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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-10
THE ARGUMENTS BEGIN.
air. Parsons, for the state, aud Me''r'
McIChen and Ewing for Defense.

fNEhOhHt 'hahNt ""N aHN@"
mclghrn and Ewing for Defense.
Arguments were opened shortly be-
fore 3 o'clock in the afternoon By Pros
ecuting Attorney r. ]. Parsons, for the
state He made strong plea for a
verdict of first degree murder, which
he claimed was justified by the testi-
mony OF the witnesses examined.
In the course of his argument, Mr..
Parsons said he would like to see the
old English custom Of having the body
OF the murdered one introduced In
court to confront the murderer There
in the presence OF It's gaping wounds,
how would sympathy be swayed2 Al
this point there was great applause
from the spectators. who crowded the
court room. Judge PAUL arose and
sharnly called the crowd to order, and
added that the sheriff and his deputies
would arrest and imprison all guilty of
repetition. This brought the assem-
blnge to order.
Taking up the broken thread Of his
argument, Prosecutor Parsons claimed
there was undoubtedly evidence that
showed the bog was Of the age OF
knowledge OF right and wrong and In
sisted that there shOuE be a verdict
Of murder In the hrst degree. All the
evidence shows the boy knew full well
what he was about
Mr. Parsons continued and cited a
number OF cases In which the criminals
were even moro tender years than the
defendant In this case Tho law, he
quoted, ought to take It's course even
| in the case OF boy az ten years OF age,
for mercy would have the effect OF en-
couraging crime among the youth.
The prosecutor cited Other cases 70
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An rNTorNpEp REPoRr.

General Manager W. r. Woodford, Of
the Cleveland. Loraln & Wheeling rail-
road, said that he was at loss to UNI
dcrstand where the report about the
formation OF a passenger alliance be-
tween his company and the Erie road
originated. BY allowing preferential
rates the suggested Ceveland-Chicago
and Cleveland Cincinnati line might be
profitable, but under present conditions
the rumorcd deal could do no more than
antagonlse the old lines. When asked
II the proposed line Is not entirely fea-
sIble. MIR. Woodrord stated that 1t IL,
but that existing business conditions
win not justify the establishing Of a
new rate to either Chicago or Concln-
natl.
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Chicago east bound freight shipments
for the week ending November 4
amounted TO 5O.G67 tons against 5S722
the previous week and GS,6Oi last year.
divided nmong the different rouds as
follows: pan Handle, 0709 tons; Mich
ignn Central. aga; Wabash, 4.G6t; Lake
shore, AS9g. Fort Wayne, 1907: Baltl-
more Is ohio, 2.bg0: Grand Trunk. i,7IO;
Nickel plate, A,7i2; Erie, 5,012; Rig Four,
g.O1l. The lake lines carried lil,22G
InVu
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I. NJ. THIRswEND, NJ Grosbcck
Tex. says that when he has spell of
Indigestion, and feels bad and slug.
glah, he takes two OF Dewitrs Little
l9nrly Rlscrs nj night. and he ia nil
Flght the next uloruInE, Many thonpnnda
Of others do the same thing. 10 youg
charles H. Goethe, Market and Twelfth
etrccta, Chatham Sinclair. Forty. aIxth
ard Jacob Rueeia; A, v, arhrcie. No
COZ Main street i1xley llros., Penn nnd
Zane etrcctsi Bowie a Co., bridgeport,
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The Joint Traffic association has au-
thorized the sale OF excursion tickets to
the convention of the Brotherhoods Of
st. Andrews and Philip at Philadelphia,
November II to u, to the National
Hardwaremen's association meeting at
Buffalo November IA and 10, and to the
Methodist congress, to be held In Pitts
burg November q to &c.
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Capt. o. z. Hughes, the popular rail
road man Of Columbia, S. c., says:
eat first paid very little attention to
the little pains, but they became SO
much sharper and more frequent that
before long was almost disabled. The
disease attacked my muscles, which
would swell to many times their natural
size, and give me the most intense pain.
81 was ready to doubt that Rheuma-
tism could be cured, when was advised
to try S. S. S. This remedy seemed to
get right at the cause Of the disease, and
soon cured me completely. believe
that S. S. s. is the only cure for Rheu.
matism, for have had no return OF the
disease for eight years"
The nercurial and potash remedies,
which the doctors always prescribe for
rheumatism, only aggravate the trouble,
and cause a stiffness In the joints and
aching of the bones which add so much to
thedistress ofthe disease, besides serious
iy affecting the digestive organs. SIS.
(Swift's Specifc) is the only euro for
Rheumatism because it is absolutely free
from potash, mercury or other minerals,
II is the only blood remedy guaranteed
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TO "Tur srRENADE."

quite contingent of Musical Wheel
Ing viii go to Pittsburgh this afternoon
In a special car, over the Baltimore &
Ohio road to attend a performance OF
The BOsDunlans, In "The Serenade."
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If the care OF the hair were made
part Of n lady's education we should
not see so many gray heads, and the
use of Halls Hair Remover would be
upnn1aggnry
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Purely Vegetable

and never fails to cure Rheumatism,
Gatarrh, scrofula, Contagious Blood
Poison, Cancer, Eczema, or any other
blood disease, no matter how obstinate.
Books mailed free. Address the Swift
Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
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MRS. HARRIS
School For Young =
Ladies and Children.
1916 AND 1873 MARKET sIRtEI, WHtttNS, W "
Seventh Annual Session VIII Begin
On Monday, September 10. 1897

This school offers n complete and thor
ough education in Practical English
Mathematics. English Classics, Latin
Modern Languages and Execution,
ART STUDIO, conducted by Mrs, ENa
Hubbard, offers superior advantages ior
Pencil. Charcoal. Water Color, Crayop
Drawings and oil Painting.
Boys received in tho Primary and Inter
mediate Departments. For Circulars or IN
terviow. apply 10
MRS. N. STEVENS HART, Principal
WHEELING, ". VA.
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rnR oTnn sERENAnERs."

This evening on the $40 o'clock Bal
tlmore & Ohio train, number OF
Wheeling people will 20 TO Pittsburgh
60 hear the Bostoniaus IN the opera,
1.-THE scrcnadcrs" They viii return
Immediately after the performance,
For tickets aud Information, those de-
string to go can apply to Fred Huse-
man at the Mutual Savings bank, to-
dng
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THAT CONFESSION.

DR.. S. w. Steele was called and ask
cd further concerning what he had said
ohout the confession Of I'D Jones In the
presencc Ot Tim stilwcll and Rev II.
ID. King, q few days after the confess
elon was made. lie merely reiterated
what ne Ind said the lay before
rachel. I'd Jones' sister then tcstiiled
that she was working at Mrs Slmp-
snn'p the day Of the murder, but that
Ehe went home nboul 1910 o'clock and
ieN In about iiftecn minutes She Haid
nd was there then ana that he hhd
watched the dog, which was cross, I'M
iii she rot out Of the yard ON cross
Examination she Bld she was twenty
yenrs oidAngt january, and that there
waa only one CHILD between I'd and
bpr. There nre twelve children In enc
FAMILY, The defense hcre tried 10 prove
bV ]. j JOlnr. the te1cher ~ the col
Drcd school, that When he took the
enumeration last November Eds nee
was given In az thirteen years but the
court ruled II out
DEPUTY Sheriff =. VI Cunningham was
then placed on The stand and shown
mo two knives offered In evidence. llo
said, wrhs one II mine tholdlng out
fhe iarRer " the iwoD The Justice TOLD
mo 10 nlnco II with the other when they
wero presented 10 Tho prisoner for ldcn-
tlncailUn, and this tholdlng up The
smaller One) N the one I'D Jones said
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CHRONIC coughcrs are stupid borcs
and should be forced 10 uac Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup, the only infalllblc rem
Cdy
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-10

The feature OF the trial of James Ed
ward Jones. the colored youth charged
with the murder OF young Stanley Ma
son, yesterday in the Marshall county
circuit court, was the sensational out
break on the part of the spectators
while Prosecuting Attorney Parsons
was in the midst OF his argument for
the state. The court room was crowded
and probably nine-tenths OF the spec
tators We're eager for the conviction Of
the colored boy.
Mr.. Parsons was stating that he
would have the old English custom of
confronting the accused with the body
OF the murdered person, and concluded
with the statement that then sympathy
would turn in the right direction.
Though up To this time good order had
been maintained the majority of the
spectators at this point burst Into a
spontaneous outbreak OF applause, 1t
was entirely unexpected by Judge. law
yers and jury. and for q moment they
didn't seem to realize what a breach OF
court etiquette had occurred. But
Judge PAUL recovered In moment and
arose to his feet and in stern tones
called for silence, and followed with an
order to the sheriff to distribute his
deputies through the court room.
Concluding Judge Paul said:
III there is repetition OF anything
of this kind the Offenders viii be ar
rested and imprisoned"
This had the effect Of restoring order,
but the effect IL had had on the jury
could not be 80 easily oradlcated. The
outburst clearly showed the sentiment
OF the community in which the crime
occurred and OF which the members of
the Jury are residents. Probably 1t had
more ettect on the jury than all the tes-
timony and arguments It had been lis
tenins to during the two days of the
trial.
The trial has developed some feeling
among the more eXcitable elements of
the populace at Moundsville. and
threats have heeu uttered by some dur
ing the two days OF the trial Ia few
have gone so far rs to threaten TO exc
cute the death penalty II the trial
doesn't result in that, but these have
practically no backing. 1t is believed,
however, that the clearing of young
Jones would result in trouble at
Moundsyille.
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no CuUE 4 CObO IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Qulnlno Tablets
All druggists refund the money Il Il calls
TO cure 2jc
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REAL ESTATE.
IFT.

Good S-room dwelling, all convent.
enees and well located, l9 Four.
rooms and laundry % S. Penn ST.
7-room cottage q Virginia street I'm
rooms, second door 90 S. Wabash K@
rooms $50 National ROad,..,.......,. "a
Office rooms In the Exchange Bank
Building,
Money to Loan on City Real Estate.
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Desirable Property for Sale
y AT A BARGAIN y

Double house on Twelfth street. Pav
10 per cent on price asked.
Fine brick residence OF 10 rooms on Fiji.
tenth street. between EOff and Jacob
streets, very cheap on easy terms,
Six room brick, No lg Ohio street. Rents
sees year Price $3.50. Look II up.
MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE
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q. Q. SAIITH.
REAL EsTATE--INsuRANcB
Room 4. exchange Bank RnlldInE.
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FOB RRNT

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No. 1920 alley 8, rooms, SO
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No 1914 Main street. rooms and eel
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Stable 1916 alley B."...,..,,,,.,,.,,,.. IN
No. 337 Main street, I rooms, both
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acres land Peters run and 4'roomed
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Real Estate Agent. Collector. Notary
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-10
THE TEsTIMoNY coNTINuEp.
A Number OF Important witnesses
Were Examined Yesterday.


Were Examined Yesterday.
The trial OF James Edward Jones FOR
the murder OF Stanley Mason was con-
tinued yesterday morning in the circuit
court of Marshall county. A large crowd
was present when court opened and
kept increasing until noon, when the
large room was crowded. There was a
great deal OF excitement
Harry Jones was put on the stand
for further cross-eXamination. Among
other things which were merely corrob-
oratlve Of evidence already offered, ne
said:
"Oflcer Kidder arrested my boy the
DAY after the murder and took him up
the hin to the Mason house. | went to
one side and had talk with Kidder
but didn't tell him my boy did II.
The father is old and very feeble and
being illiterate II was difficult to make
him understand.
MIR Rum was next called for further
cross-examination By the defense, but
nothing new was brought out
Mary j. Jones, the mother OF the de-
fendant, was placed on the stand and
her examination begun the day before,
was finished. She testified that she
was home the day of the murder and
said Ed and his father we're out al!
forenoon and until l o'clock picking
berries She said:
"My husband went to Mr.. Lewi5'
store ct o'clock land my daughter,
Rachel, came Just after her father had
gone, and remained until fifteen min
uteb OF 3 o'clock. I'D went to the berry
match soon otter Rachel had come and
was there about one-halt hour, when
ne went across above the house to q
fence and climbed up on II. j called
him and he came TO the house. He had
picked two and one-hAlf pints of Der.
rles. His father had come back them
She testified that the boy hadn't been
out of her sight long enough during
the afternoon to SO to the Mason place,
on cross examination by Captain Dow
enershe said she had been Mt Eli Rum's
when Mrs Rum was sick, two or three
weeks before the murder, that Mrs.
MINERS was there and that they had a
conversatlon concerning the ages OF the
children; that she had said I'D was
thirteen years old. She also said that
Mrs.. Mayors was at her house the day
after the murder and that Sallie was
washing EDS shirt, the one he had
worn the day before. and she said: II
took it out oi the tub and asked Mrs.
Mason 4 she could see any blood spots
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show that the youth OF the prisoner
should not be allowed 90 have an in
AueRee On the Jury.
He next referred 10 the circumstances
OF the confession made by the boy.
This confession, he said, undoubtedly
fixes the guilt Of Jones. The Incident OF
the finding of the switch was quoted 10
show that the boy was undoubtedly
telling the truth when he confessed II
a confession is supported by facts, like
this, II is the best of evidence,
The speaker then proceeded 70 state
the law regarding confession. He was
interrupted by Nc Ewing OF counsel for
the defense, who claimed Mr.. Parsons
was not stating the law as It Is In this
state. A confession Is not good when
advantage Is promised the person con-
Tossing, but in this case It must be
shown thar the person making the pro-
mise haa the authority to promise,
Even II the confession itself is not
true, facts brought out through the
confession are entitled to due consider
alton. In this case there are facts
brought out through the Jones confess
sion that are before the Jury and en-
Gtled TO consideration,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-01-28
High Tides Affect Wells.

The high water marks of several ex-
traordinarily high tides have been kept
at Easton Point, st. Michael's and
Oxford. What is known as the
centennial tide" of September, 1876,
has held the record of the highest
water mark, and still holds it, al
though last Thursday mornings (Oc-
tober y tide was within an inch of the
centennial mark. The recent flood had
a singular effect on the flow of the ar
tesian wells on Tilghman's island.
These wells average 400 feet in depth,
and many of them have a surface
overflow. which increased fully double
in velocity and more in volume when
the tide was at it's highest. 1t has
been noticed before that any unusual
high tide is %perceptible in the effect Il
has on the flow of the wells.-Balti
more Sun.
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the grandeur, mothers wrinkled cheeks
lost their soft pink, like that of a half
wilted rose, and she began to grow
feeble and worm. though every one was
so busy that it was passed unnoticed.
She was pining for the old home, al
though she felt hat it would seem un-
grateful to say so; and then, somehow,
to pray in the magnificent church,
where she sat in a velvet-cusiOned pew
did not seem to give her the help she
prayed for. for God, as it seemed to
her, was not as close as when she used
to pray at home kneeling by that old
table. If she could only go back and
tell her friend all about it; just once
kneeling where John seemed to come
and join her. This feeling grew and
grew, though, as there was no one to
tell it to. she shut it up in her own
lonely old heart.
One summer morning she was miss
ing, and she could not be found, al
though they all searched everywhere
they could think she would be likely to
wander; but in vain; she was gone.
Then Alfred recollected, all at once,
that he had rather neglected his moth.
er of late. His wife forgot her cult
urcd calmness and joined in the search,
weeping bitterly. Henry left his desk.
for once, and got telegraph wires tc
! work, and confusion and grief reigncd
supreme. while the IONS and daughters
found their thoughts running back
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His Idea of Heaven.

The little boy was going to Sunday
school for the first time. He had learn
ed much and had had his curiosity
awakened upon the subject of another
world and the Deity, to whom he had
been told to look with filial affection.
One idea that had fixed itself in his
young mind was that this Deity re-
sided somewhere in space high above
his head. Not long after these impress
sions had been made, the young man
was taken to walk by his cousin. As
they approached a hill the small boy
was seen to be ~intently looking up
ward. "Oh, Annie" he exclaimed in
an awed tone, 81 think-I know l can
see my Heavenly Father over there
Annie looked in the direction indicated.
There on the hill, high in the air. was
a repairer at work at the top of an
electric wire pole.-New York Times.
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A TactIeas Trait.

Men seem surprised that frequently
women do not receive their COmpli-
mentaTy references to other women
with enthusiasm. Quite regardless of
the physical shortcomings of his COM
panion "A a in public will point out
this and that girl or woman and praise
her special characteristics, when every
word he uttcrs is a negative condem-
nation of the points" of his nearer.
1t must be admitted that it is some
thing of a tHial for q stout wife to have
every willoWy form win the openly eX
pressed admiration If her husband. OF
for a Swarthy-hued maiden to have
cavaliers show their delight in blonde
compilations. Men show very little
tact in this matter, II reason, per
haps, being that they + rarely made
to realize by personal experience how
trying it is to have the good points of
other men perpetually pointed out to
tbem.-NOgup.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-01-28
STEALING ELECTRICITY.
Current Is Taken from Trolley CIR
cults and Used in Houses.

1t is asserted that the stealing of cur
houses and stores is becoming very
common. This is not surprising, i'll
view of the ease with which the tapping
of the circuit can he effected. A SIM
pie test for determining the source of
any suspected electric lighting was put
in practice recently with conclusive re-
suits. A station superintendent, in
passing q saloon, noticed the electric
light go OFT. and then start up bright
again, as the incandescent lights in
trolley cars sometimes do. He thought
that was a queer way for the lights
supplied by the station to behave, and
he decided to investigate. Beirg ia
miliar with the technical differences
between the current SyStin for lighting
and the method of supplying electric
power for the propulsion and illulnina-
ton of cars, he knew that by a ve"y
simple experiment he could find out
something more as to the source of the
supply of the current. A lighting CON-
pany wires a building so that any in
candescent lamp i'll it can be shut off
or taken out without affecting the 9th,
| Els IL a ANYWAY piuht 'hC huhiIc "AS
| fed in such a way that if one is shut
OFF all cease to glow. The supcrintend-
ent passed into a side room of the sa-
loon and quietly unscrewcd one of the
incandesccnt bulbs. AS he expected,
| all the lights ON the same wire went
out. On the following night the cur
rent supplying the electric line on that
| street, was, by agreement, cut OFT ut a
certain time. AT that moment the lid
mination in the saloon ceased. hen
the current was turned on again the
loon was again lighted up. Examina-
ton showed that the wire had been
tapped near the saloon, the connection
with the feed wire being made by
means of a nail. A large number of
similar ''taps" We're found. In some
cases the job had been done by a bog IS
'tstation man." who had called regu-
Largely for payment for the current sup
posed to have been consumed. This,
at all events, was the story told by
some Of those who were found using
the stolen current.-ChicagJ Record.
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CALLS IT STAR DUST.
Remains of Worlds Said to BE Coz
%stantIy Falling OH the Earth.

Remains of Worlds Said to BE Con-
stantly Falling on the Earth.
A curious theory has recently been adj
vanced by the eminent but somewhat
eccentric scientist. Gustave Blattner of
Vienna. He believes in the existence
of il cosmical powder of dust, which
he claims is continually falling from
space, and which is the dust or re-
mains of them which is now raining
down upon our world in the shape of
fine powder. has been a million years
in traversing the space between us
and what was nee the destroyed
worlds orbit.
Blattner says this dust is of the
same composition as meteorites. and
that there Is II sufficient amount of it
falling to increase the size of our globe
ten inches in each 365 days. This me-
teoric dust, or star remains. appears to
be principally composed of nickel, Co
bait. phosphorus and magnesia. In
the arctic regions 1t is frequently dis
covered in such quantities as to color
the snow almost black. One reason
the professor thinks it is "star dust" is
because nickel of that kind is found
native only in mcteorites OF 'air
stones."-Philadclphia Press.