VOL. LXVII. CRISIS AT HAND THE PRESIDENT GIVES HIS VIEWS ON TARIFF. Unless a Compromise is Effected the Ob noxious MeKinley Law Will Re main in Effect, WasHinaron, July 23.—Since the beginning of time great men have up- on momentous occasions resorted to extraordinary methods of focusing public attention upon certain things. One of those occasions was when Pres- ident Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson, pointing out the betrayal of the Democratic party by certain of the Senate amendments and urging him and his colleagues on the part of the House to stand by the House bill, which is strictly in accordance with the principles professed by a long line of Democratic national platforms. There are Democrats who regret that the necessity arose for writing and for making public such a letter, but it not difficult for even the most indiffer- ent observer to see that the rank and file of the Democratic party is behind President Cleveland and the House, and consequently opposed to the hand full of Democratic Senators who fore- ed the acceptance of undemocratic amendments upon their colleagues. As matters now stand it is in the power of that hand full of Democratic Senators to prevent any tariff’ legisla- tion and leave the obnoxious McKin- ley law on the statute books, and some of them have gone so far as to publicly announce that they would vote against any report made from the conference that changed the Senate amendments, but the hope still re mains that they will after careful thought discover that Senator Hill spoke words of wisdom when he told them that they were wrong and Presi- dent Cleveland right and that sooner or later they would be compelled to surrender, because the President in de-| manding that the tariff’ bill provide for free raw materials was but reitera- is was reopened. obtaining witnesses who can talk they will. mont ii Salted for Eight Months, At Los Angeles John Howarth and Martin Kelly, on trial for contempt | before Judge Ross for violating an in- junction on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, were sentenced months each in the county jail. with the mails during the strike on the Northwestern railroads. warrants have been issued but relating to the transportation of the United States mails three individuals. The grand jury announced that it had concluded its labors, and the fore- man handed to Judge Seaman a batch of manuscript two feet high, which it was said contained indictments for everybody connected with the railroad strike in this district. The court fixed the bail on each of the indictments in the sum of $10,000 against each and every individual con- cerned. against forty | 4th of July Fan. A party of fellows at Port Royal who desired to let their patriotism run most- ly to noise on the 4th, planned to ap- propriate a quantity of dynamite which they knew was stored in a cer | They were betrayed, how- learning of their intentions removed | ting the demand to day, and for years | Democratic party. agreement this week, but it must be admitted that the prospects for success are not promising, although some of] the most level headed Democrats in| both House and Senate are earnestly | working to calm the irritation arouse the party fealty of those Demo- | erats who feel personally aggrieved at the tone and language of President] Cleveland's letter. : The House passed on vote of 137 to 49— ing required—The providing for an and | Saturday by a Tucker resolution | amendment to Senators by direct vote of the people. This is the second time the put itself on record on this question, but the Senate has never even taken it up seriously and there is little prob- | ability that it will do so now, although | there area dozen or more who have publicly endorsed the idea. | It is but an act of justice for the House to pass the bill authorizing the | : Civil Service Commission any person | who was dismissed from the Railway | Mail Service between March 15, and | May 1, 1889, or who was from the service after the last to. efficient Democrats | between competent and were dismissed istration came into power, in order | that their places might be filled by Republicans before the service passed under civil service rules in accordance with President Cleveland's order issued just before the close of the first admin- istration, and such of those Democrats who wish to reenter the service cer- tainly have a good claim to the vacan- cies without having to go through the civil service mill No appointment made by President Cleveland has been more cordially ap- proved than that of Representative Breckinridge, of Ark., to be Minister to Russia. The nomination was promptly confirmed by the Senate, but Mr. Breckinripge will not resign his seat in the House until Congress adjourns, Senator Gray, chairman of the In- vestigating committee, has been mis represented in connection with the re- opening of the sugar trust investiga- tion. He has been anxious from the first to get at the whole truth, no mat- ter who it might affect, and when a representative of the New York Here ald, which made the charge that some Senators committed perjury in testi fying that they had not purchased stock in the sugar trust, agreed to fur- nish the names of witnesses who could throw light on that charge, Mr. Gray at once nccepled the offer on be the dynamite quietly and filled the | | box with stones. Then he laid in wait | revolver. The chase | the fellow with | | the box was afraid to drop it for fear of i results. Finally when the chase had | been kept up for nearly half a mile | { the pursuer desisted, while the other exhausted al shots from a the affair has become generally known | i i | A WATER TICKET, THE PROHIBS HOLD THEIR CON VENTION. the Beene of the The Party Over Head in Debt Ticket Pat Up. Pow.-wow, The convention Ziegler, of A quar- Messrs. J. DB. Gill and Rev, temperance Prohibition county Tuesday, I. The R. A. sing Isace Bower, €). Patterson a : HOBERT M. FOSTER, This week we present | of Penna. Robert M. Foster was born at College. In 1849 his father, MeCay Foster, moved from Store House,” Union county was then known as Farmers’ High Behool. He, with his brother Win., bought three hundred acres of farm land in College township. They im- proved the land and continued farm- ing until the breaking out of the late war at which time the father raised | company C, 148 Reg. , made captain. He remained in active service until his death{which took place | in the wheat field, at the battle of Get- | tysburg, July 2nd, 1863. Though glad- ly giving himsell to the cause, he was never the less a firm and true Demo | erat whose faith grew stronger as the War progressed. Of the three sons, Thomas, William land Robert, the latter is the youngest, { His early life was spent on his father's farm and during that time took ad- vantage of a college course. His brill- Ntate Robert “Fosters to what was graduated he a wholesale house in Philadelphia. | The position had limitations and he of salesman for one of the largest wholesale grocery houses in that city, in whose ment he has been since 1851, Though employed as salesman, he spends much of his time on their farm, which he oversees. He has proven a - . om. Served His Time, Two weeks ago the last of the bohe-| the penitentiary. Pity all the agents pigeons of that infamous of farmers did not live in of "em would have gone to states prison, where they be- long. Farmers should organize for { dlers of their class; this was done by and since the Bohe- | victims are still here to complain of | the wrong done them. New Way to Catch a Man, The Winchester girls have discussed ed with love letters, and have discov from the Democrat: “The latest su- i perstition is that if a girl takes the small bow which fastens the lining of a man's hat and wears it ingide her shoe, she will have a proposal from the youth within a month. The sue- cess of the scheme may be open to question, but it is proving very de- structive to hats.” MA ——— Beware of Fruit Skins. With regard to the eating of fruit an important caution must be given: Fruit skins carry germs, and are no more intended for human sustenance than potato skins, melon rinds or pea pods. The bloom of the peach Is a luxuriant growth of microbes, that of the grape only less so, and when these skins are taken into the stomach they find most favorable conditions for their lively and rapid development, which causes the decay of the fruit before it is possible to digest it. This ls the rea- son that many persons think they can- not eat raw fruit. If they would in all cases discard that skin, they would derive onlyigood from the fruit itself. ~The low rate offered by the Penna. R. R. for an Excursion to the Bea Shore August 1st is in accord with the times and every one should embrace and the "Foster Farm” sons to feel proud, His career has been characterized as uneventful, because he has not been known by every man in the county; because he has had no sensation to make him prominent, and is lacking some biographies fascinating. the lives of some other men who have been members of our legislature or who have aspired to that exalted sta- dent, farmer and business man of wide ner that will reflect constituency. The career of Robert M. land will find a story of trial, of Sitizenalip, A —— The Rassian Thistie's Bill, The foolish bill appropriating a million dol- lars for the extermination of the Rus. sian thistle is declared by Secretary Morton to be utterly futile, wickedly wasteful and of no earthly account un- less the communities in which the pes- tilential growth makes its appearance systematically cooperate. The thistle has spread throughout the two Dako- tas, Wyoming, Minnesota and other states, but it can well be imagined that hiring men, women and boys for exterminating the weed, would not do any more than draw the million out of Uncle Bam's pockets. Such work has to be done radically, or not at all. i AAAS SS DID NOT SPEAK TO HIS WIFE, For Twenty Years the Couple Lived To- gether in Peace, John Hunt, who died recently at Zekonk, Mass, had not spoken to his wife for twenty years. Five or six years after their marriage Hunt wish ed to sell a piece of ground, His wife's signature was needed to the convey- ance, but she refused to give it. Hunt at once became sullen and refused to speak to her, Thinking to please him and bring about tranquility in the fam- ily circle she at last told him she re a iy in the Atlantic Ocean. would sign the Jotrseyasies. He did The convention tev, J. B. and N. 8. Baily secretary. Messrs, F. was organized by Soule chairman, Potts Green, A... A. B. Smith, Thompson, Cook and Isaac on resolutions, The chairman complained of a scant , and said the of the election was ex pense to the cents spent. The chairman for funds. A collection was then held were realized. Rev. i. W. Leisher, Edward Rhoads and J. W. Mattern were pointed an auditing committee, and $52 K. ap H. Shaefler They Ames, of Judicial conferees chosen were Else, of Milesburg; Samuel land C. C. Shuey, of Bellefonte. were instructed for H. T. Williamsport, for Judge. As Senatorial conferees J. C. Hess and Dr. were appointed. The tollowing ticket in nomination: W. Isaac Mat- (russ then Wis put Jury commissioner, W. W. Bell, Judge, Jacob College township. Associate Shuey, of Phil- Julian. Assembly, Thomas Young, ipsburg, and John Craig, of The Senatorial structed for Rev, J. confe Tene B. - - - A Test Case, Jon werd it~ Noule, The Philipsburg sacrl says, a idea that offes Tr of when called upon to assist an no concern whether they report or not, On Sunday, Nichols being arrested for one of his customary which he became Messrs. Har- and E. White called This they ref do, and Burgess Bogler has since made in- thems, Mr. Kirk left town on business before the paper when Jesse Was time escapades, at Kirk On Lo assist, rison, were used to formation against was placed ance at the next term of court. We have been told of a case similar to this which came up in Clearfield court sev- eral years ago, when the young man who had refused to assist in the arrest was fined and forced to pay the costs, BA ——— Bellefonte Property at Stake The Williamsport Sun says at for the western district of Pennsyl- half the principal the MeClain block, a rendered in the United States circuit folk, Va. D. G. Bush the same property was Port Deposit, Md., and conveyed by | him to Mrs. D. G. Bush, executrix of her husband's estate, the judgment of Mr. Moore not being obtained until af- ter the sale of the sheriff. A. C. Moore, who is now deceased, was for many years a resident of Wil- liamsport, and it is thought his heirs will purchase the property and then bring a suit of ejectment to test the ti- tle. Along and tedious law suit is in prospect for the Bush estate, a War, China and Japan talk about going to war about the island of Corea, which both desire to have control of. Itisa separate kingdom, and a dispute has been going on for some time about af- fairs in the ieland, and it looks as if hostilities will begin within a short time, ——— A ~The low rates offered by the P. R. R. for an Exeursion to the Sea Shore, August 1st, will allow excursiodists to A any Cape May, LOW RATE. | Son Shore Excursion via the Railroad, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa- ny announces that on August Ist, will an be a the most The round Lock Haven Pine and Jer- 3: Newberry and Wil $5.00; Muney and Mont- gomery, $4.50; Watsontown, $4.20; Milton, Mitlin burg, Lewisburg, Mon- tandon and points east, $4.00. Tickets will be good going August 1 on regular train 14, leaving Lock Haven m., Mifflinburg, %.38 a, will have the privilege over night in Philadelphia and resume their journey on any regular train for the Bea Shore. Tickets will to return within ten days date of issue, and good for either Atlantic City, Cape May, Isle City, City, Anglesea or Wildwood, and good to stop over in Shore, and it promises to be popular tour of the season. trip rates are as follows and McElhattan, $5.50; sey Shore, $5.25 linmsport, 7.156 a. m. Passengers of stop ping be good the 10 Megs from passage Ceean Philadelphia in either direction with- in limits, For further particulars ply to ticket agents, ap- Bcf JUDGE COOLEY TO THE PRESIDENT, Thanking Him for His Action in Regard to the Rioters. Thomas M. he inter-state Hon, man of t ex-chalr- commerce Cooley, COIT~ mission, standing as law has eminent authority on w hose an constitutional gives great value to his opinion, written to the president as follows: “Ann Arbor, Mich., July 15.—Presi- dent Grover Honored Sir: Now, that the great strike, which y your official intervention became nec- #1 leveland, in shown to be a all » - ‘ allowed to express unqualified satisfaction with every the al athority CHRATY has been clearly , 1 beg to be vindica- and with n of law and order which or you have taken in ff national + restorati« followed, is now in progress, deliberation with I think, firm- and caution which you have proceeded, are, like the highest praise, worthy, [1emm ( if accompanying snd I am espe cially gratified that a great and valua- constitutional construc. time with You and the attorney gens ral also have won the not for this all time, and for it the of your obedient servant, Tuomas M., CooLEY. WN Sinclair solved a has perplexed that many months. In chopping down the hollow stump of a tree, 12 feet in height, the men were horrified to come upon a ton, which proved to be that of John Robbins, a former well known sports- Robbins left on Aug. 13, 1863, and was not seen after entering the woods, leside his remains a note was found stating that he had fallen into the cav- ity while looking for raccoons and had been unable to get out. After starving five days and suffering terribly he had shot himself through the brain to end The marks of his finger nails were all about the stump’s inter- jor, showing the frenzy with which he | struggled to escape. ile lesson on ion has been settled for all remarkably little bloodshed. gratitude of the « wr ountry, genaration only, but for that God may bless you is noel & Woodsmen at work in © prayer Wl In a Hollow Tree the forest in Fulton county, Ind, mystery which community for sone —————————— The Biggest United States Map. One of the most attractive features of the old Broad Street station was the where it was always viewed with | much interest. It disappeared in the | generel tearing out of the old quarter but will have a worthy successor in a new map which the Pennsylvania railroad officials contemplate having painted in the new station. This will be a monster, 115 feet long and fifteen feet wide, and will be the biggest thing of the kind in the world. It is to be painted on canvas, and will adorn the Filbert street side of the great waiting room. Notonly will it show the Penn- sylvania system and its connections, but all of the country as well, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada.—Philadel- phia Record. W. H. Nelson, who is in the drug business at Kingville, Mo., has so much confidence in Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy that he warrants every bottle and of- NO. 29 A BTARTLING ADVENTURE Halr of a Mifin County Boy Tarned Gray By Fright Leroy Willismson, the 18-year-old son of a farmer living some miles from Lewistown, had a startling adventure last Munday morning, from the effects of which he is still confined to his bed, and which has actually turned the boy's hair gray in places. Young Williamson had taken his gun to do a little shooting on the mountain just back of his father’s farm, finally got a shot at a rabbit, which ran down the incline, which was unusually steep just at that spot. The boy still popping away atthe an- imal whenever he caught sight of him, started in pursuit, runing as fast as he could. But just at the steepest side of the mountain, and where the thin soil had for the part been washed AWAY, rock, vine and on most exposing the smooth his and he fell, beginning to roll down towards the bottom of the ravine the mountain on which he was and the next, and where ran the track of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The boy was considerably bruised, but by dint of catching at the shrubs and vines that grew near he managed break his fall as he went and was seriously alarmed until his ear was startled by the sound of coming train. He grasped at every plant near him, but the soil being extremely thin none had struck root sufficiently deep to afford him a hold for more second or two at time, fool caught in some trailing between to not suddenly a than a the {o- while stone was too smooth to do much wards checking his downward course. As the train came rushing on, seem- ing to jar the earth and to precipitate him still faster, the now terror-strick- en boy dug his hands and roughly booted feet into the mountain side. If the mo- pass be a he had been able to guess at ment when the train neath him, he might have accelerated his movements so as to land below be- fore the iron monster reached the spot, and either find some nook which to erouch as the train passed or would small in scramble up some less steep incline of the mountain, but he found it impossi- ble to guage the distance he feared at which heard the rumbling wheels, to drop lest at that very train come whizzing around the just ahead. But he was falling ly all the while though still catching at everything that promised him support, hoping to find some hold to which he could cling until the hor ror that threatened him had come and gone, KL moment the curve steadi- ¢, anyhow, Nearer and nearer he rolled to the foot of the mountain, gathering impe- tus as he went, and then the hot air from the engine smote his face, the cinders blinded him, he made a fran. tic dig into the earth and bounced off the mountain onto the track below just as the last car whizzed by him, and which missed him by scarcely a foot. Young Williamson says that he fainted just as he felt the wind from the vanishing car touch his face, and that for minutes he was too weak to move, even after consciousness return- ed to him. When at last he was able to get up he was obliged to almost crawl to a hut a hundred yards or so from where he had fallen, and on reaching it literally crept in on his hands and knees to the great surprise of the occupant of the hut. Here he fainted again and had finally to be carried home in a wagon. He was not able to tell his story for some time, and by the following day his hair was gray about the temples, The boy is a sturdy, unimaginative farmer's lad, but his nerves have re ceived a shock from which it will be weeks before they recover. n——— A Last June Dick Crawford brought his twelve-monthsold child, suffering from infantile diarrhoea, to me It had been weaned at four months old and had always been sickly. 1 gave it the usual treatment in such oases but without benefit. The child kept growing thinner until it weighed but little more than when born, or per haps ten pounds. I then started the father to giving Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Be fore one bottle of the 25 cent size had been used a marked improvement was seen and its continued use cured the child. Its weakness and puny consti tution disappeared and its father and myself believed the child's life was saved by this remedy. J. T. Marlow, M. D., Tamaroa, Ill. Forsale by Wm, Pealer, Spring Mills. ~The Penna. Railroad Co. has ar tomer who is not satisfied after using it. Mr. Nelson takes no risk in doing this because the Remedy is a certain cure for the diseases for which it is in- tended and he knows it. It is for sale by Wem. Pealer, Spring Mills
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