qeutore AA CHAS. R. A NATION'S SHAME! CRIME OF "08! lncompetency and Red Tape Prove Fatal THOUSANDS DIE OF FEVER ed More Fatal Than War at Fault for Su taimed sale and fourteen ds lisease Everywhere ial neglect ing that was brutal nt sspness that was homicidal The horrors of peace began when Sar The strong army that Gen nto Southern Cuba was at + disease more deadly than by Mauser bullets had been Regiments that had got to war only a th ful | flush of youth before with ranks and i every man in the ful ul strength decimated, and vigor were 1it was only when the manders under brigade com. Shafter protest that a move was made to get the i Gen signed a men to the North, where there would be some hope of saving their Yellow fever inv Santiago, and had ther delay no can compute how many of the invading army would ever have seen the home land again. The records show that in the camps at | Santiago nearly 350 men died from dis- case—far more than were killed in all | the war with Spam. But these figures shed no light on the vast number into | whose systems crept the germs of death i i | lives, aded the camps at there been any fur. | one that were to kill them off in the days and weeks after they left the Cuban | shore, The full, terrible stories of the charnel | ing killed off by fever — KURTZ, Ed. and Prop. : horror of water uthern after the con fences had been known Not until after all the regimental we had been condemned, and it had been that pure could not shown and heaithful water {the tment procured in that part : War the Then it cided to find another site, but that two months and a half after it had first be country, di Depa awake to the fact that men were be was de was been shown to the officials at Washing. | ton that the place was unfit That official d (IVES, ay cost a hundred Aud bow has all this happened? is responsible’ Who is to blame for it There is the President, Commander in Chief of the army, There is the Secretary of War, the re. sponsible head of the military depart ment of the Government There are his immediate subordinates, | the Surgeon-General, the Commissary. | General and the Quartermaster.General. Their duties are defined by law, and they are looked to to provide for the nation's heroes. i : | camp Spring wagons, 15 Who | | 8 of which were lady | ty-sixth judicial BELLEFONTE. PA, T IMPORTANT FALL ELECTIONS States Will El ors This Year What £Ct (rovern NEW CONGRESS SELECTED tors W Cer consequence great republic depends upon No questions which are portance enter into except those ef ty New York Large Attendance sand people are said to have been in attendance at the Brush valley Supday 48 two horse meeting on 26. From | gix a. m. until 12 noon, two horse | carriages, 13 one horse carriages, 295 one and two horse vehicles, 3 road carts, 190 bicycles, | cyclers, 13 large hacks and over 100 people on foot passed i through Millheim to the meeting — James Scarlett the Nominee James Scarlett, of Montour county, f the Twen. The nomina- is the Republican nominee district tion was made unanimous atan adjourn. {ed | of the conference held at Berwick on Tuesday of last week, [Mr. meeting Will they answer the questions of re. { Scarlett is a brother of Mrs. Wm. Lyon, sponsibility ? | of Bellefonte | Pennsy in Philipsburg Centre county '# CAMPAIGN RATES | The Centre Democrat will be [3 mew address in Centre ’ i HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ILL HALL NI w hie ting to hear something r srience) but those attended ew were A Philipsburg Soldier Dead Henry L ifth Pennsy! of ( ania volunteers, Schieter ompany | who was brought from Chickamauga on the State hospital train and whose condition pros ed so serious that they were compelled the train at Pitts the Western that « His remove him from burg to died Saturday in ivania hospital mn ity, a victim of typhoid fever home was 25 years of age - .- - Messrs Frank Bohn, of Lemont, | Jonas Dinges, the druggist, of Boalsburg, and Wm. Bohn, Ri Th Sh a Th Th he Te Th sent to any county, for 5 Ots a Mont N / ’ 4 / B«No subscriptions will be re eoived at this rate after the elec tion, or for ies than THREE or mote than SIX months TSO NS / ¢ 4 / 4 He was | of Aaronsburg, were | { pleasant callers this Thursday morning / WM. C. HEINLE FOR SENATE BALLOTS WEI heard his voice and its Faithful many years, he truly merited the « mpi somination from nominee always to his ment of the senatorial 1 his party, and we people will elect him in November --——— CONGRESSIONAL CONFERENCE The following appeared in the Pitts burg Post ou Monday : “The democratic congressional conference of the Twenty | eighth district, composed of the counties of Centre, Forest, will be held at Ridgway, Septem ber 17 Clearfield, Claring, Elk and Though there are four candi dates in the field for the nomination, the contest seems 10 be K.P Hall, oi BE of thus place between J k, and Colonel J Clearfield is en the of Hall, but that gentleman is pot inclined county deavoting to force nomination { to antagonize Spangler, who is believed i be entitled to anolher nomination, The democrats feel confident | will carry the district this fall, nil A —— «CAMPAIGN RATHR--§ cents a month, | for not less than 3 or more than 6 monts, in Centre county. to are confident that the lL. Spangler, | "4 PATE | Shubert Glee Club, of Chicago that they | States government and great hand-made be consequently work means a abot it was only a weck ago that this same amount of Company were given a contract for twen ty-five thousand pairs of shoes, also for the government “ ——— Lecture Course The People’s Popular Course of enter. tainments for the comin 1 be Ariel Ward SCASOn Wi. Sextett, famous Smith Sisters Beecher Richard, lecture ; Boston Ladies Military band ; Ed. H. Fry, Boston's fa. vorite ; 1. J. Lewis, Canadian Rockies ; The Eldridge Novelty Co.; Chas. H. Fraser. Call in at Montgomery's store and add your name to the list. yi DEMOCRAT Tue CRNIRE will be sent {to any address during the campaign for | three mouths for 1g cents,
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