THE CENTRE REPORTER
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ns.and 5 cents tor each subsequent insertion,
Centre Bare, Pa, Taurs, May 15.
DEMORALIZED DUNKARDS
Orthodox irethren Lament the
Growing Prevalence of Frivolity,
Pa.. May 11.—-The breth-
kard denomination are in
reports made
by Elders 8S. R, Zug, Christian Bucher
and F. P. Cassel concerning the worldly
habits which the rising generation of
Dunkurds are acquiring,
They charge that in a
Dunkard cl hes
to Phil
LANCASTER
ren of the D
a state of mind over th
number of
counties contigu-
he women no longer
excepting very small
wis,” and the men de
not wear *‘l hair parted in the
dle.” as is the true dunkard custom.
Many of the men also, it is charged,
wear mustaches without full beards
They also charge that in the Dunkard
church on Marshall street, Philadelphia,
the women ‘wore gold ornaments and
fashionable attire,” contrary to the
rules. In the same church an or an
was found. At the church in German
fown the unittee saw ‘women weal
hats and feathers in
white cap etl
; 4
mid
Herald, and ©
L. Steel, Adv
of the «
ive
omuanittes on aw
Com Was £1
pare a
on June
A Blind Asylam Victim,
Mav 13 Stephen
Moore
¢ hospita
Pitts
from
vium five day
LL. Mu
d in St. Ag
es pare nts resi
their son
1
:
i
a
in
nome
wore had
1 since 1880
j in the hos
treatment
food while in
the blind asvium. Moore claimed that
Principal King instructed the pupils ir
the institution in all sorts of ZAVE
them lignor to drink, et The attend
ing physicians attribute Moore's death
to bad treatment while in the asylum
bad
vices,
A Powder Mill Blows Up.
Scranton, Pa., May 12.—The corniog
mill of the Consumers’ Powder com
pany, of this city, whose works are or
the Moosic mountains near Winton
blew up. scattering the building inte
shreds and making a big hole in the
woods where it stood. The only work
man in the building was William Mill
ett, and he was hurled to instant death
These works were destroyed eight yeas
ago and when rebuilt the different
buildings were scattered over a tract of
100 acres. This fact alone prevented a
terrible disaster. The loss on the can
ning mill is £5,000.
The lron Car Company Fails,
Hustinagpox, Pa. May 12.-—~The Iron
Car company, composed principally of
New York capitalists and operating
here and at Carlisle, made an assign
ment through its president, G. D. Dith
ridge, for the benefit of its creditors ft
Thomas 3. Ritch, of Stamford, Conn
This company was closely allied with
the Huntingdon Manufactusing com
pany, which built nearly all its cars
The failure of the Iron Car company tu
meet its matured paper has also em
barrassed the Huntingdon Manofactur
ing company
Attachments at Huntingdon.
HusTtinapox, Pa, May 134 Several
foreign attachments were issued and
gerved here against the Iron Car com
oy and the suspended Huntingdor
Manufaciuring company, making a total
hability of over $200,000, Many suits
and judgments have been entered. The
Carlisle Car works, referred to in othe
d spatches, are in no ways connected
with the embarrassed companies. A
conference of the directors of the sus
nded company will be held in New
ork today.
A Disastrous Five,
BRADFORD, Pa., May 12. Fifteen twe
story frame business honses of the vil
age of Ellicottville, N. ¥Y., were de
stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon.
They were located on Main and Monroe
streets, The village has no fire depart:
ment and assisiance was given them
from Salamanca and Bradford. The
loss is about §50.000,
AN ASYLUM HOKROR
Terrible Conflagration in a Poor
House.
TWELVE IDIOT INMATES PERISH
An Aged Imbecile’s Midnight sinoke
sets Five Chenango County
Preston, N.Y
to the
Poor House at
Thrilling Scenes Bnsae— Laberated
Take to the Woods,
Norwich, N. 3 Mav 9 Deborah
Dibble was one of the d women
in the idiot ward of the county
wor house of Chenango 1
ry All her life she
an inveterate smoker, and
obstinate tenacity to ar
which was ii ]
She was sn
p. m. when the night kes
through the ward for the night
thing was all right, ana Deb
was the only person awake
Half an hour later a shrill
heard and a bright light shone
tue windows of the ward in
wing. When the keepers
idiot ward they found Deborad
the bare floor wrapped in
the other poor idiots ran to
ing to escape the fam
licking the Ped clothing
in the apartment
A Quick Conflagration
Patients
ven to
king it
#0,
So fierce was the heat
had the fire which
embers of the old wom
that the keepers
treat to save
idiots, babbling and jabbering, 1
who cried the al
around
rs Were
themsel
the keepers,
went All
ind messengs
NATICS Wer
ferent var
Altogeth
ld Ix
jority of th
directly for
afterward the
ing and vellin f
The Work of Rescone
Attention \ oan {2 the
1:¥
Still Searching the Woods
Some of the | I
burfied that they
aT
ents
SOON as
” £11
There still
patients in
who a a} "
confinement
ir thera t4 De at ia
The poss {
gale 1
country
REY
Fwelve Lives Lost
The number of lives i
lum fire is
twelve
still at
tured |
The names of
were: Sarah Mill
gher, Ni
county; Barah Bai
Gray, Greens ina ered and
++ Warren, Oneida; Arvilla Atwood
Norwich; Deborah Dibble, Bainbridge,
and Mary O'Daniels, Preston
Perhaps Fifty Perished,
Norwich, N. Y., May 12.— From stats
ments made by Keepers Hall and Man
warning it is believed that fifty persons
perished in the almshouse asylinm
fire at Preston. All the were
destroyed, and the keepers do not even
know how many were under thei:
charge. There were at least twenty in
the bedridden ward, from which not
one escaped. Officials now refuse all
information and promise a statement on
Tuesday.
rwich
and
records
Faster Than Nellie Bly's Time,
MoNTREAL, May 13. McGill college
olservatory and Greenwich were placed
in telegraphic communication with each
other over the lines of the Commercial
cable and Central Canadian railways
and observatories here showed that the
time occupied in transmitting signals
the 3,500 miles was three-quarters of
one second. Further tests are to be
made between Greenwich and Van
couver, B. ., with a view of correcting
time and fixing longitude between Pa
cific coast points,
A Successful Strike,
CHICAGO, May 12.—The 625 employes
of A. H. Andrews & Co.s' furniture fac-
tory, will go back today. The strike
was settled at a conference between the
employes’ committee and the firm. By
the terns of settlement the strikers get
a marked increase in pay and a half
holiday Saturday during June, July and
August. This settlement gives them
all they asked for
A Divided Southern Diocese,
Cuanrtestox, 8, C., May 10,—The dio-
cesan convention has adjourned. The
seceders before adjournment filed a pro-
test against the adoption of the com-
promise which they claim does not ex-
clude negro clergymen from the conven-
tion if the bishop chooses to ndmit them.
A protest is filed by two clergymen,
eig t delegates and about 103 members
of the church.
Shot at a Priest,
Jerrersoxvitre, Ind., May 18.—~An
attempt was made to assassinate Rev,
E. Audran, rector of St. Angustine's
Catholic church, Tww 2 a0ts were fired
as he was standing on ais porch. The
perpetrator missed his mark and es
caped. ‘The venerable priest is popular
and was pot known to have an enemy.
. in oo a .
POUL SELLING
Many indictments Expected nt Eliza
beth,
Evizagerin, N. J May 18 A big
d of promin
Wit mmonesd before the grand
to testify what they knew
the ra and pool selling
tors Ine
builders were®in the gathering Ih
labors
will not finish its In
tue
Crow
is to
tracks
Tox
jury, it
in am under an ol t
passed
any js
the In
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George Francis Train Puzzles "Em
LONDO May 1 Phat cheer
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Jail @& Fee
enterpr
ing all pr
Louisiana Lottery's Charter,
New () Ae I
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Minister Ie
i
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id Di
Society of the Cincinnati
A ' i
of tu
1 $ 2
Aas
Bain
1503
A Losing Cup for Mr. Bl
New York, May T
have been comm
gates from
and Mexico
ference to
cup i
to Secretary
sonal esteem of the
Killed by a Fist Blow,
Lacrosse, Wis, May 12
engineer at the Davidsom mill,
Postmaster Oliver Olsen, of
had some difficulty ]
city Rew i
fist. killing him instantly I'he
derer escaped, but has been run
and captured at Onalaska.
mua
Desperate Moonshiners Caught,
Roasoke, Va, May 10.—A special te
The Herald dated Taswell Court House,
says Deputy Marshal John D Daly, cap
tured four desperate moonshiners on
Cove creek, in that connty. Their
pames are dUnerwood, leader of the
gang. Bob Taylor, George Taylor and
Bib Taylor. They are all in Taswell
jail,
El The Laity Entitled to Vote,
St. Louis, May 10.—The Methodist
conference occupied the entire session
in discussing the right of the laity te
vofe in all church trials. It was finally
decided that the laity are entitled
vote. Several ministers spoke quite
strongly in opposition.
Senator Quay Goes Hunting,
Wasmixaron, May 10. Senator Quay
is going to Chincoteague, Va., next
Tuesday or Wednesday on a hunting ex-
pedition, to be gone a week or so. Both
Senators Quay and Cameron are prepare
ing eulogies on the late Judge Kelley,
Fought 107 Rounds,
Cixcaxxar, May 10.—Fat Burke and
fought 107 rounds in four
hours, vii ut miles from this city. The
battle resulted in a draw. Both men
were horribly punished, Burke may
lore an eye.
Confessed His Crime,
Bimaisonad, Ala, May 10.-~8andy
Jones was hanged here for the murder
of Policeman John Manning, st Besse
mer, in April, 1887, He made a confes
gion of his crime before being executed,
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1he quantity,
Ti advance of anv ever
qual
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12 only necessary for you to give us a
we feel certain that we will then numb
many cuslomers,
We do not offer you goods at cost
fair, le gilimale profil; give wou the be
for the monéy; we give you the
fy as if was given {0 us,
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arket offords
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of our stock ws fi
call; tn spect our
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