Punxsutawney Spirit, 1906-12-18

              f'sity lditlo'n'1 jSjHflt«> | I - - ...11 >IT '*■» V VesS* *BJ THE JUDGES ARE PUZZLED So Many Arguments, Pro and Con, Decision Is Reserved Tin* Democracy has no mlsNlon but lo holler •'Whoa.**—General Growvenor.Bryan doe»n't know today what he'll Ik* for in two year*. The Democracy never anything but hard time*. I believe in ii tariff that feeds tlio American working man. The Devil nould take to the wood* if asked when* the lte|>iibllcan party would stand on the tariff In 1V08. A Itcpubllonn doesn't know what ho thinks until he sees Itoosevelt. The Kepublicaii tariff robs the union to pa> Pennsylvania. If the Republican party makes tlio crop, lot us vote* the ticket-, If Ci<xl Xlinighty makes thom. let us give hint at least a portion of the credit.— Champ Clark. By Publishers' Press. Special Service of The Spirit. (Continued on Page 2.) THE CHRISTMAS THRONG BECOMES VERY BUSY Endeavor to Tell Which Party Has Done Most for Advancement THE YOUTHFUL GOVERNOR OF A LITTLE STATE m pit, NOT FROTH, OK CANINE'S UPS GROSVENOR AND CLARK THRESH OUT BIG PROBLEM PRICE 2 CENTS PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1906 HUNTING DOGS MAKE ! GHASTLY FIND SHOWING FOUL CRIME COMMITTED ill i we HT INSTITUTE VOL I. No. 79. Charred Body of Young Woman Found in Lonely Spot But it Was Enough 'to Raise a Mad-dog Scare BODY HAD BEEN IN BARREL Annual County Session Opens Under Very Favorable Auspices OR. FIKES GIVES ADDRESS BOYS HAD LOTS OF FUN Three or four boys who, having nothing to do, there being no school, painted the mouth of a cur, belonging to one of th«- boys. bite. Then by some means or other threstarted the dog yelping down 'the .street, the boys following, y« 1 ling "Mad dog!" And the way tin- j > ople tore into their houses and into back alleys, one might have thought that one of Cloarlleld County's b»-ars had wandered into Klk Run. A mad dog scare occurred In Elk Run this mornig which causcd some excitement and afforded a great deal of amusement. MACHINERY HERE EOR NEW FACTORY (Continued on Second Page.) 'At 1:45 o'clock Professor Teitrlck called the Institute to ordef, after a selection of music by the Mozart orchestra of Brookville, W. H. Bonnett, conductor, and Dr. James Conway conducted devotional exercises. Prof. I Jerry March, ever genial and popular, was introduced to the audience and conducted the first period of music. Prof. March, who is the leader of music in Wanamaker's great Phlladel- BROOVILLE, Dec. 18.—The fiftyfirst annual session of the teachers' Institute of Jefferson County opened under most favorable auspices In the Belvedere opera house here at 1:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Every seat in the spacious theatre was filled at the very outset of the week's work, and the instruction started with such a snap and vigor as gives promise of a record-breakng Institute in point of attendance, interest and benefits to be derived. County Superintendent H. B. Tetrlek; by virtue of his office, is the presiding officer of the institute, and Profs. S. E. Downs and A. M. Hummers, principals of the sc hools of I Brookville and Punxsutawney, respectively, are the vice-presidents. Miss Hattie McAninch, one of Brookville's j popular teachers, who has so ably re- j ported the doing of the institute for several years past, is the secretary. ' The enrolling committee practically concluded its labors at noon yesterday, there being but few absentees among the teachers when the work of recording was completed. The body was discovered by Patrick o'Donnol, a local baseball player, while out hunting with his dcjgs. Depu'Jy Coroner Lamont was immediately notlcd. All efforts to identify the remains have proved futile. From indications, the body was fi feet H inches tall and weighed probably K.O pounds. W, is impossible to say whether the woman was a negress or a white woman. HAZELTON, Pa., Dec. 18.—A young woman first killed in a manner not yet known, was placed in a sugar barrel, hauled to a lonely spot, on th»- mountain, about to miles northeast of this city, saturated with oil and then parially cremated. The body had evidently been placed in the barrel after much effort. Both legs were broken near the knees and doubled Up close to the body, both hands were chopped off and, In order to gc't. the lid on the barrel, It appears, 'the head was nearly severed and then bent to the rkle to permit the lid to be nailed on. Only the lower portion of the body was not burned. County detectives are on the ground and District Attorney l'enjamln Jones has ordered that no efforts be spared to ferret out the guilty party. Ihe officers believe they have good clues. The bot'tom of the barrel bore the letters "Noy City, T." indicating thnt the barrel had been coslgned to Mahanoy <Mty, but. whether the body was consigned to that little town in Schuylkill County and brought here by wagon, or whether It was a barrel secured from that place is what baffles the authorities. County Detective Jones said ho believed »the remains were shipped from New York or Philadelphia and consigned to an accomplice near here, who got rid of the burden. An autopsy was ordered by the cornoner to determine whether the case was a repetition of the famous Boston "sui'l case mystery," but the physicians discovered no evidence to justify such a suspicion and this fact has somewhat puzzled the police as to the motive for the crime. Tiie girl was apparently well-dressed. No person has been found missing by the police of this city or nearby towns, which strengthens the belief that the body was shipped here. During the autopsy a locket and chain were found about the neck. Upon being examined it revelealed a picture of th • Blessed Virgin, such as is worn generally by Italians. No person has been found who saw any lire in the direction of the scene or any stranger who nuiy have driven over the lonely road unused for years. in the morgue, where the body is being kept, 500 women applied for admission to view it. but not one ventured to identify the charred .sunken features. The scene of the cremation is near the Italian quarters on the outskirts of the city. The police learned last night that on the night of Deceipbcr fi, residents « f the outskirts of Hazelton saw a fire flare up on the mountain, where the body was discovered, and then suddenly die out. Dr. Dyson, who performed an autopsy, is unable to state how long the body had been dead. It Is frozen and may have been placed there last month or only last week. Articles that may lead to a clue are j in tin' possession of the detectives. They are a buckle, the heel of a shoe, corset steels, the locket, a badly charred hair comb and a long iint pin. which may prove to be the most valuable scrap of evidence leading to the establlshmen tof the identity of th • remains. IliAY SETTLE TIE CHURCH FIGHT LOCAL GIRL HAS NEW VIEWS ON THE NEGRO ron/nn snow. WENDING FUNERAL OF SENATOR MATSON J:\IaWSU /niViiny ' install- A\]r l-'nni Av m-civo (h<> middle Shirt Waist Establishment Will Soon Be in Operation James James H. Higgins. the now governor of Rhode Island, wns horn in Saylesvillo, in the town of Lincoln, It. I . January -<>. 1x76; Went to I'awluekel, It. I . in September, 1X84, and attended tin* publie schools of tha( city. Me graduate from St. Joseph's Pare, hiftl School In 1 890; graduated from the Paw'tucket High School in 1N94; from Prown I'niversity Piiivldenee, IX. 1., in IM' s and from Georgetown I'niversity Law School, Washington, i». «in 1900, After graduating from Georgetow n he was admitted to the practice of law in Rhode l-'and, July 23, 100; in November, 1901, he was elected to serve in the Rhode island House of Representatives for the year of 1902. During that year he was a member of the Committee »»n Militia and Street Railway 'Transfers. In November, 1902, he was elected mayor of Pawtueket /toy 2,200 plurality, the largest ever received in that city. Mr. Higgins wai» still mayor when elected to the Governorship. iggins Miss Florence Fisher Writes Interestingly for Southern Paper A. T. Moorhead on His Way to Obsequies at BradfordWork will bo started with forty sowing machines. The other twenty will run in Johnsonhurg until (h« plant here is in running order, when they will be brought to Punxsutawney and installed here. ...\. M. Kidgard, managing director of the company, who also designs the patterns for the garments, will bring to Punxautawney his Knglish staff, consisting of Miss Bray, head operator; Mr. and Mrs. Peck, Mr. and Mrs. Kdmondson, cutters and designers.of January. The machinery for the Shirt Waist Manufacturing < arrived Saturday and will b< cd as soon as the interior «»* Building Is made ready it, which will he about The Committee to which the bill was referred, wished to consider It by articles, but the cabinet has decided this must not be done. It was escpecially desired by the committee to separate the articles relating to the attribution of church property to departments and communes.PA HIS, Dee. 18.—By decision today of the Council of Ministers, the new religious bill which it is hoped will furnish the basis of compromise of the pending religious dispute, will be presented to the Chamber of Deputies without being divided into sections.STARRING IN DIXON'S PLAY WINNIPEG. Man.. Dee. IS.—The annual exhibition of the Winnipeg Poultry association. f«»r which preparations have beeen in progress all summer, opened today under most favorable auspices. The exhibits <>f poultry and pet stock are numerous and of an unusually high class, ineluding fancy birds from many parts of Canada and the United States. BROOKVILLE. Dec. 18.—Before 11 Ti audience of over 1,200 people, which III led the Belevdere Opera House to ith very doom, tAo Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri. jp presenting the Democracy of thy National, and Hon. Charles H. Mj roavenor, representing its Republicanism, held up to the gase of the iudienc« the merits of their own party and the demerits of the opposition last night. l)r. D. A. Piatt, presiding elder of the Franklin District of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Judge | John \\\ Reed, and Charles Corbet, Esq., both of this place, acted as Judges and the stage was filled with men 1 prominent in the councils of both 1 parties, among whom were such representative Republicans as Register and Recorder Joseph B. Means, Charles Scheafnocker, Dr. W. J. Mcivnight, Hon. Henry I. Wilson, Hon. Henry Truman. Hon. Joseph B. Henderson and others, while the Democracy was represented by such men as Dr. T. C. Lawson, George D. Jenks, Dr. Charles M. Matson, Harry Mc- Murray, editor of the Jeffersonian Democrat, \V. L. Sansom, of tne Clarion Democrat and others. Captain s. A. cralg, of Brookvtlle, Introduced General Grosvenor in a eharacterlstlc speech which caught the crowd and tin- " Sage of AthenH" entered at once upon his discussion of the subject previously announced by County Supt. Teitrlck, "Resolved, that the Republican Party Has Done More for the Advancement of this Nation than has the Democratic Party,," General Groavenor having the affirmative of the argument. The same analytical power and ability which iias for so many years made General Groavenor one of the migh(> men of the House, was evidenced In his address. He took up the organization of the Republican party and arranged In telling form Its many achievements. He declared that no good ever came from reform movements which he characterised as a temporary shake-up, and he referred to his opponent as the greatest living Democratic exponent of tho art of creating facts as well as applying them. "A Democrat," said the General, "never speaks well of a living Democrat. It' he must Mnd some Democrat to eulogize, he scrapes the moss Mr. Moorhead had Instructions to meet Senators Slssons, Cutnmlngs, Cochran, Kdminston, Crawford and (lodeharles. all of whom have been appointed by th President pro tem of the Senate to represent that body at the funeral. Senator Matson died after an Illness of several months, but It has been only a short time since he was able tu attend to his official duties. At the time of his death he was serving his second term In the State Senate and was one of the most popular members of that, the highest body o£ lawmakers In the State. He represented the district comprised If McKeun, Potter andTiogacounties and at all times had an eye open for the good of his constituents. interment took place this afternoon at Hradford. A. T. Moorhead, of Indiana, Sergeant at Arms in the State Senate and editor of the Indiana "Progress," was In town last night on his way to Mradford to attend the funeral of the late State Senator Myron Matson, who died at his home in Bradford late Saturday night. PRESIDENT BASES MESSAGE ON THE REPORT OF METCALF Deals With Japanese Situation in San FranciscoSAYS CHILDREN ARE GOOD Does Not Believe, However, in Admitting Grown-ups to School "Jn the North we hear the race problem discussed by all thinking' mpn. It must necessarily be to them more or less of an abstract question, for they do not come in contact with its material evidence. It appeals to I heir reason. To the Southerner II is more vital. it strikes Ills heart. Ho clamors for its immediate solution. If the question were merely a sectional one a few master minds could solve it in a moment. But it is not. It is a problem, not of education, not of politics, not of equality, not of a few years' duration, nor springing from any specific cause—it is Just one phase of God's universal scheme which works and will work for all eternity to one sure end: 'The survival of the fittest'—and the fittest, according to all physical law is humanity's highest type—the white man. "This undercurrent of race contention is an inevitable result of new and radical changes in political conditions. It is small at its vital core, and will fade into oblivion before the big eternal fact that the very physical and mental construction of a black man forever bars hint from attaining the plane of development which Ood has decreed for His chosen masters of humanity—the white man." "So it is with the negro. it is not a question of education, of opportunity, of equality. It is a big physiological fact which bars the black man from achieving, as a race, an equal footing with the white man along any line. highest mental development is impossible by absolute physical laws— beings whose very brain construction does not admit of an equality with that of higher types of humanity— and no law of man can change this unalterable fact. JANUARY SET FOR THAW TRIAL Victor Howard Metcalf. His report to President Roosevelt Formed a Dusts for (he Spcrla! M^sugc, sent to Congress unlay. liearliiR' the* Jaiwnmo Situalioa hi Sun Fi'HIicInco. DISPLAYS ARE BEAUTIFUL Merchants Are Having Their Hands Full With Holiday Business EEVEJt EPIDEMIC AT PITTSBU1U1 The question as to the violence against the Japanese is most admirably put by Secretary Metcalf, and 1 have nothing to add to his statement. I am entirely confident that, as Secretary Metcalf says, the overwhelming sentiment of the State of California is for law and order and for the protection of the Japanese in their persons and property. Both the chief of police and the acting mayor of San Francisco assured Secretary Metcalf that everything possible would bo A glance at the* windows In convincing proof hat the toymakers are keeping abreast of the times. Everything from a horse to an automobile Is shown, but the "Teddy Bears" have somehow got the best of the deal here and none of the children in this thriv- Th" s.- arc very busy days for the merchants «»f Punxsutawnoy and from this time on Christmas shoppers will crowd the stores day and night to purchase little rememberancefc for their friends and especially toys for the baby. In fact the baby seems to have the best of the argument as far as tin* merchants are concerned for almost every store, regardless of their line, has stocked up to the ceiling with toys and pretty things designed to please only the small members of th<4 family. The provision markets tare also in the running for honot#in the displaying of their wares. Bakers, grocers and butchers have commenced to stock up for the greatest feast day of the year and each day green goods, turkeys, chickens, candy, nuts, fruit and. In fact, almost everything in the food line that appeals to the sense of taste has been provided. Besides all this the boys of Punxsutawney have started for the woods to find spruce and pine trees that will gladden the heart of many a youngster on Christmas morning. Altogether Christmas in Punxsutawney this year will be the tamo old Christmas of thirty years ago, only a little more up-to-date. Ing town will have half a Christmas unions they have one of these wooly little animals that will stand on Its head. Its hind legs and do innmerable other little tricks all at the bidding of Its young master or mistress. Although most of the displays are for the most part an attraction for the children, there are some things that the adults look at long and earnestly and wish for and all the time buying, buying only to please their friends. Friends of Miss Florence Fisher, daughter of Jacob L. Fisher, of Punxsutawney, are interested not a little In the recent success of the young woman, who plays Ruth in "The One Woman" Company. She is now appearing in the South and has gained some new ideas of the negro through her study of Thomas Dixon's stories and plays. Miss Fisher has recently interested herself in a close study of the race question and recently efitered into a very intelligent discussion of her views of the negro as a class, which views the Atlanta "Georgian" took occasion to print as follows: "The great 'problems' of any nation must be determined, not by a specific and immediate decision of its people, but by a slow adjustment of conditions which the changes of time alone can bring about. So it must be with this most recent question of vital meaning to our country—the race problec. "To me, a Northern woman, who I heretofore has based her knowledge of the negro upon history and book lore, this problem is at its core a purely physical one. Before I ever came in direct contact with negro conditions I studied them as one studies all types of humianity, studied about j their thick, black skin, their primitive brain construction, their naturally uncultivated tastes and habits. "They represented to me a good specimen of one of God's lower orders of humanity whom Ho made to fit a lower order of His unlversnl j)lan; for although we may talk of the 'brotherhood of man' and put forth the abstract beauties of 'equality,' we must Ifc order to fulHIl a universal plan, have different orders of humanity, different scales of society, differ- By Publishers' Press, ent planes of development. Tho build- NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Harming of any house requires both tho Thaw, the Pittsburg millionaire, will ditch' digger and the accom- be tried for the murder of Stanford pllshed artist. The moment the White, architect, on January 21, ditch digger couldbe endowed with next. the mental faculties of the artist, he Justice Newberger set the time for would no longer be content with the the trial today after counsel for Thaw ditch, and would lay down his pick and District Attorney Jerome had and shovel and tho house would not reached an agreement as to when the be built. But his creator wisely or- case should be called. dalned that he should not have the Thaw was delighted when told of capacity for much greater ambition, the news of an early trial. and thus tho scheme of human society works aut Its destiny. "This Is not an argument for 'caste' In Its cruel Eastern sense, but merely an acknowledgement of a universal tact; that some men must be Mrved and others serving to complete the world's development; that some types of human beings must W*». to whom a capacity for the By Publishers' Press. PITTSBURG, Dee. 17.—Another epidemic of typhoid fever Is paying Pittsburg a visit. Forty cases of the disease have been Ve'ported up to noon today tor the past twenty-four hours. WASHINGTON, Dec. IS.—President Roosevelt today sent to Congress another of a series of spociai messages, the latest dealing with Japanese situation in San Francisco. The message carries with it lengthy reports of Secretary Metealf and other officials who investigated conditions under orders from the President: The message in full follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives:I Inclose herewith for your infor- I ination the final report made to me | personally by Secretary Metealf on | the situation affecting the Japanese i in San Francisco. The report deals i with three matters of controversy— ; first, the exclusion of the Japanese j children from the San Francisco ! schools; second, the boycotting of Japanese restaurants, and, third, acts j of violence committed against the ' Japanese. As to the first matter, I call your especial attention to the very small number of Japanes echlldren who attend school, to the testimony as to the brightness, cleanliness, and good behavior of these Japanese children in the schools, and to the fact that, owing to their being scattered thruout the city, the requirement for them all to go to one special school Is impossible of fulfilment and means that they cannot have school facilities. Let me point out further that there would be no objection whatever to excluding from the schools any Japanese on the score age. It Is obviously not desirable that young men should go to school with children. The only point Is the exclusion of the children themselves. The number of Japanese children attending the public schools in San Francisco was very small. The Ooverment has already directed that suit be brought to test the constitutionality of the act in question; but my very earnest hope is that such suit will not be necessary,*, and that as a matter of comity the citizens of San Francisco will refuse to deprive these young Japanese children of educatiln and will permit them to go to the schools. Continued on Page Two. ' jBHf r- j^KT#1BM> V" ;• ... ,4 - ■ --- 4# 5 ,r,