AWHILE ASLEEP ion Two isenger Steamers, en “ND FIFTY-EIGHT LOST. RURDD Tha Stenn Ortigia Crashes Into the Ma- ela aud the L Minutes sitter Vessel Sank in Three Only Twenty-eight Porsons Survived the Disaster, GENOA, July 22. The Ortigia and Maria P. « Pinto, at tl rat pon. The lat ware drowned The Maria P Ea Plata. There and the pass numbered was calling here to her destina tion. She was entering the Gulf of Genoa at 1.30 o'clock yesterday rning, when she bound They only 1 d each other lislon was inevitable The blow of the Ortegia crashed into shestarboard side of the Maria P,,penetrat- ing six yards, and ripping up the Maria P like matchwood The water r in through the hole, and the Maria P. sank in three minut: Tha maj of the passengers were asleep at the time of the accident, and had mo time to escape after the alarm was given. They were engulfed with the ves sal. The Ortigia remained on the spot until 6 o'clock in order to pick up the sur- vivors. She rescued fourteen of the crew snd twenty-eight of the passengers of the Maria P. Other steamers have been dis patched to the scone of the disaster, and are now searching for further survivors, The Ortigia's bow was smashed for a of twelve fest along the water line, is some comment upon the fact Brought to mind by the disaster that the Ortigia once collided on the same spot with the French steamer Uncle Joseph. As the conclusion of the sitting of the chamber yesterday at Rome, the minister df marine announced the news of the dis aster In the midst of a profound sensa adding that an officer, a seaman, a and 144 passengers of the Maria P. Bad perished. The Ortegla had twenty-five passengers ox board. [ho Maria 's captain Yrs mmmmed Ferrara. The chamber has tude the disaster The sky was overcast at the time of the scefdent, and there was lit sen. Both eaptains were asleep. and the third officer, Ravello, was on watch on the Ortigia, and Second Officer D'Angelo was on watch on the Maria P he Ortigia was going at the mate of eleven niles an hour and the Ma BaP. at the rate of eight miles. Both ves sels saw the lights of the other and con- tinued on their proper roads till the mis take was made, it is not established by whom, which brought the Maria P. broad- side towards the Ortigia. Third Officer Revello, of t Ortigia, saw the danger and ordered the engines reversed, but the owder came too late All the boats of th rtigl amped, and the crews rescued all they of the survivors , remain ig su i rescue that they are unable t« single detail of the disaster Captain Ferrara, who was saved, said MMOrE sin del was | i! was a crow of seventeen ngers en route met t Ortigia ward when a col ished an inquiry » were low al could The latter, for the most } # » fe »e » v Has 1 IE ol iPS ) give a —~—diat he was sleeping In his cabin when he was awakened by cries and shouts and a great noise. He rushed deck and w the Ortigia backing of ile his own ip was sinking. Seeing all was lost he jumped into the sea, where he was picked up by the Ortigia’s boat A passenger named Balena, a je was on board with his young ch 1 He said tha n the collision « hild upon wale weler, wife and hree turned in wh seized two h esught up the third, and they ran upon deek and jumped into the sea. The chil dren weighed down and after a hard struggle. Wh ] the surface his children had His wife had managed to of wreckage till the Ortigia's ber. They lost everything Second Officer DD’ Angelo,of the Maria P., who was on watch on that ship when was struck by the Ortigia, was drowned Among the saved 1s a yoars who is the only survivor of a family of seven who went down with the ill fated ship. ren, and his wife iG 0 boat saved she A Cuban Expedition. New YORK, July 24. —It Is an open secret im Cuban revolutionary circles that prep- srations are being made to send an expe dition to Cuba at the earliest opportunity As the last meeting of the revolutionary gorty in this city General Rafael de Que sada publicly announced that he would smsume command of the first expedition mittee. The leaders of the movement In is city decline to discuss thesubject, but the Cuban patriots who are not identifled with the party as leaders had all heard of th start for the islands It is generally ssderstood that within the past day or wo a suitable has been selected wel purchased. The vessel Is, according to ports, an iron steamer with a power of fifteen knots an hour, Neither the name of the vessel nor the port at which she 1s mer lying could be ascertained acs) Vessel Dee Four Killed at a Croming. WinLtamsTowy, Mass, July ~ Four man were Instantly killed while crossing the Fitchburg rallroad track, about two miles from this place yesterday afternoon A garty of six men were riding in a two sated covered carriage. They were re turning to North Adams from Benning tom, and were struck by a west bound ex. press. Two of the men, Clarence Prindle sod Edward White, both of Williams wn. escaped by Jumping. The killed ware: Oliver Dudley, Nelson Trudeau, Peter Rocke and Joseph Tayton, all of North Adams on Police Officers Sent to Prison. Criwoaao, July 24 George A. Holzer aml Frederick Storms, policemen, were emnwicted yesterday of a « mspiracy to de fant the election laws. Holzer was given four years in the penitentiary and Storms two years. The charge on which the Clvie Federation has been prosecuting them is thas they did nothing to restrain a gang effworkinen from a sewer near by a poll tw precinct, who took possession of the polls and kept citizens from voting Stambuloil™s Grave Guarded, Sowa, July 22 ~The grave of Stambu- Jal is guarded by police, owing to threats wikieh have been made to diginter the ro mains. The feeling here and in the largn towns is one of disgust and dejection at theerime. Four persons, Including Stam. taiofl's hman, are In prison charged with the mithder, i ed this life Obituary. Mrs, Jane Long Rothrock, for more than half a century the beloved compan ion of Dr, William P. Rothrock, depart. Cowley county, Kansas, on the 14th of May 18g5, leaving to mourn her loss her husband, five children, eleven grandchil dren and two great grandchildren, be | sides a host of loving friends in Kansa { and | daughter of the late Robert Stewart and Pennsylvania, Deceased was a his wife Frances, and was born on the 16th day of March, 1822, on the site of | the ¢ity of Lock Haven, Pa., and on the 178. She 1 » — | ed hospitality with most libe lay of June, was united in ith In 1543, Rothrock, then a ris ician who rapidly rose to | and his For many home was at Beech Creek, proiession, linton county, Pa., where they dispens al hands. | Some twenty years ago the family moved i and | mains I Pittaburg,.. cc cov une. { Clearfield { Philips | Bellefonte, | Atlantic City about the run fr I ut i land p | eadors { Ballou says all persons connected there | with will be arrested and prosecuted. | #300 for the job | was torch to Kansas The Stewart family, to. which the de ceased belonged, was one of the oldest most honorable in the West Brauch Yalley, and large connection yet re on the old nping ground of their old Revolutionary ancestors, Dr. W. I’. Rothrock was born and rear ed in Bellefonte, where he and his esti. mable wife well were and favorably known by the past generation, and some old The Doctor his of their Centre county friends yet has their bereavement, survive, thies in great father, James Rothrock, Esq., was in his day one of the most enterprising citizens of this town, and owned the property where now stands the residences of the late Ex-Governor Curtin and Mrs. W. P. Wilson, where he resided many years and where he died. Clearance Sale, Cash. MoxTcoMERY & CO One Price Seashore Exculsions. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has arranged for a series of excursions to the scashore, similar to those which The next were 50 popular last season, excursion of the series will leave Pitts. burg August 1, and the rates will be as stated below: The tickets will permit a stay of near- ly two weeks. and a choice of either of the points 1 be allowed. A special train of parlor seashore named w cars and day coaches will leave Pitts. burg on each of the above-mentioned dates at 8,50 a. m., and the time from other stations will be as follows: Rate 00 AOI aes xe 5+ 00a o 00 Train Lvs 8S 50a 8 9 8 35 8 65 7 65 urg- . Tyrone satasswis Philadelphia, arrive A special street wharf at 7.30 p. m,, August 1, for 1 07 p.m. 6 40 “ train will leave Market 9.00 p. m., making 1 Pittsburg to the seashore Arrangements have fer of passengers Market street ial train, or pas nd proceed to the shore yt th information apply to tick Watt, Thomas E rs m all sections ~Clearance Sale, Cash. MoxTcoMERY & Co - a. One Price Mr. Ballou's Protest, WasnixotTox, July 28 The secreta | of the treasury yesterday received fro William Hosea Ballou, of New York, vice president of the American Humane asso elation, § letter protesting against the pro posed bull fight at the Atlanta exposition, and asking the secretary to ‘use his good | offices to avert a national scandal’ by preo- venting the Importation of the bulls on the ground of thelr being “immoral im ports,” and refusing admission to the tor If these exhibitions are given Mr. No action has yet been taken, but it is the | opinion of some of the officials that the | government will not interfere in the mat | sor, A Chicago Firebug's Confession. Kexonsa, Wis, July 24. Bernard Rose now, one of the men arrested in conneo | tion with the burning of the plant of the Chicago Bedding company, has confessed that he applied the torch. According to Rosenow's statement he was to receive Ho sald one of the men now under arrest made him the offer, bus he says he only received #50 after the job done. Hosenow says he purchased threo barrels of benzine in Chicago and | took thom to the works, where he buried them under a load of rags and applied the An explosion followed, and Rode | now jumped through a window to save his life. He says he is now convinced that it was intended he should perish in the building The “Dryer” New York, | New You July 24. The city vigilance committee having published the state | ment that on last Sunday fully 3 per | cent. of the saloons in this city did busi ness free from police Interference, Com | missioner Roosevelt sald today that the ex { else law was being vigorously enforced, Police Captain Waestervelt, in whose dis | trict It was sald the law was more openly disregarded than elsewhere In tho city, sald | that his district wos as dry as It was pos ] sible to make it lsat Sunday, but that he would eventually have it drier He denied | absolutely that 50 per cent. of the saloon | keepers did business in the precinot last i Bunday. from her homenear Winfield, | | Centre | died Boalshurg The wedding of Mr. and Miss Sadie Stover, nounced in last week's paper, was a grand affair, the church being filled with people eager to see the wedding party. Promptly at eight they appeared at the door, when Prof. P. H. Meyers Mervin which was an- Kuhn played the wedding march, the party | proceeded slowly to the alter; they were met there by Rev. Black who performed | the ceremony, assisted by Rev, Ieisher The bride and her maids, Misses Condo and Elliey Mays were very handsomely in cream, the groom and his groomsmen, Messers Wieland, Jennie dre ised and Peter Ishler and Calvin also dressed very nice the ceremony was performed the returned to the home of the bride their many friends there many good things in they enjoyed themselves, wish of the writer is that the newly ried couple will have a long wm were with where waiting for them The ars perous life. Edward Lesher at the home Mrs. S. L taining he , of Renovo, 1 of his father, G Bri i 1 r brother CY 18 's fami Hall beaten 6 to 3 first gawe of the to go to Mill game. We cessful there; boys. Mrs. J. N friends in The C. give an ice ing well They Thurs lay to } be more Cason ope vy will and do your Dinges is Als » ALLO0TA E. Society, of this vat {estival ream iestival pi on vited t ers are throu Mr. and N turned from a Mrs. H. E. Rodman, of Slate } They were accompanied by Roy an Dean, who report having had a time, igh with their harve rs. H. S. Delong bh t the visit to th FO wd [P ENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD AND BRANCHES In effect on and after May 20, 1800 YIiA TYRONE WENTWARD wave Bellefonte 5 20am, 6 40am, at Altoona, 7 0am 1210p m wave Bellefonte 10 0a mm; arrive at Tyrone 1H 25am;at Altoona l 46 p mat Pittsburg arrive at Tyrone at Pittsburg { 0k m Lave Bellefonte 515 pm; arrive at Tyrone G33: at Altoona at 7 40; at Pittsburgat 11 3 VIA TYRON] Bellefonts it Harris! 17pm ly in black. After | party | | wi re | The picnic and festival at the Summit | Hill church was a success Quite number of our friends were ther partook of the delicacies of the seas H. P. Robb, who was home on ) 8’ visit, returned on Monday ! o Williamsport, sh hi at Thompson's Business College. The Reform Sunday school will an ice cream festival Saturday, 10. All are cordially invited to Music by the Howard band The Christian Sunday school will hold a picnic and fe grove Saturday, A rangements have not all Do not fail to come Miss F fhic visiting friend day ing Isaac, o Eagleville. means. Jacob Welch work in the lumber w Mr. R. C. Daley and br the sights at Hecla on 3 ence, please tell us your mission. has gone ods Linden Hall | A Sunday school festis ked of The steam thrashers the vicinity about one | A somewhat noisy « town the other evening rowd passe HARRY M. SPANGLER Mr. Harry M. Spangler, of Eaglevil at the home Mrs last, He lung trouble Lucinda Spangler He was born had been sick about five wes » funeral took place in the Saturday, made iterment being cemetery adjoining 1a Churchg Rev. ]. B MISS MAUD (8414 y Daj Soule officiated DRUMMEL Miss Maud Drummel died on Mou She Edward day morning last, at Julian. the Mr, was daughter of Drummel, Diphtheria was the disease which caused | her death. She was about 12 years of age. The funeral occurred on Tuesday, the interment being in this place ISAAC ROVER. Mr. Isaac Boyer, of Julian, whose age was about 75 years, died on Mouday. MR. LEW WATSON Mr. Lew Watson, of Unionville, died on Monday. ——— I¥ Al. Dale, Esq., did not win a victory in his fight against the Hastings combine it is to his credit that he made an open fight and in no manner compromised his manhood to secure votes. Can that much be said of the opposition? We doubt it. RPHANS COURT SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE By virtue of an order of sale, Issued out of the Orphans’ Court of Centre eounty, there will be exposed to public sale, In Walker town ship, upon the premises of Catharine Gates, about 2 miles south on Hublertburg, on TRURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 198, at | o'clock, p. m., the following described real estate, late the property of Catharine Gates, dec'd All that eerfaln messuage, tenement and tract of land situate in the township aforesaid, bounded on the north by lands of Joseph Em erick, on the east by Adam Decker and Markle heirs, on the south by Isaac Markle and on the west by Henry Brown and Joseph Emerick containing 0 acres and 1M perches, the same being In a good state of eQitivation, Thereon erected a two story frame dwelling house, barn and other outbulidin 8, good fruit and an ex cellent supply of Spring Water TERMS: «One half of purchase money to be paid on confirmation of sale and balance In one year with interest, to be secured hy bond and mortgage on the premises Mann KE. Hin, W.G. Runkle, Administratrix, Attorney. BAILEROAD : Ha Oak Ha sable in | Mi AT Td dn Mill Hall Jersey Shore Williamsport i amsport Ar Philada N. York via Tamq N. York via Phila Foot Liberty street Atlantic City *Dally. t Week Days. § 8:00 p. m 1 10:10 a. m, Sunday New York and Philadelphia Sleeping Cars attached to Beech Creek R. RK. train passing Mill Hall, east bound at 9.37pm. W out bound atsiZa. m Pullman Parlor Cars on Day trains between Williamsport and Philadelphia JW. GEPFHART General Supt Sunday YELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD > To take effect May 20, 18 WESTWARD EASTWARD $2 STATIONS 1 4 ] | Ms : | bd Bellefonte Coleville Morris Whitmer Hunters Fillmore Hiialy conens Waddle Seotia Crossing we Krumrine Struble - Inn «State College Morning trains from Montandon port, Loek Haven and Tyrone connect with train No.7 for State College, Afternoon trains from Montandon, Lewisburg and Tyrone con nect with Train No. 11 for State College. Trains from State College connect with Penna. R. R trains at Bellefonte Dally except Sunday Williams H. TooMas, Supt CrERask COUNTY COMPANY. Corner of High and Spring street, Receive Deposits; Discount Notes, J.D. Snvasnr, Cashier, BANKING LEANING ORF Al1,L, SUMMER GOODS P00000000000060006¢0000000¢ To close out our stock of Summer goods, we shall reduce our entire stock of Summer Dry Goods etc., as follows: MENS & LADIES Shoes » 1 1 ind Patent leather 1.85. SST TOSW™D"D™"N ae | )~~ 1.45 and $1.64. Opera and worth 2f Dress gin 10, 12 and 12 1-2¢, re duced to dD. b, 1 and ba Childrens Summer vests from be up; boys knee Our Regular Line of Domestic Goods Cheaper than Any Other Store in the State. Bellefonte, Penna.
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