Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 19, 1892,
P. GRAY MEEK, RR - - Epitor
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Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
ADLAI STEVENSON.
OF ILLINOIS.
State Democratic Ticket.
EOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE.
GEORGE A. ALLEN, Erie,
THOMAS P. MERRITT, Berks.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
CHRISTOPHER HEYDRICK, Venango.
FOR ELECTORS AT LARGE.
MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, Tioga.
JNO. C. BULLITT, Philadelphia.
THOMAS B. KENNEDY, Franklin,
DAVID T. WATSON, Allegheny,
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS
Samuel G. Thompson, Clem’t R. Wainwright,
Adam 8, Conway, Charles H. Lafferty,
W. Redwood Wright, . George R. Guss,
John O. James, Cornelius W. Bull,
William Nolan, James Duffy,
Charles D. Breck, S. W. Trimmer,
Wm. G. Yuengling, Samuel 8. Leiby,
Azur Lathop T. C. Hipple, :
Thomas Chal fant, W. D. Himmelreich,
P. H. Strubinger, H. B, Piper,
Charles A. Fagan,
Joseph D. Orr,
John D. Braden,
Andrew A. Payton,
John A. Mellon Michael Liebel,
Thomas McDowell, Jamet K. Polk Hall,
Democratic County Ticke
FOR CONGRESS,
AARON WILLIAMS,
Subject to the decision of the District
conference.
For Associate Judge—C. A. FAULKNER,
For Legislature— } Hv > SONSOORMICK ’
For Prothontary—W.F. SMITH,
For District Attorney—W. J. SINGER, Esq.
For County Surveyor—HORACE B. HERRING,
Democratic County Committee of Cen-
tre County for 1892.
Committeemen.
Districts.
Bellefonte N. W.................J. C. Meyer.
. S. W. .A. 8. Garmam,
* Ww. W. Geo. R. Meek
Centre Hall Bor.. ames Coldren
Howard Bor... Abe Weber.
Milesburg B r. H. Carr.
Millheim Bir .... muel Weiser, Jr
Philipsburg 'st W James A. Lukens.
Philipsburg ‘nd W.
¢ 3rd W....
S. Philipsburg...
Unionville Bor.
H. W. Buckingham.
Frank W Hess.
.C. B. Wilcox,
E. M. Griest.
“OW.
Burnside..
College E. P
“np
William Hipple.
.I. J. Dreese.
J. N. Krumrine.
...N. J. Mc"'loskey.
....Daniel I'reibelbis.
....Frank Bowersox,
....J. C, Rossman.
..1 avid Sower,
William R. From.
John J. Orndorf,
C. A, Weaver.
David J. Gates,
James W. Swabb.
Gregg N. P...
E. P.
James B. Spangler.
James Dumbleton.
J. W. Collins.
...William P. Brown.
William Kerin,
L. H. Wian.
Jasper Brooks.
Taylor, John T. Merryman.
Union Aaron Fahr.
Walker. ..J. H. McAuley.
OLEH oeesvennrmcensmiurssesostvess W. H. Williams.
A Foolish Proposition.
We do hope that but few Democrats
will favor committing such a folly
as ratifying the resolutions passed
by the late county conveation,
changing the time of hold:
ing our convention from August to
June. If there is one thing more than
another that the people of this county
want, it 1s a rest from the harrassing
annoyance of canvassing candidates
and the excitement and turmoil of
political campaigns. To add two
months more to the campaign, is sim-
ply to lengthen the time that the cam-
paign must be prosecuted, to add to
the expenses of candidates, and to
keep the people of the county under
political excitement that much longer.
It would fix the Convention just at
that season of the year when farmers
are the busiest working their corn and
preparinggfor haying, and would be of
no possible benefit to either the Demo
cratic voters or the Democratic party.
While it would add two months to
the campaign, it]would not shorten the
time of canvassing for nominations a
single moment ; men who want offices
would only begin seeking them that
much earlier, and the result would
simply be to add that much time to
the period the people are subjected to
the annoyances of the office seeker and
the demands of the politician.
If the chairman of the county com-
mittee assumed control of the organi-
zation immediately after the conven-
ing of the county Convention, there
mightibe an excuse for fixing an earlier
date for its meeting, in order to give
him an opportunity to get his organ-
ization in shape, the registry made &c;
but as hejtakes charge of the party
machinerygin January, and has the
entire summer in which to organize
and'do thejwork expected of him, a
change inthe time of making nomina-
tions would in no way assist him or
help the party.
Forjthe!proposed change we can see
body has the gall to ask the ratification
of the resolution proposing this change,
at any meeting called for the purpose
of considering this matter, that the
good sense of the people attending it
will induce them to incoatinently sit
down upon it.
“Hoggishness.”
Epwarp BeLLaMy, the Nationalist,
who has the honor of having written
the most unique, as well as universally
read, work which has been published
during the last decade, has ideas as to
the cause of the Homestead affair, and
of strikes in general, which seem de-
cidedly more practical than the cnes
advanced in his “Looking Backward.”
He says:
“The reduction of wages at Home-
stead is not because the bueiness under
protection is not profitable, but be
cause the employers insist on having
all the profits themselves. The three
Carnegie castles in Seetland are evi-
dence that steel-making pays in Amer-
ica under protection; the trouble is
that the profits are wot more evenly di-
vided between castles and wage-earn-
ers. The cause of the trouble is hog:
gishness, and it is wot apparent how
free trade would cure that.”
Mr. BerLaMy seems to grasp the
situation with that keen reasoning
which characterizes the work which
has made his name a household word
and we are surprised that he failed
when determining a cure. Free trade
is not the refuge, but a reform of the
war tariif will convert English castle
turrets into gables for the homes of
American mechanics,
Of Lattle Matter.
The fight among the Democrats, in
Congressman McALLEER's district
which a few weeks ago was thought to
be settled, has broken out afresh and
now threatens to result in two Demo:
cratic candidates and a Republican con-
gressman., We do not know that the
loss of the district to the Democracy
will be felt to any extent by the party.
The voters in it are largely “traders.”
At the two last elections the faction
headed by the present Congressman
openly opposed the Democratic State
and city tickets, and if their course then
brings about their defeat now, there
will be nobody to blame for it but
themselves, and little cause for any
Democrat to regret the result.
Room for Explanation.
If the Republican party is notin fay-
or of the infamous Force bill, origina-
ting in, and endorsed by,the Republican
majority in the Republican Congress
over which Czar Reep reigned, why
did nearly every Republican county
convention in Pennsylvania and nearly
every Republican newspaper in the
United States, denounce Senator Dox
CAMERON for voting with the Demo-
crats in opposition to that measure ?
—— Whether it is the warm weath-
er, or whether it was the warmth with
which Mr. Harrison accepted his res-
ignation that overcomes Mr. James G.
BLAINE, to such az extent that he is
unable to say a word for the Republi
can ticket, is a query thats tronble-
ing Republican politicians no little,
So far inthe campaign, the Jingo
statesman, who seems to have the hearts
of the republican masses with him,
has been as quiet as a clam, and the
awful silence that exudes from him, is,
to many of his worshippers, an omen
of the dreary grave that yawns to re-
ceive the broken and besmattered party,
for which he was once chief fugleman.
——The Republicans are ‘hopeful’
now of carrying New Hampshire,
Massachusetts and Rhode 1lsland, ac-
cording to chairman CARTER'S opinion,
“Hopeful,” yes, only hopeful. Their
certainties are like JIM DAUGHENBACH'S
religion, only in “spots and darned few
of them at that’ They have Penn-
sylyania and Vermont that they think
they can tie to without a doubt.
—— It is not much fuss that Phila.
delphia makes over anything with life
init, but when it comes to a funeral
procession or anything in the obsequy
line, it can be almost as lively as the
corpse itself. The past week it has
been - deyoting ‘its energies to ' bury-
ing sailor Rieein, and for the next
month will be busy bragging how well
it did the job.
On the Indian Frontier.
A Rumor That China Has Ceded the Parmirs to
Russia. ’
Simra, August 15.—Four thousand
Usbegs, after being repulsed by the
Ameer’s garrison at Masmena, have
crossed into Russian territory.
The Indian Government has inform-
ed the Ameer ot Afghanistan that if
General Roberts’ mission is not receiv-
ed by October the affair will be regard-
ed ag ended, as General Roberts will
leave India in the spring. i
It is rumored in Gilgit that China
no possible excuse, and we hope if any | has ceded the Pamirs to Russia.
Colored Men Deserting Harrison.
From the People’s Journal, of Jack
sonville, Florida, 2 paper having in
black letters at the head of its editorial
column the following: “the only Negro
paper in the United States published
in its own Building,” we clip the an-
nexed article, and request its careful
consideration by colored men of this
section,
CLEVELAND AND HARRISON.
For fifteen years the Journal has
been laboring for the Republican party
on every political issue, and in many
instances where it was not exactly
right to do so, but for party sake we
would not narrow down to a fight on a
party that for years has held a death
grip on our race; but since this grip
has been lost their eyes opened, and
they are thinking and acting for them-
selves, exercising some manhood, vot-
ing for men on merits, surrendering no
longer their just rights to act as Amer-
ican citizens instead of being hood:
winked and led around by a set of self-
constituted leaders, who have never
lost an opportunity to sell them out to
what they(the colored men) have made
his political enemy, then for the Peo-
ple's Journal to continue to place men
at the head of its columns because they
say they are Republicans would be
gross ignorance on our part and, from
a patriotic standpoint, criminal.
Now, a few reasons why we oppose
Mr. Harrison for re-election to the
presidency are that he has not been
true to the Negro in measures too
small for a boot-black to narrow down
to ; such as a wholesale discharge of
all the colored help around the White
House when he entered it even down
to coachman that had been there since
President Grant's to President Cleve-
land’s time ; including only appointing
a negro to office when he was compell-
ed to do so in protection of his own in-
terest—such as Dr. Crum, a colored
gentleman, who placed his application
before Mr. Harrison the same day he
was inaugurated, but Mr, Harrison for
nearly four years has been so color-
blind (Dr. Crum being a Negro) that
he could not take it up. till Dr. Crum
was in Minneapolis with nearly all of
the South Carolina delegation ready to
help him defeat Mr. Harrison for re-
nomination; thea he promises Dr.
Crum the Charleston postoffice within
ten days. Dr. Crum weakened and
went to work and helped to renomin-
ate Mr. Harrison, consequently, he
appointed Dr. Cram post master of
Charleston, S. C., and in an underhand-
ed way fought his confirmation as
hard as Dr. Crum’s worst political
enemy in a very course way, and that
to a finish, ex-President Grover Cleve-
land’s worst enemy to-day, don’t be-
lieve he would stoop so low as to de-
ceive any man in this way. Nay
much less a colored man.
At a meeting of colored men held in
New York city on Saturday evening
last Mr. C. E. Brown said: “Mr.
Cleveland is the negro’s friend. No
fair-minded negro can vote against
him. He will poll a larger colored
vote than any other Democrat that
could have been nominated. The
colored people of this State love and
admire him for his liberal views.
Wher he was President he recognized
the colored vote in this State by giving
it two important appointments. He
sent Dr. Thompson to Haiti and ap-
pointed J. C. Matthews Recorder of
Deeds. On the contrary, Harrison has
not recognized us at all. The colored
voters of this State will throw their
support to Cleveland and Stevenson.
Almost » Confilet.
An Encounter Was Imminent Between the Troops
and Strikers.
PirrsBURG, Aug. 16.—A few non-uo-
ion men almost precipited a conflict
between the militia and the locked out
men at Homestead to day. The non-
unionists came out of the mill and
walked down Eighth avenue. A
crowd of 300 men began to jeer and
jostle the men, who became frightened
and started to run. The jeering in-
creased and the acting provost mar-
shall, Major Crawford, ordered a de-
tail of soldiers sent out who charged
along the street on a dead run, scatter-
ing the crowd and protecting the mill
workers from violence. There was
considerable excitement for a few min-
utes but no one was injured.
The Thirty-third street mill ran to-
day as usual. Several of the non-un-
ionists at this plant have been dis
charged for drunkenness. It was re-
ported that a break-down occurred in
one of the departments this afternoon,
but the manager denied that the diffi.
culty was serious. President Weihe,
of the Amalgamated association, an-
nounced a new signature to the scale
this morning. It was that cf the
Ewalt Iron company, of Lonisville,
Ky., where about 300 men are employ-
ed. Mr. Weihe said that the dona-
tions for the locked out men at Home-
stead keep coming in a continuous
stream and there is rather an increase
than a decrease in the. amounts: re-
ceived.
Great Railroad Strike, ry
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The Big City of Buffalo is the Scene of the Same.
Many Railroad Trains. Burned. Striking
Switchmen or Their Sympathizers are Blamed
Jor the Trouble=Much Valuable Propérty Has
Already Been Destroyed.
BurraLo, N. Y., August 14.—There
is no further disguising the fact that the
strike of the Erie and Lehigh Valley
switchmen is a serious matter. Riot and
incendiarism mark its tidal wave.
Whether it would have proved so very
serious to the railroads to have 150 or
200 men to leave their posts of duty
without warning is not now the ques-
tion. Property belonging to the rail-
road company has been destroyed by in-
cendiary fires, men engaged in the peace-
ful performance of their duties in the
company’s service have been. assaulted
and sent to the hospitals, the movement
of trains has been seriously interfered
with and the lives of innocent persons
who were in no way connected with the
strike and had not even heard of it,have
been endangered by the derailment of a
passenger train on one of the roads.
Such is the indictment up to the hour
of writing. There had been more or
less trouble Saturday between the strik-
ers and their sympathizers and the men
who were doing the strikers’ work, and
a few desultory assaults had occurred.
Things began to put on a more serious
aspect this morning, when a series of
incendiary fires broke out simultaneous-
ly in the Lehigh Valley yards.
Eighteen or twenty freight cars, filled
with wool, cotton, hay and various oth-
er merchandise, two passenger coaches
and two watchman’s houses, were burn-
ed. The fires occurred at places where
the firemen could not successfully stay
the flames on account of the absence of
water, besides the difficulty of access to
the fires. The water tank adjacent to
the coal trestles was smashed and the en-
gine that was taking water there wreck-
ed by a string of ten runaway coal cars
that had been turned loose from the
trestle. Fire was first discovered in the
east bound yards. Here a little office
building and two or three freight cars
were destroyed. The cars destroyed
were in the midst of a great number of
other cars. The firemen uncoupled a
number of cars and removed them from
danger. A dozen orso cars were thrown
from the Lehigh tracks and a similar
number from the Erie by misplaced
switches.
The first intimation of anything
wrong was when the coal cars were set
loose and demolished the water tank.
Then the fires broke out simultaneously.
Captain Wurtz, of the Eleventh pre-
cinct, put a force of a dozen officers in
the yard as soon as the alarm was given.
The officers were unable to fied any
suspicious characters.
That, briefly, is what had happened
up to daylight this morning, but that
was only the beginning. The strikers,
or their sympathizers, have pulled pins,
turned switches and driven off crews.
Three men are at the hospital badly hurt.
The strikers had turned switches and
thrown six cars from the train of a
wrecker. One man was assaulted at the
passenger station and two at William
street. One of the most cowardly things
done, was the throwing of switches un-
der passengers train No. 17 at 7.30 to-
night. Two passenger coaches were
thrown from the track but the conduec-
tor does not think anybody was hurt.
Fifty men boarded passenger train No.
3 at 11 o'clock this morning and molest-
ed the employes, driving them off. The
crew finally succeeded in getting the
train to the station. The mob took
possession of the Senrea street switches
three or four times during the day and
drove off the signal men. In the Le-
high yards at Checktowaga to-night the
scenes of last night were repeated.
It is plainly intimated by the Erie
officials that workmen from the east
have been engaged to take the place of
the strikers.
Burraro, N.Y., August 14. —At 1
o’clock fire has broken out in three
places in the Lehigh yards again simul-
taneously. The fire department seems
unable to quench it. The New York
express No. 1(Erie) is held two miles
out Lecause it cannot pass. The New
York express No. 4 has not been sent
out for the same reason.
Ermira, N, Y., August 14.—The
strike of the switchmen inaugurated at
Buffalo on the Erie and Lehigh Valley
lines has extended to Waverly and
Sayre on the Lehigh and all freight traf-
fic on that road is at a standstill.
PriLaDELPHIA, August 15. — The
places of the switchmen of the New
York, Lake Erie and Western, the Le-
high Valley and the Buffalo Creek rail-
roads, who struck at Buffao, N.Y. for
an advance in wages will in all probab-
ility be filled in afew days by non-union
men.
BurraLo, August 16—1 A. Mm. —The
Sixty-fifth regimens has just been sent
to Checktowaga to guard the Lehigh
Valley and the Erie yards the rest of the
night.
1.30 A. Mm. —TheSeventy—fourth regi-
ment has been called out to protect the
Central and West shore property, It
being feared that the switchmen on these
roads may go out to-night. .
ALBANY, N. Y., August 17—Adju-
tant General Porter arrived here to-night
He knew nothing about the ordering
out of the National Guard at Buffalo.
He said ‘that a sheriff had the power to
call out the militia of his own and ad-
joining counties. An order from the
sheriff of Erie county would call out the
separate companies of five counties, each
numbering from eighty to one hundred
men, and the Sixty-fifth and Seventy-
fifth regiments at Buffalo, each number-
ing about 500 men. This would give
the sheriff the assistance of over 1,200
National Guardsmen in his efforts to
protect the property of the railroads in
the vicinity of Buffalo.
Governor Flower and Colonel Will-
jams, his private secretary, are out of
the city. The governor’s military sec-
retary, Colonel E. L. Judson, Jr., said
to-night that he had no official knowl-
edge of the militia being called out at
Buffalo. | soy
THE EFFECT ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY.
WILKESBARRE, Pa, August 15.—The
strike of the switchmen on the Reading
system has seriously effected freight
traffic on the P, & N. Y.and Wyoming
divisions of the Lehigh Valley railroad.
Orders were issued to-day from the gen-
eral officer of the Reading system in-
structing freight agents south of Coxton
and including all branch roads to accept
no live stock or perishable freight for
shipment until further orders.’ Passen-
ger trains from Buffalo are running on
time. Westbound traffic for passengers
is interrupted. It was rumored this
evening that the freight handlers and
brakemen on the Wyoming division of
the Lehigh Vatiey would come out in
sympathy with the striking gwitchmen.
pn Pig fr ative
interviewed a number of the brotherhood
or railway trainmen but all were very
reticent and declined to either affirm’ or
deny the rumor. ’ Superintendent Esser
says that no word of the intended strike
on his division has Seen received and he
is of the opinion thatthe rumor hus no
foundation.
THE PENNSYLVANIA WILL NOT BE IN-
+14 Y OL VEDY
Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 16.—The
officials of the Jersey Central railroad
said their busines was very little affect
ed by the strike and they had no ap-
prehension of any troubleon their lines.
The situation at the Erie depct and
yards is the same as yesterday. There
appears to be less apprehension of
trouble at this end of the line and no
probability that the Pennsylvania will
join in a strike.
Ermira, N. Y., Aug. 16.—The sita-
ation at Waverly and Sayre to-day is
very quiet, no effort being made by the
company to move any trains except
passenger and milk trains, which the
strikers do not interfere with. Sheriff
Powell is not on the scene to-day and
the strikers have everything their own
way. Some think that the sheriff has
abandoned the idea of raising a posse
in Bradford county, as nearly every
one sympathizes with the strikers, and
has gone to Harrisburg to see about
ordering out the malitia.
Superintendent Stephenson says the
affairis in the hands of the county au-
thorities, who will organize a force to
cope with the strikers. General union
meetings were held by the different or-
ganizations last night and this morn-
ing and while no definite action was
taken the situation 18 such that a straw
would cause a general strike among
the various unions.
CENTRAL SWITCHMEN STRIKE.
Burraro, Aug. 17.—At 1 o'clock the
Central switchmen abandoned work in
the freight yards. This adds reinforce-
ments to the Lehigh Erie strikers. It
is what has been feared all day and re-
peatedly rumored to-night. The pres-
ence in this city to-day of H. Walter
Webb shows that the Central officers
expected that their men would go out.
MORE MEN GO OUT.
Burraro, Aug. 17.—2 a. m.—The
West Shore men will go out to-night.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg
men have already gone out despite the
fact that their terms were acceded to.
At this hour the firemen are housing
the engines in the round houses and all
hands are idle in the yard. There is
no disturbance, but every trainman
seems determined on his course of ac-
tion. S:rikers say this does not meas-
ure the possible exteut of the strike.
TROOPS GOING TO BUFFALO.
Rocuester, N. Y., Aug. 17.—The
first separate company 60 strong, Cap-
tain Hess, and the Eighth separate com-
pany, 72 strong, Captain Henderson,
started for Buffalo on a special train
from the Central station at 1 a. m.
Each man carried eighteen rounds of
ammunition, and the baggage car had
2,000 rounds more.
A A AERIS
Set Fire to Their Prison.
Inmates of the Huntingdon Reformatory Nearly
Destroyed the Building. At the Mercy of the
Flames. For a Time, Owing to the Fact That
the Reservoir was Entirely empty— The Brush
Factory and Carpenter Shop Burned—Pande-
monium Reigned Among the Excited Boys.
HuxnrmiNepon, Aug, 14.—At Six
o'clock this evening flames were dis-
covered issuing from the new south
wing of the brush factory at the Hunt-
ingdon reformatorv and in less than an
hour this building, together with the
adjoining three-story building used as
a carpenter shop was entirely destroy-
ed, The entire Reformatory, contain-
ing 430 inmates, was at a time at the
mercy of the flames, owing to the fact
that the reservoir supplying water to
the reformatory was entirely empty.
The Huntingdon fire department after
a mile run with their apparatus, which
obtained water from the Juniata river,
succeeded in subduing the flames, which
had then communicated with the west
wing of the main buildings. A por-
tion of the wall was also destroyed.
The brush factory was operated by
the consolidated manufacturing com-
pany of Philadelphia, whose loss on
stocks and machinery will reach $20,
000, The 1usurance on the stock is
$7,000. One hundred and twenty boys
were employed in the brush factory.
The destroyed buildings were 200x50
feet, each being three stories high.
They are a total loss, which will ag-
gregate $20,000. Insurance $10,000.
The fire is believed to have been the
work of some of the inmates of the in-
stitution. Two months ago a similar
attempt was made to destroy the same
building. No fire was used in the
building, and iu is thought that one of
the inmates, who was doing light re-
pairs in the factory to-day, maliciously
dropped a match among the material.
During the height of the fire the 450
inmates of the reformatory kept up a
constant yelling that drowned the cries
of the firemen. For a time after the
fire started there was a perfect pande-
monium among the excited boys.
Armed guards, however, soon restored
order. :
The Pennsylvania Railroad’s Double
Lines to Atlantic City.
«The season atthe people’s great seashore
resort, Atlantic City, is now at bigh tide.
People from all sections of the land are
treading its boardwalk and reveling in
the delights of its ‘matchless surf. The
place was never more attractive, as in
addition to its natural advantages there
is everything which can contribute to
the entertainment and amusement of
visitors.
The superior transportation facilities
offered by the Pennsylvania Railroad
make Atlantic City a suburb of Phila.
delphia, and therefore a neighbor to all
the towns in Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
and Delaware. A magnificent schedule
of fast express trains leave Philadelphia,
Market Street Wharf, the central sea-
shore station of the city, at the most con.
venient hours of the day,so that one
arriving in Philadelphia on almost any
train before six o'clock in the evening
may connect promptly for the seashore.
These trains are equipped with the com-
fortable parlor cars and fine coaches,
and are drawn by the stalwart hard-coal
burning locomotives for which the Penn-
sylvania Railroad is famous.
brated club cars, a feature originating
with, and exclusively used by, this com-
pany, arerun-on these trains. No other
seashore resort in the world enjoys such
transportation advantages. Of interest
to those residing outside of Philadelphia
are the excursion tickets sold to Atlantic
City, containing a cupon for transfer by
The cele-
coach between Broad Street Station and
Market Street Wharf.
The Pennsylvania Double Lines to
ne Sea is the favorite route to Atlantic
ity.
Gladstone at Court.
The New Premier Kisses aud Dines With the
Queen.— Lord Brassey as Irish Viceroy.—Rose-
berry Almost Certain to Be Foreign Mimister—
A Scheme of Home Rule for India as Well as
for Erin.
Lonpon, Aug. 15.
Mr. Gludstone’s mission to the royal
palace at Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
and Lord Salisbury’s formal announce-
rment to the House of Lords of the vote
of ‘no confidence’ that had ended the
letter’s Ministry, were the chief events
of to-day in connection with the advent
of a new Parliament,
Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by Sir.
Algernon Edward West, left Carlton
Gardens at noon, en route for Osborne
House, to lay before her Majesty the
names of those who will comprise his
Cabinet, and to carry out the old cus-
tom of kissing the hand of the sovereign.
A FLOWER FOR HIS BUTTONHOLE.
Entering his carriage, he was driven
to Waterloo Station, where a small
crowd including a few notable men, were
gathered to see him. At the station Mr.
Gladstone took his seat in a first-class sa-
loon car and extracted a tuberose from a
small box and carefully pinned it 1n a
buttonhole of his coat. As the train
pulled out of the station the crowd
cheered, and Mr. Gladstone responded
by lifting his hat and bowing.
The royal yacht was awaiting his com-
ing at Portsmouth, and shortly after-
ward she steamed out for the Isle of
Wight.
RECEIVED BY THE QUEEN.
After coming ashore Mr. Gladstone
entered a royal carriage which was wait-
ing for him and rode forthwith to Os-
borne House. On his arrival at the pal-
ace Sir H. F. Ponsonby, the Queen's
private sccretary, received him at the en-
trance and conducted him to the apart-
ments prepared for him.
After Mr. Gladstone had partaken of
luncheon the Queen gave him audience,
and he kissed her handsin accordance
with the established usage.
On his appointment as First Lord of
the Treasury, Mr. Gladstone submitted
the names of the members of his Cabi-
net.
A NEW CABINET FORECAST.
The News announces that Earl Rose-
berry will be Foreign Secretary, Baron
Herschell, Lord Chancellor; Sir Will-
iam Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of
the Exchequer; Herbert H. Asquith,
Home Secretary; Rt. Hon. Henry H.
Fowler, President of the Local Govern-
ment Board; Rt. Hon. H. Campbell
Bannerman, Secretary for War; Earl
Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty ;
Rt. Hon. A. J. Mundel, President of
the Board of Trade; Sir Chas. Russell,
Attorney General ; J, Rigby, Solicitor
General ; Rt. Hon. Samuel Walker,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland; Mr. Mac-
Dermott, Attorney General for Ireland ;
Rt. Hon. Edward P. C. Marjoribanks,
‘Patronage Secretary ; Alexander Asher,
Solicitor General for Scotland, and Rt.
Hon. J. B. Balfour, Lord Advocate.
Messrs. Bryce and Ashland will also
have seats in the Cabinet, while the
Marquis of Ripon, Earl Kimberly and
Sir George O. Trevelyan will undoubt-
edly be members. The Earl of Aber-
deen is mentioned to succeed Lord Stan-
ley, of Preston, as Governor General of
Canada.
ADDI TIONAL LOCALS.
CouxciL AND ITs MEET.—Mr. Jami-
son, member from the South ward, occu-
the president's chair at the Monday
evening council meeting, because of the
absence of president Hillibish, and he
presided over the deliberations of that
body with a very becoming dignity.
The first business brought before the
meeting was the names of the recently
elected fire Marshall, and his assistants,
which were presented for confirmation
by council. Mitchell Cunningham, of
the Logan Steamer Co., was the choice of
conferees for Marshall and Messrs.
Frank Waltz and John Pearl, of the
Undine hose Co. were chosen assistants.
4 hitch in the proceedings occurred
‘when the decree, establishing the office
of Fire Marshall, was read and it was
found that no person under the age
of 80 years was elligible. The matter
was held over until the next meeting.
The Street committee reported the
streete in fair condition, but that, we
imagine, was making the truth very
elastic, for the streets and sewers arein
very bad condition all over town.
Grass is growing in the streets and
mud banks mark nearly every crossing.
The committee on high-ways, which
was appointed some time ago to make a
tour of Bellefonte and recommend re-
pairs, reported in a voluminous manner.
Council passed a resolution to send
notices to all property owners to make
repairs before Sept 10th. This is a
most excellent proceeding, but we fear
it will go, as most things do, tothe
dogs-
Several nuisances were reported, the
Market committee received , §9,30 fees
and the Water committee ‘reported
some needed repairs. Ol
The most important business of the
session then came up, It was the re-
port of the Finance committae which
fixes the taxes for the ensuing year.
After careful consideration of the
exigencies of the town the following
scale was adopted :
For interest, 6 mills; for street, 3
mills, and’ for borough, 2 mils, or a
total of 11 mills. This is three mills
less than last year. Itis made possible
by the increase of valuation and better
equalization of the taxes.
ti-
High
tition to the court to appoint a
Council after authorizing a
reene skipped
Constable, vice Leander
! adjourned.