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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
Killed by Lightning.

Bertha-The large new barn belong
ing to Peter Messer, ST., was struck
by lightning. One of Messer's sons
was killed and the barn and contents,
as well as several straw piles and
seventy tons of hay stacked outside
the barn, were burned.
The two sons of Mr.. Messer had TAX
en- out the horses to go blowing, when
1t began to rain. After returning the
horses into their stalls, Emil Messer
went to the Aarn door, when the light
ming flashes In, setting fire to the
barn and killing him instantly. The
lightning lacerated his left temple,
running down and decorating his
breast and right leg, and then tore
his shoe from his right foot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
ToseIIi to Sing in America.

Florence, Sept 30.-Enrico Toselli,
who last week married Countess Mon
tignoso in London, in an interview
Sunday confirmed the reports that it
was his intention to make an Ameri.
can tour as singer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
MINING MAN ARRESTED.
Maj. c m. Wilson, of Joplin, Mo-, Is
Accused of Fraud.

Joplin, Mo-, Sept. 30-Maj. c. H.
Wilson, well-known mine operator,
who for Is years has been engaged
in the formation of mining enter
prises in the Missouri-Kansas lead
and zinc district, was arrested Sun
day, charged with having obtained
money in connection with fraudulent
companies here.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
Mrs. Katherine TingIey.

Nine. Blavatsky died several years
ago, Mr.. Judge asserted that, through
revelations made to him by the Ma
hatmas, her soul had transmigrated to
his body and he had been designated
as her successor. Mrs. Tingley was
then his lieutenant.
Routed Mrs. Besant.
About the same time Mrs. Besant
repudiated Mr.. Judges revelations
and declared that the soul of the Bla-
vatsky had been transmitted to her.
Mr.. Judge, who was a skillful lawyer,
so argued as to place the burden of
truth upon the Englishwoman. He
said: Prove that 1 have not received
communications from the Mahatmas"
This, of course, Mrs. Besant could not
do, but she continued to proclaim her
leadership, and gathered around her in
England a desultory following.
When Mr.. Judge died, Mrs. Tingley
became his successor by a similar
token, and her enthusiasm, her charm
of address, and her executive ability
placed Theosophy upon broader,
more practical, and popular basis than
that which had formerly held it, Some
IL years ago Mrs. Tingley acquired a
long point of land, called Point Iona,
in California, and there established
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
Missing.

Mankato, Minn.-No trace has yet
been discovered of George Shostag,
who disappeared mysteriously from
st. Clair, leaving a note declaring that
he was going to kill himself. The river
has been dragged and the surround
ing country searched in vain. The
search is still in progress.
1t is learned that Shostag was
dressed in his best suit the night he
disappeared, and he had more than
500 in his possession. He had made
no deposits in the bank for two weeks
and was having a good trade.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered in the
Gopher State
Arrested.

Osakis, Minn.-A man giving his
name as Nordholm was arrested here
on the charge of burglarizing three
saloons. The saloons were entered
at rear windows and their cash draw
ers rifled. Nordholm was seen com.
by hunting party that started out
in the early morning. D. Prentice,
bartender in F. R. Curry's saloon in
Fergus Falls, went to Osakis and posi-.
lively identified Nordholm as the man
who came to the saloon and asked per-
mission to remain until train time the
night the saloon was robbed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
Diamond Robbery.

MISUNDERSTANDING heavy
plate glass window in M. L. Co.
hen & Co.'s jewelry store 20 Washing
ton avenue south, Minneapolis, early
in the evening, a bold theft seized
81 500 worth of diamonds and made
his escape. The robbery was one of
the boldest on record, the streets be-
ing crowded at the time and the store
full of people.
In making his escape the robber
held M. L. Cohen and Torby Dobrin,
one of his employees, at bay with a
revolver. He then fled through the
saloon of George Mcmahon, 81 Wash
ington avenue south, spreading terror
with his revolver, and was then lost
of in the darkness in the alley at the
rear.
A dozen or more detectives and q
large number of uniformed men were
placed on the case at. once by Chief
Corriston, but up to an early hour
this morning no trace of the bold
thief had been found. When he broke
the window he cut his hand severely.
Blood was smeared on the window
and formed trail through the Nc
Mahon saloon. How serious the cuts
are cannot be ascertained.
The robbery was committed about
10 o'clock. Every clerk in the store
was busy showing goods to customers
when they heard the crash as the thief
broke in the window. Every one
looked and saw the man reach in and
seize the diamonds. Toby Dobrin, a
clerk, and M. L. Cohen, one of the
proprietors, dashed out onto the side
and pursued the thief about fifty feet,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-04
Butter Scoring.

st. Peter-Buttermake of Mime
sofa have issued a challenge to the
butter judges of the country to prove
their competency. They have done
so by announcing that when the four
teenth annual convention of the Min
nesota State Butter and Cheese Max
ers' Association is held in this city
on Oct 80 and 81 and Nov. they will
offer prizes for butter-scoring con-
test, which will be open to every but
ter Judge, butter maker, or dealer in
the United States. This is a new
feature for buttermakers' conventions,
and the contest will be the first of its
kind ever held.
Members of the Minnesota society
and of other state associations long
have sought to devise a way to test
the efficiency of the men who test
the butter. Butter scorers and judges
never have been entirely free from
suspicion, but competitive matches
have been frowned upon because
there was no standard by which to
Judge the judges. This obstacle has
been overcome by pitting them agaist
standards established by themselves.
Under the rules of the contest each
participant will be required to score
twenty-five tubs of butter and then
rescore the same samples. A careful
record will be kept of the markings,
and in rescoring any deviation from
the first set of grades will be counted
against the participant. Where there
Is no dissimilarity between the two
sets of scores the judge will be award
ed a perfect grade of 100 points.
To Keep Money at Home.
st. Paula plan to enable the
smaller banks of Minnesota and other
Northwestern states to handle COM
mercial paper of the large mercantile
and manufacturing institutions of the
state has been suggested by A. Schae-
fer, public examiner, which is meet
ing with the approval of bankers and
brokers who handle this paper in con-
siderable quantities.
The plan suggested is that the notes
be issued for amounts as low as $1,000,
instead of $4,000, as is now the Gus
TOM The object is to enable the
smaller banks whose capital will not
allow them to purchase the larger
notes to handle this gilt-edge paper
and keep their capital active without
sending large sums of their surplus
to the New York and Eastern banks.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
BOY SERIOUSLY
HURT AT MINES
Falls From Mine Car and Wheel
Passes Over Him-Brought
to Local Hospital.

Samuel Yark, fourteen-years-old.
son of ozo wark, foreign miner of
Dola, was seriously injured at the
Short Line Coal company's mine az
that place Monday evening when he
body just below the abdomen. He
now at the Kessler hospital in this
city where his injuries are being
treated.
The boy wqs riding on the front
of mine car and fell off under the
wheels, one Of which passed over his
body just below the obdoomen. He
sustained very bad wound the flesh
being torn and lacerated consider
ably. His condition is quite serious
and the physicians at the hospital are
unable to say whether he win reeoy-
er or not.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
STRONG CHARGES
GIVENGRAND JURY
March Term of the Circuit Court
Opens With Very Large
Attendance.
AN ABLE CHARGE TO THE JURY
Latter is Now at Work on the Many
Violations of Law Since the
Last Term of Court.

The regular March term of the
circuit court of Harrison county
convened here at 10 o'clock, Tuesday
morning with an unusually large at
tendance. Judge Charles w. Lynch
was on the bench with the usual
court attendants present. The bar
was also largely represented.
The organizing of the grand jury
was the frs business of the court.
The grand jurors selected were as
follows:
sideny Raymond, Riley Williams,
Nathan C. Bartlett, Lee Nutter, R.
7. Williams. Marion t. Cunningham,
Lucian Hoge, sr.. Marcus L. Riblett,
P. j. Lyden, c. NJ. Cunningham, OIL
liver Robinson, Henry Nutter. Mar
shau Copenhaver, j. NJ. Slaughter,
Claude S. Randall and j. B. Cum
ningham.
Sidney Raymond was named by
Judge Lynch as foreman of the
grand jury.
Judge Lynch then delivered an
able. careful and lengthy charge to
the grand jury dealing in the usual
manner with the various statutes
and violations the grand jury is
rsworn to consider. He dwelt par
ticularly on their duties as grand
jurors. directing that their : work
should be without fear or favor, and
that all violations coming before
them should be passed on in an i'm
partial manner and returns made on
them as they justified. He re-
minded them of the fact that they
were there to represent the people of
the state so far as Harrison county
was concerned. He deplored the
fact that men, in high official and
representative station sometimes SO
conduct themselves as to make
themselves reprehensible to the laws
of both God and man. Next he ex-
planned what law is and its real
meaning harmonizer of the world
and how it protected all classes OF
citizenship, even those who break II
or try to break it, and that the law
throws safeguards around those
who would find it better and more
profitable not to break the law.
The effects of demon drink were
described as being even worse than
Continued on page So
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
DIVORCE CASES
ARE NUMEROUS
On the Docket for the Present Term
of the Circuit Court Of
Harrison County.

The docket of the circuit court at
this term has a peculiar feature.
There are forty-one chancew causes.
and of these one-third-fourteen in
number-are divorce cases. They
are as follows:
Reuben F. Teel against Amanda
S. Teel. Earl C. Frum against Carrie
c. Frum, Mary Felegy against Andy
Felegy, Eva Thomas against Frank
Thomas, William ]. Hun against
Ruhama Hun, Matte v. Powell
against Charles E. Powell, Flora F..
Wilson against Jehu D. Wilson.
Thomas Svossler against Alice voss-
Ter, Gertrude Nestor against Charles
Edwin Nestor, Monroe stutler
against Ella stutler, odie Louise
Frickholm against Gust v. Frick-
holm, William E. Jackson against
Minnie t. Jackson, and Mildred
Catherine Hutchinson against John
w. Hutchinson.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
USE DYNAMITE IN
HUNT FOR BODIES
OF the Two Men Who Were Drowned
in the West Fork River at
Meadowbrook.
VICTIMS ARE IDENTIFIED.
Mine Clerks Checked Men As They
Left Work and Two Were
Found TO Be Missing.

Dynamite is being used on the
West Fork river at Meadowbrook,
where two miners lost their lives BY
drowning Monday morning, in efforts
10 recover their bodies. The identity
of the victims was established Mon
day evening when the clerks of the
Fairmont Coal company's Office at
the Meadowbrook mine checked the
men who left the mine and found
that two were missing. They are:
ANGELO BRUNO. married, whose
wife is in Italy.
SAMUEL MARAsH, single.
The Cook & Hart Mining company
clerks checked their men of the list
IS they left the mine and as none
were missing it is believed that the
TWO missing Farmont Coal company
miners are the victims.
Besides using dynamite the river
is being dragged from the point
where the two men were drowned to
considerable distance below it.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY LARGE
Citizens Fire Insurance Company is
the Largest in the
State.
1HAs LARGE PAID m cApIrAI
State Agency VIII Be in olarksburg.
Many Local People Are in
the Concern.

AS. stated few days ago an i'm
portant fire insurance company was
organized at Charles Town. 1t is
the largest fire insurance company
in West Virginia and is known as
the Citizens Fire Insurance Com
pany. It starts business with a
capital stock of $4,000 and a sur
plus Of 100000 all paid in.
The successful organization OF
this splendid insurance company is
largely due to the energy and un.
firing efforts of our townsmen, w.
F. Alexander and Charles B. Alex
ander, doing business as Alexander
& Alexander, insurance agents.
The stock is widely distributed
over the state among representative
business men of each section. citi-
zens OF Clarksburg have invested in
It to the extent of 100000.
While the home Office of the COM
pany win be at Charles Town, JEFF
terson county. on account of its prox,
unity to the great financial centers
Of the East, yet the state agency will
probably be located here and the
finances and assets will be placed in d
local bank.
Col. R. P. Chew of Charles Town
a leading lawyer of the state, has
! been elected president of the com.
pany and P. NJ. Robinson of the Un.
MON National bank here is among
the vice presidents of the concern.
Among the directors appointed ap.
pear the names of Charles B. Alex.
ander, William F. Alexander, P. NJ
Robinson, H. B. Curtin and Charlie.
S. Smiley, all of this city.
The new company will begin bust.
ness April /.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
COUNTY JUDGES
ARE VERY BUSY
County Court at Second Days ses-
sion Turns Out Big Lot Of
Business.
DEPUTY oLERK IS AppoINTEp



County court convened Tuesday
morning in the second days session
of the regular March term and had
a very busy day. All the members
were present with President Basel
presiding.
Roy Byrd was appointed deputy to
County Clerk w Guy Tetricx.
James Hagerty was appointed road
surveyor In Eagle district to succeed
w. W. Hess, resigned.
The county court and County Sur
yeyor G. c. Fittro were appointed 70
view proposed public road from
Robinson's run to Lumberport.
B. S. Davis qualified as guardian
of Clay Ross. Goldie Ross and Edna
Ross, infants of Henry c. Ross, de-
ceased.
Land owners in the road case Of
the heirs of l. L. Marsh were SUM
moned for next Monday.
W. W. Jameson was exonerated
on lot in Clark district assessed at
s19,140 and the same was ordered
stricken from the land books.
J. R. Dennison was exonerated on
s5 acres Of land assessed at $2,1O4.
and the same was ordered on the
land books.
An exoneration was allowed e. B.
Morris for 1905 ON $3.50 worth Of
personal property.
S. +. Reed was exonerated on s5,-
s75 personal property for the year
1905.
Jack Gaines was appointed road
surveyor in sardis district
The resignation of Lee coffman as
constable for Clark district was ac-
cepted and Charles L. Ford was ap-
pointed to succeed him as such.
W. w. Hess resigned as road sur
veyor in Eagle distrist.
w. Guy Merirtt's resignation as
constable for Coal district was ac-
cepted and ]. w. Shrader was ap-
pointed as his successor.
Charles L. Ford gave bond Of s4.-
600 as constable with t. J. Lynch as
surety.
The court agreed to go on the
ground to view proposed road from
Enterprise to Long Run.
The case Of a road from Robin
sons run to Jones's run was set for
the third day of the June term Of the
court.
John c. Kester was exonerated on
$3.50.
An exoueration was allowed to
Virginia Hoover on $77O.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
GAS EXPLODEs,
FIVE BURNED
Lucas Family at Grafton Only Saved
BY the Heroic Efforts of
Mr.. Lucas.

GRAFTON, March 1.-THE family
of John Lucas was badly burned yes
terday in an explosion of gas at
their home. The injured are:
Mrs. Lucas, terribly burned all
over the hody/ can hardly recover.
Mime Lucas. arms and chest burn.
ed, condition serious.
John Lucas, hands and arms fay
ed, will recover.
Birdie, face and arms burned, viii
recover.
Nellie. chest, neck and face hor-
ribly lacerated, will recover.
The. house was burned to the
ground with nearly all the furniture.
The loss on the house alone is about
$4,000. partly covered by insurance.
Not single one of the family would
have escaped being roasted alive, had
It not been for the heroic efforts OF
the. grief-stricken father who rushed
through the flames of the burning
house and carried out his wife and
children.
At night Mrs. Lucas turned the
gas out in all three of the sleeping
rooms on the second floor. Next
morning she struck match to light
the fire A laundering explosion
followed. One whole side of the
house and part of the roof were
blown out. The house took FIRE at
once.
Mr.. Lucas and the children were
awakened from their sleep by the re.
port of the explosion to find their
bed mass of flames. Mrs. Lucas
who was knocked over by the force
of the explosion, lay stunned upon
the floor.
Taking first his wife, and then
each of the children, Mr.. Lucas rush.
ed with them into the street. Mrs.
Lucas was taken at once to the Graf.
ton sanitarium where she now lies
in very precarious condition. Her
recovery is despaired of.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
indiana POSTMASTERs
ARE AGREED ON
At Conference Held Between the
President and Indiana's United
States Senators.
IBy Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 12---
The following appointments of
Indiana postmasters were agreed on
as the result of a conference between
the President.and Senators Heming-
way and Beveridge today: Robert
Carl White, at Muncie; Henry i.
Dehority, at Anderson; F. E. Form
shell. at Elwood- All these offices
are in the district formerly repre-
sented by Representative cromere,
wso was succeeded by Democrat.
cromer is candidate for the post
mastership at Muncie.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
PAT HINES
SHOT AND KILLED
Man Who Played With St. Louis
Baseball Team Victim OF
Barroom Brawl.
az AssoeIated Preas.1

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 1g-Pat-
rick J. Hines, who two seasons ago
pitched for the St. Louis American
baseball team, and who signed with
Milwaukee for the coming season, was
shot and killed this morning in the
saloon of Harry v. Grover. Louis
w. Richardson. bartender, was ar
rested charged with the killing.
Richardson declared Hines refused
to pay for some beer he ordered and
attacked him and that he shot in
self defense.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
VYARSH7PBL LOWVUPBYPO
Magazine Lets Go in An Explosion
With the Most Horrify-
ing Results.
THREE HUNDRED ARE DEAD
Identity of the BattIeship Blown Up
{ Is Not as Yet Definitely
Established.
fHy Assoeialed Press.l

,ToULoN, France, March IA
powder magazine on a battleship be-
lieved to be,the lena, exploded here
today, owing to an explosion of the
compressed air of a torpedo on the
vessel.
The casualties number from 200 to
but at this moment no details
are obtainable.
Even the identity of the ship has
not been definitely established.
Late today it was definitely es.
tablished the explosion was on the
lena, which was n Missiessy dock.
The lena was undergoing an in
spection of its machinery in the dock
when the explosion occurred.
The concussion caused by the ex.
plosion of compressed air torpedo
set fire to the after powder maga-
zine, blowing the whole afterpart OF
the vessel up.
The number OF victims is not yet
definitely known, but the casualties
are heavy. There were about $40
officers and men on the lena at the
time Of the disaster, but many OF
them jumped into the water.
Further explosions occurred on
the doomed vessel.
As this ourerIn was Eied explos-
ions were becoming more frequent.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
In Louisville With Aid Of Police, But
Trouble Occurs, With Very
Many Holdups.
[By Associated Press.I

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 12-
With the aid of strikebreakers and
by the protection of the police the
street railway company this morn
ing opened a partial service on four
lines. strikebreakers were imported
during the night from st. Louis and
Cincinnati, put on cars and with two
or three policemen on each platform
made trips through the downtown
districts. Trouble began early,
hOldups being numerous. The dis
turbanees were nearer the business
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
Ex-PREsIDENT DIES.

PARIS France, March 12-Casi-
mir Perier, ex-president Of France,
died today, aged sixty years.
Perier died suddenly Of embolism
Of the heart. The ex-presldent was
not wen for two or three days but
his indisposftion was not believed to
be serious. He was not even conan-
ed to his bed. He had an abrupt
prostration last night and i've hours
later he died.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
CLERK SAM HARRISON
GOES 10 PARKERsBURG

Clerk Samuel R. Harrison, who
was recently named to succeed the
late Col. L. B. Deliicker, win go to
Parkersburg tomorrow when plans
win be made regarding the future
business Of the office. It Is likely
that it win be determined what busi-
ness shall be done there and other
details regarding the new order win
be arranged.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
BLAcKsrAmERs GUILTY

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 12-
Koter and Gradtus Grastus, Bur
garians, charged with levying black
mail on Macedonions here in the In
terest of revolutionary committee
at Sofia, Bulgaria, were found guilty
today and sentenced to prison for an
indeterminate term.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
sNnTHFIELD MAN DIES.

Albert Card, of smithaeld, died at
his home at that place Monday after
a lingering illness with dropsy. He
was 40 years old and is survived by
his wife and two brothers, Charles
and Mark Card. The funeral will
take place Wednesday afternoon
with services at the late home and
interment in the cemetery at Smith
field.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
STATE MILITIA
GUARDS ROBBERS
who Blew Up Bank and Angry Mob
aroused by Courts Ac-
ton is Thwarted.
rRy Associated praaa.1

MANCHESTER, Ia.l March 12-
The state militia was called out early
today TO guard two bank robbers ar
rested for blowing up a bank at
Masonyille week ago, from mob
violence by angry people which was
aroused when the grand jury declar-
ed the law Illegal and, therefore, 1t
could not indict the men.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
Gao. PASSENGER
TRAIN WRECKED
Runs Into a Landslide Near Hinton
and Engineer is Killed and the
Fireman Fatally Hurt.
TBy Assoclated Press. ]

HINTON. w. va, March 12-
Through passenger train No. on
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad,
struck a landslide and was wreck
ed near here this morning.
]. NJ. Flanagan. engineer, was
killed. and Fireman Michael Quinn
fatally injured. None of the pas
sengers were injured.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12
MR.. AsH's SISTER DEAD.

!. z. Ash. assistant IN the city high
schooi was called home today by the
oeatn OF his sister, who has been III
ior some time Of tuberculosis. Mr.
ana MRS. Ash left at 2 o'clock for
me home OF his mother near sisters.
Vlile' where the funeral win take
place en- Thursday morning.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-12

Col. Robert Johnston, Of Parkers-
burg, is in the city looking after his
interests in the late Eureka Loan q
Building Association.
J.E. Koon was here Tuesday from
shlnnston.