Punxsutawney Spirit, 1897-02-17

              3s Earfei:. j V jf T. * , i * ': > ". : - f> ; ■•■ ' * - ■> H* €ft | SjjI vit re*?* :PH J§: 'fs:M | m NO. 37 SEE WHAT WE ARE 0FFERIN6 " *2.75. Shoos " *:t.oo. Shoos " $4.00. Shoos " Shoos that wore !?2.(M), nmv £1.50. Shoos " - *1.75. AS USUAL. Our Store Will Close at 8 P. M. We have not only claimed to Iks closing at 8 o'clock, but have been closing promptly at that time. We ask the consideration of our trade in this matter, as wo think that twelve hours a day is to long for salespeople to stand behind the counter. And we feel sure that anyone who is in favor of reform in any way will assist us by coming to sec us before x o'clock. With thanks for your patronage ] remain. Very Respectful ly JOHN B. BAIK. Eberhart & Morey OOME QUICK E. Cunningham ft Son I WINSLOW BLOCK, PUNX8UTAWNEY. PA. Reason for the above eat is that we have too big n stoek. is on Table Linens, Napkins, Crash, Towels and White Quilts. We want you to gg visit our store during this sale as these are || ' all NEW GOODS and special values at the m regular prices, and the 10 per cent, is for six 11 days only. Anyway we want you to see the m new things in Dress Goods, Silks, Wash G'ds, |§ White G'ds, Embroideries, Laces, m Veiling,.Corsets, Shoes, etc. All 1897Jgoods. 11 Yours Respectfully frjl JOHN B. BAIR. § Beginning on Monday the 22nd of February and continuing the balance of the month, we will have a "SPECIAL SALK IN LINENS' and willl give 10 per cent, off from our regular These are a styish and good wearing shoes. S-H-0-E3-S. Tisr. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY. FEB. IT, 1897. JOHN B. BAIR, . | JOHN B. BAIR, I JOHN B. BAIR, PunxsutawTiey, Pa. ! Punxsutawney, Pa. i Punxsutawne f^ryryryr\Q JQperjiil Qel hMSPECIAL SALE IN LINENS , Pa. VOL. XXIV. More Zero Weather. Woolen Underwear, Cloth/bvershoes, and Mittens, Leather Lined Shoes, Never a Better Time punxsutawney, pa. Desire to in form their daily increasing trade (hat they have already commenced to receive their spring and summer goods. These early arrivals are intended to meet the demands of those who know that to get choice Patterns, in the best goods, purchases must be made before the season advances too far. Don't expect us to enumerate all that we keep. Tills week we open State ItightN and Appomattox Dr. Duestrow Handed. now. <i rents for Dress (Singham. good patterns. 10,000 yards of muslin. Prints and Ginghams. I cents per yard buys n good unbleached muslin. *• '" * ii and (t cents buys the best 4-4 tine unbleached. !i and <> cents gets good bleached, yard wide. 7 eents per yard is the price of Lonsdale bleached. Everybody knows this is the best 4 4 goods made. 5 cents per vard for the best biands of shirting prints. 5 cents per yard for blue Calicoes, all new spring patterns, is the price we can name if you buy them Union, Mo.,Feb. 16.—Arthur Duestrow, tlie St. I/Hiis millionaire, who on 1'ebrui ary 15, 1S96, shot aud killed his wife and child in that city, was handed here in the courtyard of the county jail to-day at 12:55. A few hours before the execution ! took place Duestrow tbreW ofl' the mask | of insanity , sobbing like a woman and admitted that he killed his wife and child. The condemned man walked to the gallows without a tremor and mounted the steps to his doom without a shade of fear passing over his face. He died as Gen. Rradenburg, <|nietly and bravely, bidding a last farewell to the mm who had fought ! to save his life. The murder for which the St. I.ouifl millionaire was hanged to-day was most brutal. On February 13, 1893, while in a drunked frenzy, he "shot and killed his wife and 3-year-old sou I.ouis in his palatial home, 1724 Compton avenue. After shooting his wife, Or. Duestrow took up his child, held the little fellow at arm's length against the wall and blew his brains out. Though a doctor of medicine, Duestow never pretended to prnrtice. He was imtnensley wealthy and dissipat-1 ed. 5,000 yards Embroidery, Lace and White goods. Embroideries as low as I cent per yard. Victoria Lawns 7, M and tOcenta per yard. India Lawns 7 to 5JO cents per yard. Nansooks and Swiss S to '£ii cents per yard. Laces all styles and prices. Chillon Huching, all shades, this is something now, and will please you. Wear Seasopable Cloth- ipg apd fCeep Warp). ALL KINDS OF WINTER GOODS STILL IN STOCK! BliUE HII.Ii yards now Matting, Carpets ami Oil Cloth. Matting, good quality, I 'i cents per yard. .Malting better quality I to '-iO cents per yard. Matting best quality to eents per yard. Mrussols Stair carpet, with Hall patterns to match, <iO cents per yard. Floor oil cloth 4-4, .">-4. ti-4 and >1. Table oil cloth ,r>-4 1 M cents per yard. 2,500 Woolen Hose, Warm Caps, Storm Overcoats, Rubber oots. ling Through Hit Oil. Williainsport, I'a., Fel>. 16. MarySteiger, a 19-year-old prisoner in the county jail here, was caught as she was Vbout to swing out to liberty this afternoon. Her cell is 30 feet above the ground and three feet above the outer wall. Mary, who is in jail for house breaking, would have ended lier sentence 011 March 1. With a caseknife, which she kept when her dinner was sent in yesterday, she dug a hole through the stone wall directly beneath the cell window. The dirt she concealed in the tick of her bed She made an opening 18x24 inches, having pushed out a large stone, that dropped into the jail yard. This afternoon a party of young peop'e were in a hall the windows of which face the jail, when a hoy's attention was attracted by a frowsy head appearing out of the hole beneath one of the cell windows. A telephone message was sent to the jail, and the turnkey came upon Mary unawares. She was partially through the hole and was cutting it larger. When she found she was discovered the girl uttered an oath. We have it iu live different «tyl«». It will wear as good as the average $8.00 shoe. Youth size in Blue Hill $1.40. Boys in same $1.25. This shoe is made to meet all competition at thin price. 18 THE NAME OF THE REST $2.00 MANS SHOE ON EARTH. WK STILL have a FEW EXTRA BARGAINS l.KHT in WINTICK GOODS * ■-/ Men's and Boys' Furnisher. WE ©TILL HAVE A FEW HALF PRICE OVERCOATS LEF T. RedMln Mess lift. Tke BarkarM* War in Caba. Than now to lay in a supply of fresh groceries and flour. For prices are sure to go higher in the near future. I l'hilwlolphlik Iu«|iiirt'r.} 1 The death of General Joe Shelby, of | Missouri, which is hourly expected, will I close an eventful career. Shelby was not one of the llourbotis who knew nothing and forgot nothing. (Experience was 1 a tfood teacher to him. At the opening of | the Civil war he east in his lot with the I Confederacy, although his State refused to follow him. He had a noteworthy career in the war, though he never rose to high command. After the war he concluded to go to Mexico to aid Maximillian. I and while enroute saved the capital of 'Texas from a band of marauders. He | was offered the Confederate funds at Austin, but refused them and marched boldly for Mexico. There his services were de-1 dined by Maximillian, who was suspicious of the great number of Confederates w ho offered to aid him. Had he accepted them, how different might have been his fate and the subsequent history of that country. Denied the profered services of his sword, the plucky general went to work I as a freight train conductor; but this ill suited his active nature, ahd he event- I ually came home, was reconstructed and j became active in Missouri politics, finally I being made United States Marshal. During a railroad strike he came into conflict with Governor Stone, who said that the Marshal was interfering with the rights of the State. To this the veteran replied that the question of States' #rights had been settled forever at Appomattox and proceeded to carry out his instructions. Well had it been for the Southern people had more of them accepted this decision During the reconstruction period there were bitter animosities, and there was much done on both sides that is to be regretted. Recently an ex-Confederqte officer said that if the Fifteenth j amendment to the Constitution had not ! been passed the entire South would have become Republican, as its old Whig afj filiations would have tended in that direction. The race issue, however, put them into the opposition, and a long line of troubles resulted. There were i some Southern leaders, however, who j did align themselves with the Republican party, particularly among the ex-officers. | Most of the men on both sides had all the fighting they wanted by the time Lee had surrendered. It was the nou- I com'1 »i»m on both sides who made an ladju mi mi impossible. There were few ex-C- Hiiviurate soldiers who wanted to fight iguiu, but the rising generation inherit* d the prejudice* and principles of the Suites' rights school ana maintained them vigorously. Shelby was rot one of the decaved. He knew taat the question was settled in a way there was no disputing.The theory of Governor Stone and Governor Altgeld would have reduced this nation to the condition it was under the Articlea of Confederation, that rope of sandSwhich preceded the present Constitution. Fortunately, the COhrta and the people at large have 1 settled the matter beyond controversy. The Popocrata vigorously injected the subject into last fall's campaign, and it was one of the leading issues in the controversy which was settled overwhelmingly in favor of the right of the Federal Government to protect its property and in sore the proper forwarding of tyie mail. Nothing in Shelby's career became him so much aa his reply to Governor Stone. It is thirty - two yean since Appomattox, but the frnita of that victory are as real now aa then and must endure forever. Mvsrtlesil IiHIW. Moray. Our Motto (Means Just What it Says,) Same Price 8ame Day to Everybody. Eberhari & JOHNSON BLOCK, Pharmacy Purity and Accuracy In Prescription Work. Btap are no more than uraally oharged where III am not always certain m V> quality. ItaUewiaghallsl of Irttsw nashlng umfcr the week ending Fsbraary it, Ml: (Mm. A. Jmi, P.m. [If. Y. Sun.J The report of recent atrocities perpetuated in Pmsr da) Rio province,  Weyler U now, ckmda of smoke show his Hue of march, and devastation is tlie Spanish policy. But in the weat oar correspondent speaks of maltreatment of the helpless, without regard to age or sex, which makea the burning of home* and plantations mercy in comparison. When Valmaaeda, during the former war in Cuba, issusd his barbarous decrees regarding the method of suppressing the I insurrection. FieriJent Grant instructed Secretary Pish to protest in the moat forcible manner against such warfare, and especially to warn Spain that parsons entitled to oar protection should not be so sacrificed. In Pinar del Rio to-day, according to oar correspondent, occur Crimea againat humanity equal to the Wprat of Valmaaeda'a time; but aa yet we have heard of no investigation by oar government of the alleged facta, and no protest or waning Uke Oat of 1896. A writer in the London Timea once said that if Cuba were aa near to Cornwall as it is to Plocida, Kaglaad would have looked asore sharply to matters of hcttlMmto ig^^offetwrnrtttoi^law. Dr. tadlarta Florid* Cattl March Mb. The doctor takes hU vacation in what ha consider* the wont mmoo of the year, and consequently the leaet inconvenience to his patients. He will pat in hit time at Mt. Dora, Fla., where be baa wine 46 acne of orange grove, and where hia family reside most 01 the year on account of the much better health Mrs. Sadler enjoys there. That aectfam ia the highest in tlw Rate, rery roiling, timbered with long leaf pine, inlersprsad with palmetto and dacidaoaa ttaes in ravtaee and along creeks and around SM Aaflfefe.-- jBlfcan^i5>ra™BiW^llw^jialltoiMHlWII|R|Epffl^^Mic^«IHI|ins<^ll»nra^ll|5i:^.lig||t^^ \i v m v Ah > 11 : 'f - ■V