2 SOT HER BETRAYER Then Pretty Bertie McConnell At- tempted to Kill Herself, THE DEATH OF BOTH PREDICTED. She Declared That Harry Thompson Had Ruined He Should Die with Her-—A Sad Story of Her Life and Determined That Love and Revenge, COATESVILLE, Pa, March 23.—One of the most shocking tragedies that has ever stirred the people of this place occurred on Saturday, when pretty Bertha MoCon nell, of this city, and barely 20 years of age, shot Harry Thompson, a traveling salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine company, while in a hotel In Lancaster, She boarded an express train after the shooting and returned to this place, where she attempted to end her life in the same manner, The double crime is alleged to have been the result of Thompson having deceived and betrayed the young woman. Both Miss McConnell and her victim are in a critical condition, and will probably die. The young woman is the daughter of John McConnell, a well known citizen of this place, and was possessed of a disposi- tion and personality that won for her many friends. It was too years ago that she met Thompson. She was then em ployed in a dry goods establishment Thompson seemed to find favor in the FouUng woman's eyes at onoe, and this soon led to a friendship that quickly ripened into love Thompson visited the young woman {re quently. He told her his home was in Harrisburg, where he lived with mother. In time, however, it was gossiped about that he was a married This charge he The young woman evi dently h i two months ago and it married pily in Lancs Li man de d fait! r lover, for abou left town report tha quiet vd Was curre 1 and living ¥ P {ar ian who w ] att 1 Duke vot his wo also hovers be in a iid he { South a on slayer, Bertha McConnell tween life and death at her father's house in Coatesville. He still persists that he knows nothing about the shooting srious condit! while The Church and the Workingman. Terre HAUTE, Ind, March 24. ~Eugene V. Debs spoke in the First Baptist church of this city Sunday night on the relations ofthe church to labor. The auditorium was crowded to the doors, wnd hundreds were turned away. Mr. Debs spoke of the church as an institution being almost sol. idly arrayed against labor, but rejolced that there now seemed a desire to discuss social questions. He declared that if the golden rule were applied by all the church people to the labor question it would be solved in twenty-four hours Ex-Confoderates Eligible, WasnixaTOoN, March 26. Senator Hill's bill to remove the restrictions against the appointment as officers of the army or navy of persons who held commissions in the regular army or navy before the rebel lon, and who subsequently took part in the war on the side of the Confederacy, which passed the senate during the height of the sxecitement over the Venezuelan boundary question, passed the house yes terday after two hours’ debate, with but one dissenting vote—hat of Mr. Boutelle, of Maine. A Message of Peace from Sallshury, Loxpox, March 23. «Lord Salisbury has sent a reply to the memorial in favor of Anglo-American arbitration of the Vene zuelan question adoptad by the Peace so clety at a meeting in Queen's Hall. Lord Salisbury says: “I am giad to be able to inform you that this question Is receiving the consideration of the government, and that proposals in the direction Indicated by tho memorial are now before the gov senment of the United States.” his | THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1806, ITEMS OF STATE NEWS, BerANTON, Pa, March 24. The home | of Henry Ryman, at Dalton, this county, was burned Sunday night, taking fire from some unknown canse. An invalid daughter, aged 30 years, who oocupled an upstairs room, was burned to death, MeDIA, Pa, March 23. —A jury in the common pleas court awarded Thomas Lat timer $4,900 against the Chester Traction company. Lattimer was a passenger in one of the company's cars going from | Chester to Angora and had an arm and leg broken in a collision. WILKESBARRE, Pa, March 24 —Bert Smith, a butcher, living at Avoca, was re turning to his home last night when he was shot from ambush by two men. His unknown assailants then robbed him of $150. There is no clew to thelr identity Smith's injuries are not serious. PriLiPsaURG, Pa, March 28. On and after April 1 the miners in Centre, Clear fleld, Cambria, Jefferson, Bedford and In diana counties, in this state, and in the Cumberland region, in Maryland, will be pald forty-five cents per gross ton or forty cents per net ton. Notices to this effect are now belng posted throughout this section WILKESBARRE, Pa, March 28.—A very sad shooting affray took place in a patch of woods below thiscity, Patrick Mahan and Kddie Richards, each 18 years old, were shooting with a Flobert rifle. Rich ards shot at a sparrow, when Mahan was in the line of fire. The bullet struck him in the left temple and killed him instantly Young Richards is heartbroken SCRANTON, Pa, March 23. Cardinal Sa tolll and a distinguished party of other | Catholic ecelesiastics participated in the | consecration yesterday of Rev. Dr. Michael | J. Hoban as coadjutor bishop of the Scran The consecration who was assisted by of Harri n of Spr nee 1 Was DY $ishops Thomas i ngflield, J of oll were dest of it refined WILKESBARRE Shafer, a young confession four Pa, March colored man, on men and Frank whose two women | | were arrested for the dastardly murder of eight Hungarians, and one, Nelse Miller found guilty in the first degree, made a» further confession Saturday, in which he says his previous statement was entirely false. He also says that Miller is Inno cent. The affair occurred on the moun tain, near here, Dynamite was exploded under a boarding house in which were sixty Hungarians, and eight of them were killed and many injured. Miller's attorneys have applied tor a new trial HARRISBURG, March 23. Almost every politician of note In Harrisburg was in court on Saturday to hear the conolusion of the suit for libel brought by ex-Coun ciiman Disbrow against President of Se lect Counel! Rudy and William H. Bren namen, who issued two clreulars against Disbrow before election, charging that he organized a disorderly meeting at which rum fcwed, and another that he had soted suspiciously while a councilman. The jury returned a verdict of gullty of libel on the disorderly meeting count and not guilty as to the councllmanie Disbrow was also convicted Rudy LANCASTER, Pa, March 4 William Miller and Charles F. Tinker, who were arrested last wook charged with having murdered Willlam Miller, the night watch man at the Champlon Blower and Forge works, and then firing the bullding, were given a hearing before Alderman Deen yocterday afternoon. The murdered man waa the father of one of the acoused. The theory of the prosecution Is that Miller beat his father Into insensibility, and sfter robbing him, applied the torch to the bullding. A score of witnesses testi. fied to the suspicious conduct of young Miller and Tinker on the night of the fire Miller was hold for court, actions of likaling TWO MINING FATALITIES Thirteen Killed at Dubols and ouers at Adrian, Pa, March A plosion of gas occurred at the White shaft in the eastern limits of the city yesterday, and thirteen miners were killed an new one, which the company has been opening up and Ing crews in shifts to push the headings out in various directions for big work lator on, Two Hes DuBois terrific ex. Berwynd The mine is work Elghteen men went on at 7 o'clock in the morning going into the north heading and four into the south heading. At about 10 o'clock the fonr men were sen- sible of a shock, and a fow the mine boss came to them and told them something had happened, and that they should get out as soon as they could When the party, then consisting of five, reached the foot of the shaft they were fourteen minutes Inter | nearly overcome by the gas and were hur riedly taken up in the cage. As the work of rescue proceeded it was found that the shock in the north heading was so terrifle . that two of the bodies were mutilated al most beyond recognition, but the balance had evidently been suffocated by the foul gos. The dead are: George Harvey, married, no children; Henry Harvey, married, two children; Harry Smith, married, two children; James Graham, Sr., married, large fam ily; Janres Graham, Jr., single; Lindsey H. Bradley, married; John Monroe, mar ried, two children; Jesse Postlethwalte, married, three children; George Postleth waite, married, large family; Andrew Nowak, David Bell, Reuben Noble and George Ainsley, all married, PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa, March 24. The gas in mine No. i, Adrian, exploded Sun day night It is fmpossil # any dis and the mine is on fire Heo t into the min tance, two n tho fire terday m ugh the explosion o rn even Were Murdered, party lines and tion o for it { consure The Fight for Eight Hours, March At itive council American Federation of Labor committee on the eight hour day problem submitted its It rex that May 1 be set as the day to inaugurate the eight hour plan throughout the coun try, and that the carpenters be selected as the to make tont mittee recommends a strike of all carpen ters’ unions that are forced to work over time, beginning on the day that the eight hour plan goes into effect IXDIANATY season of today's of the the subd the report mmends union the The com A $40,000 Shortage Alleged. LEXINGTON Ky March 25 The MM way Deposit bank, one of the best business institutions In central Kentucky, Is In trouble. and Cashier W. M Shipp and Bookkeeper C. W. Stone have been dis charged pending an investigation. There haa been of crookedness for a long time, and an expert was employed, who alleges that there is ashortage, which it is belleved will foot up $40,000 Sus pic me Mrs, TRENTON Drayton Wine Her Suit, March 24 Charlotte gusta, wife of J. Coleman oelved her decree of divoroe from Chan oellor MeGiill yesterday, The decree was flied in the ofMioe of the clerk in chancery, and states that it is allowed on the ground of desertion. Mrs marriage, was Augusta Astor, the third Au Drayton, re | daughtor of Mr. and Mra. William Astor | that the Bricvish ambassador at Ambassador Panncefote Going Wome, Loxpox, March 85 <1 Is reported here Washing. on, Sir Jull wm Paancefote, will shortly vome to London to discuss with the gov. srnment certain features of the Venesu slan question. | creamery, 1208 Drayton, before her | } AWEEK'’S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, March 10, An explosion at the Laflin- Rand powder mill at Rifton, N. Y., destroyed two build Ings and killed flve men Captain Wiborg, of the steamer Hor ", and his two mates, who were prison in Philadelphia for filibus tering, have been released on ball pending a new trial ntencs Cuban General Calixto Garela and a party of Cuban insurgents left Somers Point, N yusterday morning The "Carfew’ bell is to ring at Omn ha, Lincoln and South Omaha, Neb, Children under 15 must not be alone on the streets | | wa after 8 p. m. in winter and 9 p. m. In sum mer John J. Swan and Danlel Drown, for mer keepers at the state insane asylum at Falrnhurst, Del., were sentenced to one year imprisonment for killing Leon Plsa, an inmate Friday, March 20, George W. Dice, on trial at Atlanta, Ga, , for counterfeiting, assaulted Inspector Murphy in the court room A train robber who held up a train near Tulare, Cal., was riddled with bullets and killed fostantly. He is thought to be one of the Dalton gang. Arrangements have been perfected fora Joint debate on thesllver question between Becrotary Hoke Smith and ex-Speaker Crisp, in several Georgia towns T. H. Spragge, a wealthy New Zealand sheep owner, secured a divoree at Lisbon N. D, yesterday. An hour later he ried Miss Mary Hall, of England Saturday, March 21, nar £50,060 : AA Vil RKETS Closing Quotations of the New York and Philadelphia Exchanges, eT] March 24 Ald d today & record, manipnuiat nt an infloence, and the New York ngs in stocks shows improvemer yesterday pote inde osing bids itimore & Ohic & Hodson was no less the of trading reflected nae sion on part the profess) New Jersey Con Hy Lehigh Nav Lehigh Valley West Shore General Markets, PritAnerLrniA March 25 «Flour weak : win ter superfine, $2. 5002 75; do. extras, $2 T4; Pennsylvania roller clear, 8. 0003 5 do. do straight, B.558470; western winter clear $4033.00. Wheat dull, with 0%. bid and Tle. asked for March. Corn quiet, with Sige bid and M%ec. asked for March. Oats quiet, with 2c. bid and B4c. asked for March. Hay steady; cholos timothy $16.50817. Beef steady Pork dull; mess, $0.50010. Lard weak: west ern stean, $5.40. Butter steady: western i do. factory, PIN El gine, Bk Imitation creamery, $12.8 170. New York dairy, 11@25¢.; Pennsylvania and wesiorn creamery prints, extra, 2k do choice, Be. ; do. fair 10 good, 1M3210.: prints Jobbing at 24087 Cheese quiet; iarge New York, s@10%e ; small, 6@10M0.: part skims B@54e. fall skims, 207 Ege» firm; New York and Pennsylvania, 18¢.; western fresh HB! 140.; southern, 100431080 General Markets, New York, March 24 European quote Amerionn steers at M3e.. dressed weight! refrigerator beef at 548%. Oalves steady; poor to prime veals, $4.07 25. Sheep and lambs very quiet, but steady! poor to prime sheep, $4.500848; common to choles Inmbe, $LI005.05. Hogs steady al $4408 4.9 Eawr Linenry, Pa. March 84. Cattle steady; prime, $4554.40; good, $4 1604 M0; rough fat, $34.75. Hogs active and higher; prime me dinm grades, $4.5004.00; boat Yorkers, $4. 450 400; common to falr Yorkers and pigs. $93 C4 heavy hogs, LOL; roughs, S804 Bheep active and higher: prime sheep $4@4.10; Foy $3.88. 90; common, $308.40; culls, $1.80 50; choles lambs, $0004.00; veal calves ®asn. cables d to | I am now, | mest remar ble } i | Eng Must Use The Knife, Dr. David Favorite Remedy was taken and Said the Surgeon, but Kenedy the Knife Avoided The Union and Advertiser of Roclie ter, N. Y | hed the fo mg teresting acy W. Adams of 129 was saved from a the use Dr. David recently publi low ount wuth arenn painiul Kennedy's : | Remedy J. for Cuba on the steamer Bermuda early | Mr, Adams I was taken with kidoey badly ; at times 1 & completely trated; in fact, was so bad that the das said: “Three years upon me, jut 1 would not submit, water bath means decided 1 , and, in fact, nearly cvery was tried to help me et for the doctors to perform an op- | craton I had been putin hot | 3 Upon the | day set for the operation I commenced | the use of Dr. David Kennedy's Favor- | ie Remedy, and from that moment be gan to gain, and it was not long before | was entirely cured and have had no re- turn of the trouble since. My weight has increased and I never was so well as I have recomended DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S for it saved my life waking to Mrs. Adams a yearago I was u of health, ' I it a very feeble being completely run but one totake De Remedy, jad doctored considerably, nt relief. 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MIP w * Dally $f Week Dars i a Philadelphia Sleeps i to Phi Adelphia k Reading no pass ng Widamapt east bound at ) West boun at 6.5 0 ¥ T h w Cars on Day 1 1 adelphia PHART General Supt trains between W ah GF ELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD | fo take effect May 20, 188 WESTWARD 16 74 EASTWARD Nh 2% STATIONS Lv.a Bellefonte ¢ Coleville f Morris { Whitmer f Hunters ‘ Fillmore ' Rriale | ww Waddle Seotin Cr PaBmAaEErREREERR Ey . WW ... State College TN -} » trains from Montandon, Williams port, Loek Haven and Tyrone connect with rain No. 7 Tor State OC liege Alternoon trains from Montandon, Lewisburg and Tyrone con poet with Train No 11 for state College. Trains from State Ou lege connect with Penna. R. R trains at Bellefonte Dally except Sunda} Mornin H. TooMas, Supt CPRaRE COUNTY BANKING » COMPANY. nes Depth ant Nore ve Deposits: TD. am Cashier
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