CIRCUL * 4 OVER i CHAS THIS MURDER NOT A CRIME Husband Freed for Killing the De- | spoiler of His Home. NOT LAW, BUT JUSTICE Young Him Whe Cor ‘Death Merciful”! Says the “to the Pitiless Cruelty of rupts a Mother's Heart During the past week nu comment has been aroused over the acquittal of a »r, in Lexington, Ky., and the circumstances surrounding the opinion in Le lidly sustains 118 wife's lover, Thomas H. Merntt THE APPLAUSE OF THE PEOPLE Many lawyers did wrong releasing Harris, and all in Harris guilty on final Not a few Judge Fal- Judge Falconer is but 28 years old and | ° lecision, married, and by his remarkable has bounded i a day Jacob S. Harris, husband of Effie Harris, a pretty aged 25 and girl of the family, and tionship with Mrs Merritt copyist in his office. Merritt hugging and kissing on Park. He shot Merritt In his decision Judge “The Commonwealth insists that Harris should have warned Merritt to cease his 1to prowinence it years old, was the woman, was yrmed ar in in employing Harris found attentions, and that when he discovered Merritt and his have sought the relief afforded by the divorce by au action for damages wife he should A laws, or MARRIAGE A SUFFICIENT WARNING “The of ivil society is pot relation man and wife to our ice to all the world that no third parties shall interfere, and that the of her who seeks or husband advances her who warn advances attempts to wea wife or ie other are of him or before no one of Regardin sadqace interfer. of husband Human law » has produced no offspring for the husband livorce or damages the charms we ha husband AusDanG Whee Whe 1 if s1o5t ert moto? of the the daughter ashamed to utter the word mother i that resort is com monly had ared husband and father children to destruction quick and terrible of disgraced and dishonored of the destroyer of his peace and home the active lives “The ing of terrible, no matter for what reason, but there the man by tion of the unwritten law which excuses cause of his children’s blighted kil man by man is always comes a time when killing of man is only justice. In recogni- missed.’ There is much sound sense in this rul- ing. Were it to become universal and accepted, it would spread terror to the hearts of those licentious, lecherous bounds who infest almost every commun- ity and bring sorrow, shame and remorse into many an innocent life. most sacred institution on earth, if neces. sary, he who stealthfully invades the same should suffer the direst penalty. These sentiments may not be in harmony with our legal code, butare sanctioned by human instinct, by the experience of the past, as it comes nearest to justice. | as the judge, | | cially in { lent crop yield is first | has decreased its mortgage think the young Judge | ' agree that no Kentucky jury would find | They had two chiidren, boy | an acquaintance | | wise action onde part of Congres | week { Arrears on Home is the i R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop. BOUNTIFUL CROPS With an assured wheat crop of not less of verage, oats above t corn he than 500,000,000 bushels, with nearly up to the : average and most other crops in propor tion, and what is better than all, 50 far American farmer is concerned, a foreign demand that is likely to absorb our surplus crops of exportable cereals, BOLD ROBBERS AT FLEMINGTON Bound And Friday Night A Family Gagged SECURED FIFTY DOLLARS the conditions are so good for a business | that business reviving, espe the West, where the commercial | impulse usually furnished by an excel. Nearly all felt railway of the the Mississipp ni reat lines of west report increased and earnings due to the bountiful In the same line is the 1g indebtedness and as bank deposits in several of the Weste States which the calami in deafening. Kansas year ago was fairly indebtedness luring the year many millions, Nebr: money on deposit in its banks its former history, Iowa, hich felt the pinch of the hard times less and the st Nebraska and Iowa can be duplicated by a dozen the West and South What is the si t] tiful “PCY Fy k % + val Crops, DOrisk aome other States in nificance of these boun and sections railways. The money factured goods and keep ndustry moving no mattev 2 reasonable one So it has come Providence and given the prophecy that the of bankruptcy and starvation, country i and while son the and currency would tarifi juestions of prosperity " : “ couhdence, its own x ag Oug > BOmerce ated this ye 1 that far ipie 1 {hat foreign img ir while reason JUrs are «known and engage in busin ¢ of the year with the ” sides is The bountiful cro v rhe i marketed, that rofitabie an mmission mm foot to ass ate fishery Commission was omitted to | WIT we placed in the propriation .—— Loming Mr. Wm. H Wolfs Store, will make a trip through Our collector, Zeigler, of Miles, Haines and Penn townships next | Parties in that section who are in | subscription will be duly notified and it is hoped that all will re. | spond accordingly when he calls on you Give him a hearty and substantial wel { come, which will be duly appreciated | the crime of those who act as the defend. | ant has in this case, the defendant is dis. by us .———— Secured Positions Mr. John Meyer, of Centre Hall, a re- cent graduate of Franklin & Marshall college, was elected principal of the Alexandria, Huntingdon county, schools. Edward Kerlin, of Centre Hall, secur- ed a position as instructor in the schools of Cambria county, s————i——— Will Picnic August 14. The Sunday Schools of Mill Hall wil} hold their annual union picnic at Hecla Park on August 14, the date having been fixed last Sunday. The picnicers will be Experience of Toll. Gate-Keeper Geo W. Smith $id The snd De They Terrified Family a Kind ly Good-Night The Men art Description of Nittany Flemingto robbery Between 1 possession made his money was found an a small man terns and were masked chiefs tied over their faces very talkative while in chatted freely while r were | - -— - Good Crog The pr Clinton Express, says pects for a great peach crop in county were never better than at present fous fruit will li be sold reasonable I TOWETrS orchards of Haye on the CW mercat the hands of the Governor ery merchant to make oath t« of business he does in a year believed, in many instances in greatly increasing takes, revenues, which largely reves counties. Strange to say, years ago a special act was passed for Northamber- | land county, making the tax fg without regard to the amount of business done, aud the County Treasurer an $2 fee out of each license retains —— Death of Mrs Mrs. Annie P gressman Wm, C Annie P. Arnold wife of Con of Amold, Arnold, this dis- | trict, died Wednesday morning 14 at her | home in DuBois, aged 47 years 8he was taken ill Tuesday morning and was unconscious from then until her death. Mr. Arnold was in Washington and did not arrive home until Tuesday evening. Bright's disease is supposed to have been the cause of death. Mrs. Arnold, was a daughter of Col. E. A. Irvin, of Cur. wensville. I —— Outlived Eight Doctors. A lewistown woman died the other day who was told 26 years ago by numer. ous physicians that she could live but a short time. Right of these doctors died accompanied by the Salona band, before she died. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 22 he smilingly asked, | will lay there? 1507. THE NEW GAME LAW ferret guilty to put the {O Carrs ig the coming co f resolutions have been drawn up by a special appointed com mittee for the adoption of college in Sep a A North Carolina Story A damsel entered a store at Chapel i Hill recently, carrying some live chickens ! with their feet tied, and she placed them clerk who waited | on the The on her is not always grammatical, and counter “Are you sure they “0, no, sir, they are all roosters,”’ she stammered Winston Journal tl — C. E Convention Nashville has been chosen as the place of meeting of the National Christian En. deavor society in 1598. President Clark wants the convention in 1900 to be held in London to show the old world some- thing of the strength of the organization. I I —-,S Camp Meeting Brushvalley campmeeting will begin on July 27th, and continue for ten days. It will be held in EK. Harter's grove, two miles west of Rebersburg, Boarding will be furnished at the rate of fifty cents per day. | testimony | ther hearing next GOLD CRAZE WORSE THAN’. Large Quantities Mined and Many Fortunes Made. ALASKA'S NEW GOLD FIELDS The Miners Who { o the Heceatly 18 Metal With Is Through Preparing Precious Great Excitement Preva Country bousand New Gold Fi IROm v ver wing May ing s-vear-old Edoa 1 inte HAC were The hearing aroused great excitement in the The streets where crowded Crider, whose mut remains found near Haneyville last week vicinity Alderman’s office The Was circum were not represented by counsel Koitsch stantial but damaging, and he was against was held held for a far for court. Cushans riday -—c— Daeth of a Child The little son of James B. and Lilly Noll, of Milesburg, aged about 1 3nonths, died Monday noon from scarlet rash, after a few days’ illness. The remains were interred at Emerick's cemetery, pear Unionville, Tuesday afternoon. Want Waterwoe rks, The taxpayers of Mifflinburg will vote on Saturday, Aug. 7, for or against the construction of waterworks at the bo. rough's expense. It is estimated that such a plant would cost about $30,000, Don't Forget Culveyhouse repairs trunk's locks, nme brellas, keys fitted, etc. Corner of Alle. gheny and Bishop street. Aug. 15. Returned Brought that the act is and | The defendants | ‘i g | the United | and the defendant is WANTED Correspondents to iu the news publish it we VOL. i CORNER | id 1 cut session of the attacked in the 1 bh ill in equity has been States circuit court in whicl not only uncons but 18 a violation of the treaty States and Great The plaintiff is John Frazer of p the M company of Pittsbu Torley Frazer « employed —— — Barn Burned Mouoday a flash On afternoon, d the uring heavy rain of lightning strock John Garman's barn, which is about one mile fromm Hunter's Park. It soon was aflame, Mrs. Garman and little daugh ter were the only omes at home, and they succeeded in getting out all the live stock, and most of the farm implements The building was burned to the ground, in which was stored the summer crop of hay and grain. There wasno insurance on the property ———————— Lutheran Reunion, The: seventh annual meeting of the Susquebasua Lutheran Reunion will be held at Island Park, between Sunbury and Northumberland, on July 2:nd.
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