Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-04-22

              PAYMENTS HELD UP Sculptor Has Delivered None of the Marble Statuary For Building. Large Xuinbcr of First and Second Class Cert motes Will Be Issued. SUITE CAPITOL Waited Along the Track For Conductor, But Almost Got Wrong Man. NEGRO WANTED TROUBLE Furnace Men. Swift Current Carries Him • Down Stream—Found By Hopeful Feeling Exists Everywhere But New York City. MAY APPOINT CON8TABI.ES STOCK MARKET IS STIR DOWN TO NORMAL LEVEL PRICE 2 CENTS NEW COUNCILMEN APPOINTED BY JUDGE J. W. REED Burgess Brown Will Make a Visit! to Canoe Ridge to Consult the Groundhog. AT THE WEATHER WORKS law Compiled Willi In Giving First Four WmwIx Tliclr lull ftcntaUon. CARTER BOY FALLS INTO MAHONING CREEK MINERS PASS SUCCESSFUL EXAMINATIONS (WNXSUTAWNEY, PA*, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1007 «•«* |1|S When Anxious Father Arrived He Was Undergoing Treatment. [uston Declares That Arti't Does Not Know Value of Time or Money. Monthly Report of Exports and Imports Shows Substantial Gain. "Your boy is in the creek. He fell Whether or not he succeeded in getting the right man later in the day Is not known. I A negro who became loud find boisterous on ear No. 11, running from thin place yesterday morning, was ejected between VVishaw and Iieynoldsvflle. About an hour later, when Car No. 12 was running at about the same place, the motorman noticed a negro standing on the track some feet ahead. He made no move when the motorman rang the foot bell and Just, as the car was almost upon him he stopped from the track and rnlsed his arm. displaying a rock which he evidently intended to hurl at the motorman, but seeing that It was the wrong man he dropped his arm without throwing the stone. The lookouts on Canoo Ridge report thut yesterday and today there has been great activity in the vlein Ity of the Punxsutawney Weatherworks. Several sedate and spectacled woodchucks have been busy oiling up the spring breeze tank and it is said that last night a wireless was sent t«» the branch works at Pittsburg, notifying Cartoonist Charlie Payne, of the Gazette Times, and Hans \Vagn< r, of the Pittsburg Nationals, that hereafter seasonable spring and summer weather could be expected. W. J. Brown, manager of the Punxsutawney Interstate baseball team, j will visit the weatherworks today ' and If Br'er Groundhog gives him the ; word th«- players will be notified to report here within a few days and j work on repairing the diamond and grounds will be rushed to completion with all possible speed. BOARD OF HEALTH WILL TAKE ACTION LOCAL MAN THINKS WELL OF PANAMA » After May First Property Owners Will Be Arreste—Clean Up. C. G. Henigh Writes Interesting Letter to Punx'y Friends—Climate Good. liy s<> doing tlir matter of the authority of Judge Heed to appoint or the alternative can be definitely settled.Horough SoWcitor William Gillespie Saturday received u decree of court signed by Judge John W. Heed, of firookvlllc, announcing the appointment of nn additional councilman for each ward In the former borough of Punx8utawney. The new officials are W. It. Cole, First Ward; Seth McAnlncii, Second Ward; W. F. Dock. Third Ward; Qeorge Fink, Fourth Ward. In the matter of appointing constables for the First, Second and Third Wards. Judge Heed has not yet given a decision. In an -interview Saturday, over the telephone. Judge Reed stated to Th> Spirit that as yet he had reasons doubt his authority to appoint, but that the matter would be definitely disposed of if he should be called upon through the proper channels. city Solicitor William Gillespie, then-fore, advises the citizens of wards having no constable to get out petitions for the appointment of constables, miming a suitable person for each ward, and forward them to the court oji or before the third Mondjy in May. EUROPE UNDERGOES WAR CLOUD SCARE The papers handed in by the miners who two weel;s ago were examined here for First Grade. Second Grade and Fireboss certificates, have all been passed upon and Saturday the list of successful candidates was com pleted. The successful applicants all passed remarkably high grades and the examining committee is duly elated over the results. Following Is a list of the names of those who passed the ordeal First Grade Certificates: D. J. Williams, Kig Run; R. L. Taffe, Rcynoldsville; Thomas Hammond, Horatio; William B. Wardrup, Anita. Second, Grade Certificates: John Nesbit, Horatio; William Modill, Anita; Thomas Lonergan, Wllgus; John Trimble, Wllgus; Bruco Mills, Sykes; Edward Swanson, Ernest; Simon S. Connor, Arcadia; Scott George, Onondaga; Jesse M- Luttman. Glen Campbell; S. H. Recrlst, Wlshaw, James McLaughlin and James Connell, Yatesboro; Thomas Lynch, Rossi ter; Joseph Straw bridge and James Burns, Punxsutawmy; Charles Weber, Valier; William and E. W. Casker, Sagamore; John D. Dougherty, Rosslter. Fire Boss Certificates: Charles M. Mumpher, John Nesbit, Arthur M. James and Abram Abrams, Horatio; O. R. Johnson, Yatesboro; Thomas Madden, Eleunora; William H. Williams, Big Hun; Thomas-Strawbridge, Anita; William McCleavy, Ernest. STORK STOPPED OFF III PUNXSUTAWNEY Big Birds Passed Out a Donation of Four New Infants. By order of the Board of Health. VOLCANO IS IN FULL ERUPTION All property owners In Greater Punxsutawney are hereby notified that beginning May 1, 1907, the Board of Health will enforce strictly the borough ordinances and state laws relating to sanitary measures. This means that on and after that date property owners or tenants having refuse or garbage or any article that may be designated as a nuisance or a menace to health In their cellars, alleys, back yards, lots, gardens or buildings, or on the streets, will bo dealt with according to law. in." This Is the laconic, but startling message delivered to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carter, of South Sldoi late Saturday afternoon by John C. Crlssman, Jr., seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Crlssman. "Down ut the Iron works," young: Crlssman continued, but th<* rest#of the sentence was not heard by Mr. Carter, who fled to investigate the partially told story. When Mr. Carter arrived within hailing distance, some one at the works beckoned him to come over the creek, where he found ills boy, aged six years, stark naked, In front of n furnace, surrounded py the men. According to the Information fur* nlshed by Mr. Carter and the men little George, armed with a pick and shovel, had started out to dig a cave .where, during the hot weather, tills summer, he and his churns could find shelter from the piercing rays of the sun. On his way to the wilds of Young's* swamp, opposite the Iron Works, and while conducting severttl of his pal scouts along the precipitous and rock serried banks on the south shore of tin- Mahoning, George missed his footing and fell in. The other boys fled at once for assistance and did not observe thot the current, which is quite swift at that point, carried their companion over Ghe deep water and tossed him on a shoal below. Young Carter's lusty cries for assistance did not reach the ears of his companions, but later, were heard by some of the employes at the furnace. When the embryo explorer was picked up his limbs had become benumbed from tile cold, but he soon revived under the brisk rubbing he got at the hands of the men In the furnace room. TWENTY-ONE JAKE THE EXAMINATION I'he experience has thoroughly convinced little George that summer caves should be located at least twenty feet away from the banks ot' a navigable | stream. |( HARRISBURG, Pa., April 22.— ■when George Gray Barnard, the r/oung sculptor who was commissioned by the Stpne capltol building compilafon to do the marble sculpture work for the new capitol will complete his contract, no one here knows. rThe commission has not heard from Barnard directly for months, and Ar- H}tect Huston has had no word from Hn for a long time. Barnard has been work- OH this contract for three years, not delivered a single piece of All the sculpture work in the oapitol was done by Rob■C, Fisher & C., of New York, sub- Hitractors, under George F. Payn#' J ■ Co-, who were under Sanderson & | K., the capitol "trimmers." ■Public Buildings Superintendent j limbo, who was supervising englnkr for Payne in the construction of he capitol said last night that he knew ithlng as to the statues of the Bar- the, work, but ard contract or »the amount of work Jready done. Huston said some time go that was piqued because 'Vyments had been stopped on his fork until the sculptor gave some evlfence that it would be soon completjL The architect also said that ,*arnard was under 550,000 bond to Execute the contract and that he would rentually complete mat he was like nearly all artists, he neither the value of time nor tooney. R', Senator Fox of Harrisburg, author JOf the act creating the capitol comf mission and appropriating $4,000,000 jfor the capitol, visited Barnard in \ hi« studio Ui Paris during a visit to *$***€+ laat August. Barnacdwjihpw#d the feenator models of his work and gave him a photograph of one, group, which Fox brought back with him'and . gave to the capitol commission. The (senator said that at that tfeie some of Barnard's models were ready to bo (turned over to the artists who were to do the carving. Barnard at that time was enthusiastic over his work, and told the senator ho expected to complete his contract within a year. Senator Fox has not seen or "heard from the sculptor since, and he has no knowledge as to when he will complete his work. By Publishers' Press. BEKL1N, April 22,—A war cloud Is beginning to show itself over Euope as the result of a brilliant coup which was made by Kaiser NVilhelm in establishing the Herman Orient Bank of Berlin as the financial banker of the new constitutional government of Persia. This a.vute move on the part of the Kaiser will probably be a severe check to the plans of England and Russia for the division of Persia into two spheres, which would be under th« ir immediate influence. England Is expected t«» show the most anger, because she hail already laid iter plans to mnko herself th«- financial prop of the Shah. YVIIholm's distinct triumph over his adversaries is sure to react upon European politics, and brings Immeasurably closer what Is regarded by many ;im unavoidable, an armed conflict between Germany and England. PITTSBURG CASE III SUPREME COURT Largest Class in History of Punx'y for Civil Service Positions. BANK ROBBEKS GET lilTTIiE 'the town were cut. The robbers securd nine gold watches but were frightened away before reaching the inner cash vault. ' BLUFFTON, Ind., April 22. — The aef In the bank of Knight Bros., at lanesville, was blown open Saturday, ill the telephone wires leading from Along with the Hocks of ducks and geese which passed over this place last week, there must have been qi few storks who became tired and dropped off here ito vl«it over Saturday ami Sunday, our population having Increased by four the past two days, and they are all girls. At the home of Barney Ganley, of Park Avenue, the birds left twins, a pair of girls; at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rodkey, a girl which, according to Herman, is a winner, and to Mr. and Mrs. Paul PaiUall, the benevolent bird gave a girl which is the f.hird. No arguments have ns yet arisen as to which one of the four young "'ladles is the reigning beauty ,and The Spirit doesn't wish to start anything by expressing an opinion. VALPARAISO, Chili, April 22.— Panic in Southern Chili causod by eruption of Puychue volcano is growing worse hourly. By Publishers' Press. The volcano Is In full eruption. The residents are in continual dread that the whole region is to be devasat.ated by the lava which is flowing in all directions. The inhabitants are all fleeing, not stopping to take any possessions or treasures wBth them. To add to the fright and terror of tho people, frequent earthquake shocks are occurring. Alany thousands of acres have been burned over and the forest fires continue to spread wfcth deadly rapidity, thousands of farm animals being burned to death, The Chilean government Is making preparations to rush supplies with all possible speed to the volcano sufferers.Head "The Prisoner of Zenda," "starting in this issue. DANISH MINISTER TO UNITED ST AT FOUR CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH NEW YORK, April 22. — Forced covering of shorts gave the market a temporary appearance of strength, otherwise the situation has been lacking In new features. Jus: now there Is a disposition to await the develop- I ment of new tendences. The grow: ing season for the crops will soon open I and this will be a vital factor in the J country's business preparations and i also In stock market operations* j There are rumors of damage to the winter wheat crop in certain sections of the country, but these were not of sufficient Importance to affect values. Now that speculative activity has diminished more attention is being paid to the general condition of business. i opinion In this respect seems much divided. Quite a number of our Industrial leaders and financial magnates have been talking business reaction, and t'heir statements havo been supplemented by more or less retrenchment on the part of concerns which they represent. A certain degree of retrenchment In projected railroad development is inevitable owing first to the difficulty of raising new capital and next to the high costs of construction. Already, a perceptible decrease is to be noted In building operations. The total projects announced in March In our leading cities amounted to $54,000,000 this year, as compared with $ fit;,000,000 last year. This is only a small decrease of about three per cent, but it Illustrates the tendency A moderate abatement In real estate activity would probably bCfren eficlal, especially • "***" devoted to the sale oi cheap lots on the installment plan to parties who never intend to build upon or improve the property which they have purchased.There has also been a very decided change in the attitude amongst bankers towards tiieir customers. Funds ire readily obtainable for the conduct of regular business operations upon an accustomed scale, but new enterprises and enlargement* are turned aside with a uniformity and emphasis that is in striking contrast with six or even three months ago. Caution is everywhere dominant in financial clrcles. At the same time it is proper to remember t hat New York is Just now the very center of depression. Here the future is regarded with more distrust than elsewhere. This is but natural, for the reasons that reactionary tendencies are first discerned at the financial center and here exert their first effect. Nw York, moreover, has not yet fully recovered from the effects of overs peculation which brought on the March erush. Those losses fell chiefly upon this city. From the interior all reports continue very encouraging. Trade outside of New York is generally described as sound and active. A hopeful feeling seems prevalent everywhere and little sympathy is shown with the depression In Ne w York. The question is—Will the optimism of the Interior overcome the depeetlon which prevails in New York, or will the latter grow and By Publishers' Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.— The United States Suprem Court today declined to dismiss or affirm the "Greater Pittsburg" case, postponing the hearing of the argument until the October term. In the case postponed the validity of the union of Allegheny and Pittsburg is at issue. The Supreme Court also dismissed the writ of error in appeal, and decided that "Lord Herrington," who was sentenced to tit ath for murder in Louis, must die. Owner Hid the Town. Ah Vsiuit It Was Left Held ml While (Continued on Pa*e Six.) NSPEGTOR GIBBONS AT BEYNOWE By Publishers' Press. FULTON, Ky., April 22.—Tho residence of John Green, a merchant of this place, was destroyed by lire early today- In the flames four children ranging In ago front two to ten years, were burned to death. The parents together with two other children, narrowly escaped the same fate. They were rescued by a number of citizens. KNOX WILL NOT TOUCH THAW CASE Takes Evidence Against Post Office Robbers—Will Be Taken to Pittsburg. Harvey Steele, of this place, recently addressed a letter of Inquiry to Charles G. Henigh, who Is now employed at Gatun, Panama Canal Zone, and Saturday received a reply  in part as follows: "Just now powder men are more hi demand than any other class of laborers. To get In the service quickly. get the Congressman from your district to introduce you, by letter or otherwise, to W. Leon Pepperman, Chief of Office, Panama Affairs, Washington. IX C., and if you can do \\ t II, nnythlng In the line of construction work, you will be accepted at once. Your pay will not be less than $160 per month, and starts from the day you leave New York City. You also ; get free transportation from New York to any point on the Canal. You are allowed three and one-half days leave every month, forty-two days per year, and quarters furnished Tor yourself, and family, if desired. All you need to bring along is sheets, pillow-slips and blankets. "1 like it quite well here. Had the fever, but only lost two weeks and that was the second month I was here. During the past three months I have not lost a day or missed a meal. I am stationed seven miles south of Colon, on the Shagres lUver, where the hardest work on the eanal will be done. We have no rock, but the clay is as hard to move as rock. "There has not been much done on the canal at this point yet, but we are getting things in shape to make the dirt fly on a scale never before dreamed < f. "Mr. Carpenter, who Is In charge of the construction work at this point, has about 3,000 unskilled and 500 skilled laborers on his pay roll. "We have four steam shovels here and many more ordered; also a number of steam drills. "I am in charge of thirty-nine carpenters and we are building houses for family quarters. Each building will accommodate four families and each family will have four rooms, with closet and bath rooms. They ar<| very nice, and comfortable, as they have large porches all around and the porches are enclosed with copper wire screening. "If you or any of your acquaintances think of coming, start at once and don't hesitate to bring your families. Women and children endure the climate much better than men and all that T have 'talked to on the subject say that they like both the climate and the surroundings. It is novel and exciting for them. "I expect to be joined by my family about the last of May or the first of June. "Yours truly, "C. G. HENNIGH." fJatun, Panama Canal Zone, April 9, 1907. 'Those who took t he ml nation are: Joseph Shaffer. H*unxsutawney; Karl J. Oourley, Frostburg; James P. Donneley, West Alva B. Cochran, Punxsuta4jcy; R. Evans, Punxsutawneyapiaries Humble, Punxsutawney; JrDavid E. Jenkins, West End; Thomas Turnbull, West End; John Crawford, Wnxsutawney; Earl S. Black, Smicksburg; William A. Wilson, PunxjKitawney; H. Brown, William P. Brady, Skunk Hollow; O. W. Moore, West End; L». M. Haag, Punxsutawney; Wil- P. McCartney, Punxsutawney; William E. Beltow, East End; J. C. Morris, Punxsutawney; Merle L, Curry, West End; T. O. Pcffer. Punxsutawney; Katherine J. McAndrews, West End. This is the largest class that ever took a similar examination at this place, the next largest being the examination held when this town was granVcd free delivery, that class consisting of seventeen. The papers were sent at once to the department at Washington and It will probably be ten days before the resuit of the examination will be made known. Twenty-one applicants reported for the clerk-cairrier examination conducted by Frank Campbell for the Civil Service Board in .the East End School building Saturday morning. From nine o'clock until twelve they arrived keeping Mr. Campbell and his assistant Frank J. Carter, until a late hour in the afternoon. The attention of Chief of Police Palmer was attracted late Saturday night by melancholy sounds that eaine from the vicnlty of J. 11 Maize's barn Upon making an investigation the Chief located a dejected mule that had been tied and abandoned and was wriggling to get its hofs out of the mud, which was freezing and threatening to hold him fast. He walked home Saturday night, but as soon as the "spell" wore off ho turned around and walked right back again. The officer unleashed the suffering and disconsolate beast and took him | to a stable where he was recovered last nlRht by his owner, who lives in the country, about eleven miles southwest of town. The owner had Imbibed too freely Saturday and forgot where he left his faithful nteed. OLD ENGINEER IS ELECTROCUTED CLERKS WILL HAVE k TO BE SATISFIED TOY MONKS KILLED BY BANDITS By Publishers' Press. PITTSBUKG, April 22.—Senator P. C. Knox today stated that he would have nothing to do with the Thnw ease as has been reported. He refused to dtscuaa Capitol probing and declared he had no intention of permitting his name to bo presented to the He publican National Convention as a candidate for President, nor was he thinking of the presidency. mA By Publishers' Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 22.— I John Yirger, the oldest engineer on the Eric Railroad, was electrocuted today at the Erie ptatlon here, his head coming In contact with a highcurrent cable that supplies electricity for the Rochester Olvslon of the Erie Railroad. Yarger climbed to the top of hi* ! engine to adjust a valve when his head | touched the cable, forming a circuit | for a current of eleven thcunand volt* The dead engineer had been in the employ of the road for the pa»t flftyflve years. Read The of starting In this The authorities al Pittsburg yesterday eent Post OHU'e Inspector R- D. Gibbons to Reynoldsvllle to take the evidence In the recent post office robberies for which the three men were arrested In Rathmel last Thursday. Mr. Gibbons visited the post office at Falls Creek and the company store at BH Soldier. The stamps and other things found In the house at Rathmel were taken by him to Pittsburg. Before going to Reynoldsvllle tno Inspector stopped for a few hours Jn this place. He was accompanied «*» his trip by Sergeant Joseph Logan, at Troop D. State Police. Mr. Gibbon's report will be maw Immediately and a United shal will proceed to BwkVHW ■■ soon as the report to . *"5Lr" the three men nowheld 1"|»"J" vllle Mil. »o FIM»bBr* whe" tl,ey will b% tried at the court. little more than two wieW away. • By Publlsherr.' Press. Vienna, April 22.—Bulgarian bandits have sacked the monastery of St. Amargive in Castoria. district of Macedonia. After killing the Abbot and thirty Greek monks, the bandits, according to reports, resorted to barbarous cruelties In the slaughter of the monk# who opposed them. The Powers may now Intervene to »ee that the brigands are punished. J Read "The Prisoner of Zonda," starting In this Issue. By Publishers' Press. WASHINGTON, April 22.—There will be no strike In the office of the Auditor for the Navy because a colored man has been appointed to that position, nor will applications by dissatisfied clerks for transfers to jobs In either government bureaus bo favorably consldeered. Word has been passed alone the line that if the clerks in that office do not like the complexion of Ralph Taylor, of Columbus, O., when he takes cHarge of the office on June 1, their rosig* nations Will be accepted. By Publishers' Press. WARSAW, April 82.—A mob of armed Terrorists today attacked a body of soldiers and police officers. Two soldiers and one of the officers were killed, the making good their escape. Constantin Brun Minister Constantin Brun, from Denmark to the United States, Is the The Danish Minister §&«mi Of the famous Panlsh soldier, General Brun. '* has been, highly honored by his kins, who has created Itlm a chamberi lain, a commander of the Royal Ordcf of Daneborg and who has given ( Win the iprnk <of lieutenant of cavalry in the Danish Army. 1%. Mr. Bran was lint sent as secrelary to the Danish Legation at Berlin, Pim he aefrVed from 1887 until 1891. when he was transferred to the ((iMltMUMy at Paris. He remained In Paris until 1885 when he was sent to '-'jM* United States as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. « nan of marked culture aud has written a number of important % ' . _ M J' ' V v ...". »"* - '-'J.id / ; . 'ifai Mr* J# Special Service of The Spirit. TIIE TALK OF A MULE. ALL MADE GOOD MARKS WAS UNCONSCIOUS CONDITIONS [ E|A SIE R