VOL. LXXI.
TRE HALL, PA., TI
IURSDAY, AUGUST
1898,
NO. 31
A BATTLE AT MANILA,
A SPANISH ATTACK REPULSED
WITH HEAVY LOSS.
The
Held their Own, and the Loss of the
Americans Were Outnumbered, but
Enemy was Heavy,
The American forces engaged the
enemy before Malate on last Bunday
night and compelled them to relreat
with heavy losses,
Our troops lost 13 killed and 47
wounded. It has been impossible to
ascertain the exact losses of the Span-
ish. The fighling lasted four hours,
The American troops engaged were
part of the 10th Pennsylvaaia, Ist Cal-
{fornia and 3d regular artillery.
The Spanish led in the altack, at
THE REPUBLICAN WAR,
Attorney Reeder Will Make a Hard Fight
for Siate Senator,
Col. Wilbur ¥. Reeder, is up in a
balloon as the anti-Quay candidate for
senator, and has a bitter fight on
hand. His opponent jo this county
Is ex-assembly man Phil, Womelsdorf,
of Philipsburg, who has been training
with the Quay ites. Phil. may be what
one terms a ‘‘clever fellow,” but, un-
fortunately, Phil. voted “I” on every
boodle measure that came up, new of-
fices, new clerkships, raising salaries,
and all sueh, a partial list of which
will be found elsewhere in this issue of
the Reporter.
The cleaner Quay candidate would
be fouud in Jack Dale, who is not be-
smirched with wotinog for any such leg-
islation, and w ho has all the hustling
vimto put up a hot fight, and could
tempting to dislodge our troops by a
flanking movement from the strong
position they have beer holding near
the enemy’s lines. The position is still |
held by our troops.
In the midst of a raging typhoon, |
with a tremendous downpour of rain,
Our pickets were driven in and the
trenches assaulted.
The brave Pennsylvania men
flinched, but stood their ground under
a withering five.
i
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage
were issued during the past week:
Benjamin R. Stere,
and Rachael A. Houser,
twp.
Harvey J. Boop, of Benner twp. and
Mary Shawver, of Spring twp.
Robert K. McMullen, of Boggs twp.,
and Cordelia Strunk, of Spring twp.
George Alvin Hettinger, of Spring
Mills, and Elsie May Reish, of Centre
Hall
Harvey Freeman and Mary
cock, of Philipsburg.
Harvey Shawley and Mary C
er, of State College.
Sylvester M. Summers,
twp., and Mary Lyons; of Spring twp.
Herbert J. Hull, of Bellefonte,
Maggie E. Kane, of Axe Mann.
James W. Lyons, of Jackson, Mich,
and Estella M. Stonerode, of Miles
burg.
John W. Kepler and Madge Gi. Goss,
of Pine Grove Mills.
Chas. Robinson, of Philipsburg, and
Margaret Dormond, of Rathmul, Jef
ferson Co.
cp At
licenses
of Benner
E. Han-
Mey-
of Boggs |
and |
Kepler and Gosa.
Somewhat to the surprise of the hap-
pily married couple, {hat union
was so sudden, after a very brief court
gulp, almost a case of love of
first sight. On Tuesday of this
the happy couple drove to the
seat, procured the necessary
requisite to make these two
mediaiely hied themselves to the M.
E. parsonage, where Rev. Stevens
pronounced them one. The bride,
Miss Maggie Goss, is { he second daugh-
ter of ex-Co, Treasurer Cyrus Goss,
and is a most accomplished aod refin.
ed young lady. The groom, J. Wm,
Keppler, is one of Ferguson township's
brag farmers, is a jovial fellow, and a
hustler in political circles. They will
reside at Pine Grove Milla.
sss A A A
J Send this Also
Ten dollars has been paid into the
Red Cross fund of this town, at Wolf},
& Crawford's store, being a surplus
from a school entertainment. Money
contributions are also being solicited
for the special benefit of the Centre
county boys now in the army, We
understand there is also a surplus in
bank from a 4h of July eelebraiion in
this town several years ago. Result
fing from so patriotic an affair, why not
appropriate this also ic so eminently
patriotic a purpose as ministers to the
comfort of our brave soldier boys?
fp pp
Fieniec Today.
The farmers’ institute and harvest
home basket picnic is being held today
on Grange park. The unfavorable
weather the last week may interfere
somewhat with the attendance, but
from present indications there will be
a good turn out.
————— re —— ——————
Filling up the Ditches.
Street commissioner George Floray
has men at work filling up the water
ditches which had sunk below the
street level. The lime stone had been
hauled off for crushing for new streets
and the holes had to be filled up.
the
love onl
week,
county |
pape rs |
one, im-
The Coming Pienie,
The grange pic-nie, Sept. 12-17, in
Grange Park, Centre Hall, for exhib
its, interesting discussions, lectures,
music, ete, display of live stock, poul-
try, ete.
Truth wears well. People have
learned that De \Witt’s Little Early
Risers are reliable little pills for regi
lating the e Bowals caring constipation
#
easily have brought down Reeder's air
But Jack Dale is not a candi-
foreseeing that the next
will be
ship.
date, wisely
Senator froma this district a
Democrat.
Rumor has it Colonel Reeder agreed
fight against Womels
if the latter would
Each borough
mn
is entitled to 13 delegates, and Reeder
Womelsdorf refused, however,
deal
coalest in every dis-
Next Saturday
TY and now there
lively
of the county.
Reeder is coo fident he will eventual-
the from Clearfield
counties if he wing at
Clearfield bas iostrucled for
Osbora, a friend of Senator
and Clin for
William Miller,
If Reeder shrould
in
& -
COonierTees
ton has declared
an anli-Quayite,
reach the senators
the race, four years
hence, for the Republican nomioation
e of
The outecom t he Republican fight
outside politicians,
—— cA con mimsison
He Knew George A Jenks
ago an old gen-
and without any
Brookville, Like
neglected makiog a
very sick, Then
his estale among
liberal
About twenty years
wealth
resided at
many others he
became
he divided most of
his relalives, giving
but also bexquealhed a handsome
if we
each a
$20 O00, remember
schools and
A few days
will his physician
informed him that he could not live a
week, The law of the state makes
void all bequests to churches and char-
within
to churches,
obhiects,
his
the devisor dies
WASHINGTON LETTER\\
TROUBLESOME MATTERS FOR THE
PEACE COMMISSION,
The President Believes the Spaniards are
Honest in Accepting the Terms Pal
ities in the War,
WasniNnagToN, Aug. 8,—If the Bpan-
ish Ministry had any proper idea of
the public sentiment in this couniry it
would not have wasted ten days in de-
ciding whether to accept the terms of
peace offered. If they knew a
thing when they saw it, they
terms. In
terms of peace,
good
have jumped at those
{ the last
given
statement ol
week, the admioistration
credit to which it not
Instead of providing that claims of |
was
wis enticed,
Americans for prope.y destroyed in
for
bonds issued as a lein on the
it
claiming responsibility
reveaues
of Cuba and Porto Rico, mentioned
neither,
matiers (0 be
other
troublesome
the
leaving those
added
troublesome things
to be tackled by the
that will ne the Lreaty of peace.
The only certain things in the
io
that
have Commission |
rOoliale
terms |
of peace are that Spain shall evacuate
Cuba and Porto Rico and that
shall rei Manila Manila
everythiog else is to be seliled
wel
tain and Bay;
by the]
commission,
Mr. McKinley apparently fully be-
lieves that the
honest in informally telling
is
that |
Spanish Ministry
him
it intends to accept his terms of peace,
although officially it
lent. His faith is so
orders for the
Miles have
sii:l remains si
slong that the!
inforcement of
held up,
doue to
Merrit uforcements he |
has asked for. If the
terms, these hold-ups will do no harm,
re (seen, |
been and that]
send
fhat
accepts
nothing is being Gen. |
the re-
Spain
but should Spain be foolish
reject the
with serious
enough to
terms, they may be fraught
consequences, General
Miles is having his own |
way in Por.o Rico,
welcomed by
everythiog
being
and g royally
the Porio Ricans, but ir}
it becomes necessary for him to attack |
al Ban Juan
to tuke
without a great sacrifice of life. |
the strong fortification
iN
he has not men enough that
Lown,
Notwithstaodioe the harsh eriticism |
i
Bil
the
which has come from
BNLIONS of
from holder
ical
aod
fp
shown
the country
pit
all shades o
pactiality by the Navy Depar
meat, in favor of aciiog Admiral
ialiiy still exists, and,
Sampson aod
Schley, that par:
according to curren
against ommodore
t goRsip, Is about to
be strikiogly
of orders
exuibited by a shifiing
for the purpose of
Then the old gentleman added |
r
schools, ele,
will,
evoking his be-|
and in-
§2
{ quest to churches,
stead bequeathed the total sum, $20.
A. Jenks, without re
serve, After his death, when the
property came into the possession of
Mr. Jenks, he taroed it over to the in-
stitutions named in the will and car-
ried out to the letier t¢ desires of the
deceased,
Buch incidents show the confidence
people have in George A. Jeoks, who
have known hima long and intimately.
Helis the kind of mao required for
governor of the state — Meadville Mes-
senger,
st
Delight fal Vacation Trip.
Visiting Watkins Glen, Niagara
Falls, Thousand Islands, Quebec, Mon-
treal, Au Sable Chasm, Lake Cham-
plain and Lake €(ieorge, Saratoga, and
the Highlands of the Hudson. Leave
Philadelphia by special train August
16, The tour will be in charge of ope
of the company’s tourist agents, An
experienced chaperon will also accom-
pany the party, having especial charge
of unescorted Imddies.
The rate of $100 from New York,
Brooklyn, Newark, Trenton, Philadel
phia, Harrisburg, Baltimore, and
Washington covers railway and boat
fare for the entire round trip, parlor
car seats, meals en route, hotel enter-
tainment, transfer charges, carriage
hire—in fact, every item of necessary
expense,
For detailed itinerary, tickets, or any
additional information, address Tour
ist Ageot, Pennsy Ivania Railroad Com-
pany, 1196 Broad sway, New York; 860
Fulton Street, Brooklyn; 780 Broad
Btreet, Newark, N. J.; or Geo. W.
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadel
phia. augd-2¢
I —————— I MS
Kaosas Crop Conditions,
Becretary Coburn of the State Board
of Agriculture has issued a bulletin
showing erop conditions. He places
the yield of winter wheat at 60,570,000
bushels, which, with one exception,
1802, is the largest ever grown in the
State, The season throughout the
State, he says, has been adverse to
corn, He places the average condition
for the State 59 per cent of a full crop,
and don’t 3
LE ROLL Ra
ss A Mess,
Sampson an opportunity to splurge in |
European waters. The orders for send- |
of Spain,
issued some weeks for
have never
and the officials say that
go for the purpose of
rope,” now that
tion of hostilities aod
bluMog
been revoked,
the fleet is to
“impressing Eu-
pending CeREa-
the project
permanent peace have made further
fighting apparently unnecessary,
There beiug po further opportunity
for Sampson to acquire either glory or
prize mooey in Caban waters,
RYO,
pur poses,
the
of
he is to
be given command of the European
fleet, and Commodore Watson, who
was first assigoed to that command of
all the ships that remain in Caban wa-
ters. As Watson ranks Schley there
will be no Im poriaont command left for
the latter. This Navy Department
clique may succeed fora time in de
priving Schley of honor he has won,
but Congress can be depended upon to
see that justice is done him.
Secretary Alger’s mixing of politics
with military matiers bas added noth-
ing to bis popularity nor to his reputa-
tion for political sagacity. In his ea-
gerpess to injure “Teddy” Roosevell's
political fortunes, Secretary Alger
went to the extent of publishing a pri-
vate letter from Roosevelt to himself,
in which slurs were thrown at the
fighting qualities of the volunteer sol-
diers, in order that he might accompa-
ny it with an official reprimand from
himself to Roosevelt. Alger was so
much afisid siiat the “round robin”
signed by the Geuerals under Shafter,
headed by Roosevelt, who is acting
Commander of a brigade, would be
credited with the accelerated move-
ments of the War Department in get-
ting our soldiers away from Santiago,
that he had an official statement made
to the press, saying that the soldiers
were being moved in accordance with
plans made before the publication of
the “round robin’ which, by the way,
Roosevelt is accused of having furnish-
ed to the Associated Press. This need
not fool anybody, as it says that the
Secretary of War had some time ago
notified Gen. Shafter that his men
would be brought back to the U. 8,
“as soon: as the fever subsided’! The
fever has not subsided, but the men
are being brought back as fast as they
are able to get aboard transports.
There isn’t the slightest doubt that the
with
military point
move
have been tinged
tion from a strict
view, caused the men to
moved, and that thereby many valua-
ble lives were saved.
that breaks red (ape that is killing our |
soldiers is not likely to receive popu-
lar condemnation; nor does it deserve
i N
When asked the other day what the
State
ter sanitary quarters for the Pennsyl-
vania soldiers now at Camp Alger, At
torney General McCormick said :
It should
if ————
MeCormick Scores Alger,
‘‘She is doing all she can.
that (he State
| are absolutely without
be understood
this
| matter, the troops being ia the service
of the Uniled States Government ; but
| learning of the terrible conditions ex-
| isting at Camp Alger, General Hast-
Adjutant Btewart
the Government
power in
{logs and General
authori-
against
profesied to
{ ties io the most vigorous way
[ the
| the continuance of fever infes. ed
camp.
tand what
War Depart-
aS. 000
undeis
the
or
amp Alger.
march to the
{ there is not a point
difficult to
prom pled
tis
influence
=, 00
{
ment Ww locale men al
It
ailroad,
as Is Aj
twelve-mile and
Pennsylva-
Philade Aphia to
* more
and more |
on the
nia Rallroad from
Ae~
seat of war
to the
1
thiul ia location than the one se-|
lecied,
be
U0 wise
to in-
results of such
“The people have a right
al the
on the part of |
The
Al
Alger,
War Department, percent.
‘amp al least
the Twelfth
nearly
the
Regiment is con-
that
official who |
far as
is as great as at |
Saatiazo, aod public
in responsible should be held to a strict
ROCOU DL.
“Governor Hastiors and Ac Jjutant |
General Biewart are constantly in com- |
munical th the War Depariment
endeavoring to belier the condition of
thousand Spanish Pp risoners,
i sl
their bomes in Spain.
00 Wi
A hr ——————.
From Santiago.
One
went on board ship at Santi-
two sleamers
perso
collision of
1 Mor
were drowoed,
The
Vizil
By the
sbhon, ot day, twenty
Miami,
in, loaded
galled
ates on Moaday.
Malieawan
United
United
CAONPOTLS
ane with
f,
ior
troops, the
General Shadlet’s sanitary report for |
Aug. 7: 3.445 : |
total numbe. 2.408 :
412 ; total
reiurned to da-
Aug L. Ts
Were vic
Total number of sick,
fever
Of CAC, §0O-
tal number of new cases,
pumber of fe
$06
Ver Cases
ty, deailis eleven, of
whom five tims of yellow fe.
ver.
American
marchiog on San Juan three |
and the fleet is prepariog to
move to north side of Porto Rico to!
The are
from
iroops now i
poin.s,
aid in aciive operations against the is |
land capital. i
Amid ramors of peace the army of |
General Miles is sweeping on toward
Sau Juan by roads from the east, |
and center. This will compel the ene-
my conceniralé his forces at the
capital,
Red Cross Society—Aid for the cnr
Friends of the Soldiers, desiring to]
minister to the necessities of the men |
in the field and for the suffering Cu- |
bans, by contributions in money or ar- |
ticles, to be forwarded to the Red Cross |
Philadelphia, will leave the
same as early as possible at the follow-
ing stores :
Wolf & Crawford, Centre Hall :
Rossman's store, Spring Mills,
Articles needed : Money, all kinds
of cured meats and fish, corn meal,
grain, canned vegetables, canned fruits,
any dried fruits, onions, potatoes, rice,
beans, beef extracts, wines, coffee, tea
and any groceries, jellies, preserves,
medicines, oils, salves, soaps, bedeloth-
ing, mosquito netting, fans; towels,
new clothing for summer, for children
women and men.
Steamer to carry these contributions
will leave August 15. Report to Fry-
singer Evans, 907 Betz Building, Phil-
adelphia.
SARA,
A Vietim of Vengeance,
Eugene Lentz, of Ralston, Lycom-
ing counliy, is in « critical condition,
the victim of the awful vengeance
wreaked upon him by Mrs. Tiny
Welch, of the same town. He is said
to have made insulting remarks about
her, When she met him Friday even-
ing she dashed a tea cup iull of carbol-
ic acid in his face. If he survives he
will be sightless,
Ls I MH SHLAA.
Heoalled.
The announcement that Rev, J. H.
Keeley, field secretary of the Penna
anti-saloon League, to speak in the
Evangelical church at Centre Hall on
west
to
I
Society,
“round robin,” however much it may
AWFUL RECORD.
MILLIONS OF MONEY STOLEN
FROM THE STATE
| Having Bankrupted the State the Quay
| Machine Now Proposes to STONE the
i
!
People
| F
the Centre Reporter, and the tax-rid-
looked
two last legisla-
or the information of the readers of
| den people in general, we have
lup the sieals of the
Record, and
before geliing the
half through with
big search after their most infamous
the
keep
jobbery to fatten purses of Quay
and the
find
lo amaze
henchmen
od,
robbery
oll we enough of downright
any citizen
stat
within him.
The state treasury, by Governor Has.
tings’ own anaouncement, has
millions of state funds
the
by the
bankrupted,
are withheld from school boards
and are used banks of hench-
hundreds
in the state had to
could
v
get along as best without
*
they
their scant and honestly earned wa
or
Res,
These infamous methods the Quay
ing Wm. A. Blone governor, when all
mileage and other infamous steals
vetoed by Governor Hasting
be
# during
last session will arain passed by
by Wm. A.
uld be
ah
shia
and signed
Stone, if, unfortunately, he
elected governor, instead of that man
of purity and foe of dishonesty, George
Yep f
UL,
to the Legislative Record
bery :
the
high salary
d ult
page 2543. Aannual
-
An increase of Adj (Feneral’
| réady too
new an erly useless cle
gr
£5000,
Deg
new
bam)
BANA
RBeorzanizing Banking mriment,
crease of salaries, official
ele page 3350, Avnual steal
New Deg iculiure
Agr
Jess clerkships, bird book. t
page 2651.
ariment of
0,
the state, as a steal, over $200 000,
New places, nice plums, for Quay
page 630, Already cost Lhe
$25,000,
stale some
Creatiog a useless Auditor
al,
of £3000 ; page 3753.
a
De pu iy
securiog a yea'ly plum for a
heeler,
Increasing salary of Buperioleoadent
$1400
page
Buildings, from to
annual $1600 steal ; 3425.
superintend, else the capitol would not
have been set on fire and burned. By
gang will
dol-
of course, will
be a steal.
Deputy and new officers for Depart.
uselessly expended ; page 1500.
Creating the not
Court ; page 3342
en judges, about $100,000 a year.
Creating a committee to visit less
than a score of public inslitulions to
ascertain how many pauper foreigners
were Kept in same, when a circular
from the Loternal Affairs Dep't would
have obliged the head of each iastitu-
tion to furnish such informalion, at a
cost of not over §3 to the state. This
steal took $3000 out the treasury, the
committee riding on passes no doubt,
and afterwards demanding $1800 for a
stenographer !
There were scores of other steals of
which the above will serve as samples.
Then were the attempted steals ve.
toed by the Goveraor, kaown as the
mileage steals, padded pay-roll steals,
fraudulent book printing steals, and
others of the ame breed of kittens, ve
toed by Governor Hasliogs, all of
which will be re-passed and sigoed if
Quay’s man Stone is elected governor,
Then there were steals exposed by
represeniative Nesbit, of Northumber.
land, and Rev. Dr. Swallow, in the
fitting up of Grace Church for the ses
sions of the legislalure.
Reader, isn’t this an appalling rec-
ord of robbery ? How can honest men
vote for Wm. A. Stone, for governor,
who is the favorite of the plunderers
who were the recipients of the above
steals, and scores of like ones which |gervi
Wednesday evening, Aug. 17, has been
the Reporter does not have time to cite
in this issue? =
LOCAL ITEMS,
Cullfngs of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
Quick, now, ye Dons,
To accept our peace,
Before knocked to pieces.
ie quick ! Ere General Miles,
Bags the prettiest
Of your isles,
At Ban Judn
He's knocking now,
For a cool surrender :
Now if your tardy,
Uncle Bam so hardy,
"El gobbler up
And that’] end’
Threshing is hindered very much by
showers,
Louis Bunday is temporarily laid out
from over-work.
of Bellefonte, was al-
lowed a pension, $6,
Thomas Toot,
The Ceutre county peach orchards
a fair crop of fruit.
The party to erect the new creamery
is hee, ready to put up the building.
Republican primaries next Saturday
sonvention on Tuesday.
Last rains ralsed our
streams bank full and yellow as clay.
badly
ast Thursday's heavy rain.
week's heavy
Some of the corn-flelds
washed by |]
Hucklet said to be plenty
and are selling at 4and 5 cents a quart.
The , about ready to
be encased in brick, will be the largest
building
Mrs. Daniel ill
the past two months, shows no signs
of improving
(
didate
Womelsdo
Huyelt, amouog other improvements,
irown open his front yard by re-
moving the fence.
The Sea Shore Excursion via Penn's
lailroad Thursday August 18th prom-
ises to be very popular,
were
erries
are
new grange hall
town.
in
Fleisher, seriously
Reeder has withdrawn as a can-
for the field to
ol.
senator,
rf.
leaving
has ti y
Bandoe has a 100 bushel crop of early
now worth 60¢c per bushel,
taken from
The fre
potatoes,
one acre,
quent showers in the past
likely to injure the oats cut
and yet in the fields,
Fre Millheim of
Mn comes & report
”
the J¢
The crop of late potatoes under the
weeks, may
lose to an ave rage.
warnal, being one.
up ¢
Berks farmers are selling
ir new wheat at 70 aad 75 cents per
says the Phila. Record.
counly
bushel,
Emerick who has done the
threshing on a number of farms since
reports the yield below a full
George
harvest,
crop.
Buffalo Mills last week
paid 70 cents for new wheal. It has
advanced a little in the eastern mar-
kets
Mf three large fields of wheat thresh-
od by Perry Breon, two miles east of
here, two turned out well and the
third poor.
W. L. Kurtz, of Lewisburg, bas been
appointed one of the Jenks Notifying
Committee, which meets at Bedford,
August 17.
Lewisburg
i
The United Evangelical camp meet-
ing will be held in Emanuel Harter's
grove, west of Rebersburg, beginning
August 23,
Rev.
day, Aug. 14:
m. ; St. John's church, at 2 p. m.;
Georges valley at 7 p. m.
Huyett’s big drove of cattle on his
Seven Mountain ranche is doing well
and to his entire satisfaction. Daniel
Riotman is head ranchman.
Rearick’s appointments, Sun-
At Centre Hall at 10 a,
at
Hay Fever.—Dr. Humphreys, Speci-
fic “77” cures Hay Fever and Autum
Catarrh ; all droggisis ; 25¢, or Hum-
phreys’ Medicine Company, New York
Some one has informed us the num-
ber of typhoid fever cases in Mifflin-
burg has reached 100. Among those
seriously ill is landlord Braught, for-
merly of Coburn,
There was an abundance of rain from
Wednesday evening to Thursday even-
ing of last week. To every corn patch
there was an ear of corn in every gal-
lan of rain.
The Republican faction leaders in
this county are Jack M. Dale on the
Quay side, and Wilbur F. Reeder on
the Haslings or anti-Quay side. Sat-
urday they baltle for the mastery.
Rev. A. H. Spangler, the Lutheran
minister at Yeagertown, has been ap-
pointed chaplain of the 5th Pa. regi-
ment. His appoiniment will rank
with that of caplain, with equal
and perquisites,
The brave soldier boys in Cubs had
a hard time of it. The battle with fe
ver took off’ far more than Spanish bul-
lets. There was most serious blunder
ing at Washington all through this
war,
An old subscriber came into our of
fice a few days ago, with the
remark, “I think the Reporter too de-
serving a paper to have my label read
back of "98," and down tame the silver
jinglers and out went his label to '99,
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