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.—