Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-03-26

              L NO ACTION AT THIS SESSION There Were Many Who Were 111 or Who Dodged the Issue. Spceial I Yom Publishers* I'rr.ss. Ni:\\ YORK. March 2(1. — iliiHlice { il/ucralil (his aftcmooti decided |o appoint ;i hinac.v commission to lie(ermine ili<* status ot llarry Thaw's pI'CMMIl sanity. Continued on Page Three. ifiil Iffy Clarence.D. Clark }i**r~mr GOING AFTER AN IMPROVED TRAI PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1007 VOL. 1. No. 162. NEW INDUSTRY MAY BE SECURED FOR THIS PLACE SERVICE PRICE 2 CENTS REMARK OF JUROR MAY MEAN MISTRIAL OF THE THAW CASE DEPENDENCE PLACED ON MR. BURTON TO SMASH MR. FORAKER LOCAL OPTION BILL IS DEFEATED III THE LOWER BRANCH Man in Box Alleged to Have Said None Believe Defendant Insane. Vote Is Against Placing the Craven Measure on the Calendar. Chamber of Commerce and Merchant's Association Will Act This Week. Fighting Representative Being Groomed For Seat in the Senate. Beler Water Heating Company Being Sought By Several Towns. REPRESENTATIVE IN TOWN ADVANTAGES TO GAIN JEROME IS INVESTIGATING. LEADING TAFT'S CANVASS Calls Upon The Spirit and is Referred to Secretary Mc- Kibben. More Trains on Pennsy Would Open Up Large Purchasing Territory. Strong Forces Rallying to Overturn the Old Hanna Machine. If Found True He Will at Once Ask For Dismissal of the Jury. Northern Cambria County, as \v« II as cherry Tire, Heihvood, t'lynn r and Hastings. Tills plan is backed by i vi-ia bmly that uses (he railroad in any way and especially by the traveling men who are making it a habit of avoiding Punxsutawncy on account of not 1»«• ink abb* lo get out Sunday. Hesides this is the only braneh of tin- Pennsylvania that docs not inn Sunda.r trains and the citizens feel ;i though the railroad company saould do something to relieve the situation. II Ih llki'ly also lhal the RiiIThI". Rochester & 1'ittsburg oiHcials will bo asked by the business men t<> put nil an accommodation train from Bradford and DyBois thHt will arrive here about eight o'clock in the evening and leave for those points about clock in the morning. WASHINGTON, March 26. — Although Representative Burton will not admit it, at least 'publicly, he is being groomed for Joseph H. Forakcr's place iti tho United States Senate. He will he the candidate «»I' the Tal't supporters, the Administration men. and the reform element, which is trying to overthrow the Forakcr-1>ick ma- Probably Have Clue By This Time and May Make Arrests. • uses iron, coal, coke and gas in the manufacture of its heaters and none of the other places offered can begin t«» compete with Punxsutawney when it comes to a question of natural advantages, Besides, it seems that the Belor officials are desirous of locating their plant near the Pittsburg market, so that would naturally .shut out Willlutnsport and Sunbury. As yet negotiations have not progressed to such a point where conditions have been oftVred by either side to the question, but it is expected that they will within lh<' next few days. At any rate an investigation of ir.e plant is promised by the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce and should it be found that this company would be a help to the community that body will go after it full force. STATE POLICE SEEK PARENTS OF BABE LEFT AT GRANGE Monster Drawbridge to Be Lifted Bodily and Moved 500 Feet. SUNT ENGINEERING FEAT UNDERTAKEN ON HARLEM RIVER TRACED BY THE SOOTHERS WEIGHS OVER GOO TONS Constabulary Assumes New Role and Seems Sanguine of Success. Work is to be Accomplished in Something Less Than Two Honrs. A! meetings of tho Merchants' Protective Association .ind the I'unxsutawney Chamber of Commerce this week, a plan will be proposed by which it is hoped that the train service on th - Pennsylvania Railroad out of Punxsutawney may be Improved. It is said that on many occasions individuals have made efforts ill • this direction but for some reason their requestes would be sidetracked and the train service has remained tin' same since the road was first opened. The improvements desired consist of a Sunday train lo Pellwood and a laily train direct from Punxsutawney lo Cresson. The attention of th railroad officials will be brought to Uhe advantages offered by a train ervice to Cresson. i'y this means a new field for the merchants and others would be opened up, besides giving a quicker service to the main line for those who desire to travel we : on the Pennsylvania. The schedule proposed is for the first train to leave i'unxs-utawney at 4:40 a. m. and arive at Cresson at 7: r.r» o'clock. Leave I'unxsutawney at 1:10 p. m. and arrive at Cresson at 4:15 o'clock, coining this way the train would leave Cresson in the morning at 9:10 o'- clock and arrive here at 12:30 o'clock and again in I be afternon at 5:30 o'- clock and arrive here at S:50 o'clock. This train would pass through Minister, Kaylor Junction, Patton, W'estover, I„a Jyse, Mahaffey, McCJres and Oar way Junction and would connect with Fbensburg Vlntondale an I Hlackliek' and many other points in odoro lturtou and A Representative The- The Holer Water Heating: Company Puuxsutawnoy has a chance to secure the location hero of an industry employing: from the start from l.r»0 to 200 men providing tlx* proper inducements arc offered. The Chamber of Commerce already has the matter in hand and is expected to act promptly. The contemplated operation is known as the Boler Water Heating Company of Pittsburg. When H. Y. Hoelsclie, of Brookville, representing tin* concern, made a visit to the town today The Spirit at once referred him to E. C. McKlbben, secretary of tin' Puuxsutawnoy Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hoelscho explained the workings of the plant, which is now located in Pittsburg. He claimed that while the company is doing a big business it is held back on account of being very limited in floor space at the Pittsburg plant. Secretary McKibben gave the representative a list of qucs'.lons which had been prepared by tin4 Chamber of Commerce and he wlH submit the list to the officials of the company. Later a meeting between the official* of the company and the members of the Punsutawney Chamber of Com,merce will be arranged and the proposition, whatever it might be, will be given to the citizens of the town. At the present time Kittanning, Wiliamsport, Sunbury and other towns are negotiating with the Boler people for their plant. But because Puuxsutawnoy gets into the race last is no reason for believing she will not beat them all out when it comes to a final decision. WIFE HAS PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OF HER BACK No him wa. fflv< n by the Juror as In what view the other members* might iiol.l as t«» Thaw's mental eon* ♦ IitIon at th<- time of the killing of White. * "A commission in lunacy may bo appointc! now. taking the matter out <>f your hands.The Juror replied: "1 don't think so; there is no man in the jury who does not think Thaw is sane at present.*' According to the report the remark was made by the Juror while playing pinochle lit Saturday night. One player remarked: It Jerome is convinced that there oii;- hern any p rions violation of Justiee Fit/g' raid's oft-repeated Instructions to the jury not to discuss the ' :tse while out of Court, or even to .all. about it among themselves, it Is reported that h«- will move Cor the dismissal of the jury. When tie nis riet Attorney today received th- report that one of the jurors had mad' such a remark to a number of friends, while a game of > anls was in progress in the Sagamore < 'lull, he at once instituted an investigation.MOW YORK, March -6.—With the trial of Harry Thaw now in its tenth week and with the jurors for over six weeks having been allowed to separate with no suspicion of attempts having been made to influence their verdict there is a possibility today of a mistrial, resulting from a remark which is attributed to one of tin- jurors declaring that not one in the box has an> doubt but that Thaw is sane to- alior, iKitli of Ohio, MINER IS CRUSHED BY FALL OF ROCK \\ l:o w ill coiinvl I'oi seat in the Highor Iloily. May Use it as Evidence Against Husband Alleged to Have Beaten Her. Charles Carlstrom Meets With Fatal Accident in Eleanora Shaft. flu- bridge as tho tide rises. The work will be commenced at low tldo, and 1 In* timbers will be built up under tht* bridge. As the tide rises tho structure will rise with It. At eighteen inches tho bridge will commence to iii'ivo and win n tbc tide has risen throe fiot it will bo clour of t • piers. Thon will oomo tlie difficult work of moving the bridge down tho river. Two tugs will draw while to others, in tho rear, will retard and guide. (Jreat caro will be exorcised to prevent a collision or a shifting of ballast. If anything; should give, the bridge would topple off into the river. Tho top of tho structure is sixtyt'our t- -•( above water. About thirty men will be engaged In tho work and the cost will amount to $70,000. The Madison Avenue Uridge was completed in 1X84 and has long outlived its usefulness, as it is tho most important connectng link between Manhattan and the Uronx. Although the bridge was regarded as a marvel in its day, the structure is now entirely Inadequate for the present enormous traffic. The bridge is built of iron, steel not being used in bridges at the time of its construction, and the span is .'too feet in length being the longest draw span in this part of the country. The city decided some time ago to replace the bridge with a much larger one, but how to do so without seriously interfering with* traffic was the problem to be solved The lifting will be done by four large scows, which will receive timber blocking to engage the lower side of Special Service of The Spirit NKW YORK, March 2(5*. Engineers throughout the country will watch with interest a rare and difficult engineering feat to be performed on the llarleni river tomorrow, when the big drawbridge spanning the river at Madison Avenue will be picked up bodily and moved GOO feet farther down the stream. \ total weight of tons s to be lifted and it is expected the operation will occupy two hours. WAS FIRST REPRESENTATIVE FROM STATE OF WYOMING Carlstrom was a miner employed in the Eleanora shaft and it was while; blowing down coal that the rocks fell from the roof pinning him to the floor and crushing the lower part of his body in a horrible manner. Companions who were working nearby at once wont to his assistance and succeeded in removing the rock. He was taken to the Adrian hospital where he died at twelve o'clock. Burial will be made tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock in the Swedish cemetery at Anita. Carlstrom who was thirty-nine years of ago, is survived by his wife and two small children. His abdomen crushed frightfully by a fall of rock early yesterday morning, Charles Carlstrom, a well known miner of Anita lived live hours after the accident. STRIKE IMMINENT ON WESTERN MUD The largest audience of the session attended last night. Churchmen and liquor men filled the galleries and were wedged in together on the floor. Chaplain Houck in a guarded way prayed for the success of Mr. Craven's light to put the bill on the calendar. All day telegrams were poured into Ilarrisburg on both sides of the question.In calling up his resolution to put the bill on the calendar, Mr. Craven eaid: "The other day I noticed the railroad sign, 'Stop, Look and Listen.* This is a good-'mrrtttt'-fm*thtrflfprtw* Chairman Schad of the law and order committee told of the fair treatment accorded the bill. He desired to have a letter from a minister of the gospel read. The clerk read a lican party to heed tonight. I have telegrams reeclved from many ministerial and lay associations. These men represent the cream of our citizenship. In my discussion 1 lay no stress on the merits of the bill. There may be more vital questions before this legislature, but I doubt it. No vote will be more carefully analyzed than this one. The question tonight is whether we are to follow the old custom of allowing a committee to settle great questions. No committee should be made judge, jury and executioner. Many of the old school of politics stand for the courtesy due a committee, but it will not do In these days. Is the hand of steel still inside the silken glove? There is an honest difference of opinion on the question of local option, but there can be no question as to the position this bill occupies in the public mind. The legislation is backed by 25 0,000 voters. It has the support of the pulpit and press. Tonight we want the hands on and not under the table. The man who votes to put this bill on th«* calendar does not commit him* self to the main question. No bill against the steel, Iron or coal industries has been denied a place on the calendar. Does It mean that this one great revenue producer yields more power than these great industries T have mentioned? is the Republican party so well guarded that it can sneer at the church vote? Is the Republican party so proud of its recent history that it can insult this element? HARR1SBURG, March 2G.—The local option bill was not placed upon the calendar of the house. It lacked eight votes of the required one hundred and four. The ayes were ninetysix and the nays eighty-nine. This means that local option is a dead issue so far as this legislature is concerned. It will be noticed that twenty-one members were missing. Of these Murphy, Rutlandt and Esler, of Allegheny; Brown of Clarion; Mumma of Philadelphia; Whitman of Venango, and James of Cambria were reported as sick. The following furnished no excuse, and arc naturally classed as dodgers: Representative* North and Longwell of Jefferson County, voted for the bill. Beck, Northampton; Clarency, Philadelphia; Dunsmoro, Tioga; Elsasser, Philadelphia; Freeman, Lebanon; Hoffman, Lancaster; llulin, Philadelphia; Lutz, Delaware; Lydick, Allegheny; Mclntyre, Mercer; Morrison, Berks; Noll, Center; Sod wick, Armstrong; Stradlng, Philadelphia. Charged with assault and bat lory Savasch was arrostoil yesterday by Constable Park Walkor. Savasch who is ordinarily a hardworking. law-abiding citizen, has always shown a groat doal of affection lor liis wifo. Yesterday, however, ho took enough whiskey to bo nn an and for somo fancied wrong ho, it is claimed by his wifo, boat hor over tho bark with a poker, cutting and bruising her in a frightful manner. \ photograph was taken of Mrs. Savasi ii back, to be used as evidence. It is not now the wish of the young wife to prosecute hor husband and she is doing all in her power to seeure his liberty. If Peter Suva soli, of the West JOnd, evod faces a Jury on the charge of beating his wife, a photograph of tho welted back of his spouse is likely to be introduced as mute, but probably very effective, evidWiee of the alleged assault and its attendant result.:.NATIONAL BANKS MUSI MAKE DEPORT The same members of the Troop went bock to Cirange I his morning, however, and expect to escort the whole buneh, father, mother and baby, with eastoria, paregoric, taleum powder, dresses and blankets to I'unxsutawney some afternoon. They cannot arrest the baby alone because, being only two weeks old, it is hardly to blame for the excitement stirred up in its behalf, so they must arrest the principals or nobody. Cor some kind person to leave a baby with all the necessary equipment on a door step and then quietly fade away is something that does not happen every day in Grange, Pa., and therefore that little act of kindness alone lias stirred the citizens of tin locality as they have never been stirred before. Grange is a quiet place, even In time of celebration, and that any person or persona could recklessly illstribute babies around the village without being caught, Is a sure sign that some kind-hearted citizen is doing all In his power to give the town of Grange a boost with the hope that it will become a city some day. Blit what is still more unusual is the fact that two members of the State Police arrived in Grange yesterday and announced that they had a clue and wanted the guilty person to show up without delay. The guilty person could not have been among the crowd gathered in the village store, for the members of Troop I) were unsuccessful and after looking into the eyes of each of those assembled they crawled on their horses and returned to Puuxsutawnoy. The big-chested men, however, did not leave that locality until they had discovered where the bottle of castoria had come from and even got on the trail of a certain bottle of paregoric, but whether it was the same bottle that was thrown in with tinbaby is still a question. They were able to discover that one of the oldest inhabitants had bought a tooth brush in his boyhood days and were almost ready to make the arrest when up bobs another clue, which led tliom out of town. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETS ON MONDAY Ohio is the battleground of the light for the Republican Presidential nomination in l!»os. Two things have combined to make it so. First, the fact that the boss of the Ohio machine is the ch'ief of the Kepublican opposition to Roosevelt in the Nation; second, the fact thai tho Presidential candidate whom the President favors comes from < Hilo. So there is the lustiest sort of a movement, in Ohio to down Foraker and get control of the organization. The rank and file of the party in Ohio, unless every report coming into Washington is false, is heartily for It is an axiom of politics that a Presidon4lal candidate must have his State behind him if ho is to he nominated. It is the outgrowth of an ancient political superstition. There is really 110 reason for its application in the present case. The theory back of the superstition is that unless the candidate can command his own Stale in the convention he cannot bo sure of it, at the polls. In the present case that does not hold, for no sane man doubts that Taft could carry Ohio in November, whether or not he had the delegation In Juno. Nevertheless, superstitions are stubborn things, and it is assumed that Taft cannot be nominated unless ho gets tho Ohio delegation. chine, Ohio, as well as of whatever ( ver < >hio Republicanism element isopposed to corporations in politics, and there is not the least doubt that If Foraker wins he will know he has been in a tight. Continued on Pago Three. Will Listen to Address of Prominent Speaker From Williamsport.Rehearsals are Being Held Daily and Excellent Production Is Assured. ARRANGEMENTS ARE NEARLY COMPLETE FOR TROOP D PLAY WORK IS RESUMED ON SCHOOL BUILDING I'y Publishers' Press. WASHINGTON, I). <*.. March 20. Tin- < ■ niptrollcr nl' Currency has issued a call for the reports of condition of the National hanks at the close of business, Friday, March 22. INSURE NECKS FIGHT 10 DEATH Carpenters, Bricklayers and Stone Masons Busy on the Structure. Py Publishers' Press. CHICAGO, March 26. — The demands of llfty thousand employes of forty-two Western railroads will, according to the representatives of the railroad managers, be rejected today and higher wages and shorter hours refused. In this contingency a strike is almost certain. The managers held a secret conference today and it is stated that they agreed to permit a strike rather than incur a further increase in operating expenses of six million dollars per year, which they say would be the result of granting the railroaders' demands.Negotiations, the men hope, will continue for several days and they believe that their demands will be realized at least in part, before the diplomacy on both sides has been exhausted.Several other matters of business will be taken up, among others the railroad passenger train improvements mentioned in The Spirit elsewhere. The notice for the meeting urges all the members of the Chamber of Commerce to be present, as a full turnout is desired to hear Mr. Reading. The Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday evening in the West End Municipal Building. The object of the meeting is that of listening to S. G. Reading, of Williamsport, who will address the meeting.Hon. Clarence Don Clark, United States Senator from Wyoming:, was born at Sandy Creek, Oswego County, N. Y., on April 16. 1851. and received his 11 rst training in the country schools. He afterwards attended the Iowa State University, and after studying law was admitted as a member to th«- bar in IS74. Senator Clark remained In Iowa practicing his profession until 1881, when lie removed to Evanston, Wyo, where he speedily built up a lucrative law practice, and was the prosecuting attorney for Uinta county for four years. When Wyoming was admitted to statehood he was sent to Congress In 1890. Senator Clark was given his present high position In 1895. He is a member of the dominant party In Congress. Arrangements for the production of the thrilling military drama, "The Girl I Left Behind Me" in the Jefferson Theater, April 2 and 3, aro progressing satisfactorily. Rehearsals are being held daily and those having tho matter In charge are confident that the members of Troop D and their assistants will give a performance that will surpass many of the road productions given the play by professionals. The costumes of both the male and female characters will conform strictly to those in vogue during the period represented by the play—the later Indian wars with the tribes of the Black foot regions. Special scenery is being provided which will also add immensely to the interest of the play. That the production of "The Girl I Left Behind Me" by the members of Troop D will be a success Is foreshadowed by the response from citizens, whp are being solicited for tick- LEAVENWORTH, Kansas. — One death resulted among the 900 old soldiers at the National Soldiers' Home who were poisoned by eating tainted hash. The victim was William J. Cook, aged sixty-four years. About seventy-five of the veterans are still in a serious condition. ets and advertising. Already the twelve-page program has been found inadequate and Lieutenant Egle, wjio has the matter in charge will enlarge it to sixteen pages In order to accommodate thpse desiring advertising space. The seats are also selling like the proverbial hot cakes. Friday the members of Troop D, including those who will take an active part in the production of the play, will participate in a mounted drill and parade. A full foce of carpcners, bricklayers and stonemasons started to work this morning on the new high school building. Contractors Lamont and Nixon, who are in charge of the building arrived in town yesterday and from this on work on the new building will be pushed as fast as possible. Yesterday while the stone masons were placing the large tone over the doorway of the school the chain block parted, dropping the stone to the ground breaking it into five pieces. The stone was nine feet long and weighed about three tons. An order was immediately telegraphed for another stone to replace the broken one. Ry Publishers' Press. PITTSBURG, March 20. — James Jackson and Albert Uenton, two insane negroes, who were confined in the insane departmet of the City Home and Hospital, at Marshalsea, are both dead as the result of a scuffle they got into on March 19 last* Penton died last Saturday nnd Jackson last night. Both of the inmates were known to be violent, but they were apparently good friends until seized with a maniacal frenzy. During the scuffle enusing, both fell heavily to the floor, sustaining fatal injuries. 1 • ' Editi°n ii Wmtmtmnm ■/