Jl emocrat. ia yy 4 UF VOL. 15. _— BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1893. NO. 49 The Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - =~ EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price . . $1.50 per year, when Pald in Advance $1.00 “" & hen subscriptions are not paid inside of three yoars $2.00 will be ahargead CLUB RATES, The CENTRE DEMOCRAT and *hiladeiphia Weekly T¥mes one year for The CENTRE DEMOCRAT and New York Weekly World one year fou Editorial. $1.45 $1.75 Tie candidates for Deputy Revenue collector of this district continue on the anxious bench us uneasy as ever. . - Sti— Jonx ANDERSON, of was recently granted a pension. large number of new pensions have been granted during the past month, - Tune Penna. R. R. gave notice that last Monday the shops | would be operated to their full capacity and at full time. The prospect of tariff reform by the adoption of the Wilson | bill does not frighten them in the least, This is for the benefit of republican calamity howlers. - Jaymes KLECKNER was, on Tuesday, Mifflinburg. at Hi Washington appointed postmaster The claims of Foot, editor of the democratic of that place fell short. Damn a news. paper man anyhow, he has no business to ask his party for any favor. Bro. Foot you have our sympathy. - Tue Philipsburg Journal comes out with an article urging the republican party of Centre county to place Mr. I’. George E. Womelsdorf, of that place, upon the | republican county ticket for legislature, They claim that he is a strong man, and is eminently qualified for the position to which he aspires. We hope the repub-. licans will give Mr. Womelsdorf the nomination; that would compell the democrats to do likewise—put a compe- tent man in nomination for the same office. Such a course is necessary at any event. Tne Harrisburg Patriot is authority for the following paragraph Pittsburg politicians pretend to be- lieve that Senator Quay has agreed upon this state slate for 1504: For Governor—CGeneral Daniel Hast. ings, of Centre. For Lieutenant Governor—Senator Walter Lyon, of Allegheny. For uditor General—Amos H. Mylin, of Lancaster, for Secretary of Internal Affairs— Giles D. Price, of Erie. At this stage of the political game it looks as though the above was about | the correct solution. -— Tie republican aspirants for the | judicial ermine of this district are con. ducting a sly hunt. There are no less than three republican barristers, in Bellefonte, who have thus far failed to deny that they would accept the nomi- nation. These three careen abaut con. siderably; carefully, jealously and cautiously they observe one anothers movements, While the surface indica- tions are the most placid there is « strone undertow that will effectually overcome some. Judicial schemers are at work already. there is very little trouble. World's Fair Farnitare, All the furnishings of the Pennsylva. nia State World's Fair building will be sold at public auction at Harrisburg, commencing Tuesday morning, Dec. 19th, at 10 o'clock. Sale will be held in Montgomery & Co's. ware rovms, Wal. | nut street near the mailroad. The en. tire contents of the bullding will be sold. Catalogues of the same will be furnished upon application to A. B. Farquhar, Harrisburg, Pa. - A Flourishing Town The town of Lamar on the line of the new railroad in Nittany Valley is like. Iv to become a plae of some import. ance in the near future. Lands at that place have been laid out in building lots and sites for manufacturing establish. ments can be had on reasonable terms, There is the best of water power at Lamar, and the land in that vieinity is underiaid with fire clay and fron ore of the best quality. - Another Postal Onrd, A large postal eard, in use for sowe | months, will soon become obsolete if re. ports be true. It is given out that the goverment has decided that the size of the card Is greater than Is needed, as has been shown in the great majority of cases in its use, and therefore a new card, not so large, will be issued in a few weeks, possibly by the beginning of the mew year, Bellefonte, | \ | shops, av Altoona, | Ts Nes | In demoeratic circles | © AT THE CAPITOL REPORTED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. The Wilson Bill will be Passed--The Party will endoras it Proceedings in the House and *ennte had a little chat concerning the rie said that the bill wonld Your correspondent with Chairman Wilson tariff bill. be reported to the House this week, probably on Wednesday, and that he the { weakness of the democratic opposition to the bill. The question of submitting the bill to the democratic eaucns is still had been agreeably surprised at { an open one. Personally Mr. Wilson is indifferent, being perfectly satisfied to | leave it to his democratic colleagues to { decide whether to hold a caucus on the { bill or not. He things that the perma. i nent benefit which the hill | Il will carry to millions of our people will far outweigh | the hardships that it will temporarily that in generally regarded as one ariff laws ever placed upon our statute books. He looks for minor i changes in the bill, both in {and in the but { changes in its undérlyin the wellfare of the masse that of the favored few, | The internal revenue bill has ne impose on thousands, and {end it will be the Fahad Of the Dest the h Hise Senate, not for any M rather than i it been entirely completed, but it probably will | be this week. i cided to double the tax « It has been definitely de. n cigarettes: to | tax playing cards, and to tax {auces. The income | cided, but the tax on { which agreed upon by the , committee, will remain in the bil understanding beir | bers of the committee who favor a i sonal income tax instead will be at | liberty to offer that as a substitute for | the corporation income tax and leave it {to a majority of the House to decide which, if either of them, remain {in the bill. Representative Bryan, of | Nebraska, who is recognized as the inherit. unde. is that the incomes of corporations, still tax probability is net was first the i that those mem. Le pers shall | leader of the democrats ou the Ways | | i | and Means committee who favor the | { personal income tax, bas not abandoned | hope of winning in the committee. He | said on the subject: “The fact that the | corporation tax would bear heavily on | many people with very limited means, | while the individual tax would be col. { lected from the wealthy who escape | taxation in many forms, is having its influence. If the tax is levied on in. | dividual incomes the rich will then pay | their proper proportion which they do { not at present and would not under the | | corporation tax.” A | been suggested by which both corpora” | tion and individual will i taxed. The first result of the work incomes | the legislative, executive and judicial : appropriation bill House. That bill will make some radical changes in several of the depart. | ments, all in the interest of economy and a wore prompt transaction of pub- {lic business, Among these changes { will be the abolishment of the postal | note and of several bureaus of the post office department, the work of which is not considered necessary, This is only | the beginning of the work of the com. mittee, which has three expert account. ants aiding it in locating all unneces sary handling of public accounts and | duplication of work. Its attention is to put the government business upon the same basis as that of the railroad or other big private concerns before it gets through, but it is already finding it a hard task as the employees of the use. lezs bureaus appear to have more con. gressional friends than any other class of government employees, Democrats in the House are determin. ed that the bill admitting Utah to state. hood shall be passed, and if the republi cans persist in filibustering to prevent a vote upon it, as they did last week, it will be made a party question and fore. ed to a vote under an order from the committee on Rules, The Senate will this week begin the consideration of the election repeal bill, | Senator Hill will lead the democratic forces, .——— Good Iden Cigaretts are to be taxed one dollar a thousand and it is proposed to raise the tax. By all means raise it, and possible double the fig res, Cigaretles are a ‘nuisance, and it would be a blessing to | the rising generatios if the tax on them could be increased until their manu. facture would be unprofitable, and of coure be abandoned, | | : compromise has | be | of the | {joint Congressional committee which | | has for months been investigating the | { methods of the executive departments {of the government will be seen when | is reported to the | OUR STATE CASH | Whit ments | Harrisburg Patriot: The payments | made at the state treasury for the fiscal year ending November 30th, 1803, aggre. {gate 81207562546, Of this amount the public schools received $4,865,807 10; the soldiers’ orphans’ schools, $00,255,062; the national guard, $400,541.55; Harris- burg fire companies, $12,000. The sup- ression of disturbances at Homestead cost thedstate $64,985, this amount hav. ing been paid out during the year on Other expenditures were Senate, $130,870.58; house this account. as follows: of representatives, $435 503,58; judicary, $451,215.08; publie printing and binding, Legislative Record, 832,001, department, 824,593.26; 846,450.27; auditor department 832.401.7977; tre. asury departments, 817 .874.96; attorney general's department, #17 756,66; depart. ment of Internal affairs, $52 487.50; department of public instruction, $17, 455.46 82 £215, 280.75; 10; state excutive department, general's adjutant general's department, ), 215.00; factory inspector's depart. ment, £10,165,69; insurance department, 219.314. 12.99; banking department .— Will Calamity Howlers Explain? » worsted mills at Kenntt Square, mills at Biddeford, Me. , len Il, Pa., the spring an n. N. Y..the strawboard wor at Tiffin, Ohio, Li] the Glendale roll X Pa., Grove, Pa... they ng fac- have all given mill near Reading the casket tory at West notice resumed Monday, that have either operations or will start next and that the prospects for work during Mark, the establishments are the winter are bright too, fact that the alvove located in the New England and Middle states, and that some of them are what All of which does not fulfill the predictions Wilson are termed the sunaller industries, L the of the calamity howler tha bill will ruin our industries. CC A Vielous OM Sow The Tyrone Times says: Mr. and Mm, Joseph Guthrie, of Clover township, were inspecting a litter of young pigs when the old sow stepped on one of the little ones, which cnused it to squeal The thought Mr, Guthrie had injured her offspring, for she attacked him viciously get out of her fell, and | Guthrie, attempting to drive off the in. | furiated beast, in turn attacked, the animal getting hold of one of her arms and literally chewing it from the mother evidently way he Was {wast to the elbow, every bone being broken. Mr. Guthrie got a elub and drove off theanimal, Dr. Brown hopes to save Mrs, Guthrie's arm. — Prospecting for Coal It has been reported by reliable an. thority that a certain milroad company expects to operate for coal Sugar valley ina short time. According to the large quantities of | bituminous coal could be found there | It is a good thing for the people of that { section who have such a Jong distance {to haul their coal. We hope it will be | a succesas, — Oval Ledger. in outcroppings | Railroad booms in Sugar Valley died The coal {out since the Journal stopped. {prospect of opening extensive operations in that section should give | { them new hope, Holiday Excursion Tickets For the benefit of the increased travel which the holiday season always brings, { the Pennsylvania railroad company will | this year sell exeursion tickets between | the various stations on its system at the | reduced rate of two cents per mile, | | Such tickets will be sold between all stations except to and from stations on the Downington and Lancaster branch and the United Railroads of New Jer. sey Division, The dates of sale are | December 224 to 25th and December 2 { to January 1st, 1804, inclusive, vi.id for | return until January 3d, 1804, inclusive, .o-—— Discontinaed It is reported that the Sterling Coal | ings is president, and Gen. Beaver, Gen, Hastings and Col. Spangler are large stockholders, has gone out of the busi. ness of mining and shipping coud. In the future they will sitaply lease their large possessions to other operators to work, “The Burgiar * Mr. Gus. Thomas’ successful drama, a grea success among American plays, known as “The Burglar,” will be at the opera house on Saturday evening of this week. it Coste tae Nan the Naveral Depart | Company, of which Gen. D. H, Hast. | DEATH RECORD Mia N. H. Dickson. wife of Dr. J. | H. Dickson, died at her home in Pitts. | | burg, on Friday, Dee. 1st, She had been ill for quite a while with the | grippe, but death came at an unexpuct. {ed moment. Her age was 71 years, Mrs, Dickson was formerly Miss Nancy | Harris Mitchell, second daughter of the late General John Mitchell, of Delle- | fonte, ope time sheriff of Centre county land member of Congress from this dis. | trict and Canal Commissioner of the | State. Her husband, no children, sur. {vive her, J. M. Kephart, of Bellefonte, { is on nephew of the deceased Miss Mary Jane MeClenahan, an elderly lady, died at the home of Mrs, | | Harris Linn, Spring street, this place, | {on Wednesday of last week. The ceased was a daughter of James Me- de. | Clenahan, deed.: one brother, William, | survives, The interment occurred | Friday. on Mrs. Wm. Patterson died on {day at 3a. m. at her home in Boalsburg. She had been sick for some time from a cancerous affection. Her husband sur. vives her, Her age was about 50 vears. The interment occurred on Tuesday. Miss Susan Kochler died at her home in Romols, on Monday, December 4th, of consumption. The red on the following Wednesday was 41 | sister and 8ix brothers. - ADDITIONAL LOCALS her age years She leaves one a—— » - “The Little General,” the {and beot make of childrens clothing at | | Philad. Branch. ~On another page will be found the special holiday announcement of Mont. gomery & Co., merchant tailors and (gents furnishers of Bellefonte. They have a choles selection of goods for this SANOD, «This Thursday evening a fair will { be held in the Presbyterian chapel for {the benefit of the missionary society. { The young Indus of the society will have it in ebage snd candy will be one of the prinetypal articles sold. =n Thurwlay George Gummo and the Bierly brothers, from Peannsvalley, home from a ten days’ hunt in the Green woods, They had with them two very fine devr as the fruits of their united shor, In trying to | Mrs, | George 1 livery Vau ries purchased the of L.. H. Lose & Co., last Uhursday, at receiver's sale. The busi. be continued st the old stand tinder the management of Wm. Larim. ei the business, First-class turnouts will always be on hand for hire. stale ness will Who isa veleran iu ~The following letters remain in the Bellefonte post office uncalled for: Frank Boxson, Martin L. Gates, Jas. per Holt; Martin I.. Henry Sherman Robb, V. W, Kecthart, Mr. Ellen Lutz, Joseph Lemrow, F. When called for please say advertised. A neighboring clergyman was much surprised one day at receiving a basket of potatoes from an old lady in his par. { ish, with a message saying that as he had remarked his sermon on the previous that some common taters (commentators) did not agree | with him she had sent him some real | good ones, ~Jersey Shore Herald. «Hon, John A. Woodward, of How. tard, who spent the past year with the in Sunday (state's World's Fair Commission, is | home again. | won by our display at the fair is doe to the untiring efforts of Mr. Woodward. | While he did not hold the foremost ap- | pointment yet upon him a great deal of | work was placed, : ~On Saturday evening a lot of young | men annoyed a Mr. Jackson, of Lemont, who was driving a white mule in acart. | The animal was unhitebed and the lines unhooked so that he was unable to drive, On Monday Mr. Jackson came to town for the purpose of having some { fun with the same fellows. have been issued for their arrest and it is plain to them that they may find it an expensive joke to interfere with a pri. | vate conveyance. .——— Romored New Rallroad, The Lock Haven Erpress says: It is | rumored that a railroad is to be built | from Howard to Hublersburg, Centre | county, where it willoonnect with the | Central Railroad of Pennsylvania. Tre | distance between the two points is { about five miles, | A new rallroad through that section | would pass through a valuable lime stone district in the vicinity of Walker, Large tracts of lime stone have been purchased by capitalists who may be back of this move, Sune. | interment occur. | finest | passed trough Bellefonte on their way | | Parsons. Much of the distinction | Warrants | & LARGE SCHEME, THE VANDERBILTS FORMING A NEW LINE. From Chleagoto the Beatond: To Compete witn the Penna. KB. BK, Co This Section Vi Bencit The most important and significant piece of railroad copstruction in the United States at present is that which will next spring connect New Haven on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, with Clearfield on the Beech Creek road. | The Beech Creek road is now operat. led to Mahaffey, 25 miles beyond Clear. | field. There now remains but 25 miles { of track to connect the Pittsburg and Lake Erie and Beech Creek roads. Both roads are owned by the Vander. bilts. When the track is completed it | will give the Vanderbilts access to some of the richest coal fields in Penn- More than that, it will give | them a new freight and passenger route { from Chicago via Pittsburg and Phila. | sylvania. { delphia to New York. The latter part of the formed in connect route will be ion with the Philadel. phia & Reading and the Lehigh Valley, { It will make a mileage from Chicago via | Philadelphia to New York of le | 1,000 miles, 8s than almost exactly the present | mileage of the Lake Shore & New York Central via Buffa Ww. By using the more direct and northern lines of the Reading and Lehigh Valley the mileage can be the the Pennsylvania between | Chicago and New York. This plan will be carried out In { reduced to almost exactly present mileage of | entirely as early as possible next spring. This railroad scheme our people, By the early completion of Central R., R.of Penna. we will be placed in direct communieation with this vast system extending from Chicago to the seaboard, and a strong and pow. erful rival of the Pennsylvanix ratiroad. This places Bellef~nte and a large por. tion of Centre county in direct touch is important to the tems in Lhe east, be more fully realized when the schetne is completed and the road is practically in operation. - That Doesrdwalk | On Monday morning there was gen. | eral activity along water street leading tothe pew stallion. Teams hauling | lumber, carpenlers were busy measur. {ing, sawing and nailing, there were | Plenty of bosses on hand as usual and {everybody gave a smile of a { All this commotion was doe to the fact | that the board walk controversy had | been settled. The business men in that portion of the town bevame dissatisfied with the action of our town council and by popular subscriptions secured funds enough to carry out this needed im. provement. The boardwalk was a | necessity but the liability of the same still remains a much disputed question, .——— He Was Pleased Last week a gentleman from Chester, Pa. visited friends at Bellefonte. He is an extensive manufacturer of electric street cars and other articles. While | bere he was shown the car works plant. It was also made plain to him that he | could buy the iron cheaper, the lumber needed was made right in this county, | { fuel was cheap and that everything en- tering into the cost of his goods could be gotten to a better advantage at Belle. fonte than at his present location. Be. { him to either lease or This industry at Chester employs over two hundred skilled workmen. Bellefonte has decided advantages { over many towns because the crude ma- { terials, such as iron, lumber, fuel, ete. { are to be had in abundance at this point. | a Large Yield 1 { raised 1264 bushels of clover seed this year which will net him a handsome { ing up and may reach eight or nine dol- lars per bushel before spring. Raising clover seed, at this rate, is by far more profitable than any other crop. — Important to Ladies A general reduction has bee made on ladies coats, wraps, ete, at J. A. Alkens store, south Alleghany st., Bellefonte, The prices are from 83, #6, 88, #10, $12, on up to the finest at 425 and #30. The assortment embraces all grades of goods, This is a rare opportunity for the ladies to purchase a stylish and serviceable garment at the lowest price. Thee rates will prevail for one month only, ~If you are thinking of buying win. ter clothing be sure to call on Lewins al ses his stock. His prices always | | : with two of the greatest railroad sys. | These ad vantages will | pproval, | | fore leaving a proposition was made to | purchase this | plant and he is considering the same. | George Gentzel, of Gregg township, | sum of almost $1000 as the price is go- | DONT FORGEY Us ast waonls abut $0 1 were sent 10 those of our subseribers who are in arrcars on subseription, urging a remittance before the « xpira- tion of the year, This was neces HEATY BS 80 many have forgotten that it costs a a printer money to publish a paper, Another striking fact about this mat. ter is that of the notices sent, but one man out two hundred Only one was prompted to come in and pay his that his wife got the dun and made him march up our golden stairs and plank down the money due us for years, We don’t mention any names, but that wife must be a n christ. wingly printer to suffer. We wish that every subscriber of the Dexo. MAT had a wife that would make the subscription and be confessed Several ble woman, a truly an woman, as she would not kn allow the poor like tl in Ohe, thelr husbands pay ows who have or a number of nt slate. seit re is any also honest I Years “on arly in pm doubt you due us becan badly needed Judge Krebs 11 Judge Krebs, of ( { ing court several days taken seriously warfield, after hold. ast weed, was and « February | about 200 cases down for criminal the Judge Gordon will have ability ourt | journed until list, and & chance show his in disposing f a criminal court - —Merchant tailoring me of the | specialties at the Philadelphia Boaneh { If you can’t buy a suit that will fit Tiss | ean make one for vou on short notice usual business « 3 is ' nang Joston girlgnever stockings on Christmas,’ | Kittish. “Don't they?’ | Giddy, in deep surprise. Ns 1 | pend their hose,’ up then AnNDOnuDOs his Mis wy sus guired E XECUTRIX'S NOTICE Estate of Thomas Lesh, late of Zion | township Pa Letters testamentary on said estate having been granted tothe undersigned. all persons | indebied thereto are requested to make imme | diate payment, and those having claims or de mands against the same will present these without delay for setilement 1 d © undersign ed Mus Nov. 22a &t Walker Evizamern Lesu, Executrix, Zion, Fa A VPITOR'S NOTICE The undersigned an Auditor appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Centre A to make distribution of the funds In the k . of the Sheriff arising from the sale of the personal properh ol George Ww. Vonada, to and among those legally entitled thereto, hereby gives notice that he will meet parties in interest for the purpose of his ap foitithant at his office ‘nn the Court House in bellefonte, Pa. on Saturday. the 3th day of Dec, 7888, when and where all parties interest | od, may attend if they see proper Wa. J. Sivaen Avditor. | ENGINES AXD MACHINERY : THIRD OORT PRICE | The following list of Engines. Boilers and | Machinery, in frst <class condition, will be sold ol private sale: 2Traction Engines, 12 horse | power : | twenty horsepower | ortable Boller and Esgine: | eight horse power Portable Boller and Engine; 1 ten horse power Engine and Boller ; 1 four horse power upright Boile: and Engine one Shingle Mil; one Hydraulie Cider Press cone Pony Plaines. The above will | be sold at one third thelr original eost EMVIRE I1BON WORKS Howard, AT ONE Pee. 14H Pe. WE HAVE THEM! Fancy Slippers for | Christmas. You cannet find anything more economical or more appreciated. Our stock is larger than ever better selected and cheaper, Ladies’ and Gents’ Shoes and Slippers and all the different warm lined goods, We are the only party in Belle- fonte selling the celebrated Alfred Dolge's Felt Shoes and Slippers and the Lambertville Duck Gam MINGLE'S.. . ... SHOE STORE.
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