Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., March 31, 1893.
P. GRAY MEEK, Epr1rtor
EE ————
Democratic County Committee for
1893.
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DISTRICTS. | COMMITTEEMEN.
Bellefonte, N. W.. sasss sesseneee i. A. Shaeffer.
" 8. W. ...Jacob L. Runkle.
“ Dr. M. A. Kirk.
Centre Hall Boro, D. Foreman.
Howard Boro Abe Weber.
Milesburg “ .. . M. Butler.
MENDOHYE -* consis ersvonnioai isesnsiouersah J. C. Smith
Philipsburg Boro, 1st W... Dr. F, K. White.
“ ** 2nd W........ .....Daniel Paul.
“ Ys 3rd W... W. J. Howe.
South Philizsborg ...John Hoffman.
Unionville Boro.. «oe. B. M. Greist.
Benner Townshi Paniel Heckman.
Boggs “ . .Geo. W, Brown
“ E. ...G. H. Leyman
“ 213 Wh Prsisiisiarnsreneds Geo. Noll.
sumnside ** aula Oscar Holt.
College * E. Daniel A. Grove
Li oY. ..T. F. Kennedy.
Joris “ EB: wh. J Mh iinel,
Ferguson “BE . M. Krebs,
. “: YW. P ..J. H. Miller.
Gregg h INGD: J. C. Rossman
“ UR. Pp David Sower.
“ "AW.P esesren William Pealer.
Haines “ E.P. «John.J. Orndorf.
“ "wi w.? .. +@e0. Bower,
Ha'f Moon * J
Harris -
Howard *
Huston
Liberty “
Marion *¢
Miles ®
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“ ”“
Patton $e
Penn ih
Potter “ N.P,
“ oer ... W. W. Royer.
Rush “il N.P Miles Seigfried.
“ tv iP Patrick Heffren.
Sncw Shoe“ E.P .Jno. D. Brawn
“4 wu 'W.P.. rank Tubridy
Spring ‘i N.P,. John Garbrick, Jr.
% «BP... «John Mulfinger,
“ YW Poirisrinrite A V. Hamilton.
Taylor ii ..Vinton Beckwith.
Union “, ...P. J. Loughrey.
Walker «+ +ee.S0l. Peck.
Worth «weunG. J. Woodring.
W.G. RUNKL J.C. MEYER,
«Chairman
ESTEE.
A Dangerous Movement.
The people of Ulster, the anti-home
rule section of Ireland, are approach.
ing dangerous grounds in the move-
ment they are making to resist by force
the measures that are intended to give
the Irish people the right to rule them-
selves. This part of the people of Ire-
land, ocenpying the northern section of
the island, have arrayed themselves
against the sentiment of the great bulk
of their countrymen, taking part with
the English Tories in maintaining the
abuses which have so loag been prac-
ticed in the Irish government.
Influenced by race antagonism and
religious bigotry, they are among the
bitterest opponents of home rule, and
actuated by such motives are prepar-
ing to resist with arms the establish.
ment of an Irish parliament which
would regu'ate Irich home affairs for
the interest of the Irish people and not
for the benefit ot English masters.
Arms are being supplied for the pur-
pose of rebellion if home rule should
be adopted, it being stated that no less
than $5.000,000, has been raised for
this object by the Ulster anti home
rulers.
These are dangerous movements cal
culated to involve both Ireland and
England in troutle and for which there
can be no justification. The great
mags among the Irish people have for
years been compelled tosubmit to such
rule as the English government fur
nished them. There were uprisings
against it, but they were always put
down with a strong and stern hand.
Now if home rule should be granted to
the island, the Ulster men should sub-
mit, as the great majority of their
countrymen have submitted for ages to
a government they did not like, and if
there should be resistance the move-
ment should be put down as former
Irish rebellions were suppressed. The
English goverament, having once grant-
ed to Ireland the right of home rule.
would be in honor and duty bound to
help her maintain that right against
any internal resistance. The Ulster
men are certainly treading on danger-
ous ground in putting themselves in
the attitude of rebels in the event of
the home rule bill being passed.
——The death of Col. Erriorr F
SHEPARD, under such peculiar circum-
stances, has been a great biow at the
know-it-all professions of medical sci-
ence. The fact that a man whom two
physiciang, recognized as the heads of
their profession in New York city, pro-
nounced phyeically sound—with the
exception of a small stone in the blad-
der, should have died on the operating
table while ether was being adminis-
tered and before any attempt had been
made to remove the stone, is evidence
conclusive that there must have been
something radically wrong. With all
the strides the medical science has
made in the last decade, it still bungles
enough to thoroughly intimidate pa-
tients who must undergo its latter day
methods,
SE —————
—-The Lancaster Intelligencer
says: —"“The wretched Legislative Rec-
ord, published by the State of Pennsydva-
nia to chronicle the doings of the states
men at Harrisburg, seems to haye given
up the distressing task.”
Now if the “statesmen (?) at Harris
burg” would do likewise what a hap.
py State dear o}d Pennsy would be,
Latimer the Matricide, Hills a Guard
and Escapes,
Special Frivileges Given Him—He Puts Poison
in Lemonade and Drugs lwo. Rrison Officials —
One. of Tem Dies in a Few Minutes—Secur-
ing the Keys He Unlocks the Prison Gates and
Walks Out—He Has a Rifle and Will Not be
Easily Captured.
Jackson, Mich., March 27.—R. Irv-
ing Latimer, the Jackson matricide,
is at liberty and is armed with a rifle.
He escaped soon after 1 o'clock this
morning, after drugging George W.
Haight, who had charge of the gate up
stairs, and Capt. Gill. Haight died as
a result of the poison, Capt. Gill is un-
der arrest charged with being Latimer's
accomplice.
the prisoners near his own cell, but
failing made his own escape by way of
the front gates.
Latimer secured a rifle and a quanti-
ty of ammunition before going, and will
surely make a desperate resistance.
Those who know him say there is not
one chance in a thousand of ever tak-
ing him alive. There is the most in-
tense excitement, and hundreds of men
are searching the city and surrounding
country. Telegrams have been sent all
over the State, and it seems impossible
that he can escape.
Maurice T.\Gill, night keeper at the
prison it has been learned, was the in-
direct means of the escape of Latimer.
About 11:30 o'clock he and Latimer
took lunch together in the hall mas-
ter's office. It was against the rules
for Gill to take a convict out of his cell.
Capt. Gill bad been clearly bamboozled
by Latimer, who has been telling Gill
that there was $2.800 buried on an is-
land where Latimer’s father lived when
Irving was 13 years old. Gill was tak-
en with this story, and had Latimer
out to lunch every night to give him
details, Gill expected to leave the
prison in three weeks. Last night Lat.
mer told Gill a lot of stories about the
buried fortune.
Latimer had been in the habit of
taking up a cup ot chocolate nearly
every night to gatekeeper Haight, pass-
ing 1t through a slide in the grating,
which Haight took with his midnight
lunch. There is no doubt that Lati-
mer had planned to poison both Haight
and Gill, and the chocolate at night
was ouly to gain confidence until he
could get some poison. At lunch last
night Latimer carried up a glass of
lemonade to Haight instead of choco-
late, and Haight died in twenty min-
utes after drinking it. Gill also drank
of the lemonade and was attacked with
spasmejalmost instantly.
In a few minutes a ery came from
the guard room above, which Haight
occupied. It was evident that Haight
was cick and needed help. Gill was so
sick that he could not go. Latimer
said;
“I will go and whistle for Dr. Ma.
son."
“All right; go ahead,” replied Gill.
Latimer then took the keys, but 1n-
stead of going for help ke unlocked the
door of the gnard room, passed through
the gates, and was free. He took the
prison keys with him. The exact
time he let the prison was 11:55 p. m.
When Latimer escaped he had neith-
er co: tuor hat, and itis believed im pos-
sible that he can escape. The prison
authorities have offered a reward for
Latimer, dead or alive, and officers are
scouring the country.
Latimer is 01e of the shrewdest con-
victs known to the prison officials, He
had engaged in several plots for an up-
rising of the prisoners, and succeeded
in introducing a qnactity of dynamite
into the prison. It was intended to
blow down the walls and free all the
convicts. The plot was discovered, and
Latimer, although the leading spirit in
it, was only temporarily deprived of his
privileges asa tavorite prisoner.
Jacksox, Mich., March 28.—A dis-
patch has been received here which
says that Latimer has been captured
at Jerome, Hillsdale county, and is
now being driven here, eighteen miles.
Night Guard Haight died from the
effects of prussic acid. That fact is
settled. Dr. Kimball, who took the
two vials from the sink in the prison
and the etomach of Haight to Ann Ar-
bor for analysis, came home this mora-
ing. He said that Dr. Novi was given
the bottles and at once said that they
both contained prussic acid.
There Will Be No Strike,
Waco, Texas, March 26.—A com-
mittee appointed on the part of the
brakemen of the Texas Central railway,
who went out'in a body on a strike last
Wednesday, arrived in Waco yesterday
afternoon and laid the grievance of the
strikers before General Manager Hamil-
ton and Superintendent McWilliams.
After the discussion a complete com pro-
mige was reacbed by which all the strik-
ers returned to work to-day and the strike
was declared off. The setilement ap-
pears permanent.
The Senate May Adjoarn This Week.
WasHINGTON, March 28.-—~It is re-
ported here to-night on seemingly good
authority that the President will notify
the Senate this week that he has no
further communications to make to that
body. Some of the nominations he has
in contemplation he does not care to
snbmit to the Senate at this time for
fear of undue controversy, and he pre-
fers, so it is said, to make them during
the recess,
Eleven Miles Above Earth.
Paris, March 26.—An highly inter-
esting experiment in aerial navigation
was made this week. A large baloon,
carrying only a box containing self-
registering instruments, was sent up
from Paris Wednesday, It came
down safely yesterday in the depart
ment of the Yonne. It was found that
it had reached an altitude of more than
eleven miles, and the thermometer
registered a temperature of sixtv de-
grees below zero.
——
' Democrats ‘Will Get Them, However.
t
i From the York Gazette.
It is a good deal easier to predict the
weather that it is to foretell to whom
Cleveland is going to give the offices.
Latimer tried to release.
. Senators are receiving numerous letters
General E. Kirby Smith Dead. i
The Last of the Confederate Generals to Lay
Down His Arms.
Nkw OrLEANS, March 28.-—General
E. Kirby Smith died at Sewanee,
Tenn., at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon.
For two years General Kirby's health
bus been declining. Two weeks ago he
was taken sick in New Orleans and was
confined to his bad for five or six days
but recovered sufficiently to travel and
reported at’ Sewanee ready for duty
Monday, March 19. Two days after-
ward he caught cold. A relapse ensued
his condition being complicated by con.
gestion of the right lung, Everything in
human power was done to save him,
but with without avail.
Edmund Kirby Smith was born in
St. Agustine, kla., May 16, 1824, was
graduated at the United States Military
Academy in 1845 and appoint brevet
second lieutenant of Infantry. In the
war with Mexico he was iwice bre-
vetted, for gallantry at Cerro Gordo and
Coutreras. He was assistant professor
of mathematics at West Point in 1849-
62, became Captain in the Second Cav-
alry in 1855, served on the frontier and
was wounded May 18, 1859, in an en-
gagement with Comanche Indians near
old Fort Atchison, Texas. In 1861 he
was thanked by the Texas Legisiature
for his services against the Indians.
He was promoted major in January,
1861, but resigned on April 5, on the
secession of Florida, and was appointed
lieutenant colonel in the corps of caval-
ry ofthe Confederate army. He he-
eame brigadier general June 17, 1861,
major general October 12. 1861, lieuten-
ant general October 9, 1962, and gener-
al February 19, 1864.
At the battle of Bull Run, July 21,
1861, he was severely wounded in the
beginning of the engagement. In 1862
he was placed in command of the de-
partment of East Tennessee, Kentuckey,
North Georgia and Western Norta
Carolina. He led the advance of Gen-
eral Baxter Bragg’s army in the Ken-
tucky campaign and defeated the na-
tional forces under General William
Nelson at Richmond, Ky., August 30,
1862.
In February, 1863, he was assigned
to the command of the Trans- Mississippi
Department, in Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Indian Territory, and
was ordered to organizs a government,
which he did. He made bis comwmuni-
cations with Richmond by running the
blockade at Galveston, Tex., and Wil-
mington, N. C., sent large quantities of
cotton to Confederate agents abroad,
and, introducing machinery from Eu-
rope, established factories and furnaces,
opened mines. made powder and cast-
ings and had made the district self-sup-
porting when the war had closed, at
which time his forces were the last to
surrender. In 1864 he opposed and de-
feated General N. P. Binks in the Red
River campaign.
General Smith was president of the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com-
pany in 1866-8 and chancellor of the
University of Nashville in 1870-5, and
bas been professor of mathematics in the
University of the South, Sewanee,
Tenn., since 1875
a ———
A Religious Fanatic.
Threw a Stone at King Humbert and Narrowly
Escaped Lynching.
Romg, March 26.—The city is in a
state of great excitement over an as
sault that was made last evening upon
King Humbert. The king was return
ing from the Villa Borghese when a
person having the general appearance
of an Italian workman threw a stone
at the king, the missile almost striking
its mark. Many people were on the
streets at the time, and several persons
seized the assailant before he had a
chance to make another attempt at
vio.ence. The man was conveyed to
prison, otherwise he would probably
have been killed by a mob. An im.
mense crowd assembled and cheered
the king with frantic enthusiasm, and
all the way to the palace the scene
was like a triumphal progress. King
Humbert gracefully acknowlepged the
ovation, and was evidently deeply mov-
ed by the evidence of loyalty. The
assailant of Humbert is, it aprears, a
religious fanatic named Berardi.
Hooted Out Of Paris.
The Correspondent of a Berlin Faper and His
Family Roughly Treated.
Paris, March 28.—When Otto Bran-
des, Paris correspondent of the Berlin-
er Tageblatt, who was ordered from the
country on suspicion of having been
the author of an article charging Er
nest Carnot with receiving Panama
money, was leaving Paris to day with
Mrs. Brandes, a crowd of men and boys
began hooting and groaning at him.
The crowd followed Mr.and Mrs. Bran-
des to their train without an effort
from the police to drive them back.
When Mr. Brandes’ daughters left
the house to meet their parents in the
city they were surrounded by forty
men and boys, and before they could
get to the train were struck repeatedly
with sticks and lumps of dirt. One of
the daughters received a severe cut on
the head. The government made no
effort to protect the Brandes family.
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A Judgment for $10,000 Against the
Press.
HarrisBurg, March 29.—Judge
McPherson gave an opinion this after-
noon in the case of the commonwealth
against the Philadelphia Press com.
pany to recover rebates paid agents of
John Bardsley, ex-city treasurer of
Philadelphia, on the contract for print.
ing the mercantile appraiser's list. He
decided jndgment to be entered in fav-
or of the State and against the Press for
$10,731,33.
———
Democratic Pension Policy.
WasHINGTON, March 28.—So many
from members of the Grand Army urg.
Ing an increase in the rate of pensions
that they believe that there is a con-
certed movement on the part of mem-
bers of that organization in certain
States to induce the Democratic Senate
to uncover its positon at once on the
pension question,
Our Harrisburg Letter.
What Our State Lawmakers Are Doing at the
Capital City.
HarrisBura. March 28.—The sen
sation of the Monday night session of
the house was a charge made by Rep-
resentative Cochra:e, of Armstrong
couuty, chairman of the committee on
viceand immorality, that during his
absence last week his desk had been
broken open aad the senate bill repeal-
ing the law prohibiting the sale of
hquor in the borough ot Verona, Alle-
gheny county, taken therefrom. Mr.
Cochrane said he went away on
Wednesday and left Mr. Seanor, of
Indiana, to preside over the meeting of
the committee called for that afternoon.
Mr: Cochrane gave the sub-chairman
several bille, but the Verona bill was
not among them, an agreement having
been made that it 8 ould be herd at a
future meeting, After the committee
got together, so Mr. Cochrane claims,
the Verona bill was called for, and up-
on the acting chairman explaining that
he did not have it in his possession,
one member said he knew where it was
and volunteered to getit. He left the
committee room and returned in a
short while with the bill.
No questions were asked and the |
committee at once acted faverably on
the measure. The house was amazed
at the boldness of such a scheme and
readily agreed to a motion by Mr.
Cochrane re committing the bill "to the
committee on vice and immortality.
Committee meetings are secret and it
has so far been impossible to learn the
name of the culprit who robbed Mr.
Cochrane's desk. It is said in pallia-
tion of the offense that the bill had
been in Mr. Cochrane’s hands six
weeks and should have been acted up-
on long ago.
The weight of the burden under
which the Legislative Record is grad-
ually being crushed out of existance
has been largely added to by a recent
decision of the postmaster general ex-
cluding it from the mails as second:
class matter. The poor old Record is
on its last legs and its final demise will
be rejoiced in by everybody here.
A resolution will be offered in the
house this week directing the appoint-
ment of a special committee of five
members of the house and three mem-
bers of the senate to make all the ar-
rangements to take the legislature to
Chicago to attend the dedication of the
Penusylvania state buildings. The ex-
penses of the trip will be provided tor
in the general appropriation bill. The
bill introduced by Representative Coyle,
of Schuylkill, provides tor an addition -
al appropriation of $60,000 for the state
World's Fair board, but there is no
provision whatever for the junket of
the solons, |
Farr’s compulsory education bill and
the measure to reduce telephone charges
are both receiving careful attention.
Many amendments to the Baker hal
lot law have been offered in both
branches of the legislature, as was nat-
ural to expect. These were all referred
to a sub committee of the house con-
sisting of Messrs. Burdick, Mattox,
Fow and Ritter and as the result of
their labors, they are ready to report
eleven important changes to the Baker
law chat the two elections held under
its provisions have shown to be neces:
sary. :
Mr. Fow sums up the changes pro-
posed as follows :
“First, strike out of the ballots the
residence of the candidates as being
wholly unnecessary. Itis inthe nomi-
nation papers and that is sufficient, It
only increases the size of the ballot by
having it on them.
Second, a reduction in the number of
ballots, as the large amount of unused
ballots all over the state justifies us in
doing so.
Third, bave but one day, to wit,
Monday, on which to deliver them to
the judge. Itis not only very expen.
sive, bat difficult in some of the coun-
ties, to deliver on one day let alone two.
Anyway it is looked upon asit is now
as being the farcial portion of the act.
Fourth, the time of the sheriff to
make his proclamation is to be extend-
ed. Asitis now it is impossible for
him to fully comply with the law,
Fifch, the validity of all certificates of
nominations to be tested in the com-
won pleas of the district where the
nominations are made, except those
made in State conventions, they to be
tried in the courts ot Dauphin county.
This amendment is because the courts
of Philadelphia sent the Fow-Dailey
and the Robbins-Donohue, and the Me-
Aleer Ker cases to Dauphin county,
under a strained construction of the
law.
Sixth, the method of marking the
ballot ; the committee will recommend
that each candidate’s name be marked
either with an X or an 0, and that
group marking be done away with,
Seventh, all groups to have a party
appellation where that party for ten
years has been making nominations in
a state convention.
This leaves in the prohibitionists but
keeps out the socialists and other par-
ties who, like Jonah’s gourd, sprung
up in the night. Eight, repeal that
portion of the law requiring the sheriff
to issue a proclamation for city elec—
tions; the small! cities in the state like
Meadville, Oil City, Williamsport and
other ask for thie. Ninth, no caadi-
date to be watched or to be allowed in
the booth after depositing his vote.
This is to meet the troublein the Third
ward, where, it is alleged, Harry Hun-
ter went inside and officiated; be-
sides which, it is against the great
principle of the purity of the ballot as
contended for in the act.
Tenth, election officers not to be al-
lowed to prepare the ballot of any per—
son who claims to be disabled. Eleventh
all persons who claim to be disabled
must swear to the same.”
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Wholesale Butchery In the Republic
Treasary Cash Grows.
AU Possibility of Bond Issue Passing Away,
WasniNgTon, D. C., March 28—
The Treasury statements promise to
show a light gain in the cash balance
#8 the result of the first month of Sec
retary Carlisle's management. The
customs receipts continue to increase
in spite of the possibility of tariff
changes, and will be vearly $4,000,000
larger this month tnan in Marsh,
1892. The total for the year will be
considerably in excess of $200,000,000,
and macy more than was estimated
by Secretary Foster when he was ques
tioned by the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
The demands for small currency
have been greater this spring than is
usual at thie season of the year, but
they have all been met, and the cur-
rency in the Treasury is more plenti-
ful than for many months. This is
due, in part, to the fact that currency
has taken the place of the gold with-
drawn for export, but Secretary Car-
lisle is forcing the gold up toward
$108,000,000, and postponing the
necessity for an issue of bonds.
If the pension drafts can be cut
down there is little doubt that the
Treasury can peg along until autumn
without any greater embarrassment
than it has already suffered. The sub-
ject of Pension reform has not yet been
attacked in earnest by President Cleve-
land and Secretary Hoke Smith, but it
will he taken up as soon as the proper
man can be found for Commissioner of
Pens ions. :
——
To Wed A Chinese Girl.
4 Naval Officer to Take a Wealthy Mongolian
Wife.
San Francisco, Cal., March 28—
Commander Whiting, of the United
States steamer Alliance, which bas just
reached here from Samoa, is engaged
to wed Miss Etta Ah Fong, the daugh-
ter of Ah Fong, the wealthy Chinese
merchant of Honolulu. The father of
the prospective bride is very rich, and
entertains in princely and Oriental style.
He will be remembered as the Chinese
who gave a present of $70,000 to Kala-
kana to secure the monopoly of the
onium privilege to one of his favorites.
When the first revolt against Kala-
kaua occurred, Ah Fong was paid in
full by order of the Supreme Court.
The bride, who is halt Kanaka and
halt Chinese, is one of the family ot
thirteen children, a beautiful and ac-
complished girl of 17, while Captain
Whiting is over 50.
TEE
An Exhorter Turns Forger.
He Attempted to Pass a Worthless Check and is
Arrested.
HusTiNGDON, March 28.—Six months
ago Edward L. Hackett, of Wiliiams-
port, was paroled from the Huntingdon
Reformatory in the care of R. C. Henry
a rich farmer of Barree township. In a
short time Hackett was assisting the
Rev. William Miller, a Baptist minis-
ter in preaching the gospel and exhort-
ing at revivals. :
To day Hackett presented a forged
check for $275 at the First National
Bank, purporting to have been made b
R. C. Henry, his former protector.
Tae torgery wns detected by Cashier
Shumaker, and Hackett fled “from the
bank, going into one of the country
roads and destroying a large number of
forged checks, notes, cipher dispatches
and other incriminating papers. He
was finally run down, and a search re
vealed other forged papers, aggregating
hundreds of dollars, on his person. He
was lodged in jail.
Be ——
Honduras Has A New Ruler.
President Leiva Resigns and is Succeeded by Ex»*
President Brogan.
New OgrreanNs, March 28.—The
steamship Breakwater arrived from
flonduras last night. She brought the
report that President Leiva has re-
signed and Ex-President Brogan has
assumed charge of the goverment,
There has been some sharp skirm-
ishing around legucigzalpa, the capital
in which the rebels under Bonilla got
the best of it, having larger forces,
which however, are poorly equipped.
The government forces have - been
forced back into the capital, where
they are awaiting reinforcements.
Wants to Fight Fitzsimmons,
Boston, Mass, March 29.—Aleck
Greggins, the pugilist, has deposited
with Captain A. W. Cook, of this city,
$1,000 as a forfeit to make a match
with Bob Fitzsimmons. Grezgins
claims the middle weight champion:
ship of America because no ove in that
class is willing to meet him, although
he has had a forfeit up for some weeks.
The Californian is now determined to
make a try for world’s championship
honors.
Nothing Know of It at the State De-
partment:
WasniNagToxn, March 29.—The re-
ported assault on a sailor of the United
States steamer Kearsarge, at Kingston,
has not been heard of at the state or
navy departments. The last advices
received by the navy department from
the Kearsage was that she was on her
way to Kingston for coal.
——A remarkable Scotchman has just
died at Venice. Alexander Malcolm
arrived in that city 60 years ago in ex-
treme poverty, hut‘ being saturated
with Scottish shrewdness and persever-
ance, he got a start in business, of which
he took advantage to such purpose that
in a few years he was able to enter upon
the timber trade on hisown account, and
he had long been known as the richest
and the leading merchant in that line in
of Honduras,
PANAMA, March 29.--Details of a |
bloody battle near Tatumbla, Honduras !
several days ago, in which the govern- !
ment troops were defeated, have just
been received here.
that part of Italy. He owned several
large properties in and around Venice,
and possessed very extensive forests in
and around Cadore.
——The British Museum contains the
first envelope ever made.
The Cruiser New York.
She is the Fastest Armored Vessel iu the World,
A Very Successful Trial Trip—In the Tests
She Broke all Previous Records and Made a
New One—She will 32 Ready for the Official
Trials in About Three Weeks.
PHILADELPHIA, March 28.—With
the proud disunction of having broken
the record of all preliminary trials, and
the satisfaction of being the fastest
armored vessel in the world, the cruiser
New York returned to Cramp’s ship
vard this morning. From the hour she
steamed down the Delaware until her
arrival to-day naval experts have await-
ed with deep interest the result of the
great war ship’s initial performance.
The run down the river and bay was
made with fires half banked and under:
natural drafts. © The max:mum pressure
of steam carried was 120 pounds to the
square inch. Starting with forty-five
revolutions a speed of ten knots was at.
tained and held until Greenwich point
wag well abaft the beam.
After this the new vessel seems to
warm’ up to her work, ninety-five -
revolutions reached, and the speed in-
creased to 17.5 knots. This made it
rather uncomfortable for the figures of
“Liberty’’ and “Justice”. on each side
of the stern, for they were deluged with
cold spray from head to foot. The ves-
sel seemed to glide through the water
as noiselessly as a yacht, however, and
there was scarcely any vibration
throughout the ship. In her racing
trial the boat made over twenty and
one half miles an hour in twelve fath-
oms of water.
ETT
Plans for Retrenchment in the De-
partment of Agriculture.
WasHINGTON, March 28.—A letter
from Secretary Morton has been ad-
dressed to every bureau and division
chief in the Department of Agriculture,
asking whether any reduction could be
made in the number of his employes
without impairment of the public ser-
vice, it being desirable in the interest of"
economy to lessen the expenses of the de-
partment.
A —————
Ambassadors Henceforth,
Berlin, March 28.—The German
Government will raise the Washington
Legation to an Embassy, in view of a
similar change being made in the rep-
resentation of the United Statesin this
city.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
———
——The Presbyterians will listen to a
choir of fourteen voices Sunday morn--
and evening.
——Mr. John W. Cooke ard family
who have lived at the corner of Alle-
gheny and Linn streets so long, will
soon move to Philadelphia which will
prove a better center for Mr. C’s coal
operations.
— If vou want to laugh and enjoy
a pleasant evening go to hear John R.
Clarke, in the Court house tomorrow,
Saturday evening, in “To and Fro in
London. Tickets twenty-five and thirty-
five cents.
— Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Hunter
entertained their friends at a progressive
euchre last evening. The cosy suite
in the Exchange occupied, by the young
people was the scene of a very pleasant
party.
——Thomas MeClain, oldest son of
Jas. A. McClain the leading merchant
of the new town of Spangler, is in town
visiting his mother. Tom thinks Spang-
ler is dsetined to be a great place, but he
likes to get home occasionally.
——Harry Rine, oldest son of chief
engineer, Samuel Rine, of the water
works, was married to Miss Maud Mur-
ray, of Snow Shoe Intersection, on
Tuesday evening. The ceremony wag
performed at the home of the bride’s
parents.
— Next Thursday night, April 6th,
“Around the World in 80 Days” com-
pany will hold the boards at the opera
house and furnish an evening’s amuse-
ment. There will doubtless be a large
turn out of theatre goers as the Lenten
season will have ended.
——Rev. A. Lawrence Miller, form-
erly of Bellefonte but now of Riverton,
preached in the Methodist church last
Sunday morning, and although it is but
a few short years since he left his desk
in the office of the Bellefonte Furnace
company, his sermon was most excel-
lent and his delivery, fine.
——Don’t fail to buy a ticket to the:
grand Easter ball which the Orpheus
orchestra will give in the Bush Arcade
hall on nest Monday night. The pro-
ceeds will be devoted to the purchase of
music for the orchestra and the new
band and should be large. Bellefonters.
who have any pride in the town zannot
fail to see the advantage of encouraging
organizations which will prove a source:
of pleasure to us all. Even if you don’t
go to the dance purchase a ticket.
They are only fifty cents.
——Miss Lyde Mitchell, of State
College, started this morning for Clear-
field and Gallitzin where she will visit
several days. Monday she will join her
brother John and go with him to Min-
neapolis, Minn., which they will call
their{home hereafter. The going! Wes
of these two young people breaks up one
of the most pleasant homes at the Col-
loge, and while their friends rejoice in
the bright outlook for their future, they
sincerely regret their going.