VOL .LXIV. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR The state legislature will adjourn May a While Blaine is down with the rheu- matism, Harrison goes about with a big spe'l of roamatism, This State has received the sum of $1» 642,711, the amount due the State under the direct tax act passed by the last Con- gress, Some political wise men predict that Blaine will the next Republican nominee for President. What further use will Ben have for the big hat, then? Oat in Ohio Farmers’ Alliauces are growing rapidly, and the politicians of both parties have come to the conclusion that these Alliances are going to be a very important element in the coming fall election. The Bellefonte Daily News, of Monday, charges that the articles which time ago appeared in that paper lauding Fiedler of the Gazette, for his post office management, wera all written by Fiedler himself, and paid for by bim. Whew! but we are not surprised at all, be Ome A hero may be on the stage within a few days. If the commander of the U. 8. war ship Charleston finds the Chilian tata and sinks her, America will have a new naval hero. If the Es. meralda or the Itata can sink the Chare leston and prevent the capture of the Itata, then Onili will boast ofa new na- Circumstances often make WAr vessel val hero. greal names. Dispatci es received from all points in Western Virginia and pear points in Ohio aud Western Pennsylvania are to that Saturday night's frost has almost totally ruined the fruit and veget, Strawberris end grapes have been the greatest sufferers, many small fruits bave been entirely destroyed. The frost was the most severe for this season of the year since 1861. Soow fell at vari- ous points. The Patriot says: Another road bill is to be introduced in the house to take of the vetoed commission measure. The main features of the new bill wilt be cash for road taxes instead of the present system permitling them to be “worked out” on the roads, and a pro- vision allowiag townships to issue bonds for the improvement of roads, This bill will take the place on the second reading the effect able crops, the place calendar now held by the road bili of the which for be sub. Western Eagineers’ association, has been recommitted to committee amendment. The new bill will stituted. ————————— The American Legation at J.ondon, tired of answering let'ers on the subject, now sends oul printed circalars to peo~ p e on this side of the water wanting to know about immense estates or big pots of money in the Baok of England to which they themselves to be heirs. Thousands of such communicas tions are received in each month, show- ing that the swindlers who advertise tor American heirs to English estates are reaping a rich harvest. The far West furuishes most of the victims, There are no estates of any account seeking ownership, and people ought to know it by this time. Black Forest is an extensive lamber district in the Pine Creek regiom, says the Potter Enterpriee, Three weeks ago there were two feet of snow in that re gion, bat to-day it is a blackened, desols ate waste, ravished by fierce forest fires that have raged the past week. The lomberm:n fought the fire between Gaines and Ansonia, bat no human power could quench it, J, B, Weed & Co., the’ Binghamton Ilnmbermen, have been very heavy losers. Over 700,000 feet of logs at Blackwells, together with houses and fences, have been destroyed. EE —— At Beottdale the sitaation is becoming serious for the miners. Operators are making a most determined effort to force the men at the miners’ convention to abandon the strike, while labor leaders on the hand have been among them and say they are practically unavimons in their desire to continue out, The Frick aod McClare companies started four plants with a few men and say that they will start five other plants this week. Men are coming into the region in car loads and it is doubtful it the strikers can stand the pressure mach longer. They are suflering for the necessities of life, and handreds have no roof to call their own. Altogether, if the men do uot vote to xo back it will be because they are over-persuaded by the leaders, or because the independent operators or some powerful labor organization pledges the greatly needed financial support. believe CENTRE Now Tax Measures. Senator Grady offered a resolution in the senate which was laid over to be printed, recommending as a relief of local taxation an increased taxation of corporations and the relinquishment of a part of the State revenues for local pur- poses, The recommendations are: First—The passage of house bill No. 210, by substituting house bill No. 408, amended, with such a rate of taxation upon the actual value of the capital stock of corporations as will yield not less than $4,000,000 of capital stock tax. Second—An amendment to the State revenue act of 1880 so that the tax on personal property, bonds, mortgages, moneys at interest, etc., shall be raised to four mills, and that three-fourths of the amount thus realized be returned so the counties for the relief of local taxa tion, which will in effect be the levying of a three-mill personal property tax for local purposes. Consequent upon this will be the raising of the rate of taxation on banks from three~mills to four, and the optional rate upon the par value of shares from six mills to eight. Third—The appropriation of not less than $4,000,000, annually for the support of the public schools, Fourth—The passage of house bill No, 133. providing for the distribution among counties, cities, boroughs and townships of all the moneys received from retail liquor licenses, Nr, Grady also reported as a substitute for the commission revenue bill the Boy- er bill, referred to in his resolution. a i» What the Grangers Like to Hear The report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, now in press, shows an increase since April of last year of more than 100 per cent in the price of corn and oats, 30 per cent and more in wheat. and advanced values of all cereals and meats, A hopeful and cheerful feeling is noticed, says the re port, in official correspondence from all parts of the country. The elimination of the surplus of corn and oats, through the under production of last year, insures good prices for these crops, and the short. age of the wheat of the world for two years, with the low foreign prospect for the growing crop, promises the largest foreign demand for 10 years at remuner- ative prices. Fortunately present ap- pearances indicate ability to meet such demand with case. The opinion is ex- pressed that farm land at present prices are promising investments, -—— The census bulletin on the indebted. ness of different nations makes an ex cellent showing for the United Siates compared with other countries. Oar pational debt, Federal, State and county is $1,281,020 840. This makes a per capita debt of $20 46, while the per capita debt of Eogland is $87 79, of France $116 35, of Italy $76, and of Spain $74 France has the national debt and Russia comes next, but the larger population of the latter makes the per capita but $30 70, Yet it is not the size of the debt that is of so much consequence as the ability of the people of a given country to pay it: Our own per capita debt has been reduc. ed since 1880 from $46 50 to 820 48 in 1890, because the country has been reas sonably prosperous and its resources are easily equal to the extinguishment of the indebtedness. But this pleasant prospect changes with the adveut of the Billion Congress, with taxation that re- duces revenues and expenditures that exceed receipts, The pension bureau has been under suspicion ever since the Incoming of the Harrison administration. Corporal Taan- ner had to go because of maladministra- tion and corrupt conspiracies on the part of his subordinates. General Raum, his successor, was investigated, with some ugly disolosures, by the last congress . aod now his son and chief clerk has been inyited “to resign with 30 days leave of absence on pay,” the proof being incontestable of his traffic in offices and appropriation of public moneys. He goes out with all the honors while a few weeks ago an efficient clerk who had un- wittingly told a newspaper man of cer tain facts regardiog the conduct of pen~ sion business was kicked out without a day’s delay. An honorable resignation, with the gift of a month's pay, is the punishment awarded rogues. i The Siecle of Paris states that advices bave been received at Marseilles from Trebizonde to the effect that & new vol- cano has appeared in Armenia at the sammit of Mount Nimpred, in the dis- trict of Van, vomiting forth flames and lava. The villagts at the foot of the mountain have been destroyed and many persons are said to have been kill- ed or injured, The fugitives are cams ping outside the ranges of destruction, They are entirely destitute, and the greatest misery prevails among them. The Turkish government has taken meas- ures to aid the sufferers, 89, Sabscribe for the Reporter, ho HALL. PA . .y The War In Chili, Late advices from Chili by way of Buenos Ayres, state that President Balmaceda is concentrating his forces for an advance upon the revolutionists, and that as soon as he receives the war vessels built in Frapce he will attack the insurgents by sea. The country from the Atacama desert to the straits remains faithful to Balma- ceda, while the insurgents are concens trating a government in the districts taken from Peru in the late war, They have practically established a new res public, with Iquique as the capital, while old Chili remains true to the Balmaceda administration. All the officers captured on both sides have been shot except in the case of a captain named Velasco, who was aconsed of betraying his post in Atacama, and who was hanged after a brief court~mar- tial. Balmaceda now has 40,000 men, not including the militia. Nearly all the volunteers are from lower class popu- lation, who favor the President, while the wealthier class are for the most part in sympathy with the insurgents, The latter have about 60,000 troops and would | have more but for the lack of arms and! ammunition, i ——i— ; A Royal Pauper Dying. The marriage of the mother of Miss Caroline Guelph, who is now dying in| the workhouse, to George IV, has been shown to have tiken place, as the re. cords of the church at Kensington bear mention of it, but it was never legally recognized, owing to the law that was passed at the direction of George III that none of the immediate children of that monarch be allowed to marry a sub- ject of Great Britain, It will be remembered that this law expired with the death of William IV. the last son of George III. Had it not been for the existence of the act of Par-| liament, the marriage would have been! daly recognized, and Miss Caroline, is| now dying of poverty, might have oc! cupied the throne pow filled by Queen] Victoria. This unhappy condition snd] circumstance has made the situation very! difficalt for Miss Caroline to bear, Until taken to the workhouse she had lived! at 41 Parkhurst Bow, Eye Lane, Pecks bam. - The deciston of Judge Wallace of the) United States court, in New York, on the] Stewart will case last week was imports | ant in determining the rights of aliens! to inherit in that State. Judge Wallace | is clear that under the laws of New York property cannot pass by inheritance through one non-resident alien to anoth- er. He seems not quite so clear that a non-resident alien may not inherit dire ectly, though he is inclined to that opinion. The judge said of the common law principle: It is a familiar rule of the common law that an alien has no inheritable blood and can neither acquire land by descent por transmit it by descent to another, At the death of the alien the land which he may have acquired by purchase instantly escheats and without any inquest of office vests in the government or State. This rule, however, has been modified by the statute law of New York and oth- er States. Letters and papers recived the last mail from Bouth America containg some interesting facts concerning the trouble in Chili, There seems to be no probabil. ity of an immediate ending of the war. In Valparaiso business is at a standstill, Many leading families are leaving Santi. ago for Baenos Ayres, to avoid perseca- tion at the hands of the dictator, Balmaceda’s army is said to consists at present of 30,000 men, The principal business portion of Iquique has been, destroyed, but the rest of the town escaped serious damage , The practice of spending large sums of money by campaign managers—or keep. ing large sums of it — is attracting attens tioh as a growing evil, in every section. The boodle is obtained by bleeding can. didates and others, and very litile goes towards legal or legitimate campaign ex- penses, The evil has crept down into county organizations, and has been made a heavy load for local candidates, who wonder where it all goes to. This boodle game will need the condemnation of the press and the public, if a check is to be put npon corruption funds of the lowest order, And now another good man has gone wrong, it is ex-cashier Percival, of the Lewiston, Me,, bank. The bank cashiers is seems, with some exceptions, are a wrong-doing set —swindles, frauds a defalcations are their practices «= Cabinet photos $1.50 per doz at Shaeffer’s gallery, Bellefonte, # Rew Train, On Monday, May 25th, a new passens ger train will be placed in service by the Pennsylvania Railroad company on the Philadelphia & Erie Division, This train will leave Williamsport at 3.50 p. m., arriving at Sunbury 5.20 p. m., Har- risburg 7,05 p. m., making connections at Sunbury for all points in the coal re gions, arriving at Wilkesbarre 7.50 p. m., Scranton 9.01 p. m,, Hazleton 7.56 p. m- Pottsville 9.05 p. m., Shamokin 6.20 p.m, and Mt. Carmel 6.50 p. m.; and at Har~ risburg for the east, south and west, ar riving «t Philadelphia 10.565 p. m,, Balti more 10.40 p. m,, Chambersburg 9.25 p. m , Pittsburg, 2 a, m. The afternoon, 2.45 train, from Belles fonte to Montandon, is likely to be changed to 2 p. m., iu order to connect with the above train, landing passengers in Philadelphia at 10.55 same evening, We think the change would be approved by neerly all. A Stolen by Gypsies. A 10syear old girl traveling with a band of gvpsies now located near Phils ipsburg, while begging along the street in company with an old gypsy woman on Simler, and stating that she had been stolen by the gypsy, was taken in charge by the overseers of the poor, awaitiog farther developments. A dispatch from Harrisburg corrobor- ates the child's story as to their being there at the time stated, but conveys the idea that the child was given the gypsies by her sister, the parents being. dead. The child's body bears marks of extreme cruelty and she refuses to accompany the gypsy further. Investigations will be made. A ——— - Transported By Wagon. The plate glass for the windows of the pew Hepburn House at Williamsport New York by railroad to Williamsport, will be bauled by wagon. There are three panes to be transported, two 24x11 and ope 16x11. The wagons will attract much attention going through the coun- try by covering it with advertising cards. The whole of the Hepburn House front of first story will be of plate glass, -—-—— Prevent Baldness. It is recommended for prevention of baldness that the bair be kept pretty bathed frequently in salt water and in- bricated occasionally with a very small quantity of yaseline, Two teaspoonfuls of salt to a pint of water will make a tonic of the proper strength, and with this the head should be bathed three ties a week, emmsiibee—— Horses Died. On Friday night, a valuable gray horse belonging to Perry Breon, near our town, died from inflamation of the bowels, The horse was a good one, having cost Mr. Breon $165, On same night a horse be longing to Mr. Neply, of this place, became sudden - ly ill and died in a few hours. -— a Where Lutheranism is Strong. Onesfifth of the Lutheran population of Norih America is resident in Pean- sylvania, Their number is given as 211,873 confirmed members, They have 723 pastors and 1271 churches, Their united contributions in Peansylvania last year were $12,127200; for general benevolence, 782,507, mmm fb etmpaarseiaus Lawn Fete, The Presbyterian Aid Society of this place, will hold a Lawn Fete at Rev. Baskervilles home, on Main street, on Satarday evening, May 30th, Ice cream, cake, coffee and lemonade will be served, All are cordially invited, Proceeds for the benefit of their church. — ————ins Marriage Licenses. Following is the list of marriage Li- censes issued during the past week from the register's office Bellefonte: Geo, W. Wiley, of Clearfield, Pa., and Marjorie E. Woomer, of Blair county. Julius P. Files and Mattie Hamer both of Philipsburg. Geo, M., Bratdorfand Annie M. Deob~ ler, both of Rebersburg, am a RE WH | VAP WHOS Two Sarpints Less. One day last week Col. And, Gregg and one of his boys came across two black snakes in ous of his fields about a mile from here, lying close together, The two serpents were killed, each measuring over five feet in length. A Rolling Stone Gathers no moss; neither does the dost light on the Philad. Branch’s new stock of clothing for spring and summer, as customers keep it moving at figures which captivate all, Woodland Coal, ¥ Two car loads Woodland coal jast re- ceived at Karts & Son's mill, 21, The Way Te Do. A stranger called upon a farmer in Batler county a few days ago, and for $25 painted the roof of his barn with a mixtare which he said would make it last longer than the stone foundation, The first rain washed all the paint off, Last;week he reappeared and wanted to sell the farmer a patent corn planter, The latter was still hot about the paint, and said he would not bay a corn plans ter, but he would do a little painting at the agent's expense. The agent offered all sorts of explanations, but they avail. ed nothing, The farmer sailed into him in the real Butler county pugilistic style, and in a few moments painted the agent's nose a beautful blue