VOL. LXVIL SOON TO PASS THE TARIFF BILL WI WILL BE PASSED AND SIGNED BY JULY 1. The Republicans Give up their Useless Fight Against the Tariff, Senator Hill's Vote in Doubt, WASHINGTON, May 28.—Signs are plenty that the Republican Senators are ready to give up their useless fight against the tariff bill, and intimations have been given to Senator Harris by their leaders that if he would not car- ry out his announced intention of com- peliing long night sessions this week an agreement might be reached upon a date for the taking of a final vote up- on the bill. As the easiest way is al- ways the best way Senator Harris will defer for a few days the holding of night sessions, in order to see whether an amicable arrangement can be reach- ed with the Republicans. If so, all right and good; if not, the Democrats are all prepared to endure any amount of personal hardship that may be nec- essary to force a vote. It is the expec- tation of the Democratic Senators that the bill will be passed in time for the conference committee to act and get their work endorsed by both House and Senate and the bill signed by President Cleveland before the first of July. Only one Democratic vote is in doubt—that of Senator Hill, and after he fails to get the income tax struck out of the bill it is believed he will fall into line and vote for the bill. The Senate investigation committee found Buttz guilty of having attempt- ed to bribe Senators Hunton and Kyle, but no steps have been taken towards criminally prosecuting him. The committee is now engaged in investi- gating the charges of crookedness on the part of the sugar trust and Sena- tors in connection with the prepara- tion of the sugar schedule of the tariff bill, and, judging from the evidence | already taken, those charges are likely | to be shown up as outright fakes. For instance, it was charged that the sugar schedule was prepared in the hand- writing of Secretary Carlisle, who car- ried it to a meeting of the Finance committee, and demanded that it be! adopted because of obligations the par- ty owed to the sugar trust, and the man who made the charge declined to give his authority. The story was read to Senator Jones, of Ark., who was chairman of the subcommittee that arranged the amendments to the | tarift bill, which included the sugar schedule, and he was asked by Sena-| tor Gray, chairman of the investigat- | ing committee, what truth there was in it. “None, whatever,” he replied tee of the Houne, 4 to a it uw a different way. His bill calls for an issue of $70,~ 000,000 in greenbacks, to be used to purchase a controlling interest in the stock of the company and for the building of the canal under the control of a board of eleven directors, eight of them to represent the United States, The House has laid aside the regular appropriation bills temporarily and will this week try to decide whether the tax on state bank notes shall be re- pealed or not. Both sides claim a ma- jority. sper fl Williamsport after the Flood, The SBusquehanna river, whose wa- ters on Monday last submerged half the streets of the city, has fallen with- in its banks, leaving in its wake tons of wreckage and debris. The flooded district in places is covered with logs and lumber. Brigades of hand-pump- ers were at work cleaning the cellars of residences. All the fire engines were in service removing the water from the cellars of the newspaper of- fices, Streets were full of washed and unwashed furniture. Scores of teams were at work cleaning the business part of the city, and when the sun on Wednesday looked down on the scene, the first time since Thursday of last week, he saw a swarm of sight-seers scrambling over log jams to view the ruins, Now that the water has reced- ed and access is had to the low lying districts, grim evidences of the awful HASTINGS AT HOME, A Reception Tendered Him zens of Bellefonte, Gen. Hastings’ arrival home from the convention that nominated him, was one of greeting by the citizens of Bellefonte, of which he may well feel proud. Many political opponents Joined in the reception out of courtesy and congratulated the General upon his nomination. Among the Republi- cans of distinction who accompanied him to his home, were Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, chairman Gilkison, of the state com- mittee, and others, also the Philips- burg delegation and its glee club, Congratulatory speeches were made by Messrs. Smith, Gilkison, Gov. Bea- ver, Gov. Curtin, Judge Furst, Mr. Fortney, J. G. Love, J. L. Spangler, and others. Bellefonte feels honored in having the nominee hail from there, and it was only proper to meet the General thus at his home; and, that Demo- crats, although they may not vote for him, showed him the courtesies due the oceasion, was evidence that for the time being their distinguished fel- low citizen realized that his neighbors by the Citl~ HE HAULED WOOD AN EPISODE IN THE CAREER CF GEN. HASTINGS: The Republican Nominee for Governor at One Thoae Hauling Wood Early Re- membrances, With a great deal of pride our neigh- bor, tinker Andy Reesman, opposite the REPORTER office, tells that Gen, Hastings “used to haul wood for his father.” Andy and Dan were boys to- gether near Salona, both barefooted after Whittier's idea, and with turned up pantaloons., The parents of Has- tings lived along the mountain side, near Salona, and the Reesman folks lived near enough that Dan and Andy could be playmates, Both the fami: lies were in moderate circumstances, and in summer the boys wore bare- feet and patched pants, and made mud ples together with water from the us- ual source, The Hastings folks opera- ted a little clearing, and when the eesman people needed wood, they bought it from “Old Hastings,” and Dan with one horse and did the hauling. Both left the of early boyhood and eame to Centre Wagon seene alrie instinets, sm fp— Kill the First Fly. “How do the flies get into the house | with screens in all the windows and | i i i flood is seen upon every hand. Along the Reading railroad, which | runs on the north bank of the r river, | cars were thrown from the tracks and | lodged against the stranded logs at the water's edge. Railroad trucks were turned completely over. Monster brick-edging burners at the saw mills have holes in their heavy walls, caused by the plunging logs, which were car- ried on the crest of the mad waters, Four steamboats, which lay at wharf at the foot of Locust street, were de- posited on the Reading railroad tracks fully 30 feet above the river bank. A small house rested on a flat car, as though placed there by a mighty crane. Oddities. Odd Fellows are not scarce, Odd, that fishermen’s catch is ever big. Odd, George Emerick’s wagon. Odd, that some see no wrong unless it affects themselves, Odd, that sleeves of a lady's dress now cost more than the balance of the dress, Odd, that long sermons will be Ones, emphatically; “I think I have attend- | ed every meeting of the tariff sub-com- mittee this session, but no such scene | was ever enacted, nor a demand made by Mr. Carlisle for the protection of | sugar. With reference to the charge that Bec. Carlisle prepared the sugar | schedule, I would say that my recol- lection is that I prepared the sugar schedule in the bill as first reported; the schedule in the last bill reported was put in shape at the Treasury de- partment at my request, in order that the administrative features of the schedule should be in correct form, the suggestion of the rate and all of the essential details of the schedule were from me.” There is about the amount of truth in the charges mentioned as in all the rest. The schedule was pre- pared at the Treasury department at Henator Jone's request, and some Re- publican clerk employed therein prob- ably told it outside; the rest was imag- ined. The committee may ask the Benate to order the arrest of the cor- respondents who refused to give their authority for the charges, but that will aceomplish nothing, as they will be certain to continue to refuse, The Benate has several times tried, but nev- er successfully, to compel correspond- ents to tell where they got information from. Every Senator whose name has been connected with these charges has expressed a willingness to appear be- fore the investigating committee with- out the formality of 8 summons, It seems hardly necessary to say that the stories printed in Republican papers about the great cost to the gov- ernment of the little vacation trip of President Cleveland and Secretaries Carlisle and Gresham, on the light house tender Violet, were entirely false, The presence of those gentlemen on the little boat did not cost the govern- ment one cent. The Violet made her regular tiip, supplying the light houses with oil, ete., and the passengers ta- ble was supplied at President Cleve- land’s personal expense, The Violet was not even delayed, Mr. Cleveland insisting before the start that the fish- ing and hunting should only be done ‘while the boat was transferring su plies to the lighthouses, and that rule was adhered to during the trip, Rep. Bryan, of Nebr., Is just as en- thusiastic in his advocacy of the build. ing of the Nicaragua canal as Senator Odd, that one who always complains highest price, Odd, that well-to-do persons will borrow their poorer neighbor's Re- PORTER. Odd, that the fellow who says, “Now don'tsay I told you" wants you to spread lies and leave him out. ct t—————— The Number Large, The number of men thrown out of employment in industrial establish- ments that nave been obliged to sus pend work because of a lack of fuel will soon be quite as large as the num- ber ofstriking miners. For every striker there are taken then all together, doubtless ten other persons who in one way or another are made to suffer de- privation or loss because the striker strikes, There never was invented a more clumsy or cruel way of settling disputes between those who buy labor and those who sell it. AP —— Tue Patriot says Moses P. Handy, of Philadelphia, formerly editor of the Philadelhin News, says John Russell Young is being quietly and unobtru- sively groomed for the stall in the United States senate in which Don Cameron has been munching oats for so many years. Thomas Dolan, the great woolen manufacturer, also has his eye on that stall, and Charles Emory Smith is considered a possibility, But it has been many a year since Philadelphia was honorad with a sen- atorship, and Harrisburg streets are paved with successive layers of the bone of candidates on which members of the Clan Cameron have marched in triumph to re-election. Wes Governor Pattison told the miners of the Houtzdale region that they had a perfect right to stop work, but that other men who wanted to work would be protected by the state, he uttered a truth which cannot be too plainly spoken. While we may Justly despise the man who offers to work for starvation wages we have no right to attempt to prevent him going mas I A —— Tug Senatorial investigating com- mittee has found Butz guilty of an at- tempt Lo bribe Senators to vote against doors?" is a question asked by hun. | dreds of housewives who are annoyed by the pests, A naturalist who has { looked closely into the habits of the fly, sald: “The swarms of flies that are so troublesome during the latter part of the summer and in the fall, hatch out in the house. The screens shut them in instead of keeping them out, and really do more harm than | good. It is physically impossible to | keep every fly out of the house in sum- mer time, but by exercising a little care, thousands of them may ex. cluded. “Nearly all of the trouble is caused by about a dozen sluggish specimens that emerge from their winter retreats on the first warm days of spring They may be found on the sunny win- dows of any room not in constant use. They should be killed at once, as they deposit the eggs from which the mill ions of summer flies are hatched, “They are prolific insects, and one old fly is capable of populating a whole house with progeny in a single sum- mer. Instead of killing the first fly of the season, many people make a pet of it. Its sluggishness and half frozen condition excite pity, and it is not un- usual for the most careful housekeeper to feed and warm it out of pure ten- der-hearted ness, A folded towel should be kept handy and the early flies killed as soon as they appear. Then, if care is taken to leave no par ticles of food and sugar scattered around the kitchen and dining-room, and to keep all substances on which flies feed covered, there will be no trouble from flies. Some families who take these precautions even dispense with screens in the windows and doors. If the flies come in from outdoors they find nothing to live on and seek more congenial quarters. It is best to use screens, however, as damp and rainy weather invariably drives flies into the house, and they are troublesome until it is clear and warm outside. Good Use for Old Papers, If newspapers have been saved now Is the time to use them, when putting down carpets in rooms that are much used it is a good plan to spread news papers over the floors, then take clean straw and scatter in evenly over the papers, and then put your carpet down. It will let the dust through on the pa- per, and the clouds of dust will not follow the broom on sweeping day. The carpets will last longer with this lining than with any other, and when you take them up again you will find the dust lodged on the papers and if carefully removed to the rubbish pile, you will avoid filling your lungs with poisonous dust, as but little will be found on sweeping the floors. Do You Carry Matohes ? Careless use of matches, such as car- rying them loose in vest pockets, let ting them lie scattered over bureaus, stands, mantle pieces and other like places in houses, wareroom and work- shop is a practice so common that it is indulged in without regard to the public or private safety. Farmers and their employes, whojearry loose match es about their persons, do not know but they dropped some of these deadly agents in the hay and may ignite and raze the building or buildings to the ground. Many of the fires charged to incendiaries, if traced as they should be, would be found to have their ori gin in the careless use of matches, AI APA SN, Died at Lemont, John P. Mocre, a highly respected citizen died at Lemont on Tuesday be county. Now if Dan will appoint Andy dep- of the commonwealth, | the two could go to Harrisburg—mak- | ing quite a chain of interesting co-in- cidences, srs——— A— — ——————- MINERS NOT WORRIED Difficulties in the Way of Operators Em- ploying Green Men The mines at Woodland, near Phil off and on during the suspension, stop- ped on Tuesday, the operators ing not to start again until the strike is declared off. The coal was mined principally by farmers and day employed about the mines, ing down of the Woodland mines will cause a lot of industries to suspend, throwing a number of men out of em- ployment. The electric light plant out of coal at Philipsburg, and shut down, : The miners are not losing any sleep over the report that the operators are going to secure men in Philadelphia and New York. If they do this they say the operators will have to hire a man to teach them to dig coal and a deputy to guard them. They all as sert that the mine inspectors will have something to say when the operators begin to fill up their mines with green men. Sheriff Condo on Monday was noti- fied by operators at Philipsburg, that they intend starting their mines, and anticipate trouble from the strikers. The sheriff was directed to be in readi- ness in case trouble ensues, —— eSDS L Bank Officials Jugged. To the surprise of the citizens of New Bloomfield, Sheriff Rice arrested ex-Judge A. F. Junkin and W. A. Sponsler, late of owners of the looted Parry county bank, on information lodged by Peter Zerfing, one of the de- positors. They were held to anwser the charge of embezzlement at the next term of court. It was recently announced by an ex- pert who had examined the bank's books that it had been insolvent for eighteen years and that about $59,000 could not be accounted for. A Fouad Dead on a Porch. Louis Cassey, a well-known and well-to-do merchant at MeVeytown station, was found dead Friday after. noon on the porch of the residence of Mr. Kurtz, in Oliver township, under the roof of which he had evidently taken shelter during a rain storm. Mr. Cassey, was on his way up to his farm and was found half reclining on a bench on the porch by Mr. K. on his return home. Life was extinct and the cause of death was probably apoplexy. a A A ———— Cowardly Wife Murder. Vincent Rokosh, of Shamokin, con- fessed to the District Attorney that he shot his wife, instead of the two-year- old child he accused. The three were at the dinner table and he thrust the revolver back of his wife's ear and pull ed the trigger. Now he says he did not know the weapon was loaded. A witness testified that Rokosh put four cartridges in the revolver two hours before the shooting. He will be tried for murder. His wife was in a deli cate condition. Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses have been granted the past week: John A. Swabb, of Mt. Eagle, and Harriet Thompson, of Tipton county, Ind. om ett Staatio, wu Bella hiand, of Fil Aaron D. Weaver jof Aaronsburg, and Elizabeth Kerstetter, of Loganton, Clinton county, ~ E. H. Hazel, of Eiri and agree men The clos is has tie Tait bill. Oe Soasior wa off Mongan, of Bay but lie proposes, in WOES OF CAROLINE SANKEY, Miss Sankey, 8 Former ¥Freeporter, Vexed by Fortune Hunters, Miss Caroline Bankey, of whose sto- ry as an heiress we gave a full account in the REPORTER, because she partly belongs to our county, has her woes with her fortune. The Freeport, Ill, Democrat says: Miss Caroline Sankey, formerly of Freeport, a niece of Mrs. Aaron Wolf, who was recently awarded a fortune of $150,000 by the courts of Illinois, is willing to admit that the possession of such a sum is pleasant in its way, but she Is also painfully conscious that wealth has its woes, Ever since the decision was rendered Miss Sankey's mail at her house in San Francisco has been burdened with offers of marriage, business suggestions, begging letters and other impossible communications, a burden. She says that she will never marry, and says she has no ambition other her musical studies, sadly inturrupted some time ago by a slight stroke of paraly- | sis, which disabled her so that for a while she could not play the piano. The clouds of letters amused her at first, but ere long they began to worry her. Bhe has been offered chestnut hair, respectable family connections, | honorable names, undying fealty, sin-| cere affection, productive farms and promising prospects of every kind, One New Yorker says he is a “‘busi- | ness gentleman,” and acknowledges | that his friends eall him good looking, | but modestly declares his belief that this compliment is undeserved. A Pennsylvanian, who himself “yoors verry trooly,”” says he in | humble circumstances, but feels that he has good stuff’ in him, and urges that Miss Sankey should not forego the opportunity to give him a start. Lawyer Martin, of wants to start a bank in braska, and all he $10,000, feeling confident that he could raise the same amount himself in the town to be selected for starting the bank. | He offers Miss Sankey the presidency of the corporation, but carefully points out that he would ably fill the posi- | tion of cashier. Letters by the hun. | dred have arrived and still continue to pour in. —————— A] A TO DECORATION SERVICES than to pursue These were i signs is Los Angeles, lowa or Ne- needs is Hain During the Day Greatly Interferes With the Exercises, Decoration Day was observed yester- day by the G. A. R., and the graves of the departed veterans were strewn with flowers. During all the after- noon it rained, but about six o'clock it cleared off for an hour. The G. A. R. left the. Post room headed by Maj. Shreffler’'s drum corps and marched to the cemetery. A number of children were in line. At the cemetery after the strewing of flowers the people assembled in the Reformed church, where the speaking was done. The services were opened by prayer by Rev. Eisenberg. The speaker of the day, C. M. Bow- er, Esq. of Bellefonte, then followed. When Mr. Bower finished, Command- er Brisbin called for a few words from Mr, W. C, Heinle, of Bellefonte, who was in the audience, and he responded. Rev. Goodling pronounced the bene- diction and the audience was dismiss ed. The church was well filled, and a number from out of town came in to attend the services. Had there been propitious weather there would have been a large attendance. - Cigarette Smoking, The following sad story should bea warning to all readers of the REror- TER who have the vicious habit of smoking cigarettes, Maleom Petrikin, son of Hon. R. Bruce Petrikin, suffered a peculiar af- fliction a week or two since, which has thus far baffled the skill of the physicians, says the Huntingdon Globe. He arose from his bed one morning with a numb feeling on the right side of his face, and found that he was unable to close his right eye. His mouth was drawn to one side, the upper lip was swollen, and at intervals the eye emitted a liquid substance which ran down his face. The latter, however, has ceased, but the mouth is still crooked, and Mr. Petrikin is una- ble to close his eye even in sleep. The doctors have told the patient that he is suffering from a species of paralysis, and claim it is resultant from excess ive smoking of cigarettes. Tur Pardon Board has recommend- ed the pardon of William B. Hamilton, the ex-cashier of the Hontedale bank, serving five years in western peaiten: Hazy for larosny. AY TYP ATI SA Sv any political party is 16 seed of candidate for governor, apply to Cen- tre county. urtns reasonable utd sat *, What Weather Rey, Hicks Says we Shall Have for the Month’ The following is from Rev. Irl R. Hicks’ publication Word and Works: Fair weather will prevail in most parts of the continent at the opening of June. A storm period together with the new moon is central on the 3rd. The conjunction of Jupiter and Nep- tune with each other, as well as the earth and moon, all being on a line with the sun, brings to bear a combi- nation of rare occurrence, and which, no doubt, will affect in a perceptible way the general meteorology ot our glebe, A warm wave of much severi- ty will pass over the country from about the Znd to 6th, the centre of dan- gerous storm disturbances being on the Srd, 4th and 5th. There are marked indications of earthquake perturba- ries of rains and storms will set in This is the entrance of the stormy stice period is past. A storm period is central on the an equinox of Mercury i4, i= central on 18th, all within earth's turning Therefore, many of the the 2lst. electrical a few days point on startling 20th and A peculiar and often surprising {1 is the 5 21st, feature « hese solstice storms, motion, storms appearing to easterly direcetions, and the earth with unlooked This solstice period » local natural. | About the 23rd to 25th much cooler weather may be expected, with a prob- cessation of rains and heavy storms. The last June storm period is from the 26th the 20th, daring very heavy nralns and to will pass over this country, as well as other parts of the globe, and many at- mospheric and electrical disturbances may be expected about the 26th to 29, The Venus equinox, central on July 11th, promises rain for the most of that month; but we believe the tendency will be to local cloudburst, with dry- ness covering many wide districts of the country. As a precautionary mea. sure, we urge all our readers to make all possible provisions for retaining in cisterns and ponds all the water possi- ble, during the rains in June and the first half of July. In cases of late crops give your soil thorough and repeated plowing as soon as possible after rains. Never let it bake, especially in July. AIA His Hend Sawn Through. While James M. Speers was cutting shingles at his mill at Dubois he met a tragic death. During the morning he had been cutting shingles on the shingler. The machine became clog- ged with sawdust. He took a short stick and kneeling down commenced to clear it. The saw, which is about four feet in diameter, was running at a high rate of speed and caught his hat. It dragged his head towards the teeth and cut it completely in two. His hat was cut completely in two, and his head was cut down to the left eye brow and back to the nape of the neck. When his brother John lifted him he had to put the several portions of his head together. nis st ——— SENSIBLE is this hit made by the Altoona Tribune: Some of the orators for Memorial Day have such contempt- ible records that their orations will not carry much weight. 1t isa pity, when the country is full of good men, that these pot-house politicians should be ht to the front by the indiscreet action of invitation committees, Con. BRECKENRIDGE, like all the rest of the wrong-doers, is down on the newspapers. If it were otherwise ed- itors would feel hurt. It is a notori- ous fact that all evil-doers are down on newspaper editors—even the Ri. PORTER has experienced that. lactic Puaranioed
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