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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
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-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.
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the cour
m officers
act to
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treasury
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navs 21 An
ranger bill was
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agreed
irmatively
has
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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
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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
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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
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HE RA se
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Ask your
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Insist on
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Design,
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inated btn TH
bls vsmstrtdrstststotometed
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PRICES QUOTED ON APPLICATION.
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