NO. | BRE HALL, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900, a 2 BO PO mA ns ig TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. ON LETTER. LATE NEWS NOTES, LOCAL I'TEMS, Croker, the Tammany chief, was thrown from a horee in Evugland and had a leg broken. Queen Victoria is troubled with ip- somuin, owing te the condition of af- fairs in Bouth Africa. The transportation of wheat from the west to the seaboard means mill- fous of dollars a year to railroad and ship owners, The Boers were driven from Coles burg by the English under General French, on Bunday night. The Boers were taken by surprise, It is very cold in Germany, and the island of Room is now reached over a frozen arm of the North ses, a condi- tion unknown in twenty years, Lias escaped the payment of city taxes | $F . Reign of Terror, amounting to more than $120,000, “Reign of terror prevails in the io- Boss Hauna was right when he sald | cali of Bpruce Cresk, east of Tyrove, that the talk about Secretary Gage re-| Thilawlessness exists without any signing was bosh. The interests dan #1, apparently, of punishment to which put Mr, Gage in the Cabinet |thoSwho are guilty of it. Three de- have more work for him to do for their | liberate murders have been committed profit, and nobody knows it any bet. | Within as many months; the sale of in- ter than Boss Hanns, Mr. Gage | toxicgting liquors on Sunday and to could not resign, even if he really | minors is said to go on undisturbed. wished to, without queering himself | The whole community is said to car- with those interests. ry concealed weapons, Several thefts ——— faiths nines and barglaries have been made and Foster's Weather Forecast, nearly every section of the penal code My last bulletin gave forecasts of the | has openly been violated. The most storm waves to cross the continent | peculiar feature of this condition of af- 27 to 31 and January 2 to 6; next will | fairs is that tho county authorities are reach the Pacific coast about 7, cross | Bot résponsible for the lax administra. the west of Rockies country by close of | tion of the law, since they are almost 8, great central valleys 9 to 11, eastern | Powerless to remedy the evils. The Cullings of More than Ordizary Interest from Everywhere, A Century From Now, If you and I should wake from sleep A century from now, Back to the grave we'd want to creep, A ceotury from now, We'd witness such a startling change, Find everything so wondrous strange We'd harry back across the range, A century from now, Democrats Again tn Control of the County Munsgement,— New Officials Sworn Into Service on Monday, Sm. The retiring Sheriff, Wm. M. Chron- ister, and Register George W. Rum- berger, have fiiled their positions with fidelity, and to the entire satisfaction of the public. The Democrats made no mistake in electing these gentle. men, and thereby gave the people two faithful public servants, In the Commissioners’ office, the fo. 1.—That queer wlitics everybody kuows, and nobod, ever expected to see Republican me§ bers of Congress trying to get Dem@uatic members to assist them ib resiq vg what they call an underhanded at] ‘ck on the protec. tive tariff system f' the Republican administration. YJ that is precisely WasHINGTON, things occur in A woman, forty, fat and fuir, A century from pow, May warm with grace the Spesker's chair, A century from now. The cabinet may be a flock Of girlies, gay of hat and frock, Who talk, but who won't mend a sock, A century from now. what is being done.} Repablicans rep- resenting sections of ich produce arti- ~ oles affucted by the @ reral reciprocity treaties, negotiated § idler the Dingley tariff law, which reglire the approval ws the House as welll 1 the ratification of the Benate, are tr '& to get Demo- crats to help them d§ at the treaties, Mr. McKinley pul} i off his New Year reception witiit & scrap be tween those who hi for weeks over whet _ be given pre I” which has al- ways been followed. There is avother Ww on between Gen. Miles and Adjutant General Cor- bin, It was started by the recommen- dation of Gen. Miles thst this year's West Point class be graduated in Feb- ruary, iostead of June, In order that the graduates, instead bf civil appoint ees, might fill the num§ious vacancies in second lieutenancies@n the regular army. For some reasoff Gen. Corbin states 12, Warm wave will eréss the west of Rockies country about 7, great central valleys, eastern states 11. Cool wave will cross the west of Rockies country about 10, great central valleys 12, east- ern states Jan, 14. Temperature of the week ending at January 15 will average below normal io the great central valleys, and Atlan- tic states and above on Pacific. slope. Rainfall will be below normal in the great central valleys and Atlantie states and about normal on the Pacific slope, January will be a cold month in the east of Rockies except in the New Eng- land states. Very cold in the great central valleys, warmer from the vi cinity of the Rockies westward, Rainfall of January will be from about to above normal in the Ohio val- ley s and eastern states, below in the great central valleys and about on the Pacifie slope. railroad company is additional Two Iridges are being built just The familiar driven through the moin- | ce Creek near the old one 400 men are employed if of whom are negroes states and most of them work in the tunnel, her workmen are Ital. r morals and it is be- I offenders and re information concern. noe for Pension, ¢ railroad men ex- For sherift we have that royal fel- Proof, he re- Boyd Musser, new commissioners’ J. C. Harper retires from the Reeord- | That five oid gentleman, the new The new registration now being taken in Philadelphia has turned up already to be fraudulent in several of the precincts. The penitentiary does not seem to have any terrors for the rascals, A Aber ballot box has been opened wl biladelphia, and more evidence of fraud found. The boxes are stufted like Christmas turkeys, so far as they bave been opened. Philadelphia stands head and shoulders above any other city in the land for ballot frauds. A vile plot was uncovered in Mani- Ia. One thousand rebels organized to slaughter Americans. It had been planned to throw bombs among the foreign diplomats during General Law- ton’s funeral. A biguprising was pre- vented by the discovery of the plot, The insurgents do not have a great force in the field any longer, and Agui- oaldo with about 200 followers is still in flight to distant parts of Luzon. The people all will fly on wings A century from now (Not heavenly, but patent things) A century from now. They'll soar aloft devoid of fear On pinions of a chainless gear, And change their “fiyers’’ every year, A century from now, There'll be no restaurants at all A century from now, The home will have no dining ball A century from now. The chemists all our wants will fill With food in tablets, and to still Our thirst we'll simply take a pill, A century from now, Henry Geisweit, Bellefonte, was al- lowed a pension, $0, Got the first sleighride, Les Jacobs, Bunday before Christmas, Thomas E. Royer has been appoint- ed postmaster at Rebersburg. There will be lots of sales coming spring, say suctioneers J. I. Neff and Will Goheen. His wife died last week in giving birth to n son. A guerrilla warfare is likely to be kept up, which may last a i year or longer. Quay bas damaged his own shaky case, although founded on a burly Stone. His enemies were working in Washington while he was down in Florida fishing, and made some better hauls than be did. It is not believed the ex-Benator will allow his claim to be voted on in Committee, Lancaster county's treasurer, Einan- uel H. Hersheyghas gone to parts un- fice well and will go out with an up- tarnished name. Mr. Bpeer succeeds Harrison Kline who filled the office ereditably, Register Archey is winning good opinions already and will prove an ex- cellent official in full keeping with his good name and manliness, Nels Robb, the Recorder, was the best man the Republicans had to offer, and we think he will do his duty, A A A BAW MILL BURNED. A wave of moderate temperature will cross the continent from west ic east about 1 to 7, followed by a low temperature wave. From about 7 to 20, temperature will continue to slowly rise but with fre quent waves of higher and lower tem- peratures, The center of a drouth period will oat pass the great central valleys not far fugion seri from 16 covering nearly two weeks and slowly moving eastward, Bnows may be expected in the northern states from 20 to 27 and rains in the southern states, to get the pension, Post, as they think fa thousand, in ac- can expect to live old his job. One that sbout once a ned for eyesight, L these tests are ¢ and rigorous, er forty are in pass the coming re they will ex- thirty five feet bitterly antagonizes th tion—of course, he, as eral of the Aral, 5 terest in the, ppoint re to be second lieutenants army. ‘retary Root il towards Corbin a little, has not agtually decided yet. Whilel no one in Was ously beflieves that the Rdg ous wil} dare to indorse tH wh ( During the past year there have been 1020 births in Centre county and 482 deaths. We are forging ahead. Big hogs are still on deck yet. H. Duck, esq., of Millbeim, killed a pork- er which dressed 582 pounds. It is believed that nothing short of an eartbquske could destroy the Wash- ington monument, so solid is its foun- dation, We have had a siege of ten days of extremely cold weather ; the ground is frozen deep and the ice is from eigihi to ten inches thick. A citizen from Axeman desires the Reporter to say, that thieves in that section will have a hearing if they do vot walch themselves, Mr. Hockman, of Farmers Mills, whose sale is on the list, will move on the Zimmerman farm, near Hecla, which be purchased recently. The cold Christmas snap is reported to have been felt in many parts of the country and may mean the exit of a most delightful fall. What next? D. F. Fortoey, esq, put his strong shoulder to the educational wheel dur- ing teachers’ justitute and directors’ day. Fortney can’t be else than use ful. John Shirley, aged 71, chief promo- ter of the Tussey Mountain Mining & Smelting Co., Huntingdon, dropped that one man ot tive railroad wor he regular «td to lean saough he i questipn of the engineers year they are exa hearing, ete, and becoming more se and many men n doubt as being able test. Before mauy pect 8 man to st : # winks, fromm» mewyuite fud : es | The haree Plant at Linden Ha Gus up known, and his account is short in lowered in the ranks. They will also] oq Saiurday evening the large saw |'D¢ Sum of $6504241. This amount insist on & man being able to hear a|mil| of the Linden Hall Lumber com- | Scertaived from bis books by his bed bug crawl at a distance of forty- | pany, a short distances west of Linden { deputy, bis 49 Clarence M. Hershey, five feet and a wheel with 500 spokes, | and Co. Auditor Thos J. Marsh, who Hall, was totally destroyed by fire, sll of different colors, will be revolved | The fire was discovered about six | Wereat work on the books for over a week. Speculating in stocks, poker at an amazing rate, and the candidate o'clock, from an unkvown origin, and : for & position will have to stand a mile the large plant was soon a mass of and gambling swamped him. away and tell the color of esch spoke, | flames. A large lot of lumber was pil- Marriage Licenses, and the number of spokes. The wheel | od within one hundred feet of the mill! The following marriage licenses bed bug and musquito test will knock | aud for a time the flames threatened | were lssued during the past week: out men before they are forty not to lio consume this, but by hard work on Harry Munson and Annie F. Bears, say anything about thiree score abd |the part of the men, the flames were Philipsburg. ten. confined to the mill Wm. D. Walker and Mary M. Me The plant was one of the best equip Cool, Wolfs Store. ped ia this paft of the state, and the| Thomas A. Hosterman and Ella C. loss is about $5,000, partly covered by | Corman, Coburn, infurance. A large lot of shingles In Ezra W. Carson, Spring township, the mill were destroyed. and Catharioe I. Shrefller, State Col- mts psi fp —— lege. Cressinger Hanged. Wm. A. Briggs and Florence Wian, h proposes to reduce 1 Representation and is of a number of sout resentative Wilson, of s, who is an able o bra states, sith Care School Statistios for the State, The school report contains these sta- tistics of the schools of the state: Num- ber of school districts, 2493: number of schools, 27.968; number of graded schools, 16,905; number of superintend- ents, 140; number of male teachers, $360; number of female teschers, 19.- 409; average salaries of male teachers per mouth, $44.27; average salaries of female teachers per month, $37.84: whole number of pupils, 1,152,452; av. erage number of pupils in daily attend. ance, 858.177; cost of school houses purchasing, building, renting, ete, $3,569,820 94; teachers’ wages, $10,740, 713 38, cost of school text books, £782. 235.50; cost of school supplies other text books, $408,146 30; fuel, contingen- cies, fees of cotiectors and other expen- doubts. Mr. Wilson qu beisions of the U. 8. Bup ne of which contains the Iain language: ——— eb ——— What it Cost te Collect a Dr silar far Unele Sam, According to the annus] tressury re- port, the aggregate recei the port of Philadelphia, the Jast fseal Year, amounted to $22.843.071.51, while the expenses were $460.508.04, showing hod inhering exclusively in He also points out that the vote has been denied by a lal ber of states. For instance, | tional qoalifieation is Maine, Massachusetts, Bouth Carolina, Mississippi, na, Colorado, and Wyoming b the payment of certain taxes '§ requir- ed before citizens can vote, ty Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delawas, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Nisslssip- pi, Tennessee, and Nevada, Mr. Wil son says the educational quaification imaposed by Massachusetts