VOL. LXXII.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
MoKINLEY WILL HAVE RIVALS FOR
THE NOMINATION.
New York's Teddy isn Candidate for Pres.
went and with Gen. Miles is Causing
Him Much Worry
WasHINGTON, April 3.—A bomb
was exploded in administration circles
by a prominent New York Republican
who eame to Washington for the pur-
pose, when it was announced that
Gov. ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt was in the
field for the Republican Presidential
nomination, next year, and that there
was an understanding between “‘Ted-
dy’ and Gen. Miles, who has been
credited with entertaining a similar
ambition himself. Some of Mr. Me
Kinley’s friends appear to think that
he is bound to be renominated
and reelected, but those of them who
are long headed and who have had ex-
perience in politics, do not look at
things that way; they know that both
Roosevelt and Miles bave qualities
which are calculated to arouse the en-
thusiasm and support of the young
men in their party, and that with
good management a combination of
the:r following might give the Han-
na-McKinley machine a hard fight, if
not an actual throw-down. If this an.
nouncement is straight, Boss Platt
must have failed in his efforts to keep
“Teddy’’ off the McKinley track.
With all Czar Reed’s faults, and he
has enough and to spare, he has never
been a sneaky fighter, which is more
than can be said for the administra-
tion crowd, which is afraid to come
out in the open and try to defeat Reed
for the Speakership, but is engaged in
tryiog to bluff him into not being a
candidate, by stating that the admin-
istration has determined to throw its
influence for Reed, but with the ex-
press understanding that the rules of
the next House shall be changed 8» as
to cut out all the Czar business. The
idea is that Reed would not care to be
speaker, if he is to be shorn of the au-
tocratic power he has wielded. This
is on a par with the talk which has at
times been heard ever since Reed first
became Speaker, about Republicans
who were going to unite with the Dem-
ocrats to change the rules and curtail
the power of the Speaker. They nev-
er did so, and if the Republicans elect
Reed Speaker of the House again, as
they will almost surely do, he will be
the same old Czar,
It has been brought out in the testi-
mony before the Military Court of In-
quiry that Gen. Eagan told a Boston
Contractor, and a Texas cattle raiser,
who bad io a bid for furnishing beef
on the hoof, that Secretary Alger had
practically ordered him to {ry the re-
frigerated beef, which Bwift & Co.
claimed to have a secret process of pre-
serving, as an experiment. The long-
er the Court sits, the worse things look
for the Alger-Eagen crowd, and Maj.
Lee, who is representing Gen, Miles
says be has lots more witnesses on his
list. But as the meat has already been
fully proven to have been bad, the
court may decide that it is unnecessa-
ry to hear all these witnesses
Mr. McKinley has apparently at last
become aroused to the danger, to his
own political fortunes, of retaining Al-
ger in his Cabinet, and, unless all the
political “wise men’ are at fault, the
“Ex” is hot on the trial of Alger and
cannot fail to eatch up with him very
soon. It has been, these men say, ful
ly determined by Boss Hanna and the
other directors of the administration
machine that Alger must go. They
prefer that he should do so willingly,
but if he declines to tender his resig-
vation without being requested by Mr,
McKinley to do so, Mr. McKinley will
make that request. From a strietly
selfish point of view, Democrats would
prefer that Mr. McKinley should keep
Alger in the Cabinet, for then it would
be impossible for the administration to
deny responsibility for Algerism and
all its horrors, but Democrats are too
patriotic to wish to see a man filling
the responsible office of Secretary of
War,jwho deserves to be kicked out,
Just to make political capital for their
party; they wish, above everything
else, to see the afluirs of the govern.
ment properly administered, and know
that they will not be in the War De-
partment, hs long as Alger is at its
head.
A group of army officers were dis-
cussing the cost and results of the cam-
paigo of Gen. Otis against the Filipi
nos, which has just closed with the
taking of Aguinsldo’s eapital, and the
driving of him aud his army into the
interior, when onqof them said: "For
my pait, I don’t think the game worth
the candle. After a considerable loss
of life, we have the Poilippice Bogus
ards, and that in the end American
grit is bound to win, and we shall sue-
ceed in killing, capturing or subduing
them all, but it will be no picenie I as-
sure you, and I know what the coun-
try is; we shall pay dear—far too dear
I think—fot our triumph over them.”
The Cubans who came to Washing-
ton to present to the Administration
resolutions adopted by the Cuban As-
sembly, left town in disgust when in-
formed by Secretary Hay that Mr. Me-
Kinley would not receive them, and
that no more money would be put up
than the $3,000,000 promised Gen. Go-
mez, and that the Assembly would not
be allowed to issue bonds for the pur-
pose of raising money. There is a
trick concealed in this bond business
that nobody has succeeded in getting
entirely to the bottom of. There are
also some millions of dollars in it, if
the administration can be roped into
giving an official consent. Although
this consent has just been refused and
not for the first time, the
have not given up and are
work and hopeful of success,
schemers
still at
A Unique Case.
Besides furnishing a remarkable case
of a regular term of court with no jury
trials, for either criminal or civil cases,
Union county now comes to the front
with another happening, which we
suppose is without parallel in the his
tory of this, or perhaps any other
county, says the Lewisbarg Jou:
At the March term objections were
filed to the report of an auditor, by an
opposing attorney, that the fee charg-
ed by the auditor for the services were
too small, and should be increased.
The Court gravely sustained the objee-
tion, and the auditor increased his Lill
to the amount suggested by the attor-
ney on the opposite side. The amount
charged in the first instance was below
the amount usually allowed in such
cases,
wil,
New Dormitory
Ground for the new dormitory of
Buckuoell University at Lewisburg, to
cost upwards of $50,000, was broken on
Monday afternoon, The address was
delivered by Hon. J Thompson Baker.
In the formal breaking of the ground,
Hon. H. H. McClure represented the
trustees, and Dr. Wm. C. Bartol the
faculty. The corners were marked by
the college classes. The building is in-
tended for young men and will aceom-
modate about one hundred students,
It will be built of brick and will be
four stories high, 140x40 feet in dimen-
sions,
imminent
Licenses Disposed
On Monday of last week the remain.
ing applications for liquor license were
disposed by the court. R. Newton
Shaw, for the Continental hotel, Phil
ipsburg, was granted, as John Walton,
for the same place, withdrew his ap-
plication. Abraham BShenefelt, new
applicant for wholesale beer, in Rush
township, sgranted. Robert 1. Hass,
beer brewer, Benner, continued. Jef.
fry Hayes and W. R. Charles, of Rush
township and John C. Schenck, Liber-
ty township, all for hotel licenses,
were refused.
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A Giant at His Winter Homa
Eleanor above Punxsutawaey, probe
ably has the largest giant in the Unit.
ed States, in the person of ‘‘Col.”
Cooper. His height Is eight fest four
inches, and he weighs over 300 pounds,
He is a foreigner, but became a citizen
of the United States by taking oul pa-
pers at Brookville a few days ago,
Cooper travels with a show in the sum-
mer and makes his home at Eleanor
in the winter,
A AM
To be Married This Evening
This Thursday evening Mr. Boyd B,
WHson, manager of the Howard
Creamery Co. at the station will be
married to Miss Gertrude V. Linn, at
the home of the bride's parents at
Beech Creek, Pa. The wedding will
take place at half-past six. Mr. and
and Mrs. Wilson will return to Centre
Hall after a wedding tour and reside
here for the present, 7
Death at Bellefonte,’
The wife of John Anderson, Sr., the
restauranter, died at Bellefonte on
Bunday evening at the age of about 50
years. She leaves a husband aud six
children to survive her.
.
I was reading an advertisement of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Die
arrhoea Remedy in the Worcester En.
terprise recently, which leads me to
write this. I can truthfully say I nev-
fonda go oy Rudy
and diarrhoea. I have never had to
< THE OLD SETTLERS NN
Of the East Eod Have Passed Away, But
Yet Well Remembered by the Present
Generation
The early settlers of the east end of
this valley have all passed away, but
dre known to many of the present gen-
eration, especially in Haines township
where they first cleared the forest and
from it created the best and most pro-
ductive farms in this valley. Their
children and grand-children, many of
them, are still on the soil of their fath-
ers, while many of their descendants
are useful citizens in many states.
These old seltlers became well-to-do
farmers, were men whose word was as
good as their bond, and reared families
of respectable sons and daughters.
They have gone to their reward, but
the monument of their usefulness re-
mains, and will ever remain, in the
rich and imperishable farms of Haines
township.
Few survived later than years
We, at this writing, can recall
the names of the greater number and
enjoyed their acquaintance and friend-
ship. We can name the following and
their names can be found on the tomb-
stones in the cemeteries of the soil
they honored, namely :
John Adam Bauer,
Andreas Haerter,
Adam Winkelbleeh,
Andreas Korunman,
John Young,
Thomas Hubler,
John Motz,
John Hess,
Jacob Blover,
Martin Stover,
Michael Kreamer,
Daniel Reed, Charles Smith,
Leonard Kerstetter, Vonada,
We eould go across the mountain,
down there, into Brush valley, and
make similar mention, of early set-
tlers contemporaneous with the above,
such as the Shafers, Wolfs, Gramleys,
Walkers, Kreamers, Franks, Moyers,
Rishels, Bierleys, Rhuls, Kornmauns,
of whose children and grand-children
still reside on the soil their ancestors
cleared, laid out into farms and culti-
vated to a igh degree of productive-
ness, presenting a valley scene of hap-
py homes and beatiful acres.
The hardships and privations that
these settlers endured, were great ; and
the fear of the red men who made in-
cursions upon their sections for purpo-
ses of rapine, pillage and murder, kept
the families of these hardy settlers in
constant fear—experiences that never
fell to the lot of their descendants. The
wives of the seitlers shared in all the
labors and hardships of their husbands
in clearing the land, tilling the soil
and sowing and reaping.
Talk of your Earopean wax-figures
dubbed noblemen and noblewomen !
they are not to be compared with
these, God's noblest children in gen-
uine usefulness and heroism, loyal,
royal aud esch a sovereign,
atime
“Oh Lord Hit Him Again,”
An exchange says that a small
church was sadly in need of general re-
pairs and a meeting was being held in
it with a view to raising funds for that
purpose. The minister having said
$500 would be required, a very wealthy
{and equally stingy member of the con-
gregation rose and sakl he would give
one dollar. Just as he sat down, how-
ever, a lump of plaster fell from the
ceiling and hit him on the head,
whereupon be rose up and hastily stat-
ed that he made a mistake; he would
give $50. This was too much for an
enthusiastic president, who forgetful
of everything called out fervently,
“Oh Lord bit him again.”
85
ago,
Henry Bauer,
Valeneine Stover,
George Moyer,
George Wolf,
John Wolf,
John Hosterman, sr,
Jacob Motz,
(ieorge Weaver,
Frederick Weber,
we Or nadorf,
John Eby,
Georgetown Items.
A certain man of Drum station who
goes around in the township, saying
that your correspondent has cheated
everybody in the neighborhood, to
him and his slanders I would say,
which is worse, if a man goes about
with a sack on his shoulder in the
back part of which he hides all his
aults, while in the front he carries
the faults of his neighbors ; and, which
is the worst, to cheat his neighbors or
fire No. 7 shot into them ?
State Appropristions,
Among the bills that have passed fi-
nally in the House at Harrisburg is
one appropriating $66,000 for State Col-
lege; also bills appropriating $99,618.55
for reuniforming and Feuquipping the
National Guard and $705,000 for the
support of the N. G. P.
—-W, A. Btroud,
For sale by J. H. Rose Linden
8. M. Swar P.
LOGAL AND GENERAL TOPICS
INCIDENTS AND EVENTS OCCUPY-
ING THE PUBLIC MIND,
Happenings in the Town snd the Surround.
ing Country of Timely Interest to All,
Oda Fellows’ Anniversary.
The speakers at the Penn’a Odd Fel-
lows' Anniversary, at Bellefonte, April
26th, are as follows : Grand Master
Samuel McKeever, Philadelphia ; Dep-
uty Grand Master Esau Loomis, West
Chester; Grand Marshall James 8.
Montgomery, Philadelphia ; Brigadier
General EA. C. Deans, Berauton ; J. L
bury.
The Pean’a Odd Fellows’
sary Association, which meets April |
28, in Bellefonte, will be attended by |
the officers of the Grand Lodge.
Past Grands, and at 8 p. m., he
open a Lodge of Iastruction to all |
members of the Scarlet Degree. The |
grand parade at 2 in the afternoon.
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Soon Appear
The boro annual statement will ap- |
pear in print in a few days, although |
long delayed in making it public. |
Every citizen should study it carefully |
and see where and how his money was |
spent. The boro spent nearly $8, 000 |
on boro fund snd owes the treasurer |
several hundred dollars. Many bills |
to the amount of pearly $500 remain |
unpaid, among them the hose and
carts costing over $300, bringing the |
present indebtedoess over $0,000, The
boro is in debt to and several budred |
dollars over the limit, and there
every promise of a very heavy tax —
next fall to meet all dues. A drain has |
been put on our citizens which the |
out.
cs
Millinery Opening.
Mrs. Lucy Henney has gone to New |
York and Philadelphia to select her
stock of Millinery goods for the spring
and summer trade. She will have on
display, on her opening days, Friday
and Saturday, April 14 and 15, a fine
assortment of hats, bonnets, flowers,
laces, ribbons, in all the latest styles
and shades, from which to make a se- |
lection. Also a fine line of trimmed |
hats and bonnets; and you can also
find a good selection of children’s
hats. The ladies are all cordially in-
vited to the opening.
en ———————
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage license
were issued during the past week:
G. R. Decker aud Jennie M. Yenr-
ick, of Aaronsburg.
John H. M. Stover and Edith
of College twp.
Horace C. Hudson and Ella R. Ber-
tram, of Marion twp.
Charles T, Taylor, Stormstown, and
Lula B. Grace, Benner twp.
Philip Gers, South Philipsburg, and
Loisa Henry, Chester Hill.
Boyd B. Wilson, Centre Hall,
Gertrude V, Linn, Beech Creek.
AM
Sagar Valley Deaths,
Philip Lamey, an old and highly re
spected citizen of Sugar Valley, died
last week after a long illness. He was
aged 76 years,
Eli Confer, an old resident of Logan-
ton, died Thursday morning, aged 72
years. The funeral was held from the
house Sunday morning.
I A SS ——
Run No Risk.
There are connected to the boro wa-
ter plant a few over one hundred con-
nections. Rather than be without
water twenty-five connections still re
main with the water company, these
paying both the boro wateg tax and
rental to the water company. The bo-
ro must be paid whether using water
or not.
Dale,
and
. To Subscribers,
All subscribers to the REPORTER
who have moved to other localities and
in ordering their paper changed,
should not forget in notifying this of
foe, to give the old address as well as
the new. To avoid all errors and de- | hoalth
lays this caution should be heeded.
LL A
, Good Prive for Horses.
It is now predicted that there will
Holidays Galore,
The new legal holiday to be known
as Dewey day, which falls on May 1st,
has brought to mind the large and in-
creasing number of holidays on the
calendar. The observance of Dewey
day, however grows out of the natural
admiration for the deeds of a great sea
spected. Btill, on the other hand, it
will be seen that we have already more
and of such number as to interfere
with business, for the banks alone are
the only institutions which observe
days set apart, In a measure people
forget what holiday we have, go many
the month of
At the present time the
| state recognizes the following legal |
| holidays:
j equals twenty-six whole days,
New Year's Day.
Election day in February.
Lincoln's birthday,
Washingtan’s birthday.
Good Friday.
Decoration Day,
Fourth of July.
Labor Day.
Election day in November.
Thanksgiving Day.
Christmas,
Add to these holidays fifty-two Sun- |
days and we have a total
nine days, leaving but 276 of the
| days of the §
nizes as legal business days.
comics fae
The Wheat Crop
Officially the wheat crop of 1898 is
were spring and |
382.402 000 bushels winter wheat,
average for the whole country
the
Wis 5
to
| erop of the United States, the nearest
| approac h to it being 511,780,000 bush-
{ els in 1891,
meat utoan
No Encampment
It has been learned that there will be
| ho encampment of the National Guard
this year. The Spanish war and the
organization of the new guard has so
confused matters, as well as put the
state to great expense, that there are
no funds for the annual encampment
this year.
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Grass Burning.
Great clouds of smoke along the rail-
road the last couple days, has been caus- |
ed by the grass burning along the track |
from sparks from locomotives. Heo-
tion men kept the fire from spread.
ing over the fields,
sam A A SSS
New Lines.
Having equipped his large Fleisher
Gap mill with new machinery, E. M.
Huyett is now ready to supply all
trade with moulding, flooring, siding,
ete. and all kinds of bill timber. Give
him a call when in need of anything
in that line,
A Apr
Worth Money,
Broom corn, the material ont of which
the ordinary sweeping brooms used in
every family are made, has advanced
$50 per ton during the past four months
aud is now selling in the market at $150
per ton.
AM Sn
Busy Season.
Foundryman Rearick is in the
height of his busiest season, putting
out his speciality io corn planters. He
has a salesman on ihe road invading
new territory. The output will be
about 500 machines,
sm MY SSA,
Farmers Plowing.
The decent weather this week has al-
lowed the farmers in the valley to be-
gin their spring work. Many are
plowing and find the ground in good
condition.
For Promotions,
The examinations for promotions in
the public schools will be held this
week, the closing of the term. Until it
is all over many a scholar will be on
the anxious bench.
These are dangerous times for the
heath, Crdup, Salde sandt throat troub-
loud yapidiy so fon. A
Horkogd trate Cough Cure ry
at the 3¢ the right hare will [restive }
aod a amount
Pleasant to take; Shildien ho it;
sale by Bmith & Cra
‘Rheomatiem Cured. :
My wife has used Chamberlain's
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NO. 14
LOCAL ITEMS,
Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere,
To sn Crow,
Bold, amiable, ebon outlaw,
wise !
For many a good green year hast thou
witstood —
By dangerous planted field and haunt.
ed wood —
All the devices of thine enemies.
Gleaning thy grudged bread
watchful eyes,
And self-relying soul
good,
Blythe days thou seest, thou
Robin Hood !
Thou mak’st a jest of farm-land bound-
aries,
Take dll thou may’'st, and never count
it erime
To rob the greatest robber of the earth,
| Weak-visioned, dull, self-lauding msn,
whose worth
grave and
with
Come ill or
feathered
Bide, then, thy
time ;
more of Nature's
love than he,
Aud, her wide lap shall still provide
for thee.
Bobert Burns Wilson,
Last week had bad roads for the flit.
Saturday, April 15th, the trout sea-
dright sky Tuesday and Wednesday
All Fool's Day, April 1st, set in with
A. 8B. Bierly has moved from Penn
An infant nigh a year old, of Irvin
week.
Raw and high winds qp Easter Bun-
w squalls
i during the day.
The Central at
waffle’
3 inst,
M iddleburg,
' house, was
hotel
up at sheriffs sale, ¢
Dr. Emerick, with a view {o better-
iog bis pretty premises, is having a
walk laid of large, flat stones.
The past winter—if it is past—beats
the record for unpleasant days and
cold, even not sparing the Sundays.
Re April
Centre Hall 7 p. m.
th: ; Bt. Johns,
10 a. m. ; Georges valley, 2 p m.
v. Rearick’s appointments,
Our fishermen are gelting uneasy ;
they fear the angle worms can not get
up through the frozen ground to offer
themselves for bait,
Enterprising Wm. Colyer is still
going ahead with his improvements
and is erecting a large stable on one of
his lots on Hoffer street.
It is rumored that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will increase the
wages of their track hands to 15 cents
per hour, to take effect April 1.
The valuable and well-known Tress.
ler farm, near Penn Cave, now occu-
pied by M. B. Duck, is advertised at
private sale in the Reporter.
A party of young people from State
College drove down to Centre Hall pn
Friday evening and enjoyed a chicken
and waflle supper at Runkle’s hotel.
We were pleased to have a eall from
our venerable friend, Daniel Fleisher,
who has fought through this hard
winter successfully, being one of our
oldest patriarchs; his label being set
out into 1900 proves mental faculties
still vigorous
A boy named Whitman, near Doyls-
town, while going home from school,
one day last week, accidentally bit off
two inches of his tongue. A physi-
cian sewed the severed piece in ils
place, and it is thought it will perform
its usual fanctions in the course of a
few months,
The people of State College, upon so-
ber second thought, have abandoned
the movement to destroy the water
plant of the village erected in time of
need at great expense by some of its
public spirited citizens. To ruin the
present plant it was proposed to erect
a rival water plant by the boro, which
all, willing or unwilling, were to be
forced to pay for. The wrong and in.
justice of such a proceedure was readi-
ly seen by the citizens and the scheme
dropped. The village thereby escaped
extra taxation and a debt of $15,000 to
$20,000 avoided. The old water com
pany of that place, came to an agree.
ment with the council to allow street
fe, | sprinkling and furnish fire protection,
r | free of charge, in consideration of the
friendly abandonment of the wrong
proposed. * Under the old Centre Hall