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r i i ^7 q | ^ ,| p Th t 'H DOUBLED ITS CIRCULATION^^ d PATROITAGE 0 Y ' raper in V B^yOfcUME IV. FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1907. NUMBER 74 "J IALK OUT WILL OLLOW STRIKE ORDERS If SENT lions Get a Taminer TVT 1^*- *** ""?a ? ..^CHICAGO, July IB.?To ovary one of the hundred end thlrty-flve local unlone of telegrapher* in the United v 'SUtee General Secretary Ruaaell haa ?aent ou the following:.. "At once appoint picket and finance commltteee and be ready to obey an order on ahort notice. Save your money for an emergency." Union 'leadera accent to-day that It la poealble Preiident Small will tdlegraph atrlke ordera from Ban Francieco to-day and that if he doee a walk nut will follow at once. SOMETHING OF A POZZLE 18 THE SITUATION RELATIVE TO THE MOVEMENTS OF HIGH NAVAL OFFICIALS. WASUtllfttrl'lUN, JUiy ID.?la iud.c serious friction between high officials of the Navy Department? Are great naval.-movements planned without consultation? These are some of the pertinent .questions being asked today.; prompted by the astounding dls-j covery that no order, verbal or writteo. referring to the movement of the fleet of warships to the Pacific has been received by any official of the NaVy Department. Officials decline to pilblicly discuss the situation. POLICE COURT LASTED LONGER THAN USUAL THIS MORNING?MEN UP FOR FIGHTING. Police court lasted about three hours &' this morning. Most of the time was taken up with a trial, the city vs. M. Layman for resisting arrest. Layman and Joe Statlo got into a little trouble last night and the whole thing was aired before the mayor. Statlo threw a bottle that hit Layman. For that offense Statlo was fined three dollars and costs. Layman was fined twenty dollars and costs and he will take an appeal. J. Huston gbt on the warpath again last night and put up ten dolalrs. He put up ten dollars yesterday morning for fighting. He then drew a razor j on a man and the mayor wants (15 more, making (35 in all. YOUNG WIFE AND CHILD DEAD : 8AD HOME COMING OF A NEW YORK BUSINESS MAN THIS MORNING. NEW YORK, July 16.?Ernest Reuter, absent from home yesterday attending business, returned this morning and found his wife and their ten year old daughter dead, in a tightly closed room, the gas pouring from ; ' iwide opened jets. Both had been dead several hours. Renter Is overwhelmed with grief and can give no caniw for the tragedy. ???????? ninnrn Aiinno DfMDcn onuro WILL INAUGURATE SOME CHANGES WHICH WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE NEXT MONDAY. , The barbers of this city held a meeting last night and agreed upon some changes in conducting the shops that will become effective next Monday, July 22. Beginning with Monday night the barbershops of the city will close at 7:30 o'clock and on Saturday nights following at 11:30 o'clock. All the shops In the city - have agreed to these hours. Tall Grata. | Mr. R. W. Prlckett, of WInfleld disS.v trlct, brought a sample of grass si* and'a half feet tall to the West Vlr, f gtolan office to^iay. It was grown on . . . land that has been cleared fully a }!'(, hundred years. It Is not often one Bees as tall stocks of grass as those exhibited by Mr. Prlckett. | 11 Men I New Manager Of Circulation MR. R. E. HARDWAY WILL HAVE CHARGE OF THIS DEPARTMENT OF THE WEST IRGINIAN'S BUSINESS. " ' Mr. R. E. Hardway, of Newark, 0., baa accepted the position of circulation maanger for the West Virginian and has been very Quay geuing acquainted witb bis routes and Installing a complete system In tbe office by wbicb he will be better able to keep ; In touch with each individual subscriber, thus Insuring better service. While Mr. Hardway Is a young man, | still he has had considerable experience in this line of work and he come well recommended to us by tbe East Liverpool (0.) Review and Lancaster (0.) Gazette, for which papers he has worked In a similar capacity. Mr. Hardway will be glad to listen with an attentive ear to any complaints or any short-comings of our delivery system and will exert his best efforts to see that the best service Is rendered each of our subscribers. Owing to a vacancy in this department of onr service for sevorn! weeks, no collections have been made on circulation, but it will not be many days before this matter will be taken up and It Is the earnest request of this office that all the assistance possible be given In the matter of collections. The amount each Individual may owe on subscription is a very little matter j to the subscriber and a matter ot ( small moment to the office, but when the aggregate Is taken In consideration it means very much to the success or failure of a newspaper. I We will ask that all subscribers will respond on their subscription accounts even before our collector comes around. For instance, If each of our subscribers would remit the amount of $1.00 on subscription at once, we would have quite a tidy little sum which would go a good ways towards meeting the heavy demands on the office for labor and supplies. Who will be the first to start the good work along? ENOCH AftOEN OVER IN OHIO ! ? i MRS. KEEFER MARRIED AGAIN, BUT DECIDES TO CLEAVE TO LONG LOST MAN. adimptom n Ttilv Thns ' Keefer, mourned as dead for a quarter of a century, returned to Clarington yesterday to find his wife wedded to Samuel Dixon and living happily, Keefer was a passenger on the steamer Sciota, which collided with the steamer Loomls in the Ohio river July 4,1882. He was never seen by his friends after that disaster, and his family supposed he was dead. In the meantime Mrs. Keefer married Dixon. Saturday Keefer's son. now 27 years of age. received a message from | Woodsfleld, Ohio, that his father was , alive and working In tfie oil fields there. On the following day he talked with his father over the telephone, ( and last night Keefer came to visit ( his wife and son. He was hospitably entertained at the Dixon home and after a discus- , sion between Keefer, Dixon and the ' woman she decided her duty was to J cling to her first husband. Farewells were spoken and she assisted Dixon In jacking his suit case. He left the house and spent the night at the home of a friend. I BOMB EXPLOSION. < Caused Death of Another Prominent 1 Russian To-day. ' ST.' PETERSBURG, July 1G.?Gen- 1 eral Alikhenoff. former Governor Gen- ' eral of Tifllt, was assassinated by an ' explosion of a bomb at Alexandropol f to-day. s t Miss Porter Called Home. < Miss Eunice Porter, of Eikins. who ' had been the guest of Miss Elba Boy- 1 ers for the past two weeks was called jc home unexpectedly this morning be cause or me serious iiiness or " mother, Mrs. J. P. Porter, who was ' taken violently til last evening at her ' home on Third street, Elklns. ( s Wouldn't Serve. The new member of the Board of I Education at Parkersburg selected by t the old members to till a vacancy re- 1 tuses to serve and the situation re- t mains the same as before relative to I the superintendent? of schools. f ilijJt-vOf*;'- ' wr-> n Boat T * = WAYNESBURG WOMAN Fatally Injured, Son and Driver Killed at Claytvllle. WASHINGTON, Pa., July 16. Mrs. Mllo Guthrie, of Waynes- j burg, was fatally Injured, her four I year old son killed, and Roy | Blaney, the driver of her rig also ] killed to-day at the Claysvllle | crossing of the Ohio Valley rail- J road. The woman was enroute to visit ber husband employed in West Wlnley township. A freight ob'structed the view and not hearing the approaching express, they drove on the track directly 1 in front c : vnipn ta uinrnu [ iKitu iu mm A B. & 0. TRAIN TRACK FOREMAN DISCOVERS ATTEMPT?TIME TO SAVE LIMITED. CUMBERLAND, Md? July IB.?Two white men and two negroes, supposed to be tramps, attempted to wreck the Duquesne limited on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad just west of the Sand Patch tunnel last night. They placed ties on the track, but the obstruction was discovered In time by the track foreman, who was shot at and driven away when he attempted to remove the ties. He notified Meyersdale and the obstruction was removed when the trafn stopped on being signaled. HANGING TO A POLE WHEELING, DETECTIVES FIND MAN HANGING ON TELEGRAPH POLE. 'V WHEELING. W. Va? July 16.?Last light detectives discovered the body if a man supposed to be Andrew Ses- j 10, of Forest Hill. Pn., hanging from| i telegraph pole on a side street In p he business section of the city. j, There Is reason to believe it was not' I c i case of suicide. Mayor Arnett returned last evening C 'rom a ten days' trip to Webster. Springs. I SCflUCK DEMUR " JUDGE NESBIH TAKES THE MATTER UNDER ADVISEMENT WHEELING, July 16.?Before Judge * Frank W. Nesbit Monday morning n Messrs. Caldwell. Handlan and Addle- 1 nan, representing Prosecuting Attor- a ley Schuck, appeared and demurred to ' :he allegations and charges contained 0 n the petition of James R. Meek, ask- a ng for the removal of said prosecutor ' ipon the ground of gross lmmorllty, c soliciting and accepting bribes, etc. Mr. J. B. Wilson appeared for the pe- a dtioner. c General Alfred Caldwell opened for he defendant and presented a very ? strong argument. r His main contention was that the t| setition did not state the source from c, vhich the information upon which tne a tharges were based was obtained; It a lid not specify the dates of the occur- n ence of the acts mentioned or the S| vltnesses to the acts. These facts he n intended should be In the possession a >f the court before it could intelligently act upon the charges. Mere 0; itreet rumors and unfounded asser-|ii Ions not borne out or supported by I v * ??? U ? nt. ffi _ I ireoioie witnesses wuuiu aui no sum- ^ :lent basis upon which to Investigate li he Integrity anil conduct of an offl- n dal. si The allegations should be of sufll- n dent weight to Justify the court In v aklng up the time of the court In tl iringlng the accused to trial and gensral allegations did not constitute this p rafllclent cause. ti Mr. Caldwell then took up the sped- It in.iMnna In detail starting with nuta- F >er three, which declared the accused p laa purchased Intoxicating drinks at o: he house of one Sue Ingram, knowing a hat she had no license to sell the Jf lame. This allegation did not specify p .... .. ' L urrn in BEAD WILL REACH TEN AND MAY BE SEVERAL HIGHER Powder Probably Fired by Spark BOSTON, Mass., July 16. ? More lames are yet to be added to the list j if dead from yesterday's powder blase' n the aft upper turret of the battlehip Georgia. Midshipman James T. Iruse and Seaman James J. Welsh are lying and It Is yet a question with leveral others who will have hard Ights for life. Surgeons fear not ail if them will win. The Injured having' men discharged from the Georgia, the hip returned to target practice [rounds off Nantucket Bay. The big lattleship is practically uninjured. An ifflcla! board of inquiry will be hamlered by the fact that all those nearst the bag of powder when It too* Ire are dead. The most general eelef Is that the powder was fired by a park, but whether it came from a unnel outside or from a partially con-| umed piece of gun wadding inside the urret may never be definitely decided, j 'here were 22 men in the turret when' he accident happened. l ne aeaa? VILLIAM J. THATCHER, chief turret captain, Wilmington, Del. 'AULKNER, GOLDTHWAITB, midshipman. Kentucky, seaman, South Framingham, Mass, V. J. BURKE, ordinary seaman, Quincy, Mass. [. G. HAMILTON, ordinary seaman, South Framingham, Mass. V. M. THOMAS, ordinary seaman, Newport. R. [. (EORGE R. MILLER, ordinary seaman, Brooklyn, N. Y. ,IEUT. CASPER OODRICH, New York. VILLIAM SPAIR, ordinary seaman, Brooklyn, N. Y. Injured? IIDSHIPMAN JOHN T. CRUSE, Nebraska. 'RANK SCHLAPP, North Adams,! lass., boatswain's mate, second class. 'HARLES HASSELL. New York, gun-j ner's mate, first class. iRLEY TAGLAND, Richford,, Minn.,' chief yoeman. (Continued on Pane Five.) IS TO CHARGES .1 ny day or date and was of a general j ature, declaring that upon various Imes ranging over two years, the acused had visited said house and comittted these various acts. To prove his allegation Mr. Caldwell contended 'ould mean the summoning of a large umber of witnesses that would crowd he court and cause embarrassment nd a great deal of cost, as during he period mentioned Sue Ingram had ccupled different houses and had had number of different people stopping rith her who are now outside of tne Ity and the State. Specifications 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13 nd 15, were objected to upon practlally the same grounds that the spedcation did not give the dates and lentlon witnesses. Specification Mo. was that Schuck had, while secretly epresentlng the parties conducting he turf exchange had advised the ounty commissioners (n his capacity s prosecuting attorney to grant them license and had solicited certain lembers to so vote. The attorney :atej that the petition should give the < ames of the county commissioners 10 pproached. Specifications Nos. 8 and 19, which harged the prosecutor with having istructed the grand jury not to Inestlgate or bring In Indictments gainst saloonkeepers for Sunday sellig should In view of the fact that lere were six grand juries during the pecifled time, In the opinion of Mr. esses, therefore requiring the court hen this act occurred and also give m nnmes of the lurors. Specification No. 12 charged the rosecuting attorney with having ensred Into an agreement with the sa>onkeepers through the Knights of Idellty to use his best endeavors to revent their prosecution for violations t the law, through a money considertlon. This specification was also obided' to upon the ground that the etlttoner did not give dates nor wU-( ' 7 Mosi : HARRY THAW I I Said to Bo Suffering From Congeitlon of the Liver. | NEW YORK, July 1G?Friends | j and relatives of Harry K. Thaw ] | are becoming alarmed over the | I condition of his health, which is ! ' - K. i | amu iu w ucwiuvui; vu mm. j | wane. Although his wife calls j j at the Tombs every day with I | many delicacies for blm. he has | | scarcely eaten anything for three j weeks. Dr. Magulre. the prison | physician, has been prescribing | for Thaw, but his remedies seem ] | to have had little effect j It was thought that open air ex- | j ercise in the prison ground would j | benefit Thaw, but his confine- | | ment has been such that a gen- I | eral breakdown may come at any- | | time. His illness Is described as j j congestion of the liver. j HAS A CHANCE | FOR RECOVERY! was whether the Information showed that the defendant was guilty of lm- 'f moral conduct and not whether the " Information In the allegation was or ' was not sufficient to bring the ac- c cused to trial. Judge Nesbitt, after hearing the arguments took the matter under advise- ol ment and It Is Intimated that he may d hand down an opinion about Wednes- cl day. While no positive or direct IntI- tl matlon was given by the court as to tl the ultimate decision the opinion pre- si vails that the court will require that p amendments be made to a number of II the specifications and more details be T presented to the court In support of II the allegations. ei ' "V-. S**- irfr'i - ? ITALIAN 8TA8BED BY VINCENZO CAVALLO IS RESTING EASIER TO-DAY. ( t Several Italians were before Justice I Amos to-day and a warrant was sworn |r out for the arrest of Benedecto Lorn,-, t who is alleged to have assisted Vin- I venzo Cavallo. who stabbed Nicola t Belslto, in getting away. Cavallo "was e taken into custody after the affary by \ some Italians, but succeded in making t his escape. When last seen he was r making his way over the hill toward ( Klngmont. The Italians say that he \ was pretty well disguised, having t changed his clothes and further ef- g fectlng a disguise by wearing a false I mustache. The officers will go after g Lorria this evening. Belslto Is get- r ting along very well and has chances v for recovery. t t BAD WRECK ON ERIE. I t Two Fatally Injured and Eight Seri- t ously Hurt. r "KENTON, Ohio, July 16?Baggage 4 Master McDowell and E. S. Bose, of 4 Kenton, were fatally hurt and eight 11 others badly injured as the result of a wreck on the Erie railroad last night caused by broken rail. Three coaches e rrtl I a 1 n an omS-inlrm^nt ; AGAINST HIM! 1 nesses.t herefore requiring the court t. to mike a general, summoning of all q members of the Knights of Fidelity v in order to ascertain the truth of the r charges. t Specification No. 14, the most ser- r ious of the entire lot, which accused t the defendant of attempting to ravish r a young woman at the Bijou theater u was also touched upon and the peti- q tioner asked to name date and witness. n Mr. J. B. Wilson, representing the e petitioner, in his answer withdrew < specification No. 14, saying that when the petition was filed the witness was In the city, but since has left. The b petitioner, therefore, with permission ^ of the court would withdraw this q charge, in respect to the demand of the defense for the names of witnesses t and source of information, Mr. Wilson stated that It was not necessary to ? give the source of infor m atinoledn ^ give the source of information In detail and cited in support of his contention the decision of the supreme court in the case of Moore vs. Stricken. p Mr. J. B. Handlan closed for the !< defendant and answered particularly Ih the argument advanced by Mr. Wilson a In the Moore-Strlcklen case suggesting'c thnt the nnlv nolnt raised In that casela ion came Ne w York Papers Misquote Elkins WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR SAVte' HE DID NOT SAY WHAT THEY CLAIM HE 8AIO IN AN INTERVIEW. (Special Correspondence to the Weit Virginian.) WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 16. ? | Senator Elkins has been In town for i i few days. The New York papers ' published Monday what purported to re an Interview with him In which he vas made to appear as a boosters of Secretary Cortelyou for the Presiden:y. When asked by this correspond>nt what he had to say about the in:ervlew, he replied: "I want you to deny it for me. I lever gave out any such interview. I vas asked by a reporter what I :hought of Mr. Cortelyou's chances 'or the nomination, and I simply said hat it looked to me from what I heard n New York that he had a pretty goon lhance to get the New York deiegaion. That 1b all there was to it. He nade the rest out of the whole cloth." Senator Elkins still thinks that President Roosevelt .is the choice of he majority of the people of West Virginia for the place. To Build a New Railroad. It is reported here that Senator Eltins and his associates are arranging o extend the Old Dominion and Great rails railroad west, probably into the lorthern end of West Virginia. It was leen rumored for a long time that it ias been the intention of extending I he road westward, and has been stat- I d that this was the line through vhich the GouldB hoped to get an enranee Into Washington. Be that as tt nay, It is pretty well settled that the ). D. & G. F. road will be extended f vestward, probably to connect witu he El kins-Davis lines In West Vlr;ln!a. It Is now an "electric line, but iss been built with such excellent trades, and laid with such heavy type a ails that It could be very easily con- r erted Into a steam railroad. The fact t hat there has been a renewal of HC- , lvlty along the line of the proposed ( Jiimsvllle & Eastern and other pro- , osed Gould connecting links Indicates r hat there might be some color In the r eport that the extension of the 0. D. I ? i G. F. has to do with the proposed|? Vashington extension of the Gould ? Ines. Against Tariff Revision. It is pretty well understood that the ntire West Virginia delegation In c Congress will oppose the pfopositlon a o revise the tariff next year. They ' II feel that the country Is getting on o well financially, and that the peoile are so generally and uniformly ' irosperous that there Is nothing In " he present situation to warrant any 1 amperlng with the tariff at this time. a 'hey say that "let well enough alone" ras never better advice than It Is as I egards the tariff. It Is admitted that a here are some schedules which need t evlsion, but It Is pointed out that once i he bars for revision are let down a, t eal Pandora's box would be opened ip, and no end or troume and consequent unsettled business conditions light ensue. Every member of the del- f gation might be characterized as a c stand patter." No Handle for Him. Representative Hubbard Joes not ' elieve in a man wearing a title that c oes not rightly belong to him. On v ne of his recent visits a newspaper mn, following a long established cusam here of calling a representative b ,-ho has been a distinguished lawyer, \ Judge So and So." addressed Mr. t iubbard as Judge Hubbard, and ask- h d him how he thought he would like y ongressional life. t: "I will like it fine, r think; if you s eople down here In Washington will >ave these handles off my name," g e replied in a good humored way. "I j m neither a Judge, nor a general, a e aptaln or a major. I have been Just g plain prlvte citizen.' e But despite the protest his congress- q ml asidiclates will probably call him o Judge" or "Colonel." He promises to g e one of the most popular men In n ongress. 9; Big Sandy River Improvements. t< The report of the engineer in charge * [ the work of Improving the Big San- a y river and its tributaries, to the A hlef of engineers of the Army, shows * ist It will coat $3,840,000 to complete C le Federal work of Improving these It reams. There has already been ap- 7 ropriated $1,413,70| for the work, G 207,532 of which Is yet unexpended, a: he amount expended during the past 11 seal year was $52,020. The engineer ei itlmates that $155,000 can be spenf ft ONE MAIL CAR EACH WAY ON TROLLEY UNE Eight Offices WiU Be Served By the street csr mill serrloe that *111 be lnaumirsted on next Monday between Fairmont and Clarksburg, , , iight offices will be served, namely: IVatson, Monongah, Worthtngton, Shinnston, Enterprise, Gypsy, Meadiwbrook and Clarksbnrg. Tie oaf wUl irrlve here from Clarksburg at one j'clock and will leave this place (Or Clarksburg at three o'clock each aft-rnoon. Only one round trip will be nade each day. Thia service la known is the lock pouch service. From eaoh '. S ifflce on the Hne a lock pouch jut on (or the local office making In ill eight pouches and the same numier of pouches will be made up at the 3 ocal office (or the offices up the risen' rhls gives the points up the rivey ^';!^sj letter service than they had bef#iri?he noon trains were taken off the .' 3 H. R. division. The car gets' here In' tg Ime to send mall through to Piths >urg and the man irom ruisDurg ana .: ** >ther points will be In to go up on be three o'clock car. Tbls la only the beginning of street . ' allway mall service in the .command Ma ty. It will not be long until there fill be a regular mall car on the line'. ' :''M vlth a regular salaried clerk. FAIRMONT AND SCOTTDALE 1A8E BALL TEAMS WILL TAKE IN < THE SHOW AT HE GRAND 3 TO-NIGHT. Through the courtesy of the mangement of the local theater, the nont base ball team and the Scottdate; he vlBittng team, will witness thin .'. 3 'auJevllle performance at the Grand' Jpera House to-night That the teams- la rill enjoy the performance there":tt$S$jM 10 doubt, as the bill that Is being ofered the first three nights of "t^T; reek Is the best that Jias been put*. ;? m since the Grand opened Its vandellle show. The Free Sisters, who do' a 'cleve* .-J ....In. ... mnJa an nr. -"S iU?iu? auu uaubiug awi mauv.??. ellent Impression last night They ,re young and pretty and do their i>< rork with a Vim that catches the: aa-^'.y,^ Heace. : ' ; ^$$0 Prank Hamilton, the acrobat" anitVj' iarrel Jumper, does what seems some ? larvelous tricks, and his work Is highy appreciated. Hamilton Is a wonder nd makes good with a vengeance;' \ ;'i Sol Berns, the Hebrew comedian, ate with "A Trip toEgypt" company, || dso puts up a very strong act and. t.-jfe he show for to-night and to-morrow v'fe light could not be Improved for the- ' noney. t A Full Fledged Colonel. Colonel Lamar C. Powell Is ledged colonel now. He "received lila. ommlsslon, singed by Governor )awson. yesterday. istween now and next July on .'this mtlnulng of this work. _ Vest Virginians Employed In- Wash-'": Inntan. According to the last edition, of the . -I ig Blue Book in 190S there were/W^cl Vest Virginians holding Federal ions in the departments, and. dja^(iV/ 3g salaries aggregating $3S8>6riT ^a ear. This does not Include those at -.7'ls be Capitol, nor those at the Congres- ^ The Treasury Department employs.^ 2 West Virginians, and pays th^y-ijyj 89,897 a year. The War Department W||S mploys 31, and pays them a total of 35.220. The Department of Justice mploys four and pays them "he Postofllce Department empl^ -Xjgj 9 West Virginians and pays them ^ 30,800 a year. The Navy Depar^-r^ lent employs nine, paying them,-j&Mi 20 a year. The Department of the In- -5 irior employs 56 West VirglnIansJ<3S 'hose aggregate annual salaries mount to $68,940. The Departmentof grlcultute employs 16, who receive frag