THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR DEM. CO. COM. — Bellefonte, N. Womens 8 W WwW. Ww Cantre Hall Borough.. Howard Borough Mlesburg Borough. Millheim Boroug Philipsburg. ty “ dW " AW. t Blunyilie Borough. LM Bower Prtrick Garrety wendOSeph W Gross od W ‘Cormick ae M I Gardner J Willis Weaaer renee C W Harter J D Ritter «rd H Riley Jackson Gorton LJ Bing John “Mec htley we PRALP Conifer TF Adams 'H L Barnhart Daniel Grove T 8 Delon John T M'Cormic Samuel Harpster Jr Geo B Crawford J C Rossman . J A Bowersox Pens errr A WOBYOE - Wm Bailey CC Meyer Franklin Dietz wedohn Q Miles DD W Herring Harry McDowell « J Gramley .D L Meek WW F Smith a B F Aruey ..G L Goodheart ve. Hugh MeCann walt © Wioox Patrick Kelly RJ Haynes Jr J N Brooks Wm T Hoover Aaron Fahr J H McCauley Levi Reese CONNER. oe rynr Ferguson, EP... ; WP. Gregg, § » NP. Haves, EP. Ww Halfmoon.... Harris....... Howard. Huston... Liberty .. Marion... Miles... Patton. Penn Potter, N P.. “ SP Rush, SP. N Da Snow Shoe, W P “- BP. Spring... aylor. Union. Walker Worth... - - ; “HEINLE, ‘Chairman. Our poorly paid covgress is moving to raise the salary offjmembers from $5000 to $10,000 per year. It's about time Harrison went to Belle- fonte to start up the nail works—that's what he was elected for. Harrison may tars out to be a fair president, but as a preventive of mills shatting down, he is not a success, thus far. The house at Harrisburg has passed a tax bill. We haope the farming interest of the state hag its due protection in it. Ten thousand dollars a year for a con gressman, is ioo mucb—he sits only about 8 months of the year. A farmer works harder and all the year round, and has to live off of less than ten huns dred dollars. Instead of legislating for their own pockets let congressmen legis- late for the benefit of the agricaltural classes. Chief Jastice Fuller's daughter, Miss Pauline, and J. Matt Anhery, Jr., of Chi- cago, were quietly married in the parlors of the Kirby House. It was a runaway match and the ceremony was performel by a Justice of the Peace. Mama was op posed to the ma'ch but the chief justice did not have any objections. That old, familiar, onwashed, dirty faced tramp, the Legislature Record, has put its appearance in at the Rerorten office, as usnal ten to fif een days behind time, hence no account, Any other tramp you can get rid of by set'ing Carlo on him or with a piece of cold bam and bread, but this dirty, always belated leg- islative tramp sticks to the public erib like far to a nigger’s heel, and can’t be shaken off Judee Ermentrout, of Berks county, has inaugurated a reign of terror for tramps and other unwashed nomads found within the borders of the Twenty- third Judicial District. Instead of the customary small fine, with the alterna tive of thir'y days in j«il, he imposes up- on this cless a sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment at hard labor, to. gether with costs of arrest, In this sum. mary process Judge Ermentront is pre- senting a vigorous solution to the tramp problem, for while the average tramp cares little for temporary incarceration he has a patural antipathy for anything suggestive of inhor. Recent travoloms among the Rocky Mountains of British Co'nmbia say the besuty of the mcuntaios is greatly im- paired by forest fires, that leave only blackened tronks where magnificent timber had spread over large areas. Cin- ders from locomotives along the Cana~ dian Pacific and the carelessness of min- ing prospectors kindle the resinons trees, which burn with extraordinary fury, of ten eating out even the roots, and leav- ing nothing hut ashes, Capt. Wharton says that thore who wish to see all the landscape glories of this region must vis it it soon, before they are robbed of half their charm by the ferrible fires, the smoke of which lest summer often shut ont the view entirely Mr. Green thinke that the fate of all the timber along the 1ailroad is sealed. Probably no part of this continent as rivaled Washington Territory and British Colombia in the grandeur of their pine firests, and it is not a vlessing spectacle to contemplate the destruction of this towering timber Curiosities of a State Census newspaper reader, Post. Still there are some facts in the] census of 1885 that warrant the tion. The population of the State was) 1,042,141, an increase of 159,030 from the Federal censas of 1850, The re are 70,57 more females thao males in the Of the total population it appears thut| 818 308-—that is, 604,161 males and 213, This does not include] scholars and students, largely children, or 382,625 women classified as| “housewives,” the wife or some person in the family who has general charge of domestic affuirs, but without tive occupations. 338,72 28 wages p'e There 3985584 persons engaged in! mann factures, trade claims 106 733, end | agriculiure comes next with 78,661, There has been an increase ia illiteras cy in the State the last ten years, which i8 remarkable considering it is Massa- chusetts. In a population of 1,581,061 over ten years of age 122 263 are class«d as illiterates—cannot read and write. The 1lliterates, however, are wainly for tion in the State as to the growth of par- ochial schools, yet it appears while 205 602 children attend public schools only 11,396 are taught 1n parochial schools. As to the occupations of the people 76 per cent. of those engaged in agriculture are native born; 51 per cent. of those en gaged in fisheries; and 60 per cent. of those in manufactories, In the classifi- cation of laborers according to native and foreign born, the percentage of persons born in Ireland ie particularly noticeable the whole number of laborers, while those born in Massa~husetts constitute 2566 per cent, The Yankees don’t ran to hard masuai labor, bat in the profes sions, trades, and government service between 80 and 90 per cent. are native There are very elaborate figures and percentages as to births, indicating the proportion of children to native-born and foreign mothers, This point has been much discussed in argnments about the dyiog ont of the old New E gland stock. This isthe suoming up: Of th married wom'n why cre raiv “born! ™ 7982 per cent. have bad hildren and] 20.18 per cent. have had no children, while of the married women who are! foreign~born 86 83 per cent. have had! children, and 13.27 per cent. have had no children, There were in the State in| having cvildren, and 154 941 foreign born mothers. Of the total namher of chil native-born mothers and 50.79 per cent sre the children of foreign-born mothers proportion of children living is greater for the native-born than the foreign born mothers The fact seems to be that the foreign born baye the larger fami'ies, ba: matters are nearly equaliz Jd by the few. er deaths among the chi dren of native born mothers, Thus we find by these ecnrions census tables that while there in an excess of 77,763 native-born mothers over the foreign born mothers, native-born mothers have had 25040 fewer children than the foreign-born mothers, bat have 23 880 more children living and 48,909 fewer children not liv to one mother i= given,and there was one case each where the prodigions total was reached of 22,23, 24, snd 25 children for one mother; two of 26 children each, and one mother had the total of 27 chil dren. Cases of 10 and over numbered thousands. There is not mach danger of the Yankee stock, especially with the oreign-born grafting, dying out. At the hearing of applicants for license in Allegheny county it was a common ting for ssloon keepers to declare that they received from $70 to $80 a day over their bars, or irom $22,000 to $25,000 a year, counting 312 days to the year. One man said his receipts last year were $83, 067, of which amount he took in $57,719 from the bar and $25,384 from bott es The court expressed surprise at the amoant received from sales over the bar and said it was the strongest argument acninst license be had yet heard, The House at Harrisburg on 21 passed the new revenue bill by the decisive vote of 178 to 7. This bill is sabstantially the law passed in 1887, which failed because the Presi dent of the Senate did not sign it, The Senate should pass it as soon as possible. While the bill is not a perfect one, it is undoubtedly the moet rational tax measure that hes ever been io this Commonwealth, Itdoes away tol some extent with the patchwork tax lege islation which has been chiefly valoable for farnishing business for the oourt and perplexity and d'sapoolintment for which o ade of a mom SRIYY, GR 8 de of Voy wimoth willy. the revenue officials of the Commons wealth, PA., The State Finance Muddle. EXBENATOR HUMES PUNCTNTI TO GOVERNOR BEA XY APPEALS VER. 0 His Excellency James A. Beaver, Governor By the suffrages of the citizens of | Penney! van! la you were elected Gover inor, To this office they refused to elect [you in 1882, because of your known subs {serviency to the corrupt managers aud On assume you took the constitution, been Lo en that all other State officers performed their sworn do~ jes, {manipulators of your party a|iog the duties of Governor "oat h by { Your duty as Governor prescribed our a | fore ¢ the laws and see Have you performed your duty or |bave you sided and abetted others in vi~ {ola ing their duties, that there by they {might benefit their and your political i Knowiog tbe class of men who d the foie w ho asked voor thie | masters? { and « laboring surround of those ntrol you ar men” jadministration to enforce constitus It oual daily lated by the provisioos i Reading Rails r way I can reach you isthrough t aking vio ad ( om pat ¥Y, Lhe only “" press, Excuse me for spe #0 plainly all can understand, When we first knew Governor therewas inthe sinkiug fon vouds $4 300000: cash, the sinking fund ex; 1$1,000,00 } snd reve eave United Btateg $058 923, Then were about B1.700 918. No- still r ME Ieea vember 30, 1887, these b there and $1 489,023 3. The fund expenses for 1887 showing the sinkiog more than would meet ex year, The estimated nde were cast sinking were £005 $04, fund 8523 558 the revenues for that year were at $1,580 500: this gave you a least $3,000,000 to pay less than The laws you aud re to support command you and them to invest surplus funds ted States ? Not surplus as re. in penses for one, your satellites sw in Sate or Uni bonds. What did you and they d. only refused to invest the quired by law, but and January, 1888 ted sinking fu than $2 Why did yon and the Commiss the Sinking Food, whom we le consulted you, do this? opinion that it Hiates bonds December, 1 £1 i¥ OOD ia BN, , sold Unis States bonds, swe the rash in ling il to more 0 (00, loners of “Ht, o bank officers’ United nt Because of of distinguished wouln be to it per Oe best sell bearing > BOG bua y State bonds what your ’ { Lot 14 Be the Biukin ites Fund C« m bank offi # ners’, al |distingais hed srth, The §I ibonds sold in December 15887, and Jans {nary 1888, would now bring $45,000 more {than they did when sold and io addi ithe peo pi le ers’, of pini i 4 nis O00 O00 Unite Sinton have lost $50 000 (nterest. In {fifteen months your and their operations {as financiers has o 8 by February them $120000 ‘dear Beaver” bas and will make as interest on this same mon y by Febraary 1802, $31' 75 iat 6 per cent, When you ordeied these | United St2'os bonds 8 /'d (clearly in vin {lation of law) bad you porchasad $800 000 United Btiies bonds they would now have heen worth $45,000 ore than ‘hey cost and the people would now re ceiving £204,000 annoal interest on Unis ted Btares instead of $132,000, Bot under your management the banks 1g the “State Treamiry ring” receiving the difference. November 30, ISSR thers was about $7 225.000 of the State debt that woanid be paid by August 1, 1894, To pay thie yon had, cash, $3 300.000, worth $4,257,000: total, $6688 « 07 . + , * wt tL ® penple 0 000 and 1882 will he ost 10 Bat Stato Treasary ring” ve more as intere | the © Al be bouds CON POE are This was within $536,702 of being enongh to pay all that con'd be paid he. fore Fehrnary 1, 1912. The surplus sink- ing fund revenues for that year will be abont $870 000, ro by November 30. 1880, yon would have had money enough to pay all the State debt falling doe prior to February 1, 1912, and had a surplus of at least £300,000. You know the annual sarpins in the sinking fand is at least $700,000. If this continues for 23 years, till 1912, you will have over £16 000.000 accamulated to pay $6 861,100 bonds fall. ing due in 1912. Bat, sir, we have a con- #titntional sinking fund (proceeds of the sale of pablic works) amounting to about $3.500,000, which bears 6 per cent. This added to the snrpins, won'd make your fand $20000000 by 1912. One of two things is certain: yon and your advisers know nothing about finance or yon and they are the subservient tools of the “State Treasury ring” With $1 480,023 cash in the sinking fand November 30 1887, you sell $1,000 000 United States bond in violation of your oath of office for $1,247,000 for the sole purpose of huy ing State bonde. Yet on November 80, 1888 yon have cash in the sinking fund, $2431 SN you and your snbeervient Commissioners not invest in State bonds? Beraose yon and they were not selling United States bonds for the penple's in. terest, bot for the banks composing the “State Treasury ring” They are the eniners, the people are the loosers, Had you loved the people as youn pretended to more and the State Treasury ring (your moenter) loss you would have ad. vised the Legislature to reduce the sink thus relieve a burdened people from so much useless taxation, instead of asking for new sources and new subjects for State taxation. Yon desire to leave sink. ing fund taxes as they now are that yon may acquire a reputation as Governor in paying the State debt and increase tle general fund that you may Ye cilied lib- eral as to appropriations. But “dear Beav- er, don't talk” t with ake up your pencil, sud the aid of some school boy, figure ont what the present sinking fund reven- nes mean by 1912, or even 1894, and tell your master's Legislature what ures mean, your fig- Don't let them ran home by i make was for economy, April 25 an the people believe it take amount Kee Pp You know they from the treasury the same in April they would in July at wor See that they serve the people a little. They can give all license fee to the counties and thes relieve local taxa tion snd wake it up by torning $500,000 from the sinking fund to the general fand. By doing yon will follow in the footsteps of Governor Pattison. who when the Commissioners of the sinking fand less cash thao now asked the courts through his Attorney General to make them keep their oaths of office. Yours truly, H. J. Hones, .—— ‘Lae complaints of President Harrison ehilly receptiona to applicants and their friends are no longer smothered mure are open and general. The president seems to assume that sppli- cants and their friends are a'l to be deals With at arm's length, and he applies the same rule to all, regardless of their d:s- toction, It is evident that the president desires to unload the labor of dividing the pariy spoils as much as possible, and he makes it #0 unpleasant for those who visit him on the subject that they will wot be like'!y to come again if they CAD help it. Alread them ® BO had murs; they y the host of expectants are turning their attentions to the net officers, while cabi they denounce the president's rudeness in bitter terms If this want of cordia ity was confined to importunate applicants, it might be excosed, but he is equally chilly to all [hiere have been folly a hundred leading men to see the presidert since the iran guration in the interest of others who will not soon visit him again, becadse of the repulsive manner in which they were received. The politicians and applican's will | have to visit him and take the cold bath, bat busioess wen who want noth ng for themselves will not be likely to make a second call upon Harrison. The trusts tendency of the day to form and combinations regulating prices and prodoction, has a potable ii- ‘ustration and reaches an extravagant pitch in a scheme for the amalgamation fall the coal mines of Great Britain. usaltations are now in progress with colliery workers looking to this end. The capital needed is roaghly estimated at §$500,000,000. The scheme as brosched i#, of coarse, fall of professions and re- gard for public interests and solicitade for the working miners and all sorts of beneficent plane of insurance and relief, Guarantees for these latter are hinted at. All the same the leaders of the various miners’ associations have promptly sounded the alarm in opposition to the combination. Both in England and France the trast fever is raging and is regarded as showing a very unhealthy ¢ ndition of the England capitalist and the speculative classes, latent A lad near Wooster, Ohio, has recover ed from an attack of hydrophobia—the first case on record. David Barkly, the Milton township boy who is convalescing from an attack of the rabies, is now able to sit np. He is very sore all over his body, but this sensitiveness to touch is ascribed to im-« sgination, as he handles himself with apparent ease, The physicians think that this fear is a resn't of the hydropho-~ bia. The patient converses with visitors who arestill numerous at the Barkly home. Scores of letters from all parts of tio conntry are coming in and owners of “mad stones” are profferiog their servis ces. A wellsknowa Eastern physician writes that his daughter was bitten by a dog six years ago and he is in fear tha the bite may still result serionsly, hence he wants the Barkly boy's treatment in detail. Ecientists are writing for data to be ured in vEpsrimuating. i is The faculties of setenioen of the col« leges of this state, including the Univers sity of Penneyviania, Lafayette, Swarth- more, Hartford and Franklin and Mar shall, have addressed a pe'ition to the Legislatare asking for the passage of law allowing the graduates of chartered col: legos who shall have taken a two years’ enurea in pedagogics, including the theo- ry and practice of teaching, and have passed satisfactory examinations in the same, to teach in the public schonls of the State without farther examinations The chief argument used for the passage of the law is that those who enter the professions of law or medicine are requir. od to pass no La that examinations after Pe * [88 The Attorney Gen. Proceeds | against the Lebanon Mutual Ald Society. Judge Simonton has grant ¢d an order at the suggestion of the Attorney Gen eral returnable Wednesday, April 3,1e- | quiring the United Brethern Mutual Aid | Bociety, of Lebanor, ite officers should i to show cause why | not be removed or its | busines closed. The petition to the C that been c¢ mrt sets forth the business of the society has not md cted in accordance the | of the law applicable to the me and it is not carrying its con good faith, It that the | with provisions out tracts with i's members in is charged, among other things, corporation has wever been organized in | the manner conteinplated the by its arter- | ers, and, of | the ollcers from partici It have so fixed the by-laws, tion to their them that selves and paid to fauds of amounting in the farther, that men) led by ers society have beer exelue ite patiog in its affairs ig alleged, aiso, that the directors in contradic charter, as to a constiinte | A sel f-Daroa i ives eil-perpe contracte nating be them elves out of the society large salaries ten years precedivg | 1888, to the enum of $113. yy they have with thems the December 31, 000, -— Justice Matthews Dead, Hou. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, Asso- ciate Justice of the Bupreme Court of the United Bates, who has been serious . iy ii for some time past, died at half past ten o'clock morning of 22. He has been quite sick for three weeks, a'though further his original ilinpess detes much back. For two week past his condition has been considered Dr. Johneon has been in ox ance with him. Thursday Justice Matthews much worse that Dr. remained with him during the entire night He his famiy was present at the death scene, a —- a husba sentenced fo des f serious ynstant attend- Was sO Johnson Ail of tion of his son passe! away peacelfolly with tlhe exce ad wife Josish and th. und guilty Tauce't at were Out in Nevada have and been Elizabeth of murder in killing Carlin on Jan. 1, 1588, tenced to death Bigelow at E ko in the history of Nevada where thedeath Potts were Mies They hanging by Judge Be by This is the first case anced on wo travad 3 dt wiraved no emot penalty was ever pron a man. She | sellonce Was proaoanced the Judge at the lusion of his re~ marks. The date of the hanging has not been fixed. ion when and thanked Con a Of all the intercets in the conntry, the agricu ltoral interests are the least pro- tected. The mills acd shops and mana~ faciories have been cared for, or less, by enactments, but the farmer looks in vain fur a sop. Our proteclive sysiein is a oue-sided imposition. Toe farming interests should receive equal protectivn with suy otuer instead of bearing unjust taxation Ww hap up others. i ——— mure A rointer ror Irsmiey. It has been intimated that W. W. Dud- Jey will be made commissioner of the patent office under the new administra tion. Under the laws patent officials are not permitted to have an interest in inventions for which patents are granted. This would prevent Col. Dudley from taking out a patent for his brilliant in- vention for purchasing “floaters” “in blocks of fiv e "—Philade Iphia Record. But the People Will Have to oot the Bill. It takes a big increase of tariff duties to satisfy the manufacturers. The elec tion of Harrison must Lave cost them [emormonsl y.~~Chicago Herald. Don’t Be Too Hasty, Col. Dudley, It is said that Col. W. W, Dudley is be- ing pressed on Mr. Harrison for the com. missionership of patents. Dudley's friends should wait until they discover for certain what the Indianapolis jury is going to do with tho author of a certain electioneering circular which bad about it a suspicious aroma of corruption. The author of that circular is not yet by any means ‘out of the wood,” so that accord- ing to the proverb it isa trifle premature for him to indulge in “whistling.” --New Orleans States. Amazing Credulity of Civil Servicers. While upbraiding President Cleveland for lack of fidelity in its cause, the In- diana Civil Service Reform association nature is quite touching. a himself, when in the sen- ate, ono of the sturdiest of spoils hunters, the Indiana civil service reformers have a child like faith hat be wil politicians ot arm's length. phia Record. How Ts This, Field Marshal? In a recent article in The Century magazine describing his second visit to Gravelotte battlefield Murat Halstead ro- fers to several accidental meetings with Bismark. Can there be any connection between this article, Halstead’s recent visit to Gen. Harrison and an ardent de- to bo harbored in the Cin- | Sl rotor mind to bo minister to — NO. 13. NUGGETS OF NEWS, The mystery unding rance of Dr. . Crom i, Pa., is the disap well Lewis, of rankfor As ever, Fifteen cong: posure on Inavguratia Beveral ne deep ill from ex CRS Dn are om day. ish ments of the Jomed dow I The Bellefonts s haves up It is prett tart novels fon Wii yv well se made in Per and that incu iat no rex ania except 5 of office thelr commis CRUNe, At Norwood, 2 postoffice clerk CRS shier of the iit ana theu re - $278. Y., Chai locked F Norwood the . bed Bix thousand Fall River fty mills idle WEeAYErs art Mich: gers America uecnstow $taon Henry Ge Was net wl Doneghy and his on an 1h oming Were arre sted n for having 1 thelr b wife, nassen teamer from on their arriva revolvers ang a Eag d at Bouthan po ty of friend y Ri wy hen Mr. Georg by a large a a i on board of appeared by his walling transferred t on the Sean at na r§ was loudly cheered ana he hs Tans 13 14 passe uted “Good by.’ Westminster (38 a Was BOETLEETS Mr George is the Palace hotel, London. I the { burned in the factory at Plymouth, Georg: Reese, serion iy Pow ell dead. G. R. his hom He was appoint codify the judge of the Twenty for eighteen A freight train reman who was sion of the Pa. is exp. Bun PP Barrett y #14 in LAearneiaq died at the age Pa o § i by President Pi ierce ta enue law and served a fifth judicial distri Erie Years iry and 14 of ni ral broke in twe tion was struck by te The loco several cars were wiree bod J ns Was killed and Engineers Rarick and Hopple were badly hu Mrs. Clan: is wists Vision 13 ennsylva nd the rear por engines fol lowing $88 4 tive and iu Fe ars was , for steal bri pert, pretty and vivacious, Farmington wagon " n sent to jal un irg a horse and The Del: Castle, shut down for lack of orders There I « der in New still denie New 7) works, at week owing LWA a n the We The hrung mur imprisoned boy laborer named Allentown, la a practical joke by pretende , Who visited him some inne fright« him f his wits iter, a retired York ed in a Broad street dropped dead at the A German died iu the jail victim of White ( y An Mr. BR oe Hevbecke in UK ap ) ned out New ay ag mer Cary sight o! 1 His sister his corpse At the Ac the K The iteh on the ously objected ademy of Music, Pittsburg f the German national song Rhine,” was vigor to by a m imber of the audience on account of the Samoan inci dent, and before order om 1d be restorec the police had to arrest Ww P. Johnstox and Dr. Enghi “Pro fessor ” den, N. J., clai of the Monitor ngit We O Edwin Farnham, of Cap ms that he is the invent which knocked out the Merrimac, and declares that Capt. John Ericsson, who died in New York las! Friday, an a who enjoyed the distinctiof of hav ing pi Jannad anc built the {famout warship, is not entitle to the honer at all The Jressed stranger killed on the Pennsylvania railroad and believed to be from Bellefonte, has been identified ak D. 8 Ww atkins, of New Jersey - Spring Miils. Mrs. T. M. Gramley spent a few days in Rebersburg tuis week, Jacob MeCool's beautiful mansion on the hill cavght fire last Friday, but by the assistance of a large number of the town people the flames were extinguish ed before much damage was dove, Wm. Ream hss opened a sa ‘dler shop in town, something very much needed, and should ve patronized by everybody in this yicipily who needs sadlleriog done. W. A. Krise has rented his farm, north of town, to F. P. Duck. Dancan Raonkle had his feet burned while assisting to put out the fire on Fri day, 0 that he is obliged to wear slips pers, A number of onr young folks say they will attend the exhibition at the Deckart school house on Friday eve. Some of the schools of Gregg twp, closed last week, some will close this week and some next. E C Kromrine and family, of Lewis burg, spent last week with Mr. Krom- rine’s sther, this place, Something that Spring Mills needs very much--a first class barber. There are about & score of applicants for the post office, and each one thinks be has the best right to it. Some of the applicants served in the war and we have reason to believe that one of them will get it, wir] Weg.
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