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CHAS. R. KURTZ, Proprietor.
PROCEEDINGS |
IN COURT
Complete Account of All Cases
Tried Since Monday
CENTRE HALL WATER SUIT
Called for Trial This Thursday Morn-
ing—Verdicts Rendered and Sen
tences— Reported Specially by S. D.
Gettig, Esq.
urt for January,
January sessions of co
1901, convened on Monday morning
Honorable John (G. Love on the bench
A large portion of the forenoon session
was consumed in hearing motions and pe
the county
titions in the several courts of
as prese nted by the several members of the
Bar
I'he
and townships then
1}
constables of se geveral boroughs
made ir quarterly
reports to the Court of Quarter Sessions
List of grand jurers called and absentees
noted, and Curtis Y. Wagner of Bellefonte,
miller of Roopshurg, was chosen foreman.
The Court then charged the jury, after
which they retired to the grand jury room
indict-
to pass upon the several bills of
ment that will be laid before them by the
district attorney
The civil cases of court for this week
were then called over and noted for trial,
and the following cases were disposed of
Hoyt & Co.,
ing Scale Company vs. J
A.M
for National Comput-
H
trading
agent
Reeser and
as J. H.
1, plea non assum psit
Reeser, his son,
Christian
nd Hiram
plea no
Sharrer
Cramer
guilty
Hoy
Hoy, deceased
waisa H
German Amer
f New York This
moned
entered
Jo Reese. Christian Reese, O
hn
Delilah Adams
Hee he,
Reese. lucy Cowher.
Sharrer, and William
Mary Adams, Eve
children of Heuben
Reese,
Alice
Heese
Re fae 1 Oatie
Reese, deceased
Richards. Christian Reese, Delilah
Guis Robert
Minnie Walker Matthew
Reese and Annie Reese, children of Den-
Abel William
Cowher Stone
Ida
Heese
Heese Reese, Chilice Reese,
George Reese,
nis Reese, deceased Heese
Reese, Lucinda Lydia
braker, Reuben Reese, Barger, Seth
of
Kelleg,
Reese, and Amanda children
Tevi Reese, deceased, va. Peter
plea not guilty, Settled
8. Morris Waln
administrators
Howard Conrow,
of I. Thornton
John L. Rich
, of Benjamin Rich, de
to
Verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for $10
and
of, ete
Conrow, deceased, vn ad-
ministrator of, et
ceased ; scire facias revive judgment
700.32
William M. Allison, Edward A. Allison,
James A. Keller, and William B
who
Mingle,
survive Simon Harper, trading os
the Penns Valley
P.H
C, Stover, deceased, scire facins
judgment, plea nil debit, Verdict
vor of the plaintiff tor $72.46
W. H. Fairies of Bunbury is acting as of
Banking Company vs
of, ete. of J
to revive
Stover, administrator
in fa
ficial Court stenographer in the absence of
George 8B. Burrowes, the official stenogra-
pher of the district
Court convened at 2 o'clock in the after.
noon and quite a number of motions and
petitions were heard.
Michael Confer, now to use of Mary Con-
fer va. Kline 8B. Haines, administrator of,
ete. of John Manon, late of Curtin township,
deceased ; appeal, plea non assumpsit, |
This suit was brought on a book account.
The defendant interposed the statute of
limitation, whereupon the plaintiff suffered
a voluntary non suit,
James Sharp va. Harry Flack, appeal, |
plea non assumpsit, “This suit is brought
to recover for the keeping and maintain.
ing defendant's little girl, Ethel, from the |
time of Mrs. Flack’s death, for a period of |
four years and eight months, fof which the |
plaintiff claims one dollar per week. The |
plaintiff and wife are uncle .and sunt to
the little girl, and the defendant alleges
that be paid money to the plaintiffs for the
| present of a sewing machine and had offer
| an axe,
| hit him and said
| Verdict of not guilty and tke prosecutor
clothing of the child, had made them a
ed them other money and it was refused, |
that
would charge nothing ; the defendant had
and plaintifts bad told him they
also paid the doctor bills, Verdict in favor
of the plaintifl for $116.00
CP
peal, plea non assumpsit. This case is
Long ve, Mrs, Mary A K rape, ap
brought to recover a book account for store
goods bought by defendant and family out
of the store of the plaintiff at Spring Mills
The defendant alleges that the accounts
were settled in the spring of 1896 or 1507
she
pay
at which time notified the plaintifl
that she would no hills contracted for
by her boys unless in her pass-book
Verdict
the plaintifl
put
on Tuesday afternoon in favor of
for $6 12
Walk, indicted
Moore hi
township and the d
Ve 0
Frank
traval, prosecutrix Bertha |
case is from Taylor
tendant plead guilt¥® The usual senter
in such cases was imposed by the Court
Com. vs, Thomas Baillien, indicted first
1 3
count, breaking into dwelling house in the
day time to commit a felony second
count, larceny third count, receiving
Mary Murphy
wwnshiy
The
stolen goods, prosecutrix
This case is from Huston y, about
from Julian Common-
that
of
two miles
wealth alleges the defendant broke
the
Thanksgiving day,
nto house the prose utrix on
last November, tak
ing therefrom a lady's black purse con-
tarning about six dollars, the purse being
in the kitchen cupboard, and also some old
coin, the folks of the house being away
from home, while the defendant denies the
it The de
rested at Philipsburg by the «
fendant was afterward
was di
irteen hundred
he did
bed by
a white
ha
: instead
siouch
of a black cap and | lleged by
the Commonwealth, and alleged his where
abotts during that evening Verdict on
oon of not gn
Wednesday after g
ity
’
va. J icted fF
1 Madill
shin Mecom. ind or lar
This
Nnow Shoe townah p
Com
ceny prosecn ts ye
case 1s from Clarencs
and the defendant broke into the post of
fice at the above named place, which is al-
so a store, and took therefrom some tohac
co, pipes, sen-sen, chewing gum and about
the value of he
dollars, « the
After the Com-
one dollar in cash, all of
twelve
1001
monwealth closed, the defendant, who isa
tween eight and n
night of Jannary =
between fifteen and sixteen
boy years,
changed his plea and plead guilty and
was sentenced to pay the costs of prosecu
tion, one dollar fine and undergo imprison
ment in the Reformatory at Huntingdon,
Com. va. George Sheesley, indicted for
assault and battery, prosecutor Philip C.
Frank. Sometime prior to November 3d of
last year the prosecutor, constable of Potter
Twp. lived on the property of a Mr. Bartle
and a Mm. Confer in Gregg township on a
landlord's warrant and had the property ad-
vertised for sale on the 3d day of Nov. and
when he got there on the day advertised
for the sale he could not find the property,
after which he went to the residence of the
| defendant looking for the property, and
| while there some difficulty arose, and the
prosecutor alleges that the defendant hit
him with his fist and strock at him with
The defendant denied that he
he had done no harm.
| and the defendant to each pay one-half of
| the costs,
At this point:the grand jury made its
final report and was discharged
REPOKT OF GRAND JURY
The grand jury inquest of the Commons
wealth of Pennsylvania inquiring for the
county of Centre in all matters relating to | which are larger and higher than the |
rest, the joints between each pallisade |
the same do respectfully report : .
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31. 1901
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Another Chapter Recounting In-
dian Invasions
PIONEERS LEAVE THEIR HOME
And Flee to the Nearest Forts for Se
curity-—Lovenhoven's
Against the Savages
of Fort Agusta.
Expedition
Desc iplion
““In the spring of 173
| ras dee or
rewards Judge H p
small
aa force at
mouth of Wallis run
murders had been
Hunter
these murder ent
of Fort
cy. that all the elliers
should evacuate, and take refuve a
bury. Col
on the orders and
to Ant
above To carry
th
volunteer exce
Ake none
would pt Covenhoven, a
young Yankee millwright See closiug
paragri review, )
"On his way up Covenhoven had staid
night with Andrew Armstrong, who
ived at the head of the long reach,
qq. Seward now lives
hoven warned him to qui
like to abandon his
- 11 the arming
heed to the warning
upon him suddenly and
with his oldest child
ana
the year Mrs
was
Durham
Fort Augusta, or ft
of the
Sunbury, on the le
hank Susquehanna, below the
north branch of Susquehanna, was a
place of some notoriety in the early his.
It
was not only used as a convenient tarry.
ing their
war parties against the southern lodians:
tory of the Province of Pennsylvania
» ’
place of the Six Nations for
but as a Moravian missionary station,
and where Fort Augusta was erected,
and garrisoned during the }
rench and
Indian war. Several important confer.
ences were held here with the Indians
by Conrad Weiser and others
As early as 1742, Count Zinzendorff
accompanied by Conrad Weiser, Esq.,
Br. Martin Mack and his wife, and the
two Indians, Joshua and David, after a
tedious journey through the wilderness,
arrived at Shamokin, Shikellimus stepped
out and gave them a hearty welcome.
“A satage presented the Count with a
fine melon, for which the latter gave him
his cap." The Count announced
himself as a messenger of the living God,
come to preach grace acd mercy. Shik-
ellimus said he was glad to receive such
a messenger, and promised to forward
his designs, One day, when the Brethren
were about going to prayers, and the
Indians, then at a feast, were making a
prodigious noise, with drums and sing.
ing, the Count sent word to Shikellimus,
| who ordered silence immediately,
| Fort Augusta stands at about forty
yards distance from the river on a bank
twenty-four feet from the surface of the
water. The side which fronts the river
fur
| is a strong pallisade, the bases of the,
logs being sunk four feet into the earth,
the tops hollowed and spiked into strong
ribbond which run transversely aud
are morticed into several logs at
twelve feet distance from each other,
{ horizontally neatly dovetailed and tryn.
nelled down, they are squared, some of
feet the
from two feet and a half to eighteen
the lower end three diameter,
least
inches diameter:
oak
The following instronctions from Colonel
aud are mostly white
Clapham to Capt. Hambright, command.
er of a detachment from Col. Clapham'’s
given NO
regiment, g at Fort Augusta,
vember 4, 1756, are given, as it is be
lieved they will be read with interest
Sir «You are to march with a party of
rporals, and
ymmand
Branch
Monsieur
whose adv are directed
In every case are Lo atta
agreeable
herewith giver
mix the
the t
am mg
)
aud if any
to kill, scalp and captivate as many
as you can ; and if no Indians are there,
you are to v to
act in such a
manner and it uch caution, as t
.
prevent the discovery of your having
been there, by any party that may
shortly arr which reason
you are tly forbidden to! take
urn,
away, destroy or meddle with anything
f |
found at such places mediately
despatch Mons
hanoe
happen
}
thereabout
severa
io pro
jon and vyigi
road which leads to Fort
e, there to lie in ambush, and
m
their arch to, or from the
settlements ; and there t
h the
provisions obliges you to return
re.
main, with that
“I wish you ail imaginable success, of
which, the opinion I have of yourself, the
party and officers under your com
leaves me no room to write
mand,
I am sir, &c.
WILLIAM CLAPHAM
P.8
sergeant with a party
You will not omit to post the
on the opposite
side of the river during the attack.
to
Ac
the
and
cording direction, to prevent
enemy from escaping that way,
reserve one half of your force
»
Bellefonte Bar Banquet.
There will be a B. B. B, at the Bush
House, Friday evening, February Sth,
Lawyers are most excellent diners and
this fact alone will ensure a lay-out that
princes would be proud to partake of,
But then there is the feast literary and
humorous that will be infused, and in this
line the Bellefonte Bar stands second to
none in the state’and maintains its an.
cient reputation. The Bar Associatioh will
make the occasion one worthy of its
standing in all respects—a ‘feast of rea.
son and a flow of soul.” The menu and
what is said and dove thereat will be
| worthy of printing in a book, to have a
niche in the County Law Library.
host, Daggart, of the Bash house, with
his handsome and obliging assistant, Mr, |
Fenlon, will be equal to the occasion, and
see to it that nothing is wanting on their
part to make the banquet a success,
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Shot a Panther.
Valentine Confer, a young Sugar valley
hunter, shot and killed a panther in the
woods near Carroll a few days ago. The
animal had been prowling around that
i
* That they have acted upon fifteen bills | with Sve logs well fitted on the inside | Section for some time, and its frightful
of indictment, of which thirteen were | and supported by the platform —the other | Screams bad terrified the whole neigh.
Continued on page 4, column 4,
three sides are composed of logs laid
*
borhood.,
Mine
acral,
TWO ENGINES
SMASHED
Head-on Collision Monday Morn-
ing on the B.E.V.R.R.
WILLIAM BORMAN KILLED
And Several Others Sustain Injurie
Engineers Jump Fim
I'heir |
the Wreck
in [0 Save
Ve two men In
hing
K
k warn
approa
he jumped
mpletely
i
Jonathan, of Ph
|
1G Lmerson,
The fun
today at 2 0
-
Sale pais.
bave houid
us in regard to having their bills
Farmers who will sale
consuit
printed. We have a large assortment of
material for this kind of work, use good
4
and at
AIWAYS
| strong paper, showy cuts make
tractive bills Our prices are
right
It
nounced
is ant to have your sale an
import
in our register as this paper
has an immense circulation and goes
into every nook and corner of the coun-
ty, and is read by thousands every week
Good work at reasonable prices, and
wide circulation through the columns of
for
the paper, is an inducement you to
call on us,
-
Coming.
The “Thespians,’” the dramatic
ganization of the Pennsylvania State
| College, will make its appearance in
Bellefonte in another month. The play
to be given this year is "David Garrick,”
a comedy in three acts, with ‘Lend Me
Five Shillings,” farce of one act for a
curtain raiser. The schedule for this
season is : State College, Feb. 15; Al
toona, Feb. 20; Tyrone, Feb. 21 ; Ridg-
| way, Feb, 22; Lock Haven, Feb. 25;
Bellefonte, Feb, 26,
or.
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Trolley for Jersey Shore.
Philadelphia capitalists are making |
| arrangements to construct a trolley line
| from the P. & KE. passenger station at
| Antes Fort to Jersey Shore Junction of |
|
the Beech Creek railroad.
be about six miles long.
-
The cook's duties cover a wide range.
The elevator man who calls wut floors
tells stories,
No doctor can truthfully claim to en.
Joy good health,
The line will
som—
VOL. 23, NO. s.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY,
right Sparkling Paragraphs— Selected
and Original
Courage t thrives on
heaps
of sand
Most min
ters ¢
* mort-
gages on the church
The baker who mixes |
vy has a soft thing o
The average woman Gui
who had
ir failed
» pext time he
for an ex -
it was that be failed
nt. He replied
stayed at
on ac -
he
$ to why
all
t at home
d the
such
nave to stay
pipes, responde
ur fe!
If that young ow has as
tivenes 5 a toad
I ITI
summer
to exj
young girls,
Minnie
in California,
, & yousg medical
The
and
and Theodore
student, was hanged for the crime
ms were found in the belfry
church ma which Rev. Gibson preached,
trying with the as
p the
crime on young Durrant, who claimed
death
who
the pastor of Emanuel
yu fessed be killed both
The above ar.
gument in favor of imprisonment for life
preference to
and he was aclive in
ves, to fasten
his innocence ast. On his
bed a few days ago, Gibson,
at the Lime was
church that
the victims is another
or penal exportation in
capital punishment
“Reeden, Riten and Sifern
the time when
all writing was done by use of the goose
quill that was before
steel pens born The school
teacher then had a daily job of mending
pens for scholars so they could do their
writin’ lessons, the teacher heading the
page of the copy book with a sentence
elegantly written for the scholar to
practice on. A quill pen is a thing ob
the past, and the copybook is not so
much a requirement as in those days of
nreeden, riten and sifern.’’
Many can remember
and well done
were
The Figure o.
The figure 9 came into the calender
January 188g, and will stay with us 111
years from that date or until December,
1999. No other figure ever had such a
| Jong consecutive run and the g itsell has
| only once before been in a race which
lasted a century in which it continuously
figured,
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