Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-02-25

              PUNXSUTAWtfEY, PA.. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1907 LOCAL ATTORNEY IS SEEKING PASSAGE OF AN IMPORTANT ACT PRICE 2 CENTS SECOND ESSAY OF THOSE READ IN RECENT CONTEST VOL I. No. 137. APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE VISITS ADRIAN HOSPITAL THE SUMMERVILLE I " PHONE COMPANY MAY BRANCH OUT JAMES R. TAWNEY WARNS TREASURY OF A BIG DEFICIT Hopes to Recover From State For Losses During Florence Riot. CLOSING WEEKS OF LEGISLATURE WILL BE VERY BUSY ONES Will Ask Directors to Approve Merger With Clearfield Lines. Inspects Institution and Will Report as to Necessities Found. Two Cent Rate Bill Is Yet to Be Fought Out in State Senate. MEANS BETTER SERVICE. WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT 60VERI0R STUART AMOVES MERGER OE TWO RAILROADS Its Excellence Must Have Made Task of Judges a Hard One.. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Speaks of Big Outlay. Buffalo & Susquehanna Will Soon Have Entrance to Pittsburg. ANOTHER COMING LATER My Publishers' Press. SKXS.XTION.Mi SI IT. Mrs. Martha Hunt/., of I'nlontown, Wants $5,000 from 1*. I'. Long, a Well Known Merchant. HltOTIIICK WAS MtTltDKItHI). William T. Cobb HANK STOCK FOR SALE. CAPITAL MATTER ON TOO SEES DANGER OF INCREASE OUTWITTING COMPETITORS HAS FOURTEEN PETITIONS Engineers Are Now Working Out of Sagamore Toward the Windy City. Blames Practically All of It Upon the Actions of the Senate. The Total Damage Claimed Amounts to More Than $5,000. Altogether the Lawmakers Still Have Much Work to Perform. IlltOIl. The essay of Miss Ada Ci f lpbell. read in the literary contest at the? High School on Friday, when Miss Mollie Cooper Ernst was declared the winner of tile prize offered by the Daughters of the American Revolution is printed herewith. Miss Ernst's essay was published on Saturday. That of Miss Elsie Miller, the other contestant, will appear later. Miss Campbell's essay follows: Why We Won in I lie American ltevo- The committee took dinner at the Punxsutnwney Club and left on tho afternoon train for Pittsburg. They declined to give any view as to the probable amount of the appropriation likely to be made. A legislative committee consisting of Senator J. O. Sheets, chairman of the Appropriation Committee, and Hon. S. Taylor North arrived on the noon train from Pittsburg Saturday and made a thorough examination of the Adrian Hospital with regard to the coming appropriation for that Institution.A mooting of the representatives of tho Summorville. American I'nion and •.In* S. r. 13. telephone com pan tea was held in DuBots Friday afternoon. This mooting' was for the urposo of merging: these linos so as o give a direct line for tho Summervile interosts through to Clearfield. It wjis decided l>y tho representatives of the different lines to put tho propotlon up to their directors and moot next Wednesday t<> complete the plans. The official? of the Summervllle Telephone Company feel confident hat the deal will k<> through all -ight and that in a short time there will be a trunk line from Punxsutawney to Clearfield and also from Du- Bois to Clearfield. MAY YET APPLY FOR COMMISSION IN THAW CASE ROBERT CONDRON FACES BURGLAR IN HIS OWN HOME l)oes it not from strange that America did win?—for England had all the advantages, from a matter-offact view. England had the largest, In this great war of our country, we won. Why? No one knows; for who can tell of those little turning-points of Fate which decided battled and influenced commanders to do just .'is they did at just that time? Like that old story of the victory of a certain king being foretold by a spider and its web—who can tell what little things like these won* our District Attorney Jerome Believed to be Ready to Spring Coup. uite a lot of interest Is attached to the outcome of I hose bills it sill determine for nil time whether tin* State Police, in preserving the , eace. can destroy property and the Sate not become 1'nble. This is the mined by the Legisla- The Florence trouble of last September will be thoroughly aired again. Attorney Lex X Mitchell left for Harrisburg this afternoon and tomorrow morning will eo before the Legisla.ure for the purpose of introducing a bill giving legislative permission to the owners of property destroyed t'» the Florence disturb*»r'*e to sue tho (Commonwealth for the purpose of de.'ermlnlng the liability of the State for damages. Puts Intruder to Flight After Bat Sic and Some Gun Play. (Continued on Second Page.) EVELYN RESUMES STAND. HALF MILLION IS LOST III FIRE ill PITTSBURG TODAY Three Buildings Are Destroyed and Large Bank is Also Menaced. Py Publishers' Press. HAUIUSBUUG, Pa.. Feb. 25.—It is expected that beginning tonight, when both houses will reconvene, there will be "something doing" in the Legislature. until the end of the session. The lirst of the more important of the reform bills to make substantial progress—the bill providing for a maximum rate of two cents per mile for the transportation of passengers on steam railroads—which has been passed by the House, will be fought bitterly in the Senate, by the railroad interests. 1: was opposed by the same interests in the House, but it was passed in that chamber without a vote in oppoition. The SUite Board of Trade is appealing to local boards and associations of merchants to support the bill, and the Senate will give hearings to both sides. The Capitol Investigating Committee will meet this evening to outline a method of procedure. The auditing company that lias been examining the accounts of the contractors and furnishers and the minutes of the boards that were in charge of the work have been reporting to the committee from time to time, and have already given It enough Information to make the calling of witnesses possible. The investigation will begin in a few days. The bills creating two additional courts of common pleas In Allegheny County have been passed by the Senate Hills of the same purport are on the House postponed third reading calendar. It is expected that the Senate bills will be substituted for those now in the House and rushed to final passage. (Continued on Second Page.) Several trolley bills are under consideration in the House. One of these, which was passed on first reading, is the Homsher bill giving to trolley companies the right to carry freight. This was sent back to committee f|r amendments, which were proposed by FROM NOW ON IT'S BASEBALL TALK Fans Already Discussing the Approaching Season—Practice Games Arranged. "That one Vincenao (James) Tebone, present at the inception of the disturbance aforesaid, voluntarily and of his own accord, went into the house of the petitioner, an<l later when a member of Troop 1). In charge of said offender, either by request of the prisoner or of his own volition, went into the aforesaid buildings, (Continued on Second Page.) ture. The petition t«» be presented by Attorney Mitchell scis forth: "That Maria Assunto Aero Guerclo, your petitioner, Llborlo Guerclo, her husband. Miehalenu Madrlna Nussa, and FVllcc Mussa, her husband, Cologero Corriero, Glusseppe Carraggl, Stefano Pagano, Salvatore Bellavla, Salvatore Stutto, Francesco Girrannl, Cologero Arno, Glusseppo Cirrannl, Carlo Pluberi, and Thomas Murphy, are residents" of the village of Florence. McCalmont Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and on September 2, l 01>, were the owners of real and personal property situate and located In said village of Florence, to the value in the aggregate of about $5,son.00. "That said property consisted of real estate, stock of merchandise, household furnishings, wearing apparel and other belongings of the several persons hereinbefore named. "That on September 2, 1906, members of Troop I), of the State Constabulary <»f Pennsylvania, located In Punxsutawney, Penna . arrested certain offender of the law in the streets of said village of Florence, near the house of your petitioner and Mlchalena Mandrina Muz/a. MORE ABOUT 11 AGAINST P. P. IMG hanna will not apply for any addi- It was learned Saturday that on account of the hard fight being made by the Pennsylvania and other competing lines, the Buffalo & Susque- tional charters to complete the prot posed through line to this city, but will build the extensions as portions of the lines which were chartered some time ago. So far the Goodyears have not been blocked by competing lines, although the latter have spent an enormous sum of money for this purpose. Engineers have established headquarters at Sagamore and are now working on surveys for new lines between that place and Pittsburg. It was said Saturday that it will require about three months to complete the work. Two or three surveys have already been made, but the executive officials and capitalists interested in the new. project have not approved any of them. A few weeks ago a number of New York capitalists made an inspection of the new lines and mining property in Indiana County as the guests of Charles Goodyear. It was stated by Pittsburgers in close touch with the management of this line that the officials have decided to go ahead with the construction of the new line and detailed plans will probably be announced within a few weeks. The Southwestern DuBois Railroad Company was Incorporated several months ago on behalf of the Buffalo & Susquehanna to build an extension from Juneau to Sagamore, a distance of about twenty-three miles- The Goodyear Interests a few years ago applied for all charters for small lines between Buffalo and Pittsburg. The roads have been built and are now a part of the Buffalo & Susquehanna. One or two of these small lines have not as yet been taken over, but It is planned to have the governor approve the merger of these lines in the near future. The Buffalo and Susquehanna Hailroad Company have completed their plans for pushing their service south Into Pittsburg as Governor Stuart has approved the plan for the merger of the Buffalo and Susquehanna and the Southwestern DuBois Railroad Company and it has been announced that all the charters have been obtained for all the branch lines which will eventually form the Southern portion of that line between Pittsburg and Buffalo. Py Publishers' Press. PITTSBURG, Feb. 25.—Fire this morning originated in the Haynes Building at No. S10 Liberty Avenue and occupied by Derby, Dick & Company. This structure and that adjoining. occupied by the Baker Office Furniture Company, were destroyed.Tho big Second - National Bank Building and the drier Brush Company building were badly damaged, as were several buildings in the vicinity.Several persons were seriously injured from various causes and many heroic rescues were made. No estimate of the losses have yet been made, but they will probably exceed a half million dollars. At noon sparks ignited the upper part of the Seventh Avenue Hotel on tho Strawberry Alley side, between the sixth story and the roof and on account of being practically inaccessible, caused considerable damage. The principal damage, however, was caused by water which poured down the stairway into the lower part of the big hotel. The tire, which is being fanned by a high wind, is still burning, but it is thought to be under control. A call was sent to the police but the man had made good his escape and nothing further was seen of him. Mr. Condron describes him as tall with about a three-weeks' growth of beard on his face. The man succeeded In getting away with fourteen >' " which be procured from the trousers of Mr. Condron.A most daring robbery oeeurreJ at the home of Robert Condron on Sutton Street yesterday morning at three o'clock, at which linn- the burglar was discovered and attempted to shoot lr. Condron. Awakened by the growling of his • log, Mr. Condron left ui* bed and oi. giitlng the lamp, discovered that his rousi rs were gone. Mlv immediately tisj'ectcd the present of a thief and rocuring his gun \v$ nt softly downstairs carrying his.gun in his right hand. As he entered the kitchen he was dealt a severe blow on the arm which caused his pistol to fall from his grasp. At the mime time the intruder grappled with him and Dinned the surprised man to the loor. Ai they struck the floor Mr. Condron noticed the man's hand going to his pocket and made a desperate effort to grasp that hand, but the man eluded his hand and brought forth a revolver, tiring almost as soon :is it was out of his pocket. Condron's life was probably saved by the throwing up or his arm, which knocked the pistol to one side, tht bullet going through his coat sleeve and slightly burning his arm. As soon as the shot was fired the unknown man left his hold on the prostrate man and made for the door. As Mr. Condron followed him to the porch, the man turned and tired two shots, one entering the porch post, and the other going wide. He then turned and disappeared in a swamp. In the rear of the house which he had so boldly entered. Tawney sounded his note of warning to a crowded house, anxious, every member, to still further increase the prospective expenditures of the government, lie pointed out" that at tiie rate the two houses are going the expenditures will so far exceed the estimated revenues that in the immediate future some new system of taxation must become necessary to provide the money for the innumerable projects congress has or will approve.He called particular attention t*rf tf*e appropriations for rivers and harbors and for Increases in the navy, insinuating rather than suggesting that these two great appropriation measures would have to bear the responsibility for t,he probable wiping out of the present treasury surplus and the creation of an addition to the public debt. Startling as were the assertions of the chairman of the appropriations committee, it Is realized that Mr. Tawney intended his speech to serve as a deterrent upon the senate, rather than a criticism of the house. The senate almost invariably increases the appropriation bills, and the house, fight as It will, is compelled to surrender to the senate upon many of the subjects of controversy in the conferences between the representatives of the two branches of congress. It was manifestly an appeal to public sentiment to sustain the house In any position of opposition to It the senate may assume. His speeeh is regarded as aimed directly at the increases in the rivers and harbors appropriations made by the senate, but, in addition to this, it was manifestly intended to furnish a basis for resistance by the house of all senate amendments to appropriation measures, wiheh increase the total amount of the expenditures authorized by the house. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-—A deficit of $ 100,000,000 in the revenue of he government, caused by the enornous appropriations made and contemplated a t his .session of con- Kress has been predieted by Representative Tawney, Mairman of the mi s e committ.ee appropriations, m press! vely he d that a rough .imate of the ap'•opriations a 1- idy made and to bo ma do at this •Vnmcs It. Tn\vm\v. last session «»f the fifty-ninth c o n- Ki*oss, would mount up to $ 1,005,1144,- 4U8, the largest l>y many millions of any session of the congress. He said that if the revenues in the next year did not increase over those of the present year that the treasury of the United States was facing a deficit of $100,000,000 at the close of the fiscal year 1!»08. MAINE HAS BUSINESS MAN FOR GOVERNOR HYDRANTS FROZEN SO FIREMEN USED BUCKETS ON BLAZE TROLLEY STATION IN DANGER WHEN CAR RUNS WILD Another of the day's developments was that Howard Nenbit, Evelyn's brother, has left the jurisdiction of the court in order to avoid testifying, despite the subpoena served on him. Jerome is said to be deeply chagrined by this desertion. Evelyn made a positive denial that the American Embassy at London had interfered In an attempt to have her taken away from Thaw while on theif European trip. Shi* said that a secretary of the Embassy, who wanted her t<> go on the stage in London, ha<: sneaked Into her mother's bedroom while Mrs. Nesblt was In bed, and talked about her. NEW YORK. Feb. 25.—A persistent rumor was current in the corridors of the criminal court today at about the time for the opening of the Thaw trial, that Jerome would apply for a commission to sit on Harry Thaw's case before the day was over. Jerome is said to have made this statement privately this morning. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was once more recalled to the stand when court reconvened. Interest in the trial was at the highest point today, when the ixth week was opened. Evelyn was apparently in good health and spirits, excepting that her eyes had an unusually sad look. Jerome took up the cross-examination by plying her with questions about suppers she had attended with various people at various times. Jerome in putting his earlier question to the witness was reading from statements made to him by Mrs. Holinan, Evelyn's mother. Evelyn's positive answers were evidently quite at. variance with the data furnished Jerome, surprising him greatly. Evelyn testified that Mrs. Holman got all the money in White's letter of credit, which she had when she was abroad In 1903 with Thaw. Thaw said this money was poison. Jerome made a number of efforts to trap the witness but was not successful.In speaking of the suit for $5,000 brought against P. P Long, formerly of this place, who Is now proprietor of a store In I'nlontown. The Spirit had not at the time the full details of the matter. In regard to the suit a Connellsville paper printed lowing: j Dashes Into Telegraph Pole and Stops Close To Building.TWO HUNDRED DEAD IN PHILIPPINE CYCLONE Building Owned By Daniel Clark Narrowly Escapes Total Destruction. Practice games are being arranged villi Indiana, Slippery itock. St. Hona Hncent College and a number of oth•r places wnere they have reputations .'or the baseball teams that represent hem. So tin- Interest In baseball will be a few weeks ahead of the opening of the season for the Interstate League, which is May If). ELECTRIC CHAIR HAD NO TERROR FOR HIM Baseball matters in Punx.sutawney are now becoming dally talk with tinfans an»l until the team reports for practice on April 29, it is very likely that you will hear a great ileal of baseball talk, and aft.ir that date the likelihood is that you will not hear anything else. George Granger Pays the Penalty For the Murder of Charles Lutz. Thousands Are Rendered Homeless in Great Pacific Gale. By Publishers' Press. LONDON. Feb. 25,—Two hundred persons killed and thousands of others rendered homelss are the results of a terrific cyclone which struck southern points of the Philippine Islands, according to a report received In a special cablegram this morning. No further details of the disaster have as yet been received. Communications with the territory affected by the cyclone, Is seriously interrupted.By Publishers' Press. OSS1NING, N. Y., Feb. 25.—George Granger, twenty years old was electrocuted at f'!x o'clock this morning for the murder of Charles Lutz, who was a Duchess County dairyman. Granger was a Christian Scientist and clung to the conviction that the •death current which was sent through his body, had for him no danger, but was to be the means of his transition to higher realms. In the meantime the fire was blazing merrily away and there was nothing more on the ground to tight it with than a garden ho3e. Effective work was done by the small 'hose, however, and by tho time another plug had been tapped the fire was practically under control. Tho lire started from a defective Hue, which had given trouble on previous occasions, and while the damago will hardly exceed $300, the lire caused considerable excitement. Great crowds of people flocked to the top of the hill. In attempting to make speed with the ladder wagon one of the \vhee;» managed to get In the road of a telephone pole with the result that that piece of Punxsutnwney furniture Is now on the sick list. Fire broke out In the rear of a house owned by I). H. Clark and occupied by one *>f his men, yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The lire company made a quick run to tho scene of the blaze, but after they-had coupled their hose to a plug opposite Adrian Hospital they found that the water was frozen. Par No. 12 wa« making Its last trip about otic o'clock Sunday morning the controller refused to work and the ear Instead of stopping1 at the terminal, continued on its way and tore into th»- telephone pole directly in front of the station, which broke short off at. the bottom and was carried by the moving car Into the station. tearing a large hole in the roof of the small addition to the station and a larger one in the roof of the the station proper and had it not been that the pole was there, would likely have continued on its way and gone right through the sta^ui. The ear was somewhat late in arriving and there was but one passenger on the car- John Morris, who was conductor, volunteered to relieve the regular motorman in order that hi» might get home a little sooner. When the car arrived at the terminal the ratchet on the controller refused to work with the above result. The power might have been thrown off overhead but Mr. Morris was too busy with the controller to think of that. The head light and front windows of the car were completely demolished. But for the interference of a telegraph pole the street car station on Flndlay Street might now be a thing of the past. The plaintiff avers that she managed to raise $50 of this amount and proceedings were dropped. Since that time Mrs. Kuntz alleges in her bill that he has continually annoyed her, writing letters and calling over the •phone, and making threats, unless she paid the other $50. She Anally refused to do so and brought suit against him for $5,000. r XI ONTO WW. Fell -1.—A rather sensational suit for $5,000 against P. P. Long, a merchant who conducts ■tores in Uniontown and ('onnellsvillo was entered here this morning by Attorneys T. H. Hudson and S. John Morrow at the instance of Mrs. Martha Kuntz, of town. The allegations in the bills are rather serious, if true. Mrs. Kuntz alleges that on December 0 she and two other women, one of w.iom was her daughter, were arrested upon information made before "Squire John Dawson by Long, charged with stealing a coat valued at $9.50. The case against the other two women was dropped. Before the hearing Mrs. Kuntz alleges that Long sent for her to come to his store. When she did so. he offered to drop the case if she would agree to pay him $100. Word was received Friday by Harrison Senior, a prosperous rarmer living about two —,1 out of Falls Creek, that Ira B. Senior, of the State of Washington, had been foully murdered. No particulars accompanied the message. The deceased was well known In Falls Creek, he having spent a large part of his Hfe there. He was fifty years old at the time of his death. MARY8VILLE, O.—W. H. Nlckells, a wealthy citizen of Jackson, O-, who came here to take treatment for locomotor ataxia, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He left letters saying he was tired of sufferinr. I have twenty-tlve shares of the capital stock of the Farmers' National Bank, of Punxsutawney, for saf<». fW> B. Adams, attorney, Farmers' Bank Building. CUMBERLAND, Md.—Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, curate of Emmanuel parish, Cumberland, has accepted a call to the rectorship of Holy Trinity parish. Oarroll, Baltimore and Howard counties, Maryland. An endurance bowling contest of twenty-four hours' duration with novel features added Is an innovation to be tried In Chicago today and tomorrow. The novelties are that a halfhour Test will be given at the halfway mark, new pins being put on when the men resume play; from one to three men—one man more than has been allowed before—will be allowed to enter, and prises will be paid at both the half-way mark and at the nnlsh. William T. Cobb, the new govern or of Maine, was born at Rockland, Me., In 1857. He still makes his h ome in his native city. Qovernoi Cobb Is a lawyer. He graduated f rom Bowdoin College In 1878 and studled law for two years at the Unlversl ty of Lelpslg, Germany. He afterward* took a law course at Harvard U nlversity and was admitted to prae- Hls first political post was that o f alderman at Rockland, Me. He afterwards was a member of Governo r Burleigh's council. Mr. Cobb Is connected with many large business f irms of his Btate. TIFFIN, O.—Bert Qraveldlnger, a glass worker, aged twenty-four, was shot in the neck and seriously injured by his brother, who took him for a burglar. When he came In he made a noise and did not answer when called, desiring to scarce the family, wf v?'?rs-v'' T. a •Bm •7 ' # V,' n.r-»;■■■ ..,vi ».,• • . ?p 1* 6ity diti°n ji Itomiiitatti iszlzzzz ■