TZ,
Va
Proprietor.
TRAGEDY
AT MILLHEIM
Jessie King
Kills Himself.
MRS. KING MAY RECOVER. |
GE { heim man who killed himself, took place
| Wednesday
Mrs. |
King's Desperate Effort to reach |
Were Married Three Months Ago—Re-
sulted in Unhappy Life
Millheim.
ment Monday morning on account of an
attempted murder and suicide, by one of
its citizens. The principals in the trage-
dy are Jesse King, about 25 years and |
g years old.
King and
his who is about 1
February
Miss Junie Mowery, a daughter of Henry
Mowery, a residing north of
Aaronsburg, were married and lived in
wife,
218t, 1901, Jesse
farmer
Texas, a famous suburb north of Mill-
heim. King was a shiftless sort of a
fellow, and did
his wife's liking. This shiftlessness on
his part caused his wife to become dis-
satisfied and frequent bickerings were
said he found fault
the outcome. She
with her manner of house keeping.
to
bout two weeks ago Mrs. King went
Spring Mills where she took care of her
On her
at Spring Mills, Mrs,
Aarons.
sister, who i; return from
sick
her
King went to her mother’s near
burg, and King called there last Sunday
and persuaded his wife to return home
with him to which she last consented,
informed her
but is reported to have
she would not remain at
his home but intended to ret:
Mills and live with her
her clothing were found packed ready
husband that
rn to Spring
Parts of
Sister
for this purpose. To prevent her again
leaving, the husband is thought to have
hidden
dress
her shoes and other articles of
Mrs.
shoes in a cle
King
ocked the closet door
mediately
kicked the door open and om entering
the room he drew bis revolver and fired
a ball into his wife's abdomen. She sank
into a chair, the
side penetrating the liver and kidneys
ball entered the right
left the house after locking
King then
all the
home, Abe King, not many
and informed
to his father's
rods distant,
doors and went
his parents what he had
done, and made the threat that he
would go back to his house, kill his wife
He then
His parents
then kill himself
and would
started for his house beg-
ged him not to carry out his threat
Af er K'ng had left his wife, the wo
man with the gaping wound in her side,
feet and made her way to
Musser's
distant
arose to her
Justice of the Peace, F
office,
Here she
husband |!
which was half a mile
made information against her
mustable was sum
the
trip to the King home, with a warrant
had
his wife
moned, and the officer started on
King in the meantime gone to his
home and found missing. She
went to the squire's | ath, to
wy a side
avoid her husband.
He
two
SOON Saw
his own
he
Yo
drew
unt passe
Lettze tL ou
then placed the his breast
and fired the missile passed a little
below the heart,
King
walk
IATge artery
sank * inside of the board
of Mr. Ci:
man, at the bend of the road by the mill
Will Reifsnyder was coming down
from Texas at the time, and was close
to King when he shot. As
King fell be dropped his pistol, and
made an effort to rise on his elbows,
when the constable told Reifsnyder to
secure the revolver, fearing King was
making an effort to grab the weapon to
shoot him. He was placed in the buggy
but noticing that he was growing faint
they laid him on the side of the road
where he died about 15 minutes after
the shooting. The body was taken to
his home and prepared for interment,
near the residence
dam.
fired the
The Kings have lived the greater part of
their lives in that section,
sented as having been a young woman
of beauty
the husband as having been of shiftless
habits, and that his wife became tired of
his neglect and failure to make decent
support for her ; others say she was not
of the most amiable disposition either,
King is said to have been prompted to |
the awful deed by jealousy for which
there was no good ground, From Squire
Musser’s office she was taken to the
home of Mr. Confer, the overseer of the
poor, Dr. L. B. Frank examined her,
but stated that her condition is such that
he cannot tell whether she can recover
or not. The ball has not been located,
The physicians are afraid, that morti.
Shot His Wife Then |
| thus making a trial unnecessary.
not make the living to |
| brought neighbors to the rescue,
d | they got into the room the doctor was al-
Jesse King was a son of Abe King. |
She is repre. |
Some informants represent |
cause her death,
as the bleeding was all internal. Mr,
Mrs left his
family some time ago, and 1s at present
in the West
saved the county a large sum of costs by
Dr.
Frank, who is attending Mrs. King, at
present has hopes for hier recovery.
The funeral of Jesse King, the Mill.
fication will set in and
Mowery, King's father,
King in shooting himself
morning, It was largely
attended. The remains were interred in
the cemetery at Millheim, after which
| services were conducted by Rev. Theo.
Sa | Haven, in the M.
Millheim was in a high state of excite- |
E. church,
Our correspondent at Millhelm sends the fo’.
lowing accurate account
On Monday morning our own had
another sensation in the shooting of his
young wife by Jesse King, son of Abra.
ham King, of this place.’ Some eight
years ago Jesse and his father got ‘‘on
the outs’’ on account of his laziness and
incorrigibleness ; he got a few things
from his mother and started housekeep-
ing on his own hook, the mother supply-
ing him with provisions, etc., from the
home larder In Feb. last, he was mar
ried to Miss Junie daughter of Henry
Mowery, of Aarousburg, who was still in
her teens. He took her to his place, but
on account of his improvidence
of the tragedy
failed to
procure the actual necessaries of life and
therefore she became dissatisfied with
him and his treatment, and bad to go to
her home and other places for something
to eat About ten days ago she went t«
Mrs. Graden, her at Spriog Mi
which enraged him he exert
ed all means to get her b si
{Un
refused to do
sister
yreatly and
back,
Sund
and
him again
4 4
still *d in going and i
he the abdomen
calibre rev r, he then placed
chair and threatened if she would ne
main he would shoot ber again. He then
ran to his parents and told them what he
had done id was going back
to in and then do him |
As soon as his wife saw that he was
distance,
he
shoot
safe she
anda
LOOK
» returned,
ran
not finding her
's barn
he found she was
places to find
started for town
to different
r anc
on North stre the
* saw tl
y shoot, drawing
time, but before
placed the
and fire
ball entering near the heart ; bh
but got agair The coust
nan then placed him is
after going a few rods he got
ck and sank rapidly
r at the same
! arrest him
ver to his
he cou
vol
| case re
ieft breast
up
A few minutes
The excitement ran hig
and n
early the whole t
the }
suicia
FIERCE MANIAC
An Escaped Patient
Physician
Savagel
tor was in
After his
ret
revenge for sendis
escape from the asvium
irned to his home, h he
Thursday
was
wh reached
about noon
Reinhold summoned to the
home as the members of the household
were afraid of him
When the doctor arrived King leaped
upon him and struck him a powerful blow
in the face. The blow staggered him for
an instant, but the next moment the two
men were engaged in a desperate hand.
to-hand struggle. King tried «0 throttle
the doctor, but the latter's athletic science
saved his life.
The battle continued for five minutes
before the alarm given by King's sister
When
most exhausted. Policemen took charge
of King, and he will be sent to an asylum
again,
Fair in September
Tuesday evening the directors of the
fair association held a meeting in Blan.
chard's office, The 20d week in Septem®
ber, from the 1oth to 13th, was selected
for holding the fair this years That is
several weeks earlier than
They are pleased with the result of last
year and think they can have finer and |
larger exhibits this year, as well as better
amusements,
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Tun 1o%A of moving the state capitol
from Harrisburg to Philadelphia is one
of the most objectionable bills introduced
in this session of the legislature,
| Post, No
| gulation,
formerly. |
VARIETY OF
COUNTY NEWS
Items of Interest Gathered From
All Sections
TO THE POINT
SHORT AND
What Transpired Worthy of Brief Men- |
News From |
| smallpo
tion, the Past Week
Over the County—For Hasty Read.
ers—A New Department
Israel Kramer, of Coburn, was grant
ed a pension, §6.
| at
Mrs. G. W. Stover, in Penn township, |
is seriously ill with pneumonia.
The Grange encampment will be held
at Centre Hall, September 14th to 20th,
Krader,
the horse sale last week,
Daniel of Coburn, purchased
a fine horse at
in Selinsgrove
The Miles
t an Ir
twp are about
supervisors
tan ve ¢
iGRe over Lik
) ETE on creek,
at Kreamerville
Noll has purchased the farm land
ank Knarr lyi yuthwest.
1 part of Millheim
real estate of Mrs
Haines town
Mary |. Musser for
McManaway,
isher
The
deceased, of
to Mrs
H.F
ed by the
who wa
Hal
at Penn
Sunbur
accepted
Musser
cepted a position
Wood Harvesting
burs 1 left f
g and left for th
bearing the
H. O
n twenty
which were
YEAS AKO
din U. B. church
| be he 1
se, near Waddle station, at
ral wi
1 Parad
yard at
valley
May
benefit of the church
Buffalo Run
evening of
Frank Waring,
about twenty
bage plants Philips?
juarters for sa
head
and what's mos
.
hn Clark, of Mi
week for Philadelphia, to have an
on h
Wi
Case ent
tion performed
specialists of p
nounced his irely hopeless. At
pow the poor fe ww
as his fate for the rest
ania Grit
The
Philipsburg high school will on
the May 31 The
graduating class consists of Misses Carrie
Perks, Elizabeth Fryberger, Sarah Herr.
man, Ida McCausland and Bair,
and Piere Faulkner. The exercises will
be held in the high school room.
On Sunday, May 28, Rev. P, H. Whar.
ton, pastor of the Methodist church at
Milesburg, will preach the annual ser.
mon to the members of George 1. Potter
261, G. A. R,, of that place.
The Post has secured Rev, W. P. Shrin.
er of Bellefonte to deliver the address
on Decoration Day at Milesburg.
commencement exercises of the
be held
Friday,
evening of
Viola
Wm. Weber, of Howard, lost his valu.
aple trotting mare last Friday by stran. |
The mare had been in use in
the morning, and had been in the stable |
but a short time when it was discovered
she was fast. In attempting to reach
under a partition in the manger her head
got fast in some way and asa result
she was strangled to death. So says the
Hustler,
On Wednesday of last week Dr. Hol.
ley, of Muncy, Pa., examined the cattle
on the Rock View farms of Col. W. Fred
Reynolds. Out of the heard of 148 ex.
amined by Ur, Holley it was found that
15 head of the valuable cattle were afflict.
ed with tuberculosis and they were at
once killed. These cattle were valued
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY qo, 1901.
have a
£1,000
part of his money refunded to him by the
Col. Reynolds wi
state,
Oscar H
Miss El
Sunbury, Pa
Osman, of Lemout, Pa ,
and
ana
ile Cooke, will be married at
, June 11
George Fisher, of Boalsburg, went to
| Harrisburg where he has accepted a po
gition with a large grocery firm
IN NTIES
ADJOINING CO
Willlamspert now has five
on and
Thousanas of a, wa Sf the Scootac
| are being burned over by forest fire
Frank Kronsieder, of Altoona,
himself dead because he failed to se
a hotel license
The
Dickinson
118th commencement exercises of
College, at Carlisle
held June 1 to 2, inclusive
Over fifty cases of sma
MM
northwesten
Barbour
hold |
w have arge heat f cattle
harge, fi bh he will receive a
tain sum per head from the owners
A passing freight train intervened be
tween an cloping Jersey couple and the
bride's irate father, who was in hot pur
suit of his fleeing daughter. The angry
parent offered his driver £25 if he would
overtake the pair, but the jehu of the
pursued, seeing the other was gaining on
him, whipped up his team and got over
the crossing just as a long freight train
on the Lehigh Valley road came in sight,
By the time it had passed the happy
couple were “out of sight.”
D. R. Fry, of Warriorsmark township,
through his attorney, W. HH. Henderson,
has instituted a suit in trespass here
against the Pennsylvania Railroad com.
pany to recover damages in the sum of
$500. The suit is the outcome of an ac-
cident which occured at a grade cross.
| ing near Sandy Ridge, in Centre county,
i
February 25th last, by which the plain.
| Uf avers he suffered pecuniary loss to
the amount stated, owing to negligence
on the part of the company and its em. |
ployes.
Tur wird speculation in the stock
market the past few weeks is astounding
and alarms the most conservative finan.
clers for a dangerous relapse and a
corresponding panic. The advice of all
prudent people is to keep away from the
stock market during the present flurry,
{
13E FA
KiCAL
REVIEW
Account of Some Famous In
dian Paths.
OUR HISTO
An
STREAMS AND LOCALITIES
They Derived Their Present Names
Indian Names for Many and
What They Mean —Short Sketch
About Milesburg
How
in the
section
Indian
Bald Eagle
and some are in use at this
many who tre; them are
that the foot of the red-man
thereon over a century ag
paths
and
were many
Penns ¥ alley
t day, and
not aware
had trodden
We find, as
8 that from
le of Bald
the site in
, Crossing
TOSS
Indian chief
)
t is designate
«t On Lokens 11Yey
he
ly
marks it with a few huts,
aboot f rods from the junction of the
streams southwestward, designating it
“Bald Eagle's Nest or
The creek had its name as carly as 1766
Creek, emptying into Bald
Eagle at the present railroad station of
that name, was called by the Delawares
Schauweminsch-hanne, thet is. Beech
Stream. It had its translated name as
early as 1768
Buffalo its name to
1769, derived from a buffalo lick on the
farm pow belonging to Mrs, John B
Linn, called in George Gabriel's appli
cation of April 1, “Old
Lick."
Dewitt's Run, emptying into the Bald
Ragle at Unionville, had its name as
early as
settler on the run,
as old town
Beech
Run dates back
1769, Buffalo
ships, was so named by Samuel Maclay,
deputy surveyor under his brother Wil. |
Ham, in 1766,
Fishing Creek was called in 1» Dela:
ware language Namees-hanue, that is,
Fish Stream,
Marsh Creek was a name applied to it
by Charles Lukens in 1769.
Little Moshannon in Delaware, Tan:
kimoos hanve, — Little Blk Stream.
Moshannon (boundary between Centre
“Continued on page 4 column 4,
1773 from Abraham Dewitt, a
Elk Creek, in Penn and Miles town: | little. t
[It is “8 p. m.,"" of course.
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VOL. 23, XO.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY
Bright Sparkling Paragraphs Selected
and Original
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Little
(hierry stones
TRAGEDIES
Marri
aubdie us up
It seems
colors that 4
When the
1 when he
1 the mails which
and will
cave it
Thousands
nd the
at
ular,
ul lales
For three years I have
hear
nonths ago my wife
She took one bot.
1
had tr
al organs
{f your elec
electric lights
Gentlemen Last year | had a large
wart on my throat which gave me such
pain that it
wear a collar
was impossible for me to
I tried one vx of your
chocolate pilis and am glad to say that I
can not only wear a collar but am able
to use the wart as a collar button.
Juggling Letters and Figures.
Little punning catches are appreciated
by a good many people. Here is an old
one that is good
If a father gave one of his sons nine
teen cents and the other six cents, what
time would it be?
The answer is “Quarter to two,"
And here is one of more recent birth
If a postmaster went to a menagerie
| and was eaten by one of the wild beasts,
what would be the hour?
Perhaps you'll have to think this over
Yet the answer is very simple,
And here is the latest yet
If a guest at a restaurant ordered a
lobster and ate it, and another guest did
the same, what would the latter's tele-
phone number be ?
It would be *‘8-—1-2"Cleveland Lead-
er.
The Philadelphia Times has been sold
to Adolph 8. Ochs, publisher of the New
York Times. It will be a democratic
paper.