Sd VOL. LXV. THE BATTLE AGAINST TRUSTS. county. Ws fp only land's withdrawal from the tial race. Then who? — td The National treasury is empty and no available funds {iO wit hand said So much for Republican rule. EE of fish itl, the sired pends the size dropped back into the sm——— Available Democratic and ean nominees for President seem to Ix scarce, and the leaders cannot decide as yet on one man. e———r—— What is the matter with publican party nominating * for President ? the Centre county ha bernatorial timber and ther reason why it should have dential too. not ei —— The veterans of New York, ing to the Herald, are to met selves into a distinet political pa help each other. Pi body and all the oflic y sions made to go around ar principles of the which is to be a secret new or affair. A Ap ly New York city is doing v the Grant Monument! 846.000 to complete and only the popular scription of $350,00. It id any is exp Me laudable complete the fur mori; May 30th. For pose, appealing to the sentimental si of their Am givers, Dy nature, In most of the ti the Southe tions in have met or will wr Mr. re is strong fi rule tions, a the will “hat policy KR ed by the s ipporter voting this fall. Supreme Judge, including two twenty-five S of Assembly Baker blanket to these every members ballot | county portant local offices to Chairman al Committee days rev reat seats in rongest nan i view a few the st that the secretary never decline a nomination tendered now on the ill-health of A ix him. will now be in order mim —————- fp The Supreme Court of Cal decided that if a guest have valuables in } uables as he or tis or her room she wears | adornment, the hotel keeper i sible for their safety, even tl may have given notice that not be responsible for them un should be deposited in h iN =n A pt secretary Blaine will be nominated for President without his The anti-Harrison clique are greatly in need of a man for the office and Blaine is the only available or Of course no one doul that he will the nomination once made but will consider it only case of office after the man, consent. 1 at present. ts for a moment decline 0 - > A SBwiss chemist it is said not to dispose of ordinary coal smoke but how to turh it into a highly profitable commodity. The statement is that by burning 125 tons of coal, at a cost of £155, and mak- ing fall use of it for steam raising pur poses, he ean at the same time secure, by a simple process he has invented, four tons of sulphate of ammonia from the smoke produced by the coal. money value of this will be $240, has, only discovered how anim A The humbug of MeKinley sugar’ is gradually becoming under stood. A Washington despatch states that the payments for sugar bounties have already amounted to £7.500,000 this year, and that $10.000,000 will be required next year. fifth of the duties collected upon sugar under the old tariff, and it all comes out of the tax-payers, as the duty came out of consumers. In addition to this, by leaving a duty of half a cent a pound upon refined sugar-—no doubt for a campaign consideration—the Me Kinleyites enabled the sugar trust, through getting its raw material free, to levy tribute upon the consumers, The people were thus relieved from and robbed by the trust. The Attorney General of the United States has opened an aggressive battle agninst the leading trusts of the coun- try, and has every properly begun with the sugar trust, The authority for his action is the Sherman anti-trust act just what has been accomplished in controlling the prices for most of the { common necessaries of life. | The sugar trust'that lately swallow- fed up the immense establishment of | Mr. Spreckels of this city, probably { more flagrantly violates both the spirit { and the letter of the act of Congress | than any other business combination { made in the country; and as it affects i the value of one of the few commodi- | tic « universally consumed by the peo- le, 1 test case with the sugar combine, i nistration has begun none the MeKinley tarifl bill, The admi fruits is the logical It {OO soon to suppress of the { fountain of monopoly; ital and it NEN it In of both heir wages labor, I= NEeCessaries the and rkingmen lessens i dovment and : 1 { urmurs whieh | idle IAaVe come up that country indicate cle arly inl voters of the will not sustain any | any policy, that invites monopoly for | the benefit of few and increases taxes to oppress the many. Id have been much wiser to a reasonable protective since the people who paid {to idual 1 1888, ndiv infamous it for ney General in insure special whneflt, have tariff policy, the their i ‘resident is to make the trusts and 1 created and olicy of the Ea Half Rates to Minneapolis via Pennsylvania Hailroad. benefit of 5 1 “tf % i 3 delegates and visi- National , on June rs Republi at Minne apoiis { ‘on- ith, Com- hii 1862. the Pennsvivania Railroad i! % % $ stil OXOCuUrsi {ICES to in from all principal stations ¢ for the round New York , $20.70; Baltimore, is | Work and Wages at Home and Abroad, From the Phila, Record quently asked The Record to state the differences in factory wages { | in { country and in Europe, Hatisfactory cause of the unreliability | ] the Of {in others, while the days of labor much less; so that, taking all the year round, the earnings are nearly in their respective employments, At COBURN. i in his Section The evening train vw at 7.10 p. m. is quite a convenience aveling public, Mr. Fi ing ina is unk Hackenberg who Pa., was at home over Sunday. A. lot of ground of Mrs Janes Kooney has purcha etter Mullin. etter i I Kerst of the lot bought by Archy Mrs. K erst her barn, the roof of sarah which was broken { disposition in official gatherers of {sible to the favorite theory in hand. | Thus Protectionist doctrinaries | habitually exaggerated the earnings o i labor in this county, and ds { them in Free Trade England, in | to make out a plausible case for In thi i Protectionist manipuiators have spoliation, & COONO Ie 3 fully refrained from produci of Wages countries of Cont i the overturned thelr tistios in the inental Kui would results have argument trasted with the results un policy of Crriont But Mr. the Departn transmitted Britain, . Wrigl Labo President arroil ( went of to comprehensive and exhau tical report HDoOn the compariti Wie wR dition of an ted States, Great Britain Gen gium and Switzerland, Mr authority in this domain tion is of the the arsenal lected botl versy will be oblige If the find dustrial data, the nition. ISin can form will have no caus Without further review tistics at present, let us take parative figures in th for an example. the average annual ily in the oot penses, $611; net | EERE iy in the sams bo Pe nses yu tickets in- return coupons will wills or St, nelusive, Chi a — Big Compound Engine. in l« r the compound tiflers fire other { the compound pattern | it} six-feet | purpose | works | Pennsylvania Cotnotive passe nger MI most turned by this company in that It hu side, iw three thie o give it greater hauling power. | each a 2 ing ti je tender it 100 tons The intention is to use it for | 11% 3 pulling iif If vy trains on the main line. | built. The | now using engines built by will be in railroad » In five compound freight { the Baldwin company. silica ——— i Should Inspect It. Every voter who finds it convenient to Bellefonte Friday, and inspect the work- Baker Ballot Law. The election booth will be set up in the Ar} bit and | the mode of operations will be same as to do so, should go to-| Morrow, ration room of the court house election held next November, to fa- miliar with the workings of the new law with which should | It is an opportunity become every voter become familiar. | ——— The Cleary Case. } The next regular meeting of the Board of Pardons will be held on the 24th inst. As yet the board has made no announcement in regard to its action on the case of Charles Cleary, who is in the Lock Haven jail under sentence of death, lamin Bacealaureats Sermon in with | commencement week at Pennsylvania | Btate College will be held June 12th to 15th inclusive, at State College, Pa. baccalaureate sermon will be The exercises connection | The preached by Rev, 8, D, McConnell, D. D., of Philadelphia, We co is Increase in Membership, | The membership of the Lutheran | church was increased on Bunday by | elght new members, seven being cone Hired and one by certificate. { alot wfowins' stock of spring and | summer clothing is unequaled in the county. He has a larger stock than {ever to select from and of latest styles The prices never were us i i income, ERrning= ars income £11 woolen industri i £245, fa EY vor iNETNen, American # have been stunned with cries oy “bhlessings'' of Potection and of cure'’ Free Trade tin fail in gener: pauperis of labor, can hardly lesson from While the savh fo ALEVE Wright's statistics tected” land workingman in a Ww has factory cotton of “pauper labor’ in Free Tra land has a surplus of $54. Leaving out of question the the tective system of Germany and France ble condition of labor under : John Hq Lewisburg ita and t 1 on inst wife star riday in a HOT CONVeVRne irned FUNAWAY OCCT TT — To The Pablie, - rian Aid Society will serve [eseream, CO Coffee, rooms over Harper & Krea- 1k« mer’ A fil ) and partake we ladies hay d for the occasion, you will money fi ww fit 1e time will be he Iping on find nothing to help their a tad # A» ditions in the United States and Great Britain. While the American cotton Wo py The Odd Fellows Lodge Odd Fellowship has been in exist- duces more, he is able to save less than his unprotected rival in Free Trade England. more for luxuries and Not at all. The statistics of Mr. Wright show that while the workingman and his family in the United States expend annually $0.56 for pleasures creations, the English and workingman i i i same account, The reason of these differences lies of Protection to American working men, makes the cost of indispensable necessaries of living greater in the United States than they are in Free Trade England, ceiving more money for more extensive tion American workingmen's wages have less purchasing power than have wages in England because of the in- sidious taxes upon so many of the nee. essaries and comforts of living. Since figures honestly, patiently and intelligently collated will not lie, the advocates of tari! spoliation will find a perfect mine of truth In the figures of Mr. Corroll D. Wright. ————————— Young men’s suits, black, brown or mixed cheviots, 8.50, 4,00, 5.00, 5.50, 6.00, 6.50, 7.00, 8.00, 10.00 and 12.00, low. Lyox & Co. : i 3 i ! i Wh VOears, There are this State Wand 60 be and Wi over 60 years old: 20 bet ween years; 264 ] tween 30 and 40; 200 10 0 20 and 50; between between a 30; 222 between and 20, and 2 under 10, fan Good Roads ever they have been constructed they soon pay for themselves twice over, mer's pocket for everyone they take out. on MA The 4th at Bellefonte The Patriotic Order Sons of America will have a meeting and grand parade in Bellefonte July 4. The Knights of the Golden Eagle will have a parade at the same time, AM SPAIN Going to Europe, General D, H, Hastings has mapped out a summer trip to Europe of several months, He expects to leave about the first of June and will not return before August, bein py wee It 8 0 positive fact that you can buy the best goods for the least money at the Philadelphia Branch, Belle fonte. : i ‘ { i TER, m our Reguwr Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 25 The Harry HHiidagr i MOI committee of the Hous dations VY, Concerning vis vice law Federal officials Baltimore question naturally He bh: i fap cial ignorant ix wider his orders a large fore i covering antry, ant hat if he is pings it is becat Hous fair to assum of such tl The il take. Of course the report of the sub-com- mittee of the World's Fair in favor now “goft snaps,” and their friends ever knew of the holders of willingly turning them loose? sinecures Jesides, wasted money already paid to them. The report is in so sense an attack on the Exposition, as it distinetly says reserve their confidence in the assured success of the Exposition. In ewery all time,’ It is said that one of the wealthiest republican Senators has placed in the hands of agents £50,000 to be wagered in sums of $1,000 and upward that Harrison will not be nominated, and that he has offered to wager, in case Harrison is nominated, an unlimited amount, with odds of two to one, that he will not be elected, : Representative Bland, of Missouri, NO. 21. j created a little flurry by expressing { his willingness to repeal the dependent $ | pension act, | oe oo EVRING MILLS 1A Vew Interesting ftems Vrom The Town. Lively Ho sine James Jast as and EE — it for Diphtheria, main- ng nis sd soci —— BIG FIRE AT MILESBURG A Fierce at inst Night, and Mach Property Destroyed. I wat ¥ JARs 0) out in a onflagration Milesburg iznt, about eight fire ing at Milesburg i un- valuable property The flames destroyed t o alley, and the o'clock build rok ; 3 3 iid flames conld OC rot gs from alley Ee Guts Grant Mever M ile 's store, heavy. Hing and undertak- other hg os tablishiment several dwellings were destroved. Held for A il a Better Price. Some northern Berks county who refused sixty to eighty cents a bushel for their potatoes last farmers in Fall, in expectation of obtaining still higher prices, are now selling them at nineteen cents, while others are giving them away if parties are only willing | to take them. farmers are hauling on their fields to rot. Some have several hundred bushels on hand. In other cases np A Her Name to be Placed on 5 Tablet, The members of the W. C. T. U.,, of Bellefonte, have raised one hundred { dollars to place the name of Mrs. John P. Harris, of Bellefonte, on a marble tablet which will be placed in the | magnificent temple that is being erect» {ed in Chicago by the W. C. T. U. ——— ———— Died In Philadelphia, Mrs. Bible, wife of Mr. Frank Bible, { well known in Centre county, and for | merly editor of the Bellefonte Centre Demoerat, died in Philadelphia on | Tuesday morning. Her remains will | be brought to Bellefonte for interment (on Friday morning. EER Mifflin County Deaths, | Recent deaths in MifMin county were: Bruce P. Hampson, of Allens | ville, in his 88th year; Mm. Sarah C. | Cumfort, of Lewistown, in her 67th | year; George Shilling, of Wagner, who dropped dead while at his usual work. ina —”> . {| ==The REPORTER at $1.50 is the chivapest paper in the county. Sub scribe and get in the swim.
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