VOL. LXXIIL
WASHINGTON LETTER.
HANNA SHOWS HIS HAND ON THE
TARIFF BILL.
A Tariff Necessary to Secure Campaign
Campaign Fands from the Trusts Who
Will be Benifitted,
WasHiNGTOoN, March 20.—Boss
Hanna, having failed to convince all
the Republican Senators, by telling
them that the passage of the Porto Ri-
co tariff bill was necessray to get cer-
tain big campaign contributions, is
now vigorously wielding the party
whip on the shoulders of the kickers,
with able assistance on the quiet from
Mr. McKinley. It was to help him
that Senator Foraker got the Senate
Porto Rico bill sent back te Commit-
tee. This leaves the deck clear for the
House bill, which deals exclusively
with the Porto Rico tariff. Every en-
ergy is now to be bent to force that
through the Senate without amend-
ment. Five orsix Republican Sena-
tors still threaten to filibuster against
a vote,
Senator Cockrell, speaking for the
Democratic Senators, just before the |
Senate passed the bill authorizing the |
appointment of a Commission to go to
believes that Senator Cullom will be
succeeded by a Democrat. He said:
“I think I have a right to be sanguine
in my hopes that we shall elect a Dem-
ocrat to the U, 8, Benate. The pres-
ent law districting the state makes it
possible for us to carry the legislature,
although the Republican have a ma-
jority in the state somewhere between
25,000 and 45,000."
One result of the investigation, now
being made by the House Military
Committee of the use of Federal troops
in Idaho, is the resolution offered in
the House by Representative Lentz, of
Ohio, aud in the Senate by Senator
Allen, of Nebr., calling for the with-
drawal of Federal troops from the
Coeur d’Alene district in Idaho; the
revocation of the labor permit system,
and restoration of the right ol habeas
corpus. The resolution declares that
the further use of U. 8. troops in aid-
ing and assisting the maintenance of
martial law is improper, unnecessary
and unlawful.
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LATE NEWS NOTES
A suit over a dead dog, in Indiapap-
olis, a §l cui, nas ited up $1000 costs,
Now they are after seven of Scran-
ton's councilmen charged with corrup-
tion and bribery.
In the Kentucky Goebel murder tri-
China and Japan and make a report
on Commercial conditions in
countries, said: “The Republican par- |
ty is in absolute control, and we on |
this side of the Chamber are powerless |
to prevent the enactment of any legis- |
lation coming from the Republican |
party and deemed necessary byit. I]
will not antagonize this bill, although |
I do not agree with it in principle. I]
want it understood now, and under- |
stood distinctly, that hereafter, abso-|
lute responsibility must rest upon the!
those |
Republican party for the passage of all |
resolutions and bills.”
Senator Tillman utilized his piteh- |
fork, to toss a few aggravating ques- |
tions to the almost distracted Republi- |
can Senators, which farnished consid-
erable amusement to the occupants of |
the galleries and to the
Senators, Among the
which no Republican seriously at-|
tempted to answer, were the following: |
“‘Has the President changed his mind |
or pot? Is the President for free trade
with Porto Rico today, or is he not?
Is he leading his party or has he sur-]
rendered to the dictates of special in-|
terest, following the triumphal car
like a prisoner of war?
gentleman please tell me whether the
President is for free trade with Porto |
Rico, or is he not? After waiting in|
vain for a reply to his questions, Mr. |
Tillman said with a sardonic laugh: |
“A dumbness falls upon usall.” He]
then vividly
troubles of the Republican party, and |
predicted that the people would sweep |
it from power, for not recognizing that
the flag, the Constitution and liberty
must travel together, and charged the |
Republican party with indirection, hy- |
pocrisy, and dirty word. Senator |
Spooner sought to detract attention
from Senator Tillman's plain talk
about Porto Rico by shifting the de-
bate to the suppression of the negro
vote in South Carolina, but Mr. Till-
man met him at once by declaring
that he had no apologies to make for
the action of the white people of South
Carolina, adding: *‘When you could
get nothing more from us by law, you
turned a horde of negroes and carpet
baggers loose upon us to steal every-
thing we had left. We are here to
stay, and we demand our rights, We
are not to be trampled on and ham-
mered and patronized any longer. I
say that as a South Carolinian, I am
the equal of any Senator on this floor.
I propose to have my say here, no mat-
ter whose feelings are hurt.”
After ten years’ service in the House
Representative Cox, of Tenn., has an
nounced that he will not be a candi-
date for re-election. When asked why,
he answered in three words—"Tired of
it.”” He will be missed by the Demo-
crats of the next House, as he has won
a place as an able champion of Demo-
cratic principles.
That the government overpays for
low-grade work and under-pays for
high-grade work has again been em-
phasized by the resignation of Hon. A.
P. Greeley, Assistant Commissioner of
Patents, because of his small salary, to
engage in practice in Washiogton,
making a specialty of trade marks and
foreign patents. The retirement of
Mr. Greeley isa decided loss to the
government. He has been in the Pat-
ent office for sixteen years, has filled
many important positions, locluding
. that of Commissioner, besides writing
several works recognized as authority
on patent law, and not only proved his
ability, but exhibited an amount of
backbone seldom found In a govern-
ment official. The latter was particu
Jarly noticeable in the long fight
which resulted in disbarring the noto-
rious John Wedderburn and other
Democratic |
questions, |
Will some |
sketched the present |
als the testimony is coming alarmingly
The Republicans of one branch of
the Iowa Legislature by usanimous
| vote, adopted a resolution declaring for
| free trade with the island! Inform
McKinley so he may understand his
plain duty,
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Two New Counterfeity
Notice is being sent out from Wash-
ington of two new counterfeit bills.
“B" plate
The bill is a fairly deceptive one,
distributed between
The work is blurred and the
small seal is darker than the genuine.
The other bill isa $1
cate of the series of 1899, check letter
“(,” Lyons register, Roberts treasur-
er. Itis printed on rough photo-etch-
silver certifi-
lighter and the lathe work and por-|
The back of the
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The Texas Anti-trust Law
The Washington despatches an-
has bean upheld in the United States
Thus the trusts are
fore them
in the pear future, The Texas law was
most stringent passed by
any of the Western States. It practic-
ally allows debtors of trusts tos repudi-
ate their obligations on the ground
combination is itself illegal, Mean-
while the Democratic leaders at Wash-
ington are asking Congress to take act-
ive measures against specific trusts, on
the ground that they are illegally op-
erating in interstate commerce. This
promises to be known as the “anti.
trust year” in American history.
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Girls, Think of This.
An exchange asks; How many
miles will the jaws of a gum chewing
girl travel in the course of a year, and
then says: Giving her jaw a play of
an inch, or an inch of travel for each,
30 chews a minute, 60 minutes an
hour, 10 hours a day, 365 days a year,
her jaws traveled 6,750,000 inches ora
fraction over 103 miles. This for the
girl with the small mouth; the big
mouthed girl can beat that record.
Manufacturing News for the Dally Papers.
There can be no benefit of perma.
nent value to any one by reporting for
the Daily papers what is not strictly
true. A man may gain some litle ad
vantage for the present, but it is cer-
tain that no kind of legitimate busi-
ness can be successfully conducted very
long on that line. The public press is
an educator in morals as well as other-
wise, The young people especially
cannot be fitly educated by questiona-
ble metnods. The writer of this has
reference now to the reports of the
Centre County Sunday School Conven-
tion at Centre Hall last Tuesday, sent
from Bellefonte to the Philadelphia
Dailies. Certain lines of business were
reported as transacted that were not
done and nobody thought of doling.
Mrs. Barnes’ address was favorably re-
ported. Bhe was not at the conven-
tion. The next convention at State
College; no person present thought of
placing it there. In this age of news.
paper reading, people generally, to say
the least, want to know what is true
and reliable. If they do not get it,
then helleve me, some of the Dalles
will be Bheldonized.
Bellefonte, = R. CRITTENDEN,
crooked patent attorneys,
Hersh 3, Jom.
Rendable Chippings,
The Connecticut girl who has been
sleeping since Monday has some of the
symptoms of the hired girl about the |
time she should have the breakfast
ready.
There are 71 princesses in Europe
in the lot.
The loudest speakers in Congress are
Senator Tillman and Representative |
Brosius, Mr. Brosius speaks with a
long, deep roar, while
man, when fairly wrought up to his
subject, speaks in spasmodic shrieks.
Thos. Burkholder, of Lehigh coun-
ty, sold his perfected new method of
tanning hides, tried for 15 years, for
$25,000 down and a royalty of two
cents on every hide tanned. By his]
discovery hides can be tanned at less
cost than by the old method and in
one-fifth the time,
Ram's Horn: The human weeds in
a community stand as conspicuous as |
tares among the wheat, and are as |
great a nuisance and drawback to a lo-
cality.
Sam Jones: The devil is the father |
of jealousy as well as of liars; for sa- |
tan knows that jealous spirits earich |
his harvest. \
|
There is a possible litigation in sight |
between the Evangelical church and |
the United Evangelical church over!
the Centre Hall church property. |
When the split in the Evangelical |
church occurred which resulted in fa-|
vor of the Evangelicals, the property |
in Centre Hall was handed over to the |
former by a decision of the court. |
Without any members in town, the]
Evangelicals arranged to sell the |
church property and parsonage to the
new organization, for $450. Aon agree- |
ment was drawn up to this eflect and |
the United Evangelicals took posses- |
ssn sna A —
Will Not Deliver the Deed,
sion of the property and have occupied |
the church and dwelling for about two |
years. The members are now some-|
what disturbed over failure to secure a
deed, the Evangelicals refusing to |
hand over the deed unless $200 more is |
paid than the article calls for. The
United Evangeliczls have tendered the |
amount several times, but the deed |
was not forthcoming. To end the con- |
troversy, resort will likely be made by |
promises to end in litigation, as the
United Evangelicals refuse to pay the
additional money asked,
—— Beltisiomsmns
Thess are Facts,
If you toot your little whistle and |
then lay aside your horn, there's not a}
soul will ever know that such a man |
was ever born. The man who owns |
his acres is the man who plows all day |
and the man who keeps a hunting is
the man who makes it pay. The man
who advertises with a short and sud-
den jerk, is the man who blames the |
prioter because it didn't work, The |
man who gets the business uses brainy
printer's ink, not a cutter and a splut- |
ter, bul an ad. that makes you think;
and he who plavs his advertisement as
be plans his well bought stock, has the
future to his business just as solid as a
rock.
ina mai snl ——
To Extract a Splinter,
The easiest way to extract a splinter
deep in the flesh of the hand or foot ie
by means of steam. A rather wide
mouthed bottle is filled two-thirds full
of boiling water, and the Injured spot
is held close over the opening. The
suction draws the flesh down, and a
little additional pressure is used to as
sist the exit of the intruder. In a few
moments the steam extracts the splin-
ter, and the inflammation rapidly sub-
sides,
A
Will Ran the Paper.
The editor of the Western Spirit,
published at Paola, Kansas, has ten-
dered his paper for a month to Brig-
hara H. Roberts, who was elected to
Congress from Utah but not allowed
to take his seat, ‘to be edited as a Mor-
mon would run it.” It is said Mr.
Roberts will likely accept, and that he
will rip the United States Congress up
the back in a way to make the ghosts
of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith
crack a smile that can be heard a mile.
AAA AI A SAM SRA
Takes Possession on Monday.
The new firm Meyer & Musser take
possession of Wolf & Crawford's store
on Monday next, when the old firm
retires. Mr, Musser is the son-in-law
of Mr. Meyer, and will move to Centre
Hall from Lancaster, Pa. Mr, Meyer
has been in the mercantile business be-
fore, and is familiar with its details,
Big Sale Today,
Today, Thursday, occurs the large
public sale of DD, J. Meyer, east of Lin
den Hall, and there promises to ben
very large crowd there, attracted by
the immense lot of horses, cattle, bogs
| DEMOCRATS FOR BRYAN
{SENTIMENT OF TUESDAY'S CON-
| VENTION.
|
| Democratic County Convention Recon.
vened «Delegates Appoloted, Hall
Endorsed for Congress.
Convention met in court-house, Tues-
{ day, called to order by chairman, J. K.
| Johnson, who introduced permanent
president A. J. Graham,
No others being named, the follow-
ing were elected by acclamation as del-
John
: J. A.
A. J. Graham,
R. Meek, Bellefonte
Howard ;
Mills,
Resolutions offered by W. Harrison
Walker, esq., and unanimously adopt-
ed, endorse the Altoona and Chicago
the weakness and imbicili-
1"
down from its “plain duty” towards
Porto Rico, is denounced.
Imperialism is denounced.
Placiog a tariff on the products of
Porto Rico is pronounced a monstrous
Congressman J. K. P. Hall is en-
The delegates to the state convention
Spangler as one of the delegates from
i this congressional district to the next
| Democratic National convention, and
{ Hon, P. G. Meek as one of the dele.
gates at-large.
Addresses were Colonel
B. Tay-
A. Woodward.
made by
lor, G. R. Meek and J.
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Getting » Move On,
A great part of our town has got the |
the |
the town |
something out of the ordinary.
{ Some are already settled down,
yet in haod,
I'he changes are many, some families
moving to other parts while their plac- |
es will be taken by others who want to |
become citizens, Mrs, M. A. Good-
hart and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mark |
left their home and have gone to Nit- |
tany valley where he will go to farm- |
ing. G. W. Bushman moved into |
Mrs. Goodhart's house. D. A. Boozer |
flitted into the Furst property
iis
on
ed into the house with Mrs. Boozer.
Merchant W, H. Meyer,
i y
{ the Krise property occupied by Ollie
down
Sweetwood flitted
home, from
street. Robert
into the Fleisher
the station. Frank A.
comes to town to occupy the Ripka
farm vacated by Barner. C.J. Shaffer
will flit to Yeagertown, where he is
workiog in the iron works. James
Durst moves from the John Spangler
house on Church street to the William
Spangler farm, near Potters Mills, and
Wim. Spangler will move into his resi-
dence at the station lately purchased
from Wm. H. Meyer. Wm. Curry
moves from the Houser farm west of
town to the house vacated by James
Durst, Alfred Durst moves from his
farm near Potters Mills and will occu-
py part of the Clem Lose house at the
station until he has his new dwelling
erected.
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Mast Have Revenne Stamp,
The authorities have just sent out
the edict that all mail carriers or hack
drivers who carry packages from one
town to another for pay, must see that
such packages have a one cent reve
nue stamp attached to a receipt given
for the package. In other words all
such carriers are viewed the same as
express companies in this regard. Of
course where a package is lifted from
an express office or taken to such office
the one stamp is all that is necessary.
A mail carrier, however, who only oo-
casionally carries packages as an ace
commodation and not for hire, would
not be considered as common carrier
within the meaning of the law, and
would not be obliged to issue or stamp
receipts for such packages,
It Might be Accomplished,
According to an estimate of the ag-
gregate amount that can be realized
throughout Pennsyivania from an as
sessment of one dollar upon each biey-
cle owner for the building of sidepaths,
it may be assumed that pearly half a
million dollars could be available this
year. If the law had been formulated
to place a like nominal tax upon every
person who owns a team and apply
the combinid tunds to making good
roads, a lasting all-around bepelt|F.
hd diehipbaiin
GOEBEL MURDER TRIAL,
Damaging Evidence Agninst Republicans |
High in OMce.
“John Powers told me they had two |
niggers here to kill Goebel, They were |
Hereker Smith and Dock Coombs,"
This statement was made on 24th, |
by Wharton Golden, a consumptive |
Kentucky mountaineer, while on the |
witness stand in Frankfort in the pre- |
liminary examination of Secretary of |
State Caleb Powers, charged with con-
spiracy to kill Benator Goebel, |
Golden went into the story quickly |
and said Powers told him to go to Har- |
lan county and tell Postmaster John |
Hirst to send down ten witnesses who |
were regular mountain feudists.” i
“What was your understanding of |
that request 7" |
“Well, men who would stand up, |
and if necessary go into the legislative |!
hall and kill off enough to make it in
our favor. I saw Hamp Howard, |
told him we wanted ten men who had |
good Colt forty-fives,’
“Were the forty-fives to be put in ev- |
dence 7" asked Attorney Campbell.
“Most assuredly they were,”
wered Golden.
Golden sald when he saw Powers in |
London, the Secretary said he wanted |
a regular army of mountain men to]
come. In all about 1200 or 1500 men |
were brought to Frankfort. They |
were fed back of the State House, |
“We understood what they |
kept here for,” sail Golden, “We
knew that those men were here to |
clean out those fellows if necessary.”
“What fellows 2"
“The Democrats, enough to make a
majority on our side.”
The answer created a sensation in|
the court room.
“Later I saw Powers talking to Wal-
| ter Day and Governor Taylor. R. J. |
| Howard, of Harlan county, came up,
{and be talked to Taylor. He insisted |
{on Taylor calling out the militia. ‘My |
| God ! You people must do something |
first,’ adding, ‘I can get the militia |
{quick enough. You fellows must act |
first.” By that I understood we fel-|
{lows must raise a riot in the Senate |
i chamber. Goebel was there. i
“They had two negroes there to kill |
| Goebel. John Powers told me
| They were Hereker Smith and Dick
| Coombs. I saw Dick Coombs at the |
drug store near the depot every morn- |
{ing for a week or so previous to the
shooting. Coombs, talking to a man
named Wallace in my presence, said |
with an oath : ‘I know him as far as |
| I ean see him and I can kill him as far |
as I can see him.’ He was talking of |
Goebel.”
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ans- i
were |
80, |
|
Applications for Pensions,
The Pension Office has made public
i the fact that out of eight volunteer reg-
iments, serving in the Spanish war,
there has been sent in 3.588 applica-
| tions for pensions. The further fact is
| given that in those eight regiments |
only 254 casualties were reported while
the war was in existence, and proba-
bly not one-fourth part represents
death. All this sets one to wondering
on what basis the remaining 35324
claims are founded. It is believed the
fine hand of the pension attorney is
visible in this deluge of claims In
fact, it was openly charged on the floor
of the House not long ago that hardly
a single volunteer that served in the
Spanish war has failed 0 receive nu-
merous letters from pension attorneys,
all urging them to prefer claims for
pensions,
pn A slp
Death of a Young Boy.
John, the six-year-old son of Will
iam Noll, living on top of Nittany
mountain, died last Friday from con-
vulsions. The little fellow had a se-
vere bealing in his head several days
before and the convulsions following
resulled in his death. The remains
were interred in the Pleasant Gap cem-
etery on Monday morning.
We————]
Married,
At the Presbyterian parsonage, Cen-
tre Hall, March 23rd, 1900, by Rev. F
F. Christine, Mr, Harry N. Koch and
Miss Maggie W. Campbell, both of
Fairbrook, Pa.
M———— A
It is very hard to staad idly by and
see our dear ones suffer while awaiting
the arrival of the doctor. An Albany
(N. Y.) dairyman called at a drug
store there for a doctor to come and see
his child, then very sick with croup.
Not finding the doctor in, he left word
for him to come at once on his return.
He also bought a bottle of Chamber-
Iain’s Cough Remedy, which be hoped
would give some relief until the doe-
tor should arrive, In = few hours he
returned, saying the doctor need not
come, as the child was much better.
The druggist, Mr. Otto Beholz, says
the family has since recommended
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to their
neighbors and friends until he has a
of She Soe Wor ale bY J. H. Ria
Fl. Canon, Fo
. Rossman, Bpriog Mills; J. F. Smith,
NO.
LOCAL ITEMS,
| Cullings of More than Ordinary Ioterest
from Everywhere.
Ning No More for Sorrow,
Bing no more for sadness
Bongs of bitter-sweet ;
Bing the sougs of glad ness,
Hest and pleasure greet !
Life is what we make it,
Very dark or bright ;
Trouble as we take it,
Wearily or light.
Bing no more for sorrow,
Words that cause delay ;
Grief may come to-morrow,
Joy is here today.
Care is but a burden
We ourselves impose ;
Labor like a guerdon
For our many woes.
1
Bing a song of pleasure !
Bing it, ring it, sweet !
Bet it to the measure
Of merry toiling feet !
Bing for light and laughter,
Melodies that please ;
Peace will follow after
And the world be full of ease,
Charles W. Stevenson
Buow and mud Monday.
Saturday was a delightful day.
it.
Henry Potter makes his home at
Harry Swab’s,
D. M. McCool has moved from Hart-
leton to Farmers Mills.
Try Redmill cornmeal, its xx a.
James K. Norris, of Colyer, gets an
£10
$10.
Mrs. McKinley has the grip; well,
Many farmers are out of coarse grain
For sale or rent a house and lot of
ground, apply to Bam. Ertel, Gregg tp.
Aim to make a record for yourself for
{good for your town and vicinity, by
i something solid, not wind.
John W. Conley, of Potter, has an-
nounced his name as a Democratic
candidate for assembly. See card.
Rev. Rarick’s appointments, Sunday
Ist: Centre Hall, 10 a. m.;
m. ; Tusseyville,
“-
With two new lumber operations in
prospect, with Centre Hall for a ship-
| ping point, should give us a little
{ boom.
A Millheim correspondent says there
are likely to be a dozen houses vacant
in that heim. The “agent of prosperi-
ty’ must put on his specs.
Rev. Harvey Crow, of Mercer coun-
ty has accepted the call to the pasto-
rate of the Hublersburg Reformed
charge. He has been in the ministry
five years,
It is reported Millheim has a dozen
vacant houses. Perhaps too many noi-
cripple a town.
Everybody is waiting for somebody
else to put in and give the town a
boom. That's not the way ; all pitch
in like some of “us’ens’” did 15 and 20
years ago—an’ it boomed right smart.
The public sales of T. W. Walker and
Newt. Brungart, in Miles township, a
short time ago, good prices prevailed.
At Brungart's sale horses averaged
over 08. One mare brought $186.
Al 8B. Garman, of Tyrone, has been
chosen as one of Blair county’s dele-
gates to the Democratic state conven-
tion. Could not have done better, Al
was always a true Democrat when he
lived in this county.
The Centre Democrat's organ con-
test up to last week, stood : Lutheran
church, Pleasant Gap, 3157; M. E.
church, Roland, 2828 ; Union Sunday
School, Zion, 2375 ; Unionville Presby-
terian Church, 240 ; Reformed Church,
Pinegrove, 98 ; Pleasant Valley Church
Yarnell, 85; M., E. Church, Howard,
41 ; Reformed Caurch, Millheim, 6.
In the name of all the jams and jel-
lies, johnnycakes and hash, chickens
and waflles, schnitz un kuoep, in the
name of all else good to eat and drink,
when you write us to change your post
office address, don’t fail to give the
name of the old address with the new.
You are not the only J. King, John
Smith, or Bill Long, or Jake Stover,
or Sam Shaffer, or whatever your cog-
nomen be, there are many others of
same name, and how are we to know
which is other, unless we have your
last bunking place along with the one
to be changed to ? write names plainly.
Tuesday morning a robbin came right
to our office window and looked in, as
if to say, Spring is bere an’ so am I.
Oh, dear robbin friend,
Yur thus to condescend 7
In June aripe
co re