Bluefield evening leader. [volume], October 14, 1909, Image 1

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ESTABLISHED APRIL 8, 1906.
Bluefleld, West Virginia. Thursday Afternoon, October 14, 1909.
PRICE TWO CENTS
EXPECT i
LARGE
CROWD
Splendid Program Full Of
Interest Arranged For
Next Weeks Meeting of
Laymen at Bristol.
"
INTEREST IS
GROWING LOCALLY
A Number of Delegates Will
Represent Minefield
4 and Vicinity.
Local interest continues to grow !
In the Laymens Mia: ionary Move
ment and in the convention which
will be held in Bristol next Tues
day.
The entire country is becoming
interested in (the movement and some
of the leadihg m*n including Presi
dent Taft, Gifford Pinchot are in
sympathy with it.
It Is hoped that Bluefleld will be
well represented at the Bristol meet
ing.
The following very interesting pro
gram has been prepared .for the
meeting, copies of which have just
been received here:
Tuesday Evening, 7::ift o’clock.
1. Why the fLaymen’s Missionary
Movement?—W. B. .Stubbs. Sec’y L.
M. M., M. E. Ch. So
2. The Evangelization of the
World as a Life Purpose—Rev. Jas.
O. Reavis, I). I)., Sec’y Foreign MIb.
So. Pres. Church.
2. The A'wakening Orient—Rev.
C. A. K. Janvier, Philadelphia, I’a.
ftormerly of India.)
Wednesday Forenoon, 0:30 o'clock.
1. Prayer and the Missionary En
terprise— Rev. R. W. Patton. Secy
Board of Missions Protestant Epis.
* n
2. How can the Men of the church
Become Inform 3d about Missions—
8)r. T. B. Kay, Educational Sec’y
So. Bapt. Conv.
a. The Pastor’s Place of Leader
ship.
b. The Missionary Meeting
N 9 c. The Tae of Literature.
d. Groups for Associated Investi
gation.
e. Layrne^ as Advocates,
f. An Educational Campaign.
WpOwSIny .\l'ter"oon, 2:00 o’clock.
1. The Organization Needed.
a. In the Congregation.
b. In the Community.
c. In the Denomination.
d. In the Nation.
2. Business System in Missionary
Finance.
a. The P'very-Mem her Canvass.
d. The Weekly Missionary Offer
ing.
c. Propolitlon In Missionary Giv
ing.
WednuNIay evening, 7GIO o’clock.
A Board Survey of the Fields—
H. F. Williams. Dr. W. H Park, W.
G, Cram.
Thursday forenoon, 0:.K) o’clock
Denominational Hallies under De
nominational leadership.
Thursday afternoon, 2:00 o’clock
Is the Church’s interpretation of
the Great Commission C’orredt?—
Chas. A. Howland, Chairman L M.
M. Ho. Pres. Ch.
Men and Missions- Mornay Wil
liams. Pres. N. V. State Confr of
Char, and Correction*.
Thiir“<l«y evening, 7:JIO o’clock.
1. Adoption of Policy.
2. The Keflex Influence of Mis
sions Dr D Clay Lilly, Field S<M*.’y
L. M M.
Besides the above speakers, others
#ho will participate are Mr. Jno. R.
Pepper, Memphis, T nn , Presiding
officer of flu* Convention; Prof, J.
T. Henderson, and Mr Chas. H,
Pratt.
BACK TO THE
WHITE HOUSE
Bewrly. Oct. ]4.—Mrs Taft starts
tomorrow for Wa#*ngton for the
winter.
Heiress to
Large Fortune
1
Miss Giulia Moroalnl, daughter
of late Giovanni P. Moroalnl, New 1
York l>anker of fabulous wealth, and
one-time colleague of Jay Gould,
who derives from her father's will
greater pari of a fortune of almost
three million dollars. During the
lifetime of the elder Moroalnl. Mi*s
Giulia was one of the most striking
figures at the fashionable Horse
Show, held annually in New York,
wher* her gowns, each of which rep
resented a small-fixed fortune, were ;
the envy of society women, $300,000
yearly being expended by her for rai- j
ment.
SIX DROWN IN
LAKE TRADEGY
■ ---
Steamer Wrecked and Eigh-1
teen Men Thrown Into
Water—Twelve Escape.
Detoft. Oet, 14.—In the wreck of
the Rfeamer. Ceorge Stone, of Cleve
land, on Point Pelee, Out., yesterday,
ujrper hake Erie added a gruesome
chapter to the history of marine dis
asters on the great lake*. Six lives
were lost. and twelve were saved. !
Ixist night the tail of the recent
gale D lashing a hopelessly broken
ves.'el that wae not Insured and be
longed to M A. Bradley, of Cleve
! land.
The six viotjms loaf, their lives
. when Captain Paul Howell, Peter
Daley, of Erie, Pa., who was a pass
cnger. and six member* of tho crew
were capsized In the surf, attempting
to go ashore for assistance. Two of]
the crew clung to tho overturned '
boat four hours until they drifted
ashore.
SEE HUSBAND HANGED
That Is l{c<|iic«f of Wife Abandoned
hjr Condemned Man.
Wtlkesbarr\ Pa., October 14.—
Mr.?. Mary Na/.arko. wife of Stanley
N’azarko. tho Slay to be hanged fo
day In company with Michael Maz
roskl ,lhe man she Is tr> marry after
her husband Is executed, and request
ed the sheriff that *hc he permitted
to witness the hanging. The con
dernnerf man was willing that his
wife, whom he deeerted In Russia
ten vei.rs ago. and the man who is
to be her second husband, should
h * present and s« him mount the
scaffold, hut Sheriff llodda said the
law would not permit.
MOTHER
STANDS
BY SON
William H. Gray is Saved
From Electric Chair By
Mother’s Testimony—Is
Given 20 Years.
YOUNG BROKER
KILLS HIS FATHER
Claimed Self Defense—l*a
thetie Seone In tin*
Court- Room.
Fleming!on, N. J., Oct. 14.—It
was largely through tho testimony
of hi* aged mother that William H.
Gray, the young broker, was last- j
night «a\e<i from Uoatih In the elec
tric chair fo.r* th > killing of bin aged
father. John Gray. at their farm
home laHt August. The Jury, after
four hours’ deliberation, found (Irav
guilty of murder of the second de
gree. and Judgo Reed immediately
sentenced him to twenty years at
hard labor in State Prison.
<'laJniP«| Self Oofense,
dray'a story of the killing was to
the effect that ho had shot his fath
er in self defense after a violent
quarrel and long suffering his abuse,
and ho said he was about, to flee
the farm after an unusual outburst
of anger on his father’s part, when
the old man threatened to kill him
an»j his mother, and hurled stones
at him. one Of which struck jroung
dray in tho face
Mrs. Gray, mother of tho defen
dant, testified as to the details attend
lug tin* attempt of the father to cut
dray’s throat with a butcher knife
in 190k. Her story was In corrobora
tion of the defendant’s statement.
Her testimony of the occurrence at
the Gray home on June 13, when the
shooting took place, was practically
the same as told by Gray himself.
■Mrs. Gray broke down several times
whil • on the witness stand and wept
while the defendant buried bis face
In his handkerchief and wept several
times. Before resting the defense
called John Stockton, Sidney T. Cad
wallader, of Yardley. William Hicks,
of Newtown township: William Kirk
bridge, of Taylorsville. Pa., and
James Keath, of Newton, who testl
fi *d as to the violent temper of the
deceased.
\V«m Inside to MurniK!,
During hlH cross-exa mi nation Gray
said that his first real fear that his
father intended carrying out, his
threats of killing him were when he
began throwing stones. The distance
between the stone pile and where th.i
defendant was watering his horse
w;ih about twonty-flv * feet. He as
serted that he was unable to escape
from his father because he was so
frightened that his limbs shook and
he was weak kneed. After his fath
er struck him In the face with a
stone and ran for hint, Gary said, he
pulled his pistol and fired. As his
father sank to the ground Gary
placed his horse In the barn, hasten
ed to his side and carrie,j hint Into
the house.
Hoth sides rested Just prior to the
noon adjournment, and the remain
der of the di” war consumed In sum
ming up the rsi Justice Heed, In
charging the jury, reviewed the testi
mony fjulie n1 ’Mitrly. and set forth
he conditions which established d*
grees «f murder.
OFFICIALS PASS
THROUGH CITY
A special train carrying the Presi
dent and other ofn< tals of the Nor
folk and Western, passed through
the city this afternoon, The party
*1 making a tour Inspection of the
' N * w. syntem from Norfolk to
Columbus. They stopjiod over In
Hluefleld long enough to change en
gines.
NEEDS
VERY
GREAT
Railways Not Yet Prepared
For Handling Big Busi-i
ness Says Editor Edmonds
of Manufacturers Record.
$1,000,000,000 ARE NEED- |
ED FOR CONSTRUCTION
Railroads Will Not bo Prc
• pared to 1 landlo Traffic
11 is Prediction.
i
Richard II. Kdmonlg, editor of iho
Manufacturers' Record of Unit!more,
while hi New York yesterday, ill an
interview with a reporter of the New
York News Bureau, raid:
"Though general business through |
out. the country has not y«‘t Joined
fully in the remarkable activity pre
vailing in Iron and steel, railroads
are becoming congested with traffic
and many com-piuints of scarcity of |
cnr« are heard in Alabama and West
Virginia and other iron and coul
cen tern.
We are now producing iron ut. 'the
rate of nearly 30.00U.00U tons a
year, or over 3.000,000 tong above
the record output of 11)07. If other
Industries were an active as iron and
steel (and they must inevitably be
come bo), railroads. would be an
much overwhelmed with business ns
they were when the railroad system
of the country practically collapsed
in the summer and fall of 1907.
Moreover, tin* really marvelous ac
tivity in iron and steel in as jet with
out the.benefit of heavy railroad pur
cliaseH of materials. When railroad
buying attains the heavy totals which
their necessities will force in the
near future, the danger to the coun
try will be }l scrambl » for Iron and
steel products, with the possibility
of a runaway market.
Every day Is simply emphasizing
the fact that railroad expansion has
not kept up with tiie growtli of the
country, and that. at. least $5,000.
000.000 to $8,000,000,000 would ho
required to push railroad building
and enlarging of railroad operations
to a point where facilities for han
dling freight would equal the do
mands of the next two or three
yearn, ir $1,000,000,000 n year for
the next 10 yearn could be expended
upon railroad construction the facil
ities at ihat time would not equal
the rert.ilnty of the demand.
Kffortfi are d>oing made In many
directions as to coking coal proper
lien, a« well aa f>re properties, show
ing that the far-seeing men of today ,
are recognizing the tremendous fu- [
tore through the ownership of the
raw materials for Iron and steel mak-j
Ing.
“It la hardy to be expected that
the rate or Iron production which has
prevailed during tho la«t 40 years,
will continue for the next 10. but If:
it did sf» continue It would, as shown j
In a recent paper by Professor Port
or of the University of Cincinnati,
carryplg-lron production in 1 ft20 to
$5,000,000 tons. It Is. however, en
tirely within rea«von to estimate that
Iron production will double by 1020.!
and give us at that time between ,
60.000.000 and 60,000.000 tons, i
which would mean a practical doub
ling of the entire Iron, coke and
steel industries of th" '•ountry. As
other Industrial active-. o the long i
run keep pace with Irop and •♦eel,
this would mean that the ge,. rnl j
traffic of the country In 10 years
will dotjble. unler*: so hamr **ed by
railroad fa< llltie* as to make this Im j
possible. The problem of the dav. j
therefore, Im to make a possibility'
the finding of the $10,000 000 000
needed for railroad expansion dur 1
Ing the next 10 years.”
WEST VIRGINIA
WEATHER.
Washington. Oct. 1 I Rain
tonight or Friday, cold Friday
and In north west.
I
1'-<x President Roosevelt is
Entertained by Missionaries
homier PrGHldont Theodore Roosevelt, with Superintendent Hurl
bint, of t lif* Inland Ml ha ion, listen i:i *5 to the Hinging of native black
children nt the Mis ion, Kijabe. Hritlnli Hunt Africa. To entertain tht
dietIngulshed American, the missionaties oreeted a royal uwnlng, hung
with (IngH of the United States and <]rout llrltlan, laid a board floor .r.nj
• er.’cvl at* elaborate luncheon. In a hpooch, Roosevelt express'd him*
^**li a; immensely pi uised at the o\i out, beauty and fertility of t lie coun
try, declaring that the Kapltl planw should accommodate healthy and
pio peiotiH Het t I'liients of white people. Referring to the l*Jn kI i h]i sett lei h
of the territory, lie said: "I have a peculiarly good feeling for the
acttleis. I bey remind me of the white men in our West, with whom f
Hoiked and with whose aWpirni io,m | m» deeply sympathize.'’
FEAR FOR THE
KING’S SAFETY
Spains King Closely Guar
ded Following Professor
Ferrers • Execution - Up- j
rising Is Threatened.
RADICALS WANT
VENGEANCE
Martial Law In Madrid and
()ther < 'it irs Follows
I loruoimt rat ions.
Madrid, (Kt, It.- King Alton-o
was surrounded by guards following
I'fofe i or Ferrers execution Madrid
nnl other fit!*-* ;ir * practically un
dftr martial law. The radical;: are
plotting to avenge Ferrer’s death.
Spain Ik threatened with a general
uprising.
Paris,
prote- tt.i
Ferrer •
feu red
tola.
Molt*, protest.
Oct, I i >e t «ntrations
against the ution of
finue. t'ln.smg is also
Hni-sejs and other capl
. King lforrifte«|.
Madrid, Orf. I 1 King Alfonso
la horrified at the storm atoned
over Ferrers execution. Th ■ palace
tw heavily guarded.
F rellrh I Cad pa Is Vrou«r<l.
Pari*, Oet || French radicals
are doing their best to gto.i<I Spain
IrPo a r**volution,
Madrid. Oct l» All Spain i*
arou-ed over the execution of Fer*
r»*r Mu* revolutionist. MeetlngH are
being ••••lil secretly all over llu;
country protesting against tho n<.
tloiiH of rIm* KI115
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Organized Labor Celebrates
Home Coming of Head of
Federation Monster Pa
rade Before Meeting.
\\ i diington Oct 1t Organized
labor, representing many |)» r< k of
f li • fountry, Canada and even Cuba,
paid a notable tribute last flight In
tills city to tb<* hotne-cornlng front
Muropf of f innifd (Jomp* i pre d
dcnt of flic American Federation of
Labor who arrived here early thin
j evening from Sr
j brat Ion In honor
! an abaence of
■ probably t be riio
| onxt rat ion ever
j can ibor h ad<
The occasion
mondrr parade,
i big rnn« meet I
The ccb
\ nierl
i
at r by a
Hall.
'Ir Ooinpers referred to I Jo* jail
rent'me i renting niraln-t him on a
charge of contempt of court for re
ferring to the flue It* Stove and
Itange Company after being enjoin*
»■»! again'I mu ll .'Xpremiton ■ by .fiis
tico Wright of tiie Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia. Mr.
Hompers add'd that Justice Wright
ha t decided (he contempt ran >
again* him because he was preju
diced against nun that work.
TAFT
BACKS
KNOX
President Sends Telegram
Accepting Chas. R. Cranes
Resignation As U. S. Min
ister to China.
CRANE WILL
TALK LATER
H<‘ Pomiscs |to Make Public
Statement About the
Whole Matter.
Washington, l). (’. Oct. I t. For
»>«»!• MlnlHtor (o t'hlrtii, Cram', re
relvcd a telegram (Torn President
Tuft this morn I.in accepting IiIh res*
Ignat Ion. ratio will issue statement
la tor.
Washington, Oct. I I. Up to mid
night last night no response li.ut
boon received by Charles It. Crane
fro mi President Taft to the despatch
ho sent the latter yesterday morn
ing tendering his resignation aa llnlt
ed Stutoa minister to China. Mr
Cruno did not appear to think It
«trange that he had no word front
the President, expressing I he belief
that Mr. Taft probably had been
“too much on Hit* go” to give con
sideration to the matter
Asked If la* expected to stay here
tor a lime Mr. Crane said he was un
certain as to his rnovemats. "There
»ro other places besides Washing
ton” said \lr, Crane, "where s fol
low can have a good time.'
A WALK
Tigers Took the Sixth Game
In World Series Today—
Deciding Game to be Play
ed at Detroit Saturday.
I’lHsiiiirK . 3 o o o 0 o o n i '-\
ifwroit . looui 1 0 0 x —
Willis, <'a inn it/.. I* lillipf; Cibgon.
Miillln Sohmldt
50,000 TO PAR
TVKE OF SUPPER
One of the Greatest Events
In History of Disciples
Church Takes Place Next
Sunday.
1 ’if * -Inn;' 0< t. II. One of th«»
KroHiosf. mvphIh of the ('hriHtian ora
will *ak-' plaoo nevt Sunday when
• O.O00 members Of the Disoiples of
Chris) church will assemble and
pariuko of tho J.ord's Supper.
I»>i«iu**'ii*» (Jardcn one of the larg
| o^i imphl-tlKMtres in the world, has
h.-oi, s.epred by the Disciple* for
this mooting
\ number of people from Mine
field and Mere.-r county will be in
attendance of tills great meeting.