Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., May 6, 1892.
P. GRAY MEEK, Epitor
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State Demccratic Ticket.
EOBR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE.
GEORGE A. ALLEN, Erie,
THOMAS P. MERRITT, Berks.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
CHRISTOPHER HEYDRICK, Venango.
FOR ELECTORS AT LARGE,
MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, Tioga.
JNO. C. BULLITT, Philadelphia.
THOMAS B. KENNEDY, Franklin,
DAVID T. WATSON, Allegheny,
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS
Samuel G. Thompson, Clem’t R. Wainwright,
Adam 8. Conway, Charles H. Lafferty,
W. Redwood Wright, George R. Guss,
William Molan,
Charles D. Breck,
San ue } 3 Lids,
Cs ple,
W. D. Baaelright,
H. B. Piper.
Charles A. Fagan,
John D. Braden,
Thomas McDowell,
J. KP. Hall,
John O. James,
James Duffey,
S. W. Trimmer,
Azur Lathrop
Thomas Cha fant,
P. H. Strubinger,
Joseph D. Orr,
Andrew A. Payton,
Michael Leibel,
When Honesty Would Tell,
Ferpinaxp Warp, the Napoleon
of Finance, who was the active man
ager of the firm of GRANT & WARD was
released from prison on Saturday, hav-
ing served the term of ten years less the
time deducted for good behavior. He
thought the cautionary suggestions
customary on such occasions, were
unnecessary, in his case, and protested
that he came out poor and had no
plans as to his future. Bat he has
well-to-do relatives and, according to
reports, takes rather a cheerful view of
the future.
No doubt Mr. Warp was guilty of
the offence for which he was punished,
and equally no doubt he deserved the
punishment which he endured. But
there is a good deal of silly sentimen-
tality abroad in regard to criminals of
his type. Subordinate bank officials
who commit crimes under the direction
of their superior officers are in many
cases treated too leniently for the mis-
taken reason that they were obliged
to break the law or else they would lose
their situations, The man who com-
mits crime under such conditions is as
guilty as he who suggested it.
When a bank official directs his
subordinate to violate the law, the
time has arrived for resignation and
exposure. A clerk who loses his
place for that reason is not likely to be
out of employment long, and one who
retains the place by performing the
forbidden act, is practically certain to
lose his employment and his liberty,
both, sooner or later, besides bringing
disgrace on his family and distress to
his friends.
If book-keepers and tellers and
cashiers would make it a rule io resent
propositions to commit crimes by
which they have no pecuniary
profit, presidents and directors would
soon stop asking them to do it. There
are a dozen or more bank officials in
prison, in this State, now who are
claiming sympathy on the ground that
they were compelled to do evil in or-
der to preserve the means of earning
support for their families. But as a
matter of fact they have been deprived
of the opportunity to thus perform
their duty to society and they have
brought disgrace upon those whom
they ought to have protected.
——If the silver advocates, or rather
the silver producers and the Farmers’
Alliance men combine in the coming
Presidential contest and put a ticket in
the field, headed by one of the bonanza
Kings there may be nnlooked for fun
in the future. It would be an incon.
gruous combination, but then it is pro-
verbial that politics make strange bed-
fellows.
——The Reading combine is likely
to have trouble in Jersey and it is not
certain that is will not encounter a
snag or two in this State yet. Attor-
ney General HeNseL is not given to
head-long proceedings in such matters,
but, like Davy Crocker, he goes ahead
after he is sure he is right. Just now
he is going ahead.
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The Combine’s Answer,
The answer of the Reading Railroad
Company, the Lehigh valley R: ilroad
Company and the other corporations,
parties to the Reading combination, are
just what might have been expected.
That is to say the claim is set up that
because the Reading and the Lehigh
Valley roads are not parallel and for
the reason that the Port Richmond and
the Central railroad, of New Jersey,
do not run side by side, the constitu-
tion of the State is not violated. Lit-
erally that is true, but in fact it is far
from the condition existing.
If the Reading Railroad and the Port
Richmond Railroad had been compet-
ing lines the fact that e:ch had
strengthened itself for the contest by
adding to its mileage and tonnage
would have been all right. The Cen-
tral Railroad of New Jersey and the
Lehigh Valley are parallel lines, com-
peting for the traffic of the anthracite
coal field, and if the roads which ab-
sorbed them had occupied the same re-
lations to each other good rather than
harm would have resulted. Competi-
tion 1s the life of trade and an impossi-
ble conflict for the business of the dis-
trict might have followed.
But unhappily such is not the case.
The Reading Railroad and the Port
Richmond though not identical in fact
areso in effect, and are practically
owned by the same people.
sorption therefore of the two lines by
these (riendly corporations creates a
combination which
clearly in violation of the spirit of the
Constitution, because it defeats the
- purpose for which the inhibition was
| put into the instrumeat.
The ab-
is believed to be
The answers of the able lawyers, re-
: presenting the corporation, to Attorney
General HeNseL's complaint are strong
and adroit, but they are not likely to
deceive the Court.
has had shrewd lawyers before him
often and is not easily fooled.
Judge SiMoNTON
—— The erection of the GRANT mon-
ument in New York has at last been
begun and it is to be hoped that furth-
er progress will be less tardy. The
metropolis owes to the country this tri-
bute to the memory of the great Cap-
tain, and the snail’s pace in which the
work has thus far progressed was be-
coming scandalous.
——1If the coal trust meant to credit
the poor buyers for their daily bucket-
ful it could be forgiven.
A Terrible Accident.
A Pennsylvania and Northwestern Engine Ex-
plodes.—Engineer and Fireman Killed—The
Disaster Took Place at Irvonia Yesterday.—
Two Other Men Were Injured.
AvtooNa, May 5.—The people of
Altoona were startled yesterday after-
noon by the report that the boiler of a
locomotive engine on the Pennsylva-
nia and Northwestern railroad had ex-
ploded in the yard at Irvonia, instantly
killing the engineer and fireman
“Engine No. 25, of the Pennsylvania
and Northwestern railroad, blew up
this morning at lrvonia, about two
miles west of this place, and killed F.
L. Moulton, the engineer, and Charles
Ake, the fireman.
married man and leaves a wife and
family. Ake was a widower, with five
children.
gine but the drivers.
the cause of the accident and it is not
likely that any one ever will, but it is
said the engine had been condemned
and that it was making 1ts last trip,
the intention having beento give the
unfortunate men a new engine to-mor-
row.”
Moulton was a
Nothing was lett of the en-
No one knows
An Associated Press dispatch from
Irvonia says the explosion occurred at
10.30 o’clock a. m., and that Fireman
Ake’s pbody
through a box car,
ton’s body was found 100 yards from
the scene of the explosion.
pieces of iron, weighing from 200 to
500 pounds, were thrown into different
portions of the town, some lodzing a
distance of a quarter of a mile from the
spot where the engine had been stand.
ing. Fortunately no serious injury
was done to any of the inhabitants or
the buildings ot the town.
startling and a terrible event, the recol-
lection whereof
from the memories of the people of
Irvonia.
blown entirely
Engineer Moul-
was
Heavy
It was a
will not soon fade
The Reading Combine,
Inter-State Commerce Commission Says It Has
No Jurisdiction in the Matter.
WasninagToN, May 3.--The House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce devoted its session to-day to
the consideration
Stout’s resolution requesting the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to investi-
gate the facts in the case of the Reading
Railroad Company consolidation, and
report
should not be prohibited by law.
of Representative
whether such consolidation
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has made the following reply to the
committee :
STP ETRToRT merce does not give the Interstate Com-
merce Commission jurisdiction of mat-
ters which relate only to dealings be-
tween railroad companies.
tude of the railroad deal referred to is
calculated to arouse grave apprehen-
sions of resultant injuries to the
welfare, but until the attention of the
commission is called to some contraven-
tion of the interstate commerce law
caused or made possible by the combin-
ation of railroad interests no grounds
appear to exist upon which an investi-
gation of the consolidation could pro-
perly be institued by the commission
under that law.
The act to regulate com-
The magni-
public
The Revised Version.
From the Chicago Times.
A Republican organ quotes the old
saying “Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad’ as applicable to the
sugar and coal trusts.
formed that the cases are different.
Whom the trusts would destroy they
first make slaves.
get mad they will destroy the trusts.
The organ is in-
And when the slaves
SO
A Receiver Appointed.
HarrisBurg, May 2.—A decree was
made by Judge McPherson to-day dis-
solving the
Mutual Fire insurance company and
appointing J. Harper Snyder receiver
who is given power to assess the premium
notes of the company to such an
amount as may be necessary to pay
the debts of the company.
insolvent Waynesboro
On The Make.
Rnesell Harrison receives $5,000 of Yellow Stone
Fark Association stock for Using his Iufluence
to Secure Certain Leases from the Land De-
partment at Washington.
* WasHINGTON, April 30.—The ques-
tion of the Yellowstone Park leases was
again investigated by the House Public
Land Committee this morning, :Mr, E.
C. Waters of Montana, for four years
Manager of the Yellowstone Park As-
sociation, testifying. A letter was pro-
duced and read tothe Committee by
him, which was addressed to F. F. Oaks
of St. Louis, and wasin substance as
follows :
“The party to whom the $5,000 worti:
of Yellowstone Park Association stock
is to go when paid in for in dividend is
R. C. Kerens, of St. Louis. Will you
please have Mr. Gibson, or the proper
person, notify him of the situation
namely that that amount is held by or-
der ot the Directors. My friend will
protably explain to him as fully as he
desires.”
A member of the Committee asked
witness to whom the term “my friend”
referred, and witness replied that it was
his lawyer. Witness was again asked
to tell why the $5,000 of stock was so
promised, and for what purpose. In
answer, Mr. Waters said he had come to
Washington to secure certain leases
from the then Secretary of thg Interior,
Mr. Vilas, but had accomplished noth-
ing ; and apon seeing that he could not
get anything done, he said to Oakes
that when another Administration caine
in he could get the matter through. He
acknowledged an acquaintance with
Russell Harrison, and said that at;the
time he thought he might intercede in
the matter ard help him to get things
fixed up. Upon close questioning by a
member of the Committee, witness said
that the $5,000 stock was intended for
Russell Harrison, but that neither he
(Harrison) nor Kerens knew anything
about it. Mr. Harrison, however, was
to give his aid purely for the public
good, and did not know the stock was
set aside for him until last spring when
he had been told so.
Mr. Waters further said that he had
never promised Russell Harrison the
stock for his influence, and when he was
told of it Mr. Harrison appeared very
much embarrassed, and said he would
not have the matter done for anything,
Mr. Harrison told him, said Mr. Waters
that he would see Secretary Noble and
lay the matter before him ; but whether
that was ever done he did not know, ss
Mr. Gibson had come to Washington to
attend to the matter, and stayed until
it was concluded.
The Committee will continue the in-
vestigation Monday.
Verdict in the Case of Deeming.
Found Guilty of Murder and Declared Not to be
Insane—H ¢ Made a Speech of an Howr’s Dur-
ation Without Signs of Nervousness. How
He Murdered His Wives.
MeLBourNE, May 2.—The jury in
the Deeming case returned a verdict
to-day of guilty, and added that the
prisoner was not insane.
The trial was resumed this morning,
Dr. Springtharp related Deeming’s ex-
planation of how ‘his wives had disap-
peared. Deeming said that while he
and his first wife were living at Rain-
hill, near Liverpool, a man named Ben
Young bad told him that his (Deem-
ing’s) wife would leave him for fifty
pounds. He paid the money and his
wife left him. He supposed that
Young had killed her while he (Deem-
ing) was coming to Melbourne with
his second wife (Miss Mather), for
whose murder he is now on trial. His
second wife, Deeming said, confessed
that she was already married, and she
left him in Melbourne because she was
afraid of being implicated in the mur-
der ot his first wife. Deeming is noted
for being a notorious liar, and the
above is a fair specimen of his ability
in that line. The fact is that the Rain-
hill murder was known to no one save
Deeming until after it was known that
he had killed his wife here. After
further testimony by Dr. Springtharp
that did not in any way tend to clear
the prisorer cf the crime charged
against him, the defense announced
that its case was closed.
When the sentence ot death had
been pronounced Deeming said that
after his death the public would soon
know his real history. It was better
that the law should destroy him than
that he should destroy himself. He
would only like to know that Miss
Rounzevell believed him innocent. In
a strong voice he continued to ramble
in a similar strain for a long time,
Reaching the rails for support he con-
cluded by swearing thathe was inno-
cent. He spoke altogether an hour,
giving no sign of hesitation or nervous-
ness. The Judge’s summing up was
strongly against the prisoner. While
Deeming was speaking the scene was
a weird one. Owing to the fading of
daylight, gas and candles had to be
lighted. The verdict was given at near-
ly 9 o'clock.
A Disastrous Cyclone.
Topeka, Kan., May 3.—A disastrous
cyclone, destructive alike to property
and life, last night struck the farming
community of Texis, a village on the
Missouri Pacifle road, ten miles south-
east of Topeka. Two farmers named
Plaxton and Mitchell were killed, John
P. Heill badly injured and may not re-
cover, and his wife and child badly
hurt. For a space of about two miles
square the farms suffered severely.
Many people were more or less injured.
Hail fell in great quantity, destroying
fruit prospects and breaking trees.
BURLINGTON RouTE NEW SERVICE.
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road from Chicago and St. Louis to
| Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis,
Deadwood, Omaha and Denver.
i Through Sleeping Cars, Chicago to San
Francisco via Denver, Leadville, Salt
Lake City and Ogden : also one Chica-
go to Deadwood,S. D. All are equipped
with Pullman Sleeping Cars, Standard
Chair Cars (seats free) and meals served
in Burlington Route Dining Cars. If
you are going west take the BEST
LINE,
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Methodist Episcopal : Conference in
Session.
No Material Change to be Made in the Word-
ing of the Discipline—A Deep Interest in the
Epworth League and the Liquor Question.
Omana, May 3.—The afternoon ses-
sion of the Methodist Episcopal con-
ference was devoted to hearing of the
report on constitution appointed four
weeks ago, and the preliminary work
of appointment of committees. Bishop
Foss presided and Bishop Merrill call-
ed up the report of the committee. The
report was read by Rev. Dr. Neely, of
Philadelphia, After giving a briet re-
view of the ‘various meetings of the
committee D.. Neely presented the
changes and recommendations suggest-
ed in the report.
Among other things suggested was a
change on the arrangement of the dis-
cipline. No material change was
recommended jn the rules or in the
wording of the discipline, but the com-
mittee thought the book could be ar-
ranged to much better advantage. The
report also suggested that the date for
opening the general conference be fixed
on the first Wednesday in May every
four years instead of the first day in
May. It also recommends that the
ministerial and lay delegates vote in
the general conference on all questions
except those intended to make a
change in the organic law of the
church.
A MINORITY REPORT SUBMITTED
Al present the ministerial delegation
vote first and the lay delegates follow.
This plan has become quite unpopular
among the lay delegates and the rec
ommendation of the committees on
this point will probably meet with ap-
proval: The report also recommends
that no annual conference shall be or-
ganized with less than thirty traveling
ministers, and with concurrent vote of
three-fourths of the delegates and of all
the annual conferences to make changes
in the organic law of the church.
Colonel John Ray, a member of the
committee, submitted a minority report
upon a few points. The reports were
ordered printed and will be taken up as
special order next Tuesday at ten
o'clock. In addition to the usual
standing committees the conference de-
cided to have several special com-
mittees.
A committee consisting of one from
each annual conference was appointed
on temperance and overthrow of the
liquor traffic, and a committee of equal
size was appointed on the Epworth
league, The discussion of these two
subjects indicated that the conference
is very deeply interested in both sub-
jects and radical action is anticipated.
A VITAL ARM OF THE CHURCH.
Many of the delegates declare that
the temperance cause was one of the
most important matters to be consid-
ered by the conference, and the Ep-
worth league had become one of the
vital arms of the church and should
be fittingly recognized by the confer-
ence. ;
A special committee was also ap-
pointed to consider the order of dea-
conesses. A resolution was passed re-
turning thanks to the citizens of
Omaha, and especially to the mayor
and city councils, for the magnificent
reception tendered the conference dele-
gates on Monday night. The confer-
ence accepted the inyitation of the eiti-
zens of Lincoln and the president of
the Nebraska Wesleyan university to
visit Lincoln on May 7. A great mass
meeting was held to-night in the inter
est of the church extension work.
Bishop Foss presided and addresses
were made by Dr. Kynett and Dr.
Spencer, of Philadelphia.
Omamna, Neb., May 4.—Bishop War-
ren, of Denver, presided at this morn-
ing’s session of the Methodist Episco-
pal conference. A committtee on
memoirs was appointed, and, on mo-
tion of Dr. Buckley, of New York, ad.
dresses were ordered restricted to fif
teen minutes for written memorials]
and five minutes for oral. Two hours
time was then given over to the epis-
copal address, which was delivered by
Bishop Foster. The past quadrenium,
the report stated, had been a prosper-
ous one. There had been no deaths
among the bishops, All the assign-
ments of ministers had bee: made with
but little dissatisfaction. Work in the
foreign fields had been given special
care and numerous visits by the bis-
hops to foreign lands had been made
with beneficial results. The Book
Concerns of the church are the largest
in the world. There have been no dis-
sensions in the church and there is
more intelligence and less bigotry in
the pulpit. The membership has
grown rapidly during the past four
years and now 5,292,694 communi.
cants. Four hundred aud forty thous-
and souls have been added to the
church during the past four years by
comparison with the four years pre-
ceding.
Contributions to all missionary so-
cieties have increased $334,120. High-
er education in the ministry is impera-
tive and no man should be allowed in
our theological schools whose loyalty
to the doctrines of our church is not
steadfaet.
The church wants no traitors. The
national! university at Washington is
announced as a certainty and liberal
endowments asked tor, millions being
necessary for its equipment, The Wo-
men’s college in Baltimore was also
commended. “The church demands
an Americanized franchise as well as a
naturalized franchise,” said the bis-
hop. “The coutinuation of foreign
languages and customs in this country
is wrong and we are opposed to the
teaching of foreign languages in our
schools.
‘We believe that the franchise should
be more guarded and foreigners should
be required to serve a longer appretice-
ship to secure it. "We regard the legis-
lation in congress to exclude the Chinese
as inhuman and we call upon congress
to not pass the measure. The central-
ization of wealth is denounced. The
church must act. It cannot side with
wealth, It must go with the toiling
masses, The report declares that the
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union of the church north and south is
drifting closer and closer and that the
north still held out its hand of wel-
come.
afternoon for the special purpose of or-
ganizing the committees. Fourteen
standing committees and several special
committees were appointed. This oc-
cupied the entire time of the afternoon
session. A mass meeting was held to.
night in Exposition hall in the interest
of the Freedman’s Aid and Southern
Educational society. Bishop Walden
Diu Addresses were delivered by
ev. J. C. Hartzell and Dr. W. A.
Spencer.
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Fales Admits His Guilt.
He Displays Great Nerve Without Having Any
Appearance of Bravado.
Newark, May 4.—Adam Fales, the
self-confessed murderer of Thomas
Haydon, was brought before Criminal
Judge Hayes this morning and again
admitted his guilt. He retold the
story of the murder with the same self
possession displayed last night. He
said that he struck Haydon four times
with the bale stick and then chloro-
formed him. The prisoner told Super-
intendent Brown where the chloro-
form bottle and the handkerchief which
he had used could be found at his
home, and also showed a large blood
stain on his jacket.
The boy is cool and displays great
nerve without having any appearance
of bravado. He did not weaken until
a formal charge of murder was made
against him this morning, but then
turning to Superintendent Brown ap-
pealingly he said :
“It is not as bad as that, is it? I
did not mean to kill him-”
The boy’s mother became hysterical
this morning when she learned of the
grave charge against her son. Her
two brothers are notorious criminals.
The woman’s supreme effort for years
has been to keep her boy from follow-
ing the example of her uncles. Fales
will besixteen years of age on May 26.
In his room were found a new revolver
and six packages of cartridges.
’ BS RNS
Not Yet Satisfied.
Allegheny Democrats Will Stil Further Test the
Baker Ballot Reform Law.
Prrrspure, May 4.—The decision of
Chief Justice Paxson mn declaring the
Baker ballot bill constitutional has not
discouraged the Allegheny Democrats,
who, after the recent mayoralty elec-
tion in Allegheny, decided to test the
constitutionality of the new election
law. W. J. Brennen, the attorney for
the Allegheny Democrats, will, he says,
carry up to the same court several
points upon which he will ask that the
supreme judges pass.
At the Allegheny election Lee Frash-
er was allowed to take with him into
the election both a citizen of his dis-
trict for the purpose of attesting his
signature on his ballot. Alex Wilson
was refused the privilege on the ground
that the law did not permit him to do
so. Itis argued that ifthe law pre-
vented Mr. Wilson from taking a wit-
ness into the booth then Mr. Frasher
violated the law, and to guarantee a
friendly test of the law they have decid
ed to arrest Mr. Frasher and charge
him with violating the election laws.
The court will then be called upon to
pass on that specific point. Other
points will, at the same time, be rais-
ed. Among them will be the point
that the provisions in the bill for a
secret ballot are not stated in the title
of the act.
———
He Loved and Lost.
And With a Sharp Razor Shortened His Road
to Glory.
SUMNER, I1l., May 3.—A most sensa-
tional suicide occurred a; Landes, a
small town north of this city, last
night due to unrequited loye. For
nearly two years past Theodore Baker,
son of William H. Baker, of Willow
Hill, Ill, has been paying court to
Miss Lulu Paddock, daughter of Hen-
ry Paddock, of Landes, and from all
appearances was her accepted suitor,
AtT o'clock yesterday evening Baker
called on Miss Paddock, but did not
enter the house. They remained out-
side on the porch where he pressed his
suit ardently, but to all his pleadings
Miss Paddock replied his nay, saying
she could never marry him.
When young Baker took his depar-
ture Miss Paddock retired to her room
and a few minutes latter was terror
stricken at the sight of her unlucky
lover suitor staggering into her bed
chamber with flve ghastly gashes in
his throat and the blood streaming on
the floor. Upon reaching the room he
fell full length at her feet, dying before
a physician could be summoned. The
weapon used was a razor
Ward's Mysterious Disappearance.
Purmay, Conn., May 4.—Ferdinand
‘Ward, who came to Thompson, Saturday
mysteriously disappeared Monday, be-
ing conveyed away by Hotelkeeper
Chapin, His destination is unknown.
Reporters were continually dogging his
footsteps. It is understood that he will
not remove his boy from the home of
his relatives where he seems happy.
‘Ward is expected to return later.
California Republicans for Free Silver.
Stockton, Cal., May 4.—The reso-
lutions adopted by the Republican con-
vention to-day declare for silver equal-
ly with gold to be the money of the
people, and demand the passage of
such laws as will provide for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver,
Wisconsin for Cleveland.
MirLwavkee, May 4.—The Demo-
cratic convention was enthusiastic for
Cleveland. Senator Vilas, General E.
S. Bragg and John A. Knight wera
chosen delegates-at-large to the nation.
al convention.
The conference held a session this |
Flocking to see Mollinger.
{Newcomers Visit the Faith Cure Priest and Bow
| to the Shrine of St. Anthony,
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i PirrsBure, May 4.—The lame, the
halt and toe blind are again coming
into the city in large numbers to see
Father Mollinger, the faith cure priest
and to bow at the shrine of St. Ap.
thony in the chapel on Troy hill.
Most of the newcomers are from the
South, and some of them are so weak
that they cannot walk and have to be
hauled about in invalid chairs, Ten.
nessee and Kentucky furnish a great
many patients for the reverend gentle-
man, as he is said to have made some
cures among the afflicted in that por-
tion of the country,
Thus far this seagon no remarkable
cures have been reported. However,
many that were here last year have
not lost faith in Father Mollinger and
will return this year. Boarding houses
in the neighborhood of the priest's re
sidence are rapidly filling up with pa-
tients, and many more will soon come
to be present during the St. Anthony’s
day festivities and ceremonies.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
ATTEMPTED BANE ROBBERY AT
CENTRE HALL.--On Wednesday night.
about one o’clock, C. O. Deininger, one
of the clerks who sleeps in the rear room
of the Penns Valley Banking company’s
house, was awakened by the barking of a
dog and looking through to the counting
room of the bank he discovered a man’s
head just coming through the transom.
A shot from his revolver struck the
iron bar on which the would be robber
was resting his head, but it was close
enough to scare him off, tor, dropping:
his chisels and a jimmy, he fled.
MARRIAGE LicENSES GRANTED. —Fol-
lowing is a list of marriage licenses
granted during the past week :
Samuel O- Wate, of Loganton, Clin-
ton county, and Barbara J. Wohlfert,
of Wolf's Store.
Con. Martin and Fannie Meese, both
of Bellefonte.
Jesse Kreamer and Annie R. Mil-
ler, both of Millheim.
George W. Smith and Ida M. Wian;,
both of Spring twp.
Robert H. Yerger, of DuBois, and
Bertha B. Harshberger, of Philips.
burg.
John Graden, of Gregg twp-, and
Ella Grenninger, of Miles twp.
J. Walter Singer, of Cambria Co.,
and Clara B. Sayers, of Jacksonville
Harry B. Miller and Sadie Grenning-
er, both of Spring Mills.
He TroveHT HIs Bikp HAD Frown.
--During the early part of last week
Michael Beezer, a former resident of
this community, married a tair York
county girl and started journeying to
visit his relatives hereabouts. When.
the happy pair arrived at Tyrone they
were met by Lewis Beezer, a brother of
the groom who came on from Altoona
to accompany them to this place. Dur-
ing the wait, in Tyrone, the groom left
his brideto purchase something ata
store near by, and while absent she and
her brother-in-law boarded the velley
train, which pulled out promptly. The
benedict returning, saw nothing of the
couple he had left but a few moments
before. Naturally enough he became
frantic and at once appealed to train
dispatcher E. W, Stine, who, in the
generosity of his large heart and for
pity on the unfortunate young lord and
master, telegraphed to hold the valley
train at Vail until the arrival of the
Tyrone and Clearfield train, a few min-
utes later. The young husband shed
tears of joy when he once more beheld
his blooming spouse, and united once
again they came on their way rejoicifig
A FieENDISH AsSAULT.—On last
Sunday morning Noah Confer, a little
dutchman who has been working for
James Davison, on the farm owned by
ex-sheriff Kline, just below town, made
an assult upon the 9 year old ward of
his employer. The little girl wasin a
very precarious condition, but is get-
ting over the awful ravage of her as:ail-
ant’s brutal passion.
On Sunday morning Mr. Davison
expressed his intention of going away
with his wife, to spend part of the day.
The child was to be left at home and it
must have been then, that the hellish
idca - ame into Confer’s head, for he told
Mr. Davison to chase some boys, from
this place, who were gathered in the
barn, away lest they dosome damage:
But he was told that the boys would not
hurt anything and Mr. Davison and
wife then departed. Confer went cut to
the barn and talked to the boys, who
were there, with Amos Wilson, a color-
ed lad also an employee on the farm, a
littie while, then started back to the
house. 'T'was not long until the
screams, coming from the house, attract-
ed their attention, whereupon they all
ran in and caught the villian in the
very act of his crime. Wilson grabbed
a large club and it is said would have
killed the miscreant had not the others
interfered. He was then locked up in a
room in the house, but subsequently es-
caped and came up to McCulley’s livery
stable where he slept all night. Monday
morning he was arrested and taken to
jail to await a trial.
He had just served a sentence in the
county jail for a similar offence and no
punishment can be too severe for such a
depraved thing.