Punxsutawney Spirit, 1908-03-07

              *x ■ ■- m| . «r<ap.fc• ™ '. v* • • .*, ,: . «« PRICE TWO CENTS Precautions to Prevent a North Collingswood Disasted Being Taken—Fire Drills. REMEDY FOR DEFECTS. Continued on Page Two Stockholders Meeting of Pennsylvania Railroad. Oklahoma And Nebraska Will Hold State Conventions — LiiiIh r liiirlNink, Originator of Various kinds of Fruit and Nuts, (Viebroira Ills ItirtInlay. oarHMtf MMmmm mams. SmBTIBHI per out. lif Wrn a mm CAREFUL INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOL CONDITIONS CONTHOVERSY OVER SOLICITORS ELECTION PUNXSUTAVNEY, PA, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH T. 1908 GILBERT ATTACKS COMMONWEALTH FOR METHODS USED • VOL. II—NO. 149 THE ABiT PAY BILL PASSED4EKATE M ' LITTLE MOTION Many Doubt the Legality of the 0 Proceedingi Which Named the Borough Attorney. Jl TEAMS VIEWS OR mi STUDY II LOVER SHADES NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE IS IN SESSION TODAY Purtfoii of lirookvllli- and Mahoning Kiillioiul on West Shir or Allc. Klu'iiv smiled til Once. Getting Around Constitution— Say Multiplication of Suits Had That for Purpose. "GROUNDHOG IN JURIES" EXPECTED TO BE IN OPERATION BEFORE CHRISTMAS OF 1908 and Men—Juniors Profit the Most. Large Increase For Officers Four to tin* National Convention To lb* Named —New State Committee. A Talk Given By Miss Rachel > Brooks Before Recent Local Teachers' Institute. SHBUU BEGIN IK FIRST TEMI AIJi \<;iu:i: ON GOV. HKillES rUO.M M \IION»\G TO FIIEEPORT NAVY PAY BILL MED School directors, principals, janitors and pupils throughout all civilized countries will bp derelict, not to say criminally negligent, If they permit conditions t<> continue in their school houses such as on Wednesday were largely responsible for the loss of about 170 precious lives at North Colllnwood, a suburb of Cleveland, < >hlo. It is not a case of locking the door after the horse has been stolen, excepting with the authorities at North Colllnwood. "Steam shovels will bo put at work grading, etc., and it is estimated tlint the entire work will be completed in six months. The construction between Mahoning and Confer will not be done util 1909." "A spur will be built at Mosgrove to connect with the B., H. & P., over which material will be received. "It is expected that that portion of the Brookvllle and Mahoning Railroad <»n the west aide of the Allegheny Kiver between Mahoning and Frorport, will actually be built anrl in operation on or before Christmas, 190K. , The Kitianning Times yesterday ev- Idently wax inspired by inside inspiration. when it printed the following: it PLEASING SHOWER (•ills at Party c.iveii in Iter Honor. Brl<lc-lo-l)c ICcH'ci\cs Many Beautiful "Such Chief Burgess .shall not hold any other borough office or appointment during the term for which hr Is elected; nor be a member of nor preside (It te meetings of the town council of such borough. But he shnM have the right and It shall be his duty to attend te meetings of the s.ild council at the annual organization thereof for the election of the president and the secretary and such other officers as, by law and by borough ordinances are required to be elected at that time; and shall have no voice unless tht. council shall lie equally divided in which event he shall cast the deciding vote for all such officers." Those who maintain that the burgess is entitled to cast the deciding vote when there Is a tie cite the Act of April 18. 1905. P. L. 215, amendment to Section 2, which reads as follows: Since Monday a division of opinion us to the prerogative of the Burgess to so decide has arisen, some persons maintaining that his act was in accordance with the law, while others Just as stoutly maintain rfhat the law .says that the borough solicitor must be elected by the votes of a majority of the t'oundl. It will be remembered that the .third ballot resulted in a tie between William Gillespie and Jesse Long, Esq's., whereupon W. J. Brown. Burgess, was called iipon to cast the deciding vote. A controversy as to the legality of the vote by which William Gillespie was declared elected borough solicitor at Monday night's council meeting, has arisen amongst the lawyers, councilmen and some of the laymen of Punxsutawne.v. CELEBRATES HER 75 th BIRTHDAY Agreement was reached by the committee to report favorably the naval niilitta bill Introduced by Chairman Fuss, which give# the navy department control over the naval ml- The navy pay bill, equalizing the pay of officers of the navy and marine corps with the pay of the army was ordered reported favorably tJo tin- house the committee on naval affairs. That committee also agreed to report favorably the bill extending to rear admirals whtf are retired by the passage of the navy personnel act in 1890 the benefits of that act, whereby the rate of their retired pay will be increased. An amendment suggested by Mr. Culberson of Texas, takes away the discretion of the President in fixing; the pay of soldiers. Mr. \tfarren offered a committee amendment, which was adopted, providing that nothing in the bill shall be intt*rprot» .1 as affecting the pay in the navy. Senator Scott read a letter from a banker who stated army officers pay three p«*r cent, interest per month to have their salaries discounted  cause their Incomes are so small. An amendment wax offered by Mr. Bacon and adopted giving six months pay to families of officers and enlisted men upon thoir death. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 7.— The army pay bill was passed by the Senate yesterday afternoon. The bill provides for army officers a graded increase of pay ranging from 5 per cent for lieutenant generals to 25 per cent, for the junior officers. It also provides that "The average pay of enlisted men of the army as now established is Increased 40 per cent." HUNTER MO TRAPPER Misses Kathryn Parsons, Jane Davis, Celia Sutter, Elizabeth Fulloon, Grace Simpson, Agnes Allison, Mary and Pauline Parsons. Margaret Crissman, Corelle Fackiner, Effle Meneely, Eydith Graff, Anna lrvin, Mayme Murlay, Wilda Lucas, Elizabeth Davis, Mrs. W. p. Porter. Mrs. Hay ward Bair, Mrs. K. G. Lenhart. Progressive needles, a feminine game of no small interest, occupied the attention of the guests until a late hour, when a luncheon of particular excellence was served. Vhe bride-to-be received many beautiful pieces of china from the following: Miss Agnes Parsons, daughter of Mr. and MrsL Andrew G. Parsons, of West End, whose engagement to Fred C. Campbell, son of Mrs. Charles Fitzwilliam, was announced some time ago, toe wedding to take place during the present month. night at a china shower given for Miss Lydia Porter was hostess last John Maim. IhHvasiMl. Formerly of Clearfield Comity, Is Touted as the Greatest Ever. i The meeting of the State committee i I has naturally given rise to much gossip concerning the probable make-up »»." the "big four," and other matters pertaining to Republican polities in New York. The candidacy of Hughes lor the presidential nomination «ecms to bo about the only point on which the rival factions are able to agree. On all oth »r matters the rival factions are determined to fight it out to the bitter end. Chairman Woodruff and his friends, who are in close touch with President Roosevelt, dei dare there will be no compromise i with the Odell-Black-Brackett contingent. If they are able to control the convention neither Oddl. Black nor Brackett will be among the four ddegates-at-large to the Chicago convention. If their plans go through, Chairman Woodruff and Secretary Root \tlll be two of the "big four." The other two have not been decided upon, though Secretary Cortelyou, President Schurman, of Cornell Unl-I verslty, an ex-Mayor Seth Low are j being considered. Now that the General Assembly at Albany is nearing the close of Its session there is nothing to prevent an early convention, and it has been piactlcally decided upon to hold the convention the second week of April. The convention will probably be held in this city. The primaries to elect delegates to the assembly district conventions for the purpose 01 sending delegates to the State convention, which In turn Is to elect the lUlegates-at-large. are by law to be held the last Tuesday of March, which this year will be aMrch 31. The same primaries will elect delegates to the Congressional district conventions. NEW YORK. March 7. — The meeting <»f the Republican State Committee In tills city today marks tho real opening of the presidential campaign in the Empire State. Pursuant to the eall of Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff, the committee went Into .Mswlon behind closed doors this afternoon to decide upon the time and place for holding the State convention. The State convention, in addition to naming four delegaies-atlarge to the national convention, will choose a new State committee which will conduct the fall campaign. Special t<» The Spirit. WASHINGTON, Pa.—The 114-acre farm of Miss Jennie Brownlee at West Alexander has been sold to Fred O. Funk, of Moundsville, W. Va., at $85 an acre, with the coal reserved. Mesdames Don caster, Ada Miller, Wllen Zeltler. H. Clay Campbell, Sarah Rosen berger, John Crick.®. James Minlsh, John Bell, E. Unlithen, Mary Carter,Hiram Reese, Mary Duff. Ada Honey, T\ C. Graffiti*, H. Myers, F. C. Rangers, John Buttery, Elizabeth Minlsh, David Sink, Clara Balr. A luncheon which, in variety and volume, resembled dinner, was served at 10:15 o'clock. Mrs. Reese received many useful gifts. Those present were: Ripe Old Agr. Mm. Mary Vim IIitm- In IIiwiom hi \Mrs. Mary Ann Reese, of this place, Was seventy-five years old yesterday, and a party was held to celebrate the event. Prom seven until ten o'clock the guests regaled themselves with reminiscences, music and games. Mr. Gilbert next took up the honesty and integrity of Governor Pennypacker, Snyder and Mathues — a matter that he had fully discussed at frequent intervals during the prior two days. Pennypacker was depicted as a man of unsullied honor. "For tlie sake of brevity," said Mr. Gilbert, "I have prepared a statement of what Governor Pennypacker's part In the whole matter was." Mr. Gilbert read ten or fifteen type-written pnges, most of it reiteration of h!a The address occupied all of yesterday's session of court. Although it was adjourning hour when ho finished, it was too late for the commencement of the argument of P. A Ropo, of counsel for Sanderson. He will address the jury on Monday morning. Mr. Gilbert took up his address at ten o'clock, not exactly where he had left off Thursday, but by scouting the the idea that Snyder and Mathues had got a part of Sanderson's "bifc wad." "The Commonwealth's case," he said, slapping the jury rail, "Is based on two propositions and it has hesitated on the one and faltered on the other. Let us see what it Is that the Commonwealth has been trying to Insinuate In your minds. It has been tiying in some way to have you believe that money paid Sanderson was divided apiopg Snyder and Mathues; it has been told to yt» uthat there was to be a change in the Treasury and that before Mr. Berry's coming Snyder and Mathues j wanted to clean house. Bear these I things in mind. The Commonwealth | has not proved either contention and you that there was to be a change in about them." Mr. tiilbert claimed that all of the cases against Snyder and Mathues grew out of the one contract of Sanderson and therefore one case should have been brought. It was gambling In juries, he contended, to bring fourteen cases of conspiracy against the two former State officials and nn ingenious manner of circumventing the Constitution's provisions against putting a defendant on trial twice for the same offense. HARRISBURG, Pa.. March 7. —- The first argument to the Jury for the defense in the Capitol case was closed yesterday afternoon shortly after four o'clock, when Lyman D. Gilbert completed his nine-and-onehalf-hour address. The chief feature of the second day's part of the argument was the lawyer's attack upon the Commonwealth for Its method in bringing the prosecutions against the alleged grafters. WHEELING—W. M. Shlk. r, wh»«- place of residence is unknown, was killed by a Baltimore & Ohio train at McMaehen. YOtTNGSTO\\'N, Ohio.—Charges of arson are likely to follow the burning of Ralph Travis' home on the Hubstacks owned by heim were burned within the last month. BRYAN LOSES TO JOHNSON Rrlng the pupils up to It gradually by training them to drop their work at tho sound of a tire alarm and get «»ut in the shortest One of tli' most serious phase* connected with the school house lire, however, la the avoidance of a panic, and this can only be accomplished by frecjuont fire drills. Taking into account the terrible possibilities of a stampede of children when the alarm of fire is given, i would certainly be the part of wisdom to have frequent flr0 drills. Although fire drills, as such, have not been the custom, the manner of dismissal at the end of every session is practically the same and with slight In increased effort would be efficient. Taking the lesson directly presented, Supt. A. M. Hammers Thursday night instructed all of his school principals and teachers to look well that none of the conditions, which contributed to the loss of life at Collinwood, so far as lies witiiin their power.should b< permitted to exist In Punxsutawney.Following up his advice In this matter, Prof. Hammers yesterday visited all of the school buildings and made an Inspection of the means of escape In case of fire and obtained data which will be submitted to the board at its regular meeting Monday night. In such a fire as the one above mentioned, a fire escape is not the most important of the avenues of exit, as but a small fraction of the children could have escaped safely by that means. Excepting In the matter of a flro escape, which long since has been ordered, the new Jefferson Street school building has none of the fire traps similar to those that ensnared the children at North Collingwood. swing In the Jefferson Street building [(here are three principle exits and it is difficult to conceive of a fire that could shut ofT more than one of them before the children, if trained, could get out, as the exits, both in front and at the sides, are wide, and the doors are always unlocked and It Is much more important that there are a sufficient number of exits available and that the pupils b*» practiced In the ways of getting to them, and when they get there be able to get out. llryanitcs In Minnesota. Governor's Friends Decisively Defeat Continued on P'lge Two. NEWS FORECAST FOR THE SECOND WEEK OF MARCH CUMBERLAND. Md.—Mrs. Mary Froellch was seriously burned when the head of a match flew off and ignited a fascinator about her shoulders. Her clothing was ablaze as she ran Into the street. (Continued on Page Two.) "Then* has been more progress in the last four hundred years than there „.iem was a great, wonderful, beauti- I fill world, a world which they might master and in the mastery find wealth, long life and happiness. At about this time, a.s you will remember, gun powder, the mariner's v'ompass and the press were invented, Columbus discovered America; and in the awakening of thought and ideas which swept over Europe, man's fear of the world changed to love of v- >rld, and science began. Those who inquired and tried to understand what they saw about them were called heretics and companions of the Evil One. And so great was nature feared that those who laid the drat foundations of our modern study jf chemistry, physiology, and astronomy, were persecuted and tortured In j every conceivable way. You remem- i ber the story of Galileo? There were j many such. It was not until what Is j called the Renaissance Period, which I came about 1400 A. D., that people I woke up to the idea that nature might j not be the grim spectre of their im- | aginations; but that lying all about i All through the first thousands of , years ol' man's history, man thought i >nly of himself. If he considered a member of another tribe it was to kill iiim; and even under the highly developed civilization of Greece, a stranger entering a city was under penalty of death. But man's fear of other men was nothing compared with his fear o the outside world. The simplest phenomena of nature caused him to fall down in abject terror and worship—worship in fear! The world >f nature, only meant something to get away from, something to live beyond. And so we have the spectacle of the Middle Ages during which men sought relief in the contemplation of the next world, and considered this one a vile, soul destroying prison to be endured but never overcome. "Science study in the grammar grades is an idea of late growth; and because it is new there are many among you who, considering the present overcrowded state of the school curriculum and the present training of teachers, will be indifferent if not actually antagonistic to a change of any kind. Therefore, before outlining a course of study, let me give you lirst some of the reasons why In this twentieth century it is an absolute necessity that science stfudy begin with the child's lirst year at ichool. Brooks Because of the many compliments received regarding the merits of some of the papers read at the Borough Feachers* Institute, which was held here last Saturday, the Spirit has been requested to publish tin- following paper entitled, "Science in the Grammar Grades," by Miss Kachel PLANT WIZARD IS 59 YEARS OF AGE The Johnson resolution was carried by a vote of <58 to 23, aftor the Bryan adherents had forced two test votes «n both of which they were defeated. The Bryan men trisistec? on i roll cull on every vote, and gave notice In their speeches on th«yt-<H'giaal resolution that they would not b bound by the action of the State Committee, but wdUld make a tight tnroughout the State for a delegation from Minnesota to the National Convenion instructed for Bryan. bitter fight, adopted a resolution endf rslng Governor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and recommend Ing that he be named by  National Convention ,at Denver, n«*it July. ST. PAUL. Minn., March 7. — The Democratic State Committee of Minnesota yesterday afternoon, after a FUREMIS BEGIN TODAY UKItHAIlTK "Mann took a load of traps and his Kun and proceeded to business. He set six wildcat-traps one night and four bear traps. The next day five of his traps each had a wildcat In, and the sixth contained the fore paw and part of tho h'B of another. Two of then bear traps had bears. A third trap was gone, the chain having' broken loose from the drag. The fourth bear-trap had been undisturbed. Mann ; killed the five wildcats and the two | bears, and started In* pursuit of the j Lear that had carried off a trap. He i tracked the bear that had carried on I «. trap. He tracked the bear to a j swamp, and started it out. the trap j being fast to its leg. The bear j hhowed fight, but Mann killed it with two shot*. t | "On his way back to the clearing* for help to get this most unheard-of gathering in of pig *tnd sheep-steali r«, Mann struck a bloody trail*, am' followed it to 0/ big chestnut-tree. On a branch of the tree lay a wildcat. Mann shot It and It was minus one frre paw*—the wildcat that had ever, ped from the sixth catamount-trap. The next Mann caught another bear and-two wildcats, and, he and the farmers being satisfied, he returned home." "Mann did not trap bears as a business during warm weather, as their fur is not In good condition and their meat not good for food. He was always ready, however, to run down bears that were preying on the farmers. or hunt to their death catamount./ engaged in the same business. He was solicited by a number of armors to use his skill in reducing the number of bears and wildcats tha seemed to be in more than usual num. berg in the region where the farmers lived. • The current issue of "Buffalo Bil! Stories," a magazine published in New York, has an article about John Mann, deceased, formerly of Curtin Township, Clearfield, who was regarded as the greatest trapper and hunter that ever lived in the State of Pennsylvania. Of the old hunter's greatest catch, the magazine writer says: An event of Interest to a large sectlon of tho West nod Southwest will be the annua! meeting and exhibition of the Texas Tattle Raisers' Association in Fort Worth. j The motion for a now trial in the ! case of John R. Walsh, convicted of i misapplying funds of the Chicago i Nation?! Bank; will be heard in the Federal Court at Chicago Tuesday. Conventions of the week that will attract attention will be tho meeting Of the National Congress of Mothers in this city and the tlrst international convention of the Toung People's Missionary Movement in Pittsburg. ; The annual meeting of tho stockholders of the Pennsylvania Rail' road (Company will be held in Phlla- I delphla on Tuesday. I The progress of the Vew York-to- Paris automobile race and the Jacksonville-to-Miami road run will be matters of interest In automobile circles.Boston. For Secretary Taft it will be a week of comparative inactivity so far as public speaking is concern* ed. William J. Bryan is expected to deliver hi.-* customary quota of addressee durl.ng the week and Governor Hughes will be heard at a dinner in j Admiral Evans* fleet of battleships is due to reach Magdelena Bay next ; Saturday and *11! put In about three 'weeks there before resuming the trip j|o San Franclsi'o. j Republicans of Oklahoma and Nej braska *111 hold their State convention* Wednesday to choose delegates to the national convention. The Taft managers confidently place Oklahoma In their column and the probabilities ••em to "be that Nebraska will also declare her preference for the Secretary of War, despite the efTort that Ha* ben made recently to arouse a sentiment for I-a Follette In that State. WASHINGTON. L). ('.. Mar. 7.— The conning week does not hold In prospect very many events of wide news interest, either domestic or foreign. It is the accepted belief that Congress will not be able to agree on any financial legislation at tinpresent session, and nothing above the regular routine of business is expected from either the House or Senate during this week. In the foreign Held the proceedings of the British Parliament and posslbl political developments in Portugal and in the Balkan provinces will attract more; j or less attention. I r Plank for memorial service* to be (■eld In- the Protestant churehca art' nearly completed. Ono hundred and »lxty-*even J* {He olfiolul count glvitn of the viotlmi of the Are. of whleh number twenty-two cunnot be idantiMd. ' ' ■ . ■ At St. Mary's Church caskets of sixteen children lay In a row before the altar rail. At the same hour a* many bodlqs la* In St. Joseph'* Church. * CLEVELAND, O., March-7. — Sol. emn high requiem Mass was Mid In the two CatUolIc churces of Coltlnwood this morniff for those who had lost their Uvea at the' Are In th« school building of that place. For hlo work and achievements as a naturalist. Mr. Bur bank has been honored by numerous coltofn and •clentlllc bodies. He Is an honorary member of all the proihlnent bartlrultural and oth*r soWdtlllc so«Sletle* on the paclflc Coast, and M a special loclurer on evolution at Leland Stanford. Jr., University. In 1875 he moved to Santa Rosa, California, where his successful experiments won for him the name of the "plant wizard." He In the originator of many new apples, peaches, r.uts, berries and valuable trees, flowers, fruits, grasses, grain* and vegetables, but he Is probably best known to the public as the originator of the j famous Burbank potato. , SANTA HOSA, tal., March 7.— Luther Burbak, who has gullied world-wide fame as the originator of new varieties of fruits and flowers, today Is celebrating his 59th birthday, having been born in Lancaster, Mass., March 7, 184#. He spent ills boyhood on a farm and was educated In the academy of his native town. He eurly manifested'an aptitude for (he study of nature, especially plant life. Special to The Spirit. THE WEATHER CANOE RIDGE (Office of the WeatherworN) — Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; slightly lower temperature. accredited agent of a rlendly power to see him returning home ao soon, but there Is good reason In the present Instance. Senor Toledo-Herrarte Is returning to the Central American republic In connection with the arrangements for the carrying out of the peace pact recently.! entered Into by all the Central American nations. DR. TOIiKIK) denor Don Luis Toledo-Herrarte, who arrived in this country not so ling ago as the mlplater of Qautemata to the United States, returned to hla native land to confer wtth the of hla government. It k la rather unusual when a statesman come* to this country as the envoy or I WM. '? ■ • ' ■f w ■ft ISP?