OLD SERIES, XL.
NEW SERIES. XVIII
NO. 23.
DRIVEN OUT OF GERMAN",
Private letters from Posen and Bilesia
describe the present expulsion by Ger-
many, at Russia's request, of Russian
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
FRED. KURTZ, Eotror and Pro's.
————
Governor Pattison does not gay posi-
tively that he will call the Legislature
into extra session after the adjournment
[next Friday. The question was put to
Poles from those provinces as being at-(him directly if he proposed such a
A MANIACS WILD RIDE.
EXCITING TRIP ON THE
ROADS
WABASH RAIL-
CUTTING A TUNNEL,
Describing the work on a large tunnel
in Pennsylvania, a correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times gives this account of
CIGARS AND PIPES,
Cigars were not known until 1815.
Previous to that time pipes were used
exousively, Chewing had then been in
vogue to a limited extent for some time,
Since the revision of the O, T. and A Madmen Captures a Train and Terri-
substituting “sheol” for hell will there
also be a change in the telephone call
from hell-lo to sheol-lo?
the manner in which the work is
pushed :
‘Inside the tunnel a bustling scene i
presented. The racket and rumble of
tinded by the most cruel and heart-|course, and he declined to answer it. He
randing incidents, Many of the Poles said that a number of persons had ap-| fies
who are now being driven out have been | Pealed to him, in the event of an extra Desperate Baitle with Chicago Officers, in
while suuffing dates back almost as far
a8 smoking, The first package sent
to Catherine de Medici was in fine
the Passengers with a Reaolver—
to.
sattlers in the German territory for many |#€ssion, to include among the subjects of
’ ye . 3 * . ’ * *
years and have thoroughly identified consideration the Anti-Discrimination
: is ihill
themselves with local interests, Most bill. :
of them went to Posen and Silesia to es-| Tnere is a growing that
cipe from the intolerable despotism at|there will be a special session. Senator
bome. The decrees of expulsion issued | Reyburn, Chairman of the Senate Com-
by Heir Von Putkamer, German Minis- {mittee on Appropriations, says there is
tor of the Interior, affects about 30,0000 doubtaboutit. Many other members
Poles, resident in Germany. Eight thou- are of a gimilar opinion.
sentiment
I
for the taking of excessive fees, etc., the
case was arbitrated and decided in favor
of the coun.y, each of the three Com-
missioners being required to pay back
to the County Treasurer betweem $300
$400.
ar ena—— i ——_—
The assessors found a few days ago
that Peter Bast, an aged blacksmith, had
concealed $20,000 to avoid taxation. The
discovery so annoyed the old man that
he commitied suicide by braining him-
self with a hammer.
A queer Peter to peter himself out in
this manner and let laughing heirs get
his $20,000.
sand of these have already been arrest
el without warning and conducted to!
the German frontier by Prussian troops. !
The remainder of the 30,000 ordered out |
of the empire consist of those who had!
obtained permits of Settlement. The de-|
cre of expulsion gives these a short re-|
spite in order to allow, them to settle]
their affairs, dispose of their property|
and otherwise prepare for extradition. |
Whole villages have already been depop-|
ulated, and their refugee inhabitants
turned over to the Russian authorities at |
the German frontier, i
Numbers of the]
poor Poles are fleeing into Austria to es-!
cape enforced return to the land of their
birth. The news of this cruelty has cast]
the chill of despair throughout Russian |
Poland. It is all interpreced by the Vi-|
ennese as a fresh evidence of the bind-]
ing nature of the present connection be-|
tween Germary and Russia and of their
united policy to entirely suppress the]
Polish nationality. ;
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In the House on 3d Brown’s high li-
cense bill, requiring $250 to be paid in
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, $200 in ci-
ties of the first class and lower rates in
small places, was defeated—yer 8 98, nays
70—three less votes in the affirmative
than required to pass it.
The result was received wit h applause
by the opponents of the bill, t 0 which its
friends responded in hisses,
pn
Another Republican postmaster has
turned himself out of office. This time
his name is Hibbs and he hails from
Lewistown, Idaho, where he issued
money orders to the amount o:f $20,000
payable to himself, ordered baniks in dif-
ferent cities to collect them and forward
the money to him, and then absconded
But notwithstanding all these facts it
will probably be asserted by some that
he was “removed without cause.”
Surely he was an “offensive partizan.”
eric m———
Pennsylvania Furnace, in the Spruce
Creek Valley, long idle, has just been
put into operation by the Central Min-
ing Company. It starts under the most
favorable circumstances, having large
and urgent orders for metal from Pitts
burg. The propeciy connecled with the
furnace contains an immense quav.iity of
the richest ore, especially of hematie,
More than a hundred men will be given
employment in the works at the mines
and at incidental labor. This will create
a new local market for the upper end of
Penns Valley.
Sms A fll AS —
The Hessian fly seems to threaten
the Maryland wheat crop. On the floo~
of the Corn and Flour Exchange a few
days ago specimens of wheat stalks from
Frederick county, Md., which had been
attacked by Hessian flies. were exhibit-
ed. The insect was found in the lower
joints near the root. This season Mary-
land appears to produoce the destroyer
in great numbers. There was no hope
after the severe winter of more than a
two-thirds crop, and the ravages of the
— Wp i
fly are expected to very much shorten
Mr.J. Q. Stewart, Chairman of the
the wheat crop from that estimate. Execative Committee, announces that
EE uO
. the Thirty-first Annual meeting of the
The Tyrone Herald says: We are vi- Pennsylvania State Teachers’ Associa
vlating no pledge in stating that the
P Ivania Railroad Company has tion will be held in the opera house, at
ennsylvania Harel »
finally decided to put a railroad down arr'sburg, on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, July 7th, 8th and 0th.
along Clearfield creek. The new road,| oT has wan artilly pre-
we presume, vill Stent from ryan pared by the executive committee, and
the terminus o 8 Gap road, to Clear-|;; oop ooments for a successfal meet-
field bridge, connecting there with the ing have been completed,
Tyrone and Clea. field branch road. This Orders for excursion tickets on the
Be Oe Se several railroads can be procured by ad-
ev A dun “Jdressi . F. Bickel, G :
Sold county and frais po a ressing J. F. Sickel, Germantown, Pa.,
for immense quantities of lumber and not later than July 3d.
or 1mm :
bark. It will also be of incalculablepy ii" and boarding houses will make
benefit to several large farming com- the usual reduction in rates to members
munition. Basidies that it willbe’ » bigl®T 2° Association.
: An excarsion to Gettysburg has been
ghosts ia the side of the Vanderbilt com-1_,. coq for Friday, July 10, Fare for
round trip will not exceed one dollar
A VETO SUSTAINED and twenty-five cents,
An excursion has also been arranged
Harrisburg, June 3.—At the ression ofl, Fortress Monroe, Richmond and
the House to-night a message was re-
: Washington, returning to Harrisburg
ceived from the Governor vetoing the
within ten days. The excursion will go
bill allowing courts to fix the compensa-| from Baltimore to Fortress Monroe 118
tion of Sheriffs for boarding prisoners at} les, by steamer. The round trip tick-
the maximum sum of fifty cents a dayfet will cost nine dollars.
for each. The Governor considers the
rate fixed exorbitant and calls attention
to the fact that Chester pays less than
nine cents a day, Montgomery nineteen
cents, Philadelphia twenty and Lehigh
fourteen and one-half. A few of the
counties pay as high as fifty cents and
two more than that sum. By far the
larger number, however, pay twenty-
five cents or under. He refers to the
msm AP — A IN
AUDITORS WHO DIDNT AUDIT.
The Westmoreland County Auditors,’
in their burning ambition to make
mighty mountains out of miserable lit
tle mcle hills, have placed themselves in
ar'uncomfortable position. In review-|
ing and auditing the acconats of the va-
rious county officers, they refused to al-/|
low certain expenses. Recently in and-
iting the returns of Supervisor John J.
Baughman, of Hempfield township, they
reposted his accounts about $2,000 short.
The announcement of Mr. Baughman's
shortage created considerable excite-
ment. He is a capable, trustworthy gea-
tleman.
and his bondsmen felt outraged. Exe-
cation was issued against Baocghman.
His personal efecls were sacrificed at
S8heriX's sale, and his bondsmen were
notified to make good the difference be-
tween the $2,000 and the amount real-
ized by the sale of the supervisor's pro-
periy.
Igvestigation has developed the start.
ling fact that the auditors had made a
mistake, and that Baughman was not a
delinquent. The anditors to protect
themselves drew up a paper which they
atked Baoghman to sign, releasing them
from any further liability, and agreed, in
case he should do so to fix things with
the county. But Baughman refused to
sizn, and intends (0 appeal from the Au-|
ditors’ report, and intends suing for the
sacrifice of his property. In all the oth-|
er cases where the auditors have refused |
to allow bills the parties interested will
contest the cases, and will probably in|
volve the county in a huge bill of ex-|
penses,
i
The United Presbyterian General As-
sembly has left to the various congrega-
tions the question of deciding whether
or not they shall have instrumental mu-
sic in their churches. This action is a
tion which has been troublesome for a
long time, and has been the subject of
several exciting contests in the church
i —
I. A temperance lecture in brief: Mrs,
Mary Simmons refused to give her hus-
band money to buy whisky, when he
drew a knife and stabbed her in the
breast, killing her instantly. Simmons
has been arrested.
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LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING
WORLD.
This new Wonder of the World, which
is now being loaded on the French trans-
port Isere for shipment to this country,
is the largest statute in the world. Some
i ea of its magnitude may be oblained
from the fact that forty persons found
standing room within the head. A six
foot man stending on the level of the
lips just reached the eyebrow, While
workmen were working on the crown of
he: head they seemed to be making a
hoge sagar caldion, and they jumped
with ease in and out the tip of the nose,
Fifteen people might sit around the
flame of the torch, which elevation can
be reached by a spiral staircase within
the oatstretched a.m.
The London Daily News in speak’ oz of
it says: “It is out and away the largest
statue of modern times. The Colossus of
Rbodes was nothing to it. It could car-
ry the “Bavaria” or the “Herman” in
its arms, It towers to the skies from the
yard of the Rue de Chazelles, where it
has been eight years in construciion, and
the view from its coronet sweeps clear
of the six-story houses and beyond the
walls of Paris.”
The weight of this stupendous s.atue
ia 440,000 pounds, of which 176,000 ibs,
are copper and the remainder wroaght
iron. It will be erected on
Island, this being the location selected
for it by Gen. W, T. Sherman, who was
appointed by the President to make the
selection. When placed in position it
will loom up 305 feet above tide water,
the height of the statue being 151.2 leet,
i that of the pedestal 81 feet, and founda-
tion 52,10 feet.
Tnis imposing statue, higher than the
{enormous towers of the greal Brooklyn
ibridge or the steeple of the Trinity
church, which is the loltiest in the city
of New York,~—higher, in fact, than any
,of the collossal statues of antiquity, —by
its rare artistic proputtions, as well as by
its stupendous dimensions, will add aa-
other to the wonders of the world. A
iwood should be said of ils astistic merit.
iThe pose, stiide and ges.are, with its
‘classic face, are pronounced pedfect; the
drapery is both massive and fine, and in
some parts is as delicate and silky as if
iwrought with a fine chisel on the swall-
est scale,
| The conception and execution of this
‘great work are due to the great French
jaculptor, M. Bartholdi, who has devoted
(eight years of his life and much of his
fortune to this great work, and whose
generous impulses, which must be on a
scale commensurate with this noble
work, prompted him to make such a gift
to the Fnited States. The committee in
charge of the construction of the base
and pedestal for the reception of this
great work are in want of funds for its
completion, and have prepared a minia-
ture statoette, an exact counterpart of
the original, six inches in height, being
made of bronze, the pedestal of nickel
silver, which they are now delivering to
suuscribers throughout the United States
for the small sum of §1 each. Aside from
THE
A
Bedloe's
sal statute, it will ornament our homes
and bear testimony that we have con-
tributed to the completion of one of the
grandest works of modern times, All re-
mittauces sould be addressed to Rich-
avd Butler, Secretary American Commit-
tee of the Statue of Liberty, No. 33 Mer-
street, N. Y. The committee are al-
80 prepared to furnish a model, in sai.e
met:ls, 12 inches in height, at $ each,
delivered.
We feel as ured our vle will beon-
ly too eager to testify their grateful
sen<e of the friendliness of this magnan-
i ous offer on the part of the French
ay and to reciprocate the kindly and
iberal sentiments in which itoriginated,
by thus aiding in an active prosecution
of the labo.s that may be required to
give the statue an appropriate base and
pedestal. Now is the time to do it. Who-
eve: wishes to have the honor and
pleasure of contributing to the erection
of the grandest statue of any age, to say
nothing of the sentiment that should be
welcomed and encouraged, must act
promptly, for the money will be raised
as sure as the sun rises, Every subucrib-
er sending $1 will be supplied with a
miniature counterpart of the great and
imperishable statue of
“Liberty Enlightening the World.”
Wan
THE CASHMERE EARTHQUAKE.
London, June 5.—An official dispatch
from Seringaur gives the I path
ed aod wonnd the earthquake there
on fubday and Monday last as follows :
Killed, 87; wounded, 100, The official
reports have not been received vet from
the other points in the vale of Cashmere
by the earthquake shocks, and
CF tat ag nce,
y can nown,
Whole cities and towns in the Vale
fact that at the last State encampment|y. sds and elsewhere,
of the militia he cost of maintaining -
the men was only seventeen cents &| Last Saturday twenty-eight divorces
day. 3¢ se} could be kon fn Sain ware granted in Philadelphia. A pretty
sum, why prisoners good crop—warm weather stimu
cents? The veto was sustained, fate i, i ny
are spoken of as destroyed
sence of definite news aad the ao.
the demolition of jelegraph, lines in
the
the general wreck and n conse
quence the magoitode of
are left for the
imagination
which a Policeman is Killed,
Chicago, May 31.— Passenger train No.
4 on the Wabash, Bt. Louis and Pacifie
tailroad, arcived here to-day an hour
and a half late, in charge jof a madman,
Out of the twelve or fifteen men, officers
and citizens, who finally secared him,
one officer is dead, shot through the
body, another probably fatally wounded,
several citizens injured, and the lunatic
himself lies in the county hospital, mors
tally wounded with three bullets in him,
Shortly before noon to-day the station
policeman at the Wabash, St, Louis and
Pacific depot, on Polk street, received
the following dispatch :
Chenoa, 1il.,, May 381.
I have an jusane man on my train,
who has possession of one car. The pos
lice at Kansas City, Jacksonville and Pe-
oria fwere afiaid to take bim. Please
send ten or twelve policemen out on No,
1 to take him when we arrive in Chicas
go. They had better come in citizens’
clothes, They will have to look sharp
or some one will get hurt. Prryax,
Conductor No, 6,
=o. 6 which left Kansas Clty last night
was due bere at 2:50 p. m. There was
difficulty in starting out No, 1 as directs
ed in the dispatch, and it was decided
to meet the trio at the depot. Officers
Casey, Ryan, Murphy, Rowan, Dobney,
Welsh, Stenning, Barrettand Keenan in
uniform, and Smith, Terry, Amstein, O'-
Brien sad Mclavghlin in citizens’
clothes, under the command of Lieuten-
ant Laugh, made up the squad which ar-
rived at the depot ten minutes before
the train was due. The train being de-
syed, ns was subsequently learned by
ineffectual efforts to capture the lunatic,
the police were forced to wait more than
an bour., After considerable snxious
specalation as to the condition of things
on board No. 6, the officers were finally
woytbing bot reassured by a dispatch
from a suburban station warning them
that the maniac was well armed and
would resist. A little later No. 6 ap-
peared io eight, and the police separated
#0 88 {0 form two squads and awaited her
arrival on either side of the track. As
the train approached, the whistle sound-
ed a number of warning notes in quick
succession. People hangiog half Way
out of the car windows wers seen to ges-
ticulate wildly to the crowd. Before the
train bad come 10 a stand still a dozen
passepgers jumped to the ground and
tied, looking back with bianched faces.
Officer Barrett was the first to observe
the lunatic, Barrell was standing near
the rear end of the smoking car; the
madman, with leveled revolver, glared
at him from the platform of the chair ear,
the length of one car dsitant. Barrett
tarned ball around and stopped instant-
1¥, but toolate, a ball from the lunatic's
revolver struck bim in the side, and in
five winotes he was dead,
Ove look at the manisc was enough to
eatisly any one that while his ammuni-
tion lasted he would not be taken alive.
Seeing this, the officers after taking away
their wounded comrade, began a fusilade,
through the windows of the smoking car,
where the madman bad taken r .
After a minute or two he plunged out on
the platform, fired a couple of shits into
the crowd, leaped from the train and
dashed down Fourth avenue, Officer
Laughlin started in hot pursuit, and at
bim be fired the last sbot in his weapon,
but without effect, The maniac stopped
there and awaited Laughlin’s coming
with gleaming eyes and frothing mouth,
They clinched, the officer tripped his
prisoner and they both fell, the madman
meanwhile beating Laughlin unmercifal-
ly on the head with his revolver. The
officer was in citizen's clothes and was
set upon and terribly pounded by an ex
cited colored man, who mistook the offi-
cer for the prisoner.
The rest of the squad arrived shortly.
The maniac was secured, taken first to a
cell and then to a hospital to bave his
wounds dressed. When he realised
further resistance was useless he grew
calm, and said quite rationally that his
name was Louis Reaume; that be was 33
years old, and was enroute to his home
in Detroit from Denver.
The train men of No. 6 tell a thrilling
story of the trip from Kansas City, When
the man boarded the train there he re-
molest no one. 2 Paso, 11,
came violent, and with revolver in band,
ordered the train men to cease making
some changes in the make-up of the
train, The pa all Jeft
car, which the man made his b
quarters, and were locked into the
ers, No one dared approach the
and after he had ex sever
with the city marshal he ordered the
EE odyand fro Hate e
cago his will was the only law
Since his wound: have been
Reaume has becotue somewhat more
communicative, He says he isa
Canadian by birth and a fresco
by trade, ad bas a wife and
dren in Detroit. He wore a w
brero, and as he ran down Fourth
was thought by the residents to
cowboy on a spree. As !
which he arrived was
She Sdlagists hid, the
um
shor, us, Sani
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a ball just g
taking & bu
stepped
the drills, the hurry and flurry of labor,
the shouts of the engineers giving
instructions to the men, the yells of the
cardrivers to the mules moving
mysteriously with their loads throngh
the dark, the flickering of wandering
lights, the ceaseless drip of water from
the cold roof above and the possibility
of rocks falling down upon one at any
moment, make up an experience novel,
indeed, to the uninitiated. One set of
men work from 6 o'clock in the morning
until 6 in the evening, and are then
relieved by another set, who work all
might until 6 in the morning Not a
moment is lost, Everything is hurried
forward. Workmen have no chance to
dally, for time is eminently money in
making a tannel. Men get killed oy
Large masses of rock sometimes crum-
ble from the roof and come crashing
down, sometimes killing a man or two,
sometimes not. Lately, owing to the
thawing of frost-bound rocks snd to the
spring rains, accidents of this kind have
been unusually frequent.
All the latest improved machinery is
used. A mammoth steam shovel is
operated in loading trucks with earth
and rocks. This tunnel is to have a
double track. No coal or ore of any
kind has yet been struck in the tunnel,
notwithstanding Tuscarora Mountain
and the neighboring mountains were
believed to contain hematite. The
rocks cut out of the tannel are all of
slate formstion, with an occasional
admixture of limestone and soapstone.
These rocks are piled up in vast banks a
short distance from the portals of the
tunnel. The masses of slate, diversely
tinted, placed side by side, dark blue,
gray, red, brown and sage green, form
to the eye a pretty contrast of color.
About 600 men are employed on this
tunnel and about the same number on
each of the other large tunnels in the
neighborhood. Every man wears
rubber boots for protection against the
water, which collects on the floor of the
tunnel. An average man wears out
fifteen or twenty pairs of boots in a year.
The majority of the men are newly-
imported Italians and Hungarians
There are some few Swedes and a
number of negroes and white Americans
from Virginia and Maryland. The men
of each nationality eneamp in the
seitlements here By themselves. Most
of the negroes are accompanied by their
families, but among the foreigners there
are but few women and no children.
They live in very close quarters, some-
times upward of fifty of them living
together in one shanty, where they
cook, eat and sleep in a single spart-
ment, without screens or partitions,
BURN THE DEAD ANIMALS,
Bays the Philadelphia Reord: The
plan of burying the bodies of animals
who had died of contagious diseases is
declared to be unsafe, as the disease
poison works its way through the soi]
and infects other animal. Following the
experiments of M. Aime Girard, it is
proposed to dissolve them in oon-
centrated sulphuric acid, which, while
destroying the body. effectually destroys
all disease germs. This care for dumb
creatures is all very well, but gives rise
Why
enforced ? It is only fair to give to our
follow-men the same atlemtion we
bestow upon the beasts of the field.
who have never visited a hill country in
* writes a recent traveller,
“thet soon after sunrise the noise of
:
powder. Bhe found that smelling it in
the box affected her similarly to smoking,
which led her to fill one of her smelling
bottles with the dust. Her couriers
adopted the habit of snuffing small
portions of it up their nostrals, and as
the precious stuff became more plenti-
ful the snuffing habit became more
general, until at last a man or woman
was not considered as in proper from
unless they snuffed
This custom became so common in
England that a sunff-box was no longe
a sign of rank. Then it was the law
prohibiting the culture of the plant,
except for medicine, was passed. About
the same time a heavy tariff was placed
on the imported article, there by practi.
cally placing it beyond the reach of
the common herd and giving royality
a complete monopoly.
Bince it first began to be used as a
luxury, there have been oonflicting
opinions in regard fo its effects. The
Roman Church once forbade its use and
the Church of England declaimed
against it. The JWesleys opposed it
hotly, and at one time it was considered
so unclean as to unfit men for member.
ship in the Methodist Church. Baptist
and Presbyterian ministers presched
against it, and societies were organized
to oppose the spread of the habit, bug
all to no purpose. Parents disowned
and disinherited their children becsuse
they used it and husbands divorced
their wives on account of their having
contracted the habit of smoking.
It is singular that when women get
into the habit of smoking a pipe they
prefer a strong one. There are few men
who have nerve enough to smoke a pipe
such as a woman likes when she has
become a confirmed smoker. When
they first begin puffing eigars they pre.
fer them very mild, but it is not long
until they want then black, and lots of
them.
The first chew or first cigar is long
remembered, for they almost invaribly
produce a sickness only paralled by
that of sea-sickness, and like the latter,
the victim is not at all frightened, but
wants to die, or at least does not care
whether he lives or not. As soon as the
attack is over, however, he is ready to
try itagain. By patience and presist-
ance the nauseating effects are over.
come and the deathly sickness gives
piace to delightful sensations.
Bpanish and Portugues ladies, of all
ranks, smoke cigaretts—little cigars,
not those vile paper things that pollute
the air, but fine flavored, little cigars,
They are also used to a considerable
extent in France, but the custom has
never prevailed to any great extent in
England snd America. The pipe is less
popular among ladies in this country
now than it was fifty years ago. In the
Southern States, however, the women
of the middle and lower classes nearly
all either smoke or rub snuff, and not a
few do both. Storekeepers in many
parts of the South buy snuff by the
barrel and keep it under the counter
with the sugar and coffee,
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SOLOMON'S STABLES,
A correspondent thus describes one
of the most famous of the ruined monu-
ments of the greatness of Jerusalem :
Descending a fight of stone steps, we
found ourselves in a most wonderful
series of underground vanlts These
vaults evidently boasted of an antiquity
of oenturics anterior to the Christian
era, and yet were marvilously well pre-
served. In some places the rubbish
was 80 deep that we were within ten
foet of the arched roofs, and again it was
at least forty feet to the roof, showing
the real altitud of the supporting piers,
We wandered hither and thither by the
aid of candles sometimes instygian dark.
ness on the brows of greedy chasms, and
then again in broad daylight. 1 suppose