4 % % he Circ. ‘on, Over 3700. POLITICAL RETURNS Pennsylvania Democracy Decline PAYS THE BILLS | And is Allowed to Run the Party—The | Days of Wallace and Randall Re- | called—Democratic Gains Else- where on a GUFFEY In another column of this issue we republish the tablulated vote for Centre | Pp county, for the election held on Tuesday, November 3rd of last week. It isthe correct table, as made by the official count, result is a division: The republicans Audtor Superior Jury Commissioner, while for General and Judges of the Court the democrats are ahead. difference is that votes would bave changed the result for either ticket. The result shows that only balf a vote so small few was cast, and the shortage is the heaviest A ST in the farming districts of Nittany and » ” Penns valley of whom demo- The cl + Inost are cratic se vote proves nothing — as there was prac: t the voters atiracted known to have nounced views on any great quest 785 never displ ity maunship ayed any real 7 ed never would attract passing political sagac- or evidenc any degree states : he attention in personality or ability, among he has men, were it not for the fact that “‘money to burn’’—is an oil magnate, side issue to the Standard Oil corpor Because "Guffey pavs the freigt -puts up campaign allowed to be the head whole concern the funds—he and tail of in Peansyivani; 1that he lg in t with the Quay picion As | machine even claime 0 cl machine to be be expects worked ar of strong view the present may, even pity hotse.ylay, machine Fithough the didates are ¢! 1 fed » Schuylk jority, the two Cor gressional the York last year, ! and Adams, that They Schuylkill, ¥ went republican a'so win Senatori tricts, irk and Combes having four members of the senate, an assembly districts. Cambria, Cleatfie 1 having eleyen licans » Adams, Northumbe The district that was members sry} repuab gaived no previously democratic DEMOCRATIC GAINS. The result of a decided democratic trinmph owing cratic : Maryland, ernor; democratic Legislature, Rhode Island, 1500 plurality Governor, week's election The demo. last was fol. republican states went 10,000 plurality for Gov. for Kentucky, 20,000 plurality for Gov- ergor, Greater New York, 60,000 plurality, In Massachusetts, New Jersey, Iowa, and Nebraska there was a large reduc tion of the former republican vote, The only points of consolation for re- pablicans is in Ohio and Pennsylvania, | where their usual majorities prevail, The defeat of Judge Gordon in Clear- field is hardly a party triumph ; the peo. ple took a political Judge off the bench. A Virginia Bride. T. 8. Dale, one of Snow Shoe’s relia. ble citizens, surprised his many friends by departing Monday, 20d inst. for Winchester, Va., the home of Miss Re. becca Brown, of an old and highly re. spected family of that place, They came to Chambersburg, Thursday and were married at the National Hotel, ar. riving at Snow Shoe Fridey. His sisters planned a reception by preparing an ex: cellent supper, and inviting a lot of friends to receive them. All departed wishing Mr. and Mrs. Dale a long, hap- py and prosperous life. - ~Every pair Bavigan snag proof lTumberman gams, guaranteed $1.45 at Yeager & Davis, en——— UU OA If every man could profit by his own mistakes we should all be rich, From it you will note that the | The | and | his GORDONISM DOWNED. re-election in Clearfield county, last week by an overwhelming majority, meets with hearty approval from all sec- tions of the state. While the balance of the republican ticket won by pluralities | of 600 to 1000, Gordon was buried under | an avalanche of over 2500 votes. Various { causes contributed to this rebuke from | the people. In the first place the man is unfortu. [ nate in manner, | { community, To occupy sucha position | the highest moral standard and { mental attainments should be the lead- ing requisites, in { burdened. The business of | courts was neglected while he which he was never the local was de- | voting his time in holding court else. : . | where by which he secured extra pay. have pluralities for State Treasurer and | _ *" . pay | Worst of all, he was a petty politician — meddling in nominations, He charged with the license courts for personal appointments campaigns is working advantage and political ends. One of pieces for re-election was how he claimed to have increased the republican majorities in Clearfield county under his administration, C with a politic the past ten years earfield people became ian on the bench ; the tour courts, at reproach i aes ADJOINING COUNTIES Shock, Was congratu:s him every bit o Stoner and wife, for Kent, 8) they of Salona . and New York city, expect to spend the winter with their tyro married danghters i M. Musser, iamengrt AmMsSpon the old who disappea soldier red heard fre A of Tues m by i, has been his family He is at heim, Centre county. cyrus Powlé and Laar same eyening its, and and of the hun- ived Hiil, WAS ing lewisburg and in. his bor Mr his wife id, who | ar Forest afternoon train while driv Harri A mon back of Pine On Is Mrous wh tree, 1 mil The length and The trunk Hmb and at es station, was cut down 145 feet ross the stump was without a was three feet tree measured in over 6 feet ac for that in diameter, This immense fellow was cut on the Sour timber tract 70 feet point The body of the unknown man taken from a fish basket in the vicinity of Mil. lerstown, last week, has been identified as the father of W. W. Linthurst, of Lewistown, He left his home in Phila. | delphia to walk to Lewistown, and how he got into the river, and was drowned, will perhaps remain a mystery. The body was taken to Lewistown for inter. | ment, Mamie, daughter of Tony Welsh, of | Big Run, Clearfield county, aged seven | years, while visiting her uncle, Q 8. Reams of the same place, Tuesday, got paint on her dress, while Mr, Reams was painting his house, After returning home she used lamp oil to take the paint | off, and while doing this she Rot Wo near the fire and ber dress quickly ignited, burning so severely that she died the next morning. A physician did all in his power to save her. DuBois Express. The handsome residence of A. C. Mann with all the contents situated in the southern portion of Mill Hall borough was totally destroyed by fire last Friday night. After having been in bed for some time Mr. Mann was awakened by the smell of smoke in his room, By this time the fire had made #uch progress that he could not J out of the house by auy stairway. and bad to get out on the pores roof and jump to the Re The is ious 1a estisiated at $10,000 with $7,000 The defeat of Judge Cyrus Gordon, for [A | Secure the A G A pompous, swagger. ing strut does not win the good will of a | rare | | life. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12. THE SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT |. An Important Meeting of Committee on Saturday. NEW IDE A . Curtin Residence and Convert it Into Soldiers Memorial Hall, With a Free Public Library Attached —$27000 in Treasury. On Saturday a meeting of the Centre County Monument Association was held | up al attended. $27,000 to the ex- at this and was well They from various sources. place, now have assured about Owing cessive cost for erecting monuments, ac cording to the various designs submitted by sculptors, all were considered im practical. The of home and erecting a m the Cartin 1 was dis idea purchasing cussed. It was thought library could be installed with the ance of a gift from Carnegle propriations from the borough and ty taine ‘ainex such a memorial hall could be i. A interview the ( house, and for tha * court surveyed Now the idea ia connect McCLURE GETS A POSITION Court Appoints Him Prothone for Philadelphia District Alexand McClure Supreme tary veteran 1 Mon with head The eastern rict, pipaia notaryship pays appre 4 A Year in fees and | n, free from politica Mc cumulation one: ure recent 2 | 8 of fala te LARE Ou McC me.y Colone ure and Quay have been ¢ associated personally for and ft is understood uay ~ MANY YEAS, was one of his endorsers for the pro thonotaryship - ——— — Hunting Accident, Winkleblech, the 1g year-old and Mrs. W. H. Winkleblech, met with an accident Friday at Rebersburg, which may cause the loss of one of his legs The young man was out hunting with a companion, and while passing through seme brush the latier's gun was accidentally discharged and a heavy load of shot struck young Winkle. bleck in the calf of the leg. The wound Merlin son of Mr of Renovo, | was a bad one and it may be necessary SUGG GESTED | | opposite the | ! | | | { 1903 PRISONER RELEASED, an aquariam, quarters, the 13 inch speckled trout which the | James Furst caught in Spring Creek, six months ago, obtained his pardon and | liberty on Saturday afternoon last, and | wading : | to amputate the leg to save the boy's | tending school at Rebersburg since the opening of the fall term and is a bright boy. Mr. and Mrs. Winkleblech's | daughter, Sadie, Is not expected to live, | and their son's unfortunate accident in | addition to this makes their lot a hard one, Big Cavern in Mifllin County. A party of Chester gunners, who have been hunting 1m Mifflin county, discov. ed a cave in the mountain side a few miles out from Burnham. The cavern was explored by the huntsmen, who en- tered by a passage about six feet in width and, after climbing down a pre. cipitons natural stairway, found them. selves in a large room or sublerranean anditorium that would seat $00 or 600 people. The flashing of the torches re- vealed some very pretty stalactites. ~RBanigan lumberman gums will out. wear two or three pairs of other makes. Yeager & Davis, Young Winkleblech has been at. | was gently dumped by James in the dam The fell ed like a stranger iu a strange land; a convict laundry. ow seem. lke released after ten or a dozen years in the penitentiary and finding all faces and all else his tail to around him strange The worked seemed uninclis trout al 1ed move or shoot away. Apparently bewildered he held ittie he and halted while to take in the situatior Then shore, de and be drewned. moved out a yard or so from around, ntly fearing be might strike deep water He kept the if he accidental. depth : “beauty” did ©» looking evi- within close distance from shore so he could shoot out, perhaps beyond his It was plain ot kpow which way and for the none of his and 0 gO, moment, as near to we Je in to his home As we RO Samaritan looked on h 1 i id > misery we had a wonderfu nson-State Foot Ball Game Historical Society At the request of a number of promin. ent citizens of Bellefonte and of the coun be held in the arbitra- tion room of the court house for the pur- ty, a meeting will pose of organizing a County Historical Society, on Friday, Nov. 27, at 10:30 a. m Most of the counties of the state have organized such societies, and it be- hoves Centre county, with its great field of history, to have a similar organization, Ladies are included in this invitation, some of whom have already become ene thusiastic npon the Subject, - Broke His Neck. the youngest son of John M. McQuieg, while swinging and performing on a hitching bar in frent of Mingle Bros.’ store, Tyrone, fell off the bar and broke bis neck. He was immediately picked up and carried into the drug store; medi. After being confined since last spring in close and solitary | ittle, and | OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW Interesting Narative of Pio- neer Days, An REGINA HARTMAN'S CAPTURE How the Hartman House Was Pillaged By the Indians—Home Burned and Father Killed—a Mother's Ghastly Find. The foi) interesting to the owing narrative will be deeply 5 readers of the Demo- crat, as it depic that were the lot part of the is experiences of early settlers in the central state, as well as of those in this section Re ten years ina Hartman, at the age of almost , was captured by the Indians rescued after a captivity of nine years 1 ent will soon be erected to her A monun burg, supposed ire The most unt we posses memory atl Orwig authen. of the Hartman er and captives and prep older the 0 longer able the This sad fa'e, of the we are inclined turn to the Iadian country The captives were compelled to support and mg march they were killed younger, in case we their fen to bring a charges on it is sald, befel Barbara, the older girls ,and, furthermore, to believe that the mother, in course of time, learned of the circamstance, A little child named “Susie,” to have been Susan Smith, was given in charge of Regina Hartman who was hardly more than half grown. The sav. ages in their retreat followed rough and supposed | unfrequented paths in order to avoid a contact with the Rangers, who were a scouring the country in search of the mis. Monday evening George Washington, creants, | soon cut to pieces, and their clothing torn | derbrush in their pathway. from their bodies by the stones and un With bleed: | feet and tender body lacerated by thorns, | braye little Regina trudged along the weary way with the babe Sasie strapped | cal ald was of no avail, death having to her back, knowing full well that the | swiftly followed the fall. The unfortu. nate lad's taken to the home of his paren. - L— A 15 Year 01d Boy Kills a Big Bear. remalos were afterwards | her ability to carry her long. { life of the child was wholly dependent on Had she not been a strong, robust girl, she could ' never have endured the strain. Onward and onward they wended their way, now The largest bear that has been killed | fording a river, now climbing the moun: in a long time was killed by Hdward an Meeps, now penetrating intermin. Packard of Haneyville, who is only 15 | {able forests, every step bringing pals years old. The young hunter was out for bear on Wednesday, when he came across the animal, | and anguish to the captives, to whom death would be a welcome guest, The first bullet fired | When they reached the Indian settin« from his rifle hit the bear above the right | | | ments of the Muskiogum in Ohio, after a eve and would have caused brain's death, | journey of 498 m! les, Regina still had but the boy fired another shot for fear | her litle “Susie” in charge. the first one would not prove fatal, bear weighed over 300 pounds. The] .- In the Indian country a hard tot befel "Continued on page 4. T he shoes of the captives were | VOL. 25. KO. 4s. FACT, FUN AND FAKCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Select- ed and Original. A PUNCTUATION MARK TRAGEDY. $88 he was alte Longed for DCA S several that ) the tree $ were mak. able ih any net, trap or snare. Any WOO To hunt pr Ww » To haunt for To make use of dogs in hunling elk or o7 eh footed fowl from wn craft ed by sall or steam game on Sunday. deer To kill ake within the To kill, trap or pursue elk, deer, wild turkeys, pheasants, woodcock for the purpose of selling the same. To hunt rabbits with a ferret, To trespass ou any cultivated land which contains a notice forbidding the same, To ship or remove game of any kind from the state, deer in any stream, pond or stale quail, - Barn Burned. The large bank barn on the farm own. ed by the Benjamin Holter heirs, located about three miles north of Howard, and occupied by Christian Holter was burned to the =+ound with all its contents, on | Monday wfternocon Nov, and. In the barn was Mr. Holter's almost entire crop and implements. The origin of the fire is a mystery. No insurance on the | contents, the barn is insured. --Hustler, Wm. Roup, of pear Spruce Creek, will have an immense crop of corn this fall, expected to be 6000 bushels from 60 acres, Mr. Roup has begun threshing his wheat and expects a thousand bushels from Joacres. This can be taken as 0. k. and reliable, as we have it from Mrs. Roup, who favored our sanctum with a call, There are not many farms can come np to the above, - «Boots for men and boys that will keep the feet dry. Yeager & Davis.
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