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VOL. XXXII.-NO. 29.
CLARKSBURG, W. VA., JUNE 2. 1893.
WHOLE NO. 1583
THE GREAT FAIR.
SOME OF THE WONDERS TO BE
SEES AT THE CHICAGO BX
POSITION.
F?ct> Written for the Beaeflt or Tele
tfram Header*.
We propose to talk with you
for a few minutes about Chicago
and the greatest Exposition the
world has ever seen. We paid
our first visit to the fair several
months ago and what we then
saw and learned was given to our
readers in the form of the
??World's Pair Telegram.''
We have just returned from our
second visit and are prepared to
tell many interesting and indeed
wonderful things. but our
space only permit us to present
a general idea of what ii is like.
In the place it is well to remem
ber that the city of Chicago is a
big part of the '"great show."
Chicago is territorially the
largest city on earth, possessing
?n area of one hundred and
aighty-five square miles and in
population is surpassed bv no
3ity on this continent except
New York. The World's Fair is
well worth seeing and all who
tail to visit it miss an opportun
ity of a life time. Accommoda
tions are reasonable and the talk
ihat has gone abroad about high
prices is without foundatien.
Good accommodations may bo
lad at hotels in the very heart
)f Chicago at $2.00 per day. (This
ncludes room and table board.)
Two persons can easily find a
?oom and bed at from fifty to
?eventy-five cents apiece by go
ng together and there are
estauradts everywhereuEmiiuifi
iVe rotmd many restaurants in
;he most fashionable part of the
rity where one could get a fair
ileal for 15 cents or a better one
.'or 25 cents. Really prices are
ower than in Clarksburg. A
popular price for ham saHd
witches was 5 cents, a cup of
good coffee 5 cents, or a large
slice of pie 5 cents, and at the
same price many other very
palatable dishes could be ordered.
These rates may be found in the
very heart of the city, which is
seven or eight miles from the ex
position grounds It takes a
cable car or an elevated car
about 35 minutes to run this dis
tance and the price is 5 cents.
A very rapid train making the
trip in 15 minutes over the
Illinois Central will carry you
for 10 cents. Admission to the
g/ounds is 50 cents, which ad
mits one to everything connected
with the World's Fair proper.
There are several attractions
however operated by outside
parties that require an admissison
fee to gain an entrance. There
is no extortion practiced on the
grounds and you can secure a
lunch at reasonable rates if you
look around for a reasonable
lunch stand. To be sure there
are High-toned hotels and Cafes
at Chicago that charge an ex
orbitant price, but no person is
forced to patronize them.
There remains considerate
work to be done on the exposi
tion grounds and is will be fully
a month before every article will
01 its permanent resting place.
. i? bost to get a bird's-eye
view of the grounds in the very
egmning in order to appreciate
we grandeur and sublimity of
e beautiful landscape and the
great buildings. This view can
e had from the r0Qf Qf the
Manufacturers and Liberal Arts
u wing, where there is a half
promenade 250 feet above
a fit ma. From this elevation
P0sWDeviS WOnderful and
seen Hk? it was ever
w6r,,,m. any past age of the
mes' ^Posing towers,
tho^ ?Uterraces o^r which
flutter and streamers
ln tho sunlight Old Lake
Michigan furnishes a back,
ground for the sublime picture.
The noise of the busy crowd, the
strains of music from orchestras
and bands playing the national
anthems of all nations, the mur
murming waters of the little
lakelets and lagroons that are
such a picturesque feature of the
grounds, the matchless architect
ure of the most wonderful build
ings ever erected, the arched
bridges that span the lagoons
where the water fowls nestle
among water Ullies and beautiful
verdure of gorgeous hues make
impressions upon the mind never
to be forgotten.
In our next letter we will speak
of the many things to be seen at
the Fair and how to see them.
S. P. R.
Ilonori to Bishop Kain.
On next Wednesday at 8 p. m.,
the Catbdhcs of Clarksburg will
give a public reception at Cen
tennial Hall to the Rt. Rev.
Bishop John J. Kain, of Wheel
ing, recently named to be Coad
jutor Archbishop of St. Louis.
A cordial invitation, we learn, is
vextended to everybody and we
do not hesitate to say that the
affair promises to be one of the
most memorable events in the
history oi Catholic demonstra
tions in Clarksburg. Bishop
Kain's great personal popularity
among Protestants as well as
Catholics, is a sufficient guaran
tee of the immense audience that
will probably greet him. Since
he lias been called from^ West
evening. It is a source of deepest
regret to the Catholics of West
Virginia that they are to lose
from their councils such a man
as Bishop Kain, but all seem to
rejoice in knowing that his genius
and worth has been appreciated
by higher powers.
Ilrouddiin College.
1 A great many of the friends of
Broaddus College are expected
here to attend Commencement
I which takes place next Thurs
day evening at 8 p. m. The court
house has been secured in order
to accommodate as large an audi
ence as possible. The graduates
are Misses Ethel Carle, Estelle
Powell, Bonnie Smith, Vesta
Wadsworth, Nannie Lowe, Lottie
Cooper, and Viola Stitzer.
Miss Powell issalutatorian and
Miss Smith will have the honor
of presenting the valedictory
essay. This is one of the lar
gest classes in the history of the
inst tution and a very pretty
Commencement is anticipated.
The public are cordially invited
to be present.
The grandeur of the scenic
success, Solomon, his temple and
the queen of Sheba has never
been equaled, in John Robinson's
great show. There is no lack of
mirth in this circus where the
funniest clowns on earth hold
forth. See the large -ad." in
this issue.
Mr. C. H. Davis, of Lost
Creek, was one of our callers
yesterday. He has just furnished
Miss Stella Morrison, of Aaam
ston, a very elegant upright
piano, of which she has reason
to be very proud as it is an ex
ceedingly handsome instrument.
Go to the Indian village Clarks
burg Saturday night June 3rd
and see the grand monster exhi
bition. Every evening new and
novel, the best entertainment of
its kind ever given.
A Freeport, Pa., man is catch
ing all the mice he can and he
vows that he will turn the whole
herd loose if the women of that
town appear on the side walks in
hoopskirts.
GOV. FOSTER.
The Great Ohio Politician
and
FINANCIER FORCED TO ASSIGN.
Fostoria, O., May 20.?Much
surprise and excitement were
caused this morning by the an
nouncement that Charles Foster,
ex-Governor, ex Secretary of the
Treasmry and Fostoria's most
prominent citizen, had failed and
had turned his heavy financial in
terests, in an embarrassed con
dition, over to an assignee.
The assignee is S. B. Gormlee,
a prominent banker of Bucyrus,
and a warm friend of Mr. Foster.
The liabilities are given out by
Mr. Foster as 1600,000, and tho
assets as about the same. He
made the assignment during the
night, and the papers were filed
at Tiffin by Mr. Scott, his attor
ney. At an early hour this morn
ing, the bank of Foster & Co.
was closed on an attachment for
18,200 in favor of Isaac Harter
Milling Company, and at the
same time the wholesale grocery
house of Davis & Foster was
closed by an attachment for $1, -
200 in favor of O. T. Brown.
The sassignment of ex-Secre
tary Foster was the signal for
the assignment of a number of
concerns in which he was int^r
The loss to business men who,
were depositors in Foster
bank is one of the depUjgjj|H|
that will cause them to assign. A
run was made on the Merchants'
Savings Bank this morning as
soon as its doors were opened,
but with 80,000 in currency piled
uponlhe cashier's desk, thfc de
mands of all frightened deposi
tors were promptly met and
none turned away. The loss to
Fostoria is a great one, and one
that will require considerable
time to recover from; but great
as it is. the regret on thisacocunt
in no way lessens the regret and
sympathy expressed for Mr.
Foster. It is conceded that his
generosity and public spirit have
been the indirect cause of his
financial downfall, as he was ever
ready to lend a helping hand.
The failure is due to the fact
that Mr. Foster-has been a very
heavy indorser for three assigned
wiDdow glass houses and the
brass and iron works, his en
dorsements for these companies
aggregating over $300,-000. The
stringency of the money market
caused banks to request payment
of the notes which precipitated
the failure.
Mr. Foster first began business
in Fostoria as a dry goods mer
chant.' Soon after the war closed
he helped to organize the Fosto
ria National Bank. By shrewd
speculation in real estate he be
came wealthy, and in 1879, when
elected Governor of Ohio for the
first time, was reputed to be
worth $1,000,000. During the
next four years he lost heavily
in Lake superior copper mines.
Mr. Foster is bearing up well
under his crushing blow. He
made the following statement
to the public this morning:
??Words can not express the
deep distress and humiliation I
feel. If I could bear all the bur
den that my failure will entail 1
should' feel a sense of relief.. It
is no consolation to look back
over a business life of forty-five
years which has gained for mo a
position of confidence that has
rarely been achieved." J
Another grand exhibition-will
bo given at the Indian village
next Saturday night A lot of
new features will oe introduced.
Doddridge l>ot?.
Mrs. Milton Steel, nee Miss
Rose Michael of Oxford, is quite
ill at her home at Marion. Indi
ana.
Charley Cheu,vront. of Good
Hope, Harrison county, was in
town this week
Born to Capt John W. Gatroll
and wifo last Sunday morning, a
boy. Mother and babo are doing
well and the Capt was still liv
ing last night?Record.
Work on the Bank Building
will begin at once and pushed to
completion. Capt. Fred A. Lang,
of Clarksburg, has the contract
fordoing the stone work and
will begin at once.
About 8.000 pounds of wool
bought by John Vanort in the
upper end of the county for R.
T. Lowdnes was taken up at
Smithton Monday. The price
paid for first grade wool was 20
cents. We aro informed that
Lowndes has called his buyers all
in for the reason that he thinks
wool will be cheaper later in the
season.?Herald.
Fairmont Itrlefw.
Mr. J. C. Smith, of the First
National Bank, has been quite
ill this week. He is threatened
with typhoid fever.
Yesterday we wero surprised
and pleased at a visit from our
young friend Joseph Reed, form
erly of Boothsville, but recently
ifrom the far off State of Wash
ugton. Joe is looking well
ped i
took in the great Fair, which he
says is simply immense, but will
not be completed for some weeks
to come. He will stay in this
county until about the first of
August.
Mr. A. L. Hefner, proprietor
of Brock's Cheap Cash Store,
was forced to make an assign
ment last Wednesday, not being
able to meet his obligations. The
indebtedness foots up 114,891.09.
with assets aggregating about
$10,000. B. F. Swisher and J.
M. Lantz were made assignees,
they being creditors. His near
relatives are in for a large amount
and many people of this county,
his sureties on negotiable and
time notes. Mr. Hefner has the
public sympathy in his misfor
tune.?Press.
Every community, the small
one as well as the large, should
order its affairs on the presump
tion that cholera is to cross the
Atlantic and make the necessary
arrangements to meet it. Every
family should disinfect their
home dwelling from cellar to
roof.
It is said the jailer of Cabell
county feeds tys prisoners with
ice cixiam on Sundays.
This probably accounts for the
fact that the jail is nearly always
full.
The Commencement exercises
of the W. Va. Business College
will be held as follows :
Annual sermon June 25th.
Literary Society June 27th.
Commencement June 28th.
Class Day June 29th.
Closing Banquet June 29th.
The friends and patrons of the
College are cordially invited to
attend.
TheKickapoo Mediciue Com
pany will remain in Clarksburg
for a week longer and close their
stay June 15th with the grandest
exhibition ever given. There
will be a grand balloon race, bril
liant display of fire-works. A
solid gold watch will be given
away and numerous other attrac
tioas. You cannot afford to miss
it-i 1 -mmh&m
MEMORIAL DAY.
H E observance
of Decoration
day in Clarks
burg was very
well planned.
The march to
the I. 0. O. F.
cemetery began
about 1 o'clock and when tho
graves of tho soldiers there and
elsewhere in the vicinity had
been decorated the members of
the G. A. R. headed by tho First
Regiment Band marched to the
cojrt house where a large audi
ence listened to addresses by
Judge Grofl, Maj. A. C. Moore.
Prof. J. N. David. S. F. Re<<d,
Gen. Northcott, J. M. Holmes and
Rev. Evans. The program was
arranged by Mr. W. M. Morris,
who presided during the exor
cises and introduced the speakers.
Henry Mayer, Esq., was uflicor
of the day and Col. Henry Hay
mond acted as marshal. The
speakers wore given a patient
hearing and tho addresses woro
generally enjoyed by the large
audience present At the ceme
tery the usual salutes were tired
by members of Custer Post No.
8. It was unquestionably the
most interesting memorial day
Clarksburg has had for some
time.
The association of the name of
John Robinson, the prince of
showmen, with Israel's wisest
king and Sheba's queen is by no
means inappropriate. What Solo
in learning, wisdom and
had the exceeding good taste and
judgment to add to his wonder
ful combination of hippodrome,
circus, museum and menagerie
thenewimpressional and expres
sively grand biblical spectacle of
Solomon, his temple and the
queen of Sheba, which he is ex
hibiting on a scale of magnificence
and with a lavish outlay of capital
which has no precedent. The
show will be here at Clarksburg
Thursday Juno 22d.
EmeretHill, of Leon, W. Va.,
a meritorous young man, aged
22, was working at a saw mill
near Leon, on Thursday evening
25th inst; the shed over the saw
fell in, throwing young Hill aross
in front of the saw running at
full headway, cutting off his
right hand and severing his head
entirely from his body, throwing
it a distance of ten feet This
horrible death was the result of
an unsafe shed, and the carpen
ter had just come with nails and
tools to repair it and make it
safe, when the above fearful ac
: cident occurred.?Ex.
Down in Tucker county there
is said to reside a man who has
always made it a rule to flog his
wife every time it rains. Last
week there was so much rain that
the woman died and the man
is down with nervous prostration.
A Logan county farmer traded
his boy for two shoats, a banjo
and a keg of whisky. He said
the boy wag lazy, could flog his
daddy, chewed tobacco, told lies
and in other material respects
wasn't worth a durn.
Dr. Morris, the dentist, is in
town this week.
Go to the Bee Hive Store for
silk Umbrellas at all prices. 28-2
The famous Kickapoo Indian
Medicine nan can be seen at the
Indian village for a week or two
longer.
Mr. H. Clay Morris has been
quite ill at St. Louis, Mo., for
several days and is expected
home in a few days.
Our talented townsman. Col.
Philip Clifford, dashed up stroet
this morning in his buggy bohind
his 2:40 nag. stopped iu front of
a hardware store and announced
to n friend that another bright
young son had put in an appear
ance at his house to gladen tho
hearts of his fond parontR, nnd
later on to sorve his country.
That tho youngster had tnado ft
requisition upon him for a pair
of red top boots and a high hat
to wear to tho circus.
Tho tlnest specimons of the
cutest ponies In the world aro in
the possession of John Robinson
and are a feature with his great
circus that comos horo Juno -id.
Tho grandest specialties' ever
produced are to be seen in John
Robinson's tonted world of won
ders.
Ladeis' and gent's undorwoar
at money saving prices. Uoo
Hive Storo. 28-2
"Greenhorn" McDonald as ho
is familiarly known to the boys
is said to have loft hero with
about f5,000, In hispockot with
which he has purchased an in
terest in a wholesale liquor home
in Springfield. Ohio.
Insure in the Provident Life
and mako provision for the ex
penses of burial. 20-4
Subscribe for the Tei.i'.hkam.
Do not forgot tho Broaddus
College Uaccalaureato, preached
at the Baptist church next
Wednesday evening by tho Uov.
Dr. E. W. Wintrey, of Vit
A largo audience is looli
Lloyd Bughley ago 1
E. Kuight, age 21.
Chalmer Mclntire ago 24,
Nannie Shreve, age 21.
Charles F. Randolph age 26,
to Cora D. West, age 25.
Grand illustrated entertain
ments by A. R. Carrington and
his drum solos cannot, bo ex
celled by all other living lecturers
at Music Hall Monday and Tues
day, June 5th and 6th and mati
nee. ?
Rev. A. M. Bennett is to be con
gratulated upon his success at
Wilsonburg and tho prospects of
a new Baptist church in that
town, but his congregation will
regret that he lias been called to
another field for the summer.
We hope he will decide to remain.
The appearance of tho talented
young tragedian. Mr. Prank
Hennig, at Music Hall Jun. 10th.
is already arousing much inter
est. He has many friends here
who have watched his career from
the start, as a boy playing small
ports, to the proud position of
loading man for the representa
tive tragedian of America. He
has chosen for his appearance
hero Shakespeare's historical
tragedy, Julius Ceasar, and will
represent a character in which
he has gained a national repata
tlon. Mr. Hennig is supported
by Mr. Thomas W. Keene's cele
brated company of players,
whlchwlthoutdonbt is thestrong
gest legitimate company before
thepublio to-day. The sale of
seats opens at Nusbaum's at
once.
THE OA TEST MARKETS.
New York, May 20. 1883.
QUOTATIONS or BEEVES.
Extra M 00
Good to prime ? W 55 44 5 HO
Fair to good ? 5 40 49 5 55
Common to medium .... 4 .10 44 5 85
Oxen and stags 3 25 (ffl 5 00
Bulls and dry cows 2 40 @ 4 33
Averuge to-day, estimated 5 35 44
Extreme range of prioea.. 4 50 44 8 00
Good to prime steers sold ono year
ago at *4 45i ' ?t 75; tho average price
was estimated at $4 40.
BEEVES?Receipts for two dtya, 384
oars, or 0,413 bead?203 ears consigned
direct slaughterers-S3 ears for ex
port alive. and 118 cars for the market.
Trading wuH active early iu tho day for
medium to choice stoers, but slow for
rough cattle.