Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-12-14

              - "531 nl tu'wy* <■ .'•» £ Gity Edition J §fte fimiitttatpwii jyifit tssggi m£ REPUBLICAN FORCES CORTELYOUAT WAR WITH PRICE 1 CENT PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1907 VOL. II. No. 77 MILLIONAIRES OF WALL STREET NOT HELPING THE POOR nas W. Lawson on Scilly Island Rocks—Many of Crew Dead. IGGEST SAILING VESSEL AFLOAT WRECKED TODAY HIE SIM ntlEI UP PLACING IMIL ORDER Albert L. Seibert's Body Found Near Charleroi — Authorities Making Investigation. INLY ONE MINE IS WORKING WOULD NOT GET ENOUGH TO PAY DAILY EXPENSES A Former Punxsutawney Bog Said To Be Murdered The Volunteers of America Gathering in Their Contribution Boxes. Consulted With President Before Announcing His Candidacy ior Office. Conditions Worse Than Expected at Goldfxeld ROOSEVELT SAID "GO AHEAD" BISHOP'S BIRTHDAY All Winter. rigadier General Funston Thinks Two Companies Should Stay HAD CUT ON BACK OF HEAD. Smashing of Third Term Boom Sends Others Up in Air. lilrth Today. lit. Itcv. Bernard J. MrQuuld Colehrutiiig the 851 li Year of Ills nd From Phila. to London With Cargo of Oil. Union Pnclllc (Jives Contract to United States Steel hir »r>,000 Tons. STILL FOR TAFT GOLDFIELP, Nov.. Doc. 14.—"The situation in Goldlleld is much worse than 1 expected to find it," said Br!« WIN DOW MISSING The collection from pots placed where they were parsed daily by men representing billions i»f dollars, averaged about one dollar and seventyfive cents per day. In the poor sections the contributions have seldom gone below five dollars per day. Lenance. Nine collection chimneys, which heretofore had been put in annually by the Volunteer of America, in order der to collect funds, are to be taken out of the financial district, because the contributions have not been sufficient to pay the expenses of main- Uy United. Press. this year from Wall Street brokers and bankers in their efforts to provide a merry Christmas for the poor of this city. NEW YOKK, Dec. 14. — Santa Clans Is not getting: any assistance VACATION TIME this oi'ty the diocese has become one of the first Importance and he has taken an active Interest In the educational institutions and all o-ther matters relating to the church. ester. ROCHESTER. N. Y., Dec. 14.—Rt. Kev. Bernard J. McQuaid. for nearly forty yearn bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Rochester, will enter upon his eight-fifth year tomorrow. Horn in New York December 15, 1823, received his education in Montreal aiul at Forham College. He was ordained a priest sixty years ago next January, and ltis first pastorate was in New Jersey. He founde.1 Set on Hall College in that state and for a time was rector of Newark Cathedran. In 1868 he became the first Roman Catholic bishop of Roch- Durlng his long career In W RUBE" PARTY Affair at Skating; Kink I<nst Nlglit a Pronounced Success-—'Tlio Prl'M Winners. 'hiitlmi Will Havo Until Dwemobr :i0 to CVIoliratc—Tmrliors OH Ui tl»e Institute. BANDITS DITCH Mill TRAIN: One of the large contracts placed within the past few (lays was for 2.- 300 tons of cast iron pipe for Phoenix, Ariz. The contract was awarded to the American Cast Iron Pipe Company.Industrial plants which were closed recently, are gradually resuming operation, and It is stated that more than half of the blast furnaces of the United States Steel Corporation are In operation at the present time. Others will be started shortly. Following the announcement that the railroads had completed estimate* for new steel rails for 1908 delivery, says the Pittsburg Post, specifications for which were arranged Individually with the steel rail makers, it was reported yesterday that the Union Pacific Railroad Company has placed a contract with the United States Steel Corporation for 35,000 tons of rails, the contract to be divided between the Carnegie and Illinois steel companies. It was said last evening that this announcement is a little premature, although it was admitted reservation is being made for steel rail contracts for some of the large railroads. Sixty Robbers Ditch Russian Mail Train Between Till Is and Baku. CAUSED By FOOD leaves the Consolidated the only mine working in the camp, and most of the men are above ground. Not nearly enough are working under ground to keep the mills going with ore. After trying to resume work at 1 the Mohaw Combination mine today 1 the management decided that not' enough men had appeared for work I and gave up the attempt. This Governor Sparks says he will not I ask for the troops' recall and denies I that they had asked Colonel Reynolds to declare martial law and patrol the ! streets, and that the Colonel had refused. As a matter of fact the Governor could declare martial law without consulting Colonel Reynolds, and the latter could not If ho wanted to. "President Mackinnon of the local miners' union, says he has no objection to the presence of troops," said General Punston. "But too union as a holy wants them withdrawn. I do not think there will be any serious trouble as long as the troops remain, and 1 believe we will keep at least two companies here all winter. There is no question but that the general sentiment is against the Western Federation and In favor of the retention of the troops." Washington last evening, in which the contentions of both parties to the cntroversy are fully set forth, as well as the opinions of a large number of citizens. sent a voluminous report in cipher to gad lor General Funston yesterday. He Trouble Anions Horses at Clarion County Camp Had C»oo«l Foundation to Work On. The sole survivor of the crew was aken to St. Agnes Island, where is low lying:, to 111, however, to give an account of the wreck. rage about the Scilly Rocks do not abate bo easily, and finally, unable [o withstand the terrific strain on her pables, was finally driven 011 the rocks ind went to pieces. tis crew stood by him. They evllently thought that the storm would ib&te, and thus enable them to save te schooner. But the storms which Tow life boats put out from St. Agnes Island as soon as the ship was •Urhted, and offered to take the crew but the captain said he preferred to stick to his post, and The Scilly Hocks, are one of the 'most dreaded spots in all the ocean, and the Lawson, which was chartered to the Standard Oil Company, and manned by a large crew, was driven out of her course by a terrific storm. She anchored last night off the island, as Captain Dow evidently feared that otherwise he would be driven onto the reefs." L The sailors might have escaped Wt first when the ship was driven on the Scilly rocks, but they refused to leave their posts, preferring to stick to the vessea to the lalt. Only one survivor and three corpses have been found by the life savers. There is no doubt that the rest of the entire crew and the ill-fated vessel's officers perished with the ship. seven- masted schooner, Thomas W. Lawson, the largest sailing vessel ever built and the only seven-masted schooner In the world was lost early today off the Scilly Islands, to the Southwest of the English Coast. By United Press. >N, Dec. 14.—The No other motive than robbery can be found for the attack. The bandits' casualties could not be ascertained as they retreated with their wounded. Troops have been sent In pursuit of them. Many of the passengers and guards were wounded, some of them seriously.The train guard answered the volley with rifle shots, and after a hot light drove the outlaws away. volvers. Sixty robbers ditched the Tiflis-Baku mail tjrain near Sa|lakhlu last night. The bandit then threw eight bombs among the terrified passengers and then opened fire with re- TIFLIS, Trans-Caucasia, Dec. 14.— By United Press. W. F. Walker, of New Britain, Conn., I tank Captured in California.The ship was manned with a crew ' twenty men, and sailed from Philajlphia on November 21, carrying a irgo of crude oil. ien stated that no particulars be>nd the report that she had gone iwn. At the office of the company It has BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 13. — The •awson, which belonged to the Coastrise Transportation Company, had riglnally been built for coast trade, .ut had been leased to the Standard )I1 Company for ocean sailing. DEFAULTER IS CAPTURED GOES 10 MCA A greait many of thorn gave vent to their pent-up feelings through yelling- and merry capering, while others older and more sedate made known their pleasure by the , expansive grin they wore. Among (•the many, however, walked a goodly! I number who neither smiled nor grinned. Though vacation is a joy to I all children the farewell to teacher and school ma'tes for a two weeks strikes many <»f them on the , serious side, and their smiles arrive an hour or two late. But it is bound I to come. With Christmas less than two weeks away, no studies, and skating, sled riding and nothing but | good times in between, R would be a peculiar boy or girl who could not see the sunny side of it. And with the greater majority of the children the smile will still be there when they begin the second half of the term on the thirtieth of December. Schoolmates and teachers whom they have not seen for two weeks will be there. Tales of Christmas good times will be told and retold. For some 'the pleasure of returning will equal that of leaving, and then the summer vacation will be only four j months away. The forerunner of Christmas, the 1 yesterday afternoon at four o'clock ' when the school children were dlsi missed for their annual two-weeks mid-winter vacation. W. 11. Williams Promoted To Post of Mantcr Mwluuilc of HooliPHtor Division. DIVIDEND DECLARED BOSTON, Dec. 14.—The sole surivor of the Lawson is named George lien. This seaman and fifteen othjti completed the crew of the Law- n when it was launched from the >re River Yards, at Quincy, Mass., 1 July 10, 1902. The vessel had Bel masts, six engines to hoist its IIs and anchors. MORE BOOZE It Is alleged that the bonds were part of the security taken by Walker when he fled from New Britain. Walker will be used as a witness against Charela L. Gonfold, who is accused of having secured $125,000 from the Amsterdam Bank by giving eighty-five railroad bonds as collateral.By United Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. — The defaulting treasurer of the New Britain, Conn., Bank, W. P. Walker, has been captured in California, and is now being brought back to New York. ial Meeting of Sumnu-rvilU' Tclepliono Comiwny Held Yesterday at Brookvllle. account. Given good feed the horses not already in the hands of an undertaker soon revived, and no further trouble Is anticipated. The horses were all valuable animals, having cost us much as JGOO per team, and at the rate they were dying. was calculated to cause a panic In camp, and a large hole In Shields & Company's bank crusher. It was discovered that the last ■shipment of feed which hail been purchased from a cereal manufacturing firm, instead of oats, was composed of hull.", screenings, refuse and probably sweepings, constituting a mixture that would congest an ordinary sand Peing unable to discern the presence of any of the well known horse diseases, Dr. Bethune searched for other sources of trouble, finally placing the blame on the feed. were thought to he suffering from some malignant disease. The horses, twenty in number, belonged to D. . Shields & Company, lumbermen, who are conducting operations about two miles from Clarington. Five of the horses were already dead and the others were found In bad shape, suffering from stomach and intestinal trouble. Dr. J. G. Bethune, veterinary, returned tills morning from Clarington. Elk County, where on Thursday he went to treat some horses that Too Murli "Red Eye" (Jives Two Citizens a Chance to Enrich The Borough. Big comedy drama, "The Banker's Child," at Jefferson Theater tonight. Mr. Williams, about four months ago, came here from New London. Conn., where he hail been general foreman of tho mechanical department of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Hullroad, and his promo tlon to the responsible position u East Salamanca Is an Indication tha his employers have secured a valu able official. The esteem in which Mr. William was held here, was evidenced the oth t.r night, when the employes unde charge. and other railroad men.J^ ered at his home < UBj,le »oIl! with a handsome and valuam watch and chain. EftSt Sal- Mr BTuKeuThrnewdu..o«,, b". remain In PunxsutawnMrUn wiUlam»,r successor Is J. I- Kendrlck who. for the past thre. months, has been night foreman o the mechanical department of th Elk Bun roundhouse. W. H. Williams, of 210 Jenks Av-1 enue, Punxsutawney, general foreman | of the mechanical department of the Klk Run roundhouse, has been notitled of his promotion to bo master mechanic of the Buffalo & Rochester division of the B.. it. & 1'. Railroad, with headquarters at East Salamanca, Nf. Y. The President did tell Mr. Oortelyou to go ahead, Just ns he would have told any other American citizen. He did not wish to he placed In the light of p'-aylng favorites. Mr. Cortelyou knew the President looked upon Tul't as the most available Republican. but Mr. Roosevelt was bar- I ring no one. However, there was I this difference: < v- «Pi Taft Is the head of a Government department that Is divorced from politics. There was no attempt to use the Department of War to help I Taft's candidacy. Secretary Cortelyou has used the two most powerful political machines of the Government to boost himself the Treasury and the Postofflco i cock. Moreover, he and Hitchcock. It is said, have used the President as a stool pigeon, pretending to get Roosevelt delegations which really were to be voted for Cortelyou. This Is .treachery, the Administration's friends maintain, of the worst kind— treason within an official family. An addition blow has been issued to Mr Cortelyou by the Administration in taking back into the Presidential confidence Representative Hro"nl'> Of Tennessee. Hrownlow was the o d Republican leader In that j Cortelyou devoted most  gies in the ear J nrownlow and : light to breaking P s He com: driving him out ,1 ,U m»ch| pletel.v wrecked th Rh„„.n no dl»- jlne- Th®Vptr6S remits te Brown low. po.l»lon yet to r r0(.,.!ve him agaJn and 8 advice. Brownlow IS a Taft m«n.  The answer to Mr. Cortelyou's plea from a high Administration source is this: The speaker admitted thhat the President's letter to office holders and his open letter announcing that ho would not accept another term were strong invitations to resign. [ that he could not refrain from talking to his friends. He has maintained. however, that he would not resign until called upon to do so by the President." 1 first spoken to Air. Roosevelt before aspiring to the Presidency—'that until lately he had not paid much attention to the pressure brought on him. but events of the last few days have made him feel so much injured the strength of his position—having- lie called upo nthe Prelsdent at Oyster Hay and put the ease before him. The President told Cortelyou that his (the President's) wishes were only to see carried the policies he had been advocating; that he was sun- Mr. Cortelyou felt about public affairs as he did, and 'to 'go ahead.' So Mr. Cortelyou went ahead. Now he is | being put In the position of Ingr&te. "Seemingly the Administration shares this view. At least it would appear so from the published accounts and from the talk of public men of Administration tendencies. Mr. Cortelyou has felt so secure in hesitated to The was his choice, and come out, even tentatively. had said among: his friends tat Taft Secretary knew the President already been talking but a few minutes be- 'ore, come a candidate for President. "was urged las-t summer to be- the contest. "Secretary Cortelyou," said his friend, to whom the Secretary had hrough a friend, why he went into Idential nomination he has told, In his fight for the Republican Pres- a silence that has been both habit and principle. Put on the defensive few days Secretary Cortelyou broke WASHINGTON, D. Dec. 14 — Forced by the pressure of the last I - ,V p^T—William L rw«rWE5<i'. a veteran Baltimore & I Ohio fr.-l«rt»t engineer, was found un- Vnnm'loUs b«lde the rallrond track* near hi* home at Hyndman. with a buret hole in his head and n revolver in hlM right hand, and died later. "The Banker's Child,'" at Jefferson Theater tonight. Prices. 25, 35, 50. Mrs. W. J- Weaver, of Ueynoldsvllle. visited friends In town yesyesterday.At Jefferson Theater tonight. "The Banker'* Child"—'Prices 25, 35, 50. A great many skaters were present who, hail they divined the fun of the thing, woUld have togged up for the occasion, and the next "Hey liube" party promises to be a hummer.At. nine o'clock Manager King and Miss Helen Harry, in costume, led the grand march on skates. All of the evolutions of a ball-room march were executed without a mishap, and at 9:30 o'clock the floor, with a full quota of skaters, became the scene of much jollity and animation. When Manager King led the prize winners out to the center of the auditorium. to Introduce them, the 500 or more skaters and spectators cheered lustily. Harry Baughman's toggery Included the regulation duster, slouch hat. long locks, spare form, cowhide boots that opposed his trousers' legs, mittens, etc. Hhe carried about, pendant from her arm. an old open-work shopping bag which contained about a peck of apples and turnips, and not even the shadow of a smile crossed her face as she munched at a turnip about the sine of a football. Miss Grafflus' make-up consistof the plain, severely plain, skirt, bob tly waist, apron and breakfast shawl. Her hair rolls covered most of both sides of her face, and a tiny dress bonnet trimmed with beads and berries topped off t lie whole. Specks, ribbons and an old umbrella were her only adornments. At about 8:4"| o'clock the lights were turned on and the judges, Gregg Baumgardner, Harry McGregor and Ralph Lake, got busy. It only required a brief inspection to determine that Miss Maggie Grafflus and Harry Baughman were the winners of the prizes, a pair of fine kid gloves, each. Only a small pfrrcentage of the skaters had taken tho trouble to tlx up a complete "Hey Rube" outfit, but a goodly number essayed the comic and grotesque. At i: 30 the "Hey Rube" guard march began in the Skating Auditorium. The walls of the rink were decorated with corn fodder and from the corners, grinning pumpkin devils blinked, their gruesome visages being emphasized by a pale moon that shone from aloft in the southeast cornet*. The fun began at seven o'clock, when a bevy of boys dressed In "SI Plunkard" fashion and armed with horns and drums did a "Hey Rube" band stunt along Mahoning Street. The "Hey Rube" party given in the Auditorium Skating Rink last night was the acme of unalloyed social Intercourse on wheels, for those who I participated. A. C. Robinson of this place yester- i ty attended the meeting of the dl- I ctors of the sunimervllie Telephone >mpany at Brookvllle. Reports owed that the company was In a urlshlng condition, and a live per nt dividend was declared, payable January IS, 1908. The meeting was preliminary to the |ular annual meeting of thu stocklers and directors which will be Id in Summervllle, January 8. It. All business was placed in conion for the coming meeting. The ectors present were: Dr. J. Brown. Brookvllle; Benjamin Kock, of mmervllle; Frank Prothero, of Du- Mi W. T. Cox, of Reynoldsville; A. Robinson, of Punxsutawney. CANEVIN TO omCIATE "Immediately upon arriving at Vesta both men went to the miners' club rooms, which are located about 150 feet from the place where, the man's body was found. Three dwelling houses, all occupied by miners, separate the club shanty, as It Is known, from the culvert. Here some of the miners were accustomed to gather in the evenings and talk, smoke and ; have a social time. The club, of which the dead man was secretary. was run on the strictest order, only being allowed open on Saturday nights until twelve o'clock, and other nights until 9. Those occupying the adjoining houses have never made any complaint * against the place. The club rooms are two, neatly but not well furnished, and stand very close to the P. V. and C. tracks. Seibert stayed there till about 11:45. it Is supposed, and then] AKROK ' ohio.-Refullng to turn started home. Some miners were in | evidence and reveal the names the room when he left, but none say. , . . . .. , , * , / of leaders in a gigantic directory they saw him leave The path to | operated in many states, his noma on the hill lay across to the Jameg convlcted of workInfr the street car tracks which run Paral-. ,e Akron, was sentenced to lei to the railroad at this point, and in the penltentlary. down the tracks to a point where a1 path runs up over the hill. He was never known to take the path down the railroad to where it intercepted the hill path. "It is out of the question that the "Seibert was 29 years of age and unmarried, being the only support of his widowed mother and an uncle, who is suffering from a broken leg at the mother's home. A cutter by trade, Seibert was well known and well liked by all his fellow workers. On Saturday evening after drawing his pay, he went to his moher and gave it all to her as was his custom. He asked for fifty cents for spending money and then came to this place on an errand. lie left for Vesta on the 7:15 street car in company with Frank Webb, engineer at the mines. "Only the man's hands, face and feet were wet from the water, although his entire clothing was damp from the heavy dew which hung over this section. A cut about three inches in length at the base of the brain made by some blunt instrument and extending into the skull, was the only mark on the body. In no other place was the dead man even bruised, as would result from a fall from the railroad tracks. His clothing was in perfect condition, and not a drop of blood stained his garments in any place, making it evident that his clothing had been carefully cleaned before he was placed in the stream. His collar, a celluloid article, showed no signs of having been stained nor was the hair matted with bood. "Oscar Molen, a Swedish miner employed in Vesta No. 1, laid off from work yesterday morning on account of 111 health, and walking from the tipple to the culvert, a distance of about 200 feet, he sat down at the edge of the culvert on the ties. He was close enough to the edge to look i straight down to the water, a sheer drop of twenty-two feet. There he was horrified to see the body of a man lying face downward in the water, which is only about two Inches In depth. Deputy Coroner V. E. Reeves, of this place, was at once notified."Lying face downward in a shallow stream of water, the half frozen body of Albert L. Seibert, a miner in Vesta No. 1, was found under a culvert on the P. V. and C. Railroad yesterday afternoon near Vesta. The mail was evidently murdered and his body hidden under the culvert, where it might have lain a week if it had not been discovered in the chance way that it was. Apparently without any motive whatever the crime Is one of the most baffling in years. The Charlerol Mail, which arrived here yesterday, contained the following account of the finding of young Seiberl's body in a stream: The young man's name was Albert Seibert who, with his two brothers and mother, moved from West End, Punxsutawney, to Charlerol, last April. the crime. mer Punxsutawney boy at Vesta mines, near Charlerol, has caused great excitement in both towns, the officers of which are completely mystified and baffled In tiller efforts to ferret out the fiend who committed The mysterious death of a for- CONNELLSVILLE, Pa.—In a collision between an engine an <he Johnstown-Meyerdale accommodation on the Baltimore & Ohio at Meyer»- dale, Mrs. Joseph La*ler, of Kai.ton. I Pa., wa» aerloualy cut on th« anltra. | CANOE RIDOE (Office of the -  Bain or «ow tomorrow. An Italian who had taken on an overload of holiday cheer and was 'taking up both sidewalk and street in an endeavor to carry it was placed in the lockup and given a chance to sober up. Burgess Brown this morning assessed the man $4.25, which he paid and left for his home in Crawford town. Two arrests were made yesterday afternoon by Chief of Police Palmer, and as usual Intoxicating liquor played the lead In both stunts. One resident In the upper part of town absorbed a goodly amount of "rod eye" during the morning and by four o'- clock In the afternoon was In a fighting mood. His family and neighbors came in for an equal share of his abuse and Chief Palmer was called on prevent further capers. When arraigned befor Burgess Brown he was lined $7.25. r Holy Family Church. Bishop levtn, of Plttaburff, will officiate, I the ceremonies of dedication will participated In by a number of •r prominent prelates of the Ron Catholic Church. ATROBE, Pa.. Dec. 14.—Arrangeit« have been completed for the Continued on Second Page. m S- 9