mn A505 THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED. KURTZ. Eprror and Pro | “TERMS: One yoar, $1.50, when paid | { vac, Those in arrears subjeet ta previous terms. $2 per year. Advertisements 20 cents per line for 3 inser ps. and 5 cents tor each subsequent insertion > Crytre Haun, Pa, Taors, Joy 830 EXCESSIVE CHARGES. County Officials Found Guilty by a Commitice of Lawyers, West CumsteEr, Pa.. July 28.—The Chester county bar held the most excit- ing meeting of its history here yester- day. Nearly every member of the bar was present to hear the reading of the | report of a committee appointed to look | into charges made against county offi- cials. This committee ceunsistod of J. | F. E. Hause, T. W. Pierce, A. M. Holding, H. H. Gilkyson and A. P. Reid, | and their report clearly shows that | nearly all the court house officers have | for many years been taking advantage | of their position by charging amounts | largely inexcess of those allowed by law. This is particularly so in the case of the | clerk of the court's office and the sheriff's. In his remarks on the matter T. W. Pierce said that there have been clients | who complained of the large amounts | charged them in the county offices and | have pushed the matter, and the excess | money was returned to them, a mani- | fest pleading of guilty on the part of the | officials. Register Frank A. Thomas, | Sheriff James G. Parker and Clerk of | the Courts Morgan Ruth are the ones | who came under the fire. They have been doing just what their predecessors | have, but the matter is now to be probed to the bottom and mended. After a long discussion the report was accepted. | CHILDREN, YET MURDERERS A Boyofitanda Girlof 16 Charged With Killing Their Infant, PHILADE! Edwards, covered box i vestigating, f infant bur He reported Ida Reed, a 16-yéar-old girl plo: Edwards as a servant, was charged having birth to the hile having kille« divulge the ni being threaten Ff +) ! nr i he Vv S0¢ PHIA, + 10 4 BASKET the case { of 1 When the t to make any A medical fact healthy. the head indi death, that the y came to | She first An Iron Mill to Resume, INIONTOWN, Pa., July 27. — After five t i Iron and i to resume. An assignment in | a receiver was ap- | the pany has an *‘X nisl The company made March, and afterward pointed. Since then been reorganized, and cured from the creditor aggregate over $500,000, included 15,000 in wage when the mill sa brought by the wi ago and judgment management satisfied and if an agre scale can be reached the bi mn Se the cases, ut in full operation this Dre to 56 men Money for the Teachers, ence between the Hensel and Dr. Z. Suyder, the | ? i as superintendent | arrangement f which the 1 John «- Her's deputy, General school warrants can Stewart, who is Dr. was also appointed deg on Saturday by Mr. Snyder, and nsequently 1s " ally empowered to issue the school This is eminently satisfac to Dr. Waller, who has all along anxions to have some conclusion arrived at regarding money matters. Quay Makes a Denial, Pirrseore, July 27.—Senator Quay, at his home in Beaver. was shown a dis patch from Philadelphia, which stated that intimate political friends of the senator's throughout t state said he | was determined to resign his seat United States senate upon the meeting of congress in December next. When asked if the statement was true Senator Quay replied: “It's a fake, pure and simple. I have not so much as thought of it, and really I don’t see why the story was started, for there is no found. ation for it whatever.” l the in the | Fatal Fall of a Signalman, Chester, Pa., July 27. M. Johnson, the night telegraph operator at Sharon Hill station, on the Philadel- phia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail road, died at his home in Upland from injuries received by some cause un known. The unfortunate man whs found lying unconscious just south of his station at the foot of the semaphore signal post. It is supposed he climbed the post on the ladder to take the signal lamp out, and fell from vertigo or some other reason. James At Work with Non-Unionists, Reaping, Pa., July The West Hamburg Rolling mill, operated by the the Pottsville Iron and Steel company, which has been idle for several weeks, bas resnmed work. Three furnaces are in blast with non-union men, and special officers are on duty, rithough there has been no attempt at interference. The trouble arose through the refusal of the employers and lessees to sign the amal- gamated scale, iy - A Youthful Hero's Death, ALLEXTOWN, Pa., July 28 George Brophy, aged 6 years, and William Pea- cock, aged 8, were drowned in the Le high canal at Catasauqua. The boys were plying on the Dank of the canal when Brophy fell in. Peacock jumped in to save him, and both were drowned. Another boy ran away and gave the alarm, Both bodies were recovered. An Aged Man's Suicide, WiLtiamsront, Pa., July 25. James R. Read, an old citizen of Millheim, Centre county, drowned himself in Elk creck at that place, the cause of the suicide being mental teouble resulting from a surgical operation, which re fused to heal and left the old man very weak both hysieally and mentally, Mr, Read was 72 years o THE SPEAKERSHIP. Who Will Preside Over the Next Session of the House, ORISP, MILLS AND MMILLAN, Each of These Are Mentioned as in the Race to Stick-—-Mills, How. vass, and This to Disadvantage, Operates WasHINGTON, July quiet undercurrent od speakership gos- that office the candidates for one who is seriously in the race to main on duty. re tion of Roger Q. Mills, It was about July 4 that it was reported Mills would withdraw from the contest, but that time things have changed and Mills is in the race for all it is worth, The trouble arose because of Cleve- land's flirting with Crisp's boom. There is no doubt that there came near being a serious and open rupture between Mr, Cleveland and Mills, It was brought to Mr. Cleveland's attention that such a rupture would alien him 0 14 inl the 801 Since ther to Mills by is understood gomg on belw ests which the speakershg land's campaign. } WOTK hard i perhaps largely More Chinese Outragoes, Fraxcisco, July 18t received from ars of fresh depres SAN pr agninst the u tack was male at when the Cathol ically looted, the from hand to } 3 x Fyre lad » ounaQings es burned on some predators stroyed a Frex called Haimen struction of the nine of the wretche for in the buuiding FL 4 A Venerable ExsGovernor WATERBURY, V1! ernor Paul Dill He would | Angust ham ton county; he sa convention of the Dead, have be From 18 ae rT was state s lower branch « for six vears, ai for two years, menber of RB The Case of Editor Hennessy. NEw York, July 2 Charl ner Hennessy, who, as city Daily News, was indi publishing an ace tions at Sing Sing, of general sessio sel, Assemblyman murrer, setting fort! which Mr. Hennes unconstitutional, ably f lapse before the from. William Be been retained by th News to argue the O'Comn Some days will pr recorder is heard urke Ci pt priet Ane, Murder Ends a Dranken Brawl, Loxg IsLAxD City, July 38. —~A mur- der resulted from a quarrel in Weeks’ hotel, New Hyde Park, L. LL, yesterday. The victim was Frank Ovee, and his slayer was William Covert, both well known local characters. The men quar. reled in their cups, and Covert drew a knife with w hich he stabbed Ovee sev. eral times, The latter died few moments, Covert escaped, was arrested soon afterward. A man named Baker, who said the knife with which Ovee was stabbed belonged to him, has also been arrested in a but Wanted to Fight William, Berrix, July 28. —A man named Gurt- ler recently arrived in this city from New York with the announced inten tion of challenging the emperor of Ger. many to fight a duel. Gurtler's rela- tives, who are people in an influential position, caused him to be closely watched by detectives in order to pre- vent the man from getting into trouble, Finally the visitor's relatives were com- willed to have him confined in an asy- nm for the insane, Torn by a Tornado, Wicmita Faris, July 28