Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., March 9, 1824,
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Epritor
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Mistaken in Regard to Sugar.
We greatly regret tosee that an es-
teemed = Philadelphia contemporary
which has done excellent service to the
cause of tariff reform should be so
badly out of joint in regard to free
sugar.
Of the many strong arguments it has
made against the Republican tariff
system none was stronger than the pos:
ition it has always taken that such a
tariff is oppressive to the general class
of citizens, inasmuch as it taxes the
necessaries of life. Take away this
objection and but very little if any
ground of contention against a tariff
would remain.
Now if there is anything that is a
thorough necessity, generally needed
and used in every household, it is su-
gar. What then becomes of our es-
teemed contemporary’s objection to
tariffs that oppressively tax the neces-
saries of life when it would select asa
special object of tariff taxation the
most necessary of necessaries, the arti:
cle extensively used in every family,
and in the aggregrate vastly more by
the working people than by the
wealthy ?
To say that a tax on |such a neces
sary is required for the purpose of rev-
enue _is no argument, unless it can be
shown that there are no other sources,
less oppressive, from which the needed
revenue could be raised. To resort to
such a tax because sugar can be read-
ily handled as a subject of tarift duties
is rather hard on the general consum-
“ers 'who are to be subjected to such an
imposition because it can be handily
done. : ;
Our excellent contemporary makes a
mistake when[it says that the Demo-
cratic newspapers which oppose the
tariffing of sugar “are merely making
a parrot-like repetition of the cheap
demagogic cries of the MoKINLEYITES
when they repealed those duties.”
There is not a Democratic newspaper
that does not know that Republican
“free sugar’ is a fraud. The trust was
given the advantage of free raw sugar,
but the duty was kept on the manufac-
tured article that is used by the people.
It strengthened the trust ‘without bene-
fiting the consumers. When Demo-
cratic newspapers ask for the removal
of duties from all kinds of sugar, refin-
ed as well as raw, there is no parrot
like imitation of Republican humbug
on the sugar question in such a de-
mand.
It is no doubt true, as declared by
the journal we speak of, that one of the
objects of the Republicans in repealing
the duty on raw sugar was “to despoil
the Treasury of revenue and to obstruct
tariff reform ;” but their first and big-
gest movement towards making a tariff
financially necessary by removing oth-
er sources of revenue was in the abol-
lishment of the income tax. It was
the first thing they did in preparing for
that system of taxation which our con-
temporary has so often righteously de-
nounced as spoliation and oppression ot
the general class of consumers.
The income tax having been gotten
out of the way in order to make tariffs
permanently necessary as fiscal instru-
mentalities, should it not occur to our
esteemed contemporary that a restora-
tion of a tax on incomes would be a
legitimate and logical way of avoiding
the taxation of necessaries which has
80 long been the subject of its denun-
ciation ?
Without being disconcerted by the
charge that a Democratic newspaper
that opposes a tax on sugar merely par-
rots the cheap demogogic cries of the
MoKINLEYITES when they juggled with
the sugar duties, we contend that itis
fairer and more equitable that the pub-
lic revenues should be derived from the
incomes of the wealthy than from the
sugar bowls of the working people.
Presidential Recuperation.
We observe that some of our Repub-
lican contemporaries have given them-
selves considerable trouble about the
President's recent ducking expedition.
They declare it to have been a great
neglect of official duty for him to leave
his post at Washington and engage in
such diversion at a time when the
country is in such a distressful situa-
tion, Their complaint, however, would
make more of an impression if they
would state in what way the constant
presence of the President at Washing:
ton is required at this particular june:
ture to relieve the calamity which is
the subject of their lamentations.
A Democratic Congress, in the face
of great difficulties and many obstacles
that oppose its movement, is engaged
in undoingjthe evils of past Republican
legislation, ¥ It has imposed upon it
the task of correcting injurious policies
and extravagant practices that have
done more than anything else to bring
the country to its present plight. [ts
movement is necessarily slow. The
President, whose functions are not of a
legislative character, must await the
action of Congress before he can do the
part that is required of him, and if in
the meanwhile, he recuperates his
physical vigor by taking a crack at the
ducks, he only puts himself in better
condition to assist in knocking over
Republican economic abuses by his
signature to a reform Democratic tariff
bill,
The President neglected no public
duty in going duck shooting. When
there is work to do that comes within
the line ot his official duty, for exam-
ple the signing of a bill for the repeal
of a vicious Republican silver purchas-
ing enactment, or of a law authorizing
the forcible control of the elections, he
is always on hand to do his part, and
he will he found doing business at the
Presidential stand when the WiLsoN
bill is presented to him for his auto-
graph. ;
The Unworthy Should Be Dropped.
At the annual meeting of the Penu-
eylvauia Division of the Grand Army
of the Republic, which was held in
Philadelphia last week, commander
SampLE, in his address to the veterans,
said in regard to the recent dropping of-
pensioners from the rolls that ‘no cou-
sistent member of the Grand Army of
the Republic desires an illegal pension
to be paid,” and he believed that
“every comrade was ready to assist
the government in purging the roll of
every fraudulent pensioner,” but he
further said that the Grand Army
“should demand that no names should
be stricken from the rolls simply to
reduce the amount of money to be
paid by the government.”
This is something of a concession,
and a decided lowering of the arrogant
tone by which any. attempt to check
pension abuses was denounced from
that quarter. Itis pitched in a less
offensive key than that which charac-
terized the tirades against President
CLEVELAND when he exercised his veto
against individual cases of improper
pensioning.
To say that the Grand Army does
“not desire an illegal pension to be
paid,” does not cover, nor offer a rem-
edy for one of the most flagrant abuses
connected with the pension system. The
greatest dbuse connected with the sye-
tem is the legalizing of pensions to per-
sons who are not in need of them. Such
cases as that of Judge Long, of Michi-
gan, the affluent pensioner-who is con-
tending in the courts for his legal right
to a pension that is not needed by a
man in his pecuniary circumstances, is
ao illustration of this shameful method
of misapplying the bounty of the gov-
ernment, There is hardly a section of
the country in which dozens of pen-
sioners can not be pointed out who are
receiving this government bounty, not
because their circumstances are such
that they need it, but because the law
has been so improperly framed as to
give them a claim to it.
To change the pension laws so that
all pensioners whose pecuniary condi-
tion does not require the assistance of
the government shall be dropped from
the rolls should be the object of Dem"
ocratic legislation. *
The remark of commander SAMPLE
that “no pames should be stricken
from the rolls simply to reduce the
amount of money to be paid by the
government,” is not controverted in
any quarter. When the claim is a
worthy one and the bounty is needed it
is an obligation sacredly binding jupon
the government; but when there is an
anpual drain of morethan a hundred
and fifty millions of dollars on the pub-
lic resources, there can be no question
of the urgent necessity of ‘reducing the
amount to be paid by the government’
by dropping the class of pensioners
who are absorbing a large portion of
this vast sum for wo other reason than
that improper and vicious pension laws
give them a legal claim to it.
A Marked Difference.
The difference between Democratic
justice in New York and Republican
justice in Philadelphia, is not only ob-
servable but very marked. In New
York they put the fellow, who commits
a crime against the purity of the bal
lot in prison, as they did MoKanE,
while in Philadelphia they put them
in their council as they did Dave
Movarr and Harry Hunter. As
long as McK ANE is in Sing-Sing and
Huxter is a Philadelphia councilman,
and out of Moyamensing, Republican
papers ought tc be ashamed to speak
of the purity of elections or the justice
of Republican courts.
A Successor to Senator White Ap-
pointed
New OrLEANS, March 7.—Congress- |
man M.C. Blanchard has been ap- |
pointed United States senator by Gov- |
ernor Foster to fill the unexpired term
of Senator White until the legislature
meets in May this year.
‘vicious habits,
Many Pension Frauds.
‘Gen. Black's Brilliant Defense of the
Present Policy and Methods of Gov
ernment Officials.
‘WasHINGTON, March 3.—The House
today devoted the greater part of the
session to the consideration of the pen-
sion appropriation bill. After important
business was disposed of Mr. Pickler
(South Dakota) took the floor and made
a vigorous speech in behalf of a liberal
pension policy. The old soldier, his
widow, his children and his grandchil-
dren should have justice, he said.
Geperal Black, of Illinois, ex-Com-
missioner of Pensions, followed Mr.
Pickler, whose kindly speech, he said,
might almost be adopted as the declara-
tion of the House. While it was true that
there was no praise of the Union soldier
that would not find an echo on the Dem-
ucratic side, the assault of Mr. Grout,
speaking for the Republican minority,
could not be overlooked.
Mr. Grout, Mr. Black said, bad laid
down three propositions : First, that the
pension office was unfriendly to the sol-
diers ; second, that it was inimical to
their rights, and, third, that the Demo-
cratic party was hostile to the Union |
soldiers.
THE LAW IGNORED.
To these propositions he desired to
address himself. In 1891-2, 211,000
claims were allowed, an average of 1000
pension certificates issued a day. Inthe
finul adjudication one clerk passed on
2,400 cases in a month, or one every
four micutes. After he had made this
record he was promoted. Thousands of
cases were adjudicated on three papers,
first, the pensioners’ application ; second,
the date ot entering and leaving the
army, without stating whether he was
bonorably or dishonorably discharged ;
third, the medical examination.
There was an entire neglect of the
great requisite of the law--that the con-
dition ot the applicant should be shown
not to have been the result ot his own
1t was this sort of skele-
ton work which produced such enormous
results. He did not say this in criticism,
only to show the methods that obtained.
It was: impossible, except by the inter-
position of a miracle, to avoid gross and
extensive erros with such methods.
Mr. Black went on to vite the case of
a Northwestern regiment which went
South for 100 days and never saw the
smoke of battle nor heard a musket
crack. Six hundred and fourteen in
that regiment were on the pension roll
under the act of 1890 with two com-
panies unaccounted for. Was that
making the pension a roll of honor.
[Democratic applause. ]
PENSION FRAUDS ALLEGED.
This statement caused great interest.
Mr. Ray, of New York, wanted to
know if General Black was not aware
that those men had been pensioned for
gallant and meritorious service in other
commands.
General Black
knew nothing of the kind. Mr. Lacey
insisted on knowing the name of the
regiment, and Mr. Black declined to
give it, saying that he was not playing
the part of detective. He insisted that
it a soldier was pensioned as a member
of a certain regiment he was pensioned
for service in that regiment. :
Mr. Black then drifted into a discus-
sion of the frauds unearthed at Norfolk,
New Orleans, New Mexico, Chatta-
nooga, Iowa and Minnesota by the
present Commissioner of Pensions, which
he said, since December 23, had resulted
in 28 arrests, 82 indictments and 61 con-
victions. He cited them, he said, to
show that Mr. Lochren had been active
in the discharge of his duty as an honest
man.
The repeal of order 164 was not to be
deemed an evidence of Democratic hos-
uliy to the pensioners, be said. With
reterence to the charge that the Denio-
cratic party was hostile to the soidiers,
he pointed out that since 1861 the House
which originated all pension appropria-
tion bills bad been 18 years under tke
control of the Republican party, and
during that time 1. had appropriated
$676,000,000, while during the 16 years
of Democraue rule the House had sent
to the Senate bills appropriating $951,-
000,000.
“Which party originated the pension
legislation,” ssked Mr. Grout.
“Both parties,” repiied Mr. Black.
BRILLIANT DEFENCE OF LOCHREN.
‘Has a pension law ever been origi-
nated by the Democratic party,” in-
quired Mr. Grout.
“There are many of them. Thear-
rearage of pension 13 one of them,”
replied Mr. Black. Mr. Black, in re-
plying to the charge that Commissioner
Lochren was dominated by Secreiary
Smith, an ex-Confederate soldier, paid
a glowing and eloquent tribute to the
former’s war ricord. With vivid words
that held the House spellbound he drew
the picture of the second day’s battle at
Gettysburg; how, after Sickles’ corps
had been turned back by the flame and
fire of the graycoated avalanche, Han-
cock, the superb, had ordered the First
Regiment of Minnesota, with Lieuten-
ant Lochren in the center, to check that
charge. Their task, said General Black,
was as hopeless as that of the Greeks at
Thermopylae. But they did their duty
with a loss of 215 killed and wounded
and the tide of battle was turned back.
Only 47 came off the field unscathed.
To attack the friendship of such a soldier
for his comrades, conluded General
Black, was to stamp the whole vast tis-
sue of slander as unworthy even of the
calumniators.
Cheer upon cheer from the gallery
and floor followed the brilliant perora-
tion, and his colleagues crowded around
and congratulated the speaker.
Mr. Waugh (Rep., Indiana) declared
that no pension bill, general or private,
had ever been rejected by a Republican
vote. At the conclusion of Mr. Waugh’s
speech the committee rose. On motion
of Mr. Cogswell, of Massachusetts, a bill
to pension Hannah Lisle was passed,
and then, at 3:55, the House adjourned.
Professor Wilson Improving.
City or Mexico, March 6.—A dis-
patch from Guadaljara says that Con-
gressman Wilson was well enough to
git up three hours to-day. It is expec-
ted that he will be able to come to this
city in about ten days. When he ar
rives here he will be accorded a recep-
tion by the government,
‘and the ninth night (last night) the
replied that he
which would have warranted a dishon-
CSC ET LR TI A TS TTA TS eat ti
In Washington Again.
The President's Hunting Trip Was Very Success-
Ful. ! ‘ !
WasHINGTON, March 6.—Captain |
Evans, of the light house board, who
was in charge of the president's party
in his recent trip to North Carolina,
stated that, from a sportsman’s view,
the trip was eminently successful and |
nearly every day after reaching the
North Carolina coast, the entire party
enjoyed excellest shooting.
The trip down the river was entirely
without incident. A blizzard which
had been threatened Sunday overtook
the Violet below Fort Washington and
when Quarantine was reached 1t was
deenied prudent to anchor for the night
as the storm was so thick that the pi-
lot could not see a ship’s length ahead
of him, The second night was spent
at Portsmouth, Va., the third night at
Loog Point, N. C., the fourth night at
Croatan Sound, N. C., the fifth and
sixth nights at Hatteras, the seventh
night on the return trip at Roanoke
Marshes, eighth night at Long Point,
veseel ran all night.
While lying at Hatteras the presi
dent and party took a steam launch
and visited the neighboring inlets and
lighthouses in that vicinity. He met
a number of the people inhabiting that
section and shook hands with them.
He was treated with the utmost re-
spect and consideration by all.
Mr. Cleveland buckled down to
work a few minutes after he reached
the white house. In ten minutes atter
he sat down at his desk, he and Pri-
vate Secretary Thurber had disposed
of a pile of routine business. Soon af-
ter 3 o'clock Secretary Carlisle called
on the president and the two had a
talk over treasury matters.
By the president's direction the wag-
on load of game was distributed at the
houses of all the cabinet officers, Pri-
vate Secretary Thurber and Captain
Evans.
Caring for Soldier's Widows.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds Says Death is an
“ Honorable Discharge.”
WasniNeToN, D. C., March 2.—Ae-
sistant Secretary Reynolds to-day de-
cided a case which will render pension-
able a meritorious class of claimants
under the act of June 27, 1890 who
were excluded under the previous de-
cisions of the department. The case
is that of Mary E., widow of Samuel
H. Walker, whose busband had served
a term of 90 days had been honorably
discharged. Walker again entered |
the service and was commissioned, and
while serving his second term of ser-
vice was killed, but not in the line of
duty. ‘His claim was rejected by the
Pension Bureau in conformity with the
departmental decisions that a soldier
not having been honorably discharged
from his second term of service his
widow was not entitled to a
pension, notwithstanding the fact
that he had served 90 days or more
and bad been honorably discharged
{rom a previous enlistment.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds decides
‘even though the words honorably dis-
charged be interpreted in their broad-
est sense, and held to mean an honor-
able discharge from each and every
term of service. yet death in the second
term of service should be considered an
equivalent to an honorable discharge
unless occurring under circumstances
orable one.”
The action of the Pension Bureau of
June 23, 1891, rejecting this widow's
claim, is therefore reversed and the
Bureau of Pensions is directed to pro-
ceed to adjudicate this and all similar
cases in accordance with the rule as
herein indicated.
Parliament Meets.
The Queen's Speech Was Read in Both Houses—
Some Changes in the Cabinet.
LoNpoN, March 5.—The house of
lords met at 1:30 p. m. The local gov-
ernment bill received the royal asseunt,
the queen’s speech was read and the
house adjourned. The speakers and
the members of the house of commons
were summoned to the house of lords
to hear the queen’s speech read. Mr.
Labouchere and halt a dozen other
Radicals remained behind. Later the
queen’s speech was read in the house
of commons and that body adjourned.
Thomas Ellis bas been selected as Lib-
eral whip in place of Mr. Majoribanks,
who goesto the house of lords. Mr.
Gladstone will recommend that his
friend Stuart Rendel and Reginald
Welby be raised to the peerage.
Is Hopelessly Insane.
Mepia, Pa., March 6.—The trial of
Prot. S. C. Shortlidge for the murder of
his young wife will probably take
place next week. Sincethe week after
the murder Shortlidge has been in the
Norristown insane asylum and he is
said to be hopelessly insave. His
friends are therefore anxious that the
charge of murder against him should
be tried and disposed of. Judge Clay-
ton said to-day that if counsel could
agree upon some day next week for the
case to come to trial he would hear it.
It will be necessary to bring Shortlidge
from Norristown oa the day of the trial
and Judge Clayton said that he thought
the case could be disposed of in a sin-
gle day and Shortlidge would ndt have
to spend the night in the jail here.
Nominations Confirmed.
W asniNgToN, March 7.—The senate
has confirmed the following nomina-
tions : Charles Jonas, of Wisconsin,
consul general at St. Petersburg.
Postmasters : T. C. O'Connor, Mahanoy
City, Pa. ; J. F. Early, Osceola Mills,
Pa. ; Joseph Delebunt, Houtzdale, Pa.
The injunction of secrecy was re-
moved from the following nominations,
which were confirmed yesterday : St.
Clair A. Mulholland, pension agent;
P. Gray Meek, surveyor of customs ;
{ republicans had a sweep'ng victory in
John R. Read, collector of customs, all
of the port of Philadelphia.
In the Empire State.
After Yesterday's Election There Is But Lit-
tle of Democracy Left -It Was A Republican
Day— Even in Brovkiyn the Unterrified Are
Forced Under and in the Cities of the State the
Land Slide Was of a Destructive Character.
AwmsterpayM, N- Y,, March 6.— The
this city to-day. They elect a mavor,
city recorder, city treasurer, five alder-
men, and four out of five supervisors.
Rome, N. Y., March 6.—The char-
ter election to-day resulted in the eiec-
tion of Charles Carmichael, democrat,
for recorder. The common council
will stand the same us last year, ten
republicans to seven democrats, with a
democratic mayor holding over.
Troy, N. Y., March 6.—Incomplete
returns indicate the election ot Molloy,
the regular democratic nominee, by a
majority of 1,200. The board of alder-
men will remain under democratic
control.
There were five candidates for mayor
in to-day’s election, but interest center-
ed in the contest between Mayor
Whelan, independent democrat, whom
the republicans endorsed, and Francis
J. Molloy, the choice of the regular
democracy and the adherents of Sena-
tor Murphy.
HornNELLsVILLE, N. Y., March 6.—
The election to-day resulted in a re-
publican victory.
Rocuester, N. Y., March 6.—The
republicans have elected the entire city
ticket.
PovcrkEeEpsig, N. Y., March 6.—
Elections took place in the twenty
towns in Dutchess county, outside ot
Poughkeepsie, to-day. The republi-
cans elect sixteen and the democrats
four supervisors. Last year the same
towns elected nine republicans and
eleven democrats. Io the city the re-
puplicans have four and the democrats
five, making the board stand twenty
republicans and seven democrats, in-
stead of fourteen republicans and four-
teen democrats as before.
MiopLerown, N. Y., March 6.—
William A. Stamsbury, republican,
was to-day elected mayor of this city.
The republicans sweep the city.
Iteaca, N. Y., March 6.—At the
city election here today the republi-
cans elected the recorder and the city
civil justice. The republicans carry
three ot the four wards.
Oswego, March 6,—The charter elec-
tion held here to-day was the most
exciting and the most closely contested
in the history of Oswego. The great
contest was between Bulger, Cleveland
democrat, and Higgins, . republican,
and it will require the official count to
determine the result, The republicans
elect six out of eight aldermen.
NewsureH, March 6.—The republi-
cans to-day elected all ‘their candi-
dates. 3
Peekskinn, March 6.—The republi-
cans carried everything here to-day.
AuBurN, N. Y. March 6.—The en-
re republican ticket was elected to-
ay. i
Eumira, N. Y., March 6.—The
democrats elected their candidates here
to-day. 34
Broorryn, N. Y.; March 6.—The
special election ordered by Governor
Flower for the purpose of. electing a
supervisor from the Eighth ward re-
sulted to-day, in the election of August
C. Fisher, The election of Fisher gives
the republicans full control in the
board of supervisors.
Le Roy, N. Y., March 6.—The re-
publicans ‘elected their entire ticket
here to-day. :
Niagara Fares, N. Y., March 6.—
The election to-day was unfavorable to
the democracy.
Corning, N. Y., March 6.—The elec-
tion to-day resuliad in the republi-
cans electing their entire ticket.
Batavia. N. Y,, March 6.—The re-
publican elected their whole ticket by
large majorities.
Roonester, N. Y., March 6.—Oat
of thirty-nine towns and wards the
democrats today elected but six su-
pervisors.
Bara. N. Y., Maich 6.—The demo-
crats to-day elected T. W, Gould mayor.
The whole democratic city ticket was
elected. It was the hottest contested
election ever held here.
Portuguese and British Come Together.
Port Naran, Southeast Africa,
March 7.—The Portuguese having ob-
structed the progress of the British par-
ties engaged in constructing the tele-
graph live between the British sphere
and Tete on the Zambesi, Lieutenant
Commander Carr, in command of the
gun boat Mosquito, landed a party ot
blue jackets in order to protect the men
at work upon the telegraph line.
The Portuguese fired upon the Brit-
ish landing party and the fire was re-
turned. The latest advices from the
scene of the encounter say that Gover-
nor Quillman, the Portuguese official
in charge of the district within the
Portugesse boundaries, has been sum-
moned to the spot where the conflict
took place, and he is said to be on his
way there with two Portuguesse gun
boats and a number of troops.
It isadded that the British com-
mander is believed to have asked for
reinforcements and the latter are said
to have been hurried forward immed:
iately upon receipt of the message an-
nouncing the conflict with the Portu-
guese.
In Executive Session-
‘WASHINGTON, March 6.--The execu-
tive session of the Senate to-day was
confined to routine business entirely.
Among the nominations confirmed, but
from which the injunction of secrecy
was not removed was that of S. A.
Mulholland to be pension agent at
Philadelphia. The following Philadel-
phia nominations, have been favorably
reported : John R. Read, collector of
customs ; P. Gray Meek, surveyor of
port ; J. Marshal Wright, naval officer.
— If yon want printing of any de-
seripton the WATCHMAN office is the |
place to have it done.
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From Honolulu.
The Provisional Government Freparing to Hold
a Constitutional Convention.
.
San Francisco, March 7.--The
schooner Transit arrived from Honolulu
| av 11 o’clock this morning bringing ad-
vices up to February 20. Advices ent
by the Oceanic, on the 15th. ult., report-
ed important action having been taken
by the provisional government in the
matter of preparing for a constitutional
convention to organize a representative
government. This was followed on the
17:h, after an evening meeting of the
annexation club, by action on the part
of the leading memters of the club as
citizens in organizing formally as a
politica! party in support of the govern-
ment. Tbis movement embraces all
classes and divisions hitherto arising
among the supporters of the provisional
government. Among the principals of
t he platform agreed upon are the fol-
lowing :
To support the provisional govern-
ment.
Resist the restoration of a monarchy.
Establish a practicable form of repre-
sentative government,
The government to be united as soon
as possible with that of the United
States.
To condemn legislation discriminating
against any class of loyal citizens.
No persons to be employed by the
governwent unless loyal to it.
Terrorized By Negro Tramps.
STROUDSBURG, Pa., March 7.— Resi-
‘dents of this section of the country have
been terrorized by the petty depreda-
tions of a party of negro tramps who
livein'a camp near Tannersville and
from which came the negro Puryear,
who is in jail charged with murdering
Christian Ehlers. The negroes were
brougnt bere about a year ago 10 work
upon the Wilkesbarre and Eastern rail-
road. They have become utterly desti-
tute, having hardly enough to eat. They
prowl around the country and when
their demands for food and clothing are
refused they make threats of violence.
So intolerable has the fear became of
what these negroes may do that to-day
about twenty-five men of the village of
Tannersville determined to put an end
to their depredations. Arming them-
selves with their shot guns the ‘whites
made a descent upon the negro camp.
The negroes were overawed and when
told they must leave this part -of the
country promised to do so, but asked tor
money to take them away, as they were
utterly penniless. The matter isto be
brought before the township authori-
ties and it will be demanded that they
defray the expenses of sending the ne-
groes away.
Crank at the White House.
He Sought to Take Charge, but Went to Prison.
WasHiNGTON, March 5.—The per-
iodical crank turned up at the White
House again this morning, and, taking
advantage of the president's absence,
sought to take charge.
At 9 o'clock, an hour before the
White House is opened tothe public,
a wild-eved, commonly dressed man,
about 50 years of age, appeared at the
entrance and told the waiter man that
he had come to take charge. He said
he had a revelation trom God, and had
been directed to comé hare, take charge
of the White House and turn it over to
the Jews. The Democrats hadio go
out and the Republicans could not get
in, but the third party, to which he be-
longed, would predominate. The man
was not violent, but he was very posi-
tive and insisted. While be was ialk-
ing a telephone brought the police pa-
trol wagon to the door, and the man
was arrested and locked up in the
Third precinct station. He gave the
name of Abraham Julius Kisler, and
said he had come from Baltimore.
‘Saw His Mother Beheaded.
Paris, March 6.—A dispatch from
Dahomey says that King Behanzin, on
the eve of his surrender, summoned his
wido# ed mother, and after telling her
of hisintention to submit to the French,
said he must inform his father, and
would theretore have her take him a
message. Behanzin therefore ordered
that his mother be beheaded, and,
smoking a pipe, calmly looked on
while the attendants decapitated ber.
ADDITIO NAL LOCALS.
——’Squire Samuel Foster, of water
street, is lying dangerously ill at his
home in this place, with little hope ot
recovery.
——Late news is to the effect that the
death of Mr. Henry Robb, the Nittany
hotel-keeper, is expected at any moment
He was stricken with paralysis two
weeks ago. :
——Miss Mame E. Quay, of Beech
‘Creek, died at her home in that place
last Saturday merning. She was a
daughter of James R. Quay, and died of
rheumatism in her 89th year.
——There is a probability of J. A.
Feidler and editor Tuten, of the Repub-
lican, pooling their interests and publish -
ing a paper under the caption, Repud-
lican-Gazette, from the Republican of-
fice’
—-TIt is a well grounded report that the
Bellefonte Central rail-road will be ex-
tended from State College to Pine Grove
Mills during the summer, ‘Our infor-
mant was a gentleman who knows.
—.D. P. Gwin fisq, one of Hunt-
ingdon’s wealthiest citizens died of in-
flammation of the liver on last Saturday
evening. He was vice president of the
First National bank of that place and
was 66 years old.
-—Of the thirty three license appli-
cants who appeared before court here on
Tuesday and Wednesday, all the old
ones were re-granted and the new ones
have been held over for . further con-
sideration.
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