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AS R. hi RTZ, Proprietor.
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REVIEW | The ladigns, Scania Dures
{
and died about
to the neighborhood of Montrea
] ler
[hom pson
ada She bad frequently un ood
Thrilling Adventures as An Indian
Captive
lament
they
As he was a fine active INE man,
CLEVER PLAN TO ESCAPE |Yer keeping him
Young was giv
Fhat Was Successful Young Lady Car make het
ried
Canada
Township
|
as a Prisoner t
»
Early Res
dent
was laid
extende«
seventh
Towand:
Thom;
bad an app
ker his int: General Store Burned
that very The general store of William
at ittan : itt an \' .
go without »x pressed great un at Nittany in Nittany Valley wa
but his
jections, declaring that even did she n ng
fire about 2 0’
The
oxen
willingness she overruled ag
supposition
. “I } i
escape, she would was into
home A
dry
not be able to rea
the
were strewn round, he
the buil
The i
had that the building was
: ’ 0
rdingly, in to coucea
gathering
sticks which itimation the people in the vicinity
: y fis
went further from the circle, throwing nm are was
each stick, as he found it, towards the | When the oil tank In the store exploded
fire, and then wandering slowly, though A with a terrific report awakening every.
not unconsciously still further for the | body from their slumber The flames
next. until far as he | had spread so ra none of the
iting su pie
They
unable
he had gone as
thought he could without exc
cion ; then
Were soon in pursuit
contents of the | g could be remov
he precipitately ed, and the stock is a total loss
but building was owned by C. C. and ( |
he
that
not aim straight enough to shoot him.
were
| » ] « at fre wel nN
to overtake him; and ran in such a | Rogers. The loss is estimated at between
could | §2
by insurance.
The store had
times in the past few years,
14+ BE rely (YUP TO
iuick, zigzag manner, they 000 and§3 000, which is partly covered
robbed several
The build
other that there
He was obliged to travel been
at night ;
principally
and in going down loyal Sock
creek, he frequently came upon
encampments, he had
wade the cross the
Indian | Ing was so far from any
when either to | Was no difficulty in preventing the flames
stream, or slippery | from spreading
mountains, to avoid them. Sometimes i
they had en
bones of deer. &«
be came laces Fatality at Lock Haven
William Weis, aged about twenty year
where
camped The
he found at these
, which
places, he broke open
This,
was all
procure
almost overcome with fat gue and
1088 of sles
and residing near Loganton, met a tragic
| [4 E
d Erie Mai
near Lock Haven
With a
train
and swallowed the marrow death while aboar
Pennsylvania railroad
with
the
Once,
on
the few roots he could find,
food he was able to on Sunday party of
he Antes
Fort, where he wasemployed by Gheen &
morning
when friends boarded the at
p, he thought of ge ting into a
hollow tree to rest ; but this would not do,
for where he could get
Spigelmyer, and all remained on the reat
in a wild animal | until! the conductor rmed them
that it
might also get, although naturs ly pos- | was agaiost the rules All immediately
sessed of great courage, he did not like | started to enter the car and had gotten
to be attacked in this manner,
had no means
where he | safely inside with the ex eption of young
of defence. In this wAY
be reached the Susquehanna, where he
found the canoe as they had left it He
entered it, and descended the river : but
fatigue, and want of nourishment and
rest, had so overcome him, that when he
reached Fort Freeland-—a short distance and it was decided to remove him ime.
above where Milton now stands—he was diately to the hospital at Lock Haven,
unable to rise, He lay in the canoe un- | but before the train had reached that
til discovered by the inhabitants, who | point his injuries had proven fatal,
took him ashore; and by careful treat:
ment he was restored to health. He
afterwards received a pension from the
Wels, when the train gave a sudden jolt
in rounding a curve and he was thrown
ofl
The train
and the unfortunate young man taken
aboard, He was badly bruised and cat
was mmediately stopped
It's enongh to make a man pale to be
accused of conducting a bucket shop.
The
the
BELLEFONTE, PA
PENNSYLVANIA'S
COAL OUTPUT
More Than
Section.
Any Other
Produces
IMPORTANT COAL STATISTICS
(; Survey
Geological
Produces Mori
Lountrys
the l
Our State
Half the
ber
Issued by
[han
Num
minous
amount mine
the
of men ic
use
suse of strikes in
minous
was
Or an average
man The time
Anthracite region of Pennsylvania was
the equivalent of nearly twenty
of the time made he total pr
of coal in the world in 190¢
tons, of which
ced thirty-two
almost one third
i ——
POINTS OF INTERESTS
When the
CG. P., of this
Somerset,
members of company
go
, this week, we
B, N
place, into camp near
Pa would call
their attention to two points of interest
in that locality. At the depot, Somerset
Hl
Pa., stands a large brick 1 story build.
ing that for years has been manufactur.
ing oleomargarine in open violation and
This in
stitution John Hamilton, our present Sec
retary
defiance of explicit state laws
{ Agriculture, should have sup-
pressed
week the U, 8
ong ago , but he did not Last
ficials seized the §
roper
ty for violating the pure food laws,
Perhaps the finest private residence in
that Abner McKinley,
of President McKinley
TOMI years ago he was
Somerset is of
Esq., brother
It is said that an
obscure atlorney, indebted to local met-
To day Abner
less than a million and
has money to throw at the birds. How
did it When the
war with Spain broke out it was openly
declared that the War Department at
Washington gave fat contracts for sup-
chants and credit low.
is rated at no
happen-—don't know
plies to a firm in New Vork City in which
Abner, Bills brother, was an interested
member. How did it happen-—can’t
you guess !
a
| The trouble with most girls is that they
| Gonats believe a fellow is really in love
| unless he acts foolishly,
Beauty is only skin wo and a Jot of
n
people are pretty thinskinned at that,
THURSDAY,
eC
/
AUGUST 15, 1901.
LOST ON THE MOUNTAIN
Rote peop
after
raced
The
‘seemed
The snake
und the room
URS an
the snake
that caused to flee into
room, where it was killed by some of the
family
the
other members of the On going
out into the yard after encounter
they found Mrs
and the children sobbing over
Russel still unconscious
Pros
her 3
trate form
-
A LARGE YIELD
for
farmers as to yields of wheat
to
Last week we asked reports from
that aver
aged over 25 bushels the acre The
first reply comes ftom Union county, and
by a former resident of Haines township,
as follows
iI BUSHELS PER ACRE
Hartleton, Pa., 3 0
DEAR EDITOR In last week's Demo
crat I noticed a request for wheat reports
from Centre county farmers, | am not a
Centre county farmer, but am a Hartley
township, Union county farmer and de
cided to give a brief report from cu
farm, bought five years ago at $21.00 p
Acre
The iS grave
acre—machine measure
fertilizer, 200
manure, four loads per ac:
wheat, “Turkey Amber
acre, 7 bushels . sowed from
the 20th of September,
The land was all oats stubble, plowed
early part of August and after being
thoroughly packed the surface was well
prepared for the drill,
Respectfully,
W. H. Harn
Crop returns are interesting to most of
our readers and we hope that any farmer
who was fortunate enough to have a |
yield of 25 bushels of wheat to the acre
will be thoughtful enough to report same |
and tell how he did it. Many farmers
have not threshed their crops but there
should be some In the county able to
come up to that limit,
’
er
WO , yield bushels pet
Commercial
barnyard
juality of
sowed per
the th to
ha. per ad
» re
It doesn't seem right left-handedness.
VARIETY OF
COUNTY NEWS |®
Interest Gathered From
All
[tems of
Sections,
SHORT AND TO THE POINT
What Transpired Wort
) ' A
Ia Wo
afternoon
freshments
g in the ts
1 th
1ffered great damage
Gatesburg will have a big picnic on Sat
urday, August 24. We do not know what
arrangements are made to entertain, but
$ the people of that section of the county
a i! r +
never do things by halves all who attend
A
may expect a good time
ic of St Mary
Snow Shoe,
The annual picn
wi * held on
The
under the direction of
The Belle
is to furnish the music for
church at
aturday, August 24th
:
Arrange.
w the
Ancient
fonte orchestra
aer of Hibernians
dancing
James C. Condo, the good humored
and enterprising buggy maker of Penn
Hall,
on Saturday
buggy
Harter and a
transacted business in loganton
He brought with him a
Thon
Care
new for lumberman mas R
fancy new age for
landlord Harry T. Cole
Fix
iamsport
e car loads of colored people, from
came over the Beech Creek
railroad and wen
t to Hecla park, where
they spent lam Friday, for a picnic. The
day before over two car loads of colored
persons from Bellefonte, had a pleasant
time picnicing at Hecla.
At the Ward home in Pine Grove there
was a family gathering Among those
who enjoyed the festivities
Lizzie ward, of Shamokin, Arthur and
Horold Ward and Francis Thomas, of
Bellefonte, Jane Ward, of
Baileyville, Mrs, Maggic Meek, of Al
toona, and Mrs, Sarah Gardner, of Rock
Springs.
Annie and
Allison, of Spring Mills, was recently
elected princ.pal of the public shools at
Alexandria, Pa. He graduated the past
year from Bucknell college, Lewisburg,
Continued on page 4.
are Miss
' no more effect
ian.
A Merrill Allison, son of Archibald |
stories
plans pros 1 that the locomotive
shall be the first buildin
g erected
rh
w be two in height :
w
in size, and its entrance w
gigant
ely artistic
East of the
th
ocomotive shop
namm transfer table
ther large
which will contain the whee
holster and several other sma
This structure will not be built
1 year, or in 1902
y the of the ding
be the immense power house, which
This
SOCOn
T west ocomotive bui
have very "high chimneys,
ng is also contracted for 1902
blacksmith shop will be on a
the
ong
neares
lings
ATR
plot Creek than any of
other build
I he
northwest of the
round house
ther bul
He's
Antonio
Not Afraid of
Adabio,
of italian track hands
Snakes
foreman of a gang
York
has no
m the New
railroad at Jersey Shore
Their have
him than of
Last fall Adabio stepped on
A snake which sunk its fangs into the
calf of his leg. The bite did not swell a
particle, nor in any way affect the Ital.
Yesterday moming while al work
near Jersey Shore Adablo’'s men came
upon a den of snakes. The charmed
foreman killed eleven of them, two of
which buried their fangs into his legs re.
peatedly. Blood filled the wounds, but
Adablo refused to accept medical aid
and wys fecling as well as usual today.
entra
fear of rattlesnakes bites
upon those
mosquitoes