@ VOL. L.XXV. ¥ See Mr. Harris’ letter: 812.000. cause, but concluded to give you the $12,000 on my personal appeal * This was not my cause, and 1 I spent at least four days of ment with II: well earned my money, 1 sevsation developed nesr the close of the trial, however, when Bertrand Busch, official stenographer of the Legislative Record during the session of last winter, swore that, un- der orders from the chief clerk (Thom- as H. Garv.in,) be had frequently falsi- fied the record of voles on weasures be- fore the House, FALZE A decide RECORD 81 ‘RET SLIPS OUT When Busch took the stand his at- ttorney Krebs to previous testimony of Harris that the Legislative Record was unreliable. tention was called by “I deny that, so far as is concerned the matter I was allowed to take with- oul interference, “As to roll-ealls, I admit that records of many of them are uot cor- rect I was not permitted to record them as I took them, but, uader in- structions from the chief clerk ( Fhom- as H. Garvin) I bad to use the rec- ords from the clerk’s desk, uader pen- aity of being removed from my posi- tion. “I know of many instances in which members were recorded as vot- the ing for or against bills when my own record showed that they had pot vot- ed, and when I knew they were not eveu present. | was obliged, under orders from the chief clerk, to make up the roll wrong.” HARRI¥ BILL FOR LOBBYING The other sensation of the day was the introduction of the letter of Harris, while a ember of the Legislature, to the trustees of the Cottege Hospital at Philipsburg, Centre county, demaud- ing a fee of $100 for bis eflorts in secur- ing an increase in the State appropria- tion to that institution. The letter is dated October 18, 1899 and addressed to “3. H. Liehteuthsi- er et al., trustees, ete, which is given in full above. Harris on the stand ad- mitted the genuineness of the letter, but contended that be had acted in the capacity of allorpey and was entitled to a fee for his services. He said that determination to cut the appropriation from $14,000 to $10,000, Mr. Duuecan, sceretary of the board of trustees, had called him up on the 'phove one day aud urged hiw to go to Harrisburg to try to persuade the Governor to change Lis mind; that Dunean had sssured him be would be well paid for his tite, Dunlap told of Harris’ attempts to collect $100 from the hospital. He said the hospitsl had not employed Harris as an attorney, but bad request- ed him, ns a Representative from a neighboring county and from the dis- trict from which came most of the patients of the institution, to do what he could fur the hospital, Gv. Hanns. Harris also denied positively the alleged letter from the late Benjamin F. Haywood to himself, en- closing a check to defray the expenses of his campaign for the Legislature in 1896, on condition that he vote for Quay for United States Senator, against the Legislative apportionment and for Becker bill. Meek testified that he had heard of sach a letter at second hand tirrough his attorney, ex-Judge Krebs, who had said be had been informed about it by a reputable gentleman. had It turned out that the gentleman Krebs had in mind was Dr. E. M. Scheurer, a former member of the Legislature, who was called to the stand this morning. His recollection is not clear as to the matter. Krebs him in a circumstantial specifying the times and places where the ulleged information bind been given, but Scheurer said he could recall no letter containing a cheek. He had understood Harris was to vole for Quay and the Becker bill and agaiost the apportionment, but knew nothing of a cheek. questioned manuer, i His soswers were so vague as to | practically destroy the availability of | the alleged Haywood ioecident as evidence, . Clarence Wolf, who was called when court opened, was on the stand only a moment. He admitted having been ioterested in the passage of the trac tion franchise bills at Harrisburg last wiuter to the extent of being oue of He iucorporators of certain companies chartered under those bills. When he was asked whether articles of iacor- poration bad been signed before the Lil.s were passed, the Court sustained a vigorous objection from the prosecu- tion, and Wolf left the stand. The defense wanted George D. Herb. et, of the Harrisburg =tar-Indepen- dent, tc tell what he had heard of coryuption during the last Legislative session, but the Court ruled him out, Following is the language in which Stevographer Busch puts the respon- sibility for roll paddivg in the Legis latue up to Speaker William T. Marshall; “Early io the last session Garvin came to me and said that he had or- ders from Speaker Marshall to say that I must copy ihe roll eall kept by the chiei clerk, unoder penalty of dis- miseal, although neither Marshall nor Garvin bad authority to dismiss me, “After that I did not keep a roll call, but accepted that furnished me by the chief clerk, which was many tines prepared in advance of the tak- Copy as soon as the vole was aunoounes ed by the Speaker.” Yesterday wes Ash Wednesday, Ask Fenator Helule what be thinks of Hun, Fred Ikeler, Remsmber you get five percent. dis- & Musser’s, Peter Smith offers for rent at Cen® tre Hill a house and Jot. Mrs. Lettie Sigmiller, after spend. ing some time with her parents at in Huntingdon, West Virginia, a few ; days ago, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Allison, i . Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCoy, of Belle.| Dnviel Daup and Wm, H. Btiver, foute, and Mrs. J. F. Alexander, of ©f Potters Mills, were in Centre Hall Centre Hall, spent Tuseday with Jd. O0 business Monday. The former is ward Allison, at Potters Mills, (ove of the Potter township school Miss: Jennie Smith | directors and takes a great interest in 1 ’ daughter of | Adam Bmith, deceased, of Centre | sebeol work, Hill, who is staying in Bellevae, J0hn A. Strunk announces sale in Ohio, ove of the prettiest towns in atpj the Reporter for March 14. Mr, the Buckeye state, will hereafter get Strunk lutends moving to the Dale Centre county news through the frm at Pleasant Gap: in the spring, Reporter, ‘and finds he has a lot of young cattle, Mr. and Mrs, John Heckman to | Saws, sheep, implements, etc, to sell night, Thursday, will haven couple | °C highest bidder, ‘dozen merry souls under their roof, | Rom. Wilson t Moa) ve Nim The Heekman's live on the Gregg | A hn : Mil ny farm west of Centre Hall, and their from her home in a, Montana, gia dispositions Is a guarantee that when Daing « remittance do, tut wll who accept the fuvitation will be |" ho hy due | HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. J. Fin Blover, of Potters Mills, is ill {| with poeumonia. Blurgis Shultz has recovered sufli- clently from an attack of pneumonia to be about, Bend in your subscription to the 1e- porter. $1.00 will pay for a yeur. Think of it? Twenty per cent. off on all bed blankets and horse blankets, regard. less of cost, at Meyer & Musser's, Potters Mills gained a new resident in Wm. Kippe, who moved from Mil- roy to that place. He is boss of the Beeblebeimer lumbering operations in the Seven Mountaius. Hon. Fred Ikeler is the greatest lec- turer the people ever had an opportu. nity to listen to. Bellefonte will be well represented by lawyers and men of that standing on the night of the lecture, The Centre Hall schools are well attended, while many country schools have been closed on aceount of meas #, and kindred Hall Very good diseasss, Centre fortune. Edward Foreman, who has been in Youngstown, Ohio, working at his trade of carpentering, returned home last week. He has a very warm side for Youngstown, and thinks it just the place, i J. Ross Rockey is engaged with the Reliance Cotumn Company, Cleveland, Ohio, who are doing an ex- | tensive business in the manufacture of a variety of gauges. The typewritten letter bearing his remittance to the Reporter indicates that he is an office man, Ira C. Corman, and phosphate Guage implement dealer agent, Osk Hall, was in Centre Hall on business day. Mr. Corman building up a large trade in his line and esch year extends his business territory. W. W. Royer, of Centre Hill, who bas been confined to the for several weeks on account of illness, js nol improving much. Mr. is the Potter township and is a gentleman well known on the south side of Centre county, of Tues. in over a larger house Royer SEsSeEPOT, The Philadelphia Icquirer Monday morning gave a fine portrait of Prof Geo. E. Bible, principal of the East Stroudsburg Normal School. Prof Hible is well known in Centre Hall, where be spent several years in train- ing both the hand sud mind. Robert Bloom, Thursday of last week, returned from Northampton, | Mass. , where he was an attendant in the state asylum for the past ten months He has not decided whether he will remain here or not. Alfred W. Nesr-| hood, also of this place, is located at | the same place. In the communication from Frec-! port in last week's issue it was stated | that H B. Leitzell, of Freeport, was a | brother of Dr. J. B. Leitzell, of Free | port. That was an error, he is a son | of Dr. J. B. Leitze!l and a brother of Dr. C. P. Leitzell, of Cedarville. The Reporter stands corrceted, Fred Carter was unfortunate enough Friday to get his fiogers in contact with a circular saw, while working in the stave and saw mill of Wm, Colyer. The accident occurred while Mr, Car. ter was taking a piece of edging from a saw with 4 mittened band. Several of the fingers were pretty badly lacer. ated, The party of “married hens materialized Tuesday night at Old Fort hotel and dined on chicken aud wallles, and enjoyed the evening huge- ly. It’s really to bad to go oft for a whole evening, all by themselves, charter a hotel, eat good things, drink water aud chocolate, and not »0 much as invite a single mau to share the pleasures, Men sre not nearly so selfish, W. O. Rearick, of Milroy, and Jo seph Gilliland, of Bloomsburg, were in Centre Hall looking after business loterests, The latter gentleman may become a resident of Centre Hall a year after this, at which time he hopes to bave his business settled up at Bloomsburg, where until recently he operated a planing mill, Mr. Gilliland Is the kind of man who makes a town kuown of his presence, John W. Mersinger, of Tusseyville, who has been a familiar figure in Cen. tre Hall for many years, paid the Ree porter a visit Friday of lust week, Mr, Mersinger thinks there would be po such thing as defeat for the Democrats ie party in Centre county, if the same spirit prevailed at elections as did in Potter township at the reccnt eaucus at Centre Hill. Mr. Mersinger's “whiskers'' would lead one to think bim an “old man,” but his fuce and together, r Is u great comfort { and ndantly repaid, tié Harpiers in that Place, AS | ER, ESO At the time of going to press last completed of afte rward, In the case of W, CC. Farne LD J | Tressler, and William Boal, trustees of the Centre Hall congregation of the | Evangelical Two cases were disposed Association, vs, Joseph | Alters, J. 8 Dasuberman, J. H. Krum. bine and J, IY, Smith, trustees | United Evangelical chureh of Centre Hall; t and the plea not guity, he summons wes in ejectment The action was brought to recover the ehurelr and parsonage at Centre Hall, On account records in court they were not permit. ted to introdoee oral the contents of the records was thereupon withdrawn and continued at the cost of the plaintifl the “Ridge between Zion and Heels. The plaintiffs claimed that the tracts, William Wistar and the J. J 2. 3, 190 ® | CENTRE HALL, FEBRUARY 21 AND 2 » re s $ { the +134 t : i Phere in great interest manifested in | the County Institute at Loci i last month, {the coming educational conference fo *P wade such on impress ihe audience (be held in Centre Hall, February 21 '"* be wes pronu a § a i ' Y i pi es : tory and logle Lyent 45 13 # Mr. Ikelers {and 22. Principal igen, chsirman of I by &By ope | the conference, and the secretary, Mr, ntiment and {James IB. Btrobm, making the rge Lhe peo- | most detailed arrangements to make ; {the affair not ouly entertaining, but | instructive, | Hon. Fred Ikeler, who will deliver { bis famous address ‘“‘Agitators” Fri {day night is a paid jecturer, and an |admission of 25 cents (generals and 35 lecture will be, »t who loves beautifal od are Violesome entert ple of Cetiire C. Heine, Probabls sud ban thet which ed a "ager 0 Fred Ike lure on ‘Ag. timseldom thet we favored with weoture ir, Esq., deliver his wel {cents (reserved seats) will be charged Caton { The audience Fridpy night will pot Le {made up entirely from the local field, | out from all rections of Centre county, The programs and a few hints as to hes Ens | what others think of Mr. Tkeler is here, 1 v Amat en published. the presence of 50 able gn orator bis cies ly domoustrates that | { kin ihe front Bulletin.’ Lit with of put- an Diled ning, hes im. DOL been we there, snd ma ; the eompil- of ments paid th ri ! er ¢ delighted endent.” Prov, ALBERT T JiGis—My Dear Sir 1 | Fred [kelor bears the 1 pulsation of being one Penosylvania's most brilliant snd fie last House of Rey rose fives at del the righ' enteriaining ie speakers WEE one © foremont ell known t House on awe «f U night 10% tie itienre was { praive inlented of embers of the Harrisburg, whose voloe was heard in | houest government alwass Searles for i he at once a for himself the repulsion ss « ilerests of the people ‘Agitator. ” st Oh HE, 1 rumbian.” pion of the r. lkeler delivered this lecture THE PROGRAM, tiguous, jury brought a verdict for save an part to which defendant filed a disclaimer. WA sss TO BUILD cpURCH. The Spring Mills Will Erect & Vinee of Worship, Latheran Ne a new Lutheran church. decided by the o That was ngregation some Lime sgo, and as soon as the weather per- mils work will be The ground pla: i RIVing ce0osesvoosn0Oe ececoevvoe0eo e ° » Cos000e2000e “ ° ® ® uw © eoeceese WEY It wiil give a fair idea of the general plan, which was conceived by 1 he pas | tor, Rev. J. M. Rearick. The struct | ure is T shaped, the top of the T form- | ing the main auditorium, 30x40 feet. | The stem of the T is 16x20 feet, in| The two rooms are arranged so they | can be thrown into ope, the pulpit be. ing directly opposite the stem of the | Entravee is gaived to the mwasin! suditorium threugh the tower, located al the north-east corner of stem of T; where the top and stem intersect, The roof, with its three gables, will be of slate, and well proportioned. The interior of the chureh will be fin. ished in red oak, The side wall will! be plastered to the square, the ceiling being arched and also finished in red oak. There will be three large win. dows, which will be of stained glass, There windows, Incated in the gables, will afford sufficient light, although there will be several smaller ones to re lieve monotony, The structuie will be brick cased, Mill Hall brick being used. The esti- mated cost is §2.000, The Spring Mills congregation was organized ten years sgo, just before Rev. Rearick became pastor of tle Centre Hall charge, of which it is a part. It bas a membership today of forty-two active workers, which will be demonstrated as the church home rises sky ward. — Centre Hall should Follow sult, A Rebekah Lodge will be instituted in the Odd Fellow’s Temple, Loganton to night, Thursday. The Rebekabs will start with fifty members. Mrs, P. C. Moyer, of Renovo Lodge will do the installing, assisted by the degree team of twenty-four members from Jersey Shore Lodge. It is expected that quite a number of members from Renovo, Lock Haven and Jersey Shore Lodges will be in attendance, says the Journal. The Rebekahs will serve diner and supper to the visiting members in the banquet room in the L 0. O. F. Temple. A A BARA Over One Hundred Singors, Prof. W. E. Cranford has a sing. ing class in Centre Hall of over one hundred members. The class meets twice n week in Grange Arcadia. It Is the intention lo close the term with a grand concert, 35 A A AAI. i and Direclor Co-operstion in Schon roment-—H. 1 Stahr, C. L. Gramley, Tn Mins Atina Barthol a the St Parents Fore | Riion new How shon Watched t dy Perlod in the DK Keller. 8 won, I. R i.U.Bitner, T. 1 Moderns Education Prof. J « Bryscn Orelnry. Admission to Friday Evening’s Lecture, 25 Cts.: reserved seat i, 10C extra, Bien Reunion of the 14%ih Hegimept. B. Bathurst, of e, died at his home Tuesday, 8 to death be stricken with paralysis. His age was He was a prominent Union. The reunion of {hi Ids P. V., to be held and 20th, will Regiment, bBellefoute, 19th from all Penusyivania a1 adjoining The address of w me will delivered ty Burg Hlanchard and Judge Love, sponse by sn I. W. Myton, E don, acd Miss Julia Swar'z an sged maiden Hon. Robert A. Canton, lady, died at the home of her brother, Olio. On Wed Gen, St, liver an “Oth fcture ar. Ma- at- Others James Lieut. M. Ste- Lawrences 1 ii aihe in time previous his Was gi parts of 5 sixty-five years slates, ulbolland Death was due address Deceased fo pueu- On Lhe evenin born in J. W. Muffiey, adjutant, Nittany and was eighty-{wo years of on the remini The funeral took place Monday ie was ECCTIOF age, jor General Brooks wi in tendance and give a who will read papers John M. Farey died Thursday of gp Weaver, Col. BR. H inst week at the advanced sge of Wm eighty-four years. His death occurred venison (son at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W KE H. Floray, of Pleasant Gap. Ie a member of the Lutheran Gemmill, Res of Chaplaig Lieut. J. Hall, M. D ; Adj. Charles A. Ram- Wak sey, Gen. James A, Beaver and others. chureh, . LE in ev Three Parties from Reish's night of Besides Mrs. Floray be leaves the fol. A party of sixty-six, mostly lowing children: Morris Furey, of Milroy, spent the Bellefonte; J. Milton, of Williamsport; Potters Mjlls hotel Thursday Mrs. W. H’ Floray, Pleasant Gap; last week, Og their Potters John, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mrs, Mills ove of the sleds had a “grand Charles Tripple, Bellefonte. spill” over an embankment, and while ——— a number of the cecupants of the sled Mre. Baral Fry, wife of Hiram Fry, wereslightly hurt, the music at the of near Bhiogietown died Monday Dbotel caused them to for morning after an iliness of three days, Monday night the Potters Mills par- at the age of sixty-five years, twenty- ty-goers paid back the compliment one days. She was ill with croupous 83d went to Milroy, quartering at Ho- poeumonia for two days, and Sunday tel Brown. They report having bad bad a light stroke of paralysis. Rhe 8 most delightful time, as is always was 8 member of the Reformed the case when going to Brown's. church. Interment took place today, The young people of Centre Hill and Thursday, at Boalsburg, Revs. Black, | vicinity have arranged for a grand Hepler and Leisher, officiating. The hop at Reish’s Lotel Fridsy night. busband and the following children If you want to strike a really jolly and survive : Frank, Pive Girove Mills ; 800d set of young lads sud lassies you Wilson, Sprucetown ; Mrs. Mulliner, Will be sure to find them ant Potters Shamokin ; Nora, Eflie, Alice and Mills Friday night, H bhomae, = © oof LL e—— pu enry, at home. Killed ina Freight Wreck. Samuel Emerick, at the age of Morris Burd, son of Charles Burd, eighty-iwo years and two months, formerly of Aaronsburg, but late of died at the home of his son John Lock Haven, was killed ina freight Emerick, at Unionville, last week. Wreck at Allegheny City Monday The remains were brought to Georges morning. Bard was oo his way east Valley Baturday and interred in the from Princeton, lod., and was acoom- Cross Church cemetery, Rev. Koontz, | panying a car load of horses. It was 8 officiating. | rear end collision and thie nufortunsate Mr. Emerick was a resident man was ia the caboose of the forward of Spring Mills’ for many years, rio at the time. le was about and was the father of John Emerick, | twenty-five years of age, and is surviv- of Unionville ; Mrs. John Kern, Mili. ® by bis father and mother and beim ; Mrs. N. Burkholder, Milroy a ihreunaes dud sistife Iesiding (ab Look) Haven, Several ours ad Mew. David Bowen, Spring | irayed” by fire and a lot of live stock : slaughtered. The monetary night at way LO pun gee Kil, Recommended to Conference, Ata recent congregational meeting | of the members of the United Evangel. feal chitreh in Centog Hall. Ward H. Shultz, son of Rev. J, ¥. Shultz, was recommended to the examining board of the Evangelical Conference for license to preach the gospel as defloed by that body. The conference will hold its next session in Lock Haven, March 6, and there sno douht but what the wishes of the members here will be respected. Cloth only 50 cents per joss will be heavy. : og co Killed Near Uhlea jo, John Thomas, the eldest son of Or- lado Thomas, of Bhlugleiown, this county, was killed on the railroad near Uhieago on Tuesday of last work, says the Watchman, He was a former and in Ing the tracks got bewildered nid fu getting ut of the way of une train got in front of another, = Mr. Thomas ‘eft Centre co: uty when a Loy and bad become quite wealthy sister, Mra. Dunit Maris, of
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