3 THE CENTRE DEMOORAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 13, 1903. HORROR ATBALLGROUND Falling Balcony at PhiladelphiaPark Kills Nine and Injures 300. AN AVALANCHE OF HUMANITY ——————— Sudden Crash Let Fall Hundreds of Shrieking Persons Into the Street, a Distance of 20 Feet — Disaster Caused by Rotten Timbers. Philadelphia, Aug. 10.—~Nine peo le were killed and 300 more or less periously injured, a score perhaps fa. tally, by the collapse of a rotten bal. cony at the Philadelphia National League Base Ball Park. The bal cony overhung the high wall on the Fifteenth street side of the park, and sudden pressure at a weak point caused a sharp break, which precipi tated an avalanche of struggling, shrieking humanity into the street, fully 20 feet below. Among the soores of bleeding men and boys quickly taken to hospitals it is feared that fully a dozen will not be able to sur vive their terrible injuries. That more were not killed outright is little short of a miracle. The nearby hospitals were unable to care for the many pa- tients rushed into their wards, and gome, seriously injured, had to be taken to other institutions before their bleeding wounds could be treated. Rotten timbers were responsible for the accident, which occurred during the second game between Boston and the Phillies. A drunken man's attack on a little girl started a fight In Fif- teenth street, and the crowd balcony, all yelling excitedly. in about the centre of the structure Instantly the joists started breaking toward Huntingdon street and also toward Lehigh avenue ultaneously, and at least 1 hurled to the ground, a distance of about 25 feet. The yells and reams of injured and the falling were appall The first line against the railing } to the ground, an hos¢ 1ind came tum- bling after, shoved forward from those behind. The sim N00 persons were ctators plunged after the aceident was fairly It was a literal fact that fairly flowed in the gutter. Many of the injured fell from the top of the wall face downward, and it is that there were scores of fractured skulls Scores of homes are griefstrick. en. Three hospitals are crowded with about the of whom are witnessed a countless num- ber of pathetic scenes. It is said 13 of the patients are dying. Joseph McDonough, at Luks's hospital with a fractured skull, became delirious, and springing from his bed threw a glass at Dr. C. W Thomas. The patient then kicked a screen out of & window and attempted to jump to the street, but was held back by attendants Frederick Baumann has never re- gained consciousness since he was hurt, Attended by the young woman to whom he is engaged, he lies at the point of death in the Samaritan hospital. Another man, similarly attended, is James Douglas McCauley, who was the first patient recalved at St. Laks’s after the accident. He has a fractured skull, and Is in a very critical condition. He ls engaged to be married Edward Hedley, a member of the Vesper crew that captured the world’s championship at Paris, may never pull an oar again. One shoulder was dislo- cated and one wrist was fractured dur- ing the accident and he Is now at St Joseph's hospital. He also suffered se- vere bruises on his knees and head. scene indescribable thought patients, bedsides who Is St WORKMEN BURIED ALIVE One Dead and Three Fatally Injured by Cave-in at York, Pa. York, Pa, Aug. 11.-—By the caving in of an embankment of clay at the York brick works, one man was killed and three perhaps fatally injured. The dead man is Michael Gallagher, injured in- ternally and right leg broken. Died a few minutes after being extricated. The injured are: Willlam Powell, ribs crushed in, dying; Curtis Row, Jeft arm and leg broken, and Max Schierer, internal injuries and many cuts, The men were undermining the em- bankment, when it broke without the slightest warning. Tons of clay rolled down upon them In one obliterating sheet before they could even cry for help. The plant shut down, and all hands turned in to help uncover the men. Their rescue was the work of over an hour, and the men in the land- glide were saved from suffocation only by a current of alr which penetrated the earth on the opposite side of the mass, Three Per Cent. Increase For Miners. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 11.--Dr. Neill, statistician of the coal strike commis sion, appointed to award the Increase of wages due miners In accordance with the selling price of coal at Perth Amboy, Informed President Nicholls, of District No. 1, that the average July price was $4.60, and that the miners are entitled to 3 per cont Increase on the wages fixed In the commission's awards, Pennsy to Bulld Shops Near Trenton. Trenton, N. J, Aug. 8.—Burveys of the tract of land recently purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, near this city, have been for warded to the main offices In Philadel phia. The tract covefs 160 acres and upon it two large buildings, 800 feet square, will be erected, It ls expect ed that the new raliroad shops will bring to Trenton about 10,000 em- ployes. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Wednesday, August B. President Roosevelt has appointed John W. Zerbe postmaster at Shamo- kin, Pa. General Robert 8. Oliver, the new assistant secretary of war, will as sume his office on Saturday. The planing mill and lumber yard of William Buechley & Son, Fottsville, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $60, £00. Major General Corbin will relin- quish his duties as adjutant general of the army on August 20, when the general staf! law goes into effect, Sheriff's posses after a chase of goveral days near Kenton, O., captured William Nichols, colored, charged with murder. A lynching was barely averted. Thursday, August 6. The Pennsylvania Sunday-school As sembly will meet at Saratoga Park, Pottstown, August 17 to 21. Robert Atherton, a prominent tex- tile manufacturer of Paterson, N, J, fell dead from heart disease in his factory. Samuel Goldstein, a trusted em- ploye of a New York clothing house, has been arrested for stealing $40,000 worth of goods, Two men were suffocated and two others badly hurt in a fire which de stroyed the Schwazchild & Sulzberger refrigerating plant in Brooklyn, N. Y. While standing in a large barn at Hillsdale, Mich, Herbert Cox was kill ed by lightning and Jonas Brown fa tally injured. The barn was totally destroyed. Friday, August 7. In & fight between tramps at James. { town, N. Y., one was killed and another in the | ball park rushed to the overhanging | With a | loud report one of the joists gave way | fatally injured Mrs. Jane Stanford, of Stanford Uni. versity, Cal, will make a two-year trip around the world Schroeder, a wealthy con- tractor of Scranton, Pa. accidentally shot and killed himself while handling a revolver Judge Gray, who en umpire of the Alabama coal strike commission, left Wilmington, Del, Birmingham, Ala Rev. Samuel Hudson, an aged jster Woodbu N. J., fell from heart in his Conrad chosen min- of ry digease cottage Pitman Grove, N. J Saturday, August 8. Secretary Hitcheock roturned to Washington from his vacation to Canada and New Hampshire has la The boiler of a lumber company at Waycross, Ga, killing one man and badly injuring seven others. Frank Reese, a fell 80 feet at Chicago people, and was exploded, siack-wire in not sight seriously injured During a family Wis, Gotl and her husband and two others slightly injured A nat the Ruthenian or Little Russian Cath ollie Church of America was held at Shamokin, Pa. It was decided to ask the pope to appoint a bishop of their own nationality Monday, August 10. Daniel Powers, an Altoona, brakeman, fell off his train ground to death. Postmaster Albert Ennis negro at Reams Station, Va, who was trying to rob the postoflice While Charles Brown, of Schuylkill Haven, Pa, was preparing to get mar- job Schultz, his daughter were and was ried. a thief stole his wedding sult, $47, a ring and other jewelry. The troliey strike at Waterbury, Conm., which began 30 weeks ago, has | taking | been settled Ly the company back the men at the old wages The governor of Georgia is Investi- gating the flogging of a white woman | at the Milledgeville prison farm, and will punish those who administered It Tuesday, August 11. David P. Barrows, of [llinols, has been appointed superintendent of pub- lic instruction at Manila, P. | Rear Admiral George C. Remey, pres- {dent of the lighthouse bord, has been retired from active service on account of age. In a fleroe fight between rallroad | gtrikers and the military at Kieff, Rus. | gia, 80 persons were killed and many | injured. The coremakers of the Diamond State Stetel works, Wilmington, Del, are on strike for a nine-hour day without re- duction In wages Attorney General Knox had a cone ference with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, L. I. on the Littauer-Lyon glove contract for the army. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 10. — Flour was steady; winter superfine, $2 i 3.10: Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3 gabe; city mills, extra. $3.1093.30, e flour was quiet, at 33.10 pot bar on Wheat was firm; No. 2 Pennsyl | vania red, new, 833 c. Corp was firm; | No. 2 yellow, local, §9%e¢. Oats wore quiet; No. @ white, clipped, dlc; Jower grades, 30c. Hay was stoad No. 1 timothy, $21 for large pais. Beef was steady beef hams, $198 20, Pork was firm. family, $2050. Live uitry, hens, l4c.; old roosters, 10c ressed pouliry, cholee fowls, 14%e.; old roosters, 10c. Butter was steady; creamery, 22¢. per pound. Keg wore steady; New York and Pennsylvania, 19%e. per dozen, Potatoes pew, 30@ 33¢c. per basket. Baltimore, Aug. 10. — Wheat Ami 0, 80a. » 1¢.; Bile by arn, on it horn white corn, 56@ 88¢.; sou ollow corn f , ts easier; od "eo Spe Dh ; 2 L 6 : .; No. 2 western, Sho. : Live Stock Markets ddbety Cc 30 ee wood. Wi for lead | at | t™ | rip | walker, | of | fight at Neillsville, fatally shot, | Pa., killed a | Yi: | steady; | An Animal Story For Liitle Folks The Gentleman Boar There was once a wild boar who wns dissatisfied with himself because the people so often mistook him for a pig. “! am not a pig, though 1 do look Hke one a Mttle Lit,” he sald to bim self, “and I do not want people to thduk that I am a pig. But what am I to do? 1 can't run around all the time crying, ‘I'm no pig; I'm a boar! “1 know Just what I'll do,” sald he “I'll dress myself up and be a gentle wan, and then people will not only not call me a pig, but they will see that | aw na fine fellow.” 80 away he went to a hat store and bought limself a black hat, and at the tobacco shop he bought a pipe and a bag of tobacco. He put on his hat, and he stuck the pipe In his mouth, and, just as proud as a peacock, he sat down on a corner and walted for people to come along and admire him But they came without admiring him “What on earth is that thing? they asked as they passed. And, strange to say. nobody answered that that wns a i FROM NORTH DAKOTA. EDITor oVjDEMOCRAT :— Dear Sir: Some months ago I wrote to you and tried to describe the ‘‘Great Bowbells’ country, and thought I would write again and tell you what we are doing at present. Well we haven't much to do but watch the crops grow. I think this has been a favored section compared with other parts of the north and west. We haye not had any cyclones or heavy rains yet this year. It seems that we get just enough rain to keep everything on the move, Unless something bappensthis will be another Banner’ year for North Dakota. I never saw nicer wheat, oats and flax than is now maturing here. “Spuds,”’ too. Everybody seems happy and con- tented and waiting for the threshing sea- son. Everything demands good prices. Two years ago when I came I thought | I was ope of the last to come here, but I find that people are coming into this state from all parts of U. 8. and many foreigners are rushing in for land. There's a plece written by a Penna. Dutchman, if you wish to publish it you are free to do so. Hoping that you and al! “good” read- ers of the Centre Democrat are progress. ing and that I may see a lot of them coming west, I remain, P. E. MERSINGER, Bowbells, N. Dakota. A NORTH DAKOTA CLAIM, —— The mosquitos buzz most loudly HE SAT DOWN OX A CORNER gentleman was n !} ae GI DO SERRE Boar's grin turned to iy he grew as get. But the animals worst ca thered at | and laughed at 1 over his way in the ™ ¢ boar 10 He slipped threw his tobacco In the no lounger. away woods, creek and smashed his pipe into a thot sand tiny pleces Then Le put a heavy stone and sank it to bottom | spring we if that again” he wisely sald Moral. ~ Fine smoke don't m { Chicago Tribun Te bof or a great DIG 14) stone in his hat the of never try such a foolish trick as { ot hue ake fonal convention of priests of | Animal Story Por Little Polks a4 Rooster’s Golf Ball An | fellows, but they sometimes make mis takes just as we all do. Now, Rooster was considered a real smart the {not & success anywhere, — Threugh ail the lonesome night, Bong shadows by the by the crops, The weds grow In abundance, And the bushes just the same; On the land where we are living— On a North Dakota claim But land Is booming in value all the time; And crops grow In abundance In this "“semifriged”™ clime. Wheat, oats and barley are plentiful You see, And spuds will grow on the prairie, As sure as can be, And flax, bay and mi And other grains to name ; If one will only plant them, On a North Dakota claim The stock Is something awful, The lotone passes by The quality will improve As time goes fleeting by And herds as good as any, Will soon be known Bad on the farms and ranges Of a North Dakota ( Hip! Ho! for North Its wheat and to fame, alm Dake other grain ta’ Its busy hustling farmers, ame, They're planing for pr From early morn til night NO matier where they « vement And to make this siate known every where Will make a hard, bard fight, And then will this s'ate have ber due need of lame And we all will be in it, On a North Dakota claim FP. E.M If you would get up with the lark go to bed without one. THE SEASON. This was not a great season for some “pleasures.” As a trout season il was As a scason for snake stories it was under the aver. | age | cool itis nit. Por bathing it has been too most of the time. or potatoes are doing finely | Niagara Falls Excursions, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has se lected the following dates for its popular ten day excursions from Niagara Falls from Wash- ington and Baltimore : July 24, Aug. 27 and 21, Bept. dana 15, and Oct, 2 and 16. On these | dates the special train will leave Washington ats A, M,, Bunbury 1258 P. M., Williamsport | 2:30 P.M. Loek Haven 808 P, M. Renovo 2.56 | P.M, arriving Niagara Falls at 94 P.M, Excursion tickets, good for return passage on | any regular train, inclusive of limited express | trains within ten days will be sold at §7.50 from | Altoona; §7.40 from Tyrone; $545 from Belle. | fonte; $1.90 from Bunbury ; $6.75 from Williams port and at proportionate rates from principal | poluts, A stop over will be allowed at Buffalo | within limit of ticket returning. The special trains of Pullman cars and day | coaches will be run with each excursion rus- ning through to Niagara Falls. An extra { charge will be made for parlor car seats, An experienced tourist agent and chaperon will accompany each excursion For descriptive pamphlet, time of connect. ing trains, and further information apply to nearest ticket agent, or address Ww. Boyd, General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, it Geo To The Seashsre. The last Pennsylvania Railroad low rate ten- day excursion for the present season from this section, will be run on Thursday, August 20, For mformation in regard to specifie rates and time of trains consult hand bills, or apply to agents, or KE. 8. Harrar, Division Ticket Agent, Williamsport, Pa “Silver Plate that Wears.” The trade mark ‘1847 5%” 4 i everywhere, Send for catalogue No. 6 to Internationa! Silver Co, Meriden, Conn, As a favorable season for peaches For the Wall | | street stock gamblers it has been disas- | { trous asd koocked the tonyness of the | Roosters are, as a rule, very sensible | "400" that revel in richness at Newport, | into a complete cocked hat, and to sked- John | fortunes plached out of the peogle. young man, and all the little chickens | had Lim poluted out to thet as an ex | eellont model for them to mold thelr lives by. But John was not error, Awong other things, he was very fond of golf, a game all of you young folks have heard of, but 1 doubt If many of you have played On one certaln day not long ago he | was unlucky enough to lose all his golf | balls by driving them Into a wide swamp, from which it was impossible for kim to recover them without get. ! ting stuck in the mire himself Bo Jolin started for his home feeling rather bad that his sport had been In terrupted In this manner. On the way he came to a Nttle clump of bushes, and, peering down behind It, he saw a ndce white egg “Lsu’t that a pretty egg?’ John asked | himself. “Why should that not make a good golf ball?” The Idea seemed to him to be a good one, 0 he took the egg out of the HR AIMRD HIS GOLF STICK AT IT. bushes and put It on a little knoll and shined his golf stick at it. Then he brought the stick down with a erash, and of course you know what hap | pened. The eggebell was broken into ‘a thousand pleces and the contents were spilled all over the ground. While John was gazing sorrowfully at the result of his foolishness along came a half dozen motherly old hens. “What have you done?” they cried In fmasoment. “Have you dared to break one of our beautiful eggs and waste it in this manner 7 | And, without waiting for an answer, they pitched into him and pecked aud pockwd him until he had hardly a feath- or left. Pittsburg Dispateh, without | | | i | | | addling from that high toned place, on Fer disasters, losses in life aod property, it was simply appalling, and soon. But to view the bright side, blackberries and and buckleberries are plenty, and chest. nuts will be 100 BEEZER'S MEAT MARKET, ALLEGHENY ST, BELLEFONTE. We keep none but the best quality of BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, SLICED HAN All kinds of Smoked Meat, Fork Sausage, ste If you want a nice Juley Steak go to PHILIP BEEZER, ONE DAY ONLY i | AT THER Brockerhoff House, BELLEFONTE, PA. TUES. AUG. 25, HOURS-8 A. M. to 6 P.M | Prof. Angel's reputation for his ability and | workmanship is well established in Belle'onte ! and vieinit*. He gives universal satisfaction | Those who want the best treatment for head ache, weak gr defective eyesight, should goto | uo other but walt for him ’ best fair in Central Penn's. by farmers and for camping and exhibition purposes, production of farm and garden State Ex AD iment Ktation, ISSION FREE Ample tent accommodations large display of farm stock and poultry, also The Pennsylvania State College will make a 30TH ENCAMPMENT AND EXHIBITION OF THE Patrons of Husbandry, of Central Penn’a, Grange Park. Centre Hall, Pa., Septamber 12 to 18, inclusive. ENCAMPMENT OPENS Sept. 12th ; exhibition opens Monday, Sept. 4 The largest and eight acres are cevoled to or all desiring to camp, farm implements, fruits, cereals, and every farmers J went) large display of the work of the College and LEONARD RHONE, Chairman. Gro. Dare, J. 8. DAURERMAX, GRO. GIsoERICH, G. L GOODR ART, Com, An Eye-Opener for Farmers | Guaranteed 14 to HIGH-GRADE ACID PHOSPHATE 16 pe: cont. Goods, in 167 Ib Sacks, $11.50 PER TON CASH AT OUR WAREHOUSE ! this fall. We saved farmers a lot of money on Binder Twine this season, and are prepared to do the same thing on Fertilizer CHOICE TIMOTHY SEED AND CRAIN. DRILLS AT ATTRACTIVE PRICES. McCalmont & Co. Pa. RAILROAD SCHEDULE, PrensYLVANLA BAILROAD AND BRANCHES, In effect on and after May 24th, 195 VIA. TYRONE WESTWARD Leave Bellefonte # 55am. arrive at Tyrons J Ba m, at Altoona, 1.00pm; at Pittsburg 5 45pm. Leave Bellefonte 1 5p mi arrive at Tyrone 18pm; at Altoona 3 10p mat Pitsburg 256 pm. Leave Beliefoute 4 44 pm; arrive at Tyrons 600; at Altoona at 6 05; at Pittsburg at 10 6 VIA TYROSE—~BASTWARD Leave Bellefonte 9 53 am, arrive at 7 11 05:at Harrisburg 24 pm;:at Ph phiab 47 pm. Leave Bellefonte 108 4 m, 2100p m: at Harris deiphia io 2 pm Leave Beliefonte 444 pm, arrive 600;:8t Harrisburg at 1050 p m, VIA LOCK HAVER~WESTWARD Leave Bellefonte (05 p.m. arrive at Haven 210p.m., Buflalo7 40 p.m ViA LOCKE MAVEN —~RBASTWARD, Leave Bellefonte, 9.32 a. m. arrive at Loek Haven. 10.30, leave Williamsport, 12.40 p.m- arrive at Harrisburg, 2.156 p. m., st Philadel phia at 6.25p. m Leave Bellefonte 106 p m, arrive at Lock Haven 21 Yi amsport 2 ip m.s ist , 500 pm; Philadelphia 7 52 pm " m., arrive at Lock Ha- Williamsport, 1.30 a. m., arrive Harrisburg, 415 a. m., arrive at Philadelphia at 7.2 a. m YiA LEWISBURG Leave Bellefonte at £.40 a. m., arrive at Lewis. burg at a.m. Mountandon ¥154a.m., Harrisburg, 11.30 a. m., Philadelphia, 8.17 p.m. leave Bellefonte, 2.10 p. m., arrive at Lewis. burg, £30, at Harrisburg, 6.45 p. m., Phila deiphlast 0. 20p. m ‘ f formation, time tables agent address Thos, ¥ Agent Western District, N nue, Pittsburg ATTERBURY al Manager rone ol arrive at Tyrone burg 655 pm; at Phila st Tyrone Lock &e., call Watt 0. 30 Or BALD EAGLE VALLEY WESTWARD BABSYWARS. a SEES ERBEREIN EUR = LEWISBURG & TYRONE Ineffect May 24 AILROAD n I$ uN EEK WD - HusERIew 285 BELLEFONTES& SNOW Time Table In effect Nov 2 Leave Bellefonte Arrive at Snow Shoe SHOE BRANUOH. n and after Leave Snow Shoe Arrive at Bellefonte ) For rates, maps. ete. app! or address Thos. KE. Watt, P Bixth Ave. Filtaburg W. W. ATTERRURY, J Gen’'l. Manager 5 20 ) ticket agent A.W. D, R. Woon. Gen'l. Pass Act, TRE CENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNA Time Table effective Nov. 34. 192 HEAD El 4 Nod Noé READ DOWNS sTATIONS. |No.Z | Lv . Ar m | Be EPONTE VX Nigh Zion Heels Park Dunkies Hublersburg Snydertown Nittany Huston Lamar Viintondale Krider's Sid'g i Mackeyville 1] Cedar Springs “Ww Salona 38 500 Mini Hawa 25/44 05 4 mipm pm Ar lv. amipm ip | (BEECH CREEK RR) | £ 40... Jersey Shore Ny J BEERS ASTEEsENE CEE FE EE EE 16 oe MPP ERBDPRRERBDOOC = 4 LL] | Te 123 9% 0A Lye! TB! 122 1 Sfivel Wmsport } AN (Phila. & Reading ry) i TT PHILAD.. uu ww ~NEW YORK. (Via Phila) P.m.a miArr 6 5 » oo foam we = LT Lye t Weeks Dass, NEW YORK (Via Tamaqua) o— Lv.4 * Dally. + Week Days £00 p. m. Sunday § WS a m. Sunday. Philadelphia Sleeping Oar attached to east bound train from Williamsport at 1:0 m., and west bound from hiindels Biaat1) Mp m. ] W. 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