Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-12-04

              «•' X $flbe Unitil kg. II. N#.« TEACHERS IKSTITUTE PRICE 1 CENT j„ -i n Exposition Editjon t. m. c. l mm DERCHANTS HOLIDAY EXPOSITION DECEMBER 6 TO 14 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA„ WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1807 LOST HIS TEETH ATTEMPT TO GET MONEY IN PUNXSUTAWNEY A FAILURE Was Seriously Injured And Needed Cash A Fake Lettler Written From San Francisco Saying J. B. Marshall SUES UNION CANOE RIDGE (Office of the and fair Thursday. PAID FINE AM> WENT HOME '. J. BRYAN OPPOSED. OPENS MONDAY, DECEMBER 11. ltn>r«*eiit«tlvw From Many Different Countries Present — Several Well-Known Speakers.. Citizen of Northern Indiana County Got Into Many Kinds of Trouble Yesterday. JLw of the fact that only one ib«V of the Chamber of Com>e jbras present at the meeting Ji j»a» called for last night for of conferring with the di>rs (.» the CKtaenaq[ Water# Comt In Regard to a new water supthe ■irectors of the new water ?any \and of the Chamber of mercexhave decided to issue a ilar wAlch reads as follows: he directors of the Citizens' WatompanA announce a meeting: of iembers,\ members of the Cham- Df Comrrierce and all citizens of »utawne>A who are interested in iring a fetter water supply, to ield in tqe Sprankle & Elwood lngf. South Findley Street, Frilight, beginning at eight o'clock, i Property Owners Turn Out To Friday Night's Meet- ing The Good Water Movement Will Be Dead The company, through the public press, has repeatedly called attention to the handicap the town is at, on account of bad and insufficient water during- the summer months, In securing new industries and the enormous raise in the rates of insurance for the same reason, the danger to property because of a lack of pressure, and the danger to the genral health when water is pumped from a polluted creek, the wallowing in mud while taking a wash in the home bath tub, etc., and in view of the apatnctic interest taken by the public, will .unless the proper encouragement looms up at the meeting Friday night, conclude that the people are satisfied with the present company's services, and proceed at once to abandon the field. Commerce." The members of the Citizens' Water Company," who have spent considerable time and money to locate and develope a supply of good water which, they claim, would bo abundant, convenient and pure, and have made preparations for making application for a charter, secured a franchise, etc., feel that unless the citizens of Punxsutavvney take a proper interest In the project the time has arrived to abandon the entire scheme. Resent water service and have no in th new company the directors i latter organiation will disband ce. By direction! of Citizens' • Company and Chamber of the citizens of Punxsutawney ite by their absence from this ng that they are satisfied with up the project entirely. >any will proceed with its plans •btaining a better water supply, this meeting it will be decided ler or not the Citizens' Water IJIS STEW FREIGHT As 1 have a family to keep It Is hard for me to look after him and 1 am hoping that you will do your 'part for your son. God bless him and you all. Trusting in Him our Lord and hoping to hear from you by return mall. "I drop these few lines. 1 have got a man to write for me." I am sorry to say that your son Joseph Marshall met with a.11 accident in which one arm and two ribs were broken, and I am writing for "him He He is very bad and I am doing all 1 can for him. He has no money and I write you, what shall I do with him. He wants you to send him his railroad fare or the money to keep him with until he gets well, as he is a stranger and can't get in the hospital and it is pretty hard for me to have , him on my hands, but I shall surely look after him until 1 hear from you He asks lire to tell you to send him some money by telegraph to help him out of hia trouble. Ho is always talking about his mother and father and crying. "Dear Mother; The following letter, posted at San Francisco, Cal., was Included in the mail received on Monday by Mrs. Mary C. Marshall, of 221 South Gilpin Street, Punxsutawney: Chief Palmer, who had been .summoned before, appeared a short time after and when the man from up country was thawed out he was taken ito the borough bastlle. Here he ent up a loud walling1 and finally made the Chief understand that he had lost his false teeth. A search near hte spot where he had fallen developed the missing masticators. The distance between the place where the owner of the teeth had fallen and the spot where the dental appendages were found, would indicate that the rural man's stomach muscles are thoroughly developed. After he had recovered his equilibrium he was fined $4.25 and started for home. A resident of one of the small towns in northern Indiana county precipitated himself into. serious trouble here yesterday when he absobed so much of the fiery tluid that his legs and stomach openly rebelled. Just after the afternoon train on the Pennsylvania railroad had pulled out he started for the center of town and proceeded about half way to the bridge when he went down and out. A crowd of young school children quickly gathered and surrounded the man, who would in all probability have frozen to death had not a kind hearted East Ender carried him to flis kitchen. TO LAST FUR ALMOST Rim San Francisco, Cal. AVhile reading through this letter JOSEPH B. MARSHALL, General Post Office, (Continued on page eight.) Judged by the orthography and composition of the letter, neither of which Were followed closely In this article, the writer is an Italian who is about a second cousin t<» a Black Hand, and had the Marshall*} eoni- If the writer of that letter hits the nerve to call for the answer he Is pretty sure to spend his next vacation or two In San Vanquintin penitentiary.Being thus assured of his brothers safety. Mr. Marshall last night sent a telegram: to tne postmaster at San Francisco instructing him to arrest whoever might call at his office for a letter addressed to "George B. Marshall."Mrs. Marshall had no doubt that her son, who had gone to Portland, Oregon about two years ago. had since gone to California, and had been Injured as described. Monday Evening George B. Marshall sent a telegram to his brother's Portland, Ore., address and yesterday an answer came stating that tho son was well and still doing business at th«» old stand. After consulting with her son Joseph B. Marshall, some inadvertent sentences in the letter caused them to doubt its genuineness. The alleged writer stated that Joseph wanted money to bring him home. How, they reasoned was he to travel with an arm and two ribs broken! etc. ill INSPIRATION New England flutter Say* Union Men Put I Joycott Oil His Product-— Wants Damages. A P. Detective Ward Makes portant Arrest at llutler— Quick Work of Court. First llcliettrMCil of "Danlei" Wit limit Manuscript Took Place | List Evening. D. (*. Gll)e*pte Says None Have Been Killed In Thin DkMrtct Since 1807. In last 'week's issue of the Clearfield Raftsman's Journal, Damon I Harvey, a veteran hunter, trapper, nature story writer and poet, of Clearfield, having strayed Into Pitch Pine Camp, a mountain companion of the Punx'y Camp, in which "Sunny Joe" Wilson, of this place, is also a stockholder, consulted his muse, and, filled girth-full with * the delicacies of the camp and charged to [ the brim with Sunny Joe's Jollies, dashed off the following poem, entitled "Joe Wilson's Pitch Pine Camp": 10 MORE BODIES Our instructors are men of wide experience in educational affairs; they are men of national reputation. Their success as school men cannot be questioned and they will be able to instruct and inspire. Some time during the week an hour will be given over for a conference. Have your helpful suggestions or your questions ready ito present. An effort has been made to give ample time between the sessions for the renewal of formen acquaintances, and the forming of new ones. Here we have an opportunity to mingle with the members of our great fraternity. If you are teaching in our county for the first lime this year, be at the institute and get acquained with your fellow workers. The fact that you are a teacher gives you an | introduction to every other teacher." "Among .those factors which will strenghten and inspire the teachers in the County Institute. At best there is too litle association, too limited an exchange of Ideas among teachers. This one week wee meet together for instruction, for inspiration, for entertainment, for the widening of our social sphere. Every teacher in the country should be prdesent, and make i't a pleasant and profitable week; a week of mental growth. Jn his prefatory remarks to the teachers the County Supt. among other sensible things, says: The publication, which was issued by the officers of the Institute, including Prof. L. Mayne Jones, County Superintendent, president; Prof. A. M. Hammers, borough superintendent of the schools of Punxsutawney, and Prof. S. E. Downs, supervisory principal of the Brookville public schools, vice presidents, and H. R. Shbert secretary, is a well printed, handsomely bound and comprehensive brochure of seventy odd pages. Within the covers is scheduled all that will take place during the week in addition to a series of handsome engravings made from the photographs of the instructors and entertainers secured for the week by Prof. Jones. terday a copy of the announcement and program of the fifty-second annual session of the Teachers' Institute of Jefferson County, wheih will be held In the Belvedere Opera House in Brookville during the week beginning Monday, December 1G. There came to The Spirit office yes- But not a rifle ball Dare they let go—to kill a do#; None but pronged bucks must fall. To .slaughter on the hills; Their eagle eye—a fawn did spy 'Mid thickets, rocks and rills, Three hunters brave—some game did crave On the pine-plumed attractive Mountain,CONFER OR CURRENCY The Lower Courts have all decided that this was not a violation of the Sherman Anti-tru3t Law, h nee the appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Loewe alleges that has has been made the victim of a boycott, by the Union Hatters of America. It is as| serted that his boycott was a conspi- I racy to restrain trade and interstate commerce, which is against tho ani ti-trust law. In a case argued today before the Supreme Court of the United States the Conrt is asked to award damages to District E. Loewe, a hat manufacturer of Danbury, Connecticut. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4. — For the first time In the history of the Sherman Antitrust Law, its provisions have been invoked before the highest tribunal in the country against organized labor. By United Press. and Aldrich. President Calls in Senators Crane alo, Rochester and Pittsburg ad Detective Ward returned Butler last evening where he a man who was trier, con- S sentenced and released within hours. some time the B., R. and P. ,d 'has been missing- merclianhom the cars standing on the at Butler. Ward went to Monday determined to apprehe culprit if possible, and he ingly secreted himself In a car he siding where the stealing een goin gon. About itwo yesterday morning he was reby seeing a man approach a 1 after breaking the seal, climb e car. Scarcel yhad he entercar until Ward jumped from ling place and without much placed the man under arrest, vas lodged in the Butler jail an early hour was taken bee grand jury which was then ion. A true bill was found him and at three o'clock he sd, found guilty and sentenced a fine of $165. The fine was ning immediately and a»t five he was released. Searching Party in Naomi Mine Fails to Uncover More than Twenty-four. TALE OF CRUILTI V.'crn weary from their tramp. From Pitch Pine's Sylvan camp; Who gave a hand to every man. lo—'twas "Jolly Joe," They looked and "Speak kind can": words you when While nestled near a sparkling stream To ponder, plot and plan, Like sounds of birds—they heard these words, Between Decks 35 Days on et of Bread and Water. INDUCEMENTS FOR BUM Of Wilson's heaping hoard. He led them to his rustic ranch From out the rain and hall, To take a "nip"—in friendship '^ip,'' And help them on the trail: He bade them eat—each took a seat Around his festal board. The wild-woods rang with praise they sang H. J. Ix>eb Makes Twenty Per Cent. Ketlui'ilou and Gives a Tobbupette Free. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4.—A conference was held at the White House lastt evening between the President and Senators Aldrlch of Rhode Island and Crane of Massachusetts on the subject of currency legislation. The President called in these two leading Senators in order that he might have their ideas concerning the many propositions that have been made to him during the last several weeks in favor of plans for relieving the currency stringency under such circumstances as has occurred recently. Senator Aldrich stated at the close of the conference that nothing definite had been decided upon. Five members of Troop A, State Constabulary, arrived from Greensburg, today to do patrol duty. Despite the statement Superintendent J. D. O'Neill yesterday that he had twenty-seven accounted for by rescuers. tHie bodies all lie in the temporary morgue. Up to ten-thirty this morning thirty eatol ETAOINUPNUPNtTP ing twenty of t*»e bodies have been identified. No other bodies have been found. BELLE VERNON, Pa.. Dec. 4.— Twenty-four bodies were removed from the Naomi mine of the United Coal Company during last night. By United Press. FOHMER ruin WOMAN DUO ADELPHIA, Dec. 4.—Capink S. Leland, of the Amerikentlne Antloch, now in this .9 held in $1,000 ball today by >ran, a seamanfl alleged he lined between decks for 35 We, the vessel was In th.e trops and was fed on bread and I States Commissioner on the if cruelty, preferred by a formber of the crew. William TOOK RED NOT STOVE At Pitch Pine Mountain camp. Through forest cold and damp, They'll not forget the welcome met He bade them all a kind farewell, He bade them call again. They left their host—perhaps to boast Of bears and bisons slain; And though they went-—nvith footsteps 'bent i brought out at a hearing dispute between the capti'n sailor arose out of a differto the. best way splicing a Corcoran was not released unn*ber 5. 'Ml 2101 DM Fartip Comedy Item Follows Efforts to Take llousclioUl (iooda. We respectfully call your attention to thu ad of H. J. Loeb, "Mei'a Wear," on page three. Mr. Loeb la offering a twenty per cent, reduction on any article in the store and ia al* so giving free of charge with avary twenty-five dollar purchase oil* ourette. _ "When weary, hungry, damp, There's 'always rest, for every guest, At Pitch Pine's famous camp. When Autumn's sun cast rays of light, Through Pennsylvania pines The hunters meet—the deer retreat And sylvan jungles iflnd: While gunners know, Just where to go. ly of Punxsutowncy Have isful Social Event. Some of the nine musical numbers which will be given during the play and which have been selected with a careful regard for the proprieties of j the scenes, were rehearsed also last/ night, and it can be predicted that/ the music wiU be one of the features/ of the production. / Tonight or tomorrow night ">' third act will be rehearsed without manuscript, and If the play ■ | aurccu it will not be due U..«•** I of effort on the part of Manager M Ik/ Brown, and every m.m*»r of the caat. . Last night In the Sunday School Auditorium of the Central Presbyterian Church the first two acts of the Biblical drama, "Daniel,*' which will be given its initial production in the Jefferson Theater, Wednesday nght, December 11. were rehearsed for the first time without manuscript. ,The incidents of the play are I taken from the first six chapters of the Book of Daniel, thus equipping the dramatist with a full complement of thrilling scenes and tragical events | from which to evolve the most powerful climaxes. The climax of the first act comes derson, a tributary to Anderson in the second chapter of Daniel and Creek, near a hunting shanty owned represents Nebuchadnezzar, King1 of by Judge Gordon, of Clearfield. Tho Babylon, sorely puzzled concerning killing shot was fired by Kelly. Tho the Import of a dream. The King, party stayed at Big Run over night surrounded by the wisest men in the on their return. The animal was land, including the magicians, sorcer- certainly of Immense size, measuring ers. astrologers and the Chaldeans, from tip of nose to the end of tall becomes furious because none of his almost eleven feet. 1 pulled out one subjects were able to Interpret rnis of Its whiskers, which was over five dream, notwithstanding the fact that inches long, and was as large and he, himself, had forgotten the sub- stiff as a full sized porcupine quill, ject of his nocturnal vision. The No panther has been se2n since that rival of Daniel, who not only tells the | time, In this section, so that tho King what he had been dreaming monster must have been the last of about, but interprets Its meaning, his race in this part of «the state, creates a situation that is full of dra- Tho animal was treed by a small matlc possibilities. dog and was shot while perched there, The second act is based on the in- one shot, passing directly through hla cidents described in the fifth chap- [ heart, did the busnless." ter of Daniel and represents Belshazzar, successor to Nebuchadnezzar, at the feast. The king commands his servants .to bring In the silver vessels and while the potentate and his princes, wives, and concubines are sipping the sparkling wine, preparatory to attending the feast, the hand- ] writing is seen on the wall, and pandemonium reigns. Again, as in the days of Nebuchadnezzar. the wise men, magi cans and astrologers fail to Interpret the phenomeha and Daniel is again appealed to and brought before the king. Interpretation of the handwriting marks the climax of : the second act, and has theatrical possibilites much greater than in the > preceding act, "Who killed the last panther seen In Jefferson, Clearfield or Indiana counties?" Thin Interrogatory was printed in the Spirit Saturday and a reply ha» already been received. The writer is I>. C. Gillespie, the octogenarian traveling salesman, than whom none I other has been more observant of men and events in this section. Following in Mr. Gillespie's letter: "Hugh Kelly, of Plumville or Eiderton. in company with Noah Seanor, of Indiana County, killed th« last panther seen in this section, in the winter of 1866-7, on Stoney An- CHAMiBERSBURGG Pa. — The Court here has filed an order giving A. Stewart Fortney, a mail carrier, of Pittsburg, possession of his daughter, Mabel Portney. Mr. and Mrs. Fortney separated t|nd the child was placed by the m-other in a family in this county, where the ca»e was contested. I WAifHTVTPOV. T>. C.-Shortiy af- L.r congress open, next week Senator Thomas C. Piatt will introduce a bill providing for - «1 incorporation of clearing housea. Ktsen. of Soldier; Mrs. A. nd daughter, Louis Horwltc Oltae Horwltz, of Reynolds•MUa Bally Cohen, of Rural Jrht in West End flail the ven by the B'nal Zion So- Punxsutawney, was attended 45 couples. those who attended from «rn were Mrs. Henry Klew, A. Zlsser, and Aaroh ZIsllBols; Misses Etta and Anna , of Bradford; Samuel Kateynoldsvllle; Misses Ella and Continued on Eighth P«*•. "The reasons given for this exceptional provision in the ease of students were: t(he brief iduraltion of jiyijlege > residence; the objection of many students to joining a church in the college town; the desirability of enlisting these men at once in Christian work and the danger that men once interested in service will lapse if refused full Association privileges. Some aspects of this resolution were opposed by Hon. William Jennings Bryan and others, while it was advocated with great earnestness by those who are giving much of their time to Christian work among studehta, such as John R. Mott, Bishop William F. McDowell, W. D. Murray, member of the Committee on Student Workj C. C. iMichenor, anj P. 8. Brockman, "The most interesting discussion of the session arose on the question whether a limited active membership should be granted to membtrs of Young Men's Christian Associations in colleges who professed belief in Jesus Christ as their God and Savior according to the Holy Scriptures, and who approved the purposes of the Association, including those of leading students to Jesus Christ as their , divine Lord and Savior and to membership in the Church. It was provided that only members of evangelical churches should be eligible for office or to represent their Associations at International conventions, and that representation at such conventions should be based on the number of evangelical church members in the active membership of the Association. The Committee on International Committee's Report unanimously recommended the adoption of these provisions. The resolution had previously been recommended by church leaders of seven denominations, and endorsed by more than thirty international and state secretaries traveling in the colleges and by the 250 student delegates at the convention. convention was called to order by Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, Commissioner of the District of Columbia. Judge Selden P. Spencer, of St. Louis, was elected president, and proved a careful. Impartial and efficient presiding officer. Vlee-presidents, representing various sections of the United States and Canada, assisted him in the discharge of his duties. It. Sarasin-Warnery, chairman of the World's Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations, nine, years, operator of k the coal was elected honorary president of the convention. "Among the notable speakers were Ambassador James Bryce, of Great Britain, Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, Commissioner of Commerce and Labor; Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury; Governor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina, Hon. J. A. Macdonald, of Toronto; Dr. W. T. Grenfell. of Labrador; Bishop William F. Mc- Dowell, of Chicago; Dr. Robert Johnston, of Montreal; Dr. E. I. Bosworth. of Oberlin; Mr. Robert E. Speer, Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall and Dr. Charles Parkhurst. "The convention was admirably entetained by the Washington Young Men's Christian Association which has nearly 3.000 members and is one of the most thoroughly organised and successful associations In the country. Its large and well-arranged n<J.' building, just west of the War building, was thrown open for the use of the delegates. The large hall Of the Daughters of the Revolution was tendered for the sessions of the convention, and Convention Hall, seating five thousand people, was crowded at the evening and some of the larger day meetings. "The greatest International Convention the Young Mini's Christian Association of North America have ever held met in Washington, D. C., November 22 to 25. There were over two thousand accredited delegates in attendance, representing not only the United States and Canada, but Mexico, Great Britain, Switzerland, Russia, China, Japan, South Africa Australia and South American Republics. the following, including an account of a defeat suffered by one of the speakers. W. J. Bryan, is a part: vention of the Young Men's Christian Association of North America. Mr. Baer brought with him the official report of the convention of which E. T. Baer. secretary of the Punxsutawney Y. M. C. A. yesterday returned from Washington, D. C., where last week he attended the annual sessions of the International Con- AKRON, O. — Taking- »dv*nt«*e of the Howe made by' a pawlne atre« car, a robber broke a hole in the ahow window ot H. 0. aumn"'" }eZnZ •tore, took out ««« worth of rlnf and Jewel* »n4 e*«P«'- She Is survived by . her husband and two small boys and her mother, Mrs. Katherine Hammond, who made her hoqfe; with the deceased. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Before her marriage to Mr. Cummlngs the deceased was Miss Mary Hammond, of West Cnd. Three years after their marriage they moved to DuBoix where Mr. Cummlng opened a plumbing shop. Mrs. Cummings was well'known and highly esteemed here. An unuasaliy attractive woman her gently ways won her many rtendsf. Mrs. Thomas P. Cummlng died at her home in DuBols last evening shortly after seven o'clocg, aged twencty-live years. She was taken seriously ill about tn days ago and several eminent specialists were summoned who diagnosed her case as Bight's disease. She rallied once but yesterday morning took a turn for the worse and sank steadily until her death. Friedman, on whose attachment the goods were sold, led the attack on the stove. The pipe was torn down and the redhot stove was dumped Into the street. As Friedman dashed out with a length of pipe the woman Is alleged to have dashed hot water on him and he Is said to have retaliated with the plpC. with using a hot stovepipe over the head of Mrs. Amelia Skutslk while assisting officers in carrying goods from her home, which had been sold for debt, Sam Friedman, a West End merchant, was today bound over to court. The woman resisted the removal of goods. As a means of lighting the men she thought were intruders she heated water, and, It Is said, threw It at them. This failing she fired the stove until It was red hot. IZENS OF PUNXS'Y WILL DECIDE FATE OF COMPANY Program Prepared for Eslnblitdinv of Jt-fft-i-Huii County Pedagogue* Could Not lie Improved. jk i■: ' ,5#:% ?' igi; "1 m f i