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CHAS. R. KURTZ Proprietor.
POPULLAR VOTE
FOR PRESIDENT |
| In a rude cabin in the wilds of what is
Some Interesting Lessons From
the Last Election
| gunning
SMALL YOTE CAST THIS YEAR |
| growled at the cabin door.
Where Each Candidate Made Gains and
Both Candidates Were
Objectional to Many Who Simply
Staved Away.
Losses
The striking thing to be noted in the
aggregate vote for Mc Kin-
ley Bryan. [It is 13,603,517 this
year, compared with
13 620 6H 8
smaller than four year
of the two candidates drew the full party
waizations, Me-
of the
New Jersey, Pennsylvar
Maryland,
votes, while McKinley los
In the
the far
made astonis
and Bryan
idle West,
M
which gave
ther sections, the
the South, Kinley
him
the unpr
Sah
midd
statistics
jority would Is
This is
thirt .
Mi
In these
ley was in
West, from the
Clic
souri
ocean, States in
had a major
In 1900 this was changed to a
for McKinley of
was 10
Kinley
The only
were im
ty of over McKin
major
52.578 Bryan's vote
Mc
O00
000 less than in 1896, while
reased 251
thal
idaho
Colora«
off from
year,
amou
11,93
falling
YEArs
someth
dentia in civil
the
steadily and |
war
times and recon
struction period
largely be out the
general
were
ncereased
This
usion that both candidates
Ars
Con
s0 objectionable to great numbers
of their respective parties that they did
not go to the polis. The absentees were
more than double McKinley's popular
majority, and 4 is an interesting ques.
tion what part these absentees will play
in the politics of the future,
Gov. Curtin's Sister Killed,
In an attempt to cross the Peunsyl.
vania Railroad tracks at Torresdale, Pa.,
Mrs. Nancy Clark, 73 years old, of 1010
Spruce street, was struck and justantly
killed by a swiftly moving passenger
train at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
The aged woman started to cross the |
tracks to the south-bound station, and |
did not notice the express bearing down |
upon her until her attention was called |
to it by the shouts of the townmen and
a shrill whistle from the locomotive, |
Then she seemed to become confused
and turned back, with fatal results,
Mrs. Clark was a sister of Andrew G,
Curtin, the famous War Govervor of
Pennsylvania, and the wife of an army
surgeon, long deceased. Her neice, Mrs,
Sheldon, ‘and one sister, both living in
Torresdale, are said to be the only sur:
viving relatives.
| tion and
| He had
days,
M (ING IN FOREST HUT.
A pitful story comes from Sagar valley,
| known as Hopple's hollow, George Mil:
ler, a recluse, was found dying of starva.
sickness, A
in the woods
helpless and alone, save
farmer who was
found the man
for a dog that
Miller
lying on a bunk, and was in a state al-
was
most bevond the ability to articulate,
been without for several
had
unable to craw! to the creek for water,
The the
gave him succor from his own
and
food
and for twelve hours been
farmer making discovery
larder,
the
These
Tramp
then reported the matter to
poor overseers of the township
officials engaged a man named
the sick man, and at last re.
port Miller had begun to improve
Miller's cabin 18 in an isolated s
of Hople
his
s hollow, where he has made
home fgr a
i
i
FEAr or more, earning a
he
The grow]
liviihood at doing chores for farmers
or eking it out of the wood:
g of Miller's dog is what
attention | £
shanty The discovery was most timely,
for within avother twenty-four
man would have been a stiffened
dog
the old
corpse, with his faithfu nm guard,
HOGS AFTER THE FARMER.
Stevens, a Lycoming
Amos
farmer,
county
was attacked the other day !
three hogs, and had it not been
sot: and a neighbor, who drove
off, he might have been kil
brutes, having been
severely
about the face and arms.
Mr. St
hogs are a
evens is not the on!
fter. The hog
the
ment {rust after him ; t
14
pail trust is after hi
m ; the hog of the oil
is after him ; the hog of the leather
trust is after him ; the hog of the sugar
and coffe# trust is after him ; the hog of
the coal trust is after him-—in short, all
the bogs ig Uncle Sam's per
him, and the only onein
drive the hogs off is McKi
won't do it
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Died Rescuing His Comrades
‘aptain John S. Fi
ited
Then
life of the
f danger
1d fought for the lif
After a herce
the
Idier Borribly butchered.
Track Bed in the River
A terril
Tharsday
the
grove Junction, while crossing the rail
struggle he was
it down and with other wounded
ident was avert
A
atcher at Selins.
ie railroad ace
ed 6th at Selinsgrove, P
Herman, tower diss
road bridge spauniog the Susquehanna
er at that place noticed a larg
stone work of the ahutment
Later he found that
r feet of the track bed haa
into the river Immediately he
the tower and notified the Selins.
ffice to hold a freight train The
1
started :
ross the brid
! in the 1
Large Supply of Gas
The test oil wells along Pine Cree
Lycoming and Tioga counties, have
developed such a subterranean supply of
natural gas that pipes are to be laid to
carry the gas to Williamsport for
Should
the supply prove to be constant it would
offer great inducement to the establish.
ment of new manufacturing industries
in the valley of the West Branch of the
Susquehanna .
Big Barn Burned Near Huntingdon.
The large barn of Murray Simpson
pear Huntingdon, was burned the night
of 7, together with three horses, two
cows, goo bushels of wheat, 600 bushels
use
in the manufactories of that city
quantity of agricultural
is supposed to have been of incendiary
origin,
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Closed on Account of Diphtheria.
The two schools in Bush's Addition,
near town, taught
and Miss Rebecca Heckman were closed
on Tuesday of last week and have not
been reopened, on account of the pre.
valence of diphtheria.
Flagman Killed at Tyrone.
Calvin C. Chrisman, a flagman of
Harrisburg, was killed near Tyrone
Monday night, by belag run over by a
train, He was 43 years old.
{a head as Penmnamoire in
| proposed when the secretary
of pats, sixty tons of bay and a large |
implements, |
Loss $8.000 ; insurance, §3.700. The fire |
MORE ABOUT
THE INDIANS
Our Historical Review of Centre
County Continued
WM. PENN AND THE RED MAN
How The
chased
Interesting
From
Land We Occupy Was Pur
Indian Warfare—0Other
Sketches Republished
Former Histories.
Among the Delawares and Iroquois, it
required but little 1¢ to make prepara-
tions for war. One of the most necessary
themselves
t that the
preparations
red and black ;
captains fast.
dreams, with
the view to gain intelligence of the
of the war
march of the
duced to make
his war
| present, and
devoured age word
“Thus will enemies
After the feast,
ou
»
'
The Iroquois or Huron nation,
The Catawbas, who lived
in South Carolina
The
named
Province of Pennsylvania was
in honor of
Will
admiral of the English
the
by King Charles II
the son of Giles Penn, Sir iam Penn,
an navy, who
British fleet in (
ommanded
Cromwell s
of Charles
In a letter t
Penn says
etter
sth of 1st
M
To Ro
Dear Friend My true love
salutes thee, and dear friends that love
the 1
he Lord's precious trath in those parts,
Thine I have, and for my business here,
know that after many waitings, watch
ings, solicitings and disputes in council,
this day my country was confirmed to
me under the great seal of England,
with large powers and privileges, by the
pame of Pennsilvania, a name the king
would give it in honor of my father, |
chose New Wales, being as this, a pretty
hilly country, but Jenn being Welsh for
and
Penrith in Cumberland, and Fenn in
Buckinghamshire, the highest land in
Hogland, called this Pemnsilvania, which
is the high or head woodlands; for I
a Welsh.
called New
Wales,
man-refused to have it
Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn |
to it ; and though I much opposed it, and
went to the king to have it struck out |
and altered, he said "twas past, and
would take it upon him; nor could
| twenty guineas move the under secre.
| tarys to vary the name, for I feared least
by Edward Owens |
it should be lookt on as a vanity in me,
and not as a respect in the king, as it
truly was to my father, whom he often
mentions with praise. Thou mayst com. |
municate my graunt to friends. and
expect shortly my proposals: tis a clear
and just thing, and my God that has
given it me through many difficulties
will, I believe, bless and make it the
seed of a nation. I shall have a tender
care to the government, that it will be
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1900.
well laid at first
truth,
no more now, but dear
love in
Thy true friend,
W. PENN
Sir William Penn, the admiral,
for ser.
vices rendered, and in consideration of
sundry debts due him from the crown,
OK
in
him, from K
of
America : but he died before he obtained
it.
Wil
while at
had a promise made
Charles I1., of a large tract land
liam Penn, son of Sir William Penn
’ '
Oxford, pursuing his studies,
hearing the distinguished Thomas Loe,
& Quaker, preach, imbibed religi
iments of the Friend
some ume
to care
ised grant which the k
ather ; he, therefore,
$ claims upon
ing that those
Was DI
ANY WAYS OF IICANS nn worag or
t or wrong an Indian, but be
incur the same penally of the law as |
had committed it against
planler
Prior
Markham, leput
d in Pennsylvaz
structed the «
ith the Indiar
pretends
juered the people |
I'be Pive N
New York
mach engrossed sit them |
163 §
10 }
he engaged Thomas Dougan, governor
of New York, to purchase from the In
that
both sides of the river Susquehanna, and
Jdians, ‘“‘all tract of land lying on
the lakes adjacent in or near the prov
ince of Pennsylvania.” Dongan affected
a purchase, and conveyed the same to
William Peln, January 13, 1606
consideration
in
of one hundred pounds
sterling."
It was Penn's object to secure the river
through the whole extent of the province,
and subsequent transactions with the
Indians show how careful he was to have
his purchase well confirmed.
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Fatal Shooting at Houtzdale.
Joseph McClelland, of Houtzdale, shot
and mstantly killed Bessie Burkholder,
near Houtzdale, on Monday.
of young McClelland had been out hunt.
ing and upon his return handed his load
ed and cocked gun to him. The weapon
was hardly in his bands until discharged,
the load entering the breast of the girl
stundieg nearby.
was committed to Clearfield jail to await
an investigation by the coroner, which
will be made to day. McClelland sur.
rendered himself to a justice immediately
after the shooting.
A bother |
We understand she |
| was but a child. While the shooting was |
most likely accidental, young McClelland
DIRECTORS
ASSOCIATION
in Bellefonte
Thursday
Will Meet Next
AN INTERESTING PROGRAMME
{or
Full
Ever
Topics Arranged
Attendance Des
School Dis
'
Hoa
feachers’ Instits
Hotel Property Sold
C. G. Avery, cashier of the Moshannon
National bank of Philipsburg, purchased
the Lloyd House property, including the
brick hotel building, the
Bony
per's livery stable, the shoemaker shop,
three-story
livery stable occupied by Gard.
Deakin’'s store room, Hagerty's bakery,
Mingle's and
market,
restaurant Peters’ meat
The plot of ground they cover
is 66 feet front by 240 feet back, running
Front to Second street Pine
from on
| The price paid was Fi1.000, 10,000 less
than its last owner, G. A. Walther, paid
for it.
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Silver Near Home.
A sample of rocks just taken from
the Nichols Lewis farm at Arch Springs,
eight miles from Tryone, was seat lo
State College for analysis and found to
contasn galena, arsenic and a trace of
silver sufficent to cause considerable ex-
citement in that vicinity.
HORSE SENSE.
In order to swcoeed in advertis-
Ling the largest ciroulation, at a fair
price, pays better than the small
cirewlation at a low price.
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VOL. 22, XO.
FUN AND FANCY.
Brig ling Paragraphs—Selected
and Original
LOCK HAVEN'S CENSUS
th a re
of Lock Hav
astanca and
’
German La
Hebrew
African M, E
burch of God
United Brethren
Advent
Dunkard
{
Expressed no re igious preference
Christian Selenlists . REET
Salvation Army
Gospel Workers
8.223
Fair at Howard.
The ¥V. P. 8. C, KE. of the Christian
Church at Howard will hold a festival
aud fair in Lucas’ Hall, on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of this week. A
fine line of fancy work and useful articles
contributed by members and friends of
the church will be for sale. Refresh
ments will be served ; will find it a de.
lightful place to spend an evening, every
baby will be made welcome.
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In a Hospital,
| Ira Krebs, of Sait Lake City, says a
telegram, is lylog mn a hospital in a pre-
| carious condition from bright’s Cisease
| and spinal meningitis combined. Hels
| native of Ferguson township, and is
| one of that western city's most brilliant
| young lawyers. He visited his eastern
| friends last September and at that time
was tn the best of health.