VOL. XXII. 1899, WASHINETON LETTER. GOLD STANDARD BILL PASSES THE HOUSE, The Bill now in tha Senate.—Some Republi. cans Do not Care to See the Bill Pass. ed. A Couple Democrats Give both sides, ex-Senator Edmunds, head- ing the array against Quay, and the Attorney General of Pennsylvania ap- pearing for him. Senator Penrose didn’t appear as counsel, and when he attempted to participate in the pro- ceedings by asking one of the lawyers if he was not employed and paid by John Wanamaker, he was promptly called down by Senator Pettus, one of Support, WasHinGroNn, Dec. 18.—Mr. Me- Kinley, the man who once blackguard- | ed Mr. Cleveland for worshipping | tha enlden ealf and being the enemy | ul siiver, completed the job of jam- ming the gold standard bill through | the House today. The program was | carried out according to the advance announcement, in every particular, except that there were fewer Demo-! cratic votes for the bill than had been | claimed by the Republicans. The bill | has now gone to the Senate, where Mr. McKinley can do no jamming, and where this particular bill will be al-| lowed to slumber in Committee. But the Finance Committee will report as | a substitute, a gold Standard Bill that | is even more objectionable than the | House bill. It is whispered in inside | Republican circles that the party lead- | ers would not be sorry if this session of | Congress adjourn without final action | on goid standard legislation, because | it would be easier to raise a big cam- paign fund from the money kings, if] the matter is left hanging, by promis- | ing to complete the job at next win-| ter's session, than it will be if the bill] goes on the statute book the Presidential campaign. before Congress will adjourn on Wedues- | day until January 3. The Senate! Committees have been re-arranged, un- | der the Republican garb, and three new committees—on Pacific Islands] and Porto Rico, on the Philippines, | and on Cuba,—have been formed, and Mr. Henderson will announce the | House Committees ment. The committee week hear witnesses that have summoned from Utah and will then decide whether it be necessary for the Committee to go to Utah to take fur- ther testimony. It is now certain that | the Committee will not make port until after the reassembling Congress, in January. before adjourn- this been Roberts will its re- of the door politieal work done by the Committee which succeeded in getting Philadel- phia chosen by the Republican Na- tional Committee, for next year's na- tional Convention—June 190th. Be- fore the Committee met, it seemed | practically certain that Chicago would be chosen, and so it would have been had not the Philadelphians made a! combination by which the southern members of the committee were prom- ised help to knock out the scheme to reduce the representation of the south in the National Convention, in return | for votes for Philadelphia. The com-| bination won at both ends. Philadel! pbia got the convention by one vote, and Committeeman Payne abandoned the scheme to cut down the number of | “nigger delegates to the Convention, because of opposition to it. Representative Sims, of Teun., who ’ is just beginning his second term in| Congress, fired a number of questions at the Republican speakers, during the | debate on the gold standard bill, in! his efforts to gain information as to | what the individual Republicans be- | lieved would be the result of the opera- tion of the bill, if it became a law, and their reasons for supporting the bill. As a result of those questions and the answers, Mr. Sims expresses the opin- ion that very few Republicans voted for the bill, because they really favor- | ed it as a whole. He thinks they vot- | ed for it, simply because it was a par- ty measure, and that the party una. nimity should be a lesson to the Dem- ocrats to stand together upon all mat. ters relating to party precepts. The attempt of Nebraska Republi- cans to prevent the seating of Senator Allen, appointed by the Governor to suceced the late Henator-elect Hay- ward, on the ground that as Mr. Hay- ward vever qualified as Senator, his death caused no vacancy that could be legally filled by the Governor, aroused nothing but amusement in Washing- ton. There will be no opposition to the seating of Benator Alles, because there is nothing whatever upon which it could be based. The gold standard Republicans would like very much to find some way to keep such a stalwart friend of silver out of Lhe Senate, until the long financial debate, which will begin as soon after the Christmas re- cess as the Foance gommittee reports its gold standard bill, is over, but they know too much to butt their heads aguiost brick walls. It is uni to say that Senator Allen will be most cordially welcomed by the silver Bena- i who know his fine fighting quali- There was lots of behind Com- Was one outside of extended fon | that should not be the committee, even the Senate, member ttt ENGLAND'S BAD LUCK. British pride has been humbled over its bad luek in the war with the Boers, put on sackcloth and ashes over sore and unexpected defeats in South Africa, and the killing and flower of Britain's army in conflict with the Boers. The queen is deeply affected and it is given out she may be driven to insanity. England will arise in her might to wipe out this humiliation, London dis- patches announcing a colossal army is to go from her shores to erush out the Boers, in campaign, under her ablest 1 The last of the Re- serves have been ordered out and the one great eaders, tain an overwhelming force, of 200,000 men is to be hurled against the Boers as soon as it can be landed where the conflict rages, and to accom- An army The expense of this war, in life and treasure, will be enormous for Eng- land and she must meet it. Her ulti- mate triumph is not questioned ; it is as a conflict between fifty to five, Will she compensate herself by con- quering the Boer country, rich in diamonds, gold, copper and the other 80 her own by right of conquest? We will, Her pumbers, but of skilled in war, cunning in setting traps, and occupy- ing territory that largely favors them in their plaos of warfare and goes far in unsurpassed bravery, conflict bers. against overwhelming num- won AN Three Children fa One Coffin. The family of Mr. Cummings, of Uastena, Clinton coun ty, death of four members withio a period of a week, Charles, a twin Friday last, twin daugh- and Mrs, Thomas Pe suffered the loss by died on Sunday Lavina, a and on Monday thirteen-months-old son on Lillian, a daughter died. The three children were interred in one coffin. A week later on Saturday a six year old daughter died, makiog| four children within a week from the one family. A MSA WAR NOTES As a result of the British reverses is in re- The natives there, as well as Basutoland, are said to losing heart re- british. be The British have changed generals, woberts, said to be their ablest, ceeds the defeated Baller, suc England is aroused. An army of 200,000 men is to be sent against the Boers as soon as possible, The besieged cities, Kimberley and Will Capitaiate Jan 1st, The Centre Democraf says, Sherift Cronister is making preparations al- ready for his flitting from his home on the hill to his farm near Port Matilda. The moving will take place on Mon- day, January Ist, and there will bea lot of his neighbors on hand to assist, Sheriff Brungart and family will come up from Millheim the same day to oo- cupy the stone bastile. mt aiuto somtmsmiimmy Shortest in the Year, Tomorrow, Friday, is the shortest day in the year. An old adage runs: “As the days grow longer the cold grows stronger,’ so we may look for cold weather later on. The weather 80 far has been mild, but there are two months ahead of us in which a shrink- ing mercury can be expected, LS MI SMS My son has been troubled for years, with chronic diarrhoea. Bome time ago I persuaded him to take some of Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera and Di. arrhoea Remedy. After using two bottles of the 25-cent size he was cured, I give this testimonial, hoping some one similarly afflicted may read it and be benefitted. ~Thomas C. Bower Glencoe, O. Foraale by J. H. Linden Hall; 8. M. Swartz, Tussey- villee; F. A, Carson, Potters, Mills; H. Views of the Grangers. Haven last week, on the subject Stone's cutting the school appropria- tion, says in its resolutions : “This reduction in the school appro- | priation means an increase in taxes on | our farms and other real estate. In-| stead of getting taxes reduced they are | increased.’ Mr. Creasy, in his remarks, said : | “We believe the time has come for | farmers and other real estate owners to | assert their rights and formulate a tax bill similar to the laws in operation in | other States, so that the burdens of | government shall be justly and equita- bly distributed among all and all pro. | tected thereby." The committee on road legislation that shall or equal taxation on all except that exempt- either provide 1 ed by constitution, for road purposes, or that it shall contain prerequisite aid by the State similar to the school propriation, As to Trusts a resolution was passed demanding such Jegislation as will compel such | combinations to occupy their true po- sition as creatures and servants of the public by enforcing publicity ap that congress shall enact of their! methods and accounts, preventing ove er-capitalization in its various forms | and forbidding discrimination in charges, ete. A resolution favors the establish- | ment of township high schools and higher wages for teachers. A resolution favors the enactment of a law making game the property of the owner of the land on which it found, snd making it unlawful for any person to hunt game without the own- | er's permission. A resolution favors the election of United States Senators by the direct | vote of the people, Lock Haven was again fixed on next year's meeting. is for A cf The Boers Got Ready Long Ago. The letter of the Boer General Jou- bert to a friend in Europe, written a week after the breaking out of the South African war, shows the high strategy the Boers played oun the Brit. ish military and civil authorities. The Boers, confident that war was certain by Great Britain carrying out her de- signs of subjugation, commenced mak- ing preparations years ago. They sup- plied themselves with the material of war up to the latest date, in its de-| structive qualities. Arms and muni- tions shipped to the Transvaal in great quantities, and secretly stored. Brit- ish spies were sent into the country, found their way to Pretoria and were shown masses of old and ineffective material, us the limit of the Transvaal They report- | ed it would be a safe enterprise to in- vade and subdue the Boer country. And the war came about as Chamber- lain planned it. The Boers unmasked | their timely and sagacious prepara- | tions, with results the British have | found out in five or six battles, a feated invasion, and a casualty roll] that now counts up to well on to eight | thousand fighting men in wonanded or | prisoners. General Joubert pithily says the Transvaal statesmanship was | to “alm without relaxation and to] hide these armaments from the Eng- lish", It issingular that in this war, and that because of this marvelous strategy, the “embattled farmers” of the veldt have overmatched the power and resources of the British empire in strategy and fighting. The battle is not always to the strong. A ————— MA SAAS de- | Insuranoe, The quarterly meeting of the board of directors of the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Compavy, was held at Runkle's hotel, Centre Hall, on Wed- nesday. The members present were Messrs. Campbell, Bailey, Bottorf, McFarlane, Shook, Evans, Haines, Brungart, Duck, Thomas and Kurtz. The amount of risks taken in the past three months was $03,706 Death of a Young Lady, Miss Neva Miller, daughter of Elias Miller, died at Madisonburg last Thurs. day morning, after a long illness from diabetes and heart trouble. She was aged about twenty years. The funer al took place on Monday morning, in- terment being made in the Reformed cernetery at Madisonburg. I A SY AAAS Running Strong. The lumber industry through this part of the state 1s showing marked ac- tivity since the market price has risen to a profitable figure in operating. Lumber that sold several months ago at $10 per thousand at mills near here, is now quoted at $16, An Excellent Plotare. The Lock Haven Wepubiican this week contains an excellent ious of TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. FROM ALL PARTS. Accused of Murderiog » Companion in a Jersey Shore Hunting Party, Railroad Employes to be Carved for Peter Koch, of Jersey Bhore, was ar- rested by Detective Munson charged {with the murder of William Marks, | He has been committed to jail at Will | ismsport, for a preliminary hearing on | Wednesday. The erimeatleged against | Koch was committed on November 21, while with half dozen companions, were out hunting. Koch and Marks, i CGiamne was scarce and the members of the party began mark. | Fun ran high and the yo gan taking the hats from shooting at a wing men be each other's heads and firiog at them excitement Koch, man, shot Marks, injuring him verely that he died the While his companions ing Marks to his home ( sou was accidentally shot by dropping a gun it struck the at the hospital. Daring the who is 8 ope armed 80 B- day. Carry- Jack boy following Were Hlord 0 edd is still . whieh MiRchDarg ne ground. oJ ARSON The death of Marks caused a big sen- sation the was and for throughout county sympathy Koch, as it is belleved that the shoot- ing was accidental, Marks, fa- before ex pressed John api District Attorney Kaupp and demand- ed the arrest of Koch, all his bed Koch had deliberately weared hat his that it eging t asserted shot sG0 on death him, an ante-mortem statement to his phy- + sician charging Koch with shooting him intentionally and with | | threatened t ving 43 do 80. fp Pensions for Hallroaders. of the President Cassatt, ratiroad, issued a cir nin. ing the plan of per Bio ular for employes, which goes Into January 1, 1900. It provi retirement ou that da { all aged | wn te Of es of the Pennsylvania railroad system who have and a attained the age of 70 years, payment to such employes sion equal to one of per cent. for he aver. sage salary for the last On that date 950 emplo ten years yes will be retired The plan also provides for the ment of all officers and tween the ages of 65 ane having been { the company, on the retired and pensioned on the first day employes yd Years who, the i ¥) years in service of | Aare Pp same basis, bysically disquali- They will be | of age specified. These | be payable at the same rate doring the lives of the pensioners, provided the total amount for peusions shall not ex- ceed $300,000 per annum. The plan | also provides that no pew employe is | to be taken into service who is over 35 | years of age. pensions will cts Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses were issued during the past week: G. A. Ripka, Spring Mills, and Mary M. Mitchell, Lewisburg. Nicholas Lucas, and Mary E both of Boggs township. Frank P. Hanns, and Susan D. Ken- nedy, both of Spring Mills. James Moflit, Patton township, and Maggie H. Davis, MecAleys Fort. Charles C. Smith, Pine Grove Mills, and Alice Mattern, Majose, Daniel Neidigh, and Annie M. Perdy both of State College, J. A, James, Liberty, and Miller, of Curtin. Peter E. Cain, and Flora L. both of Bpring township. Gotleib Worner, and Augusta Bmith, both of Munson, —————— A MS AN Hess, Emma Keller, Guilt and Women, Statistics show that man bears false witness 100 times to a woman's 17; man for forgery and counterfeit coin- ing was convicted 100 times toa wo- man’s 11; in France women are sam- moned before the tribunal four times less than men, Taking the whole of Europe, women are five times less guilty than men, Great on Travel. Alfred Kreamer, of Penn township, stepped on a needle a few days ago, and it broke off in his foot. He was unable to get the broken portion out and as the wound had closed up it altogether likely that the needle will travel round in his foot and leg until it works out itself, ns is so frequently heard of. Will Fill Appointments, iss Florence Rhone, of this attendance was ln Shia o The Great Salt Supply. The level of Great Balt Lake is stead- ily falling on account of the large vol- i now absorbed by irrigation enterprises { The Jordan and Bear rivers, City Creek | | and other streams that flow into | lake rise in the | east and the average volume of water {they poured into the lake the year | round before they were intercepted by | irrigation ditches was about 10,000 cub- ic feet a second, This { bie quantity of water, but the evapora- i tion from the surface of the lake is very | 1arge, and the diminution in the sup- is n the lake level, { 18 not receiving Great Balt Lake to-day water it process goes on, the ing only a bed as much evaporates, and, if the the time is not far distant lake will disappear, leav The ake ave clear and limpid nH when of “ry anit. the i chemical analyses reveal styeams flowing into , and only the presence of the salts they contain, The disappearance of the lake would take from the neil Lake City one of but would make easily accessible one of the greatest of the world, Selentific men ti ate ths ters hold about tons of common ghborbood of Balt its chief attractions sources salt in { the wa- million Accepting this estimate as approximately accurate ev- of parison with the riches Great Balt Lake will offer if ita waters disappear, the asecessible, four hundred ar galt in com- ery other source pales and than atio i leaving mineral more it tlw CRsily 3 $s eT cheaply as will be, in any other salt mines or evapor grounds of the world. The United year 2,450,000 {« snit makers of States produced wns of the to the dried-up bed of Great Salt it would take them galt country should Lake fact « # s asl year's s AL rate of production, more than one and sixty-t ears to exhaust { supply. The great salt « | York, Michigan and K 13 i ¥ « § . the hree 3 ansas might be i | held as a reserve for Or Bey- me - | enth generation to o - - Died in Uble of Dr. J. B. Kreider, valley, died in the state Ohio, Fri prominent this pital at To- Kreider and for Bucyrus, i rofes. A native bio edo, fast lay. Dr. Was a physic | an many YOars was Ohl 0, where he pract { slon, ex posure became afflicted with necessary for him to the State hospital. {ly sixty vears, Owing to he brain trou and it was take treatment in He and was the was aged pears father of His }oals- 1134 4 rebellion | two daughters, who survive him. was Miss (Fe iburg. Durin he was a member ment, P.V.1I.L F the close of the war he Millheim, where has He was a brother of Mrs, ver, of C« and Mrs, ver, of near Rebersburg. yp No Pay for Night Sessions The county commissioners coming county, created much excite ment among politicians in Williams- port last Friday by refusing pay Wein Stover, « g the war of the the regi or several vears after then Ff ol i4sih acticed med- removed resided. WwW. B icine at and to Ohio, since 0. D. he Sto burn, Wea- of Ly- fo had been out on a case for thirty hours. after 12 commissioners court. Judge wages if they remained out o'clock at night. The are supported by the Metzger says that there is great ger of such a custom being an sive one, and one that may tempt such jurors to remain in the jury room un- til after midnight in order to get ad- ditional pay. ss ———— Filipinos Rill a General, On Monday Gen. Lawton, in charge of part of the U, 8. forces in the Phil ippines, was instantly killed by a ball from the rifle .of one of Agunaldo’s sharpshooters. He had been caution ed by his men not to expose himself but he disregarded their warnings, and soon after he was shot down. I 5 ASS AON A Meihodist Minister Dead. Rev. Asbury Welton Guyer, a veter an minister of the Methodist church, died last Sunday at Duneansville, Pa., aged 67 years, In 1856 he was in charge of the Penns valley circuit, and was stationed at State College from 1805 to 1800, He leaves four daugh- ters to survive him. A A Cartia Monument, General James A. Beaver, chairman of the Curtin monument committee, has called a meeting of that body st Bellefonte on Thursday next, Decem- ber 28, As a eure for rheumatism Chamber lain’s Pain Balm, i. olson: of a de reputation, mond, been troubled Rib that ailment since In . i of It hie suyat “I never found any- thing that wou used Sh nberialue ke with Pain i LOCAL ITEMS, | Cultings of More than Ordinary Interest from Everywhere, THE ANNUAL QUANDARY, i HE : | What shall I buy this year 7 | What shall I buy for my dem ? A box of gloves A dainty pin A § Toputitin? =Oome roses red? Much gifts she hi A five-pound bos Of choco als A mandolin she cant MOTE Oh, tell jE. 1TH shall I buy her for ¢ this vear thing sl her for Christmas my sweetheart, ewel case iristmas - Wri it i=nt’t {oo dear ? I'ell me, ob, here | ud I'm hang almost foil es A if to get. hall I g this vear 7 shall I b dear? A mee? Well, I'd like The one eg Hi neve A testament ristmas 3 ¥ hat ng ing my ht 00d nev ry iristimas sn't too irawing 4 hat to © War on Th 4 Read ad Christmas bargains, 8 10 another attacl thro’. build T it key &, Lyman Smith § reparing to himself Not 1 14) deer te Kill - daili inty as half, Christ. all our reported to t week New No paper next mas and a Happy readers, Rev. Rearick's appointments, Bun- Dec. 24: i Pm. day, . sevville, o . iy Afil! 1 - spring Mills, itt RB. - p.m. War Thanksgivi pewed and great up to the 5th. Will Ri a typo in the Reporter office appointed County Supervisor age in the county cessation to be re- iaughter 313 turkey On WUTREY, ¥ gioCe i, will bw learned the art of lias been of Drain- : lives in per year. One of the in Sa. | gar valley, owned by D. K. Heckman, white pine and white oak, was sold to Edgar Holt, of Northumbsx and James Schrack, of Lewisbt for £7.000, y hard, who where L atl a salary of $1000 best timber tracis riand, itg, Bam'l M. Patterson, died suddenly of heart day morning. He was aged years. As he was about wu { United Brethren Church he | and expired almost instantly. We were enabled to dine upon rab- bit of no small proportions, the other { day, thanks to the kindoess of our in- { dustrious townsman, Lew Sunday, | who raises bunnies for his own table, some weighing 12 pounds, Monday evening a gas jel in a room | at the Brockerhofl' house, Bellefonte, | set fire to a window curtain, and the fire created a small sized pavic in the house. The flames were quickly sub dued with a small damage. . The Harter brothers, lumbermen, of Lock Haven, have purchased of Joel Jailey, of Philadelphia, a tract of 4016 acres of timber land in little Sugar val- ley, this county, for §10,000. The pur- chasers will at once begin lumbering operations on the tract The eclipse of the moon, Saturday evening, came up to time to the see ound, and, there being a clear sky, was plainly visible here. With the aid of a field glass we were able to have somes what better opportunity to fullow the progress of the eclipse than by the nas ked eye. Some persons still cling to the superstition that an eclipse bodes no good. It is nothing more than the of Spruce Creek, failure on San- over 70 nter the fell over moon when our planet happbos to cross the line between the sun and the moon. The phenomenon can be made plain by the evening lamp to represent the sun ; a small circle cut out of cloth placed against the wall, { cle to t the moon, a it and the lamp slowly pass
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