Punxsutawney Spirit, 1885-10-28

              Mm*® ■ ; Mrfc ii'' FUNX8UTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY. OCT. 28.1885. NO. 21. STORE ST. ELMO! MSN O Y8 AMD Children FO« ; rag Met Their Death in a Sewer. ID FOR PUNXS'Y, PA. ; Aii Oil Couutry Boom. Deeeher on Urnnt. OvItIbc Ml the Chinese. Fm SjkMTllto to Waahligtoa Ty. VwwNtasMi Spirit PUBLISHED EVEBY WEDNESDAY. m it km jutt. PISTE THIS IN YOUR HIT elegant harbors are filled with the ships of almost all nations. We then take the Northern Pacific for Olympia, passing through oceans of spruce ana cedar forests. From Olympia we take an old stage coach to Montecena, which is on the Chehalis River, where we took a small steam boat to the ocean beach on Gev's Harbor. Wo stopped for two days at Peterson's, an old settler who has lived here for thirty years, and is the owner of a large ranche, with thousands of cattle, sheep and horses. There are a number of small lumbering towns along the Chehalis River, and lots of fishermen catching the salmon for the canneries. We left Patterson's Point for the sound country, where we are now sojourning. In my next I will tell you all about AVashington Territory. J. B. Sykes. Kiel Must Prepare to Die. >r \ / and / BO Y9. / / / / / Omaha, Neb., October 23.—News was received at the army headquarters in this city yesterday that a fresh outbreak had occurred at Rock Springs, Wyoming, the sceue of the recent anti-Chinese riots and massacre. The house which was attacked was aboht three miles from Ilock Springs proper, and was occupied by about thirty Chinamen. Pistol shots were tired and clubs and stones were brought iuto action, the whole scene being intensified by the howls of a desperate mob. The coolies fled to the hills, where they remained over night, half-clad, arriving at the military camp yesterday morning nearly frozen. The Celestials were section men employed on the Union Pacific. Stockton, Cal., October 23.—A meeting of 200 citizens, last night, presided over by Supervisor Inglis, adopted resolutions for the removal of Chinatown from the city limits, and containing a pledge to vote against all nominees, at the city election, November 3, who are not pledged forthe removal of Chinatown. The movement includes sonic ol' the best citizens, and a permanent organization will be maintained. San Francisco, Oct. 2;!.—.Sixty- Chinese cigarmakers in tho factory of Shoenigsberger, Falk & Meyers, oil l'ine street, stopped work to-day because the firm refused to discharge their white workmen. It is learned that the Chinese union of this city ordered the strike. This dictation by Chinese that "white men must go," has created no small sensation. Mine Explosion in Virginia. London, Oct. 21.—All hope of Kiel has been dissipated by the Law Committee of the Privy Council, through the Lord Chancellor, givingjudgment against the petitioners' request for a commutation of sentence. In reply to-day to a dispatch sent by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Ottawa, requesting information as to the action being pursued by the Dominion Government on the matter, a reply was received denying that Kiel had been respited or that there was any intention to do so. There was but little public interest felt hero in the case, although the decision was a surprise, the general opiuion being that his sentence would be commuted to imprisonment for life. The Daily Telegraph Bays upon the subject of the Privy Council's decision in the case of Louis Kiel: "Upon the whole yesterday's judgment is so upheld by reason aud comes from lawyei s of such undoubted authority that it may be assumed to cover the justice of the case to the end of the chapter. Kiel cannot complain if Canada is now the master of the situation and exacts the last penalties." SiyleS fO* \ jjdtesh Richmond, Va., October 22.—Considerable excitement was created here this forenoon by a report that a terrible explosion had occurred in Raccoon pit, at Clover Hill Mines, in Chesterfield county, about25 miles from Richmond, by which 100 men had been entombed. Later investigation, however, developed the fact that only two men had been caught by the explosion and were probably dead. Their names are llobson Cheatham and A. L. Leigers. The former was a gasman, whose duty it was to examine the chambers to see if they wen; properly ventilated before the men went to work. Leigers was a contractor and worked a force of hands in the mine. It seems they went down the slope together, made an examination and reported everything all right. How the explosion occurred cannot be positively stated. The two men had not come out, although about 00 men had gone to work. The explosion occurred in the lower end of the slope and caught Cheatham and Leigers, but all the men who were at work nearer the mouth of the slope escaped before the blaik damp overtook them. The rescuing party went into the mine, but could not at first get within 500 feet of the unfortunate men owing to the black damp. This evening they succeeded in recovering the body of Cheatham. Henry Ward Bcechcr's eulogy of Cen. Grant at the Memorial meeting in Tremont Temple, at Boston, was large and full, dealing with Grant as a providential man. Tho oration was characteristic of Becclier, but not so sparkling in points as his addresses usually are. Speaking of the war he said : "The catastrophe was inevitaable. Tho South, like a queenlj' beauty, grew imperious anil exacting; the North, like an obsequious suitor, knelt at her feet, only to receive contempt and mockery. Both parties—Whig and Democrat—drank of the cup of her sorcery. It killed the Whig party. Tho Democrat was tougher, and was only besotted." Tho catastrophe came, "Lincoln, sad and sorrowful, felt the moderation of his generals and longed for a man of iron mould who had but two words iu his military vocabulary, victory aud annihilation. He was coming! He was heard from at Henry and Donelson. Three great names were rising, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and larger than either, Grant." Died While Directing: Tliem. Chicago, October 23.—Two mcu lost their lives ill a sower, to-day, and the third who attempted their rescue, was so poisoned by sewer t;:is that he will probably die. The three men, Stephen Brennock,Edward McCarthy, and Peter Moonev, were occupied in skimming grease otl' tilt by water which flows through stock yards sower. Mooney and McCarthy were searching for some obstacle in the sewer when they were overcome by gas. Brennock, who attempted their rescue, was also overcom •. The lirst two were dead when taken out. Massillon, October 22.—About (i o'clock this evening, while the gang of men employed in digging the trench for the Main street sewer (which is nine feet deep) were at work, the sides caved in, and one of Hie number, Jacob Rhine, was covered with the falling earth. "Workmen removed the dirt oft'his head in a short time, and he talked to those trying to rescue him. It took an hour's time to get him out, and when removed he was dead. A doctor, who was present, stated that death resulted from exhaustion produced by the efforts of the man to extricate himself, lie was au old and respected German resident CO years of age, and 'eaves 111 children, seven by his first wife and six by the present one, the last ones all being quite young. —Max O'Rell says that. London eontains more Roman Catholics than Rome, more Jews than the whole of Palestine, more Irishmen than Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh, more Welshmen than Cardiff, and more country folks than the unities of Devon, Durham and \V am ickshirc put together. It lias a birth in every live minutes; has seven accidents every day in its eight thousand miles of streets ; has an average of 40 miles of streets opened and 15,001) new houses every year. In IS83 thero were added 22,110 new houses to the vast aggregate of dwellings which icalled the metropolis, thus forming 308 new streets and one new square, covering a distance of (it! miles and 81 yards. SHI Titusville, October 22.—Titusville has received considerable boom since the advent of natural gas and and the rise in oil. Iron and turuiture liiau| ufacturers are crowded, aud many are enlarging their works. Considerable building has been going on, and the latest is a new opera house, projected by ex-Mayor David Emery, the well-known producer. Work was commenced on it to-day. It will be of the approved ground floor plan, with parquette, orchestra and family circles, and will have a'seating capacitv of 1,200. An additional feature feature will be a banquet hall, parlors, reception rooms, &c. Bedford, October 22.—For several weeks a panther has been traveling through the mountains in I he southern eml of this county, to the great terror of the residents of that section. Last evening Joseph Smith, a lad agetl 13, went to the Held for his cows, remaining absent a long time, llis father started in search of him. Uponentering the pasture a honible sighs met his gaze. There lay the boy upon the ground, his entrails protruding and much of the flesh torn from hi» bones. The body was terribly mutilated. The panther hud literally enjoyed a feust of human tie? h. A iarte party of armed men are now in the inouutains iu pursuit of the animal.—Jatnes D. Fish the ex-President of the Marine Bank, who was taken from Auburn State prison to New York to testify against Fred. Ward, was informed Thursday, while sitting iu the ottlco of the District Attorney, that the corpse of his son, who recently died in Louisiana, reached the Graud Central depot en route to Connecticut for burial. The old man put his hands to his face and sobbed bitterly. Trices Guaranteed as Zowesi m Jejferson County. •FRANK P-GKAFJUPe*~ fjRi ANi)\LIFElN8USANCE AGENT Pcnybctawniy, Pa. ■ Offloe in tbe St. Elmo Hotel. JOHN G. ERNST, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, McCalmoxt Township, Pa. Collection! made. Deed* and other legal pa•pan cknowledged.  T B.MORRIS, * JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Young Township, Pa. Collections and otber business promptly attended to. JOHN T. BELL, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, PUNXSCTAWNEY, PA. Office one door east of Shields' store. All business entrusted to liis care wi 11 receive prompt attention, and all monies paid over to the parties immediately upon receipt thereof. Special attention given to collections, acknowledgement of deeds and taking depositions. 3tt»ttcc$ of tf« Ufeace. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Office in corner room, Torrence Block. T)R. W. J. CHANDLER, SURGEON DENTIST, T)R. S. J. HUGHES, SURGEON DENTIST, PUNXBCTAWNEY, PA. Office over T.owry's store, Mahoning street. T)R. w. j. Mcknight, PHYSIC I AX AND SURGEON, Brookvillf, Pa. calls promptly responded to. PUKXSCTAWNEY, PA. Has permanently located in this place, anu otters liis professional services to the citizens ot this vicinitv. He may be found at all times at his office in the Campbell building. German language spoken. Member of Board of Pension Examiners. •  T)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, T\R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Office in residence on North Findlay street PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Having permanently located in Covocle, PaM I offer my professional services to the people of this vicinity. Chronic diseases of women a specialty. __  T"\R. J. SHEFPER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, f~)R. 8. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSCTAWNEY, PA. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and vicinity.  1~\R. S. S. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCNXSCTAWNEY, PA. Office in dwelling. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and the surrounding oountry. WOl CWi -?*<? \ » And 'EAPesr i T)R. WM. ALTMAN, /  PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, / Pdnxsctawney, Pa. / Ja @ Offers his professional services to the citizens ot Punxsutawney and vicinity. * Fcnysutawney, Pa. Office two doors east of the Post Office. T}lt. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SVROEON, Beynoldsville, Fa. Q C. BENSCOTEU, DISTRICT A TTORNE Y, Clayville, Pa. Collections entrusted to him -will Ik- diligently attended to and promptly paid over. TTT M. GILLESPIE, A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, Brookville, Pa. CMflcs in MatBon's office, Matson building, opposite the Court House.  TT C. CAMPBELL, ATTORNEYSAT-LAW, JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, And Justice of the Peace, Punxsntawney, Pa. Office in Mundorff building, nearly opposite SPIRIT building. Collections made, depositions taken, and all kinds of legal business attended to. Brookville, Pa. Office in Matson Block, opposite the public buildings.  TENKS & CLARK, ATTORNEYS-AT LAW, QONllAD & MUNDORFF, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA TT, Office in Rodger's building, opposite the Clemjnents House. Legal business entrusted to them will receive prompt and careful attention. Office with Judge Jenks. Legal business carefolly attended to. TTDWARD A. CARMALT, A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, Brookville, Pa. WDiTSLOW Jt CALDERWOOD, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA IF, ProinTimr, Fa. Office one door cut of the Weetern Union Telefffcph office, Practice in the court* of Indiana and Jefferson oounttei. M. REWER, ATTORNET-ATLAW, PUMXSOIAWNKT, Pk. Office on Gilpin street, two door* north of Shields' furniture store. A LEX. J. TRUITT, A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, ' PtWMCTAWNEY, Pi. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Cfrmts of adjacent counties. —The October term of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts was opened ■with prayer, the only instance of the kind hi that State on "record. IIRT8 >ents• Olympia, W. Ty., Oct. 12,1886. Editor Spibit Having promised when I left home on September 24th, with my brother John, for a trip across the continent, to write to ray friends in the East, I address the Spirit as the best means of reaching them all at ance. Leaving Sykesville via. the R. & P. Railroad we reached Chicago on the evening of the second day. Chicago is a big town. From Chicago we took the Burlington and Quincy route, crossing Illinois in a southeasterly direction through vast fields of uncut corn, till we arrive at Quincy, on the bank9 of the Missinsipi, thence taking the Hannibal & St. .loe railroad through Missouri to Kansas City, on the Missouri River, where we stopped for one day. Missouri is a flue country for farming and stock raising. Kansas City is quite a large town, built on the roughest spot of ground in all Missouri. From Kansas City via. the Union Pacific railroad through Kansas wo pass over a most beautiful farming country. After ouc day and uighrs travel we arrive at the Western border of Kansas. There are very few settlers in this part of the country, and between this aud Denver City it is one vast plain, where only a lew years ago the Indian and buffalo roamed unmolested. Now thousands of cattle herds have taken the place of the bufl'alo, and the cow boy has usurped the rights of poor Lo. There are cow boys enough here to supply all the ' demand in the east, providing the girls don't want more than one apiece. Wo readied Denver in the morning aud remained all day. It is a beau ticity, embowered in shade trees, with broad streets and good hotels, an excellent place for a hungry traveler to stop aud refresh himself. The countryfround the city is cut full of irregating ditches, aud the laud is very fertile. Leaving Denver we travel north for hundreds of miles over vast prairies with no inhabitants save cattle and the festive cow boy. Wo pass through a number of prairie dog villages and see a few herds of antelopes, with the llocky Mountains iu sight all day. About supper time we reach Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, famous iu border annals for its great blood-letting facilities. The town contains about 7,000 people, including a number of civilized Indians, Leaving Cheyenne in the evening with a train of twelve coaches ancl a double header, we commence ascending the Hocky Mountains. Night overtakes us before reaching the summit, for twenty miles back we can see the lights in Cheyenne. Sherman, the summit, is reached a little after 8 p. m. It is 9,000 feet above sea level. Near Sherman stands the Oaks Aimes monument, which we can see in the dim moonlight. Now we are whirled down the steep grade at the rate of a mile in about 40 seconds, stopping a few minutes at Laramie City to see Bill Nye, and as daylight breaks wo are dashing over a barren, saudy desert. As far as the eye can see there is nothing but sand. This is probably where the Western people get the '•8aud"of which they all seem to be abundantly possessed. Bitter Creek runs through here, but like the towns on railroad maps which lack nothing but houses and people, Bitter Creek lacks nothing but water. About 9 o'clock we reach Rock Springs, where the Union Pacific Coal Mines are situated among the sand covered bluffs. ] Fere wo find several hundred soldier tents, about fifty chinamen were recentiy killed hero by the miners. About noon we reach Green River Station. There are all kinds of curious shaped rocks here, resembling towns and castles. At Grander our town is cut in two, one section going on to California and the other to Portland, Oregon. From Granger we travel through another desert country till we reach Montpelier, a mountain town in Idaho, where w e stop for dinner, llere for the first time, we meet the noble red man in his wild state, lie is a dirty, unwashed, unkempt, half naked sort of a beast, and we did not attempt to cultivate his acquaintance. The next stop is Soda Springs, where little boys and girls come to the train with soda water. The springs are on the summits of little hills about rhirty feet high. The road runs along Bear River for a long ways until we reach Snake river. In the evening we pass American Falls, which affords a grand sight from the car window. The Snake River country is rainless. We leave the Snake River country at Huntingdon, our route runniug up Burnt River through the gold region. On both sides of the railroad we see miners at work, moving great mountains of < ar:h in search of pay dirt. From this on until we reach the snow capped mountains alon<< the Columbia River there is nothing especially attractive, but there is no more beautiful scenery than that aloug the Columbia River. The mountains are high aud grand, festooned by vines! and ribboned by cascades. One of! the most beautiful waterfalls is the Moltnoma, where the water descends 1 in an unbroken fall of eight hundred 1 and fifty feet! The train stops here fifteen miuutes to givo the passengers time to look at the mighty cataract. We arrive at Portland about noon. —An eagle in Central Park, NtW We remain here several days. It is a York, picks up a log of wood weighlive city ol over 40,000 people, and its iug 9»i pounds and hies around with it. i I / \ ! —-THE | /' roR \ | / \ i / Thenost IHB \ i /^PLe. St Line of \ j / Section of \ : ! /C°TTow etiiTS \ | / tv0o, AND \i i/ x»0 it. : „ ""«««»» / mm *H B k H j» ?■ h w H II Hi ■ |^N A *