] entr 4 Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 2, I189l NO. 26 CHAS. R. KURTZ, = =~ - © TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price $1.50 per year. When Pald in Advance $1.00 ‘ When subscriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged Editorial. Tue surplus at Washington grown so small that a microscope is necessary to find it. has - - PARNELL, the great Irish leader and the widow, Kitty O'Shea, were maried last week. This puts an end to further sensational stories about the two inter. esting people. - -- WHAT has become of *‘ Prince” Milli- Did he ken and his pet silver scheme? “he Centre Demoivad, |} | EDITOR | | | ELECTRIC LIGHT FACTS. | INFORMATION FOR BELLE- FONTE'S TAX PAYERS. What it Costs to Light out Streets, as Come pared with Neighboring Towns-An Ex planation needed Are High, Why our Boro Taxes It is a common complaint from all | | { quarters of our town that our boro taxes | {are entirely too high, and there is just | i {load upon an overburdened and cause for it. Who shall you censure? Extravagance is charged to all the var- ious departments. Others claim there | 3 bad management and some even think, and frequently assert, that im- | positions are practiced and fat jobs con- | tinually being worked that increase the | ridden community. Of late we have heard frequent com- tax | — — : | { i i | ! WM. H. KELLER. silence the men who advocate honest | plaints made in regard to the enormous | money, or did his article excite no com- | price Bellefonte is compelled to pay for | ment? We think the latter was the re- | its street light service. Not being ac- | ; ; £ {| Another of Bellefonte’s sons has won | sult. - a Wiex Gov. citizen was one of the list. seldom are recognized. . ->- SINCE James Schofield has abroad some of the cowardly papers of this town have begun assailing his pub. | licrecord. No one but a cowand strikes Pattison appointed thirty citizens to represent this state as a com- | mission to the World's fair a colored | Colored men | 4s a rule vote the republican ticket and | i or v Rone a man to his back-—only dirty cowards | do such tricks—only cowards. . - FARMERS desiring harvest hands can | quainted with the customary prices gharged we addressed the following blank circular to the city clerks, of a dozen neighboring towns for informa. tion: 1. Name of town, 2. Do you use Arc lights, 3. Name of system, i. Number of lights used, 5. Burn how many hours per night, 6. Cost of (1 light) 2000 candle pow. er per year. Nine above, which are as follows: Lock HAVEN—45 arc lights, Thomp- son & Houston system, burn all night, replies were received to the tind, at any hour of the day, a half-doz- | cost 873 per light a year. en big, stalwart, lazy loafers around the . front of the court house, at this season | em, burn all night, cost #50 per light a {man class of Franklin and Marshall of the year. Give the loafers a chance; offer them work and see them drop. IX another column will be found an article upon the expense of street light- ing in Bellefonte. According to the public desire we did “Turn on Light” and a bad contract for the tax. pavers of this boro appeared. - : SEN. Quay is to be ruled out of the republican party. He no doubt objects to proceedings of that kind and a lively time is again in store for the republi- | cans of this state, effect of the state this Fall. It may have the democrats carrying the - Last week the 600,000th pension for disability was granted and there are still several hundred thousand like claims awaiting consideration. Where do all the claimants come from? Since July 1, 1561, the enormous sum of $1,284. 716,000 have been taken from the pock- #13 of the people to pay this list. - As Gov. Pattison vetoed the judicial | apportionment bill Centre and Hunting- don counties will have the same law judge. This is not what Centre county is entitled to,"as the last census makes us a separate judicial district. The unfair apportionments in other sections of the state made it necessary for the Gov. to defeat the infamous apportion. ment of the republican legislators, A little too much MeKinley tariff is the explanation of one fof the oldest Philadelphia woolen firms for its failure on Monday. They ran three mills, em- ployed 1.500 hands, and paid out #650, 00 wages annually, They had stood the panics and booms of 33 years, but the McKinley bill was too much for them. Nine months of it closed shops. And so the process of education goes on. OVER 20 per cent of the bills and ap- propriations of the last session at Har. risburg were vetoed by the governor. Surprising as it may be, yet it is a fact that over 300 new laws were made and many of them will only encumber ou’ statue books, It seems to be the first jmpulse of every representative sent to Harrisburg to frame a half dozen new laws, no matter whether they are meri. torious or not. The great evil of the times is too much legislation, and the non enforcement of existing laws, Tur contest for Governor of Ohio will be fought between Campbell, the present democratic Governor, and high-tariff Major McKinley. It will be another interesting campaign in that state and the chances for another democratic victory in a republican stronghold are exceedingly bright. Campbell defeated joud-mouthed, firealarm Foraker the last time and will make it very interest. ing for McKinley, the man who framed ——————— i ] i the | i | : | | ] | both. ALTOONA~96 arc lights, Edison sys- i year, York 169 arc lights, American sys- tem, burn all night, cost #800 per light a year. All lights not burning deducted. HARRISBURG—250 arc lights, Thowmp- son & Houston, burn all night, cost #0 Per Year. WiLLiAMsPORT—170 are lights, burn all night, Westinghouse system, cost 850 per light a year. MiLToN~—45 arc lights, Thompson & Houston system, burn from dark till 1 o'clock a. m., cost #62 per light a year, when they burn all night—at rate of #85 per year, lights on every night. HuxTINODON~41 are lights, one of which is gratis, Thompson & Houston system, burn till midnight, cost #60 per light a year, SUNBURY ~33 are lights, Waterhouse system, burn all night, cost #55 light a year, BELLEFONTE~]1T J5 per are lights and 55 incandescent, burn till midnight, ARC | LIGHTS EACH COST #% PER YEAR and incandescent #15 per light a year. In speaking of an arc light the esti. mate is for 2000 candle power, the usual size, According to the last boro statement we paid last year to the Electric Light | In the | Co. 81,940.82 for street lights. beginning of 91 council contracted for five years with the same company for the are lights. According to that agree. ment we are now paying 81,632 per year for the 17 arc lights and $990 for the in. candescent, making #2622 a year for THE COMPARISON. For safe comparison we will take | 6 ma 2,550 as the cost per year for lighting | At the price paid by Hunt. | our streets, ingdon , #60, that would give us 40 arc lights, or for our 17 are lights at #1632 we should have 27 lights the same length of time. Milton gets its light for 862, while Sunbury pays only 55.08 and its lights burn all night, while we pay 8% and ours burn ouly until miduight, There is quite a difference bet ween $06 and $62, $00, 55.08. Does that not need an explanation? Sunbury may be an exception but then Lock Haven lights areon all night Mr. Mitchell, clerk of council, | | informs us that it costs only 82.550, WM H KELLER. { honor and distinction, and for that ! | reason it affords us pleasury to {recently from Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa., with high | honors, The young man, the subject of this sketch, is a son of Col. D. 8, Keller, one | of the leading attorneys of the Belle fonte bar. His early { obtained in the public schools of | town. education wus our After graduating from the high school he took a three years.course in | the Bellefonte Academy under the in. struction of Prof James Hughes. In { the Fall of 1557 he entered the Fresh. j college. When he entered college he {to took a front rank among his | classmates and maintained it to the day | of graduation. Inthe Junior year, on | Feb, 22, 1860, he won the Glee Club gold | medal in a prize debate, and on June 16, following, he was awarded another gold medal for having delivered the {best oration at the Junior oratorical contest, the subject of which was, “Plea | for the Czar.” At the close of the senior year Mr. Keller's grade was found to be the highest moong on class of twenty-seven students, and further was the best | average attained hy any student gradu. lated from that institution in i years. For this brilliant showing he was entitled the Marshall oration commencement, and in addiz { chosen by the Facuity to | valedictory for his ability { and public speaker many al In addition to the regular claws Mr. Keller found time to conduct editorial of the college paper, was a leader in athletics and college sports, and was one of the prom. ! inent members of the Glee Club that | gave such an elegant entertainment { here last Spring. This certainly isa brilliant record and which Mr. Keller lean in after years recall with great | satisfaction Mr. Keller is a young man, being in | his twenty-second year, and we predict | for him a bright future. Wel department " . -——— Sixteeners’ Annual] Reanton | The Eleventh Annual Reunion of the | Graduates of the different soldiers | orphans’ schools will take place at Read. ing, Pa., August 18,19, 20,1801. These | reunions are very enjoyable affairs, and are looked forward to with delight by | Sixteeners, both male and female, all | over the State. The different commit. | tees are hard at work and have mapped | out a very enjoyable programe, having enlisted the services of the G. A. R, | Posts, the Veteran Legion, Sons of | Veterans’ Camps, and some of the and cost only #73; and for the same time | prominent citizens of the City of Read. Williamsport pays #50, Altoona #80, | ing. They expect to make this reunion and we pay more than any of them, #06 | the grandest of them all. Full infor. per light for less time, mation can be had of Jacob A, Gramm, The present incandescent street lights | box 547, Harrisburg, Pa., or of the local are very poor affairs and for the entire | committee, Isaac W. Hull, Chairman, amount paid, Bellefonte could be | 217 Oley street, Reading, Pa. well lighted with no less than 35 or 40 | , yf - arc lights. That i« what we pay for, but | Gen, Beaver Says “No. don't get. {| On Monday Gen. Beaver passed We don’t know who the stockholders | through Harrisburg on his way to the are of the Electric Light Co.; neither | seashore. To a Patriot reporter he said: do we know who the councilmen were | “The talk about my being a candi. that made a five years contract, at such Jas for commissioner of pensions is an outrageous price; and in this investi. | quite absurd—the pension commission- been prompted by | ership is one of the hardest places to fill which ne in the government service, being all and he work, little pay, and no glory. Besides and I don’t believe that General Raum will bt relinquish the post.” Cor. MeClure has declined the honor of being one of the thirty men, chosen by Gov. Pattison, to represent the Key. stone State, at Chicago's World Fair He that it would interfere with his work on the TVnes. i | “osent | United States Treasury. ya : { to our readers this week a portrait of | some silver bars on hand, made from old | Mr. Wm. Keller. who was graduated | trade dollars, to the value of five mill | standard dollars, | ten-cent pieces, which will be available | magnificent addition to his resources, taniry i A TENCENT ADMINISTRATION | s— { A solemn Cabinet council has succeed. od in evolving a plan to replenish the There are are to be coined Into The half dollars in the Treasury also are to be coined into ions, and these in making small ¢hange, With this Mr. Foster hopes to continue payments for a few days longer, and meanwhile he will think of some other way of rais. ing the wind. A grand financial policy like this will be universally recognized as most char- acteristic and typical of the present ad. ministration, It started in with a sur- plus of millions; it has got down now to figuring on ten cent pieces and odd bits of second-hand silver, while the Secreta. ry, after several experiments, is still trying to devise a form of Treasury statement that will conceal the deficit expected at the close of the fiscal year, It may be that Mr. Windom was ta. ken away just in time to save his rep- | utation; yet, whatever shifts he might | have been driven to had he lived, it is | not conceivable that he would ever have | made the financial administration of | the United States rediculous, — Times. | - .——— A Dastardly Deed, Some persons coming toward Clear. | i field from Clearfield creek on Monday | morning, diseevered 8 horse and buggy | swine few rot vinnie On his sll of Robert Wrig. | wnship. The his lifeless form | : from the public road in the : | 48 ’ » | | to the buggy, which new covers! rig with all After considerable in- was earned that the rig be. Alex Dongan, liveryman at Woodland, whom it seems had hired it on Sunday evening, to one, George Wisor, with the distinct understanding | that it was only to be driven one mile and a half, asthe horse was tired. and Mr. Dougan was very reluctant about | his going even the short distance men- tioned. It is supposed that he was driven until he could not go farther, when be was pulled off the road and allowed to die. Wisor is among the missing at this writing. Here is a case for Comstock’s agent in Clearfield that should be punished, if the offender can be captured. Clearfield Rartsman's Journal, “Dents longed to GLADSTONE, the great ex-premier of England and the leader of home rule for i Ireland, is very ill and it is feared that | he may be at death's door. His great age is against his recovery and therefore no surprise need be manifested should his decease be announced any day. Rev. Spurgeon, the great nonconformist preacher, is also {ll and there is great | anxiety felt throughout England as to | his condition. Should both these cases prove fatal the blow will be felt by christianity and civilization throughout the world, A —— oi Why 1 Oan't Live, Billto ss (Ga.) Banner, A paper cannot live where the town council sticks a notice ona china tree and the merchants do all their adverts. ing on paper sacks, Some of them say it does not pay to advertise. Why the devil did they not say so before we planted the Banner in this cursed one. horse town? Here we are with #500 worth of fine printing material and not enough business to furnish grub for a grass hopper. Guess we will not settle at another water tank with a lot of ig. norant people. Unless we get some new advertisements t his week the pape goes up the spout and we will leave this town and open a Godforsaken, measly bar at Drunkard's Guleh and grt richr QUAY KICKED 007 BY GOOD REPUBLICANS OF PHILADELHIA CITY. His Record Is too Black for Them FP ractieal Politios ns Viewed by Honest Men Dis honest Politicians Must Retire The long expected revolt against Sen. | ator Matthew 8. Quay has come at last, {| On Monday 250 gentlemen of Philadel. phia, men of high standing in business and professional circles, issued an ad. dressed to the republican voters of the state, appealing to them, for shame’s sake, to throw off allegiance tothe man whose political methods have been so { long held up to public scorn. and whose defense of himself was so week as to alienate many of his most devoted fol. lowers, The address insists that if the party is not purified at once by the selec- tion of good men to represent it, it is doomed to dissolution. It is addressed to the citizens of Pennsylvania. the in- troduction is as follows “As Pennsylvanians and as repub- licans, we, the undersigned, feel con. strained to address our fellow-citizens throughout the state upon the present political situation —to point out what we believe to be the essential causes of the alarming degradation in public affairs from which wé now suffer. and the necessary steps toward improvement. A CORRUPT REPUBLICAN MACHINE The republican machine in this state. under the leadership of Senator Quay, and those lieutenants whom he has drawn about him, is corrupt, and in strong contast to the rank and file of the party. That leadership is as abso. lute in its control as itis unscrupulous in its methods and disastrous in its re- sults, With Senator Quay's political record the public is so familiar that it is un. necessary at this time to give a detailed history of those more remote public acts by which its notoriety was acquired, while a brief reference to its more re. cent events is appropriate in order to depict clearly the present situation. Mr. Quay is mainly responsible for the | overwhelming disaster which befell the | republican party in this state during the past autumn, whereby an accustomed republican majority of twenty to thirty thousand was changed to a democratic majority of seventeen thousand. THE PEOPLE DID NOT VINDICATE HIM, The single issue of the campaign, as determined by Mr. Quay himself, was the yindication of his own personal and political character, the Republican declaration of confidence and respect for the junior senator, and in the elec. don of the republican candidate the acceptance of a man who was nomina.- ted at the dictation of Mr. Quay. The stale rejected both the plank candidate, and a political revolution ensued. The republican party was defeated in Pennsylvania, its most con. spicuous stronghold.” The balance of the lengthy address scores Quay by reciting his many short. comings; his political methods and cor. rupt practices are severely denounced and a strong plea is made *~ the better element of the republican party to cast aside Quay and his followers. This ad. dress is simply another warning that The adoption of the republican machine in Pennsylvania must be smashed and that Matthew Stanley Quay will no longer be a prom. inent factor in state and national poli. ties. All good citizens, irrespective of party, will hail the day. A — A Horse With Much Sense Philip Haag, the house mover, of No. 40 West Fifth street, Williamsport, is the owner of a horse that is possessed of more than the ordinary amount of equine sense and intelligence. This horse, when he has a shoe loose, does not wait till his owner discovers the defect but just walks off to a blacksmith shop, raises up his foot and waits till the smith attends to his wants. Last summer the horse knocked a shoe off while in the stable, and then got out in some way and went to the blacksmith shop and had another put on, and only the other day the animal did the same trick again, It is a great horse, and has more sense than some people. ————— At Atlantic City Bellefonte is well represented this woek at Atlantic city, as the follow. ing are there enjoying the cool ocean breeze: Mr. and Mrs, Jonathan Haper, Mr, and Mrs, J. M. Dale, Dr, and Mr. platform involved a and the | FORECASTS FOR JULY ——— Rev, Ira Mick's Progoostieations Month's Weather New moon, central time, Sth, 9.55 p. m.; first quarter, 15th, 11.20 p. m.; fall moon, 21st, 7.54 a. m.; last quarter, &7 10.32 p. m As June forecasts, storms starting in that month will spend | the greater part of thelr force on July first and second, A natural result will be a shifting of air currents to westerly, with lower temperature on and about the 3rd and 4th, It will grow very warm and result insecondary storms on the 6th and oth, New moon on afternoon of 5th will add to natural storm tendencies for at least 24 hours thereafter. Cooler air from west and north will follow about the 7th, 8th and 9th, giving partial respite from heat. The 11th is the central day of a regu- lar storm period. About the 10th it will grow very warm, increasing in heat during the 11th and into the 12th or until gathering storm forces organise and move eastward, Storms at this time are almost sure to develop to the northwest, and move to southeast, st. tended by blacker clouds and greate; bluster than the amount of rainfall This will be true of all the disturbances of the month. The temperature may for Nex announced in not change permanently, and the atmos. phere may have repeated spasms of bluster and storminess, until after the moon’s first quarter on the 14th. Ex pect about that time, though it may be of short duration, a gracious fall of temperature. About the 17th and 18th as much heat as we shall likely want will be restored to us, showing grest tenacity of purpose to stay with us although reactionary storm puffs may beat against it from the northwest about afternoons and evenings of the 17th an 18th. If any breathing spell at will follow immediately dates. A storm period beginning all after these the Zird insures an increase of heat for that and the days following. Equinox of Mercuryfalls on the 26th, with moon's last quarter on the 27th, which facts may cause us continuation of settled, unmitigated heat up to reactionary dis. turbances about the 20th. Storms, with some rainfall are likely about the 26th, | 25th and 26th. The 25th and 30th ought to bring storm flurries and cooler st. mosphere for July's closing hours | Much beat, with very marked falling off in general rainfall, may be expected for | the month. Be prepared for such. - a Hecla Happenings Miss Lizzie Hind, of Williamsport, is Mrs. Samuel Hind, about | visiting her sister, Jr. The click of the mower and reaper is {heard in our valley. Farmers report [ better crops of both wheat and hay than | was anticipated. Mrs. Kate M. Robisor (nee Mis Kate Zimmerman) and daughter, of | Ridgeway, are visiting ber parents and | friends | Mr. Moyer, the mill wright, has | completed Gordons grist mill, and Jobm | Smith, {ie miller, sready to give the farmers the highest grade of flour om short notice, Those who did not attend the Hecla festival, Saturday evening, missed a | rare treat. The Zion band played some of their new choice selections, which | were well rendered and the entire band, with one exception, was present. They made the woods ring with barmoalous sounds. Those needing the service of a band will do well in securing the Zien boys. In appearance and sociability | and for excellent music, they have no equal in the county, and doubtiess #n the state, Mr. Robert Seibert, of Greensburg, | Pa., and Mr. David Lore, of Scottdale, | are visiting Mr, Lores parents, Mr. and and Mrs. Thomas Lore. Miss Lula McMullen and Miss Jin Johnson took their departure for State College to visit relatives and take in the Commencement exercises, ~Joseph Cowher is employed a8 & sawyer in the mill of Chaney & Thomp- son, at Port Matilda. Last Wednesday while assisting to saw some Joga, anoth. er employe went to place the “dog™ or grab hook, In position, when in some accidental way Mr, Cowher got his right hand on the log where the “dog” grap ol it and the consequence was the hook ran clear through the palm of his hund, The wound was dressed and be is now doing nicely. «Mr. John 8 Gray, of Philipsbung, traveling salesman for the Watsontown, boot and shoe factory, was In Lown en Saturday and paid usa eall, Mr. | ] | ] i w— ——
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