Punxsutawney Spirit, 1908-05-07

              tot wax make ni#|H ANT OOLtJMH TOO WIUi WILL BUM QCKK MRVKmI Thursday. <i(M>l> llK.MHXCJ. WEATHER FORECAST. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1908 PRIMAhT UW FAUin MUMS' HfEREICE SAR FRANCISCO PARADE VIEWED BY THOUSANDS THE CURFEW UW PRICE TWO CENTS PETITION OF PAMHM FOR JOSEPH AIELLO H, Clay Campbell Collecting Data With That End In View. WESTEMIW0RKIR61IAN RECIEVES BEST WAfiES Will l!o 0|m*»h'(1 Ne*t Wcdnmlny at tin* Wliltc House by llio President. fDZEI BODIES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED VOL. II—NO. 201 Parents Should Krcp Tliolr Children Off tin- Streets at Nlglit. I'luvk Should lie I'lncnl I|h>ii (he NolllllUltillK IVIIIIlMIN. Mancfacturt rs Allow Greater Compensation Than In The East. Sailors and Soldiers In Line 7,500 Strong-City Decroated. HIS SERVEO Ml YEARS II Ml VARIOUS THEORIES ARE AFLOAT SIXTEEN NAVAL BANDS PARTICIPATE Guinness Farm Unveiling New Horrors Every Hour of the Day. SOUTHERN WAGES LOWEST By United Press. LAPOUTE, Ind., Mav 7.—(1:45 p. m.)—Sheriff Smutzcr today wired the New York authorities to be on the On Wednesday evening:, Qlfford Pinchot, United States forester, and a member of the inland waterway.-* commission, will give a reception to the conference to meet the governors and the members of -the inland waterway.* commission. During the afternoon of Friday, May 15, M»s. Roosevelt will give a garden party in honor of the visiting guests. The official social program Includes the President's dinner to the Tovernors, members of the cabinet, the supreme court and special guests at the conference, and the inland waterways commission on the evening of Tuesday, May 12. The President will open the confere ice or the Wedncsdt y morning Immediately alter wh'ch the regular program of papers will begin, opening with an address 01 "ores and related minerals." The sessions will continue through Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons. be ing devoted to a final general discussion of the whole question of the conservation of natural resources. All the business meetings will bo held in the East room of the White House. There will be a forenoon and an afternoon session each day, the former beginning at 11 o'clock and the latter at 2:3 » WASHINGTON, May 7. — The program of the conference of governors to be held at the White House next week, covering both the official proceedings and the social entertainments, which will be a conspicuous features of the occasion, has been completed in outline. I1MTED LANDS OPEN Sun Kivcr nistrirt in Momtuna Ki»- tails Seventeen Thousand Acre# of Land. S|)i'cl«l Till ill Will Ijthvc lion* on May 18—Gettysburg Will Be Visited. "IllClf Jflf" 12 Continued on Pago Three. In all statistics which the Bureau has compiled, including 23,707 establishments and 3,297819 wage-earnits, it is shown that women earn far loss than men. In the cotton mills, female operatives make 10.03 a week; in shoo factories they earn $7.60. As evidence of the extent to which women i Doth of these last two classes at'« largely employed In tl»e South, and their poor compensation emphasises the fact that the Southern workman receives less than hi* brother craftnman anywhere else in the country. The Census Bureau explans the low average in a measure by directing attention to the comparatively recent development of the factory system and the large proportion of women and children and negroes employed. Ten dollars is the average* weekl\ wage throughout the country. Sonu trades average double this nmount— - diamond cutters earn i>« r week—and, on the other hand, tho Ignorant, illiterate workers In the turpentine industry, those who gather the crude num. receive only an av - age of '$5.23 a week. Workers in the cottonseed oil and cake Industry rei celve on an average only a weol;. men elsewhere, aivordim t<> a statement issued by Census Bureau. The average i cv wt i k throughout tho West is 31 ;i.G5, ;s • gainst in the Central Xo»lh states: ia the North UlantU■: $8.33 in the Swiiih Central, and in tin* S >uih Alh'Ptlc. The western man or woman who i: employed in \ ufac tnrlng e.std.- lishment receives a much greater compensation ii.\n his tei'i.w .vorl. young man." he probably did not have at his disposal the statistics t<» prove the soundness of his advice. The frontier West has disappeared, and a new West has been ' born, nevertheless it would appear that ic holds out greater inducements to the wageearner of today than any other section of the United States. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 7.— When Horaee CJreely said "(Jo WVst," By United Press. Speaker of National House lias Already Passed AMotod Age of Man. H. Clay Campbell, Esq., of this place, left today for Harrlsburg. where he will collect the data necessary to prepare a petition to the State Hoard of Pardons on behalf or Joseph Aiello who is now serving a life sentence In the Western Penitentiary. Alello, It will be remembered, was convicted of murder In the first degree at the December term of Court, 1896. Mis victim was Louis Hclazo, anil the deed had been committed on Christmas day, 1895. While the members of the Alello household, a? Walston. were seated at their Christ- mas dinner. Scalzo who, It was alleged, had been making trouble all forenoon, came to the door and started right in to do the family up. the melee resulting the intrduer's death by stabbing. Alello got away and was not apprehended until almost a year later, by Chief of Police Palmer and Constable Ben Record. At the trial in December, 1896, al- though the evidence was such that many believed that the killing was done In self-defense, the jury brought In a verdict of murder in the first degree. The case was taken to a higher court, but the Judges refused to interfere with the sentence of the lower court. The case was then laid before tho State Board of Pardons. A strong Mr. Campbell, who \vas the senior counsel during the trial and subsequently, will therefore secure the data which was presented to the Hoard of Pardons in 1S96 and with that as «i basis prepare a new petition which will be presented when the Boar.1 I meets on the third AWdncsday of June, 1908. In view of the evidence, and taking into consideratiyn facts that have since come to light in Alello's case, the friends «f the prisoner believe that his deed, viewed in its worst light, has been more than expiated. been off the streets. 1 petition was presented, and the It is desired that the parents of I board commuted the sentence to a boys who stay out after nine o'clock I life term in the penitentiary. I «hall cooperate with the police in the! Alello has now served about eleven I effort to prevent further law-break- 1 years In the Western Penitentiary, '.ng of the kind described, and thus • During that time he has been a mode' save trouble, humiliation and expense I prisoner, and his friends, who hold for all concerned. that his crime should never have — been adjudged higher than manmm TO WASHINGTON ordinance made and provided for the I regulation of the conduct of the I youth at night shall be carried out 1 to the letter. 1 i Most of the depredations committed 1 recently by the youngsters have been committed after they should havp curfew law has not been strictly enforce.!, and the police have been notified to see that the provisions of the the boys Is due to the fact that the consistent with the nature of the offense.It is the belief of the authorities that much of the trouble caused by Yesterday two boys, aged about 14 years, were captured and convicted of law-breaking, and the boy<* were each lined $l' and costs. Hereafter all youthful law-breakers will have to pay a line and undergo punishment tawney It is the custom in most towns for the police to condone the depredatlons of boys after their parents have made good any losses that have been traced to their boys, hut a precedent is to be established in Punxsu- hereafter. have decided to punish all violators In view of the depredations of a gang of small boys who have systematically purloined from the stores in Punxsutawney, the police authorities some distance away, and the owner expects to recover it this afternoon. The ink on yesterday's issue of The Spirit had scarcely had time to dry before a subscriber, having read the story about the epidemic of thieving l/i Punxsutawney, called up one of the victims on the 'phone and told him where he could find a valuable article that had been swiped two days ago. The article was shipped to a mine Mima smmiw Kvery Slutc Iiisiitntioii Ojm'imhI Today at OPERATORS' EXAMINATION The price to be paid for these lands has bec-n fixed at $30 per acre, the cost of the construction of the works, and a charge of 50 cents per annum per acre will be charged for the water privileges and maintenance of the project. The original charge for construction is to be paid in ten annual installments of $3 per acre. The land embraced in this project is subject to entry in tracts of forty and eighty acres, the smaller parcels lying near the townsites already laid out. In addition to the "farm unit," there is a grazing area back of the irrigated land, subject to entry under the homestead law, of which each entryman may take up a tract sufficient to bring his entire claim up to 100 acres. HELENA, Mont., May 7.—This is the date ilxed by the government for the inauguration of the irrigation project embracing the Sun river district in Montana, one of the largest undertakings of its kind in the country. When the engineer turned the water into the canals today it meant the reclamation of some 17,000 acres of land. (Secretary of the Navy Metcalf. See- Secretary of the Navy Metcalf. Sec- Admiral Henry Glass, retired; Lieutenant W. U. Miller and Ensign Melcalf. Other parties wen- formed by the state officials headed by Governor Gillett and the city officials with Mayor Taylor at their head. Hear Admiral Evans was the cetral figure of the occasion. Surrounded by the admirals and captains of his fleet, th" popular naval commander reviewed the pageant from a raised and beautifully decorated dais in the grand-stand, erected at a conspicuous down-town corner. Another notable figure in the reviewing party was immeifso length and the great number of organizations taking part, the parade was s.arted exactly on schedule time, ten o'clock. All along the line of march the business blocks, office buildings and residences were ablaze with uags and bunting, gathered in festoons oi stretched in long folds from roof to ground while from numberless flagpoles and windows the national colors fluttered 'in the fresh breeze, with here and th«re the dark blue of the rear admiral's flag. Everywhere the marhlng sailors and marines were greeted enthusiastically by the densely packed throngs of people along the route. The military contingent, under the command of General Funston, was drawn up in line along Battery and other streets oil the north side of Market Street Every branch ol the service of the. United States army was represented. There were one company of engineers, fourteen companies | of coast artillery, the ertlre 1-jighth i Infantry, four troops of cavalry, three batteries ot eld artillery, a company of signal corps men, a corps from the hospital and the Third Artillery Corps band. These made a total of more than 2,600 troops in line. The jaekks came ashore in the forenoon. Prior to the start of the parade they were assembled for formation in the streets south of Market Street. The sailors from the battleship Connecticut were given tin- position of honor. NcVxt in line came the boys from the Vermont, the Missouri, Maine, Alabama, and other of the big ships of the battleship fleet. Sixteen naval bands vvere among the participants.SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 7. — People of San Francisco and the Pacic Coast States today saw and cheered more thas 5,000 of Admiral Evans' sailor boys as they marched through the downtown streets of the city over a line of inarch that extended for several miles. The spectacle was the most notable of its kind that has ever been seen in San Francisco. In addition to the blue-jackets the marches included detachments of the regular army of the Presidio, National Guard, State and city officialand members of the orders of Native Sons and Native Daughters and a number of other patriotic and civic •>rganfations. EXPRESS AGENT MISSING FOUR DIE III EIRE 1 To overcome this there should he a provision in the law. say persons familiar with conditions, whereby each petition shall bo attested by oath of at least three of* the signers that they know the rest of the signers to be bona tide members of the party for whose candi.hi to they are signing papers. Another suggestion is that i might be well to restrain voters from signing the petition of more than one candidate for the same office where but one is to bo elected. .«! ui.v in - stances have been found wh ro m« .1 .-igncd papers of two and even more aspirants for the same nomination. As an illustration In the congressional district composed of Zedford. Blair and CamVrla count lea \he Republican and Democratic candidates for Congress each received four votes on the Prohibition ticket and complications hay e arisen, one candidate} beini? reoorteO us refusing to come hero to draw lots. In -the HarrMburg Assembly district William C. Farnsworth is the Prohibition candidate for member because he grot one vote. He is aIsi candidate for Sen- I a tor. j In .nany districts the same persons signed petitions for candidates for nominations ,'n different 'parties, which a violation of the spirit of I the law. but which could not be corro led in timo. These people doubt-1>. - sigred to accommodate a friond, although in one instance in Philadelphia the same men signed the petitions of candidates for -the House for the Prohibition, City and Socialist parties. The remedy for this condition is to require at least as many votes at a primary election to make a nomination as must appear upon the petition to have a name go on the ballot. There are numerous instances where men become candidates of Prohibition or Socialist parties by four or live, or as low as one ballot. Again, it required -00 signatures for a man to become a candidate for a nomination for Congress, ajid, as getting up » petition required some effort, and at times expanse, candidates In some districts had their friends write the names on ballots. Ballots so mark* | ed were small in number, but their legality was unquestioned, and the nomination stamls. Among tiie suggestions made is one of the greatest Importance, as it would prevent nominations by one or more votes, there being- i:i almost every district some person who, through ignorance or fun, writes names on ballots, to say nothing of persons who have ben adroit enough to have names written in columns so that they will be candidates of more than one party when they are not entitled to such nomination at all. candidate by one or more scattering votes. Some queer things have been noticed in the petitions and returns filed at the rapitol, ana as the law Is very plain, the State officials have no recourse but t<> accept what is laid before them. vent a man being made an official should be a provision made to pre- the uniform primary law the last three months, has shown that some check must be placed upon the nominating petitions and that there HARHIHBUBG, May £. — The experience of offic ials in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth with Annual Test Being Conducted In Coucli By Trainmaster White. John II. Lowman Has Not Been Seen lor Two Weeks—Wife in Charge of Office. Patients visiting the dispensary will be carefully examined by the attending physician and advice and medicine freely doled out. The greatest object, however, of the institution Is to stop the spread of the disease. for the entire family of those who may in- afflicted. m . when free medical treatment nd advice will be furnished to vic- tims of the "great white plague". Fresh milk an deggs will be supplied daily. The officials, however, will guard against being Imposed upon, and do not intend to furnish supplies iys, from ten until twelve o'clock The tuber, iilo,sis sanitarium institute.1 by the Slav «t Clearfield. opens today i»i charg eof Dr. S. C Stewart. Tile dispensary will be open on Thurs- MESSENGER MURDERED Mr. Cannon was born at Guilford. N. C., May 7, 1836, but at an early age moved with his parents to Indiana. He began life as a clerk in a grovory store. He studied law ir. Cincinnati and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He settled at Tuscola, 111., soon after and was elected state attorney there In 1S'!1 serving till in 1SG8. In 1873 he moved to Danville and was elected to the Forty-third Congress. He has continued to serve ever since, with tin exception of one term. He was elected speaker in 11)03. ' .»a 1.• r is looking remarkably well for a man of his years and to .ill appearances would be physically able to withstand the strain of a summer campaign, should h • decide to take to the stump. Several of the Illinois cities and towns, where they believe Mr. Cannon will be the next occupant of the White House, sent him birthday greetings today. WASHINGTON, D. C.t May 7.-— Speaker Cannon, whom Illinois Republicans—some of them, at least— profess to believe will receive the Presidential nomination at the Chicago convention, was seventy-two vears old today. The House was well aware that this was "Uncle Joe's" birthday, for he was kept busy receiving the congratulation.-; of friends and admire!s at the Capitol and whenever he chanced to meet the,is. One dead man Is unidentified, HATTIE KO-PKLMAN. dropped from fire ericape and roasted to death on grating. SAMUEL SACHS, burned to death. MRS. EVA BEHG, burned to death. The dead NEW YOU K, May T.—Four persons were killed and a score badly injured In a tenement fire at No. 101 Orchard Street, early this morning. The fire was evidently of an Incendiary origin. By United Press. FATALLY INJURED III FIDE mill I.<ihh of Our Llfti. i:vplo-loii of OH Culist's *10.000 I'lle The bandits secured only $100, and have not been apprehended. By United Press. DENVER, Colo., May 7.—Express Messenger Charles M. Wright was murdered today by train robbers, who looted his car on the Rio Grande train. • PKQUOT" IN ASHES. Lowman's wife has been in charge of the express and postoftice since his mysterious disappearance and the matter of appointing a successor to him is being considered by the postal , and express authorities. An investigation of the affairs of both offices have shown nothing wrong and it is believed that domestic troubles are at the bottom of his disappearanee, he having written to his wife, shortly after leaving, that ho would not return. Since then nothing has been learned of his whereabouts. , The Indiana express authorities, says the have been notified that the express agent at Garman's Mills, John B. Lowman, has been missing the past two weeks, and his whereabouts are unknown. Lowman was also postmaster at Garman's Mills, which is in Indiana County, near Barnesboro, on a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.# 1 The ator.v drain with the downfall ! or graft mill bossism in one of our | Jargo cities, and is founded on Actual ! facts. It is the story of a young man, who. after having spent a life of idleness. suddenly comes to "the rfflliJW* 11 oII Of his duty an a cltlnen. and UllM. ,  the opportunity In offered him Kff<9 Into the tight anj do hl» does II with a will. It tight, but. beginning with the chapter* of "The Man jjt Saturday, our reader, win t»v« •"JJT portunity of «*n* M» «» ,ric* *** don*. The story Is bejotul a doubt the strongest of its kind ever written, and readers of this paper are to be congratulated on this opportunity to read It without any cost other than buying The Spirit. The Spirit has secured exclusive rights for ihe publication in this territory <•! "Tin Man of the Hour", a book founded on the great play of that name, which has been meeting with such phenomenal success in all the largo cities. Mrs. Nellie Lurson, it»2 Francisco Avenue. Chicago, sister of Mrs. Guinness, said yesterday: Last night Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler announced In Chicago that the links which connected th. La Porte tragedy with Chicago were bo strong he would start an inveatigation In that city without being asked to do go b:y the Indiana officials. "My sister was crazy for money. When she was a girl she never seemed to care for a man tor his own sake, but only for the luxuries he could give her. She frequently told m< that she would never have lived with Max Sorenson, her first husband, If he had not made such a tine home fo> her. *'[ have not seen my sister for ' twenty years. She was angry with me bccattH I would not allow her ft* have my little daughter to bring up." The Guinness farm today is thronged with curious sightseers. Sheriff Smultzer and his assistants this morning resumed the task of delving for bodies. Carriages, wagons, bicycles and automobiles were lined along the ornamental wire fence which separates the wooded knoll on which the residence stood from the macadam highway leading from Laporte. Many persons also truged to the place on foot. Stirred by the horror experienced bv citizens as each additional bundle of decaying bones and flesh was discovered, the commissioners of Laporte County last night resolved to use every resource at their command toward finding an answer to the puzzles that confront the police. Tht board decided to offer a reward of $1,000 for the solution of the enigma In spite of the falling rain Sheriff Smutzer is searching for more bodies in the Guinness private graveyard, and today it was discovered that the names of persons who were induced 'to go to the Guinness farm through the lure of a matrimonial bureau, run all the way from twelve to twenty.Two of the mutilated bodies Mere identified yesterday afternoon with reasonable certainty. Antone Olson, of Chicago, viewed the body supposed to be that oi Jennie Olson, six-teen years of age, foster daughter of Mrs. Guinness, and pronounced it to be that of his daughter. A sister of the girl, Mrs. Leo Olander, of Chicago, confirmed the father's identification.Three additional bodies were found in the barn yard last night. Evidence tending to show that the nine dismembered corpses unearthed Tuesday and Wednesday had been shipped to Laporte prdWbly from Chicago, same to light. Testimony of draymen, who had carted trunks and boxes to the Guinness home, lent color to this supposition. Laporte police also received information that two •trunks, consigned to "Mrs. Belle Guinness, Laporte, Ind.," are held in an express office in Chicago. Assistance of the Chicago police in unraveling the puzzle was sought at once. Developments Indicate that Mrs. Guinness is a "Bluebeard" in skirts, using Cupid as a decoy for the numerous unsuspecting men who entered her den in the Laport hills. A. K. Helgeleln, whose Inquiries regarding his missing brother, Andrew, led to the first discoveries on the death-haunted farm, became sure today that the largest and best preserved of the corpses Is that of his brother. Against this identification, however, is the result of the autopsy, performed on his body by Dr. J. H. Meyer. He found conditions, which, to his mind, proved that the man perished long after Andrew Helgeleln disappeared last January. Dr. Meyer said 'that the corpse showed evidences of having been in the ground less than two weeks. A. K. Helgeleln, however, refused to be convinced bv these findings, and his certainty led the coroner to accept his Identification for the present. The woman is believed to be on her way to Norway or Sweden, and the police have been asked to watch all outgoing vessels. The Sheriff has also telegraphed the Chicago police to watch the former haunts of the woman in ,that city. lookout for Mrs. Belle Guinness, owner of the "House of Horrors", where the remains of more than a dozen bodies haev been found. The excursion will deave Washington Friday morning at «:45, arriving in Punxsutawney a£"6:15 o'clock p m. Following is a description of the Gettysburg battlefield. i Gettysburg battlefield la a sacred'J Continued on Page Three Thursday, May 21—Leave hotel at 9 a. m. sharp for State, War, and Navy Building. Corcoran Gallery of Art, LTnlited States Treasury/ and White House. Luncheon at 12:00. Leave hotel at at 1:00 p. m. over Electric Hallway for Arlington, returning in time for afternoon shopping. Wednesday, May 'JO.—Visit Washington Monument, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Smithsonian Institute. National Museum, and United States Fish Commission, leaving hotel ai 8:30 a. m. Luncheon at 12:00. At 1:45 p. m. take steamer "Charles Mac| nlister" from foot of Seventh Street, for side trip to Mount Vernon. Tuesday. May 10—Leave hotel at I 8:45 sharp for United States Capitol, 1 where si lour of the building will be , made under the escort* of special guides. Visit -the Congressional Library. Luncheon at 12:30. Leave hotel at 2:00 p. m. on automobiles Cor tour of the city Following is the program for the three days that will be spent in Washington:After arriving at the National Capital and partaking of supper at the Fredonia Hotel. 14 21 11 Street, the party will visit the Congressional Library.At six o'clock the pilgrims will leave for Baltimore, where they will arrive at 9 o'clock p. m. reaching Washington at 10:40 p. m. Arriving at Harrisburg at 11:55 p. m., the trip to Gettysburg will be mailt1 over the Western Maryland li R , where the excursion will arrive at 1:55. The drive over the famous battlefield will occupy the time of the excursionists until fix** o'clock, when supper will be served at the Kagle Hotel. Kossiter Junction. 7:07; McGees, 7:33: Mahaffey, 7:37; Irvona. 8:09; Coalport, 8:14; arriving at Bel I wood at {♦ o'clock. The special will leave Punxsutawney May 18, at 7 o'clock, a. m., and other points as follows: As the time for the excursion to Washington and Gettysburg draws near, the interest in the itinerary and prospective doings on the trip Increase's. Requests for accommodations are coming in to Prof. Hammers from all sections and the excursion will include many that are past school age. /destroyed by fire early this morning. The hotel was unoccupied and was a five-story frame sstructure. The loss will be heavy. NEW LONDON. Conn., May 7. — "Pequol House/' for seventy-live years a famous summer hotel, and patronized bv fashionable people, was By United Press. PITTSBURG. May 7.—'-The weather indications are: Kain tonight; Friday fair. The onlv lire company here is a volunteer organization, and proved Inadequate, when it came to putting out the Are. Assistance was Anally asked «for from Wheeling, and upon the arrival of the llremen from that city the names were -promptly put under control. BRIDGEPORT, O., May 7. — An oil explosion In the cellar of the Hlbbs Hardware Company here this morning, caused a loss of about $10.- 000, and the probable fatal Injury of Waiter Harper, a clerk, who was badly burned about the face and body. By United Press. The examinations will last all the week. The physical condition of the men la also carefully noted and tested, and *ny who fail to come up to the requirements of the book of rules in respect to either branch of the examinations will get a lay-off until such a time as they can pass successfully. The hours of the first class are from 8 o'clock a. m. to 2 o'clock p. m., and tho second class from 2 l'clock to 1 o'clock p. m. Beginning Monday, two classes of ibout sixty men .each have been ex■ mined, dally, and the examlntations will be continued until every operative, ncludlng freight conductors, engineers, firemen, brakemen, llagmen, iwitchmen, section hands, watchmen ■are takers, supers and, In fact, every employe that has anything to do with the physical operating of trains has been examined on the book of rules. A. B. White, of this place, tralnuaster of the Pittsburg division, is in •hargo of the car and the oycaslon 'or the doings is the annual examinations for B„ It. & P. Railroad opreaives. The men come from all points m the main line from Butler to Du- Sols, and from the branches between hose two points., including the Intliina system. A special B., li. P. railroad coach ocated on a side track near the B.. t. & P. yard office in this place, Is he inecca for about 400 railroad operatives this week. 3W . •, v. ff. mm