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When his elec tion was annouvced the wildest conf ion ensued. us- His friends feel it. The Kansas del- Blaine is the man. His opponents see it. egation decided late last night to give its vote solid for the man from Ma‘ne. | Powell Clayton bas taken the Arkeancas delegation or the greater part of it over inlo the same camp. es are the most important which have been Both have added to Blaine's strength. “Blaine’s nowmina tion,” said Judge Willism Robertston, “is certain. The people want him. It is in the air, already secured.” Robertson is confi dent and shows it. Elkins, Blaine's oth- er “manager, shares this confidence. Both men this moning wore a smile of eatisfaction, and when whispered con- ferences were held each ended with a smile, The man from Maine is in bet’ ter hands this year than last, In the conlestin the Second lili nois district Rugar and Piper, Login delgates, were given their. seats. It wound up as it begen—a bad day for Arthar, These two chang made, Reading's Default. THE JUNE INTEREST DUE TO-DAY WILL BE PAlD, Priraveirni, June 1.—The directors of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail. road Company at a meeting held late to. | night decided that owing to disappoint ment in receiving certain money they could not meet their June payments to- morrow, interests on consolidated bonds and $280000 in dividends on Jersey Central railroad stock. The company had hoped that by issuing wages scrip and notes for labor and sup pligs, that they could save enough of the funds in hand to meet the payments. In this, however, they were mistaken, as they were called upon to make certain payments that they could pot avoid. In the last extremity efforts were made to secure the money in this city, but up to 3 o'cloek on afternoon this had failed, mortgage June It is thought that the application for the ship will be made to-day. The officers of the company s'ate that the applica tion for a receivership will be through receiver friends of the corporation, an i. - Frosts In The West THE POLAR WAVES ITS BLIGHTING MARK SEVERAL LOCALITIES IN Cureaco, May 30.—Speeial dispatches to the Journal from Janesville, Beliot. Oak Creek, Fon-du lace, Rae ine, and other points in Wisconsin, and from Freeport, Illinois, report a severe and Star Rout Testimony. Lawyer Ker tells a thrilling story be. fore the springer committee, which shows up Bliss, tha controlling attorn ey at £100 per diem on the. part of the government to the Star Rout cases and how he protected Kellogg, one of the meanest of the thieves: Mr. W. W. Ker continued his testi mony yesterday before Mr. Springer's committee relative to the prosecution of the Star Rout cases, He said: “Some time before the Mitchell grand jury ex- pired, Col. Bliss said to me there was no use to bother with the indictments in the Parker and Salisbury combina. tions; that he was going to arbitrate them. Isaid he coulden't do it. That was the end of it. | had some indict ments prepared and tore them up, The reason for telling Bliss that he eould uot arbitrate was that tharevised statu tes, while allowing arbitration in cer. in the Postoffice Department, { the proposed arbitration, .ynch, | ile has over 340 ballots | NOT | These payments are £703,460 | Saturday | Merrick afterwards spoke to me about He said that | it was singular that Bliss didn't inform } { him of it. Shortly afterwards Attorney { General Brewster summoned the coun: { mentiog on the Salisbury cases not be- | lug taken up. | be considered before they were barred He requested that they £ 1 | by the statute of limitatien. I | him that Col. Bliss was talking of arbitra {t'on. He replied that he didn’t want that he wanted | guilty parties punished {any arbitration; { wes then dropped. Mr. Ker then referred to the pioceed { ings of the Mitchell grand jury and said | | there was not the scratch of a pen to show that any record bad been kept; that other grand juries kept records ex | cept the one which convened the fol { lowing June, and which considered the | { Kellogg case, i “Whoever was respousi Mr, ued, “ought to be held responsible, { ble for this omission,’ ’ the the of Dorsey and Brady by { grand jury. In indict ment Mr, Mr. Kellogg's name but the jury omitted it, “Afterwards,” Mr, said, “there was a conference of Blise, Merrick and | myself. Merrick said that Kellogg { should be indicted because he was a public official, but he thought it was preparing Ker said he included Ker trial until his term as Senator should would break the Republican majority of the Senate. But as the statute of limitations would bar the case if dels, { lutely necessary to secure an indictment “Mr Merrick considered the ease from | the standpoint of a lawyer, not a politi ‘ol. Bliss showed no disposition to get an indictment. Walsh had be gun to ventilate honsell in t { cian, Ness papers, and we saw would i ’ aereiic charged with didn’t proceed again t rick said to Blies that Lh stake: that iid { fore the geand jury Merri k he sho dismissed, should be re but finally be Judge Wylie jury be recalled to cone der The judge directed ls reconvened as to who shoald 20 hefore | lied i Case, There SOM | insisted that Bliss = 11d ] new spaper wer | eritic sn newspaper crit i howev er, to y» helo | in session one day. the mq prise, mbers cam it and sa | they had nothing to present. The hie it H indict a my udge ther dismissed | sidered its failure to stery | Biisa never made any expanagion, | think he said if be had bees the grand Jury he would have found a bill. The malter went on until a new grand jury was obtained, Bliss was opposed to bringing the ease up. Merrick insisted that it should be done, About this time the Attorney General asked the (oy ernment counsel to meet him at his tain cases, expressly prohibits it in cases | Mr. Ker said he would notsay any: thing unless allowed to tell the evidence by which the indictment was secured ; he did not propose to again be placed in a false position, Mr. Milliken replied that he was will- ing to let Mr. Ker make a statement, but be would insist that Mr, Kellogg should have the right to defend his re. putation, The dispute was settled by an agree ment that the question of Mr, Kellogg testifying should be considered again at some future time, Mr Ker then relited the story of the payment of $20,000 in a note and drafts by Prince to Kellogg. “While preparing the indictraent Bliss He continued : came to me and asked me to put in the true dates, 1 replied thatl did. Bliss wes indignant at an indictment being found, He went to New York, and said he wonld not come back, He was induc ed, however, to return,” fo the trial of Kellogg and Judge Wylie's de Reference wus made recent cision by which the case was ended, Repie entative Hemphill suggested that Labor Matters. Twor, N. Y. May 28.—Sixty-four ma- sons in the employ of Nicholas & Magill struck to-day because Mr. Nicholas re, fused the demand of a committee from tbeunion that he disclose the name of the person from whom it was claimed be received information in regard toa certain at a meeting of the union, Pirrenv se, Pa, May 28.—Fifteen hun- dred oval miners in the third pool have debate refused to accept a reduction of a quarter of a cent, and will strike unless the district price is psid, meeting is to be held in Monongahela A delegate City to consider the advisability of orde. | ing a general strike of the four pools, The stove manufacturers have noti fied their employes of a reduction of The Ay | i that the reduction is unnecessary, 15 per cent, in weges, men — A —— Mr. Keifer and His Witness Elder. Mr. J. | Kefer's Ww. Witnesses Elder, one ol Speaker in Lis ex controversy | ron told | the | Ker contin- | Reference was made to the indictment | Mitchell | we have the right to believe the money | not proper to proceed against him in | have expired, because if convicted, it | ed, he was of opinion that it was abso | the commitlee begin an investigation of Kel { the Judge. Mr, Ker coutinued; * logg told Bliss that he took the £20,000 | sel to him and eaid the press was com. | i { | received from Prince and used | politcal purposes in Louisisna, Kellogg | has also gone to a newspaper cor respon dent and said that he would take a shot d--d Lrains out, { I've got to say is for Mr, Keil | gun and blow my 2g Lo let now when he i4 | me coming and I'll be ready for him r, Ker concluded y f { his Lestimony by referring to Lis pay for | his services, He read letters from Phila | delphia lawyers who considered the pay | about £31,000, reasonable for the work | done | two hours’ work on an indictment in another cuse, New York, May | to day refused to be interviewed to say {reorge Bliss {anything relative to the testimony of ———— A —— Frox the experienceof the past month | dealers of otir great cities are rapidly | becoming rogues and gamblers. We are [ #ure, if an inhabitant of another sphere | were to drop down to the earth, and | read the newspapers, he would be of his opinion. To what other conclusion | could he come? Whether the same sys | tem of doing business prevail in any of | the other planets is a question that can. | not be answered until telephone com. | munication be establised with them. In Le recent failures in New York, in was abou! twenty-seven | milions, and the assets six, footing up a indebted oers | total loss of twenty-one millions. One | firm, thet of Ward & Grant, made Way | with some fourteen millions of its custo | mers money, and no assets, worth mentioning, could be found. It may be | considered harsh Jangusge, but we can | nol refrain writing it, that the transac tions of Lis firm show some of the clean. est swindling ever known. It is possible “| the south Sea Bubble equals, but can | pot surpas, it. Ifa dealer in farm pro luce, oiher kind of i | were to make or werchandise, way with the goods en ttused Lo him, in a similar manner, the { Ins would make short work of him. It {woul b> edled swindling. Why the same kind of cheating in money matters If » man cheat 8 neighbor to the amount is not punish d we cannot answer, {of a lew Lundred dollars, he is called a swindler, but when it reaches hundreds of thou ands, or millions, he is said to have been “unfortunate in business, ! | and often the deluded victims give him their sympathy. thing radi Whe n tu These facts show some y wrong in busines morals ie poel wrote sbout tl with pure gold, be must have had stock gambling and similar financial transac { ton in his mind. | elastic | | The law ought to be enough to resch every kiud of swindling. A reform, in this direction. is more needed then in the tariff or finance. Doylestown Democrat, | i — — Geax, Hoon's Cuinonex,—Two young Indy passengers who arrived at New York ! Saturday in the steamship Fider brought blighting frost which has doge very con. | house to consult about the Kellogg case. | with them the remembrance of a family siderable damage to the erops, particu larly the corn, Cizaveraxn, May 29, ~Dispatches frowa all over northern Ohio indicate that the frost last night did great dam. age to the fruit, vegetables and grain, Laxcasren, Pay May 26. —~There was a very heavy frost in this vicinity last night, ice forming in many places, In some places the young tobacco plants were frozen hard, inflicting serious in Jury to the new crop. Reaping, Pa,, May 20. Reports from various points in this section indicate that during the night there was a severe frost. In some places ice wes formed » quarter of an inch thick. Potstoes and garden vegetables were somewhat dam. Cmicaco, Il, May 20, —A dispatch to the Journal from Roek ford, IL), says: “A heavy frost visited (his sa i Ad gh na ¥ lo Sot ix ruined and it is Bliss said t Kellogg ought not to be indicted, rick said that an indict mend shld be found. The dispute re sultd in assigning a politioal aspect. BlisfRocused Merrick of being preju diced politically. Brewster said that he didn't want polities considered. The Attorney eneral gave orders to proceed with the indictment against Kelloggiand 1 was directed to go before the grand jury. Prince and Walsh were examined and a presentment was made, Mr. Ker entered upon a detailed account of the evidence against Kellogg, on which an indivtment was found. Me. Milliken objected on the ground that the committee had decided not to take testimony touching upon Kellogg's guilt or innocence, A lengthy Les ui Representatives Milliken and Van Als. tyne followed, during whick the former Inst | gid ho was opposed to “sneaking ovi- dence in." “I shenk tiothing,” retorted Mr, Van plant agein, Alstyne. tragedy of great interest now some years old. They are twin sisters, Annabel and Ethel, daughters of the late Gen. John B. Houd, famous as a Confederate com: mander. Gen. Hood was the father of nine children, including three pairs of twins, when his wife and be in quick succession succumbed to yellow fever in New Orleans. Warm Learts refused to let the interesting orphans suffer a lack of care and affection, and the three sets of twins were adopted by kind friends «Mr, MoGll, » wealthy planter of Mis* sinsippi, takingone pair: Mr. Adams a wealthy New Yorker, who owns a sum. wer house at Newport, taking the second and Mr. John A. Morris, of New Orleans a relative by marriage of Mrs. Hood, the third. The last named pair are the sis. ters Annabel and Ethel, who for four or five years have boen studying in Han. over, Gertaany. They came to New York fora visit to their kind foster father at bis beautiful country place in West, chester co., New York, dered it for | All | He said be had received £150 for | Mr. Ker before the Springer committee, 10 wide difference it makes when sin is planted | to Mr, Keifer, of $250 *for services in hunting up ther witnesses,” 8 A credit allached “by {| which Extraordinary wa Queensware, to | DARGAINS IN AND TABLE GLASSWARE. W, 1, WILKINSON act Dealer in CHINA, GLASS, ALLEGHANY STREET, Bellefonte, Pa. | Isselling ALL KINDS of Crockery | | and Table Glarsware at LOWER prices than ever known in Bellef nate, us the { following dist will show ; ina: warrant- | with Gen, Boynton, has rendered a bill |! cash, $70." leaving a balance due of $180 | Accompanying the bill is a letter from Elder vo the ex Speaker, dated States Hotel, Washington city, May 13, | in which he says “I have been confined | to my room for the past ten week | am now Just able to get atout all from exposure and anxiety in your | behalf, und you went me to do a | for nothing. Now, I did not think vo were that kind of a men, or | not bave had a thing to do with I would not go through this agsin for £50,000, 1 have you by Mr, Beld \ } very small bill I consider "ant ing a il, nothing compared to the amount of add in this case, In ] | 1 | service trouble as Gen, Boynton let up on you, and {lor a time it was Boynton ve, Elder, 1 understand that Boynton has #0 stated { that I made ail the trouble for him and | compelled Lim (0 employ expensive | lawyers, | It may be that you don't want me for a friend. You may think that I ean’t | be of any beoefit to you. I might be {of a great deal and I might not. There might be some one else that wants my assistance. I hope you will have this matler attended to at once or there may be some trouble. | am not a man to be fooled with in this way." — A — . 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