The times dispatch. [volume], July 02, 1912, Page 4, Image 4

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rlcs 1b Kiefen:.Bi. tatid ?uhurbti und !>?
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Dally ?with Sunday..yli cents
Dally without Sunday. 10 err.:,
Suuuay only.,. C , ?ot?
gtitrr*.-t January ??. 1KB. at iMthmt
Vk . p.i ??ron .-c'nis mutter undrr act
Contri" of Vnr.-4 r. 1K?.
ivst hepiihshxt -i tit. vihgi:
pi:oi*lu
Messrs. Mai tin. Swartaori and Fl
rid their Immediate f< llowlng in
Iii Congress with Mr. rnCoi'wbod ?fters
no justification for their continuing a
course which can only bntl In tho dis
luption of tho Democratic party ?r th?
nomination of ?6 weak a candidate as
to Invite, If not to cause, Crushing de?
feat. There Is it time when the <\
erctse of personal Judgment descends
to ti.e level of mere stubborn stupidity.
That is where a majority of the Vlt
C'nla delegation stand to-day. They
owe It to Virginia; they owe It to them?
selves, they owe it to the Democratic
party, 50 support VV?odrow Wll??n.
Nothing but th" continuance of the
Martin, Sivnnson and Flood nt it.
Inbri will open the eyes of tho |lou
Wilson, and vote, for hint at once. They
represent Virginia. Tiny do not stand
i>i. Baltimore as feudal buds think?
ing their own minds without regard to
tiie common people.
Martin. Swansea und Flood would do
well to bear that In mind. What Vir?
ginia wants Is .representation, and Vir?
ginia will have It.
IXCT.11 SIvi3 tiOOU IIOAIKS I P i'S
Tho go' d roads question cannot In
st:lle or unimportant, new facta touch?
ing it are Interesting and Important
not only In themselves, but because
they impart additional vitality and
fsdkhness I" the old ones The twe
groups are cumulative evldcnci pi thi
>ficcfcssHy for good r a.b. ti.he ??. ?
centuatlng the othei in denlon trittlii
that in fhi good roads Issue tin 1 >uti
try is confronted ^'Kh poo <>i i;h<i grout
the? doctrine would seem logically to
bold tiuo as to 1..1 ? iients ami
Intei eats.
.
new?t alt en singly oi > nparatively,
are lio plain ah to be wltlilil the gras I
of tho dulloi t comprehension, lie onl>
does not eompn bend w 10 is detei
riot to. "Phe argument is a direct, slm
pie and oonclualvi ..!,. to the ptirse
As a, bast* ol compnrison, let t.s t.n
with a'repetition of tiie fact, so oftei
presented in connection with tiie sub
Ji '..
on; ton a mil' in Kur0pea 11 countrie;
,.
?/hi
from the
governnii
vast frei;
farm pro
tanco of
I'
i 1
that tea) .iiin:.. a .,
i
prod uets; could I.-- iled at tin
pric- foreign farmers 1 in ! m
Iii? total coat of ti..- pi ocfss 1
for-this iw-t:. done would
0 i\oV,o annual]), tliun making
!i
?
their hauling now on: farmers lerjuii
tMftQ.POO draft ho ht'uii
gtand'rtg them over >-.i.???.OOft, ? n
first-class roads they Would need nfil
half as many, thereby saving tl.oon
.000,000, to say nothing r fUrthei
Ing that w .pi . bine
gnd trucks as substitute* tut te'im
Agnln. oui farmers t. f?0?,. fnr
VJIflrgvftO fltr ?KliUtn till', fly oa aCCJU:
of bad : ouds. Another simple calcula
lion, which i? made by governmcn
experts and which any twelve-yea:-?>;
school boy can follow. Is that th<
amount bad loads cost the fanner:
would, in n few years, virtually paj
for good roads throughout the land. .'
further point worthy of the mos
thoughtful consideration is that und?
Presen i condition*, practically tin
crops, taking the country nt large, an
moved to the railroad In about s'-xtj
?
the advantage- of the ultimate Con?
ner. In that thi latter would be In
t' i\ less at the in? rC) of the cold
?
liig. The sum ol
li.it fa i njiers eo
tivostmeht iltith
o the ?tti.il insist
Investment i hau In eo-opordtlni; 11 nan
tlaiiy and in every other way with
them. The solution of the problem is
close. Is vital, to every Interest of
both, froth the economic viewpoint, to
bay, nothing of Its relation to social
and educational development, as Illus?
trated in affording facilities lor bring?
ing rural communities hearer together
and drawing these Into closer contact
! with the towns and cities.
MM: i MI. or I'll 11 IMtlll'HV HUNTS.
liven he who has not tarried long at
; I'li'llppl knows that no Democratic
I nominee tor ihe pr. sid. ne\ an win
[without the meat Independent vdt< of
Hi, country. Thai vote holds the tiail
unco oi potvel In New Vork, and hi
other Mates it shuts triumph .uro.-:,
its twilight zone to oil port) or the
oilier, Uiiicss the Dctnocrhta liominatQ
lit l.tliltltuoi o a man who CUh appeal to
M,e Independent vote, the party is
pendent now; jpers of the country,
rcUcctlng the sentiment 61 those who
are 'i'd to neither part) and \ylio vote
as liny list. fuVOr Woodrow Wilson
p i the presidency of t:o Unitod States.
?Thi y realIxo that he is of the mold
that i- atl'riicllvc to tue Independent
voters, for he is a political philoso?
pher, a profound political thinker, a
political Constructive genius, one who
is bound to the wheels ot no machine,
but Is free and UhfcttC'lod.
Let iis hear the testimony of the
Spiingllcld Republican, perhaps the
mosi influent al Independent newspaper
in Hit country. It stood with Cleve?
land, it speaks with inure authority
v. ia u it speaks for the Independent
y< thrtti any other im wspapor. it
cdlttir and proprietor Sunday seht t.;.
initiate Wilson, whom Independents
a progressive! can support with
in? hivltsuru of etUhUuliism."
jflieii ihere is the Now Vork Times, a
iv erf ill Independent organ, strohg
Incllned, us u rule, to the oonaer
ly pri
union or Underwood when the bal?
ling at Ualtlmon begun, but It now
flares Unit ''Hit strongest name be
ie tlie conventions is that of WooU
w Wiiso'i:.' it continues:
'When the delegutod at Baltimore
? :.. ? u Monday ihoy should put
i liib'l to ilie futillt) ot' vain balloting
? i'i :r dttiy uiie men by nominal
H S\.I row Wilson ior the prcsl
iicy, ii llit-y have ., sense of the true
leresl 0? their party and of .Mr.
ii. n position in im- convention
ley cannot escape the conclusion that
shoilld ami ri|ust b; nominated. . .
sit'CKritll in thi.IVelltlon but re
? strength before the country.
! ? .'. iio possible citnd'diiio of the
ijioo.crnC} whom the Republicans
oul.I Sil ilreiul to meet, no olio who
on!d so unite his party and Inspire it
in ib. fact "f Such evidence of tho
? ?
.dependent vote of the t'nitcd States,
ow can the Democratic convention
l it Ii i i \ .
?
i
oportloii, and
dr- H !* from
? '.Ion that the
rittO and the
i on- uinptlon,
Ualvnc/id V) the niar^n inadt, on- the
big consumer. Naturally thW Is a
delicate und easily disturbed condlt'on.
But ;is maintained at present at a fair
rate, it la manifestly an advantage t'>
the small consumer directly, and to
the large bite ind'rcctly In su tar as
bis business nnd prosperity 's bonucct
Od with all of Klchinotul's prosperity, j
if. however, a- is possible under tlio
franchise ui prCseiii sought from tho
City, competition In rates la begun Ui
tlii central localities, it nil I mean that
the ei;t will have to be iitet by tho
ubove, II is cieur that ibis cut from
state general equilibrium w'll rb
deiicu ami small consumer ritto will
ii
?
in -: two results produced tiie city
is tin victim. Tiie people us a whole
pay, ami oven those largo consumers
who arc temporarily behclitcd by re?
duced rates, will suffer in tii.' eiid by a
genera] crippling of elcctrii service in
i lo v, hole com in unity.
Ii the third result follows with the
j inevitability shown in olhui towns.
Iactually producing a kilowatt hour of
. ii. ui is propahly arotind i m. The
?
. v. i h...1.1 charges. depreciation, etc.
ami equipment ui tin- competing colli
puny win be added tu this ?iripunt, and
?
eiiy p.- Increased to pay for this b?r?
den of investment. These are riot
theories, but facts. Can the Aldermen
Ii rd to disregard them'.' Who will
I protect the Interests of tiie people?
MIH I A TAX COMMISSION 1)111 FOlt
ItltO Ulli 1*1.AM).
One hundred and thirty-five million
j tlx hundred and forty-nine thousand
two hundred and three dollars of un
taxed property has been discovered
'by the State Tax Comin .-slon of Rhode
island, which was appo'nted last Feb?
ruary. The people of that State deter?
mined t.i reach th..; untaxed wealth in
its borders, anil they have, iiie added
revenue brought into the state Treas?
ury by tiie work of tin; Tax Commis?
sion n il: be JS30.000. The corporation
taxes and the tiix.-s upon leased oyster
gl 11 lid S will amount t" mole than
$itiO,(IOO. Tho taxpayers who have
[shirked -li.ii duty to the Slate will
be brought to time and the state
I finances will be greatly Increased by
tho accretion created by the earnest
endeavors of the Tax Commiss'on.
That Is what the smallest State
i.P'n the Untied States has done. It pos>
sc#ses nothing like the resources ot
Vlrglnlu; nothing like Virginia's pos?
sible Heids of taxat'on, nothing like
; the Inadequately taxed counties of
this Comritonwer.lth. The exper'enco
of Ith...;.. 1 . il l is an Illuminating evi?
dence of th.' blind and stupid folly
which Inspired our General Assembly
I to abolish our State Tax Commission,
'which bade fair to do far more for us
than that of the little Northern St a to
coupl du f..r lur. But the legislators
of Rhode island tin not fooled by tho
eluptrnp of demagbgues, nor misled
by narrow county prejudlca and un
w<l)|iigncsa to stand for u square dcul
.1 U l 1.1 \ llltSA'l 11.11.
] li is strange mat the fretted cam?
paign managers who h?via been seek?
ing to discover some waj of starting
j a demonstration that win start a
landslide should have overlooked a.
demonstrator who demonstrates all by
i himself to the extent ot a regiment
at least. We refer, ot COUrSC, to tho
j Royal lii?li SuuiKl Producer of the
jlliovlllg picture show. He used to bo
a diuinlher, mil now his connection
I with his ancient glory tit-cms to bo
Iconllucd lo pluylUS five or six drums
by wiggling a siring with his ears.
What he actually is requires real
words. Ho is u tumult, u clamor, a
vortex of sound, an apotheosis "f
clangor and bangor, a pandemonium
j with a tired smile. He is a mehagcrle,
a garage, .-. three-alarm nie, a riot, u
I train vvreck, or the lisp of softly
susurruslhg wavelets on a moonlit
strand. Ho can gallop like a horse,
or crow like a rooster, bellow like n
cow, or scream like the heroine who
has discovered thiit somebody has
[stolen hot glass eye. In rigorous pur?
suit .,i truth wo should call this being
'"some" versatile.
1 About three of these handy and
,fuoly gentlemen Could gd up to Bill
, limor,- and go through about three
reels of hssbrted find terrifying sound
and nominate I'r. Anna Howard Shaw
? ui the next ballot. They could make
a landslide out <>; inud-picj for dish't
they make landslides every lime thcra
Is a gecrio in Hi.- Alps? A tidal wave
I would to busy, and 80 wet that the
delegates would hii've to get out <>:
? iio hall on n hastily t-Ohst ructed pro?
hibition plank. They would bang the
life and blow Hie drum and twang tili
land a triple hi t of hohes, vibrate the
weeks out lot off steam am; burn red
ui.. and still have plenty of breath left
I to cheer for the popular herb whose
(butter Milted than thai ui' being Iprio
factb d, monstratlons.
One might be a coo l thing to take
iionle to one v. In n the baby ij seized
witii an Imaginative, outburst thai re?
quires soothing by a poetical repro?
duction of ail (lie known sounds In
j the universe. When the baby said.
??Do it attain!*' this Institution could hot
,, nlv do it again, he could do something
.Most ?>f the motions to adjourn In
the Rhltlrhore convention are carried
hv t. ??naiiimtiia "nies" of t!,.> Hred
Itorbia*
On the Spur of the Moment
By Roy K. Moulton
I i-rpcimil.
Agent feller oho bricht day
Sellin' books, passed through this
why;
'Twos tn eighteen'sixty-one,
1 When the war had Just begun.
Tlicy was fancy bound In black,
With g'lt letters oh Hie back,
'Oyclopcdy, that's the nuinc.
All tin- books looked Just the game.
Kult ul kh?wieitKC :is < lOUld be;
ihdexi .1 clean trum A to '/..
i?'? 11 i he could tulk III"' ???>,
'Twas in use of buttln' in.
For he surely had tin flour;
Couldn't show linn la the door,
I olllir down, that Was the p.an,
Puy th.' bntuiice when you can.
1.1?. instalments very small,
I >i.|n i seem no trick ut all.
Old Hi Perkins bo??In a set
Ami he's paying for It yet.
Veeurdlug to I uele Vbner.
iL' l ist time ROV. Hanks was down
to th.- city he looked so religious the
polite party nigh run htm in on sus
plclou for a con man.
riiete arc a whole l"t "f ways to
make. peoj>le think you're rich be?
sides wearin' patent leather shoes on
\\ eck ?In vs.
Last Sunday tile pustor ashed every
mehil er of the church to bring two
sticks of wood when they mine to
the Thursday evening prayer ihuetlng,
as t lie church woodpile ?vas getting
low. livery t.l.ler look two sticks of
wood from hl.s neighbor's yard, so Ii
wits even up purt> well, iiftbr all.
Some llouMeholil lufelleltles.
"Oh, yes. of course .' have got io
. i?ht'S to spare, hut I want you to un?
derstand that my business was never
so poor as 11 Is thlb year, and It Is
only n short distance from us to the
county farm."
"Who in tophet has been using' my
: razor strop to lick the kids ??Ith. any
, how V"
"Boiled potatoes every day. Somo
women have absolutely no Original
! lty."
"Say. Oeorge, any old time you
don't like the way I wear my hair
? you can ante up for a now switch.
See'.'''
"Oh. you ain't got much of a holler
, coming. I know some Women who
don't c.o home to get supper at all."
"You're the nifty little husband, all
right; the little rny ol sunshine. The
i l.a of grouching around for a Week
just localise mother sdys she is E""'H
, to come and visit us some time next
s unnier. You make mo tired..
"Hee, It you was nlurrlcd to BOtne
.women you wouldn't kick about one
little hair in Hie succotash. I'll tell
you that."
Tip* on the Ilaren.
As ? " the general ?i ipo 1 ir to.day, I
inn prepared to hand out the follow
lug Information after looking the tul
? ',t over very careful!) anil Interview
' Ing the owners :
I Suspenders ought to be great in the
stretch, (lot wise to this.
Mercury ought to be a good runner
j up If the weather remains warm.
; American tingle always cocs well on
Iho iiUilrter, also on the half-dollar. |
Porterhouse is apt to go tip In the
n|r at any moment.
Mustard Plaster shows evidences of
if ticking to the ilnlsh.
General Humidity ousht to do pret?
ty well In a heat.
There is every Indication that. Fur?
niture Polish will be Hcratched and
Babbling Brook set back for running. I
Aeroplane Is liable to break when j
} least expected to do so.
If you wnnt i safe bet put It on 1
House and Lot.
1 will repeat my tip of last season. '
whlcli was so successful; to the effect
tliot liar.I Boiled llgg cannot be I
beaten.
j Bookmaker Is a winner In nearly '
' every race.
; If you want to get a run for your
? money try to catch the first ear after
i the races, a good. Sn e investment for
; your week's salary Is In hamburger
Isandwiches ami lee .ream cones.
Ml It Pit Y,
To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
S'r,?In the Religious Herald of
June ut, 1312, there appears an edi?
torial entitled "Si ml-Polltlcal" in '
which the editor discusses In a ' aim '
and comprehensive way some of the:
men and conditions which have re; ;
cently, and are nOW, greatly Interest?
ing the general public.
There was oil'- paragraph vvh'ch soi
clearly states a fact of such great
importance at this time 'hat I think
you will do a pub'.: service by repro?
ducing It- 1< is as
"As between Mr.
and the things for
and William Barnes
which he stands, th
choose. They arc
Hows:
Charles Murphy
which ho stands,
nd the things for
rd is not a pin to
tarred with the
HRtm slick, they have the same poli?
tical motives, they do business after
the same fashion, .'.' .body who under?
stands the situation doubts for a mo
ntenl that if It heenmc nccessory,
;li.s.? ba lers of theli respective parties
I would hesitate, whl! posing as deadly
foes, to enter In:., secret alliance."
' As I have read I ?? accounts of the
I Baltimore convention, 1 have been im?
pressed very min i, with Mr. Murphy's
? onditct us I would be with that of a
man Who hflH 111 ne'e oho'ee beeves
Which lie is of opinion are sufllclent in
number to "cornel the market." and
Abe Martin
Vi:''1.
Nothin' makes n fellor feel a slndo
pendent as havin' two or three dollars
over beiir mhrrlod. Km Moon an' her
I man have been married two yoars
fmorrow. Don't It teat nil how some
folks see n.t jist be made tor each
'?ttert ' s
HIS FIRST CAR.
By John T. McCutcheon.
which he Is offering lo tho dealer from
whom he can get the best price.
May we not hope that there Is only
one Charles Murphy In the Baltimore
convention at this time?
Vf, sydnor.
t'n>r Blue Street.
To the Editor of The TImcs-Dtapatch:
Sir,?i have cft$li sung that little
song, |'J want to be all angel and with
tlio angels stand, a crown," etc.
Hut I have concluded that all such
Is but t waste Of. human breath, and
have concluded that ail I desire la to
live on Pin? Str.-.-t, where w. have
paid taxes tor forty years ami kept
ojultil, hoping that JUStlce would conic
our way some of these limes.
We havo paid for every blick tu our
sidewalks, and if our dear ettj has
done, anything for us it Is In the way
ot Investments that pays the city from
25 to 50 per cent, on tin. so.called im?
provements in our section, and wo have
been taken In forty years.
We have the only park to park
boulevard, "Monroe to Riverside," and
we have sot out trees and nursed them
tor forty years and tried to make Pine
Htreet as beautiful and attractive as
pOSSl de, and for all that we have done
and are doing lor the dear city we
Only ask that our narrow street (about
ihirty-tlve feet) bo smooth paved
course tho street car company paves
about one-third of this and y>et 1 un
dcrstand that our dear city cannot ?f.
ford to pave the other two-thirds with
[smooth paving, but are ^oing to u/ivc
i us tiie granite spall on a strictly resi?
dence street, which will be a 'iOud!'
! monument to our representatives In
I tile City Council und add tu out stock
, of unnecessary noise. O. E. r.
t ondemns Mr. flood
I To tin Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?Please allow mo space in your
columns to thank you for your lead?
ing editorial, "It Looks Like Wilson."
of Sunday, June :!". Such straight
talk Is bound to do good, nrid 1 wish
every delegate to tho Baltimore con?
vention and every voter In the Ullltod
States could have rend such an edi?
torial tlds morning. It lg u real and
genuine pleasure to hear this kind of
doctrine preached through' the columns
of our daily press, and The Times
Dispatch is to be commended, and Its
cd'torlal writer congratulat.il for such
la line sample of clear logic, fearlessly -
.slated opinion and good newspaper
composition.
I But to stiow that your renders are
hoi blinded, by your edltorlnl virtues,
to your editorial faults, please allow
the a little friendly criticism a;: well.
Why do you commend Congressman
Hai D. Flood in your editorial of .lune'j
28, for what you are pleased to term
ii ''defense" of the well-morited criti?
cism or Virginia's lelegatlnn for the
presence in its personnel of Thomas
Fortune Ryan? 'Tis the galled lade
iiiat wines, and Mr. Flood more than
any one man seems to be responsible
for the presence of Mr. Ryan ns one
of the Tenth (Mr. Flood's own dis?
trict) delegates, 't seems to me that
Mr. Flood's defense ..f Mr. Ryan's pros- i
i nee as a blol on the landscape of the
Virglnln delegation, is an apology
much worse than bis offence in having
such a man n?nt to represent his dlfr
irlcl of our State. ,
"A reader," In Sunlnys Times-Dis?
patch, is right. Such a betrayal >>t
V'rglnln and Virginians should have
been resented and if no Virginian was
equal to the emergency we should com?
mend and th:<nk Mr. Bryan for the in?
terest lie takes) th the good name of
b's ancestral StntCf
Had a certain Mr. Flood, at Norfolk.
shown more devotion to Ids native
State, more en re for her honor and
reputation, and more consideration
(or the wisliesi of her people t-'tnn to
saddle on her so area', an Incut us as
Tlins. F- It.Vnn; his so-or.llod doi?nso
would not have Keen neb I'd
It is n bit Kalling to Virginians who
; love their State lo read thai her name
was hissed and her delegation jeered,
IbocRUSCT'Ot tho-.piesetico of, a aelcija.te,
for whom Mr. Flood was so largely
re tponslble.
Doubtless many of your readers fall
to see why Mr. Flood deserves any
great credit for defending thi? State
from a criticism whloh his action
brought upon her. Mis defense Would
have been more to the point had lie
taken m> part In naming fly an as a
delegate. Thore is nuih In the home!)
adage, '.'an ounce <'f prevention Is
Wurth a pound of cure;" had Mr. Ilyan
ni VC!" been a delegate there would
have been i.o such suggestion as "Send
ftyan hortic;" no needed criticism of
our delegation, no Mai Klnod defense.
.1. MI DDIS It DKAKti
i omntend Brj an,
To the Kdltor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.?Please reprint the following.
Norfolk. Vs.. June 29, 1512.
To William J. Bryan;
?ar. of HOiol Belvedere. Baltimori
Md.
If I^iwson'E charges are true you
v. ere right In demanding the With?
drawal froth the national convention
of delegates representing interests
Which had participated In that dia?
bolical plot. The responsibility ! .r
th<d:- presence now rests where It I ??
longs, on Virginia and New York, aal
not on the National Democratic G
vcntlon, When the peopio realise iv '
damnahle Influences are alleged to t,.i
at work In Baltimore to defeat t! Ir
will and nominate a enndl<|ato. In s: m
pnthy with predatory Interest, the l'n
trodtlctlon of your resolution will be
regarded an act of patriotic hbr?i.? h.
(Signed- J. CDOYD BYABS,
(Signed) C. J. McRAE.
No Crown or Pborna,
To u.e Kdltor of The TImes-Dtspatch: |
Sli-,?To William Jennings B:y:iM:'
You shall not press down your cl'OWh
of selfishness on the Democratic party
you shall not crucify the voters to sell
your copyrighted' articles,
A PK MO CP AT.
ft'verton
Mil N0RF01
Norfolk. Va., July 1.??Thomas
I Whltohirad Perkins, aged sixteen
I years, son ol M>' and Mis. Henry I).
I Perkins, of 28 East Raleigh Avenue.
I und one of the brightest pupils of j
I the Maiirj High .school, was accident?
ally drowned in the river at the Coot
of Freemason sure, t shortly before
noon to-day, Young Perkins had gone
to the Norfolk Boat Club to tall.
SWlinlng lessons, und was about to i
uomo in from the water when he said,
aller the departure of the altendant, i
thitt he desired to take one more turn,
; and dove Into the water. He came to
I he surface once, then went down not
; t.. come op nghih. A boy standing on
pile of tii. Norfolk Boat Club's boats.
I badly frightened when young Perkins
failed io come to the surface, called
tor assistance from inside, but when
I the body was finally recovered It h ut
linen too long in the water to make
; resuscitation possible. The body was
I embalmed, and will be sent to Ash- ?
j innd for Intcrhtoni.
\'oung PerklnS was an unusually I
bright boy, and had a promising fu
ttiro. He stood at the head In bin
[studies as a pupil in the Maury High
School, and this year took one of the
oratorical medals. Mis father Is iho
city editor of the f.edger-Dlapatoh.
Young Pcrklhs whs lb-' winner of
the first prljie. a gold medal, at tho
recent conimnrn invent oratorical eon
t.st .it his fraternity, the Alpha Alpha
PI, of Maury nigh School, and wa? re?
tarded, by rrofuuftor Daln,. DrinclDin of
l-'unrriil ni iHhlnud
[ special to The Timc*<bisn
Ashland, v.i, July l._Tin
f Thomas D. Perkins will ri
Lud to-morrow shortly af
ml the funeral will bn h.
?
celdeiicc of Mrs. .|an;Af r
Ister of Henry
p. Pcrkihi. 'father
The r.< rvli r? win
?'. J. I? Goodwyn.
II INSTANTLY
11 BY TRi
hpei al to 'i he Times-Dispatch.]
Arvi lila, v i . Jujy > a horrible nt
h ril ... in:,,i ?t memo Rltifr. a low
. n- the Jnmi s River Valley hear bei
i fate Saturday i Ight; John Tlllman,
young man. being Instantly killed ah
id.
bought to have o.
light Saturday o
some i me early Sunday inofnlhg. i'h
young man was nt Uremo S?iurdu
night, and it is thought llial lie wen
up tin tracks and there f"ti aslcei
Tii?. tlr.'t phasing freight train cut th
lop part of his head off. and (rain
whir h passed later finished the grue
sonic work by cutting off his hands, nt
fee| ami other portions of his i>od
The corpsii iviis round Sunday mornln
'V those who went io engage hp- sei
viccs for a trcstie t"i.. which lie ha
promised to help on during Sunday.
Nu )? 1.in.i? np| irs to bt attached :
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