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 <ebars a
* larger number of citizens than are ef-
fected by the constitution or Jaws of
any southern state, and that he feels
sure the best sentiment of the country,
regardless of politics, sustains the so-
ution which the suffrage hws of
Houth Usrolins and other sutbern
states secured to the peopl of in-
those states.
iry Cage's expressed
to answer any questiona
ask of him, concerning hise
of a New York bank to receive ¢
posit all moneys ys collected from
nal revenue taxes —about $1, .
day,—and to distribute the same t
ses, $4,708.852 82; total expenditures,
$20,308,768.95; estimated value of school
property, $40.46] 585 59,
In Philadelphia the report shows,
there are 193 male and 3278 female
teachers. The average monthly salary
of the male teachers is $167 21 and that
of the women $83.11. The number of
pupils in school at the end of the year
was 145,302, and the average attend-
ance was 128.285. The cost of school
houses and repairs for the year was
$832,923.90, and for books, fuel, station.
ery and contingencies $551,014 56,
Instantly Killed,
A mimie skirmish by boys represent.
ing United States and Spanish soldiers
was given a tinge of realism on Tues
day afternoon, by the mortal wound.
ing of one of the combatanis. While
the lads in the role of troops were at
play William Riden, aged 12 years,
shot William Bossinger, aged 11, in
was only 21 mills,
3
Edward Cressinger, aged 19 years,
the slayer of Daisy Smith, expiated
his erime on the gallows in the county
prison at Bunbury yesterday morniog.
The condemued man spent a quiet
night, and appeared to be unconcern-
ed about his approaching death. The
procession to the soaflold was led by
Sheriff Zerfing and Rev. Brosious,
Cremsinger following unaccompanied.
The doomed man ascended the steps
to the gallows firmly, and on the plat
form be confessed his guilt. After he
bad said farewell to the spectators the
noose was adjusted sod the trap
ung. In six minules he was pro-
dead. One of the most iuter-
: was Henry Smith, fa-
reed fn the West,
Oae boys who had gone west
to seek his fortune
of | n auto himself a
wife. is John Bweeney,
Bellefonte,
Frank C. Croyle and Mary Pilking-
ton, Fhilipsourg.
Bathurst, Mt. Eagle.
Charles H. Croak, Lock Haven, and
Lydia Batler, Romola.
Floyd O. Biddle, and Elia I. Will
iamson, Julian.
Frank IL. Carter, Punxsutawuey,
and Bell Saylor, Bellefonte.
Herbert Coran, Frandsville, and An-
na E. Rossman, Spring.
O. P. Smith, Feidler, and Nellie
Brindle, Rebersburg.
Forest J. Stover and Lottie Leitzell,
Aaronsburg. :
Alfred W. Winkleblooh, Penn, and
Lulu Derstine, Aaronsburg.
Andy Jurin and Annie Pacsuss,
Clarence, ;
Frank Cower and Sarah Robinson,
lor,
Thos. GG. Boalich and Vera L. Jones,
Philipsburg.
dead during the progress of a meeting
of the stockholders,
The January number of McClure's
Magazine will contsin some reminis-
cences of Rinine and Conkling, and
their rivalry in the Republican Cone
vention of 1880, by the Hou. George 8.
Boutwell,
Prices on coal having gone up, Belle.
fonte's steam heat has followed suis
and gone up too, bringing out a lion
like growl from the citizens of that res
ligious burg, with threats to go back
to gran’ma's 10 plate stove and tallow
dips. “Prosperity” has struck the
steam heaters, sure, too.
M. F. Johnson, the Clearfield jury
commissioner charged jury padding,
whe disappeared before the issuance of
a warrant for his arrest and who was
arrested at Marion, Indians, was lodg-
ed in jail at Clearfield. Chief of Police
Burt White, who captured him will
the back with a target gun, the ball
penetrating the beart and causing in- i th
stant death. The suvciaent occurred at Roster of State's Troops,
stows. | : Adjutant General Stewart has put a
: Ment number of clerks to work at Harris.
#4 Man Killed Near Lowlsbarg: | hgpg in preparing a roster of all sol!
While bau uaque, | diers and sailors of Pennsylvania who
desday, served in the Spanish-American war, |
gregatiag $125, Clarende L. Weaver, Ferguson, and
; Annie Young, Patton.
Harry E. Garbrick, Bellefonte, and
Louise E. Crissman, Pittsburg.
. Washington society, official and
Is pictured in We fail brilianey by