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VOL. LXVIL.
CO. DEMOCRACY | x,
THE PRIMARY ELECTION AND |
COUNTY CONVENTION.
A Test of Endurance.
If you desire to know which has the
greatest powers of endurance, in a
rough and tumble fishing trip, inquire
of Tom Harter, of the Gazette, and
Bob Hunter, com. clerk. The first
| day's test was thro the brush, briars,
Laurel rocks, logs, and streams of the
| 7 Mts, from Garrity’s to where Rev.
The Democratic voters of Centre | Miller once had his sawmill plant, the
county will meet at the regular places | route one of the roughest to fish over
for holding the general elections in the | in Centre county’s creation. Thence
respective election districts, on Satur- [up a rough mountain gully, back to
day, June 9th, 1894, to elect delegates | Garrity’s, via the turnpike, entire dis-
to the county convention. Under the | tance about 9 miles, Returning they
rules of the party the election will be| were thundering hungry, and found a
open at 3 p. m. and close at 7 p. m. | steaming supper set by the writer. C.
The delegates chosen at the above stat- | R. Kurtz, of the Democrat, also went
ed time will meet in the court house over the ground. Supper over, and as
in Bellefonte, on Tuesday, June 12, |the test was a draw, the two first were
1894, at 12 o'clock noon, and nominate | eager to put in next day, Saturday, in
two candidates for Assembly, one can- | new territory. So we hooked up for
didate for Associate Judge, one candi- | Centre Hall, got a good sleep, a good
date for Jury Commissioner, and elect | bre akfast, and the two first left by
four delegates to the state convention | | early train to reach the head of Spring
for 1894; a chairman of the county com- | creek, and fished it in the direction of
The County Chalrman’s Proclamation. — |
Change of Thne.—~Apportionment of
Delegates and Districts,
PRIVATE TROUT STREAMS,
A Prominent Attorneys Opinion on the
Question,
The wide publication of Chief Jus-
tice Sterrett’s ruling as to private trout
streams has created considerable com-
ment among fishermen, and the gener-
al impression that many streams
hitherto considered private are declar-
ed public by this opinion has aroused
the friends of private streams to com-
bat that impression. A prominant at-
zette and Bulletin as follows:
To Tue Eprror: The recent attempt
of the press to interpret the opinion of |
Chief Justice Sterrett in Benscotor vs,
Long, 157 Pa., State Reports, page 208,
act of June 38, 1878, P. 1. 160.
The fact is the newspapers have mis- |
interpreted Chief Justice Sterrett and |
CAPITOL GOSSIP
UNCERTAINTY OF THE WILSON
TARIFF BILL.
Amendments Which ure
Odious,
Votes.
WASHINGTON, May 14.—1Is half a
loaf better than no bread? That is
the question that confronts the Demo-
erats who do not like many of the nu-
merous amendments to the Wilson tar-
mittee to serve from January first, |
1895, for one year, and to transact such
other business as the interests of the |
party may require.
APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES,
The number of delegates to whic hi
each election district is entitled, based | |
upon the vote for presidential electors | |
in 1892 is as follows;
Bellefonte N ho
Half Moon.
Harris.
Huston
Howard ...... ......... |
Liberty ........... nid §
1
!
i
Haines, w P.........c.o. |
3]
ed
Howard boro.........
Milesburg boro.......
Centre Hall boro..
Millheim boro...
Philipsburg Ist w
2ndw .
Mawmion . ..........
Miles, ep..
“ mp
MW Pos
Patton
Penn
Potte rnp
rd w..
South Philipabor. .
Unionville boro.
Benner tp...
on vB p-
“ *p-
Burnside...
College, e p..
pr] w
Snow Shoe, wp
Bpring,s p
. “np
Ferguson, ep... wp
Taylor.
Union
Walker
Worth
aiid bein be ls pp ie iu ha I Eo 3
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Total
Necessary for a nomination, 47 *l
On the 24th of April, 1894, the coun-
ty committee apportioned the county | |
into nine delegate districts, as follows: [t
First district.—Miles east, middle],
and west precincts; Haines east and
west precincts.
Second.—Millheim boro,
Gregg east and west precinets.
Third.—Gregg north precinet, Pot-|
ter north and south precincts and Cen-
tre Hall boro,
Fourth.—Harris, Ferguson east and |
west precincts and College east and!
west precincts,
Fifth. —Halfmoon, Patton, Tay lor, |
Worth, Huston, Union, Unionville]
boro and Benner. i
Sixth.—Philipsburg 1st, 2nd and 8rd |
wards, South Philipsburg, Rush north |
and south precinets, Burnside, Snow |
Bhoe west precinct. i
Seventh.—Snow Shoe east precinct, |
Boggs north and east precincts, Miles- |
burg boro, Curtin, Liberty, Howard |
boro and township.
Eighth.—Marion, Walker,
and south precincts of Spring.
Ninth.— Bellefonte north, south and |
west wards; Boggs west precinet
Spring west precinct.
The places of meeting for the pre-|
cinet delegates in each district, have
Penn,
north |
}
' i
follows: First district to meet at Mill- |
heim; second at Penn Hall; third at
Centre Hall; fourth at State College;
fifth at Port Matilda; sixth at Philips
burg; seventh at Howard; eighth and
ninth at Bellefonte.
The attention of Democratic voters
is called to the fact that each of these
delegate districts will be entitled to
elect a delegate to attend a judicial
convention representing the counties
of Centre and Huntingdon, for the
purpose of making a candidate for
President Judge; also a delegate to ut-
tend a senatorial convention, repre-
senting the counties of Centre, Clear-
field and Clinton, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for state sena-
tor; also a delegate to attend a con-
gressional convention representing the
counties of Centre, Clearfield, Clarion,
Elk and Forest.
It is recommended to the voters of
the several delegate districts that they
meet in caucus at their polling places
on Saturday, May 16th, 1884, at 6 p,
m., and elect representatives toa noms
inating caucus for ench delegate dist
rict, to meet Baturday, June 2nd, at
the places hereinabove indicated for
the meeting of the precinet delegates
in the said delegate districts, for the
purpose of nominating three candi
dates for each district, one for judicial,
senatorial and congressional confer.
ences respectively, which candidate
shall be voted for at the regular prina-
ry election to be held June 9th, 1894,
at which time the various electors may
vote instructions if they see fit. The
number of delegates from each election
precinet to said nominating caucus to
be the same as they are entitled to in
the county convention.
ELuis L. Orvis,
N. B. BPANGLER, Chairman.
miles of
territory, and reached Bellefonte in
the evening, Bob about 1 rod ahead of
| them for the entire day ;
showed up some 90 trout.
Now if any other two knights of the
rod and line can show greater powers
of endurance, let "em report.
Another experience was had in the
| above 7 Mt. territory, by our young
friend Eugene Himes, of Osceola, and
a companion, a few days previous to
| the above. The two hooked up a mule
{at Linden Hall and drove to genial
Pat Garrity's on top of the mountain
where they left their rig and started
for the fishing ground, but first gave
a boy a half dollar to drive the mule
the first day
| where the stream crosses the Lewis
{town pike. In the evening the boy
| started off with the rig and when he
| got to the point where Himes ind his
friend were to meet him, he struck
upon another set of fishermen who
| told the boy that the fellows he came
to meet, had gone back to Garrity's
by the same route they fished over.
His
but
Tired, they waited ; but noth-
| ing that had long ears came. It be-
| gan to get late ; and they were awfully
| tired, you bet, for they had neither
| dinner or supper ; so they started afoot
and reached Pat Garrity’'s at 11 in the
i night . They told Pat how half starved
they felt and he was just too glad, too
glad to get up a good, warm supper for
the boys, after which they hooked up
and drove to Linden Hall, which they
| reached after day-light, with some 85
| trout in their baskets,
ei
It Costs to Keep Up the Show,
The agent for Barnum & Balley's
show while in Harrisburg contracted
{for the following: Five and a half
| tous of hay, two tons of straw, 2X
{ bushels of oats, 230 pounds of beef for
{the carnivorous caged animals, 300
| pounds of beef, pork and veal for the
| loaves of bread and great quantities of
| vegetables, milk, fire, wood, ete.—all
| for use on the day the show exhibits
May 11th. The show boards all
teamsters and canvasmen up to pro-
prietor, Mr. Bailey. They have a score
of experienced cooks in their employ,
and the tent in which the tables are
set is known as “The Hotel Bailey.”
APA ———————
A Case Decided.
The case of Mra. Maria Meek and
others of Stormstown, ve. Robert Meek
George T. Meek, of Centre county,
and Walter E. Meek, of Houtzdale, to
recover a supposed dowry from prop-
erty owned by the Meeks in Centre
county, was tried in the supreme court
in Philadelphia recently. This case
has been tried twice in Bellefonte, the
plaintiff losing both times hence the
appeal to a higher court was sustained,
thus ending a coutroversy which has
been in litigation many years,
———————— A —— A A AACA,
There Will be Little Left,
There is in Pennsylvania, still unex-
hausted, about 475,000 to 480,000 acres
of bark lands. The annual consump-
tion of hemlock bark in the state is
probably about 700,000 cords, and the
value about $55,000,000, At the begin-
ning of the twentieth cetnury very
little available bark will be left in
Pennsylvania. Some tanneries in the
state are using bark in large quanti-
ties. The bark in southern New York
is nearly exhausted,
” Flood Salts
The Johnstown flood suits for dam-
ages aggregating $210,000, against the
Bouth Fork Fishing club, will be tried
at Willlamsport in October,
New suits made to order, $15 to $18,
Wecretary,
All new spring goods, at
ery’s, Bellefonte.
it is likely to cause serious trouble to]
fishermen who are led to believe by
vate streams.” Numerous trespusses |
are sure to follow, and trouble and ex-|
pense are sure to be entailed upon the |
trespassers. The fact is Chief Justice
Sterrett's decision seems only to em-
of owners and lessees of ‘private
streams’’ and it makes conviction
der the Act of 1878 the more certain.
The ruling of Chief Justice Sterrett |
is identical with the ruling of the late |
Chief Justice Mercur in Reynolds vs.
Commonwealth 683, Pa. Btate report |
458, which interpretation of the law |
was adopted by Judge Metzger in case
of Commonwealth vs. Bussler tried
some years ago in the Court of Quar-!
ter sessions of Lycoming county, in
which case the defendant was convict-
ed of trespassing on and fishing in a
private stream.
Bterrett, in which he reversed the low-
er court, be held that there could
no conviction, because the prosecutor |
did not own the entire stream or pond
and because he had not made proper |
improvements for the protection of the |
fish with which he had stocked the |
pond. It is clearly deducible from the |
the propagation and protection of his
fish that the conviction and verdict of
tained. In order to make
private within the meaning of the act
of 1878, the fish must be so confined
under ordinary conditions, except from
some act of trespass. Of course, the
ry conditions, as for instance the visi-|
even slight extraordinary conditions,
are so confined that they will remain
er, or lessee, for the propagation
in the act of 1878.
with the earlier opinion of the late
Chief Justice Mercer in Reynolds vs.
Commonwealth 03, Pa. State reports,
ly part of the stream or pond, it is nec-
essary for such owner or lessees to
screen the portion he owns so as to
confine therein the fish. For instance:
If the flowing stream divides two
farms and the line of each owner ex-
tends to the middle of the stream and
one owner improves and stocks his
side of the stream, it is not a private
stream within the meaning act of 1878,
even thotigh at either end of the stream
or at either outlet, there are erected
dams with screens. According to the
opinion of Chief Justice Sterrett, in or
der to comply with the law the
owner, or lessee must place screens
lengthwise in his pond or stream, in
order to confine the fish therein. If
he does so his stream is private and
any trespasser will be liable in an ac
tion for the penalty of $100 as prescrib-
ed by the Act of 1878.
The only possible departure from
former precedents that can be claimed
for the opinion of Chief Justice Bter-
rett is that portion of it which refers
to the notices which are required by
the act to be placed “adjacent to the
pond, or stream, or spring.’ He seems
to rule that the notice must be suffi-
cient to convey notice to strangers and
neighbors that the stream is a “pri-
vate stream.”
I think that upon mature reflection
iI bill which have been submitted to
{ the Senate. It is not what sort of a
{ bill that you or I, or any other indi-
| vidual Democrat wants, but what sort
3 votes in the Senate,
nator Mills had the right idea when
vole against
amendments as he was
{ on principle opposed to, but that he
| would whether they were adopted or
| not vote for the bill as a whole, because
Me-
It will be a very decided
{ improvement on the McKinley law,
Even if every amendment proposed by
| the Democratic members of the Fi-
nance committee should adopted
without modification the average re-
would exceed
be
and there are good rea-
these amendments will increase the av-
in the
{ neighborhood of 35 per cent. Then,
{| when the bill goes to a cenference com-
{ mittee after its passage by the Senate,
certain to be
Thus it will be seen that the
| bill will be a ve ry practical reform of
{ the tariff, and as such
| made,
it deserves and
Den
| it meets his individual idea of what it
Democratic
Hill will vote
income tax and some of
but I am
satisfied that he will afte rwards vole
{ for the entire bill, although I am at
{ present in the minority by thus think-
| Senator. Senator
{against the
The House Judiciary committee has
8. court shall punish any citi
where
The
ing iu the bill beyond a wise preven-
tion of the punishment of citizens for
obeying the laws of their own states,
| but the Republicans promptly trotied
imagination the state rights bogie man
scare.
The House committee on Labor has
a favorable report on chairman
MecGann's resolution for the appoint-
ment of a select committee to be com-
Representatives and
dustrial depression and make a repori
to Congress within 80 days, if possible
giving the cause and suggesting a leg-
Coxey's loafers have been driven out
of Washington by the health officer
and much against the wishes of the
people of Bladensburg, Md., five miles
from here, they have encamped in the
vicinity of that village, and say they
intend remaining there until their
number has increased sufficiently to
enable them to come into Washington
and again try to bulldoze Congress,
But there are several excellent reasons
why they will find it difficult to re
main there. Their rations have been
scant for some days and the Maryland
people say they will not give them
anything, and some of them even re
fuse to sell themanything. Addition
al evidence was given of the character
of these men when the agent of a rail-
road went to the camp and offered to
give regular employment to 200 of
them. Not asingle one of them ae-
cepted work. The argument fora new
trial for Coxey and his two assistants
who were recently convicted for break-
ing the law will be heard tomorrow,
There is very little probability of their
getting a new trial, and no more of
their being allowed to pose as martyrs,
The law under which they were con-
victed provides for fine or imprison
ment or both in the discretion of the
judge. The expectation of those who
are in position to give them some idea
of what will be done is that the judge
the law, giving them the full penalty,
and then suspend the execution of the
sentence during their good behavior.
Washington is going through an old
fashioned smallpox scare. It has been
on for nearly a week and the arrival of
& Degto fiers Chisago, oh Baiuioay,
AguTaTAted it, and the doators are reap
ing a harvest, Everybody and his
wife and children are getting vaccin-
ated,
No appointments, except those of
foremanships, are to be made by Pub-
lic Printer Benedict until he has re
duced the force which he found nearly
twice as large as it ought to be,
President Cleveland has gone down
the Potomie for a few days salt water
fishing and recreation,
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Venezuelan Earthquakes.
BPEAKING of the recent Venezuelan
earthquake, in which four cities were
destroyed and 10,000 lives lost, The
New York Herald says: “In 1812, the
same year in which Merida was de-
stroyed, a terrible shock was also ex-
perienced in the city of Caracas, when
nearly 12,000 persons lost their lives,
This was the severest earthquake hith-
erto experienced in Venezuela during
the present century. In 1858 two
earthquakes took place in Cumana,
which entirely destroyed that ancient
city and buried about 600
in the ruins. The province was at the
time in rebellion against President
Monagas, but after this dreadful ca
lamity the citizens resolved to abide
by the president's authority, and the
revolution was in this way brought to
an end. Quite a series of earthquakes
would appear to be in progress in both
hemispheres. The first of the number
made itself felt on the 15th of last
inhabitants
NO. 20
THE PERRY COUNTY BANK,
History of the Concern from Its Organi
wtion,
The examination into the accounts
of the Perry county bank leaves $55,
493.30 unaccounted for in any way.
Frederick C. Fink, of Harrisburg, con-
ducted the examination with great
care. The bank was organized in June
1867. The original partners in the
concern were A. (i, Miller, John Wun-
derlich and Henry Ruby, of Shippens-
burg; W. H. Miller, of Carlisle; B. F
Junkin and W. A. Bponsler, of Bloom-
field, each partner contributing the
sum of $5,000, making a capital of $30,-
000. In November, 1871, the interests
of A. G. Miller and Henry Ruby were
bought out by W. H. Miller, W. A
Sponsler and B. ¥. Junkin, but at
what price the books of the bank fail
to show. In April, 1874, W. A. Miller
disposed of all his interest, but again
the record gives no figures. The inter-
est of John Wunderlich was also trans.
ferred to the bank for $4,200 on May 24,
1875. Thus in May, 1875, Sponsler
and Junkin became the sole partners.
There is no doubt the bank was in-
solvent in 1876, the loss by J. Cook &
the Union banking company,
and other losses having wiped out the
capital of the bank, as after that date
the capital account no longer appears
on any book. According to the books
of the concern there should be on hand
assets of $45,678.58. The total sum to
Co.,
month at Tokio, in Japan, and to a
less extent in Yokohama and else
where. Several buildings were
aged, but there was no loss of life,
the 20th the terrible
Greece began, which have
such widespread destruction and per-
haps are not yet over. On the
day Central America was visited by
the seismic trouble.
felt at Colon, at Panama and at some |
other places, but beyond a slight sub- |
sidence of the earth and some
On
earthquakes in |
distur- |
bance to the overhead wires of an elec-
tric tram line harm was
Then, on the 25th, came the terrible |
eajastrophe in Venezuela, where more
lives have been lost and more whole
sale destruction wrought than in!
Greece,’
no
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FARMERS MILLS.
News Items of the Week from Our Neigh. |
boring Burg. i
The farmers in this section are all
done planting corn.
The grass and grain are looking fa- |
vorable at the present writing.
A number of bicyclists from Centre |
Hall, Spring Mills and Coburn passed |
through our village on Sunday on |
their way to Penn Cave.
Lydia Smith has been on the sick |
ent writing is able to be about again. | |
Abraham Kessler and family, of]
Millheim, made a trip to the cave on |
Sunday. i
Oliver Korman has a bicycle and he |
no doubt will make an expert rider in|
a short time,
A number of improvements have
been made in the Union cemetery of
late. A valuable monument has been |
constructed for Michael Tibbens, and |
Mrs. Wm. Lose had a handsome wall
put around her lot,
The warm weather for the last few
weeks has opened the cave traffic, and
the harvest of quarters for the Long
Bros is nigh at hand.
Der Jerry Condo fun Spring Mills,
wor de lescht woch do dorrich far sana
we feel leit es es hut un we feel derfun
des scheit sin, we are ous gamoucht
hut hov ich noch net ous gafunna.
SR A
Porced to Quit Work.
When the miners went out in the
Snow Bhoe district, the operators took
off their coats and went to work them-
selves, mining and shipping two and
three cars a day to supply local trade.
On Saturday the miners served notice
on all such that as they valued their
lives they had better stop. The opera-
tors held a consultation and concluded
to heed the warning, and on Tuesday
the Snow Shoe mines were entirely
deserted.
Don’t be Smart.
Before you tear down a trespass no-
tice be sure you are right. A smart
fellow over in Cumberland county,
who thought he would show his con-
tempt for such a notice and tore them
down, had to smart for it when he
came before the squire, and was held
in bail for a trial at court:
Barked Up the Right Tree.
James Harleman, of Bald Eagle
township, hauled a load of rock oak
bark that was peeled from one tree and
which weighed 2,000 pounds, to Hen
ring & Co's tannery, Mr. Hering
says that in his 85 years experience he
never heard of that much bark being
taken from one tree before.
~Lewins, Bellefonte, has oyqjmost
experienced cutter in these parts and at
his establishment you can be suited in
be accounted for is $150,208.38, which
As
| already said over $55,000 of this sum is
{ not accounted for even in notes given
by Sponsler or Junkin, nor in losses
hown, nor in worthless judgments,
nor in the $6,150 overdrawn by B. F.
when the
In several of the years
penses, return was made to the auditor
when with a loss of
| over $4,000 the cashier returned a pro-
| fit and paid a tax of $22.14. A similar
return was made on as years that
Such
in
a re
the
| could have been made it is stated that
after year the account had been car
ried without a single footing to show
the expenses,
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State Notes of Interest,
The hot weather last week in Berks
worms in that county.
The Schuylkill county grand jury
last week began a reform and put the
| costs upon 60 prosecutors whose bills
| of indictment had been ignored.
The Johnstown flood suits for dama-
ges aggregating $210,000, against the
{ South Fork Fishing Club, will be tried
{ at Williamsport in October.
One firm has a contract to put into
congressman Hopkins’ sawmill at
Lock Haven 130,000,000 feet of logs
and it will require 13 years to do the
work.
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Mail Contractor in Trouble.
U. 8. Dist. Attorney Hall, of Pitts-
burg, has filed five suits against B. Fr.
Crouse, of Belinsgrove, and F. J.
Bchoch, Lewis Amig and Amos Stet-
ler. Crouse obtained the mail hauling
contract for Pittsburg and other cities
in 1882 for five years. The total re-
compense was to have been $43,600 per
year. Last December Mr. Crouse was
forced to give up his contracts with
the government by reasons of business
trouble. The government employed
carriers at his expense and elaims to
have spent $41,275.05,
tn I SP APIs.
Wanramaker's Heavy Insurance,
Mr. John Wanamaker has his life
insured for §1,700,000. This is the larg.
est amount of insurance carried by any
American. The premiums on this
amount foot up yearly £90,000. Mr.
Wanamaker is insured in every repu.
table company in Ameriea for the
maximum amount which each co
ny will write on a single life. Only
one or two people in the world carry
more insurance than Mr. Wanamaker.
Legal Tender,
The Philipsburg Journal : Judging
from the amount of ground planted in
potatoes in this vicinity, the crop next
fall should be 8 large one.
Perhaps the succulents would pass
with the Journal as a legal tender on
subscription, next fall,
Utilizing Waste from Coal.
Eckley B. Coxe, who was
one of a commission by the State Leg-
islature to investigate the waste in
soul wining and jis viilition, lus
solved the problem. By his process
edi hn bw 3 perc om
a SSliin: lieu yetuss ung at a