VOL. LXVII. 1894, NO. 31 THE END SOON A PROBABLE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS SOON: The Fate of the Taritl! Bill Will be Deter. mined This Week Not a Democratic Bill, But Hacked snd Amended, WARBHINGTON, August 6,—If a more exasperating condition of aflairs, from a Democratic point of view, ever ex- isted in Congress than the present tar- iff complication it has been forgotten by the present generation. The prin- cipal issue in the campaign which gave the Democratic party control of the executive and legislative branches of the government was tariff reform. Since March 4, 1893, we have had a tariff reform President, a tariff’ reform majority in the House and a majority in the Senate each member of which claims to be a tariff reformer, and each of whom certainly represents a tariff reform constituency. Why then this difficulty in getting a tariff’ reform bill through Congress? That is aquestion that ought to be asked of more than one of the alleged tariff’ reformers of | the Senate by their misrepresented | constituents, and probably will be when some of them try to get reelect-| ed. At several times during the last] week it seemed that the conference | committee was about to reach an agree- | ment that would be acceptable to both House and Senate. So promising was the outlook that the proposed caucus | of the House Democrats was postpon- | ed indefinitely so as to leave the House conferees unhampered. jut each | time demands were made by the Sen-| ators whose votes are necessary to get] any agreement through the Senate which prevented an agreement being reached. After spending the greater portion of the week in trying to ar- range a sugar schedule that would be] accepted by the House and the so-call- Senators, the con- but no sooner was the announcement made than it was met by the threat of the two Dem- ocratic Senators from Louisiana to vote against the bill if it were so re- ported, and in addition they stated that Senators Allen and Kyle, the Populists, who had voted with the Democrats to pass the bill in the Sen- ate, would join them in voting against the bill. There is a general feeling that this week will settle the business, much from anything that is actually in sight as from the belief that it will simply be impossible to longer pro- long the strain. Already Democrats are urging the conferees to agree upon some sort of a bill, the best that they can get, and let it go to the Senate and either be accepted or rejected, So general is the belief in Congress that this week will be the last of the session that a number of prominent Democrats have made their arrange- ments to leave Washington, as ad- journment will speedily follow the dis- | posal of the tariff. Al of the appro-| priation bills, except two, have been | disposed of and those two are in con-| ference and will be sent to the Presi- | dent by the middle of the week. But] among those who have their doubts | about adjournment this week is Sec- | retary Lamont, who remarked, when | Senator Blackburn told him that the | tariff bill would be put through this| week and that Congress would ad-| Journ on Saturday: “I would not want to wager on that.” The Secre-| tary is right. After what has happen- | ed no prudent man would want to] wager on anything that this Congress | would or would not do. “Granny” Blair, who has kept so | quiet since he managed to sneak back | into public life by getting elected to | the House that people have been dis- | posed to forget his fool acts in the Sen- | ate and to credit him with at last hav. | ing come into possession of the share of common sense which naturally be | longs to every man of voting age, | People were wrong. He is the same old “granny” Blair, and, now that he has enlisted under the banner of Ida B. Wells, Quixotic charges may be ex- pected of him at least as often as the moon changes, His resolution pro viding that the Commissioner of La- bor shall investigate and report to Congress the number, date, location and attendant facts and circumstances of all alleged assaults by males upon females during the past ten years, for, or on account of which organized, but unlawful violence has been inflicted or attempted to be inflicted; also, all lynchings during the same period, is on a par with his silliest acts in the Senate. Speaking of his resolution, instruct. ing the House committee on Ways and Means to report a bill for an in- come tax that will produce $100,000, 000 annually, and a bill placing 2! su- on the free list, Representative said: “If tariff legislation is de- and it now looks as i 3 ed ‘conservative’ ferees at last succeeded, not so lution. I am determined if we cannot have tariff reform that the trusts at all events, shall pay into the Treasury a fair share of their enormous profits, That would benefit the people indi- rectly even if they fail to secure the re- duction on the necessaries of life that they demand. I know that the bills proposed by my resolution would pass the House and I believe that they would get through the Senate.” Representative Bryan, of Nebr., has formally announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. He will make a personal canvass of the State, and expects the support of the Popu- lists as well as the Democrats, A pt Wise and Generous, The sending of a letter of thanks ac- companied by a check, to each of the | employes of the Pennsylvania Com- pany who refused to go on strike dur- ing the Chicago troubles, is a reconition that is well deserved by the recipients. Every workingman knows that it re- quires more than an ordinary amount of courage to stand against the opin- ions of the majority in cases of strikes, The opprobrious epithets that are be- stowed upon men who will not join in sink deeply into the heart of the aver- | money could repay him for what he suffers. When the difficulty is over, it is the employers for whom the men made such sacrifices should recognize them in a tangible Men are blame, as a whole, for joining SUMMER OUTING. A Tour Among the Lakes sud Islands of | the North. ! The party composing the Pennsyl- | vania Railraod’s first tour to the North has just returned home, delighted not only with the general attractiveness of | the trip, but the admirable manner in | which it was conducted. The second | party is now forming, and will go out | under like conditions on August 21st, | reaching home on return trip Septem- | ber 3d. The party will leave Philadel- phia in special Pullman parlor cars over the picturesque route of the Pennsylvania to Watkins Glen, thence | to Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, | the Rapids of the Bt. Lawrence, Mon- treal, Au Sable Chasm, Lakes Cham- plain and George, Saratoga, and lastly Hudson. Ample time is allowed at each point for sight-seeing, and all the traveling is done by daylight. It would be a difficult matter to plan a trip of greater diversity of intrest and attraction, and for those whose summer vacation limited there is no outing comparable to it. The round-trip rate, including all necessary expenses, from New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Trenton, Balti- more, and Washington, is §90.00, Tickets will also be sold from other stations at proportionate rate. Tourist Agent and Chaperon will conduct the party. For tickets, descriptive itineraries, and reservation of seats on the train, address Tourist Agent, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Broad Street Sta is strikes, but in view of the pressure | brought to bear upon them, the wond- | er is that any of them can be found | to withstand it, i There is another side to this action | of the Pennsylvania Company that i for commendation, however, | which is that it does a great deal to- | i i i : 1 : i and community of interest between employers and employes, and that is | what is needed. With cordial relations i occupy those two most important social re ations in the civilized world trouble may be reduced, if not avoided. Har- | mony is a cheaper peace promoter | than force, i i i i : i —— | Forming an Orgaaization Some of Clearfield’'s young ladies | talk of forming an organization, pledg- | ing themselves never to marry a man who is not intelligent, honest and in- | dustrious, good natured, cleanly in person and apparel, healthy, sober, a | church member and a total abstainer | from liquor, tobacco and profanity. — | Ex. I Good; now let the young men form | an organization pledging themselves | never to marry a lady who does not! know how to bake a loaf of good bread; who is ashamed to be seen sweeping and mending and thinks herself above work; and who continually gads around doing and saying silly things, and, taken all in all, is not fit for a wife, ! Ass spas Miners are Resuming. The strike in the section of Spangler is broken. Last week the Sterling company resumed work at No. 12 with seventy men, the Cymbria with forty, the Della company with twenty, and the Benton company with twen- ty. The Elmora mines also resumed. A full resumption will take place by the end of the week. At Hastings the Mitchell company are at work, and operations at all their works. The rate of mining is 40 cents per gross ton, in- stead of 30 as stated. sn on Mf MP My boy was taken with a disease re- sembling bloody flux. The first thing I thought of was Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, Two doses of it settled the matter and cured him sound and well. I heartily rec ommend this remedy to all persons suffering from a like complaint, I will answer any inquiries regarding it when stamp is inclosed. I refer to any county official as to my reliability. Wm. Roach, J. P,, Primroy, Camp- bell Co.,, Tenn. For sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills and 8, M. Swartz, Tussey ville, A Facloating Story, The Chicago Ledger has struck the nail on the head by starting in its is sue of August 1st a facinating love story entitled, “Caught in the Strike.” It deals with the late A. R. U, strike, giving names and places familiar to many of our readers. Sample copy, giving first installment of the story, will be mailed free on application to the Chicago Ledger, Chicago, Ill tion, Philadelphia. Bas Outlook for the Corn Crop, The corn crop is destined to be al- most a failure, according to the reports from the New York Times correspond- | ents. In Kansas, where the crop was expected to exceed the great yield of 1889, not over half the average amount will be raised. The drought and scorching winds have done it. Nebraska will not give more than threeeighths of an average Iowa's yield will smallest ever known and is not likely to reach 50 per cent. Missouri reports vary, but in the northern section half a crop is all that is expected. Illinois is more hopeful than the states farther west, but admits a shortage. Indiana is the only exception, and promises the larg- | est corn crop in her history. re wp. be EE — Wateh Your S10 Bills The most dangerous counterfeit United States money discovered for years is announced from the treasury department. Because it is so difficult of detection from the genuine note the | counterfeit is described in minute de- tail by the secret service in order to put the public upon its guard. The counterfeit is of the $10 legal tender | note, series of 1880, check letter B, face | plate number 2250, back plate number 2292, signed by W, 8B. Rosecrans, reg- ister; James W. Hyatt, treasurer, and i bearing a portrait of Webster and al large round red seal. | of A AAPA BAA 3 4 Bamuel Jones, Samuel Jones, one of Tyrone's first | settlers, died at his home in that place | on Tuesday morning, aged 86 years, 6 | months and 8 days. Deceased came | with his parents to Spruce Creek val ley in 1824 and learned the trade of clay potter. In 15838 he removed to! Franklin township, Huntingdon county, where he remained for thir. teen years, after which he removed to Birmingham, where he remained six | months during the erection of a rail road in Tyrone, where he came in 1851, and has ever since been a resident of that place. af A Well Water Impure, The Milton Board of Health after examinations of several well patron- ized wells mistrusted the condition of the water from sickness and death in the neighborhood, and samples were sent to Dr. Groff, a member of the State Board. After thorough analy- sis he replied that the water was full of ‘health destroying’ germs and un- fit for use. The handles were accord- ingly removed from the pumps, and many other wells are being condemn- ed ns fast as analysis can be made. Debs Changes His Tactios, “I will never again be connected with any strike organization,” said President Debs, of the American Rail- way Union a fow days ago. “This strike has developed the fact that the sentiment of the people of the country in against strikes and that the govern. ment stands ready to put down such movements at the point of the bayon- et. I shall hereafter advise all work- men to seek redress by the ballot.” Tents Shipped. tents were might be, the tariff reformers will About a half a car load of GAME PLENTY THE EARLY DAYS WHEN HUNTING WAS EASY. No Trouble Then to Supply the Table With A Hunting Incident Near Bellefonte. Food, ~ Back in the early days, Centre coun- ty was rich iu all kinds of game, The woods and streams abounded in deni- zens that supplied the settler with fish and flesh in a few hours time. Mr. Jacob Thomas, of Bellefonte, ! ACLEVER FRAUD, : How Two Begundrels Put Up a Job on “| Farmer, ; A well put up game was played on one of Decatur township's enterpris- ing farmers not many days since by two sharpers whose presence behind the bars before any more victims are made would fortunate elrcum- Lewistown be a stance indeed, the Free Press, y $ x t . While going along the public road, Farmer John Wray, who also deals in suys horses, met a man driving a fine-look- ing horse, which was stopped along- knows of the time away back, and re- lates to us that deer were plenty | near Bellefonte that it was thing to shoot one every week town, as numer | ous as deer, and just as easy to find, | One day, as he relates, he was down SO a common near | Bears were almost the creek a short distance below town, | aud he spied a bear above him. He! followed the bear and the creek somew here near where Reynold's | mill is, and he did not feel like ing the water just there to follow bru- | in, so he struck for the bridge, and took up town to get his gun. When i Mr. Thomas reached Allegheny street, | this self-zame bear, to his surprise, | and to the alarm of a crowd that had gathered, came slowly trotting up the street. Noone was prepared for the reception of the visitor, and under the excitement of the crowd none knew | what to As bruin reached the | diamond, a man spied a double bitted | axe, and following the bear, he sunk | the axe into the animal's head and! finished it right there with that one! stroke, It full-grown bear, and Mr. Thomas says bruin seem- | ed just as much scared as the erowd around him. Of course Mr. T. is telling a lie, although he has cut down over a dozen cherry trees in his time, it crossed wid- fo do. was a la ree, not | and is now seventy-seven years of age. Mr. Thomas says trout were so plen- ty then that he could catch as he could carry in a few hours, all big ones, For instance, he where Brockerhofl”s mill and fished down towards Bellefonte and in as many d started aun now is two hours he had as many trout on his string as he could carry, and all of » i large size, having thrown the smalls ones back into their Oh, for one day of once a year, how happy would the dis- ciples of Isase Walton of today be native element. such fishing, just Talking of killing deer, we may add here, that fleetfooted were just as plenty on this side of the county as the other. Philip | Musser—old squire Musser, as he was familiarly called —of Miilheim, was a great hunter, as were all his sons and these animals on grand-sons—some of them still living. Many of our readers remember the old man yet. He wasan early settler. In | he puts the number at 625, this he killed many bears and other wild game. The were great hunters from four generations down to the present, In those days away back, these mountains and vallies were alive with | deer and other large game, and our streams abounded with the finest | trout. Bat it is thus more, and what a pity. besides Mussers no gy Showed Hemarkable Nerve, An accident in which remarkable | nerve and presence of mind were dis- played occurred on the farm of Mark | Supple, near Merion station, Norris- | teen years, was standing upon a box feeding cows. In making a spring to | an iron hook, used for holding the lan. tern. The sharp point of the hook passed under his right eyelid and came out above the eyebrow, suspending him from the ground. The entire weight of the boy's body was placed on the impaled eye, making his posi- | tion an extremely painful one. With rare presence of mind he caught a beam above his head and raising his body upwards, gradually worked the hook from his forehead. s——— Emperor William Starts for Cowes. Emperor William, on board the Im- perial yacht Hohenzollern, has started for Cowes, Isle of Wight, where he will spend several days attending the yachting regatta. If William don't get any cows on the Isle of Wight, let him come to Centre county, we can drum up a car load or two for him. Big Plenie, The Odd Fellows will hold a big pie- nic near , on Saturday, August 18. Lodges from different parts of the county will be present, to participate in the parade. The Centre Hall lodge has voted to go. A game of ball is billed for the afternoon be tween the Centre Hall and Rebersburg teams, side of Wray's team, when the two en- which Mr, conversat ion, talk, in into sO0n horse Wray mal with very favorable looks. A trade was struck even up, the stranger the two horses he was driving was un- The horse Mr. Wray traded was a gray he had purchased in the big valley for $85. Thus far all had gone smoothly and Mr. Wiay parted from the stranger rather tickled hitched for him. A couple of days after Wray had ob- ed, with stranger No, 1, a poster de- scribing the horse now in Wray's pos- session, and a pair of handeufls in his charge, representing himself as a de-| Pittsburg deputized by the sheriff of Allegheny county to ar- rest theman he had in charge for stealing sald horse. He took the ani- | mal from Wray, handcuffed the other fellow, and going to Painterville put | the horse in charge of Bamuel Bigler, | jefore tective from saying the owner would call. told him | out of his] “prisoner” where the animal was and | write him. Wray informed his father, | horse and the *‘detective’” quietly that he would get the two went in pursuit, arriving the Wrays of Ti the Blett, county was with, promptly | replied that no such person had been deputized. Mr. Wray, presume, | i i in his Lewistown train pulled out with board. The o Lewistown and a writ two frauds dro plevin on t & Ye which { Sheriff i was Issued gave into possession o horse I'he sherifl of All Uegheny communicated who we fins neil r horse now POSSEN- BiOnN My Storm in Clinton County, sy The rain storm on last Friday after- noon was the heaviest that fallen in portions of that county since the In Nittany valley the rain fell in torrents and Cedar Run | overflowed its banks, flooding the fields and carrying away evérything moveable, The corn fields and public roads were badly washed and the flood | was so great that in places the water | was in houses and barns. : In Woodward township the rain was unusually heavy and many of the | small streams had greater floods in| them than they had in '86. Bridges and fences were swept away by the | foree of the water, and the roads were | badly washed. At Flemington the | lightning struck a large tree that stood | but a few feet from the Harvey foun-| This is the sixth time lightoing has deluge of ‘80, mer. cl — FARMERS ENCAMPMENT, Heduced Hates Via Penna R. BR. for Mount Gretna. From August 20th to 25th, inclusive, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company trip tickets to Mount Gretna and re turn at rate of one fare for the round trip, from principal station between East Liberty and Bryn Mawr, on the Northern Central Railway north of and including Lutherville, and on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Divi sion. These tickets will be valid for return passage until August 25th, in- clusive, Heavy Loss, The loss to the tobacco growers in Clinton county, by damage to their crops during the hail storm last week, is almost total in some sections of the county. A careful estimate of the loss in Woodward township alone places the number of acres entirely destroyed at over fifty. Only a small portion of the crop in that township was not de stroyed. Badly Mutilated, A child of Joel Barnard, living near Zion, was caught by the tumbling shaft of a separator and whirled around, sustaining painful Injuries about the face and arms, and other parts of the body painfully lacerated. The child was about four years of age. THESTRIKE OVER, About 13,000 Pennsylvania Miners Return to Work. The 13,000 or more coal miners in Central Pennsylvania, who were still on a strike last week, returned to work on Monday morning if there were places to accommodate them. The strike was declared off last Friday at a conference held at Clearfield by a vote of 137 to 96. The wages for the major- ity of them will be 40 cents a ton, the exact sum they were receiving before they laid down their tools April 20. on The 450 miners of the Cresson and Clearfield Coal and Coke Company, at Frugality, Cambria county, will re- sume work at 35 cents ton. These men have not worked since the strike began. When they quit they were getting 40 cents a ton. A committee of five miners was a work ap- pointed at the conference to act in con- Junction with the dig- trict officers to arrange the details in connection with the resumption. Sonfe of the national officers were severely” national and criticised for agreeing to district settle- ments and partial resumption at Columbus conference. These 13,000 miners have princely sum in wages since they be- gan their fruitless struggle just 15 weeks ago. When Governor Pattison visited Clearfield to investigate the strike and endeavor to end it, he was told that the average daily wages of the miners was $1.05. This was at the ton basis. Each striker has therefore lost $6.30 a week, or in the 15 idle weeks, $04.50. The 13,000 strikers in $1,228.500. As their wages hereafter will not be larg- er than they were receiving prior to April 20, they will never regain this lost fortune. the lost a cent a lost mm — ss — Draws the Line at Poker. It takes a hustler for the business in this locality just now, but newspaper the Bugle is equal to the emergency. We can write a poem, discuss the tar- iff, umpire a ball game, report a wed- ding, saw wood, beat a lawyer, describe a fire so that the readers will shed their wraps, make a dollar do the work of ten, shine at a soiree, address a horti- cultural society, measure calico, abuse the liquor habit, test whisky, sub- ism, sneer at snobbery, wear diamonds, invent advertisements, overlook scan- dal, praise babies, delight pumpkin the disgruntled, fight to a finish, set type, mold opinion, sweep the office, praise the widows, run for office, speak al prayer meeting, and stand in with everybody and everything. If you don’t see what you want ask for it Tamaroa Bugle. se Ap Kenneth Bazemore fortune to receive the bottle good of had a small of his family weresick with dysentery. and he had some left which he gave to Geo. W. Baker, a prominent merchant of the place, Lewiston, N. C,, and it cured him of the same complaint When troubled with dysentery, diar rhoea, colic or cholera morbus, give this remedy a trial and you will be more than pleased with the result The praise that naturally follows its introduction and use has made it very popular. 25and 50 cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills and 8. M. Bwartz, Tusseyville. st ——— Ghouls Work for Nothing. An attempt was made last Friday night to rob the grave of President Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn. The ghouls dug down several feet at the head of the grave, but seem to have been frightened away before they accom- plished their designs. The evidence of their work was discovered Saturday morning. : A Big Sake. The Sunbury Daily says: A snake fully ten feet long was seen above the Brewery on Sunday last by several parties. No wonder fellows who drink beer see snakes, when such critters keep near the brewery. They Have Them, We stand corrected. The Middle burg Post assures us they do have churches in Soyder county. The trouble seems to be then people do not attend them. Prospects for a Rise, Farmers may do well by not fooling away their oats and corn this fall at low prices. The prospects are for a —————— A — ~All
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