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The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Coal Hin Citizens win Petition.

Citizens Of Coal I'm and vicinity
will present TO the next Legislature a
petition TO be taken from Johnson
county and annexed to Franklin
county. The reason assigned for de-
string the change is that the sched'
ules OF trains Is such that II Is I'M
possible TO 80 TO Clarksville the
county seat and return In one day,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Helena Has Many Buralarles,

1'rhe police Of Helena seem TO be
unable to cope with the epidemic
Of burglaries In that town recently,
On one night Ave robbcries were re-
ported. The principal robberIes oc'
CURED during three nights and only
money and diamonds we're taken,
watches being left behind
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
John n, Hawkins Ia Sheriff,

John II, Hawkins of Foreman, was
appointed by Gov Davis as sheriff Of
Little River county, succeeding j, o,
Patterson, deceased, There may be u
legal question involved as though the
appontee has paid his poll tax In Lit
tie River county and claimed citizen
shlp there, his family has resided IN
Toxarkana for two years,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Porter at Depot Murdered.

Leon Breton, the negro porter at
the Augusta Iron Mountain depot, was
murdered by an unknown person. His
body was found lying in the white
waiting room when the agent went
there in the morning 1t is supposed
he was shot by tramps because he
would not allow them to sleep in the
waiting room
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
pepot al Para.ould Burned.

The union depot 1T parogould used
Jointly by the Iron Mountain and Cot
ton Belt and parogould Southeastern
foade, was burned, The less was
81 500 ON building ana $4,000 on bag
gage stored therein, In addition 10
1000 letters from that city, awaiting
The arrival ef tfalns A lighted cigar
elte ID supposed 10 have been tho
cause,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
BROOKLYN Man Killed Himself.

Albert +. Hood Of Brooklyn, killed
himself at Hot Springs by cutting
his throat and seyerng the blood
vessels in his arms. He had been
there month and had grown despond
ent because his condition lid not i'm
prove.
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
captured After Years Liberty.

w. NJ Thomas, a negro escape from
the penitentlary at Pontiac, ILL.,, was
arrested at Little Rock and will be
returned The negro was serving
time for grand larceny and was a trus'
~, being the driver Of the carriage OF
the superintendent Of the penitenti'
AIRY. He violated his parole In May,
three months before his term would
have expired
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Killed at Negro Dance.

John Huntley, a white man, was
killed by win Collins, a negro, at a
negro dance near Florence, Drew
county. The negro was one Of a
crowd of many negroes at a festival
when the white man appeared and in
the ensuing fight he was killed. The
negro made good his escape.
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Little Girl Burned 10 Death,

Edna Cruce, the hye'yoar'old daugh'
Ter OF Mr., and Mrs q, q, Cruce OF
Fulton, Ky, was burned TO death In
Argenta where she was visiting her
grandparents Her clothes caught
from stove and she was fatally
burned before her mother could os'
unguleh the flames, The flesh was all
burned on the little girls limbs Nnd
face,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Eureka Springs Water Company Sued

Suit has been filed at ST, Louis
against the Eureka Springs Water
Company which had water from that
place in the Arkansas building at
she fair, and other water companies
which had water on the grounds, by
the Exposition Water Company for
363,000 damages The plaintiif claims
that II had the exclusive right to sell
water on the grounds and that by rea
son Of the other companies having
water there they lost the amount
asked. The Eureka Springs water
was free In the Arkansas building,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Arkansaa Girl injured In ST. Louis.

Miss Mildred Burke Of paragoud
was seriously injured In 81 Louis by
a street ear running into buggy IN
which she was riding She Ia ON
poyed In n real estate Office, and was
driving homo with her employer. M
she boarded near by Miss Burke was
thrown against the dashboard aud her
head seriously cut
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24

The secretary OF agriculture writes
that the cotton destroying Insect
found in Union county is the "pIssodes
StrobI." or white pine weoyll.
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24

"Parasols' Thirteen parasoS IN the
dead OF wIntcrl Susan jano Follans.
bee, are You cragy7" cried Aunt Jane
shrlly, II couldn't sell parasol any,
way unless II was q good, stout black
one"
but Judy felt that even the little up
bradInea were not 40 hard to bear al
the gloomy silence that ehsued when
Aunt Jane tied an old green barege veil
round her head and lay despaIrngly
down upon the lounge with her smell.
Ing salts,
She took heart Of grace, however, for
she btlll believed a little In her bargain,
and begged her aunt TO let her display
one ~ the pafasols-only one-in tho
shop window Aunt Jane said she
should expect TO be sent to the Insane
asylum, having q parasol In her shop
window IN December but abe was 40
discouraged that she did pot care,
Tho parasol had been IN the window
only On hour or two when Aunt Jane
was thrown into n flutter by the sight
Of q very stylish young woman cross
ins tho strssk
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24

While Alonzo Blddle was trying to
break mule at Alicia, 1t seized him
by q leg and threw him In the air,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Report Of Deaf Mute Institute.

The annual report Of the state board
of charitable institutions on the Deaf
Mute Institute, has been prepared FOR
fling with the governor. II tells OF
the trouble of opening the school
without funds when the appropriation
bill failed to become a law and how
the merchants of the state loaned
funds and officers and teachers work
ed without salary A list Of all con
tributing Is submitted and the legis-
lature will be asked to pass a bill re-
imbursng them A recommendation
is made that lights be secured from
some other source than the plant
at the penitendary on account OF
the present high cost. Recon-
mendations are made as to fire es'
capes and water facilities. An ap,
propriation of $500 per annum for the
blind deaf and dumb boy recently re-
ceived at the school as recommended
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
May Have Been Triple Murder.

w. NJ. Stevenson, his wife, and Mrs
Willie Barrett. were burned to death
in the home of the Steyensons three
miles east OF Monticello, December
II. and the officers are working on the
murder theory. The house was dis
covered on fire late at night and
when none OF the family could be
found the ruins were searched. TWO
charred bodies were found on top OF
the bed springs and beneath the bed
springs was a third body. Mrs, Bar
ret's husband had left her there over
night while he went to dance with
a daughter of the Steyensons, ste
yenson was well to do farmer,
Investigation revealed that the
head of Steyensons body, which was
under the bed spring. had been sew
cred and was some distance away
while there We're cuts In the breast
Of Mrs. Barrett.
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
officers Of Federation Of Labor.

At the recent three days session OF
the Arkansas State Federation Of La
Dor held in Little Rock, officers were
elected as follows. George Jones OF
Gwynne, president; J, r. Langston OF
Pine Bluff first vice president; l.. H..
Moore of Little Rock secretary and
treasurer. The federation adopted a
constitution and bylaws, The ques-
ton of a state organizer was dis
cussed at length and disposed OF by
turning the work Of organizing the
state over to the president. A report
showed that on May /, 1904 there
were 1867 union men in the state
whose organizations were affiliated
with the federation.
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
z. n. LAKE MUST STAND TRIAL
ON CHARGES.
EVENTS OF A WEEK BRIEFLY CHh0EiGttG
Arkansas Agricultural Exhibit az
Worlds Fair Packed for Shipment
to Little Rock-Society Of Equity
to Meet
Good Roads Meeting Call.

The official call for the meeting OF
the Arkansas Good Roads Association
in Little Rock January Is, has been
issued as follows:
The third annual convention OF the
Arkansas Good Roads Association
will convene at Little Rock at 10
o'clock a. M, Wednesday, January is,
and continue two days. The sessions
of the convention will be held in Old
Concordia Hall, corner Of Main and
Third streets. Every accommodation
is being made for the proper care OF
delegates. The general assembly
will be in session and many of the
members will be in attendance on the
convention. as oil are delegates This
will give the convention the very
best opportunity TO pave the way for
such legislative action as is needed to
give to Arkansas the best road laws
in the South.
All county judges are delegates and
are also requested TO name their coun-
ty commissioners and overseers as
delegates and to also appoint six dele
gates and six alternates at large, May
ors of all cities are delegates and are
requested to appoint as additional
delegates one for each thousand popu-
lation. All board of trade, CONNER
cial league, chambers OF commerce
and kindred organizations, labor or
ganizations and farmers unions and
kindred organizations are requested
TO appoint one delegate for each fifty
members. 1t is particularly request
ed that delegates be appointed at
once and that their names be sent TO
the secretary AT Little Rock There
will be very low rates on all Arkan.
sas railroads,
(Slgned) j. S. HAWKINS, Pres,
Attest GEO. II. BROWN, Secretary
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24

Mrs W. \, Mccullough, wife of tho
postmaster NJ BrInklcy, died while
Waiting at MlllodgoyIlle, Ga,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
No exemption OF Army officers.

First Lieut. Daniel Van VoorhIs, Of
the Third CaNUlr, stationed at Fort
Leayenworth wired Adlt Gen, Chae,
jacobson, asking II army officers were
exempt from the statute prohibiting
non residents from hunting In Arkon'
sas Tho adiulant general wired back
that the Law applied 10 all alike,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24

A Little Rock merchant received
twenty cents IN stamps from man
who said he had failed to pay for a
can Of oysters many years ago
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24

while II, G. Mansfield, mn aged no.
gro workman was engaged IN tear
lng down the Donohue frame building
nj Little Rock. the wind blow down q
wall aud his Icy was broken,
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24
Freight Changes on Iron Mountain.

r. II. Morony, travelling freight
agent Of the Iron Mountain railroad,
has been appointed division freight
agent with headquarters u, Little
Rock, 10 succeed D. u, King, who was
promoted 10 DO industrial and immI'
grafton agent Of the Missouri Pacific
system. Mr. Mofony mas been With
thc Iron MountNn sixteen years
The Van Buren press., 1904-12-24

All banks and public buildings aud
practically nil tho business houses viii
BE- closed In Little Rock the Mondays
Sfte, Christmas and New Years.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-02
The Duty Of Neurology
and the Doctor.

Results do count, after all!
That a Neurologist gets results
by the methods employed by him
in relieving human ills, is proven
by the patients whom he has re-
stored to health.
I point with no little pride to
the many patients who have been
restored to health by my treat
ment, after all others had failed.
They include those who had been
suffering from dyspepsia, indiges,
ton, headaches, epilepsy, st. vi
tus dance, obesity, female trou.
bles, and eye Affections. In one
instance q satisfied patient has
been the means of nine more COM
ing to me. Does this not speak
volumes for Neurology
Nothing succeeds like success.
My practice has. already reached
that point where, beginning No
vember Is I must refuse to &C.
cept more new patients until after
January l.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-02
Souvenirs of
SiStersViIle

See our window display of In
dian wood novelties, a handsome
souvenir of Sistersville in all
shapes and sizes Of useful arti-
cles. We have match safes, cal
endars, ink stands, smoking sets,
ash trays, thermometers, a place
for darn things and other articles
too numerous to mention.
We are making the price on
these articles so low that all can
afford to buy. For a few days
we will hold the price at Is to 25
cents each.
Just received our first ship
ment of Opera sweets, and they
are fine as silk.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-02

Wilson, who recently returned
from the Western oil fields,
leased up a large block of terri
tory which he intends to develop.
4 a 4
Robert Pierce of Shiloh, attend
ed the funeral here today of the
little child Of Mr.. and and Mrs.
George Rhodes.
Mrs. Grant Warner and Miss
Cora Mcdonald went to Parkers-
burg this morning on a visit to
Mrs. Cecilia Tenant.
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Misses Nellie and Emelie Nor
rison went to Cambridge, O., this
morning, where they will visit rel.
atives for few days.
J. B. Brennan, member of the
John S. Naylor Dry Goods com.
pany, Of Wheeling, was in the
city yesterday afternoon.
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Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Lentz of
Columbus, O., who have been Wis
iting relatives at Antioch, O., re-
turned to their home today.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Richter of
Monroe, Pa, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. j. G. Porter of Rus
! sell avenue. Mrs. Richter is Sis
ctr of Mrs. Porter.
4 y Il
Hiram Walker, who has been
in the city repairing the plan
orchestrion of the Clendenning
company, left last evening for
Wheeling to set up a new instru-
ment.
S. r. Kerr of New Martinsville,
was in the city today. He will
leave in a few days for an extern
sive trip embracing the World s
fair and different sections of the
West.
q \ q
D. W. Brown, of the South
Penn Oil company, passed
through the city yesterday after
noon on his way to Oil City, Pa,
where he will visit relatives for a
few weeks.
Harry Conant, the handsome
and popular day clerk at the Ho-
tel Wells, was a Wheeling visitor
yesterday, attending the perform
ance of Sunday" at the Court
theater last night.
4 y n
DR.. II. G.. Meek is having his
office on Diamond street remod-
eled and repaired. When the
present improvements have been
completed he will have one of the
contest offices in the city.
| y 4 4
The 12-months-old child Of Mr..
and Mrs. William Faunkhauser,
who reside on the Ohio side, was
quite severely burned about the
face this morning by falling
against the cooking stove.
y 4 p
The brick work of D. Georges
new store in Garry Owen was
completed today. Mr.. George
expects to occupy his new quar-
tiers by January /. 1t is a hand
some two-story brick building, 80
ESQ feet with basement.
The funeral of the little son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rhodes was
held this afternoon at l O'Clock at
the family residence on the
South Side. Rev. a. S. Kelley,
pastor of the Baptist church, con-
Quoted the services. Interment
was made at the Witten. O., GENE
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-02
ea-@-@-a-@-a-a
Local News
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six more days until election.
IA. R. Collins left last evening
Clarksburg.
= z 4
county is badly in need OF
soaking rain.
Il y y
Schamahorn left this morn
Or Huntington.
y d .
hes Lowry went to Parkers-
this morning.
hank Kuehne was a st. Marys
ess caller today.
y = =
Bruner oil operator, went to
rietta this morning.
. 4 .
Capt. J. G. Way was a business
ksitor today at Bens Run.
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Politicians are very busy just
bw mastering their forces.
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yContractor P. @. Shrake of Mat
(horas, was in the city today.
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w. j. Neuenschwander was a
brdis, O., business caller today.
Attorney G. E. Pyle of Middle
3urne, was in the city last even
1g.
kContractor A. P. Hecathorn left
is morning for the Sugar Valley
field.
F. Connolly Of Parkers-
was in the city yesterday
4 4 4
{. W. E. Stathers of Parkers-
was registered today at the
Mercer.
u ~
4. M. Roome left yesterday af,
ernoon for Benwood on a bust
ess mission.
x \ 8
Hon. William Givens of New
[artinsville, was a business Wis
Tor in the city today.
4 4 4
Jesse Holmes, a well-knoWn
|riller of Long Reach, was calling
b. friends here today.
4 y Il
Ray Henderson, a travelling
hlesman of Wheeling, was calling
h his trade here today.
Il 4 4
:. J. E. Magner returned yester-
lay from a business mission OF
New days to Pittsburg.
Mrs. A. P. Hecathorn left this
rning on a visit to her former
me at Punxsutawney, Pa.
4 y u
T. J. Loughney and
Mrs. Preston, spent the
Wheeling shopping.
\ 4 4
w. Barton, pioneer trav-
salesman of Wheeling, was
" on his trade here today.
Il y u
D. Wells, who has been call
IL on friends in the city, re-
[lrned to his home at Alvy this
forming.
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IT. G.. Fall, a well-known con-
actor and oil operator of Clean,
!. Y, was registered today at the
fotel Wells.
q q .
John Prosser, Thos. Crawford,
larry Tibbins and John McLar-
lev left last evening for Okla
bma oil field to drill a well for
!. C. Wilson of this city. Mr..
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-02
DR.. Abner G. Thomas
Neurologist and 0phthalmologist.

1t is currently rumored about
the city that a well-known res
taurant man has skipped out for
parts unknown, leaving his cred
itors in the lurch. His indebted
ness is estimated at from $1,000
to $500. This makes the second
restaurant proprietor, should pre-
sent reports be true of the one in
question, to jump his bills and
leave the city within the past few
months.
Subscribe for the Oil Review.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-02

D. w. Brown, of the South
Penn Oil company, passed
through the city yesterday after
noon on his way to Oil City, Pa,
where he will visit relatives for a
few weeks
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-10
JAP PANESE HAVE
GIVEN UP THE RACE
COULDN'T HEAD KUROPATKIN
JAPS NO MATCH FOR THE RUS
SLAMS IN RUNNING.

TracIS Was Heavy and the Going
Bad, But the Russians Went I'm
der the Wire winners and Pull
ed Up in MuSden-May Rest There
While If the Japanese Do Not
Objcct-SOme Terrible Suffering
and Privations.
st. Petersburg. Sept. 10. 1:5O a. m.-
1t seems TO be definitely established
that Field Marshal Oyama's tired
troops practically abandoned on We'd
nesday the attempt to head off Gen.
Kuropatkin and the latter's army has
arrived safely at Mukden, after fright
full experiences in floundering through
road.
Some descriptions of the scenes along
the line of retreat are almost incred-
ible. They tell how the men lay down
in the mud and slept in a drenching
rain and without shelter.
1t is evident that the last determined
effort of the Japanese to bring Kuro-
patkin to bay was made on Tuesday,
but the Russian commander-in-ch chief
faced about and two corps with artil-
lery beat off the Japanese, while the
remainder of the troops continued the
march to Mukden. After that the Jap
anese could only hang on to the tanks
and try to shell the retreating columns
from the hills.
The outposts are still in contact, but
A late Associated Press dispatch sent
tonight from Mukden describes the
horrible plight of the tentless and
shelterless soldiers.
The detailed statement of Russian
losses. which it is promised will be
issued Saturday is awaited with in
tense interest. The general expecta.
tion is that the losses will approximate
10000, as against 10000 for the Jap
anese.
The work of burying the dead was
left to the japanese, who were forced
to attempt the task as a matter of
self-preservation, but it was almost
impossible. The awful rains have
handicapped the work of cremation on
which the japanese relied and only
shallow trench burials were possible
under the circumstances. Not only
is this work one of the greatest diff
cuties, but is is almost valueless from
a sanitary point of view, the storms
undoing it soon after it is accomplish
ed.
The care of the wounded has taxed
the hospitals to the utmost. One cor
respondent says that 1900 wounded
had passed through the Mukden hos
pitfalls up to Sunday, and only the
most severe cases could be attended
to by the nurses and surgeons. Many,
therefore, had to be left to the rough,
but well meant care of their COM
rados.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-10
SOLDIERS CALLED
To PROTECT NEGRO
TROOPS OUT AT BAINBRIDGE.
JUDGE SPENCE THOUGHT MOB
WAS AFTER wILLIFORD.

Detail of the cambridge Company
Was Stationed About the Jail
when n Train Arrived the sheriff
Left for Tallahassee with the Ne
grO-NO Mob Appeared-AIarnr
Seems to Have Been FaIse-NegrO
Held for Murder.
Bainbridge. Ga. Sept. 9.-This
m morning about o'clock Sheriff Ford
ham received a telegram from Judge
Spence Of Camilla, telling him to or
der out the military company and
have them ready at a moments no.
tice to protect Whitney williford. a
negro who had recently been lodged
in the jail in this city, as a mob OF
men from Mitchell county were OH
the way to Bainbridge to get him.
Sheriff Fordham Immediately notl-
fed Lieut.. Gremmer and in a short
while he had a detail stationed around
the Jail. When the southbound train
of the Georgia. Florida and Alabama
Railway arrived, the negro was TAX
en- on board and carried by the sher-
iff to Tallahassee, whence it is un-
derstood they viii come to Georgia
again tonight.
About a year ago Williford killed w.
B. West of Camilla and seriously
wounded Turner Cox. while they were
attempting to arrest him. At that
time there was a reward out for the
negro of $3.50 and the two men were
attempting to arrest Williford and get
the reward.
Williford was arrested last week
near Sneeds, Fla, and brought to this
city, having been at large nearly a
year. When the negro was taken
out of the city the military company
disbanded and everything has been
quiet since.
There has been no mob to enter
the city and no suspicion has been
aroused against any strange men seen
to come into town. 1t is supposed
that the mob disbanded before reach
ing the city.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-10
THE WAR SITUATION.

There is still a lack of specific in
formation regarding the exact situa-
tion IN Manchuria. The Russian gem
eral staff. lacking details. is unable to
speak authoritatively while advices
from japanese sources are significant
ly lacking.
II was established that the Russian
army Is safely at Mukden and that
the retreat was accomplished IN good
order in spite Of the harassing Jap
anese. sodden roads and the fact that
Kuropatkin was hampered by more
than 1900 wounded.
There Is nothing yet 10 indicate the
exact whereabouts Of the three jap
anese armies. when last heard from.
Kurokfs forces were on fhe Russian
left flank and steadily pushing north
ward. but Vieeroy Alexlen reports that
railway and telegraph communication
between Mukden and Harbln ~ un-
interrupted. Gen. sakharon reports
that there was no nghtng durins
Thursday and while the oufposfs ere
sum ln contact. they ore not even er-
changing shots
If seems ~ be establishes mat
Oyama's troops preeficaliy abandoned
81 Wefneedsg fhf affeupf 90 haad M
Nufopafsln ana ha ths lasf qeier-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-10
PARKER WILL MOVE TO
NEW YORK FOR A WHILE.
He Is Too Inaccessible at His Home
at EsOpus.

He Is Too Inaccessible at His Home
at EsOpus.
New York, Sept. 9.-There is every
reason to believe that Judge Parker
will make arrangements to come to
New York for temporary residence soon
after his formal letter of acceptance is
made public. 1t is known that leading
Democrats have strongly represented
to him that his continued presence at
such an inconvenient location as
Rosemount, with no hotel accommoda-
tions, has kept Judge Parker from
personal contact with many prominent
men who are frequently in New York
city, but who have not time for the
journey to Esopus.
The plan has even progressed as far
as the making of tentative arrange
ments for him to take a suite of rooms
here.
According to those close in Judge
Parker's councils, his idea is to be
Immediately in touch with the party
leaders and accessible to those whom
it is needful and desirable to meet as
the campaign progresses.