THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, Editor
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Cure f Halt, Pa, Tavss. Feb. 11
No President ever went to his inau-
guration with more portentious storm
clouds ahead, in his own party, than
McKinley.
ered
WE, the people, want no extrava-
gant new capitol, and no job in it for
political henchmen. Raise the cry of
the public good.
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Grace M. E. Church at Harrisburg
has a debt of $18,000 hanging over it.
Of course when the legislature gets in-
to a new capitol the church will get
out of debt too.
aaa ——— — ————
MANY members of the legislature
now for the first time see the inside of
to hold their sessions in one.
ill wind that don’t blow to somebody's
good.”
SS J
Mr. McKinley's campaign utterance
about opening the mills instead of the
mints sounded very nice, but about
the only things opened since his elec-
tion are soup houses and distributing
depots for the poor.
tpt
Reading wants the new eapitol and
it wouldn't be a bad place either. Phil-
adelphia is in real earnest to have it,
and with an offer to put up the buil-|
state would vote to put it there.
lisse fn —————————
THE state capitol was never insured
until Pattison became governor who
had a $200,000 policy taken out. So
much gained, and if thieves are made
to keep their hands out of the job of
erecting a new capitol the state will
save at least a million.
smm—prl tf ——
Philadelphia will make a move to
have the new state capitol erected in
that city.
agree to vote $500,000 for this purpose,
and the business men to subscribe
$500,000, making one million. Phila-
delphia would be preferable to Harris-
burg and left to a vote of the people it
would carry.
Gov. Altgeld i is being scolded by the |
Republicans for pardoning the anarch- |
ists Schwab and Neebe. It now ap-|
pears that Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, |
whom McKinley has appointed to a|
place in his cabinet, wrote a letter to]
Altgeld strongly urging the pardon of
these anarchists.
county, was arrested on the charge of
violating the election law and put un-
der $500 bail. Pefly allowed C. B.
Buzzard to participate in the prima-|
ries of the party to which he did not)
belong. This offence has been repea-
tedly committed in our own town by
persons taking a hand in the Democra- |
tic primaries while they were mem-|
bers of the opposite party.
- egies
THe liquidating trustees of the Stan-
dard Oil company gave official notice |
on Thursday of the declaration of a]
regular quarterly dividend of 3 per et,
and an extra dividend of 7 per cent.
making a total of $10,000,000 to be paid |
out in dividends for the last quarter of |
1896. This proves the enormity of the |
wrong in the passage of the pipe line]
consumers of oil.
AM —
SBraix is now offering to do some-
thing for Cuba, give the island home
rule, providing the insurgents lay
down their arms. Spain, however,
to keep her grip on affairs in such a
way that her influence will predomi-
nate in the “home rule’ she offers
The leaders of the insurgents say they
will accept nothing short of indepen-
dence and feel confident they will
achieve that. Spain's offer comes too
late and the patriot Cubans with just
reason question the sincerity of the
Spanish government, which feels that
the Cubans can not be subdued.
A SO ATA OAR
The high officials don’t find all a bed
Viee-President-elect Hobart has re
ceived every day since his election
pomething like fifty letters begging
for money. No small share of the pe-
titions comes from churches that want
Mr. Hobart to free them from debt,
while not a few clergymen ask him to
eke out their meagre salaries with a
more or less generous contribution.
A modest young woman from New Or-
leans writes for $10,000 with which to
complete her musical edueation, and
requests to be informed by telegraph
as to the date on which the money
ill fous vet This letter fills thirty
Another girl wants $8 with
eich 10 buy a het of falas teeth. She
says both her sisters are provided with
hess oruaitonth dnd thels chance of
husbands have been much im-
pointment to Sherman’s seat in the
Benute, but the Republican state ad-
ministration and other leaders are op-
posed to Hanna. They think that
while he ran the St. Louis convention
and McKinley's campaign too, he
shall not boss the Senate. That's a
little rough on the big boss of a year's
growth, and his chances for the senate
are nil. There seem to be a dozen lit-
tle tornadoes abrewing for McKinley
in the Republican crazy-quilt party
and “the forerunner” has not taken his
seat yet—when the dance begins look
out for a h— of a time,
cM te
Much opouition be Deen practiced
by means of the Keeley cure. In the
rage prevailing a few years ago for a
general application of the Keeley cure
to eradicate inebriety the Wisconsin
ed, It has produced no astonishing
results, save that in some counties it
has increased the tax levy as high as
$30,000 and aroused a suspicion .that
the ‘‘cure’’ was being worked as a spec-
ulation. §The supreme court of the
state has ended the contention over the
application of the law by declaring it
{ unconstitutional,
yp
THe attempt to burn the court-
house at Bellefonte on last Sunday
night was, no doubt, the work of some
persons sighing for a good, fat contract
in the erection of a new which
would cost somewhere about $100,000,
running the county in debt for the
next twenty years. A similar attempt
one,
years ago by placing combustible
terial on the stair-way and
on fire.
{ There is every reason why the Coun-
| ty Commissioners should use extra pre-
cautions to thwart any future attempt
to commit such a crime. A special
watchman, iron shutters at all first.
floor windows, might be the
means of frustrating the evil plans of
fire bugs.
mna~
setting it
ete.
py
WHAT TO DO WITH HANNA.
McKinley. It goes for the saying that
he feels a profound sense of gratitude
to the man who nominated him for
President, for under the circumstances
of the times any man nominated at St,
Louis would have been elected.
far as Major McKinley's promotion
was concerned, the great thing
the nomination. Mark Hanna attend-
ed to that. To show his gratitude and
| to meet the particular ambition of Mr,
{ Hanna, Major McKinley
{all his power and influence,
i the aid of Sherman and others, to in-
Jushnell to appoint
A high ambas-
Was
has
calling in
i duce Governor
{anna to the Sepate.
sador was sent from C
bus to work on the govern«
anton to Colum-
w, the ma-
to work, and every one of the 23.508
Ohio applicants for federal appoint-
ment constituted himself a special ad-
vocate of Hanna's appointment. But
tall for no good. Governor Bushnell is
stubborn and will appoint Mr.
Hanna. He would like to go himself,
{but that is difficult to arrange,
| current reports are that the senatorial
| toga will fall on the shoulders of such
a particularly light weight as Lieuten-
| ant- (iovernor Jones, of Youngstown.
| At all events it is a general concession
| that the senate is not for Hanna un-
| less he can elect a le sgislature next fall
| that will so honor him, as the gover-
| nor's appointment lasts only until the
| legislature has the opportunity of elec-
{ tion.
are looking hopefully to the issue of
“Hanna for the senate’ in the Novem-
| ber election.
Failing to break into the senate,
talk is revived that Mr.
not
and
the
Hanna will
official or otherwise,
vision of the government,
thereby the postal department,
been kept open for some possible con-
tingency. The cabinet is well settled,
except the postoffice and law depart-
ment. Mr, Hanna is not a lawyer of
distinguished acquirements, as he has
been generally able to purchase all he
needed in that line. Therefore the
posmaster-generalship is his only op-
portunity of immediate public service
and official proximity to McKinley,
and it has been reserved to make a
place for him should the senate in-
trigue fail. Apparently it has failed,
and the national chairman will take
{ his reward in managing Uncle Sam's
mails, with an outgo and income of
nearly a hundred millions of dollars a
year and the appointment of some 75,
000 postmasters. He will have 5,000
postal employes scattered over Ohio,
and useful inspectors and route agents
galore, to help him in his fight for
next winter's legislature. Mr. For-
aker can put that in his pipe and
smoke it.—Pittsburg Post.
Weekly Weather Report.—Centre Hall
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Lowest,
19 cloudy.
17 clear,
81
On 6th at night, § in. sleet; 28 in,
rain during day, and .57 in. at night.
od thereby.
©On 8th 7 a. m. to 2p. m., 1.06 In. rain.
WOODWARD MELANGE
A Breezy Letter from the Lower Ead of the
Valley,
L. L., Weaver will take a course at a
business college this Spring.
William Troxell, of MifMlinburg,
paid the merchants a visit on Monday.
N. W. Eby says Eby's Best is the
best thing on earth to keep warm on a
cold day.
Jack Frost and old Bol had a fight
several days last week, but Jack gain-
ed the victory,
H. G. Patterson, who had been stay-
ing with his uncle, P. C, Dale, left on
| Friday for Johnstown.
Hunting for words secreted in the
| different stores provides pastime
the loafers these cold days.
John Hosterman will quit, farming
and work for Harter Bros.
mer in the lumber woods.
The protracted meeting in the Evan-
gelical church still in progress,
One seeker has found pardon.
William Harter, of the
ber Co., of Coburn, will move
D. Orndor{’s house this spring.
Walter Williams is now a full fledged
Nursery agent, having accepted an
agency for some New York firm.
Ed. Zimmerman, of Millheim, spent |
several days at this place last week, |
repairing saws on Motz Bros’ mill,
F. P. Guistwite will to his
blacksmith shop at Fiedler on March
oth. Frank leave,
From ten to fifteen teams can
be seen hauling lumber to the Milmont
box factory,
lumber job on Pine Creek.
The publie
Washington Camp No. 357, P.
A., will give an entertainment in hon-
or of Washington's Birthday, Feb,
4
The
the
which caused several ice
is
into lL.
move
Sorry to see
daily
mostly from Harter Bros,
aid
O.
school with the
On
heavy rain on Saturday caused
Pine Creek to get on a rampage,
jams between
this place and Coburn. jut no seri-
ous damage is reported.
Dr. E. BV.
lecturing on horse
Daynes, wus here
the
Horse dentistry was his sub-
on
evening.
ject which
Tuesday morning he filled the teeth of
Le ably discussed. On
a number of horses,
While ( Harter and John
were dinner the
one day last week they saw a
black bear within a few steps of them.
Wirth
100,
eating in
large
The hunters were out several days but
did not get bruin.
The Bureau of Private
Washington, D. (
Harter as special agent for Centre Co,
ith
Government should address him
bjed t
at
'. has appointed Geo,
Business,
all persons having business w the
U. 8B
at Woodward, Pa., stl
on any
whatever, Patents, Pensions, &e.
We understand that E. H. Musser,
Esq, a candidate for
the office of store keeper and gauger at
Eby's distil He i]s
for Justice of the Peace on the
lican ticket
or the other.
of this place is
lery. candidate
is
tepub-
A A
COBURN.
A Condensed Agcoant of the Happenings
the Past Week
Mrs, J. F. Garthoff
friends at Poe Mills on Tuesday.
Miss Bella Gentzel, of Belief
visiting ber friend Mis Jome Hoster-
at this place.
in the
ical church is now in progress,
“ visiting
Was
onte, is
man, for a few days,
Protracted
Evangel
meetiag
with two penitents at the altar.
R. F. Vonada, made a flying trip to
the Quaker City last week, and re
Satur
even o'clock and
The ice on the dam broke on
day evening about el
passed out without doing any damage,
Miss Emma Burd, of
came home to pay her parents a visit
days, after which she
again return.
Mrs, George W,
Ed. Gram]
few days last week visiting
this place, and Ingleby
J. W. Glasgow, and Mrs. Jas, A. |
Kooney went to Rebersburg on Satur- |
day and attended the faveral of Mrs,
William Stitzer.
Meyer Bros. bridge, which spanned
Penns Creek a short distance west |
from this place, was carried away by |
the freshet on Saturday night. |
A bran new boy made his appear- |
ancé at the home of W. I. Hosterman
on last Friday. William feels very
proud over the advent and now sings |
lulaby! lulaby!
Bellefonte has a genuine ghost story. |
80 have we. The other night shortly
after one of the young men had gone
to bed, he was roused out of his slum-
bers, by hearing the door open softly
and hearing footsteps on the floor as
one walking. He reached for histrusty
Winchester and in a grufl’ voice asked
the intruder whether he should shoot,
Not receiving a reply to his inquiries,
he made further investigations by
lighting a lamp, and to his horror no
person was in the room, and no signs
of any person being in the room, and
nosigns of any person being about,
The figure vanished into thin air,
and entirely disapeared. He claims he
was not dreaming and gives it out as
being the genuine article,
Kreamer, and Mrs
ey, of Rebersburg, spent
friends
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~A larger and better line of storm
coats no store in Centre county ever
carried than do Lewins, at Bellefonte.
The stock will be pushed out at a live
ly rate the next few weeks. Prices will
munke them ge.
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Tour to California vis Peunuylvania
Rallroad,
The next California tour of the
Pennsylvania Railroad will leave New
York and Philadelphia by special train
of Pullman palace cars February 24,
visiting the great Mammoth Cave and
stopping at New Orleans during the
Madri Gras Carnival. Four
will be allowed on the Pacific
and two days will be spent on the re-
turn trip at Colorado Springs and the
Garden of the Gods, Btops will also
be made at Salt Lake City, Denver and
Omaha. This is one of the most de-
lightful and complete tours ever plan-
weeks
Const,
OAK HALL,
Items of Interest from the Busy Town
the Valley.
up
CGieorge Kaup, of Boalsburg, visited
his uncle, Wm. Kaup at this place on
Sunday,
Wm. Benner, of Lemont,
ing at this place on Sunday.
was
for n few weeks,
Michael of
transacted business here on
J. C. Gilliland, of this place, killed
eight hogs and a beef for TI. F. Gram-
ley on Monday; he took them to Phil-
Shingletown,
Tuesday.
Beguner,
ipsburg on Tuesday.
David Campbell,
was station agent on
ned.
Tickets, including
portation, Pullman
“one double berth’, meals
carriage drives, and hotel
tions going aud return,
in
rate of $350
of Linden
Monday
Hall,
at this
railroad
accomodations
trans
place,
A lit
“on route,
tle more cider in the lower end
of town; J. C. and H. GG, can tell you
all about it.
John Bumgardner of this place, has
time; at
this writing he is slowly improving.
There will be
accomoda-
and transpor-
will;
all stations
California, be sold
from
at
on the
been on the gick list for some
preaching in the He-
formed church of Boalsburg
evening this week by
Black; we hope there may
turnout every evening.
Wy ry
Iv the court- house should be set
fire burned—removal of
county seat would Jellefonters
as badly as the talk of removal of the
Apply to ticket
Agent, 1196 Broadway,
Ww. Boyd,
Agent,
agents, Tourist
New York, or
Assistant General Pass-
Broad Street Station,
every
A. A.
a full
tev.
be
Wc fp
Hanna won't accept a Pp lace in the
cabinet and they will not
Senatorship. Now the
begin his fight for
the Benate two years
+ and Ohio will be red hot with a
Republican fight—the President
and Hanna on one side, and Foraker,
jushnell and other leaders on the oth-
er There every of
rough sailing the agent
in the outstart,
written McKinley
can not accept the seat offered
cabinet as Att The
now still has unfilled
Why don’t the president-elect
land his throw-net right in the
he
ican
sit in cabinet chairs?
would kick
give him the
mushroom
and be the
Beare
a
full term in
Harrrisburg. Pleasant
town, Puddentown, and
busy places would put in
the county seat.
Gap,
few
offer |
new a
an
side, is
prospect
for advance For Sale.
of prosperity”
Judge Gof
that he
the
cabinet
The Harpster property now
pied by D. J. Meyer, will be offered at
private it desirably
and has good dwelling
other
along with a large buil
pled by A. lL
The property will be
Address
JOHN 8B. HARPSTER,
Btepheson Bt. Freeport,
has
sale, is located,
General.
three
house, stable
and necessary outbuildings
holes, ding
heart
where “WOOP
balf dozen Republ
of Bellefonte can in offered &
to
em
slore,
statesmen a bargain,
Not ane of
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But HOW OW CAn W
OUTSEIVES §
an eve r-expanding
native mon
JCTPWEAT Has
We
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and Northern Central Railway.
Thue Table, 1 effect Nov, 15, 1806
THAINE LEAVE MONTAKNDOR, EABTWARD
941 a.m Train 14. (Dally except Bunday
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wut 7.15 p.m. Parlor car through to Philadel
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altimore,
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