Punxsutawney Spirit, 1886-08-18

              SI< §tm* $t$tt. PUBLISHED EVEBY WEDNESDAY. voii. xrv. >tj i f,aggr M W •> It W : ®tye Spirit. NO. 11. OPENING. AT TIIE  Aug. 14th, 188S. / ' The Only fliiuicc of life. ol<l lll|> l'or«l. Stricken llambiirK. . ■ •• • t\ "•* {•?.$ rl I • I '■ AN 13 SEE » • , ' • . A Mystery. rjli. WM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SUKC,EON, Funxsctawney, Pa. Offers his professional services to the citizens ol Punxsutawney and vicinity. __ T)R. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNY8VTAWKEY, PA. Office two doors cast of the Posi Office.  r\R. S. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND S VUG EON, PUNXSrTAWNEY, PA. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney ami vicinitjT. DR. s. S. HAMILTON, physician and surgeon, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. (lflirn in dwelling. Offers his services to the people ot Punxsutawney and the surrounding country.  COME T 8 H I R J\U. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Office in residence on North Findlay street yvR. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. ESiMttoSsr&s Hxaxniners. , G 0 L L A R pvR. "\v. -T. Mcknight, physician and surgeon, Brookvillf, Pa. Professional calls promptly responded to. I \. I •. ! ■ Office 111 corner room, Torrence Block. IMjNXSCTAWNEV, PA. ■pvR. S. J- HUGHES, L' SURGEON DENTIST, PCKXSVTAWNET. PA. Office over the First National Blink, Millioning street. : - DR. W. J- CHANDLER) SUEGEON DEXTIST, jyi. T. It. MOKHISON, OUR r h ... 'i • M 1 I •.. .?' t' ■ J' h - .. I >4ri PA. Mar4erMI Mri Rnrard. Th* IUIIh Murderer Wholessl* FsImiIsi. CLOT H I 3STG- GRAND "UTINSLOW ft CALDERWOOD, A TTOIiNE YS-A T LA JT, PTOXBCTAWNIT, PA. Office one door east of the Western Union Tel- Mrafjb Office. Practice in the courts of Indian* Mid Jefferson counties.  s H O E p M. BREWER, A TTOJtXE Y-A T LA W, PraxsuTAWNET, Pa. Office on Gilpin street, twe doors north of Shields' furniture store. A T S A LEX. J. TRUITT, A ATTORNEY-AT-LA TP, PcNXSrTAWNKY, PA. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Courts oI adjacent counties. ■PDWAED A. CAUMALT, A TTORKEY-A T-LA ir, llBOOKVILLE, PA Office with Judge Jenke. Legal business earefully attended to.  s A T G H E L pONRAD & MUNDORFF, A TTORNE YS-A TLA TV, Office in Uodger'sbuilcling, opposite the Clcmmenls House. Legal busmessentruetcrt to them Will receive prompt and careful attention. Brookvillk, Pa. Office in Matron Rlock, opposite the public buiiiiings.  TENKS & CLARK, A TTOUNEYS-AT LA jr, TOHN ST. CLAIR, ° A TTORNE TAT-LA IV, And Justice of the Peace, Punxeutawney, Pa Office in Mnndorff building, nearly opposite 8riRiT building. Collections made, deposition taken, and all kindsof legal business attended to. IT C. CAMPBELL, * a TTOItXE YS A T-LAIV, Bkookville, Pa. Offica in Matson's office, Matson building, opposite the Court House. W E A R E G K Coll ct ions entrusted to him will bp diligently attended to andpromptly paid oyer. \Y M. (11 LLESPIE, • attokxey-at-law, Clatvillk PA. Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, FALL T R U N K S A NliiKli' lliirrclril Crimk. Erie friends propose to go to Arizona and have every effort made to bring tlie murderer to justice. Marten's extensive mining interests and cattle ranches are now without an owner and need looking after. Mrs. Sherlein had been married onee bofore And lost her husband in a mountain accident, he having driven over a precipice. Marten was a well-known character in Arizona, and was greatly rei pectod by all residents of that section. A short time prior totheir intended trip East, their buildings in Antelope Valley were burned. It was the intention of Mrs. Marten to surprise her mother at Eric ami keep her in ignorance of their coming. Mrs. Sherlein is frenzied with grief over her daughter's sad fate, and is to day entirely prostrated. Erik, Pa., Angust 13.—Thin morning * letter wm received from Maricopa, Ariz., giving tbe particulars of the awful fate of Barney Marten and bis wife and two children, who were mnrdered, robbed and bnrned near Phoenix, in a dangerous mountain pass. Mrs. Martin, nee Miss Rose Sherlein, of Erie, and her husband and children had started to visit her friends in Erie. Their departure was announcud by the rhu'uix and l'rescott papers, when it was also stated that prior to their departure Mr. Marten and his partner, Geo. A. Wallace, had sold some silver and copper mining property for $50,000. It seems that their fate was suspected and a wareh was made, which revealed the fact that after being murdered and robbed they were burned nnder a brush heap. ST. ELMO STORE, 1) N D E R A R This wan the first executiod that had takon placd hero siuco October, 186'.), when Richard Thairwall, anil Englishman, was hanged for the murder of VVm. Houseman, near Fayette City, ou the Monongahela river. Metz was about 30 years of age, 5 feet "> inches tall, aud uf strong and compact frame, lie came to this country about three years .igo from Vicenzi, province of the same name, in the State of Venice, Italy. One evening last week he dressed himself as a clown, and acted the druuken man to the great delight of his fellow convicts. He sent letters to the District Attorney aud his own counsel, offering them parts of his body to eat, in this way showing his hatred. The crime ftir which Metz suffered the extreme penalty was committed under the following circumstances: He and Cassideute worked together on the Daltmore A Ohio railroad, between Fairmont and Morgantowu, W. Va. Cassidente saved money enough to make him rich in his native place, aud in September last drew several hundred dollars from the bank and started for Italy, walking to Unieutowu to take the cars. iletz went with him, and returned, saying he had seen his friend off on the cars, lie had been too poor to marry the girl he loved before, but suddenly began to make her presents of jewelry and dresst*, and the wedding day tixsd. Two days later Cassidente's body was found in sugar-camp near the Uoioutown road, riddled with bullet holes. Supicion pointed to Metz, and he was arrested. Hills known to have been Cassidente's were found on him, and the chain of circumstantial evidence set so strongly agaiust him that he was convicted on March 11 last. He slept very little last night. At halfpast eleven o'clock the Sberitl'and his family visited him in his cell and bade him good-bye. He broke down and cried like child. He slept till 3 o'clock and then walked aroun his cell for a few uiinntes. He again went to sleep and rose at halfpast (> o'clock. After eating his breakfast he gave himself lip to violent weeping for awhile, but rallied again became cheerful under the counsels of his religious advisers, Fathers Herman and Kittell. He also made confession to Father Kittell, received absolution and partook of communion. He willed his Italian house in the Appenine mountains to his cousin Antonio Cappali, who is in New York. At 2o'clock he was led, trembling in every nerve, to the scaffold. As the cap was placed over his head the tears coursed down his face. He claimed to the .last that he was not guilty. UiOOJfTowN, Pa., August 18.—Michael Metz.the Italian who murdered Cassidente last September, was hanged at 2 r. m. today. The banging was witnessed by 200 people, including the Sheriffs of Westmoreland, Greene and Somorset oounties. Over 3,000 people made application for tickets of admission. H O S I E R Y There are now six or seven persous whom the Sowerville polico are pretty positive Mrs. Robinson poisoned to get their life insurance. First comes the husband of the woman, who died so suspiciously four years ago; then the daughter Emma ; then Mr. James Freeman; then the daughter Elizabeth ; then the adopted sou Thon'as, and lastly, the son William J., all within four years. There is another man who was very intimate with Mrs. Robiuson, wliose identity is unknown, but who, it is alleged, had a policy of S3,000 made over to her, and who was suddenly taken awaj. Possibly Mrs. Freeman was also a victim. Among this number four had insurance policieson their lives, amounting to 89,000, all made out in favor of ilrs. Robinson, but she has not received all the money, as there were flaws, in some of the policies. Information derogatory to the reputation of Mrs. Robinson is pouring in, and the Chief of Police will have about forty w itnesses when the case comes to trial. An old man,one Sleeper, died at her house two or three years ago under suspicious circumstances. A different physician was called in each case. The startling rumor is now circulated that Mrs. Robinson may be responsible for the poisoning of upwards of 100 people at the Methodist Church, which occurred last June. It was reported to J. Tylor Picks, the Charleston caterer, who furnished the ice-cream for the'festival, to-day, that Mrs. Robinson was present that evening and was one of those who dished out the icecream. This statement is also contradicted, but it is possible that Mrs. Robinson furnished cake in common with other members of the society for the pic-nic. Upwards of fifty people were poisoned then aud vomited all night, aud everybody attributed the cause to ice-cream which they ate. It has been learned that Mrs. R.ibison owes money to a great many people. A money lender let Mrs. Robinson have some watches and clothes and was around mourning the loss to day and trying to see what he could get back through the police. The woman skipped around without paying her rent. Somkrvillk, Mass., August 13.—'The hideous poisoning oase here is the sensation of the hour and is assuming vast proportions, while strong evidence is given showing beyond a donbt that Mrs. Sarah G. Robinson and her paramour, Thomas J. Smith, have been disposing of their victims in a wholesale manner for the insurance on their lives. Nearly a dozen physicians attended the post mortem examination of the son William, who died yesterday, and every one stated positively that deatn resulted from arsenical poisoning and nothing else. The exhumed remains of the danghtsr, who died last February, also showes indications of the presence of arsenic, and the doctors think beyond a doubt that she was poisoned. Prof. Wood, of Harvard College, is to make a careful analysis. There seems to be no doubt that William, the latest victim, was given arsenic by his mother and Smith, as he told the doctors just before he died that be had cot taken a thing from anyone but those two since he was injured in his business and taken sick. "I have named him Rapids. We, that is Rapids and I, will start from the old Maid of the Mist lamliug, oetweim and I o'olockou the afternoon of the J'.Mh, and that is all of it." When a-ked it'lic doesn't expect to get piietty roughly used, he said : "I suppose I will get some pretty hard bumps. hut if I didn't think 1 would go through all right I would not attempt it." •'1 am to have company this time, too. That fellow," pointiug so a rather goodlooking Collie dog which was chained to a post near the barrel, "will go with me. There will be lots of room for him. He has performed a feat that makes ns all stand back. On the l(5th of last January he was thrown from the float Island bridge passed over the the American falls, and came out alive. '•I will place myself in the barrel so that my head will be completely above the sides. I am going to see what is going on this time. The Interior of the barrel will be urranged about the same as before with the exception that the hammock will be raised so as to let iny head out. I will also have a sort of harness made of canvass over my shoulders to prevent by being out by a sudden plunge of the barrel. lii'KKAU), August 10—Cooper CarV e I). Graham, of Philadelphia, who made the trip through the whirlpool and rapids of Niagara river about a month ago, having been outdone in his feat by William I'o tts and George Aaslitt, two Buffalo men, now announces that on Thursday he will again make the trip, this time with the head of the barrel removed. He says: "I will use the same barrel that carried mo through before. The only char shall inako will be to remove the I. urn the upper end. New York, August 13.—Last evening Dennis Mahoney, a sailor, while sutiling with a companion and fooling with a pistol, wasaocidentally shot, the bullet entering the abdomen and inflicting what was thought to be a fatal wound. The physicians called concluded that Mahoney's chances of surviving the operation of laparotomy were better than most men's would be, owing to his strong constitution. The operation was performed. A long incision was made in the wall of the abdomen and the intestines wore taken out and laid in h.it blankets. Five bullet holes were found in the convolutions. Four wounds in the greater intestines were sutured with silk. The mesoutery was also pierced by the ball and had to be tied, thns greatly complicating the operation. The operation was finished shortly before midnight, and Mahoney was removed to a ward. Once in a while a man of vigorous bodily health recovers from this operation. ■Without it Muhonev would certainly have died. c u F F S The fruit crops are a total loss. Ilireo bar'iii valued at jl'J0,00lt were struck by lighting and destroyed, together witli several animals, and the roofs of three churches in the western section of lJerkn county were partly blown oft. He Know Them. The embankment along the Heading Railroad was washed away, leaving the railsund sills hanging iq tlu air. Corn fields were washed away, leaving n-*t. a vestige of t.ho crops, and toliaee i fields were riddled. Kkuhn'o, August 14.—Reports coining in from the country districts to-day show that Inst night's olond burst and storm wan unprecedented. Many thousand bushels of unripe fruit are new lying on the ground. The streets of Hamburg presented the appeal auce of rivers. Hundreds of cellarswere flooded. Wagons ami agricultural inp ements were washed from farm yards into the Schuylkill and carried away. The West Hamburg rolling mill and Tobias'brick-yard were washed out liy the stream, otnpelling the employers to flee for their lives. k*tu*z A C . K E T TOIIN T. BELL, JUSTICE OF THE l'EACE, PCNXSCTAWNKV, PA. Office one doof ensf of Shields' store. fift3ar,L receipt thereof. Speclsl utton®on glveyn tPo collection*. acknowledgement of deeds and taking depositions.  IMMENSE DEXTIST. rUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Ofllce in JotmsoniBuilding. u"3x II s ! ,h<*h "■> ,! '* t? u 71(1 >• '; srwO \ ,*«. *, . > "v i . V. 0 I t STOCK. ]£,.ports from towns all over the State are dally published, giving the progress of private enlistment of companies. Some of these movements are t he result of the prevailing war feeling ; but most of them are believed to be under the inspiration of old "Rip" Ford. Colonel Ford's residence is now San Antonio. lie has opened correspondence all over Texas with his old comrades and their sons, for the purpose of organizing forces to go at a moment's notice into Mexico in case of war. His methodsare confidential; but several of his letters have been received here, and the activity of his lieutenants cannot be concealed. He has already visited Governor Ireland, and toid him that when the need of troops arrises, if it does, he will require arms only to piace more than 1,000 men in the field. Ho wants tho arms furnished now, if possible ; but such a demand the Governorcanno* accede to under tho present s(ate of affairs.Dallas, Tkx., August 13.—Col. John T. Ford, OS years of age and hearty, fought on the border many years, principally agaiust Indian invasion, lie carries many scars and other evidences of hand-to-hand contlicts. He was ft soldier in the war of 1835 between Texas and Mexico, when the former won her independence. His boldness and blind bravery gained for him the sobriquet of "Old Rip Ford." A life-long residence on the Rio Grande has made him familiar with the line of Mexican atrocities committed ou Texassoil and against Americans in Mexico. He is a violent advocate of war, to squelch forever, with one avenging conflict, the Mexican hatred of all things American. • JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Yocxo Toifjiai Collections and other bu»lne» ph#»fttf attended to. J B. MORRIS. At PRICES DEFYING COMPETITION TOHN G. ERNST, " JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, MOCAEHONT TOWN8BIP, PA. Collections made. Deeds and other legal pa- ) i 0 V E R . Itii ,fAn alleged business man, my son, is a mm who doesn't advert in. " '•But I don't uuderst I, pap. Now, what is an alleged business man, for instance1' Kditoi—Well, it means — hem—'"reported,' '-pretended," '•gnpp 'w-d to be," and the like. much? )u>i<ii-itive Son—Papa what does the » ;;l "alleged" mean, w hich I see used so How the tinman system ever recovers from the bad eftects of the nauseous medicines often literally poured into itforthe suppositive relief of denpepsia, liver complaut, constipation, rheumatism and other ailments, is a mystery. The mischief done by bad medicines is scarcely less than that cause.d by disease. If they who are weak bilious, dyspeptic, constipatod or rheumatic, would ofteuer lie guided by the experience of invalids who have thoroughly tested Ilostetter's Stomach Bitters, they would in every instance obtain the speediest.aid derivable from rational medication. This medicine is a searching and at the same time a thoroughly sale remedy, derived from vegetable sources, and possessing, in consequence of its basis of pure spirts, properties as a medicinal stimulant not to be found in the fiery local bitters and stimulants often resorted to by the debilitated, dyspetic aud languid. HI —A number of the residents of Eustus and Sherman, Kansas, went to the town of Leonard and attempted to move it boldily to another site. The people of Leonard however resented the:u success fully. — I'lie manner in whicii Forth western Kansas is being settled and improved is Indicated in the fact that the valuation oj Sheridan county in that section, is shown to be 14ve tiuiisgienter thin il easa veafi —Dr. Reginald St ua rt Poole of the British Museum has procured for Boston a valuable Colossus of R.itnt»';s II. It sit* thirteen feet higb, and will he bioujjlit down the Kile when the river rises in February. <1B • ii ' ■' I mmiw ; J f» PUNX&UTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1880. :><