he
CHAS. R. KURTZ Ed. and Prop.
SICKNESS AT
CHICKAMAUGA
Bovs
With Camp
Uur Soldier Dissatisfied
MUCH FEVER STILL PREVAILS
And Many Hos
pitals—Camp Has Been Moved to Higher
Ground-—A Number
Charles Garis’ Condition Serious
Deaths Occur Daily in the
are Home on Fur
loughs
CAMP GEORGE H. THOMAS
CHICKAMAUGA PARK,
Au
Editor Kurtz: —My letter t«
short
your read-
must be for want of time to
Ye are still located
Crs
write. at the old
stand and getting along as well as can
be expected under the circumstances,
13 A caution to see the number of sicl
camp, an » northern
of the unhealthfulness
the writer doubts
more so than this camp.
illed, an
paymaster final
boys
the
many of
to get moved
ra |
ground
quite a siege of
and can more readily
The writer
Daley went home for, but i
cannot te
business of import
t Jackson is home
ck leave, and the comp
3
reed
Pe LA
ry poorly, and
to what the result may be
been considered dangerous un
when his friends were at
fast, once
3
:
Hl
i
to, and after several inessages back an
forth his
morning and is now
watchmmg over him
has been secured for her at Mr. Broom's
across Chickamauga creek,
from the hospital. Private Noll is getting
landed here on Sunday
at his
A boarding place
wife
bedside and
about a mile
along nicely and we think will be out of
the hospital in a little while
Rittenhouse has been sent to his quarters,
but is very weak and pale and will get a
sick leave for thirty days on his applica-
tion for the same. Private John Brown,
Private
from Milesburg, has been taken to the |
hospital with symptoms of walking
typhoid fever and has homesickness, and
encouraging letters written by
friends may do a great deal towards his |
recovery. The health of the company is
generally pretty good, with the excep-
tions above named.
Since my last letter we have received
Centre 1
THE NEW STATE GUARD
of Modern Patters
organize
formit standard of the
army, 12 companies to the regiment, in
and two regiments to
stead
each brigade. There will be three bri.
jades, the necessary 72 companies
}
of infantry, these batteries of light artil.
lery and three troops of cavalry have
been recruited, and with one or two ex-
ceptions mustered in. Adjutant General
Stewart will issue orders in a few davs
regarding the organization
The Twenty-first regin
Oil
Bradfor
SEAL
companies at
Ieadville, Warren,
Butler,
Huntingdon snd Bellefonte,
Sharon, Erie
as a pi
Coty
n of the
and will be
permanent unless the
lature makes other provision
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GREAT WORK OF OLR GUNS
The Navy department has received full
reports of the naval operations
They
much more damage was
against
Manzanillo July show that
done than is
The
Spanish
burned, sunk or destroyed
generally understood reports
specify no less than vessels
The American ships engaged in this
operation were the Wilmington, Helena,
Scorpion, Hist, Hornet, Wampatuck and
| Osceola, with Commander Todd of the
]
| ties,
| to 10
from the Epworth League of Unionville |
$15.16, and from the Milesburg Christian
Endeavor Society five dollars, and from
W. H. Stover, of Potters Mills, five. The
above amounts are all very thankfully
received and surely shows a charitable
and Christianlike act and they have the i
best wishes of one and all. These funds
have all been put to the sick fund, which i
our company is keeping up for the bene. |
fit of the sick, in getting such things for
Wen that the government will not fur.
nisi,
My next letter will be from the new
camp ground, ’
Very truly yours,
8.D. GryTio
| sion, costing from $150,000 to $200,000, |
| to make a £10,000 appropriatios,
| missioners will be appointed to bring the |
| returns from the camp!
his Wilmington in command,
American ships, and there was no casual.
The engagement lasted from
Ca. m
The Spanish gun
were mostly small ships
vessels destroyed
The Purissima
| Concepcion is a blockade runner that the
navy has been after for a long time.
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Camp Elections
Governor Hastings thinks that elections
can be held in the camps of the Pennsyl.
vania soldiers and the returns properly |
made for about £10,000, This movey
will be raised by private subscription,
the subscribers depending on reimburse. |
| ment on the next legislature,
be exe
cutive is unwilling to call an extra ses
Com.
The reports |
show that no damage was done the |
0 "
; | 12, and on the following day Admiral
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1
FACTSABOUT THE
SPANISH WAR
The Destructive Work of
Army and Navy
FEWEST KILLED IN HISTORY
The Yellow Flag Will be Banished From this
Hemisphere
Ex
Hostilities Began-—Estimates of the
penses Incurred
The greatest es
regards the future power
States among the nation
have taken plac
the
{
begis
were
uido was
rapidly, and
Dewey destroyed the Spanish
f Mauila
sequently took possession of Cavite. No
war ships in the Bay
one was killed on the American side
Matanzas was again bombarded on May
7. The torpedo boat Winslow fought
three Spanish gunboats and the batteries
ashore, and as a result Eusigun Worth
Bagley and five seamen were killed, the
first casualties reported on the American
side
CERVERA COMES TO THIS SIDE
The arrival of the Cape Verde squad.
ron at Maotinique was reported on May
Sampson reported that he had bombard.
ed San Juan, with a loss of two killed
and six wounded.
The Cape Verde fleet was reported at
Santiago May 19, the day after the safe
urrival of the Oregon was announced.
| The President called for 75,000 addition.
al troops on May 25. On the same day
the first expedition of 6000 men left San
Francisco for Manila,
opened upon the
tiago
and Sampson
fortifications of San.
HOBSON 8 DARING ACT
Ideutenant Hobson, with
seven volunteers, sank the Merrimac ip
the entrance to Santiago harbor, one of
On June 3
: 1144
| the thrilling acts of the war,
Six hundred American marines landed
! “ '
at Guantanamo Bay, Juve 10, and wete
Our
The Principal Events Since
American.
1505
{
J A 1088 0
wounded The
Geb
We
have borro
yutset there wi
reasurs
| sales
——
The Maria Teresa Raised
The Merritt-Chapman Wire king com
pany bas informed the navy department
that the wreckers have succeeded in
floating the Spanish cruiser Maria Tere-
sa, and are about to start her
own steam to Norfolk
pothing to do with
under her
The navy has
the
this voyage,
| wreckers having contracted to deliver
any of the vessels of Cervera’s fleet that
might be recovered at Norfolk
It is expected that the battlescarred
Spanish ship will attract thousands of
curious visitors when she reaches Hamp.
ton Roads. [tis fully expected at the
navy department that the Maria Teresa
will require extensive repairs, having
suffered not only from shot, shell and
fire, but also from a month's submersion
i the quickly fouling waters of South
Cuba. However, the repairs will cer.
tainly be made, for the sentimental rea.
son alone is strong enough to warrant
the expenditure of sufficient money to
put the ship in serviceable condition
- - -.
Loganton Won
A game of ball played at Loganton
Saturday between the club of that place
and the team of Rebereburg resulted in
favor of Logantou by a score of § to §
PMCS
TERMS OF PEACE
ABOUT CONCLUDED
Will Agree to President
McKinley's Demands
Spain
VICTORY Al
EXPECT HOSTILITIES TO
Spain will ended by a formal or
der to-day. The president is reported to
be satisfied with the general terms of
Spain's note of acceptance
WILL COME SOON
Secretary
would come to-day and replied
but the
or the
Long was asked if peace
“Ithink
be settled one
way This statement is
taken to bear out the impression that the
matter will
other.’
not,
war will be renewed with increased vigor
all along the line, unless Spain promptly
accepls
A FLEET POR 2rATN
If the peace terms are not accepted by |
this evening Sampson will be ordered to
send a fleet across the AV antic and Mer.
ritt will be directed to assault Manila
with the naval cooperation
’ dent -
ASSISTANCE FOR MERRITT
.
General Merritt's force in
to
the
pines ia be increased by the 7.000
troops now at San Francisco, which will
be sent as soon as transports can be ob
Secretary Alger said today that
2,000 troops would sail at once
Merritt will have a force of 18.000. and
talued,
{ there will be no hurry sor the embarka.
tion of the remaining troops.
Philip. i
rom wh
1 Wednesday morning he passed away
|
The deceased was 49 years old, leaves
and four children: ~Charles,
Philadelphia; Mrs Yeager
Altoona; Regina and Ruth of this
He was a devoted
John's Catholic
industrious man
AR Wilk
Elmer
piace
member of ti
church,
and
the St
an honest and
will be greatly
|
| missed in the community
WT ———
Kepler-Goss
Tuesday evening at five o'clock Joh
yan
W. Kepler and Miss Madge Goss, both
of Pine Grove Mills, were united in mar
riage by Rey. W. A. Stephen, at the
Methodist parsonage on Kast Linn
street, this place. Immediately after the
| ceremony the bride and groom started
| for their home at Pine Grove Mills
The groom is a son of Jacob Kepler
and the bride is a daughter of the late
Treasurer Cyrus Goss,
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Church Dedication
The newly built United Evangelical
church, on the mountain a few miles
south of Spring Mills, Pa., will be dedi.
cated by Rev. A. E. Gobble. D. D , of
Central Pennsylvania College, on Sep
tember 4th. Services to begin the Sat
urday evening previous. All who Pos.
sibly can attend, are cordially invited to
be there. W. H. lrown, or and Rev.
A. Stapleton, presiding elder.