SS — President Submits to Senate More Evidenee of Brownsville Affray. ACTED WITH LEGAL POWER Washington, Jan. 15. — President Roosevelt sent to the senate a special message regarding the Brownsville incident, which gives the additional evidence collected by Assistant Attor- ney General Purdy and Major Block- som, who were sent to Texas by the president to investigate the affair. The president submitted with his mes- page various exhibits, including maps pf Brownsville and Fort Brown, a ban- doleer, 33 empty shells, seven ball cartridges picked up in the streets a few hours after the shooting; three steel-jacketed bullets and some scraps bf the casings of other bullets picked put of the houses into which they had been fired. The president declares that the ev- idence is positive that the outrages of ‘August 13 were committed by some of the colored troops that have been dis- missed, and that some or all of the members of the three companies of the 25th infantry had knowledge of the deed and have shielded the guilty persons. The negro troops are referred to by the presi dent in his message as “midnight assassins,” and he declares that very few, if any, of the soldiers dismissed “without honor” could have been igno- rant of what occugred. That part of the order which bars the soldiers from all civil employment under the government is revoked by the presi- dent. This clause, the president says, was lacking in validity. The discharg- ed troops, however, will be forever barred from re-enlisting in the army or navy, and as to this the president says that “there is mo doubt of my constitutional and legal power.” The president reiterates his former statement that the facts not only war- ranted his action, they demanded ft, and made such an order imperative. The failure to take the dismissal ac- tion would have found him false to his duty to the nation. He adds further that his action can- not be reversed or even reviewed save by another executive order. The con- stitution so provides. Secretary Taft's report, giving the gworn testimony of witnesses, is trans- mitted with the message. The testi- mony of 14 eye witnesses is given, and the president declares that the evi- dence is conclusive that the weapons used were Springfield rifles now used by United States troops, including the negro troops who were in the garrison at Brownsville. Senator Mallory, indorsing the ac- tion of the president, opened the dis- cussion. He held that the president might have gone too far in prevent- ing the re-enlistment of the soldiers involved, but otherwise he approved the president's order of discharge. When Senator Clay, who followed, took the floor, the debate was given a lively turn by Mr. Tillman's interrup- tions. r. Clay said the people of Georgia heartily indorsed the president's or- der. Senator Bacon followed with what he said was reported as a precedent for the Brownsville order in the dis- charge of the company of South Caro- lina Nationa! Guardsmen by Senator Tillman when he was governor. This involved Senator Tillman again in the debate. Senator Spooner was in the midst of a constitutional discussion of the authority of the president in the case when adjournment was taken. Sena- tor Spooner urges that when the pres- ident exercises his powers as comman- der-in-chief of the army the senate has no jurisdiction. He also ocontend- ed that congress has no power to leg- islate specifically to restore the sol- diers discharged in the present case, declaring that review can only be had by impeachment proceedings, which must originate in the house of repre- sentatives. Several senators have indicated that they intend to discuss the question, and the Brownsville debate is, there- fore, likely to absorb the attention of the senate for several days. $1,000,000 FIRE AT LANCASTER ffwo Big Tobacco Factories and Five Dwellings Burned. Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 12. — A fire which was discovered in tae tobacco warehouse of S. R. Moss & Company caused a loss approximating $1,000, 900. A delay in turning in the alarm gave the fire a good start, and when the firemen arrived it was beyond their control. The structure was a four-story rick, with basement, and was well filled with tobacco. The flames com- unicated to Moss’ cigar factory ad- ea a five-story brick building, which was also destroyed, the north and south walls of both structures firemen had narrow escapes from house is placed at $300,000 and on the Spring Mills. Commercial agents stopping off here report | business on the road as being very light, or as some remarked, “all fired” dull since the Holidays. Miss Orpha Gramiey, one of our sehool teachers, has been quite ill for the past few days. Her classes are in charge of her father, Titus Gramley. A granddaughter of Henry Royer, of near Penn Cave station, a child of four or five years old, died very unexpectedly on Sun- day evening last. We bad guite a little snow storm here on Friday night last, and the weather having moderated, made walking on Saturday and Sunday a very miserable operation. Jesse Long, occupying the Corman farm a mile or two above the village, will move to | Burnham the coming spring. We have now a dozen or more of our people employed in that busy and lively town. The Ripka brothers will discontinue busi- ness here on April 1st. We are very sorry to learn this as it isa pleasure to transact | business with gentlemen of their affable and pleasing mannars. The residence and store room will be occupied by Ezra Finkle, at present engaged in business at Rote. J. H. Rishel, of Farmers Mills, will erect a residence and store room on the site for- merly occupied by C. J. Finkle, which was destroyed by fire a few years ago. That able architect and builder, John Hagan, will have charge of the work and will commence operations as soon as the weather permits. Our people were considerably startled on Friday morning last, and until the supposed cause was ascertained, everybody thought we had bad an earthquake. Windows, doors and dishes rattled in about every house in town, and it is still th ought to have been an earthquake, as a shock at about the same time was felt in Europe, and it seems im- probable, too, that the report of an explosion could be so wide spread and felt so percepti- bly at a distance of so many miles from the scene of its occurrence. Local Sabbath Observance Report. After a successful beginning, your com- mittee is suddenly and unexpectedly block. ed by a dairyman who, at the outset, en- couraged us to go forward in a movement for the relief of Sunday milk delivery in Belle. fonte. We have the signatures of ull his patrons applied to, save one, consenting to a delivery on Saturday evening of a suflicient supply for the Sabbath day. Several letters were written to him and no word of expla- nation for non-compliance on his part is re- ceived from him. Other dairymen have ex- pressed their willingness to accept a united agreement. At present no forward move can be made by your committee for the fur. therance of local Sabbath observance, One objector, not a dairyman, but engaged in local Sunday delivery, expressed the truth when he said ‘‘the doing of business has ¢ A AM. A. AM AM. AM AB. | A ———— Montgomery & Co. changed, and we have to conform.” Verily 80, but natural law with civil enactment and God's commands have not changed. Obliga- tion to obedience is incumbent as ever. Most sincerely desiring the highest prosperity of all our people in town and its vicinity, your committee is fully convinced by what is di- vinely and clearly revealed that there can be nothing gained worth having, but certain irretrieveble loss by the transgression of God’s holy laws. I would rather be beaten in the right than to succeed in the wrong. It goes without saying that, sure as death, there is DANGER somewhere that can be averted only by righteous action in obedience to the sa- cred commandments ‘given by inspiration of God.” R. C. CRITTENDEN, Chairman of the Local Sabbath Observance committee, by appointment of the Bellefonte Ministerial Association. in Memoriam. Wuergas, God in His all wise providence has been pleased to take from us one of these little ones, Harry Homan, therefore; Resolved, That by his removal the prima- ry department of the Boalshurg Sunday school loses a regular attendant; Resoived, That we extend to the bereaved ones our heartfelt sympathy and commend them to Him who comforts those who mourn; Resoleed, That this memorial be publish- ed in the county papers and a copy be sent to the home. ANNA SWEENEY, ) EpxA KrRUMRINE, - Com, ANNA DALE. ) —— A Lancashire vicar was asked by the choir to call upon old Betty, who was deal, but who insisted in joining in the solo of the anthem, and ask her only tosing in the bymuos. He shouted in her ear, ‘‘Betty, I’ve been requested to speak to you about your sing- i ”" At last she caught the word ‘‘singing,”’ and replied, *‘Not to me be the praise, sir: it’s a gift.”’—Unitarian Life. Books, Magazines Etc. Highest Tramp Cards. The Pittsburg Sunday Dispatch is always doing scmething enterprising, but its latest coup really takes every trick and leaves the table clear. Its tabloid magazine section of 32 pages, printed on superfine paper and artistically illustrated, out- shines every opposition in that line, and now there have been added four new comic pages, making the greatest comic department publish- ed by any newspaper. All the old comic favorites —Peck’s Bad Boy, Little Growling Bird, Madge the Magician's Drughter and the rest—have been retained, and another complete set, incinding Val and the Ventriloquist, Barney Blue, Little Allright, Sawdust 8im and still more, have been added, making a series of comies containing easi- ly a thousand laughs. Free magazine, worth ten cents, with every copy of the Philadelphia Sunday Press, every week. Best magazine published—stories. pie. tures, verse. Famous contributors, Get the Press every day—you get all that's worth having, a IN MONTGOMERY & COMPANY, Merchant Tailors. (GRAND —) or ( CLOTHING p CLEARANCE SALE consisting of OVERCOATS, SUITS, TROUSERS, FANCY VESTS, HOUSE COATS AND BATH ROBES. MONTGOMERY & CO., Allegheny St. ney Bellefonte, Pa, McCalmont & Company. New Advertisements. McCALMONT & CO. McCALMONT & CO. y NEW YEAR BARGAIN SALE. 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