VOL. LXVI. LEGISLATION IN THE SENATE | | tration one was PRACTICALLY BLOCKED, cabled | { France a day or two ago, over HALL, PA., THI THE PICNIC Winds Up On Saturday, The Good, Attendanse The picnic wound up on Saturday, House Declsively Votes Against High Clerkship Salaries. | tiating a $50,000,000 gold loan in Paris. | Very naturally Secretary Carlisle WASHINGTON, Sep. is practically in a dead-lock, and un- less it can be broken all of the demo- cratic legislation which has been prom- ised the people will fail. This may ap- pear to be a strong statement, but it is strictly true. When the agreement was reached between those who favor and those who oppose the Voorhees repeal bill to prolong the debate until all who had expressed a wish to speak thereon shall have had angopportunity to do so—two weeks or more—the ac- knowledgement was made that the Senate was in a dead-lock over that bill; that it was impossible to force a vote. If a majority larger than that which the bill for the repeal of the laws authorizing Federal interference with elections or the tarifl’ bill will have cannot force a vote, how can vote be forced upon those measures, or 25.—The Senate | an official denial. nan Po op ——— Of Interest to Hotel Men. Judge Bchuyler, county, has given a decision in Se argued before him which will of | particular interest to proprietors and | lesses of publie houses. The case was | that of Zearfuss vs. Smith. Franz] Zearfuss is the owner of the American | hotel on East Third street, South | Bethlehem. The hotel was leased to Joseph Gress four years ago for a peri- od of five years. years ago and the lease was transferred | to John Smith. | On August 16 last, Smith moved | out, leaving an unpaid rent bill of $145 | due Mr. Zearfuss. The license for the | place was in Smith's name. Mr. Zear- | fuss asked Smith's consent to have the | license transferred to him. This! indeed upon any others that may Smith refused to do unless Zearfuss | passed by the House and opposed by | ouve him $1,200 for the permission. | the solid republican vote in the Senate. | Smith was evidently under the That is the situation in a nut shell, | pression that the license was his per- | and disagreeable as it is to democrats } sonal property and that it is better to face it than pretend | sould do business in the hotel without not to see it. Senators pretend to be- | his consent. The carried to | lieve that a vote will easily be reached | nour by Mr. Zearfuss, on the Voorhees bill in two or three| Afr lengthy argument, weeks, but it should not forgotten | Qo huyler decided that Smith that the same men professed to be cer- | pay all the back rent due, enter tain that the same bill would be a law | security for the pay- | before Sept. 1 until the ex- | A way out of the present dead-lock | pires, if he wants to retain the license. and a preventative of any future dead-| 11 he fails to do so the will bel locks has been placed ready made into | transferred without his consent. the hands of the democratic Senators by Senator Platt, of Conn. That dem- ocrats should feel a repugnance to- wards the adoption of Senator Platt’s resolution providing for a cloture rule, which is now in the hands of the com- mittee on Rules, is perfectly natural. Still, it would be well for them to keep that weapon where it can be used, if all other methods of proceeding with the business of the people shall fail The democratic party expects the dem- ocratic Senators to pass the relief measures the party has pledged itself to pass. The House by the very decisive vote of 142 to 57 decided against clerks at $6 a day to each House committees which hold a meeting or transact ness, and thus put itself on favoring economy in public expendi- tures no matter where the money is spent, and also put itself in line with the administration which declared war against sinecures from the first day of in ti its existence. : Magazine. Representative Holman since he be- —————— i came chairman of the House commit- A Child Pets a Copperhead i tee on Indian Affairs has gone into : in ! ; : > : On ast Saturday near Birmingham, | the subject of Indian expenditures : oF ate sil with his usaal thoroughness, and he 8 little gil wandered from her home : : out into the woods and only after an now announces jthat material redue- ’ ; . . ! absence of an hour or more was she tions may be made in every direction : i tt : & in : . missed by the family. A search was | without injury to the interests of eith- y "as : made for her and it was not long be- | er the Indian or the government, and |. she was discovered by an elder further that he intends to sce that brother toying with a huge copperhead | they are made in the appropriation : bill to be reported from his committee. suake in the bushes. Strange to say | : that the snake didn't seem at all con- It is fashionable to deride Mr. Holman and his economical ideas, but it is to cerned, as the little one scraped a stick | . up and down its back but rather seem- | such men as he that the honor will be- ed to enjoy the situation. The brot het jong of keeping the democratic party er was almost paralyzed when he saw | from falling into the extravagant hab- its which played so important a part what was going on and slipping up | > : ; behind the little one he despatched | in driving the republican party from the reptile with a club. It measured | power. A4 President Cleveland has |), 0 feet one inch and is one of the | truly said: “The people of this country must learn to practice economy, and most poisonous of its species. The lit fle child cried heartily because the the example must be set by the gov- y . ernment.” snake had been killed and even want- Representative McCreary is losing of Northampton | a be Giress moved out two | # ¢ 0 be : | im- | no one else to CARs¢ Wis Judge must the | be i hotel, and give D i ment of the rent lease + b license tp cop Beauty of the Falr at Night. Night and electric light play a great part in the spectacular side of the Fair, | Solomon in all his glory never such a sight as the plain people of this | continent have had on nights this summer. candescent lights sparkle SAW | illumination | Innumerable in- i along the cornices and pediments; the top of the wall inclosing the giand basin lined in fire; search-lights from Liberal Arts building cut their wide swaths of light in gigantic | circles, resting for a moment here and there to bring out now this detail or to throw into dazzling relief a sculptured | figure or beast. It lingers MceMonunie's fountain, is out- the | top of the allowing of sixteen rarely ever any busi- record as longest on | the fitting jew- | el resting lightly on the bosom of this! Venet we called Chiongo; in a degree t ian beauty whom but yesterday | ; and well it may, he fountain is the the Exposition. —From “The Art of White City,” by WiLL H. Low, 1e October number of Seribner's as clou of the i i i i { grounds in their tents over Sunday. better than last year when there was A circus on the | swell the crowd and ill up space. There was better order within and improveme the the new auditorium is nt upon the large canvas tent used here- tofore. Isaac Frain had some very fine i stock on exhibition, horses and cattle, ? an live horn Mr. Frain keeps up with the live practical slog and being As county deputy, a { farmer of large intelligence and a good talker, he is the right man in the right place, and has a good aid in Col. F. Weaver, the county lecturer, There was a car load of Jas, Perch a fine also car { load of Holstein cattle, The fakirs and raked in a harvest of sheckels. The Monday Tuesday was not as large as On Thursday t yet the i: 8, as usual, were on hand attendance on and as last Year. here was a large crowd, railroad company on that d Ly Thurs lay On the other 1 the hang who came in their own Fhursday, number vehi was far greater than crowd on same day last year. The The in spite of the water service was most excellent dry spell, the water company having by admirable man- agement succeeded insupplying all the of the and the during the entire week, needs town n picnic The fellows who were beer heavy vet there were The filled on the principal days to listen to the lectures, Another part of the the improvement suditorium was always well exhibit road Hi WAS in making { tention of all. tl r— Foehoes of the Picnic. Some person or persons maliciously jeut long slashes into about a dozen of the picnic ds Ihe $ § There £ ¥} Lite tents on groun fils were un ved on # LF} | occupied al —, be] ong to t hose borros { from the state. the ground but were don’ police 3 ¢ Visit the wit 8) Kegs pie-n ans of glasses tod Landlord Bartges had ab ' / ’ GuUring ic: of course it was done by me of which =» nn lusty On the last night of the pie-nie, we intended firing h-west nort of the ground. ing in an adjoining tent striking of a match, and Nome one sleep heard the jumping up { appearance ; he found they had piled ia lot of combustible material against | the tent next to him. | burn with astonishing rapidity, a fire As these tire north side three rows of tents some { of which were occupied and the deni- i zens asleep. Pity the fellows who at- {tempted to do the fire can't be fired across the mountain for about 20 years, We suppose, were where no firebugs would under { take such work. Farmer Kerstetter, tenant | Wilson farm adjoining the | ground, got into an unpleasant un- tee about a dancing floor which Yoiy MORETALK NOW HEARD OF ACOM- PROMISEON THE SILVER ISSUE. Filibusters are Probably Able to Prevent ~No Bad Fight Visible. its Unconditional Victory. of the the fails to The situation in senate after day passes show encour- agement for those who are making the battle for unconditional repeal. It is only a dispassionate statement of the truth to say that the repeal forces are apparently viclory that it does | have made convert in the for two weeks, and that the for uncondi- | tional repeal is not so bright as it was BO nearer not appear that they senate a Prosjpm Ch when the repeal bill passed the house with the ynexpectedly large majority | a month ago. That result gave Callse a rush ed likely to provoke pentis public Lhe immediately ment that would through the senate de preparing to provoke the by erring those senators who had been parliamentary filibuster. | ET ropes al » sf 4} { lost mae heir confidence all temporarily the calls nators have regained wich al se Anti-repx taal courage wi { alter the they of roll anti-reg an unbroken front of nine- sist to the conditional measure of passage The show that the the house, Oy £5 senal pe al t ¥ tors present # 1, ready Lo 1 utmost Hau of i ne Ai. Within the Ix pe a half-dozen tor welaimed that £) wie st 8 have . py sx} ¥ t i every buiwars ruies i wy and usages of ti » would be Fain thie of sonditions reper th the confident Chairman | and the other leaders of the | ws pr le that | ditional repeal bill can only | pass when tl ed to prevent passage the un- | 1 i i and ¢ af £ al bill; to-day Mee In X¥ ron} voorhoee Foi ' . repeal fore actically cones the unc minori- | in ie strength of the ty is exhausted in sleepless vigils, demanding | other a making dilatory motions, resorting to ob- 1 tics to prevent vole on ominant issue. Two weeks ago that the | ati measure rumored Was mysteriously foros demand a vole the Now no advocate 8 ight repeal any hour and rush ti nate, sar gh the a repeal ¢1 with i of the can be found who willl pr ! v i S4A5 % any confidence that a fi- | be reached ore the tober. And vet the nu- rical strength of the repealers as it ote will bef middle of Ox Te in sir Lire Under the the hialf-de indefi- iy prolong the fight and postpone «1 ita, ns in the senate today was | X ORs ago, rules of nators present LT AE) can &, al so inclined, | defeat the measure or foree | in this ight the an iasignificant of re can ungues- tionably muster thirty or more votes, Of these if they are may either a 00 mpromise, Bnority is not one. Fhe opponents peal men it is beileved that a doz- en or more will not hesitate to filibus- | ter in an attempt to defend the citadel against any indefiufle siege of the ma- ——— Ee Swindling Farmers, A number of the farmers of Craw ford county, Ohio, have been caught ina deal for “Red Beauty” wheat. The agents who have been working it of seed wheat. furnishes seed The seed company wheat and fertilizer, while'the farmer furnishes the land and labor for seeding, raising, harvest ing and threshing, and then gives the company half of his crop. Just where the farmer makes anything from it is not stated in the ironclad contract, This is the old bohemian oats swin- ed to take the carcass home, eatin no opportunity to convince the mem- bers of the House committee on Coin- age, to which was referred his bill pro- Putty Sabstitute. the camp, which, we are informed, the | dle over again, only in a new form. pie-nic authorities tore down, where- | Our farmers who were caught in the upon Kerstetter prosecuted the man! | infamous oats swindle keep your eyes ty to stop cracks in woodwork is made by soaking newspapers in a paste made | by boiling a pound of flour in three | quarts of water and adding a teaspoon full of alum. The mixture should be of about the same consistency as putty, viding for the appointment of a joint Congressional and Commercial mone- tary committee to investigate our en- tire financial system and report where and how improvements may be made, agement and the trouble was compro- | | mised by paying Yoly $30 and the hop | / Mana- ger Rhone informed dancing-master Kerstetter that he intended to have | | skinned for the new game, APSA, Centre County Snake Story. The leading snake story of the sea- | son comes from James Johnston, who of the necessity of reporting it favora- bly to the House. The committee is _ still considering the bill. Representative Bynum has a bill providing for a graduated income tax, which he proposes to use his best ef. forts to get reported to the House and The House will tomorrow take up the Tucker bill for the repeal of the Federal election laws and the debate thereon will be continued until Octo- ber 0th, when a vote will be taken. The majority in favor of the bill will be precisely that of the democrats on the floor the day the vote is taken, as it will receive every democratic vote in the House, and it is not probable that any democrat will be absent that day unless necessarily compelled to be, _Becretary Gresham, who is now in Indiana, is not enjoying his usual good health, and he proposes going to California shortly to remain six or sev. en weeks, hoping that the change will be beneficial. and should be forced into the cracks with a case-knife. It will harden like papier mache and when dry may be painted or dtained to match its sur. roundings, when it will be almost im- perceptible, MS — Equinox, On the 220d instant our equator cuts the sun, making the day and night equal everywhere and introducing spring to southern and autumn to northern hemispheres, A A New Ware Room. Harper & Kreamer ure about build- ing a new ware room to the rear of their store huilding, which will be convenient for loading and enjoin ovis. -_ Public Sale. Bale of personal property of Mrs, SBa- rah Harpster, deceased, at Centre Hall, Saturday, October 7th, at 1 p, m. All kinds of household effects, ——————— the pic-nie conducted upon religious | principles, Col. Coburn, while making a pur- chase in Boob's carriage tent, went off leaving his pocket book lie and only discovered his loss when he arrived at Bellefonte. In the meantime Mr. B, found the pocket book, in which were $35, and it was restored to the owner. Beveral satchels were stolen from a tent while the occupants were asleep, were afterwards found near the station cut open and rifled of their contents, John Angstat, a moulder in the foundry, had a gold wateh and chain stolen while asleep in his tent; the thief did it after midnight. About 100 tents were occupied-—the number of tents was over 200, aud lent a picturesque and la militaire appenrs ance to the ground. lives a short distance north of Zion. He reports that while plowing in new ground last week he turned over a bincksnake measuring nine feet and eleven inches, and at a short distance from his first find he plowed out two nests of small snakes of the same kind, the one containing fifty-two and the other forty-seven snakes, measuring from nine to eleven inches, rn MI MA Wedded To-day, The nuptials uniting in wedlock Miss Beulah Brisbin and Mr H. J. Boon, take place today at high noon, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs, B. D, Brisbin. A num- ber of guests from a distance are pres. ent, : SR A SS —————— Committed Suicide, Fremont V. Brown, a Christian clergyman, who recently resigned his charge at B addock, Pa, committed suicide at New York, by Coal for Sale, A car load of soft cond, for sale, nt a reduced price, for cash, ep 1893. “= How the Fakir Gets the Farmer, Few, if any, of the REPORTER read. | ers have the true insight as to how the fakir who manipulates the card rack swindles the farmer and the | boy at the annual farmers’ pic-nic in this place. You have all looked on | but none have catched on to the fraud and we will give it to you right now, | Many of the cards have blanks, a { mited number have prizes from Z5cts. {up to $2,50 ; a few have prizes up to $40, farmer's from $5 The fakir has a half dozen fakir stands—all these stands { der one control, “the { timore,”’ nro are Uli- fellow from Bal- appears, he knows which card | big prize, and he is the one to point | the rod on it before any green one gets [ahe ad, and the crowd 18 astonished to | see him draw $10 or $40 on an invest- | { me nt of 50, and the crowd to { bite, and you point to a card that has | 500 (means £5) so placed that the fa- he | it a has a begins t gf | kir can readily put his finger over last 0 of the “500” against his breast, he holds little pie JX to H0¢, for this 103% ns which slight-'o-hand turns the “Will you take fifty card 7" No. “Will you take a dollar,” “I'll give | you a dollar and a half, you had better | , now do.” i of cents No. “Well, two Os) your card's {with finger covering one only worth 50 and quickly he throws the $5.00 card behind in the box and hands you a half instead of fivedollars which was the real value of that card. Wi lox)? figures | he | hen the card contains the 1 stand for a $10 prize, hokus tells you it's worth only whicl POKuUSs, 0 iv &1 ers a0, and $l. hidden under the fingers and | the stool pigeon is handed £10, Then a great many pointers blank cards, and fakir says, “I'll give you 50¢," $1,” and you say, No. w va i Fe strike “I'll give you 75, The fakir then ii Now why is this swindling of farm- | ers and others permitted from year at a gathering alleged to be solely for the g lectures, i ood of the farmer? Of all the | speeches and essays delivered | at grange park yearly ti is cautioning the farmer against the who are always t 5 ere never fo! i left from rasculs planning the little the their work bogus implement scamp, get in rated right in our midst and preten- ded leaders of the farmer are observed in most intimate there ! how expiain this, and what's wrong? farmers notice this and ask, What's wrong? Let these gatherings be set upon the : relation right and the respect and support of the far mers and all other classes, except the swindlers aforesaid, will gained, This journal has earnestly and honest- ly worked to this end, and we trust with co-operation from the right quar- ter the aim will be reached ere it is too late. be A —— COBURN Interesting Items from our Neighboring Town, R. F. Vooada and family, of Altoona are spending a week in this section visiting friends, and of course took the picnic at Centre Hall. W. O. Rearick, of Centre Hall, was in town on last Saturday on business, Will is always a welcome caller here, A car load of apples intended for making cider, was shipped from this station this week to 1llinois, where ap- ples are a scarce article; the price paid for them was twelve cents per bushel, on track. It is rumored that the Evangelical association of Centre District will en- deavor to hold Camp meeting near this place next year if a suitable place for holding the same can be procured. Misses Laura Ard and Verna Meyer eamped at the picnic during last week, they came home on Saturday. Rev, Wolf will not have divine ser- vices at this place on Sunday, on ac count of his absence at Synod, which convenes in the new Lutheran church at Bellefonte. What has become of the Christian Endeavor society organized at this some time ago? Has it passed into oblivion? Efforts should be put forth to resuscitate it at once. Such matters should not be allowed to drag or die an untimely death, Mrs. Lewis Snavely is on an extend- ed visit to friends near Middleburg, Pa. Will Meet Earlier, County superintendent Gramley has concluded to hold teacher's institute this year commencing Mooday, De cember 16th, so they can got through Syracuse, Kuntz & Box, Jumping juto the tle canal, J onde 0 BAT tenSinece spud Clint: NO. IN OTHER COUNTIES. Items of Interest Clipped and Condensed from our Exchanges, Fifty new locomotives have been put on the Erie railroad lines. Tuesday, Beptember 12, was the birthday of Mr. D. K. Heckman, of Loganton. On that day he passed the 70th mile stone in the journey of life, It is rumored that another bank will | be opened in Jersey Shore | It would have this, but the movement. wiore long. organized before times delayed the been hard At Phillipsburg, mima Lewis, a Tuesday, Mrs, ged 77 years, of Brisbin, ran in front of a a passenger train as it was entering that town Je and was in- By the breaking of a cable at ton’s shaft, near Morrisdals I: Ne ariy all Wig- , Clearfield One had legs or county, seven men fell 135 feet. has since died. arms broken. 31 y the breaking of a cable the Morris men fi at Wigton shaft, field iale, Clear- 41 near seven county 135 feet. arms broke A few days saw mill near Eagleville, Nestlerode, There A number of rown out of work. W. E. Hall eight Killed in at Roanoke iil I , ago fire destroyed the owned Was no surance, men will 1 numbered among the i four : a for Lhe the fight negro lived fireman Wii Virginia, formerly wistown, and was ury FN a Oil the and Lewist railroad. At the of 1 annual meeting of the board rustees of the Reformed Las the ¢ endowment fu 1 * Lhe logical {reasur- $94 total amount in his hands selninaryg of od th } $ sae Ancaster, nd at and George P. Wakefiel Hi untingdon atu raasy d, county, of Shirleys- died paralysis, arg, on He i= wast, from i age and Bruner, a life at western pe murder of Ire, Elmer prisoner nit ntiary, sentenced ' Farmer Reese near Jbensb { nl ria county, died Sun- day night of cholera morbus, after an Elmer Bruner, al the for ife prisoner at western or ntenced near Eb- died Sun- after an murder of Farmer Reese, C the ensburg, Cambria county, day night of cholera morbus, illness of twelve hours. On Tuesday the sad intelligence was . Best had died rity Chica~ death was received that El sudden) gO, Mond not given. lery ( v at the Va otel, ay. The cause of born 48 county. The de ceased atl Salona, Was years ago, Clinton Francis Patrons, who is confined in the Clinton county jail on charge of throwing stones al a passenger train near Repova, attempted to break jail on Sunday. He didn’t succeed and will now have two charges to answer. At Philipsburg, Taesday, Mrs. Je mima Lewis, of Brisbin, aged seventy- seven years, ran in front a passen- ger train as it was entering that town and was instantly killed. She was deaf and did not knew the train was coming. After an idleness of several months the puddling department of the Al- toona rolling mill resumed operations Tuesday morning. The action of the managers of the mill in starting up the puddling furnace puts nearly every department of the plant in operotion. 4 the # ol James Owens, a weak minded in- mate of the Cambria county home, strayed away from that institution Friday, September 15, and has not since been heard from. He had been an in- mate of the home for the past six years, Prior to his being sent to the poor house he resided in Johnstown. The Lycoming National bank, of Williamsport, was tricked on Thure- day out of $250 by a stranger. The fellow who worked the bank is said to be about six feet in height, has a light mustache, is about forty-nine years old and dresses well. He registered at the hotel as C. Taber, New Jersey. To Arm Their Tralnmen, The Michigan Central began to arm thetrainmen of all trains carrying American express or mail cars, and other roads intend to follow suit. The employees have been supplied with Winchester repeating shot guns load- ed with buckshot and additional em ployees similarly armed have bean put on so that there will be at least fully ten armed men on each express and mail train, CoxsvL General Edwards, of Berlin, reports to the department of state that the German minister of war has order od the military authorities to use In- dian corn mixed with oats in making up the rations for the army horses. This will lead to heavy importations of American corn. This may make better for
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