0 LD SERIES, XL. NEW SERLEN XXI THE CENTRE REPORTER, EDITOR FRED KURTZ, A number of Republican are openly advocating ariff ref rm an will support the Mills’ bill. Wuat wil the Philadelphia Presss y now 7 Ul a —— The name of Ex-Goveruor Hoadly, o connection with Ouio has an CODErassme Ohio, is menti ned in the office of Chief Justice, other good mn, Judge Thurman, SATO The debt statement issued shows that the reduction of the public debt durivg the month of March amonuted to $11,= 586,550.68. Total cash in treasury, $586, 164,002 66. : ET TIT Judge Baruett, of New York, has de cided 1n a case tried, that if a person makes a will, publishes the same, and alterwards becomes insane and destroys the document, the will is nevertheless valid and the property goes to those in whose favor it was original'y intended —————— Juniata is the third Republican tv that comes to the front with instruc. tions fot Senator Cameron as a presiden tial candidate, The senator says he is not a candidate, but will not object to holding the lelegat:on between his fin- ger and thomb. TE —— At St. Paul, on 28 inst, The executive committee of the Minnesota Farmers Alliance, comprising of both political parties, in session adopted reso~ lutions endorsing President Cleveland's views on the tariff, denouncing the pro- tective tariff and calling for its immedi- ate repeal on all raw material and neces- saries of life. ASR, | PNebraska is not all honey either. The people of Jackson, Neb., are leaving their farms on low lauds and seeking shelter on the hills, fearing that when the great gorge at Cottonwood Hill breaks every- thing will be swept away. I'he lower sections, opposite the mouth of the Big Sioux, are now overflowed and some stock has been lost, CS SN Eas. “The people are paying to~day, under a great deal more sBnry gels, coun- members color of tariff taxes, money than the tre and yet the part that the more than it reeds for economical gov- ernment, After lo the p it 18 envi tion that he ahont $1 out ol under te protective taxes since 1883 7 - Prof, Perry in New Eogland Magazine. TR — treasury gets 18 vastly d stady of elicf and g continns oportions my firm treasury only gets £5 pad by the pple Cas'iier Hopeios, of the Fideli'y Na t onal Bank of Cinvianati, got his in. way, stalment of the transgress r's hard in asentence of seven years and months to the penitentiary. The who pay fast and | the of national baaks ledrs to tneir cost th at | the U ited States Coar s are very un- sympat' izing, besides having | ng mger arms. Their in- dic'ments do pot grow rusty with age, nor their requisitions los«Yheir grip in crossing State boundaries, or even the bonndaries of foreign countries. Moak- eying with bank deposits is a risky busi- ness anywhere, but doubly risky when the deposits bappen to be those of a na- tiona! bank. DE A healthy condition of business in the country as a whole is indicated by Brad street's in its report of failures for the first quarter of the year 1888, The to'al num- ber of failures shows a decrease of 2}per cent. a8 compared with those of the first quarter of 1887 and 19 States share di- rectly in this decrease, By sections, there are fewer failures in the Eastern, Middle, Southern and Pacific States, but there is an increase in the Western States, This preponderance in the West. ern Sates, however does not exeeed the natural ratio of the marvelous growth in the volume of business in that section. There have been far reaching specu lative disasters in the West, but aside from this the West is in a fairly prosper ous condition: loose with funds | ories «nd still | 1t grows daily more apparent that the man who tries to get in the way of rev enne reform this session will get run over. The train will go on and not pause to collect the mang'ed remains. The whispers among Republican level-head- ed members indicate a perception of the momentum acquired by tariff revision The familiar whoops about “this factory will shot down if Hancock is elected about “degrading labor and destroying industries,” which Major McKinley exe- cutes in his minority report as the one tune he can play, will oot avail. The Democratte house committee, after mont hs, of honest, compromising, impar tial work, formulated a bill and it now has a majority of the house in its fa- vor. The grand debate opens Tuesday, April 17. The orgsnization is so perfect the par'y stress isso candidly avowed, that no dilatory waneuvres will be toler aed, Fail debaie to the utmost limit is CENT A REPUBLICAN SPEAKS. The Hon. Ka Nel«on, t publican congressman from we only re. M nnesota, the made tariff in committes of the whole in house on Thusd wy, which fairly the repub ican high tariff men’s hair stand on woud. He d-clured that seventy five peroent of the repubiicins of his state favora low t riff and read ex racts from letters addressed to him by his constituants und from republican news- vapers pub ished in Minnesota favoring the policy of an immediate revision and reduction of the tariff. While the demo crats of the house applanded him the re. publicans stood aghast at his bold and defiant attitude. The tide has turned so decidedly in favor of tariff revision and reduction that men of all parties who have hereto- fore quietly approved the president's poliey are emboldened to speak their sentiments without fear or hesitation. The speech of the Minnesota congress- man means that the farmers of that state and especially the large Scandinavian element of which heis a representative, will no longer follow the lead of the high tariff politicians, but will affiliate with the party which best represents their views and wishes, The claim that Min nesota is a doubtful state is apparently well founded. The republican party is not only at sea so far as its choice of a presiden tial candidate is concerned, but it is hopelessly divided on the great, overs shadowing question of the day. It is already beaten on the main political is sue. A fn AN APOLOGY THAT DON'T APOLO- GIZE. Senator Ingalls writes to one of his Kangas consiitnants recognizing the force of public censure visited on him for his black goard libels of McClellan and Hancofk, and explaining that “every man of intelligence” knows that his stig- matizing the dead heroes as “allies of the vonfederacy,” referred to them ‘‘not as soldiers, but as Demoeratic candidates for the Presidency ” This quip of the judgeadvocate is very thin and probably comes from his legal vXperience in prosecuting the despoiiers of Kansas hen roosts before militia courts marial, Toe icea given out is that when McClellan and Hancock ware leading the Union armies into the of death - Hancock soaking wil blood the silof bs native state—the magnifi- cent Ingalls won diolerate them as reach ing the level of his skulking and doubifu conrage. Bat when these great soldiers tok to themselves the privileges of the hnmblest A: erican cits JAWS patriotism voy wer fightig t+» man- at onee on the I: gal 8 ida, and because they coalda’t ~ee poli ure. When their bodies were interposed | be tween Ingal's and rebel buliets they when they cratic ticket, to the gallows as traitors! Ingalls wonld be content rating Jeff Da- vis 8 traitor, but McClellan and Hao cock he counts as something worse—as hypocrites as well as traitors. The Miss Naneyish eoiner of epithets and phrases must face the music “of his libelons ut- terances. “Would there were a whip in every honest hand to lash the rascal naked through the land.” The New York State Senate has pass ed a bill forbidingt e sale of cigarettes, cigars and tobacen to minors, but judging from the opposition it is meeting in the other branch of the Legislatare, it will hardly become a law. The need of the passage of some such measure has, how ever, been ably proven. The extent to which boys and young lads indulge in the practice of smoking and the deleterious effect it has upon their health are evideat to every intelligent observer. No more convincing argument could be brought in favor of the bill than the remark of one of its opponents from New York City, Said he: “The business of selling cigar. ettes to boys is very prefitable in my dis trict. The boys whe smoke them don't have much money, and buy, “by the cont’s worth.” The profits to cigarette dealers are said to reach 400 per cent, and they come mainly oat of schoolboys, apprentices and newsboys. It isan evil which should be abated, snd there ought to be enough farsighted mea in the New York Legisiatare to take a vigorous step to that ead. A SA Ap ————_ A private letter was received a fow days ago by one of the leading citizens of In. diana from a friend in Rome, which stated that Mr. Blaine was completely broken down physically, and that he was greatly depressed in spirits, The writer of the letter is an Eastern Repoblican of promi. pence, who has long been active ns a party manager, and who is a devoted ad. mirer and intimate personal friend of Mr. Blaine, The Union county Republicans have nominated Alfred Hayes for Aimbly over Jamun BR. Ritter, RE HALL. PA. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN A SOURI COAL MINE. MIS. The most horrible mine disaster tat has ever vecarred in the West happened on March 20 at Rich Hil, reg<nit a large Mo , and as a namber of men are en- worth Just at the din. n wers asgending tombed and thonsands of dollrs of property destroyed ner hour, wmen the me eight at a time on the c«ge, a terrible gas explosi wn occurred, fi ling with a flame of fire which shot out of the shalt a digtance of 1040 feet It is probable that a!l who were in the first The bravery of Buperintend. cost him his life, and About 95 mine, and the probabilities are that the majority of them are out. but this eannot be told yet They are mostly who from Bpridgfield, Ill, the was opened less than a year ago. > a 8 SWEPT AWAY BY FLOODS. Further accounts of the late floods in Forty thousand have been rendered hundreds submurged avery esntry mine at the time of the explosion are dead, ent Sweeny almost 18 applanded by everybody. miners are employed in this negroes came when mine TOWN THE (Germany says: people homeless, 0 villages have been and forty towns and hamlets have complete ly disappeared. The Elbe, Nogat, Victula and Oder rivers cover a hundred miles wide in many districts and an enormous amount of damage has been property. the number of lives lost, large proport done to It is impossible to estimate bat it will reach ions, While trying to break an ice g the Elbe by blasting, fourteen soldiers were killed. The Weser, a tributary of the Vistula, has banks near the Russian frontier, submergiog the city of Posen. and the entire The whole district of Bodrog, in North Hungary, is inundated, the river having irge on overflowed its The waters are still rising district is flooded, The district pn The great, swept away twenty viliages, of Fehrgyarmal is a heap of ruins distress all over Germany is very and the newspapers suggest granting of State aid to the sufferers, - A LAND STEAL STOPPED. President Cleveland has again signal sed his devotion to the interests of the working people by eall the at of con h pub 18 pu gress to an aller ic domain several hund and acres of the pa senta ion of the fa ts, the president says which is the result of an ha« devel exami ation pr ved the most uanbiushing fran da, mmenee land ste It seems tha Sls bas been attempt Inder an sct gross grantiog Tend, for f wagon roads in the The serves of land shoal idea that two | d be 4 REOND construction of 1d seem 0 he preposterous. Ye! such is the fact The president the people aud especially of the working deserves the tha rks of class for his vigilance snd fidelity in pre- servirg the pubic domain for occupancy by actual settlers, S. Amers ican workmau ¢«n have a farm by simply aetiling upon it, he need have no fear of being compelled to labor for low wrges The Chicago Herald figures it oat in this wise: Let us start at a ten: pound piece of flannel on its journey, It costs abroad §3 The duty-10 cents per pound and 35 per cent. ad valorem-is $2.05. Im porter adds his 20 per cent. Cost $3.60; plas tariff, $2.46. The wholesaler adds his cost, $4.32; plus tariff, §2.95.2. The re’ tailer adds his cost, 8518 4; plus tariff $3.54.2 and $8.726 is the price the con sumer fioally pays. The duty cost §$1.49.2 more than the government receives, or after it §3 of profit. Withont a tariff a the same profit the goods that in England would cost at most $3 60, as there the re- tailer can buy direct from the mana’ac- tarer, would cost here the two profits; and would be sold at $432. With but one profit and the tariff they would cos $6.06. At this price the working people of the great cities can sometimes buy with cash to spare and “job lots,” bat us. ually, ss they buy at the nearest store, and ofien on credit, they pay the same prices the farmers do, and get for $8.72 the same flannel that is retailed abroad at $3.60. As far gs that is concerned the workingmen's wages must be $10 here when they are $4.13 abroad to have the same purchasing power, long as the sti BUSINESS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA A statement of the business on all the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad com pany east of Pittsburg and Erie for Feb. ruary "88, compared with the same month of "87, shows a decrease in net earnings of $21,874. The two months of "88, com- pared with the same period of 87, show a decrease in the net earnings of $230,305 All the lines West of Pittsburg and Erie for the two months in 88, show a defis clancy in meeting of all liabilities of $63, 019, being » loss compared with the same period of 87 of $221,448. - a The Bell telephone conipany declared 0 pus oush dividend lost year. Hoe ldo CROP PROSPECTS, The fields being now clear of snow, main the state; there the wheat prospect, In the outlook 18 promising in our are occasional fleids that lok bare, yet nay make a better showing under a fa vorab e spring. [un ourown connty the prospects ure f ra fair wheat far b-tter th previons iwo years, Peon, N ttany vallies promise an yield We have had opportanity to observe the uatlook in Blair, Olinron, Union and Lycoming counties, und fiud tne wheat fields green and promising. In Union wnty the fields look exceedingly fine, Northumberland, Montour, Columbia and Luzerne counties, show fine wheat fields. From other counties of the east ern section of the sate, we also hear that appearances for a good crop of wheat are favorable. wh the jrush andi 1 Average | Urop, MUST PAY FOR PAVING. On Tuesday, i on streets must pay for paving, The city from Geo, I. Shoemaker, et al. and the! virdict was rendered against defendants who had to pay the cost of paving with interest, and 10 per cent as penal: This shows that the Reronter was ou it when it said the Centre Hall coancil can not make owners of some lots pay for paviog and in others make the borough pay. There would be no reason in such | a course, and there is no law for it. The law makes the ownersof abutting grounds decides, - -—- —J. J. Wood, who recently br mgh | suit agai 3 the city of Altoona for injur- ies resulting from a fall on a defective sidewalk, has beenawarded the sum of $4000 by the jary that heard his Since the verdict was rendered the side-| walk has been repaired, the authorities] man who locked the horse was slaojien. slabie -A Rich Philadelphia woman, noted | for her wealth and eccentricity, having exhansted all her fioger apace in display- ing her jewels, wears a strikiog ring on! one of her thumbs. Strange as this ap pears, it is only going back to an old fash ion. two or three hondred years ago it was the fashion to wear a ring on the thumb, and the signet ring was worn on the ab by the nobility at & time when the fingers were devoid of oraa- ment, woman dis able grita few days age her house for the levy on her gods vliberately seated tise A Northumberland played consider A constable entered of maknga for rent, He d iL a Lali aud conmened oserstions Bat he d t remain long. She stood her broom up in the corner and took him by the slack of his pants and ow wi lar and pitched him into the He now carries a bruised arm ina sling and takes the other side of the street when passing down her way ad no gireet welt this issue we have added an ex tra sheet in order to srcomm date ar pa‘ ronswho have nade ra h anexpected demacd upon us for ade as much reading mat and wil not be intradiog noon the regulsramonno of ness. It is a smires of gratificston t kanow that the Rerorter ss a medi for reaching he masses in this sectio i=n well known fat to the merchants, who do not hes tate to na« its ovlums to further and stimulate their basinesa, tr ns heretofore - details before even drawing a plaa model. a Little Lamb.” gonecrazy. Then Mr the crank and in that queer, piping voice | thelines, “Mein Gott!” said the Ger man throwing up his hands, * Mein Gott! MIFFLIN The Mifflin county Republican com rees, to meet at Lewistown on April 19. The committee fixed August 25 for the primary election: indorsed Chmeron and Ge PROCLAMATION. Wien J th Pence In Ballefost, bo tho con of Zand day of April, 1888, continue two N % yy given 10 the Coron er, J and and oA dd eB di IGNED CGiroh, we are informed, ded 1 his resivoation a a shure Ref rmmed ¢ arg @ charge 30 year fait fu a ry, oC ——- wl tof Bew ing flerin at rock We extend an invi ation these machices ced that they are the best v & Kramer GOODS, unce to wense line of goods, We clect a fine stock and suitings for our merchant wether new will be worn for spring 1 can be seen at « if you us Pi - > SALE 11 f ar Jere lar A 39) A Hienter James Moore Daniel Levy Wm Hoffman Parker Henry Grome Ino Cog werk Jam 8 Al Limo Copenhaver é Witoome Jas Nelson (Est owner Thos Greaves David Lewis Juodh Wetzel Richard Malone as Toner Wm Gray Philip Eberman Henry Vandy John Brackbill John Copenhaver David Lewis... Richard Malone Chatles Lucas Joh Spear . Andrew Allison. Joseph Welch . John MoOom aon ....ouu Robt Rainey .........conuess Richard Uslone...... r—— Robert King... A Relghart Henry Plokerton ... John Copenhay en. Hugh Ehuttre.. - Robert Kin Wim P Mitchell, P Camkadden.......... Jeremiah Parker. George Parker, - Barah McLanaban Sarah Me Janaban... Lewis Lewis, Richard Jones. Inver Hen John w— Michael Weidner, Michael Weidner Thos MoOommon .. LAR Ga ey HEARN STI ee = NO. 17 THE LAST DAY Closing Session of the Women's Interna~ tion! Congress at Washington, The Woman’ J afternoon: first pumisiiment depesdon 1 in ve body. She ind Jow aad Gentile Teacher Weds Her Redskin Lover, w bd pws For : was highly asoted citizen's The ting all tht their to be busband. CHINESE EARTHQUAKES. Engulfing Thousands, and Hiocod. Red Water Comes Forth, Jospox, April 1.—-An Oriental mail particulars of the earthquake wre Christmas. It proves nagnit ude. Fif- rish hed in the course g which at uncertain This esti some extent supposi- because it is scarcely possible, after us & visitation, 0 ascertain the exact loss of life. How injured appears 10 defy of course, to tious, have been on yet The capital district of Yunnan is sbso- lutely one mass of More than five nousand persons killed by the fall ruins were At Lair another Chinese town, the almost as ter. additional horror of the frightful chasm was which red colored water The shak ng of the earth with the eye ted pean convulsion of the most awful kind, Further north, at Lo Chan, where ton thousand met their doom, the aspect of the country has been completely changed Large tracts of land suddenly disappeared in the course of the visitation, and in thelr piace lakes. Califpraia’s Hig Year. Bax Fraxcrson, April L-Reparts re ceived fr all points throughout Califor. nin state that the present prospects are that this year will witness the largest yield of gran and iruit in the history of the Blate. BASEBALL NOTES. There is now but little doubt that Chicage will release Clarkson to Boston. The come Jonaation for the release is said 10 be aboud d, 00 Prosudent Byrne, of Brookl is at having a team that cost almost and possessing six bridegrooms. The team Ru doublioss be AnOwn Ini Chsha0n as yrae's Bridegrooms, or of Brookiyn, Brookiyn's Benodine will aino go. Games pia Baturda Jesuit wa Tole lows: New York-New hod das 8 Baltimore Baltimares, . niingelorit bm we Club, 8 Charleston New 8; Charjestons, 2. Memphis — Mem hy Louis Browns: 8 at phn 8% jotics, 95; Pa sitys, 2; Fad The Detroit management has Wwlegraphic corrospondencs na ‘ phia looking 10 an exc ae Anirews. The Phi : b. name their terme and ns not thinit of an : £5,00 bonus, ag a 3
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