The Centre Le ocral. Cir culation Over 3800 PENNYPACKER DECLINES His Ambition for the Supreme Court Gave up JOHN B. ELKIN NOMINATED The Republican State Convention at Harrisburg Was Under Perfect Con- | trol—A Peculiar Flop at the last | Moment The republican state convention met | in Harrisburg, Tuesday, and ratified all | as ordered by Quay. The convention was altogether ing under Quay’s order from Atlantic | City, and his did his bidding. | When Pennypacker declined, the boss telephoned that Elkin should be placed in nomination —Elkin, the man whom | Quay went back on for governor two | work- | serfs years ago, because of his being identifi ed with Quay’s corruptions, Elkin would be a weak candidate for governor, but | now he is named for the high and exalt. ed supreme court. An hour after Governor Pennypacker Elkin name, had refused to be a candidate Mr. had consented to the He was told of the Governor's surprising action and a hurried conference of lead. use of his ers, held by Penrose, led to the se of Elkin, it being the general belief that Senator Quay had wired that order in the afternoon. Philadelphia and Allegh eny offered support to Elkin and he con. sented to run. In caucus all other names for supreme judge were with drawn by Quay’s orders When Mr. Elkin was nominated in a lively speech by Speaker Walton, who was followed by David H. Lave, Philadel. phia; S. B. Cochrane, of Armstrong, and Frank McClaine, of Lancaster, who had named Elkin for Governor in the conven. | tion of 1902. There were cheers for Elkin and almost all the delegates for | him. Then came the vote and before it | endéd several names were withdrawn, The result was : Before the result was announced a motion was made to make the nomination - unanimous and it went through with a whirl of cheers. Pennypacker was out | of the way and E'kin was to be put out of the way state's highest tribunal to the merry, all uncertainty over, The for a judgeship of by elevation to the The delegates flocked street and proceeded to make Mr. twenty-one convention nominated Elkin years at $10,000 a year and will send Governor Pennypacker to the National couvention as a delegate, an honor which Mr. Elkin came here to seek and for which, by a Ia. a high Louis strange coincidence, he was slated. stead, he goes home nominated for office and the Governor goes to St The presidential electors at large will be Robert Pitcairn, the Pittsburg railroad man, aod Wolf, of Philadel. phia. By putting Elkin on the bench Senator Quay will get rid of the most formidable young Republican of the State, one who nearly upset the Senator's 1902 Mr. Elkin, is 44 years of age, aud has been active in he be He was Attorney General Clarence schemes i well-known to hundreds, Pennsylvania politics ever since came a yoler, under the Stone, and made the before the Senate committee elections in favor of the seating of Senator Quay on the appointment by the governor after the failure of the Legislature of 189g to elect a Senator, administration of Governor argument on —————— - CASE OF SMALLPOX. Saturday's Tyrone Herald: a young | lady named Bessie Phillips, employed | as & member of the corps of help at the Ward House in Tyrone has been ill for | two or three days, and Her case was | diagnosed as smallpox and a report of the same at once made to the board of health. The board in turn without any delay met at the offige of Justice Taylor, the secretary of the board, and took the matter up with the result that the entire house was put under quarantine for the space of ten days, the time required for the disease to develop in a person after having come in contact with one wko is already afflicted. All the transient guests : were allowed to depart, with the under. ! standing that they would go to their homes. Their names and addresses were all taken by the secretary of the board who at once communicated the facts in the case to the authorities of their several towns. \ ForSale. A new 5 horse power, horizontal, Fair. banks, gas or gasoline engine. Can be seen any time at this office. Eogine too large for our purpose, and have or. dered a 2-h power engine, same make to take its place in our new office. No bet. ter on the market; very few are as good. See cut and on , a good nd description on page 5. Als personally at this office. 3 2 | ices, | the EASTER iN THE CHURCHES, Easter was appropriately celebrated by all the churches of the town, Serv. ices at St. John's Reformed church were pretty and interesting, Communion was celebrated at morning and evening serv. and cut flowers were gracefully arrang. ed and in profusion. presided at the organ. The musical se lections were excellent: in “Easter Tri. umph'’ Miss Jennie Harper was soloist. In “The Lord our Savior's Risen,'’ Mrs JUDGE PARKER'S CAREER | The Man Likely to Lead the Dem- ocratic Ticket The decorations of potted plants | ' NOMINATION IS CERTAIN Miss Lula Harper | iA Good Man for the Ticket and Favorable Able Man Consideration An Schmidt sang the solos; "Christ Our Pass- | over,” and “Te Deum’ were the other chorouses, In the evening the Sunday | schoo! and congregation brought in their offerings for benevolence to the hand. some sum of $106 The song services in the Presbyterian church was unusually fine. The acquitted itself charmingly. Mrs, Meyer, Miss Butts, Miss Fitzgerald, Messrs, J. C Meyer and Henry Brown rendered parts most beautifully. The service was iv keeping with the choir solo evening above, and charming. St. John's Episcopal, always noted for beautiful music, had a chior of twenty voices, trained for the special Easter fes. prograw was elabo- tival. The musical rate and a treat in itself. The floral dec. rations were handsome, 13 the Methodist church Wood rmaons on the Resur. Rev, preached eloquent se rendered some choice rection; the choir Easter music, in the morning two anthems by the choir entitled “The Lord is Risen,’ The solo parts were very well rendered by Miss Helen Schaeffer and Philip Waddle, In the evening an anthem entitled “They Have taken Away My Lord.” Mrs, S, D. Ray had the solo part of this piece. Miss Ella Twitmire and Philip Waddle sang a very beautiful duet entitled “My Faith Locks up to Thee,” In St. John's Catholic church the serv. and “The Lord Liveth.’ | ices were beautiful and appropriate. The pastor, Rev. McArdle, preached a ser. mon appropriate to the day and the large choir rendered special music for the oc- casion. Solos were rendered by E. |. Saunders, of State College, at both morn. ing and evening service, The attend. ance was large. Easter communion in the Lutheran | church, was administered by Dr. Hollo- way lo upwards of 13% a larger members who presented themselves number thao perhaps at any time previous. Six- teen new added, which atechkus admit The decorati church had ¢ usual pretty The Easter Sabbath schoo! will ide ws of Easter entertainment by the be had on Sabbath next evening, enti fon: the first Easter the greatest of events, to be represented by living char. acters tied, The Resurre Day Events of this, The church, morning and evening had a attendance and the were large liberal, offerings LATEST FROM SEAT OF WAR. There is little war news. A great battle on land is expected and both Russia and Japan are massing troops for the pending conflict The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris says that the Russian's general staff is convinced that the Ruse sians will await a Japanese attack on the right bank of the Yalu. They are now busily fortifying the moath of the river, A remarkable bridge has been construct. ed on the prolongation of the Wiju line connecting it with Ping Yu- Yang. The correspondent says the Russians are seeking to drive the Japanese on by sending small groups across the river. Japan's first army, consisting of 45,000 men, is moving in three columns to oc. cupy Wija, Russian troops are entrenched in force on the north bank of the Yala river. Six guns, formerly at Chongia, were withdrawn in the retreat to Antung. Japs are fortifying Fusan and Konye Island for the defense of Masampo, Rightnour Bags and Jails ‘em. On Tuesday detective Rightnour ar. rested a lot of gentlemen of color up at Scotia. It appears they were detaining a colored girl who belonged as a pauper to Allegheny county, and when consta- ble Hartsock of Patton township went to Scotia to get possession of the girl and have ber sent to the overseers of Alle gheny connty, a set consisting of four col. ored fellows, gathered around him and with axes, pistols and other weapons, made fierce threats and drove the con. stable off, who proceeded to Bellefonte and swore out a warrant for the quarto who had resisted the officer. The war: rant was placed in the hands of detective Rightnour, and he proceeded to the seat of trouble with one or two aids, and on Tuesday night arrested three of the fel. lows while in bed, the fourth one having been landed in jail by the detective yes: in sheriff terday morning, and placed Tp und await trial at Judge Parker, of New Y doubt the nominee for president, and even by ac now, will next democratic clamation, as the sentiment is at a high flood rushing in that direction record The World speaks thus of Judge Parker: “It is indeed an engaging portrait we | SCE In this description In these days when a speculator tells how he and his accomplices ‘made’ $46,000,000 at the expense of other people in one deal it is | refreshing to look upon this old fashion- ed American citizen, the unquestioned leader of the simple rural community in which he lives, with his £3 worth of property, representing his inherited estate plus the accumulations of thirty six years of honorable work They raised men on the rocky farms of New England a bundred and fifty years ago, and Judge Parker has inherit ed the ruggeduess of his Massachusetts and Connecticut ancestry, with the cor- ners smoothed by the weathering in fluence of a full modern life. He has had a career that used to be typically Adierican before we fell udder the gla mour of the oleaginous "Captain of la. dustry.” Working on his father's farm, teaching in the country school bouse at sixteen, thrashing the school bully, sav- ing money to go to Cornell and giving up his bopes of a university training to belp his father out of trouble, studying law, practising at the bar, and mounting, | with a brief excursion into politics, to | the head of the state’s judiciary, be has | always been easily master of every sitoa tion he bas been called upon to face Managiog his three farms, working in | the hayfields, and every inch a Chief Judge at the same time, be is an intensely buman and a characteristically American figure. This is the democratic candi. date for the Presidency.” ADJOINING COUNTIES. — Typhoid fever has broken out at Ridg way, and it is said there are 40 cases in the town. A few days ago in front E ephone of the postoffice a company, at Altoona, Harvey for Bell Te from a pole and was » kels, ineman the fel caught by a live wire electrocuted while He hi three minutes then dr and suspended in the air ing to the wire two or pped to the street Death was almost instantaneous A serious accident occurred at the quarry of the Cambria Steel near Milroy. A blast had off when John Eckiey, the stepped from the engine room and a good sized stone fell a distance, striking him in the forehead, fracturing the brain tissues, allowing the brain to protrude through the opening Company put engineer, just been from Workmen engaged in sinking an oil well for the McVevtown Oil and Gas company ot the farm of William Stine, in Wayne township, Mifllin county, Fri day, went through a %ix.-foot vein of bituminous coal. The coal was struck at a distance of 500 feet below the earth's surface The stockholders much excited over the find, are very which has put a new life in the company. Lylog across a path in the forest near the camp of the Hewitt lumber operation at Eddy Lick, Sunday morning, was found the lifeless body of W. C. Calla- han, a well known woodsman, whose | home was in Jersey Shore when he was | Deceased was aged 56 years. It is sup- posed that he had an attack of heart fallure while returning alone to the camp, Andrew G. Gamble, one of Altoona’s leading citizens, died Wednesday of last week. He suffered from Bright's disease and had been ill two years, Ageed 61 years on the sth of February last. He conducted an extensive grocery business in Altoona. He was boin at Milesburg, Centre county. He was a soldier in the Civil war, serving in 149'h Pennsylvania regiment, and was a member of the Grand Army post 62, of Altoona, as well as the Presbyterian church of that city, Recent appointments made at the Methodist conference show that Lewis. burg, Salt Lake City and Williamsport have figured uniquely. The Rev, I. N. Moorehead, some years ago, was located in Lewisburg, and the conference gent him to occupy the pulpit of Grace church, of Williamsport. Later he was sent to Salt Lake City. Now the Rev. J. L. Albritton, who has been the minister November term of court, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL | Geo, Swahb, {in Erie; Wm | Frank, Pine Grove Mills, rk, without a | He will | be a strong candidate, with an tted | ea strong candidate th an unspo { ship this county {| Mrs. Effie Weaver, of Aaronsburg | Harvey Tressler, place Jl i 1004. RECENT DEATHS. ROLAND COURTHER :—of East Nittany valley died Friday morning a 3 o'clock, of brain fever, aged about 55 years. He | is survived by his wife and seven child- ren, fiye boys and two girls Mr. Cour ter was a life long resident of the section where he died. Interment was made at the Methodist cemetery near Salona. Mrs. Gro Swans: —died at her home Presidential { in Harris township on Thursday of (asi « One Who Will Receive | week, aged 74 years, She is survived by her husband, ex county commissioner and M four sons, namely John. Swabb, of Linden Hall: and James, at home, Her age was seventy four vears and twenty days. Ioterment took at Centre Hall Mus. LucispA PoORMAN :—died Sama City, Iowa, and her interment o curred March 23rd, at that place: age, 81 years. She was born in Miles town Her bhushand was a Mr Gramley, and one daughter survives, piace at © Ys io 1563 she was married to Wm. Poor man, and one son Wm. A. with whom she made her home, 1856 when her husband died K. Surv since KITCHEN —a very sudden death Wed. nesday evening 31, was that of Mrs. Jane Kitchen, widow of the late Joseph Kitch en, of Milesburg., Herdeath was the re sult of heart fai Deceased was aged 76 years i ana ure was a daughter of Thomas and Nancy Caldwell, Bald Eagle Valley two sisters, Mrs and Miss ded with th Mu PHIL Bellefonte hospital last ing past four old se ohe is Mary Mc Nancy e¢ deceased. tier in survived ! the by ain, Caldwel oonua, res who She had been an invalic eged, to in thrown al being years dae, it juries sustained from an enbankment wi wing. Mrs Iddings' home is near Unionville and she 15 between 35 and 40 years of age. Her maiden name was Heaton and she is sur. vived by ber husband and several chil. dren, The funeral took place Saturday morning at 10 o'clock from the house, interment in the Unionville cemetery, Miss Avice LL TreEsSLER :—died at her home at Houserville on Friday morn. ing at 12 o'clock, March 25th, after a lingering iliness of a complication of dis- eases, at the age of 21 years. She was a kind christian lady, a member of the Reformed church for many years. Oae brother and sister preceeded her to the Spirit world some years ago; she left to survive her aged parents, five sisters and is over ie out dn | gue brother wiz: Mrs, Annie Bais, of Houserville; Mrs. Mary Hickey toon: Mrs. Gertie mbelser, of Altoona; of Bellefonte; and Qlive at home. Funeral services were held on Sanday afternoon by the Rev Miss May Whitehead, inthe U at Houserville Joux FomsmAxn led near Red Mi un Satur after having t ing several months. Mr. Foreman was one of the most respected cits township, and His entire life useful cit a at ay been health aca ih MY 3 ns of Pot a farmer by ocx was that of a chr 28H In consistent every respect the R church, and politics a sterling demo crat. Por quite a number of years he ox cupied the Mrs. Curtin farm east of Oid Fort and from thence went to his own near Red Mill. His age was 8¢ years and several months. He leaves to mourn his loss, a widow and several sons and daughters, all of whom were raised to be useful and respected men and women deputy prothonotary D. F Foreman is a son of the deceased. Fun eral was held yesterday-—interment in the cemetery at the Centre Hall. member of eformed in Jorx Smook a well known and prominent business man of Spring Mills, died on Thursday evening, at g p. m after an illness of some mouths from heart failure. His age was 50 years, 6 months and 20 days. He was a citizen who will be greatly missed in that com munity — public spirited, kind as a neigh. bor, and a Christian in all his ways, He was a member of the Lutheran church, and a son of Philip Shook, dec’d. He leaves a wife to mourn her loss, there having been no children. His mother and several brothers also survive him. Funeral on Monday, interment in the Heckman cemetery south of Penn Hall, attended by a large concourse of friends, i " f | Mr. Shook had been superintendent of | not employed on lumbering operations. | the Lutheran Sunday school at Penn Hall for the past fifteen years; was a member of the Spring Mills Creamery company ; was one of the firm of Shook Bros., who had a poultry farm at same place ; was a director of the Farmers Mutua! Fire Iosurance Company, and one of the firm of Luse Mfg. Co., at Cen. tre Hall. Io his death an active, useful man is gone, Four Generations on a Farm. What is better known as the Daniel Wolf farm on the pike about two miles east of Asronsburg, has been in the oc. cupancy of the Wolf family for nigh 110 years, now occupied by C. W. Wolf, a son of Daniel Wolf, dec'd. In 1786, the record shows, as found on the county docket by C. W. Wolf the other day, the land was purchased from a Mr. Geiss, by George Wolf, great grandfather of the present occupant, C, W. Wolf, It next fell into the ownership of his son George and then Daniel, a son of the latter, be. came the owner, and after his death, the present occupant, C. #. Wolf, became the occupant and owner of a part of the farm and occupies the other portion still in the name of his father's estate. The latter, C. W., was born and raised on the plece, and is now 49 years of age, In all probability the name of Wolf will foi- low the ownership for one or more gen. erations yet. It is one of the star farms in Haines township, ; OUR HISTORICAL | REVIEW | Some Important Politicial Events of 1837. AN ANTI-BAXK MEETING The Famous Anti-Masonic Shin Plaster Party —Military Encampment at [he Old Fort—Centre Democrat Was Then a Leading Paper. In June, 1837, the Bellefonte price from $1 t 1 Bo; had This was also the era of shin plasters (as was ae. preciation of carrency its effect. it was called) currency, the county being flooded with them, although their issue was in direct vioiation ing was held «llefonte in Hasson, sresident: Bothrock and I Hoo ev ger wer tated nated county COmmMISSion Schultz for auditor The opposition, denominated by the y Bil Cenlre Democral as Masonic Shin Plaster party, held their meeting August 30th, Joseph Harris presiding assisted by John Poster, Walter, David Mitchell, of Ferguson, and Fleming Mc Cormick as vice-presidents; Dinv:d Jacob It was addressed by Maj. Samuel H, Griffith, John G. Miles, of Huntiagdon, and James Merrill county. They did not put a ticket in the field, but sup ported William Smyth, Jr. of Walker | wnat for the Legislature. At the election in October, Dr. Strobecker ceived fourteen buandred and forty.one can and David Dale, secretaries. Esq., of Union res voles 10 Give hundred d twenty.seven an for Smyth, Baid Eagle being the ouly iearenaniy i Eagle Cana complet Mr. E. Morris, was daly celebrated by an wa as Howard, eer, and engin boat from Howard; as the Marsh made iis excursion in a boat entered Creek dam a rain bow appearance, and was saluted with cheers and firing of a can pon. A handsome dinner was y by Mr. Morris The from Howard Dam on ember March 24d, Archibald McClarty was committed to jail in Bellefonte, charged ided water was | in the 7th of Now ith the murder of John Nicely in Boggs township. He was under the influence f liquor at the time a! April occupring from Wednesday until Saturday, when he was He was tried term, the trial found guilty of marder in the second de. gree and sentenced to the penitentiary James T. Hale and R C. Hale conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by W. W. | Potter, Boud Valentine, and James Burn- for nine years side, Eequires : The Democratic, Anti-Masonic, Repub. lican party (as they denominated them- | selves al this date) of Centre county held {a county meeting April 25th. Gen. James Irvin presided; Vice-Presidents, John Gray, Jr., John Forster, Jeremiah Rankin, John Potter, David Dale; Secre- taries, Robert Blakely and William Faith. James T. Hale, Samuwe! J Green, Col. William Marshall, Dr. George B. Eugles, James Allison, Abraham High, George S. Armstrong, James McFarlane, Dr. John Grossman, Benjamin Williams, Robert Pennington, Samuel R. Patton Col. John Neff, David Ligget, and David Duncan were appointed committee npon resolutions. This convention appointed delegates to the young men’s convention at Reading George Grafins, A. G. Cur. tis, B. C, Humes, Hodson Williams, Col. W. Irvin, Philp Wolfart, Daniel Beuck, William Allison, John L. Gray, Wells Coverly, George Reitzel, ete. The Falriol having been removed by Mr. Kinsloe to Lycoming county and transformed into the Lycoming Hagle, 8. T. Shagert, of the Cenfre Democrat, published, as he says, “the wise sayings and doings of the Federalists at their meeting,’’ some two columns, “drawn up in a style creditable to the writer; the plausible manner in which sophistry and misrepresentation are made to wear the appearance of reality and truth proved him a finished worker in the school of anti-Masomic jugglery. | wal he's tockin bout. Dan- | VOL. 26. KO. 14, | FACT, FUN AND FANCY, | Bright Sparkling Paragraphs and Original Seleoted “You must not see me any mor The maiden cried In fright And the gallant then tur he fellow indulges in hot air | § such a warm proposition who wis IW buy when he girl who mak sometime puiis man who i generally has to wait A VOICE FROM HOWARD smallpox ; wel 10 it now, Tolkin about smaiipox, mi s me thare was a dockter frum Marsh Crick, bi the name of Layman, thet rote a letter the pa- per thet told everything he dids’t no bout smalipox, but we didg’t like wat he sed bout pimples on our nose, fur we all no wat causes em. Bat | gess Dock nose Dock wuz hear on Saturday an he undertook tu digenose a ase, an it wasn't 3 npomains wun ether, but ez thare is 24 poiats tu be con. | sidered in a case uv kind, Dock didn’t git thru, but ef his big pard hed bin with him tha wood hev digenosed her fur keeps, It takes a gud digenoser ia be ov any count down here ““Dropissy’’ wuz umiy coranteesed 10 daxe, but his fricny'sa of otto Hin 10 munths, Harvey Miller wuz the furst wan to perfumigate bis house A dockter told him ta burn pouns uv s vad , If ye did'nt, ths uifer in ot $s ui ex Wr oK thee he : L8Cn OC 8 tha wu Danny i an't stam it Jong o harnis smallpox nd cure chaps ; onto, but wen ye git them wite over ye, thet grees that the dockler gives ve to rad on, beets faith oll stop the each Say, them hed a reguiar sinch duna tha say one of em got four sixty-five dollars tendin ef that's true I spoze he house this spring, Wy tha made so | mock munny vaxicaton thet tha got | ashamed an one of em put a peace inthe paper sain as how he wood vaxinate evry buddy as wood cum tu him {ree uv charge, same e2 ye sea on the bottom of public sail bills ware it ge 1 be servd on the groun harge ; the other Dock dide i he's pa-ins 25 sents to evry let him vaxinate em (so tha sa sed ef ennv buddy kum thare ts his family he'd shute him on tha spot or spot him on tha snute | furgit wich. Uncle Tom Butler still travels roun with | his long cane an thet little short kof when | he sez is thet so! I didn't no ve ken malik up yer mind he don’t bleve wot yer tellin him, an wen he sex shal me eve ye can bel it's asare thing. Lowdan | Longee went tu Lock Haven ta the sho, wun nite last weak, cummin hoam the | passenger cars dida’t run to sate em, so { tha took a nuther kind that didn’t stop | at Howard, wen Loid jumped off with | his face tored Lock Haven; he thot | Mount Pelee bad a unuther rapstion ; | Loogee sez, I'll go clear thru to Saint | Lewis before I get off that a way. Jake DeHaas burns thet fer-bell-demide most evry day in his tavern offis ; fis hard on the ise but its a blamed site harder on them jirms. Well I gess | must cloas. Avy WIDERSEHEN, " Bn. far family ; ner isiart a nu i] Burdire vixinate Accidentally Shot and Killed. Willie Hoy, the eleven year old son of storekeeper Geo, Hoy, of Hublersburg, while out hunting Tuesday morning ace cidentally sbot himself through the groin, He bled to death only living a half hour after the accident happeved. He was in company with two other boys and was taking en old cartridge from his gun to replace it with a new one when the accident happened. Busy Moving. Daring the past week the machinery connected with this office was taken down and put in place in our new quarters, It proved quite a task but by Wednesday we had our engine, newspress and folder in operation and began printing this is. sue yesterday afternoon, Friday we will begin moving type and office farniture, It wil! be some time untll we get come
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