CHAS. R Proprietor.
APRIL C¢ *'T
PROCEEDINGS
Complete List of Commonwealth
Cases Disposed
GRIST OF TRIFLING CASES
Rendered —Cases Settled and
The Trial of Irvin Now
and Attracts Much
Verdicts
Postponed
in Progress
Attention.
of court convened on Mon
Reported by GE
A pril sessions
d
Cr
AY morning at 9 o'clock with Hon. John
Love, President Judge, on the bench
The major portion of the forenoon ses
ion was consumed in hearing motions and
as presented by the
itions and returns
ral members of the
Cases
ed over and cases marked for
h the
second week's
Hanscor
from a
np |
Ard
Discor
» grand
}
absentees no
surgeon
township
chosen
and after a full
the Cour
and juries, they reti
room to pass on the sever
it that will be |}
District Attorney
The constables
trix Annie A
ters Mille
th
assanit and battery Prose
man "bese parties are from |
and are husband and wife and prose
the 23d
1509, the
defendant
ention arose from some trouble on
of March last, and in October,
alleging that the
the
prosecutrix
struck
the first named date
her in face with his fist on
and struck her with
& rmmrod in October, 1509. after which she
went home to her parents. Sometime af
trouble was fixed 1 p and they
lived the 234 of
March. The defendant ndmitted striking
his wife with a ramrod in October, 1500
tewnrds ti
together again until
but mys it was in fun and in a come
2d March he
recting his boy and interfered
and
a to the of mys Was cor
his wife
that he simply shoved her
he did
guilty, bat
fy Cova
Com ve
Away and that
Verdiet
to
strike her
the
not of not
defendant pay all the
M Artin Hayes od
assault and battery
cledd
md
battery ! n
his
altereatior
first
want | wnt
REEravated assault
William 1}
tion grows out of
and
tor Pownell Prose
Aan
ence bet ween the and the d¢
prosecut
fall
prosecutor
on
last
the
The defendant plead guilty to the
fendant sometime when the de
fendant assaulted twice
frst
count in the indictment and the Common.
wealth entered a nolle prosequi as to the
Continued on sth page, 3rd column
| room at the court house.
DEMOCRATIC COM. MEETING
On Monday afternoon. in resg to
onse
tl
man, John |
ie call of the Democratic County Chair
Bower, there was a large
attendance of committeemen from all
sections of the county in the Arbitration
After the call
of the roll the chairman announced that
the principal purpose of the meeting was
for the object of reapportioning the
number of delegates to the county con
{
vention of
the
This is made upon the bast
1 the various districts. a
vole cast i
| owing one delegate for each fifty
cratic votes cast at the general election
pre
cast last fall the number
According to the vote
if
for
lelegates in
the next county convention has been
creased from to 86 and are allotted
those districts that have made the largest
increase in their vote the
a5 sci
following table
an
t worthy the
'
]
name «
eremon
the party and be fore
taking part in its
DE iS patronage
conver
rmanshig
e. He
pe and
assurance that affiliat
inde by democrats with the «
n and despotic machine whic h
s the aflgirs of the state
RD~That we are mu
€ course pursued
Ons w not
ip
now
h gratified over
and the record made
Hon, William C. Heinle Senator from
the 34th Senatorial District His
Known reputation f and
among h neighbors and
friends was to them a Kuarantee that in
the discharge of his duties as A Senalor
he would be faithful, honest and upright
In a legislature, corrupt beyond meas.
ure, bent only upon doing that which
will strengthen the machine and fasten
its hold upon the people of the state, sur.
rounded with bribery and abundant op
portunities to betray the trust confided to
him by the people, he has preserved his
integrity, honestly and faithfu ly dis
charged his duties, and added lustre and
honor to the people of the district he now
SO ably represents. We would also thank
the many newspapers of the state who
have recognized the integrity of Senator
Heinle and so highly complimented him
for his services to the party, as well as to
the state
Chairman Bower called the attention
of the comm itteemen to the duties they
were expected to perform in their dis.
tricts this year, and the importance of
holding the primaries and making the
returns in the proper manner
Time being short other ad
4]
this
we
or
honesty
integrity
dresses were
omitted and adjournment followed
—— .
New Three Centers
[he new three cent plece
nickel,
authorized
of
by congress is to be the size
of the old bronze cent, only thicker and
ne fourth of
an inch in diameter, The new coin is so
designed that it can be readily recog.
nized by sight or touch. A hole in an
Amesican coin is a new device that will
| seem rather odd.
in the center is to be a hole
BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL
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 Countyv—For Hasty Read
ers—A New Department
James
en grat
month
Frank
low M esbhurg
balf do
: The « Nn
rench
Ar in
nD was lying in a
tivaiet which drains the Woodcock farm
and as it is 175 years old was es
by an lodian in fairly
ood coudition and its history, if it could
KE
be traced, would sgdouir make an in
teresting chapter
th Bruce Brene.
man, of Spangler, Pa., and Miss Mand
VY. Musser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F
P. Musser, of Millheim, were
marriage at Montandon, Pa.
Owen Hicks They will their
home at Spangler, where Mr. Breneman
is employed as mining engineer by the
Hastings & Spangler company
From 18¢5 to 1900 Mr. Breneman was a
member of the faculty at State College
While there he met Miss Musser, who
was acting as stenographer for President
Atherton
Wednesday 19 Paul
united in
by Rev
make
coal
George ( Harper, the 14 year-old
Harper, who lives on a
farm two miles west of Pine Grove Mills,
son of George |
had an exciting experience with a burg
iar On Saturday night 11th his father
drove 0 Plane Grove Mills, and during
his absence young Harper heard a noise
in the yard and on Roing to discover the
into an
which the grain was kept
He went back to the house, secured a
Kun and shot at the man, The bur
walked toward the young man and shot
| mt him, the bullet passing through his
cause he saw a man trying to get
old house in
{ ap
and the
trooper
more
bu
at
25, 1901,
Young Harper returned the
fled,
young
tranget howling
The
his assa1
man
shots at ant without effec
not known who the i
t Mi:
bould he return
Harper is
Uriah Herr
is home
were
Haven,
ay a few feet from
ACK
nings ago wh
t nuts for her
AYing U
55 the Hout
“
ar
des of those Companies remain
Last Thursday night the sury ving
jurted
wd Wi
Shoemaker at the Logan house
adesof the regiment were band
un royal good style by Land am
PRECIPITATION SINCE OCT. +
As it of
know the precipitation, rain and snow,
it
may be interest 0 many
from October 1 to this date, we print
here from the Democrat's official record
for Bellefonte
Rain in October,
Rain
inches snow,
32 inches
in November, 4 41 inches, and 2
Rain in December, 1 o4 inches, and 1
inches snow
Rain
inches snow
in January, inch, and
oN
Rain in Pebruary, none : and 10 inches
show
Rain
inches snow
in March, 168 inches. and :
Rain in April to present date : on 20d.
9% in, and 3 inches snow : 1 .60 In rin,
and 3 inches snow ; on | in, rain ; on
S «45 In. rain; on 6, 20 in. rain: on
19, night, 1 10 inches: on 20 aay |
inch, and" night 65 inch
ing, h. A
from April 2 to 21
on even
in total of 49 Inches
winter. a
not
There were 20 snows the past
total of 30 inches. This does in
glar | clude hall dox. snows less than half inch,
[in depth
10 inches of mow _are equiva: |
lent 1 1 inch of rain i
(
Some
JUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
of the Early Surveys in
Penns Valley.
POTTER & BALD EAGLE TWPS.
Ihe |
}
I
Settlers
range
rst Homes—a
Hof
hi
3 { 1}
ana their
Incident of Christian
lalady
lar
t week's chapter
eview was devoted
‘enn
worthy
Was then i | ike 0
Haines
{ Miles
township ar
which were
and a portion
tains, which was
Penn's township, N rthumberland
ty whose name i pre
served is that of Ss Horn, constable
Indians were still in the neighborhood
and occupying the opposite bank of Bald
Eagle from Andrew Boggs’ house. When
infuriated by whiskey and
tion they were to be feared
any
Mrs. B WKS
and was away
Op posi
related that when her hus!
On one occasion, the squaws came to her
and told ber the men were having a
they meant to hide them
scives, and cautioned her to leave het
carouse and
doors open that nig
search for
long after
bt in case they came
them. She did so and
nightfall the drunken band
entered the house. searched it for their
wives, and not finding them went off
without molesting her or the family
The early settlers of the val
Riass for windows high in
10 transport over the
horseback,
ley found
price and risky
crude roads on
the only mode of transporta.
tion in those days To have
Hight in
their log cabins, openings in the walls
were provided and these covered with
olled paper, to serve the purpose of glass
Their meat was from the deer, bears and
other game, which at all times
along with fish that
streams, a hundred
now only one
was pienti.
populated the |
0 where there is |
To procure merehandise
was difficult for want of markets nearer
than Philadelphia or Reading which
Continued on page 4, column 'y
ful
Bright Sparkling Paragraph
The ofishoot of a
Wars a sn "
| Fu
Heid
si makea db . ef
father gives her away
me $ heads
Other
not the
are turn
Ply ““rubbe
ther
oaded
S$ Are sim
man who bears peo
es burdens that comes home
Some ve On meal, some on
.
vegetables and some on their friends and
reiatives
MAX born of a woman is small pato-
toes and few in a hill In infancy he is
and
f cuss words and rheuma
full of colic Godfrey's cordial, in
age he is full o
Ie infancy his mother takes him
across her life
with her slipper, and when a man grown
the sheriff pursues through the
alleys all the life He
spreadeth like a green bay tree He
getteth into office and his friencs cling
to him like flies to a sugar barrel. He
swelleth with vanity, He cutteth ice for
a short time, is hewn down at the next
convention and cast into a salt box and
his name is Dennis of
friends, he goeth busted and lieth down
in anew pasture. He dieth out of the
world and goeth where it is warm enough
and the last end of the
man is worse thas the first
tism
kuee and sweelens his
him
days of his
Out of office, ont
without clothes,
Purchased a Large Grove
The Northumberland Camp meeting
Association of the United Evangelical
church has purchased the Isaac Wolf
grove, about two miles back of Herndon
and will use it for camp meeting par.
poses, the first meeting to open August
5, and continue for eight days.