Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. , 141891.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Epiror
BC ——————
Pemocratic County Committee, 1891
‘Bell e Woarrersssssmecsosness W. S. Galbraith
Betepnts, ¥ w ... Joseph Wise
4 W.W. John Dunlap
Centre Hall Borough... . John T. Lee
Howard Borough...... H. A. Moers
flesbuitg Boraugh.. A. M. Butler
Lp orough..... A. C. Musser
James A. Lukens
.... C. A. Fanlkner
.. Frank Hess
se Eo M.Griest
.. BEugenc Meeker
.. Harvey Benner
.. Philip Confer
T. F. Adams
hilipsburg, 1st W...
2 & 5 24 WV...
. N. Krumrine
N. J. McCloskey
Daniel Dreibelbis
Geo. W. Keichline
.. Chas. W. Fisher
... James P. Grove
. Isaac M. Orndorf
. Geo. B. Shaffer
.... Eilis Lytle
.. J. W. Keller
. W.T. Leathers
...... Henry Hale
... Alfred Bitner
John J. Shaffer
.. W. J. Carlin
.. P. A. Sellers
... J. C. Stover
woes 8. W. Smith
.. Jas. B. Spangler
... Jas. Dumbleton
... William Hutton
Thomas Turbidy
. John D. Brown
Jerry Donovan
James Carson
. E. E. Ardery
W. T. Hoover
Chas. H. Rush
... D. A. Dietrick
*equtess 0. D. Eberts
A. SCHAEFFER, Chairman.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
Fox DELEGATE 10 CoNSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
ELLIS L. ORVIS.
Subject to action of district confe rence.
Jury Commissioner —GEORGE BOWER.
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——0n the second page of this week's
Warcaman will be found the editor's
account of a short trip through the
North West. The reader may possibly
find something of interest in it.
The Democratic County Convention.
The Democratic County Convention,
which met in the Court House on
Tuesday last, was a larger body of
representative Democrats than was to
have been expected under the circum-
stances. The fact that there was no
county nomination to be made except
for the office of Jury Commissioner,
left the impression that but little in-
terest would be taken in the matter, and
but few delegates would attend. The
call of the roll, which showed that
but five of the forty-seven election
districts were unrepresented, proved
the error of this impression, and con-
vinced the most skeptical of the fact
that, although this is a terribly ‘off
year’ in county politics, the Democrats
of Centre are awake to the situation
and feel the importance of the State
campaign before them.
With the exception of the failure to
give to Philipsburg, or the northern
section of the county, one of the dele-
gates to the State Convention of "92,
we believe the work of the convention
will meet with the general approval of
the Democrats of the county. There
may be those who will doubt the policy
of attempting at this time to change
the manner of making district nomina-
tions, but there can be no question of
the necessity of a change, or the fair-
ness of the plan proposed.
The ticket placed in nomination is
a good one and will receive the cordial
and earnest support of every Democrat
in the coanty.
Mr. Geo. Bower, who was nomin-
ated for Jury Commissioner, is the pres:
ent incumbent of that office. He has
had three years experience in filling
the jury wheel, and in that time has
learned much of men, their fitness and
surroundings, that can be put to ad-
vantage while performing the import:
aut duty of selecting jurors. He is a
man of good judgment, of high char
acter, strong in his determination to
do right, and, with the experience he
has already had, will makea highly
acceptable and excellent official,
Erus L. Orvis, Esq.,, who was se
lected as the choice of the county for
delegate (0 the coustitutional conven-
tion, is the junior member of the law
firm of Messrs. Orvis, Bower and Or-
vis, and is well fitted for the honorable
He is
a gentleman of quiet, studious habits
and important position named.
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has keen discernmant andslaar idess,
is conservative in his views, and care-
ful and considerate in his actions.
There would be no danger, if men like
Mr. Orvis arc elected delegates, of rash
or radical changes in the constitution, to |
the detriment of the people, or injury
to the honest business interest in the
Commonwealth.
Pr —
——The contest in Louisiana as
to whether or not the lottery swindle
shall be perpetuated is becoming most
intense and the issue is doubtful. There
may be much trouble yet before the
matter is settled one way or the other,
In the solution of a question in which
the reputation of the Slate is at stake
there should be no doubt of the
result.
Its Declaration of Principles.
The People’s Party in Ohio has held
its convention and does not leave the
public in doubt as to what measures it
would enforce if it had the power. It
declares forjfcompulsory education;
free coinagefof silver; abolition of na-
tional banks ; the issue of legal-tender
Treasury notes to the extent demanded
for conducting all business, and 2 per
cent. loans on land; a government mo-
nopoly of the manufacture of liquors ;
a graduated tax on incomes; universal
suffrage, irrespective of sex or color;
more pensions, and the election of
United States Senators by the people.
Most of these propositions are objec-
tionable on account of their paternal
character and meddlesome purpose, al-
though several are commendable and
would do good if put into practice. The
general intention, however, is dema-
gogic. There is one suggestion, how-
ever, that is really good, which appears
in the declaration that “taxation, na-
tional, State or municipal, shall not be
used to build up one interest at the ex-
pense of another.” But it is not nec-
essary to go to the People’s Party tor
this doctrine. It is a fundamental
principle of the Democratic party, con-
stituting the basis of its opposition to
monopoly tariffs.
Canada is also afflicted with
rascally public officers. It has just
been discovered that Sir Hector Lan-
GEvIN, Minister of Public Works under
the Dominion government, has been
carrying on a system of corruption and
plunder that extended through a series
of years, and in consequence of the dis-
covery he has been forced to resign.
It is said that the extent of his stealing
equals that of Bi Tweep in his pal-
miest days, and would make a good
match to the boodle operations of
Philadelphia's Republican machine
managers.
A Northwestern Word for Pattison.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press seems to
think a great deal of our Roserr E.
Parrison as a candidate for President.
The prairie breezes couldn't waft a
nicer compliment than this :
The progress of events in party politics
points somewhat clearly to the appearance of
Governor ParrisoN of Pennsylvania among the
candidates for the Democratic presidential
nomination, if not also toa fair probability of
success, No citizen who desires in public life
to promote the ascendency of men of exalted
conceptions and standards of public duty,
whether he be Democrat or Republican,and who
has intelligently observed the public career
of Governor Parrison, but will be pleased to
nqtg his present prominence as a presidential
candidate. He has shown himself at every
stage of his career to be a courageous and out-
spoken public servant, far less disposed to
consult his own personal or political interest
than to protect the public right at all hazards.
Pennsylvania may not furnish the
next Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent, but if the old State should he
called on for that distinguished service
she would promptly respond by pre-
senting PATTISON.
——The pension clerks are not
working fast enough to come up to the
mark fixed by Ravym, who aspires to
have 350,000 cases passed during the
year. Last week the clerks turned out
5,917 cases, at which rate scarcely
more than 300,000 can be put through
in a year’s time. Six thousand a week
must be the figure, at which rate
the four hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of America would find 1,000,-
000 names on the pension list, some-
thing that would take away the breath
of the effete foreigners when they come
over to visit the Columbian Fair.
Filed Down.
During the Presidential campaign of
1888 the employes of the Arcade File
factory at Sing Sing, New York, were
induced to take a lively interest in the
election of HARRISON by the represen-
tation that their interest as working-
men depended upon the success of the
Republican candidate. Files had to be
protected by a tariff, it was said, and
the tariff would be wiped out if Creve.
LaNp were elected. The election of
Harrison would not only keep the file
industry from going to rack and ruin,
but the wages of the workmen would
be increased. Stimulated by such ar-
guments the Sing Sing file-makers
were enthusiastic supporters of the Re-
publican candidate, but they now find
that the benefits that were to result
from his election
ably filed down.
have been consider-
umph of the great protective principle,
their wages were rednced last week
about 40 per cent., and they will prob-
ably strike,
file-makers have reason to be exasper-
ated,
PE
——A constitution that enforces it-
selt only so far as the citizen or tax-
payer is conc:ned, and allows cor
porations to do as they please, is the
kind of a one that needs changing as
soon as that work can possibly be done.
You couldn't make a
newspaper or a corporation lawyer be-
lieve this, however, and for this reason
every one of them is opposed to a
constitutional convention,
Instead of getting |
wore pay in consequence of the tri- |
Aftersuch a rasping the |
corporation |
tility which farmers have always as-
Rain Made to Order.
Secretary Rusk’s project of furnish-
ing the farmers with good refreshing
showers whenever the condition of the
crops require such refreshment, by
means of dynamite explosions, may
not be as visionary as it appears to
those who don’t understand the princi-
ple upon which the thing is to be done.
A writer in the North American Review
for August explains why the explosion
of dynamite in dry weather should
produce a desired rainfall, and also
why great battles are usually succeed-
ed by heavy rains. All air contains
more or less moisture, and the explo-
gion of gunpowder or dynamite cools
the air, and thus compels it to give up
some of the water it contains. It
may seem strange that the explosion
of explosives should cool the air, but
it is a fact well known to scientists
that when gases expand the result 1s a
cooling of the surrounding bodies.
Thus it is perfectly reasonable that
when gunpowder or dynamite ex-
plodes there is a great expansion of
gas.
It is by an explanation like this that
the writer in the North American Re-
view tries to show that Uncler JERRY
hasn’t lost his senses when he proposes
to furnish showers, on short notice,
for the benefit of the farmers.
Soldierly | Sensitiveness.
There has been some feeling ex-
cited in the distribution of the med-
als to the “First Defenders.” These
were the first five volunteer compabies
from Pennsylvania that reached Wash-
ington at the outbreak of the Rebellion.
The Logan Guards, of Lewistown, were
the first to report to Governor CURTIN
at Harrisburg, and the Captain of that
company, Lieut. Col SELHEIMER, who
is still living, complains that in the
naming of the five companies on the
medal his organization is placed last
on the list. They certainly should
have been named in the order in which
they reported to the Governor, and that
they do not stand in that order is evi-
deuce of careless work on the part of
those who designed and made the
medal. Soldiers are very sensitive
on such points as this,and are not will-
ing to yield the fraction of an inch
where their fame is involved. [t may
be a weakness, but it is a very solaier-
ly weakness.
Governor BucHANAN, of Tennes-
see, has kept his word and issued a call
for an extra session of the legislature
to consider the abolition of the convict
contract labor system. The miners,
however, will not be in a hurry to dis-
pose of their guns, which will prove to
have been effective instruments in
kelping to putaway a system of labor
as odious as the old form of slavery
that used to prevail in Tennessee.
EE A KA US ATs,
—=Two Cincinnati newspapers,
which had been fighting Governor
CAMPBELL, and tried to prevent his re-
nomination, have come out in bis sup-
port. These are the Volksfreund, one
of the strongest Democratic German
newspapers in the West, and the Sout’
West, the organ of the liquor dealers.
These flops are significant and equiva-
lent to serving notice on MoKiNLEY
that the Democratic defection will
amount to little, or nothing, by the
time the election comes off. With the
Ohio Democracy united, it will take
an unusual amount of “fat-frying” to
enable the Republicans to carry the
State, if they can carry it at all.
——Judge Maver, of Lock Haven,
has given a legal opinion in which he
decides that the West Branch of the
Susquehanna is a public highway, and
that it would be as unlawful to obstruct
it as it would be to build a fence across
a city street. The action grew out of
the cutting of a channel in the ice last
winter at a point where parties had
been in the habit of driving across the
river. The ice cutter claimed the right
to cut where he pleased, while the oth-
er side held that he was cbstructing
the highway, a position sustained by
{the court. The opinion of the learned
| Judge will be accepted as good law.
| ——At its State election last
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week |)
| Kentucky modified it.” coustitution,
{ which was sadly in need of improve
| ment. The old one, which was adopt-
( ed prior to the late war, askuowledged
the legality ot slavery aud was in other
respects an antiquated document. The
i new constitution of the State fs well
fitted in every respect to the advance-
adopted by an overwhelming majority.
A ed SER Yon
A wheat corner is now being
engineered by the Farmers’ Alliance in
Kansas, it hold
half of the wheat crop of the State for
higher prices. The
! much right to form a corner as any-
| body else, but it is a bad business, no
{ matter by whom it is engineered, Be-
being intended to
farmers have as
sides, it does not comport with the hes:
sumed against combinations made to
control prices.
ment of Kentucky interests, and it was |
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Of Course They Do.
The Democrat of this week tur-
nishes the names of half a dozen Re-
publican lawyers of this place who, it
says, have declared against a constitu-
tional convention. This is altogether
probable. The Republican bosses are
dead against it, and how could you ex-
pect those who do their bidding to be
any other way? An amended or chang-
ed constitution might result in securing
honest elections ? Does any one for a
moment believe that Republican bosses,
or those who carry out their orders,
would favor any movement that would
bring this about ?
The Robber Entered a Bank in Daylight
Killed One Man, Wounded Another
and then Coolly Left the Bank
With His Plunder.
Liya, Ohio, August 8.—The neigh-
boring town of Columbus Grove, was
the scene, this morning, of one of the
boldest crimes on record. The bank lo-
cated there is known as the Maples
bank, of which Thomas J. Maple is the
cashier. He opened up for business, as
has been his custom, at 8 o’clock, Soon
Abraham Siferd, a well known farmer,
dropped in, took a chair and sat back
against the wall. He and the cashier
soon engaged in conversation. Present-
ly Maple opened the vault and took
therefrom a package of bills amounting
to $1,000. He had previously laid on
the counter about $400. At8.30 o'clock
a stranger walked in the front door and
in either hand he carried a revolver.
He walked up to within a few feet of
the counter and, without saying a word,
raising one revoiver, he aimed at
Cashier Maple and fired.
The ball buried itself 1n the wall back
of the cashier. Before Maple could
secure his own revolver, which laid on
the counter, the man fired again, strik-
ing Maple’s arm in the fleshy portion
above the elbow. He fired again and
this time the ball hit Maple in the side
and he fell to the floor in an insensible
condition, but rallied a little, and by
clinging to a chair raised himself up and
screamed murder. Siferd was paralyz-
ed with fear, The desperado had for
the fun of the thing shot through the
glass in the counter and broke the ink-
stands. He reached through the brok-
en glass; secured the $1,400, then coolly
turned to Siferd and leveling the revolv-
er at him, said, “If you move a muscle
or make any outcry I will shoot you,
too, full of holes.”
Siferd did not move. At this junc-
ture William Vandermark, a well
known farmer stepped in the front door.
He was coming to get $1,000. The
identical package, which the cashier
had laid out, was intended for him on
the sale of his hogs. The desperado
heard his footsteps and turning around
shot him, the ball going clear through
his bowels over the hips, and he fell to
the floor. The robber went out on the
street, still earrying the revolvers and
flourishing them over his head in the
true Younger brothers’ style. He
threatened to clean out the whole town.
He paused a half minute before Rink’s
restaurant and said: “I am Jessie
James No. 2,” and that he would kill
every man in the town.
He walked briskly then to the south-
ern borders of the town, climbed over
the fence into a cornfield and was lost
to sight. William Maple, the brother
of the cashier, who owns a large dry
goods store near the bank, was notified.
He was soon on the the scene, and his
father Simon Maple, came in from the
rear of the building. They took Thom-
as to his house, got medical attendance
and it was discovered that bis wounds
were not necessarily fatal. Hesoon re-
vived and gave a description of the rob-
ber. He described him as being a man
about five feet, seven inches tall, heavy
set, with black mustache. He wore a
silk cap, something on the style of a con-
ductor’s cap, a black alpaca coat and
had on light blue pants with a black
stripe down the leg. He is about 35
years of age, with bright, piercing eyes.
A man answering this discription has
been hanging around the depot here for
some days, and it is the opinion of the
officers and others that he went to Col-
umbus Grove on the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton local freight this morn-
igg from here.
He first went into Crawford’s bhard-
ware store, adjoining the bank, and ask-
ed for a box of 32 cartridges. He ob-
tained them and then asked for revolv-
ers. Two were shown him. He picked
them up, filled the cartridges in, then
said to the proprietor: ‘“You’d better
lie down under the counter before I kill
you.” Crawford dodged down. Then
he ran into the bank and commenced
shooting. He has evidently been over
the ground and is thoroughly conver-
sant with the bank and other buildings.
The municipality has only a city mar-
shal and a constable, and the villagers
were so stunned by the boldness of the
desperado that they could not recover
from their astonishment in time to make
any effort to catch the murderer. Wil-
liam Vandermark was carried to Dr.
Begg’s office who said the wounds were
lutwl. He died at 3 o'clock this altee-
noon. His home was four miles east of
the town in Union township. He
leaves his family well provided for.
William Maple came here and noti-
ficd the officers, several of whom stucted
in pursuit. He offered a large reward
for vhe murderer dead vr alive, but hop-
ed he would be caught and hanged to
the nearest tree. About two hundred
citizens of the Grove organized thewm-
selves into n company and went in pur-
At latest 1c ports he was -in “the
vicinity of Rockport, about nine miles
northeast of this city between Columbus
Grove and Bluffton. Several officers
from here and Bluffton and the citizeus
from Beaver Dam and West Cairo are
aroused. The woods and cornfields are
being watched closely, and it seems im-
possible for the desperado to escape.
HE ELUDES THE ENTIRE POPULATION
BY SKILLFUL DODGING.
SPRINGFIELD, O., August 9.—Deter-
mined men have been out all day search-
ing for the robber of the bank at Colum-
bus Grove, O. Almost everybody in
the northern part of Allen county has |
been out all day looking for the desper-
ado. Heis alone and on foot, and
traces of him have been obtain at differ-
ent points. A dozen cornfields and
woods were surrounded, and when cap-
ture was thought certain the rogue made
his escape.
Twice only was the bandit seen yes-
terday, and yet at no time have the pur-
suers been any great distance from him.
From cornfield to cornfield has he gone,
keeping himself clear of the eyes of
those who followed him and only ap-
pearing because of burning thirst.
Only twice did he voluntarily expose
himself, and on each occasion his pur-
suers fired upon him, but the distance
was too great, and he continued his
flight unharmed.
A telegram to-night from Cashier
Maple says the robber hasbeen located.
It is scarcely believed possible that he
will be captured under the shield of
darkness.
CHASING THE ROBBER AND MURDERER.
Lima, O., August 10.—The Colum-
bus Groye Bank robber and murderer
has been traced as far as Dunkirk. O.,
twenty-five miles from the scene of his
depredations. He left his horse at that
place and again took to the woods. The
bank offers $200 reward for his capture,
the citizens of Columbus Grove $250,the
County commissioners $500 and a pri-
vate reward of $50, making a total of
$1000. All the local detectives are
working for the big reward. The Cin-
cinnati Enquirer has sent Charles F.
Price to find the desperado at all haz-
ards. He started this morning, taking
with him County Sheriff O’Neil and an-
other man. -
MORE DESPERATE DEEDS.
The stories told along the route of the
villain’s escape of outrages and wild
pranks are, some of them, even too dev-
ilish to believe, He has held up a num-
ber of farmers’ wives for food. Near
Finlay, Hiram Case, a farmer, saw him
get out of the buggy, and recognized
him by the silk traveling cap he still
wears. Case immediately leveled his
gun, but the dapper youth sent a bullet
whizzing near him before he could
shoot. Before the farmer had regained
his composure the man had jumped into
his buggy and started off.
Arrangements.
The 17th Annual Picnic and Ewhibi-
tion of Central Pennsylvania.
The committee of Arrangements take
pleasure in inviting the public to the
18th Annual Encampmeut of the Pa-
trons of Husbandry of Central Pennsyl-
vania to be held in Grange Park, Cen-
tre Hall, on the line of the Lewisburg
and Tyrone railroad, the 14th, 15th,
16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of September,
1891.
THE PARK AND SURROUNDINGS.
Grange Park is a delightful picnic
ground of nearly 30 acres situate on the
watershed of the beautiful Penns Val-
ley, the waters flowing east and west
from this point—being 1272 feet above
sea level and the highest point on the
Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad, being
810 feet above Lewisburg and 365 feet
higher than Tyrone, and 528 feet above
Bellefonte and 527 feet higher than
Pittsburg.
THE CONVENIENCES.
The Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad
runs through Grange Park, all trains
stopping on the grounds during picnic ;
railroad, telegraph, telephone, express
and distributing post-office will be on
the grounds ; all mail matter directed to
Grange Park, Centre Hall, will regular-
ly be distributed during the picnic.
‘DAILY PAPER.
A daily paper will be published on
the grounds and a newspapermen’s pa-
vilion provided for visiting editors.
THE WAY TO COME.
Those coming from the north and
south should come by the Pennsylva-
nia, Northern Central, Philadelphia &
Erie R. R., changing at Montandon for
Centre Hall. Those from the east by
Lock Haven and Bellefonte; those
from the west by Tyrone and Belle-
fonte.
RAILROAD EXCURSION RATES.
The Lewisburg and Tyrone, Pennsyl-
vania, Bald Eagle Valley, Philadel-
phia & Erie and all other branches of
the Pennsylvania system of railroads
will sell exeursion tickets at one fare for
the round trip to Centre Hall and re-
turn on card orders September 11th to
19th, good to return until September
22nd, inclusive. (Apply to L. Rhone,
Centre Hall for card orders). The
above railroad companies will also sell
to the public without card orders, Sep-
tember 14th to 19th, good to return un-
til September 22d, inclusive, at the
same rate from Clearfield, Altoona,
Lock Haven, and intermediate points,
via Bellefonte. From Harrisburg, Riv-
erside, Shamokin, Lock Haven, and in-
termediate points, via Montandon, as
well as from all stations on the L. & T.
branch from Montandon to Bellefonte
inclusive.
TENTING.
The Committee has arranged for a full
supply of tents, having bought many
new and suitable ones, so that all who
desire can secure them at the following
rates ; 12x12 feet wall tents, floored,
$5.00 cach ; 9x10 feet wall tents, floored
$2.50 each.
possible, be engaged in advance. Tenis
will be put up by the committee ready
for tent holders on their arrival on the
grounds.
i The most pleasant way to attend the
| picnic is to engage tents and camp. lt
instead of so many going into one as to
| be uncomfortable.
CAM Saudi IPA,
Bring with you camp equipage,
lamps, bed clothing; chaff ticks, &e.
| The railroad company will carry camp
| equipage free for those coming over the
! ratlrqgad.
| Straw will be {furnished at a nominal
price for filling bed-ticks, but no loose
straw will be allowed in tents.
BOARDING AND LODGING.
| Those who prefer can board them-
| selves.
| Boarding houses on the ground fur-
nishing good boarding at very reason-
|
|
able rates.
Hotels with good accommodations
convenient. :
Lodging and boarding can also be
had at private houses.
HACKS AND CARRIAGES.
| 1s better for each family to secure tents |
To be assured of tent ac- |
commodations, they should, as much as | Py 3
j ex-congressman and mil{ionaire, who
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Hacks and carriages will be run at
stated hours to top of Nittany Moun-
tain and Penn cave, affordine the most
delightful ride of a few miles, or to any
other place parties may wish to visit.
THE EXHIBITION.
The exhibition of implements, live
stock and other productions promises to
be much larger than former years,
The State College and state experi-
mental station will have a special de-
partment exhibiting the work of the
station.
VETERANS’ DAY.
The veterans will camp with us this
year and have a special Veterans’ Day
on Friday with their own speakers, pa-
rade and camp fire in the evening.
THE AUDITORIUM.
A large canvass tent will be erected
for an auditorium where public meet-
ings will be held, daily addresses by
eminent speakers. The evening meet-
ing will be given to literary, mu ical
and social entercainments.
GOING INTO CAMP.
Many expect to go into camp on Sat-
urday, the 12th of September, when all
tents will be in readiness.
For information in reterence to tents
write to Capt. Geo. M. Boal, Centre
Hall, Supt. ot camp. For other infor-
mation to LeEoNARD RHONE,
General Manager, Centre Hall, Pa.
Double Murder in Northumberland
County.
A Desuerado Kills His Brother and
Brother-in-law, and Injures Others.
SHAMOKIN, Pa., August 11.—This
entire neighborhood is terribly excited
over a double murder that occurred at
Johnson’s Grove near Elysburg, North-
umberland county, last Saturday even-
ing. The victims were William Earn-
est and Britt Cleaver, the former of
whom died yesterday, and the latter this
morning. John Earnest, William’s
brother, is the murderer. He is hiding
in the mountains, and this morning a
posse of farmers and other citizens
found him in a cave. The cave was
surrounded, but the desperado, whosa
pockets are full of pistols, refused to sur-
render. A fight ensued, in which Fred
Smith, Jacob Mornan and Jeremiah
Gristee were shot and badly wounded
by the fugitive. Earnest then escaped,
The people are so thoroughly aroused
that it is almost certain the murderer
will be lynched when caught.
A COWARDLY MURDER.
The murder was cruel in the extreme.
The Earnest boys are the sons of Alex-
ander Earnest, who lives three miles
from Elysbury, Northumberland coun-
ty. Cleaver married Earnest’s daugh-
ter; the three young fellows went to
Catawissa on Saturday morning to spend
the day, They had a jolly time, drink-
ing considerable liquor during the day.
When returning home in the evening
they came near by a spot where a
church festival was in progress.
William suggested that they stop
awhile. John was obstinate and refus-
ed to go near the festival. William,
who was the younger of the two broth-
ers, tapped John on the shoulder, and
at the same time drew a whiskey flask
from his hip pocket. This proceeding
s0 enraged John that he struck William
in the face, knocking him flat in the
dusty road. Again he struck his pros-
trate victim with his fist, and then whip-
ping out a revolver, shot him in the
breast.
STABBED IN THE BACK.
Cleaver then pulled John away and
inned him to the ground with his fist.
arnest begged Cleaver for mercy, and
he was released. While Cleaver was
stooping over William to examine his
wound John quietly slipped up behind
him and plunged a long knife into his
back. Cleaver yelled with pain, but be-
fore the men from the festival could
reach him the knife had sunk a second
time up to the handle in his back.
Earnest put his knife in his pocket,
picked up his revolver and ran. A
crowd of men pursued him. W hen
Earnest reached his home his pursu ers
were a hundred yards away, but when
they drew ug in front of the house John
stood at an upstairs window with a rifle
and two revolvers in his hands. He or-
dered the men back. They withdrew
from shot gun range and held a confer-
ence.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Meanwhile the murderer cunningly
adjusted the rifle barrel on the window
in such a manner as to lead the men to
suppose that he was inside. Then steal-
ing quietly from a rear door he fled to
the mountains.
The enraged farmers soon learned
that the bird had flown, aad little could
then be done. Since then an organized
search has been kept up, but the first
trace of Earnest was seen this morning,
and a desperate fight ensued.
The men who were shot are not ex-
pected to die, 'but their wounds are both
painful and serious. The pursuit after
the fugitive continues with unabated
zeal. The posse hopes to starve the
murderer into surrendering.
Attempted Resurrection at Sunbury.
SuNpURrY, Aug. 11.—An attempt
was made Sunday night to rob the
grave of John B. Packer, the Sunbury
died some five weeks ago, the intention
of the ghouls uo doubt being to demand
a ransom for the return of the body,
if the venture proved successful.
Fearing such an attempt, the family of
the ex-Congressman placed a gnard
over the grave, but for some reason
the watch was renioved on the first of
the month, George Myers was walk-
ing on the railroad track that night,
[ just opposite the cemetery, when he
thought he heard a noise that sounded
as 1t picks and shovels were” being
brotght in contact with the earth: He
entered the cemetery, and as he did so,
the noise ceased, and two men were
seen to run from the burying ground
and disappear in the darkness. Myers
| gave the alarm and a number of rail-
roaders, who were working in the vi-
cinity, were soon upon the spot.
Going to the Packer burial plot,
they discovered that ghouls had been
at work, but had not taken more than
three feet of earth from the grave.
Several picks and shovels were lying
near the mound, showing that the rob-
bers had made a hasty retreat.