SELECT COMPETENT CANDIDATES, Men of Edoacation, Good Judgment sod Pure Motives, Who ©Oannot be Infla- enced by Personal or Politics] Reasons Should be Nominated for Local Offices, The importance of selecting compe- tent men for the various offices in the boro ighs and townships should now be impressed upon the memory of every voter as the time draws near for the sunual February election. These spring elections are more im- portant to property owners, considered from a local standpoint, than any other, and every citizen should take as much interest in them as he woul | in his own business, None but good men should be elec:- ed—men whose ability and special fit- ness to serve the public's interests are recognized, and men who have shown to the public by past duties performed that they can throw off personal inter- ests or relative or friendly afliliations in order to serve the public fo: the publie good. Let the candidates for all offices be men of sufficient education, business experience and good judgment to be able to discuss the right, and possess “« THE JEW PEDDLER. ” " ‘* Any suspenders, stockings, collar buttons, pants buttons, selling them passing of the money that day so they all went back to Bnow Bhoe. Time passed and in the mean time plans were drawn up for an erection of a large day of last Kachic¢’s hotel. They engaged the clerks and let on to be buying their goods. One prominent merchant went to Mr, Kachic and of- fered hin $500 if he would not sell or close the contract, They noticed An- drew Kachic was not quite so friendy a8 he was at first and in fact seemed to with w strap. He got his dinner, went | out and sold a good many articles, went to Andrew Kachic’s home, be-| came acquainted and became friends, as the peddler understood the BSlavish language, conversed with him freely sud drank cheerfully. He told bis| country folks around there that the! Jew was a friend and a native of his] country. In this way he became sufficiently pure motives and will power to perform the right when call- ed upon to do so. How frequently men wh» are ruled | by others, have no fixed ideas of their | own, cannot express an opinion be-! cause they lack information on the subject, do a thing because someone else says to do it, or because somebody ! else set the example or established the | precedent, have been elected to loeal offices and discredited the district they represented. Neither personal nor political rea- sons should govern a councilman, school director or any officer in the performance of his duties in behalf of the best interests of the district. Select thoughtful and fair-minded men for the various positions to be filled, and the interests of the publie will be well taken care of at all times, A K. GE, Officers Installed, The officers of the following castles, | K. G. E., have been installed to serve | durivg the ensuing term : | CENTRE CASTLE, P. C., W. Bright Homer Zerby ; V ( H. P. Elias Weaver ; Leitz«l ; V. H., Cleve Gentzel ; E.T J. Decker: C. of E., W. (.j Gramley ; M. R,, UC. C. Bartges; W.| B, Ivy M. Bartges; W. (, Charles | Bwith ; Esquire, Jas. McCool; Eo-| gign, Joo, F. Harter ; 1st G, B. M. | Brown ; 20d G ,J. H. Zerby ; repre- selitative to grand castle, C. OC. Bariges, | SPRING MILLS Bitner; N. C., yJ. O. MeCormick; | 8. H., Psul J.1 K. of] MILLHEIM CASTLE. i P.C.,J.F. Kmmpe; N. C. M. L.] Breon; V.(C,C. G. Weaver; H. P., H.G Aumsu; C.of E, M, H. Bmith; K.olE,J H.B. Hartmusn ; V W.H Miller; 8 H, L. W. Stover ; Kuhn ; Esquire, Robt. Breoun Wm. Groff; F. G, F thoroughly acquainted, He sang their bread and drank their beer. They con- fided in him their secrets and when he insisted on leaving he was told to stay | and it would cost him nothing. Young Kachic even took him out to call on bis lady friend who nearly fell in love with him. With all these kindnesses bestowed upon him he still continued selling his suspenders, collar buttons, ete. Not many days passed around un- | til he was just the least bit suspicioned and when told about the matter he laughed them into confidence again, | telling them that he must remain a while with them because of his health and that the only way for him to de fray his expenses was to sell these ar. ticles. He told them his parents were rich and that he had rich relatives in this country, which was believed. ever, rings, cufl was being of him: neckties, buttons, ete. “The web wound closer.” Later on he received a letter from bis cousin in which he was to look for a The Jew immediately selected sn buildiog, owned by Mr. Kachic where a priest lived. It was an old house with three acres of land, he wrote for his cousin to come and the two made a deal with Kachie, They came to Bellefonte with Mr. Kachic and drew up a deed, aud some little trouble interrupted the done. The Jews had completed their work and sold their goods, avd on Fri- They were followed to town by Kachie with the deed, who asked them to close the contract for the sale. He was told that the one was going to Philadelphia to secure the money and would be back in a few days, and that the other was going to Pittsburg to purchase the material th build with and goods for the store, This pleased Mr. Kachic and he went back to Bnow Bhoe satisfied. The ** Jew peddler” turned out to be who carried out his work to perfection. He was nearly caught several times, but his wonder- ful ability always helped him out. He secured the best of testimony and re- ported the same to the chief. W. Welasy known through the Boow Bhoe region as *' John Decker, the Jew peddleryl’ is the sleuth who raveled out the mystery of this murder and caused the arrest of the two men now in jail who are accused of the crime. He was ably assisted Ly Nathan Weissbecker, A. IL. Millard, chief of the Btandard Detective Bureau and Harry Barnes went to Bnow Bhoe Friday of last week and placed these men arrest, A hearing was given them at Buow Bhoe and Weiss ( or Decker ) secured a number of witnesses who claim they heard Kachic make threats aguinst his cousin's life. Weiss acted as sn inter preter and translated the Slavish lan. guage into the Eoglish, He is a Hebrew and was born in Austris-Huungary,. While in his na- tive land he was employed as a de tective. He has been in this country five years. Boendeth the little story a8 to how a ** Jew peddler’’ wound the web and caused the arrest of Watson snd Kachie. under Harry Watson and Andrew K, and Lodged in the County ive Work, The fruits of patience are being re- Harry Watson and Andrew Kachic Accused of the Crime, Jail as the Result of Detect- Both meen now confined in the eoun- ty prison contend that they had no Fire Narrowly Averted, dered the latter's cousin, John Kachie, on Heptember 12th. The announce ment of this fact, through a bulletin in the Reporter's window, early Friday evening was received with great satis body on the railroad to throw off sus- picion of murder, RECOUNT OF THE MURDER. Wednesday morning, September 12, o'clock. At the Alexander home there is ap old-fashioned bake oven, and this was well ablsze when first observed dwelling house which stood near by was saved from destruction, The oven-house was ouly partly consumed, The fire is supposed to have originated from ashes dumped there, ———— A A ——— HF For Memorial Dany Expenses, Hon. Thomas V. Cooper will present the following bill in the legislature and advocate its passage ; Bee. 1. Be it enacted by the Benate end House of Representatives of the Commonweslith of Penosylvania That the County Commissioners be and are hereby authorized and directed to ape propriate annually to esch Grand Army Post in their respective Counties a sum bot exceeding one hundred dols lars to ald in defraying expenses on Memorial Day. Bec. 2. The above Act Is apply to Posts situate in cities First, Becond and Third Class, ——— Mp ssa — Fire in Bellefonte, About eight o'clock Wednesday evening of last week Lingle’s foundry, at Bellefonte, was discovered on fire, the fire having first been seen In the pattern shop. This building and the engine house were consumed, and a portion of the foundry building was also destroyed. The loss is consider. able, but has not been estimated, While the fire was raging a flerce wind was blowing, and it was with great difficulty that the flames were subdued, not to of the was almost impenetrable, Briefly stated the incidents leading up to the arrest of the two men at Snow Bhoe are thus: The Btandai d Detective Agency has had two men at work on this case for Pole. The secret service men dis covered sufficient evidence to warrant Runkle, Friday evening. and Constable 8. R McCartvey, of the father of four children. Another member of the family is the mother of the accused, who is past eighty-five years of age, and is broken-hearted. Revenge was the motive for the deed, ds it has developed that Kachic had on several occasions. threatened his cousin’s life. Later in the afternoon Constable McCartney entered the Kelley ming at Soow Bhoe and placed under arrest Harry Watson, known to many of his nasoolates as ** Pack’ Watson, a char ueter not bearing an enviable reptta- tion, as an accomplice. He is a son of James Watson, Watson is a man of near fifty years of age, and besides a wife has seven children, The scene at his home was one of great sorrow, The bright-eyed children, with tears streaming from their eyes, clung to the father until the last. Watson's father, who is an elderly gentleman, is a man highly re- road, near Clarence. His head and one arm were severed from the body, snd lay in pieces slong the track. Later the remains were viewed by George Kachic, proprietor of the hotel at Clarence, who identified them as those of his brother, John Kachie, aged about thirty-eight years. The men last seen with the unfortunate man were his cousin, Andrew K, Kachic and Harry Watson. The question at once arose whether the death was accidental or murder, Fridsy following District Attorney Runkle and Coroner Fisher instituted an investigation, when a jury of in- quest decided that the man had first been murdered, then placed on the railroad track with the hope that the body would be so mutilated by an ap- proaching train that the marks of murder would becovered. The stilleto thrust in the neck remained ass evie dence of murder, and caused the jury to return such a verdict. ; COMMISSIONERS EMPLOY DETECTIVES, It was only a month after this deed was committed that Josiah C. Dale was murdered on Nittany Mountain, and the Auman boy shot at Coburn, This lead the county commissioners to employ detectives to work on the several oases, The result Is the Au. men case wholly solved ; the sccused murderers of Kachic in the county prison, and the Dale case well under way, with assurances that the perpe- trator of the deed will be discovered. Bome time after the Dale murder a Pole appeared in Centre Hall, register (.Contioned ou dest columa. ) IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE. Ww The Powder Mill Explosion a Singular Co- inglidence Information Nought by the U 8, Government, The earthquake shocks felt in this section early Thursday morning of Inst week were attributed by many to the explosion of the powder mill at Williamsburg, which by a singular coincidence occurred about the same time, But later developments show that the shocks were distinetly felt in many other centres. The news dis patches had reports from Norway and Bweden and portions of Russia, where there were several distinct shocks. They were also felt in the vicinity of Baltimore and other points south. In Pennsylvania distinct earth tremors were felt throughout the entire central and eastern portions. At Williams- port and Harrisburg it was very per- ceptible. Through all portions of Penns and Brush Valleys the shock was very dis- tinctly felt, at about 5:80 to 5:45 in the morning. In most instances in Cen- tre Hall, the sleeper was awakened by the rocking of the building, the effect being as though some mighty force was pushing against the sides. Doors and windows rattled, and in many cases it was thought burglars were making efforts to gain admittance through them by sheer force. Throughout the country districts especially where the dwellings were of stope or brick, the rocking sensation was felt. Ln the upper part of Penns Valley, in the vicinity of the Branch and Pine Grove Mills, bric-a-brac was knocked from wallsand window lights broken in dwelling houses, Bome persons described the disturb- ance as almost identical with the ef- fect of a heavy thunder clap, the re sult being & rumbling of the earth, rattling of windows and doors. Prof. Harry Fielding Ried, special expert in charge of earthquake records for the U. B. geological survey, at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, sent out inquiries regarding the earth- quake. sm ——— — LOCALS Snow, sleet and rain were the order of the day for Saturday. F. W. Hackeoberg recently sold his house and lot at Coburn to Ammon Emig. The consideration was $325, Mount Union people are excited over the reported discovery of gold and sil- ver in the Binger's Gap region, a few miles from the former place. The heirs of Oliver Wolfe, late of Wolfs Store, deceased, sold one of their properties at that place to John Y. Stover. Cousideration $325 Prof. John F. Harrison is seriously ill at his home in Jersey Bhore. He was a former Centre county school teacher, nud is a native of Pleasant Gap. After workiug at the earpenter trade in Altoona and Ebevsburg for the greater part of a year, H. E. Shrecken- gost has returned to Lis home at Farmers Mills, Belinsgrove is spreading itself by an- pexing additional territory to that borough. Centre Hall ought to do the same, and properly owners adjacent would gain the largest share of profit, Rev. 8. 8. Kohler, for many years pastor of the Reformed church at New Berlin, now located at Pine Grove, Schuylkill county, has received a call from the Buffalo Valley charge, in Uniou county, to become its pastor, which he has accepted. An Englishman claims to have dis covered a process by which rubber may be extracted from wheat, If true the discovery is one of great impor. tance, rubber being used in great quantities in all parts of the world and the supply not nearly up to the de- mand. The Mifflinburg Telegraph coutain- ed this item : Mrs. Thomas Fleisher and daughter Orpha, of Colyer, who had been the pleasing guests of their daughter and sister, Mrs, James B, Wagner, husband and family, on Chestnut street, departed for their home last Saturday. “ Uncle’ Jacob Quiggle, a Clinton county farmer, eighiy-four years old, who lives about four miles from Lock Haven, and voted for the formation of Clinton county in 1830, was at the county seat attendiag court last week in company with his relative, ex-Rep- resentative J. C. Quiggle. writ ATR AAI RIS — { Continued from previous column.) ing at the hotel as “ Morris Lyons.” He mixed up with one or two pers sons in Centre Hall, abd then disap peared, It was he who played a prominent part in ferreting out the Snow Shoe affair, Like In the Aus was secured, A. L. Millard, the chief of the Standard Detective Bureau, put in ab appearance, and the arrest fol lowed, 7, 1907. x 1.0, 0, F. ORPHANS HOME, Bomething About the Mome Near sunbuory Glenned from Fresident Wagner's Report, One of the great charitable works en- gaged in by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania is the maintaining of four orphan homes lo- cated at Philadelphia, Bunbury, Ben Avon and Meadeville, supporting re spectively 68, 65, 61 and 60 wards, all told, two hundred and forty-four children. The home in which most of the Re- porter readers are interested is the one at Bunbury, officially known as the Odd Fellows’ Orphan Home of Central Pennsylvania. A recent meeting of representatives from the various local orders held at Bunbury was sattend- ed by-— B. D. Brisbin, Centre Hall ; Prof. C. L. Gramley, Rebersburg ; P. Rudy, State College ; J. C. Etters, Lemont, Thomas Hoe, Aaronsburg. Among other subjects discussed was the erection of a new addition to the home. The corner stone will be laid early in May, and the cost of the struc- ture is estimated to be $25,000, Interesting facts gathered from the president’s ansual report are attached. At the close of 1905 there were in the home sixty-five children ; admit ted during 1906, seventeen ; released fourteen ; total in home at close of year, sixty-eight, all over six years and under eighteen years of age. Among this number two children— Lulu and May Fishburn, daughters of Harry Fishburn, deceased—are credit. ed to Centre Hall lodge. The report contains this parsgraph concerning one of the Fishburn children : Lulu Fishburn was suflering from an old injury to her thigh when ad- mitted and was sent to the Ashland Hospital where an operation was per- formed, removing a large quantity of diseased bone ; she came back to us fully cured. The cost of maintaining, clothing snd educating the orphans, as shown by the reports of the several commit. tees, has been as follows : veers BATHE 08 808 21 . 2085 52 25 (0 Supply Comm ities Educational Commitiee.......... Products of farm Chaplain A SA Keep of officials and employees, ex. cept the farmers, eleven in all, at $10 per month 1820 00 Total. - , $8979 81 Average pumber of children was sixty-eight for fifty-two weeks. Total cost per week per child, $2.56, The Property Commillee repoits that the farm yielded products valued st $3,354.12. Of this amount there was used for subsistance of the Home : Products valued af... ccvmiiinne $2085 52 Hay, grain, otc , used on the farm... 1318 6&0 Total value of products from farm... $3354 12 Deduct from this expense of running farm, keep of hired help, ote A Purchase of stock Net profits of farm... Value of stock on hand, $580.00 In January last the total receipts for the new buildings were reported as $4098.67 ; since then there has been added to this $6263.16 ; making the total on hand $10,361.83. There were received from lodges $32,400, and $2258.02 interest on deposit, distributed among the four homes as follows : Home at Ben AYOl ...ovvircovmmmmsenie§ 5567 00 Home at Philadelphia......o..ccoon.... 7859 00 Home st SunbUIY omnia S24 00 Home at Meadeville. ovine. S088 00 Expenses of Committee on Homes and Kindred Charities.................. 400 00 !|X28 00 In § 32630 A Among the closing paragraphs in the report is this : There are 333 SBubordinate Lodges in our district, of which 144 are members and 180 are not. Of the 107 Rebekah Lodges not one is a member. Good Returns, T. M. Gramley, of Bpring Mills, sent the Reporter the following ac count of his success with hens: Jan- uary 1, 1906, I selected thirty hens and two cockerels from my thoroughbred barred Plymouth Rocks, sud kept an accurate daily account of their laying duriog'the year. January 1, 1907, I summed up the year's work of these thirty bens and found that they layed during the year a Lotal of 4007 eggs or 884 dosen, which at the ruling prices at Spring Mille at times of laying were worth $62.98 or $2.10 per hen. This was an average of 154 eggs per hen. I also kept accurate account of expenses on same, as well as young chickens profit of 107 per cent. on my Invests ment. I now started January 1, 1907, with elghty-two pullets and eight oc selected from these burved Plymouth as can find in Centre county ) NO, 3, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Mr. and Mrs. Ammon Bubb, of Reeduville, were among friends at Pot- ters Mills over Bunday. William Raymond will become the successor of John H. Btrouse as tenant on the Thompson farm, owned by Wm, Tressier, Mrs, Philip Durst has been confined to bed during the past two weeks or more, Her illness now is due to an attack of the grip. Mrs. Ella J. Bumiller, wife of a former editor of the Miliheim Journal, will in the future make her home in Bucksville, Bucks county. A little child, aged about two months, of Mr. and Mrs. Arbor Cum- ings, near Linden Hall, was taken seriously ill Saturday evening. John Bhuey has rented the McFar- lane farm, near Centre Furnace. His uncle, Jacob Bhuey, will retire and move to Lemont for a well deserved rest, Mrs. Lillie Alexander closed her house last week, and after spending some time with relatives in Centre county will visit Mrs. A. L.. Vogt, nee Mise Emily Alexandr, at Pittsburg. The new hospital at State College is nearing completion. The hospital contains two wards and a half dozen large private rooms, It will be equip- ped throughout with every modern convenience, Pennsy engineers are surveying in Lewistown, and it is presumed that they are hunting an easier grade for the P.& E. The surveying began on the main line, and crossed the river at Oven rock, in the direction of Maitland. The sheriff of Clearfield county, Cor- nelius Allen, thirty-nine years of age, is the father of eleven children, nine of whom are living, and range in age from eight months to fourteen years. The Public Spirit, last week, printed a picture of the family. # In an announcement to the readers of the MiMlinburg Times, Commodore G. W. Foote states that owing to an unexpected turn in affairs he will con- tinue to be the editor of the Times for at lesst one year. The Reporter wish- es the Times and its founder and editor SUCCESS, The First National bank at State College has declared a semi-annual dividend of two and a half per cent. on its earnings. $1,000 was added to thesurplus fund masking a total of $4,500. Since the bank was organized two years ago it has had an unusually successful career, Io the middie of January isa’t it delightful to look out upon the green grass and growing wheat. Really it makes one think the old world slipped a cog and threw the Keystone State to the south. And there is the ravishing of a white girl by a buck nigger to make it appear more real. Among the visitors in Centre Hall during the past week was H. F. Dunkle, of Barnesville, Ohio, who came here to see his parents, Mr, and Mrs. George Dunkle. For twenty-five years he had been engaged as a painter and decorator, but is now a real estate dealer and insurance agent. Everybody feels like swearing at John D's oil. For lighting purposes it is but a slight improvement over the old fat lamp. IVssimply horrid to be obliged to use such stuff in 1907, when John is almost busting in wealth. If John were a borough dad, the Reporter would brush him up in good style. Another Penns Valley young man has found his way to the state’s great- est city—Philadeiphia. Reférence is made to C. 8. Detwiler, formerly lo- cated at Montandon, and employed in a switch-tower by the Penusy. He writes the Reporter that he has a very desirable position in Philadelphia, and ly he retires to a place where he be less dependent on hired help. Carpenters Aaron Thomas and Same uel Bhoop spent part of last week Rooks ( as nice a flock of birds ss you 10 buat the above record during 1607
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