VOL. LXIV.
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
Is Harold McClure a presidential pos-
sibility ?
Judge Krebs, of Clearfield, bas decid-~
ed that the office of assistant assessor
has no legal existence.
Ohio is now agitated over the senato-
rial question. John Sherman thinks he
thouid be re-elected and gabby Foreaker
thinks he should have it,
0
Don’t feel uneasy about the wood and
coal running out, and putting a stop to
warm meals. Electricity is going to take
the place of these in proper time, with
greater comfort and economy.
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Senator Quay says he feels vindicated
by the result of the election in this
state, It is also a vindication of Livsey,
Marsh and the rest, and they can now
return from their flight to foreign lands.
Judge Bucher was defeated by 464 in
a district that gave the Republicans 1506
majority. There is nothing in this that
the Judge need feel ashamed of —al ho’
the district should be ashamed for not
re-electing Judge Bucher,
No other issue should come up in the
battle of 1892 bat the tariff. That ques
tion is paramoant and should be settled.
Let the people have the opportunity to
study it alone and uoderstand it thor.
oughly and vote their coovictions in
Nov. *92,
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A base ball catcher has become a coun-
ty Judge in Pennsylvania, He must
have been a good judge of balls in his
earliest profession.
The above item is from the New York
Press, a Republican organ. It is true
and has reference to Harold McClare,
elected over Judge Basher,
The last spike has just been driven on
a road—the Seattle & Montana—which
gives the Puget sound country connecs
tion with the east by way of the Cana~
dian Pacific railway. It is not very long
since the completion of the Northern
Pacific railroad into the unbroken wild-
erness where the flourishing cities of
Paget sound to~day stand, was heralded
with acelamations along the North Pas
cific coast, and this will prove itself a
formidable rival.
At the late election in Dauphin county
on the demand of the 1500 negro votes
that make that county Republican, the
party nominated Dr. Jones, a thoroughly
reputable and ususaally intelligent man,
for the office of coroner. It was assum-
ed on all sides that he would be elected
bat when the returos came in it was dis.
covered that while the Republican party
had nearly 2,500 mejority in the county
Dr. Jones was beaten in a equare fight
by Frank Hoy, Damocrat. The Republi.
cans deliberately defeated the doctor be
cause he is a negro and of coarse the
oolored brethrea at Harrisburg are mad.
If there is anything one shoald guard
against, it is to be a breeder of strife in a
community, tbat banefal curse to the
peace and happiness of society, Saying
spiteful things, by indirection slanders
ing another, misinterpreting motives
vat of a disposition to do another injury
~how often is it seen that these vices,
bred of jealousy, do the work of the evi!
ohe in destroying love and esteem and
planting strife where peace and harmos
by would naturally dwell, Often it is
known that those who would figure as
leaders in society, instead of being mod-
els for good in their actions and conver-
sation, are the very curse of the society
and community which they might adorn.
Reader, guard against these vices,
A novel issue was introduced in a Kan«
sas judicial election last week which ree
suited in the righteous defeat of Judge
Nicholson, the Alliance candidate for
district jodge. Four years ago this judge
railroaded a couple of strolling boys to
the penitentiary for 13 years each on a
charge of stealing clothing. The boys
had & good defense—were innocent as it
tarned out -but were hurried to trial
without counsel and no chance to coms
municate with their friends, In despera-
tion they entered a plea of guilty, In
violation of the usual course, they were
immediately sentenced. After address
ing the boys in most bitter language
Judge Nicholson sentenced them to be
confined in the penitentiary at hard
labor for the term of thirteen years.
They reached the penitentiary April 10
1887. After baving served over foor
years the prisoners convinced the sheriff
that they had no connection with the
barglary, and, in fact, bad not heard of
it until arrested for the crime. Their
pardon is to follow, The facts coming
out caused the defeat of the brutal judge
for re~election,
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Enormous Sums for Roads.
The Pittsburg Dispateh, which bas
given a great deal of attention to the
subject, makes the statement that some-
thing over $5,000,000 has been spent in
Pennsylvania this year in the repair of
roads. This is an incresse of $1,000,000
over the amount expended last year, and
there is really not hing to show for it.
It would be difficult to accept these
enormous figures were it not for the fact
that our contemporary gives the figures
by counties in more than one-half the
State, and these fully sustain its general
calculation. This amount is not all paid
in cash, but the tax is assessed in difter-
ent sums in the several townships of a
county, and only what is not worked out
by the property owner is paid in mor ey.
The work is generally done very careless-
ly, without adequate supervision, and the
roads are very soon iu about as bad con-
dition as if nothing had been done with
them,
Larger sums are paid or worked ont in
road taxes in many of the counties than
are raised for the support of the publie
schools. It is plain, however, that no |
matter how large the expenditare, it will
accomplish no permanent good until
there is a very radical change in the
present system. Five millions of dollars
is not a large sum to spead ina year on
roads of a large State like Penusylvania,
but it is an enormous sum to be wasted,
as it generally is now. It is not pretend-
ed that the roads of the State in general
show any imprevement over a year ago,
in spite of what has been done.
It is useless to go in this way. The
present want of foundation for most of
the country roads makes expensive and
frequent repairing necessary, Once made
right they would require less attention,
and would be kept in exellent repair at
comparatively small cost. Experience
has shown that this is not to be done
successfully by the present irresponsible
township system and the method of
working ou! the tax. It would richly res
pay the farmer to pay his road tax in
cash, and let the money be used under
competent direction. He would then
realize something for it, which he rarely
does now,
This is a problem which cannot Ye too
soor solved, and some general system
adopted which will prove to the advan-
tage of all. There are few things likely
to benefit the farmer more than good
roads. It would be a measure of econos
my to him to pay liberally in this respect
if the money be spent wisely, but the
present system is altogether extravagant
and unprofitable. The farmer really gets
nothiog for his money and his work.
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Better Look About Them.
From the New York Herald,
Now the contending factions in the
Presbyterian Charch should get together
shake hands, forget the animosities of
the late anti-heresy campaign and charge
all together at the bosts of Satan.
Evidently the body of the Church
hereabouts is opposed to continuing
these debates, which tend to make
worldliogs laugh and sceptics sneer.
It's a sheer wate of good talent,
One sentence in the address which
that remarkable young man, Dr. Van
Dyke, delivered on Wednesday can be
particularly commended to Preabyterians
and all other church people who fall by
the ears sbout words and doctrines.
“This great city,” said Dr. Van Dyke,
“wants the bread of life. Don't let ns
give it the stones of controversy instead.”
Tbe Indians Supreme Court affirmed
the decision in the celebrated United
Brethren case, which gave the property
of the denomination, valued at $2,000 000
or $3,000,000, to the faction known as the
Radicals. The dispute arose over the
revised confession of faith, the church
dividing into two parties, the Liberals
and the Radicals, The Liberals, though
in the minority, demanded the church
properly, including the $250,000 book
plant at Dayton, Ohio. The decision of
the Supreme Court is that the matter
was properly adjudicatéd in the ecclesis
astical courts of the church, and that
there is no need for the intervention of
the civil Courts,
The inability to secure enough mas
chines and men to operate them to
thresh out the wheat of the Dakotas and
Minnesota is the most decisive proof of
the enormons crops that region has pro
daced this year, The farmers are beg
ging fer machines and for help, the ex.
tra hands usually employed at this seas
son baviog proved utterly inadequate,
An organization has been formed in St,
Paul and Mioneapolis, and a loud call
has been made on the unemployed
threshers of Minnesota, lowa and Wiss
consin to go to the help of the overtaxed
farmers. Tbe railroads have offered to
help, and machines, with crews to man
them, will be sent at reduced rates and
wherever there is a demand for them,
It is not often that the farmers of the
Northwest are so overwhelmed with
good fortune as they are this year and
bave to eall upon the outside world to
help them realize it.
HALL.
ME, HENSEL'S ADDRESS
The Attorney General Addresses the Senate
on the Investigation,
Attorney General Hensel said in open-
ing of the Senate at Harrisbarg on Fri-
day that he would not permit the learns
ed counsel at the other table to gc be.
yond him in emphasizing the import
ance and dignity of this oocasion. He
said again that he was there not in the
exercise of any right that attached to his
office, but simply as the assistant of the
senate, and he bad tried, he said, to
keep in view that it was no part of his
task to justify the course of the execu-
tive in thus convoking the senate in ex-
traordinary session. He was not here
to place a construction upon the fourth
section of the constitution regarding the
rights of the senate and the executive,
and he contended that he had the right
to reserve his opinion on that question
for the executive, if he should desire it.
He then briefly referred to the opening
of the senate and the adoption of the
rales of procedure, quoting the remarks
of General Gobin and others respecting
& thorough and impartial investigation
in support of his assertion that the sens
ate itself had practically decided the
matter of jurisdiction at the very outset
by agreeing to proceed. Only when the
facts had presented themselves in all
their fullness, he said, had the sepate
decided to hear and consider the quess
tion of jurisdiction, He here cited the
case of Sherif Rowan, of Philadelphia
to show that the senate had once pros
ceeded to an investigation looking to re
moval by address without thinking of
its jurisdiction in the premises. He also
referred to the case of Alderman Gil.
bride, of Scranton, whose case had been
considered by the senate after serious
charges had been preferred against that
official. No questions of jurisdiction,
he said had ever been raised in these
particular instances,
He continued farther, that io the case
of Judge Kirkpatrick, of Pittsburg by
the adoption of the report therein,
the senate had unquestionably assumed
jurisdiction and reqosted the governor
by address to remove the judge. He
submitted from these precedents that it
would be as work of supererogation on
his part to advise the senate that it had
not followed beaten paths in the cases
above mentioned; but he would discoss
certain phases of the question of jurisdic.
tion,
Stripped of all redundancy, he said
the argument for the respondents was
that the senate had no right to be here,
and if here it had no right to prosecute
an inquiry, and having made the inquiry
it bad no right'to reach s conclusion.
Mr. Hensel proceeded to analyze and
break down their construction and ine
terpretation of the constitution and law.
His remarks were those of a prosecuting
attorney, and he made out the strongest
case possible, every bit of testimony
that could be pictured to the disadvant-
age of the accused officials being portray-
ed, He declared that the evidence ads
duced had clearly proved gross negli.
gence and inefficiency in the adminis
tration of the two departments in ques.
tion. He also took occasion to disclaim
for the governor partisanship in the con
vening of the senate at this particular
time, and tried to show that it would
have been a foolish thing from a partisan
standpoint for the governor to call to.
gether a senate denominated by bis
political opponents and the political
friends of the accused officials with party
advantages in view,
He took up the argument of counsel
regarding the calling of the senate in a
proceeding of this kind and maintained
at some length that the “removal by ad
dress” was clearly executive business,
He contended that the senate had power
to adddress the governor for removal by
address for reasonable cause,
Upon reassembling Mr. Hensel ree
minded the senate, that whatever action
it might take, its decision could not fail
to be of great importance and lasting in
flaence in the commonwealth, and they
shonld not permit themselves to be
deluded or terrified by the protentous
prophecies of the effects of establishing
arbitrary executive power, for all no ofs
ficial could be actually removed except
by the law of the land, Whatever the
senate may transmit to the governor or
whatever action he might take the ace
cused official, although technically re+
moved by the governor, might sit safely
in his office and exercise all its franchises
and privileges without bolt or barricade
until the court of Dauphin county and
the supreme court of Pennsylvania had
finally said that he had deen legally and
properly removed,
The attorney general had the largest
audience that has listened to any speak.
er during the extraordinary session.
His speech was very clever in many re-
spects, and his witty sallies drew forth
several rounds of applacse, Lawyer
Shapley, against whom most of the satire
was directed, did not like it, and his
face crimsoned many times in his effort
to retain his self-control,
~==Bubseribe for the Rerorrea.
Finance and Trade.
Daliness characterized all operations
this week, owing, no doubt, to farmers
being busy husking corn,
An up-town boy lost & penny yester.
day, which caused a panic in the money
market; two other boys spent three hours
in trying to find the lost coin, but failed,
and have since made an assignment in
favor of their wives.
Trade has been remarkably quiet for
this time of the year, The only trans
action of any considerable importance
was between a boy from the station
offering to swap an apple to a boy from
the lower end of town for ten peanuts
the deal was finally brought about by
the boy haviog the apple agreeing to
take nine peanuts for the fruit,
In real estate there was scarce any
movement. There was only one tranes
action of note during this week which
was an actual transfer; one of the school
teachers sent a Church street lad home
to have the dirt washed from his face,
In the grain and produce market there
has been a feeling of uneasiness, A fall
out within the last twenty-four hours
between two gossipiog females has led
many to believe that war would result,
hence grain and produce are held up for
higher prices; the present activity in
Uacle Bam's navy yards is supposed to
have been caused by the female une
pleasantness—if there is an outbresk it
willbea naval battle with hot-water
kettles.
We have reliable data that things
abead are hopeful and trade and money
matters will brighten up by the holi-
days, for a caller at this office yesterday,
assured us that in two weeks he was
promised his cash for 1{ days busking
corn, when he would then subscribe for
the Cexrae Rxrortiz and pay three
months in advance, These funds will
be immediately applied towards paying
our outstanding “williams” and sid ma-
terially in relieving the stringency of the
money market, If otheas will come and
subscribe for the Reroxrss, paying in
advance, good times are bouad to follow.
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The Result.
Iowa elects a Democratic Governor,
Boies, by 9000, and the balance of the
Democratic ticket by 3000,
New York went Democratic by 48,000,
Penn's went Republican by 58,000,
In Massachusetts, Rossel, Democra t, is
re-elected by 12000,
Ohio elected McKinley Governor by
12000.
Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia,
all went largely Democratic,
Kavses and Illinois show beavy Deme
ocratic gains.
, yo
The Bosses’ Ticket for ‘94.
Quay the boss of the state of Penney.
vania and Magee, the boss of the state of
Allegheny, have come together and fixed
the slate for ‘04, thus:
Governor—E, A. Montooth, Allegheny,
Lieutenant Governor—Thomss V,
Cooper, Delaware,
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Frank J. Reeder, Northampton,
Adjutant Geoeral—Danlel H., Has
tings, Centre.
For United States Senator in 1898—M,
8. Quay, Beaver,
This would leave our Dan where we
always contended the bosses wanted
bim-out iu the cold,
And now Secretary Rush, of the
agricultural department, comes to the res
cue of the McKinley bill by stating, in
his report, that the decrease in agrical-
tural importations is due to the new law.
Every school boy knows that the United
States, with its millions of bushels of
grain in excess of its needs, does not re~
quire any foreign agricultural products.
To import these products would be “to
carry coal to Newcastle”
Rush is a partisan, however, and like all
partisans his ideas of trath and honesty
are obscured by demagoguery.
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graphs his paper asfollows: Winter be
gan in Rossia on Tharsday with the first
sharp frost. Living men cannot remem.
ber any other year in which this simple
announcement meant what it does now.
There are literally millions of humans be.
ings, at the farthest within a six day's
journey of London, to whom this frost
comes as a sentence of death by starva-
tion. Although the censors have fore
bidden the Russian papers to discuss the
famine, the Novosti ventures the declas
ration that 20,000,000 creatures are als
ready without food, and that a sum four
times greater than the recent loan ex.
tracted from France is needed to keep
them alive.
dM ——r-
It is ramored that a grand son of Dom
Pedro ison his way from Portugal to
Rio Janeiro, to become Emperor of Bra«
til. The late Emperor, Dom Pedro, is
quite feeble in his exile,
There is no great danger yet of a war
between the United States and Chili.
epor
TRIAL LIST.
Second Woek---Commeneing Monday, Nov,
30th. 1891,
Exr's. of Mary Royer fdec'd. ve, Henry
Royer, et all.
Wm Scholl ve, M. M. Musser.
Hiram E. Johnston vs. Jennie Johns
ston.
John Ligget ve. Lehigh Valley Cos’
Co.
Cunningham & Co. vs. N. M. Leathers.
Bird Coal & Iron Oo. vs. Birwind
White Coal Mining Co,
D. W- Herring vs. A. M. Hoover and
wife, et al.
Frank P, Blair vs. Qarneigie Bros, &
o.,
James McNitt vs, James Lingle’s
Admr’s,
John L. McNitt vs. James Lingle's
Admr’s,
J. and J, MoNitt ve, James Lingle's
Admr's.
George Rinestone ve, Millheim Turn
pike Co.
Grenoble Store Co. ve. Continental
Ins, Co,
Amos Garbrick vs, Bellefont Psrnace
Co.et al.
Agnes Shoemaker
School District.
Assignee of RB. H. Powell & Co,
vs. assignee of W, J, Jackson et al,
Ex’r. ot M. Woodring dec’d. ws. J. L.
Bpangler and H, Montgomery,
William Auman vs, J. D. Decker.
E. J. Walker vs, James SBhiker.
W. F. Reynobls vs. Grenoble Stores Co.
W. M. Cronister vs. D. J. Meyer,
Isabella Lohr vs. Boro of Philipsburg.
Mattie E. Holt va, Robert Cook, Jr,
J. H, Pierce, et ux vs. Adam Moyer
Jr.
Lehigh Valley Coal Co. vs. Patrick
Ward, Sr, ot al,
John Li, Kreamer vs, Ellen Bowersox.
Leslie Markle Admr's va. Joseph Mark.
le.
C.C.Lance & Co, vs. Wm. R. Miller
estate.
George Watson vs. Henry Spanogle.
Lyda Keller vs. Jacob K. Rankle
Admr’s.
ve. Philipsburg
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Merit Wins,
We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption, Dr.
King's New Life Pills. Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell as well
or that have given such universal sstisfao-
tion, We do not hestitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refand the purchase price, if satisfactory
results do not follow their nse. These
remedies have won their great popular
ity purely on their merits J, D. Murray's
Druggist.
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Grange Meeting.
Centre County Pomono Grange will
meet in the hall of Progress Grange at
Centre Hallon Friday, Nov. 27th 1891,
at 10a. m. sharp. Election of officers
for 92 and ‘93 will be beld. Report of
Picnic committees and other important
business will be transacted.
Jas, C, Grirrraxo,
Secretary.
Hunting Rules.
When you go hunting throw your gua
carelessly over a fence. Put your foot
on the hammer while you blow in ihe
barrel. Use your gun as a cane~barrel
towards the head<when disgusted with
your bad luok, and if carried out to the
letter you don’t get a free pass to the
glory land , then we mim our predictions.
Death of Rachael Hoy.
Mrs Rachael Hoy, wife of Benjamin
Hoy. of pear Lemont, died on Friday
morning; October 80th, at 4th o'clock.
Mrs, Hoy was the mother of eight childs
canse of her death was typhoid fever
which she contrsoted while waiting
upon her daugher, Mrs. Herman Baird,
of Franklinville, who died several weeks
ago.
Resigned His Pastorats,
Rev. 0, V. B. Aurand, who was pastor
of the Spring Mills charge of the Evan
gelical church, bas resigned his charge
and gone to Allentown, Pa. where he
bas accepted a pastorate of 8 Bowmanite
congregation, as we are informed,
Fire Near Bellefonte.
On Bunday night the Swish hoe
occupied by George Rider, in Colevi
near Bellelonte, was discovered om fire,
and totally destroyed by the flames be
fore assistance arrived, Part of the far
niture was saved. The origin of the fire
is unknown,
Aa AI AS AAAS
Toe Much Fun Makes Sad,
Some thirty boys, in Huntingdon,
were arrested for having too much Hal.
lowe’en fon. Fifteen paid their fins,
while the balance spent one night in the
lock up. Twenty more are to be arrests
A late sensstion in Washington is an
tificial eggs. An old senssiion in Wash
inglon isa big nest of bed eggs.
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A Popular Commissioner.
The Bellefonte correspondent to the
Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin hes
thistoeay of one of Penns Valley's
young men: One of the competent offi
cers of Centre county js County Commis.
sioner James Strohm, who is also one of
the reliable and popular young leaders
of the Republican party here. Mr.
Btrobhm was born on & farm near Centre
Hill, this county, September 8th, 1854,
snd like all other farmers’ boys did
chores on the faim during the summer
months and attended the distriot school
during the winter, All of his education
was received in the common schools and
Professor Walp’s Academy, He entered
the profession of school teaching, and
later on became a farmer which he now
is. His terms of schoo! teaching em-
braced seventeen years, Mr. Strohm
was appointed clerk to the County Com-
wi sioners in March, 18%), and so ac
ceptably filled that position that the Re~
publicans nominated him for County
Commissioner in 15890, and the people
elected him by a msjority of 349 votes.
He is in the prime of lite and whilst he
is an active member of his party he neve
er neglects his moral duties, consequents
ly he leads a practical Christian life,
having for many years been a member
of the M. E, church, As a school teachs
er hestands in the front rank of the
profession, the same as he does in eitis
zenship.
Centre Hall Does Not Get the Banmer,
The $50 banner offered by County
Chairman L. A, Bchaeffer to the district
polling the largest Democratic vote, is
not to be awarded to the Centre Hall
Democracy as stated in our iesue of last
week, but to the Democrats of the Esst-
ern precinct of College township. The
awarding of the banner was 7» be made
on the percentage of the vote cast taking
the vote for Barclay in 1800 as a besis.
The Eastern precinct of College had 100
per cent, while Centre Hall has only
about 90, so College gets the banner.
Had every district in the county got out
the vote as these did,the result would
have been far different, Centre Hall
however comes in second best and was
within one of getting the banner,
The Vote Not Near Out
The Democrats of this county have 1+
648 less votes this year than last year,
while the Republicans had only 826 votes
less than last year. Hence we bave in
the county 2,674 voters who stayed away
from the polls. This can be attributed
to the absence from the ticket of any lo-
cal candidates, aod the busy season for
the farmers, it being in the midst of corn
husking snd fine weather and many
stayed away from the polls on this ac.
count, and preferred busking corn to
voting. It was an off year in the coun-
ty.
Faring Bor Sesbionis
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has had placed on every locomotive on
its road a neat little tin box, containing
a piece of linen, s rubber compress, a
package of absorbent cotten, six rolls of
bandages and a pv amid containing pins,
articles for use i. «ef ar-ident, There
are plain directions on vve:y box how
to use these articles before s surgeon are
rives. Every depot isaleo supp lied with
these articles.
Death of Kiss 8sdie Jamison,
Miss Badie Jamison, daughter of Mr,
Thomas Jamison, of Spring Mills, died
on Monday of this week, She bad been
so invalid for over a yesr and bad gone
to Philadelphia to a hospital to have an
operation performed, which resulted in
her death, Her remains were brought
to the home of her uncle at Bellefonte
and the funeral services were beld at
that place, The body was interred in
the cemetery at Georges Valley on Weds
neaday.
Marriage Licenses,
Following is the list of marriage I1-
censes issued during the past week from
the register's office Bellefonte:
Harry Tarner and Mamie Wagoner,
both of Chester Hill,
Samuel Gingrich and Liszie A: Houts,
both of Oak Hall,
8, F. Diehl, of Marion twp, and Jennie
8. Randall.
J.B. Kaisely and Carrie C, Wion, both
of Bellefonte.
Geo, R. Hartshorn, of Gearbartville,
and Annie Pilkington, of Osceola.
John Reiterbach, of Miffiinburg, and
Mrs. Susan Holderman, of Linden Hall.
Charles W. Slack, of Potters Mills, and
Margaret L. Boal, of Centre Hall.
Fo Jurisdietion,
In the plain face of the Constitution
the Republicans of the State senate have
declared they have no jurisdiction in
the cases of Boyer and McOamont—and
now the stolen money is gone for good.
Kemble was pardoned, and the sbove
The water from Mingle's south will be
turned off on Friday, on account of re-