Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, May 17, 1900, Image 1

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CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed.
ANOTHER
WAR SCARE
We May Have Trouble Over the
Monroe Doctrine
PREPARING
GERMANY IS
South America
Brazil—May
Plate, and R
To | Her
by Seizing a Settiement in
to Sell
xtend Dominion in
Be a Scare Armor
Elect McKinley.
the
Lie
when
and his language has excited ¢
:
Lin Germany
war with Germany is
Germany, says the
been made
impartial
IHENSION
is to be the cau
but enthusiasm
1ge! 3 § d by
this
the reign
thority to be the disease of gning
dynasty in Far sighted men
that South
America will nstitute the great prize of
the
have not hesitated t redict
re in the eves of European gov.
f Africa would
ny
ernments. The partit
on
be reg America at
South
t not for the Monroe doc
trine long as the
the remains
of (
their
moment
prestige
States what it
is to-day powers mtinental
hands off
uth Amer But the moment it be.
nes apparent that this Government is
not strong enough maintain the Mon-
Europe w
roe doctrine t
1)
wath America
will begin hen the ar with
began
Europe
fTUDRIDE & Tsk.
admitted
pain develo
he
us at bay on the sea, Ger
unexpected strength, had
to hold
would have made active preparat
been able
many
ons to
jut
Spain was almost instantly,
The Powers of Continental Europe saw
that they must be well prepared before
they tried conclusions with the United
States. The Emperor of Germany im.
mediately outlined his naval expansion.
He has adbered to it ever since, and will
risk his throne rather than abandon it.
DEFY THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
seize territory in South America
crushed
is beyond dispute that the Kaiser's |
paval program would make him im,
measurably our superior on the sea in
about a decade, If, then, it be true that
lus Majesty will defy the Monroe doctrine
when his navy is strong enough to over.
come the United States, be may be ex.
and Prop.
Brazil to his
The Brazil.
ian Government is not without uneasiness
pected to annex Southern
empire about 1610 or 1915
at the prospect. The recent additions to
the navy of the republic may be intended
as a warning to the world that Brazil will
ent without
VERDICT OF ACO1
Who Killed Jo
ce Man
insen
pruce Creek a F
last week the case of the
time sens itt] he
rime comm| : ¥
Johnson in
ry panel was the gravest
learfield unt
done more
Car of Powder Between Burning Cars
Engineer Wolfki
had an
Ww
Monday that
and his eyes
He
with a train of
m of the third
the engine which
The car was to have
at McGees, ne :
f the
man
experience last
made his hair stand on end
ut like saucers, as it were.
ming to Punxs'y
es with the except
ar from contained
ywder been left
on both 3) les
track
are on fire, was forgotien
bowever, until the trs |
% in the midst
of 1 lame
the
ring
airing
n to the horror of
train crew the car behind and mn
front of the car containing powder was
fire, It did not
seen to be on take the
They
dared not stop in the midst of the flames
crew long to realize their danger,
that were leaping all around them but
renewed speed was added to the train
| and as soon asa clear space was reached
the fire on the cars was extinguished but
it was a close shave.
News,
Pun xsutawney
Blinded by Bird Shot.
Howard Hicks, the young son of Dis.
trict Attorney W. 1. Hicks, was acci-
| dently shot in the face at a shooting
tournment at Tyrone a few days ago by
the premature discharge of a gun loaded
with bird shot in the hands of one of the
contestants, He will lose one and possi.
both eyes.
M'KINLEY
CENSURED
The Methodist Conference Passse
Strong Resolt
DENOUNCE ARMY CANTEEN
Stung
Church
McKinley
the
arranged and
in hi
' 1
Cad as
*. however,
l ex Asperale
construct
nteen law,
seneral of the 1
respect
pect
in comversation,
and
the course of an hour the n
AWAY returned to
1, with her
her boy, an
search, but with no suc
of
party an
men then organized
1 invaded the forest
tions
After
Ame uj
INA BURNING BARN
Patt
Idiog Collapses
conscious
The following out
i patch was sent
from Lock Haven
Awakened Sunday
night by the kicking of his stock and the
Farmer John Himes, of
rushed
roar of flames.
Nittany
barry ablaze
Yalley, out to find his
While rescuing the cattle
a piece of burning timber fell, rendering
Himes unconscious
At this juncture Himes’ 10-year-old son
William, appeared, and, seizing his
father by the feet, dragged him to a
place of safety. Then be liberated the
horses, and turned to drive out the cows,
but, finding them dead, hurried out just
as the building collapsed.
Two strangers who went away angry
after Himes had refused them permission |
to sleep in the barn are suspected of fir
ing it for revenge,
BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY MAY 1;
1600,
TRAINING FOR A HANGING
Pris r Given Dumbbell and Other Exerc
> Was ¢
when
ith others, a
3
A! ie Lap,
.—
Casanova's Paper
. £.% f . of Phillis —_—
Hon. | . sand | ilipsburg,
whose extensi ‘uba have
required his for some
time, has becom roprietor of the
Havaua Journ n daily
newspap
of
which has
arning of his marriage,
Havana, last week
young and charming
Mr A
his Philipsburg
whom asanova intends
to friends
. ,———
Important Legal Decision
In the Juniata county court last week,
a case of the owner of a farm against
her tenant was on trial, The prosecu.
trix depended on the written lease,
signed by the tenant, to prove her case
The point was raised by the defendant's
Ajtorney that the lease not being stamp.
led according 10 act of Congress, it was
not a legal lease and therefore should
not be admitted in evidence. The
cout sustained the objection and the
Jrosecutrix lost her case,
.—— -
"A good thing to take for fits," said
| the tailor to the dressmaker, *‘ls money.’
ODD FELLOWS
CONVENE
Seventy-Seventh Session
of the Grand Loi Opens
DELEGATES
Lasingle train was
has been abandoned
innel
1
and wi dened during the summer,
aud by December present yeat
the Pennsylva will have a solid four.
ack road through the mountain at that
point
Village Destroyed by Fire
All the buildings in the village of Cor.
bett, Potter county, were destroyed on
Tuesday, May Sth, by forest fires that
bad been raging in that locality, The
inhabitants fled to Galeton, some barely |
escaping with their lives, their clothing
| for every 117 people. Boston has one for
having been badly burned. An aged
couple, J. C. Loucke and wife, perished
in the flames, and it is believed that there
| may be others among the ruins, Corbett
| was a village of about five hundred in-
| habitants, eight miles from Galeton.
FACT, FUN AND FAN
Br ht S
ex
REPULSED WITH LOSS
rie, was
wr Vice-President
National mvention
Thursday ;: he formerly
Ia this
owing, but
He is a dat
.———
instance
Tragedy the Answer
saturday of Thomas
was ran over by a
ght train, deve
Wh
depot at Muncy the telegraph operator
¢ Waterhouse was standing in the
told him that there had just came over
Waterhouse's wife, at
Wilkesbarre, a telegram asking if the re.
port was true that he had died, and in.
when the funeral would take
When Waterhouse beard this be
laughed and said : "Well, I'm the live.
liest corpse she ever saw.” A moment
later he attempted to board a freight
train, was thrown under the wheels and
ground to pieces,
—
Needs ALL
In the United States there is one church
the wire from
quiring
place
every 1,000, Minneapolis one for every
1,084. Centre Hall can beat them all, it
Baving one church for every 125 peo-
ple. — Reporter,
Yes, and the town has abundant peed
for every one of them,