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I AMERK W WITH OU NO PRO ??-? Shooting Done at Close Range with McManus the Target of Many Bullets. FOREIGNERS* ARE EXCITED News of the Murder Causes Hppn Hnnoopn in Official MWWf-r WVIIVVI II III V/ I I lUlbll Circles at Washington. WASHilNiGTCKN, Mar. 12.?John B :McJManusf originally of Chicago, a "Prominent American in Mexico City, was killed yesterday when Zapata forces entered-the city. An American flag was flying over his house and the doors had been sealed by the Brazilian consul, according to the advices to the state department today from the Brazilian minister in Mexico City. General Sala'zar the post commander, promised the Brazilian minister he would punish those responsible for the murder which is said to have been on? of revenge because it was charged that* MicManus had killed three Zapatistas when they were in the city previously. The fact that the American flag tad been hoisted over the house and the doors had been sealed by the consul nf a. TiPitfrnl nrraflr tc:m 1 n Iron hv officials here <to indicate that either McManus felt that he was In danger or that all foreigners felt that tinware in danger and took steps for protection. The killing of the American is deter! bed it. the despatches as having caused the greatest excitement and ^motion In the foreign colony. The official despa*-iics telilDg of the klilirg did not com air: gr*dt detail btit indicated that there was a dispute over whether McManus or the Zapata soldiers began the shooting. It was added however, that the American'?*hat was shot full of holes evidencing that the tiring was done at close range. In Washington the news was received in official Quarters with evideuces of deep concern. The BrazilInn n\ + TVi A(*c?n Oh #1 i n I act-U k? JUCSOagC *Xl i. L \ cu JU31. as the cabinet was assembled and Secretary Bryan took them to be laid before the president. Mr. Bryan said that as a searching investigation was underway no steps were likely to be taken until all the facts were before the American government. Yesterday the Spanish ambassador here laid before the state department despatches telling of the killing of four Spaniards in Mexico City with looting and destruction of property. The death of a subject of Sweden was reported the day before. Official despatches received in diplomatic quarters from other legations In Mexico City said one British house was looted and 100 persons were injured in the disorder which prevailed between the evacuation of Obrgon and the entry of the Zapata troops. ORGANIZE BUS COMPANY; HUNTINGTON, Mar. 12?C. N. Miller, of Chillicothe. O., and W. P. Floyd and G. L. Titus, of ?5:~ City, v . j _ a. m l ? . & . _ nave organiaeu a jimey oua company, the first in West Virginia, and have applied to'the secretary or state for a charter. Contracts have been let for six buses to be delivered here in thirty days FARM BU NOW As More Than Twice the Number Required Enrol! in Variant Parts nf finnniv J vfww kv? wi < With the organizing of the "Lost Creek Farmers* Clulb yesterday; with iBurgett Swisher president, Charles C. I ?lake secretary, and Charles Post treasurer, the membership already enrolled for the Harrison County Farm B Bureau is more than twice the legal requirements to enable the county court and government to co-operate In the salary of a county agricultural agent. I With another club to he organized tonight at CP S^Hope. together with additional mv Jers likely tb be prerented by the officers of the clubs at B Sjhinnston. Salem, Bridgeport and Xiost Creek, and the considerable muu bar of Clarksburg people "who have I joined the bureau. the Indications art that tho organization Saturday after noon in tho court house will he comB pleted with a charter membership ol B over two hundred. The state law making this worfc B possible was quite largely due to the 1 Ate rest and activities of F. B. DavB Isson of this county, and was introB duced in the Senate by Senator Boy E Hi Parrish. The text of this law a? B' Passed and signed by the governor and now In forco, is as follows: B Section 2S of Cliaper :il>: Whenevet a county agricultural organization B with not less than My members, files with .the county court of the county a B. memorandum of understanding with B the Agricultural Extension DepartB ment of the College of Agriculture B West Virginia University, ,guaranteeI ing the payment of said, county organ 1 Ration of the field and office expenses B '-of a county agfent"or agents to the one CAN Ml R FLAG TECTION i> : ,4, + tt + + +'H' + ++ *+ 4"l' + + * GOl>*G AWAY. + | 4* 4* i 4> iEK w. Stuck, manager of the + 4? St. Charles hotel, -will leave + Monday night for Wachula, 4* 4? :Fla., where he owns extensive 4* 4* fanning interests. He expects + E* ? ? ?c+TTI rt e ? * I.U J CLUi u uolvjact v^ui i?>iAuo0, ; 4* air. Stuck will make tlie trip 4?| 4* by way of Washington, and 4?j 4* after seeing the sights in the 4*: 4> national capital, he will pro- 4?| 4* ceed to his destination on a bee *1*1 4* line with all possible despatch, * : 4* either by railway or by the air < ! 4" route, yet. to be decided. He *frj 4* anticipates a safe journey 4?1 4" either w-ay. 4> 4? 4* STORMY SCEHES In the State Senate Caused by England's Ruling on Vote to Adjourn Sine Die. t EPrclAL TO THt TSLCSRAMT OHAKiLESTOX, Mar. 12.?When the Senate met this morning1 Senator Marshall introduced a resolution, to notify the House and governor that the'Senate would adjourn sine die at noon. President England ruled the resolution our. of order on account of its form and an appeal was taken fronij the decision, the chair being overruled by a vote of seventeen to twelve. A stormy scene took place when President England ruled that it took a two-thirds vote to consider the resolution immediately, the rules providing that resolutions lie over one day. Many impassioned speeches were made by members and were still being made at the hour when the resolution would have adjourned the body. The House passed -a bill providing for payment of the per diem of the members and attaches. RATE INCREASES On Bituminous Coal to Eastern Points Are Cancelled by Federal Commission, _ * CQY ASSOCIATED PRESS* WASHiIiN>G-TON, Mar. 12.?^Proposed Increases in rates on bituminous coal from Pennsylvania, Maryland and "West Virginia mines to Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore for transshipment to points inside tie ca/pes of Delaware and Chesapeake bays were found today by the Interstate Commerce Commission to toe not justified and ordered cancelled. statement saying that on the records he believed the applying roads, the .Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio and others, were entitled to the increases. FACTORIES TO CLOSE. All hand and machine window glass factories are to close March 20 for the season, according to a rumor reaching here Friday. Men in position to know say the rumor is well founded. Overstock and lack of market arc: ? i.1 ? i? - - i t j ast>iRutu - ii? me reasons lor tne unusually early closing tor the season. REAU ASSURED * , , ? - | , of the next, succeeding fiscal year, then the county court of such county1 is hereby authorized "to, and it may levy for and appropriate from the general" fund an amount not to exceed one and one-half cents on the one hundred dollars' assessed valuation. The money so appropriated shall be used for the payment of part of the salary of person or persons to encourage demonstrations of improved methods on the farm and in. the home' and to give free advice and practical ' instruction in agriculture and home j economics in ?uch county ,in co-o.pe r~: I ation with and under the supervision ! of the said agricultural extension department. Such person or persons as l employed shall be appointed by the ; agricultural extension department and I approved by the directors of the county agricultural organization and the ! county court. > ,* All the moneys so appropriated shall be expended upon orders of the county court as other county funds are expended and a duplicate of all iVi 1.1 oknlt Vv A 44 1 Arl SHI1CM J Y O 0UC11I 1/9 liiVU vY 1 LU ; the said agricultural extension de! partment in such forms as will cora ply with the provisions of the act of Congress approved-May 8, 1314, known, . as the Smith-iLever act; hut no part1 i of any money so appropriated shah , 'be used to compensate any representative of the West Virginia University or any other person except the peri sons who may be employed under this s act. It shall bo the duty of the agril cultural extension department to coi operate with, each county court and county agricultural organization rais, ing or appropriating money under this act. Any county court may co-operate with the county court of one or more i adjoining counties in carrying-out .the L purposes of this act. JRDERI BUSY HARBOR OF S3 v : > i ?v,s,Jc'"v,,oeo' -JMkBL*V LflHHB j^^^VHn^i; BSj Mf^rtfftliBiifiiffi^r^Q JWtBtuiA?jj^i?^' 4H ' 1 . '. ' \ ', ': " t ' Cameli The busy harbor of Smyrna in The city was bombardedfor a- time taken before the .war, when, the .port SWEEPIN OF TR< " . S-if'.i X r- ; __ 4 Along with Forces from India is Reported to Be Taking .= Place in the West. GERMANS ~T0 RETALIATE Battles in Northern Poland Not Thought to Have Reached Maximum Intensity. :?:?;? . (BY ASSOCIATED PMtBP) > LONDON, Mar. 12?The sweeping advance of British troops around Neuve Chapelle in the- direction of the strong German position at LaBaasee is regarded by some English newspapers today as the commence-: ment of active operations on the left wing of the allied front in .the western theater of tli'e war as lately to be followed by another important offensive thurst preliminary to a general advance in the. spring. It is believed, moreover, that the Germans will promptly seek ;to re^ taliate. If theyi do this, it will compel them to:keep their..western-forces intact if not to reenforce them to meet the fresh forces which Great Britain Is putting into "the field. This ,is- just what the allies profess to desire. ?Their stroke is timed to aid T*b a Duaolono f/>i* 2# A-V* a ell 1 ac lwu^oiaus i vi it, i no amca uau uv?, kept the Germans busy along tile western front it is believed the German commandedrs would again have shifted forces/to the eastern, line to strengthen Field Marshal von Kindenburg, whofce armies are now fighting hard to regain the. ascendency , between the Vistula and the- piemen rivers. These battles in northern Poland are not thought in L.ondon to have reached their maximum intensity -but Field Marshal von HIriden?*.irg with heavy reenforcements is said to be attempting anr : ?r flanking movement against - i iasnysz. ^with trie idea of .resuming his" original plau of alvancing along the Niemen shodld the operations against PrzaShysz be successful. The battle line extends i roughly for a . distance - of ' eighty miles between? the river Orz$y and the river Vistula. No recent news 'has been received in London concerning the operations of the allied fleet in the Dardanelles/ Delayed despatches direct from Constantinople say the damage inflicted ,on the Turkish forts has, not been serious and that life in Constantinople , I sentirely normal. This contra-: diets the report; published today that the Turkish capital is in. a: state of panic. DISTRICT XOA?KK HERE. ??. . Gt-orge ^ S. Walters district' commercial manager of the Western Union * Telegraph Company, vrhose headQuarters is in Pittsburg, is in the city on a visit to:the local office of 'tis company 1 In an official capacity. : ,-r Mr. anditMrs. Goldbera, formerly of Clarksburg, but now of Salem, v-ere ED IN T ?y" >, r k b.v. <Hf.t.^'.v.tj}\i'\$j{#ffigli1.**/?*, !"//. r: -' " >'?.' **! ' li.-'^ ' r.''. ':' V>^:'H ??,'"'jYa'W ' SsZftJS>^jS^ViV''i\w ?&' vV J'lv VIYRNA BOMBARDED BY ' fc f'tdc^nrtsorf ^ w^MKSSSS ^ i ^^jffl|?WBBWWi B? jW BK::> iK HHgyiB ^W^SWl -,'^!^ifK&^iQk(^^f^P^^p * ~~~ s bringing in grain and figs for the expor " 1 - " - * . > ' / ' ; ;*# - .* . ' . ' * * *?' * \ . Asia Minor was startled the other, day t and considerable damage was wrought t .was, much busier than it is today. .'? ' . ,/ - ' * > ,' - " . ' G ADVAN X>PS OF I t Says Her Hit s t With $1,30C + , Accusing her husband. Stain with $1;300 in cash belonging to .two children, Mrs." A,polonia. Pa house at Grasselii, appeared in M Priday morning and' swore out a + . The woman''saidshe had ju " /' departed on .westbound train No. ; fcouis. Officers, immediately wir + to watch the train when It reach ; . ' Mrs. Pachata'-said that her h 4* with him but that half of the . _ ^ ^ Ji ^ ^ A . " 4 Manager of 1 Outwits . a ' . . 4 . '* ' . -I , * ^ Seat Sale of "The Round Up" to Be Opened Week Ahead of Engagement. Claude Robinson, manager of the Robinson Grand theater, received a 4 A ?ymn %-*rV L1.*! ?] r% mr # A *-* * n 1? n a1* t M m Lcir^iaiu ruuA^ uuiu uiv ijuumu^ ulflee of Klaw and Erlanger, theatrical managers, in. New -York, warning him to look out for ticket speculators who might -try to work their game when the magnlllcent production of ''The Hound-Up" comes here next week. "The .Round-Up" has been meeting with such great success and has been drawing such mammoth crowdB that speculators have been following the attraction and, surreptitiously buying 1 up tickets, which they sell at advance prices.after the house is sold out for a performance. Vigorous efforts are being made, however, by the Klaw and TErlanger management both of this; attraction, and. at headquarters together-with the . managers of local theaters J;o break up the practice and, if possible, to catch the speculators. ; Personal Attention. m- order ;io prevent any imposition (upon', theater-goers of this section. Manager Robinson announced today that the .Beat sale 1 for, ''The; Round"Up". would be opened. Monday morning ht the box'office of the theatey. This is an unusually early advance sale,, as the big -attraction lis . to appear at the theater here next Friday and. Saturday. Every effort will be made to maintain the - standard process. of. admission for this production and if - any one should get "stung," Mr. Robinson will give his personal ; attention to the ^matter. ; In- view of the }fact. that-the sale of : seats swill-he opened a week ahead of the attraction,: however,-;i, nothing - of ^ 5? HE CIT ..>4, . ? THE ALLIED FLEET N & \ i\ \ ' x ?- v\ m v > " A / 5 B't \ I t S5C Vr>\ ' " t trade. y the appearance'of the allied-fleet ybursting.shells. Th'c picture wiu itcr? IS i;} :f ': * CE NOW ENGLAND - * t t t'4, + + + 4,4'4?4, + * + + + + + + :band Skipped, X "V J* -sr- -W- , *m.' ) ot tier Money 1 4 islofof suddenly leaving the city her and deserting her and her chata. who conducts a boarding agistrate W. E. Starcher's court + - warrant for his arrest. <+ st learned that her husband had 4 ' 5o Thursday." evening, for ' St. ? ed"the chief of police of that city 4 es St. Liouis and arrest the: man. usbandtook. $2,60 0 in'cash -along 4 ijn rightfuly belonged to him. ? .1^ . ' theater Speculators . ?* ?r*-? company reaches. Clarksburg. Crowded Houses Everywhere. This play, with its heaTt interest and thrills, extraordinary sensationalism in the most realistic battle scene ever presented, has a popular appeal that has resulted - in . an unbroken .succession * of crowded audiences wherever seen. The production is one of the largest that- Klaw and Erlanger have ever. made, and they have omitted no detail In scenery or equipment that could contribute in any way to the completeness-of this great atmospheric picture. The company is large and very able, and in addition to the leading players, there Is an auxiliary. Interest in the form of Western 'cavalrymen, cowhoys, Mexican vaqueros; Apache Indians and twenty-one cow-ponies from Arizona cattle ranges. ,T. E. Overton, of Cairo, is transacting business here. m . 11 * * * MASS CONVENTION". * * t As previously announced a + #t hir nmsR will hfl held 4 In the local court house at 2 * 4 o'clock, tomorrow afternoon 4 4 for the purpose of organizing 4 a county agricultural bureau. 4 The meeting will tie one of 1m- 4 portance to all lines of. busi- 4 4 ness in Clarksburg, the sub 4 . urhs and the, rural communi- 4 4* ties, which fact should be an 4 incentive for a Targe attend- 4 ance. The movement has 4 4 been agitated a long .time. 4 Now, that it la about- to" mater- 4 4 lallze, it is the duty of every 4 Y OF IV . ? TURKS Al WITH TH BHHHflKHHHHHHMRlHBHHHHKRjjHHHH HEwmps Issued by* Secretary of State Include One for a New Clarksburg Concern. The secretary* of .state has issued papers of incorporation to the fol]owing: ~ Kanawha Lead and Zinc Compan?. Charleston, principal works in Jasper county, Mo.,; capital. $20,000; incorporators, J- D. Woodroem, E. V. Evans, E. H. Wilford, W. H. Nelson, J. Lu Sydenstricker, of CnarTeston. Union Oil Company, Clarksburg, capital $50,000; incorporators, John Flint, Carl H. Holy, P. L. Hayxnond, E. M. Leatherbury. C. R. Stark. Steer Creek QIl and' Gas Company, Rosedale; capital $16,000T incorporators, C. D. Frame, ET7~1T. ?^arae, Onxer Frame, C. V. Wilson, P. W. Sharp, Gassaway. . Kenova Underwriters Association, Huntington; capital $25,000; incorporators, C. Cocbenour, D. H. Thomas, A. P.'Carey, C. M. Frum, Charles H. Barton, Columbus, O. Kanawha Grocery Company, of Burnsville, capital $1017,000; incorporators, Porter Burnett, F. D. Lemon, C. S. Jones, A. P. Hall, A. G, Jackson, E. I. Cor, Burnsyille. TO OPEN BRIDGE On Sixth Street at 3 O'clock Tomorrow Afteroon and Other Bridgets Begun. The new Sixth street bridge across Elk creek is to be thrown open for (lUUIJV; UO.TC4 At O U L1UVU WlUVliUW afternoon. There Js some street work to be done on the north side of the bridge yet. It is expected that will be finished Monday. In the meantime, however, the bridge can be used. Tfee Luton Bridge Company, ofYork. Pa., is erecting derricks for the purpose of beglning the construction of a concrete bridge wh6re the Glen Elk bridge < is noW. Street, car transportation over that bridge has ceased. OFFICERS Elected by Lumber Builders and Supply Dealers Include a Clarksburg Man. The West Virginia Lumber Build-j epa and Supply Dealers Association , in second annual convention at Par-! , kersburg elected officers as follows: , President?-*W. E. Minter, of Ch^rleston, re-elected. Vice president?George M. West, of Clarkbsurg, re-elected. Secretary-treasurer?-G. JD Dickerson, of Huntington, re-elected. l*he. new board of directors is E. , L. Da vis son, Parkersburg; A. M. Fin; ney, Charleston; W. H. Evans, Par, kersburg; G. J. Diickerson, Hunting, ton; G. A. GrisBaber, Charleston; W;E. Miriter, Huntington; Walter Perkins,'Bluefleld; G. M. West, Clarksburg. The new members are Messrs. Davisson and Finney. ' YOUNG MOONSHINER. BLUE FIELD, Mar, 12?Marshall Burt, United States deputy marshal, and a posse have captured the youngest; alleged moonshiner on record twenty miles from hjorton in the person of William Hubbard, aged nine years, whom they declare .they 1 found operating a complete still with a caA AI A# fVl Ana 4M. A A WM M t> T>V pn^lL.y VI Lull K.J ^AllVUO 1U with" a cousin ,18. years old. Austin Stealey spent the hlpht l,n the city -while on his -way to .Charleston to visit his-mother. MRS. ROCKEF DEAD AT 1 Where She Had Been an Invalid for Many Months but Not, III All That Time. nr AMociArce ?*nv NEW YORK, Mar. 12.?Mrs. John D. Rockefeller died at . her home at Tarry to vm,N. Y., early today. Mrs. Rockefeller <Jied at 10:20 o'clock this forenoon at the Rockefeller country J home at Pocantico Hill just outside of . Tomrtnm irhara alia has haan 111 #r>*> j it At v* v mvvm *? ? ivt some time. While Mrs. Rockefeller has been an invalid for many months, it "is understood that- her death came rather unexpectedly. Her husband, John D. Rockefeller, and her son 1 were at Ormond, Fla., and were ad1 vised early today that .Mrs. Rockofel1 ler bad taken a critical'turn for the 1 worse. Mr. Rockefeller and liis son imiue{ diately engaged a special .tralp which 1 left Jacksonville early today and ip 1 due here sometime tqnjorjrpw.. Mrs. 1 E. P. Prentice, Mi's. Rockefeller's 1 daughter, was -the only :, immediate 1EXIC0 IM WELL I EIRGUNS j And British Warships <Are Com- pelled to Exercise .Caution in Approaching Batteries. |1 BOMBARDMENT IS SEEN* By an Associated Press Corres- I pondent Who Reports a 1 Description of It. l?V ASSOCIATES P*?GS> CONSTATI^OBIJE March 8.?Via ' Berlin and London, March 1&.?-The I fire of British warships on Turkish. positions in the Dardanelles haa been . H well directed as a whole but at times ineffective. The. Turks on their side -J have shown a fair degree of accuracy and have compelled British vessels S to exercise great caution in approach- * I lug their batteries. ~ ig A correspondent of the Associated Press, witnessed the bombardment of March 5 directed against the position at Kalid' Bahr on the European sijle ;:| of the straits, tie could sec the fire *8 of either sjde and not how all the ' slufts. fell. The vessels engaged, were B British, ships of the Agamemnon typo 8 The firing started at 1(1:50 a. m. ; and lasted until 4:2f> p. m., when the .\vB British .withdrew. Their fire had been B [rather scattered. Some of it was di rected against Dardanns. and other v 8 points on the European, side- of the straits and the material damage- In- B flicted was only slight, I At Kalid Bahr the British fire .was well -directed on the whole but; it was H not very effective. In about. thirty 8 heavy shells ten fel l close to. the Turk- 8 ish batteries while the others mostlyfell short. Many of them struck at the water's edge. A certain Bfritish vessel ventured within range of the Kalid Bahr batteries and was stub- vl jected to a well aimed fire from the 8 batteries. She retreated hastily. The I vlcinit.v nf i"hpod nsi^lniitsi- ItsHaviks > ;r.iH was then avoided for the rest of ?he I day. Later in the afternoon two other British .vessels came within range of hidden batteries and had narrow cf capes from the shore fire. fl During all the alterimomikpJBnjaeh vessels inside the straits were obliged I to maneuver actively because as soon fl as one of them stopped it drew a fairly accurate .Turkish fire. It was evident that the British were exercising At about 3:45 in the afternoon sev eral liydro-aeroplanes - of .the .allies i appeared and made a reconnaisance I To the observers it was apparent.that fl they dropped bombs on a village on the European side of the straits. The fl airship retired when fired upon. I aviators quite-busy i d r o ppingTbom bs n 0 w I tar a??ocutio r*t??> PiETROGfRAD, via- London, Mar li ?iBombardment of the fortifications of Ossowetz by Gernian aviators without, however, causing damage and fl other, operations by aircraft attached to both armies are recounted in H semi-official statement issued last night. The statement says: "The weather for the last few day has been excellent for aeroplane. xe- fl connaissances on the northern front. Both sides have been very active' iu this respect and also have 'UBeaTdlr- H Iglbles. The enemy's aviators dropped fl twenty bombs on Ossowetz without fl damage to the fortifications. Oh the 9 right wing of the Vistula we capitn&re an aeroplane. At certain points the fl enemy dropped incendiary bombs Eg without causing damage.. Our ,aer< -planes did excellent worlc in directing artillery tire and the,enemy's aviator evidently we-re similarly serviceable for their artillery succeeded in firing projectiles of all sorts on g jjuisunuus.gases aim sneiis so cud Uttay ELLERIS I ARRYTOWN I Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose Will Be HeM Here | I I