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. Wa-
ters each married sisters named Steck,
so that seven female members of the
wives of seven Lutheran ministers,
There is no medicine in the world
equal to Chamberlain's Cough Reme-
dy for the cure of throat and lung dis-
eases, Thisis a fact that has been
proven in numberless cases. Here isa
sample of thousands of letters received:
“I have tried Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy while suffering from a severe
throat trouble, and found immediate
and effective relief. I ean unhesitat-
ingly recommend it.”—Epaer W,
WiirreMorg, Editor Grand Rivers
(Ky.) Herald. For sale by J. H. Ross,
ville, F. A. Carson, Potters Mills, and
H. F. Rossman, Spring Mills.
| “subscribe forthe REPORTER.
NO. 4
LOCAL ITEMS,
More
from Everywhere.
Callings of than Ordinary Interest
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Beheest immer ivvers Ma
Kumpt olsfort hinne no
Mit syme gonse Lebe
Larer Kop un feel g
Is en Bign fun
fl
par
Inch and a half sl
noon, furnished fair
The
dow ned
Wi
has a si
The Ce
SLOrINS Bind
i many
lis Holly
taticat
tuation i
gave the veteran s
day last week, the oi
Nice U
around.
65th birthday. eat and
a nice time all Reporter
adds its congratulations jam.
Alexander Hugh: ail at
desertion, rel
John
ng for wife to
eat. and declares he
to death. 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.
Did you see a chick or chicken that
| had the luck to pick up a crust of
| bread or bit of meat, bul what the en-
tire flock of the barn-yard, chickens
and turkeys, race it to take the mor.
sel and gulp it down themselves? Now
jsn’t that just the way some men do
when a neighbor makes someihing?
AA se A
A Tennessee lady, Mrs, J. W. Towle,
of Philadelphia, Tenn., has been using
baby, who is subject to croup, and says
ofit: “Ifind it jast as good as you
claim it to be. Since I've had your
Cough Remedy, baby has been threats
ened with croup ever so many times,
but I would give him a dose of the
Remedy and it prevented his having
it every time.” Hundreds of mothers
say the same. Sold by J. H. Res,
Linden Hall, 8. M. Swartz, Tuss
ng Mills.