epocier.
VOL. LXXIL.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ALGER NOW ASSUMES ROLE OF
DICTATOR.
He Demands that Miles be Deposed from
Office, ~The President Goes Off on a
Trip to Avoid the Trouble,
WASHINGTON, May" 8.—Secretary
Alger, who has just returned to Wash-
ington, is lacking in many of the char-
acteristics that go to make an ideal
Secretary of War, but he attempts to
make up for all of them with gall, of
which he has about as much as any
man who ever held a cabinet portfo-
lio. And his latest is a little beyond
all his previous exploits in the gall
line. He bas actually gone so far as
to dictate to Mr. McKinley, if the pub-
lie talk of his henchmen can be believ-
ed. According to the Algerites, Alger
is not satisfied with the whitewashing
given him by the War Commission
and the alleged vindication given him
by the report of the Military Court of
Inquiry, which Mr. McKinley has just
approved and ordered published, but
demands that Gen, Miles shall be de-
posed from the command of the army.
In addition to having demanded this
of Mr. McKinley, Alger is said to have
told him if he did not issue the order
transferring Miles from Commander
of the army to one of the Military Di-
visions, he would, as Secretary of War,
issue it himself, thus forcing Presiden-
tial action one way or the other. Itis
not surprising that Mr. McKinley
should have concluded to go to the
Virginia Hot Springs and try to clear
out his system by a few hot baths.
But it is Algerism he will have to
clean out to accomplish anything.
Boss Platt’s edict has gone forth
that New York shall have but one can-
didate for the Speakership, and that
Payue, Ray, and possibly other mem-
bers of the delegation, who have either
positively or partially announced
themselves as candidates, will be fore-
‘ed out of the way to give Sherman the
unanimous support of the delegation.
This, and rumors that Sherman had
made a deal with Hanna, caused quite
a marked boom in Sherman stock, and
Sherman is now in favor in sporting
circles.
Treasury officials have refused to al-
low an item headed, “traveling ex-
penses’’ in the personal accounts of
Roger C. Spooner, Special Indian
Agent “temporarily” in charge of the
Indian warehouse in Chicago, because
the aforesaid traveling expenses were
incurred by Spooner in going between
his home in Wisconsin and his office
in Chicago, and are not considered to
have been necessary to the proper per-
formauce of his public duties. Spoon-
er is a brother of ~enator Spooner and
holds his position by a trick. The po-
sition of Superintendent of the Indian
warehouse is supposed to be under Civ-
il Service Rules; slso to be vacant.
Nearly a year ago, Senator Spooner
carried an order to Secretary Bliss,
from Mr. McKinley telling him to
provide a good place for his brother.
It was done by appointing him as Spe-
cial Indian Agent and putting him in
temporary charge of the warehouse in
Chicago, where he has been eversince,
filling a position that is in the classi-
fied service, without ever having even
taken an examination. Still, there
are some otherwise level headed men
who will get “nutty” when the Civil
Service Rules are spoken of as the
humbug they really are,
Mr. McKinley seems to be develop.
, ing a disposition to play Czar. He or-
dered Representative Henderson, of
Iowa, Chairman of the Republican
Caucus Committee that recently com-
pleted a financial bill, when he called
at the White House with a copy of the
bill, to change it before it was submit-
ted to the Republicans of the Senate
Finance Committee, who it seems
must approve it before it is made pub-
lie. Col. Henderson is a peppery sort
of a fellow occasionally, but being a
candidate for Speaker of the House, he
did not care to quarrel with Mr. Me-
Kinley, so he only called his attention
to the fact that every clause in the bill
had been put there by unanimous vote
of the Committee. The order to
change it was reiterated by Mr. Me
Kinley.
It has been decided by the Republi
can leaders that an extra session of
Congress shall be called, probably ear
ly in the fall, but in order to give them-
selves an opportunity to change their
minds, should it be deemed advisabie
later to do so, they will not say more
than that an extra session Is probable.
The fact of the matter is that they are
getting uneasy over the political out-
look. A short time ago they were fig-
uring on a walk-over for MeKinley
next year, but now they are frighten
ed. One of them said: “Mr. MecKin-
ley il, of course, be a candidate for |
, but it a" by no ‘means |
ill win. The
others, who have figured prominently
in the administration, have not added
to Mr. McKinley's reputation or im-
proved his chances for renomination.
Conservative observers believe that Al-
gerism and Eaganism will prove to be
a heavier load than Mr, McKinley can
carry, and that even if he should be
nomiaated again, he would be defeat-
ed.
WOMAN TREED A BEAR,
And Kept it There Until the Arrival
Her Husband
Mrs, MeClean Gorham,
is near the village of Brookside,
whose hon
L
ence with a black bear a few days ag
The story as told by the
port Sun is that she was down in ti
fleld some ten or twelve rods from ti
———— i — oo
REDUCED RATES,
ing and snarling.
up, and Mrs, Gorham
feuce to what
Just across the run was
tussling with the do When
saw her, however, he started
the hill with the cur fol
Coneludin
more comfortable
climbed a big he
nearby.
Now th
int the be
Peace Jubilee at Wash.
ington
On account of the National Peace
Jubilee, to be held at Washington, DD.
O., May 28, 24, and 25, the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad Company has arranged to
sell excursion tickets from all stations
to Washington at rate of single fare
for the round trip, except that the rates
from New York, Philadelphia and Bal-
timore will be $5.00, $5.00, and $2.00 re-
spectively, with proportionate rates
trom intermediate and adjacent points,
Tickets will be sold May and
good to return within ten days from
date of sale when properly validated
by the agent at Washington. mayl11-2t
a
To the National 1
matte
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brui
off
lowing at
it
1,
went to
the
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g that
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it
might
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snloek, whi
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id
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Gorham determined
there until ber i
husbai
i
a Ww
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FAR
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FAs dur ho
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and
nd bru
i
home, but she was in a
to keep him up the tree,
to the house for a pistol
uid foll
bs sine down belo
| But rem
a chain at the
wlio wel
HX,
in ecoul
Fink
dog Wi ow her a
Poemills Pick-ups, eshe
Stubering wher : had sed
John DeLong, one of Poemills juven- |
ile fishermen, keeps a box for live fish |
anchored in the creek. In it, Tuesday |
2d, there were some fine trout, nice]
eels and big suckers. The thunder |
shower that afternoon caused a rise in
the stream that night, which set afloat |
a rowdy log and it struck young De-
long’s fish box, freeing its denizens,
and the entire fishery was noo est
next morning.— Another item : How-
ard Eisenhuth has flitted from Pan- | Pear.
ther Run to Poemills, where he has | Mrs Gorham he
a job. | the time, and
Stover, the railroad agent, is an at-|* black hide
tentive railroad employe and an all-| | spring ho ae.
around pleasant fellow. | lessness and |
Capt. Snyder, late of the Old Fort
toll-gate, is summering at the tunnel
with relatives, fishing and making
himself generally useful.
Sanam — ———
barn 0 or
Bi
sie guickly aught
g to ti
i rods away,
| tied the do
i to the house fi
hen she ra
{
{ook
ree
the
these
{ place under the tree
i tiently thie return
! bear was tree
it was high
put io his appesrance,
iH ai
Having secured
waited
d. Th
MAD
£ 8. nL
Corba
Hed th
:
it
i
& pair of
her ground
Friant
sud of
her
HOW
nidor
AR {ron
iy ry.
-
Millhelin Progressing
-
ize a company to the
with water,
on wells and cisterns for its supply, |
and the move for a water system
agitated the burg for several years,
make it a boro enterprise w
down some months ago. Outside cap
its] offered to put in a plant, but me
with no encouragement, th
home capital is at the of th
sup ply Lowi
Two Unconstilations! Laws.
At Seranton, on 3rd, Judge Gunster
declared the act of May 3, 1503, em-
powering municipalities to impose a
maximum tax of $1000 on itinerant
merchants, unconstitutional. The de-
cision was rendered in the case of the
city against Morris Wormer, of New
York, a mau who conducted a fire sale
and who was arrested and fined $100.
Inquiries having been made as to
whether the act compensating persons
for fighting forest fires, is still in force.
In reply to all such inquiries we
publish the fact that Judge Lindsay,
of Warren, has declared that law un-
constitutional on the ground that the
title is defective.
cnn
Home Made Sagar,
When you can make your own ma-
ple sugar by boiling three corn cobs;
then taking the extract and mixing it
with light brown sugar and boiling
again, who cares whether the sugar
erop in Vermont fails or not? This is
not maple sugar, to be sure, but it
tastes so much like it that you cannot
tell the difference.
sf on ————
Crops In Earope.
The foreign crop statistics which
supplement the recent Winter grain
report of the Department of Agricul
ture show that the Winter grain con-
ditions almost everywhere in Earope
are favorable. Russian reports com-
plain of deficient grain, but the gener
al condition is represented as satisfac-
tory.
Bsns ps ns
> Appointed Postmaster,
Pleasant Gap had a change of post-
masters last week in the appointment
of Henry N. Twitmier. The postoflice
has long been kept in Noll & Bro's
store, and the change in appointment
and locating the office elsewhere, was
cause for a small local disturbance
several years ago. 1
AI AA SI BO
Plowing Wheat Fields,
In Brush valley many wheat fields
are being plowed, aud the farmers are
now sowing them in oats, The whest
crop was destroyed by the severity of
the winter,
i API A SA HATS
Many old Yoldiers now feel the ef-
fects of the hard service they endured
during the war. Mr. Geo. 8. Ander
son, of Rossville, York county, Penna.,
who saw the hardest kind of service at
the front, is now frequently troubled
with rheumatism. “I had a severe at
tack lately,” he says, ‘and procured &
bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It
did so much good that I would like to
know what you would me for
one dozen bottles.” Mr. Anderson
wanted it both for his own use and to
supply it to his friends and bors,
as every family should have a bottle of
it in their home, not only for rheuma-
and now
head
About $10,000 will be
the
8 go.
No matter how low rates,
as public benefactors for
their money for the town's good,
will be sure to be followed by a
ment to ruin the
re-
I
-
company
in any enterprise. That's how
did it in Centre Hall, and started in t
do at State College, when
sense prevailed,
Contagious iserases,
The following
session of the
ed by the
time:
Au act
ors of Lhe townships of the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania to ex
law, Jive d at the las
legisinture
gave!
several
compensation of a sanitary
school directors in each township th
diseases,
tp ll
Death of an African Princess,
Miss Mary Jones, 20 years of age,
tribes of Africa, and was brought to
this country to be educated for missio
work among her own people.
i py
Skim Mik for Whitewash,
The Philadelphia Record’s agricu
milk fostewd of water.
secured,
coatings,
A ABR SA
Taken to Danville,
of unsound mind
of
INCIDENTS AND EVENTS OCCUPY-
ING THE PUBLIC MIND,
ie
0.
ing Country of Timely Interest to All
ie Buyers for an die Furnace,
ie
@
which a syndicate of eastern eapital-|
is
ie
Furnace at Bellefoute,
r.
plant built by Collins
1857, which has been idle
the 150
Brothers
sinee 1890,
1
Pp
is
Beotia, sixteen miles west of Bellefonte |
as well as ore rights on hundreds
{acres of land.
{ fonte,
will be
| gotintad the deal, and
“| pany. It is the intention to have the |
W | furnace in blast by July 1.
if |
i ore mines, which have been idle six
“1! months.
Work will be given to over |
| 500 men. The new comcern will
"| known as the Bellefonte Company.
x In order to have the benefit of eom-
| petitive railroad rates the ngw concern
{ which has purchased the
| pace, and which will be known as the |
Bellefonte Furnace Company will |
{ build a mile track to connect with the |
C1 Central Railroad vania. |
| This bit of road will have a three per
| cent. grade, will Spring Creek |
{and the Bald Eagle Valley branch of
ithe Pennsylvania with a 500 foot]
{eurved fron bridge, at a height
ling from twenty to thirty feet
survey for this connect is
the bridge is already
{ built and workmen will put
work doing the necessary grading and
{filling in a few days.
There is alsoan well-defined rumor |
i that the new éompany will endeavor]
to secure control of the Bellefonte Cen-
{tral railroad from Bellefonte to State |
f¢ ‘ollege aud Pine Grove Mills, and if |
18
$e §
§
of Pennsyl
i
Cross
a
The |
ion
{ complete,
beer
ai
i
connect
through
' Huntingdon to with the
| Huntingdon and Broad Top. Thi
| would give a short outlet to the south.
| Another story is in effect that the
| starting of these works will mean the
: building soon of. the long- talked-of |
| Bellefonte and Clearfield road, ns well
il | as the eastern extension of the oats! |
| Pennsylvania, the construction of |
which would give Beliefonte the bene
fit of two, or competitive, railroad
lines both east and west. One thing,
however, is certain, within the next
two rhonths, where all has been idle-
ness for years past, more than a thou.
sand men will be at work earning good
ti
@
is
Fe
t
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Latheran Ministeriam.
The Evangelical Lutheran minister-
jutn of Pennsylvania, which will hold
its 152d snnual meeting in Trinity
church, Reading, beginning May 25th,
and to continue in session about a
week, according to the latest statistics,
numbers 337 ministers, 505 congrega-
tions, 127.501 communicant members,
It has in its bounds 510 Sunday
schools, numbering 8,500 teachers and
05,430 scholars. The total benevolent
contributions for last year were §116,-
086.20, Itis often spoken of as the
mother synod. There are besides this
in thewountry about sixty other Luth-
eran synods, having 6,482 ministers,
15,513 congregations, 1,585,662 confirm-
ed members.
t
Q
%
e
sovornins
App
Another New Swindle,
A peat swindle is being worked with
great success in nearby towns and our
residents are duly cautioned. A wo-
man book agent appears in town and
goes from house to house leaving books
for examination, Next day a man
calls to see if the books are wanted, A
few days later the woman agent again
appears, and on being told that the
man had taken away the sample books
she weeps copiously, says the villain
town, pleads poverty and so on, and
accepts the proffered compensation,
tp
n Cold Weather Froze the Bees,
ily during the extremely cold weather
1a
were in good condition but the unusu-
ally low temperature of that month
froze the honey. The freezing caused
honey rendering it poisonous to the
_NO. 19
LOCAL ITEMS,
|
The West Susquehanna Classis of |
the Reformed Church is now holding |
i { its regular annual session at Boalsburg,
| May 10-15, This classis includes in its |
| territory the counties of Centre, C line |
ton, Lycoming, Union and Snyder, |
land there will be in attendance up-|”
i
i
| wards of one hundred ministerial and |
i lay delagates. The opening sermon |
i ’ i
| preached Wednesday evening by Rey, |
1
{
Reformed Classis at Boalsburg,
i Callings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
i
In the Philippines,
Rushing over the ridges
Like a flock of sheep ;
Bwimming over rivers
Where the water's deep ;
Running like scared yearlings
Over rural scenes
This they eall rebellion
Iu the Philippines,
The following » ill be the
| subject to slight changes:
Rev,
| Leaving smoking ruins
Of fair towns behind,
Running with their coat-tails
Bpreading out behind ;
Lurking in the jungles,
Hiding in ravioes —
This they eall rebellion
In the Philippines.
program, |
Opening sermon by T. Derr,
i
i
at 7.80 o'clock. On Thursday evening,
allender, of Mechaniesburg, |
M. Bellefonte, |
addresses on “Foreig Mis- :
Missions’! reapects |
On Friday ng Rev. M. N. |
Rebersburg, will preach a ser- |
imon “The Chur The preparatory |
sermon will be 1 Saturday, at
by Rev. John LL. Baishart, |
of West Milton. On Baturday
{ing Rev. LI. C. Whitmore, Mifflinburg, |
{ wil I discourse Hj The Young Peo- |
e's Socle Rel to the
{ Church.’ communion sermon, |
Bunday, 10 v'elock; will be
M. lL Frio, Will-
sunday school serv
{and elder
{wil make
i slong’!
ively,
( FROTe,
£. ower,
n Making tracks that measure
Twenty feel apart,
Btopping but to take a
Fresh and betier start ;
Halting not for battle—
Not by any means—-
This they call rebellion
In the Philippines,
and Home
evem
th.”
preached
| = o'elock,
even- Following their leader,
Who is far in front,
Leading from the bearers
Of the battle's brunt—
Who goes lightly bounding
O'er the tropic scenes—
This they call rebellion
In the Philippines.
won tt
fies with
The
al
ation
jon
| pre ached by Rev, i
; i
| iamsport. A
will be 1}
jie
held on afternoon at!
will
brethren of |
will be
Sunday
, when
Light frost in some sections Wednes-
day morning.
80 o'cloek addresses be |
f the
osing sermon
| preac hed i Rev, I{. Eisenberg,
Centre Ha There will be
| semsjons of the Classis durin
on Thursd ay,
i which the
| vited.
several o
The
i made by
Jo convention
nesis,
The Democratic county
| will be held June 13.
el
3
since last
Vegetation is booming
| week's thunder showers,
decided that the
must pay bounly on
business
day
to
the
Judge Love has
Commissioners
scalps,
Friday and Saturday
: public is most cordially in-
- -—
ff Interest to 1
For the
owners,
ing the
i publish the
]
i Property OW Lis
| thoriti
Hin a decision o
Peaches will come high this year—
{ fact is, they are not likely to come at
all.
John Wilson, of Wayne
ton county, died Bunday
| aged SO years,
tieipal AU- | Ben. Arney has put down a new
order of things | poerd walk along his front lots adjoia-
ing the boro’ line.
| case appealed from the Delaware coun- | 11s
generally | All Centre county folks should be
ity court, It has hen {4 : .
| been supposed that eit or boroughs | IAppy now —they can talk with Cen-
tre Hall by "phone,
r
i
i
roperty Holders
benelit of those property
about keep |
we re
who are careli
9
Clin-
evening,
| twp.,
sidewalks in
fol 11
ir repair,
ses and mus
dan
ti
ai
3
oR Will ew
fi
f the supreme court on a
i
tofore
{
ansible fe
laimed for
| were respo damages, where
Clearfield has a small pox scare on
its hands. Three or four cases have
been discovered in the town.
The card of John E. Homer, an old-
line Philipsburg Democrat, for county
treasurer, appears in this issuc.
juries sustained
W persons who fell on defective streets
$
dial
j sue h are «
i
| or pavements
{ permitted to exist,
| deed ide that the prop-
erty the unsafe or sidewalk
{ was continued is responsible
were
Toe
si on whose
negligently
eouris now
» itz
roadway
for dam-
| Fire almost destroyed the home of
{ J. W. Lud wig, of Selinsgrove, during
the absence of the family early on Bun-
day morning.
apes resulting
The ease in Hiusteation was that
Mrs, Mar who
fell on a broken pavement and injured
her leg. She sued the eity and was
awarded £331.50 damages. The solicit.
or of Chester then entered a claim for
the amount against the Firsi National
bank that owned the property on
which the accident occurred, and the
court ruled that the bank was account-
able,
of
Pd
guret Lee, of Chester,
Our next door neighbor, Brisbin, is
{ having painters Arpey & Stover, put
a coat of yellow with green trimmings,
on his residence.
The thunder gusis beginning of last
week knocked the talk out of more
than a dozen "phones on the Commer-
cial lines here-abouts.-
Rev. Rearick’s appointments, Sun-
day, May 14: At Centre Hail, 7 p.
m. ; at Spring Mills, communion, 10 a.
1. ; Tusseyville, 2 p. m
Robert Curtis, of Rauchtown, Clin-
ton county, claims the championship
for snake killing. * One day last week
he slaughtered a black snake six feet
eight inches long.
All the members of the Clearfield
Bar, Democrats and Republicans,
adopted a resolution indorsing ex-
Judge David L. Krets for Supreme
Judge.
The late mountain fires made a clean
sweep through Poe valley, Panther
Hollow and other sections of the Sev.
en mountain region. Several miles
tram roads were burned.
Aunt Katie Durst had a new and
substantial board walk put down front
of her two lots. Although one of our
most aged ladies, she is foremost ih the
spirit of liberality and improvement.
The Oil City Blizzard says that if
the sleep-disturbing canines of Venan-
go county were placed in single file, .
allowing two feet to each brute, the
grand old Keytsone state would be far-
nished with a border that would prove
a howling success,
On Friday evening last, Samuel
Kleckner, of Millheim, caught a 14
inch trout from under the big rock op-
posite the toll-gate in the gap. This
speckled beauty was of the California
persussion and had taken off the
hooks of several anglers this spring.
‘The big records for trout catches
————— tain
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage licenses
were isgued during the past week:
Levi ¥. Roan, Lemont, and Helen
Young, of Boalsburg,
Wm. T. Pease, Williamsport,
Emma T. Smith, Danville.
D. D. Breon, Spring Mills, and Em-
ma L. Winkelblech, Penn Hall
E. D. Ripka and Abbie 85. Breon, of
Spring Mills,
Arthar W., Bunday,
Edith Burris, Axe Mann.
Edward Erband Sarah E.
State College.
Joseph A. Myers, Boalsburg,
Mary R. Wolf, Woil's Blore,
John H. Delong, and Busan Elsie
Schenck, of Liberty twp.
lp tin
Silver In Nittany Valley
Residents of Nittany valley are ex-
cited over an alleged flod of rich silver
ore. J. A. Albright, a carriage maker
of Tylersville, while out in the woods
discovered a peculiar looking rock and
brought a piece of it along home with
him. He had the specimen assayed
and it was found to be sixty per cent.
pure silver. Albright will not divalge
the place of his discovery, as suv rock
is not on his land, but ssseris that
there are hundreds of tons of it there
from all appearances.
A A
After Coal, Too,
A coal find is agitating the good peo-
ple in the vicinity of Fiedler, as well
as at Spring Mills. In making an ex-
cavation, a slaty substance was struck made by our nimrods this are
along with a black, shining stone AEAOm,
which : bled: hart col, ok bela Auanted Iu youve fee Sham
The find will be further prospected, |
and if there is anything in the find, it
Will be g vaiautie Sis for that terri- |
»
and
Milroy, and
Kline, of
and
A A