VOL. LXII. THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, ~~ EDITOR Gov. Beaver came near being a bigger man than Harrison, at the inangnration. CR ——— If the 18 of June turns out as “wet” as the 4 of March, what will the amend- ment folks say? Wednesday, the third day after the inauguration, opened bright, Now give Harrison a chance. White Caps in Indiana, the other day tarred and feathered a woman because she did not lead a decent life I SA IASI June 18, next, a trial will be made whether the people are strong enough to close the spiggots on beer and wine kegs. I TAI AI. Firebugs are threatening Altoona. As it is closé!y built and of wood, the fire- fiend might do some awful work in that town. TE I ES RRO. The pope is said to be uneasy over the anti-Jesnit agitation in Caoada. It is gaid that he ‘ears that if a bitter feeling should arise it might cause serious com- plications. LE —— The Penn'a soldiers, N.G , that went to the inauguration were unloaded three miles outside of Washington, and had to march through rain and mud into the city. That's real gnldier life, but some o ‘em no doubt, think “N, G.” should stand for No Go. Cider can be made and sold if the pro hibition amendment is adopted, but it can not be sold after it has fermented. So one will have to bay his cider sweet and let it stand until it gets rily if yon wish to get a little “‘rily” yourself on 4th of July or other legal holiday, Things should not be thus, we now have a Republican administration Two thousand furnace men of the Tennessee Coal and Iron and Railway Company's furnaces, at South Pittsburg, have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent. on their wages, These furnaces are among the largest in the South, and manufacture about six hundred tonsof pig iron per day, There is nothing in Harrison's inaugn- ral address which needs criticism, On the whole it will be read without creat ing any feeling other than that the new President means well. Wait and see, and let us judge him by his acts. If he has backbone enough to close the door against the ‘spoils element of bis party, he may leave the white house with as clean hands as Cleveland, A In. Why #his sgitation about a new state capitol and appropriations of thousands in directions where only the private in- terests of a fev are taken care of? Let legislation for once begin in earnest for the benefit and relief of the great farm ing interests of our state, Agriculture should come in for a gennine lift once-—it is the groundwork of the entire fabrie of wealth and we need to strengthen the real foundations of all other interests, by helping the great agricultural commun- ity. If the present legislature does not enact laws that will directly lessen the burden of taxation resting upon the farming interests, it will come short of Ms duty. This cry for some legisia- tion, that might help tha farmer in a round about way only, is simply to dodge the question. Why not go at the thing direct and openly? Give the far- mer relief that will relieve, Exempt his live stock, same as a mechanic's to 's are exempted, leasen the tax on machinery and implements, on his clothing and food Any one who is afraid to face this is no friend to the farming community, Many interes's are protected while farming, the greatest interest of the country’ ‘is veglected in our legis'ative enactments. There are only four claimants for the Gabernatorial chair of West Virginia, Goff, Republican, was elected on the face of the returns, but by reason of disputes as to tha correctness of the returns, he was not officially declared elected as is required by law, and Fleming, Democrat, is contesting the election. Goff qualified on Monday before a Judge, and Carr, President of the Senate, also qualified; but Governor Wilson, whose term has expired, assumes that the law requires him to continue in office until his successor is qualified, or until the Goff Fleming contest shall be de« cided. Cari, as President of the Senate, says there is » vacancy in the office that calls him to the Executive Chair. West Virginia has, therefore, three swornin Governors and one outside cons testing the election and claiming that he is entitled to be qualified and admitted to she position, Amendment will Carry by 40,000. J. Ross Thompson, the well-known Democratic leader of Erie, at present in Pittsburg, expresses himself as coulident that the Prohibition amendment will be carried by at least 40,000 majority. He says that a large nnmber of Democrats will vote for its passage in order to re- deem the party from the slur which has heretofore been cast upon it by the claim that it was always hand and glove with the whisky element. “My party,” said he, “has been in sympathy with the liquor men in by- gone days and tried to help along their interests, bat these same people after ward voted for tepublican candis This 18 not what will make the amendment win, though a large number of drinking men will vote for Prohis hition because they think they would be better off if no liquor was sold or made. The women of the State will work a wonderful influence voters. They are thoroughly everywhere, and they will come to us and beg us to vote against whisky for the sake of their their he dates, on organized homes, husbands and their sons. Thousands wilt be unable to resist these appeals.” In speaking of Judge Agunew’s opinion when the amendment would go into effect, Mr. Thompson says the statement that it will not go into effect nntil additional legislation is passed will not bold good. “The very moment the measure is carried by the votes of the people the sale must legally stop’ said Mr. Thompson, “for the reason that sell it would unlawful, The laws sgaiost the illegal sale of liquor will not be wiped out by the amendment going bat the fact that it has carried will make the sale unlawful.” -— The Barn-Burners, The mysterious barning of barns along the line between Maryland and Pennsyl. vania, which commenced about the first of the present year, continues. The far mers are desperate, and some of them have rigged up trap guns on their barn doors to surprise the intruders. At Hanover, Pa., wagons are rumbling nto the town hourly, laden with wheat and corn which the farmers are rushing to market to save from the barn-burners’ flames, The story of the latest fire, the barn of Mr, Abraham Herr, may afford a clue for the capture of theinocendiaries of the doz- en or more barns of farmers in northern Carroll county, Md., and in southern York county, Penn, near the Maryland line. Satorday afiernoon a tall man dressed n black, wearing a far cap, got some- thing to eat at Herr's house, in the eves ning returned, accompanied by enother man, saying that it was a bad night and they would like to stay until morning, and they were given permission to sleep in the barn. Next morning they left early and later in the day Herr's son found a piece of paper in the feed trough which read: “Move your stock for your barn will be in ashes to-night or to-mor row.” The words “lo-night or to-mor- row” were plainly written by a German. That afternoon in clearing out the barn, in the upper part of it was found a box contaiving a mixture of common earth phosphate and pure gun powder and a partly burned candle. Sonday evening two other men asked permission to sleep in his barn, and were, of course, refused. Tuesday the barn barned, almost rain. ing farmer Herr, Not satisfied with this fire, the barn burners have notifled others of their intention to destroy their barus. One peculiarity of the burning is that the barns are all near the railroad, and another is that the burners seem to bave picked out poor looking barns and ‘eft large ones whithin a short distance, The motive for the burning is still a mystery. Why men should delight in hurning barns of poor farmers is a ques. tion only to be answered by the burners when they are captured. As Mr. Herr #aid last night: “I bave no enemy on earth that I know of. I see no reason why they should barn my barn. 1 have worked hard to make a living, and now all is gone.” as to to be through, sesso dfn Senator Riddleberger Resigns. Senator Riddleberger has announced in the senate chamber that he had tele graphed his resignation to the governor of Virginia, because he had been refased recognition by the chair, sahsequently to this, the senator was placed under ar rest by the sergeant-at arms, The senator was arrested for interrupt. ing the proceedings of the senate by per sisting in addressing the chair without leave of the senate. He was quietly re- moved to the cloak room, “The governor of Virginia will mo doubt, appoint a Democrat to * Il Riddle. berger's place. AS The new administration took a severe cold on Monday. “Good times” will therefore not be inavgurated until it gets “ rid of a bad cough. We are williog to bear a little, . POINTS FOR REPUBLICANS, They Will Not Take Them, Never Fear. A black list of forty-three Algerized delegates who were gent to Chicago as Sherman men has been prepared for the incoming president, the price each man sold out for being set down opposite his name, Notice has been served that Sen- ator Sherman will not permit an appoint- ment of any one of them to con- firmed. Now, if Sherman will serve an additional notice to the effect that he will oppose the confirmation of any man nominated in return for a big campaign fund subscription, his record will be va- riegated with at least one little fight for reform. But a determined stand against the buyers as well as the sellers of nom- inations would discourteous to the future presiding officer of the senate, and to some of its wealthiest and influential members, and Mr. Sherman's zeal for reform is not likely to break its close connection with his personal affairs and interests, howaver, be be most Saved Kansas, i sGlitary i ¥ One Democrat The presence of in the state of Ks aved her legisla ture from the di we of passing that joint resolution ZO gress to set aside the state Arkansas democrat gove and subject her to count of the Clayton murder no one in the house protest ag blind bigotry and brutal injn resolution, but the Democrat in awaken that : in dorsing such rot, and it was laid on the table. While there is in the Kan lature only one member of the party polled a p litv of 07 last presidentis lection, that state should not bo f in states of being too one sided and suppres oppo Louis Post-Dispatch There was sinst the body to the as legis. that S00 votes in the Femoss acca in Ion, Mt, BIN sister politics sing the Childs Spoke Wiser Than He Knew. The Philadelphia Ledger makes this caustic i Virginians: “Gen. Mahone says is not for himself, but for the south, he desired a seat in the cabinet. It is sad to reflect that this great love on his part is not entirely re. ciprocated by the sunny south, as repre- sented by the wise men But for the gravity of Editor Childs’ character he might be suspected of a clever pun in that last sentence.—New York Evening Post, about the it remark Let Them Worry About It We appre hend that t ness will go all over to the incoming Re- publican administration—to the party which, under Rutherford B. Haves and William Maxwell Evarts, = ns tracted to maintain the independence of a group of South Pacific Let them worry their own treaty, — Cincinnati Enquirer Water Note! Gen. Harrison has not yet promised to banish wine from the White House table; still he is evidently trying to pleas: the prohibitionista, for it has been ar- ranged that the special train which is to carry the president-elect to Washington thall make frequent stovs for water on the way tothe national capital. Chicago News. his Samoan busi- : Yor Hmniy ox is islands, with ir i Phineas May Roe the Day. Showman Barnum, now that Harrison has been elected, is beginning to have bad luck. The burning of his uninsured house is an ill omen for Phineas, and so great deal may happen to him in the next four years.— Louisville Courier-Journal, The Mystic Number Five. Let the inaugural procession move in five divisions, five men abreast, and limit it to five miles in length. If some persons obj ct arrest them in “blocks of five” aud give them five and costs. — Cleveland Plain Dealer, A Left Handed Compliment. The Republican party, with great una- nimity, would be delighted if President Harrison would appoint Gen. Mahone to some foreign mission, and thereby secure a united Republican party in Virginia. ~Washington Press. The Popular Minority. The most galling thought in all this business is that the wrongs to be perpe- trated by the Fifty-first congress and the Republican president will be on the au- thority of a minority of the people.— Evansville Courier. Foraker's High Water Pants. Governor Foraker, it seems, can neither protect a mixed school in Ohio nor suppress the White Caps. His pan- taloons, short at first, have shrunk toa shocking state of brevity. Louisville Courier-Journal. He Will Not Hurry the Matter, It is safe to predict that Col. Dudley's sult against the New York for publishing his letter about ** i in ks of five” will not be pushed to trial with any undue haste, — Providence Journal, The Still Pig Drinks Most Swill, Gen. Grant was just as reticent as Mr. Harrison is, but his was notoriously corrupt. If silence could only Folin inden Louie Gorin A Monster Warship. The specifications for the armored coast defense vessel, for which bids will be opened next month, have just been completed at the navy department, The vessel is to be of 4,000 tons diss placement; length, 250 feet: beam, 50 feet, and depth, 11 feet 714 inches from the top of the main deck beams to her inner bottom. She is to have a steel armor sixteen inches thick, and is to be built thronghout of materials of domes- tic mannfacture, The engines are to de- velope and successfully maintain for four consecutive hours 5,400 indicated horse power. The contractor is to receive for | every horse power over the stipulated number $100 in addition to the contract and likewise to forfeit $100 for each horse power less: than the contract for. The total weight of the ma- chinery, including boilers, engines and engine room fittings, but excluding the turret machinery, is to be 431 tons. The main battery of the ship will be the heaviest ever yet provided fora nav- al vessel, It will consist of one 16 inch L15 ton breech loading rifle; one 12 inch breech loading rifle and one 15 inch Zalinski dynamite gun. This will be supplemented by a secondary battery of rapid firing guns, consisting cof six 33 pounders, three 9 pounders, two 6 pouns ders, four 3 pounders and eight Gatliogs., The total cost of the ship will be $1,700- OU, price, 1 Cal:B . timate Dudley as a Fugitive. Bays the Times: Colonel W. W. Dad. ley, who was one of the leading boodle managers in the Republican campaigns of 1580 and 1888 and whose open and systematic debauchery of Indians made him amenable to the laws for the punish. ment of election frauds, is yet a fogitive from justice, and while he remains a fugitive from the courts of his own bome, it will be idle for party organs or fellow- corruptionists to attempt his vindica- tion. Dudley was one of the chief corruaps tionists of the late national contests. He aided in general political debauchery in New York and personally directed the flood-tide of venality that divided the doubtful vote of Indiana into “blocks of five” to assure the universal corruption of all eoiruptible voters in that State. When detected in his open pollution of the ballot , he boldly bronght libel suits against the leading New York journals, but he was soon compelied to flee the jurisdiction of hig own chosen courts to escape answering those he had accused. He is now, and has been for weeks, elad- ing the process of the New York Courts to compel him to face the defendants in his own suits for damage, and he has been a fugitive from the law and the Courts of Indianapolis, his own home, since the day of the Presidential elec- tion. Marriage Under Protest. The supreme court of Michigan has been called upon to say whether a cere< mony performed under these circum- stances constituted a valid marriage: The girl charged her parents with fore cing her into marriage with a man she did not want to wed. During the cere- mony she told the justice “if he tied the knot forty times it would not stay tied.” that she “did not like the man” and would not live with him. “They made me stand up,” she continued, “and when I was asked whether I would take him to be my husband I said, “No I wont,” and on every question asked me that I ought to have answered “yes” I said ‘no’ plain, and the next day I ran away.” In spite of this very unusual conduct the justice calmy proceeded to pronounce the pair man and wife, with the custom ary ccngratulation, and the ceremony was held legal by the circuit court. The supreme court, however, says “a concur ring consent by two mindsat the same instant” is essential to a legal marriage, and that the ceremony in this case was not valid because the girl did not consent toit. . AI A AAA AANA. Seoator Stanford paid $500 for win- dows from which to review the inaugu- ral parade, Senator Hearst $300 and Ira Davenport $150. It is a singular fact, that on Monday, just as soon as Harrison had taken the oath, everybody felt a swell of “better times” in his pocket book, Since nocn on Monday, we have been ander a Republican administration, yet we have not yot felt a bit of difference, excep that we had very bad weather. The Reading iron company failed— linbilitien one million dollars, and 2600 men thrown out of employment, MI I URANO. Mark you,” Republicans, we hold you up to your promises of “better times.” There must now be no such foolishness as shutting down of mills, and reduction of wages, RM SI Mo, Monday there was a Harrison rain indicative of four fall years of Harrison reign. The groandhog only six weeks abead and is thus set far in be sbade vy Benny. es, JUDGE PERSHING DECIDES THAT TRAVEL ING EXPENSES BHOULD NOT BE PAID, Judge Pershing exploded a bomb among the county commissioners and poor directors and the hordes of aspi- rants for the places, on Feb, 25 Ithas been a custom long antedating the acts regulating the pay of these officers to charge for their traveling expenses to and from the county seat. This amonnts to a8 much and frequently more than the poor directors were as follows: Gors man, salary $616, expenses $857: Brown salary $606, expenses $888: Heffner, gal- ary $572, expenses $351, The financial statement just published by the commis sioners shows that they also expended fo: traveling expenses upwards of a thousand dollars, Judge Pershing de- cides that amy other sum they draw from the treasury diem is illegal. - A telegram was received at Chicago an- nouncing the rise of a formidable rival to the Big Four beef combination Chicago and Kansas City, of which Ar- mour is at the head. It is said thet the new syndicate represents $25,000,000 and bears the name of the American Company. The organizer and President is J. R. Fl gler, President of the Cotton Oil Trust. The company proposes, it is said, to dispense with middle men in the sale of their meat, and to give to consum- ers the benefit of the middle profit. Mr. Armour said to-day: ol men's a I have had several scheme was afoot, hints ths a The organizers are such trust, Mr. J. H' Flagler, Mr. Morse, Mr Stephen W. Dorsey, Mr. N. K. Fairbank, and others. I hear that the COMPany holds its charter under the laws of New Mexico, and has a vast tract of land lots of beef, and all that, However formidable continue to do business at the old stand, & continuance of former patronage being solicited. We will still supply beef for a few days at least” — tri a The Baltimore Sun, speaking of Cleve- land's admin istration, says: The writer of the article bus had portunities for obtaining an insight into (FT opr ministration, and his conclusions are drawn in large part from conversations with the President himself. It will be seen that Mr. Cleveland continues to the very last to be the same hard-working painstaking Executive that he has been from the begining, and he frankly states that so far as he is personally concerned, be will lay down his laborious trust with a sense of relief. With reference to his fature, politically, he says significantly, “I'm in no man's way.” He does vot believe that the tariff issne procured the defeat of the Democratic party at the last election, On the contrary, he re- gards tarif’ reform as the great living is sue of the hour, and thinks the Democra- cy must ultimately win on that line. He 18 as firm aa ever in advocacy of civil service reform as the only effective anti- dote to the spoils system, but he does not regard himself as any less a Demo- erat on that account. It may be said in- deed that the President has fully demon- strated his Democracy to the minds of thoughtful men by the courage and wis- dom he has displayed in forcing the tarifl issue upon the country. Tariff re. form is traditional, orthodox, Democratic doctrine, and, insisting upon its practi- al application to the economic neceasi- ties of the hour, he has shown both his practical good sense and his devotion to Democratic principles. His administra. tion has been pure and without reproach, and if it had accomplished nothing else every patriotic American for its efforts to purify the tone of official life and to introduce business-like and economical methods into the management of public affaires, A Canadian contributes an article to which he holds that Canada will never become & part of the United States but will be either an independent nation or a member of a confederation of equal British states. He proves to his own satisfaction that Canada is growing in population more rapidly than its great lems, including one of race, which Canads. does not care to aid in solving and that our form of government is not admired added to four new stars on the § Four new states have been ithe Union and | flag, | On 22nd the president approved the {Territorial bill admitting North and {South Dakotas, Montana and Washington {into the Union as states, There was {great satisfaction expressed on both sides lof the House when it was geverally {known that the President had signed the { bill, | The four new states will be represens [ted in congress, probably by next De- and five eon- Bouth Dakota, the largest of states in population, will be en- {titled to two congressmen, the others to lonly one. Fach will have, of | course, two senators, At the last elecs {tion in November, when the heaviest cast was s the total vote for delegates was: |gressmen, ithe new slate {vole ever in the territories | polled ’ % Republican | In | Wast the election of 1886, however, ington gave a Democratic majority {of 2192 and Montana a Democratic ma- jority of 3718. Dakota game year {gave a Republican majority of 20,0563 and {both North and South Dakota are likely the to figure as sure Republican states in the fature. The territorial legislatures of ail the new states are now Republican and the new United State senators to repre- seat them are all more than likely to be Republicans, —— A crazy Indian isn’t the most pleasant thing to have about, From Okeechobes, Florida, comes the news of a bloody afs Everglades. “Jim” ng buck, went crazy, and, with a Winchester rifle, start- a you rough the camp He next killed Old Tiger, and prob- {ably the finest Seminole living, physiy cally, stepped out of his wigwam just in |time to see his father drop to the ground {a corpses, and with a bloodscurdling war { whoop he sprang upon the maniac, ard a hand- —