CIRCUL OVER CHAS R. Ki ATTACKED BY AN EAGLE A Woman Risks her Life to Rescue a Child. SHE BROKE THE EAGLE'S NECK Afterwards she Escorts the Child to Its Home and Dragged the Huge Bird as a Proof of her mad Struggle—It Made many ugly Wounds—Measured Eight Feet. Miss Bertha MNoore, Shore, is the heroine of that neighbor. hood. At the risk of her own life she was successful in rescuing a child from the talons of a large bald eagle and kill. ed the bird in the struggle, though not | without receiving lacerations from the eagle's claws that may mark her for life. Monday afternnoon Miss Moore, ac- Talsen, Miss companied by S-year-old Elsie went on the mountains for a walk. time by res Moore was beguiling book, while the was around in play. Suddenly woman heard the child utter a piercing monstrous almost paralyzed io see a eagle bearing the little girl to earth in its prey. an attempt to fasten its talons in 1 Miss Moore Nothing daunted, went to the rescue. WITH AN EAGLE m the head Miss Moore away, but woul le vey WESCOTT an’s garmen and body in Finally, witl peration, Miss Moore sect the bird’s head and that in its own fierce struggles to get free Leading the child, 1 3% 1 Pa : a its neck was broken. who w ant muck hi who was not much hur profusely, Miss Moore walke« ome, dragging the Wo — Four Pairs of Twins ost remarkable old women nia 18 Mrs, Mary Aan Cassi. rfield county, w hy 0 he ia the 1 Sie is them a in County grating w this cout 5 4 he gid nd Kuown to be sick, and cian at the birth of her never a dance in her life went to the past 21 yearsshe has had her *‘second sight,” and now does not need to wear glasses, hough she is toothless asthe day she was born, she can eat heartily of the fare, pounds when ¢ common She weighed 220 oming to this country, but during the past 15 years has dropped to about 200. About a year ago she kissed one of her twin boys as he lay in his cof- re of 62 YCArs Mattern Family Reunion. le Thursday attend. of the Mattern ior's Mark. The reunion on family at W; elebrates the one hundred and seventy. Mat In the morning ade le first year of the ica Lewis W, Mattern, re; John W. Mattern, of and Rev, John A. Mattern, of New The afternoon was Bishop livered by Professor of Baltim Philig burg, ton Hamilton principle speaker John H. )., L. L. D.,of the Methodist Episcopal church, who taught a country in the Vincent D. 1 school forty-five years ago near the scene of the reunion, pupils several of the Matterns, numbering among his ——— Surrendered Their Churches Evangelicals who held Swamp and Green. The United the grove churches, a few weeks ago surrend. dred them to the Esherite wing. The members of Swamp church have leased the coach shop of Wm. Weaver, near possession of Farmer's Mills, and fixed it up for the | United Evangelicals to worship in. The first preaching in this new home has | been announced for next Sunday. - - -— - Aliens Going Back. This week thirty-three foreigners left | | which there are some 200,000 feet of oak. | When done on the tract be is operating | , and because of the alien bill, taxing | his sawmill to Sugar valley. Coal township, near Shamokin, because the mines do not work steady enough, them three cents per day. Many more will leave this month, principally on ac- | The thirty-three are | estimated to have taken fully $50,000 | count of the tax. alotig, having saved the money by mea- gre living. i it. i supper at 25 cents a head, of near Jersey | { there will be bicycle races under w» Z, Ed. and Prop. BIG DAY AT HECLA. South at Undine Picnic Demorests and Willlamsports this this Fire of its year at Hecla park, Heretofore their highly entertaining, The Undine place will hold company annual picnic on Saturday, July 3. picnics have and met with been great SUCCess. exertions to have the coming one more enjoyable than any that have preceeded There will be provision sufficient to supply 1,000 persons with dinner and There is a good bicycle track on the groundgs, and the rules of the L. A, W. "The prizes in the one mile races, open to novices, will be first prize $6, second $4, third $2. mile, open to all, §7, #5, £3. One race, open to boys, £3, £2,. full cash value. There will ball game between the and the South There will be dancing all One All prizes be a base Demorest club Williamsport club, and in the evening a grand display of fireworks. The music for the picnics will be furnish. ed by the Milesburg and Coleville Con. solidated band of 40 Haven band of 28 pie Gap band of 20 pieces, and All app hould t Saou. IAs abeth Gerber of Joseph Gerberi ou a farm four miles « , where he remained until i irom a ework moved there u : 1 4 ign on way must choose unroman- act, however, shows the three popular marriage \ November and k ' December v this to be tru the most marriages March grooms will for the traveling publi thet rey OTraes and highest 11 picasant man and knows how to cater to the comfort of his guests When in H Lock Haven, stop at the Irvin use - - - Bucknell's Big Commencement. The forty-sevemth annual commence. ment of Bucknell Wednesday, It university closed on was one of the biggest years. Thirty-six were graduated from the college, five in the post graduate department, twenty from the ladies institute and eleven from the school of musi and best in a - Bought a Timber Tract. Lumberman A. 8, Bierly purchased a on near Farmer's Mills, he will remove Ei aa New Postmasters, Last week M. M. Musser was appoint. | ed postmaster at Aaronsburg and H. H. | Osmer postmaster at Port Matilda, This year the boys are making | mile | BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY i OUR BOROUGH SCHOOLS A List of Teachers Elected for the Ensuing Year. INSTRUCTORS CHOSEN The Miliage same as heretofore—An Important of SAME The Organization of the School Board- Resolution Passed for the Selection Teachers in the future, The Bellefonte school board met Tues. day evening and organized for the ensu- ing year by electing D. F. dent, W. B. Rankin, secretary, and John P. Harms, of applicants the following teachers were Fortney presi- treasurer. Out of along list selected to teach the coming school year D. O. Etters, principal; A. R. Rutt, prin. cipal of high school, with Roy B. Mattern and Miss E F. Harrison sistants M. John Mc- ia levy as a Anna h the possibilities souls is a moral crime so awful it as stairs of the deadly hof the A008 ou ir scholastic training, they least one year at training, or two or more years cessful experience in actual teach The the smithy, experimenting, as he does, upon the at hand useless by his unskilfulness, and very generally in the earlier period of his ap ing apprentice who enters 1 ’ material often renders it CAsY But the untrained teacher experiments upon prenticeship proves an expense to his employer. But it is comparatively to replace the iron, if destroved immortal minds and by mistakes often The human life unlike the heated iron, cannot bend upon itself that a new fashioning by the touch of skill may remove the blemishes wrought by an untrained haud. Col. misdirects human lives. | Parker has said that the most awful ex- | ; | periment that a board can make is to | tract of oak timber, in Sugar valley, | known as the Isaac Frantz track, on | put a girl fresh from a secondary school, : fifty immortal souls, Iet it be repeated, that better results would certainly follow, ! | in addition toa year spent as a trainer and supply inthe school room under the direction of some pkilled teacher. Your board receives applications every year without a scintilla of the art of teaching, {or of a faint suspicion of it in charge of | 1897. have thought of learning something of how to from persons who never once teach by making fi to cquent visits to the school room there conditions a While made that, if « they actus recommendaty ight readily be ’ i iy help our t, would great hool co the present stre it measures as are absolutely nec is deen urge only SSary. should be made This that pupils entering the The course in languages to cover one more year in Latin, would mean High School could have Latin as a firs year study instead of taking second year as at present, Consid bas been done during the recite way of having choice selections fir¢ And should be pusher authors, this feature | during the coming year, to be done the board vain woul his mother. it across the prostrate form of his wife and unmercifully beat her and choked He then The youug mother suffered from ne her threw a i prostration till died. She April last. over the Saturday morning was only 16 years old in she 1 The coroner held an inquest remains and the jury rendered to the effect that the nervous prostras a verdict mother's death tion, superinduced by the excitement in. was caused by of the mother of the Al Al the abuse deceased at the bright, the husband of the deceased. bright is in jail at Hollicaysburg. cident to hands of George . — A Swindler on his Rounds All church members, and especially Baptists, should be on their guard against a frand who is traveling about this part of the state. He is rather tall, smooth faced, and clothing quite seedy. He kuows every Baptist minister and all. In one place he represen’s himself as canvassing a book, at another is agent for religious newspapers, and again he is | writing up Baptist history, He is always | LONG-BURRIED PLU! A Farmer Digs up a DER Purse Con taming Gold, HE FOUND $200 IN OLD COINS Some Think it was Burried There Years ngo by Lewis and Connelly, the Famous Rob- 1 bers—Colns of 1520 and Earlier Dates— Is it True, or onl A. J]. Bl woensville, day with up his horse at Co and alter it hae Bloom discovere hat his borse had hung to cut itself, and rushing in with a knife loose the balter, slipped, cutting to the had taken The a gash in his leg, and was hospital for treatment horse broken its neck --——— The Did Story Mrs. J. Will Mayes, of Howard, put | kerosene on the fire Wednesday of last | week, to enliven the blaze, when the oil | ignited, which resulted in her having . | her hands and face singed considerably, {claims to have recommendations from | | if the beginner possessed the advantages | (of at leart one year of normal training | and narrowly escaping from what might have ended seriously, L——— a, — They're Looking for Him, H. 1. Webb, who organized theatrical in need of just $2 or $2.50, having failed companies at Renovo, has fled the town, to receive a remittance from the firm. | leaving a number of unpaid bills behind. WANTED Correspondents to in the news publish it, send we will VOL. 19. XO. TRAIN ROBBERS across the had grown, and dog some animal dashed ough tie escaped, while Miss McSteen ofhice to h { cauterized. The mad dog mad ely up the street, bitifig Mamie the Wi to a doctor's AVE a little ud, through the ank Mar next street were ins, on ndiess a torn and two women ime Lhe bitten bef disappeared —— Harvest Will Be Lat The harvest this year in this county | will be one of the largest ever gathered | Grain never looked more promising than it does now and the bay crop will be immense. Farmers say that owing to 80 much cool weather this mouth harvest. ing will be a week or ten days later than usual, The cutting of clover hay will commence on most farms next week, LS A A SA «This week, the price on all summer clothing goes down-'bila. Branch
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