VOL .LXIV.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
adnan
The Italian, with his monkey and or
gan will soon open the spring season,
and you wont deteot a bit of war paint
on him,
They boast of a woman down in one
of the lower counties who actually minds
her own business and
mischievous gossip.
There are at this time fourteen men in
the Allegheny connty jail who have eith-
er been couvicted of murder are
awaiting trial for that crime,
don't get into
or
All are elated at having cheaper sugar
on account of the tariff being off, Why
not take the tariff off of wool, and some
other articles in common use, and be
more elated ?
It seerus doubtful that a road bill will
be passed this session of the legislature,
Better roads for all and less taxes for the
farmer and other toiling masses are two
subjects the law makers should ae: upon.
President Harrison on his southern
trip is meeting flue receptions every-
where, Guess Le will get over
that the southern people are
a set as some of the
demagogues would paint them.
the idea
a8 bad
northern
The census shows that the colored
race in what is kno'n as the “black
belt” of the United States is not holding
its owo, that its increase in the de-
cade between 1889 and 1890 was not as
great in proportion as that of the white
race,
All the journals cf the state favor a
fair and just equalization of taxes, but
all of them fina the preseat bill a jam~
ble of absurdities in some of its sections
Our law makers should heed the
mands of the people as voiced by
press of all parties in the sta‘e.
de~
the
The Harrwsborg Patriot has changed
hands, Messrs, D, A. Orr and Joo. G. Orr,
are the new proprietors, The first issue
auder the vew management displays a
wonderful in the Patriot
in every The paper has
been enlarged, and displays first class
editorial ability aod its news department
is complete with the lstest telegraphic
news furnished. Saccess to the new
proprietors,
improvement
department.
The present legislature will come
short of its duty if it adjouros without
passing a farmer's tax bill. Let the bill
now up be amended by strikiog out the
absurd and objectionable features so as
to put it in common sense shape, aod
the masses of the people will endorse it.
It will not suit the toilers of the state in
its present shape, but it can be perfected
to suit the overtaxed peopie snd equal-
ize taxation, by throwing more of its
burdens upon monopoly and less upon
the farmer.
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Secretary Blaine's acswer to Baron
Rudini has the true rivg to it. The
Italian governwent,s game of biaff is at
an ead aud the only indemnity she will
get for the killing of the Mafia assassins
is the satisfaction of koowing that the
murderers she could not control are not
likely to trouble anybody elss. Mr,
Blaine’'s statement that foreigners are
not guaranteed any other protection
than that granted to the citizens of the
United Staies will have the effect of
showing Italy that her criminal classes
cannot escape jast punishment in Am-
erica simply becanse they are subjects of
King Humbert.
A dispatcu from Beanares, capital of
the Benares District, India, and one of
the most ancient cites in the world, the
chief center of Brahmioical learning,
and a holy place in the opinion of the
Aindoos and Buddhists alike, announces
that serious religious disorders are tek®
ing place there. The disturbances are
owing to the fact that the local authori-
ties have commenced the demolition o:
the temple, which has been a place of
pilgrimage visited by the Hindoos and
Boddhists from all parts of ladia, in
order to provide a site for a new water
works,
The action of Governor Pattison in
vetoing the bill empowering boroughs
to tax persons, property and occupations
is to be highly commended ,
It ia time oor law-makers recognized
the fact that the demand of the hoor is
for a redaction instead of an increase in
taxation,
If they would give their attention to
the creation of a wore equiteble system
of taxation, under which the bordens
would be‘equally and justly distributed
among all classes, they would come
nearer the full discharge of the duty
they were chosen to perform.
CENTRE
A Rising Fropean War Cloud.
Philad, Press: The chance of war in
Earope has clearly grown in the last
three weeks, and in no years since 1885
or 1875 has war seemed more near,
Its coming seems to rest on two or
three clear contingencies. The Russian
army is being fast armed with a new gun
which French factories are at work to
turn out night and day. Germany may
deem it wise to fall to before this work
is done. This is meant by the Berlin
despatches that the young Kaiser had
begun a systematic display of displeasure
to M. Herbette, the Erench Ambassador
which was held to mean war. Rearm-
ing Russia is about over, bat it will be
six months or a year before the Russian
army is both equipped and trained in
its new weapon.
Italy holds the odds in the next war
France and Russia against Germany and
and Austria is a match so even
French Government could resist the
temptation to act if it were clear the war
could be fought out on this line. Italy
added to the two central powers would
force France to put one~ third of its force
on the Italian froutier and keep the
French fleet in the Mediterranean, With
Italy neutral, France and Russia outs
number Germany and Austria two to one
in gr es streugth
effective force.
'remier Rudini’s oracnlar interview
suggests, and it is the first suggestion of
the sort from Italy in ten years, that
Italy may be neutral. Italy's weakness
is ita long coast line, and it has been
vaderstood for four years that under
standing existed noder which England
would protect Italy in the event of war.
The Marquis di Rudini now suggests
that this guarantee may be contingent
on keeping out of a war between France
and Germany. In other words, France
may be ready to give England and Italy
both substantial advances and advan.
tages in the East Mediterranean in re-
torn from neutrality in the great strug
gle with central Earope. Italy
get Trieste and the Italian
Austria, and England get
good,
France could well afford to make these
that vo
and three to two in
might
coast of
Egypt for
concessions, and if Italy snd
were thus
matter of weeks alone,
England
“squared,” war would be a
Bat such an ar«
rangement is most improbable, and war
will probably ¢
of even's.
yma by the dead-weight
ep
Sixty Dollars an Hour for 1,900 Years.
Ia the course of a speech delivered be-
fore the Young Men's Democratic Clab
at Boston, on Jefferson's birthday, the
Hon. Benton McMillin, of Tennessee
gave this compendious and instructive
sketch of the Billion Congress:
“Besides this congress the extravas
gance of all others sinks into iosignifi-
cance. A billion eight million speot in
two years is ils record, A sum 80 great
it has to be divided up and considered in
sections and by comparison to compres
hend it. Itis $16 a minate for all the
time since the Declaration of Independ-
ence was signed. Itis $60 for every hour
since the Bavionr was born into the
world. You bave all beard of the prodi-
gal son, His squandering was nothing
when compared to theirs, If he could
rise from the tomb he would blush bes
cause he bad been outdone. He would
stand forth as parsimonious as Shylock
when compared to these. And I apolo
gize to the shade of that poor squanderer
for doing him the injustice to compare
him to this Congress. He squandered
only his own inheritance, not that of
others, Besides, he repented, while they
pever did.”
Mr. McMillen has not overstated the
case, There is no exaggeration in his
account: The mosey appropriated by
the Billion Congress amounts to more
than $60 an hour for nineteen hundred
years, Never has the people's cash been
flung away with such crazy prodigality
As Mr, McMillin says, the prodigal has
not repented. It is necessary that the
punishment should be sharp snd severe
enough to cause the only repentance the
Republican party is capable of, the con-
sciousness of having blandered terri bly
mean id in
The Pittsburg Post says on the 15 inst.,
two train loads of pauper immigrants
passed through that city en route from
New York to the West, There were
over 600 people in sixteen cars, and it is
said they were a filthy lot, and, judging
by appearance, only fitted for the lowest
kind of labor, and some of them not for
that. It is such people as these that do
great barm to the United States, We
have no use fo: them at all. It would
be decidedly interesting to know how
they got through New York, if they are
a8 bad as reported. If the laws are not
rigid enough to keep them out, the de:
fects should be remedied. America is
plenty big enough for many millions
more, but it is entirely too small to shel
ter the paupers and secial offsconri ngs
of Earopesn countries,
«M, Faable, of the Rochester
Clothing House, in this issue loserts a
large ad. Read it and be benefitted,
Avoiding New Immigration Bill
The treasury department has taken
the reports that immigrants for the Uni-
ted States, in many instances, first land
at Halifax, N, 8,, and then come across
the Border by rail, to escape the opera-
tions of the new immigration law. It
has addressed letters to the several col-
lectors of customs with a request for
whatever information they way have.
The first response was received from Col-
lector Dow, at Portland, Me., dated April
13, in which he says that the last three
English steamers landed passengers there
as foliows:
March 27, the Carthagenian, 43 (have
ing previously landed about 100 at Hali-
fax), March 30, the Sarnia, 30 (having
previously landed about 600 at Halifax)
and April 7, the Parisian 34 (having pre-
viously landed 100 at Halifax,
The Collector says that the Immigrant
Inspector at the port informed him that
the immigrants landed there were appar-
ently of a better class than the usual run
and were in possession of a considerable
amount of baggage indicating, the In-
spector thinks, that the poorer classes
were landed at Halifax. The collector
thinks it is probable that a large portion
of those landed at Halifax will nltimate~
ly reach the United States. He also says
that tne steamer Polynesian is expected
to arrive about April 20, and he supposes
she will land many immigrants at Hali-
arrival might be able to trace the nltim.
ate destination of any considerable num.
ber of these inending to cross the line.
It will not be possible to prevent immi~ |
grants landed in Canadas reaching the}
United States, the Collector says in con-|
incoming trains from Canada than has!
heretofore been made at Portland,
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Legislative Apportionment Bill. i
Representative Hays of Venango, with!
the assistance of some of the Republica®|
membersiof the house, has formulated the!
legislative apportionment bill which was!
presented to the committee for its cons |
sideration. It provides for 201 represen: |
tatives, three less than the present body. |
The apportionment of Allegheny « yunty |
appeared in The Post a few days ago.
Cambria county elects 3 members ine
stead of 2; Clarion 1 instead of 2; Clears
field 3 instead of 2, Crawford 2 instead of
3; Hontingdon 1 instead of 2; Jefferson 2
instead of 1; Lawrence instead of 2.}
There will be no change from the pres
sent apportionment! in the following!
Western counties: | Centre, Fayette |
Forest, Greene, Indiana, Warren, Wash. |
ing snd Westmoreland, |
The Republican senatorial bill makes!
no change in the Western part of the
Siate except the provision for an addi.
tional district in Allegheny. It takes
Clinton from Clearfield and Center and|
adds it to McKean and Potter, and takes
Tioga from McKean and Potter and adds
it to Lycoming.
Work on the World's Fair site at Jack-
son Park was entirely suspesuded. Six
hundred of the 950 men at work struck
on Mcuday and the remainder declined
to go to work. There bas been no diss
turbance,
There is no mistake but Secretary
Blaine caromed on Signor Rudini’s dem-
ands for punishment and indemnity, as
to the New Orleans Iynchers, very neats
ly, but it is rather unfortunate in a
sensational point of view that for a
couple of weeks the press has beea dis
cussing the positions taken s=9 the just
and proper course for our government,
and bad unearthed not only the Webster
precedent the secretary points out, but
others equally pertinent, The promise
of indemnity is rather vague. If Italian
subjects were killed, if they were in New
Orleans not in violation of our immigra~
tion laws, etc, etec., the President would
submit the matter to congress. Of the
eleven lynched, nine were citizens or
had declared their intention to become
such, and the other two were fagitiye
criminals and it is believed assassins
from Italy, and of course in the United
States in violation of our immigration
laws. The chance for indemnity seems
exceedingly slim.
There is a row in the kaiser’s houses
hold, Berlin dispatches state, and the
empress may take a journey to Schles.
wig. The imperial couple are said to be
unhappy for several reasons, one being
the growing influence of the Empress
Frederick, who, in the opinion of the
kaiserin, nsurps some of the importance
that ought to attach to the kaiser's con.
sort, and another is the harshness shown
by the kaiser recently to near relatives
of the kaiserin. The kaiser has been a
devoted husband since the suicide of
Prinoe Rudolph of Austria had an effect
in mending his habits, but hé expects
the same divine night sort of worship in
bis family that he requires from his peo
ple, and this has led to trouble,
ns mi I, A DRIAL 35
The Women Voted.
There was an extended experiment in
woman's suffrage in Kansas at the local
elections last week with results very diss
appointing to the Repoblican leaders.
The law giving the sex the right to vote
in manicipal elections was passed by a
Republican legislature, and was expected
by most of the Republican managers to
inure to the advantage of their party, al-
though Governor Martin did not share
this view, and warned the brethren they
wonld live to regret it,
The Republican papers in the prelim-
inary canvass to last week's elections
made every effort to prejudice the wor
men against the Democrats by character
izing them as “the whisky party,” the
“enemies of the home,” etc, The results
were somewhat astonishing. Topeka,
i Leaveuaworth, Kansas City, Kan., Fort
[Beott and other places were carried by
{the Democrats, and by the votes of wos
{men whose husbands end fathers are
| Republicans. In Leavenworth a sepas
{rate count of the votes cast by men and
{women showed that the men were als
‘most evenly divided between the two
(parties, while the Democratic candidate
| was supported by 1,232 women, and the
Republican by only 945. The same in
lother places, and in towns somewhat
Africanized by negro immigration the
white women voted the Democratic tick.
jet and the colored women the Repuablis
can,
Naturally the Republican managers
are mad, and the chief Republican ore
gan of the State, the Topeka Capital de~
clares that “one or two more slams such
as the women gave the Republican party
in Topeka and there will not be one of
the old friends of municipal suffrage left
to raise a voice against the repeal of the
law,’
oy
Cost to Call Out Troops.
Soldiering is a costly business to the
State. The two regiments recently sent
to the coke regions at an expenses of over
$2,000 a day already aggregate about $20 -
000. Judge Black once said it would be
cheaper to pay laboring mea the adyance
wages demanded out of the State treas.
ury than to send soldiers to quell strikes.
The capitalists and railroad companies
make most of the money out of the coal
business, and jost now they are fighting
the tax bill before the legislature because
it requires them to pay something nearer
a fair proportion of taxes. They want
the State to protect them against the
lawless Huns they imported some years
8go, because they would work cheaper
than Americans, Irish, Germans and
others. But at the same time these big
coal and transportation companies insist
upon the farmers continuing to pay
more than thsir proper share of taxes
aithough they never ask or require soy
police or military protection from the
oe ———
Judge Gordon, of Philadelpia, in sen-
tencing a saloon keeper for selling liquor
10 minors, made the following remarks:
“The very worst effects of the sale of
liquors are realized when sold to minors.
That is debauching life st its spring. It
is making bad men, drunkards aad
crimioals, and a judge cansot but look
upon such an offense with abhorrence, as
the law also stamps it.
The maximum punishment is light
enough for such aa offense’, He then
tazed the fellow $100 fine and cost sand
sent him to jail for ninety days. Jade
ing from outward signs, as well as fairly
well authenticated reports afloat, there
are men in this town who are thus violat-
ing the law, and others who are selling
by the bottle, by which means boys are
furnished with liquor. We have some
reason to believe that if these violations
of the law are brought to the attention
of the court by means of aflidavits, the
offenders will be punished and their lis
censes revoked.~Altoona Tribune,
saree art SRCIRRREERTLIN EOL
No English parliament is remembered
in connection with which so many
dreadfai personal scandals have occurred
as that now sitting. Within a few months
there has been the exposure which ruin
ed Parnell, a minor member of the
ministry has escaped by the skin of his
teeth, and warrants are out against an
Irish Conservative and an English Liber-
al on charges of an infamous character:
These men were loudest ia professions of
purity and uncharitable toward all the
weak brothers. One of them is a leads
ing Orangeman, deputy grand master for
Ireland. He is charged with the most
abominable and nameless crimes. The
other, who lured English girls to the con®
tinent for criminal purposes is a high
official of the Y. M, CA. an army officer
and member of the London city conneil,
He is a Gladstonian home ruler. So far
as the political balance goes neither
party can crow over the other, but these
disgracefal scandals cannot fail to make
a deep impression on the public mind,
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Woodland Coal.
| Subscribe for the Revoxta,
ceived, at Kurtz & Son's mill,
The Hebrew Passover 5,651,
On Wednerday evening 22, at 7 o'clock
the annual festival of the Hebrew Pass~
over, also called the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, was ivaugurated with appro-
priate prayer in every synagogue and
temple snd the solemn service contin-
ued nearly in every Jewish dwelling
throughout the world. The festival com~
mences on the evening of the fourteenth
day of the first month called Nisan, and
ends as at present observed on the eve.
ning of the twentyssecond day of the
tame mouth, It is instituted to com-
memorate the miraculous deliverance of
the Israelites from slavery and oppres.
sion to liberty and freedom, and als
though that nearly thirty<five centuries
have elapsed which recall that memora-
bie release, yet they still continue re-
membering “the days of old,” thanking
the Supreme being for Lhe protection He
has offered them and entreating Him
to continue to
kindness.
them His nnremitting
" sr A ———
Horseradish a Cure for the Grip
A week or two ago a lady in this city
wrote a note to the Tribune recommend -
ing the use of horseradish a8 a means of
alleviating the miseries of the grip, if
not aflecting a thorough cure. Several
instances in which this suggestion was
acted upon with strikingly favorable re-
sults have come to the know ledge of the
Tribune. Ordiuary grated horseradish
eaten at intervals during the day and in
connection with food at the table, if food
is eaten at all, has been found remark-
ably efficacious in banishing cough that
frequently lingers after all the other
symptoms of the grip have gone, It can
do no harm to try it at all events. The
humble but pungent horseradish must
have been made for some good use, —
Chicago Tribune,
AA
+A Change in the Revenue Laws,
Prior to this year the fiscal year of the
United States Government relating to
special liquor tax or license closed on
April 30th, This caused great incon
venience to brewers, hotel keepers and
bottlers, who carried on business under
the State law which commenced on
June 1st of each year, and the United
States authorities have pow decided to
commence on July 1st. All brewers sa-
loon keepers, cigar manufactarers, tobacs
co manufacturers and leaf dealers are
now compelled to pay {ax or register for
the months of May and Jane, and then
on July 1st to get ont their license for a
full year. All dealers will receive notice
of the change, The tax or license for
cigar manufacturers, tobacco manufac-
turers, leaf dealers and retail dealers in
cigars and tobacco has been repealed, and
hereafter no charge will be made for the
above classes,
~Some folks have begun Potato
planting. (The smallest potato we
know of is the fellow who takes a paper
a nomber of years, then, without paying
for it, allows the post master to report
it, “refused,
—e{)ns last Friday night A. W, Graff's
store, at Milroy, was entered and two res
volvers, a gold watch and cigars, chews
ing and smoking tobacco carried off.
Other articles may have been stolen but
Mr. Graff has not been able to notice the
fact, Eatrance was effected by means of
& ladder to a second story window. A
man by name of Kozier bas been arrests
ed on suspicion.
~Silver in Sugar valley, gold in Egg-
hill, and coal in Brush mountain, north
of Egg-hill, is enough to make a new El-
dorado of this part of the state. The
silver, and gold, and coal, have not yet
been found, it is true, but there are shin.
ing “eigns” of these precious minerals,
and an old Injun knows the spot where
they are hidden, but be wont tell. Such
an Injun can’t belong to the class term-
ed “good Injans,” else he would not be a
liven, for the only good Injun is a dead
Injun,
wee gerious accident happened to a
little daughter of John Caron, French~
man, residing at Coal Run, last Saturday
afternoon. It appears that a Delgian,
who was boarding at that place, had a
revolver and was trying to shoot a rat,
While the little girl was standing in
front of him the revolver was discharged:
The ball struck her in the right side,
passing between the fourth and fifth ribs
near the sternum, taking a downward
course through the body and lodged in
her dress. The miraculous course of the
ball avoided the vital organs and it is
possible she will get well.
~The Williamsport Sun, of 22, says:
A. O. Deinninger, of Hughesville, whe
was appointed executor of the estate of
William Talbert, deceased, was committ-
ed to jail this morning by order of the
court, The estate, which amoonis to
over $1100, was squandered by Denning.
or after a number of attempts on the
of the heirs to get a settlement from:
a petition to the court
cause
‘NO. 16
Additional Locals,
~—--Samuel Beaver, of Aaronsburg, is
putting up a new stable,
~eee Wl i Lizzie Keen, of Millheim, is
quite ill from grip.
~—Forgy Confer has moved from
Bpring Mills to Poe Mills:
-—Prof. Rothrock’s select school
opened last week with thirtyefour situs
dents,
~The family of Mr. Robert Hen-
derson, of Buffalo Run are all sick with
scarlet fever,
—The Rebersburg Lutheran Sabbath
school will have a cantdta, in their
church, Baturday evening, May 0th,
~The commissioners have taken
down the iron fence around the court
house yard, No one will fanlt them for
i.
~'There are still many cases of the
grip in town, and many are yet down
with it, though a few are able to be out
again,
Corn and oats are trump, and such
of our farmers as must buy feed, would
be satisfied if prices of these were not so
bigh.
- =Wit McCormick had thirty-one
funerals, at Tyrone, since January, and
seems to be doing a good business as un~
dertaker,
—Jjosiah Dale ie at present traveling
#8 a salesman for a drug house and is
heading towards the Pacificcoast. Hope
he will meet with success.
ee L000K, good watches for a time, ons
ly $3.75, also Websters Unabridged dice
tionaries at the same figure. Come and
inspect them. G. O, Benner,
Mrs, James Sweetwood, of near
Centre Hill, feli down the cellar steps
one day this week and was s~riougly in-
jured, She is a very aged lady.
—Digging for coal is still going
ahead on the John Emerick farm, about
three miles below Centre Hall, with in-
dications that look encouraging.
—Supervisor Morrow, on our rail
road the past eight years, has been trans-
ferred to the Altoons division. Frank
Stoughton takes his place on our road.
wee Ex Sheriff Walker has an interest
in coal lands in Westmoreland county,
which promises a good thing for Mr,
Walker. We hope it will pan out big.
Reader if you send us the name of
one new subscriber, with cash forsix
months we will send you The American
Farmer one year free for yonr trouble.
—HHad very fine, summerlike
weather from 12th to 23d, which suited
farmers, and housewives for gardening.
Trees are budding and many are covered
with leaves,
ards are out for the wedding of
Prof. P. O, Stiver, of Orangeville, Ill, a
former resident of this valley, and Miss
Effie J. Mingle, of Lock Haven, on W
nesday evening, 22.
—[)o you want to secure genuine
bargains in clothing and genl's furnish
ing goods? Lewins, at the Philad.
Branc:, Belle'onte, can save you consid
erable money.
we AMMOL Meyer, ‘t here save
er.| weeks ago for the west, has located
permanently at Dickson, Ill, where he
has secured a permanent job at his trade
of talloring.
wwThe family of Mr. J. J. Arney,
are all on the sick list, except Mr. Arney
and seriously too. Mrs. James Lingle,
mother of Mrs, Mervin Arney, is also
quite ill at Mr, Arney’s.
While engaged in spreading mane
ure which had been taken from a car in
which horses had been shipped, L. H.
Davidson, of Milroy, Mifflin county,
tound a gold watch and chain, said to be
worth $75.
~ A fall 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 of Lewins snd a perfect fit
guaranteed.
wee Nathaniel C. Wilson, Esq., a well
known member of the Mifilin county bar
died at McVeytown Friday evening.
While suffering with a severe cold he
visited his sisters and was taken serious.
ly ill, death resulting after ten days.
~eWarren Smith, of Sal
Lycoming county, and the horse he was
driving were struck and killed by light
ning during the thunder storm on Sat
orday afternoon. Mr, Smith was drive
ing on the road near Salladasburg at the
time,
That venerable Democratic patria
arch, Samuel Hess, of near Pinegrove
Mills, on 11th inst, celebrated his 98nd
birth day. Some thirty years back, he |
was a county commissioner, Father *
Hees is an uncle of Mrs, Kurtz, of this
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wh