THE GENIE. REPORT, FRED. KURTZ, Ebtron and Pror'i TERMS; One your, $1.00, when paid in ad ance, Those in arrears subject wo previous ers, Advertisements 3 cents per line for 3 inser ous, aud » Valls [00 aus suusepledt luseriiou, CENTRE Mar, Pa, L588 LHURS, UCE, UH, THE KE Ii STONE STATE. NEWS TOPICS OF LOCAL INTEREST TO PENNSYLVANIANS. and Fancles Gleaned from Bolled the Many Briel Busy Facts Sources and Down Benefit of to Paragraphs for Readers. WiLkesSBARRE, Pa., Oct. 20.—A horrible tragedy was committed in a strip of woods on the mountain near here. Alex McClure paymaster for Contractor McFadden, who is building a branch road for the Lehigh Val ley railroad, was on his way to the work, accompanied by a body guard. He had $20,000 with him to pay the men. He wa shot by three masked men in ambush. Hi body guard, Hugh Flanagan, was als murdered. The horse was killed too. All the money is missing. Three Italians are accused of the murder and robbery. There is greal excitement. Both McClure and Flanagan were young Irishman and were well known in this vicin ity. week from next Tuesday. A Pottsville Steel Mill Resumes. PorrsviLLe, Pa., Oct. 17.—After a suspen sion of several months the large steel mill of the Pottsville Iron and Steel company ha started up. The resumptisn will furnish em ployment to several hundred men, which i expected to last through the coming winter The mill was closed owing to lack of orders. A Big Colliery Destroyed by Fire, SHaMOoKIN, Pa, Oct. 17.—The Minera Railroad and Mining ¢ ompany’s Connon col liery was burned to the ground. Three hun dred slate pickers in the breaker were res cued uninjured. Five miners were severely but not dangerously injured by falling ma chinery and timbers. The loss is estimated at $55,000. Insurance, $40,000. The colliery the largest in central Pennsylvania. Six Thousand Miners Beunefited. PrrrssuRe, Oct 17.~ way coal operators in this city the wages of coal miners advanced from seventy. four to seventy-nine cents per ton, to go inte effect Nov. 1, as was agreed upon last Febru ary at the interstate convention of miner and operators. There are about 6,000 miner in the Pittsburg district who will be bene fited by the advance. There is an increasing were Powderly Talks PHILADELPHIA, Oct. IX Master Workman FP had read the dispatch said that T. B. Barry, general executive board of About Mr. Barry. - When who resig “If Mr. Barry will form a new and take into it all the other schemers and malcontents organization cranks and who have been out of the Knights, I bid him godspeed. Hi will be doing us a great favor and at the sams time will not be doing himself any harm.” Willis Won in Nine Rounds, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18. —There was a fight to a finish with bard gloves here between George W. Willis, of New York, and a wel known middle weight of this city Willis won the fight and money by a knock out blow in the ninth round. Time 35 minutes Changes in the Carnegie Companies. Prrrssuna, Oct. 17. At the annual meet ing of the stockholders of the firm of Carnegie Brothers & Co, in this city, Henry Phipps Jr., resigned his position as chairman. Vie Chairman D. A. Stewart was elected chair man. J. G. Leesham was elected vice chair man. Mr. Phipps retains his interest in the firm, and retires from active duty for a period of rest. At a meeting of the stock holders of the firm of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. John Walker resigned the chairmanship, and William IL. Abbott was elected to succesd him. HM Curry was elected vice chair man. Mr. Walker retains his business inter est in the firm. The cause for his retirement has not yet been announced. Fittsburg's Wrecked Bank. Prrrsavac, Oct, 17.—A meeting of 200 de positors of the wracked Farmers’ and Mechan fos’ bank was held. A statement submitted showed assets of $204,000.17, including cash on hand, §11.506.42; in local banks, $1%.90 in New York banks, $601: in Fidelity bank, Cincinnati, insolvent, $1,064.88; bills receiv able, $6 200.70; mortgages, $21.99, and bank building, $2,500, It was also announced that the stockholders were responsible for 120,000, which makes the total assets $04, 000 to pay off deposits of 19.000. It wm decided to levy an assessment of 1 per cent, on deposits to pay legsl expenses, It is said that at least one person connected with the bank will be arrested, An Aged FPittaburg Man Dead, Prrrsavee, Oct. 20. -Dr. J. Beott, one of Pittsburg'’s oldest inhabitants, died suddenly on the train from Duluth to this city. Hs was 50 years of age. Discharged for Want of Evidence. Lancaster, Pa, Oct. 19 Before Alder man Spurrier Calvin M. Dellinger, charged with the murder of his wife Mary, whose body was found on the bank of the Little Conestoga creek on Friday, Oct. 5, was dis missed from custody, there not being suffi cient evidencs to hold him for trial Injured While Playing Football. Laxcasten, Pa, Oct 10-—-Willilam H Keller, of Bellefonte, Pa., and Charles D. Neff, of Alexandria, Ya , students at Frank lin and Marshall college, were very seriously injured during the progress of a game of football. Neff's injuries may possibly prove fatal She Was Struck by a Foul Ball, PrrLavetrmia, Oct. 22 —8uit has been brought by a Miss Krause for damage against the Athletie Baseball club for in Juries sustained by being struck by a foul ball batted over the fence of the Athletic club grounds on July 18 last. The ball struck the lady on the left breast, and her physician says that the injury is developing with either an abscess or a cancerous growth, which will shortly require a surgical opera tion. Injured by Exploding Chemicals. PriLApELPHIA, Oct. 32. ~An explosion oo curred in the drug manufacturing establish ment of Wiley & Wilson, corner of Heveath and Cherry streets. Beveral persons were injured, but it is believed none killed, Pittsburg May Have a Strike, Presson, Pa., Oct. 20.—-Thers may id cable car strike here, as the Stipmen ate St Prlindeiphin gr i here aren and 1 s Ta are instructing Busy 5" CL BR IT WAS HIS BUSY DAY President Cleveland Very Much Engaged on Saturday. HOW HIS TIME WAS PUT IN. The Last ill Signed in the Nick of Time. Departing Members of Congress Call to Say Good-by-—Sloux Chiefs Go te Bes the “Great Father" —Other Callers. Wasnixaron, Oct. 22 —Saturday was the president's busy day. Not that he is not busy every day, but Saturday being the day upon did adjourn, he was especially busy. He came in from his country residence before 9 o'clock, and no sooner had be entered the White House than messengers were hurrying from there to the various departments for the return of bills which had passed con gress, but which had not yet been returned from the departments to which they had been referred by the president for report These in hand, the president spent several hours in looking over reports and attaching his signature to bills—a most tedious task. Fortunately he did mot find any that he deemed it necessary to veto-——having two days previously found thirteen which he could not sign, and so notified congress. Hardly had bho finished the consideration of these bills and sent them to the capitol with his ap proval, than the joint committes of the house aud senate called to inform him that con gress was ready to adjourn unless he had some communication to impart that would necessitate their remaining in session longer, The president spent about fifteen minutes with the committes, and it had bardly left mansion before a messenger rushed up with a resolution that had just passed both houses, extending the time for the retention of the government axhil site at the Cincinnati ex position until November. This being a harm- less resolution, Invelving no financial outlay, and clean on its face, it was signed forthwith. Had the signature of the executive been de layed five minutes the measure would not have become a law, as it had to be signed before 1 p. m. or die. Congress had not been adjourned five minutes before the White House was crowded with members and sena tors who intended to take the outgoing after noon trains for home, who wished to say good by and at the same time put in a parting word for the reappointment during the recess of the nominees who had failed of confirma tion by the senate. The maopsion was still well filled with sena tors and members when, at 3 p. mv, the Sioux Indians called. They bad not yet soon thu “great father.” The president at once ex cused himself, enfered the room and shook hands with each member of the party He remained with them for pearly half ap hour. The shadows of the In ceased to darken the portals of the Whit House when a delegation of white men fron the far west, headed by Col Ordway, of Dakota, These gentiemen were alse received, and cocupied the attention of the president It was after 4 o'clock before Mr, Cleveland had a moment to himself, and shortly after that bour be re turned t rast called for twenty minutes to Oak View THE LAW UPHELD. Iowa's FProhibltory Law Declared Const) tutional by the Sapreme Court, Vasmixorox, Oct, 38 od the constitut of 1 to manufacture int solely for exportation to the state law, and it was rohibitory sO facture for expor conflict with the giving congress interstate ecommerce 5. Kidd, a distiller, plaintiff in error, versus I. E. Pearson and 8. J. Loughras The court holds that the = tate law prob iting both the manufactures and the sale, ¢ cept for mechanical, medicinal, culinary and mcoramental purposes, is not in conflict with the interstate merce provisdons, and the decision of the lowa court is sustained Opinion by Justice Lamar, The decision pro ti ence in the status of the distillery, and would not if it bad been the reverse, for since this litigation was begun the [owas legislature has passed a law that has closed all distilleries and breweries by forbidding manufacture for any purpose. The decision sustains the new law, and renders unnecessary any test case under it A POSTAL CLERK'S FALL. Charles Ebann Turned Thief Despite His Many Accomplishments, Oct. 3. Charles R. Ebann, a prominent clerk in the mailing department of the Boston postoffice, and a man whom reputation for integrity was of the highest, was arrested, charged with stealing letters He pleaded guilty before United Btates Com missioner Hallett and was beld for the grand Jury ‘ Ebann says he is the son of a French en gineer employed on the Buez canal, that he served seven years in the English navy, and for several voyages, for the Inman Steamship company, sud that subsequently he was em ployed as body servant by Charles Sumner and George 8, Hillard, He has worked in the postoffice since July 18%, and his salary was $000, He speaks English, French, German, Itallan and Rus sian, and has a smattering of other languages, He has a wife and two children, and is re ported to be worth considerable money, Boiled a Snake with the Cabbage, Brusminonas, Ala, Oct. 23. — Frank Jack son and bis family had cabbage for thelr noonday meal Saturday. After every one had eaten of it one of the children noticed a peculiar taste, The remhaing portion was examined, and in the heart a small green snake was found. All the family were soon taken ill, and Mra Jackson and one child may not recover. Fired the Forest of Fontainbleaun. Pans, Oct, 23. - Incendiaries have at tempted to destroy the forest of Fontain bleau. Fires were started in five different places and were extinguished with difficulty, A large quantity of forage was consumed, entailing a los of $1,250,000 francs. Two men have been arrested on suspicion, Poultry Breeders. Newsvna, N, Y,, Oct. 23. A meeting has been called of poultry breeders along the Hudson river, to be held in this city on Nov. 17, to organize a Hudson River Poultry, Dog, and Pet Block association. An exhibit covering four days is proposed during the coming winter, The supreme cour mnality o Wi The xioat ingl Hgquors her alates, despite pleaded that the as the mann tation is concerned, was ir encatiivtions] provisdom right to regnlats The case is that of J feature, in far the mole oon cally makes no differ WOSTON, A SAAN An in fustry to Close, Bosrox, Oct, 33.