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
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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
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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
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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.