The Centre democrat,
CHAS. . KURTZ Proprietor.
CR r=
WEDDED
AT EVENTIDE
Miss Helen Rankin Hastings
Ross Anderson Hickok
A BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT
Largely Attended by Friends and Ac-
quaintances From Far and Near
Elegant Gowns and Choice Decora-
tions— Elegant Presents
The topic of the past week, in this
community, has the Hastings.
Hickok wedding which took place last
been
evening in the Presbyterian church. The
prominence of the contracting parties,
the bride being the elder daughter of one
of Bellefonte's three famous governors,
as well as her social prominence here
and elsewhere, and especially her popu.
larity at her own home, all contributed
toward making this event a most delight-
ful the past week the
spacious home of ex-Gov. D. H. and
Mrs. Hastings was thronged with inti-
affair, During
nate friends of the bride and groom who
were bidden to participate in the festivi-
ties prior to the nuptial day. From all
sections of the stale prominent guests
came which made this wedding one of
the most distinguished social gatherings
ever seen iu our town,
Promptly at the appointed hour of
7 p. m., the beautiful of the
Lohengrin wedding march, as performed
Mrs. J].
through the church and simultaneously
strains
by Malcolm Laurie, floated
the bridal party made their appearance.
First came the ten usbers, namely
Richard Cameron Haldeman, Charles N.
Hickok, William O
Schell, Frank J. Hall, Charles
nd George W. Reil
Hickok, Orville
D. Brandy
ey, Harrisburg; Fred.
erick Brooke, Birdsboro; Edward Harris
Brewer, Spr Mass; and Colby
Mitchell Chester, of Washington, D. C.;
then the ten bridesmaids
ret Scott Graham,
Heffelfinger, Minneapolis Minn; Misses
Charlot and Clara Rust, Cleveland,
O.; Miss Mary Boas and Miss Harriet
Gilbert, Harrisburg; Miss Catherine
Lawson and Miss Nellie McCormick, of
Williamsport; and Miss Adaline Harris
and Miss Elizabeth Breeze, the grand.
daughters of ex-Governor Curtin, of Belle.
fonte. The maid of honor, Miss Louise
Hickok, of Harrisburg, followed, then
the bride, Miss Hast
arm of her father, H.
Hastings. The march was up the right
centre aisle ofthe church to the altar
where the party was met by the groom,
Ross Anderson Hickok, attended by his
ringfield,
Miss Marga-
Yittsburg; Miss Louise
le
ir
in
gs, leaning on the
ex-Governor D.
brother, Orville Hickok, of Harrisburg
a
of the wed.
semi-
At the altar the party formed
y "
» I) ’ ’ v
nd as the last straics
died away the
minister,
D., LL. D.,
ped to the
ceremony, ring being use
bride was giv
The t
satin, with long train, slash
en away by her father,
ride was gowned ure white
i
waist trim.
med with real point lace, full puf
The
worn was a brilliant diamond pin,
and long bridal veil. only jewel
the
gift of the groom. She carried a shower
bouquet of lillies of the valley.
The maid of honor
and bridesmaids
made with old
fashioned full skirts with garlands of
pink roses across the front, low neck and
wore white taffetasilk,
small tulle sleeves and veils, the latler
pinned off the face with Prince of Wales
feathers, The maid of honor carried a
bouquet of white cosmas and the brides
maids bouquets of pink cosmas.,
Mrs. Hastings wore a dress of white
brocaded silk, with pink flowers, low
neck with lace fichu, and a white pom-
pon hair ornament. Mrs. Hickok,
mother of the groom, wore black velvet |
with full lace trimming.
At 7:30 o'clock the bridal reception
was held at the Hastings’ residence on
Alleghany Street, which was largely at.
ding gown. At the conclusion of the
reception refreshments were served.
The bridal party partook at a table
spread especially for them in the drawing
room, the table designed as a big
“LL”. The guests were served in the
dining room. Leadline, of Williamsport,
was caterer and Chappell’'s orchestra
also of Williamsport, furnished the music
for the reception,
The decorations, both at the church
and house, were by Consadine, of William.
sport, the predominating features being
pink and with cosmas, palms, ferns, &c.
The bride's favors to the bridesmaids
were large gold pins and the groom's
favors to the ushers were gold sleeve
buttons,
Immediately following the reception
at the bouse a dance was given in
the armory by the young men of Belle.
fonte in honor of the bride, which was
attended by hundreds, The decorations
were similar to those at the church and
the house, while Chappell's orchestra
i 221
and |
| Saturday by taking Paris green.
furnished the music. At 10:30 o'clock
Mr. and Mrs, Hickok departed on a
| special tram for an extended tour,
| They will be at home to their friends at
West State
the
street, Harrisburg,
where
10.
The bride
universally admired, as she is endowed
is a young lady who is
with an amiable disposition and possess-
es those rare womanly graces which
won for her a large circle of close friends |
and acquaintances. Social
{ and other advantages have only develop-
ed her true worth,
The Mr,
Hickok, of Harrisburg, 1s a graZuate of
When the
Spain broke out he enlisted as a private
groom, R088 Anderson
Yale, class of 'q7 war
in Battery A. of Philadelphia, and later
was promoted to first lieutenant of Com.
with
pany M. of Gettysburg, serving
distinction during his brief military
career. He is connected with the large
Hickok manufacturing establishment.
The presents received by the bride
was a rare collection of dainty, elegant
of
glass, silverware, delicate china, bronze,
tokens seldom seen, consisting cut
rugsgetc.
ling occurred on the anniver
grand-
The wed
sary of the marriage of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H, Rankin,
father
and mother were married, and the cere-
in the same church in which her
mony was performed by the same minis-
ter, the Rev. Dr. William Laurie, pastor
of the Bellefonte Presbyterian church,
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KRUMRINES STORE ROBBED.
Wedne nM
Dowell and wife drove past Krumrine's
they
Hastening
home he
got Al
took his shot gun and trid to ca
sday morning 3rd, as Milt
not iced
y Mr
him
store, at State College,
a light in the room.
Krumri
and,
s
e's aroused
returning, ho
the
burglar, Mr Krumrine unlocked the front
door and the burglar fled from the rear.
The night was very dark anc
climbed down backward frou
the man
the high
door with his booty in one arm, Here
was the chance to capture him.
Al.
shotgun,
O'Neil guarded the door with his
and after the
amazement was over and the man had
walked a step or two, he ordered him to
halt, "Like the devil I will,” was the
reply, and off he started on a run down
the alley.
first touch of
Mr. O'Neil pulled up and fired
him. The loss
No clue to the robber has yet been
~and missed
$1352.
obtained.
CAUGHT THE BURGLAR.
was about
The Philipburg Ledger of yesterday
says A young man hailing from
College, named Willis Johnstonba
was arrested Monday evenis
Slate
near
Lloyd House, by Detective Harry Simler,
charged with having robbed the jewelry
oS.
“rr
«8
Joh
a term in the
theft,
and
store of J & Krumrine
College. nsonbaugh, who had served
Huntingdon Reformatory
for was known to be peddling
jewelry suspi settled on him.
He had worked for
Tuesday of
and after he made his
company up to
haul came back
Irvin's boarding house
When
there was
here, boarding at
scarched
found
on Pine street, after
his arrest in his pos-
session a kodak, a 312 caliber revolver, a
14 £1
Eo d.6l
gold-filled
led hunting.case watch, three
chains, five guard and fob
chains, four of Krumrine's cost marks
off chains, eight rings and a case to hold
a dozen rings, and a door key. He con-
fessed to having stolen the goods and was
committed to jail to await trial at the
November court,
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A Quarrel Ends in Suicide
Marital unhappiness caused Mrs. Isaac
Price, of Jersey Mills, to end her life
After
a stormy scene the wife made prepara-
tions to leave her home for good. But
missing the train to Philadelphia, she
determihed on suicide as the best way to
end her unhappiness, and swallowed a |
| teaspoonful of Paris Green,
tended. ‘The bride received in her wed. |
sought her hushand, who was working
in a nearby field, and told him what she
had done, Imost before she was
through her story she began to lose con.
sciousness and died ina few hours, de.
spite all efforts to save her life
———
Williamsport Short of Logs.
Nine hundged men in Williamsport
are out of employment and eight big
sawmills are standing idle
50,000,000
| along the West Branch and its tribu.
taries. The last freshet was about the
middle of March, at which time
dry on the banks of the streams until
today, at some points, the barkless
sticks lie whitening in the sun fifteen
feet above the edge of the diminished
waterways, ‘
When a man concludes to propose, a
woman is sure 10 jump at the conclusion.
groom has his future resi- |
dence already furnished, after Novem- |
| ber
prominence |
|
with |
Then she |
because |
feet of logs are stranded |
less
| than half of the season's cut of logs
| floated into the Williamsport boom, leave
| ing the remainder of the stock high and
BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1900.
JOHN KEENAN
HELD FOR TRIAL
Corpus
|
the Habeas
Hearing Saturday
| Result of
THREE WITNESSES CALLED
Produced Given in
Makes a Trial by Jury
At Next
Court,
The Testimony
Substance
Necessary
November
Session of
A large
others were here
the
purpose of
corpus hearing, in the
the shooting of pretty
Gillentown last
affair were
| this paper,
that only three
then the court
be held under $2
ance at the ¢
The
Attorney
formation to what
“31 rt
court.
witnesses
ed
coart deems ito 88 Nn, BD
althougt
there had
the
Spangler, District Attorney, appeared for
the Commonwea Grey
and W. Harrison Walke Esqs.,
defense,
for the
Keenan
in Mosharo
old
with
saw mil
house to
miits. They 1
A
with Alice and
Annie
nnie s
ght before
Return
It was a
Gillentown
o'clock fre
ia
for them to go out alone together. Og
KE E
the morning of the killing I suggested
that they go for wood.
Witness denied that she had asserted
ou day of killing that it was an accident
John did not say to me on the morning
{ of the killing when he brought the body
| home that ft I fist
knew Keenan he
was an accident,
had a pistol when
brought it home 4 weeks ago
Patrick Ward, of Snow Shoe twp, , said
It was the morning of the 26th that he
borrowed the team. I wanted to trade
one of my horses to a Gy psy, who came
along, and so started 0 meet my team
on
»
its return. | met Keenan
along with the team
The girl was lying in the buggy dying
her handed
the revolver to a gypsy, who came along
at that
The
dence,
coming
He was crying
Keenan said he shot and
time and he banded it 10 me
revolver then
There
was offered in evi
were three
emply cart
ridges and two loaded ones; witness stated
that the palied
hard, | drove the
revolver exceedingly
got in wagon home
but the girl died before we reached the
house, Keenan was holding her bead
tn his lap. Wher we reached the house
{ I carried the dead body of the girl into
| her home
L. B. Davis, of Moshasnon, was next
called. Had coaversation with the de
fendant, He stated that the girl had the
revolver and said she would shoot me, I
sald I did not care if she did. Then I
not intend to do it,
tion brought out the fact that Ansie said
have shot me as you said yom would,
now take me home."
Judge Love decided that the question
got the revolver and I shot her but 1 did |
His crossexamina: |
to Keenan after he bad shot her “you |
| whether the killing of Annie Hobbins by
{ Jolin accident was
that He, there.
fore, ordered that the prisoner be held
Keenan was an one
a jury must decide.
for trial,
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BRYAN A WINNER.
New York “Journal's” Canvass Con-
vinces It That He Can Not Losec.
be
next president of the United States,
the
The
has carefully can-
William Jennings Bryan will
New York “Journal”
that
|
if
assed the stales are regarded
doubtful in the co
It has o!
y and }
less
tained honest, uncolo
rophecies as to the result
election in these from
al committemen, chairm
th
he bes
nittees and
IR a
Louisiana
11881881] p
M
Nevada
sour
Nebraska,
Maryland,
be elected, with
6 votes ; lllin
Kentucky elect
him 226 clectora
If
states, Colorado, Nebraska, Idaho, North
and South Dakota, Utah, Washington
and Wyoming, with their
Ii, = ill
voles
the western
Bryan is successful in
12 electoral
voles; mn New York 16 and io Maryland
5, he will win with 229 votes.
just named; Indiana, 1%
western states
votes, and [llinows, 24, would elect Bryan
with 224 votes
Bryau could lose New York and be
elected should he gain the 32 votes of the
far western Indiana, 15; Ken.
tucky, 11; Maryland, 8, and West Vir.
gina, 6,227 votes in all.
slates,
There are 1.000 probable combinations
which at least half of the
electoral votes in doubt will go to the
of siates by
democratic candidates.
Fish Dying by Wholesale
The drouth at the head of the Susque
banna river is doing much damage to
the late crops. In the vicinity
Mahaffey the river has dwindled toa
mere brook in size and fish are dying by
Railroad is im
peded by the scarcity of water, locomo.
tives being compelled to go forty miles
for a supply. Hundreds of wells have
dried up, snd pure drink water is a
rarity. As a consequence typhoid fever
has set in,
of
the wholesale. trathe
Did Not Pay.
The Juniata Valley camp meeting
grounds at Newton Hamilton, were sold
at sheriffs sale last week 0 satisfy an
indebtedness of $3,000. J. A. McKee, of
Lewistown, wus the purchaser, The
| grounds will be converted into a sum:
mer resort,
The far!
DANGER SIGNALS
FROM EUROPE
The Stockmarket Denotes an Up-
heaval Abroad
OMENS INDICATE DEPRESSION
Idle—Threat-
Financial and In
May be a Warning
Another Slump in Busisces
Thousands of Looms ar
ened Crisis in
dustrial Lines
of
ness life wa
» iwo vears before it made
ited State
SO DOW ATC We recely
ing
omens of revers.
Ameri.
Fraskforton-the
wn
business and indastry. Our
at
nancial asd bus
can consul genera
ness cen.
Main, a great fi
ter, writes Lhe state department that “tl
Senet
strial
. — in Pare
osperity
that
i
about two years to reach the trough of
the sea in business way Falling prices
and wages in Europe makes certain
the
E the
sharper competition with America in
markets we have been con
quero
last three years. .
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Raising Figs in Mifllin County
Satarday's Newton Hamilton Watch
| man says “Miss Annie
been paying some attention to the culture
of figs. She had ove tree this year that
netted her over and above what was eat
221 dozen
Ewing has
and put up by the family,
prime figs, or about five bushels in all.
These figs she sold at an average of s
dozen, bringing her $11 os
Annie
has several other trees coming on and in
cents per
She could not supply the demand
a few years will be able to do quite a
business in figs. We wish her success
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Come and See Us
Many of
fonte during the fair next week
Belle.
While
here one and all are welcome to call at
war readers will be in
the Centre Democrat office and inspect
We print the first side of the
paper on Wednesday evening aad the
the plant
last side is printed, folded and mailed
0a m to2p on Thursday.
When you call you may find us busy
hustling out our large edition, but you
will be welcome all the same,
.
Fields Washed.
The rain that fell on Monday morning
was unusually heavy and did considera: |
ble damage in some sections, The fields |
that were recently planted with wheat |
and where they are located om side |
[bills were badly washed. la some |
| Staten farmers found it necessary to
rework them and put In new seed.
from m
VOL. 22, NO. 4.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY,
Bright Sparkling Paragraphs---Selected
and Original,
w sweet Pegg
h when it is
5 todraw the line
lom run long
trunk
“ighbor honest
train as
pay
in bed con.
nelle gowns
g 0 some women.
's the
ne
be the
1S Roig to be
man expect to
if she
‘AD
MARKER.
cAreasurer D. C.
Miry has Foe N
aip, ba u
riptions
the neg-
cers who were
Bn 1779, by the
yw finished and
ie yard of Got
It bears
uly 24, 1778, in an
’
with five Indians
1y of placing this marker
in charge of the
an
be
lution
a
ar-
oc-
Rev
They will call
i a
ble fi
date and
the
4
ut Centennial
county the following
ound that refers to this
both used
ed has
for a:
The two so
antagonist
* lane a half mi
tr 10 the
marking
Hen.
the
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WANT WATER WORKS
3 Cound net in extra
session { last week and passed
at the regular
election in November the proposition of
submit
reso:qlions omit
increasing the borough's indebtedness
$10,000 to be used for building water
works. The question is not a new one
in Millheim for at a special election on
Monday, September 12, 1508, it was de.
feated by about fifteen votes. It is the
intention of the advocates of the water
system to bring the water from Philips
creek, where a good supply of excellent
can be procured, and
where a reservoir can be built at a very
mountain water
low cost. Heretofore that town depend.
and cisterns for
which often was the source
for contagion,
ed entirely on wells
their supply.
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Large Stream Goes Dry
Lick
large stream
Slate creek, which is quite a
rising in Clearfield town-
ship, near Chest Springs, and Sowing
through White township, was dry for a
week, which is the first time it has been
in that condition for forty-five years,
Big Movement of Cars.
The coal traffic on the Beech Creek rail.
road bas largely increased since the
strike begun in the anthracite regions,
The daily eastward movement of coal
on the Beech Creek is over 1200 cars.
Great Peach Sale.
Dr. Dumm, of east Nittany valley, is
making his last delivery of peaches. His
sale aggregated 3,000 bushels,
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets,
All druggists refund the money If it fails
Weare, BE. W, G 's is on
each box. Price 2 eS 4guauny tr