Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-02-26

              m p-' "A * f 6ity Bdition i mmvtotom HARRY IS CHEERFUL TODAY SOME EFFECTS OF STRIKE Busies Himself With Papers While Witness is Being Examined. , 1906. 68 Frederick T Dubois 3 H 8,880 211,811 4 89 234 THE LAST ESSAY OF THOSE READ AT HIGH SCHOOL 1,653 (Continued on Second Page.) mines WIIiL CELBKATE. BANK STOCK FOR SAIjE. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1907 . VOL.1. No. 138. PRICE 2 CENTS DOUBLE CONSTABULARY AND INCREASED SALARIES IS MR. MOYER'S PROPOSAL ABE HUMMEL IS STATE'S CLUB IN THE THAW CASE Disbarred Attorney Appears in Court to Testify Against Evelyn Thaw. Ml Hi TO BE H CANDIDATE FOB PRESIDENCY Lebanon Representative Says Force Has Proved Its Value. 10 (MY II IMS nSIRKI IS IKEJEFFERSOI DEFEATED ONCE, IS THEN GIVEN LITTLE OPPOSITION Pennsylvania Senator Will Be Backed By Solid State Delegation. BREAKS CRIMINAL GANGS Report of Mine Inspector Hampson Shows Very Satisfactory Condition. bers Each. Would Increase it to Eight Troops Containing Fifty Mem- HE WILL SAY NOTHING. On an Average Nearly Ninety Days Was Lost at All Mines Last Year. Friends Are Not Backward in Pushing His Candidacy.Report for the Twelfth Bituminous District for 1 906:— Inspector Hampton's report follows in full: The annual report of Mine Inspector Rodger Hampson has been completed. It shows a great falling off in the amount of coal mined in his district which comprises parts of Jefferson, Indiana, Armstrong and Clear- Held counties, due, no doubt, to the strike of last spring and summer. It also shows that Jefferson County leads all the others in production, during the year of 1906. it having mined more than 5,000,000 tons. II Sign to 1905 70 490,352 817,345 1,962 1,962 SOON CHARTER 9,302 10.086 By Publishers' Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. — Abraham Hummel, the disbarred attorney who promises to be the state's club with which to knock out the testimony of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, was early at the court this morning, taking his seat within the rail and gazing about with a smirking grin that seemed to indicate his pleasure at again being bacfc in court. Court convened at 10:40 o'clock. Thaw appeared to be In particularly good spirits. He busied himself with a portfolio and a number of letters. District Attorney Jerome and Attorney Hartridge engaged in an argument about certain letters written by Thaw later than June 25, 1906. Hummel was then called to the witness stand. After replying to question as to the time that he made the acquaintance of Evelyn Nesbit and regarding the places where he had met her, Hummel was handed Exhibit No. 76, by Jerome, the document being a photographic copy of an affidavit Evelyn is alleged to have made in Hummcl's office, telling of Thaw's alleged cruelty and exhonerating White. Jerome was checked, however, and he withdrew the ex-lawyer from the stand. Dclm°- r»Ued objection after objection in the prosecutor's path, everyone of which was sustained by Justice Fitzgerald. The District Attorney showed his chagrin, but the legal obstacles were insurmountable for the moment and he had to give way. Delmas held that Jerome could not try to contradict Evelyn on collateral facts at this stage of the trial. This contradiction must come, if it comes at all, he argued, in tne State's rebuttal, and he was sustained. Abraham Snydecker, one of Hummei's assistants, was asked only if Evelyn signed a paper in his presence in the famous Madison Square Garden tower on the night of October 27, 1903. He said, "Yea," and was then excused. Hummel was asked to remain within call and it is believed that Je- 1.653 1,940 inn / night any Wi ers to Be JBent Governor. TS EXPECTED 'oiufeil will moot PQce «>f receiving t mil endorsing the Meets Toi Papi "The constabulary has passed the experimental stage," said the author of the bill last night, "and has demonstrated its efficiency and worth. H has become a necessary part of the machinery to conserve law and order."HARRISBURG, Feb. 26.—Though there have been several bills submitted to the* Legislature for the abolition of the State Constabulary, Representative Moyer, Republican, of Lebanon, last night introduced one designed virtually to double the force. I'y the terms of the Moyer bill $950- 000 is appropriated for the maintenance of the force for the next two years, and salaries are somewhat increased.Instead of four widely scattered troops of sixty men each, as at present, the bill contemplates eight troops of fifty each. "By breaking up the Mafia gang in Luzerne County within the last few weeks Ihc State polite performed a great public service, and proved their value," said Mr. Mover, in speaking of his bill, "and down In Palmyra Township, Lebanon County, where the people were being terrorized by a continued series of thefts, a platoon of State Constables broke up tlie thieving gangs, and restored order in ten I'nder the proposed salary schedule captains are to get $1,800 a year, instead of $1,600; lieutenants are to draw $1,500, instead of Sl.UOO, and there are to be eight first sergeants, at $1,200 each. llesides these there will be four "duty sergeants" whoso salary will be $1,000 each. Privates will continue to draw $720 a year. link coon IS 10 RATIPr s in A ruft of petitions praying fo jAe passage of local option laws wore sented to the Senate this morning from almost every county in the State. This resolution will come up for action next Monday evening. Sentiment among the legislators, as expressed informally, forecasts its defeat. Assemblyman Garner, representing a Schuylkill County mining district, offered a resolution last night to have his bill to repeal the act of 1905. creating the State Constabulary, which was reported from commit t-e with a negative recommendation, placed on the House calendar. "This bill is intended to save money for the State, for the existence of the police, even in such limited numbers as at present, has saved the expense of calling out the National Guard to cope with disturbances beyond the control of the local authorities."I days, when the local authorities were unable to handle the situation. Senator Fred T. DuBois, of Idaho, was born in Crawford County, 111., in 1851, and was graduated from Yale University in 1S72. His first political post was that of secretary to the board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners of Illinois, which he held during 1875 and 187(5. He moved to Idaho territory in 1880, and was next prominent was a Republican delegate, representing Idaho in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. He was made chairman in June, 1892, of the first delegation Idaho sent as a state to the Republican National Convention, which was held in Minneapolis. He was first sent to the United States Senate in 1890, but was defeated for re-election in 1897. His last election met with practically no opposition with the Republican party of Idaho. 3 6 The Work of Miss Elsie Miller Seems About as Good as the Rest. 157 140 IS NAMED. JUDGES MAD HARD WORK 9,107,883 outside  No. of tons per fatal accidents, Inside  No. of persons fatal accident, inside  No. of persons fatal accidents, outside  No. of persons unfatal accidents, inside  No. of persons unfatal accidents, outside No. of opened  No. of old mines abandoned inside  Unfatal accidents, cidents, inside. No. of fatal accidents, outside.. Unfatal accidents, empTil, outside No. of fatal uc- employed, inside No- of persons of coke  No. of coke ovens No. of persons Number of mines No. tons coal produced 6,S18,7.r>5 Number of tons Will Be Very Much in Evidence at Approaching Reunion. PUNX'Y ELKS TO SHOW THEM ALL IN PHILADELPHIA BISHOP WHITEHEAD TO CONFIRM CLASS Knox's boomers say that the strength of their candidate will lie 1 ti tin fact that he is a "happy medium" between the conservatives and tlie radicals, and in the further fact that he can Ret his own Htate without a tight and will have a united and enthusiastic delegation behind him. Other candidates, they say, are either conservatives or radicals. Other candidates. tiiey point out. will have dif- No one anticipates such a refusal from Senator Knox. Leading Pennsylvania Republicans are doing the talking for Senator Knox. Moreover, they are getting uu-y in Knox's behalf, and their activity speaks even more loudly than i.ieir words. 'l'hey are setting the machinery in motion to select a national delegation that will be instructed for Knox, and they say nothing save the senator's emphatic refusal to permit the i reservation of his name will prevent their going Into the convention and making a light for ills nomination. Senator Knox, like Secretary Taft. will not decline the nomination If it is tendered him, but unlike Secretary i aft, he does not slate his attitude frankly. Instead he remanis mum. W AhinNo I'u.s, 1> c., Keb. 26.—■ . hilaouer i . Knox will be a candidate lor uie Kepuoncan i resiueiitial nomination lit xi y«ai. ne will lie backed by a soiui i'ennsylvania delegation, wtucn, with iis sixty- votes, will ixiieU tne convention >11 eugth of a dozen states that might ue cited. PENNAN VERDICT OWED TO STAND (Ciintinued on Second Page.) Episcopal Prelate Will be Here Tomorrow and Conduct Services. 551 323 Famous Case Has Gone to Higher Court, and Plaintiff Again Wins. 2 1 PYTHIANS MEET AND CELEBRATE AN ANNIVERSARY During the year 1906 an average of 90 days was lost at nearly all the. mines in the district on account of the strike. Observe the Forty-Third Natal Day of the Order. The school hoard will have fourteen members for the first year, eight from Punxsutawney and six from Clayville. This will be reduced the same as Town Council as fast as the terms of office of the Clayville members expire. It is not likely that all of this red tape will be wound off much before the middle or laltor part of next month, at which time it is said a big blow-out by th" eitizens of Greater Punxsutawney will take ph^c* For the first year there will be sixteen members of Town Council, after the new charter arrives. This number will be gradually reduced until there will be but two members each from the Fifth and Sixth Wards. These sixteen members will select a treasurer the first year, but after that time the office will be filled by a vote of the taxpayers. Lindsey for the pu ough vote of agreement with the borough or 1'unxsutawncy for annexation. After the agreement is endorsed it will immediately be forwarded to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who in turn will pass 'I on to Governor Stuart, who will then order a new charter sent to Punxsutawney. article tonight be bor- OVER HUNDRED PRESENT Jefferson . . Indiana Armstrong . Clearfield . . Production by counties is as follows 1906. 1905. . 5,163.569 5,417,312 . 1,362,345 2,842,462 . 292,841 792,138 55,971 ARM IS DRAWN INTO MOVING MACHINERY 6,818,735 8,107,883 Totals it is also likely that the subject of having a resident clergyman for this church will be taken up. During their stay here Bishop Whitehead and Rev. Potter will be the guests of \V. W. Winslow. Bishop Whitehead will hold services in tht> Episcopal Church on East Mahoning Street tomorrow evening at 7:45 o'clock at which service he will administer confirmation to a class of six or eight. The Right Reverend Bishop Whitehead, of Pittsburg, in company with Rev. Potter, of DuBois, who has eondueled weekly services in the local Episcopal Church, since the departure of Rev. Hawkins, will arrive in Punxsutawney tomorrow for the first time in about one year. PAT COYNE PASSES AWAY IN PITTSBURG Physician Will Endeavor to Save in Keeping Her Out of man. FALLS CREEK HAS HIGHWAY ROBBERY A committee,., consisting of P. O. Freas, William Hilc, and Prank Hastings. has been appointed to arrange for the trip of the lodge to Philadelphia and for their stay in that city. The lodge wfll array themselves so that there will be no mistaking that they are Punxsutawney Elks and expect to make a hit in the parade. The lodge, to the number of about one hundred, will leave over the Penm I sylvania Railroad in a special train i and will return in the same manner, i The round trip will cost each member seven dollars and fifty cents. Elks wishing to make the trip had better talk to P. O. Freas. The local lodgi- of Elks will be very much in- evidence at the forty-third Grand Lodge Session and twenty-first annual reunion which is to be held in Philadelphia 011 July 15 and in. HARDWA HE CONVENTION. Man Who Was Accused of Throwing Child in River Dead at Falls Creek. First of its Kind Since the Benson Oantr Was Cleaned Up Few Years Ago. The attorneys for t ie plaintiff have not yet received a copy of the Court's opinion and cott do not know whether ■ • « trial h<«° been granted or whether they will be compelled to go to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Holland of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals dissents from the majority of opinions and says the verdict of ' ' • r court should stand. It will be remembered that the plaintiff, Mrs. Penman, recovered a verdict of $L'.(!«"»(• in the lower court for the destruction of ' property in 101k Run Addition 1 reason of tW<i explosion of blasting powder. B M. Clark, Esq., and A. J. Truitt, Esq., this morning received word that tiie United State Circuit Court of Appeals had reversed the verdict of the Circuit Court in the ease of Anna !•:. Penman against the St. Paul Firo and Marine Insurance Company. CHIEF PALMER HAS VISIT FROM FATHER ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 26.—The Minnesota Retail Hardware Association began its twelfth annual convention in this city today, with headquarters at the Hotel Ryan. The sessions are to be continued until Saturday and will be devoted to the discussion of a wide variety of subjects of interest to the dealers. HEARS FUNERAL SERMON OF HUSBAND OVER 'PHONE At 10:30 an elaborate supper was served by the entertainment committee, after which the time was passed in various amusements until about 12:30 a. m., when the members and guesta left for their homes, feeling happier and wiser for their attendance. During the evening appropriate addresses were made by H. C. Campbell, the first Chancellor Commander of Punxsutawney Lodge, who spoke on the "Growth of the Order." Rev. H. G. Teagarden made the address of welcome, and Father Kuntz, of Harrisburg, spoke on "Tlie Origin cf the Order." More than 125 members and invited guesjs of Punxsutawney Lodge No. 493, Knights of Pythias turned out last evening to celebrate the fortythird anniversary of the founding of the order. Aged Man Calls on Son,, and is Mistaken For a Brother Instead. The unfortunate man is a son of 'Squire George Haughmnn, of Sprankle Mills. Ho has a wife and six children.Baughrhan, who has been working for Alfred Anthony, who is sawing a tract of timber on the John Ungenfelter farm two miles east of Sprankle Mills, endeavored to fix a bolt in the Rang edger without stopped the machine. The blade of the instrument caught his sleeve and drew his arm into the machine, cutting it all but off below the elbow. Though the arm of John Paughman was yesterday cut off. but for a slight piece of flesh which kept the nearly severed part hanging to the upper arm, Dr. Blakely, of Worthville, will endeavor to save the entire arm, with great hope of success. Widow, III at Parsonage, Listens to Obsequies at Church. ELMA DARE UNDER GUARD Continued on Third Page. During that summer letters, prepared by Samuel Adams, were sent to ail the other colonies, asking for aid and sympathy. The cause of Massachusetts was taken up at once by all the colonies. America was united. Provisions of every sort were sent to Boston from all of the colonies. Mar- While the colonies had a population of three millions; one-sixth <41" which were slaves, who caused a constant fear of revolt. The laws which had been passed by England cramped manufacturing and prevented the growth ol* industry. John Adams has said t;iat more than a third part of the principal men in America were opposed to the Revolution, and of those who agreed with the principles of Revolution, thousands thought them noi v.orth lighting for. New England, with one-fourth of the population of the country, furnished as many troops as the other colonies put together. Rut the troops of one New England State refused to serve under officers from another state. There were jealousies and rivalries between the public men and between sections; but when the charter of Massachusetts Vvas annulled, all the other colonies felt their liberties were in jeopardy. In 1775 the English were the most powerful nation in the world. Th : British islands had a population of ten million people. She had a large system of manufactures, and the greatest foreign commerce in tinworld, and rich colonies in every quar ter of the globe. What she did not have she was able to buy. "Why We Won the Revolution."* The third and last of the essays read in Friday's literary contest at the high school, composed by Miss Elsie Miller, appears herewith in full. Lawyers Succeed With Difficulty Keeping Her Out of Jail. IS BENEFITTED BY IT Coyne leaves, besides his wife, one child. He had lived nearly all of his life in Falls Crefek. He was empoyed as watchman at the crossings of t'he Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg and Pennsylvania railroads and leaves many friends who hear with regret of his death- Pat. Coyne, formerly of Falls Crook, whose plunge Into the Monongahela river In his effort to save the life of his son who had fallen from the Seventh Street Bridge at Pittsburg, and whose sensational trial and acquittal on the charge of having caused th» death of his son are well known to the people of this section, died at Pittsburg the latter part of the week. His remains were brought to Falls Creek and the funeral services were held there today. The remains were burled In the Catholic cemotery of DuBots. MURDERER HANGED III SMETHPORT JAIL rails Asleep as the Ohoir Renders Sacred Musical Selections.Mr. Palmer's father lived to be ninety-five and his mother was nearly ninety-four when she died and the chances seem good that their son will pass the century mark. Mr. Palmar has been a man of exemplary habits. never having tasted liquor and cannot remember ever uttering an oath. Daniel Palmer, of Indiana, is- visiting his son. Chief of Police Clayton E. Palmer, of this place. Though Mr. Palmer is nearly eighty years of age, he has the carriage and appearance for a man of fifty, and though our Chief of Police Is a young looking man, his father would more likely bo taken for a brother of the chief than his father. GREENWICH, Conn., Feb. 26.—At the funeral services of Rev. Joslah Hudson Holden, which occurred at the North Co* Cob Methodist Protestant Church, of which he was the pastor, a telephone stood on the pulpit alongside of the Bible, and by this means the funeral services were conveyed by the New York Telephone Company wire to the church parson- The body was put In a receiving vault and will not be burled until Mrs. Holden recovers. As the services began the telephone on the pulpit was rung and the receiver taken off. Mrs. Hold en's nurse put a receiver on the patient's head, and the music of "Some Day You'll Understand," "Safe In the Arms of Jesus," and "Nearer, My God, to Thee" lulled her to sleep. Dr. Smith declares that she was benefited by being enabled to hear the service. This line had beep run specially for the funeral, in order that the pastor's widow, who Is ill in bed with grip, might hear the service. The church Is a small one. near the summer home of H. O. Havomeyer. Rev. Mr. Holden preached there for two years, and at the conference packed up his belongings and prepared to take another charge. His successor remained for three days, and then Rev. Mr. Holden came back to work another year. He died from overwork and the grip. Mrs. Holden became 111 at the same time. age, a quarter of a mile distant, Rocco Doqui was found guilty of second degree piurder and Fllipo Frlslnl and Salvator plead guilty to second degree murder as accessorles to the murder, These three were each sentenced to fifteen years Imprisonment.By Publishers' Press. SMETHPORT, Pa., Feb. 26.—Francis Godlno was hanged In the jail here at 10:40 this morning for the murder of Gulseppi Trlberg on March 26, of last year. The celebration of the Feast of Purim. a Jewish holiday, will be observed ill all Jewish house? of worship on Wednesday evening and Thursday of this week. Services will be held In the synagogue, both morning and evening, at which time the Book of Esther will be read from a special parchment scroll used on that occasion only. The day commemorates the deliverance of Jews from the plot of Haman to exterminate them. The holiday is celebrated in the cities in a very elaborate manner socially, balls, banquets and entertainments of all kinds being ini dulged in. capital stock of the Farmers' National Bank, of Punxsutawney, for sale. W. B. Adams, attorney, Farmers' Bank Building. I have twenty-flve shares of the The couple were brought to Mead/-ille early yesterday morning from Cambridge Springs, following the arrest of the woman on a charge of kidnaping Rhodlus, whom she married in Louisville, Ky., and who is said to be weak-minded. MEADVILLE. Pa., Feb. 2f».—After twenty-four hours of disputing between lawyers and detectives, Elma Dare and her husband, Joseph Rhodius, a wealthy resident of Indianapolis, registered last night at the Sagertown Jnn under close guard, to b.? kept there until the woman's hearing next Thursday. Sableskl was supposed to have a sum of money in his possession, but the highwaymen failed to get any of this. The victim claims that he knows his assailants and that they aro men failed to get any of this. The victim claims that he knows his assailants and that they are men who live in Falls Creek. Frank Hableskl Is of a Polander who is employed in the Gray plate glass factory at Falls Creek. He is an industrious fellow and, while heworks in th<» borough ,he boards on the tannery side of the village. On Saturday night just after dark, Sableki was walking from his boarding house over to the village. He was coming down the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad and just before U* reached the bridge across the creek he was accosted by a couple of fellows who demanded that he produce his valuables. , This Sableskl refused to do and he was at once tapped on the head with a heavy instrument. He at once resorted to his lung powers for protection and he aroused the section foreman of the Pennsylvania, who lives In that vicinity. The llrst highway robbery that has taken place at Falls Creek since the cleaning up of the famous Benson gang, and the shootlns or one of the members of the gang by Kov. Chisholm, took place on Saturday night, and while the robbers were not permitted to carry away any loot on account of their efforts, one of the citizens of the village had his head ('racked In a manner that recalled old times, says the DuBois Express. I 1 — V--* ' '' .• ' 9 W « C't: §WV'; y >-