Punxsutawney Spirit, 1910-01-19

              weather forecast for Western Penn- sylvania: Fair to- night afcid Thuns- Moderato day temperature. TIM LEWES IK Ml PUNXSUTAWNBY, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1910. VOL. IV—NO.IM COLD HOLDS WATER OMEN BT GRUELING CMSS-EXAMINJITIW SHE IELLS SimiM) STOAT mil MIKES HER FATHEI OUT I 8EIST-—COMMBNWEALTH RESTS CASE-—LAWTEB FOR IEEEIMT MIKES STARTLING STATEMENT! ON WITNESS STAND MRS. KUNSELMAN TELLS OF FATHER'S AWFUL CRIME EXPECT 10 PROVE THAT GIRL IS HEME AND WHS CRUEL TO MOTHER RIO SHOULDERS OICHO SLIGHT CHANGE MADE PRICE TWO GENTS T%\ on l<v Willi Serious Re\y\ miK-. ilk.s ImiYo b< on reHpoiM*il»l<* during thi- two days fur  injury b\ LiyhtfooJ D. Hta Serious Flood Is Prevented By Change of the Weather Eight of Proposed Amend- ty. By-Laws Are Lost. ments to Farmers Tephone ANNUAL MEETING ill MARION CENTRE SAMUEL SHIES I HEAVY LOSER TOop Hummel, of rr whom fell and dls- Ills |] located ■iflrif jshoulder*. \ Ltghtfoot, early Monuay evening, while on his way to the barracks, slipped and fell, alighting in such a manner that his right shoulder wj#* dislocated. Dr. Harry Gourley attended to the injured member. Last evening Fr«»d Hummell fell on the sidewalk near his home and dislocate1 his left .shoulder. He was taken to th«> Punxsutawney Hospital, where Drs. Grube and Montgomery attended to hifi injury. TRAIN DERAILED GOING FORTY MILES All HOUR PUNS ARE HOLDING OP OVERHEAD BRIDGE plltee. High water delayed the I rain last night on its run from Rellwood in this The New York Central trains run over the Pennsylvania tracks from Kosslter Junction to McGees, and it was a New York Central train that Jumped the track. Every car Jum.ied the rails and most of hetm carromed over on their side. Because of the derailment the early morning passenger train did not leave here until shortly after nine o'clock, and was Held up at the wreck until after ten o'llork A'lni) tjn, |:uglnc uml CiiIhiom' (in OIT ItallK War Sidney. an early hour this morning a /relgltt train, consisting o.f nine garrf, an engine and caboose left the tracks near Sidney and delayed traffic on] tills end of the Beltwood-'Punxsutawney branch for several hours. ' The "rntiw- Tor" tT>e derailment has not been ascertained. LOSE LIVES IN FIRE SCORE WORKINGGIRLS were lost There were two hundred passengers aboard, anil those who wn-c not nju < I dragged the injured from the vreckage. The railway officials regard it is miraculous that no 1 iv< The train, which was drawn >l>y two heavy engines, was going at the rate «»f forty miles an hour, when ttie wreck iK'iMirreil. 13 y t'nited Press 1USMAHK. N. IV. Jan. I— A wrecking crew is clearing the tracks "f tli - wreck of ('oast Train No. 7 of the Northern Pacific Hallway, which was derailed last night, fifty-six persons being Injured. A broken rail is given as the cause. Eight coaches and two engines were derailed. One of the injured may die. GIVEN SEVEN YEARS OF SOLITAHY CONFINEMENT The proposed amendment of a rotary directory was lost, a* v as the proposal of increasing tin assessment from ; r. i■ > ',() rents a \,ear. Proposition to allow th» e.vt uttve board leui■■jinati- .t-ns. . and to pay the president a salary of $25 a year and the serretary $50. was also lost. The amendment reading "All amendments to the constitution and by-laws, or inei'1 • of capital stork, shall be by referendum vote of the stockholders." lost A new section to the by-laws K<\i::«' the « \e» utive board power to appoint a geneial superintendent or lineman, was lost. The annual meeting of the directors. wt'»« kholders and delegates of the Farmers' Telephone Company of Indana, Armstrong, and Jefferson Counties, was held yesterday In the Independent Hall at Marion Center. Proposed changes in the by-laws and constitution printed on ballots and distributed to the delegates present. the election of ofibers for the ensuing year and the airing of grievances. occupied the attention of the delegates during the day. Six changes were proposed in the • (institution and three in the by-laws. The change calling for the addition of four directors was the only one of those proposed that carried, the other eight being snowed under by a large vote. The meeting was attended by plenty of ex. itein'-nt and the delegates in attendance had anything but a dull day. Three delegai.- from each district were in attendance. YV \\ Hopkins, formerly treasurer of fh company, was elected to suceei i Mi Steele, i.i Marion Center, as president. S. .1 MeMannus was reelected secretary. and S. S Wetzel was chosen ti> < urer An entirely new board of directors was chosen. Tliey at- John Itynard. VV A. XeeJ, Scott Chambers L. Stahl. Joseph St uchell. distri» r. I. \ !,• u i- and \V P. orerun attended the mi l tiiiK a- i.l< I- -gat« from this Shut off by th- il.<in• s, between fifty and one hundred Kills Were imprisoned in the upper floors. Many of tin rn Jumped from the windows and w errseriously injured. Thirty of th. girls have been removed to hospitals. SOUTH HONORS MEMORY OF GENERAL R. E. LEE iiv United Press. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. l'.i. Mule than a score of working girls art reported to have lost their lives in a tir<- which bt ok-- out shortly before noon in the 131 lis Building, occupied by Sic - daker Sons, shortwaisl maker.-, and four other linns, all employing girl. Five ibodies ha\ ,• so ; ar been 1 cover* d. ' The building: i.s hurtling fiercely. FOUR MEN FOR TROOP \ 0. STATE POLICE V\  The ros\or of Troop D, State Police, was yesterday augmented by the arrival of l'our froopers from Troop PotteviHe. Every one of the new arrivals 1ft an old man on the force, having served from one to three years. All have likewise seen service in the cavalry. The new men are Howard J. Bankey, of the 15th U. S. Cavalry, prior to his enlistment in the S. P. F.; William Everhart, who is serving his second enlistment in the State Police; F. J. Ruth, who is serving his second year In the force, and John Potje, who wilMje the Troop blacksmith. The troyp now lacks but throe men of 4ts full complement of fifty-three men and officers, and the men necessary to fill up the vacancies will probably arrive from PotLsvillc in the next few day*. Tile water reached its highest point about six o'clock. At that hour it w«h on a level with the Church Street grade, having raised eighteen inches In less than two hours. Cellars all over town were full of water and many of them are still flooded. A sudden turn in the weather late yesterday afternoon, bringing high wind.s and cold, was all that saved Punxsutawney and the surrounding community from what might have been an old time flood. As it is, the banks of the creek are full to the very limit, and In several places just above ani below town tincreek swept over its banks and covered th« lowlands. (From only one source, howeer, has damage been reported, and Samuel States, who lives a- short distance above town, is the loser. Mr. Statea had a small lumber yard on his farm, and the larger part of his stock was stored near the creek ban.k, away above what he believed would be high water mark at this time of year. He reckoned, however, without the rain and thaw, for Shortly after noon yesterday his lumber, valued at about $3,000, was «wcpt down fctream, total loss. Hundreds of interested spectators watched tin- lumber as it tore down the stream through Punxsutawney.mm iw dius Jorrii I Solicitor Gillespie is of the opinion that the railroad company can be made to pay the cost of.constructing the overhead bridge.* Others are not so .sanguine. Mr. Moore has stated that if there Is such a law in existence the company will pay up their share without a contest. He, however. doubts its existence. Just at .present the borough council ctt'.i (In nothing to hurry up the building of the bridge over the railroad. unlcs& it b«- to hurry Mr. Moore along with the plans. Until these plan.s are completed the County Bridge will continue to runt and corrode from want of u.sc. The approachlc&s South IVnn Street bsidge is not to bo approachlses forever. Such is the assurance of ('. F. Moore, .engineer for the Punxsutawney-Bellwood branch of the Pennsylvania Uallroad, who is in a great measure the cause of the long delay in the construction \of the overhead bridge over the Pennsylvania Kailroad.The Council and Mr. Moore, fur the railroad, have agreed on the material of Which the bridge i.s to be built. It will .be a wooden structure and of u substantial nature. Mr. Moore drew up tin* general plans for the bridge and submitted thern to those higher up. securing their approval. The specifications, etc., have not yet been drawn and will' probably not be in shape until early spring, when the construction of the bridge will begin. Resident* of the Bubeck addition are awaiting th«. construction of tin? overhead bridge before they make the connecting link from that structure to the County bridge, which they agreed to do before the Com mission - ,ers consented to put up the £>outh Penn Street /bridge. POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE , UNITED III MARRIAGE Thin is the maximum penalty for hi.' erirrn but good behavior will lessen bis imprisonment nearly a year. Harrison Mum ford, of Brookville, found guilty <»t aggravated assault and battery upon the person of Jay Cowan, with intent to kill, has been sentenced to seven years solitary confinement in the Western Penitentiary by Judge Heed is 7:.' 10 o'clock lust, night Miss Ella n, da uk lit it «»f Scott Jordan, of his place, and Harry (>/Sniitli, son of Mr. and Mrs. A)>. ol' West lOnd, wore united in Miner at the Mc son age. J -—"TTTe"~bt'ide, COLD SAVES FLOOD tile Summer- one of the MOTHER'S SACRIFICE MAY SAVE HER SON Special to The Spirit. UICHMOND, Va„ Jan. 1!>. — The uno hundred and third anniversary of the birth of General Robert JO. Lee was ce|« brate.l throughout the South today fn Virginia, ,i well as In Florida, Georgia, North and "South arolino. Alabama ami Arkansas, the day is observed as a legal holiday. .;usiness was practically suspended in many cities and tie iiools Were opened only in th- morning to allow comemoration e\. n i. « s to be held The rivers here hp »lowl> falling this morning after the floods of la«\. night. PITTSBURG, Jan 1 Reporter in t.bl vicinity indicate that the cold weather will probably stop furthor danger from flood. Hy United Press. Pro in points north come the reports that the ice gorges are movlnff without doing any damage. STOHI MAYS All fins In stork nre good number* at; our l gular price \V» now muko liberal di.-■■<»unts on every number. Lace wuLsts and fain> silks are on sale now at half juici and less. ■t'hlldiimi'n t all : and col- In Sov-doii i't tlic Washington Hotel— Making Annual ScttlelUCIll.The directors or the Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance Company are in session at the Washington Hotel today, making their annual settlement. The old board expects to finish up ail business by this evening, and tomgf" row the new board .will get to work and complete its organization. A portion of the old board was in session yesterday. Those who attended were James Speedy, D. (R. Lewis, of Indiana; S. J. Mulburger, of Home; William Morrison, of Marion ''enter; J. Edwards, of DlxonvlMe; John Kote, of Home; Till Miller, of OUveburg; 11, M. McGee, or Uig Ilun; T. M. Roitz, of Brookville. obliging "hi vill© Telepj time past young1 lady of more than ordinary comeliness and possesses a host of friends here. •e ho re for some Mr. Smith has been employed as a boiler maker'in the West J5nd machine works. He is a young man of sterling qualities, and has many friends who wish tin* young couple the best of luck. They will make their home in the West '12nd. IEE GORGE CRUSHES , EVERYTHING 11 ITS WAY LOOKING FOB HER BOY Tetie>\s T« a demonstration continue* t<> increase in interest. —1 J. It. EBERHART CO., LTD. n(wM B.vlt KTAOIN Nl'PJ NUP THE WKATIIKU WASHINGTON, >. C Jan. 10.—i By United i'ress. NEW YORK. Jan. Ii».—Th. life of Arthur Shibhs, one of the »bo\ vi< tims of tin mysterious shooting at High Bridge Bark, in which Hobble Lomas was killed by an unknown man. may be saved owing to his mother'# sacrifice last night. While her blood was being transmitted. Mrs. Shlbley continually spoke words of encouragement. Both were conscious. The boy began sinking, and his mother was called. An incision was made in the right wrist of the mother and the boy's veins were connected with the opening ami his mother'* blood pumped into the dying l>o> for live minutes. Arthur showed immediate improvement, and the doctors say he has a chance for recovery. t Mr*. Helen Wilton Wants to Know Wiiuifubouts of Kiglit-Year- Old Hoy. Mrs. Helen Wilton, of this place, i* looking for hor eight-year-old son, Leslie. Recently Mrs. Wilton had her husbonnd urrested 011 a charge of desertion, and just previous to his arrest Mr. Wilton came to this place from Sagamore and induced the boy to accompany him. Mrs. Wilton caused! her husband'.*/ arrest mainly to find her boy. and at the hearing .Mr. Wilton said that he placed the boy in a good school. Mrs. Wilton, however, is anxious to have her boy with her, and any information as to his whereabouts will be appreciated by her. ' | EVANSVIliLB, Ind., Jan. 19.—The Wolf Creek gorge passed Newburg, Indiana, today, and is expected to reach here shortly. The grinding of the Ice can foe heard for miles1, and thousands of persons along the Ohio River are preparing to flee from the path of the gorge, which is crushing everything before it. The heavy rains are expected to another rise in the river, even If the floods are held back by the gorge. It is estimated that the damage to coal barges Is' 1500,000, and many other vessels have also been crushed by the ice. "By United Bness. LONDON, Jan. 10.—An Exchange telegraph dispatch from Tangier today says the rebel army was defeated by the Government troops in a battle three days ago. { Contiued on Page Two. Dr. Scott .said thai, ho called at the Jones home on September 25th, and was there twice that day, and once the next, lie said she had no ffevor, ami | could not take his medicine because it didn't agree with her. She had I no fever at that time. He was called in again the day she died, and made 'out her death certificate, in which he gave the cause of her death a* "un- Jacob Shaffer, in answer to que.s-tions, «said that Minnie Jones had alb <1 himself and wife to her homo in haste about three or four years ago. Mrs. Jones seemed to be nervous. He called Jones and asked him what the trouble was. Jones said his wife had struck him over the head and hand with a poker, and that it wa.s a poor sort of a mau who would not defend himself Ho had n<i further conversation about it. Klnjer Minlch, constable of Ringgold Township, who arrested the defendant, and wii.s a former neighbor, told of arresting Jones in his brother's corn field in Knox Township. Jones had i knife which he refused! to give over until the officer drew a revolver. He then gave the knife ov r, saying, "You need not arrest me; ther. were only two of Us present win*iv the deed was committed, and mv evidence is as good as hers." Dr. Steiner, of Knoxdaie, and JL)**• Scott, of Kamseytown. both of whom at! eluded the decease*! previous to her death, were called t• > the witness stand, after -i bench warrant had been issued for them. Both of the physicians, however, wen- found in Brookvilie, ami weic making Iheir way to tli,. court house. Dr. Steiner attended th«' deceased l i'om September III to L'l, 1H0S, and during that time made three calls. On September 2.'? he discovered symptoms of typhoid fever, and gave her medicine for it. On the twenty-fourth lie quit, attending her ljecaus she refused to take the medicine he left. Her fever at that time had gone, and he could see no reason why she would not recover. I'pon one of her visits they sang ongs and had prayer. J ones took ' art and addressed his wife as "Mother, dear." The witness characterized Mr. Joins 'attitude toward Mrs. Jones is kind. The witness said that she did not think Mrs. .lories was about » die or near death. Mrs. Tuart -aid she thought that the marks on Mrs. Jones' lip were from sickness Asked by Mr. McCracken, in crossexamination whether Mrs. Jones had not told her that she was going to die, til,- witness said she could not hUsw<■ i* without giving the way in which it was said. The witness was 11«»t pressed, but on re-direct examination, when the same question was put and answered, the testimony was stricken out on objection of the attorneys for thr defense. ask lo r t'orgivennes.s, the witness an swered "No." Mr Tuart told about being: at Joii's' in cpmpany with Mrs. Horn)iaeh, Mis. Allen ami other- shortly befoiv Mrs." Join's* death. .font's wms In tlif room it llrst, and when lie left In- told tli. witness not to tall to his wife, but let her rest. Mrs. Tuart told about assisting Mrs. Horn bach tnd Mrs. Jones to carry the corpse downstairs. They did not comb her i.iir <»n tin- baek of her head. Whuh tbt witness and her companions wont to the Jones home after Mrs. Junes' death they fmind Mr. Jones mouth ind eyes wide open, but covered with i black mosiiuito bar. Mrs. Jacob Shaffer, who lived a la1 neighbor to the Joneses in (Jrcen ! Valley, said they came to her house, j While the wit less was talking with M: Jones th< husband came up and told hyr .to buJicvc all Ahju lies Mr.-. Join.'S WOUld tell her. Afterwards, and during Mrs. Jones' illness, the witness visited Mrs. Jones, examined the patient and found a black mark on her right side, and little red spots over her body. She said the ma k looked like a bruise. Jones said the mark was caused by her clothes. , Mrs. Jones stated the medicine Dr. Steiner gave her made her lips sore and injured her stomach. She stated that when Mrs. Jones came to her house one time she had a mark and was bleeding. Jones told the witness one time that the marks on Mrs. .Jones' bod> were put there by himself while holding her to prevent her from shouting and hurting Herself on the furniture. Mrs. Hert Kunseiman, aged eighteen, daughter of William Jones, accused of the murder of liiji wile, very pretty and with little 1-olioolitig, but exceptionally bright notwithstanding, yesterday afternoon told, on the witness stand, the story of her mother's minder and treatment previous to her death a story almost unparallcllcd in Ifs revelation of revolting cruelty and neglect. Nut once did the daugiiti-r of the accused, who Jh likewise the pro.sccutrix, falter or Imak down. In every way ghc proved lierswlf to !>«> a remap Uuble witness. Her memory won excellent, her statements clear and :oncise anil, although shir was subjected to the most gruelling of crossexaminations, not once did she contradict herself or deviate from her original ..story. At 3:20 o'clock p. m. Mrs. kunsclman was, (.ailed to the stand. After stating that she lived at her father's home until October |». r.iox, he said. In answer t«» «|Ucstions: "I have .seen my lather striking my mother with his list or anything he con id got his hands on so often that 1 cannot remember tie number ot times. He struck her on the ht.nl with his list and on. tim.- with i dung fork. I was working with him. He was lifting' potatoes with the tork. Mother called m . 1 did not go Immediately. He got angry and, going into the house, ho struck her and jabbed her with the fork. When mother would go to the store <>r any place he would meet her at the door or comer of the house, chide her for being away so Ions and then strike her. • "He always abused me and mother. "One time ho struck mother, put her down on the floor, got on her stomach and .said he would kill her. I thought he would kill her, and 1 ran and told Jacob Shaffers'. Asked now long the abuse continued, Mrs. Kunaclman said that it did not stop until her death. "After Dr. Steincr left medicine, mother took a dose, but not much. Father would not give mother medicine, nor would he allow me to give her medicine. He .said: 'Let her lay there and die; I don't care.' "My father said 'Let her die and then you (meaning Minnie) could be my wife. My father often came !<• my room and wanted to sleep with me. I would cry out, and mother would tell him to come to her room. "Mother complained of a pain in .her head after father struck her. She combed her own hair as be,st she could. Father would not allow me to comb her hair. "Mother died on the afternoon of October (i, 1908. leather had been • »ut cutting corn. He came in angry, and I told him he .should ijelp to take e*ire of mother. He answered by saying that be would "kill th«- damn bitch". With that, he struck her on the stomach -and killed her. She died after one gurgle. "Father had threatened to kill mother before she took sick. He then told me never to tell what lie had done or he would kill me. He then told me to go to Mrs. Hormbacii's and tell her that my mother was dead. I did as 1 was 'bidden. "1 seen my mother buried and left home the next day. "I Urst told the story of my mother's death to Mr. Kunselman (her husband) in February, 190!»." "Asked why slu» did not t 11 it before she replied that she was afraid that her father would kill her. Sinnext told It to her mother-in-law, and next to 'Squire A. Li. Howard, when sh,. W'-ut to his plaee. "I was Impelled to tell what my father had done because L could not live and keep the secret." On cross-examination Mrs. Kunselman admitted to being IS years of age; that she lived at Mr. Kunselman's home some time before her marriage, which occurred at Salamanca, X. Y., on July li9, 1909. Asked if her father had not objected to the .company she kept, the witness replied that she never kept company when she was at home. Asked ff she had not refused*to pet to induce her cousin. Nettle Smith, to meet a couple of Italian boys, she denied it polntbiank. She said her cousin asked her to allow her to accompany her (Nettie) to Barnett's, but her father objected. She did not speak to her father about it herself. On further cross-examination Mrs. Mrs. Ellenberger, a Hister of the deceased, testified that while ministering to her sister she had examined her; that she found a black mark on her side, and that her hair was matted from the effects of what she thought wa.s a cut. Asked on cross-examination whether she had not been sent downstairs ! by Mrs. Jones to tell her daughter ; Minnie to come up, as she wanted to Joseph Klleiibcrger, of Porter Townhsip, a brother-in-law of the lefendant, stated that when William Jones and Mrs. Jones visited him in March. 1!»0S. Jones who followed his wife, charged her with running away, and threatened her life by saying: "I have a notion to kill you <» I>  bitch. The witness stuted that if had been raining and that Jones wanted his wife to go home immediately. She did not want to go, stating that she was afraid of him. but Jones persisted until she obeyed. KUenberger. being accused by the attorneys of the defense of trying to coerce his daughter to come to Brookville and testify against Jones, entered an emphatic denial. The witness stated that lie told the story first to his mother on the day it occurred. Mrs. ."f>nes w.iu ted Alls. C,lUiVj,'oj:it to return and stay with her that night, saying that she. was afraid to stay .vita he:* husband, but that Jones said hat he could take rare of Mrs. Join s him-elf. Mrs. Crawford testified that on the Friday before tin- death of Mrs. Jones ■die, in company with Mrs. Hornbach, Mrs Graham and Dr. Scott, were, in th» sick room, when tin y heard Mrs. Jones say, iclVrring to Jones: "lfe abuses me! he abuses me!' Jones sa'id; "l'a> no attention to her, a>< -he is Highly." Mrs. Jone.s wanted to show the women marks on her body, but Jones would not allow them to make an examination. She also said that M> . Jones aceus d her husband of striking her on the mouth, that Mrs. Jones' lip was swollen as though she had received a blow. Jones again told the women, that -Mrs. Jones was "Mighty". J Kunselman told of seeing: the •• ouuds made by t h«• fork prongs on her [mother's body, how she tried to prevent him from using the fork on her, of how when her mother would try to get up her father would put her baek in bed till the pillows would bounce, and ol" the incidents of the day of her mother's death. She also stated that her grandparents were at the home of her father for dinner the day her mother died. Her grandparents went home after having eaten an early dinner. *• • » .♦ refused to get [ iiex mother a drink, she entered an emphatic "no". When the attorney for the defense asked if Mrs. Jones (the grandmother of tin witness) had not told her that her mother's feet were cold and that she was dying, the witness replied in the negative. She also denied that she had ever told Phoebe Jones that her mother had iied whil,. she I the witness; was after a bucket of water. Asked on cross-examination wlieth"i* the witness bel'evcd that Mrs. Tones was flighty when she visited her, Mrs. O law ford stated emphatically that the patle.it was in her right mind. When Clyde Knieely, a neighbor boy of the Joneses, was asked to tell of cruelties he had witnessed on the part of the defendant toward Mrs. Tones in the year 1904, it received a vigorous objection from the attorneys for the defendant, because It was not •oniie. I' d directly with the death of the deceased. Judge Heed ruled that since it was held that the testimony was not offered for the purpose of connecting it with the direct cause of death, but for the purpose of showing the attitude of the defendant toward his wife, he would rule to admit it in evidence. The witness then .stated that he had seen Jones striking his wife with a hoc on the head three or four times, and that he saw a mark on her face caused by the blow. He said that Mrs Jones cried, whereupon Jones said he would not .stop much and knock her brains out. Jones was angry because Mrs. Jones would not hoc corn. The witness plowed corn for Jones. The altercation described took place in Green Valley. Sam Knieely, a brother of the deceased, was in the same field. Witness was about 200 feet away when Jones struck his wife. t \ 4 J'. 1., . . J.;-. ;,] 11 .. '■? ■gyn ffl&e Ihtitf£nfatomic Hpitit £4 ■ \-word oounnJ?? ijrl'olU'O. ani ifu-r. L ho has <be« llo girls" ufarriage by odist Episcopal Key, lone Following Is the