CHAS. R. KURTZ, Proprietor.
FATAL SHOOTING |
AT GILLENTOWN |
Causes the Sudden Death of Anna |
Hobbins
IT ACCIDENTAL |
Happened on Wednesday Morning--Some |
Suspicion That It Was Inspired |
by Jealousy--John Keenan Lodged
in Jail.
SAYS WAS
| church, 8. S.
A sensation was caused here by the
report of a fatal shooting affray near J.
C,
shannon
three
Wednesday
here
and district
Lucas’ old saw mill along the Mo
Burnside township,
in
creek
beyond Gillentown, on
The
once
miles
morning. authorities
phone
attorney, N. B. Spangler left
that § Many
afloat large
were informed at by
on the first train for lace
wild rumors were and a
crowd assembled at the depot when the
eveniug train from Snow Shoe came in,
but all were disappointed as Oscar Holt,
constable of Buruside township, brought
DUggyY at 7:3
mitted to
1., and he was comz
the accused man here in a
Pp. n
cou
after the writer
the cell,
Some lime
prisoner in where
gaged in eating his supper
the following general informati
sheriff for publication
Keenan, home,
lumberman by occupati
lived at the bome of Thomas
his
1 Gil
past year
Hobbins, a miner, who with family
nile beyon entown
the past three years, Wednesday
ing he and Mr. Hobbins' two daughters,
and Alice aged ;
has resided one 1
Anna aged 18,
for Lucas’
to get a load of wood. When ne:
ing in the wagon
started in a lumber wagon
mill Ar
that point, while sit
they were handling
ver, or as he said they were
jt. the
with it was discharged and th
struck Auna directly in front oun the le
breast.
at hrst
and requested them to i
She did not become un
and was able to
S000 as possi Ne. She
hour,
home, which was two
other party witnessed
but expired before
the accident.
The general
is that it was accidental,
The
island in Moshannon creek, where thes
had
Moshannon
Clearfield
& question as to which county will
accident happened
driven to get the wood the
is the boundary line
and Centre counties, it may be
between
have
the jurisdiction in the case.
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KILLED NEAR TYRONE.
Another tragedy occurred at Tunnel.
town, pear Spruce Creek, at that notor.
fous spot in Huntingdon county, where
much blood has been spilled from the
bodies of negroes at the hand of the as.
sassin’s bullet in the past year.
Monday night about 11 o'clock at a
speak-casy, in the village of huts and
hovels, two colored men, named Roy
Mitchell and Gus’ Hoskins, were play-
jug crap when a dispute arose.
take very long for the quarrel to arise to
a white heat, when in less time than it
takes to tell it Hoskins whipped out his
revolver and resting the muzzle almost
against the head of Mitchell fired. The
ball entered Mitchell's head at the butt
of one of his ears and passed through
his head and through two board parti.
tions in the house, It
revolver that Hoskins used
Hoskins at once fled. He was joined
by two other negroes who are probably
as desperate characters as he The
coroner of Huntingdon county repaired
to Spruce Creek and held an inquest over
the body of Mitchell, which was simply
a matter of form, as it proved to be only
another killing for which Tunneltown
has become so notorious, and which is
pow 80 common that it hardly creates a
ripple in the community when a negro is
murdered. The body of Mitchell was
shipped to his home at Philadelphia,
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Dogs Killed Sheep.
. B. Gentzel, who lives one mile east
oi Pleasaut Gap, had fourteen sheep
killed by dogs last week and the balance
of a flock of one hundred scattered to the
winds of the earth,
was a 41-calibre
IN,
It did'nt i
U. B. APPOINTMENTS.
The sixty-second session of the Alle.
gheny conference, United
church, closed at Greensburg Monday |
Rev, Allen Rhen who
been pastor of the Bellefonte church for
morning.
the past three years goes to Punxsutaw- |
[GOOD GOVERNMENT
The appointments in |
ney and Rev, T. W. Perks comes from
Johnstown here,
the Altoona district are as follows
Altoona district, G.
Tyrone-—Altoona, First
siding elder,
church, W. Williamson; Altoona, Second
Hough; Bellefonte, T. W. |
Perks; Bellwood, C. C. Miller;
| George Noden; Birmingham, M. O. Lane,
st Clearfield,
B. Wil
Dubois, J.
H.
Roberts
Clarington, J. E. Robb; E
W. A. Bair; A
Conemaugh, J. M. Lesher
Coalport,
Pittman; East Salem, N. Newel!
East Freedon, R., P.
tT.
Hustontown,
Glasgow,
’
B. C. Shaw;
Stewart ; Huntingdon,
E. James; Johnstown, First
r
church, J. I. L.. Resle
Denlinger; Knoxdale,
lle, A. J. Berth
[aJose, W
r+ Mabonir
S. Woodware
Hingh
ingham ; |
ARE NO TRUSTS
has already
sued
» at Wash
from
burned
was
her death resu
lov Badly Scalded
Clifford Held, a boy five years of age
Wednesday
at the home of Charles Harter, in Logan
’ :
was badly scalded at noon
ton The coffee was being served at the
dinner table when the accident occurred
and the little fellow is badly scalded
about the face, neck and arms
One Hundred and Tenth Reunion
of the 110th
vania Veteran Association will
in Bellefonte on the joth and 31st of
October, It is now thirty.five years
since it was mustered out at Harrisburg,
and in all those years some comrades
have never attended a reunion,
Pennsvyl.
be held
The reunion
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Sucide at Adamsburg
Isaac Saltsman, a blacksmith and car
riage maker, of Adamsburg, Sayder
county, committed suicide by firing a
ball from a 32-calibre revolver into his
head a little back of the temple, Thurs:
day morning of last week, He was a
hard drinker
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Howard Found Guilty
Tames Howard was convicted of being
a principal to the assassination of William
Goebel, at Frankfort, Ky., on Wednes
day. Howard was employed by the
republican officials defeat
He was given the death sen.
0 as to
Goebel,
tence
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Fifteen Years Imprisonment
After six hour's deliberation the jury
in the trial of James Lenhart for the mur.
der of Newton Motz, returned a verdict
day. Judge McClure sentenced Lenhart
10 15 years imprisonment,
Kane is to have a carfew, by which
children will be kept off the streets after
8 o'clock at night in winter and go'clock
in summer. A bell will announce the
hour at which all under a given age will
be required to be at home.
has |
W. Sherrick pre- |
Bigler,
| of manslaughter, at Lewisburg.on Satur. | sentatives of politicians,
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 190.
PARAMOUNT
Brethren |
[SSUES
Subject for
County Voters
Important
NEEDED
Favoring
Be Care-
for the Next
joth Parties are
Defeat Quay
Members
Everywhere
Fusion to
ful About
Legislature
With
field is
us the
very simple
1
little hope that democt
18 a foregone
the
ne
mes
Centr
1
cong
strong
led
*
in
anti-Cuay
by prominent
"Bellefonte Republican’
timent of the
voiced the sen.
movement which on two
occasions succeeded controlling the
local republican conventions and adopted
in
resolutions denouncing Quayism. Since
then a new element has been introduced,
called "Harmony,"
quantity,
yet
It is an avcertain
Just what that means, no one
has definitely the
people. It has resulted in the nomination
of two meu for legislature on the repub.
lican ticket this year who are pledged
explained to
not to make any promises to the people
as to what course they will assume if
elected to the next legislature, when
Quay legislation comes up for considera.
tion, or as to how they will vote when
that all-important question, the election
of a United States senator, comes up for
final disposition. They will keep silent
on this point “in the interests of har.
mony,
Such a position is contrary to all politi.
The impor.
tance of assembly this year is as to how
these vote if elected, and the
voter know
that is the purpose
cal customs and usages
men will
will want to if his wishes
will be carried om
of sending mien to the state capitol as |
| tween the Reading
legislators. The very name of this one
idea directly. They ate REPRESENTA.
TIVES of the people, and not repre-
Some say that
Mr. Allison is anti-Quay, but there is no
pledge to that effect. There is some
assurance that Thompson is a Quayite,
but the Hastings people claim that he is
agamst the Quay people,
public utterance, and they declare and
the Bellefonte politicians declare that
“In the interests of harmony'’ these men
|
|
|
Centre |
i few ambitious
| their
| Must
| office, more than any other, {mplies this
into
| closed down and is likely to remain so
| for an indefinite length of time. A bund: |
Now where |
they stand ne one can learn from any |
will not commit themselves on this im-
portant
Have
issue
the peopl
by candidates
Are the
subservient
no right
secking their sup-
voters of a party to be
menials to the dictates of ¢
politicians who have only
’
selfish ends
men
persona to gratify ?
vote blindly and are our
to be under no obligations to
those from whom
obtain their support? Is not all
ind of business a farce, even a pre
the
’ > rey
' | € x
repu
0us 1m por Dilicar
Warren Hastis
negroes
Eyre, in Jamaica, and t tm War, in
China, are mild and civilized measures
nditions
in South
justified in some part by the
that created them, but the war
Africa was utterly unjustifiable, based
of causes and
upon a false statement
conducted with no other view than the |
It
bably true that the English expected to
annihilation of the republic 1s pro-
attain by bluffing what has cost them so |
much blood and treasure and also their
That
military operations should contribute to
the burden of contempt which her policy
has invited is righteous and just,
The Boers are blotted out of exisience
as a nation, but their noble and hopeless
prestige as a warlike nation her
defense is an inspiration for the lovers
of liberty that lifts Colenso and Spion
Kop to places alongside of Marathon
and Bunker Hill. Oom Paul on his sea jour
ney to Holland carries with him the sym.
pathy and respect of civilization, and the
their
Joubert, Botha ana
De Wet, have gained an imperishable
Times.
little band of daring men with
glorious leaders,
renown
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Iron Workers on Strike
All efforts to settle the differences be-
Iron Company, of
Danville, and their employes having
failed, the 600 men employed at the
plant refused to work last week when
| the new wage scale, which makes a cut
of 25 per cent. in the men's wages, went
effect. The mill is completely
red puddiers of the American Car and
Foundry Company also struck because
of objectionable rules. Unless settled
the strike will likely tie up 4Be mills,
which employ 1,200 men,
GERMAN PRESS
FOR BRYAN
Only 12 Out of 1487 Newspapers
Are for Imperialism
GREAT CHANGE OF SENTIMENT
Election Democratic
didate--John E. Joos Declares
the Nebraskan Will Receive 305 of
Electoral Votes
Indicates Can
I'l
vf
he
An, but in this camps
|
merly a repubi 2
f a Bryan Holland clutl
be is president
composed of 500 of the most substantial
Dutch citizens of Chic There are
ago
8.000 of such voters in Chicago and in
| Michigan their votes have hitherto given
the republicans a couple of congressional
districts. One of the most stirring bits of
political composition we have seen this
campaign is the declaration of the Hol.
land league against McKinley and im
perialism. “He has
begun for human liberty to purposes of
forcible subjugation,”
prostituted a war
conquest and
one of the counts in the indictment, and
“He has jeopardized the ex
extension
is
another
istence and of republican
institutions by permitting, without pro.
test, the brutal destruction of govern
ments of the South African republics in
violation of every principle of inter.
national law."
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Thousands of Dead Trout
From men who have been up in the
Clearfield region learn that the
springs in the mountains are neatly all
dried up and streams that have never
known to be dry are now without a drop
of water,
Some of these streams were once well
stocked with trout and all the trout in
we
some of the streams are now lying on |
It 1s said |
| that thousands of the speckled beauties
the bed of the stream dead,
can be seen in a very short distance,
some lying on big rocks.
Granted Pensions.
A minor child of John Bird, Beech
Creek, has been granted a pension of | Laxative B
fourteen dollars a month.
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YOL. 22, XO. 3t
5.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY
ht Sparkling Paragraphs
and Original
some try
it be found
in Time
A gener: lelivery
Thursday
frustrated
night
, who discovered that
of the jail
The prison.
of
of
court and
was
at Couder by
Sheriff Fam
of the windows
a"
a
a bar in one
n
had been sawed nearly o
ers were searched, and in the pocket
Ernest Palmateer, who was convicted
last term of
forgery at the
sentenced to twenty months imprison.
ment in the western penitentiary, was
found a table knife, with the blade filed
into a fine-tooth saw
Water Works for Milesburg
The borough of Milesburg will hold an
election on Thursday, Octover 4th, for
the purpose of obtaining the assent of its
electors to an increase of the borough
indebtedness in the sum of 9,300 to be
used for building water works. Water
Kitchen's Gap,
of town, which will
be secured from
a
give several hundred feet fall and pro-
can
about mile cast
vide the town with ove of the finest water
plants in the state.
Johnstown's Centennial
The centennial celeb ration of the city
of Johnstown, will be held on Friday,
Saturday and Sanday, October s, 6 and
7: gon, Ooae of the principal features of
the occasion will be the laying of the
corner stone of the municipal building
the first day of the celebration
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Awarded a B. & 0. Contract.
George 8, Good & Co, of Lock Haven,
| have been awarded the contract for the
| masonry for twenty. five miles on the
| Baltimore and Ohio branch from Graf.
ton to Philippi, Md. The contract calls
for 7,000 yards,
Stops the Cough and Works off (he Cola
ine Tablets cure a
cold in one day. cure, ne pay. 25¢