Punxsutawney Spirit, 1909-12-29

              ifAVB Tor AM trains a Wttf XOMK OR FLACK OF WOT :>r WISH TO DISPOSE OPT TRT UtTIt CKKT-A-WORD COLUMN. It It | VOL. IV NO. 87 onoi&l nr n n n r »n>«n * Company Going into MII.IAI llr H i II r ,|M' su'1'1 ««"<»«•«+—>1.1111 IfUlflnL III III I • Ul Li SotiM-tlilMK for PunxV FIRST WINTER STAG iiconeoRATfOJL S5,ooo,oon PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29,1909. HUE HUMILIATION APPLICANTS FOR UCflSES OLD RESIDENT OF COUNTIY IS DEAD PRICE TWO CENTS Order of tl»e Court of Quarter sessions Fixing; (lie Time ill Wliieli Applications for Lhpior Licenses SlutlJ lie IIciiihI, ele. TRIEHHIAL ASSESSMENT FOR rum COMPLETED lion LICENSE APPLICANTS ALL III 'Squire Joint St. Clair KIih-UIuU's to lIk* Member* of Slihiroustors Club. Cortez Neal oi Near Hamilton Expires at Age of 88 Years. HIP HKOKKX Real Estate Here Has Increased Valuation of Over $114,000. Troopers Provide Entertainment for the Elks—Auto Skit Made a Hit. 39 Want Privilege to Retail Liquor and Two Ask for Wholesale Privileges. FIRST WARD LEADS THE VAN OILY CHANCES ARE 11 WEST EM cms HUSID HIS DEATH EATABLES A BIG FEATURE U. That license* then granted shall ' . effec and bp in force for one year from the 16th day of February m \t following: the granting of the 1. That the third Monday of January. one thousand eight hundred and nin» :y-nin«\ and each and every year thereafter, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of said day, (being the second Monday, of the January term In each year), be and th«* game Is hereby fixed as the time at which applications for license*, to si ll spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors shall !>«• heard, at which time all persons applying or making objections to applications for said licenses may be heard by evidence, petition, remonstrance or counsel.And now. October 3riV1898 it Is ordered as follows: Following established precedents Judge Kecd will not rocogni/e charges unless reduced t<» writing and tile ] five days before January 17. or hear more than three witnesses pro and eon as to the fitiu\s> of the apiiean: or the nt < s ity for a license. The only change noted in the list, w Iiii'h wiil be found oji another page in I this issue of The Spirit, occurs in West Punx >utawney, where Lewis Shicker will succeed Samuel Barnet; as proprietor of the Haley House, and Pick S in key succeeds L. 1' Brown as proprietor of the Lindsey Hotel. There are 39 applicant for retail licenses, 2 for wholesale license, and 4 for brewers' licenses. Tin* i>t of applications for license to s !1 liquor In effcr-on County has been completed ami compiled by Piothonotary Plak> Irvln, ami Ju<im> Reed has fixed Monday. January 17. as th«• day for hearing" applicants and remonstrants.PLOT AGAINST ZELAYA'S LIFE IS DISCOVERED four em 10 Piters STATE RESERVES WIN FROM INDEPENDENTS < Continued on naif*- Two.) Total number of taxables, 2,982; men .subject to military duty, 1.220; number of horses, 294, value $10,061; other statistics for Greater Punxsutawney shown by the returns are the following1. The assessed valuation of the property in Punxsutawney. $2,2 86,769, is probably about one-third of the real value, which is estimated at about $6,500,000. The figures given above are those returned by the assessors to the eounty commissioners. Those for the year 11*06 wore materially changed by the board of appeals and those for 1909 will doubtless undergo changes when the appeals are made in 1910. The total assessed valuation for Punxsutawney and Clayville in 1906, therefore, was $2,145,516, as against $2,286,769 for 1909, a gain of $141,- 208, in three years. The assessed valuations of property for the Fifth and Sixth wards (formerly Clayville), in 1906 was $38t>,- 086, as against $412,724 for the present year, a gain of '$26,638. The assessed valuation of property in old Punxsutawney. (now the first four wards of Greater Punxsutawney), three years ago was $1,759,430, as against $ 1,874,045 for 1909, a gain of $114,615. From the figures new compiled comparisons have been made as follows: The registers of Punxsutawney have completed their triennial assessment and the figure** are now being tabulated by the county commissioners. The principal Items, such as value of real estate, number <»f houses, cows, dogs, taxables, etc., have been tabulated. The first item credits I'unx'y with property valued sit $2,l!Sfi,760. A rumored plot against Zolayu> iif< bus been (lisrov icil ami ?li*• police ar< using* every precaution i<> protect him. It is generally 11\ci that Zelaya will In- hel<l virtually as a prisoner, and will not be allowed \ > return to Nicaraugua, although he still considers himself president. A reception has been planned :it whieli Diaz will greet Zclaya. MKXH'n (MTV. Dec. L"' Jose %e-laya arrived here today and was received unofficially by the government. A delegation of Central Americans was awaiting and cheered him on bis arrival in a special car attached t<« a regulr train.. Zelaya was not met by Diaz and probably will not confer w ith him before Friday, when the Nicarauguan situation will be gone over and Ambassador de La Barra. wli > leave-- for Washington. will be Instructed. UNSUCCESSFUt RIGHT M IXKUAL POINT. Wis.. Dec. 1!l». Four men were blown to pieces in ;he OUie 15«* 11 mine near here by the explosion of ISO pounds of dynamite, which wrecked the upper workings of the mine. The men had taken their tools to the powder room near the top ef the mine shaft and »i A • believed thai one of them dropped a dynamite cap while putting away his tools.. Following the i xplosion other miners entered and foil ml three bodies terribly torn to pieces. The fourth miner could not be found. By United Press. If hi* li :iHh will permit Rev. John Frameton. of fir-; place. an old friend of the deceased, will preach the funeral sermon Friday at 1:30. Harney N'i al. of Porter township la :i half brother and Mrs Mary Purdy of '' a'va. III, aged years. Is the only The son Charles Uvea on the old homestead. M :>• David Stear i.s a resident of Punxsulawnty and Mrs. Almmanda Lamison had been the hou&e keeper since the death of her hufibandL the late W. I Lamison. Sharp NVal of Hamilton, aged 78 is the only surviving brother. sister. Mr \'<al is survived by a son and two daughter.-. h , wife having died several years ago. Mr NVal kept aloof from the petty annoyances of life, always preserved a dignified silence when others yielded and hence bequeathed to his children a legacy that is imperishable. eongrcgn tion -v" !! w ' a pl-meer rnftsman and lumberman. and in la or years en ■ ri ■ ' *! v 1 stock raising" U o ♦*u!y • '' -it n• the time of hi* death he had accumulated large com- V te'u , n st. upright. always opt'mlstlc. he was the architect of a character tha was unassailable and a reputation that was never brought into qu> -t:on. He was a life long member of th, (\ V Church at Hamilton. and i pillar of strength In the ;,ome ever since. Cortes Wal. «on of Hilly Seal, a pioneer of this county, and head of one »r !h moft wiile'y kn»wn families in th'.s «e«-tion. w• iv born on th« old Neal homestead, t »w th. T>avid Neal farm, one mile below Hamilton. Soon ■af er beirg married he settled T* th. r.i* M wh h h• has mi le his Although Mr. Xeal had relaxed the cart s of active life a few days ago, he was robust f«• r one of his years, and « ■ «' "i i'tk ap a great surprise 'o family and friend*, who had noted no appreciable change in his general health for many years. Cortez Xealc. of near Hamilton, one of Jefferson County's most respected and venerable citizen*, died at midnight la -1 niirht of gas:rltis, aged 88 yc ars. The local lodge of 13. P. C). Elks last night held their first winter stag social. about 100 members being in attendance.Members of the herd began to report early and it was well toward midnight before the festivities came to a finish. a1 delegation of the famous Troop D Minstrel Troupe, assisted by Enrique Caruso Shirley, the local Impressario profundo. Following the feast the bupeh was •nticed into the lodge room where vhey were entertained formally by the land turned the bevy into the Dutch room, there to graze at will around l table piled high with the choicest >atibles of this or any other season rhe service was buffet but the quality lelicious. The entertainment was of an . n■ formal nature until nine-thirty o'clock [when Chief Bcatty let down the bars Mr. Shirley rendered "Helene" and "Missers Gold" faultlessly and was vigorously applauded. Edward Walton and Henry Evans with aceompliments on the piano by Joseph Pierson, gave their celebrated automobile skit entitled "Never Search For Gasoline With a Lighted Match." After the explosion Messrs Walton and Evans revived satisfactory. They sang, danced, cracked jokes with localisms, did the split dance with oriental improvisements and omitted nothing that stags are permitted to witness unaccompanied by a shaperone. Following the toast I'liii followed informally until everybody lelt that they had had aplenty. At the proper hour the staggers were bidden to the other side w hen H. E. Bcatty gave the beautiful 11 o'clock toast "To the Absent Brothers/' guest of his brother-in-law. J. E. Bidleman and brothers Roy Shirley, of Vandergrift and. J. M. Dailev, of Reynoldsville. Those who assisted in the enteitainmeht or came from a distance were Ewdard Walton, Henry Evans and Joseph Pearson, <>f Troop D.. J. P. Woodring, of Bloomsburg, who is the The committee that made possible the excellent entertainment and social festivith s was composed «>l Messrs Ward MeQuown, Clifton McAfee, Dr. S. J. Hughes. Charles M. Feicht and Dr. Wilson Henry, the three last named being the. regular house committee. A press dispatch with an Albany X. Y. date line, and which will be found of local interest reads as follows:•The Ilodgers Brown Iron Company. of Buffalo, was incorporated Monday with a capital of $5,000,000 to manufacture Iron and steel and develop mines of copper, iron and coal. The directors ore William A. Ilodgers, Stephen M. Clement, Charles \V. Goodyear, Hugh Kennedy and \V. T Shepard, of Buffalo." Ilodgers Brown «SL- Co.. are the proprietors of the Punxsutawnej Iron Co.. Of the incorporators above named Messrs Ilodgers. Kennedy and Shepard are identified with the Punxsutawncy Iron Company, while the Although no official announcement has been made on the subject the nature of the new charter indicates that Bodgers Brown & Co.. are going into the business of manufacturing steel. The company has ri al estate in Punxsutawncy for development along that line and although nothing definite is known of their intentions in that direction it has been frequently rumored that this town will get a steel plant from that source when the time is propitious. The incorporation of tin- new company. or rather , a Greater  Brown Company concern, it is said, was made necessary, principally because of the large increase of business. The company has plans prepared for four more blast furnaces, two of which will be erected at Buffalo and two at Chicago. other men represent new blood, Mr. Clemerft is the president of the Marine Bank, of Buffalo, the largest financial institution in the state outside of Ne> York City, and Mr. Goodyear is tin- president of the B. A *. Railroad company. \ B XIIV (illM. A baby girl has been born to Mr. Hid Mrs Samuel Smith, of West Knd. GF IHTfREST TC BUSINESS MfH Fllff KLIED IS ElPlfflS MANAGUA, Dec. 29.—A hitch in the proposed peace negotiations between Madrlss and Estrada is threatened today. as a result of Estrada's determination to dictate terms, which Madrix refuses to agree to. Madriz is rushing troops into central Nicaraugua to stop Estrada's march against Managua. nokUvllle I orough, Mansion. 29. (li tk< Lou la Shlcker, Fifth ( V . rd Pur:\sutawm y Porough, Hotel ' 11:i If y. "Humiliate!" snapped the 'Squire back at the interloper. "That's a hi;; word, stranger, and I doubt if you are cognizant of its true and most latitudinous import." On act . unt of the violent boreal manifestations without, there was a large attendance at the regular meeting >f the Shinroasters Club last night. John St. Clair hud the floor and was intimating how big the world was beyond Plumville when a stranger begged him to stop, as he might humiliate people on this aide of the metropolis of South Mahoning Township. "T!ie Punxsutawney man did not dawdle or wait upon ceremony, but « harmed upon bis anta -nisi with impetuous froeiiy. CjJ'man met the onslaught, nwf with and foot., but with open hands. Seizing Campbell by the nape «>i t.je neck and the slack of the trouserjngs. he lifted his adversary high ever his load, walked to Ib«- edgf of tlie raft and pitched him far out into the turbulent waters of Mahoning creek. "On e there Campbell hastily doffed !ils coat, spat in his hand: and uttered a detiant ejaculation. Coleman did not uncoat or expectorate, but he did suggest that the tight take plaee on a raft that was lying in the offing not far off. Campbell belched his assent and the two men descended. "Now In those days- persons of a pugnacious temperament who did not wish to run amuck of the constable, retired to t!i. »-ast side of Mahoning Creek, to a point where the Presbyterian Church now Stands, and it was to this scene of many fistic* encounters that the pair, followed by a rabble. repaired. "His mildness of manner and indifference about joining other men in a game of cards grated upon the fine sensibilities of a man by the name of Campbell, of whose present whereabouts 1 am not now cognizant. Campbell being unable to peaeeably persuade Coleman to bow to his will, became abusively blustering and dared the latter to a fistic encounter. Mr. Coleman unexpectedly and precipitately acquiesced and requested Campbell to locate a batle ground. "Many years ago in rafting time Kllsha Coleman, deceased, of Porter Township, Jefferson County, came to Punxsutawney to get a job of rafting. Mr. Coleman, be it known, was one of the humblest. strongest, tallest, most powerful men in these parts. "Well listen and I will recite a true and concrete tale which will Illustrate its meaning, succinctly. The stranger nodded a negative, Tin- stranger nodded in the affirmative and went out, followed by the then custodian of the official jackknife."Now that is wli.it I call humiliation. Humility personified, as it were, concluded the 'Squire, as he lit up a fresh Marsh t >1>> and '.snipped' the mutch at tin1 farthermost cuspidor." "Without uttering a word, cither in extenuation or of apology, Mr. Coleman turned on his heels, walked briskily back to h; • hotel and sat down, while Campbell, blubbering and blaspheming, crawled out on the opposite bank «»f Mahoning Creek and went home for a change of clothes. LONDON. Dec. 29.—Captain P. Cody, an American aviator, made an unsuccessful attempt today to lly from Liverpool to Manchester, a d:«»ance of 3(5 miles, in an aeroplane of his own eorstructlon. After he had llown for forty minute and had covered a thi'u of the ditance. his aeroplane strut k a telegraph wire and he was forced t<» alight. He had intended to make a continuous ilight and did not resume his journey. Neither the aviator nor the machine were injured. r,y United Press. honor "mm Mr SEN. J. A. WHEY IS 0EA1 AT HIS HOME The boiler was used to generate steam for a concrete mixer owned by Sims Co., of Philadelphia, by whom the men wore employed. The boiler house was blown to pieces and all the bodies of the men were so horribly mutilated that recognition is ompos slble. Lynch was the only man who retained any resemblance of himself. The bodies were found several hundred feet from the boiler house. HEADING. Pa.. Dec. 2S—Five men were kille by the explosion of a boilel at the new plant of Metrapolitan Electric Company, West Reading, today. \ ij l\ BLACKHAND BOMB WRECKS BUM run fob lorn money In order to stimulate among busi ness men. the healthful exercise of bowling, the officials of the Central Y. M. C. A. have issued an announcement which reads as follows: Our alleys have been planed and refinished by expert workmen from the Brunswick- Ba Ike-Col lender Company and new balls and pins secured, making the plant as good as the best. Hereafter the alleys will be reserved for the exclusive use of business and professional men Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and the business and professional men's class in the gymnasium will have a one hour session each Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon from 5 to G o'clock. This with the bowling, will give sufficient exercise to keep one in good condition. !io Opened, for Tlieir I'se Bowling Alleys at the Y. M. C\ A., Will i i I ■■ f •ir / Though General Pike is best remembered for his services to the Masonic fraternity, these do not by any means constitute his only claim to fame. In the course of his stirring career, he fought with distinction in two wars, attained national prominence as a journalst nnd was known as one of the* most able lawyers of hs day. He also found time to write muc h creditable poetry. WASHINGTON, D C., Dec. 2!»— Scottish Rite Masons everywhere unite toilay in paying honor to the memory cf General Albert Pikp, known as the 'p;itron saint" of Scottish Rite Mason* v. on the one hundredth anniversary r his birth. Plan-; for a widespread observance of the centenary were perfected at the meeting in this city last October of th" supreme council of Scottish Rite Masons for the Southern jurisdiction. In further commemoration of the anniversary the supreme council has distributed among Its members two hundred medals, bearing an image of the head and bust of General Pike and with an appropriate inscription.NEW YOltK, Dec. 28—Sixteen families driven from tlnir beds into ■now covered streets in night clothing1. This morning blaekhand bonmb wrcking hallway lower floor of brooklyn tenement house. Thomas Plero been undeV threat two years. Intended victims bomb P|oro family, other occupants in th«j building escape without serious injury. Fire following explosion added panic. Piero given the tcneipent by his'father two years ago. Hlackhand has been threatning ever since. The lineup: » Me In tyre State Police. Dinsmore McKee Sheldon YeCkley Substitutions. Beyer for MeCrelght; Mauthe for Sheldon. Field goals. MeCrelght 3; Hlose, :i; Melntyre, r>; Dlnsmore, 2; McKee, 2; Mauthe, 1; Yeckley, 1. Foul goals, Hlose, 4, 9 trys; Mclntlre 1, H trys; Dlnsmore 0, 3 trys; McK.ee 0, 1 try; Manthe 0, 1 try. Officials, Shobert and K. North. Time, two 20-Nminute halves. Hlose. He nn is Dock Jones Punx'y McCreight, From the first the game was rough .and football, tactics were used by both the visitors and the locals. Tripping was common and tackles were plentiful. Mauthe made a couple of excellent end runs but managed to secure but one touchdown. Dunsmore and McEnrire starred for I State. For Punx'y "Scrubby" McCright was a s ronghold while Hlose likewise played an excellent offensive and defensive game. Jom - and Dock hung to their men like leeches and Rennis put up a pood game at center. Beyer whe relieved McCrijht during the second half played his man t<> a standstill. Individually the Punx'y live proved itself to be better basketball timber .Inn the visiting team. It was however, their tirst appearance toge 'ier and lack of team work proved their undoing. During the second half, however the ape ior 'ram work of the visitors made itself apparent and they managed to run up twenty one points while the locals gathered six. From the outset the game was fast and furious the locals having all the better of the first half and looked like sure winners. The half elided with the score standing Punx'y 10, State Reserves 8. In one of the fastest and likewise one of Ho roughest games ever played in this place the State College Reserve basketball team last night defeated the Independent flw of Punxsutawney by the score of -9 to 16. Si «£ TO MODIFY l'(X>TB ALL 111 IJuS. SIKH LOF.lt lIAIlliV ( KlISHEl) William Harmon, of Wishaw. had his left hi]» broken yesterday and was brought to the Adrian hospital in this place. The fracture is a bad one and the chances are the unfortunate man will be lame the rest of his life. Three Basketball Teams und a Tuiubllng Exhibition at V. M. C. \. Basketball enthusiasts will certainly get their money's worth on Friday night Vt the Central Y. M. C. A. when the local higli .school team will meet the strong Altoona High -School live in the first contest between these two teams. line, and will give the exhibition. Friday night he will show what his pupils can do in the acrobatic line. Nine of the senior class have developed remarkably along the tumbling sible, The funeral of General Wiley will bo held Friday under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic. The preliminary games between four w(,re General Glley'H wife and daughter teams composed. of the Y. M. <'. A. anij Major Marehal! Flilpps, long a league will be played and between the nu.mfo,.r ,,f Genera 1 Wiley's staff halves of the Altoona and P. H. S. a Qno month ago General Wiley oontumbllng exhibition will be given under KUiteci specialist* In Pittsburg, who the dlrecton of Physcfil Director Mar- (tol(i hlln his a|iment was Incurable In tin. During the short time lliut Mr. | the advanced state and advised him to Martin has been here he has develop- • ej08e up his affairs as rapidly as posed some remarkable tumblers and on A widow and one daught< r survive. At the bedside when death came actively » ngaged in the alTnirn of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, starting his military career during the Civil War, where he served four years' and also acting nine months us brigadier general for volunteers, under appointment tif President McKlnley, during the Spanish War. For forty years Gen. Wiley has been FRANKLIN, Dec. 28—Major (General Jo'nn A. Wiley, probably the best known military iigyre in Pennsylvania died here tonight of inflamat.lon of the idneys, aged tit» years. Until the last month Gen. Wiley controlled large oil interest in Western Pennsylvania, closing out his holdings when advised that his ailment was practically incurable. NEW YORK. T>»c. Intercollegiate Athletic. Association adopted und submited to its rules committee last night a resolution calling for u modification of the football rules whereby the Injury to contestants may be reduced to a minimum. 28. Torn Reynolds, residence, Rey- 27. 13dwar<l F. Uynam, residence, First Ward, Punxsutawney Borough, Washington Hotel. 25. W, S. Ross. residence, West ReynoldsvUle Borough. Roit. House. 26. John Mansell and George Roberts, residence, Winslow Township. Central Hotel. 2,1. Richard E. Clover and Harry I). Kdrlblute. residence. Fourth Ward, Punxsutawno\ Borough, Hotel Pantall. 24. Thomas Fleckenstein, residence, Third Ward, Punsutawney Borough. Continental Hotel. 22. S. Stringer, residence, Big Run. Borough, Hotel McCiure. 21. Samuel Dickey Sankey, residence Sixth Ward, Punxsutawney Borough, Hotel. 20. Jacob B. Hang, residence, First Ward. Punxsutawney Borough, Hotel Waverly. 1 !♦. John J Conrad, residence, Henderson Township. Wayne House. IK. John Quinlist, residence Sixth Ward, PunxMitawnc.N Borough, The Parnell House. 17. Patrick J. Casey, residence, Falls Creek Borough, Taylor Avenue Hotel. 16. Curtis A. Curry, residence. M< - Calmont Township, Hotel McGregor. 1ft. (t. II. Barclay, residence. Washington Township, Hotel Barclay. 14. John A. Donnely, rtsidenci , M< - Calmont Township, Park Hotel. 13. David W. Naylon, residence. Punx.sutawney Borough. 4th ward, The National. Tavern. 11!. Frank A. McConnell, realdenee. Roynoldsvllle Borough, Frank's New 11. H. C. Replogle, residence, Prookvllle Borough. Central Hotel. 10. S. A Hunter, realdenee, Brookville Borough, Now Commercial Hotel. 9. \V. \V. Wiley, r« sidence, ReynoHsvllle Borough, City Hotel. S. Alexander Watson, residence. Wlnslow Townshi . Hotel Pig Soldier. 7. Philip J. Allgeier, resident • Prookvllle Borough. Jefferson Hotel. Archie Clinton Davis, residence. Fa Ha Creek Borough. Falls Creek Morel.4. C K. Radnkcr, residence, Mc- Calmont Township, Anita Hotel. 5. K. K. McKlniey, residence, Prookvllle Borough, Union Hotel. 3. lv C. Butllngton. residence, Brookville borough, Hotel Longview. 2. Robert T. Smith, residence Syk«'sville borough. Hotel Smith 1. Jacob B Sykcs. residence. Ryk' svllle borough. Hotel Sykes. KlvlVML. Thf ft»llowing applications for lict nst s to sell liquor have been filed in tht office of the clerk of the Cour; of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson county for January Sisslons, 1!'10; President Judge HY Tin: contT John \V. lie. d 15. All orders and rubs, or p uts thereof, now in force, which may be Inconsistent with the foregoing order and rules, are hereby rescinded. 5. No spirituous, vinous, malt ->r brewed liquors. • any admixtures thereof, shall be furnished or sold by any licensed vendor between the hours of 10:30 o'clock p. m. and :30 o'clock a. m. of each day on which Ha Id liquors otherwise may be legally sold. 4. Supplemental petitions and remonstrances in writing; also speeltb objections t<» the petition or bond of the applicant as wel 1 as specific barges made against him shall be reduced to writing, and filed in the case it least five days before the time fixed for hearing said application, otherwise they will not be considered, and no evidence will be heard in support of them, by the Court. This rule shall not apply to disqualifying causes arising within the five days proceeding the hearing. same Applicants for places not heretofore licensed will be required to esa\dl«h (1 ) the fitness of the applicant, and (2) the necessity for such licensed j lace, and in contested cases not mote than three witnesses on a le will be h ard on the question •■ova of general character of the applicant and the nec< ssity of the plac« for which a license is desired. 4. Punxsutawney Brewing Company (a corporation). Punxsutawney Brewery, Punxsutawney, Pa.—rdlt-wtl. 3. Bernard Schneider (residence, Punxsutawney Borough) and E. B. Henderson (residence, Brookvllle Borough), doing business under the Arm name of The Elk Run Brewing Com* puny, the Elk Run Brewery, Punxautawney. Pa. 2. Brookvllle Brewing Company, a corporation, residence, Brookville Borough. IlltKWKllS. I. \langus Allgeier. residence, Brookville Borough, "Spring Brewery," Brookvllle, Pa. 2. M Dougherty. John Zedek and Thoni;is MeMiUen, doing business under the firm name of W. H. Heckendorn \ Co., residence, First Ward. Punxsutawney Borough, certain one story brick store building, and the buildings appurtenant thereto. 1. John O'Hare. residence, Reynolilsvllle. Pa., certain store room and buildings appurtenant thereto. w HOM:S\M: it!*. John C. Burns ReynoldsvUle Borough. Burns House. Hotel. 3s. P. A. Hunter and F L. Veratine, Agent.s for. Trustees c»f and in bt half of the American Hotel, residence, Brookville Borough, American T. 1). C McClelland, residence, Winslow Township, Hotel Hughes. "6 V 11 am I> Googe, residence Fourth Wa:d, Punxsutawney Borough, City Hotel. 1 c. Rudolph, residence. Big ' ! I'M .u-zh Hotel Anderson. Pen n Is. 3 4. T K. BennU, residence, First ■Ward, Punsuta iviv y Borough, Hotel I: K Shaffer, residence, First Ward. PunxFiitawney Borough, Hotel Whitney. T) , perial. i'hom.i C.reen and John Cont i: \ ■ ol.isville Borough, .'H John Siebenrock, residence, ! i 1 ' ii 'i.i'rookville House. 0 Jt.h'. 11 Edclblute, residence, R«-\-ii"! s\ He 1 'lou.uh. National Hotel. D. U. McGlU, of Tyler, was brought to the Adrian hospital in this place yesterday afternoon suffering from a badly crushed and lnrcerated shoulder. McGIll Is employed about the mines at Tyler and In some manner was drawn Into the cogs of a largf machine. Kin shoulder was crushed to a pulp before assistance came and he is at present in a serious condition. NEW YORK, Dec. 28—Minister Wu Ting Fang sailed today. Will visit, son in London before returning to China. Parting ho said, "You Americans eat too much, work too hard, play too much, too much concerned about almighty dollar. When 1 come back in 11959 J'll be youngest in America. Ul'KSTK AT BROW N HOME Miss Margaret Mac key and Miss Mary Angle, of Pittsburg, are the iguests of Miss Bertha Brown, of this place. WASHINGTON ,U. C\, Dec. — Snow flurries followed by fair and colder tonight and Thursday. Minimum temperature about zero. $00,000 FIRE. By United Press. TITUSVILLE, Pa., Dec, 20.—Sparks from a furnace fired the Titusvllle Forge Works today and the entire forge and blacksmith department was destroyed. Loss about $50,000. IP - ■"5 * i m f w «•