Punxsutawney Spirit, 1888-10-17

              V* ' ; I r I :• i:: 1 I '! II l.ont II Im Life for OHO. A Charitable Hen. '■■> I '>'■ Tea Thousand Drowned. ,'f > I. ' ! it'"' t ■■ 'J (> SB AWX3 yvo* 3Ht ,03J A ■ ,r: - »*i v.- 1 fi ♦ fcrn w Hrtm i* mm letMM mm ttw bhlik Uliqr «■!!>■■< TlWy««>nj»t» MCT»W1 , PA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1888. nOUR EFFORTS rXV -.Q «v ''-* ']\n >\ l • 'i •' ■ Crowned With Success j . *.-}-? .•„> T > ( ' ARE ALWAYS ,1: . . / /; I v A . 11 • li i * r' . "l f ' t , I 10 7 i »• • nl o'Tl . u I "■ • ■ ' : T »i J u. ■ 11 » * ■ ■; ' : 11)1 'A A V1 i » ■ ! i, ■1 • I*},;''! f Iff " NECKWEAR broke into the exhibition building and stole the finest j "Suits Ovdrcoits we bid oh; eihibjtion. It is some satisfaction for us to know that, even if we are deprived of selling the goods, we must have undoubtedly had -j finyst'goods ithat were exhibited at any of the Fairs held in this county, as there was no clothing stolen but that taken from us; \ / <; -j "i j \ I . } , \ ; ! ij J v X ' Wo are not .surprised that even Fakirs admired our Fine Clothing, and the temptation, being to great, they pie visiting the Fair. And we were not disappointed. could not fail to attract the attentiou of the many peo- During the recent Fair held in this place, we took : ji J ,. advantage of the opportunity to make a DISPLAY OF FINE CLOTHING, UNDERWEAR, etc. And as we always sell goods on th6ir merits, wo felt sure the Fine Suits and Satin-Lined Overcoats : i i ; : I j I) < i / .1 ■ jr. i /o T/. ,/ . I I. • ' i i iI i \ ♦ J TAYLOR bell, ATTOBNEY-AT-LA W, InMim, FA, l Ofloe V*. MS, Todd building, Mate Street. | will reeelTe^gonp n m-bbbwibT ■' . n p;u A TTOBNM Y-A t-f>A W, vnofMunmr; W *25&&sss:jszt' »r».* BOWABD A. CARMALT, ATTOBNEY-AT-LA W, Buoitiuj, pa OflM with Judge Jenka. Legal bualneeaaaretally attended to. , JINKS * CLARK, A TTOBNE TS-A T-LA W, If IUMnui.fi • Block, opposite the public [PBELL, ORNE TS-A T-LA W, BBOOKTIUB, FA. i'» ofloe, Mataon boHdiar. oa- Soose. (ELL, RNEY-AT-LAW, Bbooktilli, Pa. Hon.-A. C. White. lt-tt COTER,  rCT ATTORNEY, RmiOLDfVILLI. Pa. [BY, . (i . ,, RNET-AIJ-iiW 11 '4 & i '»t. N.-W., Washington, D. C. mey In the lereral court* In ■lsewhere. Proaeootea claim • rernment Departments. Alao aale of real eatate. 14-18 7| 011 () < ? ■■>' / BROOKVILLE, PA. Souse Block. Oct. 1,1889. fftirfm*. EYES, 7F?T~ if AND SUBOEON, Pmwwawwt, Pa eaat of the Poat Ofloe. yrMAN/Vj /\ V/ i y AND 8USSE0N, Pn»xacTA*j|jnr, iPA<. lonal services to the ciflaeni and vicinity. JfXLpOSf, 1 / ~ y 41m tvaot pu*xhjtaw*«t, pa h g. Offer* hfa servVoea to the T ,wney and the (unrounding * LISON; ■ -: '1 V AND SVttOSON, ! PtnnurTAwmnr, Fa. » to the people of Punxsu-1.RTINSLOW,' s -s, i " NAND SURGEON, CLAtribLBi PA. esldence one square1 back of re. O lfc-T-ly. E8 G. ERNST, r AND SUBOEON, P«7**«7*AW1C*T, pA. «ated In this place, and ofaervlces to the oltlaena of nay he found at all tinea at n the BOMHhener building, ipeken. If ember of Board ira. ~ SB, r ANAspmMm;-  hngWr's t. ColBultation ln^EnjglUh T6HES, SON DENTIST, , TtixxntAmrtr, PA. f Finder, f ,n a ) W SANDIER,. .. ,,5 }n iONBtNTiST, , PpKxatjTAmtiT. PA. residence, lytfre yjest t K.D. .... . ■ -■ ! "AZ BuUdlng.^^J^M^^ [XSVl, r,r\t' ENTIST. MTN0LD*TILL1 on Brick Block, Beynoia*- 1teeth wMff#j>M*. .•*»'/ 1111 |in f T ititnrr' t ${ ; L, x Of XSBtWMm,- -;' PtwxaoTAwmr, PA - or THE PEACfl Tone® TinrxJ ther busint«|£»jJ , , s J 1 * ! I I . x" . Oi /Jifl o ,• . • I v . •. ■ , yy r'ij 3 ! M <6 Morris, tie One Price Uierc I'ncle Bam Warned. This afternou Veasy threw a bomb iuto the air and announces that he will at onee begin the publication of a series of articles which will make exposures that will driveoert&in mediums from the city. Ia connection with the other influential gentlemen, he has prepared a bill to be presented to the Legislature, making it a oriminal otl'enso for mediums to ply their vocation in this State. Hon. Euimett Tompkins, State Senator from Athens oounty, will push the bill. Spiritualistic circles are all torn up, and many scance visitors alarmed for fear their names will be published. Not long after, J. N. Veasy, a wellknown citizen of Prioe's Hill, a fashionable snburb, called on Mr. Hopple's friends at the Grand, and ottered to prove that spiritualism was a fraud, especially slat* writing. He gave a test so thorough that all the Grand Hotel gentlemen have since denounced spiritualism as a frand. Mr. Veasy took ocoasion to excoriate a popular medium on Prioe's Hill, whom the gentleman had most consulted. She replied in a published card in which she denounced Veasy as a rascal, and said that through revelations made her by the spirit, she had driven him from the oity. Cucmutti, October 12.—A tew weeks ago Hon. 8. Hopple, « wholesale groove died, end hi* Mend* ascribed his death at that tine to spiritualism. Ia ootnpA&y with a number of gentlemen of means, boarding at the Grand Hotel, Mr. Hopple had spent much time in investigating spiritualism. He became a partial believer, so mnoh so that he placed implicit confidence in a Spiritual communication fixing hie death for a certain time. His health, not the best, failed fast as the appointed day approached, and, though he did not die on the designated day, be passed away soon af ter. ifter being mutilated. Late in the day fohn Shields, a night clerk in the postof- Ice, was arrested for the thefts. The heory of the authorities was all along hat an empldye was the guilty party. Ihields was appointed September 1, under he oivil service law. tried to bnrn them, bat were frustrated by the rain storm. The thieves had evidently disregarded everything but cash, corohed, showing that the thieves had nd checks and drafts were thrown aside from the National Bank of Lawrence, Pa., in favor of Jacob Dold, of Buftalo, was torn so that the name of the signer was destroyed. Many of the letters were falo. It wm tora so that the signature was indistinguishable. A check for $44 fiS Perry, in favor of Christ Klinck, of Uaf- arriving Mil* (a thta ollj, float all point* were plundered and papers, doeamaats and money extracted. Whoa the employee of Fulton Market arrived thie morning to open the eetebljehment they found strewn •boat the atreet in the vicinity of the market a large quanity of letters that had been opened and fobbed. They oolleoted the torn letten whioh half filled a market baaket An examination revealed the fact that the robbery had been general in character, and covered letter* from Canada, Pennsylvania, Mew York, New Or lean*, Boston and many point* east, west, north and aouth. There were in the basket oheoks, draft*, merohantile order*, and the tuual miaoellanous matter whioh goea to make np a holiness mail. Among other thinge were Lonlaiana Lottery tiokete. There wae a check found in whioh it* amount, ?l'J.90, alone remained intaot, bank drafts, a letter notifying the enolo•ore of oash. Among the torn and soiled paper* waa also foand a New York draft for |215.30, drawn on the Smith Bank of doting laat night, by vhiok moat of tha finrriiiOj Oatote 18.—Am nteul •od bold mail cobbwrjr vm pupttat Most of the iDjurcd are said to be from Joranton and Lackawanna county. The late hour at which the acoident oourred, the remote and isolated location of lie scene and the reticence of the railroad people combine to render the < Mainment of details extremely difficult, li is impossible to ascertain the names and reeidenoes of any of the vlotims, but their number is stated above with approximate accuracy. At one o'olock this morning reports about the accident are still very conflicting. It is known, however, from dispatches received at the depot that the accident is quite as bad as at first reported and that at least 30 or more are killed. Nothing official can be obtained at the company's office, which is olosed to reporters and all others. One train has been started /rom the wreck, and it is expected ti arrive here about 4 o'clock this morning.robably fatally. forward section were telescoped and 40 persons were killed outright, and about an equal number injnred, many of them ward section at Slud Run about I o'olock with disastrous results. Several oars of lodges, bands and sightseers from Wilkesbarre, Nantlcoke and other points along thfe line. The excursion train was rnn in two seotiona, and upon their return trip to-night the rear section ran into the for- ibove Penn Haven. A grand parade c Catholic societies took plaoe at Hazelto: to-day, and a large excursion was ran froi Wilkesbarre for the occasion, composed o A Pottsville dispatch says: Information reached this cjltgr to-night of a terrible aocident whiek bocured on the Lehigh Valley railroad at Mud Run, the first station heard aoroas the river where the traoks i the Central run. At the depot here hui died* of people are gathered on the pla form,1 many weeping for the safety of their friend* supposed to be on the wrecked train. affitira, the groana of tke wounded belt WnjnriBABU* Oetober 10.—A. dreadfal railroad aoeidedt oecarred on the Eehlgh Yallgy railroad, hear Penn Haven, tonight, The fifth division of the Father Matthew excursion train from Haselton waa wrecked and the oars piled in a shape- Hiss maaa, ooe being atood opon it* end. All the oara were crowded, and the fatalities will rna into awful figures. All phyeioiana front White Ham and nearby pointe are at the wreck, and alao the Lehigh Valley officials from thie oity. The number killed is variously reported from 25 to 80 persoae. The only itaformation is from pasaengelrs on the Central railroad trains, who report a horrible condition of A Sausage Hating Snake. ritish subjeots, and although in the past side of the international boundary, all fair-minded men mast agree that the dignity and honor of both countries oall for an abandonment of an attitude which conveys a standing insult and menaoe to the Canadian Dominion." me has at length arrived when, on both ed upon going to war with the Insulted nationf" and after a long argument in the negative it says: "We are 5,000,000 of we have snbmlttad patiently to United States interference by methods more offensive than language can well express, the its: "Has it evar happened in the his- tory of the world that one oOuntry took such liberty with the possessions of Toronto, Ont., October 10.—The Emire, the Government organ in Canada, another as the United States, is taking with Canada, without having first resolv- Indianapolis, October 14.—Jesse Mason, a farmer 80 years old, residing near Stilesville, yesterday sold some of the produots of his farm, for which he received $<50. Logan York, a young man of evil reputation, witnessed the transaction and in the evening, in company with an unknown man knocked at Maaou's door ahd asked for a match. Mason turned to obtain the matches, when he was tired upon by one or both of the men, but fortunately was not hit. His daughter seized a a chair and assaulted York, who closed with her, taking one of her fingers in his teeih and biting savagely. While York and the girl were fighting' her brother appeared on tho scene with a loaded shotgun which ho discharged, almost blowing York's hoad from his body and instantly killing him. The other man escaped in the darkness. Maddened by Unrequited Love. H'hI " Of I v ; ' -. ' , ■ 1 j r; ) 7'. . f ' ' < immon garter snake, but it had the links of sausage inside of it The snake had swallowed the sanaage, and, finding the smooth plate pleasant to lie on, had oarled itself op to wait until its supper digested. and diseappear. She called for her servant to con>e down with a light. When the light arrived Mrs. Alexander •covered a snake about three feet long id very "ohunky" orawling slowly on the liar floor, She killed- it. It waa only a reached down to piok the sausages up, when she was startled to see them nncoil ooil of sausage, as she supposed, by the dim light the cellar window gave. She on a plate that oovered a orock of pickles in her oellar. She went down the oellar to get the sausages to fry for supper. She had no light, but oould see the plate and the sausage a few days ago and plaoed them Honeybrook, Ootober 14.—The wife of >lonel G. Alexander purchased some links Simpson was about 32 years of age, and came here from West Virginia about one year ago. He wax saffering from a case of temporary insanity, brougbt on by a protracted illness. firmary, attempted to commit suicide last Wednesday afternoon by taking a/lose of rough on rats, but was foiled in his attempt on his life by the interference of the Superintendent. Last night, however, the poison took effect, and he died as an immediate result of Wednesday's attempt at self-destruction. Findhy, October 14. —Theodore Simpson, an inmate of the Hancock County In- Norwalk, Oct. 14.—A South Norwalk hen is doing her level best to give her hal f dozen chiokens a decent start in life. Late one afternoon as the ohioks were returning for the night, a little orphan maskrat, which had probably strayed from its own kin in the neighboring Holds, appeared in the coop and tried to get under the old hen. Biddy objected for some time, bnt the muskrat was so persistent that her objeotions Anally ceased, and the forlorn little orphan slept under her wing that night with the chicks. And what is stranger still, the little animal was so well pleased with its warm quarters that.it sleeps there every night, and the old hen and her chicks seem to like it immensely. lie Wouldn't beiBtoppwl ■,r*. ger every season, m the hills are destitute of trees, and the waters flow together in fearful torrents, nniinpeded by the vegetation. News of the catastrophe was brought by missionaries who have been living near the scene x>t disaster. ilages in valleys nearPektng are in dan- mail received here to-day per steamer City of Pekin from Hong Kong says a disastrous flood had occurred near Fang-Sban Hsien, in the vicinity of Peking. On the night of August 13, seven and a half inches rain fell in Peking, and immense volumes of water oollected in ravinee about Llen-Di- Ho, and suddenly broke in upon SO villages. More than 10,000 people were drowned and a large nulnber of animals. Sam Francisco, October 13—China i.:r. i l J • >'i J. '-J " J NORTH & MORRIS. .9<i )■"« ,;;'^,,'Vr! . „«„..»• "v>y ,; • ■■ One Price Glc awwjf-ii'Li ''" ' " 1 " rvAisvT* wxsr, 9a men in Punxsutawney who had the nerve toj mark our goods in plain figtires and sell at one price. Beware of imitators, people who have done businesf for years and ..1 : never sold anything for what they askedt It is useless for us tcj try to give you a of prices. We have •- | | lien's sfeitai from |3 to $25 j Bqjf'a fcuiis. jroi| $2.50 to $12; Children's suits, $1.50 to $7; Men's over<J<|itS, 83 \ '■■■■ i i to $2fe; Boyks overcoits, $2 to $8: Child's overcoats, $1.60 to $5. Furnishing goods, stock complete. Men's i ' all-wool underwear, $1 to $5.! Over shirs, all grades and prices, Hats! Hats ! Hats ! All the latest styles in ' ' stifef and crush hats at bottom prices., Caps,.Scotch, fur wool, plush and seal, for men, boys And children. Moih- Wishing a fine suit and overcoat for boys will save r 26 per cent, by calling at North & Morris'.,1 Rubber '!t !1 . coats, umbrellas, satchels, valises, igMvfes~*tiu|e*> hog- !' 1 ,ri i ' kid of every-price* and style. All ministers al\ t ioWecl a discount of 10 per cent, at IrJi ,v /j, '/'-V. V'.'i ' ■—•' ' " Have the largest stock, finest goods, best make and best ) fitting clothing for less money than any house in Jefferson county. Remember too, that we were the first A (-1 I i A \A/ I \ 1 > i V....L I v / O b •; -v./. f . , f . "l 22*. .l,:i .l.fclili'l , ,11* lap :hiers, Flndlay'a drmtMt Wswhr. Mot Wtot"into force, come under the j>:o vis o San Francisco, Opt, 12.—Judge Lorenzo Sawyer of the United States Circuit Court, returned from Oregon yesterday and in court issued two writs of habeas oorpus, designed to teat the questions to be raised over the right of Chinese, arriving here after the Exclusion Act went into effect, to land. One -writ wjs for a Chinaman arriving by the steamship Bolgic,having » return certificate, and tie question is Tailed whether Oongtvss can constitutionally deprive $liiaese holding tortiflcatM it the rig&t to return. In the other oese ifee question is as to whether Chinese wititom certificates, ia tracblt to this country at the time the, *• mtifslMawe Act. received his attentipns with ihe coldest Indifferences. When he oalled Wednesday evening she declined to see him. This maddened Harris, and be swore that be would be revenged. Last night the rejected suitor, mounted on a spirited horse, j again oalled at the Hammond residence! and asked for Mis* Minnie. He was that she had just left the house with | several friends, and war PP her w»y to church, about « mile and a half distant. Harris at onoe started. off.in pursuit, and overtook the party ithree-quart** of a mile away. When he spied Mist Hammond he pnt spurs to his horse, and yelling to the others to get ont of the fray, madly ran over the young lady, knocking her down and trampling her beneath the horse's feet. Miss Hammond wab pioked up insensible and apparently.dead. She was tenderlyoarriid to her home, where it was fonnd - thai she was terribly out and braised in varioua parts of the body, several bones broken, and that she had received serious Internal injuries, tram the effect* of which the physicians ukf ihe cannot recover.* Harris esoaped on his fleet footed hon«. Armed men are soouring the connty for htm, and if he is oaught he will certainly be lynched. Columbia, 8. (J., Ootober 12.—Lawrence Harris is a young man of high social #ahdtag in: fierce town, Anderson oounty. Miaa Minnie Hammond is the only daughter of one of the wealthiest planters of the oounty, and thc| acknowledged belle ofthe village. For some time past young Harris has Men an ardent suitor for Missl Hammond's heart and hand. The yodng' lady, however, did not reciprocate, and Finpiay, O., Oct. IS.—The Wolverine Petroleum Company, composed of Miobigan capitalists to day drilled in a well ou the R. A. Lawrence farm, in the upper W.md county territory, which aotnaliy spouts over nine tboui>»nd barrels of oil per day. The well <e «. i lu.it *<i ou teriitv>r> heretofore considered ordinary and was a great surprise to tb ■ pn»1>ittor«. This afternoon hundreds went through the rain to visit the Well. It iip its wonderfill yield wiili..nt a rr.oitteo:'. erasing, and the land th*r<-»1)outs ■ . I .t.vettd with potcua! grease. - -Wrnw An old physician retired from practice having had placed in his bands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Hrouchitia Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat, and Lnug Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility aud ail nervous oomplaitits, after having tested its wonderful ourative poaers in thousand of etwee, has felt it his duly to make it known to bis saffering fellows, Am <mtixl by this motive* aud a tiuNire tj relieve Unman suffering, i will send free. •{ obt*rg», to all w ho desire it, litis recipe, Iniieruian, Kronou or h  liBfi, with full diien' i ma j>tr 7 and using. Bent by mai! by atfi'ressing with ■tamps, uaurr"* 'his W. 1. SoYtr, 149 Power'n t' '1 ». i n-i-i, v * Yurki War** IMluaa. NO 20. 3t'J< MXOK.T TttST* -