4 iy The Centre Democr — CHAS. R. KURTZ “roprietor. OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW Early Settlers Were at the Mercy | | Biggs, Allexander of Outlaws. TWO NOTED ROBBERS KILLED The Story of Lewis and Connelly Brief- er in Those days. | to the | Davis, Joseph { Graham, James, { Graham, John, | Huston, Paul | Andrews, Dr i Jordan, Hugh ly Retold—What Constituted the | Accomplishments ofa Schoolteach- | the old teacher's which may be a slight valley, as in the case of John Barber and Dr. Andrews it they were early residents, Kerr, Willlam McKim, David Palmer, Bolomen (father of Floyd.) Pastorius, Willlam Potter, James with a grist mill, saw mill, and slave Rankin, James Sankey, Ezekiel Sankey. James Sankey, Jeremiah Vanhorne. Joseph Watson, James Wilson, Peter, is evident Jonnu Barrber, John, Beers, Samuel Benn, Henry, Jr, Clover, Paul Clover, Philip Framton. Arthur Graham, Robert, Jack, Michel A writer has the following sketch of | bit strong, but true in a measure : Iz the early days the settlers were | at the mercy of outlaws, as much as by the Indians. by joutlaws, many homes were plunder. ed, the robbers finding secure hiding places in the mountains. These desper. adoes would be in hiding along the roads to pounce upon the traveler, The most daring of these outlaws were Lewis and Robberies were numerous Connelly. Horse thieves and cut-throats, in flee. ing from justice or for the purpose of fol. lowing their profession, often through the country, and occasionally stopped long enough for their characters and Jdesigus to become known. instances the inhabitants becarie upmis- takably aware of their presence in their midst, by the loss of a horse or something Then, burglariously passed In many else equally valuable. houses and were entered and plundered, and AS now, stores travelers highway the )W were frequently robbed on the In those days the people were at mercy of out-laws much more than ne The were exceedingly facilities for defence and limited, settled condition of the country bandits comp easy and safe. The boldness and with which they sometimes performed if exploits were truly astonishing ‘or weeks at a time they would remain in a certain district, daily c¢ ymmitling robberies, in utter defiance of the law and the people. Such was the case with lewis and Connelly, who are well re membered by the older citizens of county. Lewis was a native of Centre county, is said. Conovelly was an Irishmaa, and a powerful man Their deeds ot daring and lawlessness were numerous, to such their ronderies been offered au extent had car- ried on that the g ment 1 of six hundred dollars for ' alive. Daring one of their ex they robbed a wagon rursions down Bald Eagle Valley loaded with store goods, belonging to Hammond and Page of Bellefoute, and took i the spoils wT the creek in a canoe to a point just above Lock Havey, and finding that they had more than they could conveniently carry, or fearing that it might lead to their de. tection, they built a fire and barged a portion of it, Some of the citizens then living in Lock Haven, seeing the smoke, and knowing that Lewis and Counelly were in the neighborhood, surmised its origin, and made an effort to capture the robbers The atlempt was ineffectual, and thinking the locality a little too warm for them, the desperadoes left for pew fields of operation and were soon heard from on the waters of the Sinnemahoning whereupon twelve armed men started from Certre county, determined their capture, It they were discovered near ‘shooting at a mark upon was not long before the close by the house Ccieck been 10 the habit of sharing their plunder An attack which of a settler, who, no doubt, had was immediately made, was desperately resisted by the robbers who, however, were both wounded, Con. nelly through the bowels and in the arm, which was badly shattered. With much difficulty they were then se. cured and taken the river mn a canoe to Lock Haven, where Convelly soon after died. His remains were barted just outside the old cemetery, Lewis was taken to Bellefonte, whete he also soon died from the effects of his wound. The skull of Connelly was afterwards taken up and used by a lecturer in illustrating phrenology. That part of Potter township remain. ing in Northumberland county east of Spring Mills by order of court in 1790, was given the name of Haines, as a compliment to Reuben Halves (brewer) of Philadelphia, who owned large bodies of land in the township, The first store at Potter's Mills was opened by James Potter, Jr., (afterwards Lewis down Robert McKim and W, A, Patterson as clerks. The first entry in the ledger is a charge, Nov. ¢, 1790, Samuel Hdmis- ton, one bushel of salt, ten shillings, In 1791 be erected the distillery. John Earnest was the distiller, Whiskey was sold from the distillery at the price of four shillings per gallon. The name of Gen. Potter's old army servant appears upon the ledger as “Hero Wade," The following additional residents of Potter were taken from the assecsments, but in some cases it would appear vot to be the date of the person named coming | school | that make the good teacher. With here and there an exception the of the past were deficient in nearly all the qualities They were and masters generation intemoerate, tyranical, illiterate; | considered unfit for any business except | school teaching, | thing except the three | road. We hear of many who used profane language in school, and had habitually a bottle of whiskey secret. the They were not expected to teach any. “RY made application for a school, his head ed somewhere about school house, 8," and if one was not probed seriously by officials to fathom the profundity of his knowledge, making quill pens and physical vigor to “thrash” Proficiency in writing, skill in unruly boys—were the qualifications that | commended him most to his patrons ; and his prerogative of flogging he usually ex. ercised to an amazing degree. He was ii meet. more lavish than discriminating in ut punishments AMONE a in a few pos were mammtained the of better instructors eT near My Pp nnea ¥ wa 1 charge LICENSE COURT Tuesday morning the session of License Court was held ace with Judge Love pres There were forty six applications various The of license granted a in the ut of their bein who holds the bote Shaffer S. B od Isaac Shauver of the hote This ARO Was | roorietor piicants for this license tion was continued until monstrances were bles plications of Charles | license, in Boggs twp.; |. I. Delong, bo and hotel at Moshannon, All tel cuse at Blanchard ; Alonzo Grove of these The ap- plication for brewer license of Robert 1. were continued to March 25th Hass, in Benver twp, at R wopsburg, was March 25th. The court gave some of the landlords a comb also held over till ing down for the manner in which they conducted their hotels and warned them bim in re a continuance wou!d warrant voking their license. He also gave the landlords to understand that their pers sonal deportment at all times should be gentlemanly and would be a matter for the court to consider. The remarks were sharp and direct, - Insurance Rates Increased By a recent statement published, Kiv. lug the profits and losses of the million. dire insurance companies, it is seen that the net underwritidg loss for 1901 is $7. 754,510, and for the last three years the net losses for the same companies are $19.501,014. Un account of these losses, which were caused by the many recent disastrous conflagrations, the rates on all manufacturing risks, and other special hazards and the contents thereof, and on all mercantile risks in all states east of the Rocky mountains have been in. creased twenty five per cent. The in. crease went into effect March 1 - Murder at Karthaus A fatal shooting affray occurred at Karthaus on Saturday night between four laborers on the West Branch rail. Ross Stewart and his brother. | white men from North Carolina, had an | altercation with two Italians, one of the Judge Potter) in the fall of 1790, with | latter fired three shots from his revolver one taking effect in Ross Stewart's heart killing bim iostantly,. The Italians made their escape, |! “A quiet wedding ocecurred Thursday evening at the parsouage of Rev. Thos. Perks pastor of the United Brethren church. The happy couple were Cari Lilliedahl, of Williamsport and Miss Grace 8. Barlett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Barlett, of Bellefonte. Mr. Lilliedabl is employed by the Pennsyl. vania R. R. Co, at Altoona. They left for Altoona where they will make their future home, {taxed | BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1902. BELLEFONTE WAS FLOODED | | Much Damage to Property in this | | leading to the Armour Gap lime opera- | Section. HIGHEST RISE EVER KNOWN | | Bridges Were Swept Away Inundated, Fences Washed Away The Town Without Water, Light | or Mail Connection. One week ago, last Friday, there was | much excitement about Bellefonte, as well as in other points of the county over the It and in some places was higher than the mem June 1 of 188% Centre county was not alone in the affliction, flood. was disastrous, orable yod ns of it extended over the greater portion the State Two weeks ago there was an unusual. from 14 to 24 inches That, ly heavy snow fall of in various localities along with the former snows, made a deep covering. While the ground was frozen hard and deep with several inches of ice in most the Thursday next to the earth mild Wednesday and piaces weather on caused the snow to melt rapidly, and on rain fall, uickly dissole | Thursday there was a and more at night, that very gq The it take up the water an ed the snow frozen earth would d the result was waler courses wh h that it rushed to the Ame » ch ig the on The Friday about a foot f " > J 1 suffered Beliefoute se more damage than unly spring Creek nud and ith, drift was This the NT, AE tabbage lodged at the railroad trestle above tion and banked the waters The drift er the rails Palace Livery feet of water in 1fier was the ich had several horses in short the and carriages were Water Watchman basement and reached the middie of the The soon broken by drift and in the mud and and \ ved out order rose over the walls of the office window sills back window was filth poured covering a!l the presses and destroved several hundred dollars worth of paper stock The Bellefonte Republican office had a similar experience in their basement, They lost considerable paper and their presses where the presses are located, were littered with ith and slimy mad All the cellars in that section were flood ed, so were the coal yards, and Petes Keichline’'s store across the race had a number of props knocked out by drift and there was danger of it collapsing into the race. Farther down, the race broke at the forebay of Gerberick's mill, and cut a swath through Crider’s lamber yard taking some lumber with it. The board walk along the banks of the creek from the laundry to the Central R R depot is nearly all washed away and the road is cut The large borough truss bridge across the stream at the mill was in danger of being mov- ed as the water came up to the floor and the large cakes of ice and timber that {came down would strike it with such | great force thut the whole structure would tremble, but it was not moved. Had any of the lumber piles from Citi. | der's gone down the bridge would have gone out. The foot bridge at the P. R. R. round house was carried away and so | was the railroad tressle across the creeks to Morris’ limestone kilus., Below that | stood the Spring twp iron truss bridge at | the pail works. For a long time it stood i | the force of the waters, but bad to give | | way and was carried down about a hun. | dred feet below the grand stand of the | | fair ground and is lodged in the bed of | the creek, DAMAGE AT THE FAIR GROUNDS, | Probably more damage was done to | | the Centre county Fair Grounds than anywhere else in this vicinity, On the west side of the ground along the rail deep with furrows Buildings across. When he | side it sank down in the stream and soon | was carried from the foundations. | Heckman had to leave his horse and | buggy out there and came back to town | over the hills, { much, but those at the | ground were swept away entirely. lower end of the The | kround is generally cut up and washed. | | About two hundred feet below | drift is lodged against the tressle work tions. On to Milesburg the same | struction was caused along the course of the stream. NO LIGHT AND KO WATER | the flood was the closing down of the | walter From Friday | fire, forenoon next morning there was | the pipes for domestic purposes the scarcity of water compell. had hau! water from This ed the electric down Friday the streels were dark and most of the stores | peisons to spring light plant to close vight and in consequence had to use oil lamp rsperm candies, A pile of lumber passing vader the High street bridge broke the water ana Kas mains on Friday and the West ward was put to gre mconvenience until a tem be ¥ connection could made tr several days we were cut off from outside world There was no tele graphic communi and few of the telephone lizes about the county were in working order The last trains were m Thuarsd ] We pag yd Monday and th those ay afternoon town gol nO new Mi up a pot take al there being about sacks { lobk the postal clerks several hours to handle and distribute the same Monday the regularity trains were the coming in on better time The town may there are other moving with some and mails were railroad bridge taken sway in not be built for some time as repairs to the lines that The . Central R. R. of Pa., was more fortunate are more important for the present this time than heretofore as they had | very little trouble on their route and trains were running on pretty good time County Commissioner Daniel Heckman The be concluded to drive bad a fright on Friday worning water being high his daughter out to Coleville where she teaches one of the schools. On the way out he had to cross Buffalo Run creek at the lower furnace bridge. At that time the water was up close to the floor of the Some men were standing there as be came along and they assured him that the bridge was solid and over he went. When on the structure be noticed that Was giving way and burried reached the other bridge it It seems that the water bad undermined the masonry of the | bridge and that as soon as they were on it the additional weight caused the stroc. ture to settie down. George Bush, of this place, bad a dan. gerous and unpleasant experience at Milesburg on Satusday. He put on his rubber hip boots and went to Milesbarg to get a seichel that he had left in the depot. Down there he came across high water and in attempting to get to the de. pot he got off his bearings and stepped into a cesspool that had been left uncoy ered and went down to his shoulders. There was a swift current and consider. able drift going which made his predica. ment rather serious, but help came and he managed to get out, without any ser. fous injuries and rather unpresentable in appearance, Some parts of Milesburg, rather Cen- tral City, suffered considerably from the rise of the Bald Ragle. The floating ice formed a gorge above the town and when that came down there was a big rise, Huge cakes came the streets (Continued on page 8.) all the | de- | One of the inconveniences attending works as the water rose to the | | middle of the boilers, and put out the | until the | ACCIDENTS FROM from Drowning 'A BOY'S PECULIAR DEATH. | | Falls Into a Water at Pleasant Gap by Falling Rock of Young Hile. Crushed little water in | Many | Charles Dutton, a traveling agent from Wi per ence, on llamsport, had an exciting flood ex With a horse buggy he was on his way from Jack Friday last and sonyille to Howard, and when in the amimal's bridle he in danger of drowning and y borse and bugg time to save hi mi , he saw the horse oCy od Tes He the buggy, which Cue, drowned had a stack were . and buggy SINAn ot water and nmey Companion was startled by n accident but bad the presence mind to grasp his companion as be can up the second time and pulled him out This was a very perilous task as he had to crawl out on some slender bushes that overhung the deep pl that would bard. He held the boy minutes antl a When they safle him fifteen ly support for about little girl got ground ran for help young he and died Rimmey out on was found to be » s His drowning as an examination that his severely bruised and some of the internal unconscious SOON after death was not dee Was made and it was found body was organs were raptured so that his death was This was caused by the heavy rock falling or roll almost instantanco.s ing over him as they went down into the water The interment took place at Pleasant Gap on Monday afternoon - Masons Buy a Property The members of the Masonic order, at this place, have bad under consideration the purchase of the building occupied by Miss Mary Magill as a hoarding | house, on Allegheny street, known as the Humes’ property. It is a ine three story, | pressed-brick, substantial building, | prominently located, Miss Magill, ow | ing to {ll health, has concluded to dis. continue the boarding house and it was offered for sale. The Masons now have a fine suite of rooms on the third floor of | Reynold’s bank building. At a meeting Tuesday evening, we are informed, the purchase of the Humes’ property was de. concluded soon, remodel the building and raise the roof of the third story. The rooms on the first floor will be modeled for public of- fices and will be desirable locations. The upper portion of the bullaing will be oc- THE FLOOD | Charles Dutton's Narrow Escape | Deep Sink Filled With | A Heroic Effort | cided upon at $6,000, and the sale'will be It will be the purpose of the order to | L. FACT, FUN AND FANCY VOL. 24, NO. 10. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Selected and Original. A goat has a good head for business. Short friends often make long accounts. Man is but a freckle on the face of time, The low-cut ball gown is open to | spection, It doesn’t pay to adve tise for lost portunities, a lot towards The elevator does up- { lifting the race. Consistency is often but another name for contrariness When a man is on his uppers it means down that he is pretty low Dazzling prospects seldom make ome blind to one interests. When thelr The § very apt to $ own paper hangers go to the wall i do not suffer, creditor rl who is iful to her ideal is remain an old mad. If beauty is only skin deep a lot of peo- pie ought to be turned inside out A things the wise man quickly When a he has occasion to heated argument is one of the drops ied man oo ” married man goes on tear a worry over the rent After a woman gets a man under hér thumb he meekly asks for the of her hand. wt rest and congratulatior supper upper was announced 3 10 2a sumptuous feast to did fu ustice. The newly ried pair expect to settle down in a cos nest in Lemont where they will their groom isthe som of J. B of Lemont, be at The Esq., home to all many friends. Mayes, the well. known marble cut. assist his father in the basi. The bride 1s an estimable young make a charming wife We wish them a long life of happiness ter and will ness lady and will Their Pay Withheld When rived at Sunbury the Pennsylvania pay car ar Ast week a large num ber of employes who appeared for wag es due them were refused, the pay clerks explaining that the monev bad been at tached by two collection agencies, incor the of Virgina The claims were placed in the hands of porated under laws the agencies by firms to whom the meh are indebted, and from indica. by the railroad company until the matter is definitely settled in the courts. Call and examine our $2.50 Bilt Well shoe for men. Yeager & Davis - present tions the wages will not be paid over A Heavy Snow. Wednesday we had another surprise in weather, during the day a snow storm | prevailed and by evening we had a fall of about 23 inches. Owing to the storm with it drive roads are blocked and rail. road traffic is again impeded The afternoon train for Lewisburg did not go out, asd with hard work the Bald Eagle Valley was kept open, but trains were | several hours late, A clear sky asd bright sun promises mild weather today. which may briag acother serious flood. mt ————— Moving Time. Many of our readers will change their postoffice address after April st, In order that vou do not miss your paper it is well to notify us in advance stating where you move. Then be sure to _give your old address and the new ome as well. Read vour notice carefully before mailing so that no mistakes occur, This is important to both, «J. K. Reifsnyder, Eq, of Millheim, who last week surprised his friends by taking unto himself a better half, was in
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