VOL. LXXII.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NO
WALK OVID NEXT YEAR.
MeKinley Palling all Wires for the
War
Hard to Overcome,
Place,
~Trasts and Record will be
WasHINGTON, April 10.--1t is daily
becoming plainer to close observers
that Mr, McKinley and his
do not regard next year's campaign as
a Republican walk-over. They are dil-
ly condemned by We men and gener- |
ally thrown away,” ‘Was just as bad |
as possible, short of being rotten.’
“It produced disordered stomachs.’ |
There was a whole lot of the]
same sort, but this will do a Ram.
ple.
Mr. MeKinley has accepted an invi- |
tation to attend the Confederate en-
more
for
Sth at Falls Chureh, Va., under the
auspices of the Daughters of the Con-
address,
coralling electoral votes that they con- |
sider doubtful. The trip that Mr. Me-
Kinley is now arrangiog to make this |
summer to the Pacific coast
the ways that has been decided upon. |
is one of |
They do not expect to be able to carry |
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky
again, but they hope for Kansas and
Nebraska, both of which
likely to be visited on Mr.
western trip.
Or
states are;
McKinley's |
They are also beginning |
to realize that some sort of
against trusts must be made, Repre- |
sentative Landis, of Ind., has come to!
Washington especially to urge
the administration the necessity of do- |
ing something to convince the voters |
of the middie west that the adminis
tration is antagonistic to the
Mr. Landis has done some very
talking about the danger to the Repub- |
liean party evident! that he
has fright: of the administra
a bluff]
npon |
trusts. |
plain |
and it is
ned sone
tion meu.
Attorney General Griggs, doubtless |
acting under orders from Mr. McKin-
ley, has made a play to shift the re-
sponsibility for his recent queer |
about trusts from the shoulders of the
administration,
the Chesapeake and Ohio Association,
generally known as the soft coal trust,
under the Sherman anti-trust law.
The suit was instituted in Cincinnati,
aud will be directed by the Solicitor
General of the U. 8. The public will
watch the prosecution of this
closely, owing to the Attorney
al having so recently stated,
ing, that trusts could not
by Federal laws.
etter
by proceeding against |
case |
Gener
in writ-|
be reached |
Evidently Admiral Dewey isu’t one!
of those who believes that the end of |
the Philippine troubles is in sight. Of |
course he is too diplpmatic to discuss |
such a question where his
would be likely to get out, but when
he cabled the Navy Department to!
send him six mouths engineering sup-
plies for his fleet, every employe of
that department knew that it was just
as though he had cabled that it would
pot, in his opinion be safe to material-
ly reduce the strength of the fleet at
Manila for sometime to come,
The latest Philippine news seems to |
justify the opinion of those who be-
lieve that the fighting over there
likely to go on for an indefinite time,
Gen. Lawton has started on a cam- |
paign with a picked force, with the in-
tention of trying to run down the Fil-|
ipinos,
Democrats are not the only ones who |
regard the Philippines as an undesira-
ble possession, Representative Steele,
of Ind., a staunch supporter of the ad-
ministiation, who passed through |
. Washington a day or two ago, said of |
them: “sofaras I am concerned, I
would like to trade the Philippine is
lands for a yellow dog, and then kill |
the dog, if there were nothing else in-|
volved but possession of the islands.’ |
In naming one of the new battle |
ships Georgia, although no petition |
had been sent from that state while
they had been sent from a dozen states, i
Mr. McKinley is said to have been act- |
uated solely by a desire to show his ap- |
preciation of the courtesy with which |
be was treated during his recent visit
to that state. This is creditable slike
to the President and to the people of
Georgia. The other names chosen
were, for battleships—Pennsylvania
and New Jersey; for armored cruisers —
D:onver, Ds Moines, Chattanooga,
Galveston, Tacoma, and Cleveland.
After (aking several days to consider
the matter, the Military Court of In-
quiry wisely decided to admit as evi-
dence the reports submitted to General
Miles on the beef issued by 147 officers
who were in Caba or Porto Rico. Just
to give an idea of the nature of these
reports, the following phrases, each
from a different officer's” report, are
quoted: “No more unpalatable food
could be issued”! “An unsuitable ar
ticle of food,” “A distinct failure.”
“It was nauseating.”’ ‘Prefer going
without meat to eating it.” “Was
soft, watery, insipid and unsatisfacto-
ry to the men.” “Was stringy, tough
and unpalatable.” “Tasteless, and
the men would not eat it.” “Caused
a great deal of sickness, and as a ra-
tion was a failure.” “Was unfit for
use and many of the men sald it had
been doped.” “Was not fit to be Is
opinion |
is
Pension Protection for Wives aud Families |
The act of congress of March 8, is
rights
paid
histo.
pension
first absolute recognition
Government in the
that when pensioners
their minor
helpless children,
or the legal
Prior to this time the Government |
recognized the depe sndent |
This new act
inmates of
to
become
contrib
half of their monthly pensions will be |
at the disposal of the dependent fami- |
lc
Killing Bargisrs.
It seems that of late homes and busi-
efVed
preparation to fight burglars than in
former years. This is truly gratifying.
se and
lars.
The Reporter is led to these
from the fact that within the past year
of reading
accounts of burglars being
killed,
remarks
mare
crippled,
arrested,
Such
of burg-
ared-—for
pieces, and
tribe
prep
Let everybody be
thief cometh.
A py
hour the
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage license
William Lingle and Lydia C. Hoov-
er both of Penn township.
Joseph F. Salt, of Spring Mills, and |
Bertha A. Walizer, of Miles township
Frank C. Waltz aud Mary C. MeMa-
hon, both of Bellefonte.
John McCoy Bhugert and Katherine
atite,
James 8. Lucas and May Freeze both
Harry C. Taylor and Jeanie C. How-
both of Bellefonte.
Milton Lucas, of Axe
Maon, and
A fA PRS
Select Bebool
Prof. B. M. Wagenseller opened his
twenty schol
from a distance.
added as the
Miss Anna Bartholo-
be
term advances.
pumber under her
care,
basin
To Stop the Lying
A bill bas been introduced in the
legislature to require fishermen to
wear to the weight of fish caught and
pay a tax on same. This bill is aimed
at the man who exaggerates as to the
weight of the fish he catches, but
would not affect the man whose big-
gest fish always escape from his hook.
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A Couple Days More.
Fishermen will soon be wending
quest of the speckled beauties, Brook
trout can be eaught from April 15 to
July 15; black bass from May 350 to
January 1; pike or pickeral from June
1toJan. 1
mln MP SS sl
New and Stylish Goods,
Mrs, Lucey Henney has returned
from eastern cities with an entire new
stock of millinery goods for the spring
and summer trade, The ladies are cor-
dially invited to inspect the new styles
and handsomely trimmed hats, at the
grand opening, on Friday and Satur
day of this week.
AA A SS
I was readicg an advertisement of
Chamberlain's Colig, Cholera and Di-
arrhoes Remedy In the Worcester En-
.
write this. I ean truthfully say I nev.
er used any remedy equal to it lor colle
and diarrhoea. I have never had to
use more thao one or two doses to cure
Life Imprisonment for Debt,
Judge Blair in the Hudson C ‘ounty, |
! IN. J., Court has rendered a decision in |
{ which he declares that in the future,
| Jersey for debt must remain in prison |
| for life unless some special provision is |
made by Congress for a release. His |
{ ruptey act supersedes the State insol-|
| venay law, under which a man may
| be released from jail on delivering all
his property into court for the benefit
of his creditors, and that the Federal
| from j
| been
ail of such persons as may have
incarcerated under civil process
| issuing out of the State courts,
{The new decision
| the case of Joseph Senitzer,
hand furniture dealer
in Jersey City.
Persons who
was rendered in
a recond
doing business
try to dodge paying
the above
worth thinking over.
I
Family of Four no More.
When Bamuel Wright,
in the mountains,
i miles from from Bodines,
day of blood
who lived
| back about pine
died
the
on Fri-
result of
family of | |
exist.
poise ming,
a
of
ence, i
While chopping a log a few days be-
tleg below the knee with the
{ Blood poisoning set ina day or two,
accident. About six years |
tago Mr. Wright's father, T. 8. Wright,
the the |
axe,
spot where
Mrs,
about
on him during a thunder storm.
Wright, Samuel's mother, died
after suflering intense
for two weeks,
agony |
About two weeks ago
ed a heavy cold, which rapidly devel-
oped into poeumounia, and the little
one died, leaving her brother Ramuel,
who followed to the great
Friday. -— Willimmsport Sun
beyond on
————— po
The Crop indications,
far
Can on-
it would
seem the hope that the satisfactory re
be repeated is well
Even though the quantity
short of what it
The crop indieations of 15808 are
vorable, and while just now it
ly be a matter of guess work,
induced by the bounteous crops of last
s perhaps, more than make |
possibly
occur on that account. In speaking of
claims warrant
“There seems to be every
for saying,
reason why
be as good if not a better year
It looks as though |
wa were bound to swamp the world |
with our agricultural productions, our |
meats, and by our dairy produe is.’
a tp
Died at Pleasant Gap,
James A. Stine died at the home of]
his mother at Pleasant Gap, last Mon-
day evening, from typhoid poeuamo-
nia, after an illness of about three
weeks, He was aged about twenty-
one years, The funeral will take place
this Thursday morning. He was a
member of Co, B, 5th regiment, and
enlisted at the first eall of volunteers.
A peculiarly sad feature of his death
was that on last Thur-day afternoon
he was to have been married to Miss
Ida Young. The wedding was post.
poned through his serious illness from
which he did not recover. He will be
buried with military honors.
ttm
Housed Up
Bhoe salesman Josiah Dale has been
a severe sufferer the last couple wecks
from an affection on his face. His
trouble dates from the severe cold
weather last February when he had
his face frost bitten while crossing
a long bridge across the river at Will-
inmsport, Several weeks later he
caught “barber's itech’ ina shop on
his travels and the disease assumed
such a malignant form that he has
been confined to the house. With
careful treatment he is improving.
Asi
Watch Your Change,
The Lewistown Free Press says: We
are reliably informed that an attempt
is to be made to flood our neighbor.
hood with counterfeit money. Our in-
formant tells us that $3000 in ecounter-
feit currency arrived at this place in
one package, and that a consignment
of counterfeit dollars and half dollars
has also been received.
i AA
An Important Question,
If your friends or neighbors suf
fering from coughs, colds, sore throat,
or any throat or lung disease (inelud-
fui Sonmimption;) ask them if ! na
:
®
sued.” ‘Wag utterly unfit as an arti-
cle of diet.” “Hungry men left it
9
13,
INCIDENTS AND EVENTS OCCUPY- |
ING THE PUBLIC MIND,
ing Country of Timely Interest to All
OF Interest to School Directors,
recently passed providing for the pay-
ment of school directors for attending
the triennial convention for the elec.
tion of county superintendent and for
the punishment of candidates who pay
directors’ expenses,
Section 1. Be it enacted, ete., That
hereafter school directors of this com-
monwealth who shall attend the tri-
ennial convention of directors for the
purpose of electing a county
Act
eight
shall receive
of May
hundred
dollar
ghth, ene thousand
and fifty-four, one
cents for every. mile necessary to be
where the election shall be
held,
proper vouchers, and the account to be
Section 2. And be it further enact-
deemed a misde-
for the of-
cause to be paid, directly or indirectly,
tor who shall attend the triennial
vention, and
con-
conviction
| be fined
nor more
at the
on
a sum
not less than fifty than three
hundred dollars, discretion
- -> -
Peats in the Wheat
Farmers in Franklin
great deal worried about
ance of their wheat and how it
the spring. Before the
cold weather came and snow fell they
Cd are
appear-
nnty a
the
entirely bare.
his tenant. On going to the spots they
found the young stalks eaten off close.
ily and by examination with
the of the
finitismal
CRline
trouble,
white worm.
ure. What the farmers are
the little
ter.
——
For a New Trial,
At the argument court held in Lew-
1899.
Collection of Taxes,
One of the bills passed at the present |
| legislature and which has been approv- |
{ law, is of much interest to tax collect.
iors and to those who become
quent in the payment of their taxes,
{ which the period of two years,
|
{
i
i
i
3
i
| school, borough, ete.
and in all cases where the power
piration of their term of office,
{collector shell become
having collected the same,
ity taxes
another from
this act,
exte nded
the
to collect ix
Year
18040,
passage
The collector is empowered
lect the ta=es from all
have not paid taxes assessed to them,
residing in this district, well
| per-ons who have removed from
to
es persons
as
township or borough,
pay
with like effect
not expired by the
years aforesaid,
ete, and
i neglected to taxes, as
limitation of
suid collector had not expired:
i vided that provisions of this act
not apply to warrants |
| the year 1800, and
{in this act shall release any
or sesuTily.”
shall
ssued prior
bondsman
—— —
lig Deal in Coal Lands,
The Lock Haven Demo
jes the lease of 5000 acre & of lands
unty,
| New York and “a ni capitalists, who
have entered into a the
coal
dinton eo fo
in Leidy township,
contract for
i
LOCAL HENS.
Cullings of More th wr a Ordis “ary
from Everywhere.
Laterest
Why He
Is Glan
I'm glad I'm not a girl,
I'd rather jist be me ;
Girls always has to be as prim
And pice as they can be,
They've always got to be poli
And careful of their clo's,
And girls don’t never dare
And punch each other's
te
. a
{fight
TOs,
I would’t want to wear my hair
All braided or io curls,
Nor have fo keep my
As you alwas see
hands gs white
"5
if
I wouldn't like to
Nor hat wits flo
I'd hate to be my
I'd rather jist be Job
wear a di
Were orn
winter
¥
Jesideg, if I had bees
Aud not a boy, {
Dear Jennie Raw nsle Yu
A nickel's worth for me
VOU sed
Our town has no pauper.
A laundry might flo
irisii 3
t BF
SAAT £ INA
One inch of snow fore-
BOG.
Henry Yearick, of Walker is
itl.
Fruit
twp.,
prospects ail except
| Railroads for the purpose of immedi
The railroad
September
of
respectively
to
is
1, 1858
Veins
coal on the land,
feet thick, and a very
will
Io
enterprise
The coal
to Bufia
The new
fireclay.
northward
New York.
{up shipped
doston
the first degree, |
Messrs, Culbertson and Dunn, and the |
counsel for the Commonwealth, Mes-|
srs. Lirntz and Hayes, argued the rea-
isons filed by the forme sr for a new trial
| for the prisoner. The argument lasted
| about eight hours, after which the
court took the matter under advise.
its decision
April term of court, opening April 17.
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Licking All Around,
Some unknown patriot gets off the
following: “I've licked a dozen
stamips Poday for telegrams I sent; I
licked and stuck one ona bill, with
which I paid my rent. I licked a
stamp to paste upon a note which 1 re-
newed, afid then I licked another to
make the mortgage good. [I've licked
these stamps to show that I respect my
country’s will, and now 1'd like to lick
the man who introduced the bill.”
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Were Caught.
0. J. Sherman and John D. McKin-
ney, two men in charge of J. M. Bun-
uell's music store at Philipsburg, were
arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., on the
charge of embezzling $1500 of their em-
ployer’s funds. They collected all
bills and sold instruments at a big dis
count for cash, and then disappeared.
They were located in Buffalo and
brought back to Philipsburg for trial,
aS fh i
Tetaliated,
A. E. Maxwell, of Montoursville,
Lycoming county, sued G. Wi. Hall, of
that place, to recover a balance of over
two dollars on a bill, Judgment was
on Monday given the plaintiff by the
Justice, whereupon Hall retaliated by
swearing out a warrant charging Max-
well with seiting fire to his own store,
which was destroyed about a year
ago. Maxwell gave bail for trial at
court,
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Paid for His Fan,
w. T. Jimeox disturbed a religious
meeting in Sugar valley some time
i
i
i
i
the
of one of the heretofore untouched
sinte.
iiss se
To Get Hid of Scale
For the past six months
wered the agriculture
upon
might rid their trees of the dreadful
To meet this demand
", Fernald, Ph. D., state
which
just been issued by the department of
agriculture, full descrip-
Ban Jose
zoologist
ty
coniaining
i tions of not only the
| but all scale insects and how to destroy
ithem. This booklet will widely
circulated among agriculturisis aod
fruit growers and it is hoped will
resuit in much i» good.
geale,
be
LAA w
ried at Philipsharg
W. E. Burchfield, of Philipsburg, a
prominent citizen and well known all
over the county, died yesterday afl
ernoon at his bome, at the age of about
63 years. Mr. Burchfield was an inflo-
ential Democrat and served two
térusz as Register of Centre county,
ing elected on the Democratic ticket
in 1875 and 1878. He was married to
the daughter of 8. T. Shugert, deceas-
ed, of Bellefonte, and leaves a wife and
three children to survive him. The
remains will be interred in the Belle
fonte cemetery on Friday afternoon.
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To Care for the Soldiers.
Hon. A. M. Smith, member of the
legislature from Bayder county, has in.
troduced a bill which will undoubtedly
become 4 law. The act provides for
the burial of all indigent soldiers of the
Spanish-American war by the county
commissioners of the county in which
said soldiers shall die. By this act sold-
fers of the late war are placed on a par
with the soldiers of the previous ones,
——
An Aged Lady Falls,
The aged Mrs, Jane Love, ou Church
street, had a severe fall on Toesday afl-
ernoon while passing over the walk in
her back yard. She injured her back
to such an extent that she is unable to
move in her bed and suffers severely
from the pain. Yesterday Wednesday,
the estimable lady was 85 years old.
bes
One More Duo Us.
Weather prophets declare that one
more snow storm is due to fulfill the
prediction of twenty-six snow storms
for the winter of 1808-00, The first
snow fell on November 26. So far we
have had all but one and that is com.
of o
Dentist Musser, Asronsburg, will
ale,
Julia G. MeMullin,
granted a pension, §
A
indigposed to leave home.
Rev,
Our tow nsman
"1 foi i po
Eisenberg, aft
is able to be out again
Harry Potter,
the Spring
ace, at-
i
If any
ih
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i
!
1
i
!
:
1
i
Whit
moved on the fi
has
ed near
Emanuel
In different |
plowing, iL it
county
ariners were Was ARwW-
1
wail flakes
for
Last Friday m 2
as iohuny cakes
a short spell.
shierifl Musser
Of 6X-
her
H+ bees, Ww dow
broke falling
from a step ladder,
of Gr
egg, moved to
avil
Peter Hockman, «
Hecla Park, h
Zimmerman
yarchased
¥ 1
= 3
farm.
Christine, ant hig deleg
Rev. ate,
are ling preshy-
i
Pleased to BAY Lins en-
rolled quite a lot since
95 came in, witho
Rev. Rearick’s
April 16 : Centre
Mills 10 a,
fino;
a |
Hall 2p.
Tusseyville
m
Spring
mn. ; ip.m.
The trout fry put into our mountain
streams last week were about sig~
es larger than those of former years,
two
It is noteworthy how large a number
of aged people were taken away by the
hand of death the past winter, in all
paris of the state,
Thieves opened & chute in H. G. Ga-
ble's flouring mill, near Boyertown,
snd nearly 600 bushels of wheat ran
into the mill race.
A New York
counsel fee of $250 and bondsman
fee of $50 to defend a who was
held for the larceny of 90 cents’ worth
of groceries.
lawyer charged a
a
boy
The party that opened the quarry
along the pike in the mounidins be
yond Centre Hall, after getting out
a few car loads of nice stones, has
abandoned the job aud left.
J. Milton Keller, of Pinegrove,
whose marriageto Miss Badie Markel,
of Tyrone, was postponed from March
16 last on account of his serious illness
with gastric fever, is gradually im-
proving.
HIT for Grip. 77" for Grip is no
better than Dr. Humphreys’ other Spe.
cifies described in his Manuel, which
is sent free, on Request 3 Humphreys’
Medicine Co., N, XY.
The children of the blackest Afri-
cans are born whitish, In a mouth
they become pale yellow, in a year,
Lrown ; at four, dirty black, and at six
or seven, glossy black.
Who said printers’ ink doesn’t pay?
tising for a husband, got one. In less
than a year he was killed at Santiago
and his inconsolable widow we
$3,000 fnsurance, and in addition will :
probably receive a pension, :
A series of articles ou