~ Ta VOL. LXXIIL \ OUR TOWN'S OPPORTUNITY. AN EFFORT WILL SECURE AN EDU CATIONAL INSTITUTION. Central Penna. College Seeking a Place to Loeated. Our Town a Desirable Site, and the Citizens Favor It. The Central Pennsylvania College, an institution of the United Evangel- ieal church, now located at New DBer- lin, Union county, will be removed from that place to some town in this part of the state yet to be determined upon by the educational committee, ing a new location, composed of seven members, and in- cluded on this committee is Rev, W, W. Rhoads, of Centre Hall. The com- mittee meets in March next, when they will consider offers and sites from the different towns seeking for the in- stitution. The institution will be removed from New Berlin. The present loca- tion is not conveniently located, hav- ing but few facilities, and being in a district abounding in denominational educational institutions, it is consider- ed advisable to remove the institution to other parts. The institution has| been offered sites by towns in several localities, but they are not available, and there is an excellent opportunity for our town to secure this institution. The college at present has nearly two hundred students with a steady growth and it is advisable for our citizens to make an earnest effort to secure its lo- cation here, SPIRITS TELL HUMMEL BODY. OF BABYS Body of (Murdered Hummel Babe Found in the Stable. Buried in a stable on the Hummel farm, near Montgomery, the body of Baby Delany, was discovered on morn- ing of 18. It was directly underneath the spot where Hummel’s horse stood, and was covered with stones, dirt and cornstalks, The ehild’s skull had been crushed in by a terrific blow from some blunt instrument. Much mystery surrounds the affair, as the officials refuse to tell how or from whom they received their infor- had confessed, but he and his attorney de- ny this. He displayed no emotion when told the body of the child had been found. Rag Peddler Hummel's belief, or pretended belief, in spiritualism will probably lead him to the gallows. It developed on Saturday that the infor- mation secured by the authorities, and whieh led to the finding of the body of Baby Delaney, buried in Hummels barn, was given to Sheriff Gamble by the prisoner himself, Hummel told the Sheriff that he was a spiritualist, and during the two months he has munication with his dead wife in spir- it-land. He said that his wife's spirit inform- ed him that if a letter containing cer- tain interrogations was sent to certain parties when these parties replied she would be free todivulge the location of the grave of her murdered babe, Sheriff Gamble agreed to send the let- Centre Hall is desirably located in a most fertile district, a more healthful | clime is hard to find. We have splen- | did railroad facilities, and are up-to-| date in all conveniences and modern | improvements, and there is no reason | why we should not land this institu] tion if our citizens make an earnest ef- | fort. That the project has met with public | favor on the part of those acquainted with it, our publie-spirited citizen, Mr. | J. D. Murray has headed the list with | the offer to give $100 towards the insti- | tution. The REPORTER repeats its of- | fer made several months ago to give a | plot of ground of five acres for the col-| lege site, There are many other citizens who upon learning of the project, will con- | tribute as liberally, and a large amount | of funds can be subscribed. A college institution with nearly | two hundred students will be of no] small consideration to all lines of busi- | ness io the town and community. | College buildings, large and commo- | dious, with all conveniences, costing | thousands of dollars, i must be con-| structed, affording a home market for building materials and labor in plenty | for our mechanics and laboring men. This outlay of capital will send a large | volume of money in circulation, not considering the regular and steady gams poured into the regular business channels by the studentsand all con- nected with the institution. Rev. Rhoads, as a member of the committee, is decidedly in favor of] Centre Hall as a most desirable site, With an earnest and honest effort by our citizens, we may secure it. With Mr. Murray's $100 and the Re- PORTER'S site of five acres of land, will there be other citizens with the public good at heart who will come to the front and aid the project? The Educational committee meets in March, when likely a place will be se- ected. To delay will mean that Ce n- tre Hall has lost an opportunity for se- curing a most excellent and worthy institution which will be of great ben- efit to the town in other than a finan- cial manner. nla AIM A ON Brian's Remedy for Trust Evil, For the solution of the trust problem Mr. Bryan proposes that the jurisdic- tion of the Federal Government be ex- tended over all corporations that have interests in more than one State, and are therefore engaged in interstate commerce in the constitutional mean- ing of that phrase ; and the passage of a law requiring them to take out li censes for which they must pay a reas onable tax to the commissioner of in- ternal revenue. At stated periods all such corporations shall be required to publish statements of the financial condition and transactions similar to those made by the national banks, and their books shall be always open to ex- amination by special agents of the in- ternal revenue bureau who shall have the same power and duties similar to those of national bank examiner. Given » Unil, i ter. Last Wednesday night, 17, the Sherifl read to Hummel what purport- ted to be a reply to this letter. Imme- | diately after the reading Hummel ap- { parently relapsed into a trance, and when he returned to his normal pbys-| ical condition he told the Sherift that { his wife's spirit directed them to go to | the shed on the Hummel place, in | Black Hole Valley, where, buried In the horse stall, they would find the { corpse of the baby. Sheriff Gamble, Kaupp and Deputy District Attorney Sheriff Smith {side half an hour they had dug up the | baby’s body, finding it just where Hummel said itfwould be. This spiritoalistic message is consid- ered a virtual confession, and the Com- i monwealth’s officers declare that | Hummel cannot escape conviction on ithe charge of murdering his wife and | his three step-children. ho ————— S Saved by Her Daughter's Dream. Mrs, Ellen Crosby fell on the ice Jan. 3 and sustained injuries that were pro- nounced fatal. Brain fever ensued, fol- i lowed by collapse and apparent death. | Prepartions were made for the funeral, | which was {o have occurred on 15, at { English, Ind. A daughter of Mrs. ber mother was appealing to her. Af ter she awoke the impression was so strong that her mother was alive that she would not allow funeral arrange ments to proceed. Foreight hours the daughter sat beside the body, when suddenly Mrs, Crosby spoke and at tempted to get up. She declared she had tried to tell the undertaker and attendants that she was still alive, but could not make them hear. Failing in this she thought she shouted to her daughter, although no sound was heard, ber body being cold and appa- rently lifeless. The daughter, howev- er, started from her sleep and rushed - The Awful Famine Situation in India, Oficial estimates show that the cost of the Indian government will be about 40,000,000 rupees, or over $14, 000,000. About 22,000,000 persons are now aftected in British territory aod about 27,000,000 in the native States, The Viceroy, Lord Curzon, said that the famine area had expanded, surpassing the worst fears, and they were now suflering a cattle, water and food searcity of a terrible character. About 8,250,000 persons were already receiving relief. While in 1807 the world shared India’s sorrow and con- tributed hundreds of thousands of pounds toward the relief fund, the Viceroy pointed out that India now would bave to struggle alone, for the thoughts of every Englishman were centered on South Afriea. It would be the duty of the government to pur- sue the task of saviog millions of lives and it would spend its last rupee if nec- essary to do so. Cancus Meeting, The Democrats of the south and north precincts of Potter township will hold their joint caucus for the nomina- tion of candidates for township ofMoers at Centre Hill, on Saturday, January COURT PROCEEDINGS. The January Sessions with Much Work be Done, The January term of court convened | at Bellefonte on Monday morning, with Judge Love presiding. The! morning session was taken up by a] large number of petitions and motions | being presented to the court for con- | sideration, by members of the bar, The | list of grand jurors was called, and the | absentees noted. After the jury bad | been instructed as to its various duties by the court, it retired to the grand ju- ry room to deliberate ‘on the several bills of indictment to be placed before them by District Attorney Spangler, The constables of the boroughs and townships of the county then made their quarterly returns to the court, with reports of the order in their tricts, The trial list of civil for the first week was then gone over and the cases marked for trial and the ing were disposed of: John Zentmeyer, P. B. Zentmeyer. Settled. Philip A. Leister vs, E. M. continued to next term. H. P. Harris John H. Hines, | The defendant confessed judgment in open court in favor of the plaintiff $64.18, The first case called Emory 8. Beals, prosecutrix Marcella St This case | is from Huston township and the de-| fendant plead guilty and received the usual sentence, Court ealled at two o'clock. and con- siderable time was again taken up hearing petitions and taking returns to writs of partition, Tus Woman's Christia Union of Bellefonte was chartered by the court, Ao criminal cases being ready for rial the civil case of G. W. Barner vs. A. Leister, brought to recover back to the the 2lst The parties live in the plaintiff to | | | | | dis- cases follow- now to the use of Huyett, VE. for was Com. ed for bet VE, indiet rayal; Faw, in motions and n Temperance on a note given by the plaintifl defendant in a horse deal on day of April, 1889, Potter towuship, Centre Hall and the defendant Potters Mills, The plaintiff that he bought a horse from fendant on the day stated near Hear alleged the giving de. and in payment therefor his note for § with surety, and a colt that the defendant had guaranteed the horse to be perfectly sound; on the other hand the defendant alleged it was a horse trade, that be had goue to see the plaintiff in the forenoon of that day in pursuance of a letter inquiring about a horse and that in the af ¥ J, and that ternoon of the same day the plaintiff called at his place and that he had given him his choice of three horses, and that he had chosen a sorrel mare and that the terms of the trade were agreed and that the plaintiff had gone security on his note, and in the ning they had met on the road near a Mr. Homan's where the trade was con- sumated by delivering his horse to the plaintiff and receiving in exchange his | note and a colt which he could not home that night on account of kick ing. That some time afterwards the plaintiff returned the mare to his place alleging that she was a “dummy’’ and demanded bis note for £35, which he | could not do, having sold the note to the Penn's Valley Banking Company. | The horse was afterwards taken a stray dnd sold and the plaintiff w obliged to pay the note to the bank | and brought suit to recover his money | from Mr. Leister. Verdict in favor of | plaintifl for $20.90, upon, to get even get up as | ras Wetzel, indicted, first count larceny; second count, receiving stolen goods knowing the same to have been stolen; prosecutor J. H. Maize. Jacob Wetzel not being in court, only Hetzel was ar- raigned. These defendants are indict. ed for purloining about twenty chick. ens from the prosecutor on or about the 12th day of January of this year, Tnis case is from Millheim, and the de- fendant plead guilty and stated to the court that he had gone with Mr, Wet. zel to take the chickens, but had not taken any but helped him carry three chickens away that night, and that afterward when spoken to by Mr, Maize had returned the chickens, Sen- tenced to pay the costs of prosecution, five dollars fine and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of twenty days. Hallie A. Meek vs. the school dist- rict of Half Moon township. This suit is brought to recover on u school order given to the plaintiff, who taught the Elder echool in the defendant district during the winter of 15881 and 1882; ver- dict for the defendant district, The National Computing Secale Co. ve. F. B. Btover, Continued before court. W. E. Irvin va, Mrs, Blanche Mey- ers and D. P. Meyers, her husband. Settled, ot foliowiug oases were tuchtite Wel won payment of costs by several Plaiuiifh, They are all WASHINGTON LETTER. | THE ISSUES FOR THE PRESIDEN- TIAL CAMPAIGN, Will be Combined in the Democratic Trusts and Imperialism Piatform WasHiNaTON, Jan, 22.-—Col. visit to Washington brought { about a general interchange rratic opinions, which resulted showiug, beyond question, that silver, trusts and imperialism will be the fore- 3 Bo's this to talk freely Bryan will year's campaign. ou most not express where the Democratic be held, or he candidate for Vice Presi- while willing is, Col. an opipion on convention should Id be t He said of imperialism; 1 pe m. 1 permanent re I believe dent, opposed to | srinlis am ed to the Phillippines. Oppose ion of that this gov- ernment should at once declare tent in-! the in- its fo that tention to give independence Filipinos, on the same terms Cubans. I am not opposed to all ex- Each proposed annexation merits. nish between the Republic its own and em- toward trusts, propose that a Of his attitude “] shall corporation pire.” Col. Bryan said: Federal license be required of organized in any to do While this license would permit a corporation, so state, before it is allowed ness outside of that alate, of the state in which it is organized, it should to cerned, to do business outside stale io people any inipose any restriction, prohibition, deem necessary for their even the protection. The state and Federal remedies should | be concurrent. i & point of fas i not power which | people outside corporations, even though state | ir t woul take from the state any it now has to from protect iis protection is not complete, because the state remedy were taken away, the | 1 entirely ] were people of the state would be the contre helpless in case mon nopolies able to exert a influence over the remedies o« Og action of ald be constitutional Congress, without a Repub- | or rather would were exerted amendment makers, be mischief makers for the sensational stories sent from: Washington, alleging that ryan and Chairman Jones had quar reled over what should be the policy party. foundation lican mischief responsible out Col. There the perfect ac. the most terms. While in Bryan took family and Sens- tor Jones was one of the party of prom- fnent Was f absolutely fo for slo ries. The two men are in politically, and friendly Washington, Col. on personal Democrats who accompanied Bryan Baltimore Saturday night and listened to his able speech {on the attitude of the Democratic par- to Now that the administration has de- clared for free trade with Porto Rico, Representative Payne, of New drawn un- | der Mr. McKinley's instructions, pro- i viding therefor, all the wearers of the { McKinley collar will have to fall in This will be a bitter pill for many Republicans, but there is nothing in sight to indieate that any considerable number of them will have the sand to vote against the bill. Already they are beginning to ask if the MeKinley program includes free trade with the Philippines, Represen tative Ball, of Texas, took occasion, while the Pension Appropri- ation Bill, which was passed, was un- der discussion in the House, to give the imperialists, who are trying to make it appear that any opponent to the war in the Philippines is a traitor to the U, 8B. government, some sharp raps by quoting the language of Abra- ham Lincoln, who was a member of the House at the beginning of the Mexican war, and who made a speech demanding information of the Presi- dent, about the beginning of that war, compared with which most of the speeches made by Deinocrats against the Philippine war are extremaly mild. Mr. Norman E. Mack, the Buffalo Democratic editor, who is now visit ing Washington, is credited with knowing New York politics thorough- ly. He says that with the exception of a few corporation and trust lawyers, the party in that state is in line with Col. Bryan, and expresses the bel that the recent flnancial of the Treasury Departament, have ma- | nounced sympathy with Great | ain’s war on the Boers, is getting it in- | to hot water, Benator Hale declared | in a speech in the Senate, that he in the | sympathized with the Boers i struggle for liberty, snd | adopted Senator Allen's asking why the Btate Department re- | fused recognition to a properly acered- | ited Representative of the Republic. And the trouble is just be- | gloning. Ata big at whizh there | talk, which must have | Kinley y if he read | W ashington papers, the cipal speakers were Bepatars Hale, meeting last night, WAS some Mr. Me- today’s prif- Al- made squirm, Mason, and De Armond, Champ, Clark, len and Haley, Lamb, Representatives Sulzer Lentz, and Gordon, - es - - - —- Not a Snuke But a A Belle the eity dailies with the following ; “The farmers of leel Story, has soaked fonte news getter Nittany nnd Brush valleys engaged regul cattle hunt. from in a Over 100 fine their , and are ar anitGas escaped : frie 1 grazing la herds while wild around be cattle ry as deer, and hunters have been un- ie of them summer runnivg - Nittany mountain, I are wa- able to get within halfa m Daring the last week the farmers tried the experiment of a general rot up Fully 100 men, mounted surrounded the herd 1nd- of the stock. i on foot, could not get t of the woods, Lassol and in this Persons ng was way four who sorted to, caught. were is as the chase declare the stock wildest of cattle on western plains”’ Now the to put the following pinholes in the above : The Reg throw of Nittany mountain, Reporter asks leave worter is within a stone's with a full view of its entire west side, and no &ec., and 8 cipher slory a “Over 100 fine animals,’ fully 100 men,” &c from each, and it “it leaves the “As wild as the wildest cattle domesti weslern plains, Our cattle don’t get so durn wild as that in one or two seasons out, £ éi 1% po, ar 4 w i Hunters have been unable to and lasso. them.” caught by Catching cattie by four of them were ing.” y lassoing and not getting nearer than half a the critters, and in the woods mile to at that, the western only beat cowboys all hollow, but it beats the devil. - a —— : 25 Sugar Valley Dogs Killed Under a Mad Dog Scare. One little dog in Sugar Val the cause of twenty-five other canines meeting death during the past week. Some of the dogs had been bitten by a mad dog, while others were killed to keep peace in the community. Amos Frank, a farmer who Easttown, in Sugar valley, had a little dog that sufféred an attack of rabies, on Monday of this week, and started away from the home of its owner. It first appeared at J. H. where it was noticed that something was wrong with the dog. While did not bite one of them, but further down the road the canine worse and attacked every dog that it KAW, bitten before killed, The mad dog's trip through the val- ley caused the greatest excitement, and a slaughter of canines on Tuesday. In a short time twenty-five the afflicted one ble, others that were expensive to the owners. Some that had not been kill- ed because the mad dog had been in the neighborhood, J. H. Overdorf had three valuable dogs that had not been bitten, and at first he refused to kill them, but when he was threatened with arrest he de- spatched the canines. —Wm'sp. Ban. Easy Debt Paying. An indebtedness of $5,564,018, said to be the largest schedule of liabilities ev. er presented for discharge under the National Bankruptey act, is set forth in a petition in involuntary bankrupt. cy filed in the United States District Court by Francis P. Owings, who was formerly interested largely in real es tate in Chicago. There are no assets, This is an edsy way to get clear of debts aud Owings will be owning a great deal of money when its ended, sure, United Evangelioal Conference. The United Evangelical ehurch Con- ference of Central Pennsylvania will meet March Ist, In Williamsport. This Conference covers a great territo- of pastors, LOCAL ITEMS, Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest from Everywhere. The Bells, Ww hat The shall the New Year bear to me? shadow or the sun ? A hope-—a beam A sunshine gleam- Love's Jong uninterrupted dream — Or dark for daylight done ? What does the Year hide for you? A silence or a song? . A sigh-—-a note From joy-bird’s throat, Or stilliness lying long ? WY ey yi2W may the New Year hold for us? All light and sh ads » Are Both silence 1 And singing Stil | Old love er hath its will i give each he art there chi that ¢ its share ! Port Wheeler 1d free lunch. and no Snyder county is out of debt, SORE, Fine weather thi asl week, Christian Swart granted a pension Mrs, granted a pension, § Philip Frank is the tenant the farm of W. A. K any kind of new Centre Hall, C +1 1 £31 a} # ALDOR Milesburg, was 0 occupy err, dec’d. Good place for en terprise - ome and see, QQ. A. Kennedy advertises execu tate of Martha Odenkirk. el Bpyder, of this place, of pneumonia the Samu i been as past ten days, The first readi fiolt gn, pg in this town, ig in th under Prof. electric was done by Wa gonseller. To benefit a town, the word must be, not Go boy 8, Lead off in your own solid stuff, Come on boys, ng by putti Last week's dreary weather swung older on day to bright sky and { nday, followed by a beautiful nday. P. Keller, of it work on a brid th We Jacob was 1 linsgre in Be who Hart ford, ure and we, igre Loun., fell from igh struct was killed. Rev. k's appoin fav, Jan. 25: Ceuntrehs il, 10 a A # Reari San- m. ; Georges tments, Johns church, valley, 7 led on ; Capt, Taylor, for tax collector and Eberhart for the als have debic W. Harrison Walker for burgess Hugh 8, Daniel poor, The er dynamos and four cars for the Reedsville trolley road arrived there a few days ago, and it is expect- ed to have cars running as far as Burn- bam by the middle of February. A note: Editor, why not move to have acannon factory at this place, Pittsburg being the nearest ? Crrizex. Oh git out ; enough big guns here al- ready that kill by empty booming.) : The BSuayder county commissioners paid $15,158 for the extinguishment of forest fires in 1899 to its several Fire Wardens, one-half of which was paid back into the County Treasury by the overseer of Igine, The Carlisle Classis of the Reformed toral relations between Rev. Wm. H. Giroh and the Carlisle Springs charge. Years ago he was pastor of the Ref. charge of this place. The flood caused by last week's thaw ried ous much valuable timber. The dam at Clearfield broke, and one man was drowned, The oil Trust having gone up high with its prices, the Reporter office has discarded oil and for the past three weeks has been using electric light, the first on this side the county. We in- troduced coal oil some 40 years ago, and now electricity. The Reporter received the following this week, with no name appended, but we publish without assuming re sponsibility: “Centre Hall, Jan. 20, 1900. The M. E. Church will hold =a sociable on the evening of Decoration day.” Last week the Reporter published the death of 8. T. Frain, years ago a landlord at Millheim, and now we learn of the death of his brother, J. F. Frain, in Williamsport, on Friday morning, a week after the death of his brother, and of the same disease, heart failure. His age was 54 years; a wife and five children survive, Like his brother,"he was a veteran of the civil War, A steer belonging to Levi 3 San
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