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
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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,
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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. V.
th next Tues