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HIK CITIZEN,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1011.
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OF DEATH
Beattie Selects Jury That
Is to Try
STRIKES OFF FOUR FROM LIST.
From Sixteen- Men Young Man Ac
cused of Wife Murder Named the
Twelve Who Are to Decide
His Fate.
Chesterfield Court House, Vn., Aug.
24. There ennic a moment In the Heat
tie trial-when a white faced young do
fendant, with his Hps between his
teeth, stood alone before fatal chance
and played the gambler's game. lie
played alone, nnd his game was that
of trying to pick from a row of fifteen
faces of tentative jurymen four In
which there might lurk the shadow of
n menace to him.
A hard game was that which this
young fellow elected to play alone
During two days the Judge and his
counsel had gone over the venires,
listening to the quallflcatlonnf the
farmers of Chesterfield to sll:i judg
ment on the young man's life. 'tr,
carefully they winnowed out sixteen
men, according to the law of Virginia
who were to sit for a finnl elimination
to the Jury number of twelve. Judge
Wntson had. with grave courtesy, once
more reviewed the list nnd had made
each man stand and say that he was
still a fit person to render Impartial
judgment according to the facts and
the law.
Sixteen men, counted fit by the Judge,
sat there; yet there must be only
twelve to hold justice In their hands.
Beattie, his lawyer and his father had
retired to n little jury room, with the
list of the sixteen, and had consulted
for fifteen minutes. They came back.
All sat down but the young prisoner,
he stood with his whitened knuckles
braced on the table in front of him
nnd looked from face to face In the
Jury box across the aisle.
The provisional jury met his gaze.
Most were Hie faces of young men,
farmers from the wilderness and men
of small trades. A few were old men:
one had a square set Jaw and little
eyes that looked severely out of cav
ernous sockets. These faces young
Ileattio had to read. lie shook his
head Impatiently. Minutes passed nnd
there was absolute silence in the little
courtroom. Still his eyes passed slow
ly from face to face, and the muscles
of his jaw tweaked and twittered.
Yet the boy stood alone nnd gazed.
All of n sudden his shoulders went
back with a quick jerk of decision.
He snt down and with a pencil struck
on four of the names on the list be
fore him. The clerk read the names
-of the four jurors thus eliminated.
One was the old man with the harsh
eyes, one wns a youngster no older
than Beattie. who had a dlsnosltlon to
grin, another was n heavy faced man I
with slightly vacuous eyes, and the
fourth was just a colorless citizen who
eschewed neckwear.
So the young man accused of having
murdered his wife on a black road In
Chesterfield county a month ago made
bis discard and was ready to play the
game with death across the table.
Beattle's lawyers had hoped that the
judge would allow their client to re
main in the Richmond Jail of nights,
as he had been doing during the pre
liminary days of jury getting, but
Judge Watson ruled that ho should go
In the dingy lockup behind the court
house, there to remain until his fate
shall be decided.
PEARSON'S LAST GIFT.
Aged Philanthropist Gives Home For
Town Art Gallery.
Hlnsdule, III., Aug. 24. Dr. D. K.
Pearsons, the philanthropist, who has
distributed a fortune of $7,000,000 In
beneficences, has made his last gift.
He gave the town of Hinsdale his
residence and five ncres of ground,
valued at 535,000.
AVlth tile bestowal of the residence
nnd grounds to be maintained as a
public library, art gallery and park.
Dr. Pearsons necompllshed his pur
pose, the distribution of all his wealth
for the benefit of humanity.
Entering upon his ninety-second
year, with failing health, Dr. Pearsons
will leave to spend his last days ht
the Hinsdale sanitarium, to which he
goes almost penniless.
TRAIN FOR FOOTBALL AT SEA.
Naval Academy Squad of Thirty-three
Men Back From Cruise.
Annapolis, Md Aug. 24. In splen
did condition nftcr a cruise of 15,000
miles beginning early last June, tho
thirty-three members of the Naval
academy football squad passed through
Annapolis in order to go on leave at
once. They will return for practice
on Sept. 23. Tho football men wero
brought from tho fleet lower down the
bay by the torpedo boat Bagley. They
will go on leave at once so as to ro
turn a week in advance of the open
ing of the academy.
Tho opening gnmo will bo on Oct. 7,
Johus Hopkins being their opponents.
Big Hotel Burns.
Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 24. The' mag
nificent notel Frontenac at Bound
island on the St. Lawrence river,
housing hundreds of prominent guests
from many parts of the country,
l'urnod soon after midnight this morn
ing. All the guests escaped.
ATWOOD AT CASTLETON.
Crowd That Greeted Aviator
When He Alighted Yesterday.
Photo by American Press Association.
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 24. Harry N.
At wood's .biplane with a little St.
Louis dust still tilngtng to Its wings
lies on the ball grounds at Cnstleton,
nine miles from here, with 134 miles
still to go before New York Is sighted.
The aviator, who left St. Louis on the
morning of Aug. 14 nnd expects to
make Ilhlnebeck nnd smash the
world's distance record, was held up
at Castletou while his machinists
fussed with pontoons that will make
his flight down the Hudson a little
safer. So he had t satisfy himself
with a seventy mile fly from Fort
Plain. If his plans work out New
York should see the overland biplane
by 0 o'clock Friday night.
Before Atwood left Fort Plain lie
told the newspapef men that ho pre
ferred landing at Governor's island,
where he could find clear spaces for
his descent Into New York, rather
than hind where cross currents from
ocean winds might make things tick
lish. The biplane, the Castlcton police
force and most of the population of
the town struck the ball grounds at
about the same moment, and for n
tune It looked as if something would
go to smash on the graceful machine
that was being packed In by the air
fans. But the local police did them
Helves proud, nnd Atwood was allowed
to leave the Held without being slain
by enthusiasm. When Atwood was
through being worshipped ho climbed
Into a motor with W. O. Parkinson
and started off to Albany to see about
gasoline and the pontoons with which
he wants to equip his biplane before
lie starts down the Hudson for New
York.
BIG FACTORY CLOSED.
Wire Rope Shops of the Roeblings at
Trenton Lack Orders.
Trenton, N. J Aug. 24. The wire
rope shop of the John A. Rocbllngs
Sons Co., one of the largest establish
ments of its kind In the country, has
been closed for Ave days and according
to a statement made nt the works will
remain so for an indefinite period. Lack
of orders coupled with general condi
tions prevailing in the Industry wero
given as the reasons for the closing
down.
The company attributes the present
condition of the industry to the recent
tariff agitation and the uncertainty as
to what the next session of congress
will bring forth. The agitation for
the removal of tariff from wiro rope
and other wiro products, according to
the statement, hns demoralized tho
trade while the policy of retrenchment
being practiced by many of tho largo
corporations hns resulted In curtailing
orders.
"DRYS" RAID BLIND TIGERS.
Indiana Drug Stores Lose Stocks of
Liquors.
Linton, ind., Aug. 24. The people
of this place after voting to have a
dry town celebrated tho victory by
raiding three drug stores which had
been closed by the nrrest of the pro
prietors for running blind tigers. Six
teen hundred bottles of beer nnd 1,000
half pint bottles of whisky wero emp
tied into tho sower. Two fifty gallon
barrels of gin were also relieved of
their contents. It is estimated that
$3,000 worth of "wet" goods had been
confiscated hero this year.
Curtis Dlttmore and Noah George,
proprietors of drug stores, who were
fined 50 C(iCi, I1U( sentenced to jail
for thirty days, have inado an agree
ment with tho officials, Including mem
bers of tho stnto board of pharmacy,
by which tho Jail sentences were sus
pended on condition that they would
go out of business.
Dynamite House After Threat.
Wllkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 24. Follow
ing Black Hand threats the home of
John Snrvla of Browntown, near hero,
was dynamited and the wholo front
torn off. Sarvia's five-year-old child,
asleep In tho front room, was blown
from its crib, but tho blankets saved
it from serious injury. Other inmates
of the house wero slightly hurt by
falling plaster.
Weather Probabilities.
Generally fair today and Friday,
cooler Thursday. Light to moderate
northwest to north winds.
C. A. R HEARS TAFT
President Defends Peace
Treaties at Rochester.
30,000 VETERANS IN PARADE.
Relief Stations and Hospitals Kept
Busy Caring For Old Soldiers Who
Dropped by Wayside In Ef
fort to Walk In Line.
Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 24. The sight
of 20,000 veterans of the civil war re
calling the dark days of that struggle
gave a twist to President Tnft's ad
dress before the G. A. H. camp fire at
tho natlonnl encampment which Is be
ing held here.
The president had come to talk of
peace and ho held his address prin
cipally to, this topic, but tho reflection
of tho immense struggle which had
centered about tho" old men who
marched before him In the parade con
trasted In his mind the political struggle
that has seethed about him for the last
few months and which was only tem
porarily relieved by the adjournment of
congress and his thoughts turned na
turally to this channel. He said that
when ho was tempted to think of his
own troubles he had only to think of
tho troubles of Lincoln.
Mr. Taft reverted to the main topic
of his address. He reviewed the situa
tion with regard to the arbitration
treaties and defended their terms from
the attacks of the senate In much tho
same way ns ho did in his addresses
at Mountain Lake, Md., and at Ocean
Grove, N. J. This time, however, he
went further into tho details of tho
senato's opposition to the treaties,
specifically defending them from tho
charge that they permit arbitration of
questions Involving tho Monroe doc
trine; that they deny the right to ex
clude foreign peoples from our shores,
which aroused opposition In California
over the Japanese question, and that
they open the way for reconsideration
of tho validity of the southern bonds
Issued in tho reconstruction days. He
said: "These suggestions have nothing
In them. The question of tho Monroe
policy Is not a justlcable one."
Thirty thousand members of tho G.
A. It., representing every department In
the United States, marched for two
hours through two miles of streets
hero lined with cheering crowds. It
was perhaps the greatest parado tho
veterans have participated In the last
decade and for many of the old soldiers
It will be the last. Stirring as the
spectacle was it was not without Its
pathos. Many a "vet" started out
bravely with flgure erect nnd succumb
ed before the march was over. Relief.
stations and hospitals wero kept busy
attending to the wants of tho veterans.
Tho parade was led off by the regu
lars of tho Twenty-ninth iufantry of
Fort Porter, Buffalo, with their band.
Next came the national guard and
naval militia companies. Commander
In Chief John E. Gllinan drove In a
carriage.
General Frederick D. Grant with his
aid rode In a carriage and was cheered
ilong the lino of march. Another con
splcuous figure In the parado was Gen
eral Daniel Sickles.
HOLD CHOLERA SUSPECT.
Brandenberg From Bremen Is Detained
at Philadelphia.
rminueipmn, Aug. zi. with one
passenger suspected of having cholera,
the North German Lloyd steamship
Brandenburg from Bremen is under
strict qunrantlno and none but health
oillcors are permitted to board her or
go ashore.
Mrs. Elizabeth Pleitner, flfty-ono
years old, of Baltimore, is the suspect,
and while tho United States Marino
hospital physicians believe the tests
will show no cholera, the quarantine
Is being strictly maintained. Mrs
Pleitner, accompanied by a ntece, is
returning in tho second cabin from a
trip to Europe.. According to her
statement she spent all her time in
Germany, where there has been no
cholera.
HELD FOR WHITTIER'S DEATH
Boston Police Arrest Two Italians on
Suspicion.
Boston, Aug. 24.7As a result of a
police investigation of tho death of
Lieutenant William A. Whlttlcr of the
revenue cutter Androscoggin, who
died Sunday night from injuries In
flicted by blackjack men in the north
end, two Italians have been arrested
on suspicion.
Tho prisoners gave tho names of
Frank Cassassa and Gulseppo Balsu
rettl. The police said that they ex
pected to arrest three other men in
connection with tho case.
TALE OF THE WEATHER. I
Observations of the United
States weather bureau taken at
8 p. m. yesterday follow:
" Temp. Weather.
New York 78 Cloudy
Albany OS Cloudy
Atlantic City... 74 Cloudy
Boston 72 Cloudy
Buffalo 08 Cloudy
Chicago 04 Cloudy
St Louis 00 Rain
New Orleans;... 70 Clear
Washington .... 82 Clear
$ MRS. R. VANDERBILT. jLUS
Society Woman Turns Fire Chief
at Her Sandy Point Farm Home.
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Newport, It. 1.. Aug, 24. When fire
threatened destruction of all the build
ings nt the big Vnnderbllt farm at
Sandy Point Mrs. Reglnnld Vaudcrbllt
directed the employees who fought the
flames. The fire spread rapidly from
ono building to nnotuer. i-iames
renched tho building that held the big
power plant nnd some of the machln
cry was damaged.
Mrs. Vnnderbllt called In nil the
workmen about the place. She direct
ed them from one building to another
with hose nnd buckets of water. Fin
ally, when tho fire caught the power
plant building, Mrs. Vnnderbllt rushed
all the men there and had them turn
the hose on the roof. She knew thai
this building must be saved at any
cost or the operations of the farm
must cease. Tho damage was not estl
mated, but it was certain that tho
building containing the power-plant
Itself had been burned to the extent
of 10,000.
BRIGANDS' CAPTIVE SAFE.
Dr. Richter Found on tho Greek Fron
tier Kidnaped May 25.
Saloniki, Aug. 24. Dr. Edmund
Richter, the German engineer who
was kidnnped by brigands on May 25,
has been found safe and well on tho
Greek frontier.
Dr. Richter was captured while he
was engaged in a semiofficial mission
in making topographical studies on
Mount Olympus, tho fabled home of
the Greek gods, on the wild frontier
region between Greece nnd Turkey.
He was taken well inside Turkish
territory, his escort of Turkish gen
darmes being killed. It was said, that,
unlike the captors of Miss Ellen Stone,
the American missionary, who were
ordinary brigands, the men who took
Dr. Richter were Greek "patriots" and
that ho was secreted in Greek terri
tory. WESTERNERS PLAN REFORMS.
National Monetary Commission
Has
Organized Opposition.
Washington, Aug. 24. It has come
to the knowledge of the members of
the national monetary commission that
there is a movement among western
bankers and financiers to cut under
tho national monetary commission and
to start a propaganda Independent of
the commission to advance the cause
of currency reform.
Professor J. Lawrence Lnughlin of
Chicago, a well known economic
writer, seems to bo the moving spirit
bnck of tho movement. He was in
Washington recently, it is said, trying
to organize the independent movement
and making plans for tho establish
ment of a publicity bureau to advance
the cause of monetary reform legisla
tion. HIRED HELP IN CONTROL.
Washington Practically Deserted Until
Late In Fall.
Washington, Aug. 24. Tho most de
serted of villages has nothing on Wash
Ington. With the president out of
town, cabinet members gone and going,
senators and representatives speeding
to their homes or to vacation resorts
nnd tho floating population always at
tendant upon a session of congress
folding up their tents nnd vanishing
the national capltol yawned widely nnd
turned over for the usual summer nap.
From now until October some of
Uncle Sam's competent young men In
subordinate positions will run the
affairs of government.
Let Contract For Colliers.
Washington, Aug. 24. Tho Maryland
Steel company of Baltimore, was
awarded the contract for building col
liers Nos. 11 nnd 12. Tho Maryland
company wns tho lowest bidder in tho
opening of tho proposals soveral weeks
ajjo and tho award was made by Act
lug Secretary of the Navy Wlnthrop.
Big Reward For Painting.
Paris, Aug. 24. Tho proprietors of
ITllustratlon offer a reward of -10,000
francs (8,000) for tho recovery of the
Mona tisa nud 50,000 francs (10,000)
if the picture bo restored to the
Louvre before tho end of September.
Jones Heads Moose Lodge.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 24. The Order
nf Moose, in convention hero this
week, elected Judge Arthur H. Jones,
Indianapolis, supremo dictator.
Taft to Visit 8tate Fair.
Syracuse, N. Y Aug. 24. President
Taft will visit the New York State
fair here on Friday, Sept. IB.
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HUSBAND
Kittanning Murder Similar
to Beattie Case.
MISTOOK WIFE FOR BURGLAR.
Attorney Retalpcd by Relatives De
clares Fascinating Widow Figures
In Case Much as Beulah Bin
ford Does In Virginia Tragedy.
Pittsburg. Pa., Aug. 24. Like tho
Beattie ense, the killing of Mrs. George
O. Golden by her husband hns now
taken the form of n domestic tragedy.
The prosecution has brought another
woman into the case, much as Beu
lah Blnford figures in the Vlrglun
drama. Golden is one of Kittauulng's
most prominent merchants and active
church workers.
Nearly crazed by this new turn In
tho distressing tragedy, the accused
husband protests his innocence. lie
says he mistook his wife for n burglar.
Friends of Golden believe his story.
The state attorney is proceeding on
the theory that it Is n case of murder.
Colonel W. H. Fnlrmnn, retained by
relatives of the dead woman to aid in
the prosecution of Golden, declares
witnesses nre nt hnnd to produce
startling testimony, Involving Golden
and a fascinating young widow, when
Golden is arraigned on Aug. 31.
Golden hns been admitted to bail in
the sum of 10,000.
FARM VALUES RISING.
Pennsylvania Live Stock Worth $141,
371,000, an Increase of 38 Per Cent.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 24.-Statis-
tlcs relative to tho domestic animals,
poultry and bees reported on farms
and ranges for the state of Pennsyl
vania nt the thirteenth decennial cen
sus, April 15, li)10, arc contained in
an olficlal statement Issued by Acting
Director Fnlkner.
The nggregnte value of all domestic
nnlmuls, poultry and bees, ns reported
in 1010, was about 141,371,000, as
compared with 102,430,000 in 1000,
the amount of Increase being 38,
032,000 nnd the rate 38 per cent.
The total number of farms in the
state in 1010 was 218,30-1. Of these,
01.8 per cent, or 200,075, reported do
mestic auimnls; 88.3 per cent, or 102,
772, reported cattle; 84.3 per cent, or
184,024, reported horses nnd colts; 05.3
per cent, or 142,503, reported swine;
11.11 per cent, or 25,420, reported sheep
or lambs, and 8.2 itr cent, or 17,875,
reported mules or mule colts.
Of the total number of farms re
porting poultry, 205,158, nearly all, or
205,020, rciorted chickens, numbering
11,805,003, valued at 7,020,000; 40,120
reported turkeys, numbering 130,012,
valued at 313,000; 23v502 reported
ducks, numbering 103,777, valued at
114,000; 13,300 reported geese, num
bering 411,318, valued nt 00,500; 24,025
reported 111,715 guinea fowls.
BECOMES BOSS TOO SOON.
Love at First Sight as Quickly Ended
By Failure to Agree.
Wllkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 24. Never
liavlfi.t; met until Tuesday when they
suddenly fell In love and decided to
get married,. Daulol Crumley, aged
forty-one of Asknni, and Miss Bridget
Boyle, forty-five, of Swoycrevllle, got
n marriage license here. Half and
hour later they returned It, said they
were not going to get married and
asked for tho return of tho license
money.
"We were on our way to tho min
ister's," explained Crumley, "when we
had an argument and she began bossing
me ns if I was already her husband.
Now, I can't stand bossing and when
rho kept It up I just made up my mind
that I was not going to take any
chances of hearing it for the rest of my
life. The marriage is all off."
They were told they could not get the
license money back. "Well, its nil off,
anyhow," exclaimed Crumley and tore
up tho license.
Miss Boyle was still nrgulng with
him when they left.
They mot uccldentnlly nt tho home of
Crumley's brother-in-law at Swoyers
vllle, discovered neither had been mar
ried and an hour afterward were en
gaged. EMERY WHEEL KILLS CUBAN.
Sent to Easton to Learn Trade Young
Man Meets Death.
Easton, Pa., Aug. 24. A bursting
emery wheel killed Edward Blasecadn
do, a young Cuban, sent to tho-United
State to learn tho machinist trade In
tho plant of tho Treadwell Engineer
company near here. Ho came from a
wealthy family at Chapara.
Tho body will bo taken to his homo
by two other Cubans, who camo to
Easton to pnrsuo n similar lino of
study.
FOR TRYING TO WRECK TRAIN.
Two Brooklyn Young Men Get Prison
Terms at Towanda.
Wllkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 24. Harry
Feonov and Walter Lumsden of Brook
lyn, were given a hearing beforo Judge
Fanning of Bradford county nt To
wanda, charged with attempting to
wreck a Lehigh Valley freight train at
Wvalusincroh Aug. 0 last;.'
Both young men pleaded guilty to
the, charge and were sentenced to four
months each in prison.
THE LOCUST.
State Zoologist H. A. Surface de
clines In spite of assertions to the
contrary that tho real simon-pure
17-year-old locust, tho cicada of the
ancients, was abroad in the land of
Pennsylvania this year and has
what he considers lndublable evi
dence that it appeared in sixteen
counties. Dr. Surface Is certain
that tho locust appeared on schedule
time because he obtained specimens
from every one of the counties and
secured information from local
sources in each county to tho effect
that it was in 1894 that the locusts
wero "bad" the last time.
Tho visitation of the insects, he
says, was not fraught with much
damage. They went after compara
tively few trees and probably the
unfavorable weather conditions dis
couraged depredations. In some
counties, notablo Somerset, but one
specimen of undoubted lineage was
found and he did not have any rela
tives that could bo found. In North
ern Lancaster a few also appeared
but thunder storms came with them
and the cirada soon left for happier
climes.
Tho districts or counties where
the locusts appeared are figured out
this way: Lycoming, Union, Snyder,
Pike, Lebanon, Northampton, Car
bon, .Monroe, and Schuylkill and in
Northern Dauphin, Southern Mon
tour, Northern Berks, Northern Le
high, and Southern Montour.
The zoologist says people should
make memorandas of this date and
see if the locusts do not bob up
again seventeen years hence.
UEPLBLICAN CANDIDATE FOU
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
I respectfully ask the Republican
voters of Wayne county to give me
their earnest support at the primary
election to be held Saturday, Sept.
30, a911.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN MALE.
Cherry Ridge, Pa. G2w9
FOU TREASURER
A. W. LAItRABEE.
1 hereby respectfully announce my
self as a candidate for the office of
County Treasurer on the Republican
ticket, subject to the decision of the
uniform primaries to he held Septem
ber 30. 1911. A"sit will be impos
sible for me to see all the voters of
the county, 1 take this method of so
liciting your support. II I am the
choice of the people, I have but one
promise to make, viz: that I will dis
charge tho duties of the office Im
partially and honorably.
A. W. LARHABEE.
57tf Starrucca, Pa.
DEMOCRATIC
Candidnto for tho Olllco of Ilegister
and Recorder of Wnyno County.
CHARLES J. HiOFF,
FOR SHERIFF
JOHN THEOBALD,
Democratic Candidate.
Your support solicited at tho com
ing primaries, which will be held
Saturday, September 30.