VOL. LXVIII. CAPITOL NEWS CLEVELAND'S FINANCIAL VIEWS ENDORSED. The Administration Highly Commended on their Sound Money Utterances.—A lot of Sloppy Stuff on the Go, WasuiNnaroN, May 20. —Secretary Carlisle made it very plain before he left Washington that in his speeches in Kentucky he would not take part or sides in the fight for the U. 8. Sen- atorship now going on in that state. He also made it equally plain that he would not himself become a candidate for the Senate. His sole object in go- ing to Kentucky is to tell his old ers to be sound money, and to prevent them, if possible, being led into the worship and support of what he con- siders unsafe and unsound financial methods. He left Washington confi- dent of succeeding and apparently in- different about the attacks made threatened his financial Whatever Secretary speeches in Kentucky and at the Mem- phis Sound Money convention may be they can be accepted as a faithful and exact representation of the financial views of the administration, as every statement of fact used by him has been approved by President Cleveland. President Cleveland and other mem- bers of the administration have re- ceived many endorsements, oral and written, from the south and west, of Mr. Cleveland's recent financial letters. An idea of how some of these men talk may be gained from the following lan- guage used by Mr. W. L. Crawford, of Dallas, Texas, who is in Washington now: ‘‘So far as Texas is Mr. Cleveland is exceedingly popular, by far the most popular man in the party for the office he ably fills, His ideas on the financial question just suit the sound money men of that State.” Mr. Crawrord isa practising lawyer, not a politician, but Texans in Washington say he is a man who has opportunities, and makes use of them, to keep in touch with the sentiment in his state, Hon. William record. Carlisle's on else 80 McAdoo, Assistant easy task to resist the Democratic pres- on the active list, only that he cannot | be ordered to perform active duty, ex- cept in time of war and then it must be done by the President with the advice {and consent of the Senate, The Supreme Court decision of the income tax question was not surpris- ing. It could not very well have been under the circumstances, mma ————— A GHASTLY DISCOVERY, | The Dead Dody of a Man Found Near Fowl. ar Station, On last Wednesday afternoon Ben- jamin Walker, a resident of Taylor township, while getting firewood in a piece of woods adjoining the railroad near Fowler station, was horrified to { discover the dead body of a man lying lon the ground at the foot of a tree. Eb 4 : : : | The body was lying on its right side with the head resting on the arm, and { the appearance denoted a man of per- | haps fifty years of age. The face was | clean shaven and the hair was black, streaked with gray. The body was minus a coat and hat, | neither of which articles of clothing could be found anywhere near. The remainder of of the clothing were of fairly fine texture, and the general appearence of the body denoted a man of refinement, if not wealth. A pocket- five found alongside the body. book, containing dollars, All evi- dence pointed to the fact that the man had been dead and lain there for a con- was siderable time, as the body was partial- ly decomposed, but there was nothing whatever in the pockets or on the clothing whereby the remains could be identified. One thing is certain, he was a stranger in that locality, but who he was or where from is yet a mystery. There were no marks of vio- lence on the body andlevery appearance denoted death from some natural cause as the face wore a very ealm and placid An inquest was held Thursday afternoon. The affair has created quite a sensation in that locali- ty, and may prove to be one of expression, those mysteries which can never be solved. Relating to the identity of the m Bellefonte Magnet part of ni the savs: frri thes arly last Season 1 dre if the weed man got « He said aiso said the id we cars in that locality, Hi he was from it his nrail- as far I'vrone, as sure that is being brought to bear upon him to head the New Jersey guberna- torial ticket this year, and his consent | cured in the near future. a hat his name was Garne an that it wad i (ringers He Mr. | Hays have been in consultation with MeAdoo is Senator Smith, who New Jersey is going Democratic again and that it will stay Democratic. A number of prominent Missourians, headed by ex-Gov. Francis, have been in Washington within the last two or three days, and it is probable that some of them came to Washington at the request of President Cleveland, to discuss financial matters, as ex-Gov, Francis is regardad as very friendly to to the President's financial views: One of these Missourians—Mr. B. B. Graham, a prominent St Louis busi- ness man-—says of the silver, agitation in the democratic party: I think it is an excellent thing that all this strife over silver has come up so far in ad- vance of the Presidential election. It will give the people time to get clearer ideas on the subject than many of them now have, as a result of reading such a plausible but fallacious and shallow book as Coin’s Financial Behool. They will, I think, eventu- ally as certain that the price of wheat and cotton has not fallen through sympathy with the decline in silver, but because of the enormous increase of production of those articles all over the world. The southern people, in particular, have no reason to hold rad- fecal views on silver: their greatest crop is sold abroad for gold and their section has no mining interests. [I ex- pect to see in the South a grandual but healthy charge of public senti- ment that in the end will be on the side of a safe and conservative financial system. A lot of very sloppy stuff has been written about what the administration intended to do about Admiral Meade’s very serious infraction of Naval regu- lations, among the rest that his request for retirement will be refused until af- ter he had been punished. The orig- Inators of most of these stories are en- tirely ignorant on the subject. The granting of Admiral Meade’s applica- tion for retirement, under the law giv- ing officers who have served forty years that privilege, has never been a matter of doubt, and could not be, un- less he had been guilty of a crime calling for his dishonorable discharge from the Navy; consequently he will certainly pass from the active to the retired list of the Navy. Another story spread by the ignorant is that once on the retired list Admiral Meade could the Navy. He ls just as much amen- I Nearho the above particaiag t tell him t his pu anyiniog ab the road to took him back to owed him the nd the relatives whom } lic road and sl take to fi 12 had named. Some days later his the road, as if he had then wrgotten it. Incidentally, inquiry was made at satchel » was found along i i set it fy Lit {i down there and Port Matilda if such a man had ed through necessary to reach the pass here (as would have been parties whom he named,) but no one had seen him itten except this and the incident was f: Ww remarkable diszovery, —— on Presented to the Governor. The petition to Governor Hast ings against the proposed cut of $1. 000, 000 in the school appropriation for the next two years was presented to the governor Friday by Representative Danubly. The memorial was signed by 122 members of the House, repre- senting sixty-two of the sixty-seven counties of the State. The counties whose members refused to sign are Centre, Perry, Venango, Washington, Philadelphia and Allegheny in part. Another evidence of the incapability of our representatives at Harrisburg. tints siliimmsnismis State College Commencement, The State College commencement exercises will this year be held from June 9 to 13. Rev. David R, Breed, of Pittsburg, will preach the Baccalaure ate sermon; Hon. Robinson, of Media, will make the address before the Alu- mni and Hon. Robert G. Orgden, of Philadelphia, will deliver the com- mencement address. The graduating class this year numbers thirty-five, —————— Peculiar Accident, On Baturday, 11th, Mr. Jacob Ker- stetter, of miles township, who works on C, C. Loos’s saw mill, in Sugar Val ley, had his leg broken by a slab which he was running through the The piece of timber turned and Jump- ing out of place, struck Mr, Kerstetter on the leg causing a serious fracture, Figured China Silks, 20c. a yard. Striped Wash Silks, joc. a yard. Lyon & Co. ~A new spring suit from Lewins, Bellefonte, is the proper thing now in clothing. the Navy on the retired list a8 he was ~Subscribe for the REPORTER, The Supreme Court at a Full Meeting De- cldes Against the Measure, The United States supreme court at Washington on Tuesday handed down a decision declaring the income tax unconstitutional. Upon the question of general uncon- stitutional of the law the court is un- derstood to be as follows: Against the Law—Chief Justices Ful- ler, Justices Field, Gray, Brown, and Shiras. For the Law-—Justices Brown, Jackson, and White. The chief justice announced the fol- lowing conclusions: First. We adhere to the opinion al- ready announced that taxes on real estate being undisputably direct taxes, Harlan, taxes on the rents or income of real estate are eqally direct taxes, Second. We are of opinion that taxes on personal property are likewise direct taxes. Third. The tax imposed by section twenty-seven to thirty-seven, incluv- sive, of the act of 1894, so far as it falls on the income of real estate and per- sonal property, direct tax within the meaning of the constitution and therefore and void because not apportioned accord- being a unconstitutional ing to representation: all those sections constituting one entire scheme of tax- ation are necessarily invalid. The decrees hereinbefore entered in this court will be vacated; the decrees below will be reversed and the cases remanded with instructions to grant the relief prayed. Opilonions were also read by Justices Jackson, White, Harlan, and Brown. Justice Jackson, of Tennssee, who was present at the recent rehearing, united with the other eight Justices in to-day’s decision. He appears to have voted in faver of the constitutionality ofthe law as a whole, but a majority for unconstitutionality was obtained by the defection of Justice Shiras, who assumed to-day a position directly the reverse of that taken by him in —— ————— The Tramp Question. The tramp question is one that has the of for of newspapers attention every Years. syivanian 3 have i, aud leg- wil ies have give IAKEes Vagranoecy rime If ni this law $ that Foy SeRii Ny, unp disap- » “like dew before a imines Still Finding Gola, Editor B. F. Morrison, of the New- ton Hamilton Watchman, still pins his faith to the gold mine at that place. He says in the last issue of his paper that two recent assays of ore show one and one half ounces of gold and two ounces of silver per ton of rock, or $35 per ton for the first assay, and the next assay showed $1690, The Wateh- man says: We have already had a proposition from a Colorado mining company to consolidate with them and they will come and assist us in opening a regular gold mine. They have become quite euthusiastic over the discovery and are anxious to inves- tigate the find. We are fully satisfied that the rock now in sight will pay largely to work, fp pt The Man Who Captured Jeff Davis, An Altoona paper says: “Wm. Kieff of Lock Haven, the old soildier who claims to be Jeff Davis’ captor is serv- ing forty-eight hours in the lockup. He was before Police Magistrate Doyle on Saturday for drunkenness and disord- erly conduct, To Return Income Tax Papers. J. F. Braius, deputy collector of in- ternal revenue, has received notice from Collector Grant Harring, to re turn to Seranton office all banks, re- cords or papers of any description relat ing to the income tax. A A ——————— Why Cherries Will be Plenty, The moon editor of an exchange says cherries will be plenty this year be- caused they blossomed in the dark of the moon. This is said to apply to other fruit as well as cherries, A 553A AIAN A Sapplement, In this issue of the REPORTER, we are compelled to issue the triennial as- sessment in supplement form, owing to the crowded condition of our adver tising columns, A I A A AAAS ~Every well-dressed young man gets his clothing and gents’ furnishing at Lewins, Bellefonte, COMPILED BY A HISTORIAN IN 1847, When This was the Frontier—In the Days of the Indians. -Massscres Along the Susvuehannah, The following from an old history, of the days of Indian massacres, when Centre and Union counties were on the frontiers, will be interesting to the reader of the REPORTER at the present day : Searce three months after Brad- dock’s disastrous defeat, we find the barbarous savages engaged in murder- ing the whites and setting fire to their houses, on the west side of Busquehan- nah, in Cumberland county, now Un- ion ; for, on the 15 of October, 1755, a party of Indians fell upon the inhabi- tants of Penn's creek, that runs into the river Susquehannah, about five miles lower than the Great Fork made by the juncture of the two main bran- ches of the Susquehannah, killed and carried off about 25 persons, and burnt and destroyed their buildings and provements, and the was deserted, The sent in the following petition to Govy- ernor Morris: “We, near mouth of Penn's creek, on the west of the humbly show, that on or about the 16th of Oc- ili whole settlement inhabitants Penn's On Creek the subscribers, the side Susquehanna, tober, 1755, the enemy came down up- on said creek, k Hed, scalped, and car- ried all ti and children, amounting to twenty-five i away Ie nen, women n number, and wounded one man, who fortunately made his escape and brot Us Lhe news, “ SCT De bout twenty or thirty Indians—re- ceived their fire, and about fifteen of our men and myself took to the trees, attacked the willaing, killed four of them on the spot, and lost but three lGore—retreating about half a mile thro woods, and crossing the Busque- hanna, one of whom was shot off an horse riding behind myself, thro the river, I was obliged to quit him and swim part of the way, my horse hav- ing been wounded. Four or five of our men were drowned, crossing the river, I just now received information that there was a French officer, supposed captain, with a party of Shawanese, Delawares, &e., within six miles of Shamokin, ten days ago ; and nodoubt suffered, The Indians here, I hope, your Honor, will be pleased to cause them to remove to some place, as I do not like their company; and a8 the men of those here were not against us, yet did them no harm. or I would have them all cut off Jelt (Indian sc ealled) promised, at else Shamokin, to send out spies to view | the enemy, and upon hearing of our skirmishes, Old Belt was in gathered up thirty Indians immedi- | Lhe my, as I am this day informed. a rage ately, and went in pursuit of ene- I expect Montour and Mona-ca-thoo- tha down here this week, with the de- termination of their Shamokin coun- cil. their dreadful sit The inhabitants are abandoning plantations, and we in are Iam, &c. JouN Hanus, oa uation. NO. 21 ALL TO SCHOOL. Compulsory School Law. Pemlty for Non. compliance, The governor has signed the Farr compulsory education bill, as it has all along been expected that he would, and it is now the law of the common. wealth. Under its provisions children of the proper age must be sent to school for a definite period each year. Pa- rents who neglect to comply with the law will be punished. There is noth. ing wrong in this, Every child born into this world has certain rights. No parent has any business to deprive his nei ettfs— — HORRIBLE ACCIDENT, Horribly Mangled by being Dragged Over the Rough Road i { i i A dispatch from Lewistown gives the subscril and buried the dead, | found ‘Teupon ers went o barbarously | ! whom we most murdered and sealped. “We found but thi and elderly ho ricen, w were The « fail dren, we suppose to be carried aw ay, | pr The } where . Hot pose they finished their men women. isOHers, 180 we sup-i murder, we | found burnt up ; the man of it, named | Jacob King, a Swisser, lying just by it. He lay on his back, barbaro sly burnt, and two t “ vmahawks sticking in h forehead ; one marked ne W. D. We have vour Honor, Ti ror of whi ven away almost all the back of those wiy with sent ti t im 3 1 0 PAs } i, $55 tants, except the subsceri i ho are willis «bat iA, 0 Ig to stay il as we are not le to defend it for of numbers, | ii the want guns | and ammunition, and few in #0 that without assistance, we must i flee, and leave the country to the mer- | i cy of the enemy, i desire it We, therefore that you Houor would take the same into con ¥ * i | sideration, and order some speedy re- | lief for the safety of these back settle | ments, and be pleased to give us spee- | dy orders what to do. George Gliwell, George Achmudy, | John MeCahon, Abraham Bouerkill | Edmund Matthews, Mark Curry, Wil- Dennis Mucklehenny, John Young, John Bimmons, George | Snabble, Aberheart, Daniel | Braugh, George Lynn, and Gotfried| Fryer.—{ Prov. Records, Jacob King alias Jacob Le Roy, men- tioned in the above petition, had only lately arrived in the country. At the time he was murdered, his daughter, | Anne Mary Le Roy, and some others, were made prisoners, and taken to Kit- taning, where she was kept a captive for about four years, On the 23d of October, 1755, forty-six of the inhabitants on Busquehanna, about Harris’ Ferry, went to Shamo- kin, to enquire of the Indians there, who they were that had so cruelly fal- len upon and ruined the settlement on Mahahony (Penns) creek ; on their re- turn from Shamokin, they were fired apon by some Indians who lay in am- bush, and four were killed, 4 drowned and the rest put to flight ; on which, all the settlements between Shamokin and Hunter's mill (formerly Chamb- ers’) for the space of fifty miles, were deserted.—[ Prov. Records, i liam Doran, Grenrge Paxton, October 28, 1775. May it please your Honor (Gov, Mor- ris.) This is to sequaint you, that on the 24th of October, I arrived at Shamo- kin, in order to protect our frontiers up that way, till they might make their escape from their cruel enemies, The Indians on the west branch of the Busquehanna, certainly killed our inhabitants on Penn's creek; and there are a hatchet and two English scalps sent by them up the north branch, to desire them to strike with them, If they are men, The Indians are all assembling them- selves at Shamokin, to counsel ; a large body of them was there four days ago. I cannot learn their intentions; but seems Andrew Montour and Mona-ca- too-tha are to bring down the news from them. ’ . . On the 25th inst., on my return with i the following particulars of the horri- ble death of a young lady near that place a few days since: As Miss Ida, daughter of Solomon Knepp, was driv- to Bigler- ville, accompanied by her younger sis- i ter, the horse became restless and turn- ed in the road. The girls became tim- id and pulled the wrong line, and thinking the vehicle was in danger of Youngest jumped out across the inside of the buggy to keep She fell face down- ward between the wheels and was | Her face was battered | of a piked road. beyond recognition, some her fin- | otherwise When the horse was stop- ped by two men, and she was released life was found to be almost extinct. She died in a few minutes after being takén into a neighboring farm house. Her age was about 17 years. mn ff A A—————— PROHIBITIONISTS CONVE NTION. Electing Delegates and Passing Resolutions the Entire Regime, A small sprinkling of prohibitionists from various parts of the county met in convention in the court house at Bellefonte, at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, and organized by electing Rev. J. Zeigler chairman and N. 8. Bailey secretary. The convention was called for the purpose of electing delegates to the the following were cnosen, Delegates—John D. Gill, Jr., Rush township; Jonathan Packer, Boggs; J. W. Mattern, Philipsburg; C. C. Shuey, Bellefonte; W. H. Long, How- ard; John I. Thompson, State College. Alternates—John D. Gill, Sr., Rush township; W. T. Bair, Philipsburg; Geo. R. Roan, State College; Jared Harper, Bellefonte; W. A. Hartsock, Huston; Rev. G. W. Leisher, Boals- burg. Rev. J. Zeigler a Isaac Guss were continued as members of the | State Executive Committee. It was the sense of the convention that it would be inexpedient to hold another convention for the purpose of nominating the county ticket, and the county executive committee was em- powered to make the nominations, With the adoption of a few whole- some resolutions the convention ad- Journed. nd Tay mmm AL A Of Interest to Stamp Collectors, Local stamp collectors will be inter- ested in knowing that recently Judge i. F. Tebbs, of Leesburg, Va., in look ing over some old letters, found two postage stamps, known as the Bu- chanan stamps of 1847, of which kind a very limited number were issued. They are now regarded as very valua- ble by the curiosity stamp hunters, He sold the two recently to a party in Washington, who deals in that kind of curiosities for $875, A hen. ~Our enterprising merchant, C, P. Long was in Easteiii cities last week buying his large stock of General Merchandise. He is always up to the times and away down with prices. Many parents do this, however. They age selfish or indiffer- able to work. This is wrong, It was high time a stop should be put to such supreme selfishness. Every boy and girl in this commonwealth should have a chance, Every child between the ages of 8 to attend a school in which the common English and 13 years is required branches are taught, with reasonable the school directors on account of men- tal or physical disability, or other ur- gent reasons. Parents or guardians who fall to obey the act are to be fined and special officers may be appointed to catch truants. School officials who fail to comply with the law are pun- ishable by a fine of $25. A fine of $2 is provided for the first $5 for each succeeding offense. An ap- peal to the Court of Quarter Bessions guardians, doards of School Direct- p- point truant officers to better enforce attendance at school. children in every voting district must be taken by the district assessor at the same time that the annual assessment is made, and certified to the secretary of the district School Board. Each teacher is required to report to the School Board secretary monthly the names of all children who have been absent without satisfactory reason for five successive days. A census of the school The School Board secretary must then proceed against the parents or guardians of the child. A pleaof pov- erty, made by the parents or guardian, if sustained by the evidence, ex- ressly declared a sufficient excuse for non-compliance with the act, and in such a case the cost of prosecution is to be paid by the School Board. The failure of any School Board sec- retary to comply with the provisions of the law is declared a misdemeanor, he is liable to a fine not exceeding $25. is 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; sore 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. Swartz, Tussey ville, ————— An Editor Defined, Some boys were asked the other day to define “editor.” Here are some of their definitions: “An editor is a man who handles words.” “An editor makes his living out of the English language.” “An editor is somebody who does not do anything himself and when somebody else does, goes and tells other people all about it.” “An editor is a man who has the industry of a beaver, the instincts of a bee and the patience of an ass,” About Done For, Last Friday morning's frost finish- ed up the business left undone by the frost of Sunday night previous all thro the land. Fortunately it is not too late for replanting and much of the harm done can be evened up again ex- cept in the fruit crop, New Walks. New board walks were laid recently in place of delapidated ones, by drug- gist Murray, D. C, Keller and E. G. Vaupelt, ————— So ————— ~Owing to the fact that Lyon & Co., of Bellefonte, must make room for a large stock of spring goods, they now offer their entire winter stock at such prices never before heard of in this county. See their advertisement about forty more, we were attacked by Come see the new stock, in another column on page five, 5
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