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Court ProceEEDINGS.—The regular
April session of the Centre county court
convened on Monday with a moderately
numerous attendance and with a rather
meager array of criminal cases. At the
opening the usual number of ‘petitions
were presented by the attorneys and the
constables’ reports were recived. U pon
the grand jury being sworn in Mr. W.
B. Mingle was appointed as foreman.
Upon the convening of court in the
afternoon,the grand jury having present.
ed no bills for trial, the civil action of
Charles Witmer vs. Buffalo Run Rail-
road Company was taken up. This ac-
tion was brought to recover the value of
a cow which had been killed on the road
by said company. The attorneys of the
plaintift seeing that they were unable to
recover under the act of assembly cover-
ing such cases, suffered a voluntary non- |
suit.
The grand jury by thistime having
returned several true bills, the following
commonwealth cases were tried :
Com, vs. Henry and Annie Keen,
charged with assault and battery. Prose-
cutrix, Lizzie Keen. The difficulty oc-
curred in Penn township, and the | counsel, at once moved for a new trial:
prosecutrix alleged that her ather, He n
ry Keen, had choked her, in which as-
sault her mother had participated. The
dispute was about some personal property | sum of $40.02. A motion for a new
which had been levied on by writ of re-
plevin. The jury found a verdict of
guilty as to Henry Keen. The co-de-
fendant, Annie Keen, was not able to
attend the trial and the prosecution was
continued as to her. Defendant sen-
tenced to pay a fine of $10 and cost of
prosecution.
Com. vs. Foster Fannan ; assault and
battery. The offense arose out of a dis-
pute about the ownership of a bridle:
Fannan wanted to ® take the bridle, and
the prosecutor, Henry Burng, objected.
An altercation ensued in which the de-
fendant was alleged to have struck
Burns. Verdict, guilty. Defendant
sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and cost of
prosecution.
Com. vs, James Page. The defend-
ant pleaded guilty to the charge of f-
and b. and received the usual sentence,
and not being able to comply with it-
was sent to jail.
Com. vs. James Ross, charged with f,
and b.; pleaded guilty and received the
usual sentence.
Com. vs. Fianna Colpitzer. Decfend-
ant pleaded guilty to the charge of adul-
tery and was sentenced to 6 months in
jail.
Com. vs. Gertrude Quick. Defendant
isa bad girl belonging to Bellefonte,
who was found guilty of lewdness, fined
$1 and sent to jail for six months,
On Tuesday morning the case of Com.
vs. Frank Charles and Craig Crossmire
came up. These young men were
charged with causing the train wreck at
Milesburg some time ago in which fire-
man Cassett lost his life. District A¢-
torney Meyer asked for their discharge,
as no evidence could be found against
them, and they were accordingly dis-
charged. :
The Zion callithumpian case was next
in order. Some young men were arrest-
ed for being too noisy in celebrating the from the 14th to 17th, inclusive, with
wedding of Mr. Lincoln Musser, and
his father-in-law, Mr. David Solt, at
whose residence the callithumpian per-
formance took place, prosecuted them
for disturbing the peace. The grand
jury ignored the bill and put the costs
arise. Regions to the northwest will
share in the very warm wave, but need
not be surprised at sudden revolutions of
temperature, with snow, followed with
cold and frost from the 4th to 7th. About
the 8th it will turn rapidly warmer, re- |
sulting in hard reactionary storms about
the 9th and 10th. Another wave of
ter these storms. No harm to watch !
Lovers of meteorological science and
conjecture will curiously watch and
note results of new moon on the 8th, so
nearly combined with the transit of
Mercury on the 9th. Don’t be alarmed
at possible earthquake shivers.
moon’s first quarter combined centrally
cessively warm wave is sure to make it-
self generally felt during this period. It
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of the jail, the grate in the kitchen
range, the roof on the watch hall ard
the cess pool in jail yard need repairing,
and recommend that the commissioners
at once maks such repairs as are neces-
sary.
We would also call attention to the
water closet in rear of court house, as it
is in our opinion a nuisance in its pre-
sent condition and should be removed
and replaced by one more suitable for
the place. _ ,
‘We find tne office rooms in the court
house in fair condition.
We beg leave further to recommend
the providing of a room for the accom-
modation and comfort of female witness-
es obliged to attend court.
‘We respectfully tender our thanks to
the honorable judges and district attor-
ney for their courtesy and assistance
rendered us during our deliberations.
‘Wu. B. MINGLE, foreman.
Crvin Surrs.—Of the civil suits tried
this week, in the case of Margaret Mot-
ter vs. Harry Simler, the jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum
of $57.95. The defendant, through his
In the case ot Dale, Hart & Co. vs.
W. H. Hoover, agent, the jury returned
a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the
trial was made and granted.
——Boys suits, suits for small boys,
large boys, young boys, old boys. In
fact we have clothing for all kinds of
boys at prices which will surely please
you. Rochester Clothing House.
Tae WEATHER FoR MAY.— Rev.
Hicks makes the following forecast of
the weather for the month of May :
On the first morning in May it will
ve generally quite cool, with cold and
frost in many parte of this and other
countries. But the temperature will rise
rapidly, causing a phenomenal warm
wave to pass from west to east, which
will be the forerunner cf very heavy
storm disturbances central on the 3rd.
The period running from about the 1st
to 3rd, besides the usual cause, will have
present as extra disturbing factors Mer-
cury on April 29th, moon’s last quarter
on May 1st and the equinox of the
planet Mars on the 4th : We will ven-
ture to name the third, fourth and fifth,
as days of very probable danger. A
very warm, sultry atmosphere in all
southern and middle parts of this conti- |
nent, will be ample and urgent reasons |
for watching all storm clouds that may
resh—perhaps frosty air, will follow af-
The next regular storm period runs
with Vulean on the 15th. Another ex-
will culminate in active, dangerous
on the prosecutor.
Com. vs, D. P. Swartz.
ant was charged with defrauding Robert
Confer, of Howard, by forging his name
to an article of agreement. The prose-
cutor was a tenant on the farm of Swartz
at the time of the alleged forgery. The
The defend-
prosecutor testified that the original
agreement he had signed had been sub-
stituted by another agreement which he
had never seen and to which his name
had been placed without his knowledge.
The testimony of the defense was to the
effect that the prosecutor had signed the
article in question. It was a question of
veracity between the two parties. The
on the opposite side of the earth.
central on the 25th, reach from the 26th
storms, and be followed by very cool
nights. The 21st and 22nd are days of
secondary storm movements, on which
the temperature will reach a high read-
ing, and result in many atmospheric
disturbances. On the 23rd, sun, earth
and moon will be on a direct line, result-
ingin a partial eclipse of the moon,
with a possible disturbance of the ror-
mal magnetic and electric state of our
globe, The eclipse will be visible only
The lateste period for May will be
to 29th. During these, and the day
next before and after, all the phases
jury considered the defendant guilty and
brought in a verdict to that effect.
fendant asked for a new trial.
In the case of Cwmsar and Charles’ La
Port, the two young Frenchmen who
were charged with having attempted to
cause a wreck on the railroad near Phil-
ipsburg, they were discharged, as the
commonwealth had not sufficient evi-
dénce to convict them,
A man named Grimes and a young
boy were brought before court for firing
the woods near Millheim. Grimes is
not considered of sound mind,and J. P.
De.
Gephart, Dr. Hibler and Dr. Hayes
were appointed a committee to inquire
into his sanity.
GRAND JURY'S REPORT.
The grand inquest of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania, inquiring for
the County of Centre, in all matters re-
lating to the same, do respectfully re-
port:
That they bave acted upon seventeen
bills of indictment, of which fifteen were
found true bills and two were ignored.
We beg leave to further report that !
we have visited and inspected the coun-
farm, near Pennville, in addition to a
fine vein of 3 ft. coal of the D. Prime
same place last fall. When Dick
Moran, who is Mr. Fishburn’s superin-
tendent at the Russell farm, struck the
Moshannon vein he immediately went
to Pennville town and reported the
find: ‘Syuire Farwell, of Paennville,
of a regular meteorological throb, or
purturbation will make themselves felt,
first growing very warm in the west—
moving to the east attended by storms
of rain, wind and thunder, and follow-
ed by change of air currents and lower
temperature. The closing days and
nights of May promise to be fair, pleas-
ant and bright, with rising temperature
on the 31st, preparatory to reactionary
storms on June Ist. Let us watch
and see.
A STREAK OF Goop Luck.—Mr. R.
C. Fishburn has struck a 5 ft. 4 i nch
vein of Moshannon coal on the Russell
Measure, which he opened up at the
who is a landowner and desply interast-
ed in the developmsni ot the territory,
was one of the first men Dick told
about the find, and the Squire was so
ty buildings and find the locks at the ! he sat down to his dinner he absent-
jail worn and insecure, and recommend
that the commissioners at once replace
the old locks with new and secure ones.
‘We find the gates in the fence in front
excited over the glad news that when
| mindedly put a table poonfal of molas-
1 5 in his coffee, and then poured a lot
| of sugar on his plate and tried tosop it
| up with his bread.—- Philipsburg Jour-
nal.
Personal.
" —Wm. A. Tobias came up from Milheim on
Monday morning to attend court.
—Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Gerberick, of Thomas
street, spent part of last week with their
daughter, Mrs. C. U. Hoffer, in Philipsburg.
— Messrs Robert and George Valentine have
been spending this week at the Bush House.
They are here looking up the workings of the
new Valentine Iron Company.
—W. C. Heinle, Charles Noll, I. J. Swavely,
Wm. B. Rankin and Col. and Mrs. Eyre Pyle
were Bellefonte visitors to Snow Shoe last
week. All were called thither on business.
—J. A. Miller, Esq., of Rock Spring, is in
town as a traverse juror. Mr. Miller reports
every thing in good condition up his way and
believes that the prospects are good for a pros-
perous season.
—F. Potts Green and Wilbur Twitmire left,
at 5:20, on Wednesday afternoon, for Harriman,
Tenn. They are going down to see the won-
derful growth of the place, and if it comes up
to their expectations they will invest.
—Mr. Jacob A. Shaffer, a very pleasant and
agreeable gentleman from Madisonburg, was
on the grand jury this term of court. After
the jury was discharged he did not forget to
pay his respects to the Warcumax. Come of-
ten, Mr. Shaffer ; we will always be glad to see
you.
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For the Watchman.
License Jugglery.
Among the applications for a hotel
license presented at our License Cou:t
in March last, was that of Gotlieb Haag.
Mr. Haag is the owner of the hotel on
Bishop street known as the Cummings
House. For a number of years Mr.
Brown kept this house and was regular-
ly licensed from year to year, and not
until Mr. Haag became the owner of
this property was a license refused to
the person occupying it. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that year after year the
court has refused his license, he kept the
place as a hotel, and to-day has as large
a patronage from the traveling public as
any hotel in Bellefonte. This- year
again he made. an application for a li-
cense for his house. At the regulir
hearing in March his application was
continued, and held over from time to
time, until last Monday, when the li-
cense asked for was refused.
In making a final disposition of the
application Judge Furst delivered quite
a lengthy opinion, giving his reasons for
refusing a license to Mr. Haag. The
opinion is certainly a very remarkable
one, and the reasons given for the con-
clusion arrived at by the court are pe-
culiar, to say the least. Besides the regu-
lar petition presented by Mr. Haag he
had special petitions presented, asking
for the granting of this license, contain-
ing 1236 names of the very best citizens
of the county. It was also shown con-
clusively on the hearing of this applica-
tion that Mr. Haag’s hotel had a custom
equal to any in the town, and that if
any hotel in the county was necessary
this one was. Yet in the face of. these
facts the application was refused and
Mr. Haag wus put off with the usual
promises for the future.
_ In determining these license appli-
cations great stress is -always put upon
the question of necessity. Nothing else
seems to be taken into consideration, if
you may judge from the official utterances
of tie court. A close examination, how-
ever, will reveal the the cloven foot, and
bring to light the true inwardness of the
motive governing the action of the
court. ln a number of instances li-
censes are granted regularly every year
to applicants for hotels where there is
practically no travel; where there is very
little necessity, if any at all, for hotels ;
and where the place so licensed are sim-
ply local drinking places. And again,
in other instances, the number of li-
censes are increased where the travel is
not materially increased, and the increase
of population but very slight. In thse
instances the applicants were Republi-
cans, and in most cases local leaders in
the party.
In Mr. Haag’s case the patronage is
mostly from the democratic sections of
the county, and he himself a demograt,
although not an active politician. Party
considerations, or possibly votes for the
Jjudgship in the future, seem ‘to weigh
heavier in tbe determination of the li-
cense question than the fact of the
necessity of a hotel and the proper ac-
commodation of the traveling public.
‘We do not insist that this is the case, but
the evidence points very strongly in that
direction, and many of the very best
citizens of the county are rapidly com-
ing to that conclusion. This must nec-
essariiy result in a loss of confidence in
the court and in the administration of
justice generally. Such a condition of
affairs is deplorable, and it behooves the
court to deal with this class of cases in
such a manner as not to give any cause
for suspicion. Mr. Haag was as much
"entitled to a license as many others who
| have received licenses at the hands of the
court ; the necessity for his hotel was ad-
mitted by the court in the opinion given
at the ume the license was refused, and
a refusal under such circumstances can-
not be explained away by an adroit
piece of special pleading. The court
may as well note this fact now as later,
because the people will not be hood-
-winked and juggled any longer.
New Advertisements,
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WHERE SHALL I BUY
MY CLOTHING?
The changing seasons once
again bring back this same
old question to every man—
YOURSELF INCLUDED. Of
course you are going to
spruce up a little this Spring
as every one else does!
Nothing extravagant, a new
suit which will be more com-
fortable and appropriate for
the warm days that are com-
ing and a few articles from
our furnishing goods depart-
ment will perhaps be all that
is required to put you right
before the world. Still there
will be no dodging that orb,
OLD QUESTION.
Where shall I buy my
clothing ? It is bound to
come up and must be decid-
ed before you make your
purchases. Now what say
you? Let us answer the
question for you this time.
We will pay well for the
privilege and you shall be
more than satisfied. This is
our offer to those who will
let us name the place where
they shall buy their Clothes :
First a square deal—Skc-
oND, a saving of several dol-
lars, more or less, according
to the amount of your pur-
chase. Tarp, that good
quality, material and make
which is only found in cloth-
ing that will stay by you. 4th,
the newest, best of styles, in
fabric, cut and fit and a gen-
erous assortment in every
grade that a first class cloth-
ing establishment could be
expected to carry in stock.
Now these shall be yours
if you leave to us the decis
ion as to where you shall
buy your clothes this season.
There is no disputing that
our new line of spring and
summer goods is a marvel
of fine qualties and good
values at fair prices, Infact
it is the largest and most
completeassortment of cloth-
ing and Gents furnishing
goods everbroughtto Center
county.
If you favor us with your
patronage we promise you
the best values which your
money can obtain for you.
Give us acall. You shall
have the most careful atten-
tion,
Unlimited opportunity for
a satisfactory selection, a
perfect fit and the fairest
prices you have ever re-
ceived.
M. FAUBLE, Prop'r
Rochester Clothing House,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Opp. Brockerhoff House.
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New Advertisements,
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virtue of an order issued out of the Or
phans Court of Centre county, there will be ex-
posed to public sale on the premises, one and
a half mile east of Hublersburg, on
SATURDAY, MAY 23rd, 1891,
at 1 o'clock, p. m., the following valuable Real
Listate, late the property of Daniel Emerick >
deceased. A fine farm, containing
——100 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,—
upon which are erected a good barn, all neces~
sary out-buildings and a .
—GOOD DWELLING HOUSE——
The land is nearly all cleared, is in good
condition and located in.one of the best pro-
ducing sections of the county. An excellent
pias of water is at the house and a good or-
chard of choice fruit. This property is handy
to churches and schools, and is an exceeding-
ly desirable one for any one wishing a home
in a good community.
TERMS :—One third cash, one third in one
year and balance in two years, with interest.
Deferred payments to be secured by bond and
mortgage on the premises.
8. A. MARTIN,
ORVIS, BOWER & ORVIS. Trustee.
Attorneys, 36 17 3t
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