2 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, hd APRIL 16, 1903, LH POSTOL (UL wo. LAS Mr. Payne Saves a Thorough Inves~ tigation Will Be Made. NOT TO ACT WITH UNDUE HASTE No Immediate Changes in Department Contemplated, and It May be Sev. eral Weeks Before Inspectors Come plete Their Work. Washington, April which he announced that the investi- gation of the affairs of the postoffice Captain | posed 14, ~~ Postmaster | General Payne gave out a statement in | on ein | charged i { deep department will be continued and that | dee; any parties found guilty of wrongdoing | will be dealt with summarily. The statement follows “During the months of January and February, information and reports reached me which I deemed it for the public interest investigate, and I, personally, gathered such information and facts as would enable the proper to officers of the department to undertake | courag | camps of these reports. I | a thorough investigation as to the truth or falsity directed Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow to take the proper steps to institute the necessary inquiry, using for that purpose the postoflice inspectors’ division and methods as would thoroughly ascertain the truth or falsity of the charges or insinuations made, and he was in- structed to proceed promptly and with vigor during my absence. Since my return this morning I have not seen General Bristow, so that | am not ad- vised of the progress made. tigation willcontinue, and if any wrong- doing is disclosed, the parties gullty of such wrongdoing will be summarily dealt with. If the system or method of doing business in the department is faulty, the proper remedies will be ap- plied without fear or favor. I inaugu- rated the invest mination that it sh ould be exhaustive It is proper | for me to add that I laid be. fore the nt the information which | had in my possession, and that he fully approved of the action pro- posed by me.” The administration of postoffice department is made subject to the investigation under Postmaster General Payne's directions, and charge will be pushed thoroughly and the inquiry made as ugh as the department's most expert inspectors can make it At Mr. Payne’ pose is to give fair and just treatment to all concerned, and not to act arbi- trarily and undue haste, For this reason it can tated that no im: diate changes of importance in the sonnel of the se plated, and on the repo Assistant on the resi whole the avery thor the same time 8 pur- wil. be rvice inv ged Promotion Syndicate. 4 No arre AS A result De In progress alleged perating to fa BOI promo ANOTHER SCANDAL PROBABLE Exorbitant Charges made for Shipping Soldiers’ Bodies from Cuba. Toledo, April 11.—~Congressman J H. Southard, of this city, has started an Investigation which may bring to Hght a scandal among United States officials at Havana, Cuba. The charge fs that exorbitant charges are heint made for the disinterment and ship ment of the bodies of dead soldiers from Cuba, when it should be done free of cost, according to Mr. South ard. Homer Pugh, who enlisted in the navy last August, died at Havana on April 2. His mother here was noth fled on April 7. Two days later sho teceived a cablegram stating that the body would be exhumed, embalmed, and shipped to New York for $225. The mother brought the matter to the attention of Congressman South ard, who has started an investigation, are The dispatches received here signed Bpringer, Sea Captain Drowned, Philadelphia, April 11. « Captain Morris Barnes, one of the oldest resi dents of Camden, and the best known sen captain of this port, fell overboard from the steamship Mary M. Githens in the lower Delaware and was drowned, He boarded the Mary M. Githens at Bower's Beach for the pur pose of visiting his daughter, who re pides in Camden, and whom he had not seen for nearly five months, While walking on deck be was afflicted with an attack of vertigo and pitched over the side of the steamer Into the water such other | : | fenders { datto of Panandungan, | wounded, | wounded | Reina Christina, | Montojo, The inves- | | od | about 80 of | of the igation with the deter- | " landers 100 FiLi1} Parshi ©'s Force Routed Moros After Gallant Charge. Manila, April 11. Captain Pershe | ing's force captured Bacolod, Island of | Mindanao, killed 100 Moros and wound. ed many others Three Americans were wounded. Pershing's force con- sigted of Shaw's Battalion of the Twenty-seventh Infantry, Kilpatrick's Troop of the Fifteenth Cavalry and McNair's Battery Pershing was west surveying the | shore lands, when the Bacolodians op his advance and provoked the Pershing surrounded and at their stronghold, first shelling and, rushing his troops forward, gallantly After crossing a moat and entering the fort the Americans engaged the Moros, bavo- nets against krisses. A hundred de were killed, Including the and many were Only three Americans were After the capture fort it was destroyed The Bacolod leaders and the major. ity of the people of that district had been hostile to the Americans and en red attacks on the American They rejected the tenders of friendship. It is expected that the defeat of the Bacolodians will result in all ‘the Moros acknowledging American sov- ereignty. Pershing's column is going to Marahue, which is also hostile fight tacked MANILA BAY GIVES UP ITS DEAD Eighty Skeletons Found In Spanish Warship Sunk by Dewey. Mauila, April 14 The warship flagship of Admiral which was sunk by Ad Manila Bay, has been float The of crew in AR mirad Dewey and in beached her the One skeleton evide that of an officer, for it had by its side There are 15 shell holes in t Reina Christina one eight-inch The main showing skeletons found Wi were hulk mtly & sword hull by an re small he mad shell and the othe injection valve is ship was Admiral Montejo aband hull is in fair conditic Captain Albert B. C ing ti naval station charge of the sallors, expressing a them an American funer ish residents, to ship the skelet is suggested that transport Sumner Spain by way June A wreck all the scout med mn her mand took Spanish desire to give al. The Span are anxious ns to Spain, and it United State them to canal in yuden at Cavite remains of t com n he however, the convey of the Suez is endeavoring War ng com the sunken pany to ships raise Spanish MITCHELL TO SETTLE DISPUTE Miners’ District Boards Arranging Se ries of Sessions at Wilkesbarre, e Pa. April 14 John Mit Arter the ha Py The n ming a obser lley shut dow Monday foreign elemen English mking employes reg for but it posasit is In start, of Easter Work, Was a the output p the practi ar wouid not be makers at work enough to kes bre WOMAN HAD 3000 PENNIES Sewn Into Mer Waist and Skirt; $27 in Silver. April 14. Jans WOmAL who f Senator Plunks land | \grancy by M WAS Arrested Also New ¥ eccentric old is a sent to B Hane RAYH tt ork an at IRIN Wau wkwell i work nths for oF for si istrate charg pennies | ) t » all she before be workhouse she matron, who woman had 31 ae ne : 1 She which pos sent to the was examined by a liscovered that the old 0) pennies sewn into her jacket and skirt Her clothing was tied into knots to hold her treasure Some of the knots had been tied so long that they were too tight to be opened easily and were cut. Besides the 3000 pennies the old woman had $27 In sliver were sup ‘ sossed But ing over Chosen For Moravian Mission Board. Bethlehem, Pa, April 14. Rev. Dr. J. Taylor Hamilton, of the Moravian College, has been declared the nomi nee of the northern and southern provinces of the American Moravian Church, to succeed Bishop Benjamin Romig, who resigned from member ship on the Central Mission Board. The announcement was cabled to the directing board in Herrnhut, Germany His election will require his residence abroad S—— Stabbed to Death . Wilkesbharre, Pa, April 18. —<Antho ny Kolas, of West Pittston, was stab bed to death at Bturmerville last night during a fight with a number of Po The men had been drinking during the day and evening, and on their way home they quarreled and a fatal stabbing was the result. Five men were arrested, charged with the crime and committed to the coutny prison. Killed Playing Base Ball, Newman, Ga, April 14.~Punch Ar nold, 15 years old, son of the county surveyor, was killed while playing base ball. He was struck over the heart by a swift ball and fell to the ground, expiring a few moments later. of the | | | | | | | had a few | | in the rights of the i day reckons Jefferson as JARRERSONS. PIRTHDAY 160th Asuiveraary Observed by Memorial Association, AMERICA'S GREATESTSTATESMAN Senator Hoar Says Every Political Party Finds Its Doctrine in Jeffer son—W, J. Bryan Also Eulogizes His Memory. Washington, April 14. —Hon, William Bryan, J. ginia, and former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith, of Philadelphia, | were the principal speakers at a dinner given at the the author of the Declaration of Inde pendence, About 140 guests were pres ent er Santelman, of the Marine Band, en titled “The Thomas Jefferson March H. B, F. Macfarland, president district commissioners, Thomas Nelson Page acted as master. Loasi- The dinner was not of a political | Senator Hoar responded to | character the toast, tion of Independence.” part as follows The Author of the Declara- He spoke “If we want a sure proof of Thomas | Jefferson's greatness, it will be found {n the fact that men of every variety of | political opinion, however far asunde find confirmation of their doctrine him. Every party in this country to its patron In my youth the political atx tionists made appeals to Jefferson th burden of their song. In the late dis cussion which rent the country about the Philippine Islands, one side quots what Mr. Jefferson sald in the Decla ration of Independence, and the other what they thought he did, in the acqul sition of Louisiana Every politica sect finds its political doctrine in Jef ferson, almost as every religious a finds its doctrines in the sayings of the Baviour of mankind. The friend of state rights calls attention to the fact that Jefferson spoke of the govern ment of the United States as the ‘agen cy at Washington." The abolitionists quote the great declaration and his fa mous utterance against slavery, ‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just’ The supporter of a protective tariff claims him as the highest protectionist in our history appealing to his desire that there might be a ‘wall should keeg ures The saint ' whi » fact that around our country all foreign man trader } out free maintains ng he the doctrin f both of and the no gatas it by fons SON Te that sti: ligion rested upon and that is the very antithisis of violence brute force It is well to remen that Declaration of Indeps itself rests upon the same foundatio which supports our religi name who deny the doctrine otherhood are not apt creed of inalienable rights and natural equality embodied in Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States “Jefferson was the greatest states man known to history He believed and had a enough to take in all ho mankind. He hated tyranny, whether it manifested itself In religious or secular affairs, and applied his voctrine to all questions ose hot of either the Chri love Jef? the nden n love, and those of human b respect the people heart large Fell Dead From His Pulpit. Ambler, Pa., April 13 William Smith, a colored lay preacher and pol | ftician, fell dead from Methodist Church pulpit headlong from the pulpit while lead. ing a spirited exhortation servioe. He was picked up unconscious and died a few minutes later, amidst great ex: citement among the worshipers. His wife and daughter were in the front pews. His death is the fourth of a similar nature among the colored peo ple, who number about 300 souls In Ambler, and they are much stirred up in consequence the African Egg Rolling at White House a Failure. Washington, April 14-The Baster egg rolling Jn the White House grounds was a dismal fallure because of rainy weather. The grounds were water soaked and dripping rain from the trees made the grounds cheerless. About a hundred children, with thelr parents, came down during the after noon, but soon departed. The pro posed marine band concert om the grounds was abandoned. Insane Murderer Drowned. Newark, N. J, April 13. <John T. Larson, a sailor on the schooner Mary A. Hall, became violently Insane and triad to murder the crew, Ne slashed Andrew M, Johnson so he may die. In running to escape from the cap tain and mate of the Hall Larsen fell overboard and was drowned. Larsen bad been melancholy for several days. ‘Senator Hoar, of Massachu- | setts, and Governor Montague, of Vir- | Hotel Parton under the | ! auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Mem- | orial Association in the celebration of | the 160th anniversary of the birth of | A feature of the musical program | was the rendition of a march by Lead- | presided nd | in He plunged | EE BIT WELL SHOE (FOR | LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, | Z18 | NUTick TO STOCKHOLDERS. The annual meeting of the Stockholders of The Bald Eagle Valley Kallroad © Jonupany will be held on Tuesday, April lth, 12 “at 11 oclock 8. m. at the otthee of the Company, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa. Elee- | tion for President and Direciors same day and pince, J. MM. HARDING, Yee, E *¥¢ UTOR'S NOTICE. Estate of MARGARET DALEY, deceased, | of Bellefonte boro, MEN) $2. 50 | All Shapes and all Kinds of Leathers, Just as Good as any $3 Shoe Made. TRY A PAIR AND BE CONVINCED. LAGER & DAVIS, The Shoe Money Savers. BELLEFONTE and PHILIPSBURG. MORPHINE Opium, Lawdanum, Cocaine and all Drug Habits "Nn Or det er We we permancatly for the ared by : nent phy WE GUARANTEE A CURE Confidential correspondence, espe resto preg re the remove the cau ially with physic n fre ym b1 leav: fn Rr no Cravis ng hysic al systems to A home remedy FREE TRIAL TREATMENT ians, solicited. Write today I8INeSS nervy We us and § of disease, Machattan Therapeutic Association Devt. # 1136 Broadway, New York Oity GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa, April 13. —Flon winter superfine. $2 706 yivania roller, clear, $3.1 mills, extra, 32956210 ye flour was quiet, at $3.15@3.20 per barrel. Wheat as firm No. 2 Penn yivania, red, new, TH @80c Corn was firm; No. 2 yellow, local, 49% Oats were Juliet No. 2 white clipped 42 lower grades, $0 Hay was | steady No. 1 timothy, $21 for large | bales Beef was steady beef hams 19G 20. Pork was firm; family, $20 50 Ave poultry, i3¢. for hens, and 10¢ for old roosters. Dressed poultry, at 13% cc. for choice fowls, and 10c. for oid roosters. Butter was steady; creamery 33c. per pound. Eggs were steady. New | York and Pennsylvania, 14 44¢ per | dozen Potatoes steady; choice, 65@ 0c. per bushel Live Btock Markets, East Buffalo, N. Y., April 13. Cattle wore about sat sorime stoers, $0.26 5.50; heiters, | Ch aK cows, §2 0 40. bulls, Veals stead tope. 7 ET J Common 2 Boat, 5 [4 Bast | Ibert aah wer Ye, ¢ ce, 1566.2 rll 18. Cutt) 04.40. prime. wer, 2% orkery NE wot ne mmon, $250 $.40@0.40. veal tH FORCE laste and appetite BEEZER'S MEAT MARKET, ALLEGHENY ST, BELLEFONTE. We Koop none but the best quality of BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, SLICED WAN A Fon want aioe Juiey Bosak gobs House Painting Inferior Decorating Picture Framing, Are the | business of Wall Paper for your selections the Latest Decorations. We employ only Skilled Workmen in all branches of the business. Let us know your wants and our repre sentative will call on you. R. B. Montgomery, Bellefonte, Pa. Orieer’s Stone Bldg. eading pictures oar Ani imaaense ssortment and Ideas for Interior -— iO CONSUMPTIVES. : Ve unaerigoed having be been restored to health by semple mea. slier wer ing lor several with a few vere affection, and that dense Con i angious 10 make known to his feliow suflerers the means of cores To woe who desire it, be will cheerfully send (free hy wmrge) a copy of the prescription weed, whch hey will find A sure cure A [hema Corner Rruachity 1nd allthroat bug Maladies, He hopes all sufferers will try bis remedy, an it is invaluable, Those the prescription, which will cost them nothing, and may prove & blessing, will please address, Wer. NIWARDANIAO%: beottion Sey Yeah, A UA So ———— BAPE SE Capital and Surplus, $2,500,000, MilTlorw do hot save money Yeodose they are Tar away fom bacon We have el this AifBenlly nder our wywtem of mail banking we make EVERY POST OFFICE A BRANCH BANK. Yom can depenlt with us snd seoure the high oh rates on savings. We pay PER CENT. On Savings Accounts. Wrfte At buskisbanplalning { COMMONWEALTH REAL ESTATE A TRUST CO. Pittsburg, Pa. wr pp ant Fourth Avenne, | the undersigned Letters testamentary u ing been granted by the on sald estate hav tegister of Wills to all persons knowing them selves Lo be indebted 10 sald estate are re quested to make immediate payment, and those having claims, to present them for set. tiement PHILIP BEELER, Bx xi6 Bellefonte, Pa E*¥C { TOR LL] NOTIO KE. Estate of JULIA A. BROWN, late of Walker township, deceased Latters testamentary upon the above estate having been granted to pe undersigned, and | persons indebled to the sald estale are re quested 10 make payment, and those having claims Lo present the same, duly authentica ted, for settlement, BP. HOCKMAN, Kx'r, or to Kline Woodring, stt'y Mingovi ie i EX ECUTORS' NUTICE. i | | x30 lon Pr Estate of JOHN WOLF, deceased, Miles township Letters testamentary upon sald estate hav ng been granted by the Hegister of Wills to the undersigned, all persons knewing them selves to be indebied 10 sald estate are re quested to make immediate payment, and those having claims, to present them for set. tiement, ZEIGLER Eebersburg Wisirren 8. BRUNG ARTY MiMinburg, Exrs late of A" MTOR'S NOTICE In the Court of Common Pleas of Centre Coun ty, No. # November Term, iW]. In the mat. ter of the assigned estates of 8. E Condo, of Mlate College, Pa, I'he undersigned. an Auditor app dnted by the Oourt of Common Pleas of Centre Count 10 distribute the funds in the hands of wo Foster ¢ K Condo 0 and among those je 3 10 receive the same ities of his appointment at of ToT. & Walker, No. 11 East Bellefonte, Pa. on Tuesday April lock in the forenoon of sald all parties Interested prove lheir respective lebarred from Ww gun RISON WAL KER DivoR KE NOTICE is H na 1) the Court to N " ree against sd and requested ’" before Monday 3 ) | t answer the oom pe Nad a Harr) # Hugg and show cause have, why the sald Haris Huge t be divoreed fre the bonds of mat my entered Into with you, and in default of such appearance vou will be liable to have a divoree granted in your absence Sherifl's Ofoe f HS TAYLOR, Bellefonte. ra Shenfl, x tr id D" ORCE NOTICE Arvseur H. Kxorr jin the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County. \ Ne. 1¥ Aug. Term, 12 pl: Whereas Albert HH. Knopf! your LOR Sherif TAY of A Dri 1 1%8 said James any yo roesbeck sho 1% aay Ris the Gi roosd and si all ’ why ! be d tered pearance gran'ed in Sheriff's Uffice ho efonte, Pa to have a a voroe HE TAYLOR, Sherif CHa TER NOTICE ¢ i» hereby given be made to ae Governor of ay. April 21th 18 by J Archer Brown, Phillip Kleeberg son. CM. .Clementand Wil he Act of Aisemt vy. ent de for 1 NOOrporat and regulation bi cert un corporations.” approved April 20h S74 and the supplements thereto, for the char of a tended corporation to be called elonte Coal and Coke Company” the and object of which is. mining and vending coal and manufacturing asd selling coke, and for these purposes 10 have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and priv leges of the sald Act of Assembly and the sev eral supplements thereto 3H CMC that au application Pennsylvania W. Gephart F. H. Clem lam Sampson, un ted “An Act to der ‘Be characte TEMENT, Solicitor [Beal NOTICR Note | i harans fiten to all persons in In terest that the Tellowing Inventories of the goods and chatties set apart to widows, under the provisions of the Aet of the 16th of April 1851, have been confirmed by the Court and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court of Centre county, and If no exceptions be filed on or before the first day of next term, the same shall be confirmed abwolutaly. I. The inventory and aisement of the ApPral Fatboy Sor of James lewis, late of RE Soto. dec'd, Be the sane WAS Set el 3 ep he his widow J. Rds Leth Grogs tub decd Tocd, t of the The os ee om iANAN h sented at H. Glossper, late personal propert of Livery Top. Rebooos ¥. x He dy dpa poe SveHEY dod Appramnt, Shoe twp. deo'd, hein Se oo aside to his widow Uretta Oarver, ty of JarSmIAR over, Ro 20 hhe Same was set apart 5. The inventory and sement of the y of Nathaniel Bowersox, late of Mites wat t.ae Same was set aside Is widow Fat . Bowersox. na The ——s appralsement of ee of Jackson y 1, late « G0e'd, as the sine was sel apart to his Aba Julian wp a ee, & i a to has Widow ES - 8 The Rat 50 BE En any, 0.0 GARMAN HOUSE... i EE Entirely H wll BA ng C. NM. & C. B. GARMAN Proprs
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