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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18
MURDER IN PENITENTIARY
Oscar Phipps, Life Prisoner, stabs
Bill Banks, Five Year Man,
to Death.

Wheeling, July 14.-The West ViT-
GINA penitentiary at Moundsville was
the scene Of an atrocious murder
about 11:40 O'Clock a. M Sunday, Ut
being the third murder and fourth
homicide that has occurred at that in
stitution within the last four years.
Without the slightest provocatioh
Oscar Phipps sprang at Bin Banks
from behind and drove scissors
blade into the latter under the left
shoulder up TO the handle. Phipps
immediately pulled the weapon from
the wound and threw it on the floor.
Banks died in a couple Of minutes,
life being extinct before the prison
physician reached his side. Both
Phipps and Banks were convictg and
both negroes.
Apparently satisfied that he had
killed his man, Phipps like the fiend
that he is, stood coolly by until AN Of
ficer came up and took him to his
cell.
The murder occurred in the prison
pharmacy and the motive was purely
one of revenge. On the second day
of last February Phipps made MUIR
derous assault on Banks while they
were in line. Banks, who is much
larger and of powerful physique, on
this occasion knocked his assailant
down and kicked him several times.
At the police court investigation
Banks was exonerated and Phipps was
sentenced to undergo severe corporal
punishment it being his third or
fourth attempt at murder during his
six years confinement. Phipps made
the threat in police court at the time
that he would kill Banks. Sunday was
his first opportunity.
Phipps is one of the most vicious
convicts who ever served time in the
West Virginia penitentiary. On April
4, 1906, he made an assault on Luther
and came near killing him. He made
a similar murderous assault on Press
Collins, also convict, Feb. 7, 1907,
and the two assaults on Banks as al
ready mentioned.
Phipps was life-termer from
Cabell county, being convicted in the
criminal court of that county In 1902
of murder in the first degree. He ran
down a man in the streets of Hunting
ton and cut him into ribbons. He
was received at the penitentiary Aug.
1, 1902, and is 40 years of age.
Bill Banks, the victim, was sent UP
from Mcdowell county for five years
for grand larceny. He was received
at the penitentiary March 4. 1906. and
with the usual time allowance for
good behavior would have been dis
charged October 20, 1909. He had an
exemplary record as convict.
The convicts who have heretofore
been convicted of murder in the peni-
Tertiary have all escaped with life
sentences. If Phipps in premeditation
of the crime, concluded that he too
would escape the death penalty, then
the law had no terrors for him as he
had no hpe of ever regaining his lib
erty anyhow.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18
Rridoe To BE Moved.

The iron bridge which was taken
from over Back Creek some time ago
and replaced by a new one and which
has been stored in the B. and o.
yards here is being torn to pieces.
The bridge will be shipped from here
for use at some other place along the
railroad.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18
Gone to Weston.

Col. James F. Thompson, accom-
panied by his daughter, Miss Ella Pot
ter Thompson, left Sunday for Weston
where he win attend the annual meet
ing of the board of directors of the
state insane hospital.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18
Pulled Out Drawhead.

A drawhead on the baggage car on
train No. So pulled ont at Harpers
Ferry this morning. The car was set
off there and another baggage car put
in the train when it arrived here. The
accident caused a delay of about so
minutes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18
Overcome BY Heat.

Alvin Rulings, son of Mrs. Sophia
Rulings, North Queen street, was
overcome by the heat Sunday, while
on his way to Kilrner's grove, He was
carried 20 his home and DR.. McCor-
mack was summoned.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18
Back After % Years

Mr.. J. d. Hill. of Hanfond. Cal, ar
rived here Sunday night to spend
some time with relatives and friends
in town and vicinity. This is his first
visit to Martiusburg IN % years.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18
improvements.

DR.. M. E. Mccormack, 202 East
Martin street, is improving his prop
erty by addition OF new front porch.
Joseph Broy is doing the work,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18

Paris artists have adopted new
and startling style of producing car
feature in sculpture.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-18

The report of cannon has been
heard 146 miles.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
No Automobiles There.

There are no automobiles on the
golden streets of heaven" says the
Whitsett Courier, "but they're CIV
ing lots of folks chance to walk
those golden streets. One of the
contrsptions arrived in town last week
and during the first spin the owner
took in it it pitched blind mule on
top of the town hall, with the man
that was ridin' the mule. The mule
was so mad it kicked the town clock
to pieces, likewise kickin' a hole in
the roof an fallin on the mayor, just
as he had took his seat an called
council to order. Having landed in
the midst of them, the mule walked
slow and dignified to the front door
an then took to the woods"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
A SIMPLE SAFEGUARD IN BUYING
PAINT.

Everybody should know how simple
and easy it is to avoid all uncertainty
in buying paint materials. There are
many so-called white leads on the
market, which contain chalk, zinc,
barytes, and other cheap adulterants.
Unless the property owner takes ad-
vantage Of the simple means of pro-
lection afforded him by reliable white
lead manufacturers, he runs great risk
of getting an inferior and adulterated
white lead.
1t is to protect the paint-buyer
against fraud and adulteration that
National Lead Company, the largest
makers of genuine Pure White Lead,
place their famous Dutch Boy Paint
er" trademark on every keg of their
product. an absolute guarantee of its
purity and quality. Anyone who wants
to make practical test of white lead,
and who wants a valuable free book
about painting, should address Ma
tional Lead Company, Woodbridge
Bldg, New York, and ask for test
equipment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

the next ten years is hard to predict.
Transmission lines of 10000 volts and
$4,000 volts are now as common as
those of 1000 and 10000 volts ten
years ago, while transmission lines
several hundred miles in length are
now being projected and installed for
an operating pressure up to 10000
volts.
That the manufacturers of high po-
tential insulators are meeting the ever
growing requirements of electrical en-
gineers may be noted from the fact
that they offer to supply insulators
testing from 1000 to half a million
volts. The Illustration, taken from
Popular Mechanics, shows the equip
ment at Victor, N. Y, of what is said
to be the largest single test of high
potential insulators I'm the world. In
addition to this testing room are sew
eral hundred other testing terminals
at Victor. '
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
CARRIED GESTURE TOO FAR.
Boys Action Possibly Appropriate
But Somewhat Unnecessary.

Vivian Burnett, the original of the
still-remembered Little Lord Fauntle-
roy, at the Chicago convention dis
cussed with a reporter certain party
maneuver.
They went too far there" said Mr..
Burnett. They made themselves
ridiculous by their excess. Do you
know what they reminded me of?
They reminded me of juvenile elo-
cutionist my mother often tells about.
This lad, at a school treat got up
to recite the first piece of his life. He
was ambitious; he wished to make a
great success of his piece; and he had
been told by his teacher that the Sc
cret of elocution was the gesture-for
every phrase its fitting gesture.
The opening line of the boys Sc
lection was The comet lifts its tail
of fire.
The overzealous boy, to fit its prop
er gesture to this line, lifted up the
tail of his coat and held it out in
horizontal position"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Peonies as a Medicine.

Peonies were originally esteemed
less for beauty of bloom than for value
as a medicine. In recognition of it's
curative virtues the peony was named
after Paeon, the physician OF the
gods. An old writer says: About an
Infants neck hang peonie. 1t cures
Alcydes cruell maladie." Nor did the
use of the plant stop there, for peony
water was esteemed and drank in by
gone times, though whether as medi-
cine or merely as a refreshing tem-
perance beverage is more than modern
writer's can say.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

years, of a device for giving sound
signals that will be heard above dis
turbing noises in whose presence or
dinary alarms are without effect.
AN electric siren, which appears
to satisfy this demand perfectly, has
been constructed by the Deutsche
Telephonwerke at Berlin. In this ap.
paratus the armature of an electro
magnet, excited by variable current
of determinate frequency, acts on a
metallic membrane through a lever.
the ratio of the lengths of the lever
arms is so chosen as to secure a
strong and powerful sound.
The sounding membrane, which is
relatively solid, is made of an alloy Of
nickel-bronze; it closes the apparatus
Theoretically. The mechanism is con-
tanned in a gas-and-water-proof box.
and consequently the device may be
special protection.
THE electric siren uses a very small
quantity of energy, while it's acous-
tic performance is greatly superior to
that of ordinary annunciators or
bells.
"A special advantage of these de-
vices is the facility with which sew
eral OF them are arranged in parallel
and controlled from central point
by an ordinary contact button. The
arrangement of connections is about
the same as with ordinary annuncia-
tors
THE electric siren is easily used
for giving all sorts of well-defined sig
nails analogous to those Of the Morse
alphabet. Among these numerous ap-
plications the following may be cited
as most important:
"An evident field of application is
for systems of fire alarm. AS the
sound of the siren resembles exactly
that of the alarms generally used, the
character of the signals will be clear
ly Ineligible to every one.
This device may be employed to
advantage in alarm systems on board
vessels, where 1t may take the place
of various kinds of annunciators and
bells now used to give orders to guard
stations in the different compartments,
or signals to engineers, firemen, or
pilots. These orders are transmitted
simultaneously to all the compart-
ments in question by pressing on one
contact button, which evidently as
sures great economy of time in case Of
imminent danger
Another possible application re.
lates to railways, where the device
may be used to give all kinds of sig
nails on the Morse system, with as
small an expenditure of energy as
possible.
"The apparatus is also adapted to
various uses in mines to con-
troll the underground cableways, etc.
and to give fire alarms, either within
the mine or outside.
In similar fashion it may be used
in the system of annunciators of a
banking house or office building.
Finally, it may be employed as
signal on automobiles and motor
boats"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

pieces alike, A and B, and match them
together, leaving about 1-16 inch be-
tween their upper edges and fasten
them to the wood with binding posts.
The third piece of brass, c, is fitted
between the pieces A and B allowing
a space of 1-16 inch all around the
edge. One binding-post and a small
screw will hold the piece of brass, G,
in place on the wood. The connec-
tions are made from the line wires to
the two upper binding-posts and paral-
lei from the lower binding-posts to
the instrument The third binding
post on c is connected to the ground
wire. Any heavy charge from light
ming, says Popular Mechanics, will
Jump the saw teeth part of the brass
and is grounded without doing harm
10 the instruments used.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot reach
the seat OF the disease Catarrh is blood const-
utional disease and in order to 1t you must take
internal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not n quack ned-
cine. IL prescribed by OF the best physicians
In this country for years and Is regular prescription
1t is composed Of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers acting directly the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination OF the
two ingredients is what produces such wonderful re-
suits In curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free.
+. j. CHENEY & CO.. Props. Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists. price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Critical Eye for Babies.

The five-year-old daughter of =
Brooklyn man has had such a large
experience of dolls that she feels her.
self to be something of a connoisseur
in children.
Recently there came real live baby
into the house.
When it was put into her arms the
five-year-old surveyed it with a criti-
cal eye.
Isn't it nice baby?" asked the
nurse.
Yes, it's nice" answered the young
ster hesitatingly. ITS nice, but its
heads loose. ."-Lippincott's
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Satisfied.

Look here!" grumbled the old farm
er. This here almanac is fraud. 1t
predicted snow for yesterday and, by
gum, it was hot as blazes all day."
But my dear sir" responded the
bland almanac peddler, at showed up
at the north pole yesterday"
The old farmers jaw fell.
at did," he drawled slowly. wal,
reckon the almanac is all right then.
1t did tell the truth. didn't it?"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

are connected to the other terminal.
The storage cell as described below is
the right size to be charged by few
gravity cells and is easily made.
Secure a piece of IA inch lead pipe,
five inches long, and cut both ends
smooth and square with the pipe.
Solder a circular disc of lead to one
end, forming cup of the pipe. AS
this cup must hold the sulphuric acid
1t must be perfectly liquid tight. 1t is
necessary to get another lead pipe of
the same length and three-fourths
inch In diameter. Bore as many one
eighth-inch holes in this pipe as pos
sible, except for about one inch on
each end. One end of this tube is
hammered together as shown at in
the sketch to make a pocket to hold
the paste. This, of course, does not
need to be watertight.
A box of wood is made to hold the
larger tube or cup. This box can be
square, and the corners left open
around the cup can be filled with saw
dust. A support is now made from a
block Of wood to hold the tube, B, in
place and to keep 1t from touching the
cup c. This support or block, d, is
cut circular with the same diameter as
the lead cup G. The lower portion of
the block is cut away so it will just fit
inside of the cup to form a stopper.
The center of this block is now bored
to make hole the same size as the
smaller lead pipe. Place the lead pipe
in the hole and immerse ii in smoking
hot paraffine wax, and leave it until
the wood has become thoroughly sat
urated with the hot wax. Use care to
keep the wax from running on the
lead at any place other than the end
within the wood block. Two binding
posts should be attached, one to the
positive, or tube, B, and the other to
the negative, or tube c, by soldering
the joint.
A paste for the positive plate is
made from one part sulphuric acid and
one part water with a sufficient
amount of red lead added to make of
thick dry consistency. When mixing
the acid and water, be sure to add the
acid to the water and not the water
" tliS dGluJ tdullOHS IODuldI NeClldH-
ics. Also remember that sulphuric
acid will destroy anything that it
comes in contact with and will make
a painful burn If it touches the hands
Stir the mixture with a stick and when
a dry paste is formed, put it into the
smaller tube and ram lit down until
the tube is almost filled. The paste
that may have come through the holes
is scraped off and the tube set aside
TO dry. The large tube or cup is filled
with a diluted solution of sulphuric
acid. This solution should be about
one-twelfth acid. The cell is now COM
plete and ready for storing the cur
rent.
The cell may be charged with three
gravity cells. These are connected in
series and the positive terminal bind
ing-post on the storage cell is connect
ed to the wire leading from the copper
plate in the gravity cell. The other
plate is connected to the zinc. The
first charge should be run into the cell
for about one week and all subsequent
charges should only take from ten to
twelve hours.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

vised in Germany,
and is likely to
find extended use,
replacing in great
part the present
electric bell or
"buzzer." Writes
DIR. Alfred Graden-
witz, describing
the new invention
in Cosmos:
THE need has
been frequently
felt, during recent
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Just SUPPOSE,

"S'pose the old man don't get the
office he's a-runnin' for?"
well, he says thatll be a calamity
to the state, but eff the state won't let
him save it, it'll only have its fool
self to blame. Eff they turn him down,
his responsibility ceases! !"-Exchange
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Physicians Recommend CastOria

ASTORA has met with pronounced favor the physicians pharma
cuical societies and medical authorities Tt used by physicians with
results most gratifying The extended Of Castoa is unquonaby the
result Of three as fhe ndiputa evidence that it is harmless:
sIhat it not only aays stomach and que the but assim
es the food 7 agreeable and perfect substitute for Castor OIL
is absolutely SAFE Tt does not contain any OPIUM Morphine other narcotic
and does not up unlike Soothing sps Bemans Drops Godfes
Cordial etc. This good deal for Medical Journal say Our duty how
expose danger and record the advancing health The day
for poisoning innocent children through greed ignorance ought to end To
knowledge Castoa remedy which produces compose and health by
regulating the yemnot by upeng and readers entitled to
the innlmati0n.-Ha1's of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

What are you hunting for in the
dictionary, my SOM" asked old Kol-
lidge.
What is the Latin for 'wink?'"
asked young Kollidge.
Spirtus frumenti,' replied the old
man absent-mindedly. - Philadelphia
Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Times CHANCES,

Mrs. Redd-Is that your automobile
your husband is in?
Mrs. Greene-I really don't know.
You see, it's in the repair shop so
much that l don't remember Just what
It does look like!
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

hniSh and round
the corners and
make a small
rounding edge as
shown in the
sketch. From a
piece of brass Lie
inch thick cut two
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Sends Power Without Wires.

A young inventor of Lyons, France,
is said to have solved the problem of
the transmission of electrical energy
without the use of wires.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
Your Druggist VIII Tell You

That Murine Eye Remedy Cures Eyes,
Soothes Eye Pain and Sells for SOC.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

negative, made of
lead and placed
in a dilute solu-
tion of sulphuric
acid. Large bat
teries made of
large cells have a
great number of
plates, both posi-
tive and negative,
of which all posi-
tive plates are
connected to one
terminal and the
negative p a t e S
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

Aliens Foot-Ease. n Powder
For swollen. sweating feet. Gives instant relief The
original powder for the feet. 25c all Drugg sts
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

Pretty teeth are responsible for q
good many smiles.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng softens the gums reduces In.
hammation allays pain cures wind collie 25c bottle
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

Labor rids us of three great evils;
poverty, vice and ennui-Voltaire.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
AN ELECTRIC TRUMPET.
instrument Which Is More Effective
Than Bell or Buzzer.

A trumpet designed to give a sound.
signal by electric action has been de-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
INSULAToR TEST.
How Manufacturers Are Meeting De-
mand for Greater Voltage Power.

What the limits of long-distance
transmission will be at the close Of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

The man who pays his debts is true
to his trust.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
A LIGHTNING ARRESTER.
Simple Device That Will Prove Effec-
tive, 1t Is Said.

Secure a piece of wood about 80
inches square that will furnish a nice
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17
THE HOME ELECTRICIAN.
How You Can Make Yourself a Small
Storage Battery.

The cell of a storage battery con
sists of two plates. a positive and a
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-17

What was your record across Jer-
sey?"
"One country constable and cow"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-08
Scraps Of Science.

A new machine to, dispose Of the
ashes which accumulate In the fire
rooms of vessels expels them through
the keel SO forcibly that they cannot
scour the hull or come into contact
with the propeller tubes.
Visual proof that the earth moves is
furnished at Columbia university, New.
York, where a pendulum ninety-one
feet long, suspended from the dome
Of chapel, swings several inches out
Of the perpendicular
By the use OF an automatic heel
which viii maintain uniform ten.
sion. vet permit its length to vary as
the motion Of a ship demands, life
saving galloway and breeches buoy
has been made practicable for use ON
vessels.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-08
WOMAN's WIT UNCERTAIN.
AZ When This Wife Failed to Ap.
EET rs ..n>a;.&~ L,,LL,.y- nI>~-.~a..,

AZ When This Wife, Failed TO Ap.
Preeiate Hubby's Pleasantly.
"Don't always rely upon the ready
wit Of woman" said the man who
Is sometimes pleased to consider him
self an oracle. '"That ready wit bust.
ness is sometimes prone to get way of.
"For example, my wife and children
had been staying tn the country fol-
several weeks, and I was regular with
my letters, as every loving husband
should be. Finally on the day before
my wife was to start for home con.
Guided my letter to her with these
words:
This will be the last letter I will
write to you for long. long time
when I got down to my Office tho
next morning found a telegram from
my wife waiting for me. What on
earth do you meanY read the dispatch.
'tLater registered letter came from
her. She had blotted almost every line
with tears. What It was all about ]
could not imagine.
Then my telephone bell rang, and
when answered I heard my wife'a
voice speaking over the long distance
phone. ~.
tOh, joint said She. rs that really
your thought you had committed
suicideF "-Washington Post.