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Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 8, 1895.
P GRAY MEEK, - - - EpITOR
Democratic County Committee for
1895.
DISTRICTS. COMMITTEEMFEN.
Bellefonte, N. W...cccwe eivveeeennn WL J. Howley.
* 8, Wariste tierssnnisesersishriornisstaeistensnnnnst
ge Wi. Woriiiiiionitess sivessscisiimimineiioine
...D. J. Meyer.
.W. R. Gardner.
Centre Hall Boro
Howard Boro..
Milesburg “
Millheim “
Unionville Boro.
South Philipsburg y
Philipsburg Boro. 1st W.
" 2nd W
3rd W.
Benner, N. P.....ccoeeeneee
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_M. Graham.
. M. Henderson.
S-P... Miohssl Jezel.
Boggs N.P .Geo. W. Brown.
BE E.P .G. Hayes Lyman.
i W.P. James M. Lucas.
Burnside...... William Hipple.
College E. P..ceerirenniininninienn I J. Dreese.
$e D John Corrigan.
Curtin........ .N. J. McCloskey.
Fergus'nE. P rine Wo Ho Fry.
+ w.P Jacob Aor ster,
Gre NP. ....Samue ise.
oes E.P James C. Condo.
$€ WwW. P J. 0. McCormick.
Haines W.P W. T. Winkelblech.
bi E. ..Thomas E. Smith.
Half Moon ....J. P. Sebring.
Harris..... ..Chas. A. From.
Howard .W. P. Woodward.
Henry Hale.
W. 1. Harter.
sod] HOY:
Ira Brumgart.
J. W. Harter.
..U. S. Shaffer.
.D. H. Thomas.
. W. Kerstetter.
ames W. Runkle.
mes. B. Spangler.
Miles
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Patton..
Penn....
Potter N.
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Ri 2 Ehren atrick Heffran.
Lawrence Redding.
sturhisieses AustinKerins.
..Thomas M. Barnhart.
W. H. Noll.
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8. P....
Sncw3hoe E. P.
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Thomas Fink.
Samuel Emerick.
aiesmanS0l. Peck.
Worth..... ie ...A. J. Johnson.
H. S. TAYLOR, N. B. SPANGLER,
Secretary. Chairman.
Questionable Economy.
Itis announced with a considerable
flourish, as an indication of an econom-
ical disposition, that Governor Hast
INGs is opposed to junkete. He is
going to put his foot down on bills that
provide appropriations for legislative
committees that go oul to inspect in-
stitutions, and for other alleged pur
poses of investigation, resulting in
what are usually called legislative
junkets.
This is his reported intention, and
if it is so some public money that oth-
erwise would be squandered will be
saved, but what is he going to do with
the bills that propose to enlarge the
State expenses by creating new and
unnecessary officers, and increasing
the salaries of members and other
officials who are already abundantly
compensated for their service? Such
bills have been offered and are likely
to be passed by a reckless and profli-
gate Legislature, and if they are not
Governor Hastings his
economizing on junkets will look very
much like saving at the spigot and al
vetoed by
lowing the waste to go on at the bung-
hole.
Are You Thinking About the County
Poor House ?
The time is near at hand when the
voters of the county will be called up-
on to decide as to whether we are to
have a county home for our poor or
continue keeping paupers as they are
kept at present,
The question is not at all one of poli-
tics and should not be looked upon as
such by the voters. It is purely one
of business. If you think your inter.
est would be best served by baving a
county poor house, then you should
vote for it, but it the contrary should
be the case you should naturally vote
against the measure.
It is an undisputed fact and a fact
substantiated by statistics that coun-
ties having the overseer system are
paying higher poor taxes than those
having county homes. With this fact
confronting our voters the election
alone will tell whether or not there are
more people in the county, who are
paying a less tax rate than the aver-
age for maintaining county homes, than
there are those who are paying wore.
If the former is the case the measure
will be defeated; if the latter, it will
carry.
——Notwithstanding borough tax
collector TayLor has been successful
1 collecting taxes for the past year
the financial committee of council re-
ported the balance due treasurer
Cook, over and above the taxes col-
lected, as $10,675,49. This report is
sufficient to show the utter incapacity
ot a majority of the present members
of the town council to manage the
borough affairs. Careful business
men do not anticipate their income as
the town council are now doing. We
suggest that Councilman HiLLiBisH, in
his canvass for re-election, secure a
grip bag, fill it with reports of borough
indebtedness and label it $10,675.49
‘extravagance’ on one side and ‘jobs
to let’ on the other and exhibit it to
the voters of the west ward when he
asks them to vote for him.
..John B. Long.
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All Hope Abandoned.
Ex-Czar Reed's Substitute Has Killed the Ad-
ministration Bill.—His Partisan Objections.
—Hopes to Keep the Question Alive for the
Next Campaign.— Truckling to the Silver Men.
W asHINGTON, Feb. 5,—The final ef-
fort that can be made in this congress
‘to do something for the reliet of
the treasury wae begun in the house
j to-day when the Springer bill, based
on the presidest’s recommendations,
was taken up for discussion. From its
first introduction little doubt was felt
the house would pass it, and in the
last few days, owing to its unanimous
indorsement by business men, strong
hope arose in many quarters that it
might be forced through the senate.
This hope was based altogether on the
expectation that the sound-money Re-
publicans in both houses would heed
the appeal of the president and the
great commercial bodies of the coun-
try , and throwing partisan considera-
tion aside, join with the sound-money
Democrats to put the treasury on a
safe basis,
But the action of Mr. Reed at the
outset of the house debate to-day in of-
fering a substitute bill, and the speech
he made in taking this action, have
practically destroyed all hope that any
sort of a bill can be got through either
house or senate at this session. This
is the judgement of Speaker Crisp, as
imparted toa friend this evening. It
is aleo the judgement of most people
here who noted the effect of the day’s
events in the house.
Had Reed desired to put partisan-
ship aside for the moment and given
his support to the Springer bill, which
business men from Boston to San
Fraucisco have indorsed, the Republi-
cans almost solidly would have voted
for it, and it would have passed the
house at least, But Reed would not
do thie. His real reason is contained
in a sentence in a speech he made to-
day, which was to the effect that the
reform of our currency system cannot
be accomplished at this time at the
dictation of any one man, but must be
done some time in the future by the gen-
eral consensus of all the people. In oth-
er words, Mr. Reed, like the silver
men, but for somewhat different rea-
sons, relegates the financial question
to the campaign of 1896. In the
meanwhile Mr. Reed will try to avoid
doing anything that might offend the
silver men, as he does now in refusing
to support the Springer bill, and trusts
that he may get the presidential nomi-
nation next year without having com.
mitted himself too far one way or the
other,
The result of Reed's action in offer
ing his substitutes and of his attitude
as revealed in his speech will be not
only to divide the Republican vote be-
tween the two measures, but to in-
crease Democratic divisions as well.
Quite a nomber of Republicans will
refuse to follow Reed, as they believe
the Springer bill is the thing for the
emergency. Among these are several
from Pennsylvania, particularly the
Philadelphia members, whose business
constituents witheut regard to party
vigorously, demand legislation on the
lines of the president’s recommenda-
tions. Both General Bingham and
Representative Reyburn stated frank-
ly this afternoon that they favored the
Springer bill instead of the Reed sub-
stitute, and would vote for the former.
It is, they declared, a measure that
completely meets the emergency, and
not a half-way arrangement or make-
shift.
While it would seem the Pittsburg
businees interests are quite a8 much
concerned in the passage of the Spring-
er bill as these of Philadelphia, both
Messrs. Dalzell and Stone will follow
the lead of the ex-speaker and spesker-
to-be, and support the Reed substitute.
They way, however, vote for the
Springer bill if the substitute is deteat-
ed. But this will not help matters,
for the divisions and complications
growing out of the introduction of the
substitute will have made the passage
of any measure impossible.
Queen Lil Jailed.
She Was Concerned in the Recent Uprisings—
Hauwaiia's Late Ruler May Be Exiled For Her
Unfortunate Complicity With the Rebel Lead-
ers—The Arrest Quite a Surprise at Washing-
ton and London.
AvorLaND, N. Z., Feb. 3.—Advices
received here from Honolulu, under
date of January 19, announce that ex-
Queen Liliuokalani has been arrested
on the charge of complicity with the
insurgents in the recent rebellion. In
addition a!l the insurgent leaders have
been taken into custody, and are being
tried by court-martial. Three of the
leaders pleaded guilty of treason. Mar-
tial law is maintained.
The rebellion against the Republic
of Hawaii turned out to be a complete
fiasco. After the first engagement the
rebels scattered, aod some time later
Wilcox, Mowlin, Butelmann and oth-
ers of the leaders of the insurrection
were captured and tried for treason be-
fore a court-martial.
Shortly after Queen Lilinokalani was
arrested her house was searched, and
in it were found stores of arms and
dynamite bombs. The arrests referred
to have resulted in the restoration of
order in Hawaii.
Later advices, dated January 27,
say that quite a quantity of arms im-
ported for the use of the rebels have
been seized, in addition to those found
in the house of the ex-queen. Messrs.
Savias, the importers of the arms, have
been fined.
Picking Up The Elbe’s Wreckage,
Lonpox, Feb. 3.—The skipper of
the smack Delta which arrived at
Lowestoft today, saw a small boat and
a human body floating in the North
Sea about forty wiles south east of that
port. ’
Other skippers who came in today
say they passed the doors, furniture,
spars and boxes. Six life boats and
three life boat tanks have been picked
up on the Suffolk coast. The body
and the wreckage are undoubtedly
from thé ill-fated steamer Elbe.
Hot Fighting.
A Fierce Struggle at Wei Hai Wei.—The Chi-
nese Peace Envoys Not Properly Accredited.
LoxnpoN, Feb. 8.—The Central News
correspondent in Hiroshima telegraphs
under todays date: ‘Premier Count Ito
and Viscount Mutsu, minister of foreign
affairs had a second interview with
China’s peace envoys yesterday after-
noon.
The main object of the meeting was
to exchange credentials. The ministers
found the credentials of the envoys to
be imperfect and to leave them abso-
lutely powerless to conduct binding
negotiations.
They refused at once to continue
negotiations and requested the envoys
to leave the country as soon as possible.
The envoys will sail tomorrow on the
steamship Owarimaru for Nagasaki,
where they will await the arrival of the
mail steamship for China.
They will be accompanied until they
depart, by the inspector general of po-
lice and several assistant inspectors, who
will prevent any hostile demonstration
on the part of the peopl.
The parliamentary resolution to ap-
prove all war expenditures, regardless
of amount and date, is prefaced with
the declaration that the objects of the
war have not been realized yet.”
The Central News correspondent in
Wei Hai Wei telegraphs under the date
of February 1, via Talien-Wanko : The
Chinese warships were much damaged
in yesterday’s fight. After the Pai-
chiyaso-forts capitulated the Japanese
turned the captured guns against the
Chinese warships, hitting them repeat-
edly and forcing them to change their
position.
A violentsnow storm in the afternoon
of January 31, compelled the Japanese
fleet to remain inactive and thus frus-
trated the Japanese plan to bring on a
general naval engagement. The Japa-
nese still hold the entrance to the
harbor.”
A Central News despatch sent from
Hai Chong on Friday says that Viceroy
Liu Kung Ti has arrived at New Ch-
wang and - will assume supreme com-
mand of the Chinese operation in Man-
churia. General Nodzu, the Japanese
commander, expects to be attacked to-
morrow or Tuesday. His spies report
that there are about 50,000 Chinese
troops in the neighborhood of Yeng
Kow and New Chwang.
HARD FIGHTING.
Loxpon, Feb. 4.—A despatch sent
today by the Central News correspon-
dent in Che Foo says :
“The Japanese have captured the is-
land of Ling Kung Tan, the last strong-
hold of the Chinese at Wei Hai Wei.
The bombardment was terrific and las-
ted for hours. The Chinese answered it
with unusual spirit, but many of their
guns were disabled early in the engage-
ment,
Towards the close of the bombard-
ment six Japanese ships landed marines
who captured the batteries. The fight-
ing was severe and many were killed
and wounded on each side.
As this despatch is sent the two fleets
are hotly engaged.
Ward M’Allister Dead.
The New York Society Leader Succumbs to Gri,
After Only a Week's Illness—How He Became
a Leader in the Exclusive Set at New York,
Newport and Saratoga. His Ancestors Were
Society Leaders in the Time of Washington.
NEW York, Feb. 1.-— Ward McAllis-
ter, the society leader, died at his home,
16 West Thirty-sixth street, this city,
last night at 7:30 o’clock. At the time
of his death he was attended by his wife
his daughter, his son and his brother,
Rov. Francis Marion McAllister.
Mr. McAllister was attacked a week
ago with the grip, but no serious symp
toms developed until 7:30 o’clock yester-
day morning, when he was taken sud-
denly worse. He became unconscious
at 10:30 o'clock, and remained so until
2:30 o’clock in the afternoon, when he
recovered consciousness, which contin-
ued until hisdeath. The funeral proba-
bly will take place from Grace church,
this city, of which Mr. McAllister isa
member.
Samuel Ward McAllister was born
64 years ago in Savannah, Ga. He
prided himself upon his southern birth.
the length of his ancestry and his social
success. His ancesters were great lead-
erg in the time of Washington. For
eighteen years he lived in Savannah.
With his seventeenth century ideas
of social exclusiveness he ac-
quired the knowledge and belief which
eventually controlled the doors of met-
ropolitan society.
Leaving Savannah he settled at New-
port, R. I., and made the fashionable
popularity of that place. He was a
leader of modish folk by nature and
training. Tt was at Newport that he
originated picnics which made him fa-
mous. Though rarely boastful, he used
to say that the food served on those oc-
casions could not be matched in the
world.
To him wines were as plain as the
letters in a book. He knew their his-
tory, the philosophy of them and their
worth to the fraction of a dollar. He
knew the rare vintages, and conld tell
on the ends of his fingers the few pri-
vate houses everywhere they could be
found.
Professionally Mr. McAllister was a
lawyer, a graduate of Yale. He went
to San Francisco in 1852, but returned
east soon after and married Miss Sarah
Gibbons, a lady of wealth and good po-
sition. Then it was that he settled in
Newport.
The Astors, Chanlers, Samuel Ward,
Marion Crawford, Amelie Reves, Julia
Ward Howe, the Boston Appletons and
Princes, the Paterson Bonapartes and
the Massachusettes Parkers were all his
relatives.
Tax Collectors After Hetty Green.
New York, Feb. 5.—President Bar-
ker, of the tax department, said today
that the tax commissioners were mak-
ing renewed efforts to tax the property
of Mrs. Hettie Green in this city. The
commissioners propose to tax Mrs. Green
personally, in addition to levying an
assessment against her husband, who 1s
a resident of this city. As the law holds
a woman's residence to be where her
husband resides, the commissioners ex-
pect to reach Mrs. Green in this man-
ner.
Dealing Out Spoils.
Railroading Bills That Make Big Eapendi- |
ture.—A Beneficiary Watching Senators From '
a Cloak Room Door
PuiLapELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 3.—The
Record’s Harrisburg correspondent
this morning says: The work done
by the legislature so far during the pre-
sent session indicates that the Republi-
can leaders are making a determined ef-
fort to get all the important measures
in which they are interested through
early, so that none may be lost in the
rush ard excitement of the closing |
days.
At the same time, 1t is intimated in
certain quarters that after all the bills
in which the leaders are interested
have been forced through, the legisla-
ture may be suddenly adjourned, leav-
ing the hundreds of bills ot all des-
criptions and covering hobbies of every
variety, to die a natural death either
in committee or among the great mass
on the calendar which is never reach-
ed for consideration.
Nothing could better illustrate this
determination to force things than the
tactics employed in the bills creating
the new office for which favored Re-
publican leaders have been slated.
The basking bill was rushed through
so rapidly under the lash of State
Chairman Gilkeson, who was contin-
ually on the floor, thatit could not
even ve held up long enough to add an
amendment proposed by Mr. Clarency,
to exempt building and loan associa-
tions from certain provisions.
Those managing the bill agreed that
the amendment ought to be added, but
did not want to lose the necessary
time, so that the amendment was in-
troduced as anew bill to amend a bill
which had not yet gotten out of the
House.
The bill creating the new office of
custodian of public grounds and build-
ings, for which John C. Delaney ia
slated, was rushed through the Senate
with equal disregard of caution or
warning from senators like General
Gobin, C. C. Kauffman and others.
Delaney himself was on deck, and from
the doorway of the Senate library had
his eye on every senator who it was
thought might “flunk.”
General Gobin did not spare words
in calling attention to the extravagance
of the proposed measure which cost
the state $7700 for exactly the same
services which were now secured for
$1400. Every objection, however,
found Senator McCarrell on the floor
pleading for the poor office-secker, and
painting wondertul pictures of the
great mass of work which would greet
the new official upon his entrance on
the duties of the new $3000 job,
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No Popular Loan.
The Coming Issue of Bonds Will be Placed En-
tirely in London.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The cabinet
was in session to-day from betore 10
o'clock until after 2.45. 1t is understood
always the only subject of discussion was
the pending bond issue. Several promi-
nent New York bankers are here,
among them P. Pierpont Morgan, and
while they have not seen either the
president or Mr. Carlisle, their views
were conveyed to the president to-day.
It is believed no final action has been
determined upon. Itis understood nego-
tiations with representatives of London
bankers are now in progress, with indi-
cations of an early consummation.
There is no longer any expectation of
a popular loan to be placed in this
country, as in that event the experience
of the last few months would be repeat-
ed, and the gold reserve again depleted.
The purpose of the administration is to
place the entire issue of bonds with
London bankers, who would pay for
them with London gold.
Pennsylvania Rallroad’s Tours to the
“The Golden Gate.’
Apart from the rare pleasure of vis-
iting new places and witnessing novel
scenes, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's tours to California will
prove better educators than any rum-
ber of lectures or books on travel.
The immense scope of territory trav-
ersed will expand the ideas of all tour-
ists, indelibly impress upon their
winds enlarged views of this mighty
Union and its vast possessions, and
they will return to their homes proud-
er than ever of the great land whose
borders are protected by the stars and
stripes,
These tours have been arranged un-
der the company’s renowned personal-
ly-conducted tourist system, and mag-
nificent Pullman trains will leave New
York and Philadelphia on February
20 and March 20, 1895.
Detailed itinerary will be sent on ap-
plication to Tourist Agent, 1196 Broad-
way, New York, or Room 411, Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia.
Kittanning Doomed.
KI1TTANNING, Feb. 4.—Arthur Kirk,
of Pittsburg, who superintended the
dynamiting of theice gorge for the Ford
City Company, believes Kittanning will
be swept away by the expected flood.
He was here Sunday evening soliciting
subscriptions to continue tunnel cutting
to save this town. Citizens refused con-
tributions. Mr. Kirk was disappointed
and says Kittanning deserves its im-
pending doom.
Explosions of dynamite on the gorge
shattered windows and shook so many
houses at Rapton and Manorville, that
the Plate Company may be sued for
damages. Blasts two miles away shook
houses here yesterday.
Eight Men Frozen to Death.
Dururs, Feb. 8.—It is reported that
eight men have perished in the unex-
plored gold regions along the Seine
river. They are William Mackey, John
Carter, Thomas Barlowe, Charles Mec-
Guire, William Morton, A. McGuire,
Thomas Purcell, William Barrow.
The party left Rainy Lake City and
headed up the Seine river where camps
are few. The thermometer dropped to
40 degrees below zero and one by one
the prospectors dropped behind and
perished in the snow. There are more
than 200 prospectors in this region and ;
it is believed that there will be more
reports of deaths from the cold.
i ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The Bellefonte minstrels played
a benefit performance for the Undine
fire Co. at Garman’s on Tuesday - night.
A good show was given to a poor house,
The company played at Eagleville,
‘Wednesday night, to very poor busi-
ness, but the boys enjoyed the trip.
-——Charles Brown an assistant in The
chemical laboratory at The Pennsyl-
sylvaaia State College was seriously in-
jured Tuesday afternoon by an explo-
sion of gas.
when the apparatus blew up, the glass
tubing penetrating his body and eyes in
a manner that is feared will prove fatal.
Liquor Licenses ApPLIED For. —
Thus far there have been forty-nine
applications for license filed with the
Prothonotary, divided up as follows :
33 tavern, 3 restaurant, 8 wholesale, 2
wholesale beer, 2 wholesale liquor and
1 brewer’s license.
The list includes the following :
TAVERN LICENSE.
Tattersaul Ingram
Richard Miller..
Dorsey P. Meye
Tempest Siinger
James Passmore
Wm. Parker...
Richard Bowes..
John B. Swoope.
John A. Erb...
Geo. E. Leister..
John M. Neubaue
Henry Yeager....
Gottlieb Haag.
W. L. Daggett......
A.S.&C. M. Garman ..
James 8. Reish.....
Bellefonte
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Potters Mills
W. 8. Musser..... ...Millheim
Willis Weaver . $e
R. O. Branchh..........cocciccvecivececnrioiinssn Coburn
D. L. Bartges. Centre Hall
W.S. Hull... ....Rush Twp
D. H. Rhule. Spring Mills
Rdwin: Bhula.... coc... cian Old Fort
John G. Uzzle....
| Snow Shoe
Michael McCabe... 1
Lawrence Redding.
Alois Kohlbecker..
‘Central City
Reuben G. Askey.. Rush Tw
Jacob L. DeHaas . ..Howar
Geo. B. Uzzle..... .Clarence
Jacob Sanecroft... .Rush Twp
James A. Decker.. Pine Grove Mills
Jessie Long.......... ..Penns Cave
RESTAURANT.
John Delige Philipsbu
‘Thos, Pilkington... .....c.00 hud, a
E. G. Henderson ...2nd Ward Philipsburg
WHOLESALE.
John C, Mulfinger....
J. C. Hicklen,....
Jas. Lehman...
Geo. E. Chandler
...Pleasant Gap
--Philipsburg
"Bellefonte
Woodward
...Snow Shoe
N.W. Eby.....
W. R. Haynes.... Iireiesi tiniviny
WHOLESALE BEER.
George E. Lamb
Samuel Rodgers
WHOLFSALE LIQUOR.
William Riley.... Philipsburg
A. B Bellefonte
Robert L. Haas, wholesale brewer, Roopsburg.
-Philipsburg
WHERE You CAN Buy tue CHEAP-
EsT.—-It is a question of dollars and
cents afterall. No matter what people
gay it is as natural to save a penny in
buying as it is to eat dinner at the din-
ner hour. Opportunities to make great
‘savings are not often to be had, but
Lyon & Co’s., big advertisement in
this issue affords just such a chance.
Read it and profit by the bargains it
holds out. A dollar saved is a dollar
earned.
PROTECTION TO GAME IN PROSPECT.
—It will be gratifying for most of ybu
to know that the State Sportmen’s As-
sociation is taking active steps toward
securing more protection to game of all
kinds and it is highly probable that:
when this session of the Legislature will
have been adjourned the statutes will
contain some legislation looking to the
better protection of game from wanton
slaughter.
{i8 time aciive measures of some
sort are adopted, for if the pot hunter
is allowed to continue his work of des-
traction it won't be long until the wood-
ed districts of the State are as barren of
game as are the thickly populated agri-
cultural regions. There is no doubt
that some measures should be taken to
protect and foster the little game that is
left in our forests and it is but natural
to look to the Legislature for the neces-
sary relief. A number of bills have been
framed already this eession which have
for their object the preservation of game
and fish.
“The chairman of the house fish and
game committee now has in his posses-
sion ten bills, and within a month itis
probable that the number will be in-
creased to fifty. Among them isa bill
prohibiting the killing of deer for three
years ; a bill allowing the erection of
oll weirs during a certain season of the
gear; a bill allowing the erection of fish
baskets in the inland rivers of the State ;
a bill prescribing certain regulations by
which an owner, owners or occupants
of improved or inclosed lands, creeks or
ponds may prohibit hunting game or
catching fish upon such premises, etc., a
bill to provide for the appointment of a
game commission for the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania ; a bill prohibiting the
buying, selling or exportation of certain
kinds of game and fish killed or caught
within this commonwealth and provid-
ing ponalties’for the same.”
It is possible that the bill prohibiting
the killing of deer for a period of three
years would be a very excellent measure
to pass and the Legislature would not
mistake if it included all kinds of game
in the prohibitive enactment. Such a
period of protection would infest our
wooded areas again with all kinds ot
game. Tho animals that seek seclusion
for their lairs would multiply very rap-
idly if left undisturbed for awhile and
to our mind the Legislature should do
everything in its power to bring about
such protection.
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Warders.
The several candidates to fill the borough
offices thave been nominated and placed be-
fore the tax payers of our town for scrutiny
Itis clear to the dullest comprehension that
| the citizens of thd North ward have a plain
duty to perform for the protection of their in-
| terests as citizens and tax payers; and that
duty is to elect Mr. Morris W. Cowdrick a
member of the town’ council. The voters of
that ward, or a majority of them, who attend-
ed the election one year ago, elected Gen.
Beaver a member of that body. He has prov-
| en to be an unfortunate, as well as an expen-
Ho was experimenting
! ers of our town.
sive selection, to the whole number cf tax pay.
Some of his ardent friends
! are disappointed, for his official capacity in
the council has proven himself as a very ex-
pensive luxury for the tax payers of Belle-
fonte to bear.
The last proceedings of council have capped
the climax. Two fees of $100.00 each were
awarded to solicitor Dale and councilman
Beaver. Professional services seem to have
“riz” since the advent of our Ex.guberna-
torial statesman as a Bel efonte town couneil-
man. This indicates that the more lawyers we
have in the council, the more and higher fees
for legal services we have to pay. If our
memory serves us correctly when there were
no lawyers in the courcil, $50.00 per year was
the amount paid for legal services. This
is the first instance brought to our notice that
a member of council is entitled to pay for any
services he may render, legal or otherwise,
while a member of that body. If we under-
stand the law, a member of council is not per-
mitted to render services for pay in his own
behalf, and must discharge his duties free of
charge tothat body. It looks to us, as if this
fee of $100.00 to General Beaver, has been a
mistake by council, and if one 'awyer in that
body will cause an increase of $150.00 in legal
fees another lawyer might increase it two fold
or three fold, if elected a member of that au.
gust body. Lawyers, as is well known, havea
very high estimation of their services, and to
keep these services to their utmost heighth;
they are not willing to accept fees ofjsuch an
amount, as might be considered unprofes-
gional by their fellow members of the bar,
whether the same shall be the loss of the
tax payers or otherwise. To add to this dilem-
ma it is now proposed by the followers of Gen.
Beaver, to elect another member of the bar to
represent the North ward in our town council
—a man, who, if elected, will be as putty in
the hands of Gen. Beaver. Certainly the tax
payers of the North ward, as well as, all of the
tax payers of the town, have had quite enough
of Gen. Beavers doings for his own benefit—
‘village improvements forsooth on Curtin
street.”
As between Mr. Cowdrick, and Mr. Keller,
with the latter under Gen. Beaver's influence,
it is an easy matter for the tax payers of the
North ward to decide for whom they should
vote. Mr. Cowdrick is a man of mature age,
a practical and successful business man in
his own affairs; an every day man, fully
equipped to conduct the business of a town
councilman as successfully as he conducts his
own business ; a ciass of men always needed
and always most valuable in a public capacity.
On the other hand, Mr. Keller is void of any
of the qualifications required to make him of
service, of any value to the people, in that
capacity which is conlusive proof, that the
tax payers of the North ward will serve their
own interest best, as well as the interest of
our town by electing Mr. Cowdrick 2: a mem-
ber of council at the ensuing election. As a
manager of men, and natural judgement as to
the making of streets, and conducting other
borough work Mr. Cowdrick’s judgement is
equal to that of any other man, if not superior
to most those who are willing to serve in that
capacity. Bp an 2
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Pine Grove Mention
Miss Annie Fortney is visiting friends
in the lower end of Penn's Valley.
Owing to the prolonged cold spell eis”
terns and wells are low and cattle have to
be driven miles to water. Think of hav-
"ing to haul water with mercury 2¢ below
zero!
Robt. F. Gardner's friends will be glad
to know of his convalescing from a spell
of pneumonia. In a few weeks he will be
able to present his sample goods to Cen-
tre, Clearfield amd Blair county mer.
chants.
V. 8S. J. B. Hostler, one of Forest
county’s solid Democrats was the guest
of J. W. Kepler. The doctor is a hustler
and has been taking advantage of Dr:
Leonard Pearson’s lectures at The State
, College.
On Wednesday evening a sled load of
several dozen of Boalsburgers sledded
themselves over the drifts and halted at
J.F. Myers. He and his frau royally en-
tertained them until the wee small hours
of the morning when they returned
home.
That lit tle weather prognosticator, the
ground hog, thus far has had his way
ever since he was frightened by his shad-
ow. The thermometer has been away
down and snow banks are piled fence
high in all directions, so the prospect for
six weeks of solid cold is very good.
On Tuesday of this week, John A. Kline
of this place, returned from the Presby-
terian hospital in the Quaker City where
he left his daughter Minnie, who has been
an invalid for years from spinal trouble.
When Mr. Kline left the hospital he was
assured by the doctors that his daughter
could be cured, while her many friends
will be glad to know of her speedy re-
covery.
The Bible presented by Matthew D,
Gregg in 1831 to the pulpit of the old Un.
ion church that stood where the Luth-
eran church now stands, is still in use in
the Presbyterian lecture room. Sunday
after Sunday J. B. Mitchell interprets
and explains the sacred truth té his Bi®
ble class from its pages. At the time Mr.
Gregg presented the book he owned the
mill and large tracts of lands about here.
On Wednesday morning of this week?
the house on tke Charley Snyder farm,
better known as the Glasgow farm, near
State College was destroyed by fire with
all its contents. The farmer William K,
Corl had made the fire as usual and gone
to the barn to do the work while his wife
prepared breakfast, on returning from
the barn he noticed the flames bursting
from the roof and at once gave the alarm
and started to the rescue of his family.
The five small children,—the baby only
two months old—were carried out in their
night clothes, with what wraps. could be
gathered at the last moment and by the
time they were gotten into the nearest
house—a, half mile away—they were al.
most perished. The house being frame
burned rapidly ; nothing was saved and
the loss is a severe one for Mr, Corl for
the personal property was not insured.