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Primaries Are Held in Five Wards
[Tuesday.
STRONG MEN ARE NAMED
Many of the Nominees Are New Men
—Some Are Veterans—Harmony
Prevails.
The republicans held their primaries
Taesday evening at the places adver
tised. The a tendance at all was
large., Th- nominations In all cases
were practically unanimous.
The lepubllcans of the first, ward
met at Lambert's hall. .J H. Lyeth
was chairman of the meeting and E.
K Entler secretary. The nominating
sneech was made by C. H. Wolfes. He
placed In nomination W. E McQuil
kin. The nomination was made unani
mous.
Mr. McQuIlkln is no novice In poll
tics. He wa. in the council ten years
ago. He is proprietor of the Troy
Steam laundry.
In the third ward John A. Wllen was
chairman and Henry Taylor secretary.
W B. Lind,ay nominated E. C. rf- n
shaw. He v.-.is made the choice of the
meeting. Mr. Henshaw is a i>* v-m> ,e
collector. He was at one to,.nt;u>*
committeeman. He has never Ueui
local office.
J. H. Heck was the chairman of the
meeting in the fourth ward and James
, York secretary. Thomas Kline was
nominated. He is well known in b'js
inoss circles. He is proprietor of a
meat market on Queen street. He is a
new man He has never held office.
Anthony Staubly, who has been In
the council six different terms was the
choice of the electors in the second
ward. The meeting was held at the
conrt house and it was said to be an
enthusiastic one. George F. Evans
was chairman and County Clerk T I.
Bender secretary of the meeting
In the fifth ward John Kastle was
was the nominee. He is foreman of
the B. & O. blacksmith shop.
HEARING THE B. & O.
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State Board of Public Works Takes
Up Railroad Assessment.
Charfeston, W. V.a-, May 7.—The
board of public works was engaged ia
hearing the Baltimore & Ohio. Last
year this road returned their property
at. sixteen millions and the board
marked it up to eighty millions. The
road then instituted numerous -.nits i:i
various counti *, but decisions were
iu favor of the state so far as report
ed. This year the road turns l.n its
valuation at eighteen millions, or two
more million than the year before, in
last year's report net earning were
turned .a at five million, five hundred
thousand. The road claims that this
was uot co eet and on account of op
—
bration in West Virginia is greater
than in Ohio, turns In net earnings
this year of one million less.
MUST PRINT STATEMENT.
State Officials Will Get After Towns
Which Fail to Publish the Lists.
Charleston, W. Va., May 7.—The
time is up for several towns to have
the flnaucial statements printed, and
it is said that those who fall to com
ply with tills feature of the law will
be severely dealt with.
It was stated by an officai here
that many of the towns of the state,
not wishing to spend the legal rate
with the newspapers have failed to
b.vve their financial conditions made
known through the press.
Chimney Catches Afire.
A small fire in the home of Horace
Owens on West Burke street caused
soma excitement about 7 o'clock on
Monday evening. A chimney caught
lire. It was found unnecessary to call
out the department as it was quickly
extinguished.
Mrs. Lee Dies.
Mm. Andrew Lee, colored died at
her home on Conners street, on Tues
day of general debility. She was sev
enty-two years of age.
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NO. 7 W RECKED.
CCLLIS'ON ON THE 8. A O. NEAR
WHEELING.
Four Men Killed and Eight Injured
—Fog Obscured the Signal of
FUgman.
Wheeling, May 7.—In a dense fog
early today the New York-Chicago ex
press, No. 7. on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, crashed into an eastbound
freight as it was Raking u siding at
Rosbys Rocks, twenty miles east of
here, killing four of the railroad men,
seriously injuring three others and
slightly injuring five passengers. The
• ngines, baggage, mail and express
cats were demolished, but the pas
senger coaches and the sleepers were
uninjured. Titcause is said to he
tiie fog, whjcli prevented the engineer
of the passenger train from seeing a
flagman who protected the freight.
The dead are:
C. X Warner. 2S years old, Bellalre,
Ohio, baggagemaster.
VV. T. Thomas, Wheeling. W. Va..
fireman of freight.
I. L .Painter, Burton, W. Va., ex
press messenger.
Charles Christy, fireman of passen
ger train.
The injured are: C. VV. Riley,
Wheeling, W. Va.. engineer of passen
ger train; leg cut off above the ankle,
internal in times: condition serious.
H. A. Hill, messenger of passenger
train, bruised about head and body.
M. L. Perkins, fireman of freight,
collar bone broken, arm and bead in
jured; condition serious.
Miss Sarah E. Simmers, New Jer
sey, slightly cut about the head and
upper part of the body.
Miss Mollle Hill, New Jersey, in
jured about the head.
C. R. Stern, official of superinten
dent’s staff, foot lacerated.
Charles Scalpel, Washington, D. C.,
had crushed.
('. Crilllspie, Washington, D. C.,
bruis-hed about the bod>
All of the injured will recover. This
is the seventh wreck that Engineer
Riley has been in, and the first one
in which he sustained Injury.
CAPTURED AFTER HARD TUSSLE.
Seven Toughs Break Glass in Saloon
Door and Give Merry Chase.
Tiie police force tackled about the
warm • t proposition last night that
th ' have be.-- up against for some
time. Along about midnight the glass
in th- dour of .John Creque’s saloon
was hrken. The crash attracted Mr.
Creque’s attention and on looking out
: he saw --veral men making away. He
t '!;p i:i—11 tiie police and they started
.after the gang.
F ght With Officers.
Offic is Heck»aml Hollis happened
to be at i he police station at the time
and made a hurry run of it. At the
B. & O Queen street crossing they
came upon part of the gang and cap
tured on • He was brought to the po
lice sta Officers Hollis and Blake
followed the men out the railroad to
Thomas field where they ran onto
them a.-tin. The men showed fight.
A hand ) hand encounter took place.
Officer Hollis tackled two of them.
One of them knocked him down and
he was pretty well bruised up. They
got awa from him after a hard fight
and th- ifficer shot after them in the
darkness He thiuks he hit one of
them, for he gave a cry of pain., The
men disappeared nit. along the C. V'.
tracks
Two Are Captured.
While all this was going on Officer
Blake was busily engaged. He had
two of them. They also put up a hard
fight, but i; - captain managed to re
tain his h I and after the struggle he
landed th- in behind the bars.
There w-re seven In the gang, but
four mad good their escape. The
other thr ■ will lie asked to explain
today. It * believed that the men be
long to th • camp, that 1^ located near
Leidig’s, along the C. V. Warrants
will be issued today and the officers
will make an effort to apprehend the
rest of the gang.
Good Work of Police.
Captain Blake, in the chase, fell and
tore the skin from his knee, and a
gash in his hand. He also ruined his
pantaloons, ui l tke new summer suits
can't get here too quick to please
Charley.
The polio- did good work last night.
I figuring in two -scapade* that are not
of frequent iccurrence here.
Pay $33 for Breaking Glass.
The three men who smashed in the
window of .John Creque's saloon were
brought before the mayor on Wednes
day and fin -1 $ ; for their fun. They
paid the fine
Along about midnight on Tues
day the glass in the door of John
Creque’s saloon was smashed in The
crash attracted the attention of Mr
Creque Hastening to the spot he saw
several men running away The po
lice rounded them up after a hard
J chase. Th<*ro wer» seven in the gang.
;On!y f wen* taken
ELKINS MAY LOSE" HOME
Odd Fellows Cannot Secure the
Ground They Want.
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SITE GIVEN IS INSUFFICIENT.
Unable to Get Additional Ground,
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Committee Will Ask For a New
Location.
Odd Fellows have been much inter
est'd in the home to be established
by their State Grand Lodge for aged
and indigent members and orphans
of deceased members, and for several
years there has been a strong desire
among the members to have the home
constructed. A location was chosen
at Elkins, and a committee of the
Grand Lodge was authorized at the
last session tp go on and place the
buildings under construction. Some
sixty thousand dollars are already
available in the grand lodge treasury'
for the construction of the buildings,
and the annual assessment would pro
vide much more. The committee had
been engaged almost since the session
of Ihe Grand Lodge in an effort to se
cure a proper silo on the farm to be
donated by the citizens of Elkins and
the lodge of that place, but owing to
the failure of the adjacent property
owners and the committee to deal for
a small piece of ground, the work of
construction has been so far delayed
that the committee has about decided
to refer the matter back to the Grand
Lodge and recommend a new location.
The committee wants a few additional
acres to make the'site an ideal one,
and offered the neighboring land own
ers all they have asked for the prop
erty, they have dickered over the mat
ter for so loig and put so many ob
tacles in the way of the enterprise
that those having it in charge have
about lost all patience and are unani
mous in (lie opinion that it will be
impossible to acquire sufficient land ftt
Elkins: and as the Grand Lodge has
not been committed to the location ex
cept upon the granting of sufficient
land at Elkins as a site for the home. I
the whole matter of re-locating the
home will therefore likely be before
the next Grand Lodge and a fine op- \
portunltv given some enterprising
community to secure an institution
which will cost something like a hun
dred thousand dollars to erect and
several thousand dollars annually to'
maintain.
HOLD UP LIMITED
ENGINEER KILLED AND FIREMAN
WOUNDED.
Sheriff and Posse Follow Men and
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Lose Them in the Mountains—
Reward Offered.
Special Dispatch to The JYorld.
Butte, Mout.. May 7.—The North
Coast Limited, eastbound train No. 22
on the Northern Pacific railway, was
held up by two masked men nSar
Welch's Spur, a siding eighteen miles
east of Butte, early this morning.
Engineer James Clow was shot and
killed, and Fireman James Sullivan
was shot through the arm. Without
making any attempt to blow open the
express car. as was evidently intend
ed, the robbers jumped from the en
gine and ran down the mountain side,
dlsappeaVing in a gulch several hun
dred yards from the trark.
Trailed the Men.
Sheriff Hendersori* of Butte, was no
tified and with a posse left on a train
for the fcune of the hold-up. Sheriff
Webb, o£ Yellowstone county, yas on
the train and with one or two of the
train mew started on the trail of the
hold-up men five minutes after the
shooting. He trailed theVnen half a
mile and after picking up their masks
lost all track of the bandits.
On the tender of the locomotive
was found a telescope grip full of
giant powder, evidently intended for
use in blowing up the express car.
, The men boarded the train presum
ably at Butte transfer, where a loco
motive for the Montana division was
i attached. One mile west of Welch the
[ men crawled over the tender, and with
I drawn guns, commanded the engineer
to stop Jhe train, which he did. En
gineer Clow, however, made a show or!
resistance, and one of the robbers
[ fired, shooting him through the body, j
killing him instantly. The other man,
shot at Sullivan, breaking his arm.
Reward to Be Offered.
A reward will be offered by the
I railroad company for the capture of
the men. ,
The North Coast limited is the
crack train on the Northern Pacific.
This is the fourth time the North
Coast eastbound has been held up in
three vears
SHOT SIX PEOPLE.
In Fit*of Insanity Boarder Kills a
Whole Family.
Special Dispatch to The World.
San Francisco, May 7.—Walter
Charley Davis, a carpenter, in a fit of
insanity, shot and killed a family of
si?: persons with whom he resided in
this city,
r* The dead:
Orson R. Hush, aged '7; his wife
and their young son.
W. s. Ford, a carpenter, with rela
tives in St. Louis and Denver.
M. E. Zinton, a surveyor, recently
from New York.
Mrs. Lillian D. Carotliers, an elderly
woman, who boarded in the house.
To Place New Crossings.
Stoon two new crossings will be put
in. one at Stephen street on Queen
and the other at Maple avenue and
John street. Rrioks are being hauled
for the work.
Buys Two Horses.
Grove & Henshaw purchased twro
horses at Bunker Hill and will ship
them out of town
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Two Deeds Are Put on Record In
County Clerk'3 Office.
The following deeds have been made
i matter of record with County Clerk
I. C. Render:
John M. Smurr and Adalim- Snuirr
to F. C. Foreman, property in Arden
district: consideration $6,0f>0.
Minnie V. Tyler and Samuel H Ty
ler to Ann Anderson, property in
Hedgesville; consideration, $700.
Arranging for Reunion.
Rev. J. A. Hoffheins is in Carlisle,
Pa., where arrangements arj being
completed for the annual reunion of
Reformed churches at Pen-Mar
More Brick Here.
I’hre - more carious of brick have
arrived One car contains 12000.
They are being hauled and piled on
Queen street.
HAPPENINGS IN THE
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
It is slued that Adjutant General
Maker will give up the management ot
the Clarksburg Telegram, move to
Charleston and perform the duties ot
the adjutant general’s office himself,
instead of leaving them to an assist
ant.
After being closed for a year
Grafton’s saloons were opened again
yesterday.
A shipment of $125,000 worth of
,1amp black was made Tuesday from
the carbon factory of Godfrey L. Ca
bot. near Grantsvllle tt was ship
ped down the Little Kanawha river In
barges and loaded on freight cars for
N'ew York
Ed. Mitcheh, of Logan was struck
by a train and instantly killed
Surveys are being made for an elec
tric railway from Broadway through
Moorefield to Lost City a distance of
30 miles. The United States Leather
cnipany, which has large tanneries in
that section, is back of the new line.
West Virginia dentists will tne^t at
Clarksburg May 15, to organize a
state Cental association
Judge John W. Mason has deliveed
a special charge to th^ grand jury
-f Monongalia county oa the new ciub
law.
Jesse Hess, of Morgantown, ctr Ms
knuckles on a piece of glass in a bot
t!" factory, and almost bled to death.j
before the flow of blood could be stop
ped.
Garfield Mason, near Capon Bridge,
had a liatiit ot stopping in front ot
Edgar l/ewls' home and cursing him.
Saturday night he included Lewis’
mother in the cursing ^d Lewis fired
a load of No 7 shot into Mason.
Clarksburg is to have t» new hos
pital.
Hiram Ketchen. an employe of the
Fairmont Coal Co., was run down by
a train in the yards at Mt. Claire,
Tuesday, and sustained injuries which
will probably prove fatal.
The state council of the Improved
Order of Red Men will meet at Hunt
ington May 7.
License has been refused for the
ensuing tax year at Weston and the
resulting over supply of barkeepers
at Clarksburg threatens to lower the
pay in that business.
About 75 race horses are in train
ing at Parkersburg’3 new fair grounds.
Mary E Roy and Abel Seymour, the
later about 70 years old. are among
the parties arrested by Deputy Mar
shal W. D. Brown in Grant county for
the alleged sale of ilquor without
license
Wm. Slane fell from a scaffold at
Clarksburg Monday. A board broke
under him and he fell 4: feet, but will
probably recover
MAI SELL HOSPITAL
Light Fingered Gents Steal Mrs.
Ardinger's Pocketbook.
GIRLS HELP IN THE CAPTURE
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Directors Decide to Dispose of Prop
erty Unless City, County and Rail
road Contribute to its Support.
Unless the citizeos of Martinsburg.
generally, and the physicians, especial
ly, give better support to the King's
Daughters hospital it will be put upon
the marketer rent or sale. Such was
the decision of the directors at a meet
ing held on Monday. The directors
present were Dr. J. W. McSherry,
George S. Roush Judge E. B. Fauik
aer, George Ryneal, jr.. and Max Rob
inson.
The meeting wa3 held to consider
the financial condition of the hospital.
The reports made were discouraging.
It was a matter of comment that the
physicians of the city have been lack
ing in support of the institution. In
fact it was said that they have been
antagonistic to it.
The reason for this attitude is not
clear. A hospital is a necessity in
a community. As a rule hospitals are
supported by the public. No city of
any size is without a general hospital
which is supported by the community.
It is asked, pertinently, why should
Martinsburg be without one? And
since the city is lacking why should
the citizens fail in appreciation of the
one here and try to discredit it when
they give it no support’
Doctors Take Away Patients,
so far as to remove some patients
it is said that one physician went
from the institution without saying
anything to the management, it -s
said. too. that some physicians have
advised tneir pa Mail not to pay their
board after they have been cared for
at that institution.
That the institution is in as go.t.1
condition as it is financially, is due
to the ladies who have interested
themselves in it. They have worked
hard for years to i m main the institu
tion and have only been able to keei
it alive in the face of almost insur
mountable obstacles from thetr per
sonal dues, contributions and enter
tainments. It is said that it has been
slow work. When an entertainment,
ha-, been given for the benefit of tbe
institution the citizen have failed to
support ii and tin- returns have been
meagre. In no year have the receipts
from the hospital been sufficient to
pay tho fixed charges and the deficit
has ha 1 to be made up by the ladte
from various sources.
Many charity patients have been
treated and the few paid patients
have contributed an amount insuf
ficient to pay for the actual board.
uny anouia uive support.
,One citizen, in speaking of the mat
ter said: “In every community public
hospitals ar > supported on the funds
of the city and county for which they
receive in return free board for char
ity patients. Martinsburg should do
as much, hut the officials have never
shown an inclination vet in that di
rection.”
The advisory board decided to make
one further effort and if the railroads
will contribute here what they do in
other cities and the county and city
also appropriate nominal sums there
will be sufficient to support the ho*,
pital as it should he and guarantee ttie
city what it should .have.
It is pointed out that the Vourt
house is the only public institution
that has public support and the rea
son for that support is palpable.
KOSMOS CLUB MEETS.
Season Is Held at Home of Miss Ethel
Boyer.
The Kosnios Literary Club met at
the home of Miss Ethel Boyer on
South Queen street on Tuesday even
ing. Papers were read as follows:
“Literature in New England,” Miss
Elizabeth Trammell; reading from
Mary E. Wilkins, Miss Lou Ellen Sei
bert; book review, “Port of Missing
iMen,” by Meredith Nicholson, Miss
Mary Hoffheins. Refreshments were
served. '!*
Miss Dandridge Buried.
Miss Dorothy Dandridge, aged 11
years, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. S. Dandridge, of near Shepherds
town, who died early Sunday piornlug
very suddenly of pneumonia, was
buried in Shepherdstown on Monday
morning at 11 o'clock. The services
were conducted in the Episcopal
church by the rhetor. Rev. Mr. Haith
cocke.
Mr. Bender Gets a Flint.
County Clerk I. L. Bender was pre
sented on Friday with a piece of flint
found in the mountains not more than
five miles from Martinsburg He real
ized the force of the expression “hard
er than flint,” for he marred his knife
considerably in striking fire from' It. I
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| KILLED ON RAILROAD j
CHARLES YOUNG STRUCK BY NPY
6 AND INSTANTLY KILLED.
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Boy Was WalKing on the Track Near
Hancock—Home Is in Berkeley
Springs.
Charles Young. 14 years old, son of
Mr. Charles Young, of Berkeley
Springs, was struck Tuesday after
noon by Baltimore & Ohio train N. 6
and instantly killed. The boy was
walking on the track about 2 miles
west of Hancock about 2 o'clck when
the express came thundering along.
Evidently he did not notice it3 ap
proach for he made no effort to get
out of the way. and before the en
ginueer could put on the air and stop
the train he had been -truck. The
body was terribly mangled and he
must have been killed instant! The
train was stopped and the remains
picked up and later removed to the
home of his parents.
MR. ARDINGER MARRIED.
Popular Telephone Man Marries a
Miss Ardinger.
The marriage of Miss Mary Isabel
Ardinger and Mr. S. O car Aratnger,
both of Williamsport, which took
place on April 27, lias jnst been
made known. The couple were mar
ried in Hagerstown on the above date,
by Rev, G. A. Luttfell, of the Williams
port M. E. church. The groom is a son
of Councilman Harry C. Ardinger. of
Williamsport, and is employed in this
city by the United Telephone & Tele
graph Co., and is well known. His
bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mr$.
Eugene Ardinger.
Killed H's Snakeship.
When Mrs. Hunter Small Went out
to the road the other moruing to get
the mail from the mail box, she saw
a big black snake stretched across the
path. When she returned the reptile
was still in the path. Having that
inate aversion to serpents she went
into the woods and secured a club,
aud returning to the path proceeded
to kill the snake. She took it to the
house and left it in the yard to show
the men folks when they came to din
ner. When they returned they meas
ured the snake and found it was 6
feet and 2 inches long. After dinner
Mrs. Small went into the yard and
was surprised to find close beside the
dead snake the mate. The mate evi
dently feared the same fate and made
off for the barn. The aversion to
snakes was still present in the
woman’s nature and she made after
the reptile. Picking up a hot* that was
handy she made for the creeping thing
and with the first blow broke its back^
Then the snake showed fight, but the
woman's nature and she made after
attack until sh£ had dispatched the
second snake. This one measured C
feet and 6 inches.
SOLD FINE HORSE.
J. W. Dodd Disposes of Fine Stallion
to Berkeley County Men.
Mr. J. W. Dodd has sold to R. T.
Hoffman and E. F. McDonald, of Berk
ley county, the handsome chestnut
sorrel stallion that has been seen on
the streets hfcre recently. The horse
was imported by A. J. Hayes, and was
four years old. March 30.
Improves Property.
D. W. Rodrick is putting up a new
awning
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Nervous
Worn-Out
If you are in this condition,
your nerve tor e is weak—the
power is giving out, the or
gans of your body have
“slowed up,’’ and do their work
imperfectly. This failure to
do the work required, clogs
the system an 1 brings distress
and disease. When the nerves
are weak the heart is unable
to force the life-giving blood
through your veins ; the stom
ach fails to digest food; the
kidneys lack power to filter
impurities from the blood, and
the poisonous waste remains in
the system to breed disease.
Nerve energy must be restored.
Dr. Mile/ Nervine will do it,
because it strengthens the
nerves; it is a nerve medicine
and tonic, that rebuilds the
entire nervous system.
“Several years ago I was all broken
down I was nervous, worn-out, could
not sleep, and was In constant pain.
I doctored for months, ar.d finally the
doctor said he Could do nothing for
me. I begin taking Dr. Miles'
Nervine, and used altogether eight
bottles, ar.d I became strong and
healthy, and now weigh 1?0 pounds."
H C. CUNNINGHAM,
103 Ellsworth Ave., Allegheny, Pa.
Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is sold by your
druggist, who will guarantee that the
first bottle will benefit. If it falls, he
will refund your money.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
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