THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BEI
RATHER BRUTAL CR
Kentucky Farmer Threatened With
Lynching For Killing Son.
HE KICKED THE BOY TO DEATH
Becoming Alarmed, Murderer Took Hig
Daughter and Filed to Mountains.
Girl Returned Barefoot and Ragged
and Testified Against Her Father.
Inez, Ky., Nov. 3.—Pleasant Sprad-
ing, held for killing his four-year-old
son, and whose 15-year-old
ter Is missing, is threatened
lynching. Sprading's family
sisted of his wife, three
ters and a son. With his
ters and boy, the father was
sheep last Friday. The boy was un
able to keep up with the others. The
father placed him on a stone beside
& spring, telling him to wait until his
return. The boy, becoming tired, be.
gan to peel the loose hark off a tree
that overhung the spring. When the
father returned he asked the hoy who
had stripped the tree The
that he had. “I would rather have yo
dead than rs
thing
father is
it is char
and struck the }
ing him down
kicked th
until he had kille
to
a like fate if
occurred. Afterward he
said that the boy, while cha
had run against a tree and kil!
self.
Becoming
his eldes
mountains
to bury t
went to Jud KB
him of the
she suspected her hu
her he
hunt squirrels
ferent ti:
daugh-
with
con
daugh
daugh-
herding
bov replied
vige 1 to
on the
Dros!
i lane ' .g hy $
His aan 1LErs, thr i
they ever
Hensley She t
" son, and
band, who tol
into the
and added
+ he had threatened
the whole family. Judge Hensley pre
sented the case to the grand jury
of the little girls told the fu
father had kicked the
Shortly afterward a sheriff's posse cap
tured Sprading in the woods, but his
eldest daughter was not with him.
Sprading’s 15-year-old daughter has
reached here barefoot and ragged. af
ter her escape from her father in the
mountains. She was immediately taken
j before the grand jury and testified
that her father killed the boy. thre
ened her life and that of her
8he testified that
brained her before but for the
ence of neighbors.
ath of }
sail
wood
was going
boy to death
1
he would
PRESIDENT AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN
Mr. Roosevelt Held Informal Reception
On the Battlefield.
Brandy Station, Va, Nov 3
dent Roosevelt passed several hours
yesterday afternoon on the battlefield
of Cedar Mountain. Ace
Becretary Root, Secretary Cortelyou
and Dr. Rixey, the lent drove to
the site of the sanguinary strucels and
there received from an eye-witness and
participant an account of the fighting
The president, accompanied by
rgtary Root, Secretary Corts
ey, Judge D. A
three ladies, arrived
fleld shortly before 3
were followed by a p
riages containing people from Culpep-
per and the surrounding country
In the very heart of the battlefield
President Roosevelt greeted many peo
ple who had gathered. and after Judge
Grimsley had described the battle the
president informally those
who had assembled on the field. Dur
Ing the reception the president was
photographed by Mrs. Frances Boddie,
of Culpepper, both alone and in a
group with Secretary Root, Secretary
Cortelyou. Dr Rixey and Judge Grims.
ley. Subsequently the president was
given a shell, which had been dug up
on the battlefleld, as a memento of
his visit
fzars Uncle Dismissed From Army,
Bt. Petersburg, Nov. 4 —The dismis-
sal from the Russian army of the Grand
Duke Paul Alexandroviteh, uncle of the
Czar, which was officially announced
Presi
Mn pas
presi
Ke
Dr
and two
the battle
They
rocession of car
you
Grimsley
at
o'clock
received
nday, was due to his recent marriage
the Baroness Idstolkoff, with whom
has been acquainted for the past |
three years, and who got a divorce from
her husband in order to marry the
grand duke,
duke has also been banished from the
Russian court for ten years. He will
settle at Cannes, France
Queen Emptying the Jails,
Lisbon, Nov. 4.-Queen Amelia, who
Is acting as regent during King Don
Carlos, absence from the country, has
been inundated with petitions for the
pardon of prisoners. The queen's kind-
ness and tenderness of heart have
made it easy for friends to secure par-
dons, and a number of criminals have
accordingly gone free The government
jals are now interfering, as they
the queen will empty all the Inlls
the king's return,
i Three Killed By Exploding Locomotive
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 3. Three train. |
men wore almost instantly killed you. |
terday by the explosion of a befler of |
Paltimore and Ohlo locomotive at
thorp, seven miles west of this
r, Trae was delayed about three
urs by the accident. Thoss who
killed were: Engineer B. Ww,
t, both
0. Stall
| | the Kordeck
It 1s sald that the grand |
REJECTED LOVER'S REVENGE
Chicago Family Blown Up By Dyna
mite Bomb and Two Killed.
Chicago, Nov. 8.—A dynamite bomb,
the of a deranged assassin,
blew up the home of Joseph Kordeck,
in Chicago Heights, yesterday, killing
two of the family outright and injuring
several others, one fatally. The house
was set on fire and burned, while that
of a neighbor caught fire and was also
destroyed, The dead are: Joseph Kor
deck, arms and legs blown off; Lucy
Kordeck. aged two years, body blown
weapon
ANOTHER MINE VISITED
to pleces.
The explosion occurred while the |
family was asleep. The father and
mother, with the daughter Luc y, occw
pied a room in the front of the cot.
tage. On the other side were rooms
occupied by the rest of the family
The cottage stood two feet from the
ground on wooden posts. The bomb
was place I under the room occupied
by the parents, and the impact of the |
explosion tore a hole in floor, |
blew the bed to pleces, dismembered |
Kordeck and scattered into fragments |
the body of Lucy, who was sleeping |
with her parents. Pieces of flesh the |
size of a man’s hand were the largest |
remnants of the child's body that could
be found The . the eo mn |
was directly and tore a piece |
of flesh fron
blew he
noite aroused the rest
and they
from the flames,
the cottage Kordeck's ody, torn
shreds, was found in the debris after |
the fire
Charles Smith, a former boarder at |
hou
to one of Kordeck'
charged
the
force of plosic
upward
1 Mrs. Kordeck's side and |
"OL window The
of the family, |
{0 escape
r through a
troyed |
to
se, who was paying |
8 daugh- |
with |
to
man
in
attention
ters, has been arrested,
the crime. The Kordeck gir
have been marrie another
next
nocent, but n
made
refused
up the
Emith
the time of the
LAURA BIGGAR SURRENDERS
was
week : h declares he is
that he
threats
entire
absent
was i:
explosio
Actress, Accused of Fraud, Had Trou
ble to Get Into Jersey Jail,
Freehold, N. J., Nov. 4. —Miss Laura
Biggar, for whom a warrant was issued
for attempted fraud in connection with
the will of the late millionaire Henry
M. Bennett, experien
difficulty in
county
at the sherif
nounced
herself
fact that the warrant was in
of a
sheriff d«
bility of |
up until
mally served
Miss
ren
in
the LA nstal
when
been removed, he cons
Miss Biggar as a prisone
Counsel for Miss Bilge:
since the accusation
her she had
She would
long as
Hendricks
stood that no
found against M
JOKED, GASPED AND DIED
Old Conductor Expired
ber’s Chair,
N. J. Nov. 3—~John 8
yOars a « 1
table at As y Park
thie
on
the aherift
ained urat insisted on waiting
the
oe arrived wi
fs
the sheriff
In the Bar
Trenton,
Smith, for 32
Pennsylvania Railroad
in Miller's b
day afternoon,
in the n« chair
hair cut
“That
frosted.” sald Smith i
As a general laugh went around the
shop Smith gasped and straightened
backward in his chair. Miller, the bar
ber, ran to his side, but life was ox.
tinct. Heart failure, superinduced by
rheumatism, fs given as the cause |!
Smith formerly lived in Hackettstown.
luctor on the
boing
Satur
ed a lad
a rather short
VAS
shaved ber shon
when he not
xt with
head will get
youngster's
Course at Naval Academy Shortened. |
Washington, Nov. 4.—~The order is
sued by the navy department decreas
Ing the academic course at the naval |
academy from four to three years, be |
ginning with the present third class,
which will graduate in June, 1904, does |
not reduce the statutory length of
service of a midshipman. By law the |
course of Instruction of a “midday” is |
six years, two of which have heretofore |
been spent at sea. The new order eon
templates a three years’ course at the
academy and three years at sea In
1904 two full classes will be graduated,
one in February and one in June. The
shortening of the academic course has
resulted In a considerable rearrange
ment of the enrriculum for the purpose
of crowding the advance studies Into
a three year course. The change ia
made necessary by the pressing need
of naval officers,
Submarine Boat Tested.
Ban Francisco, Nov. 4. ~~ The Hol
land submarine boat Grampus had her
first surface trial trip yesterday, and
#0 far as the test went proved a sue
cess She made nine knots, a knot
more than the speed contract calls for,
and so far as steering gear and diving
machinery are concerned gave every
satisfaction.
Searching For Contraband Goods.
Now York, Nov. 4. Immediately on
the arrival at quarantine last night the
|
Strike Corimission Inspected the
Audenried Colliery.
ASKED MINERS MANY QUESTIONS
Recorder Wright Sent to All Operators | ol
a Copy of the Miners’ Statement As
Presented By President Mitchell, of B
i
the Miners’ Union.
Nov. 4
Strike ommi
anthra-
The
pent
Hazleton, Pa
cite )
day In the igh Val region
iting one mine and ral of the mi
While most of the econ
the
B01
BEV
ing village
missioners
were looking over
ritory, Recorder © t was }
on the
resp
the m disposed of
sending ident Mitch
H'e ata ont } nincre' case
el i iH ) n min n
train in attending to
f the commission
he
A 11
Yas
ndence «
atters
whi
on S
from
2: aT
md many qu
he miners at
nd thus making its min
matter
ssioners spent last night
at the Central Hotel, and left for
Shamokin at 7.45 this morning. To
day was spent in that vicinity. and to
morrow will find the commission In the
Panther Creek Valley. On Thursday |
the arbitrators will visit the region |
around Pottsville, and that night the |
commission will adjourn until Novem: |
ber 14.
Protest Against Sliding Scale,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 4. President
Mitchell's protest against the sliding
scale, as filed with the Investigating
commission, meets with the approval
of all the miners. At strike headquar
ters the opinion is that the re-adoption
of the sliding scale would be a step
backward, and Instead of the miners
gaining anything by their strike they
would be the losers,
Chinese Way of Fulfilling Obligations.
London, Nov. 4. Giving an instance
of the Chinese way of fulfilling treaty
obligations, a Pekin correspondent
notes the issuance of an Imperial re.
script, In response to a request made |
by the governor of Kwang-8i province,
of elevating fourth grade officials to the
rank of first grade mandarins, for thelr
patriotism In smuggling into Kwang-8i |
1,000 Mauser rifles and 300,000 car-
tridges, which were placed at the ser.
vice of the grvernor for the suppression
of rebels, This was dons, says the cor.
respondent, although an Imperial de- |
cred, Issued In August, 1901, In accord. |
ance with the protocol, forbade the im. |
portation of arms. i
i
Two Found Dead n Baltimore Hotel, |
ing the coal
ing an easy
| about | when ! WUR going
| when
SOME GOVERNM
Carrying Unadles
nud Oa
ENT RULES.
Into the Capltol
of the Treasury,
Among all the departments In Wash
ingion the 1081 wt
A eltlzen ny Carry
likes into the treasury
when he undertakes
bulky out of the bullding he
ret is the treasury
anything that he
building, but
anything
1.)
not explain
Oo Carry
upt to
0 trouble if Le
does
or to Washington the other day
rly lira packnge into the
ord
AFR LE REIT 0 Mil i]
to him
in but
ith the
nit
ud his
¢ of the rule is up
HiCcKage
he wa to opm and to
explain all about Lim If :
ness
busi
1 hie BOO] seg
| parent
At
to carry
the capitol it » rules
3 1 bundle into the
building Tl fear Is that somebod
1 i 1 he
Willi
y until the
uly
carry ni was
never enforced i
ante tool
At that
BOL
bill
I't peal
Snowballs Lrought W nier,
ad
Gall, Not Heart, In China.
{ hinese. an “ N ht |
Hal Sd
w8 Of
«
After the Strike
| | % key, but
Now you can go
Does it
Pearson's Weekly
Sponge Fishing,
Sponges are gathered by means of a
long pole with a hook attached to the
lower end, with which the sponge fish
eran is very expert. He lies upon his
in the stern of a boat look
ing through an ordinary water bucket
with a glass bottom, which does awny
with the glare from the water and al
lows Lim to survey the bottom leisurely
while the boatman rows or sculls the
boat. A schooner lies at anchor near
by, from which half a dozen or more
of these small boats fish It returns
to port when It Is loaded, or at night,
as the case may be,
stomach
Nothing Mach Happened.
In his “Story of the Cowboy” Emer.
son Hough gives the following quar
terly report of a foreman to an eastern
ranch owner, which constituted his
most serious labor of the year:
“Deer Sur, we have brand 800 caves
this roundup we have made sum hay
potatoes is a fare crop. That Inglish.
man yu lef in charge at the other camp
got to fresh an’ we had to kill him.
Nothing much bas bapened sence yu
lef. Yurs truly, Jim”
Her Unintended Satire,
“Charley, dear,” exclaimed young
Mra. Torkine, “the paper bas a sketch
of you as a rising young reformer.”
“Yes. 1 thought that would sur
prise and please youn. What did you
think of the biography 7
“Oh, Charley, dear, It Is too good to
be true!” — Washington Star,
LEFONTE, PA, NOVEMBER 6, 1909.
'
ATTENDANT THEREON.
Queer Superstitions That Take Root
servations on the Way They Work
Themnelves Out,
faper
tition Is the
Christian and
one
thing that
In at-
unbellever unite
tackin
F tform, it
pulpit, press and j
{ but
not pera HE i nly,
less strongly, even if
dred,
The Witch of Endor 1
nd the
sing med
1
hood
85 an exXor am,
Ot Ole 0 Of Ore
t. in fate and fortune,
perstition
wm of «
attention
representin
©X
perience
fective
1 the
rs to
of the
her
wple do not know that the
Ss Db while «
Was dro
friend
Ohio atl
of the 1 h of the grocer the family
used to The comb was thus
corroborated, despite the fact that the
decensed was otherwise entirely un
known.
The barking or howling of a dog at
night Is a sign of death, It ought to be
that of the dog. An old lady was
much concerned over the fate of some
body because of a dog bowling under
her window one night end expressed
her convictions that it meant some.
thing unfortunate. During the day she
triumphantly pointed out In a news
paper the account of a man dying In
Philadelphia.
For a friend to meet or pass you and
not recognize you means that you will
be married within a year. The fact
that you are already married does not
matter presumably, You must get a
divorce and make the prediction good.
Fortunately this axiom is more honor
ed In the breach than In the observance,
Opening an umbrella In the house 1s
unlucky. Any person who has hoisted
his or her umbrella in the house and in
#0 doing bas knocked off a lamp globe
or shade never doubted the wisdom of
the proverb maker, Dropplog an um.
brella presages a disappointment. He
who bas tried to brush the mud off has
many of them before be gets It cleaned
Again. There Is, however, no Ill luck
attached to dropping the fubject.~Kan
sas City Times,
Unenlled For Remarks,
A city man wrote to the editor of a
horticultural paper asking what plants
would be suitable additions to dried
grasses for winter ornaments,
The editor replied:
“Acroctinium, A. album, Gomphrena
globoss and Grosenm globosa carne.”
When the man read this, he falrly
bolled over with rage and Immediately
sent a note orderiug his paper to be
discontinued. He sald that an editor
Who swore tn that way Just 0 be
was asked a q oO
have no
LUCK GOOD AND BAD; |
BOME SIGNS AND OMENS THAT ARE |
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In the Mind of Man, With Some Ob |
i
i
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ri yet, despite the onslaught of |
survives, | ...
none the |
shamefacedly
but a |
Ivilization |
i of !
fagot |
but few of us |
bellef,
as ex. |
very land is
it de- |
| turn,
| with Joint
a fee of 50 cents, an extension
| Remedy cures
| FORTNEY
18. D
BASH
WINDOWS,
Probably a Duteh Invention of the
Seventeenth Century,
The history of sash windows is SOmMe-
what obscure, but the probability is
that they Dutch Invention and
that they introduced into Eng.
land ion of 1088,
The derivation of the word * h” in
5 Dutel Rie a slulea-
old English “gauss Anne's
reign they yet so comparatively
LF FLR ae a
it were
* Tatler,
1710,
Wore a
were
oon after the revolut
ti sense is th
were
Mnnon as to be mentioned
a0
ol,
Bquare,
d Brick
f © Re 1 and a
Hall vith very good ght and
Closets wl being
30
i COD
well wale
Sash Lights
venient Office |}
into
I up
new
ng of
i for-
hal himself,
ndows,
Pp and
which
ut of
ght on
noth-
vs in France
RO
KR. Excursions to New Orleans.
the
New
13, the
will sell
and re.
within
at
tickets
Orleans on or
and the pavment of
of the
ion tickets to New Orleans
8 to 10, good to return
cluding
Lew 1 c
By depositing
3
Agent at New
Nov
eleven days, g date of sale
reduced rates
before November 15
re.
turn limit fc
tained,
For
November 30 may be ob
specific yrmation
regarding
| rates and routes, appiv 10 nearest ticket
| agent
-
He Learned a Great Truth,
It is said of John Wesley that be once
said to Mistress Wesley : “Why do vou
tell that child the same thing over and
ver again 7’ “John Wesley, because
once telling is not enough.” It is for
this same reason that you are told again
again that Chamberlain's Cough
colds and grip: that it
Counieracts any tendency of these dis.
cases to result in pneumonia, aud that it
8 peasant and safe to take For sale
by Green's Pharmacy
and
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
FHOS SEXTON ~)H 8
street M " ey to
four
tion
& W
Harrisor
1s
o
ALKER
w Walker
Cee ‘3
house, Prowapt
ness
tlaw. Office In
setor of Bellefonte
mptly attended to
«A Moe
n all
*y al Law
Practices
Ney @1-1aw
and German
romptly attended to
Pruner
GETTIG. Aue
| Legal
Bullding English
Dusiness i
orney-at-law
Special at
Prao-
tention
oe with Reeder &
A I. MILLER Att
ties na the courts
one on
Attorney at Law «Of
“Fortney & Walker Prepared
branes { egal service Survey
ing and engioeering
KLINE WOODRING
fice with
for a es of
N. B.SPANGLER Attorney-at law —OfMee on
fioor Crider Exchange. District attor.
nd
C. HEINLE, Attorney at
Exchange, 2nd foot
nan and English
Crider's
in Geog.
aw-In
Consultation
TORN M. KEICHLINE, Ati
Justice of the Peace i
oppoxite Court house
wney-at-law and
nl opera house bloek,
C. MEYER, Attorney.atiaw —in Crider's
Exchange. Ex-distriet a'torney. German
and English. Prompt attention to all busi
Leas,
~foe
JOHN J. BOWER, Attorney-atlaw
in all the courts,
in Eagle block. Practices
English and German
WILLIAM J. SINGER. Attorney At IAW in
gemple Court building, room No. 21, fourth
oor,
ORVIS, BOWER & ORVIS, Attorneysat-law,
~in Pruners building. Prastices in all the
english.
Atiorney-at-law.—OfMoe |
‘s Exchange. Special attention giv.
&n to surveving and engineering.
WILLIAM G. RUNKLE. A At law in
Orider's Exchange. English and German
Legal business promptly attende | to.
a a a ads SA
STOP
THAT
COUGH !
Don't let it hang on! Don't
doit! It's terribly bard on
your throat. Besides there's
BO use in letting it ron. (It's a
tax on your strength, and pulls
you down. Take a hint-—our
PECTORAL
BALSAM
will coughing if anything
way be a few
which #2 will
cases are so