OLD SERIES XL > NEW SERIES XXI “THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED KU RTZ - Editor. 1888 DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE, Bellefonte 1 Howard Boro Milesburg Boro. Millheim Boro Centre Hall Boro... ..A M Butler, ~Sam'l Weiser, Jr, werend W MeCormick, Jerry Sankey, Joseph Riley Jackson Gorton, «a © Smith, wLornelins Hazle, we dio0 Brown, werk F Adams, w-H I: Barnhart, Wm Hipple, Leo Roun, David Brickley. DW Miller, Bam’l Harpster, Jr., Wm Hanna, Wim Lose, J H Orndorf, we alvin Weaver, weed H Griffin, «C € Meyer, ....5300 D Johston, wc Wm Irvina ..l> W Herring, John 8 Hoy, med nmnes J Gramley, wel A Sellers Jacob 8 Meyer, dno WConley, ... W W Spangler, ened BIO Kennedy, Frank Tulberty, J 8 Ewing, Perry Geutzel, Wm T Hoover, AG Kreamer, Levi Reese, Aaron Fahr. AARON WILLIAMS, Chairman Philipsburg Unionville Boro Benner twp Boggs twp NP. do WP. do EP. Burnside twp... College twp... Curtin twp... Ferguson twp do SP Gregg twp § Wo NP Haines twp E do Ww Half Moon twp. Harris twp........ Howard twp... Huston twp.... Liberty twp... Marion twp. Mies tWP.cou Patton twp.. Penn twp Potter r1wp N P., do BP... Rush twp, 8 FP... do NP... Snow Shoe W P. do EP. Spring twp.. Taylor twp.. Walker twp Worth twp Union twp —— WitLiax F. REBER, Secretary. Ww P. On Sunday everything was quiet throughout the coal region, Seventy- five men were enrolled, armed with ree volvers, and seat to Shenandoah on the midnight train, from Potisville. Wili Sommerville, an 18 year old boy, was killedlast night by contact with an electric light wire, One of the Brush lights was on the ground, and a lot of boys were baving fun with it by touch ing it and being shocked. Summerville touched it with a piece of hoop iron, and was killed aimost instantly. The wells in the vicinity of Wood, Johnston county, are reported as being violently disturbed, and to be boiling and bubbling with loud noises. At a distance of thirty yards from the mouth of some of the wells this noise is plainly perceptible. The phenomenon was obe served ten days ago. The soil is sandy in that section. Nothing like it was ever before known. Our spry little neighbor, the Daily News, gives the Reporter a little compli mentary notice for which we tip our "at. Our neighbor is not jealous of the pros- PA., REVENUE REDUCTION. The surplus in the treasury is just so much money needlessly withdrawn from the industry and business of the country. At its present rate of accumulation it will amount to two hundred millions of dollars within a twelvemonth, The ex- traction of this immense sum from the financial resources of the country is cal- calated to produce stringency and ulti. mate panic in the money market, The accamnjation, therefore, should be promptly stopped by a reduction of the revenues, If the partisanship of the republican congressmen generally and the selfish- ness of a few democratic congressmen in particular had not stood in the way, re venue reduction would have come foar years ago when Hon. W, R, Morrison, of Illinois, introduced the first bill in the bouse of representatives looking to that end. But consideration was refused the bill and the coalition majority failed to present a bill of their own. The contin ued and continuous accumulation of the surplus, howevar, has at last awakened a great interest io the sabject of revenuoe reduction and congress will bardly fail to consider the bill for that purpose which is now being prepared by the committee of waysand means. The only question to be solved is, How can this reduction of the revenues be best effected? Should it be sccom~ plished by revision of the tariff, or by catting off the internal taxes, or by a measure embracing both these plans? The answer should undoubtedly be, by revision of tbe tariff. And why? Be. cause the internal revenues havealready been reduced more than one half since the close of the war, while the tariff sub- stantially remains as it was when the war ended; becanse the war debt and the pension list should be met by the internal taxes; because they are leveled on loxuries and pot on necessaries of life; and because an average tariff of forty six per cent. on raw materials of manufacture and the food, clothing and shelter of the people, is exorbitant, op- pressive and calculated to promote mo- nopoly. It is not, then, merely the desire of theoretic reformers for a revision of the tariff that has led up to the movement which has been given overwhelming im- petus by the recent message of the presi- dent. The movement is a practical and inexorable necessity. It is the outgrowth of a condition, not of a theory. There must be reduction of revenues and since there must be such reduction the taxes to be reduced or abolished are those RIOT AT SHENANDOAH. STRIKING MINERS ATTACK COAL AND IRON POLICEMEN, Shenandoah, Pa., Feb. 3.—To night] was an eventful one in the bistory of} this great strike, and probably seals its} fate. Riot ran loose, and not in years has the town seen such a spectacle. All day Shenandoah City and West Shenandoah collieries worked with a good force of] men, and everywhere among the idle| men, especially the Polanders, there were | mutterings that foretold a coming storm | to night. It broke at 5 o'clock when the | miners at work started to come howe. | Some Polanders opened fire on them! with stones, whereupon Coal and Iron | Policemen William Moyer, John Deibert Jacob Shane and Peter Kreigher at once | went to their aid. Moyer and Deibert | caught one of the Polanders and hustled | him up street as if by magic almost, The! region swarmed with men and boys, and! in a second the prisouer was freo and the officers being roughly bandied. They | got away aad started back for the Shen- andoah City mine followed by a crowd now pnmbering over a thousand The latter contivued beating the workmen and boys as well, when officers again sprang tothe rescue, It wasab ave act, for six men sguinst a crowd cf such pro- portions, but for five minutes it was suc. cessful. Then, as the officers were going off, Moyer and Deibert with one and Kreiger and Shane with another, the crowd surged on them again. Kreigher got away with his man and finally landed him in Squire Shoemaker's office. Moyer] and Deibert were not so fortunate. They | were being badly beaten with clubs and | were both down when they drew their revolvers and both fired into the crowd | which scattered and ran in sll directions, Mike Heffron, a young man, received al ball in the mouth and was badly injured.| Johan Cather, an iron founder, was shot) in the arm, and a Polander was shot be- hiod the ear. A third shot was fired by a Polander, but with what effect is not known. James Shields, a borough offi cer, then arrested both officers for shoot- ing in the borough. They were taken before Bqunire Monaghan, and while there a warrant was sworn out by a Polandert charging them with assault and battery! with intent to kill. They pleaded guilty ander the advice of Captain Christian, and were awaiting committal to the! Pottavile jail when things took another bad turn, The two officers were on East | Centre street a square and a half apart | . That whole space was densely packed | 5s i | SUFFERING IN KANSAS, Rev. Wm. McCrea, of Presbyterian Church, of the South Western Kansas, gives dreadful accounts of the suffering of the people from the eold weather this! winter. Fifteen persons were frozen to death in his immediate neighborhood, | and the whole population are in a desti- tute condition. He thinks some newspapers are much | to blame for inducing people t+» move in to that country. He says the papers of | the corporations out thereare not con-| tradicted by the pepers here, ard the wild rush to that country continues, The people go unprepared and suffer the greatest hardships, When the snow tlows it is about one half sand, and it packs io like as if 1t was pounded down by a rammer, The gentleman's descrip tion of the sufferings, if delivered about Homestead, were he was formerly sta- | tioned, would make many people hesi tate before they went wild with & notion of cheap lands in the West or better times here A GEORGIA FARMER MURDERS HIS FAMILY AND COMMITS SUICIDE. Macon, (a, Feb. 4 —In Baker county a young man went to the house of Amos | Grant, a colored farmer. Finding all quist and the house closed he looked around for the cause, and found the body of Grant hanging from a rope thrown | over a projecting joist in the rear of the house, Ioside he found Mrs. Grant's! body in the bed, her head crushed into jelly. On the floor was the body of the wife's sister. Further over was the body of Grant's fifteen year-o!d son. The theory is that as Grant was a hard | task master his wife was about to leave! bim, and that Grant, frenzied by the thought of her departure, took a club/ and brained them while they slept and then committed suicide, titan BUY SOAP. That $0000 whicha geotleman in Poiladelphia desires to donateto some useful purpose, would be well invested if used to wash away thestain upon Centre i county from defeating A. J. Greist, for ! having so faithfully discharged his duties! as county commissioner, -—- The Washington colored folks, the other day had a convention to elect dele | gates to the National Republican conven- tion, and they had a high old time such as will give the Republican mem- bers of congress new proof of the fitness with people, a large porting being Poland-|°f the colored folks to help run their ma FURTHER WORK OF WHITE CAPS, —— They Brutally Flog an Indians Citisen snd Leave Him in ns Dying Coudition. Evaxswires, Ind, Feb. 5.—A report has just reached this city of an outrage coms this State, by the White Caps. In that locality resides Thomas Williams and wife, who were subjected last year to great indignities, so it is sald, at the hands of the White Caps. At the time Williams claimed to have recognized among his as. sallants a prominent young man, Thomas He immediately fearing trouble, left for parts unknown. Nothing farther had been had located with his father at Fort Scott, Kan, and a telegram from that point yes- wrday snnouncasd that he had been ar- rested upon a requisition from ernor of Indiana and was back in ford County. The news seems to Craw- have enraged the mined to wreak their vengeance on Will- jams, who was supposed to have secured the arrest. Reports received state that night at a late nittance which was down the door shols into the it is not known hour and demanded ad: refused, when they broke justas Willlams fired three crowd from his revolver. Mrs. Williams to the bedstead, Williams into toa tree, They then told him that they had come for his written and sworn state. ment exonesating Courtney from all partio- and that his refusal would result in his be. ing put out of the way Though thus intimidated he refused to yield, and their jeader ordered that he should be flogged until he agreed to sign the statement. He wus stripped and bound closely to the tree, with his face turned in- The lash was applied vigorously, bringing the blood, for moments, when the head of the poor man was no ticed to fall backward, and it was ascer At that moment the sound of approaching people was heard and the White Caps decamped. Williams some plied, but he failed to regain counscious- The White Caps made escape. The outrage is said to Caps. An Xxpensive Breakfast. Texankaxa, Texas, Feb. 3.-—-An operas troupe has boon playing here the past few days. Mrs H Mortimer wanted to go and poo it. Her husba who is engaged in merchandise, bh Bhe gs ust handed her £500 n ther she lars could not find it, so she hid it cooking stove Next moraing when ure was ne more The cook had come early and making a hol fire prooceded with the task of cooking breakfast For the past 4% hours the husband has boon ene TIARA [AI MTT Is rrr Lewis Moore was to have been hanged af Georgetown, Ga., at neon. At 11.20 Gov Gordon's reprieve of twenty days arrived The great Merced Canal, which will in rigate 500,000 acres on the Joaquin Valley was opened in the presence of Gov. Watar man, of California and an immense assem. blage. The surviving members of the Thirty. fourth Congress Thursday night peglected 8 permanenl organization in Washfhgion, and resolved 10 hold 8 reunion on Feb, 2 of each year. A number of patriotic Irishmen have just organized a local branch of the Irish Nae tional League in Balt Lake City to be known 8s the Wilfrid Blunt Branch Nationad Lesgue of Utah. The captain and crew of the schooner D, A. Huntiey, of Bt. Johns, N ¥., were res. cued from the sinking vessel on Jan 20, by the British steamship Oxford, and brought into Philadelphia. Business at tables has gre " i the Monte Carlo gaming len off, and the pro- pen a special saloon for the poorer classes, where the stakes The annual banquet of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association took place Thursday nig in Ba ore. Benators Butler, Gray, Vance, y other guests of National ec vire present. At the wedding r Fletcher to Miss Bue Beck, near Hod Aleck Post Office, Ark, on Wednesday night, a rejected suitor named Degafreed fired at the groom wound- ing him siishily. Degefreed turn was the groom. ford promin f Ant y OL Ano in Detectives Thursday unearthed a nest of Charlestown that has been y for six months, in burglaries have Two of the gang Andrew Gibbs and James Johnson, have been ar- rested, THE AUSTRO-GERMAN TREATY. Comments on Its Publication Russis Wishes to Attack Nobody. Viexxa, Feb 4§.-It is reported that when Count Kalnoky informed th Russian Ambasssdor bere that he intended to pul lish the Austro-German treaty, the A sador replied that & ment could not officially object 10 such a course The treaty between Italy 3 stipulates that if France attacks either country the other shall send an army of 800,000 men to the French frontier It is said in diplomatic circles that Ger many’s treaty with Italy is analogous to the AustroGerman treaty, the name of France being substituted for that of Russia. 81. Prrenssvnc, Feb. 6.—The newspap- ers hore discuss the Auvstro-German treaty tranquilly Most of them aver that Rus sia is equally desirous for pesce, and wishos to attack nobody Panis, Feb, 6. Most of the Paris papers welcome the publication of the Austiro- and Germany bind Russia and Russia against the triple Germany sod Russia, and to The Temp: says that there will be no se- ourity in Europe until it is kr tn whether Austria would regard Russian intervention Iu Bulgaria as a cor belli, and whether Ger- many would permit Austria to settle such a quarrel single-handed perity of the Reporter, in which respect | which bear most severely upon the in-| ers, who were wild with passion, They | Chine. operas and burglars. Le Parise says that neither Russia nor it isopposite in feeling to the aplown concern, which seems to desire that this paper loose patrons. What acreatare ! The idiot of the Gazette seems to be in- terested in “taking away subscribers from the Reporter,” as we infer from its last issne. While that shows the idiot’s cali- ber, we simply say that the Reporter will get along without taking money from the counry treasury by robbing in printing jobs. The county seems to have a new robber io the Gazelle, That proposition of Adjatant Gens eral Hastings that on the oceasion of the next annual encampment of the Nation. al Guard, the different militia organiza- tions, as far as possible, march from their armories to the camp ground, will un doubtediy be received with favor by the guardsmen. It will give the best kind of practical training, and go to prove to the men that aso!dier’s life is not all holiday. The Chinese Minister has recovered from the very painful reminiscences of the last time he opened his honse to Washington “society,” and is now going to try it again, He willbhave officers present at the ball this week, to see that noauthorized and wholesale champagne consumers do not obtain admittance, This deprivation of an opportunity to get all four feet in the trough will be cone sidered an insult by the average Wash- ington hog. ————————— There has been a great deal of talking lately of radical change in the system of making up trains, and it is intimated that giant locomotives will now be con- structed, capable of hauling from seventy five to one hundred loaded cars. The bui'ding of these is a part of the Pull man scheme, but no details are given be- yond the confirmation from the officers of the company ofthe statement that they will certainly add the construction of locomotives to their present business, ———————————————— The idiot of the Gazette ssks where we were on the July (Chestnut) At home decorating in honor of Uncle Samuel, in finest style, setting off the finest fire- works, and entertaining speakers whom your small potatoes had neg'ected in act- ing the fool on the street, while some were #0 green as to go to Williamsport for a train of cars when the “owner” of - the railroad lived right in town bere. By the way, idiot, sin’t you putting that chestnut oe dp Sou tion of the poople from your effort to plander the dustrial masses and the interests which support them. Barely it is better for the working people, better for the employing manufacturer, better for the consamer, better for every body. that raw materials aod necessaries of life should be untax- ed than that whisky and tobacco should be freed from taxes in order that raw materials and necessaries of life may still be made to bear the burden of tax- ation, “LET US HAVE PEACE” Senator Stanford, California, has writ- ten the followiog letter to a constitoent who asked his reason for voting for the confirmation of Mr, Lamar as a justice of the United States supreme court: “Your letter asking my reasons for voting for Mr. Lamar received. I voted for him because I consider.d him one of the best men in the south for the place. He is in my judgment, a broad liberslminded man of a great deal of learning. He was professor of law in a university in Mis gissippi. I think he is 8 thoroughly con- verted unionist, and I do not think it wise 10 reject any one on that ground alone, that they were engaged in the late rebellion. 1 think we want to be one people, politically and socially. Geoer- al Grant expressed the idea when he said: “Let us have peace.” Mr. Lamar's loyalty and integrity to the union was passed upon most conclusively when both houses of congress provided for the succession to the presidency snd made tim sn heir only a few removes from the presidency. COUNTY OFFICER'S FEES. Judge Schuyler of Northampton on 6, handed down an opinion that will, if confirmed by the Supreme Court, give to all county officials in this State the right to demand of their respective counties increased fees for services rendered and paid for under the Fee bill of 1878. This bill puts the fees about one-third lower than the Fee bill of 1868, and it has been declared unconstitutional, Ex-8heriffl Herman demanded of the county moneys sufficient to make the fees paid him equivalent to those he was entitled to nnder the Fee bill of 1878 The courtallows the claim, All other officers who have their foes reduced by the 1878 bill are entitied. to recover, ex- cept those barred by the statute of limi tations. : A SR A ABBR surrounded both officers yelling, “Lynch them,” “Kill them,” &c. Suddenly a stone was thrown at Shoemaker’'s window, In a minute the front of both were riddled with stones and their in mates had a tough scramble for safety. serious damage was done, except to the offices, which are wrecked. At Mona- ghan's office Moyer, Delbert, Orme and Captain Christian were in asmall room seperate from the main room. Through a rear window they got off safely, but for balf an hoor the mob, thinking them still in, pelted the office. The town isin a perfect uproar. Men are mad with passion and drink, and no one appears to have any power to quell the distur bance. The borough authorities are powerless and no one can say how the mob’s fury may yet vent iteelf It iscer- tain Captain Christian will mass his whole force of coal and iron men here to morrow, together with Captain Linden's Pinkerton meno and it is possible that the scenes of 18750 may be renewed, when military force was called out. How it will effect those who were at work is ss yet to be seen, many of them say that if adequately protected they will be on duty. A cm a At Shamokin Reading officiale have re- quested justices of the peace and others who are anthorized to grant ontdoor res lief, to refase such to all able bodied men and send them to the company's collieries for work. The Reading men intimate that if the Relief Bard refuse to comply with the request and continve to give away the public's money to men who refuse to work, trouble will result. tion of the sufferings, if delivered about Homestead, where he was formerly sta- tioned, would make many people hesi- tate before they wont wild with the no- tion of cheap land in the West or better times here, B05 MI MP AANA The tenor of Bismark'sspeech in the Reichstag was that, while hs had no im« mediate fear of war, Germany must be prepared, hy the strengthening of her army, for any eventuality, He was loud. ly applauded, and the Landwehr bill passed the second reading without any amendments Ld A seat resulted in favor of Mr, White, It was alized, he clerk of the court failed to make s re cord of it, i Fam The proceedings were utterly outside of all decency and grossly disgraceful and disorderly. Noless than three chairman | were on the stage at one time, and even! | Douglass himself was unable to ca'm the! {storm raised by the ignorant creatures, Pistols and razors were flourished, and | had it not been for the presence of a body of police, the various factions would ondoubtedly have precipitated a bloody row. The occasion was the elec- tion of delegates to the Republican Na- tional convention at Chicago, 8 matter that was finally accomplished in a sort of! a way by chosing two sets, one of which was instructed for Sherman and the oth. er for Blaine, and each swore that they would stand by their man to the last The convention broke up, after a portion bad seceded amid hooting, eat calls, oaths and general outrageousness. After all this had been done a delegate remarked: “We have shown the people of the Uni- ted States that we are capable of condue- ting our own affairs with order and pro- priety.” Several of the delegates who had not participated very much in the proceedings, laughed at this, but the ma jority seemed to think that the conven tion bad been one of the most remark: able bodies in the world’s history. I i a An experiment is being made, on the California coast to test the utility of ocean wave force. At an opening in some cliffs great fans are suspended, and their movement at the ebb and flow of the waves is so geared as to work im. mense pumps, which are designed to fill large reservoirs on elevations, these be- ing used to supply water power to manu- factories of various kinds. A SM SI Ms Sa Miss Etta Shattuck, the school teacher who was so severely frozen during the recent bliggard, has died. The Omaha Bee fand for her benefit, amounting to $3,750 will probably be turned over to her parents. . i —— H. R. Reese, for the past eight years clerk of the Continental Hotel Philad elphia, was arrested on the charge of emmbezziing $3,000 from his employers He made afull confession. He is 50 years old and a member of the Baptist Church and superintendent of a Bunday school. APL AA Rn HAA must be needy and see'y counted on the fingers of one hand Whoop 'em up, its hs get it, A Steamer Lost. Husuxa, Ark, Feb, 5. The steamer Les Howell, Capt. John James, master, lols here Baturday afternoon st 8 o'clock for Horlburt with a good trip, consisting of $0,000 shingles, 10,000 feet of lumber, 2.63 empty sacks, and seversl tons of misocelia- neous freight. About an hour later when & fow miles above Friar's Point, she sprung # leak, ber hold rapidiy Slling and in a few sninutes she had sunk out of sight, the water running over her smokestacks. The boat and cargo will prove & total loss, The Millionaire Acguitted. Bayes Bossa, Cal, Feb. 6.-The second trial of Robert F. Morrow, the Ban Fran- cisco millionaire, who was indicted by the Grand Jury in that city some months ago on a charge of attempting to bribe a jury, ciosed here Saturday. The jury rendered 8 verdict of aoquittsl. Morrow's first trial was held in San Francisco, and the jury disagreed. He then obtained a change of venue to Bonoms county, and the second trial has boon in progress here for the past Wook. Trying to Save Brooks. Sr. Lovie, Feb. 5. John J. Martin left Baturday night for New York to meet Mr. Brooks, father of the man who is to hang for the murder of C. Arthur Preller. Mr. Brooks sailed Saturday week for this country. He will make a personal appeal for Executive clemency for his son. Petie tions asking that Maxwell's sentence bo commuted to imprisonment for life are now belng olrculated here. An Absoonding Tressurer Arrested. Tonow¥ro, Feb. 5 -—Isreel Lucas, the ab soonding treasurer of Anglaize county, Ohio, and his wife were arrested here last by Detectives Reburn of this city and Bourquin of New Bremen, Ohio, at a boarding house. Luces was living under the name of LI. Wise. When he Inft the United States, on August 27 last, he had $235,000 in his possession. Kentucky Horses Sold. Lexisorox, Ky, Feb. 4.-J. R Graham of Boston, has purchased of W. J. Jones of Lexington, Nellie Carlos, a yearling gray by Don Carlos, dam by Edwin t and Jessie Wilkes 4 years by Denver flkes, dam Denmark. France will ever declare war. The Dynamite Conspirater's Wife. Prrnaperrma, Feb, 7. ~ Michael Harkins, who, together with Thomas Callan, was sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude for being concerned in a dyna- mite conspiracy in London, lived st 1.939 North Becond street. His wife keeps a gro- oary store. When she heard of her hus. band’s sentence she broke down completely. She said that her husband left home four or five months ago, but she did not know where or for what purpose. Mrs. Harkins padded that she was not soquainted with Thomas Callan, her husband's accomplice, Bhe said that her husband's friends would de ali in the!r power for him, but she doubted whether their intercession would wvail. Alleged Dynamiters Convietod. Loxpox, Feb. 4-~Thomas Callan and Miohsel Harkins, who were charged with being connected with a dynamite conspin acy, were found guilty yesterday and sone tenced to fifteen years penal servitude. As the close of the trial Callan protested his innocence. Harkins made a spirited appeal to the Court, in which bo said that he was not a man who would injure property and sacrifice life, as he had a family that was dear to him in America, making him unders stand the values of other lives. Ministen Phelps and Mr. Van Wagner were on thy b ench during the closing hours of the trial. A Masonic Quarrel Taken Int o Cours. ! CLeveraxn, Feb.3. The contest between the Cleveland Scottish Rite Masons and the regular order, which has been carried on in this State for a perica of two years, was taken into court yesterday by the serve ing of an injunction upon W. B. Hillman, Graad High Priest of ihe Royal Arch Ma sons in Ohio, restraining him from pres venting the installation of the officers re. cently elected by Warren Chapter of Now. srk. Hillman had doclared the election null and void because the officers chosen affiliated with the Scottish Rite Masons. No Work For Furnace Men To Do. Easton, Pa. Feb. A Owing to dull times a score of yardmen at the Glendon Iron Company's furnaces were laid off Sat. since the Lehigh coal strike began. Should the Ing miners go out every furnace In the | Valley would be compelled to closes tuside of two weeks,
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