VOL .LXIV.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
The Altoona Tribune often says some
sensible things, and this item belongs to
the list: There are people in this coun-
try whose lands would be of little value
were it not for the market's opened up to
them by the railroads, and yet they
spend a great deal of energy in demand.
ing that the railroads be taxed beyond
their capacity.
The grip is thoroaghly epidemic in
Pittsburgh and fally 4,000 cases are re-
ported. Several of the most prominent
physicians are «fllicted and almost every
business firm numbers at least one with
the disease. Among those whose death
can be directly attributed to the grip is
Alderman Cassidy, well known in city
affairs, who died. The disease is far more
acute than ever known here.
In the Senate at Harrisburg on Weds
nesday Senate Williamson of Huatis
ngdon presented a petition from Citizens
of Hantingdon protesting agaiost the
liberating of inmates of the Reformatory
of that place at about hall pay, ts the
detriment of honest labor and suggested
that the prisoners should be sent to their
homes to work out thair paro’a and not
ruin honest labor at Hantiug lon by com
petition with cheap convict labor,
It appears that all the Sicilians murs
dered by the mob in New Orleacs were
nataralized citizans. This disposes of
any reason for interference by the Italian
Government, and it mast be a source of
considerable satisfaction to Secretary
Blaine, who by his swift and ioconsid.
erate offi:ial dispatch to
Nicholls made out a case against himse If
before the facts were known. Mr. Blaine
has one failing as a diplomatist, He
sometimes lets his heart ron away with
his head.
Governor
Peter J. Claassen, who was convicted
wrecking the Sixth Natiopal Bank of
New York, was tentenced to six vears
imprisonment; and on the same day at
Long Island City a burglar received a
thirteen years sentence, The lay mind
sometimes finds it difficult to under
stand why the man who improverishes
buodreds of innocent persons, and strikes
a blow at business integrity, shou'd be
dealt with more leniently than the social
I<hmaelits, with his dark lantern and
“jimmy,” who robs but few at a time, and
these with mach discrimiostion.
United States Government to make
amends in any way to the victims of the
New Orleans tragedy. The President
bas no power, as the law now stands, to
punish anybody, or make amends to
anybody, for what has happened in New
Orleans, or to give any precautionary
orders or instruction to the Sate of-
ficials. He canoot interfere in ny way
with the police of Louisiana excest at
the request of the Legislature, or of the
Goverpor when the Legislature is not in
session. Nor is the United States re
sponsible, under our municipal law, to
any foreign Power for damage done to
the persons or property of resident
aliens. This fact Las been set forth
again aad again by various Secretaries of
State and notably by Mr. Bayard in the
controversy arising out of the Rock
Spriags massacre of Chinese in 1884,
An Important Decision.
A dispatch from Doylestown, Pa., says
Judge Yerkes has ren lered an interest.
iug and importiot decision, in which it
is held and laid down as law that the
word *“wssae” ina will iaclades illegiti~
mate children. Ouse of the six children
of the testator died before him, but after
the date of his will. He left legitimate
children and owe illegitimate son, who
was born prior to the date of the will
and whose existance was known of by
the testator. He claims to share in the
onssixth interest which his mother
would have taken if livieg. It was cn:
tended tnat the illegitimate son must be
excluded, because, under the rule of the
common law, the deseriptim “child,”
“son,” “issue,” must be taken prima facie
to mean legitimate child, son or issue,
Jodge Yerkes, in concluding bis opinion,
says: “We are of the opinio » that when
the testator substitated the issue of de
eeasad children as the legatess wo were
to take the shares of deceased parents
his inteot, us expressed by his will and
uader the law, was to inclade the illegiii
mate with the legitimate children of
such parent in the term ‘issue.’ ”
wwe Lowing makes suits to order, pur.
ties can select their own goods from
ssmples, Satisfaction guaranteed in ali
respects, and at prices 25 per cent lower
than elsewhere. .
On The Granger Tax Bill,
There was a discussion of the grangers’
tax bili in the house at Harrisburg, on
Wednesday, from 11 o'clock until 1, and
fiom 3 till 5,30, Many smendments
were inserted and more were rejected,
and when odjournment time arrived five
of the 23 séctions of the measure had
been disposed of, Taggart, of Montgom-
ery, who led the fight for the bil |, asked
for its passage on the ground that it
would materially relieve the farming in
terests of the unjost burden of taxation
which it ie compelled to bear. He was
ably assisted by Wherry, of Camberland
and, indeed, had it not been for the lat
ter, Taggart would have frequently found
himself in a hole,
Capp, of Lebanon, was first to find
fault with the bill. He took excsption
to the first section which defines certain
terms, but Wherry silenced him in short
order, and then was passsd the first
amendment of the day. It was offered
by Taggart himself, and exempts from
taxation mortgages held by building and
loan associations. Walton, of Philadel-
phia, wanted to exempt savings institu
tions from the payment of a tax, but his
amendment to that effect was voted down
and the first section of the bill agreed to.
In the second rection of the bill the
income tax feature was stricken out,
notwithstanding the vehement protest of
Stocking of Washington. This was Tags
gart’'s proposition, and there was no
trouble in having it carried into effect.
Fow, of Philadelphia, made an unsae.
cessfal effort to put scientific and literary
institutions on the taxable list, The bill
exempts institutions of this sort, bat
Wherry says they must be institutions
that receive Stale aid. Fow was also
unsuccessful in an attempt to exempt
consigned goods from taxation, and Gil
lan, of Franklin, met a similar fate in
his effort to prevent the taxation of mos
sical instruments,
The warmest discassion of the day was
over the proposition of Stewart of Phila
delphia to strike out the provision tax.
ing machinery. He, Wallon and Bow
contended that a tax ou machinery would
drive some of the largest manufacturing
establishments in Philadelphia out of
the city. Gillan maintained that the
bill wouldn't tax that kind of machinery,
others declared that it would, and the
matier was being discussed when the
house adjourned, Consideration of the
bill will be resumed, and the probabili-
ties are that all the sec lions will be dis-
posed of
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Advice To Farmers
Ex-President Cleveland has written a
etter to the Indiana Tariff Reform
League declining to be present at the
league's annoal meeting,
The ful text of the letter is not given
out for publication, but the closing para-
graphs are made public. They are as
follows.
“You will not, hope, think it amiss
if I suggest the necessity of pushing with
more vigor than ever the doctrine of
your organization. I believe that the
theories and practices which tariff reform
antagouizes are responsible for many if
not all of the evils which afflict our peo
ple
“If there is a scarcity of the circulat-
ing medium is not the experiment worth
trying as a remedy of leaving the moa-
ey in the hands of the people, and for
their vee, which is needlessly taken
from them under the pretext of necessa-
ry taxation? If the farmers’ lot is a
hard one in his discouraging struggle for
better rewards of his toil, are the prices
of his products to be improved by a poli-
cy which hampers trade in his best marks
ets, and invites the competition of dan
gerons rivals, whether other means of
relief may appear necessary to relieve
the present ?
“I believe the principle of tariff re.
form promises the most important aid in
their satisfaction, and that the contin
ued and earnest advocacy of this princis
ple is essential fo the lightening of the
burdens of our countrymen. Hoping
that your organization may contioue to
be one of great usefulness and encour-
agement, I am yours very respectfully,
Grover CLEVELAND.”
No New Capitol. +
The Bailding Commission to devise
means to repair the capitol or build a
new one, decided to recommend the
ereclion of a department building and
library, oot to exceed in cost $500,000,
and that an appropriation of $125,000 be
made to repair the present capitol build
ing. There will be no new capitol.
So long as we have the old rooster
#'yle of legislation at Harrisburg the old
capitol is good encogh. As long as roos-
tera and lobbyists direct things at Hare
risburg there geed be no new building at
Harrisburg—the present one will do.
When the taxpaying masses once see
that their intereats are to be cared for
then let the event be inaugurated by a
new capitol—otherwise the old Augean
stable is good enough,
ai
— Shirts, i ‘underwear, hats, ,
caps
trunks and valises at cost. 8, Loeb,
PA.
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Election of Senators,
The sentimeat is growing strongly in
favor of the election of United States
senators by the people. Congressman
Holman of Indiana, who has served
longer in that body than any member of
the house, but not in continuous service
in a recent interview staked his reputa-
tion for good judgment “upon the predic-
tion that almost the first thing done at
the opening of the Fifty~second congress
will be the passage of a resolution to
amend the coustitution, requiring the
election of senators by the people. There
is a strong sentiment in favor of it, and
the change is almost at hand, The
measure will be introduced in the house
as soon as congress meets, and there will
be very little delay in its passage. It
will go to the senate early enough togive
+
senators, whether they lik it or not, can-
not afford to defeat the measure, A
popular sentiment will demand
change, and for senators to oppose it
would be construed to signify a fear on
their part to trust their fates to the will
of the people.
method of electing senators will be very
soon done away with.”
crats of Illicois in their successful cam
paiga for Governor Palmer. Their can-
didate will probably be Senator Sherman,
whose term expires with the next con-
gress, aud this is the vacancy that is to
be filled. Governor Foraker, it is stated
will be a candidate for the convention
indorsement, will hardly succeed
against if the Republicans
should adopt this plan of nominating a
candidate for senator it will be a challs
enge for the Democrats to do the same,
but
Sherman,
declared for a constitutional amendment
States. Congressman Holman's assur.
ance that it will pass congress by the
necessary two-thirds vote is most wel
come,
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Chicago is again in the grasp of the
grip.
The disease seems to be more prevas
lent than last year. The residents of the
fashionable avenues and the denizens in
the tenements of the poor alike suffer
from its ravages, and it is felt in
line of business,
Five hundred men employed on
West Side street car system are laid off
with the epidemic and the company is
badly handicapped for help. The South
every
list. The North Side Company has about
75 men off, while many of those at work
are suffering from the disease in a mild
form,
The large down town stores are hav-
jog a similar experience. In one store,
employing 150 clerks, 40 ara sick. Ten
per cent of the police force is laid up and
50 men in the fire department are off.
Fifty oat of 150 mail carriers in the posts
office are suffering. All the hospitals
are overcrowded. About 50 grip suffer.
ers applied for admission to the County
Hospital and nearly as many the day be-
fore. The institution is full and many
of the patients are compelled to accept
sccommodations on the floor,
There is scarcely a boarding house in
the city, it is said, but has from one to
five persons laid up with the disease, It
has invaded the hotels, and fully ones
third of the guests are ill. To make mat-
ters worse then, many of the managers
and hotel employes are sufferers, and
there is such a dearth of help that some
of the guests, by their own request, have
been sent to the hospita's. There are a
large number of grip saffsrers in private
houses all over the city and the doctors
are kept busy night and day,
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Pabst Beer.
The bottling establishment of P. R.
Young sells it to every dealer. It has
medical properties and highly recom-
mended for invalids, nursing mother and
delicate children. Beside he has pure
unadulterated liquors and wines of all
brands.” The guarantee with every sale
is my reputation,
10 3 Pure R, Yovsa,
Prop’r Lewistown Bottling Work,
dims ili ciapinadan
; Conscience Money.
On Monday morning Treasurer Gram -
ley received $12 from a party living in
Pennsvalley which under the eircums
stances should be termed conecience
money had been out hunting and killed
game out of season, So strong were the
pangs of concience that they only found
relief by voluntarily paylog the full
amount of the fine to the county Treasur-
er ~~Centre Democral,
ss MI Ml AO
Woodland Coal.
Two ear londs Woodland coal just re-
ceived, at Kurtz & Son's mill, .
To Import Buffalo. \
C. K, Bober, of near Coburn, is making
efforts to import a buffalo bull from
Nebraska, for the purpose of crossing
with the cattle in this section. If he
meets with proper encouragement from
our farmers, and he should, because it
would be the means of greatly improv
ing their stock, will arrange to get a
buffalo or two in the near future, West-
ern stockmen claim that the robes of
crossed stock are more beautifal and of
greater value than the robe of a fall buff-
alo, while the meat of such cattle is far
superior to that of common cattle. —Miil«
heim Journal,
rent e—
Marriage Licenses.
Following is the list of marriage li-
censes issued during the past week from
the register’s office Bellefonte:
John Bwift and Elizabeth West, both
of Philipsburg.
{ Aundrew Biosh and Agnes Hoilas, both
{of Enterprise.
F. Delosier and Jeanie Straub, both of
{ Hollidaysburg.
i Chas, 8B. Hinton, of Soow Shoe and
|L na Lucas, Union twp.
{ W.H. Boavely, of Penn twp. and
{ Nora Mowery, of Aaronsburg.
David Giogery, of Martha, and Cecelia
i Bullock, of Julian,
Samuel Segal and Sarah
i both of Philipsburg,
Abramson
A Wonder Worker.
Mr. Frank Haffman, a young man of
Barlington, Ohio, states that he had been
under the care of two prominent phy.
sicians, and used their treatment until
he w.s not able to get around. They
pronounced his case to be Consumption
snd incurable He was pursasded to try
Dr, Kiogs's New Discovery for Consamp-
tion, Coughs and Colds and at that time
was not able to walk across the street
without resting. He found, before he
‘had used half of a bottle, that be was
{much better; he continued to use it snd
is tosday enjoying good bealth, If you
have any Throat, Lung or Chest Trouble
try it. We guarantee satisfaction, Trial
{bottle free at J. D., Murray's Drugstore.
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Many Changes,
| The recent conference of the Metho~
| dist Episcopal church, at Sunbury made
imany changes in the assignment of
[charges among the members of that
{ body, familiar to many of our readers
Rey. Elias Shoemaker has been assigned
ito the Penns Valley charge and Rev. O.
{L. Hicks, the former pastor, stationed at
Fairview and Marysville. Rev, Sarvis,
who did good work at Pleasant
| Gap for four years, was assigned to Irvo-
ios, and Rev. F. W, Leidy stationed at
{that place; Rev. C. W. Rishell has been
| stationed at Bharmaut.
such
pe
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| Centre Hall Select School.
| The spring term of the Centre Hall se-
ect school, to continue ten weeks, will
{begin on April 13, next. All the higher
i branches and languages will be taught.
Special classes will be formed for those
| preparing to teach.
Boarding can be had at reasonable
| rates,
H. C. Rominock,
Principal,
D mar 4t
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Eis Body Fouad,
The body of Newton Graham, who
was lost io the mountains in Clearfield
county, while hunting last December,
was found oan Taesday of this week on
Leonard Ridge. It was in a fair state of
preservation and the clothing did not
show signs of disturbance. His watch
was missing. It is likely he was Jost dur
ing the heavy scow storm which pre,
vailed at the time and died from exhanss
tion.
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W Old Doeu ments.
Recently while in Bquire Boal's office,
we were shown some very antiquated
documents which he has in his posses
sion. They are deeds conveying lands,
dating back from 1774, and are still in
very good condition, though somewhat
time-worn as can be expected. The
penmanship is very good and is perfect.
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ly legible, >»
Thanks,
Mrs. Martha Odenkirk wishes through
these columns to kindly thank the
neighbors and friends who showed many
favors and attentions during the recent
illness of her brother,
a
Thousands of Families,
bless the day when they learn the use of
Huxrreys' Sexcirios NOS, ONE and
SEVEN. Coughs, Cold, Bronchitis and
Sore Throats are always cured by them.
SRA. ua
~=flave you been to A, 0. Mingle's
shoe store in the Brockerboff house
block? Never miss going there when at
Bellefonte, he always bas something
new and offers none but genuine goods
which he warrants, For low prices in
boots and shoes Mingle's is the place:
= ~The cantata Saturday evenipg—ad-
mission, 20 cents,
~Freshground buckwheat flour, No
i,at the Centre Hall mills,
Mr. M,C. Gephart, of Millheim,
was circulating in the town this week.
— Now stock of wall paper, etc,, at
Camp's furniture rooms, Centre Hall.
Thanks to Benator Meek for copy
of the road bill as it passed the senate,
—Misg Carrie Tibbens, of Farmers
Mills, was a visitor in Centre Hall this
week,
—Bamuel Kreamer bought a fine
bay horse st a eale in Brush valley last
week,
~ Harry Camp returned home this
week after spending four weeks in Mif-
flin county.
Dr, Jacob's family on Bunday eve
ning, added one more to its list,—its a
big girl and the first,
—0On Monday last a Clinton county
man killed a blacksoake which measure
ed over four feet in length.
~—We are sorry te note the illness
of Mrs. Harper, of this place, the aged
mother of Bimon Harper.
-—~It is proposed that the Pennsylvas
nia building st the World's Fair shall be
a facsimile of Independence Hall.
——Don't fail to hear the beautiful
cantata on Batarday eveniog in the
Lutheran church, benefit of a good cause,
-1 have one new sewing machine,
New Home make, will sell for $10.00,
in order to close out.
GW. Busnuax,
~The milk man was pot on hand
Tuesday as announced, but he will be
around-—due time with a good quality of
milk,
~Jorry Miller has moved back into
is former room with his barber shop,
the water having receded from the
oor,
— —~Mr, James Kimport, of Harris
twp, gaveusa call. Mr, Kimport ins
tends having public sale of farm stock,
etc., April 4.
~The funeral train, from Tyrone to
Spring Mills, will pass here hetween 12
and 1p. m,, Friday with the remains of
J. W, Van Valzah.
—(3e0rge Ocker, Moses Richard and
veral others, who had been working
na big job st Tyrone, have returned
ome again.
~The Lingo trial in Jersey attract~
ed no little interest among the citizens
of this community, the proceedings be-
ing closely watched,
~~ A petition for a license for a new
house, presented to the court at Altoona
by J. Hesser, contained the signatures of
8 great many women,
~(jive Lewins, Bellefonte, your or-
der for a suit. He has one of the most
experienced cutters to behad, A fit is
guaranteed:
~i~]t is likely that all arrests for the
murderer Wilson, have been made and
seemingly al | persons answering his de
scription are in and no more out at pres-
ent.
ee William H. Runkle has become a
itizen of Ceatre Hall, having flitted
last week into a house near the station.
He will speedily push the erection of
his new residence.
un MUSICAL COLLEGE.~The 39
Session opens Monday May 4 for Young
Ladies in Vocal and Instrumental Music
~~ Address, for circular,
F.C. Moyzs,
Freeburgh, Ps.
~The Lutheran church of Mifflin
town has extended a call to Rev. H, C.
Holloway, D. D., of Allegheny. Rev Hol-
joway is a native of Aaroosburg, this
county.
~The F. & M. Glee Club, will give
a concert in Garman’s operas house,
Bellefonte, Thursday evening, April 2,
for benefit of Reformed church organ
fund of Bellefonte,
~The Trustees of the Evangelical
Church at Shoemakersville, have wel
comed pastors appointed by Bishops of
both factions, while in Reading churches
the congregations will divide,
~elsovi M, Eberhart, tax collector of
Allison township, Clinton county, has
been arrested in Chicago charged with
embezzlement of state and county taxes
aud will be brought back to Lock Haven
for trial,
we Rav, George Guyer, a superanpus
ated minister of the Central Pennayls
vanis conference of the Methodist Epis
copal church, died at his home in Tyrone
on Tuesday evening. He was 72 years
and 24 days old.
«Frank Woods, a wellsknown man
employed as a clerk mn Altoona, was
drawn on the jury for the Blair county
court, when be made his appearance
at court at Hollidaysburg Wedoesday in
answer to the summons he was badly ins
toxicated. His honor, Judge Dean, at
once noticed his condition and dismissed
him. Assoon as he became sober he
was taken before the court and publicly
reprimanded and fined $25. His name
was also ordered to be forever stricken
from the list of jary eligibles.
"NO. 12
Died from Eating Peanuts.
Word comes from Snow Shoe township,
of a Miss Bolt, says the Daily News of
Wednesday, a young lady about 18 years
of age, who was found dead in her bed
on Bunday morning. An inquest was
held and & post mortem examination
made from which it was learned that the
indirect canse of the young lady’s death
was eating too many peanuts. The dis
rect cause of death was the bursting of a
blood vessel which was undoubtedly
caused by a severe attack of cramp, the
latter the result of the peanuts the
young lady had eaten. It is said that
she ate three quarts on Saturday evening
but this is probably too large a g nantity,
i
——The Middleburg Post says: While
stsrifl Bolender was in Philadelphia to
place Adam Comfort in Eastern
penitentiary, be called on Israel Erb,
who is serving out a life sentence for nis
part in the Kiatzier murder of 1879.
The old convict bad a paralytic stroke
on the 24th of Febraoary which had al
most proved fatal, but he had nearly re«
covered hie usual health. He told the
Sheriff that he thought he had to die,
but found comfort in the comsolation
that he was innocent of the charges that
kept him there, He explained that he
bad had hope of pardon until his friead
Andy Dill died and that since then’ he
had cast the matter aside. At the sug-
gestion that he had better prepare for a
better world, he replied: “Yes I have
been thinking of that, and done some
work in that direction, but not as much
as I ought to have done. However, I
have forgiven everybody and harbor
malice toward none.” When giving Mr.
Bolender goodby he said: “Give my
respects to my friends, to my family, and
especially to Samael Wittenmyer of your
town, Tell them that I have spent
nine years in prison an innocent man.
I am now seventy-four years old and I
would like to see “de mommy” (his
wife) once more—if it was but to go
home and die,
the
~The new jail at Somerset does
away with the scaffold in executing murs
derers. The inside of the jail is entirely
of iron, and double irom trap doors in
the hallway of the upper floor constitute
the drop snd two iron rings fastened in
an iron joist of the ceiling of the second
story serve to secure the ropes. The
executions take place in an upper corri-
dor of the building where the witnesses
are stationed. The bodies drop through
the trap and hang partly in the lower
corridor. The room in the jail only al-
lowe aboat 35 or 40 persons as no more
can be accommodated. About 400 per-
sons have addressed Sheriff Good to wite
ness the execution of the Nicely brothers,
~—A farmer named Andrews, in Crawe
ford county, died recently, He was al-
ways complaining about being poor. He
dressed for effect and lived the same.
He died recently and his heirs are now
rejoicivg over finding $17, 000 worth of
Government bonds, secreted in & small
tin box, which was hidden on a brace in
the barn. About a fortnight sgo they
discover. d papers which proved that he
bad $8,000 of boads in the Treasury Des
partment at Vi x He left a farm
of 800 acres, worth at ieast $20,000, If
the heirs are the ussal style they will
nes Sorry any one telling them they are
poor.
——Samuel Pierson, of Lock Haven,
fell from a second-story window of the
Keating house, about 3 o'clock in the
moraing, sustaining serious injaries. Five
ribs were broken, his tongue badly cat
aud his body considerably bruised. It
is supposed that he rose in his sleep and
raised the window with the above ree
salt,
~Dr. John Ege, of Reading, who
engrafted a white man’s skin on a colors
od man, and a white man’s with the re-
sult that the black skin became white,
while the white szin retained its origis
nal color, has announced his belief in
white being the primeval hoe} of man's
epidermis.
~The Bowmanites have concluded
not to make any further attempt to gain
possession of the four Evangelical church.
es of Allentown, but wiil hold services in
another hall, beginning next Sanday,
until the meeting of the General Cons
ference in October.
~The statement of receipts and ex.
penditures for Centre Hall boro appear
in this issue of the Reronren, It is sox.
iously looked for by ali as the past year
was one of unusoal interest to the tax-
payers of the boro.
~The Cantata, “Under the Palms”
in the Lutheran church, on Ssturday
evening, admission 20 cents, under 12
years 10 cents. Reserved seats 10 couts
extra,
~Rev. J. W, Haughawout, aged 81,
a Methodist minister well known in Cen
tre county, died at his home in Williame-
port on Tuesday night.
«To-morrow, 27th is Good Friday
and a holiday,
HRELOn,