Punxsutawney Spirit, 1906-12-28

              ■V a '>A» 8 WW. 3? Pfy'?' 'W" - s-" 1 " 1 ■' Jilt fmi$£iit&iimeB l^ee—!zj 6ity Edition VOL I. No. 87. POVDQILEISGOAT HBHU H OK (Mil II DIE HI UI PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1906 PRICE 2 CENTS PRESIDENT A. J. CASSATT OF THE PENNSY DIES SUDDENLY GEORGE W. PERKINS HAS BEEN INDICTED Grand*Jur? Holds Life Insurance Official Upon Six Different Counts. Ml SERVICE BIIM DAT AID im SON OF GREAT POET IS EMINENT JURIST Head of Great Railroad Corporation Passed Away This Afternoon DEATH WAS UNEXPECTED Had Been Abroad For Hit Health, But Condition Was Not Considered Alarming. President Cassatt gave up his business activities many weeks ago owing to a severe attack of whooping cough from which he never fully recovered, llis real physical condition was carefully kept from the public and on'ly most intimate friends knew the real seriousness. He died suddenly today from what is believed to have been sudden heart weak- Special by Publishers' Press. rillLADKlil'lllA, Dec. 28.— President Alexander.!. Cassatt. of the Pennsylvania Railroad died suddenly this afternoon. While he had been ill for several weeks, the reports issued by bis physicians were assuring and the end came most unexpectedly. .<t*cnr CU*t* Otrts Oliver Wendell Holmes cause of hl» health, ho was never called. Mr. Cassatt had previously expressed himself as glad to appear Tit IP or n ASIvr.Tlt ALL TK AM , wii It Happened in the Cellar of ; House Occupied By Foreigners Another Step in Advance for the Betterment of the Borough SPARK FROM LAMP DID il afterwards and rescued the foreigner from the cellar, but he is so badly burned that It Is not thought that he can live. All of the people In the house at the time of the explosion ar«> more or leas srlously hurt but It is not thought that he can live. All of the people in the house at the time of the explosion are more or less seriously hurt but it Is not thoftght that their injuries are fatal. TRIAL OF SIX MONTHS Patronage of the Citizens Will Then Determine the Advantage.■very Person in the House Was More or Less Seriously Six Indictments were found against Perkins, who was formally placed under arrest and arranged before Recorder Qoff. He pleaded not guilty to tlip Indictments with the privilege of changing the plea before January 21, if desired.Bail was furnished at $10,000. By Publishers' Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—George W. Perkins, former vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company and partner of J. Plerpont Morgan, was indicted toy the Grand Jury today in connection with the life insurance scandal. CONGRESSMAN HUFF DRAWN INTO CASE OF WRECKED BANK Waynesbury Institution May Recover Thousands From Representative FEUMI HONOR OF FLAG is ai sun GROWS OUT OF SUIT Believed President's Message Will Win Middle West For Ship Subsidy Forged Signature and Land Transfer at Bottom of the Action. AFTER THE COMBINATIONS. Neighbors arrived on the scene soon When the expUMon occurred there were just four people In the house, three men and a woman. Anthony Cuita, on of the boarders, had gone to the cellar to secure some powjler to take to his work in the Stanley shaft. In reaching over the powder keg a spark from his lamp fell Into the powder and immediately the I whole house immediately went up. The woman up stairs was blown out 'through a window and one of the men used the same means of locomotion through the door, and the house ftook tire. An explosion which shook every [house in Sykcsville and brought men, women and children on the run from all directions, was the means of totally destroying a house occupied by William Mesanls and several boarders about 7:20 o'clock last night in that town. European Companies' Extortionate Rates Throttle American Trade. SHOOTS WIFE AND LEAVES HER FOR DEAD lirss. Some weeks ago Mr. Cassatt returned from a trip abroad, taken principally for the benefit of his health. I'pon bis arrival home it was expected that he would be an important witness before the Interstate Commerce Commission, but for Home reason, presumably bo- Because Woman Ignored Him ; Man Shoots Her, Then Kills Himself. Ho served three years in tin Tnvc ntieth llcglment of Massachusetts Volunteers, anil was wounded at An tietam and Fredericksburg. He becaint' a professor *n the Harvard Law School. Hi- mailt- the famous decision on tln» not- I Beef Trust Cast-, in which the United State* was arrayed against the great packing intere sts of the West. lie was appointed a member of the Supreme Bench on December 4. 1902. Associate « Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the United States Supreme Bench, was born In Boston. March 8. 1 s41 11. graduated at Harvard University in 1 Mi 1 and took his law d egrei- in In.if,. 11.- married on June 17, 1X7U. Miss Fanny Dlxwell, of t'a mhridte. Mass. lit is a son of the celebrated essayist of the same nam Punxsutavvney now has continuous electric light service, the Jefferson Kleetrle Light J lent and Power Company having responded to the demand of the public that the power be kept on the entire twenty-four hours of each day. It is but one <>f th<* many steps in advance for the borough and will doubtless result in more liberal patronage by the citizens generally. i Because The Spirit and other local concerns have kept continuously after the light company, It has been decided to give the matter a fair trial. For the next six months, as an experiment and an endeavor to learn just how liberal will be the patronage, the current will be furnished day and night. If at the expiration of that period it is found that the patronage has been sufficient to warrant continuance, the citbsi-ns of Punxsutawney will hi* assured of service both day and night. It has been a long tight to secure tills concession from the light company, but the battle is won, provided the people of Punxsutawncy will show by liberal patronage that the service is needed. Six months should he an a hi pie length of time to determine beyond all doubt whether or not the people of Punxsutawncy really need this additional service. GIRL JUMPS INTO RAGING TORRENTS anil answer Interrogations relative to alleged rebate diviner and discriminations In ear service. It was even rumored at the time, that ignoring his physical condition, he had hastened home when accusations wore being made that he had countenanced tho alleged irregulaities. One Hundred and Twenty-Two Passengers Are Taken From the Liner. Leaps Into the River and is Swept Over the Falls at Niagara. SEVERAL ARE DEAD IN CRASH OF TRAINS LIFE BOATS SAVE MANY PASSENGERS POLICE SCORN OHIO YOUTH'S CONFESSION By Publishers' Press. WAYNESBURG, Dec. 2 8.—Congressman Huff is likely to be served with legal papers in connection with the recent suit he entered against Cashier Relnhart, of the Farmers' and Drovers' Bank In connection with tintwo notes of the Greeensburg Trust Company f»fr $10,000 each. It was alleged that these notes bore the forged signatures and as soon as the bank failed Congressman Huff made informations, against Rlnehart, charging him with being a suspicious person, so it is stated. It is now ascertained that Rinehart is practically in a bankrupt condition and if this is corect Huff will be asked to turn over into the bank the twenty thousand dollars that was realizezd through the purchase by J. V. Thompson, of TJniontown, of 200 acrca of KTnJ hart's coal land which wore sold for $100 per acre. Thirty Persons Are Injured and Deaths of Many Follow in Head-on Collision. By Publishers' Press. BOSTON, Dec. 28.—Because his wife refused to return and live with him, Frderlk L. Clark, of Waldomaine early today penned her in a closet and shot her. Then believing: her dead he ended his own life with two bullets through the head. The woman will recover. Clark and his wife had been separated one yc»ar. SCOTLAND UNDER BLANKET OF SNOW St .Louis Officers Afterward Hear From Elyria Bank and Arrest Him as He Requested. I.y Publishers' Press, UOjMK, Dec. -'K.—Several deaths of victims of y est onlay's railway . accident at. Gallarate. Lombardy. have occurrcd today. Thirty persons were injured many of them seriously and several are'yet in a critical condition. The wreck was caused by two electric trains crashing together while they were entering the railway station.RED CAR, Wales, Dec. US.—Life bouts taken off the crew and passengers of the Japanese liner Awa, which ran on the rocks here jesterday during a snow storm. The vessel is in bad condition. One hundred and twenty-two persons were rescued. SPANISH SHIP FOUNDERS SAYS BROOKS IS BEST LICENSE LAW IN UNION Member of House Says There is No Sentiment Favorable to Local Option in State By Publishers' Press. CORIJNNA, Spain. Dec. 28.—The Spanish steamship Primrose has foundered off the coast. Only one person on board was saved. All Indications point to deliberate arrangements for the plunge. liy Publishers' Press. Nl AO Ail A FALLS. N. Y. Dec. 2 8.— An unknown woman supposed to be Mary Ilagen, of Huffalo, suicided at noon today by Jumping into the river 500 feet above the American Falls. She was swept over the brink before the eyes of hundreds of people who could do nothing to save her life owing to the distance. Wilson Visits Distilleries. The snow began falling Christmas day and the storm continues unubated. Hallway traffic in many directions is suspended and the whole country is snowbound. By Publishers' Press. EDINBURG, Scotland, Dec. 28.— The worst snow storm in twenty years is raging along the Scottish border and has caused much damage and hardship. CONFIRM BONI S ELECTION Will IMPROVE BAPTIST CHURCH By Publishers' Press. PARIS, Dec. 28.—The election of Count Bonl de Castellane as a member of the of Deputies was confirmed by the Chamber today. This settles the dispute about Boni's right to his seat. Lindsey House of Worship Will be Altered Extensively in Near Future. By Publishers' Press- WASHINGTON, 1>. <\. Dec. UK.-- Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture and Solicitor McCainletf early today for Baltimore to visi various dlstilerics. The secretary's objeul is to make personal Inspection in an effort to ascertain just how various brands of liquors are made so that he may decide how they should be labelled under pure food laws which goes Into effect next Tuesday. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 28.—Daniel F. Loveland, the son of F. \V. Loveland, a merchant of Sandusky, O.. who surrendered himself to (he police three days ago, asserting that he was wanted in Ohio fcr forgery, was released by the police Wednesday night and forced to leave the police station, as his story was not believed. Yesterday a telegram was received from th avlngs I?ank of Elyria, O., to the effect that Loveland's story, that he had forged his father's signature to a check on the Elyria bank and cashed It* at South Bend, was true. Loveland was immediately arrested and is held pending further advice from Elyria. H« says he Is penniless, and wants to get back home to take his punishment. IM POLEE PROBABLY RELEASED A iRDEOER "I do not know upon what knowledge Mr. Nicholson predicates ills assertion, but all those members whom I have Interviewed upon the subject tell me that there Is no sentiment favorable to local option and that the general trend of feeling Is In favor of the present Broofrs' law, which Is coming to be regarded as the most satisfactory license law of any State in the Union." HARHISBITRO. Dec. 2S.—An old member of the Honse, who Is a member of the present Legislature, was shown today the dispatch sent out from Harrlsburg yesterday In which the State superintendent of the antisaloon league stated that the outlook for local option law at the coming session of the Legislature was brighter than ever. The veteran smiled and said. Word of Crime Not Received Until Man Had Been Freed NEW YORK, Dee. 2^.—The basketball team of Columbia University left today on a week's trip in tin* Middle West. The team has six games soheduled, as follovs: Dec. 31, Detroit Y. M. (\ A.; Jan. 1, Evanston Y. M. 0. A.; Jan. 2, Ariel Athletic club, Manitowoc, Wis.; Jan. 3. Appleton Business College, Appleton, Wis.; Jan. 4, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Jan. 5, Chicago Central Y. M. C. A. MANIAC RUNS SWITCH YARDS. KILLED MAN AT SAGAMORE Mad Man Cains Possession of Tower House and Flags Trains. Miss Jessie Farley, of North Point, Is visiting relatives In town. After a short visit here Miss Farley will leave for Savannah. Georgia, where she will spend the remainder <>f the winter. George Wayne, of Kane, is spending the week with relatives In town. •apposed Slayer Game to Punx■utawney and Wai Arrested  on Suspicion. Sagamore where they were employed as hod carriers by the contracting firm of Betts, Stltler & Company, and at the same time robbed him of eighty dollars that Mose was known to have In his possession. As near as can be learned the murder was committed with a monkey wrench or some other blunt Instrument, about noon Monday. The crime was not discovered until the next day and by the time the local police were notified Ltndsey had left for parts unknown. He told Burgess Brown that he was on hfs way to Pittsburg and the authorities in that city have been Informed to be on the lookout for him and it Is expected that he will be rounded up within a few days. An unknown, unclaimed • dark bay horse galloped up and down Mahoning Street this morning for half an hour or more, after which it wandered down Jefferson Street and has not been seen since. Benton Lemon, of Lumber City, was arrested by Chief of Police Palmer last evening for being drunk and disorderly. Lemon will have his money squeezed for aim at two o'clock this afternoon. In tin- near future the Llndsey Baptist Church will undergo extensive improvements. The trusters of the ehunh have had plans prepared and as soon as tin- contract for the work can be awarded it will he commenced. According to the plans a vestry will be attached to the western end of the present building and a dwelling on the northern side, The vestry will be two stories high and will contain rooms that will answer all the present needs of the church- The first floor will be used as a kitchen, roberoom, classroom for the infant department of the Sunday school, for young people's societies, prayer meetings and as a pastor's st tidy. The second floor will contain a w ork room for the Ladies' Aid Society and a dining hall. The «iwelling will be a seven room structure and will contain every modern convenience. The church as It stands today will be renovated Inside and out and a new heating apparatus will hi' installed, with new furniture throughout. Deacon Thomas Richards will have a copy of the specifications at his home No. 24G West Mahoning Street, where he will be glad to explain the plans to all prospective bidders and if a suitable bid is received In the near future work will begin at once. Rev. 1>. S. Thomas, the pastor living at No. 22 North Main Street, will also have plans at his residence and will meet prospective bidders. For seventeen years Mr. Cassatt held no office and took no active part in the business of the road. During the seventeen years of his retirement he traveled extensively In Kurope and gave much of his time to the creation of a great stock farm at Chester Brook. Pa. Why Mr. Cassatt severed his connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad and remained divorced from Its affairs for so long a time was never satisfactorily explained to the public. There were rumors at the time that he was not in sympathy with the very conservative views of the president, Mr. Roberts, but his relations with Mr. Roberta, both then and afterwards, were of the friendliest character, and there was no evidence on which to base such a supposition. (Continued on Page t.) In 1899 Mr. Cassatt returned to the Pennsylvania as president. Early till# year rumors were afloat that Mr. Cassatt intended to resign the presidency, owing to disclosures that officer® of the company had been accepting graft from coal concern®. Mr. Cas- Alexander Johnston Cassatt was in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for nearly half a century and was famous as a railway man throughout the world. He was born In Pittsburg in 1869. Hie father was a wealthy man, but was not an advocate of luxury. He taught his son to be frugal anil to rely on practical effort. When young cassatt was stiB a youth his father's Interests took his to Europe. He afterward entered the University of llel/> lberg and obtained a liberal education. Hut th* influence <>f German university life did not overcome his Inborn preference for a business career, and on his return home he tt)ok the course at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated as a civil engineer. This was in 1859- lie went first to Georgia to assist in locating a railroad. In 1S1 he was back in Pittsburg soliciting a place In the service of the Penneylanla Railroad The best he could do at the time was to secure a position as rodman. By 1867 his ability had become so well recognized that he was engaged as superintendent of motive power and machinery for the entire system. In 1S70 he became general superlntendnt of the system. Thomas A. Scott, then paramount In Pennsylvania Railroad affairs, took a fancy to him and was influential in his rapid promotion. When Scott became president of the road he had Cassatt made third vice-president. In 1KMO he had risen to the first vicepresidency. Two years later he resigned his position and retired from business. He was only forty three years of age, but he declared that he felt It time to retire. Ex-Senator James G. Mitchell, of Hamilton, Is In town today on business.CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—For six hours last night a maniac run the switch yards at Cavanaugh, Ind., a junction point where the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern tracks cross those of the Elgin, Jollet & Eastern Railroad. He gained possession of the tower house, flagged every passenger and freight train t hat amaecnlogshrdluu freight train that came along, and, with a coupling pin. put to lllght every train crew that made a protest. It was necesaai'y to send a special train from Hammond with a score of deputy sheriffs to- overpower the maniac"When these facts are made known," said a member of the House of Representatives who is prominently identified with the Shipping bill. "I shall be greatly interested in seeing whether those Western men on the committee and In the House who have hesitated about encouraging American steamship lines will not change their attitude. It Is largely through extorting high freight rates on products raised and exported by Western farmers that these foreign monopolies thrive. The honor of our flag, as well as the commercial progress of the Nation, Is involved in the efforts of these European combinations to throttle American trade." WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 8.—Friends of the Shipping bill predict that the special message which President Roosevelt will send to Congress on the subject of legislation for the encouragement of the American Merchant Marine will have much effect on the members of Congress from the Middle West whoso opposition to Ship Subsidy legislation, coupled as It has been with that of the members from the South, has hitherto prevented favorable consideration for shipping measures.It. Is understood the message will deal with the effect which foreign steamship combinations have had on our trade, especially between the Atlantic Coast of South Amcrlen and Ununited States, and between the Pacific Coast and Europe. Data has been iald before the President dealing with these two combinations. One of them has headquarters at Liverpool and controls our business with Brazil, Uraguay and Argentina. Tinother, composed of British, French anjl German steamship owners, with headquarters in London, controls the carrying of grain from Washington, Oregon and California around Cape Horn to Great Britain and Europe. The President has been supplied with a copy of th© rules of this combination. dated from Leadenhall Building, London, which shows that, the Inflated rates of freight arc made to apply only on American cargocs going to Europe. European goods shipped outward to the Pacific Coas* being exempted by the rules. The other combination, which monopolizes the steamship traffic betweew New York and South America, is also of an international character, being composed principally of German and British shipowners. There Is not an American ship In either combination. Reports of our Ministers and Consuls in South America and statements of merchants and travelers show that this combination employs all the familiar machinery of rebates and discriminations and that they deliberately keep rates high on American goods while lowering them on European goods, in order to favor our competitors in Europe at our expense. According to the commercial press of Brazil, it is largely due to the malice and extortion of this European steamship ring that our exports of breadstuffs, machinery antl provisions to Brazil! decreased from $lf>,000,000 in 189G to $1,000,000 in 1904. The machinations of this European "combine" are also responsible for th<- fact that Secretary Hoot saw the Stars and Stripes only once In his entire journey around South America. Not a single American steamer, and only a few small sail vessels flying the American flag, appeared in our trade with Argentina and Brazil in the first six months of 1906. TRAPPED TWO WILDCATS. Calmoth RtelfjT"of*Indiana. Exhibiting Fine Specimen of Feline. Calmoth Steffy, of Indiana County, was in town yesterday afternoon with a forty-pound wild cat which he trapped near Pine Olen, Center County- A pair df wild cats had been seen feeding on a dead doff and Mr. Steffy accordingly set two traps and captured both the animals. John Llndsey. who was arrested here Monday night and released the next day by Burgess Brown Is now thought to be a much wanted man. The police are looking (or Llndsey. he being charged with murder, but all trace of him seems to have been lost* Last Monday afternoon Llndsey Is •apposed to have murdered his pardsyiyft Mose Hudson, In their ahanty at :.v. :•i ■ ■