#~ CENTRE HALL, PA., THU RSDA Y', APRILgT, 1898. WASHINGTON LETTER. | FIRM DEMANDS MADE UPON THE COWARDLY SPANIARDS to Mr. Wanamaker, it says : - “If he shall he No Delay Will be S&S Slowed, and With what the Governor can do to bring Take VOL. LXXI. - NO MESSAGE UNTIL MONDAY MCKINLEY DELAYS FOR SAFETY OF AMERICANS IN HAVANA following article to La Epoca on the| WANAMAKER'S POLITICAL RACE, will doubtless get any claims he ever had to the nom- | His hysterical appeal LOCAL ITEMS, results of a war between his country , and the United States : Will it a duel in the French style, or until the first blood is shed, or a fight to the death ? In my opin-| ion neither one nor the other, If we | are defeated quickly we shall lose Cu- | An Address to Voters on the Evils of Par. | Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest ination laughed out of the field, If a bill, which has from Everywhere. be been favorably The has put forth an address, and referring | We ain't a-huntin’ trouble, But-—blegs you ' IIE comes we'll answer to the roll call of the Drums ! Drums ! Drunas : Wanamaker State Committee reported to the House, becomes a law, ex-Confederate soldiers who may here- after serve ninety days in the U. B army or navy will be ent Wait Until All Our Citizens Can Leave the Island. — Lee Asks the President to be elected will do Me itled to all the benefits provided for ex-U. =. 27, 18 ally known as the “dependent pension to Kinley Forced te» Action, War ba and probably also Porto Rico, and | 801- Lit is very likely that we shall have a stronger revolt in the Philippines and Congress Will Surely Declare War, an end the corruption which has pol May be E.osesBced for Early, diers in the act of June WH), gener- soned the If his that more will - atmosphere of the capitol, shall be followed anti-Quay Legislature, no We won't be under weather At the plekin’ o’ the plums We'll answer all together i I'o the the late war Drums ! . Drums ! that ' Drums ; { election by | WASH | is at hand, The President's war message, which NGTON, April 4-~Vengeance Lo be itis lyiug Spanish dip- serious troubles at home. act.” The bill as originally introdue- of an y { Le of the war we sink the whole Yankee is : wit | the peoplie’s money to private uses vith ’ i fleet and bombard Ch : . two or three of the Yankee ports. Will | be Wish helding of seyool lands, o | Spain ACTORS it all end there? Oh, no. The Amer-| spitals and asylums suffering for | thrashing it =O icans will not stand it, and the nation that 1861 to put more =, 000, O00 ’E ave hoenh Re . PrORS Ves. “But, suppose that at the beginning | 'nere is no more | od merely provided as an inducement wis to have been sent to Congress ye: y . heard of the diversion of | gillv-dallvi ow i Of lomats, Uncle Ww i itl ¢ tail.) for the Union veterans of y y » swday, w 0 a as — iy o tak ‘ terday, ednesday, on ple even SUCCESS Saran is going to take | to enlist for the w with Spain ar } Is niee and give It a | enlistment should not pen cormmities again been postponed, and is to be Ope Fisia : - # , long deserved at sions now being sent in on Monday, although congress want of money upon which publie of] ur hands, a Uy and dast- t1 4 "is : & 2 oh (GELEIF FIG FR VV 11, i ficials draw interest arms declared it would not wait an hour from 1865 in for private uses || ardly massac erable woald ale ranted a pension, § The Bf eal raised of attempts to plunder the res ry | destruction of oar battle i ri se ” filckion OF « szilies b 1 * {eruits, { wa » « . trial witalitv » through the iostrumentality avenged. Even McKinley is now bills X penses * ded pay rolls; of investigations which | ing him dip than soldiers, fleets, and lost neavly the same amount, will dupa Lutherans of longer than yesterday. poweriul spent $4,000,000,000 a new cl } i 1 . F (Y § * £51 {ir ff ye - 3 t . f IEW Chur If the independence of Cuba and the for commiliee ¢ of pad- | convinced that has been play- Downfall of an Empire houn other Me. for 5 Mr. payment of a good round bill of dama- | make such efforts then that, in spite lors Lically no The decay of th pretend ts corrupt pr we lices the awaiting a ad 8 of all my respect for Spanish patriot- purpose than to which reached ges can be secured from Spain without which they really control of legis s \ y ' cover up of Cinlov ank rio ism, I cannot believe that Spain will " A Kinley acknow entury, | lative action the cure the inde ps and war, then all the better, but nothing be able to stand against it. s monarch ests “If there intervention favor of Spain, 1 do not. “A fight to the death it will not be, either, because the Senate | from plomacy, Washington, word the approving in| Pl . believe % chinmber at short of this will be accepted from are those who by European powers in . JE ress : week Besiu. wi Ep pata or adopt leg - and his tion that The Queen of Spain, in a message declaration of rr. A last ic at- | Arms Americans cannot to the President, requested him to $0 existenc tempt is being the decay became with ocean between the two countries, many miles of We may lose our colonies, but Spain will conquer us holding eleme 1 t nuzzle Congress, Under Philip I. the Prolestar withhold his message until Monday. The grounded by the storm on the south-| must dest t ill ov- erth f OUr {1i8 enemy or bat there i I. 8. cruiser Cincinnati was : ..t OY vernment U. B. cruiser ih : remain. Probably that loss, though g dhs erin : x : faths jmmediately disastrous, would be a aw benefit to our sons. ern coast, yesterday. “Now can anv man of believe 1 that do what the Americans sense Our government has succeeded to the United States i 9 cannot Go to us; we Can purchasing three more war vessels in \ : E [s it not a nonsensical dream to think surope, ‘ + Of a conquest ol merican territory Spain is showing signs of backing | I am not doubling the Spaniards, but Four strong enough to sever a down. » nations ol Consul Lee has also requested the 3 i { "r he $ a tates President to withhold his message un- | from the United States, “In brief, the United States will no til Monday so as to give the American : 11 v I Kil i The reduced to this: the amount come to conquer us here, neithe to war The Yankees will p residents time to leave Havana and we go conquer them there, whole will be prevent a massacre, » pvide jnsara- We are still of the opinion there will with arms and po a my ents mn, | ts of Cuba, and starve there, now exclusively on imported food. be no war. blockade the —————— to death our that subsists OUR WAR SIDE “What will be the role of our navy To break the All plans for naval action have been | vision our army aod in order to ge Orders for Movements of the Fleets dockade in order to pro- definitely determined upon. coal for itself ; because 1 suppose Sunday, after conference with the | our ships will not come back Lo « President, Secretary Long issued the fortunate Spain, orders to naval officers in command of “That will be all. | hie tart ti i PA H bul the wore tis { is mirrored our fleets which will be put in effect Yankees may des immediately upon a declaration of The North Atlantic sq commanded by Captain W. T. hos- | or we may destroy theirs, but 3 maanitarianism + tilities, iadron, | long rua they will get the ads treacherous assassin. All other things will be mere an The privatees on either Sam p- son, now at rendezvous at Key West, | of the war. will steam immediately to Havapa, |side will amount to nothing in decid- OTe or loss 11341 HU the flying squadron, commanded by | ing where the victory shall rest. Commodore W. 5. ha i the House by headed for Porto Rico, and the Asiatic Want Another District Coa ; Vy, Our prices repre- of squadron, commanded by Commodore i Sehley, will be —— directis the Navy to ind Lroorgia, Dewey, will leave Hong Kong for the Philippine Islands. The Naval tegic Board, which bas been working for weeks in mappiog out the plan of campaign, is confident that within a document pr President's the Maine is Nira. evidence embramase<i i0-Lhe report of the | st wig § 31 bus iit . g triad body to esta Dead | naval court of fg a file in| BEADS iTY how on riet United States because the “Vitals ries | the Navy Depasrtanent, aud if not, to 'e8g! t t Wem, few days after a declaration of war the in ' cities of Havana, San Juan and Manil- la will be under the guns of fleets, movement is one alvoeated for are tailored with as much | {ranamit to the the will make a Fi ouse a copy of which, it said. will Hanna, Major Dick, Majo H. H. by the courts of this part of the t as the outside SLy je omitted evide nose. ™ “He was ry : FUCOOSS] ident says a man at as the standard Fit ins as the best mer- and strong pressure will be broug are i The French A sxabassador to the | 8. has asked the loka intao i £4 ¢ ers nleg bear to secure Lhe passage ol bill at this Who Will Strike the First Blow. , dictates, because . 1 Gen, Bovee and ate Department of — . yr ¥ 5 x Han, & good al Ho prin The shar Commodore Schley’s flying squad- Should guilty. ron is expected to strike the first blow. The earliest naval engagement, it believed, will be off the coast of Porlo Rico, with Commodore Schley’s fleet | taking the offensive against the Span- ish cruisers pow anchored in the har-| bor of San Juan and such additional vessels as may reach that point before the time for action comes. dore Schley is one of the ablest and most experienced of officers in the na- | vy. He has under him some of the best of the personnel of the navy, Cap-| tain Sampson's fleet is the largest and strongest ever assembled in our waters, | Upon it will fall the duty of reducing the defences of Havana, and, in con- junetion with the army, of capturing the island of Cuba. The Asiatic Squad- ron, commanded by Commodore Dew ey, consists of the protected cruisers Olympia, Baltimore, Raleigh and Bos- ton, and the gun boats Concord and Petral. The squadron, it is confidently be- lieved, will be able to make short work in subjugating the Phillipine Islands, whose only naval defence now consists of a few wooden gunboats. Commo- dore Dewey has reported that the har- bor of Manilla has been mined, and that the shore defences have been ma- MevMS 134] ‘ ¥ . - , ficially whether There wis any objec had his i after the interests inthe U., 8. after tion to his looking is Qo { Bpanish sul # sent Of Mpanisili sUOIeCTAs ; , : it will devolve o1 i i y 4 saturday ' 08 ire V 1 Harrisburg and Altoona, the departure of € hie Spanish minister, that “I his action is regard- or not Senato It id that if matter is dropped or pushed aside Sen- Hanns to criminal charge in the State © A AWFUL FLOOD « ed being Bellef te : ing B 3 and has been i informed here ‘ The wenersl iamsp ort retain his seat. i= sa ithe he general would be none. big 4 3 3 ‘ LAA 1 101 that the peaches are knocked out. You Can Pick Them Oat ed as being sige i feant of the intention ator 2 will bave ANSWEr a in of France to reszssio neutral inthe war, many assertions to was added toby a ca- yurts, from the grado notwithstandiz gz the contrary. it blegram from ME sd rid saying that both the French and British had tendered (Se Minister to Spain andria High School to its Commence- Thanks. FProf rincipal Commo- ; ALAMITY. ment went J. DD Meyer of § of the school. exercices today ambassadors | An illinois Town Washed Away Over 100 Woodford, U. 8. Persons Drowned offers to {or flood # after his departure broke through the levee pans. the OIRO : . i ‘ f i he § wnt by the biunotpess of his tall . a , ¢ : I i " Ohio river David Krape, of Haine atl Shaw nee- . 3 . << Care The great on the can tell t slouchy |ed by 1 woman by her hair. But eas out the prising merchant or the town by look- | {see the train or he | American interest on to 9) years, has for some from Madrid. two hot wera escaped wus and her shoe but! town, Illinois, on Sunday, and a tor- | suftering mentally, has been brought | rent of water 15 to 20. feet high, sud- E. A. the town of about Stump, near this place, to be taken care of, About the meanest exhibition of selfishness is seen in the young man | who demands the highest and purest { character in the young woman he | wishes to marry and never stops to ask { about the condition of his own charac ter, | body was literally cu +l enter. | jest of all, you can pick to the home of his son-in-law, It is supposed eilhe Few men possess the allaround com- § yoy ¢ i i mon sense ej i grment and tem pera { denly burst upon i ment needed to prevent the man who | 20 population and washed it away . | fills the positions of Secretary to the { with all the horrors of the Johnstown y | President—the zxaan who stands be- | flood. | tween the President and his callers, | Ver 100 persons were drowned. { and either makes him lots of enemies /; for additional friends—making himsel The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs, ' | a double barreled ass. Dan Lamout| sfiifred Luse died Tuesday morning, {wasone of the Few. Mr J. Addison |r 4 cold it contracted 1 * | Porter, the gentleman who now fills : a | | about three months, The funeral will | m1 i ol. Ek s | the position, not. He has made |, place today, interment newspaper, A “ _- ing at his home IRO8 Bicycles | could cross ahead of i', i gave the alarm whisfle, b Up to date wheels from $15.50 to $27.- | 00; a first- class wheel for £35.00, A | save Moyer. full supply of Repairs always on hand, a . We are head quarters for all kinds of | Paausy Irian dead repairing; old style wheels remodeled i to '98 Pattern. Vuleanizing, enamel- ing and brazing a specialty. and see us, PesNsvALLEY Bicycne Works, Boob Building, Centre Hall, Pa, beet 7 Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses i ble to stop his heavy triin in isis Death of an Infant, Pen ney ania, Bays an « gives 73 per cent, of her ; ; § - # 19g Come public school system while It was aged The Outlook April Magazine nuam- bei | ber gives the Easter season recognition . | himself the lnag hing stock of Wash-| 4.4 the cergetery here. 7 an article on “Easters and Easters,” {ington by his frantic appeal to the ed mail mli————— | by the Countess von Krockow : by a *litorof the Hartford (Conn) Courant! The Best Liniment.—“*Chamberlain’s | strong and entertaining story bySophie ud [to arouse the conservative people to| Pain Balm is the finest on earth,” | Swell, and by the usual editorial East gives but 15 per cent. P i gives twice as much as Colorado, times nas ue times as much as Nebraska, 6 as much as California and © dred times as much as Oregan minch as Michigan the support of tise President, in order terially increased within the last three weeks. The strength of the Asiatic gquadron is, however, believed to be ample for the capture of the Philli- pines, especially in view of the fact that the insurrection in the islands is still in progress, and that Spain will be subjected to a heavy fire in the rear at the time that she is meeting the na- val forces of the United States, A SPANISH FORECAST. The Leading Spanish Military Writer Fre. dicts Defeat for his Country. Senor Genaro Alas, who is consid- ered to be the leading Spanish writer were issued during the past week: Herbert 8. Smull and Iva 1. WW. of Rebersburg. Wm. H. SBinkaline and Carrie Ellie Rishel, of Gregg twp. Nelson R. Wert, of Aaronshury, aad Blanche N. Rosaman, of Penn Hall, Fred 8. Wells, of Bandy Ridge, and Crissie M. Spicer, of Milesburg W. Galer Morrison, of Bellefonte, ir ify i———————_— It is a great leap from the old fash ioned doses of Fre, lpn and nauseous physics to the pleasant little pills nown as DeWitt's Little Early Ris- ers. They cure constipation, sick on military affairs, has contributed the , headache and biliousness; for sale by Smith & Crawford. a. Squibs, Frank, a son of George Rupp, dec'd, of Aaronsburg, has offered to serve in the navy and was accepted, and ord- ered to report at Philadelphia. Judith, wife of Henry Shaffer, for- merly of Madisonburg, died at Elk- hart, Indiana, aged 65 years. All the talk around here, as else where is, Maine, Cuba and Spain and War. From all parts of the country we have reports of snows and freezing weather, and much uneasiness about the fruit crop ; peaches are believed to have been greatly injured, to prevent a mmjority of the Senators and Represents ti ves carrying out their intention to force war upon the coun- ty. Inasmucis as the constitution confers the sole muthority to make war upon a majority of Senators and Rep- resentatives, it wwould be interesting to know what posser the “conservative people,’ evexa granting that they could override t Ize constitutional pow- er of Congress. A bottle of good strong smelling salts is what Mr. J. Addison Porter needs sm grreat deal more than he does the Reputsiican nomination for Governor of Connecticut, although the Democrats of that slate would probably rejoice to see him nominated. * write Edwards & Parker, of Plains, it. For rheumatism, lame noequal. With it in the house, great deal of pain and suffering may be avoided, For sale by 8S. M. Swartz, Tusseyville; F. A. Carson, Mille; J. H. Ross, Linden Hall, and H. F. Rossman, Spring Mills, LP AS tions on larger lots, Sm Cas, D. BARTHOLOMEW, lation to a full-page reproduction of a Ferruzzi. Judge Yerkes, of Bucks county, summoned the street commissioners of the various boroughs and supervisors of the several townships to court re cently and inquired wbether or not they had complied with the law re garding the erection of index boards at cross rounds, ete. In many instances the law not been complied with and the igent officials were severe . We do not know ly reprims Whether iy of theo officials in Cen tre county fail in this duty. : 3 vn sad bu
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