The Indiana Weekly Messenger from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 1

Judge White Receives Letters Threatening His Life Executive Committee of Meetsand Names Committees Hew of the County for a Week WHOLE NUMBER 2307 White in Connection with the Cmn their of favors from railroad companies accepted sev etj to ten i 2 4 41 4 uuitrud with to to tiiriiatexistc irrrnts DispntcheH Prizes Awarded to Scholars The prizes awarded tq scholars by the judges for the best advertisement about Department store was worthy of praise and each writer re ceived a remembrance from Mr Cun ningham The first list of prizes amounting to $1000 was for scholars over 13 years divided rs follows irst $500 second $250 thiid $150 and fourth $100 The winners were as follows irst prize Anna May Walker In diana Second prize ettie reck Gaibleton Third prize Kenneth leming Crete ourth Alice Brady Chambers ville The second list of prizes were for scholars under 13 years amounting to $500 divided as follows To first $250 second $125 third 75c fourth 50c The winners were as follows irst prize Helen air Saltsburg Second prize Grace Robinson Salts burg Third prize John Blackley Vin tondale ourth Nana Cogley Marion Center Probable Coal Sale in Grant Last week the owners of some 7000 acres of coal land in Grant township received notice from James Drape Co of Pittsburg that the field would be purchased The land was optioned by Dinsmore and Grafflus of Punxsutawney at from $25 to $75 per acre The land concerned in the deal li between Richmond and Point Nashville and East Mahoning township Many leases in the McGaughey field expire the first part of this month and efforts to renew them are being made by agents of Mr McGaughey There are said to be ethers after the leases and some benefit may accrue to the owners by the rivalry Penn Rnn Remarks Miss Caroline Gibson is visiting her brother Leonard at Winslow Jefferson county A Singer of Seauor Somerset county was home over Sab bath Miss Eva Sproul of Allegheny spent Sunday with her parents Rev and Mrs Sproul Eve Live Stock Shipments Moore to ord 9 cat tle 7 calves 150 pigs to Barto 165 pigs Stewart to Jersev Citv tan I sheep by a judge may not in the least warp his judgment in cases where the com panies are parties to suits in his court people will and think All judges get 12 cents a mile while traveling on the railroad on business connected with their office and out of that they can af ford to pay their fare and have some thing left When traveling on theirown business or pleasure they should pay 'their fare like other people A Rich ind Ed Lyon of Philadelphia stopped at the American House Monday night He had occasion to visit the wash room and put his wallet on a shelf After washing his hands he went to the office and wrote a letter to his wife He reached for his pocketbook to get a stump and just then it occurred to him that he left his wallet in the wash room He was not long going down stairs but it was gone He had only been upstairs a few minutes but during that time some one had taken the pocketbook It contained $150 in cash a 1000 mile ticket on the and a 97 cent book of postage stamps besides some sil ver change Vhurch Noleft Communion services were held Sab bath at the Point Methodist Episcopal church and also at the Rich mond church The Lutheran and Presbyteran churches will hold Communion services next Sabbath The week of prayer is being observed this in he irst and Second IT churches A Youthful Hone Thief riday before last an innocent look ing blue eyed little fellow about twelve years of age was caught red handed stealing a horse Henry Smith of Trade City went to Punxsutawney on the day mentioned and tied his horse near one of the stores A few hours later when lie went after the rig it was gone Pursuit was made and the next day the rig was found near Trade City also the thief the little blue eyed boy aforementioned He developed an amaz ing capacity for telling different stories To an attorney Wingert he said that his name was Rupert and his home was at Kittanning also that he had been forced to join a gang of four horse thieves and all the difficulty arose be cause of his zealous work in his calling To Constable Walker another artistic story was told This time tke name was Heasley from Manorville and that he ran away because his step mother abused him He had been in duced to drive the horse to North Point by some man and had got lost The following Tuesday Rupert or Heasley wandered away and stole a norse at Horatio He has been recap tured and any mystery connected with the youthful agin has not been solved "been brushed with a whisk broom iu stead ot a shingle The traveling public will find the newproprietor of the Clawson House a mostaffable gentleman The i etiring pro prietor Mr Clawson was one of themost accommodating and courteous ho tel men in these parts His better half kept up her part of the business to ahigh standard and will now get a much needed rest Judge of Cambria county has announced that under no eircum stances will he accept a pass from any railroad company This action on the part of the new judge is highly proper While free transportation and other County IT Executive The Executive Committee of Indiana county held a meeting ri day in Hall Mrs TCWat sop and Mrs Laird Blairsville Mrs Elder Eldersridge Mrs Mary Berry Homer City Mrs A Bedenhamer Mrs Belle Thompson and Mrs Eva Thomsen were pres ent Mrs Watson was elected organizer and the department of perance Light was taken up Mutter of time and speaker for the an nual convention to be held at ridge was left for final action with the county officers and local committee at the Ridge Mrs Laird was elected to represent Indiana county at Inter coun ty Institute at Ridgview next August to present her department that of Mrs Watson was instructed to secuie if possible Madame Layah Barakat for a work in the county Tne following superintendents were elected for this year: Evangelistic Mrs Belle Thompson Narcotics Mrs Lowry Literature Mrs 8 A Dixon Temperance Instruction in Schools Miss JaneE Leonard Prison and Crawford all of Indiana Pret Work Mrs A Sloan Work Among Soldiers Miss Annie Torrence Rail road Work Mrs Laird Blairs ville Sabbath Observance Mrs Eliza beth Bee Temperance Light Bearers Mrs Blanche Cogley Marion Center Young Work Mrs annie McConaughey Work Among oreign ers Miss Miuetta English Social Work Mrs Marcia Sloan Inskeep Homer City Legal and Legislative Miss May Pearce Saltsburg Sabbath School Work Mrs Remalev Juvenile Work iMra Ewing Eldersridge Drunk and Disorderly Last Saturday evening near the rail road station the Byers brothers Charles and Samuel were doing a continuous performance Charles was drunk Po liceman Harris came along and in at tempting to arrest him had his shoulder dislocated and sustained a few bad bruises owing to the interference of Samuel Both were taken to jail and Monday morning were given a hearing before Burgess Kline who fined Charles $500 for being drunk and disorderly and Samuel $25 for interference The former paid his fine but Samuel could not put up and is in jail for 30 days Three Letters A Large Comtraet Yesterday the Indiana Woolen Mills company contracted with a prominent Wcsterm Pennsylvania firm for the en tire output of the mills for seven months This will be an immense amount of stock and tne contract is a good starter for the new company It shoul insure a good local market for wool Special Week of Aurora Drawn On riday Jury Commissioners Me Gahey and McMillen drew the following jurors for a special weex of the Decem ber court to commence Monday ebru ary 3d ollowing are the jurors Center Simpson Anthony Harrison Munshower Altman Cummins Thomas ee Alex Warner" Kier Jesse Lowry Michael Airgood Simon Hen ry Thomas Hind A Cassidy Indiana Boucher Adam Sny der A Taylor Joseph VanLeer Grant George Barr Kinter Cherry A Evans David lick er Long Thomas aith John Galbraith Blacklick Harvey Gibson est James Hood Ohas 'Liugeufels Banks John Horton Robert Johnston Samuel Kerr Marion Edward McAllister South Joseph McQuown Stuchell Homer Elder Miller Saltsburg Charles Martin Wesley Miller Bugh Wakeficd Stiuemau West Samuel Stear Welshons" Glen Campbell James Weaver INDIANA PA WEDNESDAY JANUARY 8 1902 are coming The Masonic banquet and dance on Thursday night last was the swell social event ot lie season OlTR merchants especially" those who advertised judiciously enjoyed a good trade during the holidays Congressman Jack has recommended the appointment of ulton as postmaster at West Lebanon An infant daughter of Mr and Mrs John Campbell of White township died oil December 31 aged two weeks ound In this borough on riday last a pocketbook containing a sum ot money Call at the post office A institute will be held at school house Rayne township January 18th Au interesting program has been prepared Over seventy five people went down to Homer on the train Saturday evening to attend the entertainment given by Mr and Mrs John StClair The nomination of Attorney General Elkm tor governor is now assured with out the aid of the Pittsburg Gazette orany other insurgent newspaper The University Extension lectures at Normal were opened last night by Prof Zeubeliu The general subject is Lust night his subject was It is a law of the Postofficp Depart ment that all box rents must be paid on or before the 10th day of rite new quar ter The postmaster 'is required to'strictly enfore this rule A Blairsville dispatch says that the Columbia Plate Glass works had let a contract for the erection ol 60 brick ten ement houses at Windber the first block of a total of 300 to be built Charles A Nichol of White toXvn ship has about concluded to be a candi "date for iioiniuhtion for County Auditor He is well qualified for the position ami would make a most competent officer George of the irst ward is a candidate for the Republican nomina tion for County Commissioner Mr George was born and raised in White township and is an active Republican The survivors of the 148th regiment 'will reune at Bellefonte ebruary 19 20 Judge James A Beaver is the chairman of the committee of arrangi iments which fact iii irres a good time the old veterans Postmaster Scott ot Jeaii smtte has resig in his rsirimi re anei numerous applicants for i he vaca cy but 1 is umhrst ih it t'i ri Daugherty formerly ot this place will be the fortunate man An increase of from 4 to 12 per cent in the wages of about 45000 trainmen will be made soon by the PeiTn Ivanin Railroad company trie company willing that its employes shall share the general prosperity of the Mr and Mrs John StClair Homer City celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary on Saturday eve ning last About 130 persons helped to enjoy rhe occasion They were the re cipients of many valuable and useful presents It lias been remarked that a home grown hand spanked bare footed conn try boy makes a much better fighter in the battle of life than the pampered high collared creased trousered youth Albert Carter formerly of the Indiana Normal now ay instruc tor in the Greeley (Colo) normal school returned to Greeley riday after visit ing old friends here Prof Carter said that during 11 is entire stav there there were bur two cloudy days and speaks of XV CIO me muu ui Buusnme week with Saltsburg friends Mi Tisha" Balentiue Third ward is the guest of Vandergrift relatives Mr and Mrs William Peterman visi'ed Armstrong county relatives last week Harry Bean a salesman in Loughry store left for Pittsburg Monday Leard a prominent citizen of Livermore was an Indiana business vis itor riday Lockard the contractor left riday for Canton Ohio and Chicago ou business Alvin Peddicord of Brushvalley expects to remove to East Liverpool iu a few weeks" Prof Keener returned to Brad dock Wednesday after spending the holidays here Young and Wilson of this place left for the Texas oil fields ou Thursday last Miss Lou Anthony Third ward a teacher in the Turtle Creek school returned Monday Griffith and wife of Marion spent some days last week with their sou at Greeusburg Samuel Williams of South ifth street left Monday to enter Grove City College at Grove City Martin Stadtmiller spent the lat ter part of last week with his brother George at Johnstown Mr aiid Mrs Galbreath of Water street recently spent some days with friends at Apollo Ed Vogel of Vogel Bros left Mon day for an extended business trip to Pittsburg and New York Joseph Caldwell returned to the Allegheny United Presbyterian Theo logical seminary Monday 1 Mrs Josiah Lydick spent a portion of last week with her daughter Madge and friends atJohnstown Jack and his secre tary John Taylor Esq for vv iisiiiiigron Liiursaay last Books a son of the late John Books and formerly of Indiana is spending a few days here Mr George S' Christy of Wayne avenue noted in our last issue as being is recovering Mrs Hal Richey of Saltsbursr spent Sunday witli her sister Mrs Mary Kay of Water street this place Pfeiffer of North Mahoning township was the guest of Rev Dr Crawford the latter part of last week Dr Cass of West Lebanon drove up to Indiana Sunday morning to at tend services at the Episcopal church Miss Zaida Long of" Pitt burg re turned riday after spending New Years with her parents Mr and Mrs Long Mr A Cooper of Homer City came up to town on Saturday evening and attended Dr church on Sunday Wilson a professor in the Princeton seminary and university re turned riday evening after visiting relatives here Miss Mary McElhose who was vis iting Pittsburg friends passed through town Saturday on her way to her home at Kellevsburg Miss Rue Chompson after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Thomp son returned to Pitcairn riday where she is teaching Mrs George Stewart Philadel phia street Monday for Detroit Michigan where she will visit her sis ter Mrs Rev Barr Rev John Axe who has been visiting relatives in Mifflin county re turned Saturday Rev Mr Axe is cas tor of Grove Chapel Mr John Cannon a former resident of town now of Pittsburg leaves this week for Asheville North Carolina for the benefit of nis health George Lovelace the well known Indiana machinist has secured the po sition of machinist for the McCreery Coke works at Graceton Miss Bertha McCreery of Kansas is visiting Indiana county relatives At present she is the guest of Mr and Mrs Peterman Third Attorney General Elkin spent Sun day with bis family at this place He reports his prospects for nomination for governor as improving daily Miss Lyde Scott of Indiana spent Thursday iu the city with Mr and Mrs John Henderson of Haynes street her relatives Johnstown Tribune James Hamilton of Indiana an instructor in the Philadelphia Insti tute for the Blind returned Monday after spending the holidays here Ellis son of Mr and Mrs Griffith Ellis Church street left for McKeesport Thursday where he is ship ping clerk in one of ihe large mills Stewart and his brother Ernest left last week for lorida where they will look after the orange crop on the farm of A Stewart recently de ceased was resumed at the shaft of the Possum Glory Coal company last week Jacob Putt of Penn Run this week moved to Ilidiana He will be em ployed at ihe glass works Daugherty and wife of this place hnvi troubles of their own ive of heir children till they have the youngest a tew weeks old are suffering from whooping cough The Republican voters of Center township will meet at Cross Roads School House on Saturday January 18 19u2 at 1 in tor ihe purpose of nom inating a ticket for the coming ebruary election 5 AU McCoy Committeeman Thomas Montgomery of Manorville near Kit tanning died suddenly one day last week at tin advanced age He was one of the prominent men of Armstrong county and the inventor and for many I years the manufacturer of the cele brated grain cradle tiiousauds of which have been used in tins county His (brother Rev Montgomery of Wilkinsburg died of the same disease a year or two ago The following is from the Jeannette Dispatch of January 3 s1' Dr Miller of this place was appointed mercantile appraiser at a special session ofthe county commis sioners on last Tuesday The commis sioners 'made no mfetake in the appoint ment Dr Miller atone of our best cit izens and will do ls full duty in the matter of making' the appraisment L'he work can be done in about three months aud is worth uior6 than a thou sand dollars The doctor has our con Dr Miller is a soirDf Mrs Miller of Marion Center! We add our con gratulation Marshall author of the' skit Trip to which is packing the Empire theater this week is a native iff Indiana Pa aud hits superintended the staging of several musical aud bur lesque entertainments He is giving Crip to his personal attention and that may account iu some measure for he snap with which the whole thing goes He began his career vi hen a schoolboy going around in his native town playing the guitar rom that he organized a string quartet and soon Indiana became too small for him He Inis a not her show underway with which he expects o'astonish the country next season ifud it will be largely through hisA Trip to that he will get the wherewithal to proilnee the oueto come IIP 11 I Uli) The Board of County Commissioners met iu executive session on Monday Peter reeh was elected president for the ensuing year The millage was fixed at 5 mills the same as last year No change was made theclerkship Com missioner Stephens nominated Ernest stewart tor solicitor When the vote was taken the motion was negatived Stephens voting yes aud Dick and reeh no Commissioner Dick then nomi nated Harry ee Mr Stephens voted uo and Messrs Dick and reeh iu the affirmative and Mr ee was de clared elected Mr John Zener was re elected janitor The pay of the solicitor was fixed at $450 per annum Harry ee Esq the recently ap pointed county solicitor is a Democrat bur a most reputable young man and will make a capable officer A reader who says he knows what he is talking about aske 1 us to publish the fo lowing: mv remedy for kidney aud bladder trouble: Squeeze oue large lemon into holt pint or piut of waler sweeten Io taste aud drink just belore going to bid In a few days you will be well pleased with the result However if your case has reached the critical or acme stage I would advise that you stop drinking Mater tea dr coffee nt meal times or during the day and drink lemonade ouly You will be nappily suprised to find that the lemon ade will so revive the kidneys as to enable them to successfully handle as miicii lemonade as you may wish drink without any inconvenience yourself properly secreting same send ing the lite sustaining elements though out the system aud the refuse ouly the urine to the bladder Try it aud bid farewell to disease while the roses bloom in June aud lemons cease not to grow iu lorida theu when I see you agaiu you will be as fat as a pig Of course the sugar will make you fat and the lemons will keep far away that dreaded enemy disease Shut the door The new year starts out well The ice harvest will soou be here Kittanning has a case of smallpox Ihe attendance at the Normal this session is large At turkok sell reiidilv at 10 cents a pound in Ins inai ki The rural letter carriers will be uni formed after obruary 1 The comity auditors Mei Peterm in and George are duties The evening meet iiigs this the difiereut Hunches are tended About 450 students have ret Perish the thought that Judge Harry White put up those letters' ou Himself or that'any of his friends were guilty But if either or both of them mailed such missives they should be prosecuted not only "for using the "mails illegally but for threatening though it must be admitted the story sent out fr6m Indi ana to the Gazeite makes very good reading and that should mitigate the punishment to a great extend Of course there is a probability that the letters were nor sent through the mails at all but handed to the Judge by some towering six aud a halt footer with broad brimmed hat aud belt around him filled with in which case the Judge was all the braver man for not being scared Harry White is a fine fellow a good Judge was a brave and capable soldier aud everybody likes him but he has the reputation of never for getting General Senator Harry White Johnstown Tribune Social Votes Misses Sarah and Agnes Birkman entertained friends Thursday aftaruoou Hildebrand entertained a number of friends at his home in the Third ward on New Years Mr and Mrs John Hastings of Philadelphia street entertained a num ber ot their friends on riday evening The members of the Bear Club aud their wives were the guests of Mr aud Mrs Hetrick Church streeton New Years The affair was greatly enjoyed Tuesday evening of last week Mrs Niua Loughry North Sixth street entertained the 'pupils of her room No 6 in the second ward school from Mrs Lioughry was nre seutea witu a jarainere ana other pres ents Ex Govesnior Hastings Here Ex Governor Daniel Hastings the i prominent Center county capitalist and politician spent yesterday in Indiana looking ajiter his coal interests iu this county iiKpgred principally in Pine township I Clements left Tuesday for a feWi days1 visit to Pittsburg Hildebrand Harry White Jr and others of Indiana WAnf tn lit sit tiityhr fret nx eJx moort tier V4 44 4 X44VVH44O Mrs Craighead and her daugh ter Mane will leave to day for Okla homa where they will speud some weeks with their sou aud brother Rev Craighead Ex Sheriff Neal aud wife speut a few days iu this place last week During their stay of three years in this place they made hosts of friends and are al ways sure of a cordial greeting Mr Steel of East Mahoning returned on Thursday last from a two weeks Visit to Pittsburg He has nearly half a dozen children living in the city aud vicinity aud it takes some time to get round Engle of Quincey California a brother of Engle of Indiana is here visiting friends and relatives Mr Engle is a real estate dealer and has an in several gold mining pivpciuca Rink a son of late George Rink of this place arrived riday to visit relatives Mr Rink is a railroad man stationed at Bennett near Alle gheny He says that the freight con gestion there was the worst he had ever known although it has been relieved now Railroad Accident nt Seward William Paul married to a daughter of the late red Cameron of Cherry hill township and residing in Altoona was instantly killed in a railroad wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near Seward at an early hour on riday morning He was a fireman on a freight running from Derry to Altoona Three other persons were instantly killed in the wreck aud several dangerously injured The following account of the accident we clip from the daily papers A mistake in orders is said to have been the cause of the wreck Train No 14 known as ail and Express one of the fastest pn the division was given a white light at NR tower Seward As the carve at irg Hollow was ap proached an eastbound freight manned uy a Lierry crew was run into The freight Ivas going at a seven miles an hour clip and the force of the collision threw three of the cars nnon the west bound track Before warning could be given to trains approaching on the west bound train a freight dashed into the debris The engine ploughed into the wreckage ata terrific speed and 10 cars were thrown liver a 20 foot embankment infai JheOoQpmangb river In the cabin of the first east bound train sat Conductor Peterson Brakeman Gallageraud lagman Smith Peter son was instantly killed Gallager was found on the boiler of locomotive with a bad scalp wound and a bad contusion of tne knee Smith was found among the debris scattered about the west bound engine His back and arms were badly scalded aud his scalp was lacerated Peterson was taken to his home in Derrv and Gallagher and Smith were brought to the Westmoreland Hospital ollowing the crash of the west bound freight into the debris the locomotive toppled over into the river Engineer Black was found his engine cab dead It is not known whether he was killed in the collision or was drowned after the engine went into the river His fireman William Paul was not carried into the river His mangled remains were found in the wreckage The trainmen of No 14 did not suffer so severely Engineman Winters was taken from the debris at midnight and placed in the Memorial Hospital Johns town None of the express or mail men were injured The Mail and Express is made up of only two Pullmans and the mail and express cars Mr Paul was a son of Mrs Mary Paul of Cherryhill township and was married last June since then he had been residing at Pitcairn His body has not yet been found' Mrs Paul went to Pitcairn Sabbath returning yesterday all efforts to find the body having been unavailing All Because or Imitation Butter Pure ood Agent McGregor had a full week last week in his labors in behalf of mire butter At Connellsville and Un iontown two dealers paid the fine of $100 each for violation of the pure food law At Greensburg five dealers from that and surrounding towns enriched the treasury to the extent of $500 a to tal of $700 in fines in one week There is now $1700 at Greensburg to be placed in the hands of the sheriff $100 at In diana the case being from Blairsville and $100 at Kittanning Judge Harry White of this county president of the court appointed to hear the Cambria contest by the Governor last week is said to have received three letters threatening him with assassina tion or at least with death if he took part in the affair According to the re ports three letters were sent thelastoue reaching the judge on Wednesday morning The contest was settled the previous Tuesday ollowing is the text of the letter forget that if you come to Ebensburg iu a passenger car you may return as express people here are not going to take any fooling If an attempt is made to throw out he Carroll ballot some one will drop The people are in a rage about this contest and mean business judge are safer at home 1 1 has been remarked on the streets that a Yankee was as safe at Gettysburg as you are in Ebensburg will be some one drop before it is over will never be judge Mark it The oil referred to re lates to the vote of East Carroll town ship It was in dispute the Barker peo ple expecting to show that many illegal votes had been cast there Afier he arrived at home Judge White said he was not in the least alarmed by the threats conveyed iu the letters inti mating that he rather preferred to travel by express than by the regular passen ger route any ly It is said that the letters were not all from one person and obvious attempts had been made to disguise the writing Not much has been found out of the writer and no detectives are on his trail and the only reason advanced as to why Judge White received the letters while the two other Judges were left in pence is that it might have been thought that he would be predisposed in favor of Barker on account of the ser vices here in the Blair White contest This is a possible explanation Meanwhile the Cambria contest is over Barker having over estimated the illegal vote alleged to have assisted Judge O'Conner to his proud position Shot a Haniiau Miller of Pineton last Thursday shot a large and ferocious wildcat about four miles from Pineton His hound had chased it for three hours before it was treed Mr Miller is a hunter of great ability and has killed several foxes not to speak of a laygo I VA vuio PESWOXAL JIEST1OS Prothero left Tuesday for Grove City college Earl Miller spent a portion of last iast uight to Masoni VUbul7 II kJolfchlivir i lutirlc 44luvul.