VOL. LXXI. WASHINGTON LETTER. SPAIN WILL FINALLY GET HER PRICE. The Philip plues Will Likely Bring » Good Price —A Two Billion Dollar Session of the Next Congress, WasHiNaroN, Nov. 21.—Nobody need be misled by the backing and fill- ing of the Peace Commissioners and the weekly crisis, on paper, always ac- | companied by an alleged ultimatum | sent by this government. There has been but one question to be settled since this government demanded the Philippines. The price we are to pay for them, That question is still unset- tled. Why, some of the Spanish bond- holders could doubtless tell. When it is settled we will have the treaty of Peace and not before. That Mr. Me- Kinley could quickly settle this busi. ness by sending an ultimatum un- | questioned; also that he ought to do it, | but it is numiliating, in the extreme, to have men close to the administra- is regular army be increased to 100,000 men, and that he will indorse the rec- ommendation of Secretary Long that three battleships and twelve cruisers be built, and twenty thousand men aud two thousand five hundred boys be enlisted in the Navy. How some men's heads do grow aft- er they get an office. During the years that Perry Heath did newspaper work around Washington, nobody ever sus- pected him of greatness, although he was always on the lookout for the main lic pay roll at every opportunity—for a long time he drew pay as a laborer in the folding room at the Capitol, hiring a man, at half his salary, to do the work —bnt he got into Boss Hanna's good graces, and lo! he became first as- sistant postmaster general; and now he wants to Senator from Indiana. Should that want be gratified, he will to order. be have to have lis hats made PHONE, a . — SURRENDER BY TELE The Part a Centre County Boy Took in the Late Unplensaniness, tion announcing every week that has been sent, when a day or two erwards it becomes apparent to all the world that it has not. one aft- | i It is the easiest thing in the world to get people accustomed to and indif- ferent to large public expenditures. Only a few years ago the appropria- tion of a billion dollars by a Republi- can Congress aroused the public opin- ion of the country, and elected a Dem- ocratic President and Congress. Since then, about every Congress has been a | ] billion-dollar Congress, and the pres- | ent Congress, which has already propriated almost a billion dollars, | will, by the end of the coming short session, have reached the two billion mark. It is true that a considerable portion of this money is chargeable to the war, but outside of the war, the! public expenditures are entirely too extravagant, and might curtailed without lessening the efficiency of the government, ap- | be Mr. McKinley has shown his adroit- | ness as a politician by deciding not to recommend any legislation at the com- ing session of Congress for Porto Rico or the Philippines, and to keep the is- | lands under military rule for awhile. | He knows that the question of legisla- | tion for the islands will be a trouble some one and prefer< that it shall not | be taken up until his party has a ma- jority in both branches of Congress, Assistant Secretary of War Meikle- john wishes to be the Hanna-McKin- ley candidate for the Senate, from Ne- braska, and his friends say that he thinks he wiil be, the conditions being that he shall promise to support the administration in all things in the! Senate, and that he shall secure a solid | McKinley delegation from Nebraska to the Republican Convention in 1900, The same sort of pledge is being exact- | ed as the price of administration sup- | port of all the other candidates for the Senate, in states where the legislatures | to elect Senators are controlled by the Republicans. Mr. McKinley seems | reasonably certain of a renomination, | but Boss Hanna will take no chances aod will, if in his power, clinch the thing long before the convention is | held. It is to carry out this clinching program that the Republican Nation- | al Committee is to open headquarters | in Washington, at once, and keep | them open until after the Presidential | election. It is also a part of this scheme to exhibit tae strength of the administration machive to Czar Reed, as & warning. it is announced that the Canadian American Commission, now sitting in | Washington, has made great progress, | but the announcers take good care to! accompany the announcement with | the statement that the agreements | reached by the Commission have been only upon minor matters, and that the important questions are still up in the air, It is further stated that none of the agreements reached are to be bind- ing unless agreements are reached up- on everything, which indicates that the “‘great progiess’’ is largely imagn- ary. The Republican U. 8. District Attor- ney, for South Carolina, spent two en- tire days consulting with the adminis. tration, upon what should be done by the Attorney General, if saoything, about the race troubles in that state, The District Attorney was not enthu- silastic over the probable success of the plan of trying to gel indictments against white men for participating in riots, from a Federal Grand Jury, which has been adopted by the admin- istration, but he will have to try it on, if the administration insists; he wish- es to continue drawing his salary, Tal- bert, the Assistant postmaster, who was driven away from McCormick, has decided to remain in Washington and try to eatch a government job, on the “strength of his “martyrdom.” . It has been definitely settled that Mr. McKinley will in his annual mes- : : i Rico) first of the Wasp, then to three officers who stray- then to Com- mander Davis and finally to General Miles. Ensign Curtin landed with a letter for the military commander, which demanded the surrender of the port of The town (ponece, Porto ed into it by mistake, formed him that the military officer would condescend make his de- The American offi. cer fairly shook and quivered with in- “Zounds I" and “PDamime, " dignation. “ad would sir ! have utterly failed to express zooks I" and his as- tonishment. “How long will it take that milita- he hur- "demanded Ensign Curtin. The terrified captain of the port, the ry commander to get here if ries tom house officials thought that a swiftly moving cab might bring him to the port in a half hour. “Have you a telephone about the place 7" asked the Napoleonic Curtin. They had. “Then call him up and tell him that here in a hack in thirty minutes and surrender I shall bombard Ponce.” He turned his back on the terrified inhabitants and returned to his gig, Four backs started on a mad race for office of the tel ephone rang with hurry calls, On his way to the ship Ensign Car- tin met Commander Davis on his way to the shore. “I shall extend his time another half hour,” said Commander Davis. Ensign Curtio saluted sternly, mak- ing no criticism upon this weak gener- come down but he could afford to be magnani- He, at least, had upheld the bonor of the navy, and he will go middy who demanded and obtained a by telephone.—Richard Harding Davis, in Scribner's. ——— a — A Popular Remedy, A newly discovered and very sue- cessful cure for sore throat is to gargle it with beer. This announcement may create an epidemic of neck trou- ble, but for the benefit of genuine suf- ferers the cure must be made public. It will not work where the muscles of allowed to slip down. It Worked Quite Well, Two Huntingdon county boys suc- cessfully used a tame turkey hen to de- roy wild turkeys within range of their guns. They would tie the turkey to a tree and secrete themselves until is calls would bring the desired game within reach. It worked well until the other day another hunter shot and killed the tame turkey, to the great distress of the boys, a ss A A A A SY House Burned, A few days ago the house of Henry Detweiler, at the mountain south of Rebersburg, and occupied by Emaguel Confer, was burned with all its con- tents. Fire originated while he was preparing breakfast, No insurance. rm————— A Young Girl's Experience. My daughter's nerves were terribly out of order. She was thin and weak; the least noise startled her, and she was wakeful at night. Before she bad taken one package of Celery King the change in her was so great that she girl. Bhe is rapidly growing well and strong, her complexion is perfect, and she sleeps well every night.\-Mrs, Lu- ey MeNutt, Brush valley, Pa. Celery King for the Nerves, Stomach, Liver, and Kidneys Is sold In 25¢. and B50c. sage to Congress, recommend that the WONDERFUL MARKSMEN, | Something to Make the Mouths of Sober, | : LOCAL MELANGE. Harter, ot al, Water, It is singular, but true, that a com- paratively restricted territory has pro- duced three single ball shots, in Texas, | A Lively Snake Tale Wnieh is Supposed to who are probably the greatest the | world has ever known. They are Tex- | ans, Toepperwein, a boy named Pet- mecky, and Joseph Tumlinson, { Toepperwein's feats are severing | from the county seat, and was printed swinging strings and splitting bullets by the dailies. It is driven against the edges of knives and | story | COUNTY. Have Occurred in this Vicinity The following dispatch was gent out f i dollars tossed in the air. The picture | twenty miles east of Bellefonte, George | of Commodore Schley, which he | Walls had a hair raising experience makes with 200 bullets fired with won- | with snakes. derful rapidity from a target rifle, | bis feet, and he fell into a den, about | Young Petmecky is as remarkable | twelve feet square, in which were four for the rapidity of his firing as for its | huge balls of reptiles. Each round | accuracy. A man cannot count the! mass wasabout two feet in diameter, | shots he fires when going at full speed | and contained hundreds of snakes, of | any more than he can count the beats | all sizes and many kinds, They were | in a drum-roll. A favorite feat of his is to toss a|their heads about, hissed and writhed, | | brick in the air, break it in two, and { they did not uncoil or attack him. then break both before they | On the floor of the cave few stray | | strike the ground, | snakes crawled about, but Walls got | Tumlinson used to take a six-shooter | out of the way and shrieked for help. | | in his hand and write his initials into | It was nearly half an hour before his | la tree while galloping past it; would | companion found him and hauled him | scallop the edges of a tin plate set up | out. fat thirty yards by striking it with | half the bullet ; would stand with his | heels close together and wheel rapidly, | clipping the red “pearapples’” from | i i leaves twenty ~”™ { cactus yards away ;| sandhill | would Cranes, | ducks and Mexican quail upon wing, using a Winchester; would | the verdict o | stand for hours on the banks of Soldier | which Dr. John Marshall | | Lake, in Dimmitt i$ against the American | the heads from moccasins which swam | Telegraph Company for the destruc | The ground caved under partly dormant, and while they swung | i pieces a When Walls was dragged to the | surface he fainted. He was so anxious | | to get home that no attack was made Dare Not Cut Trees. : i i i ion the snakes, 3 i po i shoot geese, An exchange says the property own- | the | ers of the state will be gratified Bucks county jury! over i f a awarded county, severing | $737 damages { far out ; would take a pistol in each | tion of over sixty shade trees in front hand and send Ata previ-| | dollars spinning far upward and bored | ous criminal court Dr. Marshall pros-| through. He shot, if anything, better when | bad committed the acts of damage and | drunk than when sober, and despera- | they were found guilty and fined $50 | does with smaller reputations went in- | each. There { to Back rooms and much license in when he came to town. | had any trouble with him if they saw | against the rights of property owners, | {him first. He died by his own hand | and the decision in the Bucks county | in his 64 year. { courts will prove a salutary one. | ~- i : Dr. Swallow Sued. Commissioner Evans, of the pension | Congressman Josiah D. Hicks, | office, notified Secretary Alger that |Altoona, has brought a libel suit | | Jesse T. Gates, of the Second United | against Dr. 8B. C, Swallow for recovery | | States artillery, who lost part of his | of $50,000 damages. The alleged libel. {upper lip in the West Indian cam- |ous article was published in the Har-| | paign, has been awarded the first pen- | risburg Commonwealth January 2ist, ision on account of the Spanish war, | and had reference to the connection of | two tossed Mexican | of his summer residence, } i | { ecuted the company’s employes who | has been entirely too taken by the Nobody | companies that erect overhead wires | locked themselves various | i i fmf — co sc pc fn 1 i First Spanish War Pension. i Of {$17 a month. The President and the | secretary of war each took an interest | in this case, for Gates called on them lin person soon after the close of the | campaign. Claims on account of the i : ily. The total on file up to date is 1,94 | ice, exclusive of the claims of the bat- | tleship Maine victims. Mc ci sa | Feathers Come Off Easy, quickly as to astonish one who does not understand the operation. It ia done by dipping each carcass in cold water and allowing it to drip. Finely pulverized rosin is then dusted over and among the feathers, which causes feathers to stick to the hands, even the pin feathers coming out with but lit tle difficulty. Use the common crude rosin, about half a teaspoonful for each fowl. ¢ C. K. Bober and brother, and son, with the Harter Bros, of Woodward, says the Journal, in this week's hunt brought 138 pheasants out of the Hains twp. mountains. The Sobers 75, and the Harters 63. Gosh, what a big Thanksgiving dinner that would have made for the Reporter. MM Farmers’ Institutes, The state board of agriculture has set the following dates for the holding of farmers’ institutes, in this county. At Boalsburg, Jan. 51st and Feb, Ist; at Madisonburg, Feb. 2nd and 3rd. If Carnegie Opposed, Carnagie strongly opposes MeKin- ley’s imperialism by the annexation of the Philippines with its eight million heathen barbarians, Shurz, Hoar, Edmunds, and other prominent Re- publicans, are also pronounced against imperialism. nes AA RSL Advance in Coal, The anthracite coal operators have decided to make an advance in the price of coal of 25 cents a ton. It is rumored that there is to be a meeting of the anthracite coal officials in New York, and that the advance was to be made immediately after the meeting. sma AI ON, Big Game Score, Cough Cure su people by its quick and Pp ha pe? Ei t mn of any | Mr. Hicks with the defunct Pennsyl- { vania building and loan association. | | Dr. Bwallow says he did not write the | | article and has no official connection | with the Commonwealth. a Marriage Licenses. The following marriage | were issued during the past week: | William W. Simler and Ellen Swift, | both of Philipsburg. | Michael J. Kelley, Snow Shoe, and | Elizabeth C. Smith, Karthaus, Clement Harter and Emma M. Poor- | | man, both of Marion township. Alfred C. Smith and Leah R. gle, both of Colyer. Harry W. Flack, Spring twp., and Annie Kiefe, Bellefonte. pn A Big Blizzard. A big blizzard struck the country west and northwest of Chicago, begin- ning of the week, Trains were blocked by snow drifts, and considerable suf- fering was caused, Two brothers were caught in the blizzard and were found frozen to death, supposed they had been drinking, The spent end of the blizzard reached this county Tuesllay night, causing ground and puddles to freeze, ——————— Death of a Prominent Banker. Henry C. Parsons, president of the State Bankers’ association, and one of the best known and ablest lawyers in Northern Pennsylvania, died at his home on West Fourth street, Will iamsport, Monday. The death of the popular attorney and respected citizen was a shock to the community ia licenses | Lin- aged 64 years, - i fp A They are Reckless, The reckless manner in which wo- men put on and remove flannel under- wear according as they feel cool or warm makes doctors gasp, the mascu- line idea to keep on such clothing when it is once donned, no matter if veritable Fourth of July weather comes in January. Pleked Open a Pimple. On election day Harry Kreisher, a young man of Watsontown, picked open a small pimple that was on his nose. Blood poisoning developed, re anlting in the death of the young man a few days ago. . New Pastor for Sunbury, Rev. J, Calvin Leinbach, who re signed as pastor of the First Reformed church, Bunbury, will locate in Read. i A MANIACS WILD CAREER. | Ran Naked through the Woods and Fought i Like Mad Beast, Andrew Higgins, alumberman, who | went violently insane while at work | | in a camp at the head of Baker's Run, | in Clinton county, last Wednesday, | stripped himself of all clothing except {an undershirt, and then started into {the forest. He was pursued, but evad- {ed capture. About pine o'clock that | night he appeared in the village of Glen Union, eleven miles from camp, in a shocking condition, His limbs and feet were gashed by the rocks and briers, and to make his case more piti- | wrenched every | feet, He declared | that he bad murdered two men and] would kill the first man who attempt- ed to eapture him, toe nail from his two women | who were alone on the street, and | whom the hideous fellow chased until; they reached safety in a house. One| He was discovered by Higgins, who isa] powerful fellow ofJorty-five years, was | overpowered by five citizens of Glen Union, after an ugly fight, in which | the maniac bit and scratched like al He was locked in a second | night he | from the window | and leaped to the ground. wrenched the sash Thursday morning at nine o'clock, | Railroad, near Ferney, a a freight train, He refused to move, | a stand-| still the pilot of the engine had push-| the track. Another fight | The train's locked him in a watch box and tele- The fellow | Lock Haven, | ensued. crew | in and exhausted from lack of food and | loss of blood. He is now at the hospi- | He sticks to his declaration that | he has murdered two men, and it | feared that he may have done so some- | Run Union. is | i previous to | The clothing | latter place Hig-| | i i { { A A ITIES. Governor : Stone, Republican, Jenks, Democrat, Swallow, prohibitionist, Barnes, Jenks’ plurality, Gobin, Republican, Sowden, Democrat, Bowden's plurality 582 Superior Court : W. W. Porter, Repub. W. D. Porter, Repub. Wm. Trickett, Democrat, 4553 Calvid Bower, Democrat, 4485 3643 BEG 3593 Congress : Arnold, Republican, Hall, Democrat, Rheem, Prohibition, 3501 4428 3% Hall's plurality, 027 State Senate ; Osburn, Republican, Heinle, Democrat, Long, Prohibitionist, Heinle's plurality, 847 Legislature : Daley, Republican, Townsend, Republican, Foster, Democrat, Wetzel, Democrat, Williams, Prohibition, Long, Prohibition, 3597 3522 A386 4328 303 a31 780 731 Foster over Townsend, Wetzel over Townsend, Prothonotary : Williams, Republican, Gardner, Democrat, Beerly, Prohibition, 3624 4386 262 Gardner's plurality, 761 District Attorney : N. B. Spangler, Democrat 4462 Surveyor: H. Herring, Democrat, 4877 To Reorganize the Guard, Capt. H. 8. Taylor, of Bellefonte, has received official orders from the Adjutant General to reorganize his Company, and enter the State Militia, The Company will be composed of the men who were mustered out of Co. B, bth Reg., Pa. Vol. Restores Tt. When a pen has been used until it appeared to be spoiled, place it over a flame for a quarter of a minute, then dip it into water and it will be again fit for work. A mew pen which is found too hard to write with will be- come softer by being thus heated. AA AN, NO. 46 LOCAL ITEMS, Cullings of More than Ordinsry Interest from Everywhere. Business. You mu#’ go in on yoh muscle, In dis an world of ours, You mus’ stir yohse’f an’ hustle ‘Bid o’ waitin’ to pick flowers. Folks ain’ lookin’ foh you, no sir, "Less dey knows jes’ whah you is. What folks asks foh um de grocer Is de fing dat’s advertiz. Dis here life's a long puhcession ; Mos’ of us jes’ omg, 4 in line ; But de leaders, by puefession, Is de band, wif music fine, An’ it ain’ de sof’, sweet player Dat marks time foh ‘em to come— It’s dat noisy, solid stayer Who keeps hammerin’ on de drum, Snyder county's jail is without pris- oners, Sunday is the reverse of some folks ; he isn’t as black as the business he's in. The Millhall schools were closed this week on account of scarlet fever. never sleep well ; 80 says the good Book. Evil disposed persons It don’t hold out to wink at what is wrong thinking to gain thereby. The western tail around the snoots of folks here. blizzard switched its Peter Yearick, a life-long resident of aged 72 years. Judge Gordon, of Philadelphia, furn- ishes a Thanksgiving surprise by re- signing, Your fellow man of whom is often far than using a vile tongue. you gos- i better the one A six-year-old daughter of David Ii- gen, of Sugar valley, died on 17th, of John Royer, of near Tusseyville, is the first on deck, with a porker that dressed 460 pounds. Next, Dr. Frank Vanvalzah, of Spring Mills, is ill, gastric eatarrh of the in- testines being the trouble. Frank Lee, on Kaufman's farm, 2 i i 8 of corn from 13% acres. Frank is a good farmer. Rev. Rearick’s appointments, Sun- Centre Hall, 7p. m. ; Spring Mills 10 a. m. ; Tusseyville, 2 p.m. { Drs. Musser and Hayes amputated | an eye for Emanuel Harter of near Re- | bersburg, which had been causing him Beveral of our physicians inform us that there are not many typhoid fever cases in the valley, anymore. Pneu- monia is more prevalent. Our townsman, John Sanders, has got through with a lumber job, up Buf- falo Run, on which he was employed the past two years. Rev. Hepler, of Lemont, last Sun- day preached temperance sermons in the Presbyterian churches of Centre Hall and Spring Mills, which stirred up the animals. Centre county will remain Demo- cratic as long as its organization is as ably and unselfishly managed as at present, and none but honest and ca- pable men elected to office. Rabbits continue plenty, we know it, since Chas. Arney, the luckiest of Centre county hunters, presented the Reporter with two large and fat ones, for which we tip our editorial chapo. Docking a horse's tail besides being cruelty to the animal, means that you pretend to know better than the Crea tor what is best for the horse and adds to its beauty. In Cleveland there was a surprise and sensation in court on Tuesday by one judge charging that another judge had taken a $3000 bribe and that the bench was rotten. Keerect, in many instances, It is our pleasure to meel that sage of Gregg township, John Grove, oc casionally, and agree with him as he deplores the crying wrongs committed in high places, not excepting our halls of justice. An English newspaper recently of fered a prize of £5 for the best reply to the question, “Who makes the best wife?” One of the replies received was as follows: “Dear Bir: Mine. Yours truly, Bertram Boggs.” The December number of “MeClure's Magazine’ will have two Christmas stories, one of them with special deco- rative illustrations ; a frontispiece from a painting made recently in the Holy Land expressly for the Christmas number of the magazine, by C. K. Linson ; and a special Christmas cov- er. g The coming philosopher, at our el- bow, asks if it is possible for a person to have too much of a good thing at
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