i
he Centre Liemocrat.
CHAS. R. KURTZ,
ENCOURAGING
FURNACE NEWS|
Plants to be Put in Blast
Early this Spring
ldle
LARGE DEMAND FOR PIG IRON
Walter Kennedy, the Well-Known Furnace
Expert and Engineer, Representing Pitts
burg and Eastern Capitalists, Will Im
prove the Plant and Lause it to Kesume,
For some time this paper has been giv.
img information about the prospects of
starting the iron furnaces at this viace. |
¥p to this date they have not started, but
that does not prove that they will, or will
met, be put in operation this present sea-
Anyone traveling in the vicinity of
. town on
sou,
Valentines Furnace, south of
Wednesday morning, would have been
surprised to hear the ring of hammers
and seen carpenters building sheds,
plumbers connecting pipe, the boilers be-
ing repaired, mechanics and laboring-
men at work everywhere about the plant
The meaning of this i
to be put in blast as soon
orge (
On Tuesday Ge
experienced fu
the employ of Carnegie’s exten.
n Wed
Kennedy as
Mr.
mformation to
Kennedy ol
the papermen,
that the
1
rectly we learned
coke and lake ores ha
and will be here shortly.
At present bricklayers
are here repairing the
The plant is
been
aenlly
as had freq
may be done at al
Home labor is
as it can be secu
preference.
The rapid advance of the iron marke
the principe ise for the a
has been T
tivity to pu
There is a great demand
or
per ton
and at almost $15
times when it was sold for
they thought they were then
ng it here at a profit
Parties,
that
place, will
season. The stock!
the
operation
lers have been tak-
bu
ing action in that direction,
definite has been learned t
to t, i
hus
far
safe the market
not decli
. this summer
is thought that the Valentine
week
he 8
arted in about three
tt
SEW LOCK WORKS
commenced
Active operatious are tobe
at once for the erection and equipment
of a plant to the “Houser
Springless Lock’ this place. The
plant will be located on the old car works
property, near to Jenkins & Lingle's ma
chine shops. A frame building 32x48, 1%
The equip-
or twelve
manufacture
at
’
LEN
stories high will be erected
ment will require some ten
machines, of which will be a heavy die
punch to cut the interior parts of the
locks from bar
Castings will be made outside for
metal, numerous drills,
L 10
the present,
$5000, all of which has been subscribed
The capital stock now is
The work on the foundations will
mence the last of this week and contracts
have been arraoged for building and
machinery. An experienced lock maker,
from the Miller Lock company, one of
concerns of the kind, has
com
the largest
been engaged as foreman and will be
here in a few days
The Houser lock company have six or
seven different
designs of locks that manufac.
tured, which consist of the cheaper pat.
The
new concern starts with every assurance
of having a good thing, that they will
develope into one of our most important
patents covering their
will be
terns and more expensive ones,
industries
LL -— LL
SILSBY ENGINES
Ordered by
Mull Hall
To Cost §i1,000 the Conncil of
Mill Hall council decided to purchase
a Silsby steamer for property protection
The engine will cost 1.900. The com.
pany will make the initiatory move for
erecting a suitable building on the Int
recently secured by the council, The
new steamer will not be delivered until
some time in July, at which time the new
building will be ready for its occupancy,
The council also contemplates purchas.
ing a hose carriage and hose,
Stevens
Ed. and Prop.
METHODIST APPOINTMENTS
The following are the appointments made
at Harrisburg by the Central Pennsylvania
Methodist Conference for the Altoona dis
trict of which Bellefonte and Centre county
15 a part
Presiding elder, David 8. Monroe
Minnigh; A
Wilcox
Fitth
Allegheny, Henry N Htoona,
Ep
Ave
First church,
William H
1, George M
Chestnut Avenue, Thomas S
worth Mission, Samuel Blair
William McK
Horace 1,
nue, Reiley
Jacobs Juniata
Simpson churct
Walnut
Johnston
Hoke
James M
Durkee supply
Fairview,
Ansonville, John D
: Bellefonte, William A
Stephens ; Bellwood, Samuel D. Wilson
Avenue and
Birmingham, Jonathan R. Shipe
William E. : Clearfield,
laldwin ; Coalport and
Centre,
Karns Amos S
Irvona, Jacoh P
Wood,
(slen
Benford ; Curwensville, John A
Jr. ; Duecansville, Asbury W. Guyer
Ermest Tr
Robert W
Hope, Hugh Strain
Half Moon
George F
(Gsrant, IX
supply); Runyan
Boggs Holli
Houtzdale Benja
Hastings, days
burg, A
B. Hamlin
Karthaus
Charles W
8. Bowman
Howard, A
R
f some d
o-day and
« » shay
t somebody tl enloone (ir
4
ud
kick, go
roses Don't throw brickbats or m
Don't be a kicker If vo
behind
arse ll For if
I must
around e barn and take a good
kick at ¥ you feel that way
you're the man that needs the
But whatever you do, dont be a
Counterfeit Hall Dollars
A remarkably good counterfeit of the
half dollar of 15¢8
The coin is slightly lighter
is being extensively
circulated
than the genuine, but it rings clear and
pure. It can be detected, however, from
the fact that in the figures of the date
the open work part of the figures which
are depressed in the genuine are elevated
in the spurious coin, owing to improper
cutting of the die
,——
Milton Booming
Milton is getting a share of the general
prosperity. Their nail works are almost
ready to start up, the car works have
enough orders on hand to last a year and
all other institutions employing labor are
hours a They
in prospect,
ten day
have several new industries
working also
. -
Prices of Live Stock
Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, are
bringing better prices at the public sales
this spring than they have for a number
of years past
$90 to $125; cows as high as $50 and hogs
and sheep at corresponding prices, while
Horses have been sold at
implements were bid up to fair figures
oo. -
Shirt bactory tor Altoona.
| Altoona is to have a shirt factory
| The company is to be organised exclusi-
| vely by members of the board of trade of
| that city. It is to bea forty.machine
| plant,
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1890.
AMERICAN
ENTERPRISE
We Have far Outstripped Our
English Rivals
BUILDING ENGLISH BRIDGES
How an American Firm Surprised the English
Government in the Completion of a Con-
tract-—0One of Numerous Similar In
stances
In line with orders from Freuch
of
and English railroads for American
comotives, another striking evidence
European appreciation of the rapid and
excellent work of American manufactur.
ers is shown in a contract placed by the
British War Office with the Peocoyd [ron
Works for
Atbara River, in
a ratiroad brid the
the
Le
facilitate the operations of Genera
Mahdist When
ener nst the
$ point (Or
Poin
nber operat
oved before it was cl
work was done to keep
and destroying the
Was AG
Ww
tree
It antic Dak
Robert Paulhamus recently cut a
white oak on his farm, at Cogan
Statios, measuring inches
that
of
Perryville
4 feet and 4
the |
and he took
across the stump, argest tree in
vicinity, it to the mi
William Shaffer and son, at
Lycoming county, and had it manufac.
first
the
tured into ties and lumber The
three logs made nine ties apiece
total number of ties was 51, and feet
of lumber, and he got seven loads
in?
E ol
Who can
.-o-——
of hire wood besides beat
Poor Home
The
bave agreed upon the plans and specifi
commissioners of Clarion county
cations for a very fine home for the poor
of f10 oO The
building will cover a ground space of 114
the county costing
by 201 feet and is intended to accommo
date 100 beds if required
There
Centre county should do the same thing
Are many persons who think
We spend more in one vear under the
present system (han it wouid cost to
equip a first class home
.——
Interesting Collection
A. of
has a collection of 500 arrow heads rang.
Heinkles, near Lewistown,
wg from the midget less than ene half
inch in length to the large ones four
inches long; spear heads of all sizes; sev.
eral skinning knives, five little axes and
seven tomahawks, The greater number
M1
along the shores of the Juniata about the
of the relics was found by Heinkles
island at Mflin, and the others along the
river shore between Mexico and Thomp.
sontown
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Shot a Swan
John Schwab, of Lock Haven, shot one
| of the swans that were seen below Lock
Haven, Saturday. It weighed twenty.
| two pounds,
BRYAN'S CALL TO ARMS
Does Not Believe in the Communion of “'Jeffer
sonlan Democrats” and “Republican Allies.’
w
ence
J. Bryan gave out his correspond.
Be
il the §
with Perry who invited
mont,
him to speak Croker han juet
Mr
ree sil
mount over Lo
' and A Gdoned 5. gO dd do
Mr, Belm
Was none
ont
of his
Bryan bh
“I might plead a previous engagtn
ping, but that
be equivalent tosaying that I would
but jor the engagement, but
compels me to another
appreciate 1
Democrat ub
an
how
as a reason for de would
come
rapkne
add rea
pays
instation, I d
indivi
me 1
Oo not
opinions
& political gather
president of the (
club
can
at ng
ub and
before the pub
upon pu! 1
1 gh
Our post
your |
)
:
ana
. o-——
LLIONS FEASTIN
ner of
from Wm
and other noted
Mr
which be is
i :
wr Alige
the people's
pla that
:
yan, (sovern
leaders of
caus Bryan distinctly disavows in
taking part any desire to in
fluence the nominations next year It is
a matter of principle and not of men that
is 10 be fought, and last now the vrinct
ple he is pushing to the front is “down
with the trusts political, finincial and
industrial. It is a principle that must
win
.o-——
Mad Dog Scare
They are having a mad
Mrs
went
dog scare at
Minerva
up Dix
Mrs. Hall
tied the dog in the stable and sent the
Robert Hall for
dog and he tned to bite him, tearing one
but Ie
when
Unionville, this county,
Hall's young dog recently
Run to Andrew Hall's and
owner word went the
leg of his pants off succeed in
getting the dog home, the beast
soon died, Some time after the dog
g WAN
the
Hall
and con
taken out of stable Andrew
found one of his horses uncasy,
He untied the ani
cluded he was sick
mal, when the horse commenced biting
everything in sight and ran out of the
Mr. Hall shot the horse, thinking
he had been Int by the dog. There Is a
rumor that other dogs in the neighbor.
hood are mad, and several children have
been bit by the canines
stale
| concerning the quality of the
| testimony before the Board of
GEN. MILES
VINDICATED
Abundant Proof that the Soldiers
Received Rotten Beef
SERIOUS CHARGES PROVEN
Beef, Canned Heel and
Rotten Beef
Soldiers
Embalmed Striogy
Unwhoelesome and Unfit for
Gen. Eagan now is Implicated
May be Courtmarualed Again
Mile
Gen, made
very charge that
beef is-
the
by
sued by Eagan's department to
troops has been irrefutably proved
Inqui
y
ch-
Indeed the case is shown by unimpe
able testimony to have been even
than he represented
worse
¢ while the court was
Egan alone can explain some
naging statements mg
As iti
satisfactonly
rd , ‘
y regarding beef the combine
fear Egan's abil an-
swer certam testimony
BELLEFONTE'S WHITEWASHER
be
A
tool to the Juay-
Our own oved James
1
Beaver, a consecrated
it in this state, was on that comm
department
ssion
the
and Miles
Miles bas had his turn
has
whitewashed war
censured Gen Now Gen
and his commis
son
clearly proven that the army
was supplied with rotten beef. The poli
tical report which our Beaver helped to
put up to whitewash the war department
LL
is proven nnreliable, stating wrectly,
untrue-—even if Christian gentlemen be.
We
immaculate,
longed to the commission never
thought Jim Beaver never
suspected or accused him of anything of
the kind. There are some deluded indi
viduals, who do
.—-—
Barn Bursed
A
Shawiey, at Fairview,
large barn on the farm of Wm
Boggs township,
was destroyed
of
carly
Will
with a
by fire Tuesday
morning last week am Cox,
the lenan!, was in t lan
The
he Darn
tern that exploded, starting the fire
viding was insured
» - »
For Sale
0 the personal
prog Fogleman,
near Houserville, consisting of 6 horses,
1 Saturday April 2
erty of the late Felix
10 cattle, farm implements, etc, will be
offered at public sale. See bills for fall
description
«Call and see a five line of Ladies’
Wrappers at Aiken's store. Price So
cents and upward,
VOL. 21, XO. 12.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY
Bright, Sparkling Paragraphs Selected and
Original
honors |
ty always di
HW 1 ly 1 . 4
hard to convince §
the best j
A lle insurance agent
The officia
SOO
reports show that it requires
officers for a Cuban army of
privates. The Cuban army was evi
itly organized on the Kentucky colo
nel basis
I's a great misfortune not to have udg
ment enough to keep silent at the proper
The Bil
in His own image
time e tells God created mas
and pearly every man
thinks he is the one referred to
Hoax ‘I hear that Skinflint
bas had a
the coa
dealer new
had it
“Yes, it appears to
SCae pul i»
Joax—""No be's ambushed
“"Ambushed me
to be lying in weight for somebody
“it's a shame," cried the young wi!
I'm
Ifyou
‘not a thing in the house fit to eat
Roing straight home to mamma
don't dear,
mind, said the husband
reaching for his hat, “1
’
:
i gO with you
wan! 10 ask you one more question,
tt
e Frank, as he was being put to
"We
“When holes come in stockings, what be
bed acquiesced the tired mother
comes of the piece of stocking that was
there before the hole came
Her Father--And I s'pose you expect,
if 1 consent to let you have my daughter,
that up in business and
make you rich? Mr. Sappleigh--No, 1
really haven't any such extravagant ex
pectations as that
ber just for my
I will set you
I'm willing to take
ard and clothes.
An exchange says a calf, a frog, a
duck and a skunk wanted to attend a cir.
cus, and after taking an inventory of fi.
vances it was found that the calf could go
because he had four ‘quarters.’ the frog
could go because be had a “greenback,”
| the duck haviag a “bill” could also go,
| but the skunk only having ose **(s)cent,”
and that hetog a bad one, was obliged to
stay st home.