VOL. LXVIIL.
NO. 9
CAPITOL GOSSIP
DISRUPTION oN THE WIL SON BILL
IN THE SENATE.
The Relief Mensures Do Not Meet With
the Sanction of Some Democratlie
Members.— Work of the Week.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Harmony
among the Democratic Senators on
the tariff bill is not yet as complete as
it might be, although concessions have
been made that it was hoped would se-
cure it. Having held the bill until
they could see no prospect of benefit
to be gained by further delay, the sub-
committee this morning submitted it
to the full Finance committee, which
in turn submitted it to a caucus of
Democratic Senators, not for the pur-
pose of compelling any Senator to sup-
port it but for a sort of family consul-
tation at which all complaints could
be heard and everybody could havea
chance to aid in bringing about the
harmonious action that will be abso-
lutely necessary to pass the bill, even
allowing that the Populist Senators
will vote for it, as they say they will
because of the retention of the income
tax. The caucus appears to have had
a good effect and Senators who have
been worrying are now smiling over
the prospects for Democratic unity.
It is expected that the Finance com-
mittee will at once report the bill to
the Senate, although there are indica
tions of an intention on the part of the
Republican members of the committee
to attempt to delay action on the plea
that they should be given time to pre-
pare a minority report against the bill.
They may be given several days to pre-
pare their report, but the Democratic
sentiment is so strongly in favor of
prompt and speedy action that their
time is bound to be cut short. They
should not really be given a day, as
the report can be made any time after
the bill bas been reported.
Much uneasiness is felt among Sen-
ators at the reports concerning the
condition of Senator Vance's health,
which is now said to be continually
getting worse. He has not been able
to perform any duties at this session,
but his friends—that includes every
one who ever came in contact with
him-—are loth to believe that his ill-
ness is hopeless, as press dispatches re
port it to be.
called for tomorrow, to map out the
outlines of the campaign w ork, and to
select a smaller committee to take act-
ual charge of it.
Bsn rm ——
YOU CAN DO IT,
By Saipping snd Clipping You Get $24
Value tor Ten Cents,
Just think of the delights of a trip
all over our own country from Alaska
to the Gulfof Mexico! And just think
of being able to do it in easy stages, at
ten cents “a stage,” including the ser-
vices of a guide! Yet, that is just
what the Pittsburg 7imes proposes to
do for you. Realistic pietures from
every part of America, done in new
process indellible typogravure deline-
ate the journey. The incomparable,
world famed traveler and lecturer,
Prof. George R. Cromwell is the guide.
Journalistic enterprise is the conduet-
or of the trip.
“America from Alasha to the Gulf
of Mexico,” will be published in week-
ly series of sixteen views (each view
TTX 13} inches, fully worth $1.50),
will embrace the physical and scenic
wonders of our own land, the whole
edited by Prof. G. R. Cromwell. Each
series will be enclosed in handsome
covers. To any of the readers of the
Pittsburg Zimes who will cut out six
coupons, differently numbered, and
bring or send them to the Pittsburg
Times office with ten cents to cover
cost of handling, the Times will give
or mail the first series which will be
ready March 10th, and which contains
the following views: The Capitol,
Washington; The Common, Boston;
Printing House Square, New York;
Seven Falls, Cheyenne Canon, Colora-
do; Chestnut St, Philadelphia; Minne
apolis; Auditorium Hotel, Chicago;
Long Sault Rapids, St. Lawrence Riv-
er; Temple Square, Salt Lake City;
Mountain House, Cresson Springs, Pa.
Washington Monument, Baltimore;
Horse Shoe Falls, Niagara; City of
Victoria, B. C. Sitka, Alaska.
There will be a new series each week
and all will be supplied on the same
terms. Order the Pittsbarg Times at
once. If there is no agent in your lo-
cality write for terms to agents. Sam-
ple copies of ““America’ are on exhibi-
tion at all principal news stands.
and
Mr
Upheld the Board,
Several weeks ago the Williamsport
school board adopted a resolution that
It has been apparent ever since this]
Congress got down to business that |
there was a weak spot in the rules of |
the House, but it was not until the®
long contest for a quorum to vote on the |
Bland bill for the coinage of the seig-
niorage, the end of which not in|
sight yet, showed the helplessness of |
House in the absence of a voting quo-
rum that members became fully arous-
ed to the necessity of a change. Bul
they are now, and nearly 150 Demo-
cratic members have signed a call for
a caucus to be held as soon as the
Bland bill is disposed of, to decide up-
on the nature of the change 1.
made. Democrats do not wish the
Speaker to follow Reed and count a
quorum, but a large majority of them
want a rule that will prevent mem-
bers sitting in the House and refusing
to vote to make a quorum, and they
are going to have one, too.
The Senate commitiee on Printing
has begun the investigatian of the
charges of the improper award of the
contract for publishing the Patent Of-
flee Gazette, but the evidence so far
taken amounts to nothing, and the
source from which the charges eame is
of itself almost sufficient to disprove
them.
A feeling among southern Democrats
in Congress on account of the reegnt
speech of ex-Congressman Abram 8S.
Hewitt, of New York, has been great-
ly exaggerated. With few exceptions
the southern Congressmen regard the
matter with entire indifference. Rep-
resentative Caruth, of Ky., says: “He
is in his dotage,” and Representative
MeMillen, of Tenn:, “I certainly shall
not make Mr. Hewitt a national issue
by talking about what he says’
Many of the older members recall nu-
merous instances of Mr. Hewitt's de-
votion when in the House to protec.
tion and opposition to any tariff re
form that cut into any of the business
es that he or his father-in-law—the
late Peter Cooper—had money invest
ed in and smile at his k on Dem-
ocratic Congressmen of \ the present
day. When a member ‘of Congress
Mr. Hewitt enjoyed the utation of
being a common scold.
Senator Faulkner, of W, va, «chair
man of the Democratic Congressional
in
be
following gentlemen as members of
the executive committee: Senators
Jones, of Ark., White, of Cal.,, Mitch-
ell, of Wis., Smith, of N, J., and Pas
co, of Fla., and Representatives Pigott
of Conn., McAleer, of Pennsylvania,
Bynum, of Ind., McMillin, of Tenn,
McRae, of Ark., Whiting, of Mich,
Heard, of Mo., Wheeler, of Ala., Jones,
of Va., and Forman, of Ill. A meet-
all children who failed to be wvacecin-
nated would be prohibited froma attend-
ing school on and after February 19th.
Sixty petitioners applied to the court
for an injunction to restrain the board
| from enforcing the order, alleging that
{the board had no authority to take
i such action. Judge Metsger Saturday
refused to grant the injunction, stat
ing thas he believed the board had the
right to frame and enforce such a reso-
ces in that city.
ci fps Mo
Deserving Praise.
We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump-
tion, Dr. King's New Life Pills, Buck-
len’s Arnica Salve and Eleetrie Bit-
ters, and have handled reme-
dies that sell as well, or that have giv-
en such universal satisfaction. We do
not hesitate to guarantee them every
time, and we stand ready refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory re-
sults do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popu-
larity purely on their merits. Sold by
J. D. Murray, Druggist,
cin iil ibis
Church Decision,
never
to
An opinion has been rendered by
Judge Mayer upon the report of the
master who had taken testimony in
the contest between the warring fac-
tions of the St. John's Evangelical
church, at Bethlehem, and who had
decided in favor of the Bowman-Esh-
er faction. Theopinion of Judge May-
er disanisses seventy-seven opinions
that had been filed by the attorneys
representing Rev, A. D. Shultz and
others, defendants. This is a victory
for the Bowman-Esher faction.
A fp
State News Items,
For having been put off a street car
at Pittsburg, after having paid his fare
W. Laird received $143 damages from
the Widener-Elkins line.
It has been decided that the work
on the electric rallway between Lock
Haven and Mill Hall shall commence
as soon as spring opens.
Mr. and Mrs. Dornblaser, of Lock
Haven, celebrated the fiftieth anni
versary of their wedding.
: Spectacles Lost.
Mrs. Geo. L. Goodhart last Sabbath,
at or near the Presbyterian church,
in this place, Jost a pair of gold spec
tocles, with cise. The finder will be
suitably rewarded by returning same,
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MARCH FORECASTS
Hicks' Predictions for the Com
ing Month,
We copy from Word and Works the
following weather forecasts for March:
We begin with repetition our
Rev, Irl RR,
i of
About the 5d the beginning of a storm
period will show itself in westerly
gions by a falling barometer and rising
temperature. The winds will shift to
southerly, the thermometer will con-
tinue to rise and the barometer to fall
until extremes of both are reached, and
until general and violent storms devel
ope and start on their eastward career,
The first storm period would end
der normal conditions about
but the
and combined
Mars, Earth
the crisis, a series of har
I'é-
uti=
thie 7th,
new moon falling on that date
disturbing powers of
and Venus being so
and
near
danger-
ous storms will most likely centre
about the 7th, stormi-
urbances
Daring
with continued
dist
Oth.
will be vio-
ness past the reactionary
central on the Sth and
all these dist
lent conflie
urbances there
ts between the tropical and
polar storms, with heavy rains and
strong probabilities of tornadoes in
especially southward,
to blizzards
blockades in more
Sudden and ext
pected and preparations made
the rear of these storms or surprise
suffering are sure to result. On
the 11th isthe annual
electrical
many places,
and turning and
northerly
reme cold must be ex-
SNOW
regions,
for it in
and
and
touching crisis
for magnetic
tions.
The 14th is the centre
and
of
the
regular period.
to that date indications
parts of the continent will pl
show that energetic storms are
ing. Watch the temperature,
weather reports, your own barometer
and the clouds. During the 13th to
17th the storms will reach their
and make their sweep from the
in
ainly
the
west-
of storms
tinent. At the close
section in its turn will be struck by
son. Centering on the 20th, Zist
eclipse of same, the equinoctial centres
of Mercury, Earth, Venus, Vulcan's
reactionary disturbances and the
rect pressure of the Mars equinox
which is central on February 25th.
who will carefully read our chapter on
“Foundation Facts’ in our almanac
will understand our for ad-
monishing the public of great probal
land and
centering
reasons
danger at this time on “00.
Unless this unusual of #0
many disturbing
Vernal equinox shall
ing, balancing effect
understand,
forces right at
neutralize
do
violent
have
4 that we not
forsee or much
phenomena is sure to result. Expect
evelonie storms of great extent result
ing in tornadic along
southern tangents and blizzards to the
north, all to be followed by
features
a
of Florida.
The last storm period for March
run from 25th to 29th, inclusive,
same characteristics as those of earlier
periods of the month,
storms culminate in every h
perature heavy hail with thunder
lightning may looked for.
month will close cold and
ally.
hig
be
Wc fp cg
The Judgeship
The president
ning to interest the people of this dis-
trict, mostly on the Republican side.
A few days ago the
most unanimously requested president
judge Furst, whose term will expire at
the end of the present year, to be a
candidate for re-election. In response
judge Furst sent a written report to
the bar, in which he expressed his gra-
tification at the unanimity and earn-
estness of their request, and signified
his willingness to be a candidate,
J. G. Love, esq., will also be a can.
didate.
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Antietam Commission,
General Greenland has furnished
Governor Pattison with the names of
100 distinguished ex-soldiers who par-
ticipated with the Pennsylvania troops
in the battle of Antietam. The Gov
ernor will select from the list fifteen or
twenty to serve as a commission to act
in conjunction with Col. J. P. Stearns
and Gen. H. Heth, the Antietam
board at Washington, in locating the
positions held by the troops from this
state at the battle, The commission
will be announced in a few days and
will serve without compensation,
A
~(iinghams that were 8 cts. and 10
ots, are now 6 ots. Prints that were
8 cts. are now 5 cts, and other corrie-
ponding bargains you will find at
Wolf & Crawford's,
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i
THE JURYMEN
COURT,
Commencing on the
4th Monday of April,
Is Your Name on the List —-Wheoe
They Are,
GRAND JURORS 1st WEEK,
H. H. Osman, Worth twp.
John D. Miller, Shoe,
Win. OC. Bhowers, Bellefonte,
H. B. Bellefonte.
Harrison Kline, Spring.
Joseph M. ( Potter,
Frank Thompson, Marion.
Elmer 1a ‘urtin.
W. K. Alexander. Millhelim.
W. W. Spangler, Liberty.
Thomas Merryman, Taylor.
Samuel Ard,
Joh n =. {3
SHOW
Pontius,
cas,
Penn.
ray, Philipsburg.
Simon Bathur Be
J. W. Wolf,
Edward Marshall,
W. E. Burrell,
Frank B.
J. Clare F
Jolin Bru
Wm. Whit
Win. Bneddon,
H. ]
WwW. H.
I'e
Hall.
Patton.
Gregg.
Centre
ellefonte,
ville.
stover, |
ultz, Union
. Huston
ton, Rush.
Ruow Shoe.
Herring, Gregg.
Musser, Boggs.
Ist WEEK
Frank Smith, College twp.
B. Myers,
John I.
R. ¢
ts,
Jd. K.
Wm.
Wm. Grove, )
Henry Weaver,
Jas. T Tavl
Joan Harpster,
John Johnson,
Ira NX. Mot
John Gi. Bailey,
Frank McKoy,
Dwight Jones, Philipsburg.
Jacob Potter,
Wm. Bellefonte,
Chas Haines,
I. 8. Frain, Marion,
F. F. Jamison, Gregg.
John I. Polter,
Wm. L. Fe
Fillmore Craig,
Wi.
T. A. Bayder,
A. L. Cowher,
Oliver Whitmer,
Wall, Mil eR,
Daniel Woodring,
Elmer Williams, Huston.
W. F. Courter, Liberty.
Elias Hancock,
I. J. Dreese, O
Wm, Thompson,
WwW Musser, Grege.
Wm. Laws, Phil
John Mechtley,
wv, J. C. Young, Spring.
Jellefonte.
AVERSE JURORS
8 Jogus.
Olewine, Bellefonte.
Howard twp.
Bog
Keller Pot
Soave is, Ww
il
. Leathers,
Ss.
ter.
alker.
¥,
ere,
Taylor,
1
I. iberty
, Loss, Or,
Union.
Snow Shoe.
loskey, Liberty.
Ferguson,
tellefon te,
sion .
howers,
ower,
el) sfante,
sollege.
are.
# sup
paler,
, College
Liberty.
Worth,
Benner.
Tibbens
{ fe003
Bellefonte.
13
virions
PORT,
oliege,
11
¥
College.
IPpEDUrg
K.
Benner,
Yaskson showers,
. H. Doyle, Philipsburg.
n dward Cole, Walker.
W. W. McCormick, Potter.
John P. Moore, College.
J. I. Yarnell, Snow Shoe.
Samuel C. Hoy, Walker.
Foster V. Jodon, Spring.
Wm. Dunwiddie, Philipsburg.
TRAVERSE JURORS 2nd WEEK.
Potter Tate, Marion.
James Black; Philipsburg.
8, W. Johnstonbaugh, Patton.
Harry Simler, Philipsburg.
Samuel Swartz, Potter.
John Kuhns, Polter.
Shaman Lyon, Spring.
Edward Quick, Snow Shoe.
J. L. Hollick, Rush.
Calvin Bottorf, Potter.
Wm. Brooks, Boggs.
Geo. W. Jackson, Bellefonte.
E. T. Hicklen, Howard.
Levi Whippo, Bellefonte.
Joseph L. Gardner, Howard twp.
James Nixon, Philipsburg.
Jacob N. Royer, Miles,
John W. Gray, Halfmoon.
F. W. Confer, Haines.
James M. Weaver, Haines.
James Houser, Spring.
Wm. Riddle, Howard.
John L. Dunlap, Bellefonte,
Edward Rupp, Bellefonte.
Wm. L. Wilson, Halfmoon.
Daniel Daup, Potter.
D. P. Bhope, Boggs.
Jos. R. Bumgardner, Liberty.
John Bilger, Spring.
Jonathan Dinges, Penn.
John Homer, Philipsburg.
Philip Iddings, Rush.
James Heverly, Milesburg.
John Peace, Boggs.
Calvin Auman, Miles,
James Carner, Walker,
Poor Honse Won.
The,vote for the building of a poor
house in Clearfield county won by a
majority of over 200. This will stop
the farming out paupers, reduce the
numbers and add to the comfort of the
worthy poor,
E. Genseuleiter, Liveryman, Pitts
CENTRE COUNTY FARMERS,
| An Interesting Two Days’ Institute at Re.
bersbuarg.
A local Farmers’ Institute was held
in the Reformed church at Reber sburg
on Wednesday and Thursday of last
It was held under the auspices
| under the special supervision of Hon,
John A. Woodward, of the
board from Howard.
Three sessions were
member
held each day,
| and the people showed their apprecia-
tion by being present.
and interesting place for sll pres-
ent. It was a place to gain
tion about the various modes of tilling
and treating the soil.
Two Professors from
and
able
late
present interesting
oAve
ave
tion of learning for the farmers,
Prof. from West Chester,
was present during a
Rothrock,
portion of
institute
ed the
estry.
CC. M. Bower,
and very agreeably entertain-
audience with a k
Fsq.,
and explained the
of law in reference to Bupervisors and
Poor.
morning session,
of the time, points
Overseers of the
At the
as chairman, the ad-
dress of welcome was delivered by Rev
by Col. J.
Aaronsburg. “The
was the sub-
of Rebersburg
and response
Coburn, of
J.
session
dJrumgard,
with
of Re
“Success in fattening cat-
morning closed
for the
“Experience with
WOVer,
" by Joel A.
from Clinton county, and
“The stabling and care of dairy cows,”’
by W. H. OC
The programme afternoon
by D. D.
aldwell, Assistant Profess-
The principal address-
evening session were made
A. Harter, on
Farmer's Daughter,”
Grundy, member from
How to buy
J. Waters,
John A.
Union county,
and use fertilizers,”
Prof. of Agriculture,
on wheat
on **
This institute was the occasion which
brought the farmers of th the
county together to exchange thought.
is end of
Many agreed and many disagreed
When the
farming pay?"
siibhjoects
“Does one
leading citizens and a retired
numerous
iy
the sheriff could not find places enough
He was strongly op-
in his
conceptions, but the assertion was cer-
been wrong
In our recollection no farm in Miles
for a number of years. The condition
been the
concerned any fown-
bered.
isos cH SAP RII
A Farmer's Compensation.
It has been asked what compensa-
tion a farmer is entitled to for erecting
and maintaining a watering trough at
the side of a public road. The road
law of 1886 says that any one who may
erect a suitable watering trough on a
public road or highway and keeps the
same in repair is entitled toa fee not
exceeding five dollars, to be agreed up-
the trough and the township supervis-
or. These watering troughs shall be
approved by the supervisor, and but
one trough in every five miles can have
the benefit, the oldest trough having
the preference.
mi MS MAB
Fatally Assanited His Wife:
At East Waterford, near Mifflin.
town, on last Thursday night, R. E.
Burdge, a merchant, in a drunken
frenzy made a deadly assault on his
wife at their home, beating her into
insensibility. Leaving her for dead,
he immediately procured a gun and
fired a shot into his own head, dying
instantly.
————— A AY SAN RRS
“Hohnestiehl” as a Premiom,
You can have a copy of the celebra-
ted Pennsylvania Dutch letters, '‘Boh-
nestiehil,” 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 read
any of the 150 letters.
Wear boots and shoes suitable to
the season. At Mingle's, Bellefonte
you will find them iv men's and boys
amt and men's rubber boots.
most reasonable prices and in
THE MUNCY MYSTERY
A Fortune Teller Deseribes an Attempt to
Murder Houseknecht
On Tuesday Jacob Houseknecht,
son of the missing Muncy man, was in
the city, and went to a noted fortune
teller in search of information concern-
ing his father’s whereabouts, After
arriving at the house, rap on the
door brought an old woman to the
front, and on being told what was
wanted she invited Mr. Houseknecht
and a Times reporter in, who, by the
way, of
a
i
brother
Muney.
ways of
Was supposed tobe a
| the young man from near
The fortune teller had two
| telling, one by card and the
| “the diamond.” Ar “the
was the better way, the
i told the lady to proceed,
{ by telling him he had
{ farm life, and then he
i she knew about his father.
other by
diamond’
Young man
Mh
been
began
used to
asked her what
After
scribing him as being a short set
{she told that Issacher
whose initials she
de-
man
Houseknecht,
bio
and where
chanced
gave, went to a
hie
a gold watch was being off.
| She claims “that he did leave the
i hotel in question until eleven o'clock.
| While in the room he displayed
considerable money, which did
gang
| tel west of wher lived,
not
bar
not
that hangs
{ around the place waiting for an oppor-
{tunity to rob. He drew the
{ watch. He left the hotel and was fol-
| lowed by these men, who were shortly
| afterward joined by two others,
“Houseknecht had been drinking;
these men got him off in a quiet place
{ and began to rob him. He pulled his
coat part way off and the taller man of
the two who helped do the work, pull-
ed the coat off entirely. While there
were four men present, two did
the work. The shorter man grabbed
Houseknecht by the throat, and, with
threw
£8
{ cape the eyes of a
3
Riss
only
him to the ground.”
“During the scuffle Houseknecht
dropped his mittens, crackers fell out
of his pocket and the gold watch
that the
old man was getting the better of them,
the smaller man fired three shots, two
third
also
Reeing
“Houseknecht was not dead when
the men carried him away, but it
ix
hard to tell whether he alive or
The
has been
secreted in a dark building nearby, in
which horses are kept. It looks like
a barn. He is being taken care of by
two women. While search has been
going on for some time past, you have
not looked in the place I mean.
“These men knew your father
clerk knows them.
They are known crooks and in with a
is
As
Many other interesting things were
will
will swear out a search warrant
search the place intimated by
The place in
and
his ad-
question, Mr.
teller
Times,
described it. Williamsport
ms as A — —
A Long Lost Order
J. E. Oswald, of Union township,
was in town last week and gave us an
item says the Clearfield Republican.
During the Winter of 1874 a young
man named James Osborne was the
teacher of the school in Union town-
ship, at Home Camp, and in attempt-
ing to board a train on the L. G. Div.
was thrown under the cars and killed.
The clothing worn by him [was care
fully put away and only recently an
order for $30 was found in the pocket
of his vest issued by the Union town-
ship School Board in 1874. The order
was presented for payment last week
and although twenty years almost
have elapsed the blood stains are plain.
ly discernavle on the order.
Stns AA YA
A Million Friends,
A friend in need is a friend indeed,
and not less than one million people
have found just such a friend in Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump-
tion, Coughs, and Colds.-—If you have
never used this great Cough’ Medicine,
one trial will convince you that it has
wonderful curative powers in all dis-
eases of Throat, Chest, and Lungs,
Each bottle is guaranteed to do all
that is claimed or money will be res
funded. Trial bottles free at J. D.
Murray's Drug Store. Large bottles
50¢. and $1.00.
Worked the Wrong Jury.
A fellow in Indiana who had a case
in court pending trial took to
the jury men to gain their good will
and the result was that he got himself
2m {into a hole that will take him eigh-
teen months to get out of. i
~You will find a few Ladies’ coats
and Gents overcoats at Wolf & Craw.
ford’s that you can
No