VOL. LXX. Wig
WASHINGTON LETTER
CONGRESS OPENS QUIETLY ON
TUESDAY
Houses Will
of
The Democrats in Both Op-
pose the Anpexation Hawall,
The Cuban Trouble
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.
aud Populists are not behind the
publicans in joining the general
sympathy extended to Mr. MeKintey
Re-
in
which has
come upon him through the dying ag-
onies of his mother, For the
the strong opposition the
mendations of his annual message is
held in obeyance, and the eriticism to
because of the great sorrow
Lime,
to recom-
which the message is open remains un-
spoken. In the presence of the angel
of Death, as it were, any display
partisanship would be unseemly,
of
The opening of the session of Con-
gress was, owing to the circumstauces,
quieter than the
crowds were
usual, although
there as usual.
were numerous empty seats in both
House and Senate, although the at-
tendance was, on the whole, about up
to the average of opening days.
Senator Daniel was warmly congrat-
ulated by his colleagues on his
caucus of the Virginia legislature.
Because it happens that all of
outspoken opponents of the annexa-
tion of Hawaii in the Senate are Dem-
ocrats it has that
drawn
been stated parity
in the
discussion of the treaty, and th
lines are to be strictly
al 3
i
for the purpose of declaring against an-
Democratic caucus is likely to be hel
nexation. There is no disposition on
the part of those Democratic Senators
who are opposing the ratification of
the treaty, to makeit a party question,
although they will do all they can
defeat the treaty,
parent to all when Senator Morgan, of
Ala., a Democrat of the
kind, is one of the foremost
0
t rock-ribbed
advocates
of the ratification of the treavy. While
the advocates of annexation are just as
confident as ever that it will be ac
plished, not of
doubis of the ravifieation of the treaty,
Ol
them
a few eX press
and believe that it will have to be done
by joint action of Congress,
of Miss,
iw
Representative Allen, who
en) Wwe Lhe reputation if
tiest man in the House says
in Mississippi, we have not, as vet, |
The
advance agent is tarrying a long time
Mr
and
been deluged with prosperity.
on his way looursection. Tupele
Allen's town) is waiting for him
will give him a brass band reception
Our people, however, are not suffering
We
Y, 8
ie,
for the necessities of li live
modestly and contented] Ng
on hog and hominy, however short we
may be on filthy lucre. We d go
much oun clipping coupons, but as the
poet well says, ‘Weare the people.”
ryt
y Dod
Senator McLaurin, of 8. C., is oppos-
ed to the Postal Savings Bank scheme,
unless material changes are made, bee
cause he thinks it would impose hard-
ships on owners of real estate, especi-
ally farm lands. He saysthat the Na-
tional Banks having no legal right to
make loans on real estate,
and savings banks are the principal
sources from which such loans are nec-
essarily obtained, and that the
tion of the Postal Savings
would drive all the idle money
the U. 8B. Treasuiy and the
Banks, leaving no
owners could
the private
opera-
Banks,
into
National
where land
money. If the
scheme be amended so that the money
deposited in the Postal Savings Bank
place
borrow
can be loaned to land owners,
McLaurin will gladly support it.
this administration credit for =o com-
mendable an action as the official
tion of the Post Office
closing the mails to all
that print advertisements offering
chances in any disguised lottery
scheme, such as missing letter words,
guessing, ete. These swindles have
ac-
Department,
newspapers
they could advertise they could always
find new victims,
Although it is always perfectly clear
that a large majority of the House are
just as strongly in favor of adopting
the Morgan resolution for the recogni-
tion of the belligerency of the Cubans,
which was adopted by the Senate at
the extra session, as they were at the
extra session, it is equally clear that
they will not do it. Czar Reed and
his lieutenants agree with the MeKin-
ley policy of waiting and will not give
the House the opportunity to vote up-
on the Morgan or any other Cuban
resolution. Thus, the country is
shown how mistaken it has been in
supposing that, under our government
the majority rules, in either or both
branches of Congress, The majority
rules all right, when allowed to vole,
but voting is only done in the House
by Czar Reed's permission, and in the
Benate voting is only done when the
{ minority consents.
The fight against Mr. McKenna has
{ probably already caused Mr, McKinley
to regret having promised to nominate
him to the U, 8. Supreme Court. It's
| growing quite hot, and the end is not
yet,
p—
80,000,000 OF GOLD
Kettles and Palls Fall at Dawson Clty
‘I find there is some excitement in
{ this country over the Klondike, but it
If I were to tell of the riches
detail ar
this
of gold.
of the Klondike in
I
would be set on fire.’
That is a statement made by H, A.
Ferguson, millionaire mine owner and
vd people
believed what BAY, country
arrived a week ago at Tacoma.
| “I do not wish to cause any excite
ment,” Ferguson continued, “but the
{gold produciion next spring will be
| simply enormous.” He estimates that
supplies at Dawson and Mines will en-
able two thousand to work this
winter,
At Dawson and Mines there
stored two to three
men
is DOW |
millions in gold. |
| Most of it is in sacks, pails and kettles,
It
before
next
in cabins along creeks and gulches,
will be
the first boats go down the river
June,
taken to Dawson just
Ferguson and MeDonald purchased
for $25,000 each, claims Nos
on Skookum
1 and 2,
Gulch, which will pro-
In
$100,- |
duce over one million dollars each.
his cabin, there, Ferguson has
{ 000, mostly in nug
{ kum
nanza Creeks, coal
pla
1s, He says Skoo-
Eldorado
a
is richer than and Bo-
gol
i and nuggets
thro
He estimates this win-
willl
being found from surface
to bed-rock.
ter's product On
first
moss
atl eo, xX INE) an
lieves boats next
summer
bring out nine to ten millions
Wn py
No Pensions for Rich Widows
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Davis, in an opinio
nj '
has enunciated the policy of the Ad-|
1st made publie
f
claims 107 pen-
ministration upon the
i
sions made by tows who already
# and setiled in-
{ Liou;
rd Wie
Os In-
that she
have properly interest
r
Wiemersiage,
ral
mersiage,
COMmes, 16 Eo
lace
Vest . p FF ~1
abmoiule owner of ol a
fantiy, was shown is the
es of
real estate
Chie
avout ig
SILUIRL4 fi
azo, and has othe
come and can pot
dent widow.
-~
Mast Bemove His Shoe.
IAV IN
His hate
One day a
Ves Was si
caused him te razor, which
fell on his foot and off his
He promptly pie
big toe,
two frag-
ments, applied them aud bound them
A fort
the bandages, he
up. nignt ater an removing
discovered to his hor-
He
110s
ror that he had made a mistake,
pi woe of
No
had put the toe in
fis
and vica versa, when he wants
to scratch his nose he has to take off
his shoe,
-
.
Shoat a White Deer
While hunting on the
last Saturday, George Lipp, of Hunt-
eraville,
mountains
Lycoming
deer.
county, shot a |
These animals are ex-|
tremely rare and this is said to be the |
first for
It was a buck about one
white SNOW.
Its skin is very valuable, Rome hunt-|
white
one shot in Pennsylvania
many years,
year old and was
as As
| ers believe that the killing of a white
deer brings bad luck.
Depositors Threaten Trouble i
Six hundred depositors in the de- |
{funct Gardner & Morrow Bank, ot |
Hollidaysburg, have called a meeting |
[to be held on Saturday, to take steps |
looking toward a righteous settlement |
of their claims against the bank. Al
| circular letter sent to depositors says |
{something may be done to expose the
| real thieves of the people's money.
—————— A A SAY oi
Blow at Widows’
Pensions,
| The house committee on invalid pen-
{sions met yesterday and took action
| that is intended to correct the alleged
| rapidly growing abuse of young wom-
jen marrying old soldiers and sailors
| for the purpose of becoming their wid-
ows and drawing a pension from the
government,
i A AI HAA 5
The Trouble Over
A prominent man in town said the
other day: “My wife bas been wearing
out her life from the effects of Dyspep-
sia, Liver Complaint and Indigestion.
Her case baffled the skill of our best
physicians. After using three pack-
ages of Bacon's Celery King for the
Nerves she is almost entirely well.”
Keep your bloud ina healthy condi
tion by the use of this great vegetable
compound. Call at G. H. Longs,
Spring Mills, sole agent, and get a tri.
al package free. Large size 60c. snd
Zo.
CALIFORNIA
{
i
!
| Personally-Conducted Tour vin Pennsylva
nin Hallroad,
America is a great country,
it is unrivaled, Its wooded
its fertile valleys, its boundless plains,
| its rugged and rocky mountains,
i
sities and its wonders, is a
to the immured
I'he Personally-
cation, a revelation
metropolitan citizen.
California under
the
Conducted Tour to
ol Pennsylvania
direction
affords
i
beauty of
will
vast variety and boundless
land,
westward
this marvelous I'he party
Pullman
Agent
travel in special
and
Mani-
Glenwood
ha, Denver, Colorado
the Gods,
Springs, and Salt La
Springs,
tou, Garden of
ke City. In Cali-
made to Montery
and the famous Hotel Del Monte,
ta Cruz, San
all-
Jose, los Angeles, San
San Bernardino,
I'he
Cintle
Diego, Riverside,
Redlands i
will return on the “Golden
1," the fine
Continent,
and Pasadena party
re.
'
tir thal crosses the
w Angeles Febru-
Fucson, E
Eighteen days will
Cia " in
leaving L
ary 2, and stopping at
s0, and St, Louis.
in California Round-trip
rate, including all necessary expense
during entire trip, §
Pp, $355 from all points
on the Pennsylvania Railroad System
of Pittsburg: $330 fre Pittsburg.
Mn
J
ply to
or itinerary and full information ap-
{ 1¢:0
t
b
or
ckel agents, address
Assistant General P
Agent, Broad Street Stati
nha
Wp
Marriage Licenses,
The
were
owing marriage HOE ISN
fgstied during the past week
Franklin Walker and Mollie E
ams, of Howard Pa.
Fulton
an i
Pa.
mes Jr
Frank 8 illie
learfield Co,
James H. Ho
lege, and I. Hie
roue,
¥Filis
iy «
W. Garbri
~~ y fier #
pring
Harry
and En
John
H. L
and M;
pr wp
Ha le
Hafer, of
-——
Ary
Meadville Votes to lay a Water Plant
Al a special election Tae
of Me edd alm
y fr
ier £
L jase Of
MOousiy for Lhe
’
Of
On sday the
$ 3
elty « Host dnaai-
i
iville w
pure
the Meadville
which
a rival water plant but must
old plant as prescribed by law if the
———
Good Positions
Next year being a very important
aiready out setting up their fences for
Attor-
Legislature
party endorsement. District
ney, Prothopotary, and
are the best positions to be filled,
Wp
Boarders,
Few
The Centre county jail is almost de-
serted as there are only three inmates
left —not including the night wateh-
Joshua Folk. After
steel cells are put up,
the new
he also will be
a ——
Who ls Out ?
Here is something to think about.
A man owed £1 and had but 75 cents,
the 75 cents for 50 cents. He met a
friend and sold him the pawn ticket
calling for 75 cents for 50 cents.
thus had two 50 cent pieces, £1 in fact,
with which he paid his debt. Was
rp nM
Waynesboro, Misa. Times, has,
by giving it Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. She looks upon this remedy
as a household necessity and believes
that no better medicine has ever heen
put in bottles. There are many thous
ands of mothers in this broad land,
who are of the same opinion, It isthe
only remedy that can always be de-
pended upon as a preventive and cure
for croup. The 25 and 50 cent bottles
are for sale by J. H. Ross, Linden
Hall, 8. M., Swartz, Tusseyville, F. A.
Carson, Potters Mills, and H. F. Ross-
man, Spring Mill.
cnet eis stints sn
~The
largest assortment of Fall
clothing ever received in this county
are on display at the Philad. Branch,
Bellefonte, The price is as low as the
stock large. Hatisfaction always guar-
anteed on every da.
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES,
HUBLERSBURG.
Has Been Prepared, Prominent Speak
ers from Home and Abroad
The first at Spring Mills,
and Tuesday, Dee. 18 and 14
gram ;
Monday afternoon, 1.80. Hon. W
M. Allison, presiding officer.
Music ; prayer by Rev, RT, Fa
Address of Welcome by Prof, D. M
Woll.
ers,
Response by nk
Music,
Boil Cultivation,
one of the BI
Dr. Wm
i Frear, mt
College,
Hay Farming, George M. Boal,
tre Hall.
I (
John Gould, Ohio
General Discuss
onomy in
on of the Hay
Corn Crops, limited to five-mint
talks.
Farm Fencing and the Fence |
W. M. Grove, Centre Hill
(teneral Dixe 1ssion of the Fen
ject, limited to five-minute talks.
Monday Evening, 7.00,
Music. Query B
Graded and
County, Prof, D.
What |
Country Childrer
Music
The I {irl of to-day,
Blanche E. Meyer, Peun Hal
for the Adult
arimer’
Education Farmer
Frear.
and Finan
Smith
Book Keeping
EE
General Dis
Edu
lers, limit
the Farm,
s § §
IS8I0 OF
f
Of miion for
d to five.
Tuesday »
Music,
How to
Rebersburg
§
Brief Disc
mornin
Query 1
W
x
Cr 2 i’ slaloes, 4
man,
A usin
ving, Hon. J
fon of Dairyin
ited to five-minute talks
LO
A
Hall
Heb
Da
General
on the Farm
fie H nr. J A
B The
J
| Kel
D
Kk, J 31
Discu
limited to five-minute talk
Preservation of Manure, D
Tuesd
Music Q
spraving, C. Kei fer,
Boad Making
R.D
reneral Discuss
av adernoon, 1.50
#5
ory |
froma
Musser, |
©
vi
3 ©
fi
tion, limited to
C | Fer
1 “ie f
(Gieneral Discussion of
m
Vien
WIereia ilizgers, Dr. Frear
the
Problem, limited to five-minute tal
Ten Years’ Experience with a Silo
i Hon J hin (Gould.
Questions upon Silage and the Silo
| answered by Mr. Gould.
The Farmers’
ward.
Tuesday evening, 7.00. Ladies’ Ses-
Music. Query Box.
A Model Country Home, Miss Wini-
fred 8. Wolf, Rebersburg.
RIO,
Mes. C. P. Long,
Quality and Preparation of Food,
Mrs. W. H. Kreamer, Centre Hall
A short discussion of this subject,
Dr. Frear,
The Yard
| Allison, Rising Springs.
The Care of the Sick. Mrs.
{ Royer, Rising Springs.
‘ising Springs,
by
and Garden, Miss Mabel
ardson, Ri ing Springs.
Hon. W. M. Allison, chairman Gen.
1 eral loeal committee,
program committee, J,
{ Condo, chairman hall committee,
chairman
J.
|
| ting committee,
{ man reception committee.
Hubleraburg loastitate
Wednesday afternoon, 15th, 1:30,
President, Jacob Dunkle. Music
Prayer by Rev. W. K. Diehl
Address of Welcome, Rev, Jas W.
| Runkle. Response, One of the State
speakers,
Commercial Fertilizers, J. W. Lee,
Hublersburg.
Fertility, Dr. Frear. A general dis.
cussion of fertilizers, limited to five
minute talks.
Who is the Farmer's Neighbor?
Hon. John Gould, Ohio.
Wednesday evening, 7.
Recitation, “What They Teli Us,"
Miss Grace Markle.
Are Parents Taking the Interest
They Should in Our Schools? A. A.
Pletcher, Nittany,
Education for the Adult Farmer, Dr.
Frear,
Music. Recitation, “The Biogie
Head of Wheat,” Miss Helen J. Beck,
Nittany.
Bome Facts and Figures About
Country Behools, John H. Beck,
tany.
our
Nit-
topie.
Thursday morning, 9.
Music. Query Box.*
Feonomy in Corn Culture,
Gould.
Hon. J.
Leguminous crops in our Rotation,
| Dr. Frear., General five-minute talks
on corn and clover,
Proportion on the Farm, John
A.
odward,
Thursday afternoon, 1:
Muasic. Query Box.
The Fence Problem,
| Nittany,
Al,
WwW. E
ha (Te
Shaffer
Creneral five-minute talks on fences,
' LOCAL ITEMS,
| —
| Callings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
| John Luse moved into his new house
last week.
| Weather has changed to springlike ;
{ roads muddy. 4
{ Uber, the murderer, was hanged b
| ¥
|a mob in Nevada,
The Germans have defeated the Chi-
{nese in a little battle,
The
[sUb-commitiee
pension bill as re by the
1
sported
runs to $141 4 850,
killed
Mills
| & hog that dressed 490 pounds,
Isane Bmith, of Farmers
lurkeys, we hear, are
Lhe
goml price |
Be
that dressed 575.
| to beat that,
market,
nj. Btover, of Haines, killed/a no
I'l are not
Jere
fan Agricultural Paper, read by Mrs,
3. Gindiser,
Ten Years Experience with
uy Jol
a Silo
in Gould, Questions answered
Y EAle,
The Lucky Horse Shoe, Miss Mary
| Genizel,
Thu
.
N
or
reday evening
fusie,
wintry
y 1300,
Ladies Bession.
“
Life, Mrs I
Prayer.
Home
7
»,
iherger,
Recitation, “The Old and the New
Way,” Mrs. James W. Runkle.
Music,
Meat
Flour
et, Dr. Frear.
Home
and its
Notes
and Bread, Some Points
Cooking,
on Di-
Adoroment,
Music,
onditions o
Mrs. H.
Kate
anitary(
= MN McCormi
In
dmission
ited
A Aas
Unmallable Matter
Assistant Postmaster Mer-
General
* to write upon third
ASK Mall matier or
write
Wy -
No Soalp Premiums,
and after December 15tl
munly commissioners
refuse payment of
all scal
» words as well &
Thievery at Snow Shoe,
Charles Lion, of Snow Shoe, was ar-
nies
nie Saturday afternoon
for tne larceny of §80, a shirt, a pair of
i
cufl from
Noow
buttons and a set of studs
{James Burns, a merchant at
Fs ont
shoe,
before
io
He waa given a hearing
squire Keichline and committed
jail.
i ——
Paid for Their Sport
Two Williamsport men a few days
ago pmid $20 90 in fines and
raffl« turkeys and
that The chief
police gives notice that raffies or any
other games of chance will go
Williamsport,
for
Coats
conducting a for
chickens in city. of
not in
sts fs Mf i
A Veterans Back Pay.
Fight years ago Mr. W. A. Tobias,
of Millheim, a veteran of the late war,
{ made his first application for a pen-
The peosion was at last grant
ed last week, and he received his check
He
sion,
| for $548.33 back pay on Tuesday.
will draw $10 per month hereafier.
i ————
GRAIN AND CATTLE MARKET,
| Philadelphia, Dec. 8.—~Wheat, con-
| tract, December, 08 3-4407c.
i Corn, No. £ mixed, December and
{ January, 32. 14432.1-20,
| Oats, No. 2 white,
! January, 28 53-4420 1-4c.
| Butter, fancy western creamery, 24c ;
{do Pennsylvania and western prints,
260.
Lge, fresh nearby, 2
23.
East Liberty Live Stock.—Dec. 8.
{ Cattle, prime, $47544 80; common,
| $3.2543.60 ; bulls, stags and cows, $2&
| 3.60.
Hogs, prime mediums, best Yorkers
and pigs, $3.4063.45 ; heavy, $3.3543.65;
roughs $243.
Sheep, choice, $1 5044 65 ; common,
$343.05 ; cholee lambs, §6 7045.90 ; com-
mon to good lambs, $4 5085.50,
Veal calves, $6 5047.00,
oO
-
December and
; do. western
TOCURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Fase Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Drugyiets refund the mouey if it fails to Pure. Be
a hu
nter has been
{ arrested a deer out of
| 803
|
|
}
vig
n.
Wolf
| A. Boozer, shipped a car loa
toother to
& Crawford this week
load ©
Ws
Tuesday
snowing, but
does
ise on
displaying
looking
ores and
iIRe Dus)
resident
nsjority in
A large
£8 Own
week,
i
ther of
seeming
Catharine Esterline wife of Samud
died last
She is survived
two
Esterline, ne (sreenburr,
ar
Wednesday morning.
by her bh 3s
usband, three s and
His
daughters,
Gn Friday afternoon Prof. Sayder's
grammar school will debate this ques-
tion, “Resolved, that Pennsylvania
has produced greater men t
other state.”
pan any
There are twelve students from Cen-
tre county attending the Lock Haven
Fi
1 for |
for 1
State Normal school, ve free schol
arships were provide the Cen-
tre Democrat,
iy
£
=
The grangers are still
ang the
fth favorable weather and
their new
of town oe
site the pic-nic ground, 5
The Latheran in the Sab-
bath school roam, a few evenings ago,
was largely attended. Social chat,
brief addresses, recitation, music and
prayer occupied the hour.
The stone crusher on exhibition du
ring pie-nic. is still in the park as a
dispute, the agent claiming he sold it
to the Potter township supervisors,
which is denied by supervisor Brass.
A Paris paper regards the president's
message outrageous so far as it regards
the Cuban question, considers the mes-
sage as exhibiting a friendly feeling
between the United States and Spain.
Ed. P. Geary, esq., has been appoints.
taking
benefits o
©
busy hauling stones for
home at the lower end
sociable
to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of Harry T. Hall. Mr. Geary
is a son of Anthony Geary, formerly of
Hublersburg.
Book on Diseases of Horses, —
on diseases of horses, cattle,
dogs, hogs and poultry, mailed
addressing Humphreys’ Veteri
Specifics, cor. William & John
New York. ;
The debate in the :
mar school, on the question, “Should
the United States annex Cuba,” affie.
mative Paul Murray and Earl Flem-
ing ; negative, Grace Lee and Maybel
Keller, was decided in favor of the
by
’ ¥
young ladies. That should setile the