Punxsutawney Spirit, 1893-04-12

              12,1893. GOOD CROP OUT' . ] WELKMADE Beair - late CHli THE PIUSON OFFICIALS ANXIOl'S our forte. You wish something that \vill wear well. We have ig Fit equal to custom made. Sprins styles on hand. Choice materialr from high class mills. Sui ts fo all ages. Prices reasonable. Drop in any time, you will be welcome. Tell us your wants, they will be met and hereafter you'll Wear the best of clothing. T HE OF Mc.N1 PROCEEDINGS IN THE LEGISLATURE, DANGEROUS FISHES, BOYS'&CHHDRENS CLOTHING. In this line we show more styles than any two stores in Punxsutawney. From the cheapest to the finest made. £v' ALL AROUND THE STATE. Wheat This Year. Pennsylvania to Have Lots of Interesting Happenings from all Sections. ENCOURAGING REPORTS RECEIVED. ALL OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS The Constant Covering of Snow During tlio Winter Insures a Bountiful Harvest -The Oat Crop Gotten In Much Better Condition than Usual—Clover Somewhat Injured by the Frost. Tho Smallpox Breaks Out In a New Quarter of Reading ami Is Spreading Rapidly -A Well-to-do Farmer Sulfides In a Cistern Near Lancaster New Business Firms Chartered at Harrlsburif. Harrisburq, April II.—The following were chartered yesterday: Pennsylvania Blue Stone Company, of Lanesboro, capital $2,100; J. K. McKee Company, of Pittsburg, to manufactureextracts, capital 00(1; Schurn Brothers' Company, of Philadelphia, to manufacture dairy products, capital $10,000; Milhollaud TubeCotnpany, of Beading, capital $20,000; John (fay's Sons, incorporated, of Philadelphia, capital $300,000, to make carpets (the incorpora tors are James 11. (Jay. Thomas 1>. (lay. John W. Uay, 1). A. (lay, Ijouis  Quakertown Water Company of Bucks county, capital $1,000; The Folding Box Machine Company, of Honosdale, capital $90,000. Of' EOQ-STRA W-DINNER Y Display ol 6iotmng tor Easter At the saloon it w«s said some Ikij-h were executing the feai known ok "blowing fire."] That is, they put keroscno lu their mouth* and while squirting it out set it on fire. One of these burning stream* struck Smith it was said. The injured man. however, asserts that his Mvo friends, the bartender! and himself wore the only parsons In the place. The man started st reaming for the door, but his two companions seized him and quickly stripped off his burning clothing. They took him in a back room, rubbed sweet oil over his bums and took him boms. He was removed to Roosevelt hospital yesterday morning and then was transferred to Bellevue. At this one of the other men. whether Hilev or Ford the victim canuot tell, threw a liglitod match on Smith's shoulder. an instant the man's head and facc wan enveloped iii Damn. Smith, who lives with bis employer, George B. Bauer, at Xo. 24 West Sixtyfourth street, went to MeUurroH's saloon with Stableman Patrick Kord and John Riley, The three men bad been drinking and were rather jolly. Smith says that as soon as they entered the place Andy Mc Donald, the tor tender, began to throw a colorless liquid over liiin from behind the tor. Smith thought it was water and told Andy to stop his fooling. ALMOST BIIM1U 111 » All«««d Jokars Set lira to • Maui la York Moia. New You, April 11.—As the result at an alleged practical join pnfttnM te McGurreU's saloon, in Tenth ran, near Sixty-thlnl street, Christopher C. Smith, * stableman, S3 yean old, was taken to Bellevue hospital with his chest and tha lower half of his (aoe burned to a crisp. Alcohol was sprinkled over Smith and then a lighted match thrown on him. In an instant tho man was a maas of flames, and only prompt measures »ave<l his life. At the hospital it is said the man may recover.silt: si;t 11 It I: TO MKlt 1'ADDEU <KI.X- ('oiincllKville'H Coke liidusti') Conneujuviu-e, April 11.— Superintendent, Fred O. Heighley of the Other Coke mid Furnace Company, referring to the prospect of the Oliver plant No. 'J reaching; 1,00(1 ovens, which would eclipse the fa mous Standard plant at Mt. Pleasant, said: "It is estimated that if the plant was operated every working day it would take forty years to exhaust.' the coal owned liy the company at this point and make proper allowances for strikes, repairs, etc., it is wife to tlx the limit at fifty years /ores haunting tbo body of coal. So the pit sent generation need not worry about the coke industry playing out while they are inter ested." I.eft. tn Live tin Charity Younustown, April 11. -Chief of Police Ciintwell took charge of a I t year-old Imv named Sullivan, but during the night tiie lail escaped from the police station. Ilia parents have been living here, coming from Allegheny, where they kept a spent-easy. Mrs. Sullivan married her present husband two days after her first husband diisl in jail at Pittsburg. Recently Sullivan returned to Allegheny, started a speakeasy and is now serving time. The mother left the lad to take care of himself and he has been living on charity. "From the decree of the circuit court to pay the 17,287, the receivers appealed tothe supreme court. .Justice Blatchfoni reviewed the case in an opinion of considerable length, quoting copiously from the testimony introduced before the master. This conclusion and the judgment of the court was that the decree of the circuit court must be reversed and the proceedings instituted by Perry Brothei-s l>e dismissed. Justice Blatohford said in announcing the declsiou that it was reached on the grounds that there was no evidence to show that the baggage agent had any actual knowledge ot tho contents of the trunk, and that Perry in purchasing a ticket for a passenger train and then tendering his trunk to the agent to lie checked tendered it as containing his personal baggage. The receivers were not liable for the contents of the trunk other than personal baggage." onrsiiAM's hkcision n An Important Opinion Handed Down by Judge Blatcliford. WAsniNuTo.v, April 11.—One of the decisions of Judge Ores ham. while upon the bench of the circuit court for the Seventh judicial district, was before the supreme court yesterday on appeal and the court reversed his finding. The case presented some interesting features and the ruling made yesterday will probably result in some important changes from a practice that now obtains to a considerable extent on the railroads of the land. One of the memlx'rs of tho firm of Perry Bros., manufacturing jewelers of Chicago, it appears from the record, prevailing as agent of tho firm, started from Springfield to Petersburg, 111., January 80, 1885, over the Wabash, St, Louis and Pacilic railroad. He carried a trunk containing his samples, valued at alxnit. $10,000. It was checked as "personal baggage," neither Perry nor the railroad agent asking any questions, nor making statements regarding the eontents, which, it is alleged, was commonly known as a jeweler's trunk. Enroute to Petersburg the train jumped the track and the baggage car with its contents was destroyed by tire. Pony Bros, sued the receivers ot the company for their loss and a master awarded them damages in the sum of $7,270. In his opinion the judge said: "If the station agent did not known that the trunk contained jowelry he had reason to believo it did. He received it knowing that Perry was not entitled to have it car ried as personal lmggagc. The agent did not believe that the trunk carried personal baggage only. It is plain from the evidence that he recognized it as a jeweler's trunk anil that lie understood it contained a stock of jewelry. He was, therefore, not deceived and the receivers were not defrauded."Women in the hospital kitchen discov ercd last night that the annex wan on fire, ■shrieks were heard from the woman in the cell, and when the physicians reached the placo it was found that the lire was in the excelsior padding other cell. The woman was uninjured, tho hospital people nay, and the damage done will not exceed #100. It is supposed that MagKfo had. matches iu her pocket and set the lire by accident. Ail I annuo Woman Hun a Narrow  From Cremation, New York, April 11.—A woman whose only known name is Maggie was sent a few days ago from the workhouse on Black well's Island to Harlem hospital to do; cleaning and other work. Sunday she' showed signs of insanity, and as she was violent, was locked up in a padded cell in a small brick building annexed to the ho* pltjil. OUR SPUING STOCK i v Complete in Every Department. Men's suits from $5.00 to $25.00. This line comprises all the late fabrics in cheviots and fancy worsteds. We will not attempt to describe our stock to form any id«a. You must see it for yourself. JlETTKft THAN THEWIHTXKVMIXES. Slie Wanted to Make u SuiTllU'i Philadelphia, April 11.— Crazed with drink and laboring under the ImprcHsicn that sho must make a human sacrifice to Qod, Mary MoGee, -10 yearn old, tried tokill her 4-year old daughter Klmira and to take her own life. The child was nearly strangled and had a narrow escape from death. Mrs. McGee is confined in the Philadelphia hospital pending an examination as to her sanity, and the chilil is in the care of tho Society for the Protection of Children froin Cruelty. Owing to favorable weather farm work is further advanced than at the corresponding time last year, and farm crops not already in the ground are in much better condition for earlier planting than last season. The indications are now that we shall have to again report an increase in the amount of commercial fertilizers used upon spring crops. Notwithstanding the rather low prices which prevailed at digging time last fall, those who held oti to their potatoes, have realized remunerative prices, and the loss from rot, after they were put away for the winter, has been very muoh less than was expected. The area will lie considerably increased and will no doubt be followed by low prices for the product. Farm stock has been free from disease during the winter. Unprotected young Btock has suffered tuore than usual and will not come out of the. yard in aa good condition as in the average season. In tho northern ami northwestern part of tho state the clover in last year's wheat stubbles has lieen somewhat injured by alteanate freezing and thawing, which has caused it to heave out to some extent; but taking the clover and timothy together the mowing fields are in better condition to yield a good crop of bay than at this time last year. The amount of hoy In tho hands of our farmera is unusually small. Several reporters state that farm stock, and especially cows, have not wintered as satisfactorily as during the past five or six years, and a few attribute thl» to what they believe to have been the unsatisfactory condition of much of the hay cut last harvest. Pasture fields, owing to a good covering of snow during the. winter have come out in good condition, and are now in much better condition than they w«re last season, and are in good shape to furnish an abundance of sping and summer pasture. Owing to the favorable condition of the weather ami soil tho oat crop had been gotten in much better condition than usual. The comparative high price of the grain has caused a rather larger area than com mon to lie sown. The area may lie estimated at 1,250,000 acres, atui with a good season it may be expected to exceed the crop of 1892. Harrisburq, April 11.—The reports from correspondents of the State board of agriculture indicate that the prospects are excellent for a good crop of wheat this year. The growth is not as heavy as it often is at this season of the year, but owing to the almost constant covering of suow during the winter, and tho protection thus afforded from driving winds, the roots have wintered well, and as soon as the ground gets properly warmed up are ready to produce a luxuriant growth of straw. The area sown with winter wheat will not vary very much from that of former years, and may lie estimated at about 1,810,000 acres. Tho area of spring wheat has been somewhat increased. to l)« Very lllrh Tliuae of 111* lluntun ami Nov* SenIIa Haiti Hai.ipax, April 11.—The names of the incorporators of the Boston and Nova Scotia Coal and Railroad Company are John W. Chandler and John C. Cobb, of Boston; David S. Baker, jr.,of Providence; William J. Fruser, of Halifax; A. C. Koss, of North Sydney; ex-Mayor Patrick O. Mullin, of Halifax; R. P. Kraser, of I'ictou, and John McKeen. of Mal>ou. The mines controlled by this syndicate are known as tho Broml Cave and Chimney Corner groups, estimated to contain 200,- 000,000 tons of coal, or 50,000,000 more than the Whitney syndicate mines. (Ivew. V!t«i Stingray anil 114 Formidable Itela- He would be glad, he said, when it was all over, but hoped the governor would spare his life, so there would bo n chance of proving his innocence somo day. He had a noblo mother and a good brother, he said, and for their sake lie wanted to live to wipe out the slain that had been put upon them by his conviction of a crime of which he was innocent. Harris is being watched constantly by three keepers. Mr. Howe, attorney for Harris, did not go to Albany yesterday, but will see the governor in Ilun-ls' Ix'half Thursday. He was in good spirits, but somewhat nervous when handed his mail yesterday. The letters had all been opened by Warden Brown before they were turned over to the prisoner. The condemned man hustily glanced over the letters. Then he lit a cigarette and l>egan to converse with Principal Keeper Connaughton about the case. He sain the present suspense was even worse than what he had undergone in the Tombs when he was awaiting the decision of Recorder Smyth. To Hear Governor Flower's Decision ftti Cailyle W. Harris' Case Sino Sing, N. Y., April 11.—The prison officials seem as anxious as Harris himself to hear the decision of Governor Flower which is finally to decide whether the condemned medical student shall live or dir. As soon as the decision is rendered it will be telegraphed to the prison. Harris has requested Warden Brown to let. him hear promptly the first news that comes from Albauy. Harris is bracing himself up to receive the news, good or bad, when it comes. FURNISHING GOODS. A brand new line of late style shirts, all grades and prices. Neckwear. If you want the late styles in Neckwear we are headquarters. Men's and Boys' Pants. We show more pants than any two stores in this county. Pants from 25c to $1. IIarrisburu, April 10.— Mr. Tewksbury, of Columbia, introduced a bill last night in the liouso authorizing the governor to appoint a committee of five to report on the advisability of erecting tablets to ma,rk the positiou of forts erected prior to 1783 for defense against Indians. A resolution offered by Mr. Flannery, of Luzerne, wqp adopted expressing the hearty approval of the general assembly of Gladstone's home rule proposition for Ireland. Mr. Losch's resolution providing for an investigation of the Philadelphia electric light combine was adopted after a lively debate. Nearly all the Philadelphia members present voted against it. 'Hie purpose of the resolution, it is alleged, is to worry certain political leaders who have been active in the fight against the public buildings commission. Mr. Tewksbury made an effort to have placed upon the calendar his negatived bill providing for a distribution of the school fund of the state on a basis of the number of months the schools arc kept open, but he failed. It was charged in debatt that the bill would increase the appropriation to the rural districts at the expense of the cities. The NUes revenue hill was read the first time, having been taken up out of its order. In the tapate the entire session was consumed in we oensideratien of the Hacken burg license bill, providing for a special state MmnUaaten to grant lToenaee. It was amended in several particulars, none of them important. His Klndneu Brought Him Rich Returns. Milwaukee, Wis., April 11.—A. J. Eimermann, n well-known attorney of this citjr, is in receipt of a letter from Rube & Cox, a law firm at Houston, Tex., informing him that be Is tbe sole beir to mi estate of $17,000 or more, left by F. A. Walter, who recently died in Houston. Mr. Eimermann at first thought that there must be some mistake, but finally recollected Mr. Walter as an old Chicago friend whom he had helped in thesummer of 1870 by a loan of $10 with wblah to buy a ticket to St. Louis, where Walter had the promise if A Job. "what was "Well," said the editor, the result?" "I was arrested by an officer of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals."—Brooklyn Life. Not a Hnoems. "I tried my poem on a dog, sir, as you advised," said the poet Var«|ntl<d, Old Salt (sadly)—Whaling ain't what it used to be. Little Johnnie—Well, great thunderl you ain't sorry, are you?—Truth. iug waters. The stingray is considered more dangerous than tho whale or tho blue shark in most of the southern states, on account of its habit of lurking in weeds and muddy bottoms and striking for little or no cause, but the Ushermon and spongers of Key West say that it > lias not half so bad a temper as the ■ \ geon llsii which frequents the surr This species is know colly as the "doctor" and the "surg fish, and as there are two varieties. is called tue "blue" and the other the "black" doctor. It receives its English title from the fact that each side of tho tail has a sharp, bony lunce which lies in a sheath when it is at rest, but projects at right angles to the body when it is to be used for offensive purposes. The fish swings its tail from side to side while swimming, when it is in a pugnacious mood, and infliots severe and painful wounds on any opponent it encounters. It has been known to inflict as many as thirty wounds on a turtlecatcher whilst he was coming up from a depth of forty feet, and to rout • huge kingfish in a contest lasting a few moments. It is a cousin of the southern bonefish and fit for food, but It Is as carefully avoided as the stingray on account of the sharpness of its lancet and Its combative disposition. The common salt water catfish is other species that uses the barbed cot on its pectoral fins very freely when it is angry or disturbed. The fore part of the fin is attached to ita inner side and is almost as long as its weapons, but may bo readily polled oft This little weapon is very sharp, hard as Iron and covered with a slime said to haw poisonous properties. I know that the wound inflicted by it la very painful, and often dangerous, owing to the rapidity with which inflammation sets in unless remedies are promptly applied. More than one boy in my section has been brought very near death'a door by the sting of an angry catfish, but that was largely due to the fact that they paid no attention to their tnjvlae nittB the blood showed the remit of the ▼in®* lent dime.—Detroit Free Prees. . ' T- ' , CLOTHIER, . - * • CLAYTON NORTH. —"MM1UAJU) POPULAR, .ONE PRICt Hats! Hats! Did you see our late styles in hats. If not before you buy you want to see our line. Trunks, _ Satchels, Lunch Boxes. Just received a car load of the finest trunks at lowest prices. ' Macintosh coats, rubber and oil coats, all grades and prices. Boots and Shoes. We are headquarters for 3. T. Woods' shoes, the best in the land at lowest prices. FREE With every child's suit a Ball and Bat. The medicinal use of menthol mrtlii 'limit tin* < tl < f tin* - rug China and Japan goe dateless ages. Isolated ivforciu' its application in the oast arc met with here and therein the records of west in travelers in those parts, but, we -,!i ,!i probably never know the name of its discoverer or the early history of its introduction. Wo do not even know with absolute certainty when, and by whom, menthol crystals were fir*t brought to the notice of lOurop.M u pharmacologists. It is said tlioy have been used pharmaceutically on the continent as long ago as the end of the last ocntury, but if that statement is capable of proof, tho drug must have fnllen into oblivion shortly after its introduction, for it was certainly utterly unknown, even by repute, to most persons in the drug trade twentylive years ago. Somewhere about IMi-t a consignment of the drug was received in London under the name of Chinese peppermint oil, and passingly commuted upon for its curious property of s*difying with a fall in the temperature. To the late Mr. John Mockay, of Kditiburg, belongs the distinction of having callod the attention of British pharmacists to the valuable properties of menthoL Mr. Mackay is believed to have brought "Po-Ho-oll" with him from Paris, where it was then sold, in the small red-labeled Chinese bottles familiar to eastern travelers, as a kind of proprietary article. Had menthol been an utterly valueless quack medicine, it would, perhaps, have taken fiurope by storm tlyn, and reigned for a season, just long enough to gather a fortune for its first exploiter. But as tho drug happened to have a solid therapeutic value, it had to wrestle through the familiar stages of contumely, ridicule, animosity, and unreasoning popularity, just like any netv creed or reformer. Tho commercial history of menthol practically dates from 1878, when an English firm in Yokohama made a small shipment of it to London, determined not to rest until they had succeeded in securing for the rcmedf- a footing upon th« market After many months their shipment went back, with a note from the agents, annouuci g that tho stuff could not bo sold as no one knew what to do with it. Hut tho Yokohama firm perservered, : nd they reaped their reward. Four y us later menthol crystals were the rago of tho season, selling at 00s per pound wholesale, and carried about in cone shape by all persons with any pretense to tho possession of a civilized nivvoul system.—Chemist anil Druggist. Life tables have been compiled from the mortality returns of various periods of time showing' that at birth the expectation of life covers more years in the com of the female than in that of the male. These tables also show that at succeeding ages the female lead is maintained. But the London Morning Post has made a tabulation that will Interest others than scientists, statisticians and life insurance agents, and which, though the data'aro not very extensive, goes to confirm the results reached in the so-called standard lifetables. That journal has compiled all the cases of notablo longevity recorded in its own columns during the year 1892. Of 1,181 octogenarians 040 arc women and only 505 aro men. Above 80 at nearly all ages the returns continue to favor the women; and of six centenarians all but ono are women. This doe* not prove that women aro happier than men, but it is a good indication that, aa a rule, they live longer. And, though the most reasonable presumption is that this is because they enjoy an easier lifa than men, the average woman will doubtless continue to wish that she hftd been bom a man. —In the Court Boom.—"Your honcr and gentlemen of the jury, 1 acknowledge the reference of counsel of the other aide to my gray hair. My hair i» gray, and it will continue to be gray as long a« I lire. The hair of that gentleman ia black, and will continue to be. black as long aa he dyes." —"This milk la rather warm toe such a cold morning," said the customer, to a milk boy. "Yes; lather put hot water in It Instead of cold to keep it from free*lug," waa the simple reply. 5* I >NESDAY,