NX
VOL. LXXI.
EI
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
THE SECOND WEEK OF COURT IN
SESSION.
Several Interesting Civil Cases Tried
Cases Settled and Continued Until
the Next Term.
Monday
with Hon.
Court convened on
ing at nine o'clock,
Considerable time was
ed by the several members of the
The list jurors
and absentees noted.
of was then
turns to sundry writs on Wednesday
afternoon.
J. B. Ard and P. F.
Pine Grove Water Company;
guilty; continued.
Lillie E. Essington vs. Mary M.
leau; plea not guilty; continued.
Mary V. Hale and Ellen H. Andrews
vs, the Central R. R. Penna.;
plea not guilty; continued.
Delores R. De Cassanova,
vs, Harry Keller, administration of |
ete, of Emila C. DeVilaverde. Ver- |
diet in favor of the plaintiff for $10,-
000 with interest from July 1, 1898,
Henry Fryer, use of John Hoffa, Jr. |
The Iron City Mutual Fire Insur- |
ance Company of Pittsburg, Pa. This |
suit was brought to recover on a poli-
ey of insurance against fire placed
on the house and personal property of
the plaintiff, at Coburn, Pa., by the de-
fendant company, property
as aforesaid insured totally
stroyed by fire day of
August, after time Mr.
Fryer assigned the procee is of his pol-
iey to Mr. Hoffa for a valuable consid-
eration. Verdict in favor of the plain- |
tiff for $751.9
The Ce
nia, to use of Eli
Anna Gentzel vs,
and Ivy W.
of John Hettinger,
Pealer and F. W,
Settled.
WwW. E.
Bottorf va. The
plea not
Boi-
Co. of
guardian
up-
which 80 |
de-
¢
Was
the
which
on 2th
1896,
Pennsylva-
Weaver and
Bartges
¥
Res
$
i
ynmonwealth of
zabeth
Charles C.
1LOors of, el
and Wm.
sureties,
Bartges, exect
in lunacy,
Heckman,
Delmage, now for the use of
W. H. A. M. MeClain
Isaac Thomas, partners, trading
M. McClain & Co. Continued,
Mrs. A. R. Long vs. Cyrus Gordon;
continued at ¢ laintifl.
Margaret . Brockerhofl
drew Brockerhoff,
ete., of Henry
line A.
tors of the
John H. (
assum psit.
and
A.
tack vv
MACK VV,
as
wis Of P
An-
of
‘Aro-
and
administrators
jrockerhoftl vs, (
and E. LIL. Orvis
t will testament
Orvis , execu-
of
las and
yrvis, deceased, summons in
This case grows out of the
the Wm. Stump
township,
sherifl’s sale of farm,
in Potter
sides of the Bellefonte and
manstown Turis ike, in January 1
h Henry Brockerhofl had
liens amounting to about $1500, and
ith day of January, the day
of the said n an
sment was entered into by
on both
Young-
R70,
lying
against wi
on the
set for the sale far:
agret
tween the law firm of Orvis & Alexan-
der, and Henry Brockerhoff by the
terras of which the said firm of Orvis
of
& Alexander to buy
and be-
the said
farm: after which portions of the farm
were to be sold and thus liquidate— |
the liens held by the said Brockerhoff |
against the farm, sometime in Novem- |
ber 1871 the sheriff acknowledged his |
deed poll to Henry Brockerhoff for the
J. H,
to each
the
was
were
one-half interest and to Orvis
and C. T. Alexander
fourth interest, and
time a portion of the farm
for 80000, which reduced the
about $6000. About the same
bond and mortgage
delivered by the said Orvis & Alexan-
der to Henry Brockerhofl' for $3500,
Some years afterwards Judge Orvis’ |
interest was sold to the Bellefonte
Building & Loan Association, and aft-
erwards purchased by Mr. Brockerhoff |
whereupon this suit is brought to re- |
cover from the estate of Judge Orvis
the one-half of this mortgage, which
the representatives of the estate allege
has lotig since been paid as the mort- |
gage has been in possession of the
mortgaged premises. On Tuesday
morning the plaintiffs ofiered to
amend their pleadings in the case, and
a juror was withdrawn and the case
continued at the costs of the plaintifts,
and a nile granted on the defendants
to show cause why the plaintifts
should not be allowed to amend their
pleadings.
Joseph 8. Ford, executor of ete, of
Geo. W, Ford, deceased, vs, William
J. Jackson, Eleanor H. Jackson, Da-
vid D. Woods and John Bhook; eon-
tinued at the cost of lhe plaintiff.
(i. G. Snyder and James Snyder,
trading as Snyder Bros., use of ete., vs,
Thomas Collins; continued at the costs
of the defendant.
John Curtin and H. R. Curtin, trus-
tee vs, J. 1... Bathurst; continued at
the costs of the plaintiffs,
Mary 8. Thomas vs. Thomas Butler
and Burdine Butler. This case grows
out of the placing in the hands of the
one-
about same |
sold
liens to
time
!
held against Da-
the husband, upon
where-
Thomas,
household
erty of David R. Thomas, and which |
portion of it
by virtue |
delivered |
David R.
a
balance
of a bill of sale executed and
to her from: her husband,
'homas on a valid claim,
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The Big Storm,
Boston's storm loss will exceed
million dollars.
Along tne coast 15 lives are thought
The storm had cut off Boston from
the rest of the country.
From all sections deep snows are
three
re-
ported, localities having
feet,
The cold snap and snow storm struck
all parts of the country. Rhode
Island three feet of Snow
prostration
some
In
snow fell,
of telegraph
and telephone wires are reported from
blockades,
- *
Three Holidays
February, the
| year, will have
month of the
this
12th;
the
the
will
month
shortest
threo
Lincoln's birthday,
election day, the third
15th; and Washing
22d. Bank clerks and
Ciera
work fewer days than
holidays
the
['uesday,
birthday,
officials
any
four
ton's
8
in
of the year, when the Sundays
are added to the above three legal hol-
idays,
: Wn lp
Wanamaker for Governor
Men's Republican
in Philadelphia on Wed-
{X00 representative
The
Le
nesday ;
Jusiness
gue met
business
men from all parts of the state were
present.
The platform strongly denounces the
re
tor.
legislature and
Wanamaker was
ir.
infamies of the recent
Quay
favored
as its direc
for Govern
i -_
County Statement,
the
which every
We did
closely,
In this issue we present county
financial statement, in
interested not
but
be
The
shown to
taxpayer is
have
think
found
assets over liabili
time to examine it
the
in
county finances will
satisfactory condition,
Lis
8 are Dee
$14,560 86
tla imemin
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage licenses
were issued during the past week:
wn Me La
lin, of Boggs twp
Wesk y Fhe
Ferguson,
Wesley
Love,
John Smith Bessie igh-
vnas and Cora Parker, of
Tate, of Le
of Jacksonville,
——-
Hurt in Altoona
sont, and Ids M.
Yesterday's Altoona Tribune
J. H. Lytle, a resident of Pine
Mills, Centre county,
years,
BAYS:
{irove
about 50
about
aged
fell on an east side curb
one o'clock yesterday morning,
broke his left arm at the shoulder,
Pr. A.
Lytle
The
fracture was reduced
Feltwell
by
, and yesterday Mr. re
turned to his home,
- >. -
Reindeer for Klondike.
The Thingvalla line steamer Hekla,
which arrived on Monday at
York from Copenhagen, Christiana,
Christiansand and Shields, brought 35
reindeer for the Klondike,
JUST ANYTHING
To Interest Any One, and Hurt Nobody.
est of winters thus far—not many |
sleighing frolies or hops, no musical |
conventions always so popular with
Perhaps this is ac-
| good work through the many protrac-
| ted meetings that have been and
The
there is lots of fun
The public
begin shortly with a free lunch
many
free bite,
But wait ;
every
to buy ; more to get a
it, too.
About the
gin to peter out,
time the public
that fun
good meals, plumsock
ushering in, and
and frolic,
hoe-down,
be Ieans
and
et cetera un so weiter,
fit: to know
dishes, jars
silverware,
stove-pipe
and
jams, bed sheets, hatchets,
and sich, have been packed and poked
to,
flitting that is not seen upon
frolicsome
the
is an after-inisery of the
pro-
the
thrown overboard.
seven died on passage and were
- ; i ol ie——
‘Serennded the Town.
Bellefonte band, to enjoy the]
j very excellent sleighing, on Saturday |
| evening came to our town that our
| denizens might listen to some tip-top
on our streets and in our stores, The
| Reporter was complimented with a ser-
{ enade for which wesay, Thanks, come
again.
A 55 Mf PB ———
Declines the Nomination,
Henry Emerick, nominated by the
Democratic caucus for the office of
Overseer of the Poor, declines to allow
his name to be used on the ticket, He
will refuse to serve if he is elected.
a
Test the Low,
The question of compulsory vaccina-
tion of school children is to be tried in
the Blair county court on complaint of
a parent,
To Our Customers,
Chamberlain's Cough remedy is the
best cough syrup we have ever used
ourselves or inour families. W. H.
King, Isaac P. King, and many oth-
ers in this vicinity, have also pro-
nounced it the best. All we want is
for people to try it and they will be
convinced. Upon honor, there is no
better that we have ever tried, and we
have used many kinds.—R. A, BLAKE
& Bon, General Merchants, Big Tun-
nel, Va. Sold by 8. M. Swartz, Tus
seyville; F, A. Carson, Potters Mills;
J. H. Ross, Linden Hall, and H. F.
sheriff sometime during the summer
Rossman, Spring Mills.
County politics is not exciting yet,
although quite a number are lengthen
ing their poles to knock the prothono-
tary persimmon, are fish-
ing for the district attorpeyship. All
honorable men, which leads us to hope
that there wiil be
devoid of the
while a few
an honorable can-
VAS, methods that are a
f decent men.
the
we
tench in the nostrils of
Our o«
uinty seat has furnished
state ith so many governors that
imagined the timber had been exhaus-
ted and that a higher would be
would furnish presiden-
terms,
strike
made and we
tial timber for a half dq al
Meek
calculation in his willi
the governorship,
bear with all the
Shunk. To thus
county a boom is soon to
en
least, ut bro. is spoiling this
no
ngness Lo accept
he
modest dignity of a
further honor our
whizzing.
which would
be
If our county is again to be guberna-
the
dinner gong,
‘er along
Uphold
torially honored, then ring ding-
the tom-tom,
to whoop
President,
dong, Can
pPaign song, but
for
pride always.
run ouniy
But,
ent : let
the is enough of the
the ‘eh
he past of our valley,
aberration brought them under the ob-
pres.
of
above
us recall aracters'’
whose mental
long and who
ved out the
eant George Alspach, a soldier
Black Hawk campaign, who
had his home at Potters Mills, became
a military monomaniac, and ever after
wore a uniform, marched only in mil-
itary step and imagined he was the
BLO,
flourisl in ab
Marg
same period.
battalions, The was harm-
less if let alone, but when the boys
to annoy him, there
would have been slaughter had not the
immedi-
To yell, “Black Rock ra
within the sargeant’s hearing,
was equivalent to a declaration of war,
{and he would charge upon the offend-
ter at once.
Then there was that original tramp,
Abe Lazy, the pollutor of school hous-
whom he com-
sargeant
be-
and tease
stout, healthy and barefooted, Lazy
3
| annoyance to farmers and the terror of
The only effective argu-
ment that would make this tramp get
up and git, was a black-snake cart.
whip or the display of a shotgun,
About the same years there flour
ished a poor, harmless fidiot, familiar
ly known as “Stine,”’ who passed
through this valley about once a
month, constantly going over some
church melody, and stopping at times
o “preach.” Btine was polite to all,
in his idiotic way, and wherever night
overtook him, in woods, field, fence-
corner or stable, there he made his
bed, exposure did not seem to break
him down.
There was another who frequently
visited the valley, also suffering from
mental derangement, whose name we
can not recall, He was a great travel
er too, and never molested by conduct-
ors when boarding a P. & E. train.
He was perfectly harmless and had a
mania for spelling words, which he
did, on any word given him, in such
an amusing way, as to make any one
have a kindly feeling for the poor fel-
iow.
There were other “characters” of
lesser note—but all have passed off the
stage. Happily, but singular to say,
since the passing away of these beings
there have not yet been any to follow.
| —————————
1898.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
|THE HOUSE PUTS ITSELF ON REC
ORD FOR CURRENCY
Heed Compels a
Have Dodged. Spain's Friendly He-
Intlons With Us
WaAsHINGTON, Jan, 31. —Playing the
voters for suckers is a very old Repub-
It
in 1900,
The
through
ary of the
lating the
litical trick.
istration,
Republican admin-
President
Treasury,
that
some silver voles
its and
is
manipu-
cards so in sections
where Are necessary
the cards will show the He-
and
told al
bimetallism storie
McKin-
silv
many fairy 4
Mr.
for
wut what
to accomplish
bimetallism,
stand-
majority,
through international
the gold
by
the
sup porte rs of
To be
and if
held
show
“
the cards will
tl
{epublicans
the
forewarn-
peir true colors
single gold standard,
ed is to be forearmed, real
friend of
any
silver gets in this
caught
will deserve to be
Heed
compelled
game, he caught.
Czar cracked the
whip and « the Republicrn
majority of the House to stand up and
the Teller
, declaring bonds to be payabl
er at the option of the government
Heed is no dodger, whatever
He is for the gold
gold bonds, and he
lled the House to endorse the
payment of bonds in gold by defeating
there
party
be counted against resolu-
tion
wily
else he
may be, standard
and for simply
SOT pe
the Teller resolu
of
tion, although
who would
the
method
Republicans
¢ had killed resolu.
pigeon-hole If
tepublicans of the House
they
would have been enough
r that h
tion by the
many of the
thought,
of them
with the solid Democratic vote to have
had dared to vote as
there
overthrown Reed's plan and
Tel
Her resolution,
adopted
the
Senator Chandler, who has been ©
Mr.
this to
le
spicaous in his championship of
has
of the ia
McKinley's bimetallism,
fs
say of the t
Intest attempt tter
and sil-
President
the gold people and
international bimetal-
difficult thing
he former
kind of bimetal-
clares in favor of
0d
y aun R rs)
to carry gold on one shoulder
ver on the other: “The 1%
trying to satisfy
also proseculs
lism, which is a very
for him to do, because t are
not in favor of any
he ds
» national debt in the best
in the world, in deference to
Id people, and refrains from
the world
lism. So pay-
ing the mon-
the
ey
gO BAN
that the best money in
gold, in order disturbing
vimetallists, It may be sagacious pol-
, but it will be difficult to pursue it
wach longer, if Secretary Gage and his
i=
to avoid the
cy
assistants are to continue to declare,
every possible occasion, that interna-
tional bemetallism is impossible, while
the President maintains he is
prosecuting negotiations with other
The time will soon come for
the explicit declaration as to whether
Mr. Gage or the President represents
the Republican party.”
Chandler was the only eastern Repub-
lican who voted for the Teller resolu-
tion, which was adopted by a vote of
47 to
Those
on
that
nations,
Senator
ey
NL
who have been blackguarding
Spain for trying to buy the friendship
of the U. 8. through trade concessions
offered in the negotiations for a reci-
procity treaty between the U. 8. and
and Porto Rico, which are now under
way, will doubtless be surprised
learn that the first step in these nego-
tiations was taken by the U.
ter to Spain,
the Department of State,
the fact. Just why
tion should have gone out of its way
but such
tion of its friendliness towards Spain,
each individual must determine for
by sending a U.
Vana.
The House by a vote of 188 to 67
passed the bill to pay $288,000 to the
Southern Methodist Book Publishing
the Company during the war.
No Senator presents more unique ar-
guments than Senater Tillman, of 8.
C., and his latest, on t silver ques-
tion, was one of the best. He said, as
he walked down the aisle: ‘Before
15873, we used to go on two legs. One
leg was gold and the other leg was «il-
ver. Then we cut one leg off, but not
content with that, we placed the cut-
off leg on our shoulder, and now we go
hopping along on one leg with the oth-
er leg on our shoulder.” The Senator
illustrated his remarks by action and
when he ended by hopping around on
one leg, bending over with the imagi
nary burden on his shoulder,
was such a burst of laughter and ap-
plause that the Vice President
Democrat who voted
Teller resolution,
UJ. 8B. bonds payable in
option,
The only
| against the declaring
at the
Senator
silver
| Governments
Catlerey,
The Lodge gold bond resolution hav-
| ing been defi of 53 to 24
the gentlemen who have
Washing-
legislation for
qared from this
their
people
the
bond
Was
of La.
sated by a vole
{ in the Senate,
{ been paying board bills in
| ton with the idea that
gold bonds could be sec
at last
s known
Congress have got
eyes
to most
the
impossibility of
{open to fact
from the first day of session
ab ute gold
Vooriuls
iegisintion.
a
CALIFORNIA
Personally Conducted Tour Via Pennusylva-
nis Rallroad,
next Personally-Conduected
Pennsylv
leave New York,
Pittsburg by
on Wednesday,
the
alifornia via the
road will
in, and
a
the
rolden Grate Mpecial
February 16, stopping at Cirent
Mammoth Cave and New Orleans dur-
‘arnival. F
he Pacific
i
11 §
Il be made
the Mardi Gras (
our
allowed on t
i De
turning, stops
City, € springs,
(iods,} Denver, Chica-
Hound-trip rate,
wi
at alt olorado
Crarden of the
ling
drives,
includ
ion, meals, carriage
and P
and Pull-
Ban Fran
modations,
NN route,
to
ion in Califor
les
“ast
sommodations,
drive
ir weeks,
carriage
An
npany the
ional. experienced
BOO
af
{ the t
lady tourists,
information,
Ag
address
al Pass.
ineraries and full
ourist ent,
wk: or
Crener
ticket agents: I
New Yi
Assistant
Broad
FOAGWAY,
Street
-— * — -
Bribe of $10,000 For a %
John CC.
ho voted
old the
ommit
ote,
Otis. of (
nilative in
against Hanna for
Legislative Investi-
tee how allel
ie to bribe him for
H. H. Boy
nesses |
r
¢
iave 5
y% 1
over i
the te
Mayor
nna’s manager in (
nm House, Ci
mised an
ep
Dick
‘oiumbus,
with
in
neinnati, and
office by
{ President McKinle
r Mr. Hanna, Mr. Ot
ferred Mr. Boyce to |
Campbell.
Mr
| Campbell
h he said he got
| Later Mr. Cs
vole
y to
& savs he re-
lis subsequently met
showed
from
mp bell
who
i whic
“a
Mr.
oi
received £75
1
| of $10,000 in Co
Mr. (
| $1750,
Mr. Boyee to be given to Mr.
| he voted for Mr. Hanna.
a se
1808 ~Always Up to Date
All of our New
lumbus,
which he said he
wr if
Otis
Spring
Spring Goods
in. Bought
advance, at the lowest New
Suits, New Overcoats, New Hats, New
Neckwear, New Fancy
New Wollens, New Gloves,
brellag, New Collars and Cufls,
Fancy Shirts, New Trunks,
New Bags, New BSweaters—
Everything New, and at attractive
prices,
before
prices,
now coming
Cases,
MoxstrgoMERY & Co.
Bellefonte.
i
A BIG DEFICIT.
Auditor General Mylin announces
[that the state treasury will be short
| four million dollars under present leg-
Corruption at Harrisburg,
| increase of offices, raising of salaries,
| creating useless clerkships, &e., &ec.,
| is doing all this and the people pay for
| the piper because they voted for that
kind of piper.
aii"
House Defeats Silver,
The senate having passed Teller's
silver resolution by a good majority,
it was brought up in the house on
Monday, when it was defeated by a
vote of yeas 132, nays 182,
ssn A A
New Diseases.
Deputy Register Kauffman has been
putting the returns of the births and
deaths on record daring the past week
and while recording the causes of
death given by the assessors discover-
ed that there are some very peculiarly
named diseases working on the sturdy
yeomanty of Clearfield county. Fol
lowing are the causes of death in a
number of cases: “Phumony,” “con-
sumtion,” “arysipelas,’”’ “oolrea,”’
“fenver,’ “eolery,” “‘membrains,”
“eolrandfantom,” “stamich,” “phanvo-
mia,” “pendicitis,” and “amonia.”—
Clearfield Republican.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Toke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Ale
Druggists refand the money if it falls to Core. B
| islation.
i
LOCAL ITEMS,
Cullings of More
from Everywhere.
than Ordinary Interest
Chaos who howled for winter
Like in times of old,
Hay, between their shivers:
“Too dodgasted cold.”
jut another nuisance
Now comes into view,
And helsasking: “Is it
Cold enough for you ?”’
— Chron
Potatoes are selling at 60¢ per bushel.
This morning mercury was down to
Zero again,
Murders and suicides are still daily
happenings.
The Ward House, at
for $6000 per
Tyrone
Car.
Potter county Republicans have
nounced against Quay.
The of Edward Ei
died on 7, aged ’
wife nert, of
na,
The
) VeArs,
Hanna bribery investig:
groundhog
namiie its shadow.
Hev
NE in i
A
and next
Rear
oF v}
& Chiurcet
cowl
hanged.
HRamuel] }
been alle
dN
y Yess rday.
G. Rar ukle,
Himse
Mrs. Carr
day at Mackeyville,
her mal
BUrviy
BONS was Tobias,
:
ie name
ie very fine ine
OT Very ine 10g,
Six 14
h
week Ir
es in thickness, Was
ter part of last
here.
Rev, i's appoi nts fo
At Centre Hall at
at Spring Milis at 7 p. m. ; at Tu
7
10 a. m.
Pitts
seyville at
The Tel
which,
"3 ”" 5
Chronicle- graph
Irg ele
un-
the eye of the
ent daily.
Klondike
has it there is star-
the other
and plenty
doubtedly, will please
leports irom the
two-sided tone side
and few fortunes;
that there is no starvation
the
has
not
and
this
church,
For
Lutheran
evening'sservice, in
Rev. Rearick
“those who do
those who tell falsehoods
those who swear.”
Mrs. Hoff,
en pneumonia
hotel owing to the fail
who claimed to bave tak-
a Roxbury, Mass,
ure of the own-
in
ded $1000 damages by the court,
We had some elegant sleighing with-
in the past ten days—{irst from one-
and-a-half inches of sleet which gave
sleighing a good start, then there came
five inches of snow that kept it up in
fine condition.
In a recent lecture, Paul Du Chailla,
the African explorer, confessed that,
during his journey through the Equa-
torial wilds, he had received no less
than 20,000 offers of marriage, whole-
sale and retail. What a paradise that
would be for Centre county stags.
[hile returning from Williamsport
to his home in White Deer valley, on
Monday, Cornelius Schaffer, an aged
farmer, was thrown from his sleigh.
He struck a telegraph pele and his
skull was crushed. His horse became
freightened at a locomotive whistle.
A death certificate that was being
shown in town the other , signed
by a doctor, had the doctor’ name in
the space on the blank he words
“gause of death.” He belie it to be
an error, while some others think it
absolutely a fact, says t Arcade
Leader,
It is singular how willingly some
persons cling to misinformaf
how ready to question the
dation upon which gossips erect false
fabrics and distort facts. Every fair
minded person will guard against cul
tivating such a spirit, instead of the
divine edict, “Judge not that ye be not :
Judged.’