VOL. LXX. COURT PROCEEDINGS. THE TRIBUNALOF JUSTICE TRYING THE CASES Gililam, {the Wife Murderer, Gets over Five Years in the Philipsburg Would-be Penitentiary. Court convened on Monday Hon. Love, president judge, on the bench. then after morn- ing, at 9 o'clock, with John G. The list of grand jurors was called and eighteen answered, which they were sworn, with Daniel H. Rote, of Aaronsburg, as foreman. After listening to the ipstructions from the they retired to the grand jury room to deliberate on the different bills of indictment to sented to the District Attorney. The constables of the different town- court county then the ships and boroughs of the made their quarterly court of quarter sessions. A large portion of the forenoon session was taken up in hear- return to time of the ing petitions and motions by different members of the bor. call- ed and the following cases disposed of, I.. A. Rchaefter vs. J. H. Reifsnyder list tated to The list of civil cases was then Case stricken from the by 3 Le agree- ment, and a case submit- ted to court, John Watson vs, Charles E. Murray and Lot M. Jones, trading as Murray, Jones & Co.; settled. Harrisburg Boot and Shoe Manufac- turing Co,, Doll Doll, trading as Louis Doll & Son; set- tied. R. J. and ve. Louis and George - H.H Shefler, Schad & Bro, vs prey- er Samuel trading Schreyer & Sheffer; settled. B. Archer; as Geo, (. Peifer va. 1. non suit entered, Court adjourned at convened again at gome time was again bearing motions and petitions. The case of ({. . Luse, vs. J Houseman and Wm. C A. F. Harter vs. GG. P. to recover dyer; settled, (rarrett his case is brought on some pieces of planing mill machinery, which the plaintiff alleged the defend- him fi ant bought from allege which the defendant from (lark Gramley the agent plaintiff, and the defendant pro fuoed L. k showing that he had Gramley for the same piece chinery. Verdict in favor of the pl tiff for $20.75. Com. vs. Edward a chee pai Woodring, indiet- en for larceny by bailee, prosecutor, H 1. Mr. Goss, bic dealer at Philipsburg hired a wheel to the defendant to ride to Ball, in the day he to Bellefonte where he tried to sell the (F088, who is vile o Hue Clearfield county, on ith of Jast September, but instead wont wheel at such a figure that it at once put the bieyele dealer which resulted on ioguiry, Waondring's After hearing some of the ev of the defendant in young arrest, idence on the part Common. his of changed to that wealth, the his plea from not guilty guilty. Com. vs. Edward Woodring, indict ed for larceny, prosecutor Jacob Wood. ring. The defendant the prosecutor's cattle off last drove some of Neptem- ber and sold them to a in Blair county. Clark M. Gramley vs. ter. Suit brought to on book account. Verdict on Tuesday morning in favor of the plaintiff for # man Defendant plead guilty. Adami F recover Har- balance 14) 20 bid Ihe WwW. H. Strohecker vs. Geo. Woulford and wife; settled. Lazarus Moyer vs. John Erb. The defendant confessed judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $65 00 with stay of] execution sor thirty days. 8. H. Reifsnyder vs. J. A. MeClain. The suit was brought to recover ona promissory note, verdict in favor of the plaintifl $59.96, Daniel Long vs. the Central R. R Co. of Penna. This suit is brought to recover the value of a steer killed by the defendant eompany the 23rd day of June last, Verdict in favor of | the plaintiff for $18. on Wednesday | morning. i Com. vs. Louis Doll, Jr., charge, be- | on and the costs of prosecution; the child being dead. Com. vs. Ollie Orbison, indicted for betrayal, prosecutrix Maggie Harding. The defendant plead guilty and receiv. ed the usual sentence in such cases at the hands of the court. At this juncture the grand jury made their final report and were discharged, Com. vs, Joseph Casselberry, indict. ed for embezzlement of the school taxes; second embezzlement of road taxes; third, embezzlement of poor taxes; and fourth, embezzlement as collected of Howard township; prosecutors J. K. Leathers, Samuel B. Leathers and H. J. Pletcher, three of his bondsnien, This case was called for trial at four o'clock, and the Commonwealth is rep- resented by District Attorney William J. Singer, W. F. Reeder and J. C. Mey- er, and Mr. Casselberry is represented by E. R. Chambers and ex-Judge A. The Com. offered the ords of the appointments of Mr, Cas- recs- selberry aus collector for the years 1803, and also offered the election returns of the third Tuesday of February 1894, duly elected tax collector, o township for the ensuing three years. The limitation two years had expir- ed in waich this action should have been brought, and the commonwealth lost the case, Com. vs, Samuel Gillam, was heard Wednesday lam met his wife in the Several weeks ago Gil- railroad sta- tion at Philipsburg, and attempted to i | He shot at deging in kill her, her with a revol- ver, the ball le the neck. They tad been separated for some Lime, and he asked her to return to him. Bhe refused and he shot her Gillam plead guilty tot in the indictment, assault with intent to kill d the statement. d jeure hi and charged her with being untrue and the court call prisoner on his Gillam LO the stand for said he wanted wife, “ to him, viciously ass willing her character, | d Mis. Gi stand . emphatically then took the aad denied tl Judge Love sentenced Gillam to he Western and 4 tay ila iegalions, ie nl i- peniten tiary for Vears months, and Onis is, >» a te's Taling SyYymeem al Mvlin is Fina gathering On LO De oral- { Lhe It is Haering | Hesent wavs of | the | tue 1g f : avi 0 in- 1 he Viet Of 80 fhe fi sin 1010 PA., TH FIFTEEN YEAUS AGO, What Changes » Former Resldenter Can Write Of, A Rtevenson county, Ill, correspon- dent can draw a pretty fair picture of changes and improvements in Penns fifteen an absence of valley during | years, and the readers of the Reporter | wi 1] read it with interest: Take Coburn, on my stepping from | the train I was surprised to find before | me a brisk, busy and hustling little | town, with fifty nice, new homes, four stores, three churches, jor five grain- | houses, coal houses, creamery and vari- h and hotel Fifteen the telegrap Millheim ail tr ous mechanical shops, telephones and the busses meeting nit 8. Years was called Forks, the sil cept when |} among whon ago this point of « i igned ex- pau nted i ith re (3 (os y fishermen “un fatnnid 0 houses 1 snndd of ter and the elder Evi more but are esented their reps A good glenn estab hot ' oy | % ents also deserve several Ishin men tion, w Mill found Taking th or heim | went FON ike and two the Fi Millheim built up with good houses almost like Over a the irks up Lo ontinuous street, Fifteen years ago was a lonesome township road tot The improvements An agreebie surprise, size I once } 186% of mole hile the hot ot A churches, hool house Lj WaT wwernent is of half dozen rooms and | heat- ing and of the creditable school build- ings in the are more r stores and the hotels keep and belts “ up with the tims . Hye lier than ever, nun. ber of strange fa to Reber new From Texas a f fi ie But tion south of LOR, SAVE W near tin Rebersbas tie hamlet has sprut Cut ON the End of Finger, ne day ex-County Com- BB shim, now fatm- Hill, was feeding This week « y “tr missioner James ing at Centre the stood ear of corn on end chopped chickens. F the away at it with s mis-stroke he cut off tl 4 il fingers was clean not , Was guiping it ing but a « chicken enjoved a fo human flesh for a change. Two Sad Saleides on Acesunt of Shame, James Denniston, jr., a well Known young man of Holliday £ shure, was rested a few ar nights ago aud placed in i! 1 a il 1 La Fr > the county atl on Lhe charge of drunk. enne-« and disorderly conduct. Over- whelmed by his shame and he hi ehief to the cell d hanged mself by his handker, oar Grief and chagrin over the disgrace of his fs to suicide sther, Charles Charnley, drove Ji his room | who was the Hotel Phis” bullet nes, his son, found in n ter. Milwaukee, with a in his heart. The f the Presbyterian board of aid for colle. last summer, short some $60,000 of the mo- wther was forinerly president of ges and academies, disappeared ney entrusted to him. ns lps > Killed by Falling From a Tree Lawrence Shivery, the 13 year old one mile west of Bellefonte, fell from a tree on Tuesday mornsng and broke his neck. He died instantly. He and his two little brothers were out rabbit tracking, and chased of an old nest Joseph climbed up after When about 30 feet from the ground the limb upon which he stood broke and he fell lighting upon his head. let isis Public Sale, [ P.P. Long will offer at public sale | at the grain house near the R. R. sta- | tion, Spring Mills, on Saturday, Dee. | 4, at one o'clock, the following: black | horse 8 years old, perfectly safe and a | good leader, weighs 1400 lbs., also | horse wagon, 3 in. tire, cutting bench, {and many other articles. missle LATE NEWS CONDENSED. | Had a disgraceful scene in the Aus | trian Reichsrath yesterday. A motion | caused a riot, challenges to fight and blows being freely exchanged. The coffee Arbuckles and the sugar Haveme, ers having ended their fight, price of cofle and sugar, creamery * DIRT family belt reamerville, and is supplied with mountain water piped into the hamlet, and at every corner 3 : 3 lara 1tt IArge pani ’ * 5 rt ino 1 there is watering tro a made of stout plank jad lerable im - the Rebershurg shows ont provement, growin along west y # of fine residen fine . where a number Ue Seen. It has a heen remodeled houses gene | an improved appearance, It now has 54 | the convenience of a daily hack line to Coburn station, Old Aaronsburg is calm and serene with its wide streets, has grown some, and its residences and yards show that taste and an air of that old bu centre and the me polis of the Ie refinement exist in good a musical vax] vai v Proceeding eastw ard to Wondward an old-timer is surprised over the im- | provements that were made upon the farm properties in old Haines town- old overhauled and beautified to be 1 | date, Woodward seemed te old £ grown some and shows up with houses ship ; fine new houses and ones 1 p-to- y have on a new suit and the ast away: it has that are a credit to the village, | Tosatisfy my wunnerfitz, a drive Pine creek to the Forks; itis a level i road, and the changes along that once | jaolated district are a wonder. Every | short stretch shows a new house and | betterments on old ones. | The old stock of men and women | found all gone toa new and better hab- | itation and new faces and strange are | met on all sides, | ticed as still in the land of the living | are Judge Frank, Samuel and Reuben | Gramley, Em'l Harter and John Wolf lin Brush valley. Reuben Hartman, Jacob Eisenhuth, Wm. Weiser, Noah Stover, squire Ref- snyder, John Bowersox, Jacob Ker stetter and Andrew Harter, in Penn, Thomas Harper, Wm. Stover, Jesse Wert, Isreal and Aaron Weaver at Aa- | ronsburg, and Henry Reinhart and Sam. Motz at Woodward, Those “old lords of the manor,” the Hostermans, Hublers, Stovers, Bowers, and others, have all passed off the stage of life. Sis — AA nso Rev, Rearick’s Appointments Sunday Nov. 28, at Centre Hall, at 7 p. m. ; at Spring Mills, at 10a. m. ; at lusseyville at 2 p, m. TAI AMPA A A ~The largest assortment of Fall clothing ever received in this county are on display at the Philad. Branch, Rellefonte, The price is as low as the stock large. Satisfaction always guar anteed on every sale. S——— A A ————. wstjubscribe forthe REPORTER. URSDAY, NOVEMBLE] WASHINGTON LETTER TOM REED WANTS TO BE A PRES IDENT He is Bollding Fences and Has Organized » Machine —~MeKinley and Spain Act ing in Concert, Nay 99 SEN oa WASHINGTON, ('zar is in the field for the Republican ination for President in 1900, and candidacy may play an hnp part in the legislat this session of Congre chine is already org dition to all the 1 tract, it is expected, number of the Republicar ed for Mr. Me Kinl wanted fof Nenator Foraker | under ook Rr le 1g aller the Olio «1 «wd machine, and the fight Hanna to Be ¢ 12 ‘tion of Boss 3 { mis OJ wl n= Own a view to preventing his being 1 the Ohi 31 1 i LO { cont legation to th Republi an National rival In ley factie tween td Hs open and spirit i nminae } to publ Mr. MeKinl scheme was OOCasion as a follower, not fons of his party, to see what effect this dempation « will have intention merely callin to the recommendati without 1nd {rage The ev ents of new Spani Kinley's Jn mens in onfident ops On the part ‘t 11€ » war in { “0 apparent befor gress adjourns, that ® stire to take decisive ac hias Deen of Rome amusement in Washington by a long printed state the selfconstitu ment given out by monetary eonference, as to i= tions ooncerning the financis it is engaged hatching in gentlemen say their withheld from the publi nual message of the President has bes gent to Congress The country survive if it held. The { 4 that they “recognize the fact that were permand ntly statement acknowl] have no holiday task before them | sectiring the adoption of the rej Congress,’”’ which is an entirely necessary acknowledgement eves body knew it all the th | j« about the most amusing sentencs sat 3 »il : ne in HRaometime will be al { i the statement lowed to pass after the publieation 0 | the report before any attempt is made | to force it to a vote in either House of “forces This time will be employed in a campaign of ed- geation, by means of thorough discus. sion in the press and in the popular | Congress is good i od financial reforms.’ The most of the “merit” side of the discussion will be paid matter, but the untrammeled press will make no charge for showing ap its demerits, In view of the popu- lar idea of “educated public opinion” the plan of campaign is exposed when the statement says that the members of the conference are confident “that the great body of educated public opin- support.” So much of it as gets ite educational matter from Wall street and London, probably will. It seerns to be the general belief in Washington that if Gov. Lowndes had any chance to get the seat now ocon- pied by Senator Gorman, he has lost it by choosing Senator Wellington to manage his campaign. The extent to which Wellington has this year been jumped on by the Maryland Republi cans, indicates that his influence has pretty much all been lost. Postmast- er-General Gary isn't doing any talk- ing, but they say that he is making a still hunt for that Senatorship that may surprise somebody when that Re- publican caucus gets together. The attempt of Ex-Secretary of State Foster, who hiss made o failure V2), 1897, of the seal negotiations, of which has had charge to get himself put at the head of the commission to negoli- ate with a similar commission appoint ed by Canada for the settlement of all disputes, means nothing more than that Mr. Foster is anxious to keep on for drawing a big salary very light work. -— - - PENSIONS GROW. Secretary Bliss Points to a 85,000,000 Io- Crease, Recretary of the interior Bliss, in his annual report made public, submits es- $1 s pgat 5 1 iy A141 py . timates aggregating $1506,052,419 jor ap- for the fiscal Find AR) IEE) pension cigims propristions by congress year ending June 30, 184% uesing pensions, he says 1i1cd are awaiting aq timated that fort tribes many ement under ch vd governed, AEE wh ymmend any , he calls the ident and congress Ap BIG VIRES The int Their Home Flames in Work Abroad and at s erent re great fre destroved Prop riv to the 11 + 3 11 all VFiisat rs y t ion dollars, all business hou- &0 It was the most destructive fire London has had since the greal« ynfla- gration of 114 tannery of The the Watson- town Tannery company was destroyed large fire on last Saturday night, invol- ving a loss of £150,000 and throwing ¢ ¥ t of employment over 100 men ve been sel on fire, Clearfield on Friday night sustained the loss by fire of one of her most im- portant industries-—the large planing which was owned and operated by the Clearfield Lumber The fire started near the boiler house, in the vard was mil company The lumber stacked saved, The mill was comparatively new, i by fire. morning. gether with 200 bushels of grain. Not yow the fire originated. | known | i a - — The Trouble Over. | A prominent man in town said the | other day: “My wife has been wear | ing out her life from the effects of Dy | pepsia, Liver Complaint and Indiges- tion, Her case baflled the skill of our | best physicians. After using three | packages of Bacon's Celery King for | the Nerves she is almost entirely well.” Keep your blood in a healthy condi- tion by the use of this great vegetable compound. Call at G. H. Longs, Spring Mills, sole agent, and get a tri: al bottle free. Large sizes 50c. and he. soi AS There is out one first-class cloth- ing house in Bellefonte, and that is the Philad. Braneh. + Largest stock lowest prices, and everything first NO. 46 LOCAL ITEMS, Cullings of Mare than Ordinary Interest from Everywhere, “Laugh and the world laughs witl YOil, Weep and you weep alont Advertise and the world is Btay out, and you stay oul Snowsquall Tuesday afternoon. Thauksgiving, to-day, is cloudy and cold. Head C. Mills shoe Well, On winler was of. A. sglore., Koraps « fd. Hew Bpring Tuesday or A id think It does not for sleighing. Dressed Pe 100 and i= plent) Niles Neve They friends do it Huntis ar as 5 discl Gov. Hastin egiving Perhaps 't turkey enough 10 § We teemeqd LO wel Our es. arper, has I, in fact, deer hunting. 1 Rockford, touched Reporter, rin the Ii Prose Credit the best and most reliable iy us me V0 mmit sui- by culling her throat. =he wi not successful and will likely recover. Two masked] robbers { reed trance into the residence of Rev. D. 8. Monroe, ID. D., at Altoona, Methodist Episcopal presiding elder, on Monday secured $100 worth of an en- morning and jewelry and silver. Ihe surveyfof the new branch rail The line will ran by way of Forkstown and Laporte, and will pass through some of the richest coal, lumber and agricultural lands in that part of the state. The three schools of the town, head- respective teachers, Professors Fore- man, Krise and Soyder, were formed in line and marched to the church to listen to the Union Thanksgivivg ser- vices in the Ref. church /at 10 a m. this morning. Veryappropriate, Senator Hoar says thatwhen he was a boy in Worcester, Mass, a catechism was in use of which the following is a sample : Where is hell? Under the earth. Who live in hell? The devii, his angels, and bad men. What do they do in hell? They curse God and sin continually. Do you deserve to go to hell? 1 do. Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses were issued during the past week: Ezra BR. Keen, Millheim, and Ann Loug, Coburn. Chas. Eidell, Snow Show, and Lula B. Lucas, Moeshanoou.
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