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tuktoriptlen $1.50 a Year In Advance Established June 12, 1883. West Virginia News Cullings An epitome of the most Important events transpir ing throughout the state Parkersburg—Doris West, 11-year old daughter of Rev. J. L. West, was seriously injured when she was struck by a taxicab on Camden avenue. Buckhannon.—Shinn and Sexton's •tore was visited by boy burglars and robbed of three suits of working clothes, hats, shoes and flashlights. Wheeling.—An autoirobile bearing a Kentucky license tag, went over an embankment near here, the two occu pants escaping without injury. The names of the occupants were not learned. Wheeling.—Moss Rose, 31, of Wheel ing, was cut to pieces under the wheels of a freight train near Glendale as he was on his way from a tlshing expedl tipn. The body was found ulong the tracks by two fishermen. Morgantown.—Charles Hoover, eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Hoover, narrowly escaped death or •erions injury when he fell from the south end of the South Park bridge. A tree probably is what saved him. Spencer—The Roane County Auto mobile club has been formed here with M. E. Hersman, president; J. M. Har per, first vice-president; F. E. Van dale, second vice-president; (J. L. Wey mouth, secre-ary; and E. M. Sinuett, treasurer. Weston—Ry nn overwhelming ma jority, the special sewer levy, to raise $33,000 In the next two years, was de feated here. Little interest was tak on in the election as only 713 ballots ■were cast while in a previous elec tion 2,000 voters registered their choices. Fairmont—Contracts have been •warded by rhe Consolidation Coal company for erection of 53 ne' houses of modern design at Coalwood. This property is located in McDowell coun ty and already churches, schools and clubhouses as well as many dwellings bave been constructed. Fairmont.—As he was about to en ter the Cook hospital for treatment, Otis Shaver, Jr., 0 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Shaver, died, as he was lifted from the car to be car ried into the hospital. The child was taken ill after eating green apples and com. He was buried in the Shaver cemetery. - Huntington.—The county court of Wayne County laid a 15-cent levy to raise funds for the construction of a new courthouse, despite a temporary restraining order granted by the State Supreme Court at Charleston. Ac cording to word received here, the levy was fixed before the writ of in jection arrived from Charleston. Salem—Gaynel Tarry of Sedaiia was a distinguished visitor here this week. The lad from the little ham let, back in the hills to the north of Salem, is 16 years of age, yet he Is a real giant. The “Sedaiia Sideshow” weighs only 335 pounds and is 5 feet 11 inches tali. He wears a number 12 shoe and a size 7% hat. The lad was the picture of health, and he is always hungry. Salem—-The chimney factory owned by Thomas McBride at the west end of this city has resumed operations after a two month shut down. This is Che first glass factory In Salem to •pen and the plant may have an ex tended rnn If enough gas can be ob tained. There are nearly 50 men nnd women working at the factory. The other glass plants tjere may begin operations In the next few weeks. Martinaburg.—The Martinshurg team of the Blue Kldge Baseball league has cinched the 1W23 pennant. *Jy winning the game at Hagerstown. Md.. the club made It impossible for the Hanover (Pa.) team, the rutoner sip. to take first place. Bast year the Martinaburg team took the pen nant. It was the first time In the history of the league that the same flub has won the title twice In suc cession. Charleston—With only one dissent ing vote, cast by Harold Mathews, the city council last night, finally agreed *o the budget as drafted by the finance committee, adopted a salary ordinance and fixed the levy for gen eral purposes at .V) cents. This Is .in increase of 0 cents for general pur poses over the levy for the general fund last year. The total levy this year will be (Vi% cents as compared tnritb f>T cents last year, the extra cents being levied to take care of bond Interest and sinking funds a provjd *d •>y law and including special levies. Wheeling. -Sparks from a locomo tive of the Pennsylvania line* caused a small fire on the suspension bridge here. The flames were extinguished with little difficulty. Weston. -Dorsey llomm, 2f>, veteran of the world war and an employee of the Danser Manufacturing Company of this city, died at the City Hospital •« the result of a fracture til » skull received when hurled from an auto mobile uenr the home of Perry O. Al fred while returning from a long auto mobile trip. vsiurR9mjrg ra trick McGovern has been named manager of the Oiarka burg branch of the state wool pool. Buckhannon.—W. B. •‘Carper lost a sum of money said to be about $300 when he hung his vest containing It on a fence on his farm while he waa at work. Martlnaburg.—The annual session of the Berkeley county Sunday School council of religious education was held In the Methodist Episcopal church in Bedlngton, this county. Wheeling.—One man is dead, and 11 others more or less seriously burned as the result of an explosion In the Riverside Works of the National Tube Company at Benwood. Fairmont.—The Salvation Army has completed negotiations with the Young Women's Christian Association for the renting of the property owned by the latter in Monroe street opposite the postoffice. Parkersburg—Former Tyler county residents now residing here are form ing an association to keep alive the memories of the home county. Plans are being perfected for a picnic and other celebrations. Fairmont.—Captain George E. Hill, who was killed in a government air plane wreck at Pensacola. Fla., Is a brother of H. S. Hill, employed by the Consolidation Coal Company, with an office In the Watson building. Grafton—Mrs. Bedelia Casseady, aged 1)7 years, the oldest resident of Grafton, died ut her home at 'S.f7 West Main street of the infirmities incident to old age. Up until within six weeks of her death she had enjoyed good health and was quite active and pos sessessed of all her faculties. Charleston.—“Free taxi service to all parts of the city,” was offered, in heavy, black type in a large advertise ment In Charleston papers by one taxi cab company, which declared this ser vice would be given “owing to the meter controversy up for adjustment before the city commission.” 'Che ad vertisement continued that free ser vice would be continued until meter* were installed on the company’s ma chines. Parkersburg—Dan Wlllison, pro prietor of the gasoline boat Snipe, was badly Injured while bringing a raft of timber down the Ohio river from Hannibal. While attempting to dress the boat’s driving belt with some sub stance to prevent its slipping, he wua cnught and drawn in between the belt and drum. Before he could be extri cated, he had sustained two deep cuts on the head and one ann was broken and the fingers of one hand badly crushed. Clarksburg—Dover Perrine, 35, a farmer of near Sutton, is a patient in the Mason hospital suffering from a gunshot wound, inflicted when his five year old son accidentally dropped a shotgun, discharging it. Perrine was brought to the local hospitul and though his condition is not serioun, the buckshot tore numerous muscle tis sues in his thigh. Perrine’s youug son was playing with the gun, and he accidentally dropped it, the gun dis charging and a part of the load enter ing the father’s thigh. Morgantown.—Members of the West Virginia Library Association held their annuai convention here. All former officers were elected, including L. E. Arnett, Morgantown, president; Miss Etta Roberts, Wheeling, vice presdient, and Miss Bessie Heed, Fair mont, treasurer. Addresses were .made by W. K, Ludwig, Morgantown; Mrs. M. E. S. ■Root, Providence, R. I.; Clifford Myers, state architect and his torian, and Mrs. Porter Arnold, of Weston. The question of state aid for public and social libraries was not taken up. Weston—The Lewis county war memorial library, the gift of a gold star mother to Weston and Lewis county us a tribute to the memory of the Lewis county dead in the great war, was officially dedicated here with appropriate services. Weston post No. 4 of the American Legion, the organization responsible for mak ing the acceptance of the gift possible, conducted the exercises which formal ly opened to the county as a commu nity center and library what was once the palatial home of Mr. and Mr* Louis Bennett and family. Parkersburg—Charles K. Welch, of fice deputy to the local U. S. Marshal, has been notified by the bureau of patents at Washington, that the de vice lie submitted to be patented had been granted and that a certificate lias been issued by the department protecting his device, dated August lil, The article that Welch lias invented Is for the purpose of holding Lillett safely razor blades between two strips of felt in such a way that the Made will remain sharp for au Indefinite time as it protects the cut ting edge from opidation. Mannington.—Mrs. E. K, McCarties is in receipt of n cablegram from her husband, who for the past year has been in Ituiiiiinia as general superin- ! tendent of the Transcontinental Oil Company, requesting tier to meet lit in in Paris. Hinton. That section of the P.eck ley-Bluetieid highway lying between ' tlie end of the present hard and Flat Top road lias been closed to all travel I for an indefinite period while the road I Is under construction, says B. Hudgins, » engineer In charge. i BLUE BANDANNA GANG KEEP BUSY Robber Band Increases Hold ups o 8 Durit g Past Few Wee s and Get $1200 TWO OF GANG ARRESTED Police Baffled at Boldness of Men Who Have Been Robbing Bus iness Houses, Proprie tors and Employes, Pittsburgh, Pa.—One man was shot, another attacked, a saloon and drug store entered by Pittsburgh’s “blue bandanna” gang, as they Increased the number of places they have en tered and held up In the last few weeks to eight and raised the total of their loot to $1,200. Two members of the gang, however, are believed to be under arrest in the Frankstown ave nue police station. Philip Llvnn. aged 60, of 6364 Penn avenue, bartender In the saloon of James O’Connor at 7101 Frankstown avenue, was shot through the abdo men when he refused to heed the command, "stick ’em up," shouted to him by the robbers as they entered the O’Connor saloon. He was taken to the Pittsburgh hospital, whero his condition was said to be serious. David Nathanson, proprietor of a drug 8tore at 7332 Penn avenue, was struck in th(* mouth and knocked down by the leader of the gang when the drug store was held up. Nathan Bon and his clerk were the only onos in the store. The robbers obtained $175. A short time after the holdups, both of which occurred within a few minues of each other, and shortly be fore midnight, a stolen automobile was found abandoned at Fisk and Davidson streets, at the exact spot where the "blue bandanna" gang abandoned their car after holding up three saloons in Lawrencevillo re cently. The car was owned by R. L. McKallitt, a real estate dealer of 346 Fourth avenue, and was stolen from its parking place in Sixth avenue, be tween Wood and Smithfleld streets. Another saloon was held up in Law renceville and two were held up on the North Side recently. K. K, K. Denies Flogging. Macon, Ga.—General dental of accu sations prefaced by the statement that he disapproved of flogging and all forms of lawlessness was made in court by Dr. C. A. Yarbrough, on trial ' charged with rioting in connection i with the flogging of R. F. Mills, Dr. Yarbrough admitted membership in the Ku Klux Klan, but declared the klan stood for law and order, not for | flogging. He denied ever having seen ’ R. F. Mills until he saw him in court. 1 Dead Man Rolls From Coal Chute. i Brownsville, Pa.—The dead body of Edwin Ford, aged 23, a mechanic, 1 rolled down a coal chute into th« ten- | der of a Pennsylvania Railroad engine near the West Brownsville shops | when the chute was let down to coal i tho engine. Deputy Coroner Kisinger. who investigated the case, said Ford had died from suffocation. How he got into tho coal bin has not been de termined. There were no marks of violence on the body. Two Injured in Powder Blast. Bellalre, O.—James Bresnaham, aged 28. of Pittsburgh, suffered the loss of his right hand and his brother, Leo, aged 22, was burned on his right arm and neck when powder they were using to phologranh the employes of the McGraw Motor Company explod ed. Both men are in the Bellaire Hos pital. The older brother’s condition is regarded as serious. Veterans to Give Up Charter. Naw Castle. Pa—Charter of En rampment No. 9, Union Veteran Le Rlon, of this city, will be surrendered befnr- January. 1924. Its members veterans of the Civil War. who saw three years or more service In the Union Armies of 1801-65, are no longer able to conduct funerals and meetings, owin* to age and infirmities. The en campment has only 12 members. The charter of the encampment was granted In 1886 and James A Gardner and Philip Wagner are surviving char ter members. Want Billion Dollar Loan. N"w York. N. Y— A billion dollar loan to save Germany from an ero nomlc collapse will be one of the first considerations of international bank era In rase of a settlement in the Hu hr and an agreement with the Al lies, if was learned in the financial district. One quarter of the loan, or $250,000,000 probably will be offered In the United States. $40,000 in Notes Stolen. Indianapolis, Ind.—Theft of $40,000 worth of United States Treasury cer tificates from his d«sk was reported to the police by Edward F Moore, | vice president of the Indiana National Flank, who told detectives the certifi cates were taken from his desk when he was railed to another part of tho hank to answer a telephone call, which was apparently part of a pre conceived plan of the robbers. There j is no clue as to the thieves. Good Government, Pure Homes and Godly Hearts Grantsville, W. Va., Thursday, September 20, 1923. ARTHUR F. DEAN Arthur F. Dean of Springfield, O., has received the coveted award which entitles him to $1,000 a year for three years, with residence and studio In the American academy In Rome. COAL “GOUGING” TO RECEIVE ATTENTION Governor Pinchot Asks Thirty States to Help Stop Rise In Price of Coai Harrisburg, Pa.—Agencies of the state government, mobilized to fur nish information and data to Gov. Gifford Pinchot during the confer ences resulting in his settlement of the anthracite strike, will be used to prevent price gouging as a result of the wage increase under the plans outlined by the governor before leav ing for a real vacation at Milford. Steps which will vigorously follow up the making of an agreement for set tlement of the strike on a basis as suring two years of peace in the an thracite regions were launched by the governor while at the capital and re sults already are in sight. Letters went out to the governors of 30 states consuming anthracite calling their attention to the fact that “a fair price to consumers is just as essential” as the settlement of the Btrike for the next 24 months. Those governors whose states receive at least a thousand tons of anthracite from Pennsylvania annually were asked to begin an investigation into "’ays and means to prevent saddling increased prices on the householder as a result of the wage advance, with notice that the governor may call a personal conference later on. In accordance with the letters sent last night to President Coolidge. the Governor summoned Chairman W. D. li. Ainey of the Public Service Com mission and asked that the regulatory arm of the state be exerted to revise downward the rates for intrastate hauls of anthracite with the expecta tion that the President will do the same with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The commission began September sessions during the after noon and the matter was discussed at length. Chairman Ainey said to night the subject was being carefully gone into. Landlord Slain by Tenant. Mone3sen, Pa.—During an argu mont, James L. Wanser, aged 45 years, a NeRro, of Monessen. was shot and killed by Charles Hill, aged 25 years, a Negro, also of Monessen, po lice say. Wanser, who owned the house in which Hill resides, went to Hill to ask him to vacate. An argu ment ensued, and Hill shot Wanser six times, it is alleged, and escaped. Hill was located after a six-hour search and was wounded in the left leg while resisting arrest. He Is In I he Memorial Hospital at Mononga hela, under guard. Woman Acquitted of Murder. Oreensbnrg, Pa—Mattie Myers, no cused of the murder of her huaband. wna acquitted after a abort trial. The woman testified in her own behalf, telling how her huaband had ahuaed her the night she ahot him. The razor with which he had attempted to cut hla wife's throat and the re volver with which the murder was committed, were offered na evidence. The taking of testimony did not last long and the Jury deliberated only five minutes. Three Dead, Two Hurt. Rirhwood, W. Va.—Three persona were killed, two were seriously in jured and two others were slightly hurt when an automobile overturned at r>eor Creek. Ifi miles from h<>M~ The dead are: Mrs. Auvel Roone. Mrs. Henry McCray and 1-year old daughter of Mrs. McCray. The se rloualy Injured are: Henry McCray who suffered a pierced lung and a broken shoulder, and Auvel Boone, who suffered a broken shoulder and an Injury of the spine. 'ROBBERS CAUGHT ! AFTER HOLDUP Fair Take Money and Valu* j ab!es From Bu <^er a Point of Revolver hide in a thicket nearby — Two Officers Shot By Holdup Men In An Attempt To Make Arrest— State Troopers Come To the Rescue. Palmerton. Pa. — A man hunt for two holdup men who shot and proba bly fatally wounded Constable Elmer Anthony and wounded Patrolman . ‘'Art” Fletcher was staged here. The shooting took place following the holdup at dusk of James Heintz leman, a butcher of this town, on a country road about a quarter mile from the borough line. Heintzleman w'as stopped by two men. who asked j him for some meat. As he opened the door of his low-slung delivery truck one of the two stepped in. Heintzleman tried to push the fellow out, whereupon the other pulled two re7olvers and ordered the butcher to “stick ’em up." Heintzleman was relieved of ?200 in cash and a gold watch and chain. After taking the butcher’s watch, one of the pair calmly took Heintzleman’s glasses from off his nose and then searched his pockets until he found the case for them. When officers arrived on the scene i a Bhort time later, shots greeted them ! from a thicket nearby. Constable An thony falling with a wound through the neck. He is not epected to live. Officer Fletcher was shot through the hand and one leg. A request for state police was made to the commander of the barracks at Pottsville. Corporal Stanley and Troopers Knecht, Myers and Petchimas made a quick run here from Pottsville bar racks and barely an hour after their arrival had captured the hunted men. who gave their names as John Segal sky, Cleveland, and Martin Matadsky, New York. The latter has a bullet wound in the shoulder suffered when i he and his companion attempted to i flee their hiding place. Youth Hides In Rail Tubes. Pittsburgh. Pa.—Risking his life in an attempt to escape from police offi | cers, Theodore Gromack, 17 years old. 1 of Brooklyn, N. Y.. spent more than : an hour in the Fourth avenue tunnel of the Pennsylvania railroad before he was brought out by Lieutenant of Police Leo Coleman and Policeman James Scanlon, who rode into the tunnel on a light engine. About half way through the tunnel, Gromack was found hiding in a manhole. Klan Obeys Orders. Oklahoma City. Okla. — Bowing to j Governor J. C. Walton’s edict against masked assemblages, state officials of the Ku Klux Klan issued an order here forbidding klansmen in Okla homa to hold masked parades or meetings. The decision of the klan officials to abide by the executive’s decree was announced by N. C. Jew ett. grand dragon of the Oklahoma realm. Erie Celebrates Perry Victory. Erie, Pa. A dual celebration of Perry’s victory on Lake Erie. 110 years ago, was held here. A program was given aboard the Niagara, the replica of Perry’s famous flagship, which is anchored at the public dock Commander William L. Morrison of the training ship Volverine was in charge. Various service men organ izations attended in a body. Take Chaplain’s Course. Washington. D. C. — The war de partment made public a list of 13 army chaplains and one from the re serve corps who have been ordered to the chaplains’ school at Fort Wayne, Mich, for a three months’ course of instruction. The school was estab lished during the war and is a per manent part of the army educational system with a faculty of five officers, headed by Chaplain Joseph H. Hunt er as dean. Flyer Makes Record Speed. Roosevelt Field. Mineola. L. I. — A world record speed of 238 miles an hour was reached by the Wright , Fighter airplane that will represent ; the United States navy next month In j the Pulitzer race at St Louis. The I re< ord flight, which was made over a | I measured course, was achieved by , Lieutenant. L. II. Sanderson. U. S. M. i *-'•» w*,n WH1 Pilot the same plane at the Pulitzer competition Klan Wins In Maine Election. T ortland. Me.—By an amazing plu rality of 2.347 votes the Kti Klux Klan won Its fight to take control of the civil government in the city election -luuu^Xiiin number three, supported ,by the invisible iTOpfre, -wh+ob-pro vldes a new city charter and a city manager form of government, was adopted. A commission of five mem bers will take the place of the may or's council. The old form of govern ment which had been in operation 91 years, will end next January. RUSSELL S. HOUSTON Russell S. Houston, aged thirty-one, a truck driver of Jersey City, N. J., has received notification that the British courts have pronounced him the sole heir to the $8,000,000 estate of Lord Covington, British earl, and heir to the title, if he wants It. SEVEN U. S. SHIPS WRECKEO IN A FOG Flotilla of Naval Boats Pound ing to Pieces Off California Coast After Disaster IjOH Angeles, Calif.—In a series of disasters unprecedented in the his tory of Pacific coast navigation, seven United States navy destroyers and the Pacific Mail Liner Cuba are piled on the rocks of San Miguel Island and the shores of Santa Barbara county. Calif., coast line. The ships ran aground during one of the heaviest and most impenetrable fogs ever seen on the Southern California coast, ac cording to shipping men. Twenty members of the crews of the United States destroyer flotilla have lost their lives, and 10 or more are in the Santa Barbara hospital, according to the latest available fig ures. vjne omcer and eight men of the liner Cuba are adrift in a small boat, but all other passengers and members of the Cuba’s crew have been saved, it is reported here. The Cuba ran ashore on the Island of San Miguel, off the Pacific coast, near Santa Barbara, and the destroy er fleet piled up one after the other, at Point Honda, about 75 miles North of Santa Barbara. When the Cuba struck the rocks at San Miguel Island, the Destroyer Iteno was nearby and went to the rescue. The Reno’s commanding of ficer reported that the Cuba's life boats, loaded with refugees, were heading out into the Pacific, the crews having been confused in the dense fog. The Reno cruised about and picked up the small boats until it had ac counted for nearly all those aboard the Cuba, which carried 115 passen gers and 65 members of the crew, in cluding about twenty officers. After picking up the Cuba’s passen gers and crew, the Reno turned south ward intending to make for its home port of San Diego, but it was diverted by naval orders and docked at San Pedro, California. None of the pas sengers was suffering from exposure, it was Rtated. The actual cause of the piling up of the destroyers was not definitely known. However, the theory was ad vanced by mariners that the compass bearings, taken from a nearby shore station, as guidance through the fog, had been transmitted erroneously. Nip Emigration Plot, Warsaw. Poland —The Polish gov ernment Is taking energetic measures to prevent the sale of tickets to would-be Polish emigrants to the United States who are encouraged to book passage to Cuba, with a promise that transportation from that country to the United States can be arranged and will make their entry into Amer ica assured. Fire Gut# Erie Klan Hall. Erie, Pa. — Fire starting under a stairway In the hall at 818 State street destroyed the large hall used as headquarters for the Ku Klux Klan, ! causing approximately $3,000 loss and ' did $7,000 water damage to the stork i of the Woolworth slore. occupying the first floor of the building The fire started, presumably, from a cl- | garet in a pile of rubbish in a room ■>n the second floor. Span Connecting Cities Burns. Springfield, Mass.—The North End ' Bridge, connecting this city and West ! Springfield, a steel lattice truss bridge, carrying all trolley traffic be j tween this city and points west, as well as eleotric -ligl^wires and gas mains, was burned. FirT ^sfinVuimr the floor timbers and was quickly swept by tfTP-heeo&o the entire length uf the structure. So 'intense was the heat that the steel work of the five spans crumpled into the river within to minutes. Published Every Thursday Morning 39th Year Whole No. 2018 FEDERAL REPORT ON PROHIBITION Attorney General Submits Re port to President For tne Past 4l Months EIGHTY PER CENT GUILTY Violator* of Prohibition Laws Have Paid Over $12,467,660 In Fines In Addition To Many Jail Sentences. Washington. D. C. — Conviction of judges, attorneys, federal and state officials and millionaires among the host found guilty of violating the pro hibition laws was detailed in a report submitted to President CVillidge by Attorney General Daugherty. A synopsis of the report made pub lic with the assent of the President, reviewed the federal Judiciary’s work In administering the prohibition law in the first 41 months of its operation. It showed that since the statute went into effect, January 16. 1920, more than 90,000 cases had been terminated in United States courts, with 72,480 convictions and fines aggregating $12,467,660. There has been a con stant yearly increase in prohibition prosecutions, the report showed, while jail sentences for the past 22 months have totaled more than 3,000 years. Daugherty's report also disclosed that more than a year ago he sent a special series of instructions to dis trict attorneys on prohibition enforce ment, demanding a more relentless campaign against bootleggers and other prohibition violators, especially "cliques," "rings” and so-called “lead ers,” in all large cities. In 80 per cent of federal court cases, the report said, the defendants were found guilty. Although the records for the last fiscal year are not complete, the report estimated that there had been at least 10,000 more convictions than in the preced ing year and 15,000 more than for two years ago. These figures, Mr. Daugh erty said, indicated a stricter enforce ment in every section of the country. Joke Letter Causes Aerrst. Brownsville, Pa. — Charged with sending threatening letters through the United States mails, Joseph Me luch, aged 17 years, of Oliver No. 1, near here, was held for court under $500 bail, following his arrest by state police. It is alleged that Me luch demanded $600 in a letter to Joseph Pocorus, of United, West moreland county, threatening death to the entire family if the sum was not paid. Meluch testified he sent the letter as a joke. Tire Flat, Truck Goes for $25. Bridgeport, O— Mr. and Mrs. Paul George of Harrisburg, Pa., pulled into a local garage in a small deliv ery truck, which they had purchased at Kingman, Ariz., where they had spent several months. They had a flat tire upon reaching here and no money with which to have it re paired. so they offered the truck for sale at $25. Aldrich Serb, owner of the garage, grabbed the bargain, and the couple boarded a train for home. Railroad Storing Coal. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Storage of 2,300,* 000 tons of bituminous coal as a re serve supply for the winter Is under way by the Pennsylvania Railroad. This enormous quantity, which repre sents about one month’s supply for the railroad, Is part of the regular winter purchase and is being stored at various points as a safeguard against the possibility of the weather curtailing coal shipments during the winter. Revive Wood Opposition. Manila, P. I.—The controversy be tween Governor General Leonard Wood and native government officials and party leaders was revived when Manueal Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, and Manueal Rot as, speaser of the House of Repre sentatives, declared in public address es that it wag their intention ‘ to re duct the governor-general to a more figure head.” Thaw Returns to Hospital. Philadelphia. Pa — Harry Thaw, slayer of Stanford White returned to the Pennsylvania Hospital for Men tal Diseases, after 20 dt*y» vacation. He visited his mother near Pitts burgh, by vlitue of a r#urt order signed August 21. It was Thaw's fourth leave of absence from the hos pital. Announcement of his return wag made by Dr. K E. Eyman, su porintendent. Scared by Klan Cross. Steubenville, O.- George Schaefer, Jr., of this city, sustained a broken nose and several others are reported to have been injured when Negroes, frightened by a burning Ku Klux Klan cross on a hill overlooking the of Wclrton W. Va.. ran amui.k in llie* 1<W!P»llie cross was v.ithin a short distance of Negro houses The terrified Inmates rushed to the open and fled into the business quarter, striking and kicking in their terror at everyone they met.