BELLEFON . THURSDAY, JANSBRY 10, The Cenive Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price 0 per year When Paid in When subscriptions ar voars $2.00 will be eliarged ! strictly adhered to in Advance $1.00 ¢ not pald Inside of thre These terms will be : young uewspaper man, The newspaper | HALL THEY BE KE} man did not get his share of the spoils, He came 0 Washington aud he wore nls life out trying to get the Senate to in. vestigate. The investigation was long | have been in legal existence ever s delayed, and the result was an acquital | 1564, Will terminate on June 1, 18] of the Senator. Senatorial Scourtesy | There ave still fifteen institutions where covers a multitude of sins, and a | these wards of the state are educated mittee of foxes was a poor one to which | and eared for, although the number ag ‘AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. — and be swore eternal vengennee. | NEWS AS GATHERED BY OUR REGULAR CORBESPONDENT, (From the Lancaster New Fra.) Under the existing law, the Orphan schools of Pennsylvania, { TheNow Year's Ret option ut the White Hoase | A Brilliant Secial Event The Coming in. nugural Ball, Colne. The hol fay season proper closed most “RED W% MAKES AN IMPORTAN TO THE POLICE! y He Was The Leader of the Tallag Gas 1 Murdered Paymaster J, Brainerd Melt and Hagh Plansgan on the Mountals near i \Wilkesbarre, on October 19, Last to Hob | AE to escape being questioned by ipantons. In a week or so, of- Mexcitemsent had died away, they it to the spot in the woods where the CASUTG buyded and divided tie noney. The Italian looked upon Captain Lin- den as a friend and became very oc m- mugicative with hin in fact. more ti an was good for him, A mouth ago Mike lay brilliantly yesterday, though to society === { New Year's Day is but the prelude to { the fushionable season of gajety, The tormed by the honored custom, t Long before 11 o'clock, when the recep | tion i and Diplomatic to leave the question of killing fowl, The newspaper man pever went back to his home, Ie is the tramp I just met, There is no special lesson in the story, { but if there were one, it would teach the {folly of biting off more than one can masticate, ever y Case, Tre Auditors are examining the re. cords of the county officers, Look out for some revelations, Execcutive Mansion was as is the Lou { crowd, - . Dogs Mis. Harrison wear a bustle ? “That's the question that overshadows | the eabinet mystery. Cabinet Corps began, the roadway and adjacent street we wded with carriages and Sn MINERS GIVEN A LESSON IN POLITICAL one time was much larger. Since the systeimn went into operation, the number of pupils admitted into these schools has been 14 834, and there were still 610 ap- plications on filoon the first of June last, The cost of the schools last year was $385,180.50, The total cosis since the schools were organized has been $5,998, vi=02, There were in the schools on “he nosed Mike” went with qgutractor McFadden's party the I lan leader of the gang th | of laborers to a point near Pouglikeepsie’ dered pginaster J. Brainerd MeClnre and Hugld Flanagan on the mountain near Wilkedarre on October 19 last and tole $12,000 was loged ip JallaGysy iikes. barre Saturdag@alter he bad waived a hearing before peace, Captain RO} | New Yorr where another road was be- ing built, One of Linden's men accom- | panied Mike and gradually wormed Him { self into the murders confidence. When | natters became ripe, Mike was arrested. Captain Linden has strong hopes of | capturing the other three, und the Eure. Lrapes Lal! PF dnl local Justice Of Lik ert J. Lindsn, the -- Tue inauguration ball is causing the ministerial fraternity amount of trouble. No use in bawling about it ; the ball will move usual, a brilliant imposing state affair. - Mrs. JAMES G. BLAINE Jn., has en. tered inte an agreement with a New York manager to take the stage about ‘the first of February. Her father, Colonel an upusual along as social event and an Richard Nevins, has agreed to take care | Blaine, 111. mother fulfills her stage engagement - Dox PiaTT, the editor of Belford's Magazine says that “when the President swings along Pennsylvania avenue to the Capitol to be inaugurated upon the side of his carriage should be printed what history with its cold une bias xd fingers will put to record : “Bo't for two millions of dollars.” of James G. while the Hew won The Senate plods along in its consid- eration of the tariff bill. The republi- sans have struck a dangerous snag in the sugar question. When the paragraph reducing the duties 5 per cent on im. ported sugar was framed it was known by the republicans that it would bankrupt the sugar planters of Louisiana, but for that they cared nothing, as they expect- | ed no votes from the state ; but now they have discovered that it will do! equally as much damage in republican Kansas and California, both of which states have protesting delegations here now ; that of the by Claus Spreckles, known all over the world as the sugar king. The result is, the Senate finance committee have con_ cluded to offer an amendment to the! bill, giving a bounty for every pound of | sugar producedjin this country. i latter being headed i Wr ——— > Ox Wednesday Jan. 2. the ¢olored | race of America celebrated thefwenty- | fifth anniversary of the issuislz of the | emancipation proclamation Large meetings were held in seferal cities, | but in no other city of the land is the | day celebrated with as much pomp and | ceremony as in Washington, On | “emancipation day in that city the | colored population, which numbers some 80,000 souls, take full possession of | the city. Every public comveyance, | hack, and other vehicle is levied upon | for the use of the celebrators and on that day even Congressmen who do not | own private rigs are compelled to walk. | The Washington negro feelsat all that he is superior to the “white trash” of the capital, but on the second day of January his feelings increase in bigness | ing with the strain that is put upon his brain. It is certain that the colored population of Washington will be the | last to forget the day upon which their | bodies were released from the bondage | and their proud spirits liberated from | the galling sense of slavery, | Tue St. Louis Republic furnishes some interesting statistics regarding the | workings of the high license and loeal | option law of Missourl. Tho law fixes | the minimum license fee at 85% and the maximum at 81,000, but Incorporated cities and towns are allowed to fix the | price of licenses at any figure they please above the minimum or withhold licenses altogether. This has resulted in placing the license fee in some cities as high as #3000. The saloons in the State have been reduced from 5,000 to | 3,000, the majority of which are in the | city of St. Louis. In sixty-five counties and seventeen cities there are no | saloons. In forty<two of these counties the people have voted no leense under the local option provision and in the other twenty-two licenses have been re | fused Ly the licensing authorities, It is | eldimed that one can travel across the Btate from the Iowa line to Arkansas by rail without coming within ten miles of a saloon. It is probable that in the no license courties there is more or less clandestine selling, but in the main the | Senate. The prrehase wae notoriane, | have given the Demoeratie parts the Taw seems to he well oo fap, { to see even in Washington { the administration | the police, {to gain admittance, and a prayer of | they weceived. | vanished in 1888, eral Alexander, Rear Admiral Simopsen, | 4 | the banker Riggs, times | Corcoran ~these are but a few | died during the year just passed. . good die first, and only a few ancient until there is danger of his head burgt- | Loo like Ben Butler remain eternal- JUGGLERY. Hae. the 31st of last Muy, 2.238 pupils. When | the schools close in June, 1890, there I'he “bosses lied to the coal mines | Will still be remaining in them 1.549 lay county, Ind. The miners were | PUPils under the age of 16 years, given to understand that if Harrison | Thereare indications that an effort elected they would have steady twill be made to pass a new law during work andgood pay, but if Cleveland | the coming session of the legislature to was re-elecied the Mille 51 would be | continue these schools, if not indefinite. {come a law and the outpui of col cur ly, them at least for an indefinite period | tailed to meet the restricted market to | of years. The fact that they have al- which the shutting down of factories { ready been in existence, for a period of | Would confine the miners, That if Har | twenty-four years, is evidence that pupils indi- {vison was elected there would be an | Will continue to be provided for them for { another quarter of a century in case the | proper encouragement mn the shape of { the appropriations shall be The Republican managers got up an Wade. of all, Mrs. Cle veland was the je, | excul the sidewalks with throngs. The day was perfect, and the dane od de Hehited y CHIOUS unshine and inipartially on the tinsel of officers, the je women, the decorations of the Mexican | minister, and the bright silks of the | was } | Chineese envoy. Luside, the Blue, Green tand Red parlors were banked with ! | r od} els of fair | ! : | | ] { flowers, and only the great East Room ] { retained its every day appearance. Cau- tion had spread linen crash over the | carpets everywhere, as a protection from soiled shoes, but that was the only cation that every guest was not expect. [end of agitation, and the ownersof the ed to come in his own carriage 1 Tull foree, ready discourse an avalanche of national airs. | I'he | coal mines could employ more men and Marine band was i; to | pay better prices, necessary Best sion of miners from Clay county | At the present time the appropriation he Cabinet | and hundreds of them went to Indian. | FUE is about #350,000 yearly, no in- the There Harrison made them a! manr Senators ‘and the ladies of ty large toinduce the men who control . ‘ ) ‘ ie . * "nN surrounded by the wives of 3 apolis. considerable amount and one sufficient. officers and their guests, wives of the | Speech in whien he said in substance that the prosperity depended is apt | absolute \ tariff | Time rolled around, the election came {and : : hese institutions to strain of rR Supreme Court circle, all in full dress, miners {ett ist tutions to strain every nerve has been 80 advantageous to them in the past, The amount asked to support the schools I . YOM £ y nue the svstem whieh a8 brilliant an assemblage as one upon protective to contin the system which { ertainly goes out bravely. 30 hundred Democratic miners and if President Cleveland did look | bored and tired before the rece ption was | When it was ascertained, saxl Mr. Louis yielded to the sophistry of the “bosses, from the present time tothe period when they will cease to exist by law is #280 000, over, he only showed physical weariness, | Holtman, of Brazil, ‘that Harrison had | That the State has acted most gener. 5 : x Ai ” been elected, and both houses of con. ously and liberally toward these young After the Cabinet and the Diplomatic Minister hief Justice and his associates and the minor judges | Cause Senators and Represen- | in the party a new Nearly nine mil for and without Corps—the latter headed by gress had gone Republican, ther undeniable 1 Caring fiw much rejoicing among these mine they had 1 Romero—had gone, the ( hed t story of th w further word a 1] But men whe reflect on he to! | s reached a were received, overthrow tatives followed, of the Army, headed by Brig-Gen. Benet, who in the absence of Maj-Gen. Scho. Next came the officers era of prosperity the situat will apt is of Clay | conel Mills surely dawn upon the coal fiel rile period | ‘Hurrah ! the field, on account of his wife's death. dead.’’ they shouted. bu covered that it be closed ent ¢ the pupils It must be evident from y of these institutions that SC Hoo! in ithér to bill ght | county. CON di . was only death of When tis Cle and rejoicing had subsided io mines that had been closed was senior. The Naval officers followed, and then came minor bureau officers, | Julius Casar faent The Grand Army took its turn. And | finally came the public. The latter was in full force. There were tourists, anx- ious to see the President and take him by the hand, and people who went because the necessary en. i Oper This that al wd for receiving applica“ 1d 1g Are ens the wiehs expected return to in t we may see them rier of a century hence wl Ly before the election on account of tis the fact pncertaioty of the fate of ‘protection ugn the p I lisssoon closed eighteen a large number of applica- nue Lo be made it was a free show. The crowd pushed | “Boys, we are sorry we cannot give you and jammed. and had to be held back by Finally the hour for closing | the reception arrived and the doors were | coeds the demand. shut, This brought complaints from { deceive you about this matter ; the the crowd which had not yet been able | look is not encouraging,’ was the reply And the Clay couuty work, but ou account of new crude of and matural gas the supply of coal ex There is 1 i The pri ! fon } : £ Jar Is), is y 1156 10 wipal argument which is seged onging de schools bevond June. that the children who still re. { wan when the period for closing comes from the | Mines are chmod, | eannot be convendently cared for other | But what matters this (o the “bosses? | wise. Superintendent Higbee says some { of these could nodonbt find means of {completing thels education at Heir hoes without entadling much suffesing. | OF course they could. The free schools eoutkd accommodate them without the [east difficulty, This State is a large one aml her people ase generous, It sal | most a reflection on them to say it will { belmpossible to find homes in this great | commonwealth fe a thousand or less lchildren. At the worst, the smaller | snes could be sent to permanent orphan ischools. They could be as well eared The | Was born in opposition to unjust tax; | for there as where they now are, and at ation. It fought the war of independ. | far less cost. They would not necessarily lence. It has lived since the foundation | become vagrants and vagabonds, Bouse. ly young and strikingly demonstrate the of the republic because its underlying | Jess and homeless. Of course the State truth of the adage. | prineiples ave the embodiment of equal { will not turn them adrift undes any The inaugural committee rises to ex- | rights and free government. . elreumstanon. plain that the ball of March 4th, will | Other pelitical organizations have | The normal sehools could also make cost not $100,000, but only $30,000, And | passed away because they have beem | arrangements,no doubt, to take some the committee ‘wank % understood | cvanted by the exigencies of the mor of them. Anyof these plans would be further that the affair costs the Goyern- | EW Of the thirst for power. The fed- | better, we belive, than the permanent ment nothing, being paid for by sub. | ®Talists were those who could not at retention of the dozen or more estab scription. No opposition is felt among | first renounce the love of monarchial lishments now maintained by the State. Washington clergymen, but the letters aud the jussion for aristocratic distinet- The act of 1887, fixing a time when the of objection from Western preachers are | fons. The whigs were the natural de! schools should close, was in the nature sil thanksgiving, 1 imagine, President. With the dying year come up the | They fooled the miners into voting the : N Lule A 5 faces long familiar to Washington that | Republican ticket. That was their First in the ghostly | Kame, and it was played not only in Brazil, Ind., bat in Allegheny county, Pa , whee thousands of miners are of wesk. procession comes the imperious and imperial Conkling. Next the military figure of General Sheridan. Then the robed form of Chief Justice Waite, | The crowd grows, Ex.attorney General Brewster, Dr. Cornelius Agnew, Gen. | out - READY FOR THE FUTURE, The Democratic party has existed the philanthropist | longes then the union. It had itsorigin of the | in the revolt against the oppressions of . hot people best known in Washington who | what was them the howe governmant. It | murder | they departed for Wilkesbharre in a car- head of the Pinkert in this city, made against the Italian an with the murder of the t | tain Linden informed the a the prisomer had made a 1ul #nd that efforts w detective agency rial complaint | harged him | men. Cap- | ] | ! : : that, to him, made to capture Mike'saccompl - Mike is 22 years of age, but looks | about 28 or 30 years old. He is a stout chunky fellow wears a small black mus. tache, and hus a repulsive countenance | He makes | a business of running shanty boarding | indicative of brutal cunning. houses for the accommodation of Italian laborers who are employed in building | new railroads, 1 And: Nn the In his comfessic Mike said that two m to Captain months before ’ . 3 ) hires Italians beside himself entered into a plot to kill McClure and his companion while they were return. ing from Wilkesbarre with the money to pay off the laborers, Their soleobject | was robbery, amd Mike pictured to his companions that the would enable them to return to Italy They calcu- Oney and live in luxuery ever afterward. lated upon getting about 820,000, which 85.000 each. On the morning of the day set for the munder | would give them the conspirators clesely watched the paymaster and his companion, and when riage Lo of bank they instantly made preparations for the deed. At the last moment one of the conspirators backed out, having become frightened by fear of detection. The | other three hastened to a lonely spot on the mountain side where the two men would have to pass on their return home. There they lay in wait for two hours. now am then taking a drink of whis. key to keep up their coumge. About 10:30 they saw the carriage ap- proaching, and the three men hid in the bush along the road. The horse was walking slowly up the hill, and when the carsiage passed the men were close enough to reach out their hands and touch the vehicle, Afterit had gone about fifteen yards one of the Italians, who had been selected for the purpose because of his reputation has a marks. man, crept cut on the read, and rest. ing a Winchester rifle on his knee, fired Flanigansolled out of the carriage dead. In an instant another bullet from the Winchester went crashing through the head of the paymaster, and tien the murdepses sprang for the carriage. Flanigan never knew what hit him, and McClure dill not have Sme o=~agh to collect Ms thoughts befare he isil out over the wiwel with his life blood stain. ing theesarth. Anotherefibe gang hada $caliber revolver which he fired as soon as the Winchester was isi dis charged. The mpd shooting. frightened the horse and he dashed up the mountain side on a wild gallop. The-villains realized that if they did not overtake the animal their game was up, as the coveted treas. ure was in a valise in the bottom of the wagon. The man with the Winchester took good aim at the horse aps fired, It was a lucky shot, for it broke one of | the animal's legs and he fell. The third | draw the meney out { ally give rise lity. pean agents of the Pinkertons will search all Italy for them. Very little of the money has been recovered, and there 8 not much hope entertained br those interested that more will be found > AEMY BURDENED EUROPE. The most recent figures as fo the | size of the European armies give a start. : x 4 ling hint of the enormous burden they Indeed remined Tha Europe is little less then a vast camp. few American readers are aware of the actual numbers of the troops whish, in nflict on the taxpaying masses, ften as we have been | case of war, would be swiftly mobilized | and dispatched to the centres of conflict. | These figures, when badly stated natur- $0 a felling of inceedu, And yet it seems to be an established | fact that Russia and Germany could each put 4000 000 men into active ser. | vice within a few weeks afler the oul | break of hostilities: that, while Franos | doubtless possesses 4.000.600 men whe | have been drilled and diseiplined. and de- [ feat in her means of mobilization would | probably reduce this force to 3.000.008 3.500.000; that Austria has an availad we {army of at least 1,700,000, that in & Jong war England's ultimate contribution | would probably reach 2,000,000 soldiers and that even Italy the youngest of the | sisterhood of the great powers, could | by | the field. straiping. put 2500000, men into The figures are grimly eloguent. They show that in a general wara vast host of at least 15,000,000, of trained soldiers are likely to take a part in the gigantic game. If we add the force of Turkey and the Southeastern European States, thisfigure should be ineseased by certain - ly another million. What do these mighty anaaments cost the people? England pays $110, - 000,000 a year for her army, Germany and France each $110,000,000, Rassias $50 000 000, and Austria, very unecono- mically, #200,000,000; in all nearly or quite 850,000,000, No wonder that the nations roan under grievous taxation; that war loans are every little while resorted to; that agriculture and indos try languish by taking from the Seld and the factory the lusty young men to be drilled in arms and to garrison fort. resses; that ever and anon the ery for disarmament goes up from the bunden- ed lands. Yet the idea of dissrms ment is probably a dream. The mul. ual rivalries and jealousies of the powers are to keen; suspicious each of all the othars is a maxim of the courts, It is these tremendous armaments, and not this or that passing incident, which thesatens to bring abouts war. Solong as real war would scarcely be move ex- pensive than their maintance in peace and the caprice of a ezaror King may at any moment take a warlike turn, the peace of Europe is in daily danger. NY. Press. Mp ———— AMONG the bills that will be intro duced into the legislature at this seasion will be one by Senator Rutan, of Alle gheny. Its purpose is to change the numerous, The local defenders of the ball hold that the dancing is a subordi- nate inatter, and that it is in the main a mere public reception to the President. The attempt tohold General Harrison personally responsible is contemptible, Mr Harrison has been elected not only the President of orthodox Christians, but also the President of the whole peo ple, and he could ill afford to snub any | well-meaning class of people, such as attend inaugural balls, whatever his private beliefs may be. As he himself sald, he scarcely saw how he could be expected to change arrangements which were being made before he had any oon- trol over the White House, Drifting through the well dressed throng that crowded the svébue on New Year's Day, | saw the shrinking, shambling, shabby figure of an alles tramp. Les than ten years ago a <ndilionaire bought a sea} in the Am, LL Bhs ge vee BY Ls | seerlants of the federalists. The Repab | of a protest against the retention of the | ean party is the outgrowth of the whig. systend. There would be more harm re- | party made temporarily powerfulthreugh | sulting from that than from the closing its commendable championship of free. ' of the schools themselves, The pressure dom, and the folly of the slave-helding | for their continuance is understood to states. The federal party died; the whig | come principally from the managers of party died; the Republican party has won | the schools. Gov, Beaver, we believe, an sccidental victory which already favors the transfer of the pupils to the threatens to destroy it. normal schools. The position of the Let those who predict that Mr, Cleve. | Grand Army on the question is not de- land’s discornfiture weans the destruc. | finitely known One word by it against tion of the democracy reflect on these | thé continuance of the schools would | third man slung it over his shoulder and facts and remember that the Democrat. | %@1e the question. je party lived through twenty-four years ye. of defeat, misrepresentation and pred. judice, It has just received the indome. ment of plinality of the voters of the United States for its presidential can. didate on the Issue of tax reduction through tariff reform. The electoral | Y% , vote of this state, which was cast against | © | Mr. Cleveland by his own party on con. | 9umed a few days ago and placed in siderations entirely personal, would | 4 cemetery at Brisbin. The bones lmprovised bugial ground with some vio, ais da ob Mn Herta, Kivu, | They did not stop to count the money The remains of John Higgins, who | but quickly dug a hole in the mountain wis munded some twenty odd years ago | and buried the valise. The next step on Houtz, Teed & Co'smill, (the present | was to hasten back to camp. 1% was a site of Brisbin,) which was interred In | rainy day and thege being no work on ! i yin the rear of the Presbiyerian | at thelr hat Osceola Clearfield county, were | time away. This permitted the erim. s found in a good state of preser. | 1 man ran up to the carriage, and draw. | the manner of selecting juries. The ing sdirk, cut the strap which bound | measure of Mr. Rutan’s provides forthe the valise to an irom rod in the bottom, | appointment by the judges, of & come The other two wretches sto over the mission of two. who will in turn select bodies of McClure and Flanigan and | the jury. This the senator believes powsed bullet after bullet into them, | would prevent a great deal of corre though they had already breathed theix | ton in the matter of drawing the jaws last, As Mikes nid they wanted to | vies. make a clean job of it, for “decd men A ————— tell no tales." | A Charlestown, 8, C,, dispatch says ! | Sentor Don Cazaeron, of Pennsylvanisg lr who Is wintering in Beaufort county, ish. this state with Senator Butler and Cl i Elliott, has | 0 ; gressman After the valise had been secured the the trio disappeared into the woods with the climate and hunting and ng for the road the laborers wer congregated rough barracks, idling their inals to be absent without arousing suspicion. When they returned their | follow his exaple and pus cla lies were Yor tore with an, and homa® =3 (he S.00nst Bee tay Ivmov ca Ly diwetion of Mike 9a Bid, 8
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