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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1885
Page
2
Pennsylvania votes to elect Conrad B. Day on the eighth of next month. Democrats urged to mobilize for victory and urge supporters to work for success.
Last Tuesday Onto voters elected Judge Foracker as governor by a 19 000 plurality over Hoadly while Dr Leonard the temperance candidate garnered about 25 000 votes setting a new high for prohibitionist support. The legislature remains Republican by a 3 majority on joint ballot as the constitutional amendment changing election time from October to November passed.
The county party urges voters to back candidate Conrad B. Day next Tuesday. State chairman W. A. Hensel expresses confidence and calls on all Democrats to vote, urging neighbors to ensure a full, upright ballot and oppose the political boss.
In Parapetpa on October 16 the Republican and Independent groups opposing Col. M S Quay for State Treasurer sent over 5000 circular letters across the state. Headquarters staff mail materials and plan two weeks of intensive outreach. Circulating letters urge three options to defeat Quay: abstain from voting, cast a blank for State Treasurer, or vote for Conrad B Day the Democratic candidate.
A summary of the recently approved reforms detailing a three mill tax on mortgages money owed and various financial instruments, new exemptions, and the stringent enforcement requiring sworn returns. The law targets banks savings, annuities, and hired vehicles with a uniform rate and mandates assessor estimates where citizens refuse to disclose.
Boards must add fifty percent, making the base for taxation and corrections allowed only with sworn justification before appeal day. The system, once lax on personal property and money at interest, now seeks to curb evasion, prompted by a Supreme Court decision and the threat to revenue from corporate bonds.
Judge Foraker travels to New York City to stamp the state on October 17 after accepting an invitation from the Republican State committee to support Davenport.
Governor appoints Dr J William White as Trustee of the Eastern Penitentiary replacing the late Mr Harrison. A flood of letters urged the appointment.
Alfred Sharpless known as John Ploughshare criticizes Philadelphia Press reports on county Republican unity. He urges voters to think and vote for honesty, warning against machine politics and fat office seekers in Chester and Delaware counties.
Reports include a twenty inch eel removed from a Williamsport water pipe a National Guard arms upgrade to match the U S Army a new Mammoth coke works firing thirty ovens and an Aj company forming in Huntingdon for a large shoe factory A W Shaw Josh Billings dies in Monterey Ca and burial planned In Renovo post office speculation may reach 5000 plus mining and railroad worker victims noted Philadelphia license law trouble with a refused negro applicant Adams County praised for its poor house and insane hospital 10009 to 12000 boys under 14 in mines could face prosecutions by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Jack Laporte murder sentence six years in Huntingdon Pa
New York park commissioners designate Riverside park plot for General Grant’s tomb, a 650 by 250 foot area with the vault 150 feet from the northern edge. Also reports three intoxicated men die after a gun misfire in Hazleton and a panther attack kills a hunter in Bauer. Chinese migration through Pittsburgh noted with fears and relocations south and eastbound.
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