Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-10-25

              m I LEAD THE SPIRIT SPECIAL OOb I'MN—SOMETHING NEW THERE EVEIIYNIGHT. ON PAGE TWO. PRICE I CENT MOTION FOR NEW TRIM;. CHILD 101 SECURE CASH Tlire© Xotrd t'a.-CN From Tills Slutc On Today'h Dockct For Argument. 111 KBT WITH I'TUTORS I>urgc Nunilter of BpiHutators Enjoy Spicy EvUlenco Offered L laiHt Nlglit, ns' Committee, J. B. jrhart, Gcnoral Chalr- 250 THE WAR WAS EARLY TODAY FIRST STEP OF IMPENDING TAKEN GUILTY Or PERM PUNXSUTANfrNEY, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1907 'OL H. No. 34 . S. EXCHANGE BANK AND THE BOROUGH BANK OF BROOKLYN CLOSE DOORS Dr. Waller R. Gillette Found Guilty of Perjury In Insurance Cases. I Union Trust Company of Providence Also Posts Notices. rENUin our in II. I SUPREME COURT Will ASK KAISER TO TESTIFY WITH OTHER OFFICIALS AIRSHIP LANDS IN A TREE BUT PILOT ESCAPE Make \iisw <*r lt» MNs Giirini<le IlirkH, W ho Plays the Part of CYllie. International Race Completed. Official Measurement of Big MAKING MANY I MI'K< )\ I: > 11 ]\TS. October 29 Set as tht Date When Miners Will Meet With Operators. >n Given By Various Institutions For Suspension. G HEATER PITTSHUIMi CASE. Haintiff in the Moltke Trial Hopes to Disprove Charges. OTHERS SUMMONED GERMANY WINS [ONS INVOLVED SCALE AGREEMENT WANTED TO HELP SOME NJ2W YORK, Oct. 25.—Tho first conviction in the cases based on the disclosures in the legislative investigation during 1905-1906 of insurance affairs was obtained last night. A Jury in the supreme court found Dr. Walter it. Gillette, former vice president of t:ie Mutual L.fe Insurance Company guilty of perjury in the third degree. The verdict was accompanied by a recommendation for mercy. The maximum penalty for this degree of perjury is ten years Imprisonment. On the report of the jury council for Dr. Gillette moved for a certificate of reasonable doubt and arrest of Judgment. Justice Dowling announced he would hear the motion Monday, find for the meantime remanded Dr. Gillette to thf Tombs. During the trial the defendant had been at liberty under $10,000 bonds. Dr. Gillette is f»7 years of age and well known in medicine, from the practice of which he retired some years ago. The specific charge upon which I>V. Gillette waft found guilty was that he had testified falsely before the grand jury on May 24, when he was vice president of the Mutual. The indictment alleged that at that time, under examination by District Attorney Jerome, he stated that certain moneys in the Dobbs Ferry Bank were his personal funds, and that subsequently, upon cross-examination, he had admitted that these funds were really the property of the Mueual Life. Former Justice Hatch, who summed up for the defendant, said his client had been made a scapegoat while the really guilty officers of insurance companies had escaped prosecution.The convention will have for its purpose decision of whether there shall be an Interstate convention for the purpose of making a new scale In January. In March, 1906, the famous interslate agreement was abrogated by the failure of the miners and operators to got together. Af'erwarJ, however, through the efforts of John Mitchell, a two-year agreement was made, but It did not mean the restoration of the Interstate agreement. A new j agreement will have to be made. By Untied PrcnH INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Oct. J5.— The first s ep in the impending war between the miners and operators •: this State was taken today. when Vice President T. 1). Lewis, 'lie presiding < flic or «>f the K\« utlve Hoard of the United Mine Workers, decided to have the officers >f the State organizations in the central competitive field meet with the operators here October L'H. Minn cm m Son of J. N. Kennedy Plays Substantial Blind Man's Joke on Ills Father. ST. LOUIS,, Oct. 25.—-The Haysdorfer-Yager airship Comet, with Char es Haysdorfer aboard, was wrecked yesterday afternoon at Marlyand avenue and Kings highway in full view of 10,- 000. The airship had hardly cleared the telegraph wires when the bag of the balloon, Happing loosely in the wind, came in contact with the crippled rudder. A huge hole was torn in the bag, the gas escaping with a rush. The machine careened, the frame work buckled and the entire mass crashed Into the branches of a tree. Hay. dorfer clung to a limb and escaped uninjured. WASHINGTON, 1). c\, Oct. 25.—The official air-line measurement of the lllght of the two leading balloons In the international race from St. Lou s, as computed at the Geological Survey yesterday, follows*. St. Louis (Forest Park) to Asbury Park, 87 3.4 miles; St. Louis (Forest Park) to Herbertsvile, N. J.. S67.4. The Pommern landed at Asbury Park. BANK NUN M GLENN CAMPBELL Foreigners Withdraw Savings From Institution, But Deposit All Again. [The officers of the bank said there ino statement to bo made, and re- police protection. sharp rally in the American de•tment in London gave some engagement in the opening of today's ck market. The first prices were terally higher. Mnancial New York is convalesit, but still shaky on its pins. It I be many days before the stock hange and business in general will once more normal. t Is confidently asserted, however, [those in a positon to know, that worst is over. advices from Baltimore say that the on the eastern branch of the Company of America, Lincoln me Bank still continues, but that demands are being promptly met. lere runs still continue on the I Company, Fifth Avenue Trust ipany, Harlem Savings Bank and :retary of <the Treasury Cortelyou to a United Press representative lar Savings Bank. But the de- Its now exceed the withdrawals, so end is in sight at last. t am very hopeful that the trouhas passed and regard the situaas very much improved. I will he meantime render any possible Ice during the day. The suspen- By United Press. YEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The Uni- States Exchange Bank, with a >ltal of one hundred thousand doli, announced today that it would open for business. (Continued on Second Page.) The bachelor quarters will be adequate when buildings now under construction are completed. Vermin are being combated by extensive fumigation of matt reuses and cleanly methlos. Chinese servants cannot be had because Panama laws prohibit their immigration. There Is a superabundance of quarters for laborers. As to the camps being sometimes on low ground and unhealthy, the commission replies that the great majority >f labor camps were French ones, located 20 years ago. Additional plants for drinking water will be built as soon as funds are available. Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas says that food Is plentiful and excellent. The commission is planning separate accommodations for blacks and whites. It says that If any European laborers were deceived by alluring statements it was without authority.WASHINGTON'. I>. C . Oct. 25.— The Isthmian Canal Commission has made a careful investigation of tho criticism of conditions on the Isthmus, contained in the recent report »f Miss Gertrude Peeks, to the National Civic Federation. Wri ten replies from e:irh member of the commission and the head of the commissary department of the Panama Railway Company show, the" commission says, the following: conditions continue: Every sanitary necessity Is covered by the bower bath as supplied. It would cost 51.000.000 extra to quarter 1,000 families In separate buildings, instead of the present four-family type of building, ami would involve construction of additional roads, etc. By United Press. WASHINGTON, D. t\, Oct. 25. — This is Pennsylvania Day in the Supreme Court of the United States. Three of the most important cases that have arisen in thai state in years are on today's docket for argument. They are the Greater Pittsburgh case, the Shoener case  Schuylkill County, and the case of the independent coke companies against the Pennsylvania Railroads. The greatest lawyers ever produced In the state, John Q. Johnson and ex-Governor William A. Stone, in opposition to the union of Allegheny any Pittsburg, and D. T. Watson, the legal light of Pittsburg, in support of the constitutionality of the law uniting the two cities, are opposing counsel in the first case. The second is the final effort of John T. Shoener to escape the two and one-half year sentence to Jail for refusal to turn over to Schuylkill County fees that he collected while clerk of the quarterly sessions. He has fought the case for years in the lower courts. The fight between the coke companies, the Webster Coal & Coke Co., and the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co. against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company arises out of the two million dollar claim for damages, due to alleged discrimination in car service. The coke companies went into court for an order to compel the railroad company officials to produce for their examination certain car distribution books. Th-e officials considered that they were not compelled to furnish evidence that might possiby railroad them to Jail, so they refused and the lower court has sustained this petition. The decision by the Supreme Court will affect numerous big suits against corporations to compel them to produce books previous to trial for examination by complainants against them. NOT mwm Company of tlilrty-flvo |>eo|>le In "Sweet Kitty Bella Ires," Monday night. "Sweet Kitty Holla ires," One of tin* CIcmirHt 4iu«l Ono of ilio R<xt of Belasco I*roductions. .BSCRIPTION FOR THE NEW Y. M. C. A. IS NOW OVER $40,000 Up By Leaps and Bounds Until Noon Today—One More Day For to Work. Arrested for keeping a disorderly house, Mrs. Luclntla Daugherty, of Anita, formerly of this place, was lu.st evening released on three hundred dollars ball, for her appearance nt court. The Information was made 'by several citizens of Anita some timo ago, and on several dllTerent occasions officers have gone to the house with a warrant, but at such Imes Mrs. Daugherty had been 111 and I unable to accompany them. Last evening- .she was arrested In this city by Prlvato Gutberlette, of Troop D. State Police. At a hearing" before Squire Morrison last night a good part of the people of Anita were present. A num' or of witnesses w< re called by the ;>rosccutlon and evldenc of a rather spicy nature was submltti-d In 1 >i-.r chunks. It Is alleged that Int »x> ting liquor was veld In the !i us - a a rather heavy array of ■ vidence ha been brought forth by the prosecution.BERLIN, Oct. 25.—The hearing of the case of Count Kuno von Moltke, former Mil iary Governor of Berlin, against Maximilian Harden, editor of Die Zukunft, for defamation of character, is growing more and more sensational.Dur.ng yesterday's proceedings Dr. von Gordon, counsel for the plaintiff, declared he would eventually ask for the testimony of Emperor William to prove that Count von Moltke never had used his official position to promote political ends. Herr Bernstein, counsel for Harden, agreed to thHs proposal. Herr Bernstein when charged that the court clique of which von Moltke was a member was guilty of secret crimes. If von Moltke is Innocent, he said, no one else Is, and this would seem incredible. Harden proposes to call the head of the police department dealing with this aspect of public morais to testify as to what he knows regarding Prince Philip zu Eulenburg. the ex-Ge rman Ambassador to Vienna, and Lieutenant General Count William von Hohenau, one of the Emperor's adjutants, who, together with von Moltke, have been mentioned by Harden as members of the so-called Camarilla, or "round-table." Harden has said he will call as a witness Paul Liman, author of a life of Emperor Prince von Bismarck once expressed himself concernig the excesses of Prince zu Eulenburg in the strongest terms imaginable. Harden will also call Prince von Buelow, t£e Imperial Chancellor, and Field Marshal Count von Hulsen-Haeseler, chief of the Emperor's military cabinet. The bench has decided to admit testimony to prove the allegation that immoral practices prevailed among the friends of von Moltlce. The public will be excluded from the hearings. An army officer who had served in the Guard du Corps at Potsdam today testified to having taken part in practices at the house of Count Lynar which had resulted in the dismissal from the service in disgrace of the Count and Lieutenant General von Hoihenau. The witness said he heard von Moltke was present at this occasion, but he thinks zu Eulenburg was certanly there. Zu Eulenburg, though claiming to be ill, has been peremptorily summoned to appear tomorrow. FNTERTAINED FRIENDS "GENERAL" HELEN GOULD Their Honefiu'tross. Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth llonar Messrs. Hoover mid Killiher Hosts at West End Affair  \ \ Evening. The citizens of Glon Campbell experienced a "financial flurry" the latter part of last week and the first pari of this week when a story grot started to the effect that the Glen Campbell National Bank waa having- some trouble. The Marion Center Independ- . ent of today's Issue has the followingaccount of the doings: ! "Last week a rumor got started In some manner at Glen Campbell that the bank at that place had lost hea\- ily by the failure and departure of J. S. Smith, for a number of years a prominent business man of that place. This caused some excitement , among the foreigners who had money deposited in the bank and a smail run was the result. Only between four and five thousand dollars were drawn out on Friday, but soon the up.- J necessary excitement died out and nearly all of this amount was re-depjslted. Mr. Smith had some money borrowed out of tho Institution, but it holds first mortgage on nine tracts of land as security, which is greatly in excess of the loans. "The bank Is a solid and pr sperous institution and there was absolutely no cause for the little flurry and rumors afloat.' MAY BE FIVE GENERATIONS e Captains of the Young Busi- Men's Y. M. C. A. Committee, lg the past twenty-four hours, far valed the leaders of the Citizens' nittee in securing subscriptions the $50,000 building fund, the er having reported three dollars ie for the latter. The showing yesterday afternoon and last was the best since the first of tho canvass, a total of $3,- aving been reported by the two iittee.5. showing today, up until noon, ver, was anything but gratifying It required some work after the reports came In before the inor on the big dial moved up a Prom where it was boosted last John G. Myers Head of Three Sets of Four Generations ICach—Still Well ami llearly. For the performance in Punxsutawney Mr. Hclasco has provided a splendid ensemble, and local lovers of the theater have a treat In store. "Sweet Kitty Uellalrs" Is a typical David Hclasco production. which means a world of delight to those fortunate enough to witness the performance. The play pr >ved an artistic gem when originally produced. The Hclasco genius, both ius author and producer, was shown In a rare light, for the atmosphere of beauty find truth which he gives this picturesque comedy . > f the Oalnesbor■ >ugh period, again shows him as the master In his particular line of ich lavement. In the coming- performance of one I «>f David Belasco's most refreshing, clean and wholesome plays, "Sweet Kitty Uellalrs," at the Jefferson Theater next Monday night, local theater patrons, whose palates are aweary of i the ovcrseasoned, morally-tainted J dishes that have been served up t<> i them of late, will find a welcome! change. DEATH LIST GOING UP BUTLER SEES BALLOON Enthusiasm ran high at the Y. M. A. headquarters last night when the 7:30 o'clock report showed that the fund for the new building had passed the $40,000 mark. As soon as the reports were tabulated on the big scroll that hangs on the south wall the committeemen adjourned tiPthe big wheel that hangs on the corner of the Eberhart building. As the hand on the annunciator shot up to the $40. 000 mark the workers gave vent to their enthusiasm by shouting in unison and true colege-yell-style. "Hip, hip, hooray! hooray! hooray! Forty thousand! Forty thousand! Forty thousand!" Then they retired to headquarters and talk#d over their plans for today. The intense Interest felt in the campaign is spreading; and growing; until the children in some Instances have taken up the cudgel. Yesterday evning, when J. H. Kennedy went home his little flvo-y-earold son John H., Jr., commande.1 lite father to shut his eyes and h< Id out his hand, adding- that he was going to give him something that he desired i more than any other thin*; he con id I tink of. I Mr. Kennedy, Surmising that he was about to be presort"! with a Teddy bear, obeyed, but when he opened his eyes he found that his hand contained two quarters and ten pennies. The amounts were added to the fund, and many were th«* exprrssi ins of appreciation uttered by Mr. Kennedy's associates when Ihey heard the story of John Jr.'s blind man's joke. Edith, Mr. Kennedy's little eightyear-old daughter, having witnessed tho transaction, ran t > her bank, and -ecurlng the contents, $l.!>0, and placing It with the sum contributed by jher brother, exclaimed that if Johnny could give all the money he had to the Y. M. C. A. she wanted to do as well as he did. lay had been set apart for "Rally and It was hoped that at least rien would be enlisted with the littee, but nothing like that num•eported for duty this morning, score or so of faithful and de- termined men who have been dolnp the work took up the task early and will, this bend every energy to make a creditable report tonight.The amount already subscribed is nearlng the goal and unless Punxsutawney citizens, who have not yet been given an opportunity to contribute, are wholly adamant, and are willing, for the sake of a small contribution each, to allow "failure" to be written on the escutcheon of the municlpallly the balance will be forthcoming.The men who have set their hearts on securing a Y. M. C. A. building for Punxsutawney and are giving their time and money to that end, constlute largely tho backbone of Punxsutawney's push and enterprise, and they should not bo deserted. Every little 10t helps, but every big bit boosts. Following is the report of the committees for the past twenty-four hours: FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Oct. 25.—M'.hb Helen Gould was accorded the honors of a general officer of the American Army by the soldiers of Fort Leavenworth in the review yesterday. The compliment was the first of Its kind to a woman at th!s post. As the soldiers passed the rvlewing point the command was given "Eyes right." The men turned their loads and looked into the smil ng 'ace of Miss Gould. She showed much pleasure over the honor. Loss of 1,11V and Properly In Earthquake Steadily Going Higher. Wasn't. Thought Tl Olio From Ilace, Rut It Totals reff. G. Wlngert  -Dr. T. H. Williams . . ——P. W. Boyd  —George W. Dowries . . . —Dr. J. Miles Grube . . . —J. H. Kennedy  —C. M. Neal  —S. A. Rinn  —T. W. Shearer  —A. J. Trultt 400 125 100 Noon Previously 24 Hrs. Including Reported 400 $ 150  400  4,125  1,100  2,150  200  3,200 t  2,050 335 HELLEFONTA INK, O. — Mrs. M I!le Hoth has sued Bank Examiner 1 *. M. of Sidney for *3.000 lamages for personal injuries sustain•d in a runaway. She s<iys her h '..-e wjas frig-htened by the unnecessary tooting of Stutevanifs automobile horn. 400 4,525 1,525 2,250 200 2.050 335 3,300 Messrs.* Pearl Hoover and Charles Kelliher last evening entertained a number of the'r friends at the home of the former In West End. From 8:30 until 11 o'clock games and music were enjoyed. At th»- latter hour an extremely bountiful luncheon was served after which the games were resumed and kept going until an early hour this morning, when the guests left assuring their hosts that it had been one of the most enjoyable evenings of their lives. Covers were laid for Misses Pearl Mogle, Anna Freas, Pauline Dickey, Olive Relshell, Margaret and Anna Cantwell, Kathleen Qulnllsk, Myra and Vera Johnson, Grace Hoover, Florence Miller; Messrs. Shaner, Ferguson, Boyd Bond, Jack Kelley, William Lukehart, Oliver Barnett, Willie Dickey. BANK ROBBERS CAPTURED Seat sale now «>n for "Sweot Klfty Ilellairn," Monday night. EXCHANGE CLOSED WKI Ample relief has been obtained, but the railroads are badly erlppled by tho disturbance and transportation of relief trains is greatl yhampered. By United Press. HOME, Oct. 29.—The estimates being sent in here of the number killed in yesterday's earthquake in Calabria and Sicily are mounting steadily higher. Army officers who have charge of the rescue work anung the unfortunate victims of the earthquake say that the number of dead will probably be between live hundred and one thousand.$15,385 One set Is composed of Mrs. Charles Fltzwililam, a daughter of Mr. Myers, her son Walter Campbell and his daughter Anna. Another Mrs. Henrietta Brown, a daughter of Mr. Myers, her son Michael Brown and his son Robert. The other is on the male side of the house, George Myers, son of Mr. Myers, his daughter Mrs. Homer Chambers and her daughter Charlotte.Despite his extreme ago, Mr. Myers is in good health, walks erect and although his groat grandchildren aro njt yet in their he stands a fair show of some time being tho head of five generations and perhaps three sets of five generations each. Who knows? John G. Myers, who recently celebrated his eighty-second birthday en- Joys th(; rather unique distinction of being the head of three sets of four generations each. He is the great grandfather of three of his children's grandchildren. OIL CASES POSTPONED BUTLER, Pa., Oct. 25.—When Butler awoke yesterday morning everybody asked: "Did you see the balloon?" Most of them had. Nearly half the population was aroused at ten o'clock to see the big aerial craft. It came into view at tho north end of the city, moved slowly over the center ")f the town and was lost to the southward. Several people claimed to have hoard shouts from the balloon. which was described as "big as a house." In the foregn quarters there was commotion. Th;>se who thought they had seen one of the St. Louis balloons felt cheap when they learned they had been gazing at an affair the size of a bushel basket, sent up by the Hallow'een carnival committee, which was testing types of ballons.$ 1,010 1,105 1,810 540 500 750 2,325 815 1,050 1,500 $ 265 275 480 675 115 50 220 185 800 $ 210 785  1,675  425  450  275  1,650  1,276  600  775  . B. Allison rank H. Beck  •J. O. Bethuno  -Wm. H. Blose  -W. R. Cole  —L. R. Huth  •E. C. McKlbben  —B. 8. Swartz  . F. Conrad  E. Hewitt  $14,410 * 975 IB . . . . Business Men's Comie. A. W. Calloway, Gen- Chairman: »n,4or> 10.000 4,107 Total* 1ST,150 *3,747 By United Press. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25.—A daring attempt on the United StateH Subtreasury was frustrated by a watchman and two custom house Inspectors this morning. C. D. Bates and Charles Walklns, both of New York, after vainly trying to reach the paying teller's cage, snatched live thousand dollars fr.im Patrick Kernan, who is employed as a runner by the Franklin National Bank. The men, whj have been locked up are believed to be professional bank robbers. Bates, who grabbed the money was captured. Not, however, without a desperate fight. Watklns was felled to the ground by Watchman Large, and immediately secured. $40,897 4,080  ill $ 8,660 $2,745 llUwney Iron Work* ... 10,000  WASHINGTON, Pa.— On a charge of practicing medicine illegally Mrs. Ada Silcox was arrested at Hazel Kirk and held for court in $300 bail, which was furnished. By United Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25.— Commissioner Clarke wired the headquarters of the Interstate Commerce Commission today from Columbus, O., that the hearings of important coal and oil cases have been postponed. Theso cases involve a number of Ohio railroads and were to have been heard October 29, but have been Indefinitely postponed on account of the present financial crisis. 1 David Belasoo'n great play "Sweet Kitty BelTalre", Monday, Oct. t8. CANOE RIDGE (Office of the Weatherworks) — Fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow. By United Press. PITTSBURO. Oct. 25.—Tho Stock Exchange here was closed today by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors. The financial situation here Is declared to be all rlrht, with no prospects of any reflection of the troubles In New York financial circles. Vice-President Lew's ot U. M W. A, Calls Meeting of State Officers CM COMMISSION SAYS ISTHMUS CONDITIONS 01 V 'V ' Ity Bdition Ti 1