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CHAS R.
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Another Chapter About Lieut.
Moses Campen, the Scout.
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CAPTURED AND IMPRISONED.
Would Kill
He Re
American
Indians
{0
that the
Taken
Loval
Believed
Him
mained
Canada
to the
Revolution
war of the
author to congres
In the latte
{ opening Ol
were ordered |
ive stati
pany to
Thomas
been recent
of ou.
berland
wash
Chambers
Mun
Phas
Was orders
five men, w
Branch t
two others mad
we had
were made pr
would §
myself, pou the year
at the party | was discov.
ered to be the person, my case would be
a hard one.
Their prophet, or chief
“2 speech, as [ was informed afterwards
by the British
Warrior, ms
lieutenant, who belonged
to the party, he was consulting the Great
Spirit what te do with the prisoners,
whether to kill us on the pot or spare
ame to the
our lives: he
there had
as to the 1
adopted
we had
amongst
of , and thence
to the waters of the Genesee river. After
two days travel we came ]
Woods
1c]
ian
to a place
called the 4 geon w hete
number
young, ad come
There
warriors,
pigeons
we met a partly of about forty
on their way to the frontier
settiements ; they encamped some little
the
parties holding a council
distance apart, warriors of the two
at our camp
I soun perceived that I was the subject
of conversation. I was seized and dragged
to the other camp, where the warriors
were sitting on one side of a large fire; I
was seated on the opposite side, Every
me, I
eye was fixed
they
numbers ;
man
came to me and
a white man pafiited,
upon perceived
were gathering around
in a
pressing through the
in great
short time | perceived a
crowd : he
iat dows; I saw he was
dress
He examined me on the situation of the
frontiers, the strength of our forts, the
& After got
through, he observed that there mly
one there, besides hintdelf, that knew me.
“Do you know me, sir? said 1. “1 do
You ave the man that Billed the Indians.”
range of our scouts, he
was
I thought of the fe and the stake
He observed tha he Gvas a prisoner and
a friend ; that Is nle was Jones, apd
| county ;
die at the stake
~~
he had been taken prisoner in the spring
of "S81, with Capt
that he
would not
and if I could pass through undiscovered
British, 1
Lo
and be delivered up to the
would be safe; if not, I would have
moved down the river; two days afte:
wards they came to the Caneadia village,
the first on the Genesee river, where we
were prepared to run the Indian gaunt
let, The warriors don't whip ; it is
They
house,
young Indians and squaws.
you in sight of their council where
they select the prisoners from the ranks
of the warriors, bring them in front, and
the
prisoners star
when ready, word jOggo 18 given |
the t, the whippers follow
after, and if they outrun you, you will
e severely whipped.
'
i$ placed in front of my man
we
|
h, and
honor than t
savages. I
more
will be ; and please to in
nel that we have it in our power to rets
late.’
and
He left
1
rd and stated
me, in a short time
that he was author
to say to me that there was no alternative
for me to ut to abandon
wal could
erved, how much m
noranie
yuld it be to me to be an officer n the
I could
he
nited
I remarked that
that
of the i
and that I would abide the conse
British service.
not dispose of myself in way
longed to the Congress
States,
She left me, and that was the
last I heard of it.
my apartment
quences,
A guard was set at
In about four days after, I was sant
Lake Ontario to a called
Carlton the
St, Lawrence to Montreal, where 1 was
placed in prison, and found forty or fifty
of our American officers, and where we
had
viace
thence
down
Island : from down
the honor to look through the iron
grates. The fourth of July was drawing
near ; ten of us combined to celebrate
the political birthday of our country ;
and to have
brandy conveyed in to us, unknown to
we
found ways means some
the British guard, It was highly offen.
jritish officers,
and
thence down to St, Lawrence, and put
sive to the and we ten
were taken out sent to Quebec,
on the Isle of New Orleans, where we
remained until the last of September: a
British fleet sailed about the same time
and bound for New York; we were put
(Continued on page 4 column 4.)
expose me, |
The next morning they |
the |
meet |
BELLEFONTE
SPECIAL WEEK
John Boyde, in Bedford |
OF
To Commence October
COURT
18, Session
of Three Weeks
the Three
Some
Drawn for
Lases
Is Your
gust Term
List
list of
Th
» following is a
court,
Contivued
GRAND and TRAVEKSE JURORS
Weeks
Special
From Au
Name on the
f three weeks
on Mon
for the trial
week begins day
and of
Monday, Novem!
seth
mas |
M.M. Cong
David At}
Willlam Crono
J.B. Fortney
Fred Nenser
teacher
farmer
Morrison
Whipp
George W laborer
Edward (
J. W. 1}
i borer
W.K Miller
po
barber
TRAVERSE JURORS
William Motz
Joseph Gunsaulas, farmer
John CU. Marks, wagon maker
William LL. Steel
Eller)
Samuel Harpater, farmer
CL Grimm, farmer
D.C, Bohn, farmer
Enoeh Huge
Warren Lonsberry, Iaborer
W. H. Bartholomew, agent
{ John F. Royer, tarmer
{ J.C. Wian, saddles
Thomas Beehtol, farmer
L. K Rogers, farmer
laborer
contractor
Hrown, blacksmith
merehant
| Samuel Campbell, laborer .........
| Willlam Garland, Vveryman....
| Jolits Geiser, 10rK ove.
ER
November
Cla Ca
the regular
imviiie
Worth
+Anow Shoe
Mi
LAS]
DEC. 2
Poltey
Liberty
Taylor
Bellefonte
Mi
Ferguson
«Milos
Harris
Philipsburg
Union
Centre Hall
Miien
Bellefonte
Liberty
Walker
Lollege
itheim
«ws Bellefonte
PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3
{ly killed, his
1001,
The Paddy Mt. Electr
contempls
a& week ago
urday, has been apprehend
of this
rien
ice authorities City traced
from here to
’
L£wisburg, where he was arrested Mon.
tective J. W. Right
realier x
dt. This is what
gysiem
Lived, Sickened
At Ogdensburg, Lye
and Died Together
oming county, o«
Mon
Years,
curred the double funeral on day,
of Jeremiah Austin, aged 7: and
George Tripp, aged 78 There
of
two men all their lives. They were rear
was a
close bond sympathy between these
ed inthe same town, and were in the war
together. Upon their from the
war they were together much of their
return
time. The decline in their physical con-
dition began about the same time and
they died six hours apart,
——
Fatal Accident at Johnstown
Word was received Monday mor ning,
Sept of a fatal accident which ok
curred in the Highland Paper company’s
30,
mill at Johnsonbarg, Sunday night which
resulted in the death of James Heverly,
Mr. Heverly was caught in the fly
wheel of the big engine and was instant.
body being frightfolly
mangled. He was formerly of Howard,
Rush | Centre county, and is survived by his
wife and one child.
pe
a
VARIETY OF
COUNTY
[tems of Interest Gathered From
All Sections,
SHORT AND TO THE POINT
What Transpired Worthy
tion Past Weel
the
burn is sp of by
as a j§
xen
changes { that is ass
Troe
uming
If there is any p ounty
shape in the ¢
where such an enterprise
this uld
to
valleys whose
would be a suc
It
both
ess route sh
would be a
Kreat
Brush
by way of Coburn.
convenience Penns and
principal outlet
Miles Arney, electrician at State Col.
lege, of whose injury Ww the second finger
of his right hand we made mention in
last week's Democrat, has had two am.
putations made. The first was immedi
ately back of the first joint, and in a few
days thereafter there appeared danger
of blood poisoning and the doctors found
it necessary to perform a second ampu.
tation back close to the end of the finger
Young Arney is suffering much pain and
is rather serious than otherwise
IX ADJOINING COUNTIRS
Over 700 pupils are enrolled in the pub-
lic schools of Clearfield,
The Lock Haven sports have their
race track about completed and ready
Continued on page 5,
L.
a pleasant
lelephone News
A cons
lephone companies of }
tion of all the independent
te Penn.
formidable
was affected in
Allentown on Tuesday, and is to be fol.
lowed by
‘astern
svivania, which is to be a
rival of the Bell system,
the merging of all the inde-
the entire of
Pennsylvania with those of New Jersey
pendent sytem of State
and eventvally to connect with a Propos -
ed system between New Vorktand Bos
ton. The corporate title of the combine
is the Covsolidated Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania
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8 CLRARFINLD REPUBLICAN: if Frank
G. Harris stands so well with his neigh-
bors, why is it that his colleague, Joe
Alexander, polled over 200] votes more
| than be did in 1990 and over 3000 more in
1598. This, too, in face of the fact that
im ne. | HHATHS received the votes of about joo
Quay Democrats in the county,