Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-09-28

              HE SERVED COCKTAILS HI DINNER Case of Standard Oil Hanging On Discovery of Missing Documents. ROWLAND'S TRIAL *1 HAND Prohibition Members Defeat Him in Quadrennial Electoral Conference. PRICE I CENT COMPELLED TO SHOUT VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS WILL NOT GO TO CONFERENCE PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28 1907 WL 11. No. II W$*SP«i ■v.* HMO IMS 8PIHIT All I ■■11 MKNT8 EVERY NIGHT AXD MSfX GOODS WHICH ARE ADVBRVUltt —THEY ABE BETTER si :: ti ATTORNEY F. B. KELLOGG SAYS HE IS GETTING CLOSER TO BOOKS BUSINESS eh or , a Noise. Mrs. Beatty Couldu't Beslst Ihe Temptation When 11 it i'u !«i i* Made B. R. & P. STATION AT BIG RUN ENTERED BY THIEVES ON THURSDAY Physician <»f Italoiffli and Ills Wife AwimhI of Murdering Woman's Tirst lliishantl. WILL LAY THE CORNER STONE FOR FINE- NEW CATHEDRAL TOMORROW Red Letter Day in the History of Washington Diocese of the P. E. Church. ASSISTANT SECRETARY ON THE STAND STI«>N(; CHAIN or KVIDKNCK. More Wells. Strike Gas in Paying Quantities in Venango County. PUNX'Y AND OTHER TOWNS AFTER OIL Mlt. Iti: \ttv u w hi : \i>\ Carried Away a Thousand Cigars and About' $25.00 Worth of Samples. Methodist Episcopal Meeting Will Have to Get Along Without Him. MANY BISHOPS EXPECTED. Claims Contents of Safe Disappeared Shortly After He Took Charge. WILL FORM COMPANY THE MONEY DRAWER EMPTY NOT TO MAKE SPEECH TO OUST MONOPOLY ('< HITS, hid . Sept. 28.—Be- Vice President Fairbanks served cocktail}* a: a dinner given in honar of President Koos» velt at Indianapolis last Memorial Day, in* was defeatc I heir y> >terduv as a candidate f<»r lay delegate to the general conference of the Methodist lOpisc »pal Church which meets a' Haltimore next May. The prohibition delegates defeated h i m. Some time aft»r 10 o'clock on Thursday night thieves entered the Buffalo, Rochester At Pittsburg passenger station at Big Hun and succeeded In getting away with a thousand cigars found in a package in tiie station, and about twenty-five dollars' worth of Yiotlons from the sample case of I\ W. Boyd of this place. The money druwiT was torn open but wan luckily empty. The thieves entered through a window In the rear of tin* station ami left by the same route, carefully closing tin' window after th«»m. Situated quite a distance from the main street, the station is exposed to midnight visits,- as there is no one left in the station after the departure of the evening train. Jt is very likely, however, that In the future, Mr. Burglar would find but very little to reward him, should he succeed In gaining an entrance. NKW CASTLK William D. Haywood', recently acquittvd in Idaho of complicity in the in the murder of Governor Steunenberg, has accepted an invitatl m from Stephen Flannagan, an active Socialist worker here, to deliver an address in New Castle soon. The proposed cathedral will be almost as large as that of St. John the Divine, now being erected in New York, and larger than most of the cathedrals of Europe. The accepted design is pure decorated Gothic with a touch of French feeling. The plans suggest the cathedral at Canterbury and the color will be similar to that of the cathedral at Chester, a reddish stone having been decided upon. The dimensions indicate almost perfect proportions. The total length will (Continued on Second Page.) The laying of the foundation stone will be followed by a great open-air services, at which the Right Kev. Arthur Foley Wilmington Ingram, Blshop of London, will be the preacher. There will be present also most of the bishops of the Episcopal church in America and about 4,000 members of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, whose international conference has been in session here this week. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Tomor- Tomorrow will be a red-letter day In the history of tin- Protestant Kpiscopal Diocese of Washington. At noon, with solemn and Impressive services, the eornor stone will be laid for the grand cathedral to be erected on Alt. St. Albans. A Punxsutawn. y business man. whose name is withheld from publication, and a number of Iteynoldsvllle, Brookville and Butler citizens recently planned to go "wild catting" for oil and gas in the wilds of Venango County. They chased around over the diggings in the famous districts •>f that section and finally concluded to locate near Polk, where they leased a block of 700 acres. A drill was started about two months ago an 1 about thirty days later, at a depth of 500 1'eet, something; was encountered. Salt water blocked the game, but the wild-cutters moved over about 400 feet and started a new hole. Last Thursday the drill struck the | first sand at a depth of about f>00 feet and a great rush, gas followed.! The t tols wer withdrawn and a plug Inserted after considerable maneouverlng. The pressure Indicates a well of about 1,000.000 feet capacity peri day, and although the wild cutters 1 had oil in mind when they leased the (Continued on Second Page.) With the revolver pointing in the direction of one approaching the up stairs and while Mr. Heatty was laboring to get the weapon to hold still the marauder made a miscue and let something fall. The noise frightened Mrs. Heatty. who could endure the suspense no longer and springing out upon the Moor she uttered an alarm that put the burglar to utter route. Kay Pounds, who happened along a moment later, heard the disturbance and the two men made an investigation. Although about everything in the lower apartmiicts had been disturbed the burglar had not found anything to his liking. He bad entered and made his exit through a back door whleh had inadvertently been left unbolted and made his escape via Saner Kraut Hill. Feminine proneness to shout in the presence of mice and burglars, probably saved the life of a dark lantern artist at the home of Lawrence Beatty of the Bubeck Addition Thursday night. After returning from the theater, and not long after Mr. and Mrs. Beatty had retired in an upper apartment, they heard nnoise below. Noiselessly opening the door at the head of the stairs they eould hear some one prowling about the kitchen. Mr. Beatty lished up a revolver and loading it, took a position at the head of the stairs where he could warrant the intruder a warm reception in case he should decide to pay a visit to the upper apartments. STILL ANOTHE1 FOR NEW EX ATTEMPTS SUICIDE PLAN ENSION TWO MEN SERIOUSLY HURT IN OLD MINE Messrs. Fye and Crawford Badly Cut When Lamp Exploded Yesterday. diaries Field, Formerly of Piinx'y, .May Hie us Itcsiilt of Itasli Act. MARK CAMPBELL GOING UP Williamsport Paper Says New York Central Will Tap Connellsvill Region. WILL OO THROUGH ARCADIA IN THE KLONDYKE MINE. In lHi'iHtmt-K Today ConfeiTlnR Willi hmMtlit Hreyt'liss of Tin* Pirates. Speclalt oThe Spirit. UALEIUH, N. Sept. 2K.—One of the most remarkable and sensational cases of alleged murder that has stirred this section in a generation, will be called for trial here Monday—that of Dr. David S. Rowland, a leading physician with a large practice in this city, and his beautiful widow-bride, formerly Mrs. Lillian Strange, of Omaha, Neb. The two are charged with having murdered the woman's first husband, Charles It. Strange, In this city last April by poison or other f ail means. SuKpiei »n against the accused was tlrst aroused by the fact that Dr. Rowland and the widow were married within six weeks after the sudden dt nth of Strange, whom Dr. Rowland attended in his last illness. At the coroner'* investigation the prosecution was dependent almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. Hut a chain strong enough to bring about the Indictment of both on a murder charge was soon forged. If the accused pair are entirely innocent of the death of the woman's husband they are both the victims of a most remarkable chain of appearances and developments. If the circumstantial evidence adduced at the preliminary hearing is true it haJ been a guilty love between Dr. Rowland and Mrs. Strange for some time before the death of the w iman's husban d. <>n the other hand, the attorneys for the accused declare that the appearances are deceitful. They declare that the early marriage of the doctor and the widow, which the prosecution holds as the most suspicious act in the chain of circumstantial evidence, was in realty the act of a man disposed to do the honorable thing to protect the good name of an Innocent woman. Charles R. Strange, the alleged vie- ' tim of the pair, was a locomotive en- i gineer and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, of which he was a mefober, has hired counsel to assist in the prosecution of Dr. Rokland and hia bride. Witt m STRIKE Pr«Wd<Vu Small Say# Telegrapliers' Troubles Will Be Settled By Arbitration, The defeat came at the quadrennial meeting of the lay electoral conference held to select seven delegates to the general conferenc at Baltimore. The Kev. J >shua Stenstleld, pastor of the Meridian Street M. K. Church, of Indianapolis, of whleh tin vice president is a trustee, was Fairbanks' campaign manager. The lay delegate!* at a secret caucus agreed to defeat Fairbanks it his name was presented. Oliver i'arson, an Indianapolis attorney, nominated the vice president. The tirst ballot showed 293 v JteH east and twenty candidates In the running. Fairbanks received but 7 9 votes when 97 were neeled to elect. I On the second ballot Fairbanks re| eelved 65 votes and his friends were j panic-stricken. The third ballot showed Fairbanks waning, his vote j being but 45. tin the fifth his vote dropped to HX. Ills name was then I withdrawn and the last of the sev« n '.delegates were named on the sixth 1 ballot. | The conference came near breaking , | vp In a row as the Kev. Mr. Bteimfte** I told the teincpernnee member what I he thought of them. Orushed >ver his defeat Fairbanks sent word t-» the local Southern Indiana Conference today that he will not come to make an address to them. His message was terse. It merely said.: I will not c »nn Fairbanks had received the Invitation to address the conference early In th«- week. Temperance advocates to.lay are crowing* over the stinging defeat they have administered to the aspirations of the Vice President. EAST LIVKUPOoL, C>. — At the [ ( losing session of the Synod of Ohio Hi the Cnit-.1 Presbyterian Church, it was announce.! $l\000,000 for missions will be raised by the denomination before its semi-centennial celebration next year. More testimony was taken to show Ui* profits of some of the Standard's '\uitjsuiiary pipe "Titfies, wWlt'h, the Government's counsel declares, are excessive and maintained to prevent shipments of crude oil by independent producers. <3eorge Chesbro, controller of several of these subsidiary pipe lines, testified that the Southern Pipe Line Company of Pennsylvania, earned $4,- 376,018 gross In 1899 an.i the operating expenses were only $310,522. T.he balance sheet of the company for that year showed the net plant investment to be 12,125,066. The company's balance sheet showed an item of $2,- 607,856 as a payment to J. P. Trainor and charged to operating expenses. In 1900 the balance sheet of the eom* pany showed $4,599,838 paid to Mr. Tralnor. The case was adjourned today until next Thursday so that John O. Millburn, one of the defendant's counsel, i might attend the McKinley dedication I 1n Canton, Ohio. Mr. White said no one told him the nature of the contents of the second safe, which was removed two weeks after he had been there. From whom the order came or where it was taken the witness said he could not answer.White said he had never seen the records of 'the Standard Oil trustees or the liquidating trustees showing the vorious transfers of stock In the trust and liquidating periods. Mr. White said he had hunted for the records recently, but was unable to And them. NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Frank B. Kellogg, conducting the suit of the United States for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of Now Jersey, made another hunt yesterday for a trail that would lead to the finding of the long-sought books of the Standard Oil trustees and liquidating trustees. When the hearing was concluded Mr. Kellogg said he was closer to the books, from which he hopes to prove that the Standard Oil trust never underwent a legal dissolution, than he had been at any time since the Government's action was commenced. Chas. fWhite, assistant secretary of the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, said on the witness stand that when he went to the secretary's of- fice to assume his new duties there were two steel safes In the office. One , of them contained the books and records of the Standard Company, the witness said. What was in the other safe he did not know. FTNDLAY, O., Sept. 28. — Arguments In the case of George H. Phelps against the Standard Oil Company and seven of Its subsidiary con(Contlnued on Second Page.) Small stated t.» a representative of the United Press that arbitration methods are expected to end the strike In at least ten days. Small declares that his men are standing firm and that the union is in good shape. By United Press. PITTSBURG, Sept. 28. — President S. J. Small, of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union, Is in town today enroute to Washington, where lie will confer with President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor. j According to companions young I Field had not gone to work this inorn| lug as usual and had been drinking heavily al day. something entirely out of the ordinary. After eating a slihgt meal at the Mahaffey house, where In* stayed, the young man went ■ to his room and shortly after | the report of a revolver was heard. Several people In the hotel rushed In the direction of the shot and found Field lying upon the bed In his room with a bullet hole Just above his right ear. Dr. Bennett was immediately called and dressed •the wound. Although he is at present resting easy, the doctor holds out but small hopes for his recovery, as he fears the ball pierced the brain. The j revolver used was of small calibre. Fields came to this place three years ago and for a year worked in the Morris clothing store, where he was regarded is a model young man. After quitting here he worked for short time in DuUois and then returned to Mahaffey. where he has been employed in the store of A. 1'. l«ydic. The young man is years of age and was originally from Mercersburg. For reasons unknown, Charles ' Field, an employee in 'the store of A. I). Lydlc, of Mahaffey, and formerly an employee of Mai Morris, in this city, shot himself above the right ear with a revolver shortly after dinner today and the chances for his recovery are slight. An explosion in an abandoned mine near Rathmei shortly before noun yesterday seriously Injured .fames Fye and slightly disabled Kl. Crawford. A short time ago Messrs. Fye and Crawford made arrangements to operate tin* abandoned Klondyke mine for country coal trade and yesterday was their first trip for the purpose of mining. Near the mouth of the slope they found a bottle which they believed to contain oil. With the contents of the bottle they tilled one of the lamps and proceeded into the mines. Placing the lamp in the middle of a room they were about to begin work when the lamp exploded : with a crash. Pieces of the lamp struck Fye above the left eye cutting it so that a portion of the Mesh hung over the eyeball. Another portion struck him above the left ear. inflicting a deep hole, which It Is feared has penetrated through the skull. Cwarford was less seriously Injured but required the services of a physician.People near the mouth of the mine distinctly heard the explosion and rushed in to the aid of the Injured men. They were taken to Dr. J. C. Boolu-r's at Falls Creek, wao dressed their wounds. YORK, Pa. — While the body of Geo. \V. Laueks was being conveyed from Hed Lion to Salem church for Interment two pallbearers, blinded by the heavy fall of rain, lost their way. Under the guise of extending a jerkwater int > the Central Pennsylvania coal fields, tlie New York Central built a line from Corning. N. Y., to Arcadia, Indiana County, Pa. It Is alleged that Pennsylvania railroad engineers were recntly sent to look at the eoal road. They f.mnd it laid with ninety-pound rails and equipped and ballasted for a trunkline.Engineer figures that the extension to be built will be ninety miles of track, the distance being sixty miles as the crow flies. It will require eighteen months to complete the road. The coke fields of the Connellsvllle audi Klondike regions will be tapped,' as well as a large eoal producing area. The Vanderbitl system now has to ship its eastern coal and coke via Cleveland. The shorter route will save several hundred miles of a haul. The Williamsport News has still another line mapped out for the N. Y. C.'s short line from Pittsburg to New York City. A dispatch from Pittsburg t > the News says: "The New York Central Railroad known as the Vanderbilt system, has at last secured a route more direct; between Pittsburg and New York thai any existing line. F. A. Long, chlel engineer of tin' New York Central railroad, has g me back to New York with topographical maps of the proposed extension. This, Mr. Long, said, is seventy miles shorter than the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks between Pittsburg and New York. The latter system is scheduled at 44 4 miles. WAJUtEN. Pa. — Clayton Firth, a farmer of Sugar Grove, c immltted suicide by hanging. He was despondent over ill health. STATEKHOUO, Oa . Sept. 2S.— Cone I lagan, a farmer living near here, and eight children are unconscious, having en'.en Ice cream in which condensed milk ha«l been used. A physician found all of them suffering from ptomaine poisoning, it is feared none of them will survive. Hagan Is a widower. Mark, lust spring, loined the Olean team and so rapid was his rise as a shortstop and wield« r of the willow that when the Glean team gave up the ghost "Hutch" received an offer fr >111 both Punxsutawney and Du- Bols. The accident which put 11 onus Wagner out of business came In the first Inning of yesterday's game between the Pirates and the Beaneaters. A pitched ball struck the Dutchman oil the ban!, breaking a small bone, and causing an injury that will probably keep him out of the game the balance of the seas »n. The Pittsburg-Boston gam-, which went 11 innings to a tie, was also remarkable in that 27 men figured in the game. Mark "Ilutch" CampbcH, son of County Treasurer Ira J. Campbell, of Br »okvile, last night received a telegram from Barney Drey fuss, president of the Pittsbug National Baseball Club, to come t,o Pittsburg at Ills earliest convenience. "HuU'h"' tarried in the Jefferson County seat only until the next train left Brookvllle, which was at an early hour this ! morning, and this afternoon will I likely have a conference with the Smo- | ky City baseball maganate. The telegram, which Mark received, contained no Inkling of what was wanted, but following so soon upon the heels of an accident to Honus Wagner, It does not require much presumption on the part of a dope artist t > figure out that the former fleet Interstate! is to be given a trial at short. CANOE niDOK (Office of the Weatherworks) — Kain tonight and Sundwy. Cooler Sunday. RED HOT IRON THROUGH NECK MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED WILL HOLD EXAMINATION ANOTHER TROLLEY ROAD READY FOR IHE WORK Wounded Workman Hardly I"t-lt ll. SiiUI Toliucco Made 11 iin Sick. law lilbrarlaii Ktill Mi<slnu From III.- 1Ionic-—Said i<» In Mla ill It- City. nvil Smliv Commissi* m Wants a Sciciidlic Assistant for Department of Agriculture. Tools ami Supplies Being CJiitlieml for Doable Tracking Near llrockwayville.ArnwlroiiR County to Have KUn'trh* Lino From Kaylor to Pittsburg. By United Press. PITTSBURG, Sept. 28.—It was announced today by the United States Civil Slrvlce Commissioner that an examination will be held here Oetober 16 and 17 for scientific assistant in the department of agriculture. The salaries for the position range from $840 to $2,000 a year. There are now two vacancies in the rural engineering at salaries of eight hundred and forty dollars. MICHIGAN TWO-CENT RATE MoN'KSSKN'. Pa.. Sept. 28.—I. H. Wadsworth was killed almost instantly yesterday at the plant of the Pago Woven Wire Fern < company, when a : rod-hot wire ran through his neck. | ii»- had stooped down to piek up some scrap wire ami apparently it'll only | a prick in his neck, for he started to have the wound dressed. He fell dead dead a few minutes later. Me remarked to other workmen thai tobacco had made him sick, not realising he had been seriously injured. The deceased was 54 years old and leaves n widow and four children. EAST LIVKKPOCiL, <>.—A raid upon the Panhandle Social Club on liabbs Inland, in the Ohio River, was conducted by fc?horlff \\ ilken. of New Cumberland. \V. Va.. resulting in about fifty men being caught and hundreds of dollars' worth »f whisky and beer confiscated, A strung" coincidence is connected with the death of Winfleld H. .Maxwell, who was foreman of White Uock, Armstrong: County, and who was killed on the railroad about a mile ftom Butler Junction last Tuesday.It developed today- that the deu.i man. Dlgby and Attorney D. H. Maxwell. a brother of Winfleld H.. hud Intended leaving Pittsburg for a trip to Mexico. It Is reported now that the missing law librarian Is at Atlantic City. It is said that he was seen to board a train bound f>r that city yesterday. PITTSBURG, Sept. 28.—'The mystery of the disappearance of Law-Librarian Percy Digby still remained unsolved up to one-thirty o'clock today.LANSING, Mlrli., Sept. US.-—Tills Is the date ilxed fur the two-cent passenger rate law In Michigan to become effective. All the railroads doing business In the State have agreed to adopt the new rate. Much powerful machinery will also be used In erecting the heavy work of the contract and those In charge are equipped to go along rapidly with the Job. It will require about tlfteen to eighteen months' time ti complete the proposed improvements. The camps will receive supplies from (his plac£, and a number or men will make their headquarters here.— Krock wa.vvl lie Record. Camps are being erected at dlffernt points along the proposed line of Improvement and It is estimated that there will bo at least 1,200 men located on the new work within a few Jays. Following the announcement last week of the letting ol' the contract f >r tunneling, grading and double-tracking the !(.. R. & P. from ltrockwayviiie to Carman, a distance of niti' miles, a large number of men and equipment have been stationed at tills place to prepare fir the initial work on the big job. The new enterprise Is to be called the "Butler and Chlcora Street Railway Company," and will start from Butler and finish at Kaylor, Armstrong: County. The full route can be seen by referring to a legal notice In this paper. Kaylor is only a couple of miles from the Allegheny River at Brady's Bend1, opposite East Brady. There is no doubt but what this road will ultimately be extended tj the river. (Jnce cpnstructedj to Kaylor, the people of {hat section can go to Pittsburg by trolley. — Kittanning Times. Another trolley road fs to traverse a part of Armstrong County. This time on the west side of the river. and like the one building from Indiana to Punxsutawney via Sagamore, this county, outside capitalists will build and operate it. . Hon. Charlemagne Tower, the Amrlcan ambassador to Oermany, was orn at Philadelphia on April 17th, 448, and was educated at the Miliary Academy of New ifaven, Conn. mp afterwards attended Harvard Ilniprslty where he graduated in 1872. ■e then travelled in Europe from p73 until 1876 and next studied law in Philadelphia. He married Miss Helen Smith at Oakland, California, in 1888. He Was admitted to the practice of law in 1878. He lived for a time at Duluth, Minn., and is a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers. He was first made Minister to Austria-Hungary and next ambassador to Russia whence he was transferred to Germany in 1902. V''' $#&.«!» i/s, Charlemagne Tower »• t. *