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CIRCULATION i og a ^ Dally Average K A /1 for Dec. 1916 -J y i ' A Quality Newspaper for the H< ESTABLISHED 1868." JUIYFn """" OFFERS ALIBI AI | I IKE LEAK PROBE! i? ? * "Was on Wrong Side of the, Market When Peace j Note Came. SHORT SALES PAID BIG' i ? His Profits For Thirteen1! ^ ^ .* * ? Days in December Almost j il? Half Million. BFr ,'*'* (By Associated I'ress) TfEW YORK. Jan. 30?Bernard Ba' ruch, Wall street speculator. $500,000, SSrJ contributor to tho last Democratic. r.. campaign fund and heavy short sell-J er lu the stormy days preceding the issuance of President Wilson's recent peace note testified at the "leak" Inquiry today that his profits on- the ] market between Dec. 10 and Dec. 23 ifi.'tjwore $476,168. I V H Every cent of this profit he declared t '' was duo to his foresight In interpret Jy Von Bethmann-HollLloyd George as meanmining. Iransactln he made, he nfluenced by advance it the president was ch a peace note. He :h information he said le had no Becret source in Washington which t his stock operations. his assertion that he hat a note was forthe President be was on !. of the market when dher man would have such a position, he ded foreseen the note. pointed out several i made on the market teen day poriod of his is Slow in Clieir Reports t and death certificates it Virginia by the State aont the first of the I', 3 ear are not meeting all expectations , because ot the slowness with which I ;V 11 lie physicians turn them in to the I Jtyjnty clerk. The certificates are eup- I I ORA'd to be turned to the clerk in ten! tiprops. a copy made and filed at the i -office, and the originals sent " yto the State Department or Health once a month instead of once a yeai IS' as was with the old ones. It was hop ed that with the adoption of the new | blanks physicians would be more j prompt and thus faciliate the work gfpt the clerk, and make possible the ? hudping of more accurate vital statls LEGISLATURE WONT " HURRY ABOUT DEBT ' Commission Will Be Instruct ed to Resist Motion Be- 1 fore Supreme Court. ll' CHARLESTON. W. Va.. Jan. 30? I The Virginia Debt Committees ot both houses of the West Virginia Leg. [ Islature have under consideration a Joint resolution presented yesterday which has an important bearing on ?-; the Judgment against West Virginia or almost 313,000.000 in favor of Virginia. ; In effect this resolution provides V that the "New Virginia Debt Commission" of this state be directed to ' the attention of the .'S* Virginia Debt commission as well as 10 .attention of the bondholdlng , Wffruredltors of Virginia, that the state of SjgJ'Virginia hag a claim against the gov- ' < the United Statos In conV sequence of the terms of the deed of |V session in 1871, ceding from the comTiimwealtU of the government the territory northwest of the Ohio river. i "It is the sense of this Legislature." < A'-Wlie resolution reads In part, "ttiat the I' ? state of Virginia should. In equity and . voluntarily, make a substantial reduct tlon or her judgment against this state H&QjoB account of West Virginia's equity Bti .Northwest territory claim, or. | ' InVW^event. of her failure or Mfusal to do so. that this state shonra continue to resist before the Supreme Court the issuance of execution upon i: MRS. WM 8. WATSON'8 CONDITION lijMrs. William Watson, who has B- ' been Ul at her home on Ninth street for the past two weeks, is worse to . ^ c TODAY'S NEWS TODAY ] dIati ?.1 nt***. its?/-.?? vjnuoa cr u/n.K/3 to Fight Paper Drinking Cups l by A&soclutcd 1'rciaJ WHEELING. W. Vu.. Jan. 30.? Flint glass workers In the Wheeling district have Inaugurated a movement to have their local unions In all parts of the country ln, stltute boycotts against soda fountains and other places where paper cups are used. They say this use of paper very ; seriously Injures them by reducing employment In tumbler Bhops and at the same time tends to Increase the consumption of paper. The co-oporatton of newspapers and magazines Is to be asked In the crusudc. mi unit district bond is reduced Farmers Think the Amount Voted Upon Should Be $400,000. The first cloud in the new Lincoln llstrict bond Issue movement appear>d today when Newton Jones, heading t party of Lincoln district farmers, ippeared before the county court this itternoon and entered ineffectual proeat against the sum named in the petlJon for a new bond election Auiuu ttaa giautcq uy IUU tuuii Saturday. The Jones (action is ashing that the mm be reduced from $650,000 to $400,>00. and that the roads be cheapened sufficiently to maho up the differ:nce. Since It was net In the power >f the court to grant any such change, :he success of their measure must 'est on a compromise with the $650.>00 (action. Any compromise is exremolv Improbable. The county court ,wap. in session tolay to name the election officials who srlll be in charge of the election to be leld March T. The Jones faction vhlch Is heading the opposition, gave he court a list of men who will reprelent their side on the election boards. At press time the officials had not >een finally named. ire now on display at the Everett LIFE IMPRISONMENT BILLS ME KILLED Senator Scott C. Lowe Changed His Vote on the Duty Measures CHARLESTON. W. Vu., Jan. 30.? Passage of 20 bills by the House and lve by the Senate and the introduction >f 20 new measures in the former and 17 in the latter indicate something if ttia onllvlt.. \('nat V'lfi^nln j w who auvmt; ww inu iimi _eglsluturo yesterday. The most important business before he Senate was consideration and discission of the Duty Scnato bill 100 providing for abolishing cnpltui punaliment for lirst degree murder. After this bill had passed the Senate by a vote of 14 to 13 last week and re[erred to the House for concurrence,: m motion of Sonator Scott C. Lowo t was recalled. After Sonator Lowo sailed up the bill on special order he said ho was dissatisfied with his fornor vote in fuvor of the bill and that le was afraid abolishing .the death ml.l.w l.? ? .?<.? 4- iv~ i fouw uJ1&UV uc a nicj; ui IUC v> J uu^ > Jirection. He said be believed Hi ihould remain with the jury whether :he death ponalty should be Inflicted. He moved up hie address with a reftrenco to the attack upon Judge Damfan, at Williamson, and said .that the issallant it captured should be punshod, perhaps by death. The bill was defeated by 12 to 17. Mrs, Rackael Baker Dies at Winfield Mrs. Racbael M. Baker, aged about: ilxty-flve years, widow of W. B. Bakir, dlod this morning shortly before 1 teven o'clock at hor home at Win-! ield. after an illness of a complication if diseases. The deceased bud been a csident of Wlnflold district practically her entire life and was highly caeetned In this community. She was j mamVion nf Ml 7lnn MoflsniHol fol, ? UtVUJWVt VI il|l> UIVU HIUVMMUI0W U|IID opal church. Ono son, H. 0. Baker, jurvfveg her. She was before her tmrrlnge Miss Rnchoel Swisher nnd is an aunt of former Secretary of State Charles W. Swisher, formerly )f this city now of Charleston The fnneral la announced to take place Thursday morning at 10:30 p'clock from the Mt. Zlon chnroh with nterment In the Mt. Zlon cemetery >y Undertaker Musgrave & Son. 4 I M K/ ' / L WT K W * Horthem W FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGIN I FOR I U NO. 1AI VERDUN IS SHU BEING FOUGHT FDR French Vainly Try to Recover Ground Lost There. OTHEB THEATRES QUIET French Airmen Yesterday Brought Down Three German Aeroplanes (By Associated Press? Tbe region of HHI 304 northwest of Venlon was tbo onyl one In tbe European war field in which activity of note developod during tbe last ?4 hours so far as today's official reports from the Gorman and French war offices reveal. Berlin's statement indicates that the French are continuing their attempt to regain the ground lost there recently v.-hich the German accounts declared have been fruiUaas. Last night's etfotrs were as unproductive as those proceeding them, it is declared, the Crown Prince's troops repulsing the; attacks made. Paris in reporting on the lighting in this region mentions only a German hand grenade attack on a French trench which was stopped by gun fire. French airmen brought down three German aeroplanes in an engagement yesterday, Paris announces. New Goal Mining Company for City! (Special Dispatch to West Vlrslulan) , CHARLESTON, W. Vat, With an authorized capita} of $78,000 the Westtrood Cpal company of Fairmont, has obtained a certificate of incorporation from the secretary of state, it trill operate in Marion and Taylor counties. The incorporators are Paul Haymond, N. E. Showalter, C. E. Oaskiil, H. E. Engle and W. H. Showalter, all of Fairmont. Fight on Floor On Grayson Promotion WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.?The Senate naval committee ordered favorable report today on the nomination of Dr. Carey T. Grayson, President Wilson's naval aid and persona] physic jan tu db meaicai airecior in uie navy and a rear admiral. The Republicans of the committee opposed It. Senator Lodge and Foindexter leading the opposition. A fight on the floor was Indicated. MAINE POTATOES BURN. HOULTOX. Me.. Jan. 30?Twenty i thousand barrels of potatoes awaiting shipment In a railroad store house near here were destroyed by fire to-! day. The owners estimated the loss at $100,000 a conservative figure they \ said. In view of the present high price of the product. DUTYTAX BILL I REPORTED OUT! It Provides For Vote of People on Property Classification. (By Associated Press) CHARLESTON, W. Va.. Jan. 30.? The finance committee of tho Senate today roported out favorably Senator Jl. K. Duty's Senate joint resolution which provides for submission to u vote of tho people the question of the classification, of proporty for taxation. This subject has been before legislatures for the last ton years and usually never got further than the committee to which It was referred. In tlic House the committee on1 Mines and Mining roported adverselv VIII *??a at vii jjujtiutnh iijai ill mining 01 coal be paid (or by the tou of 2.00U pounds but the bill was ordered to: drat reading. The Parkersburg chartor amendment bill passed the Senate to be ef-j foctive from passage. Three other j bills passed the upper branch. One' provides for civil sendee for Wheel-] ipg police, one relates to the charter for St Albans and the other effects the court term In the Twentieth circuit. The House was occupied by reports of committees the Judiciary alone having reported out for rejection 14 measures which had been referred to its consideration. qB Si I M 8j ftwj B B ^1 If # eit Virginia's Greatest Newsp IA, TUESDAY EVENING,? :IVE IN $3,000,000 FIRE DE I' .jT&hdlKnflm KJ ygi^HRBnHH Scene of the Are in the heart of t 000.000. The picture shows under v which disabled one engine. Seven I SYRIANS AWAII REFUGEES' COMING J. H. Modi, of Mannington,. Stops in Washington to See Sutherland. (Special Dlapatch to West Virginian) i WASHINGTON. X>. C., Jan. 30.?J. H. Modi, of Manningtoi., stopped off in Washington en route ^o jNgJ* Hork to secure information and letters of in-1 -trodHotlen *gi4b Ooefree.tuan auttan land bad Tor him. ' Mr. MOdt has rela-i tires among tbe refugees at Beirut,; that two United StateB government | vessels, the Des Moines and Ceasar at i Alexandria are going to land at some | Mediterranc-n port, from whence they , will be brought to the United States ; undor the direction of the Joint Die trlbutfon committee. 26 Exchange; Place. New York city. Besides Mr. Modi's relatives, there are among the refugees: Jos. Amlen and family, of Wheeling; Mrs. Matt Abraham and children also of Wheeling; Salem M. Simon, brother of T. M. Simon, of Shinnston. Sir. Slodi while here cxpressod himself personally and for the Syrians of West Virginia aa deeply grateful to Congressman Sutherland for what he had done in their interest since the European war began. "The Syrian people of West Virginia," be said, "will never forget what Mr. Sutherland has done for us." Mr. Modi is a I promlncut, wealthy and highly esteemi cd citizen of Mannington. Ho hus been a resident there for twenty-six years. J French Hood Guilty of Selling Whiskey . French Hood, who was reminded by | the sheriff yesterday of a date he had j .fudge Vincent and the Intermediate, Judge Clnccut and the Intermediate, court jury, was found guilty "of the; selling charge against him. When Hood failed to uppoar yesterday morning. Prosecuting Attorney Haggerty demanded that tils bond of tl.suo be declared forfeited, but after the sheriff had found the prisoner with but little difficulty, his bond was allowed to remain unforfeitcd. At the conclusion of the case the jury was dismissed until Thursday. February 1. Brief Telegrams, WASHINGTON ? For the fourth time un Immigration hill containing provisions tor a literacy test was vetoed yesterday when President Wil; son disapproved the bill. Presidents l leveuiiKi ana rail niso voioca sucn a I bill. NEW YORK ? It Is believed here I that the flat denials of the charges made by Thomas Lawson which were ! entered yesterday by Pliny Fish and Arohibald White, Now York finctfclers, ( will materially shorten the leak probe. JUAREZ?II is reported that the Amelrcan troops now coming out of Mexico are accompanied by large numbers , of Americans, Chinese and natives anxious to leave the district. LONDON?fhe second month of the Lloyd-George ministry finds nothing accomplished In the wny of victories and the people are becoming very restIabo fill* dm hoard in all quarters. LONiJON?Evelyn Baring, Earl Cromer. former British agent and Consul General is Egypt, is dead . He went to Egypt when that country, was bankrupt and restored solrericy and order. "J ' "v - ANUARY 30, }917. bntrtr STROYS PITTSBURG BUS ^r*iiK3 .) ?-V - he business district of Pittsburgh whl r hat difficulties the firemen worked. T tersons were Injured. Germany at Last Finds Way to Even Scores With U. S. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 30.?Thirty tons of merchandise consisting of Holland gin and Dutch cheese, part of a 300 ton cargo of the Dutch steamship Vulcanus, were thrown Into the sea by orders of a German submarine commander when j the ship was held up by a TJ-boat December 37 off the English coast, | according to officers of the steam- | ship An her/arrival1 herd todhy. KEY MIDGE fUB AT D. G 0. SMMER Secretary Evans Having Pic tures Hung in Commerce Body Rooms. Vice president Thompson himself. if it Is possible at all, will be with thej Baltlmoro and Ohio industrial special when it arrives in this city tomorrow evening, was the gist of a telephone talk Secretary Evans of the Chamber of Commerce Had with W. H. Mauss assistant to the vice president In charge of the Industrial development from Clarksburg last night. A party of business men will be cntertainod at dinner tomorrow evening on the special after which the entire visiting party will repair to the assembly room of the Watson building and discuss the interrelated interests of the railroad and tye business men of the city at the informal smoker given by-1119 transportation mon. Every bnsiness-man in the city is invited to be present at this Bmokor. Today Secretary Evans ol the Cham ber of Commerce Is having engineers drawings of the new bridges hung in the Assenibly hall, where tomorrow evening many business men will have their first opportunity of viewing them In the visiting party which is now' in the first lup of a 6,000 mile tour of! the principal cities of the United! States, will be beside Vice President Thompson: W. H. Mouse, assistant to the vice president; Archibald Fries, freight traffic manager; W. R. Calloway, general passenger agent; H. It.! Lewis, general freight agent. G. d. j Smith, chief of the industrial bureau; W. IV. Idtoley, interchange commodity agent: If. 0. Hartzell. Indus-; trial agent und J. Hampton Baumgurt- j nor. nilblicitv ronrenpjitiiHvp City Buys Cement j For New Bridges1 At a meeting last ovcnlng of ilie city j Board of Affairs in the offlco of Ft- j nance Commissioner J. Walter Barnes the board contracted for 30.000 barrels of cement at $1.6S a barrol net. The cement will be delivered to the city which In tarn will sell at the purchase price to the contractors who build the bridges across the river and across the Coal run ravine. The contracts were divided among three bidders, the Alpha-Portland company, the Atlas compsny and the Lehigh company. The city board figures It saved $3,000 on the deal, comparing prices elsewhere. WILL VISIT BALTIMORE Mrs. C. H. N'olll leaves tonight for Baltimore where she will spend a week ajs the guest of Mrs. Harry' 3 Hartley and daughter. Miss Mafy Crane HartIty. who sro spending a fe wwceks there ^F?g MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. [FAST mm [NESS BLOCK! rTTT v^-ry ?"a$| v . ' *;-., y;; k B3H i i?J ch ruined property estimated at $3.-1 lie water froze iuto gigantic iciclea.' liluifFF HAS CHILD PLAGUE Reported in Dying Condition! at Home of Parents on Walnut Avenue. Junior Jolllffe. the sis year old son at Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Jolllffe is in a dying nondltton at the homo ot his parents on Wainnt avenue trom infantile paralysis. A quarantine was es Ins a consultation with local physicians, Dr. L. D. Howard and Dr. C. W. Waddell, and Dr. J. T. Thornton, ot Wheeling, a specialist, who was summoned here last night. The child's throat and face are paralyzed. He is a grandson of M. A. Jolllffe and a groat grandson of Jacob Hay-, den, prominent residents of tho city. Mrs. Jolllffe's mother; Mrs. Francos; McDonough, and daughter, Miss Jean, of St. Louis, hare been at the Jolllffe home for several months. Attendance Better in Schools of City Larger enrollments In practically all the schools of tho city which were opened yesterday after having been closed for a period of two weeks on account of Infantile paralysis, were reported today to tho .city superintendent of schools. An Increase of 71 pupils was noted In the eWts side schools today while in the East side schools conditions are practically normal but very few pupils having failed to report either today ot yesterday. Yesterday's enrollment on the West ulrla nan J *? " * Diuv .mo aim luuaj.iua CHIUllUlCLlL Is 1020. The larger enrollment today Is accredited to the fact that., possibly a nnmber of people did not.know school would begin yesterday. JUDGE MASON TO SPEAK AT Will. Fairmont Jurist is Only Survivor of the Original Faculty. MOllGANTOWN, W. Va., Jan. 30.? The Weat Virginia State University will be 50 years old February 7." The fiftieth anniversary will bo celebrated informally February 14 at the regular weekly convocation, when the citizens of Morgantown will bo guests of the university. Judge John W. Mason, of Fairmont, the only surviving professor of the Institution at the time of its founding, will speak on "The Professor of Fifty Yoars ago;" Dr. L C. White, State Geologist, a student at that time, will speak on the "Student of Fifty Years ago," and Prof. Calahan will speak on the history of the university. The university was originally opened as the West Virginia Agricultural Col lege, and in 1873 was recbristened the WeAt Virginia State University, and began at that time a new life.' There have been nine presidents, including Dr. Trotter, now serving. The-university is striving to get an appropriation of $200,000 at this session of the state legislature, $125,000 to purchase Dr. White's five acres of ground adjoining-the .university for building space.and to complete construction work under way or contentPitted. THE WEATHER. I ercaat and colder tonight; bly rain or snow Wednesday. pmrr tuppp /IPVTC A iHVAJ -l AAlV-UiJ CAKES ] won iii hurry put ran m pancake 8011 Five Sons and One Grand* son Died After Eating SHE ANDHiJSBANG tSCAPt ????? l jB Peculiar Flavor Warned Her Thai". Sompfl-.inir Was Wrung. fBy Associated Preai) . . jj KANKAKEE, III., Jan. 30.?A dm ot pancakes hurriedly made and a; I hurriedly eaten yesterday morning caused the death ot tive members ol the Melnts family on a farm between Asbkum and Driifortb, 15 miles south The pancakes were made by Mrs. * O. K. Melntz. mother ot tour ot tbf victims and grandmother of the fifth Mrs. Meintz is believed to bavt j mixed the contents of a sack containing an arsenical preparation used by her husband in taxidermy with a prepared pancake flour thinking the powder was flour. The dead are Fred, 38; Theodore 26; Irvin, 21; Mino, 24, and Claronct 1 Meintz, grandson, 7 years old. ' Tho fatal meal was eaten yeitenjai' morning and before noon Fred war dead. Mino died at dawn today, the last of fivo deaths. ' O. K. Meintz, father, was somewhat ill'and so did not eat any of the pan- I cakes. Mrs. Meintz tasted the pancakes after her sons had finished their '' yt"uUar w 1 TOli City Has Undertaker Re- 3 move it to Safer QuarWraiths wrinkled and aliosts cadded In Bhagtown last night. No one stay ed homo (or the night in Uztown. Thoso who remained at home In Shag town kept the light* burning all night to ward off the spirits?and to light the way to other spirits. ' ' All because the skull ot a man long since buried came to the surface twc weeks ago and was reported roster day to tho mayor. The stranger from the earth visited the Bun-covered world at the outer edge of the old Fairmont cemetery where many wore buried before the middle of the nine teenth century. Many of the grave; ere sunken. When the walla of the cemetery were removed, the earth above the casket of the exposed corpse ealsed it to burst a side loose. Dent Holden, of the city police force, this morning had Undertake; Musgr&ve visit the wlerd personage v,': and removo him to bettor quarters. !# City Hall Notes j The cops have an easy life. At ono'clock this afternoon a call came In on the telephone from Front street. East Side, one mile and a half from town stating that a policeman was wanted to "chase them off." All was excitement at the police end of the wire, tlio listener figuring that tborc were numerous bank robbers and burglars breaking Into some residence or Jbank. But It turned out to be that Mrs. Soandso wanted two of her, neighbors cbased from the lawn and wanted a policeman to come and do It The policeman went ? but not to Front street.' "Who Is this little fellow!" askoo everyone who visited the office of the chief of police this afternoon. They pointed to William Young, a clean-cut inn, m -it mr uiue xu > cui uiu runaway wuo wauura . , to be a cowboy "JuBt tor today." "That," answered the cops. "Is a youngster who left home because he had no coal or water to carry; no wood to bring in. did not have to sweep the porches; did not liave to keep ttM-ft snow from the sidewalk, ? whose mother la 'dead aud who lives with ! . his aunt <a Pennsylvania avenue," . Asked whoreho stayed all night he said he sat by a fire at the Muplo avenue quarry until this morning and that he then came to town to get some fhinir fft put. Ha Imrf it ntinrtAr hn - - r" made selling papers last ntglu. He was picked up while watching tbe work