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VOL. 31.
ITEMS of LOCAL INTEREST
Tho Post, is in debtod to tho 7er
ihl for favors conferred.
Tho gold roservo h about !ii.,00),-
h i. and tho deficit in increasing ev
ery day.
There were 712 pupils in tho S 1
diers Orphans' school in this Stato
on May 31.
J. J. Steiningor ami wife of Hartlo
ton were visiting his brothers, Martin
and Charles, on Sunday.
Lewisburg bicyclists oro preparing
to organize n club. A good example
for Middleburgh wheelmen to follow.
The Globe Mills Sunday School
will hold a festival Saturday, June
'Kith at Olobe Mills for tho benefit
of tho S. S.
Chas. P. Ulrich Esq., and wifo of
Selinsgrovo rodo on their wheels to
the county seat last Thursday and
took tea at Graybill's hotel.
Now is tho time to keep an eyo
and a shinglo on tho boy who is
plugging up an old piece of gas-pipe
with powder for tho Fourth.
Three days beforo tho stato con
vention Senator Myliu. the republic
an nominee for Auditor Genoral was
out in tho field planting corn.
Albert Smith, tho editor of tho
Elizabethvillo Echo, and wife, were
in town on Sunday and remained
over for the wedding of his Bister.
Dr. G. E. Hassinger, Charles
Marks and tho editor rode to Mifllin
town on their wheels last Thursday
n distance of 31 miles in 3) hours.
Prof. J. O. Herman, of Edwards
villa who has lust comnloted a very
successful term as principal of schools
at that place, was in town over Sun
day. Misses Ella Schoch of New Berlin,
and Katherine Aurand of Milos
burg, Centre county have been en
joying tho hospitality of Miss Lillian
Stetler.
Misses Wittenmyer aro attending
Bucknell commencement this week.
Miss Mabel on Tuesday roceivod a
certificate for having completed a
post-graduate course.
Don't fail to read the article on
"School Appropriations" on page 5.
Note how much more your district
gets this year. The county gets
nearly g 1,000 moro this year than
last.
. The house and lot on West Main
street, belonging to T. II. Harter,
will be sold at private sale. For
particulars call on or address,
J. M. Steininoek,
Middleburgh, Pa.
Aaron Crossgrove rode through
Beavertown on his bicycle Sunday
evening and was bitten by a dog.
Aaron wishes to inform the owuor
of the dog to keep tho animal from
the street, else he will shoot the
dog.
Port Trevertou will celebrate tho
4th of July in a good, old, patriotic
way. The citizens will suspend busi
ness to a large extent and will devote
their time to celebrating the anni
versary of the signing of the Declar
ation of American Independence.
A large powder mill is being erect
ed at Geigor'a Point. A railroad
siding is being extended 1,000 feet
in order to accommodate them in
the way of shipping. Speeseville is
the name of a new post-office estab
lished there. Milleraburg Sentinel.
The Millersburg&ntinelast week
entered upon the eleventh year of
its publication. It cornea to us
regularly and is always filled with
the latest news of Dauphin county
and vicinity. The new year is begun
with the largest circulation in its
history.
The Commissioners held their let
ting on Saturday for the re-construction
of the Burns' bridge over
Penns Creek. The lowest bid was
$100, by the Wilmington Bridge
Company. The Commissioners fin
ally decided to reject all bida and
put up tho bridge themselves. '
Somo of tho correspondence was
crowded out this week. J
Mrs. II. II. Loitzell of Millheim, is
vi siting her parents in this place.
Mrs. T. B. McWilliams went to
McVeytown on Tuesday to spend
some timo.
Willct Hostermau sold his bakery
to Mr. Eshelman who has taken pos
session. Prof. Paul Billhait was at Wil
liauiNport on Wednesday evening at
tending tho Masonic Lodge Meeting.
Misses Lillio Spaid and Mabel
Grimm aro visiting friends atSelins
grove this week.
Mrs. Batiks Drecso and Mra. Jos.
Dreeso of Adamsburg spent Sunday
in Swineford with relatives.
MiHs Lulu Iluntly, who has many
acquaintances in this county, was
last Thursday married at her home in
Driftwood, to T. II. Williams of Mt.
Carmcl. Her sister was married to
a Chicago gentlomau on the name oc
casion. Tho Union county Domocrats
nominated tho following ticket :
Congress, Cyrus Hoffo ; Assembly,
Francis E. Brown ; Sheriff, Robert
Wcirick ; delegates to State Con
vention, Samuel W. Johnson and II.
E. Spykor. Judgo Hoffa will not ac
cept. On Saturday morning, a wreck oc
curred below Suubury which result
ed in fourteen cars being piled up
on a heap. Coal covorod the north
bound track to the depth of three
or four foot. All trains were delay
ed and baggage and passengers
were transferred. .. ...
IUt. R. rV.VeHw-" of Kipl. JlTL
Pa., preached at Hassinger's church
on Sunday morning and in the Mid
dleburgh Lutheran church in the
evoning. The Reverend carefully
avoided any display of high sounding
terms and proachod a good practical
sermon from St. Matthew 8:25-2(5.
S. S. Schoch had the body of his
lato wifo exhumed from Hassinger's
cemetery and removed to his lot in
the Middleburgh cemetery Monday
evening. The casket was in a lair
state of preservation. A cross and
wroath of natural flowers on the lid
of tho casket which had been buried
with her seemed to bo perfecly natu
ral except that they were withered
"Mistaken Souls Who Dbeam or
Bliss." -Tho following marriage li
censes have been granted since our
last publication :
J Newton Wetzel, New Berlin,
Emma M. Snyder,
John W. Boyer, Penn Twp.,
Emma J. Dunkelberger, Jjreeburg,
JII. II. Hassinger, Sunbury,
( Mertie Smith, . Middleburgh
Ira T. Clement, the owner of the
ferry-boats at Sunbury, believes in
high tarriff while the Northumber
land bridge can not be used. Huck
sters must pay $1.50 now for sorvices
which beforo cost $1.00. It is strange
too, that the round trip passenger
fare to Northumberland is five cents,
ouo half the former rate. But then
there is tho electric railway.
Hon. J. G. Weiser, of Snydor Co.,
one of the commission appointed to
mark the location of old Indian forts
in the State has been in this vicinity
and located Ft. McCord at Wm.
Bossarts, Ft. Loudon near the vill
age of that name. Ft. McDowell at
Bridgeport and Ft. Steel at White
church, near Lohmasters. The
whole commission will visit these
points later on. Franklin Reposi
tory. ,
On last Thursday the mail train
West ran into the work train, West
of McClure. The work train bad the
right of the traok and the employees
of mail train should have received
orders to that effect, but, as they
had none, the collision followed.
Fortunately, the engineers discover
ed the trains approaching them.
They reversed their engines. It was
just in time to save a great many lives,
but too late to avoid the crash of the
engines into each other. The cow
catcher and the whole front part of
both engines were crushed and
broken.
'JJ(t' J4
MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., PA., JUNE
v. ; i
JAMES U. ( Alll'ENTEII, THE l'AUUl('!Ir..
Carpler Pays lis Penally.
Ho Dies in tlie Mifflintown Jail Yard
Protesting His Innocence.
On last Thursday morning at 10:-
51, Sheriff Lapp of Juniata county
kicked the bar and dropped tin
platform of the scaffold on which
Jas. li. Carpenter stood with a rope
around his neck. It was the day of
retribution for tho murderer of a
blind father, instigated in his dia
bolical purpose only by tho greed
and avarice of his heart. The hang
ing was done successfully. Only a
few twitches in tho suspended body
were noticed. The spinal column
was not broken and death was caus
ed by strangling. The body was
Uken from the s ... t B0 rainos
later. A few minutes before the
execution, Sherift' Lapp accompan
ied by tho murderer, his religious
advisors and the Sheriffs deputies
filed into tho jail yard. Tho mur
dorer was ele inly shaved with his
mustache waxed ttnd nicely curled.
Ho was dressed in a new Prince
Albert suit and wore a neat blue
necktie and slippers. The niurdt rer
was a handsome looking fellow mid
as ho stepped upon the platform, he
made a polite bow and delivered his
speech with ns much audacity as
any youth could who was delivering
his commencement oration, with the
expectation of receiving hisdiploum.
He was entirely unaffected and man
ifested an enormous amount of nerve.
The affair seemed to be a common
plaeo occurrence for him and not un
til the deputies began buckling on
tho straps did tho murderer show
any signs of nervousness. Tho
Sheriff kept his back turned to the
victim while he was being prepared
for the fiual plunge. This official
turned only long enough to kick the
bar which suspended the murderer
in mid-air. We give below a ver
batim copy of the murderer's speech
to which Jas. B. Carpenter sigucd
his Diuiio before ho was executed.
HIS SPEECH.
"Gextiemen. This is tho last
chance I will have to speak upon this
earth. Within a brief moment, I
will have passed away from you and
the trials and tribulations of this life.
At this most solemn moment to Tne.
I wish to first say that I bear no ill
feeling to any ouo living. Those
who have sinned against me, I free
ly forgive as I believe my Honvouly
Father has forgiven me for the sins
of my existence And as I stand
here in the presence of death and
eternity, I say to you and all the
world that neither I nor my beloved
mother are guilty of the murder of
my father. 1 know the chain of cir
cumstances was perhaps without a
paralell in the whole history of crime.
And when my lifeless body hangs
between earth and the great sky
above us, know you all and all the
world that I die innocently, the fat
ed victim of circumstantial evidence
perhaps too powerful to raise a sus
picion of my guiltlessness.
"To the Jury who convicted me,
to the Honorable Court which pre
sided at my trial, to the District At
torney who ably and without malice
conducted my prosecution, I wish
to say that I die without reflection
upon you. To my kind religious ad
visers and to my friend Sheriff Lapp
who has treated me so kindly
through the trying days of my im
prison met, I offer the thanks of my
heart so soon to beat no more for-
ever. Lastly, to my beloved moth
er, now so far from me, who is
L V'K'7.
A
A.
JAMES J. l'ltl'KNTi:il. THE VICTIM.
w.'itcliiui; 1 know tlnoiii'li the uu-
guisli of tin sc hours, I wihh to hiiy
that her son will mei-t death as a
son ever ready to die for her, if i il
lie, and that I go in peace and that
my last hope is that w will soon
meet upon the shores of the blessed
land no more to Hin t tun 1 mav (lie
comfort of God support Iter to the
einl. I nto (i n the l ather through
the grace of Christ I commit my
immortal soul mi I this p.or body to
decent burial. To you all ainl to all
the world. I'.irewcll !"
Signed as a true copy.
J. B. Cltl ENTEU.
Carpenter's speech was given the
undivided ut t en t ion of the audience
of not, more t lian people. It is
safe to say that not live of the au
ditors believed the statement of the
speaker, oven though ho was on tho
verge of death. Many of tho hear
ers were inclined to consider Car
penter an intelligent fellow because
he had such a good speech. The
t?. u the ... ' was
written by one of his attornies and
committed by himself. Carpenter
was a peculiar fellow having a nature
and disposition of rare qualities.
Ho was harsh and hard-hearted.
His mother is no belter. His wife
no longer cared for him and his last
hours upon earth were spent with
out sympathy The body after the
execution was placed in front of the
jail in order to allow all tho curious
people to see him after death as on
ly a Hiiiall number were allowed to
witness the execution. The remains
were taken to Church Hill for burial.
We are indebted to Sheriff Lapp
for a card of admission and to A. M.
Carpenter of Beavertown, for favors
shown.
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WllEItE THE MriU'Elt WAS COMMITTED.
IIIHTOKY OF THE CHIME.
On Monday morning, December
11, 1HM, the startling news was cir
culated through Port Iloyal that
James J. Carpeuter, a blind huck
ster, aged 00 years, was missing.
His son, James B. Carpeuter, first
gave tho alarm. Ho and his mother,
Hetty Carpenter, aud his father,
lived together and composed the en
tire family. Quarrels had been fre
quent and bitter and all parties had
been in court in consequence of the
same on the preceding September.
James B., the son, said he had last
seen his father in his place of busi
ness on Sunday evening, December
10, where he said he would lock up
and then visit a neighbor, that not
coming home that night the son vis
ited the neighbors and found he had
never been there ; that the office was
locked up as usual in the morning.
The missing man's place of busi
ness was searched and found to con
tain evidences that he had been
murdered. A bloody trail was fol
lowed from the shop to the Tuscaro
ra Creek, where evidences were
found that a body had been thrown
into the creek. The creek was drag-
Afinft'ia'Aiiii i i itii Wiw WTmU'.
I
21, 1894.
MHS. CAlil'ENTf.i:, THE ACCEs-.oicY.
ged aud tho body of Carpenter found.
Before finding the body, however,
Mrs. Carpenter told several people
she believed her husband had been
knocked down, his thr tat put, rob
bed of his gold watch and money,
some ''", and his body thrown into
tho creek. When the body was
found it presented just such a con
dition. Suspicion was at once di
rected against the son and mother.
Tho old man's watch and some S I J
in silver money were subsequently
found on the son. The Coroner's
jury found the mother and son guilty
of the murder, and both were arrest
ed. Separate trials were demanded.
The son wiM tried first at tho Feb
ruary term of court and convicted
of murder in tho first degree. He
was sentenced to death on March ',
Mrs. Carpenter was tried at the
April term, when she pleaded guilty
to bntncr an accessory after the fact
to . '.c "urder,:aud was sentenced to
itenti ry, the limit of the law for
such umuchs, and is now undergo
ing tie sentence.
MIEK'.II 1 I.AM'.
Hassinger---'Jimtli Nuptials.
On Monday at 2 1. M. tho cere
mony which sealed tliemiptial bonds
botweon H. H. Hassinger and Miss
Mertio Smith took place at tho resi
dence of tho bride. Tho knot was
tied by Kov. I. P. Neff. Tho wed
ding was almost entirely private,
only the intiiuato friends audrelatives
of the con t ract ing pai tios being pres.
ent. After the ceremony a repast
was served. At 4:1H the bridal cou
ple boarded tho train for Sunbury
which will be their futuro homo.
The Post sends congratulations.
May their future bo crowned with
much happiness.
Tho subscribers of tho Post resid
ing outside of tho county woro last
week sent a statement of tho timo
when their subscription expired.
Those residing outside tho Co. who
have paid in advance did not roceivo
such a notice. Publishers must pay
postage onall papers sent outside of
the county and henco payment
should be made in advauco. Kindly
remit the amount duo us. Will you
attend to this T
Quite a destructive thunder storm
passed over the county last Friday
night. Flashes of lightning were
sharp and. a groat deal of damage
was done. At Froeburg lightniug
struck Boyer's Hall, ignited tho
building and consumed it entirely
with all the contents. Tho local
organizations of the P. O. S. of A.
and L O. O.F. lost all their furniture
and regalias. The Hall was insured
to cover most of the loss. At Hern
don, the large barn belonging to N.
E. Kehris was entirely consumed.
The loss is estimated at $3000 and
only $900 insurance. Reports of
other damage done in various parts
have reached us.
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NO. 23.
Democratic County Convention
The Democratic County Convcn
tion was called to order on Monday
at 1 P. M. and organized by electing
M. L. Snyder, Esq., (1f Selinsgrovc
chairman and . C. Haas of Mt.
Pleasant MiiN. Secretary. The
call of the County chairman was
read after which the fnllowingnoiiii
nations were made : Congress, Dr.
Smith of IVeel.iirg ; Assembly. I".
P. I'essler, of Centre township; Pro
thonotary, Chas. V. Dreese, of
Penn ; Kegister and lo-corder.
Isaac Wet el of .Spring township:
Jury Commissioner, ('. S. Dunn :
District Attorney, W. E. House-
werlli, Esq., of Selinstrrovc. .lohii
V. liCsher, and Chas. ". Dreese
were elected delegates to the State
Convention. As was predicted by
tho Post two weeks ago. candidates
were scarce. Every one of t lie can
didates except those for Jury Com
missioner stood up in open con veil
tion and declined the nomination.
None of the declinations were ac
cepted and the probabilities arc that
these candidates will publicly de
cline to accept. During the nomina
tion some irregularities transpired,
but no particular opposition de
veloped until an attempt was made
to elect a chairman of the Couuty
Committee. The friends of Jos. (J.
Lesher, tho present chairman, con
tended that, the rules of the State
Committee provided that the pres
ent management should hold over
until next April. Tho Anli-Limher-ites
did not see it that way. A mo
tion was made to ubido by tho call.
Tho motion was ruled out by the
chairman. An appeol wus made
d. J. G. Lesher addressed
tu . wjiivention while chairman Buy.
der tried to quiet tho speaker. In
this tho chairman of tho convention
was outdone. A motion was made
and seconded by the Anti-Lesher-ites
that tint report ol delegates be
received to name the members of
the Standing Committee. Motion
declared carried by chairman Sny
der. The Leshcrilcs made a motion
to adjourn. Tho motion was ruled
out of order. Half of the delegates
were on their feet, the other half
did not know what to do and the
audience was in a turmoil. A dis
pute followed. Finally Chairman
Snyder restored the equilibruui of
tho convention. He then asked all
to rise who wen? in favor of electing
District Committeemen. Afterward
thoso opposed were asked to rise.
Tho majority was in favor of the
motion. Tho Chairman of tho Con
vention called for tho delegates to
report tho names of the Committee
men. Some districts reported aud
some did not. When Chairman Sny
der had called for tho report t of the
districts as far as Middleburgh,
Chairman Lesher told tho conven
tion that inasmuch as their chair
man refused to entertain tho mo
tion to adjourn, ho (Lesher) would
put it. Tho motion was put to a
vote nnd declared carried by Lesher
who stated that tho convention was
now adjourned. Chairman Suyder
ruled tho proceeding out of order
and declared that tho convention
wus not adjourned. Tho chairman
of tho convention kopt on calling
for tho othor district reports and
finally received nominations for
Chairman of tho County Committee.
T. J. Smith of Middleburgh. was
nominutod and elected Chairman.
John Maloney, N. C. Gutelius, and
Chas. Dreeso wero appointed a com
mittee on resolutions. The conven
tion then adjourned.
This brought a most turbulent
convention to a stormy termination.
The Leshoritos hold that tho action
of tho convention "will not be ap
proved by the State Convention and
tho Anti-Lesheritca hold that the
proceedings of the convention can
not be annulled. It is likely that
both the old and the new chairman
will claim jurisdiction and it is for
them to fight it out. The Repub
licans are rejoicing because more
votes were made for them on Mon
day than they could secure for them
selves in a whole month.