Nr” - — CHAS. R. KURTZ, P Sirietor. OUR HISTORICA | RI IEW n.d “| Some of the Early Execu.dons in| Centre Co “NEGRO DAN" Accounts of their Crimes and Trials Hanged the Second Time—an Old Story Retold of a Bloody Highway Murder. Our county had no less than a dozen many executions. Oae condemned mur. derer broke jiil under sheriff Cook. Another, the Garman House hostler. for killing Koch, sentenced to the peniten. tiary, was pardoned before serying part of his term, in the county jail or state’s prison. "“The first case of capital punishment | in the county was that of Daniel Beyers, or ‘Negro Dan’ as he was called, who murdered James Barrows on the night of the 15th of October, 1302, in Spring town. ship. The jury returned with their ver dict a valuation of him : ‘valued him at two hundred and fourteen dollars.’ He was executed ou the 13th of December, 1502, by James Duncan, Esq., then high sheriff. A large crowd, coos sting of forge-men and other original characters, had assembled to witness the execution, and a company of horse, under the com. mand of Captain James Potter, (Gen. ter, 2d.) was drawn up near the scaf. With the the and the arst swing rope Tr ground shouted Archy Mec. ade a move ke negro Dan fell to the crowd and headed by unhurt; with that ‘Dan 1s free,’ Swords and McCamant they m to rescue hi Sheriff Du rays carried a lead loaded ridin hit ways carried a lead loaded riding whip, drew it promptly, and struck McSwords m. an, who al a blow that might have felled an Ix. McSwords scratched his head and said, ‘Mr. Duncan, as you are a small man you may pass on.’ With that Captain Potter's company made a charge, and William Irvin, of the troop, leveled Mec. Camant with a blow of his sword. cutting his cap-rim through Meanwhile Wm, Petriken stepped up to Dan and patted him on the shoulder, saying, ‘Dan vou have always been a good doy, Ro up now and be which he bung like a man,’ did.” Linx The case of James Monks, who was hanged for the marder of Reuben Guild, created considerable excitement at the time. The circumstances are given as follows Mouks was a native of Potter At the time he committed the deed he was about twenty. four years old, and lived with his wile and two children on Marsh creek, in Howard township, According to his Confession, written while he was under { Sentence of death m the Centre county fail, be was on his way home from Clear- field county, on Sunday, the 16th day of November, 1817, and in a lonely place in the road met a man on horseback, “and,” to use his own language, “as he passed we bid each other ‘good evening.’ | passed him a few steps, and [ know not what came over me. | thought that | must kill that man ! There was no one with him. [then shot him! The ball entered his Back on the right side, just at the upper edge of the waistbana of his pantaloons, and went sloping through his body and came out just by his breast, This wound brought him down from his horse, and as he fell he gave a loud shriek ; I laid my gun down in the road and went up to him. He sald, ‘A [friend you have killed me.’ township, Centre county "The horse ran a few rods and stopp- ed ; I went after him to catch him, but he I then went back to the man-he was not quite dead. 1 went | to my gun and set it out of the road. I | would not let me, then went again to the horse, when he begun to feed by the side of the road. “7 1 then caught him sad took him back to where the man was lying. I tied him to a brush and went to the man; he was dead I believe ; but fearing that he might not be dead I ook my tomahawk and struck him twice on the bead, for at that time I did not know how he was shot ; if I had known that the shot was so deadly, I do not think that I would have struck him on the head. “I then dropped my tomabawk and caught him under the arms and dragged him into the woods ; and jast by chance I AND MONKS Others served out their terms | went back to the road, and got my gun, he his strait coat ; I took it out and put it in my own pocket--I did not open it till the next morning, took out my knife and cut one of them | | down in the vamp, but still could not get | iton. I laid my knife down and forgot {it; I also laid the shoes down. I then I pulled off his shoes | and stockings, and tried to put the shoes | | on but they were too small for me; I EVANGELICAL CONFERENCES | Held at Leck Haven and Hazel- ton, Recently | SOME OF THE APPOINTMENTS | | laid the man on his face in the hole and | | covered him with leaves. Then I went | and got the horse and lead him to the | the saddle-bags and put the { I had in my bundle into them. I suppose | book fell out, and I did not discover it ] | Then I spread my blanket over the sad- | | dle and laid the pantaloons aod strait coat on it, and then doubled the blanket | over them. I put on the great coat and and got on the horse and started.” Monks rode for some distance that night, and then laid down ou the ground | and slept till daylight, On examining the pocket-book he had taken from the murdered man's pocket he found it to contain several dollars in money, some letters, &c. Oa the fiy.leaf were written the words, “Reuben Guild's Pocket Book, This Pockel Book is but I knoe 1 wont my properly mow, wn of long.” Mouks and tried and He sOTTIS, was arrested on suspicion convicted at November term 18:8 was ably defended by Messrs. Burnside an attorneys to the common jail of the county of Cen tre, there you are taken to the be hanged by t was hanged Sat Mite located in 181g, by John gallows the hollow south of the court house On his way to execu. tion under guard of tary, “Mary's Dream.” a was played, at his request, William 8 Company itive air the fifer Armor, instead 1 on such occasion - Sharper Caught ia Carmelo and (rae ius upward of $50 result of over.confidencein a The Brown, low countryman sharper gave his name as J claiming 10 be in the employ of the U At Clearfield acquaint aited States govern- ment iately be made the © of the two first named and represe to them hire to go work atout the public ited that be wanted to two men to Washington to building, promis- ing them §45 per month each and all ex- penses for board, ete, paid by the gov- ernment | that the cost to get them to Wasuington would be $50 each, which amount they gave their sharper bene factor, and $1 50 to pay postage, etc On Wednesday evening the trio went to Tyrone and pat up at the Ward house, intending to go on to Washington the next morning. The two dupes woke up to find that their short time Acquaintance had boarded St. Louis express west dur ing the previous night, when it dawned upon them that they were victims of mis placed confidence. When here Brown wore the dress of similar make of the Uaited States cavalry service of former davs, containing a good many yellow fixings The crook was captured later and is now in the Hollidaysburg jail awaiting | trial, Sn Gas, OH or Coal. A move has been made at Asronsburg {to prospect for gas, oil, or coal, in the | ap that has the spring which supplies the town with water. The drilling 1s to begin soon, money having been sabscrib. | ed by some of the citizens to defray the | expense of drilling. A good many years | 880 Thomas Cronmiller, a citizen of that | { town, had a coal “expert” to prospect | on his land in that gap, and this “smell. er’ gave it as bis opinion that there was | coal there, The fellow got the job of | putting down a shaft to considerable | depth, but got no coal. We would re. | jolee to see better luck iu this effort, be it “coal, oil, or gas.” H. H. Weaver, who had some experience in the ofl re- glons at the outbreak of the fever in Vevango county, we understand, will direct the effort now to be made, Pretty Entertainment. Au intersting and pretty entertain. | Place where the clothes lay, and took off | leggins, | waist coat, bloody shirt, and what things | | for I was very drank, and it was dark. | | Satistical Reports on the | the Church——New Berlin College May be Moved—Other Information of the Church. | bodies of Evangelicals, { boby, and second, when the Dabb Esher arose the Dubbs element | withdrew and formed the United Evan. | gelical Association, controver Sy Both wings are rep resented in this section of the state and | herewith we give reports of their coufer- ences EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE, The East Pennsylvania conference of the Evangelical church met last week at Haz'eton, The Committee on Statistics reported as follows Bam, 1,219; members, 8.711 { 126; adults baptized, 168: tized, 682 : Conversions, 1,156: preachers, infants bap Sunday schools, 150 ; scholars, 129; officers and teachers, 1,974, young People's alliances, 84: member value of churches, § by the the misvong The Rev of Pottstown, was chosen conference colle tor. Bishog Breyfogal conducted a rally in the inter # cause and subscr to th Anan min ministers t for the vear were ; A iamsport, Leopold Market presi Wil Bover ; #ireet Pottsville, Ira } A Burrell Bergs Oriwigsburg i, G. H Tamaqua, BE i Conidale and Mauch Chunk, Brown ; Bressona. CC. RB un and Huntersvi H Bowman ; Ringtows A. Br Will | damsicwn, | H gins Sd Shamokin Gross gioniowsn He and S. 1 Boyer Wallager ; D Maouning : Lykens Wiconisco,. B. LL. R ymberger ville, C. N. Wolfe : Shoriess ; Reiner City and 8 KE Millersburg Sagar Valley, |. L Penn's Valley, O L : Spring Mills, J. F. Fenstermaker : New Columina, J G. Martin ; Port Trevorton, B E Haney; Liberty and East Point, G. Heinrich Lock Eaven, W. I. Kenter: Waller L H. Yergey ; Mifflin, A. 8 Bierly. J]. 3 Newhart, member of Pottsville quarterly conference Buck One of the features of the conference was the resolution condemning the use of pattent medicines Following is an ex- The Government, instead of trying to check the growth of the | quor evil, appears to be pandering to its in- terests cerpl that unprincipled persons for gals bave concocted compound or so. | called ‘care alls, the base of which is alcohol or often bad whisky, which Causes users to become addicted to strong drink.’ UNIT EV. CONFERENCE During the past week the United Evan. | gelical conference of Central Penna, con. | vened at Lock Haven and adjourned | Tuesday evening. The attendance was | large from all sections. | sions, and 2,422 accessions during the | past year; total membership, 18,218; San. | day school enrollment 25,000; K. 1 C. | BE. membership, 6 790; missionary i moneys raised. £15,520. The United Evangelical church is rep. resented by three annual conferences, in Pennsylvania, The Rast Penn sylvania conference, with a membership of 16,898, occupies the territory east of the Susquehanna river, Its property is valued at $996,109. The Central Penn. Sylvania conference is located in the cen- ter of the state. It has a membership of 17,881, and holds property valued at $644,459. The western part of the state is occupied by the Pittsburg conference, with a membership of 8,002, and property valued at £321,800. The three confer. occupies the build ing formerly used by the Palatinate college, al Myerstown, Penna. The enrollment of students was 119. The Central Pennsylvania and the Condition of | following conference reports, it should be | that when I opened my bundle my song- | murder cases, with less than half as | | remembered that there are two separate | ure ses, $ l Fist those who | style themselves the original Evangelical | | est in the endowmen | ference 1902, | Putaburg conferences jointly support This stitution, formerly knownas Union semi Central Pennsylvania co lege in. | | { nary, is located at New Berlin, Penna {| Its endowment fund, mmcluding a bond from. the Central Pennsylvania confer. | ence of $20,000, and one of £5.000 from the Pittsburg conference, amounts to $64. 320. For the year 1900 1 its current te. | ceipts were £4 796 315. One hundred stu. | dents were in attendance during the same | time, | | For some time these conferences felt | that if their educational interests could So that you may not be confused in the | be consolidated, it would result in econo. | my of expenditure and make the main. | tenance of a larger and more successful institution possible. bring to the new ment of £1 institution an 29 120 and a current of about §; tf Lin nd. three couferences for The following dele Representatives of will meet March 25 to perfect planus the consolidation gates were elected to the general con which meets at Willlamsport WwW. E A swengel, 8. P. Reme Ww October next: Revs H. Irvine, KR. Ci Detwiler, mbli Messinger, I. Hartzeler : lay. A. Shaffer, Dr Charles Searle Patterson, nresiden New Berlin; 8. PF. Davis member Port Treverton, and G. | weph, member ff Lewistown quarterly ¢ mference There isa irculation to the Ris) SsDOt who amar +1 effect that Dabs, DD ’ Franchise Grab nconstitutiona!l CR 8 Pex Savidge, of Northumber land ally presiding in the Colum. bia county court, bas handed dosuy an Opinion in the case of Catawissa and Bloomsburg street railway ¢ mMpany vs the Columbia and Muntour eles tric ral. Way company and M. F. D. Scanlon and EK. L Mumma, trading as M. F. D Scan. lon & Co., in which be declares unconsti. tutional the street railway franchise grab act passed by the last legislature. The court dissolves the injunction heretofore granted and dismisses the bill of com plant at the cost of the plaintiff, the Catawissa and Bloomsburg company. The opinion has a state-wide interest Locusts are Coming Deputy Secretary Martin, of the state sgricaitural department, savs that the seventeen year locusts are due this sam. mer in many parts of Pennsylvania. Many of the fruit growers are apprehen- sive of serious damage by these insects and have deferred planting young trees until next spring. Mr. Martin looks for the locust to make its appearance in Tuly {or August and says there is no known , preventive for | great damage to young fruit trees and | the tender branches of large trees, The most interesting is the statistical we report which shows over 2 000 conver. | it. The wt —— Burglars at Lewisburg. A boid burglary was accomplished down at Lewisburg, Monday morning, when the vault of the Buffalo milling company was robbed of $50 in cash and a check for $120. The burglars after felling to get the vault open from the inside of the building went outside and cut a hole through the brick walls of the building and vault. After this was ac- complished all they had to do was to [reach in and help themselves, which they did. The work was accomplished between midnight and moming. Lambermen Sue Contractors. A number of damage suits will be brought against the contractors building the West Branch railroad by Clearfield county lumbermen. The claim will be made that the ohatructions placed in the river at various points between Clearfield and Karthaus have greatly impeded the floating of logs and necessitated a vast amount of extra labor and expense in getting said logs to thelr destination the mill at Willlamsport. A score or mote suits will be brought at once, If you are in arrears on remember that April 1st is coming. VARIETY OF entre democrat, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, VOL. 24. XO. 11. FACT, FUN AND FANCY Selected COUNTY NEWS Bright Sparkling Paragraphs and Original. msolidation would | iv And { been granted a pension of six dollars a endow. | | month, imcome | 5.000 in addition to the inter. | Items of Interest Gathered From | All Sections SHORT AND TO THE POINT, What Transpired Worthy of Brief Men- tion, the Past Week—News From For Hasty Read- | Over the County ers—A New Department Give us a trial at your job printing. Thomas Weaver, of Tylersville, has George Bower, of Carroll, Sugar + alley, in the He caught a cub bear forest near that place this week, has the young ter caged Harry and Calvin Young, of Boals- burg, left Wedne sday for Stevenson Co., where both have secured [llinois, em. ployment The ladies of Mt Eagle will hold a so. cial in the schoo! house at that place on the evening of March 1 bh, for the fit of the M. E, church. J.D. }? the Irvin shop at Baileys ben. earbood has taken possession 3 ille and will out in the wagon making and parson. ui ith We wish the * through We John Beamer a carn that clerk in Crissman tore, had both eyes blown out chemi Jersey ad recently been employed veral days ago Hughesvi the clopem ] and Miss F I-YCAar | over nt of Resse! rence Shortess of Rev » pastor of the the United church Charge in Peonsva ey old-daughter 1- D Evan a SOO ress gelical who formerly had this county W1% ING IN ADOT COUNTIES John Boone, of Loganton, received an. other stroke of paralysis and is very low The drillers on the Gummo farm, near Lock Haven, are now down 1 1% feet in the fourth sand where the drill was when the stem broke. They hopeful of striking ofl. At Cross Forks on Sunday while a number of small boys were fishing drift. Aare still | wood out of the river they found a lard | Can containing the body of a baby. The can and its contents had evidently been frozen in the ice all winter The last flood broke the river dam at Lock Haven which will give them low walter during the summer. Owing to sewerage they fear it will cause pesti. lence unless it is repaired. It is thought that the P. R. R. will repair it At a meeting of the Blair County Com. missioners Friday, the county tax rate for the year 1902 was reduced to three mills. The present pecogged valuation is { nearly $32,000,000. The former rate of insects cause i taxation was four mills. Elmer Gaily, of Atkinson's Mills, Mif. flin county, was pulling straw out of | | a stack and the stack fell over on him, | The straw was very heavy with snow and rain, making it very difficulty for him to get out. He has been under the doctor's care for several days, but hopes are entertained for his recovery. The Steel Trust is ou its mettle, Drum music is not sold by the pound. A bookkeeper rejoices in the name of Adam Upp. A rich bachelor | poor husband | Success sometimes depends upon the things we don’t do. | | 2 | sometimes makes a | For a free country we seem to have a | reat many bosses, The young man who sows his wild cats depends upon irrigation A woman never proposes until she has good reason to think a man won't. Some people prefer to believe what hey hear rather than what they see. When an old bachelor likes babies all the women say it's a shame he never married Some men get get up with the lark, while others want a swallow the first thing ia the morning We copy the following from the Tiones- ta Vindicator, not kvowing where the Vindicator man got it ‘In a little town in this state the other day a dozen tired and bedragged husbands appealed to the court for some remedy against card and euchre parties The women had gone daft on the subjec ize gambling for pr women who were hugged and the men who paid Havdsome fe. males are numerous in N ith Greenfield, themselves with resig d with a charm The scale of a Ca practice rices were fixed by a young lady whose own service we are informed netted a very satisfactory sam ; O r fifi r und ris unQe 3 a) and unger 3 Over twenly years and seventy. five ¢ ents ; another A old maids three cents, The church debt was boosted to extent, but some of the more ¢ xperienced ladies of the church fear the practice may ead to complicatisns, and have protested against a repetition of the social —- - — Wants Easier Problems An exchange tells of a man near that place who wrote his boy's schoo! teacher the following letter : “S Will you in the future give my son casier some to do at mites’ This is what he’s brought hoam two or three niles back : “if fore gallins of bere will fil thirty to pint bottles, how many pints and half botties will nine gallins of bere All? Well, and make nothin’ of it at all, and my boy cried and laughed and sed he didn't dare to go back in the mornin’ without doin’ it. So { I bad to go and buy a nine gallin keg of bere, which I coulda’t afford to do, and then he went and borrowed a lot of wine and brandy bottles. We filled them and my boy put down the number for am answer. | don't know whether it is right or not, as we spilt some while doin’ | it. P. S.—Please let the next some be in water, as [ am not able to buy more | bere." Sit we tried could - -— A. |. Lindsey, who operates the Bald | Eagle Furnace flouring mill, on Tuesday | of last week had both bones of his right | leg below the knee fractured, and the | left severely cut, by the kick of a horse. Farmer Deyer drove to the mill from the A letter from T. G. Hosterman, form. | Fowler place, and while Mr. Li y erly of Cobarn, Pa., says; "Kindly change address of the “Democrat” that you send to T. G. Hosterman and K. H. Stover, to Arbovale, W. Va, to read Collins, W. Va. We have now a post. office in our town. When we came here last August there was not a house here, but now we have three stores, and seven dwellings.” Yours Respt'y, T. G. Host. erman & Co, Blairsville Courier: Robert Jellison, who has had bis burial clothes in readi. ness for the past twenty years, has taken them from the cedar chest and had them ber burial clothing ready for a number of years. It is cheaper to subscribe for the Cen. | was examining and admiring a new set | of harness Dever had bought the animal | let loose with both hind feet, with the re. | sult as stated, Colonel R. C. Eider, the new comman der of Fifth regiment, Nationa! Guard of Pennsylvania, has announced these stafl appolutments : Adjutant, Captain James 8. Stackpole, of Lewistown ; chaplain, Captain J. B. Lloyd, of Altoona, former iscumbent under Colonel Theodore Burchfield ; regimental clerk, Howard 0. Lantz, Bag., of Lewistown, who was tre Democrat than to borrow ft each
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