o> VOL. LXVIII. A TRULY WESTERN STRIKES US. A Storm that Set all Others In the Shade. Basiness, Travel, Trains, Protracted Mee. tings and Sanday Services Stopped and Courts Shut Down, on last Thursday evening, 7, about o'clock, and kept up its fearful concert until Saturday morning, when it broke off in violence, tho the fiercely all day Saturday. It didn’t only storm, but it howled, growled, moaned, and whistled, at a velocity of 60 miles an hour. The freshly fallen snow of about 6 inches of Thursday night, was driven hither and thither during the continuance of the storm filling the air at the behest of the blizzard which seemed to enjoy this display of its powers, and on Fri- day so intense was the that few men ventured out and no driving done. The air was a wild sea of drift- ing snow and the storm raged storm was 0 id intense. The snow was driven thro the finest srevices of buildings; ther windows, tight to keep the snow dust from entering and lodging in sheets and doors. Snow drifts were built up at the rate of a foot a minute out again in half the time arin The snowbanks were as compact as hills of The no roads nei doors, nor roofs, were enough streaks in- and torn to be anew, sand from the force of the storm. entire county was snowbound, trains or body indoors and looked out in amaz ment. whatever were passable for private conveyances. Everyl keg Business was at a standstill and wai- ting for the storm to tire of its pranks Saturday morning storm began to abate opened out towards noon, the $ . Clear and a From 5 o'clock Thu 5 o'clock Saturday mornin the storm raged without ¢ up. Notice of the coming of given on the day previ day, and it got here an points on time, T aermo morning before day reg 20 degrees below zero. Everybody was glad when i itself out. The storm continued w deration all day evening Lh more : Mo- day Saturday, but ; tarted again with all its fury and ec the greater part SU before * yntinues of lay forenoon a brisk wind vm Monday opened £ nore up which subsi led to a « rest of Sabbath, et with a sky indicatin Sunday the line to orders, al {iON wilieniee Cutting noon the section bosses of the railroad, in ol began the wi irk of hro the drifts and clearing tracks. On 21 noon the drift along the ic ground ind y and by evening had got about and the line all places the drifts wera in depth, and extended Is. As a result of the storm about a doz en protracted meetings going on in churches in different parts of the coun- ty closed on Thursday evening on ac- count of the blizzard. In the country churches 3 wn) shiovelers tt sel oO halfway shovel brigade Monday. i0 hundreds of roe thro, the wis In and 12 feet Of day BOTTI no SErvices were had on Sunday, the roads being blocked against ministers and all oth- ers, So intense and penetrating the cold that court was obliged to adjourn several times last week to prevent jus- tice from being frozen to its seat the steam-heat was blizzard. was , As no match for the The Commissioner's were obliged to have stoves put in all the offices in the court-house to help the steam radia- tors keep the rooms comfortable and prevent the oil on the journals of the machine of the from congealing. We hear of dwellings that are closed up with snow drifts up to ond story windows, We have learned of no deaths from freezing in this county ; fortunately nothing more serious than frosted no- ses, ears and toes, People wisely did not venture to go from home, and such as were away and got caught pru- dently stopped their journey to bide! their time ; a few weathered the storm but struggled thro to find they had made narrow escapes from freezing to death. From Thursday evening to Tuesday there were no trains between burg and Bellefonte. county government the sec- from the north-west, a sample of the «we want no more of them. The pike from Bellefonte to Centre Hall was blocked against driving from Friday to Monday forenoon. main so for some time. The pike from Coburn to Brushval- { was closed up and only on was it opened in part. The two tunnels, Dam, Paddy Mountain we were told, were The first train over our road since Tuesday evening, and all were glad to hear the whistle and puffing of the iron horse again. The train on the Buftulo Run on its way to Bellefonte from the lege got stuck on Friday and was una- ble to go forward or backward and was soon snowed under. A rescuing train while endeavoring to help it out also got fast and helpless in the drift and a second train was sent on road to help out the rescuing train. The people in the taken off Kindly taken care of in near-by passenger train were and farm- houses, The n Nittany on thro r drifts 'w road from Bellefonte 11 3 ) valiey wis closed Ov big almost every mile of its track, and 4 or 5 days. Lewisburg no trains went First train Thursday evening, 7, reached Hall Wednesday morning, It mig posed that storm which swept over Thursday over it for since Centre from the country hit be sup great the morning and Friday night North Pole, Winter, from his own straight from tl itdid not. Fat atta lireet caine ie biog Her it~ Ring waked CARINe 8Wi ep came through rv t1 Lie A leaving Fhursday nomenally le and force, its ¢ Pass Of a ! r I er huricand hie contri h-eastward over passed nort iphin at 2 a, hilade when the ve- wind wed 60 miles At Sa onsts of HOCILY of Lhe an Centre was on $ Massachusetts barometer read € Pp hi Tr chil Mary Cufl ounty, Va. western ¢ 0 irom irecz froze to death in Botecourt « in the stale a husband left pire children ; he one ol minties of to wife Our hits home get wisions for his suflering and was caught in the storm A few iildren and frozen to death. days later were found home dead from cold and hun- his wife and two ¢l in their ger. le ncinnns News Condensed, Representative Womelsdorf has of- fered a bill in the house to prevent the killing of pheasants and quail in this state until the year 1905, a period of ten years Up in Tyrone they had the blizzard and the measles to boot, Nearly all railroads have got shovel- of their trains are running on time ag ed out ain. two horses got stuck in a snow drift, unhitehed and out of the drift the oth- er horse was frozen to death. ot psy | ¢# BELOW ZERO DOWN SOUTH. \ Great Loss of Fruit Trees, Vegetables and Outs, NASHVILLE, TENN, It is the coldest here, FEB. 8, with exe the thermometer below zero. At 10 degrees below ze- one in 26 years, Memphis it is 2 2. ro, the coldest since January 9, 1886. At Chattanooga, 3 below zero, the low- est since Howling wind. At Lexington, mometer at the 1856, northwest Ky., the ther- College weather observatory registered 14 below zero at 6 this morning, the State lowest since 1872. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. FEBS, Worth, the warmest point on the mainland of Palm Beach, on Lake wis the whole United States this morning, the mercury showing On top of the ture last falling at 35 degrees above freezing tempera- night. Tampa rep daybreak, and at the snow storm was ii is unprecedent tude. The ro in Jacksonville ed in that mercury fell in the state were 15 at West dropped were the Tampa, 28 at Jupiter. Key and Palm Beach the from mercury ON I'he se points in the state O4 Lo 35. uh we anges and ot bly est and her fru all killed outri toughest budding erviore partic 3 {0 cold. were naked, and tl The loss of dollars. All early 100.000 bos yirld have | a Above and Below Z Roar Colum Houtz The Storm News in a Natshell Io b sil d X ment lous ste amount The wi snow bound, ole 138 All Taig wills, were snowbound and river frozen. and i » HAS Bi % ' ' ud ¥ USIIICSs was st wpped every. where, in all cities, districts ; towns and country courts and sehomls were ob rinten se r of over and we cold ; a dozen lives lost fear the from. we have ost have een heard Some sections were even wor snowbound than Centre eounty. In some paris there were 18 had Thermometers reg inches of snow whiie here we only 6to 8 inches, ristered from 2 to 30 below zero, North, south, east, west and centre, New County Vever, The new county fever in all to be With “OOS directions, ed to try an old remedy in a new way, four times the usual dose) berlain’s Cough ‘Remedy The next Just before going to bed. ly disappeared, took a few doses of the teaspoonful at a time) remedy and at cold. Since then she has, on several manner, with the same good results, i | i SM ~Lewins, Bellefonte, has the finest selection of Winter Suits in this part They go at prices that All styles and grades Tuesday, and many of the by-roads are still suowbound and likely to re tion, and that is the why of his im- mense trade in clothing. county certain to surround Carbondale in course of time scheme is suggested of making a new field and Blair, the county seat, with Philipsburg This notion originat- We be- lieve there would be an overwhelming protest from every part of the state against any proposition to dismember Centre county. It is the home Governors, and sooner or later undoubtedly be found convenient to remove the capital of Pennsylvania to that county. When that time comes the people to rejoice in, and Philips burg itself will want to be in along with the rest. If that town should go fooling around much just as likely as not it may land in some county from which no Governor was ever elected, and that wouldn't be much to be proud of. While we can look with approba- tion upon the Quay county and Moo- ney county movements we hope this latest new county project is only a Joke.~Philadelphin Presa. A A SID; Subscribe for the RErorTER, $1.50, FEBRUARY CAPITOL GOSSIP AN AMENDMENT TO THE APPRO PRIATION BILL. Menus Committee Working to Get the Bill Before the House, Feb, 11, financial sit- he of special message: responsibility on Con- Cleveland after could do no of gold thirty-year 4 per cent which WasHinGron, Benator Hill stated the uation in a nutshell when the President's “It unloads the Pre of ne said last gress,’ sident weeks wotiation better than to get an offer be paid for coin bonds, at in a price makes the bonds carry interest at the rate of 3 and 3-4 per cent, although the same men expressed a to fur- amount of willingnes nish gold for an unlimited The than a nt gold bonds. President this offer mu held it we week until ti providing fi Then he amount of 3.- ago, ance ie abey the bill H UONds, ae. ie wndard gold COL, will require the issuing of with- 100.000) the dion of 562 in bonds, gold should be pel wou id with 3 IZTess ol issue, ese 5 ’ ¥ ill Wola Wii pre- for Lie Vi ning Hous is of lieved refuses to i » Hug on of the probabil Congress, wary Seere Carlisle be- gold for oad will be highly and that vo fur tieve thal getling the these bonds from ab ben eficial to the Treasury ther bond issues will be necessary shall , N- unex pected (Oss there be some wfairs, The Senate adopted the turn of ¢ amendment to the consular and diplomatic bill « Pp prop of laying a eable to Hawaii and au t the President to contract for ire work. With the exception all, Gorman, Hill and Morgan all of the Democrats pres- wrinting £500,000 to start the work thorizing the ent of Senators Butler, ( ent voted against the amendment. Senator Gorman’s inquiry as to what and investigating the elee- tion of a governor and a lution for an investigation of the part that the Louisiana and { i i vestigations of state elections, people of Maryland had a way, when crookedness existed or was expected, was It is not at all probable a resolu- circumstances. The has always main- ocrat should vote for such tion under any preme in state elections, and the party has invatiably suffered when attempts have been made to abandon principles as old as the party itself. It was the old undying principles which kept the party alive through years of defeat, and it is upon them that the party must depend for future success, Senator Vilas succeeded in getting an amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, authorizing the President to appoint a commission to 1895. body Girent Britain and Canada as to the the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean with a depth sufficient to date ocean } going vessels, pp A FRICE SET UPON VOTERS, Disgraceful Developments in the Indiana Judicial Contest, out last week in the Blair-White judi- cial election contest. Five testified to having received from $2 to $5, from White. Clawson found a box in White's back yard. Lawyer Keener, who is one of White's counsel, told Clawson to look for it. The box about three gallons of liquor in bottles. Clawson took the box and said he was for White, James Campbell, of West Wheatfield, said he White a and that White mpbell was to correspond witnesses money, w here contained vlectioneering cane Lo see week or two be- fore the election, gave him §2 Ca with White election. Ci and was not to go to the impbell is Democrat, did not a and he go to the election. - A fs oth United States Internal Tax. tevenue Income ‘nxes on Inconies received from Ja- 1st, 184, to Decer inclusive, under the pros 3% of eflect Lthiere 1504 the nuary nber 3ist, isions of August i, ¢ paid upon the jg is, profits received fre CONgress in -dy 11 3 11 i stiall De oliected SRNR anda 11 fail BOUrce I heed ATs, HI 8 in iendar year ending mber 31 ‘nited er centun ver and above & y - wera : 31 1 ’ O per centumm ol IC t pr © inocomes, iw the aid calendar ana isi x0orporations, Ls usiness for pro collectors March added res day of March on 1845 for said returns Bi de- Water street, Osis, ail or oLher- rant Herring, Revenue, 8 Ciral- po. Senator Mig wr, Mi ity Patriohie. MM of bill providing States flags , 80 as 10 re- » of American American work- . Landis, nade patriotic speech. Several ¢ were made illempis Hackeuberg, and ines to amend, but by Mr. Landis, Hackenburg pointed out uy Senators Green, H made objection though Mr that under Id Le ins- possible to fly the flag on school build- for the that the bill requires the wool to be ‘grown by an American workman.” An ef. fort was made to amend this by mak- “grown on American soil,” ings, as intended, reason ing it read but Mr. Landis again upon Mr. Hackenburg suggested the appropriateness of making it American After a discussion the bill was passed. tt — 0. Hardman, W. Va., appreciates a thing and does not hesitate to say so. i He was almost prostrated with a cold when he procured a bottle of Cham- berlain’s Cough Remedy. He says: “It gave me prompt relief. I find it to be an invaluable remedy for coughs and colds.” For sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M. Swartz, Tus- seyville, ——————— Will be Offered at a Bargain, on sheep.” ). W. lor Co., On account of ill health I will offer my entire stock of boots and shoes at sonable terms; any one desiring to pur- chase the smine ean get full particulars Millheim. J. A. MILLER, ———— ———— Monument to Cartin, A bill was introduced into the legis- lature authorizing the setting apart of a plot of ground in capitol park, on which the sixteeners’ association can erect a monument to the memory of Hon. A. G. Curtin. ss A We Kept Up to Time, The blizzard and general shut up all over made it difficult for us to obtain news, local or general, but we flatter ourselves upon having made this issue of the REPORTER quite interesting, in spite of drifts, bliz and blockades, We are selling overcoats fit for a king at prices that cause our competi- tors excruciating pain. Get one while they last.—Lewins, Bellefonte. NO. 7 LIQUOR LICENSES. Forty-Nine Applications Applied for thus Far, Thus far there have been forty-nine Prothonotary, divided up as follows: 3 restaurant, 8 2 wholesale, 2 wholesale liquor and The list includes the following: TAVERN LICEXBE. Tattersaul Ingram, Richard Miller, Dorsey P, Fempest Slinger, Philipsburg. Meyers, James Passmore, Wm. Richard Bowes, Jo hn B. John A. E rb, Geo. E. Leister, John M. Neubauer Henry Yeager, Haag, Daggett, M. Parker, VO ope, Bellefonte, Gottleib VW. 1. A. 85. &C Jas. 8. Reish, WwW Musser Willis Weaver, R. O. Braucht, ( D. 1.. Bart W. 8. Hull, D. H. Rhule, Edwin Rhule John G. Uzzle Michael MeCatl ddin Alois Kohlbecker, Reuben G. Askey, Jacob L. DeHaas, B. Uzzle, Jacob } - Crarman, Potters Mills. Milli 8 weim oburn Hall COR gE 5 Centre >, Lawrence Rs (ren ANCrog A. Deck Jesse Long, Jas. RESETAURA Philipsburg 1, 2nd Ward Phils’bg WHOLESALE. C. Hicklen, Jas. Lehman, Geo, E. Chandler 100. Dein, eu. Anderson, Jel lef N. W. Eby, W. R. Haynes, 'LESALE BEER. Lamb, nie dward WH igers, WHOLESALE 1 Wm. Riley, A. Baum Rob't L burg. Haas, wholesale WOO Ps At a nit stalg I'HE present legislature is run- direction id ecreatis L114 ie DIS Do wild in the raising ’ i offices. 1 he carpet Mog salaries at IX new all tl WwW ont la direction become ws, then the money will fly, One bill proposes to raise the pay of Anoth- Ii each new de- $1500 to $2500. clerk to with a salary of $1200 for Another partment with a horde of officials and $3 Vv nembers from er bill mittee, clerk. proposes a ach cor Lill creates a salaries running from $1000. And to provide f S00 down to a score of other schemes atl places for party bheelers at thie public ex pense. People demand the loppi instead of they of extravagant stead of making them still igh r. » are required b gency of the times to get along on less the office holders get along with less pay instead of in- off of of- hundred cutting ng fices creating a the salaries demand down in- If the strin- incomes why can’t But this is the line the Republicans are starting out on to do business un- der their big wajorities, We have not yet seen that the Cen- tre county representatives, Womels- dorf and Curtin, bave the rainbow of economy resting npon them. ————————— Mrs. Emily Thoroe, who resides at Toledo, Washington, says she has nev- er been able to procure any medicine for rheumatism that relieves the pain s0 quickly and effectually as Cham- berlain’s Pain Balm, and that she has also used it for lame back wtih great success, For sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M. SBwaitz, Tus seyville, —————- Death of Henry Hoy. On Friday, January 25, 1885, Henry Hoy, Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, died at his home, age 66 years. He was the only brother of Hezekiah Hoy, of Benner township. s—————— A few days ago a 7-year old son of Wm. M'Dowell, of Marion tp., in cut ting fodder, accidentally cut off his left thumb. Wednesday, February 20, the new grange hall at Fiedler will be dedica- ted. All will remember the big blizzard of 1805, Landlord Brandon, formerly of Bel lefonte, has leased a hotel in Carlisle. LA IS A PA ANIIAS,. ~Lewins, Bellefonte, guarantees ev ery article sold by him, and you get full returns every time.
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