Punxsutawney Spirit, 1887-02-09

              m - • | ' t r -r PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1887. NO. 35. OL. XIV. PASSING OVER PUNXSUTAWNEY O-A-TTSES -A- Awful Hull road nixnster TiriNSLOW * CALDIBWOOD, " ATTOB2TXY8-AT-LAW, FraORimr, PA. OSo. an. door «Mt of the Wertern Unkm Tel - JStMtoSrmrtto.In the court, of Indian. ■SfSifftnoa oo untie..  f1 M. BREWER, ATTORNHY-ATLA W, FcxxicTAwmr, Fa. (Mice oa Gtlptn ttreet, two dtort north of •toeJiU' furniture store. Qppoeite Spirit Building. Practice In the CoM> of ndjacent countiM. A LEX. J. TRUITT, A TTORXE Y-A T-LAW, PCMMCTAWKIT, Tk. JjJDWAltD A. C ARM ALT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAfT, AT THE TyANIEL JIAMEY, attorney-at-law, 988 F. N. W.. Washington, D. C. Practlclng attorney In the severaI Washington and elsewhere. Prosecutes claims before all the Government Departments. Also the purchase atffl sale of real estate. H-u IN THK PRICK OF BOOTS AND SHOES At I'iIteoi Pneen. J. A. ryR. "W. J. Mcknight, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BROOITOLLF, PA. Professional calls promptly renponded to. TYR. S. J- HUGHES, U SURGEON DENTIST, PUNI8UTAWN*r, PA. jsshs'JSS: 'a&ffsflsssfc °rki T. K. MORRISON, T*R. W. J. CHANDLER, SXJBOEON DENTIST, P0KI8DTAWN1T, PA. Office in corner room, Torrenoe Bloc*. Weber, Australian Rabbit*. dektist. funxsctawnby. PA. Office in Jolmeon.Building. 14 3x Early RmI romid Baker was shot through the Mad Mid is a»id to be mortally wounded. Wilcox then gave Baker the benefit of hi* skill as a physician and seen him safely home. Baker immediately sent for his friends and made a statement, embodying these facts, and said he pressed the duel on Wilcox and that Wilcox only acted in self-defense. f. ju A TIDAL WA VE PUBLISHED VsVEBY WEDKE8DAT. Big Kid Loekwood. by whom tbe picture vm Men, wd by all who kuew the old gentleman it wu readily recognized m a perfect picture of him. Tbis was on Tuesday. Mr. Davis, who was at Sandy Creek, was sent for and returned home, but he of course could not solve the question of what caused the face to appear in the glass. The family were reticent about the matter, but to-day when it became generally known hundreds of people have visited the house and have seen the picture of the old gentleman—a picture almost as clear as a photograph. Your correspondent to-<lay, in company with several well known townsmen, visited the house and looked at and carefully examined the strange freak, but were unable to solve the strange mystery. The family of Mr. Davis know no more about it than the visitors. Ex-Connty Superintendent Johnson visited the house to-day and readily recognized the familiar features of his old friend. This evening hundred* were still calling, anxious to Bee the strange sight. GENERAL CUT Office with Judge Jtmks. Legal business carefully attended to. JENKS& ATTORNEYS-AT-LA TF, Bbooivilli, PA. Office to MaUon r.loo.k, opposite the public buKHnas. JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT-LA W, And Justice of the Peace, Punxrotawney, Pa. SScp in Hundorff bailding, nearly oppoatt* BKUT building. Collections made, depositions tafcen, and all kindsof legal business attended to. C. CAMPBELL, ATTORNEYS AT-LAjr, CHECKERED FRONT, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, p C. BENSCOTER, Pa. Ofllna in Matson's office, Matson building, opposite the Court House. Albany, February 4.—The daring rescue of Harry McMunu by his pals on the Cleveland express at Ravenna, this morniug, lias revived lively memories in police circles here. McMunn is no lens a personage than ( he notorious Big Kid Lock wood, who, together with his two accomplices, attempted to enter one of Albany's big fur establishments about two years ago. Chief of Police Willard said to night that the ies cne of Munn this morning is just the sort of a reckless undertaking his cronies might be expected to attempt. One of the rescuing party is Daniel McAlear beyond a doubt. He is a desperate burglar, and has worked many a tile job with the big kid and another pal. They tried to got into Schormorborn's fur store in this city at '< o'clock on the morning of December 17th, but were detected while at work. The big kid made his escape, but we captured Mc- Alear and his pal, George Lock wood, alias Tom Taight. The pair wore convicted of burglary and were each sentenced to aone and a half year's imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary. Their terms expired last September, and since thjir release nothing has been seen of theiu in this vicinity. This gang is undoubtedly the same one that did the Cleveland fur robbery. They worked tho job at the same hour they tried it here, and tho piece of screw found in the Cleveland store door corresspoods exactly with the part of a screw preserved at police quarters here. It was a portion of an instrument used to break the door fastenings. They're a desperate lot," said the Chief in conclusion, "equal to any deviltry that. <'an lie devised." Her V.yvt Saved Her. OVERCOATS, Office two doors east of the Post Office. TVR. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCMTB0TAWNBY, PA. PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON, £)Tt. WH. ALTMAN, POKXBOTAWNKT, Pi. Offers his professional service# to the citizens of PfmxButawney and viomtty. i-VR. 8. S. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ebxmctawmiy, pa. Office in dwelling. 0«f»HhJiriS5lnndlM peoule of Punxsutawney fed the surrounding 060 n try. r|R. 8. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCMMCTAWKBY, PA. Offers his services to the people of Ptmxsut awn fey awl vicinity. ______ DR. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, POKXSOTAWKBY, PA. Office in residence on North Findlay street SUITS, HATS & CAPS, FntN ■Iliiiii'ir on Keeorri. Chicac.o, February 4.—Mm. Mary O'- Brien, who lias been before the Conuty Conrtas a much persecuted woman during the past six months, but who was finally adjudged insane and sent to the .TeHerson Asylum, was before Judge Prendegrast today 011 a motion of her attorneys to have the order finding her insane annulled. "When the case was called Mrs. O'Hrien arose from a seat in the rear of the room walked directly in front of the Judge. She appeared calm and tranquil, and her little black eyes possessed an intelligent tire which pronounced her sane. Attorney Dunlevy said the husband and children of the petitioner had been notified to be present, but were not in court. After hearing various witnesses, the Court said : 'The Court orders that it be made a matter of record that he finds the petitioner is not insane, and she is discharged from further custody or attendance in this canse." Mrs. O'Brien is now free to claim her largo estate in Australia, with which nothing has been done sinee she was found to be of unsound mind. Said one of the witnesses before the court, to a reporter today : "Mrs. O'Brien never has been insane! It is a scheme on the part of certain persons to get her out of the way in order to get control of her money. After she was sent to the asylum the doctors there refused to keep her, as they saw at once that she was of sound mind." She will make an effort to get a divorce. The scene which followed was probably never equaled in any one of the long series of disasters which have blackened the record of American railroads. The splintered wreck took lire, and the llarne leaped in ihe darkness in a demoniacal revel. The groans of the dying, mingled with the heart-rending shrieks of their companions who were snflering the pangs of live-cremation. Dazed, half naked and wounded, the survivors were crawling along ice lloes and snow drifts in a temperature many degrees below zero, beseeching aid from the half dozen rough farmers who soon appeared on tho scene. The advancing llames drove back the would-be rescuers, and the odor of burning huniau llosh rose on the air. Here and there a half clad corpse, with wounds stopped by frozen blood, lay or, tho snow with face upturned to the stars and, in one short hour, before even a wrecking train from this junction reached tho scene, the wreck was entirely consumed, only a pile of blackned, mouldering timbers being left to mark the spot where at least 40 livos had been sacrificed. On improvised cots in tho baggage and smoking cars or on the floor of a neighboring farm house, lay perhaps 40 of the badly injnred, some breathing their last, some under the surgeon's knife and several suffering, in addition to their own pain, the agony of soul consequent upon having seen friends or relatives perish before their' eyes. When the grey morn dawned 2G charted and unrecognizable bodies lay on the ice by the bridge site. The scene was probably more truthfully and laconically described by Frank Winsch, a New York drummer, who survived, when he said, with blanched countenance and staring eyes to our reporter: ' 'It looked like the Inferno." White Rivf.k Junction, Vt , Feb. 5.— No disaster more appalling in its liappeuings, more awful in its consequences, is recorded in the annals of New England railroading than that which occurred at '2:30 o'clock this morning on the Central Vermont Railroad at the White river bridge, in tho town of Endon, about four miles west of that junction. By it the four rear cars of the Montreal express, bearing New York, Springfield and Boston excursionists to the Montreal carnival, were hurled from the track by a broken rail, while running at a speed of 40 miles an hour, and were precipitated, together with a (iOO-foot Howe truss bridge,down 70 feet into a wild, dark and rocky gorge. There they struck with an awfnl crash on the frozen surface of the White river. DR. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCMXBUTAWN«Y, PA. Has^rma^t^tocatedin this spoken. Member of Boarlof Pension Bxaminers. . — These goods must be sold before March x, to make room for Spring stock. These goods must and shall go, as we never say anything that we do not mean, and our many customers are well aware that they can get good bargains and rely on what they are told concerning goods. A XyMterlouH Picture. Rev. David Barclay was the first Presbyterian, and Elijah Coleman the first Methodist minister to come here. The latter preached at Hoover's Mill for many years. Charles Barclay taught the first school in this neighborhod, but was forced through sickness to abandon the undertaking. Several subsequent terms were taught by Andrew Bowman, J. B. Henderson, and a Mr. Kinworthy. Not wishing to occupy too much of your space with these reminiscences of bygone days I Khali close, but may at some future date have something more to add concerning the history of this section When Jenks and Barclay first came here from New Jersey they were accompanied by Zachariah Fiumerfelt, John Hankison, a Mr. Ileadly, Elijah Heath, who afterwards served in the capacity of judge, C. C. Gaskill. and Jurnes E. Cooper, father of Thomas J. Cooper, of Pnnxsatawney. Mr. Gaskill married Eliza Weaver, of Freeport, Pa., and shortly afterwards was appointed agent for lands in Jt fferson, Indiana and Armstroug counties, which position he filled for many years. C. R. White. The first people who died and were buried in the graveyard at Punxsutawney were Hugh McKee and a Mr. McElwaine, a number of whose descendants still reside in thiB neighborhood. Elizabeth Barclay and her sister, Mrs. Weaver, were the first females to pay the great debt of Natnre, and were, I believe, interred in the same grave. In tho year 1811) Rev. David Barclay and Dr. John W. Jenks came from New Jersey and purchased a large tract of land, upon a portion of which the town of Punxsutawuey is built. In the spring of that year Dr. Jenks erected the first house in tho plsce and I distinctly remember seeing tho raftors being put ou the building. C. C. Gaskill built tho second or third house,and from this time on tho place continued to grow and prosper. In 1820 Doctor Jenks and liarclay erected a saw aud grist mill. Tho flouring mill is still standing and is known as the St. Clair mill. P. W. Jenks was the first, aud Ii. Augustus Gaskill the second male, and Caroline Gaskill the first female child born in Punxsutawney.Jacob Hover and John Ilutcliiscu occupied the ground where Clayville is situated. Jesse Armstrong and Adam Long had cabins built near where Cnxson's old distillery used to stand, and for a time this comprised tho entire population of that district. Hoover, in 1810, built the first saw mill in this part of the country. It was situated near the point now occupied by J. U.Gillespie's barn. A few years afterwards this energetic pioneer erected a gristmill, which for many years was under the care of a miller by the name of David Burkett who did the grinding for a largo scopo of couutry. Covode, Pa., February 7,1687. Mr. Editor :—A tew months ago you accorded space in the column* of your paper for a series of short sketches relating to the early history of Punxsotawney and vicinity, Although interesting, they failed to toaoh upon many points that would lie of interest to the reader who desires a knowledge of the early settlers. Being among those who first came to this country I have been conversant with its growth and development for a period of near sixtynine yearn. In the following article I shall endeavor to give a few reminiscences of people and events that I trust will be of Interest to a innjority of your readers. In June, 1818, my parents, accompanied by John North and wife, emigrated from Wilmington, Delaware, and settled in the neighborhood of what is now known as Covode. This settlement at that time consisted of the families of William Hopkins, Peter Justice, John Mitchell, John Henderson, William McKane, James McCcnibs and the Widow Hopkins. These industrious pioneers were devoting their energies to clearing laud for cultivation, and were ever ready to givo a heaity welcome to those who cast their lots with them. Perrysville was the nearest settlement down the Mahoning creek, and was composed of eight families. New York, February <.—In tho course of liis reply to a tost at, the annual banquet, of the Amherst Alumni Association tonight, Rev. Ilenry "Ward Beeclier said : This abomination, the Knights of Labor, is the result of this internal idea of pateruily of government. Because a few men in Now Jersey think their emploveri hive wronged them, all this nation is called upon to suffer 011 tho order of this paternal government of the Knights of Labor. This is from want of intelligence. God knows I am a friend to the wnrkinnjrmin. I am a workingman. I come from working stock. My grandfather and bin father were blacksmiths, and my mother's people worked in leather. The working people are being taken care of by the Knights ol Labor iustoadof taking care of themselves, and people all over the land are being punished and business isstagnated because of it, just because a few men 111 Jersey have done wrong. The destruction of the poor is their ignorance. of t|« The Checkered Front, TOHN T. BELL, 11 JUSTICE OF TEE PEACE, PCSMOTAWKET, PA. Office one door t^fthi»o»rewS reoeWepronfpt JB. MORRIS, * JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,, YCMTVO TOWXBHIP, PA. Mixtion. ar.rt other promptly attnRAI.KKiit, N. C., E«b. 4.—Dr. J. 0. Wilcox i* the Republican leader of Ashe county and Mr. John Baker is one of the loading Democrats of the same county. During lust fall's campaign a bit ter fued sprang up between the men in discussing political questions. As the campaign around Ashe county progressed, it was with the greatest difficulty that a duel between them was at that time prevented. The election came off and the Republicans carried the county by nearly 300 majority. Wilcox gloried and exulted in the victory aud the defeat of his enemies aud again denounced Baker. Matters passed oil' at this until yesterday. Dr. Wilcox had been visiting a patient and on his return home met Baker in the road. No one was present except tbe two principals. Baker invited "Wilcox to halt, which he did. Baker then said that he conld not longer submit to the denunciations of Wilcox, and had only done so this length of time in deference to his wife. He then declared that be could not live any longer without a settlement of the difficulty according to the code. " I am ready and anxious," said Dr. Wilcox, "to accommodate you at any time and tn any manner yon desire." "Are you armed 1' asked Baker. "Yes," replied the doctor. Each pulled his pistol and it was examined by the other and handed back to the owner. It was a nice level piece of road where they met, and It was agreed that they mark off 15 paces And take their stations and commence and continue to fire until one or both were hurt or their weapons exhausted. This agreement was so well executed that five rounds were fired and on the last The matter was referred to the Treasnn Department. One of the officials of the department said to-day that, m there is no law to prevent the importation of the rabbits, the matter will be laid before the Committee of Ways and Menus for sncb action as may be deemed necessary. Washington, Keb. 4.—The Fiesiuuut lia* received a letter from ITon. C. M. Clay, of Kentucky, calling attention to a report that, a cargo of English Australian rabbits is at sea, bound for the United Btates. lie says he has made domestic live stuck ol' all kinds a study, and that it would be better to have pleura-pnenmoniu, smallpox and cholera spread over the United States than to suffer the ravages which will result from the importation of these rabbits. Braddock, February 4.—A curious phenomenon, that borders on the supernatural Is at present engaging the attention of the people of Braddock. Mr. Theodore Davis, a well-to-do and highly respected brick contractor, lives in North Braddock. Mr. Elliott Davis, father of Theodore, is an old gentleman aged 84, and resides in the town of Turtle Creek, three miles distant. At present the old gentleman is lying on a sick bed. On Tuesday Clara Davis, the eldest daughter of Theodore, was confined to the house by a slight illness. While sitting in an easy chair in the dining room and gazing iniently out of the window in the direction of Turtle Creek, she expressed a desire to see her grandfather. Her mother told hnr it would be impossible, as both her and the grandparent were too ill to be moved. Mrs. Davis left the room only to be called baok in a few minutes by her daughter's screams. The girl pointed to one of the Window panes, in whioh | was seen a perfect pioture of Grandfather Elliott Davis. Mrs. Davis was. thoroughly frightened and called some neignbors in, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Jh m m m ~ ; * • «• ••? •? : *