Punxsutawney Spirit, 1908-12-15

              PUNXSUTAVNEY, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, MB S. T. JACKSON IS ELECTED TO FILL THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF A. M. HAMMERS National Civic Ffilmllnn Honor* XpiI Mist res* of I In* White Houw. MRS. TAFT NAIIBRAL CHAIR»AN WARM TERMS CHARACTERIZE ROOSEVELT'S ARRAIGNMENT OF PULITZER IN MESSAGE Brownsville Affair Aired In the Senate PREVENT AIOIHER ESCAPE Assistant Superintendent Is Chosen Unanimously for Higher Position. Takes Up Almost Entire Session— Foraker Amends His Original Bill. York World Is Vilifier of People/ fund autl proceeds: patlon in the $40,000,000 purchase (.niiiil Jurymen of Indiana County Millie Iteconimciidalioiis C'ou(H'rillllK (V||s, llir. ROOSEVELT REPORTS INVESTIGATION RESOLUTIONS OF RESPtCI READ R<mnl Will IN tit ion Court In IIuyp Nimilnrof DittMlors In Four Wind*.. WASHINGTON, 1). Dee. 15.— rc S«'iirril<Mis, I'uIm-. Kvery Khaeiillal ' lenlar. ly the entire session of the Senate The Brownsville affair consumed neur- i \\<> ii \( tii i;s i:u«:iTi:i> PIIOCEKDIXGS. DUTCH TAKE OUARO SHIP The new executive council of tho department includes Mrs. J. Medlll McCormlck, of Chicago; Mrs. Thornton Ballard, of Louisville, and Mrs. William H. Crocker, of San Francisco, Mrs. B. Frank Mebane, of North Carolina, and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati. As mistress of the White Hons.4 and "first lady in the lan.l", Mrs. Taft, It is expected will be able to enlarge the scope of the organization and greatly aid its efforts towards the amelioration of the present civic evils. Mrs. Horace Brock, of Philadelphia, was elected chairman; Mrs. M. Hatch Willard, of New York, treasurer, and Mrs. Marcus M. Marks, of New York, secretary. By United Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Mrs. William Howard Taft was today elected honorary national chairman of the Woman's Department of the National Civic Federation. HEW TOME USED DEAIU / "These improvements would relieve the county of the burden of lu ing obliged to pay out large sums of money as- rewards for the capture of escaped convicts. "That the publle water »•!-». )«»» t«•»! on the southwc.st corner of the Jail be entirely removed, and that that part of the building, 'together with the Women's and Childre i's 1 >« - partment of the aaid jail In* r« < onrueted in order t<> provide s-uillcieiit, proper, and ABOVIO ALL, SKi'l'UK CELLS for keeping convicts and such other prisoners ;is i may be thought proper to confine separately from the cage of the prisoners." (I; will be recalled that Carborlno and Veltre escaped from the.jail by cutting a bole in the floor of the women's ward and walking to freedom through the open door leading into the public close:. Since their recapture they are confined In the steel cage, along with the other prisoners.) It is possible that the story of the escape, recently, of two ni«n from the 1 idiana County Jail, was uppermost in the minds of the Indiana County grand jurymen when they made these recommendations to the »«»urt: A dispatch frftm Tho Habile states ih.it the vessel tdken is the guard ship Mayo. The vessel, a small gunboat, was placed in charge of a Dutch prize crew an*l proceeded to Puraco under her own steam. LONDON", Dec. 15.—Another capturf of a Venezuelan coast defense war vessel has been made by the Dutch bloekadiig squadron, aceording to a Central News dispatch from The Hague. TEMPLE IS OEDICATFO .lorry Ithw, of llai IH«mI Sunday— I iiii('r;iI Srrvli'cs Tomorrow Morniiijr. The Business Men's Association committee had -about the same propositions to make as the committee from the lire company, but they also askeA Council t<> take steps toward the ultimate purchase of the water company's plant. There were no arrangements made to do so and no d« li.ilte decisions made regarding the matter, but a committee of three was appointed to confer with the was or company in regard to lowering the rates 011 tile water plugs and also in regard to employing a watchman at the reservoir who, as soon as an alarm of lire would be given, would be where be could turn on the reserve leservoir, thus minimizing the  in K'• ting a supply of water. K X The Council met Friday evening, a-nl beside the regular routine business they met the committee from the Citizens' meeting of the Business Men's Association, and the committee from the lire company. Council agreed to furnish the lire company with a stove for the hose house, 150 feet «»f rope and the extension ladders asked for. They further agreed to establish a system of yigirtils whereby when an alarm was turned in they would . immediately know its location. They also agreed to put a Bell telephone ia the power house, -.0 that an alarm could be turned in by the nearest telephone, whether 1?< 11 or Summervllle. Council, however, would not agree to buy a steamer, contending that i: would be too expensive, when so seldom needed; claiming one had never been really needed at a lire here, exce,»t once, when the Ueynoldsville school house burned, several years ago. l iicnieii Carautori Several Steamer Turtiftl IKimi—itihiiM'ss Men Want the Water Co. UKYNOLDSVILLE, Dec. 16. — Oil Thursday evening there Was a meeting of the Keynoldsville Fir*' Company at which a committee was appointed to confer with the Council in regard to furnishing the hose house with a stove, and thg company with, rope and extension ladders, and they were to consult the Council in regard to establishing a better lire alarm system and also to ask them to buy a steamer. rami^pTittsr FIDE ill MONEffl The building, which is <»r Moorish design, takes mnk among the moil magnificent b\iiklings of the American Masonic fraternity. Bishop ISthelbert Talbot, of Bethlehem, presided at the dedication and was assisted by I'uief Potentate 3:rank Detlich. of this city. By United Press. WILKES-HAIiUK Pa.. Dec. 15.— The new I rem temple nf the Mystic Shrine was dedicated here this afternoon in the presence of 2.500 Nobles from Northeastern Pennsylvania and other States. The d ecensed was the oldest of a family ot eh v.-n children, nil of whom and tin- parents, excepting a brother, who la.st summer was killed by a bolt <>f lightning, survive. The brothers and sisters are: Mrs. Charley Av« rill and Miss Kathryn ({lose, bookkeeper for Murray's Department Store, of Punxsutawney; Miss Mabel, a school teaeher, and Misses Annus, I la/.el and Lillian and Samuel. Seth a id Laird, at home. Although Mr. nioso had boon suff« rlig for a year or more, he was i« 1 >I»• to nuiki a trip to Punxsutawney Ms late as last Saturday. Saturday night, however, a crisis developed which carried the patient off most unexpectedly. Jerry Hlo.-e, eldest son of Attor jfey and Mrs. (}. \. Hlow, of near Hamilton, died of valvular hear; trouble Sunday, aged years, and will be Interred in tli«• White Church (Vmetery tomorrow at 10 o'clock a. in. Uev, Hicks, of Valler, the local pa-tor. will officiate. FATAU! INJURED HI EXPLOSIOH Py United Press. MONEHSKN, Pa., Dec. 15.—Fire at Wire ton, near here, this morning destroyed the dwelling of W. J. Morgan, a business block owned by Mercer Wolf, containing the grocery store of M. D. Stimac and apartments and a poolroom owned by Wolf. The total loss Is estimated at about fifteen thousand dollars. STOCKHOLDERS MEET FELL ON lIPPfRJ WALK Mis. Marv B. ThttmNfe. of West F.iul, Di'oke Her I-el l Arm. While walking' from the homo of Dr. C. (•}. Hughes, of South Flndley Street toward the homo of hor daughter, Mrs Lou Hastinks, of Liberty Street, lit about S o'clock Inst night. Mrs. Mary H. Thomas, of West End. slipped and fell, lighting in such a manner that her left arm was broken and her left hip severely Injured. Mrs. Hastings not being at home neighbors assisted Mrs. Thomas to return to the Hughes home and Dr. J. A. Walter was summoned. Tinleft arm was found t<> have been fractured near the wrist ,ond other Injuries were sustained which will make her removal to her home impossible for several days. The message in part reads as follows: "in view of the constant reiteration of the assertion that there was some corrupt action by or in be•half of the United States Government in conection with the acquisition of the title of the French company to the Panama Pa net I, and of the repetition of the story that a syndicate of American citizens owned either one or both of the Panama companies, I deem it wise to submit to the Congress all the information 1 have oil the subject. These s'ories were first brought to my attention as published in a paper published in Indianapolis, called 'The News', edited by Mr. Delavan Smith. The stories were scurrilous and libelous In character and false in every particular. Mr. Smith shelters himself behind *he excuse that he merely accepted the* statements which appeared in a paper published in New York,  World', owned by Mr. Joseph Pulitzer'. It is idle to say that the known c haracter of Mr. Pulitzer and his newspapers are such that the statements Ri that paper will believed by noli ody; unfortunately thousands of Persons are Ill-informed in this resr»ct, and believe the statements that ij-y see in print, ev» n though they jflpcar in a newspaper published b> If. Pulitzer. A Member of the Confess has actually introduced a reso'.tion in reference to these charges, [.therefore lay all the facts before tod Press. D. <\, Dec. 15.— tbly moro omphat- than was evi»r a document, Prcsoday, in a sp< rial •«s, arraigm-d Jo- Xcw York World, ther critics of tho general, for their recon [ charges with respect to the purchase of the Panmaa ('anal. He characterizes the accusation as scurrilous, libelous and false, in every essential particular; submits documentary evidence to support his contentions; brands Mr. Pulitzer by name as a villiller of the American people, and declares his purpose of bringing a governmental action at once of libel. Of our piano concert last week has warranted a new program for Thursday night from 7:30 to !»:00, to which all are cordially Invited. J. II. Kberhart Co., Ltd.—1. .\ - Nta i t Superlntenden : Jackson reported eleven students attending high -• hool from ot'her districts. The •SupeT-itumient estimated thai' nhou'j thirty additional pupils, six-year-olds, will be added t<» the polls after vacation. and submitted a plan for providing room and accommodations for them. The committee on buildings Trunn (nib • r Lindsey reported trouble with Hie parent of a boy , whom lie refus. s to scud to school, and tin Hoard decided to take the necessary ley.tl action. <'«dlector Janu s Lo.kard reported for the v;.me period, J17S.94. Tr. asurer llrown reported cash on hand, 510.8U-t.18. Proceeding with the regular order of business the Board received rep >rtK, as follows: Tax Collector II H. M« Henry reported collections during the month, j i:»r».60. Although there Were applications from some of the brightest and best known educators iti Western Pennsylvania the sentiment among the dirt i"nrs, teachers, citizens and pupils seemed to be so favorable to the elevation of Prof. Jackson, principal of the High Schools, that no other name •was placed in nomination, and his election w;s made unanimous. Prof. Jnckso, while principal <»f the Pig Run schools, attracted the atte'j...in of .!ie 1:i;«■ Prof. Hammers, at \ h*' ■ .uiggcMlon he was last year chosen ft»r the place of High School principal. During the Illness of Prof. Hammers Mr. Jackson was the virtual head of the schools, a id only recently was elected to the office of nssis an; superintendent. That he It.'s won the confidence of the directors was abundantly attested at la t night's meeting of the board. There were present President W. I! Sudor, Secretary John F. Jenkins and Directors AllUon, Hrown, M<Henry, Mitchell, Stephenson, Means, Winslow. \\ Sutter, Davis, Wingert. Assistant Superintendent Jackson and Truant Officer 1/inds. y were also pi escnt. The Schol <'ommlssioers of Punxsutawney l ist night asaembleij in regular .s- .• >n in the Hoard room in '.he Jefferson Street building and trnnsai eif, expeditiously, much important business, including the election of a suci • sor to prof, a M. Hammers, deceased [ere the President recites the var- * charges, including those agains: pries P. Taft. brother of William Taft, and Douglass Robinson, the 'ddent's brother-in-law, of partici- [ "In form they are in part libels up|« individuals, upon Mr. Taft and Mr. I Itobinson, for instance. Put they are in fact wholly, and in form partly. a libel upon the United States (Jovernment. 1 do not believe we should concern ourselves with the particular individuals who wrote the lying and libelous editorials, articles from correspondents 'or articles in the news columns. The real offender is Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of the World. While the criminal offense of which Mr. Pulitzer has been guilty in, in form, a libel upon individuals, the great Injury done is in blackening the good name of the American people. It should not be left to a private citizen to sue Mr. Pulitzer for > libel. He should be prosecuted for libel by governmental authorities. In point of encouragement of iniquity, in point of infamy, of wrong doing, there is nothing to choose between a public servant who betrays his trust, a public servant who is guilty of blackmail, or the tinancial dishonesty of any kind and a man as guilty as Mr. Joseph Pulitzer has been in this instance. It is therefore a high national duty to bring to justice this villiller of :h. American people, this man who wantonly and wickedly, and without one shadow of justification seeks l"*» blacken the Character of reputable private citizens and to convict the government of his own country in the eyes of the civilized World, or of wrong doing of the basest and foulest kind, when he has not one shadow of justification of any sort or description for the charges he has made. The attorney general has under consideration the form in which the proceedings against Mr. "Now these stories, a.* a matter ot fact need no investigation whatever. No shadow of proof has been, or can be produced in behalf of any of them; they consist simply of a string of in'amous libels. "These statements sometimes appear in the editorials, sometimes in the news columns, sometimes in the shape of contributions from individual either unknown or known to be ''Aft. bad character. They are false In "every particular from beginning to end. The wickedness of the slanders is only surpassed by their fatuity. So utterly baseless are •.histories that apparently they represent in part material collections for campaign purposes and in part stories originally concocted with a view oT possible blackmail The inventor of the story about Mr. Charles P. Taft, for instance, evidently supposed that at some period of the Panama purchase, Mr. W. H. Taft was secretary of war. whereas in reality M.. W. H. Taft never became secretary of war unt'l long after the whole transaction in question had been closed. The inventor of the story about Mr. Douglass Robinson had not taken the 'rouble to find out the fact that Mr. Robinson had not the slightest conlection, directly or indirectly, of any kind or sort, with any phase of the Panama transaction, from beginning to end. \y*ochtlioii l-'oi'incri to Look Xt'ter Their Interests in Mutual ithlg. iV Loan XsMM'iutioii Suit. "it appears that almost all the members of Company l» must have been actively concerned In the shooting. either to the extent of being participants or to the extent of virtually encouraging those who were participants. As to Companies c and D. there can be no question that practically every man in them must have had knowledge that the shooting wan done by some of the soldiers of 11 Troop and possibly by one or t\n • • thers In one of the other troop**. "This cnoealment was in i-tself a grave offense, which was greatly aggravated by t'heir testifying before the Senate Committee that they were ignorant of what they must have hiown. Nevcrheloss, it Us to be said in partial extenuation that they were probably cowed by threats, made by the more desperate of the men who had actually been engaged in tie shooting, as to what would happen to any man who failed to protect the wrongdoers." "Tills report enables us to lix with telerable deli ni ten ess at least some of the criminals who took the lead In lli( murderous shooting of private citi/.eng at Brownsville. It establishes (dearly the fact that the colored soldiers did the shooting. "The investigation has not gone far enough to enable us to determine I! itlhe fads, and we will proceed with it; but it has gone far enough to determine with sufficient accuracy certain facts of enough importance to mike it advisable that T place the re- I ort before you. The President's message giving the results of the War Department's investigation of the Brownsville affair was read. Mr. Roosevelt said: "I inclose herewith a letter from the Secretary of \V;ir, transmitting a .1 port of the investigation as far as possible as to what happened at I rownsvilie on the 13th and 14th of August, 1900. The report and documents contain some information of great value. y« st« rdny. Henaitor F«rak«*r obtain « d the floor early In the session and read letters from a former soldier of the Twenty-fifth regiment, telling of the procedure of government detectives in attempts, to got a confession from him. Mr. Foraker introduced an amendment to his original bill f utile re-enlistment of these soldiers » rovlding that a commission of three retired irmy officers be « r» ated to determine whether trie discharged soldiers are innocent of complicity i 1 the snooting up of Brownsville as a for their re-enlistment, instead of leaving that duty with the President, as provided by the Warner bill. " j'HY JUDGE TAFT WENT TO THE PHILIPPINES PREDICT WALKER'S ELECTION OVER LEWIS CONTEMPLATE A POULTRY SHOW IN THE NEAR FUTURE Three double houses were burned and four oth«-r double houses had to be dynamited to prevent a further spread of the fire. IJ y United Press. NEW DKltUY. Pa., Dec. 15.—- John Kovie and William Kolliek were fii'tally injured and six others badly hurt in an explosion in the Kovie home early today. Kolliek accidentally dropped a lighted match into a keg of powder.AGED WOMAN BURNED TO CHISP lawney included, is more chickens, What this country needs, Punxsu- By United Press. show a Pennsylvania returns landslied for Walker. SPRINGFIELD. III., Dec. 15.— Enough returns have been received by the Illinois headquarters of the United Mine Workers to predict the election of John H. Walker, of Illinois, as President of the United Mine Workers of America over Tom Lewis, of Ohio. MOT AFTER 26 IEJW8 A met ting of tiie stockholders of the Mutual Building & Loan Association was held in the K. of IV Hall last evening, with a large delegation from Horatio, Kleanora and Adrian, and a permanent organization was formed for the purpose of looking after the interests of the stockholders from time to time until a settlement is reached. The following oUlcers were elected: President, John Kinneberg; score, iary and treasurer, W. S. lifted. The following ouitlok committee was appointed for the purpose of gaining all the information they can relative to the interests of the stockholders in getting 'their money: John Wood, of Horatio; Hector Campbell and Fred Kull, of Adrian; president and secretary to be ex-otilcio members. The next meeting c»f the organisation will be railed at the request ol •the Outlook Committee. In falling the aged woman overturned a lighted lamp on a small table, the lamp exploding and setting lire to house. When found In the ruins, Mrs. Benny was burned to a crisp. By United Press. ALTOONA, Dec. 15.—Whilo lighting her pipe, Mrs. Mary Benny, eightyone years old, of McVeytown, near here, was stricken With paralysis, and ft 11 to the floor. LER >UTH WASHINGTON. D. Dee. 15.— Following is the weather forecast: Pair and colder tonight and Wednesday.MISS ETHEL DIED IN TJ M «• «• »» «.■» «* »' «a SB M M M 0t m I v» s• 0% >1 *1 «• •» «» »» «» :: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN « The General Relief Com- S9 M mittee of Punxsutawney, which 1* X is composed of W. P. Wehrle, it P. O. Freas and Herman Weiss, I» V5 request that all who desire to contribute to the fund, do so at once in order to facilitate S3 Y% the distributions for Christ- J? mas. Money, merchandise, do- II thing and groceries are equal- 11 t? ly acceptable. M n ;; ?! n : ; k J; K K « « « M Any oihi interested in the .subject of holding a poultry show in Punxsu- tawney this \\inLer should call on or address Wilson Blose, 232 Kast Mahoning Street. With the probabilities in favor of legislation on this subject, is it not time for citizens to come together under sonio such auspices us a poultry show, and make some plans f>r future contingencies. "It is expected, however, that the corner will be broken about the middle of February." "An agent of the alleged corner appeared here recently and contracted with some of the hotels and restaurants for tlie immediate delivery • •I about $4 4,000 worth of eggs, practically fresh, at 2N cents a dozen. "Itut for those who buy of the retailer. the price continues from 35 to 4 0 cents. "Selected eggs are now quoted in Pittsburg at 3:» and 40 cents and storage at 27 and 2 8. yestcrday's Issue the Pittsburg Gazette Times had this to say: "Practically the entire output of the counrty has been safely cornered for sc\ ial months, according to Information given yesterday by the proprietors of a number of Pittsburg hotels and restaurants. Millions of dollars worth of eggs no yet laid, they say. have tjed up with contracts. The big packing houses of Chicago are reported to be back of the corner. The sum of money sent out from Punxsutawney to pay tin- annual eg* bill Is astonishing, anil if the coming legislature should pass a law such as that suggested at the State Orange meeting at Altoona last week, put- ling the ban on all cold storage and rotten eggs, it would cause a riot in almost every kitchen in the town. If venal persons can engineer a corner in eggs under the present conditions, what would happen if cold storage and rotten eggs should be put under the bun of the law. In In order to start a movement that will give promise of relieving, in the future, the local situation, some of the chjfcken fanciers of Punxsutawney Wave in mind the holding of a poultry show early in the coming year. 1*. is believed that if the poultry raisers of thi.s town could be brought together by some means, such as that engendered by a big exhibit of line fowls, that more people would become interested in the art of breeding fine chickens and producing mora eggs. or, to be specific, more eggs. With the price of hen fruit soar- Ing to 4 0 cents along about this time of the year, every season, the opportunities of the man who can make .i hen lay two eggs, where, as at present. shi' lays only one, should be most inviting Sharp llosack Surprises Ills llrollier —Meets llini in Itestaiiruiit. When W. L. Hosack, ot near hmickshurg last Saturday entered a Punxsutawney restaurant he encountered a surprise in the shape of his brother, Sharp Hosack. of North Cheyenne, Wyoming, whom he had not seen for Uti years. Sharp Hosack recently came East without notifying any of his relatives and last Friday surprised his sister, Mrs. George Stokes, of Klk Hun, by dropping in unannounced. Having learned that his brother usually came to Punxsutawney Saturday he made arrangements to be in the restaurant where -the latter was in the habit of stopping, and thus the reunion took the form of breaking bread together, as it were. •• 'But Mr, President/ I said, 'I am "I said, 'Mr. President, what do you mean by going: to the Philippines?' "He replied, 'We must establish a government there and I would like for you to help.* " 'Judge, I'd like to have you go to the Philippines.' "I did not know of any vacancy existing on the supreme court bench at that time, but I went to Washington just the same. Arriving at the White House I was ushered into the cabinet room and there I met the President, who sajd: " 'If you have no other engagement, you will do me a great favor by calling on me in Washington some time next week.' N President-elect William H. Taft, speaking at the dedicatorial exercises of the McKinley Memorial Organ in Metropolitan Temple, New York, told, for the first time, the inside history of how the U. S. Government took over tin? Philippine Islands. The story, which constitutes one of the most intensely interesting incidents in the life of the lamented McKinley, was given by Mr. Taft as follows: "It was in February, 1900," said Mr. Taft, in relating the personal narrative of his resignation from the bench and entry into public life which in eight years has brought him to the presidency, "that in the court house in Cincinnati I received from Mr. Mc- Kinley a telegram which read like this: (Conti two.) lued from page "You can readily understand," continued Mr. Taft. "the feelings of a man whose only object in going to Washington was the hope of lindnig a vacant cushion on the supreme bench, to be asked to go 10,000 miles from home. But after I had talked with Mr. McKinley and with Secretary Root, I decided I would go and in a hurry. 1 went under the influence of Mr. MeKinley's personality, the influence he had of making people do what they ought to do in the Interest of the public service. "Mr. McKinley said he would stand by me in the Philippines, and he did. He was a man of the most wonderful tact that I ever knew of. Mr. MeKinley's idea—and it is his idea we are still carrying out In the Philippines—one of benevolent assimilation. "That Idea or policy has come in for much criticism and ridicule because we had to be in it by lighting a war, because tranquility was secured only through 'the exercise of sword. It was a cause of the deepest sorrow to Mr. McKinley that sorry we have got the Philippines. 1 don't want them and 1 think you ought to have some man who is more in sympathy with the situation.' " 4You don't want them any less than I do,' replied the President, 'but we have got them and in dealing with them I think 1 can trust the man who didn't want them better than I can the man who did.' Word was received here yesterday from Aiken, South Carolina, notifying friends of the death, recently, of Miss Ethel Stiteier, daughter of the late George Stiteier, of Smlcksburg. Following the death of the father th«- family, including Mrs. Stiteier and daughter Ethel and vne son moved to Punxsulawney, where Miss Ethel made many warm friends, both in the church and social circles. Later the family moved Aiken. Miss Stiteier, who was aged 19 years, 10 months and four days, was a victim of tuberculosis. _J <'F :'2. I  VOL III-NO70 By United Ptpms. Till. siccioss Ojvner of New Branded At MM" ' I American nMEITARY ( Klnti'inonts ! t9L<1 MbeloiLs in VM* INSTITUTE SpHINGTON, Tn ffgjpguagt* proba icnl]B denunciatory us<Ml«vfore in sucl ident YRoosovHt nu's.sifec to Oongre soph Pulitzer, of tht in ; irticular and < administration in (Continued on page three ) (Continued on pabe three.) THE WEATHER PRICE TWO CENT! 3K».: if ••■ 7* - -35 ■ p