Tlic Fulton County News
McConnellsbnrg, Pa.
FAITHLESS CORN.
' Corn has decided to do without the
respect and admiration of the people.
The promise of the crop at the period
following early seeding was unex
celled, and every eater of meat and
eggs In the land could congratulate
himself that thli promise was equal
to the realization of last year. The
Immense crop of 1910 bad cheapened
food considerably, and another large
one this year would have had a ten
dency to settle prices for a couple
of years or more, provided no real
shortage occurred In the crops of
those years, saw the Providence Jour
nal But the current stock of Informa
tion about the 1011 crop makes the
prospects for such a substantial ar
rangement for trade and business
wherever dependent on the crop any
thing but bright Deef and hogs, with
poultry, will be the corn-eaters most
directly affected. There Is danger of
k repetition of the highest prices for
them, and of the possible maximum
charge once more for eggs and fresh
fowls. Three months ago the promise
under which these all have been sold
since last fall brought a large supply
of cheap corn Into the market. Today
the Indications are of a rise to the
figures of last summer and of Septem
ber and October of last year. It la pos
sible that the warm weather and
drought conditions have not seriously
hurt the crop and that the quotations
for corn will fall off correspondingly
when the real facts are shown to be
more propitious.
Among the other interesting pieces
of uti set afloat this summer Is one
coming from the shoemakers of Bos
tlon to the effect that women's feet
are growing larger. The shoemakers
do not like this, as more leather Is
thus required for every pair of shoes
corned out Chicago, having heard the
word from Boston, has explanations
ready. A large retailer of woman's
footgear In the Windy City admits
that women's feet are growing larger,
but says this Is due to outings and
athletics. For several years, he de
clares, women have been taking more
exercise, doing more walking, playing
more games.
Last year there died In the United
States of pulmonary tuberculosis
about 180,000 people! Multiply this
number by three and a fraction the
ratio of India's population to our own
sad yon will And that these terrible
figures covering the loss of life from
the plague In India, when analyzed,
show that out of a thousand men,
women and children In the United
States, practically as many die of
consumption In the ordinary year as
died of the plague In India during the
past six months of epidemic. It real
ly seems as It civilized America ought
to be able to do a little better than
that!
A practical Joker at Atlantic City
wanted to scare the crowd with an
Imitation of a drowning man. It took
an hour to restore him after the scare
had become a real one. The water Is
an element which does not lend Itself
kindly to this peculiar form of humor.
The highest paid woman In govern
ment service Is announced, though
somewhat needlessly, to be engaged
In the ocupatlon of making money.
Bhe Is In actual charge of making
coins at the mint
A rich woman from New York an
grily declined to become a patron of
s Los Angeles hotel when she was In
formed that her doggie would not be
permitted to receive massage treat
ments In the barber shop. Aren't
some hotel keepers Independent!
After she bad Jabbed her hatpin
Into a man's eye a San Francisco
woman scolded her victim for having
his eye where It Interfered with her
hatpin. We feel almost sure that she
belongs to the class of women who
regard all men as brutes.
The chicken, as well as trie dog, has
had lu day. A St Louis hen bumped
Into a motor car and wrecked it Pos
sibly this Is the solution of the old
conundrum: "Why does a chicken
cross the road?"
A New York woman says she hangs
her head in shame because America
la not producing more great poets
Poets are born, but we can't expect
them at the rate of one a minute.
A Pennsylvania minister has quit
bis pulpit to become a carpenter.
Hate to think what he'll say when hs
lilts bis thumb Instead of ths call.
One of the biggest elephants In cap
tivity Is said to Lave broken its leg.
Evidently be tried to atop a freight
train.
Society women who take up avia
tion will get a comprehensive view of
the new styles in bats.
Anr French aviator who has not
flown across the English channel la
considered too unprogresslve to take
high rank in bis art
Boul analysis Is the latest cure for
nervousness. Us efficacy Is likely to
depend jomewhat on the findings of
tb analyst
Shoemakers say that either worn
n's feet are becoming larger, or else
they are wearing shoes that fit
DEATH C I FOR
HENRY G. BEATTIE
Verdict of Murder Returned
Against Wife-Slayer.
To DIE IN CHAIR NOV. 24
The Defense Will FVm Petition For
Writ Of Error To Suprm Court
Of AppealsReceives Ver
dict Unmoved.
Chesterfield Courthouse, Va.-
Twelve Virginia farmers kr.elt at
dunk Friday night In the obscurity of
the small Jury-room of Chesterfield
Courthouse, praying fervently mat
they might pass Judgment aright on
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., Indicted for
the murder of his wife. Grimly de
termined they aroKe a moment later
and silently, one by one, recorded a
unanimous verdict of "guilty."
Pausing In solemn contemplation
for f8 minutes, weighing carefully
the meaning of their decision and
once more on bended knees beseech
ing Divine assistance that they might
not err, they filed into the hushed
stillness of a crowded courtroom, and
with startling suddenness 12 voices,
instead of the usual one of the fore
man, spoke the single word "guilty."
It was almost a shout.
The unertre of death. which stalK-
ed Midlothian turnpike on July 18
last, when the life of Mrs. Louise
Owens Beattie was taken away with
the single report of a shotgun, stared
hr o tha vnnnir husband ready to
claim his victim by electrocution on
Friday, November 24, next, nut me
prisoner returned the gaze, unswerv
ing and unafraid.
To Court of Appeals.
Th Pnurt of ADoeals. to be sure,
will be aBked to grant a writ of error
nrt . new trial. Young Beattie,
cognizant of the legal weapons yet at
his disposal, did not surrender, in
stead, he consoled his broken-down
father, white-haired and wrinkled,
and comforted him as he wnisperca
"I haven't lost yet, father."
Unusual as has been the tragedy
nit the eruesome stage where It oc
curred, the 12 Jurymen did not hesi
tate to admit to their menus mat
fhv rnml In ludement not only over
the cold-blooded murder but upon his
marital infidelity as well.
it nprhans was the dramatic climax
of Virginia Justice which In the last
half century has swiftly sent to
death such famous murderers as
Cluverius, Phillips and McCue.
At tho rinse of a powerful address
by L. O. Wendenburg, the voluntary
assistant of the Commonwealtn in toe
rime, the susnense was felt not alone
in the courtroom, but In Richmond,
where thousands of people awaited
the outcome.
BOY TRJES TO R03 BANK
Cashier's Shots Save Cash of Laurel,
(Md.) Institution.
Laurel. Md. John R. Morgan, 17
wars old, of Flncastle, Va., made a
bold attempt Friday morning to rob
the Citizens' National Bank of
Laurel.
The attempt failed and the would
be bandit was captured hiding In tho
town about an hour and a half later.
When first arrested he gave the name
of Henry Jackson and said he was
from Arizona. He was committed to
the Marlboro Jail by Justice George
P. McCeney to await the action of the
Jury at the next term of the Prince
George's County Court.
That Morgan did not succeed In
getting the bank's cash was not due
to any lack of nerve, but rather to
the crudeness of his methods. Those
were only worthy a boy of his years.
In many respects the attempt to
loot the bank In this quiet place in
broad daylight reads like the thrill
ing narrative to be found between
the backs of some cheap yellow
covered novel.
Morgan had been seen loitering
near the bank before Its doors open
ed. He had on a long linen duster,
such as is used by automoblllsts, and
a blue cap. He stood on a corner
apparently reading a paper, with a
bundle wrapped In newspapers under
his arm. No one heeded him as he
seemed harmless.
Still Has Money To Give
Chicago. Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the
aged philanthropist, who a month
ago, It was announced, had given
away his entire fortune, "dug up"
another $50,000 Friday. He sent a
check for that amount to the Chicago
City Missionary Society. During the
last seven years he has given $H0,
000 to the society.
Gems Stolen In Dining Car
Cleveland. Lake Shore and Michi
gan Southern Railroad detectives re
ported that a woman giving her name
as Mrs. A. A. McCormlck, of Chicago,
was robbed of a handbag containing
$2,200 worth of jewels in the dining
car of a Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern passenger train somewhere
between Toledo and Cleveland. De
tectives are looking for a young man
who sat opposite Mrs. McCormlck
and engaged her In conversation.
Family Mourned Wrong Man.
San Francisco. Mrs. Geo, Weber,
of Port Richmond. Cal., called up the
coroner here. "We made a mistake
In
holding that funeral," she said.
My husband has Just came home."
Services were held a month ago over
a body found in the bay and Identi
fied by Mrs. Weber as that of her
husband. When Weber returned he
' said he had wandered away In a
Idnicd condition and did not know
a bore hejliad been.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS
(Copyright. 191 LI
State Executives All Headed for Spring Lake, N. J.
NAVAL AVIATOR
IKES A RECORD
Trip From Annapolis to
Washington.
V0LAPLANED TO THE MALL
Lieut John Rogers Unannounced
Started on the Urst Ambitious
Flight Made by an Army or
Navy Aviator.
Washington. Lieut. John Rogers,
of the Navy, son of Rear Admiral
Rogers, retired, of Havre de Grace,
Md., flew in a Wright aeroplane from
Annapolis, Md., to Washington, paid
his respects to naval officials here and
sailed to the Army aviation field at
College Park, Md., where he housed
his machine for the night.
The flight was the most successful
cross-country effort yet made by an
officer of the Navy or Army.
Between Annapolis and College
Park, while galling along at 3,000
feet in the air, bis barograph showed
he struck a severe windstorm, and
the frail air craft was buffeted about
by the winds for 20 minutes. It was
all the officer could do to keep from
being thrown from the seat of the
machine, and had it not been for the
fact that he kent a cool head he
would probably have been dashed to
the earth and Instantly killed.
As It was, the machine at times
stood at an agle of nearly 60 degrees,
and farmers who witnessed the per
formance marveled. When the wind
ceased the machine righted Itself
from what might have been called
the trough of the air and then sped
onward. The aviator passed over
College Park and the army men sta
tioned there were at a loss to ex
plain the strange aeroplane.
The trip to Washington was mado
In one hour and twenty minutes and
Lieutenant Rogers arrived over the
city when the streets were crowded
with shoppers and government
clerks, Just released from their of
fices. All traffic was stopped as the
aviator sailed overhead. He circled
the downtown section of the city sev
eral times, executing thut dangerous
descent known as the spiral dip. The
crowd In the streets held Its breath
and wondered at the exhibition.
Finally the sky pilot came down to
about COO feet above the ground and
then he circled the Washington
Monument, flew out over Pennsyl
vania avenue and then buck to the
Mall, where he alighted.
The flight was the first ever made
from the new school of aviation to
this city, and in fact it Is the first
flight ever made by a naval officer to
amount to anything.
THIRTY-TWO WERE DROWNED
Wreok of ths Chilian Steamer
Tucapel Near Qullca.
Lima, Peru. A telegram received
here from the purser of the Chilian
steamer Tucapel, which was wrecked
near Qullca, says that the total num
ber of persons drowned was 32.
Ninety others were saved.
Those w ho lost their lives were the
captain of the vessel, the first and
second officers, 20 members of the
crew and nine deck passengers.
The Tucapel during a heavy fog
struck on an unchartered stretch of
rocks 20 miles north of Quilca, which
lies several hundred miles south ot
Lima.
Leys Two Eggs Daily.
Athol, MaBS. Townspeople chal
lenged the statement of Albert Ells
worth, a prominent citizen, that Mary
Hooker, his prize buff Orpington, laid
two eggs every day. To prove it
Eflsworth appeared at the Athol Fair
and placed the hen on some straw at
the feet of the Judges. She laid two
eggs, one of them double-yolked,
chirped a triumphant cackle and dis
dainfully strode away. Hundreds of
visitors to the city applauded the
Orpington's vindication of her owner.
Asks Indictment.
Klttaning, Pa. For the first time
in the history of the local courts, a
lawyer has petitioned for a bill ot
Indictment against his own client. At
torney W. L. Peart asked the court
to re-arrest and indict George Gol
den, recently charged with wife mur
der and later released on habeas
corpus proceedings. Golden shot
and killed his wife on the night ot
July IS, In mistake, he claims, for
a burglar. Since his release so many
rumors have been circulated that
Golden asks for a full trial
E
WINS Al LAST
Burgess Finally Swims the
English Channel.
BATTLE WITH THE TIDE
It Was His Sixteenth Attempt and He
Won Out Only After Desperate
Effort Was Twenty-two
Hours In the Water.
Deal, England. After a lapse of
36 years Capt. Matthew Webb's feat
of swimming the English channel has
been duplicated by Wm. T. Burgess,
a Yorkshire man by birth and a
naturalized Frenchman. It was
Burgess' sixteenth attempt, he having
first essayed the task in 1904.
Burgess started from South Fore
land, Dover, at 11.15 o'clock Tues
day morning. He landed at Le
Chatelet, a little village two miles
east of Cape Grls Nez, at 9.60 o'clock
Wednesday morning, accomplishing
the passage in 22 hours and 35 min
utes. A motor boat accompanied the
swimmer, and it is estimated that
Burgess, owing to the zig-zag course
he was compelled to take because of
the baflling tides, covered 60 miles.
Soon after the start a dense fog set
tled down over the channel, and no
further tidings of his progress were
received until the announcement was
made that he had successfully accom
plished the task and landed on the
French side.
Throughout the trip Burgess was
favored by a calm sea, but a strong
tide was running, and a severe strain
was put on the swimmer to get past
the Goodwin Sands. Twice he was
attacked by sickness and several
times was only held to his task by
the strongest will power and the en
couraging words of the men in the
boat.
ENVOY WEDS BY PROXY
Or. Porros In Washington, Bride In
Costa Rica Groom Could
Not Get Home.
Washington. Dr. Bellsario Por
ras, minister from Panama to Wash
ington, was married in San Jose,
Costa Rica, last week. Dr. Porras
was not present at the ceremony, be
ing now In Washington. His place
at the altar was taken by a trusted
friend, who responded In bis name to
the questions In the marriage cere
mony, placed the ring on the bride's
finger and afterward signed the name
of Dr. Porras In the marriage regis
ter. In other words, the almost
medieval ceremony ot a "marriage by
proxy" was observed. Senora Porras
will be in Washington next October
to meet her husband, and In defer
ence to modern thought there will be
another marriage ceremony In this
city. The second ceremony, how
ever, is unnecessary, because the mar
riage ceremony performed in San
Jose Is wholly legal and Is recognized
as legal and binding by both the state
and the church. ,
$100,000 For Telescopes
San Francisco. The largest ob
servatory in the world is to be lo
cated on top ot Mount Tamalpais, in
Marin county, which Is only a short
distance from San Francisco. It is
planned to spend at leust $100,000
on Instruments alone, which include
the largest reflector telescope in the
world.
"Human Klaslng Bug."
Trenton, N. J. Charles Tulley, a
youth who recently served 10 days In
Jail for causing excitement In a de
partment store by rushing in and
kissing and hugging at least a dozen
girls, has been arrested again for
playing, a return engagement on the
Delaware and Raritan Canal bank
here. Several women complained to
the police about him. This time Tul
ley as the "Human Kissing Bug,"
probably will pass some time behind
the bars.
Dynamite Hidden In tUvy Yard.
Boston. Discovery of three sticks
of dynamite In a great floating crane
In the lower end of the United States
Navy Yard at Charleston caused the
officials there to start an Investiga
tion with Secret Service men. The
dynamite, enough to have blown the
heavy crane to tiny bits and wrecked
the whole lower part of the yard,
probably killing several hundred
workmen, was found, It Is said, with
in five feet of where laborers were
swinging great sledge hammers.
PRESEVERANG
E
PEACEIREAIIES
Roosevelt Attacks Pending
Agreement.
DECLARES IT A HYPOCRISY
Country Would Repudiate It When
ever Suggestion Was Made That
It Refers Question of National
Honor to Ou aiders.
New York. Former President
Roosevelt deals with the arbitration
treaties recently presented to the
Senate In an editorial article appear
ing in "Outlook." He says In part:
"It Is one of our prime duties as
a nation to seek peace. It Is an even
higher duty to seek righteousness.
It Is also our duty 'not to Indulge In
sham, not to make belltrve we are
getting peace by some patent con
trivance which sensible men ought
to know cannot work In practice,
and which If we sought to make it
work might cause irretrievable harm.
"I sincerely believe in the prin
ciple ot arbitration; I believe In ap
plying that principle so far as prac
ticable; but I believe that the effort
to apply It where It is not practicable
cannot do good and may do serious
harm. Confused thinking and a
willingness to substitute words for
thought, even though inspired by an
entirely amiable sentimentality, do
not tend toward Bound action."
Mr. Roosevelt cites the Revolu
tionary War, the Civil War, and the
Spanish-American War as Instances
In which "we put righteousness
above peace." He also cites the ex
isting arbitration treaties between
the United States, Great Britain and
France as better than the proposed
treaty, because they make no false
pretenses and exclude questions af
fecting our vital interests, Independ
ence or honor.
He continues:
"The wording of the treaty Is so
loose, It so lacks explicltness, as to
allow one set of Its advocates to an
nounce that It binds us to arbitrate
everything, and another set to say
that under It we would not have to
arbitrate anything we did not wish
to. Now, no moral movement Is per
manently helped by hypocrisy.
"It is our duty, so far Is now pos
sible, so far as human nature In the
present day world will permit, to
try to provide peaceful substitutes
for war as a method for the settle
ment of International disputes. But
progress in this direction Is merely
hindered by the folly that believes
In putting peace above righteousness.
"The hiBtory of our country the
peace advocates who treat peace as
mere righteousness will never be,
and never have been, of Bervice,
either to It or to mankind. The true
lovers of peace, .the men who have
really helped onward the movement
for Deace. have been those who fol
lowed even though afar off, In the
footsteps of Washington and Lincoln,
and stood for righteousness as the
supreme end of national life.
"Only by acting on these prin
ciples, only by following In the foot
steps of these great Americans in the
past, can we of the present genera
tion work for and secure the peace
of righteousness."
Bryan Calls on Roosevelt
New York. William J. Bryan
dropped In for a call on Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt Friday, at the former
President's editorial offices. Mr.
Bryan spent some time there, and
after the visit Colonel Roosevelt
said: "Mr. Bryan and I have had
nulte a nice visit. We had a gen
eral talk on Interesting subjects.
That was all."
Two Tall for Army
Louisville, Ky. Dempsey G.
Wren, a Kentucky giant, 6 feet
Inches tall, and physically perfect,,
has been denied admission to tho
I'nited States Army. The local re
cruiting office sought' permission
from the War Department to enlist
Wren, but the department refused
because his height would prevent
symmetry of ranks.
Little Girl Kidnapped.
Madison, Wis. Irene Lemberger,
seven years old, was kidnapped from
her bed, according to the police. The
child went to bed witn ner sister
about 9 o'clock and when her parents
arose in the morning the youngest
child was missing. A window in tne
bed room had been forced. The
missing girl Is the daughter of Mar
tin Lemberger, a member of the local
Italian colony.
Poisoned by Mushrooms.
New York. Poisonous mushrooms
caused another death here, making
a total of 10 victims since the first ot
the month. The recent heavy rains
brought out an immense crop ot
mushrooms, both edible and poison
ous, and both kinds have been sold
extensively by vendors In the Italian
quarter. Mrs. Marietta Caslco, the
latest victim, ate the poisonous vari
ety purchased from a pushcart. Her
husband, who shared the dish, is not
expected to live.
Americans May Be Lost
Shanghai. Grave fears are felt
for the safety of American men and
women missionaries attached to sta
tions in the Yapg-tse-Klang Valley,
where devastating floods have claim
ed 100,000 lives and ruined crops.
There are both Presbyterian and
Methodist missions in the devested
sone, and efforts to get In communi
cation with them have failed so far.
A relief committee of foreign resi
dents of Shanghai has been formed
and American Consul Wilder has
been asked to act as chairman.
S PROPOSED
EVEN SAILORS
I
Scenes Incident Upon. Raising
of the Maine.
UNDERTAKER'S EXPERIENCE
Seaman on the Battleship Connc' U
cut Toot Everything They Could
Find Wo, bd American Who
Wanted A Skull.
Washington. Mr. Oliver E. Jen
kins, an undertaker, has returned to
this city from Havana, where he was
employed by the government to pre
pare for burial the remains of the
sailors who were killed by the ex
plosion of the battleship Maine. Mr.
Jenkins stated that at present ths
weather is such as to make it Impos
sible to search the wreck for bodies.
There are times, he said, when the
water and the spray dash 100 feet
high. Mr. Jenkins Is out-spoken In
his criticism of morbid Americans
who seek to obtain souvenirs of the
tragedy.
"There were people In Havana,"
said he, "who would have taken any
thing from the Maine just to have a
souvenir of the wreck. I met one
man who told me that there was JuBt
one thing he would like to get off the
Maine, and that was the skull of some
sailor or officer. I told him that If
ever he got a skull oft that ship he
would have to take mine with it. I
never knew that Americans were so
forgetful of respect for the dead."
Mr. Jenkins stated that no one was
allowed on board the Maine, because
of this fear of relic-hunters. He
commented sharply on the conduct of
the men from the battleship Con
necticut, the ship which brought Sec
retary Stimson to Havana from
Panama, and then brought him up to
Washington. "I never was so sur
prised and disappointed," said Mr.
Jenkins, "when I found that those
American sailors were themselves
ransacking the battleship from end
to end for souvenirs. They broke
Into boxes and pried open desks and
tried to carry away everything that
wasn't actually nailed down.
"We found 11 bodies under the
turret which had been blown over by
the force of the explosion. They
were men who had laid down there
for a nap. In the pantry we found
the body of a boy leaning over a
dishwasher. Lieutenant Merritt's
body we found In the wardroom. Al
togther we have found 27 bodies so
far."
COLONEL AS TOR WEDDED.
United to Yiung Girl at His Sum.
mer Home.
Newport, R. I. Col. John Jacob
Astor and Miss Madeline Talmadge
Force were married Saturday at
Beechwood, the Astor home here.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Dr. Joseph Lambert, a Congre
gational minister of Providence.
William Force, the bride's father,
gave her away.
Just before leaving Beechwood
Colonel Astor gave out the following
statement:
"Now that we are happily married,
I do not care how difficult divorce
and re-marrlage laws are made. I
Sympathize heartily with the most
straight laced people in most of the'.r
Ideas, but believe re-marrlage should
be made possible, as marriage Is the
happiest condition for the Individual
and the community."
40 HURT IN CAR CRASH.
Slipping Tro'ley Cause of the
Accident
Washington. More than 40 per
sons, all excursionists returning from
a Saturday afternoon outing al
Chesapeake Beach, Md., were Injured
In a rear-end collision ot electric cars
of the Columbia Street Railway Com
pany, near Chesapeake Junction.
The cars wrecked were the first
two of a string of about seven long
pay-as-you-enter coaches which left
Chesapeake Junction, the District
terminus of the Chesapeake Beach
Railway, shortly after the arrival of
the 7.15 train.
Car 327 was at the head of this
line of cars, all filled with passengers
and traveling in close order when
they left the Junction for the city.
At the Sixty-first street crossing,
about a quarter of a mile ast of the
Junction, the trolley pole of the lead
car flew off the wire as the car was
rounding a curve. This darkened
the interior, Into which were Jammed
about 100 pnssengers, and car 256,
traveling at lively speed, crashed Into
the rear of the other with terrific Im
pact, knocking It off the tracks Into a
Unveil Gorsuch Shaft.
Christiana, Pa. Upon the spot
where, 10 yearB before the first bat
tle of Bull Run, occurred a riot that
hastened the outbreak ot the Civil
War, a monument was unveiled here
Saturday to the victim of that riot,
Edward Gorsuch, of Glencoe, Balti
more county, Md., and North and
South clasped hands to signify that
past enmity is dead, and that the
United States holds now but one peo
ple. Miss Rebecca Mitchell, of
Glencoe, great-granddaughter of Ed
ward Gorsuch, released the flag.
Kl led By Jealous Husband.
Kansas City, Mo. Henry C. Gum
be!, Jr., a wealthy speculator In hay,
with headquarters In Wichita, Kan.,
and a son of Henry C. Gumbel, a
Kansas City capitalist, was shot and
probably mortally wounded by Rob
ert F. Curtlss, a cigar salesman. On
September 1 CurtlBS brought suit for
divorce against his wife, Lucie B.
Curtlss, and Gumbel was mentioned
as one of the men friendly with Mrs.
Curtlss. Several years ago Curtisu
killed a man In Austin, Texas.
Jealousy was the motlvt.
BOUGH
RELICS
STATE NEWS.
Stroudsburg. The v finding of i
diamond ring, valued at $1,000, bj
Roy Mann, a hotel bell boy, wrapp
in ' tissue paper, Is "part and parcr
of an interesting story behind i
prosaic replevin suit entered In the
court here. The ring was found n
the Water Gap House about Aurmi
1. Young Mann gave the ring to
Proprietor J. Purdy Cope, who plawj
It In an envelope awaiting a call from
the owner. Mann has brought ac
tion of replevin against Mr. Cope.
Congressman A. Mltcholl Palmer ap
peared for Mr. Cope, who says that
he does not claim ownership, but
wants to protect tho property of a
possible patron, and Judge Stapler
has granted until November 1 for
the owner to appear and file a bond
to recover possession.
Eric. That death was at tho
throttle' of Erie & Pittsburgh paa
senger train, 201, when It crashed
into a freight at Dock Junction the
other night is the firm belief of offl.
cials, and the Coroner, after an in
vestigation, and a talk with Fire
man James Firman, who Is In a hoi
pltal fatally Injured. According to
the latter's story Engineer John S.
Jones, who has been a well-known
engineer for forty-five years, must
have been dead long before tho
crash, for he ran past all signals for
five miles that were set against lilm,
and contrary to rules, ran past Drxk
Junction with a full head of steam.
The train crashed Info the freight
with the throttle wide opon, and It
Is Firman's bollef, In which official!
coincide, that the engineer died in
his cab Borne time before tho crash
came.
Harvey Osborne, aged seventeen,
who Is confined in the county jail
charged with the murder of George
Bellis, aged fourteen, told the story
of the shooting and his escape In th
mountains. Osborne declares he
lived six days on apples entirely and
that there was nothing between hira
and the boy who had been shot, lie
says they had been good friends and
never had had words. According to
his statement he cared nothing for
Cora 8ergeant, the twenty-one-year-old
young soman who was supposed
to be at the bottom of the rase, and
no jealousy existed. Asked why h
had picked up the gun and fired at
the Bellis boy, he declared he had
no Idea that It was loaded.
Norrlstown. The Court dismissed
tho Qf-flnn nf Wnnlr Truffle a Read.
Ing business man, to have revoked
the hotel license of John Walker, at
Perklomenville, because Trasle and
companions could not get accommo
dations at the hotel. The costs, about
twenty-five dollars, were placed on
Walker. In extending leniency, be
cause of first offense, the Court
serves notice on hotel keepers In th
county that they must pay more at
tention to the needs of the traveling
public than to the bar trade. In tliii
case It was alleged that Walker'i
housekeeper "would not stand" for
boarders because of the additional
work Involved.
Uniontown. B. Frank Smith, ho
killed his father and brother-in-law.
and who dramatically escaped from
the county jail at this place Jul)' J
last, and has since been leading
posses a merry chase, was captured
Thursday at the home of his wife at
Bcthelboro, six miles from Union
town. Smith, who is wealthy, Is
physical and mental wreck. H
made no resistance, although he as
armed with antomatlc pistols.
Marietta. Mary, aged eight years,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Woodward, of near town, is said 10
have been assaulted by William
Stevenson, aged thirty-six, In a stabl
here. The little girl had been ply
ing with some companions, when
called away by Stevenson. Officer!
McElroy and Ensign arrested Stef
. i..H in tne
enson, wno was cuihhim"
Lancaster jail for trial at court. TM
girl's condition Is serious.
Brookvljlo Plunging into a land
slide at Mayport, a passenger tru
on the Buffalo and Allegheny dm
Blon of the Pennsylvania Kilro
wns wrecked and Engineer C.
Montgomery, of Dubois. "'"J
Fireman Harry Hetrick. of Pur
was seriously Injured. The on in
and baggage car went over a w
embnnkment.
Altoona.-Wllllam Shuln. pJ
seventeen, a student In the Cen r'
Grammar School, died of nf
superinduced by a kick while plsj
In a game of football two years
He was hurt In serininiaRf'
growth formed on the spot
had been kicked, and rlespl t
experts In tho country. It duei'r
until his case was hopeless.
Womelsdorf.-Anexan.lna.lo
be held at Sheridan on Sep
30, when candidates will be q'"
to see If they are competent to
come postmaster at Bt-ytand.
here" , , a hole
Scranton.-Whlle tarnpliiR ,
with an iron drill. Mike arre"
miner, and Joe Sukslowskl.
borer, were Instant ly killed J
mature blast In a shaft ot v f
sylvanla Coal Company. f
Pittston. Anthony JoU
in an adjoining chamber,
ously Injured. .
. Slatlngton.-The Slating
ing Mills, this towns IdlW
dustry, which had been clo up
Blnce last November. hHS si g,vf,
Several hundred hands '
employment.
Quakertown.-The Q"artJt U
Delaware Railroad will t
operation September U. tti,
been closed five years. Rp(fffr
which extends from here i ,
vllle, fifteen miles, wii v tJf
farmers of northern B to
direct outlet for their P
the Philadelphia markets.
Lebanon.-Willlam H. rll0
huckster, 87 years of of ,w
down and killed In the ir" .M
Reading Railroad. r0,fn
deaf, failed to hear the ivr
the New York flier.