VOL. LXVIIL.
CAPITOL NEWS
OF THE SENATE.
Democratic Ideas of Economy in Pablie
Expenditures Have Been Pat into Ef-
fect Wherever Possible,
WasHiINGTON, Nov. 25.—With few
exceptions Democrats are agreed that
it is the duty of the Democratic Sena-
tors to retain the control of the Senate
until they are forced to it up.
There will be no occasion to fill the va-
of the|
Senate so long as Vice President Ste-|
to pre-
can be |
unless |
It is un-|
{
give
cancy in the office of pro tem
venson is on hand every day
he
counted upon to be on hand
prevented by serious illness.
derstood that the Democratic steering
committee of the Senate will
mend following this line of policy; al- |
80, that every measure which comes |
before the Senate shall be fully debat-
ed by the Democrats, in order that the
position of the party may be thorough-
ly understood by the country. The
Republican Senators can, of course,
obtain control of the at
with the assistance of the Populist
and without their aid if Dupont is
seated from Delaware when the Utah
Senators take their seats, which will
probably be early in the coming year,
if they can agree among themselves,
but up to this time they are a long
ways from agreeing, and by harmoni-
ous and skillful tactics the
may remain in control during the en-|
side over the Senate, and
recom-
Senate once |
“|
Democrats |
tire session.
t
i
he
of the various branches of the govern
heads |
As the annual reports of
ment service are made it is easy to see |
that Democratic ideas of «
conomy in
public expenditures have been put i
1
ie,
0-
The grand
effected
f the or-
to effect wherever possib
aggregate of all the
may be found in the footings o
saving
dinary expenditure column of the I
report.
footings show that for the fiscal
the
spent for ordinary purposes $11,329!
B. Treasurer's annual Those
Year
ending June 30, last, government
is]
less than was spent during the previ-
ous year,
Few people in Washington take any
stock in the story that
New York to the effect that Mr.
rison has made a
comes from
Har-
which
Miller
combination
is to place Ex-Senator Warner
tail of the Harrison
Washington people know Mr, Harri-
i
AE
on the
son for one of the shrewdest politicians
the country has ever had, I
notwit
peo-
of some
standing the impression
to the level from which political wires |
or
=
have to be pulled, and knowing that
they cannot believe that he has made
any deal with such a has-been as Mil-
ler. If he could get Morton
enter a combination the nomina-
tion of the old ticket he'd jump
at it, but Morton has not love enough
for Mr. Harrison to do so, even if he
desired to again become
for Vice President,—he remembers
Failing to make a deal with Mr. Mor-
ton, Mr. Harrison has made one with
Senator Allison, it is said, for the ex-
pres purpose of opposing both
and McKinley. Incidentally they
have agreed that if at any time during
the convention their combined
strength will nominate either, it shall
be given to the one controlling the
largest number of votes. Harrison
next to getting the nomination for
himself wants to keep both and
McKinley out of it.
Some people have queer ideas of
what is good taste. For instance,
Hon. John M. Thurston, of Nebraska,
who was for years in the employ of
one of the Pacific railroads—only re-
signed within the last ten days, al-
though his salary as Senator began
March 4, last—and who is said to owe
his election to the U. 8B. Senate to the
influence of thet corporation, proposes
to inaugurate his senatorial career by
introducing a bill providing for a set-
tlement of the debts due the govern-
ment from the Central and Union Pa-
cific railroads. He says that while his
bill differs in details from the settle-
ment recommended by the govern-
ment directors of those roads its result
will be the same. This may be true,
but when his past relations with these
corporations are remembered suspicion
will naturally arise that he is merely
continuing to do their bidding by in-
troducing this bill,
Senator Hill has started much gos
sip by renting a large house in Wash-
ington and reports as to his intentions
cover every imaginable thing from
getting married to opening a political
club house for the starting of a new
boom for the presidential nomination.
It is probable that his personal conven-
fence was his only reason for setting
up housekeeping.
Mund Dog Scare,
There is a mad dog scare in Tyrone,
and as a consequence scores of curs are
(roVv, tO
for
1GR
a candidate
92
teed
teed
#
About Gossip.
Whenever a bit of gossip is afloat |
{there are always those who will keep |
[it in active circulation. They wili do |
| more than that; they will put them-|
| selves to some inconvenience if there- |
| by they can let the subject of evil re-|
mark know just what rumor has been |
| saying. think the re-|
tailer of gossip does it to hurt others; |
Nome people
{some think it is the outcome of igno- |
rance. |
safe tol
say that the true lady or gentleman is |
not a of trivial gossip. No |
word is uttered to wound the heart of |
another because of any low motive or |
passing curiosity.
is
However that may be it
retailer
When it becomes |
necessary to hurt one in order that a |
plunge is made. But not otherwise, |
There is within the right thinking!
heart an indisposition to hurtany one.
Roughness and coarseness are not |
less repulsive qualities than the invet- |
load |
erate disposition to empty one's
of gossip npon others. They are pos-|
much interfere |
with the popularity of the men who |
boast of them, imagining that
to
he is|
has the
faculty of saying insulting things to
some great thing because he
those who are infinitely above him in
the scale of gentle breeding and good |
but |
to|
be a gentlema i
manners. Frankness is a virtue,
one can be frank and still continue
(
That old to
cient Penn's valley teamsters as Stitz- |
d Hotel Stand Sold.
land-mark, known an-'|
er's Tavern, now Reish's hotel, located
in the Union county end of the Penn's |
ley narrows, has been bought by J,
Vicksburg, Union
¢
Of
K. Reish,
Far &1
for $1000,
Coun-
y
It was a favorite stop-
ping place for our farmers when they
at Stitzer's ti always t a
hot
eated in
or
gh
good,
and the
its mess of
ey
square miming meal,
3
LO Psd
horse bh
Was never c
oats, s ago, had a good
the
, put an end to teaming
lost trade. Those
ps to market
Lewisburg),
The tavern year
trade, but the railroad
tWo 1
and the tavern its
old days of hauling er
Derr
at
jolly
would
stown were
ones for farmers, who al.
our
vy oO
ways tr have a string of teams
“Re |
made up for the trip, and many a
porter’ patron, now reading this arti-
le, will remember having had his
share of the
teaming and stopping at
5
" a "
. A a"
rd With Parents,
t
oiitZer
's tavern.
A
Just a word with parents and eciti-
ally. Visit our schools oft.
the
characters,
gener
ur children at
‘
Dy
ig their
hers and scholars the stim-
en t of your fre-
give them
Do not be satis
got
when
quent presence and your
’
criticism if necessary,
fied by thinking you have
the
$
t
hs +1
he schoo
your
they ‘
¢
Gf
children ou way
are inside t
them ti
rg ere
home study. Your visits will benefit
structors,
Ra.
Marriage Licenses,
been granted the past week: i
Katie Gingerich, Spring twp.
H. D. Wise, Zion, and Mary E. Bid-
dle, Cowan.
James C., Jackson and Annie M.
Bryan, Spring Mills,
Wm. H. Brown, Mt. Eagle and Ka-
tie MeCummings, Howard.
Jas. C. Derr, Spring twp., and An-
nie MeMullen, Bellefonte.
Edwin O. Barner, Parvin, and Cath-
arine Detwiler, Aaronsburg.
Wp oncoly
A gang of burglars visited Blooms
burg early Sunday morning and en-
tered twelve houses. Each house was
entered in the same manner, a win-
dow on the ground floor being forced
open. The thieves confined them-
selves to the lower floor of the houses.
At L. E. Willer's they tarried long
enough to eat a meal. Thomas Wayne
found a bundle of silverware in his
barn Sunday morning which was af
terward identified by Mrs. I. 8. Kuhn
as part of the property stolen from her,
sn MY A A A
The West Stormswept,
A terrific wind storm swept over
parts of the west on Monday night.
At Cincinnati trees were uprooted,
buildings unroofed or wrecked, tele-
graph poles and wires blown down.
At Cleveland roofs and chimneys
were torn from their fastenings,
At Detroit wires were blown down,
trees destroyed, and business badly in-
terfered with.
At Port Huron, Mich., there was
snow a foot deep and the velocity of
the storm was 70 miles an hour.
Ap ot cannon
Mi. MacDonald, the post-master at
Altoona, having died last week, the
assistant post-master, Reamer Hoke,
being shot and killed.
has been appointed acting post-master,
COUNTY NEWS,
From all Around, Clipped and Condensed,
A defective flue was the cause of the
dwelling of Frank Brown, of Blanch-
ard, burning down a few days ago.
Col. Aust. Curtin has left Jersey and
gone back to Roland, driving the en-
tire distance of 300 miles.
| CENTRE COUNT
| INDIAN OCCUPATION~THE TRIBES
INHABITING THE COUNTY.
i
i
The Shawanese Tribe the First Aborigionl
i
i Indigns in our County, ther Tribes
|
| Prominent in History,
grove to Stone Gap but got no deer.
candy house, and so handsome fel-
low should sell iots of candy.
i
"Squire Kichline who held the
millers of our county have paid over
the royalty on the reduction process,
This time millers got tolled.
In some parts of Spring township it
miles to water.
George Dale, of College twp., raised
Wi
1
1000 bushels of potatoes this year.
wish you would get 50cts. per
for them, George.
Joseph Bitner, of Spring Mills,
bone broken by the
Surely, these were bad breaks.
be 0 mu-
Ret
the
will
in the
, and
towards
Christmas week there
held
churel
EPR
pro-
sical convention
burg Lutheran
ing the church.
fed at
Amy, daughter of A. Huey, d
Millheim, Tuesday
15 years,
f
Of
"last week, age
John Mallory, in the
for the
back to Bebersbure,
ISAs
nd
see
%. 1
maxing
Millheim is to have
chool-houge, that will b
that live burg.
Mrs. Nestlero
Madisonl
e's wr
MITE was destroy
Bo lp tl
A Sad Aecident
lin tl
14
Hed
A sad accident which resu
a, voung man of
the 19. i
occurred on i
at Lock Haven
Republican,
the
years of age,
Pp
Young Miller, says the
£ mploy of
& E. freight yards
was not in the railroad
but was assisting the men
3
ard in Coupling
wrs while the trains were being made
ip. :
is rizht
1g
k by shifting en-
He was struc
he fell, bh
a
Ie
wheels
ry lav
2 ay
AOTOSS
of the f{
the
ing his le
ilgh. He nes
and died
He was the only
knee and ti
or rallied from the shock
son of
>
A Criminal Attorney's Opinion
Hon. A. B. the
riminal lawyer of Meadville, is
noted
now
Richmond,
Erie. Mr. Richmond has been for the
He ascribes
he has been
—— Bl ————
A Brillant Council
By reason of Ordinances having
payment of nearly $400,000 of street
paving.
Every now-and-then we have ac-
upon the illegal doings of town coun
asians fs ff oy
FHE RAINFALL.
The rainfall is expressed in hundreths of inches
given in decimal fractions, .10, 17, 45, &o.
Registered at the “Reporter” office :
Snow Thursday night 21, depth { in.
making .04 water,
Batarday, Nov. 23, forenoon, .24 in.
rainfall. At night .12 in,
Monday morning, 25 Nov,, .12 inch.
During the night 40 inch rain, with
high and warm wind until Tuesday.
Tuesday morning, 26, from 9.10 to
11 a m., 45 inch rain; wind turned
from warm to cold,
aaa a Id
Sixty Dead,
Sixty-two bodies of which 87 were
the remains of women, have already
been recovered from the ruins of the
cartridge factory at Palma, Island of
Majorea, which was blown up on Mon:
day. It is now said that the explosion
was caused by a workman who had
been dismissed.
———— A" io»
Turkeys are so plenty in Berks coun
ty that farmers do not find a very rea-
dy sale for them at 8 and 9 cents per
pound,
(Concluded. )
In 1754, Tanacharis, a Seneca chief,
otherwise called Half-King, as repre-
| sentative of Nations, had
| charge of the lands south of the West
i
Branch, with
the Six
i
| his post at Aughwick,
on the present site of Shirleysburg, in
He died short-
| ly after Conrad Weiser's council with
| the Indians there in
| Huntingdon County.
September, 1754,
| and was succeeded by Searroovady. an
The Indians, true to their compact,
{| withdrew gradually north of the limits
17564, and
the numbers coming
of the purchase,
|
i
it
John Bhi-
# Of
xellimy speak
0 the West Branch and its tributaries.
and complains as early as June, 1755,
of the encroachments of white settlers
of the indicates
limits which
‘ly inroad of settlers into the south-
The des
Braddock almost comple-
jerly
' limits of Centre county,
| feat of Gen
» removal from Aughwick, and
~earrovady is at
ishamokin wit renty «
‘got this far,’
if his men,
and with Shikellimy’s
{ three sons was organi
{against the Frene
i
In October of this wear
i 3
i French and Indians compu
pm
i de t}
el Georg
NOW stan
£11
Hit
"j uest of the
Morris direc
erected
fe
On the
Hawanes
ontour
remained
» English, and offered to eoll
t Shamokin and
Freneh.
le a
that
the
{ rovernor such information as they re-
the
November they
wi against the From
pe
pr vat they Cons tantly transmitted
ceived affecting interests of the
srovines, in sent
the Big Island, (mouth of the Bald
“No,” sald the In-
{ dians of the Big Island, “we will not
{ kill him or suffer him killed,
{ We have lived in peace many years
| with the English here; if you are so
| bloodthirsty go somewhere else for
blood spilt
were hostile
to be
have no
The messengers
Logan and his two brothers, with
| pelled to retire up the North Branch
{to Wyoming in the fall of 1755, and
| the whole West Branch country as far
{control of the French and their In-
| dian allies, the Delawares, an as far up
| the North Branch as Nescopeck there
were-no friendly Indians, except Pax-
inos, a Shawanose chief, who resided
on the west of thisgriver, a few miles
from Wyoming.
The scouts who, on the 3d of June,
1756, preceded Col. Wm. Clapham’s
regiment, ordered to build Fort Augus-
ta and occupy the confluence of the
two rivers, report McKee's house burn-
ed, George Gabriel's at the mouth of
Penn's creek, where Selinsgrove now
stands, destroyed, and Shamokin un-
inhabited, the houses being burned to
the ground. Col, Clapham built the
fort in July and August, and the suc.
ceeding winter Maj. James Burd
was in command, having arrived on
the 8th of December. He represents
the winter to have*been exceedingly
severe, the West Branch frozen over,
and the path up it so blocked with
snow that the Indians he tried to send
through to Chinklacamoose, Clearfield,
on the 1st of February, 1757, had to re
turn, On the evening of the 7th of
April, after dark, he started Capt.
Wm. Patterson, with ten men up the
West Branch in search of intelligence.
| lacamoose, having seen no French or
Indians on their march: also that the
Erie, passed by Chinklamoose,
forked on the south side of the
forty miles this side of that place, one
path taking to Fort
er to
houses at
Cumberland county; that
Chinklacamooee were all
no Indians
parently lived there for
burned, and that had ap-
a long time;
that he and his party lived on wal
three days,
jit
they could find no game t
kill, and had returned down the riy
upon rafts,
er
The next light that gleams upon the
topography of our region is from the
journals of the heralds of
In the summer of 1758,
Post undertook a peril
behalf of the
{to the Delawares o
if
i
proprietary
¢
vernment
» JN
Ohio. He took
the path along the east or left
the West Braneh, and crossed
tl Island
{:reat
Hi re he
were very fearful,
10 on the
My companion
and we
“ay
from the road without a fire,
i for
Ho
i
could not sles
On the next
Re
Mosh which he
§ § viiut
of August,
13
Yili
¢ yi
annon,
ragemment
en they fell
ie Creat
COTINLY Ww
7
ROTOR OF «
dred "
destroyed, as the account has it,
digious number of Indian houses alon;
the
burg now st
river down as far as where
i
ands, whenoe he tu
to go the nearest to
the Nov,
on the banks of the Maaski
way
following year
ngt
im, Col.
Bouquet compelled the Indians to give
up their white prisoners and sue for
peace, ending all the troubles with the
until the
drums of the Revolution began to ec
along the shores of the West Branch.
Delawares and Shawanese
ho
: pai
The Ideal Panacea.
James L. Francis, Alderman, Chica-
“1 regard Dr. New
ideal for
gO, says: King's
Discovery as an Panacea
Coughs, Colds
having used it in my family for the
last five years, to the exclusion of phy-
sician’s prescriptions or other prepara-
tions.”
Rev, John Keokuk, Iowa,
writes: “I have been a minister of
the Methodist Episcopal church for 50
years or more, and have
anything so beneficial, or that
me such speedy relief as Dr,
New Discovery.” Try this Ideal
Cough Remedy now. Trisl bottles
free at J. D. Murray's Drug Store.
Jurgus,
gave
King's
THE supreme court has declared that
the city of Williamsport cannot assess
non-abutting property owners for the
cost of sewers. The sanie section of
the law also says that owners of non-
abutting property can not be made pay
for improving, grading or guttering of
streets, yet in some towns the owners
of such property are taxed in violation
of law. No tax-payer need pay such
assessment, the courte have decided
this a dozen times and last week the
supreme court confirmes it.
il ot eisa——
TURSDAY'S Patriot says the clerk:
ship in the state economic zoologic de-
partment has $1500 pay in it per year,
and that the place is only a sinecure-—
nothing to do but to draw the salary.
Us farmers should all stick a pin there
as behind it is the fact that there was
no one at Harrisburg last winter who
cared a snap for the interests of us
tax paying farmers. Our ‘watchers’
all turned to boodlers.
NO. 47
THIRD TERM VOR CLEVELAND
Secretary of Agriculture Morton
the Ides
Favors
of Morton
comes out flat footed in favor of a third
1. Mr.
claims authority to speak
but the
o
i
from a member of
Secretary Agriculture
term for Clevelane Morton dis-
fc
ir the Pres
fg t re
ent, Ig
if
declaration, comin
{
President's
{ ficial family
ded
In the course
Morton
rar
gal fas sig
retary “Why
| President Cleveland be op
{third term any
? This
President Clevel
pre sident
ia third term,
}
KOOWS bul himself,
term has been confin
, and there
ver heard
ai « Apression on
not in !
i 4 position 1
veland will be
LIOowever
XP Zah ant
government
nanasgement of
!
i3~
of
business is ¢
nt
IANSEeITe
oo
A Suyder Co. Patriarch
: T $+ IAT ff Pores
died in West Perry 4
— ———
I'he Decline in Wheat
sents a loss to tl
¢
alone of avout
rage is down nearly
reached during the panic, when
values of everything were de.
nearly
The
the face of stat
as occurred in
gener-
warranting an
the more
decline
v
pressed i
]
istics which are
as ad-
ally regarded
vance, which makes it all
puzzling.
Wy
It May Do as Mach for You.
Mr. Fred Miller, of
{| writes that he had a severe
Irving, Ill,
kidney
| trouble for many years, with severe
| pains in his back and that his
bladder was affected. He tried many
Kidney cures but without
{any good result. About a year ago he
began the use of Electric Bitters and
| found relief at once. Electric Bitters
| is especially adapted to the cure of all
| kidney and liver troubles and often
gives almost instant relief. One trial
will prove our statement. Price only
50c. for large bottle. Aj D. Mur
| ray’s Drug Store.
also
so called
a.
sg ————
Tite Yourn's COMPANION is a feast
that’ comes not once a year, but onces
week. It is not only always an appe-
tizing feast, but always strengthening
and refreshing, too. This being
Thanksgiving week, Tue CoMPANION
has, like everybody else, provided an
unusual supply of dainties and good
things, with special courses appropri
ate to the season.
even
The “tdwn council of Littlestown,
Adams county, has passed an ordi
nance to the effect that any body un.
der 15 years of age on the streets after
the ringing of the curfew bell, at 8.30
p. m., without a good excuse, will be
fined fifty cents or put in the lockup,
. Woldn't be bad to try this in Centre
Hall and other towns. The night.
prowling boys generally go to the bad.
on A
Tre pope is ill. A dispateh received
from Rome says that the pope's condi.
tion was more serious on Sunday mor
ning and that some concern is ex.
pressed amsug the vatican officials,
The pope is an old man and respected
for his liberal views and conservat
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