Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 21, 1898.
P. GRAY MEEK, - -
Ebprror.
Democratic County Committee for 1898.
Hvuen 8. Tayror, Chairman,
Boyp A. MussER, J. W. KEPLER,
J. K. JounsTON, Wx. D Zersy,
Secretaries. Ass’t Secretaries.
Precinct. Name. P. 0. Address.
Bellefonte N. W. Jno. Trafford Bellefonte
tt S. WwW Ed. Brown, Jr. se
." W. W. Geo. R. Meek, ie
Centre Hall Boro J. Dauberman, Centre Hall
Howard 4 Abe Weber, Howard
Milesburg “ Geo. W. Campbell, Milesburg
Millheim nd Sam’l Weiser, Jr.,, Millheim
Unionville L. P. Brisbin, Fleming
Philipsburg 1st W. J. W. Lukens Philipsburg
2nd W. Ira Howe, te
&t srd W. Howard Hysong ¥
State College Boro Dr. W. 8. Glenn, State College
S. Philipshiire. Henry 8. Wilcox, Philipsburg
Benner Twp. N. P. L. C. Rearick, Bellefonte
se NE John Iehier, il ne
Boggs Twp. N.P. Henry Heaton, ilesbur,
gZe vP E. P. I Ee Rolan
oe W. P. D. F. Poorman, Runville
Burnside Twp. Wm. Hipple, Sr. Pine Glenn
llege * L. W. Moi State College
Curtin ‘ N. J. McCloskey, Romola
Ferguson ‘ E.P. W. H. Frye, Pine Grove Mills
i ‘“ W. P. Sam Harpster, Jr., Gatesburg
Gregg Twp. N. P. Geo. Weaver, Penns Cave
se E. P. Jas. C. Condo, Penn Hall
te W. P. Jno. Smith, Spring Mills
Haines Twp. W. P., Geo. W. Keister, Aaronsbur
4 E.P. R. E. Stover, Woodwar
Half Moon Twp. Emory McAfee, Stormstown
Harris te Jas. A. Swabb, Linden Hall
Howard ee Geo. D. Johnston, Mt. Eagle
Huston $e Henry Hale, Julian
Liberty se 0. J. Stover, Blanchard
Marion ot - J. W, Orr, Walker
Miles Twp. E. P. Dan’l W. Harter, Rebersburg
te W. P. Edward Miller, Centre Mills
“ M. P. C.J. Crouse, Rebersburg
Patton Twp. D. L. Meek, Waddle
Penn hp A. P. Zerby, Sober
Potter “ 8. P. Jas. B. Spangler, Tusseyville
“ ** N P. G.H. Emerick. Centre Hall
Rush “ N.P. Wm, Frank, Philipsburg
“
¢“ 8.P. Michael Dempsey, Powelton
Snow Shoe Twp.E.P Lawrence Reding Snow Shoe
- o . P John Confer, Moshannon
Wm. Hepburn, Bellefonte
W. H. Noll, Jr., Pleasant Gap
se W. P. P.F. Garbrick, Bellefonte
Spring Twp. ¥ r
Taylor Twp. A. P. Hoover, Hannah
Union *¢ Chas. G. Hall, Fleming
Walker Twp. E. P. Sol Peck, Nittany
M. P. Harry McCauly, Hublersburg
i W. P. Wm. A. Royer ¢
.
Worth A. J. Johnston,’ Port Matilda
Boyp A. Musser, HUGH S. TAYLOR,
ASE A wun
Pull for Harmony, Democrats
The primaries for the various boroughs
and townships in Centre county will be
held to-morrow - afternoon and evening, in
order to make nominations for the local of-
fices that are to be filled at the February
election. The importance of these primaries
and caucuses should not he lost sight of by
the Democracy, for it is in these very local
elections that most of the bad blood and
personal conflict between Democrats, that
tells so disastrously in more important con-
tests, is engendered.
With the strength of the Democratic
party in Centre county as problematical as
it undoubtedly is it becomes the duty of
every true Democrat to exercise the great-
est care and tact in making the nomina-
tions for their local tickets to-morrow.
The caucuses should be dominated by no
clans, they should be conducted with a
view toward satisfying every voter in the
precinct and only good men—men who can
be elected—should be placed in nomination.
Be careful not to let the insignificance
of the office prompt you to offer it to one
who would not receive the full party vote,
for if you do and he is defeated, you can
rest assured that the cutting in your pre-
cinet next fall will be the silent, but dis-
astrous notification that old scores have
been evened. Every man has some pride
and no man likes to be defeated, especially
in a precinct where his party predomi-
nates ; therefore nominate men of whom
you are sure and by so doing you will give
the voters the best men for the office. At
least they will be the men whom they will
vote for.
Pull for harmony, Democrats. Do noth-
ing, say nothing, act nothing to-morrow
that might, in any way, be prejudicial to
harmony. It is not too early to begin
work for the November elections and to-
morrow is the time to make a beginning
that will be a battle half won.
‘When MARK HANNA had secured his
election to the United States Senate by the
most undisguised bribery that ever corrupt-
ed a Legislature, the President sent him
a congratulatory telegram assuring him
that ‘‘the result was one in which our best
citizenship, irrespective of party, will pro-
foundly rejoice.” :
There was something so painfully im-
proper in this expression that President
McKINLEY could not have fully consider-
ed what he was saying.
No intelligent citizen whose ohservation
was directed to the proceedings at Colum-
bus could fail to be convinced that the
Senatorship was delivered to HANNA as a
purchased article. That bribery was em-
ployed to secure his election is a fact to
which no less than seven Republican mem-
pers of the Legislature are ready to testify
from their own personal knowledge, and
challenge the boodlers to give them a
chance to do so. Even if there was not
such evidence the whole character of the
proceedings and the well understood nature
of HANNA’S methods leave no doubt in
the public mind that his election was a
triumph of corrupt appliances in politics
over which the President most singularly
believes that our best citizenship will pro-
foundly rejoice.
But while this mistake of the President
painfully affects the public mind, there
can be no other feeling than that of pro-
found contempt for the shameless and coarse
grained boodler who after he had secured
his purchased goods, telegraphed to his
presidential friend that ‘‘God reigns and
the Republican party still lives.”
Apart from this blasphemous association
of the Diety with boodle politics, there
could be no worse reflection on the Repub-
lican party than that it lives by such
methods as HANNA practices.
ocracy.
It is to be seen whether the Democracy
of Philadelphia have virtue enough to over-
come their demoralization and avail them-
selves of the chance to do something for
the advantage of their party and the inter-
est of the city offered them by the split in
the Republican organization. They have
an opporiunity to prove that they are not
in polities merely for trading purposes.
The oft repeated treachery that has sold
out to the enemy, and the frequent exam-
ples of unfaithfulness to party principles
and allegiance for the sake of a share of
Republican spoils, has had its natural ef-
fect of impairing the confidence of the rank
and file in the trustworthiness of their
leaders and reducing the strength of the
organization to an extent that rendered it
contemptible as a political factor. If the
discouragement of unvaried defeat for
years past is offered as a reason for the low
condition to which the city Democracy
have been reduced it is found to be a poor
excuse in view of the fact that the mer-
cenary and factious spirit that has prevail-
ed among the leaders, with the demoraliz-
ing effect upon the rank and file which
faithless and self-seeking leadership must
necessarily produce, was a sufficient reason
and, in fact, the real cause of the poor show-
ing which the Philadelphia Democrats
have recently made at the polls. Itis to
such causes, sapping the moral stamina of
the organization in the city, that the ridic-
ulously and shamefully small votes polled
by the Philadelphia Democracy at recent
elections are almost entirely due.
The chance now offered by Republican
dissension should tone up the moral condi-
tion of Philadelphia Democratic organiza-
tion. The opportunity is such as to render
deals and dickers out of place and im-
politic, as an object of personal gain even
if there should be leaders so mercenary
and unfaithful as to desire to engage in;
them in such a situation as now exists.
The Democratic nominee for receiver of
taxes, avows his intention of faithfully
maintaining his position as a Democratic
candidate, and if the leaders refrain from
trading, and inspire their followers with
the hope of accomplishing a creditable re-
sult at the polls, there may be started a
new era in the career of the Philadelphia
Democracy far more creditable than the re-
cent past has been. It may be the inaugu-
ration of future victory.
In Quest of Good Government.
The good government league that has
been formed in Philadelphia could not
have selected a field of operations where
the object it aims at is more needed. It
could help to start the ball for better gov-
ernment in the city by helping to defeat
both of the candidates nominated for re-
ceiver of taxes by the two conflicting Re-
publican factions.
Such a defeat is more likely to be ef-
fected by voting for the Democratic nomi-
nee for that office than by wasting ballots
on some independent candidate who hasn’t
the ghost of a chance of being elected.
Why such organizations as good govern-
ment leagues so often miss the mark they
aim at is because they so often vote in the
air.
Though the prejudice of those who com-
pose this league may interfere with their
having confidence in Democratic officials,
yet their experience with Republican in-
cumbents should convince them that even
the election of yellow dogs would be an
improvement on the kind of officials with
which the Republicans have filled most of
the city offices in Philadelphia.
——When a committee of Delaware
county farmers protest against the growing
expense of their county government they
do not direct their censure against a rare
or novel abuse, for extravagance in county
expenses has become general and is increas-
ing every year. But when the example of
extravagrant expenditure is set in higher
quarters it is likely to find imitators among
county officials. Doubtless some of these
Delaware county farmers who are kicking
at the increasing county expenses helped
to swell the great Republican majorities in
the State which virtually amounted to an
endorsement of the profligate expenditures
of Republiean state administrations and
Legislatures. When the state money is
made to fly in Harrisburg what could be
more natural than that the Delaware coun-
ty officials should think that they have an
equal right to be extravagant with the
county funds. Nothing can have a worse
effect than a bad example in high places.
——When a strike in the cotton mills
against a wage cut turns thousands of
workingmen into the street in mid-winter,
they may well ask where the henefit of the
DINGLEY tariff comes in for them ? One
of the mills at New Bedford, whose proprie-
tors claim that southern competition has
compelled them to reduce the pay of their
workmen, has made a dividend of 16 per
cent every year for the past four years, in-
cluding 1897. Such dividends don’t indi-
cate a condition that requires the employes
to be poorly paid. The DINGLEY tariff is a
fraud in whatever light it may be looked
at, and no class are more defrauded by it
than the working people.
——Speaker Reed is pictured as hero-
ically resisting the mad rush which Re-
publican Congressmen are making on the
treasury. The picture presents two la-
mentable features. In the one is seen the
insatiable greed which even a fiscal deficit
can’t check, and in the other is presented
the exertion of the one-man power re-
quired to keep off the congressional cor-
morants.
| rhe Chance of the Philadelphia Dem-
The Pittsburg Dispatch—A Great Daily
Newspaper.
The growth of the Pittsburg newspapers
within the past few years has been really
marvelous. In fact what was bardly me-
what may truthfully be called a metropoli-
tan press. In this evolution that has
pitched the great dailies of the Smoky city
to the ranks of those of Philadelphia and
New York the Pittsburg Dispatch has be-
come one of the representative journals of
the State.
The Dispatch is Republican in politics,
but fair enough not become so tainted with
partisanship as to make it unsatisfactory
for a reader of any particular belief. ‘Its
foreign and local news service is such as to
make it as valuable as any paper that
comes into Bellefonte and being four hours
ahead of all but one of its eastern contem-
poraries—with just as much and just as
reliable. news from all quarters of the
globe—there is no reason why it should
not become a very popular paper in this
territory.
——In the death of WIEN FORNEY, a
more extended notice of which will be
found on another page of this issue, a pio-
neer in the newspaper business in Centre
county has passed away. He was one of
the founders of this paper and during his
varied career as a writer became known
through the aggressive and fearless nature
of his expressions. Mr. FORNEY was a
companionable man, one whose magnetism
seemed to draw men to him and once his
friend was always his friend. In the years
that his work was devoted to journalism in
Centre county he acquired a reputation that
will live in the minds of our people, even
though he has gone to that bourne whence
no traveler returneth.
——=Since half of the cotton mills in
New. England are closed by a strike
against a reduction of wages the mill
hands who believed in the promises of
the advance agent of prosperity will be
forced to the conclusion that he made an
error in his calculations.
—The California judge who has lately
handed down an opinion to the effect that
the wife can be compelled to support the
husband evidently has some notion of re-
tiring from the arduous (?) drudgery of
writing opinions and drawing a handsome
salary.
——The papers that have been publish-
ing the new HAMILTON road law and telling
their readers how many officers must be
elected under it next month, have evident-
ly overlooked the fact that there was a
rider on the HAMILTON bill that provided
that it should become operative only after
the State had appropriated $1,000,000 to be
apportioned among the various townships
of the State to start it in operation. As the
appropriation was not made by the Legis-
lature that passed the act the law has not
become operative and the old law is still
the guide in the matter of the public roads
of the State.
Blackburn’s Daughter Shot.
The Family Says the Wound Was Inflicted Acci-
dentally.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Mrs. Lucille
Lane, youngest daughter of ex-Senator Joe
Blackburn. of Kentucky, shot herself in
her apartment at the Wilmington hotel
Saturday night. According to the state-
ment given out by the family, the shooting
was accidental. Both of Mrs. Lane's phy-
sicians refused to discuss the subject even
to the extent of saying whether or not the
wound would prove fatal, but from
the best that can be learned she will proba-
bly recover, although now suffering severe-
ly from shock.
A friend of the family said that about
midnight on Saturday Mrs. Lane was pre-
paring to retire. Her hushand at the time
was in the adjoining room looking over a
paper. Mrs. Lane opened a bureau drawer
to get a handkerchief and picked up a
handful of gloves and laces, which had
been tossed together in the drawer. Un-
der this fluffy mass was a tiny lady’s pis-
tol, a gift to Mrs. Lane of which she was
particularly fond. It caught in a piece of
lace as she raised her hand, and falling of
its own weight, struck the hammer on the
open drawer. The pistol exploded and the
ball penetrated her left breast. What be-
came of it is impossible to say.
According to the statement given out, it
struck a rib and ranged around beneath
the left shoulder, making only a superficial
wound. At the same time it is said that
Mrs. Lane is suffering so from the shock,
that the physicians have devoted all their
energies to rallying her without attempt-
ing to definitely ascertain the extent of the
injury.
This is the fourth case of attempted sui-
cide under mysterious circumstances dur-
ing the past four weeks of ladies prominent
in Washington society, as follows :
JAN. 16, 1898—Mrs. Lucille Blackburn
Lane, youngest daughter of ex-Senator
Blackburn, shoots herself.
JAN. 7, 1898—Miss Mary Waite, daugh-
ter of ex-Governor of Colorado, takes poi-
son.
Dec. 26, 1897—Miss Virginia Wells
(friend of Miss Herbert), shoots herself.
Dec. 21, 1897—Miss Leila Herbert,
daughter of ex-secretary of navy, jumps
from window.
The Way the Dingley Law is Helping
the Worker.
From the Altoona Times.
In the Dingley tariff law, there was an
advance made on the duty imposed on
more than one line of cotton goods. Yet
the owners of mills in New England pro-
ducing this kind of material have made a
reduction in the wages of about 75,000
operatives to the extent of 10 or 12 per
cent. This is the why the Dingley law is
helping the workers in the cotton manu-
facturing business. All that it has done
for them so far is to cause a reduction in
the rate of their wages. We believe that
at some time in the future the working
men of this country will realize just what
a humbug this high tariff is as far as giv-
ing them better pay is concerned. It hene-
fits some people, it is true, but they are
not the wage earners.
diocre ten years ago has developed into |
Here is a Shut Down.
Employes of Texile Industries Will Now Suffer.—
Dissatisfaction Among the Employes is now at
Fever Heat.—Employers Can't Afford it.—Busi-
ness Depression Has Followed the Failures of a
Number of Business Firms and the Outlook is
Gloomy.
BosToN, Jan. 17.—A reduction in the
wages of about 125,000 operatives employ-
ed in nearly 150 cotton mills in New Eng-
land which the manufactures decide upon,
a temporary reduction for depression in the
cotton goods industry of the North, went
into effect in a majority of the mills to-day.
In several of the mill centres, namely New
Bedford and Biddeford, Saco and Lewis-
town, Maine, dissatisfaction among the
mill hands is intense and strikes are on.
The eighteen mills of the former city,
which give enployment to 9,000 hands,
have béen shut down because the opera-
tives have refused to accept the reduction,
and the contest thus inaugurated promises
to be the most stubborn in the history of
the textile industry. The situation in
New Bedford is very gloomy. Business
there had not recovered from the depres-
sion which followed the failure of six mill
corporations last spring. ‘The 3,500 em-
ployes at Laconia and Pepperill mills in
Biddeford refused to go to work this morn-
ing under the new schedule and it is
thought the strike there will not be set-
tled easily. Some of the employes of the
York mills also joined the Biddeford move-
ment.
The Androscoggin mills in Lewistown,
and the King Philip plant in Fall River,
were handicapped by a strike of a number
of the hands, and the Queen City mills of
Burlington, Vt., have been closed on ac-
count of a strike, which followed the post-
ing of notices of a reduction. The inci-
dent at the Achusnet mills in New Bed-
ford, in which dirt and stones were thrown
at the managers without doing any harm,
was the nearest approach to serious trou-
ble. This afternoon quiet prevailed in all
sections and the stores and streets were al-
most deserted.
On January 5th the reduction took ef-
fect in mills employing about 35,000
hands. The reduction to-day effected the
cotton mills of Maine, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, the mills of New Bedford, Lowell
and a large number of smaller places in
this State and New Hampshire.
lantic and Pacific corporations of the Law-
rence, and probably the other cotton mills
there and in one or two places elsewhere
will make a cut next Monday.
in many places, but in several centres it is
‘11 1-9 per cent. and even higher, while
in a few small mills it is only about 5 per
cent.
The New Bedford strikers will be sup-
ported financially by the operatives in
other centres, and it is said they are pre-
pared to hold out until spring. The na-
tional organization of textile unions has
also voted to support the New ‘Bedford
strike.
It is estimated that the reduction means
a loss of between $75,000 and $85,000 a
week to the wage-earners in the six states,
and the additional loss to strikers in the
various centres, if they remain idle even
for a short time, will swell this amount to
a much larger figure.
PROVIDENCE, R. I, Jan. 17.—A cut of
from 10 to 11 per cent. went into effect in
a majority of the Rhode Island cotton
mills to-day. . This affects the mills con-
trolled by B. B. and R. Knight, Goddard
Brothers and the Lippitt company. The
operatives employed in these mills number
about 11,500 and the total weekly pay roll
is about $78,000.
The average weekly earnings of a cotton
operative in this state is about $6.75, and
the average cut throughout will approach
10 per cent. Thirteen other concerns
operated from this city also put the reduc-
tion of wages into effect to-day. One of
these, the Lockwood company,is at Water-
loo, Me., and one or two others are just
over the state line in Connecticut.
These mills represent a total of 495,564
spindles, 11,983 looms, 5,814 operatives,
and pay $39,375 a week.
PurNaMm, Conn., Jan. 17.—The an-
nounced reduction in wages at the Mon-
ohansett cotton mills, in this city, went
into effect to-day without any protest from
the 140 hands employed. The average
reduction will be 8} per cent. The mill
runs 13,280 spindles, and during the, pres-
ent management, for several years, has
furnished almost constant employment.
Washington and Baltimore.
Special Ten-Day Excursion via Pennsylvania -Rail-
road.
Washington is a most interesting city.
The capitol, the congressional library, the
national museum, and the monument are
among the great creations of civilized man.
To afford an opportunity to visit the city
while Congress is in session, the Pennsyi-
vania railroad company has arranged for a
series of low-rate excursions to the national
capital, to leave Pittsburg, February 17th,
March 17th, April 14th and May 12th.
Round-trip tickets will be sold at rates
quoted below, good going on special train
indicated, or on train No. 4, leaving Pitts-
burg at 8.10 p. m., and carrying through
sleeping cars to Washington ; returning
tickets wil be good on any regular train
except the Pennsylvania Limited. These
tickets will also be good to stop off at Bal-
timore within their limit. Special train of
through parlor cars and coaches will be run
on the following schedule :—
Train leaves. Rate.
ANOODA...... ii vii ssinninrnriiiss 11.40 a. m 735
Bellwood ns ¢ 735
Bellefonte. 9.563 * 725
Clearfield . 9.31 “ 72
Philipsbur 012 725
Osceola..... 0.23 * 72
Tyrone......... 12.03 p. m. 72
Huntingdon..........ccceevevevunenen. 12.35 « 6 65
Washington.................. Alrivat15 »* .L
Should the number of passengers not be
sufficient to warrant the running of a spec-
ial train, the company reserves the right to
carry participants in this excursion on
regular train.
Tickets on sale in Pittsburg, at union
ticket office, 360 Fifth Avenue, and union
station, and at all stations mentioned
above. For full information apply to
agents or Thomas E. Watt, passenger agent
western district, Fifth Avenue and Smith-
field street, Pittsburg. 43-3-4t.
Got Rich in the Klondike.
Eighteen Persons Who Brought Down $500,000 in
Gold.
VICTORIA, Jan. 17.—There arrived here
to-night the steamer Corona, from Juneau
and Skaguay. Among the passengers
were 18 men and a woman from Dawson
City.
They have dust, nuggets and drafts val-
ued at over half a million dollars. It is
the richest party yet returned.
Saylor Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Senate to-
day confirmed H. Saylor, of Pennsylvania,
to he consul at Matanzas, Cuba.
The At-.
The cut amounts to about 10 per’ cent.
Officers Elected.
At the Annual Meeting of the State Agricultural Soci-
ety, Held in Harrisburg.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 19.—The annual
meeting of the State Agricultural society
was held here to-day. These officers were
elected :
President, John McDowell ; first vice
president, C. H. Bergner ; vice presidents,
George A. Vare, William H. Wanamaker,
Benjamin 8. Kunkle, Charles E. Voorhees,
Frank Thomas, David Y. Wilson, Robert
E. Pattison, William T. Hilderup, George
D. Stitzel, Amos H. Mylin, A. P. Young,
H. H. Colvin, A. Day, Louis Piolett, Joel
A. Herr, Samuel Berkinhine, Henry C.
Chisholm, M. D. ; Hirmam Young, N. B.
Critchfield, George Rhey, W. M. Speer,
James McKean, Joshua Wright, J. D.
Kirkpatrick, J. C. Thornton, William
Powell, Leonard Rhone ; at large Daniel
H. Hastings, Thomas .J. Edge ; additional
members executive committee, Levi G.
McCauley, John H. Zeigler, S. B. Ruther-
ford, M. W. McAlarney, S. E. Barber,
Joseph Montgomery and J. P. Nissley ;
corresponding and recording secretary, H.
C. Demming ; treasurer, W. E. Rutherford ;
librarian, William H. Egle ; stenographer,
A.M. Gardner. J
Mr. Gladstone’s Health.
There is no Cause for Any Alarm About Mis Condi-
tion, .
LONDON, Jan. 19.—An official medical
statement issued to-night reasserts that
there is no cause for alarm as to Mr. Glad-
stone’s health, although it has not been
benefited as much as has been hoped at
Cannes.
The facial neuralgic pains persist with
daily fluctuations, owing te the ¢old winds
and‘ wet weather, but the complaint is
quite local. His physical powers have not
suffered, his strength is good, his appetite
excellent and he joins the family at meals
and takes regular drives, weather permit-
ting.
It is not true that the family physician
has been summoned. Mr. and Mrs. Hen-
ry Gladstone will go to Cannes, on Satur-
day, in accordance with arrangements
made weeks ago. Lord Stuart Rendel,
with whom Mr. Gladstone is visiting, tele-
stone’s health was unchanged.
*
Has Quay Been Whispering in Our Con-
gressman’s Ear.
From the York Gazette. i
Congressman Arnold, of the Clearfield
district, has prudently resolved to take
himself out of the race for governor. He
has no doubt been informed by some per-
fectly competent authority of the immense
popularity of Allegheny Stone, and that
anybody proposing to embarrass the can-
didacy of the aforesaid Allegheny Stone
will get himself into trouble.
But Mr. Arnold’s announcement at the
same time that he will be a candidate for
cougressman-at-large sends a chill around
among the friends and admirers of Galusha
A. Grow. That distinguished and vener-
able Republican stands, unfortunately, upon
his own merits and his excellent record in
public service. He is not the kind of a
man to find favor with a soulless political
machine. His position, accordingly, is
precarious, and his place as congressman-
at-large may at any time be used to satisfy
a serviceable man who has been disappoint-
ed in some other direction.
It Mr. Grow is again nominated for con-
gressman-at-large it will be an act of grace
on the part of the machine for which the
respectable Republicans of the state will
be expected to be extremely thankful.
Dahm Court Martialed.
Because He Would Not Go to the Hazleton Coal
Regions.
LEBANON, Pa., Jan. 18.- -Peter H. Dahm
a private of Company H, Fourth regiment,
this city, who was tried by court martial
in this city on Dec. 20th last, was found
guilty and the tribunal found a’ verdict
discharging him from the state’s service
and imposing a fine of $50 or twenty days
in jail. Dahm forwarded the fine to Cap-
tain Hutchinson, of the Eighth regiment,
who was president of the court martial, and
made no appeal from the court’s findings.
The charges against Dahm were deser-
tion, absence without leave and conduct
prejudicial to good military discipline, to
all of which he pleaded not guilty. The
charges grew out of his refusal to accom-
pany the company to the Hazleton coal re-
gions during the late miners’ strike.
Dahm was represented at the trial by
Grant Weidman, Esq.
Important Gan Contract.
Government Orders Bethlehem Company to Finish
Complete 15 Cannon.
BETHLEHEM, Pa., January 27.—A con-
tract has been awarded the Bethiehem
iron company by the United States gov-
ernment to forge, finish and mount 15 four-
inch guns for the navy. The guns are to
be of the rapid firing style. This is the
first contract awarded to any ome concern
for the entire manufacture, finishing and
mounting of the guns. Work on the con-
tract will be begun at once.
Thirty Cubans Killed.
Report of a Sharp Encounter—The Spanish Under
General Luque, Victorious.
HAVANA, January 19.—General Luque
reports that while reconnoitering during
the past ten days in the San Martin Dis-
trict of Holguin, Providence of Santiago de
Cuba, he has inflicted a loss of 30 men
killed on the insurgents.
In addition he adds, his troops captured
7 prisoners, 38 rifles and a quantity of am-
munition. The Spanish column, accord-
ing to General Luque. has one man killed
and 21 wounded.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
MARRIAGE L1CENSES.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week.
Edward G. Jones and Naomi H. Guss,
both of Philipsburg.
Paul Matala and Mary Kraniock, both
of Clarence, Pa.
William C. Chaney, of Worth township,
and Effie Dickson, of Mill Hall, Clinton
Co., Pa.
Robert C. Fryer, of Coburn, Pa., and
Sarah Confer, of Millheim,. Pa.
John W. Brooks, of Benner township,
and Eliza E. Farley, of Spring township.
S. W. Shope, of Boggs township, and
Margaret O. Owens, of Clearfield Co.
David G. Smeltzer, of Centre Hill, and
Minnie E. Rachau, of Madisonburg.
Harry D. Lindemuth, of Philipsburg,
and Bertha Flick, of Julian.
chemist and’ geologist, ‘Hugh Hamilton ;-
graphed to-night at 8.40 that Mr. Glad-,
A SHORT MEETING OF COUNCIL.—After
all the stragglers had turned up a full
board was present at the meeting of coun-
cil, last Monday night, but little business
awaited their action.
A request was made that council investi-
gate the condition of the west abutment of
the High street bridge over Spring creek.
Having been built on a plank foundation
under the surface of the water and butted
against the foundation wall of the WATCH-
MAN building the vibration of the bridge
bas caused a jarring of the building that is
seriously weakening it. Council instruct-
ed the Street committee to employ an ex-
pert and investigate the complaint.
Ellis L. Orvis Esq., and W. L. Good-
bart, secretary of the Millheim electric
telephone company, appeared on behalf of
that corporation to ask for a franchise for
the use of the streets, alleys and ways of
Bellefonte for the erection of the poles and
wires of that company. It is the com-
pany’s intention to extend their lines from
Millheim to Centre Hall, thence to Belle-
fonte, State College and through to the
Blair county line, where another telephone
system will be joined and afford connection,
independent of the Bell company, west of
Tyrone. The Millheim company offers to
put in metallic circuit phones at $2 per
month and charge no extra tolls for talking
in Union, Snyder or Blair counties. With
this statement of its intentions and the an-
nouncement that it has declared 10 per
cent dividends for two years it asked coun-
cil for the franchise on the ground of being
a fair competitor. The matter was dis-
cussed but laid on the table until the next
meeting.
Miss Ammerman made complaint that
the gutter in front of her Bishop street
property is not large enough to carry off
the surface drainage, the result being that
every rain chokes it up and floods her pave-
ments with mud. The street committee
was directed to investigate and act in the
matter.
The fire and police committee reported
the bursting of ‘seven sections of hose dur-
ing the Sunday night fire and council took
action looking to the purchase of 1,000 feet
of new rubber hose.
Bills to the amount of $156.08 were ap-
proved and council adjourned.
Madisonburg.
Arthur Rahan has been wearing a smile
since the arrival of that new girl.
Some of our young men are attending pro-
tracted meetingat Millheim quite regularly.
There is still at this writing a little sleigh-
ing on some side roads through Brush-valley.
Messrs. John Long and Burd Miller, of
Huntingdon, have been visiting our town
and surrounding country for the past week.
Some of our people are hopeful that
the correspondent from this place to
a certain county paper will furnish them
with a Standard dictionary or an ency-
clopzedia in order to acquaint them with the
technical terms used in his weekly reports.
Snow is about gone, and the weather very
spring-like. The night freezing is not good
for grain,
Roads are in bad condition in our vicinity,
and people are obliged to drive slowly
and carefully.
We are glad to state that Mr. William
Barnhart, who has been suffering with heart
trouble, is now able to be around again. Dr.
Braucht is the attending physician.
Mr. Henry Dukeman entertained quite a
large party of young people one evening
lately. The “light fantastic toe,” and many
other games were indulged in until a rather
late hour.
Samuel Barthurst Jr., carried the compli-
ment of ‘standing up” the longest at the
Kennedy spelling school, on Friday night.
This school is taught by Mr. Wilbur Leath-
ers and is quite proficient in spelling.
There are now sixty-three pupils names
enrolled at our school. This number makes
a very busy time for a teacher to get through
lessons for the day unless they are well
classified, which is often difficult to do in a
mixed school.
Mrs. Mary Barnhart, widow of the late
Henry L. Barnhart, is now at Hollidaysburg,
called there by the serious illness of Mr.
Irwin Davis, her brother-in-law. Mr. Davis
is well known in this valley and in Penns
valley also, the latter being his boyhood
home.
Grandmother Barger delights in telling of
her Christmas gifts. The old lady isnow in
her one hundred and sixth year. She enjoys
pretty good health, and generally washes the
breakfast dishes. This work is done as nicely
as many others do, who are much younger in
years, and she is not so afraid of puting her
hands in dishwater as many of our young
friends are.
Mr. Miles Dukeman, the accommodating
blacksmith at this place, is kept very busy
this season of the year. He has been shoe-
mg horses, fixing sleds, buggies, sleighs, and
also tinware, with many other articles too
numerous to mention. Miles seems to be
master of all trades which must be handy for
him, or any man, these hard times.
Centre Hall.
Measles are predominating on Hoffer
street.
Mrs. W. A. Boob entertained handsomely
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Philip Messinger, of Joliette, Ill., is
expected here the beginning of next week
to visit among friends.
Mrs. Christian Houser is lying in a very’
precarious condition at this writing, Wed-
nesday evening, from Bright's disease.
Mrs. Daniel Houser, west of town, who had
been seriously ill for some weeks, is improv-
ing under the skillful attendance of Dr.
Alexander.
The Odd Fellows banqueted in their hall
Saturday evening. They had a very good at-
tendance, a jolly good time. The order is in
a prosperous condition and is adding to its
membership the best material in the valley.
The Presbyterian and Reformed churches
held services last week, every evening in
their respective churches, closing with com-