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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11

In Herbert Paurs History of Mod
-ern England is this picture of Dis
raeIi:
OF finance or Of any other business
Mr.. Disraeli neither knew nor cared to
know anything at all. Literature and
the SNOWY side of politics exhausted
his interests in this sublunary sphere.
He lived in the house of commons, and
he lived for it. His fund Of patience
seemed to be inexhaustible. He sat
through the longest and dreariest de-
bates without betraying by any out
ward symptom that he was bored.
Alert and wakefuI, especially when
he seemed to be asleep, he was ready at
any moment to take advantage of q
situation or of an individual. Nothing
escaped him which did not require re-
search for its recognition, and. though,
in those days his speeches were often
inordinately long, his flashes OF cpl
Erammatic wit enl1vened them.
Friday, May 18th, Summer Hat open
ing at Stemp1es. X
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11
DREAM vvARf1 INGS.
Queer Tales OF the Trnth Of Voices f.
That SPEAK IN sleep. q

soueersTaIeasof the Trutf ofssEo ices
z That Speak In sleep. Ss5
An English family a few years ago
had strange experiences with dreams.
The daughter OF the house a. bright
merry, cultured girl, came down 70
breakfast one morning in depressed
frame OF mind. She had had q wretch
ed dream, she said. She had seen her.
self and her fance in the water. and
as 1t seemed to her. they both Were
drowned. The family rallied her upon
permitting an idle dream TO affect her
waking thoughts. Was not her tiancc
one Of the best swimmers in that part
of the country and amateur captain
of the lifeboat crew? Surely he was
never born to be drowned. Z" young
woman threw off her :sp.ir'.iensions
and, when her sweetheart "a Led later
in the morning, told him has' dream in
the best of spirits. We'll Socn falSifS
NIL that" he said. Eve co:A@ TO take
you yachting The proposal was a
complete surprise, but she ac.iuiesced,
and they set forth. With them We're
two young men, both expert Swimmers.
They got out~into the middle CT the
lake, when a terrible squall suddenly
swept down upon them overturned the
y
Though he bore her loss With forti-
tude, the father of the girl grew so
melancholy that his health became at
fected, and his doctor ordered him to
travel. So he made a trip across the
Atlantic. The night before he reached
New York he was tortured by dreams
concerning one of his sons. In the
morning he wrote to his family. i'm
pIorins them to exercise the greatest
caution during his absence. Pray tell
- to be careful when out in his
boat" he said, mentioning his youngest
boy. The moment he reached port be
had his letter posted. When it reached
England the son whom he had men
toned was dead and buried. \ com
parison Of times showed that at the
very hour the father was writing his
note of warning the young man was
battling for life in the T-ater and was
drowned before the ink upon the page
was dry.
A farmer living at Lapford. England.
dreamed thrice in succession that he
saw a pit dug in one of his fields and
some of his property cast into 1t. At
the third time of dreaming he got up.
dressed and went out. He heard the
thud Of spade and caught sight of a
man;digginG by lantern light. The dig
ger fled at his approach. 1t was a
grave upon which he had been at
work. By its brink lay q huge knife.
On his way back the farmer met one
Of lis maidservants. She had had q
quarrel with the man to whom she had
been enga ged, she said, but he had pre-
vailed upon her to meet him for the
last time at O'Clock that morning,
when he had something to show her.
s.This is what he had to show you.
said the farmer, leading her to the
grave. :
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11
HAMILTON 8 HUFFMAN.

are located on the second floor OF the
Peoples Bank Building. They are
prepared to do paving, grading ce-
menting and all work in their line on
short}notice. 81.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11

have some of the best lots on the:
South Side for sale at from $3.50 to
500.
H. II. LANtIAAL <
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11

Mr.. George Moss Gump. a promi-
nent young business man of Waynes-
burg, Pa, came to Fairmont yester-
day to visit his ha1f-brother Mr.. NJ:
c. Brant, whose Illness we have FREE
quent1y mentioned. Mr.. Brant is alt
tie better again today
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11

Friday, May 18th, Summer Hat open
ing at Stemples.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11
Jeanne Dare.

Goddess Of battles, With the maiden
sword
And blameless banner, when to Trance
availed
Not all her gallant manhood, helmed
and mailed
To drive from off her soil the alien
s5 45es,; horde,
That over pasture, hamlet, vineyard
poured,
Yon with your unarmed innocency
scaled
The walls Iof war, and, where mans
n2fght~had failed,
3AGrowning, enthroned the Amounted OF
~ the Lord.
Ind SHOULD France yet again be c"ll-
ed to scare
stranger from her gates, and huI /
5 IN back thence
nat would violate her frontiers
IS fair,
eretricious sycophants Of sense,
yhe pure heart and Patriotic
prayer, \
more would prove her rescue
and defense.
red Austin in the Independent.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11
I VIII Go to Atlantic City.

2Irs. Thos. c. Miller and daughter.
Rss Pauline, will leave on Monday
SSSt for months sojourn in Atlantic
ty, before returning to spend the
GUNNER at Mountain Lake Park. Mrs.
ysduIer,s many friends will be glad
to learn that her health is being rap
idly regained, and hope to see her
fully restored when she returns here
next fall
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-11
Us Nov Open
OARDINGHOUSE
Next TO the New Jacobs Building on
Monroe Street.
Furnished Rooms.
Table Board.

Entire house newly furnish
ed. Baths, all cOnyenlences.
Rooms are large. airy, COM
Portable. homelike. Beds are
soft. new and well taken care
of. Board will be the best
and lots of it. For rates call
at house. Fine parlor for all.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
ALExlEFF'S DAILY REPORT.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
st. Petersburg. March 11.--Viceroy
Alexion has sent the following mes
sage to Emporer: In fight be.
tween our torpedo boats and Japa.
nese cruiser March 10, Captain Mat
teussevitch. Ensign Alexnadrof and
Mechanical Engineer Blinoff, received
slight wounds. and Ensign Zaeff was
severely wounded in the head. losing
right eye" The commandant al Port
Arthur reports the following details
of the bombardment of the fortre s
there on March 10: Soon as enemy
opened fire our batteries replied Six
of the enemy's ships remained be
hind the Laio Tishin promontory and
opened fire on the fortress over that
shelter. They ceased bombarding at
f:15 p. m. The enemy fired about
300 projectiles one shell from bat
terry No. Is, on Electric Cnh damaged
the japanese cruiser seriously.
Results of bombardment were In
significant: six soldiers were wound
ed Three inhabitants of town killed.
and one seriously wounded.
According to General Stoessefs
report the officers and soldiers in the
shore batteries displayed exemplary
courage and fired their guns in per
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
Federal House Thunders Approval
at The Suggestion
MEMBERS RISE TO THEIR FEET
And Shrek Assent--Proposed By w. A.
Smith, of Michigan, AT Yester-
days Session

party vote. A resolution for an in
vestigation OF the connection of the
members with the department, offer.
ed by Mccall, of Massachusetts, then
was agreed to, the only representa-
tives Lind, democrat, Minnesota
and Gillespie, Democrat, Texas) op
posing it.
Early in the afternoon Burleson
(Texas) discussing the Bristow report
declared that the postoffice depart
ment "reekcd with rottenDess and was
stepped in corruption" and iutimated
that the postmaster general was re-
sponsible for the report. Clayton, tAl.
abama) followed with an unsparing
criticism of Postmaster General Payne
to whom he referred as that dstin.
guished imbecile, who happens to be
postmaster general of the United
States"
Further along speaking of the Tul'
loch charges, Clayton said the post
master general that distinguished
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12

specimen Of assinnity," and character
izing the Tulloch charges as hot air. ="
The inquiry had been pursued, he
vehemently declared, not by virtue Of
the effect of Postmaster General
Payne and President Roosevelt, but in
response to demand of the press. He
closed with a bitter personal attack
upon the postmaster general.
jenkins. wisconsin, one of the ac-
cused in Bristows report. wrought
himself mp to a high state of indigna-
tion and demanded that the light be
turned on He said he was "in favor
of removing Bristow from office before
the sun goes down
Several other accused members de.
nounced the report when William AL.
den Smith. ((Michigan) said fervent-
ly: Il denounce this report to be a
voluntary and gratuitous insult by a
great executive department of this
government" That department had
undertaken voluntarily To cast a stig-
ma on this great chamber of the pep
pie. II has gone out of its way to
keep facts back. which have been Civ.
en- out" he continued. He then threw
the house into state of wild excite
ment.
Men of the highest character, and
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
The Death Penalty For Van
Dine and Neidermeier
A SENTENCE FOR MARX
WILL BE LIFE IMPRISONMENT
JURY WRESTLING ALL DAY
AND NiGHT-SEALED
VERDICT.
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press
Chicago, March ll.-The jury in the
case of the car barn bandits will not
return a verdict before ten o'clock to-
morrow morning They have been
considering the case continually since
early this afternoon.
Although no official information has
been given out from the jury room it
is generally understood that Peter
Nedermeirer and Harvey Van Dine
will be sentenced to death. 1t is the
fact of Gustave Marx that Is causing
delay in the verdict
A number of jurors are said to ia.
vor penitentiary sentence in his case
for the reason that 1t was his confes.
sion that enabled the police to strike
the trail of Niedermeier and Van Dine
1t is reported that ballots we're taken
on the guilt of the defendants as soon
as the jury retired with the result that
all three were found guilty, one ballot
| being taken Tor cach man.
A vote was then taken on the pun
ishment to be given Neidermeier and
Van Dine, and both were condemned
to death A vote was then taken on
Marx, and a number of votes favored
giving him a life sentence.
About nine o'clock the jury sent for
Judge Kersten and asked him il they
had the power to inflict separate pen
altes, or whether they must return q
verdict covering all three men They
were informed they could niict sep
arate penalties, and they again return
ed to the jury room.
Judge Kersten held court until after
midnight and no verdict having beer
reached by that time he adiourne,
court until morning If a verdict Is re
ported tonight it will be sealed unit
the opening of court.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12

ment for its arrogant treatment of the
only branch of the government in di-
rect touch with the people of the
country -house-representatives and he
shouted out the name of Speaker Can.
non for president of the United States
The house Numbered its acquies-
cence, members rose TO their feet and
fairly shrieked their assent; the Dem.
Ocrats waving whatever was in their
hands, Republicans pounded their
desks and the packed galleries took
up the enthusiasm and echoed the ap
plause.
When the speaker bent low over his
desk and welded his gavel vigorously
for order his raps only served as an
impetus for fresh outbreak of enthu
siasm. Meanwhile Smiths time ran
out, and when he endeavored to con.
tinue. in opposition To the ruling of
the speaker, he was urged on by cries
of the members of both sides, but
without avail
A parliamentary struggle between
the Republicans and Democrats came
late in the day. The recommendation
of the committee that the Hay reso
luton lay on the table was brushed
aside unanimously The Democratic
demand for full investigation finally
came to a vote in the shape of an ap
peal from the decision of the chair
and was defeated. III to lz5, strici
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
BUFFALO BILL
ASKS DIVORCE
From Wife He Married in 1866 Allcg.
ing Cruelty and Attempt to
Poison.
BY the Associated Press

Denver, Colo, March ll.--A petition
for divorce was filed in the district
court of Big Horn county, Wyoming
January 9th, last, by Col VIM. f. Cody
buffalo Bid just has been made pub
lie
The complainant charges cruelty
and alleges that on December 26th
1900 Mrs Cody attempted to poison
the plaintiff. Another ground on
which the plaintiff asks for divorce is
that the martial relations have been
unpleasant to him by his wife's refusal
to entertain his friends at his former
home at North Platte. Neb.
Mrs. Cody, who is at North Platte
denies her husbands charges and will
contest the suit
Col. and Mrs. Cody were married al
St Louis. March 9Th, 1866
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
Sortie From Port Arthur Results
in Loss of Destroyer
ALL DISPATCHES CONFIRM IT
Russian Admiral Steamed Out To Assist
Boat, But Superior Force Com
PEELED Return


today
the attacked
bile battle line bombardns the Russian ships and forts
discharged their
unknown Later harbo.
The dispatches from Arthur telling
mention the fate of the probable
most of them drowned They so TO 100 EACH
charge
Admiral MakaroH
ordered battehp
tain of the tide, making the bateshps impossible
doing he
cripples Japanese batleshp.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
BRADsTREET's WEEKLY REPORT
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
New York, March 1-Bradslrect's
The weather conditions have i'm.
proved and with them jobbing trade at
the leading western shipping points.
The iron trade shows gain in activi.
ty and in the prices of crude material.
The February gross railway earnings
as whole promises to be somewhat
better than the outlook favored some
time ago The drawbacks to a gen.
eral spring trade outlook are found In
the slowness of the eastern buyers 10
take hold of spring goods and in serl.
Gus foods.
A progress of the season has appar.
emily helped the iron trade a12345666
emily helped the iron and steel mar
kets. An increased activity and firm
er prices are noted for crude forms.
Finished products are also more ac.
tive and an increased business is re.
ported From all over come reports
of special activity among agricultural
implement concerns. The eastern shoe
and leather trade shows only normal
activity. At New York dry goods show
little. If any Improvement, but Boston
jobbers are doing fairly well, and at
Philadelphia trade is reported equal to
one year ago.
Wheat. including flour, exports for
the week $4,000 bushels, against g..
367 900 this week last year. July
ist to date 110.307.000. Corn exports.
2,c27 900 bushels against 3.25S.OO0 a
year ago; July 1st to date Al, 1884, ,O00.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
Tie Was Executed Yesterday
Morning al ST. Joseph
HE WAS ONLY NERVOUS
AS RESULT EXCITEMENT ATTEND
ENT UPON ESCAPE-DECLAR-
ED INNoCENSE UPON
GALlOWS.

St Joseph, Mo, March ll.--Mark
Dunn was hanged this morning at
10;43 for the crime of murder com
mitted over year ago. His neck was
broken by the fall and death must
have been instantaneous.
Mark Dunn was forty years of age
The crime for which he suffered the
extreme penalty of the law was the
murder of Albert Fenton, a farmer at
Rushville, Missouri, July 90 1902, af
ter quarrel between the men at a
dance. Fenton was shot in the back
by Dunn. He was intoxicated at the
time and pleaded insanity but con
yiction followed, An appeal to the su'
preme court resulted in the decision
of the lower court being affirmed,
Two reprieyes granted by the COVER
nor postponed the execution until to-
/ day Governor Dockery refused yes
terday to grant further respite upon
the recommendation of the physicians
who after examining him said he did
not have pneumonia but was suffering
from the effects of excitement attend
ent upon his escape and flight.
On the scaffold Dunn made state
ment in which he declared he did not
shoot Alfred Fenton Dunn said,
speaking in a clear voice
/ There has been q vile plot to take
my life. Before the end | want to
make statement, standing here in
the presence of death and before
these people. did not kill AL Fenton,
He was my best friend and | never
had an unkind thought against him,
A man named Fisher shot at me and
killed Fenton.
Il have evidence 10 prove all that
j say here Other people know | did
not kill Fenton, but they wanted me
to hang for the murder and they have
carried out their plot
THE prosecuting attorney helped II
along and Fisher was never brought
in to testify at the trial There was
no reason for my killing Fenton, and
II could have been shown that Fisher
shot at me that night.
This Is the truth as ! stand before
God and in the presence of death.
hope some man in this assembly gath
cred here to witness my death, will
have the manhood to investigate this
case and in the years that are to come
will clear my name of the charge
for which | am about to die.
zone thing more. It has been said
that I was intoxicated the night Fen.
ton was killed. Another thing II has
been said that used to whip my wife.
That is vile lie told to injure me.
Witnesses at the trial said that | was
a man of bad character. These same
men,, before the killing of Fenton
came to me and asked me 10 stay in
Rushyillc when talked Of leaving
there
Il attempted to escape because |
did not want to die for a crime | did
not commit. | will die today and die
like a man, but in time the truth will
be known and II will be known that |
died innocent of the crime for which
am to be hanged
THAT is all am ready 10 die
There is more | could tell, but | have
been sick and cannot tell 1t. Good-by'
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12

dred are Russian. many Of them 1t
is said, being refugees, who, to es.
cape possible army service against
Japan, fled 10 this country Inter
views with some of the leaders of
these immigrants brought out state
ments to the effect that they got out
of Russia by bribing sentries along
the Russian border The bribes they
alege ranged from 5000 to $500 in
each case
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
Senator OF Nebraska Dietrich
Put Up $4,000
MADE MONEY ON SIDE
AS HE HAD APPOINTMENT OF
ALL POSTMASTERS IN SOUTH
PlATTE-THE lNVESTi.
CATION.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Washington. March 11.-At the af
ternoon session of the Dietrich in.
quiry. j. S, Williams of Hastings, Ne
braska testified that Postmaster ia.
cob Fisher of that city told him that
Dietrich said it cost him $4,000 to
be elected senator, and that when
Fisher suggested that he would not
pay the sum to be made senator. that
Dietrich said to Fisher: Never mind
Jake, that is nothing. | have appoint,
ment of all postoffces in the South
Platte and there are ways of making
money on the side in the senate
Williams said it was fact that can
didates for postmaster had to put
M for campaign expenses Of senator's.
The fact was brought ont that Dietrich
at one time struck at Williams for
publishing a certain statement in his
(Williamsl paper and that Dietrich
was fined, but the fine was remitted
by Jacob Fisher, then mayor. Also
that Williams had been arrested for
publishing an obscene editorial but
the case against him was dismissed
by District Attorney Summers. Wit
ness stated that he had volunteered
to give Summers the several conver'
sations he had with Jacob Fisher
growing out of the Hastings postoffice
when the attack was made on Sum.
mers, looking to the lattcr's removal
from the office began. 1t is under
stood that Dietrich will endeavor to
impeach Williams testimony.
Jacob Fisher, the present postmas
ter at Hastings was witness, and
told how 1t was that Dietrich favored
him for postmaster. Fisher said he
was candidate for oil inspector, but
did not get the place. Dietrich was
then governor and when elected sen
ator pledged him the Hastings post
office, and when Dietrich went tC
Washington recommended him. !
The witness denied that Dietrich
ever said rent of his Dietrich 81
building was too low and wanted 1t
raised $500 Witness also denied
ever having had any conversation
with the former postmaster regarding
postmastership and denied he ever
told Williams he was willing to In
crease the bid of Brede, another can.
didate for the appointment.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
BY tho Associated Press.

by inc ASSOCIATED ITeSS.
Washington, March 11.--The house
INDUCED today in nearly seven hours
of explanation, accusation and vitu,
perative denunciation, and then order.
ed, with only two negative votes, an
investigation of postal affairs, so far
as members of the house are concern.
ed by special committee of seven
members to be appointed by the
speaker, who, likewise are to examine
into the origin of the Bristow report
SO far as it concerns members of the
house.
The demand of the minority for a
sweeping investigation of every
branch of the postofilce department
was not granted, The test on this
question came on vote which result.
ed IA to 1926, strict party vote.
The climax of the day was reached
when Representative VIM. Alden
Smith, of Michigan, condemned every
executive department of the govern.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
THANKED THIS GOVERNMENT

Washington. March ll.-Count Cas-
SIM. the Russian ambassador. called
on Secretary Hay today and person.
ally and officially thanked the sccre.
tary and through him the government
of the United States for the proclama
tlon issued by the president enjoin
ing prudence and caution on officials
in speech and action relative 10 the
far eastern war.
The ambassador told the secretary
he was sure his government would
welcome the proclamation As another
evidence of the sincerity OF this gov.
ernment in It's determination to main
tain complete neutrality.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
RoAsTEuL RUSSIANS.
By Associated Press.

BY ASSOClateu PreSS.
Paris. March 1.-THE Echo DE Pa
is ST. Petersburg correspondent
quotes Gen. Kuropatkn as saying In
order to teach the Japanese a lesson
we will walk through their islands az
ter crushing them in Manchuria and
Korea. II have a voice In the mat
ter. the treaty Of peace will be signed
In Toxic and not elsewhere"
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
CLOSE THEIR DOORS.

BY the Associated Press.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 1.-THE
Farmers bank, of Garden Grove
Iowa, and Bank of Coin, Iowa, assign
ed today. The Garden Grove institu
tion has capital of 100000, with liza
bilities supposed to be larger than the
assets. The Coin bank has assets ol
$4,000 and II Is alleged the assets
are sufficient to pay the depositors.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
WHOLESALE
CONVICTIONS
Resulting From the Massacre Of Jews
At kisineH, Russia, Last
April.

BY Associated Press.
kisineff, March 1.-THE trial of the
prisoners charged with participating
in the massacre of the Jews here last
April Is closed.
Eighteen were charged with homi
eide forty with creating disorders
One was sentenced TO twenty years
imprisonment. one to four yeass. fif.
teen to one year, three to four months
Others we're discharged.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12

the cruiser hovk and went with the Novk
But five Of the
squadron approaehn
stereguhth which foundd Part OF
the rev mad prisoners part drowned
Continuing MakaoH
bombardmen begun with heavy
squadron at long This lasted untl
estimated the fired i54 twelve inch
insignificant and they again
ready for battle killed soldiers
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-03-12
ACCEPT COMPANIES OFFER.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HoughtOn. Mich, March 1.-THE
striking miners of the three mines Of
copper range consolidated, have voted
to accept the companies offer of sixty
dollars a month for miners and fifty
four dollars for trammers. II is eX
pected that work will be resumed on
Monday, after four weeks of ldleness.