BELLEFONTE. PA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 , 1894, NO. 4 The Contre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price $1.50 per year, when Paid in Advance $1.00 When subseriptions are not paid Inside ) will be charged CLUB RATES goars $1.0 The CEXTRE DEMO Philadelphia Weekly Tr The CENT DEMOCR New York Weekly W v 4 ana year f S FY $1.75 Rr} DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKEY FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARG] IAMES DENTON H ANCOCK, of Franklin, Venango County. Fditorial. COMMITTEEMEN FOR 1804 Robert Patr McKnight lek Garr ty north ward south ward west ward Centre Hall van Howard boro Sa. MM IOSDUTE ov cvmnserossnnase Millheim ...... w—— Philipsburg, 1st ward “ and wa id ward South Philipsburg. Unionville Beaner township Boggs, north precinet a east precinet at west presi net jurnside.. . { Jollege, eas at preel inet 5 west prec inct jellefonte IK: illam Weber {. Essington +H. E. Duck FF. K. White » Fay Frank Hess jacob Heller E. M. Greist «Henry N. Hoy G. W. Brown H. Lyman ” . M. Lucas A ——— re Will lam Hipple Harry MeGirk Fred Krumrine Curtin. en J. MeCloskey Ferguson, east preci inet 0. Dreibelbis g Jacob Har west precinct pste Gregg, north precinet. ~John Roush S.J Herring east precinet Hiram Grove west precinet 3 Haines, west precinct... wewwe(Geo M. Keister M.O. Stover east precinct... . HAIUIMOOM .... couse ses ssmmssrpsansnas sesame « F: SSIDIing Harris. “ e Frank Wieland Howard twp «HH. N. Confer Huston so——— wi. D. Ardery LADOITY co cenrscrsssnssisise sassesnmronns James 1 Ps lang Marion... ‘ Hoy Miles, east brecinet - J. " Woll '" middle precinet W. Zeigler wes! precinet.. Uriah Shaffer Patton... bert Reed Peon... w———— Jacob Emerick Potter, precinet ween. H. ATDEY * south precinct entry Rossman Rush, north preecinet ..... John B. Long south precinet... John MeGinley Snow Shoe, east precinet.. Brown west precinct Spring, north precinet .. “ south precinet.. west precinet Taylor «..... PURI Union ... Walker ........ Worth “ «0. P.Gentzel ~E. EB. Ardery | Vinton Beckwith Aaron Fahr | sol Peck J. Woodring ORVis, Chairman ——— El Lis L N. B. SPANGLER, Sec REMOVED The office of the has been removed from the Conrad House y the House “Centre Democrat’ Building t Opera High Hotel street —Om¢ (fa and opposi EVER want will be appointed postu fonte. The four vear ent incumbent, Editor about Y BODY aster term of ‘eidler, expire (fazelte, has change will soon take j§ about s all seem to x aspirants for be Tue appointment of a Deputl fliector, for been made by Hon, of Bloomsburg. y are making information from certa favorably for i inton county gettin 4 there, this district, bas ni ue Ce , hi . Herring (srant S The applicants in count a strong hight © ur : in sources points man ramol bill,” gressman Wilson fers to the manner surpius left by the previous admin says mo in stra. tion of Cleveland has vanished. Whe: Secretary Windom succeeded Secretary Fairchild in the treasury the cash bal. ance The annua plus of #105,000,000, which was 8185,000,000, under existing could be counted Not only treasury reduced Cone 1 wen ditions upon every year, is no more is the cash in the less than £90.000.000, but the annual surplus 1s replaced by a deficit of 82 000.000 or more, This | republican administration can laws, revenue laws LO the result of and republi. of the restoration of The readjustment and the proper conditions is difficult, necessitate temporary measured which are not altogether The prob- lem of relieving the people of the burden of paying taxes to create bounties for privileged classes, and at the same provide revenue for a terribly treasury, is not an easy one, and pleasant, time strained But it is a task that the party must accomplish, | We have no fears that the accomplish. | ment of the task will not be satisfactory to the people.” hn Tyrone Ahead Again Tyrone has a young man named Scott Watson, aged 17 years and 8 months, wo tips the scales at 274 pounds, His height is 5 feet 2 inches, his neck girths | 194 inches, his breast measures 52 inch. | esand his waist 5 feet. He doesn’t often go very far from home, but he can be seen nearly every day on West Six. teenth street, »of three | 145] n | « | for the Block. on | Ay | WASHINGTON LETTER. AT THE NATIONAL | CAPITOL. DOINGS Weitten for our Readers by our Regular Cor respondent. Mrs, Cleveland's Popular Reception Congress busy on Tarif Leg istation, Chairman Wilson has surprised some his tariff bill through the He has ran aground voted down ed in piloting amendment -when the rocks. house by the proposing but once- { an amendment endorsed and Means postpone until ne | re o wool clause of the bill to take effect { and adopte a one making that clause | into effect upon the passage of the bill, | This week the hardest fighting will be An attempt will be made substituting a tax on committee, ory go { done. sugar bounty, to drop the bounty, sugar free. Attempts will to put iron and coal on the dutiable list and to make the income tax an amend- the tariff bill. All of thess s are opposed by the Ways and and chairman Wil. $ ie a4180 SUgAr; also be made ment to changes | Means committee, | son is confident that none ofthem will be made, although several of his c¢ol- leagues on the committee are in doubt as to the sugar clause and the income tax amendment, Itis understood that the republican vote will be solidly income tax ame: not be but because they cast wdment, cause they favor it, | believe its adoption will weaken the en- | tire bill in the senate. Senator Morgan gave ex-Minister Stevens, who at last found time be | tween his alleged bad health and his lecture engagements to appear before the senate committee on foreign rela. tions and give his testimony, a most rigid cross examination concerning his conduct while U. 8S. Minister to Hawaii, and brought out the acknowledgment that Mr. Stevens was from the first a | rabid annexationist, and that he wrote those auch talked about letters to Mr. asking instructions in case of with the an event | Blaine, { the overthrow of the queen, ful expectation that such | woul take place during his term of Biount’s report | office, just as Mr. Under | charged him with having done. 1 {ordinary circumstanses the und insulting letters written by Presi. dent Dole the provisional goye ment to minister Willis would arouse great publ ul what he expe nent Un ered adminis Mr. Hasting, Hawa stance, jan le. sause the un fri e dls ernment $ Wil at Mrs imme! pers Th of her has not le popularity with t 7 the attend jon, held at Saturday afternoon. le who desired to . i * large ance ple was ywn | at her first public White House There were mos recept the ay their respects to het he public when she was a bride, ed t) the y ’ ’ at the receptions crushes by her and wen just as graciou ly as she tires novelty to her. eel did wher whole ome business was sn enjoyable | r A member of tl asked what be thought of the adverse made by democrats we cabinet who was { eriticism publicly in Congress of the proposed bond issue, I grant the right of free speech which I demand for myself to every but 1 must say that these criti cisms would have come with better grace had the men who indulge in them shown any real disposition to prevent the issue of bonds In the only practical by providing the money that said dan, | manner- | they knew as well as Secretary Carlisle | did the Treasury must have if it would escape defaniting in the payment of its obligations, in some other way. The | administration did not wish to issue | bonds, and only decided to do so when it became apparent that Congress would not afford immediate relief, and after becoming fully satisfied of its legal right to do so under the law of 1875.” It is not believed here that either of the sev. | oral resolutions that have been intro people by the adroitness he has display- | Ways | 10 | xt fall the time for the ! | ou 0) { of yarious sweet { cul leaving | fectually soaked in it, is s | for evermore. | Bedouin fi | h We | Were { hard to break. { has been a printer | never be anything else, | cause the work is so pleasant { out the smell | hereditary, | duc: din the Senate concerning this issue of bonds will be or that the passage of either of them or of Rep, resolution by the House would affect the matter in either The for the 850,000,000 | way. bonds to be issued have gone away up the | in the of and { premiums offered will make the interest | equivalent to 21.2 per cent, or lower, i | Ps ed, resentative Bailey's | | | offers hundreds millions, Much regret is felt in the Senate at | Senator Walthall’s resignation, and the hope is expressed on all that heaith will improve sufficiently for Lo re his seat at the beginning to which he sides his of already sume { the next term, has { been elected. . The Odor of a Print Shop an odor about a print shop, There is [ ite perfume made like COmpos SAVOrs arising in. | cense from the ink keg, the oil can, the todrop | And the that weome e Lo as § is desert, as a smoker for ie drunkard for his bowl tramp “‘prints’’ or too drunk, or too and the office towel. ancy about this paste pete odor is one whose olfactories have once | {- slave for 4 it He longs } his as tl pipe, who tired have known {oo old. to work, to come up and beg a quarter {and then ask if they might {and ** | sort of intoxication, not smell the shop for a while,” not so violent and devilish as that which whiskey brings, but just as absolute in its sway, just as That is why a man who for can be- fit~ cannot live with. of the shop. And it is too—this print smell intoxi- There is Jake Admire, for ex. ample, who used to run the Osage City Free Press, He had a boy Jim who he was mighty proud of, and he determined that he should be something more than a country editor. So, about the time that Jim was becoming of age, he sold the Free Press and got a job in the land office at Kingfisher, and got another job for Jim, jut it was no use, somebody asked the old man not long ago if Jim was running a newspaper. “0 yes,” he said, “Jim's running a newspaper, God knows that it ain't my fanlt. [ tried gO in ten It y=ars is not Or pro able-—it is because he cation. impudent | fie} bard enough to keep him from it. I told him that he could make more friends stealing and save more money soft soap had hi Coul tr horses, wasn't any the smell [ reckon. than he Use ‘ol Christian Endeavor Convention and will ile executive 0 bea three il n s expected gather of great the wrls all over | ut eleven have distri os, Since the last Oet N ‘ conven ober over senior Reading and junior socielies have been organized Pennsylvania, -—— Some Good The Bellefonte Board of Trade has frequently been eriticised for not doing this or that or some particular thing. The organization thus far may not have accomplished wohders but already has had the effect of doing considerable advertising for the town and awakening our business people to greater activity. We have the resources and some day they will be largely developed. | the old car works plant be put in oper ation again the board of trade will be deserving of much credit in bringing it about, - -— - Fine job printing, at reasonable ratesat the CexTiRE DEMOCRAT office. ~Unelaimed letters: Jno, Carson, H. J. Campbell, Mrs. Matty Cramer, Wm, Fober, Albert Karam, Ksllery, Joseph Miller, Beatrice A. Roy, W. | Talston. When ealled for say adver- tized, « i i. him | up ! * { dent Harrison’s term { Rend-Mc Kinley It 18 | ommit- | Should | DEFICIENCY DEBT The Republican organs are mak ing | frantic efforts to attach to the Demo. erable party the blame for the financial | distress in the country, which has neces sitated the of the government | bonds, but the attempt is The New forward with emphasis : | “When the Democrats turned | government over to the Republicans in | March, 1880, there cash balance in the treasury of over | 185,000,000. Neariy #100,000,000 of this | sum was in free The | were then exceeding the expenditures at | the rete of 8105,000,000 a year. | “When the ssue “a was an available gold. | Den mocrats received the | gOvSrnInent 1 March last plus in the treasury had disappeared. The gold reserve was patched up by Mr. Foster's device of borrowi ing from New York bankers. The $08,000,000 of fice | gold above the 100,000,000 reserve had | dwindled to £980 .000 AC the sur- 5 HH during President ( | $57.972,000, Its net Joss during Presi- was #1 1.000 * 69 **The annual surplus followed the ac- | | cumulation surplus under the Harrison- rule. The Billion Dol- lar Congress cut off $60,000,000 of reve- nu, while raising the tariff taxes in schedule save two. to the pension list, increasing it in four | years mmore than the total cost of the list | { in 1880, fifteen years after the close of the war. It added #7000000 to the regilar annual appropriations. It looted the Sreasury with one hand and threw away revenue with the other. for the express purpose of preventing such a re duction of the turiff as the people order- ed ip 1800 and again in 1892, Every dollar of the deficiency that ex. ists or is in sight is due to Republican extravagance. The new bond issue will be khown in history as the Republican Defigiency debt. ~ Found ® Cavern From the Centre Hall Jacob Lee, living just beyond the southern limits of the borough, about two weeks ago set his well drilling ap- to work to bore for water in his back yard. Reaching a depth of 58 feet a stream was struck, and the rattie of running water could be plainly | but did not rise to render it satisf for pumping The drill again to god { down near three Reporte yr: heard, facts Was et {to work "seemed to} { thud the ds into a cave, of ater « land 0" water was « | the cave was struck the { to bring up the sul h was found ¢ marble whicl like pebbl His Cellnloid Collar Canght Fire A 8 net Beaver Falls the death of man had accident weurred result , Pa., whiel the »..1 010 d col ove victim, i uton a ng to pa wfore he finished making zed by a sudden att ing close to and was pr ety. ot oilet was a sthache nit : ACK ' i he tod Stoop an with } order ned | once grate 18 mot { to heat the aching tooth he | for several minutes, but ail there was a flash of and open ith open in mal at instantly fire | the celluloid colar was converted into a | It could a ring of fire around his neck. entirely consumed before he Was re . flesh on his neck almost to a erisp. .-——— Want to Succeed Judge Farst Judge Furst, of the Centre and Hun. tingdon county district, has one more are already doing considerable work in M’'Knight Williamson is getting himself | in shape for the nomination on the Re- publican side. Allen Lovell, another Huntingdon lawyer, is also inclined to enter the race. These two gentlemen | are at the head of separate Republican | factions in Huntingdon county, and at the trial of strength a year ago, the Lovell wing proved by far the stronger. Tyrone Times. a ~If you ave any metuber of your family in a distant state send him or her the CENTRE DEMOCRAT. News from home is always appreciated. failure. York World puts the facts the | revenues | t “The country gained in gold imports | Jdeveland’s first term | It added #60 .000.000 | ny | alize what was the matter, burning the | year to serve of his term, yet candidates | their own behalf, Lawyer and ex-senator | AN OPPORTUNITY. {CAR WORKS MAY LOCATE | HERE. Lamokin Car Works of Chester, Pa 250 | Bellefonte Employ over Skilled Workmen —Sabscriptions Coming in Rapidly Car Works, visited Bellefonte 8 shown located at Chester during his the {| Lamokin i Pa and through vorks plant. That firm wo hundred skilled and old car ew pioys about unskilled w and their business hag increased to that they find it a new At y flat rk- { hen, ch an extent of late ok | least a dozen towns have made ver tering propositions to have this | try, but | none can offer all the that necessary location among al advantages Belle 3 | natural foute can show- materials at home necessary for their business, can furnish an excellent plant { including buildings, ample cheap fuel | ties I It the Board Trade meeting in the court house. | Monday night, that in case the buildings | | were properly repaired, the breast of the {dam was repaired and the borough { would exonerate them from taxes for a | period of five years they would likely | | locate at Bellefonte. To comply with f this $5,000 was necessary and a sob. | scription was started. Gen. Hastings | headed the list with $500, Harris & Co., hardware merchants followed with # A committee was then appointed canvass the different wards of the town and it is quite likely that the full amount will easily Le raised. ——— Three Brothers (n Troubls, John, Milton and Charles Berringer three brothers living at Burnsida, a quiet little town in Clearfield county, have gotten themselves in a pretty pickle. {On 20th they engaged in drinking and fighting all afternoon, and when a constable atternpted to arrest them showed fight, A revolver in the hands of one of the trio convinced the officer that his immediate absence would be most conducive (o his health, sig be started to rim.” A shot from the revolver Vit and unusual was stated before December the ground wit Mil rar s 10AL0 , Whereupon Iton Berring er, who had the pistol [ Ril AL ¢ .——— Free Books would a | wg Re vs. A. A. Black, 1 Wm. Wagner, of Cent Fhursdny and J. F. Moyer, pastor of th formed church, of Altoona, will preach, Rev. Moyer is one of the most eloquent { pulpit orators of Central Penna. Sunday morning the Holy Communion will be administered. The | cordially invited to attend { of these services. —— Borough OfMees This year the offices to Ix Bellefonte are, Chief Burgess, Burges:, Treasurer, Tax three Councilmen and three School Di | rectors. At this writing there are very few aspirants for the positions. Hugh | S. Taylor is willing to accept the demo | Sra nomination for tax collector : Friday « vel Un public is and all any filled in Assistant Collector, would be able to poll a strong vole. | party caucuses will likely be held { will be named. | “The Methodist congregation in| Bellefonte are using their best endeavors { to induce Chaplain ©. C, come to Bellefonte and hold a series of | revival meetings, Mr. McCabe has con | sented to vome, and the only thing yet in the way is tha arrangement of a suit- able date, Prefer | | Some time ago a representative of the | water power, | railroad facili | of | on | 300. | to | yuck bim in the leg and brought him to | and The | on : | Saturday evening when the full tickets | McCabe to! Mingle’ S. LEWISBURG YILOVEMENT Man with Family Skips out With » Married Woman Mark social tht Halfpenny, a re;ations and at Lewis- { gentleman of high i nterested in the v let in having a wife Mrs. Alvin prominent to- upie met at Watson supper bought gage checked Mr , and with | burg | {and family | Ang | bacconist. HY town a A ngstadt and she Boals isited iatter s indus | « them | it produces all the raw | . Newspaper Debits that infallible will If A | per subscriptions are Contemporary says ne wspa- tests of sOGOoner or dis. men's later discover he | way ~RAYyS he has paid wh honesty. They he the . man. i8 " printer st he has not, receipt s80Ome 1 § Jost In | honest will cheat th sOme {declares that he hasa | where, or sent money and it was | the mail, or will take the paper and not | pay for it on the Riya | that he did not be for or move off leaving it | come to the office he left. Thousancs of profs hristians are dishonest in this pus ticular at least, and the printer's books will tell fearful tales in the fina, | subscr | Judgment ,——— Knight of the Golden Kagile The following are the officers of Belle- | fonte Castle, No. 357, of Bellefonte, for the ensuing six month's term: Past Chief —T. M. Barnhart; Noble Chief— I. N. Gibson: Vice Chief—Jobn Y ear- ick: High Pries’~.ames Rote; Vener able Hermit—Jobn Garbrick Jr.; Mas. ter of Records—E. E. Ardrey; Clerk of Exchequer—A. Lukenbach; Keeper of Exshequer ~Jas. A. McClure; Sir Her ald C. C. Bell; Worthy Bard—-A. Luk- ad 4 iy Chamberiain—J. MH. Lutz; Ed®oa=W. H. Taylor; Esquire Morgan Reynolds; First Guardsman— Hamilton: Serond Guardsman Wal. T -{3. Taylor and y il : to the ston vepresenialive His Vortra Vieng When War is Declared HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE YOU? ————————— th do 5 4 mon 3 is hildren are n AIWaVS You new shoes, t them go kit on hand a with their toes sti We Boy's School Shoes on which have SAVE 50 PER CENT. IN SHOE LEATHER, the cheap- called They are neat, strong not rough, i looking kind School Shoes | and durable, and only cost $1.25 a Pair. Uhey are weOmMmMonty ... SHOE STORE.
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