Punxsutawney Spirit, 1910-02-05

              CIIUKMW STVTi: COMMITTEE B\ I'n i ted Pres.*. THE BESf EVER By I "nit. d Press. WASHINGTON, I). C., Feb WASHINGTON, forecats for West- ern Pennsylvania: tonight. Sunday. fair. Jijtifit lirJksdiil ilUUTLVMU Oil SELLS HICK PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1910. Mill Ml i Tiff STRIKING WORKMEN III WALSTOX COKE-OVENS PRICE TWO CENTS COL. WESLET R. ANDREWS SUMS TO PNEUUONIA AFTER MONTH'S IL1NESS to of ait mm at the EMEST HIDE IS GHEATLf EMUTED VOL. IV—N0.120 Politics. One of the Most Prominent Men i n Pennsylvania STUCI'ELL-BLACK NUPTIALS John Driscoll Calls for Workmen and Is Surprised W hen 40 Answer Call. LIVING ON EUROPEAN PyN THE BUSIEST M III THE CAPITAL his office. marriage by "Squire X. D. Corey, in is employed in Anita, w< re united in and W K. Black. of this plaee, who Without Minuter or Fuss lie Accomplished Wonder**—A Never- I'ailing Courtesy. friends. They will reside in Punx- munity and have best wishes of many Poth young people are well known and highly respected in this coni- "Our report from mi no officials at Ernest state that so far as they can learn the explosion was slight and not more than fifteen men involved. Five men had been brought to the surface. All were burned but not .seriously. The officials and men who went into the mine believe that then- w.-ro no men killed The men also state that they have no theory to advance as t<> the cause or nature of the explosion." After the Spirit had tun off a part of th<- mail edition an olfieial (if the It. & P. Coal and Iron Company called up this office and made the following statement: for Ernest on n sni-cial train |f< *■ • ' A r*~~ -• Immediately upon receiving word of the explosion, (he loenl officials of the coal company left There are one hundred and seventy-five men in the mine in which the explosion occurred, and, according to the report, twelve of the. men have been taken out alive. By United Press. INDIANA, Pa., Feb. 5.—It has been reported here that an explosion has occurred .at No. 2 mine of the Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Company at Ernest, five miles from here. sutaw ney New Law However Does Not Require it to be Given Out Annually. Falling Back Towards Managua and Fighting Hard— 5 Fatalities Not Known. REVOLUTIONISTS PRESS 60VERNMENT TROOPS AUOITORS REPORT MUST BE PUBLISHED IX Feb. f». — Col. \\ • .-h > K. Andrews, chairman of BUILOING 8 LOAN CASE TO ANIENT CeURT \\ VSHIXUTO.Y, Committee, died h» re this morning at tii Pcnnsy Ivani.i State Republican In his opening- sermon he said "There is one form of gambling in j Erie th.itis wide open and that is playing bridge for prizes in society. It doesn't matter whether a woman plays for a money prize or another kind that is worth money, it is gambling. She is breaking the commandment, "Thou shall not steal." lit is stealing to take the property of another without giving the equivalent in return. The merchant who sells a piece of cloth as ' 11 i wool.' whe nit is part cotton, is a thief. Every employer who takes advantage of an employe is ;i thief. Every employe who does not give his employer the services 'he is paid for is a thief. The man who gambles and Ioim i a fool. So every gambler is a thief or ;i fool. The woman who gossips is Worse than one who steals. The thief steals only things of material value,; the slanderer steals what inonev cannot buy—reputation." Every woman who plays bridge for h prize is a thief, according to the Rev. R. A. Torrey., the world-renowned evangelist, who has begun a series o frcvival meetings in the Cenjtrai Presbyterian church at Erie. lee—Scandal Monger in tin* l/mvest Clas^. Xote<l Kvangelist Classifies the <.amb- S166,7D4.40 FOR IMF t ight o'clock. Col. Andrew had been ill from Mi'-'. Brown ,ne,. Miss Fleming, of near O°vode. is visiting relatives in Oil ''ity .nilI next Monday, accompanied by her husband. will go West as far as Minnesota, where alio will undergo a slight operation at the Mayo hospl- The Western oil is being used as a fi'."! for engim > especially for lo« (.motives, and the time is not far distant when about every train west of the .Mississippi Hiv< r will be propelled by »il-burning engines, is the prediction of Mr. I'row n. Speaking of the oil produced in the different sections of the country* Mr. Brown stated that while Pennsylvania. West Virginia and Ohio oil is selling at $!.»>()'per barrel, that produced in th« far West and Southwest is selling for 30 cents per barrel. Mr. Brown, who is a son of ex-Sheriff William Brown. deceased, of Marchand. w.ls a Punxsutawney lawyer until about fifteen years ago, when he entered the employ of the Standard. Since that time he has made the rounds of the company's properties in the I'nlted States five times, and hence has a pretty thorough knowledge of the extent of Standard Oil interests. Bert Brown, a representative of the Standard Oil Company, formerly of Punxsutawney, who has beep absent fifteen years, was in town last night on his way to Altoona and Cresson. Cents a Barrel. Product of Sou times! (iocs at Thirty I neumonla the past month, and a few day* ago an operation was decided on, but abandoned owing to his weaken- J condition DECIDING BATTLE BE F0UCH1 TODAY MIMIC IKE PEtflE SHU READ At ill I'lost of the T.it* campaign Andrews r< turin >1 to Washington and Th' > let • .is■ mI's home w as in Mead\ ll- He has no mar relatives with th« . \ i-'n.n of ji half brother. Wm. II A ndre • a delegate to Congress from New .Mexico, and formerly prominent in P'nnsylvania politics. His w1- an < two daughters di« d several Senator -Penrose and clerk of the s nate < inmitt-. on Post Offices and P.. t Koail*}. !'< ailed his duties a secretary to fought today in Managua, tin* capital. The Administration army is falling hack, although fighting desperately. in the Nicaragua!! revolution may he By Cnited Press liU'KFlKLDS, (via Wireless from Coloni. Feb. The deciding battle Jeurs ago. Mr Andrew.--, who wn.- born at Sugar Cmve, Warren County, on De• mbei L'3, I s:<7. bad been chairman of the State Committee since 1 905. CONFERS SC3HES COURT OFGISIOfi crow case The case of the |< of IV vs. the truster. of the defunct H. & L. of Punxatawney. has been certified to tin Superior Court, but there was no additional steps taken in the l;urt With- Although it whs said yesterday morning- that the motion for a new trial for William .Ion- , convicted ol murder in the second degree, would be heard, Court adjourned without having taken action in the matter, and it is* not known when the motion will come up. hearing. The ea<e will now be transferred t" Argument Court, and Thursday, February _'4. has been set f o- the dat- Manx Witness. - Journeyed t<> lirookville yesterday to testify in the case (of sundry former stockholders of the defunct B. it L. Association vs. the trustees. The entire day before the Court of Equity was taken up in hearing testimony and last night court was adjourned. OAMINATIOH FSB CENSUS ENUMERATORS TODAY Continued on Page Three h'arly in the morning of the big snow Driscoll went from oven to nven and, peering down into the holes, yelled to the Inmates to come on and shovel snow or he would raid the hosiery and throw everyone of them oui. Half an hour later he was the most surprised man in NValston, for •H) out of the 41 tenants responded, The establishment is known as Hot<• 1 de Drlseoll, and is located oil Coke < »vcn Kow, at Walston. famous as the pioneer mining town of the U. & P. t'oal Iron Company in this section. The kuests began to arrive just before Christmas and the number kept • ti increasing, the maximum having been reached during the big snow storm two weeks ago today. Some people would call them hums and have the State Police on them, but not. so with Landlord John Driseoll, Superintendent of the Walstoti mines. Mr. Driseoll at lirst thought thc> were Weary Willie... and was thinking of applying for police protection. When the big storm came a happy thought struck Driseoll. He needed men and needed them badly, to keep the tracks clear. H< thought of the coke oven crowd Here were 1! men living in ease. With one exception they were able-bodied men, but tramps won't work. However. Mr. Driseoll re,- solved to get some help from that source or clean out tin "hotel." Within two miles of Punx>utawne\ there Is being conducted a •'hotel" which has 41 patrons who live on the Kuropean plan and don't pay t cent for room rent or conveniences. nsuienis runic trouble most delicious ever prepared for a club affair. one o'clock, The luncheon, served between uehre and danee, was on-' of T)ire ng. with .Mrs. T. L Casey and Albert .Miteliell furnishing the music, was enjoyed from eleven until Kin lire was enjoyed from 8:30 until eleven o'cloek, Miss Mary Campbell winning the ladles' prize, a bridge set, and Alex. Williams the gentlemen's prize, ;i three-piece .set eonsistof handkerchief, tie and soeks. The euchre and danee held by the Iroquois Club last night was attended by fo/ty-two couples, and those who were fortunate enough to be present declare the event to have been one of the most delightful ever held under the auspices of the club. Iliglil> i'lnjoyable Aflalr. limine and Dane,- at Iroquois flub a In December, the Relief Fund of tie Pennsylvania lanes West of Pittsburg pitid out a total of $50,23ft.00\ of which '$21,500.00 were for families of members who died, and $28,73ft.00 for members unable to work. Th.« sum of $7,441,851.01 represents the t1 •'. i payments of the ltelief Fund of the Pennsylvania Twines since it was established in 1880. i'In the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie in the month of December, payments to the amount of $ 11 ft.4 73. 10 were made t<» members of the relbf fund, in benefits to the families of members who died $l.s,2<s:' -0 w re paid, while to members incapacitated for work the benefits amounted t<» $liS.101.20. The total payments on the lines east of Pittsburg since the relief fund was established have amounted to $20,031,861.20. With a membership of I4s.*ft8 men out of approximately 182,000 employes, the Pennsylvania Railroad System Relief Funds paid out in the month of December, 15*00, the sum of Slfift.709.40. According to the report for December, issued yesterday, there has been paid in benefits since the relief funds wert established in iss»; a total of $27,473,71 2.21 System In December. Paid (>m lt> Pennsylvania Railroad CENTENNIAL AT JAMESTOWN Samuel <i riper, pro 4t nt of the Ameriean F«-titration of Labor, in dis- cussing the verdict rendered against A parly of orty American tourists from Seattle and other points in tin- States of Washington and California, were, received in audience yesterday by President Madriz. General Vasquez, commanding: the troops of President Madriz. in a tidegram received here yesterday, says he expects the insurgents to make other and more desperate attempts to take, the town immediately and that a decisive battle is Imminent. No true estimate of the losses has y't been received, and the reports place the figures at anywhere from a hundred to three thousand. There is great consignation in the capital following the capture of Buaca. The stories of the lighting are conflicting, but it. is certain that the Provisional army forced the Administration frees to retreat. and is now within twenty-five miles of Managua. "Car••i'ul, couretous. systematic, intelligent. ''\ e, j - i i i. (, and t.hor■ h are ir}j< 11 v- - which are properly applied to this man He works iv a:td night -lit. rally. His pleasure ?• :<>und in i piece of work well and thoroughiy done. No one callin: n,' n him aiM get the idea that he is overhusy. He always has time l" att> pii to it . alin:> and courteously. There i-• i " 1:' 11 e inliteness which is too small for It is attention, there ia • i.. de'.iil which h wonderful system ili>• - not rin1 and ( omprehend. He attends to all the important and multifarious duties which are hi* and ho i1«»e>- 't all with'"it the slightest fluster and w thout the lea t indication look after. "At th's time he is Chairman of the Republican Stat- Committee of Pennsylvania. the si retary of the Senate Committee on Post Offices and 1*031 I: (which itterulK to the post of!•< e bus of the country), the si cr : - ) \ of th< United States Postal Coinm - si »n ami, in addition to all thi - . r.-c ry to Senator Penrose, one of the foremost Senators, and who has an iniinen.-e amount of business to The Philadelphia Star a few weeks ahad the following about Colonel Andrt ws: city si bsckibkiis Our collector will call on all subscribers in the city within the next week. All in arrears are respectfully requested to pay up t<> Feb. 1, I!) 10.— 1711> The members of the Auditing Board for Jefferson County have been hard at work for a month past, and it will probably be well toward the first of March before the report is ready for publication. The report of the Auditors should be read and pondered by every taxpayer and citizen of the County, as It should be a matter of first consequence to know how and where the public funds are spent. Furthermore, the Auditors have the last word, unless an appeal is taken, but that does not lessen the importance of their findings, or obscure any 'part of the records. Heretofore the (Commissioners' statement was printed about the same time as that of the auditors, and as the latter shows in more concrete form what is in the former, there never was any real good reason for printing both. •When the attention of the Commissioners of Jefferson County was called to the matter by 'phone yesterday afternoon, the official who answered stated that the report i.s not correct. The official did says, however, that the new law does not require the Commissioners to publish an annual report, which is quite a different matter, and which appears to be in line with approved practices in other States. statement to the effect that under a new law the County Commissioners are not compelled to publish the annual report of the Auditors. Various newspapers throughout the State have published, recently, a The plan is to lay I«»w for the present and seize tin- first favorable opportunity to bring- tin matter up In the open. Just how this is to be done bus not been disclosed, but Representative Gardner of Massachusetts,-the insurgent parlinientarian, has been • n trusteii with the duty of pointing a WASHlXGToX, Feb. ." — While the Hepubliean insurgents in the House have been quiescent for a day or two, they are plotting further trouble and the leaders are looking out for squalls. The insurgent leaders now say they will make 110 effort to enlarge the Committee on Rules or depose the Speaker from that committee through the medium of a party caucus. They believe that If they took their case into a caucus they might be beaten. MA SOX. Mich., Feb. 5. — Former State Treasurer Frank P. Glazier, of Chelsea, convicted of embezzlement of $685,0-00 of State funds, was sentenced to serve from five to ten years in State Prison, with a recommendation that the maximum amount be spent at hard labor. CINCINNATI, <>., Feb. 5. — The fate of Mrs. Jeannette Ford, charged vith blackmailing Charles L. W.irriner, the confessed embezzler as treasurer of the Rig Four Iiallvvay, goes to the jury today. By United Pres.4*. "The Court has decided that sucTi Association eom • under the Sherman law. I hope and expect an app< ai to be taken, hut after all the Injury involved, i.s the decision of the Supreme Court bringing the labor organizations under the Sherman law, which will have to he rectified by in Aei oj Congress." "It is r« pugnant to tin very purposes of the Sherman anti-trust law. Labor organizations are not organized por prolit, nor do they deal In the products of labor. They simply aid the men in the protection of their rights. two hundred union hat makers by the jury in the Federal Court at Hartford. Conn., yesterday, deelared: way STEAII SPRUNG k LEAK . • SLEIGHING TRIP TO HAMILTON town, N. Y, j; The committee desires thai all who rhave visited the Chautauqua Lake i jgion. or Jamestown forward their (names to the Exeeutive Seereta.\\ and 'interesting descriptive leaflts will be (sent In response. Frank E. YVallaee, j Executive Secretary, may be aoi dressed at .101 Goke\ Building, .lame. • amestown. New York, b• going to hold a Centennial Celebration August L'9th, and ending September 4lh. of .the present year. Thos,-who have '.visited this eit> and the Chautauqua Lake region will be pleasi <1 to return, /'or Jame.stown Centennial Com* 1 mittee plans a number of unusual [.features in eonncetlon with this hi*- I toricaI celebration. ■ >. —y "THE TIME IS COMING WHEN ELECTRICITY ONLY WILL BE USED FOR HAULING IN MINES" FIRST GAME 10 rim another try It has riot been given out whether not those who fall below will have month or six weeks, probably, before the applicants receive their grades. Those who pass the tests satisfactoi - ily will haw their names entered «■■! the eligible list, and will be availao' for the service, while those who fail will receive grades only. The examination is being conducted b\ Frank Campbell, secretary of th» 1mc.iI <'ivil Service Board, who will forward the papers to the Department at Washington, l>, <\ It will be « Then was one woman in tin? class this forenoon, to fifteen men, and, from all appearances. t'ncle Sam will secure a competent bunch of enumerators for the districts hereabouts. prev:mea that the others got "cold feet." Only sixteen applicants1 reported this forenoon, and 24 this afternoon, making a total of 40 out of GO wno had sent in applications, and it Is Applicant... hereabout who want to help I'ncle Sun count noses for the decennial census that will be taken in April are underging examinations in the study room of the Jefferson Street f.choul building today. ARE GETTING "COLD FEET" BONDSMEN FOR JUDGESHIP CONTEST IN ARMSTRONG CO. ('. M. Means. < in. r cli i trlcal « -ti- Instructions have been sent from Washington to battleships in this vicin ity to hasten to the assistance of the Kentucky, which carries a rrw of thirty. < HAKLIOSTON. S. f\, Feb. Th»- wireless .station h«'i*e picked lip a m cs.su yesterday from steamer Kentucky, cnr«>utc from Ww York to the North Pacific Const. saying that hIh- had sprung ;i i<ak and is .sinking. Hy r»it«d l'rc.ss. ered many rul s vrovernlng its applica- ii) a 11 our s< lin.ils and tin average graduate of our high schools has gath- AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION j The party included Misses Mabel ] and Diaisy Johnston, iren«- Shutter, 1 Martha Coleman, Minnie Colkltt, Majbel Wood, Mabel Heitzenrelter, Mrs. J P. A. Sutter and Messrs. Francis {KJeckenstein, James MeGlnnis, John (Jrube, Anthony Devinne, John Mc- Cullough, r. S. States and Paul Wehrle. The Marshall tally-ho Thursday night carried a happy parly of young j folks from this ,dace? to the home of Amond Blose, Esq., «»r near Hamilton, and if reports are true they had so 'much fun t.iat they did not get home j until a shade before breakfast time yesterday morning. "Two ballot boxes have been open- The new eompllcations are described by the Klttanning Times as follows:pensive and nerve-wracking legal squabble any county in the State has tackled in ma/iy a day, and some of the petitioners have developed "cold I'eet". converge on the proposition that the judgeship contest now on in that county will be about the most ex- The plot thickens down in Armstrong County, and all indications INITIATION III SAGAMORE Continued on Page Two. "The telephone is an example of the wide and growing diffusion of Hcctrh al appliances. The trolley lines are reaching out all over tho more densely populated districts of all countries. lClectrical equipment finds "The use of electricity is general, and is b« eomlng more so each year. Tine was, and not so very long ago, when eb • tri' lightning was confined to the more populous districts. t»ut now you will find eU-etric lightning everywhere, offline* fur out in rural dlstriets.t ion Following is tho Fair an<l colder D. Feb. 5. —• THE WKATHKR jecture. The lead see-sawed from one Tho n,,US(. |,.IS completed considteam to the other and with but two oration of the agricultural appropriaminutcs to play the last half the .score ijon. The measure carries an cxpenstood even, two field goals by Mad fees diture of $ 1 3,41 7,1 3(>. A provision In from difficult positions, turning the tho bl|j authorizing the Secretary of tide. Agriculture to make an inquiry Into Both teams were wrought up to the rnst of- uv|ng went out on a point highest pitch of excitement and they uf order ma(le hy Representative Shirgave each Other but little chance to ,ey a KeIltUl.ky Democrat. make any great display of team work. has begun the considera- The visitors were undoubtedly strong- (jon of thj. t1iplomatlo appropriation er on floor work than the locals, bU] Representative Perkins, of New though they were woefully weak on York, chairman of the Committee on foul shooting. Foreign Affairs, which reported the The shooting of Crtesman and milftgupet announced that it was the Madtes and the floor work of < rlss- purpose of his committee soon to reman featured for the home team, while')n a blJ1 providing for the erection Continued on Page Two. | or purchase of embassy buildings in some of the big capitals of Klirope. The matter had not been inserted in the appropriation bill, he said, because it was subject to a point of order. From start to finish th»- result "f the game was always a matter of eon- I'linxsutHwmy proved to beonr of Un- tawm-y winning by the score of '21 t<» ever played on :» loea.l floor, PunxBii- fa St.* t rind most interesting: contests The lirst k'hiuc in the Inter Y. M. C. A. In twt'cii DuBoIa ami KEITH MO PROCTOR ACTS 11 STIR excitement was manifested on the streets and epeclally among men interested in the judicial contest when it was learned the ballot boxes had been tampered with. The rumor about the court house was to the effect that when ex-Sheriff Frick rturned to the court house Wednesday pallet boes have been left in rooms that were not locked and were accessable to whoever might desire to tamper with them. This is a direct violation of the law. "Two districts are also alleged to have violated the law' in not guarding the ballot boxes, and a claim will be made that in at least two places the "That is the startling development Vn the judgeship contest Thursday morning. "Some of the men who signed th<* petition to have the contest started have got a bad case of 'cold feet' and are alleged to be writing the Attorney General, asking that they be releasd, as thy claim now that when they signed the bond they did not understand that they would bo primarily liable for the amount of the bond if the costs were finally placed on the contestants.""The judgeship contest grows in interest over the county as time progresses and in most districts it is the greatest topic of conversation. An effort is being made, it Is claimed, to secure the $20,000 bond for the contestants by subscription. Loyal Democrats are being asked to go on the bond In blocks of $50 each. At this ratio it would require at least 400 bondsmen, unless some of the men hit the general fund harder than $50 per. "If this proves true and on examination the boxes are found to have" been opened it may result in the entire voting population of the affected districts being called into court to testify as to how hey voted and if a violation of the voting laws is found the entire districts may be thrown out on the final count. evening li had in his possesion two baxes that had been opened. "The present generation of children will know very much more about its application than we do. because they I meet with it In the every day walks of life and its general use makes it very much easier for them to become familiar with Its operation. It Is met with so frequently. In many different forms of application-that one will naturally absorb a large amount of information as to Its behavior. It is being taught "The study of eh-ctrieal science is comparatively recent, and it Is but a short time since it was th« practice of the average fiction writers to solve every impossible situation by the use of electricity, attributing to it powers that were occult, wlerd <>r < anny. This lias disappeared because of the general dissemination of information bearing on the subject. Our knowledge of electricity is not yet comprehensive, but we do know very much more about the natural laws governing it than we know about the laws governing light, heat, sound and other forms of natural elements. lows gineer for the l! ,v I* t& 1. Co., and allied companies of this p I a ■ « . has been secured by the V M. <\ A to give a series of lectures on the practical uses of electricity. The first lecture, given Thursday night, read at* fol- Manager Ooxe, of the Star theatre, has made arrangements whereby only the best class of vaudeville nets will A couple of coal cars off the track be exhibited In his house. Beginning between l-nJo.se and Berwlndale delay- Monday, all the acts of the Star will fro ed the passenger trains on the Pennlnto the Keith and Proctor and Morris sylvanlu due here at 10:43, four hours circuits directly after leaving here.—1. ' yesterday. The members of the team are: O. O. Williams, captain; Edward Howell, John Wood. Octavlus Esias, S. Drummond, A. Drummond, William Halls, Richard Josephs, James Beechey, John A. Davis. John Fish, Henry Stiver, Emery Olsen, Charles Olsen, William Schlimtrier, John Thompson, Patrick Sweeney, Sadoe Hitehlns, George Depp. They expect to return by noon ' tomorrow. The members of the degree team of Mahoning Lodge No. 381, K. of P.. West End, left this afternoon for Sagamore in the Marshall tallyho. To- Inight they will initiate six candidates into the mystic rites of the order. OHiciuU' at Initiation Tills Kvcnlng. West Kiul K. ol* I*. Degree Team Will i Ciara E. Stuchill, of Indiana County, At eight o'clock last night Miss