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Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., April 30, 1897.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ebpitor.
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Democratic County Committee for 1897.
Huen 8. TAYLOR, Boyp A. Musser,
Chairman, Secretary.
WirLianm J. KepLer, Assistant Secretary.
Precinct. Name. P. 0. Address.
Bellefonte N. W. Jno. Trafford Bellefonte
te S. W. Ed. Brown, Jr. ce
te W. W. Geo. R. Meek, te
Centre Hall Boro J. Witmer Wolf, Centre Hall
Howard “ Abe Weber Howard
Milesburg Jas. B. Noll, Milesburg
Millheim * Sam’l Weiser, Jr., Millheim
Unionville * L. P. Brisbin, Fleming
Philipsburg
Philipsburg 1st W. J. W. Lukens
Tin 2nd W. Harry Denning,
$6 srd W. Albert Howe tf
State College Boro J. N. Krumrine, State College
S. ee Henry S. Wilcox, Philipsburg
Benner Twp. N. P. L. C. Rerick, Bellefonte
- Fy P. Jenn hie Mil oh
Boggs Twp. N. P. Henry Heaton, ilesburg
ZT E. P. Jos. L. Neff, Roland
5 W. P. D. F. Poorman, Milesburg
Burnside Twp. Wm. Hipple, Pine Glenn
College te Jno. A. Rupp, Oak Hall
Curtin $e N. J. McCloskey, Romola
Ferguson * E.P.W. H. Frye, Pine Grove Mills
ke « W. P. Sam Harpster, Jr., Gatesburg
Gregg Twp. N. P. Geo. Weaver, Penns Cave
4 E. P. Jas. C. Condo, Penn Hall
tt W. P. Jno. Smith Spring Mills
Haines Twp. W.P. W. T. Winklebeck, oburn
4 E.P. R. E. Stover, Woodward
Half Moon Twp. Emory McAfee, Stormstown
Harris se Jas. A. Swabb, Linden Hall
Howard £5 Robert Confer, Howard
Huston se Henry Hale, Julian
Liberty se Jas. I. DeLong, Blanchard
Marion $4 Wm. P. Orr Walker
P. Dan’l W. Harter, Wolf's Store
W. P. Edward Miller, Centre Mills
M. P.
ge C. J. Crouse, Rebersburg
Patton Twp. D. L. Meek, Waddle
Penn 4 A. P. Zerby, Sober
Potter “ S.P. J. F. Smith . Colyer
st “ NP. G.H. Emerick, Centre Hall
Rush ¢« N.P. Wm, Frank, Philipsburg
gt « SP. Sam’l Wayne Osceola Mills
Snow Shoe Twp. E.P Lawrence Reding Snow Shoe
o £€ . P S. K. Johnston, Moshannon
Spring Twp. N.P. L. H. Wian, Bellefonte
8. P. W. H. Noll, Jr., Pleasant Gap
* W. P. P.F. Garbrick, Bellefonte
Taylor Twp. Vinton Beckwith, Hannah
Union * Chas. G. Hall, Fleming
Walker * J. H. Carner, Hublersburg
‘Worth A. J. Johnston, Port Matilda
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Bovp A. Musser, HUGH S. TAYLOR,
Lost Cause of Greece.
The cause of Greece appears almost hope-
less in the face of the recent disaster she
has met in arms and as is natural with a
people of such high sensibilities the masses
are already beginning to rail at their King,
Greece has the
sympathy of every christian nation on the
globe and itis lamentable that interna-
tional usages preclude the proffer of more
substantial service in her extremity. If
the great powers of the world would
awaken to the cries of humanity and belp
the Hellenes, in their valiant struggle
against the Turkish butcherers, and not be
restrained by that sordid greed for territory
that cries : Hands off, until the fast ap-
proaching day when the Ottoman empire
shall crumble and fall and you shall have
your portion ! there might be something to
go down in history that would illumine
these closing days of the nineteenth centu-
ry and make for the advancement of chris-
tianity.
Man’s injustice to man finds a most
forcible illustration in the discontent that
is said to prevail in Athens, where the bit-
terest denunciations of the royal family are
being made. It has been a matter of favor-
able comment for some time that King
GEORGE and his sons have displayed signal
valor all through the perilous situations of
their country and now that their chivalry
has availed Greece nothing the enemies of
the throne are quick to foment dissension.
In truth a revolution would not be much
of a surprise.
It was almost hoping against hope that
Greece would be victorious, but she has
not, and the Sultan of Turkey has practic-
ally vindicated, as such vindications go,
his actions in the merciless butchery of
christians. Upon the escutcheons of
stronger and professedly more enlightened
nations there will be a stain for not having
interfered and blotted out his. infidelity
. forever.
——County chairman HugH S. TAY-
LOR has called a meeting of the county
committee for Monday, May 3rd. It is
to be hoped that there will be a full turn-
out of precinct chairmen on that day, as
nothing is 8o enervating to successful polit-
ical organization as apathy on the part of
its leaders. While it might appear to
some that there is little use in stirring up
for all that will be in the. balance next,
fall such a view is truly a most unfortu-
nate one. The Democratic party of Centre.
"county should be on the alert at all tinjes.
Every minute it should be wide awake and
doing something to strengthen itself. It
is only by success in small campaigns that
greater achievements are made and now
that the utter failure of Republicanism is
beginning to effect the stomachs and backs
of the masses, Democracy should not fail to
grasp the opportunity that presents itself.
Let us get together in firmer, more aggres-
sive, more determined unity than ever.
Our cause is right, right is might and might
will prevail." ’
——In ancther column of this issue we
publish an articlé that should prove inter-
esting to pensioners and soldiers in gen-
eral. It is over the signature of MATT
SAVAGE, whose success in the pension busi-
ness has been almost phenomenal, and it is
understood that Congressman ARNOLD has
very kindly consented to aid in securing
all the rights of the ex-soldiers in the dis-
trict.
Starving in Cuba.
HAVANA, April 26.—Private letters from
the interior report wholesale starvation.
Some of the cases are especially heart-
rending. Children are dying in the streets
of Matanzas, and babies have been found
dead in the arms of their exhausted moth-
ers. A correspondent has been through
the province of Pinar del Rio, and has seen
whole villages of living skeletons in bark
huts praying for death to release them from
their suffering,
‘rode at the right of the barouche, which
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THE IMMORTAL GRANT.
There was a Great Pageant in Honor of a Great
Hero.—All the States Were There.—And With Them
Men Who Wore the Gray Took Part in the
Ceremonies.—The Land and Sea Display.
NEW YORK, April 27.—When the sun
rose over fair Manhattan on this day of
days in her history of patriotic pageants,
he found a cloudless dome awaiting him.
The prayers of a million or more had been
answered and a storm seemed impossible.
The ceremonies proper began at sunrise,
when, from the tall flagpole near the tomb
was flung the immense American flag fur-
nished by the Daughters of the Revolution.
There it will fly night and day, in fair
weather and foul, until the winds have
worn it away and the suns have faded its
colors. At the same time the marines on
the warships were piped to quarters and
landed on shore to stand and receive the
Kead of the land column. Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador, was
under the wing of Chauncey M. Depew.
General Schofield and General Ruger were
together. Mr. Cleveland arrived at the
hotel at 9:15 a. m. with Mr. Gilder. Sec-
retary Long, of the navy, followed close on
the ex-President’s heels.
Loud shouts of the people announced the
arrival of the President at 9:30. He rode
in a carriage with General Porter and
Mayor Strong. His reception was flatter-
ing in the extreme and he howed repeated-
ly. Vice President Hobart joined the
President and General Porter and the
mayor, and the open barouche in which
they were seated drew up in the centre of
the plaza, where it took its place at the
head of the line. General Butterfield, in
his uniform of a retired general of the army,
was preceded by a picked force of mounted
policemen. x
The military escort included one ser-
geant and ten men of troop A.
In the meantime the diplomats had de-
parted by the Twenty-fourth street en-
trance, leaving the way clear for the Grant
family, the cabinet and others.
The Grants left the hotel by the Fifth
avenue entrance a few minutes after the
President’s party. Mrs. Grant leaned on
the arm of her son, Colonel Frederick
Grant, and the others followed. Altogether
they occupied eight carriages.
The initial step in the parade was made
almost on schedule time, and by 9:40
o'clock the presidential procession was on
the move.
Cheers greeted the distinguished party
as it moved through the decorated streets.
the enthusiasm being so noteworthy that
President McKinley's face was joyous, and
his hat in a state of constant salute :
The President, with bared head, was the
first to enter the stand. He leaned on the
arm of Mayor Strong, who kept his hat on.
The President was loudly cheered, as was
also ex-President Cleveland, who appeared
with ex-Secretary Tracy. Mr. Cleveland
and President McKinley shook hands with
each other as soon as they met. The two
then conversed for a moment. While
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HOUSE IN WHICH GRANT WAS BORN.
waiting for the ceremonies on the stand to
commence, President McKinley, vice Presi-
dent Hobart, and ex-President Cleveland
had their photographs taken in a group.
The exercises commenced with the sing-
ing of ‘‘America.”” A solemn silence then
fell on the dense crowd as the venerable
Bishop John P. Newman invoked the bless-
ing of heaven oun the ceremonies: Many
of the people joined in the ‘‘Our Father’
which concluded the hishop’s prayer.
General Horace Porter, president of the
Grant monument association, then deliver-
ed the oration of the day.
Mayor Strong responded in accepting the
monument on behalf of the city :
After prolonged cheering President Me-
Kinley, on behalf of the nation spoke. .
Fellow Citizens : A great life dedicated
to the welfare of the nation, here finds its
earthiy coronation. Even if this day
lacked the impressiveness of ceremony and
was devoid of pageantry, it would still be
memorable, because it is the anniversary
of the birth of one of the most famous and
best-beloved of American soldiers.
All the foregoing was done at the tomb
of General Grant. The ceremonies were of
the most impressive order. The desecrip-
tion of the land and navy parade follows :
THE LAND PARADE.
With military promptitude and perfect
discipline, the land parade started from
Twenty-fourth street and Madison avenue
on the minute—10.30- o'clock. Major
General Greenville M. Donge, followed by
a staff of celebrated soldiers, led the col-
umn, the military band from Governor's
Island coming next.
The veteran Merritt led the first divis-
ion, and the natty West Pointers called
forth salvos of cheers as they followed.
New York’s famons Seventh was no more
heartily cheered than was Maryland’s su-
perb Fifth, while the solid ranks of Penn-
sylvania sons, led by Governor Hastings,
had the same showered upon them that
greeted the guardsmen from New Jersey,
Ohio and Massachusetts.
Hearty, too, where the plaudits accorded
the sons of confederate veterans. Buf en-
thusiasm reached its climax when the
division led by Major General O. O:-How-
ard marched into view.
the Grand Army of the Republic was given
greatest honor. ~
As a relief from the constant blue came
PRESIDENT GRANT 1868.
the independent companies, the gray clad
cadets, the insignia-covered benevolent,
religious and temperance orders. In many
ways the parade was most noteworthy.
The Pennsylvania troops headed the
Third division, and were greeted with a
To the veterans of’
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round of hearty applause as they rounded |
the turn and began the ascent to the re-:
viewing stand. Governor Hastings was at
the head of the Quaker troops, and Com-
mander Thomas J. Stewart.
Hastings was not in uniform, but wore a
fsoek coat aud high hat.
The First brigade of Pennsylvania was
composed of the First, Ninth, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Nineteenth regiments and
the Governor’s Troop.
state troops fully lived up to their reputa-
tion as marchers and were greatly ad-
mired.
New Jersey’s soldiers followed the Penn-
sylvanians. During the intermission: be-
tween the Pennsylvania and the New Jer-
sey men the immense crowd in the munici-
pal stand oppposite the reviewing party
sang national hymns.
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland,
New Hampshire, Virginia, Rhode Island,
Vermont, Ohio, Illinois, and the District of
Columbia next followed in order. Then
came the military school cadets, the vet-
eran grand division, the civic grand divis-
ion and the grand naval division.
The Grant party left the stand soon
after the Virginia soldiers had passed, and
during the wait president MeKinley and:
.} the other members of the party left the
stand to go on board the Dolphin, from
which to view the naval parade.
The President was escorted to a carriage
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waiting, which conveyed him to Thirtieth
street, from which point he was conveyed
to the flagship.
Mayor Strong ana Vice Fresident Hobart
stayed on the platform after the President
had departed.
According to careful estimates made
some time after the parade had started for
review, there were between 58,000 and 60,-
000 men in line. Of this aggregate United
States regulars, land and naval forces,
numbered 4,000, National Guard of New
York, 13,000 ; National Guard of other
states 12,850. The Grand Army of the Re-
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‘bursted leaves, were festooned as a pine
‘the good people of Nittany valley to send a
public veterans in line were computed at
10,000.
NAVAL PARADE.
Of the naval part of the demonstration
the grand division lay at anchor in the
river in sight of the tomb, while the mer-
chant marine division was located in the
lower bay, awaiting the word at 2 o'clock
for the start of the head of the column.
The general division was under the com-
mand of Rear Admiral Francis H. Bunce, U.
S. N., and staff. The anchored vessels were
the New York (flagship), Massachusetts,
Columbia, Maine, Texas, Indiana, Raleigh,
Amphitrite and Terror. 7
Revenue Marine—Potter,
Dallas, Hamilton and Windom.
Lighthouse tenders—Mayle, Citania, Cac-
tus, John Rodgers, Mistletoe, Verbona,
Axales ; Lilac, Myrtle, Gardenia, and Ar-
moria.
Foreign-Men-of-War—H. M. S. Talbot
French Corvette Fulton, H. I. M. S. Boga-\
li, H. S. M. S. Maria Teresa.
The marine division was divided into
four divisions, each commanded by a com-
modore. Rear Admiral Osborn, with the
America for a flagship, was in command of
the whole.
The signal ‘‘dress up’’ was the first man-
cuver of the day, and the nimble stars
were upon every yard and rigging in a
trice. Strings of flags were run up from
the stern to the masts and down again to
the bow.
The Wnited. States ensign flew at the
stern of all our warships, and at the fore
of all the foreign vessels.
The American warships headed the line,
which was made up with the flagship New
York at the head. Of the foreign war-
ships H. M. S. Talbot was given the posi-
tion of honor, her commander, Captain E.
The dis-
patch boat Dolphin lay off above the war-
ships, decked profusely in bunting. She
was to carry the President later, when he
reviewed the naval parade. :
An interesting feature was the parade of
the merchant marine, which was divided
into four divisions.
Woodbury,
-—Subsecribe for the WATCHMAN.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
WALKER TowNsHIP DIVIDED.—For the
accommodation of the voters of Walker
township, it has been divided into three
precincts. On Monday the court approved
be held at Zion, Hublersburg
and Nittany
Hall.
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——New spring clothing just opened at
Faubles’. Prices much lower than ever.
It will pay you to investigate.
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AN UNSEASONABLE SNow.— Early risers
were astonished at the peculiar freak of
nature, on Tuesday morning, when they
looked out and saw snow flakes flying fast-
er and thicker than they do during the
average January snow storm.
Sunday it was oppressively hot, in fact
the sun was so warm that pedestrians be-
gan hunting the shady side of the streets,
but a severe wind storm, that evening,
cooled things off a little and Monday
The thermome-
ter kept falling all day, until evening it was
quite cool though not down enough to
make thoughtful gardeners cover up tender
twigs for fear of frost. It'clouded up dur-:
ing the night and blew a terriffic gale.
Snow began to fall about daylight and con-
tinued for about an hour. The ground’
was white and the trees, with their half
forest in the middle of winter.
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——All kinds of bicycle sundries, re-
pairing and enameling in the finest style at
Sheffer’s ware rooms in the Exchange.
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——New spring clothing just opened at
Prices much lower than ever.
VON :
THE Go0OD SAMARITANS OF NITTANY
car load of grain to the India famine suf-
ferers. As the government will transport
any grain that is contributed the people
down there are going to make up a car
load. They have determined on deposi-
tories and hope to get the grain off by next
week. »
Contributions can be left at any of the
following places : Knecht’s, Furst Bros.,
Sanderson’s, Clintondale, Mackeyville and
Salona. The committees for these places
respectively are : Lewis Dornblazer, Wm.
Knecht, Dr. Dumm, Wm. Sanderson, Mrs.
J. H. Huston, L. C. Fumst and Samuel
Hurd. i tie
THE APRIL SESSION OF COURT.—The
regular April session of common pleas
court convened, on Monday morning, with
a smaller attendance than usual. Though
the court room was not near full there was
a bright array of spring millinery and the
nodding posies on the many feminine
heads reminded one of a Florida landscape
disturbed by a summer zephyr. Mixed up
with all this brightness there was a de-
gree of sorrow, too, for many children were
there who, just like Topsy, had merely
“growed.”
The morning was taken up with con-
stables reports and the usual routine of
court work, but after dinner everyone got
down to business and the cases were dis-
posed of as follows :
Samuel Gramley, executor of Mrs. Sarah
Shaffer, versus Jacob Hazel. Action of as-
sumpsit. The jury was out but a short
time and brought a verdict for $83.00 in
favor of plaintiff.
Commonwealth vs. Frank Huey. F. and
B. Prosecutrix, Lucy Hampton. Defen-
dant plead guilty and usual sentence im-
posed. .
Commonwealth vs. Chas. Ammerman.
F.and B. Prosecutrix, Jane Miller. True
bill. :
Commonwealth vs. William Turney.
F. and B. Prosecutrix, Hannah Emen-
heizer. True bill.
Commonwealth vs. Chillis Reese. F.
and B. Prosecutrix, Louisa Pickle. True
bill.
Commonwealth vs. John River. Surety
of the peace. Prosecutrix, Ellen Beightol.
Defendant is a constable in Rush township
and was charged with having created a
disturbance at the home of prosecutrix,
where the corpse of a pauper was lying.
There was a number of people at the house
and among them was a woman named Sara
Raymond, who seemed to feel the solem-
nity of the affair and wanted to hold relig-
ious services. This struck River as being
rather ludicrous and he blurted out that if
she got to the heaven she was singing so
much about he would get there too. Sara
saw an insinuation that she was a hypo-
crite in River's remark and got her dan-
der up at once, there was then an exchange
of sulphurous pleasantries in which Sara
‘offered to tickle River with a poker and he:
promised to paste the whole party up
for wall paper ornaments. The court
pla&®l the costs on the constable and he
went to jail, where the temperature was a
trifle more salubrious for the big straw hat
he sported. -
Commonwealth vs. Charles Weaver and
George Weaver. Assault and battery.
Prosecutor, John McCloskey. Settled.
Commonwealth vs. Catharine Wilson,
William G. Twigg and John Heath, nolle
prose. entered in Heath’s indictment. As-
sault and battery. Prosecutor, J. M.
Claar. Miss Wilson is a pretty school
teacher who has been trying to teach the
young Rush township ideas how to shoot
and everything was moving along serenely
until the 20th of last January, when a differ-
ence of opinion arose between her and Miss
Rebecca Claar, a daughter of the estimable
justice of the peace of that precinct. It
appears that Miss Rebecca did not approve
of her teacher’s commands to assemble on
the school ink bottleand fall back again,
and as symptoms of insubordination crop-
ped out the teacher charged with a slate.
Their relations were necessarily strained
a trifle
ture next day when the teacher under-
took to trounce the scholar. The lat-
ter, being somewhat larger than Miss
Wilson, she thought it best to call in her
brother-in-law before beginning operations.
In obeyance to her summons William G.
Twigg, who happened to be a school direct-
or, entered the school room to hear the pat-
ter of the pedagogical slipper, but Miss Re-
becca objected and a free fight ensued.
She pulled the teacher's hair and drew a
poker on her, but not until after she had
heen considerably .cut and bruised up.
Verdiot, not guilty. Prosecutor one-third
of costs, defendant for one-thirdand county
for one-third.
Commonwealth vs. Frank Campbell.
Assault and battery and threats. Prosecu-.
tor, Priscilla Campbell. Case settled.
Commonwealth vs. “Arthur Rothrock.
Assault and battery, felonous rape, and |
F. and B. Prosecutrix, Bertha K. Hays.- |
True bill.
Commonwealth vs. Harry Brown. As-
sault ‘and - battery. Prosecutor, Brack
‘Powell. - This case was the outcome of the
jealousy - of the two colored gentlemen
‘over the charms of Miss Elizabeth Bathurst,
who knows every bar and tile in the Cen-
tre county jail, since she has already done
time for stealing. Brack and Browny hap-
.| pened to be calling at the same time and
Brack had her on his lap pouring out all
the honeyed words he could conjure up,
all the while berating Browny in no mild
terms. As it happened Browny was hid-
ing in the stair case and while he did not |
object to Brack’s making love to his white
‘inamorata he did get fighting mad when
his own fair, (?) name was taken in vain.
Like a tiger from a cage he pounced out
on Brack, whose hand flew to the'tonsorial
end of his pants, but before he could grab
the ‘‘razzer,’” that Liz said he had,
Browny had tapped him on the head with
a poker and ended his dreams of love in-
stanter. Defendant not "guilty and costs
divided equally. Both of the colored
gentlemen went to jail, Browny found se-
curity for his $18.30 costs and is out again.
Commonwealth vs. Chas. and Anna
Spearly. Keeping and maintaining a dis-
orderly house. Defendants plead guilty.
Theirs was the house in which the above
case occurred. Sentenced to pay a fine of
$10 and undergo four month’s imprison-
ment in county jail. :
Commonwealth vs. John Broombaugh.
and became an open rup-
F. and B. Prosecutrix, Nancy Baily.
Guilty and usual sentence imposed. = *
Commonwealth vs. A. A. Dale, Esq.
Assault and battery. Prosecutor, James I.
McClure. Unfortunately for: Jim his left
‘optic’ had discarded its widow’s weed be-
fore he got before the grand jury and his
‘tale of woe wasn't half as woeful as it
would have been had he been able to show
the jurymen the beautiful festooning of
‘blue and black that Al had hung around
‘his face. His bill was ignored. and he was
left to pay the costs. his own doctor bill,
got nothing for his large window through
which he threw the whet stone intended
for Al's head and the only satisfaction there
is in it for him is that Al’s suit against
him met a like fate. Now that they have
broken even they had hetter kiss and make
up.
Commonwealth vs. James I. McClure.
Assault and battery. Prosecutor, A. A.
Dale. This was a countersuit brought by
Mr. Dale to even. up with Jim for having
cracked him on the arm with a shoe ham-
mar during that little difference of opinion
they had around in McClure’s saddlery last
week. The grand jury didn’t seem to be
much in sympathy with Al, however, and
his bill was ignored and the costs were put
on him.
Commonwealth vs. Sarah Weaver.
sault and battery. Prosecutor,
Patton.
ance at the August term.
Commonwealth vs.
Rape. Prosecutor, Elsie D. Griffith.
True bill. Defendant in parts unknown.
Commopealth vs. Edward Beck. As-
sault and battery and threats. Prosecu-
tor, Mrs. Geo. W. Cathcart. This was the
case that the WATCHMAN noted some time
ago when Mrs. Cathcart, having failed to
get law in Bellefonte, took herself off to
Milesburg where the redoubtable Irv. Mor-
ris dished it out to her in the most ap-
proved style and remanded the defendant
for court. Mrs. Cathcart has her satisfac-
tion now as the jury brought ina verdict
of not guilty and left her to pay the costs,
which total up to $20.45, without their
witness fees.
Commonwealth vs. Ollie Orbison. Car-
rying concealed weapons and making
‘threats. - Proseeator, Henry Montgomery.
Defendant was a porter at the Brockerhoff
house and while flying. with about three
sails in the wind, one night, volunteered
to ‘‘do up” the whole establishment, so it
was said, buta jury of twelve good and
lawful men thought him not half as dan-
gerous as he was said to be and found him
not guilty, placing the costs on the county.
Commonwealth vs. John M. Glace. F.
and B. Prosecutor, Minnie E. Fye. True
bill. .
Commonwealth vs. Samuel Meese.
rying concealed weapons. Prosecutor,
Henry Montgomery, chief of police of
Bellefonte. Meese had been held over for
having had a razor on his person, but it
was shown that he was merely carrying it
it from a shop, where he had been having it
fixed. Verdict, not guilty, and county for
cobts.
Commonwealth vs. E. P. Zerby. As-
sault and battery. John H. Confer, prose-
cutor. Bill ignored and county for costs.
Commonwealth vs. Coburn King. Ag-
gravated assault and battery. Prosecutor,
Abe Kessler, a Jew clothing dealer in Mill-
heim. Plead guilty and sentenced to pay
a fine of $50 and undergo six month’s im-
prisonment in the county jail.
The jurors were all discharged, on Wed-
nesday night, and yesterday was taken up
in hearing petitions, imposing sentences
and other work that did not call for the
deliberations of a jury.
REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY. :
To the Honorable the judges of the court of gnarte
sessions of the peace in and for the county of Cen-
_ tre, April sessions, 1897. :
The grand inquest of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania inquiring for the county in all mat
ters relating to the same do respectfully report.
That we have acted upon twenty-four bills of in-
dictment, twenty were found true bills and four
were ignored. We beg leave, further, to report
that we have visited and inspected the county
buildings. We found the prison in good condi-
tion and in all respects except we recommend the
papering of the sheriff's office, the kitchen and
front hall. We'also recommend plastering of the
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Bert. Henderson.
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‘| jail wall, where needed, also patching in watch
hall. SE : oat
We further recommend the purchase of ten
wash basins, also new seats for water closets.
:We also visited the different offices in the court
house and recommend a new roof for the court
house, the papering of the main court chamber,
grand.jury roomand treasurer's office, also.the
plastering of various places about the building.
‘We would recommend that ‘there should be a
water closet made for the ladies, who are com-
pelled to attend court, in some part of the building
‘suitable for such purpose. ¢ i
We would theréfore recommend that the above
improvements bé made as soon as possible.
We desire to compliment the janitor for the
good care taken of the buildings and surround-
ings. : :
We also desire to return thanks to the court
and the district attorney for the uniform courtesy
and assistance during our deliberations.
. ALBERT HOY, Foreman.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the
list ‘of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week.
William Thompson Gingher and Ger-
trude Broom, both of Milesburg.
Curtis A. Jones, of Patton Twp., and
Grace G. Adams, of Port Matilda.
Orrin E. Poorman and Melissa M. Eck-
ley, both of Boggs Twp.
Calvin Barto, of Guyer, and Barbara E.
L. Strayer, of Gatesburg.
James E. Steward, of New Bloomfield,
Pa., and Sarah C. Deininger, of Centre
Hall, Pa. ’
George Kosur and Annie Poolik, both of
Clarence, Pa.
Joga W. Hartsock and Kate Behrer,
both ® Waddles, Pa.
Harvey O. Brown and Nettie Lucas,
both of Boggs Twp. >
Jacob H. Weaver and Emma Mowry,
both of Walker Twp.
Entered recognizance for appear-