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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
GANG S KNIFE
SHOWN HERE
Fighter Withdraws as candi-
date to Escape the Ter
ribIe Slaughter.

Edgar r. Rignter announcement
as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for sheriff has been
dropped from the columns of the
Democratic newspaper. AT first some
intimated that 1t was the fault of the
make-up man, but that newspaper is
silent on the subject.
"A little inquiry leads to the CON
clusion that the gang forced him out
of the race. A well whetted knife
was shown to him. or some of his
friends, when he was here last Fri
day afternoon. He became. thorough
ly convinced that the slate-makers
had framed 1t up against him and
that money would be spent without
limit to defeat him. Being a man
who would not resort to buying a
nomination for himself, he became
convinced that 1t would be waste OF
time to continue his candidacy
against the odds threatened him by
the gang and he accordingly decided
to withdraw from the race, so well
informed Democrat informs the Tele-
gram, and the fact that his announce
ment does not longer appear is taken
TO mean more than that the makeup
man is responsible for 1t.
The gangs antagonism to RICHTER
dates as far back as when Charles +.
Holden, now deceased, was nominat-
ed for county clerk. 1t is stated that
at that time RICHTER wanted the
nomination for county clerk. Four
years ago he came up for sheriff
against Charles A. Short. "It was
the plan then" said the Telegram's
Democratic informant. ito give him
good vote in the convention and we
did, but he and his friends went out
of the convention angry. Had he
spent his money to elect Short, he
would have been the gangs choice
this year"
The Telegram has no right to dis
credit its informant as he is in close
touch with the gangs plottings and
policies, and knows just how it does
things.
The treatment given RICHTER ex-
poses the gangs methods and is a
confirmation of the assertion that no
man is allowed to run for Office on
the Democratic ticket unless he bends
the knee to the gang and hands
over his purse to it. RICHTER is con,
demned by the gang because he did
not hand over his hard-earned coin
to further its plans.
The gangs idea of magnanimity is
shown by its implied demand on de-
lfeated candidates for money to elect
their victorious competitors. 1t is
a magnanimity that consists OF a
double-cross action, that is to say,
first defeat men for Office and then
make them pay for their defeat.
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TICKET
TO Be NAMED
BY the Prohibitionists in State
Mass Convention Here
This Month.

FAIRMoNT. June S.-Edward W.
Mills, state chairman OF the Prohlbi-
tion party Of West Virginia, Is busy
planning for the coming mass conven-
ton OF the Prohibition party to be
held in the city of Clarksburg on
Wednesday and Thursday, June II
and is.
The convention has been called for
the purpose of nominating candidates
for governor and other state offices
and also TO elect delegates to the Ma
tional Prohibition convention.
The convention will assemble at
1:26 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and
win close Thursday night, June IS.
On Wednesday Afternoon after or
ganization has been perfected q. con-
ference of county chairmen and other
workers will he held and at night a
mass meeting VIII be address by the
Hon. Charles E.. Newton. on Indian
apolis. Much interest is being man
ifested in the address to be given by
Mr.. Newlin, because itswas through
his efforts mainly that Judge Samuel
r. Artmanren rendered his famous
decision that license laws were un-
constitutional
On Thursday. June IS, Hon. Oliver
". Stewart, Of Chicago. will ad-
dress the convention at 2:sO p. m.
and also at s o'clock at night. Mr..
Stewart is master in the art OF
publlcspeaking and IS known to many
people Of the state. having recently
toured West Virginia under the d.
rection OF State Chairman Mills.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
Gives a Table Of Figures Bear
ing Out Claim Made
by Him.
HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH
Will Be Nominated Before FIRST
Roll Call in Convention
is Finished.

Hon. Charles w. Swisher spent
Saturday night and Sunday in the
city guest at the Waldo. where
large number OF his admirers and
supporters in Harrison county met
him and talked over the campaign.
Mr., swisher in a brief interview in
formed the Telegram that he now has
more than enough votes TO nominate
him and that he would be nominated
on the first ballot.
Speaking further on this subject
Mr.. Swisher said: Il have Ala
votes certain and pledged to date.
while Mr.. Scherr has nut 25s and Mr..
Hearne II. as a table carefully COM
piled at my headquarters shows,
There are 81 delegates yet to be se-i
lected and of these1 am sure of at
least two-thirds OF them.s's
Mr.. Swisher then handed the Teie-
gram the following table as complied
by him. and his assistants, showing
by counties the number OF delegates
and how they stand on the guberna-
torial candidates.:
d
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
MEN ARE HURT
IN AN ACCIDENT
One Fatally, When a Caboose
Leaves Rails and
Turns Over.

An extra west bound freight train
on the West Virginia & Pittsburg d.
vision OF the B. & o. was wrecked
while rounding a sharp curve on a
grade at 4 point near Heater, between
Weston and Flatwoods, Sunday at 3
p. M, when the caboose and three
cars jumped the track. broke loose
from the train and rolled down a
steep embankment a distance of
more than 100 feet. Four men weEe
seriously injured. They are:
c. G. Smith. brakeman: bad cut
over right eye; internal injuries.
o. ]. Heater, conductor; several
ribs broken.
Earl Heckert. flagman; right foot
badly crushed.
H. c. Wellen, brakeman; bruised
about body and head.
The men who were injured were
all in the caboose when the accident
occurred, and so quickly did the cars
leave the track and tumble over the
embankment that none OF them had
time to get out.
The injured were all removed to
the hospital at Weston as soon as
possible and with the exception OF
Smith will all likely recover.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08

DEATH IS
BEFORE JURY
Investigation Being Made of
Circumstances of a Peculiar
Death at Adamstop.

A jury empanelled by Coroner w.
p. Camp is investigating the cause
CT the death of Lee Elliott, rail-
road employe % years old. whose life
less body was found lying across the
sill of a window in his room at the
home of George Smith in Adamston
early Sunday morning by the crew
of freight engine on the B. & o.
railroad.
The railroad men noticed Elliott's
body hanging out of the window as
their engine passed the house but
thought nothing of 1t until 1n their
return trip when they saw it in the
position. They stopped their engine,
went into the house and notified Mr..
Smith. Coroner Camp was called
and he took charge of the body.
1t is not believed that the young
man met with violence. He had vomit-
ed out OF the window, on which he
was found and 1t is thought he was
seized with sudden illness in the
night and died on the window after
having vomited.
Before the coroner's jury at a
session Monday morning. Andrew
Phillips. a friend o. fthe dead man,
said he left Elliott down town be-
tween 10 and II O'Clock Saturday
night in company with another man.
Elliott never got drunk to his knowl-
edge and Phillips said he knew him
all his life.
George Smith was examined by the
jury and said that Elliott came to his
supper at the usual hour Saturday
evening, went down town and came
back home after the others in the
house had gone to bed. They knew
nothing of the young mans death un-
til notified by the railroad men.
.. D. Shaw, a cousin. who lives at
Northview, said Elliott never got
drunk and was splendid young
man. He said members of the Ell
lott family had been subject to sud
den fainting spells.
The jury, which consists of J.. T,
Boggess. John Owens, James Barnes
Dr.. A. B. Hall, Ed. Duffy and Elmer
Wells, adjourned until Monday af.
ternoon in order to get the man with
whom Elliott was in company the
night he died, to appear before 1T and
testify.
Elliott married a young woman in
Parkersburg about two months ago
She came here Sunday evening after
having been notified of her husbands
death.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
Total number. sS5.

The table as given above has been
carefully and accurately made up and
Mr.. Swisher is not putting forth the
slightest false claim in it. The fig
ures as given by him conelusiyely
prove that the claims of his leading
opponent and his friends are in err
ror and so wild that they are really
ridiculous.
AS will be seen Mr.. Swisher has
already 81 votes more than enough
to nominate as it takes but 443 votes
to do that, and. even without the
fifty or more he will yet receive, he
can be nominated on the first ballot
as it now stands. But, with fifty
more votes. which he feels sure of
he will go into the convention more
than FIVE hundred strong and will be
the n0mine elong before the roll call
OF the counties is finished.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
OCEAN RACE WON.

HAMILTON, Bermuda. June S.
The schooner yacht Dervis, owned by
Commodore Henry Morris of the
Corinthinn Yacht Club, today won
the ocean race from Marblehead 10
Hamilton in class Il. None of the
competitors in her class were in sight
when she finished this morning.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
FEDERAL COURT TOMORROW

Judge Nathan Goff will hold a spe-
cial term of United States court here
for three or four days this week, be-
ginning tomorrow morning. to hear
equity proceedings in most of which
Judges Dayton and Keller are inelgi-
BILE to SIT.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
REPORT FALSE
Telegram from Cecil FessIer in
Oklahoma States Shoot
ing Story is Untrue.

Frank Fessler. merchant at Grassei-
II. whose son, Cecil Fessler and the
latter's mother-in-law were reported
killed in double shooting at Clinton,
Okla, last week, has received a tel
egram from his son stating that the
report is false. Neither he nor his
mother-in-law was killed, the tele-
gram states, and the family is well
and hearty at their home in Clinton.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
WA YNE COUNTY
rs FOR SWISHER
MONUMENT UNVEILED
At Grave of Jacob Lewis by the
Woodmen of the World Here.

The woodinen of the World un-
yelled a monument in Elk View Gem
etery Sunday afternoon in memory of
Jacob Lewis. They marched to the
cemetery headed by the Gregory city
band. +. o. Sutton and the Rev. w.
NJ. Long made addresses and graves
of deceased Woodmen were strewn
with flowers. Mrs. Lewis and two
children of Elkins, were here for the
u.,euing.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
FLORIDA AND UTAH

WASHINGTON. D. c., June s.
Secretary Metcalf today announced
that the two new battleships author
lied at dhe last session OF congress,
will be named Florida and Utah, re-
spectlvely.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
Secretary of State win Also
Receive Four From Brax-
ton County.

WAYNE, W. Va, June S.-By a
vote of So to Is in convention the
Republicans Saturday afternoon in
structed this county's sixteen dele
gates for the nomination of Charles
w. Swisher for governor. Swisher
sentiment as shown by the vote was
overwhelming in Swisher's favor.
NEW CUMBERLAND. June s.
But two of the four districts of the
county held Republican mass conven-
tions Saturday afternoon. They, Sc
lected five of the seventeen delegates
to the. state convention. but did not
instruct them. 1t is claimed they
are for Scherr.
SUTTON, June S-One district at
the Republican convention here SAT-
urday selected four Swisher delegates.
TIL other eleven delegates are prob
ably for Scherr Reed will get the
county for secretary of state.
NEW MARTINSyILLE, June Sat
the Republican senatorial convention
here Saturday T. J. Parsons. of Mar
shall was nominated for state sena-
tor by acclamation. The nominating
speech was made by Sam Hanen. y
Glen Easton. and was seconded by
Messrs. Hunt of Wetzel, and Hin OF
Tyler.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
cHIcAGo GRAM MaRKEr

CHICAGO. June s.-fuly wheat So
IS. Corn ss "a, oats 40 S-s.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
COURT ADJoURNs.

The May term OF the circuit court
adjourned Saturday evening sine die.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-08
CIRCULATION

The Largest and Best in
Clarksburg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
FOR USE OF COLLEGE.
Bequests by tho Late Mrs. Fannie
G. e. Latham.

BY the will of Mrs Fannie c. G. Latham
Of Erlanger. KY. who died recently at the
Ferguson and Williams College. a colored
educational institution at Abbeville, 8. c.,
Rev. Williams. the president of the col
lege. and his wife. are left substantial
requests.
The sum Of 500 is provided for the inn
provement Of the college. 500 to Mr.. Will
liams and his wife. - use as they please,
and $50 to Mr.. Williams in trust for a
colored boy. who is III. now in his charge.
In add ton. Mrs Latham leaves One-half
of the balance Of her estate to tfH>Aperi-
can Tract Society, and of the = ma hing
half four-hfths is left to the Abbevills
school. and the one-fifth remaining to Mr..
Williams and his wife. These requests
are said to be valuable. $50
Mr.. Williams is graduate Of Howard
University. this city. He established the
school at Abbevilie more than q quarter
of century ago. and It is now regarded
one of the leading colored educational in
stitutions in the south. 1t 10 under the
control Of the Presbyterian board Of col.
ored evangelization Of the southern Pres
byterian Church. Mrs. Williams. wife OF
Mr.. Williams, is a native Of this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21

Harmonious Convention at Upper
Marlboro Yesterday Afternoon.

UPPER MARLBORO. Md. April 2I.-
The republicans OF Prince George county
assembled in the town hall here yesterday
afternoon and selected delegates to the
congressional and state conventions. The
work Of the convention was executed I'm
an expeditions and harmonious manner.
The delegates to the congressional, con-
vention Will vote for the denomination
Of Sydney T.. Mudd. and although the
convention did not go on record. II 10
generally understood that the delegates
are favorable to sending unpledged rep
resentatives to the Chicago convention.
Frank B. Metzerott OF chillum district
was chairman OF the convention and
George NJ. Bond OF Laurel district secre-
tary.
The following are the delegates to the
fifth congressional district convention.
which meets in Masonic Hall. Hyatts-'
VILE Wednesday. April -: Thomas NJ.
Underwood. j. A. Mckee. II. n. Dyon.
John f. PRODIGY. 8. Gardiner COale. Percy
Duvall, Thomas Proctor. J. ID. Payne
Horace Crosier and Claude Smith. These
delegates will have a half vote each in
the convention.
The following we're chosen TO represent
Prince. George county i'm the state con-
vention in Baltimore April 80: George
B. Merrick. Oliver 8. Metxerott. g. r.
Timan,s John M. Bowie. Cornelius FL
wood. Kennedy Simms. Boykin Watson.
r. Wesley Beall. l.. 0. Wissman and
Robert Keys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
GRACE MCGOWAN COOKE SUED
Husband Asks Divorce on Ground
of Desertion.

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. April 2l.-Wil-
liam p Cooke has fled bill for abso-
lutte divorce from his wife, Grace Mac
Gowan Cooke, the writer. The complaint
is desertion Mrs. Cookies devotion to
her literary work and life Is ascribed as
the cause of the differences between the
couple.
1t is set forth in the bill that after
living happily in this city they became
estranged about FIVE years ago and that
in March, 1906. the defendant left the
complainant. removing from the state
Since that time it is charged. the defend
ant has refused to dwell with the petit
toner. devoting herself exclusively TO her
occupation as a writer.
The complainant does not ask for the
custody at this time of the two children.
Helen and Kathrene, aged. respectively.
thirteen and eight years. believing mat
the defendant is suitable person to
have their care.
Mrs Cooke is reported to be living now
in Douglaston, l.. 1.
Grace MacGowan Cooke is best known
as a magazine writer. She also attained
some fame as q member of Upton SIN
clairs Helicon Hall colony at EnGlewood,
n. J.. and was injured by jumping from
q window when the home OF the colony
wac burned in March of last year.
Mrs. Cooke was born In Grand Rapids,
Ohio, September II, 1853. She was mar
ried to William Cooke In Chattanooga,
Tenn, February II. 1887. She has witt
ten several books as we'll as much maya
zine matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
ADMITS SLANDERING SHIP.
Man on Kearsarge Wrote Home t.
Keep Brother Out Of Navy.

PITTSBURG. April IA Pittsburger
on board the Z. 8. s. kearsarge. with
the Pacific feet, has been ostracised by
the crew. according to advices received
from two yeomen Of the crew. The
Pittsburger wrote home from Callao,
Peru, that enlisted men were shamefully
treated by officers. that their food was
unfit to eat and that 900 men would de-
sert as soon as the fleet reached an Amer
lean port The letter was published in a
Pittsburg paper March - by the sailors
parents. When copies Of the paper
reached Magdalena bay the men on board
the Kearsarge held an Indignation meet
ing and demanded OF the sailor that he
confess that he had lied
The Pittsburger's name had not been
used in the printed story. Woman A. X.
Hoist has written letter to the Pitts
burg publication giving an account Of
the Indignation of the members OF the
crew. tie says a retraction had been
posted on the ships bulletin as follows:
II admit having written the letter re-
Gently published In a Pittsburg paper
criticising food on the L. s. S. kear-
sarge and now admit that the state
ments i'm the letter were wholly untrue
and do the ship great Injustice.
"'rhe statement was made with view
of keeping my younger brother from Ell
tering the service. and / lied about the
conditions aboard ship In the hope tha!
he would not enlist if he thought that
vas being mistreated.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21

Little Girl Struck by Runaway After
Pushing Sister Aside.

NEW YORK. April 2l.-Three small
girls were returning home from school
yesterday afternoon, when, as they were
crossing Willis avenue near 1S4th street. a
team of horses attached to a milk truck
bore down upon them. The horses had
become frightened at an automobile and
their driver had lost control Of them.
Marian Schwansen, seven years old. of
3l5 East 133d street was the nearest Of
the trio to the horses and saw the danger
first. She called out for her companions.
one of whom was her twin sister. Helen.
and the other Ethel Schorling, who lives
in the same house. to run. and at the
same time gave them a push. One Of the
horses reared and crushed Marians skull
with his hoof. killing her almost instantly.
Helen escaped unhurt. and Ethel SchOr-
ling was but slightly injured by wheel
as the truck clattered by.
The driver Of the wagon Samuel Tun-
ner of AL East 18th street, was locked
up on a technical charge Of homicide. and
later was released on bail by Coroner Nc
Donald The truck belonged to Tietjen
Bros. of $50 East 11Sth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
Deepening River Channels.

The big dredging plant which Is to be
employed in the deepening OF the river
channels in the vicinity of this city IS on
its way from Baltimore to this city and
should arrive here during this evening or
tonight. With four scows and five pom
ICONS belonging to the dredging plant.
Dougherty's tug Peerless sailed from Bal
timore Saturday. and the big suction
dredge Mackenzie left there yesterday i'm
tow OF the tug Dauntless. The Maeken-
xie is one OF the largest suction dredges
in service on the Atlantic seaboard. and
is apable Of dredging many hundreds of
cubic yards OF material in the course of a
day. The big machine will be in operation
by the end of this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
PRESIDENT eOMPERS
LABOR LEADERS
PLEASED WITH HIS SPEECH.
Address in New York Sunday Be-
fore Large Gathering
of Unionists.

Washington workingmen today ex-
pressed lively interest in what was
termed president Gompers' great New
York speech The address in question
was delivered. Sunday before more than
three thousand members of labor unions
and others in Grand Central Palace, New
York Il was also described as IAN i'm
passioned speech" Mr.. GOmpers declared
that labor crisis had been reached, and
"the working people of the United States
are aroused for action as they have never
been before at a question involving the
rights of citizens. and that the toilers OF
the nation are menaced by an unjust in
terpretation of the law"
Mr.. Gompers' words were received with
the greatest enthusiasm. The rights OF
which he spoke are those he claimed, as
sailed by the Supreme Court i'll Its inter-
probation of the Sherman antitrust law
decision which characterized labor
unions as trusts with maany illegal fea-
lures.
William Coakley. chairman Of the COM
mittee Of arrangements. explained the
purpose of the meeting. The band played
'HaiI to the Chief" as President Gompers
entered the hall. and the applause that
greeted him was long and loud.
Mr.. Gompers' Address.
I'VE have met Mr.. Gompers sold. Ito
take counsel with each other i'll .esard
to serious situation which conironts
the working people of the United States.
You and ] who have worked IN this
great movement OF social uplifting of
all our people find ourselves peculiarly
situated. No one expected until recently
that when a man or woman toiled to
earn his or her bread we should
be placed in TIE same category as the
multi millionaire, the same category as
members of a trust. 1t requires a vivid
IMAGINATION to put US in the same
position as the trusts You who have
worked at your trade or calling or who
are unemployed-I want you for a mo-
ment to imagine you are members of
trust" Shouts of laughter greeted this
suggestion.
yet, stripped of all unnecessary
verbiage. of all Misunderstanding. that
IL the exact position in which the high
est courts Of the country have charac-
terized our men and women who belong
to q union: that they are members of a
trust. that they come under the Sher-
man anti trust law, and that they are
subject. to. it's provisions"
Mr.. 0ompers said he was fortunate
enough to have been in close touch
with the men who framed the Sherman
antitrust act. and that he was conf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21

Had Rolled OF Stage and Continued
Bout in Box.

Rob Roy Mackey and Joe Turner. the
two wrestlers who lost their heads during
a wrestling bout Saturday night at one
of the local theaters and came near
ere ating a panic among the spectators,
wera adjudged guilty yesterday by Judge
Mullowny Of the Police Court of disor-
Derby conduct in a theater and fined so
each.
Matters came to a climax when Turner.
it is stated, became enraged. evidently
from something which the other man did
10 him, and the pair began smuggling each
other, finally falling in a clinch into one
of the boxes adjoining the stage. The
policemen testified they ran to the box
anil found both men pummeling each
other as hard as they could.
The wrestlers and two of their friends.
Frank Mccormack and Joseph A. Chris
denied there was any smuggling or bad
feeling. They explained the falling into
the box by saying the wrestling mat and
stage were too small At the solicitation
of the defendants Judge Mullowny re-
duced the fines of the two men 10 SIS
each. which was paid.