Punxsutawney Spirit, 1911-06-01

              ■ ■I Mrs. Verni Ken RAILROADS HAVE THEIR EYES OX PUH mists 10 MEET IS EttlflK HILL SAYS HE WILL QUIT RAILROAD BUSINESS V—NO. 118 « IIH! PUNXSUTAWNEY PA.. THURSDAY EVENING JUNE 1. 1911. 11 YEAH OLD BOY MURDERS COMPANION PRICE TWO CENTS FEAR ATTEMPT TO KILL PRESIDENT ADOLFO DIAZ CONGRESS SHOCKED BY MIKE HORRORS A FALSE ALARM AT MURRAY'S STORK. THE WEATHER Number of Surveys Cause An Extra Lot of Conjectures ■ In These Parts. I i'i WEST TIME 6 CHUG rth of July Committees 1 All Interested Citizens Expected to Attend. U S. CONTEMPLATES A SHORT LINE CIKG IF MS HID LITTLE 100! CLIIIM MEN WERE SHOT TO 1EATH Denies Crime For Hours After Arrest and Accuses His Chum. Graphic Story Told of Conditions in Pennsylvania Fields. Twenty Boldiers were killed l>y the explosion and part of the Presidential palace was destroyed. The city is under martial law.. By United Press. MANAUGA, Nicarngue, June 1.— Details of a widespread plot to kill President Adolfo Diaz and General I j us Men a are exacted to d eve I ope as the result of the blowing up of the La Lorn a barracks yesterday. This Is the first time a mortgage has been entered against the Great Northern. By United Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Juno 1.— "I am getting old and will quit thft railway business after a while. /\ want to leave the road In gowrfinancial shape so It can the improvements way James J. Hill, the Board of IJrectors of t|fe Offcat Northern Railway, today i«Hffmcd up his reasons for placing a six million dollar mortgage. avenue, suffi terday wlic brick on w liroku and W. K. ana fracture. —The brei owing to l yet n mere the bones will knit without causing the arm to become stiff. RAIN BillS THAT SMILE rum won come off DREXEL PLANS HAZARDOUS HEIGHT RECORD FLIGHT BAUMONT WINS PARISROME AEROPLANE RACE Ily United 1'ress. NEW YORK, June 1. — "You know I didn't mean to kill you, Johnny; can't you tell 'em 1 didn't? Gee, you would If you could." With tears streaming down Ills cheeks, and leaving furrows of dirt on tlieni, Carmine Piombiano, thirteen years of age, knelt on the tloor of the police station today, frightened into hysterics, and pleaded with the dectectives to believe that he had not killed eleven-year-old Johnny Male, Decoration Day. For hours he accused his companion, Andrew I./eonl, of having killed Johnny because he refused to divide "wid de gang'' $17.50 which he had stolen from his mother. Finally, however, Carmine admitted the murder. Antonio and Frank Laico, companions, were held also. The quartette hid the body In a bag in a tenement cellar. It is thought that they quarreled over the division of the money. THE WOOL SCHEDULE lit* llew away at a tremendous speed, but after covering a few miles his monoplane suddenly fell and was wrecked. Roland aGrros who was being hailed as the victor of the long flight, left Caselne di San Rossore, the estate of King Victor Emmanuel, before sunrise, bound for the Italian capital. HOME, June 1. Andre neaumont, the French aviator, arrived here at :i:55 oc'lock yesterday afternoon. He was the first contestant in the big Paris-Rome-Turin aviation Hight to reach the Italian capital, the end of the (second stage of the big race. His magnificent flight from Pica, a distance of about 1G0 miles, made him the winner of a $20,000 prize. Accidents more serious than any since the iflght began yesterday marred the Nice to Home stage of the race. Both the New York Central anil the Pennsylvania have been active In this vicinity ot late. The N. Y. C. engineering corps worked between McGees and ltossiter for some time (luring the winter and a Pennsylvania corps is still at work to the north ot Rossiter. The Pennsylvania contempintesc a line lo Johusonburg and the idea that the N. Y. C. will, in the near future build from MctJees to Kossiter to to Brookv craws of with ruiln Some l lleved to New Yorl leading so ney to Jin establishes employ of pany and I placc to J Is said tl rights over expire an.;  Its own line into Pnnxsutawney, AUTOISTS IN KITTANNING DON'T WANT A SPEED LIMIT EXTEND FREIGHT HANDLING FACILITIES ON THE B. & 0. In seeing a big time for Punx- ilght the members of the varlourth of Juyl celebration comis and all those who are inter- on July 4, will meet in the building at 815 o'clock. ; for the beg celebration are under way and a definite ffam will probably i>e decided ' tonight. ■8 highly Important that every '■ who has a suggestion to make *-lts to lend his aid to making tiling celebration the bigges1. there. SB® campaign for funds has not . i i rted, but the members of the ■>f committee are expected to i: ler waybills week and cxcel- Iults are expected. proceeds from the danco of esday night amounting to lave been banked in the the Fourth of July Celebra-1 and wll\ form a good nest vhat is to follow. iber that Punxsutawney 13 enjoy the biggest time In its i the coming July 4, just a t a month away and that it (very one to help it along, all to attend the meeting I tonight at 8:15 o'clock in ipal building. The rain of yesterday came on tho wings of a forty knot gale. The clouds banked up In the west, miles deep, and as black as the colored pugilistic champion. For a time it looked us though a cyclone was bearing down upon the town and that the long hoped for rain fall was again about to sneak around the outskirts. Hut not so. It rained and rained with a right good will. And there is evidently more of It coming. The oats crop threatoned almost an entire failure, but it is believed that yesterday's rain saved it and that a good yield will result. Other vegetation was likewise going to the bow-wows for want of liquid nourishment.Downpour Yi'sti'riliijr Figured in Dol- lar* and Ci-nt.N .Mounts High Figured down to dollars and cents the rain of yesterday was worth about $00,892,111 to Jefferson county farmers. It was just such a rain as the men who raise things had been hoping for and consequently there are more broad smiles to the square Inch throughout Jefferson county today than there was to the square mile one week ago. 'BAYED OR STOLEN; :et sweeping machine PUNXS'Y GOLFERS WENT BAD; SO DID DUBOIS By United Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1. The Democrats are today struggling with the vexing problem of revising the wool schedule in the tariff. Chairma nUnderwood of the Ways and Means Committee, predicted a fifty per cent, reduction in the wool tariff, and that the bill would be adopted by a two-thirds' vote. The nerve strain of this altitude flying is frightful. Ascending over 9,000 feet at Philadelphia last season, Drexel suddenly found himself overcome by wild peals of laugter which he could not check. This was the outcome of sheer nervous tension. rllHadclplliilll Will ;\U<'lil|>t to As. ecu (IMoi'c Than 11,000 l'Vct LONDON, the well known American aviator, is making plans for a hazardous attempt to eclipse all previous height records in order to beat Legagneux, who is the height record holder. Drexel will need to rise more than 11,000 feet. For the purpose of this flight which Drexel will make, cither at Hrooklands or Hendou, In the jirst favorable weather, a special. monoplane, with Gnome mtotor of JflO horsepower, is 011 the/vay from Paris. What the/attempt/means may be estimated when known that Drexel will [have soar skyward in his monoplaVe tar at least two hours before he cah—ifope to establish a new record. Durin gtliis time he will see absolutely nothing of the ground and will only know he is ascending by a constant consultation of instruments and 'by the Inclination of Ills machine. TO HONOR CLOWN PROBE STEEL TRUST FROM THE INSIDE Extension of facilities on the West Virginia lines of the Baltimore & Ohio preparatory to a more extensive development of coal tralfllc In that territory will be completed early in the fall. Considerable double-tracking has been done on the mountain sections of the road, and this, with the elimination, of the old tunnels, will increase the capacity of the road appreciably. Chief among the improvements in question are the construction of a 4,500 foot tunnel and three miles of new track to replace the old bore at Tunnelton, the cost of which will be in excess of $2,000,- 000. A four-track system has been built through Clarksburg, also, whereby to relieve congestion of coal traffic at the junction point. By United Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.— The probe of the Steel Trust from the inside begun today, when the Stanley Investigating Committee of the Mouse met Judge Elbert II. Gary, cahriman of the Hoard of Directors and four other directors, for examination.He asked if Murrin, the man who represented the Butler auto club in handling the protest of the Butlerlte who was fined, was not an attorney of one of the leading firms of Butler; if he was not of (ho firm that was prosecuting a Kit tanning man, II. J. Putney, in a damage case the result of an accident In that city." The Kittanning Times says Solicitor James McCollough questioned Mr. Painter about the Butler case and says: The case of a Butler man lined $1 by Justice Lee was brought up. It was alleged that Kittanning is blacklisted by autoists because of the alleged prosecution of the drivers.Before Kittanning council last. Friday night J. H. Painter and .1. 1). Daugherty made a request that the solons let up a little on enforcing the law against exceeding the speed limit by autoists. Council men didn't take kindly to the request. Francis Feehan, president of the Mine Workers' Union for the Pittaburg district, was authority for the statement as to murder and peonage. Me told his story in a dramatic way, and was frequently interrupted by his followers who added additnonal details, and by others who displayed the wounds they had received. Twenty men have been killed and murdered by the deputies in the Westmoreland district in the last 14 months, said Mr. Feehan. WASHINGTON, June 1.—Twenty miners killed and peonage and graft openly practiced were some of tno charges brought yesterday against the coal operators in the Westmoreland coal fields of Pennsylvania. These sensational charges were made by strikers before the house rules committee, which is considering the resolution of Representative Wilson to investigate conditions for the past fourteen months. Representative tieorge D. MuTroary, <»! Philadelphia, who is a director of the Westmoreland company, appeared before the committee and read a statement prepared by the president denying the charges. He declined to go into any details. Although plied with questions by the representatives yf the miners, he declared he was , not familiar enough with the troubles to inteligently reply. He premised to have the president of (U'e company, Mr. Hutchinson, and jnen active in the mines before the; committee next week. In addition to charges of bloodshed •»nd peonage made by the miners agaiijfct the operators. Representative ..Gregg, of that district, who has actvd as counsel for the strikers, declared that the Westmoreland company and other operators had atteiripUiU to obtain the removal of Father Tusiek, a Catholic priest, who sympathized with the strikers. Failing in that, they caused his arrest. Representative MeCreary replied that lie knew nothing of an effort to have the priest removed. Mrs. John T. Fox, of Pittsburg, who investigated conditions for a committee of Pittsburg women, added to the lurid tale of disorder, approaching anarchy, saying that the coal company has caused the arrest of strikers who went to the postoffice.1EHER IMS MIL Bill SERVICES IN tl. B. CHURCH CUM COUNTY HAS FIRST LEGAL EXECUTION WALSIOH COW GIVES EXIDENGE Or RABIES [o rain came yesterday but the It sweeper is still miasing. It is irstood that the water company eg to allow the borough to seiwater from the fire plugs and {hat reason the street sprinkler lot been working. It might [been claimed by those who ! charge of the street cleaning ( that it would be folly to sweep Streets with the dust blowing a [high behind the sweeper. But kt present one cannot think of isible excuse for the hibernation it sweeper for which the borrecently purchased a new brush, terday's rain laid the dust conbly and just now there is an ant opportunity to get the sweeper out. West Mahoning has not been touched this year. For twenty-seven years Chocolate was a clown at the Nouveau Cirque, lie Is accorded the honor in rccognitio not Ills efforts to amuse the sick children in the hospitals of this city. By United Press. PARIS, June 2.—A purple ribbon, signifying a nofllcer of public instruction, Is soon to decorate the negro, Chocolate. kikhi sun m FORWARD AGAIN My United Press. CLARION, Pa., June 1. -Clarion County had its first legal execution today when Vincent Voychek paid the extreme penalty of the law. Voychek and hadt' been convicted recently of murdering Andrew Stupka, near IUmersburg. te of our friends have said hey would lllie to have a few chapters on the Free Library Is Smokestacks discussion that '"waged" between "Citizen" and [jews. Well, just be real quiet | while and then maybe you will I something drop—perhaps it t be the su'bject itself. Howis there appears to be no room scussing the smoke nuisance in iutawney we are still In favor tokestacks.—Punxsy News. INDIANAPOLIS, Imi., May :i I. The crowds which saw the automobile race yesterday are leaving today. Harry Knight, driver of the Westcott car, who was in the accident yesterday, was hysterical for three hours and called Incessantly for his mother. He was given opiates to quiet him. He may never race again. I'ickpockeLs Becurud several thousand dollars in the crowds, as reported to the police. MADERO TO LEAVE JUAREZ The regular Sunday services will be held at the United Brethren Church next Sunday. The Sunday School will meet at 9:30 a. m. Communion services will be held at both the morning and evening services. The business session of the Quarterly Conference will be held at the Albion Church next Tuesday evening at eight o'clock. A full attendance and reports of old members of the Quarterly conference is desired. il to Walston yesterday, •found unmistakable evlabies in a cow. TJ»e hourly a peaceful /inooly, ho pot of tlio faiully, sudlopecl a mean yreak yesstarted to do Uiings; such lug to hook/nd Hite ev came iieauf kicking tin eees and givinp of suffuri/g from soniclal / . ltnrk/y was called hi it ralij|cs and immediate' 1! :issy to her stall. The tnibar has iicen notiiiec iments are being awaited "Bossy" Onoc 11 I'riico-loviiiK Itovim', Slart«'<l Sniin-lliiiiK Yi-sH'itlny Dr. Hockey, tlic local veterinary, was culled lo Walston yoster'*" where lie found unmlsl"' deuces of rallies '" vine, torn" that was I denly devi terday and as endeave cryone tha stall to p' evidences thins linn When D prououored ly chained Stale di'i'i and develo, The veterinary believes that tiie cow will die in a short time. Tomorrow morning Madcro wll leave for Mexico City.. By United Press. 101< PASO, Tex., June 1.—With a ball that will be tendered tonight by Madnro and his wife to the citizens of JOarcz, the lnsurreclo leader will bid farewell to the city whose capture resulted in the overthrow of Diaz. SIj.A \(«' IS COSFV^tNf! CHICAGO. June 1.—(Special) - (ineririin slim uproved utctrly <<>" using to Raymond Pnwjn.the n Onirllsh landscape architect, who In. oiiio to America to Investigate tin -eneral scheme for "Making Amerlc:, ieautlful". When Ihe KnKlishn.au itteinpled to speak on ( ity («.u-iPiiiriK" at Hull House, he bethought ilniBolf of the American phrase "1 i-ill not set the hull rolling" "I will lot open Ihe ball," was as near as io could «et to it, and he declares io cannot see why he did not net a aufth. Americans, lio says, are not possessed of such keen humor, anyway. LAY OFF 1,000 MEN The governor will also appoint under tills law two deputy commissioners, one of whom slial he a competent civil engineer, each at salaries of per annum. Other aji-j polntmenls to he made by the gov-/ ernor are those of an auditor, who/ must be an expert accountant, a I $3,0011, and a chief engincc , I shall be a civil engineer at »7,«U(. HA'RHISliUUU, June 1. The Sproul main highway bill, providing for the connection of every important center of population in the Statu by modern-built roadways, was signed last evening by Governor Tenor, who, at the same time named H. M. lligelow, former director of public works, of l'iltsburg, as commissioner. The Sproul bill reorganizes the Slate highway department, provinding for a commissioner to serve for four years at ${>,000 annually. 11c is to devote his whole time to the duties of his olllee and to furnish a 000 bond. MONTENEGRINS READY TO BATTLE WITH TURKEY A false alarm carried the Central Fire company to the home of Mr. Shaffer, on Indiana street, this afternoon. Smoke roling from the chimney In great volumes caused the members of the family to turn In the alarm, believing that there was Are in the attic. Juniors and Seniors of Parochial Scoool Entertained 11. G. Means . 11. A. LllllilU ISO A. I{. Day . . . . 101 Total lx-ll , . 103 l(. 1'. Kreo . SB Phil Kearns lot! VV. T. Wilson I 1 3 R. McDonald 111! B. McHnteor 106 Dr. Shumaker IOC Dr. Johnstone .... 1,1  .1. K. Sprnnkle .... 100 Ceo. Stockdaie .... SS Dr. J. C.. Hillary. . . US A. K. Hasbrook . . . 90 T. W. Kennedy, tS).S7 B. K. Jones (S)....95 Chiis. Taylor 07 Scott Ross 108 B. B. McCreight ... 107 S. A. Pelfer 105 Ed. Merris 136 Rev. J. V. Bell 115 S. A. Elsenman ...123 W. B. Koss 105 A. K. Chap in 108 It. 15. Tawlor 118 Dr. Humphries . . . 122 Dccoration Day Develops! Some Low Scores in Tournament On Tuesday the Pnnxsutawney Golfers weren't going good. Some of the llrst division men who have a habit of turning over a score of anywhere from 7It to SB for eighteen hole play went close to the nineties. The DuBois golfers were likewise going bad on the same day. T. W. Kennedy and Bobby Jones, the scratch men, went S7 and 95 respectively, while It. ('. Free with a handicap of nine, pulled down an SB, the best score of the day. GAS CUE BEING HEARD OIJ.TECT8 TO "NIGGEK" MACON. Oa.. June 1. (Special! —Judge Emory Sper, of the United States Circuit Court, threatened T. It. Kelder, attorney general-elect of Georgia, with disbarment unless ho quit describing the negro plaintiff In a peonage case as a "nigger". By United Press. I NEW YORK, June 1.- The most sweeping lay-off of workmen in the history of the Brooklyn Navy \ard is expected to take place the latter part of the week. It is probable that more than a thousand men will be thrown out of work. By United Press. CETTINJE, Montenegro, June 2. —Every ablebodled Montenegrin, between 1 and 2 years of age, lias been armed, and is ready to march against Turkey on ten hours' notice. The above Information I* revived fro man official of the War Ministry. The Montenegrins say Russia w aid them in the conflict. >r Spirit— le esltor of the News has been i at Harrisburg attending to his ic duties such as drawing his saland no doubt watching the law era raise the salary of the judged legislators, and looking after ,ol until he has caught the ha'bit ilslng, and now he comes back :her momentous duties in the s and wants to ralBe the smoke smother the last lingering prosof a public library from the (ace its Bectlon of the earth. waged no controversy against testacks and have always been In r of live smokestacks as much as other citizen, and knowing the lendous opposition the News 13 Ing against a free public library. i» still in favor of a public library be used without changing the tse of the smoktf or Interfering h the stacks. CJOVERNOll TENKR SIGNS PITTSIIl ltG KII'I'EH llll.li CITIZEN. The case of the Borough of Punxsutuwtiey et al. vs. the T. W. Phillips Oas and Oil company Is being heard In Brookviiie, with the Warren county judge on the bench. The case was opened at noon yesterday and up until noon today but little progress had been mafle. A large number of Punxsutawney citizens were In attendance yesterday, but. the majority of them returned home last evening. Interest in the case appears to have died down considerably.The affair was to have been a lawn party, 'but old Jupiter ..piuvlus ordained otherwise and the festivities were carried on inside the house. Euchre wa3 played and Miss Helen Bennis won the prize while Miss Winnie Maioney succeeded In capturing the consolation award. In addition to a magnificent luncheon the young people enjoyed a thousand and one amusements of their own Invention. At the Guthrio home on Beyer avenue. Miss Nolle Guthrie entertained last night tho ror (lbers of the Junior and Senior class it the S. S. Cosmas and Damlans Parochial school, numbering 20. Heading a thing without thinking it over and digesting It Is a waste of time. It isu't the reading, but the exercise it gives the brain in causing excursions into new and original Ilelds of thought, that is helpful. 9x12 velvet rug at $15.00. Worth $20.00 each. —1 Ask for Murray's Gold Bond Trading Stamps—they are the biggest values.The best $1.00 corset ever sold, at 89c. The new oxfords, sandals and tun calf shoes will be of Interest to you. See them. All city trimmed hats at less than half price—about 200 of them. Also big line of children's straw bonnets and caps at halt. This la suit weather and lowest prices ever quoted for new garments. This week suit stock must be closed. Beautiful garments at $12.50, $14.90 and $16.50. POME AFTER ASSAILANT 1UMBERL.AND, Md., May 29.— lectal)—A sberi's posse, with odhounds, 1b scouring the coun(or the miscreant who bound, [ged and criminally assaulted s. Francis Sweeney, a wldwo. Mrs. eeneyis the member of a promlit family at Mt. Savage, live miles itb of here. Years are no criterion of age. We have numerous examples of old heads on young shoulders and young hearts iu old breasts. HARRlSBl'HG, June 1. The socalled Pittsburg Hipper bill was signed by Governor Tener yesterday. The measure, which provides a substitution of a small Board of Councils In Pittsburg and Scranton for the larger tow chambered legislative bodies, goes into effect at once. The Governor is expected to appoint within a few days the Commissioners. lOUEHHAKT'M STORK NEWS. Two new summer collars in our gents' furnishing department — the Plaza and Trloo. Another shipment Quaker Maid Infant socks, 25c. A new line of linen embroidered Dutch, fichu, and lace collars and jabotB, 25c to $1.00. Ask to see our special black silk lisle hose for ladies, al 50c per pair. Boys' tan button shoes—-a new last on three widths—all sizes, at J3.00.—1 — real estaate deals. Through the agency of Becg & Corey the W. A. Biddinger house on at at ion Street has been sold to Pratt, and the Louis Bastlne house on Lane Avenue has been sold to Mrs. Summervllle.. | WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.— I The weather for Western Pennsylvania: Fair tonight and Friday. Ruling temperature. WASHSINQTON, D. C„ May 29.— Charges that an $850 portrait of former Secretary of State Day cost the Government $2,460, were made today before the House Committee on Expenditures In the State Department *y Albert Rosenthal, the painter. ,h, the little son of Mr. and v-^sai mm ,'unxsutawney and thence ■ It' is still sticking in tho those who are conversant id affairs in tills vLnnity. mo ago a corps, tlfen bebe 111 tile employ of the Central, surveyed a line thwest out ofX'unxsutawau. ha it myw pretty well limy Hie cufpn was in the ihe/ll. & m. railroad comliay a line from tills incAu iycontomplated. It at/thy n. ii S. trackage It. & P. soon will hat the road will build K. Carr, of Woodland red a serious injury yCsn he feliVrom of hich he was plying and dislocatedn-he«fl)ow. Drs. reduced Hie ik \f one, but hvf\az\. that the l)oy is rlrlTd It is believed that 'W -