Zhe en Circ ition, Over 3500 ASSURED The United States Will Undertake the Project. UNITING THE TWO OCEANS Involves Which France Failed Much for the World's Commerce Ratified by the U. S. Senate. It a With but five votes agaivst it the Pan. | ama Canal treaty was ratified in the U. | S. Senate Monday afternoon just as it was agreed to by the diplomatic repre sentatives of the United States and Co- | lumbia. As had been expected, after trying in vain to obtain the adoption of | voted al- | amendments, the democrats most solidly for the agreement. The Senate has practically completed its work, and an adjournment will be taken by Thursday certainly, and, possi. bly, earlier. The Cuban treaty, with the provision that it shall it reciprocity not become effective until has been approved by the House and Senate, will be discussed in the meantime. The only real achievement of the ex. 13) session is favorable action upon the canal treaty. This, it moves all obstacles in the way of the con is believed, re: struction of the great waterway. There is a general feeling of relief now that the The President is highly pleased, and with very few cx ceptions Senators are satisfied that the proper route for the canal has been de cided upon, and that no further chance long strugg'e has ended. for error remains. The only doubt which disturbs in the slightest degree the more ardent of the canal advocates is the possibility of un. favorable action by the Colombian Con- gress. This Colombian government, except the Con- gress, is pledged to the treaty, and as | the country will be greatly benefitted by the work to be nadertaken by the United States, it is believed popular sentiment will sweep aside any opposition to fav. orable action, The Colombian Congress will pext mouth and as soon President will meet as it acts the appoint the csoal com. 3 mission, and preparations for beginning work will be made immediately HISTORY OF THE TREAT) The Panama canal treaty between the United States and Colombia, which ratified January 22, 1903 Secretary Hav on the part of the United States, and Thomas Herran, charge d’affaires, on the part of Colombia, who signed the document. Oa January 23, it was sent to the President, and by shim gent to the Senate on the same date. [It was was Signed at Washington on It was negotiated by was referred to the committee on foreign | relations on the same day and reported The treaty was : | the decision of the late Jadge Albright, back on February 3. discussed at some length during the last Congress. On March 5, the dav the | special session of the Senate convened, the treaty was again refered to the com mittee on foreign relations, and March g was again reported to the Sev. ate, since which time it has been under discussion, Neither in committee nor by the Senate was the treaty amended and it was ratified as first negotiated by a vote of 67 to 5. Approval by the Colombian congress is expected, but not until after much de- bate. The Colombians favor the enter. prise, for it means much to that republic, especially during the actual time of con- struction, and the $10,000,000 to goto its treasury is a regular bonanza. Then $40,000,000 is to be paid the Freach com- pany of which the famous Delesseps was the head, owning the concession. By July 1 all the preliminaries are ex- pected to have been concluded, and when the dry season of early winter opens the real work of digging will be started. The French company has done little actual digging. but the surveys and general estimates of the entire scheme have been finished, and are of inestima- ble value, Modern methods will be em- ployed on the canal work, and the United States will have another chance of astounding foreign countries with the manner of handling a great undertaking. The construction, it is estimated, will require ten vears time and $200,000,000, but American push and invention will probably reduced the time period. This undertaking is one of the greatest en- gineering feats in the world’s history, the value of which is beyond present calcula. tion. Commission's Report on Saturday, Judge Gray and Carrol D. Wright, president and recorder, repectively of the anthracite coal strike commission, Wednesday handed to President Roose. velt the report of the commission on the recent stilke, The president says the report will be given to the public on Sat Great Undertaking at) Means | is so remote a possibility that it is causing no real uneasiness. The | WHERE THE PASTORS GO. | United Ev. Appointments for the Wil liamsport and Centre District. | The following are the appointments in | full for the Williamsport and Centre dis- | tricts as made by Bishop H. B Hartzler at the Central Pennsylvania conference | 'SPARR RAFTS ARE GONE | of the United Evangelical church at | Baltimore : Williamsport district— Williamsport port Grace, A. C. Price; M. King ; Hughesville, 1. J. Lohr; { White Deer, C. H. Goodling and H. C. | Walker; Lycoming, P. C | circuit, J | N. Fulcomer ; Weidemeyer ; Jersey Shore, C. LL. Sones; Salladsburg, H. 8. Basom ; Lock Haven, J F Dunlap; | Lock Haven circuit, W. N. Wallis ; East | Grover, M. J. Snyder ; Wayland, L | Dice; Steuben, H. C D. W. | Miller and R. Young, members of First church, Williamsport, quarterly confer. { ence, C. W., Guinter, member of Warrens. Guthrie; ville qarterly conference Centre District--Altoona, M. 1. Jamison; Bellwood, C. F. Garrett ; Milesburg, W, Bel W. H Brown; A. Artman ; Nittany, J. M Price ; Jugar Valley, A. S. Baumgardner; Rebershurg, S. Smith ; Centre Hall, J. F. Shultz ; Spring Mills, W. C Mill n, I. N. Bair; Aarand Coufer ; vr; Buffalo, IL, 2; Centerviil K. Shultz ; efonte, Howard, D Bierly Mill Mi! Dice; e,N. J McClure, Port Treverton, H. T. mont, > nburg, C. CC. New Berlin, S. Mic “. A Searle ; Dubs ; Womeldorf ; D. Lewistown, N. Young; Paterson, 8S. 8S. Dr. A lege, member of New Berlin quarterly George Josephs, member @f Lewistown quarterly conference Mumey. Gobble, of Albright col- conference ; = THE BIRTH RATE. There is no dispute as to the fact of the falling off of the birth rate. The census tables show the decreasing average in the size of families in various sections of the United States, flamily New Engla . New York Penpaviva South Atia ONO warren It 5 i9 Indisda 5 1 4 ‘ | 5 There are reasons for a low average fa some parts of the Union newly settled; Utah there has been a de. cline in the size of families from an average of 5.1 to 49, ahead of Pennsylvania. but even in only one point DECISION BENEFITS COUNTIES. The Superior Court ruling affirming of Lehigh county, in the case of the city | of Allentown against former County | Treasurers S. |. Hartman and James M. Sechier, affects many counties in the | state and will add thousands of dollars | to their treasuries. The city of Allentown contended that | commissions for paying into the treasur- | jes of cities, boroughs and townships | | their share of liquor license fees. Sait | was brought against former Treasurer | Hartman for $410 and former Treasurer Sechler for $558, which they had de. ducted as fees. The local court decided in favor of the city, and the Superior Court sustained this opinion. —— After the Cup. The yacht that has challenged for the America’s cup is afloat. The third Sham. rock, a monument to the persistency of Sir Thomas Lipton, has left the ways, She will be rapidly prepared for action. Meanwhile the American boat has pro- gressed so far as to be given a name, She is to be called the Rellance, but she will not be in the water for about a month yet. It will not be forgotten that the first Shamrock was beaten by the Columbia ; that the Herreshoffs made something of a failure out of the Constitution, and that n the contest with the second Shamrock the Columbia again bad to be called into action, The new Shamrock Is heralded as something fast, but that is largely a matter of opinion. We doubt if much greater speed can be gotten out of a craft than has already been shown. For some years the best expert knowledge has been brought to bear without startling results, It is not improbable that we have about reached the top notch of me. tine architecture, «We have placed our first order now for 3000 cut flowers with one of the best growers in Pennsylvania and will guar. ante every other first grade. Teaman's, First church, MM, F. Fosselman; Williams. port St, Paul, W. M. Sanver; Williams- | port Newberry, G. W. Currin ; Williams. | Williamsport | Warrensville, W. | | either, { down Point, W. J. Dice ; Liberty, M. T. Crouch; | a | | were the | quarter of | scorned | County Treasurers are not entitled to | BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 19. 1903. LARGE TIMBER DISAPPEARING | Very Few Rafts are Being Float- ed this Year Our Forests are Depleted and Mountains | I'he Supply is Growing Forestry Leg- are Bare Shorter Every Year islation Needed. There was a time, not many vears ago, raft floated Ia when hundreds of the Susquehanna river one | year one thousand rafts were tied up at Clearfield on their way to the market, Now the sight of a square timber raft is almost as rare as a white blackbird. No one now sends to tidewater rafls of spars, those big sticks which twenty® years ago admiration of river men. A a century ago lumbermen to send down to their mill at Williamsport logs of less than a foot in that Alame- diameter. Now much of the timber reaches Lock Haven is half that tr and some of the sticks scarcely make The thousand of men the have been §x4 scantiing ving wood the who made a good cutting timber or on ver replaced by a few bundred, whose ranks t year. The end of grow smaller year the within sight lumber industry that valley is That there has been the for says the Wil waste of undeni. This when jon of ests of the state is able, iamsport Sun valnable tin began the owners of lands at the head of the river sent lo market only the larger tim. ber sticks—the 6x40x80 and frequently large squared timber. [It bas continued on down through the years until now the hills which were covered with magnifi. cent growths of timber have been entire. ly denuded. A few tracts of forest lands were heid their owners for some years, but finally the enhanced value of induced by lumber because of its scarcity the owner to permit the woodsman's axe If a similiar sys. that which bas been recently inaugurated bad to cut the tree down tem of forestry preservation 10 been in practice even iwenty five orf thirty years ago there would today be a different story to teil respecting the for ests and destructive freshets would not e¢ residing along the pow alarm the peot g rivers and large streams Still Hot on Myers Trail Myers der of Ms has sinc» the man wanted for the mar: Payne, at Warne week. Trowbridge, Pa. been in county, this state, Monday be was shot by a farmer named Hartman about five miles from Honesdale, and be ran intoa swamp and evaded his pursuers. An hour later Sheriff Van Dusen, of Tioga, and a doz:n deputies searched the swamp, but Myers had gone. night be is said to have slept in a hollow tree at Fortuna, and Tuesday he went to the school house, three miles west of Houesdale, and demanded food McDermott, the teacher, was frightened last was bloody from the wound given by Hartman A bloodhound was put on the trail of | the murderer, Frightful Death in Mill. Adam Henry, who had worked in saw! mills in Clinton and adjoining counties, met with a dreadful death a few days ago while employed in a saw mill in West Virginia. A shaft revolving 1,000 times a munute, caught his clothing and | whirled him around, like so much paper. | The machinery was stopped and the mangled remains of Henry removed from the shaft, a crushed and bleeding pulp. Every bone in his body was broken, and the flesh had been completely stripped from the bones of his face. He was about 30 years of age and unmarried. Groundhog a Failure, The year 1903 must mark the everlast. ing elimination of the ground hog from the list of trustworthy weather prophets. Six weeks bave elapsed since he came out from his hole, saw his shadow reflect. ed by the bright sunlight all day long and retired with the ominous prediction that six weeks more of winter must be endur. ed, and with an inadequate coal supply. The six weeks have gone by and only one of them has been a very wintry week, the rest have been mild, some of them balmy. The ground bog, other. wise the woodchuck, is a fraud. Miss Annie M. W. Pennypacker, daughter of Governor Pennypacker, who has pursued a three years’ course in pursing at the Pennsylvania hospital, Philadelphia, will be graduated this Thursday from that institution. She ex. pects to continue nursing after gradoa. tion, Tight lacing will prevent things from going to waist, That | Ella | VALUABLE COAL LANDS, | Five Thousand Acres of Four-Foot Coal Have Been Secured. A dispatch from Brookville, Jefferson | | county, says: An aggregation of capital. | 1st representing $100,000,000 are inter- | tre Zemocy (OUR HISTORICAL | REVIEW Continuation of Companies in the Civil War | n | ested in the developments on one of the | finest fields of virgin coal in the United | States lying in Beaver, Oliver and Rose | townships, Jefferson county. Options on upwards of 1.000 acres have been secured by the representatives of this giant com- the In this block are pany at a very good price from | farmers’ point of view, | three veins of fine bituminous coal that, for steam aud heating purpose, is unsur- passed. The vein that underlies the en- tire valuable in point of quality, quantity, heat, units, section and the most ete, is known as the Freeport vein and In veins | averages about four feet in thickness. addition to this vein, two other underlie the surface that can be worked from drift. In these 3,000 acres, taking the three veins together, there is an amount of coal equal to a four foot vein COYEring S000 acres ity almost a quant bes ond Back computation of the tr townships been at Andy Su froy . srsrine from Coo spring has work for some t the ith farm Mr ne on Wil buyer © mies AnG ot OOK ist the dams, Rr i] general lands for COMPANY, pronounces ’ » everything satisfactory and expresses himself as bighly pleased with the beds of coal there which be says are among the finest in the United States - Judgment Affirmed handed Penna Last week, among the cases down by the Saperior Court of there was one of importance to The mer W. Moore, Mutual | irance company, of Pittsburg, pumer. itizens in this county H ser ons appeal of J Reifsuyder vs. E of the Irom City ire Pa this that Reifsuyder beld a policy in pany asd after Ma falivre found sment had been made cy bolders. He AD TROT IOUS ANS upon him resisted and the receiver which rt nd SANG an action against him in May, igo2 secured a M1 The Superior Court brought was tne ih our of | 5 ler from which be appealed Cou sdgment ¥ 25 against Reifsny in its decree affirms the verdict of the lower court, which is adverse to Mr. Reifsnyder, as well as the other policy holders ia this unfortu cate company - The Outlook for Timber Pilots and rivermen are of the opinion that the run of timber and prop rafts this spring will be very small compared with former vears. So far as can be timber rafts will be coussiderably less [than so. All told there will be less than | 100 rafts reach this market. Clinton Republican. —————— The Passion Play. Rev. F. L. Bergstresser, of Tyrone, will deliver en illustrated lecture on the | Passion Play io the Odd Fellows Hall at | Pine Grove Mills, Friday evening, March | 20th, for the benefit of the street light | fund, Admission 10, 20 and 30 cents, | Everybody is invited, A A—————————— Bad State of Affairs. | never squeezes his wife. In looking over our subscription accounts we are led to believe that some awfully good women in this section are vot getting the press. ure they deserve. St, Mary's Herald. Oldest Civil War Pensioner Dead. Mrs. Sarah O'Rourke, the oldest per. son in Dubois, and the oldest pensioner carried on the Civil war pension roll of the United States, died. Deceased was born in Ireland, August 27, 1799, and was therefore over 104 years old, Can't Get Together. As we goto press the pews from the Altoona convention is that the operators and men are still as far apart as ever, both sides absolutely refusing to yield on the 8 hour point, even if this precipitates a strike. The outlook is a gloomy one, Annual Meeting of 0dd Fellows. The Odd Fellows’ association of Cen. tral Pennsylvania, which includes the lodges of Lock Haven and Clinton coun. ty, will hold its annual meeting this year at Milton on Tuesday, April aSth, The Pennsylvania railroad has been adding one locomotive a day to its equip ment for two years, ' learned less than 50 square timber rafts | | are being made and the number of prop | and gave him some lunch. His clothing | It is said a man who squeezes a dollar |COMPAXY H. 56 PENNA. REG. Captain Brown's Famous Company Left Bellefonte, Dec. 19, 1861—Con tains many Familiar Names of Officers and Privates The roster below completes the list of pames of members of military organiza. from this county; tions in the civil war in our next will be given a miscellaneous list, containing the wvames of soldiers from Centre county in organizations M 5 w hose the printed from other but names paris, were not contained in com- | pany rosters previously Historical Review, Persons who have preserved Centre Democrat's those issues Democrat, or as f the companies for past g in Crap of the many did, clip- ped the rosters Cenire county books, have a complete le record of all our soldiers, by 1 nis and com alr, Harris John Steere, Union Joseph Piper Thomas Ammerman oh John H. Faber, Hall- Moor (2 ] Boggs. wounded May sergt killed at April 11 61: wounded Nay Dabney Mills Feb. 4 "6&5 Daniel O Brien, Ferguson: died of typhoid fever at Acquia Creek May 30, "62 Theodore Lucas, Union James F. Lucas, Union George Swinehart, Harris corp. Dee 2,6) Priv Bank® John : wounded at North Anna May 4 ies oh Barr, Samuel, Harris Beatty. Josiah, Worth burg, June 18, S4 Bennet, William TT. Galoes' MII Aug. 2, "82 Blair, Robert ¥.. Harris Blake, Henry, Union Blake, James I. accidentally woandad July 12. Sl: died Oct. 5 WL Buecker, William L , Harms Calhoun, Harrison, Unionville Campbell, John, Harris, killed near Peters Potter: wounded at Campbell, M lton, wounded with loss of leg, died May ®, 5 ] Cowker, David, Worth Culver, William, Harris Curvin, Lewis, Harris, Dewitt, Willllam, Sr. Boggs | Dewitt, William, Jr., Boggs. Eekley, George, wounded Juae Petersburg, died July 14, 64, Emerick, John, Harris Pauver, Heary, Hall-Moon, Frain, John, Wounded at Gaines’ Mills, with Joss of hand, Aug. 28, "2, Fry, William MH, Fergubon: woundad Laurel Mill May 12 "61: died May 16, Gingher, John, Boggs Glibert, Joseph, Harris; wounded at Gaines’ | Mills Aug. 20, 2; to Ver, Res, Corps. {| GIL, James, Worth; wounded at Spottsy! vania May 10, "4 Hahn, Charlies H, Harris: wounded and dis charged Hall, Robert, Union Harner, Samuel, Harris: hospital, Hoop, Charles, Harris Hoover, John T., Worth (trans. to Battery B, 18, absent, sick, in U.S A. Koon, David, Harris; killed at Gettysburg July |, ‘sa, Koon, Samuel, Harris, Kreamer, William, Worth; killed at Peters burg June 18, 64, Lightner, Thomas, Ferguson; killed in a mall road collision at Fredericksburg, Jan. ix, "6, oh, at | VOL. 25. NO. 12. FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs-—Select- ed and Original. ne day 1'm goin’ 3 make alot 0 mone 1, say, you Lani» in the | who that al to sweet things lark the *pping on a squeaky doll in a room is said to temporarily relieve worst case of chronic rheumatism This great men country has turned out some and there are a lot of others in office that should be turned out. When a married man makes up his wind to practice economy he begins by cutting down his wife's allowance. Trace back the of men who have accomplished something and yom they called bistory will discover were once cranks, Trace back have acc history of ma*n who hing, and yom nan who wiles Between the ages of twenty and st pay §s a month; after the thirty, $10; when he thirty-five and 6fty, §20; between age of is between fifty When a widower bas been three years wileless, be mast the If be can prove that he has heen thrice refused as a bushand within one year he is not taxable AFTER Some investigations of the Philadelphia detectives have led to the discovery that a negro “herd man’ and hoodoo doctor has in all probability been furnishing poison to customers to get rid of sirab'e husbands and wives on lives were heavy insurance. His indicate that he had more than thirty patrons of this kind. Oase woman whom he told the detective about, who was to have paid lum $100 but only gave him $51, is under arrest and ber husband's | body has heen taken up and chemical | analysis will be made for poison. Other bodies will be raised. An old "Hex" doctor at Reading, who sold charms containing scriptural incan- | tations for curing diseases of man or | beast, recently sued the Phila. North American for ubel for exposing his | method of practice. At the trial the paper so completely overwhelmed the | doctor with a mass of proof that his own attorneys abandoned the case. These doctors had a stiff fee bill and knew bow to secure the coin. —————— Two large elk were reported as having been seen im Clinton county about a month ago, feeding with a berd of deer They were quite fearless and were and seventy five, $30 remarry or pay lax DOCTORS. | seen a number of times. About a week ago Dr. Jacob Kalbfus, secretary of the Pennsylvania game commission, beard that one of these elk bad been chased into the Susquehanna river and killed,
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