uv we AN — w I CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop. CONCLUSION OF NOV. COURT Several Important Cases “Were Disposed of Last Week. ETTLINGER DAMAGE [RIAL ate the Value of the Building Court Reserves Opinion On A Non-Suit in Other Cases Disposed Points of Law the Fox Damage Case ’ 10t HY Dol mn ed State Unite any reference to any such case, and the Court will be obliged to rule without any grows out gr famous and much talked of Ettling. March sth at which time Constable precedent to go by. The case of the at Woodward on er tragedy and 6th, John Barner was kilie Fevera 4 vA other citizens at Woodward Ettlinger. The ircumstances which lead up to this « 11 as well fixed in wounded by facts ad asc the minds of the who came tice had also | osse that mn the Jouse arrest and the and Mr 1 ffs Us 3 cri Barvper's plaint property of Mrs. En has since « 1S « husband benefit of bought the pr prope opty get with man ie of both sides, the C ‘ a question of law whi would de 3 later and the only question he woul mit to the » amount ages. Verdict favor of the plaintiff for Friday foreno £ + i : on 0 ia 8635, subject to a question of law reserved by the Court. The Court also subm to the jury to answer 1 itted four questions by their finding, which were as follows, with the answers of the jury : QUFSTION 1 —"" Whether John P Condo, sheriff, was at Woodward on the 6th day of March, 1896, in the discharge of his official duty, for the a man charged with, and having committed a grave crim the killing of Constable Barner, he had called the man to serrender himself, and that he had re. fused, that he had endeavored to make the arrest with a posse of his de Answer—'"In the affirmative." QuesTioN 2—"'"Whether the sheriff and his deputies had used legitimate means to make the arrest, and had been ex posed to the fire from a gi wr deadly weapon of the supposed criminal con cealed in the house ; that the sheriff hac exhausted all means that be re. sorted without unnecess hfe, and arrested purpose of atresting suspected of, e, such as and that upon aceused aut tes util Pp very could ATHY that the was holding the Answer We to. r human to be e party at bay Kering person Hn ent fing $0 QUESTION 3 "Whether the burning of the premises in question were, under the evidence, necessary inorder to make the arrest of the accused person, William R Ettinger?’ Amswer--"We do.” QUESTION 4 "Whether under the evi. dence no other means could have suc. cessfully been resorted to than the burn. ing of the buildings to secure the arrest.” Answer—''No other means could have been resorted to This suit is against the sheriff and some of the deputies, as not all of the deputies are included in the suit Salt Lick Oil and Gas Company of Karthaus vs 8. A. Butler, summons in replevin, plea non .cepit and property, This suit is brought to recover for trace tion engine, boiler, bits, ropes, lumber tools and machinery. The plaintiffs with- drew a juror and continued the case, Mary T. Fox vs, Pennsylvania Rail. road Company, summons in trespass ; plea not guilty. TI\s suit is brought by the widow to recover from the defendant | i company for the killing of her husband | Joseph Fox on November 13, 1897, on | i | was granted The plaintiff at once ob- tained a rule on the defendant to show cause why the taken off, which will be argued later the court, were disposed of as follows D. H. Bean vs. D. T. WwW. Cowher, judgment opened. ued. pon-suit should not be Other suits for second week of Cowher and G Contin. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex-re H,. M Emma C latione Goodman, of etc Goodm D. M. Ia W. H. Mus 1 nor chi John Cartin ¢ James B. Curtin de eased, suit lett Mi \ i +200 lea ni iam H 1 wusiand now ament of John J ruben H. Mu a crowd of boys and men, and with a sore head and shoulders and a .— Cylinder Burst Saturday iwrd, while perating a WwW. A. cylinder the farm of Hill, in fodder shredder on Kerr, Cena. burst, the pieces fl near he flying every direc. in in tio: on. Harvey Musser ng him i Une piece struck on the breast, knocki insensibie and several other had exceedingly nar- When Har up it was first thought he had been vey Was pi ked row escapes. kill. bruised and The rate ed, but he was will recover all machine Was running of speed, being an old one, t inder went It was for that the a re serious Another Murder at DuBois unis Camp and a lar knife were too much for James M Un Bois last Mors is a Iagitive Saturday night is with the angels while Cas from Justi ¢ All the parties are Italians and lived This the sixteenth murder in DuBois during the bl vengeance in a shanty near DuBois is past four years and barrels of blood crying to Heaven for to seek it anywhere else .— Plaiatfl Prayed in Court During the trial of a case, at Allen. town, in which the value of a horse was in dispute, Robert F, Thomas, the plain- tiff, asked the Court's permission to pray he took the wilness stand. He stated that whatever he sald or did was done under the guidance of the Lord. Judge Albrigiat granted his request, and Thomas prayed aloud for about ten minutes. The trial was then continued. .o-—— Serious Charge, when each been held in $1000 bail to answer the charge of conspiring to burn the Flynn block in Tyrone. They had a ci- gar and pool room in the building and it BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN ENGLAND Faith Curists are Attracting At tention Over There. AN ANCIENT BELIEF REVIVED Years Ago—God and for Ancie cient Practice nt Gods ar Was "No ( An Interesting Article the leaders of the movement against "Meantime an English investigator has dis ' that Christian first overed so-called Science does not possess the y <r BB 1 i . : “ : 3 | in, : merit Claimed for Bane an the Christian Science of rigin in the teachings of in New Testament, to-day in fact, merely a revival of is, lonian medical belie The only change naturally God and « stituted for the an The Babylonian of the very common and wide that Nature was a realm under the sway one benevolent, Ad of two camps of spirits, cording as one the other malevolent the well or | A » other Babylonian ef prevaile was re ing to his noxious spirit of the jung ye," or whatever mem be ted might afflic that ran like f the Christiar st of to day, was to appeal to a more powerful spi the noxious Away In this way the Akkadian tried the * of consumption; to cure wasting disease,” or "nox the LO re pel fevers ious sputa lips,” which we call , which he calied the "burning disease,’ or “tramp- ler,” who respected neither high nor low, but “rested upon the body of slave and chieftain,” by this is meant the plague with which we now are familiar in India “In their prayers the Akkadians would describe the symploms of their disease Here, for example, is the orayver of Assur-pazir.-pal and then asked to be relieved the first, son of Samsi-Rimman (1800 B. | Loy jn 1848, continuing there until his | death. C.); it was offered up to “the lady of Nigeveh.” Put into modern phraseology the King described his disease as the eruption of boils, accompanied by diar- | rhea, causing a feeling of anxiety, with | loss of sleep and appetite, consequently | Hall 1 | | | he sufiered from general depression and | {lation of the prayer would run: “In what have I sinned against thea? Why | hast thou allotted me diseases, boils and | pestilence ? Xs this thy just decree? As J. T. Plummer and G. W. Curtin have | 20 inability to enjoy life. A literal trans. | throne of niy kingdom asied . soa what feasts I had before pot near The wine libation turn From I am ABOUT 54 Paid to Mill Hail Employees Weeks the At amount of . paid Mill Hall wages mon for in the several estab ments will aggregate a handsome sum The American Axe and Tool ( Oovyes | 5 OC» ny mp their banded 3 OLE In : ries ran fe LJ ems Brick works, Brick works $500; f . f £20 Beech Cr : 2, 10 Fox shops and $400 AERregate paid every two weeks that Mill Hall's plants, to $¢ about Cans Qoor -—— Worth Nearly Hall a Million ppraisers ol the esta Weber, the who died recently, have fi at ceased to have left personal ue of $199 In add estate wich will bring the estate $25 ) Ox Weber was an illustration of what al Balser Howard ie ed their stat ment Bellefonte, which shows the de yropemny to the val i ition there is real of the deceased up to almost Balser with determination can do He many in 1849 with but $2.50 to his name, a young man in this country, landed from: Ger but at once went to work at anything he First peddling and finally drifting to Howard, where he engaged in the ron cantile busi. could get to do tanning, then In that time he amassed a for. tune of $250,000. The appraisement shows in holdings an aggregate of 2,750 shares of railroad and bank stock, worth at par £150,000. The entire estate is be. queathed to the five surviving children, - -— - In Porte Rica, A letter from Charley Swigert to a | | friend in Tyrone states that teamsters are getting $40 a month, cooks $40, | blacksmiths from $75 to foo and car. | GREAT BALLS OF SNAKES Hunter Meadows Frightful Experience of a In The Bear LIARS CLUB NEEDED BADLY snake balls bh » mearest chance, a half ross Lhe m others his org eMmonra the Row community whose ing and harmless cluded Ie order to encourage the use of our sanctum will t tributed for its sessions, in the being included in the membership —— Obliging Jap The adoption of Colonel William Jen. father by Count Itsu, of Japan, is causing the tentative leader of the Democratic party some trouble nings Bryan as a The count wrote the Colonel some time ago telling him he had been adopted, and the colonel replied in a nice little note of appreciation which he supposed would end the episode came to this country and took up his abode with the Bryans, expressing his | desire to act as a servant, and there he is vow. Once, when be wus told to sweep the front porch, he swept the pavement for several squares, supposiag Mrs. The But the count | VOL. 20, XO. 49 FACT, FUN AND FANCY A ( Tuck- ec, 10 see fron your 1only stan paw, 1 Now Never ter swi Smith and Jones were talkie about their business interests, Smith was a hotel man and Jones was a manufactue ers’ agent “1 sav,” said Jones, "how. r do you use such an enormous quan “Well, and of pears and peaches replied Smith, “we eat what we can what we can’t eat we can.” “Indeed said the other, "we do about the same in “How is that 7’ "We sell an order when we can sell it, and when our business.”’ we can't sell it we cancel it." Ole Hanson had trouble with a belli. cose dog belonging to his neighbor, The { Swede shot the dog ws soon as be discov. ered that he was not friendly to him, | and the sequel found him in a justice covrt, “What sort of a gun did you have, | Mr, Hanson?" inquired the attorney for | the prosecution. **Es var two-hole shot- gua.” “Don’t you think you could have | scared him away?” ‘Aye might ef aye | had not bane scare sc lak deckens mae. Race street, Bellefonte borough, on the | jy cpa00d that they solicited Edward | ©0¢ Who did honor to thy divinity am I | peoters $65 in Porto Rico. He says the | Bryan waniedto go down town. siding leadivg into the Fuel and Supply | conc, to burn the lace b produced all their testimony the defend. : ant moved a compulsory von-suit, which : " ¥ | colonel i | sal.” Why didn’t you take the other end re If I have not considered sin | Soe are warm, bot! the nights aie nies [Seto i yg to ga vid of the of the gun and scare him away?’ "Val, and evil, why am Ithus smitten ? In my | and cool. He went down there with ot —— | aa lawyer, ef de dog vant to hav’ i «Good shoes, chetp; Powers Shoe Co. foundations I am unloosed, i am broken theridan troop and remained on the is | wo largest line of Xmas tree dec. | mae dodet vay vid him vid de gun, vy to pieces, and rest I find not on the land when the troop came home. orations in tywn-at Sourbecks. dedn’ hae com’ for mae oder end first I’
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