VOL. LXVII. CAPITOL GOSSIP THE BOND ISSUE N MEETING WITH | PUBLIC FAVOR. the Amount of the Bond Issue. —A Democratic Proportion, WARBHINGTON, Nov, President Cleveland und Secretary Carlisle were pleased to have subserip- tions for more than three times answer to the call, but they had both If it should be determined, as now shall be sold to the syndicate sented by the United States Trust Company's bid, which is on a basis of 2. 7-8 per cent. interest on the bonds, the record for placing bonds at lowest rate of interest will have broken. The matter will be early this week. In any event, matter which of the bidders get bonds, the interest will not three per cent. the received from the sale of the bonds, but it will be several weeks before that can be definitely known. Whethe Democratic members of the House | will carry out their announced inten- tion of attacking this bond issue mains to beseen. They will not, if they | follow the advice of their more con- servative colleagues who realize that | no possible good can come out of such | an attack. Democrats are doing more thinking | than talking these days, and one of] the results is a proposition that meets | with much favor among the few Dem- ocratic Congressmen who have reach-| ed Washington. This proposition is| in the nature of a suggestion to Presi- | dent Cleveland, that he omit from his | message to Congress all financial ree- | ommendations, except that a moneta- | ry commission be authorized by i gress, to be appointed by the Presi-| dent, which shall make a thorough in-| vestigation of our entire financial sys- | tem and report what ought to be done. This proposition is in the interest of | party harmony and is backed by two | members of the Cabinet—Secretary | Morton and Attorney-General Olney —and some influential Congressmen: but as President Cleveland and Secre- tary Carlisle have some very decided ideas about what our financial system | needs the suggestion may not be adopt- | ed. There is a probability that Capt. Howgate, the man who defaulted for a large sum while acting as Disburs- | ing Officer of the Signal Service, some fourteen years ago, and who was last | summer run down and brought back | to Washington through the instru-| mentality of Secretary Morton, may | after all escape punishment. The old | indictments against him are fanity— many believe purposely made so by | his Republican friends—and far | search for the papers in his case, upon which a new indictment could bel found, has been ineffectual, and some | of the most important witnesses against | him are dead, It is believed that the papers were purposely destroyed years | Con- wey pires March 3, 1805: “The Democrats | | have ten Senators out ot fifty and in| | the fone hundred and twenty. The | mainder is pretty evenly divided be- tween the Republicans and Populists, | { the latter. I have no doubt that the | | two Senators will be elected without | any wrangling. One will be a Repub- { lican and the other a Populist; but if { Marion Butler goes to the Senate, as now seems likely, there will virtually be two Republicans, as he is a Repub- | i lican at heart. ble to it. He is a protectionist will vote with the Republicans on or-| ganization and on everything The Populist leaders, by the way, | really Republicans.” else, are pn tp Seraps from the Esst End. The Journal says : A few nights ago | some thief entered Robert Miller's res- | idence at Millheim meat and sausage of two hogs buteh- | ered the day previous. That's rough | in the Reporter's opinion, {rows beyond Woodward a short time | 1 AZO, Ex-commissioner Fiedler, recently on the sick list, | proving. A. J. Campbell, of Coburn, has ta-| ken charge of Torbert’s prop timber | i job on Beech creek. Mrs. Jacon Musser, the Torbert ast on one day mountains, the deer passing near her She set her dogs after it | they downed it. She sent her daugh ter for a butcher knife and throat, and thus house. got stocked iste Fifty-Two Dividends, As a general thing investers are | INSOLVENT FOR MANY YEARS, | Startling Revelations in the Trial of the Perry Bank Officials. A sensation was sprung last week in the Perry { Commonwealth, and he that i the bank had been insolvent for the past twenty years, and that not were Sponler and Junkin acquainted { with the standing of the bank, but | that he had himself repeatedly advis- swore Cross-examination - developed the { fact that when Wills was promoted from a clerkship to cashier his recommendation to the president by a officers was that he best bluffers in the shown that immunity by would make a | frank and accurate statement of what he knew of the affairs of the bank, and that on the other hand, the fense had threatened him case he | should testify against them. The wit | ness also stated that months before the the bank he had urged such action and admitted { that his method of keeping books was sole It was also Wills had been offered de- in The first official exhibit of the liabil- ities of the wrecked bank, in excess of the W. H. Carpen- ter, cashier of the Union National Bank, of Philadelphia, testified that the amount due his bank was thing over $7000, and shows SOe- — - A Misconstraed Decision. The recent decision of Judge Barker F. Conrad pleton Crawford & Co., of Tyrone, dered in the Blair county court, has been published and commented upon ve. Teme ren- as having an im- and ii has been generally construed that where ledger accounts are not the i COURT NEWS WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE QUARTER SESSIONS About as Large Usunl.~How the Different Were Dealt With Canes Regular November term of A. 0. Farst Associate Judge The morning o'clock with Hon. Presi- dent Judge, and ley on the bench. was views, and in sundry cases in the phan’s Court. The list of grand and absentees noted; G Jurors was of Philipsburg was chosen foreman, af- ter which Judge Furst called their at- tention as to their duties grand ju- examina us rors and particularly to the tion of the county buildings. The constables of the different town- ships and boroughs then made their returns, Court adjourned at 11.15 till 2 when more petitions were heard, the called and sentees noted; forty-two out of eight answered to their names, The first case called o'clock and Ai list of petit jurors was Com. vs. charge assault tery; prosecutor David Adams, defend- ant plead guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars and costs of prosecution. Com. vs. Bamuel Meiss; charge breaking; prosecutor Wm. A. Ishler. Robert Watkins ith day of Nov. 1583, and was recaptured in May of this plead guilty was sentenced to pay a fine of one dol jail The defendant with broke jail on the year. Defendant lar, costs of prosecution and underg: imprisonment in the county jail for #iX months, . Levi Hamer witor Benjamin Kelleys; guilty. . Wm. and adult ry, Com. us r; charge larce- ny prose dict not Com. Fry, charge f. and | prosecutrix Mary W hite: V8 larity are satisfied. however, fully can When one, receive fifty-two divi- only three dollars, the York for first The Indep nelent of New the land. It coming year in far in advance of any ed. It has the leading contributors of the world, it prints the best poetry, it specialists, devoted to Fine Arts, Jiblical Re- Sei- ence, Insurance, Finance, Sunday School, fealth, ete. ticularly fitted for intelligent people, whether professional men, business It costg but six cents a week and gives deal. A subscriber receives fifty-two dividends a year. The subscription price of the Inde- pendent is only three dollars a year, and a sample copy will be sent to any person free by addressing the JInde- pendent, New York City. a pcs The People's Verdict, The people of Centre Hall and vi- they were missing the number who think that those sharers in eluded of- ficials of prominence at that time has largely increased. The District At- torney expresses confidence that enough witnesses are still at his dispo- sal to make a good case against How- gate, but that confidence is not shared by the general public, Chairman Sayers, of the House com- mittee on Appropriations, has got his committee at work, in order that one or two of the regular Appropriation bills may be ready to report to the House soon after the reassembling of Congress. Mr. Bayers thinks the pen- sion bill and the fortification bill can be put through the House hefore the holidays. President Cleveland has not been to the White House for more than a week, owing to a painful attack of his old enemy, the rheumatic gout, but it has not prevented his keeping at work on his message, The members of the sub-committee of the House committee on Judiciary, who are charged with the duty of in- vestigating the serious charges made against Judgé Ricks, will meet at Cleveland, Ohio, this week. Members of the committee who have been in Washington expect that the investi- gation will be completed in time for a report to be made to the Judiciary Committee at its first meeting after the opening of the session of Congress, Col. Bimmons, Collector of Inter nal Revenue for the eastern district of N. C., who Is visiting Washington, says of the legislature of that state and the coming election: by it of two U. 8, Benators—one to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Vance, which and congratulate us on our unani- mous election to serve all the people with Clothing and Hats, You will find us “just the same,” ~as busy as bees, wrapping up and shipping clothing everywhere. | Our PRICES ARE THE WINNERS, i when you have the goods right in your hand. No deception—but square dealing. To be convinced, please call and see us, Moxtaomeny & Co., Tailors and Clothiers, Crider's Exchange, Bellefonte, wisest imi Members Who Want Mileage but Will Not Attend Over twenty-five members of Con- gress, it is said, have written letters to the sergeant-at-arms of the House, asking that their mileage for this ses- sion be forwarded to them. as they do not wish to come to Washington this winter. Replies have been sent that no mileage can be paid to members ex- cept to those who actually attend the session of Congress, In nearly every instance the request has been preferred by a defeated mem- ber, and it indicates a small attend- ance of that class at the short session this winter. New Grain House Open, The new Brisbin grain house at the station is now open for purchase and the best conveniences for loading and unloading. The highest prices paid for all kinds of grain, ble as evidence in court. The report | seems to have been misconstrued some- what, as will appear from the follow ing article from the Tri- tune, which is likely based upon infor. mation from Judge Barker himself, The published account of the sion of Judge Barker in reference to re- Jecting the accounts kept in because the slips of the original entry were lost, Johustown deci- a ledger is misleading and erroneous, but it accounts Kept in a ledger introduced would not thie nal entries, the slips were not lost and were not offered. The law requires the to be produced. Was decided that could not be as evidence, be origi- when evidence the best the slips best In this case evidence would have made by the clerks at each sale; the defendant could not testify that the slips were lost, but said he supposed they were in a box in the cellar of his establishment. If he had destroyed them, then the ledger account would have been the best evidence in exist ence but they were not lost or destroy- been The facts were these: The defend. upon and purchases all had been made the clerk would note them on a slip— a sheet of paper from a pad—and send it to the bookkeeper, who would enter the sale in the ledger, and the slips away. Therefore the ledger account was ob- | jected to, because the slips, or original | entries, were not lost and were not pro- duced at the trial when they could | have been. If they had been lost or) would have been good, and would, | without doubt, have been admitted. For a pain in the side or chest there is nothing so good as a piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound on over the seat of pain. It affords prompt and perma- nent relief and if used in time will of- ten prevent a cold from resulting in pneumonia. This same traatment is a sure oure for lame back. For sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8 M. Bwartz, Tussey ville. isis omem— Marriage Licenses. : The following marriage licenses have been granted the past week: Jacob Bowes and Della Kunes, both of Liberty twp. Jeremiah IL. Rachau, of Cedar Springs, and Bertha V. Mechtly, o ittany. es and was sentenced as follows: on the charge of f. and b. usual tence; se on the charge of adultery to pay a fin of one dollar. costs of prose ution, and undergo imprisonment in the county Com. ve. Ammon Snyder; tor Wm. ( The defendant is charged with stealing charge larceny; prosecu Sheesley, bed clothing and dishes out of a lum- Al oourt the ad- Tuesday morn. ber camp in Penn township. close of the com's evidence G o'clock 1» INE. The Wed ks’ this OWS following eivil list Ellen Fisher, cases on were disposed of as foli by her agent Ephriam Fisher va. Central R. R. Co. of Pa.; continued Dennis McDonald vs, liek: settled. J. W, Elmer E. Me- Grenoble va. N. WW. Ream: B. F. tied. CL tied. A. L. tied. Tuesday morning o'clock and the case of Com. mon Snyder continued; verdict guilty sentenced to pay a fine of one dollar, costs of prosecution and undergo im- Grenoble va. N. W. Ream; Grenoble va. N. W. Ream: wt - Parks vs, James Witmer, called a Ve, court at ry for one year and four months. prosecutor Luther 1. Tate. a watch and chain from the prosecu- sentenced to the reformatory at Hun- | tingdon, Com. vs. Christ Wildowner; ny: prosecutor Frank H. | verdict not guiliy. Com. vs. Thos. B. Johnson and Lemuel Poorman; charge malicious mischief, prosecutrix Amanda Rote. This prosecution is brought for chang- ing a water course. Indictment quashed on motion of defendants counsel. Com. va, Thomas H. Fink; charge larceny; prosecutor Richard New- man; this prosecution was brought for stealing one housen worth two dollars; verdict not guilty. Com. va. John Kesigle; prosecutor Thomas Rhoades; charge in two counts first indecent assault, second assault and battery with intent to commit rape; the defendant was arrested on the 16th of October for attempting to outrage Janetta Rhoades a girl of six- teen years of age on the 28th day of Sept. ; verdiet guilty on the charge of indecent assault, charge Holt; Centre Hall, Elmira Wolf, of Wolf's Store. f. and b.; prosecutrix Clara Spileer; of $25 costs of prosecution, $30 lying Emerick of Potter twp. Appointed Ades, ids upon Gea. Hastings’ staft: a woek for seven years, Com. vs. Chas. Meyer and Stanley Ryan two young men of Micon, both 1894 . i { the night of the | drove to Milton where they were af- | terwards apprehended and brought to | Bellefonte and lodged in jail, fendants plead guilty to the charge {and the property of Mr. Strohm | ing been returned to him Mr. hav- | does not press for much of a sentence, C. M. Bower and Benator W. H. Hackenberg of Milton made {strong pleas for the leniency of the court for a suspension of sentence or at Reformato- ry, and presented petitions and strong of Mil- bearing testimony then most for a sentence to the testimonials from the citizens ton and vicinity to the good young men and asking the former character of these court to be taok hold- The court the papers and petitions as lenient ax possible, and is advisement, called at ing the case under Wednesday morning court OMicer Rhoades application for the for upon the 9% o'clock. of | made lars dol- twenty which a county arrest and convie of a thief, sembly; Lion horse according to the of heard decision act and the later us- vidence court will make in the K. its woe Com, ve. Lowrie trix Ida Yarnell: fendant plead Walker; charge f. guilty at the prosecu- : de- received the hands the and b. and usual sentence of court, L & John H, Hines: sault and battery, Krautz; verdict guilty Om. VA charge as- prosecutor Charles assault; 11 dollars of an sentenced to pay a fine of five and costs of prosecution. convicted of Janetta fine of §50, costs of prosecution and under- term of John Kesigle who was an indecent assault upon Rhoades, was sentenced to pay a gO a imprisonment in the county jail riod of four months. Pe for 8 pet om. ve: Joseph Travis; ag- CHArge ag gravated assault and battery: trix prosecua- marah Peterson E — oni THEPVROSPECTS FOR OIL. Salt Lick Now Working Hard Red Rock. County Tres e R. and Commissior Knee ited the The Drill at bn surer Georg wr P. H. Lick oll and go They found that ad reached a depth of 1, MeCrea ht 1% vise Salt weil Thursday. i the drill feet red the 560 and a hard rock. rock more It is rock ail the measurements so far corre spond with the Butler « found at all is now working in Fhe granite-like hardness of drill from than about fifteen feet pet » bots hed at 1,800 feet, prevents the going day. ym of this expected that th will be reac as 1 ounty oil field, and if oil is at 1,800 It is quite likely that the drill will reach it will be feet. 1,500 feet the latter part of next week. The Renova Record, the excitement in the referring to Kettle Creek re sunk several years ago which developed considerable gas, but about the time it reached the depth of some 1,600 it was suddenly abandoned ify gion says: A well was Simon Pioutz farm | by the drillers, who never gave a sat- jduct. Many people today the gone down a few are prospectors hundred feet had more {opinion that if quantities, not drill the well deeper Why a EE — A CENTRE CO, INVENTOR, 4 | The New York Voting Machine Made Easy. Probably the | New Yorkers will advantage their greatest derive from new constitution is that | the authorizing the use of the Meyer | voting machines in the general elec- | tions of the state. These marvels of mechanical ingenuity have been satis- factorily tested at township elections, and are said to fully accomplish their objects. They save the enormous ex- pense of the blanket ballot sheets, and facilitate the exercise of voling, since the voter has nothing to do but “touch a button.” They afford a most effect- ive safeguard against frauds, provide for the secrecy of the ballot, and io- sure a correct and prompt count. Nothing seems to be left for those de- sirous of carrying elections by improp- er means, under these auspices, but fraudulent registry. The inventor of the above voling this county, and known here as Hile Meyers. Mr. Meyers about twenty- five years ago kept an implement store at Bellefonte. i—————————— A Generons Lady. Mrs. Gusky, a Pittsburg lady, will to-day, distribute 600 turkeys and two car loads of coal among the poor of that city. Stove for Sale. A fine 2nd hand coal stove, medium size, for parlor or sitting room, at a bargain, Inquire at “Reporter” office. ss ADA SASS AI weButweribe for the REPORTER. NO. 47 ESHERITES IN CONFERENCE, nia Being Caovassed, A conference is being held in Har- of the Evangelical church, of Bishops Horn, consisting Jowman, Breyfogle, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania and Pittsburg conferences for the pur- pose of ascertaining the standing of the in Pennsylvania and perfecting arrangements carrying into effect the provisions of the gener- Esherites for and with the conference A one member of Esher in attendance a al conference regarding the titles other church property. held at the chureh, connected The Trinity matters jn being angelieal only which Is faction. re Revs. Young of Williamsport, an adherent of the Those repre the Central Pennsylvania con Rev. B. F. and Rev, Leopold, of Allentown, iL. of resenting stern senting Bohner A. . 2, and lev Baylor, ethlehem, the E Pennsy tev. M. Bomgardner, the Pittsburg wv, C. A, Thomas and Cleveland, representing ing interest of the E. B. Esher Cleveland. rep- ivania rep. conference; H. Matile the publish- association's attor- and W. Ritchie, of resenting neys, East- ninety- that vdher- recent The representatives from the ern conference reported that eight of the conference 125 congregations in ared their the decision of the supreme court at Pitls- burg have dec) ence to the Esherites since churches of 7.900, In forty adherents These ninety-ecight have a total membership the Central Pennsylvania about of the 157 congregations are Esher. yt there were court's Esh- nference property still in f Bishop Before the decisic only twelve erite congregations in this co Mhiree-fourths of the in the Pittsburg confi chureh renee is Pros asion of the Dubsites, Pennsylvania School Statistics, distrie the 24.541; oC nun Number of school slate, 2.4158; number of graded schools, ® in of schools, 12.56 126; number of nus Ii ihe r of { number ber of superintendents tence teachers, hers, 8 464 17,777; 26,241, male teachers per month, age of month, term in months, 1.040. 67 550 500 cost of se ing. building. 13: ten of school text bioks, school text books, including maps, globes, ets, not 238.42; fu- fees of collectors and £1.35 total 31.33; ap- for school year June, 18638, §5,000,000: estimated value of school property, not including Philadelphia, $42,679,504. A compari- son with the previous year shows an increase of twenty-seven districts, 520 male emale of salaries of $44, Wi aver- 1 per §33,05; average length of school of pupils, {f pupils, purchas- , $3 306 818, - 343.64: =45.375. other whole number teachers, average salaries female achers . : number pumber o bool average houses, renting, elc. chers' wages, §8 008, cost #1 73: cost of than supplies, including Philadelphia, $558, contingencies, all other expenses, expenditures, 8G. 675.39; £16.586,7 state propriation ending 565 graded schools, 36,272 pu- and $520 906.78 in wages of teach- Ors. pin ——— A. MeGuire, a well known eiti- Ww. Remedy. He family for several keeps a bottle of it in the house. Af ter having la grippe he was himself troubled with a severe cough. He used other remedies without benefit and then concluded to try the chil dren’s medicine and to his delight it soon effected a permanent cure, 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M. Swartz, Tusseyville. A————— Sh a a. Warmly Defended, Rev. W. H. Bates, for years the pas tor of St. John's Reformed Church, Johnstown, who was suspended indefi- nitely from the ministry on charges connecting him with a notorious char- acter of that city, is believed to be the victim of prejudice and malice on the part of the fifty members of classis be fore whom his trial took place. Both the Johnstown Democrat and Theo. eraf assert that gross injustice has been done, as there was no evidence offered to insure conviction, and the appeal to the Synod will present the real facts in public inasmuch as classis conceals ed its doings behind closed doors. The Johnstown Tribune also warmly de- fenids Rev. Mr. Bates. LAM ATA SAA RASCALLY bank officials are not all in the penitentiary yet. The Shoe and Leather Bank, of New York, has been found robbed of $354,000, by the cashier and one of the clerks. The Putnam Bank has been robbed
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