tie Becretary Morton smiles at the charge which he correctly characterizes a nonsense, and asks pertinently: “Why should asking plain questions, in or-| der to get at the truth, agitate any-| : . 8 . pt 4 y | cratic voters of Centre county, to meet body, affect the beef market?’ | a mn ; | at the regular places for holding the hat why will doubtless be echoed by | j : 4 | general election, in the beef who have been | : tatoigs : . | election districts, on compelled to pay tribute to the greedi- | x 2 | day of June, 1895, and elect ness of the men who compose the beef | ‘ ‘, t t {to the County Convention: rust. e $ CENTRE HALL, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1895. NO. 18 CAPITOL NEWS { calling the list of jurors adjourned un-| a ede ra : THE NICARAGUA AND ENGLAND TENCES IMPOSED. { til half past one, The first case taken |, The report of the Blais Lounty Aud. IMBROGLIO-. or [up was Samuel Wohlfort vs. Elizabeth fore gon0arning an ‘nvestigstion, last —— | Wohlfort. This case grows out of an Ing almost four months, into the al- | execution issued against Wohl- leged irregularities in the ( ounty Com- | fort by his brother Samuel to collect a missioners office was filed In court on verdict | debt in obedience of which said writ Friday gyen ing. : : : to pay of execution the sheriff lovied upon The EPOX: abounds in farting dis- | the stock, farm implements and lot of closures, Shier Song Which is thesur- Com. vs. Wm. H. Williams; defend- | lumber, ete., on the Wohlfort farm in charging of Commissioners John Hurd a [7 logs : at Pi aheroe aiad ant to pay costs of prosecution and un- | Miles township. After this levy had and James Funk with a _greater spanking, and there is a great howl On Monday, March 4, James W. | The delegate : Tost: 4b TS Ss dergo imprisonment in the western | been made by the sheriff Mrs. Eliza- n amount the aggregate of their year 8 | of | Beott consolidated three of the most {iy Bi gt . oe To penitentiary for a period of one year | beth Wohlford the wife of Geo. Wohl- salaries. The ¥hree S OIMINISSIONETS | 4handoning the Monroe doctrine, If | important Democratic newspapers of | 4 on y ol and he to and three months. { jort served notice on the sheriff that | #® surcharged with $674, the cost of | the Monroe doctrine that the |the west, the Z%imes, the Herald, | at 12 o'clock noon, and nominate Com. vs. John Lucas; defendant sen- | the property levied upon was not the | ¢recting a bridge on the lands of a pri- | {7,ite] States shall fight or threaten | the Evening Post, with an tenced to pay the costs of prosecution | property of George Wohlfort but that vate citizen at Good's Mill. Another |, fight, every European country capital of $1,000,000. On April 15, Mr, Beott, who had { nine o'clock with Judges Love, Faulk- VOL. LXVI1I1I. | ner and Rich on the bench and after DOINGS OF COURT _ { hearing a number of petitions and VERDICTS RENDERED AND SEN-| BLAIR'S SCANDAL, : NOTICE GIVEN Primary Election and County Couvention to be Held June 8th. The County Auditors Make Serious Charg. es Against the Commissioners, Notice is hereby given to the Demo- — Oar commonwenlth Cases Quickly Disposed of, —-The Civil List now Being Tried, Interesting Cases Up. The United State's Stand During the Troub- le, —~No Cause for Interference as Yet, — The Republicans Wiil Straddle, Some their respective (ieo consumers . ’ Maturday the Com. vs. Curtis McDonald; not guilty and the prosecutor the costs. President Cleveland declines to get excited because England is engaged in {giving Nicaragua metaphorical tion to begin at 3 o'clock wl ff tls ——— | t close at 7 o'clock p. of The Changes of a Yew Weeks, | mi. sum from his enemies, who accuse him ‘ uesday, Inenns aud | candidate for Prothonotary, and a can- aggregate | didate for District Attorne y. H | n pbxs . item in the bill of surcharges consists! Sunday, | also be necessary to elect a and undergo the | the property belonged to her and that | eT & in county jail three | she had bought the same at sheriffs | for furnishing postal cards to the Al- months. | sale in after which the court] toona City Tax Collector for dunning Com. vs. Preston Watson, charge at- | framed an issue fo determine the title delinquent lax phyers, . tempting to wreck a train; prosecutor | to the property. The plaintiff attack- 1 he principal sums which the Com- | yor of fact no administration has ever Robert L.. McCullough. The defend-|ing the genuiness of the judgment up- | iSsioners are required to refund to | put any such construction upon the ant was prosecuted for throwing a | pre sold in the county are for overpayments made Monroe doctrine. While England's board across the railroad track of the 1592 alleging that it was fraudulent | to certain favored contractors ** | demand upon, Nicaragua may be ex- Beech Creek R. R. Gillentown, | and could not stand bar to. the count of bridge contracts. Commis- the defendant being under fourteen The ju- sioner Hurd is scored for letting pub- | elared he had reached the years of age could not be convicted and | brought lie contracts to relatives and : making { somehow got the idea that the United | his life in gaining the head of that! defendant | use of fictitious names on the 1 reasury | States would interfere in its behalf be- | great newspaper CONCET. Jefore Rat- | I drafts in order to conceal the fact. i i i {fore the worst came to the worst. | urday night he was dead, buried and | : The i Ommis ‘ohers have Bixiy day | England is doing precisely what the ithe fruits of his acl A entre Hall, in which to appeal from this report to | United States would do under similar | Howard, { court. { Milesburg, Millheim, Philipsb'g, 1st w e 2nd w. in ot | which those cockey little South and | | Central American Republics by their | { hot-headed acts gel into trouble with, | As mat- imprisonment for a period been . of the county committee to servi January first 1806, for the term year, at the time of holding 1892, denly died. Mr. SBeott On Wednesday, April 17, was buried. On Baturday, | April 20, the controlling interest of Mr, | Scott was bought by H. H. Kohlsaat and he took active management of the | it ought to be abandoned. a vention, The number of delegates | election district is entitled | the rules of the party mn which the perty was on a based | concern. i . i : : . | : | vote for Governor in 1804, { tortionate there is no doubt that itwas | On Sunday morning Mr. Scott de- | i : | . ’ ey | portioned by the county co ambition of | = . HET Wohlf etired Tuesday noon and the near creditors of Georg rt. | provoked by Nicaragua, which had y 1 was released and sent to his home, verdict in favor of Elias Walk Vinton Beckwith. | The case was brought to recover for | MecCalmont & Co. vs Eve property of the plaintiff’s |! sold by the defendant as constable on | an execution issued by S. R. from the docket of Thomas Weston, |" Justice of the Peace at Port Matilda. | Plaintiff suffered s voluntary non suit. | jing vs. afternoon, Sharer, out of John TT. the hus- 1884, which MeCal- | in this suit, | { out successfully, there will be a boom ievement had pass- JASU TOWS to Lian Sharer, personal | ed to the possession of another. given | cireumstances—compelling reparation | we Pringle | | Er | for insult and injury to her subjects— | New Postal Regulations { although this country would probably | differently. The commenda- it Peaches vs, Wheat. issued The postmaster general has If the experiments now being made | have gone about it i i r . i ; ave gone about i an order to the effect that hand stamp- | to oO in Penns valley to raise peaches turn deserves administration ied alterations or additions price | other | forms of the same nature, as well as Sallie Stover ve, Overseer of Poor of i aused an exeen- | tion for its polley of non-interference ' i ip t § f or £ r s ir levied | In that direction among many of our | in this matter, ements | farmers to raise peaches and let wheat | upon to act promptly and patriotical- resi- | RO by the board as a staple product, i lists, invoices, catalogues, or Spring township; this case was brought to and can be depended ~ ! to recover for keeping Mertie Ammer- { like changes in circulars or other print- the man and child; verdiet in favor of the defendants. {ly when any American interest is as ¥ { ed matter, converting same into whereupon | An average crop of peaches will Other Cos tioned. Com. vs, n. cases not already men- Abram Share and b.,prosecutrix Miss Moore; settled, Annie Dietz. =. r; charge f. Com. vs, George Dietz, Carrie Mann, R. J. F. Fye; charge forcible entry and de- tainer; prosecutor John A. Mann; rec- ognizance renewed. : charge larce- Wagner; true Com. vs. F. C. Tanyer ny; prosecutor John D. bill. Com. vs. George Spangler and Josh- ua Rupert; charge larceny; CG. W. Curtin; bill ign Com. vs. Geo. Cunningham; prosecutor red. charge assault and battery; pi ator E. Barry; settled. Com. vs. Claud Homer | Martz, Walter Martz, Fred Moyer, | Lowel Moyer add Lem Stevens; cl | larceny; prosecutor John Ayers; true bill « bill. Com. James 3 ba SLATLZ, snd as to Homer Martz a true va, James Wagner; sault and battery; prosecutris charge Wagner; bill ignored and to pay the costs, Com. vs. Roland Finkle; and b. prosecutrix Sarah bill. Com. vs, Fd ol harge violating liquor laws Gardner and Charles Gardner; prosecutor Wm. Lyons, Sr.; bill ignor- ed. Com. vs. Arthur Evey; and b.; prosecutiix Mary Walizer; charge f de fendant plead guilty. Com. vs. James Cornelly; charge re- sisting officer; prosecutor Wm. Gares: defendant plead guilty and was sen- tenced to pay a fine of §1 and costs of prosecution. Com. vs. Martin Garman and Cunningham; charge cruelty to ani- mals; prosecutor Frank Bosch; settled. Com. vs. John Brickley. charge f. and b.; prosecutrix Sarah Singer; set- tied. Cont. ve. Wm. Barr; charge f. and b.; prosecutrix Marsa Sellers: settled. Com. vs. Walter Philips; charge f. and b. ; prosecutrix Katie Leeder: true bill. Civil cases (100. not already mentioned were disposed of as follows: Jas. Bample va. Wm. C. Heinle, en- dorser of John I. Rankin; continued. Geo. W. Hoover, W. V. Hughes and Edward Humes, trading as Hoover, Hughes & Co., vs. Paul 8. McCulley and J. N. Schoonover; continued. T. F. Kennedy vs. James Lytle; continued on account of the illness of plaintiffs principal witness, Krumrine Bros, vs, Mrs, Mary Par- sons; continued on account of counsel being at Supreme Court. J. A. Woodcock & Son, vs John GG, Platt, J. F. Barber, C. W. Barber and Wm. Lauderbauch, trading as the Philipsburg Produce Co.; continued on account of counsel being at Supreme Court. W. H. Phillips vs. Annie M. Stam- bach and Chas. A. Stambach, execu- tors of &e, of E. Btambach, deceased; settled. On Thursday morning Harry Thom- as was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 and costs of prosecution for assault and battery upon hie wife Ella Thom- as, The grand jury was discharged on Wednesday evening. Court adjourned on Thursday after- noon until Monday morning. BECOND WEEK OF COURT, hristian Sharer, i this suit that the it the prop- | ; the | whereupon the tod iendant in » sheriff { 1 upon was ne | n Sharer but that to her, 1 § Isle i termine the nHronerty properiy. — “HERE LIES AN HONEST MAN.” The President of the DuBois Bank Will not Stain his Father Name. James E. Long, president of the de-| funet bank of DuBois, returned home | The | bank's Mr. “The assets of abroad, of the in Paris. Saturday from a trip he received first news failure is when he was Saturday: the bank; I am told, S40. 000 of Long said will come { within verything. But] they lack will be paid, if I] paying e whatever i If} my | er personal effects and On the is the | man.’ I} health, but I | without a | we to pay every cent of it myself, sum needed isall I have and his I has to sell h suffer. father legend: ‘Here lies an honest jewelry, will no man marble shaft above my am old and broken in will begin anew, cent, if} | necessary to square off the accounts, | ’ and without staining that name.’ tn Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses were granted during the past week : William H. Knarr, of Pine Grove Mills, and Minnie B. Tyson, of Fergu- son township. Jasper N. Gill, of Pleasant Gap, and Ida A. Miller, of Bellefonte. Wm. H. Myers, of Boalsburg, and Elizabeth Weaver, of Oak Hall. Mark Pedrick, of Wilmington, Del., and Mary E. town. ship. H. N. Hoy, of Benner township, and Sallie Garbrick, of College towns ship. Harry H. Wagner, of Chester Hill, Clearfield county, and Beulah Stine, of South Philipsburg. John F, Garner, of State College, and Margaret Wise, of Fillmore, Frank Warfield and Emily Elliot Harris, of Bellefonte. M. W. Shank and Julia E., of Bnow Shoe. Sad Tale of Deaths, An appalling affliction has come to Moses Sherer, of Allentown. His fam- ily three months ago consisted of a wife and four children. On February 16 two children died of diphtheria, and shortly after another succumbed to the same disease. A few weeks ago Mrs. Sherer passed away, and on the night of Friday last the last child died, leaving Mr. Sherer alone, sisosilimsl——— Outside Items of Interest. During the last few years Mrs. Bid- dle, of Clearfield, has followed to the grave her father, mother, brother and husband, Within the last few weeks she has buried three children, and now her only remaining child is seri- ously ill. Christian Bordner, a native of Penn- sylvania, died at Lewiston, Ill, a few days ago, aged 105} years. sn A MSA AIAN Special Term of School, Bummer session of Centre Hall High Hehool will open Monday, May 27, Scholars of intermediate and gram- mar grades received. An opportunity will be given to pursue advanced and special courses, Jeates, of Benner Crispin, Court oalled on Monday morning at bring | wheat, | to in | leaving the peach farmer a margin ten dollars in cash one good enough to stand an occasional | failure of the peach crop. An acre of wheat, at best, An trees, 250 trees to the acre, at will ’ average over £10, acre ol peacl An AVer- age of one bushel per tree, would be 250 bushels, These at an average price of 40 cents in worth $100, the orchard, would be So its a question of $100 in peaches as against £10 in wheat. jut say you average only half this] to $10 in wheat—a better result than ever realized in the best days of wheat. We know of at least three parties in who i and now have planted peach orchards one WRK) fourth ded to their { X rex trees out, in YVEar, and this summer be their first regular bearing condition. in Young trees have been bought ¢ per 100. Hope the experiment will prove a success, Our neighbors over in Juniata at 30 | coun- ty have found raising peaches a pay- ing success and thousands of bushels are shipped every season, some of them finding their way into this coun- | ty and are sold here as high as $1.50 per bushel. Snyder county farmers | have likewise begun to raise peaches with good success, i i i i If Penns valley can be made to pro- duce a fair crop of peaches, it would not be long until a new industry would | follow, namly, canning establishments | to give employ to persons of both sex- es in canning peaches and all kinds of | fruits, berries, corn and vegetables | and there is always a ready market for | all these. Let the farmer readers of the REPORTER give this subject some thought. s—————— OF Great Benefit, We can be of great benefit to the good people of Centre Hall and vi- cinity if they would come to us for all their wear in the way of Men's, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing, Head Wear, Furnishing Goods, and Ladies’ Shirt Waists and Chemisettes, Goods are only sold on their merits —what is linen or what is cotton-—is told you at the time of the purchase. “Mother's Friend” Shirt Waists, MoxtaoMERY & Co, Merchant Tailors, Bellefonte. tmp A Tue Altoona Tribune, Republican, says: The Philadelphia Press does not seem to know that all the daily newspapers of Blair county are oppos- ed to the bill pensioning judges, and that all the weeklies which have ex- pressed an opinion are on the same side, save the one it quotes. It may surprise the Press to know that an overwhelming majority of the voters of this county, and of most others, are opposed to this bill, and that its en- actment into a law by the present leg- islature would probably result in a Re- publican defeat. That is the situation and it is well enough to face it, For whooping cough Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is excellent. By, us. ing it freely the disease Is deprived of all dangerous consequences. There is no danger in giving the remedy to ba- bies, as it contains nothing injurious, 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M, Swartz, Tusseyville. E. J. Worry, A. M,, 2madt Principal, bo sailed, but it has no idea of en into an uncalled for row with Eng- the ele. i land by irresponsible jingo ment. g clearer that to try to It is every day becomin the Republicans are going A have next national platform. {oO the endorsement of a number Proposi- tion, which is said received of their | includi Presidential most prominent two candidates for the men, ng nomi the platform for the coinage of $400. ratio of 18to 1, ng that this will ing of the west. prevent | the bolt in the silver Republicans | It is nothing new to say that Secre- the indis- eriminate distr kinds of the Department of Agricul-| He has been opposed to it from | of the absolut waste which accompanied the nothing about bulk could | tary Morton is o sed to Pi tribution of all seeds by ture, learned distri- bution of seeds, to say in he sold if have appropriated one dollar for the purchase of for indiscriminate free distribution during the Jut he did not wos coming fiscal year. have his -was made for that It is not certain, however, The appropriation act says the money is appropriated for the purchase, propagation and distri The quoted clause is what Secretary spending the money, as the law expressly and distinctly limits the purchase and dis- tribution of seeds to ‘such as are rare and uncommon in this country,” and it is customary to buy only a few of these to use at the department experi- mental stations, The Supreme Court cannot finally dispose of the income tax cases, upon’ which arguments for a rehearing will be heard next Monday, too soon to suit Treasury department officials. The vote of Justice Jackson, who will sit to hear the argument for a rehearing will settle the whole business, as it is un- derstood the other eight members of the court are equally divided; but should he vote for a rehearing it will be left open until that rehearing has taken place and a decision shall have been handed down, and that may not be until after the first of July, which is the last day upon which the income tax can be paid without a penalty. The votes by which bonds and rents were exempted were such that the re sult cannot be changed, no matter how Justice Jackson may vote upon them. Wonder what those hair<trigger in- dividuals who were so much afraid, some time ago, that Secretary Herbert would not have the Navy properly represented at the celebration attend- ing the opening of the sea canal at Kiel, on June 19, think of themselves now? In addition to the Ban Fran- cisco and the Marblehead, first desig- nated, Secretary Herbert has ordered that the New York and the Columbia shall also go to Kiel. And there is a possibility that the SBeoretary may go himself on the Dolphin. Secretary Morton's beef investiga. tions must be disquieting the beef trust when one of its members makes the ridiculous charge that those investiga. orders for goods or making any wcement of the character of a per- are held be an- onal communication, to Burnside, College, e p, " wh, Curtin, wal x i equivalent to writing or typewriting | | & x in po s % and will therefor subject the matter | upon which they may be im presse d Mere business cards, however, or other stamped editions clearly of an advertising character mav be impress- without t to the higher rate of matter post- mb ————— Share Swindling, Farmers are warned wheat against swindlers who are said to be working in the eastern part of the state, and lable to dre Th ine grade Pp among you at any ey are Of canvassing with a wheat, which they allege fifty bushels to are larger and the stalk. You will be required to sign a contract to let the agent have half your crop, farm you 11 1 will yield an average of The grains f more of them on and if he doesn’ t get i Your 1s 11 will be in great luck. of This is a cousin the Bohemian oats swindle, and farmers should keep their eyes open, and when the fellow comes around with big wheat set the big dog on him. c———— Late News Condensed. The scho ted in the house. il book trust bill was defea- Good. Mr. Mattox charged that some of the granges were imposed upon to petition for the bill, other granges petitioned against it. The bill to create a new county to be called “Quay,” was killed in the house Nicaragua has agreed to pay Eng- land £77,000 smart money within fif- teen days and John Bull has now agreed not to spank little Nie. England last Friday had a second Johnstown calamity, by the breaking of a dam which caused the drowning of 160 persons and much destruction of property. In some quarters Cleveland is being urged for a third term 22 an antisil- ver coinage issue, Wheat has gone up to 67 in Chicago. m——— rf ——— New Advertisements, Read the new ad's in this issue, viz: Audit notice by Ira C. Mitchell, Esq. Executors’ notice of Joseph M’Clellan estate. Caution notice by Lydia Foust. Audit notice by H. C. Quig- ley. C. FP. Long's bargains. Katz & Co's store. Lyon & Co's store. W T. Meyers’ store. D. C. Keller, Haag hotel card. Prof. E. J. Wolf, special term of school. we Have a Big Country. The whole population of the United States, it is calculated, could be con- centrated in Texas without bringing up the density of her population to that of Massachusetts. In fact, if an area equal to that of Indiana were cut off from Texas, the state would still hold the entire population of the Uni- ted States without crowding us as the people of Massachusetts are crowded. Figured China Silks, 20c. a yard. Striped Wash Silks, 3oc. a yard. Lyon & Co. «Extraordinary reductions in Win- ter clothing and overcoats by Lyons, Bellefonte, and this means a reduction from the wonderfully low prices they have had during the past season. The AA ~Bubscribefor the REPORTER, $1.50 tions are keeping up the price of beef. reductions last only a short time, Ferguson, e Ww P, Haines, wp, H. 8B. TAYLOR, Be N. B. ¥- BPANGLER, Chairman Dem. Co, Com. Local Oddities, The treas are leaving -bit none have left. There will be no eyclones this mer-there is too much wind away in the sleeves of the | It is odd that son iid learn th o Lil is can’t play at. How odd it is ways has the that biggest { whoppers—drop in It is odd that son veterate spongers but return of the favor Cuses, It is odd that some folk to see a neighbor prosg to prevent it such small souls never get to Heaven. everything possible ———— oes Town Topics, has put new the lot opposite the George Rowe smith shop on school-house, When the question is asked, “Who lives in that pretty house on Church street,” the answer invariably is, “Oh, that’s where Sando lives.” up a Johnny Nefl' is keeping bachelor’s hall, his family having remained in Jefferson county. Housecleaning, whipping and sha- king carpets, and gardening are under full headway. Ap Persons who sympathize with the afflicted will rejoice with D. E. Carr of 1235 Harrison street, Kansas City. He is an old sufferer from inflamma- tory rheumatism, but has not hereto- fore been troubled in this climate. Last winter he went up into Wiscon- sin, and in consequence has had anoth- er attack. “It came upon me again very acute and severe,” he said. “My joints swelled and became inflamed; gore to touch or almost to look at. Upon the urgent request of my moth- er-in-law I tried Chamberlain’s Pain Balm to reduce the swelling and ease the pain, and to my agreeable surprise, it did both, I have used three fifty<cent bottles and be- lieve it to be the finest thing for rheu- matism, pains and swellings extant. For sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8, M. Bwartz, Tusseyville, Body Cut in Two, Wm. Megahan, of Petersburg, Pa., a brakeman on the middle division, P. rr., early on Baturday morning was found lying along the railroad track near Tipton with his body cut in two at the hips and his face and head hor- ribly mangied and crushed. A A HAAR ~Lyon & Co., Bellefonte, are mak- ing a big drive in shoes. They carry a full line in this department, and at prices that are way below their com- petitars, It is useless to pay a big price for shoes when you can get the same article several dollars cheaper at Lyons. Don’t pay any dealer an ex travagant price, until you inspect their
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