\| he Centre Democrat, COL. PRUNER’S BEQUESTS Extracts From the Will to be Probated BELLEFONTE'S ORPHANAGE Liberal Amonts for Numerous Heirs— Our Report Last Week was Correct Left a Large Estate—The Will will Likely Stand Circulation Over 3800 The following is from the Tyrone Herald, and gives the provisions of E. J. Pruner’s will accurately. Our article in last issue, comes very close to this: The will of the late E. J. Pruner, which has been or will be offered for pro. bate as his last testament, was dated November 9, 1896. He had prepared another will just previous to his death, but had never executed it. The will of 18¢6 bequeaths to his only sister, Mrs. Sarah E. Hoffer, of Belle. foute, the income from 230,000 for life, this income at her death to go for life, to | her daughter, Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes, of | Bellefonte; the principal thereafter to go to the latter’s children. To Mrs. Hayes is bequeathed the income and rents of | LATEST WAR NEWS. Since our last issue the war news from the far iast has been confined princi. pally to the operations above Port Arthur, on the peninsula. From Danly to Port Arthur there is a rugged territory to traverse and it is fortified at numerous points so as to make the advance of the Japanese army most difficult, and at- tended with great loss, The account of the capture of Nanshan Hill displays a heroism that is remarkable. The Rus. sians held the point and with their rapid fire guns mowed down the Japanese like grass. But they never faltered or yield. ed. New men came to take the places of the fallen, until they finally engaged the Russian forces in a bayonet charge, drivicg them from the trenches capturing ammunition and artillery, The Russian forces fell back towards Port Arthur The Japanese lost about 3000 but they won the day. The Japanese are using every resource for the capture of Port Arthur and they predict it will be taken by June 20th. Some military authorities declare the position so strong as to be | practically impregnable, with food sup- plies to withstand a seige of a year. The | Japanese have been receiving reinforce. ments right along. In the upper section, in Manchuria, | { an engagement is reported in which 2000 | Se Eagle block and other properties in | oo po were badly worsted and many ellefonte, with similar disposition after | t be death. The testator expressed the | desire that his Bellefonte properties be | sold upon favorable occasion, ceeds to be invested in first mortgages upon real estate, To his niece, Mrs. Clara R. Moyer, of Tyrone, Mr. Pruner bequeathed the in- | come and interest of $20,000 which at her death shall be divided amoung her | children. Mrs. Moyer is also to receive | for life the income and rents from two the pro- | | Danly, the Czar's model city. | Hill aken prisoners. Japanese troops Russians | destroyed their gunboat, probably the | which took part in the Nanshan | Bobr, battle. sank also three of their torpedo boats, A battle between advance guards at Yagenfochu is reported by the Russians. | Cossacks almost annihilated a Japanese | properties on Washington avenue and | 0 properties on North Pennsylvania | avenue, Tyrone. ceive the income and rents for life from two properties on Lincoln avenue, Ty- rone. Mr. Pruner’s nieces and nephews, chil- dren of the late Jacob Shrom, are pro- vided for as follows: Miss Clara Shrom, the income from $5000 for life; Mrs. Elizabeth Ingram, Mrs. Dame Gilbert, Mri. Mary Haines and Mrs. Josephine Cowdriek, each the income from £3,000 for life; John H. and Edmund Shrom, each $1,000 outright. “For the purpose of benefitting human* ity and caring for those in need,” the will states, Mr. Pruner makes his most important bequest to the boroughs of Bellefonte and Tyrone. This bequest provides for the establishment of the “E. J. Pruner Home for Friendless Children,” for whch he gives the Pruner home: stead on Pine street, Bellefonte, as the Home property, endowing it by setting aside valuable properties whose income shall be devoted to the support of the in. stitution. The properties thus set aside | Mrs. Hayes will re- | cavalry troop, they say, but the result of | | the battle is not given. RE A —— Desperate Fight Between Brothers. Thursday while a party of men were | | fishing in the Juniata river, about a mile | | are the Pruner block, corner of Pennsyl’ vania avenue and Alley K, Tyrone; the block formerly known as the Hoover block, at corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street, Tyrome; lands in North Dakota and Kansas; and lands in tre county. This orphanage is established for the benefit of children of Bellefonte and Ty- rone between the ages of 5 and 12 years, who are without parents or friends to care for them. The institution will be under the comtrol of authorities of the two boroughs. In case the demands upon the Home from Tyrone and Belle- fonte do not reach its capacity, children may then be admitted from Altoona. It is provided that in case, for any reason, | the boroughs of Tyrone and Bellefonte cannot or do not accept the properties be- queathed for the proposed orphanage, ther all these properties are given to his niece Mrs. Hayes. The Fidelity Trust company of Phila- delpbia is named as executor of the will, D. 8. Kloss, of Tyrone, has received no- tice from the auditor general of the state that he has been named as appraiser of the estate for the commonwealth which will receive a considerable sum as col. lateral! inheritance tax. The will was written by Mr. Pruner himself, Is free from legal phraseology, and in some ways is considered rather loosely drawn, though it plainly indicates the testator’s main intentions. - A ——————— Dr. Young Waves Hearing. Dr. Young, of Snow Shoe, charged with false imprisonment and perjury in convection with the recent arrest of Father Victor Zarek of Clarence, waived the hearing which was to have taken place before Justice Keichline last Satur. day morning and was bound over to court in the sum of $r.000. A large number of wilnesses were in attendance, The 54th annual commencement exer. cises of Bucknell University takes piace from Jone 17th to 220d. A number of Centre county students are attending the University. | above Newport, two brothers William and Charles Page, got into a wordy dis- pute about which one did the most for their parents, which finally culminated in a bloody battle. Wm. struck Charles over the head with a boat pole, cutting a gash above the right eye. Charles in re. venge picked np an axe and struck Wil- liam across the left arm cutting a gash between theelbow and shoulder, to the bone. He drew the axe back to make another stroke, when a cousin, John Page, caught his arm to time to save William's head from being split, swerv- ing the axe so that it cut a side stroke in rather that the young may take | his head making an ugly wound. The men separated. Charles Page is married and lives at | Baileysville, while William lives at home | with his parents on the Mitchell farm. Both men bad been drinking and had just about emough rum to make them quaTTeisome. Lightning Tore His Shoes of. The rein throughout Nippenose valley | last week was unusually heayy and was | accompanied by vivid heavy thunder. All the telephone lines | th t of service tem i Taylor, Rush and Worth townships, Cen. | Were Lows ou” 9 porazily and the liae to Lock Haven was not got. ten into working order until Friday. The house of A. D. Smith, the livery- man, at Rauchtown, was struck and Mr. Smith, who was lying on a lounge, was rendered unconscious. His escape from death was miraculous, as the force of the boit tore the shoes from his feet, He Had "em Sure. Thomas H. Hartley of Morrisdale | Mines, had for some time been exper: fencing a peculiar sensation in his stomach and came to the conclusion that there was some live animal there, but physicians, whom he consulted, thought he must be mistaken, as it would be dif ficult for anything to live long inside him. Some days ago he began a fast, placed himself in the care of Dr, H. A. Collins of Morrisdale Mines. Wednes. day a lizard fully four inches in length was ejected from Mr. Hartley's stomach, It is supposed that the medicine he had been taking killed the animal, as it was ejected dead. Mr. Hartley feels much improved in health since the removal of the anwelcome tenant, Salvation Army. Captain Denter, who had charge of the local corps of the Salvation Army for the past five months, will farewell from Bellefonte Monday evening, June 6th, The farewell service will be in the na. ture of a social, at the close of which re. freshments will be served, Tickets for the above meeting are on sale at 10 cents, Forty Who Sell Embalmed Beef. Startling evidence of the embalming of beef with sulphate, a poisonous sul phurous acid, has been discovered by the State Pure Food Department, Robert A. Simmers, the State agent, who was at Pottgville, has found 40 meat dealers at different points who will be prosecuted for embalming their beef, on Monday occupied | Natives say the Russians | lightning and BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JUKE 2, 1904. [SENATOR QUAY NO MORE Died at his Home, Beaver, Pa., on Saturday A SUCCESSFU L POLITICIAN He Was a Great. Man to Attain Suc- cess—But Never Hesitated as to the Method—A Career that was not Creditable Matthew Stamley Quay, one of the United States senators from this state, died at his home in Beaver, on Saturday afternoon last, surrounded by his family and many admirers from different parts of the country. Oa Tuesday afternoon his remains were taken to the tomb in Beaver cemetery followed by a large concourse of citizens and prominent men from a distance. were beautiful and many. Many leading republican journals | of their party in this state. to speak ought else would be impossible, {as it is the proper thing to say what is true. | Some of the party organs, that class | which approves all, right or wrong in { politics that brings them grist, pronounce { Mr. Quay a great and good man. He was a ‘good’ man to friends who did { his every bidding, and a good man in his | family —but there is where the ‘‘good’”’ ended. As a politician who wielded | great power, he did little for that which | tended to the public good—his sole ob- | ject was spoils for himself and friends | | whose allegiance he strove to retain and ] ibut | " i The floral tributes ! during the week, but they so handled the | | reins as to put a serious check upon the | Parker throughout the country mentioning the ! { death of Senator Quay speak very plain- | ly and not all eunlogistic of the late boss | In candor, | i For Parker DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. Tur tally sheet as it stands to-day on the election of delegates to the national Democratic convention which is sched. uled to meet in St. Louis on July 6, | shows a total of 326 instructed as against 230 uninstructed. Five State conventions were held during last week, These were in Alabama, Arizona, Maryland, Ohio and Tennessee, Briefly summarized, the result of these conventions was most discouraging to both Parker and Hearst, the two most | prominent candidutes for the Democratic | Presidential nomination. The only vic. tories of consequence that were won were achieved by those sagacious politicians who are fighting aga‘ust pledged dele: gations, These victories were of first impor- | tance, for not only did the crafty leaders | who, with delegates uncommitted to any candidate, hope to manipulate the con yention win forty of the delegates elected | | boom while actually Hearst to give ground. forcing DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES ELECTED Total number of del Total number egates elected {BN instructed , wil For Hearst For Olney For Wall For Gorman . Total number uninstrud During last confer ence with "‘Boss’’ Murphy, of Tammany Hall the Oiney boomers publicly placed the Olney vote in the aboye table ups a plane with that pledged to Wall, and it ted week, srl in | will be used in the convention just as the | Wall vote wil 1 be used. Gorman will of | course, use the vote committed to him and | as many | land's sixteen { he passes the word to them to hop ints [Shekeby perpetuate his power as party | Mr | public policy to his credit. | did pot run in that direction. As a suc- | cessful schemer he was a marve! and in that line a ‘‘greater man thas Clay or Webster." Quay has no great measure or | His talents | i velop 2 battle of most intense interest, more as he can corral, Mary being for him whenever his band wagon. | This showing of candidates’ strength with the events of last week, gives prom. | ise that the St. Souls convention will de- | | The advocates of uninstructed delega- | | tions are just now riding on the crest of | But to go back to statesman. | ship of the type that makes men great, | Mr. Quay scarce cut any figure. Ino the legislative halls, state and national, be was the silent man for lack of talent to defend his state or any question that needed logic or eloquence in its defence, Mr. Quay Is gone—it is not our desire to rake up bis faults as that has been done | conversant with his methods. It is | warning and set themselves against | political methods that are discreditable | public respect does not follow such | throughout life nor to the grave. Honesty | in politics is as sacred a duty as honesty in any other channel of life's duties. The | dishonest in politics are as dishonest in | al things elise when a point or gain is | sought, and are every whit as reprehen. | sible. | Negro's Career of Crime. The negro “Black Spot” convicted of | murder and a prisoner in the jail at Clearfield, has made the following con- fession to Deputy Sheriff Harry M. Car. ligle : county, Va. [I shot and killed a colored | leased for want of evidence. money on him I could get.” for which “Black Spot” was convicted was the murder of John Williamson, at DuBois, September 28. His confession followed the failure of his attorneys to secure a re trial of the case, Badly Injured Oa Saturday evening, Calvin Smith, son of Andrew Smith, who resides on a farm near Mackeyville, threw a set of harness on his horse and jumped on be. hind the harness to ride out to Salona to get his buggy. While going down the lane his horse suddeny frightened, jumped to one side and threw Mr, Smith to the ground. As he fell his feet be- came entangled in the harness, which frightenened the horse more, which caused him to run and kick at the body of the young man as he dragged at his side. The young man finally freed him. self and dropped to the ground, but not until he had been badly injured. His right cheek is crushed in, two ribs are broken, his breast and abdomen serious: ly injured and a bad bump on the back of the head, which caused concussion of the brain. He is in a very serious con- dition. Cl, Demo rat, «Good soft shoes for old ladies, $1 a pair—Yeager & Davis, fa i during his lifetime to an extent to make | | every ome reading the public journals | the wave, and as, under the two-thirds | rule, 667 votes will be required to effect a nomination, the situation bids fair to continue complex, fraught with greatest sogerialnty, uatil afler the delegates have been tested on a number of formal ballots. COSTS MORE TO LIVE. The department of commerce and la. bor is kept pretty busy sending out state- ments of the exports of American manu. | | factures, ostensibly for the information | ‘of the public, | in order to gain prominence and power— | What beuefits are derived by the Ameri. | | can manufacturers from the maintenance ' of a high tariff. These statements make | good reading from a Republican stand. | | point, the products of certain American mavu- | {can be procured in the home market | place their own construction upon the contents of these statements. | just issued a statement that bears upon a “Black Spot * better known as J. | | public. This statement comprises tabu. W. Williams, but my right name is | | lated figures showing that the cost of the Henry Fitch. My home is in Nelson | Becessities of life is now much higher man at Red Star, W. Va., and was re. | point to a much higher notch for prices I shot Gust | Bnless the tariff shall be reduced. The Liverpool and was locked up in the | | public for instance, pays over §3per Fayetteville jail and escaped with about | C®8t. more for its petroleum than the 20 others, in the fall of 1900. AtCoraop | average price of that commodity in the olis, Pa., in a fight I gouged a colored | Past decade, and for its anthracite coal man’s eve out with a revolver. Went to | the public pays from 26 to 34 per cent. DuBois, where I shot and killed John | MOTE than it did during the past 10 years Williamson, because I thought he had | 00 an average, The crime { in a long list of the necessities for which | the people are now required to pay high | and incidentally to show But the people who know that factures are sold in Europe at a much | | lower price than the same make of goods Unwittingly or intentionally the de- | partment of commerce and labor bas | matter that is of real importance to ibe ! than it was 10 years ago, and indications These are only two of the many items prices. Among other articles for which the people pay more than they did 10 Years ago are molasses, crackers, beef, | Macmanus for Clearfield county. | tion with a very sarcastic letter, | Commonwealth, | ly nominated | that office had always | was auxiliary | Society. | was instituted February 6th. mackerel, lard, bacon and salt pork, vearly all of which are controlled by the | 500. v Irvin's trial took place on the 25th | trusts or are protected from competition | and he was acquitted on the | by the taziff. When the workingman packs his dioner pall nowadays he does some quiet but hard thinking. many of them have been-—he will not strain his arm carryisg his dinner pail to his work. It is anybody's prize at this time, with Gorman audaciously proclaiming his purpose to boss the comvention, and “*Boss’’ Murphy, of Tammany Hall, car rying such an enormous anti-Parker knife up his sleeve that he hardly dares crook his elbow, lest he stab himself in the arm.pit. What better promise could be offered of big things dolug in St, Louis in torrid July ? H. E. Romig at Rote, owns one of the oldest farm horses in Clinton county. The age of the animal is 28 years and it is in active service dally, plowing, har. If his | wages have been reduced--as that of! rowing and cultivating soil, OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW | About Sixty | Events Years Ago. Important LIVELY POLITICAL | Efforts to Secire a Railroad in Penns- | A Miscellaneous selection | may | valley of Happenings that Remember Some In March 1844 the appointment of James Macmanus, Esq., deputy attorney | | general for Centre county, was petition | ed for by the court, attorneys, grand | jury, and county officials. This the at- torney-general, John K. Kane, disregard |ed and appointed March 17th, B. Rush | Petriken, Esq, and appointed Mr. Mr. Macmanus sent back the latter deputa- Henry Deputy Secretary of the and his nephew's ap- Petrikin was i pointment was attributed to his influence. The year 1845 was marked by particular events and the absence of Fourth of July celebrations. The heat of the summer was excessive, in July the no thermometer ranging from ninety-eight to one hundred degrees, drought. The Whig ticket had Buchanan for Assembly; P. B. Waddle for prothonotary; C. G. Ryman, register and recorder; George Welch, treasurer. Democratic majority for James canal commissioner, 841. Thomas M. Hall was the first reguiar- candidate of the Demo- cratic party for sheriff. Before this year, been left open and a great on it George Burns, to volunteers, Mr. Hall ter, John D. Petrikin, Stover. John D. and Samuel! H. Petriken ran next to | Hall. December 18th, the first meeting favor. able to a railroad through Penn's valley was held; George Boal, Patton, Henry Geist, and John Durst, | vice-president; J. Blair Moor: and George Jack, secretaries. Committees were appointed to petition the Legisia- | ture for an act of incorporation. December 24th, George Graham open ed a mine of bituminous coal at Snow Shoe, striking a superior vein. that worked by Austin Hinton. January 27th, the Centre County Col- | porteur Association was formed; Hamil- ton Humes, president; James Armor, | vice-president; James Macmanus, treas- { urer; and David Moore, secretary. This to the American Tract February 234, the Centre Lodge, Independent Or. der of Odd Fellows, was instituted in | presence of a large number of brethren | from adjoining counties. Henry Baker, | William | Baker, P. B Wilson were the committee | Danie! Welch, C. H. Bressler, on orgasization. March 14th occurred a very high fiood in Bald Eagle, consequent upon sudden melting of the snow. was partly been the highest freshet since 1810. March 26th, Henry Irvin killed his | father, Matthew Irvin, near Pennsylvania | Furnace, in Ferguson township. They | were both laborers at the furnace, and the son had mania a-potu at the time and conceived that his father was the | devil plotting his destruction. He left | the mine bank where he was at work | and proceeded to his own house, where | his father was in bed, and with an axe inflicted thirteen wounds upon the old | man's head and nearly severed ome of | His father lingered from two his arms, o'clock when death relieved him. been on the best terms before the deed. in the afternoon until seven, | of April, ground of insanity, August 24th occurred the accident at the mine bank of Howard & Hecla works. The shaft was suddenly filled with water | and mud, and John Latimer, John Daily, {and John McCommon lost their lives, Latimer’s body was not recovered until in December, when it was buried in Bellefonte. In March, 1847, John I. Gregg, from private in Second Pennsylvania, was promoted second lieutenant in Kleventh Regiment of Infantry, and returniug home was placed upon recruiting service, James Fulton, Jr., was shot while stand. ing guard in the summer of 1847. James Shaw, who had a finger shot off at Cerro Gordo, died of dysentery, He was a printer of Bellefonte, His mother re. sided nea Laithelm. Henry L. Armor died of dysentery at Puebla, July 14, 1847. In Capt, Irvin's company were Continued on page ¢ EVENTS | had for his op- | | ponents Peter B. Gray, Charles Carpen. president; Peter | | Neece, John Love, James Johaston, S. R. The | {bank was situated near the turnpike, { within ore hundred and fifty yards of The Laurel Leal Division, No. | | 115, Sons of Temperance, at Milesburg, Bullet Run dam | undermined, and said to have | They bad | YO0l. 26. XO. 22, | FACT, | Bright Sparkling Paragraphs and Original. FUN AND FANCY. ~Seleoted THELAND OF LONG AGO The Land of Long Ago, Where happy hours sleep, Where languid rivers glide, With stately flow and deep Where ladeless roses blow, And Love sits azur-eyed There comes no frost, nor snow, But balmy breezes sweep O'er gardens fair and wide And slow Lhe walers creep Through blossoms bending low Above the charmed tide, How sweet to rise and go From ways where mortals weep, From love so jong denled, To dreams that roses heap, Where erystal waters flow And golden ~-R.G.T. Coventry, days abide, in Eoglisk Count ry Lite. The mosquito is out for bl ood. Blood will tell, bat it is all in vein. A river is never fed through its month. The man in the moon makes light of things. The open played out. If you are going to do a man at all, air performance is naturally be sure to do him good The people more they do less some have to say the talking A woman treasures her love letters as a man does his due bills. The poet finds that it is easier to write a soug than to right a wrong. Room for {improvement is what the in terior decorator Even the man with a wil iron may lose his temper when he res hot. The man who says nothing and saws wood may live to cut off coupons. Some people can’t stand prosperity, and some can’t even understand it. The men who are satishied to take things as they come never get much. Few women are so gifted as vot to care whether they are pretty ornot. § Even the bashful girl who blushes must have a certain amount of cheek. An idle rumor gains currency, which is more than can be said of an idle man, In responding to a bugle call is it necessary that soldiers should come to | blows? A mas may be thoroughly honest and - op have an umbrella every time it lookin g for. f Ji is i ol poker fend rises to remark thata | flush in the hand is worth two on the cheek. Some people are so honest that they wouldn't take a walk unless it belonged to them. Women are generally harder to please in selecting ribbons than in selecting busbands, The fellow who sticks at the foot of the ladder may attribute his bad luck to climate. The same play that brings tearstoa woman's eyes will cause a man to sneak out between acts for a “smile.” “Matrimony is a good bit like new | shoes,” savs the cynical bachelor, “The longer you wear them the less they burt,” Sillicus—"“She is just the sweetest | thing in the world.” Cynicas—*"That’s what the fly thoaght when it got stack on the molasses.”’ | A DmExveEr paper tells of one Billy Jones who wrote on the blackboard at i school : “Billy Jones can hug the girls | better than any other boy in school.” The teacher, upon seeing it called up. | “William, did you write that?’ "Yes | ma'am,” said Billy. “Well you can stay after school.” The children waited | for Billy to come out and began tv guy him. “Got a lickin’, dide't you?” | “Nope” “What did she do?” Shan't | tell,” said the astute William, *‘baut it | pays to advertise.’ CAN YOU CRACK ‘EM? What is the third of a kalfofa and a half of ten ? Which is the most 7? Six dozen dozen or a half dozen dezen. Be quick. I buy goods ninety per cent. off, and | sell them at eighty and ten per cent, off, What is the per cent. profit? A man has 100 and buys 100 animals. | He pays f10 for cows, $1 for hogs, and | soc for sheep. How many of each did | he buy? A man in jail was asked who it was | who visited him, and replied, “Brothers and sisters have I nove, but that man's father is my father’s son, A frog is at the bottom of a thirty foot well, and every time he jamps up three feet he falls back two, How many jumps will it requite for the frog to get oat ? A maa left 1g sheep to 3 heirs, Oae to get one-half, one to get one-quarter and one to get one fitth. No sheep were to be killed, and all were to be dealt fairly with, A fox is 60 leaps ahead of a bound; the hound takes 6 leaps while the fox takes g, but 3 of the hound's leaps are equal to 7 of the foxe's leaps. How far will the fox go before he is overtaken third and how many leaps will the hound take?
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