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VOL. LXVII.
BECOME A LAW
THE TARIFF BILL WILL NOT BE
VETOED.
The President However, Will Take Action
Onlyon what Relates to Details,
A False Rumor,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—President
Cleveland will not, according to those
who ought to know, definitely decide
what action he will take on the tariff
bill until he returns from Gray Ga-
bles, whither he was driven by a
troublesome attack of malaria; but that
only relates to details, as it is regarded
as fully settled that the bill shall be-
come a law. In fact, certified copies
of the bill are now on the way toevery
collector of customs, so that when it
becomes a law it will only be necessa-
ry to telegraph the collectors to have
it put right into effect. The President
will return this week.
In some quarters there is a disposi-
tion to believe that the Murphy reso-
lution, against further consideration
of tariff legislation, which was adopt-
ed by a vote of 27 to 16—a bare quorum
—by the Senate, may be the cause of
the tariff bill being vetoed. It is, of
course, well-known that President
Cleveland is much interested in the
separate bills placing coal, iron ore
and barbed wire on the free list, and
desires to see them become laws, and
it is equally well-known that the Mur-
phy resolution was intended to kill
those bills for the present session. It
was stated when the House Democrat-
ic caucus which resulted in the pass.
age of the Senate tariff bill was in ses-
sion that the Democratic stearing com-
mittee of the Benate had given a pledge
that these separate bills, and that pro-
viding for free sugar, should be voted
upon by the Senate before adjourn-
ment, if the House would accept the
Senate amendments to the Wilson bill
and it is believed that without that
pledge the House would not have sect-
ed. These things are all known to Mr,
Cleveland, but those whose opinions
would carry weight will not at this
time express them, as to what, if any,
effect the Senate resolution may have
on the fate of the tariff bill.
An official statement made by the
disbursing clerk of the Department of |
Agriculture shows that the reduction
in the expenditures of that depart- |
ment for the fiscal year ending June |
3rd, 1894, was slightly in excess of 14
per cent., and that nearly $500,000 of
the annual appropriation made for the
department was unexpended and
would be covered back into the Treas
ury. That's the kind of a Democrat
Secretary Morton is. In this connee-
tion it is well to call attention to
another official fact calculated to im-
press people with the idea that the
Democrats in Congress are living up
to the party pledges of economy in
public expenditure, if they haven't
be retained or lost, It is doubtless
whether any President ever enjoyed
closer relation with his Secretary of
the Treasury than Mr. Cleveland does
with Mr. Carlisle, and all talk of cool-
ness between them is simply rot not
deserving any ones serious considera-
tion,
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Wheat as Animal Food.
A western farmer has made a test of
the value of wheat when fed to hogs,
and has had a very gratifying result.
He fed wheat at the price of 50 cents
per bushel. The result showed that
the hog increased in value $1.38} cents.
If this holds out there is no doubt that
wheat would gain in price as feed for
hogs. Even put the grain at $1.10 per
bushel, in place of $1.38} and the farm-
er has a paying price for his wheat
when turned into pork.
Let some of our Centre county farm-
ers make a similar test, and report the
result. We feel interested inanything
that will belp the farmer to better
prices for his wheat, and ofter this ex-
poriment as one worth making. What
farmer will send in the first report of
a test in feeding wheat to hogs?
Take three fattening hogs—weigh
each one, Then feed a bushel of wheat
to it dry; to another feed a bushel of
soaked wheat; and to a third feed a
bushel of wheat chopped. Then weigh
the hogs and publish the result, giving
the difference gained in weight. This
is readily done, and only a few days
required to make the test,
If the farmer can turn his 50 or 75
cent wheat into pork so as to be worth
$1.38 to him, then the wheat problem
is solved in his favor, and the wheat
gambler and speculator’'s voeation is
gone, and the farmer pockets the pro-
fit, as there will always be a demand
for pork at fair prices.
A similar test might be made by
feeding wheat to beef cattle.
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Newspaper Columns the Best,
In ancient times if a man had any
announcements to make he used to
write them in crude characters on the
walls. If he did'nt want many peo-
ple to notice what the announcement
was he wrote it very high, but if he
desired to give it some publicity, he
wrote where people could see it. Now-
adays, if merchants or others want to
give publicity to any announcement,
instead of writing it on the walls they
have it inscribed in printer's ink in
the columns of widely circulated news-
papers, where they are sure that every-
body will heed and give it attention.
Judicious advertising in the columns of
the REPORTER Is sure to bring a prof
itable return.
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W. C, Arnold for Congress.
The Republican conferees of the
twenty-eighth congressional district
met at DuBois on Thursday, and nom-
inated William C. Arnold, of DuBois,
on the thirteenth ballot. Each of the
gone as far in some other direction as |
they might have gone. The total
amount appropriated at this session of |
Congress, according i the figures of |
Chairman Sayers, of the House appro-
priation committee, is $28,835 980 less |
than the total appropriations made at
the last session of Congress. In other!
words, the government has been saved
Just that much.
Representative Bland prevented the
bimetallic league endorsing the Popu-
lists at the conference held here last
week. He simply told the other mem-
bers of the committee, when the chair-
man of the Populist national commit-
tee asked that his party be endorsed,
that if the league was to be turned in-
to a Populist machine he and other
Democrats would draw out. The com-
mittee decided to endorse nothing but
silver and to use its entire efforts to se-
cure the eleclion of silver men fo the
54th Congress, and issued an address
in accordance with that decision.
The old rumor that Secretary Car-
lisle was about to retire from the ecabi-
net came out as spry as though it had
not been killed a dozen or more times,
during the last three or four days. It
was preceded by the rumor that Becre-
tary Carlisle's letter to Senator Harris,
who is acting chairman of the Senate
finance committee on account of sick-
ness of Senator Voorhees, concerning
the effect the bills passed by the House,
placing on the free list sugar, coal,
iron ore, and barbed wire, would have
upon the revenues of the government
if favorably acted upon by the Senate,
had been written without President
Cleveland’s knowledge and that it had
caused a coolness between the two
men, Never was a story built upon a
falser foundation. Although BSecreta-
ry Carlisle's letter was written in sc-
cordance with the routine custom, in
answer to the usual inquiry made by
the chairman of the finance commit-
tee Of the Secretary of the Treasury
concerning contemplated legislation,
it can be positively stated that Presi.
‘dent Cleveland was fully informed of
its contents before it wassent. It con-
tained, by the way, not a word of are
’
five counties—Clearfleld, Centre, Elk,
Forest and Clarion—presented a can-
didate, but the fight narrowed down
to Forest and Clearfield. On the final
ballot Arnold received the Clearfield
and Elk votes and one each from Cen-
tre and Clarion, which gave him the
nomination. Mr. Arnold is a native
of Carwensville, although for several
years he has lived in DuBois. He is
an attorney by profession.
Afi
Kenneth Bazemore had the good
fortune to receive a small bottle of
Chamberlain's Colie, 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 its
introduction and use has m ude it very
popular. 25 and 50 cent bottles for
sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills and
8B. M. Bwartz, Tusseyville,
SS AI MP SGP AAI,
News Items,
Gardner, the absconding bank cash-
ler of Altoona, engaged in speculations.
Israel Long, the father of eleven
children, at Kdtztown, hanged him-
self,
The world’s coffee crop is likely to
Seach 18,500,000 bags, beating all rec-
Hogs are starving in South Dakota
from lack of wheat or corn to feed
them.
In some quarters it is suspected that
bank examiner Miller did not commit
suicide, but that he was murdered.
~ Whether you want a suit made of
order or one ready-made, you will find
Lewins §8 to $6 cheaper than elsewhere.
gument for or against any bill; merely
acme of th revende that would
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A Beoticn of the County. Where the Crops
Were Not Injured by Hall or ¥ioods,
The tobacco crop in Nittany and
Bald Eagle Valleys this year is said to |
be the finest ever grown in those sec- |
tions of the county. The hail storms
that proved so destructive to the crops |
in the other tobacco growing districts |
did not extend to the valleys, conse-
quently the leaf harvested will be per- |
fect. On some of the farms cutting |
has commenced. The acreage in Bald |
Eagle Valley is as follows: Charles |
Kreamer 5 acres, Valentine Schied on
the Bossert farm 10 acres, M. Johnson
8 acres, Abram Bellner on the F reder- |
icks farm 8 acres,
In Nittany Valley there are ten!
acres of tobacco on the farm of George |
Weymouth, and 8 acres on the Thomp- |
son farm, making a total of 44 acres in |
the two valleys,—Clinton Republi- |
oan.
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To Recover Their Timber,
The West Branch lumbermen’s ex-
change of Williamsport will enter suit
in the courts of Dauphin and Cumber-
land counties to recover the timber
that was swept away by the recent
flood and which has been taken by
people living along the river,
The Willlamsport Sun says that the
lumbermen during the recent freshet
had swept from them not less than
180,000,000 feet of saw logs and about
20,000,000 feet of manufactured lumber,
which line the Susquehanna river
from Williamsport to the Chesapeake
bay. The valuation of this lumber is
fully $3,500,000 to the lumber sufferers
and they think it hard that their loss
should be increased by parties living
along the stream who have no claim
to the lumber whatever,
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Feline Incubators,
Albert Blearley set 8 hen a short
time since with 15 eggs under her, but
she refused to stay on the nest, says
the Lewistown Free Press. A second
and then a third biddie was tried,
neither of which would remain. The
eggs were finally placed in a basket,
taken into the house, flannel put about
them and all put under the cook stove,
the family curiously awaiting the re.
sult. Strange to say, two half grown
cats appropriated the basket as a sleep-
ing place, and by the warmth of their
bodies hatched out the chicks—the fe- |
lines doubtless being more astonished |
at the appearance of the “little peep-
ies’ than were the members of Mr,
Bearley's family.
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Democratic Congressional Conference.
The Democratic convention to nom-
inate a congressional candidate to sue- |
ceed George F. Kribbs, from this dis- |
trict, met on Wednesday at Ridgway.
The convention was composed of three
conferrees from each of the counties of |
Clarion, Forest and Elk, and delegates
chosen in the ordinary way from
Clearfield and Centre counties. Con-
gressman Kribbs falled to win the con-
ferrees in his own county, Clarion,
whose candidate is Joseph M. Fox.
Elk has nc candidate. Forest presents
L. E. Weber. Centre has two ecandi-
dates, Aaron Williams and William
C. Heinle, while in Clearfield Jacob
Truby and George M. Brisbin are as
pirants for the seat.
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REDUCED RATES,
To the Grangers' Pienie at Williams’ Grove
Via P. RR.
For the accommodation of persons
desiring to attend this interesting pie-
nic and exhibition the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets on August 25th, 27th, 28th,
20th, 30th, and 31st, good to return
until September 3d, inclusive, from
stations in the following territory, at
rate of one fare for the round trip:
From all principal stations on the
Pennsylvania Railroad Division west
of Bryn Mawr and east of East Liberty,
both inclusive.
From all principal stations on the
Northern Central Railway north of
Lutherville, Md., and south of Can-
From all principal stations of the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Divi-
sion,
Will Reopen.
TheBSetond National bank of Al
toons which was closed some days ago
through Cashier Gardner skipping out
with the funds, is to be Ei
business in a few days.
Cider Making.
The cider mill at Luse's planing
mill will be run on next Tuesday, Aug.
28, and for each Tuesday thereafter
throughout the season,
oo. SMAI und syle ole Proms
AT ALTOONA,
The Oficial Puts a Ball through His Head |
While Looking Over the Accounts of
the Stranded Bank.
William Miller, the United States
Bank Examiner, committed suicide
{ last Friday noon by shooting himself
in the Becond National bank at Al-
| toona, which was closed owing to the |
| sudden departure of the cashier, Gard- |
ner, several days previous, with many
thousands of the bank’s funds,
The president of the bank, Levan, |
{ was in the building when Miller fired |
{ the shot, but was in an adjoining room.
| When Miller fired the shot he was|
standing beside the cashier's
{ The ball entered the right side
| head, just back of the ear, and passed
| clear through, coming out at the left |
{side at a point almost directly oppo-
{site. Death must have been instanta-
| neous, judging from the wound. The
unfortunate man fell on his back and |
surrounded by a pool of blood which
spread out over the floor of the
The revolver a colts 45 calibre,
fer's desk, where it had dropped from
the hand of the suicide after he
mitted the deed.
The papers in the drawer were spot |
ted with blood and an envelope that |
lay on top of the desk was saturated, |
After having passed through Miller's
Coi-
the inner doors at the entrance, and
glancing off, hit the right side of the
wall between the outer and inner doors |
making a large indentation in the hard
concrete. The ball then passed out be-
tween the two front doors, of
which was slightly open, boy |
afterward found it on the ily |
battered,
The news spread like wildfire, and |
intense excitement prevailed, the street
being packed with excited and!
seething throng.
Ever since the opening of the exam-
ination Mr. Miller has worked
too hard in fact. The bank clerks told
him they could not stand the
much longer. At he worked
until 3 o'clock in the morning, begin-|
ning operations again at o'clock.
one
and a
steps bad
an
times
5
quit at 10.30,
but all along his nervousness showed
the effects of the strain upon him.
Examiner Miller's home
was in|
years of age. He was appointed Bank
Examiner about two vears
ceeding Hugh Young.
Daniel McSweeney, formerly of the
United States Secret Service, Chief of
Police Tillard and other detectives
who have been epgaged on the case,
are not satisfled with the suicide theo-
ry. They are not content in the belief
that the revolver could have fallen
back into the drawer after having been
used. Blood dripped from the revol-
ver upon papers in the drawer, yet
there were no blood stains upon the
dead man’s hands, A young woman,
at the time reported to be Miller's
daughter, is reported to have gone in-
to the bank a few moments before the
shooting occurred. The detectives
seem to consider the woman story
with some concern and are at work on
the clue. It is evident from the inter-
est manifested that the case will not
be allowed to go by default. A vigor-
ous and thorough investigation is cer-
tain to result.
Monday night upon the arrival of
Altoona accommodation from Newton
Hamilton campmeeting Mayberry
Miller, a former clerk in the Second
National bank of that city, was placed
under arrest charged with falsifying
the books of the bank with intent to
deceive the examiner and assist Gard-
ner in defrauding the depositors, He
failed to get bail and was placed in the
city lockup.
The latest move in the affairs of the
Second national bank was the arrest
Tnesday morning of Harry Claybaugh,
another clerk in the bank, on the same
charge as that preferred against May-
berry Miller, falsifying the books of
the bank with intent to deceive the
examiner. Both men have secured
bail in the sum of $5,000 for their ap-
pearance at a hearing on Thursday
morning at ten o'clock.
The investigation of the looted bank
is still in progress by Examiners Cof-
fin and Henlein and it is given out
that other arrests are likely to follow
as the books show evidence to warrant
such action.
Mr. Claybaugh upon being approach
ed after his arrest refused to make any
statement except that he would make
startling revelation® when his case
came up for trial and the
was given that these revelations would
implicate Bank Examiner Miller.
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NO. 33
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Practical Jokers May Have a Death on
Thelr Hands.
A practical joke resulted very se-
riously near Shamokin recently at a
party where all kinds of games and
pranks were being played. One of the
participants, as a master stroke of fun
went out to the stable and got an old
horse and led him into the parlor,
Then he, together with some of the
| the 81st. rest, seized the wife of the host and put
The disturbance will be of more than | her on the animal's back and marched
{around the room according to cake
walk regulations.
WEATHER PROUHESIES SHOT HER TORMENTORS,
| Foster Bays We Will Have an Warm Fall
and a Late Winter,
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the
storm waves to cross the continent
| from August 16 to 20 and 22 to 26,
{| The next will reach the Pacific coast
about the 26th the western
{ mountains by the close of the 27th, the
great central valleys from the 28th to
the 30th and the eastern states about
Cross
usual force and severe local storms may
| be expected. As this Is also an earth-
| quake date, it cannot be determined The woman struggled as best she
whether the force will find relief | could to free herself from the torment-
| through a great earthquake in some | ors, but they held her on the horse un-
| earthquake country or a great storm, | til they saw she was becoming far-
tor be divided and cause moderate | iously angry when they let her get off.
storms and moderate earthquakes, tushing into another room the woman
| This disturbance will be at its great- | seized a loaded revolver and returning
est within the six days, August 28 to to the parlor shot one of her torment-
| September 2, inclusive, probably on | ors in the neck and another in the leg.
| Beptember 1. If it reaches its climax The others fled before she got a chance
{on that date its effects will be felt on | to shoot at them,
[the Pacific coast and oft the Atlantic The man shot in the neck is not ex-
| const, as the storm waves will be due | pected to recover.
on those meridians at that time.
tides will occur about
Professor Faib, of Vienna
{ has, if the papers report him correctly,
selected August 16 for the great tidal
| waves. I would have selected August
| 20 to Beptember 2, probably Beptem-
| ber 1, as the date of dangerous tidal
{ waves, and I am of the opinion that
is ppp fp
| Very high
these dates,
The Two Vacations
There are two ways of taking a vaca-
tion. The one is to collect all the mon-
ey that is due you, borrow all you can
from your friends, burden yourself
with the care and expense of needless
trunks, take quarters in a crowded and
expensive hotel, overload your stom-
| the papers wrongly reported his dates. | ooh with indigestible food, dance and
From 17th to 19th of August will | dissipate until late, night after night,
probably develop severe disturbances | .d then after a few weeks, with
in various parts of the world and pro- | pleted purse and power, return home
duce high tides, but nothing to equal | to regain what little you can of health,
| those from August 25 to September 2. | character and comfort. The other way
i Beptember will be a very warm isto plan for a rest that shall include
month, with no killing frosts, except | somfort and economy, promises good
lin the extreme north, where light health, afford refining and elevating
frosts may occur from the 20th of Au-| surroundings. With such a vacation
gust in the far northwest to Septem- | returns one to his home rested and
| ber 3 in the far northeast. During the | benefitted in body, mind and heart.—
| last days of August and the Ist and 2d | px.
{ of October, frosts will do some damage
{in the extreme northern portions of the
| United States. September will also
be a dry month as an average over the
| United States and Canada. Locally
the rainfall will increase in many of |
the drouth districts, and decrease
! where rains have been plentiful,
Winter will probably come in late, | Never let the handles of knives
and a long, warm period of fall weath- | Put in hot water. If possible buy
er, with an unusually beautiful Indian | ver knives when you begin your house-
summer may be expected. | keeping. You will not find it extrav-
— | agance in the end.
Severely Dealt with. Never allow your carving knife to be
Over in Perry county a negro offen- | used to cut bread; provide a separate
de-
e————————
Nevers.
Never use a metal spoon for stirring
stewed fruit or tomatoes. A wooden
one is the best, and those with short
handles are preferable for stirring thick
Messes,
be
&il-
{ with by persons of his own color, al Never throw water on boiling oil;
{like a dose of Delaware whipping| If your clothes take fire never run
At the annual frolic known as | about, but lie down and roll over and
in
of the Perry county railroad, Magee
was caught in an attempt to assault a
a young colored girl, and being strip-
ped of nearly all his clothing was
marched through the camp to the mu-
sic of the merry-go-round organ and at |
every step one of the colored men lash-
ed him furiously across his nude body
with a switeh, while the indignant
women in the camp looked on approv-
ingly. Magee's punishment was swift
and severe and he suffers greatly there
Lumberman Killed,
Samuel Myers, a lumberman resid-
ing near Emery’s church, above Lin-
den, Lycoming county, was killed
Monday last, while working on D.
Kavanaugh's job on Otter run. Mr.
Myers with others was engaged in
lowering timber, fastened to a rope,
from the top of the mountain to the
slide below. By some means the men
lost control of the rope and while it
was lashing about it caught Mr. My-
ers around the waist and threw him a
considerable distance among the rocks.
When he was picked up he was dead,
his skull “having been crushed, his
neck broken, one leg mangled and his
breast badly injured. He leaves a wife
and nine children, the youngest seven-
teen months old.
Short Locals.
Crickets have opened their free con-
certs for the fall season.
Sverybody is eating plums.
Cows allowed to drink stagnant wa-
ter are sure to give unwholsome milk.
The shipment of apples from this
county will not be one-half what it
was last fall,
Long evenings will soon be on—sub-
scribe for the REPORTER.
Carriage maker Boob, opposite this
office, has put a steam engine in his
shops.
Bob Foreman is beautifying his resi-
dence by giving it a coat of paint.
«We have made another big reduc
tion in Bummer Dress Goods-—at these
cut figures it will pay you to invest.
Come quick.~—Wolf & Crawford,
soil HUE sbatinek wai om Liowins
Belistuite, wil 30 such keeping cool
Never buy sweet potatoes large
quantities.
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My boy was taken with a disease re-
sembling bloody flux. The first thing
I thought of was Chamberldin’s Colic,
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. 1
will answer any inquiries regarding it
when stamp is inclosed. I refer to
any county official as to my reliability.
Wm. Roach, J. P., Primmroy, Camp-
bell Co., Tenn. For sale by Wm.
Pealer, Spring Mills and 8. M. Swartz,
Tusseyville, |
Effects of Brooks Law.
At the last session of the legislature
a committee was appointed to investi-
gate the moral effects of the Brooks
high license law. Senator Grady, of
Philadelphia, chairman of the com-
mittee, will shortly call the committee
together and a searching inquiry will
be made on this important matter.
His colleagues on the committee are
Senators Lyon, Allegheny; Herring,
Columbia; Thomas, Philadelphia, and
Mitchell, Bradford. The examination
of the increase or decrease ofpauperism,
crime and insanity arising from the
use of liquor since the passage of the
Brooks law is the duty of this commit-
tee.
Church Festival.
The ladies and gents of the Reform
ed and Lutheran congregations at Tus.
seyville will hold a festival on next
Saturday evening at which seasonable
refreshments will be* served. A cor
dial invitation is extended to the
friends of the congregations snd the
public in general,
Death of a Farmer, i
Mr. Lewis Zimmerman, a wells
kitown citizon of Heola, Centre coun-
§¥, dled Motiday woming, aged sevens
ty-one years.