Punxsutawney Spirit, 1888-05-16

              ♦ ■1 VOL. XV. NO. 49. l*N CwIM liAbkuu, HOW HS GOT AWAY. >M kjr ■laOira Hl*4. NORTH & MORRIS, ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS. Drownnl ata Hydrant. VUBUBEKDITKKT WSDIWDAY. legal bnatacM will receive prompt udunliil auenftos. 15-81-ly Boom 3. tecond itorrof John Zeltler'i brick Mask. FraeUootmlfceCeurUof adjaoent oomntl—. J TATLOK BEI.I., * ATTOSmtT-AT-LAW, INDIANA, PA, Oflco Ho. MS, Todd bnlldiag, Main Street. J. TBD1TT, A TTOMNXT-A T-LA W, IPDWARD A. C ARM ALT, A TTOBNE Y-A T-LA W, Baoorrrixi, Pa Offloa with Judge Jenks. Legal bnsinessoareally attended to. one* en Gilpin street, two door* north of Shields' furniture store. rj M. BREWER, A TTOBNE Y-A T-LAW, Puranuin, Pa. Bmoocmxa, Fa. In Matson Block, opposite the public JENKS k CLARK, 4 TTOBNE Ya-AT-LAW, JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT-LA W, And Justice of the Peace, Punxsutawney, Pa. OAoe In Mundorff building, nearly opposite SrtniT building. Collections made, depositions taken, and all kinds of legal business attonded to. fT c. CAMPBELL, A TTOBNE YS-A T-LA W, Biooimu, Pa. jlllco in Hatson's office, Matson building, opposite the Court House. Bkooivilli, Pa. with Hon. A. C. White. It 29 JOHN W. BELL. A TTOBNE Y-A T-LA W, 0 c. BENSCOTER, ' DI8TB1CT ATTORNEY, Owing to the backward spring, and it being dull at the mines, we will make a SPECIAL SALE FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS in order to reduce our mammoth stock of CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHING GOODS. An Annoying ebon*. Remember this Special Sale will last only two weeks, and if you want to save at least 25 per cent, and get a suit of clothes that is a perfect model in style, quality and fit, these garments are equal to cnstom-made clothing, for less than half the price you will have to pay to have them made by a Tailor. Our stock is complote iu every particular. Men's, boys' and children's clothing. Hats—Straw, Fur and Wool. Seersucker coats and vests, Alpacca long coats for minister. Ladies' Silk Paras«ls and Umbrellas. Kilt suits from #2 up. Chjld's jockey caps. Waists, Satchels, Valises, Umbrellas, &c. Underwear, Neckwcar, Boys' and Children's Remember this bargain sale will only last TWO WEEKS. pvANIBL BAMKY, ATTOBNEY-AT-LA W 1807 Fst. S.-W., Washington, D. C. Practicing Attorney In the several oourts In Wanhlnitonand elsewhere. Pnmitts claims before all the Government Depafttasuts. Alio the pmtaie and sals of real rtsti. 1441 rVR. W.F.BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Fntimmr, Pa Office two doors eaat of the Po*t Office. T)R. WM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ProxmTAWxBT, PA. Offer* hi* profeeaional service* to the clttceni of Punxsutawney »nd vicinity. T)K. s. S. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, FOMMUTAWMT, PA Office in dwelling. Offer* his lenrioe* to the people of Punxsutawney *nd the surrounding r)R. 8. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUHXSCTAWHXT, PA. Offer* hi* service* to the people of Punxsuimer ul viciaity. T)R. BYRON WIN SLOW, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Clatvilli, Pa. mm naiM and residence one square back of J.TT. Gillesples store. 1B-T-Iy. T)R. CHARLES G. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PoraTOTAWVBT, PA. >M* vicinity. He may he found at all time* at hi* office, up stair* in the Roeenberger build inc. German language spoken. Member of Board of Petition Examiner*.  T A. WALTER, * PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, POHXSUTAWXEY, PA. Office in Roeenberger'* Block, over Spsngler's •tore, on Main street. Consultation in English and German. "-*1 f)R. B. J. HUGHES, BUBOBON DENTIST, FvmwmwAwm, Pa. Oflee south nd of Ftadloy itrMt. riR. W. J. CHAUDLKB, 8UBGB0N DENTIST, NORTH It MORRIS, r, Pa, V PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. 1,3 f l . ■«M y V " lit T feMOSBU. 4 • • u"™ 1 A Trnwura Tnvr. JOHN I. BELL, JVBTMM OF TBMPMAOM, -pvB. U. T. PHILLIP?!, dentist. inoiMfiui,?!. 0«ee la a»a«rte« Brk* «og'.;i%Tno1'*' vUla, p». Artttetolft* wtttw H*» m *. MOWtI»ON, D. D. 8- DM2TTAL BOOMS, nunuvnT, m. OSMta JobMM BnUdlmg, «w JOfMMl * ftak'i (tore. """ (Mm la (mm room, VomaM Block. The Crime of m Father. FUMXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY. MAT 16, 1888. OM In Rkawen ai|fUt*f(kt Leha- ■M 1*11. When she returned at 9 o'clock, she roused him from a stupor to ask him ho w he was. He said, drowsily : "I feel much better. Don't worry." She then retired. When she went to him at 9 o'clock this morning she fonnd that he was dead. Pretty soon Mr. Mueller's head dropped, and Josefy, Cervas and the rest thought their friend ought to go home. Mr. Cervas then took Mr. Mueller to his home at S13 Havermeyer avenue, Williamsburg. When Mr. Mueller reached his home, shortly after 5 in the afternoon, he oomplainedof a pain in his head. He retired, and his wife went to the house of her parents a block away where she took dinner. Champagne bottles circulated, and Hi. Mueller seemed to be greatly excited. Suddenly Mr. Mueller pulled out a vial containing white granulated particles, poured some into the palm of his left hand, and drawing up the fingers until the particles were held as In a cnp, ho grasped with his right hand a glass of wine and said: "I think I hear angles singing,"andswallowing the white partioles and washing them down with the wine he added, "and in six hoars I'll be there to hear them sing. New York, May 10.—Hugo Mueller, a member of the Prodnoe Exohange, died today by his own hand. Mr. Mueller vm a familiar figure on the Exohange. He stood 0 feet 4 inches, and was thick-set. He had an offloe in the Exohange bnilding, and wae on'Change on Wednesday afternoon. Later he was seated with Josefy the pianist, Joseph Cervas, a fellow broker, and others in Weibl & Widmann's plaoe, at]IS Beaver street, near by. Greatest Bargain Banner ef the Seeson! The above statement is fro 11 Emerson Shepherd, under oath, in the presence of four witnesses. The negro was fatally shot in the fight with the Sheriff's posse last Thursday evening and baB since died. He revealed the whole plot, saying the leaders had gotten him into this tronble and, as he expected to die, it was his desire to see justice meeted out to them. Forty-eight of the negroes engaged in the riot have been arrested and jailed. The Sheriff's posse and the State troops seem to have put an end to the trouble at present, bnt another ontbreak is liable to come sooner or later. Sr. Louis, May 9.—Several reliable gentlNMn reported it Montgomery, Ala., the foQewtng particulate m to the pnrpoee and extent of a plot laid by the negroes at Saady Ridge, Lowndee oonnty. A negro wltowaa mortally wounded made aome ■tartling revelations. He atated that Friday night laat waa the time appointed to maaaaere the whites. Meetings were held by the lodgea to raiae money to parohaat ammnnition to kill the whitea if they at tempted to arrest the negroes. The prin oipal negro engaged in the plot waa Bot Robinson, who was President of the meet ing. Bob epoke very bitterly againat th< whitea and implored hie fellow-brother to riae up in arma againat them. Nea Mangnm waa alao deeply implicated in thi daring plot, and waa Secretary and Treaa nrer of the lodge. They claim to havi large aocietiea thronghont the Uaite( States, who have reeolred to avenge thei fallen ore* and proteot their color in thi future at all hasarda. The negroea o Lowndes, Crenshaw and Batler ooantiei have the largest olnb. They atate tba they have endnred the miatreatment o the whites long enongh and propose t< pnt an end to it or there will be bloo< ahed. All the membera of the lodge wen notified by the leadera that if they faile< to be present at the meeting on Frida; night and do their doty in the propoee< maaaaere of the whites they would be pa to death. Notwithstanding the low prices, our goods being already marked, and the immense trade we have had in the past, we will allow to our friends and patrons a cash discount of six per cent, on all purchases made at North & Morris' One Price Clothing Store. Telegram* were sent in all directions this morning by the sheriff, and Detective Beohtel is in charge of a searohing party. The oonnty commissioners examined the oell and nennnred the jail offloials. They hav« offend $100 reward for Showers' reoaptnre.In substance the letters expressed afenr that even should the supreme court grant him a new trial, and should he be acquitted and set free, he waa afraid the angry and exoited people would lynch him on the nearest tree. He therefore made lip his mind to escape and go away and stay off for a long time until the angry feeling of the people had died oat, and then he would oome back again. The stones and mortar he hid under bis chaff bag and the hole in the wall deftly covered with his pillow and a few newspapers. This mast have been very shrewdly managed to escape the vigilanoe of the jail officials. When Showers had worked through the wall he made a rope out of his blanket and also used the rope of his skylight. One end of the rope he tied around a pin stiok 18 inches long, and placed the stiok crosswise over the hole, and threw the rope oat and down towards the jailyard. The aged murderer then crawled out of the hole, leaving the marks of his fingers, soiled with mortar and dirt, and by means of the rope lowered himself to within six leet of the ground. He then dropped safe.ly into the jailyard. In excavating for a cellar on South Eighth street next to the jail, a portion of the prison wall had been taken down to permit of blasting. It was the intention to put up a high fence temporarily, but this had been neglected. Consequently when Showers was in the jailyard it was an easy matter to escape to the street. The sheriff hurried up the narrow stairway, unlocked Showers' cell, but the aged murderer was gene. In the corner of the cell was the hole with daylight shining through it. The pine stick was atill in plaoe and the blanket rope dangled out of the hole. It was between 5and6 o'clock yesterday morning when one of the sheriffs daughters reported that Showers waa missing. On the floor were mortar and atones, the lost removed, and under the chaff bag was the balance. On the table were two farewell letters in Showers' handwriting. One waa addressed to his attorney, Col Seltzer, and the other to the sheriff. The letters are quite lengthy and muat hare been written several days ago. He procured an iron instrument of some kind, and commenced operations in the northwest corner of his eel), about three inches from the floor. He marked oat a space about 18 inches long and 12 inches wide. He then oommenced taking out the stones and mortar. When he started this work is not known, bnt it must have been several days ago at least, as the wall is 24 inohes thick. Work had to be done at night, silently, slowly and carefully, and all evidc uce had to be removed and hidden away before daylight. He *u dressed in the dark suit of clothes which he wore ever since his first arrest. Prison stripes were not allowed him. His oell is onjthe seoond floor back, adjoining the iron cell where the Joe Rebers murderers were caged. No night watchman is employed at the jail, a recent economical spirit having actuated the ooanty commissioners to dispense with snch an offioial. Showers, therefore, had a fine opportunity to tannel the whole of his oell. He is 70 years of age, bnt still active and vigorons enongh to make a desperate fight for his life. Lkbanon, May 9.—A tremendou* exoi tern est prevailed here when it beoame known that old man William Shower*, who mordered hie two little grandaona at Annville, had eeoaped from the Lebanon jail. He waa aentenoed to death laat February, and the appeal whioh waa taken to the Snpreme Court waa to have been argued in a few day*. Shower* waa laat seen at 8 o'clock Monday evening, when the priionere waa looked np for the night by Sheriff Yordey. and a desire to relieve huinau suffering, I will send free of charge, to all who desire it, thia recipe, in German, French or English, with full directionsfor preparing and nning. Bent by mail by arirircti.xing with stamps, naming tbis paper, W. A. Nona, 149 Power's Block Kocheeier, New York 15-W-lyoow offering fellows, Actuated by this motive* curative powers in thousand of oases, has felt it bis duty to make it known to hia for Nervous Debility and all nervous oomplaints, after having tested its wonderful vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical our* Au old phyBiclan retired from practice having had placed in his hands by au East India missionary the formula of a simple ced contraction of the muscles of the lips and throat, whiuh fastened him there while the water continued the work of strangulation. The face of the dead boy presents a horrible spectablc. It is the strangest oase of drowning on record. a too strong and strangled. This produ- been streaming down his throat into his lungs and stomaoh, and she turned it off. At last she succeeded in loosening him by tearing away the skin of the Hps from the inside. No sooner was he released than blood, mixed with water, rushed iu a stream from his nose and month. It is thought the child turned the water be faucet. The water hal all the time The children screamed with horror and lie woman rushed to the rescue. In vain lie tried to foroe tho ohilds mouth from | hands strained upward, turned the water on. The children, watchidg, saw his har.ds fall limp to his side. The blood seemed to rush to his head, bis mouth became swollen and bis eyes bnlgee out. The body hanf suspended by the lips. jected from a stand-pipe above the ground. He eoold reach the brass nozzle with bis lipe by standing on tip-toe. Ia this position he put his lips to it, and with bis oget a drink from a hydrant whioh pro- morning and all pronounce it unparalleled in the history of medicine. Willie Walter Ruehrwein, aged 3, yesterday attempted Cincinnati, O., May 9.—The members of the American Medical Awiociation today discussed a phenomenal accident with which they were made acquainted this Consumption Cnrrd. been disturbed by mysterious noises and the rising np and down of the cover of the little table in hia qnarters. Another man also testified to having seen the ghost. All the prisoners were more or less exoited over the event, «>nd bat few of them slept after the disturbance occurred. brother, who is also confined in the jail. In the meantime hia oompanion in the first oell called for McDonald, and with his face showing signs of alarm he said that he had Not long after Watohman McDonald was again aroused by alarming cries proceeding from Jones'new quarters. He went to him and found the cold beads of pempira-j tion standing oat on bis forehead and his limbs qnakiug violently. He asserted that Volkavitoh's ghost had again appeared to him. He waa taken into another with his the alleged visitation of murderer Volkavitoh's ghost at the door of his oell. Discovering that he ooald not be quieted the warden ordered his removal to another oell. prised by lond cries from the corridor in whioh the long-term prisoners are kept. Upon arriving in the corridor the discovery was made that a prisoner named John Jones vtas nearly crtzy with fright over Brockway and deputy Smith were sitting in the main offioe they were suddenly sur- Vbout 10 o'olook last night, while Warden seems to be wandering around the corridor of the jail to the great alarm of some of the more timid and superstitions inmates. Wilkesbarrb, May 9.—The ghost of Vt-1, a fitch, who was executed April 3 The Popular Clothiers Letter to Baby Paraene. uld, where ho left it aloue to freeze. Ho wun tiaukwl auii matie to u-ll the whereabouts of t tie otiiM, which Kv-«l but a tew hxuis. Tue woman U yet t.i be tried. them at the American Hotel. TUrro day* afterward be carried the child ;oau open second degree and will be sunfe'iiccd Monday. Last winter he cam« heie with liia bride of one day and a child wan I Kirn to Columbus, May 12.—Huuiucl 0. Itumel was to-day found guilty of murder in the Mite. whor-'oently dIM. Yes'rrlay « renin*Mr. iijuk began an e*pU>rauou of Uw balldititf, and tu ia a wooJra bux la tiie «Mw- Hi'v pl iM ftiind nearly |!> 'KM to |*HI art «1tv» <• •ofu tiea:htg C»*«* «rf 188# Md Hakiusiiuuu, May U — .~onM time ago T xjui.u. M..uk purchased on old ililapkUted ouo-hHuy bouse in Heoli/vniesfcirg, C«»Vrlainl eounty, which w-t> totlBnr'y t"Unil aim uc. H pied by an aj«l maiden .,r-";: Yonr friend, GltOVEJt CUSVJU4MD. Misa Bye J. Parsons. My Dear Child -I think you in tie ronogeet person that I ever addreaatd a atUr to, but tiuco yon were good enough o (and me your photograph, I ought to tekno«legeyonr conrteqr; anil if it will m aatMaction to yon when yea Me • young romen to know that yon received a letter from it President when leae than » year •id, I will gladly gratify yon. I moat not, forget to tbenk yon for the vary pretty pap«r-weigUt which yon sent me, and will o ily ado; to wi«u that you nay happily live l<<nn beyond M * time when yon an able to wand yoor letter from the Preeid—U Pittsfiklp, Mabs., May 11.—-The parent* of Rye J. Parnons, 10 months old, lent President Clevelaud a letter and signed her name, asking the aeoeptanoe ol a paper weight. They have received the following reply s death in the SIMMs' Hcapita) MImUtIU? Jane SK, I8S6. All tho eorvivan of the Mud live la MlMuurl exwptiag two who i*eide la Teiaa aotl wm» in Kentucky. bat baa tabra i»l«ee »ince QoantreH'a ud ttewdiei* butchery, ead the griaalybailed Baa rivaled eeeh other in their awfulatariee. Thieiatheiiretreauiouof the terrii>'e oatiawa of over t««* 'y year* 4^0 rar wee waged over in ail ila bloody fary W. H, Qreeg, of Independence, Mo., the flrat lieutenant of the gang, Waa taa highest officer preeent, and aided in many renuniaoencee. The ed ae one of the raidere. voice wonid break in with a correction or a corroboration, ever anxioaa to be ooon- heeitancy, and aonie particularly atrooiooa plot waa unraveled by a good narrator a nd tieadiah Crimea without the alighteet Dover, accompanied her with a view to gathering material for a atari ling hietory. In thia viait he had plenty of opportunity for the aien epohe of their bloody mordera and anawered for her aon. W.W. Soott editor of the Iron Valldy Reporter, of Canal nteen more of the band than thoae prea- the mother of the bloody chief and now a reaident of Canal Dover. O, waa preaent ent are living, among them the famona Frank Jamea. Mra. Caroline Qaantrell, St. Louis, May 11.—Sixteen of Qnan- trell'a old band of gnerrillaaheld a reunion at Bine Springe, Ma, to-day. When the roll waa called it waa learned that bat eev- mnwww, r*. t J <