DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION,
CONVENTION ON TUESDAY SE-
LECTS A WINNER
Gardner Nominated for Prothonotary, Fos.
ter and Weitzel for Assembly, snd
Spangler for District Attorney,
The Democratic county convention
was held in Bellefonte on Tuesday and
a ticket was put in the field that will
egnvinee the most hopeful Republican
that Centre county not by any
means passed from the Democratic col-
umn,
By nine o'clock when near all the
delegates had arrived, there was a con-
stant throng on the puvements in front
of the court house. The candidates
and their friends were button-holing |
the delegates and pulling wires for the
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MARINES WIN A VICTORY,
Four Hundred Spaniards Routed With a»
Loss of Forty Killed
The United States Camp, entrance
of Guantanamo bay, Tuesday, June 14,
6 p. m,, via Kingston, Jamaica, Wed-
nesday, June 15, 1040 a. m.—The
United States Marines and Cubans, to-
duy attacked the Spanish camp, situ-
ated five miles from the American en-
trenchments. They completely rout-
ed a force of 400 Spaniards, breaking
up their eamp and destroying the well
which supplied them with water.
One American was slightly wound-
ed, two Cubans were killed and four
Cubans were wounded.
The Spanish loss is believed to be
forty men killed; fifseen bodies have |
already been discovered,
Off Santiago de Cuba, on Monday |
night, the dynamite guns of the *‘Ve-
suvius' were tested with great success,
three shots were fired
fortifications and it
at the Spanish
is believed great |
landing of the plums.
Shortly before twelve the court house f
bell announced that the convention |
would be ready for business, and there
was a scramble and a rush for the en- |
trance. The court room was comfort-|
ably filled with speciators, all eager |
for the coming fray which would de- |
termine which of the candidates’ work i
for months pest had been for naught. |
At 12.10 the convention was called to |
order. Owing to the absence of Coun- |
ty chairman Hugh S. Taylor at the]
front in the war, acting chaiiman J,
Kennedy Johnston presided, announe-
ed that business would be proeead d |
with promptly. Secretary Boyd A. |
Musser read the call for the conven-|
tion, and the list delecal All}
answercd to their names with
sentec. Hammond Sechler, Belle- |
fonte, wes put in nomination for tem- |
porary chairman, and was unanimous-
ly electod. My. Sechler
to the chair and brief add re
of
wy
no ab-
of
cagorted |
d
wes
g, thank
the convention for the honor conferred |
upon him. He touched also upon the |
vital subjects of the day, and his dis-
course was frequently interrupted with
applause.
The regular order of
the election of tellers. Dr. W. A.
vin, of Julian, and A. P. Mayes,
Haines township, were elected.
business was |
of
For |
reading clerk John Dunlap, of Belle-|
fonte, was electod, Georze Bush. Belle- |
fonte, and Ira C. of Philips-|
burg, were appointed secretaries.
How Q,
On the committee on resolutions 8S, H. |
MeQuistion, Henry Hes- |
ton, Boggs: Michael Dempsey,
L. C. Yearick, Benner; Johan Smith.
Gregg; James P. Frank, Miles: and Ja- |
cob W. Meyer, Penn, were elected, A |
nt-
nto
fis
Youll
Bellefo
ror
Rush; |
committee on credentials was appoi
ed, and then the convention proceed.
ed with the work of the day, in nam-|
ing the ticket. Congress was the first
up, and Col. J. L. Spangler, of
fonte, was placed before the
unauimous
Belle- |
conven-
tion and received its
dorsement. For his conferrees were
appointed Charles RE. Kurtz, Belle-|
fonte; P. J. McDonald, Unionville, and |
A. B. Hurd, of Philipsburg.
For Senate W. C. Heinle, of Beil |
eh- }
fonte, was unanimously endorsed. His |
conferees are B. Weber, Howard: I. |
A. Bchaeffer, Bellefonte, and George
B. Haines, Rebersburg,
Two nominations for assembly were |
to be made and J. H. Welzel,
fonte; George W. Koch, Potier town- |
ship; R. M. Foster, State College, and |
A. C. Thompson, of Half Moon, were |
placed before the convention.
first ballot resulted in the election of!
Foster and Wetzell, as follows:
WABI. cisinsicnciscsinen
Koch
Foster ....cun co.
Thompson
i
i
Jello |
The |
v——ehs “on
On Prothonotary was the real fight
of the day and in which all interest
centered. M. I. Gardner, Bellefonte:
C. U. Hoffer, Philipsburg; A. A.
Pletcher, Howard; D. R. Foreman,
Potter, and H. A. McKee, Spring,
were placed before the convention.
McKee was withdrawn and five bal-
lots were necessary before a choice
could be made. The ballots were as
follows, Gardner receiving a majority
on the fifth.
i
Gardner
Hoffer...
Foreman...
Pletcher......
For District Attorney, Wm. G. Ruan-
kle and N. B. Spangler were in the
field. After being placed before the
convention Mr, Runkle in an address
that caught the convention withdrew
his name, and Spangler was elected by
acclamation.
For county surveyor, Horace B. Her-
ring, of Penn Hall, was elected by ac
clamation,
For delegates to the state conven-
tion. They are, J. M. Kepler, Pine
Grove Mills; G. L. Goodhart, Potter;
Pierce Musser, Millheim; J. C. Meyer,
Bellefonte, and Howard Hysong, of
Philipsburg.
For county chairman, J. Kenneds
Johnston, Esq., of Bellefonte, was
elected for 1809,
Hon. George A. Jenks, of Brook-
ville, received the endorsement of the
On Tuesday morning the “New Or-|
§
iH
the new emnlacements east Morro
Castle,
at
UNew
The Spaniards fired some shots
the “Vesuvius and one at the
which was struck.
a ad —
100 Dons Reported Dead
Camp McCalla
bor, June 15.
The
Orleans,”
Guantanamo Har-
scouting of marines,
parties
ed here at 10 o'clock last night with |
eighteen Spanish one of |
prisoners,
them an officer, |
The party also captured a hundred
Mauser rifles and 10,000 rounds of am- |
The report n
having had a series of «
Is, in which
gagements with Spaniar
hund
red soldiers
one
Kille
I'bey also destroyed a Spanish block
vl
gh
Spanish were
and two hundred wounded.
house and telegra throu
which the Spaniards had been kes pi
ph station,
ng
and informed
vif
il
of the moveme
Leiter's Deal ( oliapsed
1ed on Monday.
he had paper |
At noon Monday his deal
bei
nill
I'hree weeks ago
a wrofit of $4,500 000
t showed an
loss of $5,000.00. or a loss of §
about
Young Leiter
1
Le
500.000 in ul twenty-one davs
icked ti
it was too big for him.
Witt
those
did business, and had |
wit.
Leiter is prot
ing who in a speculati
ably the only
1 In
bushel in wheat. Monday
wl
¥
gold 0 cant
for
he saw advance
Accordiug to his own {
marketed cash wheat at
high as 52 cents per bushel,
When the Board of Trade session be-
gan Monday, Joseph Leiter owned
it
is esi
¥s } .
he jatter
under pressure, and the
ngs
Bank
hose
was
16,000,000 bushels
will average 30 cents per bushel, which
would aggregate £4 800,000. Other ex- |
periences incident to the deal will bring |
5
$3,000,000, and
Teo
iv.
A ———
«TANT OPINION
AN INPOI
The New State Forestry Law Handed down
by Gen. Reeder, i
The following opinion has been
handed down by Deputy Attorney |
General Reeder in a letter to Dr. J. T. |
Rothrock, commissioner of forestry as |
follows:
Replying to yours of recent date, in
which you ask, “Under the law mak-
ing constables fire wardens, is the
county liable for $500 in any one year,
or is it only $250 each one is liable for ?
I beg to say that the act of March 30,
1897 (P. L.., 79,) provides that ‘the
expenses of constables acting as fire
wardens shall be paid, one-half out of
the treasury of the respective county
and the remaining half of said expens-
es shall be paid by thie state treasurer
into the treasury of said county.” The
act further provides that no county
shall be liable to pay for this purpose
in any one year an amount exceeding
$500. The intention of the act clearly
was to make a provision that the ex-
penses incident to the discharge of du-
ties by constables acting as fire war-
dens shall be borne equally by the
slate and the respective counties. The
limit of liability for each county was
fixed at $500. .
You are advised, therefore, in ans-
wer to your question, that the inten-
tion of the act of March 30, 1897, waa
to make provision for the payment b
any county of a sum not to exceed $5
and a like sum by the state, for the ex-
ticguishment of fires and the di
of other duties imposed by the sei afore
convention for governor,
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why
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Si 11
ab
WHO PAYS THE WAR TAXES,
All Classes Must Help Foot
Big Bil
incie
1
i
The tax on beer is nominally $l a
It be $2 under
law. It is expected that
like $4,000,000 a year will be
on beer in the city of New York.
barrel, will the new
something
realized
The
LO pay or even
brewers have refused
share the additional They
that }
The retailers are not satisfied with this
ex pense,
tf
be
say the retailer must stand
plan at all, They proposed some time
{ago that the Goverpment quadruple
This,
ap
| its present excise charge, which i
le
| however
{
t
them off with that,
did meet wi
the Ways Means C
and they re Now
» CONSUL
and
not
ong
the
and
ted it.
JEM
L gel even on
f
i
He ean do it in one of two
price i
er. Ways
i glass or make
ibiers of beer
SOe PTR
cents more a dozen
but the man who
Many
the rei
I» STA
From the 10-cent
a, the Government
OOO O00 annually is
Tea will
simply i
a& po ind
#
will ha
iA
the f
Like
i
tO
bring
War ian
iatler's about $50,000 a yea:
11 vi thie
i
i wil
in
checks was §2
fevenue
The tax on bank
New York
tf
alon
24 (X¥)
sr the War Rev-
mnk capital tax,
0 (XX) a year un
From
enue |
th
a
aw
é tax on bills of exchange,
al siock and fur
and
C0 porations,
!
i
wer laxes in the financial centre,
si
Altogeilher Wal
will contribute someth ng like
realized. fod
Wh
i
$1
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES,
f
i
The tax on tobacco h been raised
12
have decided to keep up {
L
Some
3
it
to cents a pound.
» size of the
Oth-
it will be
packages and increase the price.
{
ers have concluded that
better game to let the price stay where
it is, and make the packages smaller.
The cigar tax is not a heavy one, and
the only difference it will make will be
that you don’t get as good a cigar for
the price as you used to.
The cigarette tax is £1 a thousand,
and the public will either have to pay
6 cents for a 5 cent box of ten cigar
etles, or take a box with fewer cigar-
ettes at the old price. There are over
a
in this country, and the war revenue
on them will be about $5,000,000. The
annual production of tobacco is about
400,000,000 pounds. The increased rev-
enue on this amount would be about
$24,000,000,
fn Apps
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage licenses
were issued during the past week:
Edwin M. Burd and D. E. Confer,
both of Boggs township.
Wm. Brown and Julia Darrett, both
of Boggs township.
Francis J. Carothers and Ella Os
walt, both of Sandy Ridge.
Lloyd J. Bmith and Minnie
Weight, both of Bellefonte.
Rush Quick, Snow Bhoe, and A,
Fleming, Moshannon.
Thomas C. Bartges, Centre Hall,
and Anna KE. Meyer, Tusseyville,
Wm. Adams and Virgie Wagner,
T.
E.
said of constables in the respective
counties.
both of Martha,
RSDAY, JUNE \
l wishmson Lerren. \
16, 1
SAMPSON DISPLEASED WITH
LAY IN SENDING TROOPS
DE
mn Wild Story. Clashes in Army
Circles.
Wa
It
Nampson
HINGTON, June 13
that Admiral
should have shown impatience
is not
surprising
in his
dispatches to Washington because of
the delay in sending him
He had
last week ample cause fo
the troops
rom ised, has within the
I
impatience,
too He de.
santiago and
aye, and for indignation,
r fore at
siroy eG the oul
had everything ready for troops te
ps
land, but there were no troops; he cap
}
holds
i
tured Guantanamo Bay, and still
iLjior the same purpose, but the troops
purj I
a |
ght t en there
1
i
which ou 0 hinve OO In {0
land were on wransports anchored at
Tampa, beld up by orders from Wash-
? \ \ .
ington, on account of the coek and
tory about a fleet of
at Havan
and Capiure Ln
iog
$e
Of Lhe
Hawaii,
OH BAY.
4083 Oi
Lie Ww ay.
we poli
ZAr DOW
Mr. McKin-
arain wield Lhe
bis had, The
| nexation resolution will be voled upon |
: We d nes lay
$1
{and will
5)
| al fortune of ex
and will never
1
ii
l tow u
ey, au-
| tocratic power he § an-
i of
week,
A bout
their
Sivi Noon iis
(i.
i
, Of course, be adopts
Democrats have announced
intention to vole for the
resoiution.
The fact that the 0 law
War revy
ue
wovides for the coinage of iver
hy nt
®
nent
de.
by
the |
The |
month is |
r
in '
}
the
iat the rate of £1.500.000
ition owned by overn
€
i
i month
| stroys every advanced
11
i
argument
standard
the
coined
he gold men
azniast
{coinage of sels ajorage.
amount to be each
lest than was proposed by the silve
of |
of the
| principle advocated by the silver men.
men, but auilborizing the coinage
any amount wee a recognition
the su- |
trust |
It is already announced that
gar trust and the standard oil
will refuse to pay the tax of one quar- |
ter of one cent on their gross receipis |
in excess of $250,000 imposed Ly the
war revenue law, and will go
court to fight the constilulionaiiiy of
the law,
into |
It is openly charged on every hand
that much of the inconvenience that
the troops have been put to has been
directly traceabie to the incompetence
of many of the civilians appointed fo
important staff positions by Mr. Me-
Kinley. BSecrelary Alger now says
that in ten days every man in the ar
my will b® provided with his full
equipment for war. Then there can
be no furiher valid excuse for potter-
ing along instead of at once fighting
the war to a close.
There have been ugly reports from
time to time of the lack of harmony
between the fighting branches of the
goverament, and upon more than one
oceasion Mr. McKinley is said to have
had to exercise his authority to com.
pel them to work together. It is also
said that there have been frequent
clashes between Gen, Merritt, who is
to command the army in the Philip-
pines, and Secretary Alger; also be-
tween the latter and Gen. Miles, who
is reported to have charged Alger with
BOS,
| tion he found existing in army matters
{ when he got to Florida, None of these
things are pleasant to write, but they
explain why things are not moving
faster,
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SUMMER OUTINGS,
i Personally Conducied Tours via Vennsylva
nis Haliroad.
I'he Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny announces the following Personal-
ly-Conducted Tours for the Bummer
and early Autumn of 1895:
To the
{ilen,
Watki
Thousand
including
Falls,
ue brn
north
“
Miacara
lands, Montreal Kk,
Chasm, Lakes Champlain and George,
Saratoga, and a daylight ride
Hudson,
©
through
of th July
Hai
Y
iia, Baltimore, and Washi
the Highland
0 and August 16
round trip from New 01
pl
BK
i ris
Hg
CRPeLSes OF 8 LWW Ks
» vis i ate vals 1
Propo LIONALE Faves Joa o
To Ye
Mississippi
]
ther points,
14 ‘
HIOWEIOLM the
I
tiher Outlook
10 weather bureau stations was 10.4
om March 1 to Ap
1
¥
Cclies
howed a d
Ap:il 4 to May 16.
A
i slales,
inch
ra at ul .
CHCIeNnCY Of
irouth was also prodiceed for the
Out of 14
.p
{ slates
wealher
Juions ia Loe «= Showed
apd 12 a m
fi 1 to May It
vw jor the
weeks
gu
1 us rainail fi
and the (olal defi-
i sus or the
was 65.3 inches,
i
Anoiher part of the foreerst was that
the Mississippi valley and ihe Rocky
The
covering
cess of rainfall, weather bu-
slations the terriloiy
i
¢
f mainfa
f
Of
from April 4 to May 16,
forecasts are pt
1d,
wecial localities, they
iG
H
These rainfall 1blishcd
a while not
¥
correct for a few 1
tion of country is taken {ogether for
I believe (hat the drouth will dam-
this
states,
interest
river year,
For
fo
value of the drouth
The forecasts also indicated a defi
ciency of rainfall for the Pacific states,
and the result well known, The
drouth for April and May was serious.
is
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THE POPULAR LOAN,
The Government offers §200,000,000
of the new 3 per cent coin bonds to
the publio, through the post offices and
other agencies. They are issued in
sums of $20 and upward to $1000,
The time for subscribing fo this loan
will continue until July 14,
A
The Golden Secret of Long Life,
Keep the head cool, the feet warm
and the bowels open. Bacon’s Celery
King for the nerves is a Vegetable
preparation and acts as a natural laxa-
tive, and is the greatest remedy ever
discovered for the Cure of Dyspepsia,
Liver Complaint, and all Blood, Liv-
er and Kidney Diseases. Call on G.
H. Loug, Spring Mills, sole agent, and
get a trial package free. Large sizes
being responsible for the demoraliza-
50c and 2c.
NO. 24
LOCAL ITEMS,
Callings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
slrawberries are very plenty here.
Strawberries plenty and away down
in price,
Our town is just now
breathing in
terror.
post-master
silent
Cieorgs wo i Led
J. 8, Hetlinger
£ county to Penns vi
Preaching next Sabbath me
ot
{4
rian church
Hy daughter
ompany
Rev, Detweiler
week met
.g 1
Several
i measurement wo’ water diteh
{ and largely found the depth 3 feet and
g
INslos i
he contracted
authori-
r the
some inches, i of
| four feet.
1
{
Perhaps the boro
ties may intend to pay fo actual
depih only.
|
Rev. Raiiek's appointments for June
115: At Centre Hall,
| Bt. Johns church at 2
| Valley at 7 p.
of Lewisburg,
1
al at
Y. Mm. | at Georges
Rev, 8B. P. Hughs,
fill the lLathersn
appointments at Centre Hall anc
nw
‘8, In. ;
3 T
g i
at 5
i m.
will
the
anion Church, next Sanday.
Hiram Durst thinks of retiring from
farming and has purchased a property
at Spring Miils,. We understand he
would have preferred Cenire Hall were
{ it not for its recklessness of getling in
debt ; there are several similar cases of
bad effects from this cause, Sad!
Thirty-six thousand fire-bricks a day
is now the forced output of the works
at Philipsburg, which are running
night and day, and the supply is not
nearly equal to the demand. Such an
unprecedented rush has never before
been known in the history of the
plant.
Persons who keep chickens and per-
mit them to ran at large will do well
to remember a decision of the supreme
court which says that “fowls of any
kind, when beyond the limits of the
owner's property, can be treated as
wild game, and shot or killed in any
way without being subject to penalty
therefor.”
A very beautiful and interesting
children’s service was held in the
Lutheran church last Bunday evening
by the Sunday school of this place.
The ladies deserve much credit for a
quite handsome floral decoration for
the occasion. Music, recitations, re-
sponsive readings, ete., made the in-
teresting entertainment.