VOL. LXXIII.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE CUBAN FRAUDS MUST BE IN-
VESTIGATED.
The Democrats Mast be Allowed In the
Search of the Frauds, ~The Republi.
cans want Coagress to Adjourn,
WaAsHiNGTON, May 28.—Republican
Benators consented to a Congressional
investigation of all Cuban accounts, as
proposed by Senator Bacon's resolu-
tion, not because they wanted an in-
vestigation, but because they feared to
defy a practically universal public de-
mand for one. They are now trying
to devise schemes that will enable!
them to keep the investigation in their
own hands, but Democratic Senators
are wide-awake and intend to partici-
pate in that investigation, and if pos-
sible, they are going to have another
for Porto Rico, where there has been
great extravagance in the payment of
double and in some cases triple salaries
to postal employes, if no actual steal- |
ing. It is also generally believed that |
affairs are quite as bad, if not worse, in
the civil branch of our government in |
the Philippines, and there are scandals |
even in the Washington City post- |
office, |
The anxiety of Republican leaders to |
hurry adjournment is amusing. Al- |
though they have a good big majority |
in both branches, they act as though
they were afraid that Congress would |
do something they did'nt want it to |
do, if adjournment was’'nt rushed. It |
is hardly likely that adjournment will |
take place June 8, the date set by the
House resolution, but it will as soon |
thereafter as the Republican
in the Senate can get the appropria-
tion bills out of the way. To appeal |
from Caesar McKinley to the Ameri- |
can people is now the program of the
Joer envoys. They have not aban- |
doned their idea of making a tour of |
the country, and arousing public sen- i
timent. They will begin this week in |
Baltimore, and from there will go to]
other cities where they have accepted
invitations to attend public meetings, |
leaders |
Representative Talbert, of 8. C., has
been making another warm speech on |
the Pension question, his text being
the case of the Michigan man who |
terior Department, and $1200 a year as
private Secretary to Representative 8,
W. Smith, of Michigan, and who has |
been voted by Congress a pension of |
72 a mouth for total disability. Rep- |
resentative H. C, Smith, cited the case |
of Justice Long, of the Supreme Court |
of Michigan, who draws a pension of |
$140 a month as an excuse for this case,
and Mr. Talberts said in reply: “Two
wrongs do not make one right. The
gentleman asks now because one man |
is robbing and plundering the govern-
ment uvjustly and unmeritoriously,
that another man may be placed on
the pension roll and receive a high
pension. That is the trouble about
this indiscriminate grabbing of pen-
gions. One man gets in and another!
man wants to get in. Members have |
their friends and they will not vote |
against each other. They will not |
have the reports read because they sit
here like dummies saying, ‘Oh, they
will reach my case next.” That is
what is the matter. You wanttodoa
dozen wrongs to make one right and
you want to continue to do wrong in
order that your own cases may be fa
vorably acted upon. I want to see jus-
tice done by the old soldiers and I will
help do it every time if I can, but I do
not want to give any soldier what he
does not deserve.”
Senator Morgan jumped on the op-
position to the Nicaragua Canal,
which has apparently succeeded in
hanging up the bill, in a speech in
which be did not mince words, He
began with the six syndicates, organ-
fzed under New Jersey laws for the
purpose of controlling Canal routes on
the Isthmus of Darien of which he
said: “I think the assumption, wsrro-
gance, and brazen faced audacity of
these people have reached a climax.”
He charged that this government was
submitting to the cuffing and badger-
fog of the new Panama Canal Compa-
ny, which in conjunction with the
trans-continental railroad, inspired the
opposition to the Canal bill, because a
Presidential election is pending and
that it is afraid to tackle any corpora.
tion that has or professes to have some
great power, and he asked: “Is it to
be said here that the President is a
party to this ambidexterous and cross.
eyed political rascality ?"’ Mr. Mor-
gan concluded with these plain words:
“The President, who is a candidate for
re-election, Is in the hands of his
friends, and his friends are the ene-
mies of the Nicaragua Canal. I hard-
ly know whether to say I hope for the
passage of the Canal bill at this session
or not. That depends upon two men
upon this floor. If they are controlled
by a determination that the revenues
for Republican campaign purposes
road and canal syndicates, then
bill cannot pass at this session, The
The Question of the Census Question,
The blank schedules to be used in
them.”
time, as in addition to some Republi-|
ean opposition to it, the Democrats in
the Senate have served notice that the |
bill would not be allowed to pass at]
this session and they have the power |
to make that notice good by simply re-
Mr, McKinley who witnessed the]
eciipse today from Fort Munroe, where |
from a good advance idea of his own |
total next November. Of]
course he used a government vessel to!
eclipse
roe; Republican officials seldom pay |
for anything they can get for nothing!
by making use of their official.
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SUPREME COURT SITS ON STONE,
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dered an opinion that Governor Stone's
veto of the resolutions for an amend- |
an honest registration and fair elec-
'
iy
out of his province to meddle with the
elections at all, and have commanded |
to at once advertise the admendments
for honest elections to be voted for
next November. That's business on |
This is the second time Stone has
The first was by the]
unconstitutional appointment of Quay,
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Information Wanted.
Information is wanted of the where. |
151 regiment P. V. :
Amos T. Ball, Huntingdon county,
John Crawford, Centre county, la
Abram Gunter, Mifflin county, la-
borer. |
Isaac Long, birthplace not known, |
wheelwright. |
Dav. Yarlett, Mifflin county, miller,
Communicate information to C. H.
Henderson, Lewistown, Pa.
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Fingers Almost Amputated,
A little
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three-year-old daughter of
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with other children, one of whom had
The little girl
was struck |
left |
Dr.
placed the fingers in a
splint and kept them there for ten
days, and upon opening it was found |
the flogers had grown fast again and |
are now almost healed,
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Warning Against Swindlers,
A warning hes been sent out by the
Depurtment of State at Washington |
against the swindling scheme relating |
to estates in Eogland. There are no
great estates and no large deposits un-
claimed.
These estate swindles, along with
other clrsses of swiondles, have been
tried upon Centre county people. Be
warned against the honey tongues and
stool pigeons.
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Side Path Law a Dead Jssoe,
The bicycle side path law is being
laid aside in many counties of this
stale as a dead letter. In Montgomery
the provisions of the statute have been
decided to be unworked. The county
commissioners have levied no tax on
wheels, the assessors made no returns
aod the side path board is without
toods. The present law is said to be
defective in constructiob, if not uncon-
stitutional,
A
A Charch Plenie,
Rev. Kershner announced last SBuan-
day evening that a pienie should be
held by the members of the five Re-
formed churches composing his charge,
that the members might become bet.
ter acquainted with each other. He
appointed a committee of three from
each charge to confer upon a time and
place for holding the picnie.
Eclipse Visible,
The eclipse was on time here Mon-
day morning, and smoked glass called
on to observe the darkening of the
great luminary, the moon passing be-
tween the sun and the earth,
AB MP ARI ANAS
Voted $10,000,
The Union county grand jury has
voted to authorize the county commis
sioners to spend, not to exceed $10,000,
for a soldiers’ monument to be erected
~ shall not be cut off from the great rail-
io Lewisburg,
June 1. The schedules contain ques-
tions which some persons may think
prying, purposeless, or excessive in
number. But their number and char-
acter have been determined by Con-
gress, not by the Census Office, and all
of them have been asked in previous
been abandoned.
People are often offended at the ques.
to wonder what use the Government
can make of their replies, Tuken asa
whole the replies are as important as
any class of information
Oflice collects,
and elucid
the Census
ate every other branch of
koowledge. They show
where child labor is prevalent, and
where the proportion of persons able
life of the
under present conditions,
They make it possible to ascertain
whether the average length of life
ed children and the short
negroes
is
ble of voling or of bearing arms, and
whether the relative pumber of child-
ren is increasing or decreasing.
The Mohammedan or semi-civilized
often unwilling to answer the question
regarding the sex in the
house, but in civilized countries where
the sexes are regarded as on an equali-
of persons
ty, such unwillingness does not appear.
The answers to the questions show
outnumber the males and that
same is true of most of the states along
the Atlantic coast. The belief Is wide-
:
given time than males, and that if it
United States
statistics
be more females in the
than males, But census
excess of noasses (over oneand a half
f
born are left out of account, there are
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males, i
Few would dispute the necessity for |
arguments regarding the future of any |
particular race in this country, like the |
binge upon the returns in the census, |
With the Indians, moreover, it is of |
bas met with in them |
apart from their tribes and reserva |
tions, and whether such Iodians are!
increasing or decreasing. |
Some mothers may shrink from stat- |
ing the number of children they have
bad and the number who are living, i
jut from the answers to these ques-|
tions, the country will learn whether |
the native American population is}
holding its own, or whether, as some |
have claimed, it is being gradually sup- |
planted and displaced by the children |
i
establishiog
of recent immigration, i
Io the light of such explanations, |
and only a few of the most important |
questions have been touched upon, it
may perhaps be clear to the public that
no question has been ordered by Con-
gress, or has beea asked by the Census
Office which, if properly and correctly
answered, will not lead to suggestive
inferences regarding the American peo-
ple and their work.
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Bieyele Side Path,
The first bicycle sidepath commis
sioners’ convention at Williamsport
lest week was attended by representa-
tives from twelve of the sixiy-seven
counties io the stale—Blair, Bradford,
McKean, Wyoming, Tioga, Lycoming,
Carbon, Lackawanna, Behuylkill, Le.
high, Centre and Northumberland.
Big Shipping Point,
Lindenhall claims to ship more
freight than any station on the line of
this railroad, owing largely to the lum-
ber shipped by the Lindenhall lumber
Co. When the big Kettle lumber op-
eration begins, with Centrehall as its
shipping point, it will put this station
at the head for shipments,
Pablic Protection,
The Bupreme Court has again ren-
dered a decision that dangerous parts
of roads must be supplied with guard
rails, in the absence of which town-
ships and road companies will be held
responsible for damages If accidents
happen.
BA I Mf SAY SATIN
Was a Success,
The festival held on Lobhr's lawn
last evening by the members of the M.
E. ehurch, was liberally patronized by
the public, and the supplies were ex-
hausted before nine o'clock. A neat
sum was realized from the work, which
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS,
The Fence Law. When and Where Fences
Are Necessary on Land —A Man Must
Fence Aguinst His Own Cattle,
has
given the Gazette of that place an opin-
{ion as to the fence law, After quoting
{ that part of the act of 1700 requiring
| the construction of fenc
i Ex-Judge Furst, of Bellefonte,
ses he says:
On the 4th day of April A. D.
{ this section of the act of 1700 was re-
| pealed. The result of this repeal was,
| to require every man owning stock to
| take care of the same himself. Prior
to that time the law practically requir-
led the owner of land to fence the same
with good and sufficient fence, for the
| purpose of preventing his neighbors’
| cattle from trespassing upon his lands,
exists,
18590,
{them himself from trespassing. It
| does not matter whether a farmer has
{ his lands fenced or not; his neighbor
jeannot permit his cattle to run at large
If he so permit his cattle to
| wander at large, and they commit a
{ trespass upon land whether the same
| be fenced or uninelosed, the owner of
| the stock is liable to the party owning
| the land upon which the trespass was
{committed. Hence, the rights of the
| parties may be stated as follows: The
| owner of stock Is responsible for any
| damage committed upon the lands of
| another, irrespective of the question of
| fences, This is the general law obtain.
ing on this question,
After quoting decisions with refer-
| ence to partition fences the Judge con-
Therefore, the practical result is that
from trespassing, and the only fence
certain circumstances is a partition
There are some cranks in every
community who seem to think that
they will not join at all in the build.
fence,
er, and parallel along the entire boun-
dary. This not only is unneighborly,
cumstances already named, authorizes
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Marriage Licenses,
Cyrus R. Gingrich, of Dunbar, Fay-
ette onunty, and Margaret Ella Dout-
rich, of Lock Haven,
Robert Walker, of Yarnell, and Sa-
rah Elizabeth Swab, of Howard town-
ship.
John T. Marshall
Mackley, of Fillmore,
C. C. Kreamer aad Alice D. Shaw-
ver, of Bellefonte.
M. D. Garman and Maggie Bhuey,
of Bellefonte.
John Rodolak and Katrina Liptak,
of Clarence.
Wm. Laird and Elsie Funk, of Ro-
land.
Harry Nearhoaf, of Fowler, and
Stella Reese, of Worth twp.
fs Mtl
and Eva Lem
The Organ Contest,
The Centre Democrat's organ contest
closed on Wednesday evening with
the following result:
Vote cast this week: Roland M. E.
church, 10,857 ; Pleasant Gap Luther.
an church, 4,038,
Total vote cast during contest :
Roland M. E. Church, 19,498,
Pleasant Gap L. Chu’h, 11,127,
Majority for Roland, 8371,
AA A AAI
Peaches to Be Plenty.
The Reporter has information direct
from Delaware that the peach crop is
not a failure, but will be plentiful and
the fruit cheap unless a Trust handles
it for purposes of extortion. The pros-
pect for all kinds of fruit is encourag-
ing. Don’t fret—Providehoce is with
us yet.
The Penns valley peach orchards are
also promising a fair crop.
Dr, Gerhart Again Called to Lewisburg,
Rev. Dr. Gerhart, late pastor of the
Bellefonte Reformed church, has been
elected pastor of the Lewisburg Re-
formed charge, which he formerly was
pastor of. His recall not only evidenoc.
es a recognition of his ability but an
appreciation of his true christian char-
acter,
AIA PETIA
A Woman Lawyer.
Miss Katharine Pontius Baker,
daughter of 8. Thompson Baker, attor
ney-at-law and president of the Union
National bank at Lewisburg, has been
admitted to practice at the Union
county bar. Miss Baker is the first
woman admitted to the bar in Union
will be applied to church work.
county,
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Foster's Weather Vorecast,
About date of this bulletin a low or
warm wave will be not far from longi-
tude of Dayton, Ohio, moving rapidly
eastward and a high or cool wave will
then be in longitude of Winnepeg, Far-
go and Ban Antonia,
A low temperature wave will cross
the west of Rockies country about 2
great central valieys 31, eastern states
June 2, causing showers in many parts
of the country,
NO. 22
LOCAL ITEMS,
Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
How He Knows,
I’ve been visitin’ my grandpa
For about a week or #0 ;
Where all kinds of flowers grow,
{’N he's got fields 'n orchards
That are full of rows of trees,
'N down behind the house there's lots
Of boxes full of bees.
First week in June will be unevent- |
ful in weather matters. RBhowers of
rain will be fairly well distributed up
days’ drouth wiil attack the growing
crops and give the speculators an
portunity. The drouth will
far from 17.
Bevere storms may be expected at
any time from 10 to 20 and during this
period hail will probably damage crops
in localities most subject to that de-|
structive agent,
A great rise temperature will |
reach meridian 90 near June 17 and a!
great fall pear 26: earlier Inter
east. The drouth will occur during |
the rising and showers during the fall- i
ing temperatures mentioned,
in
west,
mtr ements i
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Headable Cuippings,
Five million acres of the rolling |
plains of Kansas are carpeted with |
waving wheat. For the fourth con-|
secutive year Kansas will harvest one |
of the greatest wheat crops in her his- |
tory. i
Another newspaper has gone wrong |
and exposed boro officials. This time
it is the Butler Herald. It has shown |
up crookednesss in the poor funds of
that town running over a period of
several years. The amount of the
crookedness is upwards of $1200. Now |
let the impudent Herald paper be in- |
jured in its business, black-mailed, and |
by all other dire things —for what busi- |
ness have newspapers to expose dis- |
honest town officials ?
Considering that Mexico ison a sil- |
ver basis it does not make a bad show- :
ing in the way of industrial progress. |
In the past nine years the republic has |
doubled the number of its factories and
multiplied by three its banking capi- |
tal—and the continuance of this great |
prosperity is now quite as pronounced i
as ever during the decade.
In an arficle in the New England |
Monthly, the writer has this truthful |
paragraph : It isa singular fact that |
those persons who a.e continually |
finding fault with the living profits of
their neighbor, ‘are invariably found |
to be far greater extortioners in their |
own business affairs, yea, even dishon- |
est and will swindle if possible. They |
want to live and not let live, the low-
est stage of meanness and jealousy to
which a man can descend.
in
The Democratic Primaries,
Saturday next the Democratic deli-
gate election will be held in this coun-
ty and the campaign closes for the as-
pirants seeking the nomination sand
honor of being on the tickets. For
Congress, Hon. J. K. P. Hall is ask-
ing without opposition the endorse-
ment of our people for second term.
He will get it. Hon. J. H. Wetzel
will also ask for a renomination for
Assembly. He has served one term
with faithfulness and fidelity to his
county. Thereare also in the field
Hon. Robert M. Foster, who has serv-
ed two terms in the Legislature with a
creditable record. Striving for Mr.
Foster's seat is Ferguson township's
farmer candidate, J. W. Kepler, and
John W, Conley, who is also a farmer
and wants Potter township represent-
ed on the Democratic ticket this year,
Foster, Kepler and Conley are making
a hard fight for the honor, and in this
contest have been working hard for
months past hustling after their Dem-
ocratie friends,
For Jury Commissioner there are
two candidates in the field. The con-
vention will be held on Tuesday at
Bellefonte.
A SAAN SA
End of the War.~Pretoria has Fallen
The British have marched into Jo-
hannesburg, the largest and most im-
portant city of the Boers, There was
no resistance, the Boer forces retiring
without firing a gun. This is looked
upon as near the end of the war.
Pretoria also has fallen and this ends
the Boer war.
President Kruger has gone to Wa-
tervalbaven, 10 miles from Pretoria.
The British officers are now at Jo-
hannesburg dictating terms of surren:
der.
Kruger will probably be sent to St.
Helena.
Church Appointments.
The Presbyterian church cordially
invites you to the following services
next Sabbath: Sunday school at ©
m., preaching at 10 a. m., Ch
Spring Mills at 2:30 p. m.
Rev. Rarick’s appointments, Sanday
June 8: Centrehall, 10 a. m. ; Spring
mills, 7 p. m. ; Tasseyville, 2 p, m.
He let me hoe the garden,
{ ’N be let me milk the cow ;
I learned vo do it splendid,
Boon as grandpa showed me how ;
{ He let me drive the horses,
'N he let me climb the trees,
| But every day he told me |
Must not go near the bees,
{ One time he wasn’t lookin’,
So I went down behind
The house to see the boxes,
And now I'm nearly blind,
And when I put my shirt on
I pull it past my knees
wonder how dear grandpa knows
I monkeyed with the bees ?
cago Times Herald,
Cool this week.
The fruit crop is still safe,
Still marching on : Caterpillars.
lowes road machine works well.
Wheat crop was irrecoverably dame
aged last winter,
Give Centrehall a call if wanting a
business location.
John L. Kurtz,
lowed a pension, $6,
Jellefonte, was al
Favorable weather continuing, the
will be a fair hay crop.
Will Stiver was able to be
in town,
the first time in six months,
Centrehall is an especially favorable
location for any kind of enterprise.
The new fair company promise a fine
exhibition at Bellefonte next fall.
A new board walk is down in front
of Mrs. Hemphill's residence and lots,
A welcome thunder shower, this
morning, grazed many sections, more
or less,
Andrew Krape, of Nittany valley,
died on 23, aged 80 years. He was su-
pervisor of the 'pike for many years.
’
H. B. Herring now has a force of
men on his timber tract on Brush
mountain,
The six members of the school board
of Mahaffey, Clearfield county, weigh
1314 pounds.
Prof. Frank Meyer, of near Mill
heim, has been elected principal of the
Ligh school, Ardmore, Pa.
The New York World says ice is de-
livered in Savannah, Ga., and sold at
10 cents per 100 pounds.
Arrangements are being made to
have the body of Lieut. G. L. Jackson
brought to Bellefonte for burial.
People iu all parts of the county are
impatiently awaiting the coming of
the County Centennial, July 25-26.
There are rumors the Bellefonte scale
works will go elsewhere, Don’t let
"em, the town and county lose thereby.
Persons who meddle with other peo-
ples affairs invariably find it a boome-
rang to come back on them with bad
effect.
Rev. J. H. Keller, of this place, last
Sabbath, preached in the Mifflinburg
Reformed church, morning and even-
ing.
George Corman of Rebersburg has an
attack of pneumonia. Ephraim Er-
hard is suffering from an attack of
apoplexy.
Millheim’s knitting factory, through
the efforts of its public spirited citi-
zeus; is on a fair way to success. We
expected that kind of staff here,
When Hoffer street geis its finishing
touches, it will be a delightful drive, 4
boulevard, for our stylish turnouts and
fast steeds, “’Glang there, who cares
for expense,”
Our town is pretty as any little burg
in the state : preity homes, clean yards
with lovely flowers, nice hands to take
care of 'em, and other converienoes,
only the street gets “‘powerfu’ ’ dusty
until Providence favors us wi . a wel-
come sprinkle.
There could be no benefit or pleasure
to him who sowed the tares, except the
pleasure derived from the reflection
that an injury had been done, It is a
strange condition of human nature
when a man takes delight in annoying
another. The spirit is evil in the ex-
treme.—J. E. Gilbert, LL. D.
Five of the Rishell brothers, Howard
and John of New York city, Rev. Clel.
of Woodland, Ward of Philadelphia,
and Willis of Montgomery, were pres-
ent st their mother’s funeral Saturday
ast. Aaron and Mrs, Kate Baker, of
Missouri, were unable to be present. J
Can't it be arranged to have the next
eclipse of the sun total here as well as
other parts of the world, inquired
a fellow from down the road. That
every twenty-four hours, and we call
it “night.” When it ps in day-
time we call it “eclipse.” all
the difference, :