Td GENTRE REPORTER Epitrok and Pror's FRED.KURTZ, STERMS; One yoar, $1.50, whon nee, Those in arrears sabject LO rms, §2.per year. paid in ad previous Advertisements 20 cents per line for 8 inser ns and 5 cents for each subsequent insertion, Cente Hann, Pa. Tuuonrs, Jung 27. A RAILWAY ENTERPRISE. A New Reading Railroad Branch Soon lo Be Opened. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., June for traffic within a month or so. The now ready for the ralls. A bridge across Fishing creek rem but the contracts have been given for this, and the structure will be up by the time the rails ar } At burg the was built. delphia capitalists who control Bloomsburg and Sullivan road, are ar- ranging for the purchase of to the 15 Jamison and his associates. to be enough timber 80.000 acres to and there is said standing on the trafiic to the Blox road for years to come. tion t road and convert the logs into which will be shipped to market the Readin i. The tract of land question is said to be the nearest to mar ket of any t timber land Pennsy y The Reading is to derive a large revenue district, and will be moderate cost timber for its mines. It is the inten- y erect a i 1 sxpected from the The Yale-Penusylvania Freshmen Race. New Loxpos, Conn., June 235. Yale fresmen are making = a tions to i iv Den Crew as it 18 0 of the men from university men going to row with the fre i them are members of nearly all of freshman class graduate ol and is i 8 at the 1 n 14 in the ciass from hools. wets Himself Carberry, the well Known ex-representa tive from the Third district, shot self in the brain sho 7 n his appartment store. at the anda Call been depr will proba 0 Buttermilk, Pa. June 20, George Dwyer, grandson of Septimus Drowned in IRISTOL, the 15-months-o Turner, a farmer found in a wash boiler which with buttermilk. His feet st above the surface led to the di his body, He lead when The child had b 3 and plunged « filled icking up was y head first, Gohr Need Tramp No More. ALLENTOWN, Pa... June 20. will Wer, Agent Schoch's office he his tramping days are pension papers £2,000, teers, Company B. An Old Friend of Cameron's Gone. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., June 25.—Mark had been confined to his bed the months with general debility. an old and intimate friend of Gen. Simon Cameron, and one of the best known cit. izens in Unien county. Swarthmore’'s New President. SWARTHMORE, Pa. , June 20.— Professor William Hyde Appleton has been elected temporary president of Swarthmore college, vice Dr. Magitt, who has re signed after serving eighteen years. Mr. Appleton has been professor of Greek at Swarthmore seventeen years. He is a graduate of Harvard. The Lyceming Judgeship. WiLLiAMsPORT, Pa., June 20. Judges Maver, Bucher and Rockefeller held a consultation here in the judiciary con- test case. Owing to the Hood an order was made by the court that the taking of testimony on the part of Judge Meta. ger be suspended until July 15. Hanged Himself in His Barn, WiLkESBARRE, Pa., June 20. George Eckert, aged 60, a respected resident of Plains. a suburb of this city, hanged himself from a rafter in his barn. The lifeless body was discovered by his son, Family troubles and melancholia are as signed as the causes, Railroads Consolidate, New Yorg, June 256,—At a meeting of the stockholders of the Hancock and Pennsylvania Railroad company, by a unanimous vote a consolidation was ef- fected with the Forest City and State Railroad company and the Scranton and Forest railroad. Dragged to Death. Reaping, Pa., June 20.-While Harry Strohm, aged 16 years, was engaged in cultivating corn with a pair of mules on the farm of Joseph Yiugst, near Relist ville, this county, the mules ran awa and dragged the boy until he was dead, Wihlkesharre's Club to Continue, Winkgenanne, June 20,—A meeting of base ball enthusiasts was held in the Board of Trade rooms and financial pledges given by substantial business which will ensure the maintenance of the local club during the season. in A A A The Easton Club Will Disband, Easton, Pa., June 20.—The Easton Baseball club are to be disbanded at New Haven on Saturday owing to lack of funds to carry the team through the Reuson. : Flames Threaten the Ruins of the Stricken City, TWENTY-FIVE HOUSES BURNED. The Flames and Extinguished After Lasting Over Stricken the Town. Started In a Beoys' Bonfire a Hot Fight Two Hours—The Panic Populace Prepare to Desert Jounstown, Pa., June 25.-—It was that the remains of Johnstown were not entirely wiped out by fire yester- day afternoon, The blaze began with the First ward school hous, which stood on the bank of Stony creek. That build- ing stood on the upper side of the dismal waste which the torrent of water swept clear across the town. Close by the school building, all jumbled up together, were about thirty buildings, some of inhabited, Next to these houses was a street, the only one not yet cleared of debris, and on the opposite side was a wide stretch of ground tightly packed with frame buildings in all manner of decrepit attitudes. Still further above were some of the best preserved build- ings in the city. The Populace Panic Stricken, Had the wind carried the flame in the opposite direction, fire would have de- the immediate neighborhood, as it of the hardware succession, Une houses had been a the explosion of & keg of powder in if gent the burning roof flying in frag ments, thus increasing the danger. store bonfires that space, with carth and off the 6 of communication the ned buildings, occu pants were already moving the remnants their furniture. This banking the bonfires with earth and the veering of the wind so that the burning were ca into Stony ( reek ended the danger in this direction. ¢ line i 2 \ threat w hose embers General Stampede. On the other side the the a gan reached 1 11% 1 40 IRALIG Anda sosition until it had street and then tore d houses ime the sti Fine i under FOUTS, the €n valley on agration. elief that up is . Word unre oney Was for Siek Women. urn Barton, of the Red kod Gen. Hastings for tw wmty-fiva of Neos Last evening { BOCICLY, a transportation the festitul i formale airy Park, wh them for a month Gen, Hastings promptly tickets the Red away this week, EE people Prospects of the Niearagus Canal, Wasninaron, June month the second detachment * 3 ariy of 34 ~~. ©m will leave New York vena last month carried the first detach- ment in tharge of Lieut, NN. I. Usher of the navy. The project guay canal bas been a distinctly naval idea although the money has been sup- plied by leading capitalists of Now York and other Admiral Ammen, Civil Engineers Menocal and Peary. Commodores H. C. Tavior and R. D. Evans, Lieuts. Usher and Maxwell and Burgeon John F. Bransford have made repeated trips to Nicaragua and have every foot of the proposed new waterway. Nearly all of the above named officers will leave for Graytown, the Atlantic side of the canal, next month, where ;they will be placed in charge of the different sections of the work. Cities A Murderess Escapes from Justice. BavriMong, June 4.—~Owing to a pe- culiar statute in the Virginia laws the conviction of Mrs. Virginia Tavior of murder in the second degree for poison. ing her husband has been set aside, and instead of serving a sentence of five years she walked out of jail a free woman, Judge Gunter, of the circuit court, hav. ing decided that by the Virginia law killing by poison is murder in the first degree, By the same statute Mrs. Tay lor cannot be tried again. A Coming Catholic Centennial BALTIMORE, June 24.-—A centennial re- union of Catholic societies and Catholic laity will be held at Bay Ridge, Md., on Thursday, July 11, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the archdiocese of Baltimore, which event also marks the centennial auniversary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarcy of the United States, Fatal Fireworks, NEw Loxpon, Conn., June 22.—<The eight oared four mile straight away race between _the Yale and University of Pennsylvania crews was rowed last evening over the Thames river course, from Gales’ Ferry to Winthrop's Point and was won by Yale by one and one. half lengths. Official time, Yale, 20 BO; Pennsylvania, 20 56°, ————— a Yale's Victorious Crew. Bosrox, June 22.-—A disastrous fire accompanied by loss of life occurred last evening in the fireworks establishment of Heyer Bros., corner of Sumner and Hawley streets, Three dead bodies have been taken from the ruins and three per sons are known to be fatally injured, It is feared that there may be more victims among the debris. Verdict on the Armagh Disaster, Loxvos, June 22,—The coroners’ jury jn the recent frightful disaster near Armagh have brought in a verdict hold. ing five of the officials of the railway re sponsible for the loss of life and charg: ing them with manslaughter, The Ehah in Brossels. Bruesers, June 25 « The shah of Persia has arrived. He had a cordial in- terview with King Leopold anil was en- at luncheon in the royal palace, PITTSBURG IRON CONVENTION. The Amalgamated Association Adjourns After un NSeyenteen Days’ Session, annual convention of Amalgamated As sociation of Irom and Steel Workers reached a final adjournment after a ses: gion of seventeen days, William Weihe was unanimously re-elected president, William Martin re-elected secretary, and Staven Madden reappointed assistant secretary. There is but little doubt but that the wage scale as adopted by the cqgvention and submitted to the manufacturers will be accepted by the latter without alteration. The difference between the employes and managers of the Carnegie Home- stead mills remains unsettled and will probably so remain until July 1, the end of the present scale year, There is now po prospect of an amicable adjustment of the enon between the managers and their employes, and a strike is al- most certain to occur at that time, Jones & Laughhn signed the seale of the Amalgamated association for the American Iron works. This is the first firm to accept, but other signatures are expected. Tried to Wroak a Passenger Train. CARBONDALE, Pa., June 24.—Frank George, Henry Scharsky and Alexander Howler have been arrested on the charge of attempting to wreck | road. As the train rounded the curve near Carbondale it had a violent shaking up. The train was stopped and the con- ductor found a piece of iron bolted to the rail and caught a glimps of three men making for the bush The mer named were aftorwards arrested on the charge of being the oulprits. Had the train been thrown from the track, was intended, it would have falled d an enbankment fifty feet in wis filled Der: loss of life would have with pases at rasulted, Pennsylvania's New Stock. PHILADELPHIA, June 25. last week in wh the Pennsylvania have the right to capital stock, and as the sto mains above par, in spite losses by the J WH little doubt that al nvail themselves « the pnivilege half of the full am now, the other half before 1 receipts bear interest cent, until Nov. 1, when be issued, but it will not the dividend to be declared in y the tO Railroa subscribe t ol One LJ yy 1 he fr aL £3 Sunday at Johnstown. Pa.. entirely suspen led in the town, Open air services the pastors of the The § on dress parade and attracted much at tention from spectators. wore rn svirrrd The remains of twe a and a little girl were found Stony creek, and the remains of a China man were found in Kernville, : 1% + - Yes * JOHNSTOWN June 24 Johns ruins a homeless churches Nome Bursed to Death. Fraxgux, Pa., June 24.-—-Mrs. Me Dowell, age 68, widow of the late Col Alexander McDowell, while des ending the stairs at the residence of her son, fell to the bottom with a lighted amp, whic! exploded enveloping her in flames, She succeeded In react the yard, but be fore assistance arrived, was death. The Pirsnvng, June river miners has beer at Monongahela City to consider the wage question and the abolition of the pla k-mestore” system. A strong ef- ort will made to get a large repre sentation from the fourth pool. “Pluek-Me-Store’” 21 A comvention of called for June 2¢ System. ah be FPittaburg's New Masonic Temple. Prrrssvne, June 25. The dedication of the cantly new Masonic temple took Mace at noon, the ceremony being be find clased doors. Among the digni taries present were Clifford McCalla and Right Worshipful Past Grand Master J. Simpson Africa, of Philadelphia. Another Gettysburg Monument, Gerrysstrg, Pa., June 25, — One hundred and forty-five veterans of the One hundred and twentieth New York infantry, from Rondout, N. Y., amved here to dedicate their monument neat the Emmitsburg road. Will Carleton the poet, is with them. Ofelia] Majority Against Prohibition. Harrissonag, June 24. —The precise, official majority against Prohibition ie Pennsylvania is 189.020. Only twe counties iu the state voted in favor of abolishing the poll tax on suffrage. and the majority against the proposed change is 233,850, Lehigh University Commencement. Berureney, Pa., June 21. The le high university held its twenty third an nual commencement. Sixty young men graduated with degrees and «i bt posi graduates had degrees conferr®d upor them. Presidential Postmasters, Wasninatox, June 10. ~The president has appointed the following postmasters Pennsylvania~James H. Sagest, Rid wav: A. Randenbush, Lehighton: O, D. Falkenburg, Susquehanna; John A. Mentzer, Ephrata. Northern Central Trafle Resumed, Winiamsronry, Pa., June 19.—The Northern Central railway resumed traffic at noon yesterday. Niagara ex ress passengers were transferred al Ralston to a train which was run from Elmira, Philadelphia Cricketers New York, June 19.--The Philadel Pha team which is to contest cricketin onors with the gentlemen of England, Bootland and Ireland sailed for pool on the City of Chicago today. Trains on the Beech Creel WiLLiamsrort, Pa., June 20.-~Trains began running on the Beech Creek rail road, between this city and Jorsey Shore, and will be running over the whole length of the road in a few days. sb A ANAS ver The Reading Club Disbhands. Reapivo, Ph, June 19,—On account of a lack of patronage the Reading Base ball club has disbanded. The pla have only had two weeks pay er their organizativn, A “Speak Vasy” Spy Branded. Prrrspuna, Je ne 32. fang of loaf ers in a “speak easy” saloon seized o man suspected of being a liquor law spy and branded hira by pressing a red hot went into his Hesh, yy NEWS BRY "ITIES. Nettie Colburn, seed 18, daughter of Elijah Col Lhart, Ind, took five grains of morphine and died several hours later, he highly sensitive over her fleshy condition, and had fre quently threatened suicide, General A. C. Myers, late quarter master general of the Confederate army, died at his residence, in Washington, Mr. and Mrs, John Leavitt were ar- rested at Lincoln, Neb. Wednesday, charged with the murder of their two daughters near Gresham on Sunday night. They are lodged in jail at Beward. Two Choctaw Indians, who had drawn peveral hundred dollars of Choctow net sroceeds funds and started for Fort smith, Ark., were killed in the woods of Bugar Loaf mountain, in Indian ter ritory. Jonathan Skeeye, the 18-year-old youth who shot and killed Professor H. T. Matehett, principal of the Hanover, Ils. public school, on May 05, and who re- cently pleaded guilty, was sentenced to prison for life, Two men were stricken down heat in Chicago and one of them died, Several buildings Lafayette, Ind, by a wind and rain. Hil, o wns were wrecked violent storm ut of Thirty-two bodies were taken from the largest number for several dave. Six of those recovered belong d to one family their former home. The Cambria comp- pany paid their men for the first two The against hag entirely all the documenta laid Browns of York. bat h of the The St. louis have Pitcher StiveMs, Ap Interesting Parnell com mission. Mrs. Maybrick will probably be for the murder of her husband in Lon dull, but and firm ed 8 los of were vers strong Yor y tive show 1.800 000 in the surplu ri Mr. J. H. Hollander, Guatemala Star, who The mls Serve. editor expell santry by the government, wil peal to Mr laine for the his rights as an American citize The New York pension of the amount necesss payments for the cus of if was ig mquaring many Apia has Matanf 5. Of tombed in a pit at all were rescued | were recoversd The Emperor British fleet of St it Mr seventy Yhen "wiry Nt it wil £ tran ferred to riited 1 Mr. Parnell and Mr. Davitt are therefore, the sole owners of the Bulkley of { onnecticont, bill and the legislature adjourned sine dic Governor Spokane won the American (Micago Ben jumin Morgel, a well Wn farmer, of Autrimm township, Pa., was struck by lightning while at work in his field and instantly killed, as were als his two horses The number miming at Johnstown and vicinity is now estimated al not lems than 10,000, More victims of floods are reported, A pitiful story comes from Arkansas, a worgan and seven of her children hav ing been drowned in trying to escapx kn née, Chicago poling, officers have arrested Thomes Walsh, charged with having sheltered Martin, the alleged assassin of Dr. Cronin, after the murder. Burke is sald to be wanted for a murder com mitted some years ago in Ireland. The peace Yongjrem apened in Paris Sunday. Mrs. Love and Mrs. Belvs Lockwood were elected honorary mem bers of the committee. Princess Augusta of Hesse, sister of the queen of Denmark, is dying. The railway employes charged with causing the recent disaster at Armagh have been committed for trial. Gen. Boulanger and some of the most prominent of his supporters will hold a conference in London on Wednesday, * During a gala performance at the opera house In Berlin in honor of the wedding of Prince Frederick Leopold and Princess Louise, of Schleswig, the costume of the premiere ballerina took fire and she was seriously burned, The captains of the school boys wh marched in the industrial parade at the centennial celebration in New York wer presented with souvenirs, which they were to distribute among the boys, The souvenirs consisted of lithographic de signs on hand made vellum, The Williamsport relief fund now amounts to §37,000, This, added to the $50,000 which the state will award, will make $587,000 for distribution among the needy sufferers, The American Pharmaceutical asso ciation convened in San Francisco. Three hundred and seventy-five dele gates were present, Negotiations have been pending for some months past for the sale of the Vassar wery, at Poughkeepsie, N, Y., and it is vow learned that a bargain for its transfer to an English syndicate is about to be completed. iss Consular Appointments. Wasninatox, June 21. The presi dent has made the follo vonsular appointments: Oliver H. Simons, of o, consul to Hong Kong: Wilk fam Monaghan, of Ohio, consul t Chatham, Ont; William T. Rice, of Massachusetts, consul to Leghorn; Lyell T. Adams, of New York, consul to Hor gen, Switzerland; Henry W. Diederich, of Indiana, consul to Nuremberg; Roland J. Hemmick, of Pennsylvania, consul to vil of Ohio, har bc appoin od ok Maso: : . eral at Frankfort; Charles B, , of M cohsul at Marseilles, and H. a. of Dela al A 8 wh Ein LN as A a rt i ir # RoR Wy SAL BE dP SS » J bs i J % “ Wahl Li kdite <Yakh ae. ve 9 bo 2% a “Oastoria is so well adsptod to ahd re ing recornrnend (tas supers Ties Hatiia HOWE LO He A. Aw ol Eo. Oxford UL, J ri omg 1 ET ORR MES SAI SR J I ES ¥ HUMPHREYS’ DR BUUIOREYD BAO IR. BE ARETE BOO Cloth & Cold Binding 144 Fagen, with Buel Ksgravieg, BATLED VEEE, Address, VV. 0. 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Welle sf once, and ra balenrs of Lhe choos, Baader BH wT be bari any oui fo ahew Lie eeregiee Lo Chose Who toed call of your hoa reward wil be neal selistestary. A poeta anrd ob bo we te corte bad 1 send afd afer pou Raow &ILY pou £6 pod sare be go fartier, why se hare te Soe Fat ¥ you bo en’ your abbr of onne, pou oul secure TIRED EL ose of the Pawi eniid geld watches Bo She world end our eres See of COSTLY SAMY I ES, We par oll snperwes, hv arn Gi. FERRO & Oh Bt Hh FORT NE, BALSA SELLING OFF AT Cost | Having engaged in other bu- siness requiring our attention elsewhere, we will sell off our entire stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Hard ware, OQueensware, Glassware, etc,, AT COST, for Cash or approved paper or produce. Call at once! and secure bargains, as the stock is com- plete and perfect in quality. DALE & CO, CENTRE HALL, PAINTING The undersigned are prepared to take contracts for he painting. Prices 1 3: reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed Joux T. Liss, Frasg Anxny, - ew - HAIR. Plastering Hair for sale at the Centre Hall tannery. Call or address May? J. 8, Rows, SIE - PETER HOFFER, Centre the Osborne & ( Tell, sel’s vs Harvesting Implements, the Clipper 8idehili Plow, the Strail’s Patent Rover gible Suiky Plow, the Elmira Spring Harrow, 81¢0 the Union Mest Chopper, and the Expert Gmin and Fertilizer Drill, the Lighthotise Feedeuller, and iron Water and Feed Troughs Zray Sm Also the celebrated Albright Hayrake a St th, TRY YOUR KEUCK! send us tie names of two new subsoribers, at §1.50 cash each, and will send you the Centre Reporter ane yoar tree, and six months for each additional name. This ts simply as an experiment, with nothing in it for us, all for you, and the offer Is only good until July 15 next. Try your luck at onoe, Si AI AP A 01 WOOL WANTED. The highest market price paid for all kinda of Wool, st all times, by W. M, Alliwon & Bro, Potters Mills, 2myit NL AID IOS RSS WELL DRILLING. Mr. Clemens, of Mifilio county, will come into this valley about Ist of May with his steam drilling machine, Per pons desiring wella put down on their mises, upon favorable terms, can ve their orders at the Reporter office. ———_——— Ono pli MAK, Funerals attended wilh a very fine Hearse. 17janly : MANHOOD How Lost, How Restored ! i t i 3 nvelope, 1 i post paid, on receipt of four cents or two postage stamps, Address Sawmgpie of medicine free j H CULVERWELL ME TAun St. New York, N.Y. Post Sljaniy ICAL CO. Roe Box, €0 ny b 2 x od 3 Raiie rpg etii=s Piso's Cure for Cone sumption is also the bost Cough Medicine. If you have a Cough without disease of tho Angs, a few doses are all you need. But if you ne- gloct this easy moans of safety, the slight Coagh may become a serious mailer, and several bot tios will be required, CONSUMPTION a al RAR Co er Pino's Tlemeady for Ostarth 8 the Best, Buost to Use, Bold hy drogeidts or seet by Be. ET. Haseltine, Warren,
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