THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED, EVRY? Eprror and Pror’n
~TERM: =-One year, $1.50. “when
nee. Those in arrears subject
rims. $2 per year.
paid in ad
to previous
Advertisements 20 cents per line for 8 inser
ns,and 5 cents tor each subsequent insertion,
Center Hur, Pa, Tuvns, Oct, 9
THE BIG EXCURSION.
Men of Metal Entertained in the
Quaker City.
INSPECTING ITS MANUFACTORIES
Eight Train
tallurgists Invade
They Visit the Saw
cony, and the Iron
of Phanixville.
Loads of Foreign Me-
Pennsylvania,
Works at Ta-
Manufactories
PHiLADELPHIA, Oct. 6.-—The Philadel-
phians were r rathe r asiorise d at the big
party which descended upon their city
Saturday. It was a party
sons, of whom nearly 100
and was composed of membx
British Iron and Steel in
German Iron and Steel
the American Institute
gineers.,
The visit
Ors
r of
Hon per-
were ladies,
rs of the
stitute, of
+
institnte
Mini
and
ng En-
left New York
Pennsylvania railroad shortly
o'clo They were divided
eight sections of eight ¢
the beginning the
through the country.
Before they had scarcely toucl
city very first thi
inspect one of
factone This
Henry Dissto
A steamboat
to take i ts |
ware, and the wom
board 1t. A committee of
ladies, with Mrs. G
president, were presen
ing ladies.
GIS 0d
big
of
the
ta ng ie
America's most
the g
11 Were
Speeches of Welcome.
dence,
Yesterday was a very
for today there are eight
ganized and in the evening
at the Acaden
A number
Phoenixville
the Phowmnix
were TY
assistant
the Re
of party
the handsome
Ree kr.
The Meeting in New
Arts.
sading
the
York.
pany
nue A.
Most of
to be present wh
the institute was
Chickering hall. Sir Ja:
sided. He introduced
Alexander Thielen,
Deutscher Eisenhuet
cussed the paper
the del
be
tenle
presente
who dis-
by James
KITSON-—~HEWITT-—SIEMENS,
Gayler, of Bessemer, Pa., on
velopment of American blast
with special reference to large
In his eriticism of this paper
len represented the views of
turers on the lower Rhine.
Sir James then announced
resence of Abram 8. Hewitt, to whom
e presented the Bessemer diploma and
the medal of the Dritish Iron and Steel
institute for services rendered to the
iron trade of the world, The chairman
id a feeling tribute to Mr. Hewitt for
bis untiring efforts to elevate the iron
industry in this country After his re-
marks fie gave Mr. Howitt the diploma
and medal.
Mr. Hewitt followed in a graceful ac-
knowledgment of the honor conferred
upon him by an interesting account of
the beginnings and development of Bes-
semer steel manufacture,
“The de
furnaces
¥ elds.”
Mr. Thie-
manufac.
the
An Alliance Victory.
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 8. — Returns
show that the full Democratic ticket is
elected by the usual heavy majority,
there being practically no opposition.
Both constitutional amendments have
probably been searried. The general
assembly is three-fourths Alliance, The
Farmers’ Alliance is in the saddle and
has control of Georgia today. From
Governor Northen down tothe hnmblest
bailiff the farmers are on top and they
are jubilant over the result,
Si
The Count of Paris.
New York. Oct. 4, —After an absence
of twenty-eight years the Comte de
Paris returned to America Jesierday on
the steamship Germanic of the White
Star line. He was accompanied by his
son, the Duc d'Orleans, and by the Due
de Uzes, the Marquis de Lasteyrie, the
Comte de Haussonville, Col. de Parse-
val, Capt. Morhain and Dr. Recamier.
THE HISTORY OF A W
Ww ednend; ay, Oct, 1,
Congressman Frank Lawler wa
for sherill by the Democrats of tis,
Fire destroyed entire busine portion
of Ononta, the county seat of Blount county,
Tenn,
The Russian government is about
an expedition to Mongolia to explore the dos.
ert of Gobi
The President nominated George
eller, of New York, the present s
retary of the treasury, jor minis
tugal.
A German
nes
topog
of the oth
the
to send
Batehs
14 AL Ae.
or to Por
‘Ane
of
ins
has been arrested at (
who had hier on a number
raphical charts of the fortress and pl
i town
POSHeSS
‘alhoun count Aetinny
Cody,
id for the woods, w
yeging her, She broke y und
was shot and fatally wounded
i iy
fane ff widow, from her
tion of flo
whereupon she
by one of the regulators,
And manu.
Rirest
dealers
Mun
Jone
Raphael & Lewenburg,
facturers of clot
gned to N, I.
immer. Their
rom $175.08 to a
mostly large wi
York and Phila
Thursday, Oct.
ared at
& fey
Ling at 40
oston, have
mer, Jone
estimate
credi
in Boston,
tors ard
New
The grip
ane 1 has re
has reap.
ted fatally it
by bh
pumand
JERE Wa
Friday, Oct,
Kansas
fnself
His sui.
at Bat
I ooth.comy chief
Army
. Ones sinoet lawyers
died in Lon
prominent
between York
Altoona attorney,
i Harris
t Washington on his
ng. He is accom
¢. Lhe distingh ished young
Mediterranean for
down from over.
5 ¥ to fie
his hb bg He broken
work
Mr. John Lat
Libby prison 4
war, died at Hi
of his sge
teturns from
idaho give t
over 2000 majority.
ted forty-four out
of the legislature,
#, who
ng the
hmond,
of
the
the 1th year
was adjutant
iatter years of
Va. in
but threo ox
Repu
The
of
ities in
lean state ticket
Republicans have
fifty-four members
all
he antive
ele
received from
that sixty leper
Intelligence haa been
Noumea, New Caledonia,
convicts confined in the penal ektabiishment
there made thei iast June, The ane
thorities have been unable to discover their
whereabduts
Tuesday, Oct, 7.
Nineteen hundred Russian emigrants sailed
for New York from Bremen.
A general strike of all the train employes
of the Erie railway is threstened.
The house of the late J. BR. Irwin, at Morton,
Pa., was gutted by fire. Loss, $5.00,
A. Wanamaker, a cousin of the postmaster
general, committed suicide in St. Louis
A Spanich engineer and two newspaper
men left Genoa In a balloon, intending to
cross the Mediterranean.
The comptroller of the currency has called
for a report of the condition of national
banks at the close of business on Thursday,
Oct. 2.
Returns show that four English govern-
ment factories, with 17,000 employes, have
turned out firearms to the valoe of $12,500,000
during the past year,
Loulse Esslinger married George Welirlin
at Redwood, Cal, and committed suicide on
her wedding night. It is conjectured that a
former lover in Portiand, Ore., proved false
to her. :
Passengers on an express train on the Bal.
timore and Ohio raliroad near Newburg, W.
Va., were sstonished to see a man open the
car window and plunge through it headfores
most, while the train was ranning at fall
mead. The man escaped with two broken
wrists and a fractured ankle
A A A
Harrison Will Not Run Again,
Tacoma, Tai Oct. 4,-John Elam,
the former law partner of President
Harrison when asked by a reporter if he
thought the president w be a cane
didate for renomination said: **No, the
president has told me that he will not
again be nn candidate. Gen. Harrison
has made one of the most conscientious
of presidents,”
Fr EACnL
r escape
GEN. RAUM'S REPORT
He Renders an Asoviint of His
Stewardship.
BURINESS OF THE PENSION OFFICE.
The Increased Volume of Work and
Increased Facility in Dispatching
It—The Commissioner Pledges His
Devotion the Soldiers Who
Saved the Republic,
to
The annual
commissioner
fiscal year ending
WasHINGTON, Oct, 7T.~
report of Green B. Raum,
of pensions, for the
June 30 last, and including the first
guarter of the current fiscal year, of
the operations of his bureau was sub-
mitted to the secretary of the interior.
It shows that at the end of the fiscal
vear there were 587,944 pensioners borne
upon the pension rolls.
There were 66.087 original
allowed during the year, being 14,716
more than were allowed in 1888, The
amonnt of the first payment of these
claims aggregated $32.478.841, being
£11,086,492 more than in the previous
fiscal year, and 510,179,225 more than
the first payments of the fiscal year
1888, The average annual value of each
pension at the cl the year was
x135.04.
claims
ts
ose of
Expediting Business,
When Commissioner Raum took
charge of the bureau last October, he
says, the work of adjudicating claims
and issuing certificates had during the
wriod from July 1, 1858, fallen far be.
hind the puriod for the previous
fiscal year, while from Oct, 20, , to
June 80, 1800, there was an increase in
the adjudication of claims and the issu
ing of certificates, greatly in excess of
the same period of the preceding fiscal
year.
To illustrate
business transa
work
furnishes a
since the disability
burean received .
September past 1,276,728 le
to disability cl
ing the same px
commissic
ji,
same
| NRG
the
ted of
the
cient
great amonnt of
ympared with pre
bureau the report
showing that
was passed the
August and
titers relating
out dur-
The
prob, ably
owed.
the
which
Yious of
sent
23 y
62 replies,
\
hat
“ail be
mer
000 of those claims «
He speaks of the
first in the hist world
grants pensions for disabilities not
proven in the duty and a law
which recognizes a higher obligation on
the part of the ped ple to disab led vet-
eran 5 than was ever before formulated.
Nothing, I1 be left undone
by the effect to this
late + gratitude of the
peor who saved the
repub
all
SADLY ACL AS
ry of the
line of
he says, shal
burean
t ax
st exj
to the
lic.’
nie
THE PRESIDENT'S PROGRESS.
He Receives Ovations at Western
lailway Stations,
Oct 1.~The president
arrived here early this morn-
hort stop departed west-
Mississippi road
withstanding the early
rreat crowd atthe sta.
it responded briefiyto
Secretary Tracy
CRATE
mio ana
%.~The
mgh here
pre sident
platform
President Har-
he re over the
dd at 9:90 this
T.~The
Clifton
ening, attached
cake and Ohio ex-
spent the greater
in the olsmervation
retary Tracy. At
nd played “March
gia,” while presi ent
red hands from
he Car,
i Serings, W. Va,
Oct Th here was a large crowd wait.
ing to greet the president and to seren-
ade him at this station. The president
left his dinner to respond to the calls of
the assemblage
hrough
.
:
iy
part of the aft
rood talking
he
Republicans Elected in Kentucky.
Cixcansar:, Oct. 7.--The election in
Covingts a on Saturday wis conducted
by balloy somewhat similar to the Aus-
tralian system. Hitherto the method
of voting has been viva voce, The re
sult was the election of John Thomas,
Republican, for mayor by a majority of
146. The Republicans also elected the
city weigher, five of the aldermen, five
of the councilmen and five of the ten
members of the school board. The
Democrats elected the assessor. This is
the first Republican mayor in twenty-
Years
A War Dance for the President.
Tone, 1. T., Oct ~At a meeting
of the council and chiefs of the lowa
Nation it was decided to extend to
President Harrison an invitation that
he extend his western trip to this vill-
e. W.P. Thompson, of The Guthrie
News, was authorized to telegraph to
the president this fact and to say that a
war dance would be ordered in his
honor, Should Mr. Harrison not visit
Tohee then the blind chief and his
council will meet him in Guthrie if he
will come there,
Birchall « ‘onfessos.
Woopstock, Oct. 7. Birchall's story
of the murder of Benwell is gradually
oozing out of him. He acknowledges
he was accessory and therefore merits
the sentence passed upon him. He
alleges, however, that some of the testa.
mony adduced in behalf of the crown
was untrue,
—— -
Five Men Killed.
Puroy, Tenn., Oct. 4, At Chewalla,
McNairy county, five men were in-
stantly killed by the explosion of a
steam mill boiler belonging to Mr, Gur-
ley. who had recently bought the mill
Gurley 's body was torn into shreds,
The Now Tarr Law.
New York, Oct, 6.—The McKinley
tariff law went'into effect this morni
and an nnaccustomed guiet prevails
the custom house, in striking contrast
to the exciting scenes enacted there on
Saturday.
Gorman Day in Philadelphia,
Puitavgremia, Oct. 7.The 205th an-
niversary of the land ut the first
German colony led by rancis Pastor-
ing, was celebrated the hall of the
German society in this city last night,
Centre Ha
Mills.
All grades of Roller Flour con-
stantly on hand, at whole-
sale to dealers and at retail
All grades of Chop.
Granulated Corn Meal of the
finest grades.
Bran, fine and coarse.
COAL, always on hand, Hard,
Soft and Woodland, all
sizes.
TERMS, for Flour, Feed and
Coal, Strictly Cash
All kinds of grain wanted and
cash paid for same.
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carefully prepared prose rp tions ; used Tor many
years in DEvate pias tice with success. and for over
ic 1s she used by the people, Every single Spo
¢ifio is a special cure for the disease nares,
These ok ifies cure without drogging, purg-
ing or reducing the system, ead are in fact and
deed the sovercign remedies ofl the World,
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Fevers, Congestion, inflammations, , ,24
orms, Woria Vever, Worm Colle, 1 x
‘rying Colle, or Teething of Inga ts,
arrbhen, of Children or Adults. ,
a spnter Gripping, Billous Colic
ole Morbus, Vomiting
‘oughs, Cold, Mronehitls,,
Vouralgin, Toothache Faceaohe ps
i eandncheos, Siok ile adnche, Ve nigo.;
yupepsin, Billous Stomach
4 Sopp camed or Painful Periods. .
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Croup, Cough, Difficult Breath
sult Kheum, Ersyipelas, Erupt
| itheumntism, Hheumatic | in #
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Men Sickness, Slekness from Bidl
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rervans Debility Seminal Weak
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Hare Mouth, Canker
frie Wenkness, Wetting
Painful Periods, with Spas
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