Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-08-12

              PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. MANY CITIES NOW AFFECTED BY THE II BI6 WIRE STRIKE ST 12, 1907 [ONDAY EVENING, AUG PRICE 1 CENT THREE YEAR OLD CHILD BURNED TO DEATH AT WALSTON YESTERDAY Jl DIVIDEND DECLARED MADE TOO MUCH NOISE ON THE SABBATH DAY TAFT MAKING READY FOR HIS WESTERN TOUR eman Scott Stigers in the Adrian Hospital Seriously Injured. Powerful Search Lights Will Be Turned on the Falls Thursday Night. UNDER WRECK to K]icak In All lli<- Important Cities—Will haunch Cam|>aig-ii. BROKERS IN A FIX Punxsutawney Meat and Provision Company Stockholders Get Some Money. SET DRESS AFIRE •lames Colkiit Overloads! Willi Firewater and Mailc Tiling* Very LUcl.v for Awlilto. r on Pusher Engine Failed to Read Signals Correctly. Died at Adrian Hospital Last Night at Ten O'Clock. By I'nl'ed Progs. ANNOUNCEMENT Colorado Federation of Ijahor. <oi,umius tiii: i i kst point Mil.I. IIWl; \ IIIVKIM. COURT CONVENES AT BROOKVILLE TODAY At a meeting of the directors of the Punxsutawn. y n«?ef & Provision Company Saturday, a five per cent, semi-annual dividend was declared. rhe affairs of tin- company, of which John a. Philllher is the manager, were found t.> be In a most prosperous condition, the business for the first six months of the second year having Increased 100 per cent, over the last six months of the first year. The company has been gradually adding to its establishment and increasing Its facilities so that it is now in a position to take care of its patrons with neatness and dispatch. Xo' f ir fr«»m the homo of the unfortunate child tin- b«»js stopped to play. The older child produced matches from his pocket and lighted several. In a spirit of playfulness he held a match to his playmate's dress and like a flash the cotton garment took lire. In an instant tin tot was iSiirm il to death. St< ve. the yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. George IJschniskl. of Walston. now lies in the Hohinson undertaking parlor a blackened rrlsp. The child with another hoy about I years old. I«vft their homes yesterday afternoon about 1 o'clock. Attendance For This Term Unusually Small—Not Many Witnesses. Colkitt was not at first disposed to accompany the trooper, hut changed his mind and went along peaceably. A charge of disturbing the Sabbath and using profane language was lodged against him. A forfeit of seven dollars and fifty cents was posted for his appearance at a hearing at 7 o'clock this evening. Charged with making more noise than is allowed within the borough limits on Sunday. James < 'olkitt was arrested at 10 o'clock yesterday morning by Sergeant Homer Chambers of Troop 11. State Police. ( 'olkitt had imbibed more than was his wont and early Sunday morning* started in to make tilings lively .for the neighborhood. Mrs. M. Penman, who lives near by. was the object of a great deal of ("olkill's verbal abuse and she retaliated by phoning for a member of the state Police. Sergeant Chambers answered the call ami placed the offender under arrest. II is planned nmv to turn on the Illuminations for the tirst time next Th ll rsdny night. 'I'll.- work is in charge of the General Hlcctrle Company. whose ex perl s say that the rays of colored lights when flashed In the air will be visible at poinls as far distant as Toronto and liochestcr. The projectors are to lie located below the Falls in two batteries, one at the water's edge and the other on the high ground of the Canadian side. Kvery Inch of the falls will In- under light. Attached to the search- Mghjts will lie a recently Invented color scintillator by which the beams of light can be made any color at will. The mist and the water will be bathed in all the colors of the rainbow, producing a most gorgeous effect. The scheme calls for nearly fitly largo searchlights, several or them the largest of their kind and capable of throwing a beam of light a Hundred miles. NIAGARA KAI.I.S, N. Y., Auk'. 12. —All preparations are about completd for the night Illumination of Niagara Fulls, regarded by engineers as the greatest feat ever attempted in electrical illumination. Special to The Spirit. PRINTERS MEET AT HOT SPRINGS TODAY envelope.| in (lam- s. The agonized screams of both children and the Haines attracted the attention of several Italians, who quickly ran to the aid of tin* child, but when they reached the baby, all its clothes had been burned from its body and the hands, head and arms ONE FAMILY HAVING AN OLD HOME WEEK Children of Mrs Katherine Jewel at Old Home Near Jacksonville. Delegates to the Number of 1,500 From United States and Canada. Chicago Is admitted to bo isolated telegraphically. Superintendent Cook admitted as much to a representative or the United Press just before noon. it is believed that the railroad telegraphers are pulling their plugs out when they hear a Chicago message I going over the wire. A tie-up of the brokerage firms hero means the loss of millions of dollars and the ruin of thousands of speculators. One brokerage firm asked Its men lo continue uninterruptedly at their work, offering to deposit a certified check for ten thousand dollars as a guarantee that its promises would bn abided by. Representatives of brokers and firms operating, leased wires visited tin- I'nion headquarters and notified the strikers of their acceptance of tindemands of fhe new schedule. Haywood, however, has given assurances to Secretary Kussell, of the telegraphers, that he was- here to lend moral aid to the strike, and not l«»r the purpose (rompers claims. Gompers explained that he know nothing of the merits of the operators' strike, but that the fact that it had the sanction of the Executive Committee, was enough. Oompers and the local heads of tin- Telegraphers I'nion, discuss d the situation at breakfast this morning. Gompers is displeased with what he regards as the intrusion at an inopportune time of William I). Haywood, who was recently acquitted i.f the charge of murder at Ilolse. Gompers thinks that Haywood's vldt now Is to promote the growth of Socialism in the labor ranks. CHICAGO, Aug. 12. —. President Samuel Uompers. president of the American Federation, which embraces a membership of two million and a half, and one million dollars are back of the Commercial Telegraphers in their demands and will aid them in their light to victory. Tty United Presa General Secretary Russell, of the Telegraphers' Union, has Issued a call to all locals to hold meeting's Immediately preparatory to a general strike if companies do not grant full'demauds of the strikers. CHICAGO, Aug. 12. — Samuel Oompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, favors arbitration to settle telegraphers' strike. The father of the child Is a cripple I and the past three months has been away from home, presumably begging. He cannot at present be located and the mother of the child I is almost prostrated with.grief.  mother and father are natives of Austria Hungary, and have been In this country but a short time. About r. o'clock the eharred body with but a spark of life remaining, was taken to the Adrian hospital and at 10 o'clock last night the baby died In great agony. were burnt frightfully. 1 Burial will bo made tomorrow afternoon at C o'clock in the Catholic cemetery in tlic West find. Father Link will officiate. MRS. STANFORD WHITE WILL MARRY AGAIN The week is being1 spent In a round of Jollification. The c hildren are: A. H. Jewell, of Livermore; J. H. Jewell, of Connorsville, Ind.; Mrs. A. H. White, of Los Angeles, Cal.; Harvey Jewell, of Clarksburg; Mrs. Anna M. Miller, of Pittsburg; James L. Jewell, of Jacksonville. In their home coming the children brought their mother, who is now well into the eighties, many valuable and useful presents. j The Mrs. Kuthcrlnc | Jewel, who resides near Jacksonville, j Indiana county, are having an old home week on the old farm this week. Fifty years ago, James Jewell, now deceased, settled on the farm. Six , children were born to Mr. and Mrp| 1 Jewell and the mother succeeded in j rearing all. Since settling there 50 ! years ago, Mrs. Jewell has never moved, although her children have' scattered to all parts of the country. NO SHE SELECTED The Maine, which was anchored alongside the Tennessee took the panic-stricken passengers aboard and brought them here. The Tennessee was bringing back a load of Sunday excursionists from Boston to New York. By United Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Four lives were lust and two hundred passengers who occupied berths were thrown into a panic by a collision early today, off Bridgeport, Conn., between the Sound steamer Tennessee and a schooner. Harry Zeitler, who was on the pas- the injured fireman on the special accompanied him to Punxsutaw- mgre train from Indiana that was >td back of the wreck assisted in put- the hospital. All of the men excepting Stiges were » to report for work today and the ired fireman is resting comfortably tnsferred during the day. 1 peculiar coincidence was the fact it the wreck occurred directly op- lite the 23-mile post, or 23 miles ith of Punxsutawney. that passengers yesterday had to be from Punxy, but the track was not ired until late yesterday afternoon kin. A wrecking train was also dlspatch- ____ Special to The Spirit. WASHINGTON, D. Aug. 12  Four men were injured, one serl- ,„tary r,.tllrns to W(l8hlngton and three were piled up to„Hy aml ab(>ut wppk a wreck that occured yesterday at i i <• » o.oa ..." disponing of the accumulated routine out 9:30 o'clock, a. m., near Cham- , „„ , .. , , business in Ins department before ravine, on the Indiana branch of the ... i.. . • „ . _ .. , starting on his trip west. It i„ proh- R. A P. railroad. ab|e that h(, wiM ,lopart M(,xt SuiUav Two freight angincs, one in charge for Columbus, (),, where he is slated Engineer G. A. Stephman and to m»'<r " speech the following night reman Scott Stigers, of this place, tM^'>r<l' ,hl' Hiuk.y,- Republican club, j _ i • , , It is expected that tiiis speech at d a-trailer In charge of Engineer Columbus will he -he keynote ,,r the trl Hopkins and Fireman C. A. Taft campaign and probably the mint inselman, also of Punxsutawney, Important political address of the vlng been ordered In from Creek- sun,mo'"- " will lie an open chall«, were rounding the curve In a ,l"' Foraiter faction and a t near the bridge, when they collld- defiance of their obstructive tactics With an engine In charge of lin- "hl"- The secretary of war will leer McPherson and Fireman Bell, nnHwrr attacks on himself in conilch was barking towards them.' nP,'ll,,n with the tariff revision (|iiessPherson's engine had been on a ui" 'be position of the , le track and came out to push a I ntl,"lJlll,tratlon with respect to the lighter that had just passed. The Unvonsvlllc affair, and appeal to the sw evidently failed to notice the vnf|,,'s 'Is the representative of the nals on the rear of the freighter, In- Poilelcs ..f President Roosevelt, mating that a train was to follow, After leaving Columbus the next d before they got on the main line Important stopping place of Secretary ' enough to reverse the three en- '"aft will he iAJuisviile. where he has les came together. promised to sper.k the following The engineers saw the approaching Thursday. Two days later he will lllslon in time to slow down slightly iui,'rcss the Republican rally at Oklae there must have been a frightful homa preliminary to the stato■ of life as there was no way of es- hood election. The next week he will >e In the cut. carry the campaign Into Missouri, Fireman Stigers was pinned fast be- speaking at Joplin and Springfield, een the boiler and the tender and Lincoln, Neb., the home of William .1. t for herculean efforts on the part Bryan, is next on the Taft itinerary. Engineer Stephenson and Flagman Ait arrangements for the trip farther tnes, who tore away the cab porch, wpst have not yet been completed, but tuld have been suffocated in a few announcement has already been made nates. His head and face wero that Secretary Taft will speak In aiy cut, his nose broken and he re- ,,r> ivcr, Portland, Tacoma and proliv«d many other injuries of a less a,)|y several other cities before sall- WHM'ttlartctW. big fmm Witrtle September 10 for the Stephenson, Hopkins and Kunsel- Philippines. in got off with a number of severe *.  Its and bruises, but their engines rf||||| f IlirO I AAT III pre plied up and derailed and the L||ll|l I ll/LV I llvl IN lbs and cabooses were completely | |lll|| I I V f ■) III■ f I III hecked. A special was dispatched 1 1.1 I UW LUVI 111 pm this place at once and Stigers ATP 1 ■ inA l v ks brought to the Adrian hospital. I'T[ III|1|1 1 T llflirpy nyslclans from Creckside Attended A I r IIlyl IfI111 I WKfl-R his Injuries and patched up the oth- U I LlllTIUUll I IV IILUI1 , men while awaiting the Punxy COLUMBUS, ().. Aug. 12.—The operators employed in the Postai telegraph office here walked out at tenthirty this morning. The messenger hoys of both companies are also striking. Plans on Foot to Bring Thaw to Trial Before Next October. Committee to Choose Location Has Not Readied a Decision. Ernest Dock was a business visitor in Rcynoklsvillc yesterday. Secretary Locb declared that under no circumstances will the President interfere. All communications relative to the •strike are being transmitted without i omment to Labor Commlssoner Neil!. OYSTER MAY. Aug. 12. — President Roosevelt is maintaining a rigid "hands off" policy regarding the telegraphers' strike. John Moore, charged with f. and !>.. plead guilty and was given the usual sentence. Ten dollars for poor district. Twenty-five dollars "lying in" fees. One dollar a month lor tlirer years. One dollar and fifty cents a month for the following four years. James McKwan, who last weekbroke up his furniture at his home in tin- South Side, with an axe and was charged with surety of the peace, plead guilty and tin- costs were affixed on him. A recognizance with approved surety of $fi00 to be of good behavior and keep peace for one year with all good citizens and especially his wife. He will remain in jail until the bond is furnished. The following cases were disposed of this morning: • Fifty-three cases are on the court • minutes, to go into the hands of the j Jfi*flnd Jtlry. All, with the exception ; of one murder case, are of minor Importance and the attendance Is unusually small for August term of Court. I The recent law raising the pay of the witnesses to $1.50 per day has figured in decreasing the attendance, as fewer witnesses were subpoenaed in order to keep down expenses. The list will probably be completed this week. HIM NlKVILLK, Aug. 12. — Court convened here this morning at ten o'clock with Judge John W. Ueed on the bench and with Cyrus Blood. Clerk or the Court, at iiis desk. H. K. Bargeistoek, of Hell Township, was made constable in charge of the Grand Jury, and David White, »t Kldred Township, foreman of that body. \\ . A. Mathers, of Harnett Township, Wayne Anderson, of Warsaw Township, and G. B. Aaron, of Union Township, were appointed tipstall's for the week. Special to The Spirit. k. or p. i:\< \mpmi:\t KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 12.—The union operators here are calling out all men working on leased wires leased from the Western Union. Upon orders from President Small they say all leased wire operators will be out by night. DENVER, Col., Aug. 12.—All Postal operators here struck. day there was a slight fulling off in the membership during the year. At present the international organization embraces 573 local unions, with a total membership of 42,357. This is a decrease of 2,623 members as compared with the figures of the proceeding year. The report of J. M. Brum wood, secretary-treasurer, showed that there was received during the year ending May 31, 1907, $1,804,950, and that there was expended $1,642,441. owing to the long light for the eight-hour tlon. The new year opened well and every effort would be made to avoid conflicts, and at the same time eonserve the interests of local unions. Referring to the recent successful struggle for an eight-hour workday, President Lynch said the strike roll had been reduced to comparatively inconsequential proportions in all except a few cities. President James M. Lynch, In his annual address reviewed the entire international Held, saying the membership had good reason for congratula- More than 1,600 delegates from all parte of the I'nlted States and Canada tilled the large assembly room of the Kastman hotel when the convention was caled to order this morning. The convention was opened at i) o'clock by Chairman Miller of the local committee. and Mayor M. P. Jodil delivered the address of welcome. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug 12.— The Hfty-tliird convention of the international Typographical Union of North Amerlba, which began here today, marks an epoch in the "art preservative of all arts," and commands j the interest of all who are either dl- j root ly or Indirectly connected with the arts and Industries of printing. t DAKOTA TI.NNIS TOl UNI V. NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—-The Western Union operators in the main office in New York City walked out at 1:05 this afternoon. City Superintendent Hamilton, of the Western Union, admitted that most all the men went out at 1:15. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Joined the conference later. Tho whole plan of tiu defense was roughly outlined. Uttloton will pin .in the lluishlnK touches. Thaw s •» med more cheer - ful after his new attorney had left than Ife has been in days. Littleton, it is known, proposes to prevent such del iy if possible. Ho Is pushing his pi.ilis for Thaw's defense, but is keeping them to himself Yesterday he had an hour's conference with Thaw in the Tombs. Lev,a I action to hasten the second triiil of Hurry K Thaw is expected as a result of his selection of Martin W Littleton as hi* new chief counsel. District Attorney Jerome has said that Thaw annot possibly be tried before October and some authorities at the Court house believe it will no nearer .(miliary before Stanford White's slayer again faces a Jury. N'KW York. Aug. 1- According t<» a rumor which has been circulating about town here. Mrs. Stanford White, the widow «»f the man who was killed by Harry Thaw, is engaged to marry I'harlos l'\ MoKiinm. White •*» former business partner. It is said th i! the marriage will take place as soon as the Thaw trial is over and the attendant notoriety has ceased. INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., Aug. I An encampment of the Indiana brigade. Uniform Rank. Knights of Pythias, opened at Riverside Park today, and will continue through (he week. The encampment is a part of the program arranged for the dedication of the new K. of P. Grand Lodge building in this city. The dedication Is to take place Wednesday and promises to fie an event of great interest to all members of the order. Members of the Uniform Rank, K. of p.. of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky, have been invited t«• attend. A big parade will be one of the principal features. Nearly all the best players «»f the Red River Valley are entered in the various events that make up the program, and which It will take an entire week to decide. lion opened auspiciously today on the courts of the Town and Country club. <5HANI) FORKS, N I). Auk 12.— The sixth annual tournament of the North Dakota State Tennis assocla- NEW CASTLE. Pa. — The annual reunion of the 134th Penn'a Volunteers. k nouns as "Quay's Regiment,*.' will be held here next Thursday. PlTTSFIURO, Aur. 12.—A strike of the telegraphers is expeeted hero any moment since the news reached here of the action of the New York men. There Is little chance of Pittsburgh escaping. " 'Tho members of the committee on selection of a site for tho proposed hospital, desire to say through your columns, to the friends of tho enterprise, that their hopes of securing said site, north of our town on the trolley line, through tho generosity of Harry K Clark and associates, have not been realised, as tho location offered would not be at all convcntlont or desirable.* " "A free site was offered by those who have put on sale the lots at Chevy Chase Heights, but the ground offered did not meet with the approval of the committee appointed to choose a location, which committee has handed the Gazette the following communication : No site as yet has been selected for the Indiana County Hospital,Recording to the Gazette, which says in part: LOST ill MIC CITY Finding of Clothes Indicates Philadelphian Was Drowned. PUEBLO, Col,, Aug. 12.—Delegates from all the principal cities and towns In Colorado assembled here today on the opening of the twelfth annual I convention of the Colorado branch of the American Federation of Labor. Sessions will continue through several days. State President George A. Hally, of Denvr, presided, and address* of welcome and responses oc- I cupled the opening hour. The adj dress of President Hally and the rci ports of Secretary-Tfeasurer Frank J. Pulver and of the standing commit' tees were read at the busineess session. These reports sjiowed that the Colorado organization has enjoyed a very substantial growth, both in afflictions and membership, In the past twelve months. . His clothes, containing a gold watch and money, wore discovered -In Dillon's bathhouse after the close of the bathing hour last night, and as he cannot be located it is believed that he went down without being sighted by lifeguards and lost his life. ATLANTIC! CITY, Aug. 12.—Stophon Keenan, a young excursionist fr »m Philadelphia, disappeared after entering the surf at Mississippi Avenue Sunday afternoon and police and life guards believe that' he was swept Into deep water and drowned. nlvnic MOOR (Oflloe of the 'how-« ers thl* »««rnoon jt tpnl»ht. . . • op .not £elfu& the l>u«ry season Is near at foanfl. Merchants desiring to get in touch with this large buying public can do so profitably by using The Spirit space, either dally or weekly. Meet the competition of outside mall order houses as well as your loon I competitor, with well written advertisements nnd your trade will grow. To the advertiser The Spirit ofTers an exceptional field, going, as It does, to an exclusive field In Jefferson county, to the homes of a thrifty class of buyers. Advertisers will note the fact that, during the past two months the circulation of The Dally Spirit has made tremendous leaps, starting with 1.600 subscribers, our circulation now has reached the 3.000 mark; In fact we have 3,160 actual subscribers, with a reading public of over 10,000 daily, and still growing. The Spirit Publishing Co. desires to announce that, beginning with this Issue of The Spirit, they have secured the services of Clarence H. Putnam, of Meadville, Pa., who will have charge of the advertising department. Mr. Putnam comes to Punxsutawney after having had about 20 years' experience in the printing business, having devoted many years exclusively to the soliciting and writing of advertisements for merchants. Any favors shown him will be appreciated by Messrs. Smith & Wilson. James Coxson, the barber, who ha* been working In Chicago recently, yesterday was notified of the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Florence .Huntington, and today arrived home on the noon flyer from Pittsburg. Mrs. 'Coxson 16 afflicted with typhoid fever. Wayne Freas has returned to work In John H. Fink's store after a week's vacation, For eight years ne was a country curate and then he wag maje the head of a parish. Ellght years later he became the bishop of Treviso. In 1884 he was created bishop of Mantua. For nine years he held this post with conspicuous success and then Pope Leo made Ijim a cardinal, and almost Immediately afterward he became the patriarch of Venice, which dignity he retained until elected the head of the church. Pop<! Plus X„ the head of the Room Catholic Church, wa* born Jo•ph Sarto, the son of a poor Italian Ktasant folk but of deeply religious amlly. He was born on June 2, 18S5, a the Venetian province of Treviso, it Rleae. He waa sent from the vllace school to the college at Castel franco; and then to the central semltarjr at Padua and waa finally orlalned a priest at 23 years of age. c, Rlp-vn ME - V . • • 1 ■w L 1. No. 290 OUR MEN INJURED AND THREE ENGINES PILED UP IN B. R.C& P. RAILROAD WRECK NEAR CHAMBE VILLE SUNDAY TO ILLUMINATE NIAGARA Operators in New York Walked Out at 1:15 This Afternoon. Children Playing With Matches Near the Infant's Home. ■ fTHK EVENING HI'IHfT 18 RKADflj BY MORE THAS 12.000 PEOPLB |H KVKKV DAY IX AND ABOUT |j| I'IX\SIT»VM:V. :: :: :: ;; JJJ ■ i * at pifit