VOL. LXIX. BLAZING FORESTS IMMENSE DAMAGE DONE TO BER LANDS Tim Thousands of Acres of Timber Destroyed Tram Ronds and Lumber Camps Destroyed One of the fires that has visited this section fiercest mountain for years raged several days of this week and The mountains have been on fire on was always confined to one range and not allowed to spread and nicate to other ranges, on fire and with a high wind blowing ing a bare and blackened district. On Sunday the f at it The clouds of smoke rising ire was ] anda coming thunder storm. wit was high day, bl Across from Potters Mills, triet formerly occupied by E ett’s saw mill was cleaned The r 4 0a i y 1 HOWINDE le. list- 1y- all all the « M. H out, and a man by the name of Summers, living along the road near the site of the old mill had great difficulty in buildings. Michael Confer'sb at the toll gate were only hard work. The 1 burned " 1 les into the air from the tree tog fiercely that they would heat was intense, so large gangs of men fighting 3 1 } > the fire by y ' ) could scarcely stand The mountains were for a distance of abo extend Meadows down bel more, and Kulp, Ti road and | mount the h i HOUSINGS many ings. About lestroy WAS | 3 nace company. At Colyer that it was only part of neig! the farm « Report damage great, ber lan leav ing « nl \ trunks of trees rain on Monday 1 and he fl Aes, i over thi that passe put a quietus on the valley is clear of smoke o1 A Illegal Fishing. Secretary Dole of the mission, has sent a letter t den Moyer of Haven, that unless the cases of person IL; on ted before aldermen in that cit; olations of the fish laws are Cance i court, he will thet ¢ fish for stocking streams in that ity. There are two ¢ have been sent from Minty : r iisses of con olations ef law that are too rar ished ; these are illegal fishing ar ting the mountains on fire oo WA Nine Babies in Two Births Fritz Heinsnit, ble Ge livin from Fowler, Indiana, was astounded last week addi- | tion of six to his already fair-sized fam- ily. His wife presented him with a | half dozen little Heinsuits at one birth, | all lusty babies and all fair | prospect of living. Two years ago Mrs. Heinsnit gave birth to triplets, and all nine children | are living, the oldest being yet | scarcely able to talk. Of the lot | four are girls and two boys. a reputs ronan, Z a mile by an with a as Inst a — Two Brakemen Injured A disastrous wreck occurred Tues day night, last, on the Sunbury and | Lewistown division of the Pennsylva- nia railroad at Benfer near Banbury. A “double fast freight train was derailed by a broken brake rigging of a car. Fifteen cars loaded with merchandise, , and coke were demolished and the tracks torn up for nearly half a mile, ductor Dippery escaped injury. Brake- | men A. BR. Eyster and 1... C. Limes were seriously injured. Wrecking crews were quickly summoned from Lewistown and Bunbury. ——————— i io station header” cos Con- | Counterfeit Silver Dollar, An 1890 counterfeit silver dollar of geod workmanship is on the rounds. It is described as being a trifle light in weight and inferior in the milling about the edge. COUNTY DEMOCRACY Cenlrman Spangler Issues His Call for Primavies and Convention. The Democratic voters for holding the general elections gates to the County which time they Convention, may vote fit. Under of the party the election will 3 o'clock p. m ip. the open at o'clock tions if they see , and close at 7 In the the The delegates chosen it {stated time will meet in Oth, 1806, at 12 o'clock | nate Two condidates for Assembly, One gandidate for Sherifr, One candidate for Treasurer, One candidate for Register, One candidate for Recorder, Two candidates for County Commis- sioner, Two candidates for County Auditor, One candidate for Corpner, and One candidate for County Surveyor, Said delegates so chosen will also at the same time elect three conferees to the next mgressional caucus or 23th Congressional Dist- f which Centre County forms legal method of electing Centre and Clearfield counties for nomi. nating a candidate for congress in the 28th district has been received, For this opinion you furnish tl lowing facts 1st, Prior to August 11th, 1891, the rule of the party in this district, or the custom of making nominations, was by each county convention electing three conferees and these conferees nominated the candidate in joint conference 2nd. Centre and Clearfield counties, 18g1, sought to change above rule or cu tom by allowing to each county inthe district a delegate forevery five hundred, ete, democratic cast at the last presidential or gubernatorial election 3rd. This change was not | the other counties in the district. Under this state of facts I res; submit the following opinion Section 2 of the ballot ‘“‘Any clega under the rules of a political party conferees in 1e fol. in voles iaw of 158g3 pro conveution of del vides held { authorized to certify nominations repr i t i WS, | senting a political a candidate f filled i ol party CO ' from each MS i § 1898; and transact such other the interests of the party may re of de legates to is entitled, based (rovernor fratembuiryg Penns Cave Peun Hall Soring Mills Asrousburg Woodward stormstown Boajsburg Howard Jalisan Blanchard Walker Wall's Store Retwrshurg Madisonburg Fillmore Coburn Centre Hall Tussey ville Philipsburg - wo Powelton Snow Shoe Moshannon Bellefonte Pleasant Gap Bellefonte Hannah Fleming AT Port Matilda NGLER, Chairman. P, Wallace I Walker MP. CJ Cr W VV. Geo W Hazel Edward Marshall irist Alexan tor ster N PF Geo H Emerick XP James B Spangler Rush X P. John B Long " *. Richard O'Neill oe, EP, W R Haynes WP WJ Ken Spring N P, John B Yearick W H Noll Abraham Switzer 3 oS 3 snow Sh 8p Wp Hamoel Emerick Worth, A J Johnson H. 1. Jacksons, Secretary NB SPA Notice is hereby given to the demo. under the rules adopted by Centre county in 18g1, forthe reason that I am inform. ed and believe that said rule is not in egates or conferees who will represent part, should be elected by the county convention on the oth of June next, un. der the rules which obtain in this con. gressional district. I have obtained an opinion on this question from an eminent lawyer of this state, which is as follows: Harrisburg. Pa. 396, Messrs, N. B. SA ' Ea oth, 1956 Chairman Dem. Co. Com. Centre Co, and W, A. HAcorrTY, Esq. Chairman Dem. 50. Com. Clearfield Co. My DEAR Sirs: —~Vour letter of May 7th, 18¢6, asking an opinion as to the GAR DEPARTMENT OF PA Annan ¥ Redaced Rates via iwampment at Chambersburg g- in. KK, the Pennsylvania Railroad ym May ck tions on its system in Pennsylvania to | r will sell fr ciusive, excursion ti n all sta Chambersburg and return, good for re- 3» turn passage until June 5, at fare for the round trip. oa Excursion Gettysburg, will also be sol and one-half mile, distance traveled, On Sams days at one cents per - - - The Way to Get Rich The way to get rich is to trust no- | body, befriend none, keep all you get, stint yourself and everything that be- longs to you, and be the friends of no man, and have no a friend yours, cent cent, to of man héap up interest upon de- Years, be mean, miserable and or thirt spised some twenty y and riches will come to you as sure as disease, disappointment and And when pretty nearly enough wealth has been accumulated by a dis- regard of the charities of the human | heart and at the expense of every en- Joyment, death will finish the work, the heirs dance and fight over what you have left and the spirit goes— where. By all means get rich. It will pay-—the devil, death. | wo ef tls sions Mr. D. P. Davis, a prominent livery- man and merchant of Goshen, Va., has this to say on the subject of #heu- matism: ‘I take pleasure in recom- mending Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism, as I know from personal experience that it will do all that is claimed for it. A year ago this spring my brother was laid up in bed with inflammatory rheumatism and suffer- ed intensely. The first application of Chamberlains Pain Balm eased the pain and the use of one bottle com- pletely cured him. For sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, 8. M. Swartz, Tusseyville, R. E. Bartholomew, Cen- tre Hall A 4 A A TAIN It is a fortunate day for a man when he first discovers the value of Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a blood-purifier. With this medicine, he knows he has found a remedy upon which he may rely, and that his lifedong malady is at last conquered. Has cured others, will eure you, ~Subscribe for the REPORTER, $150 2 - CAPITOL NEWS MCKINLEY PAID A BIG PRICE THE A. P. A FOF The Sennte Adopted Another Cuban {eso lation, Czar Reed Has Resumed His Crown, Ww ABHINGTON, big price f A. to li McKinley or the support of the A, P Nothing less than a written pledge ve up to the principles of that or. ganization should he elected President. was obtained by a committee of nominated This be and thre sent by the Bupreme Council of the A | report back to the Council. be kept rs contained a Mi Kinley The visit i secret and t that A. committee, bu Ke tents and purposes makes him a mem r of A. P.A., Washing ing discussed by the Kinley, the was in ton ana ix mem i bers who had of the Supreme Council ’ 1 awaiting the return of their eom- mnsiderable impatience + and it is said a con- expenditure of money « the Supreme Council i rorganizati Kite, f the nst Dupont i # ary WElre was E i pre who would yw their convictions outright i bw paired, which amounted to the same It can be positively stated that offer the Pobu- 0 from i} inducement volts Aside thei there were several sire a mingle clions, ng reasons for their doing so anyway. least of which would have $ t least one important nim before Mr. Domi- who has been sought a man, and found it was after him succeed Commissioner Lochren, who has been nominated to nominated to dist- rict, got the first news of his proino- tion from a newspaper bulletin board. Gen, Dana has been nominated to sue- ceed Mr. Murphy as first Deputy Com- missioner of Pensions. He chief of a division in the office long time. Iowa, has had for many years, he can- not come out flatfooted upon any im- portant question without creating a sensation and stirring up a nest of in- terrogation points. That is just what Senator Allison's square statement in favor of the gold standard and against the free coinage of silver has done Mr, Allison has been a sort of Presi- dential candidate for twenty years and has made it a point to try to stand well with everybody in his party. His entirely unexpected declaration is tak- en to mean that he, like John Sher man, has come to the conclusion that he will never get the Presidential nom- ination of his party and that it is use- less to longer keep up the troublesome habit of dodging. The Senate has adopted another Cu- ban resolution. This time it asks the President to furnish it with the details of what has been done and what it has proposed to do towards seeing that Americans arrested by the Spanish in Cuba are not deprived of any of their treaty rights. This resolution was probably adopted more upon the Spanish than {for tion, as every Benator must rit MH known the prompt and vig the 1 taken by administrat led to the of death imposed upon ion setting aside of tl “leans by a Spanish Court | the ordering of the civil Fitz Yee instructions A has been written about prisoners tien his final week go Lo ( tuba great « { i As a matter Lions, | probably k i Cle nown eland, Becrels Lee, and it is cert { them would talk al What io {lication tio HER SPRING MILLS, ! Improvemants About Our Town On Get the Firebug The © inty commissiones authority t punishmen forests, campers which result hundreds of of timber each year, sl HOoUsa | The commissioners shoul | fort to apprehend the | forest fi The pen i under oath to ferret out ished all who willfully { have caused the { lands and to take such fires extinguished where it can x burning of timbe ssc — Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction | had consumption and that there was j no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. {ed her and she says it saved her life, | Mr. Thos. Eggers, 132 Florida St San : Discovery and in two weeks was cure ed. He is paturally thankful. stich results, of which these are sam- ples, that prove the wonderful efficacy Free trial bottles at J. Drug Store. $1.00. D. Murray's Regular sjze 50c. and i A Was Arrested. Edgar McGraw, a traveling sales man, whose home is in Carlisle, recent ly drove a horse from Newport to New Bloomfield in twenty-five minutes. The distance is six miles. He was ar- rested on a charge of cruelty and paid fines and costs amounting to $12.60 in all. TO BE iELD AT LES | | Ministe a OAK HALL, - Past Work Gathers Readers For a go on Ira C. Corman Two young men of thi i most t oo much sport with one girls on last Sabbath a week and i most tore her clothing off along publie road. James C, Gilliland iid and daughter, | this place, attended the funeral of Wil | son Gardner yesterday. Rev, G. W. Lesher, of {left for Coburn 3 Boalsburg, on Wednesday morn- ing. Edward Sel * g # rs l : ed ie on Wednesday morning for a trip of several days. James Carson, of Spring township, i candidate for sheriff, was in our town {on Wednesday. { I. W. Stuart, of State College, was jin town Tuesday. ! — — ifs is wa | For every quarter in a man’s pocket j there are a dozen uses; and to use each one in such a way as (0 derive the greatest benefit'is a question every one must solve for himeelf, We believe, however, that no better use could be made of one of these quarters than to exchange it for a bottle of Chamber. lain’s Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, a medicine that every family should be provided with, For sule by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, 8 M. Swartz, Tusseyville, R. E. Bartholo- mew, Centre Hall
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