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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
'|VU7INE'ERS MAKE
DIRFE|||I!I| |! THREE !! =! Ats

vent loss Of life in case the threat to
lombard tie town should be carried
out.
The town authorities complied with
the orders from st. Petersburg and
no supplies were given TO the mu-
ltineers. Warning to the people to
leave the city was also given by the
municipal officials. The time nxed by
the mutIneers within which supplies
should be forthcoming expired at
noon. but aa yet no attempt has been
made TO Are on the town. Fears are
expressed thar the mutIneers win full
fill their threats this evening. DudinE
the early hours OF the day the town
was in terror. owing to the presence
Of the mutinous battleship in tho hnr-
Dor, and the threat 20 bombard the
place.
The demand made by the mutincers
for food s--d coal and calling on the
mayor to issue proclamation de-
manding the termination OF the wnr
and the calling OF representative as.
sembly, greatly frightened the people.
When the request for provisions wns
refused the people hurrIedIy left the
town without waiting to see what
course the mutineers would pursue.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
FORMER INTERSTATE COMMERCE
COMMISSIONER SAYS THE
CANAL Is A HuMHuo.
HIS REMARKS ABOUT THE PRO.
JEcT HAVE CREATED A GREAT
SENSATION.

SIOUX CITY. Iowa, July 6.-J. D.
Yeomans. interstate commerce com.
missioner for ten years, in sensa-
tional statement issued here, declared
the Panama canal can never be built
and that trans-continental railroads
are clearly interfering with it.
wallace was right when he re-
signed as chief engineer Of the Pan
anna Canal" Mr.. Yeoman says, "but
he made fool of himself in trying to
tell why. All he should have said
was. I have enough of Panama and I
resign Before / was moved OF the
interstate commerce commission, 1t
was intimated to me that l would be
a valuable man in Panama. No Pan
anna for me-not for a thousand dol.
lars a minute.
The Panama canal is the biggest
humbug of the age. I have no hesi-
fancy in saying that In my opinion
there will never be canal built there.
No important American engineer who
was not paid for it, ever hazarded the
opinion that there would be canal
there. The last monthly report Of work
dene shows that 1: will take 110 years
TO finish 1t. The weeds grow in one
end faster than they carry the dirt out
of the other.
mo engineer has ever found a rock
or clay bed in the celebrated cule-
bra cut, where the United States has
done the most Of its work. There has
been cut of $50 feet there and thirty
inches of rain falls in thirty hours
down those banks. Does any one sup
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
TERRIFIC
WAS THE poWNpouR OF RAIN
AT WASHINGTON CITY
LAST NIGHT.
(By Publishers Press.)

WASHINGTON, July Gin COM
mon with Maryland and Virginia the
District of Columbia last night en-.
countered terrific rain storm that at
lines reached the violence OF cloud
burst. Beginning shortly after seven
o'clock. rain fell steadily for four
hours, the precipitation registered at
The weather bureau showing fall of
s.69 inches which has been surpassed
hut twice in thirty three years in Wash.
ington and then railfall for twenty.
four hours was counted. Street car
service was entirely suspended sew
sral times during the storm. The rain
slackened early this morning but a
lrizzle continued most of the day.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
INHABITANTS OF a cRIMEAN
CITY HAVE ABOUT DESERT.
ED THE PLACE.
THE MuTlNEERs HAVE DEMAND
Ed SUPPLIES ON THREAT OF
FIRING ON THE TOWN.
(By Publishers, prefs.l

THEoDEoSIA. Crimea, July c.
The majority of the inhabitants OF
this city have left the city and 1t is
feared that the mutineers on the
Kniaz Potemlsin viii carry out their
threat to fire on the town this even
ing. Only the troops and police OH.
cials are remaining here.
The desertlon of the town by the
people is in accordance with the or.
ders of the authorities. The munich
pal authorities at first agreed to the
demand of the mutineers that they
should be supplied with provisions.
but no coal was promised. Later or
ders were received from st. Peters
burg to deny all kinds Of provisions to
the Kniaz notemkin. and the local off,
cials We're advised to urge the people
to leave the city II necessary to pre-.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
MINERS KILLED BY EXPLOSION

H "
removed to the Uniontown Hospital.
The details of the accident have not
been ascertained.
The shaft in which the accident
occurred was only recently sunk. and
the explosion took place ninety feet
below the surface of the earth. 1t
is thought that dynamite. which was
being used to sink the shaft, was be.
ing removed from the cage and that
during the handling the explosion oc.
CURED.
The Taylor Coal and Coke Company
was but recently organized. and is
composed of Uniontown parties and
men formerly connected with the Ohio
valley furnaces.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
JUST FOR FUN
MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS ON
PART OF NORWAY AND sWE-
DEN IS FOR SUMMER MA
NEuvERs.
(By Publishers' Press.l

MANCHESTER, England, July e.
The Guardian states that it is inform
ed authoritatively that the mobiliza-
tion of troops on the part of Norway
and Sweden. which, it was reported,
indicated that hostilities would soon
begin between the two countries, is
simply for the ordinary summer ma
neuvers..
Norway has all points along the
frontier at which Swedish troops
could make their way into Norway
guarded. and is prepared to defend
herself in case Sweden endeayors to
use force to compel her to renew the
former relations by which the joint
empire was maintained.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
SOME RAGY TALK
ABOUT THE BIG
DITCH

pose that the alluvial soil won't wash
down In there to make a mud canal
too thick for government dredge
boat to keep afloat in?
''The Nlcaraugua route was FEAST
BILE and for that reason 1t was aban.
dohed. was member OF a syndi-
cate prepared to build canal there for
s12o. 100000 which would have carried
100000 tons of merchandise annu.
ally. We were prepared to do the work
in four years. This looked to much
like canal and the great influences
behind the present transcontinental
transportation business suddenly
ceased opposing the canal project and
pushed the clamor over to Panama.
The men who run our big railroads
know what Panama is.
"By the Nicaragua route as project.
ed ship could leave New York har.
bor and arrive in San Francisco in
eighteen days. No freight train is now
scheduled to go overland inside OF
twenty.three days. Tn: is what struck
the Nicaragua project.
Red tape civil service reform and
yellow eyes will do the rest.
DO you suppose Congress will so on
putting up money for gravestones and
quinine down there am glad am
not in 1t. Everybody down there wants
to do what Wallace did or what the
boss Of the whole works is doing
live in New York and run It by proxy.
Why should Shonts or Wallace be
chosen to dig canal any way? They
reyer did piece of work in their
lives of this sort or anything calcu.
lated to equip them for digging It.
Every man selected so far to do the
work has been picked from trans.
continental railroad. Would you pick
a competitor to build a competing
business? They may be all right, but
none of 1t looks like canal to me-"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
A HUNDRED KILLED
MANY INJURED
DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE SWEEPS
THROUGH MONTAGUE couN
TX. TEXAS.
(By Publishers presss

DALLAS. Tex. July 6.-Reports OF
the loss of life and damage to prop.
erty caused by the cyclone which
swept through Montague county yes.
terday are as yet meagre owing 10 the
wires being down. II is known, how
lever, that fifty persons were killed and
II is probable that when all the returns
are In the death list will be fully one
hundred. There are scores OF Injured,
many of whom have not yet been
found.
The dead SO far. known are;
MRS. @. C. STRAIGHTFORWARD
MISS MINNIE STRAIGHTFORWARD
MRS. s. TUBERsoN and three chill.
dren
MRS. LESTER and four children
CALEB WHITE
MRS. WILLIAMS.
A man named Roberts is believed
to be fatally hurt.
The little towns were spared hut
scores OF farm houses have been wiped
away by the wind. The damage 10
crops and live stock will amount to
many thousands Of dollars. Tne tor
nado appeared to zis-zag and to take
in houses which would have been
spared had the wind kept straight
course.
A dispatch from Jacksboro. capital
tof Jacks county. Texas, says that a
wind storm struck there yesterday de
|stroying aslarge number Of wind mills.
several houses and inturing half a doz.
en- persons. All the injured with the
exception of Mrs. Travis Calhoun, II is
believed will recover.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
EL|HU ROOTMAY
SUCCEED HAY

he left the Cabinet few months ago
Mr.. Root has assumed a tremendous
load Of legal responsibility. He has
pfobably accepted retainers amount.
ing to many thousands of dollars, and
the acceptance of the State Porto
lilo would necessitate not only the re.
turn of this money but the release
from his pledges by the influential
clients who have employed him.
The necessity of securing his re.
lease from his clients is probably
what Is causing delay. The mere de.
-cision as to whether or not Mr..
Root would return the retainer fees
would not require much time. Mr..
Root could settle that off.hand in two
minutes. But If the men who have
employed him to handle their legisIa.
ition should insist upon his fulfilling
his contracts with them he will prob
ably feel obliged to decline the Presi-
dents offer and refuse the honor that
goes with the prime ministry of the
republic.
/ One OF the Cabinet officials hinted
this morning that If Mr.. Root accept.
ed the Secretaryship of State 1t would
mean his boom for the Presidency by
the administration and the snufing
out of Taft's aspirations"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
NEUTRAL VESSELS
WIN Not Be Further Outraged III the
Far East.

LONDON. July e.--The Pail Mall Ca
zette says Il has reason 70 believe
that the government has received sat
isfactory assurances that the order Of
the Gar to i;ussIan cruisers in the
Far East forbidding interrcrence With
the vessels of neutral powers have
been Communicated to the converted
cruiecrs Dion and Dnieper. It is not
expected that any further ontraees
against neutral vessels will be COM
mitte,l In the Far East.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
PooRHousE LENDS MAN
FOR MUSEUM PURPOSES.

CAMERON, w. Va, July Cone of
the attractions here the Fourth was a
so-cailed wild man." the unfortunate
being William Henry Crow, weak
minded inmate of the county home.
1t is said that the authorities loaned
him out for the exhibition. He is
harmless but was kept in hot enclos-
ure all day.
Many citizens denounce the affair
as an outrage. Constable McCardle
took him back to the home this even
ing.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
GENERAL RIOT IS Threatened

may eliminate In general outbreak
Tiflis has been the scene Of disor-
ders. and the greatest excitement still
prevails there. The alarm OF the peo-
pie has been Increased because Of the
uncertainty. regarding the actions of
the mutinous battleship Kniaz Po-
temlsin.
None OF the newspapers appeared
to-day, and there is great danger OF
general riot at any moment.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
FIVE MEN ARE DEAD AND ONE
iNJuREo-oETAiLs NOT YET
oRTAINAsLE.
(By Publishers. Press.)

UNIoNToWN. Pa, July Give
men were killed and one injured in an
explosion of dynamite in the new
mine of the Taylor Coal and Coke
Company, on the Work farm. which
is on the Redstone Branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad. west of the
Brownsville pike and six miles west
OF Uniontown.
The victims of the accident are all
foreigners. The injured man has been
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
SERVICES
WERE HELD TODAY
OVER THE REMAINS OF JOHN
PAUL JONES PREPARATORY
asAV.jJ TO STARTING FOR
s,s3sStsyi5 AMERICA.

5SPARlS, July 6.-!The ceremonies In
connection with the formal transfer
20 the United States, through its spe-
cial ambassadors, of the remains OF
Admiral John Paul Jones, took place
here this afternoon. At $3.50 funeral
services for the former Admiral were
held in the American Protestant Epis.
copal Church Of the Holy Trinity on
the Avenue Del Alma. The church
was illed to overfowing with French
officials in full uniform, the. American
mission to receive the body and prom
inent residents of the American colony
in Paris. Ambassador and Mrs. Nc.
cormiek and Consul General and
Mrs. Gowdy and the members of the
embassy and consulate also attended.
Following the funeral service Gen.
eral Porter, senior special Ambassador
to receive the remains, formally trans
ferred the body to the care of Francis
B. Loomis. assistant Secretary of state
and Junior special Ambassador to take
part in the ceremonies today. Dur
ing all the ceremony at the church the
coffin, draped in flags. rested upon a
catafalque in the chancel, The fu.
neral service was simple but impress.
|siye. Doctor Morgan, rector of the
Church, read the service. Hymns
were then sung and the regular ser.
vice carried out in detail.
At the conclusion of the exercises
in the church a procession was formed
and the body was conveyed under es.
cort to tho esplanade Des Invalides.
Mounted republican guardsmen
formed the guard of honor about the
hearse and behind them marched the
French troops. Then came the sailors
from the American warships which
were sent to convey,the remains of the
first great American naval command
er to the United States. An imposing
force of republican guardsmen lined
the streets through which the process.
zion moved keeping back the enor-
mons crowds which had turned out to
participate In the ceremony.
Starting at the church the process.
sion moved through the Avenue Del
Alma to the Champs Elysees and
across the bridge of Alexander III to
the esplanade Des Invaiides.
There the coffin still resting on the
catafalque was placed on a raised
platform erected for the occasion in
the centre of the esplanade. There
military honors were accorded to the
remains of the admiral, the French
troops and American b1ueiackets filing
past the catafalque while the bands
played the American and French an.
thems. Following this ceremony, the
coffin was removed to a special train
in the Invalides station in which the
American party will make the trip to
cherb,urt starting at ten o'clock to.
luieht.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
DROPS TO DEATH.
cIarksburser Falls From Embank.
ment and Train MansIes Body.

cLskKsBURG. July s.-Richard e.
johnson. aged 6s. fell from an en-
banlSment rs feet above the B. & o.
railroad and was instantly killed some
time Tuesday nigat. Before his body
was discovered 1t was further mang-
led by the Pittsburg fyer.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
AGREEMENT CLOSED

Rinehart & Dennis Company. of
Washington. D. c., former contractors
on the Buckhannon & Northern R. R.
ct this point, have been In the city
for several days. and have closed
an agreement with the United
states Industrial Company for The
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
cAs ON FlRE.
Too Much Fireworks inside and Four
Inmates Are Burned.

cLNRKsBURG, July s.-John Long.
Charley Warfeld. Boyd Fleming and
Ray Parker were seriously burned late
Tuesday night by an explosion of fire
works. A spark ignited these and the
four inmates Of the cab unable to es.
cape we're burned black with powder
Long may lose both his arms.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06

large grading and filing opera
tIons in and adja ,ent to the Coal tNn
valley, which operations viii result In
giving Fairmont continuous system
|of streets parallel with the river. and
a now main 10 foot cross-town thor
|onghfere from tho river.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
erute Almost Kan. WIG.

.cLARKsBURG, July e.-Mrs. John
salvina, wife of an Italian miner at
the Dixie mines near here was beaten
into insensibility Tuesday by drunk.
en- husband and may die from the
kicks administered by him.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06
LEADERS OF MUTINEERS TO Be SHOT

ODESSA, Russia, July 6.--The six
ty-seven leaders of the mutineers on
the Georgei Pobodiesets who we're
given up at the time the balance Of,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06

the crew surrendered to the authori-
ties. we're sent to the prison at
Kertch to-day. 1t is expected that all
the men win be shot
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-06

Mr.. David Hiil. OF Latrobe. Pa. Is
the guest Of relatives in the city.
Smyrna times., 1905-11-22
Americanisms Good old EnpIIsI,

Most so called Americanisms, and, in
deed, Irishisms also, are in reality
archaisms of the English language
which have habit of surviving where
one would least expect to find them.
Many persons will tell you that the
phrase ito let slide is an American
ism, but students of English literature
will call to mind the following stanza
from Chaucer's "Clerkes Tale"
blame him not that he considered
nought
In time coming what might him betide.
But on his lust present was all his
thought
| And for to hauke and hunt on every side.
| Well neigh all other cures let he slide,
And eke he mold (and that was worst Of
alD
wedden no wifi for ought that might be-
fall.
Several other Illustrations of so call
ed Americanisms which occur in Chau-
| Ger may be given-as, for example, II
guess" which is frequently to be met
with:
With him ther was his some. a younge
squier,
A lover and a lusty bachelor,
With lockes crull as they were laide in
| presse.
OF twenty year of age he was, gesse.
Prologue Canterbury Tales"
Many quaint words are commonly
used in America, as pitcher" for
.jug," "falr' for autumn" "Homely'
is invariably used to express the alb
sence of beauty, as "a homely girI'' fol
"a plain girl" An example Of sucf
usage may be found in Shakespeare:
Upon a homely object love can wink.
Two Gentlemen of Verona" ii. A.
London Notes and Queries.
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Smyrna times., 1905-11-22
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Charlotte Corday.

A memorable woman stands upon
the scaffold, not in white, but in the
red smock of a murderess. 1t is Char
lotte Corday, born d'Armans, and she
has killed Marat If ever murder were
1ustifiable it was this assassination.
The sternest moralist cannot refrain
from admiring this high souled, un-
daunted girl, for the murder that she
committed is elevated far above an
ordinary crime. She was impelled
neither by lust of gain nor by jealousy
nor by ordinary hate, and she only
slew a monster in order to save unhap-
by France from wholesale slaughter,
Shortly before his end Marat had
screeched a demand for $500 victims
at Lyons, for 1900 at Marseilles, for
| $4,000 at Paris and for even 100000 ir
Brittany and in Calvados.
No wonder that Danton, Camille Des-
moulins and Robespierre went to see
this extraordinary and most resolute
young woman, whose motive had drug
ged her conscience and who neithe,,
denied her act nor sought to escape It's
| Consequences Ouc was DchCdNCO az
7:30 in the July summer evening.
Calm eyed and composed, she went +,
death, but she turned pale for q me-
ment when first she caught sight of the
guillotine. 81 killed one man to save
100000, villain to save innocents,
vavage, wild beast to give repose to ms
,ountry." Never has murder found 81
noble an excuse, and she was only
twenty Spectator.