- vive democrat, i) aN 3 h 6: A SHUT BY A Double Murder in an Uptown ! Tenement, § i f i IER LOVER, rh ————— H | lives at | substantiate all | say about it, CRAZED BY BEER AND LOVE, | John Menken Beonme Desperate When He Could Net Wed Bevtha schreyer—Sho Already Hud a Husband. Fauml That He | miles long New Yong, May 80. John Menken, a dis sipated young bartender out of employment, fatally slut Bertha Schreyer in the Kitchen of her fa1ler’s home, on the top floor of No. 48 Wes Hundred and Forty-second street, a: d then killed himself, Bertha was taken unconscious to the Manhattan hospital w th four bullet wounds in her head, Menken had been visiting the youn : woman for nearly a year. She was married to a | young German brass finisher pated Schmidt, hut disagreed about a year ago and | separated. She went home to her father, a compositor on The Staats-Zeitune, She be | cane acquainted with Menken «ven months ago, while be was a bartender in Fred Beek- rs sloon at the northeast corner of One Hundred and Forty-second street and Eighth | avenue, half a block from the frame flat in which the Schreyers live. Bertha usd to go to the saloon for beer for the family Used to Visit Her House, On bs days off Menken, who pletely infatuated with the fair was not 2] used to visit her house frequent- ly. Wien be learned that Bertha was mar. | ried and that he could not become hor hus band be began drinking heavily. He lost his place at Becker's saloon, and, owing to bis nosteadines, was unable to get a job | that lasted him more than a few weeks, He | boarded with a German family at 206 West | One Hundred and Forty-fourth street. Dur | ing the past lew weeks he spent much of his | time in Becker's saloon playing cards and drinking He still kept up his visits, but at drequent intervals, as be was not encour aged by Bertha's family. Crazed with Beer and Lave, Menken, as a friend sald of him, “erazedd with beer and love” when he loft | Becker's saloon. He told this frien! that he ! had just §1 left and that when he had spent | it be was going to blow out his brains He | loitered in the near neighborhood of the gicl's howe until be saw her mother leave Barr .¢ «led the Dour Twelve-year-old () (0 Schreyer, Bertha's brothery had just : vd from sebool, and | was in the front ro f the flat. Menken | entered by the kin oor, and | arricaded | it with chairs. y was frightened by the report of a pisiol nrad his sister's screams a moment later, and rusiied out into the hall and to the street | po He slammed the door behind hi Lad a spring lock, and when the little w came quickly back with a policeman, ouldn't get in. A terrific struggle was + iwhile going om ia the kitchen between |! a and her frengied lover. She fought ately with him for nearly five minutes cused all the other tenants within the block. She appear the win dow overlooking the fire with the blood streaming dragged back by t} A Bullet Another post climbed up the fourth bullet had be nto the girl ead wadow Me head, an COuMC OUR Menken hav shreds stout, of é hard battle, In the bres letter, written found. It addressed to Menke ae they 1S Cony pirbeeghe P. I foil F Creams a ors at scape, r face arkeeper neig twice n MN Own Head. wolicema I nude, ing to ' TAS & asked | him fogged I much FOR A FINISH FiONnTy, Arrangements Almost Completed Detween ated MeAuliffe May 30. Billy Myers, the Mili met Dilly Madden at The take preliminary ar fight with Jack Meo Myers ri ete bs fos £ 3 if ki s plainly wean busines, and it | wd five minutes to come 0 an | apderstandmg. It wes mutually agreed to Bave Le Ue cecur at the California Ath- ietie ciub It wad decided to telegraph Immediately to | nos ake ta! snd what date would be ! As soun as the snswer comes | articles of agreement will be drawn up and signed, lo cose the California Athletic club re fee: 10 offer at lonst a 8.000 purse, the wet 4 will be made for $3,500 a side, to prac within 900 miles of New Y ad Attacked by Masked Men In 3 . 1 i i ! i | shad fi hoery in the United Btates { Immense net had been stretched, a terrible | nights it was impossible to do anything to { that could have been put on the windlasses | and blow were put to work hauling in the seine, it he | got together in one net before, | quantities for winter vse | big seine at Havre de Grace had been staked | by the gale spread through the region, and | on the day the fishermen began to haul it in | there were hundreds of wagons lining the | could get their supplies of shad at a very low | price, | in Capt, Stump sold the shad, thousand after | the wagon load to all who would come and | soliciting them to come and cart the fish | water | was made, and yet today there are no shad | Ing in the Susquehanna above Columbia any | more to speak of. The dam across the river { at this place, bullt to carry the Pennsylvania {| run in the spring, and are kept there all THE GREATEST CATCH OF SHAD. An Old Time Selves That Captured 15,000, 000 at a Single Haul, “hero are not as many shad caught now- adays in all the fisheries on the Busquelbaniia river in an entire season as were caught in ono single baul of a seine that Capt, Tom Stump made at his Havre do Grace fishery in the spring of NY sald an old Busque- hanna fisberosn,. “It la't likely thet the ie of that haul will be belioved by any one who hears of it, but Capt. Btump's son John that same spot today, aod he will Phat fishery, in the days of its first owner, was the largest Enormous catches of shad at a single haul were com mon to it, but the particular baal I refer to : simply without parallel Stump weed a seine at leas It was stretched across mouth of the Susquehanna, and ox down the shore below Havre do Grace day in the middle of April, 1827, after this Was son “Capt vit five the tended One gale began blowing, and for four days and ward pulling the seine in, as all the power conkdn’t have drawn the net against the tide that the storm kept rushing down against it But no shad could get past that net, and when on the fourth day the wind changed up the bay, and the windlnsses came evident at once that it was burdened with such a collection of shad as bad never “In those days the farmers of lower Lan caster and Chester counties used to go all the way down to Stump's fishery with wagons to fetch back shad, which they peddled around the country, and also salted down in large The news that the waiting for what the farmers felt would be an amazing haul, out of which they shores, Usually they had paid from £2 to 5 a hundred for the fish. When the first installments of the big catch began to come thousand, for $4 a hundred, but as the moun- tains of fish began to scoumulate on the shores, be was glad to give them away by take them off his hands. He sent messengers out through all the surrounding counties, notifying the farmers of the situation and away. The whole agricultural area of Coll and other counties was fertilised that year with loads of as fine shad as ever came out of Besides the shad there were herring, rock fish and sea bass by the ton. The lowest estimate that was made of the number of shad that were taken in that great haul has placed it at 15,000,000, “It doesn’t seein sa long ago when that haul caught on thatshore. There is no shad fish. canal across to the York county side, de stroyed the fisheries above it fifty years and move ago, as the shad could not get above it. After years of effort on the part of the people living along the river above Columbia, a fish- way was built in the dam a few years ago, but as soines are spread across the dam just above the fishway as soon as shad begin to through the season, the dam might just ae woll have been left as it was, for it is very fow shad indeed that run the gauntlet of the | seines and give eo Columbia a hem, | can remember when there us shad fishery overy mile or river from Columbia almost to | line, 200 railes abioy Ih the pr pie als + chgonoe at ' WAR 0 Pros 8 4 avera than 0a | useless cana Pat Physicians’ Code of Eth ¥ "1 mid about itl” I can’t afford to antago won, as 1 should do if 1 adver tisod that I could do something other phy scians « St. Louls Globe-Dem ocrat ould not do.’ Inventions for Hachelors There seems to bo convincing evidence that a watehful Providence takes oare of that | class of men who refuse to experiment as to whether “marriage is a fallure” or not, namely, the bachelors. His buttonles con dition that was the theme for humorists a fow short years back is made unnecessary by : i : i i § ! i | Zz dl ? i fi i the ex | } (0) But Little Progress Made by the | Police. INDIGNANTCLAN-NA-GAELS | Valuable Time Seems to be Wasted in Warking on Weak Theories, hut Importants Developments Are Promised Soon, CRricAGO, May 80. Another day has come and gooe and the police seem no nearer to the real murderers of Dr, Cronin than they were last It equaliy certain | that valuable time is being given to those | persons, whoever they nmy to either make good their escape or patch up alibis that will baffle justice in the end The police and the friends of Cronin seem to be ut crass purposes, each trying to get at the result desired through different chan- nels, and each side claiming that its own particular line of inquiry is the only one to follow, | Frank Beaunlan positively identified Will ard J. Smith, of Michigan, ax the man who called for Dr, Cronin with the vazon on the fatal night, Beanlan was the last one of the vietim's friends to see Lim alive On the other hand, Bmith visited Chief Hubbard and wee taken to the jail, where Detective Coughlin was asked il man referred to who hired the white horse and buggy. Coughlin declared he was not the man, Chief Hubbard Satisfied, Chief Hubbard was apparently satisfied with this, and Smith was informed that the police did not want him, cotnpany of his friends That an important man in the case is be hind the bars, in the person of the ieman Bullivan, there can be little doubt. The testimony of the Carlsons, if corroborated, implicates him as one of the principals in the plot, The grand jury spent the day investigating the case, while the coroner's jury postponed further action until Mondhy., Woodruff, the police think, will prove an Important man before they are through with bim, while they hold Coughlin principally because he cannot account for his where abouts on the night of the murder. This leads to the suwpicion that be knows more than be has yet told, Waiting for Something to Tura Up. The police claim to have numbers of people under surveillance, but they seem 10 be waits ing for something to turn up or somebody make a confession which may uaravel the mystery. The day was non-productive of develop ments, although the small army of city and private detectives flitted hither and thither with as much mysterious activity as ever, It was reported during the afternoon that Woodruff had confessed that losman Sulli van had hired him to drive the cart in which the body was taken from the cottage, but a denial was given by the polioe authorities, Unsuccessful «forts were made ly Chief Hubbard to induce Detectives Coughlin and Woodruff to make a clean statement of their connection with the tragedy. Both abso lately refused to talk Just before the grand jury adjourn chief enter he chamber land bald conference with that body, which « supposed to have reference to the Scanlan story, Ime night, is be, be was the He left the jail in | portant developments are ex; ected, A Louls Clas -na-Gaels 51. Lov, May 30. —A prominent Coan nae Gael man of 1 the charges of Chi of the Bt Lod with the TACY discovered that the wt of mis pprogpriated and seed The money was stole Indignant S¢, is city vehemently that L. LT Hs $9.0 den AZO papers Clan- na Gael nin come Pos for cmpaign PurpCmes, fa repaid to 4 wners after Ansther momber of the « nin's with Wy, in Chioago of the order, and was much ures in The London BRIEF pd was the ole rier Le Caron, the Bs was well ki nnection tish ers seed alter wns me i ATEN CA MENTION ta barn on the Door r farm Onk, O, 1 TR POTIONS ne wed 10 be fata ¥ hile ral near Royal frame rk fell, crushing a« Frank Ehrich and Joseph Kurtz upg y hurt, Heavy frosts in some parts of P yiv did w @ Ana wee 10 the grow The a w trial in the Cart unt tw The pres cordia ns with that of | a be Capt jel MeKoovy United 14 nfantry, Winslow, of the fantry, | abdlity The Addy works, at Ade dyston, eight miles west of Cincin atl, have been burned to the ground oe Joss will reach §50,000 to §75,000 H. C. Lovell, who bas for a long time been Assistant to the chief clerk of the treasury and Eighth U y been retired on Cap nited States in a int of dis on pipe and stow | department, was suddenly stricken with an } i : i i affection of the brain, and is now danger ously ill. It is understood that a serious affection of the heart complicated the case, i Mrs. Florence Atkinson, who created a | great wostion in South Caroling fifteen months ago by marrying two men in ten | | days, has beens arrested at Black's, 8 C., for | bigamy, and bound over to court in $500 | bond. The widow of Gen. Sheridan, who has been fll for a day or two, is reported to be im. proving. Insurance Commissioner Fyler forbade the Phenix Mutual Life Insurance company, of Hartford, Conn., from paylug further divi dends ou the stock which controls the come SSD FATE is to tout for the want of trad | and this year have ” A Good Becerd, The Oldest Harness Howse in down, Over 18 years on the same spol no ehange of firm =no tires—no going back, but continued and steady progress, This | is an advanced more for their money than ever We are up to the times with the lafgest i i age, People demand before, and best assortmont of everything that be found in a festchuss Jur store, and we defy competition, either | in quality quantity or prices, No selling No divide profits I am better OUP no variners—=no oae Lo with but my prepared this year to give you more for Fast veas ut ae customer, your money than ever before, found me time not able to Gil my orders, IT above facts are worth considering, {or they ure ol is nothing so 8 evidence merit ind fair dealing. There uecessiul as sue and this is w hurts some, See my large stock o Singh: and Double Harness, Whips, Dusters Hors Sheets, Collars an wert Pad lin and ens Ol Fly-Nets from #3 a pai Axle, Coach and Harn Saddlery Hardware and Harness Id at the lowest prices to the trade, Harness. upwaras, Feather makers inthe country will find their advantage to get ny prices purchasing hardware elsewhere, better prepared this yea fill orders promptly, JAS, SCHOFIELD, Ih Pa. fryer sty 1 il rit Spring street, Hefonuts - For clothing hall. nobby suit, Call at the CrxTiRE DEMOCRAT fice for vour bill-beads, dodge posters of all descriptions 2300 a month and expenses Manager in each I'he Standard Book ( ge, Seranton, Pa. j=. IR, Counts county Pennsylvania, Frxchax 12 Coal ( RE ANS' COURT SALE —By J virtue of an order of the Orphans Court of Centre County, there will be sold at public sale, on the premises in Gregg township said county. at | oelock FF. M. on Saturday June 2nd. 1880. The following described Neal Estate of John Zubler, deceased, to wit All that certain tract or plece of land Iving and being In the township of Gregg, aforess id al the head waters of Penns Croek, near pub lie road leading from Brashvaliey to Farmers Millis, bounded and described as follows: Be ginning at a post thence north 17° cast 0 | perches thence north 26% west 8 £19 perches, Lhenee north 605.7 east 0 5.10 perches {o white oak corner, thenee north 66%,° east 18 perches to stones, thenes north 574 east 6 2.10 pereh es to stones, theses south Hy" east 7 perches to stones, Lthenee south ny west 18S perehes 1 6 post, thenee south hn ) west 6 perohes to post, thenee north 77° west 4 210 perches to Place of beginning, containing 123 acres and | iH perches, mote of less, thereon erected a good two story dwelling hoe bank barn and other outbuildings, running water and gown orchard on premises Ne arly one-half of above described tract ls covered with free i white pine and sak saw timber, and the balance In a gound state of cultivation Terms of sale. One half of pt eas £590 to be nald on conifls ree | rehase { Sale oof sale mation £9 10 tw paid and PROTHONOTAR i i : ) $1 No ex : ho 1 SCOTT'S EMULSION OF PURE COD LIVER OIL yw ¥ JOS. OR PENN AVE. STORES. (PA SBUMMEX year round, a Oowest prices 609-621 Penn Ave, PITTSBURGH, PA FOI 28 Otte, We will put your name on this Nickle Fisted Pen and Jon stamp, with apy color of Ink, extra lunes 50 ets Aline, by mall add ets, MeMahan Bros. & Adsaus 23 5th ave, Pittsburg Pa, Pence) hl Messrs. Shoemaker and Scott offer for sale seven building lots located on West i side of Thomas Street Hx feet, Also thirty five lots located on South | | side of Public Road leading from Belle- | : fonte to Bellefonte Furnace 50 x175. Also sixty lots on Half Moon Hill 50x156 | feet For furthes address information call on R. H. Boal, Bellefonte Pa. or jul 20 GET YOUR Advertising and Orna- mental Painting ‘DONE BY — Has experience io busivess sand ¢a Defies Competition AND HYPOPHOSPHITES Almost as Palatable as Milk. Ko disguised that it can be taken, digested, and assimilated by the mest sensitive stomach, when the plain ofl cannot de tolerated; and by the coms bination af the oll with the hy pophos | phites is mach more efficacious Remarkable as a flesh producer, Persons gain rapidly while taking it. SCOTTS EMULSION is acknowledged by Phywicians to be the Finest and Best prepa mation in the world for the relief amd cure of CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA, CENERAL DEBILITY, W INC DISEASES, EMACIATION, COLDS and CHRONIC COUCHS, The great remedy for Conmmplian, and Wasting in Children, Sold by all Droggists. PAMAGED BY FROTS Whole Fields of Potatoes and Corn Ruined in Ouwege County, Oswrao, N, Y,, May 30 There was o killing frost all over Oswego county, and i i TH i i I #8 i FF & SON aburp! f2as _ ; rN w WANTED. ~An active 3 who has had experience in appointing sulvagents, to travll, Coal Exchange, Seran- jd. ung man | reference, 42 { ton, Pa. * 'BEEZER'SMEATMARKET ALLEGHENY 8T, BELLEFONTE, We keep none but the best quality of Beef, Pork, Mutton, &¢. All kinds of smoked meat, sliced ham, pork, saudhge ete If you want anice juicy steak go to Brezen's Mar MARKET, 10.48.1y. - ho ge memories or power attention should send to Prof, Loisette, 227 Fifth Avenue, N.Y., for his pros pectus post free, as advertised in anoth- gs JOS. HORNE & 0, day - p A ¥ | & 14 ney. YN weeag “a 3rd . Ris | . 4 & Carnage Painting, Sign, 08 1 Address, with | Railroads, ENNSYLVANIA RK TIME TABLE. i efieet August Sth, DE, Pennsylvanm Rall road Invision, EANTWARD, Dally exoept Sunday ihre Express les ves Johnstown ae Altoona... Tyrone... wood AF Harrisburg... |) fo Fisladeiphita. 1 why 30 8 0 ‘ wed 14 WBN nrrives at Wali Train Pails y Express leaves Pittsburg Altoona i ¥romm Harrisburg aitimore Washington Philadelphia Sew York train Pal ire oy Pitist ALonin.. I yrone o EEE TL TTT OR Dally waves Pittsburg... Alloona Tyron . Harrisburg, "al Da ex Pilttaburgh 4 it Wilansin iy Lyrone,... ves at Harrisbay Fhiladelp fa New Yok ranches at Gres nsburg, He Int i wn ll] raection local stops WESTWARD, Daily E New York. Fhibade iphiia Washington Baltimore Harrisburg Tyrone Altoona Fitlsburgh Arrives at branches at Tyrone 1, Latrobe, Greetists y train Daily es Philad Harrisbur @ urg Fittsburgh ——————— * With branches at Lewistown ! , Hunt * M1 Alona J a Is Cresson airs a (Tor Indiana Branch only raves Ne w 3 Phils Wan) Baltin ves Harrisby Tyrone Altoona Fittsburgl NS pm branches at Lewistown Hunt Bells Mills, Altoona A through nects with Ty rome ALD EAGLE NIA Ba VALLEY road Division FEXXSYLYA dally exes Mt Sun ESTWARD EASTWARD Am pm 11 60 1% 10 NN oa ih 35 ; 0 3s 09 —. 3 I Pe lletfonte § #9 Milesbury *oAnow Shoe [nterseet : Lock Haven Mill Hall. Beech Creek... Howard... ts © w pe | i 4 - East Tyrone Togas . M 5 yy . ___|MSulley, The Artist |L=e 8.2 4] 0 TW pn irwinburg at LEFOXNTH (On a FFALO RUN fr Wednessllaiy, At bed RAL wust |} lows, ig the : THE sisiivn Werte at a] EE ——— wor MoHTES bo Whitmer ¥ Hunters Filmore ~Briarly ¥... Waddies Sootia Crossing ¥ Krumrine.. welbtate College. ArT 1 Trains will stop at stations msrked “F" when signal is given or notice to conductor. Ig 7 Wily. i | Train 2 connects with trains east and west on BE and SK Branch. Train 6 con. pects withiminseast an BEV. R. Rad SS, Branch THOS, A. SHOEMAKER, Supt. JAS, SCOFIELD, Manufacturer & Dealer in HARNESS I have always on hand a fine stock of Whips, Lap and,Buffalo Blankets, Fly-nets, and] every- thing needed about horses, Spring Street, Southof Allegheny PATENTS
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