VOL. LXXII. A BLIZZARD STRIKES US. SEVERE COLD WEATHER THE PAST WEEK, Heavy Snows aad Mercuss Below Zero Causes Great Distress for Nearly a Week. ~The Storm General, A storm and cold wave struck this section on Wednesday of last week, and until the following Wednesday morning there was no appreciable rise in temperature, and the cold was in- tense, Last Thursday morning the ther- mometer dropped to 11 below zero. All through the day the mercury did not rise above 3 below zero, and during the afternoon again began to fall. By dark it was down to 10 and still falling and on Friday morning at six it was 19 below zero—a temperature which was far below that which could be re called by our oldest residents, The cold was intense and was made more severe by a brisk wind blowing, which drove the frigid air through every erack and nook. No one attempted to do anything but try keep warm. To venture outside was to invite frost-bit ten hands, feet and faces. Only those compelled by necessity, braved the icy blasts, but there was no loitering and every one had a hustle on, about which there could be no doubt. ' Phe trains Thursday and Friday did t attempt to run on schedule, and were from one to four hours late, Saturday morning it moderated some and the thermometer was only down to 16 below zero. The cold was becoming accustomed to and this fall did not seem so severe. another bitter day, but rr moderated enough to let down a heavy | blanket of snow on top of the one we had a week before. pon FLORIDA, Personally-Conducted Tour via Pennsylva- nin Railroad, The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa. ny’s third tour of the present season to Jacksonville, allowing two weeks in Florida, will leave New York and Philadelphia by special train of Pull. man Palace ears Tuesday, February 21, Cxeursion tickets, including railway transportation, Pullman accomuaoda- tions (one berth,) and meals en route in both directions while traveling on the special train, will be sold s: the following rates: New York, $30.00; Philadelphia, $48.00; Canand.igua, $52.85; Erie, $54.85; Wilkesbarre, $50.- 35: Pittsburg, $3.00, and at tionate rates from other points. For tickets, itineraries, and fu'l in- formation apply to ticket agents; Tour- ist Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York; 789 Broad Street, Newark, N., J.: or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant Gen- eral Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. pi opor- po COLD NOTES, Freeze, Blizeard and Blockade All Over, The freeze, blizzard and snow block. ade that set in night of Sth, and econ- tinued up to 14th. This was the fate of the entire country. In parts of the northwest the ther- mometer was as low as 60 below zero, Down in Texas it was 10 below with five feet of snow on the level and many cattle frozen, The greatest suffering was among the poor of the cities, who were short in food and fuel, many deaths by freez- ing, and persons with limbs frozen, are reported, The cold was s0 intense that trains on railroads were ordered not run for In Centre county thermometers reg- istered from 15 to 30 below zero, From this snow fall every one ex- pected trouble. These expectations | were partly realized. The snow was | blown everywhere, piling high along | the fences and badly blocking up the] roads. Monday afternoon and even- ing the storm was at its worst. A general tie-up similar to the one we had exactly four years ago was looked for, but this year’s record did not quite equal that blizzard. The trains man- aged to get through with the aid of ex- tra engines, but they were hours late, The railroad from Bellefonte to Mon- tandon, which usually suffers most from weather of this sort, got through comparatively easy. However, there were no connections at either end of the line, and io consequence there was very little travel, The mails were de- Jay:=d Monday, Tuesd vy and Wednes- day, and since Monday morning until this morning there has been none from eastern or western sections, The Penusylvania railroad was clean knocked out between Philadelphia | and Pittsburg, and along all their lines | there was no end of trouble. No | trains were run on the main lines for! almost two days, and all attempts at traffic were abandoned. Trains were | stuck in drifts and others annulled. | The storm was general and covered | all parts of the country. esi amas he Terrible Losses of the Philippinos, It is now known that the Philipioo loss is fully 2500 killed, with wounded vastly in excess of that number, and thousands are held prisoners, All this has been achieved at the cost of 65 Americans killed and wounded. There are two Americans missing and unaccounted for. No fewer than twenty native villa- | ges have surrendered or been captured, Several have been destroyed because their houses harbored men, frequently disguised in female attire, who shot from windows and roof tops at the American troops, EE ff Counterfeit 810, Bankers throughout the country have been receiving a circular issued by the Treasury Department describe ing a new counterfeit $10 silver certifi- cate that has just made its appearance, It is marked as one of the series of 1896, letter B, with a portrait of Hendricks, a small red scolloped seal, and forged signatures of Tillman, register, and Morgan, treasurer. The paper is of two pieces, with silk fibres between, ~The panel in which the word “Hen- dricks,” under the portrait appears is rounded st the ends instead of being square, as it should be. The lettering is poor and uneven and the face of the 11 is smaller than the genuine, A Common Danger, If you have ever had a cold which permitted to ‘wear away'’ it may t you to know it was a danger- proceeding. Every cold and cough = 257 whieh is the lowest on record here. The depth of snow that fell in this to 14th, was from 12 to 15 inches, with about 10 inches of previous snows on the ground, Sunday high winds set in which in- creased to a furious storm which raged until Tuesday morning esusing big drifts on the public highways and rail- roads. All- trains running into this county were maoy hours late, The troublesome Centre Hall eut, above the pie-nic ground, as usual, offered the most stubborn resistance fo trains, but by hard work and butting the drifts, the engines conquered. Fortunately, there were no deaths in suffering among persons and animals. Tuesday no freights were ran on the L. & T., frour a humane feeling of the officials for their crews. ss MA SA SA AA A Noteworthy Departure, Sixty Cents Worth of Entertain. ment for Only Five Cents. —It has been considered wonderful to publish a mag- reading matter as would be given in 50 eolumns of the average newspaper, But the Great “Philadelphia Sanday | Press’ comes to the front with the an- day, February 19, it will be so enlarged that each number will contain six times as much reading matter so any ten cent magazine, Just think of it! For five cents you can get “The Phil adelphia Sunday Press’ and fird as much entertainment and instruction as if you spent 60 cents for magazines, Look out for next “Sunday's Press,” It will be a wonder, et —— LATE NEWS CONDENSED, The cold caused a rail to break on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad Monday afternoon, which wrecked a passenger train, one man was killed and nine injured. Nearly all the roads running into Philadelphia had to abandon train serviee on account of snow and eld, The Quay people are trying to buy two Democratic house members to move a reconsideration of the vote by which the McUarrell jury bill was postponed. A Mb rss Fireman Drops 70 Feet from the Tender. James McCready, a fireman, who with his wife and two children lived at Mabafley, Clearfield county, met a frightful death at that place on Fri: day. His engine was crossing the bridge over the West Branch, and he went out on the tender to get ready to take water at the tank at the end of the bridge, when he slipped and plunged headlong to the solid ice below, a dis- tance of 70 feet, being almost instantly killed, —— A SURPRISE PARTY, Van Valkenburg Says One is in Store for Senator Quay. E. A. Van Valkenburg, who is in charge of the anti-Quay headquarters in Harrisburg, gave out a statement Monday in which he predicts that there is a “surprise party’’ in store for Benator Quay and his friends. Mr, Van Valkenburg says the McCarrell Jury bill will continue to be the bone of contention during the week, and that it will never become a law until it is macerially amended. “It is admitted by Senator Quay’s most intimate friends,” he adds, ‘that he must win his fight this week or re- WASHINGTON LETTER. Si INCREASE OF THE ARMY TO BE | STRONGLY OPPOSED. slon Unless His Imperialism Bi is Passed, Spain's Indemnity, WasHinaroN, Fob. ie Benstors have not lessened their op- | position to the Hull army bill, little bit, on account of Mr. ley's threats to call an extra session of the next Congress, if the bill not passed by the Senate, They even n | is are tire beaten and baffled from the con- test. 1 doubt if he will have the good | sense to retire yet, but 1 am certain | that he will not win this week or any | other week so long as the present legis- ,000 men shall be continued | | for one year from next July, in order | that we may have whatever lature lives, Bcc ncn Hard on Chicken Thieves. Judge Gaskill struck terror to the hearts of chicken thieves in the ¢ rourt | of quarter sessions at Mount Holly, N. | J., on Saturday last, when he sentenc- ed various members of a gang of ¢ hick- | en thieves to various terms in the pen- itentiary of that state. One culprit, the leader of the gang, got ten years, another eight years, another five years, two others three years each, one two | years, and still another, who made a full confession, by which the whole gang was convicted, got six months in the county jail. The judge when im- posing the sentence took occasion te say that he desired it to be understood that hereafter clemency need be asked for this class of offenders, and in order to be doubly sure of having pun- ishment meted out to the chicken roost visitors suspended sentence on one indictment in each case, so that in the event of any of the gang being re- leased by the board of pardon, under a misapprehension or other cause, the court could thereupon resentence the prisoners under the remaining indict ment. It is evident that Judge kill proposes to rid his community of thieves, His action of course will be noticed by judges of other courts, and may prove a precedent for meteing out severe punishment to chicken thieves and other criminals in our own state and county. no Cian. i —— Held for Robbing » Grave, Andrew M. White, of Lincklaen, N. Y.,, who was captured near Will inmsport, in a lumber camp, is wanted in Lake county, Mich., for grave rob. bing. Sheriff Colton, of Lake county, started home on 9th, with his prisoner. White, it is alleged, has procured a policy for $2000 insurance on his life, payable to H. B. White, his father The prisoner, it is said, stated to the insurance company that he was “F. M. White,” who is the prisoner's uun- cle, and who has been missing over 20 years. It is alleged that he robbed a grave in Bennett, Lake county, took the corpse to a near by log cabin, put his own clothes on it, and then de camped. Before leaving he wrote a letter to H. B. White, saying that he had just returned from the Klondike, and that he intended fishing and hunt- ing in Lake cbunty. After some weeks H. B. White went to Michigan, found the corpse, and claimed it as that of F.'M. White, his brother. A coro- ner's jury said the corpse did not tally with the description given by White upon his arrival there, and declared the body was that of another person. SALI This is » Straight Tip, Here is a straight tip from a news paper called “Brains; “There is but one way to advertise and that is ham- mer your name, your occupation, your business so thoroughly into the peo- ples heads that if they walk in their sleep they will constantly turn their steps towards your place of business, The home local paper is your friend. It belps to build up the community that supports you.” I ———] 1 ] Is Never Disconraged, The fact that it is useless to try to discourage the office seeker is attested by the following note recently receiv- ed by Governor Stanley, of Kansas: “Dear Sir—I understand you said you was going to take a week off to tear up the big pile of letters asking you for Jobs. If everything else is gone, I would like the job of tearing up the letters.” Try it When You are Mad, The first time you get real mad and feel like swearing, stop and repeat the folluwing in ove breath: “See six soa sick sisters sicking six spitz dogs on six sicker cats! If the six still sicker cats swiftly seek safety on a slick syca- {| more, shall the six seasick sisters care is pease shat se sie spite and sick- * evs ure sickly? » | perialistic program. Senator Jones, of Arkapsas, said very emphatically: { “We do not intend to allow a large | | standing army to be permanently fast- ened upon this country,” and Senator Cockrell said: « “If the President will make the failure of the Hull bill to! pass the Senate, an excuse for an extra his proclamation now, We do fenr an extra session, It would com-| pel the Republicans to show their hand | and outline their policy, which is now concealed.” Nearly all of the Demo-| cratic Senators talk the same which makes it reasonably certain that the Army bill will not get through the Senate, not Senator Mason, who talked agminst! the treaty, and then voted for it, may | have been somewhat pricked by his | conscience. At any rate he pricked | in a speech he made concerning their | violation of an implied if not an actu- al agreement, that the various resolu- tions as to the Philippine policy of this government, should be voted up- on after the treaty was disposed of. He | then took the bit in his teeth and said | that he intended to keep the floor un- til the Benate agreed to vote upon the | McEnery resolution, which declares that this government intends to follow the same policy in the Philippines as | in Caba. His threat brought the Sen- | ate to time, and it was unanimously agreed to vote on the MeEnery resolu- tion Tuesday, although Senator Haw- ley afterwards tried to change that ac- tion, Representative DeArmond, of Mo., made a strong anti-expansion speech, | in which he said of the item appropri- | ating $20,000,000 to pay Spain for the | Philippines, which is in the Sundry i Civil Appropriation bill: “If this $20.- | 000,000 is to be appropriated now, why | ought not this House to fix the bounds | ana limits? Do you propose to in these Philippine islands as part and parcel of this government, part and | parcel of the territory of the U. 8, to] endure and to continue as long as we ean hold them as part and parcel of it? | If you do, say so. If you do not, sa not. If you do not know, then why | the hot haste for such legislation? Why the extraordinary demand for a very large array 7 Why the imperious spirit here and in the other end of the Capitol, which rejects all suggestion of amendment, while at the same time it proclaims that you know not whether your policy is to be temporary or per. manent, that you know not whether you are to acquire this territory as a permanent acquisition or for a short time, yet wants the army permanent- ly, wants an army of 100,000 men, wants the quge expenditures that are made directly and the huger expendi. tures that will follow in their wake, through the extravagance and reckless. ness and general demoralization which certainly must attend this kind of loose legislation. You want these things permanently, but what you will do with them, how long you will use them, oh, excuse you from saying any- thing about that !” Representative Lentz, of Ohio, in a short speech denounced Mr. McKinley for commuting the sentence of Gen. Eagen to suspension for six years, un- der full pay. He said that Eagan had called Miles a liar for simply telling the truth, truth to which 50,000 pris vate soldiers could testify <that the troops had been fed with rotten beef. And that Mr. McKinley's action real- ly amounted to rewarding Eagan for attacking Miles, Secretary Alger did not recommend the order for a Military Court of Io- quiry to assemble in Washington on Wednesday of this week, to investi gate the embalmed beef charges made by Gen. Miles, ast by Mi. 3 Mega take | $ aay | ger’ 8 right bower in preparing testimo- | | ny to be produced before the Court of | | Inquiry in behalf of the beef contract- | | ors, which old-fashioned folk are in-| | clined to regard as a scandal of itself, | | under the circumstances, i The statement of Representative | | Cannon that there wonid be a deficit | {of not less than £169,000,000 at the end | | of the next fiscal year, if Congress did | | not economize in the Appropriations, | while startling was not surprising to | those who have been noting the Re-| i | pub liean tendency to extravagance, | { The abstract of the whitewash re- | i port of the War Investigating Com- | | mittee, just given out, not worth anybody's serious attention. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, has offered a resolution providing for the extension lof the thanks of Cougress to Maj. Gen, E. 8B. Otis, for his vietories the | Filipinos in the last week. In view of the Benate, is ovel record sent to by the Navy Department, See. Me hiley | lie i moted a few numbers under Sampson, dann How the Great Rallroad Lines Were Ope rated Under the Cold Blast. Supt. Piteairn, of the Pittsburg divi- Penn'a R.R., “This terrible gion, BAYS : p caught unprepared, only but all over the country, first day office, the Buch Pittsburg, Daring the we fretted and fumed in the as it was an new experience to be cold sna wholly Case not in completely prevented from caring for | our big business as With all fretting and we got through the day only sticeessiul- the next | It kept growing colder, and the reports of the experiences of the usual, fuming, halt fs the lines running into offices of | Union , and we decid {ed it was useless to continue the regu- | | toy quit, wports from the other station were just as bad We had plenty of business | The trouble first began with the steam pipes, They | sppearad to simply torn foto jee, with | reason a stop of a few minutes in any | ocenrred, the | To set it into working order meant breaking much of the machinery, and conse-| The damage thus | Ho to save the equipment, without “The greatest would have been how ever, Their injury, to the men, have been terrible, i have gone through and no one could | it without being | This would have been just if not more 80. As the cold in- creased, every part of the service felt {its eflects, and the road was simply {tied up tight. In all my experience, ment, nis railrosd since it started, 1 have! incver known anything to equal this! cold weather,” — Pittsburg Times, Sela Liguor Licenses to be Stamped, War will not even leave the saloon keeper alone, that providing he wishes to have his place licensed. Clerks of courts have been informed that every man who makes applica tion for license will have to show his good faith by spending eighty-five cents for revenne stamps. A ten cent stamp must be aflixed to the petition, a 25 cent ove to the power of attorney and a 50 cent one to the bound, making 85 cents in all. is, po Clearfield Marder Cuse—Hart Guilty, The trial of Hart, charged with the killing of Vietor Corretti, at DuBois, April 26, 1806, closed on Saturday. The Jury went out at 9 o'clock same night and came ip at 2 o'clock Sunday after noon with a verdict of murder in the second degree. There was a long con- test, as several jurors were favorable to a first-degree verdict. Hart received the verdict with stolid indifterence. His attorneys made a motion for ar- rest of judgment. ——————————— A] SMS SAN Like Wormy Apples, Boys who have formed the cigarette habit are like wormy apples—they drop long before harvest time. They rarely make failures in after life, be- cause they have no life, The boy who begins cigarette smoking before his if teenth year never enters the life of the world. When other boys are taking hold of the world’s work he Is concern- ed with the sexton and undertaker, Simian — Suturday last, 24 NO. 7 LOCAL ITEMS, Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest from Everywhere, When Winter Goes, 1 know dat Mister Winter Will purty soon be gone, Kase de rheumatism lef’ me, Eu de chills a-comin on, Springtime en peaches Cilory, hallelu ! Wen I cuts dat watermillion I'll save de rind fer you ! You gwine, O Mister Winter, Ez sho es you is bo'n, Kase de chillun got de measels, Es de jandice comin’ on ! Springtime en peaches— (+lory, hallelu ! Wen 1 cuts dat watermillion I'll save de rind fer you ! — ALiA114 ( Jastilulion Sleighing is good, and likely to con- Persons fond of sleighing off | the track during the icy snap. Kept Unioh county, last week cold a snap as old Centre, record breakers, t, sported as Both had Cur Jared able to esteemed townsman, is be about sgain. If the North pole is this way, how will we circle to put around it? coming down get the arctic By consulting the weather rej another column you can learn kind of zero weather Centre Hall Rev. Resarick’s appointments, Sun- day, Feb, 10 Centre Hall, p.m. ; Spring Mills, 10 a, Tusseyville, 7 P wort in what had. e nm. ; i. Persons hereaways who did not have to find how cold it wee. Wednesday there was a break in the registered 1 below zero, One of the Pittsburg dailies says that last week’s away-down-below- zero weather, the hotel guests in that Two large sled loads of State College a few evenings ago, where they partook of 8 royal supper and spent a pleasureable | time, We have no account of any persons ing thisarctic snap. Froz®n ears, noses, and feet, are heard of from During the revival that | have been going on in the Phi lipsburg | M. E. church for some services weeks, about Ledger, A daughter was bornt to Mr. and Mrs. Burns Crider, of Bellefonte, last week. The parents are deal mutes but the child seems to possess all the facul- ties common to infants, The only woman notary poblic is a citizen of Millheim, Mrs. J. D. Bumil- ler, having been commissioned by Gov. Stone to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband. The Millbeim Journal has passed in- to the hands of Messrs, Hosterman & Raines, practical printers, who will sndeavor to make it interesting and are gentlemen well recommended. Success to the new firm. Pastor Z. A. Yearick, of the Lewis burg Reformed church, formerly pas- tor of the Aaronsburg Reformed cone gregation, has tendered his resignation to accept a call from the Trinity Re formed church, Shenandoah. The Lewisburg nail works have been purchased by the Godehagles company of Milton. The works have been idle for some time. The build- ing, machinery, engines and bollers, will be removed to Milton to be used in the reconstruction and rebuilding of the mill burned two months ago, It is said that Potter county has the queerest public school in the state. On- ly four pupils attend ; they are mem- bers of the same family and the moth- er is the teacher. School is held in a township schoolhouse in the regular way and the teacher is paid by tne schonl district. The “Lewisburg Journal, " appeared in a new dress last week, printed upon a new Coitrell power press. The “Journal” has built up wonderfully under its new proprietor, W. L. Kurtz, formerly of this place, employing as many as 8 and 9 hands eighteen hours aday. The office is one of the best equipped in the central part of this
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