Punxsutawney Spirit, 1888-02-15

              mm isH5*) Mmm NO. 36. VOL. XV. TA Vv I / \\ / & t> \ / A" <SL \ / *Ar vv \ / /y t>\/ ff ? * T. BKLX» A Doable Salelde. r»u< Bmr Timnmm Dead. WWHIi TA. » Mn MHta|. FtmUN is tta —. ATTOBNXY-AT-LA W, , INDIANA, FA, OMM Vo. •«, Todd building. Main Street. 1«««1 buatBCM will receive prompt uawntnl Attention. lt-IB-ly jgJDWARD A. CARMALT, A TTORNBY-A T-LA W, Bbooktillb, PA uttee with Judge Jenka. Legal i *UT attended to. it. brewer, ATTOMKKT-AT-LA W, FraxMuvinr. Pa. mm on oupfaa atreet, two doon aori of * raids' foratture (tore. JENKS ft CLARK, ATTORNEYS-ATLA W, Baooxvnu, Pa. OfBee in Mataon Rlosk, opposite the public "tsMkaas. Baookvilijs, Pa. with Hon. A. C. White. It M JOHN W. BELL, A TTORNE TA T- LA W, Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, g C. CAMPBELL, aTTORNRYSAT-LAW, Bbookvuxb, Pa. UflM in Mataon'a office, Slataon building, oppoeMe the Court Home. JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT-LA W, And Juatlee of the Peace, Punxiutawney, Pa. Office to Mundorff building, nearly opposite Smut building. Oolleetiona made, depoMtione I ai*n, and all lunda of legal buaineae attended to. Miriam-1—■-  CklN(e Barghui, CaagM la (ha Act, Killtla* A(«i Witaeaa •fThelr Crime. A MILLIONAIRE MURDERED. PUNXSTJTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1888. A LEX. J. TRUTTT, A TTOBXMTA T-LA W, NEURIT GIVEN AWAY FDBU8HIDIVSKT WKBWWT. UirtMlMl kjr the % 5,.  & % Topbka, February 13.—The Pall man Palace Car Company and the aathoritiea of tbia State an having aerioua trouble. The oompany refused to pay taxes on ita property thia State, olaiming that it had already been taxed in the State where ita manufactory waa located, and that therefore it oould not again be taxed in thie State. The matter waa taken to the United States Cirenit Court, where the oompany waa defeated, but they promptly appealed to the United Statee Supreme Court, where the matter now atanda. Their tax in the State will amonnt to about $2,000, and they peraiatently refoae to pay. The Sheriff of Harvey county seized a Pullman palaoe car at Halatead for non payment of taxea, and ohained it to the traok. An attorney of the Pullman Car Company, of Chicago, called upon Attorney General Bradford regarding the Halatead seizure and begged sou.e sort of oonoeaaion, a delay in enforcing the lawa of the Stat«| etc. Attorney General Bradford gave bim no aatiafaction. He would not in any way agree to hold the State's rights in abeyanoe at the suggestion of the company's attorney. Tho attorney will begin an action in replevin to gain possession of the oar. Mangled bjr Hla Doc. hen the crescent of the new uioon Hakbisburo, February 8.—E. C. Mitchell, of Lock Haven, who recent* ly returned from Mexico, brought home with him, among other odd e tones found in that country, a very curious opal. It is of a bright red color, which gradually changes to a pure white with the changes of the moon. appears in the sky a similar crescent is seen near the lower right-hand Q^ge of the opal. This increases in size aa the moon grows larger, and when the moon is full the opal is almost entirely filled with a globe of pure white, only a thread-like circle of rod appearing around the edge. As the moon wanes the white ball in the opal grows less, until it entirely disappears, leaving the stone a glowing red. Mr. Mitchell gays that the native Mexicans in the region where he procured thi curious stone were apparently aware of the existence of such stones, as they were horrified when they saw that Mitchell intended to keep it, telling him that it was bewitched and that no one could possess one and live. They said that many persons had tried to leave Moxico withsimilar stones in their possession, but never lived to reach the boundary. Another Emigration Nrhrinc. Busy Taking Stock St. Louis, Feb. 8.—Christ Hoeloher til nearly killed Saturday evening by his 2- year-old Newfoundland dog, which he had railed to guard the premises at eight. The brute was vicious to all exeept Iloeloher's family and was kept ohained during the day. Saturday evening soon after he was let loese the dog flew at Hoelcher and a terrible fight ensued for ten minutes, in which four members of the Hoelchor family took part against the dog. The brute, weighing 1C1 pounds, nowithstanding the shower of blows whioh rained upon him on all sides, seemed bent upon Hoe label's throat, the dog tore his master's breast and sides with his sharp fangs until the pain and loss of blood weakened the man and be fell to the ground in the power of the freazied brute. Mrs. Hoeloher's presence of mind saved her husband. She had procured a butcherknife, but was unable to use it without danger to her husband. The knife was quickly passed to bim, and in a jiffy the dog fell dead, his bead nearly severed from his body. Hoelcher is in a very critical condition, and his recovery is thought to be very doubtful. Indianapolis, February 8.— (Jeorge Charles, W. E. Gladden and Charles Charles, delegates of the African Em- igration Association, arrived here today en route to Washington, where they go to procure from the President credentials of citizenship, after which they will leave for Liberia for the pur- pose of making observations and decide whether or not it is a country that can bo recommended to the colored people as a place of residence. They represent an association that was formed six months ago in Louisiana and Mississippi. They say that the colored people of Kansas, from where they are sent, are greatly inter- ited in the movement, and that fully ilace where they cau find means of iving comfortably. one third of them aro in favor of the emigration. The recent outrages at Jackson have strengthened the movement, and there is a general desire among negroes in Mississippi and Louisiana to go to Africa if it is a In Self Defense. Grkknvield, Mass., February 10.—In s little unpainted one-Btoryand-ahalf hovel, tiro miles from here, have lived Clarence 8. D. Bowen, his wife, Ida, and their four children, the eldest but six years. Bowen has been a shiftless sort of fellow, working at odd jobs anywhere he oould obtain employment.} kThe ohildren begged for bread, which the father failed to get, spending most of his time, it is said, in drink log places. Long brooding over Her lot made the woman desperate. On Sunday she tried to kill herself, and Monday she tried again and died. The frightened ohildre n called the neighbors, and they, not knowing the canse, supposed it heart disease. The drunken husband was brought home and when he learned that his wife was dead he drew a raaor from the cupboard and attempted to cut his throat. (The neighbors held him back. Later they let him go to another room, and there he procured a clothee line and ended his existence. He waa found hanging and waa ent down. Not * thing waa there to eat in the house. Sunday afternoon, August I, 1886, Ann, ho had been ont riding, returned greatly [cited. She took her father to a strip of oods and pointed ont the body of Broeks. be atated all along (hat the ahootlng was he had killed him with a revolver vrliioh be had been oarrying for several week*. in self defense, aa Brooks had threatened to kill her anleas she oonsented to live with him. There have been three trials f the oase, two disagreements and the ac[nittal yesterday. Romnby, W. Va., Feb. i2.—Ann Offner was yesterday acquitted of the charge of murdering UeDjatuin Brooks. It has been one of the most celebrated criminal oaaes in West Virginia. He was an employe of and swore she wonld have nothing more to do with Brooks. Brooks, however, oame back after her. the girl's father. When Offner discovered he was too attentive to his daughter he discharged him, bat Ann and he held clandestine meetings for a while and then ran ray together. Soon the girl rsturned Chicago, Feb. 8.—When Henry Winklebock, the hoetler, entered the house of Amoa J. Snell, at the oorner of Waahing. ton boulevard and Ada atreet, at 6:30 thia morning, he found the dead body of hia employer lying in the hall with blood occing from a wound in hia left breaat and another behind hla left ear. The old man waa attired in hia night clothea and held hia revolver tightly in hia graap. On en- tering the parlor he fonnd the ailverware all piled up ready for removal, Evidently the house had been ranaaoked by burglare, Mr. Snell had discovered them and had been killed by them. It appears that the burglars entered the houae by cutting a hole in a panel of the kitchen door large enough to admit of the paaaage of a hand and arm. The catoh was then sprung and lured about $3,000 worth ot county war- men stole into the house, lip-toeing their way through the kitchen, they orept into the millionaire's offlee in the front part of the honse and ransacked his safe, rants, $5,000 of negotiable paper and nearly $300 in cash. Then they ascended to flrat floor and, finding the parlor door >oked, broke it open with a jimmy. Mr. Snell alept alone in a room directly per the middle parlor. Qnietly as the aged millionaire. He rose from bed, seized his revolver, and stole stealthily down the rglara had worked, they bad aronsed the tin staircase, at the bottom of which be no doubt heard the thieves at their work. He was in his night robes. The white figure had gone but half way down stairo when the parlor doors were closed by one of the men inside the room. It is supposed that the noise startled the old man. He leveled his revolver at the panels of the or and fired. The bullet passed through e center of one of the doors, about five et from the floor and, crossing the par- pierced a white silken banner and struck the wall just above the marble fireplace. It then fell upon the lloor. Mr. Snell fired again, but no trace of ihcbnllet ean be found. With an armed uian standing at the ion through whioh they entered the tors and, with the barrels of revolvers room, the burglars beoame desperate. One of them discharged his heavy weapon and the ballet pierced a panel in the door and lodg<Mt in the wall just above the banister post. The three holes in the door tell the story of the blind duel. There was nothing about the white figure lying in the riohly tapestried corridor, with his gray hair matted In blood and his right hand clenched about the handle of a revolver, to give the officers any positive idea as to how the millionaire made bis last stand for his life and his property. It is thought, however, that the instant the burglars fired through the. panel they opened the tor and disappeared. and a flood of light, their lantern leveled at the bewildered luan, shot him before he could utter a word. Their bloody work finished, the assassins slipped out of a side There were four persons in the house who heard the shooting, but feared to an its aonroe lest they themselves might be killed. They were Hose Berkstaller, the cook, Ida Berenateln, a second girl, and little Mildred and Christie Coffin, the four and five-year-old grandohildren of the murdered man. All four slept in a suite Miss Burk- stalle ran to alarm Mr. Bnell, but just as she opened the door there were two loud explosions and the frightened girl retraced her steps. Servants and oMldren screamed shind their barricaded door, but no one dared open a window to summon assistance. Exhausted by their exertions, they at last returned to their beds and not until Henry Winkle book came to the house to attend to the fnrnaee fire and fonnd the •arpoe ef Mr. dnell lying on the floor of the hallway waa there any knowledge of the'tragedy. Mr. Bnell was 83 years old and waa one of the wealthiest reeldents of the West Side, leaving property worth |3,000,000. He waa born in Little Falls, N, Y., and earn* hare in 1844. He had the developj meat of an athlete and waa noted for his rjANIKL BAMEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1807 Fat. N.-W., WMhlngton, D. C, Fiaetioln* attorney In the aeveral eoorUIn WftAtuton ud ekewhere. Proeeoutea iWw Mtoreulthe OoTernment Atoo the parehaae uid ul« of real eatate. U-'° J)B. W.F.BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURG SON, PumiuTAWinT. FA. Ofltoa two door* eaat of the Poet Ofloe. tSb. wm. altman, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON, PnoiuvnT, Fa. Offen hU profeMlon&l neryloe* to the eltlaena of FaunttwuT »n<i Ttclnlty.  Miniiten allowed a discount of 10 per ceat. North & Morris, the Popular One Price Clothiers, will positively do just wh»t they say, and show you exactly what is advertised. In Men's Overcoats we still have some of the best bargains you ever saw, notwithstanding the countless number that have been sacrificed during the recent cold weather. It will pay you to invest for next winter. Bargains in Boys' and Children's Clothing—In this line it will pay mothers to visit ns, and be convinced that we have not only the largest stock, but sell them for less money than any other house in our line. In Boys' Overcoats you can have your choice at cost Furnishing Goods—the best assortment, and prices below all competitor*. Our Shirts, Flannel, Cheviot, and Pleated Dress Shirts for men and boys. In going over our stock we find odds and ends of some Choice Suits and Pants that we have marked down to the lowest price. We think it is better to close out odd articles at eost, or below cost, than to carry them from one season to another. Don't let these bargains pass, but take advantage of this unparalled sale. r)R. B. B. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND BVRQMOlf, Pmmowmin, PA Ofioa In dwelling. Ofkr* Ua MrvtoM to the •»<» w»o»»dtaf l~|B. 8. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, FinfearaAWNK, Offen his eatrtoee to the peopleof Pummutmaer and Tteteity. . T)B. BYRON WINSLOW, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON, Cunuu, FA. a»oflH and residence one eqoare baak of j.wMJUIaeptos atore.  GHABLE8 G. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON, rguRAfnr, Fa. trtu£.°£"» llpteKlas •aye Her lay waa IMmM. Yovkmtowh, O., Fib. 8.—Mi*. MarrHI • naatly-draaaad lady giving bar raaidaoa MKMlfiU», Pa, mum hato to-day am aaUataad tba mUhn of thooOaaaala' aaaariag bar mm, agad li, who* aha iUMIiUmsiUmW. Mm.Marritt waa fataariy ttotffca* Wumk MaMallaa, m blaobaMith, two ehUdian boiagbamte tham. MaMallaa Ml aad the wilt aoaaradadlvaaaa aad tba Mated? af tba ahlMian. LiMtakMnMiMwaiMl Maaritt. Waimllj aha alalu that Ma- Mallaa viaitad MaadTilla aad took tba bey away, boiagtag Mm to thla aity. OOaan feava baas amMo ta laaaM MaMallaa. AWvIkviUlMt. Nkw York, Feb. 8.—William H, •**' ratt, • brakeman on the Delaware, Laokawana II Weetern railroad, fall trmm tha top of a freight ear In Hobokea and waa killed. While hia body lay la the atorgn* later in the day, • young woaiaa eatered, and upon aeeing tha Ufeloca fona, karat Into tear*. She aald aha bad ftoot Oirard, Pa., on learning of the aooidwrt. She had boon engaged to tha daad tuaa and tha marriage vaa to take plaae in a fortnight. She waa m«h proatratad by tha ahoek of hia death. Sha inalatad oa , taking tha body with her to Qiracd te hartal and left Hobakan with thaCMUf WMTMiNgra, Md., Feb. 10.—Charles Fogle, a farmer living near here, blew out hie brains to-day, beoanae the agenta of a speculative grain company got the beet of him in a business transaction. He bought 35 bushels of wheat at f 10 per bushel, and gave his note for I960. They in return to sail for him, when hie crap waa gathered, 50 bushels at the same price. ▲ bond waa given to thle effect, but the company failed to come to time. Two men repreeentlng another speculative oonoern then agreed to take the bond off his hands, In consideration of the far mar's note of (160. Thinking by doing this he was cancelling the ftfO note be gladly consented. The ether day, howaver, ho loaned that both notes were out yinit him, and thin fact so preyed • poo his mind that ha killed himself. rut. 8. J. HUGHES, SUBOEON DENTIST, MMtAnsr, Pa. oawwiafdetFtoaieysiwet.  fkJL f. J. SUBOEON nmmsT, . mnAnn, fa. £ "* T38K *gg» 4 M -MA, aaaagti mM aanlabaa "Noary klad| m baaMM ar aaiaula aarad la M mltmm M Waatbrd'* *M*M7 Lwloa. tbla aatar *Ua. 8aW br WIHUa AIhbm, drag#*. TaaxaaiawMf, fa. , , Datto*, O., Fab. 8.—k dinadfal aaaarga of tnboU Mw lapto'aUlaglnthoaaighbatbaod of Baaia Mill. Diaka aoaaty. Tha aoMf at tho aaboel boaaa ia that diatriot Mtoataiiapair,and tba papUakavator aaaaa ttM baaa aanyiag drlakiog watar traMawall ia a aaigkbariag bora yart. Tbaagb tba watar laakad alaar, it waa aoa- I taMiaatad, aad a aaMbav of tba paplla mt tbataaabar ia aharg* « aowaaMag I with a Maligaaat typo of typhoid favav. Thiaa bava diad aiaaa Friday andMvaa- Wahustmi, February UL—ThaNaaaM Servicedtviaienaf tha Traaaary Depart' meat baa diaoorarad that m mw con a tariait ai the |6 aUvar oertlftaata haa baa* pat ia oireulatlon. Tha MU la aha«* thMaixtaeatha af an laah toa abort. Itat ara nc diatiuolUe llnaa In the papar. TV geneti i appearance ia goad, and liabta I* Via 1 jvaulai" Clothiers, yVMXMU 1AWNCT, OH* * MORRIS, mm Mite. WmmM. BM kgr WflUato Utelph, t«w* —United SUtM «■!>■■» iiilMlUp.- d»7 e»i»iur#4 wart* •Mff*"* wUakt wwbtUg uhrW aw Ml wlf» dart* Bad wood, V. T. ftMWjr ■»•»•!• lH|W Ml •lUifclfalN 1fci* V f . 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