VOL. LXVII.
CAPITOL GOSSIP
THIS WEEK.
The FPolitionl Situation in Several
Statos,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22
Cleveland will return to the White
although not yet certain,
Cleveland and the
company him.
children will
force of men having been
family left until Saturday night tc
son.
Secretary Carlisle has almost con-
sented to deliver several speeches in
Indiana and New York and the pres-
sure is so’ great that there is
tion to making speeches or doing any-
clined to make these speeches, but be-
cause he is very busy and expects to
continue so until after the meeting of
Congress, and because he was so mod-
est as to be unable to see the import-
ance that Democrats all over the coun-
try will attach to his speeches. The
last is the hardest to overcome. By
working overtime he can make up for
the time lost, but it is difficult to con-
vince a man as free from anything ap-
proaching the big head as Secretary
Carlisle is that anything he may say
or do will be a powerful factor towards
the success of his party.
Secretary Gresham, who returned
from Chicago a few days ago, says he
found the Democrats of Illinois in bet-
ter shape than he expected from news-
that he thinks the party will hold
will control the legisiature,
will elect Senator Cullom’s
Now for a surprise. I have just learn-
ed from a trustworthy source that there
is a strong probability that Secretary
Gresham will speak, both in Illinois
and Indiaua, before the close of the
campaign.
Mr. T. O. Towles, a prominent offi-
cial of the House, has just returned
from his home in Missouri. He
carefully investigated the political sit-
uation in the state and his judgment
is regarded good by all who know of
which
SUOCessOr.
has
the accuracy of the predictions he has
He
working
made in previous contests,
that the Democrats are
says
now
are certain to hold their own in Con-
gressional districts, and have a good
fighting chance to send a solid Demo-
cratic delegation to the next House.
Missouri is one of the states In which
the Republican campaign committee
has been figuring, or at
to figure, on big gains.
Every prominemt Democrat who has
been in Washington for the last two or
three days endorses the action of Sen-
ator Hill, in allowing the Democratic
state ticket to be printed on the Union
or anti-Tammany municipal ticket, as
well as on the Tammany ticket, as not
only good politics, but under the cir
cumstances absolutely necessary poli-
tics. They feel that Senator Hill was
perfectly right in declining to make
the success of the state ticket depend-
ent npon the election of the Tammany
ticket, as it would have been had the
state ticket been printed only upon
the Tammany ticket. While the re
ports from New York are far from sat-
isfactory most Democrats are still con-
fident that Hill will win.
In view of the action of Judge Lar-
combe, of New York, in denying the
application for a writ of habeas corpus
in the case of Mr. Morton's English
coachman, who has heen ordered de-
ported for having come to America in
violation of the alien contract labor
law, and deciding that the Secretary
least claiming
ty to decide whether the claim made,
that the man was Mr. Morton's do-
mestic servant and therefore exempt
from the law in question, was valid.
Secretary Carlisle has directed that
the immigration board of review at
Ellis Island make a thorough investi
gation, and report to him, in order
that he may finally decide the case.
There is no politics in it so far as Sec-
retary Carlisle is concerned. He re-
grets the decision of Judge Larcombe,
believing that puts more authority in
the hands of the Secretary of the
Treasury than the framers of the law
intended that he should have, but will
of course make the decision,
The Congressional campaign com-
mittee has about completed its work,
#0 far as the sending out of Democrat.
fe literature is concerned. From now
until election its work will be mostly
of an advisory nature, although it will
also keep the Democratic district man-
agers posted as to any new schemes
put out by Republicans to catch votes.
Congressional situation in New York
City, which has been awfully compli-
cated in nearly all the districts because
of there being two Demoeratic candi-
dates—Tammany and anti-Tammany
in each, has been greatly helped by
the withdrawal of Straus and the sub-
stitution of ex-Mayor Grant as the
Tammany candidate for mayor. The
Congressional committee wants Dem-
ocrats elected to Congress, and doesn’t
care a fig whether they are Tammany
or anti-Tammany, and it is working
to prevent the running of two Demo-
3
cratic eandidates in anyone district,
believing that it is foolish to thus give
belong to Democrats,
PR Ss
)
WILSON WILL WIN,
Mr. Wilson
{fident of a
of tariff’
triumphant
| When asked about the campaign Mr,
| Wilson said:
{ “I feel contident that I will be elect- |
{ed but I never attempt to give any fig- |
tures. My district is as large as
i - : a |
| state of Massachusetts and its majori- |
i ties have varied. I feel quite confi-|
:
{ dent and believe the whole delegation |
from my state will remain Democratic, |
as it now is.” |
The Republicans sent large sums of |
money into the district to defeat him. |
Mo
Wheat Cheaper Than for 200 Years,
In several last week the
prices for new wheat were quoted at
instances
168. to 19s. per quarter in Lincolnshire
and in of
tainted grain;
but the extraordinary fact appears that
and this
to be
Yorkshire, Was,
course, assumed
i
the general average for the whole of
week
a decline
the country last was
of 1s.
pr quarter
than in the corresponding week last
year.
actually
the |
only 21s, 7d. on
week, and just 5s. worse
It is over 200 years since any-|
thing like so low a price has been quot- |
{ed for wheat in England
the
weeks immediately preceding.
minster Gazette,
putting aside
of the
West-
{of course, low
averages
Bs pc
Notes of Interest.
Reformed
1865, will
John's Re- |
formed Church, the third Wednesday |
of October. anxious to]
have the meeting of Bynod were Belle- |
fonte, Stroudsburg, Milton and Beth-
lehem.
The next meeting of the
Church General Synod,
be |
held in Bhamokin, in St,
Other cities
H. M. Eagle, of Marietta, took twen-
five bushels of cultivated chestnuts
They are
of the
high,
from his orchard last
worth $4.50 a
week.
bushel.
more.than ten feel
and are bending with nuts,
Some
{ trees are not
A Tioga county farmer recently cut |
three ‘bee trees” which yielded him
nearly 100 pounds of honey each.
Wl ny
An Original Sentence,
An original sentence was given late- |
ly by a magistrate in Missouri. A
man who did not know how to read
and write, convicted of aslight offense,
was sentenced to imprisonment until
he had learned to read; another of-
fender, who had a good education, was
sentenced to keep him eompany until
he had taught him to read. After
three weeks they were discharged, as
they had fulfilled their task to the full
satisfaction of the magistrate.
a
U. E. Church Notice
Bishop C. 8. Haman, of the United
Evangelical Church, will preach at
Zion church on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 10
a. m., at Egg Hill at 2.30 p. m., and at
Centre Hall at 7 p. m. He will also
fill the pulpit at Lemont Tuesday
evening, Oct. 30th, and Rock Hill,
Wednesday evening Oct. 31st. This
Bishop represents the minority side of
the old Evangelical Association which
has organized itself as the United
Evangelical Chureh.
C. H. GooprLixag, Pastor.
Sts AA ss
Spangler's Great Luck,
What is considered the largest and
most perfect vein of bituminous coal
in central Pennsylvania has been de-
veloped at Sterling No. 11, at Spang-
ler, Cambria county. The coal is
eight feet high and remarkably free
from defects or dirt. The remarkable
height of the vein has been masintain-
WEATHER FORECASTS,
Foster's Weather Predictions
October,
for
storm wave to cross the continent fron
19th to 23rd, and the next will reacl
the western mountains about the 23rd
25th to 27th, and the eastern
about the 25th.
be more than usual force, and will be
weather, Rainfall will bx
ing the last week in October,
The warm wave will cross
about the 28rd, the
the 27th.
the western
26th, the
Cross
the great
30th. Severe
Beginning with January these bulle-
average monthly
rainfall separately
temperature and
for the
known as the eastern states
divisions
the
valley, the upper Mississippi valley and
s Ohio
the northern states east of the Rocky
mountains, A little later the same in-
formation will be given for the South
Atlantic states,
gulf states, north
south Pacific coast,
east
sp
gui
I states,
Pacific
Wiest
coast and
The calculations on my new discov-
ery of the causes that control tem pora-
ly satisfactory, and leave no doubt as
to its correctness. The tables of plan-
etary positions agree with the official
any past month.
the tables however, is
The construction of
an exceedingly
laborious task.
Wc py
Pheasants in Clearfield
Clearfield Raftsman’s Journal: Ope
day last week a pheasant flew into the
window of Samuel on
the
snoke, Third
dinner
On
fine pheasant flew
against the front window of the Clear-
field First National bank and broke
its neck.
Ho, that's
aver
nothing towards what
a window the
mountain about dinner time then ring
on side nearest the
the dinner bell, and in a few minutes
one of these birds will come sailing
along, already fried and stuffed, and
dinner table.
sins fA ——
What a Woman
We are told that
Can Do,
a Young woman
from April 1 to June 1 this year, plant-
ed three scres of potatoes, did all the
cooking and sewing for the family,
milked four cows, fed the calves and
pigs and chickens, shot three polecats
and four chicken hawks, set the dog
on eighteen tramps, attended thirteen
novels and sat up four nights in the
week with her beau, says the Brook-
ville Jeffersonian Democrat. And yet
the question is often asked, **What
can a woman do?"
Ay “
A Saturday Night Happening.
Sunday morning when farmer A. B.
his barn he found that his good gray
mare had been taken away during the
night and an old sorrel mare blind in
both eyes left in his gray mare's stall,
The mare left in the place of the gray
has a white star on the forehead, has
pounds,
mile from Mill Hall.
liberal reward for the return
gray mare. — Republican,
The New Ballot,
The specimen ballot sheet was re-
from the state department Monday af-
ternoon. There are eight columns,
headed as follows: “Republican,”
“Democratic,” “Prohibition,” *“Peo-
ple’s,” “Socialist Labor,” “Independ-
ent Republican,” and “Independent.”
Wm,
The name of 8. Woods Caldwell ap-
pears in the column headed “Inde
pendent.” The name of Matt Bavage
does not appear oun the sheet any-
where. The ballot as printed in this
county will be 17x20 inches,
mane As M5 A SI
The Democratic Meeting.
The Democratic meeting at Potters
Mills on Tuesday evening was largely
attended. Wt W. Spangler called the
house to order, A. C. Ripka was elect-
ed chairman, and W. W. McCormick
secretary. Boyd A, Musser made a
short address, followed by our old
friend D, F. Fortney, of Bellefonte;
these remarks were to the point and
very enthusiastic,
A SO SS
w
COUNTY TICKETS
NOMINEES BY THE VARIOUS PAR-
TIES
i ——
i | The Democratic, Republican and Cold Wa-
ter Candidates to be Voted for on
! November Gth
There are three regular tickets in
the field for voters in our county on 6
of November, namly, Democratic, Re-
publican and Prohibition,
The Democratic ticket will be found
at our mast head, and for the informa-
tion of our readers we print the other
two, as follows :
REPUBLICAN :
Daniel H. Hastings, of
? Crovernor,
Centre,
Lieut. Governor, Waller Lyon, of
Allegheny.
Aud, General, Amos H. Mylin, of
Lancaster.
Sec'y of Int, Affairs, James W. Lat-
ta, of Philadelphia,
Congressmen-at- Large, Galusha A.
Crow, of Susquehanna, Geo. F. Huff
of Westmoreland,
Congress, William CC.
Clearfield.
Senator, M. L. M'Quown, Clearfield.
President Judge, John (i.
Bellefonte.
Associate Judge,
Union tp.
Arnold, of
Love, of
lenjamin Rich, of
Assembly, Phil. E. Womelsdorf, of
Philipsburg, Harry R. Curtin, of Ho-
ward tp.
Jury Commissioner, John D. Deck-
er, of Potter tp.
PROHIBITION :
Governor, Charles 1.
Hawley, of
3 »
seranton.
Lieut. Governor, Homer IL. Castle,
of Pittsburg.
Aud.
Deleware
General, Charles Palmer, of
county.
. of Int. Atlairs, L.. R.
of 13
iradford county.
Rec Gleason
’
Congressmen-at-Large, Elisha Kent
M'Kean county, L. R. Jor-
dan, of Philadelphia.
Congress, W. H. Watts, of Dubois.
Kane, of
GOOD TIMES ARE COMING.
President Roberts, of the Pennsy Says the y
wre Almost Here,
Bince his recent return from Europe,
President George B. Roberts, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, one
of the most conservative of the repre-
sentative men who stand for and pow-
erfully influence the great railroad in-
terests of the United States, has been
asked to give the public his views on
the economic outlook in this country.
Mr. Roberts said: “The recent pan-
ie, which began in 1893, and the nat-
ural result, an industrial depression,
which still continues, was largely the
natural outgrowth of speculation in all
kinds
real value,
of securities representing no
A large of railroad
securities and of “industrials”
Tass
equally
worthless had been put upon the mar-
ket, and the financial panic was the le-
gitimate result of the discovery of their
worthlessness; it is at banker's
panie, rather than a commercial or in-
dustrial one, Its first fruits were a
paralysis of our industries from which
the manufacturers of the country are
I do
speedy
first a
now slowly recovering. not be-
lieve that there will be a
radical rebound from that
or
depression,
but I do look for a gradual and gener-
i be
al improvement, which will
denced by an active demand for pay-
“evi
ing investments on the part of
ists,
capital-
During the depression the mon-
ey capital of the country has been al-
most valueless, as much as it brought
its possessors practically no returns; it
will now, I think, be
tive uses, and will stimulate enterprise
drawn into ae-
in many directions, so that we may
look for greater activity in all braneh-
es of trade and
NO. 42
AVOICE ¥ROM CENTRE COUNTY.
Mr, Fortney Speaks at Philgdelphin Last
Thursday.
On the 18th, at a large meeting in
the Becond ward Mr. Bingerly’s speech
was greeted with great applause, and
D. ¥. Fortney, of Centre county, was
then introduced. Mr. Fortney is a
sturdy exponent of the Democracy of
the state, and his vigorous speech was
received with many expressions of ap-
proval, which frequently broke into
wild applause. In the course of his re-
marks, Mr. Fortney said:
Mr. Fortney commenced by saying
that for the last year or more it has
been the delight of the Republican
newspapers and orators to charge all
the ills that have befallen the country
to the Democratic party. “Whatever
of financial distress we have suffered,”
or mill
has stood idle, or laboring men were
said he, “wherever a factory
thrown out of employment, no matter
when it occurred, it laid the
door of the Democratic party, and the
was 10
tariff bill they fought for assigned as
the proclaimed
that under Republican rule and tariff
loudly
cause. It is
we had no strikes, no distress, no pan-
108.
“Those of you who are old enough
will remember the awful financial
tress that fell the in
1873. Our and our mines
stood still, and for the first time in the
dis-
upon
factories
country
heard
men hunting
occurred
and
the
the tepubli-
I do not say that the tar-
land
the tramp of a million
for work. All
tariff framed,
when every
of our beloved
history
we
under a
executed
this
passed
branch of
control of
Govern~
ment was in
can party.
manufacture,
observation
IAT
as my goes, there is al- |
ready a general return throughout the |
country to manufacturing activity;
the manufacturers of iron are more ac
tive now than for
true that
a year past. It is
down
are almost |
improve- |
cost, but there should be
prices
an
ment in them. The relations between |
the prosperity of
1
general,
manufacturers in
and iron manufacturers espe- |
Senator, J. B. Boule, of Milesburg.
President Judge, Herbert T. Ames, |
of Williamsport.
Associate Judge, Jacob Shuey,
Lemont.
Assembly, Thomas Young, of Phil-}
ipsburg, John Craig, of Julian.
Jury Commissioner, Wm. W. Be
1
Hafrs ts
swiietontse,
i. |
$is
In addition there is the Populist no-
minee for Governor, J. T. Allman, lec-
tu ft + ; the platform
er of the state
is more
r Frage
for free silver and paper mo-
ney.
Then there is James B., Corey, of Al-
legheny, who announces himself as a
candidate for Governor ; his platform
is: Cut all
state and county, one half.
down salaries, national,
ilo mimesis
Another Farmer Buancoed
Chauncey Wheaton, a wealthy far-|
mer, of Waverly, N. Y., was buncoed |
out of $,000 by a couple of “three card |
monte men.” Wheaton drew the
money from the bank to show that he
had it, and then $5,000 more on
He saw both packages
placed in a box and tied up, but when
he reached home the box was empty.
The sharpers escaped.
It is strange that farmers—some of
them-—are always led into the swin-
dler's trap, in spite of the warnings
giver by the newspapers. There has
been less swindling of farmers in Cen-
tre county, in the last half dozen years
than formerly. The REPORTER has
headed off much of it by exposing the
swindles and cautioning the farmer,
which we consider a duty, and we are
glad to know that swindles have been
greatly interfered with thereby.
sr Mi
won
the game,
News Items,
Aaron Middleswarth, aged about
nineteen years, son of Mr. John C.
Middleswarth of Millmont, was killed
by the cars at Camden Junction, near
Baltimore, on the Baltimore & Ohio
R. R., on last Saturday morning.
Mark Brown, of Franklinville, Cen-
tre county, while employed as stocker
in P. B. Crider & Son’s mill on the
Gates farm had his collar bone broken
and his left shoulder crushed a few
days ago by having a log roll on him.
Mr. Emanuel Shroyer died in Boggs
township on Monday, the 15th instant,
of heart disease. The funeral was un-
der the auspices of Dr. George L. Pot-
ter Post, No. 261, G. A. R., of which
he was a member, interment being
made in Curtin cemetery.
nos ABM STO
Councilmen Arrested,
very member of Council of the bo-
ro of Jersey Shore was arrested on
Tuesday, charged with maintaining a
nuisance,
Under the head of nuisance come
bad side walks, dangerous places on
streets, and such like, for all of which
councilmen are liable to arrest, even
if & nuisance is on private property, as
they neglect their sworn duty by tole-
rating it.
an AI PS IRS.
pecially, are, of course, very intimate,
“In many instances, I regret to say, |
{f fictitious
The |
the
amount o
in American railways.
i
enterprises have been engineered by |
bankers or promoters and stocked or
bonded for two or three
In
SArn some returns on
times the cost
their efforts to
these securities |
companies have |
not destroyed,
sound founda- |
tions in other companies.
of the property.
the managers of such
actually impaired, if
investments made on
As a conse
has
come to regard railway securities with
distrust. To this cause are to at-
tributed many of the financial failures
in the large railway system of the]
country. This condition of affairs is |
extremely difficult to remedy by law,
but it would seem that
investor
he
laws could be |
sue of stock certificates and bonds not |
of actual value. In
some states there are such laws in ex-|
istence, but they are either not enfore- |
ed as they should be, or ae not suffi
ciently general in their operation, and
#0 fail of effect. As a practical meas-
ure, all such securities as those alluded
to should be cancelled in reorganiza-
tion, and the capital of the new com-
pany reduced to the actual value of
the property.
representatives
s——————-
Short Scraps and Shavings.
The fine weather has caused our
roads to be in good condition.
Rev. Rarick, on Sunday last conduc-
ted the installation services of Rev. W.
M. Spangler, at Salona.
New corn is bringing 50 cents per
bushel in the ear, at the station.
Luce's new dwelling at the station
is nigh on to completion,
The Misses Gregg are slowly mend-
ing up from thé injuries received by
their horse running off.
Chas. Bradford, we are pleased to
note, is sufficiently recovered from his
long siege of typhoid fever, to drive
about on business.
The potato crop is now harvested,
and is not a brag in quantity or sizes,
They are below the average in size and
about half a crop. ,
Weather has been foggy [since Mon-
day with indications for rain.
Rain set in Tuesday night and con-
tinued Wednesday.
Tue Tip Is turning strongly in fa-
vor of Singerly, and if the. election
were four to six weeks off yet, he
would be elected by a triumphant ma.
jority. The changes are so great al-
ready that there is hope of electing the
Col. Democrats, do your duty on
Nov. 6,
«=A dollar's worth of goods for your
dollar is the medium of exchange a
iff’ was the cause of that financial ruin
and distress, but 1 do say that such
things did occur when the Republican
bill in
the McKinley
ill in the same year, and their effect
“The passage of the silver
x0, the enactment of
upon the country, taken in connection
with the fact that froma March 1888, to
expenditures
were largely increased and the Treas-
the great depression in business and
4
mills and factories; and just as soon as
the
Bilver and
administration removes
my in the expenditures of the Govern-
ment, business revives, our mills and
finds re-
The evil
was upon us and the mischief done be-
fore the Democratic party had control
of the Government.’
and labor
munerative employment.
ssi AA ————
There is no medicine so often need-
of it. A
toothache or headache may be cured
by it. A touch of rheumatism or neu-
The severe painofa
when medicine has to be sent for, A
sprain may be promptly treated before
inflammation sets in, which insures a
cure in about one-third of the time
otherwise required. Cuts and bruises
should receive immediate treatment
before the parts become swollen, which
can only be done when Pain Balm is
kept on hand. A sore throat may be
cured before it becomes serious. A
troublesome corn may be removed by
applying it twice a day for a week or
two. A lame back may be cured and
several days of valuable time saved or
a pain in the side or chest relieved
without paying a doctor bill. Procure
a 50 cent bottle at once and you will
never regret it. For sale by Wm.
Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M. Swartz,
Tusseyville,
AS A
The Season's Goods,
Our opening for this season's stock
of Clothing, Hats, etc., has been the
largest in our long experience,
Our prices are much lower than any
previous year—our styles are the
brightest, newest and neatest.
Our store room is brighter and bet-
ter lighted than before the fire. Come
in and see the new things in Ready
Made Clothing, Hats and Gentle
men’s Furnishing Goods and st the
new prices,
Moxteomunry & Co,
Tailors and Clothiers,
Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte.
.
The Old Story.
Some time ago Mrs. D. Kennedy
sustained injuries by falling over an
iron trough in the pavement in front
of Dr. Meckley's residence, at Jersey
Shore, and a few days ago the lady in-
stituted a suit for $10,000 damages
against the borough,
~Lewins, Bellefonte, has the most
experienced cutter in these parts and at
his establishment you can be suited in
a manner befitting a princeand at at