VOL. L THE C FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR X11. ENTRE REPORTER — The Sultan of Turkey has sent Gov. Beaver $800 for the Johnstown sufferers. ET. The"Bellefonte Republican has come out in fayor of Gen. Hastings for govern- or. Tbe question would be, can Dan make the riffle unless there's a flood. ——————————————— Southern Republican congressmen are threatening to make war upon Harrison and organize the next Hoase independ + ent of the caucus. They say they have been bad'y treated in the distribution of patronage. ————————— Not long ago cne of the religious pa- pers said the great need of temper ance reform was a “substitute for the sa loon”. Well, the Supreme Court of Penn tling establishment —————————— The wheat crop of Dakota, it is pow gaid, will fall short of the original estis mate by 30,000,000 bushels, and will not exceed 20,000,000 bushels, owing to the drought. The abundant yield elsewhere in the country will more than make up for this shortage, however. I TS ——— A large stable burned in New York on Sunday morning. In the burned builds ing were stabled 128 horses, of which only three were rescued; of 120 vehicles of all descriptions . 50 were entirely de- stroyed. The loss on vehicles is $10,000. The horses were valued at $15,000 and the building at $20,000. A New York florist has completed a large floral rooster to be presented to John L. Sullivan on his arrival in that city. There may be some association be- tween a rooster and a cocktail, but John woald prefer the latter every time, if it had enough brandy in it. A floral bull- dog would be a more appropriate gift to the slugger. THT So far Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson has been caught in appointing as postmasters a burglar, a convicted keeper of a disorderly house, a man who has been punished for sending obscene literature through the mails, and a man who does not live in the place where he is appointed (the law requiring him to be a resident). Now he has appointed at Dalmar, Ala., a vegro who can neither read nor write. This has raised a storm of indignation. Thereare only a few negro voters in the entire county in which Delmar is located. The whites are about evenly divided between the Democrats and Republicans. A ———n—— The State Fair property at Philadel phia, isunder the sherifl’s hammer, the Philad. & Reading railroad company having a claim of 825,000 against the con- cern. If Philadeiphla cannot keep up the state fair, which wasto be perma- neatly located there, we think Centre Hall cana farnish a good sabstitute in her annnal agrienltural gathering and far- mers picnie, With wise management and unselfish purpose there is every rea- son why we should be able to have a gathering, exhibition and picnic here which would answer every parpose of a state fair. We have the best ground in the state, central location and railroad facilities adequate for all wants, Of course, ther: must be no fogyism or idiocy about such a thiog to make it a access with the people who will not take kindly to any thing that smells crasky. The state fair has evidently Tailed to pay, else the sheriff wou'd not havea writ in his hands to force payment through a sale of the property of the so ciety, Two more “Jack the Rippers” are re ported under arrest, in London. Ouae tried to kill a woman before mid- night, and the other, it is said, succeeded in his plans early Saturday morning. Towards midnight the life of another woman was attempted close by Castle alley. A woman and man were seen to approach a dark portion of the thorough- fare near the Aldgate Kast station. The pair did not remain longin the corner before the woman was heard to cry, “No, I won't,” The remark was ad- dressed to a dark man, of medinm height, with aslouch hat and of foreign appears ance. The man siezed her, dragged her a short distance, flung her upon the carb. stone and produced a dagger. Screams of “Jack the Ripper” and of “Murder” attracted crowds of men and women from all directions. Among the first arrivals at the scene were several members of the local Viligance Associa« tion, which has jast resumed its work, Before the man had time to get far he was seized and a dredful struggle enened He bad a long kuife in his hand, and it was some time before be could be des prived of it. Eventually it was taken from him, Even then his fight for liber- ty was of a most determined natures, CEN The Oldest Persons Living. Is human life really lengthening? Near Washington C. H., in Ohio, lives Mar garet Arnold, a woman 112 years old, She was born near Richmond, Va., the year after the Declaration of Independ- ence was signed. She smoked a pipe for seventy years and then gave it up, be- cause she could not smoke any more, She is a little old two inches in height for some woman, five reason feot whatever she likes and never was ill in her life. She has been a widow fifty years, which is a good w hile, certainly, and Mrs. Arnold would merit the sincere Her last work was done three years ago, when she knit approbation of St. Paul a pair of stockings. The way to keep young is to keep working The old lady brother, all over 100 tins three sisters and a Ono sister is 110. § Their Aes Ure as The Salt Trust Formed. Articles were taken out at Albany on Friday for the incorporation of North American Balt Company, which promises a gigantic combination equal | {ing the sugar trust. In fact, maoy of | i those engaged in the sugar trust are members of this salt trust. The object { of the company is stated by its prospec | tus to unify and systematize the salt ins | | terests of the United States and Canada | | | by acquiring and operating the principal { works. The capital is stated to be $11,000, { 000 and the principal men of the English salt trust are included in the list The properties under op- | tion to the company, as we learn from | the New York Evening Post, and which | it is intended to { different | Yoout oO! in- corporators. embrace 130 producing the the acquire, works, now eights of of Continent. These have | seven annual | | pro luction alt on North | { American on now living is bor ¢ 4) 4 Of course up judged by circur probab in Lynn, Mass ocuments to back i Yad 1 Ae 2 . his claim, but WAriy as can be s he is as old as nit Himsell 0 Do-risd His nawe is Willian N “ Nova Bool he represe years, 1 Roach, and he was Ho remembers the Boston tea party, he s He heard the N.8., talking of it. born in Ly people of Annapolis, Roach spent many years of his life on the He bought Lynn with his earuings. ised to deed to Rolx colored man of 35, sa a little cottage in This he prom- rt Brown, a hale if Brown would take t of his life. That was Brown is now 60 care of him the res twenty-two years ago. years old himself and shows signs of getting old, but old Roach is still as spry as a cricket and does not weaken in the least. Mentally and physically he is in as good condition as ordinary men 6% seventy. His hair hangs in long black ringlets to Roach can neither read nor write, therefore has no need for spectacles. Since he was 15 he How much wave been if he had never his shoniders has been a tobacco chewer., older he mig! rs. Partington alone would living, however, is probably Nagy Fe- rencz, a soldier of the wars of Napoleon, 121 years old. ant, He is a Hungarian peas- Bares, and his birth is duly recorded and certified. Like old resident at 3 Poach, Nagy Ferencz cannot read or write, but his memory is, there- fore, all the keener, his tongue all the glibber. Ha can tell personal anecds of many d hed people who lived The { of i} isd 3 Speass wilh tho Hes istingui he event which it 100 years ago. Joe reverance was the the burial of his beloved sovereign, queen, Maria Theresa. He her fi mJ, He has all his great empress was present ¥ as ineral, is constantly on his I of friends, the oldest old bache- ver having been mar experience he has The oid, Post has been stirring up several of its New York reliable Evening neighbors on the umount of space they devoled to the prize | ght. It has count ed its own head and found that during a period covering two weeks before the fight and two days after it The World gave 48 columns all told, The Sun 46 and The Herald 85 to the affair. The Post then asks the sald papers why they continue to treat the winning bully as a popular hero, instead of the low, drunken bully he is. The fact is, perhaps on athletic grounds, but fact anyhow, that a good many more people took an interest in that prize fight than ware willing to own it. For iustance, it is said that the editor of a well known evening paper in New York editorially hoped that the “wild beasts would get the full extent of the law,” the evening before the fight, and next morning was down town early, asking eagerly and excitedly whether Sullivan was whip- ping the other fellow. up Out Os Early in the days of the present ad- ministration a colored man was appoint- ed stenographer inone of the depart ments at Washington. Immediately thereupon the whole army of colored messengers at the capital began to study stenography. They are diving deeply and intently into the science of dots and pot hooks. Each hopes that in time he, too, may be an ofilcial stenographer. Colored employes in the Pennsylvania Railroad company are studying so hard that it is said the officers whose messen- gers they are do errands themselves rather than disturb these earnest seekers after shorthand knowledge. An usher in the Pennsylvania general offices has made an invention which, he says, will allow cable street cars to cross other ca ble car tracks at intersecting streets. IN Bubseribe for the Reronren, only $1.50, where it was desirable or by securing at | | a fixed price per bar.el i duet, in no oge duoction of the { pay outright the entire pros | year to exceed past In for properties, which | { embrace nearly the salt prodocing | | properties on the North American conti~ | i nent, aud to furnish capital the pros | year. the order toi sll i with which | to do the business, the amount of money | required is $15,000,000, Now look out fora rise in the man’s salt equal to that on sugar, gays trusts are private affairs- hey must be as they reach right down | into the private purseof every man the coontry. poor | Blaine | We guess in -—— Johnstown Despondents The total of registered losses in the Conemangh Valley is between $8,000,000 and $0,000 000, not including that of the and road Companies, nox not register. Cambria Iron Pennsylvania Ralls " . such others as did So far the people have received the £10 a head fund, which amounted to §160% 000, and the first distribution of the gen- eral relief now to be made involves §500,- 000, so that the sufferers have been pai $660000, In the average } amounts to ahont 1 1 “ this case il per cent. of the ac- tual loss, and if, as the commission says, only about $1,000,000 remains to be paid, there will 3 per cent. made good to the sufferers, This state of affairs many, and the resait have left firsl time in history Iron Company finds itself of their losses has depressed that handreds Probably is the town, for the its Cambria ranting men, the several hundred positions This may in some measure be accounted for by the fact that a reduction has been made and another is contemplated, but many are known to have gone away that they may the sooner banish from their minds the terrible ordeal through which } hey have passed and the impression it] left on their minds. Huondred left because nothing but rain meets the eye wherever turn. Indeed, the work yet to be done in clearing up the 8 have they men employed so small, jucgement predict it will ted for next Summer, -———— The strike at the Homestead street plant of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., was def initely settled on Satorday and work will be resumed jost as soon as the fury naces are heated, that men of} not be comple. The terms of the settiement are poeitively known, but it that concessions were made on both gidea, The workmen, it said, have agreed to. accept a 20 per cent, reduction instead of 35 perce t, as not i= understood ia proposed by the firm, The scale will remain in foros for three years, endiog in 1802, and ins stead of the scale year beginning with January, es proposed by Carnegie, it will commence upon July 1, the same as the Amalgamated Iron scale. Here we have another example of “Protection American Industry,” Carnegie protects himself and workmen with only a 20 per cent, redaction in wages. A very interesting question has been raised anent a recent incident in Geore gia. John Pickett was accused of marder, tried, condemned, and execnted, After bjs body had been hanginga certain time life was declared extinct, and the sheriff turned the body over to friends of Pickett, But life was not extinct, and the feeble spark yet lingering was care fally nursed into full flame again, and Pickett is, physically speaking, worth several dead men yet, But what shall be done with him? Un~ der the law he was condemned to death, underwent all the pains incident to exe- culion by hanging, and was pronounced dead by the physician in attendance at the instance of the officers of the law. Legally, therefore, he is dead to all in- tents and purposes, and should be reposing under several feet of ground. Really he is alive—as much alive as any man on the face of the earth, and is, probably, decidedly opposed to being thos interred, Has the law got any farther claim upon to his life? . The New Catholic Universicy. March 7 Pope Leo XIII gave definite Roman Catholic university in the United States, It will be called the University of Washington. college at Georgetown will be supple- The ancient Catholic} mented by a course of higher studies, particularly in theology and kindred] topics. | The new university will be open to! xt The arch | daltimore will be ex-officio! g f students ne November, f 1 ww. bishop © chancells students who have finished | the course of instruction in other Catho-| {ic colleges in good standing in the coun-| try will be permitted to enter the insti-| tution at Washington without examina | tion. Bishop Keane is rector of the new uni-| versity. A spacious building for its ac i commodation is now nearly completed. | Bishop Keane made a careful inspection ities of Eu of the univer rope, getting for the It is his judgment that the German rather than the English model for jdeas American one. 4 great seat learning should be followed. men model embraces and the school. i inl deparvaents for] professional careers, and it will be per i ilar study and] s will De i pres mitted to take it up a parti 1 pursue But, especially, there will be { priesthood, young and| old, opportunity for a wide post raduate | The fosterers of the t to the ¥ COs, university wish to aid in givin world dis tinguished American scholars, ing a fleld of “decper st 1 by offer Wy, of broader, higher learning.” A Worthy American Work. The first t hree numbers have appeared , an En- Lan CYQuo A NEUEN guage.” k has been in progress i No one) reson could mry in our | i would bel # hi ™ 3 Lira, gucci in} . i the} | ums | Gp rv. oe i i fyytonl into} ww, of | Washington. The 1 is} Professor William Pwiglit ilies ! The most ! volumes is that SF important { they wii 13 NOL Oniy al mere dictionary defining ters, an} encyclopedia describing plaining other | ed yok rel ally, histor wine, There are are now in the English lan It BION rate of several thousand a year tainly not knows the meaning of all the words in| English Besides new! meanings and changed | i at the| Cer- | live whol guage 200,000 words 't the person docs the language words, meanings are continually being added to the same Take the word v“eable.” Webster or Worcester would pot have known what was meant if one had spoken to them of a submarine cable new word, or a cablegram, or of cabling a message Simply the application of electricity to} the industries, and that chiefly in the) last twenty years, has added several] chapters to encyclopedic lexicography. ! It is matter of pride and pleasure to] Americans that we have in our own country the necessary ability and schol arship to carry through to the end a work of such importance as the Century Dictionary. The iate Mra John T ir iti vier was a very brilliant and beautiful woman, charming | to her latest day. She was a New York | girl, not yet 20, and the president was thirty-five years older when he fell in love with her. She would not marry | him at first, and must therefore go on record as one woman who refused the hand of a president. She thought better of it afterwards, however, and took him The magnetizing of watches by the nu- merous electric currents in cities is be- coming a serious nuisance. Inventive genius is at work devising methods to obviate the trouble. One set of invent. ors are striving for methods to demag- netize a watch. This can be done by the same agency, electricity, Others are en- deavoring to construct a watch which shall bo non-magnetic, The National Retail Shoe Dealers’ as- sociation discussed at fts last meeting, among other things, the question of how best to promote the of employes, They reached at last the admirable con- clusion that employes could best be made honest ‘by adequate wages and a good example of honesty and diligence tn business.” Nothing ceuld be better. -—- An Awful Disaster in Japan. The steamer Bedgle has arrived at Hong Kong. Its officers report a recent fire at Port Luchaw which burned twens ty three hours destroying 87,000 dwell. ings. Twelve hundred persons perished in the flames and 400 otters were killed. Nearly 170,000 people were obliged to camp ont without shelter and were dy ing at the rate of 100 a day from want and exposure, The authorities are pro- A Philadelphia electrican gave bis ex~ perience under the effects of an electric mission in New York appointed to as~ certain whether death by electricity uns der the new law was punishment cruel and unusual. Lawyer Cockran's second witness was T. Carpenter Smith, a Philadelphia elec: trican. He said he had never known personally of any ease where a man has been killed by electricity, but he has had personel experience with the currents, which led bim to believe that the shocks, while painful, might not necessarily be fatal, He said he had been shocks ever eince he had gone into that business, fourteen years ago, irst was at the establishment of the Keystone Light and Power Company The § BOorious one in Philadelphia. He came with the wires of a dynamo of the We and exactly like that which will be in the state prisons in case " Mr. the hande ~perfectly unintended, he eaid, bu nevertheless quite as perfect as it could current, It was a dynamo whose ordinary cas pacity was between 1000 and 1500 voits. At the time of contact thought, was possibly 15 voltage, he First he couldn't let go, conldn’t do anything in fact, except stay there and let tbe curs rent sweep throogh him. He says he remembers feeling as if he had been hit by a pile of bricks, then as if all the fli ings in his teeth had been jerked out without ceremony, then as if he had been suddenly tied up in a knot, scourged all over with a bundle of loose steel rods and finally thrown with extreme force to the ground. Consciousness did not leave him, but he became stupid. When his grip on the wires relaxed be didn’t appreciate what had occurred and me chanically went to work on what he Lad been thinking of before the accident. ——— The Pittsburg Post says: One of the most gigantic schemes ever manipulated in this community is at present being operated sub rcea. Its magnitude and scope are simply monumental and would radically affect a most important Pitts- barg industry. It is nothing less than a plan of a syndicate of English capitalists who are making strenuous efforts to pur- chase all the steel works of this city, Their representative, it is understood, is now here sounding the various firms ont their ils ARI, plants Naturally this movement bas created a prodigous sensation among the few gen tlemen who have as yet been admitted to the conference of prospective buyers and sellers. Such a scheme carried out, shake local industrial affairs to their very center. It would place the English capitalistic syndicate in the very heart of the iron and coal region of the United States. By well posited people it is looked npon as the entering wedge of immense foreign corporation with would, i an i andless funds at its disposal, but owing to lack of opportunity in Europe comes to this country to spread its tenacles all over the great industrial section of the United States. mr ——————— Crops in Bad Shape. Crops in the Canadian northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are almost destitute, and some instances are reporled where they are subsisting on field mice and gophers. In the Canadian Northwest proper the crops Souris country were met on Thursday. at the boundary line. They had trav- elled 300 miles through well settled country on the Canadian side without seeing a fair crop, and say a great many settlers are leaving their land to drive their cattle to timbered country on this side, Some families looked panio-stricken and had eaten nothing but potatoes and tarnips for some months. They were afflicted with scurvy and were sacrific- ing themselves to save their cattle. At one place nortnwest of Tartle mountain a family of English emigrants had killed and were eating a young colt. The suf fering in that isolated region will be aw- fal and those who have means will leave in such numbers as to depopulate that section, tm amas A representative for the Vanderbilts on Monday purchased the interest of the heavy stockholders in the Beech Creek coal company. Over $3,000,000 were in- volved in the transaction. The Vander- bilts are now the sole owners of the Beech Oreek railroad. a SAA MI M3050 In New York, Charles Giblen aud Fer dinand Carolin were sentenced to be banged August 28. This will make five men who are to be executed in the Tombs on the same day. The other three are James Nolan, John Lewis and viding for their necessities. Packerman. 8 Tax Liens, The system of taxation in Pennsylvan- in has never been very satisfactory, and a decision just rendered in 8 Hantiogdon County Court is likely to produce a still greater muddle, It has always been held under the tax law of 188] that tax assessments first lien on real estate, Judge McPherson, of are a Lebanon Coun« presided in the Hunt in the absence of Judge Furst, has handed down an opinion in a ty, who recently ingdon Court. completely. th 184) Judge McPherson holds that I e pro- vision of the law of 188] making tax as sessments a first lien on the property and The act b nal, therefore ocuearalive paralive, tion in all the counti itn ion is likely to canse no this decis« con fusi and perhaps considerable litigation. adaption, and little No question had ever been raised as of 0 law the until read Judge that his opinion concede correct, and endorse the conclusions reached, little imps ¢ blale, i= of no in th municipality as well, as li This matter rtance to every county and every sly to derange our tax system throughout, 1t is a pity, therefore, the next session of the Logis lature is so far off, be attended to at were posible, oi aa he matter ought to once, if such a thing rliocsm— The Johnstown Tribune saye: Ifall or half the true that one hears about the amount of stolen money, SlOoTies are jewelry, and other valuables in the pos- session of parties in this city and vicin- ity and down the river oa both sides as far as New Florence, sume effort ought to be made A promin systematic to recover them. ent doctor of this says that a relativeof his at Nineveh saw a young man with a box $L000 in goid which be had fouud on the river bank. Another prominent resident of this city said yesterday tat for five per cent. of all valuables he would recover he conld unearth $40,000 worth of stolen The statement has been made that parties living down along the river in Indiana and Westmoreland counties have their houses fall of goods and vajuables of all kinds gathered from the river and taken from the bodies in the flood. city containing ralesaihl vaiuabies msi ——————— In some quarters they are objecting to Gen, Hastings being nominated for gov ernor, on the ground that Centre county is baving more than her share. When we consider the number in this county fit for the position, Centre county is be- bind her proportion. -—— Announce ments We are suthorized 10 : 2 15 WRT i : v subi ect to Democratic - o- Penn Township. This is the most mixed up year wi my on cutting wheat, some making hay, culling hauling ng. working soto picking huckleberries we had were have recollect some barley in wheat, plow! corn, aod J. MM, Adams, of Willis and relatives sort, is visiting friends the same time & against aocidents, A few years ago he was insured’and was working ina plans ing mill, slipped and fell with his arm over a planer knife, cut it off at the elbow; he got $00 A Mr. Cole of agent is canvassing this valley BOI FCO a {his section, at insuring perss Williamsport, life insurance and meets with a - —Thursday was very warm. we3, W. Hosterman is the new mail carrier between Woodward and Coburn. John Anman of Miles killed ab foot rattlesnake in his fielda few days ago. wee Wm, Witmer's new saw mill 3 miles east of Spring Mille is now in operation. ~——By an accidental discharge of a gun, George Waite, of Miles twp. bad one of his big toes torn ofl wen), C. Keller while on the road yes- terday buying cattle was prostrated by gumtroks, and bad to be taken to his ome. == Duspurats and characteriess Rads want to drag them'elves up to good company by urging Prof, Wolf for assos ciate Judes. The Prof. will be wise enough not to bite at such bait. —Mrs. Kister, widow of Jerry Kister, A Ee aT army on 17, 7 mon She died at Millheim at the home of her son B. F, Kister, AGENTS |. | ENTIRELY NEW BDOK
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