Punxsutawney Spirit, 1906-11-21

              MMEm Mil ADfe _ W miii | Gity Bditionj |JJ|j0 jPltllJ^llflltlltt0jJ VOL I. No. 57. II MIMED UW OF U ill 1 RESIDENTS OF m WANTS COUNT BONI TO BE HEAD WAITER PRICE 2 CENTS KILLED DOZEN INFANTS AND BURNED THEIR BODIES PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1906 Up-to-Date New Yorker Submits Proposition to the Frenchman TOM JOHNSON'S PICTURE TO APPEAR ON MONEY SHE ft NOW IN THE TOMBS New York Woman Is Charged With Series of Revolting ' Crimes. JEW LOOK! OVER BOOKS OF ! HEW YORK FIFE Vice-President Says Work Has Been In Progress Two Weeks IS NOW SEEKING A CHARTER J. B. Martin, proprietor of Cafe Martin, si-nt Hon! the following cable- NRW YORK, Nov. 21.—Count. Hon! do Castellane need not starve because Mine. Anna Gould cut him ofi' without a penny. II" can g«-t a Job as head waiter in ('afe Martin. gram The wells already drilled i\v th<- company do not show any deer» ase in the pressure (hat was obtained when they were first drill, d and this !.-• a good indication that they ,v!U last. The ordinance has been handed to the Burgess, but ns yet he has taken" no action in the matter, it is exp» < ted that he will do so, however, w?thin the next few days. the application for the charter with out delay. Presence Required in England of a Mutual Officer WANT M'CLINTOCK ABROAD Alienist to Tell if Man Is Subject to Temporary Insanity. MAGOON TO TOUR ISLAND The stock that has been put on the market is being taken up rapidly and it is thought that in a short time, the entire amount will be subscribed and ten per cent, paid in, thus enabling j "One hundred barrels of water per Jlay for each man, woman and child In Punxsutawney." This is what tne Citizens' Water Company proposes to give as soon as their plant is in operation.A meeting of the directors of the new company will be held tomorrow night at which time several matters of business will be dlseuss.-d. An application will .soon be made to the Governor for a charter and as soon as it is granted work will go along with a rush. The attorneys for the company are now preparing the necessary papers, which will b<- forwarded to the State Department just as soon as the signature of tinburgess is secured to the ordinance granting -the franchise. Three more wells will be drill, d and pipe will be ordered and laid with as much speed as possible and the outlook seems promising of absolute success for the Citizens' Water I Company. TOMBS INCIDENT IS PROOF ABE JUST FIFTY Police Are Searching For Remains of Some of Her Victims. By Publishers' Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Through the arrest of Mrs. Wilhemina Eckhart, the pollen claim thnt they have brought to I Ik lit, one of the most revolting tales of Infant murder In tho history of thin city. new-born babes and »he is said Tho woman is charged with tho killing of at least a dozen "unwanted" to have burned them In her kitchen stove. She Is held in the Tombs without ball. The police are engaged In a rigid examination of the woman's premises at Kast Nlnety-t iilrd Street, hoping to lind the remains of some of tho alleged victims. Mrs. Kckhart's 'arrest, was Instigated by her two married daughters who declare that she tried to Induce them to join her in her nefarious work. four months. The County Medical Society made a sworn charge against Mrs. Kckhart charging her with the murder of from twelve to twenty infants in the last FAST TRAIN IS LOST UPON THE PRAIRIES ported Since Limited Left Chicago Monday and Has Not Been Re- General Pino Guerra says it is ab- The Fourteenth battery of artillery has returned from a practice march through the province of Pinar del Rio, making record time, despite the muddy roads and the Hoods. In some districts the troops were obliged to use pontoons. The march proved that the Americans can go anywhere at any season in Cuba, with the heaviest Held artillery now here. Governor Magooi) Is shortly going on a tour of the island. HAVANA, Nov. 121. -General L«»y-naz del Castillo is making inflammatory speeches against the Americans, declaring that there will be war if they d<» not withdraw promptly as they have promised. MILLIONAIRES' NIECE DRUGGED IM ROBBED 200 PASSENGERS ABOARD The train is No. 41 Limited and was due at Colorado Springs from Chicago at 9:40 Monday night. The number of passengers aboard approximates 200. Special trains will be sent „ in each direction in the hope of finding some trace of the Limited. Since midnight Monday the wires have been kept hot in an endeavor to locate the train but no knowledge can be obtained as to its whereabouts. By Publishers' Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Nov. 21.—Somewhere on the prairies in Eastern Colorado a Rock Island train is lost and its cargo of passengers who are hidden away from sight or sound may be suffering from want of food. Tills incident occurred some Wfcks ago. A "trusty" was passing down it was learned today that one incident. since Thaw has been in the Tombs will be brought forward by the defense as the chief proof of the appositeness of the hypothetical question."Suppose a young man. whose physical and mental makeup-is such that, as It will be proved, his pulse, at the slightest sudden excitement, jumps from normal to above 100, to have been aggravated by repeated Insults to his wife, or to have even imagined such insults, is in- subject, to llts or emotional insanityV" The hypothetical question on which Thaw's whole case will depend will be practically this: >;rOW" YORK. Nov. 21.—The defense of I!.;--: ,v■ • K. Thaw will be based on a hypoth• • ti• al question to be put to 1 h< i.aree celebrated alienists who have examined him and willed, through this examination, they will be able to answer in the affirmative— that Thaw is subject to llts of emotional insanity, during one of which he killed Stanford White. GREEN BIRTHDAY Of HETTY (Continued on Page Three.) Rich Woman Is Celebrating Her Seventy-Second Anniversary tin- tigcd eouph . who despite th«'lr ad- Defendant Is Severely Ar- Joseph Clobats Is Victim an'1 m^r"i'T>lm^r,'»^,>r'81nytho raingned By Attorney for of Murderous k",m1h wtlt! numbered ° nine clergymen, nil of Iiev. the Prosecution Assault itooth. iuv Kitzwiuiam, of Punx. sutawney, responded to a toast entitled / ( 'Courtship and Marriage," and in the / • vi-niK KttVr the (losing words of conrratulation. Hev. A. ,J. Meek, of r .[ 7. place, acted as master of cereal that UnwA lionles. Ouring the day the happy couple lt7, ivere presented with a long list of IT jseful and valuable gifts. The mem- Ders of tiie (.'learfield Ha ptlst Assocl" it ion presented Rev. and Mrs. Booth with an uncounted bag of gold. Uev. Booth is seventy-one years i»1 • 1 and lias been a resident of Reyncldsville practically all his life. He and his wift were married in Rey- Moidsvllle and three years later he entered the ministry. They have five ehlldern. fourteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, all of whom were at yesterday's festivities. For tiie past two years Rev. Booth hah been pastor of the Curwensvllle Baptist Church, but lias retained his residence in Kcynoldsville. to ;trriv< and « m h wn« r»*ooivi»d by I would g<> to tin- bank, deposit the who would deposit money to get the doliar, and In return would receive souvenir certificate, and the bank USVNOLD8VILLK. Nov. 21.—Ono the certificate. c>n this certificate would I)** that much ahead." of the most enjoyable affairs of Its kind ever held In Reynoldsvilld, at_ ... Tracted three hundred guests herr yes- KAYLOR TRIAL BOLfl HOLDUP SHfSpf ON IN EARNEST III BRQOKVILLE If it was never drawn, the money positors Savings and Trust Company. would go into tin- unclaimed accounts "The bank," mild Will, "in Id Issuii fun I mid , mitritiuH tu I In- protltH <»r ReV. JWd MrS. Booth Celean entirely new kind of money. It tin- bank. I have it figured ou that will be in the form of a • • rtiticate my friend would rather k«»p the for&tC Anniversary 3t of deposit, but it will be used as cur- certifieate bearing Johnson's picture reney. For instance. If 1 wanted to as a souvenir than cash it, and that ReynoldSVillC. send some friend a dollar I owed him, there would be thousands of others  conduct of his new bank, the De- wrinkle in banking methods in the wanted to send the dollar. CLEVELAND, O.. Nov. 21—Aim ord- would lie i»i in t. . ] .» pit ture ..f Mayor UTAIIO IIHID Til intf to City Clerk Witt, Mayor John- Johnson. It 'would he made out in W ■A1 V III A I 1 p I son will inaugurate an entirely new tin- name of the friend to whom 1 | |1 »|M | J TOW L. JOHNSON. A U:MI IE POLITICIAN. (Jeorge U. Scrugham, manager of the International Policy Holders' Committee, forwarded yesterday to Supt. of the Statf Insurance Department, another protest, against the use of the policy holders' money by the New York Life Insurance Company In it;- campaign, this time backing his complaint with the affidavit of Joseph T. Luffcrty of Kan.as. Mr. Lacrty says he received from George YV. Robinson, a banker, of Wichita, Kan., a letter soliciting his vote for the administration ticket and containing the number of Mr. Lafferty's policy, and that lie wrote in protest to Mr. Robinson and called on the agent of the New York Life in Wichita. to protest In person. Mr. McCIIntock appeared before a committee of the House of Lords to discuss this question some months ago. For thi• last three months or more he has hardly been seen in his oflhe. The explanation offered at the Mutual Ruilding is that his health has been Impaired by the nervous strain of the insurance investigation. A messuge was received by cable yesterday Haying there is a demand for the presence of Vice Prsidcnt Me- Cllntoek or somv other ofilelal of the Mutual in England, where the insurance question lias again been raised 'n connection with intended legislation. What issues were involved in the legislation the cable message did n«»t Indicate, but It was thought likely that they related to the requirement that American insurance companies should maintain a reserve for the English business on their books. There was considerable speculation In Insurance circles yesterday whether I)lstrlet Attorney Jerome would he more successful In the New York Life t.ian ho was in the Mutual In finding tangible evidence of wrongdoing on which he might think himself entitled to proceed. Officials of the Mutual would not discuss the report for publication, but a rumor was current that President Pea body of t he Mutual had remarked that the findings of the District Attorney fully justified the course of the Mutuul's administration since the resignation of Stuyvesant Fish from the Truesdale Invest in at lug Committee. NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Vice President Kingsley, of the New York Lift' Insurance Company, announced yesterday that a representative of District Attorney Jerome had been at work on the books of the New York Lite for the last two weeks. This is the first definite evidence of the beginning of the District Attorney's In vest ieation of New York Life affairs aside from his reference to it in his letter to Governor Higglns, which was published on Sunday. The agent, said Lafferty, declared that the policy numbers had been affixed to the letters after nours in the office of the company, and that the expenses were being paid by voluntary contributions from the agents. (Hi BASIS OFTilDEFISE Castillo Is Making Inflammatory Speeches Against Provisional GovermentOEOEL GENERAL IB ABE HIED Bf "Will contract to engage you as major domo at salary of 50,000 francs a year to take entire charge of waiters and manage restaurant privileges of Cafe Martin. oblige with Immediate answer." "Count Konl de Castellane, Paris HYPOTHETICAL .Mr. Martin said today that he'had received no answer. (■eucrals Casiillo and CSi Miss Gertrude A. Hurley Is Bride of Captain Schreiber SEVEN ITALIANS ARE KILLED BY LANDSLIDE Swept Down Mountain Side On Big Slip Of Land. more days. Judging from tho numbrr of witncssrs t»» be sworn both by tlio pros- ecution ami the doffiisi/, It not tfin 1 will be reaeheil for two or three thought likely that the end of the held until the (rial is romplctcd, The case is on this afternoon and it is likely evening sessions will be es Were SWoril before the llOOIl r« A ij " A M PIDI cess, these being largely put upon the A U ' . .AM ]l 1 HI stand for Identification purposes. H i L Uflll UllEL WEDS IN ENGLAND His speech occupied a good portion assault much trouble «»i the forenoon, and but few witncs>  c ourt opened this morning everything < 'onsiderable was onus was in reudlness l'«»r tlx- actual trial . <1 in Urookville las/ night w her of Kzra Kayior, whose cast was In Joseph ('lobats, of th/t place was hch: nun yesterday with the selection of a up by two unkuow/i men and robjury. The full jury, as mentioned in bed of his valuable/ A light followed yesterday's Spirit was in tin- box ami ihc holdup. n -sultj/ig in the stabbing Attorney Fisher, assisting: District At- of ("lobats in thV- back, and using torney Murray opened for the prose- him up considerably in other ways, cutlon. lie severely arraigned the de- The would-be murderers escaped, fondant, staling that it would be however, and although a strenuous shown that Kaylor was not only the seareh has be<n instituted, little hopes murderer of Blanche Reed, but that are entertained for their capture*, he afterward placed her dead body in further di tails of the affair are lacka barn and then set lire to the barn ng. but it is not thought that the to conceal his crime. wounds will cause the victim of the imooKvjLu:. Nov. 21.—Whfin Governor Magoon has authorized the Spanish-American Iron Company, of Santiago, to bring 11,000 Immigrants with their families from northern Spain to work in the mines. The company will pay their passage. surd to maintain that the Liberals must retain the old ticket of (lorneg and Zayas. He points out that the revolution was undertaken for a principle. not for persons. He denies that the split in tin- party is widening, and says he Is confident that all will unite to support whoever is nominated. It is plain, however, that there is serious dissension. Mrs. Rosenthal Is twenty years old, and Is an accomplished woman. She is separated from her husband, who lives in New York. Mrs. George Eusterbrook, the girl's mother, identified her today at Central Station. The girl wore hundreds uf dollars worth of jewelry when she was last seen, but had none when found. She is still n such a dazed condtion tluU she cannot discuss the case. CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 21.—Mrs. Helen Rosenthal, the niece' of Alexander Winton, the millionaire automoile manufacturer, drugged and robbed of her jewels, was found wandering about in the basement of the Ellington apartment house Monday morning in a dazed and helpless condition. The police took her in charge and are investigating. FIVE KILLED AT ROCHESTER LONDON, Nov. 21. In St. J a in ah* Cathedral I«m 1.«\ Mi; :; Gertrude A. Hurley, of Lynn, Mass., became the bride of ("apt. It. A. 1*. Sehreiber, of th«- Tw. nl i. tli Hussars The wedding was attended by many of the mom* burs of the American colony In Lon- don. TWO NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH BY ASPHYXIATION By Publishers' Press. ROCHKSTER, N. Y.. Nov. 21.— Five persons were killed and eight or more were seriously wounded today by the eolapse of a building that was in course of erection in Kodak Park. Some of the Injured may die. All of the victims were Italians. The bodies of four , of the victims were recovered and three of the bodies are burled under hundreds of tons of earth. "RLUKFIELD. \V. Va., Nov. 21.— Seven trackmen of a gang of nineteen, engaged in removing a slide on the Dry Fork branch of the Norfolk K- Western Railroad, were killed yeaj terday as the result <»f a big slip of land. The men were swept down the mountain side and into the river. Twelve escaped. Oil Workmen Have Terrible Experience in Point Pleasant Field. The invocation was l»y Rev. E. M. Walss, and greetings were extended by Mayor Davis and others. Mrs. W. A. Callaway of Dallas responded. The afternoon was taken up chiefly with the reports of officers and committees. The president delivers her annual address to night and Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker of Denver, president of the General Federation, is also slated for an address. ML PASO, Texas, Nov. 21.—The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs opened its ninth annual convention this morning in the Christian Church. Mrs. Cone Johnson presiding. The large attendance indicated an unusual degree of interest aroused in part by the election of officers and partly by import an questions to receive attention. The roll call showed delegates on hand from Denison, Sherman, Fort Worth, Galveston. Huston, San Antonio and other cities througghout the state. ARE HELD DOWN BY WEIGHT Republican Majority is 58. WASHINGTON. Nov. 21.—The first official report on the membership of the House in the Sixtieth Congress has just been issued by the clerk of the House. The Republicans are shown to have a majority of 58. The Republican membership is 222 and the Democratic membership 164. Feeling confident that the foreigners who were quarantined in a house containing a case of small pox at Rosslter would not obey the quarantine laws, a guard of five men from Troop "D" has been on duty constantly since Monday evening. This guard will be maintained until all danger of further violation has passed. The eight-day-old baby died of the malady yesterday In the quarantined house. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 21.—Since his return to Russia Count Wltte has • been showered with abuse and attacked on all sides. A campaign to discredit him an dprevent his ever returning to power is openly In progress.Wltte Slioiveretl With Abuse. Mrs. J. L. McNevett of Johnsonburg. is visiting relatives in town. ('apt.. Schreiber was educated at Eton and Oxford, and from college went into the Twentieth Hussars. With his command he fought in the Boer war. receiving promotions and medals for distinguished service. He is said to be an expert pony player, and won the champlonsiifpof England at iiui iinghani. LYNN. Mass.. Nov, U1.—Miss Gertrude A. Hurley, who was married in London today to Capt. Schreiber of the ltritish army, is the daughter of the late millionaire, Michael Hurley of this city. .Miss Hurley reecived her education at the Sacred Heart Academy. Providence, aw.I at the Convent of Visitation, Georgetown, I). C. About three years ago she went abroad to continue her studies, and took up music under Houhy of Paris. She spent her winters in Egypt and the spring In England. She also has traveled extensively in America. She is noted for her good horsemanship and is a clever autolst. She has recently passed her twentieth birthday. Church of St. Ignatius Loyola was the when Miss Hose Sadller, daughter of Mrs. William Sadller, became the bride of Lieut. Henry Charles Dinger scene today of a smart naval wedding of the United States battleship Indiana. The maid of honor and bridesmaids include young women of fashionable society from Boston, Washington, Rochester and other cities outof-town. The best man an<l ushers were fellow officers of the br(4e« groojm. NEW MART1NSBURG, W. Va. Nov. 21.—Held prisoners by a weight of more than 4,000 pounds, George Wilson and Arthur Steepleton, oil workers in th« Point Pleasant field, faced death by asphyxiation yesterday. The two had cleaned out a well and were endeavoring to put the cap on It to prevent the oil escaping, when the tools dropped. Both men were holding the cap and the massive weight pinned them in such a manner that was impossible to loosen their hands. The well commenced spraying oil and the escaping gas told the men that within a few minutes they would be corpses uirless something, extraordinary happened. Steepleton, by a mighty effort, tore his hands away from the weight, leaving the forefingers of his right hand. Seizing a piece of gas pipe he turned the bull wheel and lifted the weight off Wilson's hands, Just as the latter fell uncoscious from pain and inhaling the escaping gas. Wilson will lose three fingers and perhaps an entire hand. Steepleton besides losing one finger, may have to j undergo amputation of a hand. | There was no celebration to mark tile birthday *»l* the richest woman in America. Sin* spent the day as slie spends six days in the week, quietly looking after her business and taking things easy. She is residing with her daughter in a boarding-house that she owns in Howlnnd street, IToxbury. Mrs. Green owns nearly all the houses on that side of the street. The street is named after her mother. Mrs. Green's chief purpose in coming to Boston at the present time Is to secure u tenant for a house opposite the boarding house where she now Is. and which has long been vacant. The house has been on the renting list of first one real estate dealer and then another for two years or longer, but it was not rented. Mrs. Green decided that it was time to do something. So she turned up in Howlaml street unannounced one Sunday morning and tore the agent's notices from the doors and windows. In their place she posted a notice directing prospective tenants to call upon her across the street, in addition to securing a tenant for her vacant house Mrs. Green is occupied with several lawsuits in Boston. But lawsuits never bother her. When they have been disposed of she will go to Texas to spend the remainder of the winter. She has vast interests in Texas and moreover her son, 12. H. R. Green, lives there and "Ned" as she fondly calls him, is the idol of her heart. BOSTON,Mass., Nov. 21.—Mrs. Ilcttie Green. who is spending her winter in Boston, was 7- years old today. The latest edition of "Who's Who" gives 1X35 as the year of Mrs. Green's birth, hut she herself Is authority for the statement that she came Into the world a year before that date and consequently Is 7U years old. Mrs. Green differs from the majority of her sex In many things and in the matter of stating her age she Is no exception. She is "getting along in years" and she does not care who knows it. This Is The Promise of Th< New Citizens' Company. TF.XAS CLUB WOMEN. Smart Naval Wedding. TltOOPIHlS ON GUARD.