PAID CIRCULATION p Thursday ^ Closing New York St FOUNDED 1845' . MANY ri m f damaged badly Iy heavy si Western Maryland Structur k ^ Stands Discharge of INVESTIGATION 01 il Been Wrecke lur Woud Be jssary. D, Md., Sept. 16.Maryland Ratlwa Potomac River t connecting wit ind was dynamite t the damage wa ut the structure 01 ridge seat and th cracked and a g! a off: "The damag 500. It Is thougt nty sticks of dyni , producing a deti aroused the entlr was heard all ove w glass were brol > was set off at th bridge on the Wei lear the tunnel. ) the authorities tba Sh power dynamlt 1 from' the uuarrie nill of the Ciimbei at Ackerman te iere a few days age was announced Se shopmen's Btrik allroads would no srn Maryland, whlc a^ party to the Wl detectives in cot tate authorities ar estlgatfon. Idae nut nut nf us ^E'eatern Maryland would hav ^Htour flyer the Baltimore & Ohl ^^alrd, -W. Va? thirty miles ess ^ MASS MEETING i)f Trade Unions and inRiendent voters, in LaH|r Temple, Sunday Sept., Hg|?t.2 o'clock by order of B^ECUTIVE COMMIT TEE, Monongahela Valley |&ades add Labor Councils. P NOTICE hpido not fail to pake advantage of a tremendous reduction on all shot guns, rifles |ffh powered t now on sale f A. HIRSH | 308 alajdison street Hfaon't forget the address 1 It?s worth while not to rramfl 1 SUBSTANTIA |h ' 1|; =.10 Marathon Cords?32x3% 'i\, 4 Goodyear. A. W. T.?32j I1 U. S. Chain Tread, Fabi I 1 Foremost Cord?32x3% I 6' Marathon, Cords?3 4x4 % . a .Goodyear Fabrics?34x4! B 1 Goodyear Fabric?34x4 . ,1 Foremost Cord?34x4 ... ;-l Diamond Fabric?34x4 . 1 Ajsx Clincher?36x4% . ' These tires are odd sixes H automobiles, and consequent! B price reductions. > RTANDARI Erj y!.' >cks, Page 3 MS [ WE LOCAL RAILROAD I MAN IS INJURED Charles Adams Suffers Losrf of L,egs on Rail Accident. Charles Adams, a B. & 0. flag man, residing at 603 East Ferry street, Fairmont, had both of his e legs cut off in the B. & 0. freight yards at Betiwood early this morning, when he was etruck by a freight train. He was- removed to the Glondnle Hospital, Wheeling, and his condition is reported | as critical because of the loss of ^1 blood. He has a wife and two children residing in Fairmont. Rail News. . B. & 0. train 66 from Pittsburgh a was running one and a half hours lute into Fairmont this afternoon. _cars!rtage j still bad in ! this section o it > Every Division in Region Short Except One? ' Connellsville. e it [t Every division in Northern West 11 Vireinla la havlne a short car sun P ply today except the Connellsville ? Division, B. & O. and the Bellngton & Weaver branch of the Western D Maryland'Railway, -rThe car supply on the Monongah * Division, B. ,& 0., will not run over ? 21 per cent and as a result of the ? shortage of cars there are 80 mines J1 idle on the division. The car supl* ply on the Charleston Division, B. & 0. will run a shade better today at 27 per cent. A thirty-six per 6 cent car supply is being had on the Cumberland D.vision, B. & 0.. 6 where the supply has been running! e better than on the Monongah Divi-| 0 sion. The B. & O.'s best efforts on 11 division^ that have shortage of can is on the M. & K. Railway, where there is a 68 per cent run. On the M. & W. Railway today ' the car shortage has been more keenly felt than any time since the strike ended1, there being a fifty per cent run there today. Along the Monongahela Railway today the mines have a 65 per cent run. A ten per cent run of cars is on the Wyatt-Bingamon & Helen's Run branches of the Western Maryland. Class No. 1 Off Information was received last evening by thp Northern West Virginia Coal Operators' Association from Washington. D. C.. that the class No. 1 priorities have been can tf celed. These were coal shipments = that were directed by the Inter. State Commerce Commission. , Distribution Over. The distribution'of coal by the j federal fuel distribution is generaljly regarded as now being a thing j of the past because the emergency w /> y' " ' ENING, SEPTEMBER 15,1 dbT mtal Flight ; % '5 ' ? council that the national board ot !t jurisdiction awards, a voluntary or8 ganlzatlon of engineers and tech8 nicians, ha"d allotted the metal s trimming works to the sheet metal workers' union. The carpenters] y are said to have refused to agree1 1 to the award. 5. According to Mr. Donlln, brick-1 d layers and other trades unions are r. satisfied with the award and are I ? United.in many cities in.upholding 2- the metal workers on Jobs where i carpenters attempt to install metal e, trimmings. Failing iij this, they ] are withdrawing their men from ** all jobs where the carp.entera refuse to agree to the jurisdictional boards * decision. e a jj_, >. .. _ .tauruBsing me council. Mr. DonJ lln urged , that "In behalf of peace a In the building InduBtry," the car' pentera be disciplined by the Amer ' lean Federation o( Labor and pres' sure brought to bear, in compelling > them to obey the decisions of the Jurisdictional board. : , The council, It was stated, will a announce Its plan ot action today, n which will be reported to .William I Hutchison o( Indianapolis, p'resl| dent ot the carpenters' union, upon | hie return from Europe, >. | Lack ot sunlight has been found II to result In a general wave ot deIJ presslon. FOR RENT .. j | 8 Room House all mpderu | conveniences,' two porches. } -Write Lock Drawer 519? Fairmont, W. "Va. - f-; lllii * n'&'Ju demonstrating 'her worth In ;o.'Tb^jfllgtit wtjt teat thoroughly ecorde^ Below, that, crew, left right, CapUjAgj^GeorgB -Wlj McEntlre^Mai' LABUK LtAUtKo I -? Controversy of Carpenters and Metal Workers Is Before A. F. of L. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Sept , 15,?The executive council o( the American Federation ot Labor will laokle the controversy between the brotherhood carpenters and Sheet Metal Workers Union, which threatens a nation-wide tie-up ot building . construction. This controversy, arising from a dispute over which organization I shall Install the metal trimming in new buildings has already halted millions ot dollars. worth ot constructions in Detroit, Cleveland' ana other cities, It was said. John', Donlln, president ot. the building ; trades department. Is here to pre[ eent the case to the executive council which will act as mediator. y Frank Dufty, secretary of the car'* penters' organisation arid vlco-presIdent of the American Federation ot * Labor,, will presept his . union's nj claims. Tt was SlinlntaS Knfn.n Ihn wmmx*: I sea ~ rJjRKS mmTTEEIS 1 mm with R ft n HFilK U. ? Ul 1 I Lai 11/ U Will Negotiate for Final Settlement of Shop Strike Today. BALTIMORE, Sept. 15. -Allnouncement was made at the executive offices of the aBltlmore & Ohio this morning1 that a committee of men representing the shopmen, wohld meet vice-President Galloway probably this afternoon and begin negotiations looking to the settlement of the strike on the B. & 0. system. Some Misgivings CHICAGO, Sept. 15.?Refusal by a number of the country's biggest railway systems to enter into the Warfield-Willard-Jewell plan for ending the shopmen's strike on the basis of separate and individual agreements developed an element of uncertainty today over the sCope and effectivenss of the peaccf program. While some of,the larger-Systems' had flattly rejected the pjfin, others, /notably the Chicago (m Northwesterh'^and the ChicagcwMilwaukee '& 'Qt Paul, had virt&ftlly completed arrangements for''re8torlng BtrfkerS at once to 'theli4" former jobs udder terms of the separate settlement plan. Negotiations were in^progress f^yith several roadB.in.an effort by "several shop craft officials to ef foot additional settlements. < ' Strike leaders were said to be-dd* dressing - communications to some of the unwilling roads asking them to reconsider their rejection of the plan. About fifty roads were generally understood to have accepted the settlement proposals with the B. & 0., Chespeake & Ohio, New York ueotrai wne; seaDora Air iAne,< Chicago Northwestern and Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul, among the larger systems among those to accept the proposal. W. H. Finley president of the Northern, and B. B. Crier of the Mlluronl/o * fivneaaia/l linna flint many of their shopmen would be "back on their Jobs today over , the entire systems. The Northwestern I employees number about 13,000 shopmen and the Milwaukee about 15,000. L Affecting Coal WASHINGTON Sept. 15.? Concern over the inability of railroads to. move coal and farm products expeditiously was understood to have been expressed by members of the. President's cabinet at today's meeting. Practically all of a brief , session was devoted to a discussion of the trans* portation system and the belief was expressed that the partial settlement of the shopmen's strike would alleviate to a great extent the conditions that now exists. Opinion* prevailed that coal prices would be high but the government officials wiere confident there would be no coal shortage. ,To Hear Charges WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. ? Impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty as the result of his petition for an injunction in the cases of striking railway employes as presented to the House Monday by Representative Keller, Republican, Minnesota, will be considered by the judiciary committee meeting tomorrow at which Mr. Keller will be heard. % CONFERENCE ENDS IN DISAGREEMENT ATLANTIC CITY, Sept 15.?The conference between the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters and the Sanltary Manufacturlng Association held here to deal with a new wage scale for. the men In the sanitary branch of the Industry broke un today In disagreement. The manufacturers sought a decrease in wages of. 25 per qent, but later modified this demand to 20 per cent The brotherhood rejected the wage decrease. The brotherhood nov; will hold a referendpm to determine as to whether they shall {Strike, about 3,00 men are involved. . JAKE ACTION LONDON, Sept. IS.?(By The Associated; Press)?The British fleet* has been Instructed to allow no Turkish troops to cross from Asia to Europe, it was officially announced this evening. " -j? Si Minister Talks F on Safety; Then ' Trips on Steps WHEELING. W. Va...,Sept. 16.?After delivering a ringing address on "safety first" in connection with a campaign which bias.' beon on ail week. Dr. J. Brittingham, pastor of St. Luke's Church and Wheeling's oldest minister, fell as?he was leaving the rostrum of r juiiuison ocnooi, wnen tie tail I ed to observe there were two steps and was slightly injured. Rising up from the floor. Dr. Brittingham declared, "That is a demonstration of what I have been preaching to you- L watch your step. I did not ' know there .was more than one step leading off your platform." ? A SIGNliil WIIH TRAINMEN: t New York Central Signs Up J' With Conductors For G Another Year. [ V NEW YORK, Sept. 15;?The ' New York Central system today c signed a contract between the b company and Its trainmen and o conductors tor one year begin- ? nlng September 30. The signing, ot the agreement A was announced after a conference h between'A.-W. Smith, 'president E of tnf New York CentraUjy., 0, 1 Lee of the trainmen, and L. K. i Sheppard, or the conductors. S A statement issued hythe New r York Central said that the direct ' settlement agreement would pro- " vide for tho Immediate withdraw- fj al of all controversy on matters " now pending before the United * States Labor Board. 1 The road said It anticipated that forthcoming direct negotiations would result la similar agreements with the engineers, f firemen and switchmen on |U of I Its lines. I "The New York Central managemest." said the statement "feels that today's settlement is a happy augury of a hotter era In trnnannrfnHon " It was understood that the settlement provides for a continuation of the existing wage rate r with possible minor changes, although the statement did net make the announcement specifically. Pittsburgh Report PITTSBURGH,, Sept. 16?0111clals of the Pennsylvania Issued a brief statement this morning admlttlng they wefe in conference : here with representatives of the * conductors and trainmen. ; "The conference Is with refer- J ence to the present agreement," Jj said the statement. MAKE IT SNAPPY S STUFF NOT GOOD S 1 . |t CHARLES TOWN, Sept. 16.? n Deputy Sheriff Dennan, of Logan v County strolled into the Jefferson d Hotel this morning and ordered t breakfast o "Make it snappy," he told the e waiter, a negro. v The waiter refused to guarantee t speed and an argument followed. Then came the clash. 1 Dennan claimed the waiter struck h him on the head with a glass. s The waiter admitted this but said s he threw the missile after Dennan C stuck a gun into my ribs. t Chief of Police Smith called the y affair a closed incident. h Ul , li FILES MOTION ? CHARLESTON, 'W. VsL,' Sept. 16.?Harold Wl. Houston, as copn- J sel for the United Mine Workers, J today filed.in federal court a C motion for a bill of particular* in C the million dollar suit brought ? against the union by the Willis n Branch Coal Co. The suit is to e collect damages for. the shooting tl up of Willis Branch which was 1 J- 1-1 .V