CACY TION a OVE. _.800. CHAS IN THE TEMPLE OF JUSTICE Happenings in the April Term of Court, CONSTABLES, FIRE WARDENS. Large List of Petty Commonwealth Cases Verdicts Rendered and Sentences Imposad ~Civil Cases Disposed-—As Reported by Readers. S. D. Gettig, Esq., for our COURT PROCEEDINGS Court convened on Monday morning with Judges Love and April sessions of Faulkner on the bench The forenoon session was largely taken up in hearing petitions and motions, pre- bar. sented by the members of the The list of grand jurors called, when eighteen out of the twenty an Albert Hoy, 1 foreman, charge of the Cour April sessi room to deliberate i | f indie returns to which the ( sault and battery 1ssault waived the findis un Motion of Way, of H was ex L] of ih M by members The Samuel otions and jg of the bar first case taken uj hat o of etc. of vs Jacob Hazel Gramley executor, de eased, Sarah Shaffer, plea assumpsit. This action on a promissory note, dated April 1 is brought which the defendant alleges was forgiven during the decendent’s lifetime, and also interposed, of Verdict $83.20. Com. vs Wilson, William G. Twigg and John Heath, charge: fi count, cruelty ; second count, assault and the statute limitations in favor of Catharine rst battery ; third count, aggravated assault and battery. The Grand Jury ignored the bill as to John Heath. Prosecutor Jacob M. Claar. Atthe request of the Dis- trict Attorney the court entered a nolle prosequi as to the third count in the in fJictment, and the defendants went to trial on the first two counts. Miss Wilson was the teacher in the Powelton school, in Rush township, during the past winter, and on the 20th day of January last she attempted to correct Miss Rebecca Claar, a girl about fourteen years old, and dur. ing the scuffle the pupil drew the stove poker on the teacher and the teacher was worsted. The next day, being the 21st day of January the girl returned to school and the teacher proceeded to in flict corporal punishment, assisted by her brother-in-law, Mr. Twiggs as the com. monwealth alleges, but which the de. fendants deny allege that Mr Twiggs simply separated the teacher and the pupil who had gotten into a regular fight. This pupil used consider. able vile and profave language on both and of the aforementioned dates and had | down and | pulled the teacher's hair scratched her in the face, and persisted in calling her vile and ugly names. The bad been inhumanly beaten aad sought redress in the court of quarter sessions, The court, in an able charge, submitted | “ribe case to the jury on Tuesday after. noon, who brought in a verdict of not | guilty but pay one third of the costs, prosecutor J. M. Claar to pay one third of the costs and the county the other | third. Com, vs. John Brumbaugh, charge be. trayal, prosecutrix, Nancy Bailey. The defendant plead guilty and the usual The R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop. sentence imposed in suc! '$ at the hands of the court, Com, vs. Harry Brown, charge assault H. out of battery, This a fight between these two colored parties, and prosecutor Charle Powell, prosecution grows at the house of Mr, Charles Speerly, in this town on the 12th day of April. Ver. dict not guilty, and each to pay one half of the costs, and sentenced accordingly Com. vs. Frank Huey, harge bets ayal, Lucy Hampton. The de. fendant plead guilty and received the prosecuatrix, usual sentence at the hands of the court. Com. vs. Charles Speerly and Ann Speerly, charge : first count, keeping and maintaining a bawdy house ; prose cutor John 1, The defendants sentenced Dunlap. plead guilty and will be later during this term of court 8 Com. vs. John River, charge, surety of . the peace; prosecutrix Ellen Beighto! case was heard by the court without and after heaging the testimony rt sentenced the d ndant to j 1 VOC Ae A pons tent to do bodily in the person of another ; prosecutor H Verdict on Wednesday guilty, and the county to pay the Com Olile Orbison, charge carry- ing concealed weapons and threats: prosecutor H. H. Montgomery. Verdict not guilty, and the county to pay the H. Montgomery afternoon « Costs ¥s th Costs At this point a jury panelled and all discharged. Grand Jury make their final report REPORT OF GRAND JURY To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and for the County of Centre. April Sessions 187 The Grand Inquest of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania mquiring for the County in all matters relating to the same, do respectfully report: That we have acted upon twenty.four bills of in dictment, twenty were found true bills and four were ignored We beg leave further to report that we have visited and mspected the county buildings We found the prison in good condition, and in all respects except we recommend the papering of the sherift's office, the kitchen, frout hall, we also recommend plastering of the jail wall where needed, also patching in watch hall We further recommend the purchase of ten wash basins, also new seats for water closets We also visited the different offices in the court house and recommend a new rool for court house, also the papering of the main court chamber, also grand jury room and Treasurer's office, also in plas. tering the various portions needed about the Court House, We would recommend that there should be a water closet made for the of twelve was em ther traverse jurors ladies, who are compelled to attend Court | in some part of the Court House suitable | for such purposes, commonwealth alleged that the pupil | We would therefore recommend that the above improvements be made as soon | | his side, and a physician was summoned as ible. e desire to compliment the Janitor for the good care taken of the buildings | and surroundings, We also desire to return thanks to the Court and the District Attorney, for the uniform courtesy sod assistance during our deliberations. ALsrrT Hov, Foreman, Com. vs. Edward Beck, charged as. sult and battery, prosecutor G, W. Cath- cart, Verdict not guilt and the prosecu. tor G. W, Cathcart to pay the costs of prosecution, | pired at 10:45 o'clock. Heart failure BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 29 WILL PROSPECT FOR OIL A Test Well Will Soon be Sunk at Mileshurg, INDICATIONS ARE FAVORABLE Leases Being Made on Land in that Vicinity Will be Done Well Sunk Near Res ponsible Parties Back of the Enterprise— Leases Must First be Made by an Outside Party There Many Years Ago , and other influential 1h of that } lace,and there is every re AS believe that operations will begin in that vicinity in a short time There will be some satisfaction. at least in prospecting ; you can find out what is 1 underneath the grourd .-—— Tramps Must Work the right direction by adopting a tramp or. Tyrone, Pa., has taken a step in dinance. It provides for the arrest of vagrants and the turning of them over to the street commissioner, who is required | to put them to work on the highways of the town, using a ball and chain to hold | them in They are a nuisance to every town they enter, and it is right position that severe means shonl® be adopted to force them to steer clear of the town, It is not difficult to distinguish a con fimed hobo from an honest man who may be in search of work, and it will be the duty of the officers to practice good judgment in executing the ordinance Altoona and Huntingdon have similar ordinances Tyrone coming in closes up the links, and this long stretch in force of country now virtually bars out the vagrant, Bellefonte and other towns should adopt measures to rid themsglves | of the pesty nuisance. If the plan of making the tramp work for his bread as | | he moves along would become general | the nuisance would ere long be abated, & Sudden Death at Blanchard. Daniel Bitner, of Blanchard, when he retired Thursday cvening, was in his | usual good health. Friday moming he | began complaining with severe pains in | who did all he conld for the man, Mr. Bitner continued to grow worse and ex. was the cause of death, He was 75 years old. His wife, Mary, and the following named children survive: K. Irvin Bit. ner, of Hagerstown, Md. ; Mrs. Kate Scantlon, J. A., Mrs. Alice Harter, Mrs. Thomas Bachelder and Ina M., of Blan. chard. The funeral took place Monday morning. | eye to save the sight of the other, which | well as could be expected at this writing, 1807. CAPTAIN LEYDEN'S United States Militar y Ig from t Gradua he was fantry identified ir | I a irom ui tant, i deta he went y the me: AMS port -—— Struck By a Beam accident occurre miles east of Logant Thursday. Emanuel Beck a carpen- ter, had arrived home with a load of lum Mr load and as he was driving into the wag. | ber Beck was sitting on top of the on shed, he leaned forward and bent his | head downward to escape being struck | by an overhead beam of the shed. Un fortunately Mr. Beck misjudged the dis | ] ! | | tance, and the beam caught him on the | back of the head, and the wagon making | an upward movement, the man’s back | was pressed so tightly down between or | against his legs that several 1ibs were | broken | . o-——— | Delicate Operation The Tyrone Herald, on Friday con. | W. F. Beck, of | Creek Dr. Allie J Appleby, last Thursday performed an tained the following : Dir Spruce assisted bv intricate and delicate operation in sur. gery by removing the eye ball of John McMonigal, of Hannah Furnace, at the home of his son n.daw, Joseph Lewis, West Fifteen street. Glaucoma had at. tacked the eye some six weeks ago and it was necessary to remove the afflicted He is dong as was successfully done .--——— Alderman Fined the Mayor, It is not often that an alderman gets a whack at a mayor, but that is what hap. pened at Altoona, Thursday, Mayor Barr, of that city, was fined three dol. lars and costs for retaining a fee from a man after he had served time for an of. féhse he had committed. After having served eighteen hours’ time for being in. toxicated the mayor also imposed an additional pecuniary fine, whereupon the offender, James McCann, sued the mayor for unrightfully keeping money that did not belong to him. The alderman sus. ained the prosecutor, BELLEFONTE'S BORO BUILDING. The New Structure to be Erected on Howard St, HANDSOME STRUCTURE. Logan Fire Company ¢il Chamber and Con Lost About $4000 have with more NO men. r of queens acks, or spot Care and five of one kind of any of these would often be of much assistance | when things were looking unpromising .— Sudden Death at Beech Creek Will Marsh Creek, Centre county, Pa. died very sud iam Packer, formerly of denly at Beech Creek Saturday, from paralysis Deceased had been in his | usual good health until 10 o'clock Satur. day evening, when he was stricken down and died a few hours later. His funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock lack Haven Democrat .o-—— - Appointments ) I. Saylor will Centre Hall to hold their first quarterly confer ence, on Friday at 1.30. Conference in the Zion church, preaching in the svening Linden Hall, Saturday evening near Tuasseyville Preaching at Com munion services Sunday morning at Zion church, Communion in the evening at Spring Mills, New Firm John F. Short, formerly of the Clear field Public Spirit, has purchased the interest of Chas. C. Howe, in the Clear. field Republican. Mr, Howe is a candi. date for sheriff. The paper will be pub- lished in the name of Owens & Short, Mr. Short is a practical newspaper man who can instill some new life in that publication, Married at Sunbury, Thursday evening the sth, William O'Neil, of Lock Haven, and Miss Lillie Summers, of Aaronsburg, were united in Holy wedlock at the home of Frank King, at Sunbury, The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. H. Hartzler, | had | but for WANTED Correspondents to in the publish it send news-——we will VOL. 19), THE NEW ACT tings March ection ceeding t the discretion Section ased shall not, bill be held to land or brush land of less than fifty act includ in extent, unless such said area sha proximity to other timber liable to convey fire to an . ’ land or timber Jand con fifty acres .o-—— Attempted Robbery at Zion Some time during Wednesday nigh of last week burglars attempted to break into the general store Noll and Brother at Zion, but were evid y fright ened off before they succesded in ng gain an entrance The attempt was made to an force an the lock and opened the outside doors, and entrance at the double doors in rear and they had cut around the started to work on the inner doors some reason gave it up as a bad job and left i House Burned On Monday afternoon 1gth, the home of Henry and Martin Shade, one and one- half mile cast of Stover's hotel, on the mountain between Sugar and Brush val. leys, was burned to the ground. There was no one at home but the women and children when the fire broke, out, which originated probably from a defective flue. Nothing was saved and there was no insurance on the property. ——— Sigas Good. The test well, for oil in Clinton county has been measured and is now almost 3.000 feet deep. are good, but as yet no oil has been ‘ -—— ~Selling childrens all wool suits at 1.00. PRILAD, BRANCH,
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