ik “ Chai wo b i 4 { { ¢ urned sworth bridge and of other | underneath the dry goods store of | WHEN YOU | C cinity, Je says the incendiary theory has no fonndation whatever. That while an attempt had been made to pro he found that for several miles along the line of the road the grass and weeds hud not all been burned off, and in the immediate vicinity of the burned { bridge it was more carelessly done than | elsewhere, Cuarsworru, Aug 14. ~The number of killed by the dissster is still undeter- Une estimate places it as low Bad | mined, | as 84 but the list of the identified dead | {sums up 158 - | A New Fortune Swindle | The Philadelphia Record gives these ! i j censfully. The victim is ative in Philadelphia had jost died, and that the deceased had left him £3. 000, Old Hayseed is cautioned to say very little upon the subject, and is told to come to the cily as soon ss possible, with about $250 w pay the legal ex- peoses, If he does not smell a rat he | follows the instructions and meets the “agent” ata hotel. He is conducted to sn office, and $3000 in crisp new upin a package. He pays the “legal expenses’ and he is then given a pack- rives st home snd secures the package he hurries 10 his room and tears off the paper and sawdust, have beenr made, —— A——_ Great Raliway Disasters. This the New York Tribune is timely Only two other railway disasters in this country begin to parallel that Chatsworth—one at Campbell, Pa, on July 17, 1856, the result of a collision, and the other at Ashtabula, O, on Decem- ber 29 1876, when a bridge gave A hundred or more lives were lost on both compilation by near way over a creek. OCCA Greater havoc, however, was wrought near Cuantia, Mexico, on June 24, 1881, when the fall of a bridge destroyed nearly 200 lives; and near Tcherny (166 miles west of Moscow), Russia, on July 13, 1882, where, by derailment, 178 passengers were killed and the re- maining thirty-nine on the train were all injured. Indeed, as one comes down the scale he still finds most of the worst accidents of this class occurring abroad. By that at St. Hilaire, Canada, where a train ran off a bridge 83 were killed and 200 wounded, June 29, 1864; 74 perished when the Tay Bridge near Dundee, Scotland, was blown with a railway train into the river, December 23, 1879; 34 deaths en- sued and 70 persons were hurt by the breaking of a carriage tire on the Great Western, at Shipton, Eng- land, December 24, 1874 ; 1§ were killed and 100 injured by the Winchburg collision, between Edin. burg and Glasgow, October 13, 1862 ;16 killed and 320 injured at Kentish Town, (Hampstead Junc- tion), England, September 2, 1861 ; 23 killed and 176 injured two weeks sions, The people were offering $350 apiece for | the ground snd | put a plank up and helped the people | If | | His | to take it, and | Those | 0.1 bridges and other culverts in this vi- | | which is said to be working very suc- | usoally a countryman, who receives a circular | letter informing him (hat a distant rel. | bills sre counted out to bim and done | paper, only to find a brick, some waste | Several complaints | bave bean made to the police suthori- | ties by persons who have been swindled | by this method, but thus far no arrests | | Pittsburgh Ablaze. | Prrrssura, August 14. The con- which, at | flagration Friday nicht, {threatened to eat up millions of control of the fire i | ; \ { dollars’ worth of valuable property } {was under the | " . | men by 3:30 o'clock this morning, 30 o'clock in the af A little after 2: [ ternoon the flames got a fresh start in the Masonic building and for a time the bloc k was threatened again, of the entire | he i {tired firemen attacked the fire with destruction | renewed energy, however, and by efforts | . | had it under control again {almost superhuman SOON ‘One little boy, the son of the Metho- | dist minister at Abington, Frank Sna- | The buildings entirely destroyed the Masonic Temp Hamilton block, Campbell & Dick | carpet warchouse and a number of | tenement Alley The upper tioors of Schmidt & Fri le, the t Were houses on Virgin day's magnificent nine-story struc. balan soaked ture were gutted and the {of the building water | Diapateh and™™ nny Press buildings i }is | were badly damaged ter wal loss on the former | £10,000 and the latter £2,000. The that the fire latest investigation originated in the ca | pet store of 8 | cellar of the Masonic bu EL raid that a | Campbell & Dick. Itis | small party of gentlemen were sit- | of Holtzman's establishment, { one of their number lighted a cig | . 3 and thoughtlessly threw the ma inio a waste paper basket, an | most in a twinkling the ent Effort | extinguish the flames, but the light re room § were 1 | was ablaze. material burned so rapidly that the : 1 3 | lames were soon bevond contro - For this 8=day Strike Clock Alarm Attachment, Holtzman, in the | 14% — ding and | | tect the bridges of the rosd from fire, | ting in the upholstery department | | that the bridge was set on fire by mis | nade to § = CAN GET IT FOR 3. OO At FRANK P. BLAIR'S. —DauxgeNxess ox vag Liquor Hamir | i i | Postrivery Cusen ny Apvistsrenixe De, | details of a new method of swindling { Vr. Haixe's Goroes Seecirvic. 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