The VOL. LXX. : WASHINGTON LETTER, | wowermwonmrssee | | The national banks of this country | A Now Law that is Making a Certain Class Ln RECEIPTS LESS THAN UNDER THE | now hold about $160,000,000 over and | |THE CENTRE HALL POST OFFICE | trability of these forests on foot, ow- | WILSON TATIFF LAW. above the sum required by law asa le-| One of the laws enacted by the last FIGHT SETTLED ing to brush and bushes, all green and | SR | gal reserve. This same condition of | Legislature is directed against that | : | growing in tangled jungle, is caused | A Salt Wrought Agtinst the Postmaster |, firs undoubtedly exists in the sav-|class of persons who make a practice | —.. | by the comparative immunity of this General to Prevent His Removal, {ings banks, the trust companies and | of getting into debt and then letting | Ovugrusimat | country from the scourge of forest fires. | |other banking institutions through | their creditors whistle for their mon- | This is due to a phenominal dampness . | the States of the Union. In 1804 they | ey, finding safety in the ruses that | {of the climate: it rains, rains and] WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Such a hub- | qq deposits to the amount of $1,747, | have served them well for many years. | drizzles here two-thirds of the time. bub has been raised about the con- 000,000. In 1896 this snm had increased Chief among these ruses was the plea | The fight for the Centre Hall postof- | . Ferns how beautiful struction that should be placed upon |i, the extent of nearly $150,000,000, | that they owned nothing, all the prop- | fice is practicslly at an end, and Con-| they are !—also grow most luxuriantly Section 22 of the Dingley tarift law, |g, 4 there is no doubt that the figures erty that seemingly was their own in | gressman Arnold has sent to the De-| and even abundantly upon the fallen. imposing discriminating duties, which | for 1897 will show a further upward | reality belonging to relatives, usually | | rotting tree trunks and even into the was amended by the conference com- |, vement. i | D. Brisbin be awarded the plum. | living arboreal boughs, and green mos- Democratic | mittee in a way alleged to be more or | | which had escaped the notice of the | ses form great clublike masses on the 1897. _NO, 3 GIVES THE CREDITOR A SHOW, Its Hain and Plague of Mosquitos | | Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest from Everywhere. LOCAL ITEMS, RISBIN LANDS THE GAME, | “iste ots wee vineue oo eee { where here, and the practical impene- of Dendbents Cry out In Anger. Wednesday was the third hot day this week. We need rain ; the ground is dry and the dusty. Arnold Recommends B. D Postmaster, and the Agony Is Over, Without Cause Appointment of Hirishin for Pie-nic week being near everybody predicts rain. Weather opened up this week hot as -oh, any time this summer, We 200 tents for next week's pic-nic, see it announced there will be partment the recommendation that B. farmers done sowing their wheat fields, wives, The discovery of the new law, Centre county are mostly One result of this enormous accuinu- I'he term of the present referred to Attorney General McKen- na for an official opinion, that Mr. McKinley has been asked to return to Washington at the earliest possible interest for the future. It is believed that we will not see again as high rates of interest as have prevailed in recent years. day or two ago, has caused them no end of mental | It is said that the Hill the ery is going up that this is no travial. all over { longer a country for an honest man to and that anarchy is ing the opinion that shall be given out by the Attorney General 000,000 a year in revenue is involved in this construction, and a possible de- | moralization of almost our entire for-| eign commerce. It is understood that | Mr. McKinley has promised to return shortly, but has set no date. Attor-| ney General McKenna, probably thinking of a reflection upon his legal ability to have the public know that this matter is to be discussed by Mr. | McKinley and his colleagues of the Csbipet, has made a public denial that | the opinion was being held back to await Mr. McKinley's return. All the same, nobody expects the opinion to be rendered until Mr. McKinley turns and approves of it. A Kentucky Democrat—John G. Woods, of Louisville—has put a por- tion of the administration on pins and | needles by bringing suit against the Postmaster General to prevent his re- moval, without cause, from a position | in the classified civil service. He tained a temporary restraining order against his removal, and the hearing was to have taken place Saturday, but | the government asked for a continu- ance of one week, and got it. The case will probably be appealed to the U. 8. Supreme Court, no matter how it may | be decided. According to advices just received, Senator Burrows has spent the entire summer in trying to smooth the way for his own return to the Senate, and in placing obstacles in the path of Gov- ernor Pingree, who thinks he would fill that Senatorial chair than Burrows does, and he is not yet] easy in his mind. Pingree has got Burrows where he has all the other Michigan Republicans—afraid of him. The Civil Service has received such an avalanche of corres- pondence from the army of would-be recruits for Uncle Sam's Civil Service, | concerning offers made to furnish in formation, for a fee, by private par-| ties, that it has issued a circular letter containing the following pointed an- nouncement: ‘No person has any in- formation of importance to applicants, | $a 3 - re- ob- much better Commission i i the merchants, contractors and bor- rowers of money. Banks give you two and three per cent on time deposits, and when you need money they charge you ten and twelve per cent., which is five and six hundred per cent. more than they al low you! Why shouldn’t you demand of the banks at least half of enormous profit they make on your money 7 one this ls ps Famine In Ireland. Ireland is threatened with a very se- vere famine again. 0- bable that be called upon during the coming winter It seems very p v i 1 the United States will to share its abundant food supplies with starving Ireland, as it has been so often in the past. that country say that the almost total failure of all kinds of crops will make the coming winter the Reports from | hardest since § = the memorable famine year of 1847. In that year, despite an expenditure people, the number who perished by | starvation and diseases, induced by in- | sufficient food, is estimated. at between | 200,000 and 800,000. If that is the | kind of winter that awaits the unhap- | py island, with Mr. Secretary Balfour for all of America's charitable instincts to exert themselves, : Perhaps some of our Centre county farmers will be called upon to contri- bute of their the starviog in Ireland. abundance to aid seems fp A - The Gold Movement at Klondike, Secretary Bliss has received a letler from Gov. Brady, of Alaska, in which he treats of the gold discoveries int territory. The steamships are passing daily loaded to the The news just says the “by reliable men, is calculated to raise | the excitement to a higher pitch. The | hat | says that | for Dyea | utmost out (rovernor, (rovernor and Skaguay ) with supplies from Klondike,” f will be all of two and Spell tons. | theory being discussed in circles where laws never before were considered oth- cat sed er than lightly and taxes no A client of Attorney W. J. Jordan ap- He said that indebted pealed to him for advice. several years a he became KO to a merchant, He could not pay the merchant secured But came to levying on the debtor's goods account and the judgment against him. when it it was shown that he owned nothing; that his store was the property of his How- ever, he kept the judgment alive and | The The creditor was foiled. demanded up that it would last week payment, creditor wel told cause a new law the old plea and was avail bye had creditors. no more enacted for Mr. Jor- last Le been ion of the protect dan examined the acts of the i2- jalature and told his client that there seemed to be no escape for him. Under the old law, when a creditor or levied on goods that were alleged to be the creditor, if he wished to dispute the declared insolvency of the debtor, was compelled to file a bond to indem- nify the sheriff for any damages bef that official could go sale. Now the burden is shift When Wwe i ahead with the | ad deblor sets 11] ui the | up i a t i levied on, the new law requires that the alleged owner shall pay costs to the sheriff amounting to four dollars 1 t the ! file framed The sherif! then mus case in and 1 of | Then | determination court, where an the debtor issue is bond is required to enter the the claim to secure the creditor. up by a jury as in any other suit It is intended to debtor in a tight in the sum of double amount for the case comes at law. ¢ P it place, fraudulent The ment that the costs be paid and that a | the require- | bond be filled, together with the pros- | pect that any fraud will be disclosed, is what is troubling the people who have resorted to trickery to escape pay - ment of their debts, Live and Let Live, f incumbent expires October 1, and the | of Mr. Brisbin be | that possession will but he until four commission before take Mr. years as postmaster under the Harri- out time, will not October 1st, drisbin served son administration, and made a good official. The patrons of the office can from He intends purchasing be assured of a good service his past record. new and up-to-date furniture and will | give the town an office such as it de- Whether it be from its present is HOTVEeS, will removed location undeter- | mined. The fight for the office was a lively one, and during the past two months the applicants did some lively hust- | ny UE. i Every Republican in the coun- ty with the least pull was put to work | to use his influence with Congressman | Arnold. To the | was not a surprise and to others it was. The Ri BOING appointment | i i PORTER was not caring a hang | It of ours beyond that the town was sup- 4 was no fight plied with a good service, and any one of the applicants we are sure would have given that had he been appoint- | ed. The post county. » stands fourth in the | The three others being pres- | idential offices, and of the fourth class Congressman Arnold has recommen- ded the appointment of Hayes Bch enk as postmaster at Howard. I Hastings Asks Heeder to Resign Tre Hast - | ing's cabinet. Secretary of the Com- | wable is reported in Gov, monwealth Reeder and Deputy Att'y | General Elkin, The Hastings and Quay said, will resign. | the fight TE iv 9 cause lies in between | eeder and Elkin Ti { ne terness between the two factions is i belonging to tl t bit- in- we Quay side, tense, Since the above was in type we see published the letter of Gov. Hastings Reeder’'s resigna- of Mr. Reeder (rovernor's re- tion, and also the letter comply with the quest. The reasons for the unpleasantness seem to be Reeder's name to the Hay- | wood bond taking £20,000 out of the | state funds to pay to henchmen who rendered no service. Further particulars leak N will out “bym-by." pl branches, A plague of the spot is the legion of mosquitos that are native to the soil. These of the forest and tracts of that abundance pests river which has made famous in letters of gore the Middle Atlantic tracts United States ; is that of the Arctic regions, for it is in are of the Eastern nay, more, the torment of the the hottest and coldest regions of the earth's sur- the of the pipers together in most powse rful orchestra. It to the head completely encased in a mosqui- tropics or true face that melodious tones little are banded is a no uncommon thing Boe human to netting, a condition which has in RE to many parts become a necessity ne- cessity extended from the face the hands. a Telegraphic News Items in is repor- ted to be stricken with the dread dis- ered. i Yellow fever showing itself In Mississippi. Ocean Bprings ared if an attempt intru- | isi f made to clear Cherokee strip of t neglected | : there are 5000 intruders. Ex-bank clerk Harry Cl the 2nd when it was looted, he having changed | abaugh, National bank of Altoons, | his books, committed sui by shooting him self. Monday is reported from all quar-| ters as having been a very warm day. | the chief, says the Democrats will carry | Richard Crocker, Tammany | 50,000 majority. | Lawrence Ledweit, a Philadelphia | drunk, ! ® hours and then died. teamster, after a fell into al sleep lasting 1 The depositors in the banking house of Gardner, Morrow & Co., of Hollidaysburg, will get about 3 | suspended ——— A ————— Linden Hall Misses Helen and Margaret Rudy, ew days Mrs. Wm. Bible and daughter Elsie, were guests at the We are safe in saying the corn crop is safe against harm from frosts now. Boob's steam whistle makes as much noise as our big cannon when fired. Mrs. E. J. McKee died at her home near Salona, Sunday morning, aged 67 Years, al forms us, The new United Evang. church, Linden Hall, Rev. Rhodes in is now begun. by Rev. Presbyterian church, the next Christ ‘t ville NEV Ices ine in piace, Sabbath forenoon. Dr. Emerick informs us there is eon- siderable sickness around, t being most- ly summer complaints, Pittsburg Republicans intend to run independent reasurer AYE From no portion of the coun f i tv hav 4 Tid Ol i 4 from any part of the state. Mrs. Odenkirk bh new and substantial board walk placed a good alo Crop Martha as had a down in front of her premise Congress 1 nan Arnold has recommen- fellow citizen, D. B. ded our next-door entrehall. The very abundant croj and price y of peaches ¢ in this county and state hie pe 1 ave ail Over, ught down t OW, quit John Bike, a native Aasronsburg, A lied x 4 LN many years a resident o latter part 1 at Orangeville, 111, week. i igh up to Monday. uesday was also rain to keep it from the sun heat. | board, Centre Hall recommended. war boro’ to the principalship of the He is well The Reporter office will be open day ACCOM MO to dation of persons who wish and pay dues may their name be legion. What's the i 3 ) dike, ric 3 made recently in Wait gold too, Klon- sinoe have been y¢ earth. Centre wreck in kill 1000, Wm. J. Bryan was on a which a dozen passengers were near Emporia, Ks., Tuesday, but es eaped and was one of the most ener- getic rescuers. Ask your friends in the west to sub- scribe for the Reporter, it gives all the home news and will save you much postage and letter writing, and will serve to make your friends think of you each week. concerning examinations which can- | Rich finds have been made well on the not be obtained without cost from the | sides of the mountains, and the old Commission. All claims to the saying that ‘gold is where you find it, trary, therefore, misrepresenta- | and silver runs in veins,’ seems to be tions."’ A The receipts of the government for | servative estimate is that there are the month of August, under the Ding- | 500 men at Skaguay and along the — Oregon has hit upon a new expedi- It requires a great deal of High License, Surely, | cheek to | request free notices from a newspaper | | for a money-making scheme (which printing should be paid for) and then send job-work to outside offices that do | nothing for your neighborhood. This is a complaint with many bpewspaper { home of George Bwab one day last | week. Every | | man who drinks is obliged to take out | a license costing five dollars a year and con- i ; 261) . : i i ent to keep her citizens sober, Miss Carrie Rover, a bright young lady of Centre Hill, was visiting friends | | in our community on Friday last. {unless armed with this document he | For the past week Mrs. Henry Zeig- { cannot be served with liquor at any s88- | jor has been very low with asthma, are l emphasized in that district. con- The gold watch noticed last week in the Reporter as found by Mr. Ar- a few ley tarift law, were $6,531 582 less than | trail on the White Pasa, But the receipts for August, 1596, under | the Wilson tariff law. It may be that | the claims of the Republicans as tothe | revenue-producing qualities of the Dingley tariff will be realized at some- | time in the future, but the above fig- | way from being realized. confident they are of carrying Ohio by colonizing voters there from West Vir- ginia and other adjacent states. The Democrats are fully aware of what is being done in that line, and Boss Han- na’s henchmen will find it much eas- jer to carry men into Ohio and give them temporary work than it will be to register and vote them. The Spanish Minister is still keep- ing the revenue cutters of the U.S. Government busy hunting for Cuban filibusters, He informed Secretary Gage that the filibusters had abandon- doned Florida as a starting point and were preparing to send several expedi- tions from the Carolina coast, and Sec- retary Gage obediently issued an order to the commanders of all revenue cut ters in southern waters to keep an ex- tra close watch on the Carolina coast for filibusters. This sort of work must be more or less disgusting to the offi- cers and men in our revenue marine service, but they have no choice in the the Secretary of the Treasury, even if those orders are dictated by the Span- ish Minister. Weekly Wenther Report Centre Hall only have gone over this pass with their supplies, and only a small per Some parties are dividing, and will try to send one over with supplies, while the others will go into camp un- The men who are coming | are fine fellows, and I greatly admire | country can well be proud of such { men. They are remarkably orderly.” omnis A AAI as We trust no reader of the Reporter is troubled with cancer so as not to have | his stomach shocked with a new cure | for the disease—eating lizards. | An Austrian priest named Gentillini claims to have discovered a certain cure for cancer by means of eating lizards. By this extraordinary reme- dy he is said to have already cured | thirty patients afflicted with cancer. In this connection it may be added that recent investigation has resulted in the discovery that both toads and lizards possess beneath the surface of their skins certain secretions which constitute an extremely powerful chemical agent, so that the use of these reptiles for medicinal purposes in Chi- na and in other parts of the Orient, is not so ridiculous as was at first imag- ined. . hi 7s ResoERCE, Screven Co., Ga.—I have been subject to attacks of billous colic for several years. Chamberlain's Col- fe, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the only sure relief. It acts like a charm. One dose of it gives relief when all other remedies fail.—G. D. Sane. For sale by J. H. Ross, Lin- den Hall; 8. M. Bwartz, Tusseyville; Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and R. E. Bartholomew, Centre Hall, Eat Lizards to Care Cancer. A Atl offices, and shows that narrow minded | ces. In the past six weeks requests of | | fice to the amougt of §35 for a money- | making affair, but no thanks nor a | dime for our work. The principle of i live and let live, and pay for what you | | get, is a golden one found with all ex- | to the first degree of that which is de- | cent, neighborly and manly—with { such it is charge all you can and de { mand all you get be free of charge as far as cheek and brass permit, even un- to denying the amenities and courte- cies common to good breeding. sss A AA 5 IA About Fairs County fairs are all the go now ex- cept in old Centre and Clinton. Union county always has a No. 1 fair at Lewisburg. The Milton fair will be very attrac- tive this year. Mifflin county fair was held at Lew- istown last week. What has become of the Centre and Clinton county joint fair movement? ‘My boy came home from school one day with his hand badly lacerated and bleeding, and suffering great pain,” says Mr. E. J. Schall, with Meyer Bros’, Drug Co., Bt. Louis, Mo. “I dressed the wound, and applied Cham- berlain’s Pain Balm freely. All pain ceased, and in a remarkably short time it healed without leaving a scar. For wounds, sprains, swellings and rheu- matism I know of no medicine or pre scription equal to it. 1 consider it a household necessity.” The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by J. H. Ross, Lin- den Hall; 8. M. Swartz, Tusseyvilie; loon or hotel. Every six months the license are to be published in the local authorized to drink. This is certainly a unique plan and somewhat startling. ~~ the ~~ Too Many Horses Wild horses have become so much of | a nuisance in Northern Arizona that | Attorney General Frazier has been asked if ther may vot legally slaughtered. That vicinity has been overrun by several bands, hundreds in be | anyone. They have rapidly increased in number and have become wilder than deer and vicious as well. Centre county horse dealers might take to Arizona and find it a regular Klondike for horse flesh. Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses were issued during the past week: Charles Winslow and Emma Strunk both of Blanchard. Temple Gi. Cruse, of Bellefonte, and Lodie E. Musser, of Millheim. Orlando Boryan and Laura B. Ging- her, of Boggs twp. Frank L. Wagner, of Boggs twp, E. Fannie Adams, of Milesburg. Fred R. Adams, of Philipsburg, and Sarah T. Smith, of Keystone Hill, Clearfield Co. Claudies Peters, of Union twp., and Lillie McKelvey, of Huston twp. Wm. C. Hipple, of Pine (ilenn, and Lydia Agnes Spangler, Tussey ville. Harry E. McClincey, of Boggs twp., and Elizabeth H. Cole, of Zion, Centre Co, Charles Boyer and Maggie MoGin- y, Julian, Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and R. E. Bartholomew, Centre Hall. Curtis Y. Wagner, of Benner twp d Margaret Bates, of Pine Glenn. A party composed of the following persons visited friends in Bprucetown: It is Cus but in this case Mr. Mokel and Misses Mattie and of Lemont, attended Reish of Mary and Nora Miller, Our town is making quite an im- building a new board walk, of which we are in great need. Mrs. Hafler, wife of Dr. Hafler, of Bellefonte, is visiting at the home of Daniel Hess. Leonore Heimes, of Osceola Mills, is a pleasant guest at the hospitable home of Daniel Hess, Irvin Ross and wife, of Lemont, were guests al the home of their son, J. H. Ross, merchant at this pla. Sadie Lee and friends, of Colyer, were callers at the home of her sister, Mrs. Philip Bradford on Tuesday. A Horrible Railroad Accident, Is a daily chronicle in our papers; al- #0 the death of some dear friend, who had died with consumption, whereas, if he or she had taken Otto's Cure for Throat and Lung diseases in time, life would have been rendered happier and perhaps saved. Heed the warning! If you have a cough or any affection of the Thioat and Lungs call at G. H. Long's, Spring Mills, sole agent, and get a trial bottle free. Large sizes 50c. and He. ney on the picnic ground, a few days ago, is claimed by Mr. Close, of Lin- den Hall, who lost a watch on the pic- nic ground a year ago. A New Jersey court has decided the man car without paying extra until provided with a seat in some other car. It is to be hoped the decision will have a general application. Farmers inform us that the yield of wheat, per acre, has not been as large for many years as this year, running from 20 to 30 bushels to the acre. In recent years it had been averaging 12 to 15 bushels to the acre. The cider presses and steam thresh- ers are in operation over the county ; the first will not have their usual amount of squeezing to do on account of a not abundant apple crop ; the trav- eling threshers, on the other hand, are having a harvest of work. Next week will be a lively one in this burg ; the picnic will draw hith- er crowds of comers to see and be seen, lads and lasses, peanut venders, small beer and candy venders, fakirs, and suck-you-ins ; implement exhibitors, merchants, and the rest. Sunday is set apart for religious services. The boro’ interest tax, only due this fall, was unlawfully collected last fall, one year in advance and before the bonds were issued !| It will be illegal to collect an interest tax on those bonds this fall—it would be doubling up the crime, a very serious thing. Look a leedle out. ¥ The hottest up in the Klondike gold region is like that we had in this sec- tion beginning of the week, but the degree of cold is almost ten times low- er than here. There summer begins with May and ends with August. The great Yukon river is now beginning to freeze up.
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