yr SRY HE Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance Bellefonte, Pa., February 19, 1892. P. GRAY MEEK, = - - Eprtor A Quay Trick. The dailies of Tuesday last contain- ed a telegram from Huntingdon stat: ing that Judge Furst in reply to the request of the Huntingdon county bar, positively declined the use of his name as a candidate for Supreme Judge. We don’t wonder that he did so. Judge Furst, blind as he may be in some things is not so stupid thac he could not see through the {Huntingdon bar ‘movement, It has all along been alleged that Huntingdon would be for Judge DEAN, of Blair, for that position. It is gen- erally supposed that the Republican voters of that county prefer him to any other candidate, and he is known to be the choice of the members of the Huntingdon bar, who are not followers and creatures of Quay. The Huntingdon ring, that controls the machinery of the party in the county is for anything or anybody that Quay demands. He is not for Dean —not at this time-- and to prevent him securing the delegates from that county, and enable the ring to manipu- late matters as the interests and in- tent of Mr. Quay might indicate hereafter, the Furst movement was started. A meeting ot the members of the bar, ostensibly the friends of Judge Furst, but really the representatives of Quay, was called to consider the judicial nomination. They concluded that if Judge Furst could be induced to be a candidate, they could select for him such delegates as could be used against Dean after Fursrs' withdrawal. Other members of the bar got wind of the movement and they crowded into the meeting until when the vote was taken, the resolution requesting Judge Furst to be a candidate had but one of a majority. This was enongh for all practical purposes, although not such an endorsement as was calculated to make the Judge feel that he was really wanted. However had it work- ed, the object of the meeting would have been accomplished, and Hunting- don Republicans while parading them- selves for Judge Furst, would in re- ality, have been setting up the pins for Judge SADLER, of Cumberland county, or such other candidate as Mr. Quay may eventually conclude itis to his in- dividual interest to support. Judge Furst's declination, leaves the Quay contingent to do the best it can, without a cover to fight under— over in Huntingdon. It will now be compelled to come out boldly and fight Judge Deax open and above board, or submit to the selection of such delegates as his friends may die- tate. There will be no dodging the question, nor wul any further effort to sneakingly steal the delegates in the interest of Mr. Quay’s candidate, have any show. Judge Furst has settled this, and Judge Drax's friends over the entire State shoul? take a pointer from it. Quay is “fernenst’”’ him— at this time. . EE Three bills which will probably be of vital importance to the American farmer ard workingman have been in- troduced into the house this week. The first is SPRINGER'S free wool meas- ure which aims to relieve the effects of the iniquitous McKinLey law. Plac- ing, as it does, wool on the free list and lowering the maximum duties on manufactures of wool from 60 to 45 per cent. with a minimum of 25 per cent. It fully satisfies the desires of the tariff reformers and will undoubt- ly .meet the approval of a majority house vote. One amendment is al- ready known to be ready for the bill and it will include agricultural im ple- ments on the free lict. Western sena- tors will hardly dare vote against such a measure and great hopes for its car- rying are entertained. In addition to the above measure the ways and means committee reported the Bryax free binder twine bill fav- orably as well as the Turner bill placing cotton ties, cotton bagging and machinery for manufacturing the same on the free list. ————— The Big Railroad Deal. Possibly, the biggest and most im- portant railroad deal that has taken place in this country for many years, is the one just completed, and by the terms of which the Reading, Lehigh Valley and New Jersey Central lines, all come under a single management, These roads have almost absolute con- trol of the anthracite coal fields and will now be in a position to determine not only the out-put of that region,but can fix the price, to suit their own ne- cessities or desires. The corporations making the combination, allege that it is done for the purpose of decreasing the cost of mining and transporting the coal to market, and promise that the public shall share in whatever benefits are thus obtained. There is, however, a wide spread apprehension that this pooling of interests wi'l be followed by a material advance in the cost of coal, which, if results prove to be correct, should becured at once, by an enforce: Tment of the constitutional provision against the consolidation of railroad ' lines. If the price of cogl goes up, we will know what the purpose of this deal was. If it is lowered, the people will be willing that these corporations shall have whatever other advantages a ein- gle management can secure them, Un- der any circumstances, and at any time, the Statejauthorities and Courts have the power to intervene, and we believe the power to prevent, such a consoli- dation of corporate power, asthe one just eflected, if its intended to effect the interests of the people of the state in- juriously. A little time in this matter will tell. ve —————— Needs Reclamation. No history is so full of instruction as that of Greece, and there is none whose lessons have been more uniformly perverted. Could we accept Wednes- day’s story of the church outrage at Athens, as an invention of a prejudiced historian’s mind, we might yet have the same sympathy for the modern Greek that we have for the old Grecian mas- ters. However, when we know it is a reporters truthful cablegram, that tells us the Protestant church and parson- age, that was built and supported by American money, was robbed and burned to the ground by a mob, which even attacked the congregation, we feel that some of the younger nations need to direct their energy and intel- lects to reclaim the little Island whose early civilization was the highest the world has ever known, and which con- tinues yet to exercise a direct and healthy influence upon the develop- ment of the mind in every department of thought and taste. --—Those who were fortunate enough to have noticed the magnifi- cent display of the aurora borealis that colored the northern skies last Satur- day evening, will be interested in know- ing that in England there is a super- stition that these heavenly lights are always a sign of war. was a grand display of aurora, and there followed the war between Austria and France, the great civil war and that between Prussia and Austria. In 1870 during the month of July, the northern lights were again seen and then followed the France-Germany contest. The last occasion it was seen in England and Northern Europe, was in the winter of 1877, and thea follow- ed the fight between Russia and Turkey. I'hank fortune peace was declared or Chili might have made the warning conclusive. EE — Late Finding Out. A telegram under date of February 14th, from Denver, Colorado, states that Senators TeLLer and Warcorr, in a lengthy interview in their local papers assert positively that President HaRr- RISON cannot bere-elected if nominated. Generally the western people are up early. They get their eyes opened soon. They catch on quick, But in this matter they seem to be months and months behind. Here in the rast, the fact that the re-election of Mr. Harrison was as improbable, as that Quay would grow angel wings, has been in the knowl edge of every one for a long time. In fact since the elections of '90. Why the always, wide-awake westerners, have only wakened up to a re-alization of the situation, is the wonder. —— Would it Not Be Well to Wait and See. If, as the railroads that have “pool- ed” their interests in the anthracite region allege, that coal can and will be furnished the public ata less cost under the rew arrangement than the old, the people will sustain the com- bination. If not, if this consolidation of interests and management tends to increase prices, or maintain the high rates for transportation that have been wrung from the consumers of Penn- sylvania, we can see no reason, why the constitutionality of the agreement could not be tested at any time. Ifit works well for the people of the State, let it stand; If it is for the bene- fit of the public as well as for the cor- porations entering into it, there will be no need of complaint. If on the other haad, it results in increased prices, and proves to be a combine to'rol the people of the State from which these corporations secured their chartered privileges, it will show the falsity of the professions now made by the parties to the agreement, and the necessity of determining that this In 1859 there | A RS TAT consolidation, was in violation of the spirit and intent, if not the lettar of the Constitution. There is no limitation that will ent this question ot constitutionality out, an} it may be the proper thing to do, to wait patiently and see, if the profes- sions of the corporations concerned are honest and prove true. If they do, no harm will be done. It they do not, the remedy can easily be applied. President A. A.M'Leod. The End of Diseriminations Against Pennsylva - nia— Values Increased Without Oppression to Any—Staple Prices and Steady Labor With Fair Wages—The results of the Most Colossal Railway Deal of the World. [The following, which we publish by request is the railroad company’s side, showing the benefits to result from the recent consolida- tion of the corporations named. In giving it place, the WatcumaN in no way commits itself to this view of the question.—E».] The Reading Railroad's recent ac- quisition of the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey Central Roads, the most stupendous railroad deal ever consu- mated in the world and the most start- ling financial operation of the age, will have consequences so momentous and far reaching as to be almost be- yoad the grasp of the average mind, Not only does it make the Reading Railroad the most powerful corpora- tion in the United States and the larg- est employer of labor on the civilized globe, but it practically constitutes its president, A. A. McLeod, the dictator of the anthracite coal trade and the arbitor of the fortunes of the vast inter- ests and industries dependent upon the trade. Iv is natural that some curiosity should be manifested regarding this remarkable man, and that some anxie- ty should be felc as to the policy he may be expected to pursue, Those who know Mr. McLeod and those who have closely watched the brilliant and sagacious tactics by means of which he has lifted a bankrupt corporation out of the slough of financial disaster and physical decay, making it solvent and most powerful company, will have no fear but that he will use his vast authority cautiously, wisely and for the public good. No apprehension need be felt as to the effect of the new osder of things upon the prices of coal. While it -is expected that the aggregated net pro- fits of the unified Reading system from this source will be increased $6,000,000 neither furnace nor foundry, nor poor man’s hearth will be taxed a penny to bring about this result. The fact is that the old system of marketing coal through an "army of sales agents quartered in magnificent offices, levied tribute upon producer or consumer jointly to the extent of from 25 cents to $1 per ton. Mr. McLeod proposes that this sys- tem of fattening middlemen into mil- lionaires shall cease, that the producer and the consumer shall be brought to- gether and that the producer, the car- rier and the consumer shall reap the benefit of the saving thus made. The old system of reckless and ruinous competition has made coal cheaper at Boston and Chicago than within the borders of this State, with the result of subjecting our manufac turers to a formidable and highly 1n- Jjurious rivalry, shutting them out of markets that ought by right to be their own, and forcing the wages of working people in this, the richest State in the Union, to a level with those of the less favored States of the East. It may be true that “competition is the life of trade” but it has proved to be the death of prosperity in the an- thracite regions of Pennsylvania. To the old system of alternate strife and truce between competing corpora- tions and the trade fluctuation re- sulting therefrom, is due the arbitrary svspensions of work and the reduction of wages which have so sorely oppress- ed the miners and caused such serious losses to the mercantile communities dependent upon their trade. Mr. Me- Leod propose that hereafter prices shall be stable and employment steady at fair wages. He believes that the new order of things will be especially ad- vantageous to those engaged in or in any manner interested in the mining industry. ‘ F.om a financial point of view, the general wealth of Pennsylvania has been increased millions of dollars by the successful culmination of President McLeod's efforts. The companies in- cluded in the new compact are practi. cally owned in Philadelphia and other parts of the State, and the enormous enhancement in the value of their stocks and bonds, with the assured cer- tainty of regular dividends, means in- creased happiness in thousands ot homes.— Philadelphia Times, February 15th. The Typhus Epidemic. Lwo of the Massilia’s Passengers Died at Sea, New York, Feb. I6.—-It is known here that two persons died of typhus fever on board the steamer Massilia and were buried at sea. Tue steamer Suevia, from Hamburg, which arrived yesterday, has ninety passengers from Northern Russia, Their baggage will be disinfected be- fore the vessel is allowed to proceed from Quarantine. The steamer Burgundia, from Mar- seilles, which arrived to-day, has eight Russian steerage passengers from Southern Russia, the same port that the Massilia’s passengers were from. They will probably be transferred to Hoff- man Island for observations. Two Italians supposed to be suffer- | ing from typhus fever were bronght here last night from Trenton, New Jersey, and are now under supervision by the health official. The action of the Trenton officials in sending the Italians here has made President Wil- son of the Board of Health very in- dignant, May Boycott the World’s Fair. Declaration Made by the American Federation of Labor. PirrsBure, February 14.—TheA meri- can Federation of Labor has a griev- ance against the World's Fair man- agement, and if itis not settled that organization declares it will boycott the exhibition. Vice President William A. Carney, of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron and Steel Workers, re- turned yesterday from New York, where he had been attending a meet- ing ot the Executive Council of the Federation. : He said some important matters were acted upon, amoog which was the discrimination now being shown by the World’s Fair manage- ment against labor unions. In a let ter to the Council President Kliver, of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, alleges that no man can get work on the grounds unless ke is employed by the ageut of the construction department, “A representative of any labor union cannot get a pass admitting him to any of the buildings. If he gets in he is at once ejected by the police. He also alleges that that the eight hour plan is being vi-lated, and thata union man cannot ge. employment as building in- spector, gatekeeper or watchman.” The council instructed President Gompers to write to the chief of the Department of Construction to abate the evils complained of, and in the event of the refusal to do so, he is em- powered to call on all workingmen’s organizations affiliated with the Ameri- can Federation of Labor to consider the advisability of withdrawing their patronage from the coming World's Fair at Chicago. The Council has suspicions that the Nebraska eight hour law is being vio- lated, and it accordingly acted as fol- iows: “The secretary of the Federation is hereby instructed to call on all work- ingmen and trade organizations of Ne- braska to furnish evidence, under affi- davit, as to the violations of the eight- hour law by employers. 1f such evi: dence is gathered the Executive Coun- cil will prosecute to a final decision. A sum of not more than $200,000 will be appropriated for that purpose.” The Election of Senators. There are many and strong reasons why the proposal to elect United States Senators by the direct vote of the people should be carried out by constitutional amendment. The Senators are supposed to repra- sent the opinion and sentiment of their States. But by virtue of legislative gerry sanders they often misrepresent that opinion or sentiment instead. New York during the last ten years has afforded a conspicuous example of this, and other examples are not want- ing. ais, it is an observed fact that the system ot election by Legislature tends more and more to fill the Senate with mouney-bags instead of statesmen. Am- bitious rich men, with no claim to con- sideration as men fit for the Senate, establish claims to caucus votes by aiding with their mooey in the elec- tion of legislators. A good many Sena- torial seats have been bought by this indirect process, and apart from the consequent lowering of the character of the Senate the practice is corrupting and degrading to State politics. Still more dangerous is the oppor- tunity which the existing system giv es to corporate monopoly to make pocket boroughs of certain States and to pack the Senate with men commissioned to represent not sovereign States but cor- porate interests inimical to the public welfare. ,Senators are the representatives of States The people of the States should have the choosing of them,—New York World. ES NR An English Ship Satls Through a Dozen Water-Spouts Without Damage The Englishship,Kelat, Capt. McKay, arrived after a voyage of 118 days from Chittagong. When 480 miles south of the Bermudas on the the afternoon of Jan. 26 the weather indicated the ap- proach of a cyclone. Presently a dozen large water-spouts less than balf a mile away, were sighted. They were on both sides of the ship. ‘“Just before we noticed the spouts,” said Capt. McKay, ‘the wind was com- ing out of the north coast. They ap- peared with startling suddenness and immediat ly the wind shifted around to the southwest. The spouts seemed to completely surround the vessel and form an archway allowing us to sail through them. “They were of medium size. they disappeared astern. “We did not realize our danger until we saw them skipping astern of us. If they had bursted while we sailed through the arch they would have de- luged the ship,” — Blaine Openly Snubbed. Finally Relations between Blaine and the Harrison administration are becoming more and more strained. At the Lin- coln birthday anniversary banquet in Philadelphia last week, Secretary Noble and Attoraey General Miller were ihe leading speakers. The ad. dresses of both were of a similar tenor, embracing a review of the work of the Harrison administration in detail by departments. To the utter aston- ishment of their auditors neither Mill: er nor Noble once mentioned tt:e name of Blaine or alluded to the state de- partment. As that is the most import- aot branch of the president’s official household and Blaine the central figure of the official family, the absolute silence of Miller and Noble, who of all his ministers stand closest to Harrison, is regarded hy Blaine’s friends as a deliberate and direct insult to the Plumed Khnignt, It is believed that the snub wag intended to be made con- spicuous with the knowledge and con- sent of Harrison in retaliation for the ignoring of the president by Blaine in his recent letter declining to be a can- didate for the presidential nomination. — Exchange. Parker in Danger of Being Drownded Out, Parker,Pa., February 18.~The ice 1s bound to make trouble along the low- lands of the Allegheny river at this point. Two more feet of a rise will dump blocks of ice upon the main thoroughfare. The backwater has raised the miles of jammed-up ice over five feet to-day, and the water and ice in the channel now measure close onto twenty feet. The magnificent iron bridge at its lowest end is only about twelve feet above the ice-bed, while the lower portion of the to n is level! there with. There are many uneasy prop erty owners to-night, The only ray of light, and that, of course, will be only temporary, is the freezing water which holds in check the floods which are bound to come from the fields of snow at the head waters. The cold weather is freezing the mass of ice now gorged into one compact whole, which will require a very high river to displace. The river has never presented such a threatening attitude as at present, For years the river has encroached upon the town and what disastrous fires, in the past, have left the river now seems determined to wash out. The flood of nine years ago, at which. time much damage was done, the river standing four feet on the principal streets, did not present such ominous signs as the present one does. The gorge has ex- tended a long distance up the stream, damming up the Clarion river com- pletely. As far up as the eye can see from an eminence, the river is a white field of broken up ice, packed in by millions of tons of pressure. Business men are taking steps toward barricad- ing their store fronts, The water works | pumps are under water and the cellars along the landing are filled up with water. —— The Mutual Life’s Report for 1891. The Forty-ninth Annual Report of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, a summary of which is given in the ad- vertising columns of the WATCHMAN this week, shows the extent of its opera- tions during the past year, and its finan- cial condition on December 81, 1891. Each successive report has usually been declared to be ‘“‘the best in the history of the Company.” The report for 1891 is no exception, demonstrating as it does the increasing popularity of the Mutual Life and the extension of the benefits conferred up those fortunate enough to hold its policies. The assets now amount in the aggregate to $159,- 507,138.68, and the liabilities to $147,- 476,171.52. The surplus fund for the payment of dividends and to insure the policy holder against every emergency amounts to $12,030,967.16. During the twelve months the policy holders of this Company received $18,- 755,711.86, against $16,973,200.05 in 1890, an increase of payments for the year of $1,782.511.81. This was not due to any marked increase in the mor- tality rate, but to the enormous growth of the Company’s business and the wid- er extent of its operations. The Mutual Life has now 225,507 policies in force, insuring $695,753,461.03. The Com- pany in this report has as far as possible eliminated all policies issued and “not taken.” EAR ASSES The Pennsylvania Railroads Washing. ton Tour Last of the Season. The last tour in the winter series to Washington from Pittsburg, via Penn- sylvania Railroad, will leave February 25th. This will afford a delighful,op- portunity of visiting the National Capi- tal in 1ts most attractive season, while both houses of Congress are in session, and all the departments open to visitors, Excursion tickets will be good for ten days from date of sale, admitting of a stop over in Baltimore in either direction within limit, and tourists will travel in a special train of parlor cars and day coaches. PitlShurg......eesissnes Altoona..... Bellwood... Bellefonte... Snow Shoe City... Clearfield........ Philipsburg Osceola..... ‘Lyrone......... untingdon.. Washington The tickets will be good for use on any regular train of the date above named except limited express trains. The return coupon will be valid for passage on any regular train within the return limit except the Pennsylvania Limited. i ———a—— Reduced Rates and Enlarged Privileges for Clergymen on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany announces that commencing on February 15th, 1892, tickets will be sold to Ministers of the Gospel holding proper clerical orders, at half rates. This arrangement will apply to all tickets sold on the Pennsylvania Rail- road lines east of Pittsburg and Erie, as well as to the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, so that a clergyman may not only be able to secure a ticket at half fare between any stations east of Pittsburg and Erie, but may enjoy the same privilege in the purchase ot a ticket to Cleveland, Chicago, Colum- bus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, or intermediate points. This concession in the interest of so deservine a class is fresh evidence of of the liberality of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and cannot fail to impress itself upon the appreciation of those whom it is designed to benefit. a — - Better Die Now. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 16. —It is stat- ed on the authority of a prominent man- ufacturer of burial caskets that an ad- vance of about 20 per cent in the price of coffins will be made within thirty days. The Coffin Trust, which was first organized here about three years ago, and which was recently broken by sev- eral large companies refusing to be bound by its regulations, has been re-or- ganized and now practically controls the business in this country. The high- er prices are the result. Jadge's Lamar's Frank Opinion. os MacoN, Ga., Feb. 16.--Jadge L. @. C. Lamar, during a week's visit to Macon, has taken an active interest in the discussion here over the Presidential werits of Cleveland and Hill. Before departing for Missippt yesterday, the Judge said : “Of course, I am out of politics in my position, but what little politics I have are for Cleveland, as he is the better man of the two. In fact there is no comparison to be draws be- tween the two.” Appointed a Lady. Dr. John Curwen, superintent of the Warren state lunatic hospital, has re- signed from the chronic insane hospital commission. of which he was chairman. Governor Pattison Wednesday appoint- ed Dr. Alice Benton, of the medical department of the Norristown hospital, to the vacancy on the commission. ce ——— ADD ITIONAL LOCALS, — Gen. Hastings will lecture, in Clearfield, on next Tuesday evening. ——The Central Pennsylvania M. E. Conference will convene, in less than twa months, at Carlisle, ——Sup’t Blair, of the Tyrone divi- sion, tarried in town between trains yes- terday morning. ——DMrs, Isaac Worth, of Kennett Square, Chester county, is visiting her deughter Mrs. E. R. Chambers. ——Tyrone is having a “most popu- lar lady” contest and the girls up that way are looking daggers at each other. ——Very few hopes are entertained for the recovery of Mr. George W. Tate, who has been so seriously ill for a week. .. ——Gt. Britain Steele, a former eon- tractor and mason of this place, but now: of Tyrone, is visiting friends and rela- tives hereabouts. — Bellefonte friends will be grieved to learn that editor Joe W. Furey, of’ the Lock Haven Democrat, is seriously. ill with erysipelas, —— Philipsburg imagines she is going: to havea paper mill and is very much excited in consequence. Anything that will awaken her from the lethargy she seems to be drowned in at present would be gratifying indeed. —Mr. G. W. Hoskins, a prominent member of the A, C. S. N. of Philadel- phia, has been appointed physical di- rector of the Pennsylvania State Col- lége. Mr. Hoskins was champion mid- dle weight wrestler of America in 1890: and is a thorough gymnast, — Still it keeps going up. We mean the WATCHMAN’S sale list. Ev- one is pleased with our attractive and superior bills. Come in with your arti- cles and have your bills printed where you will get guaranteed satisfaction for your money. All kinds of printing, engraving, binding and ruling done with dispatch and cheapness. ——-Miss M. Elizabeth Shortlidge, one of the newly elected school directors in the West ward, is eminently fitted to dis- charge the duties of her new office intel- ligently and justly. She was connected with our public schools, as a teacher, for seven years and has a more practical knowledge of the needs and require- ments of the schools than four fifths of the men who have served on our board. MARRIAGE Licensks—Issued during the past week—taken from the docket. Albert Steininger and Eva G. Snyder,. both of Millheim. Howard Evey, and Luella Stover, both of State College. John R. Mayes, and Annie Grove, _ both of Philipsburg. Thos. G. Ingram, and Harriet M. Davidson, both of Union township. THE SINGING CLASS POSTPONED. — Owing to the Temperance meeting it ‘was thought best to postpone the begin- ing of the sirging class, in the Y. M, C. A. rooms until Monday evening, Febru- ary 29th, as there seems - to be no suita- ble evening before that on account of * other engagements. This class promises to be one of the largest ever organized in Bellefonte: The list at present num- bers over fifty. —— The 400” Bal-masque, held in the Armory, at State College, on last Friday evening, was a decided success in every respect. Over a hundred gay couple danced to the strains- of the full College Orchestra and sixty dollars - were realized for the Athletic Associa- tion. The college men seemed to derive much pleasure out of the sport of danc- ing with each other and the poor maid- ens looked wistfully on frem the gale leries. ——Mr. John Wooley, the temper: ance evangelist, who has talked to a large audiencé every night this week left town this morning. Mr.. Wooley is a brilliant talker and an earnest young worker, who dedicated his talents, which are many to the service of the Great Master four years ago. In that time he has had wonderful success, and we trust that his work here may. influence many and lead them to earnest action in the great cause. ’ ——
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