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GAZETTE. VOL. 97- BEDFORD, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1902. ESTABLISHEDLN 1805. THE DEATH Those Who Have Been Called To Their Eternal Home.

CHARLES C. REAMER, of the Bedford Eleetrlc Light Campwiy, Among Those Who Have An- aweredtlie Final Summons. diaries Conyngham Reamer, who suffered a paralytic stroke Monday night of last week, died at his ho ue on Richard street Sunday night. Mr. Reamer was a son of Dr.

and Mrs. Francis C. Reamer and was born in Bedford on October 13, 1865. He was educated in the public schools and Prof. Swithin C.

Shortledge's academy at Media, After his graduation he and Charles Amos opened a book store and printing office in Bedford. Mr. Amos subsequently retired from the firm and Mr. Reamer conducted the business for some time and then sold out to C. W.

Cleaver. In December, 1893, Mr. Reamer was elected manager of the Bedford Electric Light, Heat and Pcwer company and held that position up to tne time of his death. On December 33, 1390, he was unitri in marriage to Miss Jessie M. Bone, daughter of Capt.

and Mrs. William L. Home, of Bedford. He is by ais wife and two sisters-Mrs. P.

C. Ambrose and Miss Mary Reamer, of Philadelphia. His mother died on May 23, 1869, and his father on April 28, 1870. The funeral strvieet were held WedneEday afternoon and were conducted by Rev. Dr.

Thomas Duncan, rector of the Episcopal church, assisted by Rev. H. B. -Townsend, of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. I.

W. Hendricks, of the Reformed church The pall-bearers were Fred. Wagner, Fred. Metzger, A. C.

Lassig, D. 0. Reiley, A. L. Little, Esq, J.

T. Alsip, Frank Fletcher, and John Eicholtz. Inteiment was made in the Bedford cemetery. Charles Conyngham Reamer was a kinfi, courteous and large-hearted young man. The wealth of flowers upon his bier, among which was a bunch of field daiaiea plucked by a boy friend o( the deceased, spoke eloquently of the popularity of the deceased.

He was a member of St. James' Protestant Spiaeopal church. His death is sin- AN ENJOYABLE EVENT, The Second Season Mastcale of the Bedford flana Club The second season musicale of the Bedford Piano club was given at the home of Mrs. Mary Lyon -riday evening. The occasion was a most delightful one from both a musical and social standpoint.

The programme as given below was most excellent in its rendition and from its character evidences the club's 'determination to maintain a high standard in grade of music. A most pleasant surprise waa given the guests by the introduction of Prof. J. Ivison, of Cumberland, who delighted them with a skilfully rendered cornet solo, which received a hearty encore. The club colors--white and green--predominated in the floral decorations and appeared in the neatly printed programmes, as well as in the dress of the club members, who wore white with green trimmings.

At the close of the stated programme refreshments were served, which proved a most happy finish to the evening's entertainment. Following is the pro- gramme as rendered: PART I. Qottschalk--Duet--11 Trovatore The Misses Barclay Grieg--Gebet and Tempeltanz, Op 50 Miss MoGirr Haydn--Grand Fantasie Te Deum Miss Fyan Satter--Trois Morceaux Lyriques, Op. SI Miss Barclay, Miss L. D.

Shucl: Chopui--Fantasia Impromptu Cornet solo oerel; mourned of friends. by a large circle Cbarlei W. Charles W. Curry, of Altoona, died on Monday. Tbe deceased was a native of Bedford co-inty, having been born at Woodbury on March 27, 1834.

For somi time he lived in Frankstown and was a resident of Altoona nineteen years. i or many years he was em- erecting shops of the FausTlntia Railroad company at President Lincoln is- 111 flrtt call for troops Mr. Curry la Company Third regi- MB volunteers, and at expiration of the three month saiiitid ia Company regimeat, Pennsylvania volunteers, serving until seriously wounded in the battle of Winchester, on March 23, 1863. He was shot through the shoulder and after spending some time in the hospital was honorably discharged. In 1864 Mr.

Curry was united in marriage to Miss Nanoy J. Kelchner, who, with eight children, survives him. He was member of the Union Veteran Legion and the Catholic church. Mrs. John P.

Statler. Mrs. John P. Statler, sister of Mrs. Jicob Boozer, of New Paris, died at her borne in Scalp Level on June 22 She was aged thirty-seven years and ia survived by her husband and four i children.

Miss Elsie Home Prof. J. Ivison PART n. Leach etisky Mandolinata Miss Elizabeth Metzger Liszt-- Nightingale Miss Hetty Barclay Victor Doliaetscb Fantaisie Miss Judith Reynolds Rubinstein-- Mel odie in Miss Elsie Borne Rossini-- Overture-- William Tell Miss Metzger, Miss Shuck Miss Fyan, Miss McGirr amp-Coll roth. The Somerset Herald contained the following account of the Ghtmp-Cof- froth nuptials The wedding of Miss Helen Coffroth and Mr.

James Edward Gump, at o'clock ednesday evening, was a handsome event in which local society was deeply interested. The ceremony took place at the Patriot street residence of the bride's parents-- Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Coftroth --and was witnessed by the families of the bride and groom and by a limited number of intimate friends.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. William L. Fisher, of the Christian church. Mountain laurel and wild white honeysuckles were profusely used around the rooms and halls, in vases and jardinieres, and produced an effect that was very pleasing and only possible at this season. Miss- Myra Bell, of Peyser, W.

was bridesmaid and Mr R. W. Jenkins, of Wayuesburg, best sburg, man. The bridal party entered th parlor the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march executed by Miss Clara Kimniell, and as soon as they had taken their posi- aecs the pianist played "Oh, Promise Me." The gown worn by the bride was of white mousseline desoie, over white tafteta, trim- Bed with lace, and her bouquet was a bunch of white bride's roses. The bridesmaid wore pink chiffon and carried a bou- quei; of pmk roses The ceremony was followed oy a supper, after which Mr.

and Mrs, Gump departed for Old Point Comfort Tbey will reside in Altoona upon their return. The wedding presents were numerous nnd very handsome. Guests present cut of town were Mr. and Mrs. 8.

S. Gump, parents of the groom, and the (rroora's sisters-- Misses May and Elsie-- and bia uncle, Dr. H. Gump-- of JSedford, Mr. Lloyd Shaffer, of Cumberland, Mr.

J. Haffnr and Mr. and Mrs. A. A.

Bert, PUwburg, Mr J. Boyra. of ihia, Mrs. A. W.

Coffroth and daughter, of Ceyser, West "Va. ft mjBlf, Happenings of the Past Seven Days. THE IMPORTANT EVENTS Crlled Trom All Quarters of the Globe and Condensed Busy Readers--News Items. President Roosevelt on Saturday signed the isthmian canal bill. The Pennsylvania Bar association held its eighth annual meeting at Cambridge Springs this week.

The world's greatest cotton mill will soon be erected near Kansas City by eastern and western capitalists. The capital invested will be $20,000,000 and the plant is to employ 4,000 hands. Beginning with Tuesday there was a material reduction in government receipts, as the law abolishing war taxes went into effect. The tax repeal means a reduction of 570,000,000. In Mingo county, W.

Friday night two Mormon elders were ridden on a rail and otherwise ill-treated by of that vicinity. The polygamists promised to leave the county and were released. A Manila despatch says that ninety American soldiers have died of cholera since the disease broke out. The totals from the epidemic are as follows: Manila, 1,530 cases and 1,236 deaths; provinces, 7,309 cases and 5,440 deaths. Landlord John McKenna, of the Fitzharris House, Gallitzen, was killed Saturday afternoon by the first blast for the excavation of a new tunnel the Pennsylvania Railroad company is building from Gallitzin through the mountain.

Frank Gillespie, a laborer, was fatally injured. The postoffice and general store of P. J. Blough, at entered by burglars Wednesday morning of last week and robbed of cash, checks, stamps, notes and securities valued at about 817,000. A portion of the negotiable papers.worth $15,000 were found two miles away from the scene of the burglary.

Everything is now in readiness for the great convention of Christian En- deavorers to be held in Pittsburg, July 8-10 Thousands of letters, leaflets, bulletins of news and literature of all sorts bearing on the convention have been sent all over Pennsylvani i and adjoining states and there is now a sound of "a foing" and coming that promises a host of interested delegates. Monday evening Senator Bailer, of Texas, assaulted Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, just after the senate had adjourned from executive session. The Texas senator was separated from his opponent by some of those about the senate. The episode was the result of a heated controversy which the two senators had during the afternoon, when Senator Beveridge had said that Senator Bailey had made "an unwarranted at took" on Solicitor Ponfield, of the state department. PLUCKY YOUNG MEN Enter a Cavern Recently Discovered Near Hyndman.

HYNDNAN, July 3 EDITOR GAZKTTE cavern recently discovered at the limestone quarry of Daniel S. Evans, one-fonrth mile southwest of Hyndman, has been thoroughly explored by Bert Crabbe, Edward M. Rhodes, Dov. Mullin and Allun Hitchcock. These plucky young- men were slowly let down into the cavity by means of ropes fastened around their waists.

The distance from the surface to the bottom was found to be eighty-five feet and the passage way about the circumference of an ordinary well, except at several places where it was difficult for the exploring party to get through. Upon arriving at the bottom a circular pool of water was discovered about twelve feet across and eight feet deep, very cool and palatable. Having se- sured a large board from the parties at the top entrance, they crossed to the opposite side of the pool and found some stalactites and other calcium carbonate formations. A small subterranean stream was discovered, the source of which could not be ascertained. The room at the bottom of the eav- ern was not large and by means of a powerful calcium light it was definitely learned that there were no underground passages.

The exploring party spent several hours in the small grotto and report that there was a good circulation of pure, cool air. Several other openings have been discovered in the vicinity and as the belief is growing that there is a large cavern somewhere under the surface in that section further investigations will be made in the near future. Two Boys Killed. A despatch from Huntingdon, June 26, says; "As the result of a collision between a runaway draft of box cars and a coal train on the Shoup's run branch of the Broad Top railroad, about a mile from Coalmont, shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Ralph Bollinger and Edward Erode, each aged about seventeen years, were instantly crushed to death. The two men and a young companion named Charles Long were riding on the rear end of a hopper coal car on tbe coal train.

Next to them was a box ear, the end of the train. When the runaway cars piled into tbe train the box car on the latter was snapped in two and the one-half of it was pitched on top of the car where the three men were sitting, crushing the lives out of the two named. Long, who sat between Bollinger and Erode, was not injured in the slightest degree. His escape from death was little short of a miracle. William Dick and John Roat, young men who were riding on the draft of runaways, made fortunate escapes by jumping.

The remains of Bollinger will be interred at Broad Top City to-day. Erode, who was the youngest child of a family of nine children, will be buried at Saxton tomorrow READY The Struggle for Political Supremacy Will Soon Begin. A I The Candidates and Compared --The Advantage In Both Cases Largely With the Democrats. Calvin HelseL Calvin Helsel, son of F. D.

Helsel, of Queen, died on June 2U, aged twenty. three years, five months and fourteen days. Moorehead-Dlbert Calvin H. Moorehead and Miss Minnie E. Dibert were married at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs.

Louisa Dibert, 919 Seventh avenue, Altoona, on June 25. The house was prettily decorated with potted plants, ferns and daisies. The bride was gowned in Persian lawn and carried bride's roses. The bridal couple were attended by Miss Etta R. Dibert, Bister of the bride, and Frank G.

Weyant, nephew of the grocm The little flower girls were Helen Dibert and Cornelia Mackey. The wedding march was played by Miss Anna Harkness. There were about fifty guests attendance. After a sumptuous supper was served Mr. and Mrs.

Moorehead left for a visit to Philadelphia, and Washington, D. C. They will reside at 919 Seventh avenue, Altoona. The groom is employed as conductor in the Altoona yard. X.

O. T. M. A lodge of the Knights of the Mac- cabees was instituted in the Knights of Pythias hall, Bedford, Wednesday evening by Field Deputy Great Commander W. Phillips, assisted by Deputy Great Commander T.

C. Graham. The tent was organized by Deputy Great Commander S. Graham and has twenty members. The officers are: Past -commander, Charles E.

Middleton; commander, Dr. Frank H. James; lieutenant commander, J. Smith; record keeper and finance keeper, R. G.

T. Wolff; lain, Lloyd H. Hinkle; medical examiner, Dr. A. C.

Wolf; ser'jea-at, Cnarles D. Cronse; W. A McMeen; 1st master of the guards, Clyde Cessna; 2nd master of the guards, James E. Cleiver; sentinel, W. H.

Siter; picket, Harvey Davidson. The Maccabees is a fraternal society, organized for the protection of its members and their dependents and was twenty-one years old on June 16, 1902. The membership is 565,000 The organization is one of the strongest of its kind in the world. booser-Crltchlleld Russell Ross Souser, of Buffalo Mills, and Miss Ethel Grace, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Jacob Critchfield, were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents in Rockwood at 9 p. m. on Sunday, June 22, by Rev. T. F.

Balliet, pastor of the Reformed church, Roekwood. The bride if one of Rockwood's beautiful and accomplished young women and is very popular. After the wedding the guests enjoyed a sumptuous supper. The wedding journey will include a visit to Washington, Baltimore and Atlantic City. After their return they will be at Roekwood, at which place the groom has a position as telegraph operator for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company.

Miller-Lape. On July 1, at the Lutheran parsonage in Sehellsburg, James B. Miller and Miss Annie Lape, of Berlin, were united in -man-luge by Rev. Ellis Jones. Wills Eecently Filed.

Mrs. C. W. S. Stuckey, late of Bedford township, bequeaths all of her personal property and real estate to her husband.

When her youngest child arrives at the age of twenty-one years the entire estate is to be distributed among her children, share and share alike. C. W. S. Stuekey is named as executor.

Abraham Moses, late of East St. Clair township, gives to his son, John H. Moses, the farm on which the latter lives, also the tract of mountain land belonging to said farm. Mr. Moses is to pay his brother, Samuel K.

Moses, 81,300. To his son, Franklin K. Moses, he devises the mansion farm on which the devisee resides, also the tract of mountain land belonging to said farm He is to pay his brother, Samuel K. Moses, To his son, Samuel K. Moses, testator gives the farm now occupied by the former, also the tract of mountain land belonging to said farm.

To his wife decedent gives his household goods and the property in which he resided at the time of his death. Each of his three sons is to pay one-third of the taxes on said property and give his mother $100 a year. After his wife's death the property in East St. Clair township is to be sold and the proceeds equally divided among the three sons of Mr. Moses.

Mr. Moses' sons are appointed executors. George Latshaw, late of South Woodbury township, bequeaths to his wife 81,500. He releases his son, Job Latshaw, from his Indebtedness to him and gives him $100. To his daughter, Mrs.

Anna Meyers, he bequeaths his farm in South Woodbury township, at the valuation of To his son, Jacob Latshaw, he devises his mansion farm in South Woodbury township, at the valuation of $5,500. To his daughter, Mrs. Mary Longeneeker, now Meyers, and his son, Jacob Latshaw, A. Cosmopolitan OononnrSft. A myriad of marvels, in most attractive form, is to be magnificently displayed in Cumberland by the Bos- toek-Ferari Carnival aggregation.

Foremost among these superlative features of educational amusement is its cosmopolitan congress of the peoples of the earth, gathered together from the remote lands of the globe in one grand picture of international representation. There, on the midway, in the most picturesque freedom of action, will be seen representatives of many countries, brought together in a mighty midway aggregation to delight and instruct the multitudes. This interesting concourse of people is only one of the many features of the Elks' carnival and street fair in Cumberland July 7 to 12. Special Correspondence of THE GAZETTE HABBISBUEQ, July contest for the political supremacy of the state for the next four years is now ready to begin. The leaders have been chosen and the principles upon which each party bases its claim for public support have been declared.

No matter how ardent the desire nor how determined the effort to conceal the real issue from the public gaze, every intelligent man knows that it is simply the old struggle between those who believe in Quay and Quay- ism and, those who regard both him and his system as a curse to the state and evils that ahould long ago have been driven out of politics. As between the candidates present-' ed before the people for their choice the advantage is largely with the Democratic ticket. Those who believe what is as clear to the intelligent man as the noonday sun, that Quay is a corruptionist of the most dangerous sort and that his 1 system is altogether vicious, cannot have a very high regard for any man who has praise and praise only for him and his machine; and still less must be their respect for a judge on the bench who praises the political hypocrite who uses the cover of the law to sisal from the treasury of the state. Though no suspicion of wrong doing may before have attached to Judge Pennypacker, the single fact that he praises what is wholly evil and lauds a man who pleaded the statute of limitations through fear of imprisonment for one of his many evil deeds affords sufficient reason for the opinion that there is something wrong with his moral sense. When any man, and especially a man supposed to be' on a high plane in the world of morals, comes out in open defense of one whose name is a synonym for all that is evil in machine politics, it is safe to conclude that he is after something for his personal use and that his moral perceptions are less keen than his desire for a political job.

If Pennypacker is elected governor it is as certain as anything in the future can be that he will be a servile tool for the man whose praises he sings and who nominated him for the governorship by means which Peunypacker would consider sufficient to send an ordinary criminal to the penitentiary if proved against him in his court. The Democratic candidate during his several terms of official position has stood between the people and those who would plunder them like a wall of granite. Had he been in the gubernatorial chair the past three years and a half the state would able leader he has never assumed to be a boss to thwart the will of his party He declared months ago that the only part he would take in the selection of the candidates for the Democratic ticket would be to see, as far as he could, that the choice of the party should be nominated. Delegation after delegation called on him after his arrival at Erie and asked him as to whom they should support for governor. His answer in every instance was, "Stand for the man your county wants." In a few cases an effort was made to override the expressed will of the people and Colonel Gnffey.to his everlasting credit, insisted that instructions must instruct; and not have it said that our delegates played traitor to their constituents as did so many delegates in the Republican convention, where the choice of the party was defeated by bribery of the most shameless sort.

As the Philadelphia Times puts it, "Mr. Pattison had done nothing whatever to forward his own candidacy and he was not the choice of any of the recognized party leaders. On the contrary, the only effort of leadership was directed against him. But twice before he had been elected governor and had given the state a clear, honest, upright administration and the popular sentiment instinctively turned to him again as the natural opponent of the Republican machine in a campaign for the redemption of the state government." If it be true, as everybody seems to believe, that the last legislature was the personification of corruption; if it be true, as charged by Republican papers all over the state, that the flood of corruption was so strong as to sweep away the delegates for their expressed choice for governor, and nominate instead a man by means forbidden by the criminal law, this is the time when all honest men ought to register their solemn protest against the criminal system that is making our state the laughing stock of the nation. The only protest the machine fears is one registered at the ballot box by a decided majority of the law abiding citizens of the commonwealth.

Let this be the form of protest entered against all forms of political crookedness at the next election. ANDBEW J. PALM, Gnthrle Accepts Nomination. Gfeorge W. Guthrie, who was nominated for lieutenant governor by the Democratic convention held recently at Erie, accepted the nomination on Monday in the following statement: "This nomination was made without my consent and against my earnest protest.

However, in a campaign involving such important issues as this one does no citizen has the right to refuse his services in any capacity in which he may be called upon to serve, and as the party unanimously nominated me for this position, I feel it is my duty to accept." To Survey a West Virginia itoad. S. G. Fetterman, the civil engineer, left on an early train this morning over the Pennsylvania railroad for the southern part of West Virginia, where he will survey a railroad and tramway for a company represented here by W. W.

Dempsey, the lumber dealer. He Wedding Reception. Meeting of Party State Committee, At a meeting of the Onion party state committee in Philadelphia on Tuesday it was decided to hold a state convention in Philadelphia Wednesday, September 3, to nominate candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of internal affairs. Members from the country districts opposed an endorsement of Judge Pennypacker, because, one of them stated, "his nomination is only a bait to catch the independent voters, and his election would mean a continuance of the present Republican leadership." District Attorney A. Little represented Badford county at Tuesday's convention.

Tbe Signs Failed At the fair ground on Friday the Bedford baseball club was defeated by the Everett nine by tbe score of 31 to 10. List week THE GAZETTE stated that, unless all signs failed, this would be a ginia worth witnessing. Announosmeuta of Candidates We have received a number of an noujcements of candidates for places on the Democratic county with all others received, will be published in next week's issue ol THI GAZETTE in the order In which names have been sent to us, Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. William G.

Colvin delightfully entertained at their home near Schellsburg at a wedding reception in honor of their son and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Burns Colvin, who were married on June 13. 'The house was beautifully decorated with ferns and cut flowers Between eighty and ninety guests were present, all unmarried young peopU, except the uncles and aunts of the groom. The guests were introduced to Dr.

and Mrs. Colvin by Albert F. Colvin, a brother of the groom. After congratulating the bride and groom all joined heartily in the festivities of the occasion and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Delicious refreshments were served at half past twelve.

When the bride's cake was passed there was, of course, a scramble for the ring and the ten cent piece. The ring fell into the hands of Miss Florence Blymyer, of Bedford, and the dime was received by Miss Rath Ealy, of Schellsbnrg. The party dispersed at 2 30 Wednesday he gives a tract of land in Blair county containing about 160 acres, also 25 acres of timber land near the head of Clover creek. To his daughter, Mrs. Anna Meyers, and his son, Jacob Latshaw, he gives 25 acres of ridge land in South Woodbury township.

Testator has made certain advancements to Ids other children and these sums are to be charged against them in the final distribution. All of decedent's goods and chattels are to be equally divided among his three children--Mrs. Mary Meyers, Mrs. Anna Meyers and Jacob Latshaw. The remainder of his real estate and personal property is given to his three children, Mrs.

Mary Meyers, Mrs. Anna Meyers and Jacob Latshaw, share and share alike. These three children are to have equal shares in the distribution of the estate. Jacob Latshaw is appointed executor. goes by way of Washington and is accompanied by a full corps of men from this place.

The work will take a month or more, and consequently he will be absent from the city that length of time. Mrs. Fetterman is visiting relatives in Bedford Tribune. that has been heaped upon it'by the last corrupt legislature and a too willing executive. There is not an honest, intelligent man in the state who does not feel in his heart that Robert E.

Pattison would be an infinitely safer man as governor than Judge Penny packer, the self-appointed panegyrist of Boss Quay, and who was nominated by the machine-bound delegates of Philadelphia and those who were bribed to vote against their instructions. The Democrats have the same advantage in their candidate for lieutenant governor. That George W. Guthrie is an honest, able and conservative man 'is admitted on all hands and that he will do his duty, if elected, withoui fear or favor, is not questioned. He has for many years been an ardent advocate of the many needed reforms in our political system and has taken a special interest in the fight for ballo' reform.

His opponent has been trie( and found wanting. He attempted so gross an abuse of the power which hi asks the people to place still more firmly in his hands that the suprem court of the state administered a sting ing rebuke and refused to allow him to take away the homes of those whoi he attempted unlawfully to dispossess The same is true of the third plac on the ticket. The Democratic cand date, Mr. Nolan, is an upright busines man against whose honesty no ques tion can be raised. His competitor ha been charged, even by Republican pa pers, with using his power in the sen ate to further the interests of the ole trust.

If platforms mean anything at al the advantage of the comparison mus be favorable to the Democrats. Th The Bedford Piano Clnb. DEAE EDITOB It was my good for- nne to be one of the invited guests to recital given by the Bedford ladies') Piano club Friday evening of week. The programme was well hosen, being varied in the character the pieces performed, and each umber received justice at the hands I the performers and justly merited pplause from an enthusiastic audi- nce. Although having had about 30 ears of professional experience in maters musical, the agreeable surprise re- eived was far beyond my expecta- ons.

Each performer acquitted her- elf in an up-to-date professional man- er and too much cannot be said in heir favor as artistic performers. I annot look upon the Bedford Piano in any other light than as being le real musical educators of this and districts. Their in- uence cannot Imt be in raising" he public mind to a higher plane of musical thought and criticism. I hope he club will receive that patronage ue their noble efforts and that the ieople of Bedford may rejoice (with le) at having such an organization in their midst. J.

ITISOH. CAPITOL JITY CHAT, Letter From Our Washington Correspondent. AMNESTY PROCLAMATION PERSONAL NOTES. For the Politics! Offenders Among the Filipinos--Admiral Dewey'a Opinion of Agolnaldo. Special Correspondence or THE UAZETTS.

WASBDTOTOK, July Thursday the house of representatives passed the Philippine bill by a party vote, but one Republican voting against the measure. Ail the appropriation bills have been passed and other important measures will be permitted to await action until the short session. In anticipation of the passage of the Philippine bill before July 4, the president has drawn up a general proclamation of amnesty for all the political offenders among the Filipinos and, if his expectations are realized, the proclamation will be issued on Independence Day. Proceedings in the senate on Friday were marked by a most able presentation, made by Senator Teller, of the position of the Republican party in regard to Cuban reciprocity. The effort made by the majority of the Republicans to effect a reciprocal treaty with Cuba he characterized as the most stupendous effort to deceive the A.

Barnyard Circus. Something entirely new in the cir- line has been organizad by the Bostock-Ferari Mighty Midway Carnival company and it will doubtless prove a marvel in the line of an attraction or the little folks. It is nothing more or less than a circus of performing and fowls, all of which are of the barnyard variety cattle, ponies, sheep, ducks, goats, hogs, geese, turkeys, chickens, pigeons, rabbits, King tbe 0 Balls! The first session ot the Fifty-seventh congress, which has voted away more than 8800,000,000, ended Tuesday afternoon, when both houses adjourned. How Meyersdale will Celebrate, Meyersdale will celebrate the Fourth horse races, etc, Marriage Licenses. William A.

Burket, of Conemaugh, and Myrtle I. Claar, of Queen. Adam H. Rinard, of Liberty township, and Mary E. Coffman, of Hopewell township.

James B. Miller and Annie Lape, of Berlin. William V. Ross and Katie Steeie, of Liberty township. Harvey Speneer and Mary Brown, of Broad Top township.

Edward Leasure, of Silver Hills, and Hend.Qrs.hot, of Fulton county, Railroad Xeus. From, an article in yesterday's Philadelphia Record we gleaned the following iragraph "George Gould isprc- paring to extend his Wabash system to the Atlantic seaboard and to establish a new deep water terminal at Drum Point, according to information given out yesterday by a competent local authority. The enterprise credited to Mr. Gould contemplates an extension of the Wabash eastward from Pittsburg via. Greensburg, Latrobe, Somerset, Bedford and Hustontown, to a connection with the Western Maryland and the Reading near Shippensburg in the Cumberland Valley." Bedford's IJne-Up.

Manager Charles Crouse has kindly furnished us with the line-up of the local baseball team this afternoon, which is as follows: W. Hartzell, 1st; W. Gephart, 3d; P. Reed, SB; C. Lewis, 3d; D.

Smith, If; T. Kerstetter, cf; D. Billman, rf; M. Irvine, A. Holderbaum, W.

and C. Grouse', substitutes. The King IB Recovering. corruption of all sorts thet has been rife in Republican rule is passed over in the Republican platform without any reference whatever, and as silence is said to give assent, the silence of the Republican platform as to the bribery, perjury and general corruption of the Republican machine in recent years may be taken as an endorsement of the villainies that are charged to its account. In place of denouncing its own rottenness it attempts to dis tract public attention by pointing to matters beyond the sea and to other national issues with which the state has nothing whatever to do.

It howls for ballot reform just as every Repub lican platform has done for eight years past; and it is the intention this time just as it hat been in the past to lay ballot reform aside after tbe election and keep it in pickle for the next platform. The Democrats and fair minded Republicans have presented ballot reform bills at every session of the leg islatnre for six years past only to have them strangled by the same old politi cal hypocrite who has selected all the candidates and dictated all thi platforms of the Republican party for twenty years. The Democratic plat form condemns political iniquity of al sorts and deals entirely with the issue which the candidates will have to fac if they are elected. Never were candidates named les by the influence of political leader than those nominated at Erie and th guinea pigs, etc. Each presents some clever specialty, and then the entire barnyard population all performing together in a great finale is something that was heard of.

It will be seen at the Elks' carnival and street fair, Cumberland, July 7 to 12. Children's Day at Imlertown. The annual Children's Day service was held in the Pleasant Hill Reformed church, Imlertown, last Sunday morning. Though the weather was inclement there was a large congregation that proved most appreciative of the well rendered programme. The service used was that issued by the Reformed Sunday school board, "The Child in the Midst." Where all did so well it is difficult to point out any special features.

There were beautiful floral decorations. Rev. B. F. Bailsman, the the pastor, delivered a brief address emphasizing the important period of childhood and the possibilities which ttend the proper training of chil- ren.

American people that occurred in all his public experience. Mr. Teller confirmed the prediction, made in these letters, that a treaty would be negotiated and presented at the next session of congress and declared that the whole reciprocity agitation had been an attempt to take advantage of the well-known disposition of the Ameri" can people to relieve a people in distress, to the material advantage of the American Sugar Refining company, otherwise known as the sugar trust. Apropos of Mr. Teller's remark, I have received from unimpeachable sources the information that it is the intention of the president to go out to the states whose congressional delegations opposed his Cuban policy, before the next session, and to advocate from the platform a reciprocal arrangement with Cuba in terms which he believes will result in creating a popular demand for that end which will make it impossible for the senators and representatives from these states to resist confirmation of the treaty which he will send to congress.

Such a course will be almost without precedent, it is true, but Mr. Roosevelt considers that the "national honor," which a Republican congressman suggests is another term for "personal pride," is involved and that, therefore, the circumstances warrant an unusual course of On Thursday, Friday and Saturday Admiral Dewey appeared before the Philippine committee of the senate and gave his version of the initiation of the Philippine insurrection. There was evident in the admiral's testimony a desire to avoid placing the administration in an unfavorable lieht and "also" Iho Filipinos. Under the cross-examination of Senator Carmack the admiral several times colored" up and appeared to be about to resent the line of questioning. Finally, the admiral having admitted that he regarded Aguinaldo as a thief but that, so regarding him, he had advanced him munitions of war and other supplies, which course he defended on the ground that "all's fair in war," Senator Carmack asked him why he regarded Aguicaldo as a thief in view of the fact that he knew of no, dishonest act on Aguinaldo 'a part; but at this moment Senator Lodge called attention to the fact that the hour for adjournment had arrived and Dewey hastily grabbed his hat, bowed and left the room without waiting to be formally excused.

On Thursday the house of representatives added one more to the measures calculated to cast serious reflections on People Who Move Hither and Thither In Thin Busy World. Druggist C. G. Masters, of Everett, was in Bedford on Monday. Miss Edith Stevens, of Williamsport, is the guest of Miss May Brice.

Mr. Ernest L. Bacon, of Cumberland, was in town on Tuesday. Mr. J.

C. Corle, of Reading, spent Sunday with friends in Bedford. Mr. G. S.

Blatchford, of Hopewell, was a Bedford visitor on Monday. Miss Fannie Heckerman is visiting relatives and friends in Chambersbnrg. Mr. and Mrs. P.

C. Ambrose, of Philadelphia, were in Bedford this week. Mr. Thomas Stuflt, of Windber, was calling on his Bedford friends on Monday. Mr.

and Mrs. D. Coveney, of Everett, spent a few hours in Bedford on Tuesday. Hon. John S.

Weller, of Pittsburg, was greeting friends in Bedford this weelf. Mr. George Reed, of Roanoke, is visiting his sister, Mrs. J. Howard Feight.

Mr. John Wy. Boor, of Pittsburg, is spending some time here with his family. Monday evening Mr. Richard C.

Hall left for Medora, N. on a business mission. Mrs. S. R.

Miller and son Byron, of Altoona, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Reed.

Miss Emma Colvin, of Sulphur Springs, was the guest of Mr. Jacob Reed this week. Mr. John M. Bain, of New York, is spending a week with relatives and friends in Bedford.

Miss Josephine Brady and Miss Janet Watts, of Harrisburg, are guests of Miss Virginia Tate. Messrs. Boy Richards and II. IN Town Talk and Neighborhood Notes, MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST Gleaned From Various Point! Picked Up Bj Vigilant porton. Bulletins from the bedside of King Edward VII.

indicate that he is recovering and the English people are getting ready to hold thanksgiving services. comments of some Republican paper to make it appear that Pattison owe his nomination to the dictatorship Colonel Gnffey is as false as it is loo! Isa. While Colonel Guffey is, mos The President ia a New Bole. WASHINGTON, Roosevelt helped build 1. President a church this i ternoon.

He placed the first layer ot lOrtar upon the foundations of the new Grace Reformed church, at Fif- eenth and 0 streets, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators and the congregation of the house of worship. Grace church is the one in which Pres- dent Roosevelt has worshiped since IB came to Washington. The present edifice is a wee bit of a house, set back on an alley, and accommodates only 250 persons. The new church, which to occupy the site of the present one and additional ground on the west, will be completed on December 1. Pennsylvania PopullBta.

The Populists of Pennsylvania have nominated the following ticket Justus Watkins, a wealthy farmer and Tioga county Granger, for gover- or. Henry K. Filler, an Altoona iron molder, for lieutenant governor. Theodore P. Bynder, publisher of the Erie Echo, for secretary of internal affairs.

the Republican party. Under the guise of a merely technical change in the internal revenu law, abill was passed which deals a killing blow to that portion of the brewers' association. It ap pears that 85 per cent, of the beer produced in this country is made by the trust and, of the remaining IS per cent, a large portion is put up in barrels." The bill passed by the house prohibits these small packages and, if passed by the senate also, will place the entire industry in the hands of the trust. That this would be in entire accord with Republican principles cannot be denied, but that such a proceeding will meet with the approval of the people is doubtful. It is with no little pleasure that I chronicle the fact that the representations in this correspondence in regard to the infamous union depot bill railroaded through the senate, and which, as I then related, gave a subsidy to the merged Pennsylvania and and Ohio railway companies valued at between $4,000,000 and 37,000,000, have accomplished the temporary defeat of the measure in the house committee, by means of numerous protests fprwarded to that committee from readers of these letters.

The house committee on the District of Columbia more chang Bock, of Clearfield, are spending a few days in Bedford. Attorney Thomas F. Bailey, of Huntingdon, was in Bedford this week transacting business. Mr. Milton Enfield.who has been filling a clerical position in Philadelphia, returned home on Monday.

Prof, and Mrs. J. Ivison will celebrate the Fourth in Cumberland with their children and grandchildren. Mrs. Clement V.

Horn and daughter, of Pittsburg, spent Sunday last with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Horn. Rev.

Dr. C. J. Musser, editor of the Reformed Church Messenger, Philadelphia, was in Badford this week. Mrs.

W. T. Riffle, of Pittsburg, and son.Mr. Charles E. Riffle, of New York, were guests ot Mrs.

C. C. Price the past few days. Capt. Joseph D.

Reed and daughter Emma, of Oakmont, are visiting Mr. Jacob Reed. Captain Reed is a Mexi- war veteran. Mr. Clarence Home, of Boston, who is employed by the New England Life Insurance company, is spending a two weeks' vacation in Bedford.

MIBBTIayTenrosc, wliu charge of the Bedford County Telephone company's office at Fishertown, is spending her vacation in Bellefonte. Messrs. S. S. Diehl and John Hughes, of Bedford township, went to Johnstown on Wednesday to see tbe horse races there on the Fourth.

Miss Blattenberger, Miss Blackburn, Miss Conley, Miss Allen and Mr. Joseph Blattenberger, of Fishertown, are sojourning at Mountain Lake Park, Md. Mr. James Covalt went to Hagerstown, on Wednesday to repair an obstreperous telephone line that has nonplussed the electricians of that section. Miss Naomi Wendell, who spent a vacation with relatives and friends at New Paris, has returned to Bedford and assumed her duties as clerk in Barnett's big store.

Among Wednesday's visitors to Bed' ford were Mr. W. C. Quarry, of Wood- Independence Day! Mrs. H.

B. Towncend is seriously ill. On July 1 the B3dford postomce was authorized to issus international money orders. There will be a sort of a go-as-you- please celebration of the Glorious Fourth in Bedford to-day. The E'ks' carnival and street fair at Cumberland, July 7 to 12, inclusive, will be worth going miles to see.

A "Rad, White and Blue" service will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morning and Vesper services in the evening. The "Bedford Springs Special," which made its first trip on Monday, is a popular train. It arrives hare at 4.05 p. m. and leaves at 7.05 p.

m. H. E. Bemis, the popular manager of the Bedford Springs hotel, has issued invitations to an informal dance, to be held at the Springs this evening. The little German band that has been so delightfully entertaining the people of Bedford this week is one of the best that ever came over the pond.

On Monday Maud, the little daughter of Ransom Beegle, of Boydstown, exploded a toy pistol cartridge in her mouth and was painfully, but not seriously, injured. On Tuesday Receiver Thomas F. Bailey sold the electric light and water plant at Everett to Attorney S. Russell Longeneeker for $2,000. The property was purchased for the stockholders.

This afternoon the Bedford baseball team, reorganized, rejuvenated and redoubtable, will "lock horns" with the Dudley nine. The game will take place at the fair ground and will begin at 2 o'clock. The annual reunion of the Reformed churches of Blair, Bedford and Huntingdon counties will be held at Alta- rata park, Alexandria, on Thursday, July 31. Prominent speakers will be present and deliver addresses. The students of Professor Stunkard's Normal were examined on Monday.

Superintendent that this was the best drilled class in Methods that he has ever examined. Profs. 0. S. and J.

G. Jamison have been elected principals of Johnstown schools. The former has been teaching there for several years. The latter was vice-principal of the Hyndman schools last year. Both are natives of Snake Spring township.

Tonsorial Artist Charles A. Lewis, of Shamokin, has charge of a chair in A. C. Davis' barber shop while the latter Is at the Springs. Mr.

Lewis is a ball player and will "hold down" third base for the local team tula in the game with Dudley. The stockholders of the Bedford County Telephone company held their anneal election on Thursday of last week at Fishertown and re-elected the following directors: A. C. Blackburn, Elias Blackburn, Scott U. Hammer.

Henry Wisegarver and Edward D. Heckerman. William Beam, who served three years in the Philippines as a number of the Nineteenth Infantry, returned to his home at St. Clairsville on Monday. Mr.

Beam took part in several skirmishes. For a long time his regiment was stationed on Samar island, but did not suffer in the bloody massacre by the natives. Wednesday evening District President Charfes Beegle installed the fol. lowing officers in Washington Camp No 61, P. 0.

S. of Past president, Luther C. Zeigler; president, William Children's Day Services. Children's Day services will be held in the Evangelical church at New Paris next Sunday evening, July at 7 30. A special feature on the pro- gramme is singing by the Male Quartette of New Paris.

A free-will offering for the missionary cause will be lifted. All are welcome. W. B. FBEDBWCB8, Pastor.

at first attempted to modify the flagrant features of the bill by ing the location of the depot and so curtail the value of the subsidy but, as the protests continued arrive, the committee concluded to permit the bill to go over until the next session, pending which a careful investigation of the subject will be made, with, it is to be hoped, a result which will mean a saving of several millions of dollars to the people of the United States. Friday evening the Democrats of the house held a conference to consider the action of the.Republicans during the session of congress practically completed. Resolutions were adopted condemning the Republicans for sacrificing Cuba to the demands of the trusts and pointing out that there would have been no difficulty in passing, in the senate, the Cuban bill as passed by the house and that the only reason for failing to do so was the fact that the bill passed by the house curtailed the profits of the trust to the material benefit of the Cubans and of the American consumers. The resolutions also reaffirm the well-known fact that the Republican party has been, throughout the session, dominated by the trusts and monopolies, that it has persistently refused to listen to the i counsel, even of members of its own "party, to reduce tbe tariff on articles produced by the trusts; and that it has, after passing an anti-trust law to tide over the election of 1900, which law, it has since been demonstrated, requires much revision in order that it may be made effective, positively refused to so revise that law or to take any other steps which would be contrary to the interests of the trusts and monopolies. bury; Dr.

and Mrs. C. D. Candler, of Saxton, and Mr. M.

S. Colvin, of Sulphur Springs. Miss Helena Donahoe returned home Tuesday evening from a visitto friends in Johnstown and Cresson, where she attended the commencement exercises of Mt. Aloysius academy. Mr.W.

Scott Montgomery, of Riddlesburg, Bedford county, paid a brief visit to his brother, Mr. William Montgomery, of the Hill, and other friends, the past Capt. Joshua Bishop, of Washington, D. United States navy, is the guest pf his brother-in-law, Rev, H. B.

Townsend. Captain Bishop served in the civil and the Spanish-American war. The Misses Turah, Alice and Goldie Kemberling.of Saxton, Bedford county, are visiting at the home of their cousins, Evan and Rfte Herring, 1002 Twenty-second Times, Mr. Thomas Irwin, of Frostburg, was the guest of his sister, Mrs. W.

F. Eufield, last week. Mr. Irwin is a Lafayette student and caught for the "Varsity" ball team this season. He is one of the best college backstops in the country.

Mr. H. E. Taylor, of Philadelphia, special agent and adjuster for the Royal Insurance company, one of the largest of its kind in the world, was in Bedford this week and while here appointed Amos and Enfield for that company. Dr.

Montgomery Russell, of Seattle, and his brother, Mr. Samuel M. Russell, of Akron, 0., arrived 'in Bedford on Sunday for a visit to their mother, Mrs. S. L.

Russell. They came here from New Haven, where they attended commencement exercises at Yale, Dr. Russell's son, Mr. Sam- Trout; vice president, Guy Blymyer; master of forms, Robert L. Burket; conductor, John Pierson; inspector, John Croyle; guard, Benjamin Diehl.

On Saturday Superintendent George B. Beale issued a special notice stating that Tilmon Burket had been appointed supervisor of the Bedford division of the Pennsylvania railroad, in effect June 1. Mr. Burket has been in the employ of the company thirty years and this promotion is a reward for his faithful service. At all times he has performed his duties promptly and efficiently.

Russell Hulbert Crowell, nephew of our fellow townsman, Shoe Merchant W. S. Lysicger, is a member of this year's graduating class of the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles. Mr. Crowell is a son of Rev.

D. A. Crowell, who formerly was psstor of the M. E. church at Everett The degree of Bachelor of Science was conferred upon Mr.

Crowell. He is preparing for the ministry. Wednesday evening Miss Lizzie II. Bain gave a dinner in honor of her little grand-niece, Elizabeth DiU Bain, and her grand-nephew, Richard Reed Feight. Among thoee who enjoyed the toothsome repast were the parents of the tots, Mr.

and Mrs. John If Bain, of New York, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Feight, of Bedford; Miss Edith Stevens, of Williamsport; George Bain Reed, of Roanoke, Rev.

and Mrs. George LeUiy, Mr. and Mrs. William Brice, Jr. Hiss Kicnie Davidson and J.

R. Irv.ie, of Bedford. After dinner Rev. Leidy christened Elizabeth Dill Bain Richard Reed Feight. On Saturday Prof.

Edward S. Ling, former assintant principal of the Bedford was elected principal of the public -chools of Emporium, at a salary of 25 a month. The people of uel L. Russell, being a member of the class of 1902. Dr.

Russell is chief snr- geon of the Pacific Coast company. Mr. Samuel M. Russell is engineer maintenance of way of tbe Cleveland, Akron and Columbus railroad. Both have been very successful in their re 1 spective callings and their names are on the honor roll of Bedford's worthy Cumberland? Many Bedford folks will no doubt go to Cumberland next week to attend the Elks' carnival and street fair.

Emporium are fortunate in seeuing the services of such a capable instructor. Professor Ling is a scholarly man, an enthusiastic and progresaiTe educator and a perfect gentleman. By his upright life he has won the confidence and esteem of the people of Bedford. His work in the school room hat been highly satisfactory, hit with the pupils who were under bia charge being always cordial and pleasant. Emporium is the county seat of Cameron county and has a populaUoa Ol 2,403.

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