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
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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
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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- |
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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,
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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