Punxsutawney Spirit, 1906-11-15

              m Edition y MANY VIOLATIONS CHARGED ' Proceedings Are Taken Under Provisions of Sherman Anti-Trust Act Shelby M. Cullom. Denied that Actress Will Become Bride of W. A. Corey MABUI.LK OILMAN. ARKANSAS BAPTISTS. KIiECT STATE OFFICERS. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1006 GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO RID COUNTRY OF THE STANDARD VOL I. No. 52. Papers Were Filed Today By Direction of At'orney General. SENATOR CULLOM IS SUDDENLY TAKEN ILL was mo 1SQIMWS ISM MEADS ORDERS ARE 101 PRICE 2 CENTS THE DAILY GRIND OF PETTY CASES MAKE UP the county court nmyrnrn AHIj 1ECKRESULTS Local Tribe of Red Men Altend Old Time Husking Bee Operator Is Blamed For Pileup on The B. R. & P. FRANK MOONE, THE HOST TRAINS MEET ON A CURVE Firemen Is Only One Hurt Though All Narrowly Escape ELH 1MB II WE OF SIM A tine supper was served by Mr. and Mrs. Moone, and at the end, which consisted for the mosj part of pumpkin pic, they were still eighteen j ics tc the good. Knrly this morning the party started lun-k <>\vr the six w ary miles for Punxsutawney. and at live o'clock this morning about fifty tired, hut luipi y, members of the two orders rolled into this town. The warriors and squaws did some corn husking too, and today Brave Moone has about 100 bushels of corn ready to store away. An old time contest was arranged during the husking and the Red Men say that if the oflisjirings of Pocahontas had not stolen their red ears th»-y would have come out the victors. About 'thirty-live members of the Punxsutawney Tribe of Red Men, accompanied by two dozen Daughters of Pocahontas, boarded a hay wagon last evening about 6:30 o'clock and at once made their way to Perrysvllle, where they were royally entertained by Frank Moone, a former resident of Punxsutawney. CLEVER WOMAN SWINDLER DUPES SCOTTDALE BANKS Elks Expect Unusually Interesting Meeting in December MABELLE GILMJM TO WED A LORD Five cars of the freight train were# wrecked and engine No. 347 wan dam;iii< I bad enough to have to be sent to tie repair shops. The eivw of both trains e aped injury except the tire- . tan on the southbound engine, who had his wrist badly sprained. As a consequence of the wreck, the wreck crew was called out from Dupois, and although the tracks wore cleared enough to allow the passage of regular trains, they were all delayed for a short time. it did not Interfere with the special train hearing he officials, which left here at eight o'clock this morning. In passing the scene of the wreck, however, the special was stopped for a few minutes and the oillelals surveyed what was left of the disaster, after which they proceeded on their wny to Salamanca, N. Y. Failure on the part of the operator at ldlewtld, a station on the middle division of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad, to deliver train orders to engine No. 347 running south, eausi 1 it to iolllde In a headon collision with freight train No. 5 8 on a sharp curve near that place at 2:20 tills morning. Seventy-Five Cent Pick Basis neighborly formalities, anil he took r I ' .1 it i 'he spite out on his wife, so the proseror Lengthy and Learned . ution aliened. The defense»«»abi> , conducted by the tall anil angular Leqal Contention. getleman With th.- ion* forefinger. Mr. Falrman, while W. B. Adams. Ewj.. . j looked after the prosecution. The case of the Commonwealth vs. WOMAN HAS HUSBAND IIP rh"r|<'a «»»>*<*«. «ho is charged MVmrtU IIHO IlUOUnllU Ul i,y E. N. Price with the embezzlement ' ' of a typewriter, was continued at the and Punxeutawney. t ney Republican and George R. Adam Hallucinations caused by iduUccnce of the Brockwnyville Record, were in different kinds of South Side spirits among those in attendance at the causer the defendant to grow jealous I opening: of court the first of the week. ! DHOOKVILLK, Nov. 15—In court '"I"'"'"1 "f the commonwealth. Mr. now setting here the case of the Com- IT °',V f", > ThT.vW monwealth vs. John Shelik, charged ,lcf'"1(1 "KUln8t wh,at 'U f.0, with larcey, James Gill, prosecutor. " ridiculous charge under all the Ivolvlng the iiuestlon of title to a circumstances, bu tl,e prosecution seventy-five cent pick. alleged to have " as without a needed witness and uski been stolen from Qlli by the defendant ,-'1 f'>r « eonU.iuunce. which was at the Bleanora mines, was taken up '': a.r' , l ? ''. V.IUI . (V , yesterday. Messrs. R. K. Brown and _ A "U'0, "f U"' \ ' °U"'\ Will c. Smith appeared for the de- ,Bur AnaoHation was held in the court tense and Clement Fiynn, Esq.. ap- I'ous,. ,m Tuesday evening for the elec- ared for the prosecution. After a tlon, of °mcT V ,h*' tranHa«"on ." r,tl ,, r , r . »« such othor business as was brought careful hearing of a mass of testimony , .. the court directed the Jury to return to the attention of the association. I he a verdict of not guilty but to place ;i«estlon of providing a new system of indexes lor tin- county records in the tn<* costs, and the twelve gentleman. ,, . ... , , wisely concluding that the prosecu- -rder soMlce was discussed. and tor having but one attorney his In- the committee which had been prev - i - .; i , , .. ... .. * .. ottsh appointed to investigate the matdividual costs would be lighter than . . , , . ... . , > , ter was continued, and instructed to the defendants costs, soaked the ... prosecutor to pay two-thirds of the ''".'"""'"" V wlth <ou,rt °""' damages, while the defendant was '"ite up the question rovldlng the mulcted for the additional third. ,,,t' co»,mls8l"ners The case was of considerable Inter- ,mi ' 1 • est to the spectators, Inasmuch as all ' election ot officers resulted as three of the contending attorneys are follows: President, Kdward A. Carrecent additions to the roster of the ma,t- of Brook ville; Vice President. Jefferson county bar. and it was the William M. Falrman. of Punxsutawopinion of those who listened to the "W Treasurer, Hiram H. Brosius, of conduct of the case that the young rrookville; Secretary, John M. White, men will "make good." ,,f Pro«>kville; Board of Directors. The case of the Commonwealth i James Murray, Geo. D. Jenks and vs. Sidney Mountain, charged by his Arthur 13. Stewart, of Brookville; Geo. wife. Priscllla Jane Mountain, with A1 McDonald, of Heynoldsville. and assault and battery and assault with Wigert, of Punxsutawney; board intent to kill, was taken up immedl- Censors, C. Z. Gordon and \\ . N. ately following the case against John Conrad, of Hrookville; M. M. Davis, of Shelik. The case was one of family Heynoldsville; W M. Falrman. of troubles growing <nit of Mountain's Punxsutawney, and Henry I. Wilson, disposition to go to Mahomet, the MB Hun. latter in this instance being repre- Assemblyman-elect Robert H. Longsented by the bars where dazzling well, of Brockwayvllle, and ICditors liquors are sold in the towns of Anita Thomas J. Hodgers of the Punxsutaw- i* WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Senator Ponaparte, and was walling* in (Ii» Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, was tak- anteroom of the Secretary's office en suddenly ill while ealllng at the when he was seen to toter. He said ! Navy Department. Physicians were hi- felt queer and rather weak, and summoned from the Bureau of Medi- was assisted t<» a chair. cine and Surgery, and in a short time The surgeons who attended him he recovered sufficiently to drive to said that It was only a slight Indispo- I "nls home in Massachusetts Avenue. nition, probably caused by excessive He was about to call upon Secretary \ use of tobacco before dinner. /presents he Sherfiling conlon, rebatand prac- In support of its plan il an array of violations of t man Anti-Trust law inclu* splracy, coercion, intimidatl< ing and other vicious acts tices. By Publishers' Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—The Federal Government today began Its long contemplated battle against the Standard Oil Company. In papetff filed today in the United States /circuit Court at St. Louis by direction of Attorney General Moody the /Government will seek to Have the# gigantic trust'dissolved. Future possibilities are criminal prosecutions of Rockefeller and oth' er directors of the Standard Oil Company for violation of the anti-trust law. The petition filed asks for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. An injunction against Rockefeller, Rogers, Archabold and others to prevent further violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. An injunction against subsidiary companies to. prevent paying further dividends to the Standard oil Company of New Jersey. An injunction against all Individuals and companies connected with the Standard OH Company to prevent further combinations in restraint of trade. NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—As if in Indifference to the federal suit brought against the Standard Oil Company in St. Louis today, the directors of the oil trust have declared a dividend of ten dollars a share for the quarter Just ending. The dividends aggregate ten million dollars of which part is six millions. fTho dividend for the last quarter was six dollars a share. The total value of all the property controlled by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, except such as may have been purchased, is over sixty-nine million dollars. SENATOR PLATT AND HIS WIFE ARE PARTED MRS. BOVINGTON IS NAMED AS TEACHER Well Known Preceptress to Succeed Miss Wingert Here. Very Handsome Allowance Is Settled Upon the Wife STRANGE STORIES ARE TOLD covered and Arrested at Connellsville. Succeeds in Cashing Three Bogus Checks Before Being Dis- i •"•"*** , pop?!bly be the foundation of a divorce Aged Poliician and Young „<n (lf Ult. lnflllPlIty of Spouse Sinn Separation thl' othl'r has cvor l,ee" i int Many sensational stories have be011 Agreemini. told and printed, among them one to JiOXDON, Nov. —Mian Mabelle Oilman, the American actress who. It w.im reported some time ni?o, was to marry William I! Corey, president ot tin1 rnltiMl State* Steel Corporation, apparently has other plans. Instead of wedding an American kinj? tif finance It Ih said she will be the bride of a Hrltish lord of the soil. Mr. Corey's recent denials of any intention to bec<»mt the husband of RAILROAD MEN ARE HERE AGAIN The final meeting of the committoo on arrnnRemouts for the Lotflflffi of Sorrow, which will bo held in Jefferson Theatri!, December 'J, by Lodge No. 301 13. P. O. Elks, of Punxsutawney, was not hold last night owing to a portion of the committee being out of town. It 1h thought, however, that Elbert Hubbard will be the principal speaker. The theatre will bo beautifully decorated and as far as is known at the present time the meeting will be publie, but this point has not yet been decided. Definite arrangements will be announced after the special meeting which will be held on Sunday afternoon. CONNELLSVILLE, Pa.. Nov. 15.-- secured her money there and then A woman about 30 years old sue- proceeded to the Bank of Scottdale. eeeded in cashing three bogus checks where she handed in a check for $L'4. in Seotdale banks today, and was well bearig the name of H. F. Detwller away with the money before it wir and the indorsement of Mrs. Ella Mrdiscovered that the banks had been Googan. This was also cashed, duperl. She was traced here and ar- Thp citizens Title & Trust Company rested at the Baltimore & Ohio station refused to cash a chec k presented by thief of Police John Delempl-'. there and began an Investigation. The All four of the Scottdale banks were other hanks were notified, and Cashvisited by the woman who gave her u.r diaries Hull, of the Broadway name as Mrs. Ella McUoogan. later National, hurried to the West Pcnn using an alias, Mrs. May Pinkey. waiting room, where he caught the At the Broadway bank she presented woman and made her turn over the a check for $12 in favor of Mrs. ; money. That was the last seen of May Pinkey, with the signature of.i her until she was caught in Conn- John Davis, made payable at the First ellsville. National bank of Connellsville. She The woman turned over all the secured the money and then proceed- money she had received from the ed to the First National bankt where banks without protest. It Is believed she presented a check bearing the she was but a tool in the hands of a signature of John Kurtz and made clever gang »>i swindlers. She is !»<•- payable to Mrs. Ella McUoogan. She ing held pending further investigation. WORKING FOR NEW HOSPITAL REVIVALSERVICE IN A THEATRE Rev. Eby Will Speak Tonight Following Concert By Welsh Choir Local Pastor Attends Important Meeting at Pittsburg Royal Welsh Male Choir Certain of Crowded House HUNDREDS CLAMOR FOR SEAT TICKETS At a meeting: of the school board last evening Mrs. Rosa Bovington was elected to fill the vacancy in the High School caused by the resignation of Miss Wingert. of Waynesburg College. She taught in the high schools of Darby, West Pittston and Beaver Fulls, and was preceptress for several years in the State Normal School of Edlnboro. Pa. has Mrs. Bovington is a graduate of the Susquehanna Collegiate institute and . It is expected that 'she will enter upon her duties on Monday. KILE MERGER PAPERS. Miss Oilman Is a groat favorite in London, whore she made a hit in "Dolly Varden." She is stoppink at St. Cloud. MIfs Oilman have evidently Riven her the liberty that wan awaited, and so the report Ih now quite general that a noble lord will soon lead her to the altar. Kill Gendarmes and Then Secure Large Sum of Money It will be »i novel experience to have a revival meeting in a theater after a popular concert, but that new experience will co»e to this city tonight when Evangelist Eby will conduit a service In tjne Jefferson Theater at the elose of .the Concert by the Royal Welsh Male Choir. The meeting is Intended especially for non-church going people. It Is hoped that the Welsh Choir will remain for the mooting and sing some of the hymns sung In the worldfamed Welsh revival. The theater will, #no doubt, be crowded to the roof. " The service will be brief and lively. Mr. Eby will speak on "Present Day Slavery." TKXAHKAXA, Ark.. Nov. 15.— Scores of di'legatos, both elerical and lay, are arriving here for the Arkansas State Baptist Convention, which opens in the Beech Street Baptist Church tomorrow. The sessions are to continue four days. About 300 ministers and laymen attended the meeting which each year is held in the interest of some Presbyterian charity. This year's mooting was hold to arouse interest in the now Presbyterian Hospital which is contemplated by the Union. A plot of ground has been secured in Allegheny and of the $350,000 which is necessary for Its completion. $70,000 has already been raised. Several prominent members of the Union spoke on the subject of the new hospital and it is hoped that the money can be raised in the near future. Ue\. and Mrs. <\ A. Clark, of the Presbyterian Church, returned from Pittsburg tills morning, where they attended the mooting and banquet of the Presbyterian Scial Union of Pittsburg and Allegheny and surrounding towns. YOUNG WOMAN TAKES OWN LIFE 1>IEK ON WAY TO JAIL. PROHIBITS RAISING OAS RATES. PEAVKH FALLS. Pa., Nov. 15.— Beaver Falls council has passed an ordinance prohibiting / the Manufacturers Light & Heat Company, of Pittsburg, from increasing the price of gas ffom 25 cents to 30 cents per 1400 feet. N1SW CASTLE HRAKGMAN KILLED SHARON. Nov. 15.—J. H. Wall, twenty-three years old and single, a br&komarn employed on the Pennsylvania lines, was killed yesterday afternoonf in the Sharon yard*. WASHINGTON. Pa., Nov. 15.— Howard Wheeler, a Canonsburg negro, was arrested late last night for drunken nefs. Constable Bedtfllton placed him in a wagon and started toward the lockup. When BcdllUon lifted Wheeler to place him in a cell he found hit prUouefr dead. PAUKEK8BUHO. W. Va., Nov. 15. —Olora Arnold, eighteen years old, of m Beipre, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head. Five minutes before she killed herself the finished reading a letter from a man lit OienvHle who is blamed for the tra»«0y& men In charge of the«o meetings have ■•too arranged to hold a »hort goepel meeting In the theater at the cloae ! of the concert, at which It to hoped to have jta chair *lttK some of t|ie Arrangement!! have been made to have a quartet from the choir to sing la the Union Evangelistic meeting at the Methodist Episcopal Church this evening, and the committeo or lay- Whert the advance ticket sale for the Royal Welsh Male Choir Y. M. C. A. benefit closed at seven o'clock last night there remained about one hundred seventy-five cent tickets />nd about 150 dollar tickets to be sold, Including boxes. The fifty-cent seats were all sold several days ago. People were at the theater before scvon o'clock this morning, watting to select seats. The boys had made a pretty thorough cunvass and thenmay be some seats yet remaining this evening. If anyone is disappointed it will not bo the fault ot the Y. M. C. A., since ample warning haa been given that those who did not secure exchange tickets might no be able to get seats. The choir will arrive over the Pennsylvania Railroad at 8:09 o'- clock. and will be met by a committee of local Welsh residents who have prepared to. chow them a royal good time. NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Unite. States Senator Thomas Collier Plat and his young wife, who, before hei marriage to the aged senator, was Mrs. Lillian T. Janeway, have signed The special train bearing A. ( ol . . ... . Yates, W. T. Noonan and several otli Platts have been living apart sincc ,, „ . ,, , . , ~ or Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg they had n bitter quarrel six weeks Uullroud udlololu arrived in Punxsuan agreement of separation. The awney last night at <»: 15 o'clock and ago. was at once set on the siding back of A financial settlement satisfactory Rochester & Pittsburg to Mrs. Piatt accompanies the sep- yard office. aration articles, and there will be The officers and other members el no divorce proceedings. Mrs. Piatt. party spent the night in their car it is understood, is to receive $ 10,000 and this morning at eight o'clock they a year during her lifetime and retain left for Salamanca, N. \ .. and from the Tioga Lodge in Highland Mills there they will complete the trip to where she is now living. The Senator Rochester. will continue to live in the Hotel Just what the result (if this lnspec- Gotham until he departs for Washing- lion of the Buffalo, Rochester & ton to take up his duties in the Sen- Pittsburg interests will mean can on ate. i ly be surmised, as the officials hav« The following announcement sign- been very guarded in their interview: ed by Mr. and Mrs. Piatt, was made _ with newspaper men, but it is thouhg public this morning by Mrs. Piatt's that many Improvements looking to attorney. Copyright by Davis & San/on wara bcttornu.n! of condlllona lr Attorney to unhappy differences WKS. THOMAS c. rTMTT. this vicinity will be on the list for ac between them, the undersigned have Hon in the near fuure. this day executed a deed of separa- the effect that Mrs. Piatt was accused  tion. While there have been a series of undue friendliness with the Piatt :>f differences and disputes which coachman, Hedges, and another that teem to make a separation advisable, Mrs. Piatt suspected the senator be- T|mH» j,|m.s :\vc xow Vuder One here has ben no conduct up- ing too friendly ylth a young wo- Ilcu<| ,n the part of either which could man. A certm0ate (lied with the secretary . . ... -. . - - - of state at Albany, N. Y., yesterday. . .. „_ , _ _ _______ ___ __ ' completes the merger of the Pittsburg armed revolui ionists • ar-rjurasra it: A TT A P V "D ATT \K7 A V QT A ITT/ YIVT 1 *u»<iuahanna Central Railroad, under J\ 1 KAiJU W X\ I O i ri i IVJiN the title of the Pittsburg,' Blnghamton & Eastern Railroad Company, —P" The capital Is to be >20,000,000 and : .secured alter which the revolutionists th(l prlnc,plj offlce a Canton, Bed. The station was practically destroy- f°Tho named are: President, t„T,h;. F. A. sawyer, of Canton, Pa.; vice down and communication is cut off. ,, , ' ... „ » r HEL8INGFORS, Fllad, Nov 15 Ere?l!?efl ' , „ Norton and J -The authorities in Finland fear u T- ' ?pl'; °* N,e*Yor? cJly- tr,el,BUr■vnrr.il uprising. Discoveries have ur- ' ' *' Wr>S»'' <>f 8u«|uehonnn. CM made of supplies of arms and Pa . and secretary, John Whltmore, of UPRISING IN FIN D L A N D —il,on Mea "lto the coun" uldBW' -" These supplies have been dlstribu' ted among the peasants and the sit " uatlon Is rcgacded as extremely crlt- CLEARFIELD, Pa., Nov. IB.—A By Publishers Press. IC0I yesterday's session of the Daughter WARSAW, Poland. Nov. IB.—Arm- Covert threats from St. Petrsburg '/ the American Revolution the pres ed revolutionists at dawn today at- j that Finland is to be deprived oi cut secretary and treasurer. Miss Em tacked the railway station of the rights recently granted her has lei nia Crowell, of Oak Lane, and Mm Buchetnlow Vistula Railroad, killing to this situation and Flnlanders aru William DeBrustar. of Blrdsboro. wen gendarmes who were on guard. A preparing for defense with arms If re-elected. Miss Mary X. Stills, o largo Mm of money and important i necessary. Drilling of peasants In go- ! Cheater. Pa.. Was elected State hist or tovernment secret documeriti weie>lgon secretly in some sections, jlan. -- - 'MSM! V 1 IFAffil ' * \. V ~" "^ \ ■ \ « -, -•.' x * f£" ':• * \ ; i •• *. \ i. hi \ \ ,* L"~ * * ! t 'I-' " \ * ■ - ■ \ j »'■■ •■ - *"■ S XJ p