LXV,
Such as enlisted for the war with
Chili, ean now apply for pension—the
war being over.
VOL.
a —————
No ghost is a greater terror to super-
stitious females than Gov. Hill is to
the Republicans at this time,
— —t
No rattlesnake in Florida—and they
have big ones down there—will bite
Quay. The rattler thinks it is death
for it to bite Matt.
RA EE —
The Chilian w
tled, the next question of moment ix
whether the groundhog saw his sha-
dow or not, on 2 inst.
ar question being set-
When Wanamaker resigns the post-
master generalship will come to
Centre Hall and start a clothing store
—having laid up enough stamps to do
it.
he
wastes fn anal ms w—-
Some of our Republican exchanges
are complaining of senator Hill's ab-
sence from his seat a great part of his
time. Well, how about Quay, who is
always away fishing ?
op
The gold cure for drunkenness ap-
pears to make idiots out of the unfortu-
nate patients—and from the gold cure
establishment they are transported to
the insane asylums, and death over-
takes them soon.
NOW FOR FREE WOOL.
From the Pittsburg Post,
The committee of ways and means
should report the Springer free wool
bill at once, so that it may pass the
house without delay and go to the sen-
ate. What is wanted is untaxed wool
manufactured woolens
not to exceed 85 or 40 per cent. The
Mills bill proposed 40 per cent; but
under the tariff of 1857 the duties dig
not exceed 25 per cent on all grades of
woolens, Free wool will be a great
and duties on
boon to the people, and especially the
working men and women of the North-
Their consumption of
woolens is estimated at $12 per capita,
which would make the outlay in
Pennsylvania for woolen fabrics not
less than $65,000,000 a year, on which
ern States.
there is now a combined tax on raw
material and manufactured product
ranging from 60 to 110 percent. Even
Should School Directors be Paid, AARONSBURG,
‘Should school directors receive com- Ts
pensation ?”7 was one of the written
questions handed Deputy State Super-
intendent Houck, at a teachers’ insti-
tute in the southern part of the state
Mr. Houck’s answer
was a forcible one. He said
13,000 directors in the Suppose
they are granted a salary of £50 per
year, the total amount
000,00, Placing the af
annum, the aggregate would 25,~
000. Mr. Houck further said that in
almost every district in the state, the
board of
some of the best citizens in
munity; who performed
wisely and cheerfully, If
the office, the
who were, perhaps, least qualified i
Miss Anna Addams, took the chil
dren of Mrs. Lewis Snook, of Mill-
heim, on last Monday morning, to the
orphan’s home at Woomelsdorf* |
a few days ago. Hamuel Bover while driving team in
Pine Creek Hollow had the misfortune |
i
i
i
to have a horse tramp on his foot, one |
there are
state,
of the ealks passing through the foot
would be 8350.. | making an ugly wound.
£25 per Irvin Wanee, was thrown from a
truck on the tram-road in Pine Creek
i
sum
bo 8327 }
Hollow, the wheels passing over his |
He was brought
home and is slowly recovering.
leg and breaking it.
school directors embraced
the com- he west end of Aaronsburg, recel ¥
ed an addition lately in the shape of a
This animal
by
is nlmost
their duties i
Wis |
Mr.
ie
any salary | long-tailed donkey.
attached to very men | imported at large expense
anid George M, Homan, and
whom very few persons would want | 1arge as George,
therein, would rush for-
ward and make scramble for the
have
in
Kister, and wife,
temporary
Thomas J.
taken up a
immediately
fn residence
with this measure of protection the
sheep industry is dwindling away in |
the State, and the woolen manu- |
factories are in a depressed condition.
With taxed wool, the American people |
are becoming the greatest of shoddy in |
the world.
No eivilzed nation in the world im- |
poses a tax on raw wool except the |
United States. It is welcomed by all}
other nations as an essential of their |
manufacturing industries, and necess- |
ary to the health and comfort of their |
rtp rae
A warrant of the |
chairmen in Schuylkill county for em- |
bezzling campaign funds. There were |
placed in | $1750 for the cam-
paign and he ean account for only $500
of it. Put the scamp through.
is out against one
iis hands
Bo fp
The citizens of Lewistown are form-
ing a “combine’’ to advance the inter-
ests of the town.
Well, that's
some towns there are combines
an improvement—ij
stroy the interests of the town.
pe
people. Under the reciprocity treaty |
proclaimed with Germany the other
day, that nation admits free of duty
American “wool stuffs made
thereof.” By other clauses of the Me-
Kinley law German and other wools
and
imported into the United States must
pay a duty of 10 and 12 per |
pound for the first and second grades |
and 50 per cent of their value for the
third and lower grades. Woolen eloth-
ing must pay 49} cents per pound and
Other woolen
pay from 33 to 44 |
d from 40 to
cents
cents per pound an 50
cent of
per
IT it
cratic candidate
is found that the next Demo
for president
be taken from New York
spectfully inquire, what is the matter |
with Wallace, of Pennsylvania? You
can go much father and not do near as
well,
cannot |
re- |
then we
A —
A careful survey has shown that the |
Atlantic Ocean is about 61 feet higher |
than the Pacific at the Isthmus of Pan- :
An
that the Pacific was the
h
ama. impression used to prevail |
higher, some
estimates placing t
Bali
difference at 100
feet or more.
Wo pont
11 i
i
The house is likely to pass a bill for
: oof
it.
: bill is that it proposes
the free coinage silver.
is sure to defeat
the free
to make a dollar out of 75 cents worth
The senate |
The objection to |
coinage
of silver. Thereis a bonanza in it for |
the silver kings.
wo op
A meeting of the
bers of the bar of
sepublican mem
Huntingdon count :
was held on Tuesday evening at Hun<
tingdon, and a resolution was adopted
requesting Hon. A. O. Furst, president |
judge of this district, :
for supreme judge
to be a candidate |
before the next Re - |
publican state convention. i
A. —
There are a great many different in-
terpretations of Blaine’s letter.
say he is sincere, others that he is not:
some say it points to Harrison, others |
that it is as cold as a chunk of ice to-!
wards Harrison. In view of the dif!
ferences let Blaine write a letter inter-
preting his letter.
Some
a | i ——
Muncy National bank stockholders |
have petitioned Congressman Hopkins |
to get the congressional committee in- |
vestigating the Philiadelphia banks to |
ascertain if possible, what became of |
the money missing from the defunct
Muncy bank vault.
Yes, that's always the question,
when a bank fails, what has become of |
the money ?
i
The Inter-State Commerce law receiv- |
ed another blow at Indianapolis, a few |
days ago. In the United States Court
Judge Allen decided that Richard |
Dowle, manager of the Great Eastern |
Fast Freight line, has a right to de
cline to answer any questions or to pro-
duce any books or papers of the con-
cern of which he is manager before the
Federal Grand Jury that may tend to
prove himself guilty of a violation of
the Inter-State Commerce law, This
is a case somewhat similar to the cele
brated Counselman case. The decision
Is far reaching, as it will affect all the |
Inter-State cases now pending in the
Federal Court at different points
throughout the United States. It isa
severe blow at the Inter-State Come
merce law, and will make its enforce.
ment more difficult than ever,
Judge Allen did not pass upon that
question in a definite and positive way.
their value.
.. Wo
A Mayor Indicted.
take
another warning.
Mayor Wyman, of
OMeers who illegal fees have |
Allegheny, who
testyfying in his
own behalf, was found guilty of extor-
Jury before whom he was
A ———————————
tried and finds himself liable to a pen-
aity of £00 on each of two counts, one |
office, The verdict is doubt He a just
ge $ :
There is |
knew :
that the taking of these fees was extor. :
legal fees being conclusive.
some doubt as to whether he
litt laws that rela- |
ted to the manner in which he should
Ex-Mayor Pear- |
in like |
will now |
le or nothing about
discharge his duties,
son is charged
with sinning
Wyman and
f the Wyman verdiet staring him in :
the face to make him feel uncomfort- i
able. The voters are getting line upon
line and precept upon precept on the |
necessity of choosing a higher grade of
The Taril¥ Rills.
The majority of the Committee on
text of the bill proposed by Chairman
Springer to admit wool free of duty,
and to reduce the tariff on manufactur-
ed woolen goods; also a bill to admit
cotton bagging and cotton ties free of
These
full meeting of the committee to be
held to-morrow,
Mr. Mills stated his attitude toward
the work of the committee: “I have
never authorized any one,” he said,
to say what I would do, and all this
foundation whatever. I saw only
yesterday a story that I had a bill al
That is ridieu-
I shall not interfere
the committe’s®action in any
tion to do so,
with
be supported by me if I think it is
right, If it is along the right line,
whether it goes as far as 1 think it
should or not, it will receive my sanc-
tion an support.” N
Glorious John Henderson, ex-com-
missioner Johnny way beaten in his
own beloved township of Huston by
forty-four majority for a township of-
fice, on Tuesday, while the balance of
the Republican ticket was elected.
Jolin should have had some bridge
contracts lying around loose,
a
«When you want a shoe that will
give you satisfaction. both in price and
quality, go to Mingle's « store,
Bellefonte. He guarantees all goods
wold and you get » genuine article
{ town for the winter, and in the spring
The
nomination, and go to the polls on
election day and stay there from Morn- |
ing till
selves elected,
expect to cmigate to California,
ut
ding an organ in Lenker's shop.
i i { oritleman OPTS § | tls Fis
night fighting to have them entleman is present engaged
The betts r olnss
for the
would
Of men, | : :
George Washington Bollinger, Esq.,
to Maryland, to work in a
who are qualified duties of |
engage in | has gone
not
We extend congratulations
any contest, and, in consequence, in | Creamery.
i to the proprietors of said in
of
stead of elevating or even maintaining crepluery
the standard
would be lowered,
the standard of the
fall.
#*hool obtaining the services #0 able and
In i
schools would also
of trustees, it
like manner | proficient a gentleman, as professor
Bollinger,
Mrs, Matilda Coey died on the 6t
burried
the wife
hi
the following
of
t and was
! 80 says a Tu Th
“Ther , and had
he said, “which | nearly tw
ny nx
for
prominent Republican leader,
Cameron John
for
She was aged sbout
the death of
i wold, and hie
Harvey Crou
president day. WHE
been an invalid
is a scheme on foot,” 0 VERTS,
may make Senator Don Cameron the his wifs
tepublican eandidate for President
will
oh
zh
pation of the delegations of Ohio,
New
Harrison,
urou
L about by a combi
11i-
nois, Pennsy Ivania and Bread Cast Upon the Waters,
uncle
IHlinols is against
Mens Dr. Billhardt,
: 3
of this place, says
News Hem,
streets In
wed by
The re quest was
i Years ago
the delega- | to Prof. Billhardt
Middlebury
tion. He
the nomination
hi¢
will
The
Vie
Over.
knows that cannot get while
Phila-
a begger
»
4
and throw |
5% | x : yg Bigs
ii sEIE0 SALCNERE ist
matter has who
Was S101
i
ie 1 § - -
readay been talked Csresham FF assistan
1018, and there are many of and imagine his surprise a
do most ng rather avs ago when he received a small
directed to him from a mining
America,
£4} 1 : FI X
the deal is | stone which prov
manag Lhe are in
Pennsvls
y
CRAY
the scheme, ania will of | town in South contain
sup Him, ang id to be worth 85,000,
:
now on between ( ameron’s friends and it
3
a
4
port
1
I
had been sent by the same may
the leaders in New York and Ohio. befriended in Philadelphia.
Wo
From the Mind of a Rarglar At Work on the Improvements,
You have often seen men wearing al Th oF issioners
+
3
v5 4
im
of Centre count
small chain fastened at one end tolare w has
ing the new style Cabinets
their suspender while at the other end and cases put in the vaults in the
is fastened a bunch house, The last couple grand i
an invention of a led these
preservation of
i worl ww} . h iy sysaevita
surgiar who recommen improvements for |
spent many years of his life in a dung- | the documents
for
hotels in Philadelphia.
eon cell plying his voo
While at work
{to the
}
faa dne
last Oot
contract toa
firm for ab
The cases and cabinets will not
this
tarn
the
one stormy night trying
lock of a Walnut street door be lasting but neat and conven-
¢
Or
ent filing away documents of every |
it watchman :
slong and locked the burglar up and
had him sent to Movamensing. Hav-|
ing he of | "e are infor of the death of Lu- |
having keys fastened to a chain so that B of
Tuesday morning last,
a came
ip.
Lath. B. Stover.
sid
Fi
some ingenuity, thought
Madisonburg,
after an ill-
He
aged in storekeeping and ason of Philip |
tover, dec’d, of Haines twp., and aged
about 48 years. He was a good citizen |
{and an active Democrat. We knew
| him intimately from his boyhood, and
thor lover,
law appeared he on
could fly without a thought about the | ne
keys, and found it worked like a charm.
He has now seen the error of his ways,
and lives comfortably on
from the manufactures,
soveral months, Was ¢1-
ws Of
(| E
&
a royalty
cy - “.
Supreme Court Decision, i he ever bore a good name.
The Supreme Court handed down its |
decision in J. Long |
vs. the Penn's Railroad Company in |
which the plaintiff brought suit to re-
cover the value of two trunks of cloth-
ing lost inthe Johnstown flood and
which were in transit from Cincinnati |
to Washington. The court affirmed
the finding of the lower court holding
that the “flood was as to the defendant
an inevitable accident, properly de-
scribed as Actus Del,” an act of God.
Bo po
the case of Thos, Good News for Bellefonte,
H. C. Valentine, William Burnside |
and Frank B. Gill, together with some |
Pittsburgh gentlemen, have leased the
large, new foundry, machine, black.
smith and pattern shops of the Val-|
| entine Tron company at Bellefonte and
have a large corps of men at work gett- |
| ing the shops in shape to start a seale
| manufactory. These gentlemen are |
i well known to the business men of |
" | Pennsylvania. Their head office will
Elected Principal of the Normal Depart. | be in Pittsburgh.
ment,
Prof. 8. H. Deitzell, of Tusseyville, |
has been elected principal of the Nor- j
mal Department of Palatinate College, | gess of Bellefonte by thirty-six major
mown, Buon Amy. ity. We congratulate Albert upon
and Marshall College at aneaslar { this result, and Bellefonte has done
» 4 i” ' | itself credit in electing him. He will
and we bespeak for him a brilliant fu. make a good burgess, Fred Kurtz, Jr. of
ture. He is a bright young man and
tel the REPORTER staff’ has been elected
Died Yor the pouition to which hie was chief burgess of Centre Hall, by forty-
se ven majority.
NS I AA SSR
Clearfield Bank Very Rotten,
There was a most mysterious disap-
pearance of cash, it seems, from the dey
funct First national bank, of Clearfield.
Receiver Haywood has found and
thrown out besides $142,000 of worth
less paper made or accepted by president
Dill, and by the latter counted among
the assets. There is consequently a
poor outlook for the bank's creditors.
po.
ws leo ———
New Mayors,
Albert Mingle was elected chief bur.
- lemma
Flooded With Counterfeit.
Altoona at present seems to be the
rendezvous of a gang of counterfeiters
and piles of the green goods have been
worked off on the city. It is only a
question of time until the stuff will be
circulated throughout the central part
of the state and it behooves our people
to be on their guard against it.
patti n
Bought the Canal Bed.
The Pennsylvania Canal Company
has sold the canal bed between the
main line and East Lewisburg to the
Lewisburg and Tyrone railway compa~
ny for $1,011,
Died from the Grip,
W. €, Keplinger, proprietor of the
drug store, Bellefonte, died from la
grippe on Bunday night, after a very
short illness,
—Hvery well dressed gentleman
get his clothing from the Philad,
Branch Bellefonte, They can fit you
out in any thing you want, at a bar
If in need of anything in the
boot or shoe line don’t forget that
Mingle, Bellefonte, has the finest line
in the state from which to select. He
guarantees all goods and you have
You'll miss it greatly if y
Gout cll fo we his wow. youl
¥
Lee i
NO. 7.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
{From our Reguiar Correspondent.’
WasHINGTION, Feb. 15, 1892.
Speaker Crisp is thoroug hly
cord with the desire to
conservative
Z
make
and business-like
tigation of the Pension Offi
methods business,
of doing
selecting the committe authorized
by :
of the
the House and named
members of |
”~
men who willl
which in their judgment is based on
hatred or personal prejudice, as tl
would if sitting as Judges in a
1]
cotirt
1
ti
The democrats on 1
Whe
OHI
tee are Repres fitatives
Little of New
Dungan, of Ohio; the republi
Messrs Lind of Minnesota and
of Pennsylvania, all ex-Union soldi
Hoar, of
al then
i
of his resolution by the Hous authorize.
O
He Pres niative
ehusettis, is confident ti lop
ing the committee on Manufactures to
: "2
Inve BOCAICO
system of tenement house labor, is
long step in the right direction, and he
predicts that the result of the in
be some startling
interest
Vestign-
will facts of
special to those WOur |
“ready made” clothing. {
. . ) i
House adopt dd the resolution it adopt-
ed an amendment directing
»
1itiee
much
i has
how
bil
: inguin
MeKinley
of workmen
pr ded by
It also afterward
5 Mr.
thie
i LI
1 1:
thint bill.
LO
$3. 006)
ad to aker (
dd rat
Tien ic
3
i:
of um of
lack « democrats
floor,
a qhior
which the othe rdav « IAL
i: tion
I
ry public “1s tH CON
A sooo
SAAS M3
id dectiure on this stihl
2 THOOOsERTY.
The Com
ture will report a resolution
ale
appointmen
Mnmiitiecs {om
8 commiti
§ f
ie sinned or
. {hie
taining tix present
jiture | the United States
and if there I»
cle
el pression
Of its produ is
ich prices are pressed
such i
remedy therefor. This resolution
iw
an invesil
cotion-rajsing |
i pros ntative Wheeler, of Alabama |
has sent a cold shiver down the spinal |
columns of all the big office holders by |
wit a resolution instructing
intr
thie :
appropriation bills to make reductions |
ing
several committees in charge of
$5.000 or more—~that would catch Sen- |
per cent in all salaries of $8000 or!
An attempt is being made to get the
of
House to grapple with the cigarette!
evil by reporting a bill placing an in.
ternal revenue tax of £10, per 1000 on |
the |
ir
&K ¥
A
€ x osxive
demostic of foreign manufacture.
the
use of cigarettes has during the year |
killed 100 young men, and sent
equal number to insane asylums
being circulated in Congress,
The manner in which the annual
appropriation bill for the Military
Academy was reduced by the House,
sitting as a committee of the whole, |
before it was passed, in spite of the
powerful influences brought to bear in
favor of passing it as reported from the
committee on Military Affairs, has
convinced a good many people who
had doubts on the subject that when
the democratic leaders said economy
in public expenditures would be en-
forced by the House, they indulged in
no idle talk. Republicans may sneer,
but the people’s verdict is heard next
November the democrats will get their
reward.
The Bland free coinage bill, now on
the House calendar, is the subject of
much talk in and out of Congress. It
is favored on principle by a very large
majority of the House, but whether a
majority of the democrats believe it
political wisdem to pass it at this time
will very so on be known as a petition
asking the committee on Rules to set a
date for its consideration by the House
is now being circulated for democratic
signatures, More than a hundred
have signed,
It is expected that the Canadian re
clprocity commissioners will return
home this week knowing just about
as much as they did when they came,
They had no authority to make a
an |
is
COBURN.
Pay train passed through here on
Monday of this week,
this place,
Mrs, Melinda
HEY FY
is suffering
Stover
f attack of the grip.
KE. H. Auman and wife
made a fly-
It is rumored that coal has been dig
covered about two miles west of here;
Hev, Finkbinder, of the
irch,
Evangelical
will commence a protracted
vile
[rife the near fu-
ili
be a). Campbell has severed his con-
ction with D. IL ( ulp and on Mon-
for Glen Union
echoer
: 5
Ini
Mon
' abhirersld 3
wy BIOL
nyder, on
22nd 1
{ i
thi
i : S18
Hie, IL should CAare-
neideration of every one,
+ personal effects of Davi
d Re te,
ut
rifles, ete,
of the Insane Asvium
msisting of guns
public
gale on Saturday,
the overseer of the poor,
had at the hotel
mencing at one o'clock p. m.
, COm-
Po
Tribute of Respect
Whereas, It has pleased our Heaven-
Father to remove from our midst by
ts
call our worthy and respected broth-
Hs HRth
i who has been a ul laborer in
Spring Mills Grange, No. 158, P. of H.
March 17, 1853 up to the time of
Feb. 2
, in his
faithfu
VERT,
£19
114
if
# death, which occurred on
land
17} . 4 § 111s i
WW nerens, At gular meeting
bh. 6th. 1592,
worthy brother,
4 :
1 as Jost an active and con-
vy
LIOUS member, and the o
the
Mnimun ie
wy a good citizen, and grange
an
There-
nest and consistent patron.
y his bereaved fam-
+ extend heart~
af-
our
great
That
nat
or ¥
=
our charter be drap-
ra period of thirty
that these resolutions be en-
of the Grange,
copy be farnished ti bereaved
{inn
ournin
and a wie
family and published in the Farmers
Ff d and in the county papers,
M. IL. Riser,
W. F. REARICK,
Cath, C, RisaeL,
Com.
i —-
A Memorial,
Whereas,
called from
Our Heavenly Father has
our esteemed
friend and fellow school director Wm.
I
midst our
BE
3
Ad
3
£1
That
stibmission to the
solved, whilst bowing in
will
sorrow for
could justly
regard as an npright citizen, a faithful
officer and an friend of our
Divine
would
¥
£38 Ole
express our
Yh
iil
who
Timm
Wi
earnest
Resolved, That in view of her es
sympathy
Him who alone
can give comfort and strength in such
Resolved,
That a copy of these res.
Wu. PeaLen,
J. WELLE Evans,
Committee,
bilities
Merit Wins,
We desire to say to our citizens, that
King's New Discovery for Consump-
len’s Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters
nnd have never handled remedies that
sell as well, or that have given such
universal satisfaction. We do not hesi-
tate to guarantee them every time, and
we stand ready to refund the purchase
price, if satisfactory results do not fol-
low their use. These remedies have
won their popularity purely on their
merits J. D. Murray Druggist.
Wedding Invitations, ete.
We have received a fine line of type,
suitable for printing wedding invita
tions, ete, and carry in stock finest
grades of paper for same. Our work
we guarantee as first-class and at low
prices,
AR A AY ASA
Will Superintend the Job,
Mr. J. W. Underwood will saperin-
tend the manufacture of lumber on the
200 acre tract of mountain land
ing to Simon Harper, a short distance
north-west of town,