VOL. LXXI.
URSDAY, FEBRUARY
HIGHWAYMEN ABROAD.
HOLD-UPS BECOMING NUMEROUS
IN OUR COUNTY
A Gang of Five Armed Mon Tried to Loot a
Milesburg Hotel, Shots Freely Ex-
changed,
One of the boldest and
of attempted
Milesburg, last Wednesday night.
About 8 o'clock five strange colored
men walked into the bar room of Alois
Kohlbecker, across the tracks from the
the
covered
most
robberies occurred at
railroad station, and while two of
negroes with four revolvers
four of the villagers who
ing in the room the other three strods
behind the bar and, Kohl-
becker to throw up his hands, attack-
ed the cash register and safe.
were loung
ordering
In the safe and register were nearly
$300, which the proprietor determined
to defend with his life.
the revolvers pointed at his
struck out right and left, and
powerful build, each blow hurled his
assailants back. the
succeeded in getting the cash register
and safe both open, but to
driven back by a blow from Mr. Kohl-
becker's fist,
the proprietor’s gold watch from his
pocket, but quick as flash Kohlbecker
snatched it out of his hands, at
same time knocking the man sprawl.
ing on the floor.
At this juncture the negroes, finding
Kohlbecker too powerful to cope with,
Regardless of
head, he
being of
Twice negroes
only be
One of the men grabbed
began shooting. Ten or a dozen shot
were fired,
ed Kohlbecker’s clothing, he
injured in the least.
Secarcely had
when one of the gang
but, though two balls plere-
was not
the shootin
y
i
eft
the 1
and the
guard gave the alarm of
of a crowd of citizens,
gang, with a full volle
from the room and ra
railroad.
shester rifle and shot
robbers, but failed t
on the
Kohlbecker
fleeing
them
[he negroes jumpe train for
Tyrone,
ahead for their
was telephoned
At E Ty-
aitin but the
and word
4
qrrost ¢
Arresi.
LM
rone officers were in w
negroes drove them off at the point of
woods,
did
ang really were negroes
the pistol and escaped to the
District Attorney Singer said he
not think the g
but white men iu di
i
the same gang that
few days robbed and
munities in Union and
ties, A reward is
rest of all
OF any fthe
OF any of Le
Bo Ap
THE SAM RUNKLE HOLDUP
»
Blood Cardlis
Much
f
is manufs
News of Beliefonte Origin
tre county
NEWS
ctured for the city dailies by
fonte news wags.
latest is story
e, of our town, having
upby three robbers a f
gap,
Bellefonte.
ew nights ago in
the while driving home from
We g
untrue about it :
t
ive what is true and
It is not true that Sam was held up,
N $
«20 shots
nor did he hold up any one.
were fired at Sam nor did he shoot at
any one
died
But, as Bam was driving
that
road
the buggy ;
distance, |
His buggy top was vot rid-
with bullet holes,
homeward
¢
came into t
t
a short
night, a fellow
he
and followed close behind tl
as Sam drove on
ie obese
me
ved the forms of two
tor
persons ahead, one haviog a dim lig
and driving up to within a few
ht,
yards
of the two, the one stepped across to
the de the road, Runkle
thinking they were robbers ready to
hold him
EC of and
up, he quickly turned his
hurriedly drove back to
Pleasant Gap, remaining there until
next morning. This is the
ry as given by Mr. Runkle
porter.
horse and
whole sto-
to the Re-
A -
The Richest Man
It is stated in Wall street that John
B. Rockefeller’s personal holding of
Standard Oil certificates amounts to
250,000 shares, which, at the present
market price, are worth the enormous
sum of $112,000,000. And this is only
a portion of the wealth of this man,
who is probably the richest person in
the world.
That Rockefeller might rock many a
poor feller into ease and never feel it.
years ago repealed the pipe line bill,
it simply rocked several millions rocks
en from the pockets of coal oil consum-
ers,
ca AM SAS Ar
A Fatal Accident,
A fatal accident occurred Saturday
afternoon at McCalmonts quarries near
Bellefonte, Jacob Yarvie, a Fiunland-
er, was at work taking out stone, on a
shelving rock, when the ground gave
away under hin. His head was
crushed in and his left leg was cut off.
His death was instantaneous. He
leaves a wife and six children in Fin-
land and a brother in Wyoming.
LAND OF CHURCHES,
| Hall an Hundred in the Eastern Half of |
This Valley
If many churches are an indication
| that Christian ethies are firmly rooted |
| in such a section, then the portion of
{ Penns valley from Centre Hall east to
| Woodward, should rank high in that |
| respect, and we are not inclined to dis- |
{ pute it.
The Centre Hall
| Woodward is some 19 miles, and the
distance from to |
0
average width of the valley about 2)
| miles, and in this territory there are
no less than 45 churches, all in good
condition and a majority as good as
new. The finest and most costly of
| these edifices are in this town.
The seating capacity of these 45 hou-
ses of worship will average 225, or a to-
tal of 10,125. this
| territory, as per the last census, is 7061,
I'he population of
or room enough for all the men, wom-
en and children, and space to spare for
3084 heathen.
Here
every 157 of population!
we have one good church for
We judge the average attendance at
these churches is not much above 75
at the regular services during the year.
In other words, one third the number
of churches would amply accommo-
| date the regular church attendance.
Miles township, with a population
f 14
es, or, one place of worship for a little
( 38, has some eleven good church-
over 100 of its population. This we do
pol
| not include in the territory first men-
tioned, but it will be seen that the ra-
tio is nearly the same,
of these facts
Iu view
any souls lost, it will not be want ol
opportunities to hear the preaching of
Word
on the day
the and plea of iguorance
f Judgme
would be more cousid-
and
avail, and there
eration for Sodom (Gomorra, than
unrepentant souls of
pH
blessed Penn and Brush vallies,
he
a —
A Town That Has no Taxes
the 4
At tl
tees ls
meeting of board of
Monday no
were appeared to be
A
asl tax levy
I'l
reason why
made,
any tax al
levied for the curre
some money on hand, and that
, will meet
estimated
Grange is lik
viliage
where 2 t
I'h
Lie streets are |
wr American
says |
1e has cleared his premises of ver-
niin DY masking wiillewasi
Mit Covering §
the cellar wit
ii
» jo which a rat might
seattered
The
isappearance of
he pu and
pperas,
{ $1 Wir . ft 1 roast lt
in the co ra of Lhe HOOT. result
d
Since that time
was a complete rats
and mice. not a rat
or a mouse has been the
coated with the yellow
geen
Near
house, ery spring the cellar is
whitewash as
a purifier and a rat exterminator, and
no typhoid, dysentery or fever attacks
the family.
a
Two Brothers Die Saddenly
Lewisburg Journal : On Thursday,
3rd. while Wm. Fessler, of Centreville, |
lime from Dry Valley X
Roads, he died very suddenly of heart
His brother,
of the same place, went to Middleburg
was hauling
disease. leuben Fessler,
to telephone about the occurrence to a |
sister. On the way home he too was
died
The sister
stricken, and
shortly afterwards.
reported in a eritical condition of heart
{ trouble.
suddenly very |
is also
icp A -
isin
A Mach Disenssed Question,
There has been considerable newspa-
per discussion as to when the 20th cen- |
{ tury will begin, The New York Sun |
| settles the question with the following |
| apt illustration: “The 20th century |
| will begin at midnight, Dee. 31, 1900, |
| Jan. 1, 1001. If you had 2,000 silver]
| dollars to place in piles, containing 100 |
| ench, your first pile would end with |
|the number 100; your second pile
would begin with 101 and end with |
| 200, and your 20th pile would begin |
{with 1901 and end with 2000. It
ithe same way with the centuries.”
cla -
:
is
Marriage Licenses,
The following marriage licenses
were issued during the past week:
(Geo. Shipley and Ada Peters, Union
Twp.
John A. Weight, Bellefonte, and
Florence Cole, Spring Twp.
John Henry Kyle, Huntingdon Co,
and Annie E. Ellenberger, Guyer,
Centre Co.
Edward Derstine, Bellefonte,
Annie Barger, Roland.
fc USNS
The Lenten Season.
Ash Wednesduy occurs on February
23 this year, and Lent will continue
and
until Easter, which falls on April 10,
FLORIDA.
Personnlly Conducted Tour vin FPenosylva
nin Rallrond,
One must appreciate the advantages
find himself in the land of flowers the
next.
To do this the Pennsylvanisg
Railroad tour to Jacksonville, which
take
by special train of Pullman
Florida. lIoxeursion
tickets, including railway
two weeks in
transporta-
tion, Pullman accommodations
berth, both
rections while traveling on the special |
the
$50.04);
and meals enroute in
following |
Philadel-
rie
Pittsburg,
train, will be sold
New York,
phia, $45.00; Canandaigua, $52.85;
al
rates:
£54.85: Wilkesbarre, $50.35:
$53.00, and proportionate rates from
other points,
For tickets, itineraries, full in-|
Tour-
1196 Broadway, New York;
WwW Boyd, Assistant
General Passenger Agent, Broad Street
and
formation apply to ticket agents,
ist
or
Agent,
address Geo,
Station, Philadelphia.
A fl o————
Weather Forecast
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the
storm wave to cross the continent from
the 17th to Z2Zlst, the
reach the Pacifle coast about
and next will
the 22d, |
cross the west of Rockies
the close of the 234, great
leys 24th or 20th, eastern states |.
A warm wave will cross the west of
224,
states
Rockies country about the
h,
Cross
great |
4 1 valley ’ r
central valleys 24th, eastern
the
try about the Z5t
whl
A cool wave will west of
tockies © hi, great
central Vi ley 27th,
March ].
Temperature of
eastern states
the week ending
th will average a little be-
February
low normal in the southern and much
The
» month
below in the no
heaviest rains and snos
ys | f
n Oe
will have falle
week ending the 2
in the north and
In many places crop ©
ing 15898 will radically dif
the
average of past five
4
ditions will no
unusual may
op
Fought Like Tigresses
At Fscalapia, Ky., a fey
and
ago, constables Cropper ‘hacker
i to arrest
+ 4
attemptes
re
an old lady named
yw, who was at her home with sev-
ral grown up daughters, Before the
fr
of ti
d
wisly
air 1 >
1¢ giris flew
tigress, with
dangers wounding
By this time the old la-
sii 00r
y and another daughter drew revol-
The
, and a
d
battle raged for a fe
Ww mo-
fter the smoke had cleared
, Crow and one daughter were
dead.
dangerous condition.
Those who survived are in a
"WASHINGTON LETTER.
| THE INSULT OF THE SPANISH MIN
| ISTER.
Friendly Relations Between the Two
Countries. Sherman Ignored,
WasHiNagTON, Feb. 14.
YThe occasion
The adage,
the
man,’ like some other, adages, some-
The President of the |
always produces
times lies,
guard who held the commission of his
Minister to the 1
and our department of State has been
government as
fy
held up to the ridicule of the world for
allowing itself to be gulled by Bpan-
and negotiations for a reciprocity
and has
t
ed by Senor de Lome,
published
world.
% 1d
ne civiiz
throughout
Surely this was an *'
but no “man’’ has yet been produced.
The natural thing to be expected after
having writ-
hat Mr.
de Lome acknowledged
ten the published letter, was
Instead of that, he
to Madrid that de Lome
be recalled, and before it
ed to the
his passports,
sent a request
Was -
present
Spanish government, de
and his gover
had his resignatic
accepted
McKinley is waiting to
it all.
It has been proven time after time by
it i
1
Torr
ire ino
Presi-
"We 8 no
Congress that polit i
the solid backing always given a
ip firmly fo
question affecting our honor or
and Congress was and
back Mr. McKinley,
le
ig still ready
even to
nt of a declaration
it
y make
does notl iS DOW
do
the
Liat
HOE.
him
Congress {
¢
and its members are |
do it.
Even prominent Republicans i
the very existance of
man when discussing
ing Lo our
Lodge, who t f re
Vv ( the silt
do,
acticing duplicity
gues
§ said
the administration will
this conclusion if Spain does
press regret |
ate Minister,
matier
Spain may say the
rey
gene
belief will be Lome
. al - 3 : f at ar GP
uth about the use of anlonomy and
reciprocity to delude this government.
I cannot predict
bring.
what
pg PT i
i Oniy KUow
Day, we have a Secretary who is
al
1
patriotic and capable, and th
see that this country does not
among the nations of the worl
son of this incident.’
hung up Senator Tillman's bill to per-
mit the states to contro! liquor carried
into them in original packages, and it
a
Kind Words for the Heporier
advance, |
the Reporter is my favorite and did |
for |
my native county, that I feel gratitude
W. Miller, Lincoln, Neb,
Fnelosed tind cheek, for am’t Cen-
tre Reporter, you credit |
for the best county paper, and for the
with
advocate the truth.”
“I enclose ¢’'k for year in
such noble service, in years past,
is due it.”
I must give
which
£3.
fearlessness you always
W. Bpang-
ler, Tusseyville.
“I can’t do without the Reporter, it
is so reliable in its home news, and un-
flinchigg in its Democracy.” E. F
Kern, Stephenson county, Ill
——
Political Bagology.
An exchange says:
the whole thing; while the tumblebugs
do the voting, the slickbugs get the of-
fices and the moneybugs get the game.”
EE
What We Die OF
It is estimated by a competent for-
eign authority that only 900 persons
out of 1,000,000 die from old age, while
1,200 succumb to gout, 18,400 to mea-
gles, 2,700 to apoplexy, 7,000 to erysip-
elas, 7,500 to consumption,
scarlet fever, 25,000 to whooping cough
30,000 to typhoid and typhus and 7.
000 to rheumatism. The averages va-
ry according to locality, but these are
considered accurate as regards the pop-
ulation of the globe as a whole.
a — a
The Golden Secret of Long Life.
Keep the head cool, the feet warm
and the bowels open. Bacon's Celery
King for the Nerves is a Vegetable
preparation and acts as a natural laxa-
tive, and is the greatest remedy ever
discovered for the Cure of Dyspepsia,
Liver Complaint, and all Blood, Liv-
er and Kidney Diseases. Call on G.
H. Long, Spring Mills, sole agent, and
get a trial package free. Large sizes
50c. and 26¢.
porting the bill can be induced to get
the matter up again.
Latimer is working with that end in
thinks he will
The bill has passed by the Senate some
Representative
view, and succeed.
time ago and was intended to aid the
dispensary law, which was weakened
bya U. 8B. Bupreme Court
voted against reporting it was that it
would be a step towards giving states
the right
merce,
Not having the fear of Czar Reed be-
to control interstate com-
amount carried by the fortification Ap-
propriation bill from $4,144,912
appro-
Czar
can compel the House to insist upon
its original bill.
The addresses of the National Organ-
ization of the Democrats, the People’s
party and the Silver Republicans, have
been approved by a joint caucus and
will all be made public this week. The
keynote of the addresses is co-Opera-
tion Ly the friends of silver in the Con-
gressional campaign.
Unless all signs fail, as they some-
tion of Hawaii will have its fate set-
tled this week. The Commiltee on
Foreign Relations, acting upon the ex-
pressed doubt of Senator Teller, one of
the strongest annexations, as to their
ability to ratify the treaty, will get a
test vote in the Senate. If the vote
shows that the two-thirds are for the
treaty, its early ratification is certain,
as the opposition would not prolong
ithe fight with certain defeat ahead of
them; if the vote shows, as it probably
will, that the treaty cannot be ratified,
it will at once be dropped, and a joint
resolution for annexation brought to
the front.
Czar Reed's latest bit of suppression
was to wipe Friday and Saturday off
2 1%. 1898.
i
| the House calendar. Friday is private
| bill day in the House and on the last
| Friday that the House was in session, |
| enough Republicans voted with the |
Democrats to pass a number of private
of
In
such
bills, in defiance of the opposition
floor,
of
House
| Czar and his agents on the
| order to prevent a repetition
tactics the Czar made the ad-
| journ from last Thursday to Monday,
{and it is said that he intends to do the
same thing every week, in order to
bills
-
MAINS
make sure that no more private
are passed,
- »
FHE CRUISER
i
i
Tnited States battle ship Maine |
lying at Havana, exploded on Tues- |
day night and many lives are believed
lost.
The cit}
to Iu
was shaken to its
lasses were brok
ch
tions and all the g
eath roll will rea AH),
ii
or di
appalling
MUSE
: another cause
‘
i vidi
ion | anoiher,
f the boilers, and a forth that |
wowder magazine,
» been the |
is the aperture
our anatomy
nouths look like peaches and
1, and some look like
i 1 a new do
y admit
crimson aisle to our
er otism’s fountain and
pie. Withott a
tician would be
he
natr
chest for
3 nl
he poi
¥y
the
mouth t a
and
It
| the grocer’s friend, the orator’s pride
It
men on the rostrum and some in jail.
It 'h
attached
fri
iti
face of t earth
down in an unhonered grave.
is temptation’s lunch counter w
to
VOR
tobacco’s
With-
out it married life would be like a sum-
| mer dream and a dude would le
| his attraction.’
maiden, and
end when attached to a man.
A
Must Have More Room.
The Central Pennsylvania Odd
| low’s orphans |
to be enlarged by the addition of an
annex 16x42 feet. The dining room is
to be enlarged, a school room
| three sides of the building. At pres.
| disadvantages because of the scarcity
of bed rooms for the children. The an-
| nex will add a number of comfortable
| rooms and furnish accommodations for
| about two dozen orphans,
rail ——
A Hill Suddenly Falls,
At Carlin, fifteen miles south of Hol-
lidaysburg, Sunday, a solid limestone
hill, 175 feet high, 100 feet
125 feet deep, moved from its base and
went crushing into the valley
in the avalanche, and the thunderous
noise was heard for many miles. The
Hungarians who work in the quarries
there were away on a Sunday excur-
gion, or there would have been whole
sale slaughter.
> mmo Ap A
Telephone Not Seid,
The report that the Millheim tele
phone company had sold out to the
Bell company is not correct. There is
a dicker under way but the parties did
not, as yet, arrive at a conclusion.
Ty
Send picture; will copy artistically 6
times larger than stamp photos, 10 for
40¢; 30 for $1. On mantello cards 10 for
50c; 20 for §1; taken of yourself same
Address, Lukenbach, photo
grapher, Centry Hall
4
LOCAL ITEMS,
Cullings of More than Ordinary Iuterest
from Everywhere.
De Gruntsow see leakt,
['n see betriekt
Hot uns sex Woecha
Koit Wetter fersprooche
Ferderbty Grundsow,
Des sog ich deer now
Fum Wetter waste Nix,
Now stup dy olte Tricks.
Blibe in dime Nesht,
'S ware 'saller besht ;
Konsht uns nimme foole,
Un 's Wetter net roole,
Bisht en alte sow-—en
Kum noch mol rous dann fongt dich
dar Bow-w
alte Gruntsow
OW
That cuss De L.ome,
Had to mosey horns
Gone to old Madrid,
Of himUncle Bam's Las
aia 13
This Castilian haughty,
i
Penned an epistie so naug
“aid our President's small,
it the yank did the not
a 1 did ve
sari ie
aving cooked his own
B
ee Ove
AINOORE,
FOES
gOO
e faces his queen,
y DIE
ger fool 1 never se
large
made
lican candidate {
roads.
Rev. Ra
day Feb. 20, at Cent
7p
Monday,
'i1la nt
Vviiie at
weather, winter set
in the morning it suddenly began
snow at a heavy rate
1 fie
South
Will-
not
employes of the
Li
~ p
0 8 fifleen
14
4
i
134
ui
{. reduction 100 men
Will
Mr.
sire oy this
3 ad 3 " 3
be affected. Prosper
and Mrs. R. Porter
€ Xpress
Odenkirk de-
means fo their
appreciation of the kindness and fa-
vors shown them by neighbors and
friends during the illness and death of
Lawrence Cowher, of Fillmore, fell
This is the second time he has
While out with a sleighing party
John Kelley, of Bellefonte, froze both
to save his life. He was
The Pennsylvania Photographers as-
vention at Bellefonte, the last week in
February, 220d to 25th inclusive. The
Armory building has been secured for
the various sessions.
The wife of John Wiseleather died
at her home in Sunbury a short time
ago, aged 30 years, of typhoid fever.
She is survived by a husband and six
children, the youngest one year old.
She was a daughter of John Musser, of
Gregg township.—Journal.
For Tout.
Score room, and four rooms on sec-
ond floor of building suitable for dwel-
ling; will rent all together or separate
ly. A good opening for a bakery or a
confectionery. Apply to
Mus, Mary A, DiNags,
Centre Hall.
feb172