Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-03-08

              t. ,-7 . . .  *T  6i» 8d"ion i $be ittiiiittf atom tj §mfit TBI WBATBSB WASHiNOroX Marsh t.—Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Colder tonight. VOL. I. No. 147. PRICE 2 CENTS .ERRY' HOLDS UP $1,000,000. By Publishers' Press. St. Louis Trolley Cars Crash at High Speed With Usual Results. illiam C. Greene ci.vii mi:I:TS. "Jaw. Maginnis, "Mgr. Theater. "The 'Arrival of Kitty' Co. gave best of satisfaction. Everybody pleased immensely. Are booked for return date. "A. P. WAY" PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1907 MANY NOTABLES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND CHAMBER'S BANQUET * * * TKAIX KITXS TO ♦ * IT-VX'Y WITHOUT ♦ < UK AH K\l» CllKW. ♦ - SMALL BOYS FOUND DRUNK IN STREETS AND ARRESTS FOLLOW THE NEW POLICY OF GOVERNOR STUART IS INAUGURATED BY TODD WARNING WAS GIVEN BEFORE FATAL WRECK ON NEW YORK CENTRAL Shown That Man Had Entered Barroom and Committed Larceny. President Rcose /elt and Many Railroad Officials Asken to Come. Attorney General Forbids Payment of the Primary Election Bills. Motor Driver Made Report That the Track f e d ;d Attention. HE GAVE LIQUOR TO MINORS COMMIT! EE HOLDS MEETING Road Money Must Not go to Townships Until it is Appropriated. FOREMAN LOOKED AT IT Lad in Turn Gives the Stuff to Other Minors With Disastrous Results. Decided That Many Local Citizens Will Be Numbered Among the Speakers. Crucial Point is Reached in State Commissions Inquest Into N. Y. Central Wreck. In a session lasting a half hour, the iHoure this morning passed seventyeight bills on the first reading, besides presenting petitions and making reports from committees. One of the •»111 ?* Introduced provides fur «'! pension of the Pennsyl. van I a soldiers and sailors who served during the <'ivll War. Secretary Harry S. Calvert was hurried over to New York on some secret mission connected with the investigation.W. W. Murray, sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, was sent to Philadelphia to subpoena a number of witnesses who are wanted before the capltol investigating committee. Th • names are withheld. J used for other purposes, the distribution per pupil will be $4.88. The men were both Riven a hearing this morning, Morrlsey pleading not guilty. Hut before the hearing was finished the evidence was so strong against him that he changed his plea to that <>f guilty. Both men were hold by 'Squire Kodgers for court In default of $500 ball. Sergeant Logan took them t«> Brookvllle this morning at 11:20 o'clock. Later Morriaey was charged by Hoi'Sf Williams with furnishing liquor to minors. Heese Williams Is a brother-ln-law of Hughes' and a brother of the boy that came home drunk, and E. S. Williams made the same charge against Robert Hughes. fore Squire Hodgers, charging him with the theft of a quantity of whisky and alcohol. When he was Informed that Morrlsey had stolen liquor from his bar he loft no time in making information be- KIDNAPERS SEND WORD OF RANSOM TO BE DEMANDED lie of t.10 m-lcl a mccifh time the le plans for ft Thursday ATTORNEY WINGERT PROCEEDS AGAINST WATER COMPANY out them. ! 4* When the time freight on the ♦ 4» Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- «► !♦ burg Railroad came into this •> 4* place about six o'clock last ♦ i 4* night with forty empty cars, ♦ 4» the head brakeman looked for ♦ 4* the conductor and flagman, and ♦ 4* failing to And them reported ♦ 1* them missing. They had last ♦ . ♦ been seen at DuBois and to ev- ♦ ,4* cry operator between this place 4* ! and DuBois was sent a nies- 4* •I' sage asking if the missing men 4* 4° had been seen. ♦ 4* Xo one seemed to know any- 4" ♦ thing about them until about 4» 4* eight o'clock, when the oper-v 4* 4* ator at Indiana Junction wired 4* 4* Punx'y that the conductor and 4* 4* flagman had arrived there, hav- 4» 4» ing walked from Big Run. 4* 4* A car from the Salamanca 4* 4* train had been put In the Big 4* 4' Run yards and the conductor 4* ] 4* and brakeman happened to be 4* 4' on this car when, for some 4* 4* reason or other, the train pull- 4* 4* cd off to Punxsutawnoy with- 4* Attends Hearing at Harrisburg in Efiort to Secure Writ of Quo Waranto. Rewards for Arrest Must Bo Withdrawn at Peril of Boy's Life. EXPECTS CHARTER SOON PRESIDENT ELIOT SEVERELY ARRAIGNS COLLEGE ATHLETICS CHILD IS REPORTED WELL Head of Harvard Says New Football Is Still Ungintlemanly."UNFIT FOR COLLEGE USE." Decries Exaggeration .Extravagance and Hpsteria—Would Limit Schedules. on Track No. 3, north of Bronx The jar was so pronounced that he spoke about it to his companions in tlni cab, Joseph M. Steelman, an operating inspector, and George Meehan, ihe helper, and when he «;<<t to Wakefield, the end of the electric division, he asked the yardmastcr to send a telegram to DlvisionSuperintendent Miles Bronson telling him about the track. This Is the telegram that Mr. Hronson received and which he transmitted to H. S. Balliet, Engineer of Maintenance of Way: Louis Beale, an electric motorman. who took a train over the track about 9:30 on the morning of the day of the wreck, testified to the commission that he had felt an unusual jerk which made the locomotive lunge at the curve near the Woodlawn Avenue bridge. N'KW YORK, March 8.—The State Railroad Commissioners believe that yetKerday's hearing on the wreck of the While Plains Express went straight to the crux of the question, deve loping, as it did, the facts about the report of the apparently faulty condition of the track at the Woodlawn Avenue curve, where the wreck occurred, and the failure of the New York Central employes to make an Immediate investigation. While in Harrisburg: Mr. Wingert also ilill all in his power to rush the new charter for Greater Punxsutawney. lie is confident that it will arrive by Monday evening in time for council meeting. Mr. Wingert was accompanied to the Capital City by Councilmen A. 1'. Walker, Dr. G. H. Bell and Harry Heekendorn, who appeared as witnesses for the borough. Attorney Jeff G. Wingert. who attended the hearing if the quo warranto proceedings instituted by the borough againftt the Punxsutaw ney Water Company at Harrisburg, returned homo yesterday. SKIN GRAFTING SAVES GIRL Another me< ting will be held torn «r-row morning when final arrangements will lu made. The acceptances are supposed to be in by tonight so as In enable the committee to prepare \ •• cordingly and those desiring to attend should not fail to inform the committee of the fact at once. The speakers will be, for the m\:J part, citizens of Punxsutawney. They will talk of the advantages for the manufacture to be found here, and altogether the banquet promises to be by fty the biggt nt event of ils kind ever held within the borough limits. Kevi rat out-of-town guc sts have b< < n Invited, among whom are President Theodore Roosevelt, General Superintendent. \Y. T. Noonan, of the Puffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Hailroad, President James McCrca, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President F. A. Delano, of the Wabash Railroad, Judge John W. Reed, of Jefferson County, and several others. It was announced thai a large percentage of the invitations had been acknowledged and in the list of those who have accepted are found the names of some of Punxsutawney's most substantial and influential citizens.The banquet commit I Chamber of Commerce 1 Ing last evening at whi members talked oyer t] the torn ing banquet neJ evening. I (Continued on Second Page.) More Than Three Hundred Pieces of Cuticle Attached to Little Child. DEFENSE IN THAW CASE IS RESTED RESERVES DECISION UNTIL AFTER TRIAL ELEVEN HURT III ST. LOUIS WRECK Tt. Is said that the boy's kidnapers art- now hiding in New Jersey. «'onsiderable mystery attaches to this letter, both I>r. Marvin and the police refusing: to discuss it. Marvin even denies that a letter has been received. There are the best of reasons. however, for believing Chat th<x letter has ben received. According to :i rumor in circulation today, it Is said that the letter demands a big ransom and an Immediate withdrawal of the rewards offered for the capture of the kidnapers. The child is said to be quite safe, bu4 the letter conveys threats of what will happen t«> him it' the money is not forthcoming. Hy Publishers' Press. IH)VKK Del., March 8.—Dr. Marvin. of Kittshammock, whose fouryear-old son disappeared last Monday, is in receipt of a letter from the kidnapers of his child. Adjournment is Then Taken Until Monday at Request of Jerome. Judge Reed Will Not Act in Case of Tony Loretti For Sometime to Come. competition— n the university mase the num•lpatlng in eaeh f usion of what At the same -President 101 i- . again arraign- his annual reverseers of the ng the restrle,11 branches «»f Hughes left the hotel to find some of his friends; he also wanting to be a good fellow and "set 'em up." He .found the crowd of boys nearby and they were induced to take a nip with the result that they were almost immediately drunk. Hughes told the officers that he was at the Llndse> House about noon. There was no person in the barroom and that as business was quiet the bartender stepped out for dinner, no person being left In charge of tin- bar. Morrisey is a boarder at the Llndsey House and has been accorded quite a few privileges about the hotel. As soon as the bartender was out of the room, he is said to have stepped behind the bar and possessed himself of four and a half pints of whiskey and a pint of alcohol. These were distributed among his friends, Hughes receiving the pint of alcohol. The officers then went to the Lindsey 11 oust* to look f«»r Morrisey. Ho was in his room and was placed under arrest. About this time Landlord Brown made Ills appearance. Morrisey was an inmate of tin- house and he wanted to know what he had done. Sergeant Joe Logan and Private Walsh were sent to Llndsey to take charge of affairs. They arrested Robert Hughes, aged twenty years and brother-in-law of the Williams lad. While being taken to the lockup Hughes was questioned as to where he had secured the liquor and the story he told has led to the arrest of Jack Morrisey, a well known local moulder. 10. W. Williams, father of one of the boys, telephoned to the State Police and asked that a couple of men be sent to Lindsev to determine, if possible, who had furnished the liquor to the boys. About the same time a call cam* from the Punxsuftawney Iron Company's furnace asking that an officer or two be sent there to remove a man from the vicinity of the furnace who was also drunk. Punxsutawney West End citizens wore considerably stirred up yesterday morning when it was found that several boys, rangiitK iti ages between fourteen and sixtee n years, were about the streets paralysed drunk. ford County. is organizing: a fight on t.he $13,000,000 appropriation proposed for schools by the house appropriation committee. He says the committee is providing to pay the salaries of the county superintendents out of this fund. This item amounts to $230,000 and formerly has been a separate appropriation. He figures that under the $11,000,000 appropriation there was an allowance for each pupil in the tate of $5.14 while with $13,- 000,000, after deducting the amount® amounts owing them. mlt the statement to the legislature and ask for a specific appropriation. It [ Is ridt posstbte to lei! what amount Of I money will be required. Representative Moscrlpt, of Brad- j He will sub- The first warrant issued was for Elizabeth Township. Allegheny County, and it was upon this case that Attorney General Todd gave the treasurer his opinion. Representative William Heath procured the warrant from Commissioner Hunter. Tt called for $1,GS9.21. which is fifteen per cent o fthe $11,261.43 of cash tax collected by the township. Treasurer Berry was advised by Mr. Todd to refuse payment. Commissioner Hunter is now preparing a list of the townships and the er not later than March 1 The attorney general has given a similar opinion in the case of townships which have abolished the work tax on roads and are entitled to llfteen per cent, of the amount collected. The state was to pay this on warrant of the highway commissioner drawn Upon money in the state treasury "not otherwise appropriated." The townships must report to the commlssion- The attorney general decides that the state should not pay money out of "funds not otherwise appropriated." It was from such a fund the legislature of 1006 provided for the payment the primaries. It means that the legislature will have to pass a bill specifically appropriating the money for the winter primaries and making provision for the other three primaries which will be held during the two fiscal years. IIARRISBURC, March 8.—All bills for expenses incurred by the sixtyseven counties of conducting the winter primaries have been held cp by State Treasurer Berry on an opinion from Attorney General Todd. The bills aggregate over $1,000,000. MARY BECAME JUST TRIFLE OBSTREPEROUS Skin grafting is responsible for recovery, the surgeons say. Four persons contributed "20 pieces of cuticle from their own bodies, which were grafted to the burned surface of the child's body. PITTSPURG, March 8. — Surgeons at *he Presbyterian Hospital have announced that Iowa McKenzie, the sixyear-old daughter of George McKenzie, who was burned over more than one-third of l.er body, by her clothing catching fire at an opeil grate, several weeks ago, would recover. When one-third of a person's body is burned the surgeons always say they cannot recover, so that little Miss McKenzie's case Is a most remarkable one. We will have apple, peach, lemon, raisin, pine-apple and mince pies, fit for a queen, at the Bon Ton Bakery. —Ct2 in the vernacular sense, and declares that it is unlit for college uses, In common with besket ball and hockey, of which promote recklessness, causing and sustaining injur- The attack on football was surprising because of his recent denial that the abolition of the sport was in contemplation and also because of his generally favorable attitude toward tln-jHffft rotation of the game last FaTI. the game as "lieree" BOSTON, March S.- ot amazed Harvard by ing football bitterly &n| port tp the Board of <1 university and advocaj Hon to two contests intercollegiate atiileliv time he advises the e he calls "domestic" that is, contests with itself—in order to in ber of students pari given sport, She Thinks of Them When Arrested. Woman Tells Detectives What LONDON — It was announced at a meeting of the council of the Ladies' Golf Union, held in London, that an international match would be arranged hatween British players and the American women golfers, who are coming o'-o- the championship meeting to be held at New Castle, County Down, Ireland, in May. Twenty cent angel food, 15 cents at the Bon Ton Bakery Saturday.—6t2 Attorney McCraeken, of Brookville. made argument for a new trial early] this week. Lorettl is charged with the murder that occurred at Sykesvlllo during the strike last year. It is said that the victim died from the effects of a pistol wound although he was badly cut up in the affair. Judge Iteod has announced that he will give no decision regarding a new tt*lii 1 for Tony Loretti, who was found guilty of murder at the January Court, until after Mczxenotte and Hommuna, who are charged with complication in the murder, have been tried. Hoth tars were running at a high rate of speed when the nortrbound car jumped the track, stopping on the southbound track, directly in front of the approaching car. ST. LOUIS, March s.—In a headend collision this morning, between two California Avenue trolley cars, eleven passengers were seriously injured. several of whom will probably die, and a seore of others were badly bruised and cut. By Publishers' Press. KITTY, PRETTY KITTlf ARRIVED HERE TODAY SCOUT AND CATTLE RAISER IS NOW WORTH MILLIONS "The game of football was somewhat improved by the new rules extorted last year from Its creators and managers by the pressure of public opinion. Under the new rules the game is livelier and therefore more interesting to watch. It gives appropriate opportunities Jo several kinds of natural -athletes, and it affords fewer opportunities for foul play and brutality. whether deliberate and planned or sudden and accidental, than the game under the former rules afforded.In speaking of the reformed sport, the report declares: She's Got the Troupe With Her That Pleased Audiences Everywhere. At eleven o'clock an extremely tastey lunch was served. The (5Iris club was entertained last night at the home of Miss Fdna Hanscum, the evening being spent at Euchre. l)r. J. L Robinson was the iueky man and was presented with a handsome clothes brush. Mrs. Frank •VIc< 'auIcy won the ladles' prize, which was a beautiful hand-painted dish. When taken before the squire at DuBols they were fined five dollars and costs. When the woman was arrested she spent about fifteen minutes in telling the detectives what she though of them and the language was far from being the choicest she could have used. For being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language, Mary Brumbaugh and two men were arrested In the station at Falls reek last Wednesday by Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad Detectives Ward and Smith. MADE IT INTERESTING FOR COUPLE NEWLY WEDDED Mr. and Mrs. John Gaskill Unable to Ignore Persistent Serenaders. This Improvement was mainly due to the "Neutjal zone" between the opposing rush lines, and to the requirement that ten yards Instead of Ave be made in three downs. Many Injuries were caused before the "neutral zone" was established by the rush of the backs into a solid mass of men. It is a moving line into which "Public opinion also compelled the employment of a better kind of official, although in respect to the number of officials, the new rules were violated at .most of the principal games by consent of the coaches and captains. The evidently made a hit in Du- Bois last night, as they have been booked for a return engagement in that town in the near future. This was announced in a telegram received by Manager J. K. Maglnnis of the Jefferson Theater, this morning, which reads as follows: "The "Arrival of Kitty" company landed in Punxsutawney early this morn In~ DuBois with their full equipment of baggage and scenery. If their appearance off the stage is any recommendation the play must be tip top. (Continued on Second Page.) TAKEN FROM SECLUSION WERE TRYING BLIND BAGGAGE TRAVELING night and could not be aroused. Af♦ about fifteen minutes of pound- and shooting on of the serenader® volunteered to enter the house and determine the exact cause why Mr. and Mrs. Gaskill did not show up. As he was at qa in ted with the house he did not have much trouble in finding the young: folks and they were compelled to present themselves to the frenzied mob. After speeches had been made pro and con the cltizns of Bell Township left for their homes, glad to know that they had not been outwitted by a pair so n.«w. Made to Appear Before Their Tormentors Although the Hour Was Late. Murphy and Pierce Trifle Fussed Because They Lost a Ride on the "Flyer." It Is said at the office of Jerome that Miss May MacKonzie will be the first witness to be called on Monday. She cannot be used in rebuttal of her own testimony, hut will be asked to Introduce certain letters. According to a report current at the Criminal Courts building today, Evelyn Ncablt Thaw will be recalled to the stand early next week as a witness for the State. Evelyn went from the court room to her husband's cell and remained with him for luncheon. Attorneys Del mas. 'ley, and Peabody also visited the prisoner. The person who is vexed most by the adjournment of the ease is Harry, Thaw who. upon return to the Tombs, | fretted and fumed in his characteristic way, berating Jerome for causing s<>' much useless delay. The consent without any protest whatever, to a postponement was another surprise to Jerome, who will attempt to regain ground which, it i* felt, he has lost. Jerome, it Is said, will drag to the stand a number of Thaw's own friends. It is, however, hard to guess just what the District Attorney hopes to draw from such unwilling witnesses. Jerome was completely "stumped" by the sudden change in the front of the defense in resting its case today. Although the sudden change was characteristic of Delmas' methods heretofore, and In line with the tactics that have kept Jerome guessing continually since the trial began, it had been expected that Delmas would light bitterly against any posipoii"- ment that would give the State time to prepare the case anew. Attorney Delmas had just announced otlicially that the defense had rested its case. Attorney Delmas agreed to the adjournment. Adjournment to Monday was granted this morning at request of District Attorney Jerome, in the Thaw trial, two minutes after the opening of court. NKYV YORK. March 8.—Lawyci Delphln M. Delmas today again out- Hanked Jerome and the latter was compelled to sue for an armistice In order to enable him to arrange his plan of tight in the Thaw trial. Foreigner is Taken in the Toili By Policeman Wall on Serious Charge. FLASHES KNIFE AND IS THEN ARRESTED. A WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE BILL INTRODUCED "One of din Funny Affairs. "'The Arrival of Kitty' was a good comedy piece. And since Kitty has arrived and departed also It is In place to say that DuBois theater patrons would like to have her como back again, as she did at Bradford and Itidgway. This is one of the several productions Manager Way has brought here this season - that won tremendous popularity with metropolitan audience" and then "made good" with the country people." That Manager Way, of the DuBola theater is not alone in his enthusiasm, is evidenced by the following from this morning's DuBois Courier: For assaulting Mike Teppco and attempting to cut him with a knife, Mike Knolysik was arrested by Policeman William Wall last Monday. It seems that the two men had had a few cross words and Knolysik started in to put Teppco in the land of the hereafter but the latter happens to be a goodsized man and frustrated the attempt though he was cut slightly on the arnfe. Teppco swore out a warrant for his assailant's arrest and when arraign* ed before 'Squire Corey, Knolysik wMM held for court. But. early as it was, the newly married couple had retired for the When the serenaders arrived at the Klbell homestead they were loaded down with cow bells, saws, horns, pistols and guns and when the leader gave the word to start, the immediate vicinity resembled very much a din that canot be heard any place outside of a battlefield or Bell Townshit).Mr. and John CS'askill, recently married, arrived at the home of the bride's father. Lewis Klbell, of Hell Township, and the friends and neighbors of the young couple immediately luid plans for a serenade, such as had never been known in the wilds of Jefferson County before. ' Premier Campbell Bannerman spoke against the bill. Only women wha had been previously sworn have been admitted to the galleries today. By Publishers' Press. LONDON, March 8.—Mr. Dicksinson Introduced a woman's suffrage bill In the House of Commons today. The two men*were discovered by Detective Smith on the front end of the baggage coach of the afternoon- flyer and though they claimed that they had not yet received their ride, Smith thought they had arrived In town by that method and on that train, and they were accordingly arrested. For riding trains and being suspicious characters, John Murphy and Thomas Pierce were arrested yesterday afternoon by Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Detective Smith und Private Nathan Kohut, of Troop D, State Police. He Is one of the largest landowners In the world, owing 1,700,000 acres of land and about 100,000 cattle. He gained a great reputation as a scout and Indian flgatcr. He located copper properties In Mcxtco, and after Interesting New York capital he developed the mines, and is estimated ta be worth In the neighborhood of 130,000,000. Col. William Cornell Greene is prsident of the Greon Consolidated Copper Company In Sonora, Mexico. Colonel Greene is of distinguished Colonial ancestry, and was born in Westchester County, New York, in 1851. He entered into business into business In New York City in 1867, but in 1870 he went to the Kockles and for many years engaged in mining and cattle raising. NINA, O.—The Lake Shore coal docks were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000, afikM < [fx, rt: • .3 wm ■ > T' .* m , jr  (■ SPftf « a ¥ S