VOL. LXVII. CAPITOL GOSSIP THE TARIFF THE ALL ABSORBING QUESTION, The Conferrees Cannot Agree, and Relief ns far OIF us Ever. A Fool Senntor, WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—When Sen- ator Faulkner, in response to a charac- teristie slur of “little Billy” Chan- der's about the tariff bill being at the White House said: “I will say to the Senator from New Hampshire that al- though the tariff’ bill not at the White House now, it will be there very soon to receive the signature of the President,’ there was a deafening round of applause from the crowded galleries of the Senate which showed in a manner not to mistaken the trend of public sentiment, and which should not have been lost upon cer- tain Democratic Senators whose ac- tions have brought the tariff bill to the most critical stage of its existence. It is now, according to the ideas of some of the best Democrats in Con- gress, no longer a question of what sort of a tariff’ bill we shall get, but tare torifl' bill at 2 whether we shall getar- all. » I will not oul is be the scandalous charges of bad faith made by Demo- crats against Democrats in connection with the failure of the conferees to ach an agreement, but if the attempts | to defeat all tariff legislation, now be-| ing either directly made by crats or indirectly assisted by them, shall succeed those charges will be shouted from the housetops in every | section of the country until they be- | come so familiar that certain men will find it difficult to show themselves | upon the most lonely country road | without being pointed out as traitors | to their party. It is impossible for the present crisis to continue much longer. The tariff bill will either be | passed or permanently hung up this] week. Had the action taken during the past week by the Governors of Mary- land and Virginia, in breaking up the camps of the Coxeyite tramps in their respective states, been taken by Gov- ernor McKinley last March the fool- | movement would never have been started. The House decisively put it- self on record as favoring the appro- priation of $200,000 to aid the exposi- tion at Atlanta, Ga., and it is now cer- tain that the appropriation will get through all right. It pleased the! Southerners in the House to find Rep- resentatives Pence, of Colo., and Ev-| erett, of Mass., among the most earn- | est advocates of the appropriation. In addition to being a common nui- | sance, Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, will get himself widely | known as a fool if he introduces a few | more resolutions like the one propos- ing that the Senate committee on Elections and Privileges should inves- tigate the recent Alabama State elec- | tion, so as to ascertain whether it was was full, free, fair and honest, and whether it resulted in the choice of a legislature entitled to elect a U. 8. Sen- ator. It is generally admitted that the new Alabama law, under which the State election was held, makes fraud very difficult, if not absolutely impossible, and that there is nostrong- er reason for the ery of “fraud” raised by the Kolbites than a desire to let down easy the eastern Republicans who contributed their money to the campaign fund. But even allowing that the election had been as full of fraud as Chandler is of “gall” there would still be no authority for an in- vestigation by a committee of the U. B. Senate. It was a state election and the Senate has no more to do with it than with an election for members of Parliament in any part of Great Bri- tain. The House very properly refused to agree to the Senate amendment to the Buadry Civil appropriation bill, pro- viding that $250,000 be appropriated for the purchase of what is known as the Mahone lot, “owned by ex-Senator Mahone, of Va, as a site for a new Government Printing Office. There are two good and sufficient rea- sons for the action of the House—the Mahone lot is unsuited fora site and the price asked is excessive, Public Printer Benedict is out in another appeal to Congress insisting that something be done towards less- ening the dangers which surround the 8000 employes of the Government Printing Office before adjournment. He reminds Congress that even if the troublesome question of the selection of a site for the new G. P. 0. were set- tled at this session, which it isn’t like- ly to be, it would require four or five years to build a new office, while there is urgent necessity for some immediate relief. He suggests that this may be had by purchasing ground and erect ing a building alongside of the present ‘office that will meet the firemen Demo- until the entire new nese treaty, which has been before the Senate so long, has at last been dispos- ed of. There has been little doubt at any time of what the final result would be. Still it is a satisfaction to the Democratic administration and the Senators that it has been officially settled, A Aol A Fine Legal Point, Judge Jenkins, of Philadelphia, gave a decision one day last week, in a case before him, which was practically whether a builder of machinery can put it into another man’s building and still retain the ownership of it, so as to protect it from an execution credit- or. The trial Judge decided that he could not, and Judge Jenkins, in re- fusing a motion for a new trial, sus- tains that decision. The case came up as a feigned issue upon a Sheriffs in- terpleader founded on an execution is- sued by V, C. Sweatman, a creditor of Logenz Leiling, but defendant in the feigned issue case, George F. Ott, being the claimant of the property levied upon. The Inquirer gives the follow- ing facts in the case: Lorenz Leiling employed Ott to build the machinery for his brewery. Ott was willing to do it, but was apprehensive that some creditor of Leiling’s might levy on the machinery before he was paid for it, He was not, therefore, satisfled with the first contract drawn up, and before he would put any machinery into the building he insisted on a second con- tract which declared such machinery for it either in instalments or notes at four months. After the machinery was all set up Ott found that he was all right on one point and all wrong {on the other. He was right in his ap- prehensions that somebody might levy on his machinery while on Leiling's sold. lonitma— - News in Short, In Philadelphia 5000 horses are of- fered for sale; the new trolley system has thrown them: upon the market, Horseflesh is knocked out by electrici- ty. Altoona’'s Second National bank woman-—leaving his wife back. What big scamps cashiers turn out to be! Allentown had its first hanging for murder, one day last week; what a fo- Philadelphia is loosing start as a commercial city—once she was at the head. The Gettysburg National Guard a bed of mud. All European countries are passing strict anti-anarchist laws. Uncle Sam must do the same. Let us be rid of the devils also, China and Japan are still at it. The Af tl Fire at Bellefonte, Last Friday morning about two o'clock, fire was discovered in the cel- lar of Montgomery & Co's. store, in Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte, and the prompt work of the fire depart ment only saved the business block from being destroyed. Montgomery's stock was considerably damaged by smoke and water, as were also Zel- lar’s drug store, and Schreyer's carpet rooms. The damage will foot up sev- eral thousand dollars, which is covered by insurance, The fire is supposed to have originated from crossed electric wires. The Joker Fool, The practical joker is getting in his work again with fatal effect. The lat- est comes from Shamokin, where on the Fourth of July a crowd of practi eal jokers placed a can of powder un- der a young fellow and blew him up just for the fun. The burnd and shock received by the vietim of the fool joke culminated in his death a few days ago. The authorities should now play a little joke of their own, and blow the fools up, using a hempen cord instead of the can of powder. It's a poor joke that won't work both ways. My boy was taken with a disease re. sembling bloody flux. The first thing I thought of was Chamberlain's Colle, 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, Tusseyville, Did you hear that awful yuciiet. n Bt fow days ago’? It was Wa & Craw-| to TARIFF DILL PASSED. The House Yields to the Senate Bill on Monday. At six o'clock Monday evening the Senate tariff bill unchanged, una- House, and the measure now only the signature of the President or his failure to sign it within ten days to be enacted into law. It was passed ac- cording to the program arranged Sat- urday and ratified at a caucus of Dem- ocrats Monday morning. The caucus met at ten o'clock and adjourned at noon with the under- standing that the senate bill and sepa- rate measures placing coal, sugar, iron ore, and barbed wire on the fore adjournment but an unexpected obstacle was encountered in the ab- sence from Washington of Mr. Outh- waite, of Ohio, a Democratic of the committee on rules, whose pres ence was necessary to enable the mittee to bring in a special order for Mr. Outhwaite, who was absent on ac- ed, however, at two o'clock and a few minutes later the committee on rules! reported the special order and the | House entered on one of the greatest | days in its history. The special rule was agreed to after a short debate. Then the Senate bill was debated for two hours, and after tions by the crats and severe arrasignments of the majority by several of its own mem- bers, the bill was passed by a vote of 1581 to 105, A number voted against the bill, while the ulists supported the majority. was much applause when the trouble some measure was finally out of the | way. Then the separate bills pl acing | coal, iron ore, barbed wire and sugar! on the free list were taken up in the] order named and passed, after debate | of half an hour on each, and what was | probably the biggest day in the histo- | counter-accusa- Pop- There 120 YEARS AGO A HOMESTEAD MANY YEARS THE FAMILY. Settled Upon, ~The Shook Homestead Over a Century Old, list A few weeks ago we gave a ed in the same family over one 109 years, Further search brings us to the well known Woods homestead, in of Centre Railroad. In near the property Ciregg T». & 1. and the possession foot of Egg Hill, continues in the run- ning over a period of 120 years, ten years longer than any of those named few weeks 14, 1819, Hugo. He died August aged 73 If there is an older family home- have it noted, and we shall be pleased to | hear from any of our readers, The Shook farm, in Gregg township, | is also one of those that { in the same family over and now occu pled hundred by One is his grandson Bhook, who died | eight or ten years ago, continued | the place, and now it is farmed by son of Philip. The house originally | built by John Shook is. still occupied John Shook, the great-grandfather of the Shook boys still living in and near Spring was killed in 1799, a falling which he was felling for the building of a barn on his tract. i by Wo State College Wheat Tests, In 1864, forty-four different varieties | A BUNCO GAME. Sharpers Working a Skinning Dodge Snyder County. game at Shamokin Dam on Monday and were gather in the sheckels says the bury Democrat, but a true one, the that game than in any other country the United States. Frequently it dollars, were not very high, but then in these hard times when every the price have fo suit dollar counts, low morning been made Monday may the times, Gross, of Shamokin Dam, and and he with name was Milton Brown private interview He was dressed {sired a Mr. (ross, suit , was a heavy set man with a mus- { stache, Mr. Gross took him ia room and the blandest way, with informed him that he was a detective, and that he i straw hat, smile, he Brown ing counterfeit money, denied and demanded the | tice and swear that he had never pass- | This Mr, | ed counterfit money. Gi ross refused to do and proof. again | duce the proof and left the place. i In the evening Brown returned. about six He had with him a stranger whom he produced as Richard K. Foulk, of Shamokin. {was slim and tall, had on a derby hat { and seersucker coat and vest, and light | { pantaloons. Brown again stated that {that Foulk was his prisoner. of work aeeomplisher, came to an end. li lf —-. - Perey County after Lawyers, During the August term of court at | New Bloomfield, Judge Lyons was as- sisted on the bench by Judge Bell, of Blair county, and two courts were practically in session at the same time. This was necessitated by the large number of criminal cases against law- yers who are members of the Perry county bar, Twenty per cent, of the local profes- sion were either tried for the crimes of embezzlement, assault and battéry and breach of the peace or true bills of in- dictments were found against them. Rev. L. A. Wickey, a justice of the peace in Saville township and widely known as the “Preacher Justice,” was convicted of malfeasance in office and rules were served on two constables to show cause why they should not be removed from office for collecting funds and refusing to pay them over and for drunkenness in office, —————— A. fA AAAI Give Him a Lif An exchange says that no matter how hard a man may struggle to do right there is always some sneaking scoundrel, some loathsome reptile, some pimple on the face of nature, some wart on the hand of destiny try- ing to draw him down. Many a man fails, not from lack of merit, but from lack of appreciation by his fellow men. Failure in life is loss of confidence in ones character. When you see a man faltering, take him by the hand and help him up; when you see him elimb- ing, cheer him on, that he may reach the top and stand on the summit of success, providing you believe the man to be honest, — ol Twice Cooked, An exchange says it is a fact that eggs that have been cooked-—boiled-— three minutes or less, can be reboiled the next morning, and will not only be fresh, but as soft and palatable as those cooked but once. After an egg has been heated and cooled, you could cook it till doomsday and it would not get hard. Bome property in it resists the hardening process after it is once heated, if only to the soft boiling point. Some will turn up their pa. trician noses at the idea of “warming over’ eggs, but they will find them even better than warmed over meat. i ——— A A ——————— A Crasher. Archbishop Satolll has issued a de cree that all Catholics must get out of the liquor business. This refers as yet only to Bishop Watterson's diocese, Columbus, Ohio, but it is believed it win! be made general in the near fu- EL — APSA Price, quality and style are promi- nent factors when you are buying They were grown un-| | der as nearly similar conditions of soil, { exposure, fertilizers, culture, ete., as | | possible, and the yields given in the | | table below are computed from careful | weights of the product of different | plots, made at the time of threshing. | Twenty-six of these varieties have been tested for the past five years average yield is shown in a carefully prepared table, In 1894 the Reliable led with a yield Ontario bushels per acre and weighing 57 pounds per struck bushel. Following this in the order named are Rady, Canada Wonder and Fulcaster, psi A Disgusted Editor Quits, A retiring newspaper man gives this philosophical reason for quitting business: A child is born, the doctor in attendance gets £10, the editor notes it and gets 0; it is christened, the min- another fee, the editor gets a piece of eake or 000; in a course of time it dies, the doctor gets from $5 to $10, the min. ister gets another $4, the undertaker $25 to $50-—the editor publishes it and receives 0000—and then the privilege of running free of charge a card of thanks, i AD MH Quit Work Because they had no Beer. In the vicinity of Ramey on Satur- day last thirty-five of the men recent- ly hired to break the strike in one of the Eureka mines quit work because of the refusal of the company to supply them with beer. They boarded a pass- enger train and refusing to pay fare, were ejected. As they left the cars they were attacked with clubs and stones in the hands of men whose places in the mine they had taken and several of them were severely beaten. The attack continued until the entire number were driven over the moun tain, Ass, Senator Sloan is Dead, Senator Hannibal K. Bloan, one of the Democratic candidates for Con gressman-at-Large, died at his home at Indiana, Pa., on Saturday. It had been known for some days that he could not recover. His ailment was quick consumption. There will have to be a reassembling of the Democrat. io Btate Convention to fill the vacan- oy. Union Co. Deaths. In Hartley township, on the 11th of | where Mr, Gross’ daughter, Mrs. | fler and her husband keep hotel. He | | said that he had received £75 from Mrs. | Leffler, but that her husband demand- {ed the return of the money, and had | | him arrested for refusing. He told the | | detective he could get the kin Dam. He Gross his note would give amount and wouid re This story said he for the the detective, from then Brown, { lease him custody. { that he was dealing with bunco men. | He remarked that he was going over to his home to get his gun and walked Both men | him and when they saw him go across | the street they started down the road. i got several neighbors and started after them with the intention of arresting them. A short way above the Dam they eame in sight of them and then came the chase. Both strang- ers took to their heels and as fast as they could. They seperated, both tak- ing to the fields, and after a hard chase they disappeared in the gathering gloom of evening, { out of the store, Gross A New Railroad Completed, The last spike on the last trestle of {of the Altoona and Philipsburg Con- necting Railroad was driven Monday afternoon, and the road will be formal- ly opened for business as far as Houtz- dale on Wednesday, On that day pas- sengers will be carried between Phil ipsburg and Osceola free of charge, and the citizens of Houtzdale are prepar- ing to give the first train a royal wel- come. The new road will be a feeder for the Reading and Beech Creek Roads, and will develop a large coal tonnage. a fA A ———" Looal Plokups, As soon as the coke for the Valen- tine furnace arrives the plant will re- sume operations. They have sufficient ore on hand to supply them for sever. al months. On Thursday, September 26th, the Christian Endeavor Societies in Cen- tre county will hold a convention at Bellefonte, One day last week a son of ex-Regis- ter John Rupp, of Oak Hall, had a leg broken while in bathing. He was un- der a bridge that was being repaired and a piece of timber dropped on him. Miftin's Democratic Ticket, The Democratic county con- vention on Monday named J. C, Hous- er for Congress, and nominated the following county ticket: Legislature, Dr. Walter H. Parcels; associate judge, Davis Henry; director of the poor, Pe- Jot WeR3, sind Jury commtimionu, Jo In Hartley township, on the 80th of July, Robert Neff, aged 75 years. S——————— ———— ~Lowins, Bellefonte, has the most Sxperianted o ATR ~All summer goods are going at reduced prices at Wolf & Craw- 1 i Bellefonte. Another of our county’s well-known |and prominent citizens has passed Colonel D. 8, Keller, a promi- Bellefonte, died of Sunday evening Keller lingered nent attorney at Col. at nine o'clock. dis passed the dread as time he was respected. As a citizen and attorney highly Was near fifty years. He served in the late war and was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville. He was admitted to of one He was twice married, and had four He leaves a widow, his second wife, and five children. Col. Keller was a prominent Beformed church, R., and other secret in Bellefonte. The funeral will take place on this, morning, at ten o'clock. Interment will be made in the mems- and of orders Cee Coxeyites Jailed. N At Hayatteville, Md., a few days ago Coxey’s army was rounded up in great shape. A special train from Jaltimore brought a platoon of police Commonwesler’s camp, and eighty-eight men were arrested. There skirmishes, but most of good-natur- first piece gince he Those who re- | sisted the officers were quickly subju- | gated, and the entire camp of Coxey’s was marched before Justice sf — Se —————— Oue said it was the of luck he had encountered ‘arr. The arrests were made on Governor Jrown's order, and the justice sum- | marily sentenced each member of the | illworted horde to three months in the | Mary land house of correction. The prisoners were loaded on the | special train and taken to Bridewell, for the next three pense of the state. mcm seminars New Money Order Blanks. The new form of money order issued department, while its absolute convenience, security, cheapness and is nevertheless causing ee because of the carelessness of the re- mitters or the payees themselves in not preserving the order in the exact shape they receive it. The coupons on the end of the order form an irregular or ragged edge. These ragged points are the coupons and are a check on the amount as written in the body of the order. When they are detached or torn off (as they are in many instances, by the re- mitter or the payee) the paying post- master must withold payment until he hears from the issuing postmaster indicating the correct amount to be paid. Persons handling the new money orders should be careful not to detach the coupons. py Kenneth Bazemore had the good fortune to receive a small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy when three members of his family were sick with dysentery. This one small bottle cured them all 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 ils introduction and use has made it very popular. Z5and 50 cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills and 8B. M. Swartz, Tusseyville. — Will Shut Out the Floods, Bunbury Councils awarded a con. tract for the construction of a river dike two miles long as a protection against Susquehanna floods. The bank will be two feet higher than the
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