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BLUEFIELD. WEST VIRGINIA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1908
PRICE TWO CENTS
II MORGAN PANIC
LAFOLLKTTK OlAIttiEN THK
WALL STREET MAUXATK
WITH THK PKKKKNT FINAN
CIAL thoihlks.
la a speech in the 1’nlted States
senate yesterday, LaFollette of Wis
consin, scored J. Pierpont Morgan
and directly charged him with the
responsibility of the present panic.
The senator was speaking in oppo
sition to the Aldrich financial bill
and he had frequent clashes with
Senator Aldrich, who sought to con
vince tho douglity warrior from the
Badger state that Wall street is not
in favor of the bill. The senator re
fused to be convinced, however, and
declared his belief that the op|M>
sition from Wall street is a Take.
In reply to a statement from Sen
ator Aldrich, he said:
THEIR OPPOSITION A FAKE
“Let me say you cannot always
tell from the lines of the bill. I
should say the proposition to with
draw the provision to incor|>orate
bonds in this bill throws a flood of
light upon the purpose of this leg
islation. Let me sav to the senator
from Rhode Island further that It
is not beyond question that these
great organizations might put out.
■hero or there criticisms of this prop
osition to give color to the idea
that there is no groat and mighty
power organized behind this leg
islation.”
ueciarmg tnat tne recent financial
stringency was brought out by the
influence of “Standard Oil” and J.
Pierpont Morgan, Senator La Toi
lette entered into a denunciation of
men high in the financial world.
“There were no commercial rea
sons for a panic," said Mr. La Toi
lette. “There were \peculative, leg
islative and political reasons why
a panic might serve special inter
ests. There were business scores
to settle. There was legislation tp
be blocked, and a currency measure
suited to the system to be secured.
There was a third-term to be dis
posed of, and policies to be discred
ited.
“A panic came. I believe that it
n<»ed8 only to be followed step by
step to show that it was planned
and executed, insofar as such a
proceeding is subject to control",
after once in motion.”
He recounted in vivid language
his view of the events of October
24th, when Wall street was in the
throes of the currency stringency.
The Morgan and Standard Oil
banks, he said, pursued In that
critical moment the course of the
speculating hankers.
“They minlHtered,” lie said, "to
the needs of Wal! street, quite deaf
to the appeals of commerce. Their
c-outrc that of men who were
playing' with the credit of the coun
try.-for a purpose."
He discussed the economic devel
opment of the country, and laid es
pecial stress upon the growth of
financial combinations.
ALL THE"EVIDENCE NEEDED
"The bare names of the directors
of two great bank groups (Standard
Oil and Mdrgan) given in connec
tion with their business associations
is all the evidence that need be of
fered of the absolute community of
Interests between banks, railroads
and all the great Industries,de
clared .Mr, LaFollette.
Speaking of~the great stores of
money in New York in connection
with various Industrial institutions,
Mr. LaFollette said:
“With this enormous concentra
tion of business it Is possible to cre
ate artificially periods of prosperi
ty and periods of panic.
“Subject to differences which
may arise between powerful indi
viduals of these different groups, re
IIKIiMOXT cafe.
Daily.
Full Course Dinner*,
12 to 3 p. in.
f»Oc if. F. Thompson, Mgr,
suiting in occasional collision.'* he
continued, ••they are practically a
monopoly and as far as the public
is concerned, practically one group. !
The business partner of the head of
the Morgan group is found on the
directorate of the chief financial in
stitution which heads the Standard 1
Oil group. And one of the leading
•directors of V
(Standard Oil
board of directors of the principal
financial Institution in the Morgan
group. The directors of the leading
organization comprising the two
principal groups are .bound together
in mutual interest as shareholders
in the varlotis industrial concerns
which have beou financed by one <
or the other of these grou]»s In re- !
cent years."
UNIQUE SUICIDE
ItAViflMW 'INVITES* l.AltCK
CROWD TO HKK HIM OORKIt
TO DRATH IfY HI LL
8an Antonio. Texas. March 1H.—
A dispatch to the Express front
Guadelajara. Mex.. says: "Jose
Marla Moreno, owner of San Pedro
ranch in Conposital. yesterday com
mitted suicide before 1,200 people.
gotng into the cattle per. and allow
ing a bull to gore him to death. 11c
had issued invitations to the ex
hibition."
WAGE REDUCTION
COTTON Ml I,ns CCT WACJHH TUN
PKIt CKXT.
Plainfield, Conn., March 18.—
XoilroB have been posted in the cot
ton mills at Oreenvllle. Shctucket',
Voluntown. Norwich Palls and oth
er towns notifying three thousand
employes of ten jut eent. reduction
in wages next Monday. Montville
mills will shut down altogether.
SiXTHHREE*
MILLION
MOOPST- FOKTI’NK OF JAM ps
OLIVKIt 0:T I TO SON.
Southbend, fnuiana, March IS._
1 ho will of James Oliver, inventor
! °Y the Oliver Chilled Plow and pro
prietor of the largest plow plant in
the world, the wealthiest man in In
diana, was filed for probate in St.
Joseph circuit court'. The fortune
is reported to amount to sixty-three
million, the bulk of which is left to
Joseph D. Oliver, a son.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH
POIjK’K RAFFFFD, s.\V FDOIl
KFYNOi.RS WAS not
Ml HDFHPI).
New York. March 18. The mys
| tery enveloping the death of Surah
| Thompson, sometimes known as
I Florence Reynolds, wliose body was
found In a coal bln In a cellar,
deepened today. Despite the un
usual circumstances surrounding
the case, the police declare the
young woman was not a victim of
an assassin, and admit she has been
I dead so long It Is now Impossible
; to get a satisfactory story of hef
action previous to her death.
ill
IF YOU SEE IT AT PEDIGO S IT S CORRECT.
FIRST SI IOWINC.
OF 1908 GRIFFON GOODS
(Jit I PEON HHIIlTH POlt WOMEN
rail PEON MXOF.lt IE WAISTS
OIC1 PEON WHITE, Till PltOTKM
OKiEEOV COf/OKKIl Ti ll FROCKS
OrlfTon Waists anil Frocks are acknowledged to he the best
fitting. best finished. best. quality Waists on the market.
It I* a common thin* to hear a customer remark that she
could never wear read y-m ado shirt waists till she discov
ered the Griffon.
E. s. PEDICO
*25-327 Princeton Avenue,
'✓■MS*
Rlnefleld. West Virginia
DEATH OF
IiON'<i UKKN A Sm'KItBH
"JM)M JIT UKIK l U >S|S—FlT*
NKHAIi TOMORROW AT a
O'CLOCK. -
Mr*. Ida Kthellnd Hurst, wife of
Janies W. Ilur*t, quietly passed
away last uight at her home ou
Third street, after an llluess of
more than eighteen months, of
tuberculosis.. She had suffered
much during this (fine, but always
with a patient," sweet disposition.
Mr*. Hurst, before her illness,
was an active worker in her church
and In the secret charitable socie
ties to which she belonged. For ten
years she had been a member of
Grace Methodist church and took
great interest in the work of the
missionary societies of the church.
She was a member of the Order of
RebekafrS. and of the Degree of Po
cahontas.
Mrs. Hurst was a daughter of Mr.
•ami Mrs. T. II. White. She was
born in Raleigh county. September
12. 1K7 2, and was one of twelve
children, nine of whom survive her.
to-wit: Mrs. Della Ilurgner, of
Winston, N. C.; Mrs. F. M. Steel, of
Glen Lyn, Mesdames W. A. Allen
and J. W. Jones of this city, Misaea
Effle and Pearl White, and Messrs.
Ola, Dayton and Elbert White of
this city. Her huslkand and five
small children are loft to mourn her
departure.
Ttle funeral will be held tomor
row afternoon at 2 o’clock at Grace
Methodist church, conducted by her
pastor, Kev. Thomas 1’rlddy. The
following notices have been given:
All member* of the Order of lle
bekah are requested to meet at the
ball at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow to at
tend the funeral of Sister Hurst.
The member will attend In a body.
By order of the noble grand.
The members of the Woman's
Homo Mission society of Grace
church are called to meet at the
retddence of Mrs. Fret well, corner
of lingers and Thomas streets, to
morrow at 1:30, to attend the fu
neral of Mrs. Hurst in a body. By
order of the president.
“THE WEIRIN’
O' THE GREEN”
THK 11. It. T. HA 1,1, A Git FAT
Hl’CX’KSS — \ ISITOICS PItoM
MANV TOWNS.
The celebration of St. Patrick'*
(lay by the Brotherhood of Hallway
Trainmen at the Bailey building lam
night was a notable succegs. While
“the wearin’ o' the green” was not
e«i>ecially conspicuous the Irish
were well represented. In fad, de're
all Irish in America on St. Patrick's
day.
To the strains* of mimic of th«
Columbian Orchestra of Keystone,
engaged especially for the occasion,
including Williamson, Norton and
Intermediate points, as well as some
from the east, kept time with light
ff,<*t. The hall was packed with the
young of all ages, who came to have
h gofnl time and were resolved not
to he disappointed. The dance was
led f>y Mr. II. T. Jopllng and Mis
Kate Perkins afTil by Mr. and Mrs.
F. C. Smith. The chaperones for
• he oeeaslon were Mesdames i',. \v.
Hoi I mail, (I. M. Calloway and P.
.1. Imng. Floor managers Frank C.
Smith and II. T. Jopllng, Door
manager. .1. It. Craig. Committee
on arrangements. Messrs. w. A.
I foil man, l.eo Pong. fj. r\ ifot.ack.
Fdgar Humphreys, Clarence Camp
bell, W. E. Brown and fl. W. Clark.
Cake, sandwiches, fruit and oof
fee were served during I he evening
in another room.
Everybody was delighted and all
went home feeling younger in
heart, if somewhat weary of body.
LIVED A RECLUSE
1HHWTANT MFf ItF.TAItV ro\l Kh
F.RATE Mrr TT\I> \T HT.
fit. Louis, Mo., March IS.— After
living a iife of a recluse In 8t. Louis
for nearly forty years Russell
Biley, druggist, who died Monday,
was identified today by his eonfl 1
ant, Murray Carleton. a bustness
man. as assistant secretary of the
Confederate navy during the civil
war.
JAIL SENTENCE FOR1
BEAN
WOI LIMIF, IY\I> MAN IS FINISH
HKAVILV AM> SKNT TO JAIL
AT I’KAIIISIU ltd.
C. V. Bean, the telegrapher who
shot Mrs. Artnistead Boothe, of
Narrows, in the arm, was tried at
i Hearlsburg and lined $25 for carry
ing a pistol; $25 for felonious
shooting, and was given a thirty
day jail sentence. He was also lined
$5 for disorderly conduct and com
pelled to pay the costa amounting
to $31 more. And all for the priv
ilege of being a ' bad nun" for five
minutes. Bean was drinking when
he tired live shots from the wlndow
of No. 4 a few morning's ago.
CHICKEN THIEVES
DOINC TIME
ZIMMlIlt oitl'llll \\u JKHHb]
THOMPSON WILL OLICAV
BTflKKTK FOR A FKW HAY.H.
Policeman T. L. Hunt arrested
Zimmer Grubb, a dark denizen of
Pock street, and JfltM Thompson, cf
lone* Hollow, whose fondness for
chicken led them to appropriate
fowls to which they had no legal
»ight. The recorder thought Grubb
ha 1 stolen about firteen dollars’
worth and assess'd him according
ly. Thompson had had leas practice
and was given a V. Working statute
applied in both cases.
UHSTRUCTFD
ItKIM liblb’/WH or NINTH viii
ginia HKi.Kt T i»t:i,i:(; t ri:s
The Ninth Virginia dlstrlet Re
publican convention .held at VVytlie
vllle yesterday for tin- selection of
delegates and alternates to the Chi
cago convention sent an unlnstruct
“(I delegation. Joseph S. Gillespie,
of Tazewell, and .1. W. McGftvock, of
Wythe, wore chosen delegates and
J. H. Catron, of Scott, and George
Gilmer, of Russell, alternates.
'VIM, TitV TO OKT 1*1,AMi IN
l>i:'l(M It \TI(- PLATFORM.
Washington, It. March i«._
I'nl«*SH tho Republicans at .the pres
ent session of congress put through
hook- effective prohibition legisla
tion, southern members of the
house anti senate and politicians of
Koutii Will fry to net a prohibition
plank In the national DctnocrstM
platform, and If Mr. Hryan acceeds
tt» their request Ik* will gain a solid
southern delegation In tho eonven
t Ion.
FATAL DULL
UTHIOIATII Of PORT AlITfll'It
HiTti;i:\nF,it.
Kaint Petersburg, March 1«.—
in a duel here today General Smir
noff, former commander of the
fortress at Port Arthur, was fatally
Injured by (General Kt>ek, I,lenten
ant General Fork wan Indicted with
, Lieutenant General Sloessel and
other® Report was written by Gen
eral Smirnoff In February, |f»07,
TO INDICT Cl D.
OFFICIALS
Washington. T> C , March 1 It._
Criminal prosecution will he instl
tuted against certain offlcialn’or the
f'hesapeake and Ohio railway com
pany an.I certain favored *hip|>ers
of grain, and parking house pro
ducts, on account of what, la assert
ed to have been Illegal prartMe*
relative to Interstate shipments.
WHYTE DEAD
UK HAD IIKKN IN' IU11MC 11 I K
roll OVKR SIXTY YKAIIH.
Baltimore. March 18.—United
States Senator William Pinckney
Whyte died at his home In thin city
last night.
Ho was taken 111 while In Wash*
lngton last Thursday and returned
as soon as possible. Kryslpelas de
veloped and hla condition became
worse. About 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the senator sutlered a
sinking spell, but recovered wonder
fully and was conscious until the
final convulsion that ended in his
death at about 7:05 p. m. The end
was peaceful.
Senator Whyte has been In public
life since 1847. Ho was born In
this city Aprlf 9th, 1824. and was
the son of Joseph and grandson of
Dr. John Campbell Whyte. IDs
grandfuther was the famous lawyer
and orator, William Pinckney. lie
graduated at. lnw at Harvard In
1848. He served In the house of
delegates of the Maryland legisla
ture of 184 7-8, since which time
he has held nearly every office in
the gift of the people of Ills state.
He was state comptroller, 1853-58.
| He was u delegate to Hip national
convention of 1868 and the same
year was appointed United Stall's
senator to nil the unexpireu term
of tho lute Reverdy Johnson, upon
tho latter's appointment uh minister
to Great Britain. He was governor
of Maryland 1871-74 and in the fol
lowing year k»h elected United
States senator. He became mayor
of Baltimore In 1K71 nud attorney
general of Maryland In 1887. Ho
was dialtiman of {ho )om u^sslon
which framed I he new charter of
this city. In 1000 he became city
solicitor. The then governor. Rd- j
I win Warfield, appointed him United
I States senator In 1900 to fill the
1 unexplred term of the late Senator
Arthur I*. Gorman, and the loglsla- J
ture elected him Senator Gorman's
successor for the term ending March
3, 191)9. He was the last survivor
of the senators who voted against
the fifteenth amendment to the
United Slates constitution.
The late senator was a man of
most engaging personality, lie was
twice married, but died a widower
AND THEY WERE
ItOllBftllS “SHOOT ri»“ A HA
LOON A\l> BOB Til 1-3 (TH*
TOM I-3HS.
Now York, March 18.—Six mon
burst In upon tlTe saloon of Thomas
Murray, at Ninth avonuo and Forty
fifth street early today and ordered
the bartender and customers to hold
up tfielr handn. They "shot up" |
the place and went through the rus
tomera, took $t'»0 from the rash reg
ister, helping themselves to bottles
of whiskey and boxes of cigar*,
backed out and escaped on north
bound Ninth avenue car.
BALTIMOREAN
GETS THE PLUM
FHIKF ItOORKlTrilt ItFfH'flLI
< IN NATIONAL < ONVFNTIOW
Washington, I>. C. March 18.—
Collector William Stone, of Balti
more, sergeant at arms of the He
publican national convention, has ap
pointed Stephen It. Mason, of Bal
timore, chief doorkeeper of the con
ventlon. Position Is one of the
most important in the convention,
IIOANOKF WANTS CONVRNTfON.
The rlty of Roanoke Is working
hard to get the state convention of
the Democrats party. The chamber
of Commerce has the matter In
hand,
UlffplH
MIMTI COWS KIM.FI> ANI> »IIVT>
yl'ARTF.RH STOI.FV.
A story of novel and unique
thieving comes from Oosldale.
Within the past six weeks no less
than six milch cows have be*»n
slaughtered along the road from
Coaldale to Pocahontas and the hind
quartern carried away, leaving the
rvat of the carcass In the wools
where the slaughter took place. Al
though several foreigners have been
arrested, there was no evidence to
connect them with the crime and
they were all discharged. So far
the owners of the cows have no cine
to the perpetrators of the unusual
theft. The thieves are certainly
wasteful, for In some Instances only
one quarter was taken.
CHICAGO POLICE
MAN KILLED
MlKDKItkll TltK.N S||(K>TS nv
STAND 10It \NI> ATTEMPTS SI I
(I D|0.
Chicago, Ul.. March is. lOdward
C. Hefferon. policeman, was shot
and killed last night by Donald
Starr, who had been ejected from
the Southsldc elevated train. After
killing Hefferon, Starr opened lire
ou another (Policeman, the bullets
missing the policeman, Htruck a by
Htnnder. Starr then turned the
weapon on hlmsoir and IIring a shot,
was mortally wounded.
ONI.Y t'AltDINAI. WIIO ||\l> HK
vounckd kmou'mknts of
Ol I K K.
Homo, March 1*.—Cardinal Chh
all <lol Prago, known to the Homan
nobility In t'be Bncrod college, died
yesterday. He waa the only cardinal
troubling In Home who had re
nonneed the emoluments of IiIh
post.
wmno c;iitf< wdos nix;ito.
HoBton. March IS. Fred F. wil
Hums, a negro, 23 years old. who
recently married Hazel Huz/.ell, a
IT. year old white girl of Worcester,
and was placed under arrest Itnmo
dlately after the ceremony, will
soon he1 tried on a charge of nbdne
tion.
III'.NT DIAMONDS IN A|(KANSAS.
Texarkana, Ark., March is.- Ex
citement over the newly* Uncover • |
diamond fields In Pike county con
tinues and several big companies
have been incorporated lo begin
mining operations on a large scale.
DAVIDSON ItASKIlAlX HAMMS.
Davidson, N. (’.. March is. A
game with Lenoir College here (his
afternoon begins the Davidson
schedule. The principal games ar
ranged for the season are with the
University of North Carolina, on
April 2r>; Washington and I>*e pnl
verslfy, on April 27. nnd University
of Tennessee, 0n May 1 and 2.
[VANS' SUCCESSOR
\I»IIH\I, Sl'KItllY WlIJj
takk m.iHOK or tiik flkrt
Washington, March 18.—Rear
Admiral Charles S. Sperry will be
commander In chief of the Amort
<aii battleship fleet when It leaves
San Francisco in July to encircle
the globe. This Important detail
Wn* decided on by (President Roose
velt and IiIk cabinet yesterday.
Hear Admiral Kvaim, on bis per*
H'Mial request, will bo relieved of
iho command at the conclusion of
lho bln naval review «t San Fran
r|so° May 8th. The admiral eon
slders this the completion of the
work he was assigned to do—tak*
Iho Atlantic fleet to the Pacific
coast. \dmlral Evans retires In
A llgllnt.
1° Hear Admiral Thonma comes
'Ik* honor of commanding the neet
on its visit to Puget Sound and un
ill the homeward Journey begins.
Me 'hhh been second In command
‘Hiring the voyage, and retires In
October.
Those retirements make pooslble
two promotions to tho grade of
rear admiral, and these nr« to bo
tilled by the advancement of Cap
lain Seaton Schroder and Captain
Milliard Wainwrlght, who will com
mand respectively the third and
fourth squadrons oT the fleet and
Hear Admiral Emory t<he second.
A Itol.ll* HIIITIIDAV.
Iilnn, March is.- The flth an
Iilv. r ary or tho birth of the Prln
<•'B I<ohIio, hurhoH of Argylo, wn«
observed today by tin* ringing of
i In* hells of st. George's chnixd,
Windsor, and other observations,
t'ho princes* wi»h born at Mucklng
bum palace on March 1H, 1 848, the
Klxtb In tho lino of dcHccndunlH of
•be Into Queen Victoria, and mar
ried tho l>uko of Argyle In 1S71.
1'. T. MKKTINd,
I ho If. T, will hold their rogu
hir im etlng Saturday afternoon at 3
o'oTbck and at night at 7:30 In Ma
boiiIo bull on Princeton avenue,
W 11,1.1 A M <\ BFttJNNER,
Secretary,
TWO MOItM FOIt TAFT.
riillllcotho. o., March 1H. —Bocre
111 ry I’.ift will gain two more pledg
ed doiO^itoB In the Chicago conven
<lou a*, i iTault of the Eleventh dln
trld Itopublioan convention tomor
row.
TOWN WIPED OPT IIV FlltE.
Minneapolis, 'Minn., March 18.—
I'be entire business Hoctlon of Hre
vam. Ml 1111,, wan wiped out by fire
today and many rcHldcncea burned.
*'WiF, A\l» t'ANDV ItAZA A It.
* be l.adleH* Ahl Soelety of Ihe
p|. diyti i lan < hurcb will bold a rake
:>u I candy bazaar In the window of
'be *>ld Minefield Furniture afore,
Friday afternoon, March 20th, be
ginning nt 3 o’clock. They solicit
the patronage oT the ladles of the
city for their Sunday cakes.
NETTLETON
OXFORDS
Widths A to E
ALL STYLES,
ALL LEATHERS
Patents. Calf Skin,
Tans
$5.50, $6.00 and $6.50
Cmwford Oxfords
$3.50, $4.00 and $5.00
METROPOLITAN MEN'S FUR. CO.
KxrluHlvc ai'f'Tiry BramlcRC*. Kincaid & Wood, maker* of mod
ern clothe*.