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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-09
STOCKHOLDERS, MEETING.

The fifteenth annual meeting of the
Fairmont Public Library Association
will be held in the library parlor on
Tuesday, March IL. 1907, at 4 o'cloci,
p. m, to elect directors and to trans.
act such other business as may be law.
fully done at stockholders meeting.
OLIVE c. BARNES,
Xxx Secretary
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-09

tinted States Senators.
Stephen B. Elkins and Nathan B.
Scott.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-09

Should Frank Dclehanty adhere Il
his Intention to retire from profes
lsional bali and study medicine. he
VIII play Sunday ball with sandus
Ky: lie may coach some college team,
during the week,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-09
Finds Humor in
Sayings Of Christ
MINISTER POINTS OUT WHERE
SOME PHRASES AND SEN
FENCES ARE REALLY
FUNNY.

CHICAGO. March 9.-"Traces of hui
NOR in the sayings of Jesus forms al,
extraordinary article by the Rev.
Shepherd Knapp. OF New York, in the
Biblical World, Just issued from the
University of Chicago press. That the
Man OF Sorrows was humorist is a
new view.
'of the literary humor the cleverest
examples in Christ's words appear
perhaps in the form OF exaggeratfon.' g
writes DR.. Knapp. 1.-The parable of
the mote and the beam is a famous In.
stance, The absurdtty of the con.
trast Is so great-an iniinitesimai
speck in one eye aud log of wood In
the other-that It could hardly have
been spoken for the first time with.
out raising u laugh. II 1t was spoken
with any vigor at all.
A more elaborate instance Of liter.
airy humor is the delightful little
glimpse that Jesus gives us of the
children at their games in the market
place:
1--WE piped unto you and you did
not dance; we varied and We did not
mourn.
ut is the last clause that causes;
or ought to cause. smile
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-09
THE WEST VlRGINlAN
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

President Of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt. Of New York.
Vice President Charles w. Fair.
banks, Of Indiana.
Secretary q State Elihu Root. q
New York.
Secretary Of the Treasury George
B. ccrteiyou. of New York.
Secretary Of War WIN. Il. Taft. Of
Chic.
Attorney General Charles A. Bona.
parte. II Maryland.
Postmaster General-George Won
L. Meyer. Of Massachusetts.
Secretary Of the Navy-yictor n.
Metcalf, of California.
Secretary of the 1nterior-Jas. R.
Garfield, of Ohio.
Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson. of Iowa.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Oscar s. Strauss. of New York.
President OF the Senate pro TEN
pore-zWilliam p. Frye, of Maine.
Speaker of the House of Represen.
tatiyes-Joseph G. Cannon. Of Illinois.
Supreme Court Of the United States.
Chief Jnstice-Melyille w. Fuller.
Associate Justices-John M. Harlan
David ]. Brewer. Henry B. Brown, Ed
ward D. White. Rufus w. Peckham,
Joseph McKenna, VIM. r. Day, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr.
United States Circuit Judges-Na.
than Cor and Peter g. Prichari.
United States District Judges-Al.
ston G. Dayton and BENJAMIN 3. Kei.
Ter.
United States District 'courts-Ths
Northern District.
Judge-Alston G. Dayton. 4
Clsrk-Jasper Y. Moore.
Distric. Attorney-Reese blizzard.
Assistant District Atorney-E. NJ.
showalter. 81
U. s. Marshal-charles D. Elliott.
The Southern District.
Judge-Beniamin F. Keller.
Clerk-Edwin M. Keatley.
District Attorney-Elliott Northcott.
U. s. MarshaIl-John K. Thompson.
tinted States Senators.
Stephen B. Elkins and Nathan B.
Scott.
Representatives In Congress.
First district-Blackburn B. Doyen-
Second District-Thomas B. Davis.
Third district-Joseph H. Gaines.
Foa;tl district-Harry G. Wood.
yard.
Fifth district-1ames A. Hughes.
Commissioner Of Labor. v. Bar
ton.
Chief Mine Inspector. We Paul,
Supreme Court Of Appeals.
Frank Cox, President; George POT
fenbarger. Henry C. Mcwhorter, Hen
ry Braanon, Joseph NJ. Sanders.
Clerk-William B. Mathews.
State Government.
Goenror-W. NJ. o. Dawson.
Secretary of state-charles W.
swisher.
Superintendent of Schools Thomas
G. Miles.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
SMASHES ALL THE WINDOWS CRANE SWEEPS TRAIN Arm Rakes Through Cars Filled With Passengers
 on the B. and A.

South Birmingham, Mass, June 16.-- Running at a rate of fifty miles an hour between Natick and this town the New Tork express on the Boston and Albany railroad which left Boston at f o'clock to-day was raked by the pro- truding arm of steam crane and all the windows of four coaches we'll filled with passengers were cut by flying glass and splinters. The most severely hurt was Peter Chaplin, aged 59 years, of Worcester, who sustained outs about the head and left arm. After receiv- ing attention at the hospital here he was discharged None of the ocou- pants of the coaches suffered serious Injury.
 The accident occurred near NaticR where large steam crane used in rail- road work projected several inches over the track.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
TEACHERS MEET TO DECIDE ACTION Will Determine This After noon What They Will Do in Regard to Their
 Contracts.
MAY ADD PROVISO
 TO.ORIGINAL FORM.
Lawyers Say That Such a Step Would Be Legal But Board Must Then
 Again Ratify It.

The next step that will be taken by the Teachers league in it's campaign for the adoption of it's schedule by the educational authorities will be, disclos- ed this afternoon when the meeting of the entire league convenes in the high school auditorium at 4:15 o'clock. The meeting promises to bring about some interesting developments as the teach CTS are far from reconciled to the sal- ary schedule adopted by the board of education as has been made indubitably evident.
 The two weeks which the teachers have to return their notices of appoint ments with their signatures thus mak- ing their contracts with the board to teach next year binding one Is pass ing. The notices were sent out from the board on Friday and the time to return them expires June 2S. If they are not returned before that date it is taken as an indication that the teacher does not wish to accept the appoint ment. Whatever action is to be taken in regard to this must therefore be de- cided now.
 A number of prominent lawyers have advised the teachers that If they so de- sire 1t will be perfectly legal for them to attach to the notice a proviso such that the contract may be made into a differ ent matter from what it is now. The teachers have not given up all hopes that the board of finance will after hearing them on their schedule appro- priate 8 sum sufficient for It's estab- lishment, and in this case the proviso that the contract was signed with the that if the board of fi- nance took such action the pay of said teacher would be the sum named in the teachers schedule.
 If any such action as this should be taken up and adopted by the league this afternoon the contract with the proviso would be made a new contract and then each appointment under the new contract would have to be ratified again by the board of education to \ make 1t effective.
 The form of contract sent out by the board of education reads in this fash on:
 New Haven, Conn, -, 1907. To F. H Beede. Supt of Schools hereby accept appointment as eacher in ..,........ school, room a. yrade .., on the conditions and at the 'alary stated in the notice of my ap- ,ointment, S.. per annum.
 AT
 Address, ...,....,...... N B. Enter above the salaries as
 
 fCnntinned on Tirhth PaRe
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
MAN ASLEEP ON TRACK. TROLLEY BRUSHES FOOT Edward Hall Injured by a Wallingford Car on Quin-
 nipiac Avenue.

Edward Hall, young man residing at 659 Quinnipiac avenue, suffered a. painful and dangerous accident early yesterday morning at Quinnipiac and Barnes avenue by being run over by an inbound Wallingford car. Hall, accord ing to the story of the railroad officials was lying asleep in the street. It Is claimed that he was in dark spot on the road which was shadowed all the way by large overreaching elm trees. The motorman was unable to see any. thing on the track until his car struck Halls leg, which was extended over the rail. His foot was badly crushed.
 The trolley officials at once sum- moned the police ambulance from the Grand avenue station and Eali was sent to the New Haven hospital. There 1t was stated last evening, that his condition was as comfortable as could be hoped for. There was no other in- jury beyond that to the foot
 Hall is "A years of age. He is not married,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
MEANS CHEAP COAL Important Benefit May Come From Merger With B.
 and M. Road. HELPS BOSTON HARBOR May Bring Establishment of New Trans Atlantic
 Service.

A high railroad authority, speaking
 of the prospective merger of the New
 York, New Haven and Hartford and
 Boston and Maine railroad lines yes
 terday, called attention to the fact
 that, as regarded European trade and
 it's rates, Boston is now no better off than New York city, although consid- erably nearer to important European ports He stated that, after the mer- ger, special attention is to be paid to the development of marine interests at Boston, outgoing and incoming. This, he stated, might encounter some obsta- cles from rival interests, but would be pushed even though In the end it should compel the establishment of a trans- atlantic service In connection with the merged corporations.
 Another important direction of devel- as foreshadowed by the sane is connected with the coal business. If the two companies are he said, their consunnp- tion of coal will amount to four rnll- Hons of tons a year. for which it would not be policy to depend upon other coal-carrying or coal-owning corpora tions. It would therefore probably have to acquire it's own coal properties and a line of transportation from them. The direction of this new enterprise would probably be towards some of the southern coal mines with transporta- tion by sea to New England ports, which, in the opinion of the authority cited, would ultimately result in con siderable reduction of coal prices to New England manufacturers,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
BOTTLE NIGHTTO-NIGHT
Classes Have Decided Not to Celebrate,
 But Individuals Waver.

Tonight, the eve of the last exam nations, is bottle night" celebrated for the past twenty years by the stu dents clearing the college rooms of whatever superauous glassware they may contain.
 The freshman class unanimously de- cided several days ago not to observe the day in the usual fashion this year, and few nights later the sophs, who are the principal disturbers, were ad- dressed on the subject by Professor Gruener and A. P. Dabian, 1907, who Is on the campus committee.
 Many of the members of 1909 prom ised the professor that they would try to preserve order, but several have since found that the large number of bottles In their rooms will require some other method of exit than merely being carried out, The campus police will conveniently remain in their room, and perhaps it will be safer for pedestrians to walk on the farther side of the street near the dormitories
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
MASTER BARRIERS
 TAKE ACTION Decided at Meeting Yester- day to Hire Non-Union Men to Take Places
 of Strikers. READY FOR WORK
 BY WEDNESDAY Say That There Will be No Further Compromise Offered to Jour
 neynen.

The Master Barbers association held
 meeting yesterday at the Tontine and
 decided not to make any further con-
 sessions to the striking journeymen
 other than those already offered, to
 close Friday night at six o'clock and
 to keep closed all day on legal holi-
 days. They also decided to fill the
 places of the striking journeymen at once and announce that by Wednes-
 day if not before they will be ready with competent help to receive all their customers.
 To-day notices will be sent to em- ployment bureaus in Hartford, New York and other cities offering posi- tions to forty non-union barbers. In this way the proprietors hope to de- feat the plans of the men to make the shops stay closed during commence ment.
 The journeymen say that it will be impossible for the master barbers to i'll their places by Wednesday espec- ially with competent help. They point out the fact that most of the efficient tonsorial artists belong to the union and that no union men will work in the shops. They also are confident that the union men in other professions will keep away from the shops which stand out against them, until the demand for a half holiday week, or a whole holi- day every two weeks is granted.
 The master barbers after the meet ing yesterday stated that they found no fault with the keepers of the shops in the outskirts of the city, for asking g half holiday, nor with the men in those shops for making the demand. They say that the business of the small shops is done principally in the even- ing and that 1t does not matter If the men have half day off The employees in the small shops get only $S or $l0 q week, seldom are tipped, and 50 should have shorter hours.
 In the center of the city, especially in the shops whose keepers are holding out, the business is carried on all through the day and in the afternoon the shops are filled with merchants and students, so that the master barbers fo not fell that they could accomnlo- late the public were one man off. They point out the fact that the employees get from $l4 to SIS week and tips amounting to considerable over $1 a lay, So that they should be willing to work all the hours the shops were 1pen.
 The master barbers also stated last light that some of the strikers were Q return in the morning, preferring to pay the $25 fine than to lose their posi- Ions Inquiring among the strikers ailed to disclose anyone with such in- ention.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
MAY RECALL AOKI Tokio Paper Says Kaneko Will Probably Succeed Him as Ambassador. ORGAN OF OPPOSITION. Is Decidedly Anti-American and Bellicose in Its
 Tone.

Tokio, June 17.-The Hochi says this morning that Viscount Aoki, Japanese ambassador to America, will probably be recalled and that he will likely be succeeded by Baron Kaneko
 The Hochi shimbun is the organ of Count Okuma, the leader of the pro- gressiyes. and therefore voices anti governmental opinions The paper is decidedly anti-American and in a recent editorial, after commenting on the San Francisco troubles as worse than the murder of missionary in China, which resulted in the occupation of Kiao Chou" said:
 Who would blame an appeal to the last measure if impotency to protect treaty rights is proved? We hope, how ever, that Ambassador Aoki will be firm enough to make the Washington government quickly take measures to nete out justice to the Japanese"
 Washington. June 1S,-Baron Kaneko whom the Tokio Hoehi asserts will probably succeed viscount Aoki as am- bassador from Japan at this Capital is former minister of Japan in the Tokio cabinet. He was sent to the United States during the Russia-Japan- ese war on confidential mission from the Japanese government. During the Portsmouth peace conference, he Is credited with having actively urged Japan's agreement to the terms as fin- ally signed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
TROLLEY ACCIDENTS.

Danbury Conductor Gets Fractured
 Skull and Putnam Man Broken
 Nose.
 Danbury, June 1S--Edward French, a conductor on the Danbury and Bethel street railway had his skull fractured by coming in contact with tree, as he was riding on the running board of his car. He fell unconscious to the ground In addition to the fracture he received a bad scalp wound and is now at the hospital In serious condition. His home is in Bethel.
 Putnam, June 16.-Victor Chase, a To- cal contractor, and Mrs. Chase, while near Wildwood park last night were struck by trolley car. MT. Chase was badly cut about the face and head, and his nose was broken, while his wife escaped injury His condition is said to be serious. It Is alleged that tho headlight on the car was out.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
JAPAN WANTS A BILLION DOLLARS Her Treaty With France Opens Financial Markets
 of That Country
 to Her.
INSURES ASSENT
 OF GOVERNMENT
Good Bargain But France in Return Receives Guar antee Respecting
 Indo-C China.

Paris, June 16.--W'hile political con-
 alterations of a high order contributed
 to the negotiation of the naw Franco
 Japanese entente. there is no longsr
 any doubt that the substantial Quid pro
 quo given by France was the promise
 Of access to the French market for f1a-
 ture Japanese loans. Japan did not
 need French gauarantee for Korea
 and Formosa but Japanese guarantee
 for Indo- China was worth a great deal
 to France and she was willing to nav the price demanded.
 Japan, according to the confidential
 statements made by some of her hirh-
 est representatives in Europe will need something like $5,OOO, OO0OOO francs $(1,-
 O0oOO00 00O) within the next few years to convert her present high rase loans and to furnish the capital necessary for industrial and commercial deveiop- ment planned in Manchnr'ia and Korea.
 While the money markets Of the world are at present unfavorable to fiotattona Japan has succeeded in insuring the assent of the French government to the placing of her loans here when tha opportune time arrives.
 It Is regarded as big acfsfeveYnArlt for Japan, but the French government IS equally convinced that 1t is q rood bargain for France. M. Pichon. the present minister for foreign affairs. had a long experience In the far east as minister at Pekin and none Appreciated more than he how impossible it would be for France to defend Indp -China, against such an adversary as Japan. Besides as 8 matter of fact the dread of Japanese aggression in Tndo-China. has haunted the Quai d'Orsay for years. France has given Japan provo- cation in the past She was a parfyy with Russia and Germany to the Tri- partite agreement which forced Japan to relinquish the fruits of her victory over China obtained in the treaty of 5hfnlonisaki and there has always ex- isted fear that Japan would some day take her revenge. Indeed there are in the archives of the Quai d'Orsay proofs that one time plan of cafi- paign against the French colony of Lndo-C China had been prepared at To- Sio Subsequent events, however de- sided Japan to strike Russia instead of France
 There was a critical moment during he Fashoda incident when France and England seemed on the verge of war. Trance was too greatly alarmed lest Japan would seize the opportunity and trike, and hurried preparations were made to defend the Chinese colony. There was another crisis in the foreien
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
(continued on Page Eighty
THE JUGULAR.
south Farms Man Conrnits Suicide
 With Jackkntfe.

Portland. Conn, June 16.-The boiy of Wilbur N. Clarke, of South Farms. was found early to-day in a gully in a. lot on Middlesex avenue. CIutched fn his hand was small jackknife, the point of which was broken, and his shirt about the neck was covered with blood from wound in his throat. 1t is believed that some time last nfght or early to-day he had taken his life. severing his jugular vein and then staggering forward short distance until he fell forward on his face from weakness. In his clothes were found letters addressed to him and about sS2 in money He was about forty-five years old. and it is believed he had been Respondent as result of tho death of his wife, which occurred about a year ago,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.

 puma Dissolution Received Tranquilly. Japan Wants a Billion Dollars. New Triple Alliance. Shlcago Operators to Support Union. B. x M. Merger Means Cheap Coal. Crane Smashes Car Windows. May Recall Ambassador Aoki. roosevelt and the Operators Appeal. Celebration of Bunker Hill Boston Entertains Texas Bankers. sebastopol Commandant Assassinates. secretary Taft at Sioux Falls.
 STATE. Aged New Havener Weeds in Bridgeport New Haven Man Stricken in aWterbury New Milford Celebration Begins. UnknoWn Suicide at New Britain. Flaint1eld Laborers Threaten Strike, Scnooi Cornerstone Hanging at Hartford Unknown Swede Killed at Naugatuck. TWO sunday Trolley Accidents TWO Bridgeport Workmen Killed. Waterbury Horseshoers May Strike. New Milford Celebration.
 CITY. Important Trolley Improvements. Man Asleep on Trolley Track. 5. A R, Honors Patriot Dead Slight Fire on Minor Street. Derby Avenue Wants to Know Why. TWO Italian Laborers Injured. Teachers Meet To Decide Action. Iollce Fail to Locate Bakers Relatives Barbers to Hire Non-Union Men Banquet to W. W. Knight Bottle Night at Campus To- night. No Strike of Carpenters. Derby Avenue Site Up Tonight. Auto Ride for Centennarian. Sarstlelds Hold Memorial Service. New Haven Boys on Yale Medicalcmf N H. Boys on Yale Medical Journal. St Louis Church Benefit Concert. Rev. fa Vo1
 SPORTS. Suburban Handicap at sheepshead. Travers Chances Bright. Smith in Great Britain Championship. Jamestown Athletic Events. N. Y. Yacht Club Regatta Scorers are Liberal College Qarsmen Practice on Hudson, Springfield the Attraction To-day State League Meeting Here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
SAID HE LIVED HERE.
But Police Can't Find Relatives of Man
 Stricken in Waterbury.

But Police Can't Find Relatives of Man
 Stricken in Waterbury.
 A telephone message was received by the local police department last night from the Waterbury police stating that a man had been picked up on the street there who claimed he belonged in this city. The man was taken with an at- tack of heart disease, and was inme- diately sent to the Waterbury hospital. He gave his. name as Harry Baker, and claimed that he lived at 24o Woos- ter street, this city. The local police were asked to locate his relatives.
 Upon investigation 1t was discovered that Harry Baker, colored man, lived at the address given but he was safe at home. Moreover, the man in Water bury hospital is white. The police were until to locate any other Baker on Wooster street and no one of that name appears in the New Haven direc- tory.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
MINISTERS ORDAINED.
Swedish Lutherans May Remove Bar
 Against Secret Societies.

SWeoA@n Lutherans May Remove Ban
 Against Secret Societies.
 New Britain, June 16,-In the Swedish Lutheran synod to-day twenty candi- dates were ordained to the ministry. pr. Norelius, president of the synod. being assisted at the ceremony by for " visiting ministers. Rev. Dr. c. E. Linberg, of Rock Island, Ill, preached the sermon. All the candidates have received calls to pastorates.
 In the synod tomorrow an amend- ment to the constitution for the remov- al of the prohibition against members joining secret societies will come up for discussion. It is expected that the ban will be removed, as it is said it has not been very regularly observed. An amendment which aims to give women the right to vote in meetings will also be up for consideration.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
John F. CurIex Dead.

The death of John F. Curley occurred at his residence, North Bank street, last evening, after few days illness with pneumonia. The deceased was a member of the Second Regiment band for number of years. He leaves, be- sides his wife, two daughters. Mrs. O. N. Lane and Mrs. Harry Burtane, and two sons, Edward and William Curley The funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
Waterbury Horse.hoer. May strike.

Waterbury, June 16,-Members of the local Horseshoers union threaten to go on strike tomorrow to enforce their demand on the employers for a nine hour day and an increase of 50 cents a day in wages. The men at present work ten hour. Floormen receive S2.50 and forge men $S day Their demand has been refused by the employers.