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FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
The miners aad operators of Western
Pennsylvania and Ohio have split over
the 8-h- ur question and the indications
are all in favor of a general strike on the
1st of May. This is to be deeply re-
gretted because it will result in great in”
jury to both sides.
The farmer's plough is taxed by the
new revenue bill. It comes uncer the
head of mezchinery. The carpenter's
hammer, the blacksmith’s anvil, the
shoemaker’s awl, the printer's stick, the
cigarmaker’s knife, the machioist’s lathe,
the barber's razor —all liable to tux, and
all rated as machinery
REISER TRS
Judge Henderson, of Crawford county,
has decided that persons or firms having
deposits in the Delamater bank when it
failed can use them as a set-off to notes
owing by them to the bauk, whether
gnch notes were in the bank at the time
of the failure or had been rediscounted
by another bank. The judge also de~
cided in effect that the individual des
posits of a member of a firm are a set-off
against a note of the firm held by the
bank.
Shameiken, the man who was arrested
on Monday on suspicion to make an
attempt on the Czar's life, belenged ‘0
the Scaevols Oiub of Kharkoff, the
membuers of which are bound by oath to
make continual efforts to murder the
Czar. Most of the members of the club
have since been arrested. A number of
students have also been arrested at
Kharkoff, It is feared that riots will
break out at the university there.
Every day there are reports of suicides
due to grip, or at least that insidious
disease is compelled to sheuider the res
sponsibility, It seems as if sickness of
this sort bas some sort of peculiar effect
oa the brain, which leads the victim to
geek seil-Jestruction. It is apparently as
hard to explain the action and reactios
as it is to find a specific for the disease. |
Physicians and scientists may well lor |
their attention to its study, sioce it 18
taking 80 maoy lives directly snl ia-
directly, Whiie doctors wrangling over
consamption cures men are dying of an
ailment seemiogly and yet baffling.
TIAA,
The order issued by Archbishop Ryan,
of Philadelphia, forbidding Sanday fa-
perals among Catbolics, may at first
blush appear arbitrary and an interfer
ence with private rights, bat it will io ali
probability result in doing sway with
what has come to be recognized as a pos”
itive evil among certain classes withio
the fold of the church named. It is
aimed specially at the rivalry which bas
grown up as to which family can make
the greatest display of carriages at a iu-
neral, and Sunday was the day best suit-
ed for sucn displays. In this view the
Archbishop's order is commendable,
though in certain cases it may work to
the injury of individuals,
The Philadelphia Press says this of
the tax bill: “The bill, if passed, will
bring odiam and ridicule unstinted on
those who are responsible for it. It will
set the whole State 1u practical rebellion
when the attempt is made to enforce it.
It will not only not benefit the farmers
bat will bring the legislaliye preten~
sions of their leaders into general dis
favor and contempt even among the far
mers themselves, The measure is cer.
tain, if passed, to plague and disappoint
its inventors and work enormous mis-
chief to the state at large before another
Legislature can repeal it. If the Seoate
does its plain duty it will kill this tax
bill without further parley.”
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From Washington come farther pars
ticulars of the scheme to organize a new
Blaioe boom are leaking out, and they
are more than interesting. The latest
hiuts from the men who are working up
the scheme indicate that Blaine’s retire-
meat from the cabinet next fall is part
ofthe program. The purpose is to have
Mr. Blaine's retirement from official life
take place afier the political effect of the
President's tour in the South and West
has worn off in those sections, Then
Mr. Blaine's friends desire to take him
over about the same route, though a
more extensive one. The contemplated
Blaine tour will comprise 10,000 miies of
travel, as against the 6,000 embraced in
the Harrison itinerary. The onject is
to bring the Western farmets as much
as possible in contact persouslly with
the man who has been enleavoring to
got a foreign market for their “barrel of
pork” and “bushel of wheat.”
Sach a tour coupled with his retires
ment from the cabinet, would of course
be a sufficiently plain avowal om the
part of Mr, Blaine that he had entered
the conte for the next Republican
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McKinley Times,
In all the Northern States from the
Mississippi to the Atlantic coast we have
every day reports of industrial disturbs
ances, strikes und lockouts, This is not
exactly what was promised as the onl”
come of the McKinley tariff by its ads
vocates. The tendency of wages seems
to be downward, and that there is rea-
son for it is shown in the suspension of
many manuofscturing establishments.
When mills, faroaces and mines are run-
ning to their fall limit labor is in des
mand and wages go up. The reverse
conditions hold when industries are
drawing in or suspending. Last month
the product of the bituminous furnaces
fell to 66,300 tons of pig iron, and of the
anthracite furnaces to 36,600; only 94
coke farnaces were in blast and 151 idle.
The product of the month was the low=
est for a long time, and but little more
than balf the average daring 1890.
A cry comes out of New England of
the disastrous effects of the McKinley
law on its iron and steele industries.
The New Haven rolling mill, failing in
an attempted reduction of wages, shut
down indefinitely on Wednesday. The
officers of the company say it is dae to
tte high prices of raw material, and they
would not have been able to run bad
the men accepted the reduced wages,
The saperintendent of the company in a
published interview saye: “In a very
short time all of the New Eoglaod roll~
ing mills will be closed and their owners
driven out of business by the high taxes
on raw material and the competition
from Pennsylvania and the West,” In
no part of the Union is there a greater
revolution in progress on the tariff ques.
tion than in New Eogland,
According to Bradstreet’s the number
of failures in the United States during
the first quarter of the current year was
3,401, against 3325. The number has
been exceeded only twice during the
first quarter in eleven years—in 1889,
when the number was 3569, and in 1885,
when it was 4050. In poiat of liabilities
the comparison is less favorable than in
point of numbers. The amount of lia-
bilities for the quarter was $44,348,783,
against $33 814 501 last year—an increase
of about 83 per cent. The nearest ap~
proach in eleven years to this year's to
tal was $42,232,535 in 1883,
Nor are national finances in an en-
couraging condition. Secretary Foster
reports the surplus has virtually disap
peared under the extravagance of the
Harrisou~Reed congress. A big deficit
stares the treasury in the face the next
fiscal year.
The Tax Bill
The tax-bill now before the senate, is
moving slowly, owiog to features in it
that look very odious as the bill is being
scanned, It has provisions that are
right and which should be enacted to
relieve the farmiog acd the laboring
classes as far as possible. Bat there are
items in it that wiil briog curses from
every farmer, mechanic and business
man in the state, if enacted into law—
these were placed there in ignorance, by
some one who does not understand taxa
tion, and was guided by a delusive no~
tion upon the matter of taxation. The
biil in its origioal shape would be a curse
to the farmer and make him be the first
to cry for its repeal if it were, or could
be, enforced. The people want a just
system of taxation, sad it requires clear
heads of honest purpose to draft it, not
an ignoramus.
There must be legislation that will
benefit the farmiog class, their complaint
is just, but this measure has features
about it that would only put the farmer
deeper iu the mire.
ti dsm
The supreme court of lodiana bas
affirmed a point in railroad law that is of
importance in a!l agricokural ocom-
munities. A farmer's cow strayed upon
a railroad track and was killed by a train,
The farmer sued the company for the
value of the cow and the company sued
him for damages to its engine. The
company maintained that its could not
prevent cows from straying upon its
many miles of track, but that the farmer
could and should. The suprems court
decided that it was as much the farmer's
business to prevent his cows from stray-
ing upon the railroad track as it was the
company’s business to keep it engines
out of the farmer's pasture lots, Conse-
quently the farmer will pay for the
damages to the engine, and the com paay
will not pay for the cow. The eflect of
this decision, says the Harrisburg Patriot
will be to wipe away all damages for the
killing of cows or other domestic animals
that may stray upon railroad tracks and
will induce farmers to take better care of
their stock. Masy a train bas been
brought to a stop while the engineer
aad fireman pelted herds of cows with
coal to drive them from the track, and
more than one train bas been derailed
by striking a cow. The lodiana decision
will make these incidents only a mem
ory ,
HL Ti NM I A SN
If you do not approve of the new tax
bill write Senator Meek and ask bim to
nomination for the presidency.
vote against it.
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SEE LIBAN
PA.,
Rejected Immigrants,
Oar new immigration laws will do us
little good if we continue to endure the
defiant attempts of the steamship lines
to unload their human refuse in the coun-
try and leave it here. Alreayd these
steamship companies have begun to use
their influence on Colonel Weber, the
superintendent of immigration at New
York, in order that he may take charge
of rejected immigrants during their stay
in that port.
The new law has definitely laid the
burden of selecting suitable immigrants
on the steamship companies, Not only
are the masters of vessels carrying immi-
grants liable for the cost of their main~
tenance and return passage in case of re-
jection, but in case any undesirable im-
migrant should escape from the master’s
custody, or if the master should refuse to
receive back aoy undesirable immigrant
who has by any means gotten free, hoe is
liable to a fine of $300 for each offense.
This law, if promptly put into effect,
ought to check in great measure the land
ing of undesirable immigrants upon our
shores, so far as those brought directly
to the United Btates are concerned, The
great difficultry will be to reach those
who may come into the country by way
of Canada, Many of them will be enabled
to cross the border in spite of the ute
most watchfulness of the customs officers.
The new law will also put a premiom
upon the smuggling of the undesirable!
immigrants into this country.
The Iniziative, of the Florio line, has
lately been an offender against the law,
Colonel Weber returned to the ship a
number of Italian immigrant 8 who came
within the prohibition of the law. The
agent of the law allowed three of these
men to escapes and then protested that
the others mast be relanded “because
the ship would not return to Italy.” The
steamship Burgundia is another and
worse offender. She landed twenty-four
disessed, incapable and undesirable
Italian immigrants, and they were sent
back to the ship, whence twenty-one of
them escaped. Having in this manner
shown ber respect for oar laws the Bur
gundia obligingly sailed away, and when
she returns the matter
forgotten.
The law violated by the officers of
these steamships was designed to pro.
tect us against the importation of cripples
beggars, criminals and persons hawing
contagious or loathsome diseases Steam
ship companies do business for profit and
will take the money of diseased, para-
lytic and crimioal immigrants just as
quickly as that of healthy and law abid«
ing wen and run the risk of landing
them. In case of detection a protest by
the company against the enforcement of
the law on the plea of “menace {0 the
ocean carrying trade, &c.” bas usually
been effective and the treasury depart-
ment has allowed immigrants to land.
Now it is time for the people to protest
and punish the steamship companies.
They know the law and the penalties for
its infraction well enough, and the com~
pauies should be made to suffer every
time they uclosd their human trash
upon our shores.—Patriof,
will have been
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A project is on foot to build a contis
nental railway to South America. The
steamship Newport, of the Pacific Mail
Line, which sailed for Central America,
had among other passengers the survey-
ing party of American engineers who go
to demonstrate the feasibility of the raii~
way that is proposed to connect the Unis
ted Btates with the South and Central
American republics. The party comprises
ed W. F, Bhunk, of Pittsburg, chief di-
rector; J. I. Miller, and his assistants,
numbering W. D. Kelley, of New York;
W. L. Wilson, of Elkton, Md; J. D. Fos
ter, Harrisburg: D, M. Martinez and Dr.
C. W. Rash of the United States navy’
Thomas F, Dempsey, of Philadelphis,
formerly of the Union Pacific railroad;
Joseph Parker, of Harrisburg, and engi-
neers O'Connell, Bargess and Surgeon
Ogden, all of the United States navy,
The party will be gone {wo years, and
each member of it has signed a contract
binding himself to the performance of
his duties fora period of not less than
one year,
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The withdrawel of the Eighteenth
Regiment from the coke region may be
accepted as an indication that the labor
troubles in that locality are in process of
adjustment. It is to be presumed that
the State authorities understand the
sitaa'ion and are satisfied thet no inrther
rioting is to be apprehended, or at least
none that the single regiment left on
the ground will not fully be able to quell.
1a point of fact the troops have had
nothing to do since they reached the
distarbed district, The outbreak had
been quelled by the Sherif deputies
before the military were ordered out.
But it is possible that the presence of the
soldiers prevented other outbreaks on
the part of the strikers and it was doubt
less a wise move for the Governor to
take this precaution to insure good or-
der,
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Cost of The Coming Strike.
The coal operators profess not to fear
the miners’ sirike on May 1, and have
been doing some figuring since the ab
rupt adjournment of the Conference,
Counting only the miners, 150,000 men
will be affected, J. Morton Hall, one of
the secretaries of the Conference, said
that the operators felt themselves under
no haste to consider the eight-hour
question, because of the miners’ inabili-
ty to support a strike. Mr. Hall has figs
ared that 150,000 miners would need at
least fifty cents a day to support thems
selves and families, or $450,000 a week.
That it would be necessary to continue
the strike for two months at least before
the operators would be compelled to
yield, The present stock in the market
would easily supply the demand that
long. For the men to hold out two
months would require for the miners
alone over $3,000,000, exclusive of offi
cers’ salaries,
Mr. Hall further said that by the laws
of the Federation of Labor in cases of
this kind a weekly assessment of 2 cents
per capita is levied on the enfire mem-
bership. Mr. Hall said: “Mr, Gompers
claims a membership of 750,000, Aliow-
ing him more, for the saké ol convenient
ealenlation, the miners would bave a
tion. The Knights of Labor could not
more than equal this amount. This
wonld give the miners $40,000 to meet
demands of §75.000 a week.
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The Commonweath of Australia is de-
stined, there is little doubt, to hold the
same relation to the South Pacific divis
sion of the globe as an English speaking
political power that the United States
does to the Western hemisphere. Its
territorial area is abont 3,000,000 square
miles, or nearly the same as the United
States exclusive of Alaska.
A Federation convention is pow in
session at Sydney, in New SBouth Wales,
and has well advanced the work of unit-
ing the Australian colonies in a Federal
form of government, resembling in all
important respects, save one, the Ameri-
can Upion., This exception relates to
the executive power. The chief of state
will be appointed by the British crown,
and the principle of ministerial res
sponsibility in administration will hold
as in Eogland and Canada, There is to
be a senate having a territorial basis and
a continuous existence; the members are
elected for years, one-half retiring every
three years, The membership of the
house is based on population and voiver-
sal suflrage; the term is for three years,
There is a cabinet of seyen members,
who may sit in either house,
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A fountain bas been discovered in the
African desert. A dispatoch from Oran
says an enormous reservoir of water 120
feet below the surface has been discov-
ered at Ei-Golea, a small caravan station
in the midst of the Sabara desert. The
reservoir was discovered while a numbe
of workmen were engaged in sioking a
well at ElvGolea, The shaft sunk al.
ready gives 40 gallons of good, clear was
ter per minute, and it i expected this
amount can readily be increased should
it be found necessary.
The discovery is of the highest import-
ance, and will nodoubtedly tend to de~
velop the caravan trade of El-Golea, bne
of the stopping places in the Sahara des
ert of caravans which travel across that
region. This is the first time water has
been found at so slight a depth in the
Sahara.
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Sixty three Cents a Cuss,
General G. W. Stroh, who has jast re
tired from the office of Mayor of Bunbury
was arrested and brought before Bquire
Weaver on Monday, on the charge of
swearing twenty-seven times. The
"Squire fined sixty-three cents per oath,
or, with cost $20 in all.
The ex-mayor bad a ixw suit last week
in regard to the rent of a piece of ground
before the same "Squire and while there
got into a controversy with the prosecut-
to, at which time the oaths were
nttered,
Jacob Bartholmew, a personal and po-
litical enemy, was in the office at the
time, made memoranda of the oaths, and
brought the suit, which created much
amusement and excitement.
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La Grippe again.
During the epidemic of La Grippe last
season Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, & Coughs and Colds, proved to
be the best remedy. Reports from the
many who used it confirm this statement.
They were not only quickly relieved, but
the disease left on bad after results. We
ask you to give these results, or the purs
chase price will be refanded. It has no
equal in La Gripps, or any Throat, Chest
or Lung Trouble. Trial bottle free at J.
D. Murray's Drug Store, Large bottle
50c. and. $1.00,
Woodland Ooal.
ceived, at Kurtz & Son's mill.
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Death From Eating Wild Parsnips.
Howard Kauffman, the youngest son
Railroad, at Sunbury, died in extreme
a poisonous root,
afternoon, had strolled out to the old
fair grounds to explore the place, and in
walking around they found a marshy
spot, wherein grew some weeds that
looked like artichokes, Kanffman pull.
other boys merely tasted the weed and
then spit it out, After Kauffman went
home, he became violently sick with
convulsions, and despite the skilifal ef.
forts of Drs. SBhindel and Drumheller, to
save his life, his tortuous agony was ended
by his death at the above stated time,
This young man was a member of the
graduation class of ‘91, of the Bunbury
High School, and was only eighteen
years of age.—North'd Press.
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A Bensible Woman.
“Tura that wrapping the other side
oat,” said a lady in a dry goods store re-
cently, as the clerk was putting up ber
purchase in wrapping paper. “I don’t
want to be a walking advertisement for
your store. I read the papers, as all io-
telligent people should and I think that
in them is the place to advertise your
business, instead of asking your custom.
ers to carry your sign aroand with each
purchase of goods. Tell the people
through the papers what you have to sell
and bow you sell it.” This svggestion
voices the sentiment of the ladies, and
they it js who read the advertisements
and buy the bulk of the goods sold by re
tailers.
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Kearly a Blaze,
Early on Wednesday morning, Samus]
Bowe, the tanner, living at the upper
end of town, beard a commotion out in
his stable and he got out to investigate,
He found his horse down and fast in the
stall, put Bamuel was unable to get him
up alone. He bung bis lantern on a pin
and started for assistance. While he
was gone, the horse in its struggles to
rise, knocked the lantern off the pin, the
oil running out and setting the straw on
fire. He /uckily noticed the light snd
hurried back to the stable and smother
ed the blaze with a blanket. Had he
been thirty seconds ater the flames
would have been beyond control. #
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good ouly for a short time.
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Marriage Licenses.
the register's office Bellefonte:
both of Bellefonte.
Miles P, Heaton, of Marsh Creek and
Arvilla Stine, of Bellefonte,
Ruth E. Squire, of Philipsburg, Pa.
iin att
Down with the Grip
are, Master John Miller; Miss Kate Dale
ing; Mrs,
are unable to recall at present,
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They Go to Clinton County.
their marriage licenses, owing, it is said
the papers do not publish the names.
A AI Mo BHAI 0
Made a Confession,
the fatal shots. All
boys.
Look Out for Him.
against him,
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Additional Locals,
—Thomas Frank is the new landlord
in Aaronsbuarg hotel,
—Y® editor had 50 speckled beaos
ties in his basket, at 3 p. m., on 15.
— «(ur patron, V. Breon, has
Miliheim and gone to Loganton,
jeft
Many were out fishing yesterday,
but near all had the fisherman’s luck.
—we Prof, Neff’s select school at Spring
Mills opened with a large attendance.
Mrs, Barah Kiog, of Aaronsburg,
accidentally had a rib broken the other
day,
mF. M. Burkholder, the hustling im-
plement dealer of Centre Hill, dropped
in to see us on Saturday.
—(Qur merchants will soon depart
for eastern markets to lay in their stock
of spring and summer merchandise,
— Boozer Bros, have removed their
harness rooms from Dinges’ building to
store room in the hotel building.
—~Many farmers the past week began
their spring plowing, and say they find
the ground in excellent condition,
—{3eorge Ocker hes erected a hand-
some ornamental fence in front of his
property, and is a great improvemeat,
Mr. Frain, former landlord of
the Millheim hotel, is now landlord of
the Crawford house, Willimsport,
——Samuel Wilson, a resident of State
College, died on Wednesday morning, of
diabetis, after a lingering illness,
—f, H., Weaver, of Oak Hall, was
taken ill very suddenly and is in a criti.
cal condition, his trouble is pneumonia.
Rev. Baskerville is attending the
sessions of the Huntingdon Presbytery
which met at Philipsburg on Tuesday,
14th inst,
— At Millheim, on Sunday afternoon,
Flora, the 13.year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Noah Stover, died oo! inflamma-
tory rheumatism,
~The Bellefonte papers are rejoio~
ing over the starting up of the two large
iron works. They will give employment
to over one thousand men,
Dr. H.C, Holloway, of Allegheny,
has declined the call tendered him by
the Lutheran congregation of Miflin-
town, to become their pastor.
Large loads of prop timber are be.
ing hauled to the station from the moun.
tain above town, and a great amount of
lumber is being shipped.
~—Monday seemed the opening of
summer. The sun was warm, sky bright,
mud drying up and millions of little flies
filled the air in the afternoon.
A daughter of John Wagner, near
Asronsburg, aged about 2 years, Lad an
eye amputated recently, from the effects
of which she died the other day.
Spring Mills is to havea new Reform~
ed charch, We aiso learn that the Lus
therans of that place are about to organs
ize a congregation, which msy also mean
a new church,
0 you want to secure genuine
bargains in clothing and gent's furnish
ing goods? Lewins, at the Philad,
Branch, Bellefonte, can save you consids
erable moner,
~The se ect schools opened on
Monday moraiog with {. Rothrock
sud Maggie Hannah as teachers. They
are both largely attended and quite a
number from other places are in attends
ance.
—Merchant Chas, Long, of Spring
Mills; has gone to the eastern cities, and
next week his bargain store will have
piles of goods, latest styles, lowest prices,
any thing you want, with the politest ai«
tention thrown in.
—— A full line of spring clothing has
been received at the Philad. Branch,
Bellefonte, and can be purchased at very
low prices. One of the best cutters is in
the employ cf Lewins and a perfect fit
guaranteed.
—An eastern agency advertised to
send “150 articles of everyday conven:
jence about the household, for the sum
of 30 cents. It takes just that many pine
to answer the demands of the advertises
ment and justly capture the thirty cents,
wee Mr, Hoaury Wian died on Sanday
at the residence of his brother Daniel
in Spring twp. where he had gone to
visit about eight weeks ago and became
ill with consumption. He was about 48
years of age and was a resident of Bald
Eagle Valley. The interment occured
on Tuesday at Pleasant Gap.
Reported on the sick list, are Mra.
Jacob Arney, who is quite ill, Mr. and
Mrs. Mose Richard, and three in Jobn
Arney’s family and Mrs . Lingle all with
ip and Mrs, Jane Love with puenmos
’
nia, Will Reiber of grip and John Fras
ger’ from a sprain, both of near Tussey-
ville.
A church sociable was beld on Friday
evening last at the home of Mr, J. O.
Deininger, aod in spite of the inclemens
dik A pir hoo |
Tien yo0d lite gam realised for
Evavgelical church,
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