VOL. LXX1. COURT PROCEEDINGS. CRIMINAL CASES DIS POSED OF. CIVIL AND The January Session Now Sitting, Up for Trin! and the Reosalt of the Verdicts Rendered convened on morning, President Love on the bench. January term of court Monday with Judge, John G. This is the first Court at which Cen- tre county had but one judge on the judge axpired the first of January this year, The day was hearing motions largely taken up in petitions, pre- of the and sented by the several members bar. The list of Grand Jurors was called and twenty answered to their and C. P. Long, a merchant Spring Mills, was chosen foreman by the court, The court as to the duties devolving upon Grand Hanes, from instructed them Jurors, whereupon they retired to the grand jury room to pass upon the sev- eral bills of indictments which will be | laid before them by the District Attor- | ney. town- | The constables of the several shi ips and borou ghs of the count Y, 7, the I to the after which to to forest fires, made their quarte rly returns Court of Quarter Sessions, the Court instructed them as their cuties in refs under rence a recent Act of Assembly, and handed to each a copy of the act. The list of traverse jurors was then called and forty-two answered (0 their names, The fol posed of: lowing civil were dis- Cases Julia A, Brown vs. 8S. Peck, execu- tor of ete, of Henry Walker township deceased; case for 3354.46 for $l Brown, late of verdict in the one and in other 524.11 in favor of the plaintiff. MN yphia 8 Rao key v=, 8, Peck, cutor of Henry Brow Walker PX nn. late of township, deceased ; verdict i case for $258.60, $206.96, in favor of the Com. of Pennsyi guardian of s {ire child of | th gE, uor dda P. Gregg, deceased, now for the use of Fannie ge Brown, vs John { wd H viviog Ja ed, Nons Com I. indicted for David Chambers. ged faking | , & pair of cuff buttons and from Edward on the night of 3d, 1897, Verdict noon of not guilty Com, fries £153, mec ve, Ch larceny, pr tor The defendant is ehar with a shirt in Snow Shoe, £15 Arms, in December money, on Tuesday after- on the three counts indictment Alf. Hoffman, open lewdness, prosecutor W, J. er. in the indicted for £: i Sing Com. vs, The details in this ease are not fit for publication, and after the jury had | been charged, the defendant changed | guilty to that of guilty, to pay a fine of £25, costs of prosecution, and undergo imprisonment in the county jail for a period of 7 months. Ardell ( larceny, his plea from not Sentenced Com. vs, first count, eeiving ‘ampbell, indicted, | second count re | the | prosecutor i goods, same to have been stolen, Jacob Woodring. At sions Edward Woodring plead guilty | to driving away and selling to a Mr. McClain, at or near Bald Eagle station in Blair county, two cows belonging | to2Jacob Woodring, of near Port Ma- | tilda, and is now serving time for the | offense in the Reformatory at Hunt- | ingdon. Some time ago this defend- | ant was arrested at Bellwood for being | an accomplice in the taking of these cows, and in the trial of Mr. Campbell | Mr. Woodring, who had been brought from the Reformatory, testified that Mr. Campbell was implicated, helped drive these cows away, and al- 80 named two others, and stated that all participated in the funds realized from the sale of the eows to MeClain. Verdict of guilty on the first count of the indictment, and not guilty on the second, The important civil eases on the list to be tried this week were the cases of John 8B, Dauberman and John H, Krumbine, trading as Dauberman & Krumbine, ve, O. L. Saylor, Presiding Elder of the Williamspart District of the Evangelical Association, John H. Erdman, pastor at Centre Hall, of the Evangelical Assoeiation, aud W. C. Farner, Wm. Boal and D. J. Tressler, trustees of the Evangelical Association at Centre Hall; appeal, plea non-as- sumpsit. And the ease of A. P. Luse, and C. W, Luse, trading as A. P. Luse & Bon against the same defendants stolen knowing November ses Both trouble land the same pleas, | case s grow out of the in factions, which division in known in a being America, and the other the United distinct church organizations. Unit- from $00, parsonage therefor $ against defendants Fvangelical debts the nited properties, and to the U church a quit claim deed, and to give to the purchasers immediate posses l, and the 1st day of April. give possession of the parsonage on pe. Walks 2000 Miles for S60 We Centrehall-Pot- tersmills mail route was a poorly but here The United States Government pays one of its employes in Licking county, .. the a year for His name is Louis Rehard lit- and had an idea the paid one, is one worse yet sum of $60 walking 2154 miles mail between a office, Ben Jen is located of Newark, three mails each week. at the rate carrying the mai oft and he carries the tle crossroads Newark. northest p wt seven miles there Rehard being and are L027 cents a mile for The in 1884 on the for the first ten he carrier received an average 14 miles walked 1120 about $8 He » bu gan of paid | Pou ch on foot, © was established percentage and months t plan of 10 a round trip of cents The first te mil n months he es and received for it. has never missed a trip since he work in 1804, but is always on ti Hd. Cent me, or shine, hot or ¢« On the Pot rain Hall 10 to miles he round trip daily, for of contractor route from ters Mills the dist re l ance is 2 miles ont makes a total the serving 113 days of the year for which 11ies, i R220 [Or Year, five post of each day. This service is performed with horse and covered wa- i gon - Wc fp HAD TOO MANY Wiv Es, A Bigamy Case The Developes at State Jail College Principal in dierman, a former e is in jail S11 po- Five We £ that & Wi A repre families ah 1 8 the oldest He found and re Daring work One s1# fil oT 0 Festi of Lhe dnion., go La w here } VEArs a S{terman went to mahoniog, he soon found Bros, of of Undertak- whom he Jarciay wijaalutance ton, daughter alton, wooed and smooth- | date Then Letter ! wife and The by | erything went along the A. that his { ‘ollege the WwW Weeks prior to of the wedding, November Hoe iild State of at living oul mess cousin, Thus appeased the | be married | The question of Let- and in order to Mr. Fulton came to State | investigate, He was almost crushed to find Letter wife with his three-year-old child at her father's home. Fulton re- turned to Sinnemahoning and separat- her husband, residents of that town, {to man’s The blow prostrat- «1 his second wife so that now she is at the point of death, and the first wife at State College, on learning of | her husband's duplicity, collapsed, and her life is despaired of. A — a— ere The Overcrowded Asylums, There are 1030 patients in the Dan- i ville hospital for the insane. There {are accommodations for only 800 and the trustees have decided not to accept vides means to increase the capacity of the institution. The Danville hospit- al was built for patients from the coun- ties of Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Bradford, Tioga, Lycoming, Montour, Northum- berland, Snyder, Union Centre, Clear- field, Cliston, and Potter. The Warren hospital, built for the counties of Warren, Crawford, Erie, |e Mercer, Venango, Forest, McKean, Elk and Cameron counties, is also overcrowded. John 1. Thompson Dead. John I. Thompson, an old-time resi- dent and prominent citizen of Martha, died at his home on Friday morning, last, after an illness of three months. He is survived by one son, Budd, at home, and one daughter, Nora, wife of Dr. Thompson, of Stormstown ; also, one brother, James Thompson. A CHURCH DANCING SCHOOL, A Jersey City Pastor Mas a Class in House of Worship The first dance under the auspices of a minister of the gospel, and held in a acred edifice under the eye of a profes- sional dancing master to boot, has live to tell the tale. Some time ago tor of an Episcopal church, just across the Hudson in Jersey City, had deci- ded to add dancing to his gymnastics, Since then there has been a good deal of talk, pro and con, but the up-to-date shepherd went right on perfecting his plans, and on a night last week the unusual event occurred, much to the delight of the young people of his large congregation. Early in the the old sexton had the | for the Dancers came early, evening burning unique bot h They were young men members of lately | ate the art of dancing, | and maidens, the resolved to elev class, which rector’'s Bible and incidentally to cultivate grace of the body and spiritual grace at one and time. Each one the way to the of ticket, a dent being in the box office. the same was he ballroom fellow-Bible No mon- for the de- instruction on price fn stu- no dance, the rule, for greater than the fl ey, was mand dancing wes | or space. Thus did | and were Even the parents of many call, SOME away. the pupils the entire floor being le. The e were permitted to gaze | rmnasiom, where the Bible put through their first | itions under the the dane- | When the master of the Fake part there The piano struck up | dancers fol- were barred, riv-| en over to the id- | young peoj ers, however, into the gy scholars were evo eve of ing master, dance cried out ** ners’ was a scramble, and 30 a march pairs of lerder around the hall. {f the lowed the The sentiment of Christian pub- lic will abominate this Bp Intemperate Habits Harry White, of Indisoaj w hil the le Judge e disposing o nse | county, question the other lefined what he considered a habit should day, man of intemperate and conse man in r mind, t juentiiy a the nen, he be refused fal bar, following words: “Toou habit that # the f man so given t frequently goes Lo the b HR Un Sor the influence, tion of getting lig- occasionally & | yields to the opis his vor when offered, or ace a treat whenever invited, leaves employ. ment in working hours to get a drink, spends his earniogs for it while feeds a without trol, isa person of in- temperate habits; ne known responsibilities are neglected, fosr growing appetite for Ii juor any effort to con and when those hab- fo the in the he lives, or among the people with whom he has intercourse, and see the indal- community in general, or neighborhood where him from time to time in known intemperate habits BoM > Poloted Paragraphs A bad memory is the skeleton in the think of them. When a farmer tickles the earth Printers their takes and tailors take their measures, When a young man or a clock gets too fast a setback is necessary. A man seldom gets so full of tion that he has no room for dinner. The ardent lover is all at sea when his best girl throws him overboard. There is more action in an ounce of kitten than in a ton of elephant. No man has the courage to tell a wo- man the things that her mirror does. Most mien are generous to a fault when the fault nappens to be their own. Men and women have more faith in each other than they have in their own sex, The only charms some young men possess are attached to their wa'ch chains, Some men are born greal, some achieve greatness and others become humorists, When a man tears a leaf off a calen- dar he realizes that his days are num- bered. The man in the basement can always undersell his competitor on the floor above. It is better to purchase 2 cents’ worth of music daily from the organ grind- ers than to owe for a grand piano. ss fs AMP RAH Good News, No other medicine was ever given such a test as Otto's Cure. Thousands of bottles of this great German remedy are being distributed free of charge, to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneu- monia and all Throat and Lung diseas- es, giving the people proof that Otto's . will cure them. Forsaleonly by measure free. 300. atid 36, WASHINGTON LETTER. REED BLOCKS ADMISSION OF BEV ERAL STATES He Frankly Says the Repablicans Lose Control of the NSenste,-Caba Opposed by the Administration, 04. one commendable When he mittee on Territories wus WasH NGTON, Jan, has trait e488, inclined to for the New he Arizona, told the members them intend that should be 80 long as he had the power vent, and the present c He he did not admitted to ditions added that territories it it | ver, it being well known that eacl nd tw wi Senate, if they The hot fight made by the frightened Ts Democrats has the whole outfit very badly. fake news of Spanish successes in Cu- the fight has ex- Nhe resentative H ous to the EE figh Rep ir isn't over yet 3 Bailey prov ed on the floor of the Democrats Iv Oniy the time, for ff t of 1 of faith Mr. on the Hitt Senator White, par of Cal., who is} ing the fight against the ratifica Kation treaty, oni ati fi ratified Annex is BO © that the treaty cannot be Senator Davis, wi re of the treaty, that a day +, and the Is the story « it tel space, The refusal of the House Irrency, been holding daily session hear everything that 8 monet: and other advocates of * gingie present 1 argument, to might have the shape of a gol hearings to representatives of an Bimetallic Union, was an unprecedented and an uncalled The Can 107 1h- Executive Committee of the Bimetallic U dignified nion sent a very manly and the lowing appeal to the protest to with y love of Committee, closing the fol jean has: "“"Bofar as we are aware, aft mat great Con in a a ing hearings on a proposition before it full and f hearing to both sides.” In marked contrast to the action and Currency Com- rad that of the silver Senators, wish to declar- ’. B. bonds to be payable in silver at the option of the government. They merely desired to adopt that tion, as a notice to the gold standard administration that gold standard | as long as they might do so, on the Teller resolution, resolu and to put certain Senators on record for the ben- efit of their constituents, and in order to show that they had to no desires who has charge of that the vote be taken on Thursday of this week, which was adopted. The adoption of the resolution by the Sen- ate is a certainty; the House will, of low it to be pigeon-holed. throw down some of the bars to the in the shape of the inability of the agree upon a bill. To conceal this dif- ficulty and to gain time, the Commit: tee has started an indefinite series of hearings, such as the Senate Commit- tee has been conducting off and on for months, It will be lamentable if Mr. McKin- ley allows the scheming Republican politicians to dictate the successor to Hon. Ben. Butterworth, late Commis sioner of Patents, whose funeral last week, drew together so many sorrow- ful public men, regardless of politics. Mr. Butterworth did the country a great and valuable service in reform- ing the abuses in practice before the Patent Office, and he was ably assisted in the work by Hon. A. P. Greeley, Acting Commissioner of Patents. Mr. McKinley could not show his sympa thy with the reform work done by Mr. Butterworth in a more practical way, than by making Mr, Greeley Commis sioner of Patents, The selection of Senator White, to Chairman Congressional Campaign and the adoption of a endorsing the Chi- cago platform, ended the career of nu- fairy tales. be ol - . — SHALL AVPEAR ONLY ONCE | T he Amended Sections of Baker the Bal lot Law The act of assembly approved July J, 1867, in regard to elections provides that y and 14 | be amended so as to regulate the sections 5, 4,5, 6 shall gs 0 By nom officers, and in such a manner that the trouble heretofore arising through duplicate names being found upon ballots shall whether cond once be avoided and it matters not a candidate , the upon the ’ i1 the ballot, me be endorsed by a name shall appear but nomination papers and upon I'his may have the effect of eacn party placing ino nomination only names of persons of the particu tion of political proclivity. ct referred to, that to this stb 1 ‘That the which provides ach county f the prior to Mnmissioners of e shall nd to the al sherifl' « respective Lan ut ¥ ’ least ten days Mw FO an oil inly f 4 ’ t 4 i ’ al f any general election, ial containing the names of all candi- lates whose nomination certificates or pers have been filed wit f~ d at any election the andidate shall nol appear iiiam mourned own by a tre ATP ¢ f his money and papers. alterward the tramp was his person was fiame, » that of ineral hh a sermon dwelling delivered, dead the was mourned as recent return to © iy {f life » Was until rrect erroneous impression, - - - Speculative Life Insurance. The decision of the supreme court of the United States in the Runk case in- validating $500,000 life iid settle the question as to suicide mind. He insurance, Rulcide does insurance shot by a man of sound cannot recover life insurance policy, the courts frequently holding that the act of self-destruction may be the result of mental disease, and in such cases the policy holds good. But in Runk killed himself within a year after adding £200,000 to his insurance, bringing the aggregate up to $500,000, He also left letter written the day before his death stating that it was his purpose to put an end to his life, so that his in- not necessarily vitiate a life the case in question a the payment of his debts, AA sss ssa Five Sisters Married to Five Ministers The reading of the history of Zion Lutheran church, of Greensburg, dur- ing the celebration of the golden jubi- able features. Prof. Dr. Aughey, Rev. J. Sarv- Potts and Rev. J. Ash. Rev. John Rugan and Rev. A. H. 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The consistent, nol wan 1Re% adi ‘ imsslf tarve himsel Will § John Report r thinks t y 1 WiligZ 3 y furnish any thing for his wife to eat! n't eat any thing Mrs. John Ihe State ¢ r himself. of atl Krumrin dow f i di at het 3 ae hristine ae tt oilege, ¢ Four sons and four the aged mother, 11 months au years, Kru son. mrine, druggist iNEAN A person not suicide, his life insurance collec 1x ad, a0 decides the supre i} court Ranks me in the Darlington Runk cas widow endeavored to collect a §75,000 life insurance, and failed her husband not being proven insane when be com mitted suicide. Ed. Reporter: Who was the world’s | greatest man? Ans, : Julius Ciosar s a general he was the equal of Napo- leon, as an orator he was greater than Cioero, as a writer he traps Nenophon, land as a statesman he is accorded the | highest rank. 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