VOL. LXVIIL
TARIFF DEBATE
CONGRESS IN THROES OF TARIFF
DISCUSSION.
Republicans in the House Working for
Dissension Among the Demoorats,—
Wilson 3111 before the House,
WasninaToN, Jan, 22.—Chairman
Wilson has surprised some people by
the adroitness he has displayed in pi-
loting his tariff’ bill through the
amendment rocks. He has run
aground but once—when the House
voted down an amendment endorsed
by the Ways and Means committee,
propozing to postpone until next fall
the time for the free wool clause of the
bill to take effect and adopted one
making that clause go into effect upon
the passage of the bill. This week the
hardest fighting will be done. An at-
tempt will be made to drop the sugar
bounty, substituting a tax on sugar;
also to drop the bounty, leaving sugar
free. Attempts will also be made to
put iron and coal on the dutiable list,
and to make the income tax an amend-
ment to the tariff bill. All of these
changes are opposed by the Ways and
Means committee, and chairman Wil-
son is confident that none them
will be made, although several of his]
colleagues on the committee are in
doubt as to the sugar clause and the
income tax amendment. It is under-
stood that the Republican vote will be
cast solidly for the income tax amend-
ment, not because they favor it, but]
of
because they believe its adoption will |
weaken the entire bill in the Senate.
The Republicans in the House are not
voting on their convictions just now, |
but to develop Democratic dissension.
Senator Morgan gave ex-Minister
Stevens, who at last found time be-
tween his alleged bad health and his |
lecture engagements to appear before |
the Senate committee on Foreign Re-|
lations and give his testimony, a most
rigid cross-examination concerning his |
conduct while U. 8. Minister to Ha-|
waii, and brought out the acknowl-|
edgement that Mr. Stevens was from |
the first a rabid aunexationist, and]
that he wrote those much talked |
about letters to Mr. Blaine, asking in-|
structions in case of the overthrow of
the queen, with the full expectation
that such an event would take place
during his term of office, just as Mr.
Blount's report charged him with hav-
ing done. Under ordinary ecircum-|
stances the impudent and insulting |
letters written by President Dole of the |
provisional government to Minister |
Willis would arouse great public in- |
dignation, but what could be expected
when publications in prominent Uni- |
ted States papers are considered.
Any sort of misrepresentation seems
to go down with the anti-administra-
tion papers. For instance, Mr. Has
tings, who was in charge of the Hawa-
iian legation here during Minister
Thurston's absence, was not invited to
the State dinner given by President
and Mrs. Cleveland to the diplomatic
corps, and straightway the anti-ad-
ministration papers made it the basis
for a lot of silly stories alleging that
the invitation was withheld because
the administration was unfriendly to
the present Hawalian government.
An inquiry at the State Department, |
through which these invitations are
always sent, would have shown the!
concoctors of these stories that Has
tings did not fil an official position
which entitled him to an invitation, |
but sensations, not facts, are what |
these papers want,
of her immense popularity with the |
able novelty to her,
A member of the cabinet who was
asked what he thought of the adverse
criticism publicly made by Democrats
in Congress of the proposed bond is-
sue, said: “I grant the right of free
speech which I demand for myself to
every man, but I must say that these
criticisms would have come with bet
ter grace had the men who indulged
in them shown any real disposition to
prevent the issue of bonds in the only
practical manner—by providing the
money that they knew as well as Sec-
retary Carlisle did the Treasury must
have if it would escape defaulting in
the payment of its obligations, in some
other way. [he administration did
not wish to issue bonds, and only de-
cided to do so when it became appa~
rent that Congress would not afford
immediate relief, and after becoming
fully satisfied of its legal right to do so
under the law of 1875.” It is not be-
lieved here that either of the several
resolutions that have been introduced
in the Benate concerning this issue of
CE
age of either of them or of Representa-
tive Bailey's resolution by the House
would affect the matter in either way.
The offers for the $50,000,000 bonds to
be issued have gone away up in the
hundreds of millions, and the premi-
ums offered will make the interest
equivalent to 2 1-2 per cent. or lower.
Much regret is felt in the Senate at
Senator Walthall’s resignation, and
the hope is expressed on all sides that
his health will improve sufficiently
for him to resume his seal at the be-
ginning of the next term, to which he
has already been elected,
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A LOSS TO ATTORNEYS,
i
No More Referee Fees Under the
Equity Rules.
The new equity rules promulgated
by the supreme court, which take ef-
fect March 1, contain radical changes.
\ THE
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Cqndensed for Convealence Cat them o
\} for Reference.
Citizens frequently inquire of us of
BORO ORDINANCES,
tions; for the benefit of all, we print
below, in condensed form, the con-
tents of our boro ordinances, viz:
On Streets,
and the turnpike as streets, |
On Pavements. i
Sec. 1. Shall be 6 feet width : along |
unimproved lots, not less than 4 feet. |
Bee. 2. Council must notify owners |
to build walks ; on failure to comply, |
council to do it at expense of lot own- |
Sec, 3. Repairs to be made after 10
All owners of lots, grounds, or other |
real estate, fronting on any street,
The master in chancery is abolished, |
and unless the parties toa suit in equi- |
ty agree on a referee the judges of the
common pleas court are requested to
hear the cases and decide them. Eith-
er side can have the questions of fact
referred to a jury, but the judge is not
bound by the jury’s finding. When a
hearing in an equity case is started it
must go on continuously the same as a
adjournment. The party asking the
When a case is referred to a referee
his compensation during his actual
service shall be paid at a per diem rate
the annual salary received by a com-
mon pleas judge by 300. For a portion
His powers are similar to those now
invested in a master in chancery. |
The new rules are intended to do]
away with the delay which equity
suits are pow subject to and to lessen
the cost to litigants,
masters now are high.
The fees allowed |
Law stenogra-
rules, i
for there will be few fat pickings for |
the court stenographers will be bene-
fitted if they are paid the usual fees
for their services, for they will get the
most of the equity work. The work |
of the county judges will be greatly in- |
creased by the new rules,
EE
A Peculiar Family,
A correspondent to the Harrisburg |
Call has located a very peculiar fami- |
ly at Munson's station, Clearfield coun- |
ty. The article states: The family is
composed of seven children, each of |
which hus a distinctive peculiarity in
making up. The eldest, a boy of eight-
een, has thirteen fingers and thirteen |
He has seven fingerson his right |
hand and six Lig left, and seven
toes on his left foot and six on his
right. Next to him is another boy, |
sixteen years old. As long as the boy |
is quiet- 5o one would suppose there |
was anything unusual about him, but |
the moment he opens his mouth to
talk he loses all control of his hands,
arms, feet and legs, and they jerk and
work and kick around as if they were
hung on wires. The boy is slow of]
speech as his limbs are active, and in |
answering a single question it is no |
uncommon thing for his legs to have |
carried him a rod or more away before
he is able to articulate yes or no. The |
third child is a girl, who is a hunch- |
back and a dwarf. She Is fourteen |
years old. A boy next to her is deaf
dumb. The fifth child has a bright
red birth mark, encircling her neck
It is an
inch wide. The other two children |
are twins, 2 years old-—a boy and a girl.
The boy's head is covered with a dense
growth of hair, while the girl has not
the sign of a hair on her head, her poll
toes,
Ol
billiard ball. The girl is fat and the
When the boy cries the girl
fellow is merry the girl yells and sheds
tears, so that one of them is laughing
or crying most of the time.
A A A So
New Kind of Sight Draft,
Two young ladies called on Tuesday
at the residence of Cyrus Kitchen,
president of the suspended Meadville
Bavings bank, and, according to Mrs.
Kitchen's story, demanded $800 on de-
posited in the bank by their father.
One of the girls seized Mrs, Kitchen,
the latter says, and holding a loaded
revolver to her head, threatened to
blow her brains out if the money was
not produced immediately. The girls
are Miss Lucy Jobe, a teacher, and her
sister Minnie, a dealer in hair goods,
They were arrested.
Notice,
All taxes not paid by February 1st,
will have five per cent, additional add-
el. J. T. Porren,
Tax collector Potter twp.
Jjanl8-2¢
oe Bellefonte, is making a
shall make sidewalks at their own ex-!
See. 1. Forbids streets and alleys to |
be blocked with material. i
2. Filth or other obstructions
forbidden in alleys.
See. 3. Carcases of dead animals not
permitted in streets or alleys, i
Sec.
{in
Owners of lots to make gutters at
their own expense. ®
Tar on Shows,
All shows charging admission, shall,
(Futters,
ten dollars. t
High
Sec. 1. Shall take up strays, between |
8 p.m. and 5 a, m.
Constable,
Council to Fl
. 1. Council shall street
commissioner, a chief of police, and |
other police if needed. i
ect,
Sec elect a
Bec. 8. Any boro officer neglecting
his duty to be fined ten dollars, |
On Crossings,
Sec. 1. Fine
walk.
Sec. 2. Fine §5 for obstructing cros-
sing by horse, mule or vehicle,
Bec. 3. Fine $ for mutilating plant
or shade tree along street.
$
&r
$5 for driving on side
Disturbing the Peace,
Sec. 1. For disturbing the peace fine
not to exceed $10,
Bec. 2. For being drunk on street or
Sec. 3. Boys or men not to gather
to exceed $10.
Omni
Sec. 1, 2 and Pay for high consta-
ble, police and street commissioner as
fixed by council.
See. 1. Complaint must be made to
burgess for any violation of ordinance.
Sec. 2. Any person aggrieved for vi-
olation of ordinances, to make com-!
{ Rl nacel ion,
“<
he
i
Sule by Huckslers,
Sec, 1. No one shall sell any goods
from stand or auction, within the bo-
ro, without license from the burgess, |
not less than $1 or more than § for
Shows and Exhibitions,
Sec. 1, 2and 8. Must procure a li-
cense from the chief burgess, ‘
Amusement Stands,
Sec. 1 and 2. All to pay $2 per day
for dancing floor kept for pay.
*Repeatedly violated by charging re-
pairs, &e., on walks of favorites to |
the other tax-payers, thro smuggle. |
tThis excepts none within the boro 1i-|
mits, eile inside or outside al
fair ground ; there is no law and can |
be none, that does not place all on |
same footing. Violated every year, |
boro officers swear they will enforce |
the ordinances. i
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used |
Electric Bitters sing the sama song of |
praise.—A purer medicine does not ex-
ist and it is guaranteed to do all that
is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure
all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, |
will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt
Rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood.—~Will drive Malaria
from the system and prevent as well as
cure all Malarial fevers.—For cure of
Headache, Constipation and Indiges-
tion try Electric Bitters— Entire satis-
faction guaranteed, or money refund-
ed.~~Price 50 cts. and $1.00 per bottle
at J. D. Murray's Drugstore,
missin AMA
Condemning Check Reins,
Over five hundred veterinary sur-
geons have signed a paper condemn-
ing tight check reins, so painful to
horses and causing distortion of the
windpipe to such a degree as to im-
pede respiration. Paralysis of the mus-
cles of the face, megrims, apoplexy,
coma and inflammation are some of
the results. By holding the head up-
ward it puts the muscles of the neck
on a constant strain and exposes the
eye to the direct rays of the sun.
foods. A big chance for p
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| NOW AN OFFICE OF DIGNITY AND
POWER:
The Law Passed by the Last Legislature
Clearly Defined: ~All Boroughs
Within Its Provisions.
Apropos the coming borough elec-
tion it would be well for our voters to
become familiar with the new Chief
Burgess act, which was introduced in
the Senate last winter by Senator
Hackenberg, of Northumberland coun-
ty. Itapplies to all and
gives the Burgess the veto power and
makes the termi of office three years.
The act follows in five sections,
Sec. 1. The qualified voters of every
in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania shall, on the third Tues-
day of February, Anno
thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four, and triennially thereafter, vote
for and elect a properly qualified per- |
of said
boroughs, who will serve for the term
boroughs
borough
Domini ons
i!
son for Chief Burgess in each
the office for the next succeeding term.
Sec. 2. Buch Chief Burgess shall
for |
member |
appointment during the term
which he is elected, nor be a
of nor preside at the meetings of the
Town Council or said borough. jut
said meetings shall be presided over
num-
presi-
such Cuoncil from among their
ber, and in the absence of such
dent pro tem.
SEC, 3.
and
lution which shall be passed by
Every ordinance reso-
said
Couneil shall be presented to the Chief
DTOY
i
buat if he shall not
Burgess of said borough; if he aj Ve
he shall sign it, ap-
BUSINESS RESUMPTION,
Reports from sll Sections. Thousands
Getting Employ,
ter’s many readers we condense reports
of business resumptions within
past few days :
has resumed and has 25
now with orders ahead.
now nearly all ranning full time.
the his-
in glass was had last week in
At Bellevernon, Pa., the pot furna-
ces have started up again,
At Tarentum the glass furnaces are |
resuming with employment for 500 |
men. i
The Hawley, Pa., glass comp. star- |
ted its 6-pot furnaces,
At Royersford the large glass works
have resumed.
At Steubenville, O., the large
works resumed on Sunday night, em- |
ploying 600 men. :
At Uniontown, Pa. both
ries are running full time.
gloss. |
the facto-
At Orestee, Ind., the glass works are
now being greatly enlarged,
The Kent, O., glass works have
Feb, 6, for resumption.
The Franklin, Ind., gl
gan work on Monday.
The Elmira, Martins Ferry, Barnes-
ville, Findlay and other glass works |
ws works |
have resumed.
In Philadelphia about all the carpet
the
section are resuming and giving all
and weaving mills in northeast
their old hands employment.
or
=
resumed
Al
giving
The Reading rolling mill
on 22, giving employ to 400 men.
#0 the Mt Penn
employ to 200
stove
Works
Also
works,
wy Hien.
and n
employ to 500 men.
4 by
Sleraburg
vars ‘yd \
boit it giving
EH
4
with his
the next
regular meeting when said objections |
prove he shall return i
ob- |
jections to sald Council at
shall be entered at large on the minute |
book and said Council shall proceed |
to a reconsideration of such ordinance
or resolution. If after such considera |
of all the
i members |
elected to said Council shall
tion two-thirds
vole to}
it}
shall become and be as of full force and |
if said Chief had |
signed it, but in such votes
pass such ordinance or resolution,
effect as Burgess
cases the
termined by the veas and nays, and |
the names of the members voting shall |
be entered the minutes of said |
Council: Provided, That
number of Councilmen than
nine 8 majority of Council and one |
vote more shall be required to pass an |
ordinance over the veto. If such or-
shall not be re
turned by the Chief Burgess at the!
next regular meeting of said Council |
after the same shall have been present- i
on
when the
is less
to him, the same shall likewise become
and be in as full force and effect as if
be had signed it: Provided, That be- |
fore any ordinance shall come into |
force and effect as aforesaid the same
shall be recorded in the borough ordi- |
nance book with the certificate of the |
secretary and be advertised as hereto- |
fore required by law,
Sec. 4. That from and after the
passage of this act the office of assist- |
ant burgess in all the boroughs of this |
commonwealth shall be and the same |
is hereby abolished. !
Sec 5. All acts or parts of acts in-|
consistent herewith are hereby repeal- |
ed.
icf} iesimm——
Will Hart Summer Schools,
The decision recently rendered by |
struction, Dr. Schaeffer, that public
school books purchased by the State
dare not be used at subscription schools
have a tendency to put an end to
what has been known as summer
schools, Parents will not feel dispos-
ed to purchase books for their children
mer months. Dr. Schaefter is right |
in his decigion, for summer schools are
the same as private and their teachers
would have no responsibility for the
State's property, and hence should
not be allowed to use it.
A MSS A ———
A Dangerous Playing.
William, a fifteen-year-old son of F,
A. McMullen, living at the Morris
lime kilns, along Buffalo Run, Satur
day afternoon had his face badly burn-
ed by coming in too close proximity
to an exploding fuse of powder. He
was amusing himself with it and con-
cluded to set it off, which he did, and
the whole force lodged in his face.
His eyes are blinded so that he has not
been able to see anything since the
accident, The physicians think sight
ean be restored.
Winter weather demands a warm
overcoat and you can get such a one as
you need at a small figure at Lewins,
assortment is large,
At Lancaster the Farnum
announced
%
that
I, they will run four days in the we
after Feb,
k
and employ NE) men.
The Hummelstown
tone
slong
quarries
and 25 stone cutters.
A paper mill
ing built at Watervliet,
x £300.000 is be-
Mich.
y Cost
gp
How to Reach Fame,
Secretary of State works
if you desire to
do
Gresham
seven days a week.
become a famous secretary, as Gire-
sham does, work seven days a week.
Professor David Swing finds recrea-
tion in working like a laborer on a
fam-
a laborer on a
farm. Ifyou wish to become a
ous professor, work like
farm.
Jim M'Willan, the Detroit
aire, began life as clerk in
ware store. If you would be
naire begin life as a clerk in a hard-
ware store ; or do like
John Bhults, the millionaire
million-
a hard-
a millio-
baker
life as a working baker. Begin life
working baker, to be a millionaire
ker and horseman.
The motto on Sir William Thomas |
Lewis’ family coat of arms is, “Gwna
a ddylit doed a ddelo” (Do thy duty,
come what may). If you would be a
then “Gwna a ddylit |
as
ba- |
The Reporter will let the above suf-|
fice for the present.
il ns
About the Big Shows,
Forepaugh's show lost money last |
season and will not go out the coming |
spring. The show business was poor |
The Forepaugh show is |
the greater part of the Barnum show.
He has placed all the animals of the |
Forepaugh show in the zoological gar- |
den at Washington, together with |
their keepers, where they stay until |
they take the road again in thé spring |
of 1895. The Barnum show will trav- |
el over the whole country next year, |
instead of only over one section as be-|
fore, when it divided the territory with :
the Forepaugh show, and will visit on-
ly the large cities. In towns that used
to yield the Barnum show £7,000 to $8,-
000, the receipts last year were as low |
as $2,600,
Rss AM BA
Their Favorite Colors.
Red is the standard color on all roll-
ing stock on the Pennsylvania railroad,
and on all lines leased or controlled by
this company east or west of Pittsburg.
All ears are painted red ou the outside
while the upholstering in the passen-
ger coaches is in red plush, The Bal-
timore and Ohio prefers a deep wine
color as its standard, while all of the
Pullman cars are painted a dark brown
and the interior of the different cars
are finished in a variety of pleasing
shades. The Illinois Central and Chi-
ago, Burlington and Quincey both have
a weakness for yeliow. The Boston
and Maine paint their ears white, and
for this reason the road is known as
the “ghost line.”
Laan cm tl
«Do you need a pair of heavy rub-
ber boots ot shoes or anything else in
NO. 4
AN GLD RESIDENT DIES,
Thomas Mayes a Former Centre County
Man,
From the Lewistown Gazette we
i glean the following facts about the life
| and death of Mr. Thomas Mayes, an
{ old Centre county man, and a repre-
| sentative of one of the oldest families
lin Centre and Mifflin counties, whose
{ death occurred on last Sunday morn-
{ ing after an illness of over a year.
The deceased was almost seventy-
| four years of age, having been born
{ near Potters Mills, Centre county, on
He came to Lewis-
town in the spring of 1844, where he
He
prominent hotel keeper in this pisece
the railroads
furnished an outlet for the product of
has resided ever since. was a
before
many years ago,
Centre, Clearfield and other counties,
Lewistown on
and
this place by boat, and
Wagons shipped from
during which
time he gainedan extensive acquain-
tance throughout the state, mdny of
him 1}
beyond the river of time.
He is survived a i
and four daughters—Albert C. Mayes,
Mrs. O. C, Chesney, Mrs. David Pratt
and Mrs, Benjamin Pawling, all
Lewistown, Mrs,
residing at Salina, Kas,
those who knew ving passed
ii
bv aif, .
Oy wile, one 80
i
ing in ana
fitchel,
»
. |
Wl —
Must Sign or Coit
Ce
Lise
lepublican manufacturers of Pi
burg are bound to have large petitions
to Washingt
against the Wilson
what means are used to get them
to send protesting
no matter
The
word has gone oul from the Republi-
The
means used to get the papers have just
1
can national headquarters,
come to light. Each employe is asked
4 forma
£3 Bign
gn his name entering his protest
to the Wilson bill. If he oft
goes his head.
refuses
The other day it transpired that one
ign did not.
John Devlin
the Lockhart
Com works at
is a married msn
Hq
father of children.
man who was asked to s
He is now out of a job.
has been employed in
Rteel
Iron and
McKee's Rocks,
and the
Last Monday one of
any
five
EO
the bosses went
the
boss
around with a inst
Wilson bill. At the sig}
the men stepped up and attached their
When the
Devlin he said he did not care to sign.
petition
it of the
4
:
signatures, boss reached
A day or so later the superintendent
told Devlin that he had decided to dis-
Devlin asked
Tatnall recall-
had refused to
That
pense with his services.
why. Superintendent
od the fact that Devlin
t Wilson bill
was all there was about
Many more forced into
g the papers merely through the
signing
fear of losing their positions.
sign the protest,
it
men are
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Met With a Horrible Death.
Harry Printz, a well-known freight
conductor on the Sunbury and Lewis-
town railroad, horrible
death on Wednesday about eleven
o'clock. 1 in du-
ties in Selinsgrove yard and was walk-
ing or standing between two tracks
while some cars were being poled
along one track, the engine and one
car being on the other track. Harry
met with a
He was engage his
engine and was
down and rum over. The
car ran over him and his body was
under the engine when it stopped.
He was frightfully mangled and death
Harry Printz was one of the best
known and most popular employes of
He frequently served
as extra passenger conductor. He was
quiet, courteous and accommodating,
and was universally esteemed.
: Talmage Steps Down,
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage start-
lyn Tabernacle on Sunday night by
announcing his resignation of his of-
fice as pastor of the church,
He had just preached a sermon of
unusual eloquence, through which
had run a sorrowful vein.
After he had finished the sermon
proper he said: “This coming spring
1 shall have been pastor of this church
twenty-five years, and a quarter of a
century is long enough for any minis.
ter to preach in one place. Af that an
niversary 1 will resign this pulpit and
it will be occupied by such persons as
you may select.”
The Tabernacle is heavily involved
in debt.
“Bohnestiehl” as a Premiuin,
You can have a copy of the celebra-
ted Pennsylvania Dutch letters, “Boh
nestiehl,” free, by sending three new
names, for one year, with cash in ad-
vance, for the Reporter. This book
will amuse you as often as you remd
people of the ‘Onited States) the
‘mously in favor of Dr. 1