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VOL. LXXIII.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE PEOPLE NOT AWARE OF THE]
GREAT EXTRAVAGANCE. }
Wanted Increase in Expenses to be Made a |
Campaign Issue —~Prosperity not Due
to Republicanism,
|
WASHINGTON, June 25.—The Demo |
cratic Congressional Campaign Com- |
mittee will make a specialty of circu-|
lating literature showing up Republi- |
can extravagance in public expendi-|
tures. Notable in this class of litera- |
ture is the speech of lepresentative |
Livingston, of Ga., in which he said: |
“And I eall attention also to the con- |
stant and gradual increase in the ap-
propriations for Pensions, and like- |
wise to the legislative, executive, and |
judicial appropriations. These items |
his government has not sanctioned GUT 60 CENTS,
any ill treatment of foreigners or any
of the fighting that has taken piace; |
that the whole trouble is due to riot- i
Robbers Break into the Spring Mills Fost
office and Krape's Store,
On Tuesday night or early Wednes-
country. The Chinese Minister has | Morning robbers broke into the post-
also assured Secretary Hay that he had | office and Krape's shoe store at Spring
i i » Jy pag » ry
received official information that all} Mills, but for their work secured only
the foreign ministers in Pekin, which } about sixty cents,
has been cut off from the coast cities |
for more than a week, were safe and | was broken into, w here the thieves se-
well. Notwithstanding all this, the {cured a brace and bit, chisel and screw
administration and the European gov-| driver. With these tools entrance was
ernments are proceeding as though we forced to Charley Krape's shoe store by
and they were at war with China, and | breaking the two locks securing the
troops are being hurriedly forwarded | front door. The robbers were Appa-
to form an allied army for the invasion | rently after money only as Mr. Krape
of China, and the allied troops now on could not discover that they had taken
the ground are fighting the Chinese. | *0Y goods from the store, I'he post-
If all that isn’t the worst sort of a Chi- | office building was forced by prying
nese puzzle, pray, what is it? | open the door with a chisel.
i ! | ter Long had not
| the thieves to get at the cash drawer
Is Litigation Being Wisely Eschewed ? . iat
| in the safe tore out all the partitions
There is one pleasing feature in the
could not have been affected to any | gijgpositions of men as developed in
great extent by the Spanish American | ¢),q jast decade in this county, and in
war. It shows, indeed, an increase all | .on6 other counties, that lawsuits are
along the line, despite the fact that the | yecoming less frequent in our courts
Committee on Public Buildings and | jay previously. The lists of civil cas-
Grounds have held back all matters) .. are not near so long and lawyers
before them, and the Committee on | generally complain they have little to
The safe was empty,
cents in
money
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Boalsburg Has s Destructive Fire on Tues
day Morning. —Six Barns and Stable, with
Lot of Outbuildings Destroyed,
Boalsburg had a very destructive
fire on Tuesday morning, which
stroyed two barns and four stables,
along with a number of outbuildings,
in the heart of the town.
The fire started in the barn of Mrs.
Emma Fisher, the origin of which ls
attributed to some children playing
| with fire crackers and matches in or
| pear Mrs. Fisher's barn,
and
the |
Al
| tures were blazing furiously,
| threatened for a time to wipe out
| entire eastern section of the town.
| bucket brigade was formed which did |
| excellent work in putting out the fires |
All Eyes on Kansas City.
The national Democratic convention
will assemble in Kansas City on Wed-
nesday, July 4. The convention
bearer William Jennings Bryan,
the most popular living Democrat.
The Philadelphia Bunaay Times will
on July 1, present its readers with a
handsome lithographed portrait
Mr. Bryan. The portrait is made from
a photograph forwarded to The Times
from Lincoln, Nebraska, by ths
tinguished Democratic leader himself,
and is in every particular a faithful
likeness,
The Sunday Times of the same date
will contain a valuable article by Col.
| A. K. McClure, in which this celebrat-
ed writer gives the history of past
Democratic conventions and writes of
many interesting and exciting inci
dents connected therewith.
other things of special
Among
interest there
will also appear on July 1a richly il-
family at home on their farm feigned
articles by promipent on
the national outlook, rs The
Sunday Times of July 1, issued on the
eve of the national convention, will be
pemocrats
ele ele.
LOCAL ITEMS,
| Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
Ballad of the Trailing Skirt,
| I met a girl the other day,
A girl with golden tresses,
Who wore the most bewitching air
And daintiest of dresses,
I gazed at her with kindling eye
And admiration utter
Until I saw her silken skirt
Was trailing in the gutter !
“What senseless style isthis 77 1 tho't,
“What new sartorial passion 7
And who on earth stands sponsor for
The idiotic fashion 2’
I've asked a dozen maids or more,
A tailor and a culler,
But no one knows why skirts are made
To drag along the gutter,
What lovely woman wills to do
She does without a reason.
To interfere is waste of time,
To eriticise is treason.
Man's only provines is to work
To earn his bread and butter
And bay her all the skirts she wants
To trail along the gutter,
ale.
Will go up
All are wishing for a soaking rain,
: the price of hay.
{in the locality on Tuesday are suspect- | within the district, and aid was secur-
, . rp led of doing the robbery. | ed from the State College fire depart-
Beveuty-live § . ~f the lawsuits | hia :
and all accounts and claims have been | of the past, in our courts, could have ment, which rendered valuable nasis- |
practically barred from consideration | heen avoided by the litigants, by list- | lance,
i
of unusual interest to every student of |
political history. Don't be disappoint-
ed. Order your copy in advance.
Ap
Rivers and Harbors, all matters before | 4,
Hay crop will be little and price big.
them, with two or three exceptions, |
mi——————— For good job work try the REPOR-
LATE NEWS NOTES, | TER.
The President will spend the hot Foster's Weather Foracast. Not much serious illness over the
at this session. It should be borne 18 | ening to reason, evincing an honorable
mind that in the case of the appropri-| and neighborly disposition of conces- i
ations for the Navy, the authorization | gion and governing their tempers. |
of the eight new warships,—two bat-| Many expensive lawsuits were built |
three protected cruisers,—involves a0 | gums by both parties, who only then
ultimate expenditure for construction, | had their eyes opened to the fact that |
armor and armament, of something |they were big fools. Men who are i
like $56,000,000, not one dollar of which | governed by the golden rule, “Love
js now appropriated. The dominant] he neighbor as thyself, and do unto
party attempted to commit this Con- | sthers as you would have them do un-|
gress at this session, and will doubtless | 44 vou,” never go into court, they try
what is known as the ship-subsidy | i
during the week
Rains are needed to enable
the President
strong military meas-
out a term of years.” i
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Senator Harris, of Kansas, said of}
the political outlook just before leav-|
borly good will, saves thousands of | rains, near MeDonough, Ga., a train
ed, renders life pleasant. | causing a loss of 37 lives.
Mrs. Fisher's barn, ice house, with |
| other outbuildings, were totally de- |
stroyed. Loss, $500; insurance $300 in|
the Centre Hall company. David]
Keller, stable and outbuildings, Adam |
Hosterman, barn, no insurance; Anos |
Cooper, stable; Lot WwW. Kimport, sia |
| ble, with $200 insurance; Alex Kuhn,
stable. Total loss about $2000. |
It was only by the most strenuous |
efforts that the dwellings of Mrs. Fish- |
er and Adam Hosterman were saved. |
Everyone, men, women and children |
worked nobly in fighting the flames, |
and two brave young lassies worked |
like beavers carrying water and then |
fainted dead away when all danger
| was over. No live stock was burned,
| us there was plenty time to remove all
i
{
| from the buildings.
About date of this bulletin a warm
cool wave will then be in fhe
of the north west,
Temperature of the week endiug 8 a.
m. July 2 will average below and rain- |
fall will be about normal east of the
Rockies, below west,
lockies
The crops are so far along that re-
sults can be fairly estimated from
pearances, except corn, which yet
must take the risk of running the
gauntlet of a July and August drouth. |
Often when June ends with the great-
est promises a drouth in July sudden- |
| ly changes all to gloom and failure.
| Great uncertainty beclouds the present |
| brilliant prospects of a maize crop. Io
| southern states the corn is about ma-
ap-
county.
Two fine thunder showers Tuesday
afternoon.
“A good fellow”
own business,
: he who minds his
(sreat
how is yours?
thing : a clean conscience—
A model woman :
gossip or carry news,
John ¥F. Derstine,
granted a pension, $8.
she who does not
Jellefonte, was
Will be a grand affair : Centre Coun-
ty Centennial, July 25-26,
There is to be a public sale of pigs in
this town one of these days.
The grubworm is threatening the
corncrop in parts of Haines and Penn,
as well as Miles,
ing Washington, for his home: “The | In former years there were two fall The outcome of the troubles in Chi-| hy toe ium ; was Beat Bivens,
people are not to be deluded into the | weeks of court, quarterly, at Belle- | na is believed will be the partitioning |} iss Sallie e er, who lives wit 1 her
jdea that the existing prosperity is the | fonte, and at the close several scores of | ¢.\ empire, the oldest upon earth, bother; David Eaeller, fun val as ie
product of the Republican administra- | cases untried for want of time. There | among the Powers the United States | street. A man on horseback riding
tion. We are having prosperity in the | has been a marvelous improvement in | to get a olen The population of Chi- furiously through the town, knocked
west, but it is due to good seasons, | the past few years—the trial list has| > dh ph » pe pation Miss Keller down, breaking her leg.
hard work, rigid economy and self-| few cases, court adjourns after a few | or . | She is badly injured.
denial. Unfavorable conditions else-| days’ sitting, and the once over-work- |
|tured, but corn producing districts |
| proper do not extend much south of
{ Mason's and Dixon's line.
P. A. Liester who recently moved
| from here to Kansas, bought a 160
| acre farm near Rosette, Ks,
My long ago prediction that a fair |
crop of spring wheat would be produc-
ed in northwest sections of great
On the farm of ex-sheriff Spangler
and the McClellan farm, in the Loop,
CeD- | there are good fields of wheat.
tral valleys now appears to have been |
It is believed that the Democratic well founded. The drouth of May
—cn—— There wasn't a single g. o. p'r, from
where, even now, are advancing the |
price of wheat, which will greatly ben- |
efit the farmers of Kansas and the]
west, but these unfavorable conditions |
were not brought ardind by Republi- |
can administration. The people un-
derstand the reasons for these things. |
Further than this, the people recog- |
nize that the late session of Congress,
gave to the trusts of all kinds, all that |
they asked for. They also recognize
that Congress absolutely refused to do |
for the country those things which |
were demanded irrespective of party, |
such as an amended Interstate Com-|
merce law, Anti-Trust Legislation, a |
reduction of the War Taxes, providing
for the Nicaragua Canal. and other
things.” Senator Harris says the Bry-
an ticket will carry Kansas easily, and
if the right candidate for vice president |
is nominated at Kansas City several]
other middle-western states,
Republicans are condemning their
own management of Cuban affairs by
widely advertising the fact that since
the exposure of the wholesale stealing
of Cuban funds by Republican officials
there has been reductions in the salary
list in Havana alone which will result
in a saving of $1,200,000 a year. Buch
an open acknowledgement of extrava-
gance and incompetency, has seldom
if ever been made by an American ad-
ministration.
Speaking of Cuban matters, the Re-
publicans on the Senate Commitiee,
charged with investigating receipts
and expenditures in Cuba, seem to
have accomplished their purpose of
postponing the investigation until too
late for its finding to have any eflect
on the Presidential campaign, by the
agreement not to start the investiga.
tion until furnished with statements
from the War, Treasury and Postoffice
Departments, showing the receipts and
expenditures in Cuba, under each. Of
course, those departments claim to be
having those statements prepared as
fast as possible, but nobody seems to
know, or to care to say, when they will
be ready. Benator Platt, of Conn,
Chairman of the Committee, when
asked when the Committee would be-
gin the investigation said it could not
begin until furnished with those state-
ments which are to be made the basis
of the Investigation. That leaves the
administration free to hasten or poste
pone the beginning of the Investiga-
tion, by hurrying or delaying the prep-
aration of those statements,
This government seems to be getting
tangled up in that big Chinese puzzle.
Secretary Hay says we are not at war
with China, and all the diplomatic
representatives of the European na-
tions say the same for their gevern-
; : | National Convention which meets at
ed lawyers have all the time desired |. “ . :
t a hi leigh riding and ion Kansas City, July 4th, will be stam pe-
0 BO Is sieig ( { 4 - | - ’
59 shing, sleigh riding and 8WIID= | 44 for ex-Gov. Hill, of New York, for
ming. Vice President. The name of Bryan
n Union county court, at recent .
In Uni ny our will be the only one offered for Presi-
terms, was opened with no cases to} ,
ae .
try. We seem to be approaching that
happy condition of affairs in Centre
county—may we finally get there. In
some other counties the court proceed-
ings show a wholesome drop-ofl in lit- |
igation,
What might have ended in one of |
the greatest lawsuits on record was
avoided by a spirit of concession, be-
tween Abraham and Lot. Read brief
of the case, Gen. 137-9,
American soldiers have been killed
from Manila.
Russia have also had losses. In the
fighting thus far some 4000 Chinamen
are reported to have been killed.
The National hotel, in Lewistown,
took fire on Monday afternoon from a
firemen the flames were put out, The
combined loss of the owner Wm. Bear,
and of the lessee, James Clover, is esti-
mated at $2000, At the same time fire
was set to the large stable of Dr. M. R.
Thompson, but an early discovery en-
abled the firemen to put out the flames.
AMA IAS
Mystery of the Recent Forest Fires,
It is a singular eo-incidence that the
recent forestifires started in all parts.of
the state near aboutithe same time rag-
ing in over half the counties. How
ia this accounted for? was it acciden-
tal? was it a plot? The first week of
these fires in our own county, there
were outbreaks in a score or more
widely seperated mountain sections.
Lightning could not have been the
origin ; nor mere accident, nor even
sparks carried by the wind, as there
was much dead calm. The same con-
ditions existed at the same time in the
other counties of the state scourged by
these fires. A widespread plot could
have thade it possible, but that is not
probable. Who can clear up the mys-
tery ?
Since the fires have ceased, the sur-
face of the untouched portions of the
forests covered with dry brush and
other combustible material, has re
maioed free from the flames all thro’
a dry period of weeks.
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Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage licenses
were Issued during the past week:
He Calvin Ruhl, Colyer, and Flora Stif-
fler, Tussey ville.
4 Clyde E. Bradford and Jennie Dun-
kle, Centre Hall.
of Arthur M. Grove, Potter township,
and Eveline Blanche Haugh, of Miles
twp.
Frank N. Lucas, Bnow Shoe, and
Sue H. Weaver, Moshannon.
Burton E. Hendricks, of Blanchard,
and Annie M. Rines, Flemington.
James M. Kustenbander, Lemont,
and Annie Houser, Houserville,
John Edgar Fryberger and Caroline
Chase MeGafley, Philipsburg.
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Redaced Rates to Chicago,
For the benefit of all persons wish-
Chicago during the
National Prohibition Convention, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
gell round-trip tickets to Chicago at
rate of one fare for the round trip.
Tickets to be sold and good going June
25 and 28, and returning, afler proper
validation by the Joint Agent of the
terminal lines at Chicago, leaving Chi-
cago to July 4, inclusive. A fee of
twenty-five cents for each ticket will
be collected by the Joint Agent when
Jickets are validated for return pas
sage.
Alarming Wheat Shortage,
The Chicago Times-Herald a few
days ago published a crop report pre-
pared by Snow, the crop expert, who
has just completed a two weeks’ trip
thro’ the States of Minnesota, North
and Bouth Dakota. He declares the
sittation a national calamity, and
claims the wheat failure the worst ev-
er known. He estimates the Dakotas
as promising only 20,000,000 bushels
each, and Minnesota, 35,000,000, a to-
tal of 75,000,000, against 200,000,000 last
year and 225,000,000 in 1898,
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To Charleston, 8. ©
For the meeting of the National Ed-
ucational Association at Charleston, 8,
C., July 7-15, the Pennsylvania Rail.
road Company will sell excursion tick-
ets from all stations on its lines to
Charleston at the rate of one fare for
the round trip, plus $2.00. Tickets to
be sold July 5 to 8, inclusive, and to be
good to return until September 1, in-
clusive. On the return trip stop-over
will be allowed at Washington on de-
posit of ticket with Joint Agent and
on payment of fee of $1.00. june2l-2t
A Hun Drowned,
A few days ago a Hungarian named
Andrew Hinnlek went bathing in the
creek at Bnow Bhoe, and drowned.
The body was not recovered until the
ments, and the Chinese minister says
Ewmmel T. Jordon and Maude Bol
linger, Colyer,
next morning.
SUICIDE NEAR HOWARD
Wm. Masden, a Welltodo Farmer Eads
Life by Hanging.
Wm. Masden, a well-to-do farmer re-
siding one mile west of Howard, com-
mitted suicide some time during Tues
| day night and was discovered Wednes-
{ day morniog hangiog by the neck to
| rafter in the garret of his home. When
| found he was dead, and had been so
| for several hours.
The cause for his committing this
tragic deed is said to have been due to
lan unbalanced mind. For the past
| six months the neighbors say he has
been acting strangely. No other cause
for the rash act can be assigned as he
was apparently very prosperous and
bis family relations were always of the
pleasantest,
He was a native of Clinton county,
and was about fifty years of age. He
ja survived by a wife and four child
ren. Two brothers, who reside near
Beech Creek also survive him, Alsos
half brother and a half sister, who re-
side in Clinton county. The funeral
will take place Friday morning.
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District League Convention,
The Central District Luther League
held its sixth annual convention at
Boalsburg, Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week, Thirteen societies were
represented by forty delegates and vis
jtors from the various organizations.
The following subjects were ably dis
cussed by excellent essays and talks:
vstelf Culture; “Our Pastor—How
Can We Help Him?" “Reason Why
Our Young People Should be Organ-
ized;” “What Should We do to Enlist
Their Interest in Church Work.”
“Dangers to Which Young People are
Bubject;” “What Relation Does the
Young Peoples’ Society Sustain to the
Church?” Rev. D. E. Rupley, of
Lock Haven, delivered a very interest
ing address, Taesday evening, subject,
“The Bible in Our Public Schools.”
Wednesday evening, Rev. Charles Ww.
Heisler, D. D., Pres. Susquehanna
University, entertained the convention
with an able address, Subject, “Young
Lutherans for the Twentieth Century.’
The officers who served during the
past year were re-elected as follows:
Pres., Clement Dale, Eeq., Bellefonte;
Vice Presidents, Rev, Charles T. Al
ken, Pine Grove Mills, B, F. Homan,
Oak Hall; Rec. Sec, W. M. Kerlin,
Centre Hall; Cor. Bec. Rev. W. M.
Spangler, Salona; Treas; Miss Sara E.
Klose, W. M., Keruix, Sec'y.
Fine Concert,
The DeMoss Family, “Lyric Bards
of America,” 42 musical instruments
used at each entertainment, Concert
in the United Evangelical church, in
Centre Hall, Thursday eve., July 12.
and first part of June came to that sec-
tion as foretold, and, while a great
scare resulted, these bulletins persisted |
in predicting timely rains.
Readable Clippings i
A great national meeting is a good
thing. Several thousand little puffed
up politicians, whose conceit gets in-
tolerable in their respective parishes, |
find out when they go toe the big meet- |
ing how small they are.—Ph. Ledger.
Some fellows never get over sizing |
themselves up big; but their actions |
are ever the opposite, little in all their |
doings. —Virg. Index.
The great wall of China was recent- |
ly measured by an American engineer.
His measurements gave the height as
18 feet. Every few hundred yards |
there is & tower 25 feet high. For 1300 |
miles the wall goes over plains and |
mountaing, every foot of the founda-
tion being of solid granite, and the
rest of the structure solid masonry.
The secret hisser in a community is
the murderer of society ; fiendlike he
gloats over his work—at the bottom
is one whom many least suspect.—Dr.
Brown.
In 37 of these United States a mar-
ried mother has no right to her child-
ren. In 16 states a wife has no legal
right to her own earnings outside of
the home. In 8 states a woman has
no right to her own property after
marriage. In 7 states there is no law
compelling a man to support his fam-
ily.
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Reduced Rates to Cincinnati
For the Annual Convention of the
Baptist Young People’s Union
of America, to be held at Cincinnati,
July 12:15, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will sell excursion tickets
from all stations on its line to Cincin-
nati at one fare for the round trip.
Tickets to be sold and good going July
10 to 18, inclusive, and to return until
July 17, inclusive; but if tickets be de-
posited with the Joint Agent at Cin-
cinnati on or before July 14, and if fee
of fifty cents be paid, the return limit
will be extended to August 10, inclu-
sive. June2l-2t
Lawn Social,
The Reformed congregation of this
place will hold a social on their church
lawn Saturday evening, June 30th,
Toe cream, cake, ete., will be served.
Proceeds to be appropriated towards
the purchase of hymoals for supplying
Children's Day,
Children’s Day will be observed in
the Methodist church next Sunday
evening at 7.50 o'clock. A special pro-
gram for the children will be rendered
this side, down to Hanna's g. o. p.
show in Philadelphia, last week.
This section of our valley its
had
Have had a number of showers this
season but not one to thoroughly soak
the ground or cause a rise of the creeks.
Mrs. Daniel Eisenhower, an aged
SBugarvalley lady, dropped dead last
Husband and children sur-
vive.
To kill cabbage worms, put a table-
spoonful of ammonia into a gallon of
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mixture.
The DeMoss concert in the Un. Ev.
church, Tuesday eve, Don’t miss
a first class treat.
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Wheat made another upward jump
close of last week, reaching nigh to a
dollar. The poor crop prospect is do-
ing it.
Al. Dale, as per the Centre Demo-
erat, will ask for the Republican nom-
ination for assembly. The party owes
him honors.
Alfred Durst has the new stable on
his lot about completed, He will get
his new dwelling finished before ihe
winter sets in.
All of the personal property of the
Bellefoute Young Men's Christian As-
sociation will be sold at constable's
sale next Saturday.
Edward Davis, a Centre county pa-
tient, escaped from the Danville Hos.
pital for the Insane one day last week.
No trace was found of him.
Miller Goodhart is doing some truck
farming on a large scale on some lois
pear the town. He will find a market
for his products in other parts of the
state.
George W. Ocker last week unloaded
a large car of fine oats and No. 2 shell
ed corn, which he received from the
west, to supply the shortage of feed in
this section.
A new dwelling house is being erect.
ed on the Bible farm east of Centre
Hall, to take the place of the old dilap-
idated log house which was torn down
to make way for the new.
Now Is the time when the big guns
of the big city pulpits start in on their
three months’ vacation, while the
dominies of the country churches are
kept at home to pound away at Satan
during hotest of Sundays.
Well, don't say it's too warm-—it's
needed for making bay. Hay makes
cream. Cream makes ioe-cream. lee
cream makes festivals. Festivals make
places for a fellow to take his best girl
to. There now, quit grumbling, snd
along with excellent music. All are
luvited to these services,
be thankful for the good things that