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CHAS. R. KURTZ, Propriet
SECOND WEEK
OF COURT
Tried
Only Few Civil Cases
This Week
THE KEENAN MURDER TRIAL
Proceedings
Not Guilty—Other Cases
Last Week—Fully
ported by S. D. Gettig, Esq.,
A Brief Account of the
Verdict
Disposed Re-
dere i,
Harlacher
TT)
Sur mortgag 1) il it {
Archibs \ Hino N
and C. H
and T. |
chanie’'s lien. Voluntary
David Robb vs. J. 1
inslow Hendrix
Warren C
mtinoed
Krumripe
Foster, owners ot
rep ited own
ors Kennedy contractor. me
non suit entered
Wagner, E. E
Kunes,
uoeil and Dan-
treorge Porter
e Gardper
, summoned in trespass, plea not
William Kioski
summoned in ejectment, plea not guilty
Bettled
R. J Walker vs
Reese snd B F
ve John Swroviek,
Insane Reese, ( eorge
Heese, trading as [sane
Resse & Bons, and George Merrill, sum
moned in replevin, plea not guilty and
property
A.D
Martin
plea not guilty
Lehigh Valley Coal Company va. Jacob
Pat
Patrick Ward,
Patrict Kelley,
Continned
Adams va, Samuel Hoover and
summoned
Nettled
Cowher, in trespass,
F. Folmer, administrator of, ete,
rick Ward, Sr,
Jr.. John Guosallos and
ol
deceased ‘
summoned in assaompsit, plea non wasump
sit.
Bherifl’s deeds were acknowledged
Continued
George 8. Burrowes of Banbury was ap.
pointed by the Court as the official court
stenographer for this district, vice J. Frank
Condon of Altoona, resigned. |
Court convened on Monday afternoon at
2 o'clock with President Judge Love, and
Martin Bell, president judge of the Blair
were chal
district. on the bench, Juries
lenged and sworn in the two cases
open for trial and all jurors not empaneled
in the juries were discharged, Judge Love
holding court in the arbitration room and
Judge Bell in the court room
Miss ( Hie
M
Mitchell, stenographer in the
office ot J Dale, Esq., is assisting Mr
Burrowes in reporting for the Court while
the two courts are going on.
and next
I'he
tres
tried
Fannie Barnhart by her father
friend, The M
Borough
ympson larnhart, vs
Bel
8, plea not guilty
ol elont ARR T in
I'his Was
KEENAN NOT GUILTY
lived there several year
Keenan First saw him last Apri
The Wednesday before
Sunday Keenan took dinner at
Summit Laster
my house
The next day my daughter, Annie, went
to Snow Shoe and Keenan came home
with her, Annie is dead Keenan was
with Annie again on Saturday, also Sun.
Monday. Twice
during the week Keenan was with Annie,
day, but went away
and on Saturday Keenan went with my
husband to Elk county The following
They both
worked at the same place until in June
Keenan In
July he went to Cameron county, but did
Tuesday Annie also went
when came to my home,
not stay long and in August he went to
Falls Creek, where he remained until in
he
came to our house with an injured hand.
He was there until brought to Bellefoute
On
the early part of September, when
after the shooting. Sunday before
Sept. 25 both Annie and Keenan were at
our home, On the day, Monday,
they were also there, Had dif
culty that day as they did not speak until
evening. | asked Keenan
wrong and he sald, "Oh, nothing.” On
Tuesday | asked Keenan to see Patrick
Ward about a team to gfor wood. He
next
some
what was
{ got the team, accompanied by Anhie and
Alice went for wood Wednesday morning
They went to the Lucas sawmill on Mo.
shannon creek, about two miles away.
Continued on page 4, column
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900.
MORE ABOUT
THE INDIANS
Our Historical Review of Centre
County Continued
SOME PECULIAR CUSTOMS
Lived
and
Pub-
Among the Indians who
and Roamed Over
Mountains—Short
lished Each \! eek.
Once
our Hillis
Sketches
, in their travels, they had o«
ep ver, on arnving a
liately and built ;
himself into some
cold water, where he about
thirty seconds, and then went again into
the
operation
oven. After baving performed this
he
smoked his pipe with composure, and in
ef
three times successively.
many
fected.”
CASES A cure was completely
Indian doctors never applied medicines
without accompanying them with mys.
to
appear supernatural
terious ceremonies, make their effect
The ceremonies
Many breathed upon the
breath
this
were various
sick
wholesomé
averred their
In they
spirted a certain llquor made of herbs,
they was
addition to
out of thelr mouth, over the patient's
whole body, distorting their
In ine
stances physicians crept into the oven,
features,
and roaring dreadfully. some
where they sweat, howled, roared, and
pow and then grinned horribly at their
patients, who had been laid before the
opening, and frequently felt the pulse of
the patient, Then pronouneed sentence,
foretold either their
On
and recovery ot
death, one Moravian
missionary was present, who says, "An
Indian physician had put on a large
bear-skin, so that his arms were covered
occasion, a
| with the fore legs, his feet with the hind
legs, and his head was entirely con.
| ¢ealed in the bear's head with the addi.
tion of
this
ac.
companied by a great crowd of people
into the patient’s hut,
ing, when he grasped
He came
attire with a calabash in his
glass eves, in
hand,
mging and dan
a handful of hot
ashes, and scattering them into the air,
with a horrid noise, approached the
patient, and began to play several leger
demain tricks with small bits of wood,
by which he pretended to be able to
restore him to health.”
Their Valeria Medica, or the remedies
used In curing diseases
nake
were, such as
ratile the of
and pul
root, Kins rattle
snakes, dried
ash, toothache tree, tuli
wild laurel
FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENT
Instantly Killed by
Pritchard
Accidental Discharge of a
Charles
Gun
out hy
ter Shaw
Charles P HAY had Mie
Wa
abaugh brothers, al
ant
ing with three companion
he Ho
Philipsburg,
and 1 of
Thanksgiving
L morming
Thinking the load too hard on the team
coming up the hill from Nasou's camp,
Pritchard and one of the
Hollabaugh
men got out to walk. They went to the
rear of the wagon to take out their guns,
supposed to be empty, and in drawing
them out of the wagon bed the trigger of
Hollabangh's gun struck and it discharg
ed, emptying its contents in Pritchard's
face. The shot entered the and
instant
engaged in
the livery business with his brother Joe,
mouth
penetrated the brain, p
I'he
oducing
death deceased was
and was well known
Killed a Big Bear.
of Milton
were out hunting in the
Last week a trio hunters
ualains near
d
ACK H
It
measuring
Stovers, Centre sncceeded
which
was a fine
eouniy, =»
in killing a long bi ar,
weighed 216 pounds,
large specimen, scven feet
The party bagged 22
pheasants, 5 rabbits, and a wild turkey,
Another party camping in that
killed two bears and
week. Lewisburg Journal
from Lip 10 tip
vicinity
two deer last
Residents of the great Nutmeg State
ncral,
OUR DECLINE
IN POPULATION |...
Reasons Assigned for the Decrease
yince 1890
ARE EMPLOYED ELSEWHERE
A Number of our
Industries
Years
of the
Manufacturing
Past Ten
Large
Closed
Gains
State
Pittsburg in
1 YEArscountiess thnity towns
have into existence due to th
location all forms of iron and steel
industries, glass factories, etc. attracted
to that locality by the cheap fuel, trans
faci and minera
We ath
Centre countians by birth are now
of The
coal towns of Windber andjotber sections,
portation ities local
wealth believe almost sand
living
in the vicinity Pittsburg new
also Altoona have drawn on our popula
ton
A large portion of the excess popula
of
the Bald Eagle valley has drifted along
the Beech Creek
Philadelphia &
towns like Johusonburg, or the extensive
Elk,
tion in the lower or eastern section
ratiroad the
new
or up
Erie railroad to
lumber
operations and
in Forest
adjoining counties
Lack of employment is the reason our
population is drifting away and locating
in other industrial centres
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Pensions Granted,
Andrew Cramer, of Hublersburg, has
been granted a pension of fro. Richard
Gibbs, of Milrshurg, has been granted a
sion of $14. The minor children of
| Piulip Bradley, of Axe Mann, have been
| need not go far to find a nutmeg grater, | grated a pension of $14 per month,
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VOL. 22, NO. 48.
THE WONDERS OF THE COURTS.
the courts
New Church
The new Methodist
Sunday by the
l Bell, who pr
noon and night
ace of worshis
gin
was
-
ile 1
neat i
ie!
and the remainis wed
ing to about $i provi
Mystery at Ridgway
Lovd Cody wat found early Sanday
morning in his father’s store at Ridgway
with the top of his bead crushed in, and
without
be died a short time afterward
speaking. The young man was found in
an unconscious condition by his father,
The affair is shrouded in mystery
Sold by Sherifi
Valley campmeeling
at sheriffs sale for
the direc.
The
grounds were
foo to J. K. Rhodes,
tors
Juniata
sold
om
me
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Tug regular army is to be increased
10 ¢b,000 men, the administration having
fixed upon that number.
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READ first editorial on page 4-some
good points there.