Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-10-03

              " ' 1 • ' • ' '' """" ' PRICE 1 CENT mm4 Mechanical Equipment Will \ Reduce Labor and Add to Output. l'nslilont of Mine Worker* To Have Troublesioni& Appendlx Removed. CUKE flWISTflY IH THIS COUNTRY Will BE MOTIONIZED lit im HIE BEEN IEI Mlti'Hell is seriously ill, but It Is hoped that he will recover rapidly after the operation. BAPIIST PARSONAGE BURNED By United Press. Ind., Oet. 3. — John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, is going to his home at Spring Valley, 111., tomorrow where he will b<» operated m for appendicitis.EVERYTHING THEIR FANCY DICTATES BAND OF THIEVES ENTER THE HOMES OF PUNXSUTAWNEY CITIZENS TAKING TO ftPEUTE 11 MRCflL PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1907 DUBOIS PEOPLE ARE PLAIlflFFS III SUIT FOR HEAVY DAMAGES! CITIZENS OF CAIRO TURN OUT TO GREET PRESIDENT TOOAY Attempt. Every House on Two Streets Came in For an CARRY AWAY 100 POUND MUSIC BOX Owned By Congregation at \lkcni, W. C\. and Oii'upU'il by llev. .\lr- Leau formerly of I'unx'y, to Be Built as Soon as Possible. One Hundred of New Type Ask $10,000 For Loss of Son Who Was Killed in Excursion Wreck. Accompanied Down the River By Large Fleet of Small Craft. Iron SafeTakenFrom Another Home But Left in Back Yard. ARE STILL FREE (Continued on Second Page.) MURDERS HEED Continued on Pago Six. HiIh Brother. AGAINST THE P.B.& L.E. LEAVES FOR MEMPHIS $1,100,000 INVOLVED Miss Margaret Campbell, of thl.s place, last night received word from New C&stle announcing that Rev. Mc- Lean's condition Is improving daily. Rev. McLean, with his wife and son were spending the summer hero, when he was stricken with typhoid fever." WArd has been received here announcing the almost total destruction by lire of the parsonage of the First Baptist church at Alkin, 8. <\, of which ILev. Philip AlcLcan is pastor. Rev. McLean lies at the home >f his mother, Mrs. Charlotte McLean. of Court street, New' Castle, suffering from an attac k of typhoid fever. News of the lire has occasioned a slight relapse, but his condition is not thought to be serious. "The lire broke out last Tuesday evening and before the flames could be gotten under control almost the entire sec »nd story had been gutted. The greatest loss was in damage to the building as nearly all the household effects were taken out before they were saved. The lire was communicated to the house from a nearby barn that had either caught or been set on lire. The following item taken from the New" Castle News, refers to Rev. Philip McLean, formerly pastor of the First Baptist church of this place but who on account of his health wont south in 1903: MUM UST MAY Lord Kelvin Sir William Thomson, Lord K«*l-j Her Atlantic cables. Ho has been I vin, the noted engineering expert and lw,l'° married, his second wife being ..„i .. Iv . ' Miss Frances Blandy >1 tH«- Island electrician, is a son or Dr. James . . "j iMaderla. Lord Kelvin is presihjnmnn, of Glasgow, a former pro. | lU,nt lhl. Koyul Sorlety a! Killn-! fessor <»f that University. Lur i Kol- j burgh, Scotland. Ho tlrst gained invin was born at Belfast1* Ireland, on ' ternational renown in bis engincer.lune 26, 1N24. He was educated at j ing work while laying the Atlantic Glasgow University and was the in- cables in 1857 and 1865. He has no von tor of'many valuable patents in | heir to his title. His home is in connection with the laying of the ear- i Ayreshire, Scotland. ffBDUUft . DEEP WATERWAYS MEN FIREMEN ADOPT TWO 1 6000 RESOLUTIONS' Friends of Miss Pauline Miller and Pierre Ij. Smith CJIven a Surprise. One Sets Jan. 17 as Memorial Day and Other Does Away With Graft. Will Assemble at Memphis Tomorrow and Listen to the President. [ny, who Is In charge of the* conuctlon of this latest plant, It was irned that the new oven, while own to the coke trade for some le past, has moved slowly from ir of its very newness and its revltionary character. It resembles ich the Belgian coke oven. Its urging is done practically the same > for the Bee Hive. That is the )y feature which has the slightest emblance, however, to the older rg and Westmoreland Coal Oom- [Through II. A. Ivuhn, of the Pitts- The Interest taken In the announcelent of tho building of the lirst battry'of ovens in the Cpnnellsville field a* given added strength when It uj: yesterday tfc-at-the ttwburg A Westmoreland Coel Commy had prepared plans for a batry of 100 ovens of the same type, id work Is to be started on them once. In fact, it was explained at the general plans call for 1,000 ens of this type, with further radi-1 changes in form and in methods .operation. l1 measurment inside the oven IV. J. Rainey Interest some time ago, yhich abolished not .>nly the circuir form of the oven, but provided oors at each side of the box-llko tructure, raised like a camel's back i the center, and with 32 feet of lin- Jee HlvV» oven. The new ovens orm the first practical demonstration >f an experimental plant built by the The new ovens are constructed entirely new lines from th >se of he best-known type and styled the has ordered 100 of them. Thirty of Ihese are nearing an J lome have been under test. oven to be used in the future of the coking business, contracts involving 91,100,000 have been awarded for the construction of new plants, amounting In all to 1,100 oveiis, that, when completed, will make a strange sight for the old-time coke manufacturer in the Pittsburg territory. The first of the new style of ovens is being built In the Connellsvllle field, where the Central Connellsville Coke Company PITTSBURG, Oct. 3. — As a starting point for the complete revolution of the type and form of coke Mr. and Mrs, Smith will go to housekeeping in Punxsutawney in the near future. The friends of Miss Pauline Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Miller, of Reynoldavllle, and Pierre C. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Smith, of this place, were given a surprise by the announcement the other day that on May 25. 1907, the young couple had been to Salamanca. N. Y., where they were married by Rev. JaQuay, pastor of the M. E. Church of that place. Attorney A. J. Trultt, of this place, has been retained by plaintiffs and was in Butler Tuesday in consultation with the local attorneys securing the data on which the trial of the action will depend. "The said men came to their deaths by being caught and crushed in wrec*k of train No. 101, Western Allegheny II. R., sueli being operated by the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie R. R. We find by the evidence that the engine was running backwards at the time of the wreck, which we believe was gross negligence on the part of said railroad company." The excursion train consisted of fif- I teen coaches, and it will be remcm- I bered, was going from DuBois to ('as-I cade Park at New Castle, loaded with employees of the B., R. & V. Rail- I way Company, from DuBois, for their annual picnic. When tiear Isle Station, on the Western Allegheny road, the tender jumped the track, taking the "engine and baggage-car with it. The baggage car was badly smashed, and in it were a number of passengers, including the plaintiff's son who was instantly killed. Others, also, lost their lives and many were injured. It is believd that the verdict of the coroner's Inquest will play an important part in the trial of this action, as it was ax follows He had been their .support and added much to the comfort of their home life. | A suit Involving hjrge damages, [growing out of the late disastrous J wreck of the PuBuis excursion train, j is be In#? instituted in the Court of ;('ommm I'leas of Butler County by | John and Joanna Neal, paren s of Charles L. Xeal, against the Pitts[ burg, Bessemer Lake ICrie Itallroad, -which operates the Western Allegheny Kallroad from Butler to New Castle. The plaintiffs are residents of DuBois and claim of the defendant company the sum of ten thousand dollars damages for the loss of their son, who was killed, as they allege, by reason of defendant's negligence. Their son was 2 2 years of age. and had been honored by being made one of the committee on arrangements for the excursion, which cost him his life. REM ERR REUNION CONTROLS THE BUSINESS king six hours' are lost each time :e was drawn from the oven, four which was due to the slow and ilous method of drawing by hand them were summarized by Mr. hn yesterday, when he explained t under the older method of coke nmo of the changes and the causes Govern me in Will Try to Prove Thai Standard I>oes Ninety-Seven per Cent. to Make Tlieir Hit? I>ay a Indiana Veterans of All Wars Unite |> Italians Pay Penalty on Scaffold I fop Horrible Murder of Plato je victim twas sleeping wbth fouri other Italians in a shanty at the .on the Pennsylvania railroad, for feh they were doing construction ked to death with razors on the [t of August 30, 1906. ? hanged here today for the murof Plato Albanez, whom they By United Press. \NCASTER, Pa., Oct. 3— Delero iu Rodelll and Celione, Italians, The Government charged that through the Galena and Waters Pierce Oil Company the Standard controlled 97 per cent of the lubricating business. Kellogg alleges that some of the railroads paid from fifty to >ne hundred per cent more than was a fair price. NEW YORK. Oct. 3—To prove that the Standard Oil Company has a monopoly of the lubrleating business, by which it collects fr>m the railroads more than four millian three hundred thousand dollars annually was the object of Prank B. Kellogg today, when he called to the stand C. C. Steinbrenner, who has charge of the books of Galena Signal Oil Company. By United Press. A' i hall* taken from tin- back porch of -the Johnstone home on l'« tin street was loft standing by the side of the house underneath window which they had failed to raise Foot prints beneath the windows of Engineer Mr- Minn's house, showed that the marauders had also attempted to Ret In there. On the back porch of Hanscome's home, foot prints are visible this morning and a watch chain was I found. At the North residence on the east side of Penn Street, the dovn stairs was ransacked thoroughly, bu: nothing was taken. At Alike Quarry's just across the street from Wehrle's, a screen was torn from a side window which gave entrance to the parlor. A bottle «»f whisky and quinine, a little fruit and the keys to Quarry's fruit store disappeared with the robber?:. hundred pounds, the keys to tile Jewelry store, and a dozen banans were taken. Through an unl nkod window In the dining* room the cracksmen entered the house of K. X. Wehrle on Penn street and a music box, weighing one Rudolph's shoes were left on the window sill. they evidently gave up the Job of removing the door. A pair of Mr. 'rom the do >r, but after much prying1 then lugged a safe weighing about eight hundred pounds. Into the back yard. The screws were removed id silver spoons, ate more fruit and I At the homj( of t'larke Smith, next door to Kunaelman's, a chair wa» taken from the back porch with the aid of which they manged to open a side window. Fruit was the extent •-nt thelt spoils at Smiths an.l only one room was entered. By tearing: out a screen and forcing the window, Henry Rudolph's residence on Front Street was entered. Here they took half a dozen sol- Sometime after one o'clock the housebreakers started their tour. The home of Mrs. Anna Kunselman, of Front Str< « t, was probably the first < ntereil. Here they pried open a window in the back of the house and •nteri-d by climbing on the cellar door. Kvery room <»n the lower floor was ransacked. Drawers were •pened and the contents of a clothes press were scattered throughout the house. A violin, valued at Sl?». a pocketbook value I at $<"». a pair of socks and $2 In money vver taken. | A dozen bananas were als » consu med 1 during their stay, the skins • ng I placed back on the plate. The band of burglars who have be«-n giving their attention to the re#>. !ents of DuHols. Hig Hun, Kidgway. et. ., have evidently transferred their attentions to this city, six houses being entered last night, while at a dozen different houses entrance could not be gained. The same plan 'of campaign was carried out here as at DuHols, 11Idgway and Big Hun. At the above towns houses adjoining each othere were entered, as was the case last night. The bunch seem to be making their way down 'the Tine of the R. It. P. railroad and Dayton people had better be on the lookout. A bidder, more impudent bunch of criminals could scarcely be imagined. From the fact that 'the heavy safe of Henry Rudolph was carried such a distance. It is safe to surmise that there are at least three of them and maybe five. How they manage to get away with such articles as they have been pur- Joining is incomprehensible. Judging Ml FOUND money. Albanez resisted : a razor. The thieves literally Llie man to pieces and then fired Ivers Into his body. murderers awakened the victim dead of night and one by one of Percy Diffliy Taken From (lie Olilo lUver—Identified by 1:15 p. m.—Meeting in the Court House. Address of welcome by Burgess James A. Crossman. Response by a visitng veteran. Entertainment by puipils from the Blairsville, Punx- Butawney and Indiana schools. Recitation by Prof. McKelvey, of Bolivar. —Indiana Democrat. 12:45 p. m.—Formation of parade by the chief marshal, Major Harry W. -Fee. 11:00 a. m. to 12:00 m.—Sightseeing in Indiana by trolley and auto cars. 8:00 t."> 11:00 a. m.—Business meetings oft he sevral commands at places designated in official program —the two companies of the Seventyfourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at the West End Hotel; Company D, Two Hundred Sixth P. V. I., and Company F, Fifth Regiment, P. V. I., In the Court House. The part the pupils of the schools in Blairsville, Punxsutawney and Indiana are expected to take wilt be worked out shortly In accordance with outlines already published. The program follows: The Sons of Veterans' Committee, of which James A. C'rosman, Esq., Is chairman, will act promptly this week in securing sufflr ient funds, with which to ipay the necessary expenses Incident to a gathering >f tills kind. Details for the earning reunion of Civil and Spanish-American war veterans at Indiana on Oct. 12 are being worked out. and the results so far are gratifying. CANOE RIDGE (Uttlce of the Weather works) — Showers tonight and Friday. Cooler Frlday.Continued on Pa£e Six The State of Illinois has paid for the greater part of the building of the drainage canal to Jollet, and the association at its present convention will consider the advisability of asking the government to appropriate) $10,- 000.000 a year for the five years, to carry on the work, or to issue bonds for the purpose. The movement for the establisnj ment of a deep waterway from the great lakes to the Oulf. though ofi comparatively recent origin, ha* attracted wide attention and has enlisted practically the solid support of the Mississippi Valley State*. Government engineers directed by Congress to aurvev the proposed waterway have already reported that the project was feasible, and Congress at Its last seeslon authorised the appropriation of The section of 1HG miles from St. Louis to Cairo is at present nuder survey and will probably cost $7 3,000,- 000, according to the estimates of government engineers. From Cairo to the Ked river, the last section of 74 6 miles, the only difficulty Is the dredging out of a fourteen-foot channel. The great project in which all of i these prominent men are Interested I and which has been undertaken by the i Lakes-to-toe-Gulf Deep Waterways association, is the securing of a fourteen-foot stage of water, the year round, from New Orleans up the Mississippi river, and through the drainage canal to Chicago. This would be a navigable waterway about 1,500 miles long, of which the llrst forty-mile section, from Chicago to Joliet, has been practically completed at a cost approximately of $5 3,000,000. Plans have been completed for a second division from Joliet to St. Louis, a distance of 230 miles, the cost being fixed by engineers at $31,500,000. ' MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 3.—In point "I attendance and enthusiasm the second annual convention of the Lakesto-the-Gulf Deep Waterway association, which assembles here tomorrow, will be the greatest demonstration of the supporters of the inland waterways movement that has ever been held in America. The central figure at the convention will be President Uoosevelt, who will arrive on the Mississippi tomorrow In time to deliver an address at the opening session. Delegates appointed by the boards of trade, chambers of commerce and similar organizations throughout the Middle West and South, together with i members of Congress and celebrated engineers, are arriving on every train, and in some cases on special trains chartered for their accommodation. Other delegates, including the governors of a score of states and the members of the Inland Waterways Commission. will arrive by boat tomorrow. rge T. Dlgby. of Wheeling, W. litd H. C. Dlgby, of Duquesne ta, brothers of the deceased, the Identification. TSBUBG, Oct. 3.—The body . this morning floating in "the river was .identified at the le as that of Percy Dlgby, of iieny county, the law librarian disappeared last Friday. By United Press. (Continued on Second Page.) "Resolved, That It be the sense of the delegates of this twenty-eighth annual convention of the Firemen's Association of the State of Pennsylvania Jin convention assembled at Pittsburg, this 3d day of October, 1907, that the Sunday on or be'ore January 17, the anniversary of onillustrious father and brother, IJcnjaniin Franklin, be set aside and be known as Firemen's Memorial Day, on which day the members of the various lire companies of the respect* ive villages, towns and citier. throughout Pennsylvania shall proceed, fully uniformed and in regular order, to some church or churches where service of a special character shall' be ■ held in tender memory of our ciepart- The Memorial Day resolution was proposed by Rev. Seth Downie, chief of the tire department of Hath, Pa. It reads as follows: The resolution was id <ptel and asked that the money provided by the State for the relief and benefit of disabled liremen, acording f > a bill enacted several years ago, be de\oted exclusively to the cause for which it Is Intended. In explanation of the resolution he said that less than ine-ha'f of Jhe money obtained from the St »'e ever reached the hands of th • disabled men, but by a system of graft was divided among a few men. Ait the business sessions yesterday two Important resolutions wenadopted. one In relation t > alleged graft in the distribution of the funds that should go to the various relief issociatlons, and the other sitting aside Sunday, Jnuary 17. or the Sunday nearest bef.»j*e that date, as Memorial Day. The authors of the resolution, referring to graft, was Fireman Long, of Hanover. After the tire the dress suit heroes returned t » the b ill and received the congratulations and smiles of their fair admirers. The blaze was extinguished with the loss of five thousand dollars. Twenty persons were rescue,1 in their night clothing. The delegates representing the companies of Unlontown, Philadelphia. Mahanoy City, and Sutterville, attired in evenig dress clothes, grabbed their overcoats, and were so >n on the jcd). The call of the gong proved too much for fifteen of the Jelgates early this morning when they left the gay ball r.iom at Duquesne Garden to respond to a tenement house blaze a few blocks away. PITTSBURG, Pa.. October 3.—Over fifty thousand firemen are expected in Pittsburg this afternoon where the 28th annual convention of the Firemen's Association of the State >f Pennsylvania is in session. (Continued on Page Three.) I commonJ a careful reading of Martin Puzzle wit to the pessimists of today, to the men who, insteadwof fighting hard to d "> away with abuse* while at the same time losing no jot of their buoyant hopefulness for the country, insist that all our people, socially and industrially, in their private lives no less than as politicians, newspaper men, and business men, are at a lower ebb than ever before. If ever any one of you feels a little ! downcast over the peculiarly gloomy I view of the present taken by  pessimist of t.iday, you will find it a real comfort to read Martin Chuzzlewit, to see what a woll-meaning pesslmjst of the past thought of our people sixty-five years ago; and then think of the extraor- All the business and residence streets Wert; profusely decorated with j tings and festoons. Plsfures of the President wen; to be seen on all sides. The streets were packed with people and the demonstration kept the President busy bowing his acknowledgements. While the President was entertained at luncheon the crowd thronged St. Mary's Park, where the President was to address the people. Immediately after the address the President and party resumed the river I journey to Memphis. i The address dealt for the most part with the duly of this nation towards its army und navy. The President said: Men of Illinois, and You, Men ot Kentucky and Missouri: I am glad to have the chance to speak to you today. This is the heart of what may be called the Old West, which we now call the Middle West, using the term to denote that great group of rich and powerful States which 'laterally forms tho heart .tt the country. It is a region whose people are distinctively American in all their thoughts, in all their ways of looking at life; and in its: past and its present al.ikc it is typical of our country. The oldest men present can still remember the pioneer days, the days of tho white-tilted j ox wag >n, of the emigrant, and of the log cabin in which that emigrant llrst lived when he settled to his task as a pioneer farmer. They were rough days, days of hard work, and th,. people who did that work seemed themselves uncouth and forbidding to visit >rs who could not look below the surface. Tt is curious and amusing to think that even as genuine a lover of his kind, a man normally so free from national prejudices as Charles Dickens, shoufl have selected the region where we are now | standing as the seat «>f his forlorn ' "Kden" in Martin < 'hu/./.lewit. The • country he s> lottery assailed is now ! .mo dI' the most fi-rtlU" and product- I ive portions of one of the most fertile and productive agricultural terrltor' ies in all the world, and the dwellers ! jn this territory represent a higher ! average of comfort, intelligence, and j sturdy capacity for selfgovernment j than the people in any tract of like ! extent in any other continent. The land teems with beauty and fertility, and but a score of years after Dickens wrot It was shown to be a nursery and breeding ground of heroes, • of soldiers and statesmen of the highest rank, while the rugged worth , of the rank and Hie of citizenship ! rendered possible the ileitis of .the i mighty men who led in council and ! in battle. This was the regi >n that brought forth mighty Abraham Lincoln. the Incarnation of all that is best in democratic life; and from the loins of the same people, living only a little farther south, sprang another >f our greatest Presidents, Andrew Jackson. "Old Hickory"—a man whr made mistakes, like most strong men. but a man of iron will and lncurruptible integrity, fearless, upright, devoted to the welfare of his countrymen. bone of our bone, and flesh of | our flesh, a typical American if ever | there was one. CAIRO, 111 , Oct. li.—President Roosevelt spent two busy hours In Cairo today. A multitude thronged the streets and rent the air with cheers as the Mississippi pulled up at her landing. As the President walked down the gang plank and entered «the carriage, accompanied by Governor Dencon, Mayor Parsons and J. S. Aithorpe, president of the Cairo Board of Trade, the crowd broke Into cheers, which he promptly acknowledged. A number of carriages swung into line, while an escort of police and militia formed a guard. Special «to The Spirit. ++♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦+♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ <• ♦ ♦ One of our local business! ♦ ♦ men who uses circulars ex- ♦ + tensively to advertise his busl- ♦ + ness, while delivering them t > ♦ ♦ Punxsutawney residents a few ♦ ♦ evenings ago, saw something ♦ ♦ that we have been trying to ♦' ♦ Impress upon the minds of our ♦ ! ♦ merchants for some time. In ♦ one section of the town, every ♦, + house he went to, into which ♦ j ♦ he put 'lie of his circulars, he ♦ + found The Spirit lying 011 (he ♦ ♦ front porch—and he will llnd ♦ + It there every evening, too. ♦ ♦ The Spirit goes Into the ♦ ♦ homes of nearly every per- ♦ ♦ sjii In the city who can read. ♦ ♦ And It can carry an adver- ♦ ♦ tlsement there every night at .♦ + a cost not out of proportion ♦ ♦ to the service. ♦ ♦ Now is the best time to ♦ ♦ place your go ids before this ♦ ♦ large crowd of buyers—3,500 ♦ + subscribers—1 L',000 readers. + ♦ ♦ +++*++++++*♦+++**++ CITY OF MEXICO, Oct. 3.—ltecelving visitors and driving about the city occupied the greater part of this, the third day of Secretary Root's stay in the Mexican capital. Elaborate preparations have been completed for the banquet to be tendered him at the Municipal Palace tonight by 'the city council and Governor Landaescanon. MEXICO ENTERTAINS ItOOT. m f •f