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VOLUME 47. POINT PLEASANT. W VA.. WEDXESDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1909. NO. 19
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SOON TO BE HANGED?GOVERNOR NO!
LKELY TO INTERFERE.
Unless Governor W. E. Glasscock
interferes, Columbus Belcher, white,
will swing from the scaffold of the
penitentiary, Friday, November 19th
for the murder of Kirk Carter, whom
he shot and killed near Willi,
Mingo county, nearly two years ago.
With his checkered career it is not
thought that Belcher will be granted
another stay by the Governor or his
sentence commuted to life im
prisonment. He will be the first
white man to be hanged since Moon
ey and Friday, were swung into eter
nity for the murder of an aged man
near Ehn Grove, several years ago.
While Governor Glasscock does not
believe in capital punishment he has
on several occasions stated to War
den J. E. Matthews, that he would
not interfere if he thought that the
guilty party had been granted a fair
and impartial trial and that there was
not a shadow of a doubt to his guilt.
Confined in a cell in "murderer's
row" in the south hall of the prison,
Belcher, has become very nervous
curing the past two weeks and has
appealed to his child and wife and
friends in Mingo county to secure for
him a stay of execution. While they
are doing everything in their power
for the condemned man little hope is
given for a stay of execution. War
den Matthews has received no word
from Governor Glasscock in regard to
what action, if any he would take.
The latter part of last week Warden
Matthews, stated he would start to
issue the death invitations which will
number about 75. These invitations
are issued to the press and physici
ans and a few outside people. The
chamber in which the condemned
prisoners are hanged is very small and
only'seventy-five persons can stand
in it. There is always a large de
mand for tickets and already over
two hundred persons have asked the
Warden for them.
This week the rope will be tested
and the scaffold given a thorough
overhauling. Belcher, will pribably
swing from the same rope that Frank I
Johnson, alias Walden, and Arthur
Brown, were hanged on. I
Belcher has twice been confined in
the penitentiary at Moundsville. Af
ter being pardoned by Gov. Dawson I
for shooting a man after serving'
about four years. Belcher returned
to his home at Williamson. Within
a short time after being a free man
he shot down Kirk Carter, killing'
him instantly. Belcher pleaded self
defense, but was found guilty of
murder in the first degree and sen
tenced to be hanged. A motion was
made by his attorneys for a new trial
and the authorities fearing that the
slippery Belcher would break jail had
him removed to the penitentiary un
til his second trial was given and he
was again found guilty and sentenced
to be hanged. His child and wife is
making an effort to secure a stay for
her crime stained husband.
Isaac X. \ ates, is also confined in
the south hall of the penitentiary un
der sentence of death. He was found
guilty of committing a criminal as
sault upon his own daughter and sen
tenced to be hanged. He has twice
l>een granted a reprive but will hang
early in December, unless Governor
Glasscock interferes.
Ohio authorities are waking up to
the fact that it is not a gcod thing
for either to educate white and negro
children tocther and legislation will
be sought for their segregation in
children's homes. If it is bad for the
orphans it is bad for other children,
so why not apply the law to th<
schools as well?
Oi?e step won't take you very fai
?you've got to keep on walking; on<
word won't tell folks what you are?
you've got to keep on talking; on<
inch won't make you very tallf
yon've got to keep on growing; oni
little "ad" won't do it all?you'vi
got to keep "em going.'
THANKS DUE TO THESE FOR SUCCESS
j FULTRIP.
j We herewith publish the list of Ji
I censed officers of the boats that com
posed the fleet of boats to whom the
thanks of all concerned are doe for
the careful and skillful handling of
each individual boat. When the stage
of water is considered and to think
that thirteen boats are turned loose
at St. Louis for a run of 1,200 miles, I
and all reach destination but one (and i
that one only a small motor boat),
within four hours of schedule time, |
without a single mishap or an officer
losing his license for misconduct, it I
is nothing short of marvelous. It is
true the moon was with us even
night and the fog shunned us, for
which we owe Providence a debt of
gratitude.
The list follows:
Oleander.
Capt. Thos. B. Good, master and
pilot, with Gus Hiner as partner:
Ike Betts, engineer, and John Haz
lett, mate.
Saint Pai-l.
John Killeen, master: Con McGee,
mate; Lawrence McMeekinandWm.
Rollins, pilot; \Vm. Lepperand Chas.
Bottom, engineers.
Qhncy
Maurice Killeen, master. Harry
Silbemagel and Elmer Ourey, pilots;
Ed Sauer and George Gray, engineers. 1
Erastus Wells.
Thomas Garrison, master; Tobe
Roval, mate; Wm. Haponstall and
Joe McCullough, pilots; Wm. Albert
and Thomas Donahue, engineers.
Alton.
Henry Leyhe, master: George
King, mate; Charlie O'Neal .-Jd
George Clark (Louisville), pilots;!
Fred Butliman and Joe Hill, engi
neers.
Grev Eagle
Wm. Leyhe, master; Alex. Haley,!
mate; Charles Nadaland Ed Kellogg, j
pilots; Frank Miller and John Smith,' I
engineers. '
G. W. Hill.
Milt Harry, master; Phil Kehne, j
mate; Arthur Miller and Harry Davis, j
pilots; Charles Jackson and Bassj
Black, engineers.
Illinois.
Charles Spear, master; Charles
and Harry Nichols, pilots; Wm.
McKinley and Harry Chandler, en
ffineers.
Lily.
Wm. Eagan, master; Frank Mc
Caffrey, mate: Campbell Hunt (pilot
to Cairo). Cal. Blazier and Lute
Mooar pilots to New Orleans; Sam
Critchfield and Fred Fenor, engineers. 1
Mississippi.
John T. Goodrich, master; James i
De Graw, mate; Walter Saunders!
and Fred Volte, pilots; B. Y. Rodner
and J. P. Turnipseed, engineers.
Cape Girari>eal\
Buck" Leyhe. master; W. Mc
Clatchey, mate; George Street and
James Martin, pilots; F. Meyers'
and Chester Walsh, engineers.
Cm- of Saltillo.
Harry Crane, master: Bernad Car
righer, mate; James A. Burnett and |
Sthephen Greenwell, pilots: Ed Lat
ham and Van Peltv, engineers.
Florence ii.
Phil Hacker, master?The Water
ways Journal.
EGGS FIFTY CENTSJUJOZEN BY CHRIST
Eggs, good, fresh country eggs,
will be 50 cents per dozen by Christ- ;
mas, so say some of the merchants '
and fanners who know that there is ?
a scarcity of eggs at present and real
ize that the shortage will be more j
pronounced along about the Yuletide 1
season. Out in the country districts
the farmers are taxing the buvers SO
cents for eggs and about the same
price for butter.
| The hens have been on a strike
I and are not particular about getting
back to work again. The fact that
| Charleston and Kanawha countv is
' dry and the customary "sherry and
egg" is no more, has had no effect
in glutting the market.
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GRUESOME SCENE
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WHEN HYPNOTIST FAILED IN TEST.
Somerville, X. J., Nov. 10.?An
interesting legal question ?s a sequel
j today of the autopsy performed last
? night of the body of Robert Simpson,
1 the hypnotic subject, whom Arthur
Everton, a hypnotist failed to restore
after placing him in a trance.
The autopsy disclosed that Simp
son's death was due to a rupture of
the aorta. To just what measure of
responsibility, if any, Everton will
finally be held by the law is a ques
tion which is puzzling the legal ex
perts. The prosecutor of this district
is credited with the intention of hold
ing Everton on a technical charge of
manslaughter until his case can be
l?ssed upon by the grand jury next
month
The autopsy last night was delayed
until a professional hypnotist had
had an opportunity to make one last
effort to restore animation in Simp-'?
son's body. There was not the slight
est response, and the examination fol
lowing indicated to the physicians;
that death had resulted immediately :
after .the collapse of the subject from
the rigid state in which the hypnotist1
had placed him.
Arthur Everton, the hvpnotist, it
was said bv the authorities here to-1
day, would be held to await the ac- i
tion of the December grand jury and j
in the meantime would be admitted to
bail.
It was said, however, that this pro
cedure was incumbent upon the au- j
thorities in case of any death, and it
was not likely that any responsibility
for Simpson's death would fall upon ?
the hypnotist in view of the result
of the autopsy last night. The cor
oner will not hold an inquest in the
case.
Simpson's body, covered with a
black cloth, lay in the morgue at the
hospital when Davenport arrived. He
came in silently and in the presence
of Dr. W. H. Ong, county physician:
Dr. Charles H. Halstead and Dr.
Francis McConaugh, immediately be
gan his attempt to revive the unfor
tunate man. First he felt of the
body to detect any possible heart
beat; failing in this, he placed his ,
ear on the victim's chest. Then, in
voking the power of suggestion, he
sjxike in the dead man's ear.
"Bob," he said, "Bob, your heart
action?your heart action?your
heart action is beginning. It is be
ginning."'
Slowly and dramatically Davenport,
repeated this in the ear, then chang
ing his tone of voice to an imperious
command, he cried sharply:
"Bob! Bob! Can't you hear me: ;
Your heart is beginning to beat.
Your heart is beginning to beat."
Again and again he repeated this
assurance to the inanimate form,
while the medical men looked grimly
on. Not a muscle of the body stirred
and there was absolutely no sign of
animation
Again Davenport changed his
methods. Leaning over Simpson's
right ear, he spoke confidentially:
"Oh, I say, Bob," he said in a
quiet conversational tone: look,.
your heart is beginning to beat." j
He repeated this soothingly time
after time, but without effect. Simp
son apparently was as dead as the
proverbial door nail. j
While this was going on a brilliant
incandescent lamp shed its blinding
glow in the dead man's face, but the
eyelids did not flutter, and, as the
physicians contended, he was beyond
aid. Disheartened, Davenport turned
to go, but Dr. Long called him back.
"What is your opinion?" heasked.
"I did not come to form an opin
ion," replied Davenport.
"But we insist,'" said the doctor.
1 "Well," replied Davenport, after
|a pause, "he's dead."
Then he went out and the medical
men began preparations for the au
topsy.
That eastern football player who
lost part of his backbone may yet en
joy a career as a congressman.
MASONIC GRAND LODGE
| Wheeling. W. Va., Nov. 12
The Annual session of the West Vir
1 gini? Grand- Lodge, which convened
i in the Scottish Rite Cathedral on
j Friday *fternoon, adjourned last
J nfcht at 11 o'clock, after appointing
*nd electing the officers for the en
sning year. The next Grand Chapt
er?which always immediately pre
ceded the Grand Lodge session?and
the Grand Lodge proper, will meet
next year at Hinton. Officers were!
elected as follows:
Grand Master?Franlc Wells Clark,
New Martinsville.
Deputy Grand Master?Wyndham
Stokes, Welch.
Senior Grand Warden?J. Dunbar i
! Baines, Charleston.
Junior Grand Warden?Judge C. !
; W. Lynch, Clarksburg.
Grand Treasurer?Dr. Samuel N.
Myers, Martinsburg.
Grand Secretary?Hiram R. How- i
ard, Point Pleasant.
APPOINTED OFFICERS.
Grand Lecturer?John M. McCon
nihay, of Charleston.
Grand Chaplain?Rev. J. Howard
Gibbons, Point Pleasant.
Senior Grand Deacon?Thomas P.
Jacobs, New Martinsville.
Junior Grand Deacon?William T.
Ice, Philippi.
Grand Marshal?T. Wilbur Hen
nen, Fairmont.
Grand Persuvialit?Chas. K. Car-!
rigan. Moundsville.
Grand Tyler?W. J. Hamilton,
Wheeling.
AFTER 47 YEARS
FAMODS QNGINNAU "SQUIRREL HUNT
ERS" GET PAY FOR WAR SERVICE. j
Cincinnati, Nov. 10.?Forty-seven
years after they served as volunteer j
soldiers to protect Cincinnati from a
threatened raid by Confederate troops,
the "Squirrel Hunters," ofCincinnati j
have received their pay, namely, $13,
a month's wages for a private soldier.
In 1862 General Kirby Smith's
raiders made a dash through Ken-'
tuckv and it was feared that thev j
planned an attack on Cincinnati. ,
Governor Tod, of Ohio, called for
00,000 volunteers to mobilize at once
in Cincinnati, and men and boys,
with squirrel rifles and family foiling j
pieces, rushed to the city in large,
numbers, to stand off the approach
ot the expected foe. The Confeder-1
ates got within a few miles of Coving- 1
ton, but turned aside, giving Cincin- j
nati a wide berth.
ROYAL ARCH MASONS ELECT OFFICERS. |
Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 10.?
Three hundred Masons attended the
thirty-ninth session of the Grand j
Chapter of Roval Arch Masons of
West Virginia. Reports of the dif- j
fcrent committees were made. At I
the temple degrees were conferred
upon the past ?nd high priests.
Following are the officers elected
for the coming year:
James Luke, New Cumberland,
Grand High Priest.
Wyndham Stokes, Welch, Grand
King.
H. L. Cushua, Martinsburg,Grand i
Scribe.
S. N. Myers, Martinsburg, Grand :
| Treasurer.
D. K. Reed, Clarksburg, Grand
! Secretary.
Joseph Hall, Wheeling, Grand
| Lecturer.
Rev. J. Howard Gibbons, Ashland.
' Kv., Grand Chaplain.
F. E. Nichols, Fairmont, Grand
Captain of the Host.
W. T. Rittenhouse, Parkersburg,
Grand Principal Sojourn.
M. L. Workman, Wayne, Grand
Royal Arch Captain.
J. D. Barnes, Charleston, Grand
Master of the Veil.
B- C. Ray, Ronceverte, Grand
Master of the Second Veil.
W. K. Cowden, Huntington,Grand
Master of First Veil.
M. J. Lukens, Wheeling, Marsha]
W. H. Rose, Wheeling, Tyler.
"SUNDAY FISHING"
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IN THIS STATE THOUSANDS OF TABLES
ARE SUPPLIED WITH USB.
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! Prohibition of "Sunday fishing"
under the new fish and game laws,
| which were enacted by the West Vii
? ginia so Ions in deference to the. dc
I mand from the public for the better
protection of the fish and game of
the State, does not meet with the
approval of every one.
Thomas M. Darrih, a West Vir
ginia disciple of Isaak Walton, with
his hook and pen picks two sections
of the game laws as doing injustice
to manv fishermen. He says:
"As a lifelong fisherman, who has
fished in the waters of other states,
as well as here at home, I wish to
call the attention of our readers to
two provisions of the fish and game;
law?as the same was amended at
the last session of the legislature?
that, in my opinion, are unjust and
ill advised because they work great
hardship open a large majority of
those who take pleasure and recrea
tion in fishing.
"The first of these provisions is
the one which makes it absolutely
unlawful to fish on Sunday. My ob
jection to this provision is that prac
tically it altogether denies the right
of fishing to that numerous class of
our citizens who are compelled to toil
on all the days of the week except
Sunday. These people, who support
and keep alive all our great industries
have only Sunday ns a day of recrea
tion, and they are in the habit of
then seeking rest and quiet along the
banks of our rivers and creeks, where,
they and their families, without an
noying other people, find more in
nocent enjoyment in fishing than is
]>ossible to be had in other way. All
this opportunity of enjoyment is, by
the new law, entirely taken away
from them and they are given noth
ing in place of it.
"The other provision to which I
object is the one prohibiting fishing,
at any time, by any person unless
such person has with him the writ
ten permission of the land owner. I
This provision in its practical work
ings, results in great hardship in1
in many instances. There are many
cases in which the land owner is a
non-resident and is represented by a ?
local agent, who will tell the fisher
man that he has no objections what
ever to his fishing, but will, never- ;
theless, decline to take the respon
sibility of giving a |>ermission in i
writing. Under the old law the fish
erman could fish at his own risk un- j
til the owner objected, and if the |
latter did object all he had to do *as
to say so, and that ended the mat
ter. The result of the new law is to
bring about a dog in the manger j
state of things. The fishing is there,
but nobody can take advantage of it. |
Not because the land owner objects ?
but because an ill-advised law lias.
deprived many people of an innoccnt
enjoyment that worked so little i
harm to the land owner that he nev
er thought it worth while to make
any objections to it.
"The fish industry of the United :
States is one of the largest industries
in the country and should be fostered 1
and encouraged by all.
"In this State thousands of tables
are supplied with fish. And yet the
legislature has placed hardships upon '
all those who catch them. What is!
the use of the state spending money
for keeping up a hatcher}', game
wardens, etc., if one is not permit
ted to fish without being hounded by
deputy game wardens, such has been
done throughout the state the past
season?" |
Grafton sent a delegation of fifty
of its leading citizens to Baltimore to
ask for a new passenger deopt and
they brought back the promise of one
that will cost 8250,000. Grafton is
learning the lesion that it most look
oat for its own interests if it would
be successful.
Big sale starts this week at Uhrig's.
FISST avn. WAR VICTIM'S BODY TO BE
MOVED.
Baltimore, Nov. 10.?With cere
monies befitting his memory, the
body of Charles A. Taylor, of Lowell,
Mass., the 6rst man killed in the
civil war, will be exhumed from its
resting place in the New Methodist
burying ground near this city and
removed to Boston nest week. The
body will be delivered to the gover
nor of Massachusetts, who will fol
low the directions of the Massachu
setts legislature as to its disposal.
Taylor was a member of the Sixth
Massachusetts regiment of infantry,
which was attacked by a mob upon
its arrival in Baltimore, at President
and Pratt streets, April 19, 1861.
He was shot and died in a hospital
the same day. It is proposed to
mtke the removal of the body to
Massachusetts an important event,
with a military display in keeping
therewith.
TWO EXTRA TRAINS ON
THE CARD FOR THE OHIO RIVER DI
VISION ANNOUNCED.
The changes on the Ohio River
Division of the B. & O., are import
ant and additional interest is lent to
them for the reason that on next
Sunday the night train service be
tween Pittsburg and Charleston will
be inaugurated. The railroad is put
ting on two extra trains for this ser
vice, one each way, at the urgent re
quest-of the State Board of Trade,
which has been clamoring for this
service for some time. Whether or
not the experiment will prove a fi
nancial success remains to be seen.
That the train service will be a boon
to those who have business in Char
leston there is lttle doubt.
Train So. 719, which now leaves
Pittsburg at 9:20 will not leave un
til 10:30 a. m., thus leaving Wheel
ing at 12:40 p. m. and arriving at
Parkersburg at 3:S5 p. m., leaving
there at 3 :45 p. ra. and still making
connection at Point Pleasant for
Charleston via the K. & M., the
change making it 25 minutes later.
Train No. 705, the Parkersburg,
Point Pleasant and Kenova accom
modation, will leave Parkersburg at
7 :S0 a. m. instead of (1:55 a. m.
These mentioned are the only
changes in time of the trains on the
O. R. Division. Of course by far the
most important change is the inaug
uration of the night train service to
Charleston. The night train will car
ry a twelve section drawing room and
buffet sleeper which will leave Point
Pleasant at 12:40 a. m., running via
Huntington. The sleeper to bfrcut
off there and transferred to the C. "S:
O. depot, where it will be handled
thence to Charleston on train No.
14 of the C. & O., leaving Hunting
ton at 6:30 a. m. and arriving at
Charleston at 8:40 a. m. Returning
this sleeper will leave Charleston at
6Mp. m. attached to C. & O. train
No. 13 and arrive at Huntington at
7:55 p. m., where the sleeper will
lie at the C. & O. depot and will be
open for occupancy, leaving there
about 1:15 a. m., for the O. R- de
pot, where it will be attached to the
train for Pittsburg, leaving Hunting
ton at 1:45 a. m. arriving at Point
Pleasant at 2:45 a. m.
The only stops by these trains aft
er leaving Charleston will he Hunt
ington, Point Picas and Ravenswood
and Parkersburg.
SPENT NO MONEY.
Albany, Nov. 12.?William J,
Gayuor, mayor elect of New York,
today filed a statement with the sec
retary of state in which he swears
that he did not expend any moneys,
in aid of his election.
A woman went into a newspaper
office and wished to advertise for her
husband who had disappeared. When
told that they charged two dollars an
inch she went out, saying it would
break her up at that rate as her hus
band was over six feet long.