VOL. LXIL.
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
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wasn M Bower
Patrick Garrety
Joseph W Gross
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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
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rersnnend A Bowersox
JL A Weaver
Wm Balley
+C C Meyer
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John Miles
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Harry McDowell
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(+ L Goodheart
Hugh McCann
BR C Wilcox
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RJ Haynes Jr
J N Brooks
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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.
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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
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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.
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House,
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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
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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,
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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.,