So ———_, Era a A A panle In the oil trade at Pittsburg has precipitated several failures among brokers, A colored league of base bitllists is the lat- ast thing in that line. The first steps are being taken in Pittsburg to-day, Florida Indians are reported as on the verge of a slaughter of white settlers near the Everglades in that state, caused by alleged pad treatment by cowboys, Five men belonging to the crew of the steamship Knickerbocker, from New Orleans to New York, were drowned while attempt ing to rescue a disabled schooner off the Del AWAre Capes. Because of the shortage of water, the flour mills in Minneapolis, Mim., whose daily output is 24,000 barrels, have agreed to run eight days and remain idle four. The first death of the winter from falling ou iey sidewalks is reported from Portland, Me, the victim being the Hon, Charles MeLaugh- commission merchant of THE WEEK'S SUMMARY OF TELEGRAPHIC NEWS CON- VENSED FOR BUSY READERS. fivefita That ¥avs Mappened In all Parts of the World Bolled Down to Polntea Paragraphs, Fersonal Mention of Do- ings and Sayings of Many People. A supposed incendiary fire at Nyack, N. Y., destroyed a sleigh and carriage factory. Sir John Macdonald has steered the do- minion ship of state "into perilous straits of finance, and a big deficit is the reef that threatens wreck. A farmer named Naglay shot an unlawful visitor at his house, near Wabasii, Ind., but in the struggle which followed lost an eye lin, a prominent and was badly bitten by the intruder. that city, : ng Herzog's Opera house, at Washington, In order to devote himself to the training totally destroyed by fire. {of young men for the ministry of the Prostes- 3 ’ . | tant Episcopal church, the Rev. Dr. William 3 - gy xs f alk ne § i : , Mrs, Overbaugh, of Shandaken ( entre, in \D. Wilson, Jong senior professor and registrar the Catskill mountains, shot and killed a bear | \f Cornelb university, has resigned. He will, weighing *% pounds when dressed. : : JLowever, continue to be professor emeritu American colonists, who are sojourning in | Canada for canss, ate alarmed over the pros- { pective action of the'courts in the Hokes ek- ! : 4 tradition case, Detectives are gathering in respite of five WeekR Montreal from the United States in anticipa- | My, John J. Spies {denies that Thomas B. tion of the decision, who received a gold | Bartley Campbell the story ‘Siberia.” was Governor Fitzhugh Lee the murderer of Fannie Lillian dramatic gent, Ma¢ Donough gave the title of the Paul Just, a fireman, and medal for bravery in New York, has turned {is play speak thief in Chicago. i All but two of the transatia Six inches of snow fell in New York city {companies have cut the st and delaved travel on the railroads and city | Europe to §15 thoroughfares. | W. H. Herman, In France political parties are busily occu- { ounces of laudanum ina Chicago piad in cabinet making. M. Floquet, Repub- {and died there. lican, has offered to form a cabinet, but! The New York legisiature will be asked to President Grevy, who was blamed in the | appropriate improve cabinet for delay, has so far given no indica | ments. tion of his wishes in the matter, i a noted inventor, took two drug slore canal Three young society ladies took the while The late Charles Francis Adams left very { veil at the Sharon Hill convent, little of his estate, valued at upward of §1,000,- | delphia. 000, for public uses, | near Phila committees have agresd on contain for The house The Independent Order of Sons of Malta, | proposition regulating railways famous and numerous in ante-bellum days, is | the clause prohibiting greater charges dwindling down to the *‘last man.” | short haul than a long Heavy snow is reported porth and south. | President Stearns, ¢ f A young man in Cynthiana, Ky., killed | club, has proposed to Von der Abe, himself because accused of stealing $5. His|St. Louis Browns, that the two clubs play father died of grief over his act, and his aged | seven match games next spring, and Von der mother’s life is despaired of. | Abe has assented. All English transatlantic steanrship | Paul Hull, the Chicago reporior w ho was lines will cut their steerage rates from $30 to| brutally assaulted by Buck $15 from Liverpool to New York. | McCarthy for describing a debauch in which to die of his Fh i : tai ; art. is likels Navigation on the Hudson is closed north { Mc arthy took part, Ji of Poughkeepsie. 1 ion. 1 2 tecid " - wr The government counse ve decided to he Yigh gover $ it | kb : 1 The English government has begun suit| cit in Massachusetts in the telepPone against the Cunard company for refusing to | hn accept three bagd of letters consigned to the i i : + 4 United States | Secrstary Bayard has sent tof . ; { late official correspondence in ine fi Sunset Cox is entitled to the salary of tp | COME : : - - Jue I foreign minister to Turkey and also that of i Att i - , : ] a £5 ev congressman since the date of Pulitzer's} op his bills against He will not draw the double |™® BE a i : land the anthitac special one. the Detroit Baseball of the | the OmInissionesr TH May, © the UN General © Pennsylve ne resignation. salary. ¢ ta COG ~ ! failed to secure The schooner John T. Long went ashore mb}, Asbury Park, N, J., w ¢ Na ao J. : and hen boarded by} Two peddlers at ft. Louis are under life savers a dog alone was found alive, the | cha with the abduction of and or crew having been washed overboard. | charged wi i B 3 1" { assault upon a lady whom 1 A Brooklyn police court has on its docket | jer home in broad daylight over a dozen cases of oleomargarine dealers wl the article for genuine butter. wy carried from . The engineers and firemen of 10 80k i sof La- | \ ! vania railroad are jolnng the ; Three more firms of brokers have failed in { bor in large numbers. San Francisco, making six suspensions since | pe first vote in the Frankel Brothers elosed up their office in | a the temperance Virginia City and flad to the foothills with | 3700 10 anperal the coin their confiding customers | ad i to them for investment Sans had trused | Eighteen hundred Lah eK | members of the barbers’ uniom, the « | being to increase Lueir WEES and rule tho wir “wet” votes to tw mines, Canada is not pleased with the references a in Presi i cent shaves, it Cleveland's message relating to} - the action of Canadian officials toward Amen | Clara and i 1 | Lafayette, Ind. , ican fishermen, [Lalavaiey Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, | from Ae is called attention to the fact that the decrees A hot fight in & of th Plenary council of Baltimore prohibit temperance societies ant the holding of all balls for charitable purposes m by the lore or the benefit of charitable institutions. Flora Jones have worked" merchants } on Dogus orders has 1s boy saloon and sa ioux City, | between societies and keepers has Leen we J | J. B. Stoddard a vhorned” Mormon bas The Pacific goast stock gambling craze con- and tinues with unabated vigor in San Francisco, | and curbstone raking in the) renounced the faith of the Saints, is on his way east to give the i from the platform, collided and fi brokers are savings of the poor. off the cod peop i 3 } T we tearners If the glowing reports of the discovery of | Two stea ¥ deep sea fisheries and of black cod in the | Gre enland Pacific, off the British Columbian coast, are | ha confirmed many Newfoundland and Labras| Twenty-eight prominent dor fishermen will go west in the spring. deiphia invite all good citizens got a good mayor for that city riy-tw owned { Phila- to help them citigans © A large number of people in Chicago are] anxiously inquiring the whereabouts of F. M Three Delaware ferryboats between Phila- Smith, a commission merchant, who has dis- | delpbia and Camden were disabled during the appeared from the city, leaving an army of | fog, and a fourth was lost for several hours creditors and carrying off $20,000 in cash {| Harvard univer A friend of Joseph Seaman, of reading, | left by E. Price Pa., offered him a bottle of ammonia declar- | found ten scholarships and ing that it contained rye whisky. Seaman library. drank some of the contents and will die. | A wholesale firm in John E. Owens, the famous comalian, diad lighilities of at his home near Baltimore, assets, including $5.08 in A monster Liberal- Union meeting was held only about $50 D in London under the chairmanship of the Four negroes in York county, 8. C., killed Marquis of Hartington. a boy who detected them stealing his father's “Doc” Wilson's sisters are going back on cotton. The men were arrested, and a con him in the matter of supporting his preten- fom ion made by two of Jhom revealed nn « id gions of being Philip L. Moen's son, and their tena, ve Spey, pet fuding a Satermina contradictory statements are very puzzling. tion bo RB any opi "te ecting the con: The Bell telephone suit is dismissed from spiraiens 8 BE, gi, tb the Ohio courts “without prejudice.” W. F. Atkinson, a Detroit lawyer, was fined and imprisoned by Judge Jeanison for defying his honor in court, Burr Woods, while walking around a salt factory near Pittsburg, fell into a vat of scalding brine and yas fatally burned. The vacancies in the New York state board of health are filled by the appointiment of ex-Senator Newbold and Professor Maurice Perkins, The lawsuits In the Brinckerhoff family, well Known in the Hudson river valley, re- veal a deplorable state of household disagroe- ment, The churches and ministers of Auburn, K.Y., are quarreling bitterly over the pay- ments due Mr, D. IL. Moody for his evangel. ising influence. Emile Penseyres, a young Frenchman, and the fourth living busband of a notorious woman, was murdered iu bed by her at Builalo, The jury before whom Grottks wi, the Mil. waukee socialist, was tried, failea' to agree and was discharged. Tar and feathers are awaiting. Howard McKinzey at W Del. a8 @ retribe- tion for a black and flighty deed. Woman in the case, hy . Boston at len ns its t to De ealial the ** Hub.” Ly hoped 8 right to Be eae storm of ** wind.” Farmer Case, of Bloomfield, Com, sur- rendered himself to answer for the kil ing of Tom Allen, his hited man, Ho plea 's self- Having whipped a small pupil, Joscelyn, a ity is legates to §F900,000, of Boston, to the college (ree af with £04 000 and shows failed more than cash, amou nting to WOacae Acky,” or Cornelius Ackerman, & well known character in Newark, is dying amid filthy surroundings, after having deoded his property to supposed protectors, A despised half-mile track racer was first past the judges’ stand at Guttenburg, N. J., and $3 mutuel pool tickets on him paid $230.40, Gen. Butler is supporting the Labor candi- date for mayor of Boston, Samuel F. Bossa, of Wareham, Mass, was sntenced to be hanged on March 10, for tho murder and robbery of Richard N. Law- ton, of Westport, Dec, 22, 1885. President Bartlett, of Dartmouth college, had fis arm broken, : Four men and two women were arrested in Ballard county, Ky., for manufacturing spurious five cent nickel coins. Robert Grayer, colored, was hanged at Bt [ouls. When asked if he had anything to say, he to the front of the platform and sad: “1 wish you all good luck.” Professor Woodrow has been dismissed from the Columbia, 8. C., Presbyterian sem- inary because he believes in evolution, Ast offensive and defensive alliances has been between Bulgaria, Servia and open the James river from Rich- mond to the sea, making a port of Richmond. Coal in immense quantities has been dis- fn Henderson and Smith counties, Fred, wick Ss 5 LE AW pos ——————————— Massachusetts [is srmen imitate thelr prey and nose. the Bayard eorrespondénce as though it were political bait. They want non-intercourse with Canada proclaimed. Governor Hill gave a hearing on petitions tor commutation of the death sentence of Mrs. Roxalana Druse, the Herkimer county husband slayer. Mis. Elizabeth Custer, widow of the dash- ing cavalry general, intends writing another volume on frontier life, Mrs. Elizabeth Singer, who was charged with killing her husband with a crowbar, was acquitted at Long Island City. James A. Wales, a well known and very talented cartoonist, died in New York while at a table in a restaurant. He was taken to his home in Clyde, O., and buried. Congressman Dowdney, of New York, lied suddenly of heart disease, This is the third New York member to die during the Forty-ninth congress, ant the twelfth meme ber of the same congress to die, Congress has accomplished nothing the flrst w eek b 'y ond routine business Mr. Morrison will his for action this week, bring up tariff bill dame ().. has adopted “The American Confed- The conference of trades unions at C f Labor” as the In ns only’ name (Or a new or f sR Lion « f members of nis, ganization omposed trades un The fan Downs case of Boston of adultery dismissed from he the us Parson fi Japtist i ese] with Mrs the court wintey Zyumn ac Tabor—has been The pastor advancing will devote of SO ys the Canse and the rumor The Baltimore Ohio Telegraph com- - i pany denies of its intendeed sorotion by the Western Union i abe Philadelphia society hu been shocked by the discovery and incarceration of Dr. Rloyd Jerzoz as a kleptomaniac Capt. Tilton, of of six men 1 schooner on thu brought to New York. Henry D. Garrett, who has been in prison ' I Camden, N. J., and his were rescued from the Samuel H. Crawford Orinoco and Or TW LR Dec.. 10 by steamar at New York city for some time on a charge of robbing Mrs nux YORuca in A doctor and a stomach pump frus- Rosaline Charpentier, took the hope of escaping imprison- ment mes. Katie Metz, Quaule, i New ¥Y Cleary, Fullgraff, O'Neil and Demp rk boodle aldermen, and swore them enter and leave McLaugh ouse in May or June, 1854 This con of the aldermen who assed that at that time and piace a Leld and she saw testimony ference Was the bribes uj Herniry George is sald to be engaged in the sign at Chicago to assist Carter Harri in his race for mayor The French government is as changeable Within the past week an wiry Ve ey . a ¢ me trifle and re as the weather, been faken cabinet bas having rovnl sutirely new min formed, oi the ous ons offense al & yung white an i Sioux reservation on the he reservation ad his peck broken at Madison York while trying to ne of Buffalo Bill's wild ponies oklyn and New York F Bal jen in New opened city have of sacks sliding down hill iebrann tunn thelr ANooE 1 Lady Campbell in london has hat a Mikado singer might call “a state of * in Eoglish toney that «i of strong fumigants SOCIETY who cowh latter tO gooxl a man to shoot his enemy, has been wentenced to serve three years in the state prison and the court of appeals « onflrms Gen. Miles Is Silent, WAsHINGTON, Dec. 18. ~The extraordinary situation in which Miles is placed by the annual report of the secretary of war, which specifically charges him with diso- badience of orders in accepting the surrender of the Apaches, is the theme of conversation and gossip in army circles Beferring to the subject, The Post says: “According to the army regulations, Miles should be at once placed under arrest and tried by court mar tial. but he is at large, is entertained at din. ner as the honored guest of the secretary and is receiving marked attentions from other Just what it all means no one seems to know. An Impression seems to prevall in military circles that Miles is a scapegost {or somebody The general is as silent as the grave about it, and all his friends can get out of iim is a pensive smile and an assurance that it will all be explained in a little while.” (Gen official sources Liabilities of fommon Carriers. Des Momses, Ia, Dec. 18.-~The supreme court has affirmel the judgment of the Franklin district eourt, condemning certain liquors found in the railway company’s office at Hampton, consigned to parties who bad no loense to sell for lawful purposes, The court holds that it is inunaterial whether the company’s agents were apprised of the char acter of the goods. They were contraband and subject to seizare and penalty of the law, This is an important decision, affecting the rights and obligations of common carriers under Iowa laws, They Want Their Charter. BrooxtyN, Dec. 18.—At a mass meetin of 4,000 Knights of Labor of the Long Taland local assemblies last night it was resolved to demand of the goueral exgentive board the fssuance of the separate chprier 3 by the Cleveland convention for the Inland assemblies. It was further resolved never to return to allegiance to District Assembly 4, I I The Gouiden State Stride. ERIN Sax Praxcwson, Dec, 18.~The strike of employes of the (utter street railroad and branches continu +, Some cars are running with new men. The Geary street railroad men, 100 in num'or, have also struck. A few pew men were procured. Cotton Cars Burned. Navasora, Tex, Dec 13.—Two Houston and Texas Central platform cars jaden with cotton took fire two miles south of heye were totally consumed. Trajus were delay, several hours. The origin of the fire is wa known, gE ——— at A Socialist Elected. Brusegrs, Dec 18-A wisn has been returned to the nicipality by the municipal elections. This is the first instance of the election of a Bo caln to any offic ths municipal. a The Holiday Beason is rapidly appr. phrchasing preséuts. You may be debating and where you are going for it. You no do appreciated, Never before were we bottler | line of HIOILITIDIAIY- We have just received a 1. TO Sisters, All in your mind as lo what you will buy abt want something fine, that will be yreparcd to suppy your wants in the —G|1O10IDIS- irgé Ascortment of to” Sin NY ue qf Po Wut A. Sn; i St PINS, CHARMS, SEWING MACHINES, We have the Agency for and keep in stock the DAVIS, NEW HOME, sod others, with sll the mondern improvements and attachments adapted for dress makers or the home, Nothing would please your wile better than an easy running machine, eases fp issssi LAMPE, LAMPE, We carry i complete line of Hangiog Lamps. We have the Agency locandescent Lamp, which we claim gives a stronger and better light then any Lamp in the market. New invention, for the * x ne Goods, and sce our Holiday All goods warranted. Next door to Hotel H* HICKS & BRO. we BELLEFONTE, BREE — A we have the Clocks We have comyj wt line of ever opened in Uenlre co. small and large with handsome 4 4 § 1’ i ris 5 CASES, » CAD give You apy» ¢5 iiy # L418 337 ££ Bi = ld ¥Iall PP Sh hes H K. HICKS & BEO PENN'A, —— EIardwrrare, EX HEE FL USE We bave the largest s AT BELLE {ness in Centre county. have a Railroad througl Telephone Connection LOADED BE from us. ments and best gods. When you PONTE BY 10 A. M COME TO SEE US 'opportanily. HX EXPRESS ANY TIME IP TO TRAIN TINE FREIGHT MUST : Glass,” C3 TOVER, TOVES I cms K HICKS & BRO H pry GS tock at the low if bos Now that yo 3 the valley Od dired prices for AIR IBN OSEAN can save money HEY) WE SUL BATS wlan SAOYTd QRETIIHD aXEE HILO oq) 05 Lovale Lu ivd ¥ .Hicas & Ds SH K. HICKS & BRO - COMMON SENSE REASONS HENLY y MONARCH , noed. WHY THY FEN IMPROVED MACHINE -, 4 belore the weaviog Is com a sed il find, or up and down hill alike, boing adjustable, the pickels Ppt Gat i 18 8 Life mp. RA har mr ears aliea boi, ‘and the wire 10 the pots with So from Jetne for repair. hd most durable mon OTEL, JMO H 317 & i 6 3 Ar rs pubic w i the sume (iDEers comfort, Itis! tres of business ch Street, Ph $200 per I still find st ik provision tad in 8s - fas and pisces of t railroad depots, ss well | 88 all paris ol ihe Cily, Are «ak ¥y accessible >ireet Lars pslantly passing the i It offers special inducements | to those visiting ibe city for business or pleasu Our pare : oi 0 Xi IT, El i iuced os the Fore: ! re i re i | spe respect od FEGER vs Pr PErFeILVaNIA | ourse of Four oad enfific Course ADVANCED COCOA following the firs] lwo oars the © ral Scientific Course {a} AGRI LTURE NATURAL HISTORY ; (©) CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS; (4) CIVIL ENGINEERING $A shon SPECIAL TURK A short SPECIAL COURSE in Chemistry. A reorganized course in MECHANIC ARTS, combining shoj rk with study. {Wo years; in for Young Ladies. A carefully graded Preparatory Course, SPECIAL COURSES are arranged to meel the wants of individual siodenis Miliary drill js required. Expeuscs for board anu nc {denials verfgdUw Tut on free. yal ladies under charge & oampetent lady Principal, For Ostaiogues, or other information, address GEO. W. ATHERTON, President, state College, Centre Co, Pa, isle, © COURSE IN AGRICL A pew Bpecia ¢ 3 Litera ence ure ana iyjan® | PITTSBURGH, P4 The old#t and best appointed Tusiitution for obtainintd Busitess Education. For circulars address § DUFF & SONS, 1Spovam A i 1 ling how the raiicoad. I hé po can ‘have | $ of ground { mily east of plas building Lite 1 mile east of Cans wablon, prices $75 to $126 per jot, on ® terms. Apply to Frxo Kunrs, of ED ASH COAL. Woodlan@l Red Ashi) coal for ta'e at the Centre Jill roller Mill. Free of cin- der, 1 Also, tre Hall © dig
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