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.
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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.”
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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.
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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,
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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-<toshand fight for the possession
of the rifle followed. Tiger was superior
in strength, but was at the wrong end of
ithe gun, and before he could wrest it
| from his antagonist he was shot dead.
The maniac then killed two papooses
of his sister, and attacked bucks, squaws
and children indiscriminately. He was
finally cornered and shot dead by “Billy”
another Seminole brave, In less than
half an hour eight Indians were killed.
a
A Harrisburg dispatch says it is stated
on the best cf anthority that the coms
mittee now condocting the investi zation
into the management of the various sol-
diers’ orphans’ schools in this state will
lose no time in devising a means for re-
moving this class of public charges from
the schools run by syndicates. The com-
mittee will recommend that by degrees
the 1,500 children now in the schools at
Chester Springs, Mount Joy, McAllister
ville and Mercer be removed to the
Northern Home, in Philadelphia: Unions
town, Fayette county; Whitehall, Cam.
berland county, and Manafield, Tioga
county. It is believed that the transfers,
when about to be made, will induce
many parents and guardians to take the
children home; so that out of the 1,500
the state will probably be relieved of the
necessity of supporting more than 1,200,
it is proposed to remove the children
from one school at a time, taking them
from Mansfield, Whiteball, Uniontown
and the Northern Home, ia Philadel
phia, in the order named.
lussia employs more men to prodoce
less corn than any other country. When
the serfs were emancipated in 1861 a
portion of land, from eight to nine acres
per head, was allotted throughout Rassia
to the peasants, who occupy themselves
with the cultivation of their own ground.
Since then the condition of Russia seems
to have been growing worse and worse.
The amoant of territory given up to the
serfs by the emancipation act of 1861
(was about one-half of the arable land of
the whole empire, so that the experis
ment of cutting up the large properties
of a country and the formation of a land.
ed peasantry has been tried there for
more than a quarter of a century, No
doubt Alexander I. meant well toward
his subjects, but at present Russia seems
to be in the worst possible condition.
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