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TRIED FOR MURDER
Woman Charged With Killing
Own Child.
GAVE 1T CARB0LIC ACID
Mrs. Edith Melber Says Institution
at Albany Had Refused
Boy Admission.

ALBANY, n Y, March 6.-Charged
with the deliberate murder Of her own
child, Mrs. Edith Melber of Schenectady
was placed On trial before Justice How
ard in the supreme court today.
On the afternoon of January 13 the body
of baby boy was found almost con-
hunter who was following his dogs
across stretch of frozen swamp land
on the outskirts of Albany. The boy S
face had been horribly klrned by poison
A half-empty bottle of carbolic acid and
a bag of chocolate drops were the only
clues.
For two days the authorities unsuccess
fully sought to learn the boys name. and
then George Melber of Schenectady, a
blacksmith. identified the body as that OF
his grandson, George Melber, whom he
had thought safe in an orphan asylum
Following this lead the police Instituted
search for the child's parents. and
found that Mrs. Melber had left the
house where she was working in Sche'
nectady.
Confessed the Crime.
She was traced to the station in that
city, and thence to Rochester. where
she was arrested. charged with the
murder. After futile denial of her
identity. she confessed the crime. She
declared that she was ordered to take
the boy from the Schenectady orphan
asylum because she could not pay his
board. and that she came to Albany
to put him in an institution here.
Admission was refused, she said. an6
she purchased some acid and the candy
walked to the place where the body wa.
found and poured acid down her boy.
throat when he complained of being
thirsty and asked for water.
Then, she said. she kissed him. laid hi.
body on the ground and took the mex
car for Schenectady. She resumed hel
position as housemaid and did not leav.
it until nearly a week after the commits
sion of the murder. when she read Of
the finding of the body two days before
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Seeks Change Of Venue.
PROMINENT GEORGIAN DEAD.
Col. James W. Robertson Passes
at Are of Seventy.Nine.

ATLANTA, Ca. March 6-Coi. James
w. Robertson. one of the best known
citizens of Georgia. died here yesterday
at the age of seveuty-nine years. He
served throughout the civil war az an enc
aineer In the Confederate army. and for q
long time was recognized as one OF the
foremost engineers OF the south He
served one term a. adjutant general oe
the state.
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Furniture Stock Offered Cheap.

The Lansburg Furniture Company of
512 9th street northwest has purchased
the stock of the Van Unger Company
of Brooklyn, N. Y, and is Offering
the goods at so, 50 and rs cents on the
dollar. The stock consists of furni-
ture. carpets, rugs. curtains and up
holsteries, and IL said to ha high grade
in every particular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-06

Fire OF incendiary origin broke out in
the frame warehouse of the d. Z. & ]. H.
Iefauver Lime Spreader Company, I'm the
east end of Middletown. Md, Thursday
night, and the structure and contents
were practically destroyed. The building
was packed with lime spreaders and rolf
ers, valued at about 5000.
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McCurdy Had Held Record.

The best previous over-water record foi
an aeroplane flight was that of ]. A. d
McCurdy. who January 81 of this year
few Curtiss biplane from Key West
Fla, to within few miles of Havana. He
travelled over ninety miles before he was
compelled to descend. He alighted in the
water and was rescued by the United
States torpedo boat destroyer Terry.
Among other notable over-water flights
Rolls, a son of Lord Llangattock. who or
June 2 last year made flight across the
English channel to France and return In
q Wright biplane without alighting, the
length of the flight being f1fty-five miles
August 20 last Robert Lorraine, the actor
aviator. flew across the Irish sea. He
went from Holyhead, Wales. to Howth
Head, Ireland, a distance Of f1fty-two
miles.
In August last also-the 31st-Glenn
went distance OF seventy miles over
Lake Erie, from Euclid Beach. to Cedar
point. The following day he new the
same distance on a return journey be-
tween the two points. In the same month
Armand Defaux, won the, Swiss Aviation
Clubs prize for a flight over Lake &C.
neva His record was forty-one miles.
Clifford B. Harmon Of New York, Au-
gust q, crossed Long Island sound In an
aeroplane He started from Garden City,
l.
distance Of about twenty-five miles, which
he made in twenty-nine minutes.
Landed on Cruisers Deck.
|! At Atlantic City in July last Glenn H
Curtiss made a fight entirely over water
of fifty miles, which was a new world s
record at that time. Recently Mr.. Curtiss
made a noteworthy flight from San Diego
Cal, to the deck Of the cruiser Pennsyl-
vania. He landed on the cruiser and then
iew back to San Diego. Other flights
followed, in which, with a machine equip
ped with hydrppianes, he rose from the
water and alighted again on water. These
flights were short.
Several aviators besides the late Mr.,
Rolls have crossed the English channel.
Among them were the late John B. Moi
SAINT, who was killed December 81 last
near New Orleans. and Count Jacques de
Lesseps, besides Louis Bleriot, the famous
French aviator and manufacturer Of mo-
noplanes, the first to fly the channel in
an aeroplane.
The most notable over-water flights in
New York city were that of Wilbur
Wright from Governors Island to Grant s
tomb and return. distance Of twenty
one miles, made in October, 1909, and the
fight of Curtiss from Spuyten Duyvil to
Governors Island. made at the end of his
Albany to New York flight May % last.
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Potomac Lodge Of Odd Fellows of
Hagerstown. Md, will shortly hold spe-
cial exercises I'm honor Of Mr.. Andrew J..
Schindel. a prominent citizen of Hagers-
town. who has been q member Of the
order for sixty years.
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DETAILS OF BATTLE.
Dispatches Tell of Capture Of
Ladura by Rebels.
ARE LATER SURPRISED
Federals Kill Many Insurrectionists
and Regain Prisoners That
Had Been Taken.

DOUGLAS, Ariz.. March 6-Dispatches
| received last night by Commissitario
| 1.aboria Vasquez Of Aqua PriOta, from
Gen. Lorenzo Torres and Gov. Cubillas,
at Hermosillo, give details Of the battle
at Ladura on the Yaqui river.
The town was captured by the rebels
several days ago. Incarnation Torres. a
| captain of the federal force, was taken
prisoner. Having the same name, the
captains arrest led to a rumor that Gen.
Torres had been captured. Lieut.. Emilio
Vega also was captured.
An expedition was sent from TORN
| against the rebels holding Ladura and
the attack was made SO quickly that
| they were surprised. Many rebels are
reported to have been killed. Besides
| regaining prisoners, the federal forces
captured a pack train.
Gen. Torres in Charge.
Gen. Torres is now at the Otales
ranch, directing the situation. 1t is
said that two rebel bands are operat-
ing on the Yaqui river. while another
has been seen in the vicinity OF Es-
peranza.
Further dispatches say that Com
missiario Chiapa Of Moctezuma started
north a few days ago with a force to
give battle to Blanco This force num-
| bers 500, including the regulars and
Indians. who are reported to have
Killed many rebels in the recapture Of
Sahuaripa.
| A force of federaIs left Naco last
| night and, on arrival at Aqua Priota.
| will assist in guarding the town or
| will join Col Mora. who is operating
| in the Ajo mountains. The rebel bands
| under Cabral, Bracamente and Lopez.
and the fedefa1s under Mora. where
near each other In Ajos yesterday, but
today the Cabral force was in Bocach
and the others were on the west slope
| of the mountains.
Wires Are Cut.
Blanco has cut the wires between
Bavispe river and Ysabel. showing he
has advanced about twelve miles west
Of Igre camp.
On the west slope Of the Ajo noun
tains rebel bands have cut the federal
wires between Bocachi and Nacozari
II the rebels move west to Cananea
they will find the town well fortife ed.
The government plans to wage a
campaign against Blanco. Other bands
at Altar and Bocachi are considered
not. well organized.
Interfere With American Dixie.
The fnsurrectos in Mexico are begin
ming to seriously interfere with the
American dixie being built along the
Colorado river, according to advices re-
ceived by the State Department from the
contractors, who have made an appeal
for bo oaoof,ofa y,rofocffon of tho xyOrl<
The depredations, 1t Is claimed, are al
ready causing loss to the contractors
Of 81, 900 daily. The workers, 1t is charg-
ed, are being intimidated. mules and tools
have been stolen and the work generally
interfered with.
1t is said at the State Department that
the question of safeguarding the en-
cheering undertaking is still under con-
sideration of the United States and
MeYicQ
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Board of Trade Directors to Meet

The board of directors of the Board
Of Trade will meet this afternoon at
4:15 o'clock, when a number of mat
tiers of interest to Washington will
be taken up for consideration.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10

religious temperance sentiment of
the next generation will depend up
on what is being taught upon this
subject in our Sunday schools.
Life boats are good when ships
have gone to pieces on the rocks,
but how much better the light house
that saves from wreck"
1t Is blessed and Christ-like to
send out life boats to rescue the men
and women who are lost on the bill
lows of intemperance.
But it is more blessed and more
Christ-like for the officers and teach
ers of our Sunday schools to be a
lighthouse and save the boys and
girls from being wrecked on the
shores of intemperance.
The following outline of temper
ance work has been prepared by the
International Sabbath School Asso-
citation and every Sunday school is
expected to endorse it,
/. Educate every Sunday school
member for: (a) Total Abstinence;
(b) The Destruction of the Liquor
Traffic; (c) The Extinction of the
Cigarette Habit; (d) The Surrender
of Every Self-Indulgence which i'm
pairs or destroys the power to give
service to God and Man.
2. Observe all appointed Quarterly
Temperance Sundays.
(Special) } Anti-Cigarette Day
Temperance Sunday of Second Quar-
ter. Especially Temper
ance Sunday, the fourth Sunday in
November to be emphasized as
Christian Citizenship Day.
3, A Temperance Department in
every Sunday school under the care
OF a Temperance Superintendent.
4. Enroll every Sunday schoo
member of proper age as a pledged
aUstalner.
If every Sunday school of Wayne
county would adopt this outline ant
live up to its teaching our you'll
I would be saved from lives of sin anC
unrighteousness, and be a power il
Gods hand for making Pennsylva
MIA white.
The Temperance superintendent
will be able to get helps both fol
the teaching of the lesson and spec
! ial programmes by sending to the
| following:
Your own denominational publish
ing house.
National Temperance Publication
! Society, New York City.
Mrs. Stella B. Irving, 115 Walnu
| street, Riverside, California.
! March IoCh being the Quarterl.
| Temperance Sunday ] trust it will
| be properly observed and that ever!
Sunday school will have Pledg'
Record or Honor Roll framed ant
hung on the wall.
This record should contain tn,
names of every officer, teacher ant
scholar.
Let us, as members of this grea
Sunday school army, march with
steady step, following our Captain
till the victory is won and Pennsyl
vani4 shall be free.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10

and has to find out by questioning
from the others the name of the per-
son whose indentity must be assum-
ed, and to make the most of answers
limited to Yes and NO"
But the moment No. arrives at
a conclusion as to identity it is
necessary to pass behind the screen
and to fix the envelope with the
number one upon it to the object
connected with the person to be rep
resented.
Muscle Parade.
No. 1 returns to the violet group
and is prepared to receive the sealed
envelope from No. 2 and answer
questions in turn. The group to COM
plete the guessing of identities first
is entitled to special prize if cor
rect solutions have been formed. II
possible, to martial music a grand
parade of personages, each carrying
a special possession, should take
place, and the scene is an amusing
one.-[Pittston Gazette.l
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10
STEENE.
Special to THE CITIZEN.
Grippe" Club Surprises Fellow
Member.

STEENE, Pa, March "a very
pleasant social gathering of the
Grippe Club" of Steene, number
ing thirty all told, met near the
school house Saturday evening,
where two teams were in readiness
to convey them to the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Smith at Keens. 1t
proved to be a genuine surprise to
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith owing to the
fact that they were members of the
club and know nothing of the doings
of their fellow-members until they
bounced in upon them. A delight
full evening was spent by all, Alon-
20 Wood and Charles Denny being
nominated and elected as actors and
clowns for the occasion. Mr.. Wood
soon won first prize leaving him the
floor for the rest of the evening,
while MIR. Denny took back seat
with the rest of the spectators, wit
Messing some of Mr.. Woods clever
tricks and clown work. At a sea-
sonable hour refreshments were serv-
ed, after which Mr.. Denny proposed
that the queen of the club, called
Queen Dido, must die. A vote was
taken in which was decided that the
queen must die. After the terrible
execution was performed by Mr..
Smith and Mrs. Vanbuskirk, the par
ty departed for their several homes,
all thanking Mr.. and Mrs. Smith for
their hospitality. Those present
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Denny,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wood, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Hogencamp, Mr..
and Mrs. John e. Haley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alonzo Wood, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Hubbard, Mrs. Minnie Mill
Mrs. John Vanbuskirk, Mrs. Frank
Wayman, Mrs. Harriet Cody, Misses
Hudson, Edith Hubberd, Flor.
ence Denny, Edith Haley, Kathryn
Wood, Florence Wood, Olive Bodie
Messrs. Angus Wood, Lesley Mill
Frederick Wood, Albert Hogencamp
Milton Hogancamp, Miss Edith Hunt
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith.
Mrs. John Vanbuskirk returned to
her home at Wilkes-Barre, Sunday
after visiting week with friends
at Steene.
Mrs. John Short is much improv-
ed from her recent illness.
Frederick Wood, Bethany, is
! spending a few days here with his
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzc
! Wood.
Harris Short, Wilkes-Barre, visit.
ed his parents here at Steene, Sun.
! day.
Richard Cliff spent Saturday ant
Sunday at Carbondale.
John w. Arnold is on a busines!
trip to Carbondale for few days.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10
INDIAN ORCHARD.

special to THE CITIZEN.
INDIAN ORCHARD, Pa, March
0.-Weather very cold; sleighing
fine; sleigh ride parties numerous.
We see jolly loads pass this place
daily, enroute for Honesdale, Beach
Lake and other points of interest.
Several from here attended the
box party at w. P. Downing's at
East Beach Lake on Friday evening
last, where they were royalty en-
tertained. The boxes were nicely
trimmed and well filled with the
best of viands, which were relished
by all.
Work on the new telephone line
is not progressing very rapidly at
present. Some have their poles on
the ground, while others have done
nothing as yet.
We noticed in one of the county
papers that Narrowsburg poultry
man has several young chicks that
were hatched this Spring. We can
beat him. Mrs. Marshall Smith of
this place is the owner of several
chicks that were hatched on the 18th
day of January; also brood hatch
ed recently by the same hen. This
hen is worth more than small in
cubator.
w. H. Marshall and wife spent
Wednesday last with relatives at
Bethany. While there they attend
ed the Lawyer sale. Everything
brought high prices.
Mrs. w. H. Hall is in Scranton
consulting a specialist with regard
to an injury that she received dur
ing the early part of the winter.
Books on Agriculture, published
by CHM & Co., have been introduc-
duced into the Berlin schools.
We had the pleasure of calling on
c. E. Neal, the leading poultry man
of East Beach Lake Tuesday and as
usual found him busily engaged at
looking after his white beauties.
Horace Dills is assisting H. II.
Bunnell at Honesdale and Texas
Aims house.
Mrs. C. T. Weeks is spending a
few days with her daughter, Mrs
Chester Maloney, East Honesdale.
The Berlin auditors met on Mon
day and audited the accounts of the
pOOrmasteTS and supervisors.
Albert Mitchell is handling the
reins over a very promising young
trotter. We expect that it will be
a record-breaker.
At the l.. A. S. held by the Indian
Orchard ladies at the Nj. e. parson-
age, at Beach Lake, on Washing
tons Birthday, the sum of eight
dollars and nineteen cents were
realized.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10
LOOKOUT.
to THE CITIZEN.

Special to THE CITIZEN.
LOOKOUT, Pa, March 9.-Post-
master Frank Ewain spent Tuesday
afternoon at Lookout transacting
business.
A great many here are suffering
from severe colds and La Grippe.
Miss Helen Rutledge is sick with
the measles.
Mrs. John N. Cole is also very low
with pneumonia, we are sorry to
state.
E. Teeple spent Friday in New
York.
Mrs. Millard l.. Teeple and daugh-
ter, Mildred, Pond Eddy, visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Knapp,
on Saturday, also Mr.. and Mrs. e.
Teeple, on Sunday.
A number from here attended the
oyster supper at Arthur Parsons,
Pine Hill, for the benefit of Rev.
John Gardner, Equinunk, who
breaches at that place.
Edward Flynn and family, who
have been visiting the formers par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Flynn
for the past month, returned to theiI
home Tuesday in the western part
of the state.
Gilbert Conklin has sold his farm
to Smith Tyler, and has purchased
one at High Lake and is moving
there.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10
SHERMAN.
1ecial to THE CITIZEN.

Special to THE CITIZEN.
SHERMAN, Pa, March 81. F.
Reynolds is visiting his son, d. F..
Reynolds, in Springfield, Mass.
A fine fall of snow occurred in
this vicinity Sunday night.
Rev. S. F. Wright and wife, who
have been spending some time at q.
E. Hitchcock's, returned to North
Jackson, Friday
Mrs. w. NJ. Evans and daughter,
Myrtle, called on friends in Deposit,
N. Y, Saturday.
Clarence Schmitz and family and
James Gayle and family have NOV
ed into G. AleXander's house, near
Hale Eddy.
A social circle was formed of the
young people by our pastor, Rev.
Scott, Sunday night. Ray Arneke,
president; Jessie Carlow, vice-presi-
dent; Howard Early, secretary;
Charles Van Pelt, treasurer.
Courtland Layman, Hale Eddy, n.
Y, attended church here Sunday
night.
Little Robert Webster is quite ILL.,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mcclure are
visiting their children at Great
Bend.
The Ladies Missionary society will
meet at Mrs. Willis Early's Wednes-
day afternoon.
Philip Warner, who is working al
Preston Park, spent a few days with
his parents, MIR. and Mrs. A. j
Warner.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10
ALDENVILLE.
Special to THE CITIZEN.

Special to THE CITIZEN
''Sweets" Sweeten Sweethearts.
ALDENVILLE, Pa, March "a
large crowd of happy young people
enjoyed a sleighride to the home of
Prof. and Mrs. James Kennedy,
Pleasant Mount, on Tuesday evening,
February 2S. Warm maple sugar
that most delicious of sweets-was
partaken of, and it is said that the
general sweetness of the evening last
ed out into the return ride home,
which was made in the waning part
of the evening hours.
Half "A Century In The Masters Ser
vice.
The midweek prayer meeting held
at G. H. Knapp's was largely attend
ed. Rev. James Rainey and Mrs.
Julia G. Knapp were among those
who addressed the meeting. These
two faithful servants of God. the
former who is nearing his SEVENTEEN
birthday, and the latter her eightleth,
are fine examples Of Christian liv-
ing, each having spent over half a
century in the service of the Master
Our public schools are preparing
a drama which is to be given in the
early spring.
Clarence Cole and mother have re.
moved from our village to Deposit
N. Y, where the former will practice
his trade, that of glass cutting. 4e
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10
THE TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT
OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
IBy Mrs. j. Nj. Coleman. |

The question is often asked Why
special temperance teaching in the
Sunday school?
The answer is threefold. First:
The necessity of such instruction is
imperative as the drink habit and
traffic, underlying and meeting near
ly every other sin, is the Sunday
schools greatest enemy.
A story is told of wise old Sheik
who gave to young Arab Prince,
from whom he was about to part, a
list of crimes and bade him to
choose the one which seemed least
harmful.
1ue young Prince turned in horror
from murder, theft and loss of Vir-
tue and told the Patriarch he would
choose intemperance.
You have chosen that" said the
wise old man, which will bring you
ALL"
Second: We have the children
and youth in our Sunday school dur
ing the most susceptible years,
when the tides of being are set either
toward good or evil.
We should teach those things
which concern the everyday life of
the child, thereby making them
strong allies of God in the contest
of evil.
through the faithful teaching of
temperance truths to children, cider
barrels have been taken out of the
cellar, wine removed from the table,
and brandy left out of the cooking.
How true it is-"A little child
shall lead them"
Third: 1t is of the utmost import
ance that those in our Sunday schools
understand the teaching in Gods
| Word upon this subject.
Intellectual knowledge is often OF
| little avail when unaccompanied by
an educated and sensitive conscience
We must stamp Gods Word con.
cerning these evils upon the mind
and hearts of the young so that nc
temptation will be able to erase it.
Dean Stanley said: Each age OF
the church has, as it were, turned
over new leaf in the Bible and
found response to it's own wants. 4"
1t would seem indeed that a new
leaf had been turned by this age in
that blessed Book whose teaching OF
this subject is so clear and explicit.
Never for a moment let us forget
that His Word, always a lamp tC
our feet and light to our path,
throws no uncertain beam upon thi!
most perilous way.
More and more clearly are we
coming to comprehend the bearing
of the Holy Scriptures upon the tenn
perance question, and how perfectly
both by its whole spirit and trend
as we'll as by precept and example
it enforces the truest, purest, anC
highest principles of total abstin
ence for the individual and prohibi
tion for the state and nation.
1t has been wisely said, IF yol
would know what the theology of thu
next generation will be, go down in
to our Sunday schools and learl
what is being taught there to-day il
that respect"
Can we not as truly say that th'
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-10

der, John Hobbs, Walter Dix, Henry
Glover, Joseph Hooking, D. G.
Brooks, Brandt; Dorretta O'Connell,
Jessie Brooker, Susie McGraw, Mae
Fisher, Walton, N. Y; Mrs. Alpha
Browdish, Aquago Lake; Fred Pick
ering, William Zerfass, Walter
Fisher and Malcom Brooker.
Mrs. Albert Marks is spending a
few days with her son, Charles, at
Shehawken.
Mrs. Arthur Barnard, Lanesboro,
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. B. Vermilyea, Saturday.
Steve Skellet is working for DR..
Downton in the absence of Ray
Sampson, who recently met with a
painful accident.
Mrs. John Merrigan is confined to
her home with an attack of La
Grippe.
Boyd Bedford, Maple Grove, is
working for G. B. Vermilyea.
Misses Doretta O'Connell and
Susie McGraw recently attended the
Literary Contest at Carbondale.
Prof. Robert Sampson attended
the l.. T. L. social at Starrucca, Fri
day evening.
Miss OConnell called on friends
here Saturday.