Punxsutawney Spirit, 1910-04-30

              3 3 f v. . ; on the Rise. Wuke die Trip—stiliscrihcr* an' Knsy «o Oel. Costs Vol a Tent to Kilter, Win or Tin-: h\i.m>t ii<>.\ is m:\nv Had the old in ok.sburg at Nomination Blank The Spirit Punxsutawney, Pa. ... Gentlemen: I respectfully nominate _ —  .who lives at No Street, District No. , as an eligible candidate in your Oreat Tour Contest, and will do all in my power to help her win.  Respectfully, - - - - Oive date and hour sent in. The Spirit will present »IR n GnW to tl»e person who first sends In the above blank filled In with the name of the lady receiving the largest vote In this contest. X ern Pennsylvania: music, both vocal and Instrumental, together with a delightful luncheon, and a mock marriage, of which Miss Wlnslow was the bride, Theodore Caldwell, the bridegroom, and David Crissman the officiating parson, mad up a moat delightful evening. On the occasion of her seventeenth birth anniversary, IMlss Edith Wlnslow 'last night entertained a number of her friends at her home on Torrence Street. VOL. IV—MO. 192 Ratification of W agie Agreement Will/Carry With a Big Majority RAILROAD SMI PICKING UP FAST PUNXSUTAWNEY, P SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 30,1910. FORMER DUBOIS GIRL ENOS LIFE WITH BULLET outman xets $2361 Damages 'Candidates in Great ■ Tours Contest Already Working for Big Prize PRICE TWO CENTS _i  for Plaintiff in Suit |st Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Signing of Wage Scale Helps Business—Coal Traffic Verdici Agaii Brjoodjng Over Her Husband's Death Mrs. Isabel Rodgers Suicides. WELL WORTH THE TIME BHOOKViLLE RESIDENT Spirit Commended on all Sides for Its Unparalleled offer to Young Ladies. Practically all Locals Heard From Have Sanctioned Work of Representatives. npBE DEJU TO mi CONTESTANTS KEH CREEK MINERS VOTE "YES" FOB EMPLOYE'S NEGLECT imcs I*urefill Chosen an Minors* |{op. i resent at I vo on Arbitration Funeral norvices will bt» held Monday.V. M. Truman, an old and wiril knoVn resident of Brookvllle, rffed yeateVday afternoon at bis Jinaf'e, of cancejy aged seventy L Tho dece-a«ed was/oorn i/t Nottingham, England, yf this country about forty*right ago, locatin1 in he made his home unti/clahjifed by death, lie was a. trade, upright in his dealings, and hold tne respect of all .who knew him. fvent Operation frtr Appendicitis Ire—In jut «•«! in Brawl J-'lvc Ihiys I/lit r ill .Mosffi'mo, \I.TII IM I\1I> HY VIIHH \l> Everybody is invited and this impressive and interesting production will prove to b»» well worth the time spent in seeing it. Special seenlo effects have been prepared f«»r this occasion, showing the condition of life in the slums of thlarger cities in the United Stat s. Adjutant <"*roft and the members <»T th«> Salvation Army are putting forth special efforts for the success of their production. "The Drunkard Home I demonstration." in three parts, on •Tuesday evening, May 3. •W. MYIJ/S FOR OPERATORS CIRCUS DUPLICATES BIG SUCCESS DF FIRST NIGHT ARCHITECT HUSTON GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY Jury Brings in Verdict and Reccomends Leniency of Court. Side Show in a Class all by Itself—Lait Performance Tonight. Net. 1910. Si!! 8,K 1 7; 1 909, $1(14,429: 1908, S1 89,449; 1 907. $228,834. Total increax , 1910 $271,080; 1909, $212,998; 1 90S, $241,805. Expenses and tax. 1910. $538.- 1 1 X; 1909, $15X1.092; 190S, $425,064; 1 907, $438,770. dross, 1910, $757,935; 1909, $540. 031; 1808, $014.51:5; 1907. $058,013. The monthly report of the it,, ri. & P. road for the month ending March 31. has just been issued. It shows that the business for last month wa-s tht* heaviest enjoyed by the road for months past, says the DuBois Express. Thus heavy business wu-* no doubt caused to a large extent by the fact that coal was being taken to the markets in large quantities In anticipation | <»f a strike. The or. business started in about the middle of last week and will in a measure offset the heavy falling off of coal traffic. The figures for March are as follows: Continued on page 2, Mrs. Rodgers wail formerly Miss Hunter, n Bister of James- Hunt• r, the well known (B.. Ti. P. Railjiroatl engineer, of iDu-Bois. It was i In the CleartUldi bounty town that the greater part «>f the ten-years' courtship was carried on. James M. Ro rig era, her husband, was thirty-seven years of age, while she was thirty. Arfter a courtship of ten year* they were married a little over a year ago, and went to house-, keeping in FJast End, Pittsburg. Rodders was a contracting plumber and highly successful. A few months ago Kodgera became ill and he gradually became weaker until death I claimed him. Mrs. llodgerst rash act followed shortly after his? death. Iirooding over the death of her husband, iMrs. Isabel Rodgers, of •Pittsburg, knelt beside his body and* sent a bullet crashing into her head, causing instant death, Thursday evening.A FIRE ENGINE IS NEEDED III PUNXS'Y WANT STATE POLICE TO HELP III SEAOCH Imoar iter Conflagration Could ;e Been Averted—The of Prevention. Thursday evening's big erowi the ftingding and BarnumbailedJ circus in the Y. M. O. A. was zJl doubled Inst night, and as a /consequence the exhibition was a great improvement over the finst-ciaw show of the opening night.^J Clarivoyant Says Missing Adams Boy Was Kidnapped— That Ought to Settle it. of the men in falMri?, rammed was rendered unconscious when At Mpsgrove, Mr. Trout man changed cars. and. while waiting in the Pennsylvania passenger station for the train on the A. V. Ft. It., a brawl started between a couple of foreigners. Mr. Troutrnnn, in endeavoring to get out of the way of the belljjjetiAUl*. The\jury, in the ease of Frank J. TroutmaiTu. vs. the Pennsylvania railroad company, whleh has been on trial in Common Pleas Court at Brookville th» past two days, with Judge Holt, of leaver County, presiding, at lo;;!«t <|>'cloek flhls morning returned a $2,301.24 daniag-s for the piainViff. Immediately following the readiitg of the Jury's verdict, court was adjourned. On February 28, 190k9, Mr. Troutman, who is a reiident \»f Ford City, was brought to th«- Pitnxsutawney Hospital In this place, suffering; from appendicitis, on March 1 In- underwent an operation and on. March 11 he left the hospital, having made one of the most satisfactory and complete recoveries on record. He visited with frfcendB here until March 19. when he left for home. Just previous to his departure lie was seen by one of the hospital staff and pronounced to be in first, class condition, i WHOLESALE MURDER SUSPECT 10 BE TRIED Continued on Page Three. 10 REBUILD pro Agreement. Philadelphia, operators' rcn mission will so hituh as (lit-hp ifig* will be fin Tpe old A' stanils and A. has (been selec therA caused Mr. Purcell t< mtasitln. pit Lowers li! SONS SERVICE AIC. P. CHURCH lrmucfl iatGly upon th«* ufe*entaUon ( of the wrftlVt* the jury was polhad. und 1 each man answered to his acquies-I cejice in th<- finding. A motion for arrest of judgment or suspension of son toxica so that re isons might be presented for a new trial was made at once ami granted. Huston was not in count when the jury handed its verdict to the Judge. Leniency Is llccommctulctl. "The jury would recommend leniency on the part of the court in pronouncing sentence, on account of his irreproachable refutation prior to 'this charge. The verdict was reached shortly after 5 o'clock, when the twenty-seventh ballot was taken. The verdict was accompanied with this recommendation to men y: HARRIS BURG, April 30—Capitol Architect Joseph M. Huston was yesterday convicted of conspiracy in 'falsely certifying to a padded bill for desks for the state capitol, after a trial of almost four weeks and by a Jury which deliberated 2G hours. YOUNG GIRL EXPIRES Continued on Page ThroU Already candidal*s for those great trips arc busily at work, ami subscriptions are rapidly coming: Into the offlfe. The amount of interest being shown af this early stage Is an Indication that there will be some hustling done by the various contestants for these tine vacation trips. Come in anil for more particulars in the interest or ymyself, or a friend, about this wonderful.offer. That is, if there is anything ybt* 4o not un- Then a visit covering about two weeks to the world's greatest city, our own New York, and an oc.-an voyage to the famed Bermuda Tslands, who ye u nlaue a 11 ruc;J,iuiid . «■*"*'«»—tnnnjr of visitors from all nations every year, makes a vacation tour that will amply repay every effort put forth to win it. three days at Munich, with Cologne. < 'oblenai, Hamburg, the Rhine and the great  Ta.salon Play, with all expenses provided for, is a tour to long for, to 'plan for, to work for and to thorough l> enjoy and always remember. day# at Pari ing slops of for a is day There is i in the quallt: I'hc Spirit is being commanded on all Bides for its action in offering to '•'Ven young ladles of this town and neighborhood such splendid vacation trips at absolutely no cost to them except a little effort upon their part In asking their friends and neighbors to support them. The Spirit believes that when it has anything good to gi\< out. it should go to the people of Punxsutawney and vicinity; in other words, among the people who support the paper and make it possible to get out a high-class, up-todate dally newspaper in this borough. To but two locals In this district h4l|feplnced themselves on record as Ating against the ratification. At the district board meeting of the U. M. W. of A. at Clearfield yesterday. James Purcell, of Tioga •ountj*, vice president of the district ri*ga»issntion, was chosen to repreient*he miners on the Arbitration *'* vided for in the wage Charles W. Mills, of a-as selected as the resentative. This corntie all local disputes, rges, etc., and the flnd.il.titration Board still P*. White, of DuBois, .ed to fill the vacancy by the appointment of the Arbitration Com- tlvfes on the wage committee. In an interview with a representative of the Spirit, Patrick Gilday, president of District No. 6, said. "The returns from the locals are coniin*: in fast and there is no doubt but that the wage agreement will be rartlled by an overwhelming majority."/ed to county saneresentaIn the and. agreelargey. and m all. : rallk1 in The ' Returns from the various locals throughout mining* District No. 2 indicate that the miners will ratify the wage agreement signed by their representatives at Altoona. one week ago, lij' an overwhelming majority. William Gohe of Aberdeen, Washington, Thought to Have Murdered 150. months of suffering. Miss \$k Inner, of Pine street, aged years, dietl at the OAdrlan ki night of tuberculosis of t'rtrudo Skinnor Dit*d  lit in \<lriail Hospital. RAFTING DAYS KOI OVER A matinee Is in progress this afternoon, and the last performance will be given tonight. The side show,with its wild man, strong man, tattooed man, fat man, land lobster, Siamese groundhogs and pigs, wingless bat and pink-eyed rabbit (the only otle in captivity) is in a class all by itself. H. T. >M|rtln's "Dip of Death," in which he jumps from a sprinpr board to a hand stand on the pommels of a horse twelve feet away, is an act  equal of which one seldom &ees outside the big: tents. As ringmaster, Quay Hewitt, with his Noodles Pagan voice, and his in* promptu announcements, is alone '.vvprtli the price of admission. The Pardon 'Brothers, tumblers,  Myers and H. T. Martin, on the bars: Watsot} and .Mycirs, flapjack artists, are extra linf. Their stufnts are •dlfttciilTT and of the four-ring, twoplatform calibre. The clowns Verb" Funnier, the tumblers tumbled better, the high bar artists and the flying ring wizards performed more difficult stunts, the band master's gyrations were more 'veihememt, the ring master's &piete were louder, longer and better, and the entire performance went off without, a Jjltelw • "The opinion is growing, and it is | based on sound reasoning, that tin Stat«* Constabulary, located at Punxfrsutawney, should have been ealled in i i<> take charge of the search for the missing Adams boy. it was for just such emergencies as this that the police were organized. The force Is composed of men particularly fitted for this line of work and who know every detail that should be carried out to make their search effective. They entirely eliminate distance, making their work general Instead of purely local. Under their capable direction 1 the police forces of every city and town within a wide radius works together in the case like one big organization. This is not to the discredit of any local police force or officer, j'but the work iff the state police is conlined only within the limits of the state, making their authority almost absolute wherever they may happen to be. Th« JlidRwaj Record, in speaking ; of the st'arch for the lost boy, says: iMrs. Lewis, a Pittsburg clairvoyant, has the missing Kane boy, Cdwin Adams, located in her mind. She says he has been kidnaped, but that f just .at present the power** that give .her the remarkable gift oi' "Seeing •i ih-'iigV1 hnvr n.vt yet informed per as to who took the boy, where, or whether a ransom will be demanded' or not. CHANCE FOR ROOD EUESSEB she is survived by her mother, a nistcr. .11 iv. Kct-iif, of hnHois, and live brothers. Hfalr, uy this place; Hurt, Turner. :in«l .Mni-fis, of Iml'ois: and Preston, of Uu/noldHVllle. Funeral servient will lj*r }■ the M. K. at >Hfii t. n oVloek Momlftr-'tnorninir Miss 1 'A fler fSertrude^ t wrnty-fiv^ Hospital i; tjxc Jolnjs. Miss Skhtfter in a (If her home with her brother, Blair Skinner, for severtwenty-iive years, died at the Adrian Hospital for some months. <) Israel, Dudley Buck Marry Howe Shelly Duet—.Miss Rinn and Mr. Williams. Abide With Me W. F. Sudds Chorus—In Heavenly Lov Abiding, Solo—Miss Mary Itinn, F»ar not Ye. Oltvu, Solo—Jennie Song  Duet—Miss Jones and Mrs. Hamilton, Jnspirer and Hearer <»t' Prayer. (Jelbel.Chas. (i. Spross The Havrnly Hamilton Gray Wood hall and Jenks. Chorus—Christ, our tPassovrr, (Solemn Thought Male Quartette—{Williams, Listers. Ambrose Chorus—-Gloria in <Exe»lsis. •• Mozart *Solo—Jos. Williams, "One Sweetly On Sunday evening. at eight o'clock, a song service will be given in the Central Presbyterian Church. The following program has been arranged : For Sunday Kvening. Pleasing- IVogmiii lias Been Arranged PVrc HEW AUTO GARAGE The towns of Ridgway and flit. Marys are both agitating: the purphase of a lire engine, and are going after it in a way that would Indicate that they are hound to get it. Where an ounce of prevention is worth several hundred pounds of cure, the cost of the ounce should not be considered. The time may come when Punxsutawney will be in a predicament where the possession of a lire engine might save thousands of dollars worth of property, and nothing should trtanri in the way of its purchase at once. Without a dissenting vote council should on next Monday night vote t<» purchase the best In the market. i llosslter's welfare means a great I1 ileal to Punxsutawney. This is the I natural trading center for the Rosj si'ter people and any calamity there is felt indirectly here. hand. ment been tfty possessor of a Ore. engine, the tire that yesterday morning destroyed the businss section of Kossiter might-have been Jt Is trtrc"trmT the Infififrngs were of frame and burned quickly, but It was a full hour and a half before the entire block was in flames, and a eall when the fire broke out would have taken the engine from Punx'y to Kossiter in less than an hour. The buildings that burned on the opposite side of the street from the big conflagration, could have undoubtedly been saved, if an engine had been on I'unxsutawne.v lire depart - The prosecution, headed by prosecuting attorney William Campbell, of Hoquiaf, h is collected a large amount of evidence and expects to be a.bla to prove not only that CJohl was guilty of ihe murder of Hatteberg, but that, AHRKDEEN, Wash., April 30—Intense interest is manifested throughout the i.irays Harbor region in the murder case against William do hi of Aberdeen, ex-manager of the sailors' union or drays Harbor, which is to come up 'for trial next Monday at Montesano. dohl is to be tried upon the specific charge of having murilered. his former friend and companion, Charles Hateberg, a German sdilor, l>*t he is suspected of having robbed and murdered scores of other sailors, whose bodies were found in drays Harbor during the past ten years. EUBSTOIIE LEAVES' FOR SBIIIH AFRICA Continued on Page Three. In giving the fire losses yesterday ■ the 8pirit stated that Nathan Abrams, in whose store the lire started, did not carry an insurance. It has since been learned, however, that Mr. i Abrams ,Wh<j was visiting in Philadelphia at the time of the blaze, carried 1$7,000 with a company reprefsented by F. B. Hastings, of this }place, and $5,000 with a company represented by John L. Thomas, alio of Punxsutawney. Ross Iter citizens ore not greatly £>y the conflagration that /wiped out the business section of ' their town early yesterday morning, /and a number of those who had build' ings burned in the fire are already having plans drawn for the erection of new structures on the sites of the /old ones. RossHer Fire Still m (lie Front—Abranm Carried $12,000 Insurance. The Rood, old rafting days, when great flotillas of rafts went down the Mahoning every year, live only in the memory of a few of the older residents of this section, but even the youngsters can remember when live or six went down every spring flood season. Clearfield Spirit ••Lansberry & Haney started nine rafts of timber on the flood for Marietta yesterday, and when the Spirit Editor asked if these rafts would not he the last to go down the West branch of the Susquehannah. • Mr. stated that he and Mr. Haney would send some down next year and perhaps for several years yet." That rafting is not a thing of memory only in these parts is evident from the following appearing in Friday's SALISBURY. N*. C., April 30— Descendants of Daniel Boone and a host of other admirers of the famous pioneer, gathered today at the old Boone homestead near here and took steps for the perpetuation of the memory of Daniel Boone and the preservation of the cabin In which he lived while a resident of Davidson county. ST. PAUL, Minn.. April 30—Society in New York', Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis and several other cities was represented at the wedding of Miss Louise Sehulze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Sehulze, of this city, and Theodore Pomeroy, son of Mrrs. C. King Pomeroy, of Chicago, which took place this aternoon in St John's Episcopal Church. BUFFAIjO, April 29. — President Tait Is today a guest at the Ansley Wilcox home, whore Roosevelt took • the Presidential oath, across the Street from tty John O. Milburn .'home. In which MoKlnley died. •By United Press. The Wilson Coal and Coke Company and other mines about the Pittsburg, Summerville and Clarion Hailroad. have advanced the mining ruto of coal three cents per net ton. MINING RATE ADVANCED. mony. and a numerous suite, departed to- LONDON', April 30—Viscount Gladstone, accompanied by the Vicountess day for South Africa to assume his J pairing, having an expert mechanic, duties as first Governor-General of j which enables them to guarantee all the new South African confederation' ropalr work. This is the place to composed of the union of Cape Col- | your auto supplies, gasoline, oils, ony, Natal, the Transvaal and the | grt.ase, etc. Orange River Colony. It is proposed A CUU the new garage will conto inaugurate the union officially bn fvinoe you that this is one of the Miay 31, under the presidency of the bogt auto parages in Ithis part of Prince of Wales, who is going to th<? glate. i South Africa to preside at the cere- t They will make a specialty of re- ,.tir n<w place for business, with plenty of room for storage, and will have cars for sale and hire at all ! times. \jft\io n«vv garage, formerly the National "Livery Burn has been romoil«*1. il l>> the iuau:itft-r.s. < &■ Haumgardner, 4inh.> 'fireproof tine roomy garage./; j T-hev Witt' of^njfl Monday, May ather - WASHINGTON. COUNCIL MEETING MDNDAT vf^RTJUNEIMHLBIRTHlUT The Spirit Is going to giv<' a year's [subscription to the person who, within the next week, registers the closest guess to the correct figures. A great (leal of conjecturing Is going on as to the population ot' Punxsutawney, and it is (Igijit'd anywhere from nine to fifteen thousand. U» Person Coming Close*! to Town's Population. The census taker in Punxsutawney wound up today at noon and by Monday their reports will be in the hands of the director of census at Washington, I). <\ The enumerators are bound to secrecy as to their results obtained by them as to the town's population, and it will be a secret until bulletins on the subject are published by the Census Department some time during June. Spirit Will <;ive Year's Subscription THK Foll'owln gla the D. C„ April 29.— forecast for West- Fair and cooler .tonight and Sunday.j The borough council will meet In regulr «esslon on Monday night, and In addition to the regular routine business will have other matters of Importance to consider.  In all probability the raise by the Phillips Gas Company from twenty to twenty-five cents per thousand cubic feet of gas will be taken up and the advisability of purchasing a fire engine will bo considered. f v a nothing skimp or cheap «\f these spl.-ndld tours, '••Vr i:iir«-p.,  iv«« \Jnys at I.*«»njjtair.' '"five s. thrlv--*)«►***" at llcrlln. About one half of the locals district have fieen heard/'fron with but ty5 exceptkjris, the merit been cirfitted. * number of localsla/e voting tocPa a ratification expected fr The mines alfmg the Beech Oret \road heard from i sever# code they voted "Yes", jft. operations are all bell b«* favorable, and the Indiana workings have practically a I tinned the work of their r«| i