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OLD SERIES, XL.
NEW SERIES XVIII
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VOL
THE GENTRE REPORTER,
Eptror and Pror'r
Mrs has
The an-
Grant
CONEress,
mension is $5,000,
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V. Daniel, Democrat, has been
TI. 8, Sepator in place of
v Mahone
rt ATI
super-
} } # Ly ¥ v TR 1
sil a short time ago gave it
the R
ceded was a new conscience. The
n that what epublican
would advi im to order
ctory.
his gubernatorial dam
cted and Grow grows into
. 8. Senate, and the party gets
- head Cooper into the shop, the
yublicans may lay a little claim to bav-
for lite-
me respect i
cold
)
icebergs
to-
fF BiX
elieve it is the intention
lealers of tl to lay
he “water fast asleep” 1n
iat town not
warin
brethern,
proclama-
of
the
per
cent.,
bment
ring
had § 4
will
Am
yn his name
18 LeIrs
hest man 11
en menti
jual the fortune
latter now becomes
a prominent Wall
Brigade
: natural result
ness and con-
nd always
ould no
men
raphy
vad
1
n
ill be
cnamed the
Legislature
on
grass-
Huron,
n was adopted t
Tue
The House adjourned at
sday noon to
int session
I'he Senate met in their hall and
i
th of off fromdJdu
ie onl Of OF GE
Lieutenant-Governor Frank too
FE
¢e Lamp
chair, and J. H. Drake was elected
A
chairman, was appointed to draft rules
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W111 1 rt
CONTE
retary.
Ha.
f Pittsburg, has
y process for making steel
ut of old rails, which will cheapen
t duct at least 810 a ton as com-
p methods of pro
duction. Mr, Lauth disposed of his pat-
eat toa syndicate of five Eastern firms,
one of them being the Bellefonte Nail
Company. In consideration of allowing
tien the sole right to use the aforesaid
patent, Mr. Lauth will receive $150 per
day for one year, and $300 per day for
tue remaining 16 years of the life of the
patent. His total receipts from it will
gmount to nearly $2,000 000,
ne pr
wired with the present
Bogus eges is anew Yankee igvention,
and will classify with Connecticut's
wooden hams aud wooded nutmegs, The
story of the bogus eggs is given thus: A
number of dealers in eggs and produce
in Patterson were called on the other
day by a man representing himsell as
Garrett Onderdonk, of Rockland county,
N.Y. He sold each of the dealers a lot
of “fresh country eggs” at a remarkably
low figure. later Onderdonk called for
his money, but was arrested under an
act prohibiting the sale of adulterated
food Ile pleaded guilty, whereupon he
wos fined $50 and costs He admitted
thut the eggs were artificial, and were
manafactured by a firm in Newark. The
ghells were of a clear, transparent com-
position, and the shape was perfestly
inodeled. The portion surrounding the
yolk was made of albamen, sid yolk it-
aelf of ground carrot sand saffron, The
eggs were tested and found to scramle
well, but when boiled they are easily de
tected, as the yolk and surrounding
white portion do not harden separately
as in real ogge.
Some startling events came to light in
the U., 8, Senate, on 156th, regarding
whiskey in the committee rooms. We
clip the following from the discussion:
Mr. Cockrell offered an amendment
that any Senator or member of Congress
violating the rule should be liable to ex-
pulsion. Itlooked very small, he said,
for Senators to be passing rules for the
purpose of inflicting punishment on
‘committee clerks for “conniving” at the
use of whiskey in the Capitol when it
was notorious that distinguished Sena-
. who voted to keep this rule in, keep
intoxicating liquors in their committee
rooms.
Mr. Ingalls said that by insisting on
keeping in 13 the BSenate
“straining at a gnat and swallowing a
camel.” He sent to the
desk a copy of the bill of fare of the Sen-
Mr. Ingslls had seen it stated
that the keeper of this cafe was the only
man in the country who could conduct a
restaurant on a strictly temperance basis.
Mr. Vest inquired whether the Senator
had heard from what state the
restaurant keeper came. Mr. Ingalls had
tors
wi
rule
Laughter.
ate cale,
Senate
been informed that he came from Maine,
Laughter.)
The Clerk, at Mr. Ingalls request, read
pith the prices of
the different brands, much to the amuse-
Under the head
wines he found “Black-
the reading of which
was greeted with shouts of laughter and
some one was heard to say, soto vooe,
When another brand
was announced “bottled expressly for
United States Senate Cafe,” the
laughter was renewed, and on the con-
Butler ex-
ressed his surprise that the Clerk had
ot found “cold tea” on the list,
Mr. Saulsbury thooght it a disgrace
States Senate should
such an invitation to dissipation
as was exhibited by such a bill of fare,
and a disgrace that the Capitol should
aloud the wine list,
ment of the Sevators,
of “Maderia”
burn's reserve,”
the
tolerate
} mnerned in 5 hr
¢ turned 1nto a grog shop.
Mr, Cockrell said he
ess everywhere, but
disliked drunk-
he had seen
Senators than
of the Senate.
whiskey in their rooms
If
t to stop that it was
He had
3) be adjourned be-
of
ox
[ it among the
3 y
the employees
the Senate was not &i
for self-government.
known the Senate t
¢ ¢
$1 . «s] ide \
conaition of
cause of the game its
knew, Nr
iis point was welltaken,
Mr. Frye said he had been told by ex-
Senator Simon Cameron and ex-Senator
Hamlin that twenty or thirty years ago
had 1 found time and
out a quorum because more
than a quorum was drunk; that the y had
shed Senator after Senator
in his place, but failed
because of drunkenness, Mr. Fry him-
gelf remembered when the night ses
isions of the House were broken up by
bers. Things had very
much improved since then,
a ge
k
mombers. Senat
i rs
*
r that }
+11 added,
wen
wit
ry
gual
drunken mem
| The bill which passed the Senate, on
117, providing for the exe:cise of the
i President al functions in the event of
{the death of both President and
“ice President is substantially the same
{ bill that failed in the last Congress only
{for the lack of time. It changes the ex-
|isting statute in one very important par-
Under the law of 1792 the Pres
f the Senate, or, if there were
{ none, the Speaker of the House of Rep
| resentatives, would act as President until
{the disabiiity were removed or a Presi
|dent elected. By the Hoar bill this in-
{troduction of legislative officers into the
( Presidential succession is avoided and
with it the possibility of a political
change not authorized by public opinion.
The succession is to the Secretary of
State, then the Secretary of War and
other Cabinet officers in order, who have
been duly appointed with the adviceand
consent of the Senate and are eligible to
the Presidency by the Constitation. The
officer so succeeding shall act as Presi-
dent for the remainder of the term, if
that be not more than twelve months;
otherwise he shall notify the states of an
election to fill the vacancy, as provided
in the present law. This provision has
the merit of simplicity and directness in
carrying out the purpose of the Consti-
tution that “the Congress may, by law,
provide for the case of removal, death,
resignation or inability both of the Pres-
ident and Vice President, declaring what
officers shall then act as President.”
Mr. Randall proposes a Constitutional
amendment reguiating the Presidential
succession by extending the term of
Presidential electors four years and an’
thorizing them to fill vacancies in the
office of President or Vice President.
SI
TELEGRAM TO THE GOVERNOR.
Governor Pattison received a telegram
last evening from Mine Inspector Geo
T. Morgan, s'ating that a connection had
meen mide through the sand 10 the dis
trict in which the men are imprisoned,
and that they will have twenty out of
twenty-four alive by morning. The die
{patch was dated Nanticoke. — Putrict, 22.
the
jticular,
ident «
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SOME POINTS IN THE MESSAGE.
The Philadelphia Times says it is in-
teresting to observe with what quiet sat-
isfaction the country has received the
President's practical reversal of the for
the neutrality of the isthmus canal and
the impropriety of the United States en-
tering into entangling alliances abroad is
doctrine against the blustering enterprise
of Mr. Blaine., The
treaties with Spain an
with the disavowal of
tion, is equal
withdrawal o
d Santo Domingo,
he Congo conven-
ly a decided thoug
)
ous rebuke of the so-called conu
fy
iuction of the
the one distinctive pro
thur administration. There are
references, as to the Santos case and
closing of the Columbia ports,
the Presideat to be acutely
the national dignity.
Keiley case, he is sensative to
that it will probably
tain. large
national t
Indeed,
a
to
be hard
But in all questions of in
meern is
President has a definite
policy—which is simply
policy of national
this is presented so simply ¢
that even those who applanded
takes which are thus quietly
have nothing but praise
The truth is
th
iat broad and comj
hensive principles have been so little
garded in politics of late t
ple do not recognize them when ti
them.
in the general approbation of the
partisan” Mr. Cle
inaugural address, which
This wasconspicuonsiy
character of
id
ter of fact, such
oughbred Democrat «
Was
aper
{ have written
It was essential and en Demos
in purpose ant
tinctly so as )
in pi
. Garfi
Federalist,
sense that
tolerant, but not in any sense
secures broad questi
It be
present message thi
ne of |
ciple, wil
directness and clea
grounde«
and functions of
ment, which are,
the real points of issue
t
W
bad Ri
ited SU
in the 1
mw
That the ti
grea
own party, in
Representatives is
of these princi]
them, only make
OTE
&1
aig
tude ignif
served that his vie
example, and ny
are based primarily
tional Ii
gress, a limitation which wa
the Demo
wandered into the green!
o
ii1tat x ¢ . {
mitalion i
forgotten by
ye
#y
»
ter the Republicans
I
fig ras
to recoil from their own free
tion of the C
nificant also that
no allusion except an unfavorable onet
interpreta-
$itsxt i mae he si
spatitation. It may be sig
the President makes
the improvement of
the states.
It is not generally recognized, but it is
nevertheless a fact, that most of the m
takes of government come from the a
sence of any definite
We are all ready to declaim against par
1
»
iiding principle
ty bigotry, and with reason; but |
latitudinarianism may be equal
gerous, since it leads to illconsidered ex-
periments and blunders and leaves those
charged with the administration of af
fairs without chart or compass to direct
their course. One main reason of the
unpartisan and business-like character
which the administration of President
Cleveland has already impressed upon
many branches of the public service is
that he and his advisers are party men
—not in the modern sense that identi
files party with the office-holding ma-
chine, but in the truer sense that regards
party as only flie means to an end, that
end being the patriotic administration of
public affairs upon the basis of broad po-
litical principles. It is under this broad-
er view that politics can be anything
more than a scramble for spoils or that
the people can enforce their views upon
national policy~whether they be Re-
publican or Democratic, Free Trade or
Protection, or whatever the issue may be
~with the assurance that the public
business will go on systematically and
Hotemly despite a change of party con-
trol.
all
3
Harper's Magazine for 7 January, in
richness of illustration and liferary at-
tractions, seems like another Christmas
number, It bus. 0 deed, several artitien
vapecially appropriate to the season, Nu
the least remarkable of theses is a Christ:
~pntitied " Une’ Edinburg’'s Drowndin,”
old plantation life as in its reproduction
of the negro dialect, and is strikingly hu
morons aod pathetic,
story of a Christmas holiday spent with
during the Frenco-German war.
skeiches made on the
tiwe by Mr, Biduey Pn
soot and =
1 AILROADS RESISTING THE NEW
i TAX.
|
A special from Harrisburg, 17, says,
i
|the principal railroad companies have
{filed reports with the Auditor General
lof their business the past fiscal year,
ith protests claiming that the new tax
of the
railroad companies have paid into the
wi
is unconstitutional, None
{ Treasury the tax deducted from the in
bondholders under this act.
gh Valley and Pennsylvania
|
{ ated their in-
The Auditor
(ieneral has not vet made claims upon
ies have both indi
tention to resist the law
! retained
Attor-
1 4 a : invnlvad b
ney General the questions involved be.
the companies for the money
by them, but has referred to the
fore claiming tax for this year from June
; when the new law was passed.
the
once make
| wy
he decide in favor of state
iditor General will at
4
ounts and if the companies do not
ie courts will be
| upon to enforce the state claims,
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th
ver the meney
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1 evening of 17 the house reached a
amended rules as reported
1
ii
1 an
d the tac-
his friends,
ymmitiee, and despiie
ir. Randall and the
overwhelm-
It was more of
n expected, and
urprise was doe to the cleverness of
epublicans, who made ashow of di-
g on the question and then almost
pan voted against the conservative
represented by Randall, Holman,
Curtin wa-
Democrat in te Pennsylvania
delegation who voted against Mr. Ran-
report was adopted by
ing mejority of 69 to 227,
a majority than Morris
the &
the K
ridin
Ww ing,
the only
ig a viclory «
f Morris over
rats voted for the
it motives other than pposi-
jo doubt this is the attitude
MIO
| =many |
|A FARMER'S DESPERATE FIGHT.
Near
14~While farmer
Kendrew was driving from
nto his farm house in Moscow on
urday night, had sold u load
dace, three highwaymen sprang
of a thicket near where the road
pitches down a steep bill. Ooge of them
a second
aud un
® Wagon,
Ihe
alter he
“
grabbed the farmer by the arm
iertook to pall him out of 1h
while a third hit him on the head.
did not stan him, Lowever, and
s hen he had pulled off his overcoat and
d his imprisoned arm, he found that
robber who hod struck him bad got
the wagon. Kendrew then seized
and struck the horses with all
aud the robber at their heads
head over heels into the
. wrees ran down the bili as
ble gait, fullowed for a short dis-
y thie Sex highwayman, Who
the one in the wagon
| devil to death, or crack
DIOW
whip
fis might,
oad
al
“Uhioke Lue oid
a skull”
Meanwhile a stroggle had begun be.
ween Kevdrew and the desperado in
ne wagon. Lue robber tried to knock
wagon, bat the
{farmer grabbed his arms snd foreed him
own on bis kuees, By tuis time horses
ud reached the bottom of the hill and
| were ransing as fast us ever. When the
| desperado reatized bis position he drew
| his slangshot and attempted to bit Ken
{dr-w on the head.
{him oun the shoulder instead, and then
{ he farmer got behind the highwayman,
{¢rabbed his armas with a viee-like grip,
irasted him to the hind end of the
wagon and pitched him out, The horses
rere still ronniog Kendrew was but
{atignily hort, He gathered up bis reine
land drove home, and says it was a migh-
ity lucky escape.
: .-——
HE FELL 1200 FEET.
| Denver, Col, Dee. 19.—While seven
| men were being hoisted to the surface in
ithe Soifering mine near Nevadavitle, las
evening, a rok [ll from above and
struck Archaleias Warren on the bead,
lknocking him out of the bucket. The
men tried to catoh him, but fuiled. The
bucket was about 450 feet from the sar
ace at the ime. An exploring party
{found a piece of his jaw-boue at the 1,200
{toot level, a piece of skull at the 1.300
{foot level, where his coat was also found.
flis body fell about 1,200 feet in all and
is now in the water at the bottom of the
shaft.
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STUDENTS CHANGE
GION.
Lancaster, Dec. 21.—8ome excitement
has been occasioned among the faculty
and students of the Franklin and Mar
shalt Coliege and the Reformed Theolog-
ical Semivary by the action of two sta
dents, Felix Baum, a junior in the Sem-
inary, and Frank sSchoedler, a junior in
the College, who made a pablic profes
sion of the Catholic faith yesterday aad
joined 8t. Anthony's Church. Patriot.
A A o-oo
RUN THRO' A PAIR OF ROLLERS,
Hazletor, Dec. 17.— While John Mishk
was feeding a pair of rollers at the Der
ringer Coal Breaker to-day he lost his
balance and fail between the rollers, and
before they could be stopped his whole
body was drawn through them and
crushed to a jelly.
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AN UNIDENTIFIED GHOST.
[ Louisville Courier-Journal ]
It in reported that there is a ghost in
New Jersey that kisses the girls. As
(Gen, Sherman is pot dead the report is
given little credence.
ni MI I Ho SAAN
From Kansas comes the terrible tale
that a fall of snow completes the
THEIR RELI
insufficient grazing over the burn
prairies, and that thousands of animals
‘hat escaped from the fires are :
ing about, sioged sod biled.
2
THE SUNBURY MURDER CABE
1h Jury Find {0a
Manslaughter,
It
( iLL
Sunbury, Dec 14.
ple from this aod adjoining counties
listened to the Cox murder trial
The line of defense has been fairly is
asugurated and consists of three branches
Five haondred peo-
to-day.
-~
~gell-defense, good character and the
quarrelsoms disposition of Jump. Upon
the first the defense called James Bright,
the bartender of the Palmer House when
the shooting necurred, He testified that
Jump had turned apon Cox after be wis
pushed out of the room and wae in the
sct of reaching for him when he
Upon the second branch 59
were examined, inclading al
and they gave a most excelient character
for pence. The character of Milo Jump
has not yet been assailed, except {
his making threats to kill Cox. }
teen Witnesses testify Lo a8 many
Vocations,
AR
flor
to the defendant,
would pot leave Northao ber!
little grassy mound
n
covered
nd until
Cox's
i
ne would stab hin, eat
muke it hot for him, ete,
tended put Cox in great
bis heart
This, it
fear,
ont,
8 CO
made his act justifiable,
THE CLOSING DAY
Banbury, Dec. 17.—The last day of 1}
Cox trial has come to an end.
af:er the openirg of
morning His Honor Jadge
low commenced his charge to the
the
court thi
The charge was long and
conspicuous for the wav the
viewed and the law define
impartial manner. At fen minutes
of which a human lire houg in the bal
every eye was turned upon them
diet, which when rendered, would cas
either misery or happiness.
er at the bar carefully watched then
sod who can imagine his feelings as
saw them leave the room,
more until his fate was
the afternoon had the jury
been watched by eager eves,
every moment to see it open,
Ail surts of conjectare« were made
the cause of their delay
The jury, after a del
hours, rendered a verdict to-night
o'clock of volnntary manslaught
punishment for which, he
to retu
decide
in ihe
mom, is twelve years’ imprisonmen
$500 five,
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A MINE FLOODED,
B od
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec. 20
at the office of the prehanua
Company say that the disaster was
cipitated by a collapse of tl
way of the tanpel to the extent of
This cansed a depression wh
brought down into the tannel a 20-
vein of lake quiiksand. The vac
created by this bresk caused a soc
aud through a heavy fissure in the
a mass of culm, estimated at 5000 tons,
witty the contents of a pond of wa er
overhead containing over 20.000000
gallons, poured in, fl odiog slopes Nos. 1
erg wn the Nonlaeore
Thec
Min
Pa IM
Ry:
ed
ta
SSG
1® passage
five
feet,
Ld
4d
and 2, choking ap the tunoei and Carr) -
ing with 1t fifiy-two mibers Who were af
work there. Twenty-lour were thought
to be sutombed,
To~day was the gloomiest Sanday ever
witnessed at Nanticoke, Thousands of
seople poured ints town in vehicles, on
orsetack snd afoot. Handreds of them
gathered in groups around the various
workings where they d'scussed the sito.
ation of the men imprisoned in the
flooded mine,
oy
MOTHER AND
BURNED
Detroit, Mich., Dec 16,—Frank Knoch,
his wife and little chi'd were burned to
death in their home last night. The fire
is believed to have originated from a
coal vil move.
FATHER, CHILD
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4,400 BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY A
TYPHOON.
San Francis-o, Dec, 10. Advices by the
steamer Oceanies, from Yokohama and
Hong Kong, which arr ved to-day, slate
that a typhoon swept over the Phi‘ippine
Island on Nov. 9, destroying over 4,4000
buildings, incloding 18 churches and 10
convents. Eighteen lives were lost and
500 head of cattle perished. This repor.
only includes a little more than one hal
the districts,
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HUNDREDS KILLED BY DYNA
MITE.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 19.=Piapaliches
just received here state that a terrible dy-
n-mite explosion has occurred io the
Pleljochin mine, in Siberia. The ac
counts are conflicting as regards the
number of persons killed, some placivg
the number at 400, while others place it
as high as 1000,
rine lms
KILLED AT MIDDLEBURG.
Selinsgrove, Pa, Dec. 17.—At Middle
burg George Musser and his wife were
avout to cross the track of the Sunbury
and Lewistown road at the depot, at six
o'clock this evening. An extra freignt
train was a ing, and Mre. Musser
stepped back, requesting her husband to
do the same. Not heeding her caution
for some reason, Mr, Mas<er was struck
by the engine and instantly kilied He
was about 70 years of age, and resided in
Fraoklio twp, His wife and one child
survive him.
Two men walked into a Rockton store,
in Clearfield county, s+ d with drawn re-
yolvers mada the crowd stand “hands
ap” while they helped themselves to $15
thieves escape d. a5
Ly of 19 When a De wif
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By hin side, £old in death. Sho hud br
en
suffering for some time, bot ber coudis
NO. 50.
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When (
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When Christmas
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Peace and g
When Christine
A Cornish Carel
come that star in Judah's ok)
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suts to know what a
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he won't
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Le wont
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lieve his girl ang
for he never ing out t
wash with «i s-pius in her
n't take no 1
10 th her on
asks for “just one,” he
hat's the use of going fam
ve us a harder one, Clara
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answer when he is parting wi
the stoop and
won't-—but w
ther?
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thing
a good thing
charitably, 1
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that are
do all things with
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wit feel no,
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