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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-09
THE JAPS HAVE
SHARP EYES And
QUICK STEPS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF THE
PEACE PLENlPoTENTiARiEs
NOW IN THIS COUNTRY
ON PEACE MISSION.

HOTEL WENTWORTH, PORTS
MOUTH, N. H., August 9.-The free
dom with which the peace envoys and
the members of their suite move about
their hotel and grounds brings glad,
ness TO the hearts of the pleasure
seekers.
The characteristics of the two
races are accentuated in this and
other ways. The Russians move
about with great deliberation. saunt.
ering along the great piazza, walking
along the pathways arm in arm with
each other or having a bout at bill
lizards. Business appears to be the
watchword of the Japanese. wher-
ever they go it is with quick step
and sharp eye. There is no loiter.
ing.
First into dinner last night, they
went the first out. The hotel people
had not recovered from their aston
ishment over the appearance in the
public dining room of the Japanese
ENJOYS and their suite when their
eyes fairly bulged from their sockets
to see Baron Komura and Minister
Takahira start through the building
to personally round up their baggage.
From spot to spot they went, and the
baggage man was in a perspiration
before they retired. This they did
not do until every typewriter, table,
trunk and every piece of official and
personal baggage was in its proper
place in their rooms. With their
desks practically cleared for action,
the Japanese ENJOYS retired for the
night at ten o'clock. The members OF
their suite followed shortly.
The Russians went to their apart.
ments early. but when they retired
there was still much of the prelimi.
nary arrangements to be perfected.
But democracy does not mean that
all privacy is to be swept aside. There
is not personal invitation for accosta.
ton. There is no encouragement by
the ENJOYS for curbstone or portico
conferences. They have given 1t to
be understood that they have labor
that requires their entire attention
and that they will not discuss the
peace negotiations. They have, and
are enjoying the privileges of free
dom of movement without any Of the
annoyances to which distinguished
people are some times put.
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AWFUL NERVE
WAS DISPLAYED BY TRAMpe|
BUT MRS WEIGH WAS
ENOUGH FOR THEM. 'ss

GREENFIELD, Mass. August. e.
Mrs. John welch yesterday afternoon
fought single-handed In her home
here. four tramps, who demanded
food. Without waiting for response
to their request they brushed up by
her and went to the pantry.
Mrs. Welch seized one OF them ana
shook him vigorously. He escaped.
leaving her In possession Of his coat
Two others fed, but Mrs. Welch tack.
led the fourth. threw him to the door
and punched him till be begged for
mercy, She released him upon the
promise to assist in the capture Of his
companions, one of whom carried
away two pies. The tramp. however,
took to his heels. The police have 1
coat and cap for ciues to the Identity
of the vagabonds.
Those men had an awful nerve,
was the comment OF Mrs. Welch.
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to death. The catastrophe yesterday
will probably exceed it in loss of life
and certainly exceeds 1t in property
loss.
Some seventy odd years ago. thirty
lives were sacrificed by the collapse
of a bridge at the foot of State street.
But these disasters, both appalling in
their character, did not evoke the in
tense personal interest of the people
of Albany to the extent that this one
does.
The cause of the disaster seems to
have been the giving way Of brick
pier on which rested an iron column
supporting one of the centre walls OF
the building, the collapse being due
to an excavation made beneath
pier for a foundation for which new
work forming part Of extensive i'm
provements, was to rest. The piers
and column gave away. the wall fell
and with 1t the floors and roof OF the
whole central portion of the building
back Of the elevators. That the cat
astrophe was one which could have
been prevented by ordinary precau-
tions is the universal consensus OF
public opinion. The authorities say
that rigid Investigation will be
made and the guilty will be punished
The following men were In charge
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DEATH LIST OF The ALBANY HORROR INCREASES

6. ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 9.-Twelve
are dead, twenty-seyen injured and
N the hospitals, and over forty are
missing, as result of the collapse
of the John G. Myers Department
store on North Pearl street yesterday
morning. All night long scores of
men worked like beavers upon. the
ruins and the number will be rein
forced to-day. That a score or more
bodies still remain beneath the wreck.
age. seems a certainty.
The list Of dead at eight o'clock
this morning was as follows:
MISS MINNIE x. PULLMAN. 1853
Livingston avenue.
MISS ANNA eastman. SO Water
street.
MICHAEL j. FITZGERALD, 542
North Pearl street. ga 3
FRANK P. LEONARD, 1o1 Myrtle
avenue
MISS MARY MeAvoY, rsa Orange
street
JOHN E. POWERS. cash boy. 30
Bassettsstreet
ALICE T. SHARP, 81 Elizabeth
street.
MISS THERESA sPANNBAUER,
2a3 Sherman street.
MISS ETA L. sPRINKs, 1853 Ian
raster street, saleswoman.
ANNA WHITBECK. Sc Irving
street
MISS GRACE B. EBNER, 95 Lex
Ington avenue
MISS HELEN MALONE. 1877 Green
street. ~
The injured In the various ilospit-
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UP HIS SLEEVE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS SAID
TO HAVE ANOTHER PEACE
CARD iF CONFERENCE

ST. PETERsBuRG. August a.-offi-
Gals connected with the foretsn ofilcel
have been greatly impressed BY a tel
egram received from London. witch
says:
President Roosevelt has another
means to bring about peace in the
event Of failure Of the negotiations.
The message has caused great
deal OF discussion as to Just what
the other means may be- Ono high
official in Commenting on the Telegram,
said: "a very clever and energetic
statesman like President Roosevelt
may astonish the world 4
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-09
A CHRIS TMAS TREE
FOR THE BOYS
MRS. TAeaART BURIED HER FACE IN a HANDKER-
CHIEF AND CAPTAIN TAeeART HAD TROUBLE
WITH HIS EYES AT MENTION or IL.

WOOSTER. Ohio, Aug, s.--Thomas
Noraldo. Captain Taggart's Filipino
valet at Fort Leavenworth, was the
first witness when the trial of the
Taggart divorce case was recon.
menced this morning. Speaking In
fairly good English he described
what he called Japanese night
dress. he said Mrs. Taggart wore when
she received officers at her house.
Colonel Minor and Lieutenant For.
tesque. he said. were frequent callers.
He testified: Il remember one night
when Captain Taggart was In Kansas
City, during the flood. Lieutenant
Fortesque and another officer called
at the house about 9 o'clock. Mrs.
Taggart told me to go to bed. AT 0
O'Clock the next morning Fortesque
came again and sat in the parior. He
stayed half an hour. Mrs, Taggart
woresa Japanese night dress. AT
about 1880 he came again and en-
tered without ringing the bell.
He met me In the hall and asked
for Mrs. Taggart. ] said she was In
her room and he went upstairs. |
went To the kitchen, Later I saw him
come out from her room and go down
stairs. | saw her In the room. She
still Wore the Japanese night dress.
The next day Mrs. Taggart went to
Kansas City to see Captain Taggart.
q have sometimes seen Mrs. Tag.
gart smoke cigarettes. Sometimes
I have seen her drink when they had
company. remember one party when
Captain Taggart was away. Three
officers and three ladies came to the
house. They had champagne, whis.
key and beer at dinner. Mrs. Tag.
|gart and all the guests but one lady
drank"
On cross-examination Moraldo told
of yisit of Captain Taggart. Mrs.
Taggart and the children at the Tag.
gart farm in orrville one Christmas
when he helped Mrs. Taggart arrange
n Christmas tree for the boys. Mrs.
Taggart's head was bowed while the
story was told. She pressed her hand.
kerchief to her face. At the same
time Captain Taggart seemed to have
some trouble with his eyes.
Mrs. Taggart again to-day sat at
the side of her attorneys. She watch.
ed carefully each development in the
evidence and seemed to offer frequent
suggestions.
Moraldo was asked II he did not
remember cotillion at Fort Leaven-
worth, April II, 1903. when Mrs. Tag
gart. Mrs. Miner, Miss Yost, Miss Per
rs, General Miner and Captain Tag.
gart were in the receiving line. Mo-
RADIO said he was in charge of the
punch bowl. After the cotillion a
party was at Captain Taggart.s
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Foreign FLAGS
Offend MR.. PIERCE
RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE STANDARDS NO LONGER
FLOAT IN THE AMERICAN RREEzEs AT THE
SEAT OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

HOTEL. WENTWORTH, PORTS
MOUTH. N, H.. Aug. 9.-Extraordi-
nary precautions are being taken to
avoid all possibility of embarrass-
ment between the ENJOYS and the
members of their suites. and to pre-
vent accident and annoyance to the
.envoys themselves.
Rnssian and Japanese flags are no
longer flying from the hotel stats.
They foated in the breeze but one
day. Although divided by half the
length of the great hotel building. the
view OF the ensigns was displeasing
TO Assistant Secretary of State Pierce
and upon his suggestion to the man
agement that foreign flags should no
longer be displayed. the standards
of the belligerent countries were not
raised this morning.
Secret service men accompany the
senyoys on their trips to and from the
.city.
No advance announcement will be
made as to the route of travel or the
Sconveyance to be used. Some days
the entire trip will be made in autos,
while on Others launches will be
used. The object is to protect the. en-
yoys from interruption from the ap-
proaches, of cranks and from possi-
BILE harm.
The Russian ENJOYS were the first
TO start on the five mile auto ride to
the conference rooms. "A bid red
motor car was in waiting for them
outside their quarters in the annex
Eof the hotel. There were just four
persons to wave them a farewell and
three Of these were newspaper CORE
sspondents. This was not because the
crowd here is not taking as much in
terest in their movements as they
sare In those of the Japanese but near.
" everybody expected them to en-
bark in their carriages at the front
door OF the hotel At this point there
was q large crowd gathered, the fair
sex In their bright and airy summer
costumes being largely in the ma
.jority.
It was just 9:45 o'clock when M.
Witte and Baron Rosen entered their
.scar, NJ witte wore a black sack
coat, white waist coat. dark grey
trousers and soft Manila straw hat.
He was pulling his Inevitable -ciga-
4
ed heavily on his big stick, as he
walked down the steps to the car.
Baron Rosen was more formally at
tired in a black frock suit and white
waistcoat. Both 2envoys carried
gloves; they did not wear them.
They smiled at the newspaper men
who witnessed their departure. They
were accompanied by NJ. Nabakoff.
an attache OF the Russian foreign Of
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ais are reported to be doing well. But
one death has occurred in the nos
pitals among the victims taken from
the building alive. Miss Mary Nc.
Avoy, who was taken from the wreck
at 2:15 yesterday afternoon died at
st. Peters Hospital at 1920 o'clock
this morning.
The injured at the hospitals are:
At st. Peters, Miss Ella Donohue,
SO Second street, fractured spine, may
live.
Mrs. Wilson Borst, Minnesota, shop.
per, bruised and injured internally,
condition serious. 81
Alice Burns, Menands, badly
bruised.
Dudley Weaver, &c Trinity Place,
cut on head. q
Mrs. Stafford, badly bruised and
cut.
Lewis H. Mergenthaler. Rensselaer,,
eyes injured, limbs bruised, sprained
ankle. ~
Miss Lillian spatz, 80 Hudson AYE:
nue., head cut, arms bruised.
Miss Lena Densinger, ia Orange
street, badly bruised.
Miss Albina Cleutier, Madison
Place, head badly cut and bruised.
Mrs. Richard w. Brass, 3 South
Lake avenue, head cut and bruised.
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Miss Mary Benson, 1874 Clinton
avenue, cut and suffering from
shock.
Miss Nellie Burns. 2Ss Madison
avenue, bruised.
Robert NJ. Chalmers, 2ss Clinton
avenue, bruised. cut and suffering
from shock.
Charles Dottman, Providence
Place. bruises.
George Miller, at Homeopathic hos.
pital.
Henry Snyder, stunned.
]. Griffin, 1856 Clinton avenue, hand
cut. Z ff'sF
Howard Smith, 459 Clinton avenue,
head and hand cut.
Samuel Frazier, "a Swan street,
hands cut and bruised.
Lena Hess, As Eagle street, legs;
breast and face cut.
+ William Devlih, 291 First street.
The property loss is estimated at a
quarter Of a million dollars.
The fact that fire did not break out
has made 1t possible to save consid-
cradle of the stock. That the accident
occurred at an early hour was also
fortunate for had It occurred an. hour
or two later the store would have
been thronged with buyers. and in
that case the loss Of life would have
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Inquest To.Moreow.

Z Coroner, Amos, accompanied by
Sheriff Furbee and Deputy sheriff
Watson, having in tow Helen Payton,
the Warrington husband polsoner,
and her paramour, Frank Wright,
will leave for Mannington tomorrow
morning at 7:47 O'clock. The inquest
on the death of Jacob N. Payton will
begin at nine o'clock at the mayors
office in Warrington. and is expect.
ed to take most of the day.
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assisting in the work of rescue. He
says thorough investigation will be
made and the responsibility fixed.
Just now" said the mayor. 1--WE
are most concerned about the work
of rescue. We are anxious to clear
away the wreckage, and extricate the
bodies buried beneath It.
''1f any person has been guilty of
negligence, and 1t seems to me that
this accident could not have occurred
without it. he has to be punished. The
guilty person will be prosecuted as
soon as we have placed the respon-
sibility for the disaster, which is the
worst of It's kind that has ever befall-
en- our city"
The heroism shown In the work OF
rescue and prompt aid to the injured
was noteworthy. Physicians by the
score. clergymen and priests, nurses
from the hospitals. firemen, policemen
and citizens all did everything that
human hands could do.
Crews from the railroads reinforced
the workers in clearing away the
rubbish in order to reach the bodies.
All night long they toiled, occasion
ally bringing to light the body of a
victim: Enormous crowds, kept back
by ropes, watched with interest the
work Of rescue. During the long hours
of the night hundreds remained in the
hope Of getting some tidings of a
loved one. At midnight the sixth
body was removed. 1t was that q
Miss Theresa spannbauer OF Sher-
fcn.sf..,.a q, r-r.,.s,, r,-.s !, q III
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flee who had the credentials of the
Cars ENJOYS in his pocket.
1t was ten minutes later before the
waiting crowd at the main. entrance
of the hotel were rewarded with a
sight of the japanese plenipotentia-
ries. Baron Komura came first, dress
ed in a black frock coat with white
waistcoat and derby hat. He was
smoking a half consumed cigarette
without any holder. He was closely
followed by Minister Takahira who
was attired in a gray suit with a large
Panama hat on his head. Just before
entering the car, Mr.. Takahira stop
ped to fight "a cigarette. So it hap
pened that every one of the ENJOYS on
the way to discuss the issues of peace
or war in the Far East was drawing
from these little rolls of
tobacco. The Japanese travelled in
"a black car and were accompanied
by NJ. Adachi, the secretary of the
Japanese foreign Office, who is an ex-
pert French scholar.
First Meeting over.
HOTEL WENTWORTH, PORTS
MOUTH, N. H., August 9.-The first
meeting of the peace envoys has
come to an end.
Count Witte and Baron Rosen re.
turned in an auto at noon,
The Japanese ENJOYS have not yet
returned.
The session lasted less than an
hour. 1t was announced unoficially
Immediately after the adjournment
that the order of business had been
agreed upon; that the language to
be used should suit the convenience
of the individual members and that
the second session should be held
at 10 o'clock tomorrow. Z sr--s--
Baron Rosen stated that If a
treaty were agreed upon, 1t would
most likely be in French.
HOTEL WENTWORTH, PORTS.
MOUTH, N. E., August 9.-After
the return of the plenipotentiaries to
the hotel from the navy yard, Mr..
Saito, on behalf Of the Japanese,
made the following statement:
"To-day's meeting was entirely in
formal for the purpose of settling
the method of procedure. In that
meeting 1t was decided that formal
meetings will commence tomorrow
at $3.50 A. NJ. Meetings will be held
twice day. One from $3.50 A. M.
to 1890 P. NJ, and the other at three
to five thirty or six o'clock, subject
to such notifications as may be
agreed upon by the plenipotentiaries.
No serious business was transacted
at this mornings session.
7 PORTSMOUTH, N. H., August 9.
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Charley Austin. who at the Juno,
term Of the Circuit Court pleaded
guilty to the charge Of inyoluntary
manslaughter. in being responsible for
the death Of Michael Dovd. at Farms
ington last February. and who was
sentenced to two months in jail. has
served out his time and win be rc-
leased tomorrow.
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THE WEATHER.
Fair Tonight.
Guardians Appointed.

Aug. s, 1905; Martha Eakin. guar
dian of Paul Eakin and Frank Eakin;
$50; Charles vandegrift, guardian of
Bessie yandegrift; 5000.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-07-21
Could See His Heart.

In Moberly recently there was a
man selling mucilage, who is "a Curl
osity to the medical fratnity. as his
left lung is eaten away with con-
sumption, and from six operations
he had performed TO obtain relief
from physical ills hole was made
in his left side through which his
heart could be plainly seen and
its throbbing witnessed. The man
claims that by holding his nose and
closing his mouth he is enabled to
breathe trough the hole in the side.
He has photographs showing the hole
in his side and the caved-in appear
ance of his chest which is due to
some of his ribs being removed,
The man resides in Colorado and has
written a book about himself, upon
which he will obtain a copyright.
Until he obtains the legal papers he
refuses to make his name public.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-07-21
KISSES SAVE WHEAT CROP
Rain Was Coming and Hands
Were ListleSS. so Miss HuS-
ton Offered Prizes.

Kisses and hugs bestowed by a
pretty girl saved her fathers wheat
crop, valued at $50, 900 from rain in
Saline county. Kansas, last week. The
kisses and hugs were given as prizes
by Mabel Huston, the eighteen-year-
old daughter of S. II. Huston wheat
farmer, to the men whom the farmer
hired to take care of his wheat.
Harvest hands have been scarcer
in Kansas this year than for many
seasons. The farmers of Central
Kansas received word from the Gov
eminent weather offices on Friday
that heavy rain was expected that
night. All wheat which remained
unshocked when il came would be
ruined.
The greater part of the Huston
wheat was unshocked when Farmer
Huston and the dozen men who
went into the field on Friday. Mr.
Huston tried to impress on the men
the necessity for hurrying their
work. The men. many of whom
had been imported for the season
from other states. gave little heed to
his worry.
Then Miss Huston went into the
field with the morning drink of But
termilk for the men and when they
had gathered about her. she said:
I'VE must save this crop of wheat
or can't return to school this fall.
Now to the man who shocks the
most wheat to-day | will give three
kisses and a hug, and to the man
who is second will give just two
kisses and the third man a hug.
Papa shall be the Judge
The effect on the men was cleo
trifying. They worked harder than
any harvest hands ever worked be-
fore in that country. The contest
was very close throughout the day
between Fred Norton. the son of a
neighbor of the Illusions and two
Eastern men.
When the last bundle of wheat
had been shocked and was safe from
the rain, which soon followed, it was
found that Norton had won the
prize. 1t was promptly bestowed,a las
were also the second and and third
prizes in the presence of all the har-
vesters.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-07-21
How Islands Get Forrest.

When travelling among the Islands
of the Pacific or Atlantic one often
wonders how it is that lands so far
away from great continents have be-
come covered with forest, but Oar
win and other naturalist have solved
the difficulty for us.
Thus we learn from Darwin that
he took from the foot of :. woodcocb
a cake of dry earth in which was a
seed of the toadrush. He plant.
ed the seed and it terminated and
lowered.
Professor Newton sent him the leg
of a partridge which had beer
wounded and unable to fly. At
tached to it was a clod of earth
weighing six and one-half ounces. He
broke up the clod and placed it un.
der the bell glass. No fewer than
eighty-two plants sprang from it..
1t is the more interesting to know
that the clod of earth containing thi:
treasury was kept three years before
planting.
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q "A g II OH IA.
Bean the The Kind You Have AIways Bought
''s' a. &<zAzIZw
Americans in Kentucky.

There are counties in Kentucky
where there is not a single resident
of foreign BIRTH declared R. B.
Baker, of Louisville. The resi-
dents are the defendants of the old
families who came to Kentucky
when this State was known as the
dark and bloody ground, and who
fought to make the State what it Is
to-day. They have no land to sell to
foreigners, they have no business to
do with them, therefore the foreign
population settles elsewhere. pre-
sumo the same condition of affairs
will be found in these same counties
so years from now.
mot anywhere else in this coun-
try can there be found a settlement
which is more truly American.
When you stop to consider the num-
Der of nationalities one meets gath
cred together in almost every part
of the country, the way these Ken
tuckians have managed to keep to
themselves is little less than marvel
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-07-21
How to Be Popular.

BE natural. People are quick to
discern affection of any kind and
have a contempt for it, so give up
affectation. Be neat. There is
great charm in neatness. Be affec-
tionate and sympathetic and don't
be self conscious and ashamed to
show either quality. BE home low
ing and kind to all old people and
children. These are womanly quail
ties all love and admire the womanly
girl. Don't have moods" Avoid
the blues. People like to know how
to find girl, not to have to renew
her acquaintance every time they
meet. Be athletic, as that means
health, and healthiness means whole
someness.