The Centre emo, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1801, CHAS. R. KURTZ EDITOR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. “Money Savers’ for these times. A limited quantity of yar d-wide, extra quality unbleached Sheeting at test. per yard. A special lot of good qual- tiy and good styles dress Gingham at 7 1-2 cts. per yard. - Beautiful line of fine, Scotch and Zephyr Ging- hams from 12 1-2 to 28 cts. per yard. Only one or two dress pal- terns in each piece. LYON & CO. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. and festival and dance 1 Saturday evening. -1 istrict Attorney Meyer and family friends Penns Valley, visited in week \ ; " i —Mr. C. M. Bower, Esq., and family are spending the week visiting friends | in Pennsyalley. ~Mr. Thomas Mitchell is acting as commissioners clerk week, whil corporal Rob. Hunter is doing the ele gant at camp. this e —The railroad company has a work | train at Centre Hall, this week, build. ng a large siding for the Patron’s nic ground. —~Mr. W. H. Yearick and Mr. Samuel | Faust, the carriage builder, both Centre Mills, were in town on with a fine lot of new buggies. —Mr. Olie Meek, now engaged in the » Re + drug business, at Washington, D. C., | was in Bellefonte this week taking a short vacation. He is looking quite well. —Henry Quigley is now Adjutant in | the Fifth Regiment, having received his | promotion a short time before he left for | camp. We congratulate him upon his | recent honors, —Andrew Dinges, formerly a resident | of Pennsvalley, died at his home in | Monroe, Wisconsin, of heart disease. on | July 10th. He was 64 years of age and | leaves a wife and twelve children. | —Thus far thirty-four fire companies have signified their intention of taking part in the State Firemen’s Association | parade at Lock Haven month. | Among the members are the Logan boys of Bellefonte —0n account of the rain, the M. E. were compelled hold their festival in a vacant room in the Brock. | erhoff Block, on Tuesday evening, in- stead of on the lawn at Hon. P. Meek's residence. next to hale wold Grray | K. ~Garman’s Opera House is under. going a renovation inside and outside Williams, the painter, has his men at | work on the outside giving it several coats of eream-white paint, after which | it will be nicely lettered ~The state committee appointed to | } select ; ] location for the new Chronic | Insane Asylum will revisit Bellefonte ! soon, next week. Dr. Curwin | was pleased with one location seen when | here and it may be the final selection. likely ~They say Maj. W. F. Reynolds will have about 25,000 bushels of wheat from his farms in this section. That will be enough to keep hunger from his door until next harvest, with a little to spare for the benefit of the poor. ~Rev. Robert H. Kline, of Allen | town, Pa., delivered an able sermon in the Episcopal church last Sunday morn. ing. He will officiate there next Sun. day mornihg, and in the afternoon will deliver an address before the Y. M. C. A. ~We are under obligations to Mr. Wm. T. Hillibish, secretary of the Lo gan Steam Engine Company for a copy of the proceedings of the 11th Annual Firemen’s Association of Penn's, held at Chester, Pa., last September, ~The Evangelical church festival at Hublersburg, on Saturday of this week, will be a success. The committee are making large preparations and will have all kinds of refreshments and soft drinks on hand. Go to Hublersburg next Sat. urday. ~There seems to be considerable discussion in Bellefonte at present in regard to the erection of a stand pipe in our present reservoir, for the purpose of forcing the water upon some of the higher points of town, A great many think it would be more advisable to erect the stand pipe on Curtin street, which would insure a constant supply In that portioy of the town. There ap- pear to be good reasons for its erection at the latter place. The water commit. tee should fully consider this matter before going ahead. It costs money to build stand pipes and the boro taxes are MEETS AT BELLEFONTE ON TUESDAY. Large Attendance of resolutions adopted Other provesdings renders, Delegatos—Ringing List of delegates, of interest for our Notwithstanding the fact that there is but one county office to be filled this year, there was a large attendance of { delegates from the various districts and so of prominent democrats of the county, In order to give some delegates | an opportunity to return on the 2 p. m, train, the convention was called to or- der at 12 m., by county Chairman I. A. Schaeffer. Hon. John H. Orvis then nominated Jno Blanchard, Esq. for presiding officer and he was chosen by acclamation. Up. on taking the chair he was greeted by hearty applause and responded in a short and appropriate address, in which he complimented the DD emoeraey upon their . | neil Zion. {ing clerk ; eat | Jus, Swab, of Harris twp., for ISat | | Th | pic- i of | Monday ! | gp | man Jority was declared the nominee of the | heavy enough, public moneys the ’ Brotherly Love through of the republican officials of Mr. Blanchard in mt and eloquent young y is barrister convert to the principle 5 of the A. Jas 8S. Garman then offered the of . Noll, Spring twp., { 0. D. Everts, o Tr read* Worth and tell in \ , I Ors. acclamatic DELEGATES ey were elected by LIST OF Upon delegates 3 call of the roll the fo from lowing responded the various : > districts John H Orvis, J d J. W Wm K Waltz, DF Fortney, AS Gs LD lap, M A Ki t Harper. WR M ele CH Es yh tlanel Heinle A Gephart LH Fran Al = | of I RECam Henry N Hoy. H H Ben P Nyhart, | EPH L Barn! EP~WH Mokle ; nkEP-WmA "Wi ry 8 Pd bridge § At | ar wr Tanyer rM Grove, Geo Chas A Rachau Haines W P—Adam Bartges, Geo W Ke Half Mo AC The Har Jame Ww Ishier Howard ty Huston-W 1 Liber Jas | Delong Marion I 4 Hoy, John Patt EH Marsha Fran F Ho John MH Stover Potter N P<~WmM Grove WG Runkle J Bf Fortine Rush 8 Wm Ho \ton Snow Shoe W IJ H A« N r Jas (‘Noe JW Hepin eT f n HTL Peon o ‘ : F Swab! Geo B Lucas Irvis fy WwW WSs Hoy td) F ~ 14 Smit WO Fae Wit Npring r n JT Me HER EE —. Wald AG Kr 4 Upon motion, th ed Wm. C. He Orvis, John Grove a ODF e chair then appoint. Esq., Hon. John P, of Gregg, Dr. F Philipsburg, and Jacob Walker, a White, of Dunkle, of resolutions. commitise on JURY COMMISSIONER. The next order of business was tle nomination of one candidate for Jury commissioner. The following nanws were presented and the ballot was ie0 Bower, Halnes.. Perry Condo, Walker GH Lyman, Boggs N - On second ballot the name of G. J. COUNTY DEMOCRACY | the | | names making such nomination and | lows : RESOLUTIONS. The Deoeracy of Centre county in Oonvention Assembled do Resolve: Fivat—That we call the attention of all fairaminded citizens to the glaring ruscalities of the republican official the chief city of the Commonwenith, where millions of the public moneys have been bodily stolen from {he trons. ury, and largely employed in the cor- ruption of voters at the polls; where wetended committees of investigation ran refused 0 expose the chief con. spivators in the looting of the city treasury, through fear that the exposi. tion would bring disaster and ruin to the republican party. Second—That we charge, resent Auditor General and I'reasurer have neglected to make pers odical settlements with county tieas. urer as required by law: that the State Treasurer has placed state funds in insecure banks; that the Auditor Gen. eral has permitted mercantile appraisers to swindle the state by gross fraud the collection of mercantile licenses, tand in general aided and abetted honest officials to use their positions to enrich themselves at the expense of the | taxpayers, whereby large sums of money { belonging to the people have been annual i ly wasted and stolen, Third-That in view malfeasances in the finances { monwealth by the leading republican party, we declare safety and security deman honest citizens, ri garde atliliations, should unite it in that tl Rte nm supporting for Auditor General and Treasurer of know: iwegrity ing to the democratic h true slate 's may be ed and the chief actors { brought to punishment, | Fourth-"That the faithful discha | of official duty at Harrisburg by ste and courageously guarding the funds against needless and ext expenditure, stemming the 1 Yicilous ing Feandidates Slitte party, in $ A the L Condit fully i bu neces ree and usel legislation; I] on as the amelioration of the Oppressed securing to them their rights, ; | times having a jealous concern the varied inter of our grand { monwealth make the name of E. Pattison sh ne on Liat of | patriot and merits from u | tied endorsement of his adn of public affairs as the Chief “4 » such HegIsIA Als as t ’" I nnsyivania. Wa ( Jos H fous JACON DUsKLE F. KR. Waite Hy (IRVIs { mi to the general resolultic H. resolutions John {following Orvis arose and read the f i Dis. con. | basis of representation in future fui | | trict Congrefsional and Senatorial | ferences | Wueneas, All nominations of candi. dates for public offices 0 be voted for | by the people, should be made by the | people themselves, or by the representa. tives chosen in such a manner as to gi every qualified voter an equal voice when the method of making district nomina the democratic party Wie of Pennsylvania by district 1 which every county has representation regandless «of or detmcrats yobte, I» nus al variance of organization of the deinocralic party, therefore be it Hesolved, 1st. That hereniter democratic patty of Centre will insist that the representat district conferences or nominatin ventions, fron each county, shall proportion to the demo such county 2d. That we favor making the nominating convention sufficiently large W properly represent amd the wishes of the peuple, and therefore favor the al'otment to each county in the dis. trict of a delegate for every five hun. dred democratic voles (or fractional pail Ler of over ouelialfl) cast at the wt presidential or gubernatorial elec. Lew Sed. That we favor the election of the district delegates to the pominat- | Ing conventions, by the people at the | primary elections, with or without in. structions a: the voler may deem best, and that said delegates be elected in single districts, so that each delegate will be responsible to the voters of his immediate district for his actions in the pominating convention. ith. That the County ramittee of Centre county be, and said Com. ! | \ : Ve i Y Aik Ha fs IONS i mn wii pope lt hon fenily ET Lh Liwe general plan the county 3 1 ’ N 381 Y i the Leyman was withdrawn from the con. vention. The number of delegntes pres. ent being 78, a majority to elect 40, Mr. Bower having received ] being | a a : i convention which was made unanimous, | CONST. CONV. DELEGATES, D. F. Fortney, Esq., arose and spoke of the necessity of nominating a clean , good man for the position of delegate to a constitutional convention. In clos ing his remarks he placed the name of Ellis L. Orvis, Esq., before the conven. tion; Michael Grove, of Potter, placed | the name of Col. Jas. Weaver, of Miles. | burg. The ballot stood Ellis L Orvis... - A Col Jas A Weaver is Hon. John A. Woodward, Hon. John | H. Holt, Hon. W. K. Alexander were selected by acclamation, as conferees to | the district constitutional convention. | G. W. McGaffey, of Philipsburg, was | then chosen delegate to the State Cone | vention for 1801, by acclamation. The following nominations were then made for five delegates to the State | Democratic Convention of 1862, the first i ballot on which resulted In the election | of the five delegates by the following | vole : ; ohn Xl. Helofonte. oom mon i Win Penter, Mpring Mills. 3 ahoniid Pieiming ro The other nominations made were © A Luken F Riley, bach, Bellefonte | Robert MeKnight, Jr, Belle. fonte ; Dr ¥ K White, Philipsburg ; George Mctiattey, Philipsburg (and W A Tobias, Mil) m, For County Chairman for 1802, Chair. man L. A. Schaeffer was re-nominated by acclamation, The report of the committee on reso. lutions was next in order. The follow. ! : : i ! 1 y : : H WN Bl mittee is hereby instructed, to appor. tion said county into ten Delegate Dis. tricts, each containing as nearly as AY be an equal number of democratic votes, without dividing an election district. | and to publish said apportionment at sufficient time before the primary elec tion of 1892, to give the voters full and ample notice thereof, i Sth. That at the primary election to be held in 1802 there shall be elected | in each of said Delegate Districts in the county, one congressional delegate who | shall attend the Congressional Confer. | ence or nominating convention, for the | purpose of nominating a candidate for | Congress from the 28th District of Penn. sylvania. And that district delegates be elootend at every subsequent election, whenever a district nomination is to be made, Oth. That a committee of three be appointed (of which the president of this convention shall be Chairman.) to at. tend the next Democratic County Con. vention of the several counties compos. ing our present Congressional, Sena. torial ond Judicial Districts, and lay these resolutions before said conven. tions, and request the cooperation of the democracy of sald counties in es tablishing this reform In asking dis. trict nominations, 7th, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Chairman of the Demo- cratic County Committee of each of the counties composing the present Congres. sional, Senatorial and Judicial Districts of which Centre County forms a part. They were unammonsly adopted. The ehrit in pursaance of Oth resolution ap. pointed Hon, John H. Orvis and F. K. White to attend these conventions, No other business boing before the convention it was declared adjonrned. Murried, At Wilt House, Mill Hall, Pa., August 2, 1801, by Rev. J. J. Reser. Mr, James ', Myers, of Laurel Run, Clinton co, Ing resolutions were then read by W. C, Heinle, Eng, and were adopted, as fol. i to Miss Mary Butler, of Marsh Creek, Contre county, BOLD ESCAPE FROM JAIL, . Prisoners Hole Through un Stone Wall A bold and successful jail delivery Wook pawe at Holidaysburg at an early hour Friday morning. awiitin trial for a daring highway robb and Frank Waite, awaiting trial for a criminal assault on a little girl, were imprisoned in a cell on the upper tier, They wrenched bars off thei iron cots Dig » James Welsh, 4 ry and with them dug a large hole through i ' 1 Watsontown m of the | | pleasantly spent. a three-feet stone wall, and with a rope | made out of their bed clothes dropped | twenty feet tothe yard below, and then | with ys Which had been furnished to | them iu ail by friends, filed the lock off {the yard gate a there wil the third from the a file wind made thei: 1 i. | | Cape | is a liberal offered for their arrest, oH | cape in ide of two years LIne cell. More Railroad Talk if the Williamsport fi stated upon let writing 4 odd aut! Orit fe od | i be put upon tl line of the Central {allroad between in a follow, » of the | between ) ] tate, and if the re Wilkes. barre and West the Reading, fyyor £1 nay Rk CONN with the Pennsylvania, the d Western Delaware, Ackawana an 3 iit f TIC Ys it avd vi nt ade Hecln [tems Hex A WAS visited sniae shiow one nig pend Mullen Mrs her lind Hans 4 Fred. Y broken « We gre ocum, who had one o 4 niwo places, some. time ngo sorry to hear is not improving very rapidly. Last week one day while J. B. Poor- | man was hauling lumber with Grmbam & Co's team to Pleasant Gap, he was stopped and asked if he had all the lum. ber Graham & Co. had in their yard— had he ' ¥ fort : 1 eplied that he only 2505 with im that trip. while Harry and Edward home from On Saturday were returning SeIng Misses Truckenmiller, they had a des perate battle with a monster rattlesnake, 1 after olubbing an stoning time they succeeded in killing the Hl il mu measured five feet nsted in length. Female Hall Tossers A gang of brazen-faced women, call ing themselves the New York Female Jase Ball Club landed ip Philipsburg on Wednesday night and on Thursday af. ternoon played a game at the Driving Park with the home team. Two thou sand people, many of them persons of respectability and standing, witnessed the game which was a fake of the worst class The ladies evidently didn’t know Lhe first principles of base ball. They were a hardened looking set and were a tough lot who probably make ball playing an excuse for traveling around on wors® business. They ought to have been rotten egged out of town. w= Ladger. (% Vortieth Anniversary Last Friday evening the M. E. chur :h at Milesburg was crowded by persons who came to attend the 40th anniversary , of the wedding of Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Bouse. Appropriate services were held alter which the audience adjourned to the parsonage where elogant refresh. ments were served and the evening was Rev. Bouse received a gold watch as a present from his four sons, Band Festival, Next Saturday, the Zion band will hold a festival in Henry Gentzle's grove about two miles west of Zion. Al kinds of refreshments, such as foe cream. cake, candies, soft rinks, ete.. will be served. A large dancing floor will be erected on the ground and music for dancing will be furnished by a first class orchestra. Good order will positively be maintained. All are invited to come and spend a pleasant day in the woods, By order of CoMymrrree, “J. 8, Reed, on the 3rd inst... caught in the Bald Engle, near Julian, a pike that measured two feet and four inches in length. On the same day he caught eleven other pike. ten of which averaged 15 inches in Pad The above is from the Gaselte and Bulletin, With due respect to Mr, Reed, and correspondent, and knowing the weakness of the average fisherman we would like to have seen these fish and measured them ourselves. 11 may mi few davs, |, tion on the | i for somo- | ¢ carried thirteen rattles and | RESULT OF CARELESSNESS, DIDN'T KNOW THE GUN WAS LOADED. Arm of n Populs Haven, in Such a Manper that Amputs tation Becomes Necessary at the Central Hotel, Lock Haven, the result of careless handling of firearms. William Charles, bartender at the tral Hotel, was the cident, the particulars of | Are a ue follows: George Bush 1 i of the house, and Charles, the bartender the colored porte; and were engaged t were in the offi i friendly sport when Bush Wal all to a corner | of A room where run and picked up the 5 or other, it was disc) received the charge bet fs N oun ow ween the shoulder Owned a by | AL | Bush says he di 1 3 Of powder apd | oaded, he eharg Ounces « terri 1 and muscle Doctor Ball and on necessary, and it The sho : Hide a 1, tearing the fles Was he at once omplied A Charge of Bird Shot Shatters the Right | Young Man st Loek | A terrible aceldent ocenrred Monday | Cen | ‘le Mi | Wa Ker und sejzed bh *1Ju Fy MARRIAGE LICENSES Issued During the Past Week Taken ¥rom the Docket, J. B. Archey, Pine Grove Mills and Miss Mary Kerlin, Roopsburg. Alexander Stark, Snow Shoe ax | Laura Mowers, State College. Joseph Junkook and | Foster, both of Sandy Ridge, Pa. | George A. Miller, Rebersburg, and | Miss Lillie Hackenburg, Millheim Pa. Andie Fi i and Miss ( athiaring | Jacon, both of Gordon Heights. 1 i { { { | i | | i | | { | M ips Miss Catharine Hose Wife Beater Jalled I’hil, Walker, a notorious ruffian, of {| Philipsburg struck his young wife on last Thursday afternoon, in the face and As she the pavement he jumped on her and kicked her most brutally, knocked her down. lay on Theailray happened in front of the postoffice at that place in the presence of a number of bys Eskridge fs 8 und. Wm. Sprang i im by the arm, but before he could pull | Walke i AWAY, wife ag wit Wile again wiih took the with the Bn OALOLD Mrs. Walker nd taken ruts 0% wid of 0 AWAY. Walker d on Friday { Ing and giv i before | Laports, W | of bail, CB ¢ nitenti 3 { urst ns while they were | f or tl Lie 1 1 sport and both of ¢ emply. In. urred ¥. Welser of Coburn Killed 1 § " $ IeSG8Y, Of in | in which one was | death relieved him of } it time after. John nl , with hi E. 1 had or sii the iil € ir Le. | hand car an ar, we crank of the crew and hurl oar the ties with track. to the his } Car ead and 1 } 0 | 2 | struck the | from the track down a hig : \ ment over the rock Whe ked uy regained He « val Ju he was p he was but in a few minutes after | Conscious, CONSE IOUSTIASS | time the arriv wae, death re. | Heved him of his suff i " Mr. Weiser was father of several children erings married and Regs f Another Vietis at MeVeytawn, | A party of young people went to the [ bouse of Mrs. Wilson, and | hostess was prepairing dinner d his revolver on {table prepratory to cleaning it. | Wilson picked it up and jokingly | ‘I've a mind to shoot somebody. ™ | pointed it at different members of | whils . one Of % the Mis. said Iyoung men Ia She the { party, and finally at Miss Mary Williams, | aged 20 years, the re. volver was discharged entering Miss Williams’ eye. She fell dead in the arms of her afflanced. Mrs. Wilson is prostrated, while the lover of the dead girl is almost insane. A coroner's jury rendered a verdict of accidental shoot. ing. As she did sO Millheim Downed Last Friday a hack load of voung men, representing the Centre Club ball embank. aly lived a short the | the | amputa. iy ntaln one gh grade casting type especia y and presswork wil ss of Boston, the first edit t one hunared thousand, probably pmber. The blishers are H. M d Boston Fhe general and ex for Pennsylvania and Iw Wary . Phllade!phia olled | The Centre Democrat and the Philad | Weekly Times one vear for £1.45. Deliefonte Grain Market. | Corrected Ww weekly by Ge Jackson KCo ww . wheat per b al. per ¥ per bush I shel { Corn, ears per bushel { Corn, she pert | Onts new per b | Barley, por dusted... {| Buckwheat, per bushel | Cloverseed, per wi i Red | Rye iled pshye shel bushel! { Groun per ton | I plaster Provisioxs, Gao ERIS | weekly & 1 | Apples, dried, per po | Cherries dried &C, v Bower per nd Dried Currants, pe New Raisins, per p Beans per quart Onions, per bishe Butter, perpound Cheese, perpoune Tallow PET Paes { Country Sho Rides Hams Eggs per dozen Potatoes per bushel Dried Beef chipped Canned Beef per ean Canned Tomatoes per can Canned Corn per can Lemons per doz . Dried Sweet Corp per pound... team, went to Millheim to engage the | team of that place in a game of ball. The Millheim boys had astrong team and tiis summer they downed every club they met and the result with the Bellefonte boys was slightly uncertain. A large crowd turned out to see the The Soap that game which was very close and inter. esting until the sixth inning when the | Bellefonte boy's made a break and easi- | ly defeated the Millbeim team by a | score of 12 to 4 Not True During the past week a story appear. ed in the papers relating how D. B. Kunes, of Beech Creek, was attacked by a savage bear, while in the woods and was compelled to climb a sapling, Mr. Kune's pronounces the story in- correct. Some one evidently played a joke on him by having it inserted in the paper. « Grange Pienle The Clinton county Grangers have determined upon a Grange Plenic, to be beld in Fox's Grove, on Cedar Run, above Furst's mill, on Saturday, August 15th, 1891. A cordial invitation is ex. tended to all. Eminent speakers will Cleans M ost 1s Lenox. vA LUABLE MILL PROPERTY wore J AT {ms ORPHANS COURT SALE, By virtue of ap order of the Orphans’ Court of Centre county, there will be exposed at public sale, on the premises, st Oak Hall, Pa TUBSDAY, OCTORER Sth, 1891, al 10a. m. the following real estate, the prop erty of 8. H. Weaver, decd FULL ROLLER MILL, equipped with a complete system of rolls and the latest improved machinery for the manulse. tare of flour feed, ote, with a never failing water power for driving the same. In oun. nection with the mill there Is a COAL SHED, connected by a switeh with the I. & T. rail road. The property embraces 19 pores and 4 pore. ox of Jand, thereon erected, in addition to the mill, Owes I THREE DWELLING HOUSES, (wants Iarge bank Barn, one stable and aif DOCrERLy patbuildings. This mill Is well located In a rich farming community and always enjoyed a Iarge and Toerative custom trade, worth at least atom per year, Terms will be made known on For information day of wale
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