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CHAS. R. Kl wv
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Colonel Zebulon Butler had several times
| written letters to congress and General
| Washington, acquainting them with the
danger the settlement was in, and re.
[ questing assistance ; but the letters were
More About Thrilling Adventures
During the Revolution
FAMOUS WYOMING MASSACRE |
| from ignorance or a contempt of al
A Whole Colony Cruelly Exterminated |
by the Most Brutal and Barbarous
Methods—An Interesting Story
Retold. {
CHAPTER XIII.
Account of the dreadful devastation of
Wyoming settlements in Jaly, 1778
From Gordon's History of the American
War,
So early as the Sth of Februar
General Schuyler wrote to cong
“There is
that an exped
too much reas
ition will
the Indians) against the wes
of this stat York
Pennsylvaniz mouth he in
formed them f Mohawks,
and many o
and Seueccas,
against us as soon ¢
be pruden
ual measures
hostile spirit
joined the tory
commenced th
and hostilities
being headed
Brandt, an half bloode«
perate courage, ferox
example.
were carried
beyond
possessed of every o!
prise, and the
they received from
The
upon the ane, new and fl
spot. weight of t
ments of Wyoming
ern branch of the
most beautiful
climate. It was sett
eat ardor
Connecticut,
territory
VY &a number
rom whi
das on
grant from Charles 11]
consisted of
miles square
side of the 1
the roofs and
equally to poison
security and bappiness
the laws of nature and hi'nan
They had fre
the
exposed |
ings of
great a d
very fre
dians, yy maraudin
their own coun
irymen, in
year a it was only
Opposition, in a course of successfu
had
others not bef
mishes, that they been ¢
Several tories,
riven
pected, had then and
the
kaowledge of al Mr
since
sett *ment and beside
art
stances, carried along wit
stock of vate re
eulmen
fail of d ting the fury, and
the
inveterate
ever
cruelty of the
an edge
and other
0
enemies
usual nomber of strangers had
among them unde:
whose behavior became so 141 ts
upon being taken up and examined
such evidence appeared against several
of them, of their acting in concert with
the enemy, on a sch for the destruc
tion of the settlements, that abou
were sent off to (
imprisoned and
while the remain
These measures ex
tories in general
degree; and the threats
nounced against the settlers
resewed with aggravated vengean
As the time ag proached for the
catastrophe, the
treachery
Indians pract
usual For several weeks
previous to the intended attack. they re.
peatedly sent small parties to the settle
ments, charged with the profess
friendship These parties, al.
tempting to lull the people in se urity,
answered the purposes of communicating
with their friends, and of observing the
present state of affairs. The settlers, |
however, were not insensible to the dan.
ger. They had taken the alarm, and |
ons of
beside y
| by the Penunsylvauvia tories,
never received, having been intercepted
A little
fore the main attack, some small parties
be-
made sudden trruptions, and committed
and
ties
several robberies and murders;
whatever, massacred the wife and five
the
in their own cause
children of one of persons
trial to Connecticut
At length, in the beginning of
the enemy suddenly appeared in
force on the Susquehanna, heads
Colonel John Butler, a Connecti
and cousin to Colonel Zebulon
the second in command in the sett
ted by most of those |
1 themsely
frontier
He was assi
who had rendere
vey
were so disgut
ag
He
conieren
evening the
went down
He
f
ist bought
fn
lag
know what
a
answered wi
in two short wor
ng de
the EArrison were k
ence
sou hav
OI po ed to ure
Some of the unhat
were carried Away
barous conquer
whole cot it
They then ct
ning fort Wilk
in hopes of mere
1
ling
seventy «
demand ALY
about
had been engag
fence of the frontier
whom they but
ered with every circumstance of hort
The
women and
cruelty remainder of the n
with the children, wi
up as before in the houses, wh
set on fire, they perished together in the
flames,
A general scene of devastation was
now spread through all the townships,
Fire, sword, and the other different in.
straments of destruction alternately tri
Continued on page 4, column 3
[re
BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4.
VARIETY OF
COUNTY NEWS
[tems of Interest Gathered From
All Sections
SHORT AND TO THE POINT
What Transpired Worthy of Brief Men
tion, the Past Week—News From
Over the County—For Hasty Read
A New Department.
ers
| parts of the
itn for Patton,
mi yyment
Hove
fn
thereby
IHingworth
served Centre Hall M. 1
i# a candidate for the appointment
pastor of Presbyterian
Philipsburg He was formerly from
Stormstown and was a Methodist minis.
ter having at one time been pastor of
wl olce
the charge
'
As
the church, at
| several different charges In this county.
| a
101,
Wolf's §
Y. Stover
J. C
ship,
ore has a new postmaster, J.
2)
Krumrine and wife, of Penn town
moved to Smithport, McKean
county,
Miss Emma C. Lowry was appointed
missionary to Africa, and will sail
from New York City for Cape Town,
| South Africa, on April 17, 1901
Miss Mabe! Boa
ant postmistress at Centre Hall
as her successor, W
quainted with the business of the office.
will retire as assist.
as soon
D. Shoop, gets ac-
Andrew Robertson, of North Philips
burg, who buried his wife one week ago,
1 on
Sat
die Saturday afternoon last, the re-
breaking down of the
mvention wil held
one
gh
be fitted
Musser, of Millheim, is able
again, though his hand st
him trouble from the burns he re
hote superinten de
many
hant ng, the bal
tom bh shou
oldest tramp,
an octogenarian, died the
use, Monday
wandering
in
after ifty
It
century
life was his
he
the
tr over half a
der the open sky or in
We
who tramped Centre and Union
1es8 Abe Larzey,
away back, bas as long
brakeman on
chain
the
his head and
caused by the brake
¢ he was applving
alighted
wv
on
suffered a fracture of the
bone aod
the head
med work aft
ome »
M1
er having |
ight contusions
Cupper had just
off
re.
en most
winter on account of
-
OprLL, New York's placky governor,
is receiving praise from all parts of the
that
he was not going to submit to bossing.
land for letting senator Platt know
I¥ Centre county is no longer to be the
mother of governors, “coming events
cast their shadows before them,’ that
she bids fair to be the mother of judges.
or
AGUINALDO
CAPTURED |’
Complete Story of a Remarkable
Adventure
GEN. FUNSTON THE HERO
| Who Planned the Expedition at Great
Risk —Aguinaldo at Manila
Takes Oath of Allegiance to the
United States.
Washington, March 2+ A cablegram
received at war department late this
afternoon from Genera Arthar tells
talked freely
He
norant concern NE recent events
peared to be in good health a
cheerful He lunched with the
t
General MacArthur's and
stan was
escorted to the Anda street 1
e was attended
eader The «
7)
naldo arr IMUAry
n the province of
I 2. Northern |
11. 12
Emil
'euinalde to
eon
and 14
Aguin al lo
wit}
dated
elters were
} letters
Ianuary Vere
and
take »"
from cted Bal
:
der
iermero mand of
the provinoes ol Central
] supplant
ing General Alejandrine
nr
A% ROOD AR possible
Aguinal
: :
also ordered that 40 men be sent him
saying that the
hearer
’
of the letters wonld guide these men to
where Aguinaldo ws
General Fanston secured the correspond
ence of Aguinaldo’s agent and laid his
Some months previ.
ously he bad captured the camp of the in-
surgent General Lacuna, incidentally ob-
| Wining Lacuna's seal, official papers and a
| Continued on Sth page, fourth column.
plans accordingly
g Ee —— A —
| senators
| the movings over
| respondents
VOL. 23
FACT, FUN AND FANCY
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Selected
ght Sparkling Paragraph
and Original
Verrier la ]
abused his father
by ¢ DE ar
they were te
Mou
Mountain
their glare
nia
Bre
on M
tains north
over a large sg
fine viewed fron
the new growth
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Married at Spru
LAR
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senat
wiv eo!
All other
board
1
ar
and two d
abil
ny, were «
ture adjourned
the
leaves Delaware
as
£ repu
not harmonize ever
horses
-
In next week's lssue we will en.
deavor to give our readers a summary of
the county, Our cor.
will please note this and
send their report in early as possible
«Too late now for "April fool,” that
was ripe last Monday-—though many
may still be fooled to know where they
and some of their once neighbors are,