Punxsutawney Spirit, 1906-12-11

              ■ NEW LAW EFFECTIVE TODAY It Means That No Religion Is Now Recognized By Government FIRST STEP IN MATTER OF GREATER PUNXSUTAWNEY PRICE 2 CENTS UNITED STATES SENATE IS OLDEST MEMBER OF MIKES READ! FOR COM! OF SRIRI FACTORY PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1!, 1906 SOLD AT A LOSS EMERY SAYS OIL IS Makes Startling Charges Against the Standard Corporation VOL.1. No. 72. '■rami from STATE AFFAIRS IN FRANCE Gity Edition fie IntillttfatoneB fjitf it fi THE WKATHBR. XCSTON. Dec. 11.—Partly \ night. Wednesday, eloudy t, I'OfiHtbly followed by rain. \ icism Climax of Bitter War Between ( Republic and Cathol- PEOPLE LIKELY TO VOTE Clayville Council Committee Agrees With Members of Local Body Will Mean Increased Populaand Industrial ProsperityEdmund W. Pettus Punx'y's New Industry Will Soon Be in OperationWILL INCREASE IAPIDLY llsh Shirt nwuiny, have work of refiK which tinill begin at Oil at 4.4 cents a gallon, they testified, was at a less price than the cost <»f production, end export oil sold at that figure to th" Consolidated Gas company could be sold only at a loss to the Standard Oil Company. The price, they added, would not include the charge for lighterage nor loading. Hoth testified that the price of 4.3 cents per gallon for 34 degree oil as stated in the contract for 255.000.000 gallons with the Standard was less than cost of production. NEW YORK. Dec. 11.—Lewis Emry. Jr.. and his son, Delevan, of Bradford. I'a., testified before the federal circuit court in the equity action ly the Consolidate Gas Company to test the constitutionality of the eighty-cent gas bill that the gas company had obtained oil from the Standard at less than market prices. M. flEOROKS CLKMENCEAL . Premier Who Would Strip Clergy of Special Service of The Spirit. PARIS, Dec. 11.—The Law of Associations, providing for the separation of Church and State in France, formally went into effect today. The climax of the long and bitter warfare between the Republic and the Catholic Church has thus been reached. Contrarty to what might be expected, indications are not lacking that the public disorders that have been provoked by the strife between State and Church will now subside in a /measurable degree. If such proves nV>t to be the case the onus will be Blaced upon the Church, as the Government Is unmistakably disposed to (leniency in the enforcement ol' the TEDDY MS IF CONDITION 01 POHTO RMS Their Privileges. FATHER IS SHOT BY HIS DAUGHTER Submits Special Message to Congress With Several Recommendations Mother- Minister May Die—Girl Says She Wss Defending RESULT OF HIS JOURNEY nam mi ins i iniit fjfflffl AND efflfS MIL POLICE PUIS LOCK li II MI mm 1E WAGE INCREASE people an the next February election. These deliberations are the result of the annexation boom which ban been advanced by the best and most prosperous citizens of both boroughs and it Is safe to say that in the near future the ftorough of Clnyvllle will cease to exist and In Its place will be i greater 1'unxsuta wne.v. tlon It will be put up to a vote of the Town next regular meeting. If both councils decide In favor of the consolkla- Counclls at their respective iieitors were Instructed to prepare agreements embodying their views and have them ready to present to the their deeision and the Horough So- Si-eoml, trial enterprises, Lindsey real estate will advance as a conse<iuence of being under the government «»f the larger municipality, the present assessed \-aluation belli* $425,000. Third, the borough of Clayville is now being supplied with water by the Llndsey Water ('onipany, whose charier was granted under the act of IS87, which does not give water companies • wiuslve privileges and by annexation a solution of the water question would t>e found The committees were unanimous in Definite steps have at last been taken f«»r tin* consolidation of th«• Bor•ughs of Punxsutawney and Llndaey. The two committeees from the r«*- spectlve councils, composed of three members from each body, my in the ofllce of Borough Solicitor Jj/lJ. Wlngert last evening to take preliminary st«'j>s looking toward! that end. It was fully decided tralivide Lindsay into two wards. Ninrbers five and six, the dividing lin«VTo be Main, North Main and l'< jjtv streets. By the annexation of Llndsey Borough many advantages are to be gained for both sides to the question. First, tin- increased population which would bo about 10.000. would mean the locating here of many new indus- ny nr. a mujor and retired at tin- end of th*> war as a brigadier general. He practiced law at S« Ima, \1 uptil tdreted . «nator. taking olth < Mareh J. 1897. He was rt -< h rl d in 11»0!!. Hi- was married ill I s 1 1. The l'ettus horni> silll in Selma, Ala. of January The firm comes to Punxsutawncy from Johnson burg, which town it is leaving: on ccount of the scarcity of girl labor in that vicinity. They will bring with them about twenty experienced girls and the remainder of the help will be procured in J'unxsutawney and vicinity. Thf KiiKll.il Shirt Waist Mnnuiai- 1 I-Mmun.l \\ nston IVtU:*. of Alabama. «•«•« l..>rn luring Company, as it is railed. will ln l-lm-slfount>. Alabama. July I*ri lb- is til. ,>M«Ht m. iiit,, r manufacture shirtwaists, ranging it* 'ate. anil the obli-st 11*."i:iI <»t the nailon.il ■rnincnt in Washprice from seventy-live cents to ten He fought in I»■»th the \b-xi< .m and Civil Wars He w is admitted dollars. to the bar In 1S4l', and I - gaa his pra the in Cainsvilb . Ala. In 184-1 lie The machines are now ready for solicitor for th s. nth Alab mi;i ('our. ('ireuit. In 1 s »'.> In- went shipment and the company expect:; " California. but. • oon return* i I : i resigned the post of judge to begin work about the second week Seventh Alabama .Judicial 1'lrcuit. lie entered the Confederate Ar- For ;i short time the company will run fifty machines, increasing the number to one hundred and fifty as "'ion as the help become?! experienced. This means that within a year one hundred and seventy-live girls will be cm- loyed by I he company. The rear room downstairs of the building will be used for an engine room. The front room will be used for a cutting room and the entire upstairs will be occupied by sowing machines- The building is now occupied by Banderbach Harber & Company, who began moving their heavy goods today so that the work of leveling the floors can be started today. The contractu of the El Waist Manufacturing Coi all be«»n signed and the modeling th> Foril Hulliltj company will occupy, once, HAVE NO TRACE OF MURDERER Mrs. Mo A tee is the daughter of former Judge Hartley, once an official of the Pennsylvania railroad- Miss McAtee was to have been married next week. Both her mother and a woman servant are under arrest as witnesses. About live yours ago Rev. McAtee was assistant pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, Broad and Arch si roots. He has since been traveling and lately, returned from a trip around the world. The daughter told the police that her father had long been abusing her mot Iter, that when he reached home last night ho had been drinking and tried to kill her mother by throwing her down tin- stairs. To protect her from death she h > | shot her parent. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11.—rtov. John T. McAtee, a wealthy Lutheran clergyman, was shot three times in the head by his daughter Mary, aged twenty, last night. Th«« girl used si small revolver. The minister is dying in St. Agnes' hospital and the girl is under arrest. All teh trains are being watched and every street car is mot by one of til etaste police. When last seen Llshiten was headed for the Buffalo and Susquehanna shaft No. 2, near Ehlerton, anil the oliccmen have that lace surrounded. A new dotal of State Polo-mien was sent to Hebrotia last evening to relieve those who for a day and night have been hunting .Joseph Lishitor, the Slav who killed John l'ino, the nine year old son of Wlliam Pine. EMBALMED CI IK AM I XPOPILAH I'lillnutn Company Again Tilled for Serving it on Cars. BAER OBDURATE; STRIKE LIKELY The company was sentenced to pay $50 line and costs. In four counties of Western Pennsylvania the Pullman Company has been fined in thirty-three cases for violating the pure food laws. HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 11.— A plea of nolle contedre was entered in the Blair County court yesterday against the Pullman Company in three cases for furnishing to its dining and buffet car passengers cream that had been adulterated iw-th formaldehyde. , The company's attorney. W. S. Dal! zell, said his clients had been de- I ceived by the dairymen from whom I they had purchased the cream. Horrible Death Comes to Laborers Crossing the • Neva Entire Reading System Faces Danger of Complete Tie-up FORTY "Hand-Cuff King" Makes Good "f"" of IUprek.'n'tatlvcBT— WILKHS-HA UliE. 1',,.. IK-.-. 10— n. , " , , h,s *NI' !'f«" """ ,li'" on November ii i visile.) the is- invi,,K >" «>'«••''••••,,r»<••»>- Every Claim Previously and ot Porto Rico, landing ut i'enee, l"'ls uf th" "I orators and miners' ... i"-.uiit tn- |.l : l..r,n. following Hi. tossing by the old Spanish roa.l by conciliation board and th.' lack of IVIdtIO mast.-ring dr... - presented by ;ayet.v tn San Juan, and it-turning testimony on curtain phases or th.- local "tibials. lext morning over 'be now American Brl.-vuiu-es presented by the Latlimcr i'aymnii.n ollowed hliusoli tn I.. •oad from A reel bo to Ponce; the employes of Pardon »V Co.. there was bound with a heavy pump chain. th< icenery was wonderfully beautiful, Jl hrief session yesterday after- PROMISES NEW SENSATIONS links of whieh wet' then securely •specially among the mountains of the noon. ' i-ti lled with liy spe»iail\ devised nterior, whieh' constitute a veritable ' srievanee, X<>. 15.<, was the first _________ 1 '^s tightly en th« s« chains ropic Switzerland. 1 could not em- presented to the board at the meet- drawn about Raymond's wrists that jark at San Juan because the harbor iMK' ,10,d at Huzelton some time since. Raymoiiii, flit- Handcuff lOng, nl the the veins ' »•»«! out. bin and swolkn. las not been dredged out and cannot an(' w,ls 11 complaint that the com- 'presence of one of the largest audi- Raymond then tut«• i« »l 11 i ■ ♦ ;» receive an American battleship. I do l'an>' had charged t.ie payment oi ences w;iich has ever been seen in 'I'here was a period of waiting that lot think this fact creditable to us niinlng coal from the yardage sys- tliJelTerson Theater. last eveninjv seemed longer than it really was, is a nation, and I earnestly hope that toni ,'1'' oar system, th«* claim be- Hucceeded in arousing more Interest when after the second attempt. Raynimedlate provision will be made for ' niadde that the miners earn less jn ),|s work than any other single enlredging San Juan Harbor. money under the new system. terlalner who has ever h«•< n s« en in (Continued on Page J.» I doubt whether our people as a After discussing the testimony ii punxsutawiw y. And aciinst odd ■ MA **■■■■■ *% »- tr* whole realize the beauty and fertility VVMH decided that Superintendent Whlch s. » tried t<> th..- prest.ni (•> h< PAlfP ("IIAII 5i S J 51 i,f Porto Rico, and the progress that "rake should be asked to furnish a a„m,.wt evrwheiming. he ..-mplet. \llf \ \ lilH illrH has been made under its admirable comparative statement of earnings jy bafn,.d those who noimht. t. brim Ul 11 U Oil 1*111 JlLli government. We have just cause for under the yardage and ear systems, ,i, j,j,, dei. it and do > d th" c\e»i rido in the character of our re pre- | f payments In the different d, am- Ing's enterlalnment a.nhL applause rflllfl 11*1/0 A Oft wcntatlves who have administered the X'™. be boa id hopes that with whu shmv,.tl ,hl. a iipri.eiat ion ot r i £ KI rl 81A {\ ALlI tropic islands which came under our n the conciliators thns who w<ijv I I) 18El Ufl 5 U HlllS flag as a result of the war with will be able to come to some conclus- Nvi{n, hj. ionium. e. ____ MUU Spain; and of no one of them is this l<»n at their next meeting here two Kronr t he • xhibit ion in •• ve l is more true than Porto Rico. It would weekr. hence. evening, it can' be st-ie.i tha'-'he ! vs »'•> I Publisher.- Pre.- be Iyipossible to wish a more faithful. Woman's Hair Pullod Out rightful clai mlo th- title ,.f -Hand- NKW VuRK, I H i I I The death a more efficient and a more disinterst- yoi'XGHTOWX (> Dee 11 — With ™rt King.* Local otlic-rs. armed i «•»" '» «" «'< > «» i>: announced' in* 'nmderet^Vnthe"island /,f° Porto «>- face bleeding and carryh,g on with shackles, hand-cults. 1,,-ir,,,. »" cable,ram t.;da> ,.X H Top- U,co bythose inconttrof the fn- « bumii.- which contained and «>mo« -very -able d.-vlc. in K..t..r ,,v.mmMt ' nearly a, pound ot hair, Mrs. Katie known to the indie. . were upon tiv , , . , , I stunt it a dozen towns 'ill told yanosik appeared at the office of Jus- tile satg.- during the band-turf act. . lb" ..,I>I.'M..iii 1 l„PL lh" n v iic »f the Peace Miskell today and and Ihese forih their I..-M "tfurt, 'dlltM I :in<I ,, , ! II Maj. '''1 ' , v nun v ,.V o L.. h Z ? he ' «'<«< 0>«t Annie Kosack had attacked to ho elTeetUuliy bind hint th:,, . -. :,V"-,,lu" » bee" kep, ery town was the gathering ot the , sei-ret II s will arrive •fhoran school children. The work that has had l>ulU"' '"}« »'er tresses. , would he Impossible In .aery In- .. been done In Porto itlco for educa- 1 he '"tter was arrested. stance Raymond emerged from hi ..  Ion has been noteworthy. The main , * , , , cabinet with toe handcuffs or other KX-CJOVntNOK ASI'IIY VIATKIV ntphasls. as is eminently wise and Mrs' Lalrii Spencer and dauph- shackles dangling, and himself com-!  iroper, has been put upon primary 1 '"!,'Jel left lids morning for a pletely freed. I'raiikllu .1. \lo~.-s Is I'ouiul D.-a.l id weeks yislt with relatives In Pitta- The climax to an evening's enter- |IIh ||lian||„K n,Mi-e. (Continued on Second Page.) j burg arid Morgantown. West Virginia. , tainment. which of itself was one oi , ~ , , I V Publishers Press. I the most remarkable ever s< 11 111 a o t .... ... , , ... • , , , , I :'»-■•< I < »\. I > « . 11 l-.x-i i.ivernor cal playhouse, came when Raymond ., _ . __ v __ _ __ _ _ , i rrankhn .1. Moses. South ( ar-'hna, factory workers 'njrn -  r „ . , i • ... I"1? house at Wlnthrop Reach this - ■_■■■-» i-l. ■ ■ nl -■ ■ !■ facturing company, who claimed that GO THROUGH THE ICE "•* ,-s.  ! pressly for the occasion a pair ot , i<\/.Lrci „-v,i ,1, ,i. ,111 i. , .. but have not yet decided wheth■ locks \n hicli the> d.etu-d aim to open. , . _ . 1 hie out alive and only a few of the The company a representative entered _____ '  bodies of the drowned have been re- — ! IMPORTANT l>U< !S|<>\ < ()>IIN<. ov.red os yet as they have been niprnO 111111111110 arrled by the current under Ice. Ulll LUV U|IMUIM| WAKHlN.iTox, !»,■,. ii. -The in- MUlri |1|1 IJN||I1||1I1 i.rstate commerce commission is ex-1 pected t*» announce its decision tomorllllirn TO llllirri roNV :1M tu whether or not steamship Uf Ul I I III UllJI I | t'ompanels that issue through bills of nnrr| III yV n ] I I ludlng from foreign ports to points " 'ILLU ' V II I! LLL beyond the perts at which they laud in the United States are under the jurisdiction of the rate regulation act. The rcuding of tin* message in the Senate and the House wan marked with carefill attention by the members, who had previously been fur- TT , A nniahed witii c-opii-H of the document. Hoped Agreement May Soon []:X I Come Between Operators body nr resumed. and Employes The mcaaapre in full follows: Special Message* - — - To the Senate and House Special Service of The Spirit. WASH1N G TO N. Dec. 11. —P rest - dent Roosevelt today transmitted to both branches of Congress, his special message dealing with the. Porto ltican situation. Xi\!' 'P' quite brief, reviews carefully conditions as they exist upon the island and ; makes some very necessary recom- | mendatlons. ' AN of these Increases In wages we TO voluntary and in ninety-nine and thr» • -fourths ptr eent. of th«- cases affected men drawing less than $200 per month. No large corporation In the country hns been more liberal in sharing Its prosperity with its employes than the Pennsylvania Railroad.This lifty-ninc per tent. Increase ( was independent of the nrcnt Increase •i ten per cent., aggregating" a furtin r addition of about $8,300,000 to the pay i<• 11. There wan a horizontal increase of ten per rent, on November I. 1 90 2. mill tm January 1, 1902. tnero bad Im • n an « xtenslve re-adjustment <»f wages. S<» it now appears that (in- total increased prior to the recent raise was tw«nty-one per cent. over •the increase in number «>f men. Th«- total number of employes, on all lines Mast of Pittsburg and Erie# was 97,324 on September 30, 1901, and 1 34,041 on September 30, 1906, increasing .16,717. or thirty-eight per cent. on September 30, 1901. the total monthly pay of all employes on the Eastern Lines wan $4,489,422 and live years later it. was $7,125,017, This .vas an increase of $ L'.635,595, or fiftynine per cent. PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 11.—Figires «emptied by the Pennsylvania Railroad show that within the live y«ars endlrm September 30. 1906. the total numb* r of men employed by that e.irp«»ratIon east of Pittsburg and Erie had increase thirty-elfcht per eent and the total pay r«»|i increased tifty-nlne per cent. Payroll on Lines East Has Grown 79 Per Cent in Five Years SIXTY NARROWLY ESCAPE BUTLER, Pa.. Dec. 11.—The Independent Gas Company folowlng the load of the Phillips Company, yesterday raised the rice of gait from 20 cents to 25 cents not. Well-informed pas 'men say that in the Armstrong gas fields good wells are shut iu, and that a shortage is unnecessary. liaises l'pi«v of <«ns. He was removed to Now York Hospital where at noon It was wild his chances for recovery are Rood. The Bishop Is seventy years of age. IHSIIOI McCAUi: STIUCKFX NEW YORK. Dei*. 11.—Bishop Charles Curd well McCabe, of tin- Methodist Church, hose home is in Philadelphia, was stricken with apoplexy tc/Uiiy while walking along the street. By Publishers' PreBS. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 11.—For- Forty factory workers from Thorton's big plants In the Novskey quarter were drowned this morning while attempting to cross on the ice which covers the Neva. . The Ice broke when about a hundred men were In midstream. Sixty of the number were able to scram- DriiKgixt on Trial. BEAVER, Pa., Dec. 11.—The trial of Clark Rechels, a New Brighton druggist, charged with a crime against Ethel Miller, aged thirteen years, began in criminal court yesterday. Ethel Miller was on the stand for over two hourH' " ■ ! ,. . ■' ... 'i . I - .':j- ■ .-.■j..'.. . ■ ■. -. ■ Continued oii Sixth Page. Last night's reports of the Pope's eleventh-hour rejection of the Government's flnal proffer under which Catholic worship could be continued under the common law turns out to be only too true, and the dead-lock now l« apparently complete. According to Pius X.'s orders dcclarn- Tho grants paid by the State in the last year of the old regime amounted to 37,528,061 francs, and those paid by Departments and Communes, to 7,555,042 francs. The pensions and allowances to be paid according to the new law are estimated thus: first year. 2,563,8.71 francs; sccohd year. 26,- 043,821) francs; third year, 21,628,- 081 francs; fourth year, 20,018,326 franco etc. According to the law promulgated just ono year ago the churches arc separated from the State, the adherents of all creeds may form associations for public worship, and the State, the Departments and the Communes are relieved from payment of salaries. As transitory measures, eccelsiastics over sixty years of age and over thirty years of service remunerated by the State are entitled to a pension equal to three-fourths of their salary. Proportionate allowances an; made for all other eccelsiastics. If the assciations comply with the provisions of the law they are to be allowed the use of the Churches, dwellings, seminaries and other property. No religious establishment is to be allowed to exist unless authorized by the State,- and no monastic association can be authorised without a special law in each particular case. The going into effect of the law of Association marks an epoch in the history of the French Republic. It means, In effect, that no religion is now recognized by the State. Up to January 1 of thifi year the Roman Catholic Church, the Reformed Church, the Augsburg Confession, and the Jewish Religious Community were so recognized. The relations between the "State and the Roman Catholic Church were determined by the Concordat of 1801 and the Organic Articles of 1802. The relations between the State and the Protestants and Jews were determined by different laws and decrees of the same period. The ministers of these creeds were paid by the State salaries and were in many respects dependent on the Government. These relations are now completely severed. The congregations must establish a bureau, or body of m<>n, who will be responsible for the purpose and good order of meetings. Representatives of the Government must bo present at .eC; s» u-Hi v: J AC 11ET AON I UP N U PN all meetings, but can only dissolve them if the bureau fails in its duties and disturbances ensue. Priests may receive and dispose of moneys taken in actual collections at such meetings, but all other contributions and incomes will belong to the State. Cures will be merely occupants without legal title in the premises. The churches and other properties will hi- handed over to associations if t'.ny are formed within a year. If taken then by the State they will still retain their previous character until a contrary decision is announced. The attitude of the Government is evidenced by the instruction issued by M. Briand, minister of education and public worship, to the prefects as to their conduct in enforcing the law. Assurance is given that the Government will not go to extreme lengths by closing the churches to public worship. If congregations default in the formation of associations, religious services will come under the law of 1881 as public meetings. Hut [as services differ in many poin.ts from meetings the prefects have been instructed to adapt the law, where It is necessary, in order to facilitate in every way the carrying on of services, and notably the clause of the law by which previous notice of an Intended meeting is exacted. It has been detided tnat one notice stating the hours of services shall suffice for any period. law. President Baer will not alter his previous stand on the labor question and will contest the various brother* hoods as emphatically and preatstently has he fought the miners* union duriiur the last five years. By Publishes Press PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Dec. 11.—All indications point this morning: to a strike on the Heading system. .. ' . lr- V ' By Publishers' Press. ! .  NEW YORK, Doc. 11.—-Thirteen Will lluihl More (hciin. — teams are today swinging around tie SHARON. Pa.. Deo. 11.— It is re- Fleeing From Diphtheria. sauce pan track in Miulison Square ported that the Shenango Furance BUTLER, Pa., Dec. 11.—-Terrorised ; Garden in mad endeavor to gain the Company of Pittsburg, will erect sev»>' the ravages of dlphetherria at lead in the six-day bicycle race. era! batteries of by-product coke Iredenvllle, near here, whore half a All of the teams excepting Wal- ! ovens at Sharpsville* The company dozen deaths have occurred, the for- thour and Bedell are running wheel i now has four blast furnaces in operelgn element is deserting the place. j and wheel. The racers are now about 1 atlon and Is erecting another at a cost 3unrantino rules cannot be enforced ' twenty-four miles behind the rec6rd ' of $500,000. As soon as thia ono i» >y police interference. 'of 11»00, ' finished another will be built. p > /JW X v:: '.'*::?: VTOK ■ -* ■ "Mv1 .? • • te'^'fj. ™