Evening journal. [volume], February 06, 1908, Page TWO, Image 2

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Have You a Picture Here?
All pictures not called for by February 13 will be sold for
costs of Framing. If you have one here call for it at once.
RIPPLE & SMALTZ,
T28 North Queen Street..
Money kept around
the house or in your
pocket is always sub
ject to the danger of
loss, or being spent
foolishly.
When in Jthe bank
it is not only safer,
but out of the reach
of temptation.
The Bank Of Martinsburg,
Ofen Saturday Evenings 6 to 8.
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Dissolution Sale of
J. W. Thomas & Co.
Putnam Organ, was $75, now $50*00
Estey Organ, was $90, now 60*
Standard Sewing Machine, was
$50, now 20*
New Home Sewing Machine,
was $50, now 29*
White Sewing Machine, was $45,
now 27.50
Thomas Special Sewiug Machine,
was $30, now 18*
All guaranteed Machines.
Your only chance in a lifetime.
J. W. THOMAS, Salesman.
Buggies and Harness at Cost.
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Real Estate
Highest
is of Investment
Re alj estate in Mar
tinsburg and Berkeley
county pays at least 10
l per cent on the invest
ment and is steadily in
creasing in value.
There are no losses
from ‘‘money string
ency” or “failures,”
good times or bad
times are all alike to it.
The cream properties
for sale hereabouts are
listed with this office.
Call and let us point
out their advantage.
CHAS. V. POWNALL
Rooms 1 & 2—Old Nat Bank Bldg.
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' The
H. A. Wyatt Co.,
Designers and Makers of
Ladies and Misses
Tailor-Made Suits
and Skirts.
We make a specialty of
Cleaning Fancy Clowns.
Goods called for and de
livered.
Both Phones.
IGNS SIGNS
SPRING is near at
hand and you want
Car home beautified.
t me do your “pa
per hanging” and
painting for you.
JOHN L. BATEMAN.
Paperhanger&Painter
104 N. Mapi.e Ave.
C. & P. Phone 52-W
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Journal ajis bring results.
THE DAILY MARKET REPORT
BUYING PRICES.
The buying prices quoted today by
local grain dealers for cereals are as
follows:
Grain Market
Wheat. 95
Corn, 60
Oats, per bu., 65
Hay, baled, per ton, $15
Lire Stout Market,
Thep rices prevailing here today for
live stock are:
Beef, live wt. per lb 3@4
Pork, per lb., 6@7
Veal, per lb., 61-2
I.amb, per lb„ 5@61-2
Produce Market
Local merchants today quote the
prices they are paying for country
produce as follows:
Lard, new, lb., 9
Butter, 2.
Eggs, 2i
Potatoes, per bu., E0@6e
Apples, per bu., 60@75
Side Meat, lb., 10@11
Chickens, dressed, R>., 111®.*6
Chickens, live, 10@11
The Retail Market.
Retail dealers today quote price*
as follows:
Potatoes, new pk., 2'>
Butter, / 3i
Eggs, 23
New Lard, Jb., 13
Raisins, lb., 121-2@16
Tomatoes, new, doz.,
Oysters, 35
Oysters, select, 45
Lima beans, qt., dried. t'
Veal, lb., 12 121-2, 15. 17@20
Lamb, per lb., 121-2 to 20
Pork, per lb., 10
H. L. ALEXANDER,
The Largest and Oldest
Agency In the City . . .
Insurance and Bonding,
Marti nsburg, W. Va.
A’
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IF you want your house wire
properly, and the electrica
insulation installed so that it
will not catch fire, it will pay
you to see
B. W. ANDERSON.
The Registered Electrical Contractor
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AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY
Copyright by Wuldon Faircott.
David J. Hilt, American representative at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm,
is one of the most learned men in the diplomatic service; he is an ex-univer
sity president and is the author of numerous works on various subjects. He
was assistant secretary of state from 1898 to 1903, when he wat appointed
minister to Switzerland; two yeais later he was transferred to the Nether
lands and last year he was raised to ambassador to Germany.
LYNCH LAW RECORD
FIFTY-SIX PERSONS MET SUM
MARY DEATH DURING 1907.
Big Majority of Victims Were Negroes
—Offenses for Which They Gave
Up Lives—Comparison with
Previous Years.
New Orleans.—Fifly-six persons
were put to death by Judge Lynch
during 1907 compared to 73 in 1906,
Forty-nine were negro men, four
white men and three negro women.
There were double lynchings in five
Instances and triple lynchings in two.
Two negro women formed the prin
cipals in one of the double lynchings
and two negro brothers in another.
Thirty-seven victims of mob violence
were put to death at night and 19 dur
ing daylight hoars. Eleven lives were
snuffed out on Sundays.
Thirty-one were hanged, 17 shot to
death, three hanged and shot, two
shot and corpses burned, one tied to a
tree and shot to death, one beaten to
death and another kicked to death.
Following is the comparative num
ber of lynchings for the two years:
State. 1907. 1906.
Alabama .,.j. 13 5
Arkansas . 3 4
Colorado . 1
Florida . fi
Georgia . ti 9
Indian Territory . 2 1
loWa •. 1
Kentucky . 1 3
LoUiriana . R 0
Maryland . 2 1
Mississippi . 12 13
Missouri . 3
Nebraska . 1
North Carolina . 6
Oklahoma . 2
South Carolina . 1 5
Tennessee . 1 2
Texas . 3 6
North Carolina . 6
Totals . 56 73
The ofTenses for which these hu
mans were forced to give up their
lives range from stealing 75 cents and
talking to white girls over a telephone
to rape and murder of wife and son.
Following were the offenses charged,
with the number lynched:
For being father of boy who jostled
white woman . 1
For being victor over white man In
fight . 1
Attempted murder . 1
Murder of wife . 1
Murder of husband and wife . 1
Murder of wife and stepson . I
Murder of mistress . t
Manslaughter .10
Accessory to murder . 1
Rape . fe
Attempted rape .11
Raping own stepdaughter . 1
For being wife and son of a raper . 2
Protecting fugitive from posse. T
Talking to white girls over telephone_ 1
Expressing sympathy for mob's victim.. 3
Three-dollar debt . 2
Stealing 75 cents . 1
Insulting white man . 1
Store burglary . 3
The lynchings took place In 17
states aud one .territory, Iowa, Okla
homa and Nebraska being the addi
tions to last year's list. Alabama
jumped from five in 1906 to 13 in 1907.
Chicken a Pearl Producer.
Pottsville, Pa.—Friends of L. F.
Bchabieln are indulging in wild hopes
of growing pearls in poultry.
Sehablein had chicken for dinner
the other day and ate the neck. He
bit on something hard and found that
it was a pearl. A jeweler has offered
hlpt a large sum for It.
Schablein's friends insist that, the
pearl was produced in the neck of the
chicken, a grain of sand furnishing
the nucleus.
Live Birds at a Cotillon.
Philadelphia.—Just before the cotil
lon was danced the other night at the
ball given in honor of Miss Dorothy
Randolph hundreds of gayly plumed
birds were freed. Society gasped In
astonishment, as it was the crowning
event of an entertainment that even
outshone the now famous "butterfly
ball" given for Miss Mury Astor Paul
ssyeral weeks ago.
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PAINTS SIGNS IN CLOUDS.
Chicago Girl’s Talent and Nerve
Amaze Seattle Folk.
Seattle. Wash.—Standing on a pre
carious-looking board suspended along
the top of the Burke building, over 100
feet high, Miss Louisa C. Bell painted
a sign.
Hundreds of persons looked up as
the girl plied the brush, apparently
entirely Indifferent to her surround
ings and to the fact that a misstep
would mean instant death. She was
clad in white, and inspired some of the
crowd with awe, some with fear and
some with pity, but she worked away
with might and main, and though two
husky men were on the platform with
her she appeared to do more work
than the two combined.
“I am from Chicago,” she said to a
reporter, who hud the temerity to as
cend to the roof via the elevator and
look over the dizzy heights to the
ground below, “and I am the only
woman who has ever attempted this
dizzy painting. I like It, oh, so much,
and would not give it up for the best
position in Seattle. In Chicago we do
things.
“Oh, this is nothing. I only wish
you had a 40-story building here, so
that I could demonstrate exactly
what I am capable of.” She invited
the onlookers to take a position on the
suspended platform, and laughed mer
rily when they intimated that they
were afraid to do so.
Miss Bell is decidedly a woman,
even though she can do a man’s work.
She refuses to tell her age, but from
other sources it was learned that she
is not more than 21 years old, and
does not belong to any female suffrage
association.
GETS LIVING FROM THE WIND.
Buffington, Ind., Man Collects Cement
Dust and Molds It Into Blocks.
Chicago.—John Kelly of Buffington,
Ind., once was a truck fanner, making
a bare living. Now he is an opulent
pianufacturer of cement blocks with
an income of $25 and little outlay.
All this is due to the fact that the
wind happens to be blowing Kelly's
way, and it is not an "ill wind" either.
Kelly’s home is two blocks from the
cement works of the Illinois Steel
Company at Buffington, where a $3,
000,000 plant grinds slag and converts
it into Portland cement. When the
wind blows off the lake clouds of ce
ment-laden dust envelop the Kelly
home and the Kelly truck farm.
The owner, lu the hope of saving his
garden greens, recently constructed
an immense shield of the billboard
type at the rear end of his lot, facing
the cement plant. When the cement
dust comes his way it strikes the
board and falls in a pile at the base
of the shield.
After that all that Kelly has to do
is to scoop up some gravel, mix it
with the cement ami mold the mass
Into blocks, for which he finds a ready
market.
Rush West Point Graduation.
Washington.—The first class at the
military academy will graduate
February 14, that date having been se
lected by the superintendent of the
academy In accordance with Instruc
tions received from Washington. The
army Is short of officers and the addi
tion to the list resulting from an early
graduation will help materially io
filling some of the vacancies.
Breaks Ice; Held by a Fish.
Kent, Conn.—Herald Marks, aged 13,
plunged head first through a hole In
the lee while skating the other day.
His legs protruded, hut his boy friends
could not pull him out. Finally a
mau rescued Marks, it was discov
ered that a six-pound flsh had him by
the nose and prevented all his efforts
to save himself.
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MANY LOVERS TO USE THEM
ST. VALENTINE’S DAY POST
CARDS IN EVIDENCE.
Pretty Conceits For the Young Are
Being Shown, and Postmen Pre
pare For Some Hard Work.
The officials of many of the large
postoffices have arranged for an extra
force of men for Thursday and Fri
day, February 13 and 14. in order to
handle the St. Valentine's day n ail.
Each year the St. Valentine’s mail has
been growing steadily larger, and it
is not unlikely that ner.t week ai.‘ rec
ords will be broken.
"The use of post; l cards for Valen
tines," said a postiililce official, “is
3teadily growing. You see they are
getting up many souvenir postals for
love tokens nowadays, and, therefore.
;ho use of them on February M will
probably be pirerr than ever. The
postals are much harder to handle
than the regular lorter, as itwy puck
tight and are liable to stick together,
thus requiring more time to handle
(hem carefully."
POPULATION AT THE PEN
DECREASE OF 22 DURING THE
MONTH OF JANUARY.
Warden Haddox Submits His Re
port to Governer Dawson, Giving
Some Interesting Figures.
Governor Dawson has received
from Warden C. E. Haddov, of the
atato penitentiary at Moundsville, the
prison report for the month of Jan
uary. The report contains a number
of interesting figures showing the
number of prisoners discharged and
received during the month.
The total population of the peni
tentiary the 81st of January was
1,168, showing a decreaso of 22 dur
ing the month, on the first of the year
there having been a population there
of .1,202.
The report shows that 11 prison
ers were received from state courts
during the month and two from fei
eral courts. One was returned foi
violation of parole.
Discharged state prisoners w'-ose
term3 expired numbered 10. whilt
four were conditionally pardmei and
one died. Of the United States jrls
oners incarcerated there the terms of
10 expired and they wars discharg
ed, making a total of 36 ".eased
egainst 1-1 received at the institution.
GEORGE WALKER IS FATALLY
STABBED BY TOHN WISE.
Man Who Committed the Deed De
clares That the Stabbing Was
Accident—Is Arrested.
A mysterious murder was commit
ted Wednesday near Wardensville, in
Hardy county, W. Va., 30 miles west
of Winchester. John H. Wise, 60 years
old, one of the best known citizens
of the community, fatally stabbed
voung George Walker, following £
conversation between the two men.
Wise was arrested and is now in
jail at Moorefield. He claims that
the stabbing wan an accident, but sev
eral eye-witnesses declare that it was
a deliberate murder. The cause of
the tragedy has not been clearly es
tablished, but for sometime past Wal
ker had been very attentive to Wise’s
daughter, and it is helieved that a
quarrel about the girl led to the
stabbing.
Up to the time of the murder rela
tions between Wise and Walker had
been amicable.
LUTHERAN
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SEALED PROPOSALS FOR BONDS
$541,000—» PER CENT.
Sealed bids for all or any part of an
issue of $50,000 of school bonds by
the Board of Education of the dis
trict of Martinsburg, in the county of
Berkeley and State of West Virginia,
a corporation, will be received by
said Board at its office in Martins
burg, in said county, until 7.30 o’clock
p. in., on Monday, February 17th, 1908.
Bids should be made in the follow
ing form:
"A bid of par and accrued interest,
together with a premium of 3
is hereby made for $-- >ir val
ue of the $50,000 of 5 per cent, bonds
to be issued by the Board of Educa
tion of the district of Martinsburg, in
Berkeley Co., W. Va., pursuant to an
Act of the Legislature of W. Vu.
passed Feb. 12, 1907, accompanied by
a duly certified check for an amount
equal at least to five per centum of
such bid. Chech to he returned if
bid is not accepted.
Dated-, 1908.
(Signed) - "
No bid for less than par and ac
crued interest, nor unaccompanied l*y
a duly certified check for sum equal
at least to five percentum of the ag
gregate amount bid will be consider
ed. If the bid is not accepted check
will be returned.
These bonds will be of the denomi
nation of $500 each, dated January 1st,
A D„ 1908, buyable In thirty yearns
from their date at the office of the
sheriff, e-v-offlcio treasurer of said
county, witn interest from their date
at the rate of five per centum per
annum, payable semi-annually on the
1st day of July and January, respec
tively, of each year, upon presentation
at said office of the appropriate cou
pon thereto annexed; provided, how
ever, that said bonds, or any of them,
shall be redeemable at the option of
said Board at any time after ten years
from tliefr date at the maturity of
any interest coupon hereto annexed
! upon a notice of the intention so to
| redeem being published once a week
' for four successive weeks in some
newspaper published, .or of general
| circulation, iu said County, and froljS
i the date so fixed for such redemption
the interest on such, bonds shall
cease. They shall be numbered from
one to one hundred consecutively, aAd
-be executed by the presidnt of said
Board, its corporate seal thereto .Af
fixed attested by its secretary, and
the interest coupons shall * bear the
lithographed or engraved, signatures
of said secretary. Due provision has
been made by a levy upon the taxa
ble property in said district for the
collection of a direct annual tax suf
ficient to pay the annual Interest on
Said bond6 and the principal thereof
within thirty years.
These bonds are issued in pursu
ance of ail Act of the Legislature' Of
West Virginia passed February 12th.
1907. All questions connected' there
with were submitted to a vote of the
qualified voters of said district flt’an
election held for the purpose op the
5th day of November, 1907, au<J re
ccivd three-fifths of all fhe votes cast
for and against the same as required
by said Act as a condition precedent
to their issue.
The Board reserves the right to ac
cept or reject any or all bids.
Further information on application.
(Seal) CHAS. A.'YOUNG,
W. A. Pllzer, Pres. Board of Ed. &c
Sec’y., January 10th, 1908.
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Don’t miss the pleas
ure of a single oppor
tunity to take part in
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Don’t let pleasure in
terfere with business
for the same causes.
Phone us or drop in
and get a bottle of
Yager’s Liniment. It
will relieve soreness
over night or prevent
it if used in time.
Quick relief for
sprains and bruises.
25c for a big bottle.
A. M. GILBERT.
. 300 North Quvon Street. *