VOL. LXIL. THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR mo DEM. CO, COM, m—— Bellefonte, N. Wm . 8 W. Ww. W. Cantre Hall Boro Howard Borough... Milesburg Borough Mitthetm Borough. hil nrg, 1st W. Philips ig 2d W., 4 H Riley dw Jackson Gorton Unionville Borough... ....cossmmnsinerssssssnsess LJ Bing BEODIEE.. ..ooosccssvumsssessnsmmsrsssnsass John Mechiles NP... enone PAL p Confer BOSE®: ov P. crassT F Adams EP H L Barnhart College.. Daniel Grove Curtin... Ferguson wasn M Bower Patrick Garrety Joseph W Gross wd W M'Cormick wees M 1 Gardner . Willis Wenaer C W Harter J D Ritter ansnsaeT B DelORE John T M’Cormick Samuel Harpster Jr Geo B Crawford eed © ROSSman rersnnend A Bowersox JL A Weaver Wm Balley +C C Meyer aklin Dietz John Miles wl) W Herring Harry McDowell wt 4 Gramley reseed) 1 Mee cen W F Smith ener FT AIDIOY (+ L Goodheart Hugh McCann BR C Wilcox ~... Patrick Kelly RJ Haynes Jr J N Brooks Halfmoon Harris........ Howard... Huston Liberty Mario Miles. Patton.. Potter, N P.. BP... Rush, 8 P.... " NP... Snow Shoe, W P. -. oe E ¥ Spring... os ayler.. Union... Walker Worth....cv irene Wm T Hoover eens -onABTOD Fabr . 4 H McCauley WM, C. HEINLE, Chairman. A question for Higgins: Will the 18th of June be a very wet day in Penn #ylvania? The senate has rejected one of Har rison’s appointments, that of Murat Hal stead, of Cincinnatti, as minister to Ger- many. Notice has been posted in the rolling mill of the Columbia Iron Company that the mill will shat down on April 6, owing to dullness of the market. Soon as Harrison hears of it he will go to Columbia and start ber up again. The pictures of Gen. Jackson and Gov. Beaver can now be framed as companion pieces—each having had his nose pulled. Last week's experience of Gov. Beaver entitles him to the cognomen of the second Jackson. Jtis a big thing to have one’s nose pulled. Hurricanes or cyclones at Apia come up ususlly from the southwest, and re volving in the harbors tend to force ves. sels on the rogeed reefs or rough shores. The last Hurricane occured at Apia just #ix years agc. Fortunately no men-of- war were in the harbor, but every mer chantman was driven ashore or wrecked, houses were destroyed and palm trees up rooted. Two thonsand carpenters have strnck in 8t, Louis for eight hours a day. Daring the present week there will be a general shut down at all of the coal mines along the Monongaheia River and over 6.000 coal miners throwe out of employment indefinitely. The carpenters and painters of Baffalo to the nnmber of several hundred went on a strike this morning, They demand that the bosses recognize nine hours as a day's work. Beaver was about Washington on Thuras day in his accustomed hannts. He does ‘It has been suggested that a rule should be established in every bank, for- bidding officers and clerks to engage in stock speculations. London Truth says to women: “There fs not a single article you wear, from your boots to your hat or bonnet, which is in the remotest degree fit for the pur- pose for which you pretend to wear it.” A New Orleans judge has decided that when a jury, with a quart of whisky, a pack of cards and a handful of beans, play poker frcm midnight till 4 o'clock to a new trial. The American built war vessel Vesu- vius made on her trial trip 20 knots an hour, shipbuilding. The new British gunboat Spider, built with all the modern im- provements for giving strength and speed, fails to make over 10.2 knots an hour. Rapid Transit in Cities. It becomes almost a fight for life, limb and clothing to try to board an ordinary street car at the close of work- ing hours in any of our great cities. There is no large city in the Union with accommodations adequate for passing quickly from one part to another. Con- sequently working people must live in crowded tenement houses near their places of labor, and pay rents that they cannot afford for the privilege of even 80 poor a shelter as they get. Meantime the rapid transit of the future is gradually shaping itself in the minds of those alive to public wants They know already what it should not be. Elevated roads, passing on trestle work through streets, will not do. They are a nuisance and disfigurement to the street and at best can make no mare than twelve miles an hour. What is wanted is trains that can pass through the heart of cities at the rate of, say, thirty miles an hour. To do this they must have a solid road bed, built of earth and stone, The road can be elevated above the surface, or it can be a sunken way. It must not pass along streets. They are crowded already to their furthest limit, The rapid transit road of the future must cut through the center of the blocks and buildings, as it does in some parts of | London. Where it crosses the streets, if | it is by a sunken road bed, it will pass | under bridges. If the road is an eleva | ted ome, then it can cross the stroects | upon solid arches. So far from being a | disfigurement, these arches can be made really an ornament, Stations can be | placed at short distances, as in the Lon- | don underground railway. Over such a | road long trains can be run a very few minutes apart. Thus the problem of | rapid transit will be solved. There is one more point. If these trains can be run by an electric motor they will make no smoke or steam. Thus we shall have perfect rapid transit. i om— i The Single Tax. Those who support the single tax are classed by Henry George in two divisions: | (1) Single tax men limited, and (2) sin- | gle tax men unlimited. The single tax men limited would put all local and state taxes upon land and | : PA. Sammon. The Samoan islands are distant about two weeks’ journey by steamer from San Francisco. The soil is extremely fertile, the principal exports being cocoa~ nuts and cotton. Many years ago Ger- many, intent on establishing hersel in the west Pacific, secured extensive plan- tations on the cultivable islands, Her commercial interests there are greater than those of any other nation. The Samoan trade is mostly in the hands of Hamburg Great Britian has also some commerce, the United States very little, Great Britain, Ger- many and the United States have treaties merchants of trade and friendship with Bamoa. The American conling station of Pago Tutuila. The most important island is, how- ever, that of Upolu, on the north side of inhabitants. The foreign consuls live at Apia It has been the general impression that Germany desired to establish a pro tectorate over the islands, although her treaty with England, made in 1886, pre- cludes this. The two nations defined the boundaries of territories acquired by each in the West Pacific ocean. The treaty expressly declared that the Ba- moan and other groups of islands named should be neutral territory, The Samoan government was until re- cently a monarchy, at the head of which was King Mataafa. But a portion of his subjects rebeled, and endeavored to set up Tamaseso as king. For two years past the islands have been in a state of strife and disorder exceedingly unfavorable te comInerce. New Worlds to Conquer, In 1888, the little Central American states of Costa Rica, Guatemaia, Hon- | duras, Nicaragua and ' San Salvador had | a foreign trade of $27,000,000, only one- | seventh of which went to the United | States. There is one mining company in | Honduras which produces and ships over | $70,000 of bullion every month. Both Honduras and Nicaragua offer exceptional inducements to immigrants, Honduras offers to the settler free land | to till, the farming implements to use, | and exemption from military service. Nicaragua does still better. Her con | gress is now considering a proposition to supply funds to pay tho traveling ex- penses of a hundred agricultural fami-| lies a year. The funds for this purpose will be placed in the hands of Nicars | guan consuls at various points. To each family will be given outright the neces sary amount of land. Agricultural tools worth $30 and $100 in money will be loaned to him. He will be allowed five years in which to repay the loan. Except along the coasts, and in a few | low lying interior lands, there is no more healthful region anywhere than in these two republics. The table lands will afford pasturage for millions of cattle. | The soil is remarkably fertile, and the developed. And there has not been a revolution in either state for several years. Five western railroads have organized | a bureau for weighing and inspecting freight at St. Louis. These roads are its improvements. They do not aim to the Chicago and Alton, the Wabash, the change our present system of land ten-| Vandalia, the Indianapolis and St. Louis ure. They claim that the attempt to and the Ohio and Mississippl. The tax personal property is a failure and bureau last year weighed 27,805 cars The speculative market of France has received two very severe blows in the failure, first,of the Panama canal scheme and next that of the copper syndicate and the Comptoir d'Escompte. Boston has sent forth an edict that it is proper to eat with a knife, It will be of interest to note how far Boston can make the knife go down. The Philadelphia County Medical soci- ety asks the Pennsylvania legislature to pass a law requiring the inspection of all milk and meat to be used as food. Many brass working establishments are curtailing manufactures on account of the flurry in copper. They cannot tell whether the price will go up or down The London Spectator pays a left hand ed compliment to Lord Salisbury and his cabinet associates, It declares that the government of England today is government in despite of oratory, refer ring to the brilliant speakers of the op- position. For many years Rhode Island has had a property qualification for suffrage, This was abolished last year. April 4 the people will vote for the first time without the restriction. Nearly 8,000 will in consequence be added to Rhode Island's voters, The most persistent people in the coun- try are the Oklahoma boomers. They have proved themselves as difficult to dislodge as a colony of swallows under the eaves of a barn. There will be opened up to them by the presidents proclamation, 1,800,000 acres of land, in in the heart of the Indian territory. The tract extends from the Canadian river on the south to the Cimarron river on the north. The land that is opened ls not richer than many other government lands, though the soil is fertile. It is simply that it has been for many years forbidden ground that makes it so dear to the boomers, Compulsory Life Insurance. Rev, Edward Everett Hale, in The pulsory life insurance for everybody. The plan is for men and women alike, os soon as they are old enough to work for a living, to begin to pay to the state an anvual insurance fee, The payment would be continued up to the time the payer was 63 years old Then be could retire on his pension and live without work the rest of his days, if his payments had been large enough. At any rate be would receive a regular, becoming a public burden. The state would invest the funds paid in, and gel returns from them, as private insurance companies do at present. There is in Germany a law requiring the insurance of the lives of factory operatives. There is also a compulsory accident insurance, in which all Ger mans are included. These laws were Mormonism in the Southern States Next to Europe, the southern states of the Union are the favorite field for Mor. mon proselyting. It is the mountain districts of the south that are selected generally for the work. The missionary labors are carried on mostly in the states NO. 1 4 ror Hard Times in the Coal Re. gloms, | At Bhamo in the Neilson ghaft has! shut down again for six weeks, throwing| nearly 700 men idle. A half dozen other! collieries owned by the { Krianl List. FIRST WEEK~MONDAY, APRIL 22. E A Fancher va Andrew Immel. Wm Eype ve David Robb, E A Glen & Co ve John Neff and wife. Martyn & Gates ve Platt, Barber & Co. : A Merwin Betz va G F Hoy et al, working qnarter time. The Henry Clay,| John McDermott va Jobn Curry, operated by the Reading, employing! J H Reifsnyder ve Whitmer & Co. 1,600 hands, will be shut down in the J A Daiey. ss J D Gardoer. : PG Meck v8 J L Bommerville, pear fature if the coal trade remains in| : i BECORD Hard times in in, Woknmen| from the Schuylkill and Ly ming dis tricts are flooding this region iu Reading Coma! pany and other individual operators are! . : WEEE -MONDAY RIL 29 its present inactive state. Wil —-aOmAY, ATRL Racha! Shiontz vs A 1. H Everts va B L Darit IL H Overs v2 A J Griest, T Conrow's Admr's va Benjamin Rich, James Pierpout et al ve James Cross, Lehigh Valley Coal Co, vs Clearfield . + Bit, Coal C Orempioyment with disheartening re-| pulls, of idle workmen throng the streets daily hopiog fr the best. Large bodies of Hungarians and Italians are leaving the eoal fields the coal regions have wet Gam moyer, or uaest of work. while the miners in this section | invade Schuylkill and Lazerne counties Susquehanna Mot, lus, Co, Parker James ve Tyrone Mining and Manafac- turing Co. Abr V Miller vs John Bigler et al. (veo W Jac n v8 Wm Pownell. Mercantile fx Bank of N. Y. " ve Wm Thousands daily | my The slorekeepers complain National va bitterly of the hard times 2 I sydd ’ AAIIREL M M Fishburn vs J M Fishburn. i | George Peters vo George Ulrich, fleet 3 American! J A Krider v8 Dwelling House Ios iret at Apia the navy department finds Co. - By the destroction of the Stand a Pir : 3 1 itself confronted with a serious problem. | Ann E Garman et al vs John Big Short of the China station, where there ®" LW cares, Elizabeth Kunes vs H H Montgom~ is asmall fleet of old wooden vessels, at least one of which can never hope soc-| cessfully to cross the Pacific, there are! 1® most no American wu ar vessels worthy | Geo RB ak vs Jacob Walker. i C Boak etal vs Wm Snedden, can be sent immediately to Samoa, It] Frank McLaughlin vs Centre Mining would not be wise policy to allow events| C2: _ ) there to drift along without the present el L0 uler ve Suis Mowers & al. of one or more American naval vessels. | Cecil National Prey OF M Holt & The hostile armed factions on the islands] Co Sy 5 ble use of ve Baral Kenpels Y. MH Guiseve J H Bibb, name in the Pacific ocean wi iel 3% Bank are no longer under the restraining in| 0. vs G W Hoov- fluence of a mao-of-war representing any civilized nation, and property nights, at trict. least, might be insecure, if life was not! James Smith ve in jeopardy. i ? a te School Dies Margaret A Riter et al. A Mayeretal ve KE M Sturdevant -— MARRIED. At the Bash Be lefonte, Mr, Newton E of Boalsbarg, and Miss Maggie M g, of Pine Grove, Cen tre county. Bismark denies that he is dying. I ought to know all about it. 38! House, i —— Beribner's Magazine for April is nota- ble for the variety of its contents, which | includes popular articles on railroad af.] 0% March 26th, b ¥. I. Grob fairs, shipbuilding, mountain climbing. Mr. H E. Weaver of Potters Mils and snd the anatomy of contortionists: liter { Miss Donbalina of State College ary reminiscences of Scott, De yl In efonte, on Toesday, April 2, Burns, end Dr John Br JWI & paper 1880. bv Rev, J.P. Huges, Mr. Andrew on heen, the great Norwegian dramat B. Young and Ida May Long, both of ist: and one of the mn hi-praised series! Bellefonte. 4 of End Papers, the writer for this month | being Waiter Pater, author of “Marios | the Epicarean.” The illustrarions show | equal richness, variety, and interest A paper which is sure 10 cause discussion i8 “The Prevention of Rail. years, 4 months 19 days. road Strikes,” by Charles Francis Adams | President of the Upion Pacific. The au thor ties held this remarkable paper un. published for more than two years, think. ing that the time was not ripe for it. Events of the past year, especially the C. B. and Q. strike, have convinced him that a deep-seated trouble exists in the! relation® of railroads employes to rail-! On the 27th ult, at Woodward, John road companies; and that his paper may! Vonada, aged 8] years and 8 days. be a timely contribution to an important , discussion vy Rev, ihier Quincey! i ST Died, 3 the 20th nit. at Woodward, Mies Catharine Dingess, of Millheim, aged 68 si On the 220d ult, io Penn towaship, George Warren, sonof HL. F. and A. BR. A. Keen, aged 5 years, 3 months and 21 days On the 26th uit, in Tobias Bailey, aged 62 and 27 days, ™ |v enn township, years, J months On the 2ud inst. at infant child of George 1 § months, On the 2nd inst, at Emma J. Tomlinson, Aasronsgburg, an Springer, aged mm A The Pleshly School of Young Women Novelists. ! ak ; days. The new style of feminine writers b On the 20d inst, in Haines twp, Mrs.. enough to make the old style turn over in Benjamin Stover aged 61 yearsand 1 day their graves. In that dear old romance, “The Children of the Abbey,” Amanda, the fair heroine, concealed her Jove and sett i dc WN Wow Some farmers have commenced to pined away, and the doctor recommended | ow and work the land in this section. for her goat's whey and gentle exercise. | When in Bellefonte stop and see The new school heroine would have had | E. L. Powers §3 00 dress shoe. y Le we ar motion for April 1: a eves, and would have beld up her | ir Ag Gree Eyed; { flitters are appic litters, Millheim, Mrs. aged 27 years and of a» The weather is still ina very on- led state as yet. The best palpitating lips to a man to be kissed in | the most unblushing manner. The new school of women novelists —e {30 {0 Fanble's clothing house for —eBonj. Stover, of Farmers Mills, ; see old friends. puts a premium on fraud and perjury; It was suspected thst the merchants who fiction readers of the good old time. It) not seem ashamed of his action and he is generally supposed to be crazy. It was reporte! that several men were looking for him with the intention of avenging his cowardly attack npon a one-legged man. Arms declared that he would not avoid any enconnter. W. A, Okie, another real estate agent, called at Armas’ office and invited him to fight with pis. tols, swords or fists. Nothing worse than a voluminous flow of bad language The coal trade in this region has never been so dull as atthe present time, Even daring the panic of 1873, which paralyzed all braoches of business, there was no such stagnation as now prevails throngh- out the Clearfield coal region. At Osceola the coodition of trade is no better, T. C. Heims has suspended work in all Lis mines, Other operators have also closed their works. The miners can hardly get a day's work during a whole week, There is no scarcity of cars, but the operators are short of orders and cannot promise when their business will take a better shape. Ifthings do not soon get better the miners here will have to seek om- ployment elsewhere. The cause of all this depression in the coal business is supposed to result from an overstocked condition of the eastern markets. The iron trade is in a languishing condition, and coal dealers have lost confidence in anything that has to deal with or depend on the future outlook in th trade, ook inn the way of trade, orders are mostly supplied by parties having stock on hand. When the spring that the honest pay and the dishonest | evade the tax; that the collection of | taxes only from the land and its m- provements is a simple and economical | process; that it would tend to force the improvement or sale of unimproved property by diminishing its speculative value; that it would distribute the bur- dens of taxation equitably through rent to all persons in proportion to their means, and that the relief of personal prop- erty from taxation would stimulate trade and manufactures and reduce the rate of interest on money. In support of the last point they cite the fact that New York city can borrow on its untaxed of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. The two Virginias and Maryland have also been invaded to a considerable extent by the Mormon elders. They have likewise made one or two attempts in Kentucky, but their efforts were attended with such | discouragement there that they aban- | doned them. The Blue Grass region has - for some reason a udice against more Dr. Liberman, of Strasburg, recom-! than one wife at prefu mends electricity for the cure of ocon- In the states mentioned the Mormons sumption. Ho applies the positive pole have now 118 missionaries actively at of a weak continuous current battery 0 work, Their converts in the past eight the neck, half an inch above the collar years have numbered several thousands. bone, and the negative pole on theside of About half of these have gone to Utah, the throat, over the vocal chords, for ten Tun thousand families in the south have minutes, twice a day. | been affected more or Jess by Mormonism. loaded and shipped them had given false reports of their weights. The suspicion proved to be correct. The shippers bad undercertified the weight of their cars by 46,281,700 pounds. Out of freights to this extent the companies would have been defrauded had the false cortificates of weight been allowed to pass, - trade is dall, as it is now, there is a poor lookout for the summer season. Figures seem to show that Now York city is not so wicked as it was. In the last fifteen years arrests for juvenile de- linquency have fallen off 85 per cent, for drunks and disorderlies, 14 per cent., and for felonies, § per cent, i Cotton goods of all grades have not been so low In price for a generation. A rise of a cent or two on the yard would raise the wages of the cotton goods weavers. It would not be felt by the purchasers. i The American Institute of Civies in New York has been founded to promote the study of the most essential facts re lating to affairs of government and cit- dzenship. Members of congress should The next census will include a list of the names, organizations and length of marines, and of the widows of soldiers, The first real missionary work of the Mormons anywhere began In 1887, in England. It was not until a few years before the civil war that the proselyting in the south began, It flourished from the first, but was interrupted by the war. Since 1875 it has progressed more rapid. ly than ever. The Latter Day Saints have now missionaries in Asia, Austra lia and even in the Samoan islands, Formerly the elders worked little among the negroes of the south. But of late the exodus of the colored population from certain localities, and their migra tion westward, is said to be due to their converts know how to hold their tongues, Many proselytes are obtained from the women and girls of the mountain dis tricts. For this reason violent opposi- tion hag been excited to the elders among ath nN young men. They have formed a secre society called the “Friends [3 . we" The yoting folks had a party at W. is even questioned whether it is quite Nog op Taesday evening, sod we know proper to allow these stories to be read al enjoyed themselves. by well brought up young men. Cer! Men's, boy's, and children’s cloths tainly there are passages in some of them ing, from Jacob Reed's Sovs, Philadel Joulated to bring a blush to the cheek Phia. Full line of Shin Waists, Co jest ani i We Moxrooumgny & " of delicate and " wee We erred in stating that Mr. W. F must guard our young men in these Campbell would take a position with a days when the world is so strangely gp. jsfonte milling firm. Instead he left turned upside down. for St. Louis, on Taesday, and wiil en- The literature of the fleshly school of Sowvor to bicure ome Jere anent Jaca: on 1 ovelists charac- A 00 IN 8 Weslern mili. 0 the meantime young blood red a Hay bs hot. his family will remsin in Centre Hall. terized as It is fast. It outdoes an i —(30t your boy & nice suit at Lewins It is furious. It Y*! and save a coople of dollars thereby. thing written by Swinburne or Byron. Te largest and best assortment of spring It was left for young lady writers to suite, latest styles ever brot to Bellefonte. finally approach the verge of indecency Lewins leads in ready-made clothing for and step over. {men and boys. Theso novels are a flower of this [ ——Howard Homan has rented the : e house lasely vacated by W, L. Kurtz, Mr. Alfred Krape having porchased the property owned by Mr, Homan, wee Plowing was dove in Union town. ship, Mifliin ir in November, De. by itself. The only way to account for ober January and March, every month its existence is to class it as ap outbreak (uring the winter but Fehroare. Oats on the part of young women, after hav- were 85wn by some farmers in March. been repressod and kept within! ——The public schools in this place ing ill close in about two weeks, many centuries. The | ewe The family Rev Miller, dec'd., af tive that the books sell may be added. $ot mavral Jeara vouidente, Jo 1 1oynns. Few of these novels have any Merary i, cieptrg Hall, on Chareh street. merit. They aro mostly a heapof fester, _ 5, grat invoice of boy's and ing, blistering indecency. They are children’s clothing, from Jacob Reed's Sons, will be opened Satorday Mareb 16. the school are Ameri. Moxrooxzry & Co.,
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