AOI Bellefonte, Pa., March 20, 1908. Man Out of Work and Jealous Shoots Woman and Himself, FEARED SHE'D LEAVE HIM York, Pa, March 16.—Made despon- dent by his inability to secure work, and insanely jealous of the woman he called his wife, Gc ;e Bents, of Boyd Station, Md., shot and killed himseif and Flora Bentz, about thirty-five years old. Bentz came here last week with the woman, who was handsome. After the shooting Charles O’Brien, with whom the couple were stopping, said be had doubted that the woman was really Bentz's wife, and said he thought she bad a child in Maryland. All the members of the household, with the exception of Bentzs, were at the dinner table, when the latter came down stairs and threw himself upon a couch in the next room. He was downhearted over his failure to get a job. O’Brien called to Bentz to join the family at dinner, but Bentz replied that he did not care for any, and O'Brien then turned to the woman, Florence, and asked her what was the matter with Bentz. “O’Brien,” said the woman, “I'm not going to live with him.” At her words Bentz came striding out into the kitchen with a revolver in his hand. Going behind the chair In which sat the woman, he threw his left arm about her neck. “Oh, don’t shoot me!” she cried. Mrs. O'Brien, springing up, seized the barrel of the weapon, but Bentz jerked it away, pressed the muzzle against the cheek of the helpless woman and fired twice. Mrs. O'Brien fell In a faint, and her husband and three chil dren, aged from four to twelve years, ran from the house, When O'Brien and a policeman re- turned Bentz pressed the weapon to his right temple and blew out his own brains. Eloped From Frederick, Md. Frederick, Md., March 16.— The wo- man shot and killed at York, Pa.. by George Bentz, of this city, was Mrs. Florence Kind, wife of Rufus Kind, also of Frederick. Mrs. Kind left her hushand and a young daughter to elope with Bentz, who deserted his wife and geven children. Bentz has lived practi cally all his life here, ACTOR NOT GUILTY Judge Orders Jury to Acquit Raymoad Hitchcock. New York, March 17.—A sensation occurred in the trial of Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian. when Jus- tice Blanchard ordered the acquittal of the defendant on the indictment against him growing out of the charges of Ellen Von Hagen, a young girl. The action of the justice was taken upon motion of Assistant District At- torney Garfield that the narrative she told before the grand jury was false. Several other indictments in sim- flar charges are still pending against Hitchcock. Flora Whiston swore on the witness stand that an agent of the Gerry So- ciety had frightened her into making the charges against Hitchcock. “He threatened to take me away from my home—to separate me from my mother i I did pot tell that story,” said the girl in a sobbing voice, when asked why she had made the charges against Hitchcock hefore the grand jury. The girl said the only person to awhom she had told the truth concern- 4ng her relations with Hitchcock was ‘her step-father. It was after the step- father had been called to the wit- mess stand and testified that the girl had assured him that Hitchcock never had ill-treated her that Mr. Carvan moved for the dismissal of the case. Flora Whiston was arrested on a charge of perjury as she was leaving the court room. KILLED BY A BLAST Farmer Struck by Rock on Chest as He Alighted From Train. Allentown, Pa., March 17.—Charles Lichtenwalner, of Macungie township, was struck by a rock from a blast fired by men at work on his farm and in- -stantly killed. Mr. Lichtenwalner, who was fifty-five years of age, and member of a prominent family In Lehigh county, had just alighted from a train to inspect his place when the blast was fired. A large piece of rock struck him on the chest crushing it and rupturing internal organs. Attempt to Steal $240,000; Foiled, New York, March 17.—An attempt to steal $240,000 from C. B. Richarde., FLEET IN MAGDALENA fvans’ Warships Have Made 13,000 Miles of Journey. San Diego, Cal., March 13.—When the American battleship fleet under command of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans steamed into Magdalena bay goveral days ahead of time, the his tory-making naval cruise of more than 12.000 miles, begun at Hampton Roads less than three months ago, practically came to an end. There remains to be made the trip trom Magdalena bay to San Francisco, the destination originally announced, and a matter of some 1100 miles, but it will not be bezun until after target practice is concluded and fleet drills are done. This last stage of the jour- ney will be a tour of holiday making, with stops at San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, where reception committees are planning all manner of entertainments for officers and men, the latter especially coming in for the greatest amount of atten- tion. The sailors will find themselves heroes, every one, in the eyes of their western admirers, and are promised a series of fetes, which will include | features ranzing from gala balls un- | der the patronage of exclusive social gets to prize fizhts refereed by Cham- pion James J. Jeffries himself. ORCHARD WANTS TO DIE Confessed Murderer Says He Is Ready to Take His Punishment. Boise, Idaho, March 16. — On the morning of his forty-second birthday, next Wednesday, Harry Orchard, con- fessed murderer of former Governor Frank Steunenberg, who was killed by the explosion of a bomb at the gate to his residence in Caldwell on the even- ing of Dec. 30, 1905, will face Judge Fremont Wood, prepared to hear the death sentence meted out to him. Harry Orchard of his own volition and against the urgent pleadings of his attorney and others, refused, when arraigned on March 10, to let his pre- vious plea of “not guilty” stand. He also refused to plead to a lesser de- gree of murder than first degree. He said: “I am guilty and am ready to take my punishment. I have told the truth. I understand fully what must be the consequences.” It is the general belief that Orchard expects to die, and that he wishes to suffer the extreme penalty for his crimes. SHOT ON A TRAIN Ex-Judge Buchanan Probably Fatally Wounded In South Carolina. Augusta, Ga., March 17.—Ex-judge 0. W. Buchanan, of Winnsboro, 8. C,, whose wife is a niece of Senator B. R. Tillman, was mysteriously shot and probably mortally wouaded while on his way from Columbia to Augusta, to see a niece who is ill here. Judge Buchanan was seated by an open window in the day coach of a Southern railroad train when the train pulled out of Wards, 8. C. The train had proceeded but a short distance when a shot was fired through the win- dow by an unknown party, the bullet grazing the window ledge and enter- ing the judge's right side. He is in a | critical condition. 1t is believed that the shot was fired with murderous intent. GILETTE MUST DIE Governor Hughes Won't Stay Execu- tion of Grace Brown's Slayer. Albany, N. Y., March 17.—Governor Hughes will not interfere in any way with the execution in the week begin- ning March 30 of the death sentence upon Chester Gillette of Cortland, con- victed of the murder of Grace, or “Billy” Brown, of South Otselic, Chen- ango county at Big Moose lake in the Adirondacks in July, 1906, and now in the “death cell” at Auburn prison. The governor would not talk about the matter for publication, but it may be stated with entire confidence that he has carefully read not only the un- animous opinion of the court of ap- peals affirming Gillette's conviction, but also the evidence in the case, and entertains no doubt of Gillette's guilt. Dropped Dead In Court. New York, March 17.—John Ma- guire, election commissioner of Brook- lyn, and a well-known lawyer of that borongh, met death suddenly in the county court while making a plea for a client on trial for larceny before Judge Fawcett. He was earnestly ex- pressing to the jury his belief in the defendant's innocence, when he sud- denly paused, sank into a chalr, gave a gasp and was dead almost before the startled spectators in the courtroom realized it. Death was due to apo- plexy. Church Abolishes Creed. Augusta, Me., March 16.—Announce- ment was made from the pulpit of the South Parish Congregational church thai by unanimous vote of the society & Co. bankers, of 31 and 33 Broad | the church creed has been abolished. way, this city, was revealed at police ' os far as known, this is the first headquarters, following the receipt of pews of the arrest of one of the al- leged forgers in Paris. The man under arrest is Gustavo Bozzo, formerly a stenographer employed by the bank- ers. The police say he has confessed, and that he has implicated two con- tederates. The alleged thieves had cealized $36,025 of the big stake they were after before their forgeries were fiscovered. Restores Motto on Coins. Washington, March 17.—Under sus- pension of the rules, the house of rep- resentatlves passed the bill provid. Ing for the restoration of the motto “In God We Trust” on gold and silver tolng of the United States. | i church in the denomination to take such action. A new form of covenant, based on the discipleship of Jesus Christ, has been adopted as the test tor membership. Expressman Gets a House For a Dollar Newark, N. J., March 17.—The dol- lar Bernard Satsky, an expressman, of this place, intended for charity, drought him a, three-story house in Prince street, unencumbered. He took the dollar to the Congregation Anse Russia temple to be used for charity, ind was told to go to the charity ball of the congregation that night and ft would be just the same. As he left the ball he learned the coupon on the dcket had drawn the house in a rafle, Double Tragedy In School. Suffering from melancholia, due to overwork, Miss Sarah Chamberlain Weed, of Philadelphia, shot and killed | Miss Elizabeth Baliey Hardee, of East Savannah, Ga., and then committed guicide at the Laurens school at Bos- ton. The bodies were found in bed by Mrs. Page, matron of the school, The Laurens school was established last fall by Miss Hardee and Miss Weed. On Oct. 1, the day the school opened, Miss Weed broke down as a result of overwork and was committed to a sani- torium in Newton, to be treated for nervous prostration. Miss Weed escaped from the sani- torium and made her way to the school. She appeared to be badly de- ranged mentally. Miss Hardee suc- ceeded in getting Miss Weed to go to bed in Miss Hardee's chamber. Miss Hardee retired with Miss Weed. From the nature of the wounds Med- feal Examiner Stedman decided that Miss Weed had committed suicide by shooting herself through the right tem- ple, after having shot Miss Hardee through the base of the brain. i i Killed His Father, Angered because his father scolded him for not seeking employment, Matthew Kraschefsky, aged seventeey years, deliberately shot and kill ed his father, Louis Kraschefsky, at their home in Wilmington, Del. The boy had been a constant reader of dime novels and would not go to work despite the protestations of his parents against his idleness. His father called him to his room and told him that if he did not get work by Monday he would have to leave his house. Father and son were alone in the room at the time, with the other members of the family down stairs. The mother heard sounds of a strug- gle, then two revolver shots, and on rushing to the room found her husband lying dead on the bed, with a bullet wound under the heart and one under his left arm. The boy escaped from the house and later gave himself up to the police. Fainted on Scaffold. Charles Warzel was hanged at Potts- ville, Pa., for the murder of his six- teen-year-old sweetheart, Mattie Bolin- ski, at Shenandoah, May 25, 1907. He walked bravely from the prison to the scaffold attended by Sheriff Evans and his deputies and by his spiritual ad- viser, Rev. A. Ziebura, of Minersville. Upon the scaffold he made a short adress in broken English. He de- clared that he was not conscious of wrongdoing when he committed the murder. After speaking for about five min- utes, he collapsed, fell to the floor of ! scaffold and fainted away. He never recovered consciousness. His pros- trate body was lifted up to the noose with a rope under his arms. The noose was adjusted, the trap was sprung, and he dropped to his death. Harry Orchard Pleads Guilty. Harry Orchard, before Judge Fre- mont Wood, at Caldwell, Idaho, was allowed to withdraw his former plea of not guilty, which was entered at his first arraignment by the order of the court when he stood mute, and entered another plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first de- gree as charged in the indictment. Judge Wood will sentence Orchard on March 18. Orchard pleaded guilty to having killed former Governor Steun- enberg by the explosion of a dynamite bomb at the side gate of his residence here early in the evening of Dec. 30, 1905. Two Meet Fiery Death. The bodies of Lydia Carter, of Bor dentown, and William Fleck, of Roeb- ling, were found in the ruins of a farmhouse between Florence and Roebling, near Burlington, N. J., which was destroyed by fire Sunday night. The burned building was on what is known as the English farm and had been unoccupied for some time. A farmer who looked into the ruins saw the body of the Carter woman and later the coroner in making an exami. nation found the body of Fleck. The pair were seen together Saturday. Burned to Death in Her Home. By upsetting a lamp while dozing in a chair in her home, at Hollidays- burg, Pa., Mrs. Martha Cartwright, fifty-nine years of age, was burned to death. When the lamp ex- ploded the fire spread so rapidly that the woman's two sons, who were asleep upstairs, were unable to de- scend the stairs and had to escape by jumping out the window. Horse Imprisoned For Fifteen Years. A horse kept a prisoner in its stall fifteen years was liberated and <old to a drayman at Altoona, Pa. Iis hoofs were a foot long, and eight inches had to be cut off for shoes. The horse ran away and upset a buggy fifteen years ago. It had since been fed and watered regularly, but never let out of its stall. It can hardly walk. Three Children Burned to Death. The farm house of John Donthitt, near Medford, Wis, was destroyed by fire while Mrs. Donthitt was out- glide. The stove exploded and her three small children were burned to death, Shot to Death While He Slept. Fred. Dolph, of Clinton, Ia, was shot to death while he slept. His head was blown off with a shotgun, placed against his cheek. Mrs. Dolph is un- aer arrest, Despondent Girl Kills Herself. Margaret Burton, aged fifteen years, shot and killed herself at her home at Trenton, N. J. The girl had become despendent over the care of her moth er, who is seriously {IL | kingdom: the “Placemakers’” Proving His Motto. “Well, sir,” exclaimed the millions ‘what do you want this morning?’ “I've come again to ask for youl daughter.” said the poor but ambitious young man, “Haven't 1 told you six times over on as many different days that It is out of the question? What do you mean by bothering me in this way? You are making a nuisance of your self!” “If 1 seem to be more persistent than gircumstances warrant, 1 must insist that you, sir, are to blame." “Me!” shouted the indignant old man. “I don't understand you.” “There,” said the man who loved his laughter as he pointed to a motto over the banker's desk, “is my excuse fot coming here day after day, ‘If at first you don't succeed, try. try, try again’ Do you believe in that sentiment, or have you put it up there simply to de- ceive people?” After he had scratched his head awhile the mean old plutocrat said: “Yes, | believe in that. 1 haven't succeeded yet in making you under stand that my daughter shall not be come the wife of a fool, but | am going to keep on trying till i do! Good morn- ing!" And that Maguzine time he did it.—Strand What the Cat Had. The teacher of the Sunday school class was telling the little boys about temptation and showing how It some- times came in the most attractive form. She used as an illustration the paw of a cat. “Now.” said she, “you have all seen the paw of a cat. It is as soft as vel vet, isn't it?" “Yessum.” from the class, “And you have seen the paw of a dog?" “Yessum." “Well, although the cat's paw seems like velvet, there is nevertheless con- cealed In it something that hurts. What is #7 No answer. “The dog bites,” sald the teacher. “when he is in anger. But what does the cat do?” “Scratches,” sald a boy. “Correct.” said the teacher, nodding her head approvingly. “Now. what has the cat got that the dog hasn't?” “Whiskers!” sald a boy on the back seat.—Home Magazine. Bible Blunders. Some curious errors have crept into the Bible at various times, giving names to the editions containing them. Here are some instances: The “Un righteous” Bible, from the misprint “the ‘unrighteous’ shall inherit the Bible “blessed are the placemakers’ ” (peace- makers); the “Printers’™ Bible. “the ‘printers’ (for princes) have persecuted me:” the “Treacle” Bible, “Is there nc ‘treacle’ (balm) in Gllead?' the “Vin- egar” Bible. “the parable of the ‘vine- gar" (vineyard); the “Bug” Bible, “thou shalt not be afraid of ‘bugs’ (bogies) by night;" the “Breeches” Bl ble. “they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves ‘breeches; ” the “Idle” Bible, “woe to the ‘idle’ ” (idol), and finally the “Wooden Leg” Testa- ment. so called from the frontisplece depicting Satan limping with a wooden leg. Just a Fish Story. We cannot refrain from recording the most curious capture of a fish that has come to our notice. The circum- stance was retailed many years ago by Mr. Heathcote, one of the great au- thorities on the fens. A Mr. Richard- son of Peterborough was skating on the dikes when the Ice was very clear, and he noticed a large pike swimming in front of him. The fish was terrified by the apparition and swam In front of the skater until it stopped from sheer exhaustion. The skater broke the Ice and took out the fish with his hand, which proved to be a plke weighing twelve pounds. It is a story difficult even for a fisherman or a local histo- rian to cap.— London Outlook. Not Disturbed. Nassau William Senior, the English political economist. was a frequent guest of Lord Lansdowne at Lans- downe House and on one occasion was busily writing, quite abstracted as usual, in a room full of company when Tom Moore was singing. The scratch of his pen was not an agreeable ac- companiment. and at last one of the company asked very politely, “You are not fond of music, Mr. Senior?” “No,” he replied, “but it does not disturb me in the least. Pray go on.” i Careful About Worry. A physician was recently attending a patient whose husband came to see him concerning her condition and greeted him with the words, “Mr. Irving, do you think there is any need for any unnecessary anxiety about my wife ?’—Argonaut. Guessed It. Guest (suspiciously eying the flat. tened pillows and the crimpled sheets)—Look here. landlord, this bed has been slept in! Landlord (trium- phantly)—That's what it's meant for! Renovated. Puffer— What's happened to my meer: schaum pipe? Mrs. Puffer—Why, dear, 1 noticed it was getting awfully brown and discolored, so 1 put a coat of that white enamel on it \ Variety. Visitor—Why do you make some of your ples round and some of them ware? Wife—Because my husband has been complaining of sameness of his diet lately. Jesters must be content to taste of their broth.—Latin Proverb. | A er ——————————————————— Bellefonte Shoe Emporium, - __. Dissolution of Partnership. Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore exhisting between E. E. Davis and H. C. Yeager, under the firm name of Yeager & Davis, has this day been dissolved by mutual con- scnt. Mr. Yeager will continue the business, as- suming all the liabilities of the firm and collecting all accounts due it, March 12, 1908, YEAGER & DAVIS. ——— Dissolution Sale! te BEGINNING Friday, March 20th, AND CONTINUING FOR THE NEXT 10 DAYS I will have one of the Lowest Price Sale of Shoes ever held in Centre county. You will be able to purchase good Shoes very much cheaper than you have for some time, Now is your time to buy Spring and Summer Shoes This sale Will Last Only 10 Days but it will be a great chance to buy Shoes cheap. at a low price. H. C. YEAGER, successor to Yeager & Davis. BELLEFONTE, PA. Lvon & Co. Lyon & Co. Lyon &. Company. EARLY RING -- OPENING EE A RN ILI ET SIR REN le dsidissinsieisvisnnsnen SP Everything New in Dress Goods, all the new shades for Spring and Summer, in Silk, Wool and Wash Materials. I Everything new in Cloths, Voiles and Herringbone weaves in black and all the new colors. New Ginghams in plain and mercerized, checks and plaid, all new colors, from 12 1-2 to 35 cents per yard. LINENS. Linens in white, blue, pink and natural colors. Silk Pongees in all New Shades. SHIRT WAISTS. The finest assortment in short and long sleeves, open front or back, handsomely trimmed in lace and embroidery or both, from 95 cents up. Finest Embroideries and Laces in matched widths with sheer fine white goods to match. Wait for our opening in Lace Curtains, Heavy Draperies and the newest in figur- ed Mattings. See our fine line of Ingrain Carpets. New Linoleum in handsome patterns, prices always the lowest. LYON & COMPANY, 7-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa. Sabb
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