THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED. KURTZ. “TERMS;~—0ne your, $1.50, when paid in ad vace, Those in arrears subject to previous terms. $2 per year, Advertisements 20 cents per line for 3 inser 5 1ts for each subsequent insertion, @Ce~xtre Buy, Pa, Tauks, May. 28. Eprron and Pror'e PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. How the Wheels of Government Re- volve at Harrisburg. Harrisprra, May 20,—%n the senate yesterday the act authorizing corpora- tions to increase their capital stock for corporate purposes caused a long de- bate. The bill makes $10,000,000 the limit. The bill passed by a vote of 27 to 13. The revenue bill was made the special order for 3.30 every afternoon until dis- posed of. A large number of bills passed second reading. In the house the following bills passed finally: Defining and declaring the meaning of the words “surviving meimn- bers” and ‘‘assessment plan” wherever they appear in the laws of Pennsylvania relating to insuring lives on the assess- ment plan; a further supplement to the act extending the junsdiction of the courts in cases of divorce, allow- ing a wife who has intermarried with a foreigner and been compelled to leave him on statutory pin iy and returns to her domicile in this state, to file di- vorce papers in Pennsylvania courts; an act enabling county commissioners to sell any real estate which they may ac- quire and make deed therefor: an act to protect miners in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania by properly weighing the coal, fixing the number of pounds to a ton, prohibiting dockage, and providing a penalty for any viola- tion thereof. HanrissUurG, May 21.—The senate yesterday concurred in the house amend- ments to bills as follows; Providing for the organization, support and m ance of associations formed for t tection of life and property: mal appropriation for the purpose of ating a mortgage lien on the } the Memorial at Br for maintenance of the home, the jurisdiction of the burgesses and other principal officers in boroughs. The senatorial apportionment bill passed finally—yeas 105, nays, 64. The congressional apport was passed by a strict party vote 105; nays, 61. The vote by which the Lytle insurance bill was defe ited was rec msidered, and the bill passed by a vote of 113 to 56. The bill now goes to the HARRISBURG, home KViiie, x nlareing CLARTSINS chiet hill TTT mens id an -VORS , senate, May 32. In the senate the governor aunounced his refusal to sign senate bill 211, increasing the number pers in which official advertisements are to be inserted, Sen- ate bill No. 261, to separate the offices of p notary and clerk of in | Jlaware county. Senate bill 149, to fix the pay of electu in Centre county. The senate sustained the veto and on bills 211 and 149 by a unanimous vote and laid the veto on 261 on the table. In the house, among a number of o senate bills passed finally, was the lowing liquor law amendment: An act to amend the eighth section of the act entitled ‘an restrain and regulate the sale of vinous and spirituous malt and brewed lignors, or any mixture thereof,” approved May 13, 1887, providing that the Li Money shall be paid into the of the city, county, bore wd township, where the licensed places are situated. Harriseura, May 23. —The Boyer tax bill passed the hor afternoon yeas tempt to substitute defeated. The house con a vote of 12to8 Porter school bill : the failure of ( reach the house at the opening of yes. terday's session the bill has undoubtedly been fost, The bill cannot now re- ceived until Monday. It then has to be printed and cannot be read The house rejected a resolution pro- posing to make special orders for the consideration of the Robinson constitu- tional convention bill. 3 In the senate the Baker ballot reform bill was the of contention. Sen- ator Robbins moved to amend by mak- ing the bill take effect in July, 1891, in- stead of March, 1892. Several amend- ments were offered and defeated, and while discussing an amendment of Sen- ator McDonald, to allow only those physically disabled to call in assistance in preparing the ballot, the hour for ad- journment arrived. The legislature has rescinded its reso- fution to adjourn May 28. Sessions will be held next week, day and evening. Hammuspunro, May 26.—In the house yesterday the Porter school bill was re- ported. An effort to make the measure a special order for passage Wednesday was defeated. The bill appropriating $20,000 to the State Normal school, Lock Haven, passed finally, as did aiso the bill author- izing the state board of charities to for- mulate a system of uniform accounts to be kept the institutions owned in whole or in part by the state, or receiv- ing aid therefrom, providing for exam- iners to enforce the same and regulate appropriations thereto, he bill appropriating $530 for pay- ment of Felix C. Negley, of Alleghany county, for his services as recruiting agent of the state of Pennsylvania dur- ing the war of the southern rebellion was defeated. £ vio Of nev § +3 . the cour m officers act to ad- TENE treasury ugh mm navs 21 An ranger bill was 3 oy the ication. sport agreed irmatively has bone oy Insists on the Right to Vote. Prrrsevra, Pa., May 25. —Rev, J. K. McClurkin, of the Reformed Presbyter- ian Theological seminary, will Tesign the chair of theology and history in institution at the coming meeting of the Sys in this city on May 27, is ac- on, Mr. McClurkin states, arose out of the fact that seven young Reformed Presbyterian ministers had been sus- pended from the church for voting at a political election and that they would sbably be expelled from the synod, rovabilities are that Mr. McClurkin will leave the Reformed Presbyterian church and go over to the United Pres. byterian side, Denounced by the Grangers. Eastox, Pa., May 20.—At a public meeting of Pomona Grange at Bath resolutions were unanimously ado denouncing Senator Laubach and resentatives Smith and Flad for voting against the commission bill, thus v against the interests of the laborer farmer, A resolution was in future the : in will use all fair means to elect tatives who will represent their inter. ests, without regard to political parties. that county Startling Developments in + the Philadelphia Affair, TREASURER BARDSLEY A PRISONER. Charged with Misappropriation of City Funds—Perjury and Forgery Also Alleged—The Fugitive Bank President, PHILADELPHIA, May 25,—City Treas- urer Bardsley was arrested late Saturday night by Chief of Detectives Wood, as- sisted by Detectives Miller and Tate. He is sick in bed, and twodetectsves are guarding the room in which he Hea, The facts that led to the arrest were brought out during the day at the mayor's office, Accountant Taylor Faunce, one of the three experts ap- pointed by the mayor to overhaul the books of the city treasurer's office, called upon the mayor with the startling intel ligence that a discrepancy showing a misappropriation of funds had been dis covered. Half an hour later all three of the experts called upon the mayor to verify the first statement. The misap- propriation had taken place by a draft for $39,000 on the Third National bank On investigation Mayor Stuart and City Solicitor Warwick established the fact beyond doubt that the discrepancy existed, and the warrant was at once 1s sued. hy sumptnonsly erected and deeded Wingohocking Grermants Chief Wood served the warrant, Mr. Bardsley was ver$ill it was decided to keep him in the custody of the shes iff at his house, On Saturday afternoon Francis W, Kennedy, president, and Henry H. Ken- nedy, cashier, of the Spring Garden Na tional bank, had a final hearin Magistrate Wilhere, and were This is double former bail. Bardsley lives in a beautiful and furnished newly to near station, YW house, his wif but as held in the of their Held in $50,000 Bail, PHILADELPHIA, May 26.—City Treas Saturday nughe., might be the forfeit if he to leave his bed. wearing had to be postponed until Fri i led t wlmit decided to This ay of £25,000, ) Teliey presence of dectives who have warrant rved gz to wi tment has been ime n Lu n li attempt to leave be taken to the « instancs charge 1s the money. aii Marsh May Have Shipped 26. — For some un wm the Philadel thorities ignored Fragedy After Charch, - » + 3 May A sensational Ing OOCnree i Just NUuren whe Woman nat Hunter had ween believed she wa Mrs. was threatened lence and called a policeman to pre her, but before he interfere Hunter and his wife drew revolvers and fired, one ball striking the officer in the abdomen, inflicting a fatal wound. Mrs Stoner was struck in the breast, but a steel stay in her corset deflected the ball, which caused only a flesh wound Hunter and his wife were arrested. tne Sones could A Nobleman's Death. Loxpox, May 25.-—By a slight fire in the town house of Lord William Rom illy his lordship was suffocated by smoke, He was removed to a hospital, but all efforts to restore life failed. Blanche Griffen and Emma Lowell, ser- vants, were also taken out dead. The fire was quickly wubdued. Lord Rom- illy was descended from the great jurist, Sir Samuel Romilly. His father, also, was an eminent lawyer. He himself was born in 1885. He Jeaves a widow, Lady Helen, and a son by a former wife, John Gaspard Romilly, born in 1866, Hanged Her Children and Herself, Harrax, Ia., May 26.—Mrs, Christen Pederson, a Danish woman, and four children, aged from 3 to 10, were found hanging in the cellar of their house, three miles northwest of this town, It js thought they have been hanging since Wadnesday night, the 20th inst. The husband was sent to the insane asylum about a week ago, and this series of murders and suicide shows that the wife should have accompanied him, as she must have been violently insane, Dr. Graves Out on Bail, Dexver, May 26. —Late yesterday af- ternoon Dr. Graves, who has been con fined in the county jail since his arrest, was brought into the criminal district court, It had been agreed by the court and the district attorney to admit Dr. Graves to bail in the sam of £30,000, The bondsmen were investigated ‘by the district attorney and pronounced satis. factory, and Dr. Graves will be at lib erty for a time at least, AA AAR OY Riotons Paris Stage Drivers, Paras, May 26.—The drivers of the mblic stages are on strike for twolve orrs work per day and for the rein statement of union drivers. The stage company made an attempt to ran a few stages, but the strikers attacked them, cut the traces, hd the drivers from their seats and left the stages in the streets, Fifty arrests have been made, the president of the union being among those taken into custody, NEWS OF THE CHARLESTON. She Is Gaining Rapidly on the Flee ing lata, SAN Francisco, May 25.—The Pacific mail steamer Colima, which arrived here from Panama, reports having left Acapulco May 15, Just north of that port she sighted a steamer flying the Chilean flag and answering to the de geription of the Itata, The latter was steering sonth by east. Later in the day the Charleston appeared and spoke the Colima, On learning what had been seen the Charleston steamed away to the southward, The Charleston was at that time about one hundred and thirty miles from Acapulco, while the Itata when sighted was about sixty-five miles from there. The Colima reports that the Esmeralda left Acapulco on the instant, and went out to sea, but was seen near the har bor in the evening, The Itata was ex pected to arrive there on the 15th, and it is supposed the Esmeralda was wait ing for her, The Evening Dulletin says it is in- sources that the congressiona otherwise known as the insur gents, bas entered into an agreement with the United States government to surrender to the United States the steamer Itata and her cargo; that the Charleston will not pursue the [tata any further, but will proceed to Callao, and the Itata will be handed over to the American authorities, The Bulletin adds: “It is probable proceedings will then follow in the federal courts of the United States, But it is definitely set tied there firedd In th of and that parsuit ton 1s practically off.” party of will be no guns the tata, 1 { apt nr The Third Party Formed, May 21.—When United Senator Peffer, of Kansas, chair of the indn NNATL, trial convention, called to order every delegate mt. Mrs. Helen Gougar, of a, } a prohibition plank platform. At the afternoon platform was presented and dd it 1 1 If - pleaded Tor wh demands fiat the 4 governmental communication and transpor ht hoar day, » president and senators by and prohibition of alien A national committee Congressman H. E llinois, as chairman: Rob consin, secretary: W 1 wa, treasurer: executive lgnating Donnelly, G. F J. C. Davis and J. F. Gath decided to have a candidate at the general name, Pe ples P Arty , Was en cally adi ipa. coinage election of next elec Death by Dynamite, N. X . May «il, Yes work train on the Hudson wd was blown to atoms one a half below Tarrytown by y of dynamite in transportation g purposes in track construd wre were probably fifty men, r Italian laborers and trainmen, Of eighteen were in torn YTOWN, Al these Hed and Many of the river, and five The train was torn railroad tracks ripped d a great hole many a totally CTA DONS, fiftang terribly dead were boul ies FaSecretary Taft Dead. 1 oN, May 22 Attorney 1 Miller was informed yesterday or General Taft of the death at jew, Cal f father, ex-At ral Alphonso Taft. Mr secretary of war under bg presented the at the o of Austria Orders were msned to department and the de ustice bumidings in mourn his rant and gE = ire 0nis y» close both de the funeral VOTnIeY General Cincinnati for Missouri's Cyclone, y,, May 22. Farther de one which struck in the ean Creek, three miles from , say: So far as heard from fifteen 4 in the vicinity of that place were royed, some ten or twelve persons gilled, and equal number fatally and large numbers badly injured. A horse was lifted by the wind, carried half a mile and dashed to death. A 1.200 pound roller was taken up and blown to pieces, Houses and barns were swept away like straw. The loss is over £550,000, 3 Two Killed by the Cars, Larose, Pa., May 26 Richard Fouks, a miner from Lock Haven, aged 25: Molly McNally, aged 16, and Miss B McCready, aged 14, of this place, while out driving last nisht, were struck by the Pennsylvania railroad limited ex- press at Jefferson street crossing. Fouks was instantly killed and Miss McNally died an hour later. Miss McCreary was not seriously hurt. The horse was killed and the buggy destroyed. Florida's Senatorial Contest, Tarranassee, Fla.,, May 26.—-Two ballots were taken in the senatorial can- cas last night each resulting: Call, 52; Mavs, 42, and Bloszham, 2. A Call leader threw 5 bomb into the eancus by a motion to adjourn the cancus sine die. The motion was carried. The selection of a senator will now devolve upon a vote of the legislatare in joint session. An Appeal for Aid. Scorrpare, Pa., May 28. Secretary Parker issues a circular in which he states there are 850 families in the region homeless and penniless, who are living in stables and coal sheds. He appeals for aid to relieve their imperative wants. Today James McBride and L."R. Davis left for the west in search of aid. They will visit Cleveland, Kansas City and intermediate points, En am ae outa Killed by His Msane Mother, Osukos, Wis, May 25. Yesterda Mrs, Co 1 kifled her little 8-year-ol son by st ink him five times on the head with a hammer. His skull was fractured in three different places, The woman has been insane for some time, and it was only recently that she at tempted to choke him to death, SRNR SV HRN steamer Collision and Death, Laverroot, May 25.-The steamers Lestrios and Mersey collided Sunday in the River Mersey and both sunk, four people being drowned. Sy . Judge of the Land Court, ASHINGTON, Ma 2. Fx Oonren man Payson, of Tinois, is said to be slated for the chief justiceship of the new land court, Je SUPPLIES AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, CHILLED PYiow Pr Io Bg | SOUTH BEXD . ” AT REDUCTION IN NL 4 Sh SHARES reduced from 40 to 30 cents. - All other repairs reduced accordingly. Roland CHILLED PLOWS are the best bevel landside plow ou earth; prices res duced, POTATO PLANTER. The Aspenwall is the most complete potato plauter ever made Farmers who have them dant their own crops and realize from $25.00 0 30,00 per year from their neighbors, who wills ingly pay $1.00 per acre for the use of an Aspen wall plaoter Spring Tuoth Harrow sevenleon teeth, ous side of which can be used as a single cultivator, AND BTEEL KING TOOTH HARROW, Allen's Celebrated Cultivators, Garden Tools and Seed Drills, which were practically exhibited at the Granger's Picnic, PLi NTERS AND CORN - latest improved, 'HE HENCH SPRING CORN SHELLEES, | wee HAY RAKES AND HAY TEDDERS, wi at cut prices, Farmers who harvest fifteen or more tons of hay cannot afford w do without one of our Hay Tedders, which are built witk a fork outside of each wheel, the same tedder can Ix operaied by one or Iwo horses. CONKLIN WAGONS, CHAMPION WAGONS, superior build, fine finish and durability. are in neal BUGGIES, NOBEY ROAD CARTS, PHAETONS, AND PLATFORM SPRING WAGONS, pion Churns. Our sale of chy WHEELEARROWS, Our steel! and wood wheelbarrows are 10 ail kinds of work of which we assortment at very low prices Lave » A large stock of ND GARDEN spe g ARM AND G N SEED FLOWER POTS AND URNS FEI JLZERS, Agricultural dait, our Doliar ; Phosphate: Lister's make Honest Phosphate for use on barley, toes snd wheat, as well as Mapes Pol er. &ll of which have the highest rey producing an honest return for Lhe money wd Champion wen Les Oar large Grade jostifies us In var supplies in large quantities, we buy at the lowest prices, which bles sell at the lowest us tO therefore, it will be to the interest “uA examine our stock before purchasing O © O A limited quantity of yard wide, extra quality, unbleached Sheeting at 6 cents per yard. A special lot of good quality and good styles Dress Gingham at 73 cents per yard. Jeautiful line of fine, Scotch and Zeph- yr Ginghams from 124 to 28 cents per yard. Only one or two Dress Patterns in each piece. it does not cost anyihing tion McCALMONT & CO, Hale Bus ding, Bellefonte, Fa. ¢ Managers, j apriim rT BE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEG LOCATED IN ONE OFTHE MOST BEAl Ti FUL AND HEALTHFUL SPOTS IN THE ALLEGHENY REGION; UNDENOMINA- TIONAL: OPEN T0 BOTH SEXES; TUITION FREE: BOARD AND OTHER EXPENSES VERY LOW NEW BUILDINS AND EQUIPFMED LEADING DEPARTMENTS OF STUDY. AGRICULTURE (Three Cours) and AGR2 CULTURAL CHEMISTRY; with constant fl justrations on the Farm and in the Labors tory BOTANY and HORTICULTURE; theoret) cal and practical. Stedents taught original stody with the microscope. CHEMISTRY, with an unusually thorough course in the Laboratory. {CIVIL ENGINEERING, These « ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, »oour { MECHENIUAL ENGINEERING) e» are accompanied with very extensive practical exercises in the Field, the Bhop, snd the Laborailory. HISTORY: Ancient and Modern, with origi. nal investigation INDUSTRIAL ART AND DESIGN LADIES COURSE IN LITERATURE and SCIENCE; Two yeas Ample facilities for Music, vocal and instrumental. LANGUAGE and LITERATURE: Latin {optional,} French, German and English (re guired,) one or more continued through the entire course MATHEMATICS and ASTRONOMY; pure and applied, MECHANIC ARTS; combining shop work vi full and ing and equipment. MENTAL, ORAL and POLITICAL 8CI ENCE; Constitutional Law and History Political Boonomy, ete MILITARY SCIENCE: instruction theoreti cal and practical, including each arm of the service. PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT; Two years—oerefully graded and thorough. Winter term opens Jauuary 7, 188i Spring term, April 8, 189), Commencement week, June 2%. Joly 2, 1881, For Catalogue or other inform a ion, address GEO, W, ATHERTON, LL.D., Prest., State College, Centre Co. Pa 10 1%. 18, - To The Farmers of Centre County. I1wishto say 1 will again be among you offering the following farm implements, The Deering Binder and Mowers, the Albright spring tooth cultivator with double row ocornplanter and also his sixteen and eighteen spring tooth harrows, the Bisse] chilled plows, Hauck and Comstock hay rakes, Bollard hay tedder with one fork outside of each wheel, Superior grain drill with or without fertilizer attachment, the Champion hand cloverseed sower it will save its cost in seed in one season, Buckeye Force pump, Empire stoam engine and Thresher, Allentown phosphates, Eclipse steel wagons from a one hotse to a heavy lumber wagon. I would say to those who think of buying a new wagon 10 come to my piace at Centre Hill and see the Eclipse steel sample wagon before you buy a wagon, it cant help but please you The Columbia Steel wagon Co offer a challenge of ¥1000 in their printed clrealars to any maker of a line of farm wagons with as many good points as the Belipse steel wagons, all the wood you will find on the wagon is the bed, wheels, tongue coupling pole and look bar, Thanking the farmers for their kindness apd patronage in the past and trasting they will this coming season give me a part of it as usual, M, BURRHOLIAR. Dentro AGENTS nu wanted to canvass for the sale of our Froum stock i» HE RA se THE “ENGER” BUGGY Pad EEE A AA A : Ask your Dealer for it Insist on Having it. * * * Neatgst in Design, Best in finish, &* &® a a a i a a a inated btn TH bls vsmstrtdrstststotometed fully Guaranteed. All Dealers have them, PRICES QUOTED ON APPLICATION. AA AANA i MSA GEORGE ENGER & CO0., CINCINNATI, OHIO “WANT A WAGON?" We have wagons, buggies, surreys. High grade; as light, strong, durable, stylish, as beautifully finished as modernized manufacture can produce. Built on honor by men of life experience. Honesty is our policy; prompt shipment our specialty. We want to know you. Write us. Costs you nothing. May lead to business by and by. Send for our catalogue. It is free to every reader of this paper. Bing- hamton Wagon Co., Binghamton, N. Y. “BUILT FOR BUSINESS.” for Infants and Ch' ‘ren, Bonar? on Japetk, Fre Geen, Wong, giv shop, Amd Poivrailes # fosiun Tauro 5 4 ¥ W Tua Caxrava Couraxy, Pulte eo, N.Y fom acyny Cain, Oomativats: =, ir known tome” HA Amcusn, MD, 111 So. Oxford 88, Brookiys, NX. Y.
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