Bemoreay Waldman
Terns, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 18, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, - Eprtor.
S— ten
Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT
McKinleyism and Anarchism.
The McKINLEY-ites, who are supporting
the gold interest, have spared no effort in
their endeavor to induce the belief that the
free silver movement is associated with an-
archism, but those who give thoughtful
consideration to the subject, can see in
McKINLEY-ism the creation of conditions
that must eventually result in the social
disorder and civil disturbance that may
give the anarchists an opportunity to
carry out their destructive designs against
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
ARTHUR SEWELL,
of Maine.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR CONGRESSMEN AT-LARGE,
DeWITT C. DeWITT, of BRADFORD.
JEROME T. AILMAN, of Juniata.
FOR ELECTORS AT-LARGE,
THOS. G. DELAHUNTY.
THOMAS STERRETT.
A. H. COFFROTH, Somerset.
LOUIS M. IRELAND.
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS,
John M. Carroll,
John H. Keenan,
Chas. J. Reilly,
Albert M. Hicks,
James J. King, J. P. Hoffar,
Thos. McCullough, Lucien Banks,
John Hagen, A. J. Brady,
Michael Delaney,
John B. Storm,
Thos. A. Haak,
Chas. F. Reninger,
Chas. H. Schadt,
Thomas R. Philips,
Chas. D. Kaiser,
John K. Royal, Seymour S. Hackett,
William Stahler. Harry Alvin Hall.
Democratic County Ticket.
George W. Rhine,
John C. Patton,
William Weihe,
Samuel W. Black,
Judson J. Brooks,
John J. McFarland,
C. H. Aikens,
FOR ‘CONGRESS.
J. L. SPANGLER.
{ JAS. SCHOFIELD,
{ ROBERT M. FOSTER.
Sheriff—W. M. CRONISTER.
Treasurer—C. A. WEAVER.
Recorder—J. C. HARPER.
Register—GEO. W. RUMBERGER.
{P. H. MEYER,
{ DANIEL HECKMAN.
( FRANK HESS,
| B. F. KISTER.
For County Surveyor—J. H. WETZEL.
For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
For
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Assembly—
ForCommissioners—
For Auditors—
Senatorial Boodle.
The election of a United States Senator
next winter will exert more than an ordi-
narily corrupt influence upon the state
Legislature, as it will be conducted ih ihe
way that is uspal when Republican aspi-
rants who ad large means compete with
each other for the distinction of occupying
a seat in the higher branch of Congress. It
has become customary to dispose of the
senatorial office to ambitious millionaires
who are able to pay for it, and it can’t be
expected that a legislative body like the
one which the Republicans of this State are
in the habit of sending to Harrisburg will
allow such a commodity to be knocked off
to the highest bidder without its bringing
a price satisfactory to those who manage the
sale.
There will be more than usual competi-
tion for the Pennsylvania Senatorship at
the next session, as it will not be confined
to boss QUAY and a member of the CaM-
ERON family, a number of competitors be-
ing already in the arena for the place which
Dox CAMERON now holds, prominent
among whom is that wealthy merchant,
politician and religionist, JOHN WANAMAER-
ER. If Dox should conclude to recon-
sider and withdraw his announcement that
he will not be a candidate for re-election,
he would find JORN a formidable competi-
tor in the employment of those means that
are the most ‘potential in influencing a
Republican Legislature in its choice cf a
United States Senator, and as it would sur-
prise no one if CAMERON should be a can-
didate for another term, the collision of
two such money bugs would: be likely to
spill a goodfnany dollars in the two houses
of the state Legislature.
In addition to Mr. WANAMAKER, ‘‘our
own DAN" is aspiring to the position and
as he is reported to be the poss ssor of
more than an ordinary share of this world’s
goods, and has no hesitancy in promising
much, even if he pays but little, there may
be another barrel rolled into the senatorial
campaign. That ‘DANIEL’ will have much
show, we greatly doubt, even his own
county will be ‘fer ninst”” him, but the
fellows who are for hoodle, and they are
the fellows who run the Republican party
of Pennsylvania, may be able to make him
believe that a liberal distribution of politi-
cal ‘“‘soap’’ will bring him the desired Te-
sult.
With a ten-million Republican cam-
paign fund, and a senatorial contest with
barrels of money behind it, there is a
bright outlook for the boys who are keep-
ing an eye open for the ‘‘main chance.”
Deservingly Popular.
It is not often that a party is fortunate
enough to secure a candidate whom every-
body likes and against whom none have
aught tosay. The Democrats have such an
one on their ticket in -the person of Mr.
Geo. W. RUMBERGER. If anybody knows
of a single enemy he has, or a voter who
doubts his fitness for the place he now fills,
and to which he will he re-elected, or a cit-
izen who does not wish him well, it will
be news to us. Mr. RUMBERGER has acted
as register for nearly three years. He has
been a most obliging, corteous and faith-
ful officer. Whether man, woman or child,
has business in his office, they always find
him there, and always the same pleasant,
affable and obliging official, and because
of his excellent work and effort to please
the public, we predict that he will be re-
elected by a larger majority than has ever
been given for a candidate for that office,
in the county.
society. .
As a general term MCKINLEY-ism in-
| cludes a variety of abuses and wrongs-prac-
ticed upon the common interests of the
masses, prominent among which are those
encroachments of wealth upon the rights
and well-being of the generality of the
people which have been gradually but sure-
ly progressing under Republican adminis-
tration of the government. It has con-
| tributed to the aggrandizement of a special
class. It has promoted the growth of a
plutocracy in various ways, but largely
through the instrumentality of a tariff sys-
tem that has made a limited number of
beneficiaries enormously wealthy by giving
them undue advantages, while it has made
life more difficult to the general popula-
tion by increasing the cost of subsistence
through tariff taxtion, and by the same
means imposing the burden of maintaining
the government upon those least able to
bear it.
McKINLEY-ism has, moreover, enabled
rapacious combinations to crush out the
competition of smaller operators, rendering
the people defenceless against monopolies
| that have cornered the necessaries of life.
Its principle of special favoritism has
brought into existence Standard oil
companies, sugar trusts, beef trusts, coal
combines and trade conspiracies of that
| kind, whose exorbitant profits have created
| 2 money power that assumes to direct the
| policies of the government. That power,
| the offspring of MCKINLEY-ism, has gone
l into our Congress and our courts and en-
forced its demand that the incomes of
wealth shall not be taxed for the purposes
of government. Its influence has prevent-
ed the enactment of effective anti-trust
laws and has paralyzed the arm of justice
in legal proceedings against trade conspi-
racies and railroad discriminations.
But the greatest usurpation of that
money power, built up by the general in-
fluence of MCKINLEY-ism, was the en-
forcement of its demand that the money of
the people should be eliminated from our
currency system, and a standard be adopt-
ed that would put the currency of the
country under the control of a trust that
manipulated the gold market.
The general trend of MCKINLEY-ism
has been to make the interest of the masses
subservient to that of a plutocrat caste, and
to bring the country under the rule of the
money interests, an object that is being ef-
fected by policies that are making a few
very ¥ich and impoverishing the mass of
the population.
Conditions have thus been created in
which the larger class find their interests
sacrificed for the advantage of a limited
plutocracy and a continuance of so great
an inequality of benefits is calculated to
produce a bitterness of feeling and a fer-
ment of discontent dangerous to the pub-
lic peace and menacing to the good order of
society.
It is in this way that MCKINLEY-ism is
preparing a field which may too soon be an
arena for the tragic performances of anarch-
ism.
Don’t Forget the County Ticket.
It is time the Democrats of this county
were waking up to the importance of see-
ing that an old-fashioned Democratic ma-
jority is polled for the entire Democratic
district and county ticket. Up to this time
everybody has been thinking and talking
of the financial question. It has been the
one subject that interested all. It will con-
tinue to interest, and excite and warm up
of a change of some kind that will give us
something else than the kind of times we
are now and have been experiencing. But
much as we may be interested in the money
question, we should not forget the great
importance to the tax-payers to have re-
liable, responsible and obliging men in the
county offices, and men who will not be
the tools of the little clique of politicians
who rule the Republican party of this
county.
The ticket presented by the Democrats
of the county is one that, when elected,
will .do honor to the positions, and prove
entirely satisfactory to the people. They
are young, intelligent, worthy men, quali-
fied for the different duties for which they
have been selected, and will;make obliging,
careful and courteous officials.
There is not a man on the list whose
qualifications can be questioned ; nor is
there one who is not deserving the vote of
every Democrat in the county. It is the
duty of the Democratic people and. the
Democratic workers to see to it that every
effort is made to give the county ticket a
rousing majority.
Because this is the home of Governor
HastINGs and he wants to go to the
United States Senate every effort will be
made by his party to carry the county for
its tioket, to give the Governor a boom in
his senatorial campaign. More than usual
efforts will be put forth to place Centre
county in the Republican column, and
more than usual efforts should be made by
Democrats to prevent them doing so.
In your zeal for a system of finance that
will give the people good money and plen-
ty of it, don’t let HASTINGS and a few of
his satellites steal the county from you,
Democrats. You have a good ticket. See
to it that it has 800 majority. This is the
majority you can give it easily.
the voters because they feel the necessity
~The Need of More Money.
How Our Present System Oppresses Enterprises—Makes the Country Pay Tribute
to Centralized Wealth And Reduces or Inflates Values at the
Demand of the Few.
From Col. A. IK. McClure's speech to the Grangers at Min nequa Springs. (See Vol.
113-115. Addresses, A. K. McClure.)
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page 112-
We could not pay five cents on the dollar in specie, for the tolerably good reason
that we have not got it, and the fact that we could not pay would make both specu-
lators and all others insist upon being paid. The result would be a rich harvest
for the limited centres of money, and general destruction in all the channels of
legitimate industry and trade.
We need more money for the successful prosecution of our vast and growing pypsuits
We need it to be unshackled from the arbitrary control of monetary centres, of
political officials, and of Congress. A wise and sound financial systgm would
regulate itself by ready adaptation to the varying necessities of trades but under
our present policy money can be centralized at any time it is the interest of speculators to
do 80, and all legitimate enterprise of the country made to pay oppressive tribute to those
who prey upon the productive wealth of the nation.
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We need it as the settled
policy of the country, and entirely removed from the whims of secretaries of the
treasury or the capricious notions or interests of the executive, or the fluctuations
of partisan demands of Congress. The regulation of our financial affairs must be by
inflexible laws, to which all shall yield obedience.
We have no policy, and all
business interests are at the mercy of politicians who happen to have power, while
the government can pour out millions of reserve without law when politicians or
speculators are in trouble, aud refuse financial relief, by lawful means, when there
is universal prostration in industry. trade and commerce in every section of the
Union.
The chief source of our financial troubles, of policical degradation, and of the law-
lessness that flings its deformities before us in many shapes, is the tendency to
centralization.
Political centralization, MONEY CENTRALIZATION, corporate cen-
tralization, all come from one fountain, and all pour out their varied streams of de-
moralization throughout the land. * *
* Under our financial laws, money-centres
are omnipotent, and they can oppress the whole industry and trade of the country, OR
REDUCE OR INFLATE VALUES IN A DAY, and under our laws bearing upon politi-
cal power, not only in the reconstructed States, but in controlling centres of the
great States of the North, the public will, can be, and has heen, defied by th
centralized power that must despotic or die.
The Rum the Gold Standard is Working.
Creating a Population of Dependent Laborers and Mortgaged Farme
From Letter of Senator J. D. Cameron to National Republican League, June 1lth, 1891
The single gold standard seems to us to be working ruin with violence that
If its influence is to continue for the future at the rate of its a
ing can stand.
but against it we all rebel.
lists ; labor and capital ; churches and colleges—all alike, and all in solid
faith, shrink from such a future as this.
Where the Republicans Stood in 1877.
If Bimetallists Are Cranks and Repudiationists What Were Pennsylvania
publicans a Few Years Ago?
From Pennsylvania Republican Platform, adopted at Harrisburg, September 5th, 1877.
‘Resolved, That the long and successful existence, under the laws of congress, of
the gold and silver standard, WARRANTS US IN DEMANDING THE EARLY REPEAL
OF THE LEGISLATION WHICH DEMONETIZED SILVER, and established an almost ex-
clusive gold standard ; and WE THEREFORE FAVOR A RETURN OF THE FREE AND UN-
RESTRICTED COINAGE OF THE DOLLAR OF 1798 and its restoration to the position it
held as a legal tender during the 80 years of our national existence, thus preserving
the equality of the commercial value of the silver dollar with the gold dollar, keep-
ing both in circulation.
Crucifying Labor.
Money Lords Striving to Create a Serfdom Worse Than That of the Middle Ages.
From The London Times and Echo, July 19th, 1896.
‘‘If the single gold standard can be forced upon South America and Asia, as it
has been since 1873 forced on North America and Europe, gold must inevitably ap-
preciate to at least four times its present absurd value; or, to put it otherwise,
commodities must decline to one-fourth of the present price, and labor, all the
world over, be crucified as it was never crucified before—in days of medizval serf-
dom or even chattel slavery. Such is the contest.
If the money lords can force
gold monometallism upon the whole world, they will succeed in establishing the
most gigantic moneyed aristocracy among the rich, and the worst system among
the ‘masses’ that has ever cursed the hapless sons of men,’
A Point That Dr. Atherton Overlooked.
President ATHERTON, of The Penn-
sylvania State College, delivered an
address in this place, on last Friday
evening, on the money question. It
was asked for by the Republicans, whose
club rooms are deserted by the rank and
file of that party, and by a few scarce
money Democrats, who can get nobody to
meet with them, and was announc-
ed to be a ‘non-partisan’ presen-
tation of the financial situation, as
if the advocacy of a partisan policy
could be a non-partisan affair. Dr.
ATHERTON is a Republican, and Dr. ATH-
ERTON’s views have never been known to
have been otherwise than in perfect and
entire harmony with whatever views a Re-
publican platform might express, and it
would have been much more manly and
have commanded much more respect if the
meeting had been announced as a Republi-
can gathering, which it really was.
It is but two years since Dr. ATHERTON
was earnestly and vigorously ‘supporting a
platform that demanded a supply of money
in this country equal to $40 per capita,
while, on Friday night, he as vigorously ad-
vocated a system that would furnish less
than half that amount, consequently we
take it that his views upon this subject are
fixed more by the expressions of his party
platform, than from the needs of the
country or a desire for the prosperity of
the people. :
It is not our intention, however, to criti-
cise the position taken, to cast doubt upon
the statements made, or to find fault with
the conclusion he arrived at, but to suggest
that in his next ‘‘non-partisan’’ address he
explain where the benefits to the working-
man and farmer come in, from a system
that doubles the cost of educating their
children at his own institution, as well as
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lessens their ability to educate them at all.
Taking the market price for wheat and
the catalogue prices for charges at the State
College, in 1872—prior to the demonetiza-
tion of silver—we find that 33 bushels of
wheat would pay the college charges for
the farmer’s son for one year; including
the cost of boarding it took 117 bushels.
Under the present system it takes 95 bush-
els of wheat to pay the college charges and
295 when boarding is included. A work-
ingman could send his son to that institu-
tion, in 1872, during the three terms for the
wages paid him for 35} days work, and
could board and school him for one year for
the wages of 77 days. Now it requires all
he can earn in 98 days to pay the college
charges, alone, and when boarding is con-
sidered it requires the earnings of 298 days.
Is a condition of affairs that is thus
gradually and surely taking from the
masses the ability to profit by the advant-
ages of an education, a condition that Dr.
Atherton should desire continued, or ad-
vocate as beneficial ?
In his next ‘‘non-partisan’’ address we
hope he will get down to the practical
question of explaining why it now costs a
farmer, a mechanic or a workingman,
double the amount, in that which he has to
sell, to educate his children at the State
College, that it did prior to the demoneti-
zation of silver, and how the continuation
of such a system, either benefits them or
the College, or the cause of education ?
——The Philipsburg Ledger, previous to
its passing into the hands of Mr. GRANT,
was an independent organ, hardly ever get-
ting into politics at all. It is getting hot
this fall. Real, downright, politically
strong. Why it actually called WM. C.
HEINLE a political somersault artist in its
issue of Saturday.
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Who the Author Is.
In last week's edition of the WATCHMAN
there was a double column article signed
by “W. GEORGE WARING.” In it the
author told ‘‘the truth about Mexico’’ as
seen by himself during extensive travel in
that country.
The article, in itself, is very convincing
in the facts dealt with, but we thought it
would be more so since the author was
once a resident of this county. W. Gro.
WARING was superintendent of The Penn-
sylvania State College experimental farms,
having heen Mr. W. C. PATTERSON'S prede-
cessor. He makes his home at Tyrone
now, and is a man of considerable means.
When in this county he was well thought
of and now that you all know exactly who
he is we trust you will look up last week’s
: edition and read the article over again.
| There will be so much more in it when
you know the man who wrote it.
Free Silver Meetings in the County.
Bryan and Sewall meetings have been
vertised for the following times and
plades.
Moxday, Sept. 21st—At Pleasant Hill
school house, Patton Twp.
At Rnox’s school house, in Benner Twp.
Tuesflay, Sept. 22nd—At Holts Hollow
school [house, Boggs Twp.
At Mt. Eagle, Howard Twp.
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At Stormstown, Halfmoon Tip.
Friday, Sept. 25th—At Baileyville, Fer-
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I At Woodward, Haines Twp.
| Saturday, Sept. 26th—Atv Madisonburg,
Miles Twp.
At Pleasant Gap, Spring Twp. |
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At Filmore, Benner Twp.
| At Brungart’s school house, in Miles
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Monday, Sept. 28th—Fairview - school |
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Gray and Hicks in Philipsburg.
Editor WATCEMAN.—W. E. Gray, of your
city, and Congressman J. D. Hicks, of Al-
toona, held forth in South Park, Philipsburg,
Pa., on Friday evening, September 11th.
They had also held a meeting at Cuba mines
in the afternoon. There was a good sized
audience in both cases. At Cuba, in the
language of Hicks, ‘‘the people listened
as though they were really hearing the
truth (?)” Inthe park, however, it was not
all truth, for the speakers not only contra-
dicted each other but each one contradicted
himself.. One said : ‘‘t] ° silver dollar now
passes at face value becau.e it is redeemable
indirectly in gold.” The other said : ‘‘itis
the stamp of the government that makes it
| good.”
| Gray got off the old chestnut about the
enormous profit to the silver mine owners in
case of free coinage, but in less. than 15 min-
utes he took the opposite extreme, declaring
that the laborer’s wages would be cat in two
by means of a fifty-three-cent dollar. Hicks
made himself ridiculous in the same way and
on the same point. He also stated that the
coal trade of this region had been injured
under the operation of the ‘‘Wilson tariff.”
For the information of Hicks and others I
give figures from the United States statistical
abstract for 1895, showing the number of tons
of bituminous coal and coke imported and
exported, for the years 1892 and 1895. The
years 1892, according to Republican authority
being the prosperous year under the McKin-
ley tariff and the year 1895 being the only
full year reported under the Wilson bill.
Tons.
1,374,518
1,284,656
89,862
Tons.
Coal and Coke ! Imported pi
Imports diminished under Wilson bill
Coal Exported 1895 2,374,088
Coal Exported 1892 1,700,496
Exports increased under Wilson bill 674,492
The exports of coke are also largely in-
creased in 1895, over 1892, as given in dollars,
but the tons are not given for 1892,
If this is the way the Wilson tariff hurts
the coal trade let us have more of it.
They also falsely declared that more had
been done for silver since than prior to 1873.
It should be plain enough to any school boy
that when we coin all the silver offered for
coinage we do more than when we limit
the amount coined. The very acme of free
coinage is the opening of the mints to all
that may be offered.
They tried to make out the silverites as
favoring the silver standard asin Mexico,
and prated about the Mexican dollar, as
though we, instead of themselves, had de-
based silver and raised the stop—thief cry of
the 50-cent dollar. It was claimed that bonds
are payable in gold which is not true of
United States bonds, and where it is true of
individual or corporate bonds the law that
permitssuch discrimination against one and
in favor of another coin of the government
is in plain violation of constitutional provi-
sion, and the attempt to shift the blame for
such legislation on the opposite party is
cowardly in the extreme.
Both the speakers expressed great concern
about the many Democrats who have chang-
ed their minds since their national conven-
tion, as though it had never been the custom
for the majority to rule and the minority to
submit. In this it is well to remember that
‘wise men may change their minds but fools
neverg It is a good thing to have a mind to
change. Speaking politically there are many
who have no mind but that ofgthe party or
the party boss. 3
I am glad to note that there are many Re-
publicans and some Prohibitionists who have
political minds of their own and are chang-
ing them to the free silver side. Isit any
wonder that our friends the goldites are
vexed. But Mr. Hicks capped the climax of |
absurdity when 1n one sentence he favored a
high tariff wall and in another declared that |
the thing to do is to invite foreign capital to
our shores to revive our waning industries.
Truly he is a philosopher. Foreign capital-
ists of course would favor American labor
and divide profits with them. It will indeed
be a sad day for America when, not only our
means of transportation and travel, our ave-
nues of communication and our medium of
exchange, but our industries generally are
in the clutches of foreign Lords. May Heav-
en.deliver us and ours from such direful ca-
lamities. IsAAC Guss.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
A CLEVER SWINDLER WORKS BELLE-
FONTE PEOPLE.—Previous to last week no
one who enjoyed (?) his acquaintance
thought that Noah W. Ream, who operat-
ed a little stave mill near Hublersburg, in
this county, was a particularly shrewd or
cunning man. Weighing about 1601bs., he
is not quite the average in height and has a
full, round face that is adorned with a dark
moustache. Beady looking little eyes don’t
go far towards lighting up what would im-
press the physiognomist asa very dull
countenance. And adrawling manner of
speech, with a peculiar twist of the mouth,
add more to the general impression that
while Noah might run astave mill he
would possibly succeed better if he had a
good accountant to look after the business
end of it.
All men are fooled, sometimes, and Noah
has done his share toward proving how
easy itis for a fellow to dupe men who are
rated as always being on the alert for just
such games as he played on them.
Some time ago he purchased a stave mill
and fixtures from Mrs. Miranda Bickle,
having received a conditional lease, provid-
ing that the property should not pass into
his name until the purchase money was
paid in full. At different times since the
purchase he had paid $190, $60 and $200.
The mill was kept in constant operation,
{ yet he seemed always to be hard up. He
banked at the Centre County, in this place,
where he usually deposited checks and
straightway checked his credit out. Most
of his remittances were from the Williams-
port iron and nail company, of Williams-
port, and the Richard Grant Co., of New
| York city. These firms consumed his prod-
uct and paid him for it.
On Tuesday of last week he came to
town to settle up some business at the
court house. He owed costs, etc., on an exe-
cution that had been held over, but before
going up he went to the Centre County,
where he had a balance of about $10 and
deposited two checks. One was for $161.32,
on the Chemical National bank of New
York, and drawn by the Richard Grant Co.
The other was for $186.50 drawn by the
Williamsport iron and nail company. The
bank passed them both to his credit and
gave him $50 in cash. He then went to
Richard’s sons jewelers, on High street,
and bought a filled case gold watch, paying
for it with his personal check for $16.50.
The jewelers, of course, are out the price
of the watch.
George T. Bush was visited. There Ream
bought a $10 kodak, paying forit with a
check, which George took right to the bank
and had cashed, though it has since been
charged up to him again. So he is out the
kodak.’ ) >
John Walker, who has a bicycle agency
in conjunction with MecCalmont & Co., on
High street, was the next victim. Ream
had bought a wheel from him over a year
ago and called to pay the balance that he
owed on it. He gave John a check, drawn
by the Williamsport firm, for $128.46 and
received a receipt in full and Walker's
check for $70 in change. This check the
Pennsylvania railroad ticket agent cashed,
later in the day, by giving Ream a ticket for
Chicago and the balance in money.
The swindler then went toJ. C. Meyer,
Mrs. Bickle’s attorney, and lifted one of
the two remaining notes against his mill.
It was for $117.01. He gave Mr. Meyer his
personal check for it and requested that it
be presented at once for payment as he
wanted to get his bank book balanced be-
fore going away. The check was deposited
at the First National, went down to the
Centre Co., was passed to the former’s cred-
it there and then Mr. Meyer was given
credit with it. The Centre County is thus
the loser of that amount unless it can ‘put
the loss on Mrs. Bickle or Mr. Meyer.
At the same time Ream gave W. G.
Runkle a check for $25 for services. Then
he went up to the jail and gave Sheriff
Condo his check for $23.63 to cover the
costs alluded to above. There he made the
same request that he had of Mr. Meyer and
the sheriff sent the check right down to the
bank and got the money. The next day,
however, the bank persuaded the sheriff to
write a check covering the amount, so he is
the loser there, unless the court will grant
power to correct the return made to it.
Landlord Dan Keller, of Keller's hotel, is
more than likely a loser to the tune of
$128.74. Ream got him to endorse a check
that the Jackson, Crider & Hastings bank
cashed for that amount. It was drawn by
the Richard Grant Co.,. and was on the
Chemical National.
There may have been other Bellefonters
fleeced, but these are all we have learned
of. Wm. Pealer, of Spring Mills, is said to
be a loser to the amount of about $160,00.
! He holds two of Ream’s notes, one for $30
and one for $70 on which Ream had forged
his father’s, J. B. Ream’s, signature. Then
Mr. Pealer is endorser on a note for about
$60 that is now in the Centre County here
for collection
The Millheim bank is reported to have
cashed a check for $186, signed by the Wil-
liamsport firm.
* Now all the checks signed by the Fred-
erick Grant Co., and the Williamsport iron
and nail company are forgeries ; as are the
signatures of J. B. Ream to the notes Noah
gave and got Mr. Pealer on. The conse-
quence is that the fellow is actually in
248.74 in cash, a kodak, a watch, a bicy-
cle, the note on his mill, his lawyer’s ser-
vices, the costs in his case, the three Peal-
er notes, ete.
Ream is a married man, his wife living
now on her father-in-law’s home below
Penn Cave. It was he who brought the
Frabels before the January quarter sessions
for having set fire to his mill:-
What made his day’s work'so profitable
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