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Show A MONIMKNTTOYIKTIF,. reiiu,vlvanlan Will CoinDieniuratea llrave Girl's Heroism. Bki.lkkostk, Pa.. April II. Special. The movement lo erect at Karthanis a monument to the memory of Clara Price, the heroic girl w ho sacrificed her life in protecting her virtue, is meeting with much popular favor, and it is expected ex-pected that the required fund will be raised at an early day. - The committee appointed to solicit subscriptions .have embodied in their address to the public the remarks of Judge" Fiirst. who, in sentencing Ihe murderer, Alfred Andrews, to death, said : "She saeriliced her young life to protect pro-tect her virtue. Her noble effort to protect her honor and purity ought to be written in tho granite above her grave. Sho died, not because she had to, but because she chose to. Had she yielded to your hellish purpose she might yet live, but hard as her fate was Clara chose the better part. No nobler act can be commemorated by us than tho heroic, martyrdom of this young girl for her honor." i |