THE CENTKE
DEMOURAT,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
APRIL 5, 1800.18
MANILA'S DEATH RATE.
ONE OF THE MOST UNHEALTHY
CITIES IN THE WORLD.
Due Largely to Bubonic Plague and
Small Pox, Which Are Quite Com-
mon in the Phillipines—A Fish and
Rice Diet.
; The census of Manila, just com
W pleted by the Health Department,
gives the city an unpleasant high rank
among the unhealthful cities of the
world. It establishes a death rate of
more than 40 per cent. Former esti
mates and censuses always had given |
This cen-
of
Manila 300,000 population,
sus was a careful count
boats in the police district of Manila,
and it gave a total of only 190,714, of |
whom 30,000 were Chinamen,
There are to be added the
tants of other villages within the city
limits, Americans and Europeans and
1,400 priests in the monasteries From
reliable information the officials esti
mate their number at between 50,000
and 60,000.
The deaths In Manila during the six
months from July 1 to December 81
last year, were 6,203 Of these 2.941
were children. Mani
diseases epidemic, whic
inhabl
la now has three
i would ti
the average
bubonic
pox.
fish ar
fear
ence in the ne
flourishes in part
ly. Half of the
districts are pitted with i
ers try to get their child:
with it under the bell
dangerous to the young
General Bell's famous
regiment, the Thirty-sixth
from an epidemic. Lie
and Lieutenant Wing
were from Tenns
itenant
soldiers ve dle
The easy-going
®lards paid so little a
sy that the Philij
noted for that
more than a hund
Manila Hospital
Bubonic plague is a
lends t«
first
visitor to
distance rrors. Two mont
ago the
Manila
been
nates of the
case was discover
Since that time there
200 cases
least 80 per cent
ed fatally.
EARLY ESSAYS
Hanna on England and Rockefe
St. Patrick.
Among
Freese
Id age are tw
ten by John D
other by Mar
ons f poverty
a land of liberty
and
vilegos
free all en)
and every
istrious man can galr
livelthood
tockefeller’'s essay tell
St. Patrick. Characteristic
in the essay are
rom a poor shepherd boy he
» a Bi which was in
a very high office. History gives
the of a Bisho
ial to and greater than tha
a King
“St. Patrick was far superior to h
countrymen in knowledge and had
great sway over thelr minds The)
even thought him to be a saint
hon
instances of power
ng oq
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Latest News From the Active Busi
ness World,
Many strikes have been declared In
various parts of the country, workmen | that have arisen between {he
demanding higher wages and shorter
working hours. The men were gener
ally successful in New York city, but
in Westchester County building oper
ations were stopped,
One thousand Orange, N. J.. me
chanics, about equally divided among
the painters, masons, and carpenters,
struck April 2. The masons and paint
ers already have an eight-hour day,
but they demand an increase In
wages. The painters now receive $2.50
a day. They ask that this be increased
to $2.75. The masons demand 45 cents
an hour; they are now getting 4014
cents, The carpenters demand $2.75
for an eight-hour day. Their present
rates are $1.50 to $2.50 for a working
day of nine hours,
In Mount Vernon, N. Y., 1.300 car.
i penters and 500 plurabers and gas fit
ters are on strike,
Two hundred carpeiuters of Long
Branch, N. J., have struck for eight
hours work in a day.
Strikes In New England are fre
quent. They are mostly for the pur
pose of securing a shorter work day.
natives |
and Chinese living in buildings and |
| expedition
| has been given by
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,
Events of the Week Told in a Few
Words,
The recent heavy floods in Uruguay
have caused great destruction of cat
tle and wheat. Two bridges on the
Central Rallway have been swept
away. with a loss of $50,000.
The first electric tram car
operated in Santiago de Chile
the lines April 1.
Committee of Senators
Cuba has returned to
ington | satisfied with their
All classes of people on the island
are declared to be anxious for inde.
the diffe of opin
as to the
over
went
over
which
Wash
Visit
I'he
visited
wel
only rence
with
pend nce
fon being
it should come
It is
Colone
haste which
reported in Lima, Peru, that
| Parra, on his return from an
to the interior, will take
Portfolio of War Marine, in
ion to Senor Carillo
body of Ed Hembrick, the
per boy, has been recovered fr
Red h mine, in West Virginia,
where there was a disastrous explo
sion on March 6, 1 i {8 the last body
the and
trap
om the
hi
ago is richer
! nance
wed that the reve
ir was $46.741.240 }
en, $41 leaving ¢
$4.507.740 There w
publie debt during
lion
year Mr. Fielding «
the revenue would be over $30
and that there would be on June
next a surplus of $7
MINS TD
over two mi
rent ] t}
LIE)
timate
D5. 000
It Is reported in Chicago that notice
the Michi
tral and other Vanderbilt
the Albany gateway will be opened
and kept open, This means that there
is little hope of settling the differences
Vander
bilt lines and the northern roads
A graduate department of pedagogy
and a summer school for teachers are
to be established at Dartmouth Col
lege
The State Bank of Hardy, Neb,
been visited by burglars They blew
open the safe with dynamite and se.
cured $4,000
Assistant Treasurer Vanderlip has
advised the House Committee on
Colpage, that at most additional
Mint would suffice for Govern-
ment needs,
The negotiations looking te a par
eels post convention between this
country and Nicaragua, which bave
been In progress for several months,
have been completed and the treaty
will go Into effect June 1,
There was an exciting scene In
Judge Moore's court, Frankfort, Ken
tucky, March 20, during the examina:
tion of the Goebel murder suspects,
Sharp words passed between counsel,
causing the spectators to precipitately
floes for the doors and windows. Or
der was restored.
gan Cen
lines that
one
| Is dead at
has |
THE WASHINGTON NEWS
WHAT OUR NATIONAL LAW MAK
ERS ARE CONSIDERING.
Some of the More Important Work of
the National Congress—Bills That
the Committees Report Favorably
Upon—Washington Topics.
Repri
has pre;
the
gerve vol
of Y
create
entative Hay
bill
A Of the several St
ared a Lo
milith ates i re
unteer in time
There
appropriation
army for use
a Govern
and a measure of Goy
The bill is de«
the
army after the present
1501
of war will be ment
ernmental control
igned to obviate necessity of a
large standing
law expires in July,
of
in
irotocol
|
The Secretary
Spanish Minister
igned a
months, the
residents in
whether they
Washin
extending
lowed Bp
to
gton
for
time al
the Phillipines
subj
the territory in wh
The
considerat
ire Mi
ich they
Senate continues
Porto
United State
ion of the
Beveridge
TROUBLE SETTLED
» Word G
Vielk,
CRIMINAL.
i AD
Ansiats City Mars!
Boones
was attempting
netantly
il William
Missour!,
fo ar
killed
Hennecke nt
while Hennecke
rest Evans after he had rob
store March 27
Mr. W. W. Rice
(ET
Rice,
d a cigar
of Worcester
wife of
and sister to Mrs
Washington
The Merchants’ National Bank of
Rutland, Vermont, has been placed In
the hands of a receiver. The cashier
was arrested, his ehortage being est!
mated at $145,000,
Mas
ngressan
Senator Hoar,
husetts, ex
CASUALTIES.
By the burning of the High School
building at Michigan, April
1, two firemen were killed by falling
walls and four other persons injured,
The Columbus and Wheeling ex
press train on the Baltimore & Ohlo
Rallroad crashed into a freight train
at Whiting, Indiana, March 29. The
engine of the pasgenger train was
thrown into a ditch and Engineer
Reniman was killed,
Three children were burned to
death In a fire which destroyed the
farm house of John Brassil, In East
Providence, R. I, March 29. The
mother succeeded In rescuing one, an
infant, from ita burning cradle, but
it lived only a few hours,
The winter has been unprecedented
ly mild at Cape Nome; all necessaries
of life are plentiful and cheap
Twenty-four of the smaller corpora:
tions operating franchises in Greater
New York were yaloed at $17,000,000
by the State Tax Commission,
Owosso,
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THE FISHING
SEASON WILL
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GREEN'S PHARMACY
High Street.
of 114 to.
Mere is a List of
«FIRE INSURANCE ws
anies, You can
ALiDE upon ar
| omy
[
Stock
»
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y of these
Hamburg Bremen, of Hamburg, Ger,
North German Fire Insurance Co,
Manchester, of Manchester, Eng.
American Central, of St. Louis.
Prussian National, of Germany.
Palatine, of Manchester, Eng.
United States, of New York,
Concordia, of Wisconsin,
National, of Allegheny.
Traders, of Chicago.
Washington,
and Accident. com?
I nearly ex
Assets in Fire, Life
wer $50,000 000 Sur
ned
of FLIRT
SGRAITT FJTICOVER,
Crider's Stove Bullding BELLEFONTE
MORTGAGES.
Money wanted for investment in
FA
first mortgages. Security absolute
ly good. For further information,
address
E. H FAULKENDER,
Attorney-at-Law,
x 17, Hollidaysburg, Pa.
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here Men's, Boys’
Clothing & Gent's Furnishing Goods
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Of sm
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All kinds of Smoked Meat, Sliced |}
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For Spring
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good for they haven't seen $5 00
shoes that are near as good
For the Ladie's the SAR:
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HERRICK shoes from
$250 to $3.50 are the
leaders.
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