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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-23
NEWS HOT FROM THE FARM.

Farmers of Lower Alloway Creek
Township, Salem county, are busy
shipping rhubarb.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-23

L. w. wilkins. of 1%faorofare, is re-
ceiving $3.50 a bunch for asparagus.
but he isn't cutting much.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

The State OF West Virginia
At rules held in the Clerks office OF
the Circuit Court OF Berkeley County,
the End day of August, 1909
Wilbur II. Thomas. administrator OF
the estate of Wilson Laraway. de-
ceased, plaintiff,
VS..
Mrs Dora Iaraway. Mrs. Edna Gnin-
ness, Mrs. Catherine Decker, TtId-
son Laraway and Mary Harrison. de-
pendants.
The object OF the above suit Is TO
have a settlement OF the accounts OF
the plaintiff, administrator OF Wilson
Iaraway; that the real estate men,
toned and described in the plaintiffs
bill OF complaint may be held as as
sets Of the estate Of Wilson Larmway
Liable for the payment OF his debts;
that the creditors OF said Wilson Lar
away may be convened. their debts
.andited and established according to
their amounts and prlorltles; that the
real estate may be sold and
the prodeeds thereof applied as far a.
may be necessary for the payment OF
the said debts after the application of
such assets as are in the plaintiffs
hands thereto; and for such other
further and general relief as the Court
may deem necessary and At to grant
and II appearing on affidavit in this
suit, that the said defendants. Mrs.
Dora Laraway Mrs. Edna Guinness.
Mrs. Catherine Decker and Judson
Laraway are non-residents OF this
state, they are hereby required to APP
pear at the said Clerks Office within
one month from the day OF August.
1909. fthe date OF the first publication
hereof) and do what Is necessary to
protect their interest IN this matter.
l.. Dew GERHARDT. Clerk
WILBUR Fl. THOMAS Attorney
for Plaintiff 8-7-4t
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
PAYS THE BALANCE
TO Mr.. WESTENHAVER
County Court Settles For RemodeIing
Court House-Total Cost Will
Be About $4,000.

The members Of the Berkeley Coun-
ty court this afternoon completed the
settlement with Contractor S. A.
Westenhaver for the work of remodel
ing the court house, paying over to
him a sum of several thousand dol
lars, the balance due him for the
work.
The building was formally accepted
from Mr. Westenhayer several days
ago, and the task of completing the
details of settlement were postponed
until today. The total cost of re-
modelling and furnishing the hand
some building is slightly under $780,
90 thus far, but some additional ex-
pense will probably bring the total up
TO about $4,000
While no plans have been made for
the dedication of the handsome struc-
ture. and no date has been fixed for
its formal opening, it is expected that
the ceremonies will occur about the
middle of September.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

The State OF West Virginia.
AT rules held in the Clerks Office OF
the Circuit Court of Berkeley County,
the End day of August, 1909
Mrs. G. v. Glotner plaintiff.
VS..
Jac. M. Zegler, Jos. II. Zelgler, Ida M.
Miller, Sarah G. Johnson, Eliz. c.
Ritter, Annie B. Kline, Ellen j.
Zeigler and Guy w zeigler. an In
FAINT.
The object OF the above suit is TO
have partition OF the real estate In
volved in said suit among the parties
thereto entitled, to have dover assign
ed to Ellen j. zeigier, widow, and In
case no partition can be made advan-
taceously then to have said real es-
tate sold and the proceeds of sale d.
ylded among said parties as their in
terests may appear, and 1t appearing
IN affidavit filed In this suit. that the
said defendants, JAG. M Zeigler. Ida
n. Miller. Eliz c. Ritter. Ellen J.
Zeigler, JOS. IT, Zeigler, Sarah G. john
son, ANNA B. Kline and Guy w. zeig-
Ter are non-residents of this state.
they are hereby required to appear at
the said Clerks office. within one
month frcm the 7th day OF August.
1909. (the date Of the first publication
hereby and do what Is necessary to
protect their interests In this matter
L. Dew. GERHARDT, Clerk.
WILBUR Fl. THOMAS. Attorney
for Plaintiff. o-I-at
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
INCIDENT OF THE
GREAT CIVIL WAR
iMr. Scott vanMetre Presented Six
Bullets He Fired Into Tree Near
Seneca, Md.

Mr. Scott NanMetre, of West South
street, this city, Union veteran of
the Civil war, was yesterday present
ed with six bullets which the old SOL
der had fired into a big elm tree at
the acqueduct on the Chesapeake e
Ohio canal near Seneca, Md, just AZ
years ago, while he was on picket
duty with the Eleventh New York
regiment of calvary, and which had
remained embedded in the tree all the
intervening years.
The presentation of the bits of lead
to Mr. VanMetre served to recall an
interesting incident in his career as a
soldier in the Union army. Mr.. Van
Metre left Berkeley county, where he
was born and reared, shortly after
the outbreak Of the great conflict, and
enlisted in the New York regiment.
On the way south the regiment was
encamped near Seneca, and Mr.. Van
Metre was one of the men detailed
for picket duty in the protection OF
the big stone acqueduct. When re-
Iieved that evening the pickets were
ordered to discharge the loads in their
Colts revolvers, and Mr.. VanMetre
elected to use knot IN the trunk of
the tree as a target remarking that
he was accustomed to firing at some
thing when he discharged his weapon.
He thereupon pumped all six bullets
into space about an inch in dame
ter.
In the stirring events which fol-
lowed Mr.. VanMetre forgot the incl
dent, but a short time ago recalled
1t and told of the circumstance to Mr..
William Gibbs, of Washington. Mr..
Gibbs a week or two ago spent few
days in the vicinity of the old tree and
remembering the iicident of AZ years
ago. visited the old tree and looked for
the knot in which the bullets had
been fred. He easily located the spot.
and from the decayed wood removed
tn six leaden pellets, finding them In
exactly the same place indicated by
Mr.. VanMetre.
Yesterday, while on his way west,
Mr.. Gibbs stopped off in Martinsburg
long enough to hunt up Mr.. Van
Metre and return to him the bullets.
and the old colder is naturally graf
fled to have restored to him the re-
hinder of an interesting incident Of
his career as soldier.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
CITY SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.
Rev. w. D. Mccurdy Suggests Idea
Worthy of Consideration.

Rev. w. d. McCurdy, secretary OF
the Berkeley County Sunday School
Association, has addressed letter to
the various Sunday schools in the city
inviting them TO send delegates to a
meeting to be held next Tuesday even
ing in the Y. M. G. A. building for the
purpose of considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of organizing City Sunday School
Union.
Mr. Arthur T. Arnold. secretary Of
the West Virginia Sunday School AS
ISOLATION, and Miss Martha v. Graham
state superintendent OF the elemen-
tary deparement, will be at the meet
ing and make addresses.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
WORK. BEGINS ON
NEW RAILROAD
American Limestone Co. Project LIns
South Of Town to i,terscct the
q. = o. and c. ". n. r..

The grading was commenced yes
terday on the railroad through the
Rutherford tract. two miles south OF
town. projected by the American
Limestone co. The railroad Is to In
tersect the Baltimore and Ohio on the
east and the Cumberland Valley ON
the west and will be about five miles
long The road will be pushed to COM
pletion SO that stone operations may
30 commenced az soon as possible.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
Work Resnn Pushed.

The work on the new Norfolk &
Western depot at Shepherdstown. Il
being pushed Quite a force or men
is at work excayating for the base
ment and foundations. The crossing
temporarily. A stonecrusher has been
going this week. crushing stone for
the concrete foundations and base
ment floors.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
Teachers institute.

The Annual Berkeley County Teach
ers Institute will be held in the Epis-
copal Parish House, Martinsburg, the
week beginning August 18th
Instructors Roster and SUI
san r. Chase.
WILLIS F. EVANS,
S.5.h2t.w1t. County Supt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14

June l To balance due on settlement,
8 per cent div. on County stock M. & w.
Turnpike Co..
1908 land levy, lst district,
1908 land levy I'd district,
1908 personal levy, LIST district
1908 personal levy, I'd district,
1909
Apr. | To Assessment Board Public Works,
% Wilson Laraway decd, cost inquest,
Total
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14
SHERIFFs SETTLEMENT WITH COUNTY

Martinsburg, w Va, August 2, 1909
To the Honorable the County Court of Berkeley Co., VA
Your auditing committee beg leave report the following
settlement with Sheriff E. D. Gardner, made this day.
cOIIN1>y ET1NDC
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-08-14

ftemized financial statement OF
county funds for Berkeley county, w
Va, for the year ending May 81, 1909.
Court House improvements.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
MARINER EPISODE
 THING OF THE PAST
THE BIG FOUR TREASURER GETS
 SIX YEARS
Before His Departure He Will Testify Against Woman who Lashed
 Him to Crime

Cincinnati. Dec. 22.-With a request that sentence be pronounced imme- diately. Charles L. Warriner, the de- faulting local cashier of the Big Four railroad. pleaded guilty to embezzle- ment today and was sentenced to six years at hard labor in the state peni- tentiary.
 The plea of guilty was made by a pre-arrangement between the county prosecutor and Mariners attorneys, and the sentence of the court brings to a close one chapter of a story of the theft of at least s643.0O0 with it's at tendant sensational charges of years of blackmail with a woman as the dominant figure.
 Warriner will make one more public appearance before the doors of the penitentiary close behind him. On Monday Mrs Jeanette Stewart Ford will be brought to trial on a charge of biackmail. and the principal witness against her will be the man whom she is alleged to have driven from crime to crime for ten years e.
 When Mariners lawyers entered a plea of guilty. their client raised his head and made wild passionate declaration of the agonies he had suf- fered in the years that, high in the confidence of his employers, he had been engaged iR systematic theft.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
CAMPAIGN OPENED
 FOR BUREAU OF MINES
THE MOVEMENT HAS GOOD WILL
 OF PRESIDENT
Secretary of Mining Congress Explains
 Need Of It.

Washington. Dec. '22.-The head quarters of the American Mining con- gress has opened here to promote the establishment of a national bureau of mines. President Taft and Secretary of the Interior Ballinger are said to favor such a bureau.
 The only difficulty in the way of the establishment of such a bureau" said James F Galbraith, Jr.. of Den yer. secretary of the congress. Ties in the fact that many persons do not realize the terrible conditions that pre- vail in the mining industry and how much we need the aid of the federal government. In the last three de- cades more than 30.000 men have been killed and 100000 injured in the coal mines alone. majority of those in- jured being rendered helpless for life"
 Tn 1907. 3.l25 men lost their lives in coal mines. or nearly five men in every mining camp of 1000 men. Contrast this with one or two men killed in every 1000 employed in foreign coun- tries where they have bureaus of mines that are making thorough study of causes of disasters"
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
News of t Received With
 Joy by Central Americans EARLY FUTURE coNQuEsIs
Mapped Out for the Leader of Revolutionists- Senor Zelaya Takes Occasion Again to Explain Why He Surrendered

Washington, Dec. 22.-There Is gen. eral rejoicing among Central Ameri- cans at the extent of Estrada's victory The satisfaction is not confined to the Nicaraguan partisans. Practically all the Central American diplomatis joined in the celebration that marked the downfall of Zelaya, who has long been regarded as disturbing factor
 It is believed that Estrada will pro ceed next to Greytown and compel the surrender of the government troops bottled up at that place for more than a month.
 Once the news of the defeat of the Zelayans is conveyed to Greytown, the defeat of the garrison, it is believed. will be easy. When that is accom- piished the next move of Estrada will be to capture the small towns along the San Juan river. Then he will move swiftly toward Managua.
 The opinion of those who have tra- versed the country is that the march of the victorious Estrada army, eYen if unopposed. would take six or seven days before Managua would be within hailing distance.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
MOVEMENT FOR RENEWAL
The Export Business Has Dwindled Almost to Moth ing in a Month-Reports Show Volume of Trade Not to Be Affected

Washington. Dec. 22.-Alarmed by the drop from s1.000.000 to s26,363 in mineral oil exports to France in a month. American oil exporters have begun a movement to induce congress to renew with the French government the reciprocity treaty that expired on October 31 The exporters also hope for renewal with Spain. large i'm porter of American oil, the treaty which will expire on August 31, 1910.
 Exports to Canada under the opera tion of the new tariff law have not been compiled by the bureau of sta tistics. but the indications are that they will show relatively as great a falling off of oil exports as those of France.
 Notwithstanding the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty with France. the reports of the bureau for November. the first month under the new order of things. show larger totals both of inn ports and exports than the correspond ing month of last year
 The total value of exports of domes- tic products to France in November. 1909, shown by the bureau of statistics was $20,013,414, against 12,092, ,554 for November, 1908: the value of the i'm ports from France in November, 1909. s14.I66.1 .199. against ss,462,024 for No vember, 1908. The, principal article showing a decline of imports from France is champagne.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
DEATH CAME SWIFTLY
 10 SENATOR M'LAUR|M
HIS HEART FAILED WITHOUT iN-
 sTANT's WARNING.
4 Few Moments Befcre He Was Feel
 ing Better Than for Weeks.

Jackson. Miss, Dec. 22.-United States Senator McLaurin died suddenly tonight at his home at Brandon. Death was due to an attack of heart disease. It came without the slightest warning at 6:30- o'clock. When the stroke came Mir. McLaurin was seated in rocking chair in front of a fire in his library. He pitched forward with out speaking word. and was dead when the members of his family reached him. The swift summons fol- lowed by a few moments a remark by MT. McLaurin that he was feeling bet ter than he had felt at any time since his recent severe illness. resulting from an attack of ptomaine poison- ing.
 Mir. McLaurin was 61 years of age. He began his first term in the senate in 1894. His present term would have expired in 1913.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
ARRESTS WILL EXTEND
 ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Said Collector Loeb, Speaking of
 Sleeper Trunk Frauds.

New York. Dec. 22.-Collector of the Port William Loeb. jr.. today declared that the arrests here in the sleeper trunk smuggling cases were but the beginning of a series of arrests that would follow all over the country ex- tending to the Pacific coast.
 Tt has been discovered that the inn portation of costly goods through this port without the payment of duty Mir Loeb said, was the result of a far reaching plot. the head of which was a former United States customs official who made his headquarters in Paris and who has since died"
 Seven of the indicted dressmakers have been arrested here and held in various amounts of bail for trial in the federal court. Four persons indicted have not been arrested.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
AN AGED SWINDLER
 JAILED N NEW YORK
Member of Group Which Preyed on
 Wealthy English Families

New York, Dec. 22-In Charles Adams, an elderly man. the police al- lege they have member of the sue cessful group of mining swindlers. which in recent years have fleeced wealthy English families out of s250.- OO0
 Adams was arrested today by a postoffice inspector. It is alleged that when a death notice appeared in the English papers Adams or an associate would write letter addressed to the dead man, knowing that it would prob ably fall into the hands of his heirs The letter would recite how the writer had been helped by the addressee to make fortune in mining stocks, and how. in gratitude he offered his ben efactor chance to subscribe for choice mining shares. The relatives. the police say. in many cases, accepted the bait.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
AN EARLIER ALARMING DISPATCH.

Bisbee, Ariz. Dec. 22.-Considerable uIseasiness is felt here over the out come of the Tiburon expedition. which sailed from Guaymas October % in an eleven-ton sloop for the island which bears so terrible a reputation. with the intention of thoroughly exploring it. So far as can be ascertained. no word has been received from them since the date mentioned.
 The party is composed of F1ayette Jones and J.. A. Bateman of Albuquer- que. Joe Beals; John Hagan. Chester Kilgore. Charles Clendening and Will liam Tierney of Bisbee. Each is a crack rifle shot and experienced in out of-door life in the west.
 Bisbee people remember the ill-fated Grindell expedition. It is recalled. however. that the Bisbee party is far stronger, better equipped and using a different method to accomplish their purpose. The Grindell expedition trav- eled overland, really failing because of a lack of water.
 When the party left Guaymas they expressed the intention of spending six weeks in the vicinity of Guardian An gel island. Arrangements were made for the notification of James Johnson of Bisbee of their doings and success from that place. No word has been received as yet. though it was to have come about December 15.
 No investigation will be made of their absence until the end of three months. for which time they told Mir. Taylor. the American consul at Quay mas, they would be absent.
 The party before sailing refused the offer of the Mexican government to
 end a detachment of soldiers witt them They declared that they feared nothing from the Indians. Friends here. although worried. declare they do not believe they have fallen victims to the Seri indians. It was their inten- ton to sail entirely around Tiburon island. mapping it. They were then to land. take photographs. data and sam pie any ores they encountered.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAz|ME
 LIBEL SUIT DEPENDANT
The Plaintiffs Name Had Been Men
 tioned in Connection With Sugar" Crimes.

New York, Dec. 22-ThOmas B. Har- ned. Philadelphia lawyer. brought suit today in the United States circuit court against the International Maga- zine company, owned by W. R. Hearst, asking damages of S75.000 for alleged libel in the current issue of the Cosmo- politan magazine. in an article entitled Tragedies of the Sugar Trust"
 Tn this same article appeared copy of a letter written by Attorney General Wickersham to Henry R. Wise. the United States district attorney here, which in some manner was copied from the original in Wise's desk.
 Harmed is one of the men indicted by the federal grand jury in connec- tion with the Pennsylvania Sugar Re- fining company's suit, whose demurrer to the indictment, however. was sus- tained on the ground that the prose- eution was barred by the statute of limitations.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
\ FAVORABLE DAY
 FOR ASSASSINATION FOUR OFFICIALS OF VARIOUS DE- CRIES SUDDENLY REMOVED The Knife, the Pistol and the Bomb
 Busy at Various Points

New York, Dec. 22.-A remarkable series of political assassinations of personages of high office was report ed today from widely separated points.
 At Seoul, Korea, Prime Minister Vi was stabbed to death. the apparent re- suit of the intense feeling of Korea against Japanese influence. Vie Tag. aged twenty. a student educated in the United States was the slayer. He was captured
 In Roumania. Prime Minister Brae- tans was shot and seriously wounded by an anarchist.
 In St. Petersburg. the chief of secret police. Co. Karpoff. was blown to pieces by the explosion of a bomb, exploded by sub-Chief Kressensky while visiting at the latter's home.
 At Bombay. British India, the chief magistrate of :Nasik. Arthur M T. Jackson. was assassinated by a native in revenge for the sentencing of rel ative to life Imprisonment
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
MYSTERIOUS A|RsH|P
 CUT CIRCLES IN THE SKY
And Amazed the Citizens of Worcester,
 Mass.

Worcester. Mass. Dec. 22.-Flying at a speed of thirty or forty miles an hour a mysterious airship tonight appeared over Worcester. hovered for a few minutes, and disappeared. In two hours it returned, cut four circles above the city. using a searchlight of tremendous power. Thousands or watchers thronged the streets.
 The airship remained over the city fifteen minutes. all the time at a height of about 1000 feet. The glaring rays of the great searchlight were sharply defined.
 At the time of the airship's visit, Wallace Tillinghast who recently claimed that he had invented mar velous aeroplane, in which he said he had journeyed to New York and re- turned by the way of Boston, was ab- sent from home and could not be found.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
MuskoeEE OFFICIALS
The Board of Commissioners Indicted
 For Malfeasance

Muskogee, Okla. Dec. 22.-Charles Vann. William Harris and T. B. Sut- ton, commissioners of Muskogee coun- ty. were arrested today on charges of .maifeasance. There are twenty counts against them.
 George Spurlock. a member of the Muskogee board of trade, was indicted on a charge of perjury. Spurlock was a witness before the grand jury in the investigation of the charge that influ- ence had been brought to bear on the county commissioners to purchase a court house site.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
scHLEYs FAITH UNsHAKEN
He Demands That Peary Run the
 Same Gauntlet

Washington, Dec. 22.-Reaffirming his complete confidence in Dr. Cook. Rear Admiral Schley today called up- on Commander Peary to submit his proofs that he had reached the pole to some scientific body other than the National Geographical Society
 This. the admiral declared, should be done at once in the interest of justice to establish beyond question the claims of Peary. The admiral believes that the same body that threw out and repudiated Cooks data should be per mitted to pass upon the data, submit ted by Peary to the geographic so- ciety
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
TARIFF CHARGED UP
To the Ohio Live Stock Sanitary
 Board

Columbus, Dec. 22.-The Ohio state live stock commission had a practical demonstration of the workings Of the new tariff law. The commission sent a hypodermic instrument to Germany for repair, and it was announced today that the instrument was returned yes terday and with it bill from the gov ernment for s1.15 duty.
 This was based on the ad volorem' of 45 per. cent. When purchased the in strument cost s2.5O. The same kind of instrument cannot be procured in tine United States.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-23
BUTTE MINERS INTERVENE.

Butte, Mont. Dec. 22.-A committee representing the miners union today drove the switchmen who returned to work in the yards of the Great North ern and Northern Pacific from their work and told them that if they re- turned 2,000 miners would wait on them tomorrow to see that they stopped work while their brother switchmen were on strike. The yards are tied up and the smelters are pre- pairing to close.