Punxsutawney Spirit, 1886-05-19

              PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1886. letter From I'. H. Mean*. NO. 49. »wath;oi the tobkado. traction by Wind In Ohio. Indium* Hnd Illinois. Ureal GRANDEST BiSnAY CLOTHING! Chin Music from Moot. Drclitrnl In funic. THE ST. ELMO STORE PUNX8UTAWNEY. A. II lull it ||> Murder. Latest Styles, Largest Stock, Lowest Prices. New l.ftbor Latest Hats! Tribute of R«»pect. Hand-Sewed Shoes PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Office in dwelling. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and the surrounding oountry. '  r)K. S. s. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Punxsutawney and vicinity.  T)R. VVM. ALTAIAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, T)R. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SUIIGEON, PCNY9UTAWNKY, PA. Office two doors east of the Post Office. J)R. S. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and vicinity. £)R. J. SHEFFER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Having permanently located in Covode, Pa., 1 offer my professional services to the people of this vicinity. Chronic diseases of women a specialty.  T\R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in residence on North Findlny street T\R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. Has permanently located in this place, anil offers his professional services to the citizens of this vicmity. lift may be found at all times at his office in the Campbell building. German language spoken. Member of lloaru of Pension Examiners.  r)R. w. J. Mcknight, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Brookvillf, pa. Professional calls promptly responded to.  T)R. 8. J. HUGHES, S UBOEON DENTIST, PUNXSCTAWNEV, PA. Office over North, Miller & Pantall's Grocery Store, JolmBton Building, cor. Mahoning ancl Findley streets. T)R. W. J. CHAJfDLEIt, SURGEON DENTIST, Ptoxsotawney, Pa. Office in corner room, Torrence Block. justices t0e &ea(t. TOHN T. BELL, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Ptnxsutawxey, Pa. Office one door east of Shields' store. All business entrusted to his care will receive prompt Attention, andail monies paid over to the parties Immediately upon receipt thereof. Special attention given to collections, acknowledgement of deeds and taking depositions. Atfonttys-at-^av. WIN8LOW ft CALDERWOOD, A TTORNEYS-A T LA IP, PUNX8UTAWNBT, PA. Office one door east of the Western Union Teltgraph Office. Practice in the courts of Indiana and Jefferson counties. Q M. BREWER, JTTORNEY-AT-LA ff, PrNXSCTAWNEY, PA. Office on Gilpin street, two doors north of Shields' furniture store. • A LEX. J. TRUITT, A TTORXE Y-A T-LA 7r, PPNX8CTAWNEY, PA. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Courts of adjacent counties. Office with Judge Jenks. Legal business carefully attended to. T7DAVARD A. CARMALT, A TTORXE Y-A T-LA IV, liBOOKVlLLE, PA pONEAD & MUNDORFF, A TTORNE TS-A T LA TV, Office in Rodger's building, opposite the Clemments House. Legal business entrusted to them will receive prompt and careful attention. TENKS & CLARK, A TTORNE YS A T LA IF, Bkookville, Pa. Office in Matson Rlock, opposite the public buildings.  JOHN ST. CLAIR, A TTORNE Y A T-LA TP, And Justice of the Peace, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in Mundorff building, nearly opposite Spirit building. Collections made, depositions taken, and all kinds of legal business attended to. TT C. CAMPBELL, * A. TTORNE YS A T-LA TV, Brookvii.le, Pa. Offica in Matson's office, Matson building, opposite the Court House. Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, W M. GILLESPIE, ' A TTORXE Y-A T-LA W, Clatvillk Pa. Collictlons entrusted to him will b diligei.tiy attended to and promptly paid over. A fit Nnhlrrl I'ur ry lU'lililt;. T B.MORRIS, * JV8TICE OF THE PEACE, Young Township, Pa. Collections and other business promptly attended to. JOHN G. ERNST, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, McCalmont Township, Pa. Collections matle. Deeds and other legal palters acknowledged. Return !■> Pnitrcllvr I>utieN. A Cyclone Unr Heine. [Indiana Messenger.] On Monday evening a terrible cyclone ! passed over a section of country south of Hlairsville. The first damage noticeable was at Coketown, where the new iron bridge erected over-the river last summer by Westmoreland and Indiana counties, at a cost of nearly twenty thousand dollars, was caught up and turned over into the river, not a pound of iron was left on the piers and the structure will likrly prove a total wreck. But little dumage was done to the abutment or piers and the ironwork can be replaced for about eight or ten thousand dollars. The storm appeared to do no furl her damage at that point eventhe dwelling's on the bank of the river and iu close proximity to the bridge, escaping untouched. The course of the storm from this point was toward Bolivar and p issed south of the Intersection. At Bolivar a number of houses were unroofed and others badly wrecked. The Mail train on tho Pennsylvania was passing at the time and the swirl struck the three rear cars and almost blew them off the track. When tho cyclone struck the river the water was thrown fully one hundred feet in the air. Much damage to fences and building wan occasioned all aloud the line of the storm out thus far we have heard of no loss of life. Lebaxox, 0., May 10th, I&^i. Mr. Euitor :—I desire to give my friend s la short description of Lebanon, through | the medium of your valuable paper. Lebanon is situated thirty miles Northeast of | Cincinnati on the C., L. & N. K. R. It is a very beautiful place of nearly 3,000 inhabitants. It also is well shaded with sugar trees, which add to its beauty and comfort. Its principal feature is the National Normal University, which was founded iu 1S5."> by Prof, Holbrook, its present principal. The school is composed of scholars from all parts of the United States. At present nearly 1,000 students are here. A large number of them are from the South. I supposed the Southerners were uot like the people from Pennsylvania, but I find them to bo most desirable acquaintances, even if they do say Davis is better than Lincoln. This school has many advantages lioth intellectually and morally. The faculty can't lie excelled iu this country, ami its reference library of 5,000 volumes aud leading newspapers are a most desirable feature. The library is open every day except Sunday, aud is always full of students delving after knowledge. Its debating sections are splendid, There are sixty or seventy sections each containing twelve members, which meet every week aud diousB the leading topics of the day. Probably to some would bo the religious sentiment. A Y. M. C. A. and a Y. W. C. A. of live hundred members has been organized and conduct a noon-day prayer meeting each school day, and much good is being accomplished. Forty or fifty have,liy its instrumentality, became Christians,and it is hoped many more will still come. In all this is a splendid place and any person wishing an education would do well to come here because of its cheapness and goodness. C. 8. Mkaxs. New York, May 12.—The frenzied flag of Die Frmheit still floats, though a little laden with its dripping gore. Yesterday's edition was tilled with threats from Most. He appeals to his followers as follows : "Fellow-workers I will put a serious question to you—What is it that deters you from crushing the capitalist brute; from annihilating this whole rascally blood-sucking baud f No ; this is not very difficult, to answer. It is tb's ordinance band paid by money earned by the sweat of your brow. It is that billet guard called the police. In the present condition of affairs they are prepared to open upon you with revolvers and cudgels. I will give you some advice how you may best remove this obstacle. Provide yourselves with the same death instrument which they use, arm yourselves with revolvers and cudgels, with guns and daggers, ornanize ri ile companies and practice with the nse of these weapons and jou will soon wip*out this ordinance band with your numbers. What will this handful of cudgel heroes avail when a hundred thousand workingmen starving in New York on account of trie capitalists meet them with like capons aud like practices. Tberetore, oppressed workmen, arm } ourselves. You will be free." Leading Bazaar in the County! Clothing ! Furnishing Goods! Shoes! IIolidaysbuhg, Pa., May 12. -Isaac Stewart, a farmer's lad 11 years of age, living in Allegheny township, lust his life in a mysterious manner on Sunday afternoon lust. He went to visit a neighboring farm. In the evening he found lying unconscious on the road about three miles from home with 110 one near him. He had a gash about three inches long and one deep above his left eye, from which blood was (lowing and his body was lying in a pool of his own blood. There was nothing near to Indicate how the blow was inflicted. He was taken 10 his home and died on Monday. On the way back to prison so slight a circumstances as a small hole in the corridor lloor attracted her attention, and she plainly indicates by all her conduct that she has no appreciation of her situation. | Pottvillo, Pa., May 11.—The jury in the Sallie O'Neill homicide case, after half an hour's deliberation, to-day found the woman not guilty by reason of insanity. This in the result geneally anticipated. Judge Green, in charging the jury, used Judge Ludlow's charge in the celebrated Sayre oase in Phlladelyhia and cautioned the jury carefully to draw the line between iusanity arising from a diseased mind, such as the defense claimed, and mere iutoxicatiou. He instructed the jury that '-here was but oue of two verdicts to render—guilty of murder in the second degree, or not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury accepted the alternative verdict. When it was announced Mrs. O'Neill had her handkerchief rolled up in a ball and with it iu her right hand was smoothing her hair. Not a muscle moved when the verdict was given and at no time did she exhibit the slightest trace of feeling. She will be sent to the State Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg. Columbus, O., May 13.—TVord was received here at 1:30 this morning that a tornado bad wrecked Dayton and Xenia earlier in the night. Houses were torn down and carried away. At Xenia 100 yards of railroad were torn up like straw and the Little Miami railroad bridge was destroyed. All trains are abandoned. Telephone and telegraph connection is imperfect from there that details cannot be obtained. Jolikt, Iij... May 12.—One of the severest storms ever known here struck Joliet about 8:30 last evening. The thunderbolts were deafening and the electric display unparalleled. Burr Robinson's circus was showing, and in the midst of the performance the storm struck the tent and turned the whole show upside down. Women screamed, animals howled and a gem-riil stampede took place. Three persons were seriously injured by the falling poles and a number hurt slightly by the panic that followed. A most destructive cyclone is reported from Odell, a village forty miles south of Joliet, on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, yesterday afternoon. Scarcely a store in the town escaped injury. The loss will amount to $50,000. Houses, barns and sheds were twisted off their, foundations and completely destroyed. Trees a foot in diameter were twisted up. The stofin did not last over tire minutes. Ten minutes before it the air seemed to get green. Two clouds seemed to advance, one ftom the southeast and one from the southwest and met over the town, forming a monstrous whirlwind. The streets are tilled with timbers, board fences, tin roofs and prostrated trees. Those fatally injured are : Lottie Swifle, a ten-year old girl, who was carried over 200 feet ih the air and fell on the railroad track, smashing her skull; also George and Charles Hoke, liverymen. S. S. Cole,hardware merohant, and two children of John Miller are seriously hnrt. The children had taken refuge in a brick building and were buried in the rnins. Chicago, May 13.—A cyclone struck | Williamsport, Ind., last eveniug, destroying everything in its track. Several houses and barns in the north end of the town were carried away. It took a southwesterly direction, traveling about thirty miles an hour. Reports from Attica,about two miles east of Williamsport, state that it struck that place at the center of the town and destroyed several of the business buildings and the wagon bridge over the Wabash river. Several persons were on the bridge at the time it went down, aud all are supposed to have been killed. At the Revere House several are reported to have been killed. At this place two brick houses belonging to Henry Butt were torn down and Mrs. Butt was badly injured. Specials from Streator and Rookford, 111., and Pern, Iud.,tell of a terrible wind and bail storm at those points. At about 5:30 p. M., Deavy, roaring clouds from the south and east met just over the city of Roclcford, and daylight was suddenly changed Into darkness. A down pour of immense hailstones followed, greatly demaging trees and breaking windows. In the country surrounding Streator the rain and hail raged for an hour and a half, and the destruction visited upon grain, fruit and all vegetation is very great, From Peru, Ind., telegrams are received to the effect that houses were unroofed, trees uprooted and wheat blown down. A large amount of stock is reported killed by lightning. Letter From Dakota. Arming Au'iumhI JIuuie'Ktile. London, ifay 14.—More fire-arms have been sold iu Londonderry during the past three uiODths than were sold the previous Hve years. Orders have just been giveu there for 1,0(10 new ritles. Crowded meetings of Orangemen were held to day at Newry and Mourne, at which pledges were given not to submit to,the Dublin 1'arlicT meut and not to pay taxes. All present enrolled themselves .for military service as volunteers. Canadian Orangemen promise support. |[« I.ont IIis (lerkxliip. Washington, D. C-, May 12.—Harry L. Villee, of Marietta, Pa., lately a $1,200 clerk in thePostofflce Department, now on a leave of absence, was to-day dismissed from the servioe after an investigation ordered by the Postmaster General. It appears that he was married to Miss Roth, of IS&i, and parsons there,who brought the matter to tlie attention of the Department, claim that after he got his position here in he contributed nothing to support her ai d the children. They were with him here fur a short time, but Boon returned horn*. Since then Yil'.ee brought suit fur divorce and has been living in a boarding house here with a divorced woman, the daughter of a wellknown business man of this city, she passing as his wife. Reynolds, D. May 10th, 1880. J. Grant Mauk. Ed. Spikit:—When I arrived here on April 16th, I found my brothers, D. N. and F. E. Mauk, enjoying life as well us could be expected in the Golden Northwest. The soil of the prarie consists of a black loamy substauoe, from 18 to 30 inches, with a clay sub-soil. It is an unusually wet Spring lor Northwest Dakota, which prevents some of the farmers whose land is low from seeding,while others are through. The atmosphere is generally light. We occasionally have a mirage, wheu you can see places and objects at a great distance, as if suspended in the air. I amuse myself hunting prairie chickens, ducks and jackrabbits, which is very enjoyable sport. The nearest timber is about 20 miles, and is situated on the banks of the Red River of the North. At present we are haviug a May shower and the prairie is looking green. Next time I will give you a more fully description of the country. Khje, Pa., May 12.—The mechanics ami workingnien of Erie finally secured <h< ir charter for a lodge of Knights of Labor and organized to-night with S. E. C'olgrove, of the printers' union, as Master Workman. There were mechanics and laborers front twenty establishment, aggregating 500 men. The movement to secure an action of Councils to iix the eight-hour -system for city laborers failed. Horrible Aeelilenl on aRalluu). Eiuk, Pa., ifay 11.—While a trafu on the Kickle PUte road was crowi'ij; (lie Comieaiu bridge Charles Buy not, brakeman, was lifted from the top of a oar >>}• :lie wind am) dropped to Hie tr.u k, where hi* was cm in twain by the wbi«U, onelialt' the body remaining; on i.'jm .1 tck and the other toppling ltOfettdow: into the tavine. They I.ct II inl llunjc. Chicago,May 14.—Early this morning au expressman named Bies, .">0 years old ajuated a rope and banged himself from a rafter in the barn in the raar of nig borne. His wife found him in this situation and her screams brought a crowd of neighbors to the scene, but no one interfered or attempted to cut the rope, owing to the fantic efforts made by the suicide ro retrace himself by throwing his legs and anus apart. Crowds from the street came ii: to view the appalling sight but none vet.t:. u! to attempt a rescue. Finally, af'er a ! of ten or fifteen minutes, a poKeetii.iu appeared and cut the man down. IL' ,vat then cold in death. Lonih>n, Mny 14 —Iii the H - i mumoiis to tinj Mr. Jennings muni m >w » tax on imported foreign w iii...-iuit>» that compete with English m« <■ nr. tf, and to reduce the duties on to i. coti'ee and cocoa, wi'i. tlv object of mi i ( \ , he revonu. mid improving the u. :o i of the deptwtvwii • dowries. HgpRocK Bottom Prices. 49- House Wall, Cellar and Cistern work done in the neatest possible manner. Prices at reasonable'as Is consistent with good work. Gontf acts solicited. 13-88 Practical Plasterers aii Centm U. L. VAMHOBN. W. S. K'COLLPJf. YANH01N it McGOLLUlf, Covode, May 15, 1686. JOHX Gouklky. Editor It was with sincere sorrow that I learned by your last issue of the sad and untimely death of J. M. Drum, a former resident of Ptinxsutawney. As a carpenter he had few if any superiors. In his dealings he was strictly honest. His word was as good as his bond. As to his social qualities he was intelligent,kind and an agreeable companion. I have had considerable dealings with him, and can say that no man ever had ray confidence more fully than be. I truly sympathise with his family aud friends. Long will we remember James M. Drum. London, May 11.—Thomas Gibney, gentleman, was arraigned in Clerketiwell Police Court to-day, charged with having violated 40 children, daughters of workingmer, since last December. He was remanded for further hearing. An excited crowd, headed by the parents of the outraged childreu, assembled near the court buildiug and attempted to lynch Gibney as he was bron/bt out in custody of officers and he was kept out of their hands with considerable difficulty. —A timiieoiiont Juntiro has just creati-il h ptuceilont by giving it drunkard l»»<« choice liotween uulisiinvnt iu the rvgnlyr ariiiy ami to jail. The man chuve ti t- fftjeuMr uiicrratirfe, anJ wiis culioU'd at fait iinhiijioi1. THK Spirit. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. vol. xm. $f< $f.ftm$ £Utt. •y 'Or ' •" „ * - ■>