VOL. LXIII. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR Clinton County last Satarnisy iustract- ed for Wallace, TAO RWC. Chester last Hastings carried There was some virtue in fox chase after all, ——————————— county. winter's Frank Bible has been vieced a dele: gate to the Democratic slate convention aud he goes for Wallace for governor, PE OE TNS SEERA Lebigt Democrats on Saturday mn structed for Robert kB. Wright, irom that county tor govern. r., ibe secoud cholce is Wallace. EE RII FOWL BAHT Quay says Lie Lh Delamater will be nominated, Lhe Dos NO © 5 1s thinking what he wanlsy, giving of Quay sounds ss if be wanted Hastiogs even for a second choice. ——————————— Centre county Democrats must not loose sight of this important fact—that none but first-class nominees be put ups on the ticket Such a ticket will go through with 1500 majority. next fail, OR RAI 4 TOW It is not correct that Gov, Curtin will vernor, if r 18 support Hastings for He think: 5 Le oy nominated. suuuld De the Republican nominee, just as we do, but we have it {rom Gov, Curtin’s own lips that he is an out and-out Wallace man. A SRL HTS AAI SOW Governor Fitzhugh Lee, ol Virginia, says: “The man who pleads drunken- ness to excuse a crime should get a doub- je sputence, It is like a murderer asi~ LEN : to pe excused for chioppiog up & man s had stolen an i on the ground that hie had siolen an axe and was carrying it along when he met fue governor persistently prisoner who his victim.” reinses a pardon to any was led to commit crime through druok- euness, —————————————————— David Dudley Field is 85 years of age, ie is about to start to Europe to take part i Ugiversal Peace Congress and in the meetings of the lostitute of International Law and the Association for the Codification of the Law of Nas tions. Helooks like a well preserved man of 60. Mr. Gladstone, past his four score, is the only public man who rivals Field in variety of work and energy io doing it. yet i nn bh Othe RIN RAT According to the treasury statement for May, the peusion payments in the 11 months of the fiscal year bave amounted to $103.177,727. It only the average is maintained for June the cost of the list for the year will be over $112 000,000. The cost of pensions for this year will exceed by more than $80,000,000 the ex- pense of the list 10 years after the clcse of the war, when General Garfield de- clared it rad reached 18 maximom and would soon commence to decline, i —— EE ——————— A Boston woman fooled nerself badly. Satarday afternoon Mrs, Noy, by mistake drank a glass of lemonade in which she had put etrychuine, with the intention of giviog it to ber pusbaod, She died in the evening. Mrs. Ney prepared the lemonade and offered the one in which ghe had put the strychnive (oc her huss baod, but Le was suspicious sud refused it. Then his wife said she would driok it to prove it was harmless. Daring the talk the two glasses had been chauged, and instead of drinking the harmless lis quid she swallowed the poison. I I S- [he British Government is caught be- tween the horns of a dilemma, and a very unpleasant one, 100. France re- {uses to surrender or modify her claims to fishery rights off the coast ot New Foundland, while the people of the prov- ince threaten rebellion and secession if the French are not driven out of their waters, and have passed such restrictive legislation as threatens to jeopordize the friendly relations between the mother country and France, The situation daily grows more interesting, especially since a French war vessel has begun to re- move or destroy the nets of the News foundlanders. The project of connecting Chesapeake nd Delaware bays by a ship canal ap- Gears to be in a fair way of accomplish~ ment, A French syndicate is said to have snbgeribed the eight million dollars which the work is estimated tc coat. The canal is to begin at the mouth of the Sassalras river, about forty miles from Baltimore, follow the stream sixteen and one-half miles to the head of tidewater and then across to Liston’s Point, on Delaware bay, fourteen and one-half miles, On this route there will be but seven and one-half miles of heavy work. The canal will shorten the ronte hetween Baltimore and Northern ports about two hundred miles and also reduce the dis- tances to Kurope. Work is expected to begin io a few days. iis The Climax of Gag Law. The action of the house of representas tives on the cancus silver bill on Thurss day is another illustration: of the fact it is governed by no fixed rules. The minority is neither privileged to koow what is coming, under what rules it will be considered, or permitted to offer am- endments. The mode is very simple, Reed, domiouating the committee onrules to meet or tide over any partisan em- ergency has that committee report new rules setting aside all the standing rules of A brief permissible, and then the newcode is forced through by th the danger line on T the house, i8 a party st R ved ran very near nureday, however, as his temporary code of rules was adopt. ed by the narrow margin of 120 to 117 There are signs of a revolt. Under the rules reported no Democrat permilled to ] offer any ame ndment to the silver bill, They allow only three am- endments. Republicans were recognized to offer these, and the Democratic leaders of the house vainly sought recognition, Reed ignored their existence. The pur- pose was to prevent an amendment gets ting before the house authorizing the free and unrestricted coinage ol silver and which it is believed would receive the votes of a ma jority, “Work and not talk,” is the way a eulogist of Gag Law Reed describes this proceeding. The siiver bill, after the turifl, is the most important legislation to come before congress, It affects every interest in the country. Yet notonly is the majority—which favors free coinage precluded from offering amendments, bat discussion and investigation of the law ig limited to two days. In the his tory of representative government in America nod Eagland the gag has pever been so tyrannically applied, This is no more a free congress of the peo- ple's representatives, to deliberate and act on questions of public concern, than the czar's council of state, en Ap The Standard Oil Company, which has hitherto confined itself chiefly to the transportation, refining and sale of pes troleum, appears {o have decided to go into the producing business on a large scale. It took this new departure first in buying aod leasing large tracts of oil territory in Ohio. It is now negotiating for, if it bas not already completed, the purchase of the four largest producing properties in Pennsylvania, The companies included are the Union Oil Company; with a capital of $1,000,000 the Forest Oil Company, with a capital of $2,000,000; the Anchor Oil Company, with a capital of $200,000, and the Wash- ington Oil Company with a capital of $1,000,000, The territory involved reaches all the way from McKean to Washioglon counties and coosists of about 300,000 acres, with an average dai- iy production of 6,000 barrels, The parchase seems to have been made for the purpose of enabling the Standard to coutrol a large production of Pennsvivania oil for its refineries against all comers, As the prices paid are large, the purchase is likely to boom the prices of other oiluproducing proper ty. ns A I A ———— While so much attentios is belog de~ voted to African exploration, very littie is being doae in the southera half of our own continent, although there is much uoknown territory in South America, The New York Sun notes that two or three explorers have recently emerged from the almost unknown depths of Northern Bolivia and Western Pera with a fund of information about these coun- tries and their people that could scarcely be equaled in noveity now in any part of Africa. They found one tribe that be. lieved the accounts they had heard of white men were myths, another remark able people who do not know what drunkenness is, and another whose fave orite weapon is the blow pipe. Benor Fry telis of Indians who wear piglails und whose language seems to resemble the Chinese. Some peoples were found to be particulary primitive, living almost wholly on wild fruits and unable to count above three, Ci ————— A If Quay persists in forcing the nomina- tion of the unpopular Delamater on the Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial convention, and Delamater is buried under a Paltison majority, Postmaster General Wanamaker will be able to say “I told you so” to Quay. He has solsmn. ly warned Quay that it is onwise to nominate Delamater, and that in his jodgment the chance would be against his election if he were nominated. Wanamaker told Qnay that he had no personal perferounce to urge, but as a Re- publican, desiring (he success of his party, he must protest against the nomis nation of Delamater, Bat Quay is not likely to withdraw Delamater on Wanamaker's protest, He sels over against it the indorsement of Delamater’ s by Thomas Dolan, Wanamaker's closest friend. id The Democrats’ Leader, Wm. A. lace. Elections no Longer Elect. Two more Democrats have been uns seated by Czar Reed's serfs in the House of Representatives at Washington, One of them, an Alabama representative, had over 13,000 majority, and his Republican opponent had but 5,000 votes, all told It has always Leen a tenet of tue Re- publican leaders, remarks the Patriot that the end justifies the means, but in Czar Reed's Congress the rale complish the vilest ends by the meanest means, The Praetorian guards never made or unmade a Roman emperor with less regard for the principles of rig justice than the Republican majority in Congress kicks out Democratic repre-~ sentatives and thrusts in Republicans Perhaps when the ides of November shall have come the people will something to say about the high-banded usurpation by the Republicans of their right to seat their own chosen represens tatives in Gengrees, If there is any virs tue left in the American people they will administer a signal bevuke to this bold and shameless subversion of popular elec tions, in to acs $8 4 i Ui ana have alli ons The swearing in of the piauresque Richard Vaux as a member of the House of Representatives gave a bit of interest to the otherwise dull proceedings of that body. The friends of the old campaigner were alert and had civered the desk set aside for him in a corner of the Demos cratic row with beautiful floral offerings The fivest plece was in the shape of a huge keystone of massed flowers, sur. mounted by a shield, a scroll, sud a hora of plenty. Above all dangled the scales of justice, The piece was three feet in height, and across the keystone in letiers of blue were the words, “Let brotherly love remain” This offering was sent by the directors of the Eastern States Penitentiary, who have been colleagues of Mr. Vaux for more than balf a century, Little Charley O'- Neill, pow the father of the House, escort- ed the shaggy-baired old man about among the members, and he became soquainted with balf of them in a small space of time, His fine address snd agreeable manners aided him to easily make friends with all whom he met, Mr, Vaux will undoubtedly be an interesiy ing figure in Congress. ——— i A ———— A cirular has been sent out by the Cestral Labor Union of Erie, calling for an expression of opinions, as to the prac. ticability organizing a state federation of labor for legislative purposes. The matter, it seems, has been agitated since last March in various parts of the state, but definite action hasonly recently been instituted. If the matter meets with favor, a convention will be called shorts ly, either in Pittsburg or Erie, for the purpose of organizing. It is proposed to include all organizations now attached to the American Federation of Labor. In this event matters will be some- what complicated in several cities. Pitts. burg, for instance, has two organizations, one of which is made up of both Federas tion and K. of L. assemblies. It is thought the Trades Assembly would have some difficulty going into the state organ. ization on that account, am m————— ro A] Ss Insurance Commissioner Forster in his official report shows that he is aod long has been entirely familiar with the peculiar way in which the officers of the American Life Insurance Company care ried on its affairs, and he denounces them with a righteous indignation for which there is ample warrant, Ba! if Mr, Forster knew all along that the man, agement of the company was resorting to ways that were dark and tricks that were vain, and that it was in a rotten condition, why didn’t he take the public into his confidence long ago? Mr, Fors: ter’s particular fonction in the body po- litie is to keep a watch over the life ine surance business and to protect the pub lic against companies which are finan. olally unsound. Yet he never bad a warning word to say about the American # Mr. A. D. Harlap, Chairman of the State Road Commission, has issued a cir- cular to the citizens of the Common wealth asking for answers to a series of questions, nine in number, covering this general subject of road improvement, as follows: Are you in favor of abolishing the pres sent system of working out road taxes and paying a cash tax instead? Do you favor State aid to public roads? How shall the amount be ascertained; by valuation of habitants, road mileage or other wise? the townships or counties? ssseesable property, number of jo Are you in favor of supervisors gery ing without enmpevsation, the same as school directors, whose duty shall be the assessment of taxes aod appoinunent of road overseers to have charge of the work? ads be 8 tHHow shall iperintended and introlled-<by RBiate, county or town shipsupervisors or engineers? Andshall the State sid, if any, be handled the same as local taxes? ufacturing or mining county? Is the stone in your county suitable for road bailding? Are you in favor of authoriziog town- ships to borrow money for road purpose? Are you in fayor of convict labor on public roads? who receive the cirular are also requested to give their views upon apy other points that may occur to them pertaining laws and road con- struction and maintenance. If the wiil only take the Citizens to road the Commonwealth trouble to think the matter out and give their conclusions to Road within a few years Pennsylvania may have the very best system of country roads in the Unit ed States. When it comes to questions affecting their own interests, there are no clearer, closer or more logical reason. ers than the farmers, aod they owe it to] themselves to take his question up and] give it their carefnl consideration. ly os A farmers of vommission, the Over 1,100 workmen are now engeg- ed on the Congo Railroad. Four huand- ped of them come from Zanzibar, and the others are mostly Kroocboys from the Liberian coast. The carpenters, black- #miths, and masons are native crafliamen who learned their trades in Sierra Leone and Senegal. Most of the force are en- gaged in blasting and grading operations. A few Cabindas who live on the coast pear the Congo are employed as cooks. and about fifiy Congo natives as porters, Up to April 12 about twos miles of the roadway had been completed, stariiog from the western end of the road at Matadi, ninety miles from the ses, Three foorths of all the difficulties to be met are io the first ten miles before the com: paratively level platesu back of the Congo hills is reached, The work is now in charge of twenty-five Earopeons, in cluding engioeers and superintendents. At Cavandaigaa, Mrs, Cora R. Fish, wile of Frank R. Fish, who was senten- ced (0 death last week for the murder of James Cullinane, has begun a suit for $10,000 damages against James McCarthy and Orvin 8, Bacon, under the damage act, She claims that the last drink her husband took before com mitting the murder, he being then intoxicated, was drunk in McCarthy's saloon, which was leased to him by the trustees of McKech- pie, of whom Bacon is one. btm Hear what that able Republican Jour~ nal, the Chicago Tribune, says: “The highly protected manufacturing districts are mostly democratic, and the republicans are loging daily the work ingmen’s votes they once had, Why? Go among the trades unions and hear their leaders and walkiog delegates talk, and learn the reason, These men tell their comrades that they are being, cheated out of their share of the heavy protection duties alleged to be levied for their benefit,” This is certainly plain talk for a repub- lican newspaper to indulge in, and the Tribune deserves praise for its indepeny dence. In North Dakota rain is falling in tors rents, the downpour being the greatest since 1882, amounting in places to more than three inches in as many hours, In South Dakota the storm is accompanied by thunder, lightning, bail and sixty mile wind. Garden truck is in many places ruined. Strawberry plants, which are just blossoming, are cut all to pieces Slight damage to buildings by wind is reported in several places. The Chicago Tribune. Rep, reports a meeting of 2000 farmers at Tascoly, Ill, on the 4th inst. at which it says, “the tariff question was freely discussed and the McKinley bill denounced, The farmers as a role are opposed to it in many respects, and will vote for any to work lu their behalf.” A A I Mi The bodies of flood victims are still There is considerable feeling in Louisis ana and some of the other Bouthern {States over the appointment of negroes {of the ignorant and vicious class as cen- {sus enumerators, especially where this lis done in white counties Thisstrength- lens the belief the census returns arz to [be “ecooked’ for political purposes. Re- |markiog on this policy of negro enumer- |ators, the New Orleans TimessDemocrat {eays: We can readily understand how ob- {poxious it must be to the white people (of Lafourche to have negr es invading [their homes and iosisting upon knowing [domestic detailg—whether the ladies of the family are afflicted with any femis nine complaints or disesses, and how much the fatuer of the family owes on {ois hovse, To choose rough plantation \darkies for this work in districts where {the population is almost entirely white, {is an insult 10 the latter race which, we | fo wr, will be resented, | We don’t suppose that in all the North- lern States a negro census enumerator {has been appointed, - | A wide difference ofopinion prevails among observers in the senate wing of the Capitol as to the fate of the house silver bill when it reaches that quarter, but this is mostly in respect to details. On certain points there seems to be a particularly unanimous judgment (1) that whatever bill the senate passes will lack the bullion redemption feature, and (2) that it will call for the purchase of 4,500," 000 ounces of silver a month instead of $4,600,000 worth, A good many say, also, that there will be inserted in the bill a provision for the coinage of all the silver brought to the treasury by the bullion owners—which, of course, is equivalent, for public par- poses, to free coinage. - Killed by lightning, is toe intelligence from all over the country where last week's thunder gusts prevailed. Lightning struck a barn six miles from Charleston, W. Va, iostastly killing Thomas Hicks and Samper Stevenson, and partially paralyzing William Dills and Dick Alexander, Miss Ridie Petit, of Burlington, N,J., was paralyzed by a flash of lightning which strack the house and her condi- tion is critical A teat, in which a military cyclorama was being exhibited, was struck by light- niog at Williamsport, Pa., but no oage was injured. Several other places were struck and a number of electric wires burned, Mrs. Lewis Bechtel, aged 46 years, wife of a farmer residing near Boers town’ Pa , was killed by lightning and a maid servant slightly injured while they were seated on the porch. The sai: mountains located on the banks of the Rio Virgin, an afficent of the Colorado River in Lincoln County, Nev, cover an area of twenty-five miles. The salt they contaiv is pure and white and clearer than glass, and it is said that a piece seven or eight inches thick is sometimes clear enough to see through to read a news paper. Over the salt is a layer of sandstone from two to eight fest thick, and when this is toro away, the salt a, pears like a huge saowdrift. Un~ der the cap rock has been discovered what was evidently the camp of pre. historic men, containing charred wood and charcoal, and mstting made of cedar bark, which the: alt has preserved. i A I MA At a recent dinner given by Mra, As- tor, the table cloth and napery were of ivory white silk and setin damask. Down the centre of the cloth was a foot wide panel of band wrought lace, which showed beneath it rose piok satin. The famous dinner service of solid silver was used, We guess, to use a vulgar ex- pression, the vittels on Mrs, Astor's table didn't taste & bit better than they do upon the tables of some of us poor folks. A br A AGI A NO The deadly carstove must go. The Pennsylvania Company is fitting up all its coaches with steam heaters, thus in suring not only greater safety but grester comfort for the passengers. The cary stove has levied heavy tribute on human life, and it is high time it was put on the retired list. : i An inseot called the saw fly is report- ed to be ruining the wheat in various parts of central Illinois, notably in Logan county, where the area of wheat planted is unusually large, snd where, until the ravages of this insect began, the promise was remarkably fine. At Broadwell a collection of bunches of wheat, pulled from fields throughout Logan county, indicates that the devastation is wide spread, No field has yet been found that is free from the pest, which attacks the of wheat will be plowed up and the 0. 23 . e Penn Township. Candidates are as thick as files at present. eryone presents strong claims, Ey. Last Saturday Millhelm had runsway.a Mr Grove's horse got awsy in a truck wagon and made quite an excitement, Mr, Miller, of Bpring Mills, was thro this tion this week gathering up the tarift wool, BoC farmers’ high George Musser, of Williamsport, beim on business, Mr, Wolf, a student trial sermons to the was in Mills of Gattysburg chyve preached five hes constituting the Asronsburg Lutheran charge is quite likely that be will have & call, it it Mrs, Barah Finsler, who has bees sick for sews eral weeks and better at times, is worse again, Bhe is a poor mortal; has no one 10 attend 1 her wants, being alone most of the time Bomething should be done for her, George Ulrick, the census enumerator is ss ragy #5 a bee, He finds it herd work w gel all the answers he must have, ready tho for him One of our farmers was He had kept an account and ven tell how many bad, Peter «s 84 Lome with him could ¢ rads he claims there are 1 Marvelors indeed ! Prejudice and COLSCIOUE. in per § feclivgs i lands do not : but the editor of the Millheln Journal, commonly called ‘Schmutz Blatt,” for and predominates above everything that able and praise worthy, often find amon Buch indeed we & the editorial fraternity Cibiy manifested 8 wonders ful degree of phy Bognomy iu last week's freue. when he claims thet * his fust enough value 10 him not to be a pe pinching hypocrite whose sole object in le is all pockets, religion is of huy hi own SIEply bDecause made by your correspondent § reference was A 3 cation in dis own paper. Now what, or who iY “penny pinching hypocrite Ow, his editor lamst a Don't suppose he has re ference 0 on who has paid for his paper nearly two Bae receiving for the Bor a man tiust deb, Wed rosms, Who las an unpaid subscription of six years standing, years in advance and corresponded to the 107 KLX OF MEVED FORTS, Dever WOIrk 80 much ss one free paper Who economizes that he can pay instead of visiling saloons and But probably he nx the person - Aaronsburg. Jared Harper and wife, Bell : the early part of the we Asronsburg were vis friends in foun. XK k Ext esa Aalig 3 3 y Hev.J, A. Bright and so: Kanes, came 10 Asronsh iAather, of Abiline rg ou Monday evenin 0 make u few woeks’ visit, Bev. Dietzier and family started i riage for Harrisburg on Toesd % goods were loaded in the cars on Mond Juwmes L. ms. Shafer's lot and will sho factory into it Mrs, Williams st Woodward. who bad "a ovarian lumor removed some days ago, is gelling along very well and her friends Ler speedy recovery. Mlinger has erected a bullding on FY move his ciger Gave Lopes of Capt. Jack Eyivis has started iu ae coulection. ary business lo PLillip's hotel H. A Mingie is somewhat improved and able 0 be about, but Dr. Musser is no better snd still confined w bis bed. Disagreeable Gone, Sow that the cold drizzly rains are transform ed 10 delightful spring, and tbe muddy roads wo picasanl arives ii would be well 1 look about and prepare for the lurking diseace often coming with 6 DEW Vegelallon, as 0 beller enable us 0 folks low out dally svoostious we should be in good Lewlll sud spirits. No wellweguisted family is without s stioulant of some kind, Deception is proval’y more practiced Ly unscrupulous i i LQuOms thas auy other business. Max Kiein, 82 Federal street, 1s a rellabie party; w bim we poll wilh plessare. No deception, no misrepre- selialion, uo smiling under false oolom with him. His suver Age Eye is positively pure and soid everywhere or 3.50 per quart only. His six yesisoid Peunsy lvaiis Kye al $l esc qusra, or BX quarts 107 30, are as represented. Jus wines, Lraddies and gins are as puod and reasonable es a4y iu Whe country. Send for complete catalogue aud price st to Max, Kiel, 52 Federal Sires, Aliegueny, Pa. ———— A —————— Announcements, TREASURER. We are suthorised 0 annotuty Bamusl Herring, of Gregg sownship, as a candidate Tressurer, subject 10 Democratic usages, We aré authorized 0 sanounce thet J J. Gramley, of Miles township, will bes candidate for Tieayurer, sutject 10 Democratic usages, The Winter dé. for —— COMMISSIONER, We are authorised $0 announce thal Daniel Heckman, of Bufiaio Run, wili be candidate for Commissioner, subject 10 Demootratic usages. We are authorised to sonmovnce thet G. LL, Goodhart, of Potter township, will be » candidate for Vommissioner, subject to Democratic usages, We are authorized to announce that B, F, Sto ver, of Bellefonte, will be » candidate for Ooms missioner, sulyect to Republican usages, We ore authorised to announce that Daniel ©. Grove, of Marion township, is a candidste for Commissioner, sulijeci ie usages. We are authorise? $0 announce that A. J. Long of Harris wowaeseip, will be 8 cendidate for Come missioner, subject to Republican usages soa, SPIER 1 ASS ha ta i will » Com , ¥abjdot to Democratic usages. ASSEMBLY. We are authorised to annotnoe that J. H. Holt, of Bnow Shoe, will be a eandidaw for Assembly, suldect to Democratic usages, BHERIVF, We are atithotised to announce that A. M. But. hs arn oaneians for Sherift, subject 10 Democratic We are authorized 10 Shnotnce that John PF Penn 1 be a for oy i neegos, We are wo W. A. TE oe i ano We are a w Noll, of mao! STAN re uh, Sp of, SS Re We are
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