CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop.
THE PHILIPPINE
FOLLY
What It Cost to Chase Imperial
ldeas
MILLIONS BEING EXPENDED
The American People are Paving Dearly
Expansion
Future
McKinley's Immense
Accumulating That Gener
How the Figures Stand
Must Face
Fernando, to the south twenty mile
casi a
to the out
not a continuous ine, §
break through.
The mulitary
States, extreme.)
3 more so in Cav
of
lation
Manila
¢, north ¢
been entere
The Amer
some of the
Balaba
GIANT STEEL ORDERS
2's Mammoth Contract to Carnegie For
Steel Rails
a price
wted this year
safe to say that
at the m
“tee
Arnegie
pany has an order
¥1
Surpass
Aggregating
ooo, which has never been
the history of the
steel trade
and
Taking an So-pound rail as the st
ard, it means that the Carnegie company
will supply about 1300 miles of railroad,
although it is doubtful if such a heavy
rail will be used for this traffic, and a
6o-pound rail is usually used in building
new railroads, so that the mileage repre
sented will be that much greater.
Struck by a Train, |
Charles Heimer was struck by an |
engine on the Beech Creek road at Beech
Creek, Saturday morning, while return.
ing from taking his cow to pasture, Mr,
Heimer heard a train coming and sup.
posing that it was on the main track,
stepped onto the other track, and was |
struck by the locomotive. His injuries |
consist of several ribs being loosened |
from the backbone, the half of his left |
foot cut off, right leg bruised and internal |
injuries. |
| active,
AN APPEAL TO AMERICANS
Ask Us
Islanders
Frenchmen to
Alone
The
almost
newspaper arti
daily
friendly to the Philiy
tendency to arra
T he
by Edward At
: anti-expansion
THI
CANTEEN ©
In ya Fal
Christ Parker, of Phoenixs who
was one of the workmen who came here
to assist in the erection of the large iron
bridge had a serious fall last Saturday.
He was on the top of one of the piers
drawing a burr with a wrench. The
thread slipped causing him to loose his
balance and be plunged down into the
creek. His face had a severe gash, his
right arm broken and the other sprained.
He is a man of about 75 years and very
He is getting along nicely from
his injuries.
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Altoona Glass Works,
The establishment of a glass works in.
dustry in Altoona is now assured, the
board of trade baving received subscrip-
tions for over $25,000 worth of stock, the
Amount necessary to guarantee for suc.
cessful venture. Work on the new plant
is expected to begin in a few weeks.
enire
BELLEFONTE. PA
SOME TIMELY
ADVICE
Why You Should Patronize Home
Institutions
TAKE CARE OF BELLEFONTE.
Wanamaker
adeiphia and |
other cons
our peo; 1
oved
perated for
by out
Why shou
when
articles be
Mew bh J. O8
Pittsburg
These suggest
the town and «
Lellef
frie
ns are
vervhody
merchant
wile. her
The
the above, which is so direct and appro.
priate that further comment in that line
is useless. But one fact presents itself to
that deserves at.
Democrat can heartily endorse
us in this connection,
tention,
The editor of this
paper has often
| heatd yarious merchants of Bellefonte
complain of the immense amount of mer.
| chandise, purchased by local consumers,
outside of town. True it is, they have
cause to complain.
many of our merchants are guilty of a
similar practice—send out of town for
those goods which they do not handle, in |
preference to buying from a neighboring |
merchant, We have set down and pa.
THURSDAY, JUNE 29
At the same time |
1804).
tiently listened to
relate their tale
of
home patronage and u
woe about lack
and such a party up the back,
same merchants
such as
ments
than we were at the beginn
giunigg
aand defend »
war. We ox oy Mar
AD iTea
when he settled
£4 YEATS ago Loong Tohn
114)
and the farmer, who is now
still thinks i is the best tuber
the t
there were but three varieties kn
me he began to raise these potate
wn
ER
Wreck Near
While No.
east on the Bald Eagle Valley railroad
Tuesday morning, eight loaded coal cars
were piled up and strewn over the track
about two miles west of The
tracks were blocked from 10:30 until late
| in the afternoon, Passengers on trains
were transfered,
julian
58 freight train was coming
Julian.
- -— -
Thomas C. Barber Dead
Thomas C. Barber, a prominent Demo
| cratic politician, died at
Tuesday after a lingeriog {llness. Mr,
Barber was for several terms chairman
| of the Union county committee, served
| as county commissioner and was a dele.
| gate to the Chicago convention in 18¢6,
merchants plaintivels
of
Miflinburg |
idemocy
HYDROPHOBIA
AMONG CATTLE
Jitten and the Disease
\ Number
Dey eloped
\ CHILD'S NARROW ESCAPE
treasurer expects to
by September when the
payment of the appropriation wi
Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other large
districts will receive their share in in
staliments, while the
1 get theirs in ful
smaller districts
wi
— .——
Nicholes Buys Cannes
Czar Nicholas, of Russia, has ordered
$6. 000.000 of 6 and 12-poupder, quick.
firing cannon of the American Ordnance
company of Bridgeport, Conn; also 1,600
cassons and limbers
Stone Quarries at Salona,
The stone quarries at Salona started
Monday on a big order for crushing stone
for railroad ballasting. Fifty men will
be employed and the work will continue
for four months.
VOL. 21
FACT, FUN AND FANCY
ng Parsgraphs
un has corners
the out the
| the wrong side
is the man who hasn't §4
>
Lourting at Howard
A young man not many miles from
this place is raising a mustache and he
did not like the color of it. The other
night be blackened it with stove polish
und then courted his best girl, The next
morning her face looked like the map of
Centre county with rallroads running
from ber mouth to her ears.-—~Howard
Hustler,
Will Never be a Success.
A boy who is a success at rolling and
smoking cigarettes will never be a suc.
cess at anything else, and the day is not
very far distant when the cigarette fiend
| will be debarred from every office and
| counting room in the land.