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INFANTRY IS
INTO NIC
BYOR1
POTOFOOLD
T Is Found by Mercer 'County
Farmer under 'Stone of
His Hearth.
BLUEFUBLiD, Aug. 28.?On the ex_
- treme outer edge of this county, a
farmer whose name last night was
unobtainable, found under an old flag
stone of the hearth of the fireplace ?1
a house on a farm owned by William
Wilson in 1S06, a pot of gold totaling
.*8,500. The house was built In 1806.
W-lrciit grandchildren have hunted In
vain for supposed hidden money, >bul
the old farmer, no relation of WilV|L.,
son. yesterday found 1t. There are
W' i live heirs who will sue for the money.
One of the heirs is .Mrs. D. E. 'French,
of this city.
JEALOUSY
' ___ .
Is Said to'Be the Cause of a
Shooting Affray at
'Huntington.
HUNTDfOTON, Aug. .28?A mysterious
shooting / stray occurred
near here last night, when Vivian
" Dunkle, city commissioner of streets,
was shot In the side while walking
with a pretty young girl named
Martha Claggtn, In the vicinity of a
local park. Dunkle, who Is married,
said he was approached by ^n unknown
man, who fired at him and
then ran. TJie police are investigating
the affair and suspect that
jealousy may have been the cause
of the shooting. Dunkle Is seriously
but not fatally wounded.
ACQUITTED
Is Italian Coal "Miner ofN Unlawfully
Carrying Knives.
A jury Tuesday night In Justice
\V. P. Camp's court acquitted Frank
Ballot, an Italian coal miner, of unlawfully
carrying two paring knives
a few nights ago when he was arrested
in West Pike street for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct. It was
shown that Ballot bought the knives
at a ten cent store for cutting fuses
In a mine and that he was just carryThg
them home.
ARRESTED FOR BOARD BILL.
Nathan McDermott, arrested by
Constable M. S. Meraman, of Upshur
county, about ten miles above Buckhannon,
was brought to Justice G. H.
Gordon's court Wednesday atfernoon
^ for a hearing on a charge of trying to
beat Miss Sarah McCauley out of a
"board bill amounting to $19.56. McDermott
paid the Bill and all the
costs of the case and was released.
* HOME FROM VACATION.
The Rev. C. R (Mitchell, rector of
the Episcopal church hero, returned
last night from a sr.onth's vacation
spent along the lakes in Ohio fishing,
and preaching services will be resumed
at his church Sunday morning.
The vacation proved pleasant and recuperative.
PUCK PIN CONTEST.
fr*
~ The Temple alley duck pin team of
Fairmont will play the Gore alley
team a game at the Gore alleys Wednesday
night at 7:.'10 o'clock. This
will he the fourth series of games
played this year and on each occasion
the 'Fairmont team defeated the
Clarksburg team on the Gore alleys
while the locals won all three games
on the Temple alleys.
PRESBYTERY TO MK&T.
^4 The Grafton Presbytery composed
II of the Presbyterian churches of this
section of the state will hold its annual
session at French Greek, near
"Buckhannon Monday. September ! ,
beginning at T::i0 p. m. The Presbyterian
State Synod meets at Buckhannon
Thursday. October 17, and will
be attended by a number of local
Presbyterians.
WILL PLAT BALL.
0 ,
A baseball team composed of Har
Vison county school teachers attending
the county Institute will play L
0. Smith's team a game at the Union
park grounds tomorrow afternoon a<
4:30 o'clock. Special cars will be
run. The game promises to be hotly
contested.
i SENT
ARAGUA
DER OF TAF1
* . './
And Will 'Arrive There withir
Forty-eight Hours after
Sailing.
SOLDIERS 'BURNEC
Others Starved to Death ir
i 'Dungeons and Women and
! Chiklren Are Attacked.,
X
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28:
The war department today orderet
the Tenth Unltdd States infantry a
Panama to proceed at once to Nlca
rugua.
The orders came direct from Pres
idcnt Taft just before he left iBevorl;
for Columbus, O. It will embark 01
merchant vessels tomorrow ant
reac Corinto within forty-eigh
hours.
to full war strength and fully equip
ped for campaigning In the tropics
It Is to be taken on merchant shlpi
and rushed to Corlnto with all pos
slble speed. It Is to hold the railroac
between Corlnto and Mangua and ij
is believed It will afford ample pro
tectlon.
Allegations of conditions borderlnf
on barbarism and acts even worst
than these which took troops of tht
powers Into China during the Soxei
insurrection have been received a
the state department within the las:
twenty-four hours.'
The burning of soldiers and the
starving or prisoners in dungconi
in the latest reports made It plain
that immediate protection for Amer
leans was necessary and probably 11
would not be safe to wait for th<
1 arrival of marlncB enroute wh(
would not get fhere for a week
while the Tenth infantry can read
the scene in tr^o days.
General Altschul, the revolullonis
Junta representative In Washington
denies'stories of barbarities but th<
rebel firing on flags of truce born<
by loyal Nicaraguans as well as
American marines is said to hav<
been frequent the last few days.
I Attacks on women and ehildrci
are said to have been frequent.
I The state department has pro
ceeded upon the conviction that 1'
has not mlrlnged on the war makinj
power of Congress or the president.
LOCAL FIRM
I / ?'
Of Architects is Awarded Twc
I Very Nice Contracts in
Competition.
! Messrs. Holmboc and I^afTerty, loca
architects, received word Wedncsdaj
morning that their firm had beer
commissioned by the board or directors
of a hospital to he built at
Frostbtirg, Md., to furnish plans ant
superintende the work of building
The hospital will cost $2">,000. The
award was made in competition witli
live other architects.
I The local firm also has received
i word that it has been awarded the
contract for a high school building
| at Parsons to cost $30,000.
YQUNG CADDIES
I
1 Arc Voted Cut of Business by
1 Lawyers But They Do
Not Know It.
j MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Aug. 28?
Having approved a mode! uniforn
law for adoption by all slates to pro.
lliibit employment of children undei
]a certain age. the American Bar As
'eocation discovered today that i
i had gone on record against use it
any part of the country of caddie;
. under 14 years of age. although 1
was not intended to apply to thcsi
important adjuncts of golf links.
Walter Green Smith, who Intro
duoed the measure, explained tha
j every effort will Ae made to hate 1
generally adopted. His explanatloi
[of the exit of fourteen-year-old cad
idles was greeted with applause.
,!
EMPEROH WALKS.
1; (^ASSEI-s Germany, Aug. 28;
Emperor William was so well toda.
1 that he rose early and enjoyed a lodi
' walk In a park befofli breakfast. HI
rheumatic pains have almost ceasec
w f * - ' ig
B
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- jffiwiP ^
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i
~ THE REV. J. J.
j Pastor of tlie Bridgeport charge of ti
} and president of the board of young
t ^a prominent figure at the annual nit
progress at the local church of the dt
AGRICULTL
i ABLYL
*
i.
; By Institute 'Instructors and
? Mr. Sheets Will Lec'
ture Tonight.
' Two hundred and seventy-seven
persons are enrolled now at the In
' | stltuto In the court house here and
I the third day 1b among the best of
.1 the institute tliuB far. Discussions of:
agricultural problems featured the
day's proceedings and the various
topics were handled In a very able
manner by the speakers as well as|
by members of the Institute in general j
discussions. Harrison, county teach-,
ors and others will be especially inj
terested in the lecture to be given to|
night in the court house in connection
i with the institute as Earl W. Sheets,
i the lecturer, is a Harrison county
man, who was reared near West Mil'
ford. Mr. Sheets is now assistant
i director of the extension department
I of agriculture at the state university
! at Morgantown and he is making
good. The subject of his lecture to.
night will be "Boys and Girls' Agricultural
Clubs and Their Value to the
School and Community." It will be
illustrated.
The Institute opened Wednesday |
morning with a devotional and song ^
service led by TJr. E. B. Bailey, of '
Baltimore, one of the instructors.
H. R. Gers. of Eouisviile, Ky., in
; charge of the science male department
of the Ijouisvillc high school
and employed by the federal governI
ment to hold farmers' institutes'
, I throughout the state of Kentucky,'
(i was the first speaker. Pr. Gers dis-.
I cussed the codling moth and animal!
1 tuberculosis, presenting the subjects
' In a manner that showed him thori
oughly familiar with what he had
' under consideration. The rapt atten*
j tlon of the institute was his as he
| was profound in thought and eloquent
. iin speech.
J Dr. A. II. Powell, another insturctor.
discussed in Ills usual clear and
'/'forceful manner "The Relation of the
Teachers to Kach Other, to the Principal
and to the Superintendent.'At
the afternoon session Dr. Powell
discussed "Recitation,' 'and Dr. Gers I
talked about "The Economic Value ,
of Ilirds " lloth were fine lessons and
I |
, i should prove helpful to teachers in ,
teaching agriculture.
f.)r. PoWcm; Sellvered a brilliant lec- j
turc at the Tuesday night session of '
the institute on "King Dear." and !
i the same was comment (R!~bn as one
'of the "host discussions or the play
within the knowledge of the leading
" members of the Institute and espcc- ^
i ially by those who have given time
to literaturu.
(JOBS OX VACATION. k
i c
Miss Margaret Gordon, cashier at 1
j the store of the National Woolen Mills t
Company, lias gone to Uniontown, p
Pa., her former home cn a vacation (
and is attending home-coming-week v
festivities there. Miss I.ucile Cook is 1
atcing as cashier at the store in Miss a
Gordon's absence. t
HOME FROM TRIP. t
Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Davis and
- son, Paul, of Stealey Heights, returned
y; Tuesday night from "a trip of two
S, weeks. They visited Atlantic City, '
s the peninsula of Maryland and Wash- ,
' ington, D. C. t
: 3 i
HBn
' -
l'HILTJPS.
lie Methodist Protestant conference
people's work o4 that body, who Is
lettnjj of the conference now in
nomination on ibocust street.
_______
USCUSSED
5/7 YS HP.Ah TBREA KF.R
HASLOHOOA RLCORD
?r ? ?
!1 T)
; A 1
* >
\ ,11
Mist Nellie ?ngal* Chicago heiress, and
Thomas QaySey Henry.
That Thomas Bayley Henry, alleged
swindler and heartbreaker is
Joseph Harold Kendall, who has
served tor s in prisons in England,
s the .information received by Oakland*
police. Henry, Is said to have
posed as an English barrister and
scion of a prominent family when
ie was arrested In London In 1905
tn a charge of grand larceny.
Ilcnry was then on iron monger,
rhe charge against him on the coast
s fraud on real estate deals. Miss
WllloMngal. Chicago heiress, gave
-im an affectionate farewell when poire
yfok him away.
ODD FELLOWS
Till Wert Friday >'ight to Arrange
for Animal Reunion.
There will bo a mooting of rcprc"lifatives
of the various lodges of
hid Fellows in the Odd Fellows hall
lore Friday night at 7:30 o'clock for
he purpose of arranging for the next
innual reunion of the Harrison
bounty Odd Fellows Association, at
vhich time the time and place will
>c fixed. All lodgeB in the county
ire urged to be represented at the
neeting Friday night and all other
ntcrested Odd Fellows are invited to
>e present.
SECRETLY MARRIED."
CINCINNATI. Aug. 2S.?Clnrk
dam-rond, aged -- years, and Delia
Davis, aged 24 years, both of Clarksiiurg.
W. vn., were secretly married
it Kentucky's Grenta Green today.
C0NFEREN
CHOSEN
r 4
The Rey. J. N. Holt to Head
Methodist Protestants the
Ensuing Year.
MOSSBURG SECRETARY
Committees Are Appointed
apd Report of Year's
Work is Submitted.
The Rev. J. N. Holt, of Parkersburg.
was re-elected president and
the,Rev. J. H. Mossburg, of Mount
Morris, Pa., was chosen secretary of
the West Virginia Conference of the
Methodist Protestant church at
Wednesday afternoon's session ot
Its annual meeting In the local
church of the denomination at 655
Locust street. The Rev. Mr. Holt
had no opposition, but ballots were
necessary for a choice of secretary
with the Rev. :,ir. Mossburg and the
Rev. Jesse R. Jones, of Fairmont,
Incumbent, as the candidates.
Following the selection of a secretary,
the stationing committee,
which will assign ministers for the
ensuing year, was taken up. This
committee consists of the president,
two rain sters and two laymen.
The permanent roll as reported
at the morning session, was adopted.
Annual Report Submitted.
The president submitted a detailed
report of the work accomplished during
the closing oonference year, in
which he recommended a continuance
'Ji me aooumuciib ui uu tiuio yet
member, aid (or at least one place
in ea<?I sab-district with the chairman
ot each sub-district an advisory
member of Ihe board of church extension,
no division of the larger and
wealthier charges unless each part
is able and' willing to support a pastor,
consolidation of some of the
weaker charges along railroads and
trolley lines, ami' the. taking over of
the Elkins church by the board of"
home tgisaions.
Morning Session.
The conference was called to order
Wednesday morning by the president,
the Rev. J. N. Holt, of Parkersburg.1
The roll of deceased members of
the conference was read with tho
name of the Rev. D. H. Trlmbly, of
Glenville, added. Ho dted since the .
last conference at his home at Cilen-j
ville after a long illness. On account1
r\f hta t I Innec tin hail tin tlkn HItn tin? _ '
C. L. Queen. C* X. Nestor. It. R.
Hardesty, B. L. Thomas.
Church extension?Joslah Payne,
H. Steele. R. B. Harris, R. A.
Curry, M. R. Hinzman. tFTaternal
relations?B. Stout, J.
M. Conaway, M. Ireland, W. W.
Tapp, W. IF. Squires.
Official character?D. S. Bogga, J.
H. MoSBburarW. L. Lloyd, L. E. !
Butcher, A. F. Harris.
Young people's work?J. J. Phillips.
9. <5. Satterfleld, J. P. Turkel(Continued
on page wrenT) |
I " ;
Ul HID IIIUVOO UC UttU uu vuaigc UUI I
ing the year, his service being in the
hands of the president during that
time. i i
Permanent Roll Called.
One hundred and forty-two delegates
answered the premanent roll
call, which was thenTaken up. Sev-l
enty-one of the delegates are1 ministers
and seventy-one laymen. A motion
to seat the delegates as reported
from (he different charges was deferred
until the afternoon session
owing to a difference of opinion re
garding tile worK or a committee ap-.
pointed at the last conference to re- i
viae the manual. The president ruled \
that the conference had no manual ?
by which to be guided' In. IMi seating j
of delegates as the committee had <
not reported. The ruling was with- j
drawn, however, when the committee |
informed the ^conference! that It had j
been empowered to collect and re
arrange the manual Instead of re- ]
porting a new ono.
Committees Appointed.
Conference committees, as follows,
were then atinountnA by the president:
Credentials?C. ?. Butler, H. S.
McCarty, E. J. Harris, Henry Dod-.
rill, !U B. McGinnis.
Pulpit service?L. E. Oldaker, J. ]
J. Phillips, J. M. Wlndom.
.Finance?J. A/Selby, L. N. Anvil,
E. G. Chipps, E. W, Swan, ,T.
E. Curry.
Unfinished business?E. A. Nicholson,
W. H. Delung. I. L. .laekson^
Wade Phillips, W. W. Harris.
Foreign missions?G. W. .\forris.
Mrs. Mary J>. Strickler, T. J. .Hlcklo,
I. ,F. Smitljr Walter Ireland, T. J..
McClernon. f
Home mlstons??. W. Morrison,
ce presil
for amoti
NA YLOR BC
EXHIBIT
. ?
CHILDREN BETTER j
MAMMIES AS COOKS
.mrnmK& .
. Mattle B'enam, Monroe Moon. i
After winning prizes in county and '
state cooking contests. Miss Mottle i
Erunam. of Eatontan. Go., is herald- .
od as the host cook in the entire '
south, tvhcre there are quite a few
colored "mammies? who know a ,
thing-or ImTtnoflT^hQ art. She la
u schoolgirl of v fourteen. Monroe t
Moon. t\velve-yenr-oJd son ofv the a
inuyor of Mocon. Gn.. Is regarded us
the best cake maker In Macon.
ARRESTED :
Will Attorney Moon Be and
Will Be Brought Back
' from Coast.
(PARKERSBU'RiG, Aug. 28?Rob- '
:rt H. Moon, a leading lawyer of
this city, who disappeared suddenly,
he middle of July, and who went to
-os Angeles, Calif., will he arrested
there and brought back here for d
rial on the charge of embezzlement, 1
iccordlng to information which came c
Jut hero today. Moon is alleged to c
lave failed to turn over sums he '
:ollected while hero, and his alleged (
ihortagos aro said to bo between
Ive and six thousand dollars.
A warrant was issued for ETm
lere and requisition papers secured, ?
:he California authorities being In
itructed to arrest Moon. Tho latter!
is a prominet lodgo man and was
secretary of the Civic League here, i
taking a leading part fn the local re-j
torm movements. An attempt was j
made to keep the news that Moon j
was wanted a secret until after he t
had been apprehended. t
AGED FARMER DEAD :
? '
A. J. Kellison Succumbs to s
Cancer at His Home near <
Meadowbrook. '
A. J. Kellison, a highly esteemed
farmer, died shortly after midnightj
at his home near Meadow.brook after )
a long illness of cancer of the liver.
He was 72 years old.
Mr. Kellison was born in Harrison
county andj resided in it ail his life. (
He was a vhtcran of the Civil "War. l
Ho was the father of fourteen chll- t
urcu? iwen-u 01 wnora survive aim
together with his widow. |
The funeral will take place Thursday
morning with a service at the
late home at 10 o'clock and burial at'
the Smith graveyard near Meadow-,
brook.
PATIKXTS IMPROVING.
The three smallpox patients under;
surveillance of Dr. R. L. Osborn, city'
health officer, arc gett'ng along nicely
and early recovery is expected
with no spread of the disease. The ,
third case is that of Mrs. Winnie s
Smith, of . the Stewart addltiqn.
i* g , ;
i?NT IS
HER TERM
yOSTING
BY STA TR
1 litll v_y Wll OUSlllCSb.
LONDON", Aug. 28.?Canadian
Premier Robert L Borden, when lie
accd sufferagettes tor the first time
oday told them very emphatically
bat he had no powjt to introduce a
general measure tor woman's suffrage
n the Canadian parliament and no 1
breata of employment of mllltlannethods
would influence him. He
laid he thought Canadian women were 5
lufflclently capable find intelligent '
0 judge for themselves in this mat '
* |
'PRUNTY ' J
1 rives His Loiler Homa After Having
it Rebuilt in Philadelphia.
C. E. Prunty returned Home Tues*
lay night from Philadelphia, where
le had hia Lozler cat repaired after .4
bo accident at Egg Yarbar several i
weeks ago. in which several promllent
Clarkaburgers were Injured. Mr.
Prunty bad' his car rebuilt and re?atnted.
The car looks like a new <
>ne and la practically aa good ai? a
i?w one as every part was repaired. 9
Mr. Prunty Bpent several days tour- ,
ng New York and Philadelphia.
Sheriff Percy Byrd made the ret up I
rip with Mr. Prunty.
SPECIAL TEEM. 1
There will he a special term of the^- |
:ounty court nest Tuesday to audit *9
ind approve for payment county and 9
district claims.
Board of Trade at the Great
Chicago Land Show in
November.
Boy
B. toaylor, of Wheeling, eecre- ^
lary of the West Virginia Board of
trade, spent Wednesday here in the
nterest or the state exhibit to he
nado at the Chicago land show November
23 to December 8. He' also J
rave efforts to y6t?iag up a greater
nterest in the affinal meeting of the
ward at Morgantown in October.
Mr. Naylor is making an extensive
our, Before coming hseo he visited
Morgantown and Fairmont and he
vent from this city to ParkerSburg
vhere he will confer with the Parkirsburg
Chamber of Commerce totight
Then he will visit Hnntlngon
and Charleston, ending the week's
rip at Charleston* ,*
In speaking of the Intended exhibit
it the Chicago land show, Mr. Naylor
itated that a section of ten booths had
?een aliotcd to West Virginia and the
sxhlblt will J>e in charge of a state
mard of trade special committee with
>r. I. C. White, of Morgantown, and i
lames H. Stewart, state sepreseataive
of the Baltimore and Ohio Ralload
Company, at its head. The ex
lit 11 will cost several thousand dol- .
ars and It Is intended to advertise
Vest Virginia and its marvelous reources
as well as Its great, oppor- |
unities. The special purpose Is to
nduce settlers to come to the state.
'he state board has a comprehensive
1st of farm, orchard and garden lands
n various parts of the state for sale |
ind is prepared to meet all Inquiries ||
esultlng from the showing made at |
he land show.
It will be a general exhibit, lnclud* J
ng garden, fruit and other agrlculutbI
-products, sofi, mineral and 1
Imber. .
Mr. Kay lor stated t?a'? he had re- 1
:elved great cncouiscement at the
>laces fTslted and be spoke In the
nost hopeful manner of the exhibit.
3y a Large 'Crowd When 'He
Leaves Beverly for
Columbus, O.
BOSTON'. Mass., Aug. 28?JPrestent
Taft left here today for Oolumiug,
0? where he will attend the
entennlal celebration. He was
heorcd by a large crowd as he
oarded his private car.
1101"
?- v ...
rells Woman Suffrage Advocates
in London to^Mind \
d?-i- ?

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