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THE WEATHER "j f I ^ TT I/* I \ A X T "V7" ^1^ |~<^ T IJ \ IV /f~ THE CIRCULATION ^ Probably local showers tonight and I B B B| K i B W / im B I a Q B H ^ A B a R ^ a B ? I , f ? I W fi , of the Telegram In more than donbla I Not much change in I JL JL JL JL-J * ^ i ^ JL ? A ? ? B ^ P A ? A ^ B A. ^ 1 ^ B ? t*1* net *M,,d circulation of the f temperature. J nx.^? ^ ^ ^ | other Clarksburg paper. ^ EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED TKESS SERVICE BY PRIVATE WIRE ESTABLISHED 1861. * CLARKSBURG, W. VA., WEDNESDAY', SEPTEMBER (5, JOlfi. PRICE TWO CENTS a O. P. VICTORY CERTAIN BIG OVATION IS TENDEREDSTATE COMMITTEE BOUND TO WIN, AVERS GAINES Situation of the Party is Better Than in Twelve Yeargs, Says Chairman. SHAWKEY SEES VICTORY state School Superintendent Says Ticket Will Win by a Big Majority. "Wo arc stfro lo \vi nby a big ma jority" was the statement made Wed nesday morning by Joseph Holt Gaines, of Charleston, chairman of the Republican state committee, who is directing the campaign from state headquarters here. Continuing .Mr. Gain's said: "Reports that have come in from aver the state from members of the state committee, from the chairmen of the several congressional commit tees and from the chairmen of the county committees, are very encourag ing. There is no doubt that the situa tion of the Republican party in West Virginia is better today than ii was at a similar date in 3904, 1908 or 1912. This view of the situation is not based upon any feeling of over-confidence on the parf of the committee or on# the part of Republicans generally throughout the state. On the contrary, It. With that we are sure to win the state committee Is busy and pro poses to keep busy until the returns ore in: that all the other Republican committees throughout the state and the Republicans generally are alive, awr.'iie. alert and determined. A cam paign is in sight with the whole force of a united Republican party back of It. With that we are bound to win by a big majority." m (Joint: to Springs. Chairman Gaines vill return Wed-' nesday afternoon to Charleston but will be back at headquarters in a few days, ile will meet with the Green brier counly committee and the county | candidates ?tt White Sulphur Springs. Saturday, and will probably address the gathering. j Morris P. Shawkey, of Charleston, stale superintendent of schools and | who is a candidate for re-election to that office, dropped in at headquarters Wednesday morning and told Chair man Gaines that be had visited thirty counties and that he found the party In excellent shape. "I firmly believe, that the state will go Republican by between 25,000 and 30,000," he said. 'The state is normally Republican by 10.U0U, but the dominant party never Is able to poll its full vole. I havej been in thirty counties and find that; the party is In fine shape. Republican success is certain." Headquarters was crowded with a large number of visitors Tuesday af ternoon and Wednesday morning, most of the visitors being here for the meet- j lug of the state committee Tuesday j night. They dropped into state head-i juarters to tell Chairman Gaines of the i conditions in their localities. Mr. s Gaines said Wednesday morning that] the rep; ts received from these com mitteenn and other visitors were ex cellent. Many Visitors* Among those who visited headquar-' ters late Tuesday afternoon and Wed nesday morning were George E. Fish er. of Weston; G. W. Roden, of Rom-j ney; Secretary of Stato Stuart F. Reed, of Charleston; Alf Wnlker, of Sutton; Robert Morris, of Harrisville; J. F. Maxwell, of West Union; T. R. Gillis ple. of Grafton; Arch Love, of Grafton; J. E. Robinson, of Fairmont; jgharles Goodwin, of Weston; R. A. Ashworth, of Rich wood; George E. White, state senator, of Weston; Birk S. Stathers, | of Weston; Harry Woodyard, of Spen-! ter. Republican nominee for Con- j gross in the Fourth district; Charles Brooks Smith, of Washington, D. C.; T. S. IMclntire, of Morgan town; Max Mathers, of Morgan town, chairman of the Monongalia Republican county executive committee; A. J. Houston, of Morgantown; James L. {Stewart, of Morgantown, Republican candidate for' commissioner of agriculture; Earl Henry ,of Charleston, state mine In spector; Joseph Mills, of Morgantown; j A. D. Williams, of Morgantown, state road cnginecd; L. O. Wilson, of Charleston, librarian of the state sti-1 preme court; T. J. Sherrard, of Wells burg, former chairman of ine state committee; A. C. Hughes, of Weston; Dr. Ernest L. Love, of Grafton; Hugh i Warder, of Grafton; Ellwood William son, of Grafton; C. C. Pierce, of King wood; Judge Frank Cox, of Morgan town; W. L. Boughner, of Morgan town; Former Governor William E. Glasscock, of Morgantown; C. W. Swisher, of Charleston,* A. E. Scherr, of Charleston; A. S. Fleming, of Fair mont; Cecil B. Highland, of New Mar tinsville; Judge Thomas Brown, of Parkersburg; John S. Darst, of Charleston, state auditor, who Is a candidate for re-election to that office; E. M. Bryant, of Richwood; Charles E. Mitchell, of Institute; Dr. S. S. Sutphin, of Beckley; and M. P. Shawkey, of Charleston, state super intendent of schools. W. L. Boughner, of Morgantown Is * fuest at the Hotel Gore, + * + TO IiKAVr GHKECE. + + + ?{. (by ?iioci?Tfp 't ? ATHENS, via I-ondon. Sept. + ?fr 6.?Baron von Schenk, chief di- + + rector of the German propa- ? + ganda in Greece, who was ar- + + rested last week in connection ? + with the rounding up of German ? + agents by tho French and Brit- + + ish, obtained an interview Wed- + 4* nesday with a British official + i* with tho result that ho will be ? + permitted to leave Greece + ?> Thursday. Provision has been ? 4* made for his safe conduct ? * * Of Husband by Shooting is Confessed by Wife to Chicago Police. (my ABROCIATCD *??!??' CHICAGO. Sept. 6.?Mrs. Ira Barnes confessed Wednesday, the po lice said, that she shot and killed her husband, James R. Barnes, while they were strolling in Washington park Tuesday night. Barnes was the Chi cago representative of a New York soap firm. The woman, who had been es tranged Jrom her husband, told the police that he had attempted to stran gle her and that she flred the shots to save her own life. Three bullets entered his head. Until making the alleged confes sion. Mrs. Barnes had strictly main tained that her husband had ended his own life. She previously had ad mitted purchasing the revolver but asserted that she kept it in her apart ments as a protection against bur glars. 01 STRIKE Are 3,000 Grocery Clerks in New York, Jersey City and Other Places. iav AaaoetATEv NEW YORK. Sept. 6.?Three thou sand grocery clerks went on strike in this city, Jersey City, Newark and outlying towns Wednesday. Leaders of their union. The Retail Clerks In ternational Protective Association, claim that the number of strikers will be augmented to 6,000 within tho next twenty-four hours. The strike was voted Tuesday night after owners of chains of stores re fused the demands of the union for shorter hours, a minimum salary of |15 per week and one per cent of the store receipts. On Newly Won Positions of the French Troops Are Broken by the Latter. <?? A..OCIATIO ..1111 PARIS, Sept. 6.?The positions newly won by the French south of the Somme wore attacked soveral times by the Germans Tuesday night. Their assaults, the war office an nounced Wednesday, were broken by the French Are. The German as saults were delivered In the region of Denlecourt and Berny. In the Verdun sector the Germans Tuesday evening directed an Intense bombardment against Kleury but the French quick-Brers prevented the German infantry from advancing. NEW AWARD Of Street Paving Contract is Made by the Council of This City. The city council Tuesday night awarded W. F. Allen and Company the contract to pave West Pike street from its junction with West Main , to the railroad along the river. The I contract price 1s $2.89 a square yard 1 and covers the excavating. The con | ract had previously been awarded to I W. B. Virgie who did not seem to ! understand that the excavating was ! to be included. It thus became nec-j i essary to make a new award. Tho city closed the street at noon 1 Wednesday to general traffic which | will be sent around by Locust street. 1 This action was taken to give public service companies opportunity to pre i pare their lines for the paving. The street cars will continue to op erate there until about October 3 5 when they will be abandoned so as not to be in the way of the paving contractor. A. F. Wllmoth, of Elkins, la a vis itor here, ^ THE DEMOCRATIC SIMPLICITY OF 1912 HAS GONE OUT OF STYLE. jSlt'"!1' ' frorr TOETACOM* DAILY OIL WELL WORKERS ARE BADL YBURNED BY GAS EXPLOSION FORT MEN From the Teuntonic Forces in Galicia Region by Rus sian Troops. PETROGRAD, Sept. 6.?RuBsian troops Tuesday captured a Teutonic fortified position In the region of the lower Oorodenka in the direction of; Hallcs, Gallcla, and drove the Aus tro-Germans toward the northwest, j says the Russian official statement! Issued Wednesday. The number of prisoners taken in ' the fighting on the lower Goroden ka. the statement adds, so far amounts to 4,500 men, among whom were about 2,000 Germans. TEUTONS FAIL [ In Their Attempts to Invade Eastern Roumania, Lon don Announces. LONDON, Sept. 6.?Official an nouncement Is made by the Rouman ian war office that attempts of the Germans and Bulgarians to Invade eastern Roumania have been defeat ed and that the Roumanians are in possession of all the frontier east of the Danube, along which the attack was directed. The Roumanian invasion of Austria Is being carried on with further suc cess. After spirited fighting in the region of Borzecket the Roumanians captured heights west of that point BONDS FORFEITED By Two Men Who Ilad Lively Scrap ? on West Pike Street. Charles Harris and O. M. Green for-1 felted bonds of *6.60 each when they failed to appear In police court Wed nesday morning to answer a charge of' fighting Tuesday night on the corner of West Pike and Fourth streets. Green, who runs a transfer business, said that Harris had attempted to| bribe his teamsters, and that this was . the cause of the trouble. Green says that he did not run when the police , arrived as stated In a local morning newspaper. HAS SEVERE COLD. Mrs. F. D. Pierce, of Hornor avenue, Is confined to her room with a severe cold, . When a Pocket of Oil is Struck on the Highland Farm Near West Milford. ONE MOST SURE TO DIE While the Other's Condition is Such That He, Too, May Die. Resulting from an oil and gas ex plosion and fire which occurred at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning on the Highland farm near West Milford, where Flint and Strother, oil and gas well contractors, were drilling a well for the Vesper Gas Company, Frank M. Clauseon, of Adamston, driller, and George Cornell, of 7CO Mulberry street, a tool dresser, are patients in St. Mary's hospital suffering from burns which in all probability will prove fatal to Clausson and may prove fatal for Cornell. Strike Oil Pocket. According to a story told by Mr. Cornell at the hospital at noon Wed nesday he and Clausson had just fin ished dressing a bit when they struck a pocket of oil and it flowed to the top of the derrick. The oil ignited from the fire in the forge, and the oil set off the gas. An explosion fol lowed and it was heard for miles around. Houses a half mile away were shaken by the explosion. Men working on other wells on the farm hearing the explosion and seeing the fire ran to the assistance of the men. George Holmos, a driller, the first to reach the scene, found Claus son near the boiler house where he was working when the explosion oc curred. Clausson's clothes were all on fire and It took Holmes several minutes to get the fire put out. He rolled Clausson in the grass and in this manner finally extinguished the llames. Tears off Clothing. By this lime several other men were on the scene and they looked around the well for Cornell but could not find him. They then thought that he might have been in the rig when the explosion occurred and was dead. However, some of the men started to search for him around the well and he was found about fifty yards away, where he had run after his clothing caught fire. He had taken his burn ing clothes off as he ran away from the well and was almost nude when found. Rushed to Hospital. A physician was summoned and both men were rushed to- St. Mary's hospital where their Injuries wore dressed, Clausson Is badly burned on the abdomei^ chesty bacfc^ lego* UKhhHHH TRAFFIC CONFERENCE. (?v AiaociATio mist) BERLIN, Sept. 6.?Delegates rep resenting Germany, Austria, Hun gary. Bulgaria and Turkey have met at Budapest for a conference In re gard to extension of traffic on the Danube. PUSH FORWARD. (?? UIOaATID Mlltl LONDON, 8ept. 6.?The British again pushed forward on the Som mo front Tuesday night. They gained possession of all of Leuze wood, the war office announced Wed nesday. Fighting continues between | Leuze wood and Combles and in the ( vicinity of Oinchy. hands and face. He is in the worst condition. Cornell Is burned on the chest, arms, legs, hands and face. The Are completely destroyed the! rig. boiler house and every thing; around the well. Flint and Stroth er's loss will be more than $2,000. It could not be learned today wheth-l er the well was damaged any or not. i ROBINSON GETS MIGHTY CHEERS REVENUE BILL Differences Between the House and Senate Remain to Be Smoothed Out. Atiociarin Mil*) WASHINGTON, Sopt. 6.?The on ly Important piece of work standing In" the way of adjournment, which will probably occur Thurmluy or pos sibly even Into Wednesday night, wan the smoothing out Wednesday of House and Senate differences on the administration emergency revenue bill, providing for the raining of $205,000,000 annually, the creation of a tariff comtnlRHlon and otlior im portant economic principles. This bill, pained Tuesday night by the Senate by u vote of forty-two to sixteen with live Republicans voting for It, went to conference Wednes day as soon as the House had gone through the formality of naming its conferees, sevoral of whom have been working on it informally for the last few days. FINED ' For Contempt of Court is James Gatrell, Who Was Drunk i in Court I In the circuit court Wednesday ' Judge Raymond Maxwell lined James C.atrell $r? for contempt of court the day before when hp appeared on the witness stnnd in his own case for di vorce In an intoxicated condition. The line was Imposed after Gatrell had spent the night and forenoon In jail sobering up. Judgment for ,4405 was given C. L. Bates against C. E. Mollohan. The answer of James Hickman was filed In the cause of the Empire Na tional Hank against James Meyers and others. Salvatore Bitont, special police of ficer for the Francois Coal Company, j was granted a license to carry a re volver. ATTEND CONFERENCE. Among thoso who are attending the United Brethren conforence here are John J. Shore, of Parkersburg; Ernest Phillips, of Buckhannon; J. Blackburn Ware and little (laughter, Evolyn, of Phillppi; C. L. Engle, of Chapel; W. K. Ramsey, of West Union; E. E. Keener, of Loch Lynn, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Taylo~, of Weston; Mrs. J. C. Day, of Charles ton; Mrs. Jessie H. Freeman and daughter, Callie, of Junior; and J. T. Crlss, of Morgantown. ONE MAKKIAftE LICENSE. A marriage license has been Issued to John W. Dunn and Bessie A. Thorn. VIOLENT ACTIONS. r.V A..OCIATI3 rim) PARIS. Sept. 8.?Violent artillery actions are In progress In the region of Lake Dolran and the Struma river on the Macedonian front In the lec tor held by the Serbians, the war office announced Wednesday. No In fantry engagements occurred Tues day. UNITED BRETHREN CONFERENCE IS ON At the Duff Street Church at Stealey Heights; Bishop Weekiey Presiding. The fifty-ninth annual session of | the West Virginia Annual Confer once of the Church of the United Brethren In Christ convened Wed nesday morning: at 9 o'clock In the Duff Street United Brethren church nt Stealey Heights -with Bishop W. M. Weekly, D. D., of Parkersburg, presiding: The hours of meotlng are 8:30 a. m., 1:30 p. m. The conference was organized. O. S. Hanlelter, of Junior, was electod secretary. The following committees were announc ed: Devotions?W. M. Slaughter, D. W. Cunningham and H. R. Hess, Candidates for ministry?E, H. Waters, J. 0. Potts and F, P. Allen der. Conforcnce relations?J. 0. War ner,-H. D. Barnhouse and W, E. Crall. Memoirs?L, R. Collins, E. A. Crites and W. P. Newcomb. Audlntlng?W. M. Slaughter, I, P. Lawman and J. R, M. Knujip. Boundrle? and finance?J. T, Fo? ter, F. O. Radnbaugh, E. H. Waters, A H,. Reese, EUas ,W. Jmj ner, J. J. Shore and I. F. Lawman. Home missions?D. W. Cunning ham. Foreign missions?H. L. Koontz. Church erection?J. E Johnson. Education?A. P. Sallaz. Publishing interest?L. R. Collins. Stewardship?P. P. Copehart. Sunday schools?W. E. Crall. Christian Endeavor Unions?K. H. Moyer. Christian home?W. R. Moyer. Resolutions?H. D. Barnhouse. Auditing pastors' reports?C. Rob inson, W. E. Crall, F. P. Capehart and C. J. Alender. Conference adjourned at 11 o'clock to convene at 1:30. The Rev. J. M. Knight, of Penns boro, will preach this evening at 8:30 o'clock. STEAMSHIP SUNK. ?1Y AIMOIATKV mini LONDON. Sept. 8.?The Danish steamship Jeanne of 1,178 tons gross has been sunk, according to a despatch from Weymouth to Lloyds shipping agency. The captain and crew of the vessel have been landed. The Jeanne waa 232 feet long and was built at Newcastle In 1904. Mrs. W. C. Willis, of Spencer, Is lwia Aft a Xlalt. ? v State Body is Warmly Wel comed to Its Headquarters in This City. HAS EXECUTIVE SESSION Gathering of West Virginia fle pulican Leaders Turns Into Regular Love Feast. Clarksburg nnd Harrison county Republicans. Including mombera of tlio city mut county executlvo com mittees, tendered n hearty and enthu siastic reception to moinbora and of* llcur? of tlio Republican state exocu 1Ivo committee Tuesday night on tho I occasion of thn first meeting of tho kIhto body at tho stato headquarters 4 here. Tho affair, which camo as u pleasant surprise to mombors of the state committee. was onllvenod by stirring music by tho First Reglmont. band of the West Virginia National Guard, engaged by tho local Repub licans for tho purpose. Owing to the lack of space for such | an assemblage at the state head : quarters In tlio F.lkbrldgo buildlng.J'' the reception anil the meeting of tho stato committee were transferred .to - j the Waldo hotel. Shortly before tho ! hour for the Htato committee to go Into session, tho city and county com mittees together with a throng of other Republicans, headed by tho regimental band, marched Into tho lobby of the Waldo hotel. Trans pnronclcs, showing tho alloglnnce of the body to Hughes, Fairbanks and Robinson, were carried and tumultu ous cheering resulted when they : were brought into vlevr. CulTman <>lvos Welcome. Tho Krand staircase at tho Waldo was utilized an a sort of speaking platform and with members of tho 'city and county committees grouped i behind him, Roy E. Parrlsh, 'chair- ,w man of tho county committee, brought tho assembly to order and Introduced I. Wsdo Coffman, secretary of tho committee and cleric of tho circuit court, for an address of welcome.. .Mr. Coffmnn brought tho members of the state committee and the other leading Republicans of the state who | had gathered for the meeting to their tiptoes with ringing cheers of appreciation for tho hearty welcome ho accorded them in behalf of tho people of Clarksburg and Harrlsoa county. Mr. Coffman said tho people of thin community wore not unmlnd- f* fill of tlio fact that It was to their ?:.s$|I distinct benefit to havo those policies of Republicanism restored which had ? given prosperity, diversified Indus tries and commercial progress to the city and county, and which were now, as all Intelligent persons know. ,.'5j bolstered up temporarily by abnorm al conditions resulting from the Eu ropean war. It was with a feeling of deep appreciation, he said, thai Republicans especially welcomed th( state committee to Clarksburg and thanked It for selecting this city at its base from which to hurl tht bombs of truth and Justice Into th? trenches of the enemy. A Reunited Party. '? Assurances were given that party % members would work with might and ,1 main to assist the state committee in Its efforts to restore those poll eles which meant so much to Clarks burg as a thriving industrial center. Mr. Coffman pointed out that dissen sions formerly existing In the party had all been healed and that the Re publicans are now reunited, stronger than over before, to advance in sturdy phnlnnx to the battle front, as was plainly demonstrated by the composition of the enthusiastic crowd present. On behalf -of the state committee, Joseph H. Oalnes, of Charleston, the new state chairman, thanked Mr. Parrfsh, the local committees and the others for the hearty welcome and declared that all signs were auspicious for a tremendous vlo this fall at the polls. He pron the hearty co-operatton of the I committee to all Republicans. Ovation for Robinson. Judge Ira E. Robinson, the nomi nee for governor, was Introduced for a few remarks. The lobby of - the Waldo fairly rattled with the tumult of cheering that greeted the popu lar candidate when he ascended the steps for his remarks. Judge Rob son in acknowledgement of tlon said that he had placed entirely at tho service of tho committee, that he Intended to p his shoulder to the wheel and j untiringly for party success, that 1 was not waging a campaign with " sole Idea of personal succfesa bitf tho entire ticket from Hughes i and that the evidences of a i party which he had so tar wlti meant that the Republlcansi"i march to a notable victory thlt not because in their reunited bers might made right, but I their right 1b might After muslo by the hand, th here of the atate committee i tired to the assembly hall of t tel for lta session. There state ohalrman, Mr. Gain " his position as i dresB In whloh he the vital necessity?