VOL. LXIX.
URSDAY, SEPTE)
CAPITOL NEWS
UNDUE PRESSURE BROUGHT TO
BEAR UPON OFFICIALS.
Democratic OMce-Holders Coming Out for
the Ticket,—The New Ticket Will
Only Injure McKinley.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—~Not satis
fied that himself and every member of
his cabinet would oppose the regular
Democratic ticket, President Cleve-
land wants all of the other Democrat-
ie officials to do likewise, and it has
been semi-officially stated that he in-
tends to ask for the resignation of
every government official who publie-
ly supports Mr. Bryan and Sewall. It
is not likely, however, that this will
deter any official who wishes to sup-
port Bryan and Sewall from doing so.
There are few Democrats who will al-
low a few months of office holding to
stand in the way of their exercising
the right of every American, to talk
and vote for the principles he believes
in, and already several prominent of-
ficials, among them Hon. Scott Wike,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury;
Deputy Pension Commissioner Bell,
and Auditor Baldwin making
speeches for Bryan end Sewall
The Interstate Democratic Associa-
tion, of Washington, held a
Bryan and Sewall mass meeting—their
second—Saturday night, which was
presided over by Capt. William Bart-
lett, Department commander of the G
A. R. of New York, a Republican who
is supporting Bryan and silver.
Representative Sulzer, of New York, |
are
rousing
says in a letter to the Democratic Con- |
gressional “The
paign in the state is progressing quiet-
ly but energetically. It is being made
Committee: cat
labor
third electoral ticket named as we
could then find out how many Demo-
crats bolt the ticket.” While Mr,
Jones didn’t say so, it may be inferred
that the rank and file of the party, in
Maryland, as well as in other states,
will know what future use to make of
a roster of the bolting Democrats,
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McKINLEY ANDSILVER
A correspondent of the Pittsburg
Post recently addressed the following
inquiries to that paper:
“Did William McKinley cast his
vote while in Congress for the present
silver dollar? Or, did he vote favora-
ble to the silver being recognized as a
money at any time while he was a
member of Congress? If so, please
give the facts, date and record of his
voting on the silver question.”
The Post answered as follows:
“This is a sample of communications
of which we are receiving a host at the
office of the Post. We have repeated-
ly stated the facts as to Major McKin-
ley’s record on the silver question.
Major McKinley, then
first session in Congress, on the 5th of
November, 1877, voted for the bill in-
troduced by Mr. Bland, of Missouri
serving his
INSURANQE AND SILVER,
What is There In the Solicitude of the Man.
agers for Their Policy Holders ?
The champions of the gold standard
are now very much exercised at the
thought of having insurance policies
paid in cheaper money. [It is a singu-
lar circumstance that almost every ar-
gument(?) in favor of maintaining the
present monetary standard in
view the interests of those
which are in the enjoyment of excep-
The owners of fix-
ed incomes, depositors in banks, ered-
itors generally and holders of insur-
ance policies are objects of especial so-
licitude with those the
free coinage of silver, insurance
has
classes
tional advantages,
who oppose
Life
ARKANSAS’ VOICE,
FREE SILVER WAS THE ELECTION
ISSUE
The Democracs Win by Over 60,000 Major-
ity. The State Stands Pat With
Vermont,
Monday last Arkansas held her state
election for governor and a full list of
It resulted
in favor of the Democrats by one of
state and county officers,
the largest majorities ever cast in that
state, and may reach ss much as 65,000,
near double as much as given by Ver-
is usually
than the insured, |
meritorious these people may be, there |
fl
payable to persons other |
However good and |
is no equity whatever in their behal
which entitles them to be paid in
preciated dollars. In many cases the
policy comes to the payee as a mere |
bonus for which he or she has
absolutely nothing,
that the deneficiaries of such
given |
It is very true |
policies
should be fairly treated and not be de-
frauded with “cheap” money. But it |
‘Silver Dollar’ Bland--providiog for |
the free and unlimited coinage of sil-
ver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The bill!
made the dollars so coined a legal ten- |
der for the payment of all debts, pub-
lic or private. It passed the house; |
aves 164, noes 34,
“This bill went to the Senate, which
then had an anti-silver majority, and
Bland-Allison It
provided that the Government should |
2,000 000 worth |
Known as the law,
£
3
of silver bullion a
than
month, nor more |
$4,000,000 for the purpose of its |
This bill
passed both the Senate and the House,
coinage into silver dollars.
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by the clubs and by organiza-
tions, and the friends of the plain peo- |
ple generally, regardless of the attitude |
of prominent state leaders. I have]
made several trips through the state, |
and have had long talks with promi-
nent Democrats in all parts, and I be
lieve that with the proper efforts, the
state of New York can be carried this
fall. After the Convention (to
be held Sept. 17th) no doubt the cam- |
paign will assume a more enthusiastic
State
aspect, and many who are now silent
will then come to the front.”
Representative Wheeler, of Alaba-|
ma, thus sizes up the Palmer and]
Buckner ticket:
recommend it, and it will not
voters to enthusiasm. Inthe long run
it will do McKinley more harm than |
good, because it will get votes in the
north that would otherwise have gone
to the Republican candidates. In the
south, Bryan will have too big a mar-|
gin to miss the handful of votes that
will go to Palmer. The south is once |
more solid.
Mr. Robert B. Palmer, editor of the
State Register, Washiogton CC. H., |
Ohio, said while visiting Washington: |
“In my country, which is a splendid |
agricultural region, the
strong for free coinage, and it is by no |
means confined to the Democrats, |
Any number of silver clubs have been
formed and every one has in its mem- |
bership, a goodly per cent of men who
have invariably voted the Republican |
ticket. This is not heresay, for I know |
personally scores of such men. In ad-|
dition to this, Republican orators are
taking the stump for Bryan and are
doing excellent missionary work. |
Bolting sound money Democrats are |
extremely scarce with us.”
The Democrats of Washington in-
tend making the Bryan and BSewall
ratification meeting to be held on the
afternoon of the 10th inst. one of the
biggest affairs of the kind ever held at
the National capital. Arrangements
are now being made to run special ex-
eursion trains from Maryland, Virgio-
ia and West Virginia, and it will not
be surprising if Mr. Bryan shall be
greeted on that occasion by a larger
crowd than he has spoken to at any of
the places he has visited since his nom-
ination.
A letter has been received at Demo-
cratic headquarters from R. A. Wat-
kins, a prominent lawyer, of Lancas-
ter. Wis., which answers the Repubii-
can assertion that silver sentiment is
dying out in that state. Mr. Watkins
writes: “The situation in Wisconsin
is very favorable, and quite as good, if
not better, for the Democracy than it
was at this period of the campaign of
1892, when we carried the state, The
so-called silver craze is not dying out
here, our Republican friends to the
contrary notwithstanding,”
Hon, Spencer Jones, Chairman of
the Maryland State Democratic Com-
mittee, says of the outlook in that
state: “I am more and more convine
ed every day as the campaign progress
es, that Maryland will elect Bryan
and Sewall electors by a large majori-
ty. We are gaining more Republicans
than we shall loose Democrats. The
Palmer and Buckner electoral ticket,
if one is put up, will not cost Bryan a
“There isn’t much to |
stir the
feeling is
and was vetoed by President
Hayes,
thirds over the President's veto,
those to over-ride the
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and |
voting {
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law |
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Under this
resenting them, and they are legal ten- |
der for all debts, publie or private
“In William
chairman of the
form of the Republican National Con- |
vention, and reported a resolution, as |
part of that platform,
1888 McKinley
Was
committee on plat-
denouncing
dland Alli-
son silver dollar law be repealed.
“In 1890 William McKinley cham- |
pioned in the House the Sherman sil-
ver bullion purchase law providing for
the purchase of $4,000,000 worth of sil-
his predecessor, that the
the treasury notes therefore, which |
This law was
disastrous in ef-
silver legislation the
debts, public or private,
one of the most ita
fects of all the
country has had.
“This is the record of the republi
a gold platform for President.”
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Compulsory School Law, W\
The compulsory school law in Penn-
sylvania goes into effect, so far as Cen-
concerned, in a
few days, when begins, For
the information of the parents we pub.
school
it:
“Every parent, guardian or other
person having control or charge of a
child or of children between the pre
scribed ages, shall be required to send
such child or children to ja school in
which the common English branches
are taught, and they must attend
school at least sixteen weeks in each
year. For every neglect the person in
parental relation offending shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, up-
on conviction thereof before a Justice
of the Peace or Alderman, forfeit a fine
not exceeding $10, on the first convie
tion and a fine not exceeding $5 for
each subsequent conviction.”
Both Horses Died,
Peter Gramley, a farmer residing
near Rosecrans, Clinton county, lost
two horses very suddenly the other af-
ternoon. He was plowing in one of
his fields and one of the horses was
suddenly taken sick and laid down.
He went to the house of a neighbor
for assistance and when he returned to
the field the other horse was sick,
The animals both died in a short time,
———— oo ———
No Rabies Yet.
The mad dog which created such a
consternation in town last Sunday a
week ago, evidently was not mad, as
the nine days in which hydrophobia
should develop in an animal bitten by
it have passed, and everything is quiet
and serene. The dogs bitten by it are
attending to business and not paying
hem with |
is not proposed to defraud t i
the |
The
whole question is that unde
money. hub of
sent
nstantly ap- |
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conditions, with money co
How |
va Yexahla §
valuabie |
t the]
are
being paid with money more
and
HOT
If this concerned nobo
pany, the siiver men would
selves no trouble about it, b
rising measure of value concerns ever:
body, just g
weight, length and bulk would. While
the payee of an insurance policy
#8 eniargin Measures
i
is ben-
fitted by receiving money of augment-
d byl
gations
ed value, other classes are ruine
being obliged to meet their obli
in such The
tiled to much more consideration
the former, first,
sities and sufferings are
money. iatter
because their
greater
ondly, because they are much
been
af th
the first
are the victims
¥
ange «
This was the « f the
from that of gold and silver
iRary
wrong cannot be righted because a few
innocent persons might lose something
be to eve
ri
impossible
change any vicious mone law, |
inter- |
all such chang-
es injure somebody,
In considering policies of insurance |
must not |
be overlooked. While it is a very nice
“big
dollars’ this
same appreciation of money makes it
harder for the insured to pay the pre |
mium and thus keep the policy alive
It is matter of
that in seasons of monetary stringen-
¢y bundreds and thousands of persons
are unable to pay the premiums and |
are obliged to allow their policies to
lapse. They either the
amount paid in premiums or are driv-
en to the necessity of surrendering the |
original policy and taking a “paid up’ |
~dollars of
high value
common Knowledge |
lose entire
one for a mere fraction of the sum act-
ually paid in. iso- |
lated and occasional, but on the con- |
trary they make up a very considera. |
ble fraction of the total number of in-
surance policies taken out. Every |
case of the kind involves a hardship |
and a wrong, which find no compen-
sation or offset in the fact that some
widow or orphan receives payment in |
appreciated money.—National Bimet- |
allist,
Such cases are not
—
Committed Suicide,
Mrs. John Hess, of Clearfield, wife
of a grocer of that place, committed |
suicide on Monday evening by hang-
ing herself until dead. Mrs. Hess has
been in ill health for a long time and
and very despondent in mind. This
is supposed to be the cause of the rash
act. The couple had no children of
their own but had adopted two chil
dren, who, with the husband, are left
to mourn the calamity that has fallen
upon them.
AA nse —
Not Very Plenty,
Some of our hunters have been out
after squirrels since the season opened
on the Ist. They can’t ve very plenty
as no big bag has been reported and
none of the boys come home proudly
showing his game. There is an ocea-
sional crack of the gun heard down
here, but squirrel pot-pie will not add
very much weight wo the nimrods.
Reputable dealers throughout the
length, breadth and depth of our glo-
rious land fortunately keep the genu-
ine Hires Rootbeer in stock. Did you
ever try it? It is known to bea safe,
delicious, and healthful temperance
drink. It will be the great Campaign
drink for tired paraders.
MIA A A PSA,
single vote. 1 should like to see the
any attention to the rabies,
Subscribe for the REPORTER.
mont in favor of the trusts and gold-
bugs,
fair
The contest in Arkansas was a
one between Bryan and free silver and
1896.
SPRING MILLM.
Events of Importance Occurring in the Past
Week,
The Democracy in this section are
delighted with the nomination of Col,
J. L. Bpangler for Congress. The 25th
district will now be represented by an
active, thorough-going Democrat-
live man. Col. Bpangler knows the
the
tress caused by the single gold stand-
will his well-known
abilities to overthrow and the
wil
n
wants of the people; knows dis
ard, and exert
reverse
great “crime of 1873," and restore
ver Lo its legitimate and customary
usage. This valley is fully alive
the silver question, one hears it
cussed everywhere. The Republicans
are puzzled and dumbfounded, and
NO. 36
LOCAL GOBKIY,
Matters and Topies Prominently Nefore the
Citizens
Next week the pie-nie will be in full
blast ; get your sheckles ready for the
fakirs,
Our townsman, D. F. Luse, is just
now accompanied by rheumatism and
a stout staff.
Luckenbach’s gallery over Kreamer
& Bon’s store is turning out fine pho-
tographic work.
some of the board walks are holey
sweep of the white metal. Their pop-
McKinley and goldbugism. The gold- |
esult in Arkansas should |
be the test and it would show a week-
ening of the sause of silver.
The test was had and now the mo
t—Bryan |
and free silver have been endorsed by |
1
erats made a clean
The
sweep in Arkansas
a tremendous majority,
Wo fp ny
State News tems,
At
W. F
mill, he Pp ished his hand too far into al
Williamsport, Thursday,
Stahl was employed in the Star |
of Bryan,
A Centre Hill writer in the Belle- |
outle Gazette sends some hot shot at |
brother Leonard Rhone as a silverite |
el is willing to have his family hold |
y
position under the yvellowest kind of |
s Hepubliean goldbug administration. |
Pp
* $ 4 '
wition Deing Useless one
that and contrary » farmers’
i e0onomy.
daili
y Han
rth in his
On
fr
upon his
R
pamphle i
¥
i
the othe
end Ham-
favor from the
road m aking
i
hand we observe that our
iton's views meet with
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press and peapie inl gene ral.
A -
AT HECLA PARK
Big Day For the Business Men of Helle. |
fonte and Lock Haven
The business men's pie-nic at Heela
i
Was well
No
the
anne
than
Baskets {
Park, on Tuesday, us
as a large affair. Jews 5000
were in park.
a thousand |
thered around |
without number and
Ha
ground and feasted like princes. We
never knew better order to prevail.
mil, tub
other amusements were Kept up
and |
the
Bicycle races, base 1 races
entire day and evening.
J. W. Gephart, sup’t of the railroad
Ia Park one of the most attractive pla- |
A
A Tannery Burned
The tannery at Booneville, in Sugar |
Valley, was totally destroyed by fire |
and 9 o'clock
night. The tannery wasowned by H. |
A. Moyer. The is estimated at!
about $3,000 and there is no insurance
A large barn
near the tannery was on fire several
times, but was extinguished by the
8 Thursday |
joss
The burning building made a great
illumination, which was seen from
this city. The light was so great that
most people though it was caused by
the burning of a barn in Nittany Val-
ley. The origin of the fire is unknown.
~Lock Haven Republican.
ics eat san—
Great Triamph,
Instant relief and a permanent cure
by the great remedy, Otto's Cure for
Lung and Throat diseases. Why will
you irritate your throat and lungs with
a hacking cough when R. E. Barthol-
omew, of Centre Hall, and G. H. Long
of Spring Mills, sole agents will fur-
nish you a free sample bottle of this
guaranteed remedy? Its success is
simply wonderful, as your druggist
will tell you. Sample free. Large
bottles 50c. and se.
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LL A
Weekly Weather Heport,
Temperature : Highest. Lowest.
74 47
70
70
70
“8 74
i“ a 9
Last Saturday afternoon and even-
ing had .71 inches rain.
A hE
~ Young man, you will want a new
suit to attend the Grangers’ picnic
next week. Go to Lewins, Bellefonte,
and get an outfit; they have the latest
Bep
. 4
5
6
7
py-cock nonsense of 53 cent dollars, an-
and protection howls
ly waiti
ide
rth, and if possible
ig from headquarters for some
*W 10,
i
“Iright the wval-
prosperity,” but it will
This year the people
t, and not frightened at shad-
that if the
mtinues
t the farmers say
oid
ti
standard co auch
their last
somebody,
Allison, of the
mn Bros, of
I
farms
ghosts of
ie g
ill frighten
W. M.
of Allis our
turned from his
He
1 y
1008 O0On
north west,
th, and
* LRN
i commercial
ur town
ther siuggish
too
ort business ra
th
Ls Li
ey BAY.
our farmers are endeavoring
int under ordinary circum-
stances might be called a second
: 3 : first
crop
but as the was almost a
this cut had better be called sim-
in earnest
oted from 1210 1
1 with no sales,
kle, an « mploye of
From
moved to Bellef
We
(sranige picnic
mite ten days ago.
are all walling patiently ft
which opens on the
what we want is pleasant weather and
me loose change,
——
DEM. STATE CONVENTION,
The
reconvened
Democratic State Convention
t Harrisburg to-day, to
of
a
Or
ve six vacancies resigned
It
an and free silver that SBingerly and a
few other gold leaders left before the
couvention met,
The Convention strongly endorsed
Bryan and the Chicago platform and
filled the the electoral
was so strongly favorable to Bry-
vacancies on
Delegates
from part of the
state reported the cause of free silver
every
The convention has thus brought the
drm A s——
Cheap Latwarck.,
Mr. Stover, a farmer from below Aa-
rotting on the ground. He tells us
two barrels of cider with four bushels
of sweet apples for butter boiling, were
sold for $1.50,
In a trip thro the upper end of Nit-
tany valley, the other day, we noticed
the trees in all the apple orchards were
laden with fruit.
In a recent letter to the manufactur-
ers Mr. W. F. Benjamin, editor of the
Spectator, Rushford, N. Y., says: “It
may be a pleasure to you to know the
high esteem in which Chamberlain's
medicines are held by the people of
your own state, where they must be
best known. An aunt of mine, who
resides at Dexter, lowa, was about to
visit me a few years since, and before
leaving home wrote me, asking if they
were sold here, stating that if they
were not she would bring a quantity
with ber, as she did not like to be
without them.” The medicines refer-
red to are Chamberlain's Cough Rem-
edy, famous for its cures of colds and
croup; Chamberlain's Pain Balm for
rheumatism, lame back, pains in the
side and chest, and Chamberlain's Col-
ie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
bowel complaints, These medicines
have been in constant use in Iowa for
slmost a quarter of a century. The
people have learned that they are arti-
cles of great worth and merit, and uo-
equaled by any other. They are for
sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, 8,
M. Swartz, Tusseyville, and R. E. Bar-
tholomew, Centre Hall.
A AP Mb 50.
~REPORTER for the campaign 20
cents,
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enough to let the entire pic-nic drop
thro. Fix 'em up,
While attending next week's pic-nic
will afford a good opportunity to pay
arrears on Reporter,
Gosh ! but didn't lot of
the
we have a
big pie-nics this season ! but BOON
frosts will nip them.
Penns valley has had more mad dog
scares this summer than there have
been since the Reporter was founded,
1
boro has brot the Harris town-
up
fy
; prey ¥s $e F g
1p crusher to this piace to chaw
stones for |
mpro-
ving Lhe streets,
or. oty ois | Vii i3
Can all the young ladies in the land
who successfully run a bieyele just as
successfully run a kitchen ¢
important for a feller.
That's
fallns ;
some fellows seem to have a nac
We'd like to
buy the receipt and offer it
Le
kK of
ving without working.
as a premi-
int OUT sums ribers,
Mrs. Wm. Harter, of
now nigh unto 82
of Mrs.
mn
Asronsburyg.
wg
years of age, mother
Fred. Kurtz, is laid up from a
vere attack of rheumatism.
The upper end of town, the
aiong
1
HK
coming down
supplied
walter company’s works,
By the aid of dynamite Al
managed to knock off about a
his drill
hie at fs
the mounta
1OW with water fre
Krape
foot of
which is down 80 feet in a}
ny
105e
and hopes to get out the balance tan
= 4% i AiR 0e LOO,
ho 4 ro 1 3 «
“ef ither api oR nor pea hes, altho
plenty this year, have come
0 the standard of perfection of {
EL
=
is Vv
i y
ner giv-
years. Dryness of the soil
én as the cause.
At the rate front yard fences have
been removed in this place in
the past
fe :
until
unt no
Ww monti long
re of
fF = » }
i8 iL wont be
m these useless
fl. Centre Hall leas
things will
is,
To say “Penn's cave,” as many write
buth inelegant
expression
i
is and
sounds
it, incorrect.
The harsh and
should not be in the possessive case,
“Penn cave’ is proper.
The front fence to Charles Meyer's
bome has removed, opening
large yard to full view. Mrs.
Murry did likewise, so has
Shreffler, with others to follow.
Alf Krape is still at work trying to
grapple his drill down 80 feet in rock
in Colyer’'s yard. The tool seems to
be obstinate, some ten days having
been spent drilling around its sides.
It is a lamentable thing for any com-
munity to have among it such as are
continually hissing on others to strife,
trying to keep themselves hidden—
the rule, “mind your own business.’
will ever give such enough to do.
We judge next week hundreds of bi-
cyclers, male and female, will be spin-
ning back and forth throtown. Some
fellow might rake in a pile of nickles
by announcing, “Wheels checked
here.”
The ground is dry to a depth of two
and three feet ; the short rains of the
summer only serving to keep the sur
face moist to a depth of a few inches.
Springs have not been replenished and
the streams are quite low; the occa-
sional summer showers have kept up
the supply in cisterns,
That the business of our town is on
the increase is proved by there being
three licensed drays to haul goods to
and from the station, where a few
years ago one did itjall. The drays
are Lyman Smith's, Will MeClana-
than's and Capt. Bill Runkle’s. The
Reporter, we are proud to say, did
some liberal paying along with years
of effective work to secure the con-
struction of the railroad thro our val-
ley and to this town, and it is a source
of genuine pride to see the improve-
ments and prosperity that resulted all
along the line shared by those who ai-
ded as well as by those who did noth-
ing and in some instances opposed the J) :
efforts of our public spirited citizens.
Sent It to His Mother in Germany.
Mr. Jacob Esbenson, who is in the
employ of the Chicago Lumber Co., at
Des Moines, Iowa, says: “I have just
sent some medicine back to my moth-
er in the old country, that I know
from personal use to be the best medi-
cine in the world for hav-
ing used it in my family for several
years. I¢ is called Chamberlain's Pain
Balm. It always does the work.” 50
cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer,
Spring Mills, 8. M. Swarts, Tussey-
ville, and R. E. Bartholowew, Centre
Hall.
been a
Rebecca
Jerry
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