Punxsutawney Spirit, 1910-09-07

              VOL. XXXVIII. &l)c|)tmx0!ttatKmeg) Spirit. I II —■— I——tu — PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., SEPTEMBER 7, 1910 NEIGHBORING TOWNS CELEBRATE LABOR DAY MARION CENTER FARMER IS KILLED BY T R AIN NO. 13 UNKNOWN MAN KILLED BY STREET CAR NEAR TOWN Struck While Walking Along Track—Pilot Beam Breaks His Back. Eleanora and Anita Entertain Big Crowds—Races Hotly Contested. 010 NOT HEAR APPROACH OF TRAIN ROSSITER ENJOYS BIG TIME- QUIET HERE Wheels of Car Strike Him as He Lies on Track Near Elk Run Shaft. Copyright H.irt Schaffner tc Mars This store is the home of Hart Schaffner it Marx clothes vJ. A. WEBER The One Price Clothier rOU see here a reproduction of Edward Penfield's beautiful poster, used to announce 'THE STYLE BOOK, Hart Schaffner & Marx authoritative guide to correct style in men's clothes. Whenever these best of clothes-makers do anything — posters or clothes — they do it right. HI united by Mve Wire. MS EimiLr III DRESSED I W ore Neatly Tailored lllack suit — I'afem 1,4'allirr Sli«H*s ami 1 Derby. or polish i \nc\4 i ion The rlead body of an unknown man lies in the undertaking parlors of A (\ Robinson and Son, on Malum- Funeral arrangements have n it y< t boon made. The victim of the unfortunate accident was fifty-six years of aire and unmarried, lie had resided in that vicinity the greater part of his life and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was lifted on the < ng'no and taken to Marion Center, where it was determined that his back ha i been broken. He did not regain consciousness before he expired at 9:30 o'clock. Thompson had left his home shortly after six o'clock for Paft' r-*on where he intended to help a friend who wit. harvesting. He was w I'king alotg when a coal train approached from his rear. Uelng a Infos' deaf he did not hear the approaching train until it was almost on him. A shriek of the whistle startled hiim and he turned to find the big locomollv- but a f« »v feet away, He jumped t . the sid• ■ but as he jumiped the pilot h am of the engine struck him In the middle of the back. While walking; along: the r»l road tracks of tin* B., H. K- i'. r.Hlroad about ono and one half south of Marion Center, at 6:!tO o'clock this morning. .W,x Thompson, a well known farmer, residing r. ir Marion Center, was struck by th< <ngine of a coal train and rocel' ed injuries from which he died ;it 9:30 oYloc'v BOILER GOES Oil HAMPAGE . HI mw POWER HOUSE the left <ar. He was still breathing faintly but died whlb Or. Smith, of \\ alst n. who was on the ear, was examining his Injuries. The bod. was taken on the car and brought t<> the station here and later to the Robinson undertaking shut off the power and threw on the «nj€fgenfly brakes, brinfini the cap to a stop directly over the prostrate body. Believing that he had stopp. d tin oar before hitting the man* Pert*y Jumped from the ear t" find that the wheel had struck the man Just above Klk Run. the motorman noticed a man lying with his head on the rail Just fifteen feet In front of the ear. He curve south of the bridge erossing in I'etry. was making Its last trip In. Just as the big ear rounded the car. conductor, Uld\v> l, motorman, Reynoldsville-Punxsuta wney T he ing Street. He met death shortly be fore twelve o'clock l ist night on the traek "l the .Ivff.i m Traction t'ompany, Just south of the bridge near the Rlk Run Shaft, whether by intent or accident will probably never be. known.  The races were fast anil hotly contested, the part ill pants demonstrating that tihey are capable of fast time <>n the track. ternoon. The >K1 i-a n o ra -S'yk esv 1'! I e baseball same went to the home team by the More of six to two. Two games were {•eheduled, but S.vkesvllle did not put in an appearance until late, in the af- Eleanora enjoyed the biggest celebration In its history. The crowd numbered about two thousand, and the day pa.ssed off without the least sign of disorder. The Various events were pulled off on schedule time, and all who attended had naught but the highest words of praise for those who managed the affair. The basi'-running contest wont to Blosc, of iSprankle Mills. Prizes i\vere $5 for llrst, anil for second place. The Anita band furnished thi music. A moving picture show and an oc an wave were big attractions. The Old iMan's Race, entries 45 and over, wax won by Kmbert McTntyre, aged lifty-four, with Charles Hock- Ison, second. The one hundred yard dash, -open, was won by Frances Harries, with James M\*Intyre second. There were six entries. Following th« game of the second nines the iSprai»kle Mills and Ani-ta fir*t teams met. the former winning by a score of 7-2. Blose's pitching was responsible for the result. Almquist, for Anita, likewise pitched glltedged ball, but his support was very poor, as* was that of Blo.se. Shirk, Curry and iMcAnlneh, of Punxsutawney, played with the Sprankle Mills team, and put up a first-class exhibition.At 1:30 o'clock the Anita and lloratjo second it earns met, the Horatio nine wiunig Jby a score of f»-4. Th«» Anita celebration drew an extra big crowd. The baseball team had charge of the affairs of the day. and managed them capably. During the morning a large, number participated in the fantastic parade. Prizes werti awariled to P. AI i menu and Leonard AYei.ss for the most comical makeups and to •Churleft llyo ft»r the mos-t elaborate costume. The Tteynoldsville and Anita baseball teams met on the diamond, and tho Ani.tn aggregation lost by the score of 7-2. Nearly every town In this vicinity celebrated Labor l>ay yesterday Punxsutawney l»« ing the only one to have absolutely nothing scheduled for the day. <>n hi* person was found :i smashod bottle Indii aling that he had been drinking. The tar drugged him b >> than two feet and the Injury that raus-d his death is the only mark «>n him rooms. The dead man is evidently Polish. On the lapel <»T his coat he wore a badge reading Prey by. Kro-Lost wo- Pwdzo. On his person were found two watches, one bearing the initials of J. 1- K. Hi was evidently abou thirty years of age, n« atly dressed In a well tailored blaek suit, patent leather shoes and blaek derby hat. Me is about 11 Vt feet nine inches In height and weighs about 1(P) pounds. i'<ujntv Coroner J. O. Sayres arrived %here about 1 n:o <>Ylo. k ami n «•••• which viewed the body in the undertaking rooms I».ath from unavoidable aeclden>tal causes was the verdict rendered. WOMAN LEAVES HOME CUD III NIGHTGBWH OFFICERS OF COUNTT IATIONAL BANK CHOSEN >lis. Mollici Walker in Punxsutaweiiy Hospital SiilVci'lng l Yoni Twn- IHH-arv Dementia. Chester Allen Klled Near Montgomery vines'—May Be Murder. CORPSE FOUND ON TfttACKS rules laid di.wn by th«» Interstate ecm- belietf that he had been murdered. It is probable, however, that the young man had money before leaving home, and spent It on a debauch. Owing to the condition of the body burial was made Sunday. meree commission for charging additions an.t betterments to capital ac- INCIIEASE IN KAIININGS The extent of the damage to the boiler, which cost $1,000. cannot yet be ascertained and may bring the total damage up to a higher llgure than $2,00-0. When the big mass of metal fell It tore its side brae.es loose, and then went toward the side, its first direction tearing out the entire side of tin room and twisting some iron window frames which were set in the wall, while it reached far enough toward the side to tear out a large gap in that wall. A force of men has been at work on the erection of the holler for sev - eral days, and this morning It was resting on three cross beams of steel, which were in turn supported by six heavy steel posts. The boiler had been braced to keep it from falling sidewise, but It wa,a not thought that the huge affair would tilt In an endwise direction. However, the boiler b< - gan to swing in that direction this morning, and soon gathered sufficient momentum to topple over with a crash. Two men and a boy were in the place at the time, but the\ managed to get outside before the boiler fell. Does .$2,000 of Damage. Topples Over While llcing ltaiscri ami One of the huge boilers which arbeing put in place by the Jefferson Electric Light, Heat and Power Company, in their now power plant on the South Side, toippbal over about ten o'clock this morning and praetleall\ demolished one of the brick walls of the building, tore a large hole in another wall, and caused a damage of about $2,000. B., It. 111141 P. It. R. Breaks liiiiinld Mr Ymrlv Kimiing* l>ur- Ing I "list Year. FAREWELL PARTY FOR CLEARFIELD YOUPG LADIES Unless she shows immediate improvement the county commissioners will tnfce. charge of her and she will probably bo taken <to the State asylum at Warren. For a week the woman had been acting queer. This morning shortly after seven o'clock so was seen to leave her home clad only In her night gown. She started toward the fair ground ami when several people tried to detain her she ran. Chief 1'aimer wa» n-otitled and started after her. She managed to elude him for a time and it was not until she had retraced er route and was near her home that the chief caught her. iShe was taken to the Funxsutawney Hospital, where i»t was determined that she was mentally deranged. Mrs. Mollie Walker, who resides on the alley in the rear of the residence of \V. If. Heek« ndonn, on West Mahoning Street, is in the tPunxsutawney Hospital, suffering from dementia believed to be temporary. GOLF TOURNAMENT At a meeting: held la.-t night in the ofllce .>f \V. P.. Adams, Kst|., the organization of the County National Hank, which will begin business in Punxsutawnev some time thi* month, was completed. (Quarter* the Latter Part of This Month. Will Itegin Itii-dness hi Temporary \\. J. Ilrown was eh o.sen president. .John U Pant all, vice president, ami J. • 1*2. I'an tall, cashier. The following directors wtTr chiWi-n: Ward F. Brown, John K. I'antall, 1-2. \V. Smith, J. 1*2. Tan tall, Marry L. (5 rube, \V. J. Brown, \\ . ill. Adams, O. r. Grube, George #D. Jenks, P. C. "Sutter, E. X. Wehrle. The bank officiate hope to start the remodeling of the Zeitler building within a short time in an endeavor to complete It before the »now flies. Tho home of the new hank will be one of the most compilete and up-to-date In the county. The Institution has a eapital stork of $100,000. and those interested comprise among the most substantial business men of this community.A d« Unite date f<«r opening has not yet been decided upon, but it will probably be during tho fatter part of this month. Temporary quarters will be used until the Zeltler building. which ha> been purchased by the. bank is remodeled to suit Its ne« ds. Those present were Misses Bertha Van Dyke, Mary Armstrong, Ruth Pounds, Mary McQonagle, Jennie and Bessie Jordan, Anna Swarmer, Beulah Morrison, Bertha Armstrong, Messrs. Michael 8wanick. Howard Hick ox. Bin it Kaylor, Tracey Crot*er, James Van Dyke, Leslie and Walter Jordan, Walter Nolan and Thomas Redding. Music and the usual games composed the amusements of the evening, while bounteous refreshments were served at eleven o'clock. The home of Miss Zula Jordan, of East End, was last night the scene of gay festivities In honor of Misses Lauretta and Delia Ran man, of Clear- Held, who left for their home today after a via It at the Jordan home. The wire In question happened to be one that conveys the olectrle current ror the street lights. Through It passes about three thousands volts. Had McGregor received the full benefit this article would have undoubtedly taken on the nature of an obituary. . The sawyer did not know the nature of the wire, but was wary of It, and started to pick it up on the end of his cross-cut saw. He didn't succeed. Scarcely had the end of the saw touched the wire, when McGregor went down with a thud, landing on his buck wkth such force as to stun him for several seconds. He managed, however, to rise to his feet, and a few minutes later was wielding his broom and shovel with his accustomed celerity. MeOregor had been hired by Dominic KalTetto to cut down a tree in front of his property on Torrence S'treet. For a matter <>if half an hou' or more McGregor used his cross-cut »aiw on the tree and when it had Anally be.en severed near the ground i>t continued to stand, finding support among the wires above. Mc- Gregor, however, threw his weight against it and the tree fell, taking with it a wire. ley Street to keep that thoroughfare nlean, had in experience. (Monday morning that he will probably not care to have repeated more than once a .week at le*a.st. l,evi Mt-Oregor, who has be. n employed by the business men of Find- Floyd Steele and Merrill Eberhart motored to Coot Spring Frfday. A. C. 'Robinson ami K. S. Swart?, were second, with ninety apiece, net- J. P. Crosby held down third, with ninety-one. About fifteen members of the I'unxsutawney Country <'lul> participated In the golf tournament held yesterday on the t'lub (links. fl. pulled dim n first prize, with a handicap of four, and a total for the eighteen holies of eighty-nine, making his net score 85. James Young, wife and niece, have Just returned from New York City, where they have been visiting relatives.Mrs. W. E. Johnson, of Penn Street, has as guests her sister, Mrs. Lydia Boyer, of Harrlsburg, and! her nieces, Mrs. Susie Howard, of Harrlsburg, and Miss Julia Howe, of Bangor, Me. ■Maintenance of equipment cost $1,« 900.000 In 1910, and I1.j00.000 In li909. The company s,ient this year a total of $2,0«G,683 for nc«v rolling iitock. It bought 1'5 locomotives, consisting of one Atlantic, two decapods and 12 consolidation engines, paying for these locomotives $237,593, or an average of $15,820 per locomotive. The company bought 2.000 freight service cars, cf which SI7 were box cars, and the remainder double hopper bottom (jondola cars, at a |U>tal cost of $1,708,447, an average of $854 per car. (iterating expenses as a whole amounted to $5,900,000. making the operating rr.tio G'6 per cent., comparlng the total operating expent.es In 1909 of $1,700,000. and villi nn op eraling ratio of 65 pe r cent. Transportation expenses amounted to 550,000 last year, and these expenses consumed 28.55 per '*.int. of gross enrnl-igw. Tn 19fc> transportation expenses amounted to $2,100,000; anil consumed 29.22 per cen*. of  i arnlngs. Maintenance .if way cost $1,200,000. o.- $1,350 per nilie, of (Irsit, second etc. track (two mi>s of sidings and switch tracks being c-mnted equal to one, inlle of main track). In 1909 maintenance of way c >st ?S00,- 000, *8r>! per mile of Jraek. count, and not to operating expenses. During t'»e year $900,000 was charged to capital account for additions a.id betterments. Of this sum $1*41,000 was spent for wat»»r stat.ons and $131,000 for sidings and yard extensions.W~. The company spent ample sums In maintenance of way las', year, but followed #'rlcl!y and In ce'all liie The flood year of prosperity, 1907, is the closest approach to this year's earnings, the gross In 1907 being $8,- 700,000. The n3t earnings for 1310, $3,400,000, exeecj those cf 1907 by $100,000. Over ten million tons of freight were carried over the lines during the year. The grass earnings for 1910 are $9,500,000, an earning of about $10,- 730 for eaeh mile of It* 507 miles of track. The B., R. and P. company is the first to emerge from the panic of 1907 and 1908. and President Jselin's report shows that it has not on'y succeeded In pulling out of the Danlc. but that the earnings for the year exceed those of any previous year In the history of the road. President Iselln. of the Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad Company, has Issued his annual report, disclosing facts that are exceedingly gratifying to the. stockholders In thu company and to the residents of the territory through which the lines of the B., R. and P. pass. It Is said that when the young man left home Friday evening he had Considerable money on his . person and that when the remains were found It was missing. Tills gave riss to the All day Saturday the body remained where it was found, awaiting the arrival of the coroner. Saturday evening it was removed to the home of his parents at Montgomeryvllle. The coroner's verdict was given as accidental death, although there are a few who bellfeve that the young man met with foul play and that the body was placed on the tracks to hide the crime. The theorv. however, that he was intoxicated and laid down on the tracks Is best supported since a quart bottle containing a little whiskey was found near the body. • i it Is believed that the young man was killed early Friday evening and that during night several trains ran over his body, cutting It up horribly.When the body was found It was horribly mangled, making identification through appearance Impossible. After the arrival of the coroner lat.> Saturday evening, however, papers were found on the body which p.-oved it to be that of Chester Allen, aged twenty-three years. flyer were Saturday evening Identified as those of Chester Allen, whose parents reside at Montgomeryvllle. Montgom- eryvllle early Saturday morning by the crew of the morning north boon J The mangleid remains of a man found on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg tracks near f0 m . - M