Cc 1900. - remained quite alm > throughout. this charge wan temperate and od ot the natare of instrantion for & verdbet the “Courier” Reporter. | wan at A aD DEGREE VERDICT nS Fimitng of the Jury In he Homicide Cave Lo Ameinst Jobe McKie, 3 The MeKingie murder trinl ut Ebens- | burg lowed last Tharslay evening with the defendant on the stand where he | made the declaration thus he had po : ge of the events leading up to the shooting of Williats Bannon on the 17th of April nor of those following it. "Phe: prisoner also sxid that last Jang. ary he bad been badly injured in the spine and arm, snd ever since that | time liquor Bad had i pecalisr effect him. : : District-Attorney Btephenx roms: fi tioned him quite tninately, but Mo. absolutely all knowlndge the occurrences proceding or follow. ing the crime, except ss above stated. He declared b did nbit buy the revolver | the day of the murder, but the Satur. iy { fastest about an hour ind the prisoner and composed | I MeKingie's mother also went on the stand. Khe said ber gon was twenty. | one years of age fod testified to the pe: cnlisr effect liquor had upon him ever since he received the injuries above re. ferred to, making hin practically crazy and entirely irresponsible for his | actions. She wa the lust witness At He elom: of her testimony Mr. O'Connor argued the deine th) the jury. faving special stress on thu vondact of the eer F during the Clay of the crime jpn EE and therp. y irrespotinlbie. for the o crime ve dustrict horney clone bia gi | merit #t 6’ clock when cour: adjourned lueMi. AL that pour Judge Barker proseeded to charge the jury. While aa tof any kind, ft was quite apparent that under it a first degree verdict at A Teast could not well be found, The © Cert a on the jurymen tae | necewity of weighing very carefolly | thes elaim of the defonse that MeKinzie | consmitted the crim while momenta. ily insane, brought on by excessive nh 3 coholic stimulation. If there Was any doubt, the Court said, *the prisoner | a should have the benefit of it. During the speeches of the attorneys and the charge of the Judge the moth. ery of the prisones ind his victim wat at the counsel table and wept L: At 80 the jury retired and in just an or Sour and forty minates, or at 10 o'clock 0 a a verdict finding the | prisones guilty of murder in the mec- ¢ Fu ithout much evidenor of © enzo - tion, and was at once conducted back to fils cell, there to await sentence. La : iret Thay in 8 yours Afior lending 8 bemperate if for 88 Hanna, of No. 4533 Ogle Maney an, Philadelphia, yiekded 1ptatior jast Toesday night and t his first, drink of liquor. Hanos wioner on the bounty of a for- aployer, who willed him $a 10g th during thi old man’s lifetime. iHe drew his pengion that day and, | started home with it. Several friends {met him. They proposed a frienadly w. Hanna yielded and drank to beaith of the tan who bought the : : first ronnd. Then he treated the others. | His system made feeble resistance to "the assult of the ligoor. A Policeman | | took Hanna to the Manayunk Station. ! Ha sobered ap and was sent home. Now he vows that he will sever taste i intoxicants again, Deyaried or Germbtiy AP. P. Young one of Patton's fore | most citizens, departed Monday mort {ing for New York, where be will take a steamer for Oermany today. Mr ] | Young will spend several weeks AMOBE | the scenes of bis childhood days, and also visit his father, who is stili living {in that country, Before retarding to the States he will visit the Paris ¢xpo- | sition, England, Scotland and many other places of rote. fmt Tok book containing & sum yaluable papers, between shop aid Flannagan Finder will receive a re. returning same to the of six months sgo. thus far peported one follawa: Rely y HEHE County, foe — Northumberland | any. "Br in man by a fow, there woul Bot have hee “suoh an appli ¢ peoml, found difficult to sedune A sutialye “snapper” day night. James Leesa, KILLED 1H THE MINES John Sheridan Reedy Pagal Ty Tharsday, tiniders Last | John ‘Rhabdan, an employe of the. ed Here and There by gr ’ Reilly colliery, received injuries last Thursday evening which caused his | death Friday evening following. He work in the mines when a fall ‘ of conl occtrrad, catehing the pick in | some manner causing it Lo strike him in the atomach., Mr Sheridan was taken to his home snd medical aid | summoned, but the injury was of such | a character that nothing sould be done to save his life, and he passed away ab 8 o'clock Friday night. Deceased wis 48 years of age, and is. survived by six children, his wife hav ing preceded him to the grave about conducted Sunday afternoon, afer | which the remains were laid to rest in he Cassidy cemetary a short distance cant of town. Sarat Fires in Pinoavivanis The spring of 1900 lites been 8 inn terous one in the goed namber of forest fires which ocetived, not only in Pennsylvania, but also in New Jersey, : Michigan, Minnesota, ete. In Pennsylvania the eastern ah wl cen tril counties, particunrly Beri, Centre previously. The tross-examination 4 Schuylkill, were the greatest suf. Flection next convention, fevers. The money loss by counts Wate UoHLY. Venn pant i ie 5 i hd) Fam Eratal. ee This total of $492,000 i bute partial | for eight countids, snd when the re: * furns for the entive State are compiled, 2 will be largely sngmented, being y over & million dollar. Lis ¥ dition, the low swadoned by the by the basing of young seedlings amd the damage 16 te miu sheold ale be The heavy rains of | May extingnished most of these frei, hat if the rh laws now on BoE fed buses enforced by all he County Comunledoners, i satend nin perinad Lat w mer CE Tir t oy ¥ i Woof oa Ave aw Pal 3 visitors are expetted 10 be int Johnstown pest Banday on the one éanbon of the lnstitntion of the Ehenis | burg Uoanell of Lhe Raighon of Colun- (hus. Owing to the lack of faciitios a1 the county capital-vne of the important shortcomings being: the fact that San. day teains are pot un on the Ebens- barg brascho und that it has hewn hadi for the iostitutin exercises. It hos heen decided to hold the exercises in the rooms of the Johnstown Council of that order in Alma Hall. Many Pits burg and Philadelphia visitors will be present, although the larger number of the out-of-town people will go from Ehensbarg and the north of the county. Already the Jobnstown members of the Knights of Colambus have started | preparations to entertain those who ‘ will be their goesta, Kitna Nwur Gallitsin. George Walters, employed on a from Altoona to Gallitain, was killed near the latter place Satar- He had helped Bt St. Louis Express up the bill, and had cot his engine loose, wher in some manner he fell from the task to No. 4 track. He was stunned and while in this condi- tion was run down by a freight train which came oat of the tunnel. Death was instantanecus. The left side of his hesd was crashed and one arm badly od. The body was sent to his home in Altoona. He leaves a widow ‘and one child He was twenty six’ years old. Besides his widow and one child he jesarvived by his father and three brothers andl three Ristery. Simon IF (yan Dead. Simon Flynn, one of the promivient lnmbermen of Clearfieldicounty, died a8 his home in Janesville on Saturday from a complical ton of diseases. He took sie while driving Logs this spring. He is survived by his wife and grow mn up family, aud the Sllowing brolters- inet, Pal and Dunjel. He Whe mage of ihe Clearfield Lumber it pat Vi Farat Nob min Cport book, Bn MN account with Pie & Seeley, £tuder please jeave al pitt & Seedex’s nore goal receive paved an in ¥ Tao good 6-Toot ahow cases, Bony Hee the KEYSTONE Las HN Hoa, a EA gor 1 wilt collect and return washing and plain sewing st reasonable prices, as my husband {x unable to work at pres. ent. Please leave orders at (3oods store. (90 12. Mas, SABAH SHADE. CCawmibirds © Frameral services were | Flown, 14 ! Sater. Jolinstown, inorense. © TERN, athe THIRTV.FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION sunty Sabbath Sebool Sesaete- fiom, : The following is the program for t sonventing, which will be held at enshurg to-day and to-morrow. Thureday. At 2:00 p.m. ~ Devotional ponducted by Geo. A. Kinkead, burg. At 230 p. m.— Topic: Best method to procure competent teachers in the | Rabbath sohools ? Jpened by Rev, Fo D. Ellenberger, South Fork. : At 16 p.m. Tople: Sunday school omher BS er leakage std how fo presen: i. By | Avemiae states mien Soh, of r i TAX AND RATE PEIL © $INT. A Ppa nling £3 Comm fioes. C Nwnber of oy tile fey fwd fr Satria, Query box. £s Bb. ic Patton Borough District. exercises The following is the Finnncial State. Ebene ment of Patton School DHetrict from | ‘June 5, 1598, to June 1, 1900. MH EN Whole untaber hols. Average htnter rns taught TEACHERS i i mo © ALY 8 0 i 24 & i School | § 7 £ SALAIES INCREASED. : employes at the At Postotfiee Mude Hwppy. Oia nutios was rocrived Friday whiish put Altoona postoflics employes dn an exceedingly good hemor. it was | the notification from the department Ln Wishington of a raise in salaries which: will date from July 1, 1900. They are as follows: Assistant Post master Reamer Hoke, from $1,000 to 1 1141,06; Chester A. Glant, $400 to 1; Jom Brallier, $500 to $700: Guy C. | Wine §500 to $800; Raymond HL Hughes, froin $600 to §700; Postmaster Wilson's wsliry is alee ineressod from $£1.000 to LBB These increases’ are based on Mo atuan Ne p.m Witpher of itis Sevtod Tor rl (enadacted by Devotional EXOTCIBes | 5 gumount Atop mo George W. Stutsman, Nuaber of mille evil © fur Twn Ll =n bi Address of Welcome, > RECEIPTS, by Rev. 4. T. Jotwes Ebensburg. Re | sponse, by Rev. F. 8 Schuits, Johns Crom Baie sppropriation. RLM R Ho alietor, ne of wil ginds, vie Dupiioste - SB Taw : A oe atl ie ich { ba i -@ LSE aR Suis Wl Ga EXPENDITIRES lt AL S30 pom Address, How to Save | the Nating, Rev. Chas Roads, DD AL 506 & nu Devotional exerciess, conducged by J. 8 James, Ebeasburg. AL 9930 am. ~Reports of Secretary, Troasurer and Nominating Committes; Atnosns dur Troan, election »f officers; election of Dele Toa Sarrn Wings win atiend- gates to State Convention at Altoona. fami lary jad a i. | From Boe Boake vias $e 5 At 1090 a m.-Tople: Length of bg Cather : time in tae Sunday school, by Rev. etre som nision ... i Geo, Muller, Barnabus: | ptand owtagy, At 1100 a ~The teacher and teacher's ne 8 L, Reed, Esq. Ebensburg. | He howd Rirnttre... Pointing. his At 1150s mo Address by Mex J. Butting.. — W. Barres. | Begmiy Question box. i Bal, AL 2:00 p.m. «Devotional exercises, : conducted by Rev. J. H. Lancaster. AL 2030 p.m. The relation of the tes LAE EEL Sabbath school to the young people's. Mate ApEIGgration, ap socintion, by Rev. W. H. Willian, le A At 3:08 p.m. Children's hour, con. | Lonpnid union ducted Ly Men. JW. Barnes. Fromm CAE 400 p. tn ~The spcoesafnl Super intensity, by PD. Jolly, Johnstown. | Question box. Ponds rman. At TH pom eDeyvotional wervioes, Pelt pa, baliding h | eonduoted by Juha Gittings | Finnie es bn axes of — Baw ArBiip mo «The responsibility TE Mabant Property S100 i temchers in beading scholars to Christ, Wa, having examined the foregoing by 1 J Jones, Johnstown. accourits, find them trow azul correct to AL R30 pm. Address, Rev. Chas. . the best of | aur Rnowledge, Haadas, ir by A, Reps, HL 8. Linare, Babtu of Hantbarg Postion. ; FC MeCLeax, Charles B. Ricketts, the nan arrested Auditors. at Tyrone fir robbing the postotlice ak renneytvanbe Cond owpat Blandbarg, Cambria county was given, James E Roderick, chiet’ of the state a hearing in Altoona before United: pgrenn of mines, han sulimitted to Gov. | States» Commindoners Moleod last Ww 4 Stone a report of the mining op Wednesday afternoon, and io defanlt oeqtions in Pennsylyanbs for 1509. The of §h00 hail was Sent bo jual to await report shows that bituminous coal wo trial te fore the {United Hintes District | nied in 2s sovantios in Pennsylvania Court ut Rligsburg in October. Rick- 4nd wothracite in 10 eotnties, and in: etts admitied baying the booty taken the 36 there was mined the aggregate from tlie postofioe in his possession, oe 127.101,167 ton. Of tile 54,004,204 bat denied that be hast hroken into the tons were produced fron: 48 office. He said at the hearing that an- | the anthracite region and 73, | ather man, of whom be gave a descrip. | tons from 778 mines in hg bituminoas tion, had broken into the office and region. The average nuraber of days had given bim | Ricketts) the booty se worked in the mines of anthracite re. onred, Ricketts ls i professional bum gion ast your was about. 1 190; the avurs | and ia siity-sight years oid He bas age (quantity produced per day was. Jat Lyme pt an order, i Sat ew So ¥ £02 = BRO Eh AE Ruy vi i ing Big WEY PRM F an eke Tay Ss hetior Trym iis Hu i Bu Rg aE Sh inden helping Cupmid tiie ; heen 211 over the country since he lost ghoqt; 300,000 tons. The average num- hin arm twenty-one years ago. ber of days worked in the bitaminons | Mire Soldiers Panstosed. The following oid soldiers have recently heiped by our worthy Con gressnian, Joseph E. Thropp: Harry Win, Warlet, Ashville, $10 per month. D. D. Cormick, and Miss Frances Mitchnil, Goughenour, Conemough, $8; Thomas daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Mitchell, “Jones, Fbeosburg, $12; Barton Spidle, were united in marriage Bedford, Increase; David T. Weir, | Pa, Thursday, Jape 14, Hew, Risbel, of ‘ Johnstown, incrense and back pay; that place officiating. Toney departed Mrs. Elizabeth Hensel, Altoona; Wid- from Woodland for Wellsboro, where ‘ows pensinn and back pay: Jacob J. they are Stern, Gideon, Pn Ine Young's minors, Hollidayshurg, pension | know | and Back pay; Catharine Grief, Duslo, long and prospempus journey through | widows, minors and back pay; Jacob 1 if tor them is wished for by their Gogley, Everett, increase; William WH. many friends. ; | Rhodes. Martinsbarg, Pa, original, dating hack to 1802: George Bowers, Roaring Springs, increase, Henry B en duction was 246,948 ton. ; Mareiod ar Woostlaad fn young people of Patton, anda i Hr TIS CRT) wil Loosts at Johinstown wo Donald Dufton, the well known Lente in Johnstown. for veveral dave poking for a suituble A pew town is springing Bp as ud f by location fur his aifie, Mr Dufton is Sma rh in the woods along Lana areek, | com eid To be ble of he best rend pear Olen Campbell, wheres three drifts lawyers pencticing befire the bar of are being driven into the bills aod a Cambris county. splendid | quality of cual bday worked, Until the railroad renches the myines the coal bb being wld ty Any Now Toad Town Faaszen wf Jule Mxparsinos, The New York Cento is arranging to run special Indepuilence Day ex: aus eho wants it at one dobar per toad aE La 2 ; cumions from stations dn is ine for as mach ean Baal the i : various points of ndsrest. Bee N.Y. hundred pod fy men are al Ww jo : Ceriteal tiekets agents, pln planning OE dp rapidly . / SS voir holiday Wips Sa ga § Fier Botses ure hosss Mins : Don't yiins the Fourth of July Pionie A in Ruort's Grove, Patton, Pa. on Wed A pore nes and Thursday, Jul y 4 and 5, | paler money anid sou small changh, we thie benefit of St. Mary Xo: Between Nagle ® tivery gEnbie and Laos s church. The elegant « dancing | etip Finder wi be rewarded by jess ion has been remodeled amd 4 C. Piaher. P grain dance will be held. The best of iy J Pasher, Paton, music will be in attendance. Refresh» b ments served on the grounds, Disper at Jus 3m. Supper at 5.30 p.m. Evel is invited to come and have |B oo fashioned time, om. book containing $51.00 Ram with 3t : Yinernh : Biarmh 3 Find the glorius Fourth at Kin ead? # En iC mines in Of, 943 mines were 208; the average dally pro- | McCormick; sow ef EP. Mo pec are spenbing their bomey- moon. | crease: J. M. Mr and Mrs MoCormick are well | Ehensburg attorney, has decided W io i Hu has been there | 10 Money has also been approprixied to pay the fuze of the carriers and special very messengers ob the slreet care i {whet in spiform and when their duties : call them to the outlying districts. : A ‘meeting has been held by the clerks . | Cat walela motion was passed, tender in a vote of thanks to Hon Joseph E. Threpp for the interest t taken in their (bebalf. 2d fmpartant wn Linvior Men. : A {nt eourt st Ebensburg Monday Judge i Barlter emphatically ast down on the = | licetisn-transfer bosiness—at least so ov moh of it ax haa been going on In this comity. Hemidit was beginning to 0 gaviir too mine of trafBe in the Hoonse, : and Jeft the infere . gion of the Court to desl in liquor fig- “ail more in the sale of hotel proper thew than the balance of the business. The remarks of the Judge were drawn feth by the application of James Rush | and George M. Schell for the transfef tis them of the license of the Crouse floss, at South Fork Schell was granted a licenss at Hastings at the regular License court, bot the month flowing he sold ont tof “harles Pram ma The Court granted the transfer anlind for today, but said that hereafter ba would adbers pretty closely to the rile pow in ase in Alleghany county, | which refuses a lioanse trapsfer exceph iti buses of illness on the part of thesall. dir or other gould and snfliolont conwe The Allegheny promise from Leif the botel property that he does pot contemplate going into the business apn. Judges oles exart & Fostpaatery Salaries Enarensdke In addition to the incresss in the Fo : flary of the postinaster at Johnstown, oi shanges have Cmentioned previously, heen made in the salaries of many oth. iy in this vicinity, as follows: Blt wille, $LE00 to 31.700; Derry tation, 11.200 to 5,800; Ebeusburg, $1,000 to 1.800: Gallitein tain, $1,200 ta $1,300: Greens. 2 | burg, $2,500 to 2,800; Indiana, £200 to $2,300; Latrobe, te $2,000; Ligonier, #1, 100, to $1,200; Myersdale, $1,000 to New Kensington, $1,700 to $1,500; Bcottdale, £1,504 {a £2 00; Vandergrift, $1,800 to $1,900; Windber, £1,300 to §t~ L400. For the ensuing year, conunents (ing July {wt. the salary of the Patton Postmaster will remain the same 28 previously reported, st. 500 per yous. Otainuelisen Club Wagon. A new white mountain backboard which ls to be used on the road be- n Wetham and the clab, house of by liveryman Pelmies, and in stored in i his stable. The wagon was built a8 ut Woodland, | yysieqhurg. It has four seats and will, ao case of necessity, carry twelve per | mons. ~ Lock Haven Exprem. Fired “ Spanish Cam The aid Spanish cannon which the tocleral government loaned to Bradford was discovered last week to contain & sheild. | the city and the shall dred. Its prob- | ubly the first Spanish shell ever fired in Northwestern Pepusylvania. Auditors Notice, Whereas. on the 4th day of June 1900, sn motion of Reuel Somerville Esq. Ss [Reed was appointed Auditor to make distribution of the funds in the hands of Joseph A. Baker and Mertens Elder, Executors of Rinhard Elder, low of Clearfield towsmbip, dec 4 alko % puss upon the exceptions Sled to sald exec. tore’ sort ele : Notice is hepehy given that in purse ance af anid appointment 1 will st oak the Attarnes’s roon in the Court House | at Ebensburg, Pi, on Tuesday the ded | day of July, A. D. 1900.8 10 o'¢ dock Lm. for the purpose of atfesding to alt ‘the duties of said appointment ab L which time and place all parties inter. ented in sail estate may appear or be {barred from participating ii madd Bands. | : » Ren, Auditor. 5. . Look for our spaeind aftirs in nexk imsue pf the COURIER, apd also hand {Bille Bi. A. MAION, ‘the amotat of hosiness done during i se01h 0 | the past fimeal year. Le Eitan # w that the permis thie man who bs disposing 1,600; Mt. Pleasant, #1,300 to $1900; 7 The piece was taken outside i
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