Punxsutawney Spirit, 1885-09-02

              vol. xni. NO. 13. PTTNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1885. Tragedy la Texas. Sane, Yet In an Anylnm. AND FROM NEW EN6LAND ! Onzed by Kellirioiu AND  SHOES Ever brought to Jefferson or Indiana counties. And Now Coat, Vest and Trowsers. 15 CENTS A PIECE. The Cucle Outwitted. Important to 1'eusioners. New Room Opposite St. Elmo Hotel, ft* ft §tm ftm. HOME AGAIN= HIM NEW YORK I FROM PHIUIEWU ! & CALDEBWOOD, Attorneys at Law, Punxtutavmcu, P* Office one door east of the Western Union Tel' •graph Office. Practice in the court* of Indian! and Jefferson counties. THE RAMBLE AMONC MANUFACTURERS JJBEWEB & CAMPBELL, Attorneys at Law, Punxsutaicney, Pa. Office on Gilpin street, two doors north of Shields' furniture Btore.  ALEX. J. TRUITT, Attorney at Law, Punzsutawney, Pa. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Courts of adjacent counties. J]DWARD A. CARMALT, Attorney-at Law, Brookville, Pa Office with Judge Jenks. Legal business carefully attended to. QONRAD & MCJNDORFF, Attorneys at Law, Brookville, Pa. Office in Rodger's building, opposite the Clemments House. JLegal business entrusted to them will receive prompt and careful attention. Elmo Store St. Winds up Avith a SAVING OF 1,500 DOLLARS to the ST. ELMO STORE and a saving of 1500 DOLLARS to the PATRONS of the most extensive and enterprising concern in this section of the country. The JENKS & CLARK, • Attorneys at Law, . Brookville, Pa. Office in Matson Klock, opposite the public buildings. j New V'iihk, Aug. 28.—Mr. Jacob Leon, formerly a prominent business | man in litis city; whose real estate is estimated to be worth over 11,000,000, and who is now an inmate of the IJloomingdalc Asylum for the insane, I was produced in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court chambers, before Judge Ban ;tt to-day. Mr. Aaron Kahn procured the writ, from Judge Barrett, on the petition of Mrs. Caroliue Layple, who was Leon's house-keeper for several years. Mrs. Layple made affidavit that Mr. Leon, who is now 78 years old, was placed in the Blooiningdale Asylum by his nephew against his will, and that no committee w:i- pinpointed to take charge ot' hisesia ■ is the law demands. The politic forth that the alleged lunatic had been an inmate of the saylum since March last; that he was not, and is not, of unsound mind, and that he is illegally restrained of his liberties. A return was made to the writ, to the effect that, though the petitioner, Jacob Leon, was suffering from suicidal mania, ho is now much improved, so much so that the officers of the aayhini are perfectly willing that lie should go at large that he is not restrained of his liberty, but, on the contrary, prefers to remain where lie is, as a voluntary boarder. Judge Barrett dismissed the writ, and allowed the petitioner to voluntarily return to the asylum or go elsewhre, as he desired. Mr. I .eon went back to .ho asylum, lie is on good terms with his relatives. 3f099irfait9. JOHN ST. CLAIR, Attorney at Law, 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. I f C. CAMPBELL, Attorney at Law, Brookville, Pa. Oiftlco in Matson's office, Matson building, opposite the Court House.- Qexits' Furmmhmg Goods CLOTHING, HATS, The buyer of the St. Elmo Store after an abscence of three weeks returned on the 10th of August and preceeding him arrived the largest stock of The St. Elmo Store is prepared to dispose of its new stock that defy competition ; indeed wc have bought unlaundried calico shirts which manufacturers sell at $4.00 a dozen for $1.50. You can have them at J)R. W. F. BEYER, Physician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office two doors east of the Post Office. J)R. VVM. ALTAIAN, Physician and Surgeon, Putucsutawney, Pa. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Punxsutawney and vicinity. Ocean fiuovK, X. J., Aug. 27.—At the eampineeting services yesterday tuorning Dr. Stokes announced that M r. G. II. I then ton. of Ilarfford, Conn., had professed conversion at the i'ifuieetiug the night previous. A shouting and praise-meeting was held at Uie.Ocean Hotel over the event, during which it was discovered that the new convert acted strangely. This morning in walking along the beach. In; picked tip a > hild. and saying he would throw it in the ocean, suited the action to the word and threw it out as far as lie could, and but for the exertions of some young men who were attracted by the cries of the mother of the child the little one would have been drowned. He seized a young lady on the second floor of the Ocean House, and came near throwing her over the balcony. An officer was called (o secure him. but h" resisted, and it required four of them to put him in irons. He was taken to Hartford. His wife says he has been melancholy for some time, but his mind showed no signs of failing until witliin the past few days. The Counterfeiting Scheme i Austix, Texas, Aug. 27.—Mr. L. K. , Dickery of Johnston City, Blanco county, has just arrived in Austin. ! and states that A. L. Loekie, an old citizen, highly connected, had a stepdaughter living with hiin whom he maltreated several years ago. Lately his own daughter was apparently about to become a mother, and this has disturbed his mind, as his relatives suspected him of being responsible. On Monday afternoon Lockie lvt't Lome, intending, as he said, to go to John Green's place to borrow some money. Green and family were away, but Lockie entered the house, took Green's Winchester rifle and returned to the residence of his brother, Berry Lockie. He there shot and killed Berry and his wife. A neighbor named John Nicholson rode up then. Lockie forced Nicholsonto go with him to the house of Mr. Stokes, where he shot and killed Stokes. There Nicholson was lost sight of. His horse was tied in front of the house, and for a time it was supposed that Lockie had also murdered the man, but later he returned, having escaped from Lockie to seek assistance in his capture. From there Lockie went home, shot and cut the throat of Mrs. Henry Lockie, of Llano county, wife of his stepson, who was visiting him. lie also shot ami killed there Mrs. Stokes, wife of the Stokes he had killed just previous to killing Mrs. Ilenry Lockie. Then he shot his daughter, after which lie attempted to kill his wife, but hi> cartridges beiug exhausted he could not lire, and she escaped. Having failed to catch and kill her, lit cut his own throat, mounted his horse and started in the direction of Johnston City. After riding a few yard* he met Thomas Brunswick, whom hr attacked, and into whom ho plunged his knife, inflicting fatal wounds Lockie then rode towards Johnston City, but was pursued and arrestee before reaching there. About twenh children are left orphans by the terri hie deeds of the infuriated and proba bly insane man. Letters from IJIanco City detailing the assassination have also arrived in this city. Accounts say that the daughter is still alive, but cannot survive. She has a bullet wound through the body. It is said that she lias confessed to her attending physician that her father was the author of her ruin. The unfortunate daughter whose downfall has thus resulted in the death of so many persons, all her near relatives, is represented to be only fourteen years old. Nicholson, the stranger, who was supposed to have been killed by Loekie, has turned up safe. Luckie, at last accounts, was in jail at Hlanoo. £)R. S. S. HAMILTON, Physician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in dwelling. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and tlie surrounding country. SUITS. Hats of latest style and fine fur we sell now at $1.00 and $1.25. J)R. S. C. ALLISON, Physician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and vicinity. "VVashinotox, August 21.—Details of the_ destruction iu Canton. China, and vicinity by the recent great rain storm have been received bv private parties iu Washington. The flood was the most serious that has visited Canton iu 30 years. More than ten thousaiuj persons lost their lives, and a far greater number are left iu a starving condition. Entire villages were engulfed, and tho rice and silk crops in the vicinity were almost ruined. The price of rice has been raised 18 per cent, in consequence of the loss of the crop. The rain fell the latter part of June, tilling and overflowing all the rivers. Many of the streets of Canton were flooded for over a week. At Sez Ni City the water broke through the city wall. It is reported that several thousand people were drowned in that place. The embankments of the rivers were broken in numerous places, and the water swept across the surrounding country, carrying everything before it. A foreigner, who was an eye witness of the scenes of the devastation, reports that one night the boat he occupied anchored near a bamboo grove. By morning the water had risen to the tops of the bamboos. At other points it rose as high as 40 feet during the night. The inhabitants fled from tlie villages and camped on the hillsides. AtKun In, a market place, situated near an embankment of the streams connected with the river which brings water from the north and west rivers, the majority of the inhabitants were drowned. Some escaped to a piece of rising ground in the neighborhood but the water continued to rise and gradually over topped the elevation, drowning those who stood upon it. Seventeen Chinese graduates in Canton. hearing of the distress of the suferiug prevailent in their native villages, took passage on a boat with a view of proceeding home to render what assistance they could. On the way the boat was capsized and all who were in it were drowned. ! In.some places parents tied their I children on the high branches of trees, while they instituted measures of their general safety. The trees were washed up by the roots, and the heart rendering cries of the children were silenced in the surging water. The body of a bride dressed in her bridal robes was found floating in the river at Canton. A large tub was also seen. It was picned up and found to contain a boy and a girl. Wfth them was found a paper stating their names the day and hour of their birth. The parents had instituted this means to save the lives of their offspring. The writer adds that the suffering which thousands are enduring are heartrending, parents replying with tears in their eyes to their children's request for food that they have none. The people are obliged to use the filthiest water, and this, added to the diseases which will ensue upon the subsidence of the waters, will greatly aggravate the horrors of the situation. Meantime, all that is being done by the inhabitants to abate their misery is the beating of gongs, burning of incense, and howling of prayers to idols. ' I For which retailers in the whole section paid at home $7.00 to the fastidious, well-paid and smooth tongued traveling salesman, we have bought at $4.50 in the city, and sell them at $5.25, and other suits in proportion. PunxsutawneyPa. Having permanently located in Covode, Pa., i offer ray professional services to the people of this vicinity. Chronic diseases of women a specialty. J~)R. J. SHEFFER, Phqsician and Surgeon, And what About Shoes Office in residence on North Findlay street J)R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSiCIAN AND SURGEON. Punxsutawney. Pa. Our fall stock of Boots and Shoes is immense ; but rather than create the slightest suspicion that we are bragging we leave it to a generous public to say if the J)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Punxsutamiey, Pa.. Has permanently located in this place, and offers his professional services to the citizens of this vicinity. He may be found at all times at his office iii the Campbell building:. German language spoken. Member of Board of Pension Examiners. s St. Louis, Aug. 27.—Lucius A. ; White, charged with attempting to i counterfeit Brazilian notes, was taken i before I uited States Commissioner ■ Cullen this afternoon forexamination, but at the instance of United States Attorney Bliss tin; hearing was postponed ten days, and the prisoner was , remanded to jail. He has not employed counsel yet. White still persists in saying the notes he had printed here were designed to be used as cigar-box labels; that lie had not the remotest idea that he was transgressing tin' law. and that he had made 110 concealment either of himself or his business. Further advices from Waco. Tex., is to the effect that Joseph II. White, arrested there Monday last, not only received a large amount of the bogus notes, but had also received a stamp by express with which to place the number 011 the notes. lie also claims that 1I10 notes are only cigar labels, and says great quantities of them are used for the purpose in Brazil. He is expected to attempt his rcleast by hubcux corpus proceedings in a day or two. Office over Lowry's store, Mahoning street. "£)R. S. J. HUGHES, SURGEON DENTIST, Punxsutawney, Pa. J)R. W. J. CHANDLER, SURGEON DENTIST, funxmUawiiey, F.a. ' Office in corner room, Torrenoe Block. justices of t$e "geace. Justice of the Peace. JOHN T. BELL, Punxsutaioney, Pa. Office one door east of Shields' store. All business entrusted to his cure will receive prompt attention, and all monies paid over to the parties immediately upon receipt thereof. Special attention given to collections, acknowledgement of deeds and taking depositions. St. Elmo Store Docs not keep the best stock of shoes—as it does of clothing— in town. and we shall more that divide it by selling goods cheaper than any other concern in this section of the State. » " What's Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander." We have saved nearly three thousand dollars by buying our fall stock direct from the manufacturers in the eastern cities Richmond, Va., Aug. 27.—A sensation has been caused in police circles here by the discovery that one of the prisoners in the city jail, who was attired as a man, is a woman. The prisoner is Henrietta Mix. Her husband deserted her in Boston a few months ago. Learning that lie had come to Richmond, the wife donned male attire and shipped on board of a vessel at Boston as a cook two weeks ago. Iu her new attire Mrs. Hix looked charming. Her bright blue eyes and Altoona, Au<r. 2<i.— A somewhat brown curly hair, cut short, gave romantic marriage was consummated Jier the appearance of a handsome under difficulties in this citv vester- "°y of 10. On the voyage, the Capday, the principals being I>. \Vr.' Dick- tai"8 daughter, who was a passenger enson, a jeweler of Troy, Bradford °'| the vessel, fell in love with the county, and Miss Ida Mentzor,'daugh- alleged "Jerry, and Mrs. Hix, in tor of liev. W. II. Mentzer, pastor of ol'der to keep up her character, played the First Baptist church of the same the young beau to perfection. The place. The young lady's father was captain's old maid sister was also on opposed to the match, and some six the vessel, and she, too, was smitten months ago sent his daughter to this with the handsome "Jerry." The citv to visit her uncle, T. B. Hunter, latter also made love to the old maid, doubtless hoping that absence would but one moonlight night the maiden conquer love. I»i this he was disap- lady overheard "Jerry" pledging pointed, for the young people kept vows to her niece. A storm followed, up communication by mail, and, in and "Jerry" was forbidden to speak accordance with a previous agree- to either of the women. ".Jerry" apment, the young man reached this pcared heartbroken, but in reality city yesterday morning, and the was very glad to escape, as detection couplc started out with the intention °f '>>s trick was probable. He was of finding a minister who would glad when the voyage was over, and make them ouo flesh. Mrs. Hix, or "Jerry," soon quit the Through the driving rain Uncle vessel after the pier was reached. Hunter followed, always arriving iu I pon reaching here Mrs. Mix distime to interpose his objections and covered that her husband had been persuade the minister to refuse his arrested and committed to jail for kindly offices in the direction desired, robbery. Determined to again access At hist Mr. Dickinson took his in- to him, she stole money. She tended bride to the Central hotel, and arrested, and without, arousing the some sympathetic young gentlemen suspicions ot the authorities as to her volunteered to find a minister. This sex she was placed in the same cell they did, and the marriage words w''h him. The ruse was discovered, were at last said ; the uncle, who was ami the husband and wife were placed on hand, having been refused admis- in separate cells. It is probable that siou to Hie parlor in which the mar- Mrs. Hix will be pardoned by the riage ceremony was being performed. Governor. It is believed that the remonstrants — > and that all will be happy yet. in thin interesting domestic comedy will now submit to the inevitable, Washington. Aug. 20.—The pension laws provide that soldiers who have lost a leg at hip joint, or an arm at shoulder joint, in the service of the country, shall be entitled to pensions at the rale of ijUT.oO per month. It has been the custom to construe this law strictly. There are less than a dozen eases on the pension rolls in which the amputation has taken place exactly through the joints mentioned. Commissioner Black declines to hold In the strict letter of the law, and allows the full amount of pension though the amputation did not take place at the joints. Ikholds that if the amputation i« so near the hip or shoulder as to render the stump unserviceable, the pensioner is entitled to the same com; usation as if. no stump were left. This rule will apply ton considerable number of pensioner* who have bees: receiving pay at a lon er rate. ST. ELMO STORE, Young Township. Pa, Collections and other business promptly attended to. J# B. MORRIS, Justice of the Peace. JOHN G. ifRNST, Justice of the Peace. McCalmont Tu-p., Pa. Collections made. Deeds and other legal pa•pen cknowledged. PUNXSUTAWNEY\ J-'unxsutawney, Pa. Office ;n the St. Elmo Hotel. P. GRAF, Fire and Life Insurance Agent, - PENN'A. Bradford, August 28.—Gurney, the 14-year-old son of Ed Baldwin, of this city, was playiug with several companions in the woods of the West Hti'Iienville, Aug. 28.—A frightful Branch this evening. They collected accideut happened at Short Creek, 011 a number of discarded nitroglycerine the Pittsburgh, Wheel and Kentucky cans, and, stacking them up, built a Railroad, last evening. Lizzie Cooper brush Are around them. Then, withaged 13 years, had been at Larzerville drawing to a safe distance,thev waited to see her father, who was working for the cans to explode, which they there, and was abont to return to her diit. Supposing that all the cans had home to Bush Bun, this county. She been discharged, tho boys approchen was walking on the track, when the spot. Curnev Baldwin was ahead the engineer saw her and whistled, of the rest. When an other can exbat before the train stopped had run ploded the lad received the full force over the child, cuttfTtg oft' her head of the concussion, and was badly lacand horribly mangling her. This erated by Hie flyiug pieces of tin in makes two persons killed by the same his nbdomen cliest and neck. The engine this week. physicians say he cannot recover. -The Rev. 8. ('arsons, of ,\W Jersey, says that the two great pi!has that sustain the liquor curst! uiv .Vvaui< e and Appetite—both coniuieix■ jnur with the letter A. The oulv iiictlio.i by which the pillars can be pniletl down is Law and Love—both beginning with the letter L. As usual lie is about rjyht. IJy some he is called a '"crankbut when the tongue of this "crank ways sotue good thiuyfs aiv rolled off tliat tell anion tho masses. , . . /. » - PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. yttttxftisfctttmey Spirit Ten Tkonsand Lives Lost. ■tan '«■ f 1 } w w & Rg -