00 A A aif BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1889. The Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - =~ =~ EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price $1.50 per yi When Paid in Advance $100 When subseriptions are not paid Inside of three vears $2.00 will be charged. : These terms will be strictly adhered to in QYery case. Democratic County Committee, 1880, and’. M. Bower ~Patrick Garrety «Joseph W. Gross 1. W. MeCormick ~M. L.Gardnre Willis Weaver C. W. Hartman weed. DD, Ritter wanna. H. Riley Jackson Gorton RASA a saa + J. Bing wdJohin Mechtley Philip Confer ~T. F. Adams H. L. Barnhart weldaniel Grove T. 8. DeLong . MeCormie Bellefonte, N. W, " 8. W.. “ WwW. WW. Centre Hall Borough. Howard Borough Milesburg Borough.. Millhetin Borough... *hilipsburg, 1s ur 5 dq WW... 38: W cusnien Unionville Borough... BARAT suesonssasssveen ‘ Boggs, N. P... “ WwW. yr i . I PP acsemmnonns College. ... Ferguson, E. “ W. wes O00, B. Crawford JJ. C. Rossman A. Bowersox i Jr «L.A. Weaver Halfmoon...... ———-— «Wm. Bailey HIATT conn iineiiicennas a C. C. Meyer Howard... wee Franklin Dietz Huston... John Q. Miles essen l). Wo. Herring wees. ssn ATTY ——— J.J. Gramley Meek wy Greg. 8. Po. “Np Haines. EB. P......... y Aes F Patton... D. L Penn... RN Potter, N. P “w |p Rush, 8S. Snow Shoe, W. Pe. hy 1 ES Spring a. Taylor {Union ——— Walker... Worth WM. C. HEINLE, Chairman OPPOSING A WAGE OUT. | ar, | Samuel Harpster Jr ] Levi Beess | NO. 17 WASTE AND THEFT. i w———— SENATOR RUTAN MAKES THAT NEED INVESTIGATION, | | He His Abllity SI50.000 is Show That Misappropriasted Peelnres to at Least Annually. A bomb Las been fired into the Re | publican camp by State Senator John S. | Rutan, of Allegheny. He charges waste, theft and extravagance by the present State Administration and certain other officials at Harrisburg. The Senator has chosen to make himself heard through the columns of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, and he prefaces his charge by saying that he can show that at least 8250.000 of the State's funds are wasted or stolen every year. The Senator is particularly severe on Librarian of the Senate Cap- tain Delaney, of whom he says: I had collected amass of testimony to be presented to a Senate investigation | committee when I was stricken down { I found that Delaney, in 1870, had sec- j ured the of a clever bill by | which he knew who got the contract to | supply the House, Senate and depart- | ment w ith stationery. passage Every member is allowed by law 850 for stations the man with more ry. Me Dowell | in reality, never furnished them Som ne, om pm ination I soon learned t) in place is of inferior qua AT The FTACKING TH! Sorin } Clearfield Miners Not Inclined to Aceept a | i0.cont Reduction. Trouble is brewing coal miners of the The principal shippers f over the Beech A just addressed alettert FE r employees king that their coal has JY ith that shipped from tl ney fields to the West, lower wages are paid to compete the men ee to a reduction The letter ag same basis, 1 that if wages are lowered more coal be mined and more to laborers. The Clearfield miners will strenuously resist any reduction®o the wages paid the Punxsatawney 10 cents less a ton. an effort will be made by the miners to induce their Punxsatawney brethern to demand an increas of 10 cents rather than themselves submit to a reduction. If the reduction ultimately prevails, it is likely to effect operators in the other soft coal regions, Cumberland, Ind. For months past Clearfield and Centre county employment miners, which an signed by the operators to pay 50 cents a gross ton as long as the Maryland re fon operators pay the same. STARVATION WAGES, The miners from Ben's Creek, Port. age, Lilly and Gallitzin arson a strike against a reduction in wages. Scott & Co's miners, at South Fork, alone, have accepted, and are at work, The leaders claim that the average | wages now are 90 cents a day, and #1 20 | is something miners are to elsewhere, A conference with the operators will extraordinary. Many poverty streken to go be held at Lilly on the 24th inst., at which representatives of 12,000 miners and cokers will attend. MORE PROTECTIONISM, . During the presidential camaign P, K. Dederick, an Albany manufacturer of hay presses, ete. , endeavored to bulldoze his employee to vote for unjust tax- atton and went so far as to send them pay envelopes on which was printed the significant interrogation: “Shall Am- erican wages or English wages be paid to our workingmen 7" But a few months have passed since the election, and the same bulldozing monopolist has informed the men of his employ that their wages will be reduced 45 per cent, gg The country is full of P. K. Dedericks st now. Their interest in the welfare wt the “poor workingman” isn’t as warm as it was previous to November 6. When the next campaign comes around, however they may be again ex. pected to shed tears for the wage worker, It's a way they have, A aan At the special election in setts, Prohibition was defeated most 40.000 mojority. Tt wan a wet day Massachu, | Year It is reported that especially that at | miners | have been working under an agreement | by al. Concerning th a Th ff antreo ago of approy le mstitutions, The secret of the Governor'sactivity { in cutting down the legitimate appropri institution fo pay of the than Pattison The law requires that $250 000 is to be | paid on the debt every year; but Beaver has already paid $1,200,000 while the hospitals, ete. Shave had to suffer. 1 | must say that Governor Pattison was | ations to charitable 8 in State is his great anxiety 1 State del a clean administration. He and his private secretary did all the work in [his office while Governor Beaver has { six clarks attend to it for him. | When Governor Beaver found out {that I was hunting up contracts he {signed to have $25,000 spent on the Ex. {ecutive Mansion, making a veritable { palace out of it, before the money was appropriated for the purpose, he referred to it in his nessage to head me off. and explained that he had done it thought. lessly; yet other bills of more importance | were vetoed without mercy. Another evil I would like to see cor | rected is this thing of spending money to keep up a standing army in the ‘state. Beaver and Hastings are sol. dier, and there is nothing that tickles their vanity so much as to ride at the head of the Pennsylvania troops at in. augurations and centennials, This state was founded by William Peis, a peace. ful man, and weought to be ashamed of the boast that we have a fine standing army in the state of Pennsylvania alone, Governor Beaver, in two vears, has al. ready spent 8500000 on the militia, against 124,000 expended by Governos Pattigon. If there is a blowout in any part of the state and a request to have the troops turn out is sent to the govern. or, the order is issued at once,” and the expense is not considered. It is the correction of such abuses and the extravagant waste of the people's money that I am anxious about. He veduced the appropriation for the Allegheny Home for Colored Children | 82,500; cut off $25,000 for the Allegheny | hospital, and, in a similar manner, | shaved down the money that should have gone to support insane asylums, hospitals schools, ete., throughout the I state. At the same time he gave the | State Agricultural College, near Belle- fonte [his own school] $112,000. An ex. pert edueator told me that boy would be ow CHARGES the | more iid | did. | an honest man, and he gave the people 3 In Germany or At Edinburg 11 for less money state pays to this school, USELESS CLERKS ON THE PAY-ROLLS. The Senator also makes the point that there are too many useless clerks and other attachees being carried on the pay- He continues. But it is surprising how rolis of the department. MANY emn- ployees there are about the senate and house, drawing salaries for doing noth. ing. 1 find they are particular friends of Senators and members, and in one instance I was sueprised to find that one influential representative, who, I thought was an honest man, had se. cured his son one of these perfunctory positions,and he was drewing his pay right along, as large as life, and render. ing no work in return for it. READY FOR A FIGHT. At the opening of the session I had mapped out my work, and I intended to name a committee, composed of men like Wherry, of Cumberland, Ross, of Bucks county, and some other honest people, to investigate the evils which 1 have pointed out. I lived in hopes of becoming well enough to pros. the work but have cecute sickness inter. on my mind all winter. and 1 to the Senators If 1 am have and I opie well, 1 in Harrisburg long | were only 1088 of the Revenue I spoke t LICENSE IN PITmsnt Bo Applicants Refused by the Handreds by the Cour $ » ed a select school and has a large num ber of students, with several more to come. Miss Ella Mersinger opened a select school for the little folks, which i# well patronized. James N. Run lin & Marshall : home for a few months, Kile, astudent of Frank. College has returned The Reformed Sabbath Scheel held an Easter service on last Sabbath even. ing. DECORATION. ~Memorial Day will be celebrated by the Golden Eagles and the G. A. R. boys of this place. Rev. Hicks a Grand Army man will orate at this place. Fexce Co.—~On Monday of last week the Gregg Fence Co,, wasorganized, and W. H. Bloom was elected President and GG. B. Crawford, Secretary and Treasur er. The stock holdersare W. H. Bloom. Daniel Runkle, Samuel Ertle, A. G. Burrell, W. A. Krise, GG. B. Crawford, | Samuel Harter, E. P. Shook, C. J. Fin kie and George Krape, bought of J. A. Grove, of Indiana, the right to use and sell in Gregg township, his patent stationary and also his patent portable fence. They propose to sell farm rights to such persons as wish to nse either of sald fences. Millwrights are busy putting the rolls in our grist mill. Mr. Allison proposes retaining all his burs so as to be able to accommodate those;who prefer bur flour as well as those who like roller flour. Props. <~Mr. Huyett is cutting the | in proportion of three for every voter, | prop timber on the land of W, A, Krise and also on that of Mr. Buffing. ton, both tracts lying on the south side of Brush Mountain. To Test Petroleum Gas, The Pennsylvania Paper and Pulp Mill of Lock Haven has decided to test the crude petroleum gas for generating heat under the boilers of their mammoth establishment. Tanks containing the oil have been received and a test will be made of its practicability and | economy over coal. It is claimed that at anx- i They have “LET US PRAY Under this caption the editor of the Chicago Herald, in alluding to the President's recent proclamation says: President Harrison asks the people of the United States to fall upon their knees at 9 a. m. April 30 and pray to God, If this is to be a Government in law as well as in practice, there are a number of things that should not be neglected in the nation’s orisons, Let us pray that this government shall not tax one man more unjustly than another, Let us pray that thisgovernment levy no tax that it does not need. Let us pray that it spend less money in peace than it spent in war. Let us pray that all men be consider. ed free and equal, and that sons of their fathers wearfno haloes about their heads Let us pray that when men are elec. ted through open and admitted bribery punishment may follow and new elec. tions be held, Let us pray that means be given the | farmer to prosper like the mill owner and means be given the mill-worker to | ! ; | gather a just portion of the rewards of | fered. These things have been weighing | his labor, [et us pray that small fortune iu » and great fortune } ish. L#t us starve ask for wor | Let us pray that ind go. to b not ranging as ha Let us pray that the use of machines the hour of toil the Let us pray for « Pre Harrisor Jesus of Nazareth LH] iv bles shall shorten mther thas embitter labor. tinued peace sident a The Nationa! Guardsmen A Washington dispatch state ecent data, it is estima shoul ) id id ours at least re 3 ny occas ot he gathered in forty. "wy #11 ANiasY further stated that nely short It Lime il the 1 Ls ITniwr 8. east one million 1 could be placed % not so I~ riocts hundred thous. for for m the ranks of ple, yet, by previous drilling. life drawn ' HO In camp and familiarity with arms, the men would be fully equal to the average of European armies. It is believed tha {the Centennial celebration parade in uniformed militiamen from less than a dozen States, fully officered by a superior class of men—a particular that deserves to be specially noted, ——— Where tc get a Marria ¢ License A Huntingdon correspondent wrote to the Harrisburg Call as follows: “Can a man of Huntingdon get a marriage li. cense in Huntingdon and come to Har risburg and marry a Harrisburg girl: or mast he get the license in the city and county where the girl lives?” The license must be procured in the county where the marriage is to take place, The marriage license law pro. vides that “no person within this Com. monwealth shall be joined in marriage, antil a license shsll have been obtained for that purpose, from the clerk of the { orphans’ court, in the county where the | marriage is performed.” - a Tickets for the Bleoctio | Secretary Stone will begin sending | Constitutional amendment tickets to i | ties this week. Philadelphia will receive Lover 1.400.000 and Allegheny eonnty, | which next in population, will be | 500,000, i Allowance is made in the distribution | of tickets for an Increase of alsout ten |: per cent. of the vote cast at the las | presidential election, and prohibitory | amendment tickets, are being printed | requiring about 7 | entire state, JO0.000 to supply the i A Salary | With expenses paid will come handy to | anyone who is now out of employment, especially where no previous experience | Is requised to get the position. If you want a position, see advertisement on this page headed, “A chance to make money.’ ER —.——— Ts a ni id immediate | although | New York will embrace at least 60.000 | | the commissioners of the various coun. | _ stops the train, WASHINGTON LETTER, HUNGRY REPUBLICANS AVTER THEIR OFFICES Colored Men Pushed Aside The New York Centennial Inter State Commeree Comn- mission After the Rallrosds The new Republican officials are very prompt in getting sworn in, so as to let their salaries begin. They take their own time about beginning to work. 1 was forcibly reminded of this when Rrobert P. Porter, editor of the New York Press turned up heise two days after he was appointed Superintendent of the Census, was sworn in, rushed down caught an afternoon train and returned to his private busisnzss in New York city. By the way, Porter is one of the most rabid advocates of a protec. tive tariff, is an Englishman and is said to have written just as rapidly in favor of free trade until he was bought over by the protectionists, If Mr. Cleveland had appointed an English. man to as important a position as this all the Republican papers in the country | charging him with all sorts of crimes. | shall But then you see it makes a ored. The notorious ex-Congressman of South C great diff. erence or whose ox is gr Smalls alfoiing came rst negro apy lent Harrison, an first He i5 Al of ( loeton eceived from his » matter be held up ol inst Mr. , thaton | Deen a Postmaster.® {il the armngement oof th a » Cabinet to New York ne take part in the Cen They leave here at a leted for the ta xt Mo tennial Celebratic AY. IO early hot J. in tis Crovernot very larriving at Elisabeth. N. |take breakfast with the New Jersey, “hey then to of go to Elisabeth. 13 i | take them over exactly the same rout i one that George Washington went jus hundred years ago. For years it has been the custom to consider the four years commissions of date of _ their confirmation. Now, to make the Republican Congressman are bringing pressure to bear on President Harrison to have an Vacancies | ions as dating from the orignal appoint. | {ment. The President has referred the | question to “me too” Miller for an opin. {ion; and the chances are that all those | 3 officials appointed by Mr. Cleveland in H {the Spring and Sammer of 1885 will { find out that their commissions are con. | yk | ®idered as having expired , notwithstand. | ing that it was in some cases a vear al. : {ter appointment before the Senate con. | | firmed them. The Republicans want | the offices and not having any good ex would have been yelping at him and | port where they take boats which are to | Feaoral officials as beginning from the | QUAY 15 SURV IRISED, “Don’t speak to me of office.seckers,™ said Senator Quay on his way to Wash. ingion the other day. *‘I am tired »f seeing them, They mn to my house before breakfast, and keep it until md. night. 1 believe many of them are in- sane on the question. 1 had peoples come to me whom I had never seen or heard of before and never expect to see again. The large number of them were not representative members of the parts but rather the scum. There were more office-seekers this tinge than ever before, for =11 the men who were put out "four years ago wanted their old offices hack and then there were dozens of new ap plicants for each office. Fortunateh they were all fairly well supplied with funds and did not try to borrow mms money from me. They thought be cavse I was Chairman of the Nations! Committee I could anything they asked for.” — The New York Centennial Half Pennsylvania Raflroad get them . Hates Win The Centennial celebration of the in auguration Washington as | first Preside nited States wil) indoubtedly prove the grandest demon New York. On the 20th the 1. hun. , Will orem nthe evening the 30ti VCE eTriSes of George nt of the 17 il stration ever seen in morning of April greatest f over six val parade composed of dred vessels {the Centennial Bal and o the religious and eran owed by the The he evening, and niry great iv The three days Ititude of scenes Is Power interest the nia Railroad irsion tickets York on April for trams York before These tick- passage on all train “ork and Chien go Limited Expire and vals { for return trip unt nd including May 1. 18% noon of May 13 els will be accept 5. EXC Mm will be a Advancing the rice of Sagar. i prepae (o pay steep ices for sugar {1 wing. Thewhole. rising for a month ries say that they Within the past bas advanced { steadily from 7 cents to 84 cents. This rise is attributed to the adva neing price { of raw sugar, which, in the same period | has gone up 14 cents. mre | They Were Greenies, | The thieves who blew open the safe in Raymond Bros, store at Raymilton, | Venango county, on Wednesday night, secured $10 in postage stamps and left #500 in cash and severa! thousand dol- lars in notes and bonds behind. Housekes TS IDA mi szle figures have and ins ine the refine 10 ris 3 : mont granuialed sugar | past, 411 | Will C01 Mp — | order issued to consider these comamiss. | It is said that the inventor of “Pig [ in the Clover,” is making §$100 per day. | No doubt Keely the motor man wishes be had attempted something of the sort Married GROVE LARING LA pH 18, 1880, at Union | ville, Centre county, by Rev. M. B. Lanieg. Charles E Grove, of New Britain, Bucks On, and Miss Elizabeth E. Lanning of Unionville, daughter of the officiating clergyman. SLATE ROOFING cuse for removing the incumbents they | | hit upon this scheme. : {railroads in the middle and Eastern | States to appear before the Commission | May 3rd “and set forth the persons and : | classes of persons, if any, 0 whom each | |of them has issued free passes or free { transportation to persons other than its [ow n officers or employes and tie officers Land employees of other railroad compan. es and all the conditionsand limitations onnected therewith in each iastance, and how they do tus branch of busi. | ness, a —— : An Flectrie Nrake, | An important test of an electric brake { which it is confidently asserted will prove superior in every way to the costly air. brake, has been made in Sharon, Pa., in | the presence of Lake Shore & Michigan by a dynamo on the locomotive and is very simple. A mere motion by the operator brings the train to a dead stop instantly. In case a train breaks in sections a separate motor automatically of n series of | Railroad officials by the inventor, Jacob Harrington. The brake is eontrolled BLACKBOARDS, URINALS, &c. | The Inter State Commerce Commis. | | sion has notified the officers of all the | On account of of the increase beyond cures peciation of the SLATE ROOFING TRADK | we have boen obliged to discontinoe She Agi. | cles for metal roofing, which, however, | us to pay all our attention fo slate roofing. Be ing miners of the BLACK DIAMOND SLATE, [And having the benefit of thirty five (35) yours" experience in the slate business, we have be come aeguainted with operators of all Kinds of 3 rides in this state, which gives uss rn ph antag so that we can farnish the best grades of Peach Pe ao; Chapiman, Bas por and Lehigh Slate af the owes iors for the same rate of material and work manship. We can Also furnish Terra Cotta snd | Galvanized Dron Ridge and Tip Covering and | other rooting materials at very low prices, | empioy Bone hat thoroughly Bost-olass . ' Therefore, wy can safely genie My ony work to be satisfactory in every rey mates promptly furnished on application aed reference furnished, UNION ROOFING CO, PRUNER BLOCK, TYRONE, FA. RY fo A CHANCE TOMAKR MONKEY. BA i and of commission A Mg anied everywhere,
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