v v Vv he entre F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. HEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL defierrog TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, in Adva od VOL, 9. BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1887. NO. 11} The Centre Femocvat, Tormssl.50 per Annumin Advance FRANK E. BIBLE, wditor, 1887. Democratic County Committee. Beliefoute > } Howard Bor Miteaburg Bor Milibhelm Boro Centre Hall Bore DJ Mayer, } lst CG Herlinger Philipsburg » 2d Henry Lema, } vores J Graham, A J Gredas Thomas J Unionville Boro Benner t Fraser, we Milligan Walker, H L Harvey, Burnside twp... nV College twp Curtin twp... Ferguson twp, EP. } twp, W. P Gregg twp, 8. Po. do N.P Haines twp, BE P lo ws Hiram Grove Jasiali CO. Bossman, William E. Kesn, George W Kelsior «William T Bailey, w. Frank KB Wislaud, twy . Tohin Glenn, EW Ps csnsss iverson oo Win LTroin ees William HH Garduer, w.p Half Moon twp Harris twp Howard Huston Liberty twp... Marion twp Miles twp... Patton Penn twp Potter twp, N do s.P Rush twp, SP do NP Snow Shoe, W. P...... fo BP Spring twp Tavior tw} Walker twp Worth : twp... wee Wm H Rream F A Foreman, W W Royer “ twp aion twp... JAMES A McOLAIN crotary. ‘ H, Y.Snraen, 8s halrman QueeNy Vicroria is a modest woman, but she insists that ladies at 14) her receptions sha.l appear courtly undress ss would make the | average American blush with shame. | — Express. Yes the average American modest and can blush because she is : " . : . } ] chaste, its the American that is above | the “average” whe does not blush. - - Ture Mifflinburg Telegraph editor holds some little position ander | the House at Harrisburg has at- tack of dependent peasion bill in the stomach, louder than whole houselul of stomach Oh an and howls aches, George Washington Sel k you meke OC r President let him Grover. ->- beat PHILADELPHIANS propose to n the C are glad the Quaker city is waking up . . - : the linest tlotel « nlinent, to the necessities of the country editor Wehave never yet founda Philadel- phia Hotel large enough for us, and | have been compelled to spread ourself around town rather promiscuously as it were, eating at soup house, picking | our teeth at the Continental, and sleeping at the Central Station. When the new Hotel is built visit that city ofien unless our pass runs By all means build the Hotel. -- Broraer FrivLer takes Prof. Beard of the Lock Haven Normal to task for omitting in the school eatalogue, the names of those who graduated under Prof Raub, and intimates that the alamoi of that in- stitution ought to raise its voice agaiost an appropriation from the That would be poor grounds we will out. of the Gazelle, alate, i L! ) ) . | » for refusing ao appropriation and the | os niract made and entered into on legislature would treat such a proposi- | tion as a huge joke. We dont know whether brother Feidler is an alum. aus or not, if he is he should not go back ou his alma mater because his name is not found in the catalogue. There may be some very good reason why it is not there, or it may have been an oversight, either of the person getting up the eatalogue or of the printer. Or there may have been so meny graduated that their names would make the eatalogue too cumber. some. We have no doubt but that the Whole matter can be satisfactorily explained, and if it is not the world will move along just as well. Atany rate it ls & tempest io a teapot, such | whose i n : build | The Traction Bill Tux Philadelphia papers and the people of that Republican missgovero- ed city offer up daily prayers to the | Governor of Pennsylvania to protect | them The | traction bill if passed will give to that from their legislators, company a monopoly of the streets and an almost absolute control of her The bill is passenger railroad traffic a bad measure in itself, and Gov, Beaver, perhaps ought not sign it. But he has a weapon in his band to punish the quaker city for sending | roosters and bummers to Harrisburg. be | a goed thing for her people in the He { found out what they don’t want and | to legislate for them and it might future if he signed the bill has Lif he gives them a good big dose it | may have the effect of banishing the | Philadelphia rooster from the legisla tive halls entirely. Roral Pennsylva- | nia {3s about sick of the childish com- | plaints of Philadelphia and has no sympathy for her. must send her committees to Every session she Harris burg to bother the Executive about a could control and | { matter that she regulate at the elections, and legisla | tion needed by the state at large is | held back for Philadelphia legislation, | whi not which her citizens do want, { long as she sends to Harrisburg the By clase of men she does she will get | vicious legislation. As a punishment commission 1) bill ii for sins of omission and (ov. Beaver ought to sign the | He might say to them if your mem- i bers don’t know what is good for you what evidence have I that your com- { mittees know. We don’t care whether | the governor gives Philadelphia an iC or not. and ske will learn to send honest men | to the legislature. - Tae Philadelphia Times of Friday lastgives a full ¢ DOSC OF 00 sy BLA blackmail of the blackmail of the g | - he ant! *t he Dy the suing irities at Smith has wrung each | thousands of dollars in politi ments, and sab riplions to | | There is Time discomfitare of reason chuckles in its sleeve at the ita neighbor the Press | Of course the Press is not re sponsible for the short comings of its employees and city editor Hoeclk ley deserves his exposure, The Press has been put in {a hole by its brilliant contemporary | snd will bave to wriggle out as best {it can. Mr, Hoeckley isnot likely the | that who bas been engaged in the black- mailing business. For a cily controll- ed by the “God and morality” party { Philadelphia is “a daisy”, only man about establishment Wales Avolds a Scandal. Orrawa, Ont, March 13.~The suit recently entered in England by Miss Allan, of Montreal, of ope of the best families in that city, agrinst His Royal Highness, the }'5ince of Wales, | for the recovery of 825 000, due in a account of the betrayal of the plaintiff by the defendant in 1861, while he was in this country, has been brought 10 a close by an early settlement be: fore trial. The Queen's solicitors were last week instructed to pay to the counsel for the plaiotiff the sum of 82,000 sterling, as well as all costs #0 far incurred. The bill amounts in all, including the damages, to over $110,000. It is understood that this sums bas been accepted by the plaintiff, ad that the action has been dismise- ———— - “ -_— v Avausra, March 16 <The repeal of the capital punishment Iuw has been effected, Imprisonment for life is substituted tor As | Make her sick James | Big Railway Gobble TO OTHER HANDS, New Youk, March 9.-—It tran- spired to-day that arrangements are ahout completed by which President interest in The has Garrett will sell his Baltimore and Ohio road. an- derstanding is that Garrett Al quired the stock held by Johns Hop kins University —about 15,000 shares —and will trapsfer them, the whatever be pro- with those previously owned by Garrett family, and with amount of stock additional may Alfred ft | necessary to give control of the | | i perty, to syndicate headed by | Sully, General Samuel Thomas and | { Calvin 8. Brice, the leading spirit in It syudicate, under- it | Richmond terminal. is | stood that the | comes into possession of the property when | hopes to negotiate a contract with the | | | Peansylvania railroad by which the | line built by the Baltimore and Ohio | between Baltimore and Philadelphia | will be sold to the Pennsylvania, and | a contract with the Western Union | telegraph company by which it | acquire the Baltimore and Ohio tele | graph lines, Asan additional conse. control the | quence of the change of he railroad company business will be absorbed by one | the greatest expres companies of the | country. The object of these will be | to relieve the company of the | { floating debt, stated by some as high | | as fifteen millions and hardly claimed | { by any vody to be less than nine or { ten millions, which has been run up 0 the course of (Garretts management, bids fair railway This ia the greatest and to be the most influential | deal that has taken placein this coun | try withio maoy years, By the ac | quirement of the Baltimore and Ohio raitengd the wl ne ratiway of the land properties there great trunk Ii All wl) have passed current in track. €e facts of stories Wall st for months past rumoring schemes of that reet ol : setiiement between President Garrett and JayGouald are now shown to have been idle and baseless, It is consider : \ {ed probable that Mr. Garrett will con tinue in the presidency. These are | some of the strongest and most infla. | ential moneyed interest in this o untry | and Earope with Me. Sully in his new 1 venture or else about ww ith 18 be wffilinted with him, Alfred Sully declined last night to | give any positive assurrance in regard | to the reported purchase of the Bali. more and Ohio road. “It is too early { yet for me to discuss this subject,” he {#aid; “in a day or two I may be able [to tell an interesting story. I am | bound now by circumstances not to | reves] what negotiations may he on, | You see they may not be successful, sod what I might say might be pre. mature,” Colonel MoClure Sued for Libel. Puitaverrnia, March 13, —Crim- inal proceedings were on Saturday fu- stituted by A. B, Hoeckley, city editor of the Frese, against A. K. McClure, as editor, and Frank MeLaoghlin, as proprietor, of the Times, for the publi cation of an article in the latter pa- per yesterday, asserting that Mp. Hoeckley received pay from gamblers fs & cansideration for withholding at- tacks in the Pres upon gambling house, Mr. Hoeckley also instituted civil proceedings against the Times THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO TO PASS IN the | together | will | of | express | of | WAVY | The Deadly Bridge, ANOTHER FTRUCTURE FALLS WHILS RAIN i8 PASSING, Bosrox, March 14. Another railroad horror in the east, Death lurks again {at n bridge and counts his vietims by { the score, I'he nocident this m | occurred ac the Bedham branch and Provide Forest Hill known as Bussey ark Boston nee ravdr tween and Posin what is | The 7 o'cl wk train from ing of seven cars and a by of broke through the brie sist under charge Conductor ye ihe eng and three ears went over safely { five others fell the road beneath, 8 distance of feet The last ear, which smoker, turned completely struck on top of the others, crushed almost eause of the accident is been the t It ace bridg reaking of the is stated that the bridge wh lent occurred this morning paratively a new oae and that cident was esused by a truck on one « the cars giving away, causing the ear te slrike against the abutment bridge. The smoking car aller caught fire, but the fire d was promptly on hand and pr any spread of the flames, 1 was rowded wit the { among their friends, who are an hn working 1 most intense excitement : { learn the names 0 Y jured, 1 i nsre are nor ie number of the dead police say that twenty outright and that nearly die. A Fi wrest Webster Cl Hill hotel wher taken OO heaviest strain was experienced, An inspection of the wreck fact that the | the | train are jumbled into a complete wreck not one of the coaches escaping almost | perfect demolition. From the location of the wrecked cars it would seem that {| the first bridge safely, three oam the The structure evidently gave way when the fourth car was pass ing over it, The through to the roadway, landing in a mass of splinters the street, The strain of the five falling ears pulled the taree conches in advance from the rail wp of the embank passed over five rear oars weng in They remained on meni, but sere pulled off their truce and the floor of each was forced nearly to the roof, while the seats were jum. bled together in great confusion, . The end of the second coach was a mass of splinters caused by the car ahead grinding against it when the others went down the embankment, The third conch was flattened to the ground as if it had fallen on the truck, from a great height, although it re. mained on the edge of the embank- meni. The roof of the fourth car also remained on the embankment, having evidently been shaven clean from its mitenings where the coach went through, The next four oars went down in a heap, the smoker which was on the rear of the train falling in the midst of the conches and being actually ground into splinters, death in ail cases of murder in the fire degree: Publishing Company for damages, The inmates of the smoker were all but the the either killed or injured, not one escap- Two the wall ing without injury of som kind, of the coaches went lear ACTOR roaowuy, imndiop girs K . field a stone that bounded a #t the foot of a i hii ent ioe tarted | dead, bound ts the city morgue, or with the injured, destined to the hospitals, A large number of the iared were also taken to the residences n the vacinity, while ot] 18rs were sent to the « Forest Hill and Raslindale. Those pan sengers who escaped serious idjury were taken to the junction st Forest and then forwarded to their destinetion in the city proper, | Itis believed that the sccident was caused by the breaking of one of the main girders composed of two paralle | plates of heavy wrought iron. o> » of “he terrible nature of | ls one place the bodies of seven wo- | men wore taken out in a row all horri- bly mangled. One woman was oul in found. A phathetic sight was that of two girls with arms around each other clinging together in the embrace death, Both had been killed by blows upon the head, In two cases it was neccessary to cut two of the bodies in order to get them out, They were already crushed out of sny semblance to human shape and wore so tightly wedged in that they could be remoned in no other way, Ond old lady was taken from the cars un~ injured, bat with the clothing torn toshreds and presenting generally a fore lorn appearance. She said that the women in her ear seemed to be panic stricken at the moment the crash oo. curred. They screamed and shouted, Hill | As the | work of removing the wreck was pro- | ressiog additional evidence was found | the disaster. | praying or reicase, Ne BAW OLie wo man dying in a seat, while another wo- yw man had her tend 1 the Wea on ing woman's brease, Une of thie gohan e at io those who first hurried to the street un der the brides, The i { the sceident was 1at presented a woman Hmner w and what rea ze f surprise that ber condition generally supg wes improving. r. Brown thoughs #0 last night sboat 9 o'clock when he nid 1 " ’ i returned from a Lae rir: whom £83 bail, but mind. t all was or girl «1 her to {IL was not be. But § r the wight hay n she died before, hat she had the very are and surgical skill. but Her death She was my favorite daughter, you know, always bright and cheery, Aud but I won't say any more,” it availed iS 8 severe that scoundrel For some time after the shooting Mr. Anderson would id not express his opinion as to the guilt or innocence of Peak, but since he has become con vinced be feels very bitter towards him, and they who koow him say that Peak's life wouldn't be worth a rash | if he were acquitted, ! Three Children * -_— Burned to Death, I Uampex, N. J, Marsh 13.—Fire 'destroyed Korn's Hotel last night. | Three children were buroed to death. two, the upper half of her body being | Charles, Fred and Eddie Baerle, aged from about 7 to 10 years, were the names of the victims. The father and mother were severely burned by at tempting to rescue them from the flames, The President Contributes to the Hendricks Monument. Wasimxgrox, March 13. Mr. R, C. J. Pendleton, of Indiana, represent- ing the Hendricks Monument Associa- tion, yesterday received from President Cleveland a substantial contribution toward the proposed monument, with an expression of hearty sympathy for the movement.
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