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who, as be says, innocently administered the j in many quarters. It cannot be doubted that
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poison, lie lurneu nis attention away irom uio j uia uaivwg ut. mic piewrui. imc wuum ic jiupir
scene ot the actual murder and devoted himself; lar and would bring about - hmje .addition te
JBO W. WAQENSBIXaR. A. If. XDfTOR AKO OWBUL
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
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in (Wanes. BiiiKle cople. t;v Unli
t! not paid
. ii.M. .ni wt line. oonirei niawura-
Mit for nn tniwMinr. aixl 20 rnU per line for each "
ortri t rtion. I r-OKKU'RNwIlw County t onrt Uouaa,
between the Kir" Natioual Hauk and the OouulyJall.
Vol. xxxix. Xovkmhkr 20, 1902. Ncmber 46
Republican Standing Committee.
Adm-C. P. Ftf J. T. 8hawer.
Ht-aver 'lia. K. Dr-eM. II. II. Kaunt.
Hraver We-J. W. ltakt-r, llil rtennlnger.
t entre W. A. Np. U V. Binifiinian.
Chapman Jowph l-on. T. K. LeiKt.
Kranklm J. C. Hafkeiilmrir. . K. Metier.' .
JwknonJ. 8. Yearick, Wm. Martin.
Miililletiiirit Kiank Sieeht, Uanka W . Yodar.
Middlecreok M. K. KrUley. J. M. Maurer.
Monroe H. C. Hendrii k. II. Y- Flulier.
Peiin Joeeph K. Hendrirk. I. N. Jarret.
Perry-A. W. Valentine, K. K. Boyer. .. y
Perry Wet-J. H. Wuiey. J. Z. Blrawner.
SellnKova J. rrunk Keller, J. A. Luilwlj. ,.
HpriiiKC. K. Kltwe, 1. Harr'aon Snook.
I'nion J. O, Until.
Wanhlncton W, F, Brown, Myron . Mojrer.
THE MOLIXEUX CASE.
TT OLAND B. MOLIKUX was Tuesday
XV in the Supreme Court, before Jnstice
Lambert, declared innocent of the murder of
Mrs. Adams. The jury was ready to give its
v verdict in ten minutes, and evidently had not
the slightest difficulty in deciding that the pros
ecution had made out no case. Mrs. Adams
died on Deeemixrr 28, 1S98, and Moliueux was
arrested on February 27, 1899, and lias been in
prison over three rears and eight months. The
State has wasted more than 200,000 in prose
eutim; liim, and his father has spent his fortune
in the defense. Four years of a man's life have
been utterly ruined by the misuse of the machin
ery of the criminal law which was nothing short
of persecution. Moliueux has suffered a great ir
reparable wrong, but it is not his sufferiug which
makes this ease so peculiarly outrageous. Other
men have suffered unjust imprisonment and been
the victims of the law's delays. The monstrous
wrong in the Molineux case was the alliance of
the District Attorney's office with private inter
ests, its prostitution to the service of sensation,
and its conduct of the prosecution by prodigal
expenditure lor the purchase of testimouy, by
carrying the expert witness abuse to unheard of
lengths, by the use of extraordinary methods be
foie the coroner and the grand jury at which
' the whle bar stood aghast, and finally .by the
production at the first 4riul of masses of irrele
vant and illegal testimony in shameless disre
gard of the defendant's lights.
For this wrong which brought, the adminis
tration of the criminal law into contempt three
men are responsible. They are ex-Assistant
District Attorney Mclntyre, Assistant District
Attorney Osborne and most of all Recorder
Gofl. Mr. Mclntyre, who was first charged
with the duty of official investigation into the
death of Mrs. Adams, was the personal counsel
of Mrs. Rogers, and the adviser of the man
to finding a would-le murderer ot Uornish.
When his activity became a public scandal the
District Attorney took him off, the case and sub
stituted Mr. Osborne. By sharp practice Mr.
Osborne deprived Molineux of the hearing be
fore a magistrate which he had demanded and
which the law gave him. He secured an illegal
indictment, which was set aside. He presented
the case ag-in to a grand jury which unani
mously refused to hold Molineux. At the third
attempt he managed to get an iudictment which
was allowed to stand. Then he proceeded to
a
convict Molineux without regard to the law of
evidence. If Mr. Osborne knew he was violat
ing the legal rights of the defendant his conduct
was little short of criminal. If he did not
know, he was too ign.Vant of the fundamental
rules of criminal law to be fit for the office
which he holds.
But back of Mr. Oslwrne, supporting him in
the most outrageous invasions of the defendant's
rights, was Recorder Gofl. The opinion of the
Court of Appeals setting aside the trial before
him, and the record of the speedy and decent
trial so admirably conducted by Justice Lam
bert, reveal the character of his performance.
The second trial began on October 15 and ended
on November 11. in twenty-seven days. The
first trial began on November 14, 1899, and
ended on February 10, 1900, having occupied
two months and twenty-six days. Recorder
Goff allowed sixteen days to pass before securing
it i .i . i
a jury, lie auoweu me prosecution to upeuu
two months and six days in presenting a case,
all that was proper and legal of which was pre
sented in ten days before Justice Lambert. He
permitted the case to Le conducted with a wrang
ling which was disgraceful. Worst of all, he
failed to exercise his authority to secure the de
fendant a fair trial and protect him from the il
legal and improper methods of the prosecution,
though it was the duty of a just judge and a
competent lawyer to understand the defendant's
rights and to guard them. When he reviews
the record of his work and the . wrong he did
in permitting the patently illegal conviction of
a man now acquitted after a proper trial, and
contrasts it with the dignified, speedy and im
partial conduct of the case by Justice Lambert,
he must feel deeply humiliated. If he were a
sensitive man he would want to retire from the
bench on which he had presented so lamentable
a spectacle of mismanaging a criminal trial.
One phase of this remarkable case is ended.
There are others yet to lie considered. New
York Tribune.
to
the total of letters sent through the mails.
Penny postage long ago was hailed with jubila
tion in Great Britain, as it well might Iks.
The English penny is woitli alxnit two of our
Yankee cents, but so 'many things are now sold
in this country for a o-nt apiece that the public
welcome to letter stauys eostin;; one cent each
t -
would be generel and emphatic Postal cards
are unsatihfuctory substitutes foi sealed envel
opes. May the era of one cent postage for
every part of American territory soon be here .
LITERARY NOTES.
SCIUCXEKS'. -
Miss Margaret Sherwood's story of the Prin
cess Pourquoi, the womau who was cursed with
the gift of a mind, is a fanciful and amusingly
satirical commentary on the question of the
modern -'higher education." The illustrations
by Sarah S. Still well have been made the chief
color feature of the numler and are beautifully
reproduced in six printings.
McCluiie's.
McClure's, with its record for railroad stories,
is naturally the magazine to expect good fire
department stories in. Such an one is Harvey
J. O'Higgin's "A Change of Profession," in
the Novemlier number. Evidently Mr. O'Hig
gins knows engine-houses as Frank II. Spear
man kiiows rouuJIiouses, and if he can continue
to invent such fearfully and wondcrlul'y realis
tic escapes as the one in this story, he has the
material for a good volume of adventure.
The
lee live
A Very Busy Place
Is Our CoataDeitartment. We are cri-tUnr husler tvirv .1 ...
' . o o .- ' uv;iw
in ana nna the reason lor it, it h taoke I ou every coat, nl
roads, new styles, good qualities an 1 right prices. Com.
us fbr your new coat, we have lots of uice, new stvlcs t
select from. Ra -k full of them, just what you are Ioukin
for. Monte Curh, Half Tight Fitting Bucks, 22
Jackets and. the long Ulstirs. We start them at ?2.5o
Some are $4.00, $3X0, $7.50, $10.00 up to $20.00. Tl
best colors are castor, tan, black, cardinal and Oxford.
Fine Furs
Outlatok.
No less than eight illustrated articles are to be
found in the November Magazine issue of The
Outlook, which has also several full-page por
traits of men of the day. The issue contains,
in addition to what may be called its magazine
articles, the usual full and carefully prepared
history of the world for a week, editorials on
current topics of great importance, reviews of
books jusj published, and much other matter,
It is to be remembered that The Outlook appears
fifty-two times a year, and that the twelve large
illustrated Macazine Numbers are include I in
the general subscription.
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T$!
ONE CENT POSTAGE.
THE REVENUES of the postal depart
ment are increasing so rapidly that pre
dic'ion8 of one cent stamp? or letters are i heard
. Cosmopolitan. -
thought that we are the actual creators of
the world's future is one that must load us with
a sense of responsibility that 'vill be intolerable
or inspiring according to our disposition. Yet,
when we speculate about the condition of the
world in the coming century we u not realize
that things in that age will be what we make
them. Mr. Wells makes this point very clear
in his study of "Mankind in the Making" in
the November Cosmopolitan.
Constipation
Does your head ache? Pain
back! of .your eyes? Bad
'taste in 1 your mouth? Its
your liver ! Ayer's Pills are
liver pills. They cure consti
pation, headache, dyspepsia.
ill itruvfflafC.
! y,vn your muitrh or'benrd ft beautiful j
brown or rich black? Then uo 1
BUCKINGHAM'S DYEtter.
8WINEF0RD.
S. B. Spitler is re-roofing his
house.
Homer Rathfon, of Pittsburg, is
home on a vacation.
Milton Musscr, of Altoona, mov
ed into Foster Riegel's house.
Mrs. T. J. Seeht and Maud
Custer were to Sunbury Saturday.
Frank Herman and Benjamin
Rouch, of Kreamer, were in town
Saturday.
A. Kreegcr was to Sunbury Sat
urday. Chas. Bingaman and Mabel Zeeh
man were married by Rev. Gilbert.
John F. Zechman aud wife, of
Troxelville, were at Philip Amig's
Sunday.
Sylvester Bowen, of Vintondale,
spent several days in town. He is
on the police force out there.
Herbert Custer is on the sick
list.
We sell only the right sort of furs. We will make the fur
from now on. Good quality und right prices make them pi,
mink scarf $2.50. Still better mink at $4.50. Handsome br
or black marten boa, six tails, in two grades at $5.00 nud $C(
A wonder in valus; Isabella Fox for $3.00. Others at $io,(
$12.00 up to $20.00.
Children's Goats
We are advising you right when we tell you to come too?
your children's coats. Bring the children and try them on.
are showing a grand line. All length? are stylish, in blue,cw
nal, castor, brown and tan.. The prices run like this: $M
$2.50, $4.00, $5.00 up to $12.00.
Ladies' Coat Suits.
$10.00 suit of black broad
cloth, well tailored, full Hare
skirt, stylish short jacket
$10.00 extra heavy pebble,
cheviot walking suit in blue.
Skirt flares, is trimmed with
KtitehinK and strap trimming.
Norfolk jacket handsomely
tailored. This suit also comes
in Oxford homespun.
Other handsome suits at
fS.OO, $10.00, $12.75, $14.00 up
to $18.00.
Better hurry up if you need
a suit. First comers get best
pick.
Need a New
Walking Skirt?
Good skirt of grey oltli,full
flare flounce, corded, for f 1,50,
, Others at $2.50, $3.50, $4,50,
up to $6.00,
These are mueh better
cloths, and are made iu ntwj
new stylea,
We are showing a fine Hot
of new dress skirts, new effect
in trimming, from $2.50 upk
$10.00.
J. N. HARRISON
.; Sunbury, Pa.,
John Heiser, of Lewisburg,
spent Sunday at home. .
Some careless hunters shot
ward John Hare's house, the charge
parsing his head and lodged in his
vinegar barrel, lying in the yard.
The same party is guilty of landing
several charges in David Spaid's
house.
Anna Ilcrrold, of Milton, died of
typhoid fever and was taken
through here to Rich Held for burial.
Age 23 years.
The Middleburg Drug Stf
IS HEADQUARTERS FOR
Drugs and Medicines, Confectionery, Perfumes, ll
Articles, Sponges, Syringes, Soaps, Combs,
Brushes, Etc.
In Fact a Full Line of Articles Kept In a First Class Up-to-date Drug
WELSH'S CRAPE JUICE, made from the choicest Concord grapes,
and Is used by churches for sacrament purposes, bottle 25c.
WAMPOLE'S BEEF WINE AND IRON, the great Nerve Tonic,
Flesh Producer and Restorer. Just the thing for teachers
after a tedious day's work of mental strain. Pint bottle 50c.
ALKAL-ANTISEPTINE, the great Catarrh Cure.
A year's treatment for One Dollar..
DR. BELDING'S SKIN AND COMPLEXION REMEDY
keeps the skin soft, smooth and healthy and is sold
under a puarantee to plva satisfaction nr mnnw rafunded.
Cures tetter, eczema and other skin diseases. Price, 8 oz. bottiefl
DR. GIBSON'S PERUVIAN TONIC, the best Cough Remedy,
Blood Purifier, Rheumatic and Catarrh Cure, Liver,
Strength and Stomach Medicine known. .20 oz. bottle $1.00.
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DISPLAY Wtl
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and Cliildrens' Suits and Overcoats
for this season, eclipse all onr previous display. 1m liare enlarged our store bv taking in two more
rooms and, reserving tie second floor for the handsomest line of LADIES', MISSES' and CHILDREN'S
mm
It -j
flj I Q Men's Suits in all
ff-iQWool cheviots un
Cas-timeres, uiiulc with frcndi fiicin.
Worth iftXi ) jh r Miir, Hpccial Jprice
ei.os.
CS7 QMen'H Fine drefs
lj jO-iiiits in Murk clay
woritci, liim.y CaKMini'res ile.
Has tlx.' U'Ht of tailoring uinl triiiun
ingi, i ranticl $10 aluc, fpcrial
priw 7. IS.
MEN'S DEPARTMENT
Men's imported duy
$9.98
worsted and fancy
wotch HiutH, eiial to intrc'liniita
tailoring in workumnHliip, alno lina
our one year gtinrentee for durabili
ty. Over twenty five ntyle to se
lect from, and are offered clHcwhcrc
nt 315 to ?18, npeciul price 'J.98.
CI JIUmKN'S SUITS mm.-8 4 to
15 ut M per mil, all of them
are the S2.f,0 to 'i (jiinlity. .
KKMKM'.KK TIIK .STORK OX TIIK COIlNEIt
1' SILK AND FRENCH FUlfflEl WT
LADIES DEPARTMENT.
M EX'S DRESS SHIRTS over 10 iFURS in nil the' new tape's at
dozen to select from. Uarner'a best $1.23, $1.75, $4.50, $7.50 and
percale, made with or with out ex- $9.50.
tni .collar. Worth 75c lH!inl'LAI)1E.S ,lrm ftI1(l walkil,K 8k;rtfl
'nvK TlltK nt $1.15, $2.48, $3.73, $4.50 and
HOY'S OVER(X)ATS, all mibi'.s,
uikI hntrtlm. We liavu tliein from!. 0, ri , , TC,Ti'iv mi
$1 17 iiito$r) .fADIEs COAJSUI J.S,inpebbIo
' , ' . VheviotH mid vuiiii'ti.i doth, nimle
MENS 0ERC()A1S in fine; with tho new Uoiiho jacki-t. Skirts
black import,., kersey and oxford t ;t, tiu n,.weHt ',jaPU un,l ot
ITPV 111 ll I IIiii illlli'l'Ctif IpllirlliM I
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We guarautcu a Having ,i $2 to $ li
on each coat, Htceial nrii'es from
seams, worth
$12.
$18 our Hpecial
il.iis to $20.
UjADIKS' MISSES' aiul.CIIII
:niM:NMS COATS un
MikIt Cuarmimt tin
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t'uiiiu m- AmericM Lwirling
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RICE S-3rd Market St,
mo to ("elect iron), rruvs rungtCMcmto
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