‘has many points in Its favor that mo other preseut a company of {irreproachable FRED J. TAYLOR, Sayre, Pa. J. W. BISHOP, Ihe constant repetition of deliver _ Ig goed coal has given us our repu- ~ fatien. We handle Lehigh Valley and 103 Leigh Ave. Lockhart Bolling, Both Phones. Al QUALITY, QUANTITY, If you buy from PRICE COLEMAN HASSLER, No. 116 Nrie St, Sayre. got the Huse Ask your meigh- Both Phones. ng ELMER A. WILBER FOR d MINE” That delicious flavor to found in Stegmaier's BEER ppeals to all who have d it, and it accounts r the increasing demand his rich, foam-crowned ir-colored beverage. te a aguarantee ding to the PURE ID LAW which re- ONE VACANT CHAIR Nearly Oomplete. Questions by Still Pelnt te Temporary Insanity a8 Defense's Strong Peolnt Mother and Sister Absent. NEW YORK, Jan 31. There Is now the twelfth man will be chosen and that District Attorney Jerome will be- gin his opening address to a complete jury The defendant, his youthful wife and All the members of Lis family who are able to be in court must listen to the story of the roof garden tragedy, told io all its dramatic detall sod as fw pressively us lies within the power of the prosecuting officer to portray it, Mr. Jerome bas lutimated authorita tively that the direct evileuce of the prosectition will be of the briefest pos sible character, dealing only with the incidents leading up to the killing and the story of the tragedy itself as seen by eyewitnesses. One or two witness ® may be heard as to the alleged mo tive for the crime. It remains for the defense to open the way to testimony which Bas to do with any relations which may Lave existed between Stan- MAY M'KENZIE. {A chorus gir! pose.) ford White and Evelyn Nesbit prior to the slaying of the architect. Thaw's Attorneys probably will net reply to Mr. Jerome today, reserving thelr opening until the state has finished its case, Two jurors were added to the trial panel, making eleven In all. In au ef- fort to complete the Jury the attorneys exhausted the second special panel of talesmen summoned for the trial. A new panel of 100 was ordered for this morning, making 4% ordered for the trial Harry C. Brearley, an advertising agent, thirty-five years of age and married, was the first talesman to qualify. He took bis place as juror No. 6, the chair made vacaut by the droppiug of Harvld R. Faire from the jury panel. Mr. Brearley told the at- torneys for the defense that be had no prejudice whatsoever against a plea of insanity and that in judging soch a plea be would be guided by the prin. ciple of allowing the defendant the ad vantage of every reasonable doubt Henry I. Klelnberger, a silk mer chant, forty-two years old aud mar ried, the eleventh juror agreed on. sald he knew very little about the subject of Insanity and would have to be gulded by the instructions of the court in arriving at a conclusion on such a plea. Thaw appeared confident as he arose to face each of the two jurors while they were being sworn. The manner in which his attorneys continued to dwell upou the subject of lusanity in thelr axamination of various talesmen seomed to Indicate Layoud all reason able doubt that a plea of temporary In- sanity, which would be a legal defeuse, will eveutualiy be entered. In develop ing this claim that Thaw was Insane At the time of the tragedy the defend aAnt's attorneys may bring In such de falls us they and the prisoner believe will influence the sympathy of the wen who may have an oadefined bellef in the so culled ‘unwritten law.” Justice Fitzgerald threw something of a bombshell into the camp of the newspaper artists in the court by an nounelng through the court officers that oo more sketches shiould be made dur ing the trial, This came as a complete surprise. Artisis from most of the prin cipal cities of the east have been in court from day to day and have not been restricted hitherto In any way whatsoever Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and May Me Kenzie, hor friend. were again early arrivals in the courtroom Nelther Mra. William Thaw. the pris oner's mother, nor his sister, th Count ess of Yarmouth, was in court. The day was stormy, and both Mm Thaw and the countess are aurdng colds “Tell the newspaper men” Thaw sald to one of his counsel, “that I ad vised wy mother and both my sisters to stay home and take care of them selves” Mrs. Carnegie disobeyed the Injunc tion, however, and was present. Confilet In the Sacred Grotto, JERURALEM, Jan. 81. The sacred es TO AID HARTE'S DAUGHTER. i — Mark Twain and Miss Robson Plan Help For Mrs, Steele. NEW YORK, Jan. 81 — Funds to pro vide comfort for Mrs Jessamy Steele daughter of Bret Harte, who is in the almshouse at Portland. Me, were sent from this city by Miss Eleanor Robson, The actress also made plans for a testi monial benefit for Mrs. Steele, to be given at the Liberty theater in the week of Feb 11 Miss Robson Is personating one of Bret Harte's chargcters in “Salomy Jane” and when she read of the took measures for relief. She tele | graphed the mayor of Portland ask ing about the woman and received this reply: “Mrs. Steele is in Portland alms house. She is without money and un | balanced mentally. Her case a most | pitiful one.” Miss Robson in reply asked what | money would be needed apd said she | would give the benefit She Lad mean while communicate] with Mark Twain, | Edward J. Guaunney, president of the California society ln New York, and | the publishers of Bret Harte's works | All promised co-operation. Mark Twain | wrote: “1 feel that the American people owe | a debt of gratitude to Bret Harte, for! not only did he paint such pictures of | California as delighted the heart. but | there was such au lufinite tenderness such sympathy, such strength and | such merit In his work that he com i manded the attention of the world to] our country, and his daughter Ia surely deserving of our sympathy.” i It was learned that the publishers of | Bret Harte's works have In their pos | session aud In thelr own right all the! copyrights to the Harte works and | that Mr. Harte never at any time had | au agreement with them upou & roy alty basis. He got $10000 a year and | never would listen to a royalty ar | rangement Mrs. Jessamy Steele was married to | Frederick Dorr Steele in 190. Lut they | have not live] together im some time | Mr. Steele Is 8 well known {llustrator | In this city HOLDS NIGHT SESSIONS, : i Judge In Riverhead Marder } Bars Story of Threais. i RIVERHEAD, N.Y, Jan 31 last night's session of the court before | whom Dr. James W. Simpson, the! New York dentist, ix being tried fo: the murder of hizx father inlaw, Bart ley T. Horner, the prosecutor, attempt el to put in evidence testimony cou cerning quarrels between Horner and the dentist To this the defense promptly object ed, and the court ruled that such test! mony would acovpted only if a threat on the part of elther man was involved. One story was told in court iu which a threat on the part of the defendunt was implied, but this was ordered stricken from the records. At two earlier sessious the witnesses told of iucldents following the shooting and how the prisoner had =aid that his fa ber-in-law was shot when a guu in the habs of the defendant was aceldental- ly discharged Two witnesses told of conversations in which Dr. Siinp=on expressed little ! regret over the death of Horner Trial | At he A SOLUTION REACHED. Government and Califorsia OMicials WIN Confer on Jap Question WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 After two hours’ conference at the White House Inst night regarding the Japanese ues tion on the Pacific coast the California delegation In congress authorized the folluwilug statement “The Califoruin delegation has had a very full and harmonious wvith the president, the secretary of state and the secretary of the navy on the serious questions relating to the Japanese on the Pacific coast. The character of the discussion leads us to feol confident that a solution will be reached satisfactory to all concerned “The result of the meeting ix that the delegation has telegraphed to the pres Ident of the Sau Francisco board of education and the superintendent of schools to come to Washington at ouce for a coufereuce with the president und secretary of state’ discussion Fire In Asylam For Insane. KING'S PARK, N. Y.. Jan 231. Fin broke out carly in one of the bullling: of the Long Island hospital here, in which 20 lussue women, all violent cases, were quartered, hut through the efficiency of the fire drill all were go! out of the hurniug bullding safely. The fire, which threatened to entirely de stroy the large brick structure, starte on the first Moor. which was oe uple by offices and several stock roma. Op the first alarm #11 the nmates quietly responded to the fire drill whieh rw each week they have been regnired execute The damage was small Evidence te Convict Bell. NEW YORK, Jan 31. As a result of t secret all night examination under oath, which several relatives of Joh Hell were put through by Coroner Ca hill at St. George, it was aunounced by Inspector Schmittbergor that he had cirenmstantinl evidence sufflelent (« convict Bell of the murder of Dir Charles Wilmot Townsend of New Brighton. Peteetives sald that tie prisoner's stepbirother, Hownnd, and other relatives testified that Bell ad mitted he had killed the physician Henry Barth Dend at Clnelnnatl, CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 81.-One of ibe oldest type founders in the United H Barth, manager of the HIS ORDER REVOKED Governor Hughes Shows He Is Supreme. HENRY MADE TO CANCEL DISCHARGE New York State's New Waler Objects te Oficial Signing “hy Command of Governor” Without Con- sulting Him. ALBANY, N. Y.. Jan 31 Governor Hughes created a military sensation last night, which is said to be without precedent In recent years at least. by requiring Adjutant General Nelson H sued Ly him which would have permit. ted Captalu Louls Wendel of the First battery to leaves the military service of the state by the acceptance of Lis res ignation without further Investigation him of irregularities lu the manage ment of the armory under his charge Adjutant "General Nelson H_ Henry, by command of Governor Hughes as commander In chief of the military cial order revoking the orders promnl gnted by him in which the resignation of Captain Louis Wendel! of the First battery of artillery was accepted and discharged him from the military serv Ice of the state and which also dis solved] the court of inquiry erected at Captain Weudel's request to inquire into the charges against him of misuse of arwory funds and other conduct um woeoming an officer. The order promul gated reads as follows “Paragraph 1 of special orders No porting 10 accept the resignation Captain Louis Wendel, First battery N. Gk N.Y, and to discharge him from further service in the national! guard ernor, Is hereby scinded. “Paragraph 2 of special orders No. 21 Jan. 20 1907, from this office, purport ing to dissolve the court of inquiry ap pointed by special orders No 188 se Im all respects re IST. series 19% from this office is hereby In all respects re “The court of Inquiry appointed as aforesald Is hereby directed to convene Governor Hughes would make no regarding the ornler nor would General Henry make suy com ment The issue of the onder was not unex pected, as it was known that Governor Hughes was considering the question of the precise degree of personal re sponsibility attaching to him as com mander in chief of the military forces of the state in connection with purely military orders Issued in his name hy the adjntant general's oMce which have been subweribesl In the conventfonal form, “By command of the governor.” while in fact every small proportion of them came within the governor's per sous! knowledge The governor and Adjutant General Heury were closeted together for two more, and it was admitted that the topic of thelr conference was the order Alscharging (Captaios Wendel and dissolving the conrt of inquiry General Henry represented to (ov. ernor Hughes that the action in the Wendel case was in accord with custo mary military practice a mere matter of intlitary routine. Nevertheless, the Kovernor wasp't satisfied He conceded, It 1 sald, that he was only governor and that General Hen ry was a good soldier, but even then he could wot have an adjutaut general hangiog around loose “Ly onler of the governor” When Geueral Henry left the execu tive chamber, it Is sald, he utterad a short, sharp exclamation, as Is the mil tary custom In a mere matter of rou tine. He wax also red in the face General Henry originally ap pointed adjutant general by Governor (nlell. He has been appointed by ev ery succewling administration He halls from New York hours or wine J. J. Hill and the Fael Famine. WASHINGTON, Jan 31. - A Jour dis patch from I. H Hill, a son of Presi dent Hill of the Great Northern rail rou), regarding fuel shortigs ficus In North Dakota came to the in terstate commerce Mr Hill sald be Lad returned from three weeks lu the ir cts Maximse aml polats are suffering for ln aud everything poss ble is belug dons to open the line coudi commission Just dis branch Billy x siow honnd other coul Swettenham to Qual LONDON, Jan 31 fo belleve that the resignation of Sir A'exander Swettenham as governor of Ji Las though tha officials of the foreign office are mostifyingly sileut and refuse all lo. formation on the subject. This official " Is attributed to a desire to complete the arrangements for a suc cvssor to the post before announcing Swettenham» retirement, Jnmuiea. malen been nccepted Hleenee Cleseland 10 Ne Orntor CHICAGO, Jan, 11. Former Prost. dent Grover Cleveland has accepted the Invitation of the U'nloan Leagne club of this city to deliver the oration Atl the annual colehration of Washing fons birthday conducted under the nus pices of the club Higuine No Better. OLEAN, N. Y. Jan, 31.- Dr. Hibbard sald that ex-Covernor Miggine bad , but b coutder iy shy WILL SUPPLY CANAL CasH. | F. C, Stevens to Finance 81 40, 4900,000 | For Panama Waterway Work, : ALBANY, N.Y. Jan 31 — Frederick | C. Stevens, appointed state § tendent of public works by i Hughes on Jan 1. this year will! finance the SHON ON work of dig | ging the Panama canal and will be the | backer of Willlam J. Oliver tractor for the work “1 am to be the sole financial backer! of Mr. Oliver,” sald Mr ‘He | will get the contract all right, as hel will fulfill all the requirciseats of thai Isthinian canal commission within the! next ten days He ate with | himself two more contractors who will} <u erin Gavernor | the con | Stevens will gasses F. C. RTEYENS be satisfactory to the gevernment canpet make the pames of the two i Coulractors put but they will be { known by Friday probably ! “Mr. Oliver's contract is tp dig the entire canal. lie is to furnish all the labor and do all the work, The govern went Is to turn ever tu Lit whatever additioual machinery is nesded The! gosernment 8 tu police isthmus tnd have outire charge of the sanitary arrangements “The estimated cost of the work SHOOT. and the contractor (a tol wet 43, per cent of that amount for his | compensation If he gets the job done | on time. It Is provided that a forfeit of SHON a wonth shail be paid by the contractor if he fails to Buish the wor 4 time, while he is to get $1) for every month the job ahead of tine “The titue limit beer agreed upon. | should say, in a gotiera way, we ought to be ta do th work in seven ot eight veoars™ Mr. Stevens is now « will the construction Witerways. As superinieudent of He works he has chars f the oon struction of The S10T GO: 0 baree ea nal now Leling huilt State, while as a financier! strings for the SHO O00 000 waterw ny mus of Panama 1 the isi a boaus of he falshes has not vet alle sody identifies of tve gigantic ph ora = he Fpl hn'ds tr plirse building of th peross the isth SOCIALISTS KILLED HIM. Bank Bandit at Warsaw FExccuted Without Police Interferince WARBAW, Hussian Poland Soctalists nndertook the execution of bandit th susuccessful attempt to secure SK) frou the bauk of War SEW The man entered the bank and ask ol the director to give him £5 His request was refused the sat the waiting room and anoounced his intention of remaln ing there until he recelved the money The bank offidnis feared to ask the police for help and therefore allow! him to stay A Socialist of the bank's staff, however, called up Socialist head Ian 31 and carried out a who made Commercial whereupon man down in member quarters on the telephone and explain od the situation. Two men from head quarters nat CANDICE over the bank They approached the wan the walting room, quickly threw a sack over bis head and then blew out his brains with a The pallies hutve not luterfered with the men who dil the killing once to revolver Victims Will SNemiber Sixty CHARLESTON, WW. Va, Jan Late advices received from the of the disaster at the Stuart Collierie At Stuart that thu nutber of victims will he about six of seventy five first those known positively il we company’s mine Is eighty The lst to have the mine at the the of the explosion ncludes thirty elght ten colored miners | Instead at Or as wits osthinntesd of been hh white miners and Engloe Ksplodes, Demaoalishing Tealn FORT WAYNE, (nd Pennsylvania railroad er exploded twelve Wayne, killing Englnecr Fireman Lowe Hogan | freight It ila Ian. 31 \ ive boll of Fort fora miles west Render an Braukemm the stond thirty cxplond mourning severely and train of twenty I'he train in hour The demolishing empty roanni when the hail head was w miles hlow . Wis {wld | off | engineer's Aldridge Got Life Sentence | CARTERSVILLE. Ga, Jan 81 { John Aldridge, charged with Killing bis | | wife here, was convicgs) of murde | the first degree, with tion of mercy the conrt | here, He was sentenosd to life mpris onment, Aldridge Killed his wife with a shotgun in her bedroom, Jealousy be Hing the alleged mative, in a reconnnenda in superior Grand Master Sevens Drops Dead. DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 31. Charles I. Stevens, grand master of the Mich! gan grand lodge, Free and Accepted Musons, dropped dead of heart disease last night en High street west while walking toward bis home. He wax Nftyelx years old OT IN PITTSBURG Ga erifice Racial Feeling on Rampage! In Smoky City. S Ili Selling | i ROW WHEN NEGKO CHOKED BOY. Squad of Firemen Police In| Saving Mobh's Vietim From Death | by Hanglug—{ ries of “Lynch Him!" Hife ied PITTSBURG, Jan 31 SO. a negruv. bieading wounds on his head Anslnt A —— irk ito carry over, considering the marks ditions today. Blankets Will Be Higher. s Both wool and cotton blankets, will ikhiy |b higher next year. Better take ad- Cotton blankets is stat to iyach him Iast uight Ly several hvidred persons on First nue, between Wood and Marke! streets in the Leart of the lus ness dis trict A number of unknown npegroes wi tried to protect Jackson were ro used by the mob i peared after a few moments Several wae wha were caught lo the crus had to be taken to thelr homes =uffer : e of our sale 12¢, G8e, €5¢, SS¢, $8¢, SLI2Y, $1.25 and ‘|#154 in white and grey, all worth ope- third more Wool Blankets. sap fag The trouble originated directly front of the Associated Press office Baewshoy asked the uegro t Hiy per. Jackson sh 1xhiy the street The Loy threw a sic struck Jackson on the head | ue = © Jumped to the street aud legs ing the boy. The street the with men the incident occuiri many were wailing fer st £® to their homes Io a moment several men caught the negro and begau beating him Some one cried, “Lyuch the uigger 1nd hundreds of wen and boys rushed up on Jacksom. Canes stones newspapers and closed fsi« chief weapons used by mols pareatly every while man on Fif anne wanted to strike the nego Backed up agaiust a by son, trembling with fear face with his arins while beat him and tore Lis this time several other negroes (5 the situation and tect Jackson cries of niggers’ The mob then turned its attention to Jackson's uvgro there were several r battles along Fifth avenue riated mob, crying all the all the pegroes and heads up against the ston son wed him or SAK, ‘cular $4.75 11-4 white, nearly all now gL6N & wa nge«l ¥ Le feet Cars t SIAN LeIyiar #L6N $5.75 11-4 white, all wool, $n ow BAS, = - 00 11-4 white, rolled up 4 11-4 white, lamb's Wore the Alp AY Lhe mob, 114 white, AON, 11-4 grey, lamb's woll, hilag, Jack 1192 shislded his 12 $475 11-4 grey, lambs wool the pwd i 3.68, ir $550 11-4 grey, Iamb's wool New Black Taffetas © prices, 31.00, $1.19, $1.23, $1.35 fL45 and $1.50, al in. witerproof silks, noted for bang £1.50, New Plaids clothes A bout { 9 ufed to pr Imniediately there wer Lyuch then “Kill the Regu eiidea now and protectors ind son ugh and ramble ; Ths whil HR cauzhbt seve negroes proceeded to Walls bleeding and his thes torn off, was tewp rari! he ran down Fifth avenue Ihe niggers es hundred up Down Fifth avenue to 1 twg Dlocks Liberty the chase continued Hew 10 Sal Cried, several chase avenue down fing th Wrts persons (ook double fold in mercerized worsteds, etc Single fold 10e, 13%¢, 15¢, and 5c. Double fold 12}e, 17¢, Sic, Ble, Sle and le, Travelers’ Samples A line of both summer and winter inderwear in child's, ladies’ and men's garments at just 15 price. Your cholce of a table full all marked in plain fig ires Comforts. vo inflation of reguls prices but 1 straight 10 per cent off, exactly 3 epresented x No Wear Out Hose It lives up to its name, made hard knocks. Usual prices 18¢, 200, and 2Ze. according to sizes. Al sizes specially priced for this week 15e. Ava dnd to Fifth and every ned the crowd Just below Fifth street Jack=on ran into the arms of several police Tbe officers rau Juckson ta a ind attewipted to hold back th with thelr wight sticks Thies fast losing ground. howeve large forve of « the avenge street 1 it nia wemlers io ro na ¥ Green five by engine Bouse cane to their aud firemen guarded trance to the alley until th wagon, loaded with oflicers to au riot call police responded = Within a few minutes the crmwd wis scnttersd by the night stieks, and Ja the were dressed Ia dis free M0 hSol wa Alte Hl Was Mae fact fTusen | central station his wn tad I uj rderly Cut Dalngs In the Sennte. WASHINGTON fixing Feh 20 the declaration that Reo Smoot of Utah uot entitled to his seat, passing a Lill appropriating $2 (kM) ium) to confine the Colornda to banks aud another placing of the Tan. 31 Besides as the date to vole on Neuntor i= river the raliway its management Panama under the Isthmian canal commi the sonate listened to an extended speech by Senator Carter of Mountan criticisms of the nterior. The recent order of th retary preventing the clits to the public lands until exnmination on the ground ssion Globe Warehouse Talmadge Block, Elmer Averue. in secretary of th "we off pat Issa oe 1 at iter hy an spe clal agent was the subject of the crit cls New Cable to taba and (mana! Zane WASHINGTON Jan it \ttoraey Neweretary Taft aud ofhice of al the de Valley Phone. arte chiel = Allens had a cunference Gegeml| the army partment of justice ittornevs for the Amwerionn graph company in regard to the frou iH N Guantanamo and thence to Cola yd tn necting with the Pac RUN Sour Stomach No appatits, loss of stra Nervous ness, headache, constipation, breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarth of the stomach are all due to Indigestion, Kodol relieves ind gestion, This new discovs ery represants the natural ton as they exist In a healthy embined with the greatest kno siruclive properties. tpersia does nol only relieve od dyspepsia, but this famous * 03 all stomach troubles by sweetening and s membranes lining the Hirermioed, W, Vi, mpm ive wn. STEUER | Digests What You Eat. Relieves indigestion, soul stomach, baiting of gas, ale. Prepared by EO. DeWITT & OO, ONIOAGO. with Central and Sont! Neatly Ook ACTON Isthinus to AL Be cube Is tos» ure | Ha A table for wilitary time the termini of whic! der the contiul of the Un Purposes hin ~ hh war I be un fh os Ya Pe Lord Charles Rereaford sails. LONDON fun i Admiral Lord Charles Beresford left Southamptow | last night for New York on board the | stoatper Kaiser Witheltn II. Lond Da Beresford, & brother of Lord | Charles, was killed In a railroad wreck | N. Doon Ins The | ng to the United] States $s Hira He Is the sole executor of the Tord Dieluval will of | Mille Déstrayed at \ fetor, VICTOR, Colo, Jan. 31. The mill of the Economic Gold Extraction compa: ny was destroyed by fire. The plant Plans drawn and estiinates given. cost $500.000. It was ownsd by the ‘Hardwood and Stair Work a specialty. Woods Investment company of Colo ‘Al Work Promptly Atténded to. mds Springs Shop and Residence, 58 Lincoln Street, Weather Prababllities, Waverly. i Sma x, . Chas. H. Larnard, CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER AND RUILDER. Fair;
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