vol. LXII.
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
FRED KURTZ, EDITOR
likely favor
go in for
Centre county will most
prohibition but it does not
hanging.
i a i
Vice President Morton says he is not
soft coal syndicate mentioned of
about it
in the
elsewhere and knows nothing
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The lignor dealers of Easton are dis-
pleased because of a court decision a flect~
ing their license and some of them have
gone out of business.
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Allison has declined the treasury port-
folio. Let Harrison call Col, James
Milliken, of Bellefonte, Centre county,
Pa., next. The Colonel has no presiden-
tial aspirations just yet.
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The managers of the dressed beef bill
made a poor showing before the commit-
tee which considered and finally cons
demned that measure, and it was ex-
pecied that the bill wouid be negstively
retarned to the house, — Palrio!
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President Cleveland wiil return to the
state of New York to reside on the ex-
piration of bis term of office, and will, on
March 5, resume the practice of his pro-
fession in New York city, having associa~
ted himself with the law firm of Bangs
Stetson, Tracy & MacVeagh.
AT,
The Lycoming contested judgship is
dragging slong. All tb e ballot boxes
used in the late election have now been
gathered and locked in a cell in the
County Jail. The case is likely to be
long drawn out, as all the votes are to be
recounted and many witnesses from all
parts of the county examined.
EN
President Cleveland isstill calmly pur.
suing the conscientious policy of vetoing
all non-meritorious private pension bills,
He is consistent to the last, says the Chi.
cago Times. Now what will Harrison do ?
Judging from the abuss heaped upon
Cleveland during the Campaign for veto-
ing the fraudulent pedsions we must take
it for granted Harrison will sigo afl euch.
The sapreme court of Pennsylvania
has reversed the d
court in the case of the (
ecision of the Dauphin
lommonwealth
against the Delaware and Hudson Caoal
company and a half dozen other corpora
tions in an appeal from the payment of
state tax. The claimed by the
state from those corporations amount to
over $300,000 and they will now be com-
pelled to pay that sum into the slate
tressury.
ARO
taxes
TATE
A compromise has been reached as to
the admission of new States, which
makes it probable the Springer bill will
pass both houses. Mr. Syringe: has
agreed that New Mexico shall be strick-
en from the bill, aad that the two
Dakotas shall be a imitted as States upon
execntive proclamation without farther
appeal to congress, provided that the
Territory as a whole shall vote for a
division, and that Washington and Mon~
tana Territories shall also be admitted on
executiye proclamation.
HTP.
Soarce a iegislature but what some idi
otic legislation is pro posed by some
crank.
The idiotic bills of the present session
are the School house flag bill, the bill
for a tax of 25 cents per day for employ
ing an uanaturaiized foreigner, and the
double pincher beef bill.
Last session had an idiotic proposition
to appropriste $5000 out of the state
tressury for the pic-nic ground of the
Cumberland Valley railroad, at Williams-
grove,
Robert Gibson, a miserly farmer living
in Crawford county, a lew days ago
placed $5,000 in a coffee pot and buried
the coffee pot in a barrel of onions in his
cellar, a few nights ago, at night some
one broke into the cellar and carried off
the barrel of onions, money and all. Gib-
son is reported as haviog gone insane
over his oss,
Was it the smell of the onions or the
scent of the stamps that attracted the
thief ?
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Some of our Republican contemporars
ies are agitated because President Cleve:
land is laying all information relating to
Samoan affairs before congress and ask-
ing the legislative representatives of the
people what they want to do about it.
They are probably alarmed lest the Re-
publican representatives will back down
and take water, as they did in the case of
Canadian retaliation. The dignified posi.
tion of the president in these matters is
in strong contrast to the alternating ban-
combe and cowardice of the Republicans.
The constitation does not give the presi-
H ARRISQN'S PLANS UPSET.
HIS CABINET TO BE REI JONSTRUCTED NOW
THAT ALLISON 18 OUT.
It looks as though Gen. Harrison's
Cabinet had been smashed even before
it was completed. Allison has refased to
go into it, and Allison was to that Cab~
inet like a stone to an arch, The whole
combination had been built to fit the
Senator from Iowa, and his declination
changes all the circumstances that have
controlled the choice of the other men
80 they have been chosen, and
there is every reason to suppose that
practically the whole Cabinet had been
selected, and that up to last night Gen,
Harrison really thought that his worry
over it was ended. It was nearly md
night when he was informed that Sen
ator Allison had declined the Treasury
Department, the news coming to him
from information received by one of the
newspaper men. Only a few hours be~
fore he had expressed to different friends
his confidence that, in spite of the da.
bious reports from Washington, Senator
Allison would accept the portfolio. Al-
though Allison would not give a positive
answer when he was there on Monday,
the nnderstanding on Gen. Harrison's
part when he left was that he would ac-
cept. Gen. Harrison told this the same
afternoon toa few friends and expressed
his gratification and relief at what he
considered to be the end of worry about
the Cabinet. To day he has maintained
his policy of silence, but from his friends
it is learned that Allison's action bas
been a hard blow to him and from an
nnexpected quarter. John C. New says
that Gen Harrison “is in hot waters”
Judge Woods expresses the situation by
saying that “all plans as to the Cabinet
are badly disarrapged.”
The expressions of opinion as to
ator Allison's action are more piquant
and not entirely complimentary to the
Senator from lows. Gen. Harrison's
friends declare that the trouble is that
Allison is suffering from ap aggravated
case of enlargement of the craniam, aris-
ing from the presence of a Presidential
bee in his bonnet, and that he has gone
back on Gen, Harrison because he fear-
ed that to ally himse!f so closely with
the administration might bind him in the
public mind to the fortunes of his chief
and prevent him from doing anythiog to
help himself get the Presidential nom
ination in 1892, Gen. Harrison's friends,
while they admit that Senator Allison is
a big enough man to be wanted very
badly for the Cabinet, declare that he is
overestimatiog himself when be counts
upon being a sure successor to Gen. Har-
rison.
far as
Sens
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OPINION OF A GERMAN NEWSPAs
PER.
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The Cologne Gazette says “Germany
must restore her authority in Samoa,
which was grievously shaken by events
of December, and must make an exams
ple of the misdoers. The military side
of procedure is determined upon to be
masterable as it can only occasion the
complications with America if her cons
gress desires to stay the hand of Germany
and officially support Mataafa's band
On the other hand the diplomatic side of
the question does not bear complexion of
war fury. In the nineteenth century no
battle will be fought over Samoa Ger.
many's proposals for a settlement of the
difficulty, now on their way to Washing
ton, will convince Americans of Ger-
many's endeavor to deal justly with all
duly established interests.”
EE A ———
The movement in the Minnesota legis.
lature to appropriate $100,000 for the pur-
chase of seed wheat for farmers this
spring gives a glimopse of suffering in that
State. There is reason to believe that
the situation is much worse in some parts
of Dakota. The inquiries made by re-
lieving committees have brought cut the
fact that the wheat harvest on many
farms was a complete failure, and the re-
ports from warehouses show that a con-
siderable part of what was harvested is
good for so little as to have been scarces
ly worth the trouble of cutting and send-
ing to market. The moral of all this,
and we especially commend it to Penn.
sylvania farmers and farmers’ boys, is to
steer clear of the far Northwest, It will
do well enough for Canadians, New Eug-
landers, Swedes and Norwegians, buts
Pennsylvania farmer has no business
there, unless he coosiders himself sharp
enough to dicker with the natives on
real estate, which be is not, by long odds.
KICKED OUT.
The Ohio State senate kicked ont the
beef inspection bill becanse it stank with
corruption, jast like the suspicions hang:
ing over a like job in this sta 'e,
The bill gained considersbie celebrity
last winter on sccount of the charges
made against certain members of the
senate to the effect that they had solicit
ed a bribe from Chicago parties in con.
nection with the defeat of the bill. It
defeated by a vote of 10 to
Py
A BIG COKESYNDIOCATE.
An important soft coal syndicate was
organized in Philadelphia, on Monday,
the operations of which cannot fail to
bave a more important bearing on the
development of the rich coal lands cen-
tering about the new towns of Frugality
and Hastings, in Cambria couoty. The
syndicate cl sees among its leading mem.
bers Vice President Levi P. Morton
Governor James A. Beaver, Adjutant
General Hastings and First Vice Presis
dent Frank C Thompson, of the Penn-
sylvania Road. It is understood that
Hon. John Dean, of Blair county court,
has large interests in the Frugality terri
tory and in this latest combipation of
capital.
There
articles of incorporation, to be taken out
at the state department, will be signed
for $5,000,000, The investment is now
$1,000,000,
call for
coke ovens similar to the nests or
plants in the Connellsville couotry, and
competition with the coke
Western Pennsylvania. The heavy pur-
chase of nearly 2,700 acres by Horotio G+
Fisher, near Punxsutawney acd along
the Mahoning creek last week for $169,
000, is a separate movement in coke cir
ciés, but it isa part of the scheme to
bring about a heavy competitive fleld
along the Clearfield and Jefferson and
the Cresson and Coalport Railroad,
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Several years ago Dr. Anna Kingsford
delivered a series of lectures on religion
before a private audience in London
which were allerwards pu blished in book
form under the title “The Perfect Way.”
In theses quite remarkable discourses she
steadily enlarged on the barnmonious fas
sion of the mascaline and feminine ele~
ment to constitute a perfect humanity,
defining in a spiritual sense the masco-
line element as the Intellect and the
feminine as the Intuition and predicting
that through this feminine element man’s
spiritual redemption would be sccom~
plished. She maintained that St. Paul
exchanged the spirit of the Kabbala for
that of the Talmud in dealing with wom-
en. The Talmud appoints (she says) to
every pious Jew ss a daily prayer these
words: “Blessed art thou, O Lord, that
thou hast not made me a Geaotile, an
idiot or a woman.” B8he condemns Philo
for deprecating woman, and refers to
Aristotle as regarding woman as some-
thing maimed and imperfect, and Plato
as holding that only those who have pre-
viously disgraced themselves as men be-
come re-incarnated as animals and wo-
men. The Fathers of the church also
depreciated women whilst in Islamism
women were denied the possession ofa
soul. Mrs. Kingsford's book which isa
novel and pantheistic exposition of spirit
val matters is a vigorous effort to take
away the stigma from the sex, although
she quite frankly says there are very
few women who deserve to be women,”
which if true would acoount for mascus
line observations on this subject.
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Df the sixty-four counties of this State
says the Press, which in 1873 voted on
the license question in accordance with
the Local Option law of that year twenty
four were for licenses and forty against
it. Eighteen of the twenty four license
counties were Democratic and six Re.
publican, while of the counties that re.
fused license twenty five were Republis
can and fifteen Democratic. Philadel.
phia did not vote; Potter County had
previously rejected license and Lacka~
wanna had not been organized. A terri-
torial analysis shows that Allegheny,
Cambria and Elk were the only counties
West of the mountains that went against
Prohibition, while in the East those
which went for it were the exception,
The vote was extremely light in most of
the counties, although there was decided
public interest in the question and more
pr less excitement throughout the cam-
paign. The Democrats carried the State
the following year, but no one thought of
atiributing the result to the temperance
movement. The Local Option law was
repealed by the Legislaiore of 1875,
which had a Democratic majority in the
House and a Republican majority in the
Senate, and the repeal was approved by
a Republican governor, who was re elecs
ted that same year.
a RS A SIMS A ie
We have not seen any of the county
blanks, printed by the lylog Gazette,
last year, but hear frequent mention
made at Bellefonte, that they are done
on mean paper. The price paid is dis
honestly extravagant and common decen-
cy should, at least, have induced the
printer to put out a decent job for the
double pay he got.
Out of 30,000 mine lsborets in the Lu-
zerne district only 9,000 obtained steady
work during January. The falliog off of
wages as compared with the same month
last year is $07,285. The outlook for Feb.
ORPHAN BCHOOLS,
C. C. Kauffman, the young Republican
of Lancaster, has decided to turn his re-
form guns upon the whole system, and
he promises to lay bare some startling
irregularities. His resolution asking for
the appointment of a committee of five
ex-soldiers, members of the house, to
which should be referred the bill pro~
viding for extending the time for closing
the schools, was satisfied to day by the
appointment of the following committee:
Messrs, Stewart, of Philadelphia; Billings-
ley, of Washington; Evans, of Chester:
Bean, of Montgomery, and Skinner, of
This committee Mr. Kanffman
proposes to assist in exposing the
management of the schools, and if they
cannot take the management entirely out
be indorsed at!
the G. A. R. encampment at Erie next
week. The senate bill will be condem-
ned at the encampment. The new bill
will provide for abolishing one of the
inmates reach
and all the schools closed. Mr.
Kauffman argues that in 1865 bat one
building will be necessary for those un-
His bill will fur-
ther provide for the educa ion of a num-~
ber in the normal schools of the Btate.
He is strongly in favor of educating the
orphan children, but is fully determined
to get them out of the hands of the syn-
dicate as soon as possible,
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Seven years ago Harry Ingram, a prin-
ter, left his wife and three children in
Harrisburg and departed for the East in
search of work. Mrs Ingram did needle
work to support herself and children,
but she was able to provide only scantily
the necessaries of life. Three years after
her hosband's departure Mrs. Iogram
heard that he bad died in New York, the
resalt of dissipation, and she married
James Hurst, a hard working mechanic.
There were two children born in the
Hurst family, and Mr. Horst was a kind
father to all of the children in the house.
A few days ego logram returned to the
city, He was a tramp, and was dirty
and ragged. He went to his wife's
home and intended to make it his head ~
quarters, but was turned out and forbid
den to enter, This made him angry,
and he threatened to prosecute his wife
and take bis children away. Mrs, Hurst
fears that he will earry out his threat.
is MG 30850
ged,
Maj. Powel I, Director of U, 8. Geologi-
cal Survey, last Wednesday explained to
the House Committee on Territories his
plan for the reclamation of arid lands of
the West by irrigation. He illustrated
by meansof a map the location of the
proposed reservoirs, dams and canals in
the James River, New Mexico, and said
he thought the reservoirs could be con-
strocted for $450,000, whereby 155.000,
acres of land could be reclaimed. Maj.
Powell said that between 90,000,000 and
100,000,000 acres of arid land in the West
could be reclaimed by irrigation. After
the works had been constrocted and
were in operation he estimated that the
annoal cost tothe farmer of irrigatiog
hie land would be from §1 to $2 per acre.
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The liquor men at Wilkesbarre have
taken a new departure, Ten ofthe most
prominent liquor dealers have concluded
not to pay the 8500 license fee this year.
They will abandon the business and en
gage in a manufacturing enterprise, sub-
soribing $1,000 each, representing the
amounts paid by them for license and
rents. lostead of living in hotels they
will rent dwellings in the suburbs and
devote their entire attention to industria)
pursuits, The uncertainties of the trade,
combined with high rents and high li.
conse, impel them to the change. It
is said a ma jority of the saloon men wil
withdraw and aonounce their intention
of going into other business. Many of}
them have already declared that they
will vote for the covstitational amend.
ment next June,
sss SII AAI.
A bill has been reported in the House,
at Harrisburg, apportioning the Btate
into Senatorial districts, This bill failed
to pass the last Legislature, * Clearfield,
Centre and Clinton, under the present
apportionment, makes the XXXIV dis
trict now represented by Mr. Betts. Un-
der the new assignment Clearfield and
Clinton make the XXXII district, while
Centre is hitohed on with Huntingdon
snd designated as the X XIX district.
This would put Centre in a mighty
close district and make it risky for Demo-
orats to play possum with their own
nominees, as has been done of late years
by some,
West Virginia is still balloting for a U,
8. Senator,
SHERMAN . ALGER,
And now it is a that Senator
John Sherman is opposed to the selec
tion of General Russell Alger as a cabi-
net officer and the story goes that the
Ohio senator has notified the presidents
elect that if Alger is appointed he (Sher-
man) will do his best to defeat his con~
firmation by the senate.
“It is known,” says a dispatch from
Washington, “that Sherman has been
very bitter against Alger ever vince the
Chicago convention, and he has
quently asserted that but for the cor-
rupt use of Alger’s money on the
gates at Chicago he (Bherman)
have been nominated.”
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Re
dele
would
The refusal of senator Allison, of Iowa,
position under
new administration, as Becretary of the
Treasury, has distarbed the cabinet ar
rangement of president elect
and cased much uneasiness and specu
lation among Republicans as to what it
will result in,
Benator Allison is one of the solid
statesmen of the Republican party and
of high standing. He was thought of for
presidenty when Harrison was nomina~
ted, and many eyes are upon him for 1892
~also Mr, Allison's,
To have Mr. Allison in the cabinet
would wipe out his prospects for the
nomipation four years hence, which
would suit Mr. Harrison, whe is anx-
ious to be his own successor, as well as
other leading Republicans who are fix-
ing their political toilett to win the nom
ination in 1802
Mr. Allison is shrewd enongh
this, and is willing to forego the honors
of a cabinet position and will keep his
seat in the senate and be responsible for
no blunders that may fall to the lot of
the incoming administration, to weaken
his prospects hereafter
to see
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Germany has backed down from her
Samoan business, and has telegraphed to
her naval commanders at Samoa to let
foreign saljects alone, and does not ap-
prove of any outrages committed by her
agents upon Americans or Englishmen
This is the best thing Bismesrk could
do and shows that he realized that the
administration at Washington meant
business and was ready to protect the
rights of American citizens io Samoa.
There will be no war—no powder burnt
and no beer spilled uselessly. Bismark
will set 'em up in due time, and bum-
pers will be drank to the American flag
in which der deutsche Michael, John
Bull and Uncle Sam will participate.
Germany's back down has pulled the
props from under the unfair critics of
the administration.
All the talk and bluster about Secres
tary Bayard's lack of firmness in defend-
ing American rights in Samoa ends in an
apology by Bismark. Mr. Bayard was
talking American to the German chan-
cellor in the most vigorous and dignified
tone all the time the buncombe states
men were frothing at the mouth and
baying the moon. It is fortunate Mr,
Bayard is secretary of state, instead of
any one of the ranting patricts by the
chin only.
Cleveland and Bayard afier all knew
what they were about,
i som AA MAGI IASI
Gov. Beaver and wife were down at
Annapolis, last week, eating royal dinners
at the mansion of Gov, Jackson, and
fresh oysters dripping wet from the bay.
Goy. Jackson entertains his guests in
princely style, and proved his noble
qualities, One would have thought,
judging from some of Gov. Beaver's
bloody shirt speeches, in last campaign,
that he would not dine at the table of a
southern governor; but a royal dinner,
delicious oysters and splended hospitalis
ty, may give (Gov. Beaver other ideas to
come home with,
A
A feature of the new revenue bill is
that it taxes express companies. This is
simed directly at the Adams express
company, which hes never paid a cent
of tax on its business in Pennsylvania,
evading payment by claiming that it isa
financial officers have been looking the
matter up, and have found sufficient evi-
dence to convinee them that the com-
pany is taxable,
The investigation of the bribery busi-
ness in the West Virginia legislature es-
tablishes the fact that one of the men
who approached Representative Shelton
with an offer of $1,000 cash and a §1,600
own office, conditioned be would desert the
Democratic party and unite with the
Republicans on the election of United
States senator, was a relative of General
ernor.
The street car strike in New York
over, and the cars running without the
aid of the strikers,
Philed. Press, and it bas kinder backed
down 100 In ite unfair criticism of
: So the Samus »
Why not give the English
Col. Milliken, of Bellefonte? He has the
wealth and culture saited for the
THE NEW REVENUE BILL.
The new BSiate Reven
the bands of the Ways
mittee of the House
been constructed with an intention that
it shall be effective. It taxes atthe rate
of three mills on the dollar all mortgages
and money owing by solvent debtors: all
articles of agreement and sccounte bear
ne now in
and Means Come
bi! }
appears to have
ing interest; all loans except “il
loans issued by sha
association or
limited partnership, including car trust
national; all
f certificate or evidence
moneys loaned or
other moneyed capital in
Baild-
loan associations are excepted.
limited ps or joint
iations shall be deme capi-
tal stock and taxed accordingly, A gross
4 y imposed on
| the business of carrying companies withs
i in the Btate,
Provision for
lection of the
citizens,
ing and
partn erehi
the essessment and col-
revenue is very stringent,
experience having shown that heretofore
a great deal of money at interest in par-
ticular bas escaped payment of tax, It
is made the daty of the recorder of deeds
to make a report each month to the
county commissioners of al mortgages
and agreements, the amounts invoived
and such other data as will furnish suffi.
cient information for the sssessment. A
similar report is required from the pro-
thonotary regarding judgement and other
instroments securing a debt, One third
the amount of all personal property tax
is to go to the country.
These are but the general features of
the measure, which is to act as a supple-
ment to the law of 1878
Ri a
LE ME COURT DE! ISIONS.
The supreme court in revising a num-
ber of loan tax cases appealed from the
Dauphin county common pleas, and ens
tering judgment in favor of the common
wealth, the following were among the
number: Commonwealth va Bell's Gap
Railroad company, for $666.60, with
terest at 12 per cent. per annum, from
February 5, 1888, and costs, Common-
wealth va Bellefonte, Nittany and Le«
mont Railroad, for $32
at 12 per cent,
THE
SUPR
ins
26.70, with interest
from June 27, 1887,
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MEANEST HUSBANDS ON
EARTH.
Therelis only one meaner class of men
liviog than those who deliberately de-
sert their wives and children and leave
them dependent upon public or private
charity. The class we except are the
worthless, dissipated, lazy scoundrels
who remain at home and compel their
wives to support them.
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The Repub! icans of the senate in pass-
ing the prohibition amendment submis
sion resolution, declined tostate whether
they were for or against prohibition.
This is the old game of cheatery. Pass
the resolution to bag the prohibitioniste.
Defeat it to curry favor with the liguor
interest.
sm soot esitm—
Rudolph, the Crown prince of Austria,
was either murdered or committed sui-
cide. He was found to have illicit inter-
course with a princess of high family
in the empire. The princess poisoned
herself,
os pi
A bill bas ‘been introduced } in the leg
islature to prevent treating—fine $50 and
$100, also one to prevent killing of deer
for three years. The act for the election
of assessors for three years, passed finals
ly.
wtb tli———
It is rumored from Indianapolis that
Blain had declined the premiership, and
Windom would be appointed to the
treasury department,
cold niinniosi
The state prohibition convention at
Harrisburg on Taerday was not very
barmonious.
Buffalo had a two million dollar fire
the other day.
commonly called “Dave” Keller and liv-
od at Centreville, Pa. or Ceatreville, Va.,
or y Cen about
18 Lo 1850, .
woolen factory and would
between 80 and 100 years
If Mr. Keller or any of his
communicate with me they wiil
something to their
advantage,
W. E TroMas
Portiand, Oregon, Jan, 30, 1889,
cent.