Punxsutawney Spirit, 1911-03-06

              Continued on Page Three. Continued on Page Two. Chaos Reigns During The Closing Hours of Congress PRICE TWO CUNTS (HI UK mm BUR Punxs'y To Pittsburg Via. Iselin Hrtul Qhirges Made By Some Art Quickly Denied By Others. Contratticted Each Other General Belief Is That B., R. & P. Will Start Construction of Line From Iselin To Braddock This Spring. . Have Had Hard Time Vigo Put the A nan lanes. Cross-examination — Mr. 8mlMi dressed my finger after it was hurt. The doctor did not treat It afterwards. Mr. Smith told me to go and drown the rats, and when 1 did not do it, but was letting them out, hi: hit me. I don't Unow how often he hit me. The "nail came off niv flnger. and then a new nail grew out, as It Is now. me. on the third finger of luy right hand. The nail came off. K Of iEIEfIT 10 ronin \ President Is Called I'pon to Aid lint Is Smitten b> Senator Owens, I MICH TO CONTEND WITH • ■ parently bewildered, sped across th - ralls instead of waiting until the train came to a stop. She ran in front of the engine when it wi« but a few feet from her and had not the engineer saw her and brought Uie train to a stop with u jar and a crash that rattled the window panes of the coaches, the yo<:p? woman would have doubtless run dowr.. The train was pulling into the south end of the station aB the girl np- Miss Buhite. a teacher in the '~Moe schools, had a narrow escape from serious injury and perhr.ps instant death one day last week. The young woman resides here and makes the trip to Cloe every morning over the Pennsylvania. On this occasion she was a trifle late and hurried to the station from East End, crossing the tracks In front of the depot. .u*Pitopi:i.-\Tio\ i>i u.s iwss PARALYSIS BRINGS DEATH TO REYNOLDSVILLE MAN men throughout this section are confident that within a year the main line of the B.. R. & 1'. railroad will have swerved to the south and that inBtead of running to Pittsburg via Butler and the li. & O. tracks, trains will make their was to the Smoky City over the Indiana branch. \ I The majority of the testimony of| fered in the county home investigation, the first installment of which appeared in Saturday's issue of The Bt>iHt and the remainder of which Vtil be found in today's issue, is conflicting. The witnesses flatly contradicting one another and by a perusal 4>f the following and a careful consid- IIMG DELAYED C0NIECII11S OF THOl LET LIKES BEING MADE The guests assembled til 1 1 o'clock and at twelve partook of a suniptu ous banquet. Following the dinner addresses were delivered by Oscar Light, Rev. Price, J. L. Rosenthal and Mr. Rosenberg, the Jewish instructor. During the remainder of the afternoon the guests were r->- gailed with music, Oscar Mgh* and Silas Katzen performing on tl. violin. Siff, of Desire. The out-of-town guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. A. Katzcti and son, Silas, of Reynoldsville; Mr 11»«: Mrs. M. Katzen, of Soldier William «hwbm ■$ KMM place, participating. _____ CONFIflMATIOH SERVICES sures Are Killed. Both Parties Without Leader* ship and Several Big Mea- The confirmation of Oscar Lislit. the thirteen-year-old son of .Mr. and Mrs. Abe Light, of Church Stieft, was observed yesterday afternoon ;so\ei'S (lo\V Crossovers Arrival at llic Kim This Mianinti and Cars Will Kun \ f*\ Over .New Trarks To\/ inorrow The Nmg-dclayed crossovers which will connect the DuBois Traction company's line with that of the Mahoning Valley at Big Hun, arrived this morning and today a large force of men is engaged in putting the The deceased had many friends and will be widely mourned. He was one of the one hundred anil eighty members of Rev. mack's Bible class. Shortly before II o'clock of Friday morning Mr. Vasbinder arose from his bed and a few seconds later his wife heard a strange noise. She hurried to the stall's to find that her husband had fallen headlong down the long tiight. She summoned medical attendance, but death came two hours later. It is believed that M: Vasbinder felt an attack of paralysis coining on and left bis bed. He was stricken just as he reached the stairs and the fall resulted. The stroke, and not the fall, caused his death. Funeral services over the remains of Robert Vasbinder, a well known citizen of Keynoldsvillc, who died Friday morning, were held yesterday afternoon in the Reynoldsville M. T. church by Rev. Black. Burial was made in the Reynoldsville cemetery. The members of the Reynoldsville camp, I. O. R. M., of which lodge the deceased was a member, attended the funeral in a body. Q. Did you know of his foot being iu any worse condition that it has been, or what did you know about it? tl had seen that foot in the latrt of the summer. It was heal, healed over, and apeared to be all right. I supposed it was ght until about the time the Jury was up there, or after- and had been at. the bam nearly every day all winter. CHILD MURDERESS OK TRIAL The cars from DuBois will meet those from Punx'y at the K of P. hall. Big Kun, and the transfer will be made there. On special occasions cars wil be run through from Punx'y to DuBdis and vice versa. It. is expected that the work of connecting the tracks across the B. R. & P. rails will have been completed by night fall and that tomorrow the cars of the DuBois company and those of the Punx'y corporation will be running over the new section. BOWIE FACIiONS CLASH AUJANY. X .Y.. March (i. Mrs ECdith Melber, a prepossessing young woman, charged with the murder of her bahy boy in a swamp near here by forcing carbolic acid down its throat when he begged for water, was placed on trial here today. The prosecution alleges thai the woman wanted to marry again and be rid of the child. The defence, however, says insanity. THK WKATHKIC WASHINGTON, I). C„ March Following Is the weather forecast for Western Pennsylvania: t'nscttled tonight and Tuesday. Mr. AmsUitz sent off and got some medicines and truck of that kind. He was staying at the home, and running around the country, as he told me, selling these medicines. He would often come In late for his meals. His meals were kept for him. I had tol 1 him to get around at meal time. People had complained to me about him peddlling around the country. I told him not to send for any more of that stuff and peddle it while he stayed at the home. But it was very Ions until he said he had a package of medicine at the depot, and ne wanted to go down and get it; and I told him he had better let it stay there because I did not want him living at the home and peddling around over the country.' And t went away, j'.nd A. Something to that effect. r;<|gai Smith When I whipped Ernst I struck [ him four or five times. I did not i break the stick on him. The stick was a small cane. C. H. Amstutz Christ H. Amstutz (Olmstead): i Smith choked me and used me like l a dog. He choked me until I was blue in the face and unable to speak. He tore my coat and shirt and sus; penders off me while he was abusing 1 me. He is ill-inatiu'ed, and not a | gentleman. Cross-examination — Mr. Smith i told me if I wanted to peddle around I would have to leave the home; that if 1 boarded at the home 1 would have to work. I wanted to have more freedom, and I wanted to have things my own way. I got away from the home and I went down town. And one day I was over in Haugh's gari den, and I took a notion to go down ■ town. Smith did not want me to go1 down town without permission, and I got away. This trouble arose when Mr. Smith asked me to come to supi per and I refused. I had a headache. ; 15i\ Balmer was there at that time, but I did not say anything to him , about having a headache. He was right outside of the doctors' office. Dr. A. F. lluimer I head Amstutz testify that I was present or in the house somewhere j when he had the trouble with Mr. I Smith. I suppose that is correct. I did not know that Amstutz was abus; ed badly. I did not see any trouble. ' 1 did not see Mr. Smith taking Ain-1 stutz from his room to the dining room. Amstutz complained to me, I think, that day; but I did not set it dowti as anything serious. He said something about him and Smith havj ing trouble, but I did not lay any | stress on what he said to me because he was a chronic compialner. 1 I could not repeat what he said. Ha did not say that he had been struck, i Q. Did he say that he had been i taken and pulled front his bed and ! choked? I suppose to save his hips. Cross-examination—I have found it necessary to strike Harvey Ernst. 1 whipped him oifce. ■ And I have given him a spank or shaken him a few times since that. X took him by the collar and shpalt hint: but I did not get his feet AIT the ground. I have often caught the boys when they were mischievous arad spanked them with my hand. I never kicked any of them. Thirty miles of road will liave to be constructed and it is the general belief that the construction will start as soon as the weather permits. Although the town would lie off the main line in a sense the change would be of an undoubted benefit to Punxsutawney. The new route would mean several additional passenger trains through Punxsutawney daily. All through trains from Buffalo to Pittsburg, as well as the locals, would run Into Punxsutawney and back out to ('loo. Several trains would be run between this place and Butler and transfers, if through trains are not run from Butler northward, would be made tit Punxsutawney. it entrance to a vast coal Held, as yet unexploited. This tance between Punxsutawney and Pittsburg by about twenty milts. reducing the running time over half an hour. It would put the 1< i(. A I', railroad through a heavy  carrying district, as well as f.vi:it it is gv trains v Cloe, ru to Creek Saltsbu dock, ah tracks * of whlc l\, prob Although the It., It & I'. officials have given out no definite news concerning th~ ~ !" • " Extensive surveys have been made on the brunch this winter and it has been announced that the tracks will be straightened and the grsde reduced. The big curve between Ernest and Indiana will be entirely cut out and the running time between Punxsutawnoy and Indiana will lie reduced considerably. WANTS THE GUIDING LEGISLATED OUT OF BUSINESS Negro guards, armed with Winchester rifles guard the house of Wilbur Voliva, Howie's successor. The opposing faction wants dancing, cigarets, cigars, soda water, pork and other "flesh pots," prohibited by Howie and Voliva. ZION CITY. 111.. March G. Rioting and internecine strife in John Alexander Howies perfect city. Is imminent between two rival factions. Q. Why did you punish him? A. I punished him for disobedience. He would not obey anything. He would not do anything that I told him. I had talked with him. coaxed him, tried locking him up, and it was not any use. He got so that he would not do amything that I would tell him to do. And I made up my mind that If that boy was going to mind me I would have to use a little corporal punishment. Q. At the time you punished him did you intend to injure him or hurt him in the finger? A. Oh, no. Q. How did that happen? A. By throwing his hand uroun 1, Jerry Reese I saw Mr. Smith give Harvev Ernst a couple of licks with a stick. I had the stick and gave It to Mr. Smith when he asked for it. It was about the sise of my finger; a kind of a cane I was using. He gave him a few straps cm the back with it. He j was lying on the ground. Ernst held j his hand up and got his finger hit. It bled a little. If I had my will on I Harvey Ernst he would not be here I five minutes, because he will not do J anything only what he wishes himself, and nobody daresn't tell him (nothing. He will impose on the small boys and the old men just the same. There is not much that a bad boy can do that he will not do. He never obeys unles you stand and make him do it. Jiwc|»li Kinder I was standing about six feet away i when Mr. Smith whipped Ernst with i Ihe cane. Smith hit him on the hip. but not over three or four times, short term notes. These large issues are practical evidence of the confidence of our great bankers in the railroad outlook. The immediate outlook of the mar- Ernst put up his haaid and was j struck oil the finger. The stroke ' just raised the corner of the nail up | and did not bring two drops of blood. It is all healed now. Kdgur Smith Q. Harvey Ernst made a statement here—not under oath—that you hurt his finger. What Is the truth about that, and tell us how :t happened. A. That is true. I was punishing him with a light cane, and he threw his hand back and the stick hit him on the flnger. Q. What did you do when you | found out that it had happened? A. I brought him up to the house [ and dressed the flnger. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS HOLD MARKET IN THE AIR BECK MAKES HIS FINAL ANSWER TO THE RECORD "PunxHUtawney, Pa. "Dear Sir: Your favor of the -8tJ ■losing a copy of yon lamatlon, was jrful P. O. Freas, Esq., Holds Wooilchuck Itespoiisible for Present Conditions. Willlan Hargest, assistant deputy attorney general, isn't particularly strong for winter weather, lie was furnished by Burgess Freas with a copy of the Groundhog proclamation, together with the predictions for the six weeks following February 2. Ily a careful comparison Mr. Hargest has found that the predictions to date pass in every particular and his sentiments are expressed in the following : Deputy Attorney Ocnerai Hurgest ly, us a mem lug ent of the :he proola »rui, but tyl'llt of^ "Very truly yours, "WM. M. HARGEST, "Assistant Deputy Attorney Generul.' "I thank you very much for sending me a copy of your effusion. lice, was very satisfactory to the Commonwealth, because exoneration was more important than the amount of money involved. The form In which the verdict was rendered in the State Poliee cases, so thoroughly exonerating the State J'o- claming the ai proper legal "I should i Law Departn wealth, that le grouudhog, if you would iS«—jrffur authority to put him out or business, you would do more service to the people of your community and, tho State. t ead of pro- of the oiuinonrion is in of February ei Groundhog l'i received. Continued on Page Two. Market conditions are not entirely satisfactory. There was a good recovery from the slump following the rate decision, but this was not well maintained for reasons junt mentioned. Railroad traffic shows no serious diminution and managers are likely to quickly get over their present disgruntlement. General business is quiet, though showing recuperative tendencies. More activity is shown in the iron trade generally as the result of lower prices, which had much to do with stimulating the export trade. Once more an important factor in the steel industry. Money continues abundant and easy owing of course to dull trade, and though firmer rates may be anticipated between now and the first of April, no serious disturbance is apprehended in that quarter. Our new security issues since January 1 have been exceedingly heavy, amounting to $4 4 0.- 000,000, against $250,000,000 at the same time last year. A very | large proportion of these new issues have been made up of bouds and important changes being marie In present schedules. The tariff is altogether too full of excellent political ammunition to permit of a prompt adjustment, and as it will he the best material for the forthcoming campaign there is little reason to fear very decisive action in any extra session. Still, tariff agitation is a deterrent and not a stimulant to busi* ness enterprise. There is more or less talk of putting such articles on the free list as vitally affect the cost of living, and there is renewed talk of attacking the wool, cotton and steel schedules. But, as already said, radical changes are not probable at least until after another Presidential election. In the senate a filibuster conducted by Senator Owen of Oklahoma threatened the final approval of four of the great appropriation measures up to within half an hour of the time set for adjournment. Senators of both parties appealed in vain to Senator Owen to stop talking and let tue supply bills go through. The senator I said he had set out to talk to death [ the resolution approving the consti- The provision in the sundry civil appropriation bill. appropriating $ 100,000 for the expenses of the present tariff board to be available during a period of two years, was cut to $200,4 4 4 to be used in one year, thus making the continuance of the board dependent upon the action of a Democratic house. The bill providing for the establishment of a permanent tariff board passed by the house and senate, having been brought Into congress at the urgent recommendation of th president as a means of allaying the criticism of the Payne tariff act, w;u. killed by a filibuster in the house. The Sullowuy general pension hill passed the house, hut did not rearli •a vote in the senate. It was only by a narrow niargTn that the appropriation bills all got through, as a filibuster was started against some of them by Senator Owen at a late hour and it threatened to be effective, when his opposition was railed off by a compromise. Ship subsidy again failed after having passed the senate. Tin' proposition to increase the rate of postage on magazines was killed, but an investigation eonimfssion was appointed to examine into the merits of the controversy. A Tlio resolution proposing' h yotiMfltutional amendment providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the people was killed in the senate.Statehood liill killed The resolution admitting New Mexico and Arizona to statehood was killed by a filibuster in the senate. Senator Joseph \V. Bailey added to the excitement and to the extraordinary episodes surrounding; the adjourn ment of the Sixty-first congress today by resigning his tiff ice as senattor from the State of Texas and .1 few hours later withdrawing his resignut ion. A special session for congress is called with nothing like unanimity among the members of either party as to what the members of either party as to what is to be accomplished or how anything is to be done. Thus it is that the Sixty-first congress closed with a dramatic spectacle of party demoralization and dis* regard of leadership. In the midst of all the little band of Republican insurgents gathered in a body in the center of the senate chamber and gave their votes for «i proposition which was supported by a majority of the Democrat* and which brought from Senator Bailey the strongest protest a senator call offer, namely, his resignation and refusal longer to serve with members of his party who reject Deinocrtaic principles. To be sure he later withdrew his resignation, saying he did so in deference to a request from Governor Colquith of Texas. In other words, the Republican majority declined to be led by President Taft on the Canadian reciprocity question, and the strongest Democratic leader rejected the action of his party in endorsing the initiative, referendum and recall ideas in the Arizona constitution. but refused to go wftU _ President Taft on his reciprocity program.WASHINGTON. March (j. Not ill 25 years lias there been presented such a spectacle of party demoralization and want of leadership in both the great political parties as was witnessed in ihe < losing hours of the congress, which expired Saturday at noon Chaos reigned, and it was only through the most vigorous and persistent efforts of the venerable Senator Hale of Maine that several of the necessary appropriation bills were prevented from failing, an 1 adding pre-emptory reasons for ail extra session of congress. Harvey Krust I am a boy 14 year* old. 1 have been In the home for some time. I wae told to drown Borne rats from a rat trap. I opened the dcor down the road and aome of the rat? ot out, Smith aaw It, came up to where I was, took a cane out of Unhand of one of the inmates. Rind struck me with it. I put back my haad to save myself and he struck A. No. t O. Did you correct him to the ixtent of giving him any nbuse 1 any kind? hud one of them Jumped Into the (manger It was afraid of me. I had a fork in my hand, but I did not touch it with it. Henry Schoch told me not to mind Mr. smith, and Just what Mr. Smith did to me tp tell him; that he wanted to*et Smith out of here. He said Mr. Smlth would not live a year. Th»t he was going to knock him down and kill him. Bdgar Smith X never cuffed Harry Sloppy. I don't remember that I did. He was disobedient. He broke the rules. He left the home without permission. He went to bed with hU dirty clothes on. He would even go to bed at night with his pants and vest on, and cover up under the covers that way. He; would not undress. He used tobacco. He coaxed it from the other people. 1 thimk the boy could be controlled, but he is a boy that will have to be made mind before he does it. i , v. Yeg, sir. i Q. Prom day to day? j A. Yes, sir. 1 Harry Sloppy ' Harry Sloppy testified that he had boil In the home for some years. That Smith whipped him once, and that be kicked Walter Hoeh three times on ihe game occasion. That he helped 4) do the mllikng, and that Mr. anlth whipped him for leaving the «rn door opem. — Mr. Smith Alpped me only once. He hit me \Sh his hand over the right ear. He ]Xl told me a number of times to Ufp the stable doors shut so the cold ft would blow in on the cows; ■d I left the doors open; and he Slipped me this time for that, and ■eked Walter Hoeh thre times. Mr. Bnlth has been pretty good to me at ■ll other times. ■ The black heifer jumped over the /manger up over the partition one day Iwhett Mr. Smith was In the barn, be- Icause I touched her with the fork. [ 1 went In once where there were two halves when Mr. Smith was present Q. You would do this when you would see lhm? | A. | I would ask him how his foot %M Or bow W» foot wag getlug along, or something of that kind, and he Would say "all right." A matter of'that kind: how In the testimony published in The Spirit Saturday you will see where Mr. Smith admitted that he told Walter Hoeh as follows, "to put that tick on his back and get out into the hall The members of the overwhelm Republican grand jury are ready at any time the court is ready to give its permission to let the people of Jefferson county know on what they based their recommendation. As far as political ambition for n public office is concerned, I can get along very well without the office, and if it will be necessary for me to betray my conscience to get a public office I will never hold a- public position. I have respect for the opinions of every man who means to be honest in thlB county home affair. I was a member of the grand jury that recommended the removal of the superintendent of the home on the sworn evidence and examination of inmates and the tetstimony that was given before us has never been denied, and now can any good cltlzeti see any other course for the grand jury than to stand by their recommendation ? "If 'Elmer E. Beck, of Punxsutawne.v, ever had any political ambitions .that were Justified, his actions in the county home affair has killed them 'deader than a door nail.' " In the Brockwayvile Record of Friday, March 3, 1911, George It. Adam, editor of the Record says: The communication follows: Editor Spirit: Elmer E. Beck of this place, submits to The Spirit what lie says is his final word in the county home affair. He is as yet undecided whether or not be will petition the court to allow the January grand jury to make known the testimony heard by it. tinued on Page Threl. -If Mr. Smith is Innocent of the charges made against him by the two grand Juries, what just reason can any-one give to show that he is innocent of the charge? If he is innocent of the charges sworn to before tlie grand juries, I would be one of the first men to take him by the han-i and thank heaven that the charges were not true, but on the other hand if he has been guilty of abusliiK one there," ami then lie goes on to say. "And In about, it may have been three-quarters of an hour, not more than that I came around there, and he had the tick on Ills back." I don't believe that there is a human being in this county that would stand for that kind of treatment, if they coulil only see that poor, unfortunate, weak-minded boy's sore foot, and what must have been his suffering under the weight of that tick. If you could see that poor mortal I know that you would agree with me that our county home should be abolished and the State of Pennsylvania called upon to take care of our unfortunate poor, If that is the way they punish the weak-minded inmates who are not responsible for what they do. And now just notice what Buell B. Whitehill says in regard to the testimony that is being placed before the eyes of the people, as follows: "an:l think 1 have succeeded in doing so without omitting anything of any particular significance." What lias he omitted, If he has omitted anything? Might it not be of vital importance in defence of the unfortunate inmates? The taxpayers want this testimony- word for word or they don't want the stuff. Is there any body that thinks the good citizens ol' Jefferson county are going to be put off with that kind of a gag. The Reciprocity question will unfortunately reopen the tariff controversy at a time when business needs freedom from political agitation. There appears to he little doubt concerning the passage of the Reciprocity measure; and not much likelihood of any radical tariff revision during the extra session. It is quite possible, however, that considerable tarifT agitation may be aroused if only for political effect, especially as the time Is drawing near for another Presidential campaign. for this very reason, however, there is little prospect of any /Rust among corporation managers, because a large number of concerns may be obliged to reorganize. This decision will affect nearly 1.200 holding concerns having about 8,000 subsiliaries and including about $10,- 000,000,000 of capital. Like the railroad managers they will be obliged to meet the law. and the more gracefully thai is done the better for all concerned. Nevertheless, guessing us to Supreme Court decisions Is especially hazardous, particularly in view of the popular miscalculation of the railroad rate decision. It will be remembered that a compromise was generally expected, whereas nothing of the sort occurred.NEW YOKK, March 0. Two elements of uncertainty are now threatening the stock market—the Supreme Court decisions and an extra session of Congress. The general impression is that the Supreme Court will decide adversely in the Oil and Tobacco cases, but may suggest a way out of embarrassment to the offending corporations. If the decision proifes adverse there will undoubtodly'be much disappointment and dis- Special to The Spirit Best $1.35 per sack or four sacks at $5.25. Every sack guaranteed. First Patent Spring Wheat Flour. Market looks like higher prices.—1. Tuesday,and Wednesday we will take orders for flour to he delivered direct from the car at wholesale prices. KBKKHART'S STORK NKttS film. FUNXSUTAWNEY - 0ration of the testimony given In Saturday's Isue one can elslly figure out Ahat the hoard of investigation memfbdrs had anything but an easy job. Y Udgar Smith (Later in tlie exam I- V nation) r / ■ Q. W alter Hoeh in Ms testimony ■ spoke a iout being ouy in the bann I this win er during coMf weather and I wet weal ler with his /are foot. State, [ If he wail out, how iycame, and what A'ou knew about iy and whether it Kvas undeX your direction? J A. I hu not mrected him to go Mto the barnV I Jfad told him man) maud many a thnc to go to the hous< ■and stay at the house. He still wen IF to the barn and stayed at the barn lie new rout" 10 PlUoburi nerally understood that t'l 111 leave tlie main Jllie a \ over the Indiaiyr brant- Ide, fhenoe toyntelln, it down the vojrcy to Brail d into I'itUmiri; over 'in f Kofne the iiiieresti ' a hp to the I!. 11. <!i ililV & O. •oute would leaner the din- ■ fl III ■ ■ HB h 5Z5ppB9HBQPM^^HiBBHPHE5E55££52S3!Z££55£2555S22S5^ 6> - h 'kfm ■V .V m m