VOL. LXXI. SPAIN HAGGLING ON TERMS — | ANOTHER PEACE CONFERENCE AT | THE WHITE HOUSE | Spain Mast Accept Ou: Pe. ce Propos Lions | | or the War Go's Oa ~The F ench Am- | bussador Confers wih hell niey, Noth ag Is Made Pab’ eo, | Spain is disposed to haggle on the peace question. Her French repie en- | tative seeks another conference, and | there is a : ecret white house talk. See- retary Day says it wus inconclusive, | v vw I and tirat no dete for ano her pole bad been fixed. | War moveweits are not to halt, Our forces ave advancing in Porio| Both Macirs Rico withoul resist Gene- Mile Jee, ral and Geuoeqal have about 9000 men. Citizens of Guyrmo order out the garrison and raise our flog. x, Our t Oops re welcomed everywhere, hails Porto Rico the advauc ng Americans, ana civy ad er city is sur- rendering. | The Pr accept our peace propociiions. mn eens ms te News Tiems, ident still expec’ Spain to] Philadelphia wheat market, this morning, 713a72. The P e ideat isunofficistly apprized that Spain has accepted our pe ce pro- po Lact last pnighds rain in Philadel- phia wrs iis hea iost on reco d. The city hall and po (-office buildings we.e inundated. io rs, i i i From Rome t is confiymed LhaiSp h: = accep guimpor. ot peace prerimioar fore B..uiday. i d the Americ..in terms with | and od Lie b reserve, OE will be si The iroops at Camp Aljer have beza mov-d to Maoe Va., of toe iypho’d fever plague at Camp Alger which wr not suited at all, but | selected to ford some favori.e a snap. | 9, 04 accou it Spain hus accepled the peace terms || she finds a piece in Porto Rico, a piece | in Caba, a big picex at Manila, in the L.odroaes, and a onmber of pie i a plece ces elsewhere, bosides her endire navy knocked Lo piece — alto. ether she b.s a big piece by which to remember the | Maine. inst A A Sonkes Have a BB. ile. A few days azo whilea genileman of | Lock Haven, s. ys the Republic..a, wrs | hore d drive} driviog to Farraodsville, his in the 10 The er alizhicd com the bugyy to iov gaie aud found a rattlesnake and blacksu. ke engo,ed in deadly combat. | The bl. cksnake wa coiling it e!f about the neck of the rattlc:oake and in a short time succeeded in choking the life out of the rattler, wizh ped at some object aod re.used to go forward. tie | a | a a - 8 orm in Noaany Valley Last Saturday evening's slorm was heavic t in Nittany 3 the rainfall wr and the od high. Lighiniog struck ihe hou of Dr. Charles Smiib, Isaac Rof<h, David Wolfe, tiie Evangelical pa wooage at Clintoadale and the hou-e of Mrs, Rofle at Mi'lucll, Many irces were giruck by lighining and shaileicd to A few of the occupan 5 of Lhe valley, woere copious Ww pice houses we.e mo e or | the shocks, but none were seiiously hurt.—Clinton Republican. ——————— A Locomol.ve Like a Woman s stuancd by | An eschanse expliios why a locc- motive is like a woman, and is called “she.” They wear a jacke., aproo, have shoes, hose, and drag a train be- hind ibem: they have a lip, nced guides, ride wheols, will not turn out for pedesirians, oftimes ‘oam aod rc- fuse to work; they at.ract the men; sometimes act very contrary aod it al- ways takes a man to manage them. FORGE Te Fell on a Harcow, John Fowler, aged twelve years, of South Danville, while picking cher- ries recently fell from the tree on a harrow, which lay teeth upward. One of the teeth peneirated his skull on the right side four and (brec-fourth inches, He died in a shori Lime. Cut Too Late, It is said that the farmers of Tioga county lost between $5,000 and $6,000 because their hay did not have the brizht geen color so admired by city dealers. It is claimed that had the hay been cut a few days earlier the de- sirable color would have been retained. The Chief Bur ess of Milesburg, Pa., says De Witt's Little Early Risers are the best piils he ever used in his fami- ly during forty ; ears of housekeeping. ey ¢ ire constipetion, sick headache and stomach and live troubles. Small PEACE CONDITIONS, Whether the Wa! W il be Coniinaed to be Shorily Dee ded. The question whether the war is (o be coniinued will be decided within a few days, and the decision rests entire ly with the Spanish Ministry. This Government has responded to the in- Ambassador, and Span is now in pous- the which negodiations for peace will be An early answer irom of general terms upon entered upon. the Spanish Ministry is expected, and in view of the great impovtance of the issues involved it is very probable an answer to the American note will be | made before the cloe of ths current | The request of Spain for infor-| mation as to whether this Govern- ment would enter upon negotiat.ons was presented on Tuc .day last, and an | answer was given withio five days. It canuot be expected that the reply of Spain will ba received wiihin a short- f period. The is that Spain must er mia point agsee 0 abandon her auchoriy in the West ladias and withdraw her armed forers from this coaviueutl r= a guarantee of Lhe siucer- i v of the reauest for a te mination of serious consideration the war, before Oa for under wiil become pait of the tervivory of the propos: on peace 1 e~oliatioas, | Porio Rieo, this a rangement, | Uniied Staves, and Cuba will be dealt wiih by this Government, the milita- | ry authoriy of the United S.ales to | form of ~overn-| ment for the island can be decided up. | The 1e:tioa is to pe determined by a joiat | on apd es biished. Philippine | qt comm ‘ssion, and in the he | meapiime \{ will hold Manila and all | Thi 2 in- the La- | ed by the American arms, ihe Island of Guam, of drove gionp. Whe.her there shall be | mailers that will be delermioed by the eae commissiogers, As Npaa is fi- I naocia'ly bankrupt, it is improb.ib @ tov al concessions will r Of money, and {hese coucessions are the ‘slands of Lhe Paci po He Dymmi ed Fish South h Ww Frank Berry, of Lebanon enaoty, met with a p hoerible dea bh, a fe mo yile fishivz with dynamiie for be Quiltapohilia Arriving German carp iu \ at Lhe home he lighted a fuse a tached to econ. aining the explosive tht le he dvoamile and held a can his hand He [atended ter berore it resting on his 1 to toss the can into tue wa si11t showed the 10 Lie made a miscaleala on the as whed while it haud. His # $ » $ i cluarje epi was yet held bis ritual hund, was he sii tained He lin~ered about two hou s bejore deuth | kore in ashapele mas and other terrible injuries, resulted, Berry was aged 21 years and leaves a widow and one child. Beier ke Christine and Ehoden, do your fishing li im, sudhio fall over logs and tumble into Lhe wa- r but never blow themselves up with dyoamite, and get a mesa of fish all the same, —————— Linare's Woes to Sp Oficial eal the ministes of war, from Geoeral Lio- n lerram, July 12, 1888 to | ares, the geperal-in<chlief of the divi- sion of Ban.i.zo de Cuba: “Al.houth confined to my bed by great weakoe sand in much paio, the situation of the lonz-suffering here occupic* my miod to such an ex- | oops tent that I d em it my duty to addrc s | your excellency, that the st.te of af] fairs may be explained. “Ronemy’s lincs very near the town ; on account of the na ure of the giound | lines are in full view of them. Tioops | not sent to hospitals owing to Lhe pe- ce si.y for Keeping them in the en- trenchmeni«. Hors sand mulcs wilh- out the usual allowance of forage. In the midst of he wel season, wich 20 hou &' daily fall of rain in the reach wh ch are simply ditebes dug io the ground without any permaoeant shel.- er fort ve mea. The men have noih- ing but rice to eat and no meuns of chaning or drying their clothing.” A ft Wi'l Meet at Bellefonte, The Pennsylvania Millers’ State as sociation will bold their anoual con- veutlon at Bellefonte on the 27th and 28th of Eplember. About 300 dele- gates wi'l be in attendance, -— E. C. Blanks, of Lewisville, Texas, writes that one box of De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve was worth $50.00 to him. It cured his piles of ten years standing. He advises others to try it. It also cures ecz mo, skin diseases and obstinate sores. For sale by Bmith & in size but great in results. For sale by Smith & Crawford * The country. RECALL SAMPSON, *hiladelphia Times : has waited with for Acting Admiral SBampson’s official would, as far as porible, undo the the victory of the fleet under his com- mand. ceived and very generally read, and we but freely express the public disap- pointment when we say that it is en- his fault, as he absent in the performance of an linpos- tant official duty. his fleet as soon It was not 8 was He hastened to join the Lu beyon i the as advised {hat battle was in prozre w% firing of a few gens at the Spanish torpedo beats in passing, and throw- lona-ran oe it ing one or two harmless shots at the Christobal Colon when was already conquered, he had no place He did not direct 5 sl, in the conflict, the movement of a sinzle ve aad he fleet was directed from beginning to end Ly Commodore = hlev, was made an easy one task A thoroughly competent and heroic com- manders of the war vessels under him, When Admiral Bampson came with- in sienaling distance of the Brooklyo nid he saw the cheering? me sage se a sayiog I'bat was Admiral Bampson’'s opporiunmty to show broad gauge iit had woa a To in sharp ' ‘ that he was a biz, {o ive © re to his subordinates who } bscence, Lilie SPONSE, vion of Admir- ‘ommodore Set contrast to this sullen ac Sampson, ( ley of heroic « by Captain as the is reporie Commodore I firing be- | Clark of Oregon. ‘ t | BL UCK | cause the Christobal Colon had added : the grand Cony Thauks | her colors, and tions for Vviciory, for vour splendid assistance 3 i a T re Weather Outlook My last storm wave Lo cross t bulledia gave fore fie cout Jnh 10 August 2 s shy £5 *Yarifle reach the Pecifie of * Ww War Bock 11 WAVE W i couauy about August 3, great LOO Ki Lind cealral valleys 5, eastera slag 7. of Roe 174 y, greal oen wave will cross the wesl i couniry about At | vallevs §, eastern stale re # . i Pempeiaware of | tf o fo io Wii ih 0, aout oral in Lh Bainfall for the same week will be below normal ia the greal iral valleys, eave n and souchern stares, above in and near the Rocky mountain couniiies and about in the Pacific coast sb ies The moath of August the great crop producing districts of will be dry in the Mississippi valley and e.siward to the Adantic: also 200 miles west of the | Mi la the upper M Tg a 1g sip nt. : ! va ley, wes snd Ne Rocky ~enerally, an ex- ein paris of Texas, Kansas braska, in Maniwba and ie i cess of rain will fall, Inthe droulh diswicls meationed | averse nove normal and in (he wet | disci icts below, i a tendency to increase the price of corn if combinations permil supply and deo- mand to affect prices, What effects it will ton depends on the condition of colton have upon coi- The first week in August will be Rockies and warm Ia the northern stats the first half of August will average cool and In the southern states the hot peri- od will occur from 10vh to 2lsi, with cool first and last weeks of the month. Severe s,orms may be expected -not far from 18th of August. iris A S— A Free Bridge, The Bupreme court has reversed the decision of Judge C. R. Bavidge, in the case of Beabolt vs. the commissioners of Northumberland county, in the matter of building a free bridge over the West Branch of the Susquehanna river, at East Lewisburg. Northum- berland g¢nd Union couniies will now have the bridge to pay for. Northum- berland baring thre -fourths of the cost, Snciasssons Q A RSARAA Win your battles against disease b acting promptly. One Minute Cough Care produces immediate results. When taken early it prevents con- sumption. And in later ste ves it fur nishes 2p relief. For sale by Hmith & Crawford. I —Headquarters for Clothing, Boots AY, AUGUST 4 WASHINGTON LETTER. WILL BEE DECLARED. The Iron Haod w.il Deal Stier. 'y wiih Lhe s euacheroas Nalion. They Ww be Ciosely Walched WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—While there is some criticism of the terms of peace s panish Mini and which ti ench ambassacoract- ser, has asccepled, whole, the admin‘siration has acquoif- handling The its ted itsell very erediiably in this matier as far ¢- il has gone, terms require Spain to withdiaw i i fiom ( . and Pocto Rico: to pay all just elai troops at 1s own expense ‘uba n= of Americans for proper y descroyed in Cuba: the U. 8B. explicitly disclaims any responsibil Ly whatever for bounds win and secu ed by ils revs Porto | }4 6) to thescheme which issued by Si enues from either Cuba or a decided check oer A behalf « iat class of Spanish tat eric. as have been Ying to of the Furopean hold- bonds: jon of the Philippines work | I tl and 1 disposit is left open to be setiled as we may see i . . i the lina fit. One man's guess is about as 2ood say t next Any upon as another as to what will be the step of the tricky BSpaniards, Der t connted other country might to follow the recommendations of ji acerediied minister, but Spain canoot 5 counted upon to do anything. Commissary General Eazan of army is out in an ioterview replyi {Oa leliler w en by RB. B., Boosevell York there was elcher fn New lawyer, chargng thal Yshamelul incapaciuy or inamous dishonesty’ in the eom- missary deparcment, and thal neither sper food had i front. JOT Pre been ur Fagan's reply is what the boys call “hot stuf)” he kinds r notoviety liar, and says his Jeller nished the men at the ¢ ! 01 » sil vara l calls Roosevell several in wa : Tt 1 ‘a low libellous, scandalous villifiea- tion of hoa slernber Lh ¥ » than 5.0 iow down wil ns the Worst consoling thing mi nun. he fever pa nay sme a fal J t at Wie Mites landed at a Por to Rie. a pots that auy Lime, Gene was not the one the adminisiraiion expected him land growling vd § 3 3 f 1 % (112 censured for not hay at, there wi in administration ¢ al even talk » DEW { 8 without lores Of i i ; rs denied that indalged in. wi you Had Miles met would with k Veraes, he NOW any re at once have boen made a scape-goat. Bepreseinative Davey, of Louisiana, whowe vigorous presentation of faces iv of one week in the camp at Miami, Fia., caused the ans. | not mince words in sin the opinion that som ymeable for the misman- men. To show that he had nol ex ane gerawed the siwuadion, Mr. Davey poiat- of huao- at one Lime in nine a camp of two brigades, calling atten- that the men from Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, were practically all immunes, 80 far as | elimatla eoadidions congerned. One would that would be one of the first thiogs pro-| vided for soldiers in a summer cam- | paign, yet whea Mr. Davey arvived in| baing were suppose canteens camp be found that there was ouly | one canteen for seven men, and when he leit a week luier, there were half of | the men still without canfeens, It is a chestnut with whiskers on it to say the civil service commiss’on Js a humbug, but in view of the fact that these tyuly good men, who draw big salaries for professing goodne s, have just officially reduced a clerk in the employ of the commission one grade, for allezed ineficiency, and that this same clerk as a witness before the Sen- ate Civil Service Commitice, some months azo, had testified to methods in use by the commission that even a mugwump would not call reform, it scems necessary to say it again. There are plenty of men in Wash- ington who make no bones of calling the printing of Grosvenor's lissue of misreproentations in a belated issue of the Congressional Record, a. er his re quest for permission to print it wre re- fased by the House, ss downright dis- honesty. Secrelary Kerv, of the Dem- ocratic Congressional campaign com- mittee says the commiltee regards the printing of the speech, under the cir- Crawford. and Bhoes,—C. P. Long, Spring Mills. cumstances, asa disgrace, and while NO. 30 added: mous consent was refused him by the House and the the Record was at fault for allowing it to in that The speech will not be of any great value on the subject he management of appear publication, as a campaign document. The very it Democrats circomstance under which has have been loyal to the war, “Ve have favor- ed support for the army and navy, but the be unnecessary booded debt upon Grosvenor's speech will challen ed everywhere it is circulated counuy., a -. for Us in the hilipgpines. Admiral that the Philippine insurgents had as- Dewey on July 50 cabled of dellance, Admiral there sumed a bold attitude W.thout Dewey mincing his woids, anounced that were sirong indications that the Philippine ents themselves wouia nave to of seed on his depiction of take 1 there, it this the situation 0,000 soldiers froin to cope with the ios ent all the in A do was it dpb al the Wai Deg day {ispawch | Merritt ¥} { i i MILCINIR i 101 hi it ad Imi iin 1ereaned mrtme ot the rom chiaracier i ii ih- neral Mer- A) nen Ol (xe f iT e a force of 50.4 on operauous Aaa asl Lhe is and masgiaia order in the iver Lhe luv had Lil Uren wih f$sat § Liab 4 t in Washinglon ne ¢ ion beiween id the American eom- ma | tie As S000 PS LIE Li Hade ook Oo make a forward movement on Manila. ‘vom ithe temper Aguioaide is dion lo the Pi Ye! The inquesiiooably one of the mos swsione Park sod Omaha Exposition Pai k t inter- Yellowstone Nadional is esti ions on the globz, for within 'g reg ooiiection I adeed wl -3 of nawure's manifold wonders %.ing Rock- ible play-g wind for the foroes, on the summit of the everl: jes, is a ver world’s giant Railioad which leaves New York on September Penuxyivaaia 1. afloids Lhe most satisfactory means ing this wonderlund aod view- A the of visi ing ils marvelous features, slop of two davs will be made on trip at Omaha, affording an opporia- position. Tourisls will travel be spe- eial train of Pullman smoking, dining, direc.on. Eight days will be spent in the Park. A slop will also be raade relurniogz at Chicago. The round-irip rate, New York, Philadel- phia, Baltimore, and Washiagton, $230 ONE HY Terry 170M pes £8 ist Arent, 1198, Broadway, New York, or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant iroad Street Station, Philadelphia. augist lf ————— He'p the Soldiers, The citizens of Centre Hall are cor- dially invited to atlend a meeting in the Evaagelical church, Centre Hall, Friday evening, al 7:30, to make prop- er ai rangements to solicit such articles boys fro: Centre county. By order of Committee. Some time ago, a live bottle of Chambesiain’s Colic, Cholera and Di- arrhoes Remedy fell into my hands, just at a time when my two-year-old boy was lecvibly aflicted. His bowels were beyond control. We had tried many remedies, to no purpose, but the little botile of Colic, Cholera and Di- arrhoea Remedy speedily cured him, —~Wiliiam F. Jones, Oglesby, Ga. For sale by 8. M. Bwartz, Tusseyville; F. A. Carson, Poliers Mills; J. H. Ross, Linden Hall, and H. F. Rossman, Spring Mills. * LOCA ITEMS, Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest from Everywhere. A Mid Sammer Wish. These Bummer days, In burning haze I rather wish I were a fish ; Or, say & irog In some wet bog, With naught to do The long day through jut sonk and croak, And eroak and sonk. Ha pet's Bazar Do naught in spite, It's satan’s fight Nor be a fool Aw another's tool. Pianie + Acne Dr. from the new picnic ; did ma picnic ; Emerick the firs’ squirting ins, The wheat crop in Union eounty did not (urn out very large. William E granted a pension, i) anag so Will of « last Friday. Tate, S.ate 84; to have waler 1g bought pp a car load in Nill yWs 11 hi ley, The price conractor Malone is (o get tl p & 10v for the bare’ reservoir, is $1000 we gs informed. ing was .25, and 5, or within a trifle were sold at or the Luth- nd Park. 1 of ‘I titat : alae Lhe spes rs at 1 apd Harvost Home pic- Ex-sherifl Spangler is on a ten days’ id home and ends in :n reckt, Bu- At, of father-in- is mak~ hatha Moston erchant GG. O. Benner, ome with the in this mains is at goes part of of to the K's appointments At Centre Hall at 7 p. al for Au- m. ; at Tussey - Ram Stover, down the road, says his he must look can lend him 5 small We Loess fae 80 io LO Bee One. our magnifying zi Don’t enc urage whisperer by licious jnsinuauions, irty work by reail- Altoona Tribune, Zion, ,200 quaies of red raspberries on J. | raised 1 P. Gephart, a farmer of a half acre of ground this season and sold them all for eight ceals a quart. Don't fail to attend the farmers’ in- stitule and harvest home pic-nic, on Thursday, August llth, Grange Park, Centre Hall. A grand big time for one day only. on George Grubb, of Nittany Hall, died on July 28, of grinder’s consumpiion. He was an axe-grinder by trade and 46 He is survived by a wife and eight children. VEears of age. Another streak of luck has come to | Wm. G. Hoffer, be«ides a nomination for congress The Lincoln Sentinel says it came a few nizhis ago, at big boy ! Congratu- in Kansas, and itis a gre lations, Will Under the foundation of John L. Detweiler’'s home, in the city of York, | Pa., the first story of au old stone fort, | erecied there by Lord Baltimore, in | 1680, has just been rediscovered, in £ : | good condition. The Centre Co. Farmers’ Institute {and Harvest Home Basket Picnic, for | one day, at Centre Hall, August, 11. Half fare on railroads. Mr. Woodward, member of the state board of agricul ture, has effecied all necessary arrange- ments to make it a grand success, t appears that taxpayers digging to tap or make repairs ou their service pipe connected with the old plap) must go {o the inconvenience o! gelling a permit ; but on Lhe new plant this is not exacted. This is not serving all alike, but that makes no difference. Evil companionship tends to corrupt one and, at the best, brings one under suspicion. Yet it is not wrong to strive th make friends of those who have wandered from the path of in- tegrity. Who knows how much good one may do by a word in season or a mpathetic act. e pipe for the new water plant has been laid, and three or four taps have been made. We are informed that the reservoir so far as constructed, threatens to be a failure, the contrac. tor claiming it is through no fault of kis, since he only followed instructions and that his plans were not heeded. Hope not so serious,
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