Circulation Over 5,700 Both Phones » The Centre Democrat. Best Advertising Medium la Centre County Everybody Reads It PROGEEDINGS OF DECEMBER COURT CASES THAT WERE DISPOSED OF | THIS WEEK, GRAND JURY MAKES REPORT List of Criminal Cases Not Large But Consume Much Time—Hammond Sechler Chosen Foreman of Grand Jury. The December sessions of court vened on Monday morning and greater portion of the forenoon taken up with hearing motions petitions presented, taking return of the constables of t several tricts of the , and the calling and swearing of the Grand Hammond Sechler, merchant, fonte, was remian, The present er and as F Tamt ff Belle- chosen f{« list of L854 civil and next week following dispo Dale, executo estate, vs Pe agent, being an appeal; George W. Zeigler being an appeal; H. P. Kelley and ners, trading Company D. Irish Irish sumpsit,; Gabriel Aaron B. Saland, business as Salant IL. Spaide and R. B and trading and doing busi as Spaide and Stauffer ¥ sumpsit; c The c« of the then made few addresses court 1j¢ The fol urdine the Clement Swisher VS. M Kelley Shoe D. Kelley Bros Pa, vs trading Jon ¢ of and Brothers; bs Snow Ned Irish ing continued Salant, ng ve. R riners ntinue mmitt lant} death that the this plaintift Burdir rods ri 57 fer report ) the insta: the residence i nels where still is; and further o wv ihe that thin neighbor v the plaintiff deliver to ant not being in court ne ied no to The defend- ¥As# repre- sented _ al na I ! compulsory non sul n the ground that the = " " ids of the AEs Comm charged wit commit fel ceny court tims 1s ed by this paper at Comm. vs, ( LS with assault John H Grand J the Comm Jor cutor J. G. Boyce; indictment on motion of defendant's Comm. vs. Arthur Donnelly; cutrix © ne A Miller, first int, assauit wind ond count, aggravated assault ar battery Defendant appeared In court and plead guilt 1 the count of indictment and was suspended pon payment of CONLE. ~ Comm. vs Betner, Indicted for larceny, prosecutor Moses John- ston; two prosecutions were brought against this man and both prosecu- tions or cases were tried before the same jury, the prosecutor in the sec- ond case being George Newman Johnston prosecuted for the taking of a mining augur and crank out of the hillside mine in Rush township where he had left them at place of workings on the evening of Oct, 14 last and that they were worth from a dol- lar to a doliar and a half Newman prosecuted for the t gE of a miners hamper and a miner's needle, both of the value of about $2.70, frorg.the same mine and at the same time. The Commonwealth's testimony showed that the defendant had been In the mine on the morning of the 16th of October and came out with a full set of mining tools, and that when he had come there to work sometime previous he had but a pick and shovel. That on the 15th these prosecutors looked for their tools and learned that the defendant had been In that mine that morning and left with a full set of tools, went to the Hartshorn mine and found that the man had been em- this Le Wa One Costs not quashed ounsel prose - indicted battery, 8¢ tther co ) the sentence Stanley the the “r LRAT ployed there that day, and asked the | privilege of going to the mine to the | place where he had worked, and that they had found their tools at the fac- dng where the defendant had worked that day. The defendant swore that whon he had quit work at the Hill. side mine he had wrapped up his tools and that on the morning of the 15th he had gone to the mine and picked up the package supposing to contain his own tools and gone to the Hartshorn mine; while working thers discovered that they were not his tools AContinued at bottom of next col) con- | the | Was | and | dis- | Jury. in Centre county. | AARONSBURG YOUTH KILLED. | Body Horribly Mutilated by Log-Roll- ing Machine. . 13 } of Claire « of Stricker, the Henry €. Stricker, met a horrible and untimely near Philipsburg on Friday by run over by a twenty-ton log- | roller, The sad part of the affair that the father of the unfortunate young man was operating the roller at the time and in consequence Is | nearly heart-broken. | Mr. Stricker for some time past has {been employed ‘hy the Whitmer- | Steele Lumber Co, at their operations I Morrisdale. His son had him assisting (in light father was operating the roller on Friday, switching cars at what known as wonover crossing. He did not SON was engaged and started the Mr Stricker found had occurred ed the 1 hine, and horri son nD been the SON Aarons- burg death being { back | with | The OR 0 been work some the no log Soh is tice that his the track ward When an ne Was d n dragged ay was head pared fo dertake Lhe DOYS Funeral ser- Evangelical in Tuesd: y Rev. W. J the grief-str : med br r 1 Y ) af - ted by Dice made In thers ard and Aaron EXPLODING MUSKET Causes Serious Mishap to Curtin Dun- kiebarger, of Pleasant Gap. n ir iad Wife Deserter Under Arrest. Mr barn and n n the fodder his sprinting | prisoner. It rges of a more preferred LEAInSs Boalsburg Hunters Good Record. The Fleet wt Hunting Arty Sand Spring trail 35 Msburg with {Ine three WAS ing 179 H. Miller t far behind pronged buck that nds. The third was a ick killed by Ww A 140 pounds The they saw very few weeks' outing cocks ir-pronged buck and w losaman him with a four weighed 178% po two-pronged 1} Loach and welghed hunters report that deer during their } af shot WAS 40 two A New World's Record. ge Bravura the second, a old brown Swiss Cow, Michigan Agricultural college, has established a new world's record for milk production by anima of her breed In the year ended last she vielded 19.3048 pounds of which tested 4.102 per cent, 1.0005 pounds of butter Colle nine nr owned by he and claimed that some one must have taken the tools of the prosecutor and wrapped them in his package and that he carried off the tools of the prose cutors by mistake and without his | knowledge until he discovered (it | while working at the last named mine, | Verdiet on Wednesday morning of not gulity. There being nothing to try, the court adjourned until two o'clock In the af. ternoon after having the accounts as passed and filed by the Register to this term of court goad. Court convened at two o'clock when the case of Comm. vs, Mosarash was called, The Grand Jury made their final report Wednesday aftemnoon, report ing they had passed on fourteen bills of Indictment, 13 of which were found to be true bills and one ignored. The Grand Jury was discharged on Wed- nesday evening. THE TRAGIC DEATH vear-old Is | steam | in sand- roller r and | i who broke | ¥ ] { Harold | day | not week | milk and made | | Bellefont« BELLEFONTE, PA, TH OF BROOKE BLACKFORD | THE YOUNG SON OF MR, AND MRS. PERCY BLACKFORD. OCCURRED AT NEW CASTLE, PA. | POLICIES CLEARLY OUTLINED Where Parents Now Reside—Acci- dentally Shot Himself With His! Father's Gun—On Thanksgiving Ev- ening. many f1 vackiord, f« of New Pa., will sym- with them the sad death of en-year-old son, Brooke, who killed himself at ni Thursday Mr of lends of rmer Castle Mrs plac ‘ ind this WTalr are Blackford Reformed | .. uu icken | ore famine at ives near Hast Bellefonte Central two hogs Walker who n the 8 week killed con ed welght when dressed 1082 He purchased the m Lyman Bickle When killed they wo months old Mr ¢ Keystone kilns lime & Stone Com- fine meas of pork will materially to reduce ing for him and his fam- this winter An pang ' his heip the cost of “The Shepherd of the Hilla" have read book Wright, will enjoy the be given by Mr in the auditor school bullding, Fri. Dhan 12th If yau have rend It you will want to after hearing Mr. Williams. The Civie Club is Instrumental In securing this fine entertainment for the citizens of and hope he will be greet- large audience Tickets Those who thin by Hell monologue George ( um of the evening play to Williams high od by 26¢ and 15« n Hospital Notes. Admitted for treatment tle Lorah, Snow Shoe, Mrs Mary Shies, Clarence; Jacob Snook, Wad- dle; Mrs. Etta Horner, and George Young, Bellefonte Operations—Laura Eckenroth, Un- fonville; Mrs. Dianna Alters, Bee fonte Discharged—Orlanda Smith, ard; Clarence Riley, State William Johnson, Mileaburg. Students at West Chester. From the Dally Local News we note the following students from Centre county attending West Chester Slate Normal School: Mary BE Bartges, Sarah I. Fisher, Gladys H. MaKe, Ruth N. Smith, all of Spring Mills; Margaret A. Brady, of Fleming; Myra B. Watson, of Snow Shoe Miss Myr- How College; | tution | of URSDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 1913, STRIKING FEATURES IN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE DELIVERED TO CONGRESS PERSON, ON TUESDAY. IN Downfall of Huerta Predicted Socon— Urges Legislation for Direct Nomi- nation of Presidential Candidates— Philippine Independence. Wilson, Une since He in President LUE Live peared (sentiemen in p Plain Words an Mexico re but ne <i : i has showy ta and hangs ver ‘ y Corialn prospe America unt ndered 1 vernment tes We are the nal government in friends Amer. thar is nie frie we ne because In rr ner whom we over i make friendship wo out velopment n peace and Oo hag no government maintalr me at has broken dowry and despotism has been h has hardly m« than of national authori usurpation of Vics whe after a brief at part of mstitution- At ast cast aside of legal right and himself dictator AR A CONnBe- a condition of affairs now ex- Mexk which : made it doubtful whether the mort ele mentary and fundamental rights eith- er of her own people or of the citizens of other countries resident within her territory can long be successfully safe. guarded, and which threatens, if long continued, to imperil the interests of peace, order, and tolerable life In the lands Immediately to the south of us Even If the usurper had succeeded In his purposes, In despite of the consti of the Republic and the people, he would have set nothing bul a precarious and hateful power, which could have lasted but a little while, and whose eventual down fall would have left more deplorable condition But he has not succeeded. He has forfeited the respect and the moral support even of those who were al one time willing to see him succeed. Little by Mttie he has been completely isolated. By a little every day his power and prestige are crumbling and the collapse is not far away, We shall not, 1 believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. And then, when the end comes, we shall hope to see constitutional order restored In distressed Mexico by the concert and energy of such of her leaders as pre. fer the liberty of thelr people to their own ambitions, uv Currency Reform, I turn matters of domestic con. (Continued on 4th page.) elghbors. t« the re ’ in the Huerta the toriano tempt to pinay al president even the declared quence, iste In has pretense even than ever. the rights | up | {in the country In a | DIED ON EV E OF FREEDOM, ’ 5 Prison Eleven Years, Convict Parole Came Too Late. be soner in the Penn After pri 1 Penitentiar of Cars Lime neg a West for that John Fri- | thera - assed | had ivania 11 xnd earnestly noping he would he released int institu before his parole act of the slature long time and én- | wering, after his parole | CK othes tion new een i tertained getting the | same from from week's time the (“or freed 10 ~ exodus KELLER-—-NOLL. 2 ter f 0 Trade Booming. kill Ha It Steel | An wl veek purchased poquire tw employment to Kingsburg, of Al purchased 60 Acros | GQUEiries, 00 persons. OG lentown for them The greatest indusiries are experiencing here no vacant houses Haven or orev Ledger having drawback these new is Are either In yikil} Beech Creek Man W. Quig. Clark, of Beech Creek employed in the clay mines of Harbison- Walker ractories com- pany at Monument painfully in. jured on Tuesday of last week by a fall of rock Mr. Clark had gone 10 the mine to bale water paratory to ariliing for a bast Ww . out warning half a of rock drop- ped from above and caught the man a stooping position, pressing his head and shoulders down to his fees, Unable to extricate himself from his position, Mr, Clark managed to cals loud enough to make a fellow work- man some distance away hear him, and he was taken out. The larger por- tion of the rock fell to one side of him, otherwise he likely would have been crushed to death. He was re- moved to his home In Beech Creek and given surgical atttention, Injured. who in TL WAS om Pre ton Hogan Goes to Prison. William Hogan, of Franklin, Pa, Tuesday began serving a term of not less than one year or more than three in the western penitentiary. Hogan who recently chose five years banishment to Kansas to a life term for petty larceny under the third of fense provision, got only aa far as Cleveland, Getting drunk there, he boarded a train going the wrong way. It landed him back in Frankiin. POPULAR FAITH IN | Democrat that * the |, | The {in —— PRESIDENT WILSON REPUBLICAN PARTY DEAD, COF- FINED ENTOMBED. PROGRESSIVES AND ROOSEVELT The People, as a Whole, Are For Wil- son—Have Confidence in the Man— Wilson Will Be Renominated 1916. propaetls are wers that b a8 numerous the about flo Their loom in predictions are average forecast ¢ weather one talk about po ne name that anc political he, the pre-~ several trend “Saturday buted topic this that : reaq- LSON IN THE COUNTRY. thie ri f meas : things were running him. They i that Mr. Wilson is really presi- nt, with no dele of authority rE y ie remuoants i there lisposi « the tar- d be. 1 few Old pprehens- i all fact Sal isfact it is the easiest tl} the re-r Roenera peopis "le world The The eltion Mr. W and Hom the tariff this and a with would downward delusions about Democrats have wocording to their measure at least, as the people, the people have no CAUMM for come and should accept the result as their own doing, and wait for the wicome If the tariff program of erates falls to work out In and helpful manner there 8 to what will happen at the frst general election, where the people have a chance to express themselves, Democrats will be retired-—that all there is to that; but, until the tariff has had a chance, the great bulk of the people are calmly philosophical about it all; and it is as hard to stir interest in the subject as it would be to revive Knownothingism. We have had tariff dinged at us for several years, The popular attitude is: heaven's sake, drop it! Give us a chance to see how It works! Forget it, and let us go about our business!" So far as the tariff and Mr. Wil. son's linked fortunes are considered, the general feeling Is optimistic Your American is a as a whole, and he Is willing to take a chance. If it comes hurrah for Wilson! If it comes wrong, hur- mh for somebody else. Of course I met many tandpa were full of fore. tters bodings and who prophecies (Continued on page 2) Pp was isos Ne an full knowledge red nl were no I rey vised There th re opular at NOW x the revised the tariff lights and directed by themselves aint in a : * the Demo- a practical is no doubt
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