Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-03-11

              WASHINGTON. Mraeh ft.—?M<Vl loudy and warmer tonlcht and Tmm day. •* >"j ______ _ _ _ _ a. fyW, ■?# r % The Matter is Taken Under Advisement Following an Earnest Plea. Special to The Spirit. 1 y Publishers' Press. Robert S. McCormick. (Continued on Pago 2.) PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1907 TWO TERM RULE IS LIKELY TO UHDEREO REMARKABLE CHANGE PRICE 2 CENTS* TROOP D BOYS TO PRESENT A PRETTY ' MILITARY DRAMA GREATER PUNX'Y COUNCIL HOLD MEETING TONIGHT CHARTER,TAKEN OUT FOR LINE BETWEEN INDIANA AND PUNX'Y LONG LIQUIDATION WITHOUT SERIOUS EFFECT ON MARKET PROCEEDS ARE 'OR CHARITY AUDITORS STOMPED BY METHODS USED III STATE ACCOUNTS Hard Task Ahead For the Capitol Probing Commission.Shrinkage Has Been the Rule For the Past Six Months. Road Would be at Least Thirty- Five Miles Long When Completed. SOME OFFICES TO BE FILLED LOCAL MEN Conditions in Pennsylvania Country Congressional Districts to Be Revised "The Girl I Left Behind" is Chosen as the Offering to be Presented. First Gathering of Borough Solons Since Consolidation Charter Was Signed. ciws»s COMTED WITH AH UNUSUAL CASE VOL I. No. 149. BILL IS NOT PASSED UPON County Home Applicants Wanted Wardrobe for.European Trip. *  LIVELY FIGHTS PROBABLE Aspiring Ones Will Face Entirely New Situation Before Next Primaries. Violent Breaks Have Been Met in Surprisingly Optimistic Manner. Extra Session of the Legislature May be Necessary to Receive the Report. The In amore S a capital by the burs Fi live mil» sutawne The f time ago Just wh< by the commenced ied a short I is backed Company. could no, -y. but it is thought that surveyors will bo put to work at once. at Harris- na to Punx- line thirty- is chartered ney & Sagmpany, with LONG DRAWN OUT PANIC NEW L'AWS ARE NEEDED 4* <fr rot'U-YKAK-OM) TOT 4* 4- DIES I'KO.M SC ALDS 4« * <)!■' BOlLINia \V\Ti:il 4* DEATH REAPS RICH HARVEST IH UIT¥ OVER THE SABBATH There is still aomo old business on which the body will have (o take action. Some «»Ui bills will have to be ordered i aid and altogether it will bo ?i busy '.ssion. The old council ' chamber is too .small to hold all the new members* too, so it will be ncccs-ary to hold the meeting in one of the larger rooms of the building. Much business awaits the new body. They will have to appoint peace officers for the Horoutfh and will also have to cUet a president and secretary fnr Town Council. Council of Greater Punxsutawney will meet tonight lit Municipal Hall and il is expected lhat there will be a full turnout as this will bt* the first meeting: in which the members from Punxsotawney West End will participate.bo the banner le event of the ami in the Jefferson when the thrill- Wednesday •The Girl 1 Left in# military dram nights, April 2 andi Tin at if, Tuesday season will be give] What promises t home talent drama. Behind," will be presented by the members of Troop D, State Police force. The play will be Riven a most elaborate production and the proceeds will be given for charitable purposes, including the John X. Kelsey Fund. The Punxsutawney Public Charities Fund anil the Troop 1> Sick and Accident Fund. The tickets will be printed at once and today a number of business places will be designated where they will be sold. Tickets, i!5c, 50c and 75c. Hox scats will be sold at auction. Lieutenant H. F. Kgle will act as general manager of the production. SUPREME COURT IS 10 PASS UPON CASE OF PRIVATE GRAFTON Called Home By Grim Reaper. Several Well Known Residents Army Circles Greatly Interested in Appeal of Convicted Soldier. 4« UBYNOLDSVILLK. March 4- 4- 11.—While playing: in the * 4* kitchen and during the ab- * 4* sencc of his* mother, on Satur- 4* «|» day, Clair, the little four-year- 4» 4* old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carry 4* 4* Aiman, of near Snydertown, 4* 4» managed in some manner to 4» 4* upset a kettle of boiling water, 4* 4* drenching himself from head 4* 4* to feet. * 4* An alarm was raised and a 4* 4* physician was summoned, but 4*1 the little fellow was so badly 4* 4* scalded that lie died yesterday 4* 4* afternoon about four o'clock. 4* •I' Funeral servic< s will be held 4* 4* from the stricken home tomor- 4* 4* row afternoon at two o'clock, 4* 4* interment to take place in the 4* 4* Heynoldsville Ceintery. 4* * 4* 4° 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4» 4* 4* 4» 4* •> 4* *!• 4* 4* 4* 4» SUMMONSES ARE SUDDEN. QUESTION OF JURISDICTION One Falls From Chair and Expires Before Aid Reaches Him. Claim is Made Civil Authorities Had No Right to Conduct Trial. LOBE OF LEFT EAR PROVED TO BE VERY TEMPTING MORSEL Special Service of The Spirit. So Foreigner Just Couldn't Resist Inserting Teeth in the Appendage.DR. LORENZO DOES REST It is not denied by anyone In connection with the investigation that the commission will recommend stringent regulation against the expenditure of public money without specific appropriation. This Is In line with the expressed wishes >>f Governor Stuart and the practice alr< ady established by Attorney General Todd, who has held up the payments of expenses of the uniform primaries which were supposed to come out "f the money in ttoe Treasury "not otherwise appropriated."The time that has been required to make the audit and inventory for the Capitol probers has impressed the commission with the bigness of the work ahead of them, and the opinion is freely expressed that it will b» Impossible to make a full report to the Legislature in its present session.One suggestion is that the Senate and House, when they have finished the business before them, take a recess until the commission shall be ready to report. This would afford an opportunity for the immediate enactment of. the laws recommended by the probers. Members of the commission were at their homes over Sunday, but came to Ilarrisbui last evening so as to be • •n hand for th- hearing at 9:30 o'- clock this morning. HAIiWSm'HO. .March 11. — Important changes In the laws affecting the management of the property of the State of Pennsylvania' will be recommended to the Legislature by the Capitol investigation Commission. The very fact that a dozen experts of the Audit Company of New York have been at work for a month trying to unravel the perplexities of the books and r< cords bearing on the construction and equipment of the Capitol, and are not yet nearly through with their task, is accepted as indicating that the commission may have something emphatic to say about the methods of recording the business of tin- Commonwealth. INDICTMENT ORDERED QUASHED Mr. Templet on was elected cashier of the First National Bank of Hrook•ville, August 1, 1SJU and has held that position continuously ever since. The house In which he died Is situated on the lot on which he was born sixty-three years ago. All his life he has been prominently identified with the business and social progress of the town and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. In 1854 lit- started to learn the printing trade in the offiee of the Jefferson Star, later working at his trade in Clarion. When Lincoln called for volunteers to put down the rebellion he was among the lirst to respond, BROOKVIIJxE, March 11.—{Thomas L Temploton, one of lirookville's most highly respected citizens, died at his home here on Main Street at 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. He had been in poor health for three years and for the las: ten days was unconscious, therefore his death was not unexpected. Continued on Fifth Page. Two suits boys' clothes, ages fight ind twelve years; two suits boys' unlerelothes; one lady's black skirt; >ne lady's three-quarter length coat; me white scarf; two pairs boys' shoos, line two and thirteen; pair ladles' ihoes, size live; three pairs wool hose; wo boys' waists; one baby coat; one pair baby's shoes; two pairs baby'* [lose; one baby dress; one baby skirt; nne and one-half yards white cotton liannel; one baly's short; one suit ladies' under cJoliies; three large hair pins; one ladies' red liannel or silk waist, size thirty-four; ladies' black silk underskirt. Without giving the Commissioners time to frame a refusal '.Squire Morrison made an eloquent plea on behalf of his charges, during which he alluded to the commercial benefit the local merchants would derive l'rom the filling of the order, the implied dearth in the family wardrobe, etc., concluding his address with a touching recital of the injunction relating to the care of the widows and orphans. * When he had concluded Commissioner Barr, who was the first to recover, asked if the 'Squire was not mistaken about the destination of tho woman. He thought that the applicant must have been contemplating a European trip. Commissioner Kelley suggi *ted ihat the applicant must haVe been ordering for everybody in the County Home. Commissioner McGaw, the last to recover went to the telephone and It was easy sailing to present the petition bu*t the woman had included in her request an order for a bill of goods which, she said, would be necessary for the Commissioners to furnish before the family could mako the trip from Anita to Urookville, Following is a list of the tilings the lady desired Councilman O. P. Walker, of this place, who returned from Brookvll 1-2 Friday night, was convinced, while visiting tl®> court house Friday, that the County Commissioners have  troubles also. During' the course of the day the commissioners met and solved many knotty problems, but none to compare with a proposition that presented by 'Squire George A. Morrison, of Ani'ta. Mr. Morrison appeared before the Commissioners for the purpose of securing papers for the relief of a woman and family of three children whom .lie desired to place In the County Home. The possibilities of gold imports are encouraging. It f? quite evident NEW YORK, March 11.—Wo have now had over six months' liquidation and the market has slunvn a shrinkage of ranging from fifteen to fifty points* reaction in tin- active shares. This enormous shrinkage in Stock Kxchange valuations has been accomplish. d gradually ami without any apparent serious consequences, or i veil symptoms »•!' disaster. On Wednesday the market received a severe shaking down such a - in some conditions would hav« suggested panic. In fact, it is a question as to whether we have not been through a period of panic adjustment, stretched over several months Instead of being concentrah d Into a few days. That the market stood the violent break of Wednesday without disaster or rumors thereof was a demonstration of soundness that was hardly expected. In view of the tremendous decline, which has already taken place and of the manner in which that test was met, it is proper to ask, Are we not approaching a turning-point in the market? Apparently we are. The fat l that we are now on a much lower level than six months ago diminishes fear of panic. It is evident that the big holders sold stocks freely in the latter part of 1906 and commenced to buy some of them back on Thursday's sharp decline. The market, therefore, is consequently in a much safer technical position than for many months. The sever*1 liquidation should very shortly be reflected in an Improvement in monetary conditions. It Is true local bank reserves are at a very low nrrrt thr-ivntinnnl -b?tn-k statements published at the Mid of January showed that the West has been lending its surplus funds freely in Now York. As the time approaches for the April settlements, the course of the local money market will be watched with much interest. Should the interior freely withdraw balances held in this city, we may see sharp spasms in local rates. Yet recent liquidation in stocks ought soon to bring considerable relief and bo reflected in better bank statements. Aftrr I he April requirements have been provided for, we look for Improvement In- this re•poct. and by midsummer—if not in the spring--the money market should be materially easier and in a. mor • comfortable position WASHINGTON, D. March 11.— The announcement from Indiana on \VeJnesilay by the veteran Judge Harry White that he proposed to be a candidate for Congress from the Tw< nty-seventh district next year is regarded as the first gun of the changed eruditions in the Congressional districts of Pennsylvania, and espeeially the country districts. Heretofore, in the country districts, the two-term rule has been in vogue arid the nomination has either been handed around the various counties or ha> gone lo the man with the biggest barrel. liut the new primary law has relegated to the rear all such rues, and hereafter the candidate of the majority party in the district who polls 'the most votes at the primaries held In all the counties on the same •lay will be the nominee for Congress. Then in the Butler-Westmoreland i)i triet the new law relieves George P. Huff from al restriction* and pledge 1 s, liiul f the people of that district desire him to continue here as their »vpr« Friiliitivo, all they have to do is to say so at the primaries. Mr. Iluff has also made a good record in ervlng his constituents, and his friends in both counties are already urging him to allow his name to go before the primaries next year for a renom 1 nation. The Twenty-eighth Congressional District also gives indications of a lively fight next year, owing to the fact th«t Joseph C. Sibley already regrets that he declined last year to be a candidate for re-election. That he will be a candidate next year before the primaries Is expected, an/1 .his old guard, composed of Frank C. Taylor. Major McDowell, Orrie I). Dlakelee, and others, will do all they can to see to it that he polls the most votes at tho primaries. Mr. Sibley will no doubt be opposed by Ex-Tidioute, who was tho most surprised man In the district when he wr.s not nominated last year, by \V. C. Whitlaw, a prominent, young iron man of Sharon, and by .1; -oretentative Wheeler, of Rndeavor. Mr. Wheeler, to the surprise of the ol I guard, carried off the prize last year after they believed they had a copper riveted cinch on a deadlock which would only one1 in the renomlnation and re-election of Mr. Sil)le> despite his announcement that he was not a candidate. And there are other districts In the State w.n'fe the siime conditions will have to be dealt with by the aspiring ones. As the result of a fight between a Hungarian and one of his fellowcountrymen at the furnace last Saturday afternoon one of the men Is now without a portion of his left eai. Through some cause only known to themselves the men engaged in a fistic encounter and were closely locked when one of them gave a scream that caused the other to release his hold. The injured man quickly grabbed his ear, from which a piece the sUo of of a half dollar was missing, and tore up the main street to Dr. Lorenzo's oflice, where the maimed appendage was dressed. POSSESSES QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL AMBASSADOR mi CASE BEGINS REAL BATHE IN By Publishers' Press, sTi:rin:.\vii.lk, <>.. March 11.— The indictment for subordination of perjury against Frederick < \ Fairbanks, nun of Vice President Fairbanks, who was eh urged with having committed perjury in taking out a marriage license, before marrying Miss Helen <Scott, of Pittsburg, recently, was <iuash< 1 in a decision by Judge Richards today. The decision mt'i'is with popular approval. Continued on Fifth Page, ARCHIE ROOSEVELT STILL IMPROVING BOILER EXPLODES THREE ARE KILLED FIVE BLACKHANO MEN JAILED AT HEW CASTLE Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive Blows Up With Terrible Result. Information of Man Who Refused to Join "The Family" Leads to Arrests. SREATER PITTSBURG BILL CDNSTITUTiQNAL Spirited Tilts During Which Del mas Scores, Marks the Day's Procedings. WASHINGTON', March II.—Aivhlo Roosevelt, who has been suffering with diphtheria for the past ten days, is reported t»» be quite out. of danger this morning. Py Publishers' Press. He now continues to improve steadily. No further olllcial bulletins will be issued. I'y Publishers* Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 11. —The Supreme Court, of Pennsylvania today affirmed the constitutionality of the Greater Pittsburg Act. and sustained the decision of the lower court. KILLS AND THEN TRIES SUICIDE The dea.l are ISnglneer Fischer, of Newark, N. J.: Hrakeman Smith, «»f Seranton, Pa. and Fireman French, <>f Trenton, X. .1. As the boiler exploded heavy parts of the engine were hurled with terrific force for a great distance and fell on several freight cars which were standing nearby, wrecking and setting fire to them. The tracks in a large area, surrounding the locomotive, were entirely demolished. And a number of trainmen were caught under the debris.METCCHEN, N. J., March 11.— Three men were instantly killed, two faCally injured, and several others badly hurt as the result of the explosion of a locomotive boiler on the Pennsylvania Itailroad, near the local depo!. this morning. LOUISVILLE STREET CM RIOTS 2,200 MEN HOE Oil STRIKE CLEVELAND, ()., March 11.—Miko Euskas shot and killed Mrs. Lizzie Saovonys, with whom he boarded, this morning. He then turned the revolver and shot himself and is now dying. The couple quarreled over a love affair. By Publishers' Press. NEW rASTLE, Pa., March 11.— Five lorcigners, supposed to bo prominent numbers of a black hand society here, hiv in Jail awaiting a hearing on a charge of blackmail and conspiracy. Frnk Calautc and Dominiek Durtlll wi re arrested last night at Mahoningtnwn on information of Nick Rosso, who alleges ho has been annoyed for some time by pleas to join the order known among foreigners as "the family." The membership fee in liosso's case was to be $50, but it is said others pay as high as $500, according to their ttnflnciul standing. Alleged testimony from other intended victims yesterday, caused the arrest of Felice Uaceo, James Raceo and Rocco Penltta. James Kacco Is a brother of Hoeeo Racco, who is in the Western Penitentiary at Allegheny for larceny. The latter is said to have recently admitted to Judge Porter, in this city, that he was president of the "IHack Hand" society. Frank calauto's brother. Joe, is charged with the murder of Justice William Duff at Hlllsville last summer. NKW l'LAY roil D'OKSAY The cars were stoned and the operators attacked by the mob. The police Jlnally turned out in force, and dispersed the crowd, making a largo number of arrests. Ey Publishers' Press. LOUISVILLE, Ivy.. March 11.—Violent outbreaks resulted following an attempt to run the street cars in this city this morning. Hon. Robert Sanderson McCormick, the American ambassador to France, was born in Rockbricjge County, Va., on July 2G, 1 849, and was | educated in Chicago schools, finishing his studies by graduating from the University of Virginia. He married Miss Kjitherine Van Etta Med dill in Chicago on June 8, 1876. He served as a secretary of the legation at London from 3 889-92 and was the official representative of the Columbian Exposition in 1892-93. Ilis first ambassadorship was to Austria-Hungary, and he was next sent to Russia, where he remained from 11*02-1905. Ambassador McCormick was accredited to Paris on May 1, 190G. He is a member of the best known clubs In Chicago, New York, London and Paris. It was more like the beginning of a new trial 'today at the opening of court than the eighth week in the Thaw case. Henceforth the District Attorney's light will be squarely on the issue of a conviction for the murder of Stanford White. Uncontrollable jealously rather than insanity, will be the theory that Jerome will eiideavor to develop. Everyone of the spectators present was prepared for any surprises that might be sprung. Thaw showed no signs of anxiety or perturbness, and the jurors appeared refreshed by their rest of the last few days. The court room was crowded anil the corridors thronged with people for whom there was no room. When court called order, Attorney LongJ'ellow, who was Thaw's counsel at the time of Harry's first European trip, was the first witness. Attorney Delmas challenged the question, and It was then, during the Nine of Harry Thaw's letters written to Longfellow, are already In evidence. From almost the beginning of the examination of the witness Jerome revealed his intention of overthrowing Thaw's insanity defense. He questioned Longfellow about the suit which Ethel Thomas had begun against Thaw in 1902, when, it was alleged, he had whipped her. This suit, however, had never been pressed. 1 y Publishers' Press. N ISVV YORK, March 11. Frederick Longfellow, formerly counsel lor Thaw was called by Jerome as the iLrst witness for the people in rebuttal, when the trial was once more resumed tvday.By Publishers' Press. CLEVELAND, March 1J.—Twentytwo hundred men are on strike today at Cleveland, Lordlne, Detroit and Bay City plants of the American Ship Building Company, and the strike threatens to force out as many more in consequence of lack of material. NEW YOKK. — The four-story building occupied by William Green, a printer from whose presses Smart Set and Town Topics are printed was burned, causing a loss of about $300f- 300f-000.The natives were not satisliod and the matter assumed poiiiieal signiffcance among the islanders and civil appointees, and Ju<Ikv Henry Hates and a justice of the peace named Ross, together with some natives, got ui> a complaint act using the soldier of assassination. The case was tried before Judge Rates and ('apt. Clarence Nettles of the United States army defended the soldier. He challenged the jurisdiction of the court ami insisted on a trial by jury and was overruled in both. Every white witness was for the soldier and Uhe only witnesses? against him were two natives who, according to testimony taken previously, had denied any knowledge of the facts in the case. Grafton was found guilty '.of manslaughter and sentenced to twelve years in thu penitentiary. It was argued that the native with the bolo was using it to clean bis linger nulls. The case was curried to the supreme court of the Philippines and was upheld by n bare majority. The testimony taken by the army makes a volume of several hundred pages. Major Houghton, chief of the law department of the general service and stuff college at Fort Leavenworth has taken a deen interest in the case and with the assistance of others hus rulscd funds with \ which to prosecute the case in the supreme court of the United States. WASHINGTON, 1 >. C. March 11.— Army circles are greatly Interested In a case to come before the United States supreme court this week, when thaj tribunal will be asked to set aside a verdict ol' the supreme court of the Philippines, wherein the action of a minor court, sentencing a private soldier, Homer Grafton, to twelve years in the penitentiary, was upheld by the supreme cour of the islands. The .case is a peculiar one and involves many legal points. Homer Grafton, a private in Company G of the Twelfth Pnited States Infantry, was, On July 24, 1904, doing sentry duty in the little village of Santo Kosario, llo, P. I. It was Sunday and the natives seemed unsually restless and troublesome and boatloads of the women of the islands had been departing all day leaving only the men at home. The small company of soldiers in charge of the village w*re a little nervous and Private Grafton loadeil his rllle and kept his eyes open. Towards evening he noticed two Filipinos slouching towards him in a •suspicious manner and saw one of them draw a large bolo knife and slip it up his sleeve. Grafton, not desiring to have any trouble with them, crossed the street and the two men also crossed over so as to meet him. The soldier waited then until the two men were very to him, when he claims, he saw the man with the knife make a motion which warranted immediate action, so he raised his rifle and tired, killing the man with the knife, and quickly reloading his gun, he fired and wounded the other man. The shooting caused trouble among the natives, who demanded the life of tin* soldier, Judge Mct'abe, of the Court of First Instance, refused to handle the esae, stating that It was strictly a military case and out of bis jurisdiction. A court-martial was accordingly convened and a board of army olileers found Grafton not guilty of murder and he was freed from arrest.HARTFORD. Conn., March 11.— Lawrence IVOrsay, the popular English comedian, is to be seen for tho first time in a new comedy here to- "'ie pleco is entitled "Lord Doncaster," and Is the work of Cecil Raleigh. The scene of the play is laid in Madrid at the time of the wedding festivities of the young King. 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