Terms 2.00 A Year, in Advance Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 22, 1893. Epitor P. GRAY MEEK, No Paper Next Week. a In order that all hands can take a rest and be the better able to start the new year refreshed in mind and body" this office will follow its usual custom and not issue a paper next week. This issue completes the 38th year of the ‘WarcHEMAN's life and preparatory to starting a new one we will all try to find recreation in a joyous holiday season. Sincerely trusting that its readers may have a merry Christmas and that the New Year will bring renewed prosper- ity in all parts of the country the ‘WATCHMAN bids adieu to '93 and hopes {for better things in '94. TT The President's Hawailan Message. The special message sent to Congress by president CLEVELAND on Monday fully justifies the action be has taken in the Hawaiian question, and places his conduct in that matter in a light that creditably displays the sense of duty and regard for official obligation which haye directed his course in the treatment of a subject that so closely involves the honor and good name of the American government. Summarizing the facts (which the president found connected with the Hawaiian affair, and which he has communicated to Congress, it enough to say that when the govern: ment was committed to his charge last March he discovered that an attempt was being m ade to railroad through the Senate a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii, predicated upon occurrences which had been irregularly and unwarrantably brought about by a so-called provisional government that was one of the parties to the pending treaty. Believing that a wrong, in which our government should not become impli- cated, and which would be disgracefu; for it to take advantage of, was eoncealed somewhere in these proceed’ ings, the President exercised his con stitutional power in withdrawing this treaty from the Senate and holding it in abeyance until the facts connected with the alleged revolution could be clearly and reliably ascertained. He sent a trustworthy commissioner to the locality of the transaction, after careful examination, report ed the following circumstances connected with the Hawaiian affair, the correctness of his report being disputed by vone but those who were implicated in what was evidently a conspiracy. He found that the so-called Hawaiian revolution was not the work of Hawaiians, but that it had been con’ cocted and carried out by a compara— tively small faction who were of foreign birth. He found that this movement would not have succeeded and in fact would not have been attempted, if it had not received the encouragement and support of the American minister. He fonnd that the representative of the United States at Honolulu, acting the role ofa filli- buster, had been a prime mover in the proceedings which led to the over— throw of the Hawaiian government ; that he had given assurance to the conspirators that they would have the assistance of a United States naval force, and upon the false pretext of protecting lite and property, he had landed that force before the designs of the plotting revolutionists had devel- oped to that point at which there might have been danger to life and property requiring the protection of the American marines. In short, the president found that the United States minister and an armed American force had been the most effective factors in the plot against the established authority on the islands, and that the United States had been involved in an act of war against a peaceable and friendly people by the employment of its naval force in setting up and main- taining the foreign oligarchy that had usurped abeolute control in Hawaii. These are some of the facts, others being almost as damaging, which pres- ident CLEVELAND has communicated to Congress, and it was the knowledge of them that led him to take such steps “as might prevent a just and honorable power, which this republic should be, from doing a flagrant wrong by becoming a rally i an un- justifiable interference the . af- fairs of a weak and end na- tion, and to an uncalled for overthrow of its lawfully constituted authorities. But it is said that the situation ‘ has who, assumed 'such.’a phase” sings froe Hawaiian oligarchy was eoa seize the government, by the eibianes of ‘a United States, force and a Hljibue. is | | employment of forcible means by our government- This be so, but what should now be done is a matter to be decided by Congress, to which the president has submitted it after having doue in the premises what was clearly his duty todo within the constitutional limit of his authority. ee ——— may The Admission of New States. Utah should not be allowed to re. main an hour longer out of the Union than is necessary to pass the bill for her admission. She has all the requirements of state hood, and to bring her into the sisterhood of states is { a Democratic duty that should admit of no delay. The Republicans, without congider- ering the eonstitutional qualifications for admission, have utilized for their political advantage the sparsely settled mining camps of the Rockies and the thinly populated prairies along the Dominion frontier, by converting them into immature states that would send Republican members to Congress and maintain their hold on the United States Senate. But in the case of Utah, although for a long while she has had more than the constitutionally required number of inhabitants, they kept her out because her admission would not serve their partisan ends. It is now the Democratic turn to make one out of Utah that in point-of popu- lation and material development had a right to be a State long ago. Utah’s exclusion from the Union by the Republicans was not on account of her objectionable religion, or the polygamous practice of her Mormon inhabitants. If she would have “fur nished Republican Congressmen and Senators,a party that for a partisan purpose has violated political decency by making ‘“‘rotton borough’ States would have had no objections to ad- admitting Utah with her Mormon religion, and entertained no scruples about the number of wives that divide the affections of some of her citizens. The fraudulent old party makes great pre- tensions to morality, but it is political advantage that she always keeps her eye on, no matter by what crooked means it may be gained. The bill which the Democrats will pass for the admission of Utah prohib- its a plurality ot wives. Bigamy, of which polygamy is a more amplified fense. As to religion, the constitution United States. Her exclusion on account of the religion of some of her people would be a violation of the American liberty. We trust that there will be no delay in the admission of Utah, as well as of New Mexico and Arizona. In addition to their right to be included in the sis- terhood, their six United States Sena- tors at this juncture will be very ser- viceab'le to the Democratic party. See ? - Mr. Harrison at the Union League. Ex-President HARRISON was the dis- tinguishing guest at a sumptuous feast which the Union League of Philadel- phir gave last evening. Great signifi- cance was attached to his appearance at this festive demonstration, and it was expected that his deliverance on the occasion would include much that would be of interest to his party, and of impor- tance to the country. His address to the Lsaguers has not reached the rural districts through the columns of the city papers, but we have no doubt that in the course of his re- marks ke let it be understood that he is still doing business at the old tariff stand, and that in looking for a tip-top man for its next presidential candidate the Republican party need not confine its choice to Bri McKINLEY, but find a more serviceable article in that line in Indiana. In the presence of such sympathetic hearers he, no doubt enlarged upon the manifold blessing of a protective system which has supplied ‘the country with such a large and interesting assortment of millionaire -monopolists. But there was another. subject.- which, if -he had touched upon it with his usual oral ability, could not, at this particular time, have been otherwise than interest- ing to his audience. He could not have failed to interest them with the information he might of his minister, STEVENS, which would have made it mcre easily understood why that diplomat entered into an ar- rangement with the revolutionists in advance of their revolution; why he Janded & United States force to protect American interests in Hawaii before anything bad occurred to endanger them, and why he had so prematurely and gratuitously employed the Ameri- can flag to cover an enterprise which city and blow in his money as if he | a little. have imparted concerning the conduct | lished and friendly government. There is a doubt in the public mind as to whether a diplomatic agent would have ventured upon such a line of con- duct without having had previous as- surance that it was desired by those whom he represented and from whom he derived his ministerial authority. Mr, HARRISON could have made things clear to his hearers on this point, and thereby would have thrown some light upon his own official connection with the Hawaiian conspiracy. He could also, in his address to the League, have settled the question as to whether he bad really been deceived by the dispatch of minister STEVENS, in which that functionary represented that nothing had been done by him in con- nection with the revolutionary transac- tion until after the existing government bad been overturned by the spontaneous movement of the people of Hawaii, up- on which dispatch he had based his movement to annex the islands. This would have been a feature of the ad- | dress which could not have failed to ex- cite the liveliest interest ot his hearers, particularly if the ex-President at this point in his ret.srks had “winked his other eye.” But nothing which Mr. HARRISON could have said would haveso thorough- ly held the breathless attention of his Union League hearers as the explana- tion he might have given of the mean- ing of minister STEVEN'S letter to the State Department, in which sometime in advance of the culmination of the Hawaiian plot, his hypothetical sugges- tions indicated such a fore-knowledge of what was going to happen as could have been gained in no other way than through complicity. If, furthermore, the ex-President, should have confided to the admiring Leaguers the contents of secretary BLAINE'S answer to minister STEVENS’ letter, a copy of which for some reason cannot be found in the archives of the State Department, he would have in- cluded everything that could have tend- ed to make his address at the Union League banquet the most interesting effort of his life. ADDITIONAL LOACLS. see something there that you want. form, is clearly a subject of congres- | sional prohibition as a common law of- | as much forbids interference with the | Mormon religion as with any other. | As a Mormon individual has a right to Clinton county, be a citizen of this nation, eo has a | | aged 54 years, 7 months, 10 days. The Mormon State a right to be one of the | | deceased united with the church when D. H. Hast- 'ings are receiving congratulations over the advent of a new daughter in their home The babe was born Sunday morn- will probably be named | Sarah, after the General’s mother. | Rebecca McKibben died Dec. 7, at her home, Cedar Springs, Pa., of pneumonia, ling and it | 14 years of age, and during life exhibit- ed an example of true Christian charac- ter. She was & kind neighbor, always willing to aid in time of sickness and affliction. Being a devout christian she expressed herself, “I do not fear to die.” She leaves to mourn ber loss a husband, one daughter and two sons. THE CoLUMBIA DESK CALENDAR.— which is issued annually by the Pope manufacturing company, of Columbia Bicycle fame, is out for 1894, much im- proved in appearance. It isa pad cal- endar of the same size and shape as those of previous years, having a leaf for each day, but its attractiveness has been heightened by the work of a clever artist, who has scattered a series of bright pen-drawings through its pages. It also contains, as usual, many appro- priate and interesting contributions from people both bright and wise. Fair AT HowarDp.—The members and friends of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the Christian church at Howard have been busy for several weeks making fancy work etc., for the festival and fair to be held in the old post office building on Saturday and Monday, Dec 23 and 25th. Fashionable fancy work and Christmas gifts in endless variety will be for sale: This will be an opportunity for the peo- ple of Howard and vicinity to buy Christmas presents at a reasonable price, as all the goods have been donated and will be sold cheap. ——Furniture is a staple article, but purchases of it seem to be morein vogue during the holidays than at any other time during the year. Kd. Brown Jr's ‘store, on Bishop street, is the place where everyone seems to be going to make their purchases. He has a full line of everything you could possibly want. Children’s high chairs $1. Chil. dren’s rocking chairs 50c ; french plate glass chamber suit, 8 pieces solid oak $25. Three drawer bureau with glass §5, Chamber suit eight pieces $17, and every- thing else as reasonable. THEY Gor EVEN.--A party of Ty- rone matrons who had put up with their husbands’ extravagant ways as long as they could and had been life long vie- tims of that inherent idea in man that he can run to every banquet, every po- litical meeting, every big day in the | a year, decided to play a joke on their husbands. They did it too, with a ven- geance. On Monday night the Od d Fellows were to banquet in Tyrone and the wives of those Odd Fellows all went to the caterer and ordered him to serve the same banquet at the home of one of their number that he served for the fel- lows who were deep in the mysteries of the lodge. The caterer did it and when the hubbies had to pay for two ban- ‘quets next morning Well there was no fuss at all. MARRIAGE LiceENses.—Issued dur- ing the past week— Taken from the docket. Allen W. Wetzel, of Aaronsburg,and Beulah V. Musser, of Fiedler. Harry J. Beck and Dora Richley, both of Philipsburg. Attend the Logan fair. You will | Rev. Ralph Illingsworth, of State College and, Marion Snyder, of Pine | Grove Mills. James Miller, Jr. and Mary M. Hall, both of Spring township. W. S. Reynolds, of Hublersburg, and H. A. Spotts, of Marion township. Benj. E. O'Bryan, of Wolfs Store, and Mamie Doehler, of Rebersburg. ‘W. W. Davis, and Clara A. South- ard, both of Philipsburg. J. E. Johnstonbaugh, of Marion township, and Lydia E. Robb, of Clin- ton county. And. Moyer, of Potter township, and Maggie From, of Centre Hall. Aaron Detwiler, and Emma C. Flory, both of Tusseyville. Edgar S. Place, of Hollis, L. I., N. Y. and Mary L. Woods, of Boalsburg. P. A. Hoover and Mary F. Beck- er, both of Hannah Furnace. N. B. Spangler, Esq., of Bellefonte, and Adella D. Fink, of Unionville. Thomas S. Hazel, of Spring township, and E. N. O'Bryan, of Bellefonte. CounciL MET MoNDAY EVENING. — The regular semi-monthly meeting of council was held in its chamber, last Monday evening, and members Hil- libish, Williams, Bush, Dartt, Miller, Gerberich and Bauer were the only ones present. The only committee that had a report ! to make was the one that looks after the streets and it reported considerable work in getting the new Wilson street 1n shape for use and that some work had been done on east Howard street. A number of minor requests for grades and pavements were referred to the commit- tee with power to act. A new fire plug was ordered at the corner of Lamb and Thomas streets and one is being placed on Lamb street, near the new depot. The C. R. R. of Pa., engines will take water from the latter and pay the bor- ough rent. The question of street light- ing was again taken up, but as a satis- factory contract could not be made it was determined to let the matter stand until spring, when exegencies may war- rant increased lighting. Many other matters were discussed among them be- the necessity for the Street Commission- er’s cleaning off side walks which own- ers neglect. Thereis a borough ordi- nance which requires property holders to have their pavements cleaned within forty-eight hours after the fall of snow and ull council need do is enforce it. The most important business taken up was the Water street boardwalk which came before council before the members had time to run. The motion to give Jas. Harris $160 for building the walk was fought, pro and con, for fully an hour, during which time the borough solicitor seized an opportunity to show which side of the fence he is on by declaring that there is no property there to collect damages from. If not Mr. Dale, what is the boardwalk built on? Surely not on air or water. An amendmert to the motion which would have called upon the Hale estate for the cost of the walk was lost then the original motion carried. So that the borough is to pay $160 for a board-walk on property which it does not own. This pavement building business will prove very dear to the borough unless proceedings are begun at once to recover from owners of property, cost for laying all walks. ——Centemeri gloves in all sizes and shades at Mrs, Gilmore's. How GALER Was FooLED.--The laugh is on the honorable Recorder of Centre county just now, and so you can enjoy the joke along with those who were there, we'll tell it. The marriage license business has been unusually good during the past week and Register Roop has been stick- ing pretty close to his office so as not to keep any prospective benedicts waiting long before the crowd that frequents the Register and Recorder’s office, but on ‘Wednesday morning he skipped out ahd went to Institute for a little while. During his absence there was a faint knock at the door and in response to clerk Dukeman’s, ‘Come in!” a young man and woman, arrayed in their Sun- day best, pushed half way into the office and then stopped to reassure each other There can be no doubt that courage to ask for a five dollar bill once | moment, but just then the young beau asked for Mr. Roop. Ho was informed of the Register’s ab- sence and both were asked to take a seal and wait for his return. They sat down and after a mutual admiration, out of the corners of their eyes which lasted fully half an hour without either one of them saying a word, Galer thought he would help them along a littie so he went into the vault and pro- cured the marriage license docket. Straightway he began propounding the usual questions to the fellow and his girl, all of which they answered in a way that showed very plainly their cha- grin, but there was not an open erup- tion until Galer wanted to know the voung lady’s age. The questioning stopped right there. In righteous indignation they both shrieked : “What do you want that for?” Galer began to get scared but stuck to it and said, ‘‘the law requires it I” “What for?’ demanded the young lady and gentleman. Whereupon the foxy Recorder began to get a little hot and wheeling round in his chair said. See here, “I know you are both bashful, but you needn’t make such a fuss over getting a marriage license.” He thought that would settle them, but oh, how he longed for the floor to open and swal- low him up when, while the blushes mounted to the roots of the maiden’s hair, her companion declared that they weren’t after a marriage license at all, and only wanted to see Mr. Roop. TaE First TRAIN WRECKED.—The opening of the new Central Railroad of Pennsylvania, on Monday morning, was characterized by an accident not antici- pated by the managers of the road and when a telegram was received at the gen- eral office here at 8:30 stating that train No. 1., consisting of a combination and one regular passenger coach, drawn by the handsome new engine, ‘Nashetane,” was over a six foot embankment at Shuler’s mill, one mile east of Clinton- dale, there was general consternation not only among the railroad men but among the people of the town who had looked upon the opening so = au= spiciously. The news spread like wild-fire and it seemed as if the telegraph instruments had scarcely stopped ticking ere little groups of pecple could be seen standing about the streets discussing the possible cause and result of the accident. Of course the wildest kind of rumors were afloat at first, but a second report to the effect that no one was hurt soon set all minds at ease. The train left this place a litile be- hind schedule time, 7:10, and was carry- ing forty passengers. It had reached Clintondaie all right and was running on down the line when in the vicinity of Shuler’s mill the engine left the track and ran nearly a hundred feet on the ties before it fell over the embankment. Engineer Gilmour and his fireman, Will Brown, stuck to their posts and after the engine had turned clear over both crawled out from under the wreck with- out a scratch. Their escape was mirac- ulous for the cab of the engine in which they were seated wns badly shattered. The combination car was dragged from the track and stopped halt way down the bank, but the second car did not leave the rails. As the fill at that point was made nearly all of clay, and with very little stone, the cars and engine were not as badly battered up as they might otherwise have been. ‘When the crash came there was gen- eral pandemonium among the passen- gers, most of whom were excursionists from this place, but when they got themselves together enough to scram ble out where they could find that aside from a pretty general shaking up no one was hurt they were all quieted and thankful that it was no worse. General Superintendent J. W. Gep- hart was on the train and when he climbed out to survey the disaster which his pet locomotive and cars had met with he exclaimed, ‘Well, we can re- pair machinery, but we can’t do so with lives.” A very philosophical view of it. The Beech Creek R. R. wreck crew was called at once and the track straightened up for other trains after which a track was laid down to the engine and it was pulled up and sent to the shops for repairs. Trains were de- layed for many hours, but by Wednes- day morning they got running on schedule time as usual. ST Atlanta 1s is Wet. After Eight Long Years of of Suppression or Ab- solute Prohibition. ATLANTA, Dec. 18. “18.—The liquor men of Atlanta after eight years ot suppres gion are again in practical control of legislation, and their effort will be to extend the hour for closicg from 10: o'clock to 12 o'clock. For two years the city. was under complete prohibi- tion. This record was followed by an era of high licence, the figure being fixed at $1,000, the area limited to the fire limits and the hour for closing be- ing fixed at 10 p. M. The first move, a. successful, one, was made to dav for, the extension of the hour to midnight. The affair will precipitate another angry campaign, . |. politics all through his long life. ren TL TI TE TS TAR Toy —_ TTT — ees | tering American minister, that the could bear no other construction than | were a Creesus, yet glower and rave they looked like it, and Guley still swears Spawls from the Keystone ULE. wrong cannot be righted without the | that of a plot to overthrow a lung estab- | when his penniless wife screws up ; that they lost courage at the last —A “Pennsy” train crushed out the life of Kenzie Fox, Christiana. —Farmer George Wilt, worth $30,000, hanged himself at Mechanicsburg. ~The Board of Pardons’ postponed until January 4. meeting has bean —The Addison and Pennsylvania Raiiroad in Potter County was opened Monday. —The body of Thomas Cleary, of Plymouth, was found in the woods near Sandy Run. —At Easton a 1 ehigh Valley train cut to peices Stanislaus Waranis, of Bridgeton, N. J. —Berks County farmers are still feeding wheat to their cows, it being cheaper than corn. —James Zehr, who stabbed to death Joseph Zehr, at Hazleton, last week, has been cap- tured. —Hotel Proprietor Heilman, of Lebanon, will give a free dinner to 200 poor children to- morrow. —Joseph Burns, aged 77, one of Media's old - est reside nts, died Monday from a stroke of | apoplexy. —Ex-Judge Broomall, of Medi, still re- mains in about the same condition as he did a week ago. —Governor Pattison Tuesday pardoned Bust Kightlinger and Willoughby Simmons, War- ren County. —F. 8S. Smith, wanted in Bangor tor forging a check for $435, has been captured at Rich mond, Ind. —Nearly 800 teachers were Monday enrolled at the Schuylkill County Institute, which met at Pottsville. —About 200 quail will be turned loose in the woods near Ashland next spring, paid for by local sportsmen. —Philadelphia Monday received $200,926.19: from the State Treasury, the last of the school fund for this year. —Fifty machinists employed in the Allen- town Rolling Mill have had their wages re- duced fifteen per cent. —A runaway team knocked down and ser- iously injured little Maggie McMahon, in Williamsport on Monday. —All the Lehigh Valley Company's collieries in the Pottsville region were idle Monday and Tuesday on account of a car famine. —South Chester citizens will decide by vote whether or not to borrow $30,000 and hire the unemployed to improve the streets. —As he was returning from a funeral at Miners’ Mills, Luzerne County, Michael Dougherty was cut to pieces by a train. —There will be a skating tournament on Christmas on the Neshaminy Creek under the auspices of the Doylestown Athletic Club. —Plans for the State Industrial School were discussed Tuesday at a meeting of the Sol. diers’ Orphans’ Commission, held in Harris- burg. —The Philadelphia and Reading express train, from Philadelphia, was derailed near Locust Gap Monday afternoon, but no one was hurt. —George W. Weitzell, the engineer at the Chambersburg Hosiery Mill, died suddenly, at midnight Monday of heart disease, aged 50 years. —Archbishop Ryan was Monday granted permission to remove the bodies in the old Catholic cemetery at Norristown to the new cemetery. —On account of the smallpox epidemic in Reading, the annual meeting of the State Hor- ticultual Association wil be held in Harris- burg, January 16. —Two hundred unemployed men were Monday set at work on the streets in Pittsburg at the expense of contributors of a consid- erable sum of money. —The Reynoldsville to nnery, destroyed by fire a few days ago, will be rebuilt and without delay, the work of clearing away the debris having already commenced. —Attorneys for Henry Heist, sentenced at Gettysburg to be hanged on January 17, will ask the Pardon Board to commute his sen- tence to life imprisonment. —Mrs. Mary Gelwick, aged 62, the wife of Tax Collector William Gelwick, died sudden- ly at Chambersburg Sunday night of heart disease at the front door of her home. —Governor Pattison will sign the commuta- tion of th: death sentence of Joseph Zappe, the Pittsburg murderer, as soon as he receives the papers from the Board of Pardons. —George W. Eagans, aged 40 years, superin- tendent of the McGinnis quarries, near Nor- ristown, was fatally burned Monday worning by the premature explosion of a blast. —The lumber firm of F.H. & C. W. Good- yeor will construct the Buffalo and Susquehan- na Railroad to extend from Keating Summit, Potter County, to Ansonia, Tioga County. —Dr. J. 8. Flickinger, aged 65, of Fannetts- burg, died Sunday of la grippe. .He was one ot the most prominent physicians in the county and a graduate of Jefferson College. * —Auditor General Gregg has learned that several Philadelphia corporations have added to their capital stock without reporting to the department, and, are therefore, avoiding taxes. —Richard O'Connor, a wealthy farmer, was found dead in a creek near Johnstown Mon- day morning. About $600 that he had in his pocket is missing. It is evidently a mur- der. —The general store and house of Thomss B. Weyant, late Democratic candidate for As- sociate Judge, at Mowery's Mills, Bedford county, was destroyed by fire Monday. Loss, $8,000; no insurance. —At Pottsville Monday Harvey Matthews, who shot his friend, James McAllister, in the back last Wednesday morning, was admitted to bail in the sum of $2,000. McAllister is still alive, but the doctors say he cannot re- cover. —The death of ex-Associate Judge Adam Heeter, of Three Springs, Huntingdon county, is announced. Judge Heeter was past 80 years of age. He took an active interest in He was an uncompromising republican. —A resident of Altoona got himself into a heap of trouble by knowingly passing a coun- terfeit dollar at the Washington hotel in Juniata He was given a hearing-by Alderman Rogers in Hutchinson's hall last evening and released on his own recognizance. Another hearing will take place on Wednesday next. —George W. and Daniel Cessna, owners of the Rainsburg steam tanneries, have failed. Executions were issued. against them Tuesday evening for $17,000. One, of the firm is a brother and the other a son, of the late John Cess1a. The failure is due to the depression in the leather market. It is thought they will be able to pay dollar for dollar.
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