Punxsutawney Spirit, 1886-04-28

              VOL. XIII. NO. 46. tan for iMk*. % PUBLISHED KTEKT WEPNWPAT. W1N8LOW Is CALKEKWOOD, " attobneys-atla w, PTOMBTAWXIT, FA. Office one door east of theWestera Unlon Tel•arapb Offlce. Practice in the court* of Indiana nd Jefferson counties.  p M. BREWER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Ptoxsctawhiy, Pa. Offlce on Gilpin street, two doors north of Shields' furniture store.  A LEX. J. TRUITT, A A TTOENE Y-AT-LAW, PtWXSUTAWKKT, PA. Opposite Spirit BuiUUng. Practice in the C<mrts of adjacent counties.  XT'D WARD A. C ARM ALT, A TTORNE Y-AT-LAW, THE ST. ELMO STORE PONX8CTAWNBY. office with Judge Jenks. Legal business carefully attended to.  flONRAD & MUNDORFF, ATl'ORNEYS-AT-LA W, will receive prompt and careful atten .ion.  TENKS & CLARK, ° ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bbookviii.e, Pa. Office in Matson Block, opposite tlie public TOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, , . Tiiatirp nf the Peace, Punxsutawucy, la. S t i"rColl"ctCb' mX!&c,ffiona fake" and all kimlaot legal bus.ness attended to. TT C. CAMPBELL, I1' ATTORNEYS AT-LAW, Bkookvili.e, Pa. Qfflca in Matson'a ofHoe, Mateon building, opposite the Court House.  TT7" M. GILLESPIE, VV • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CLATVIl.I.K PA. CollJCtlons entrusted to hlm will b- d jantiy attended to and promptly paid over. p c. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, rbyholpsville. Pa. Latest Styles, Largest Stock, Lowest Prices. %utk(f if it* f*«- T|R. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ra. PUNT8DTAWNET, FA. t ffct two dooro eaetoftlie 1'ostunice.  Dr. \vm. altman, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, FX'NXSUTAWNEY, PA. Offers his professional services to the citizens Of Punxautftwncy and vieinlt).  DR. 8. S. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCNXBCTAWNKY, PA. Moontry.  ipvR. J. SHEFFEB, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, " PCUMBTAWHBT, PA. Having permanently located in CoTode, Pa-_. I offer my professional services to the PJ® pie of this vicinity. Chronic diseases of women a specialty.  rvR, B. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUMXSCTAWNIT, PA. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and vicinity.  "P)R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN  Office in residence on Korth Flndlar street T)R. CHABI.ES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN Fa, munAvwr. Has permanently located in this  ton Bis professional services to.the fftiiens 01 Pjr. w. j. Mcknight, PHYSICIAN AND SURG™* PA Professional calls promptly waponded to. TVR. 8. J. HUGHES, U SURGEON DENTIST, ytadisv streets.  TVE. W. J. CHANDLER, SVB&EOX DMHTTIST, pnamnffi 'A. Office In oorner room. Torww Bl««.  TOHN T. BELL, attention, ■» Speotal »t- T B. MORRIS, ||qBUfction« »d promptly rt- TOHN G. BBN8T, JUSTICE  OoU~»to~S«25- D~d*-4oth,rlK*1 P" tog» otaowtodgxl- ■ __— m L TiVBOBMi •■'"riSSnxtvmm. Practical Ptatomji Cewtoi 4gg£3£fS5F •puts Ml* Heads •rVrar Children WHfcaaAi. A MTHEIH UMWi PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APREL 28, 1880. Leading Bazaar in the County! New York, April 20.—This morning for the flnt time Alice, whoM surname is Afrioanoa, learned that the wm a widow; that she had been graduated from the state of grass-widowhood and had become a real and trne widow by the death of her better and larger half—the much lamented Jumbo, Africanus. Early in the morning all that was ituffuble of Jumbo was dragged oat into the middle of the middle of the arena of the Madison Square Garden, and Gipsy, a well conducted elephant of high moral character and groat steadiness of gait, was taken over the stall .. here Alice was contlued. The landless and forelegs of the two wero chained together as though, in the lietic verbiage of the circus bill, they wero going into a "Grand Colossal Mastodon" three-legged race. When Trainer White gave the order and hysterical Alice and the sympathetic Gipsy hobbled aud shuttled out into the Garden Alice seemed to foresee had news of some kind, for jnst before they came in sight of Jumbo, on wheels, sho stopped, leaned up against her companion and heaved :m elephantine sigh. Gipsy nudged lu-r, as much as to say:—"Oh, come now, don't cry hefore all these men," and they ambled on together to whore J umbo's majestic likeness awaited them. Alice walked straight up to it and twisted her pliable trunk about his stiffened proboscis. Then fhe remarked, "Wliish." This may no! oe a particularly expressive word in print, but it is frequently used in elephantine interviews. It is articulated by the process of blowing about -00 cubic feet • -h the trunk in the spaoe of two minutes. Once more she rubbed noses by way of salute, like a Fire Island coquette who has met her best young man while walking in the park. Then she utteu . another "whisli," this time of hitter disgust, and squarely tnrned her back upon the elUgy of the former partner of her joys and sorrows. Evidently the delightfuluess of recognition had giveu way to grief and vexation at perceiving the cruel hoax put. upon her. The certainty tli. 1 . d.irlii.g Jumbo was dead was more than *no could bear, so she hobbled back to the privacy of her stall, and. leaning up against the tender hearted Gipsy, indulged in a re.il good cry. A I.lve t'©r|>xe. Washington, April 17.—The president la indignant at the versatile freedom of the preaa indieouaeing hia alleged approaching marriage. "I am not goiiig to ray a word in the matter, bnt let you go on in your own nay until yon get tired of dragging the name of the poor, defenseless girl into publicity," said tfae President to a Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent who asked him the querry about which there is now so much information extant: "Is the President eugaged V Mr. Cleveland sat in the bow window of his executive office, clad in a suit of black clothes, a black silk tie about liis stand up collar which was slightly frayed on the edges. The President certainly did not look like a happy expectant groom, and he had a gloomy expression of countenance that the red hues of a.)ger that settled about his neck did not to .id to render more cheerfnl. The sky was slightly overcast. There were two working politicians waiting to see him on a distant sofa. A young woman sat on a chair not far away, and a day-before-yesterday bouquet threw out nialordors on the desk in front of him. "Tbjte reports," lie resumed, "are a shame mid an outrage upon all the privacies and decencies of life, and the prows should lind something better to do tliun to be pitching into an unprotected girl in this brutal way. Last week It was a lady stopping in the house. Next week it will be some other poor girl. Why do you not accord to your President the privileges you do to the laborer earning fifty cents a day f The President should have some rights of privacy you might respect. Your class give me none. A man said the other week that the barber came here on Sundays to shave me. Why, I have not been shaved by a barber for twenty years. Pretty soon they will waut to know what sort of a night shirt I wear (with a grim laugh). But you were very right to como and ask me, and I will say that when we, I, get ready to announce my niaraiage (sarcastically) I shall do so in my own way. Hut the result of it all will be that we shall have to shut you people out entirely from getting news here. I have a man—Col. Lamont—who is in full sympathy with the press, and who is willing to give all the information asked, and yet you are not satisfied. Now, why don't yon do something different from all the rest, and say a word in behalf of the sacred immunity of pure woman-hood from being made the common talk of a continent, and write something on the other side of the question f A man, though a President, has rights to his private affairs. The corpse was expected for sure last nignt. It did not arrive theu, but tlio boy walked into town thin evening. He had come on the ears within two miles of town then sneaked in abont dark. It was noon fonnd ont that he had returned. Ilia friends were so highly incensed at the cruel joke which was played ou them that they gathered up a martial band and proceeded to Priehard's house. By bodily force he wit tarried ont on the street and to the "Dead March" he was paraded all oyer town followed by at least 400 men and boys. After it was all over he charged his wife with being the cause of tho outrage, as he sailed it, and threatened towipe up the floor with her. He will hardly show his face on the streets for a few days, and he can be thankful that ho escaped with the light punishment that he did. Con NELL* villi:, Pa., April i-'ii.—Thieo weeks ago Andrew Pritchard, of this pis e, went to Omaha on promise of a situation. He had a brother-in-law nami'd ■> 'inci McCoy living there. Ou Mondaj Mrs. Pritchard received the sad news by telegraph from McCoy that her husband had been killed by the ears that nav, and requested money to forward the body home. It required |27. She did not have it, but friends furnished tho amount and il was sent next day. The wife and several children nearly went wild with grief. An aged mother will sacrccly recover the shock which the sad news caused. A grave was prepared and a number of relatives and friends suspended work out of respect for the deceased. She lifted up her bands imploringly, as if to beg for meroy, bat this had no effect on the frenzied mother, for she let the ax come down the little child's head with as much force as at first, and a moment later another victim was lying on tho floor with its skull fractured. She then traced her steps in the direction of her eighteen-yearold daughtei, who was in the adjoining room with a four-year-old babe iu her arms. The daughter, seeing that her mother was intent on killing her also, barely got the door shut that separated her from her frantic mother. Throwing herself against the door she fought with all her strength to keep her mother from entering her room. Finally succeeding in locking the door on the inside, she ran out to her father to apprise him of the deathly work of her mother. Hardly had she got out of the house when she met her father running towards the house, he having been notified of the doings of bis wife by the housekeeper, who saw the last child brained. After a struggle the insane woman was overpowered. All the children assaulted will die. Qoing to the hen-house this morning, Mrs. Smith took from her pocket a package of "Rough on Rats," aud, emptying out a large dose of it, swallowed it. She then picked np an ordinary ax, and, concealing it uuder hor dress, returned to the house. Entering the bed-chamber where her fouryear-old daughter Edna was sweetly sleeping, she raised her ax aud let it descend with terrific force on her head. Twice and three times she let the ax fall on,, the now insensible child and finally when she saw the child's head split open, she left, and entering the bed room of herelevenyear-old son, Rufus, she struck him three or four blows with the blue end of the ax which laid the side of his head open. Next she turned her attention to her elevenyear-old daughter, Bessie, whom Bhe found on her knees praying. The child seemed to know that her turn had come as she had witnessed the others. For many years past Mr. Smith has devoted his attention to his farm, which was considered one of the best in that locality. About twelve years ago Mrs. Smith lost one of her children at childbirth. This so preyed npon her mind that her husband had to send her to the asylum for treatment. After being there for about a year she was returned completely cured. She was very glad to get back home ami begged that if any mishap should occur again that her husband would not send her to the asylum. r, N. J., April 83.-.It is bat • ihort timfe ago that the inhabitants of Mourn oath county were startled by the annootcement of the lynching of "Mingo Jaok." Now comes the announcement of a still more horrible tragedy in which a wife and mother attempted to assassinate her whole family by braining tiiem with an ax. About seven miles south of the little»village of Keyport, on the back road to Port Monmontb, is a little one-story and an attic house there resides a family named Smith. It consists of J. Monroe 8mith, the father, who is about 55 years of age, Mrs. Fannie Smith, his wife, who is about 43 years of age, and six ohildren, aged respectively 19, 18, 13, II 7 and 4. The farm house is beautifully surrounded by trees. Clothing ! Furnishing Goods! Shoes! Anthony, Kan., April 20.—About two months ago a fight occurred in the village of Danville, near this place, between three brothers named Weaver and Adel Sheard. The latter was fatally wounded, and the Weaver boys were arrested and hurried away to avoid mob violence. Last week they were returned for trial, but their oases were continued for the term, with bail fixed at $10,000 each. At 1 o'clock this morning a mob of forty armed men surrounded the residence of tbe SheriS, where the prisoners were uader guard. The guard, hearing them, rushed the prisoners out the back door and into the basement of the new sohool building. The Sheriff was taken prisoner by the mob and guarded. The deputies finding it useless to resist, surrendered. The Wearer brothers defended themselves in their struggle for life with a revolver, which they had taken from one of the deputies. They were Anally overpowered by the mob and disarmed. Hopes were placed about their necks and preparations were made to hang them to their rafters, but the trample of approactiing feet frightened tbe mob, so so they fired fifteen or twenty shots into each of the brothers, literally shooting them to pieces, and,mounting their horses, rode rspidly away. Tbe mother of the boys and the wife of one of them witnessed the tragedy. Ttiroo Brother* Lynched. Wirw Advanced. Bumaxck, Dak., April 19.—At Medora last evening the cowboys of the Bad Lands indulged in a danee at a leading hotel, and although no one was killed the event is worthy of notioe. The llarquis de Mores, having returned from the East, has started operations at his Medora ranch, and the oowboyi wererejoiolng over the arrival of their souroe of financial supply. The hotel was filled with transient gentlemen, most of whom were called to the ptooe by business relationship with the marquis. The dance was at its height at midnight, all the female population of the Bad Lands being present, and the oowboys were determined to show their mettle and worth. At midnight the revolvers were drawn, and from that time until morning the fnsilade drowned the musio of the orchestra. Every bedroom in the hotel was shot into, and that no one was killed is looked upon as a pniracle. Dr. Williamson, of thiscity, oocapied a Mom near the ball-room, and hia door was perforated. This morning he picked up numerous ballets in his room, and it is believed that hia life was saved by the mattress,under which he remained during the night. Every guest was paralysed with fear, and from the number of doors shot into all are grateful that they escaped with their lives. Not once during the nightdid the dancing oesse, the women I and men cheering as each volley was fired. —A plucky lad at Irwin ton, (it,, while waiting for a rabbit to ran by which «u chaaed by hia dog* waa attacked by a mad dog. The boy had a light wood knot in hia hand, and when the dog jumped at hint he killed it with one blow. OoBVtaetac *f Hta Imr. Chicago, April 19.—Henry Smith,thirty year* old, *u one of the men employed In Maxwell's box factory daring the recent •trike. On Saturday night, in a boarding house where Smith and a large number of workmen lire, a diaounion aroee, Smith contending that it was every man's right to belong to a onion or not, aa it pleased him. While Smith waa standing in front of the boarding house, Sunday, he was attached by three of the men with whom he had argued the night before. He was knocked down and kioked most unmerci fully about the head and abdomen. His face waa converted into a mere mass of bloody pulp by the heavy boots of his assailants tod his body bruised black and bine. After tiring themselves out in their inhuman work the three men fled, leaving Smith appeauntly dead on the ground. The physicians say the chances for his recovery are slight. Two of his aaiailanta have beeti arrested. CoNincLumujc, Pa., April 30.—The H. C. Friek Coke Company, which has taken the lead in liberality to its employes, gave a general uaasked-for advance in wages to-night to the coke-drawers and miners and oar-loaders. Notices were posted at the variona works of the company to the effect that at the meeting of tbe syndicate on Monday it was decided to advance wages on and after May 1. The coke-drawers, under the new rates, are to get 06 and 70 cents an oven, which is an advanse of. 16| per cent. Tbe carloaders are to get 85 rents for small cars and $1 for large onto, an advance of 124, The priee of leveling cars is to be 10j cents, and minora are to get 5 per cent, advance. Thia means 95 cents per 100 bushels, and an increase from GO to 70 cents for j drawing, everybody is delighted with the unsolicited advance, and the Frick Company ia admitted to lead all its competitors in liberality to the iueu. It is said that the prioe of ooke will be advanced to |1.S0 on the same dnte. —A person who lived two years among the Creek Indians, in Indian Territory, aays he never knew of an Indian man kissing an Indian woman. —There ia more undeveloped land in the 8tate of Maine than in any Wee tern State: —A noble epitaph to Lincolu was giren by Mrs. Piatt in these lines in her new volume of peeas: "A child, btside a statue, said to me, W 1th pretty wisdom very «sdly Jnut, *Thl» man fa> Mr. Lincoln, moiiuuu. He Was msde of marble; we are m»<iv of dust.' 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