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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-11-11
Rooms to Rent.

Three furnished rooms on Walnut
street. Bath and other conveniences.
Suitable for students.
FRED DERING.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-11-11

THE largest and best line Of grocer
les in town at the City Market.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-11-11

New covert top coats for men and
boys at Hirschman's.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-11-11

In case the new glass factory
comes here there will he at least one
hundred more houses needed right
away. People who have money can't
do better than get ready to land the
plant and make ready for the rush
of people that will Immediately en-
sue.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-11-11
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Some Things that are Being
Done over Town.

Quarry opened for AButment Stone
For New Bridge--Addition to Pick
enpaugh's Store-Sfone Wall Along
Dr. Whites Lot University Paving
Won't be Completed this Fall-Other
Notes.
|, n. Weaver has opened a quarry
on the Creek near where the landing
of the new Morgantown and Green
mont bridge is to be and will get
out the stone that is to be used in
the abutments. Two hundred yards
will be all that is needed. The quar-
ry has not yet begun operations but
it is being stripped and will be
started soon. The stone will be
gotten out as soon as possible
The contract for the placing Of
the stone in the abutments has not
been let by Walker Brothers who
have the contract for building the
bridge and they may do the work
themselves On the other hand they
may let this contract when they get
here which Twill be in few days.
DR.. /. c. White has had stone
wall built along his lot below the old
cemetery on Front street. The wall
now extends the whole length of the
property owned by the Doctor front
ing on Front and Wiley streets. A
brick walk has been laid or the
north side of Wiley from Long AL
ley along the plat of ground used
as a garden
The paving OF the road on the
east side of the Experiment Station
has been postponed until spring be-
cause the brick cannot be obtained
now. The curbing will be set how
ever and the paving will be resumed
later. A boardwalk is being built
along the east side of the road to the
old Fife property which is being
used by the University for the bene
fit of the young lady students.
Workmen are engaged in enlarg
ing the second story of the Picken-
paugh store on Walnut street The
clothing room on the second floor
will be made at least one third lar
ger than it is now. The work is be-
being pushed with all speed in order
to get it under roof while the good
weather lasts.
Building operations are being held
back by lack of lath. Several car
loads were ordered by builders here
as far back as five weeks ago and
they have not yet been received.
kilograms are being sent but moth
ing has been found out why they are
being held back.
In case the new glass factory
comes here there will he at least one
hundred more houses needed right
away People who have money can't
do better than get ready to land the
plant and make ready for the rush
of people that will Immediately en-
aua
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
RELIEF COMMITTEES
ARE WELL ORGANIZED

ALVESTON, Tex, July THE Sit
uatiOn in the Brazos Valley is rapidly
improving. The river is falling There
is an unConfirmed rumor that five lives
were lost near Sartartia in Fort Bend
County. The report sent out Wednes-
day from BrOokshre Walter County,
that two lives were lost there now ap-
pears to be an error. Those who were
supposed to have been drowned persist
in making their temperance
Relief committees are now we'll or
ganized. At Brookshire the relief com
mittee has opened a commissary and
issues a half ration per capita. Precau-
tiOns have been taken so that only the
deserving shall get these rations, and
therefore the committee issues to the
planter for all the tenants he had when
the flood came
d. S. Cagent, a prominent citizen of
Brookshire, has ordered a carload of
cotton seed which he proposes to give
to all who viii plant and undertake to
cultivate the crop. He says, moreover.
that crops of cotton, sorghum, KafIfr
corn, June corn and potatoes can be
raised now if the people had the seed
but they have neither seed nor money.
and he suggests that contributions of
seed would help them. These crops
would enable them to live until the be-
ginning of next year, when they would
be able to draw supplies from the mer-
chants from the prospective crops
There are rations enough at Brookshire
to last for week or more. Along the
Brazos alone it is estimated more than
10. 600 negroes have lost everything. The
loss by drowned horses. mules and cat
tie is something enormous.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
ANNUAL MEETING OF
VALLEY ROAD DIRECTORS
E. P. Ripley to Succeed Claus Spreck-
els as President Ten Days
Hence

Los ANGELES. July Manager W. c.
Nevin Of the Santa F'e has been advised
that the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers in the San Joaquin Valley Railway
will he held a San Francisco on July Il,
al which time +. p. Ripley will be chosen
to succeed Claus Spreckels as president
of the new line. Other changes in keeping
with the Santa Fe's absorption of the
Valley lines will then he made.
j. a. Barr. the new third vice president
of the Santa Fe system whose election
at New York was reported yesterday is
q stranger to Los Angeles railroad people
Mr. Barr is. however. known to local rail-
road men by reputation He will be irt
charge of the operating department of
the system, which has never before had a
distinctive vice president at it's head
Mr. Barr is at present vice president and
general manager of the Norfolk and
Western and has been an operating man
on one of the. North Pacific Coast lines
He is expected in this vicinity some time
in August on tour of inspection when
President Ripley visits the Pacific Coast
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
PENNED ON ISLAND
WITH
VENOMOUS SNAKES
Hunger-Stricken Refu-
gees Are Bitten and
May Die.
o.9t9o-

cash contributions from all parts was
about $4,000.
The attention of the War Department
has been called to a peculiar effect of
the recent flood in the Rio Grande
River. The former channel of the er-
ratio stream passed within a few rods
of Fort RinggOld. Tex, and the pump
ing station was so located as to afford
an adequate water supply for the army
post. During the recent big rampage
the river cut new channel, slicing off
a large section of Mexico. and placing
about mile between the post and its
present channel. The pumping station
was not prepared for such an emerg-
ency as this, and the water supply at
the post is now cut off until some other
means of obtaining it can be devised
The International Water Boundary
Commission Will be called upon to in
vestigate the question of the rightful
boundary between the two countries at
that point
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

married at Woodstock. Vt. on July 7,
1895 Mr. Smith at that time was pub
Usher of the Vermont Courier Two years
later the young couple removed to Graf
ton H.. where Mr.. Smith published the
Backwocdsman. In 1889 he moved to
Rock Island, H., and in l&7 to Mon
mouth, H.. where he published the Mon
mouth Atlas until 1851 In 1875 Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith came to California, spending
the following winter in San Francisco.
In 1915 they came to Southern California
and have lived retired life since
Fourteen years ago to-day Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith celebrated their golden wedding
with a party at the seashore, and they
We're then considered very old; but now,
although the husband is IS and the wife
81 both are sprightly and their minds are
bright, They enjoy outdoor life and are
thoroughly happy. looking ahead to the
celebration of their diamond wedding an
niVerSarV
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
Miss Florence Campbell's MeIodramatic
Plot to Capture RathOm From
His Wife.
Divorce and Not Murder Was the Purpose Of the
Clumsy Scheme-ReneWed Rivalry for
the Husbands Smiles.

Scheib is more than ever convinced that
a dose of mustard is not a love tails
man even by proxy. Mr.. Scheib is splut-
tering in a sea of his own contradic-
tions and Mr.. and Mrs. RathOm are
debating the propriety of kissing and
making up. AS far as public interest is
concerned the last curtain has been.
rung on a domestic drama that has
enough of seriousness in it to make it
comic
The life threads of Mr.. RathOm and
Miss Campbell crossed at Santa Cruz.
Rathom is a newspaper man and at the
time of the meeting Miss Campbell was
an ambitious novice in the field of
newspaper work. She sought encOur-
agement and Rathom gave it. She
asked instruction and Rathom supplied
it, The association reached a climax
that appears to be not unusual. Mrs.
Rathom learned of the affair and tried
in a woman's way to win back her hus-
band.
She went to Miss Campbell and
begged her to be decent Miss Camp
bell pleaded that she had been deceived,
claiming that RathOm had represented
himself to her as an unmarried man.
what she knew to be untrue. She re-
ceived many letters from Mrs. Rathom
during the negotiations for the pur-
chase of a husband. Several of these
letters were sent by messenger and not
through the mails, a fact which is of
great significance in connection with
subsequent events. Up to this time
neither Rathom nor Miss Campbell had
met the Scheibs.
The newspaper man and his mistress
were living at 610 Ellis street for a
while and then mcved. In December
they returned and again sought iodg-
ugs They found a new landlady in
ytarge-Mrs. Elsie Scheib. Mrs. Scheib
had lived at Turk and Hyde streets.
renting three rooms from Mrs. Ella
Parker. In December Mrs. Parker re-
ceived a stroke of what she believed to
be good fortune. A very dear friend of
hers, who has served with distinction
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
HAS NO COMBINATION
WITH GOVERNOR PINGREE
Alger Denies a Story Concerning His
Candidacy for the
Senate.

NEW YORK. July General Alger.
Secretary Of War. who was at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel to-day, emphatically denies
that there is any political combination be-
tween him and Governor Pingree of Mich
igan with reference to his candidacy for
the office of United States Senator When
asked about the recent conference be-
counts of which were published recently,
he said
''There was just enough truth in the re-
ports Of the so-called conference between
Governor Pingree and myself TO start a
lively political story. No combination ex-
lists between Governor Pingree and my
self. | was opposed to the election of
Pineree as Governor and he and [ DO
not agree upon some very important
points.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

and received them. The letter was one
which Miss Campbell had written to
Mrs. Rathom and which was returned
Unopened. Mrs. Rathom had written
upon the letter the name and address
of Miss Campbell The package was an
obIOng wicker basket of unusual make
and filled with perhaps seventy-five
preserved cherries. The basket had
been bought at one place and the cher
ries at another and neither had been
purchased at a candy store. The most
rigid inquiry has failed thus far to re-
veal where the purchases were made.
Miss Campbell opened the basket and
saw it's contents. There was neither
address nor message in the basket. but
this created no curiosity in the mind of
Miss Campbell. She saw the handwrit-
ing on the cover and recognized it as
that of Mrs Rathom. The address was
written on an envelope which had been
cut. 1t will be remembered that Miss
Campbell had several of these address,
ed envelopes. She declared in answer
to an inquiry that she knew the person
who had sent the box. She said it was
a lady friend living in oakland When
she said this she knew that the address
was in the handwriting of Mrs.
RathOm, who did not live in Oakland.
Miss Campbell offered some of the
cherries to Mrs. Scheib and to the
young dressmaker. in the establishment.
Somebody said that it was dangerous
to eat candy so sent and particularly
by an unknown person. Miss Campbell
laughed away a reference to the Botkin
case and ate a cherry, although she
was absolutely sure that her own un-
opened letter had just been returned by
a woman who has every natural right
to hate her and the box of cherries had
been addressed by the same woman
and enemy Miss Campbell appears to
be an intrepid woman.
Mrs. Scheib also ate some of the cher
ries and then Miss Campbell left the
house. She went Immediately to a
drugstore on the corner of Ellis and
Larkin streets, and complained that
she had been poisoned with arsenic.
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tify many of the rioters, and that If he
did not tell all he knew regarding the
occurrences of the 29th he would have
to suffer the consequences.
Simpkins says he expected to be shot,
but refused to perjure himself, and
maintained that he knew nothing of
the riot or of those who participated in
it. After unsuccessfully attempting in
this way to extort testimony from him.
Rurch ordered the soldiers to escort
Simpkins back to his quarters.
Attorneys for the defendant also filed
the affidavits of William Mitchell and
John Chdester, who stated that they
met Paul Corcoran, the defendant. on
the road near his home a short dis
tance from the town of Burke between
the hours of 12 and 1 on the day of
riot. and that it would have been i'm
possible for him to have been at Ward
ner on that day.
Chidester and Mitchell state that
they were employed at the Standard
mine on the day of the riot and shortly
afterward were arrested by United
roo1a
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
TORTURED
BY NEGRO
SOLDIERS
An Innocent Miner Prodded
With Bayonets in the
Bull Pen.
TOLD IN AFFIDAVITS
Story Of Indignities Heaped Upon
Men Who Would Not Consent
to Give False Testimony.
Special dispatch to The Call.

As the trials proceed at VAL
lace of the men accused of CON-
phc,ty IN the dynamutmg of the
Bunker HN and SuNivan mining
properties, more of the methods
employed under so-cdlied martial
law to hold the citizens IN su6jec-
ton are revealed. One miner,
for instance, makes affidavit that
he was prodded With bayonets BY
negro soldiers TO compel HIM to
bear false witness, and upon his
reiterated refusal wcs threatened
" tn death. Freedom, m the
oeur dAIenes, seems to CONSIST
IN the freedom of those m power
TO DO as they like, regardless of
the rights of others.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

4 UTSTIN, Tex, July IT urIhef
~ evidence OF the terrible distress
II and destitution Of the many
1 J thousands Of refugees in the IN
undated region was brought 10
light to-day. 1t is reported by reliable
persons. who have visited the scene or
devastation, that a large number q
negroes have already succumbed |" the
pangs Of hunger In Washington
Austin. Waller. Fort Bend and Bra
ziorfa counties the work of resculng the
water-bound inhabitants was cohtlh-
ued all last night and to-day. Scores,
of men. women and children were say
ed with barely sufficient life lett III
their ho6ies to enable them to hold on
10 the branches If trees to which they
had been cHnging Tor the past three
days
Relief boats were to-day able TO
reach the Sand Knoll, in Austin Coun-
". and word was received from lhefe
this evening that the 500 people who
had been huddled together on the lit
tie Mat of ground for the past four
dave had been rescued. The expert
ence of this colony of refugees was tel
rib1e in the extreme. When the food
came they were driven from their COM
Portable homes and sought TO make
their way 10 higher ground. They
found that the waters had made a wide
detour and that they We're already on
an island. This island decreased IN
area RAPIDLY. and for the past four days
embraced only about three acres. On
This little space. the refugees gathered
with 2 large number of cattle and
horses and to add to the horror OF the
situation. it was made a place of ref
uga hv thousands of Venomous snakes,
with deer and other wild animals. The
snakes writhed in and out among the
terrified and suffering people, ard
number were bitten and are still in a
critical condition.
1t viii take the people Of the inun-
dated region several years to recover
from the effects of the calamity. There
are many instances of wealthy planters
having had all their crops and movable
property destroyed by the flood, leav-
ing them practically penniless and de
pendent upon charity for food and
clothing for themselves and families.
This condition of affairs is particu-
larly true in Fort BEND, Rrazioria and
Austin counties which We're largely de-
voted to sugar cane culture. These ricn
and highly improved plantations have
built UP within the past twenty-five
wears. and on each of them there was
from $4,000 TO $4,000 worth of i'm
provements in the way of sugar mills.
refneries. fine stables and residences.
All these are gone.
Advices were received here to-day that
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

candy through the mails, they have
moral conviction that it was sent by
Miss Campbell to herself and was not
poisoned. There is everything to indi-
cate that the Scheibs were parties to
the plot and We're animated by a de
sire to clear the way for an unimpeded
play of Miss Campbell's S affections upon
Rathom.
The clumsy schemers believed that
Rathom would fall into the net. accuse
his wife of attempted murder and sink
gratefully into the eXpectant arms of
Miss Campbell. When the melodrama
was at its height the male Scheib, igno-
rant of the possibility of publicity or
exposure, informed Rathom that the
crime of poisoning the female Seheib
and Miss Campbell would be condoned
if Mrs. Rathom would leave the State
and sign a document admitting that
she had deserted her husband and was
willing that he should accept the laws
redress in divorce. Meanwhile Mrs.
Scheib and Miss Campbell were rapidly
recovering from a dose of mustard,
which is disagreeable but not danger
Gus when taken internally. Rathom
refused the bait and an unenviable no.
toriety followed for all concerned.
Miss Campbell has lost her lover, Mrs.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
IN THE TEXAS FLOODED DISTRICT.
os F2iver a Short Diste.noe Below Sealey


although no definite information had
been received from the cOnvicts who
We're working on plantations in the
flooded regions, it is believed that they
were removed to higher ground when
the waters began to rise and that there
are n cases of drowning among them
This applies only to the leased ConVicts.
No information was received from the
inundated State penitentiary planta-
ton il Fort Bend County. where sew
eral hundred convicts were employed.
The taking care of 3O,0 600 or more dcs-
titute negroes is going to be a big job
They seem to be absolutely Indifferent
as to their conditions and fate. Many
of them were prosperous planters be-
fore the food came. They had been
ever since the late war accumu!atng
their modest fortunes, and to have all
swept away in a few hours is such a
shock that they are stunned
1t is now the accepted belief that
there will be but little replanting of
cotton. 1t will be too late in the sea-
son before the ground is in condition
to work even should the food subside
rapidly. The refugees will have no op-
porunity of making q crop, and the
planters whose places have suffered
such destruction will have no work to
give them until neXt season. In the
meantime the unfortunates must not
be allowed to starve. 1t will take
large amount of money to tide them
through the next several months.
The general stagnation of railroad
traffic is being gradually removed
Hundreds of workmen are doing quick
work in making repairs to roadbed,
track and bridges, and the former reg
ular service on several of the affected
lines was restored to-day. The first di
rect and through mails from st. Louis
and the North and East reached here
to-day.
Governor Savers received the follow
ing message this evening from Mayor
John Phillips of San Felipe, Austin
County.
We have a thousand sufferers from the
Brazos food. Five hundred are in need
of food and clothing. They are starving
Help US. We have done and are doing all
we can, but our resources have all been
swept away.
The Governor replied by sending $4,000
to Mayor Phillips to be used in buying
food supplies. The shipment of 10000
Government rations reached Richmond
this evening and the work of distribu
ton among the needy was immediate
ly begun. A number of United States
Government boats are plying the wat
ers. rescuing the refugees and taking
food supplies to the starving ones.
Telegrams were received by Governor
Sayers to-day from charitable people
of Texas and distant parts of the cOun-
try. rendering financial aid to the flood
sufferers of the State. Frank Gould of
New York City wired the Governor to
draw on him for $4,000 and to apply the
sum where it was most needed. Presi-
dent Richard A. McCurdy of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company and Col
lis p Huntington of New York each
contributed $4,000. II. p. Hollins & Co.
of New York contributed $1,000. A st
Louis firm contributed 800. The total
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

" HE melodramic mystery in which
John r. Rathom and Miss Flor
ence NJ Campbell figure as prin-
i cipals has practically been solved.
The affair possesses no more in
terest now than attaches to the dis
agreeable recital of an illicit associa-
ton between a man and woman. The
case has developed simply into the ex-
pose of the woman's shame and the
mans dishonor, coupled with the
womans clumsy scheme to retain her
lovers affections and force him to
sacrifice his wife. The police have in
vestigated the matter thoroughly and
have found nothing to warrant even
suspicion that an attempt to commit
murder was made.
There is nothing to indicate that poi
soned candy was sent through the
mails nor is there a single fact to show
that either Miss Campbell or Mrs. Elsie
Scheib was poisoned. That they were
i'll there is no question. but that their
illness was the result of their own efforts
there appears to be ample proof. The
facts in the case indicate that the alb
Surd plot was conceived in the Scheib
household with the purpose of assisting
Miss Florence NJ. Campbell to secure
a monopoly of the volatile affections of
Rathom.
Miss Campbell knew that Rathom
was becoming very weary of her. He
wished to be reconciled to his wife-a
wish that did not meet with the appro-
baton of Miss Campbell. Rathom had
tried time and again to rid himself of
his mistress. He had given her money
to leave the city and go TO her home.
He had promised his wife that his
liaison with the woman would cease.
Miss Campbell knew all of this and
determined to prevent, If possible, the
loss of her lover.
While the police have not established
the identity of the person who sent the
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

She described the drug as green and
bitter. 1t happens to be neither a fact
which Miss Campbell possibly forgot.
Nothing more was heard of her until
midnight. She bore her sufferings until
then, when she sent for her paramour.
When he arrived Miss Campbell was
sorely distressed from some internal
disturbance. Rathom gave her some
mustard. which she drank in liquid
form. She said she had been poisoned
by arsenic hidden in some cherries.
She declared that Rathom's wife had
sent the poison through the mails. The
3dy from Oakland had disappeared.
Hiss Campbell then had a vivifying
pasm of recollection and told
Rathom that Mrs. Scheib had
also partaken of the cherries
and it would be wise to warn her
to take an antidote. The cherries had
then been in process of digestion for
over five hours. Rathom did as he was
directed, and was politely recommend
ed over the telephone to mind his own
business.
The next afternoon Mrs. Scheib re-
ceived the attention of a physician. but
was not i'll enough to require second
visit Rathom had the cherries ana
lyzed. and the chemist said that there
was enough arsenic in each cherry to
kill a person in a very few hours. The