VOL. LXIX. NO. 18 Marriage Licenses, STRESS The following marriage licenses have - been granted the past week: A CENTRE COUNTY BOY AT-| John H. Bridge, of Clearfield, and TEMPTS MURDER IN OHIO. | Katie R. Lingle, of Farmers Mills. a Geo. Beezer and Minnie A, Tate, of w B " Iv ak Boakibare. 3 | Bellefonte, saroer kb, Barr ormer 0 oaisbarg, in | : y ® M1 Lender Rumbarger, of Milesburg, Jall at Mansfield, Ohio, for Shootin | . . . ® land Rosy C. Smith, of Snow Shoe In- a Woman Four Times, | | tersection, John H. MecSuley Warner E. Barr, a young man for- Howard, of Bellefonte. merly of this valley, but lately located | and Elizabeth John Rowley, Snow Shoe, and in Ohio, last week attempted murder | Minnie Gentzel, of Curwensville. at Mansfield, Ohio, in shooting at a | John H. Wood, of Boalsburg, and > 3 ! a P » 5 y woman, named Nettie Steele, and the [Jennie Parker, of Potter twp. wounds may prove fatal, | A.M. Watson and Rebecca J. Little, | Barr is a native of Centre county, | of Snow Shoe. and his parents formerly resided at | Walter L. Metealf, of Marlbro, N, H. Boalsburg, in which section he is quite | 80d Rozella J. Haupt, of Bellefonte. well known. His parents now reside; louis J. Graver and Matilda Lyon, in Bellefonte, and Barr at one time of Be'lefente. ; wes employed by McCalmont & Co., | Patrick Hogan and Minnie Cole, of at Bellefonte. Philipsburg. From the Mansfield, Ohio News, we| F.C. Neese, of Auburn, N. Y, learn the following particulars con-| Emma E. Breon, of Rebersburg. cerning the tragehy: About 6 o'clock Thursday evening the lower part of the city was thrown | A certain Bachelor editor of a north- into an uproar by the shooting of alern Towa town is in a predicament, so irl named Nettie Steele, an inmate of | Martha Smart's resort, No. 192, North | #0 exchange avers, as the result of a Sugar street, by W. E. Barr, a young | careless proof reader. Having occasion man from Shelby. The shooting was | to apologize to his readers for a delay a premeditated affair carried out with |; issuing his paper, wrote: “Wg beg a stern resolve. The girl was shot four : : times and the great wonder of the au- | the indulgence of our readers for being thorities and physicians is that she a day late this week. Our failure to survived for any length of time after | get out on time was on account of the ay the affair wpich Was every | physical demoralization of the editor, where being discussed last night, as|Ccaused by sleeping too close to the gathered by a Nows reporter, are as|boarding-house window.” The cussed follows: Barr is the foreman of a de- | compositor set the last word “widow,” partment in the Shelby Steel Tube | and the proof reader failed to discover and a. — One Letter Wrought the Havoe, works. It is stated that his home is in Tyrone Pa. Barr has been working at the tube works for some time. He says he first visited this city last Sep- i Seriously 1i1, tember and the origin of the tragedy { Hon. Wm. A. Wallace, once which occurred last night dates back | to that time. {acknowledged leader of the According to his own siatement, (racy of Peonsylvania, and of Barr came here from Shelby Wednes- | only two Democrats elected to the day night with the intention of Kill- | {7 nited States Senate from this State ing the girl. He visited Idabelia . ; Gardner's place Wednesday night and [during the last forty years, recently while in the house he exhibited a re-|suffered a paralytic stroke in New yolver Sud Aoarished it in such a Hisg- | York, where he has been most of his ner that all the inmates of the place], ot ou {time daring the last year or two fled. About 8 o clock that evening | : 1 3 . ri > Barr went to the Smart house and re- | tending to important business matters quested that the girl Nettie Steele be | His condition is regarded as critical. Sen Jor, stating that be Wisted =o tell | He was removed to his home in Clear- 1er & funony story. en the girl ap-| o ; i : - ed { field in a special car sever: ays avo. peared Barr drew his revolver and be- | flel 1 in a special « At 3pVe ral days ago gan firing point blank at her. Hedis- | His recovery is possible, but grave ap- charged four chambers of the weapon, | prehensions are felt by those who are all of the bullets taking effect. Three | best advised as to his condition. of the missiles went into her head and | the fourth passed through the right | fore-arm. | After the shooting Barr ran out of | the house tossing the revolver to one the omission of the “n. mf ————— the Demoe- one oy ¥ Ais i sf es—— End of Yebool The schools will end this week i i‘riday, having then completed their side as he ran. People were attracted | eight months term. It is not likely that ; | ei } rm It is 1 ikely ths to the place by the explosions. Jesse |“'S , i 'y in Kneeland and Henry Crosmer follow- | there will any taught. [here seems to ba a senti- cn be summer school ed Barr and had no trouble in cateh- ing the would be murderer as he made little effort to get away. When asked why he bad shot the girl he stated that he had contracted from her an in- curable disease and could not live long and he had made up his mind to kill | her also. Capt. Heiser then made his appesrance and took the man to the city jail, where he was locked up on the charge of shooting with intent to | kill. When the shooting occurred the Steel girl had on a white dress and in a few moments she was bathed in blood. The three bullets which enter- ed the head penetrated the scalp above the right temple and lodged there. | Buch a crowd collected in a few mo- | ments after the shooting that it was | impossible to get to the house, Mes- | sengers were dispatched for physicians | and Drs. Craig, Maglot, and Bushnell | appeared. The girl had then recover-| ed consciousness and was very plucky and refused to be placed under the in-| fluence of a potion while the doctors | probed the wounds. After a large] amount of work the doctors succeeded in extricating two of the battered lead- en ballets from the girl's head. | Whether or not the girl's skull is frac- | tured is not known. The attending! physicians say it will be impossible to | predict the results of the shooting un- | til three days have passed. The girl, | it is stated is about twenty years of age | and is a daughter of Daniel Steel who | formerly kept a cooper shop on the north side. The Smart place is one of the lowest dives in the city and is un- der the supervision of city health au- thorities. While on the way to the city prison Barr talked freely of the shooting. He asked Capt. Heiser whether there was such a thing asa lynch law in this part of the country and added that if there was he wanted to be hung to the nearest telegraph pole. Barr is about 24 years old, and was at one time a fine looking young man. He stated that he h recently returned from Hot Springs, Ark. Barr was arraigned in police court this morning. The prisoner gave his name as Warner Ellsworth Barr, aged 23 years. Barr changed his mind this morning and decided that he didn’t want to die or be hung as s ily as he thought he did t night. He claimed in court that the shooting was entirely unpremeditated and that he was sorry that be did the job, On the other hand when placed in jail last night he told the officers that he want- ed to make sure that he did 3 good job. T. R. Robison was requested to act as Barr's attorney and upon his ad- vice the prisoner entered a plea of not ilty of shooting with intent to kiil. e was bound over to common pleas court in the sum of $2000 and iv de- fault of bail was sent to await the in- vestigation by the grand jury. Mar- shall Patton then removed the prison. er to the county jail. Barr was very nervous th out the hearing. Among other things Barr stated that his parents are dead. ARH fA ment among some of the directors to lengthen the term months, This would be a creditable move. The scholars have four months vacation, It would re- quire a very light additional tax to meet this extra and few would kick. to nine and this seems too lone, ex pense, Bt rtp One Way Only, In the case of Andrew Dodson Bedford county, which involved ‘the question aslto the mileage a constable is entitled to, Judge Longenecker has decided that constables are entitled to but 10 cents per mile one way. Dod- son is constable of Hopewell borough, and claimed that he was entitled to 10 cents a mile circular, or 10 cents both ways. Va, a om———— Even Noah Advertised. Noah was the first man to advertise. He advertised the flood and came through it all right. The fellows who laughed at advertising were drowned d it served them right. Ever since Nomh's time the advertiser has been prospering and the other fellow is be- Moral: ter. Don’t get swallowed. ss The Axe Glaneced. Last Thursday morning Milt. Sny- der got up early to cut some wood. While whacking away at a piece, the axe struck a knot, glanced off, and fin- ished the stroke in Milt's right foot. His little toe was cut off and a big gash in the foot is what the injuries sum- med up, and he is laid off in conse. quence. nin si ns Mf tl Cut His Foot. On Tuesday last, while chopping wood in a tract near Stone mill, Mr. Samuel Shutt accidentally cut an ugly gash on the inside of his left foot, the axe going to the bone, which will disable Mr. Shutt from active work for a time. a 35 A AU RII Locomotives Made at Altoona. The semi-centennial celebration of Blair eounty will be held June 11 and 12. One of the features of the celebra- tion will be the exhibition of a locomo- tive which will round up a total of 2,- 000 engines made at Altoona. Blooded Stock, Shook Bros, of fipring Mills, Pa., offer some very fine O. I. .Chester- white males for sale at reasonable Subscribe for the REroRTER. prices, that are ready for service. Items Pleked Up House-cleaning, gardening, plowing, harrowing, up about the premises, and the like, is what folks are at just now, male and female—everybody can find something to do. LIBELISTS SETTLE A RETRACTION AND PAY EXPEN 8ES OF PROSECUTION. Defendants Seek a Settlement in the Kurtz Focht-Mille~ Libel Suit, Defendants Had Six Attorneys from Three An unmentioned name in the histo- ry of our town, is that of Yony Dein- inger, who has shown no little spirit of enterprise in improvements, and en- couraging others who evinced a simi- lar spirit. Those are the real men who deserve credit and are of use to a town, Counties. In the issue of March 21st ult., A. D, Miller, of Lewisburg, in an article published in the Lewisburg Saturday News, made a statement over his sig- nature that a fraudulent (straw) judg- ment for §1,200 had been confessed by Fred Kurtz, of Centre Hall, in favor of hisson., A warranl was at once sworn out charging the editor of the News and Miller with libel, and they were promptly arrested, giving $1000 bail for their appearance at the Centre county April session of court. The case against (he defendants was to have been tried this week at Belle- fonte, but a settlement agreeable to the prosecution was eflected on Tuesday afternoon by Focht and Miller making a retraction and paying the expenses of the prosecution. On Monday evening, Buds, blossoms, grass, vegetation in general, has made rapid strides for- ward, under the favorable weather, within the last ten days, Dempster L. Meek, in Patton town- ship, has the finest looknig wheat field in this county —an exception to all others, Samuel Snyder has his new up at the upper end of town. Mr. Lose has the wall for his new ready, and will soon be in shape for a raising. Wl, Must be Labeled, The department of agriculture has the thet ell colored by any process must issued order lev, M'Gann, of Lewisburg, in behalf of the elder Miller, called upon Mr. Fred Kurtz, and informed him that he desired an interview with Mr. Kurtz with a view | ret. { the pure food law. This about a settlement and Ly | blised . avoid a trial, as he, Miller, was | been erroneously pubiised as applying anx- | ious to have his be dis- tinetly labeled. “Artificially Colored,” 4 decision to bringing pilot | rence regetable Iv: § son get out of the dit- | © French vegetables only; in this ficulty without the case going into court. Mr. Kartz informed Mr. M' Gann he would be pleased to meet Mr. | case it may gel innocent persons inio | trouble. The decision relates to any iand all vegetables thus colored and ' ; { the department has not singled out Miller and agree to what was honora- | par g 4 ble in the matter, and that Mr. Miller | French Vegetables 23 u clams for th could meet the prosecutor in the Cen- tre Democral office. Rev, M'Gann re- turned to the Bush House, informed | Mr. Miller of the result of his errand, | and in course of half an hour Rev, M'- | ( Gann and Mr. Miller appeared at the Democrat office and the matter was at once opened. Mr. Miller was convino- ed that the charges against Mr. Kurtz were false and that he was wronged, | pared delicacies for the oe A. D. Miller, had ev- | her husband was at work idently been imposed upon A one in making the libelous charge in| present, and refreshments of the Sa WY that a (straw Mrs. fraudulent judgment, had been enter- such occasion, ed by Mr. Kurtz Mr. Miller informed by Kurtz, that if a full and ¢ yiaplete by the | Focht and Miller, and expenses paid he, Kuriz, would agree the suit. This ended the interview, which was pleasant throughout. Tuesday the attorneys of Fosht and Miller intimated their wish to the at- torneys for prosecution, to avoid a tri- e { application of the law. A fn ee———— Surprise Party Mr. D '. Grove, at his home in Beaner town- A surprise party was given fi wi 91 ship, on the evening of the by “4 | party of bi and female, Mrs. aud pre- % friends, male to the namber of about forty, (rove alone was in the secret i i field spent by all and that his son, in the by some very pleasant time was the first ders order were served, and (irove ‘ | knows just how to meet jand make all happy. The evening Was Mr. re- was spent in social merriment, and be long remembered by all participants, Pi rs, traction was signed By All Have Their Fan. 1 — to t indulges The whistle, withdraw Everything in nature amusement of some kind. light the thunders roll, the snow flies, the rills | nings play, winds and cascades sing and dance, the waves | ! leap, the fields smile, the vines creep and the buds But have their of | The tempests moan, the al by reaching a settlement of the Case, shoot, and with this object in view, attorney Scarlet, of Danville, on Focht's side, had a regular “walking match” zephyrs sigh, the brooks murmer, Tuesday to the offices of Hewes and | the mountains look blue, Furst, attorneys for the prosecutor, in | order to bring about the settlement of | the case as desired Focht and Miller. and ran, | some of them SORBOTIS melancholy. on and WM Death at State College by his clients, i Mr. Scarlet’s | years, died at her late home at State | clients and their side counsel shilting | illness dating back about five weeks. | from one proposition to another when- | The deceased was a highly respected | ever he had the matter fixed up as he | lady and her death will be keenly felt | supposed, and disgusted he felt like | in the community in which she lived. | abandoning the case and going home | A husband and one child are left to! to Danville. mourn the loss of a devoted wife and a The final end, just at the moment | kind and loving mother. The funeral | the indictment was to go before the will be held on Friday. grand-jury, was the following retrac- | tion of the libelous charge: Wp ot Will be Presented at Court. The petition signed by nearly all the And now to wit, April 28. 1898: pR_ | tax-payers in the borough praying the K. Focht and A. 1). Miller. the defend. | court to vacate and condemn that por- ants in the above entitled causes say | tion of the turnpike lyiog within the that the article ja Question ilieked to | limits, will be presented next Monday wave libeled Frederic urtz, Sr., was, : y go not directed at him, nor in manner in- i by the salicitor w. F. Reeder, Kaq, a tended to reflect upon his personal | #et of viewers will be appointed to as character. That we had no acquain- | sess the damages. tance with Frederick Kurtz, Sr., and scion sans know nothing in derogation to his Got a Bad Fall, character. That as to judgment refer- . Last Sunday a young man® named red to we are satisfied that it was not frauduient, and we never intended to | Larimer, from Bellefonte, was coming Sone 2h iba that it was. thai down the mountain on his bicycle, of which was stated in the fssue i of the Lewisburg Saturday News, The wheel struck a gutter, Larimer March 21st, ult. wherein it is stated. | flew, and the front wheel of the bike busted. The wheel looked like a bunch of entangled hair. He carried That he was never thought of when the article was produced, and it was his bike down town and walked home, Only a few bad bruises was the result, not intended to make a malicious as- sisson Ap MY ois sault upon him. Took to the Mountains, Bexy. K. Focur. A. D. MILLER, Certified from the Record, Apr. 25, '96, W. F. S8urru, Clerk. The weathor was so pleasant and The libelers paid the expenses in the | ice Sunday that about half the town jumped services in the churches in the afternoon and took to the mountains, Arbutus parties were plenty, and they case. Focht and Miller had six attorneys slid out of town in every direction. ——————— employed, namely, Mr. Scarlet, one of the ablest attorneys of Daaville, Messrs. Reeder and Gray, of Belle- fonte, and Messrs. Beale, Strawbridge Work on the Church, The slaters put the finishing touch- es to the roof of the new Reformed church this week. The exterior is and Van Valzah, of Lewisburg. nearly finished, while the carpenters On the side of the prosecutor, Mr. Kurtz, were Messrs. C. P. Hewes and and plasterers are at work on the in- terior. FOCHT-MILLER RETRACTION, Judge Furst. The parties left fully convinced they wronged one whose character is without a flaw and who waa not afraid to defend it. Directors Meet, Next Tuesday, May 5th, the school directors of Centre county, meet at Beilefonte to elect a county superin- tendent for the next three years. There Very Sick, U. D. Osman, west of town, has been confined to his bed the last week THE WAR SCARE THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION TO THE FRONT AGAIN. It Is Represented that the Negotiations With Great Britian sre in a Ticklish Condition, The Dupont Contest. oa WasniNaroN, April 27.—Secretary Olney is at a loss to understand the reason for the efforts which are being made both in this country and Eng- land to bring on another war scare in connection with the Venezuelan boun- dary question, by representing the ne- gotiations to be in a ticklish condition. | There is absolutely no ground for any | uneasiness about the matter, and it is probable that some big stock-jobbing scheme is at the bottom of recent pub- lications on the subject in Eogland and in this country. Somebody hopes | to profit by a war scare, and regardless | of the harm it might do to others has | been trying systematically to bring one to the front, It in flat failure. The or wd that ses Iii | agreed that no bil i $1 { controversy shall Henators Democratic 0% ¢ taken up in ¢ { bills have all been disposed of. the Detiio- 1 the way | of early adjournment, but they have { not the present purpose of crats to throw any obstacles is served notice on the Republicans that no adjournment will be allowed until | the D pont case has been disposed of. | The Republican managers have been i afraid to take a vote on the resolution 1 to scheme | declaring Dup nt lo be entitle a | seat in the Senate, and their was to let it go over to the next ses | #ion in the hope that something might j occur in the meantime { able them t that would en- | t ts t he voles needed to Oo get adopt the resolution. Thisscheme the | | Democrats are determined to prevent ' ing It is by compel a vole before adjourn-! ment. probable that the Demo- Allen resolution to investigate the Al fabs tate electing AUAINA slate eleclion. ef The McKinley Republicans are get- | ting badly frightened at the determin- | ed fight the A. P. A. his nomination, but there are plenty of ga is making against | people who believe it to be about the | most fortunate thing that ever 1 pened for McKinley and ap- | it that has made his nomination much more like- I don't know | A. P. A. will have in the BL. Louis convention, but there is no doubt of its having controlled st will the Republican majority of the ly than it was before, t | what power the i Cubans in this country cannot be too careful about the correctuess of the information they give out concerning affairs in Cuba. in Congress, Last week ed from Cubans in his district the pos- & young American arrested upon the charge of rendering aid to the Revolu- tionists, had been secretly executed by the Spanish authorities. Mr. Sulzer aroused considerable indignation among his colleagues by telling the story as it was told to him. Secretary Olney said he thought Mr. SBulzer's in- formants were wrong because he had the official promise of the Spanish au- thorities that young Dygert should be released and allowed to return to the United States. Mr. Sulzer insisted that his informants were thoroughly trustworthy, but before the week clos ed he was convinced to the contrary by the oficial notification of Dygert's release. This sort of thing is calculat- ed to cause everything which comes from Cubans in this country to be doubted, There is something significant in the statement of Chairman Powers of the House Pacific Railroads Committee, that Speaker Reed had promised him that the bill, which has already been christened the “‘Huntington-Powers bill” should be considered by the House whenever he (Powers) was ready. The significance arises from the fact that up to the day that C. P. Huntington returned to Washington, it had been understood that this bill would not be considered at this ses. sion, because it was not thought it could be passed by the Senate. Per- haps Mr. Huntington has changed his wind about the Senate, or it may be that he wishes to show how easily he can, with the aid of Speaker Reed, get the bill through the House. According to Senator Tillman, who has just returned from his western trip, every state west of the Mississip- pi river, with the possible exception of Minnesota and Iowa, will send silver delegations to the Chicago convention. Senator Tillman says he is absolutely certain that a wajority of the Chicago convention will be for silver. He ex- pects to make another speaking tour in of 80, with an attack of kidney trou- ble. are but two candidates in the fleld. states of Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas, Benator Brice Is equally confident that a majority of the Chicago conven tion will not be silver men and that the convention will adopt a platform upon which all Democrats can stand. The first general appropriation bill that ever became a law without the President's signature was the Agricul- tural appropriation bill passed by the present Congress. The bill became a law at 12 Saturday night. President Cleveland did'nt sign the hill because he thought it contained o'clock unjust reflections upon Secretary Mor- ton. Fitlinger's Body Re. interred The body of William Ettlinger, the outlaw, murderer ner, and suicide, was of Constable Bar- ' raised from its lonely grave in the mountain side near Woodward a few days ago, and ven Ki the of a decent burial Woodward. ri 134 { ng of in cemetery ow iT ~ The raising and trans Ly remembered the body was witnessed “ It the body was buries i wut any funeral ceremonies ge crowd will be at i 11 % (3 i FRE) il } ii iy an hour or two after he fi ball into his i i re a ) whatever, ly A Model Shop al iu © hi Jerre Miller made sever: ) iprov ments in his barber shop this week the stand, and a new mug case put up. Jerre has « of his country, fi ine the " £1 zh ne the finest shops in i COsirs, and marbie t d 1 if t an Hall IES i shop Vs Centre tings about every- hing up to date. is not behind the times when it ¢ to a modern barber shop. —— Started His Shops ThTS . . I W heel wo got in i Week. ial maker Bo new ' IN nes jast There are wheel machi $ iwelve machines { that he has placed in used on the He started i} he machines on Monday and has been £4 ys Jursild ine 1 are the new building, and are lifferent paris of a wheel. g orders which busily engaged in filling ral t« piled up on him, includ BEVE iermany and Norway. ing ing ’ Alp Mad Dog. Alex Met showed A large dog of ters Mills, i maa on Monday, a rie Lat evidence of rabies g snapping al every obj the wagon- vie ag tril his and The dog was driven in up al sale shed where he kept perform- favorable Meo- nee, and when a opportunity presented itself, Mr into Coy sank a stone hammer mms A { | The Discovery Saved His Life. 1 Mr. G. ! | Caillouette, Druggist, Bea- | versville, I1il., says: “To Dr. King's | New Discovery I owe my life. Was { taken with La Grippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail, and was given up and told I could not Having Dr. King's New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and began its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial at J. D. Murray's Drug Store, 1 i live, i MO MS During the winter of 1883, F. M. Martin, of Long Reach, West Va., con- tracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how he cured it he says: “I used several kinds of cough syrup but found no relief un- til I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved me al- most instantly, and in a short time brought about a complete cure.” When troubled with a cough or cold use this remedy and you will not find it necessary to try several kinds before you get relief. It has been in the mar. ket for over twenty years and constant- ly grown in favor and popularity. For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills; 8 M. Swartz, Tasseyville; R. E. Bartholo- mew, Centre Hall. Sp a——————y GOOD FARM LAND FOR SALE, A tract of 35 acres in excellent state of cultivation with fruit trees thereon, ¢ mile east of Centre Hall station, is offered for sale in any quantities to suit purchasers. A dwelling house, stable, 2 acres of ground with orchard, adjoining the above, known as the Michael Condo property, is also offer ed for sale. Apply to Fred Kurtz, Centre Hall. tr The autograph letters testifying to cures made by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and other preparations are kept on file at thelJ. C. Ayer Co's office, Lowell, Mass. They are from all over the world and are cheerfully shown to any one desirous of seeing them. ~When you purchase a spring suit you want the atest style and most popular goods. The Philadelphia y Bellefonte, will give you just hat you want,
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