VOL. LAXIX. EXECUTIVE USURPATION Senator Raynper’s announcement that Executive usurpation would made a leading in the present Congressional and the next President al ecmnpaigns vy the Democrats really invited by the When the chairman of the Republi- can Congressional Committee, after a vigit to Oyster Bay, sent out a circular to the effect that the President must be n.ude a leading in Con- gressional campaign for the first time in history, that very announcement was an Executive usurpation. It not to be denied that the aggressive- Theodore Roosevelt and he fsene was issue the is of the ness get patronage from him are changing the character of the Government, and the fact that the President by own order, to be a leading issue in Congressional elections merely affords evidence of this The President is, committed an other in Banto Domingo. He said himself in one of his speeches that Congress having failed to recognize the Panama Commission to suit him he organized it anyway. He extended the pension laws by Executive order He is the first President to naval for regular yachts himself and his friends and huge naval review for his personal glorification. But Executive usurpation is merely the natural sequence and the logical culmination of that process of central- two Use vessels for + L » have a jzation which the Republican has been carryiog until Speaker Cannon on even prospect. If Congress encroaches on the States it natural that Henate should upon House of Representatives and that the President should upon Beuate. The process of concentrating all political power is already pretty well advanced, and it difficult exaggerate the evils that will from a continuation of this growth imperialism. The Republican party canpot reform itself, apd the ouly remedy is to put the Democratic party in possession of the Government up- is the eucroach encroach is result of py WHEAT John K. Carthiew, grain expert, pre-| sents in the London mate of the yieid for this year in teen of the largest i MAUCILE countries of the world, scoompauied by Express an esti thar I i vieal-] 8 prediction as to the price level of the cereal during the eoming winter and spring. Notwithstanding tbe great wheat crop harvested in the d Ntates, the outlook for the American | farmers is pot quite so roseate as encouraging statistics of would seem to imply. It so happens that there have been large wheat crops | wherever the cereal has been harvested In India wheat is now being planted, | and io Argentina and Australia it beginning to show above ground, but reports as to the outlook for the crop | in those countries are highly satisfac-| tory. The wheat harvested this year in! June, July and August in all of the great wheat-growing countries, accord- ing to Mr. Carthew, will be the largest | in the aggregate in the world’s history, and, taken as a whole, good, This means cheaper bread. The expert declares that there is no likeli hood of any material or permanent ad- | vance in the piice of ' Unite ti sae Lue yield is | IE the quality f wheat, and unless something unexpected happens, such as a failure of the growing crop in Ar.! gentina and Australia, or a European war, prices will reach a lower | The political unrest sud general de- vel, THROUGHOUT THE STATE News of a Semi-Looeal Character Gathered from the Exchange Table he Mt, Carmel Item figures that debtedness of $700,000. Tobacco growers in Lancaster coun- ity say that the recent severe storms | have damaged the crop to a consider- able extent, Albert J. Emery, sunerintendent of the John 8B, Campbell stock farm in Butler county, was attacked and fatal- {ly gored by a bull, Altoona school girls are to be taught how to cook and perform other house- { hold the | school curriculum. duties as a regular course in Mrs. George W, Condo, of Jeannette, {is here on a visit to her parents, Mr, i t | and Mrs. Philip Durst, and her mauy | other relatives and friends. its mother, who had to a hospital Grieving for been taken Ymonths-old Dur- d v delicate operation, a it nby of Mr | ’ John Zanwosky, of we lf convulsions sau yea, cried | into died A chart. Adju rope, ¢ r has been granted The ( uj Company, Ty tirely of Tyrone pe $25,000 manuliscture tooth i Divs it 3 - i ¢ Yooth Dimer! oof r 13 ple ali« sitzed at company w Bu ili removable point for we d dredges. Jui that it is no longer a district. | fruit were #h 1 4 inta county admits regretfully peach Hundreds of carloads of from the every season for years, but there shipped been a decline rapidly lately that has taken Juniata entirely out of the list Haupt, Meyers and Miller, ali of Bellefonte, were se tenced by Justice Keichline to pay a fine of $100 and y Boyd i i in The imprisonment county jail for six months y vote considerable time at their coming meeting.near Elimsport to ion, ** Would on discussion of the quest it to buy a farm and erect suitable poor ? A deed has been recorded at burg for 154 burg, embracing President birthplace. Ihe the property from the D. M. B., document Shan heirs nd A105 Harriet Francis Lawrason t non to Riggs, trustees of the Joho ment F. Lauver shipped to Philadel-| phia from his poultry farm near Even- old that Mr. Lau- extensive unty, M. Lauver, having raised twelve hundred young 2 { 51 yn fund for a uchanan mou _ te Lr, weeks averaged five Pp wands each ver is one of the most the l he try raisers in Perry c with as«islance of his sou, It is announced that within the next three years it will be possible for Pitts- burg people to board a street car in the business district of the city and not get oft again until the car arrives in tance or about one hundred and six- teen miles, The fare will be about one half the steam car fare ep p> Good, Sincere Prohibitioniats A. chairman A. Btevens, of Tyrone, a former of the Prohibition party, has written a long letter, which the Penrose organs, in which he givea his alleged reasons for opposing Mr. Emery for governor, aud maintains i of course, is given space only ir 5 : had no eflect upon agricultural opera- tions. On the whole, the wheat yield will be a fair average of the last two “ bumper’ crops. Russia produces more wheat than any other country iu Europe. This year the Russian crop is estimated at about one-half of that of people of the State is the prohibition of the liquor traffic. Mr. Stevens has certainly experienced a very sudden | change of heart, When was in | Pittsburgh a few weeks ago at 8 meet ing of tre Prohibition Stale executive committer he was strongly in favor of he the record crop of the United States With the reserve left over from year, it is predicted that Russia will te last season. In Austria-Hungary the crop will be greater than is required for home consumption, and there wil, a surplus for export. Roumanias and Bulgaria are great wheat countries and are certain to export nearly as much of the grain as Russia will. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom bave harvested av. rage crops, and the outlook for the Cana dian yield is excellent, From the estimates made by Mr, Carthew, the world’s wheat yield this summer appears abnormally large, and his conclusion that prices will recede is apparently not without foundation, Le Heal Estate for Sale, If you want to buy a good village home on pike and projected trolley line, st railroad depot near Lewisburg, or possibly exchange other actual val ues, address P. 0. Box 445, Union Co. Lewisburg, Pa. Mr. Emery for At that time also Mr. Emery's letter to Biles C. Swallow by him. { Nothing has happered since that | meeting except the failure of Mr, | Castle to get a place on the ticket with iMr. Emery, but Mr, Btevens has changed front. There are, however, ns good and sincere Prohibitionists as There ure, for instance, the chairman of the Venango county Pro ibition coms mittee and the secretary of the Law- rence county one, who have resigned because they rightly believe that it is more important to elect Emery gov. ernor than to throw away their votes 01a candidate animated solely by a disappointed ambition and whose candidacy is being boosted by every Penrose organ in the State. A RES. CUlsterns nnd Silos, For cistern water tanks that keep the water soft, and silos direct from mill and factory to consumers ; eany to put together, address TANK Derr, P. O, Box 245, * 2 Williamsport, Pa. governor, was approved himself who have not done go, AUGUST COURT OVER { | Prisoners Sentenced, Report of Jury, Ete August term of court is over, all the | day night, One of the most tant cases was that of the wealth ve. Bert Weston, The night of the 13th of August the large barn on the farm of Rhodes and Thompson, near Unionville, was by fire. diary origin rested on Bert destroyed and suspicion Weston, at a one-armed on a lumber job in the Muncy Mountains, Weston was lodged in jail at Lock Haven and brought to Bellefonte for trial. The trial was called I'bursday lasted almost all day It seems from the testimony that Weston had dispute with Rhodes about wages, and made threats to John Woods and others that would by burning the he two One Rhodes and Thompson late afternoon and Friday. offered a | he get even Thess weeks before the fire, d | | barn, | i threats made horse was | burned up and all the hay and grain, | the loss being about $1500. The pris- | in the vicinity it of the flre and later to Snow Shoe Intersection where freight train to While the fire was a black horse with bridle on to the barn OLEr Was seen in of ir arn on the nig nt caught =a Lock is i Haven. ighth, al at 2} "n ame galloping bad from the direction of Bnow Bhoe Intersec- This and other ed the guilt on Weston, who offered no evidence in his own defense, @ fH { found guilty of felonious arson. mmmonwenlth va, Jacob From and {James From, indicted for illegally cut- r trees on lands of J. C. Dale. This rom Potter township, but both prose i BOG 1g Lim be another rosecutor Case IH defendant live in ugh According to the alle- the pine trees the commonwealth de ut some sap and on the lands of Mollie Hofler al Mra. Dale, in the causing some of into r eT, to lumber and of the de- the defendant allegiog that of the Hofler for f manufacturing lumber, it William particular | part of 1906, them ured ne manuiact red upon t premises aant ; they had permission from two to the few jadjoining land owners strat tocutl a trees meq and that part of was cut on lands ne Knofsinger to be Knofsinger claiming that his Dale ne at another place, alleging irees were upon that they supposed that the larger tree was cut on the lands of a Mrs. Horner from whom they had which seemed pated, line was further over and claim- ng the li tiene cut dis tit © Dale-Hofler tract was an accident, not Ver- ality aud the county to pay the costs. Saturday morning court met and Judge Orvis passed sentence on those convicted during the week. Gotlieb Kerstein, charge, rape ; sen- tenced to fine of $100, coats cution and three years at dict on Friday morning of not gt of prose hard labor in the western penitentiary. Harry Stine, charge, cruelty to ani- mals ; $30 fine and costs. Herbert Goes, stealing a watch : sen- tenced to Huntingdon Reformatory. James Yardly, theft of $75: sen tence, $1.00 fine, costs and 1 year and 6 mouths in the western penitentiary. Nestor Birgey, horse stealing; sen- tence to $1.00 fine, costs of prosecution and three years in the penitentiary. Bert Weston, charged with felonious arson ; sentenced pay $100 fine, costs of prosecution and undergo three years imprisonment at hard labor the weslern penitentiary, to in i [he grand jury reported that they had acted upon thirty bills of indiet. ment of which twenty-seven were found true bills and three uot true. I'he county buildings were visited and inspected and these improvements found necessary : A new carpet for the Bherifl's office, also that the same office be repapered, and some repairs in one of the cells of the jail, The gran jury also reported favorably and approved of the appropriation of $5000 toward the final payment of the mon- ument to the soldiers and sailors of Centre county. They also approved the application for a bridge in the borough of Millheim. A LIOR GHZ Presbyterians The Presbyterian church in the United States has 1,158,662 members, according to a report issued by Rev. Dr. William Henry Roberts, stated clerk of the Presbyterian General Amembly. This does not include 185, 212 members of the Cumberland Pres- byterian church, recently united with the Northern body. The Presbyterian church has 34 synods, 246 presbyteries, 8,118 churches, 7,848 ministers, 11,100 deacons and 1,008 521 Babbath school members, The contributions last year to all benevolent institutions to the church amounted to $19,003 8508, INCIDENTS OF 1878, Local Items Taken from the Centre porter of Interest to 19064 Renders He [ Note as found in the files of the Reporter.) DECEMBER 5B. R. Gettig has sold out in Virginia and returned to Cen- tre county. David J. Meyer, of Aaronsburg, took possession of the Hall hotel Tuesday. The residence The spelling of proper names ix th Centre of Jacob Meyer, at Linden Hall, was entered recently and a watch and two overcoats stolen, The grand jury, last week, granted the petition for incorporating Mill- heim into a borough. i i Large hogs reporte office are follows : Jr., 563 lbs John Rishel, Amos Alexander, Millheim, 816 lbs. The Trinity Reformed Centre Hall will celebrate fifth anniversary December 11th. Rev, W. H. Groh will The following persons houses in Millhelm next summer : J. W. Bnook, Penn street : J. H. B. Hartman, Penn street ; A. C. Musser, Main street WwW. DP North street John Emerick, of Madisonbur to the Reporter Durst, fs George 02H ha, : church at its twenty- deliver the sermon. will build : Catherman, i { i wy { rented Woll’s store room, out in | valley, wilh a view of doing buriness | there. F G.E | Ghee and Bhem Bpigelmyer, | Jr., bought over 400 bushels « { ii al {seed in Brush Valley $4.00 { bushel, Horace Zerbe about erect | brick dwelling at the lower end | town, DECEMBER Pine Creek Mills, has bought an interest in HE to 19—(ivorge in Haines t Moyer, | township | he mill | Linden Hall, and will go there in spring. Mr. Cowher rented Pine Creek Mill, Hofler, for many year resident of Potter township, will has i reOrge of { to State College to take charge i { boarding house, 3 | The Pennsylvania State Grange n {in Bellefonte last week. were in attendance from | state, there being about nate Gir I'l officers el all FAK) over subordi- | oF gr ¥ all “ were ; Grand Master, Bradford cou Treasurer, county. secretary il. Victor E. Piolet, ity, re-elected William Yocum, Berks Col. R. H. Thomas beriand oo Overseer, Minty, Lec v re nard Rhone, Centre | county : Grand Lecturer, Samuel KR. Downe | ug, Chester county. Resolutions were adopted to petition | the Legislature Lo pass necessary legis lation to prohibit discrimina- tion ; also asked that the Btate Grange be represented on the State Board of | Agriculture, Niate | Pa- | freight and recommended of ihe College to the patronage trons of Husbandry. JANUARY Captaiu Jacob Eisenhuth, heim, Was “ vy 1879 of Mill mercantiie ap- praiser by the county commissioners, W. H. Ripka, the millwright, has changed residence Mifflin trade, board we lected his fromm Lewis town to Meiser, county, and continues at his I'he elected Henry Beck clerk and C, Bower a'torney. JANUARY Amos Oberdorf, Centre Hall, has purchased one of the Gordan new of commissioners M. 16 of farme, seventy Hublersburg, and will the spring. John Wert’s house, in the east end of Brugh Valley Narrows, was burned recently. An eflort is being made to incorpo- rate a turnpike company for the road between Millheim and Coburn, JANUARY 23H. Krumrine & Bon, at Spring Mills, gave a dinner at Breon’s hotel, for their customers and friends, L J. Grenoble, at Spring Mills, has shipped eight hundred of clover seed since October. JANUARY 30—-J, Will Keller, of Cenire Hall; Ed. Hess, of Linden Hall, and several other young men, intend starting for Kansas in a short time. R. P. Barnes was appointed post master at Pleasant Gap, The Bald Eagle, Nittany, Brush and Penns Valley Turnpike Company elected the following officers : Presi: dent, A. H. Best; treasurer, P. R. Long; managers, 8. D. Tice, B, F, Bhafler, Andrew Krape, E. Harter, James H. Porter, Samuel B. B\hafler, The McKean tannery a aotel at Beech Creek were destroyed by fire, The hotel occupied by John H. Harter ( formerly of Aaronsburg) st Nevada, Ohio, was burned, Married—~November 7, Alexander Wise, of Woodward, and Miss Mary J. smith, of Hartleton . . . November 21, Bamuel Homan and Miss Sarah A. Bith, both of Gregg township . November 26, J, G. Meyer, of Aarons burg, and Mrs. Lydia Dutwiler , . . December 17, A. O. Furst, of Belle agar RE below it in acres, OCCU py bushels ad hw 1906. ENCAMPMENT AND FAIR Livcoln, Democratic and Republican Can didates Booked Splendid ments in Auditoriom, The next great the Grange Eocampment and held at Grange Park, Hall, Beptember 15th to 21st. This promises to be more largely Entertain gathering will Fair, to be Centre at tended than for some years, more applications for tents received. The exhibits of den, orchard doubtedly be year, Worthy Master Hil of $1000, Hon as many have been farm, vineyard will sy third LAr- and un- 1 ast fi iarger than l offers a premi- um in National $ 0 Grange the Grange that will make the largest and dank Suvordinate horti- of best display of agricultural and cultural products. It is the the that Granges contest for this premiom,. desire Committee 8 number f 4 In addition to the above premium the Counyy Grange will pay a premi- f five . . CLEY ¥ $ um of five cents for every meritoriou article placed on exhibition in ti Agricultural partments and ’ This | paid in cash when the article | | Let § 6 4 IK. The exhibit | ALIIINARIS promises t« premium 1. farmer CVary thi Vili { Of The Pennsylvani a Milate iid | occupy a large | ling wit or 4 {ing and instructive exhibit Col | large field of the i { ment Station, Beveral of the officers | Grange will be pres | heads of the $ Agricultural Forestry Departments he i BR Weil Miate nominees on the | Hican ticket give new and interestis ey Religious fer f 1 spices of iit will bx sunday afternoon, will be published next week. Pe in NNsyiv All railroads i excursion tick al Iw ii, Bpecial trains will be the Lewisburg and ¥ I'yrone ‘ No one can afford to miss thi ¥ Ke EE. —— Sow as susi proj ork wale Farmers along the ew will Ls atid Chicago, be # s iA. 3 thi Crop may easily be harvested bef the NOW Re Using slrips rocks he cultivated soil 1 i i i oe HOP, A MS S——— The Public Schools Open I'he Borough and Township schools throughout the country opened M day. With a few exceptions the term is seven months the hindrances to the Ol One of great regular of the public schools by the children 2 2 4 281% aliendance of both town and country is the lack of help of ail character. Money will not buy help where there is none, con- sequently many children are necessari- iy deprived of a part of their ing to assist in performing the on the farm and elsewhere, school work ————— Keith's Theatre, Ned Nye and his rollicing girls con- tribute greatly to the entertainment st Keith's Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, this week. The famous Willis family give high-class musical treats, and Norton and Nicholson ap- pear in * Ella's All Right’. America’s greatest blackface comedian, George Evans, giving Belfort, character special attraction, in monologues. May a Other performers Mabel Bt. Claire, ven- triloquist ; Archer and Croker, comedy acrobats ; Zara and Stetson, juggling wonders ; Murphy and Andrews, in a comedy sketch. For the children: Professor DuBois and his wise ape, “ Adam.” Then there are the four Harveys, European acrobats, as an added attraction. comedienne, of interest are ; ({ Continued from previous column.) fonte, aud Miss Carrie W. Chamber. lain, of Milton December Franklin B. Henry, of Larnerd, Kan- sas, and Miss Irene D. Grove, of Pot. ter Lownship December 24, ©, L. Gramley and Miss A, Wraver, both of Rebersburg December J. 1. Nogel, of Lewisburg, and Miss A. J. Musser, of Millheim. December 26, Wm. P. Catherman, of Millheim, and Miss Elizabeth Kreamer, of lLo- gausville . . . December 20, Perry F. Confer and Miss Mary M. Houtz, both of Miles township, January 2, 1879, James Scholl aud Miss Emma R. Weaver. . . January 5, Lewis E. Rossman and Miss Kate Weaver, both of near Cenire Hall. | January 2, Philip Heim and Miss Sarah Zettle, both of Mpring Mills , John W. Gable aud Miss Amanda G. Oo why, Or “0 { Continued on next column, ) Erte, both of Penn Hall, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. The concrete crossings trim and sporty. new look Archie Homan is spending a week in Altooun, at the home of his brother, A. B. Homan, Jacob Winkleblech, of Rebersburg, was atuong the callers at the Reporter iy. office recent Miss Mabel Christine, of Mrs. Aysburg, Thos, IL. visiting her sister, § ‘ Moore, in this place, tobacco crop is being harvested t« er county, The crop isa fine é, and makes a splendid showing. A new porch is erected being John Lucas on the front of by dwell- tu e g house occupied by him and owned Daniel Daup. wv. G. W. Mcllnay and family will ver Bunday. They will gO of ‘abins, the former home of improvements are un- Hall. You see the LF James he pleasing to $ yore al has for urg, th and will remain no nile Mies Lizzie Harpster, of Missoul and r sister, the w 4, is east, al present ife of Dr. GQ. is H. f with hie that nn said that the Chicago or pig except looks now as though * all of the A CHANCE & 4 f . ¥ 4 iar Of Male College, hia Thursday of last Wil i} Lae liam, who is of hospitals in Lee is seriously ill Mrs. Duck, her husband inte iy § She to Mur y 5 oX ASATIEL nte FAAS ana several weeks apo £ acled pneumonia. H. Keller, of Pittsburg, was in i for a few He GO day ve i i ig RB of the n at a 1§} 13 filled son clerical is n Statio Pitts. with i= general oy a Sprucetown, clerk in a large LTAVesEy Ll, iy ¢ operated the i ompany which has { business places in the west- of the a ities slate. fav ried 4 i § aArmper ends (he Knee to i none, i world- and greed than any ne Gistured by the fe gra live and pros. soil, who is the balance wheel universe, 1 i he general Passenger Department the Pennsylvania Railroad has sup- ied the ticket offices of the system ith of the mileage books, i, and they will be on and Neptem- full stock { after When all ready to start to Tyrone to begin her teacher in the thai place, Miss Bartholomew received a mes- the opening of the schools had been postponed on account of diphtheria which in a measure had become epidemic, B. Strohm, teacher of the Hall Grammar school, is obliged to use a cane to assist his lc. commotion. Aboul a week ago he felt an itching sensation on his left foot, and in rubbing the spot, slightly sb rased the skin. It went from bad to worse, and now the wound is poisoned, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Riley, of Bradford, drove from Bellefonte to Old Fort Wednesday of last week, Mr. and Mrs. Riley are staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bradley, Mrs. Riley's parents. Mr. Riley is cashier of the Bradford National Bank, a good, all ‘round fellow, and takes a lively interest in politics. I'he survivors of the First Rifle regis ment, Penn. volunteers, known as the original Bucktails, propose to make their twentieth anopual reunion = memorable event. It will be held at Driftwood, Cameron county, on Fri day and Baturday, September 14 and 15. Col. KE. A. Irvin, treasurer of the association, is the only surviving line officer of the regiment. It will probably be an item of news to most of the Reporter readers that the genial postmaster is not compelled to make change for you when you make purchases at Uncle Sam's office. This is a queer rule that not one in 8 thousand persons know. Buyers of stamps or any purchases at a posts office must furnish their own change ; i. e., the postmaster could insist on the buyer furnishing his own change if he sees fit to do it; but usually postmaster is willing to sccomm the public by makiog all the chan, it makes for, WOrk as a public schools He sage saying that in ¥ el James Centre
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