THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, Editor FERMS, One yenr, $1.60, when paid in advance. Those in arrears subject to previous terms, $2.00 PUT YOAr, ADVERTISEMENTS, 20 cents per line for three insertions, and 5 enw per, line for each subse ghent insertion, Gther rates made made known ou application, CENTRE HALL, PA,, THURS. April 8 I'ur Pennsylvania railroad compa- ny has agreed to carry bicycles free ov- er its entire system. fc fc Now hare 8 that gold, an’ why isn't it acomin’ along? It is needed now to take the place of “53 cent dol- lars.” —t— oh Tue flood in the Mississippi last week flobded 150 tow ns, and submerged 30,000 acres of the best farming lands, The loss is enormous. cont ss am — - Greater New York will have a pop- ulation of 3 millions. If Centre Hall ohjeceting to such a tax, it is probable that they can be made to see anadvan- tage in it, Ruch a tax is not much to pay for roads in the high state of per fection demanded for bicycles, and most of the wheelmen would probably pay it gladly if assured that it will aid in putting the roads in the condition contemplated by the Hamilton bill And, indeed, since the majority of bi- cyclers are young people who pay no other taxes, it is only fair that they paying for the roads they use.—Phila. Ledger, -— fg IN discussing the tarifftax the other day, Mr. Dalzell, and Mr. Payne of New York, fell back on the old Me- Kinley sophistry. Mr. Payne, reply- ing to some observations made by Mr. Jerry Simpson of Kansas, that the con- rience of two farmers, one a resident of his district, the other a resident of Canada, across the river ; and he add- ed: { My constituent took 100 tons of hay | to. Buffalo, and sold it for $1.00 which he brought back and put into his home bank. The Canadian farmer also took 100 tons of hay to Buffalo and sold it were closer it might have been swal-| lowed too to gain another 100,000, fll clothing is advancing in price. mer pays it. tariff. voted for Me- price on account of the is a tax and those who to help monopolies. athe Tue Diogley tariff’ bill is becoming more obnoxious every day as people | get to understand it. Republicans in| all sections are displeased with it and in business circles it is creating uneas- iness, The gold Democrats who sup- ported McKinley are howling against the bill as a tariff to aid the trusts, but these are only getting what they vot- ed for with open eyes. The Dingley bill is the most unpopular measure that could have been drafted. Mt The Arbue kles the other day meta cut of half a cent a pound made a few days before by the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, which the Ameri- | can Sugar Refining Company controls, in the price of their brand of roasted | coffee. The cuts reduce the price of | both concerns to 11 cents a pound net In the coffee market, since the de-| cline, which is based on an exceeding- | ly large visible supply, began, prices; dropped 5 cents, TF - yp — Ax old and feeble woman has been | sentenced to a long tern of imprison- | ment in New York for drawing a small pension to which she was not entitled. As the case is reported, she is clearly guilty of a fraud on the Gov-| ernment, and must be punished, but | it seems singular that the dragnet of the law can catch such a small Oltend- er when so many big ones escape | Bardsley, who stole millions, only or a nominal term in prison. nto such as using, raising and lowering | a roadbed, ete, the law strictly re quires of a town council that notice of | such intention shall be published and | that property owners adjoining such | work must be personally notified. | Where such work interferes with the| approach to any property the owner | can lay in claim for damages. There] is a Penaliy for not giving such notice, More Yevoss breaking, is the news | still coming from the overflowing Mis- sissippi, with fresh disaster in the Ar- kansas and Mississippi lowlands, fer tile farm lands inundated and crops in danger. Thousands of refugees are waiting for succor. The flooded area extends into Missouri, Kentucky, Io- wa and South Dakota, and the river is still rising at Memphis and below. The President will call upon Congress to render aid. The tremendous catastrophe to the whole Mississippi Valley from the riv- er deluge seems to have reached pro- portions shuost unparalleled in previ- ous experience. From St. Paul to the delta a story of destruction, suffering and loss of life is swollen from every section. A quarter of a million people have been afflicted with most serious consequences by this visitation, and no one can easily compute the millions of dollars in present and prospective value which have been wiped out by the vast tawny flood, which in places is stated to be sixty miles in width. | The worst has probably not yet been | reached, and such levees as are already intact are likely at any hour to give way to the crevasse, { A COMPROMISE on the good roads bill now before the Legislature is fore- shadowed, and it is possible that some thing may be dove at the present ses sion in this important matter, after all. The bicyclers ase urging the Hamilton Road bill, while the farmers are oppos- ing it on the ground that it will in- crease their taxes; but this appears to be a mistake, since the author of the _ bill demonstrates that it will cost $825,881 less per year than the present unsatisfaetory system. It issaid, how- ever, that the farmers will consent to the Hamilton bill if the wheeelmen for $1,000, But he had to leave $400 { with UU nele Sam as duty (it was under | the MeKinley law), and he took home { with him but $600. This rejoinder was conclusive enough for the Republican mind to elicit ap- | plause ; but before the echoes had died out Mr. Terry, Arkansas countered with the remark of neatly The fallacy of the gentleman's cou- clusion was that it failed to take into | consideration the effect of that 40 per | cent duty on the market price. Had {it not been for that duty the price | would have been but $600 for the 100 | tous ; so that it came back to the Dem- ocratic position that the consumer pays the tax. The shot went home and the housé rang with applause, this time Democratic side. from the - Bo A SENSIBLE BALLOT LAW, House Bill No, 231, Harrisburg, provides straightforward application of the A stralian ballot system in the the cumbersome and every way tunsat- isfactory blanket ballot law now in op- eration, and it be pr | passed. The bill was prepared by | Ballot Reforma Association « vania, of which John is president, and any now pending at a simple, U- t & place of should omptly the of Pennsyl- Young will Russell who the | ple ballot will be convinced of its supe- | riority over the blanket tated by the existing law. The chief merit of the ing i away with | inite ballot, one | give a moment's se rutiny to san sheel necessi- bill now pend- is that it does an indef- number o f party grouping every columns on the candidate for each office to be voted for, and requir. ing the voter to mark every candidate lye i for whom he wishes to v No name {appears more than onee upon the bal- | lot, although all the party designations The e siniple and for each candidate are printed r directions about voting a | easily independent | voting is made just as easy ight party voting. | A bill so sensible in understood, and as stra its purpose and #0 simple in its application to the im- | portant requirement of securing a fair | vote and an honest count should com- mand the support of every member of { both branches of the Legislature, [It | is just to all parties and and { it enables each voter to declare his un- | biased choice among the candidates | presented at any election without dan- | ger of being deceived or misled. { man who can read his ballot i the names of the candidates of his i choice and those who cannot read can be assisted by some one who can. The improvement upon the existing ballot law that should be no question of its enactment. ! 1 interests, i can find advanced to final passage. Philadel phia Times. pe pc Jamped from the Window, the homes of Charfes Dan and Charles SBhawley, of Bellefonte, last night. ed until they had made rapid head- ground. The loss will amount to $150 of which about one-half is covered by insurance. the Shawley home, and when the in- mates of the house awoke they found their bedrooms a seething mass of flames. Charles Shawley and a lady inmate had a narrow escape from be ing burned to death, and it was only after great difficulty that they were fl nally rescued. Shawley saved himself by making a daring leap from an upstairs window to the ground. A fierce wind made the work of the flames short but fast, and not a single article was saved from either house. A Sn One Way to be Mappy. Is to attend to the comfort of your family. Should one catch a slight cold or cough, call on BR. E. Bartholo- mew, Centre Hall, and G. H. Long, Bpring Mills, and get a trial bottle of Otto's Cure, the great German Reme- dy free. We give it away to prove that we have a sure cure for Coughs, oo pious 81 yearon their | 8 dnitthr ary OAK HALL. Visitors Who Have Been In and Out of Town the Past Week, Mra, Stone, of this place, is on the sick list at this writing. Frank Weiland, of Linden Hall, was noticed in town Tuesday. Our friend Wagner Geiss made a short eall in our town Friday. Our farmers are busy getting the | ground ready for spring crops. There is a great deal of lumber being | shipped from this station this spring. I. C. Korman has received a car load ' of phosphate, and a large stock of fine implements. Charles McCormick and wife of near Pine Hall, were the of Dick Palmer Monday. D. C. Gingerich, of Kipple, was here calling a great many his | old friends last week, Mrs. C. W. Korman and daughter Maggie, of Buffalo Run, were visiting al D. Korman’s last week, Wm. and Clark Bellefonte, and J. A. Korman, ville, were in town last week. Miss Dora Gramly left for Bellefonte, she expects to stay with Mr. Wetzel this summer, P. 8. Dale, of Poorman, of Fillmore, have their families to this place; friends glad to or » guests on of of Mingo- Carson, near on Monday where Woodward, and Jas, moved their many are them back si again, — - Sdvertising Did ie ell ular advertis- Florida lost tf A man must be pretty covered reg in w with moss not to be a A family their child and falling to find | two days, put a twenty-f tice in the paper and the next ing they were surprised to see gator on the steps where er. down after our cent no- morn- an alli- he had dis BRUSH VALLEY, Sugar Trees, Steward Weber and home again, family ers to get their oats out first. Mrs, Willis Cole, of Prof. Hosterman’s summer opened Monday about 31 students, on rine, is going to On Monday Prof. sical normal school opened at burg; prospects are good for musical school. Miss Hattie Weber, left for the Lock Haven Monday where she will lsundry department, of work tionary shop and cigar factory Krape, we hope the robbers frighten Howard, What is the matter? again a butcher shop; they found in the brushes even prosperity not bring prosperity agent does to the same, as suggested by the gun Saturday by Hon, ly, Summer ay mountain to the bersburg, along the old py cation to another should not notify their agents of the then died ator hide gorged the ehild alive and himself. They sold the for six dollars, allig and the parents are ex- hibiting the child for fifty dollars week. of This story illustrates the advertising. ol Aol at L. C. Wetzels, Bellefonte. SPRING MILLINERY. Murs Miss C. E. OsMax, ANNAN Dixges ra whe Ma He Boob, an enl Miss Dinges is searching i New York for t rise ty $1 MOYECILICS J fA that we Mrs, tO OoDen 1t up on All i Anda n secured Don’ to call and sex iit ii Grand Opening, April 15th, 54 13 arch at ar Diemond oor west theran of Lu | If the insuranoee is not | will be void in case of fire. Wo py P Centre WASTED ock in the arties desiring Hall the price by IDQUIF OF Fortney & Walker, i 4 i | ny can receive highest atty’s, , X 3 question we ask ourselves when mar what : tells the story through the purse i OLICrs DY appreci » i {Fr art L354 : Clothing a . too : some. Boots and Shoes i Mittens will keep out the cold e them, & me We can save vou bi make the Pp § vt } our ior sal i ££, LOOR ¥ id business, it 1 1 3 nomes, oniy to be t re Our Winter Stock of sil ua A pair o have jus the thing, CO HIEeY O56 every purchase. are wel wi Rebe a in t at I 31 to i { i aut i i i ol | th | rs- | re oe On he | Lh 10t | y Ore § 0 i nr is Th: Id ne bicycles, that comes to you STANDARD OF methods make them so. 100 Branch Stores and for the $100 you pay for THE WORLD. od | GRAIN MAEKET Corrected weekly by RE PENNSYLVANIAR.R. Philadelphia & Erie R. R. Divisior and Northern Central Railway, Bartholomew, Rye Barley Time Table, 1u ¢foct Nov, : 15, 1896, Buck whed w— TEAINE LEAVE MONTANDOR, EASTWARD. 951 a. m~Train 14. (Dally except Bunday For sunbury , Willkerbarre, Hazleton, Pottsville Harrisburg and intermediate slations, arriving al Philadelphia aL 2300p. m., New York, 0.58 p m., Baltimore, 2,10 p m, Wash ington, 410p. m, connecting at Philade! phia for sil sea-sbhore points hrough passenger conches to Phila. doipita aod Baltimore, Per 100 care 0 Philsdel phn 136 p. “Train 8. (Daily except Sur nday.) For A ety Harrisburg and intermediate “las tons, arriving at Philadelphia at 6.2 p m., New York, 9. 29.1 m., Baltimore, 6 00 p. m nel 7.15 p.m ba itimore, bOA p.m ~Train 12, [Dally excep For Wilkesbarre, Hazleton, | ies fils for Harrisburg and intermediate pois ai Phil delpbia 11.15 p m,, New York deltimore 1040 p. wm. Puseoges Witkebarze and Philadelphia B0ip m.~Train 6. (Daily except Bund For sunbury, Harrisburg a: od 8ii iH Forde stations, Arriying al adelphis, 4.30 a. m, New Yorkat 7 B® Fullmen sleeping oars fom Harrisbiarg wp hil ane phia and New York iiiadeiphia MERCIER CRD renal gr A hn » HE a appa 120 po. m.~Train Harrisburg and int PRODUCE AT STORES, §4 Lard . Buouiders Hem Taliow Vit alow Hides KGIBTER'S aecounts Wastin '¥ Parlor car through wo ¥Philade NOTICE ia, and passenger conches Wo Phllsdelphis ag ud have ~THE been examined, Register's office FOLLOWING vd or the Buudey.) 3 deily sreivivg &. In. coaches WwW others lo nuywise ui is interested, and will be pre of Centre county lor confirmation on Wedoesday, the 25th day of D., is9; 1. Firet and partial socount of dor!, executor of ete isanc M. Om of Benjamin Orndorf, late deceased , ud ale Nees Neone Second and fioal account of Kate of ele, of Wm. H Miles township, dec’d. Ol in Fourth annua! statement of Jobin P ir UNtee of Wm. A. Thomas’ estate, late of fonte deceased; being thirtieth slulement of sald trust i. First and final W. A. Kerr, executors inte of Poller twp Harris, ’ 361 i $. (bally.) Vor eoinle siatious, arrl Philsdelptyn at 6.52 a. wm, New York, 9.22 wok days, 10.25 a, m. Bunday, Baltimore m, Washington, i, 8 m. Pullman siecping | cars to Fhillade iplLR and passetiger Coaches 10 Philadelphia and Be : ise In Tra Intern diate WIR, my Ne Harris, trustes | ©: Washiogt ate of Beuner | ® { ton Bunbury Vig a a Ib. 62 a. BEnnaal rin sooount of I ( ole, of Alexa { Kerr and | , nder Kerr, | 4 , Good First and partial account of B ministrator of ete, of Richard , dec'd Fi 3 ne, ad iale y IAL of Newn f The fipal scoount of John P of the estate of Christian Lows ry twp, dec'd. The first and final a of Ma imivistratrix of ete. , of Catherin i iwp , dee'd. The final ac small, execu Miles twp. dec'd First and fina executor of ete Penn twp, dec’d Turough Lh Pullman Wo Washing eiegid 1 pis oon « WESTWARDS t {Daily} Yor Erie, Du LG lnlermedisatle stations, Buffalo, and Kisgars Fal is, Al Cars io Erie and Eimirs, coschies lo Erie and Rochester, Train Dally) For Lock Haven iE, sud dail count of Ti A410 Oo i 3 EXCePL Ban- Pins Fron BULBoKy.) Pits sualions, Nlagars Vaile, 10 Kane and ter, except Bu ny erm od inte (Da) iy exeq ily for Williamsport SATE ro urg nlermedi 0 und CORCIIOE Car Ww oy Fo D ai Bochester, 5 Ugh passenger and Parion re 14 sdaministrator of Boggs twp, The seoond snd Mever, execalor o Ferguson twp % sleer decd SORT nday.) elation, soompi ang id y iH TRI NE FOR MONT ANDOR FROM EAST ARD BOUTH eaves New York 12.14 , Baltimore 4.5 Wilkestmrre, riving as Mos isgeipliia » fore 8.5 Fhiladels Harrisburg Dally Yom m a wsndon 10 em, Washing W illkestarre arei i car from CORCLEN yr ay vi Lie and Lasg ORY On New York 0.0 . oi am, Balt BEL og with Pail fi. B York 200 t WOCKUEYS 12.25 ire Bi at Montsn- ihrough pas —— more Pp m. A URG AND TYRONE RAI Daily Except Sunday, 1 } Moutatndor i5 Lewisburg " ATION | Rising Bpring / [Penn Cave Bellefonte rains leave Lowisbur J. BR. WOO Paver Agt, DERS Sort bic liroad Company Company. Room No RE ( g the Hon") ' May 3 for President on Me anday Eiecti day aud ae JAMES BR McCLU oF ICE. ~THY ANNUAL | the Cente Hall Walter Comps 7. for one President, vie Treasure tr, One Seen tary, and Sve IN tors, for Ing J OAr i the shopof RBeesman, ing May 1 between ¥ Oek Pp Hecla Park. Dunkies . BUBLERSH'G. Snydertown..., Nittany... Huston LAMAR. intondale... Krider's Fang Mackeyville,. Cedar Sp ritigs. RIOT MILL HALL. Je recy Shore. 9 i Wm oe Ti PHILA Atlantic City, NEW YORK (Vin Tamegua y election of ed thi J ens A i the i Monday even hours of 6 and LUSE BROT 5 » President | TESTA lary. RG dn i i ed hd st = LECUTOR'S NOTICE, ~ meniary on the exiate of iste of Gregg township, deceased. having beet duly gramied to the undersigned, they would respeciluily request all persons knowing {| themselves indebied 10 the estate to make im. nediate pavment, and those haviog claims anainm the same to present them duly auothenti cated for mitiement W. 0. REABICK, Centre Hall, Pa D.H REARICK, Farmers Milis, Pa. LETTERS { George P. Rear TLE ee de Be Ary Lye i (Via Phila) Poms mi Are *Daily. Week Days. 110 0a marchi-o am Sand » Philadelphia Sleeping Cars attached to Bast. bound train from Williamsport 88 11 30 pm. and West-bound from Philadelphia st 11 30 Pom. . W. GEPHART, General Superintendent. XECUTOR'S NOTICE - LETTERS TESTA. mentary on the estate of Mrs. Katharine Rishel, late of Gregg township, deceased, hav ing been duly granted to the uodersigoed, he would respectiully request all penons knowing themselves indebied to the esate to make Im mediate payment, and those haviog clams gains the same to present them duly suthenti- cated for settlement M. L. RISHEL, Executor Farmers Mills po As ErONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD, To take effect A May 25, 1806, KE ARY WAKD. > THN (G| STaTiONs. vel orm law Ar. 1108 45... mardi i = XECUTOR'S NOTICE ~LETTERS TESTA- mentary on the estate of Mrs. Mary Smith, Inte of ter township, deceased, having been daly granted to the unversigoed. he woud respectfully ent & ail i Pefuone kpowing them selves inde e to make immediate payment and Fn aa claims against the same 10 present then duly acthenticated for set tiement, MITH, Executor, marilgt Dentre Hall, Pa. p | eremme ruses STUDI cores. feovsssirond Biss ies Sate College ¥ PHSB C DIRS ABR BERR LENEGsnEs AT A A a Foon asm Sim co. FSIRABLE HOMESTEAD FOR SALE. fruit and al water; adjoins the farm west St Dunitte Hail, on the old Lewistown road leading to the ks. APR 10 of address felt 2m Centre Hall, Pa. Oh casep Sunday. *. 5. THo pub. EEE