Punxsutawney Spirit, 1910-02-03

              * BUS m- p SOME LONG DISTANCE WEATHER PREDICTIONS Pittsburg Writer Sees Things in Punxs'y From Afar, MEXICO ADDS TO THE LONG LIST OF MINE DISASTERS PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1910. MINERS ADJOURN AFTER A MOST STORMY SESSION DUBOIS BUTCHERS CUT MEAT PRICES PRICE TWO CENTS f uitu »T. JUIRI VMI i£fjflU& UAVU XOV ANYTHING IV TOOK I HOME OB FLAC1 OV BVIOm TOD WISH TO DISPOSK OPT TRT OCR OENT-A-VORD COLUMN, it II I HONS FOR PROGRESS STANTINOPIE Local Dealer Says They Will Have to Cut Out Delivery Service and Sell for Cash. Proposed Annexation of Island of Crete by Greece Causes War Talk. AGED SEVENTY-EIGHT YEARS Management of Buffalo & Susquehanna R. R. May Soon Go Into Other Hands. A SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION Explosion at Las Esperanzos (Brings Death fo 68 and Injury to as Many More. Airing of Grievances Against Officers of Union Caused Clashes. CELEBRATION IN INDIANA IV-ftCMlS VOL. FAILfME OF NEW YORK BANK AFFECTS fi. X S. INTERESTS Mrs. WEEK'S TOTAL HAS REACHED 178 nnon, and Si KcllysburjL;. a village ori the It.. It. STORE NEWS. 600 DELEGAIES GO 10 TOLEDO filHEHUILROADS DICKERING FOfl STOCK GEltmCKEOOFCWirailW The conference with the oporators will .start as soon as possible. After adjournment the 600 delegates boarded two special trains tor Toledo, where they arrived about The airing of grievances against officers of the union caused numerous clashes. Many grievances will came before the next coaventon. Ft;h. 3.—Af- l!y rnitfil Press. INDIANA POL1K, 2nd ter a tumultuous session, lasting until three o'clock this morning the I'nlted Mint Workers' convention ad- Journe 1. St. Louis was chosen for the place of holding the 1911 convention.CATHOLIC!) MAKE GAINS service When a Punxsutnwney butcher this morning was asked if he could meet the prices adopted last night by the DuBois butchers, he replied in the negative, lie stated that the DuBois butcher who compelled the cut could not maintain those prices unless he did a strictly cash business, and discontinued his telephone and delivery p O I i C \ .... 1 So .12 1 -2c 11! l-2c .... 20c ,12 1-2c ....18 c ....18c 12 l-2o These ligures represent a substantial reduction in the prices that have obtained in DuBois recently, and the action is said to have been caused by one butcher who adopted a cash sirloin Hteak Hound steak < 'huek ronst . Kil> roast . . . Pork chops . Pork roast . Veal steak . Veal chops . Veal ronst Veal stew . . . La mb chops La.nib roast Sausage .... Eight DuBola hutcherft Inst nlffht held a meeting: and <!»•« id«'d t»> si-ll meat at the following pru<s: STATE POLICE HELP ALONG GUN AUCTION Members of Troop I"), Smtc Police, N9 RACE SUICIDE HEBE Till suspicions arc largely caused by the part the i'retail leader, Venezelos, is supposed to have taken in the convocation of the national assembly.The reports of Greek accumulation of war stores persist. The newspapers Yen! Tanin and Ikdam declare that if Cretan deputies are admitted to the Greck National Assembly Turkey will treat it as as casus,belli. It is stated in official quarters that the Government is considerably disturbed by the course events aittaking in Greece fearing that the I >ra - goumis Cabinet may take some step supporting the popular desire to annex Crete. nople Preparations, on a iargf ,-cale, for war are now going on at Constanti- It has been indicated at the Itussian foreign office that Germany is accused of causing the new trouble. j There will be an early re-occupaition of Crete by the former protecting ; powers, liussia, England, Frar.ee and iMtaly. ✓ today Four English battlships have been ordered to sail from Malta to Piraeus "By I'nited Press. LONDON', Feb. The greatest chagrin is manifested at the foreign office that the island of Crete haft again started trouble between Turkey and Greece, and the action of Turkey is condemned. luehanna POLITICAL LEADtBS III MM (Continued on page three) "This is considered a fin« prbclama lion, and its forecasts are more deflnite than usual on account of the shadow standing square on Miller Stoops' barn. if it had flitted across the corncrlb «»r the cow stable the ofHdul election.' |" 'The official shadow was cast I across the official groundhog hole at | s tiVim k this morning. The shadow i was tangent to Canoe Ridge 23 degrees and stood square on the cast gable or Miller Stoops's barn. This indie ites blustery weather until St. Patrick's Day. There will be good foxhunting Kebruats 22. Prune your apple t r< ■ s February I and 'set' your 'buff cochin hens March I.'!' Dig your sassafras now. The robins will sing iu B Hat on St Valentine's Day. the .swallows will appear April 27 and 'Tim' Kurtz may be candidate for re- "Here is the official bulletin from the Groundhog Weatherworks, issued by Burgess 1\ < >. Freas. of Punxsutawne.v, just after sunrise; "Went at" and gave away some seereIs of the office; actually wrote and had .printed in last night's issue of the Chronicle Telegraph an article that | reads as follows: How could it be otherwise when persons living remote from the wrath• erworks, "butt" in with prognostications that have not passed the inspection of Br'er Groundhog at the main , weatherworks. Somebody who wields a 'typewriter on the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph reportorial force, and w «■ Strongly suspect Col. John P. Cowan. BrVr <Jroundhotf y»\st«rday divided Tionor.s with A19IO ;uul Hadl<-y's <0111- «'ts among scientists. a.strolog. im, metorologists and planeta'rian.v Tintn xt day it rained. i have iul yet ami •ii made. Funeral services will be hold Sunday afternoon, and burial will be made in the Circle Hill Cemetery. j William Baughman. Mrs. Thomas J Zolner, of Punxsutawney; Mrs. J. II. J Uussler, of Jersey Shore, are the sur' vivlng children. Miss Martha Baughman, a granddaughter, made her home . with the deceased. She was conscious until she breathed her last. • tral Presbyterian Church at the time of her death. Ever the most In- I dustrious of women, kindly and a good neighbor, she was. perhaps, the best known person in this section of .the country. The deceased had been a member of the Presbyterian Church for ove* half a century, and was amember of (the Ladies* Aid Society of the Cen- Sevcn children were born to tha couple, three of whom survive. Death a lainied Mr. *>»u"-hmnn after many years of wedded life, and in 1X81 his widow became the wife of Daniel Straithoff, who died the same year, four months after the marriage. Born in kejjkbacher. Germany, in 1X32, she came to this country in 1 S55, in company with the parents oi S. A. Rinn, of this place. Tn the same year she was united in marriage to Jacob Baughman, and lived 1 n the old Gaskill home, now occupied by Reubin Young. At that time there were less than a dozen houses in the town, the surrounding country was a wilderness, and Indians were common. Mrs. Catherine Haughman, one <>f the oldest and best known resklsenta ol" Punxsutiiwncy, died at her home on K. Libert St., at 5:45 p. m., yesterday, arte:' an acute illness that dated from last Monday, although she had been ailing for yearn from a leakage of the heart and asthmatic trouble. "The Itailroai Buffalo "In the Buffalo and Susquehanna the Fisk & Robinson investments were by far the heaviest. The nucleus of this system was a small railroad built in Pennsylvania by F. H.t <W. and A. C. Goodyear, of Buffalo, and their associates. They controlled the Buffalo and Susquehanna Coal and Coke Company and the Powhattan Coal and Coke Company, which own respectively 90,000.000 tons and 24.000.000 tons of coal in ground in a district running northeast from Sagamore, Pa., to Sinnemahoning in the *ame state. They were also Interested in the Buffalo and Susquehanna iron Company, which has twp blast furnaces in operation at Buffalo and derives its coal and coke from the Pennsylvania mines. The railroad was built for the purpose of marketing the coal. The Sun article, after enumerating the companies financed by the failed banking house, had the following, in part, to say about the B. Ar S.: finances. The New York Sun yesterday contained a two-column article in which was given the details of the failure of the bank and Incidentally a lot of data about the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad, coal properties and Shrinkage in the stock values of several new railroad and mining properties, among them being the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad Company, is given as the cause of the failure Tuesday of the banking firm of Fisk & Company, of Wall Street, NeW York City. LANS STATE GRANGE MEETING campaign, have landed the State Butler people, after a strenuous All INVESTIGATION OF NORMAL SCHOOLS Continued on Pago Three. Page Three. After six hours work fifty-throe bodies were brought to the surface, white nearly forty injured men we're removed to hospitals for treatment. The injured owe their rescue to the fact that they we re working at points In the third stage of the workings where they weiv practically protect- The rescuers immediately began to work in relays, searching for and carrying to the surface the dead and the dying. Scattered about in various positions in the workings, they found the bodies of the men, suffocated; their faces Indicating in many instances the hopeless tight they had waged. \sslstanc< was immediately forthcoming an da, soon as t!n air in the shaft could be purified sufficiently to permit rescuers to descend, may volunteers were ready to risk their lives in a.n endeavor to succor their stricken brothers below. The miners, consisting principally of Mexicans and Japanese, had assumed their places after 7 o'clock. About N: "t0 o'clock those at work above ground beard a loudexploslon above ground h- ml a loud explosion dust and smoke shot from the mouth of the shaft. The explosion occurred in the No. slii'ft of th* coal mine of the Ksperanzas Mining Compan> and is attributed to the ignition of gas from the ilame of a miner's cigarette, who was smoking contrary to the rules. ma ny LAREDO, Tex . Feb. 3—One of the greatest lisasters in the history of Mexican coal mining which has heroblows, resulting in a tremendous loss of human life, occurred yesterday in the Palu mine at Las Hsperanzas, Mexico. The toll of human life Is officially placed at sixty-eight, while the list of injured numbers nearly as KELLYSBURG IN THROES OF A HOT REVOLUTION Now Vork. 2.722 i51«»■ Pennsylvania. 1.404,766; Illinois drops from second t<» third place with 1.44 3.7R2; Massachusetts is next with 1,373,772; Ohio has 61 9.26a; Louisiana, f»57.431; Wisconsin, 4S9.217; New .Jersey, 406,000; Michigan. 4X9,451; Missouri, 4 f» l' . - 703; Minnesota, 427.627; California, 391,500; Connecticut. 370,000; Texas. 2 S 3,917; Iowa, 242,009; llhod. Island, 242,000; Indiana, 21X.75X, and Kentucky, 194.296. The Catholic population under the British flag «s 12,053,41 8. In the I'nlted States proper there are 14,- 347,027 members of the faith, showing .i gain of 111,570 over a year ago. The directory shows 4.S45 parochial schools in the United States, with an attendance of 1.237,1551. The Catholic population of t+io leading States' in the Bnlon is as follows: I'nlted States flag, according to advance sheets of the official Catholic directory published in Milwaukee. The count Includes the 'Catholics of the I'nlted States proper. Alaska, the Philippine.-, Borto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 3—There are 22,587.079 Catholics under the Church Membership is (■row iug. Olliclal Directory Will Show that the CUNNINGHAM FOUND GUILTY By Cnited Press. UOSToX. Mass., Feb. 3.—Charles S. 'Cunnigham, the broker accused of uttering almost $1,1X5,000 in forged n< r treasurer of South Framlngham. \vas today found guilty and sentenced 'lotos made b.\ John H. Lombard, furto . Ight years in prison. On February (>, 1 892 alio was married to Webster. In the eighteen years of their married I i / ■. twenty children havo been born, among the collection four sets of twins and one of triplets. Only seven of the children grew up, the twins and triplets dying in babyhood. The oldest living: child is a son of - I years. She lives at No. 1144 Garden avenue. The husband is a teamster. She was born in Rochester: her maiden name was Hattle Sylvia. She came to this city when eleven y< ars old. Hy her first husband, lOdward Bright, she had six children, one set of twins among the number. NIAGARA FALLS. Fob. 3—Mrs. Philip \V. Webster, 4 2 years old, a negress, thinks 1t nothing unusual that yesterday she gave birth to her 2t.ith child, a girl. She was married when sixteen years old. and during all her married life has been toting a baity on her arm. Ik Xotr I'ronrl Motlier Her 201 h Child. MODEL LICENSE LEAGUE IN SESSION SUHP8ISE MRS. FRANK NLORR The Repuqllcana ire counting: «>11 a better organization and a greater degree «»l" unltedncss to ••;»»*! > them through. <>11 t li• • Itepubldcans abb of t)i«* contest will be such fighters as . x-fJovenor Dnrbin, « x-tlovenor Hanly, Senetor Hevcridge and others. On the Democratic side will be Governor Marshall, Thomas Tag/jar t. Senator Shlvely, < 'ongressman Korbly, who is scheduled to mako a hard Campaign on tin- tariff plication, and. lXDANAPi'IiiS. Ind. Feb. :: This city was today the mci'ca for the political leaders of Indiana, both Democrats and Republicans. The round-up of the politicians was the largest s> en 'here in a long tinn in. The Democrats came ot the capital for a meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association and a. bandquet with Governor Marshall. Senator Shlvely anil other leading lights among; the schedule speakers. ,\ in- , tiny: of 11»^• n» w Ueppqllcan State Ctimmiltr- fur the purpose of reorganisation was the magnet that attracted the R« puqlican politician# to the city in large number.CHANGE NAME CAUSES MINE DISASTERS "Butler will reap groat bonellt from this convention." "The chamber of commerce made the bid for the meeting, through Commissionr Grabe who attended the last convention, at State College, and the hotel men later gave data as to the accommodations. It was found the town could lake care of the crowd easily. "This will be good news to Butlerltes. Until Mr. Hartley gave out the information nothing dollnite was known concerning the purposes of the State Grange officers who were delegated the powr to select the place of meeting by tho last convction. Rutler's elation oVor the matter is expressed by the Eagle, which says: Grange meeting for 11)10. and are correspondingly elated over the matter. The announcement was made at Har(risburg by "Farmer" Creasy, Muster of the State Grange, who expects 2,000 in attendance at the next mooting, which will be hid In November. PARTY TO 1ICKMRG "Some of the weapons are remarkably line pieces of workmanship, while others ar» crude, being mado of gas pipe and rough wood. There are several specimens of imported guns with engraved silver mountings and home-made affairs that show remarkable skill. SprlngUelds, Winchesters and other guns used by various militar\*'*?>rganiy.ations are also well represented." "The offer of Levy was the best received and the weapons were sold with the stipulation that none of them are to It- disposed of in Pennsylvania. Le\ y has a store in Altoona, where the firearms will be 'overhauled, and then they will bo sent to other stores the purchaser owns in other States. "At Its last meeting: the commission authorized the selling of the weapons and the Attorney General's Department decided that they could he sold at private sale, one at a time, or in hulk, or at auction. "The guns have been collected since the no\N act prohibiting foreigners to 'own or carry tirearms of any description went into effect about a year ago. .Most of the weapons are single-barreled rifles, although there are some double-barreld guns, and they we re taken by game wardens or by Statu Police. They have been stored in tile offices of the Game Commission and the State Police Department. Of the incidents of the sale the Uarrisburg Patriot says: *1.75 each, .auction,, tff Uu\ .firearms conhscaied ':.»m unnaturalized foreigners by the memne.s of the forces here and elsewhore. Troop D has sent, at •monthly intervals, several hundred! weapons to the Department, which I were turned over to tin.- State Gamo Commissioner, some of which were quite valuable, but many of which are worthless. The guns sold Tuesday, ;:.~»0 all told, We.-e purchased by L. X. Levy, of Altoona, at the rate of el' ihis place, were interested in the brief news dispatch from llarrlsburg, (and prin td in yesterday's issue of The Spirit anent the sale, at public PilNXS'Y BOYS III WRONG SUB-STATIONS COMING II The deficit of $205,000 is pointed to as sufficient argument for an investigation of the normal schools. However, no objection is raised to the expenditure of all the money the normal schools require if the students are There are 13 normal schools in the state.v The legislature of 1909 appropriated $4 65,000 to them. Of this amount $205,000 was to make good a deficit accumulating for many years. For the term of there was appropriated $130,000 and the same amount for the term of 1910-11. With the understanding that all pupils receiving state aid will give two years of their time to teachdng, the Commonwealth appropriates a large sum every two years for maintenance of the schools. The state pays $1.50 a week for each student enrolled, this • money to be applied in part payment of the scholar's tuition. Every young man and woman desiring to fbta'in a course in the schools, must sig.i an agreement to teach for two years after completing their course. Upon their graduation they }get a diploma entitling them to teach In any part of the State for two years At the expiration of that period, they get permanent teachers' certificates from the school. , The 1911 legislature will be asked to make a thorough investigation into the management of Pennsylvania normal schools. It is said that few, ,if any, compel their students to keep the obligations they make when entering.CLOSED BECAUSE Of SMALLPOX Then* were present Mr. and Mrs. William Fairman. Mr. and Mrs. William Kvans. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Kvans. Mr. and Mrs. ('has. North. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hishell. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bedding. and Mesdames Mary i 'rooks. \i. S. Elder, Kobert Snedding. William Felt, rnmn, David <iowrl.\v. iMar.N UniNvn, Misses Fsther and Mil- I dred North and Master Clair North. Mrs. Frank Noerr, of Hldge avenue, on Tiicsnlay niglit was given a pleasant surprise, when her neighbors ;»nd friends gathered round to eeiebr..te the anniversary of her birth, and tender the family a delicious lunch On the \iiiii\er?-in\\ of llcr llirth. An attorn-y. versed in such affairs, deelares the closing was Illegal, and that th*• part\ doing so is liable to arrest: that no one has the right to elose a public building against a meeting for the public good and that any one would have b< n justified in forcing open that door and proceed with the meeting according to arrangement. We presme there w'lll be a light to a linish and that the "people" will rule A new charter will have to be obtained •and the business placed in the hands of competent trustees .who will have authority accoording to law. More than third ot .1 . . ntur> ago a hall was built and dedicated to the pub:;. 1: oil and named K lly-burg hall. For many yeara it was second to no place in Indiana county for its educational meetings teachers' institutes, debates, singings, temperance meetings. Sabbath school and Christian End* av>»r convention*. The charter applied for was never filed but was burned with the home of the late John K McKlhois who had charge of the matter, and at pr« -nt 110 one has any authority tv» rent or let or open or « lo-said hall. It has been 1; pt open for the public good all th' e y.-ar.s but recently trouble arose and last week an original charter member locked tin* hall against a district Christian Endeavor convention that w is to haw been he'd there 011 Sabbath evening and the people not being untitled of the situation, came only to return home. I\. whilst station and post office is called Home, is in the throes of a revolution almost as hot as that of Nit • aranga, says the Indiana Messenger. OXE WHO DID NOT i\N A'LK TO TRADE CITY. Mr. and Mrs. "Robert Snedden, Mrs. Frank Neorr, Mrs. Edith Wllllard, .MVsdames Annie Lydic, Bert Wells, Frank Crow, Ezra Orr. Ida Fetterman Blanch Heading, Bertha Johns, John Barry, Wm. Crooks, Charles Tucker, Joe Grube, George Speaker. On the journey home a bolt in the tally-ho became loosened and dropped out, leaving the big sled In a snow drift. A hurried trip to a blacksmith shop about a mile away produced another bolt, and the party were soon on their way home again. Those who attended were: Pleasure Seekers Get Stuck in Snow l>ritf War Trade City. A sleighing p/trty from this place yesterday. afternoon drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Stear, of Smicksburg, where, they partook of an excellent dinner. He said that the disasters are due partly to the inadequate mining laws in the States where they occur. Mr. Mitchell suggested that a great many fatalities could be avoided by proper ventilation of mines, installation of escape shafts for'emergency use, telephonic communication with sounding pipes through which liquid food could be passed, and compartments built in which imprisoned men could live until they are rescued. four years.' "Most of the mine disasters could be avoided if certain regulations were enforced, and the men required to serve an apprenticeship of three or NKVV YORK, Feb. The changing of atmospheric conditions, usually prevalent at this time of the year, are responsible, to a large extent, for the unusual number of mint- disasters 'of the past week, declared former President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America. Continuing, lie .said: Ry I'nited Press. k'EATHKR THE WASHINGTON, 1). C., Feb. 3.—— CENSUS EXAMJNATOIIR blinds in the treasury of the department is responsible for the calling in of the men. The stations at Spangler, Lyndora and F/>rd City will be continued •throughout the wlriter. • A lack of Four of the substations of Troop D, Statee Police, have been called in for the winter. The troopers from Smethport, Emporium, Phillipsburg Galitzin are eitfier in or will a rrive this evening. I'NIONTOWN. Feb. 3—Fyery school building In Unlontown has been closed as the result of the discovery that Janitor William A. Minor of the Centra 1 building is just recovering from an attack of smallpox Minor was confined to his home three weeks, but returned a week ago. Borough Superintendent C. J. Scott suspected the nature of Minor's disease after he had returned to work and called l>rs. P. F. Smith, O. It. Altman and T. N. Fast* ma ninto consultation. According to The Spirit's Big Hun correspondent, the citizens of that town 'are much wronght up over the doings of a number of young fellows from this place in Big Hun last Tuesday evening. One night in the lockup and thirty days in the county jail the Big Hun correspondent believes, should be the penalty for insulting and endeavoring to intimidate ladies on the street. The citizens of the town are intent upon the prosecution of the offenders. Big Hun Citizens Are Wrought Up Over Their Actions in Tliat Town. forecats for West- Following is tho cloudy. much colder to* night. Friday» Rain or snow and crn Pennsylvania: ©  STORK NIAVS. Rummage Sale opens At 0 o'clock tmorrow morning. Men's caps 9c: gloves and mitts, 17c. —1 J. B. EBEIIHAHT CO., LTD. CITY SUBSCRIBERS Our collector will call on all subscribers in the city within the next week. All in arrears are respectfully requested to pay up to Feb. 1, 1910.— 17t6 I J. B. EBERHART CO.. LTD. Our entire stock contributes to the Rummage that will be offered at our Sale which opens Friday morning at !» o'clock. This is a great event. All odd lots and shop-worn goods must be put to use, nix matter how small the money return. STORK NEWS. ■Money spent at our Rummage Sale will be well spent. —1 J. B. EBERHART CO., LTD. Continued on Page Three. The advocates of the prohibition law, when chided with the fact that these laws do not lessen drunkenness nor prevent crime, answer that neither do laws against murder prevent Sane students of tin- liquor pucstion do not hope that regulating laws will absolutely prevent drunkenness and the crimes that are the result of the excessive use of liquors. *-but they do expect to reduce drunkennes and its .attendant evils to a minimum far beyond any thing that has been accomplished by prohibition law. Of the sjieechee made, that delivered by ('apt. D. Smith general counsel for the league made the biggest hit with the delegates, ('apt. Smith .said, in part: ST. LOUIS, MO., Feb. :!The Natlonaj License League, which was formed at Louisville several years ago for the purpose of combating the prohibition movement by a stricter regulation of sallons and the weeding <>ut of undersiablc resorts where liquor Is sold, began its third annual convention in this city today with delegates in attendance from many parts of the country. The sessions will last two days, during which time public offieals ministers and professionals men having no financial 'itcrest In the liquor question will discuss various phases of the problem form the standpoint of those w.ho desire to bring about immediate and definite reform in the sale of liquors. There are about 60 applieants who have been notified to appear before the local civil service board. Two classes will be conducted, the first beginning at 9 o'clock a. m., and the second at 1 o'clock p. m. Examinations for census enumerators will be held in the Jefferson street school building, Punxsutawney, Saturday. • M IBM IS JffftU mmjm m |k CatMnnefadfjhman Died IN PI]It Las/torfmg at 5:45 ,"""n O'clock. i * -