~ r West Virginia's Best Newspaper A ? ESTABLISHED 1868. mkmbkk associated press. FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1919. today-s news today. PRICE THREE CENTS, RAIN HI inn gym GOING or fllI NORMAL SCHOOL Expected That Structure Will Be Completed By Sept. 15. IIKF THF WVII ARK If ^ ^bllli. I Ilk IIIIIUI lllllll I Will Be Used Mainly By the I Young Women Students. k f A temporary gymnasium is in the course or construction on I he grounds of the Fairmont Stutc Normal school plat and If nothing happens to impede the progress of the work the building will be completed and ready for occupancy by September 15. Tho legislature made on appropriation for the erection of this gymnasium but so imperative was the need for sucha building that the Board of Regents sa wflt to divert some funds ^Jrom elsewhere in order to construct Although a temporary structure yet the building will be substantial and will provide for the needs ot the school for several years, or at least ; util the legislature sees fit to provide for a permanent building. Little new equipment will be purchased at tills time but the main attention will he devoted to a playing floor, i This floor will be 45 by 70 feet and I will be utilized for Indoor baseball and basketball and similar amuscments and exercises aud wilt be used I mainly for the girls, though the young men will also have access to the building at certain times. The building will be a one story affair with a high celling nnd will be well ventilated and lighted. Grading has been finished. The foundation Ib progressing nicely and it Is hoped to have the carpenters at worn on the framework by next week. Arch-' -- itect Gillis Is in charge of the constructlo nof the gymnasium. The building | will bo built after the plan of "the i Ark" a temporary gymnasium which is ' in use at the state university. Showar baths are being placed in : wi)oth the girls' and boys' dressing erooras on the lower floor of the main building at the Normal and these-will be used In connection with the gymnasium work. For a long time the school has been greatlv hampered for a place in which the pupils could receive, physical education and training of this character : and the building is being erected t) beet this need. Palace R 1 125 Main St., For 'y V " ' , Will serve a special < ing for 40c. [[ ' hrom 5 to Following Fares, Effectivi Between Fairmont and "V Between Fairmont and 1 Round trip ticket betweei h Following books of tickel will be on sale within a fe I Book containing 25 ticket I 'fare between Fairmoi Book containing 50 tickel fare between Fairmo: ' MONONGAHELA VA ELPST CHi This mob cornered a negro und who "got" him are In the right of t And at tho right is the Lhe one in the cap is still unralsed. look these pictures trailed with the m killed. Mill IE 1 REGION DIIE m nan nnnnnnr Ill bAtl dtlUnlAut Forty-Two Mines Affedted on B. & 0. and Two on Monongahela Railway. With GOG cars on the Monongah division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad today the car supply is exceptionally short. Tho placement is down to 071 and as a result there are forty-two mines idle. The cars today are classified as follows: Coal. 508; coke, 8. Cars left over from the previous day number 103. Many operations are affected today. The Consolidation Coal Company is shy cars as are The Hutchinson Coal Company, the Clark interests and others. Car shortage js felt by the Jamison Coal and Coke Company as there are only enough cars for handling the coke output at Jamison No. 8. Cars shortage has struck the Monongahela Railway also. Only a twenty per cent ear supply is on. The! (Continued on page four.) ] estaurant j merly Anderson's ihicken supper this even7:30 p. m. ICE | e August 1st, 1919 Woodland Park, ;. 7c Barrackville 14c -n_? J i - i r au-mont ana tsarracks have been ordered and w days: s, each ticket good for at and Barrackville, $2.50 ts, each ticket good for nt and Barrackville, $5.00 LLEY TRACTION CO. You Can't HOOPS iSE AND DEATH' HWm1| er un outside stairway near 4Gth-st anc he picture. Just running to Join the grot i dying negro and the pair who w ei He has Just thrown the last stone. T] oh under fire of revolver and stones ui Scores in Trolley Car Escape Death By Hair Breadth (By Associated Press.) PITTSBURGH. July 31. ? Two scores of persons narrowly escaped death or serious injury this morning when a crowded Currick trolley | car went through a derailing switch in South Eighteenth street und aft cr running wild along the top of a hundred foot cliff came to a stop ; at the head of the embankment- , Several women fainted and a j dozen persons were crushed in a I panic during the car's mad dash I Twn men tumnpfl from .the sneed j Ing car but were not seriously Hurt. A rush ot passengers to the rear | ot the car. It is said, only prevented ; it from plunging over the cliff and ' being shattered with its human freight oil the rocks below. Aged Man Arrested in Railroad Yards John Smith a man who looked to be about 55 years of age hut who insisted at police court that he was past the age of 73, was before Mayor BowJen this morning charged with loitering on Baltimore and Ohio railroad property. Smith was arrested as a suspicious character by Patrolman Province late last night when he was found loaf. ing about the yards near a carload of 11 merchandise. He was brought to the I j city jail and went before Mayor BowII en tills morning. He was without ! j any money and upon his promise to ! j get a job and go to work was dis1: missed. . _ My examining and fitting rooms are now open. Showing newest styles in glasses and advanced methods for correct eye examina1 tion. A. B. SCOTT l! Optometrist and Optician Corner Main and Jefferson 1 Over Mountain City Drug Store. PHONE 542-R. \ | WAr Three boys, and Three | voorc nf orrn fn "PA ASSI V/JU wgv KU UOC UUJ for five years. We h Stehley as our Dentisl children, clean, fill, and expense, and keep thei for a period of five yes Dr. StehleVs office at fer is made simply fo: to prove that our tooth EUREKA CP CUMBER mSend a Salesman At p i ii TO ST( OF A NEGRO IN CI I Wentworth avenue. The men ip about the stairway. e "in at the death". The arm of , le N. E. A. staff photographer who | it 11 the quarry was run down and Sujii CAUSES DEATH IF BAIfflMAf .; I Slow Hemorrhage Devel oped at Base of Earl McKnight's Brain. As the result of injuries he sustained on Tuesday when he dived ?ito the river and struck his head on a stone Karl McKnlght, aged 26, a well known .young man of Baxter, died this momling at 2:30 o'clock at Fairmont hos; pital where he was admitted late yes| terday evening for treatment. When, he failed u arise after diving a distance of only lour feet his companions went to his assistance and took him from the water. He remained iticonsclous for a few minutes but upon regaining consciousness seemed to be all right and little more waS thought of the ullalr although he sufercd with some dizziness. Yesterday evening about five o'clock he again became unconscious and was rushed to the hospital where he was found to have a temperatuer of 110. According to officials at the hospital the man suffered from a concussion at the base of the brain which caused I a slow hemorrhage which did not de| velop until after several hours, but probably began at the time of the accident. Little could be done for him at the hospital and ho only lived until early this morning when he died. He was a jmuiiicu man auu wan auipioyeu oy the coal company at Baxter. The body was prepared for burial by Carpenter & Ford. BOYS DENY CHARGES. The trial of Mike Tedesco and John I Sccuri, the two boys who are now in I the county Jail charged with robbing I the shoe shining parlor in the baseI mont of the Watson Hotel building ) will likely be held this afternoon. Ati torney H. H. Rose is handling the I case for the state. oBth hoys have i denied being Implicated in the theft. I See Shurtleff and Wtelton's ad on back page.?Adv. m j No deaths were reported during the j night but many Injuries and fires were j recorded. Gov. Franlt 0. Lowden or ! dered the troops out last night on request of Mayor William Hale ThompI son after darkness had brought renew; ed rioting and the city's 3,000 pollceI men found themselves exhausted. The First, Second and Third reserve 1 militia and the Ten.th and Eleventh ' Illinois infantry were sent on dnty by Adjutant General Dickson while the Ninth regiment remained in reserve at the stock yards and the Fourth re- I serve on the weBt side. | Fighting kept up after the troops reached their stations shortly before ' midnight and one squad of soldiers had to fight a crowd of negroes to reach * their station, while other soldiers were fired on from ambush on the way to j The most serious riot of the night I took place at Fifty-third and State I streets where 200 policemen fought nearly two hours a crowd of negroes, firing several hundred shots before the rioters were subdued and 65 of them arrested. It was only after the patrol ' men had chopped their way Into some of the bulldingH and seized a dozen ! negroes with rifles and 500 cartridges I that the struggle ceased. ~i Kaln which had threatened during the early hours of the morning began i falling heavily shortly after 6 o'clock. It seemed effectually to dampen the spirit of eve the stragglers remaining about the riot area, for they disappeared without awaiting the appearance of soldiers. Officers in command . reported that to all appearances the ; .' | district was practically deserted and they were of the opinion that this marked the end of the disorder which for fl?o dqys had kripped Chicago. Thomas Copeland, a negro, 18 years old, died today of bullet wounds re- I ceived In yesterday's riot. Negroes early today wrecked the windows of a shoe store in East Thirty-fifth street, owned by a white man and carried away a quantity of shoes. With the coming of daylight it was discovered that rioters, in a number of streets on the South side han stretched steel cables aero is, the pave- ?'3 ment with the evident intention of preventing the fire department from an H swerlng alarms and perhaps wrecking the apparatus. BtlOTT TIotto Inn +lin li/uuj xyuij o 1UJ. UUO Sheriff's Hounds I Deputy Sheriffs Bells Harris and -> 'John Glover returned this morning j from the Continental Mine No. 1 near Unlontown. Pa., where they were i',' I called with Sheriff Glover's blood| hounds to assist in trailing a foreigner j who had shamefully attacked a young American girl. When the Fairmont officers arrived there with the hounds, [the foreigner had already been capJust to see If the hounds could fol- I low the trail accurately, they were put on the trail and they wet directly a distance of about three miles to the M ptece where the foreigner was arrestThls morning Sheriff Glover received 3 I a call from McWorter, a small town near Jane Lew, where robbers bad entered a store some time last nlfcht. The dogs were on their way from 'Uniontown when the call was received and were not available for the case. YOUNG WOMAN DIES. Katherlne Hoft Nlckoloff a young woman employed in the restaurant of Harvey Palste on Madison street died yesterday at her rooms on Grant street. The body was prepared for burial at the Cunningham undertak- :$ Ing establishment and this evening i will be sent to LaLkewood, N. J., her former home for interment. See Sburtleff smd WWton's ad on J* back page.?Adv. % , J VtjJ