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NOVEMBER
TERM OF COURT
A Large Grist of Commonwealth
Cases.
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| had set his fence out on to the right of | tin . .
ad se | Incidents from the Early History
HOW CASES WERE DISPOSED
Cases |
Re-
for |
Slow Progress Owing to Delays
I'ried, Postponed and Settled
ported by S. D. Gettig, Esq.
Our Readers.
Court convened on Monday morning |
resident Judge
at o'clock, with
Love on the bench.
The major portion of the morning ses- |
hearing motions
nine
sion was consumed in
and petitions presented by the several |
members of the bar in cases in the sev.
eral courts of the county. |
List of grand jurors called and ab- |
sentees noted and H. H. Osman, black- |
smith, of Port Matilda, Worth township, |
was selected as foreman after which the
Court ably charged them as to their
duties on the several bills of indictment
which will be laid before them by the
district attorney, and as to the several
grades of crime and especialy as to the
grade of homicide, after which the grand
jury retired to their room.
The constables of the several town.
and then made their
quarlerly reports to the Court of Quarter
ships boroughs
Sessions.
The court handed down a large num-
ber of opinions in cases that were argued
at the regular Argument Court in Octo-
ber last.
List
sentees noted.
The |
Ss
of traverse
f civil
over and the fol
posed of
C.F
ing under the
Gottshall G. CG. Hosterman;
Blank and Gottshall, trad.
name of Blank X
vs. ag peal,
plea non assumpsit, Compulsory nou
suit entered.
W. B. Musser vs. F
plea nou assampsit. Settled.
Harry McKmley Robert McCal-
mont, Rose McCalmont Shortlidge, and
Mary |. McCalmont; appeal, plea non
assumpsit, Settled.
Agnes Porter Benner, use of Marga-
ret Harrold vs. Wm. B. Mingle, Admr,,
de bons non cum testamento asnexo of
W. Confer; appeal,
vs.
etc. of George Odenkirk, deceased; sam-
mous in assumpsit, plea nou assampsit.
Verdict in favor of the plaimtiff for $420.
93-
Isaac S. Frain vs. C. M. Bower, Admr.
of etc. of John H
summons in assumpsit
of the plaintiff for $599 58.
Rebecca Sparr vs John Riter, executor
of etc. of Margaret A. Riter,
in facias sur mortgage,
of the
Orndorf, deceased;
Yerdict in favor
deceased.
scire
Verdict
Summons
plea nil debit in favor
plaintiff for $460
The following civil cases on the second
week's list were disposed of for this term
Sarah Musser vs. D. M
plea general issue
Osborne X Co
feigned issue Dis-
continued
Minnie
Co. ; fel
Discontinued
Robert
mons iu
D. M
plea general
Macoo' vs Osborne &
ned issue, issue
Kinkead vs.
assumpsit
ally
A. D. Polls
Frank McCoy
SIX Cases,
of Williams
Water
from
yaipany
port, Ii College cot
fis
noon
pany, appea lain ASSESS
ment of damages , piea assum psit
1 :
Settled
Henry
and Ewe
Hough
n Lres.
Ww Nathan
ue Hough ;
yhifort vs
summoned
pass, plea not guiity. Continued gen
erally
Johu Ree Peter sum.
moued plea gulity.
Continued at the costs of the plaintiff,
Hench & Dromgold vs. Nathan Hough,
judgment, opened. Continued generally
Kelley ;
not
a ¥5
in ejeciment,
Cortland Wagner company vs. L. C,
Bullock
plea non
erally.
The following Commonwealth cases
were disposed of at the morning session :
Com. v8. Harry Condo, charged with
adultery, prosecutor W. H, Runkle, Jr.
Jr.; summoned in assumpsit,
assumpsit, Continued gen.
The defendant waived the finding by |
the grand jury and entered a plea of |
guilty. Sentence was suspended,
Com. vs. Ada Runkle; charged with |
{ indictedfon three counts
| count, larceny ;
| goods,
The
CHAS. KURTZ, Proprietor.
Marsh Creek to Metzker's in Liberty
township, which said road was opened to
the traveling public in 1866. The Com.
way of the road, and also set out a hitch.
ing post and placed other obstructions |
in the road between his farm and the |
INTERESTING NEW FEATURE
Tueseay morning of not guilty and the |
farm of the prosecutor, Verdict on
| prasecutor to pay oue-third of the costs |
| and the defendant to pay two-thirds of |
the costs.
Com. vs. Wilhs M
first count, en
tering store to commit a felony ; second
third, receiving stolen
Prosecutor John N. Krumrine.
This is the State College robbery case,
when the store of the prosecutor was
broken into on the night of the third day | ¥© ¥ tec)
| ‘ : | columns 1 matter.
| of October last, and the following goods py RO a
| taken therefrom, eight watches, chains
valued at ten dollars, three gold filled
watch chains, valued at three dollars;
one door key valued at fifty cents | one
ring case valued at twenty-five cents;
five guard and fob chains, valued at six
dollars ;: one gold filled Elgin watch,
valued at eleven dollars ; one thirty-two
calibre revolver, valued at three dollars;
three dozen cuff buttons, valued at nine
dollars one suit of clothes valued at six
dollars and Gfty cents; one but valued
at one dollar, amounting in the aggre-
fifty and
This defendant
gate to dollars twenty-five
cents was afterwards
arrested in Philipsburg, a full account of
these
The
pros on
it having been given in columns at
the time of the arrest Common
wealth entered a n the first
and third counts and the defendant plead
guilty on the second count and was sen
seed 0av i ne of one
tenced to pay a hoe { one
of prosecution, and
three months in the pen
Murray,
count
Com. vs. James
11 :
three counts | rst incestuous
nication ; second count feloniou
and bastaray
These
street, this town,
and third count adultery
prosccutrix Lizzie Murray par
Lies
nd the
father with the
Verdict Tuesday
gulily
Com
two counts
second, aggravated assault and
live ou Thomas
prosecutrix charges her
paternity of her
on afternoon of
vs. James Murray, indicted on
first count assault and bat
tery |
battery, prosecutrix Lizzie Murray. The
prosecution is brought for sinking his
step daughter on the evening of October
last, at their home ou Thomas
The parties are the same as in
The Common weaith
29th,
street,
the preceding case.
entered a nolle pros as wo the second
count in the indictment and the defend.
ant plead guilty to the first count and
was sentenced to pay a fine of ten dol
lars, the costs of prosecution, and under-
go imprisonment in the county jail for a
period of thirty days.
Com. vs. Jacob Quiggle, charge cut
{ afhants to
Marsh
ting and converting timber
his own use ; prosecutor, Samue
Settled.
Com
arson and malicious
tor, William J. Batler;
witted to the house of refuge, September
vs. Howard Walker, charge
mischief ; prosecu
defendant com
19x
Com vs. Clara Davis, indicted on two
counts : first count disorderly house |
» | .
second count away
house prosecul
Albert Pardoe, ch
Marvy Pard
Argum nt
Wi
prosecutrix FE izabeth
vs
u prosecutrix
sed of at Uclober mrt
P
James iams, charge lar
Lom. vs
ceny Bartiey.
Bill ignored and couuly to pay the costs,
Tate,
and neglecting to maintain Rufus Gilbert
Tate ; Settled.
Com.
Com. vs. E. P charge assauit
prosecutrix Annie Tate
vs. Frank Croyle, indicted on
two counts : first count, assault and bat.
tery jesecond count, aggravated assault
and battery ; prosecutor Samuel Saylor,
Settled.
Com Barr, charge fornica
tion | H. 8. Bill
ignored and the prosecutor to pay the
DG
prosecutor
vs
Springer,
costs
Com. vs. Jacob Quiggle and Adam
Squires; indicted for maliciously cutting |
timber trees on land of another, prose.
cutor James F, Marstellar, superintend.
ent of the Lehigh Valley Coal company.
This prosecution is brought for the cut.
assault with intent to kill and carrying | ting of ove hundred and ninety.-four
concealed deadly weapon, prosecutor
Harry Condo, Nolle prosequl entered.
At the afternoon session cousiderable
time was again taken up in hearing
motions and petitions,
Andrew Kern received his final dis
charge from jail under the insolvent laws
of the Commonwealth,
Com. vs. Daniel Robb; indicted for
| dollars and seventy-two cents worth of
timber on the Charles Risk tract in Rush
township owned by the Lehigh Valley
Coal company people. The defendant
alleged that he thought that he was cut.
ting on part of the lands he had bought
from Samuel Marsh and that he cul
under claim of title, Verdict on Wednes.
day morning of guilty, Motion made for
new trial, reasons to be filed within ten
days.
James McMullen, constable of Boggs
township, recently appointed tipstave,
Continued on Page 4
Johnstonbaugh, |
| paper
{ the Indians,
BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29,
HISTORICAL
monwealth alleged that the defendant |
REVIEW
of Centre Co. Republished
That Will be Continued as Long as Ap-
preciated~—Gathered from Reliable
History and Tradition—Contribu-
tions are Solicited.
(In our last issue the announcement
was made that a new department would
be established in the columus of this
with
From
The
from
idea has met
our readers.
the county,
much favor
week to week we will give about two |
The article this
week 1elates to the customs and habits of
the Indians, which to some may be a
famijar story, but to others will be in.
teresting and especially instructive to the
younger readers
In the line of local tradition tkere are
many of the older citizens of the county
who may be able tw furnish interesting
incidents that have never been in print,
Anything in this tine is earnestly solicited |
and will be prepared for publication in |
K.)
proper order.—F.
ABORIGINEES’ CUSTOMS,
As soon as a child was born, it was
laid upon a board or straight piece of
bark, covered with moss, and wrapped
up in a skin or piece of cloth ; and when
mother engaged in her house
the was
work, this rude cr: or bed, was hung
tree. Their
{ them (0 §
through
They
They
thy
RL
sacrifices
offices of
each man brought a & and offered
it himself as priest. Instead of a temple,
they fitted up a large dwelling house for
the purpose
1
Polytheism, or the grossest
idolatry, did not exist among
although they had their images, rep
senting the ‘*‘Manitto.’
were of wood, the head of a man in miol.
he images
ature, which they always carried about
them, either on a string round the neck
or in a bag. They also suspended
ages of the kind about the necks of their
children
and to ensure them success
The their
sacrifices, held five as being the car
to preserve them from illness
Delawares, in feasts and
final
ones—each was accompanied by its aj
propriate ceremohies
The first was a sacrificial feast,
biennially by a whole family, or
friends—usually in the fall ; occasiona
in the winter. Besides the members
ily, they sometimes invited the
neighbors from the surround
The head of the
ages
family was
After
he requisite number of
rovide everything estima
,
}
t bears and deer
hauters
After
on such ap occasion,
were despatched t
securing them,
solemn process)
fice, and the:
served uv in
’
made of Ind
peETSONnS App
uniform mn
that whate
sacrifice, mm who and
ft A smal
only,
nothing le qu ity of melt.
| the oldest
this the
m sisted
ed fat WAS DOnred
’
and
TIDE «
to prevent
fire,
off
in main
The
dogs
man into the
the
bones were burnt,
part ol
the
After
the men and women struck up a dance,
from getting any of them meal,
One singer performed during the dance,
who walked up and down, and rattled a
small tortoise shell, with some pebbles
in it. The principal part of the song
consisted of dreams, and a recital of all
the names of the “"Manittos,”’ and such
things as were esteemed most useful to
After the first singer was
weary be sat down, and avother sang.
This kind of feast usually began in the
afternoon, and lasted till next morning.
Sometimes it continued for several nights
in succession.
The second feast was similar to the
first, with this difference, that the men
danced glmost in a state of nudity, and
their bodies were besmeared with white |
clay.
At the third feast, a dozen or fifteen
tanned deer skins were given to as many
old men and women; who wrapped
themselves in them, and stood before the
house, with their face towards the east;
and in this position prayed God with a
loud voice to reward their benefactors.
The fourth feast was made to a certain
voracious spirit, who, according to their
a review of the early history of |
1000,
were therefore obliged to eat all the
bears’
without leaving anything, which
frequently followed by indigestion and
violent vomiting
The fifth
| honor of fire, which they held in venera.
festival was celebrated in
tion, considered it as the first parent of
all Indian They that
twelve “‘Manittos'’ attended this parent
nations. said
as subordinate deities, beg partly ant
mals The
in celebrating this festi.
and partly vegetables prin.
cipal ceremony,
val, was, that a large oven was built in
the midst of the house that
consisted of twelve poles, each of a dif.
f
of sacrihice,
ferent species of wood, These they ran
| into the ground, fastened them together
{ at the top, and covered them entirely
that the ap-
| peared like a baker's oven, high enough
{nearly
right
with blankets, so whole
to admit a man, standing up-
After meal, the oven was heat.
ed with twelve large stones made red
| hot : then twelve men crept into it, and
remained there as
bear the heat
long as they could
the while an
old woman threw twelve pipes full of
In mean
tobacco upon the hot stones, which occa-
sioued a smoke almost powerful enough
| to suffocate the persons that were con.
| fined ; so that on being taken out, they
| generally fell in a swoon During the
feast a whole deer-skin, with the héfad
and antlers remaining, was raised up
a poie, to which they san;
though they always d
bers of minor it
Dependin " ’ for a saps
of food, princiy y in the
hase,
hunting «
ly
their chief employ-
» % . >
ment, and war, was considered
most honorable : they were experi
enced hunters ; their boys were trained
to this business, whom they taught when
unite young to climb trees, “both to
catch birds and to exeicise their sight
which by this method was rendered
they
istanee
A]
quick, that in hunting saw objects
at an amazing d
and purseing game, they almost exceed.
the best trained dog, in following its
Their principal weapons used
an hunters, were bows and
ne had rifles
Their hunting
i for months, some
entered a loug hunt
they won more
and and
dreamer
had
1
and heard
Ind who
for years him sa If thou
wilt sacrifice to me. thou shalt shoot deer
they instantly prepared
the
the
at pleasure a
sacrifice. burnt whole, or part of a
They
made
deer, in honor of apparition
observed other ceremonies, and
use of charms to promote their success
JCONTINURD IN NEXT
- -— -
Operating in Bedford
ISSUR )
Shaffer,
of Madisonburg, the successful lumber.
George Homan and Ellis §
men operating as Homan & Shaffer, have
purchased a large timber tract in Provi
and
will begin operating the same early next
putting in their own mill. The
timber is estimated at 2,000,000 feet and
is probably the best of its size in Bedford
county. These gentiemen are at pre.
sent operating on the W. F. Smith tract
in Gregg township, where they have been
handling some immense lumber, — Jour.
nal.
dence township, Bedford county,
year,
- -
Shamokin Dam to be Removed.
The citizens of Shamokin Dank’ on the
‘Snyder county side of the Susqirbhaona
"river, as well as the citisens of Sunbury
land vicinity on the eastern side of the
| river, are greatly disturbed over the fact
that the Pennsylvania Cana! Company
has decided to tear out the dam which
has stood for nearly a century, Between
Sunbury and Northomberland. -
. ; |
notions, was never satisfied I'he guests |
flesh, and drink the melted fat, |
was |
| death.
| burg and was the leader of the Philips
| burg band.
I
SUCCESSFUL
HUNTERS
Large Number 2f Deer were Shot
thie
Season,
SOME RESULTSOF THE CHASE
Nim-
Chast
Hunting Season will close Friday
Names of some of the Successful
rods—Few Incidents of the
November 30.
Romola hunters, 50 far, killed six deer
this season
A State College haunting party has four
led.
The hunting party from Hannah killed
two deer last week.
deer ki
A party from Keating and Renova six
in number, killed t= deer on Trout run.
The Modocks of Boalsburg, have four
deer to their credit; this is an old party
and and always in luck.
The score of the Potters Mills Regulars
up to end of last week, six deer.
The R. A. M , of the same locality, killed
four this season
was
County Detective Rightnour came
bome Friday morning
from a hunting
1p in the Alleghenies that
ry
[8] Joe insists
he killed the deer, he broubt home
Frank Brindle, aged 1g years, of Fer
son township, Mifflin
shot
leon
gent.
unity, a
Savers had ne
er
the woods, and when two came past him
at ful tit be shot them both
KILLED TWO FINE BUCKS
The bunting party from the lower end
of Haives township, which spent last
week in the Seven mountains, boarded
the train for home last Friday afternoon
They were fortunate e1
ugh to k two
age bucks, and went home with smiles
The party consisted of six hunters and a
cook, among the nimrods
Mike Hess
man, F. P. Masser,
This
the
were J. J
Oradorf, Theodore Host
er Sam’) ngle an
Hoover makes the
Seven nounts
Oost Jory
Ww
Wyoming
am. Ce
SON «
rons. ast week wrote home
4
Woodland. ( i
carfield,
killed Wednesday
yases Walker, a
ale
the
hunting and
which
were
man who was him, m a very
narrow escape from meeting same
fate The men
bad
ran into a hole
were out
and w= i
unded
Wh
looking at the hole where the rabbit had
shot a rabbat,
le both men
gone, a large tree some forty feet away
suddenly blew over, and pulling up the
roots, thereby giviog no warning, and in
falling bit Walker and knocked bim
some distance and struck Riley on the
head, crushing in the skull and causing
fostant death. Mr. Riley was about 42
| years of age, and leaves a wife and ser.
eral children to mourn his very sad
He at one time lived in Philips.
>
Sober’s Crack Shot.
C. K. Sober, of Lewisburg, shot a
pheasant on the wing with a weasel
clinging to its neck. Roth specimens
are in the hands ofa taxidermist for
mounting. The pheasant weighed one
and a half pounds,
Lumber Plant Da 3
The heavy ralns of the 24 hours
slightly damaged the Kulp Lamber Com-
pany’s plant at Milroy and floated away
some logs.
7
VOL. 22, NO.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Selected
and Original
a 1
The but r's shop is a public meating
r .
piace
An Indian summer—a Carlisle
in arithmetic
student
Men swear when meet
a womarc
There reason
should not go to sea
Lend,
no why a bln
and the world laughs at you;
'
borrow and you borrow a loan
The successful blacksmith may hon-
estly forge a name for himself
When a fe
credit are they breeches
When Jack
doesn’t go to a bakery for lady
ow buys his trousers on
of promise ?
Frost wants a bite he
fingers
An eagle 1s sometimes big enough to
1A 3 an v - "me v
ride un, and some men go off on a lark.
Some men are like cheap posters; a
little money causes them 10 be stuck up.
A girl can easily make a goose of her.
self by talking about her swan-like neck.
The house decorator doesn’t fail in
business every ime he goes to the wall
Some gain reputations for
clevernes hen th 3 are simply
nply dis-
be entitled
h: Westmoreland, Erie, Favette, Cam-
bria, Berks, Chester, Dauvhin, Lancaster
Montgomery
Northamotaon Solis e411
Sortbamplon, Schuyikiil,
izerne would
would
wou d
KEawanns 1a
ators A
Phi ade ph a
rding ation,
Imitation will cat
York, and La
sen egheny
to popu
nstitulyoual
representation down to eight
following counties wouid be entitl.
ne representative each ¥
rest,
Indiana, Bedford, Clarion
Clint Co-
Forest, Fu'ton, Huntingdon
Juniata, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour
Potter Sul
Adams
meron, Carbon, Centre, a,
via, Elk
Perry,
Pike. ivan, dDusque-
hanna, U Warren,
non
Wayne and
Wyoming
The fo
ed two repr
ng counties would be enti.
Crawford,
Jefferson,
merset
J Venango,
Armstrong Bradford,
. nklin, Lawrence,
Kean and Tioga,
be entitled to
tatives each: Washington,
Blair
th and Northampton
Montgomery
Chester,
and
The West Virginia Deer Have Come
.
So many deer havi tilled by
unters this fa +d us to juire of
hunters how they account for game being
$0 unusually plentiful this season,
as evidenced by the good luck that
We
irginia deer have
was
the Jot of hunting parties
formed that the West V
Are in.
come up into our mountains, supposedly
lamber
going on down We
that Franklin and some
other counties are full of these West Vir.
ginia deer. The deer in that state are
to be distinguished from the deer of our
own mountains in that they are darker
along the back than the Peansylvania
deer, and the horus of these new comers
are not near as thick at the root and
bave a spiral shape near the head, the
horns of the bucks being more slender
driven up this way by the large
operations there
are also told
| than those of the Pennsylvania deer,
These differences have been noticed
on many of the deer killed by our bunt.
ers this season. PF. P. Musser, of Mill
heim, who has hunted in West Virginia,
and knows what the deer down there are
like, confirms the above facts from his
own observations of the deer which
he saw that had been killed in our moun.
tains this fall. The theory is entirely
plausible, and our lovers of the chase
will be only too giad to have the new
game pour into our hunting grounds.
They are the same size of body, bat more
long legged than our deer,