Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 October 1894 — Page 2

GJwftfJw Mutt) Democrat X. McO. 8TOOP8, Editor sad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. ■* . It is reported that the Japanese have captured Kiu Lien Cheng, on the eastern side of the Yalu river, nearly opposite Wi Ju. Comptroller Eckels, on the 4th, called for the condition of national banks at the close of business on Tuesday, October 2. Tuk married foreign customs officials resident in Pekin are hastily leaving the city with their families in fear of a Japanese attack. Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur. fourteenth duke of Somerset, died in London, suddenly, on the 2d. He was born December 22, 1813. Prof. Steinitz, the ex-champion chess player of the world, has issued a challenge to Dr. Lasker for another series of games for the championship. The British Miners’ federation of England has voted a donation of £9.575 to the striking Scotch miners to enable the latter to carry on their fight against the masters. jh special cable from Shanghai, on the 2d, says the emperor of China will very likely be dethroned in favor of Prince Kang’s son, who will treat with the Japanese. The department of state received a brief cablegram from Consul-General Luther Short at Constantinople, on the 2d, announcing the appearance of cholera in that city.

t^SiR Joseph Renews, the senior alder-math-representing the Aldersgatc* ward of London, was finally elected lord mayor of London by the aldermen of that city on the Sd. One hundred and twenty-tvvo awards of various classes were given to the United States by the board of awards of the Antwerp exhibition, which was formally declared closed on the 2d. The civil marriage of Miss Elizabeth Sperry, of San Francisco, to Prince Andre Poiniatowski, took place, on the 5th, in the office of the mayor at Passy, France, the mayor performing jthe ceremony. J. F. Mackie, a resident of Chicago, while riding in the fox hunt pt the Genesee (N. Y.) Hunt club, on the 8d, was thrown from his horse and badly bruised, but it is hoped not seriously injured. A blockade of the ports of the island of Madagascar was proclaimed by France on the 3d. The resident general has gone to Tamatave, instructed to take measures to protect the colonists in the event of war. Dr. Robert Hamilton, proprietor of, Hamilton’s medical institute in Saratoga, N. Y., died on the 5th. He was elected an alderman of Chicago, in 1844, and dpring a vacancy in the office was for a time acting mayor. Colonial authorities of the British West Indies have officially warned their subjects against going to Panama in the hope of securing work oh the canal until operations have been recommenced on a more substantial basis.

Owing to delay of the printers m completing the forms, Mr. Wilson has extended the time until October 15 in which distillers may file additional warehousing bonds and rewarehousing bonds under the act of August 28, 1894. Reports received by the director of the mint show that during the month of September the coinage of gold at the various mints amounted to $50,033,692, and of silver $8,765,370, of which $672,200 were standard silver dollars. Two iutndred men in the Locust Point (Md.) tin works were thrown out of work, on the 1st, and the mill shut down indefinitely. The men were offered a 20-per-cent, reduction to offset the cut in the tariff, but refused to accept it. The steamer Orinoco, which arrived at New York, on the 5th, brought as passengers from Bermuda Capt. W. H. Forbes and ten men, the crew of the American bark Albemarle, which was burned at sea September 18, her cargo of coal having taken fire by spontaneous combustion. Says a cable dispatch from Rio Grande do Sob Brazil: Gen.' Lima attacked Santa Ana, where the rebel force was concentrated, on the 2d, and after six hours’ hard fighting the rebels retreated to Guihilla de Santa Ana, whence they will try to make their way into Uruguay. The sixty-fifth semi-annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, better known as the Mormon church, opened in Salt Lake, Utah, on the 5th, with a large attendance from all parts of Utah and surrounding states and territories, and delegations from Canada and Mexico. -s On the night of the 3d there was a mass meeting of negro voters in Lexington, Ky., to protest against the candidacy of Judge Denny, Jr./ for congress on thd republican ticket, who is alleged to have once said in a speech that the colored voters were a millstone aronnd the neck of the republican party. President John L. Beveridge, exgovernor of Illinois; Vice-President F. D. Arnold and Secretary-Treasurer S. M. Biddison, of the State Mutual Life Insurance Co., were taken before United States Commissioner Hoyne, in Chicago, on the 5th, charged with ▼Mating the postal laws by run sing a lottery scheme, and were released on baU

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS DEBBIEF. PERSONAL ANt)~GENERALTiie Sugar trust, on the 1st, closed the Spreckles sugar refinery in Philadelphia. The trust’s Franklin refinery is now running on half time, but is only turning out soft grades, the supply of which is not at present, heavy. This is due to the overstocked condition. of the markets,and operations will not be resumed until the sugar now on hand is disposed of. * Judge Jkneins famous strike injunction was overruled., on the 1st, by the United States circuit court of appeals and the cause was remanded

with directions to st rike out from the restraining order of the court the clause which aroused the country when the order was issued and which resulted in the Boatner investigating committee of congress. The friends of Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage were su prised, on the 1st, to learn that she had been at her home in Brooklyn” for more than a fortnight, having returned from Europe on the steamship New York on September 14. Mrs. Talmage returned home sooner than originally intended because of sickness. Gov. McKinley of Ohio spoke in Suburban hall, St. Louis, on the night of the 1st, to as many thousands of eager listeners as the great structure would hold, and hundreds who thronged the Open windows, while thousands more who could neither see nor hear the speaker, organized an overflow meeting outdoors. The governor’s reception amounted to an ovation. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the woman’s rights presidential candidate in 1892, who, byaj^y»«e^dL|cision of the Virginia^BOffrt of appeals^is privileged to pra^uce law in that state, arrived in Richmond, on the 1st,' to attend to some legal matters and qualify as an attorney before the courts of the city. On the 1st N. A. Crawford, of Fairville, N. F., was found in bed with his head cut off. The murder was committed by a young Englishman named Brinton. who is insane. Brinton split Crawford’s head with an ax while the latter was sleeping. S. B. Lyon, postmaster at Vanatta, O., was assaulted and robbed, on the night of the 1st, by two masked men, at a lonely point on the road from Newark to Vanatta. Sixty-eight persons who were convicted at Lucra, Italy, of belonging to the Maliavita, a criminal association, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from five to ten years. An imperial edict lias been issued in China appointing Gen. Sung, formerly in command at Port Arthur, generalissimo of the valorous Pei-Yang army corps, now in Manchuria, and com-mander-in-chief of the Manchu levies, except those of the Kirin division, which are commanded by a Tartar gen

eral. Tiik Farmers1 national congress, composed of delegates from forty Parkersburg, W.Va., on thh 2nd, to remain in session the remainder of the week. About 300 delegates were present at the opening session and many others arrivedduring the first day. The Japanese are moving north from Ping Yang. They reported, on the 2d, that they had not sighted the enemy, but had found a large quantity of arms and ammunition which had been abandoned by the Chinese, many of whom had been killed by the Coreans The wreck of the Russian ironclad Rousalka, which was lost in the Baltic sea last year, has been located south of the Isle of Wastertokan, Finland, in twenty fathoms of water. Twelve officers and 166 men went down with her. But little hope is entertained of raising the vessel. Thomas Riley and John Wilson, members of an organized gang of men who have for months been systematically robbing the Lake Shore freight cars in the vicinity of South Bend, Ind., were arrested on the 3d. Fifty suits of clothing and. other stoleu goods were found in their possession. A HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAr :> men have been gathered at Pekin for the defense of the city, but of this number only 7,000 are effectively armed. A Japanese fleet of seventeen ships is now blocking the gulf of Pechili. Asthk Southern*Pacific narrow gauge train was crossing the Oakland (Cal.,) estuary, on the night of the 2d, a car jumped the track and went into the water, taking with it about sixteen people. Two persona were killed and several injured. The patrol has been Withdrawn from the streets of Rio Janeiro except the usual number in time of peace, which is now completely restored. Gov. McKinley arrived at Emporia, Kas, shortly before noon on the 3d, having addressed six meetings during the morning. The Paris Figaro says the Hovas alone oppose the control of the island of Madagascar by the French. French troops are massing in Tonquin. The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee convened at Council Bluffs, la, on the 3d. The Japanese minister of finance has officially made known that the war will not be allowed to interrupt the interior improvements of Japan, consequently railway construction is to proceed with the same vigor as in peaceful times The minister has arranged that the treasury shall keep separate accounts of the war expenses and those for internal improvements, in order that the former may not overshadow the latter. The team of Wm. King, a farmer living five miles north of Lebanon, Ind., became frightened, on the, 3d, and ran away. His wife jumped from the carriage and received injuries from which she died in about an hour. The team ran intp a fence, throwing Mr. King out and inflicting internal' injuries from which he will die. *

Mbs. Herman Oeijriohs, of New York, who was Miss Theresa Fair in the days of her residence in Sian Francisco, has celebrated her twenty-fifth birthday, and consequently the first large slice of devised property is about to be eut front the estate of the late Mrs. Theresa Fair. It will amount to something like $1,500,000. On the 3d the death of Mrs. Minerva Brace Norton, wife of Rev. S. Norton, occurred at Beloit, Wis., after a lingering illness. She was the cousin and early companion of Frances Willard, and author of “A Great Mother,” “A True Teacher” and other popular books. Geo. Moore, night superintendent ol the bus company at Dubuque, la., returned home on the morning of the 3d to find his wife lying dead on the floor. She was dressed just as he had left hei the evening before. Heart trouble was the supposed cause./ Mbs. John Christman, wife of a wellknown Wabash (Ind.) merchant, and a lady prominent in Women’s Relief corps and Eastern Star work, died very suddenly of heart disease, on the 3d, aged 58. Gen. Granville M. Dodge, of Iowa, was chosen president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, in session at Council Bluffs, la. On the 4th the steamer Gaelic arrived at San Francisco from the orient, bringing Hong Kong advices up to September 12 and Yokohama to September 21. The British steamer Bellona, bound from Hiogo for Hamburg, was wrecked on the Paracels isles, in the China sea. All on board succeded in reaching the land in safety, but the vessel was a total loss. On the 3d a flurry of snow fell at Elgin, 111. On the 4th the boiler connected with the pile driver on the Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge exploded, and five persons were badly injured, among them two engineers, who were thought to be fatally hurt. On the night of the 8d three Chinese gambling houses on “the levee” in Chi-' cago were raided and over fifty Chinese arrested. Do Chow, a laundryman, is supposed to have betrayed them in revenge. On the 4th the Elwood (Ind.) windowglass factory, the last in that city to resume, started up with a full force ol hands. On the 3d Mrs. Mary Strickler, assistant principal in the Osceola public school in Pittsburgh, Pa., committed suicide by hanging, while temporarily insane, the result of sickness.

On the 5th the territorial supreme court of New Mexico ordered the receivers for the Atlantic & Pacific road to reinstate Conductor S. D, Heady, who was discharged for being a member of the American Railway union. Tns campaign in the Twenty-first Ohio congressional district is to be enlivened by a joint debate between the opposing candidates, Tom L. Johnson and T. T. E. Burton. Prof. Hutchins, of the Cornell law school, has accepted a call to the deanship of the law school of the university of Michigan, of which he is a graduate. Twenty houses were destroyed by an incendiary fire in Buckhannon, W. Va., early on the morning of the 5th. Loss, $80,000; insurance, less than half. Failures in the United States foi the week ended the 5th were 219. against 320 last year, and 39 in Canada, against 45 last year. Prof. Vincenzo Botta, well known in New York edueatioual and literary circles, died, on the morning of the 4th, from the effects of a fall from a win* dow on the 2d. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The New York city associated banks issued the following statement for the week ended the 6th: Reserve, decrease, $1,340,875; loans, increase, $1,716,200; legal tenders, increase, $818,500; specie, increase, $204,600; deposits, increase, $2,907,900; circulation, increase, $388,200. Charles R. Thompson, brevet briga-dier-general United States volunteers, died in San Francisco, on the 6th, aged 45. At the conclusion of the war Gen. Thompson engaged in the banking business in New York, were he made an excellent record as a financier.

Andrew Gregg Curtin, the old war governor of Pennsylvania, died in JBellefonte, Pa., on the 6th. His death was painless and calm, the vital spark going out after a sleep of twelve hours —a peaceful ending of a long, useful and eventful career. It is said that 2,000 soldiers of the Sheng division, Li Hung Chang’s crack corps in Corea, have deserted, having received no pay for some time. It is believed that the deserters have joined the enemy’s forces. Wang Seng Tsao, ex-Chinese minister at Tokio, has been summoned before the emperor at Pekin and severely censured for his ignoranqe in regard to the designs of the Japanese government in Corea. Congressman W. L. Wii.son. the author of the house tariff bill, arrived in New York, on the 6th, from Southampton, on the American line steamship New York, much improved in health. In a letter to Hon. Moses Bigelow, .John R. McPherson, of New Jersey, declines on account of poor health to be a candidate for re-election to the United States senate. Prof. Leydon, who returned to Berlin from Spala, on the 6th, says that the czar is suffering from Bright’s disease in a mild form, complicated with diabetes. On Saturday the associated banks of New York city held $59,450,9S2 in exccess of the requirements of the 25-per cent. rule. W. A. Bingham & Co., of New York, wholesale dealers in paper and manufacturers of paper bags, assigned on the 6th. Fire at Adel, la., on the 6th, destroyed the opera house block and several other buildings; loss, $60,000. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet, died at his residence at Beverly Farm, near Beverly, Mass., on the ?th. The Interstate fair for Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota opened in Sioux City, la., on the 6th.

INDIANA STATE NEW& Frederick Ehlk, a Ft- Wayne contractor, was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train at Ft. Wayne, the other morning', and instantly killed. He was a wealthy and prominent business I» a street car and sprinkling cart collision at Kokomo, B. K. Delon, the driver, was completely scalped, as though with a knife. His skull was also fractured. A law and order league is being formed at Valparaiso. Linton claims to have the best band in the southern part of the state. A movement is on foot to keep minors off the street at Valparaiso after 9 o'clock at night. Union Citv had a circus parade and big fire at the same time, the other day. . The Christian Endeavor societies at Jeffersonville are advocating the question of a “good citizenship league." ► A merchant of Chesterton set a trap gun for burglars and then thoughtlessly ran into it himself. His legs were nearly shot off. Wesley Adamson, a wealthy farmer, residing two miles west of Brasil, is strictly opposed to depositing money in banks. Some time since he placed a roll of greenbacks, aggregating nearly

5200, in the stove. His wife, unaware of the whereabouts of the money, built a fire in the stove, the other night, and the greenbacks served as kindling. The Fowler Bolt works, Anderson, which has been shut down for two years, resumed operations, a few days ago, and is now going at full blast. Two hundred and fifty men are being employed. George Film, German, aged thirtyfive, living atiHaubstadt, twelve miles east of Princeton, committed suicide, taking rat poison. The death of his wife recently caused temporary insanity. . An unknown woman threw a baby from a train near \2rown Point. The infant was killed. Henry Dkmberger was the other day appointed postmaster at Stewartsville, Posey county, vice W. P. Robb, resigned. Wm. Mitchell, a young man of Seymour, was killed on the Big Four railroad at Carbon, while trying to jump on a moving train. An effort is being made to locate a new telephone exchange at Goshen and at pikhart. Mrs. Peter Kiser, while attending the Huntington fair, lost her pocketbook. It contained $1,000. Middlebuby will put up $15,000 for th$ extension of the Goshen electric railway to that place, i At Farmland a young man named Semans is dying from a fracture of the skull inflicted by highwaymen. At Kendallville a fruit grower raised a peach that measured 10K inches in circumference and weighed 15 ounces. There has been completed in Indianapolis the organization of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. The association is to be composed of state organizations bearing the same name.

A monkey got away from one of tne shows at the Huntington fair and ran into the dining hall while dinner was being served. The women screamed and jumped on chairs and tables, creating excitement enough to last for a month. All the gambling joints at Anderson have closed. At Shelbyville wheat is selling at 45 cents and corn at 50 cents. At Indianapolis, the other morning, while a fine horse belonging to Messrs. Bursett & Hogwood, was being driven aeross the street-car tracks, a live wire dropped down on the horse’s back. The animal stopped instantly, quivered a second and sank to the pavement, while there was a stench of burning flesh and flashes of vivid lfjght danced over its body. Death was instantaneous. The driver was uninjured. Albert Walle, employed in the Vancamp packing house, Indianapolis, the other night, attempted to repair a small drainage pipe, during which he leaned over a two-inch line of shafting. A protruding bolt caught his clothing and he was whipped around the shaft until he was literally but slowly beaten to death. Horseback riding is a fad at Connersville. A telephone system may be put in at Greencag$le. A two-thousand-foot gas well is being bored at Richmond. The opening services of the fortythird session of the Southeast Indiana conference took place at the First Methodist church, Shelbyville, Rev. J. M. Freeman, of New York city, delivering the address. Weibel, a young musician, was killed by an elevator at Richmond. A militia company and a football team are possibilities at Huntington | ATMartinsville the 8-months-old child of Albert Thomas bled to death from a slight cut in its mouth. The Knights of Pythias, of Montgomery county, held a grand celebration and harvest picnic in Crawfordsville. The woolen mills owned by Aaron Miller, at Goshen, burned early the other morning. Loss, $11,000; insurance, $8,000. Cause unknown. Joseph Weibel, an employe of the Star Piano Co., Richmond, was crushed* to death the other afternoon by tho elevator. At Goshen Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Porley celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Their 50 years of wedded life have been passed in this city. The fact was developed at Richmond that an attempt was made the other night to assassinate John T. Norris, the Springfield detective. Gregory and Turner, the gold-brick artists, who have bunkoed citizens of the central states out of over $100,000 in the past year, turned a $5,000 trick at Logansport the other day. Their victim was a farmer named Moss. Detectives are on the trail of the swindles !

TO PROTECT THEIR CITIZENS. The European Power* WUl Increase Their Force* at the Treaty Ports of China la Order to Afford Protection to the Uvea and Property of Subjects—No Question of latorreattaa as Yet. London, Oct. 8.—It can be satted on authority that the developments of the past week in eastern affairs will lead to concerted action on the part of the European powers. On Monday last Mr. N. B. O’Connor, the British minister at Pekin, warned the foreign office by cable that the condition of affairs in China was such that the government was not able to guarantee protection to the foreign residents at the treaty ports and the missionaries in the interior of the country. The minister in the same dispatch stated that the Chinese imperial council was disorganized and that the collapse of the government was not looked upon as an impossibility, and advised that instant action be taken for the protection of the lives and property of British subjects in China. The substance of this dispatch was at once communicated by Lord Roseberry to the governments of France, Russia and Germany, with the suggestion that the powers co-operate in increasing the guard at the treaty ports and in measures for the protection of the missionaries:

When the cabinet met on Thursday friendly responses from all three of the powers named had been received, and these so thoroughly cleared up the situation as to enable the ministers to give the premier and the earl of Kimberly, secretary of state for foreign affairs free hand to take whatever steps in the matter they might consider necessary. No question of intervention between Japan and China has arisen, however. FELL FROM A BALLOON. Another Victim of h Suicidal Crane— Beatrice Von Dremden Instantly Killed. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 8.—Beatrice Von Dressden, the young lady balloonist, made an ascension on the Franklinville fair grounds Saturday at 5 o’clock, and when over 1,500 feet from the earth, she fell from the balloon and was instantly killed. She was a native of Buffalo. In recent years, however, her home has been in Frankfort, Ky. She has been a professional mronaut for three years, and in that time has made twenty ascensions. She had just passed her seventeenth year. The wind was blowing rather strongly and she was advised not to make the ascension. Her father and mother, who were present, tried to dissuade her, but she declared that she would not disappoint her hundreds of old friends, and the balloon was released from the moorings. At a height of about 1,500 feet the crowd below observed that Miss Von Dressden was preparing to make her parachute jump. She appeared at the side of the basket trying to unfasten the parachute which was attached to the balloon. In some way she lost her hold of both the balloon and the parachute and her body qame whirling to the ground. The body struck within the fair grounds and was imbedded nearly a foot 5 in the ground. The girl was dead when the people reached her. Her father and mother werCamong the first to reach the body and their demonstrations were heartrending.

WRECKED AND BURNED A Dozen Persona Injured In an Accident on the Southern Railway. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 8.—The Washington and Chattanooga limited express on the Southern railway was wrecked yesterday afternoon six miles west of Bristol". The entire train, composed of mail, express and baggage cars, two day coaches, two Pullman sleepers and a dining car left the track. The cars were piled one upon another and the entire mass caught fire and wasaconsumed. The train was well filled with passengers, but all were gotten out before the flames spread to the cars. Less than a dozen were injured and none are considered fatally hurt. Samuel Smith, of Knoxville, the engineer, fell under his engine and sustained a fracture of the leg and internal injuries, and was seriously scalded. His fireman, Holmes, was badly hurt. W. H. Patty, postal clerk, is one of the worst injured. The train was running forty-five miles an hour and left the track at a curve. A TUMBLE IN SUGAR P ro the Lowest Point In Many Years Expected to Occur This Week. Chicago, Oct. 8.—Beginning this morning, a war in sugar prices will be inaugurated by the wholesale grocers of Chicago. Last May the grocers formed an organization to insure a uniform profit on sugar. Last Friday a circular was mailed to all the members of the association notifying them that after October 8 the rules of practice of the association would be suspended indefinitely, which meant the abandonment of the combination. The cause for this action was the condition of stocks, almost every jobber and wholesale dealer being loaded to the brim with sugar. With the new crop coming in within a few weeks they would be swamped in attempting to carry such a load. The prediction is made that the price of sugar during the coming week will reach the lowest point in many years. Hon. Lyman Trumbull U Now Practlcaly a Populist. Chicago, Oct. 8.—Under the auspices of the county central committee of the people’s party, Lyman Trumbull, the Grand Old Man of America, Saturday night, in Central music hall, delivered an address before a large audience on “Cause(and Suggestion for the Cure of Labor Troubles.” Mr. Trumbull did not make a formal declaration of having adopted the platform of the people’s party, although many of the reforms he urged were in direct line with the principles laid down by that political organization.

ANDREW G. CURTIN, The Stench Old War Governor of Pwniylvnalm, After n Lone nnd Veefnl Career, ifi Which He Served Hla State and Country faithfully nnd Well, Paues Peacefully Into the Great Beyond. liKLLKFONTE, Pa., Oct. 8.—Andrew Gregg Curtin, the old war governor of Pennsylvania, died this morning at 3 o’clock. His death was not only painless but calm, the last vital spark going out after a sleep of twelve hours—a peaceful ending to the long, useful and eventful career of this great and distinguished man. There was no harrowing scene to break the mystic shadow of sorrow and gloom overhanging the household. His friends knew yesterday that it was only a question of hours, and nerved themselves to be resigned to the inevitable. His wonderful vitality, however, prolonged to final dissolution until 5 o'clock this morning, when he breathed his last, surrounded only by the immediate members of his family, consisting of his aged wife, Mrs. Katherine Wilson Curtin; his. daughters, Mary E., wife of Dr. George F. Harris; Marcy I., widow of Capt. K. R. breeze, and Kate W., wife of M. D. Burnet, of Syracuse, N. Y., and his son, W. W. Curtin, of Philadelphia. The direct cause of the governor’s

death was a general breaking1 down of his nervous system. The funeral has been set for Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the interment to be made in the Union cemetery in this place. The final arrangements for the obsequies have not yet been completed and probably will not be until late, to-morrow. Andrew Gregg Curtin was born at Bellefonte, on April 22, 1817. llis father, Roland Curtin, who came from Ireland and who built one of the firsts „ iron foundries in Pennsy lvania, married the daughter of Andrew Gregg, who had been a United States senator, congressman and secretary of state. Young Curtin began his school life .in private institutions in Bellefonte and after a term of school at Harrisb*rg he ended his academic education at Milton. Curtin began the study of law in Bellefonte with William W. Potter, who was afterwards a congressman, and finished with Judge Reed, then one of the great attorneys of the state. After graduating from the law department of Dickinson college at Carlyle, he was admitted to the bar in his native place and began practicing in 1837. He at once took a leading position in his profession. At the age of 28 years he made a state reputation as an orator in the campaign of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” He was an ardent whig, and in 1844 made a canvass of the state for Henry Clay. In 1848 he was a presidential elector and his efforts in behalf of Gen. Taylor were everywhere recognized as contributing to his, election. In 1852 he was again upon the electora l ticket and in the foreprunt of the battle for the whig party. In 1854 his party desired him to become its candidate for governor. He declined. From 1854 to 1860, when the republican party was springing into life as a result of the agitation of the slavery question, Mr. Curtin took a leading position in the stirring events which attended the birth of the new party, and in 1860 was made its candidate for governor.

The election of Lincoln depended upon the two doubtful States, Pennsylvania and Indiana. Both of them held their state elections in the October preceding the November election, and it was essential nationally that these states should declare for the republican candidates to in^jire his election. ~ Simon Cameron, David Wilmot, Andrew G. Curtin, Col. A. K. McClure and Thaddeus Stevens were in the Pennsylvania delegation, and Curtin’s efforts helped largely in the nomination of Lincoln. The friendship between the martyred president and the great war governor of the Keystone state was of the warmest character from that time. Curtin was elected governor by a good majority, and was re-elected for a second term, serving during the entire ~ war. v It followed close upon his first inauguration as chief executive of the state, that the first gun of the civil war was fired, and he sprang 'to the duty of raising troops for the general government, with an energy and spirit unequaled by any other state executive. He encouraged enlistments in every possible way, and in an eloquent war speech just after the fall of Sumter he kindled camp fires upon almost every hearth in Pennsylvania and called more men into service tha& was asked for by the general government. It was the aspiration of Gov. Curtin’s friends that he should be made United States senator at the end of his second term, but influences which had been hostile to him prevented. In 1868 he was a prominent candidate for nomination for vice-president with Gen. Grant, but was defeated. Soon after the latter's election Gov. Curtin was nominated and confirmed as minister to Russia and spent nearly four years at St. Petersburg. He returned home in 1872 and took part in the liberal republican movement which nominated Horace Greely. He was prominently spoken of for the second place on that ticket and was the choice of the Penn- r sylvania delegation in the Greely convention for president. Through his connection with the liberal republican movement he was carried into the democratic party. . He was chosen by the democrats to represent the Twentieth Pennsylvania . district in the forty-seventh, fortyeighth and forty-ninth of national congresses, serving from 1881 to 1887. For many years he was chairman of the foreign affairs committee. In recent years he had been living a retired life in Bellefonte, where he was a conspicuous figure and where his home was pointed out as one of the most interesting features of that locality. He married Miss Catherine Wilson, and their four daughters and a son arestill living. The ex-governor was supposed to be ?erv wealthy. ’