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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
FIGHTING STRENGTH
Mikado's Forces should Win at the
start, But Russin's Great Power
VIII Probably He Success
full in the End.

A mere statistical statement of the
numbers of soldiers or ships which ia
pan and Russia can give no conception of
the military strength of either nation. If
it could Japan would be defeated by
mere numbers before war was declared.
Military resources consist of more than
men or ships. it consist Of funds with
which to equip armies and nayies and
maintain them, 1t consists of food sup
plies of means of transportation, and of
discipline, enthusiasm and patriotism.
1t is in the later that Japan excells.
The standing army of Russia on a
peace footing numbers about l 100 900
men. On war footing this is increased
to 1900, 900 men, while the total number
of men Russia could put into the field
numbers close to 100000. This vast
army is Well equipped with arms, cloth
ing and commissary supplies and fairly
well disciplined. 1t is weak In three es-
sentials. First 1t is scattered over a
vast territory stretching from the Baltic
sea on the west to the Pacific on the east,
and from the Black sea. Causcasia and
Manchuria on the south to the Arctic
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
STRUCK BY an ENGINE
Mr. Nichae 49, Sullivan Killed
Tues ay Evening.
BOTH LEGS WERE CRUSHED
Vas Working Acng the Tracks al the
0p.quon--Funersl Took Place Friday
from ST. Jcsepp's Catholic Church.

Mr.. Nicra el r sullivan, for half
eututy an euplove of the Baltimore
h Ohio railroad end well known
,nd respNcted resilient Of this cttv,
met violent death whIle in the dis
caarne ,f his dntv Tuesday evening
at tire opcquni, ahoat three miles
east or NaTiDshnre. Mr.. Snlliysn
was meinher OF force OF workmeu
at that point, aud was engaged in
working along the trucks. ITe step
ped ON thu rails as n helper engine
backed down upon him from the rear.
ana before he reelized his danger and
could avoid II, the ennine struck him
and knot ked him beneath thu wheels.
The wheels passed o~er both legs,
crushing fl'em 70 pulp. He Was inn
med'ately brought to this CITY and
taken to the Kings Danghters' hospi.
tai, hat bis injuries were of such a
nature that be died within few
minutes after arriving there. He re.
tanned consciousness 20 the end.
Mr.. Sulli-an Was native IT Ireland
but came to America at an ea-lv age
lie had beer resident of Martinsbu'g
for the past 80 wears, and had been in
the service ct the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Mt this point ever since he came here
For q number Of years he was employ.
I'D at The round house here. bat for
the past three wears was engaged ut
the point where he met death. He
was aged 81 wears.
He Is survived by his wife and the
following cliildren Patrick Sullivan.
Joseph sullivan. and Mrs. j. p. West,
of Baltimore; Mrs. Il. ID. Gardner,
Mrs y, w. Schleuss, John Sullivan,
Vincent Sullivan and Bernard Sulli-
van. of Martinsburg.
The funeral was held at st JOS
eph's Catholic church on Friday
morning at 8. requiem mass was
celebrated by Rev Father Donahoe
Interment in St.Joseph's cemetery.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
ITEMS FROM F0LTZ
News Notes of the village Near the
Potomac River.

News Notes of the village Near the
Potomac River.
Fcltz, Feb. IS. = Indications are
that the peach crop will he a total
failure in this section by reason of the
extremely cold weather of the past
few weeks.
Mr. Marshall wilhelm. WHO has
been engaged in business in Washing
ton, is visiting friends 10 this vicini-
ty.
Mr.. G.. s. Elliott will remove short
lv 10 rear Martin burg, where he will
engage in farming.
Postmaster Fol'z was il Washing
tonlan Frederick counties last week
on business.
Mr. Hank Lemen, brother of the
county commissioner. who is visiting
here, will not return to his some in
Minnesota for several weeks, as tine
thermometer there registers 45 degrees
below.
Mr. Snivelv Lemaster is sting
friends in jefferson county.
Mr.. Horace e. Mavhew read an es-
saw before the Fpworth Lesgue at
Bedineton last SUNDAY evening.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
COLD FLOODED MURDER.
italian workman killed by Negro ~
LittIc Orleans nm Monday.


A cold blooded murder occurred NJ
Little Orleans west Of this city on the
line Of the new Wabash extension on
Monday night. when Robert Thomas,
"a burly negro, shot and killed an
Italian, who was working on the OK
tension. The Italian was in the en-
ploy IT Loclier Brorhets, and was held
ia high esteem by both the workmen
and his employer, he being very quiet
aud peaceable.
The man only lived fonr hours after
the shooting, which caused no little
excitement in the camp. and IL the
murderer had been CAPTURED his treat
ment would have been violent. After
the shooting the murderer took to the
mountains and as vet there is no cine
TO his whereabouts. Thomas is said
to have been drunk when he com.
rnitted the deed The officers are now
on the lookout for the man.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
Strong Japanese Force in Pathway
of the Russian Army.
JAPS LAND ON COAST OF KOREA
Said to Have Concentrated 10000
Soldiers on the Shores of the
Hermit Kingdom.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 49, A
Dispatch from Eydkuhlen con-
tains the information that H.
600 Russian troops are III the
COT ntry Immediately north of
that point, and that the Japan
ese army Of invasion is across
their path.
1t is believed that an import
ant battle between the oppos-
ing forces is imminent, and the
news of the engagement is being
anxiously awaited here.
LANDED CAVALRY
Special Dispatch to The Evening World.
Toxic, Feb. 49, Eight trans
ports, with japanese troops
from Nagasaki, and several ad-
ditional vessels carrying war
munitions, are on their way to
the west coast of Korea. De-
tachments of japanese cavalry
have already landed at Wiju,
on thu Yaiu river.
CONCENTRATING TROOPS
Port Arthur, Feb. 49, The
reports that the japanese have
concentrated about $4,000
troops at Wonson, on the east
coast of Korea, with the object
of entering Manchuria, are con-
firmed.
WARSHIPS IN DRYDOCKS
Shanghai, Feb. 18.-The fol-
lowing telegram has been re-
ceived from Nag asaki under
date of February Is:
"Fifteen thousand troops are
embarking on transports today.
Their horses are in poor con
dition. The damaged warships
are here waiting to go into dry
dock"
Baron de Rosen, late Russian
Minister to Japan has arrived
here on the French steamer
Yarra.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
Struck By PASSENGER TRAIN.
JOSEPH KELLEY surFEREp IN
JuasGs WEDNESDAY, MORNING..
was Brought 90 This city where Hes
Received Medical Treatment aaa
Was Then sent 90 baltimore.

Joseph Kelley. who gives his home
rs Baltimore. was struck this morning
ahour Z o'clock near Cherry Ran ON
the Baltimore a Ohio railroad by
west bound passenger train No. 3.
and Suffered very painful injuries.
Kelley was walking along the track
when he met with the accident and
saws that the high wind prevented
him hen ing ths approach Of tho COM
ing train. lie was struck by the en-
gina aud thrown to the side of rlse
road. AT first Il was thought that he
hal been killed. hat he rallied and
WIS brought TO this city whore he WINS
given tho necessary medical aid
Baltimore n Ohio Surgeon Myers
dressed his injuries. which consisted
OF number OF cuts aud bruises about
the body, the most serious being ON
the head and hin. He formerly worked
on the cut-otf ON the road.
He was taken to Baltimore this
morninr on the first section on train
No 2. which arrived here about II
o'clock His iuiuries ARE not thought
to he serious. unless some internal in
iufies develop.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
TWO WILLS RECORDED.
The Manner fn with Their Property
VIII be Distributed.


Two will Of late residents of this
county we're recorded at the clerk s
off q Tuesday. Ia the will of Mr..
PANEL #. Pine. he hfqueathed all II
his property 10 his " fl, Eleanor Pine.
as long as size remained his widow,
ard AZ her death the property to be
divided hetween his three children.
He gave 10 his son, Robert II. Pine,
the D., psrtv now o. crpied by him.
The home place he gave to his sons,
Jos d. aud Charles Pine, whom he
appointed executors,
In the will OF Mrs. Jane T. Gun
nj gham. she willed all of her proper
ty both real aud j 3rsonal to william
o. q. Payne, with the understanding
that the property was TO support his
grandfather. s. o. Cunningham, who
was appointed executor OF the will.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
PRETTY MATRIMONIAL EVENT,

Miss Annie webber and mr.. wiibar
waffle Married by Hev. Donovan.
Miss Annie Webber. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs J. ID. Weber, and Mr..
Wilbur r.. Wayble. were tho Drinci-
pals in pretty wedding at the par
sonage of the United Brethren church
Tuesday. The ceremony was per-
formed bv Rev. j. ID. Donovan in I q
presepce Of number Of friends.
MIR. and Mrs. Wayble will reside in
this city where the groom is employ
Oh
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
NOTES or BUNKER HILL,
Many People Reported III az Tha,
Busy Point

Bunker Hill, Feb. iS.-Mrs w. l..
Wright. who returned home from johns
Hoekins last November. is still con
fined TO her room and is not improv-
ing. She cannot walk without her
cfutches.
Mrs Thomas Marrow is still i'll ut
her home.
Rev u. ). Crowder pastor Of the
Methodist Fp scopal church, is VIC
tim Of measles, and is confined to his
houie. This disease has been epidemic
here.
Mr.. william f. Tabb. who has been
i'll this week. is reported improved
today
Bates Brauson, who has been spend
ing the winter here, has returned to
Pittsburg.
Mr.. George Glasford was taken sud.
denlv i'll few DAYS ago, after return
ing from trip to Martinsbure, but
is reported much be ter.
Miss L,lliar Clendennin0 is the guest
of II lends in Washington
w. b. Clendennlng has returned
from tip to Washington.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
MANY FUNERALS
Burial of Those who Passed Away
Here Recently.


The foneral Of Mrs. Mary G. Y unR
WAS held this NOR ing ~ ST. Joteph' g
Catholic church, Rev. Father Dona-
Roe ofJicistlng at the services A
large number # friends were present
at the requiem mass and witnessed
the iuterment in st. Joseph's ceme-
terry
The remains If Mrs George A.
Chambers we're Inferred in the Nor
bonrn cemetery YESTERDAY afternoon.
The services were condncted by Rev
t. S. Dunawav. pastor Of the First
Baptist church.
The funeral of the late Michael y.
Sullivan will be- hel FRIDAY mo-nirg
at 8 O'Clock. Services by Father
Donshoe in st. Josepn's Catholic
,tiurch.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
POISONED BY COAL GAS.
miss Mabel Fiery Rendered Unconscious
at Her Home.

at Her Home.
Miss Mabel Fierv. daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Albertus Fiery. Of No. 20s
North Church street, was overcome
by escaping coal gas at her home We'd
nesday evening, and remained in an
unconscious condition for several
minutes. She had gone to her room
on the second finor OF the residence.
inhaled TIE poison before detecting its
presence, the deadly fumes having
penetrated to the room from heater
in the room imnediarely below. Miss
Fiery succeeded in reaching tbs head
OF the stairway before she lost con-
seriousness, but fell down the stairs
and suetained severe bruises. She
was restored to consciousness by msm-
beers of he family.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-02-20
CELEBRATED TIN WEDDING.
mr.. and mrs. frank Powell Enisrta
at Their Home.

The home of MI. and Mrs. Prank
Powell. on East Burke street. was the
scene Of very pleasant event on
Monday night. the occasion being the
celebration of the tenth anniversary Of
their marriage. At q late hour sui =
per was served and the guests depart
I'd for their homes. MANY useful ard
handsome presents were received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09
THE ATCHISON EVENT.
The Lecture and Concert at Audi
torium Tuesday Evening.

One hundred of the best people of
Atchison will arrive in Topeka tomor-
row evening by special train to take
part on the stage or in the audience
at the lecture and concert at the Audi
forum.
The event is more than a mere en-
teFtainment- The courtesy on the part
of Mr.. z. W. Howe who lectures and
of the Atchison musicians VINO take
part is most unusual. They pay all
their own expenses and charge moth
ing for their kindly services preferring
that every dollar should go into the
fund for the great Topeka pipe organ.
The mayor and the most prominent
people of our neighboring city are TAX
ing a wonderful interest in the event
of Tuesday evening. A Topeka visitor
to Atchison yesterday learned that the
representative citizens of the dry
goods, the banking, the milling and
the professional interests would come
on the special train with Mr.. Howe
About twenty-five hundred seats have
been sold and by tomorrow evening
there should not be a single seat left
of the remaining fifteen hundred if To-
peka shows the appreciation she should.
The lecture and concert will give
big measure of pleasure. 1t is to be no.
ted in this connection that the same
lecture and musical programme will be
given in Atchison tonight and a big
house is sold at fifty cents a ticket.
Here the price is but twenty-five cents.
The following is the programme:
PROGRAMME.
4. Overture. .......... e.. Marshalls band
z. Selection. Marshall's band
8. Solo for violin. Selected
John H. Davies,
VIM. Davies, accompaniSt.
4. Ladies quartette, Legends
F. MOhring
Mrs. John Lynde, Mrs. W. H. Boyle.
Mrs. Glen Sprague, Mrs. "A w. Teachout.
5. Lecturing. ...-.....E e. w. Howe
GA half hours account of the trials
of an amateur; also an account of a
new Boss Buster movement.)
6. Soprano solo, Invocation to
Love" Mrs. Runcie
Mrs. Ada Smith Fullerton.
Violin obIigato by John H. Davies.
VIM. Davies, accompanist.
T. Vocal duet, 20, Vert Thou in
the Cold Blast" .......... Burns
Mrs. w. H. Boyle and Mrs. John
Lynde.
(Words by Burns, music by Men
delssohn: one of the prettiest duets
ever written.)
8. People I Have Knowr''=Ab b.
Harvey, Cap. Stabler, Frank
Everest, Cliff. Hetherington, and
others. "a plain talk about plain
people, 80 minutes long.)
z. w. Howe.
9. Duet. What Are the Wild
Waves Saying ''-........ Glover
Mrs. Lille Hetherington and
Walter Noble.
Gan old-fashioned song, by special
request of the Iecturer.)
10. Cornet duet. "Cheerfulness''
waltz Trumb bert
John H and VIM. Davies,
Miss Maud Newman. accompanied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09
oUAKER RESTRICTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
An heir of authority-the first baby.
A cinder in the hand is worth two in
the eye.
The train announcer is a man of
many callings.
Putting up awnings isn't necessarily
a shady transaction.
The fellow who blows about himself
is generally long-winded.
When a man is henpecked he doesn't
go around Growing about it.
A hairpin goes to extremes when It
is also used as a buttOnhook.
The things we get for nothing are
sometimes dear at the price.
Even the drinking habit won't grow
on a man without constant irrigation.
The spessimist gets a heap of salts
faction from talking about hard times.
The selfish mans friends are gener-
ally limited to the people he can make
use of.
Every young man has a future be-
fore him The trouble is to catch up
with it.
If you would lay something by for a
rainy day borrow an umbrella while
the sun shines
The travelling salesman will tell you
the worst ever, bar none.
Some men become cynics because
they have loved and lost, and others
because they have loved and won.
The mother of the bride was sur
prised. Married only three weeks and
quarreling already she exclaimed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

Fishermen around Chanute are using
dynamite instead of hook and line.
Manhattan is going to clean up and put
on new spring tub suit Civic pride is
responsible.
The supreme court has decided that at
least Henry Allen is resident of Kansas
and the Second district.
Chanute is going to run excursions to
show off her oil. The town thinks that
would be a smooth scheme.
The Burlington Catholic church is to
have statue shipped direct from Europe
at a cost of many hundreds of dollars.
Emmett Dalton has applied for parole.
The penitentiary board should make him
sign a positive agreement to keep off the
An birmingham man has LOO acres of
land in southern Missouri that he has
never seen. He paid IS cents an acre for
it years ago.
A jay bird has at last been found good
for something. Leavenworth man wit
nibal and demolish two English sparrows
One of the largest apple orchards in
Kansas lies west of Atchison- Every tree
is in full bloom now and the Globe says
the sight is worth going twenty miles to
see.
An officer of the Hutchinson reforma-
tory has gone to California after a pa
rolled prisoner 1t hardly seems as if the
average small boy is worth that ex-
Topeka. is. going to announce the
weather daily from the whistle Of some
appropriate than through the mill of
Cider Smith,
The majority of the Republican editors
of the First district seem inclined to
think Dan Anthony, jr., was the nominee
of the party for congress rather than
Charles Curtis.
A Santa Fe detective with headquarters
at Emporia since the first of the year has
located 30 robberies. The majority of them
have been jugs of whisky taken from
small depots
An inquisitive animal entered the rear
door of a Great Bend saloon and paved
up some 500 worth of bottled goods the
other morning. The barkeeper admits that
it was a horse on him
Judge Pollock has given a civil war vet
eran of three DAYS service a fine of $1,000
The odd soldier made affidavit from lola
to having served through the war, but
forgot to add that he did so by substi-
tute"
Salina youngsters have gotten into a
fashion of appropriating horses and car
riages of church-gOerS for a half hour or
so Sunday nights. That isn't so instruc-
tive as listening to the. sermon, but is
undoubtedly more enjoyable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09

Il never heard that they liked any
sort of meat"
'eWen. you let coon into a hen
house and he'll eat his fill fast enough
He is also a lover of clans. oysters
and crabs, and I've seen them hunt
ing for snails many a time This Mr.
Coon was almost as sharp and spry
as any fox, and there was hardly
week that he didn't go out after
chickens. He knew that every farm
er's dog for Eve miles around was
anxious to get hold of him, but he'd
take such chances as would make
your hair stand up. He knew he could
outrun the dogs, and so he would go
close up to them and squeal out and
lead them a merry chase He finally
got to thinking that he was about the
smartest thing on legs"
's'Then he was sure to come to
grief" said Mrs. Hare zone may be
smart and get along all right, but be-
ing too smart always results in a fall
Go on with your story
well you may have heard of
Farmer ste bbfns' bulldog2 That ca
nine is no spring chicken. He had
chased the coon until he found that
il was no use. Then he got to think
ing things over and made up his mind
to try a little game, and 1t was cute
one, too. His kennel is at the back
of the house, and the coon had gen.
orally found him inside and some
times asleep
ION this night the dog was not
only outside the kennel DuI was lying
on his back with his legs sticking
up in the air as if he were dead. The
coon watched him for ten minutes
and didn't see him move as much
the tip of an ear, and he finally con-
cluded that his old enemy was dead
and cold. He should have come away
then, as you will agree, but he want
ed to do something extra smart, and
so crept up to seize the body and
drag it around"
"And the dog wasn't dead ?" anx-
iously asked Mrs. Hare, as she shiv-
cred a little.
mo more than you are. He kept
quiet until the coon got close up, and
then seized him and shook the life
out of him, and that was the end of
our friend with the rings around his
tail. Yes, his life was ended then
and there, and while we shall all
mourn him we can only say that he
died of too much smartness. I want
to be considered smart, and 1 know
you do, but this is a lesson to US. We
want to be just smart enough and let
it go at that
you are very wise. Mr.. Postum.
and I shall remember your words"
said the rabbit as she Ieaped over the
log and started for her burrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe.
A bad storm scares the best of
them.
who is the dumbest man in Atchi-
son?
A we'll known wholesale merchant
brought an ad. to this Office today, in
which he used the word ACCURATE"
The clerk changed it to accurate. mo
wonder I couldn't find that word in
the dictionary" the man said.
A little four-year-old girl was max
ing a good deal of noise in the public
library yesterday, where 1t is against
the rules to speak aloud, and the
librarian said: Ssh! You must be
quiet The little girl exclaimed:
Where is the baby ?"
An Atchison man who sells horse
radish is an ardent Democrat. He
met another Democrat today and said:
who will be nominated by the Dem
ocrats for PRESIDENT" The man said
he believed Judge Parker would be.
The horseradish man stroked his
whiskers a long while. and then said:
ct very much fear he is not right on
the trust question"
The Wichita Eagle thinks that
southern Kansas is the Italy of Amer
lea. The paper tells how "a tuber-
culous young man, with but one lung,
came out to southern Kansas from
New England, and now he has three
lungs. He married the other two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-09
TO LET PAVING CONTRACTS.
About $25, 600 Worth VIII Be Award
ed Monday Night.

Paving contracts worth about $685.
900 will be let by the council next
Monday night.
1t is regarded as probable that the
bids will be somewhat higher this
year than last. Last year some of the
pavement went as low as $1.16. The
maximum libit is $1.25. and it is
thought probable that the bids this
year may be over the 1-20 mark. This
is due to the increased cost of brick
and the fact that the city may again
require the paving contractors to take
paving bonds in payment for their
work, instead of cash.
There is also a queer mixup re-
garding paving contractors which
may eliminate considerable cempeti-
ton. Ramsey & Ramsey may not bid
as one firm this year Charley Ram
Sey has formed a partnership with
Mr.. Haskins, and they may bid to-
gether as Ramsey & FIaskins.
On the other hand, John Richie
and Jim Hanley, who have always
worked separately in Topeka, have
formed a partnership at lola, and may
bid as one firm lin Topeka. Even if
tn ey bid separately here, their tom
petition" is not likely to be very
fierce.
There are some rumors that o.
Swanson, a former paving contractor
nue. pavement, which represents the
big end of this years contracts.
Several firms are figuring on bring
ing in Topeka, Lawrence or Kansas
City brick for some of the work here
this year. They think they can bring
it in here cheaper than they can buy
home made brick.