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waessesnds M Bower
Jatrick Garrety
Joseph W Gross
JW MCormick
een: M1 Gardner
J Willis Weaaer
} W Harter
4 D Rilter
4 H Riley
Sackson Gorton
undid Bi
Ww. W.....
Contre Hall Borough
Howard Borough...
Milesbu sorough.
Millheim Borough. wasn
Philipsburg, ist W
Jfohn T M'Cormick
samuel Harpster Jr
30 B Crawlord
J C Rossman
J A Bowersox
C A Weaver
Balley
! Meyer
Al Diet
John Q Miles
Halfmoon.
rick Kell
j Haynes
N Br
Jake Kilrain has been arrested and
will soon be down in Mississippi to see
Sallivan.
Bt
Not a stock yard—The Bellefonte dian
—(entre Democrat.
it's a
judging from cows, dogs, etc
all the time.
mound
Well, perhaps menagerie then,
seen there
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A eyclone in Hungary, Transilvania
and Bukovina on Sunday, swept
over seve al thousand square of
territory. Hundreds of persons
killed, the crops were destroyed
enormous damage was to
nd churches. The districts of
wondein, Szegdin and Mohacs were com-
pletely ravaged.
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General Grenfell engaged the Boudan-
ese near Toski on Friday and completely
routed them. Wad-el\Jomi, the Souds
anese leader was killed. The Arab loss
was 1,500 killed and wounded. The
Egyptian loss was slight. Besides Wad-
elsJumi, the slain on the Arab cide ins
clude twelve emirs and nearly all the
fighting men.
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28t1
miles
were
and
done houses
(roms
The steadily declining population of
Fevada. whichis now at least 20,000 less
than the county of Blair, suggests the in-
evitable blotting out of a star
galaxy of the American Union.
au the
never had before and
eu iter again.
vada to the
on!
from the
This is
American people
are not likely to
The sdmiseion of Nes
mistake; the
v thing now possible is to quietly
drop Ler from the list of states snd to
aunex her 10 one of her more flourishing
neigh
experience
a
Ugion was a
bors,
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A convention of colored men was held
at the State capital of Kentucky on Wed
nes lay, which took on the form of a
tion of independence of Republis
can ownership of the colored vote, An
address was adopted which declares that
if 40 per cent. of the colored voters of
Indiana, Iliinois, Obio and New York
bad voted for Cleveland be be
president to day. The admission is
made they were humbugged into voting
for Harrison, although “President
Cleveland appointed more colored men
to office than presidents Grant, Hayes,
Gorfield and Arthur combined.
declara
would
The national debt has diminished
steadily without interruption for 10 years,
but this month the increase was $1,017,
811. The increase is almost solely ais
tributable to the very heavy pension
payments. At the beginning of the
fiscal year, Tanner drew a single warrant
ou the treasury for $15,000,000 to make
up the deficit in the last quarterly pay.
ment. This is an enormous deficit when
it is considered that the annoal pension
expenditures has hitherlo been only $57,.
000,000, and itis due, the investigation
commission (o the contrary nolwith-
standing, to the payment of vast sume for
arrearages when pensioners have been
rerated,
There is the slight discrepancy of $1»
850,000 in the two *statements recently
given out as to disbursements from the
Johnstown relief fund. if this keeps on
it will take several lightning calenlators
and the whole corps of Philadelptia laws
yers to straighten out the tangle into
which the figures are getting.
We might remark hore that the Penn's
railroad company is just now making a
searching inquiry at all its stations to get
at shipments for the Johnstown suffer
ers, by whom made, the disposition of
same, ete. There seema to be something
wrong about the Johnstown business -a
kad odor that does not come from ao un-
Miners’ Demand Another Steal,
Higher Wages. Congressman Bingham is of the opin-
The determined struggle among the | ion, that trade can be carried on between
The
en, + 1 ib od » arttave. | vo. 1 . § :
miners in the Gallitzin and Panxsutaw- ip. United States and South Ame rica,
ny regions for an increased rate for min- |, oyiGed we build sbipe, He is not the
ing, promises to be a very unyielding and | ’
stubborn one, may culminate in al
general lock out. The company at the
whose men dare now
tice that when the
wk they will
ton
i at the time they
only congressman who has spoken on
and
latter place,
strike, have given nc
ww
{ ble, the fault is perhaps not
The
ntirely his
wil. great James (i, Blaine, and
res |
miners do resume i
{ our own
than 4 James A. Beaver,
wifi eV =
J | Jameses of more or less note from James
"1 A. Garfield
rate 40 cents per | A iarflel
coive five conts ess per
were being pa stro
to “James Rice,”
which wonld make the
ton. The
reads that if the
farther | : r+
| ves in langngge not vulike that
ini
gressman Bingham
gros notification
men are not at work
five days they will be evi sted from the
company houses, Should this threat be
carried into execution, however, the fam-
will
nlied with tents, or as many of them whe
other
It seems n
these
ever to have
statesmen that the
ilies of the evicted miners {
} '
© =
¥ ip
provide something for ships to carry,
¢ house Their single and consolidated
cannot secure DUUBCSR,
2 _y | and has been, that provided a people are
y §
aud operat
The situation in the Clearfield nd
Philipsburg districts is viewed with fore-|
follow a8 A DECeSBATY COnBeqNencs
ness me
of the
bodin t by bu 2 5 . ta
pacing by A ing destroyed the gt ip banildineg
efforts of tl
found corpse,
like, in consequence h
opera arbitrary and onwise navigation laws and
operatives in the Conuoellsville col 1 is }
I ohibitory tariils ie
It
é1
A : 1 against t
gion to advat the mining rale, w
rtation of
ship building, and to rests
; { our lost commerce, by the additi
tion in Gailitzio
fow American sh
fe
i i 1 ip builders to the
this reduced ral
3
Fiut
rea AML
i 1 too voluminous of mendicanta
ausing many ord
pensioned npon the over taxed
ors
slip fre
a filled by Mying OW " f
ve filied by : pas I'hat a scheme is now matured to lobby
ly led to uncertain )
. throng!
rate. This
{ *
| there is no reason fo doubt,
. ire 10) in 2 - .
g operators { 1 wg suffering people.
Operators
iatura ’ ‘ :
natura ia ship +«mbsidy bill CONZress
Itisap
of the tariff monopoly party's policy, and
distrust and uns :
work and a feeling of
miners in the Clears |
4
easiness among the
ield district, an minated in al
A A ’ y
strike at Gallitzi
vise ways and means for
other places.
ranged from 25 to 88
Gallitzin 45
cents p . 2
ing Patriot.
cents per gross ton, and in|
-
{The Drummers
i Gone.
the Philipsburg region 50 cents per gr
ton.
Ata meeting of the Clearfield
$rn vn £4) 1a Fey or “Are an
A hundred of the leading merchan
Jeech Creek miners,
Mille, John IL. Tack
was elected to visit the
.
{ the Continental Hotel, Ph i
}
tiadelphia,
Georges Creek, Md,, and Monday mornip
gions, to secre
minerspow on a strike A
was also appointed to assume {
as it pertains
Clearfield and Beech |
They were
pen of four
Wi
a there by the ss agencies,
representing Illinois, Indis
anna, Minnesota and
States, These
Itis purchase, showing them the
consia,
Western
committee
charge, j
in Loy bring them to
Hy > hem
of the strike so far eu
ZOO :
HAYIDZ
2 i
reek region
ad of
#3 LI
home warehouse
4 at
claimed by the Clearfield operators, who LaF
in the I
they Cannot
an salesmen carry a few samples around
are also largely interested
gsutawpey coal
afiord to pay the advance demanded by bringing the merchants thers
the miners at the ¢ | their purchases is the f
the heavy
There are other questions
through the varions cities. The plan of
to make
iret experiment of
the
i i hint
Geids, hak
ace becanse o
latter j :
character of the coal mined | the kind ever iried, bat Inga are
confident that they can make it EUS
cess, All the expenses of the party are
paid by the four sels of salesmen, who
in return, hope to sell, possibly, $500,000
worth of g The party includes all
the prominent merchants and dry goods
men in the states represented.
of in- a
sufficient pay leading up to the present
strike that may eventually in a
declaration for a general strike unless the
operat.rs shall concede to th
demande,
here.
resnit
’ ad
YOU
@ miners yh iy
-
The Hard,
We cannot be
fact that all the woes that have
humanity for a thousand years of abuse
in Europe are being rapidly concentrated
—-—
Cold Truth.
made to recognize the
-
wo -
Sharp'’S Majority 40,000.
The are
democratic candidate
Kentucky, been
tween 30.000 and #
-
indications that Sharp, the
for treasurer, in
re-elected by be
The
democrats gain eight and possibly more
o 00 bad
allicted
has
(00 majority.
bere. We mouth at times—mainly upon
the Foarth ol July —about our free insti- | ota in the legislature.
tutions, in certain pet phrases, forgetiing The Republicans were predicting a dee
creased Democratic majority in Keotucky
which did not fHrmuiate.
that ail the wretche loess and elo afflicts
ing humanity come from the unequal
distribution of property. We
all our free institutions intact,
gee the foul spawn of millionaires hat-
ched into sharks, while the masses live
only to be fed upon. Time within
the memory of living men, when we had
can bave tn
The strike in the Coonellsville coke
region has assumed immense
tions, Of 14.000 ovens in the region not
less than 12.000 are now idle aad the
managers of the strike assert that over
1,000 of the remaining ovens
ahiut down to-morrow. National
Progressive Miners’ association and
Knights of Labor are working together
in perfect harmony for the first time in
years,
and yet
propor -
two millionaires to wonder at, and deaths
will be
from starvation and suicides from dess
pair were unknown, Indeed we can
have these free institutions, as the fath-
ers gave them to us, and have them
sanction these very evils, A 160,000
miles of milroads, distributing the entire
products of the country, are under the
control and literally the ownership of
less than 60 families, and this fearful
monopoly coures from and depends upon
the franchise given by the government,
Our telegraph system belongs oue
man. The amount of money paid over
to private interests and taken yearly
from the masses under the name ofa
tariff is large enough yearly to liquidate
the national debt. Tuis takes no account
of trusts, that cover all we eal, wear snd
vse as clothing or shelter, for they have
grown up ontside and in defiance of law,
Legalized wrong is our great enemy, for
we suffer more from the power to abuse
than in the abuse of power. A wrong
once recognized by law destroys the
foundations of the very power to which
we must appeal for a remedy.
The above ie from Don Piatt,
the hard, cold truth,
he
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Wanamaker is keeping up his fight
against the telegraph companies. Al the
request of the postmaster general the
secretary of war has directed the quar
termaster general to pay no more gov.
ernment telegraph bills until the rates to
be paid are furnished by the posi mass
ter general,
to
There is much dissatisfaction in many
townships because the Commissioners
raised the assessments of real properly
considerably above what the assessors
had valued it,
a a
At Spokane Falis, Washington Ter,, 25
business blocks were destroyed by fire,
Estimated loss 14 million dollars,
There is a big strike in the Connels-
ville coke region.
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Announcements.
PROT HONOTARY,
We are authorized to announce that M, I. Gard
ner, of Howard Boro, will be a candidate fou
Prothonotary, subject to Demovraticnsages,
Wo are authorized to announce that L, A, Bhat
for will be a candidate for Prothonotary, sulject
to Democratic usages,
ASSOCIATE JUDGR,
We are amthorized to announce that Thomas F,
Riley of Harris Township, will be a candidate for
Amoviate Judge, subject to Democratic usages,
We are authorized to announce that J, F, Heek.
man, of Grege, will be a candidate for Associate
Judge, subject 0 Democratic usages,
Ini
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
and is
assay —“" ]
“C.8. McCarthy, one of the Aasociate
Judges of Huntingdon county and a man
who bas done as much tor prohibition
in Penosylvinia as any one man in the
State, writes an open letter in which he
advises all Republicans to avoid the
third party Probibitionists, whose entire
efforts, thus far, have been to help the
whiskey interests by accomplishing the
defeat of Republican Prohibitionista,”
Thus saith the Bellefonte News, and it
wil’ make such Republioans as DD. 8 Kel:
ler, and other Republican prohibiticnists
as well as the W, C.T. U,, smile to learn
Wo are authorizal to announce that J.C,
that they were working “lo help the| 0 till be a cand date for
0
ever
whiskey interests.” torney, subject t v
M
Distriot A
fwo Tennysons.
oincidence worth noting, that |
» two most famous men were
ar, 1699, and within a
each other,
sane ye
onthe of Gladstone's
December, Ten-!
son's was Aug. 0, just passed.
The most interesting point in the his-
tory of the two men is the difference that
lapse of years has made in their char-
acters
i birthday comes in
Gladstone, starting in life a con- |
gervative, not to an old fogy, has
grown steadily more and more liberal,
till now, at 80 vears old, he can be called
SAY
an out and out radical in many respects,
With Tennyson, poet, dreamer, prophet
and enthusiast of {ifty years ago, the ten-
dency has been steadily the other way.
He is so different from the singer who
gave the world the first “Locksley Hall” |
that one might well believe it was another
man who wrote the second
Hall.
The first was published in 1842.
. 1
“Locksley
Then
» poet had
generon
warmth and splen-
Vas penng 1 i
il a lord 4
and cranky.
™ Po
2B, BI
Postoflice Places,
rks, are held twice
jos which
arriers and cl
ear in certain of the large cit
d. The second examination
» present year began Aug. 8. There
four #)
OF 353
is an enormous number of applicants,
In New York city me there are
3 2.700.
The many outs will naturally thin
the
smail number who get in are very forta-
But twenty years later many of
the re jo ii see it was the best thing
that could have happened to them to be
left out in the cold, They will be forced
the manly in their
s and build up a business and get a
living for themselves, Many of them
will be the richer for it, and ten
£1
Ma I
nis
1
un
nie
todd wri
to rouse
enorgies
Uregst
times
wen they would have been if they
had sunk down into a government place
stayed there for life
Lil
and
Ruskin's Rant,
Mr tuskin
this
tn
John never found any-
in but two Americans,
g to praise In
wo was a fair and gifted girl artist
The other is Professor Charles Eliot Nor-
ton, of Harvard. Ruskin admires Pro
fessor Norton exceedingly, because “he
is not only a man of the world, but a
gentleman of the world” Bat the
cranky professor of msthetics thinks
Norton is out of place in America, He
calls him a “runaway star, dropped into
purgatory, and twenty times more a
slave than the blackest nigger he ever
sent his white scholars to fight the south
for.” Further, Ruskin says Professor
Norton would have felt himself more at
home as a Frenchman, a Scotchman or
an English Tory. As Englishman
would sav-~hear, hear!
an
Evangelist? H. Q. Wills was holding
religious services in his tabernacle in
Detroit one evening recently, As the
meeting was closing a fight broke out in
a saloon pear by. A policeman rushed in
and made an arrest, when with a drunken
howl the arrested man's comrades at
tacked the policeman. They would prob-
ably have killed him, but just in the nick
of time Brother Wills handed his prayer
book to a friend and sailed in on the side
of law and order. Tho mob thought a
tornado had struck them, and they slunk
this way and that way out of sight.
“The man that interferes with this offi-
cer in the performance of his duty has
got to meet me,” continued the preacher,
with blazing eye and clenched fist, No-
body met him, Plucky Evangelist Wills!
Eight hundred and fifty Roman Cath-
olic bishops have petioned the Vatican
to bestow on Christopher Columbus the
honor of beatification. This is the next
honor below that of canonization. Should
he receive the dignity, therefore, he will
not be Bt. Christopher, but Christopher
the Blessed. Columbus not only discov
ered a new world to be peopled by Chris
tians, but he was a truly good man in
and of himself. It is time he had some
respect shown him, for he was cheated
out of having the continent he discovered
named for him.
Hugh O, Pentecost says that She Henry
George single tax movement is
moral and religious character pnd
coming “a mere fiscal reform.”
Thomas G, Shearman, the single ‘ax
advocate, would bave land tazsd €5 per
cant, of its value, and the tax withdrawn
from everything else 4
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In Memorium.
Bro. William
Brights disease of the Ki
illness of four months,
united with Grange, No. 150
vears ago, and har been a faithifal mem-
ber always working for the good of the
order. His two oldest sons joining as
soon as eligible and they been a
help and honor to our Brother
Gettig bad the ful conf ihe
brothers as a #i fe was
tent and faithf
gelicel church, A large
dren with their d voled
to mourn their irreparat
May He +
Evolution of the Photograph.
One hundred years ago this 1580 was
Paris
Daguerre, discoverer
Gettig died Ju'y 30 of
neve, after an
Bro. Getlig
ii ceveral
born near Louis Jacques Mande
of sun pictures.
These were first called, from him, da-
Mr. J. Wells Champney,
the artist, the
Harper an and instructive
paper on the growth of photography.
guerreoty pes,
wontributes to August have
grange.
attractive
of
a
#43
if 64
Iv noe ail
Were, CONSE
It seems that Daguerre was 50 years mbar Fears
family of chi s
jeft
(5t 4y re
d his dis
thos
old when he publicly announc
ally
adie
covery. Mr. Champney fitly ¢
who had their pictures taken as far back
as 18890 " For the ¥ had to sit
;
in the blazing sun half an hour, with the {
“wictims,
eves tight shut and the face dusted over
with white pow di r. Why the y had
keep their eyes shut we are not told, but
it was probably on account « { 1i¢
sity of winking. The amount of
uld
would
to be d¢
fatal
§ ~ al
ing that we have had
half an hou
the picture,
have been
Draper, of
Dr. J. W.
York, was one of the first to imuprove on
f wens eo 4 3
BS, NGC Wik 3 5
Jur own JW
3
The ¢
the ¢
Dr. Drape r be longs
Id proc y she
In fa
honor of
pra Hi
ErICAnSs
itting to a few minutes
the
photography
oh
by
i
making
portrait takis
ing if no
oe
y B. Bitne:
£1 x
{ having
ihe n
a
finer me srih
than Bny olher
a
te
fi
between Lem.
¢ z : 3 ¥
} A Ame Qegrs i
ai
rmed a partnership and key
But I
skillful of the
2
rre
the more O
vy
the French
CONEY
»
er was fixed on
They
seers and
new discovery.
had been
meant. They saw wit
heavens and the
mysteries to the new ar
¢aria
y Lewins
; take the lead in ready made
well juality of
sells more
snd suits
nite ! sry vad 14 »
ite of all competitio
Niepoe made his first picture
the
guerre reduced the time to half an
Now we have the instantaneous photo) aan 2
graph. There, In three sentences,
have the history of the growth of
three days’ exposure to sun. low prices
hour, | FOOUS. } gets
ax
anea
BE «
d of all,
all, and fits
photo] — Steady employment «
: ! ; 5 sired a oifered sr H
‘ #1 +! perience not required, is offered by H.
raph. minister and messenger of beauty 4. Fu ss an ;
8 Wd By HEAR ap “IW. Foster & Co., a reliable firm of Gene
and affection, handmaid of science, art.ly, NY. Read their advertisement bead-
industry and commerce,
er of the secrels of the st
n salary, exs
{ed “Wanted, Belisble, Energetic Men.”
Will Mitterling, of
ost a fine horse last week,
nlic Mr. Runkle, of the
3 Soir 4 3 we 4
EL DOrbood, 108 & ROOA Dare a
e
Centre
caused
game
short
near
Seals in Behring Sea
There is a serious question i
Great Britain the United Statesllim
whose settlement will be| ——What the Philad. Branch does not
{have in the line of ready-made clothing,
seize alli not worth having The stock
all}
inow on the counters is immense and
*1goes ahead of anything you ever saw.
waters off Alaska that are under Ameri Lewins is King for low prices.
yi
i ’
and belore,
be apt to come
fore the next congress. American reve »
spring
nue steamers have orders to ng
vessels engaged in seal fishing in tl
x 3 ‘
3 ratanding ¢
UnGerslanailig os
can jurisdiction. The
| A correspondent writing to the Al-
the United States authorities
toopa Tribune from Newton Hamilton
“has it on the authority of one
i } G of the officials of th ani ‘alley
all the waters of Behring sea. Grea (Of the oOllicia i ihe Juz ala valley
Britain d ; the whol | Campmeeting association that their next
1 of & 18 re Ow Te Gio Of 3% 3 .
jritain denies that we Own Lh ‘ JOC | move will be to sink an artesian well on
Behring Enough Canadian andi their grounds at this place and that $10.
British sealing ships have already been|000 worth of stock will be taken with
, y : Sle tewita | whicl build a large oJ] and othe
seized by us to cause considerable irrita | which to build a large hotel and other
: It is tc| PeCessary buildings wilh
““{ihis one of the most
be hoped that before another season], .earis in the state,
is in a gen
200
includes|says he
BOB
or
which to make
tive summer
pure water
there will be held the conference of na from an ariesian well, which would no
tions that the United States once proldoubt sontain mich modi mal proj ers
g - 3 bas 2 te nf durladio lies, the excellent Doaling on ihe dam,
posed and that this question of jurisdi land the good fishing close at band, along
tion will be settled for all time. |with the unsurpassed scenery, aud
- healthful atmosphere, no more attractive
place could be asked to spend a pleasant,
healthful summer.”
tion, and that does not decrease. atisy
With
Believes in Trasts.
There is at least one newspaper in the
world that is not afraid of trusts. That| —— They aluables found on the bodies
is Tho Chicago Teonomiet. It hae helo the sd sl ep 1 Jopmeoon I
courage of its convictions and comes out|
boldly in favor of trusts. It presents
have found the bodies of their friends
by recognizing some article that was
their chief beauties under three beads,
as follows:
found on the body. There is a large
1. Every objection to the trust system Is equally
amount of stuff yet in the bands of the
committee, consisting of gold walches,
valid against the exisbenocs of manufacturing
trading or carrying corporations
gold rings, breastpins and other jewelry
2. They choapen the cost of production and the
more or less valuable. In addition
there is over one thousand dollars in
selling price of the commadities in which they
deal.
money that has been found on the un-
8. The one thing needful ¢o the welfare of a na
recognized dead in the hands of this
wommittee, and Mr. Baumer desires to
tion is that the selling price of goods should br oq
ow
announce that all who have friends who
wore jewelry or other articles of value
an evi|should cali at his rooms and if the bod-
: : ae jos have been found it is likely that he
in the army that it is ats last proposed | con Have something thet may lead to
adopt an old custom that was in vogue their identification. If those who can
in war time to prevent thexre-enlistment] not call will send an exact description of
of men three or four times. The recruit the articles in possession of their friends
ha tod by the . ___ithey will be informed whether or not
Was Yaor ns y the surgeon upon avis’ articles have been recovered. lu.
unusual part of his body. The spot wat qirjies should be addressed to Louis
of course known to all army surgeons, Baumer Chairman Committee on Val-
and the scar that remained revealed the! usbles, Johnstown, Pa.
story the soldier sought to conceal. wee Onn Thursday evening there ocs
— curred at the regi, ence u Mr. E C
> . Krumrine, at Lewisburg what for a ti me
Mr. Powderly's new idea is practically| on ined to be & serious matter for the
that of a gigantic trust among working {00 cream dealer. A gentleman by the
men. He would have all the various name of John Seiler, who is well known
labor organizations, while not abandon (in Lewisburg, aud rmyine rere set.
etd - tling up a complication © siness mat
ing their original f OBE! ters growing out of their Inmber oper-
powerful combination, which shall bx
able to meet mud successfully deal with
ations in West Virginia, when the dif-
ferences became 8o great that a personal
those who arevinterestod in erushingiout
labor organizations.
combat ensued, which jesnited in Seiler
being knocked senseless in which com
dition be remained for some time, and
for a while it was feared he would not
The widow of a once famous congress | regain sensibility at all owiog to his age
man is now said to be earning ber living and weakness of constitution. An ugly
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