THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 1, 1903, MANE IN COMMISSION New Warship Received an Ovation Along the Delaware River. IS THE FLOWER OF THE NAVY It is Not Definitely Known What Will be Done With the Maine, But it Is Thought She Will be Sent to Join Dewey's Fleet. Philadelphia, Dec. 30.—On February 16, 1898, the whole country was star- tled and plunged into deep grief by the news of the blowing up and sink- ing of the United States battleship Maine, in the harbor of Havana, and the loss of 266 members of her crew. Yesterday, nearly five years after that calamity, there steamed down the Del- aware river, fresh from the hands of her bullders, the new battleship Maine, the flower of the navy, which is destined to commemorate the and fame of her ill-fated predecessor, The old Maine was the finest of her | And the | production | | erisis. type when she left the ways. new Maine is the latest of the brains and skill of naval con struction, and she takes her place in the first rank of the battleships in the navies of the powers. She power in both and armament, and she outclasses the oid whose twisted hull lies resting at th bottom of the Havana harbor, as Erics son's first monitor eclipsed In fighting force the frigates of the reb The hammers of a men rang sharply in the hold of the Main yesterday morning up to the moment the signal was given to for her deprature from the yards of the William Cramp Sons’ Ship and En- gine Building Company. When a short blast of the sirens caused the to be cast off there arose the hurraas of the thousands of yard which were drowned a mom by the tooting of scores of about the plant. It was a joy! speed. As the huge white ship slowly from her dock and started stream she frome every trip down of an ovation. Off League Island the big port chor was let go and fathom after fath om of cable was paid out with a roar After the Maine had swung around with the tide Captain Eugene H. C. Leutze and his officers, together with the bluejackets and marines who were assigned to man her, were sent aboard The ceremony of placing the ship in commission was the unostentatious service prescribed by the naval regu lations. The crew was assembled aft, and Captain Leutze read orders placing the ship in commission and naming her commander. As he finish ed reading the orders Old Glory broken out from the mainmast and the bluejackets saluted very minute the ro aboard ship It is not definite] be done with the thought that she will be manne coal ed and provisioned as quickly as pos sible and sent Culebra Island, take part in the manoeuvres under Admiral Dewey. speed Vesso., ion hundred make hawsers employe nt later whisties 1 God swung down was greeted by a sal passing craft, and the river was In the nature the an was head That began work known what will Maine a. it 1s to to NOMINATIONS HELD UP Senate Committee Probing Army Ap pointments Below Major. Washington, Dec. 29 The senate committee on military affairs held up, pending an investigation, all army nominations sent in before the recess, below the grade of major. The mem bers of the committete have received numerous complaints about the method of selection of officers under the re oragnization law. It is claimed that great injustice has been done officers who have served quite a long time. Complaint has been made that men were selected from those who formerly served as volunteers to fill original va cancies, and that they became captains as soon as they were appointed. Others appointed, it is claimed, walted from four to seven months before accept ance of their commissions, which date from the time the appointment was made, rank being determined by the dats of their commissions. This gives them many numbers above West Point graduates, and others appointed from the volunteers, and who at once en tered the service and did much hard work, when the men who delayed ac cepting were enjoying themselves or attending to business interests Panic at Cristmag Entertainment. Chicago, Dec. 30.—A wild panic and injury to several persons followed an explosion at a Christmas entertainment last night in the French Evangelical Methodist church. The crash was caus- od by the bursting of a stereopticon gas tank, its force being wo great as to hurl people from their seats, shatter windows and partly wreck the inte rior of the primary department of the structure, Men, women and chil fren fought for egress when tho crash tame, and that the list of injured was tonfined to those hurt directly by the sxplosion proper was due to the efforts of the pastor, Rev. A. L. Allals, who ealmed the 300 excited occupants of the small Sunday school room. Will Excommunicate Filipinos. Rome, Dec. 20.--The Tribune says the Pope has ordernd the archbishop of Manila to excommunicate all per. sons who endeavor to promote the creation of a national church in the Philippines, to Visit St. Louis Fair, name | is a | ach troubles | of Roseland shot and killed. ready | 4 WEEK'S NEWS OONDENSED, Wednesday, December 24. Paul Deitch was killed and Frank Yogow fatally injured yesterday by a fall of coal In the Luke Fidler colllery at Shamokin, Pa. Perry Heath, of Utah, secretary of the Republican national committee, de- ples that he will be a candidate for United States senator, The first consignment of the gold dollars minted as souvenirs of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition have arrived at the St. Louls sub-treasury. During a fit of despondency Nathan fal Whipple, son of Colonel Whipple, ] year U. 8. A, chief paymaster in the Philip | pines, committed suicide at San Fran- cisco yesterday. Friday, December 286. Frank Kimborough, a famous Ameri. can artist, died in London yesterday of pneumonia. The cab and carriage drivers of St Louis have gone on strike for an In- crease in wages, Fire in the business section of Bloomington, Ill, yesterday caused a loss of over $200,000. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who is {11 with typhoid fever, will recover, his physi cians saying that he has passed the Nate Salsbury, the well known showman, died at his home in Long Branch, N. J., Wednesday, from stom- While chasing chicken Wednesday night, B. J N. J, thieves on Doremus, Jr. was accidentally Saturday, December 27. Carl T. r. Bitter has been appoint ed chief of sculpture of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Lieutenant General Miles arrived at Pekin, China, yesterday and reviewed the Chinese troops today Govern« f tero, of New Mexico, will gO Wasnington to assist Quay in the fight for statehood James J. Lobb, a 13th district, Philadelphia, dropped dead on his beat yesterday from heart fallure The Philippine commission has spent $346,000 stamp the scourge, according to the bureau of in- sular affairs In his report the gove for the Indians in says that they are the we ple per capita in the world. Monday, December 29. yacan to Senator to out rnment agent Osage 0 aithie tL poo in the army, with prospect of filling them fuel supply of So, austed ithern South with the ther Pole , Saturd were a y for oper and burning the themselwe Indep« gar over the country will meet Il., January 13 ¢ the Tobacco Trust Tuesday, December 30 More than missing to the January 1 last Rear Admiral Glass has been detail ed as commander-in-chief of the Paci) station ed R Admit who has been placed on waiting orders The Demm pliant at Me. Keesport, Pa, which has been idle for several months full 500 men warm ndent pian a fight ag 1800 persons were reported Philadelphia police since to sue ar ral Casey or tin plats resumed operations in yesterday, giving employment to General orders were {ssued yesterday by Adjutant General Stewart annound ing that the spring inspection of the National Guard of Pennsylvania will begin February 1 Frank Goss, an electrician Newtown Street Rallway instantly killled Bushington, near Doylsstown, Pa, while experimenting with a high tension wire company, was at Suffocated by Coal Gas. Shamokin, Dec. 30. Mrs. George H Hoffman was suffocated on Sunday night at her home, in Herndon, owing to escaping coal gas from a stove. Her husband is In a critical condition from the same cause. The couple were found unconscious by one of their chil dren, who had been awakened by scenting the gas. Mrs. Hoffman could not be resuscitated GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 20. Flour Was steady: winter superfine, $2.60: 2580; Pennsylvania roller clear, $3.1 gis. city mills, extra, $255G4. Rye F was quiet, at $3.20@3.25 per bhi. Wheat was firm; No. 2 Pennsylvania, red, new, 77%c. Corn was dull: No 2 yellow, local, B1}e Oats were quiet; No. 2 white, clipped, 40c.: ower rades, 34@ 3c Hay was steady: No timothy, $15@18.50 for Inrge lon, { was steady; beef hams, $196 20 Pork was firm; family, $20. Live poul- try, 12@12%e. for hens, and 815@ %e, for old roosters. Dressed poult . 16e, for choice fowls, and 10¢. for ol roos. ters. Butler was steady; creamery, 23e, pound. Eggs were steady. Now ork and Pennsylvania, 20¢. per dozen Potatoes were steady; choles, 6571 68 per bushel, Live Stock Markets, East Ruftalo, N. Y., Dee. 20.--Cattls were quiet. prime steers Ln heifers. $3.25474.75; cows, $2.200 AHH bulls, $2.75@4.60. Venls strong: tops 8.50@9.60; common to rood 5. ° 26. Hogs active and 4! $6656.70; fancy. 26 80 @6.06; yorkers, $6.50. pl Sheep were higher; ir 185; eulle to good. $1 were higher; tops, $0 good, 32.95 i 6.40; yearn ewes, $4.20 400, East Liberty, Pa, Da were lower; choles, 88.75 ! AD@E.60 wood #8 60 11 time. 48700 heavina 16 $5706 90; Hoh ABE 6.85 honyy yorkers, WR nile to 2604.70: “" t yorkers, 267) 8.75: : roughs, 6.40 lahoma | os in the grade | of the i policeman of the | { Day cholera | | that they i ENGINE EVERY FOUR HOURS * A Record-Breaking Year at Baldwin's Locomotive Works. Philadelphia, Dec. 20.--By turning out 1,520 locomotives, an average of one every four hours, all records have been broken during 1002 at the Bald- win Locomotive Works, and all indica tions point to an even greater output in the year that is about to dawn Since the indusirial boom began In 1899 this great establishment has been kept busy to the extont of its capacity, which has been Increased from year to with the result that the output for 1900, 1901, and 1902 has been 1.217, 1.3756, and 1.520 respec tively From a tonnage standpoint the rec- ord of 1802 is comparatively greater greater than that by the 1,620 locomotives built. From year to year the welght of locomotives has been gradually increased, and some of the heaviest engines ever built at the works, weighing 388.000 pounds, were turned out during the While the tonnage figures have not yet been made up for 1502, locomotives built or an approximated nage of 205,140 tons The y value of the year's out- put represents fully $20,000,000, an in- crease of $3.0 previous year, this Increase being the result not only of the en built Eines locomotives, represented year the average weight of the 137 locomotive ton- was about tons, money Ki GO over tae increased number of but their the output 424 f considerably en- YOAr locomotives "ne over previous el burners, Mmajor- f the locomotives were what are ipally A very road engines and these g heavy type nerall) COAL NEARS NORMAL OUTPUT About in Mined Daily. Pa, Dec 3 {im provems Will much at the still many to oaharre nt the o in anthracite mines, but there ers {dle and likely Year's yrmal wor) mine stay after ow Ab cent. oO 0 n force WILL IMPORT COAL it Is Said Contracts Mave Been Made for 200,000 tons in England. 1.01 : I hen 3 It was a on is Offered to Government. [rev du retary a letter from the having charge of the Bar- statue of Liberty on Bedloe's New York, suggesting the ad visability of congressional legislation providing for the transfer of the statue to the that is done the commission will con. vey into the United States treasury the fund of $4000 now In ita custody Ke commission tholdil Island Since the abandonment of the light in | the statue by the lighthouse board of the treasury department last sping the light has been maintained by the quar termaster’s department of the army The statue itself, however, remains in the custody of the statue commission, "of which Colonel Pinchot is president Sixty Lost In Marine Disaster, Victoria, B. C, Dec. 20.--News was brought by the steamer Tartar. which arrived yesterday, of a disaster in the Malacea straits, as a result of which 60 lives were lost publishes a telegram from Hong Kong stating that the steamer Bunsang was In collision with the steamer Kiang: yan in the Malacca Straits, and the Kiangyan was sunk, 60 sailors and passengers being missing Dispatches from Hakodate report that an outbreak of fire occurred on board the Iwanal steamship company’s steamer Hokuun Maru, off the coast of Bu Ttsu on December 3, and the vessel was sunk, 18 of the crew losing their lives Army Officer Missing. Denver, Dee. 27. 8econd Lieutenant William Kistler, Company M, Eight renth United States Infantry, is miss Ing from Fort Logan for nearly two weeks. The Denver police department bas been asked to assist In a search for him. Lieutenant Kistler is 23 yoars of age. He enlisted as a private Mm the Bixth Cavalry six years ago at Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter he wont with the battery to the Philip dines on’ cow active service In and about LF BL Cholera Dar “ulating Mindanao. Manila, Dee. 30 Moros, on the (alond of Mintenan report that the sholera fa decip tating the villages mn the east glide of Lake Lanso. At Mach 10 corage of 50 deaths A day 200,000 Tons of Anthracite Be- | There is | nditions | are | timated | tons | government, and saying that If | The Tokio Ashi | Personally-Conducted Tours, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company announces the following Personally-Con- | ducted Tours for the season of 1992-1903; | California —Two tours: No. leave New York, Philadelphia, Harris. I will will leaye February 19, and will include the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. Florida —Three tours to Jacksonville will leave New York and Philadelphia February 3 and 17, and March 3 The first two of these admit of a sojourn of two weeks nm the “Flowery State.” Tickets for the third tour will ve good to return by regular trains until May 31, 1903. Tickets for the above tours will be sold from principal points on the Pennsyl. vania Railroad. For detailed itineraries, giving rates and full information, ad. dress Thos. BE, Wait, Passenger Agent | Western District, Pittsburg; E. Young- man, Passenger Agent Baltimore District, Baltimore ; C. Studds, Passenger Agent Southeastern District, Washington: or Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passen. ger Agent, Philadelphia, i | burg, and Pittsburg January 29; No, 2 | | | Russell City, a Kane, has about smallpox. small village near | twenty-five cases of | A member of the state board of health has been investigating those afflicted and be pronounced all of tle! cases genuine smallpox PENN. R. B NOTES. | | | | Beef 1s selling for 7 cents per 100 by TT the side, and pork at §7 per hundred, in { Penns valley and other farming sections Centre County Banking Co. Corner High and Bpring Streets. RECEIVE Drrosrrs; Discount NorTrs JM, BHUGUERT. Castile, GARMAN HOUSE... High Street, opposite House, Bellefonte, Pa Entirely New. New Furniture. Steam Heat. Electric Light, and all modern improvements, .M &C.B.GARMAN Proprs Court GRANT HOOVER. Fire, Life, Accident Insur- ance, Real Kstate and Loans. 15 Standard represented, Insurance Co's Yon af. ford to insure your buildings can't or life until you see GRANT HOOVER. rider's Stone Bulldine. BELLEFONTE. P2 COMMON REPORT: People who buy their Groceries at Sechler & Co’s., invariably say: “SECHLER’'S Groceries “Yo 1 Can st Frne “In the end SECHLEF on | \ CRS ’ are the best WAVE depend n SEk( HLER'S SECHLER'S is DI re pure DEAL AT SECHLER’S. A al Bargain mimes JN tii BOYS FELT BOOTS with a fine quality of Rubber for over them, smn F Of ee dl.20. YEAGER L Dy COrALIONs Protect Your Throat And Chest Thin dresses and shirts about the neck are terribly disastrous, when you have a cold, A good “Chest Protector” or “Chamois Vest” (of which a nice assortment) is just the protection you To relieve the congh you will find nothing better than “Green's Pectoral Balsam.” It and Price 25¢ we carrv need #800 hes heals, GREEN'S PHARMACY, E Bush House Blk. Bellefonte. MARL bb bbb bab bd bb bbb AA PROFESSIONAL CARDS. THOS. J. SEXTON, Attoraey st-Law. DMs on second floor of Eagle Block, Allegheny street, Money to loan ; houses for rent and for sale. Collections and ali other legal business given careful! and prompt atten tion FORTNEY & WALKER, (D. ¥. Fortney and W. Harrison Walker) Attorneys at law. — Offio= in the Furst building, opposite court house, Prowpt attention to all legal busi ness J. K. JOHNSTON, Attorney at Law. Office 4th floor, Temple Court. Practices in all the courts 8. D. GETTIG, Attorney at-law.—in Pruner Building. Euglish and German. Legal business promptly attended to J. A. B. MILLER tices in all the ¢ given to collections Quigiey Attorney at law. —Prae writs, Special attention Office with Reeder & WOODKING wit Attorney at Law —Of. Walker Prepared SETVIos Survey- KLINE i legal N. B. SPANGLER, Attorney-at law. —Offioe on and floor Crider Exchange. [DMstrict attor. ney HEINLE Bang« Attor KEICHLINE p f the Peace pposite Court house JOHN M House Painting lnt-ror Decorating Picture Framing, our An in Paper { ! Vi }] of Latest business assortment of W al and the tions Interior ony Skilled Workmen Let us know your wants and our repre in all branches of the business. sentative will eall on youn R. B. Montgomery, Bellefonte, Pa. Crieer's Stone Bldg. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS Rey ~ “ae Sane ™ id a 1 Lat oN oe \S — Safe, Alwars reliable. 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