(VLD SERIES XL
| NEW SERIES XXI
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED KURTZ - =~ Editor.
1888
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE.
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Milesburg Boro...
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Centre Hall Boro |
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4 W MeCormick,
wend OITY Sankey,
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Saw Jackson Gorton,
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S30 P WP. week F Adams,
do E P. +H L Barnhart,
.. Wm Hipple,
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LDavid Brickley.
LW Miller,
Sam’l Harpster, Jr.,
«Wm Hunna,
Philipsburg
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Haines twp EP...
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Half Moon twp...
Harris twp.......
Howard twp..
Huston twp...
Liberty twp...
Marion twp
Miles twp...
Patton twp.
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Potter twp N P.
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Rush twp, 8 |
do NP.
Snow Shoe WP
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Spring twp....
Taylor twp...
Walker twp
Worth twp.....
Union twp
WiLiiax F. REnER,
Secretary.
wee © Meyer,
Geo D Johston,
w.. Wm Irvinn
«..D W Herring,
John 8 Hoy,
James J Gramley,
A Sellers
acob 8 Meyer,
no Wlonley,
¥ W Spangler,
+no Kennedy,
Loren Vail,
Frank Tulberty,
8 Ewing,
‘erry Gentzel,
Wm T Hoover,
+A 4G Kreamer,
12vi Reese,
Aaron Fahr,
AARON WILLIAMS,
Chairman
A TICKET FOR THEM,
Since Blaine, Beaver and Sheridan
won't have it, the Reporter can fix a fine
ticket for the Republicans, and here it is:
For President:
Gex. Dax. Hastisos,
Of Bellefonte and Harrisburg.
For Vice President:
Dyxasite Foraker,
Of Ohio.
The qualities in this ticket would be
lungs atthe head and dynamite in the
tail—and it coud make a racket if it
can’t make the presidency.
5 A
The Peunsylvania list of candidates
tor President is made up of the follow
ing:
Don Cameron.
Gov. Beaver
Dan. Hastings.
Jack Love,
Galusha Grow.
Chas Hewes,
Commissioner Henderson:
John Decker,
M. 8. Quay,
and several Republican eongressmen.
Centre Hall and Bellefonte boroughs
crow over Democratic viciories. Let
Democrats close up the ranks now for
next fall
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Beaver has changed his mind and will
be a candidate for President. If he can
get a pole long enough, be may knock
the persimons. A President from Centre
county would be a big thing.
In 1887 the people of Philadelphia
built 7,020 new dwelling houses. Since
the last censusthere has beenan addi-
tion of 33,680 new dwellings in the city;
so that there are over 180,000 homes in
Philadelphia at the present time. The
increase in eight years hasabout equaled
the entire number of dwelling houses in
Ban Francisco in 1880, and exceeds the
census returns of dwellings in either
Cincinnati, Cleveland or Washington at
the time.
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We would prefer that the Republicans
nominate John Sherman for President,
We are of the opinion that the Demo-
cracy of the United Siates would rather
try their band at whaling the man who
was bead and front of the great presi-
dential steal, by which S8am’l J. Tilden
was robbed of the high office to which
he was elected by the people of the Uni-
ted Srates. Sherman's use of the negro
wench, Eliza Pinkston, would make in-
teresting campaign reading,
Rev. W. Spendlove, a missionary, has
reached Winnipeg from north of Me-
Kenzie river, where he has been for nine
years. His journey down took nearly
three months, From Peace river he
heard of cases where Indians had died of
starvation and had then been eaten by
their comrades. Deer have been very
scarce for the past two years. There is
much feeling because the government of
Ottawa has taken no notice of the des-
titution of these Indians repeatedly
brought to its attention.
The Democracy of old Centre want to
come in straight line now and get ready
to face the common enemy next fall, in-
stead of defeating its own men. There
has been enough of that and nine-tenths
of those led into it are sorry for it. This
augurs well, for the opposition admit
that with a united front we can put them
hors du combat.
The hope of the Republicans is to keep
us divided, and they try to hire Demo~
crats to keep up division, and use their
press for all kinds of false stories to pre«
vent a closing of the Damocratic ranks,
Democrats, leurn wisdom from past
experience, :
CE
THE BEE IN BEAVER'S BONNET.
THIS 18 THE WAY HE HOPES TO CAPTURE
THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION,
Pottsville, Febroary 16,—To-night’s
Chronicle publishes a special from Harris
burg declaring that Governor Beaver
has the Presidential bee in his bonnet,
and since the withdrawal of Blaine be
came assured, has been laying his plans
to turn up at Chicago in the nick of time
as a dark horse. The present programme,
the Chronicle says, is that Judge Kirk-
patrick, the Attorney General, is to be
selected a delegate from the Northamp-
ton district; Pearsons, the Governor's
private secretary, is to be a delegate
from the Mercer district; Adjutant Gen-
eral Hastings is to report from the Cen-
tre district, and Stone, of Warren, pro-
mises to take care of that section. QGov-
ernor Beaver expects to be made one of
the delegates-at-large. Through the aid
of his friends he also expects to be made
chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation.
He believes that there will come a crisis
in the Chicago Convention when he may
be mentioned with a hurrah, as General
Garfield was eight years ago.
In the event of his nomination Senator
Cooper is to be made chairman of the
national committee and to be provided
for under the national administration if
the ticket should be elected.
> omni
A DEMOCRATIC MECCA,
Washington, for the moment, is en-
livened by the hosts of a novel crusade.
A Democratic army, without banners, has
invaded the Capitol with a mighty mis-
gion at heart. Many of the great cities
of the country are contending for the
glory of t ‘e coming Convention, which
is to name the President for the next
four years after March 4. St. Louis, Chis
cago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapo-
lis and New York bave sent their tale of
men to convince the doubting commit-
tee. In most of these cities Democratic
conventions have met before, Bt. Louis
and Chicago set out with the prestige of
former success, for they bad the glory of
holding the conventions that nominated
the only two successful candidates chos-
en by the Democracy since 15856,
St. Louis reminds the committee that
Tilden was named there in June, 1876,
and elected in November; Chicago points
to Cleveland in 1554, and promises to
eclipse the cordiality she showed in that
year if she may have the honor of his
second nomination,
San Francisco holds ont the most flat
tering and tempting indacements of all,
and will stand second best,
stad che —
TARIFF STRAWS,
At a Republican meeting in one of the
counties in Illinois, a strong tariff redoe-
tion resolution was passed.
The Minneapolis Evening Journal pob-
lishes statements from thirty sixof the
leading republican country editors of the
state on the presidential tariff, and other
political views in their sections, A re
capitulation shows that the republicans
of the state are almost unanimously io
favor of an intelligent reduction of the
tariff on the necessities of life, such as
iron, coal, lumber and salt, and a main
tenance of a high tariff on luxuries.
That is coming in to the Democratic
idea,
iiss mi SI MP ——
AMODEL LABOR ORDER.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Eogi-
neers says the Philad. Times, is the moe
del labor organization of the world, It
neverstrikes for the reason that it never
hires agitators to disturb its relations
with employers. When wages or any-
thing else ia unsatisfactory, it goes to ita
employers in all the dignity of manhood,
makes its complaint and always com:
mands justice because dispassionate rea.
son always directs its actions. It never
strikes, therefore, because it never asks
anything but what is right and neversud
mit to whatis wrong. It is master of
its profession and never wastes its earn
ings on walking delegates or agitators
who must disturb employers and em-«
ployed to earn the pay of idleness.
“ EE a ——— omit
The great strike is ended, and the
miner's were ordered togoto work in
the Lehigh region, on Monday, at the
old rates, with a promise that as soon as
ail is in runniog order again, the Read
ing Coal and Iron company, will agree to
consider the matter of an advance in
wages with representatives of the min
ers, and to pay them ss much, and ne
more, as is paid by other operators in
the anthracite region,
This amounts to a surrender of the
miners, and alos of six week's time,
which is bard for them. But they always
come out at the little end and the big
corporations have it their own way. We
think some of the leaders of the labor
organizations are to blame for hasty ac
tion through which the poor laborer suf
fern.
NM I MS AA
A cyclone struck Mt. Vernon, 11, on
Sunday. The town was virtually de.
stroyed. A number of lives were lost,
and many persons injured,
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION,
MT. VERNON, ILL., A SCENE OF RUIN FROM
¢ HE CYCLONE,
Mt. Vernon, Ili, Feb. 21.—Morning
witnessed a scene of death and ruin, The
terrible tornado has left in its path corn-
plete wrecks of more than half the house
es in the town,
Not a single building is left standing
on the east, west and south 8 de of the
public square, Over five hundred dwell-
ings are totally destroyed, and all the
churches in town, except the Catholic
and the Presbyterian,
The loss is placed at present at over a
million dollars,
The death list, still incomplete, foots
up twenty-seven, and the list of injured
will reach over two hundred.
The storm was preceded by hail, but
not more than five minntes elapsed until
the fearful destroyer had swept over the
It came from the south-
wrenched and
twisted and then dashed to pieces, total
wrecks,
doomed town.
west, Juildings were
The storm came from the northwest,
and sweeping around in a balf circle raz-
ed the town, levelling half of it and set-
ting fire to the remainder,
High above the fierce wind could be
beard the crackling of flames and groans
of the dying.
The Western Union telegraph office
was destroyed, and all the wires broken
except the one leading to Evansville,
Ind.
Assistance was telegraphed for to
Evansville, and special train with five
engines and number of
physicians were immediately sent to the
rescue,
For the amount of destruction to pros
perty the loss of life is very light, but no
idea can be formed of the magnitude of
the disaster yet,
The storm came just after the Sunday
schools closed, or there no telliog
what the Joss would have been, as the
Methodist and Baptist churches were to-
tally destroyed
The skating rink is scattered all over
the town. The mill of the Mount Ver-
non Milling Company is badly damaged
The other buildings were not seriously
damaged, except G. F, M. Ward's build.
ing, on the West side, which is almost
totally demolished,
reels, also ‘a
is
The Court House has not beeniniared
bat it stands alone, All
and desolation. and is now
around it
being
as a hospital for the wounded.
Some of the dead areso badly mutila-
is rain
used
ted that they cannot be recognized,
The list of victims, as reliably reported,
80 far, is as follows
8 J. Mrs. John Waters and
child, Mr. Commings, Miss Martha Wests
brook, Mrs. RB. Duvey, John Yearwood
and wife, Mra, Holeomb, DD. F. Yearwood
and wife, Samuel Yearwood and wife, J.
C. Marray, George Purcell, Mra. William
Jones and child, John Dodson, Mrs. L.
F. Legge, Miss Josie Sutton, John Shrew,
Blacksmith, name unknown, two tele
graph operators, James Pearson, George
Pierce,
Mrs. W. H. Hinman and Mrs. Ham-
brick cannot live and others on the list
will die.
It is growing colder and many helpless
people will suffer if the weather becomes
severe. Reports are coming in from the
country and the storm seems to have
swept everything.
A destructive storm is also reported at
Nortonville, Ky., bot no particulars are
known here,
The most horrible scenes were wit
nessed as the debris broke into flames
and the victims screamed in their futile
efforts to escape.
Four men in the Evans Bank were im-
prisoned in the roies of the burning
building and burned to death. Their
cries of pain and distress were sgonized
in the extrewme, but nothing could reach
them, Their names could not be ascers
tained,
Through the great heap of ruins men,
women and boys were struggling in their
efforta to reach those imprisoned beneath
timbers and bricks, Cries came from
every pile of debris. In some of tne
streets where the great clouds swept with
resistiess force the dead lay in the warm
rain, which mingled with their blood.
Above the scene of desolation the sky
was red from the conflagration, and the
wind, which was blowing from the south,
was laden with blazing brands. Such a
picture appalled the stoutest heart.
For hours the survivors thought of
nothing but themeelves. With flames
roaring behind and upon all sides of
‘hem, there was no alternative but to
flee over the bodies of the dead and the
wounded and the mass of ruins which
pinoed them to the earth. For an hour
it looked ss though the victims of the
blaze would be burned where they Iny,
As the night wore on the survivors be
came braver and plunged into the ruins
of the great east end, where many help.
less creatures lay groaning and ing.
Torches, lanterns and lamps flickered
Waters,
over the desolated tract as far as the eye
could reach. Men nod women who had
worked nobly in the falling rain and
wreckage,
Relief trains were sent from Evans.
ville and 8t Louis as soon ag possible.
The same storm is reported as devastat.
ing portions of the State of Kentucky
near Nortonville, but no particulars are
obtainable.
Mount Vernon is the capital of Jeffer-
son county, Illinois. It had a population
of a little over 2,000, It is seventy-seven
miles southeast of St. Louis and about
twenty miles southeast of Centralia,
It contained a courthouse, two banks,
four churches, two newspaper offices,
two steam flour mills, a woolen mill, a
saw mill and some railroad shops of the
St. Louis and Southern Railroad Com-
pany.
a ar EERE
PERHAPS A NEW STRIKE.
Pottsville, Feb. 21. ~To-morrow willl
decide whether the Schuylkill miners’
strike is to be renewed or not. The out-|
look to-night is very doubtful, but the ac- |
tion of the company in continuing to re
fuse men who apply for work makes it
very dark. The Reading Company's |
mines are working to-day with practical |
ly a8 many men as yesterday. Twenty- |
six collieries are reported as working to- |
day as usual
strike, such as in the case of Ellangowan,
where an extranordinary inflow of water
and thaw have increase 1 beyond the ca-
pacity of the pumps; or on sccount of!
necessary repairs, new timbering or
broken machinery, Six collieries, the
company’s officers acknowledge, are idle
for want of men to work them. These |
men have aot obeyed the order of Mas- |
ter Workman Lewis to return to work in|
accordance with the terms specified in|
President Corbin's letter. !
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The Half-Holiday law, in New York,,
after a brief trial, does not seem to prove
popular. The New York Observer speak
ing of it says:
“There can be no doubt that the Half
Holiday Law in this State will have to
go. Resolutions demanding its repeal
have been passed by nearly all the com-
mercial and trade organizations of this
city, and petitions to the same effect sig.
ned by thousands of business men, bave
been sent to Albany. Many of those
who favored the passage of the law a)
measure that it would operate to the!
benefit of the working classes generally,
affording all a half day's rest every week |
with opportunities for recreation or seif-
cultivation in libraries or museums, and |
thus reducing the temptations to the
desecration of the Babhath. In practice
the law has completely failed of the ends
aimed at. It has not helped those who
most need a few additional hours of rest,
who have no real interest in the obser
vance. It closes the banks for a half day
every week, but the mills, factories, and
shops remain open as before ail the week
around. Business men in general bave
not yet been brought to the belief that
they can afford to pay, as a regular thing, |
six days’ wages for five and a balf days’
work, and no law can compel them to do
it. And most working people are not!
willing. as a regular thing, to accept five
and a half days’ wages when they might
i
them to do it. Between these two states
must fall to the ground.”
Of all the idiotic stage-struck individ
vals with which the public is insulted
and the theater burdened, the last is the
worst. Nina Van Zandt, the proxy wife
of the Anarchist Spies, is going to make
-
cago assassins, and appear in a tragedy.
Of course the individual who assumes
the role of “manager” in this connection
expects to make a great deal of money
out of it, and he will, in all probability,
not be disappointed. There are plenty
of morbidly carious people in the coun-
try who would willingly pay to get a
sight of the foolish girl, but it is really a
pity that the theatrical profession should
have to bear this additional incubus, and |
talented actorsand actresses this addi
tion tothe alreadylong list of people
without the slightest legitimate claim to
compete with them,
And now Gen. Sheridan announces he
won't have it. This leaves the door a
little wider for Beaver or Hastings.
copy of their beautiful pictare, “Moorish
Maid,” used in advertising the Athlop-
horos remedies. The " pletare is very
handsome and worthy « a place in an
Piller, Coples ma ned
Bh Compan by
n oe
ture would Pandily soi ae,
forty cents, and the
many thousand
y y
iL
sgt Tear?
TABOOT IS THE MURDERER,
A COonfederate Says He Murdered Hiv, |
Basil Tasoott's Record,
Cmicado, Feb. 20.—-Any lingering doubts
88 to the guilt of young William B. Tascots,
who is being sought by the police for the
murder of Amos J. Spell, the mullionaire,
were ended Baturday n by the arresh
of a man who confosses that he noted as sn
assistant 10 Tascott on the might of the
murder and patrolled the streets outsides
the dwelling while the burglary and mur.
der took place within. Who the arrested
men » the polios keep secret,
the heads of the department have mads a
statement which would seem to settle the
question of Tascott's guilt. After closely
questioning the sonfederate the police in-
duced him to make a sworn confession in
which he declared that he became acquain-
ted with Tascott not long ago at a billiard
ball in West Madison street. The men be.
came intimate very quickly and for several
weeks they were together daily. Very
the murder they
went to Mr. Boell’s house, which had been
selected as & promising place for a burg- |
lary.
The young man's father, J. B. Tascott, is
an old, wealthy, and respected resident of
Chicago. The son's opportunities for suo
cess in life were exoslient, but he seemed
to have Little liking for every-day honesty.
His police record is of considerable
length, although he is only 21 years old. As
8 boy he became known as an expert thief,
ransacking stores frequently and alsposing
of the proceeds of his thefts to keep him in
pocket money, as he explained to his
—
The Lost Power of a Trades Assembly, i
Newark, N. J, Feb 20. A special meet.
ing of the Essex Trades Assembly of this
ture amending the law of last
winter whioh makes it unlawful for drivers
snd conductrrs en horse cars io work ex-
cept at consecutive hours. Only eight per
sons responded and these relegated the |
matter to the Board of Trustees wo
years ago the assembly contained 100 trade
organizations, and now only eighteen are
sominally represented. A delegate sald at
the meeting yestersay looking about him:
“Our power is gone."
Accidents on the Erie Rallroad. {
Newsvno, N. Y., Feb. 20.—On the Eris
end of a way freight train at Washinglon-
ville, twelve miles from here, and caused a
bad wreck Ssturday afternoon The
caboose was smashed an engine was badly
damaged and thres or four loaded freight
cars were burned. The loss is about $15.
0. Erie passenger train No. 6 struck the
of Owen Doyle st Howell's depot
Friday sfternoon, killing bo'h horses and
fatally injurying Mr. Dorie, who is nearly
seventy years old
slp msi —
Wages in Pennsylvanis Tron Mills.
Bonanrox, Feb Pay days at the
mills of the Lackawana Iron snd Coal Com-
pany and the Beranton Bteel Company in
this oity come lave in esnch month, and the
extent of the reduction made on Jan. 1 in
the wages of the men has just boen asocer-
tained. Im certain grades it falls below a
dollar a day, or panic prices, and in the
casos of the skilled employes the cut
reaches a dollar and upwards. There is
much dissatisfaction among tbe workmen.
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Daagling From an Asylum Orating.
Unica, KN. Y., Feb 20. Henry Decker, 8
patient at she Biate Lunatic Asylum in
this city, committed suicide Saturday by
hanging himself to a window grating with
bed sheet. He had served a twelve yoars'
sentences in Pennsylvania for killing his
father jo-lew, and a year ago was arrested
in Binghampton for arson in the second de-
gree, when his insanity became apparent |
and ho was sent to the saylum
Bulng Mer Husband for 850,000.
Jamaroa, L. L, Feb 20.—Mrs. Hannah
Bailey of Jamaica, L. L, has brought suit!
against her husband, William T. Balley of |
Far Rockaway, % recover $50,000 which
improve a tract of property which he had
purchased at this place with the under-
share of the profits. This he failed todo
and Mrs. Bailey sued.
A Verdict Against Patrick Ford.
EKmostrox, N. Y., Feb, 20 — A verdict of
$200 against Patrick Ford, editor and pro.
prietor of The Jrieh World, of Naw York, |
was rendered by a jury in the Ulster Coun |
ty Circuit Court here Baturday. The plain. !
tiff is Petor Grimes, a resident of this city.
who sued Mr. Ford for libel because of an
article which appeared in The Jrish World
in January, 1886. Mr. Ford discisimed all
personal knowledge of the publication.
Horace Greely's Birth Pisce.
Rasmva, N. H, Feb. 17. The little low!
farmhouse in which Horace Gree- |
was bora Feb. 4 1811, together with 129
sores of far land, now belonging to Fred |
Cotton, will be sold at public suction at
t for taxes, amounting to PN. A
of the house appears in the “Histo.
ry of Amberst,” written by D. F. Becomb,
now City Librarian of Concord.
Victory for Standard OfL
Borraro, N. Y., Feb. 20. Judge Haight
fring the receiver of the
Company to acoept $35,000 cash to have
suits against the Btandard Oil Company
withdrawn. This is a victory for the
Standard, as the amount involved in the
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A SB ASSN
: INEWS OF THE WEEK.
Dah made her fifth appeal at Washing.
5 Baturday to be admittel into the
nion. The matter is still under consider
ation. 4
The Austrian Government has decided
to take fresh precautionary measures te
counterbalance the continued military
preparations on the part of Russia
The total sales of the unclaimed publie
store goods which were sold Friday and
Wednesday at the Barge Office by order of
Collector Segone, amonnted to $5,471.65
The packing-box factory of Doernberg &
Goodman, 522 to 528 East Twentieth
New York City, was destroyed
siroot
slroet,
fire
Dy
A Rosooe Conkling Club has been formed
Their ticket for
for President, Roscoe Conkiing of New
York, for Vice-President, J. BB. Foraker of
Ohic
hio,
Henry Rammelsberg, a8 member of a
prominent incinnati family, who a few
yoars ago could draw his check for $100.
000, is lock { with steali
$10 overcoat, which pawned for $2
The reports sixty-one railroads for
January show 8 gross increase of 29 per
cent, over the same month in 1887,
cent, over i
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road
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31 #4 Der
IN80 and per cent over 1885
increased 17.2 pe: i
sino 1887
The Ch steamer
Francisce with 0 Chinese
whom had no turn certific 3
been dischar
will attempt
ne arrived
ales
jusaraniine ar
Austin Corbin is@0 years of
countenance indicative of great
and dogped
80 that bis legs
small
age,
résolution
celerminaty
are hidden he yO
man. DUL In res
The American Lottery
raided by the police Friday in
The company is run by
and is estimated 10 be w i
Company
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ninamen
100.00
ting foroe of
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company was secured
Bhee Fong and Fong Long Disk, Chins
men who were sen ed 10
Portland, Oregor
slay of ten davs
Court. They we
der of another Chi
The New York Btate Assembly
Assemblyman McKenna 1 un
from 8,000 10 $10
damages 10 be paid by
if a passenger is kille
dept. The bill
Uw h
¥ rm
Uf DaAngea |
Ere gTARD
Laman.
from taxation
minister or pri
disabled by impal
ing the active duties of the minis
who has tained the age of seventy -fi
Foars.
The House ha
that non-resider
fu Iowa shall ¢
but may hold §
the amount
placed ir
cocupant 0
williln lea yours
at
citizen
3 New
Jtion, whereby the
1 the State il be
2 ners oommitied
since 1575 liberated and the bench
are agitated over the matter as the error
shows Lhat ever sinoe 1876 there have been
po Courts of Common Pleas in the State of
Kew Jorsey.
A rumor has been afoot that
Bheridas was born in
eral bas put a stop
$nnounecment
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Ireland about
birth. About a year w i
birth my parents moved 10 Bow
Thomas A Edison, the inventor, has sent
rofessor James Ricallon of Maplewood,
. 4., On® a long hunt for a species of
vegetable growth which
wn
The }
wal
Gen. Phil
ireland, but the Gen-
enable him
make great improvements in electrical ap-
plianges. Mr. Edison is sure that the
vegetable has an existence, bocause he has
ft in his possession; bul as Ww where it
pe and how to secure itl in guaniity is
e problem which Professor Ricaiton will
try to solve in a two years’ tour of the
globe. He will go to India first,
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Wild Ww
A MANIAC AT THE THROTTLE.
An Insane Enigneer Runs His Engine for
Three Hours.
Rocuesren, N. Y., Feb 20 -Baturday
night at 6 o'clock Charles Curier, engineer
on yard engine No. plying between this
elity and Windsor Beach, became suddenly
crazy while on his engine. His Sreman
noticing his strange sctions, tried to run
the engine to the roadhouse, but he was set
upon by the madman and knocked sense
jess with a big hammer. Coming to him
self, he managed 0 crawl to the edge of
the cab and jump on a snowbank, receiv.
ing little injury.
The mad engineer ran the engine past
the Windsor station, and east on the main
line.
The alarm was given by the fireman, and
eMiciale at Webster, eighteen miles east of
Windsor Beach, stopped all trains aod
turned the switch so 8s to ditch the mad.
man’s engine should he ry Yo pass the sia
tion.
For three hours he ran the engine back-
ward and forward on the stretch of track
anti his conl gave out, when he was osp-
tured.
Output of Coal in the Lehigh Region
Witknssanne, Feb, 20.--The report of
Mine Inspector Williams of the third an.
thracite district for 1587, to be published
to<lay shows the amount of coal mined in
the district as follows: By the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company, 2,175,150 tons;
Delaware and Hudson Coal Company,
8,106,146 tons; Busquehanna Coal Come
pany, 1.561.530 ‘tons; Kingston Coal
Company, 860.508; individual companies,
1,835,829 tons; total, 7,540,753 tons. The ex-
ooss over last year's production is 605,438
tons. The number of mine employes fa-
tally injured during the year was 65, or one
to every 116,011 tons of coal mined. The
sumber of parsons seriously injured was
or one to each 35,561 tous of coal mined.
sumber of widows resulting was 33,
and orphans 130. The number of fatalities
exceeds that of 18% by seven. @
Port Richmond's Post Offlos Robbed.
Ea ar is Me Tore
ay morning a safe sub-p
Tn at Port Richmond was blown
up and the contents stolen, including
$190 in cosh and a large quanti ot post
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2,
The mas
ad any,
ha,
age stamps and a number of ‘
noise of the explosion aroused two ot
; burgiars
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