mn 2 | ————— Democrat, from Henderson by Judge F ment Arg u- Miller t year to fill a and Frank Foust ted The question was urst at the court this week. was ole ted f onstable las vacancy, Was ele constable this year. whether Mr. Miller was to years or until the next election. Furst decided that wheneve: ted to serve for serve three Judge a consta- ble is elected he is ele three years, and Mr, Miller h } i fore two more years to serve. The de. 18 there. cision affects several other cases i county. - They are whooping up things out at the big fair. Over hundred car loads of exhibits arrived at the fair grounds last week. In the park there is neasly thirty miles of track now in operation which will accommodate 1,000 cars aud give room for handling 1,000 nine more with out interfering with unload. ing and disposing of empty cars, A force of one hundred men is now em. ployed in the transportation, unloading and placing the exhibits in proper sec- many hundred men are at Sixty electric launch. launches and a large tions while work unpacking es, twenty steam number of gondolas, to be manned by godoligrs brought from from Venice. have arrived at the gronnds., As most of the big buildings can be reached by boat it is expected that this will be the most popular mode of transit - County Tax Rates The following are the tax rates of several of the counties in this Stale Adams county, 34 mills; Armstrong, 74; Beaver, 3; Blair, 34, Bradford, 54 But ler, 4; Carbon, 5; Chester, 24; Centre, 3; Clarion, 123, Clearfield, 6; Clinton, 6; Crawford, 7; Dauphin, 34; Delaware, 84; Elk, 8; Forest, 7; Franklin, 4: Hunting. don, 10; Indiana, 5; Jefferson, 10; Ju. niata, 8; Lancaster, 2: Lackawanna, 5; Lawrence, 3; Luzerne, 6: McKean, 7; Mifflin, 10; Montour, 5; Northumberland, 6; Perry, 8: Potter, 5; Schuylkill, 7; Sullivan, 10; Susquehanna, | 10; Tioga, 5; Union 4; Warren, 3; Wash ington, 3; Wayne, 6; Westmoreland, 5; Wyoming, 7, York, 34. From this list it will be seen that Centre county is among the lowest in tax rates, 3 ELLEFONTE, ‘HU PA. 1 Lycoming, 5: | WASHINGTON TOPICS. \NDALS INVOLVING HIGH OFFICIALS ne Salaries are Given out-Maxwell s Hee do Democrats being Appoint fhe Treasury No time is being wssistant Postmaster The task of puttin of all the fou hundred a day, the | appointed in a single day well being 188, The administration and generally are delighted with the March statement of the condition of the Treas. ury. It was, of ¢« known before hand that the payments for the month unusually urse, would necessarily be Arge but it was not known, or even guessed at Ly Foster that the March receipts would be some millions in excess of his estimates, As a result, instead of the hole in the available cash anticipated on account of the big March ex. Secretary payments 81,500,000, was added to the surplus, and the free gold, now near the £5.000,000 mark, continues to accumu- late, Secretary Carlisle has received many upon his month's showing, which but tends to confirm the general belief that he would of the congratulations first make a successful Secretary Treasury. Mr. E. Ellery Anderson, York, credited with being the principal author of the tariff bil public by the Reform Club, of that eity, is in Washington. He “The Re-| form Club, which has played such a prominent part in the present situation, has promulgated its tariff reform bill, not with the understanding that it is to be accepted, but mainly for the healthy and widespread discussion which will follow." The silly fight which has been made on Mr. John E. Risley, the minister to | Denmark, has had no effect here, as Mr, | Risley has received his commission and | taken the oath of the office, of New | recently made says BAKER BALLOT LAS ertaun Chang ake athidavit a Lunches Free Iilegn — { dem WCrati m numbers ov w that their husbands « » regularly to their meals, and that f the reasons they did not was be. of the attraction held out to them Ives t 141 : pe! i one o Cals by saloonkeepers | If these yusbands from bh must be abolished inducements tha (nd y fucements iunches, ! none i ten into the courts there is a pros. ttl pect that the it will remain there until question is definitely settled one way or the now have open attack on saloons. ,——— Our temperance friends w new line of other. to them a Offensive Partisanship Defined Postmaster General Bissell has told a Kentucky Congressman that ‘stumping for Harrison’ did not constitute offen. sive partisanship” in a postmaster pro, vided that he did not neglect the duties of his office More specifically, Mr. Bissell thus defined the offensive parti san (1) One who would turn his office into political headquarters; (2) one would manipulate the mails in the terest of his party; (3) one who would collect and solicit funds for the of his party, and (4) one who would use the position to coerce patrons of the of. who in- use fice into voting as he wished. — Activity in the Coal Fields There are extensive preparations be. ing made throughout the Cenatre-Clear. field coal fields for a greatly increased output. The new branch railroads, the Beech Creek and one by the Pennsylva. | nia, are being built, and new mines are i { being opened by the Berwind White | mining company, Wigton & Sons and Goorge Good & Co., and the Lehigh Valley, Wigton & Sons are sinking two shafts to the B" vein on Black Hawk He will | run and will operate the mine 250 feet probably receive his final instructions i under the ground, | this week, and rumor says a portion of | them will be to open negotiations for | the purchase of a Naval station on the Ee. ed ~Silkaline Curtain Lace, ete, Lyox & Co. in the shape of free | keep | - .— Prominent Newspaper Albany, N. been especially prominent papers al | {and has | { an administrative newspaper [t is noy | said that its present owners are t and that it Matrie to part wit} will Speer smber of a very brother Robert the ministry, and of William rl 3 ’ . Speer has been gaining proms. His + number VOATS MeMatrie inence in the journalistic world. - A —_— > Gov, McKinley's Debts Provided For Governor McKinley has refused to re. ceive any contribution to help him out of his financial difficulties; has returned atl once all money addressed to him, and has begped others to desist from | efforts to aid him. Nevertheless, this | work has gone on, and Mr. H, H. Kohn. saat, trustee of the McKinley fund, { says that by April 1st every cent of the $05,000 liabilities will be paid off, chiefly by #1 subscriptions from all parts of the Union. A —— Prohibition Quartette, The Silver Lake Quartette will give a lecture and concert in the court hourre in Bellefonte, on Tuesday, and Wed- nesday, April 11th, and 12th, at 8 o'clock p. m. Admittance free. Tick. | ets for reserved seats inside of rail can { be obtained from F. Potts Green for 15 loents, This will be a rare traeat. { Doors open at 7 o'clock each evening. Z. ZRIGLER, WPS Remains in OMoee last fall elected county Centre country, failed to qualify at the time the County officers were sworn in last January, our Reifsnyder, Esq., will continue to re. which makes his third term for survey« or. ~Jowrnal, all | | Since Mr, H. B. Herring, who was | surveyor of | main in office for the next three years, | INUNSDATION Three Lives Ls ascertained that three men ar ni } ne They are Hud l Trembath and Richard Willian | dead be yond a doubt faint possibility that the other two may be rescued alive Hazierox, Pa, April 5.-Nothing bas been developed at the Hill mine st would ind A speedy recovery of 1) wae NAS Iatier in f There ian i Laurel tl cate the entombed Yesterday came entirely covered with mn men men upon a mule, almost wk and slush. To the surprise of the workmen it was still alive. It is now sald that Williams, Trem bath and Hudson are not the only men entombed. Two Hungarian laborers are They Lave not been dent occurred unexpectedly Also missing seen since the ace Another Mine Accident, SHAMOKIN, Pa, April 5 A terrific gas explosion occurred in the air shaft in the Sterling colliery burning Thomas Jenkins and Petro DBuccerie in a frightful manner, the former, it is feared, fatally Inst evening A Murderer Lynched. CranresTox, W. Va, April 5.-About a week ago Police Officer John Chandler, of Bluefield, Mercier county shot and killed in a disorderly house kept by the notorious Kiz Redd, the wickedest woman in West Virginia. Last night a row was started at Kiz Redd's Graham During the melee Charies Morgan, colored, emptied a revolver into the crowd, killing John Lessee, a colored boy who had taken no part in the disturbance Morgan was caught by a mob of citizens, Ww ho lynched him to a tree almost in front of the house Kiz Redd fled, with a portion of the mob in pursuit of her, and she is reported to have been caught and lynched on the Vie ginia side of the state line WAS Joint In Pleasure Seekers Drowned, AMSTERDAM, April 5 «Several persons Jost their lives by the capsizing of a sail boat in which a large party were ona pleasure exoursion, Twmive of them were | rescued in an exhausted condition, but four | perished, townsman, J. H. |! Mormons in Conference, Sarr Laxe Crry, April 5.The semi annual conference of the Mormon church began yesterday, Thededioatory ceremonies ! of the A inpie begin tomorrow and run on to April 13 usive. FUBLIC EXPY ints the wowing Us nment pes s 4 strik. {a glance nents Iuctwon i - Grant Hep His Broth rninw who decid ) WAS guile iid reform. ostume of a A NAS) wer ¢ erring spouse ling y she quickly ostume and as be opened pped forward and said in Locome with me—1 The result rather start. that greeted hes 80? Shake, ol’ boy I'm your I married your sister.™ - -_— - Recent Dea wured a 1 been warm § ry ft) ne ul he response law irg last an 15 Oscar Johnson died at Friday. invalid The deceased 1 been 11 ii for some years of age. yeal John Fogleman died at his residence last Thur He member of the near Fillmore, on sday. was 62 years old and was Evangelical church. Will Gibson, a young man about 3 | years of age, died at Sunbury where he ill with typhoid fever. His parents lived in Bellefonte, On Tuesday James I. Rankin, Esg., | received a dispatch announcing the | death of Mrs. Clara Shaeffer, wife of { John C. Shaeffer, in New York City that day. The deceased left Bellefonte about 40 years ago and was the daugh- ter of Armstrong. She was 55 years of age, and leaves a husband and five children. | had been (r00 - An effort is on foot to establish a new ball ground on Hoy's farm, near to town. It would be much handier than the park and by no means as expensive. This week the CexTRE DEMOCRAT is one day late in reaching its subscrib. ers caused by our paper failing to reach us in time. This has not happened for several years and was entirely unavoids able on our part, - Latest novelties in Spring Clothing for Men, Poys and Children, The best suit in the market, for men, at 810, Talloring a specialty. Moxreomeny & Co, Bellefonte, Pa.
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