BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1892. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price When Paid in Advance £1.00 When subscriptions are not paid Inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Editorial. "J. B. G. KINSLOE, of the Lock Haven | 4 Eepublican, celebrated his seventy.sec- | .; Seventy-two | ond birthday last week. and yet he is as bright as one less than half that age. Ie has seen and ex. perienced a vast amount in this world, and can tell those younger of the ob. stacles in life to be guarded against, says the Democrat , and point to them the road to a noble, a useful and an upright career, —-— The outbreaks in the Huntingdon Re. formatory are another and pointed evi- dence of the evil results of indiserimi. nate attacks upon the management of | such institutions, based upon no better foundation than the unsupported testi mony of those whose evil courses have | made their confinement necessary. It isnot to be wondered that those in charge of these inmates, having been published far and wide as brutes who delight in tortures and which would disgrace sayages, are fear- ful to exert even proper authority, and there are none who can more readily see this, and presume upon it, than the | class of youthful culprits who are in the Huntingdon Reformatory, - Among the domestic products upon which the McKinley law smiled most | sweetly was plush. Its production in this country was to be greatly encour aged, and notwithstanding Mr. McKin- ley’s late, too late, assertion that it was not the purpose of his bill to increase wages, the makers of plush were profuse in their promises. Up in Bridgeport there is a plush factory and the ployees are on a strike. They say that they were induced to come to this country by the assurance that they would receive 815 a week at the least, They have not received that sum or anything like it. They say they have not even received fair treatment and the company is constantly importing hands and thus increasing competition and reducing wages. tecently the su- perintendent of the Bridgeport factory addressed the complaining operatives and brutally told them that they were extravagant ; that their wages would be sufficient if they would live on $2.50 a week, and other things to the same ef- fect. He had no excuse to offer for the company’s breach of faith. The love of a true McKinleyite for a wage-earner lasts only so long as there is a vote to get. For the Farmers Alliance, Among the people attending court this week Mr. Geo. Gates, of Gatesburg, Is a prominent figupe, and attracts con- siderable attention. Mr. Gates wears a handsome blue silk and bronze Farmers’ Alliance badge on the lapel of his coat and insists that the People’s Party will sweep the country this coming year. Mr. Gates is a man who is unusually well informed on questions of finance, coinage, etc. as years ago he was a “Graenbacker” and a stumpspeaker, He has the faculty of expressing his ideas as long as any one is willing to hear him. Spring Assembly at State College. Invitations have been issued for the spring assembly of the Senior class of State College on Friday evening next. Dancing will continue from eight to one o'clock and the famous Stopper and Fisk orchestra, of Williamsport, will furnish the music. The patronessess are Mrs. A. G. Curtin, Mrs, G. L.. San- derson, Mrs. P. Gray Meek, Mrs, Harriet McElwain, Mrs. D. H. Hastings, Mrs. W. F. Reeder, Mrs. James A. Beaver, Mrs. A. O. Furst, Mrs. Daniel Rhoades, Mrs, J. L. Mitchell, Mrs. John Pember- ton and Mrs. Silas A. Wolf. What a Good Road Costs Prof. Lewis M. Haupt, Director of Civil Engineering courses at the Univer. sity of Pennsylvania, says that a good average road, through a rolling country, should never cost over $7,000 per mile, and frequently not over $2,000. And the enpenditure pays. To pull one ton on macadam costs just one-half as much as on hard dirt, and one-fourth as much as on sand. Itis estimated that in Eng- land improved roads have made it pos sible for three horses to do the work for merly done by four, thus saving $100, 000,000 annually. It also stated that with improved roads, the farm produce of Illinols could be hauled for 815,000, 000 per annum less than now, and that $160,000,000 would be added to value of the farm. : Che Centre Demorai, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - =~ EDITOR] $1.50 per year. | punist ments | em- | ROBBING STARVED RUSSIANS belng stored nway, The London correspondent of the 1 ¥me cables | “United “ti { sews: Minister Charles | Emory Smith, of Philadelphia, who is { now in Loudon on his way howe for good me that the American relief supplies los distribution of ASSUres unde 1 dent on whose vara. trongest reliance, dis. which is enforced that officials heels of this sing old arrears of is point, by other information, is { follow closely upon the { relief, and, by pres the he Ip the moujik de and make ever again. A PERPLEXING PROBLEM. “This whole Russian business presents indeed the most perplexing and weary- taxation, profit by { has got from outs state as hie pele a8 ing problem which” civilization con. | fronts, We conjure up, for example, a vast | empire desolated by famine and pestil- | ence and of the Czar and Ministers at | rewing down peuny picture of whole districts of the | St. Petersburg anxiously expenses and devoling every possible to be scraped from a depleted | | treasury to succor th aMicted vinces. But what are the facts “While the is dying of | starvation, grain is being stored in great pro- 086 t) peasantry quantities in fortresses within the second line of defense, and rolling stock, which | ought to be bringing grain from Siberia, | where there is plenty, is employed in | transporting troops and a munitions of | war to the western frontier! A QUESTION FOR INQUIRY. | Why, only yesterday, here in London, | there was a general meeting of share. | holders in the Imperial Tobacco Cor. | poration of Persia, convened to consider | the fact that the Russian Government | had offered the Shah a loan of #2500. | 000 to settle their claim fo i tion! The offer is for cash down, and the Russian Minister at Teheran is i pressing for a immediate acceptance, { The question is of enough international | moment for the Times to-day to devole | a leader to it, pointing out the serious { menace to British interests in Russia's | securing such a hold upon Persian af- fairs. | “But Americans may well look at the | broader phase of the subject and ask | themselves why, if Russia has a million | dollars in hand to expend on a doubtful venture for on other purpose than to hamper English diplomaey in Asia, she is not feeding her starving subjects at home, instead of leaving them to trans. atlantic and Enpglsih charity. It seems to me a legitimate question.” a r compensa An Important Log Salvage Decision Among the many law suits growing out of the great flood of 1889 wasone decided last week by a Dauphin county jury. During that flood 92,000 logs lodged on MeCormick’s miles this side of Harrisburg, owned by the McCormick heirs, one of whom is Senator J. Donald Cameron. Williamsport Lumber Exchange re. moved the logs and the McCormick beirs brought suit for $48,000 salvage and damages for loss of crops, ete. In bis charge to the jury, Judge MePher. son held that there was a vast difference between the person who goes out in a boat into the river at some risk and with some exertion to save and secure logs, and an island placed in the river by nature, and that the owners were not in justice and reason entitled to fifty cents on each log, but merely such dam. ages as resulted from the logs lodging on the land. The jury rendered a ver- dict of $900 for the plaintiffs, i i MAY ———— Terrific Explosion, On Wednesday morning a terriffic ex- plosion occurred at about half past nine that fairly shoop the foundations of the town, It occurred in McCalmont & Co’s lime stone quarries just out side the borough limits. A magazine locat. ed in the side of the quany that con. tained a large quantity of dynamite and several kegs of powder, exploded from some unknown cause. So violent was the shock that nearly all the window glass in buildings in that vicinity were broken. A number of workmen were in the quarry at the time but fortunate- ly noone was Injured. A number of chimneys were shattered and consider- able plastering in buildings fell. ~=A fire at Osceola on Sunday night destroyed O’'Briens livery stable; loss about $10,000, ~"Tangled Up” at the opera house on Monday, May 20th. The entertain. ment will be given for the benefit of the “Elks” ~(iet the Centre Democrat and Phil adelphia Times, $1.46 to those who | heen thoroughly | stand. My | Island, five | The ! WASHINGTON TOPICS, sn— No very important measures have | been under consideration in Congress | the past week, but the Raum investiga- { tion has been progressing and the evi- dence lately produced is very damaging to the Commissioner. Pension-Attorney Lemon, who indorsed one two of laum’s notes for large amounts and who secured the adjudication of over 10,000 cases through a special order is. sued by the Commissioner, is still ab. sent, and understood to have gone to Europe to get out of reach of the inves. tigating committee. or tween Raum and Lemon. dence recently is the methods employed by committee conducting this { tion, and his shielding of disreputable employes in his department. President Harrison will finally “turn | the rascal out,” but he should have done 50 long ago to escape the reflection upon his administration. bad egg and Mr. Harrison can not claim that he didn't know it long ago. t is not generally known to what ex- those of members of Congress, enter into the labors of their husbands. They can not do committee work or make speeches —though some can write them —nor can they perform the department duties re- quired of a Senator or Representative, but they do often attend to a great deal of correspondence, read up newspapers for desired information, and various ways in making the member solid with his constituents at home. It is well known that during the public life of General Logan Mrs, Logan was a helpmeet indeed, in the broadest sense, and there are many women who, in a lesser degree, or in a different way, perhaps, render themselves invaluable Mrs. Senator Warren, of assist in assistants, There appears to . : Ppt { Rev. C, C, Miller, of Suow Shoe Inter. have been a good deul of reciprocity be. | : { geclion, secretary, Hut the most | 4 damaging thing brought out by the evi- | : BNR «MP : | that the “Centre County Shield” was | The Centre County { county ehnirman J, { Shoe Intersection. lau to swirch a member of the | investiga | COLD WATER Amy Prohibitionists Meet in Bellefonte on Friday Many people were surprised on last { Friday to leary: that the cause of all the commotion about the court house was due to the assembly of Prohibitionists { from all parts of the county for the purpose of holding a county convention and nominate candidates for the various county offices. The meeting was called to order in the court house at 2 p. m. by Zeigler, of Snow Dr. Isaac Guss, of Philipsburg, was made chairman and Rev. Zelgler informed the convention the name of the Prohibitionists organ in the county. That the paper wus i young but was growing and increasing. Probably Dr. W. 8. {| Thompson, College twp; Raum is «| tent the wives of public men, especially | Messrs, Christain Buck, Unionville, Biglow, Philipsburg; Wm. and Dr. Geo. W. Swartz, of Bellefonte, were chosen as delegates to the next stale conven. tion, with Messrs. Wm. Fisher, Union. ville: W. T. Blair, Philipsburg; Wm, Bell, State College and Samuel Shaeffer of Bellefonte, a The next important step was to nomi. nate a county ticket for this year which resulted as follows: Wm. Thompson, of College Twp; Legislature-—~W. J. Dale, of near Belle. fonte C. Hess, of Rush twp. Prothonotary— Walter Scott, of Philips. burg: as no prohibitionist lawyer could be found, the office of Distriel Attorney was left vacant, The executive committee 4 alternates, Associate Judge, and ( for the en. i suing year is composed of the following | Green, Wyoming, is one of these ; Mrs. Carlisle | 4 Of is anather, and Mrs. Cox, wife the late brilliant and genial was another. Mis, Cox still lives in Washington amidst the large circle of | Sunset Cox, | i men: J. Zeigler, Wingate, chairman; A. J. Cook, Bellefonte, treasurer; F. P. D. M. Lieb, H. P. Bankey, Isaac Guss, W. L. Hayden, Wm. J. Dale, Shaeffer and Harper. The comittee on resolutions reported as follows; tesolved, That the Prohibition party in Centre county in convention assemb. led adopts as its platform, the platform adopted by thé National Prohibition Samuel Jared friends made during ber husband's long Jats in 1858, and suggests an unabated public seryice. Mrs. Gen, bas also been spending some time here is winter renewing old acquaintances, | th inler renewing acq | made a stirring speech. Mrs. McClellan knew the Capital well, even before her marriage to the general, McClellan | | | orward movement to victory. IH. D. Patton, the state chairman, then addressed the convention and In the evening | the court house was filled with people | her father, General Marcy, having been | some years in public life, The requests made for the autographs of public men in Washington are so nu merous that at Limes the desks of Lhe President's doorkeeper, Charles Loeffler, is piled high with albums left there to receive the Presidential signature. | Loeffier acts as a sort of » middle-man in this sentimental trade, and when the President has a few minutes of leisure | the stock of albums is deftly and Cecor- | ously placed before him for his attention. In the Senate and House the pursuit of autograph.getting is conducted through | the medium of the pages, who some. | times, it is avert, receive $10 for an album bearing the signatures of Sena. | tors, or #25 for one filled with the au- | tographs of the leading members of the | House. One of the specimens of chiro. | graphy most in demand is that of Sena- tor Stanford, who signs his name simply “LL. Stanford,” in a plain and old-fash. | loned way. ——— a ——— } A FATAL MINE ACCIDENT. a A Ori Dail ta a Wil) ob Coal, Another fatal mine accident occurred Friday afternoon at Derby mine, oper. ated by T. Barnes & Bro., Philipsburg, resulting in the death of Mr. Joseph Action, of that place, one of the most experienced miners in this region. He wae at work ina *‘room” in company with two of his sons, when a premature fall of coal struck him on the head, causing instant death. The deceased was born at Ashton.under-Kyne, Lan. cashire, England, and he was aged 51 years, 2 months and 8 days. He came to Philipsburg nineteen years ago, and has followed the mining occupation over since. He leaves to mourn his sad demise an wife and seven children, of whom one, his eldest daughter, is mar. Amerionns Only In the Navy. Secretary Tracy has issued an order that hereafter none but American citi. zens shall be appointed to places in the navy yards or in the civil forces in that who were anxious to hear Miss Runals | ¢, and they were not disappointed. | Mr. Patton in the evening, sing addressed the aondience i A Ghastiy Find The following account of the death of | Samuel Ludwig, of Loganton, Pa., which occurred under very sad circum- | stances is gleaned from the Sugar Valley Journal : On Monday 8rd as B.C, and G, W. Young, in company with Ross Throne, | were passing over an unfrequented road leading from Wayne Station to Logan. | ton along McElhattan Run, they found the body of a young man lying on his face on the roadside. On examination | it was thought that he had fallen on his face and from decomposition and gen- | eral appearances it was evident that he was there for some time. John Brown | who had knowledge of the mysterious | disappearance of Samuel Ludwig about | ten weeks ago, described him and all were satisfied that it was no other than | he. He lived at Renovo and a letter | from home at 5 o'clock, a. m., op the | 27th of January, stating that a baby | sister had died and would be buried | next day at 2 o'clock. Knowing that | by the way from Wayne Station brought | him within eight miles of home he de- | termined to go to Wayne and to cross | the mountain in order to reach his des” tination by daylight. The poor boy evidently took that way because it shortened his walk, It pr | EXE tH ] one of the coldest nights of the winter. He had a dark unbroken path up a | steep mountain and was either exhausted and froze to death or fell from heart | disease, of which he was a vietim, Ho left Renovo on the night of Jan, | OF 27th and was found April 11th, i ~=You have seen the dry goods’ box | statesman, the sage who sits around all | day solving profound problems of polit. | ical economy, but who is scarcely able ' to solve the problem of where the next | sack of flour Is to come from. You are | acquainted with the philosopher who | never read nor studied anything, but who knows everything by intuition the gentleman who has general super | vision over all things, who is a mine of information that doesn't inform and a eyclopedia of misconceptions, To be sure you have. Every community has a representative or two of this type, And really it is difficult to see how we would get along without these breezy | the resolution expung! wi FIFTY-SEOOND CONGRESS. The Houses Overides the Blection Com. mittee in the Rockwell Case, Wasninorow, April 21. Mr, Teller's anti administration free silver speech in the sens ale created even more of a sensation than that of his colleague, Mr. Wolcott, upon the same subject. Mr. Teller's statement that if the Republican party continued to adheres to the single gold standard the four chief silver producing states, Colorsds, Nevada, Idaho and Montana, would not after this be able to co-operate with the Republican party either in the senate or elsewhere was concurred in by Mr. Banders, of Montana, Another strik. Ig incident of the day was the sunounoement from Mr. Sherman, chairman of the commit. toe on foreign relations, that he was in error in supposing that the existing Chinese re. striction law expired by limitation on May 6 next. It was now discovered thet it runs Hl July, 184. The obvious result of this discovery will be that no present action on the Chinese question will be pressed in the senate. The house devoted its entire session to a continua. tion of the Noyes-Rockwell contested election cane. Wasninarox, April 22. The Chinese ques. tion proved as irrepressible as the silver ques. tion [n the senate, notwithstanding the opine. Jon of the foreign relations committee that ex. isting laws remain in foree till 1584, A general Chinese debate, characterized by a vigorous onslaught on the Geary house bill by Mr. Bher- man, was entered spon and remained the un. Bnished business. An ineffectual attempt was made 10 arrive at an agreement to take & vols on the question at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The Rockwell. Noyes contested election case ogen- pled the entire thine of the house, the debste being exceedingly dry, and but little attention was paid to it. The majority of the members occupied thelr time in chatting and smoking in the foyer and cloak rooms. Wasniwaron, April 25. Chinese excinsion oocupled the senate all day after the morning hour, and st adjournment was apparently good for two or more days further discussion. An extraordinary feature of the debate was the introduction by Mr. Davis Minn) of an Misck on the papal hierarchy, the German smbasmador at Rome pod the Austrian royal family, for alleged stiempted interference with Ostholic immigrants in the United States. During the morning hour the senate, without a division, adopted an amendment to THE DULL ESTA LY the a vill fied, Wd com chaser and ihe consider ISyivania reported t When M be about #17 ~ |) | 6 olrust Lo lus nephew, tie IAG operated on which he had aprivate pension bill (ncressing the pension © of all helpless Mexican soldiers from $ to $12 per mobth. Alter a four hours’ dobate on the Royes-Rook wall oontest the house decided Ww retain Mr. Rockwell in his seat. The principal specches of Lhe day were made by Mr. Fellows (N. YJ and Mr. Cockran (N.Y.), who spoke for Mr. Rockwell. Mr. O'Perrall (Va) made an carnest appeal for Mr, Noyes, the contestant, Al times Lhe soenes were dramatic, and there wae considerable confusion. On the motion that Mr. Noyes was not entitled to the seat the vote resulted 10 to 8 rad on the resolution that Hook well was elected, 15 to M6 Wasmiroron, April 25. The senate passed the Chinese bill exactly as reported from the senate committer on foreign relations, 0 con tinge restriotion laws for ten years, and sent it to the house for conference. This ococupied the entire day. The entire day in the house was conramed io an attempt to procure 8 vole on oertatn of Mr. Walker's remarks the record. Nt will be remembered thet Mr. Walker made allusions to Mr. Williams snd Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, which were considered objec tionable. The Republicans declined to vote, thus breakingds quorum, the speaker refusing to count members present ss voting, and after three calls of the hones and repeated you and nay votes, the house adjourned without setion on the resolution Wasnmworox, April pacific day in the senate It was a sliver and The silver question | onme up first by taking up the Morgan silver | resolution, which constructively are lying on | the table, Mr. Coke, of Texas, spacing ot It was brought back In the discus. | whom later by the president's reply © the re quest for information on the proposed inter. Jest than the astigmatism. 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