Punxsutawney Spirit, 1887-03-23

              -■A1"; ' ;Wf | Sjjr* ■ NO. 41. DEATH M A HOTEL. VOL. XIV. rTTNXSTTTA WNFY, PA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23, 1887. THE NEW WILL HAVE A At its placc of business, on Main Street, opposite the postcfiice, on Saturday, March 26th. He Kbot to Kill. are as low as the lowest. Call and be convinced that our prices A Detective Detected. A Cur. for 9tttt**ttfc»«mtg Spirit. PUBLISHED EYEBY WEDNESDAY. LATEST ARRIVAL Thirty Pera.ua r.rtak m< 0*«r Twenty toJarMl. Paally HUtaqr. One Price Clothing Store , PcMZBtrrAwvrr, Pa. Office ob Gilpin street, two door* north ot ■nUdk' furniture store. Q M, BREWER, A TTORNE T-A T-LA W, Offlce ob, door MMt of the Western Union Telegraph OSee. Practice in the courts of Indiana and Jefenoc oountie*. WDTBLO W * CALDERWOOD, A TTORXK T8-AT-LAW, PmxaoTAirxBY, PA. A LHX. J. TBUITT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, PUNXSt'TAWKIT, PA. aif-"* Spirit Building. Practice in the OmRi ot adjacent counties. JjJDWARD A. CARMALT, ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, Bbooxvilli, Pa QOee with Judge Jenks. Legal business aarefnfly *«eticle<1 to. NORTH & MORRIS Bkoox villi, Pa. In Mataon Block, opposite the public JKVKS k CLARK, A TTORNE Y8-A T- LA W, ~p[ c. CAMPBELL, A. TTORNE YS-A T-LA W, Bkooivillb, Pa. Offlpa in Mataon's office, Matson building, oppoaita the Court House. Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY A T-LA W, And JmsMce ot the Peace, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offioa in Mundorff building, nearly opposite BriBMr building. Collections made, deposition* Irtw, Mid all kinds of legal business attended to. Grand Opening Huntingdon, Pa., March 15.—An important cue in Innacy has jnat been decided in the eonrta here, reanlting in the acquittal of the defendant, Peter Hawn, and bringing to light a cartons story of a moet singular family. The family lived five miles south of this city, in Jnniata township, and consisted of three brothers, one of whom was a maniac from his yonth. Tbe nnited ages of the three was 245 years, and by rigid economy and industry they amassed a fortune of abont $400,000, a large amount of which was in money and secreted on the premises. Numerous attempts have been mado to rob them, but to no purpose. The brothers from their youth strenuously objected to any one of their number marrying, but ane of tbem, Michael, regardlesaof the brothers' restrictions, married, and was at onc<5 disowned and driven from home. He finally died in abject poverty, and his family did not long survive him. Until recent years the brothers, having such a dislike to the op posite sex, performed the culinary duties of the household in turn, and it is said that for nearly 50 years no woman had ever entered the house. Finally in their de clining years they were compelled to reluctantly engage a housekeeper. D.miel and Peter were the two brothers left at home after the banishment of Mich- Hfl. The former, who died recently, watt 85 years old aBd had been a maniac for 63 yearn, being confined by chains in a darkened room in the house all that time. Peter, the surviving brother, several years ago adopted a young man named Samuel Rogers, who, upon obtaining his majority, was presented with a valuable farm by Mr. Hawn for his services. The relatives of the old mau brought suit and wanted to have him adjudged insane in consrquence of bis generosity. He has just been declared sane by the court and capable of managing his own utlairs. He now proposes to draw up a will and bequeath the greater part of his remaining property to the widows and homeless persons in this community. Attack* oa Wtacn. To these patients, who were considered to be suflV riii); from the last et.Bg>'!) of oonsumptiou, t wo rectal injections of carbuuir acid gas prepared tiy the process given by French physicians, were given each day, all the medicine being abandoned. The patients at once began to show signs of improvement. The night sweats ceased as if by niagio, the almost constant pulus from which they suffered vanished, theexcretions of the body were regular and became natural, and the appetite returned. The sick giew brighter ami stronger each day, and since the beginning of the treatment one of the uumber has gained Vi pounds in weight, while others have gained from 3 to 5 pounds iu the same time, llsw far the improvement will contione undertho treatment, cannot yet be Judged,, but the resnlts have been so satisfactory that Dr. McLaughlin has abandoned all other remedies in the treatment of patientowho can be induced to snbuiit to the operation, and he is so agreeably surprised at resnlts that be leels almost ready to say that a cure for consumption, which haa always been considered latal when onod developed, has been found. Philadelphia. Pa., March 18—At the raeetiug of the Hospital Committee of the Board of Uuardiitus of tbe Poor to-day. Dr. T. N. McLaughlin, pbjsician-in-chief of the Philadelphia Hospital, presented a report of the succees of the treatment adopted about a month ago for patieuta in Institution suffering from eousnuiptiun. He said that so far tbe success of the treatment wan almost uiarvrloan, and in caaee which had "greed to submit to the methods adopted no other has been used. Dr. Mc- Laughlin first obtained tbe idea from a paper read before the College of Science, at a recent meeting in Paris, by one of the professors in the University of Ljiiiis. It was recommended su highl) ami hud shown such surprising results in Prance (bat Dr. McLaughlin decided to test It in tbe hospital. He explained the treatment to the patients when 30 of them agreed to submit to the operation. Robert Collyer Bceeber. Chief Hornung, of the fire department saya : ''The number of people rescued is about SO to 25. We did all we could to rescue them. We got two streams into the corridor of the hotel, and at that moment the flamea were shooting up that big Btairoaae and elevator way beyond the reach of the hose. We tried to play both streams on the fire, but there was so much screaming by the guesta and calls for help from windows that we called off moat of the men from the hoae and let the building go for awhile, giving all our attention to the ladders. 'Damn the building,' I yelled ; 'save the people,' and the boys helped man the ladders on the outside, putting two on the Main street Bide and the short ones east. There was need of it, too. It was a horrible sight to see them jumping from every side. The cool headed ones were rescued all right, but some wculd not wait." Buffalo, N. Y., March 18.—Another oalamitv has visited Buffalo. The splendid new Richmond Hotel, at the oorner of Main and Eagle streets, was totally destroyed by fire early thla morning, together with the Si. James Hall and other adjar cent property. Tbe most distressing part of the disaster is tbe loss of human life. The hotel waa opened for bnsinese about a month ago, and handsomely fitted and deoorated, and was filled with guests last night. The fire spread with frightfnl rapidity, and the guests, rudely awakened from their slumbers by the horrifying cry of "fire," rushed to the windows and other possible avenues of escape. When they saw the fllames shutting off their way to the ground their heartrending shrieks could be heard blocks away. Ladders were raised and a large number rescued. Tbe hotel burned like a tinder box, the corrider in tbe center of the building acting as a great funnel. Tbe fire spread to the Bunnell Museum building adjoining on Eagle street and a small frame building adjoining on Main street, and the three structures were entirely destroyed. It is undoubtedly a faot that at least thirty persons perished. There were 125 persona in the hotel, seventy of whom were transient guests, eight boarders and the remainder porters, bell boys, the families of the proprietors and olerks. Twenty-two of these were rescued from the windows by the firemen, twenty-two are in the hospitals aud a large number made their escape by other means. The origin of the fire is not as yet known. LOW PRICES. New Store, New Goods jQAXIBL BAMEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 988 F. N. W.. Washington, D. C. Practicing attorney In the several courts In Wa-<hliifton and elsewhere. Prosecutes elaitae before all the Government Departments. AM the purchase and sale of real estate. U-M Everybody is invited to call and see one o1 the largest and finest stocks of Clothing in* the county. £)R. S. 8. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Puhmutawhkt, PA. Office in dwelling. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and the surrounding oonntry. T)R. WM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offers his professional services to the citizens of Punxsntawney and vicinity. PcwxBDTAwinrr, Pa. J)R. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCNYOTTAWMT, PA. Ottee two doors east of the Post Office. Parkbrsburo, March 17.—The town of Point Pleasant, in Mason county, below here, is in a high state of indignation and exoitementon aocount of the nightly attacks that are made by a band of Italian laborers upon the women in the place. The ladies are insulted publicly on the streets. Most vile language is used, and in several instances they have assaulted them. A gentleman and his wife were attacked by a band of eight of these fellows and the woman's clothes badly torn, while her husband was defending her with a club. There is only one policeman in the place, and the men are arming themselves for protection. The RegMer, published there last night, nails upon the men to arm themselves and protect their wives and daughters, and when they are insulted, hunt the rascals down and kill them wherever they find them. A bloody tirue is expected. PUNX8CTAWNBT, PA. Office in residence on North Finiilar street T)R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, £)R. B. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PcxzaoTAwrar, Pa. oilers Ma services to the people of Punxautawney anl vicinity. N«W Yowc, March 20—Among other utterances by Rt»v. Robert Collyer, in the course of a sermon to-day upon Henry Ward Beecher, at the Church of the Messiah, were these : Since tbu death of Luther, 340 years ago, the death of no man in nacr«d office aim ho touched tbeheurtsof tho nations. Though he was 74 year* of age no one looked upon him as old. He was the great leader of the American pulpit, and no one in this age. save the grand old man in England, had so much enthusiasm, conrage and ability for the work he bad to do. His theology was broad aH the world itself. It was not theology bound with all iron band, suob aft they would bind on at Prinoetou and An dover. That is well enough for those that love such bondage. Because Bet eber was not bound with bonds made by man, anil because of bis noble work for humanity all these years, I thank God that he w»# not a systematic theologian; but just the groat,, free reasoner wc knew him to be. He needed the whole Knpnblie, iirbt, for liis growt h, and then the whole planet for his ripening Ho was not of flower pot growth. Ho was a giant in the grei»t woods. As well might they soek to confirm Niagria in a flower-pot. Greenwood is now aa saorcd as Mount Vernon. _ and Children's Clothing In this line we have the finest assortment in town, and will sell at prices that will astonish you. Child's suits from $1.50 up to $7.00. Boys' We are here to stay and propose doing a legitimate business. We will sell at STRICTLY ONE PRICE, and one man's money will buo as mush as another's. Your child can come to our store and buy as cheap as any one. Now we will tell you something about our goods : We will sell you men's suits at #340, $4.50. $5.00, $6.00, and from that on up to $25 and $30. The AnurphlMl* Mitjr Hanc T)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNX8UTAWN1Y, PA. Km permanently located in this plane, and offers nis professional services to the citizens of tkls vicinity. He may be found at all times at him office hi the Campbell building. German language spoken. Member of Board of Pension rjR. w. j. Mcknight, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Bbookttllf, Pa. Professional calls promptly responded to. r>R. 8. J. HUGHES, SURGEON DENTIST, ' PUXXIOTAWKIY. FA. Office two doors Bast of First National Bank, Mataonlng street. Opposite St. Blmo Hotel. T. *. M0RBI80N, T|B. W. J. CHANDLER, 8UBGE0N DENTIST, POMZaUIAWKIT, PA. (Woe in corner room, Torrence Block. At the trial in Taunton to-day Butler was compelled to divulge his occupation in order to clear himself. As soon as he was at liberty, he arrested Cheevers on a charge of larceny l'rom the jewelry store and also on a charge of arson. No evidence could be prod need that would warrant the Justioe in holding Cheever to the Superior Court, and he was discharged and returned home in triumph. Attlbboro, Mass., March 18.—Wm. E. Cheever, late of the firm of 3. E. Simons i Co., jewelers, is a local lion to-night. Since be left the firm the other partners have missed some $8,000 worth of plated ware from their store, and when their place was set ou fire about two months ago they bus pented that Cheever had something to do with the affair. Seymour Butler, of Pinkerton's Defective Agency, Boston, was employed. He obtained a room at Cheever's house, and soon informed his supposed dupe that he was a New Yorkcrook on thei lookout for a big job. In less than a week he told so many stories about his adventures that Cheever became afraid tbat he would do harm, aud went and iuformed the County Sheriff, who arrested Butler a« a suspicions character. Coi.umbus, O., March 13.—Adam Hank, a fiddler, residing in tho southern part of the city, shot his wife iu the abdomen with nshotgun to-night, tearing a large rent, lrom which tho iutestiues protruded. The woman ran from the house and was caught by a neighbor, who, with the husband, brought her baok and laid her on a lounge The physicians had a difficult time in replacing the intestines, and say she can live lint a few honrs.. Huuk was arrested. lie had been out riding with his son during the ufteruoon, ami the trouble arose over the fact that she objected to tho men being away from home. Mrs. Hank was sitting on a low stool near the stove in the kitchen when Hauk took de liberate aim and fired. He is said to be a cousin of Hauk, the Cincinnati brewer. A Farmer'* Exciting Atl» «'iitur<\ HAT BEPMT1EIT. Our Hat Department is simply immense. Men's hats from 25 cents up to $3.50. All the latest styles. Boys' and Children's hats so cheap you will wonder where we got them. We also have a complete and elegant line of Gents' Furnishing Goods at coarespondinf ly low prices. Parkeh8BUIk;,W.Va., March 18.—While George Hartnian, » farmer of Buane oouuty, was returning to bin home on having Just gold some cattle, he was accosted in a lonely part of the road by masked men, who culled upon hiui to stand and deliver. He not replying at once, they began firing, one abot killing his horse and throwing him off. His pocketbook fell from bis pocket when he was thrown and the maskera grabbed it and ran, firing as they went. His clothea were riddled with ballet holes, bat fortanately he escaped with some slight wounds. He fired once in return, wounding one of the men in the arm. The pocketbook had aboat (200 in it. A posse baa gone after the robbers. Chicago,March 19 —TheSupremo Court of Illinois has beard arguments of counsel for tho stveu condemned Ha.vniarket, Anarchists, und lifter completing its e\- uuiiDationof tho immense volume of evidence upon which they were convicted will decide whether the condemned shall pay tho penalty of their crime without a further honriug. To reud and digest, this evidence will require a month or six weeks II it in decided to grant a new trial the opinion of the court wHi doubtless he made at once, but if the decision of the lower court is affirmed official announcement of the fact will not be published till the Supreme Court meets in September. Whatever the decision may be, tie neokn of the condemned are safe until October at least. The prevailing opiniou at Oitawa, where the application fur a new trial was beard, is that the verdict of the lower court will be allowed to stand. In that case aroh- Auaicbikt Spies will complete his career as "martyr" about one year from the date of bio original sentence, and the sacrifloe of poor Nina Van Zandt will have been in. vain. A Wgmn Mtraaifled k) H»f —An old Revolntiouary cannon »aa dug up Tuesday in White Plains, N. Y. It belonged to t.beContineutal army which engaged the Biitish on Chatterton Hill in October, 1778. It was found by some workmen who were digging a cellar on a lot belonging to Mr. H. T. Dykuian, on Broadway in that village. The gun was about a foot under the surface of the ground. It appeared to be a field piece carying a 12 pound balL It was sur rounded by decayed wood, probably the gun carriage, and it appeared to have been mounted on a line of breast-works pointing towards the British line ou the Bronx river. Where the gun lay the gyound was lower than the surrounding surfaoe, iudicatiug that earth-works had been thrown up along the ridge, with open ings for the guns. As there is a standing dispute between historians about the ex ietence of this line of breast-works, the finding of the gun would indioate that [ a bey did realy exist. 'JtlSUTltWXJtr, One Price Clothing Store NORTH & MORRIS T B. MORRIS, U * JUSTICE or TEE ft ACM, YocM toiim. mnytLMf and other batlaMt promptly at- TOHN T. BELL, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Praxw*Aww*T, Fa. OMtt on« door aaat of BhtoUW How. All fessisg rWCuaad talrtan <Upn«Uona.  DENTIST. TIMXSBTAWMY, PA. OCee In Joknooa Building. 14-Ix Wiikkunc, March 18—Lucy Tuck well, ■ colored womau, living on Morrow street, vtt found dead in ber bed this morning. An examination made by the Coroner •bowed that while attempting to nee a package of snuffshe bad swallowed a large quantity of the stuff and had died a horrible death by strangulation. A sad fntu* of the case is that a little daughter of the woman occupied the same bed with bar parent, but knew notbiug of Uvr f«te until this toraing. —A " lifting machine" is used in Sing- Sing for the punishment of prisoners. It is merely an apparatus to hoist a prisoner up by the handcuffs on his wrists nntil his toes olear the floor or just touob it. The grand jury met outside of tbe prison. Dr. Samuel Swift, of Yonkers, who has allowed himself to be hang up for seven seconds with bis toes just touching the floor, testified, as well as other physicians who had seen him undergo the ordeal. The doctor afterward said he had no idea such intense suffering could 1m produced is so short a time la all parts of the system.—Celonel Ingereoll is miA to regret Mi tuning made the stage hi* profession, tat•toad of the law. —At Borne, Oa., activity iu real estate is unprecedented. Lands which sold one month ago for $60 an acre is now held at |1,000. The hotels ars filled with capitalists from the North. The citizens have subscribed $150,000 for the building of aa Iron furnace and rolling mill and theme> tion of an iron bridge. —It is rain or ahino with a bootblack. ®Ijt ffttitxstttmtititii Spirit. «yp $ I MSbkM'-m m mm