Pao 4. THE CENTRE GEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 26, 1908, he Contre Democrat, GMHAS. R. KURTZ, - - = PROPRIETOR FREDKURTZ, SR, (EDITORS. CHAS. R. KURTZ, CIRCULATION OVER 3700. Fe TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR Persons who send or bring the money to the office, and pay in advance, $1 per year, CENTRE DEMOCRAT clubs with N.Y. 53t.w World for Pittsburg Stockman for. Tribune Farmer FA 1) The date your subscription expires is plain. iy printed on the label bearing your name. All eredits are given by a enange of label the first tissue of each month. Wateh that after you re mit. We send no receipts unless by special request, Watch date on your label, Subscribers changing postoffice address, and not notifying us, are liable for same. Subscriptions will be continued, otherwise dlrected unless | DESPERATE ROBBERY AT ROLAN 81.65 | n.! A desperate robbery was committed Tuesday evening at the little town of Roland, Pa,, which is located along the | Bald Eagle Valley R. R., often called, Curtin’s Works. Harvey Lutz is the pro. prietor of a flour and feed mill at that man by the name of Vincent Sharp. On | | meal, | it later in the day and told them to! put his name on it which he gaveas J. «81.3 | Jackson. About 5 p. m,, that evening be | West in quest of his daughter, | returned and called Mr. Lutz from his | uy these Indians. Escape was impos. place and has as an assistant a young sible and she was taken captive, | Monday afternoon a strange man came she was taken to the west, OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW , Continued from page 1. Mr. Wirebach learned of her fate and that Some years | | | to the mill and asked for a sack of corn | afterwards, when peace had been estab. | He said he would come back for | lished, and amicable relations again ex. isted between the whites and Indians, Mr, Wirebach resolved to journey to the After a considerable search he dis- home asd had him ga to the mill where ! covered her under conditions which must | he paid for the sack of meal. The man left and was not seen again until Tues: | day evening. At the time Mr. Lulz was at home and young Sharp was in charge of the place. The stranger came into have been peculiarly distressing. She | was married to an Indian and was al ready the mother of several children, What must have been his feelings when he caressed the tawny, black eyed, We employ no collector. You are expected to | the mill office and sat down and began | gtraight haired little ones and reflected send the money to this office, EDITORIAL, AN Iowa woman bas sued her husband for divorce because he compelled her to wear the family trousers. Most women would object over a refusal of the privilege. . . - . MicuAEL Kanan and Mary McClellan both of Decauter, Ill., were married after a courtship of over 33 years. The groom is 63 years old and his bride is 50. They have been neighbors all their lives. He must have been most mighty slow. Wg should like to know whether that Chicago clergyman who was hauled over the coals by his congregation for going in bathing with a lot of pretty girls was for censured for the company be kept or the mere fact that he took a bath _ i e:nSser MR. ROOSEVELT seems to have turned As the author of the ‘Life of Thomas H. Benton,’ he pretty generally agreed that pr a full and complete somersauit, declared that ‘political economists fection is vicious in theory and harmful President th in DI im § the Unites , tice,” but of i States “undesirable as be insists at it is exceedingly that the protective system | » be destroye - IT is reported from Washington that Roosevelt does not feel so sure of the nomination for lent as he did 0108 ¥ weeks ago wing f that the Rough Te repub Can quarters there is a belie Rider could not be ddy has been showing himself t head to be the president o like the United that of the prize fight Sr boy daring er handed a dex Judge Beit at Philadelphia the other day which will own ion prove of much interest to love and Mi Ame was suing Andrew Til The and acknowledged by sick youths maids “8g Powelssak 1a for breach of 1 promise. proposal was made on Sunday was never Til The Judge de- cided that under the bine laws the con- tract was worthless subsequently According to this most anything will go, when courting Sunday nights - APTER all, Mark Hanna, will be a candidate for the nomination for president. The cloud small a short time ago, bul now it has i seems, was quite risen high enough on the political bori zon to badly frighten Roosevelt, Hauna will have Senator Platt, of New York, to ald him to get the delegates of that state, as against a combination cf Goy. Odell and Roosevelt. The feeling iu the Em pire state has grown to such dimensions that Mrs. Gov. Odell bas refused an vitation to dine wit ia- bh Mrs. Sepator Platt - OFFICIAL VOTE The cfficial returns of the vote cast this state are more forceful t editorial that can be written in ban any For State Treasurer it stood Mathues, republican ..529 611 Hill, democrat 244 254 Republican plurality 28s 148 The republican ticket had over 41,000 mote piurality than were cast for the en tire democratic ticket. All this was ac complished wvnder the leadership of Guffey, and the chairmanship of Hall, et al, Comment what you may, wake all the excuses possible, these overwhelming totals can not be effaced. Results alone are the final test of fitness, and by this standard the management of the demo cratic stale campaign looms up as a colossal failure, Judge Scents Fraud. Even republican Snyder county \s taking to boss methods and has already reached the high degree of perpetrating Jury frauds, There will be no jury trials at Decem- ber term of the Snyder county courts, Judge McClure quashed the array of jurors drawn for that term in the opin. fon, assigning as a reason, among other things, the fact that out of sixty-seven names which were put into the wheel by the two Jury Commissioners sixty.one were drawn as jurors, and out of the thirty-three deposited by Judge McClure only eleven were drawn out, «Ladies good felt slips with felt soles socts, Yeager & Davis, «We have the best felt and gums ever sold for $2. Yeager & Davis. «Try our school shots. Yeager & Davis. “lt talk to young Sharp, who readily | recognized the stranger as the person | | who bad been inthe day previous and | bought the sack of corn meal. The stranger then asked Sharp whether he could change a $5 bill and Sharp said he thought he could and turned and opened | the cash drawer. As his back was turn. ed a heavy stroke on the head rendered him unconscious and be sank to the floor. Probably ten minutes after Mr. | Lutz came to the mill and waited on some trade but did not go into the office until about a half hour later when he found the young man on the floor un- conscious and the money drawer scoop- ed ot all the cash, He quickly summoned some of the peo- ple about the furnace and they at once applied restoratives to the young man who soon revived for a second time, to tell word was telegraph- Finally he recovered sufficiently what happened and ed along the railroad to be on the look- out for the robber, who is described as follows: Height about 5 feet 10 inches, weight 170, had a week's growth of a sandy beard and a heavy mustache, prominent nose, wore black slouch hat and storm overcoat The young man has two welts on his bead, one over the temple and the other on the back. The scalp was not broken bat he weapon. and that indicated t was struck with a stuffed The drawer was at least fi the Ua amount iaken from money 00 Wednes- day a suspicious character was arrested Ha accompanied by Sharp, but at and Sheriff Taylor went the n was positive that it was not ey were bunting, and he was HUNTERS QUARREL The following news {tem was sent out from Lewistown, on Tuesday The this brought first attempt at tn four game piracy MALY YEAS the a section bas been before authorities here by of the Seven Lee, of Centre county, was gunning with com panions, the burning cabin in mountains. A few days ago Wm When nearing the Old Kettle large buck, breaking his the first shot. When left his companions to look after his game lee raised a back at Lee four huntsmen, who said they were from Philadelphia, demanded the deer, say- ing they had killed it ge, upon ex | amining the carcass, found that only one bullet had entered it, that from his side, to surren der the deer. A fight ensued, in which lee was badly battered and his game taken, | When l2e's friends returned to the | eabin and discovered his condition they hastened to the cabin of the Philadelphia | party, gave a good and S0 he refused being them thrashing, forced them to return Lee's deer, burned the cabin over the learning that the cabin was the property of an other, and their heads, and drove them from mountains was being occupied without | his consent the Lee party went to Lewis town to pay for the damage. - Smallpox at Georges Valley Frank Herman, of the home of Altogna, came to Harvey Yonada, in Georges valley Friday 13th While became |! Dr Braucht, of Spring Mills, was sent for on Saturday evening, who, after exam. ining the patient found that he had on hand a bad case of smallpox, Other physicians were consulted and they verl fied Dr. Braucht's diagnosis of the case. | Mr. Vonada's home has been guaran. his father in law, there he and | {ined and all necessary precautions are! | being taken with the case. Members of both families are living in the same | house, but thus far no new cases have | | developed. Mr, Herman is being cared | for by his wife, who with her children, | had come to her parents’ home on a short visit. It is supposed that he con. | tracted the disease in Altoona where | they have their home, Disposition of Unclaimed Bodies. The State Avoatomical Society has sent a communication to poor directors saying that the bodies of all inmates of the poor house whose remeing are pot claimed by relatives must be shipped to Philadelphia for dussection, Payment of the burial expenses is all that will save the remains from going to the dissecting table. The saw mill of the Glen Union Lum ber company was closed down for the season. dians and half breeds over the Nippenoes clothing so characteristic of a barbarous state of life. | hey experienced some trouble in closing that they were his grandchildren | A PAIFTHPUL WIFE, The story of Susan Wirebach, that of Mary Jamison, is soon told, She positively refused to leave her dusky companion and friends, and was never known to return even to visit her kin- dred. Mr. Wirebach died in 1790, leav- ing a family now honorably established in Union, Centre and Clearfield counties, like STORY OF THE EMERICK FAMILY. There are a number of entries in the records of Northumberland County at Sunbury and also at Lewisburg, in Un. fon county, that are unique in character and we believe nothing similar can be found in the United States. Oae of these entries is a power of attorney given by Archibald Th per Canada, 0 Oi i ym pson, his formerly the wife of David Emerick, de. Stamford, and wife, Catharine, ceased, given to James Thompson, of the same piace, and intermarrie wel \! ] garet Emerick, authorizing him lect their interests in the rents, | profits of land the g Re id Em i : chattels late of | their b JAN en from eirs and executors Sharp, of Berks county, their inter his estate The paper is dated at loughby, Us edged ' ecorded {range life are blended Wi of the read er! erick, whose Was cruelly half breeds, th wife of one daughter | son of this same t yw Lhe take legal steg five year to recover the estates of the man they helped to slay seems, it is nevertheless Ad Remerd : met Catha the first settlers of Dry Day k and his tine, were among Valley, about ten miles north bury, now in Union county His planta the Three miles Shamokin tion embraced about 100 acres of ands io the valley the ived his brotherin law finest porth across mountain Both families bad come from the upper parts of Berks, county 1781, pow in Dauphin April, Emerick In Bickle was assisting they were surprised by a band of Niagara In They shot Bickle and captured the entire Emerick family iH making a cCciearning, After plundering the house they at once started for the mountains, having first loaded Emerick with stuff from his own house They had not gone far when Mrs Emerick, who was carrying ber child, showed some signs of fatigue, whereupon the hostiles took the child and impaled it. Presently Mr. Emerick refused to go further. He, 100, was at once dispatched. The band by keeping on the mountain Pine Creek route, evaded the settiements and reach ed Niagara without being overtaken and in crossivg the mountains ove of the Em erick girls was taken with bleediog of the nose, which getting beyond control, bled to death the poor girl Upon their arrival at Niagara, Mrs. Catherine Em erick and her daughters, Margaret and Catharine, were adopted by the Indians, and quite soo thereafter Mrs. Emerick married Archibald Thompson, a half breed, wko is said on good asthority to bave been with the marauding party that devastated the Emerick home. Her | daughter married James Thompson, | supposed to have been a son of Archi bald, and Catharine married George | Bauder, presumably a white, Many years after the sad occurrence Mis. Emerick and her husband visited the old homestead in Union county, and | from thence they proceeded to Dauphin | and Berks counties to receive her patri. mony. That Thompson was a balfbreed and a member of the maurading party seems to be well established from the lps of aged people who came In contact with them on their visit it is evident that the Emerick woman became infatuated with the abandonment of the semi-civil. faed people of Niagara, and readily adopted their way of life. On their visit Mrs. Thompson (nee Rwmerick,) was mounted on a richly carparisoned pony, and she herself was bedecked with all the tinsel and gewgaws and fancy colored From the records it Is apparant that Bald Eagle Valley. | transfer | and vieinit» | ache, weak or defective eyesight, should go to their affairs in Pennsyivania. In the testimony of a litigation growing out of the validity of a title to one of the or-| iginal Emerick properties, it would seem that Margaret, the daughter and her husband, James Thompson, were still living as late as 1834 in the vicinity of lewistown, on the Niagara, (REV. A. STAPLETON.) ———————————————— | Change in Schedule. | The new fall and winter time tabie, on the Tyrone Division Pa. R. R., goes into effect on the 2g h of November and a number of changes are made on the The official table { has not been issued, but the following changes for Bellefonte are known Train No, 52 will leave Bellefonte at 1:25 pm. going east for Lock Haven to connect with the Buffalo Flyer. The shifung crew, which formerly left here at 1:05 p. m. to connect with train No. 52 at Milesburg, has been withdrawn and for that reason there will be no more passengers at Milesburg, Heretofore there was difficulty to reach Lock Haven ot iu time to make eastern connections, on the Buffalo Flyer. In order to better the service it is reported that this train will not stop at some of the smaller stations the Bald Eagle Valley. On the Snow Shoe Branch train No. 64 along will arrive at Bellefonte at 4:25 p. 5 ipstead of 5:20 p, m.; and train No will leave Bellefonte for Snow Shoe instead of 5:45 p. m. Boy Kills a Bear. Haven Farwell, the 17-year old son of E.B hunt Ferney hear WRT Farwell, of Beech Creek, while ing for small game at the head of run Saturday came acro a and killed it with a ne shot and of buckshot ' another hkaad ST P h . THINK ! i eidbitdttiitdiidid $35.00 $40.00 $40.00 $30.00 We Sleig hs 1m Lhe # the wmicest lol of wunly this Fall Bullock Swing & Chair Mig, COMPAN C Ballack, Jr MILESBURC, PA. wild hat Successors to 1 FACTORY: k- Ai STH Laan i Prof. J. ANGEL Se ONE DAY Wednesday, DECEMBER 9 AT THR Brockerhoff House, BELLEFONTE, PA. HOURS-Wednesday from * AM. 0PM Prof. Angel's reputation for his ability and workmanshio is well established in Belletonte He gives universal satisfaction Those who want the best treatment for head no other but walt for him Coal tor Sale: At the mines, at Clarence, by the wagon, load or car load. Feed, hay, grain and other produce taken in exchange for coal, CHAMBERS & UZILE, x17 Olarence, Pa. COAL FOR SALE Farmers and others desiring to buy the BEST COAL direct from the mines, can get it at Fountain Station mines, two miles gant of Snow Shoe, by the wagon P. B. CRIDER & SON. —— 1 SEND US & AM& TV. Noumbura Xo. A COW, ; MAKERS NEW YORK, Steer, Bull or , Calf ski Kin, or any oth Horse nu, Dog r kind and let hair “The University” Sack uit Suit is our great hit of the season. It is modelled on the latest design of one of the most exclusive New York custom tailors, with broad concaved shoulder, form-fitting coat, and full peg-top trousers. Hand tailored. A universal favorite with dressy young men. See it bears the above label. Your money back for anything not right. For sale by FAUBLE & SON BELLEFONTE, PA, THE CROSBY FRISIAN FUR COMPANY, 116 A Street Rochester, Y. DOUGLAS, LACEY & CO. DIVIDEND PAYING SECURITIES. N. " afl. PORTO RICAN COFFEE You have often heard SECHLER & CO Centre County Banking Co. " t ire a Wm. T. I Meyer, & ca e brands 1008 BETZ BLDG. Philadelphia, SECHLER & CO BEEZER'S MEAT MAR ALLEGHENY ST = Pa. KET, HELLEF ni Home-made Mince Meat We keep n BEEF, A pie Bert tha Bam PORK, MUTTON, ' od Pa «1 ality of SLICED HAW 1 EN kir if you'want a Pe at. P . - sag y Yieak go to PHILI® BEEZER SECHLER & CO HUNTING SEASON OPENS THURSDAY, OCT. Ib READY et YOU AX ne in at once and . ook over our large as sortment of SHOT GUNS-— evi . ry stvie i sell them. We h AVE can * * Md ® » ® * * * * ® \ ® * w hd ® hd * Ww * ® * ® * * * h 4 * » ® u | | ® '. * » *. * ® * ~ * » A * " * . * ” * » \A ’ He x y all supply We keep S 5 tiv rT » T oat Vests, ele ts, Game ags, McCALMONT & CO. 0000 00000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 S000 : GUNS, SADDLES, PICTURES. UR enormous sale of Guns during the past week proves that our prices are away down. We still have 35 kinds of Shot Guns of all makes, from $4.50 to £22.00. We do not want to carry any of our stock over, so now is your time to buy if yon want or need a Gun, SINGLE SHOT AND REPEATING RIFLES. U.S Army Saddles, worth $22, at o wieiig $5 “ Owvercoats, worth $18, at . $2.50, $4, $4.50 We have moved to rooms formerly occupied by 8. H. Williams, on High 8t., and have purchased from him the gi tures and picture framing department of his business. e are going to give special attention to this branch of the busi. ness, - will do al kinds of work at very moderate prices— from 25 to 40 per cent. less than has been charged for this class of work. We also make a ile size Portrait, framed in am ER he Lease ABAD i Pius ks + da ee] DIRECT SUPPLY COMPANY, High Street, Bellefonte, Pa.
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