VOL. LXVIIL. CAPITOL GOSSIP HAVE SECU RED A SATISFACTORY . 31, 1895. This strengthened the belief of hy E M [SS] NG M A N one that the body had been thrown in | ' the dam, and then removed before the ; FIFTY YEARS |®earching party reached the ground. | As the amount of water in the dam NO. 43 IN CENTRE COUNTY, CENTRE HALL, PA., TI \ TRSDAY, OCTOBER ator Goran after having AN OLD MURDER fully gone over returns made by trusty | Democrats in every election precinct | AN EXCITING TIME in Maryland says there isn’t the slight- A Brief Statement of Democratic and Re. publican Rule, HENRY FRY NOT YET FOUND.— From 1863 to the first Monday of STATE OF AFFAIRS. The Report that Harrison and Quay Had Made Friends Found no Believers in Washington. WasHiNaToN, Oct. 28.—President Cleveland and Secretary Olney could not have secured a more satisfactory state of affairs than the expressions of prominent Republican and Congressmen have brought about if they had personally had charge of the arrangements themselves. Republicans have publicly put their party on record and when President Cleveland sends a special message to Congress, as he will do shortly after it assembles, setting forth the demands he has made upon Great Britain to recognize the Monroe doctrine, and ac- companying it with Great Britain's answers thereto concerning its claims in Venzuela, the Republicans cannot without stultifying themselves hold up their hands in holy horror and ery “jingoism I” They will be compelled to endorse the President's position, simply because their previous utter- ances will have left them nothing else to do. There is nothing new in matic complication with newspapers These the diplo- Creat Brit- ain, but there is reason to believe that there will be this week, as Great Brit- ain’s answer to Secretary Olney’s last dispateh, stating the position of this government and its intention to stand by the pected, swer the next Monroe doctrine, is daily ex- Upon the nature of this of this Although fic answer was asked for it is an- move govermn- ment will depend. a speci regarded receiv- as probable that it will not be ed. Even had Great Britain fully de- termined a week ago to positively de- ny the right of the United to interfere under the Monroe doetrine with its affairs in Venzuela it would not do so now. The deal that has made with China has given Great States Russia Britain something more important to do than to quarrel with this country. British commercial stake in the east is believed that the that until supremacy is at i for th answer ant it reason it will be a diplomatic one will leave the question open John Bull has to it more time to give . The rather silly report that Harri- son and Quay had made friends and that the latter is going to take charge of the former's boom found no believ- ers in Washington, but it to bring out several good, if not new sto- served ries, concerning similar reports in the past. Lots of people remember that during the latter part of the campaign in 1892, at about the time the Harri- son ticket struck the slide, Boss Quay went to New York, and the papers were full of stories about toboggan his having become reconciled with Harri. son and going to succeed Carter, had as chairman of the Republican National Committee made a mess of the campaign, so far as his own party was concerned. Col. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, met Quay in New York, and being an old person- al friend asked him in confidence whether there was any truth in the story. Quay replied: ‘Not a word. I'll tell you why I'm in New York. I heard that there might be some dan- ger of Harrison's election, and I meére- ly ran up here to test the truth of the story from the appearance of things, I find that Harrison stands no more how of election than a snow-bird. That relieves me. I'll now return to Pennsylvania and attend to re-glecting Matt Quay Senator.” Mr. Benjamin Harrison has not giv- en up hope of getting that nomination again, notwithstanding the opposition of Quay, Platt and other Republican bosses. This has been made very plain to those who know the inside track. When a number of the Repub- lican National Committee met in New York City last week, to decide upon the date for the committee meeting which will determine the time and place for holding the National Con- vention of the party, Mr. Harrison had a confidential representative on the ground-—he is reported to entertain doubts of Chairman Carter's friendship for him; others are certain that Carter has joined the combine against him in the person of W. 8. McKeen, the railrond man, to find out the full strength of the combine against him, He also has an agent—ex-Governor Baunders, whose daughter is the wife of “Prince Russ'’—in the south trying to ‘arrange’ for delegates to the Na- tional Convention Secretaries Carlisle and Lamont have been to their respective homes and registered and they will both vote the straight Democratic icket on elec- tion day. President Cleveland did not register, consequently he will have no vote, Secretary Carlisle says Ken- tucky will go Democratic, although the majority may be smaller than us who Democratic column. The Republican ocratic state ticket is too transparent to eatch many votes, The nearer the opening of the session of Congress gets, the more apparent it becomes that the fight which a num- ber of Republican members are mak- ing for the chairmanships of the most important committees may develop boom. path of the Reed Presidential - -> —- PROSPERITY RETURNING, President Cleveland's Wise Abundaat Frait Policy The Democrats have great reason to be proud of the manner in which the now, administered by their President. Coming into power at a credit of the nation the unwise an pernicious legislation of a Republican congress and the policy pursued Republican administration time when the had been ruined by by a of finan- cial and economical questions, he sav- ed the honor and credit of the nation, and oppressive laws were Under his wise, benefi- cent poliey, a period of peace and great prosperity, such as has never yet been witnessed by patriotic and any people, has come upon us and our people rejoice and are glad in the rounds them. Every abundance which sur- where, all over our great | country, the furnaces that were dark- ened, the forges that were silenced and by the tariff legislation of the last Republican the factories that were stilled administration, have sprung into new life. STRONG TESTIMONTALS, The weekly output of our furnaces, as stated by the fron Age on the 12th of Beptember, is larger than ever be- fore in our history, or in that of any other country. Production is still in- creasing and, as yet, is unable to keep up with the demand, The Pittsburg Dispatch declares that prosperity is no longer indicated —it is here. Pay rolls are the realization of prosperity’s best fruits, Andrew Carnegie declared recently, that as a people, we had entered upon a long period of prosperity, and to this the present Governor of Ohio gave heed when he declared, as he did re cently, “that the people of Ohio had never enjoyed so prosperous a year as the one they were now in.” Ho, in every department and branch of our great industries has prosperity returned. The music of the loom is ceaseless; the product of the spindle is endless; the output of the mines un- equaled. Wages of labor is increased and still going up. Labor in demand everywhere. In many places wages are higher than they were in 1800, and at the same time the purchasing power of the earnings of labor has greatly There are fewer tramps and idle men in the country today than at any time for a period of twenty vears, increased, A oo —C—— A Fifty Cent Calendar Free. The Publishers of The Youth's Com- panion are sending free to the sub- scribers to the paper, a handsome four-page Calendar, 7 x 10 in., litho- graphed in nine colors. It is made up of four charming pictures, each pleas ing in design, under each of which are the monthly calendars for the year 1806. The retail price of this Calendar is 50 cents, New subscribers to The Companion receive this beautiful Calendar free and besides, The Companion free every week until January 1, 1896, Also the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's double numbers free, and 7%e Companion lty-two weeks, to January 1, 1807. 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They pub- lish their prices, and you get the same AGO: | A Traveler Disappensed in the Penns Val- I | ley Narrows, Dam left off at Night and the Body Evidently Removed, | | Many of the older citizens of i | co the { county will doubtless vividly recall the {excitement in July 1842, when the re- [port that a man had been murdered {spread like wildfire throughout this | whole section. Knowing that the re- | telling of the story would be interest- | some facts from one of our most | spected citizens. About two Years ago |an old lady, now living in Laurelton, | who was a servant girl at Brumbach’s { tavern at the time of the murder, gave | him a detailed history of what she saw {and heard, and from her story and his | own recollections the article has been rompiled. On the 19th of July, 1842, some hunt- | ers were examining deer licks in the { Penns valley Narrows, situated in the ie { { i jcounty. | ered the dead body of a strange horse | i | in the woods, some distance from the road, The horse had evidently been ten out with a fresh c which search revealed the ut birch i i | heavy } | elub was lying near by, Al bridie and halter | hidden under some brush only a few | rods away, but that was all they could find. wrong they made inquiries, and soon Suspecting that something was found that a traveler had been seen in that vicinity the day before, the de- tallied exact- found | in the woods, An old toll who was a man of gate Yeasick, Keeper, i very nature, said that the day on horseback had passed through the the conversation he learned his name was Kerr, and that he was from Lehigh county. 30 ve vilalitl His before a man gate, and that from he had with the man Afterwards it was re- ported that this same man had been seen traveling on foot through Aarons burg and again at what is now Centre Hall. But the maintained that the description of the man traveling on foot did with that of Kerr. It was that the horse had been gate Keeper stoutly not tally Observe Hartleton newly sho and a blacksmith from 1 him, and also described the the horse as being the same man that had passéd through the gate and talk- ed with Yearick, the gate keeper, Soon after the hour of midnight cit- of owner izens on horseback and on foot dinner horns rushed from house to house with the startling news that a man had been murdered in the Penns valley Narrows. with The whole country was quickly aroused and the ment was beyond description. Over five hundred men, women and chil- dren turned out and met at the place where the dead horse had been found ~the spot being at the turn of the pike, about half a mile below where the pike e¢rosses the 4 mile run. A stone pile to this day marks the exact spot where the horse was killed. Search was made in all directions for the body of the supposed murdered man but nothing could be found ex- cept some traces that seemed to indi- cate the victim might have been drag- ged and thrown into Roush'’s milldam, close by where the horse had been found, Suspicion fell upon some persons of doubtful reputation, living in the neighborhood, who had their haunts ai a tavern in the Narrows, about a mile below Yearick's toll gate, This tavern was kept by a man named Brumbach. A diligent search was made through the building and premi- ses, but all that could be found was a pair of saddle bags, on which traces of blood were discovered, Yearick, the gate keeper, positively identified these bags as being the same carried by Kerr, the traveler, on horseback. The most current story was that Kerr had stop- ded at this tavern and that he had been killed by these persons in a quar. rel over some gambling, and that his body had been thrown into the dam, and to avoid suspicion the horse had been taken to the woods and killed. A public meeting of the citizens was held and it was decided to drain the water off the dam on the next day and see what the result would be. Before daylight thousands had gathered at the mill dam, many of them coming from the eastern end of Penns valley, in Centre county, anxious to see whether the mystery would be solved. But they were thwarted. During the night the flood gates of the dam had been raised, by whom it never was known, and the water had nearly all run out. Tracks were seen where per sons bad waded in mud, during the excite- gradually saddle found, decreased, this, Yearick as belonging to Kerr. i and too, identified citemment, and renewed efforts made to find the new hiding the body of the victim, Bo successful, however, were the plans of those con- of body, that its hiding place to this day nected with the concealment the has remained a secret, There are at thi still living who day many citizens of this county themselves were their ef- liev untiring in forts to unearth the by ing all Very out- crime, some of their own neighbors knew about it. Indeed some wer spoken in naming the supposed derers, and finally a suit of slander was mur- instituted against a farmer who nam- thought mitted the erime, but the matter nev- Dr. Weirick, practicing physician CO- er came into court. who was then a in Hartleton, caused some arrests, but as no body of a murdered man could be found, the warrants went hy’ default. That there was a murder committed is unquestioned, but in those times in clearing their lands and improving their farms, and had neith- er time norm ney to devote to ferret- ws of the crime. the ing out the perpetrats in C entre county excitement great Jacob Motz, 1d yw as | John others, as i our Motz, Ja- from Woodw ard, of Owl 1134 AMALILY Hosterman, Motz's ganized OD Bank, (n AROOmIpany of searchers, liscovered nothing « here relat man ANY assisiance, gis 3 i obliged to drop the matter, General Greene, Hon, George I, Col. McFadden, s drove up from Lewisburg, and stog hw and a few other d Was FIM : with Daniel who Npigelmyer, then a candidate for Sherif! They en- matter, as they did James Madden, Justice of the for Hartley The Brauel Andre Line many q TREE, _ #4 sisted in attemptin listed him in the also Peace, township Reeds, and Pes l " Rules, ers, v olns, Glovers hers Iz to unra- ¥ . ts failed and warrant Vie all effor | the mystery, but No body could be found, ould not be issued}without some defi- { ly had nite prooi that someb been murdered i. fter these occurrences two of NOOGH A the persons supposed to be implicated £} in the crime, disappeared, and noth- until in 1584, of heard of them when the death them announced in a Westmoreland county ing was of one Was paper. Only within recent years at- tention was again directed to this old story by the publication in a western Penn’'a of the deathbed confession of one of these two men. who told that he had assisted in the murder of a man in Penns valley Nar. rows in 1542, and implicated some oth- newspaper who are all dead now, About six years ago a tram road was | built over this same ground by Pardee | & Co., and in a lonely spot the work- ers, men unearthed the frame of an old | carpet bag, with it a bottle, tightly corked and sealed, but the contents may or may not have had some con- nection with this mysterious case, else | why would they have been hidden in that lonely spot evidently half a cen- tury vefore? Be that as it may, the true story of the murder will probably never be told, and if it were, there is no one left to hang ; all have gone to be tried in s higher court where that which is hidden shall be revealed, and from the judgment of which there is no appeal.— Lewisburg Journal. ce AA Mistakes in a Newspaper, Every column in a newspaper con- tains from 5,000 to 25,000 distinct piee- es of metal, according to the siz®of the paper and the type. The displace- ment of anyone of these means an er- ror. Isit any wonder that mistakes sometimes occur. Still some people think it awful to see mistakes in a newspaper, and when they find one they make it a point to tell the editor about it. ———————— IN a speech at a Democratic meeting in Philadelphia, Benjamin F. Meyers, the party candidate for State Treasu- rer, charged that the banks in which the State deposits are placed made loans to favored leaders of the Repub lican party. DEMOCRATS, remember that to vote a straight Democratic ticket, you must make a cross in the circle at the top of the second column of the ballot. Don’t make a mistake and mark at the top of the first column, but be sure to place y« in the O at the top of night, about the edge of the dam, who SEARCH MADE Neighborhood Greatly Excited -No Traces of the Missing Man. ing for Him still Search, The missing Henry Fry was the talk of the Potter's Mills section all last week, and excitement ran higher as days passed without any clue by obtained as to his spite of all search that was made, left slippers, and t appears that he cloth home wear his iid be ¢ ing as Wot unsuited for a long jou irney Ove rough c¢ the old i fon K1is1 untiry, pric is growing that man suicide in some ye spot in that section. Some beliey he drowned himself in Allison's f ry dam, led Mr. Ed. Allison to eon to the letting off tho he the body would be iclo- sent ¢ of the dam, if so de- sired, did not himself be {i in the found Accordingly the dam was let off on iieve Sunday before dinner of in the presence a crowd of people, but the missing The day quite a number of people se man’s body was not in it. wuntains a second time but wit pn County Jots * wife of Henry O. Bower die twp. or wi Penn daughter of | a2 October : she lenry Swartz Pleasant Crap. - . oe. October Will be a Dry Month. here is not much hope of getting | 1," said Col. Rid the Harrisburg « ver, last thie nes § # riinntl way rain this mont} geway, | bast 1 week in { Elo speaking of great droutlh i K 2 Der is a very dry month and the condi- tions of November are about the same iti of | month COU Mee If we get heavy rains this be the A ' evenis, will usunl ficiency is so great that | it it if it should rain soaker. would probably be a I am afraid it will be 8 hard winter with lots of snow, Col. Ridgeway says the great drought Ohio, Del these states Indiana, The are en- tirely dried up and the larger ones are | lower than Physicians are afraid if the streams freeze up covers Pennsylvania West small streams in Virginia and ware. ever known, be inlA A Household Treasure, D. W. Faller, of Canajoharie, N. Y., says that he always keeps Dr. King's his | family has always found the very best New Discovery in the house and (+. N. A. | Y., not be without it, if procurable, Dy keman Druggist, Catskill, is undoubtedly the best Cough reme-| his family | Why not try a remedy so long tried and | Trial bottles free at J. D. Mur- | Regular size 50c. | . tested. stil iantis———— State News, A half dozen houses at Reedsville, were entered by thieves last week but very little booty was secured. A Huntingdon county trapper took | from his traps in one day last week | two wildeats, six foxes and ten minks, and on the way home saw two bears and two cubs, This beats the record of any Centre county hunter, we guess, las Bon Lincoln is indignant over the idea of proposing him as the Republi- ean nominee for president—bhe couldn’t for a moment entertain the thought of having the mean worry of the pres, idency. Well Bob, the Reporter” has an idea for you ; go out and plow like Cincinnatus of old and wait until they call you away from the plow to take the helm of state, Goon administrations were given the people by Cleveland and Pattison in both their terms—it can not be de- nied. Vote to strenghten the Demo- cratic party next Tuesday for its devo tion to the interests of the people. Wines you have a good stick January, 1888, all the county were filled by offices in the the Democratic candidates At 7, for the chosen by the party. the election in November, 185 first time since 1860, the control of the office of Sheriff, Recorder and of the Commissioners passed into Treasurer, the hands of the tepublican party. DEMOCRATIC BURPLI I'he Democratic Board of Commis- | sioners, on the first Monday of Janua- ry, 1888, turned over the county to the Republican party, free from and { : i ar in DRIANOE, ON I'reasurer’s office {eC ducted, and were clean standing before the pe ple. DEFICIT At the end of three vears the CO GI- missioner’s offic was again placed un- | der the control of the Democratic par- t the 1d of 1 , bu large balance on hb al the end iand the 887 had been squandered. 4 bv { ment ween disgrace } { had 1d i pant; With this uniy showing are surely satisfied, to it that the the youd over should see imports to be filled at coming elec- tion are not tur: lican party. to the Repub- for Pro- thonotary and District Attorney are tried, Our candidates experienced, and dis- competent They es and administered thoroughly honest, have charged their duti their offices strictly for the tl as well “benefit of party as the principles of Under our rules, Ker. vice, declared by both the great polit we publie.’’ civil ical parties, they should be continued in office. Ed Large Grain House Burned, Fire on Bunday morning complelely destroyed the grain house of the Buf- falo Milling Company, at Miflinburg. 2 = ed the grain, will lose about $5,000, on partial Jacob Royer, the manager, several hundred dollars in flour and feed. Aaron Klose's loss on building is $1,800; insurance, $1,000. The fire was of incendiary origin. is insurance. will lose a other than the bucket brigades, and only by heroic effort was other proper- Had there been any wind the greater part of the town would have been burned, as water very About 8 year ago citizens voted to bond the borough for $3,500 to put in a wa- ter plant, but council has persistently refused to act. M——— A ll is IN Pittsburg, as the investigation now going on shows, the Republican officials have deposited the city funds with pet banks, for years, and put the interest in their private pockets, ma- king a clean steal in interest off the city funds, amounting to half a million dollars, IM 5s PAA IT is admitted by all that a Demo- cratic board of commissioners has ad- ministered the affairs of our county faithfully and economically, paying old indebtedness, and showing up a balance in favor of the taxpayers; for this reason justice calls for a big Dem- ocratic majority in the county next Tuesday, as an endorsement of good housekeeping. ’ ie , , ——————— Ase Miller, admittedly unqualified for prothonotary and ask the people of Centre county to elect him overa tried and competent man like Smith ! Why it's awful ! who ever heard the like? Wa. F. Smith has a good record : Abe Miller's record is such an one as thing to it; hence vote the tick- can not be shown to his credit. 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