OLD SERIEN, XL. NEW SERIES XXII THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR. Judge Elwell advises people not to se - tle in Florida. We will take the Judge's advice, Centre county is as good a cor ner to stay in asanv on this continent, RI SIN CEI. A breach of promise case ended a Lock Haven, Pa. last weak, in which the defendant, Sterritt Quigley, a prominent lnmberman, who had been attentive t« Miss Adeline Fortney, the plaintiff, for 15 years, was made to pay $4,500 from a claim orginally made for $20,000, I I SI SS no. A due] ending with the death of both at Springerviile Ariz na. Wm. Pitman aod a man named Blaine had agreed to fight out a quarrel cards, and going outside the store they fired at the same instant, 1 dead and Blaine died in two fal ie EE —————————————— The Sagar Trust combatants occurred over Pitman hours, bought the North diver rifinery for $325,000 and then stock ed it at $700,000. And yet to get divi. valuation of this kind it has been necessary to raise the price of sugar only half a centa pound, showing th. busine«s skill of the Trust, which Attor- ney Parsons was so proud of in his testi mony. dends on I SH TR SRO All signs indicate a Democratic victory in our county, next fall. Democrats have seen the folly of allowing themselves to be deluded into fighting their own nomi nations instead of the enemy, which led to the defeat of our ticket last fall. A few cannot fool voters into such a movement, We disorganizers again are glad that the teeling of Democrats is for harmony. Harmony means victory, and harmony we will have. “Meat-axe Mills,” is what the tariff monopolist Philad. Press calls the chair mao of the ways and means committee, of the lower house of congress, favors a tariff reform measure which is not monopolistic bat fair to all, Ifthe bill report=d by Mr. Mills becomes a law, every because he farmer and laboring man will be several dollars better off each year, and t t » that extent the meat axe can be used o slice off a good many more beef roasts for the family ofthe farmer and working man, tarriffed that they have no use for a meat axe. ———————————— From the manoer is which the Philad. Press who are now 80 sorely and other high tariff organs are aboring to create a high tariff sentiment and opposition to the views of Cleve land's tariff mess ge, itis plain the mo- ni work make the masses believe a high tariff is] to their interests. the game, and the more Cleveland's ypolists are findiog itaphill The people see into ies sage is read the more friends his argu- gain. If the message sonnd one, had notthe high tariff organs better print itjonce a month ? Not a bit will they, they are afraid of it, and only ery and that will not scare any ope—it is baby work. CH OR — The secreiary of the treasury makes the statement that at the present rate of increase of the sorplus inthe United States treasury it will reach $155 000,000 by the first of July. Thivk ofit! One hundred and fifry five milliovs of dollars unnecessarily taken from the earnings of people! And yet the high tariff monopolists insist that there shall be no reduction of customs taxes, If this immense sum of money had not been taken from the people it would now be in circulation. Every merchant every manufacturer, every workiogman wonld be enj yiog the benefit of its em ployment in trade and business, I The paper started here to ran out the Reporter, because it fearlessly advocates what is right, has left us, and this closes the forty-eleventh attempt to boycott the Reporter. If we were to give an accoun’ of the littleness of these boycotts it would show ap the work in a very ridiculous light, embracing attempts to enlist church, grange, and other orders, socie- ties, with attacks upon our credit, char- acter, business, ete, ete,—and all futile, and for no valid reason at all. Innocent parties, however, find themselves the dupes of boycotters. So we go; we are here, and the world moves, without missing any one, and is big enough for us ali, altho some d n't think it is. ments isnot a free-trade,” the The families of Kings and Emperors have their troubles and woes as much as the families of the poorest and most humble in life, The Emperor William is now lying dead. His soo, the new Emperor Fred- erick, B7 years old, is troubled with can cer of the throat and may live only a few movothe. His oldest son, the Crown Prince William, now 20 years old, would succeed to the throne, in the event of his father's death, The later is afflicted with a erippled right hand, and bis lef: arm is two inches shorter thao his right. He isa major general in the German army and endeavors to perform his du ties by hiding these defects as far as pos sible ; RANDALL'S BILL Randall's tariff bill contemplates an acgregaie reduction of $95,000,000, of this $25,000,000 18 duties, Mr Randal! has completed his tariff bill, and will introduce itin the house to morrow. In explanation of its terms and scope, he makes the following state ment: The hill repeals the entire inter- nal tax on tobacco and on fruit brandies. It also repeals the license tax on whole «ale and retail liquor dealers, leaying these, as recommended by Jefferson, so that “the State authorities might adopt hem.” It makes alcohol used in the orig free, and reduces the tax on whisky to 50 cents per gallon, “On the tariff the bill is a carefa! and complete revision of the whole tariff sys- tem It the free list a large number of articles now paying duties and which enter consumption, «ither as raw material, or otherwise, and in the production of which there is no injurious competition between this and other countries, “In the revision of the tariff the aim has been intel igently to apply consistent principles to all branches of industry; and in so doing our industrial system has been considered as a whole, and differ ing from other industrial systems in the important fact that the labor in this sountry receives a larger share of the an- nnal prodacts of labor and capital com- bined than in any other country. This important advantage to the labor interests of the United States the bill aims to preserve throughout, while at the same time, “in fairness to all interests, as stated in the Chicago platform, to ree duce and equalize” the duties on im- ports, carries to into > “ THE LAW OF LIBEL The Pittsburg Times was sued for libel because of a tart publication which ruin- ed the business of a citizen and neighbor. The Times proved that “the item had been received from a source believed to be reliable, and alleged that the statement contained in the pab lication was sub- stantially true. Having established this George C. Wilson, esq., very ably conduc. ted the case for the Times, took the posi- tion that it was entirely within the bound of legitimate journalism for newspapers to publish as current news such matiers 18 involve open violation of law or justify police interference, even though the do ng so may reflect npon the actors and tend to bring them into public disgrace This view was shared by the Court and jury; hence the verdict of woquital.” The as fol- "OWE: The result of this trial is important to wewspapers, and to the public generally. It may be considered as enlarging the lib- arty of the press, inasmuch as it clearly jefines for newspapers 8 hmit of immu Bity from conviction for libe! far beyond what has been un derstood as the safety ine, There is no danger to the publicin this, Newspapers honestly and honor. ably conducted do not se ek to give pub™ licity to affairs that are the concern of on- ly the parties interested. Such misstate- meuts of facts as are made are in every ase dane to causes beyond the control of those responsible for the publication. We speak with certain knowledge when we add that no class of men are more ready to fully correct such errors than They feel that a relation al most, if not quite, confidential, exists be- tween the editor and his reader, and that this can be sustained only by strict ad. nerence to duty and hovor, This often involved the necessity for the publication of unpleasant truths, as in the case cited, [here never is occasion to libel any man or interest, and contempt, Times concluded lp — THE GREAT STORM. Of Monday's great storm we have the following intelligence: From New York. The storm which broke over the Atlantic coast last even- ing has extended to the interior of the State. Up tonoon there had been no com- munication with Philadelphia, and there i# but one wire workiog between Cleve land and New York by way of Baflalo, In this city the hardest snow storm for years bogan early this morning, and at 8 o'clock the snow was more than a foot deep. The wind caused drifts which in the upper part of the city were three and four feet high. From Michigan come reports of the se- verity of the storm. Railroads are blocked by snow drifts, a a ——————— A delegation representing the Ancient Order of Hibernians called upon Mayor Hewitt to ask bim to review their parade wm St, Patrick’s Day. He replied: ‘Now, I may be a candidate for mayor oext fall, or for president, and I may want all the Democratic votes I can get. Every one knows that the Irish vote is strong enough to elect any candidate in this city for which it is cast, Bat for the purpose of getting this vote I sball not get down to the level of consenting to re. view any parade, be it Irish, Dutch or any other nationality. I shall review no parades except those which I am officially required as Mayor to review.” & PA. CATASTROPHES IN CHINA. GREAT DESTRUCTION BY A RECENT EARTH. QUAKE-~-MANY PERSONS DROWNED, San Francisco, March 11.—~The Horg Kong Mail, copies of which were received here by Friday night's China steamer, gave a description of the earthquake in the province of Yunnau, December 15, which caused frightful mortality. The Mail says: “Into the interior department of Ching Chau the distarbances were extremely violent, being continued at ir- regular intervals for four days, when they ceased entirely. The departmental city is said to have been reduced to a mass of ruineg, scarcely a house escaping damage and over five thousand persons are re- ported to have been killed by falling buildings. Many of them were burned under the ruins, while the number of injuredistoo large for computation. Ya- men was destroyed, the magistrate escap- ing with slight injury, Atthe perfectos] city of Lamon the effects of the earth quake were scarcely less disastrous, At this place when the shock was being feit an enormous chasm opened in the earth and water was thrown oat from itsdepth, At Lon Chan in Cenen, a striking change has been caused in the apperance of the country, large tracks of land being swal- lowed up and the surface changed into a lake. In Lo Chan more than ten thou. sand persons are said to have perished, The imperial commissioner who was es pecially appointed to investigate the loss of life in the Yellow river inundations sends an official report to the emperor of China that the total nomber of persons drowned is over 100,000 and the number destitute is 1,800,000, and apart from those a number of persons flooded have been driven into other districts. - The Philadelphia Press, having obtain. ed the responses of the Republican coun- ty committee of Pennsylvania to the ques tion as to their presidential choice now that Mr. Blaive is out of the field, sums up the result as follows: “There is no concentration whatever. The choice is divided between Senators Cameron, Sherman, Harrison, Allison and Quay, Mr. Depew, Judge Gresham and others; but no one man gets more than a fourth of the entire number, and even the pre ferences indicated are put forth in a ten tative and uncertain way.” am and Sherman men are d« work these days; but the latter is tron. bled by an incipient Foraker boom and the former by ex-SBenator Harrison, If Blaine don’t come in 28 a ast resort, the candidate is most likely to go to York, or to the outside man on New York concentrated. That concentration. of opinion of the chairman The Greah- ing the most New whom influence is is, if there can be COAL TO BUOCCEED CATTLE IN WYOMING. “The world at large doean’t know it,” sald Capt. Murrin, “but Wyoming has the biggest coal fields in United States, more iron ore than can be found anywhere else on earth, big lakes of sods, more oil than we could possibly use, veins of copper ore and stone and marble quarries. The ters ritory bas wonderful patural resources and these will be developed before long The cattle days are gone, the hundred and hundreds of miles of wite fences on government land will be torn down, and the territory will drop far down on the list of cattie producers. The business has really retarded the development and growth of the territory, and it may be for the best after all. —Kaneas City Times. Senator Ingalls has written for the Chi: cago Journal an elaborate article on the proportion of college gradoates in Con- gress. From his analysis it appears that of the seventy-six Senators thirty have received a classical edocation, and forty six, or eight more than one-half, have been educated in commonechools and academ- fea, Of the 333 Representatives and Ter. ritoria! Delagates but 107 have attended eollege, while 225, or fifty-nine more than one-half of the entire nomber, are either self educated or have received their in- structions at iostitotions whose curricun- lum did not extend beyond the ordinary English studies. s———— cnn IM SANA The official canvass of the vote of the special election in the Eleventh Michigan Congressional district, gives Seymour, Republican, a plurality of 398. The same district in 1884 gave about 7,000 Republi. can majority. The cause of this great change is to a considerable extent attrib, utable to a desire for tariff reform. A Republican editor from that section re: cently admitted that “the labor people are strongly tinctured with tariff reform views, so much as to endanger Republi- van ascendancy in Michigan” Of course if the change through the State is any thing like so large as in the Eleventh dis triot the State is overwhelmingly Demo- cratic, - A ———.— Meat-axe Mille’ tariff bill, as the Philad. Press terms it, simply means to unable the farmer and working man to have good beef cuts as well as the highly protected monopolist. GERMANY'S AGED RULER DEAD. THE VENERABLE AND HONORED EMPEROR PASSES AWAY. FREDERICK III, THE TITLE OF THE NEW KING OF PRUSSIA-THE CROWN PRINCE TO PROCEED TO BERLIN-POLITICAL ANIMOSITIES ALL FORGOTTEN. Berlin, Mare 0 —Emperor William died at 8.30 o'clock this morning. He died holding the empress by the hand, He had been in a stupor since 3 o'clock. He was delirious for a brief period at) o'clock, during which he is reported to have exclaimed: “I am a man of peace, but if Russia forces me to war I shal faithfully side with my ally, Austria” Eye witnesses of the scenes at the death of the emperor state that during the last few hours of his life he suffered no pain Shortly after 8 o'clock all the members of the family staying atthe palace, the court dignitaries, generals and ministers of state, were summoned to the chamber in which the emperor lay dying. The emperor wae in a halfsitting position on a camp bedstead. All cf the royal family took places at the bed- side. The room was crowded. At the opening of the lower house of the Prussian diet to~day, Herr von Put. kamar, vice-president of the Prussian Ministerial council, announced the death of the emperor. When the Reichstag met to-day Prince Bismarck, with deep emotion, informed the members of the death of the emperor. He also announce. ed that the new king would assame the title of Frederick Ill, and that he would leave San Remo to-morrow, snd that he will arrive at Berlin in due course of time. When Prince Bismarck entered the Reichstag at 11.35 o'clock this after. noon he deposited the imperial order closing the session. The order was the last official document signed by the late emperor. The house received the com- munication with evident satisfaction, the more 80 because Herr Von von Puottka- mer, in sonounciog the death of the Emperor William to the lower house of the diet, had not alluded to the new em peror, This omission has created a pain- ful impression. The reichstag then ad- journed for an After the aliournment, Prince Bismarck de scended from the elevated seats occupied by the members of the Bandesrath into the members indefinite period. the body of the house, and greeted Count M ltke, around him as be showed the von The members crowded order dis solving the reichstag. all being anxious hd to see the last signature of th The was able sign the order proroguing the otherwise the signing fonctions were as sumed by Prince William, All the troops are kept in the barracks in readiness for the contingency of taking a new oath of allegiance, The death of the emperor was an. nounced to the populace by the lowering to haif-mast of the standard over the palace, Flags at half-mastare displayed on all the public bui dings, An immense concourse of people is gathered outside the palace, The multitude ia silent and sorrowful. Victoria, wife of Frederick William, when she beard of the Emperor's death, rushed into the garden of the San Remo villa, crying as if her heart would break. Like her mother, Victoria of England, “she wept to wear a crown.” The Emperor William left a personal fortune of $75,000,000, showing him to have been a thrifty man as well as Napo- leon the Third, who surrendered to him at Sedan, and who had put away some millions for the rainy day which may come even to monarchs. ncliselinidisalfi sisi THE FINAL LEAVE.-TAKING, Towards 7 o'clock Friday morning, it was noted that the emperor's mind was becoming clouded and his words less con- secutive. Then mostof his royal relatives took their filoal leave. The Lutheran Court Chaplain came in, and the imperi Hohenszollern drifted insensibly but calm, ly from his lethargy into dissolution Some of the Emperor's sorrowing servant were admitted into the room to view the remains, while Dr. Van Laver, the Chap- lain and the Chamberlin went out to an- nounce the solemn tidings, The expres jon of the dead Emperor's face was tran. quil with the effect of benignant old age, though the anxieties of the last few weeks and the final iliness left their visible traces, The sombre significance of the spectacle was enhanced by the fact that the migh- ty old man, the cessation of whose heart beats has changed the sitoation in the whole of the Old World, lay at rest in a room furnished with soldierdike simpli city, with a dressing table,a chest of draw. ers of antique fashion, two or three ekin rugs on the floor, a fow souvenirs here and there, a small crucifix above the bed, and nothing more. The remains still lie on theiron bedstead, are covered with a white cloth and surrounded by candles The new emperor Frederick left Bau Remo for Berlin on Saturday. Even with a special irbin and all facil ities, it is difficult to nee how the journey & emperor. to eichetag, emperor yesterday 15, 1888, much short of fifty hours, and this for al man with a fatal throat disease, a haunt-| ing insomnia and the crushing weight of his father’s death and his own transient succession to imperial state is the most trying ordeal. It is needless to say that his progress will be watched with great anxiety. The breve Crown Princess, or Empress now, goes with him, of course, and Bir Morell Mackenzie also, but in the despatches is made of what, ifany, German doctors accompany the pany, | will be a sight wonderful to see, a > The impressions of a town, whether it be a big or small one, are often affected by the character of the hotels, A clean, well kept and thoroughly comfortable ho- tel predisposes one io favor of h town where it is located, Thereis little excuse for the shabby totels that are found in many places, and especially ia the South and which give a semisbarbarous air to | the town where they are found. Badly] cooked food, beds swarming with vermin, the absence of a cheerful readiog room and a general siatternpess, accompanied with high prices for such miserable ac-| commudations, will disgust ar y trave ler | An elegant hotel in a small place improv es the tone of the whole community. be- gets a spirit of enterprire and 18 a facior! in the work of progress. No lazy or il- literate man can well manage such an in- stitution and it is place when some one of means erects a commodions and attractive inn and points a genial and capable superintend it, DEMONS OF THE FRUIT. The Cheerful Tarantula and the Pleasant Scorpion Brought to Your Very Door. It bug with is w it possesses 4 OES BD ta io look n It id certainly never be preserved for iis With it in the bottle nh paecasani ani 0 an egg the same t the size It evi- insects, but Taylor ready to go into hatching tarantuias this in the bottle with the hol has made the ege, if id, soft and pulpy, and it enough to show eral taraniulas of these cheerful cus. said Taylor, speaking to a Chicago Aom reporter on the subject “We got consignments of scorpions and centipedes and other pleas. ant exotics from the tropics. The demand for them is rather light, koweser, and we find that people don’t hanker after them. Now, here,” he said, producing another jar containing a differs: insesi, “is a red scorpion. Nice, joyful-looking bedf{ellow, beauty solid r contained 1ite the business of year, so he put old one. The ak such it can be ca has become transparent that it contains apy “We find tomers every year,’ several fils ehodon THE CHEERFUL TARANTULA. fsn’t he! He came here in a bunch of ba nanas two years ago. There was @ tarantula in the same bunch, and as soon as the clerk who was handing the frail saw them, he thought he must ‘have them again,’ for he dropped the fruit and ran ont of the store. If he is still running in the game direction and st the same rate, he must now be somewhere near Winnipeg. Well, the two insects got aight of cach other and went to fighting like cats and dogs. We gave thom all the room thoy wanted and didn't interfere even when wo saw that the Semon was a little groggy in the fifth round. ey killed each other at last, but the tarantula got smashed and we couldn't preserve him." The on has eight legs and a mus. it. Mr. Taylor said that ho had given sev. oral spocimons of both insects to universi- ties. He had a convpede which he found the other day 1 Li u snd one, about two inches long and su and iong plenty of locomotive power ors besides, : “1 nutioo that these and other bugs around by Ivosbrack can be made in NEW COINAGE FOR ENGLAND, A Profile of Victoria as Jubilee Our English cousins are §i their fhe Looked Her Day. ngling new coin wkets, and iil to add a number of fresh coins to their it gmiatists wi hefore Ways, . ry vé Empire be others Or- Gf attempts an ao. v neat A DUTCH DOLL. Its Marvelous Comprehension, and What It Can Do-<How It Is Constructed. ““W hat Although bores, she v, and rehension. fingers of your right & wellde- wildly clawing the Immediats fingers of Yo. sir “Soratceh yo! ' and the bonnet was almost tor her head in her frantio intelligence sad ped right | urns in propound- at stranger, un- i and teased, Dolly herself, kicked & i the air, and rushed into the midst of her delighted audience, and chased them screaming from the room. Like the children at the birthday party, Y feel that the reader will be curious 10 learn exactly how the Dutch doll was made, so I give an explanation of it The materials for a Dutch doll are a pll- low, & string, a hood or asun-bonnet, a piocs of charcoal, a pair of gloves and a nights gown. A boy lies on his face beneath a table, which must touch the wall on one side, | while from its top a cloth falls to the floor, {completely draping the remaining three i sides | One of the boy's legs is drawn up tight i Iv against his body, and the other one (from | which the boot has boen taken) is bent at { the knoe, and stands upright outside of the hanging tablecloth. { This foot and leg are inserted between & small, longish pillow and its case—the leg {being separated from the tablecloth | by this latter: the upper corners of the low are drawn backward and pinned together at the heel, while a string tightly tied around the center of the pillow and leg divides the head and body of the doll. Across this rostrate boy erouches a second child, fao- ng the upright leg, wiih his bands sad arms extending from under the table, one on each side of the pillow. The uigh! is then put on, the arms well in into the sleeves; the gloved bands in front at the dolls waist, and finally ups the head is placed the hood or sun-bonnet, and nose, eyes and month are outlined with
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