CHAS. R. KURTZ, Propn ir. y » : ; 2 APRIL COURT CONTINUED The Irvin Trial Finished on Friday Afternoon JURY DECLARE IRVIN GUILTY [rial made and Other ca Application for a new will be argued in June ses Disposed ond Week. Reported by 8 D Gerrio, Esq Com. E. L. Irvin, indicted for tion on eight different counts, embracing the administering of drugs or using of instruments to produce the same in each | case, causing the death of the woman Ella McWilliams or the child; tor W. E. McWilliams, This from Fergusou township, near Pennsyl- Defendant's tase is vania Furnace. moved to quash the indictment, which was refused by the Court save as to the fourth count which the Court said was surplusage. Oa trial at hour of going to press, last week. This was certainly a most unfortunate case asitinvolves two of the best families in that community and grew out of the death of Miss Ella B. McWilliams under peculiar circumstances. The Common. wealth was represented by the ttorney N. B. Spangler, assisted by E. and the interests after R. Chambers defendant were ably looked Messrs. Reeder & Quigley. Wednesday afternoon, when the case was first called | the following jury was selected to pass upon the guilt or innocence of the de- | fendant: John Allbright, laborer of Gregg township ; Park Bullock, laborer of Snow Shoe township ; J. Will Coaley, clerk of Bellefonte borough; William Cupp, farmer of Half Moon township ; James Corl, teacher of Spring township ; Frank Detweiler, farmer of Haines town. ship; W. E. of Patton township ; Gardner farmer Gregg township ; Irvin M, Harvey, farm- er of Boges township; Edward McCal- mont, liveryman of State College bor. ough ; William Rhinesmith, teamster of Bellefonte borough; and Robert M. Wolf, merchant of Haines township. A called and examined on the part of the Commonwealth and Furst, farmer Grove, of large number of witnesses were facts were about as follows, as alleged by Common- wealth, the major portion the testi mony being of a character better left uan- printed. The decedent and the defend- ant were accepted lovers, the of but no public announcement had been made of an en. gagement, but as alleged the defendant had stated to some of his friends that they expected to be married in March. On the evening of the gth of January the defendant escorted the church at Graysville, some three miles from the residence of the prosecutor, who was also at church that evening in company with his wife. The parties re. turned to the home of the decedent sometime between ¢ and 10 o'clock, the father and mother arriving home some. time in advance of the young people, the latter having driven around by way of decedent to Baileyville as the evidence developed it, | where the defendant got some cigars, candy and a drink of water and for another purpose, as alleged, at his store, The father and mother retired for the night sometime about 11 o'clock, the young people being still in the parlor The decedent was in the best of health and at about 1 o'clock the defendant called Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams by rapping at the stove and told them to hurry and come down that there was something the matter with Ella. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams quickly went down into the parlor, where they found the daughter lying upon the couch, almost entirely disrobed, her face having the | appearance of death, unconscious and bordering on convulsions, and did not | recognize either of them. The father at ounce tried to rouse her up, but this was | futile. He asked the defendant and was informed that she complained of choking, and asked him to help her get her dress waist and corset loose, and lapsed into the unconscious condition. The defendant, Mr. Irvin, was at once sent for Dr. L. M. Houser, the family physician, and in the meantime the father began rubbing, in an attempt to revive the daughter, but she went into convulsions, Dr. Houser arrived at about 2 o'clock and found the patient writhing in con. vulsions, and no medicine of any kind could be administered internally as her mouth was closed and she could not swallow, He was there until about 7 o'clock; Dr. Woods from about 1oijo tll 4 o'clock; and Dr. Lowry, of Tyrone, from about 4:30 tl 5 o'clock. The case was a peculiar one, and at the time the doctors assigned Acute indigestion ; hypodermic injec. tions, hot baths, vapor baths, and other remedies were applied with little relief, The girl died about midaight of the night following, passing from one convulsion Doings of the Sec- | prosecu- | counsel | District | of the | by | then | into another during her brief illness at more or less intervals, which were pro- | nounced both tonic and clonic by the | physicians and she died without once having regained constiousness or spoken | & word nor recognized any one. The decedent was buried at Graysville | cemetery on or about the 14th of Janu- ary and it was but a short time until | * BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 2, "VARIETY OF | COUNTY NEWS| Items of Interest Gathered From | All Sections ‘SHORT AND TO THE POINT (ugly rumors and whispers were going | | about the community that her death was | due to criminal malpractice at the hands of her accepted suitor, she having been in a delicate condition, lugs became so strong that they could no | longer be ignored and the defendant | abor. | was arrested and put under bond in pur- suance, and on the 14th of March the decedent was disinterred and an autopsy performed by doctors J. IL. Seibert, of Bellefonte, and L. E. Kidder, of Boals- | burg, assisted by doctors G. H. Woods, Pine Grove Mills, and L. M. Houser, of Baileyville, | | This was about two months | after the girl bad been buried, but the body was well preserved and the organs practically normal. | were Some of the organs recovered for chemical analysis and enough was found to warrant the closest investigation. At the autopsy it was readily discovered that the girl had for about four months cate condition, A think, be unwarranted and wi been in a deli- resume of the evidence would, we | confine it to a few facts as adduced by the Com- monwealith. It was proven that the de- | fendant bad told some of his companions prior to the death of the girl of her con- dition, that he was the Jauthor of her trouble, and that he expected to get her out of it ; and that he had gotten medi- cine, and further that be was in possesion of certain instruments, which he kept in | his store, which he had shown certain parties and explained their use, to over- come the trouble. The chemist, Dr College, testified that he G. G. Pond, of State found seven tenths of a grain of nits glycerine in the all doctors agreeing that this would be a fatal dose if absorb. stomach ; the ed by the stomach, the usual dose ad- ministered being but one-one hundredth of a grain and the doctors did not think that this would have caused puerba con- vulsions, such as had by the decedent. From the testimony of the doctors, it ap pears that uremic poison is one cause of puerba convulsions or puerba eclem- tia, bad made a hasty diagnosis of the case, said that uremic posioning was not the apparent Considerable expert testimony was adduced by the Commonwealth and but Dr. Lowry, who cause. the defence on the use of certain poisons and drugs, and especially nitro-glyce. tine. Dr. Pond discovered no nitro. | glycerine in the embalming fluid used by the undertaker At the close of the Commonwealth's case a nolle prosequi was entered as to the seventh and eighth counts in the in- dictment, being the two in reference to the child; which left five counts. the fourth having been stricken out as sur. plusage at the beginning of the trial. Dr. Houser the first witness called by | the defendant testified that from his ex- amination of the patient and what he saw at the autopsy that the decedent died from puerba eclemtia, and that he had discovered nothing at the autopsy to indicate that there had been anything criminal dome. Other witnesses were called to substantiate this testimony, that is other doctors, and the undertaker who had prepared the body for burial stated that some of the marks discovered were caused by his embalming instrument The defendant also produced some of the citizens of that community who testi. fied to his good character, but the testi. mony outside of the expert testimony | was not denied, the defendant himself The case is a largely circumstantial one. The jury retired at about twen ty minutes of 12 o'clock on Friday forenoon | the defendant bad most ably argued the case proand con and brought it'to the at. tention of the jury, and the Court had charged as to what their duties were and giving to them the applications of the law, The jury brought in a verdict of guilty (on the fifth count, which is as follows, Using unknown justruments to procure An abortion, death of woman ensuing. | Defendants counsel at once made a mo- |tion for a new trial, reasons to be filed | within ten days, which questions will be | argued at June Argument Court; and | the defendant was required to Rive & | bond for his appearance at that time in | the sum of four thousand dollars, which | was given and approved by the Court. The sheriff acknowledged his deeds in open Court on Thursday forenoon. Other criminal cases entered to April sessions and not heretofore referred too, were disposed of as follows to wit ; Com. vs. Reuben Ritzman, charged Continued on page 4, column 2, These whisper- | he believed that at least | not going on the stand in his own behalf, | after counsel for the Commonwealth and | What Transpired Worthy of Brief Men- tion, the Past Week—News From Over the County—For Hasty Read- ers—A New Department. granted an increase of pension, to $17. Mr, and Mrs. Harry Condo, Pa., are visiting friends in Pennsvalley. of York, Arrangements are being made to start a lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America at Millheim Orie Weaver, of Wolf's store, recently killed an eagle which measured five feet from tip to tip of wings One of the best draft mules on Kulp's lumber job in Sugar valley was killed by a falling tree on Wednesday 24 Dr. of Millkeim, is another story to his office and Frank, adding making other improvements to his residence R. A. Kinsloe, of Philipsburg, expects wv to dispose of the ‘Bituminous Record John G. Platt, who takes possession of the paper on May 1st. Frank Lee, of near Bellefoute, is the owner of a fine Guernsey cow that gave birth to a calf which weighed one hun. dred and twenty pounds George Barden, a well known Beech Creek engineer, married at Shoe on Saturday, April 20th Anna Walker. They w home at Mahaffey was Snow Miss their to make The Murray Lumber Co, completed of Philips. the Harbison and they company ab ut new houses for at Mount contracted with burg, have just twenty the Uni the Walker Co have mn, to build twenty more Mr Motz, of ingham, Ala., are guests at the home of Mrs. Miranda Motz Mr, Motz is an electrical engineer and will, and Mrs. Frank Birm at Woodward n a few weeks, accept a position at one of the large steel plants at Phoenix vill this state, Mrs ing the Penns Creek bridge at that piace Py ’ Witmyer, of Coburn, while cross- one night recently, accidentally stepped off the bridge, and was precipitated a dis Her should er was dislocated by striking some object in the descent tance of about twelve feet At the Centre county Sabbath school convention which met as Milesburg last week, the following officers were elected President, Rev. J. M. Rearick, Centre Hall; corresponding secretary, Rev. A A. Black, Boalsburg; recording secretary, S. W. Smith, Centre Hall A new boiler will take the place of the one that exploded some time ago at the Douty mill, near Rebersburg All the men that were hurt in the accident will be able to work except Mr. Wohl. fort, who is still confined to his bed, bat is in a remarkably good shape, Pensions granted by the Pension de- partment at Washington on Thursday in- clude George W. Gray, Milesburg, $12 a mouth ; the minors of George Cohen, of Btormstown, $12 a month : William Trester, Lamar, £5 a month, and Ed. ward Pardonner, Osceola Mills, $5 a month The kaittiog factory, at Millbeim, out. put reached 100 dozen pairs recently in one day. The average daily product is now between go and 100 dozen, which is fully thirty per cent. more than under the old management which finally prov. eda failure, lighted. John Clark, Millheim’'s blind Bellefonte, State College and Millheim, and received sufficient contributions to | warrant him to leave for Philadelphia, | where he will have headquarters at the Eagle Hotel, and will enter the Wills Eye Hospital for treatment, much doubt as to bis prospects. Mr. and Mrs. John Grove, of Gregg township, a short time ago, celebrated | the so anniversary of thelr marriage. The members of the family present were: M. M. Grove, Centre Hill; Hiram, of Morganza, and Amanda, the wife of H. A. Stover, of Spring Mills; an absent son in Missouri could not be present. Others who were present with their wives, were Messrs John Wolf, Potters Mills : John Rhone, Centre Hall ; John Stover, Spruce. town ; John Dunkle, Jared Confer, Spring Mills ; D. C. Grove, Zion. IN ADJOINING COUNTIES. The new Lutheran church at Boonville will be dedicated next Sunday, May 3. The saw mill plant of Meixe! & Cole. man, east of Carroll, destroyed by fire, will be rebaiii at once, | Friday to | The stockholders are de- | boy, made a personal canvass of Mifflinburg, There is | Bauberman, James W. Runkle and L. | 1901, whose health has been failing for several years, died last week. of from Christian Lehr, Clintondale, aged 76 years, died heart trouble last Tuesday morning 23 lock Haven is making an ef have the third brigade, N. G. P., hold its cucampment at that place. Mrs, Lewis Garrett, an aged and in. firm lady residing near Logan Mills, was probably fatally injured last week by falling down the cellar steps The first car on the Lewistown and | Reedsville Electric Railroad passed over John Hollabaugh, of Philipsburg, was | the bridge in Mann's Narrows, last week, opening the road to Reedsville, Among the twenty-eight nians who have Pennsylva- the regalar army by President McKinley is Frank T. McNarney Haven. been selected for formerly of Lock All the timber up the West Branch has | been rafted into the boom at Williams port and the mills of that city are busy cutting up the 110, to be in the 00,000 feet estimated lot, H Treverton, Ex-Congressman M. Port was totally destroyed Kulp & Co saw mill near Snyder county, by fire last 19th, together with 500,000 feet of lumber. Loss, $5,000: no insurance While working at a lath mac hine, near Tylersville, Philip Wolfe, struck on the th is feared be will ¥ of that place, a slab was bead by last Friday His bead was badly bruised and it lose the sight o ne eye Among the timber sales reported at the lock Haven market this spring, was one raft of pine logs for which $415per thous and feet was paid. Some of the sticks were go feet in length ceived $1,991 for his raft, The owner re. Jacob D. Gearhart, of Osceola Mills committed suicide Tuesday by drinking A quantity Family of carbolic acid troubles are said to have been the cause of his rash act. He was nearly 70 years of age, and besides his wife leaves four sous and one daughter Robert lLannen f the a A employe © Lock Haven paper mill, met with bad accident day recently. He was standing on a ladder when it fell, ing him to the one throw. fluor His right arm was brdken at the wrist, his left hand badly bruised and his face bruised An adjourned meeting of Huntiagdon Presbytery w Sth day May purpose of dis solving the pastoral relation of Rev. H H. Henry and the Birmingham and War be held in Tyrone on the of for the riorsmark Presbyterian churches, and dismissing bim to the Newark. N. | Presbytery A project is under way by some capi talists to secure control of both the New. port and Sherman's Valley railroad and the Perry county ratlroad and consoli. date the two Then to convert an elec. tric railway and run trolleys for pas. senger service, but retain steam power for freight trains The Lock Haven Silk mill is running 257 looms. The floor space in the com. pany’s big building will accommodate eight more looms and these will be put in position within tho next few week. The pay-roll carries 120 names and the out. put of the mill is at present 2,100 yards of silk and taffeta silk per day. In the reorganization of the Carnegie Steel company, Daniel Clemson, former ly of Seotia and brother of Prank H Clemson, of that place, retains his tion as a member of the board of direc tors. Itissaid that Mr .Clemson may be made president of lake transportation for the United States Steel corporation, posi The new works of the Pennsylvania runing in full blast, the first brick hav. ing been made Wednesday 24th. Every. | thing is moving along smoothly and as well as had been expected, all the ma. | chinery working in first class order. The first day 2,700 brick were made, and next day 4.520. Duncan & Co., prop timber jobbers, of ly in Sugar Valley narrows, have crew of men at work erecting a large new lumber camp and boarding house at Cooper's point. They are also making extensions to their narrow guage rail. road, which will reach out into the valley early this summer. They ship from six Watsontown daily, says the Sugar Valley Journal, T. H. Coleman, of Clearfield, was bit. ten by bis own dog last week and the same animal bit several children and numerous dogs. The body of the dog was sent to Baltimore for examination | and it was found that the dog had been mad. The order came from Prof. N. G, Kirler, ol Pasteur Institution, and that all those who were bitten should come to Baltimore for treatment. When the dog was cul open there was a surprising as. sortment of foreign bodies in the stom. ach-~chicken feathers, bits of wood, nails, Mrs. James B. McNitt, of near Milroy, leaves and a great quantity of water, Fire Brick Co. at Beech Creek, are now | Lewisburg, who are operating extensive. to ten car loads of props over this road to | al, INTERESTING CONTEST Review of the Election Contest i Snow Shoe Twp. IMPORTANT Po DECIDED n LS & Ald )] That should be Understood and Remem bered by all Election Officers—It Results in the Reversal of the Elec tion Board At the February election D. R. Thomas and P. W. B in Snow Shoe township for supervisor ullock were rival candidates The former being the democratic nomi- | The that each nee, and the latter the republican. election officers returned the hundred of lwo candidates had received one Mr. three and forty nine votes. that supevisor Thomas, bowever, claimed with his had been tickets name as ou the election of. ficers, and that if these had he thrown out by been counted would have been elected by three majority Shortly after election a large number of legally qualified voters of the township M. Bower to the Court through their attorney, ( pre- sented their petition of quar- ter sessions asking for procees to compel of the by the election officers, for the counting three votes rejected D. R. Thomas which was 50 proceeded in that an order was made upon the election officers, to ballot boxes court the the evi. bring the 1 and make a recount of the presence of the Court to hear dence involved in the case. It appeared in the hearing that in making up of the balist for the township that the mame of | Toner Lucas, the democratic candidate for auditor. was The the omitted, and this place left blank three but rejected Mr. Thomas’ name appeared as a candidate for supervisor had Mr lependent column in voles cast, by board upon which Lucas’ name written in the in. proper place as These were rejected by the board as irregular The Court declared these ballots as properly marked as req by the Act be counted recount of its candidate for auditor voles aud illegal uired of 1 and directed them t 83 Mr the votes for Thomas. Upon a appeared that fifty seven ballots were cast and had the vame of J. Toner Lucas written Democratic in the in the blank as a candidate for auditor. column space A majority of these fifty-seven baliots contained the name of Mr. Thomas for supervisor, and if they were declared illegal ballots and vejected Mr. Bullock would have a ma- jority of the legal votes cast for visor, The counsel for Mr. Bullock, Clem Dale, i» contended that these fifty-seven votes should be rejected and not counted super. Ex at all, because the writing of the name | of J. Toner Lucas in the blank space in the democratic column as a candidate for auditor invalidated those ballots un. der the provision of the Act 1893. The counsel for Mr. Thomas admitted that these votes could not be counted for Mr Lucas for auditor, but that they were | valid as to the balance of the ticket, be- | cause the tickets were so marked that they clearly expressed the intention of the voters, and must therefore be count. ed for Mr. Thomas for supervisor. The Court after argument by the counsel beld that the writing of the name of J, Toner Lucas in the biank space in the democratic column as a candidate for auditor invalidated the ticket as to the office of anditor, but that as to the rest of the candidates the ballots were legal, and must be counted for all the officers except for that of auditor and declared Mr. Thomas elected by a majority of five votes. This decision is based upon the princi. ple that these ballots as marked, clearly expressed the intention of the voters, i i and were regular and legal ballots | | under the provision of the 27 Section of | | the Act of June 10, 18¢3. Owing to the importance of this decis- | this point which is well to preserve | OPINION OF THE COURT In the matter of the petition of sundry citi zens of Snow Shoe township. to contest the election of supervisor, The petition of contestants set forth that at the election hesd on the 19th day of Febru Ary 101, that 149 votes had been returned as oast for D. K. Thomas, for supervisor, and 149 | voles coast at sald election for FP. W. Bulloek | for the oMee of supervisor. It further alleged [that In the western election precinet, that | three ballots had been voted for I. R. Thomas that had been rejected by the election board: | That said ballots were legal und should have boon counted. An answer was filed by PP. W, Bullock and set forth that certain ballots that were irregular and illegal had been east for D. HE. Thomas in the eastern precinct of said Dehip, and counted for him that should have been rejected. With consent of all par tes upon petition we ordered the ballot boxes to be produced In Court, and had them opened and counted In the presence of the Court. The count showed that ia both precincts that P. W, Continued on 4th page, 8rd column. ion and for the information of many of | | our readers, who at times are ~=lled upon * | to serve on election boards we republish | the opinion of Hon. Jobs. G. Love ou | — VOL. 23, XO, 18, FACT, FUN AND FANCY Bright Sparkling Paragraphs Selected ; and Original HAVE GOT TO KEEP 11 ft take you Kew very on walking tell folks who ther made LEL AS A mouse t he's afraid cep a boarding This world that we're 8 liviz mighty hard to beat Woget a thorn with every ross But ain't the roses sweet It is easy enough to be pleasant Wher Bet the mun worth while fe goes t y ke a song sthe man with When everything goes “dead wros £ A Lailless cur is really Stands to reason —the polit Gay men have no past future Gumdrops to get into push It takes m three feet to make a back yard The fewer st man takes the longer his shoes last No singer's voice | been strained It takes more some men's nerve Even the most truthful elevator men have to tell sturies The livery man doesn’t object to property being tied uj people don't recognize obligations when they meet them J Some their Whenever there is a “spring opening's the women manage to drop in N», Maude a ball player isn’t llabie to arrest when he steals a base. When it comes to accepting a job the day laborer can always take his pick dear For downright usefulness and npright ways, commend us to a first-class eleva- lor 's fe a coin for the because he The Jw Who fips I KS A vi un isn't turns cowardly tail - In Adjoining Counties Jacob Earon, a highly respected retir. ed farmer, of Rosecrans, died Sanday night from the infirmites of age. His age was 55 years, 6 months. E. H. Faulkender, a prominent mem- ber of the Blair county bar, has myster- ously disappeared He left Hollidays- burg on Sundav night, and close ac- quaintances say that he will not return. He is the custodian of a trust estate of £16,000. The Sheriff has seized his prop- erly on executions. A little daughter of Wesley Barkey, of Burnside, Clearfield county, met a fright. ful death from a powder explosion re- cently. The little girl was but 7 years of age, got hold of some mining powder and after carrying it some distance light. ed it with a match. The powder ignited her clothing and she died in one-half hour after the accident After firing three shots at his wife Sun day night, with the intention, it is al. leged, of killing her, Alexander Jackson, colored, of Lewistown, fled to the moun- tains, pursued by angry citizens Next morning be was captured by the sheriff and deputies and held for a bearing The three bullets from Jackson's pistol struck his wife, neither inflicted a serious wound. The crime was prompted by his wife's infidelity. but The loss by the burning of David Robb’s barn, near Beech Creek Wednes. | day night, 27, was much greater than at first stated. In addition to the five horses | that perished in the Sames, there were 300 bushels of oats burned, 20 bushels of wheat, 25 bushels of buckwheat and | about § tons of hay. Two farm wagons, | buggy, spring wagon, threshing machine and some other farm implements were | burned. There was an insurance of §1,- 400 on the barn in the Grange company. Isaac Hile, of Lewisburg, an old man aged about seventy years, met with a frightful accident at the Buflalo Mill Sat. | urday afternoon. In the basement of the mill there is a grindstone which Is connected with a pulley on the line shaft. Mr. Hile went there to sharpen an axe and in turning on the belt got his hand caught and it was drawn around the shaft. The member was torn from his | arm between the elbow and wrist. It is | hardly likely that be will survive the shock. To Outlaw Buck-Shot. A bill has been presented in the Penn. sylvania Legislature to prevent the use of buckshot for killing deer. It pro. vides that after the passage of the act it shall be unlawful to kill deer with any weapon ‘containing or loaded with more than one bullet, shot or missile for each load intended to be fired.”