Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, October 10, 1901, Image 1

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KURTZ, Proprietor.
CHAS R.
CUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
A Remarkable Law Suit in Mifflin
County
HISTORY
INVOLVING EARLY
to the Grey Farm in Tuscarora
Connected With Indian
lak
Ihe
litle
Valley
Raids Le
and I
hen Returned
Bingham
were the
Valley .
came
the year
as detained
and w
found
ned, and every
3
o
0id, were gone-—a
)
childs A man!
en,
Woods (be was
Ross, who ran
wards lived taken out
side the fort, witha n ther
John Grey
joined Col. rmstrong’s
expedition against Kittanni in the
autumn of that same year, in hopes of
iships
bearing from his family. The kar
rated his health,
his
He left a
will, giving to his wife one-half his farm.
of the campaign pr
and he returned to Bucks county
and to his daughter the other half if
they
daughter did not return or was not
returned from captivity If
he gave the other half to his
had a claim
sister
she was to re
Mrs.
were taken ace
Grey
tanning, then
$ v vt
alterwards
nership in misfortune,
Wood
by the name of Hutson
and her ch re t
declined was given to an In
and Mr
aken charge of
others, and carried into Canada
a year after the burn
d herself
f the fort,
Grey onceale Athony
deersking in the wagon of a white tr
and was brought off
ter still in captivity
proved her husband's will. and
session of her half the
a Mi: Ww
however, she had no
property
afterwards married
Hams,
Enoch
by whom
issue
Escape, in 1704, a treaty was made with
the Indians, by the conditions of wh
some even YEArs after her
ch a
number of captive children were surren
dered, and brought to Philadel
be recognized
friends. Mrs no
child appeared that she recognized as
her dear little Jane
about the same aye whom no one claimed
Some one conversant with the conditions
of John Grey's will, siyly whispered to
phia, to
and claimed by their
Grey stlended, but
Still, there was one
her to claim this child for the purpose of |
holding the other half of the property, |
She did so, and brought up the child as |
§ WAS!
/
ugly in her person, awkward in her
manners, and, as events proved,
With all
contrived to captivate oue
her A
der
1008€ In
morals. these attainments,
her
however he
Mr Gillespie,
Scotch-Ir
who married
ciergyman of the Sect
he name of McKee, be
ugly
pared to
! the
Her historical des
of the
terested one
id settler himse
the restraints «
onally
George Woo
11th of
about the
hat
June he was taken
settiement of the
the county afore id f
and that
same time; that we were
all carried to the Kittanning town on the
Allegheny river, and there d
the
of July next, the said
vided among
Indians, and some time
in the month
Indians delivered
me together with Jane Grey to a cer.
tain Indian named J
took
Grey to Pittsburg, then in possession of
the after the
Indian delivered the
French Mons. Duquesne ;
from which time I heard nothing of the
sald Jane Grey until the winter after
Stump killed the Indians up Susqueban.
na; at which time I found out the said |
Indian called John Hutson, who informed
me that little Janey Grey was then a fine
ohn Hutson ; which
said Indian me and the sald lane
French ; and
Hutson
some days
me to
governor,
her own—carefully retaining the secret, | Vig girl, and lived near Sir William
as well as a woman could. Time wore
away, and the girl grew up, gross and
Johnson's, which information I gave to
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| 39x35 feet erected,
BELLEFONTE, PA., THI
UNION PARTY
ORGANIZED
Assist Democrats
Down Bosses
They Will to
FOR YERKES AND CORAY
| Coray
State Treasurers
ns who ppose
ing under all cir
\ mers He rs Lose
In the suit of the hei:
Moser, who aimed
» A now
Mi
Hary
, Was destrove«
origin about
night,
on contents
wife and their
Mi:
were able to get
daughter,
Hingsworth
slock out
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New Brick Works
The American Fire Brick ¢ ympany be.
Ean active operations on Monday towards
erecting their plant on twelve acres of
ground not far from Agar's grove near
Mill Hall, The main building will be
70x212 feet and will have an I, addition
of jox40 feet for the grinders and pans,
There will also be a few large sheds for
storage purposes and six kilns, each
Siding from both
the Beech Creek and the Bald Eagle
tracks will be constructed to the plant,
The plant will ultimately have a capa.
city of 20,000 fire brick a ay.
“We guarantee every
pair of our £2
shoes for ladies— Yeager
& Davis,
mocy N 4
RSDAY, OCTOBER 10
1001,
A SPLENDID INSTRUMENI
Our Estey Organ Arrived this Week
and is a Good one
Estey
purchased and wi
Chapel Organ
ome
or Sunday hoo
glad for
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ASSAULT AND BATTER)
Farmer hot of Fillme
Handled by
jeremial
i Ie
an Unkoown \
a farmer
i get a coup y the test
Just then he heard
passenger returning
and throwing the old
Ing pin and
the ler x Ww ater
Hout
gentieman
from
track said, "It wi
Then he hurried away, and ¢
tieman, hearing the trai
' 1 off the track far enough
ass. He was soon able to Re
and at once reported the affair
He
pretty bad shepe, and was helped to the
men at the engine house was in
Continental hotel by a couple of the rail.
road employes. Chief of Police
and getting a des
cription of the culprit, started out to find
him, He overtook him a half bout later,
brought Lim before Mr Rhone, who
identified bim as the man who had assault.
ed him and robbed him of about $17.00,
He was consequently placed in the lock.
up, and given a hearing before Squire
Sandford, who held him under $400 ball,
in default of which he was taken to
| Bellefonte jail by officer William Batche-
| ler.
sankey
was notified, aller
i
A peculiar nautical fact ts that when
the fleets go ou the cruise the crews |
on the fleet,
VARIETY OF
COUNTY NEWS
From
Interest Gathered
All
AND
[tems of
Sections,
SHORT TO THE POINT
What Transpire
th
HCARO was
He
has con
| home at Rebershurg
W. H BD. D.,
by Eider Wm. Goodhart, of
Rev Schuyler, accom.
panied the
Spring Millschurch, attended Presbytery
at Altoona, last week, which adiourned
beginning of this week
The next meeting of the Central Penn
sylvania Synod of the Evangelical Luth
eran church will be held September,
1902, in St. John's RBuglish Lutheran
church, Lock Haven,
No tidings have been received yet of
the whereabouts of Dr. Chatles F. Dietz,
the young Lock Haven dentist who has
| been missing since the evening of Sep
tember 26th,
The Lock Haven Democrat says:
Continued on page 4.
t Soins ne Paracranhs
Br git Sparkling I iragrapi
ina riginai;
singer was cleaning a gun and 4
know it was loaded. The accident oc.
curred at Knoffsinger's home and young
about a
His
Packer walked a distance of
mile and a half after being shot
K¥
recovery is doubtful
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Trap Shooting Tournament.
The first annual trap shooting tourna.
| ment of the Philipsburg Gun Clab will
take place on Thursday and Friday, Oct,
10 and 11 at that place. There will be
| 22 events and some valuable prizes are
[listed. The American Shooting Associa.
| tion rules will prevail and a maga trap
[ will be used. Further information can
be obtained from either A. J. Graham,
president or H. W. Todd, secretary,
Our live of ladies $2 shoes is the very
i best in Centre Co. Yeager & Davis,