VOL. LXVL PROSPECT BRIGHT A FINANCIAL MEASURE. The Senate © Under the Pre Opportunity for Great Reform sent Cireumsianess, -An Not began WASTING 16. the memorable silver debate Oct, since in passing iTON, has the outlook for that democratie the Senate a financial measure will receive the of been as bright as at this writing. vole every Senator Senate to vote by continu- holding 1 WHS i ous session, whicl a foregone con- clusion, has convinced demo- erratic d to do their best to secure the passage of the Voorhees bill that peal is under present circumstances an impossibility and they are for the first time taking part in conferences held {108 Senators who were pledg unconditional re- for the purpose of reaching an agree that « be democratic ment upon a compromise an passed as a distinctively the ¢ prediction that be measure, and there are best of rea- for th measure will this week SONS such a passed by the Senate, Pres any par in ti! conferences, in elief that sal would be the best lent Cleveland is not taking ese still firm his be uncondi- tional repe but he will not veto any which mee ocrats in the compromise thing, com promise ts the approval of the dem senate and House, a will necessarily | the vicious Sherman law, thority strengthen the the repeal of tax Secretary Carlisle purchasing clause and probably issue of gold tir it for an reserve. ations are tl will also on Siat bank rt n as to © cu ed to COmMpre by P thes rrency., is ¥ep have given his opinio a wnise that would be sident ( approve i leveland and it includes it ml opinions and SPODI a s trictdy looking tet 1 v $1 . TE $i politica EIA VIEW 1§ nus al Once be apparent familiar with pub- sth 83 and so h better for the de ® ei west * nue m- ne rec tin financial leg- Wit party € aout ie nn President nor control yisio Republican member wu have been called home to T. WHO [Or s0omnie reason alarmed at the do ordina much rats in CO MIOTORS iat Ohio is under tances a republican state, advices are cerfainly to the crats of the House rivate i ble of late democrats, are set- a good Not- repub- among the Tacker bill obnoxious federal «. that bill was moeratic senators 1s si 0 - Keeping together example withstanding the efforts of the gr tl licans to create dissension Hous for the repoal of the » democrats over the election law passed on schedule time and it received the votes well as House IH amend- of every democrat those of the present, as The MeCUreary t hinese populists, then took up the ing the Geary C exclusion which would hs passed last week if more members than ex- pected had not desired to make speech- es thereon, vote to be postponed until this after noon, The has opportunity to bring about a great re- form, and at the very large sum of money, not be It known to all who have ever had considerable business with the ury department that there is an un-| necessary amount of red tape in its | method of dealing with aceounts in- | volving the expenditure of money. | act, been ve were democratic Congress one time that should | fact well | same neglected. is a connection with every account which | passes through the offices of five out of the six auditors of the Treasury. To duplicate the work the clerical force is also necessarily duplicated. It is not 8 good argument to say that this du- plication is a necessary safe guard, be- gauss the work of the Bixth Auditor's % office accounts, and which has long enjoyed the reputation of being con- ducted under a thorough business sys tem, is not duplicated, being of itself a final sottlement of the accounts upon which it passes. It is probable that the joint Congressional committee now investigating the work and meth- ods of the various departments will recominend that all of the bureaus of the Treasury department which exist merely for the purpose of duplicating the work done in the offices of the first five auditors be abolished, ‘They cer- tainly ought to beabolished. It would mean tive dropping of five or six hun. dred needless employees the influence represented by their friends, many of | what will make the task a difficult one for Congress——and the consequent sav- Ling of their salaries, and it would re- duce the time required to get an ac- count through the Treasury nearly one It would also democratic economy show the people that was being At last the House is unanimous up- on something. It adopted a resolu- the Attorney interests the ie passing of the tion asking General whether the ment jeopardized by tl the U Pacific hands of receivers, of (iovern- are nian Railway into gp PUBLIC SCHOOL STATISTICS, A Year's Showlag In the Dopartment in Peunsylvania, The educational statistics for the past year have just been completed at the Department of Public The most interesting Instruction. totals, shown us by these t follows: w Num- 24,012; ables, are a av- 8.10: ber of schools in the State, S245] num- 718; average salary of males per month, $42.94; av- ‘males per month, $33. | pupils, pupils, §00.540: aver- 1wol, 722.195: 54; to school namber of male teachers, ber of female teachers, 17 erage salary of fi of male 4: number male 503,858: Of number number attending sel ret 1 Of pel amount of cent. attendance, levied for of Philadelphia, € appropriation, i old; recs ipts from fluxes ling, outside 2: total Stat and except appropria~ of Philadelphia, #10,- ; total receipts in State, $17.- taxes all sources, Ntate ions, exclusive UNG MO O07 teachers’ of Cole $4 fees gir d aby I eX penses, $15,410,076. - X penditures, Wc fp He Is a Walker. E. A. to from New York to Chicago and return Thomas, who hopes wil on railroad ties in 110 days for a fered by ived Kitt purse the New York Ath- IA tower, » g Point ’ § HK} Of arr at one on the Monday one mile west of tanin Pennsylvania railroad, late He hb in which to make can do it in te this city th na Tribune, of Tuesday morning. Mr. Tl HOAs = night. as yet twenty days trip and HAYS Lie will arrive in Altoo- He rning ' § is mo S40 » the tarted long jour from New York on April 17, 1 on June 10, week through on His ney and Mr. ill- of reach Chicago was reach Thomas lost two a airieen weather, | York in ness and t bad N¢ Ww and have days on sacoount ie i= to ex ped to time win the purse i i days to werned by competi either food, dee of is severa spare. The journey is g several conditions, inasmuch as the tor is not allowed to lod PH sporti Duy ging or clothing or be KK money, nding entirely on the generosity I pe for his | He also compelled to travel along the rail- | i journey. | ple iving. road the entire - » - For Directors and Teachers The folls the suj letter instruction, wing extract from from it. of dated 30th ult interest and directors in many districts. der the terms of making state appropriation state a publie teachers wy the « Ay ne the act « Lhe treasur- time when the warrants for school appro- districts. The warrants can be jssued, therefore, only at such times and such aggregate amounts as shall { designated by the state treasurer, in be A A ————— Brevities in Seas 'n Dauberman’s meat market supplies | i No. 1 sausages right along ; the fact that Mike Condo makes them is the | best guarantee that they are good. Farmers are busy husking corn ; the Rev. John Harpster leaves for India in a few days, lo again take up mis | A crossing at Harper & Kramer's store is contemplated for the conveni- ence of post=office patrons, A good | idea, and the sooner the better. am a Paying a Dividend, The Sunbury and Lewistown Rail- way announces a semi-annual divi dend of four per cent. That's good. | We think our road, the IL. & T.,| should be able to pay us stockholders a divy, as it seems to be doing a pay- ing business, ss A Ghost in Ponns Valley, The nightly appearance of a ghost near Fiedler has caused great excite ment among the timid people in the east énd of Penns Valley, A number of the courageous young men have or- ganized a scouting band to wateh the supposed apparition. A A SAAN quite so stylish or better made. Call and be convinced, - HALL. PA. Ti THE RULE OF MINORITY Judge Cooley Writes Strong Words on the Revolution of Washington, Mr. received James Hodge the Thomas 4, of Baltimore, has following letter V. Cooley, of from Judge Michi. gan: “The which the any legislation whatever in the est of the more the legislation may | reports of a compromise yielded obtain by a great deal is to be to silver interest in order to inter- country are daily becoming namerous and persistent, and to be that w blocked in the ate at the will of Why The reply seems to be that there is no way indications seem now el - the only of a minority members, is this? in which the majority can force a vote. If thix is troe manner been effected a revolution has in s« the is no longer the Government ‘ it legislative body that a Me in (lovern- our fathers created, but is one so in tl 1 have no longer, it body may at pleasure We as to that body, repre that body, by a minority of its members can con- trol both. 1 feel American citizen any gislative measure. sentative institutions, and humiliated an that, I never would ns more than 1 of liberties that feel robbed heen A the ple lated in on { its most ticulars, ; have intarily surrendered by pe Constitution is vio- important par- t, 80 far as we can ES ely, but in a way that for all time leaves it at the mercy of a few persons — ®— Animal Intelligence k Haven Demoes a story of a remarkabl telligence ree near Youngd bel heifer few days ago a cow QQ. Deise | fasts ned guard in a fleld along woame in un the Beech Creek about one-fourth milk A road railroad, Youn east of freight train and point above ment gdale. went when i thew the tr FOI i £1, + e143 heifer standing on gineer blew the whistle 3 the e animal. lL.ook- ing trainmen spied the COW 1 ment and tearing away a portion of the guard they soon released hor. ed off in the fiel the embankm jumped cl tion of t t Lie with its mother. SOW IMoV- lown and por- Was s00n assert reached edd the releas- They also say that it fortu- nate thing that ! ! Cane first, for had the nger train, doe at that Poin afterwards, the ly on the aifiinen manner nd pursu the cow Wis no time stand Jom have sax lf fe i! aii wWihilie y ie McK, ing square- the omotive and passenger cars might been pre- cipitated down the embankment. - . Entitled to Damages, As this is when evi row an old in the season of the year youth who can beg or bor- roving the of squirrels and he make a Nome per- sons think that the sign<boards forbid- ry ory gun, pursuit an is country over : 1 other game, it is well that note of the law of trespass, vate lands are of little account, and that they may be disregarded with im- punity. This is a mistake, as the law makes it an act of trespass to go upon cultivated or lands for any without permission of the owner, even if there is no signboard, and the owner is entitled recover actual damages for such trespass, enclosed to lcm —— A Bialr County Sensation. Hollidaysburg, the county seat of Blair, had a first-class sensation a few One of the staid old town's most prominent citizens, a leader of a | church choir and a well established | merchant, has eloped with a young | with grief. The man's name is Leslie Lotz, and the | | woman in the case was his next door | He is sup- | | posed to have taken $10,000 in ready | awaited. Asa MA Will Discontinae, The Daily (Fazette announces that it will discontinue with last Tuesday's issue. Borry for our neighbor, but it was brought about in a large measure by patrons failing to pay up henestly; A newspaper eannot live on wind, hence its patrons should be prompt and pay without waiting to be dunn- ed. Sr — I ——————— The Cars are Moving, The fact that there are now only sidings of the PP. R. R to 16,000 a few days ago, shows how railroad traffic is improving, . RSDAY, FOUND GUILTY YOUNG WILLIAMS THE POSTOF- FICE THIEF SENTENCED. Ex-Governor 3 onver Many Petitioners, Only Got u Year to Huntingdon A plea of guilty entered before Judge Buffington in the 1 Court on Mond by M. William the Ty rone youth whose post office emi- bey the Re- uro, ExAdiover-l Was ny N. zlements described in I'ER 4 wore Beaver POR weeks noy appeared as his attorn« v and presented a petition for clemency neady all the citizens of T'y- off’ Hunting- signe d bry rone, and the ye man got ung y a one-year sentence to the Reformatory. The 80 far Williams’ lings Secret of fall, were Young as the court procee concerned, Thing 4 , but a informed 1 hood at- that there bottom of it. remained a mystery 14 h rey by 4 YOLer was gentleman from the neighbor tending court as a witness is a woman at the Williams is only twenty years o 1 Id nt al and his mista has aroused universa inthe neig He “Ms 0B Presbyterian church his for ¢ hborhood w here of the sympathy hie lived, member and Furboy, r, Was among the Mr. nited States titioners lemency. it to 1 Hall curing a Furboy also paid a vis [)is- Inst week 1 ald in = len ie wr Lhe Wing prisoner. the strongest points young man's favor was that when was arrested he had retained the mou- reload £ } Crzieq from the § £1 Wy 3. ey he had emi register. ers, al } i 1 O00, identi- ed he with a irl jilted in t Lis sintl hie Bilis he had t i LLIB SET elop r woman, and that i $n At any * Lime the g nds $0 we 3 Ww hicl i hie { without being dis overed, Beaver became {1 ¥ case 14 Lrovernor Her tie rough an i who is an old of the 3 Lhe eourt OF 's father, } and a comrade i . bd . Lis address to he said that, lke himself, the young man's had left part of battle, The speaker told the young his body in the Court that the man's motive He could ¢ not to all his ne ig hbors he said, He then produced the Williams’ previo wl It bore a formidable list of 118 Of but do se testimonial f 1 i relerreg or ( Fs haracter, signatures, Court to and earnestly prayed the ain C. J. W. Jones, ie, was put on d to Williams’ to committing the thi the good chars for prey ts and to his ¢ nnpetency as a clerk. Ex-Governor that the Huntingdon Beaver then asked youth be sentenced to the Reformatory instead to the penitentiary, Judge Buffing young prisoner to a ton, sentencin in ur Hunting | and ye at Vi ! idly to him the hope that at regaining his liberty he would be able to become a useful : : don, spoke very ki earnestly expressed citizen and to re-es- tablish himself in the good opinion of Williams, pale youth, society, who a slight, but still rather handsome, is was very composed during most of the time that the Judge him, but a few tears trickled down his face at the encouraging words of grave man on the beach. conduct the prisoner will not have to tence. Ex-Governor cured on the ground of insanity, the young man’s queer actions. Such a defense would, however, the Govers nor thinks, have injured him more in don. ell tp Offer a 810 Prive, The Bellefonte Board of Trade solicit competition in the preparation of a advantages and resources, and will pay | {the winner $10 for the best prepara | tion. hopes that it will boom the town, A 100 Years Old, One hundred years ago the survey of the town of Milesburg was madg by Col. Samuel Miles, of Philadelphia. This fact is worth commemorating and the enterprising people of that town should not let opportunity pass by unnoticed. Centre Democrat. in A —-— Would Prove a Bonanza. once that kills off the potato bugs, the newspapes fraternity would now like to see some kind of a remedy to be need in killing off delinquent newspa~ per patrons, 1893. CLOSING DAYS, | Fant Low Rate Excursion nia Hallrond, This is the last month of un the zrent Columbian Exposition, American all nations, past and present urday, the 21st, | popular low-rate {the and Bat- the end of the coach marks excursions Railroad C World's Fair City. Ti He gxl Pennsylvania | to the sive patronuge bestowed on ail ompany i previ ous trips of this character and the | it~ i | versal | | verdict of former participa | that the Pe nusylvania | pany carries by fur the and ti tatiroad Com- Frecitest | ber f peonle iL peopae, genuine + best ¢ tisst HEE © oughly at the to facts couple « worth facilitios be { the | rouie, en je Nt These : 4 { fortunate and { accident of any entire immunity from and the dispateh with which y plac ¢ 1 e enviable Kind thus far, completeness and has been handled | Standard Railroad ir | sition which it proudly {ing the best, | to the West, All who can do so are advi i i vise it this stupendous show, he 1 13 1th po- i Clas safest, and quicke “i routs as it { ly improbable that another of | mense magnitude will be seen de of thi t ‘ itl ie Of Lhis generation, and the | peoj mous multitude of wonder inspiring sights collected De seen 10 be The rate w York and £17 from Ph ore, and Washingt respondingly appreciated, remarkable | Baltim low rates pointe o for ti mentioned, New Yo ; and Phila 11.1 m. A sect Washington at 10.15 and Ba 11.10 a, 1e last time I'i from rk phia al a, it will lea timore ¥ mi. cont with the weting Harrisbu prin passen i {1 art $a Bi ' \ ar sections at Fick i al 1d 1 i adso be sold from inter pad | mediate stations, from sta- tak- f gers i tions not jocated on the main line | ing regular trains to nearest in i poi { connection with the special Ra Readable Briefleis | Friday's rain waters all ar Our townsman, E. | put a ithe farm { from Ohio. We | friend, John Odenkirk, | ving M. Hu shorthorn near Linden Hall, ji Pure stock, a sorry to say th tiice lot of are ial from his illness, Subscribers to whom we send bills will req greatly oblige 1 nittance. Kindly remember The balmy autumn reminds the old indian summer periods. being run to cider ¢ the Apples are Shook's press at sands of gallons, station, 1} asi a————— A Fair Experience. Peter Dreyer, a Lewistown barber, who visited the World's Fair with | family, Chicago upon his arrival at entered a place to procure a cup of tea { unwell, and found himself among a lot tof roughs who asked the price of $4.50 for the beverage. refusal to pay he was roughly handled and finally compromised by paying {$2.75 if they would let him off, telling them that it was all he had about him, A belt about his person contained sev. | eral hundred dollars. wa— A AC enormous Upon he Clinton County, George Spangler was arrested on Saturday for dynamiting fish on Bald | Eagle creek. Mrs. Freeze, an aged lady | Tylersville, died on Friday living at and was | buried on Sunday. widow of John Sunday even- Logan Mills, Sugar Valley { Catharine Greninger, | Greninger, dec'd., died ing at her home near taged about 69 years. Jowrnal, ———— : Preaches in Bell efonte, | Rev. Boal, who had been announced | to preach in the Centre Hall Presbyte- {rian church next Sabbath morning, {recalls that appointment, as at that time he will fill the pulpit of Rev. Dr. | Laurie, at Bellefonte. Raggestions Wanted, There is $6.49 of the Clara Price Monument Fund left after paying all expenses. The committee wish sug- gestions as to what should be done with the balance. Address Commit- tee Clara Price Monument, Karthaus, Pa. The Best Paper. The Cente RerorTER is decidedly the best family newspaper published in Centre county. Every family should subscribe for it. Loganton Journal, No worthier or more compatent gen: tleman ever was placed upon a ticket { for Register, than George W. Rumber- NO. 41. ADJOINING COUNTIES, Briefly for our Beaders, Iaterosting Ktems Varagraphed New Methodist church will shortly be erected at Patton and SBpanglor, Clearfield cou enty-two teachers in hier Lawrence township, n- ty, employs tw B. Hile, field county, of Ia has a ras C bush that imber City, fear. pberry es him two good crops ARON. EVEery si F eounty Courts appointed te, of Tyrone, and A. W fi i iil Rigo of Hoekhill Furnace, Pa. receiy ie Juniata Mining and Manu- ago thers t Dean There are IX years wa Ho a Trai Ad» oad in township, Caml and v being made for a fifth. J. C, having win ooul now four the sur- epre sentative Of county consul at res gned 1 Incensed a the Hop} house on RATES, y set fire ery ® iy ICRI y ; rs Lhe chil- of Houtzdale, ver ¢ a boy John of tw were from { ance wie da fire, A cou j le IVE Mr. John Miller the olh a boy aged 4 i fo y iis irom the ance The boy started some means his little nited therefr ig om. =he bly burned that death ensued kK. JO At a congregational erian a committee was appointed funds and if & th as {X¥) can be secur- inside of irch will be re- in Or- f the building, and n some Ang Lhe desire to modeled, it | put Or, new front a back entrance, SERS, einove fhe 0 inke changes, il cools RAILROAD FATALITIES Two Men Strack by Fast Trains Penpsylvania and Killed. on the Tuesday was a marked railroad marking for fatalities at Huntingdon. Au- gustus Raymond, of Hootic ode who was prominently identified with Han- cock’s veterans during the rebellion, was struck by the Pacific express this morning. He was decapitated and his body horribly mangled. William Doyle, aged sixteen, of Mount Union, had his left } cut off while attempting to get on s fast train, and died soon after his admittance to the hospital, MY og ssl Guaranteed Care, We authorize our advertised drug- gist to sell Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are afflict- ed with a Cough, Cold or any Lung, Throat or Chest trouble, and will use this remedy as directed, giving it a fair trial, and experience no benefit, you may return the bottle and have your money refunded. We could not make this offer did we not know that Dr. King’s New Discovery could be re- lied on. It never disappoints. Trial bottles free at J. D. Murray's Drug Store. Large size 50¢. and §1.00, oi ry Tue great cost of modern warfare has a pointed illustration in what it cost Uncle Sam the other day for some playful target shooting with his big guns and projectiles in a test of 11-inch armor plate at Sandy jJHook. The sport lasted several hours, and 8 and 10-inch projectiles were sent through the 11-inch plate as though it were of wood. Every shot ui ihe 11-inch plate cost $4,188, and at the %dinch plate, $2,162. Other shots cost from $1,200 apicoe down to $700. It is not the sacredness of human life that keeps the nations of Europe ready for war and timid about enguging in it but the money at,
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