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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21

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Mrs. John p. Candy and little son
Preston, are visiting her parents IN
Lewiston, Pa.
Architect Ernest G. Holmboe re
turned Tuesday evening from Chilli
cothe, Ohio, where he was engaged
several days on professional business.
Squire Joseph ParllPs aged mother
Is reported critically Ill at her home
in smithtou.
Misses Mabel and Nellie Fletcher
daughters Of Mr.. A. ]. Fletcher, Of the
Bee Hive Store, are visiting in Fair
mont.
w II. Hickman, building contractor
han 4 main In one Of his feet Monday,
and is confined tohlshome.
Mrs A. w. Rapp willspend the sum
mer at Gipsy, where Mr.. Rapp holds
lucrative and responsible position
with the Fairmont Coal Company.
After July all clergymen east Of
the mississippi river and west of Pitts
burg and Buffalo must pay Is cents to
bny railroad tickets at half fare.
Miss Mabel Long celebrated her
ninth birthday at the home Of her pa
rents Monday evening. Forty guests
were present. Refreshments were
| earved tfay
The telegraph ofice at the Junction
has been moved to the Y.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21
Plans for Handsome Buildings.

The following parties have con
tracted for plans with HolmbOe s
Latierty, architects, this city,
Harrison county hospital, SIS, 600;
Hon, John ] Davis, alterations and
addition to residence, 5000; Lloyd
Steel, residence, $1,000; A. g.. For
dyce, office and store building, o., 600;
g. Sprlgg Sands, summer residence at
Mt. Lake Park, $500; DR., n. H.
Debeudalfef and Leroy Taylor, at
Manningtou, Offices fats and stores,
$4,000; and public school building,
sl5, 900; total, $4,000. @
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21
h h 81 / | I Day Exercises.

Childsen's Day program en-
ti5Ied 'The Gateway Of the Century"
ws rsnderedby the Sunday school Of
Trinity NJ. 3. church, Bridgeport
charge. on list Sunday, June l6.
4 lrbe services consisted OF an organ
voluntary BY MIssEttie Lang, followed
bvsougs, responsive Scripture reading
recitations, etc. These were particle
ipated ia by membesof the respective
miles Of the community, most every
q lending helping hand, The
s,oys and girls performed their part
well. il fact there was loyal interest
manifested generally. n Notwithstanding
Inc heavyrlins in the morning, the
audIe zee was fair, and the flowers, the
songs, the bright faces of t le boys and
girls, the sociability Of the hour, and
ali, made the occasion a very enjoyable
one, we think, to all who were pres.
emit.
An Offering was made for the Chill
drenis Educational Fund, after which
a song and some social greetings closed
the service. Mr.. Albert Parks is SUI
perlntendent Of the school. a4ss
AN OBSERVER.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21
More Coal sold Near Salem.


] Q. Van SwearinRer, of Union
town, Pa, who has quite coal field
South of Salem, had recorded this
week several deeds for additional ter
ritory. Those by whom the deeds
were given, and the number of acres
of coal and prices paid were, Asa G.
Kelley, 1852 acres for sll7.l4; L. j.
Ayers, Is7.8s7 acres for s1,S76.s7; 4.
NJ. Bailey, no, 42l acres for s1,1o4.2l;
Samuel S. Gross, 1OO.733. acres for
81, OO7.S3; James R. Armour, 1886
acres for s3ss SO; and ]. @. Cox, TO-
1879 acres, for sl52.9s. This makes
over 1000 acres Mr., swearinger has in
that section.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21

w. B. McGregor, Of this city, re-
Gently appointed a director Of Spencer
hospital for the insane by the Gov
ernor, has b en- made chairman of the
finance committee Of the hospital
board and also a member of the execu
tive committee. The board held a
meeting last week and VIII hold an
other July 80.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21

Miss Eleanor Blackford, who has
been visiting her grandparents, Col.
and Mrs. Henry Raymond, has return
ID TO her home in ParkersbuTg.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21

Short Line trains will run to and
from the B s. o bridge at the West
End on and after this date, the track
having been laid through Adamston,
Excavation for Judge Gotf's hotel
began Tuesday. Contractor Voltz has
the excavating contract
Mrs. sudie Smith, Of BuckIiannon,
attended the funeral Of Captain Sam
uel R. Steele here last Friday.
Mrs. E. w. Wells has been visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John L.
Smith, at Buckhannon.
Mrs. NJ. Nusbaum and children,
left Sunday night for Atlantic City,
New York and other eastern cities 70
spend the summer
For the best lots on the market fol-
the money see Gem Milling Co. s2-St
Have your bicycle cleaned and re
paired before the season opens. Men
Will do it and make charges right. 24-t
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21

Tony stars and Pearl Westfall.
samuel Grapes and Mary Q. Ogden.
Marshall v. ogden AID Leila
Hawker.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21

Nj. MoGregOrian important Director.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21
Marriage Licenses.

Hugh swiger and Eta Pickens.
Claude Ray Morgan and Della Hay
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
RECENT ELECTION RESULTS.

The recent municipal elections are
noticeable. Carter Harrison, demo-
crat. is elected mayor of Chicago by
2S, 257 majority. He has been mayor
since 1897. His father was assassinatei
while serving his fifth term as mayor
of that great city. He is finely educat-
ed and is a lawyer. He married a New
Orleans lady, Miss Edith Ogden. He
has much ability. Bryan's home city,
jority of 1902. Teddy. the immortal,
was showed under at his home, Oyster
Bay, Long Island. Not a republican on
the local ticket weathered the demo
cratic storm. and for the first time in
it's history Vice President R~oosevelts
own election district, No. 5, went dem
~ocratic, giving AS majority. In st.
Louis the silver men were defeated. At
Cleveland, Ohio. the republicans met
with an unexpected defeat. Tom john
son was elected by 6,033 in a vote of Co.
900. He was the only democrat elect
ed. 1t should be mentioned that Mr..
Harrison received 1922 more votes than
HIS tHTee OppOilcllS lCSClNSu pos ~
gether. The election o. both Mr.. Har-
rison and Mr.. Johnson may lead to
other ~places-prove stepping stones to
higher things; Mr.. Harrison may
come to the front for the senate or per-
haps the presidency in 1904. Mr.. John
son too may seek for a more command
ing place.. The Baltimore Sun suggests
that he having accumulated a great
fortune may have entered the
m~ayoralty contest in Cleveland with
the intention of aspiring to higher
honors if he carried off the ,mayoralty
prize. Next fall Ohio will elect a gov-
ernor. n it is possible h a Mr.. john
son is now in training for the demo-
ratio nomination. or, if he desires to
figure in national politics, he may De
a candidate for the United States sem
ate. to succeed Mr.. Foraker"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

Aguinaldo. He denies that ne ever was
an ally OF the United States. At
any rate he was used as such. for he
admits, as we find 1t given in the New
York Evening Post. that I'VE were
hampered by having no land force . .
We were very glad to have the Fill
pinos do what they could" yet he in
sists that"that did not give them the
relations of allies" and-that he believ-
ed they had no idea of independence.
but simply hated the Spaniards." and
In the name OF common sense. deliver
ers from what? From h cruelties of
Spain to the worse cruelties Of the
United States? Men az not risk their
lives for an exchange Of masters only
nor is there lack Of definite evidence
as exhibited in welsh's "Other Mans
Country"-that the Filipinos who es-
poused the cause of the invader ex-
pected absolute independence as a re-
suit Of the success of the American
arms"
What needless qualification il Dewey.
There is a moral side as well as a ma
terial side in this question of the Phil
ippines. 1t is impossible to avoid the
ethical feature without confession OF
guilt and wrong-doing. A Wisconsin
writer in an article in the Evening
Post, asks pertinently and forcefully:
Isn't that the point of view Of the
majority of the press on borh sides that
it is simply a question Of constitutional
law, or of profit or loss in the financial
world, or of power to have or to hold,
or of German. or French. or English, or
even American historical precedent?
But is any one of these points of view
tenable for one moment? I say no, no,
a hundred times no! There is no Phil
ippine question apart from the ethical
point of view: hat is the question.
It is a question of eternal right and
eternal wrong"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
THE FRAUDS AND PECULATIONSIN
THE PHILIPPINES.

Mckinley is one of the un~fortunateS.
He had much trouble with some of his
appointees in Cuba, who stole and
wasted and splurged on a great scale.
And now from Manila comes the shock
ing news to Mckinley and Co., that
many of his hands in that remote land
10, 900 miles a~way-have peen engaged
in wholesale rascalities-in plundering
government stores and committing
army frauds. Scores of officials are
involved in the pillaying, and some are
of high rank. An officer just returned
from the Philippines tells of tons of
supplies as being tumbled into the
sea. but the amount is not definitely
known. The government has to pay
for it whatever the weight, and it IS
an easy job to raise 1000 pounds to 49,
900 pounds. as easy as it is ia raise 800
pounds on a box of meat TO $50 pounds.
That somebody is getting rich is clear
it is reported.
The frauds are in the quartermas-
ter's department. Captain Burrows, Of
Thirteenth Volunteer Infantry and per-
- AANSSA ~ 49, CA
ed and under arrest. The r~ascalities
began in June 1900. 1t is stated that
thousands of sacks of flour, together
with quantities of bacon and other
stores bearing the government marks,
have been found in the possession OF
unauthorized persons; that a govern
ment contractor has been spending
large sums of money in entertainments
to army officers that a prominent Of
hcer of the commissary department is
accused of leading a scandalously i'm
moral life and so forth.
This is very ugly. very d~isgraceful.
and must be humiliating to the presi-
dent and high army officials.
General Otis believed a year or so
since that there was rascality and
frauds and he spoke of them. He
said:
THE evil, c~orrupting and f~ar-reach-
ing in effects. appears to have reached
2 stage which renders its suppression
with a strong and imperative"
The New York Evening Post says OF
what Gen. Otis revealed of wrong do
ing:
Concerning the exaetion of presents
to superior officers from those under
them. he called attention to a law OF
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
CM Wessenger.
AN AMERICANS TRIBUTE TO GEN.
DeWET.

Richard Harding Davis. the wen
known northern traveller and author
went to South Africa bitterly against
Kruger and the Beers. But after be-
ing there for some time he had good
reasons for changing entirely all ne nao
believed and written concerning tnein-
He found them very different from
british representations. the Cruelty
attributed to the Beers he DUN 10 De
SPURIOUS and manufactured by their
enemies He saw hat they were
.ehrave true soldiers fighting bravely
i'm a war where the odds have been
terribly against them and never de-
ndi to the level of that brutality,
accounts of which have recently been
set afioat. These reports seem very
foolish things to any one who has held
the hard. strong hand of Christian De
Wet. to any one who, as enemy or
friend has looked in the mans calm
eyes and has read the temper OF the
soul behind them" General Christian
De Wet is not only brave and an ad-
mirable commander. but he is humane
and full of fun. Mr.. Davis tells of one
of his Jokes. Three British soldiers
We. captured and brought before him.
They were scouts. He eyed them with
severity and hope died within them:
MY men, said General De Wet at
last. will you take a message from me
to your general
They accepted. in rejoiced surprise,
and were entrusted with a large sealed
package. When they reached General
Rundle's camp they. announced that
they were the bearers of papers from
General De Wet negotiating for peace.
General Rumble was delighted. He
tore open the envelope. He read the
letter. 1t said:
Dear General Rumble:
This is the fourth time l have cap
tured these raging devils of yours.
Please chain them up. They annoy
me. DE WET"
How like a hero of be%nevolence is
hat. Well may Mr.. Davis by way of
comment add that men like this don't
run away: they fight. When they r
render. they surrender like gentlemen.
When they die they die bravely."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Bursting of the Shell on h Kentucky

Bursting OF the Shell on the Kentucky
Washington, April 4.-The la de-
partment has received an official report
on the bursting Of 6 shell from one OF
the Kentucky's guns. The report says
the explosion occurred at the instant
the shell left the gun. 80 hat the full
force of the conclusion was not con-
veyed to the gun. 1t was sufficient,
however. to do some damage to tn"
forward part of the weapon and for two
inches round the inner muzzle the
rifing Is entirely fiattened out. This
does not. however. cripple the gun in
any way. and there will be no necessi-
ty for repairing 1t. 1t was one of the
big 13-inch gun of the Kentucky. and
the shell which exploded weighed over
LOO pounds The shell was one OF
those furnished by private
concerns and cost s145.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
BRYAN REPLIES TO CLEVELAND.

Mr.. Bryan in his weekly paper has
made a sharp and personal attack upon
Mr.. Cleveland because of what he has
democrats to its old principles such as
he advocated. He p o Bryan and
the present democratic principles. He
wishes to go back Of 1896. He reflects
upon the Bryan men and says the party
can never win until with Its rank n
file it must of all things itself,
become truly, honestly and con-
sistently democratic" This has
been understood and interpreted
as a leading non-partisan New
York journal says that the party shall
show Mr.. Bryan the back door," In
the Commoner Mr.. Bryan retorts with
Rigor and point that are unmIstakable.
The whole reply is keen and resolute.
The conclusion is as follows and it is
all we have room for:
IF he will clearly and candidly de-
fine he democratic principles about
which he is SO prone to talk, the peo-
pie can decide for themselves whether
he is the same Mr.. Cleveland who
uEIc IN I1SoGoiS ONS1 ~
financial syndicate and ~intrusted J.
Pierpont Morgan with the combination
of the government vaults, n then
supported the republican ticket because
his administration was not indorsed-
the same MI. Cleveland who denounced
trusts in his message but failed to en-
force the law against them-the same
Mr.. cleveland who condemned imperi-
alisn; and hen gave passive support
to an imperial president, or whether he
has repented of his folly and is ready
to accept the democratic creed"
The $500, 900 men who followed Bry-
ans banner through w compaigns
will hardly deny their leader, and
tamely yield all they have contended
for. Silver is practically for the pres
ent a dead issue, but the only money
seen in circulation now under sums of
SIS. is silver, and t dollars of our
daddies" are to be seen every where.
The government is coming several mil
lions of dollars of silver yearly and it
has hundreds of millions in it's vaults.
A dollar in silver will buy a dollars
worth of any thing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
THE ATTEMPTS UPON THE CZAR's
LIFE.

The shooting at the Russian Car in
his own home by one or the trusted
officers of his " household shows
how uncertain is the tenure of his life
when surrounded night and day by
scoundrels and murderers. The fellow
who fired and missed had the grace to
finish the murderous job by finishing
himself with a bullet IN his brain.
During the young Cars short reigu
he has been a victim OF a continued
succession of plots. He assembled the
throne or 1st November. 1894. The first
attempt to kill him was made on End
December 1895, after a little over a
years reign. A bomb was thrown at
him in st. Petersburg. The list of at
tempts is formidable and is worth re-
printing. We clip from the Philadel-
phia Times:
September %. 1S96-Nihilists planned
a cordite explosion as Car drove
through a London street.
October s. 1S96-Bomp exploded be-
hind Cars carriage in the Place de la
Concorde, Paris.
May 26, 1S97-Young artisan attempt
ed to shoot and stab Gar as he drove
in the Tsarskoe-Selo Park, ST. Peters,
burg.
May 3. 1S9S-Discovery Of Nihilist plot
to blow UP the Tsarskoe-Selo cathedral,
during the conservation services.
June %, 1S9S-Attempt to poison the
III and Czarina during visit to
Vienna.
September Z, 1S9S-Nihilists attempt
ed to kill II in MOSCOW.
September %. 1S9S-Nihilists under
mined a street in Warsaw over which
the Car was to pass.
November %. 1S9S-Anarchists built a
barricade across a deep railway cutting
in front of the Cars train.
November 1, 190O-Conspiracy discov-
cred in Poland to assassinate Nicho-
las III.
December l. 19OO-Plot discovered to
mine a two-mile tunnel between Loso-
va and Sebastopol. through which the
Car was to pass.
March "a. 1901.-Plot to blow up the
great Tsarskoe-Selo Palace"
1t is no wonder that he is reported
as all broken up, and has taken refuge
in a steel-clad room. But there will be
no escape for him probably. The Nj
hilists seem bent on comprising his
destruction. Several Cars nave been
killed and the present ruler may be no
exception. With him it must be that
uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown" 1t is a sad fate that awaits
him. He is no worse han his fore
fathers. Indeed he is not SO bad as
many of them have been.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
AGUINALDO A CITIZEN OF THE
UNITED STATES.

-Aguinaldo submits to power and is
now a citizen of the United States hav-
ing sworn allegiance thereto. Many
say it will end the war. 1t is believed
in Washington that Gen. Macarthur
will use the captured chief in winning
over h other fighting Filipinos.
Many surrenders are already reported.
If the war ends it will end a great scan
dial n outrage. Aguinaldo is a pris-
Mr.. Bryan regards Aguinaldo as a mil
itary genius. He writes In his news
paper that 1.-The question of imperial
ism is not settled by the Imprisonment
of the commander-in-chief of the ma
tive forces; nor will it be settled by the
surrender of all who are in arms If
the Filipinos fail in their appeal to
force there is still left an appeal to the
American conscience. The republicans
have taken refuge behind the fact that
war existed and have tried to cry down
criticism as unpatriotic."
A~guinaldo's submission to power and
his taking the oath of allegiance will
subject him to criticism. But he I'd
mits that he did not understand what
this country had done and what it pro-
posed to do. He is a patriot and a man
Of ability. The view of the Baltimore
u impresses us as about the thing
to say. 1t says:
1T is highly gratifying to learn that
Aguinaldo has taken the oath of allie
glance to the United States n pro-
fesses the intention of becoming a loyal
citizen. So long as he thought he had
a chance to maintain the rights and
liberties of his people. it was natural
and proper that he should fight in
support of the Filipino republic. but
when he saw success was impossible,
good sense and humanity required him
to prevent the useless shedding of blood
by submitting to the inevitable. He
has maintained his cause with vigor,
skill and encourage and is entitled to
the respect Of the victors."
In the oath taken h Filipino swore
to this:
"I, Emilio Aguinaldo. hereby renounce
all allegiance to any and all so-called
revolutionary governments in the Phil
ippine islands and recognize and accept
the supreme authority Of the United
States therein. 1 do solemnly swear
! that / will e true faith and allegi-
ance to that government: that I will at
| all times conduct myself as a faithful
| and law-abiding citizen of said is
lands. etc"
The anti-imperialists in the north do
not accept the submission of Aguinaido
as a final settlement of the principle
of foreign aggression and imperialistic
expansion. For instance. the secretary
or the anti-imperialistic league Of Bos-
ton. Mr.. Erying winston, says:
"It does not concern US what attitude
the Filipinos may take as much as il
does what the United States may do
Our battle has not been fought for thu
Filipinos. but for the constitutions
liberty of America"
The Messenger has referred to the un
wisdom of Admiral Dewey's talk as t.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Tommy Atkins is not an imaginary

Tommy Atkins is not an imaginary
character as people suppose. Kipling
uses it much in his writings, but he did
not originate the name. Tommy was a
genuine British soldier Of the most
heroic type. n a high private at
that According to Rev. E. T. Hardy
during the Sepoy meeting in India I'm
1857. h Europeans at Lucknow all
fed for safety to a large house known
as the Presidency" ION their way
they met a private soldier, who had
been stationed as a sentry. They
begged him 10 come with them, but re-
plying that his post of duty lay where
he was. b soldier refused to leave.
Shortly afterward he was murdered
while still on duty. His name was
Thomas Atkins" From that time his
name was made immortal by giving it
to all soldiers who exhibited special
bravery.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

So much to the disparagement of for
eign missionaries inChina has been pub
lished that it is we'll to have the other
side. While there is abundant evidence
to establish the fac that some of the
missionaries deserve censure for their
conduct. there is yet another class that
deserve praise. sympathy and full in
dorsement. Among those abused
wrongfully was Rev. DR.. w. S.
Ament. He was promptly defended by
the religious press. We observe that
he has made himself a vigorous de-
fence of the best missionaries. The
Hartford, (Conn.) Courant, says this
in part and we gladly reproduce what
is said:
1.-The Suns correspondent at Pekin
has had a talk with Rev. w. S. Ament,
of the American board. The doctor
says hat the missionaries in the SER
vice of the older societies are picked
men-scholars n gentlemen. They
are not in mission work because they
could not make a living at anything
else. Their work in China a been
very successful. all things considered.
They nave been careful of the feelings
and %prejudices of the Chinese. They
have not. as a class. harsnly attacked
the worship of ancestors.
The missionaries have not SHOWN a
bloodthirsty spirit. though they have
said hat bloody-handed murders
should be brought to justice. For any
one to affirm that one or more mission
aries joined h great army of looters
here in Pekin is to affirm what is un-
true" says DR.. Ament. 1t was at
Nf;-;t~. (y0--a~,c c,rrOocffnn fhof fhny
made use of the food, clothing, &c, in
the houses of the Boxer princes, an'
the auctions of confiscated goods OF
which the doctor had charge were 'un-
der the authority and by order Of Sir
Claude Macdonald"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

Atlanta, Ga, April "A petition was
filed in the United States court today
In the case Of ]. F. Bottom versus the
National Railway Building. and Loan
Association. of Atlanta. praying that
d. B. Stancliffe, formerly secretary and
general manager and now receiver Of
the Association. be removed. The De-
tition alleges that fraud was practiced
in obtaining the bill for a receiver and
that Stancliffe. who was appointed By
the court some months ago. be held ac-
EQUITABLE for the money he has spent in
the rceivership. The principal charge
against the receiver. according to the
petition. is extravagance in the settle
ment Of the associations affairs.