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Pianos are tot; oest. ? "jT-x RKfliiiaitfi Full set of Teeth $5.00 up. I $5 Crown and Bridge Work repjacfnglost toeth without wearing a plate our specialties Made .with or without tfold showing1. Gold Cap.Crown or Bridge Tooth..... Fine Gold Fillings $1.00 vip. Am&lg&ms Fillings 50c up. PAINLESS EXTRACTION by Air. G&s orobtundo. WE GUARANTEE OUR WORK. DR. HILL. Maneigor. Lady Attendant. Home Phone. Clarksburg, We are Reclvintf Holiday Goods Daily and have a most solect line of Toilet Sets. Military Brushes, Mirrore, bhatelain Bans, Pock et Books, Stationary, Perfum ery, Fine Candies, and many oihor articles ton numerous to mention, which are mast Appropriate for Christ mas Presents. Home la and take a look at our Line iiefure making a selection. C. D. STURM & GO. 340 MAIN STREET. Plumbing At ~ Livst. BLACK CAT MANTLES With Double Wire Svipports. No Advance In Price. 15 Cents Each. v. West Virginia. HEATING & PLUMBING CO. Moore Building. Fourth St Both Phones CLARKSBURG WINE AND LIQUOR COMPANY. WKoles*. 1? and Retfe.il Wines fend Liquors. Traders Building. Third Street C. S. RITTENHOUSE. PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER All Work Done Satisfactorily fend Guferfenteed amm No.207 Main St.. Clarksburg W. Va. CHARLES B. WILSON, Tin and Slate ROOFING Gxittering. Spoviting. C&- general repair work. Call or drop card? 125 Steely St. Italian Minister to Venezuela Ordered on Board Cruiser by His Government. HERNANDEZ RECEIVES WEkCOME Allies Undecided Whether to Accept Arbitration Proposal ? Venezuela May Be Unwilling to fTalk on Sub ject While Menaced by Guns. Caracas, Doc. 17.?Signor De Rlya. the Italian minister to f Venezuela, .has received orders ffom his government to leave Caracas this morning and feo aboard the Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausan. Minister Riya's, family wjill remain here under the protecti United States minister Bow;^n, <n whose hands all Itallaa Interests have been placed. Cologne. Dec. 17.?The Cologne Gazette publishes a dispatch from Berlin, which says it is doubtful if at the present stage of the Venezuelan I difficulty arbitration can be consid ered by Germany. German can af | fo^d to await, the dispatch adds, the ! outcome of a situation that is very | uncomfortable tor President Castro. Gaining Confidence. Caracas. Dec. 17.?Confidence is gradually being restored and the pop ular scare is appreciably abating. German and British traders hav? reopening their places of business and many of these who recently sough* I domicile in the United States legation and in the abandoned British legn i tlon, which Mr. Russell, secretary of I the American legation, had reopened finder the United States flag, are now I returning to their shops aud their homes. Tliere Is much discussion here now of the possibility of arbitration. President Castro yesterday declined to express his views, but it was learned that persons who are close to him are unanimous in the belief that some satisfactory result through arbitration would be more readily at tained if Mr. Bo wen, the United States minister, were permitted to go to Washington and there discuss the question fully and frankly with the German ambassador. The feeling is prevalent that any acceptance or discussion of arbitra tion here while La Guaira remains menaced by the allies' guns would be offensive to Venezuela's sense of na tional pride. Hernandez Reaches La Guaira. La Guaira. Dec. 17.?The American steamer Merida, belonging to the Red D line of New York, arrived here yes terday morning at half-past 8 o'clock from Willcmstad, Curacao. On board the Merida were El Mocho" Hernan dez, the revolutionary general who was recently released by President Castro from prison at Maracalbo, an J R. Schunck, British consul at La Guaira, who on the morning of Dec. 10 was escorted with his family from the consulate to the British cruiser Retribution by marines from that ves sel. Long before the arrival of the Merida the streets aniV piers of La Guaira were filled with a great crowd awaiting the arrival of "El Mocho." The people were orderly. "El Mocho" disembarked from the Merida at 0 o'clock. The train run by the harbor corporation from where steamers tie up to the pier to the customs house waited as usual for the Merida's pas sengers, but General Hernandez pre ferred to cover the distance to the customs house on foot. Ha was fol lowed by an enthusiastic crowd, which cheered him all the way. Think Germany Too Aggressive. Rome, Dec. 17.?In the lobbies of the chamber of deputies yesterday Venezuela was the exclusive topic -,f conversation. The opinion of a ma jority of the deputies is that Ger many has -been too aggressive in her actions, which are calculated to com plicate the situation. It is therefore thought to be eminently desirable that the Venezuelan matter be settled by arbitration. London, Dec. 17.?Rumors are cur rent in Brussels and Copenhagen that Holland and Denmark are about to present their claims to Venezuela for a settlemenL Caracas, Dec. 17.?The Spanish min ister to Venezuela. Senor Gaytan do Ayala, and the Belgian charge d'af faires, M. Van der Heyde, has. pre sented a Joint letter to the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, in which they ask, in case the claims of other foreign powers shall he paid by Vene zuela, that the same treatment given these powers be accorded to Spain and Belgium. Trying to >\Aake Headway. Washington. Dec. 17.?Cable mes sages were passed all day yesterday between the state department and the United States ambassadors at Lon don, Berlin and Rome and between Secretary Hay and Minister Bowen at "Caracas in an endeavor to make some headway In bringing about arbitra tion of the claims of the three Euro pean powers now united in coercing Venezuela. They have been asked a second time to consider arbitration. Minister Bowen had not been heard from In 24 hours except to make an inquiry. The subject of this could not be learned, but it is understood to have reference to what position ho should assume in view of certain eventualities which might arise in consequence of the virtual war whlcb the allies are pressing on President Castro's government. The situation, Internationally ?p#ak . AU1U2 Mdft ing, is very much in a tog. * if fs an nounced-?oti high authority that the outlook is no worse than it was Mon day, ao far as the bolted States being dragged Jatp the muddle is concerned; Tho muxktness of the international atmosphere is causal "by apparent tn decision among the three poweia thrpiKelvcs ns to what steps they ought to take. TTiis'^pvernment does not know yet whether a blockade in to be established or not. Promlse Shared by Italy. , The definite promise of Great Brit a.!n and Germany, relative to the Mon roe ^octilr.e. Is n^ shared in by Italy. Yesterday the Italian mlnlstar called upcr. Secretary Hay and in fprmed .tloij that his government woul.I act with Great 'Britain and Ger many in. the collection of claims againrt $fcc? Venezuelan government He alsq T -ok occasion to promise speclflcan> that nothing wfculd be jflone cjonit ary to the principles of the Moproe d.:r trine Upon this assur ance Secrc;ary Tlav acceded to his re quest that Minister Bowen should take, chaice of Italian interests at Caracas, providing Venezuela should ;reco.?rnizp lriin as the reprew:.*tatlve of Italy. NORD ACCLAIMED PRES1DEHT. Political Opponents of New Executive Seek Refuge In United States Legation. Port Au Prince, Haytl, Dec. 17.? General Saint-Foix Colin, minister of the interior and opponent of General Nord in the contest for the presi dency, has sought refuge In the Unit ed States legation. There has been much firing In the city and a atate of great excitement prevails. All the military authorities who havs beep supporters of" Seneque Pierre's candidacy lor the presidency, and therefore oppcaed to General Nord, also sought refuge In the con sulates. General Nord Is acclaimed president b;' the troops and seems master of the situation, notwithstand ing the fact that the majority of con gress Is in favor of Sonequo Pierre. It is belloved that General Nord w'll dissolve the chamber of communis and the senate and will order other elections which will result In his fa vor. Wring continued yesterday after noon in the streets, but the foreign | residents are in no dangev, Washington, Dec. 17,?Tho follow ing cablegram has been received from Vico Consul General Jerres, dated Port Au Prince, yesterday: "General Nord arrived Sunday. Great excitement. Shooting In streets. Secretary of interior, with general po lice. at legation. Serious trouble ex pected." GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Londcn Dor. ?7.?A dispatch to th? Central News tuys that 16 men, offi cers anil crew, of the British coal steamer Mar lay are believed to have been drown?;! as a result of the foun dering cf their vessel. Sauting Do Chile, Dec. 17.?The coalition 'cabinet has resigned, after J having b?cu 10 days In power. The resignation of the ministers was au outcome of a disagreement between the cabinet and President Riesco over j election matters. London. Dec. 17.?Tn the house of commons yesterday John Redmond, the Irish leader, with the majority of his colleagues, who had absented themselves for some time, resumed their attendance aha voted with the ministerialist majority In favor of Sir j Charles Dllke's motion to reject the house of lords* amendment to the ed- j ucation bill. Manila. Dec. 1<.?The governors of j 35 provinces have assembled here to ! receive instructions regarding census work from General Sanger, the In spector general of the division of the , Philippines, meet the St. Louis expo j sition commissioners, and discuss general affairs with the government. The provincial governors will suppr vise tho census. VERDICT FOR DEFENDANTS. Dr. Irvine Will Carry Case to the Supreme Court. Huntingdon, Pa.. Dec. 17.?The ease of Dr. I. N. W. Irvine, the deposed rector cf St. John's Episcopal church here, against Bishop Talbot and Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Elliott, of Hunt ingdon. for $25,000 damages, ended yesterday, when, on motion of the at torneys for the defense, the court in structed the jury to render a verdict for the defendants. Counsel for botf^ sides made elaborate arguments, buf the charge of Judge Bailey was im perative to the jury and they ren dered a verdict as instructed. Dr. Irvine and his counsel say they will appeal to .the supreme court. Big Mortgage. Hamilton, O., Dec.JL7.?A "mortgage {or $8,200,000 in favor of the Aineri ?in Trust company, of New York, was filed with the Butler county recorder yesterday by the Cincinnati, Indiana and Western Railroad company. The amount represents 4 per .cent'bonds issued to take up the combined debt of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and In dianapolis and the Indianapolis. De catur and Western railroads, consoli dated under the name of the Cincin nati, Indiana and Western, and which are now controlled by the Cincinnati. Hamilton .and Dayton railroad. Satisfied .*ith Results. New Yorlj 'Dec. 17.?Dr. Adolf Lo renz. the orthopedic surg&ra, cf Vi enna. yesterday conducted his second clinic in this city at Polyclinic Heli cal college and hospital. Two little suffereTs from congenital hip disloca tion wefe operated cm by Dr. Lorenz. and he expressed satisfaction at the results. PRESIDENT BAER'S STATEMENT. 1 No Collusion With Independents and Using Every Effort to Relieve Coal Famine. New York*. tiec. 17.?PresidentfBaer, of the Reading railroad, made a state ment yesterday deprecatfng'ih^ course pursued l>y the independent operators, who. It Is alleged, have forced the price for their coal up to f 11.50 a ton, to dealers, equal txi j$l? to, .the, con strnk$r.*~ bKlUton'J'J . lantUAv } | ?'Unfortunately there seems to be no way-to cpmpel them to sell down to the level fixed by the railroads.**-said* Mr. Baer. ''If ^clr, sense of pbliga tion to the people cannot deter" them from asking prohibitive prices, noth ing the public or the railroads can do will be of any effect. The railroads can't refuse to transport their coal; the law regulating the business of all public carriers opposes it The charge that the railroads are selling railroad coal to independents for disposal In the open market is absolutely false. We are doing everything in our power j to keep down the.price of coal and to i get It to market quickly." j *?: ? ERIE TRAIN DITCftED. I Man Struck and Cut In Two Just Be fore Wreck Occurred. Cleveland. Dec. 17.?A fast passen ger train on the Erie road, went Into the ditch at Newbtrrg, a Buburb, | shortly after noon yesterday. The engineer, W. C. Gcas, is reported to be seriously injured, while his fire man, H. H. Land on, was badly cut and I bruised. Officials of the Erie road | state that none of the passengers was ! injured. The accident occurred at the cross ; Ing of the Erie and Cleveland and | Pittsburg tracks. Owing to tho slip I pery condition of the .track" the . en : fjineer was unable to stop his engine I at the crossing. The engine struck a derailing switch and went ,nl? the [ ditch, followed by the baggage and mall cars. A man named Nolan, walking on tho Erie tracks, was struck by the wrccked train an instant before it 1 was derailed and cut in two. Engineer Warren Goss, who jumped S from his train and was badly injured, diod in a hospital yesterday afternoon. First Degree Verdict. New York, Dec. 17.?Thomas Tobin yesterday was convicted of the mur der of Captain James B, Craft, of Glen Cove, L. I., whose decapitated body was found about two months ago In the Empire music hall. The de fense sought to prove Insanity, but numerous experts testified that the prisoner was sane without doubt. The jury rendered a verdict of murder in the first degree after brief'delibera tion. Decision on Ohio Municipal Code. Columbus, O., Dcc. 17.?The su preme court yesterday held the new municipal code constitutional on all the points raised against it in the case of Zumstein vs Mullen, but rejected the construction put upon section 116 by the Cincinnati board of legislation. The court's decision gives Cincinnati 29 instead of 32 councllmen and 24 Instead of 26 wards. NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS. The senate, in executive session yesterday, ratified the treaty of friend ship and general relations between the United States and Spain. While no official announcement has been made, it is understood that the prepident has decided to appoint Dr. W. D. Crum, the colored applicant, aa collector of the port of Charleston. S. C. Representative Martin, of South Dakota, introduced a bill in the house yesterday making Oct. 21, the anni versary of the discovery of America, a legal public holiday, to be known as Columbus day. The war claims committee of the house yesterday reported favorably bills carrying appropriations to pay claims growing out of the cutting cl cables by the United States naval forces in the war with Spain. Senator Quarles. of Wisconsin, yes terday introduced a bill for the amend ment of the anD-trust,. law, the pur pose of which is to prevent trusts from forcing ruinous ^Competition on rivals in th^ same line'of business*. . Additional tariff schedules filed-with the interstate commerce commission by the railroads in the official .classi fication territory, comprising, all lipes' east of the ^tississippiNand north of the Ohio and Potomac, shows that the general increase oiyall Iron and steel articles will be 10'per cent. President Roosevelt yesterday sign ed the commission of Hon. A. B. An derson/ recently appointed and con firmed as United States district judge for Indiana. The commission was for warded to Judge Anderson immedi ately. Upon receipt of if he will qual ify and at once enter fnto the dis charge of his duties. Senator Patterson; of Colorado, yes terday Introduced a bill providing that all national banking associations and other national corporations for the purposes of all suits ln law. shall be deemed citizens of the states in which they may be located, and that the United States courts shall not have Jurisdiction in such cases other thah they would have over Individ uals. ? The sub-committee of the house jn dietary committee heard Representa tlve Hepburn yesterday in explana tion of hfs bill appropriating $500,000 ror the use of the attorney general In the enforcement of existing .anti-trust laws. In the absence of other author ity of anti-trust billp, the committee went into executive session for & gen eral/consideration of the question of the anti-trust legislation. SENATE IS OPPOSED. iQlTy A fPT Jj 1*1 H "7}j j 'President's Anti-Trust Wishes Will Be Ignored By Men of Influence. HOUSE FAVORABLY DISPOSED. Upper Body Willing to Appropriate Funds for Enforcement of Sherman Law?Executive Thinks Something Should Be Done Before Adjournment Washington, Dec. i ??There Is o general opinion among the members of congress that there will be no anti trust bill passed at this session. It is also generally understood that a measure will be passed placing at the disposal of Attorney General Knox an adequate sum of money to be used for conducting prosecutions under the Sherman anti-trust measure. Presi dent Roosevelt thinks that something should be done before the adjourn ment of this congress, and in the house there is a* disposition to pass some trust-regulating legislation, but In the senate the proposition is not received with favor. Many of the leading Republican members of that branch do not think that any legisla tion is necessary and others believe that it should not be taken up at e short session. From the expresslont that are beard from senators it !? evident that an anti-trust bill that gets through the house will have hard sledding In the senate, with the chances greatly against its passage But it Is almost ccrtaln that some bill for the control of the big corpor ations will be reported to the <house by the Judiciary committee. Repre sentative Charles E. Llttlefleld, chair I man of the sub committee to which has been referred all of the antitrust bills Introduced in the Tiouse, said yesterday: Disposition to Hurry, "I do not know how soop we will finish our work and be ready to re port to the judiciary committee, but there is a disposition to hurry mat ters as much as Is consistent We will have several more hearings, but will possibly be able to report before the holiday recess. I cannot fore cast the nature of the bill that will be presented, nor can I predict whether it will pass the house. There is a great variety of opinion and wc want to give pll who are interested r chance to advance their views." Considerable significance was at trlbuted to the dinner given by the president Saturday evening, at whiclj his guests were the secretary of the navy, the postmaster general, Sena tors Mitchell, Dietrich, Clapp, C. D. Clark, McComas, Penrose, Dillingham Burnham. Burton and A. Q. Poster and Representatives Jenkins, Over street. Parker. Llttlefleld. Curtis and Delegate Flynn. Among the repre sentatives were four members of the committee on judiciary, which has charge of the anti-trust legislation and the Inference was that the presi dent would use the opportunity tc confer with these gentlemen as tc the bill that would be reported to the house and talk with the senators af to the chances of a bill getting through the senate if it passed the house When asked about it yesterday. Mr Llttlefleld said: No Exchange of Views. "There was nothing said about anti trust legislation that could be termed a conference. The matter was only referred to casually during the even ing, and there was no exchange of views on the question." A number of senators were asked yesterday for tnelr opinions on the probability of an anti-trust bill getting, through the senate at this session but none of them would say that hr considered such action likely. Sena tor^Quay said that he had been busy with other matters and had not talked with members on the subject. Sena tor Cullom said that it was not usual to tajce up matters of great Import ance at the frtiortv session, ss the ap proprlation bills consumed most oi the time. In fact, those who are sup posed to know the lay of the land assert, positively that there is nc chance for action at this session be yond appropriating money for the at torney "general "to carry/ out the law? "how on the statute books. As a senator expressed Itl "The first thing-.that theRepublican mem* bers of congress have to agree-'upon is that some action fs necessary. Alter that they must agree upon what action Is neocssary. As yet there are many who are far from convinced that anything at all should be done, and while they think thu? there la not much "probability of any bill of this nature being passed." Lost Both His Legs. Ptttsburg. Dec. ?Siunuel Mat thews. a brakeman. living at No. 113 Fourth avenue. Homestead, early yes terday moaning accidentally fell oe neath a car on the Pittsburg, Vir ginia and Charleston railroad, at Homestead. He was, taken from Homestead to the South Side hos pital on & shifting engine, and both his legs were taken oU near the knee His condition is precarious. Mat thews is 30 years old. Death of Casper Dull. Harrisburg, -Dec. *.?Casper Pen rose Du!}, one of the best known busi nessmen of the Jpnlata valley and one-of the first mfen to develop the sand banks near McVeytown. died yesterday at his home la McVeytown. aged 67. Boy Accidentally KiUs Sister. Huntington. W. Vs., Dec. 15-?Id*, the 8-year-old daughter of Contractor K. E. Sexton, of Central City, had al most her entire head blown off at 1C o'clock yesterday by the accidental discharge of a shotgun In the hands of her brother James, aged 15. The boy didn't know it was loaded. Killed by Boiler Explosion. Johnstown. Pa, Dec. 15.?A boile: ! explosion at the Mitchell mine, of the i Webster Coal and Coke company I near Hastings. Saturday, killed Chas. Krebs.,.aged 30. married, and serious | ly injured Harry Heater, aged 35- The j boiler house was demolished and three 1 boilers destroyed. Canned Salmon Causes Death. I Toungstown. O., Dec. 15.?An in restlgation was made by Coroner Blott into the sudden death of WllUam Bissell, a saloonist, Saturday. It was discovered that he had eaten canned salmon, and that he died from pois onlng from the can. WEATHER FORECAST. Ohio?Snow today: brisk to high northeast winds. Tomorrow, cloudy, with snow in northeast portion. Western Pennsylvania?Snow today and tomorrow; brisk to high east to north winds. West Virginia?Snotar today. To morrow, cloudy, with snow and colder In the mountain northern districts. You will ttnd a large collection of useful gifts at The Clarksburg Tailor ing Co. Dec. 13 25 BEST ??.XXXX / Novelties In Imported china and rut glass. Nothing more plpnslnc a (lift to wife or sister. Wells & Hay maker. 8t d 1 w dec IS Sole audits for Lyon's Celebrated Candles. Sold at popular prices at C. D. Sturm & Co., druggists. dec b-tf A BARF of Flour po branded liko this one iS THE BE: that money caii buy. 'twill maka whiter braad am? -acre of It than an* ^ other kltiO. Xf too want tha bait flon- nvM- "v> P'.IU bury'n Heat, but If you m., ?*tua*l wlih Bouto othrr brand Uo xu>t nay u>? rilbbury orlc*. tor it. Toys. Novelties. Hobby Horses. Handkerchiefs i Umbrellas. { Fancy Goods. We are now showing an exceptionally strong line of Fur Scarfs and Muffe. La. Kid Gloves. L>a Monte Ca.rlo CoEvts. Specail Reductions. IToys, Holiday Goods ? and we would be glad to show you through the entire ? line Let the children come in and see | Sa.rvta Claus Svis $12,000 Cash will Buy tKe follow ing Piece of FLeal Estate. FOlt SALE?Five lots, bounded by Cliest nut, Mechanic and Lee siri-ets, In the heart ?<f aer liable residence sect inn (if city, includ ing the handsome and commodious 11-room house, with all modern conveniences and spacious grounds on corner or Ctl( stnut and Mechanic streets. Acordlng to Cl&rksbur| real estate values, and espec ially the value of property In the immediate neighborhood.' (hi* la offered at e. very low figure. If dealred will sell lota separately. COTTR.ELL & HOPKINS. R-Cftl Estate and Insurance 5 ^ 214 COURT STREET. CLARKSBURG, W VA. NOTICE! Ladies of Clarksburg! * Si c\~ We.beg to Inform tbe Ladles or Clarksburg that tbe Clarksburg In stallment Company bas opened up again and Is ready to sell Ladies' Waists, Skirts, Suits, et<S., on easy payments. We do not charge install ment prices, as otber Installment bouses do. Wishing to bare all our old customers back again, and also new ones, we can assure them good treat ment, we are. Yours Truly, Clarksburg Installment Co., Pile* stravt. Opposite Walter llooa* If you need any harness for you teams, no matter of what kind, 'you will find It always on hand at Rey nolds, Main street. -Be keeps an up to-date harness establishment. 8 30U See tbe Baist<ib cereals at Wall Is' Grocery. Dec 12-2t Before the Rush Begins. New fall suitings and Over coat materials.'are all in. Many, very handsome and exclusive patterns among them at quite modest prices. And now before /the rush begins and while the new fab rics are all here is the best time to leave your measure. Better facilities than ever tor cleaning1 and pressing. - The CLARKSBURG , TAILORING CO. Harry R. Smith. r Traders Bu!ldlng, 227 Ms.In 81 Oak. Red and Hemlock SoleLeather. Side slip and sole, al E. D. Reynold* the harnem man, Main St. * Mew Sole Leather at E. D. Rey nold's, Main street. * CLARKSBURG, W. VA