/ YOL.LXXI., CENTRE HALL, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1898,
7 SHE WAS AN ADVENTURES.
/ WASHINGTON LETTER N |
JENKS AT OIL CITY.
monster
great heaps. This morning their cake
| was turned to dough.
| Gramley may have been prepared to
{ and a careful search of the tax book of LOCAL ITEMS,
the District of Columbia, shows that
| he paid no personal taxes in Washing-
A meeting greeted candi-
Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest
date Jenks at Oil City. From his re-| ® from Everywhere.
A NATIVE OF OUR SECTION IN A]
BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.
Kaneville, IL, Figures in Exposing a
Woman After His Duoats,
The Aurora, Ill., Daily News, ofl
September 20th, contains the follow- |
ing interesting tale. The principal
and defendant is a native of our wval-|
ley and is well known here: |
B. F. Gramley is a rich, old farmer |
at Kaneville, |
Barring his lawyers fees and a few |
minor expenses he is just as rich and |
just as heart, hand and fancy free to- |
day as he was last week. But that is |
not the fault of Laura E. Gossin, of |
Chicago.
Gramley settled in Kaneville many |
years ago. He was poor then but he |
was industrious. He rented a farm,
soon owned it, and then made a prac- |
tice of buying another farm every year |
or two out of his earnings until he was |
counted wealthy.
In the meantime his children
grown up and married and his wife |
had died and Benjamin grew lone-
some. He made a few trips to Chica-
go and soon had things coming his |
way.
One of the things that came his way
was Miss Laura E. Gossin, a charm- |
ing dime museum freak, fat, fair and |
forty, or thereabouts. They say that
Laura was captured at first sight. At!
any rate on the witness stand she
stated that Gramley agreed to take |
her as his housekeeper ata salary of
three dollars a week, and that if he
cooking and dishwashing came wp to |
her expectations he would marry her.
An Aurora man named Hardin, who
had been employed on the farm, testi-
fied that he had heard Gramley make
some such assertion,
Laura registered no objection to such |
proceedings and she and Ben had pro- |
ceeded to get real thick.
After a while, so the story goes, the |
gay old widower tired of his Laura,
and his love, like Dead Sea fruit,
ed to ashes at the touch.
He then did a real meah thing to
his “sure thing,” giving her the doub- |
le cross and the left hook in her heart
of hearts. He drove to Batavia one
morning, starting while it was yet
dim and misty twilight on board his
stone wagon, and ordered a curb stone
for his well.
The mason had to cut the stone to
measure and during the hours he was
busy Gramley went to Geneva, pro-
cured a marriage license and, by the |
time his curbstone was ready, had been
married to a Batavia woman. Wife!
aud curbstone were loaded on the wag-
on together and, despite a severe rain
storm and the fact that the wagon |
broke down once under its load, the
sporty old Kanevillian and his bride
arrived home before the cocks began to
Crow.
When Laura Gossin
senses that morning, she found
had been seriously trifled with —
“thrun’’ down, jilted and trampled |
under foot as it were.
And as Gramley’'s feet are large,
burt like the dickens.
She forthwith bad an interview |
with herself, and, with flashing ee
and heaving bosom she exclaimed:
won't stand it. He shall not sr
aside my saccharine affections in this!
heartless manner; he shall not quench |
my passions thusly. Not on your tin-
type.” :
Or some such language.
Anyhow, it is said that Laura got
real hot under the collar and in spite
of the fact that Ben paid her a whole
year's wages at $3 a week, when she
had kept house tor him less thao two
months, the first thing B. F. Gramley
knew he was the defendant in a $10,-
000 breach of peomise suit,
It is rumored that at the time Lau-
ra filed the suit in the Kane county
circuit court the breach in her heart
was so wide you could roll a Hubbard
squash through and never touch the
sider,
Yesterday the case came to trial. All
Kaueville was on hand either as list-
eners or witnesses, Laura grew real
embarrassed apparently, when she
told the court how ‘‘Ben'’-—that's
what she called him-—would clasp her
plump hand to his shirt front and
whisper iu hier shell pink ear, with his
hot breath “Stick to me little one,
ever, and you'll wear diamonds,”
Aud thifigs like that.
And Laura believed it all, foolish
thing, and clung to Ben like all git
out, but the diamonds failed to arrive
from the mines,
Then eame his marriage to another
women, and Laura went after Ben's
bank account for a plaster that would
unite the right and left auricles of her
throbber and lace it once more in| delega
good working vrder,
Laura sod her lawyers had their
own way with (he court yesterday and
had | |
i
i
tarn-
¢
awoke to Ler
she |
it |
| refute many of Ladra's statements but,
{he did nothing of the kind. This
| morning he produced in court a man
never been
| divorced. Evidence was also intro-
| duced showing that Laura had been
| married a second time also, and that
husband No. 2 had secured a divorce
i
had not been divorced.
The court, under the circumstances,
gave the plaintiff permission to dis-
miss her case and her attorneys were
prompt in makiog the motion,
Gramley was the subject of congrat-
marks we extract the following :
An illustration of the character of
taining is this: There is a clause in
k
constitution of Pennsylvania, by which
money paid out of the treasury except
upon an appropriation made by the as-
sembly. That of course includes the
governor with his power. But we find |
an altercation took place between Gov- |
ernor Hastings and his attorney gene-
government had gone on a bond
ulations on all sides and Laura returned |
{to Chicago to resume her old oe cupa- |
{ tion of “‘the female § Sampson’ and the |
]
:
ly
HE PAYS FOR ALL,
The Workingman’'s Iuterest in the Pending |
Contest — Why He should Vote for
Jenks,
of our citizens are more
| deeply interested in the election of the |
| Democratic state ticket than the work-
|ingmen. The Republican administra-
| tion is squeezing $12,000,000 annually
| out of its taxables for state purposes,
{and will ave to squeeze a good deal
machine extravagances |
| and steals are speedily checked. It
| trite that a considerable share of this |
| money comes from the corporations, |
But in the final reckoning the people
| pay it, as they pay all taxes, however |
it is an income
No class
is
tax, |
be levied. Ex-Governor
to
additional |
company |
if an
{tax is put upon a railroad
| the company adjusts its freights and
fares accordingly; if upon a house, the |
the rent; if upon
any article of consumption, the dealer |
{ fixes his scale of prices to suit. And]
{this is always and inexorably true. |
{ The people must have found out from |
| their ex perience with the war taxes
{ who must pay them and that escape |
The people must pay the more than |
five million dollars annual increase in |
i
i
has been piled up since we last had a |
Democratic House of Representatives |
Governor in 1883. |
They must pay the $170,000 biennial,
agricultural department steal, the $124,- |
000 banking department steal, and all
the other steals of greater or lesser
The corporations do not
pay them; they are merely the inter-
mediaries in the payment,
By the close of 1808 the four years’
term of Governor Hastings will have |
i
expended, in round figures, £54,000,000, |
Jul there was a surplus of |
the last year |
of Governor Pattison’s term. A sim-|
ple calculation will show that that has
| been exhauosted and that the machine
| treasury managers will still be $2,000,
000 in a hole. The people, the common
| people, the business men and the work-
{ ingmen, will have to pay the addition-
i al taxes that will be imposed to cover
may be
corpora~
000,000.
upon the
The old English ale house sign of
Alls” applies always and
The king—*'I rule all.”
The preacher—*‘I pray for all.”
The lawyer—*‘I plead for all.”
The soldier—*1 fight for all.’
The Workingman--'] pay for all.”
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EDITORIAL JOTS,
Philadelphia is going to have a great
peace jubilee, the greatest celebration
of the character ever held in the Uni-
ted States, October 26 and 27.
The President has appointed a coms
mission of nine to investigate the war
scandals, and of these Gen. James A.
Beaver Is one. There are suspicions
it is selected to whitewash Alger,
Rosevelt, commander of the Rough
Riders, is certain to te the Republican
nominee for governor of New York.
The Spaniards in Havana have tak-
en up the remains of Columbus intend-
ing to ship them to Spain, The Uni
ted States may object.
The Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa
has been floates hy Lieut. Hobson and
is to be added to our wavy.
In Huntingdon the Democrats and
anti-Queg people have fused on pssem-
tes to down the machine
ibitionists, Democrats and
people of Delaware county
on assembiy nominees.
will next try to raise the
isers Colon and Mercedes,
seeps making it hot for
faforms the boss he is ready
at least four instances in
y bought conferees and
by offering pogt-master and
hips for such votes. The
way Jenks and Sowden are expusing
bis bows od soaking him
Piled up wvideges of Ben's trifling |
and it amounted to a considerable
tsum. I do not remember the amount,
but it was enough to pay ofl’ 22 Quay
take care of business, cr to
keep promises which Quay had made
These men could not be put upon
the pay roll, because there was no pro-
bill
vision made in the dppropriation
by the legislative Assembly for them.
a bond given by Mr. Reeder, who was
Governor Hastings, and by Mr. Elkin,
{ who is chairman of the Republican |
committee, and was assistant attorney |
general of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, by which they promised the
treasurer to indemnify him in) A
case the money was not appropriated |
! at some future period.
Now, that is a distinct violation of |
of those people |
would obey and de- |
who swore they
They swore that they would not pay
out any money except upon an appro-
priation made by the assembly,
they proposed to have this done,
this bond to
treasu.er,
This is robbing the people, and it
was a perjury on those who though
promising to defend and obey the con-
stitution, had gone on that bond. If
it will be this
The constitution with reference
to appropriations will be reduced to an
absolute nullity,
yet
and
wns
given the
way :
because if they can do
it in this instance they can do it in ev-
the
will
They can create all
please, and all they
priation bill,
Mr. Elkin, in his book,
; because it has
been the custom of his party for 25
Years, without your Roowing it, to
take money ont of Lhe treasury for the |
paying out of which there was no law,
taking money out of the tieasury and
giving it to men whom they might
employ for any purpose without your |
authority. This would rub out alll
your personal rights so far as your tax- |
es would be concerned, and put it in
the power of these men to take from |
the people their money without any
authority,
campaign
i
tM A RH !
The Alaska Argonauts.
The story of the gold hunters, as pre-|
sented by a shipload of returning pil
grims, tends to drive away all the |
glamour that has hung above the
heads of the pilgrims to the inhospita-
ble Arctic regions. The gold that is
found is little enough, while the!
crowds that have sought it are large.
A ship comes out from the northland
carrying 600 miners and $150,000 in
gold. That is an average of $250 to
the man, or not enough to pay him
for the money he expended in trans
portation charges alone, to say noth-
ing of the cost of his winter's food and
the loss of his time. Bat, to make the
matter more discouraging, most of the
men whocame down on the ship bro't
nothing but that old and mueh told
about thing, experience, a good enough
acquisition, but one always procured
at a cost far out of proportion to its
value,
It is estimated that a liberal allow-
ance for all gold brought out of the
Klondike country for the year would
nbt exceed $12,000,000. That is Jess
than what has been expended in gei-
ting the crowds at Dawson City into
the mines and keeping them there.
The Klondike when the balance sheet
is struck ‘will be found to have cost
more money than it has paid. A few
men have earried away treasure. The
vast majority have been losers, and
many have paid the cost with their
lives,
sn mA A
More than twenty million free sam-
itech Haze
A COMMITTEE WHICH WILL NOT |
INVESTIGATE.
The President Appoints Men to don Little |
Whitewnshlong, Gen, Beaver a
Member of It,
WASHINGTON, Rept.
should the investigation of the War
| Department be made a star chambe r
affair? That is the question asked on |
every side since it was announced that |
Mr. McKinley's would,
until further notice, conduct the inves- |
tigation behind the loc of
room in the War Department, Seetet at |
investigation has never been popular |
26.—~Why |
commission
ked doors
This was |
stated that |
‘ “until |
is expected that |
American people.
those who
these doors would be elosed
{ further notice.” It
testis |
mony in this investigation be publicly |
Hi be thrown open, and (he
{
taken, and that expectation will al-|
most certainly realized. Let the
its consideration of |
be
Commission make
may desire, but let the testimony by
taken in public. Otherwise, the pub-|
lie will put the whole affair down
farcical.
but it is
as
It may be only a coincidence |
significant that the |
McKinley's Commis- |
Dodge, -Gen. G. M.|
The other members, |
un one
named
of Iowa.
sion is
are, Col. J.
E. P. Howell,
Wilson,
of Ind.:
Gen. A. D.
Dr. P.
of Til; (
Maj. Gen. J. M.
+ Hon. C. A. Denby,
Seaver, of Pa.:
of New York,
of Ohio.
‘apt, i
Ex-|
Mo- |
=
1 Gov.
1 ( ‘ook,
and
Giving officers honorable discharges, |
who have been openly accused by Gen-
erals in the army of incompetency and
mismanagement,
convince the
is not a good way to |
that the War |
wishes to find the |
guilty or intends to punish them when |
found. A cage in point is that of Lieu- |
tenant Colonel Rush H. Huidekoper, |
the horse doctor who was Chief Sur-|
:
i
country
Department either
geon at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga !
Park, and against whom many charg- |
es were made, including from |
rigadier General, made directly
Secretary Alger. Instead
Huidekoper court martialed,
he could have vindicated |
ed, that |
his resignation should be accepted and |
he an honorable discharge, |
Mr. McKinley heard of that order and |
countermanded it, and directed that
Huidekoper be ordered to Washington
{ to testify before the investigating eom-
Mr. McKinley finding
out much more about things than he
knew before the talk about investiga-|
tion began; and it is believed that hel
intends making it hot for some of the |
guilty parties. In fact,
one al
to |
=O
that |
either
Were
been
or convict orders issued
be given
mission. is
his personal
he must
do so for self-preservation.
Representative Cochran, of Mo.
who is in Washington trying to con-|
{ vince the administration to order more
| service, said of the Republicans asking
endorsement of their conduct of the
“The Republicans will be fortu-
| nate, indeed, if they can divert public
| attention from the bond issue, the neg-
which has
characterized the conduet of the au
| thorities in actual charge of the prose-
cution of the war. How they can ex-
pect to gain advantage by raising war
issues, it is dificult to “understand.
men of ali parties. They did their du-
ty nobly, and have added to the glory
and reputation of American arms, by
deeds of unparalicled heroism. So
much for the soldiers in the field,
Now, if the authorities at Washington
can afford to go the country for appro.
bation of an administration, which
failed to provide our brave soldiers
with the rations, tents, medicines, and
competent surgeons and attendants,
during the struggle, and hinges the re-
sult of the fall election upon this is-
sue, the Democrats can afford to meet
it, I think, however, that the war
will cut very little figure. Parties will
divide on old lines, and the issues of
1886 will be fought over again.”
Much interest is feit in Washington
in that affidavit made by “Teddy”
Roosevelt, that he was not a resident
wf New York, but of Washington, It
in not believed that the making pub-
lcjof this affidavit by the friends of
Gov. Black, will prevent “Teddy” get-
ting the Republican nomination for
Governor of New York, but ““feddy’s"”
explanation of why he made it will go
a long way towards helping the Dem-
ocrats to defeai him afterward, He
says he made the aMdavit under ad-
wice from his lawyers, because he was
easessed for personal taxes both in New
York and in Washington, and did not
wish to pay double taxes. He ot wped
iton. “Teddy's” army record shows
| that a tax dodger may make a tip-top
| fighter, but the voters of New York
tax dodger governor of their state.
Col. W. J. Bryan and Gov, Holcomb
| of Nebraska, received much attention
| from prominent Democrats during the
| several days they werein Washington
working in the interest of Nebraska
| volunteers. Col, Bryan could not pub-
lily talk politics, but he participated
| in some important political ®onferenc-
| es and freely gave his ppinion to his
| fe How Democrats.
i fy oy
JURY LIST,
Drawn for November Term of C out, Begin
ning Monday, Nov, 28th,
The following have been drawn as
November term of ¢
sn Monday, N
urt,
ovember
commencing
25th, and to
for two weeks:
GRAND JURORS —~I8T WEEK.
John Bmith,
James F, Uzzle, 8
Ne wion Gill
. R.
“hud Philipsburg.
Harry Harter, Spring.
Jonas Rishell,
{iregy.
now Shoe,
' Spring.
Bitner, Gre
ze. $
inger,
Penn,
Isanc Armstrong,
E. E. Hagerty, Philipsburg,
I. M. Cirege.
Thomas Croft,
i
J
College.
Gramley,
Boggs.
Liberty,
Benner,
ohn E.
oseph Marshall,
Abednego Willi Huston.
W. T. Harper, Union.
8S. D. Miller, Miilheim.
Wm. Hoover, Spring.
Chas. W, Wolf, Haines.
ae WY. WW, yer, Potter,
N. W. Eby, Haines,
W. J. Quay, Curtin
Wm. Bilger, Spring.
Michael Dempsey, Rush.
John Bellefonte,
Foresman,
ams,
Anderson,
TRAVERSE JUROR —IST WEEK.
{ Kepheart, Patton.
John Hurd, Philipsburg.
Heverly,
Martin C
J. 8. Mever, Penn.
O. D El Huston,
Wm. Ralston, C
Miles Reigfritz,
John F. Harter,
Michael Fravel, Liberty.
Jax. A. Decker, Ferguson.
Wm. Winklebleck, Haines.
Ephriam Keller
aleb
Jas, Howard,
owher, Worth.
NS
yherts,
lege,
tush.
State
College,
, Spring.
Ammon Greainger, Bellefonte,
Jacob Ge phart, Miles.
John Met Walker,
George F. Stephenson, Patton.
Henry Huey, Benner,
B. Shafer, Haines,
G. W. Lucas, Philipsburg.
Miles Walker, Bellefonte.
Samuel Elder, Ferguson,
C. T. Fryberger, Philipsburg,
George Howe, Philipsburg.
College,
‘auley,
Lie,
Wm. E. Grove, College.
A. H. Leathers, Howard.
Herbert Showers, Spring
Harry Shivery, Benner.
Orr Brickley, Howard.
Chas, A. Musser, Philipsburg.
Eugene Mutchman, Bellefonte.
College,
Heuner,
Mingle, Bellefonte.
L. Rodgers, Walker,
< urtin Garbrick, Spring.
ke Davis, Huston.
AR Boyer, Haines,
John A. Confer, Milesburg.
Jacob Yarnell, Boggs.
Augustus Newman, Milesburg.
Henry Moyer, Gregg.
Wm. Clark, Bellefonte,
Wm. H. Markle College
B. F. Deitrick, Bellefonte.
Samuel Harpster, Jr.
TRAVERSE JURORS SECOND WEEK,
Samuel Wasson, College.
Wm. C, Hubler, Peun.
John P. Seibert, Benner,
Samuel Bailey, Harria,
Hiram Thompson, College,
J. W. Fravel, Buow Shoe.
J. R. Alexander, Spring.
Jacob Breon, Penu.
John Johusonbaugh, Patton.
Theophelus Pletcher, Howard,
Cland Cook, Rellsfoute,
W. E. Vail, "Phil burg.
Harry Deihil, Bellefonte,
John Dunlap, Bellefonte,
Perry Winters, Miles,
Wm. Harter, Liberty.
Edward Beckwith, Taylor.
Thomas Malone, Hoggs.
8B. 8. Miles, Worth, ©
wW.T T. Hubler, Mijes,
J. R. Strong, Potter.
James Jags rn Philipsburg,
John C. Marion,
Philip H. eyer, Harris,
Al Baum, Bellefonte.
T. 8. Delong, Dursin,
Wm. Good Cogs.
oh. ~ Boodle, of lipsburg,
Rat Walker.
AG fobh, Water.
w, M. Da ) . Bellefonte,
yo L ns, Spring.
os, Tush,
Far.
CC. 8. Witmer,
Pence.
Said the Sergeant to the Don,
A fter scrapping at San Juan,
‘You're a soldier and a brother
Let us shake with one another :
Here's my hardtack—take a gnaw.’
Baid the Jackie to the Dago,
Whom he licked at Santiago,
“We plunked you and we sunk you,
Now, we'll feed and clothe and bunk
you,
Here's my baccy, take a chaw,
Weather fine, nights cool.
Grain prices are slow on an upward
The streams in our county are low
The Bpanish forces are leaving Cuba
5
Question being asked : Who was at
Bamuel D. Wykofl, of Rlanchard,
The supervisors of Harris, in anoth-
It is admitted the Democrats will
will
this
Large crowds from this
Union
valley
county fair
Jenks’ speeches cause consternation
Quay camp like 80 many dy-
The American flag was raised the
Hip, hip!
The Coburn flag still waves high in
mountain gap, though somewhat
battle with the winds,
There are 1,143 soldiers’ orphans be-
Alger keeps catching it all around—
yet McKinley won't ask Al-
This week the congressional confer-
will complete the Democratic
We regret to learn, and so will her
W. W. Bpangler, of near Pot-
MifMlinburg still has a number of ty-
as we learn from
Miner's apple evaporating establish-
tosevell on Tuesday was nominated
y 218 for Governor Black.
The safe of the Farmers Bank, of
Mrs. Garis, of near Pleasant Gap,
Spain is making a war threat, if our
A Parisian
on the
R. A Bamiller, of Millheim, after
N
Tapping the new water mains w
Tuesday's deeds of violence the Re
At Maryville, Mo., a wo-
Mary King, of Philadelphia, at-
Wm. J. Bryan is sick in Washing-
The boro’ tax notices have been ob