- 5 EUR OLD SERIES, XL. F SERIES. XIX IEPORTER, Eprror and Proy’R The Bellefonte (Gazette sent all over the state to find out who the Republi cans favor for Governor, Why, bless your moustache, we've been telling it in the Rerorier ever so often for the last ten months that it is Beaver, and didn’t need waste any postage about it. . tin Huntingdan e¢nunty, and the thing has taken shape The re- The oil craze has struck under a high sounding name. port says the people in Barree township mean to prospect for oil since the ques- Have issued a eall for a meeting of citizens to be he'd at Shantytown next Tuesday afternoon. A company will then be or- ganized to be known as the Stone Valley Prom- tion has become so animated, and Oil, Gas and Mineral Company. inent speakers are expected to be pres- ent and several geologists, who will show that the region is immediately over the carboniferous measures, en A Lx-Governer Curtin, according to the Washington correspondent of the Lan- caster Intelligencer, is busy putting in shape his correspondence and other da- ta of the war period preparatory to turn- ing it over to a friend for historical pur poses, and they say it will make a sen- gation when given to the public. The Governor has had numerous offers for an autobiography and publishers have besieged him with proposals. He won't listen to any of them. He has made his select'on of an editor. — The Clearfield Republican suggests that Clearfield county has as good timber for Congressmen and Senators as any other, and intimates that some of the timber 1d Us in ample time. All right, admit it all. But old Centre can one better. We have timber enough to wan the stateand national gov- cabinet officers, sovernor, congresman and senator, &c., In fact Centre county has talent enough to run the entire country and do sll. may be trotted o go ernments— President, &e. it we WIL WILERE A LL for HHL AQ There 1s marks of the hundred men with satisfactory wages, labor and manner of payment, hours of recently discharged themselves from the employ of the Third Avenue Railrond, because the corporation ‘harge seven men who had of New York, would not dis been faithful to their employers when others were faithless. The men did not want to strike; they had steady ewmploy- factory pay, but they were that asstmes to say who shall work and who f catis ment and satis “te g y «sys Pil HE aw ordered to strike by a committee ghall be employed by employers; and refuses to obey an men when the company it and discharge outsidescommitiee who were acceptable, a strike was order- ed on all the street lines of the city, much to the inconvenience of the public 14 of Jay and qu 3 1 The strike was subsequently or- Gould. dered stopped on all but the Third Ave- hundred men feel nue where eight have refused to labor at satisfactory use it is ordered by some as- ite as much to the profit liste IY, wages, beca sumed labor tribunal that the eight hun- dred shall earn ncthing until the officers discharge seven en who are trust worthy and acceptable employes, Several days of negotiation on the subject final- | ht this official answer from the ly brougl if the Third Avenue directors « Com- pany : tesolved, In the matter of the strike, that the company will not recede from the position it has taken. Its future, the interest of all classes, including the em- ployed, and public opinion of the coun- try, for bid. The company will not dis- mise men who have entered its service during the strike so long as they faith- fully discharge their duties, nor will it on such dictation reinstate employes whom it has dismissed, and it will not create unnecessary places so as to take back in a body those who have left in a body. It will not take back those who have injured the property of the com- pany or have incited others to do so, It would doubtless be more grateful to the now generally inflamed labor sonti- ment of the country, to say that they should resent the decision of the Third Avenue officials; but every man capable of sober reflection will see the position taken by those officials is the one to which all parties must come at last. And no greater calamity could befall labor than to overthrow the position declared by the New York railroad board. If it shall ever be possible for organized labor to drive employers from the common- sense, practical, bus‘ness-like attitude taken by the railway direction, it would be the end of successful industrial enter- prise in the land. There would soon be no employers to give efiployment to la- bor, if they are to be voiceless in the se- lection of agents to whom they must commit their business and their property, and while eapital could live, labor would glarve. All will end at last just where the Third Avenue direction have ended, exorable commands of law and reason, the sooner will industry and business enjoy revived prosperity. Those who ad- vise labor difficulty may be cheered by the multitude to-day; but when homeless and breadless men suffer for the indus- try that labor demagognes have destroy- ed, those who have dared to be honest and truthful with organized industry will be most respected. The end must be clear to all who intelligently look for it: let us reach it promptly and in gener- ous justice to all. — . A - At a recent mecting of the 1 state committee, Col, Hastings, of Centre, and said that the Republicans would this county Mr. Hastings, we fear, 1 for rather doubtful ases his hoy €3 upon a repe- lepublican gave his “experience” carry next time. has taken a contract his party, and 1 tition of Democratic fol of those Democrats whose ly, and the course labors serve only to distract Democrats and elect Re- publicans to office, It istrue that kind of work has whittled the Demo- cratic majority down to adangerous line, and given the Republicans hope. The folly has been practiced of putting worse than half Democrats upon our tickets and bargaining with the enemy on the local offices, this had a rather bad effect upon the Democratic majorities, and it’s the kind of work that Republicans like to see Democrats at, as it is paving the way. for turning old Centre over to the Republicans, against which nefarious work the Rerorrer has heretofore raised its warning voice, rc ai A ———————— ear the names ths Already we h three candidates, from Bellefonte, mentioned f Oi in connection with the Democratic nom- ination for state senator. Woods Cald- well will be Clinton county's choice. -—-- Master Workm the Knights of Labor sai! at Washing- ton last that he would not en ter politics this fall nor be a candidate for Governor nor accept the nomination for Congressman-at-large, Gov. Curtin’s labor committee in St. Louis to investigate tl the strike. Rtrikes are being from 11 kinds of employment. quarters in al The base ballers are striking in every A an Powderly of Grand woek is 18 Cause reported field. — (Jur water company is one of the best abused institutions hereaboats. For over a dozen years a small knot of ills natured ones has made it their aim to misrepresent the company, hence we will be pardoned for only this once mak- ing allusion to it composed as it is of the oldest, best and most worthy citizens of our town —the number of stoek-hold- ers being upwards of 35, whose board of managers have conducted it without pay, and founded one of the best systems and farnish the purest water in the state, and the cheapest, Yet jealous par- ties have constantly. misrepresented the company for the sake of breeding strife, thinking they might wreck the company and then gobble it up. Working up quarrels and getting innocent parties in- to lawsuits has been the seed sown by some for a dozen years, There onca was a manufacturing com- pany here. It was wrecked and then gobbled up, 8'ock-holders were ruined and others, all innocent, brooght to the verge o! bankruptcy. Injured stock- holders have been heard to blame the wrecking of the C. H, M'{'g company up- on certain ones, and that afterwards it was gobbled op. More than likely the same game is what such fellows would play with the water company —wreck it then gobble it up. It looks so, These fellows think the water “stock should be given away, as some money has been re- alised on it. We believe nothing has "been paid back to the suffering stock- holders of the M'f'g company, although money has been made. We believe these parties who wonld give away other peo- ple’s stock have never given away any stock of any kind or anything else whether to chareh, charity or otherwise, Whenever the water company needs go into the hands of a receiver we know that such parties are the very last ones our people will want see have a finger in it, as no repetition of manufacturing company management is desired. What queer people there be in the world, and how easy to see thro’ their innocent plans, - i scones ~The Pure Linseed Oil Ready Mix- ed Paints, sold at McFarlane's, in Belle- fonts, have great strength of body and coveiing properties; the tints or shades are superior in brilliancy and will not spot, fade, blister, peel off or become dim. It is chpaper and more duarable than any other paint. Shade cards and prices sent on application, ~euuf0lt's wire fence machine has been eet up and is in operation. A very good fence, of slat and wire is panafactured which will strike all as a oBefal as well novel fence, being cheap, strong and durable, This style of fens2 for many nses is more convenient than any old style and will take the place of such on account offs chenpness. ~Do you need a new suit, and do you want to buy one cheap, far below what will be asked at any other store, then go to the Phila, Branch, Lewins has just opened a splendid assortment of ready made clothing, for men and boys, and of the latest siyles, Remember the Philad. Branch is Lieadquarers tor low prices, we Wera ploased to hay Hon. 8. Gilliland, of Ouk Ra fom —=Jameos Eakin, of Georges V is serioaaly ill, hving recent y ov alieys a sd onto aaa widow of Jumes y, Ol " v ley, is also ill. ya! ogen yal D POWDERLY AT WASHINGTON, THE INVESTIGATORS SOM} THE 8TR HE TELLS THING ABOUT The Workman Pre- pared lo Sugg gt a Solution for the Labor Knights, commit. Not General Master (Juestio i= Object of th Washington, April 20.—The teo the labor troubles was called to order at 1:15 fo investigate southwestern p.m, and Mr. Powderly, General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor witness chair, ed in a gray checkered suit, There were stenographers present to report the pro- id of eclators were pres- ceedings for the Gou A crowd ant, amoug then system roads, » General Swayne, the at- Messrs, of the Lnights of Labor torney fur Jay Gould. Hayes and MeDowell board of the } Tarver, execulive wera in attendance, and, while members of the committee to arrive, had a long whispered conference ia one ner of the committee room. Chairman Curtin asked Mr. to state in gencral terms w about the anrest bances between capit 3d Powderly said the question was 80 broad and opened up so large a field of inguiry that he preferred not to attempt to an- swer it without first fortifying himself with papers and documents, He preferred to answer specific questions, R Gov, Cartin then asked him what was the cause of the disturbaoces existing in western localities. Mr. Powderly said it had been erroneously reported that the strike was owing to the discharge by the Missouri Pacific company of a man named Hall, This was only one of the many causes that led a strike, He read the statement put oat by the Si Louis Knights of labor, reciting their grievances—Ilow salaries, i { service, etc Mr, Curtin then askel what we objects and aims of the Kuight organization. Its object, Mr, said, was to protect labor against actions of employers. causes ol to ner 08 urs o 3 i J * 50 Ihe aims organization were entirely peacefn!; of course, liable to be misanderstoo its own members, He assures the mittee that if it were found Knights of Labor in the vio lated the laws of the land, the organiza- tion wounld be as ready to punish them as it 18 to aid them redresssng Wrongs, that west had Lielp in With the organization the laws of the land stand high above any o ization or corporation. When asked what was th the organization toward sirik cotts Mr. Powderly said its jost all differences by co \ arbitration. It had never legislated on strikes, bat had recently legislated boycotts to restrain them ‘The of ordering a strike was left to Lb assemblies of the order, = Representative Burmes told Mr, derly thet Congress, the commitice the people bad a great deal of confidence in his integrity, and asked bim if had given thought to question congressional legislation to remedy evils complained of by the workingmen, and would give the committee his views on the subject. Mr. Powderly said he had given it e thought, but had not yet worked out fhe problem.] He thought that in a short time hecou'd present the committee with an inteilis| SRN. he ? the ai \ the considera Leg gent and perhaps interesting statement on the subject, Mr. Powderly then pre- sented and read the agreement of March! 15, 1885, between the Missouri Pacific] company and its employees, the viola-] tion of which by the raiircad company is| alleged to have been one of the causes of tne strike. He also went over some] details of the recent strike and western! troubles, At 2:15 the committee, without finish- ing with Mr. Powderly, adjourned to i i - GOULD TALKS, MR He Grows Indigmant at the Circular, on ar Washington, April —There was a large crowd at the strike investigation this morning. Jay Gould was present half an hour before the committee met. When the committee assembled the res- olution under which the committee is was invited to give his views on the sub- ject. In rather a low voice, Gould read a statement showing in detail the num- ber of men employed by the Missouri Pacific system, At the date of the strike he said he had 14,000 employes, while the strikers only numbered 3,700. “What followed the strike?” asked Gould, showing signs of deep feeling. “They seized the St. Louis, Kansas City, Sedalia, Texarkana, and other terminal facilities, They took possession and said, ‘No man shall ran a train on that road.” That is what they said?” exclaimed Gould in a volee ex- hibiting strong emotion. “Our loyal employes could not run a train and were deprived of the power to earn their wa- ges. That was what followed the strike — forcible possession—I can call it nothing elso—gomothing the Czar of Rossia would hesitate with his millions of sol- diers to do.” He then recounted the story of his in. terview with Mr, Powderly and said he bad not agreed to srbitration, When he came down town the morning afer that interview and folind the statements that he bad acceded to arbitration and ace knowl the Knights it made him “mad” He then read Martin Irons’ cirenlar denouncing him {Seald) to the workmen of the world. He read itin a tremulous {nation and empl “Gould, the giant flend is dancing over “That is the response of {the Knights of Labor,” he said, “to the {continuing bond of friendship we had theld out.” | Gould said he had enough to do to {manage the Missouri Pacific Railroad, {but his friend over there (Mr. Powderly) {undertook a great deal more. He at. tempted to regulate all the railroads, all ithe shoemakers, all the bankers, every trade. That was too broad-shouldered, tand he did not wonder that- his friend {had broken down under it. tration be believed voluntary arbitra. tion would be better and re sought for than compulsory arbitration, Mr. Burns remarked that a_volantary conference between the witness and Mr. Powderly had not resulted in arbitra or, at | t, that witness’ views did seem to have ited on, 104 been exe at bt, Louis, . The witness re | that on the con- {rary the company was iy for arbitration : re- fuged to recognize the Knights of Labor because there were 10,000 men employed m the Missouri Pacific who did not long to that order. Barns asked if witness knew of the is sne of the order of the roadmaster for- bidding employment of Knights La- bor. “Was not that a recognition of the order?” he asked; “and if so, why recognize them fur the purpose of arbi tration 7” re MAEM S RIWAYE TIC? was 1 nd hav pain ey of Gould was a of precaution, and with those threatening proclamations out he did not wonder that Mr. Hoxie had taken the precaution It was his duty. P ied that it matier rh CITY NATIONAL L- ~The City doors this hy orders of United States Bank 4 The snsnen- essare 44 i Fy : fez nd \ ars Examiner Hugh Young. al roaght about by the thieving operations of E He was f ' SOD Was in 8’ ¥ 1 Passmore Dietrick, wmerly a 7 1 ¥ in a hand Ti + 4 OERCEDEr 10 8 Til E LOS DoDey was me four vears sgoand the cxtent ) ) reach $50, large Dietrick : robbery will probably {), and may perhaps be ww 1 iV EXCBed LOA ® was a fast young man, Ia the bank Lis Lt. } 3 1 d 1ty was principaiiy to Kee Pp the JLo0ke, wrmed the but he often perf doties of or te d re BS giver be handling paying telier an eivin er and io that way wes of ney. vbr up his otealings, ince the credits given 1 2 i fon iy 3 - he books of bank, alwa the to enter the pi oper id by tLe dee mien for concealing ipdling was by means of false foot . When ansnicion + Lien suspic i he confessed his speculationr, The &f 3 hushed by his father and security for the amount, which have since proved worthless, Dietrick is pow at work at Camden, N. J., and will be srrested, Daring Lis palmy das Dietrick was a member of the charch, a promiseat poli- tician and speculated in stocks, He has a wife and three children, who now re side in Williamsport, He became infat- vated with a woman named Anna Brick, with whom, it is said, he snow living in Philadelphia, The Dietrick defaleation is not the on. ly blow that has strack the bank. An- other deficiency was of $20,000 was dis covered within the last few weeks, A full investigation will show that the bank is rotten to the core. At least one person and probably two will be arrest. ed, One of the directors, Moses Ulman demanded an investigation and brought on the crisis. Tobe bank has had a checkered career Estate broth- af ri eur ra Bas Holden speculated and got the in 1874, with a capital stock of $100,000 | Bodo Otto is the president and Boyd C ‘Caldwell is the cashier. For several years it did a posperous business, but for ithe last two years it bas pot made any ‘money and has sustained about $40,000 {losses by failures of business concerns, {The stock was vained at 8125, and two | years ago $87 per share wes paid. The bank will probably not resume, Itowes about $100,000 to depositers, and every dollar will be paid. THE LITTLE FISH WIN, Huntingdon, Pa, April 19.-The de cision in the Court in the liquor license applications was announced to-day. The matter has cavsed intente interest throughout the country for months past, a number of the applications baving been held over rom Feb. session, on sc count of the opposition to them, At the argument for and against li cense on Monday last the court room waa crowded, many of those present be ing members of tho Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Special remon- strances were presented against some of the applicants, and a general remon- strance against all of them, signed by about 8,000 persons, one-third of whom were voters. In announcing the decision of the court, Judge Furst said they were of the opinion that they could not arbitrarily grant all applications nor refuse all, and that they had decided each particular case upon facts presented in relation to it. The number of licenses six, two to hotels and one to a bottling establishment in this city, one to a hotel in Orbisonia, one in Dudley, and one in Broad Top city, Licences were re to the Leister House and the Hotel Brunswick, tie leading hotels in this city, ‘ are led to believe that some sos will CEN {Le granted by Judge Furst in this coun. ty this week. i * de ® THE STRIKERS. Now York, April 22 —At midnight six {thousand employes of the sugar refiner. ies of the eastern Disirict of Brooklyn struck because of non-compliance with [their 4500 of by Have- demands, About the imever & Elder, | The strikers at Havemeyer's refinery thegan rioting thie afternoon. The po- lice were called out in full force, and {with clubs attacked the rioters, but were overpowered by the strikers. The latter | Were armed with sticks, brick tones, 8t. Louis, April 22.—Five hundred em- ployes of the Missouri Car and Foundry Company struck to-day because the foun- dry has been supplyi i 8 to the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The {company say if they cannot run a foun- idry here they will open works at Cam- i bridge, Indiana. “ut in Wwria Ing repair ma ST LEE SWEPT AWAY. | A Ile Ie Br Le, Hany Much Propert Pittsfield, Mass., A Lit Lost De glroyed. pril 0's clock this morning the vil SIX East Lee, Berkshire county, and devastated by the breaking away of nd Reservoir, A a dam at the Mud Pond Lake, abonl tw y and on half miles from covered many the village. The pond 3 {acres of swamp, and increased from its loriginal limited sizs by extensive ds {built by a bof Loin ‘aoe “5 wanufactor ars as a etor- Lee er milis are sivad 3 AYO 3 place for water. East whose half dozen par ted on the stream, re 8 6 of th wident when the en pouring down the stree from four to six feet « with it trees, portions fences, wagons end able property. The slopes of the valley, alon {rent was pouring, and and toppled about like chips or The flood pas edd own the roa A? and fences, and moving small iid. ings, but it ha fiot power to ulterly wreck large though the damage jone will int {oo ntas hounsand d ars, As went up the lin as they wd the starting 1 3 Foe track of the {i inhabited cot there was wrecking three or four iway, was thoroughly accomplished, much stock besides wes The scene is one of and destruction yOu properiy deso’'alion, town of East Lee is wild wi iment, sd wil recovered ile {i The bodies thus al are |A. N. White and = and two yoang {daughters and Theodore King and wife, IMr. King's son wd wife and Summon Dowd. Eieven bodies have so far i found, and three persons who live on the {track of the flood are missing. White's {carriage shops are destroyed. Harrison {Garfield's paper mill is undermined. Decker's, Verran's and Gilmore's paper mills are also badly damaged, and Joon MecLoghlin's machine shops are wrecked. [he total loss of property 1s placed at $200,000, besides the cost of rebuilding roads and streets. i GREAT EIGHT-HOUI} TION, § 2 best DEMONSTRA- Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 24.~-The great- est labor demonstration ever held in the anthracite coal regions took place here to-day under the auspices of the Miners’ and Laborers’ Amalgamated Association, It was strong proof of the enormous growth and power of the organization which was hardly known two years ago All the mines suspended work and the men employed in the collieries in La- zerne, Lackawana and Northern Schuyl- kill counties turned ont en masse, Six bands of music and nearly twice as many drum corps were in the line, and it is estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 men in all were marching, althongh the route of the parade ex. tended through five miles of streets, While the speeches were generally directed towards what was to be done to improve the condition of the workers in the anthracite coal mines, they were es- pecially pointed towards the necessity for insisting on the eight-hour demand which is to be formally made on May 1 Some of the speeches were of a highly inflamatory nature, and attacked the coal companies and operaton in unmeasured terms for their alleged efforts to grind down and oppress the workingmen. ' a a MY IO AI STRY'S FIRE STILL RAGING, Loss Estimated at Millions of Floving— Forty Dead, Vienna, Aprild9.~The fire at Stry is still raging. The situation there js ap- palling. Thousands of the inhabitants are bankrupt. The charred remains of many of the victims have already been dug out of the ruins. The mayor of the town bas sent a telegram to Lemberg, asking that troops be sent to Stry with app'iances to cxtinguish the fire. The damage is estimated at several million Many of those injured by the fire yes- terday have since died. of the vic tim= were children. When the fire bad reached its Leight the prisons were , but the an hor ities had delayed the release of the pris to i ants looled hones and shops after cone flicta with their owners, some of whom committed suicide. The gale was so ses vere that sparks were carried three miles and set fire to a number of hats ocen pied by the peasantry, TL: Emperor bas donated $2,000 for the relief of the sullerers, - ls a, - THE CALAMITLY AT STRY. vienna, Apr, 25. ~The nun her of deals which have resulted from the conflagra- ‘ X.2 : tion which recently devastated the town 28. The greater number were but aied fi itneg, jie ad of fright, i despair HYIAF - il jeast $1 ~ i LOURCE, 8 $000. FACE COI0w of { LER ~Mr, D. ¥. HILS 10 Garoie in NEE IN gracile and making qui which pi ind inient te a ban ariie will eclij anything ” 2 3 § 3 The latest styles will be or uniers, and the J in BAY ba 11 narket offered, Valid, EL goods 110 Hp, we i not regret it, Ay yas . Mrs. Hellman, of : fs iam 93 a LEVATOGH Couns is v or y IB igiting friends What's Aaronsbare doi its Centennial 7 people from : BU LIAMS RNED TUNE, oy lire 1s supp sed Lo have ori ¥ f yy IY, spark from a neighbo TWO BRO Anti ine ¢) ing io ony, sansas, Apr, 19.-This mor n~ IY was ithe poene . About two months of & place, belween two Weaver and Adel The latter was fatally wounded and the Weaver boys were arrested and hurried away to avoid mob violence. Last week they were geturned for trig’, but their cases were conlinned for the term with bail fixed at $10,000 each. At one o'clock this morning a mob of 40 armed men sorrounded the Sherifl’s residence, where the priecners were un- der,guard. The guard hearing them, rushed the prisoners out of the back door and into the basement of a school building. The sherifl was taken prison er by the mob and guarded. The depre ties finding it useless to resis!, surere dered. The Weaver brothers defended themselves in their straggle for life with a revolver which they nad taken from ong of the deputies. They were finally overpowered by the mob and disarmed. Ropes were placed about their necks and preparations were made to hang them to the rafters, bat the sound of ap- proaching footseps frightened the meb, 80 they fired 15 or 20 shots into each «f the brothers, literally shooting them to pieces, and mounting their horses rode rapidly away. Tue mother of the boys and the wife of one of them witnessed the entire tragedy. — sn Mo A There are 125,000,000 feet of logs in the boom at Williameport, and there are thousands of feet on the banks of the swall streams awaitioga fiood to float them down, ms ff I —————————— -. wee W, A. Taylor, of Warrior's Mark, visited the epot where James Irvin wes killed last May, and says ss an sctoal fact that no grass has grown on the spot that was saturated with Irvin's blood since the murder, altiiough previous to that time it was jovariably green in season, Irvin's throat was cut from ear to ear and the once fertile spot, rovering abont six feet, which was saturated with perfectly of a most trazic aff ago a fight Danville, near t brothers Sheard. 3 ; ie Vilage ' ¥y ad named his blood, is now —— Wonrn Rexevsunine.—ereafter sub seribers to the Rerorrea, who will rem't one year's subscription in advance can retain 25 Cents as a premium for ade Vee of our subcribers sonding ns te ” i th he paTAme, get one
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