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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
WILL PROBAFED
Estate of Benjamin. Basel
Stout is Divided Among
Members Of Family.

The will Of 3. Bassell stout pro-
bated Monday, gives 4so acres on
Turkey Run to Charles u. stout Lee
Stout gets 195 acres on Hoop-pole
run, MeIgs Stout 500 acres on
Brushy Fork. Martha Stout is25 acres
on Hoop-pole run. Josephine South
ern 10 acres on Elk creek, Mary
Reynolds 1CO aqSes on Hoop-pole
run, Ben b. Stout 81 acres On Brushy
Fork. and the l.thow is IL have her
maintenance. use 9f half q. .thc house
and yearly ssm. Meigs Stout Is
to pay William Stout $500. The
personal estate goes 10 the widow
onethlrd-. and The remainder TO the
children. charli<: L. Stout IS named
as executor.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
STANDARDNINS
Again in tie Famous Judge
Lands Fine Case Against
That Company

WASHINGTON. D. C. jan A.
The suprsRe Court OF tha upited
States today denied tho petition Of
the government ss5sa Nlf Of GER
tiorari in the twenty-hiae million
dollars fiuo case OF the Standard on
Company The effect oil the decision
Is to>leave standing the decfsion Of
the court of appeals, which Is adverse
to the government and favorable to
the company.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
MERRY MUSICAL MoKEs
Arrive and AZ g. Field aud MS slcr.
y Men Are g Appear TonisLt

The Al G. Field sIiustrels COM
paay. sso-eount 'em-sO. arrived
In town this morning headed b. the
black faced impressario. the redoubi-
able al. 6. Field. The company IS
2 large and excellent one. aud Is
second TO none N the realms ofs
burnt cork art. At the noon hour tho
slide pushers1 gave a parade over
the route that had been blazed ID
advance for them BY thefamous I1s
Potts. There wiz be but one per-
formance. no matfnees beiug played
by this'orgsnlzatsOn.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
APPEAL MADE.
BY Bishop sDonahue of the.
Catholic Diocese for the
Earthquake Sufferers.


aaic ki Req, Z. J. Donahuc. Bisn-
% y ine rststse Of Wheeling. has
lssped the &if.aIuy appeal which
l2s resdsbs shslclergy Mt the morn
VICES in II! the churches of
hit 1ce q Sunday:
Wheeling. W. Va.
January l. 1909.
Reverend Dead Father:
J need not sr,ad many words in
reIering TO thr appalling. disaster
Which has ovcrrken southern Italy
ie most terrible. perhaps. in the
history OF the human race. thrilling
tx nations will horror In the face
0 aeh a disaster it becomes our
plain duty TO join with tho rest Of
tht civilized worlu in extending he'll
ina symRathS Such is the dictate
* common humanity. Please make
appeal tq~your nock in behalf OF the
mournIng aud hereft survivors so that
IN bearers may b. moved to practica
Christian charity
VIII you haN the goodness to no.
sufl the people On Sunday. January
- d the COLLECTION TO he taken o.
the following sunday. January 10
and 70 send a. soun as possible tine
aufouht 50 that may transmit i
without dSlay 10 ihe Holy Father
Beg the faithful also 10 pray for th'
ilundreds of thousands 50 suddcni,
ssnatched from liIe and hurled into
ternfty,
Faithfdliy yours in Xto
r. ]. DONAtIUE.
BlshoD OF Wheeling
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
Three-Year-Old Daughter of
Mrs. Hattie Harmon Victim
Of an Open Crate.

IN the odd Fellows cemetery at
Shinnston Monday afternoon at $50
o'clock. the body 81 Edith Harmon.
three-yoar-oId daughter of Mrs. Hat
tie Harmon. II the Steaiey addition.
was laid IN grase The child died
Saturday evening of mortal burns
sustained wnen her clothing caught
afire from an open crate. and. after
lingering Tor two hours In excruci-
ating pain.
The depiorable accident occurred
n The home of the ehild's grandnar.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
PAYS FINE FOR ASSAULT.

jacob Franklin Morris. y o,Ncil
was fined s. and costs by Magistrate
John 7. Flynn at wilsonburE satur-
day afternoon upon conviction of an
assault on John Bonnel At o'Neil
December IS. He paid The required
sum and was released. Morris was
arrested by Constable Lewis NJ.
James and brought 10 the county
jan where he remained a day and i
night awaiting his hearing.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
BY
RAILROAD TRAIN
SANDS IS BETTER.

The hosts OF friends Of Mr.. ]. E.
Sands. OF Fairmon,, viii rejoice to
know that he has SO far recovered
from his recent serious illness as to be
able to spend a portion OF Sunday at
his beautiful suburban home, the
Peacock Farms.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
LITTLE GIRL IS
BURNED TO DEATH

cnts, Mr.. and Mrs. L. ]. Lee. with
whom Mrs. Harmon, their daughter.
made her home. Tho mother was
away from the house and the little
Girl was left in the care or her grand
mother. About o'clock Mrs. Ice
went out Of thc hou=e to put letter
in mail box and It was while she
Vas gone that the child, who had
been eft sitting upon a chair. stoop-
"a over in front OF the crate and got
its clothing too near the blaze. When
Mrs. Lee entered the hall she met the
child running out OF the room,
wrapped in flames. The baby's
clothing was burned from her body
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
N SUE CANAL
Are the BattlesRips Which
Compose First Section
of the Fleet.

SUEz. Jan 4-The battleships.
Connecticut. Kansas. Minnesota and
Vermont, composing the first section.
of the fleet, started on the passage
through the suez canal this mopn-
ing. They are. due at Port Said to-
night. 4 large crowd witnessed The
spectacle.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
Burgess Dean of This City is
Killed on Track Near
Lynch's Mines.

z. Burgess Dean. aged l3, Of this
city: was decapitated by a freight
train on the West Virginia & Pitts
burg division of the Baltimore : &
Ohio railroad near Lyneh's Mines
early Sunday morning. His head
less body was found by man who
was walking along the track about
2.2o o'clock Sunday morning and
stumbled over It. The head was
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04

FIGURES
OF the Losses of Life Are
Given by Foreign offic-
ers Than Italian:
FRESH QUAKEs OCCUR
And a Big Panic Again En-
sues But No Fatalities
Are Recorded.

ROME, Jan. 4-Forelgn officers
who have explored the ruins on both
sides of the straits give higher esti-
mates Of the loss of life than in the
Italian reports. They believe 10000
persons we're either killed or trapped
in the ruins of Messina and 10000
at Reggie.
The radius of destruction extends
thirty miles north and south on the
coast OF Sicily and on the mainland
for an equal distance below Radicena
towards the south.
Saturday night there were fresh
earthquake shocks at Messina and a
panic ensued ashore and on board
ship. Many tOttering walls fell but
no fatalities were recorded.
ROME, Italy, Jan. 4-Advices
from Messina say twenty Iooters were
shot there yesterday and that the city
will be evacuated today. Six thousand
persons have already lef. there and
5000 more will leave today.
The minister of way says that
while he was at Messinn 1t least 49,
600 persons were taken from the
ruins injured and uninjrred.
REGGIo, Jan. "A detachment
Of troops, which went to fhe villages
on the east coats of Calabrla, found
nothing but ruins and bodies Of per-
sons killed IN the earthquake. The
survivors haa lied. There. is every
reason to believe tha: dreadful havoc
was wrougnr in he moustain VII
lages.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
THREE CHILDREN III

Mrs. Maggie Bowther. ~ the Mon
tieeIlo addition. has good deal Of
sicknes at her home. her three chill
dren all being III. Two of them have
pneumonian ana the other one has
congestion OF the lungs. They ar
Jessie, aged six; Mary. aged four. and
lNrfhur. aged two.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
ARCHITECT CO.'S HOME.

Henry Tredweli, Of Wheeling. Who
was here some time assisting Archi-
tect f. J. Wood In rush of business.
returned home today. He is in the
employ Of Giesey & Farls and he
made many friends during hfs stay
here.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
CHILD OPERATED on

The fiye-year-old child Of Col. ".
n. Meadow Of BurnsviIIe. has been
operated on at the Kessier hospital
for appendicitis and is getting along
nicely
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
eosERyoR OF FLORIDA.

flsl-isAHAssE. Fla. Jan. Gov
sllert ". GiichFist was inaug-
ased eaief executive OF Florida 10
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04

The body of tho late Judge Robert
f Fleming. u Falrndnt was taISris
to Rayenswood, his FORMER home. te-
day Tor burial.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04

". $. frame. Of Camden, e
here last night
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-04
rlFE WHETHER

Threatening with rain Tucsday
possibly ialc tonight. coIder ru,ss
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17
Something doing every day?

something doing every day? i
Mere nonsense! There is some
thing doing every hour, every minute,
yes, every second. Every time the
clock ticks the most amazing things
are happening all over the world and
right here in the humdrum United
States of America.
Some Of the most thrilling things,
such as earthquakes, are inclined to
be a trife. conservative. No-not
once in several years. as one might
think with instructive recollections of
Pelee, San Francisco and Messina; a
bad deal more often than that,-four
times a dayasto, take the very EhIiable
figures compiled by Maj de Monies
sus de Balore. He found records of
.perceptible earthquakes to the num-
Der of 100000 during the last fifty
years, Italy and Japan running neck
and neck with 27,672 and 27,562, re-
spectively; our own Pacific coast
having had 4,467, against the very
moderate number of 9S7 for the At
lantic coast during the same period.
There's the letter you mailed yes
terday, telling Bill you'd wait a while
longer for the money-that letter Bill
is so anxiously looking for, lest it's
contents tell him he's up against it
hard this time. Your case and Bills
and all the other strange and mar
velous affairs of the world that are
settled by correspondence, from the
announcement card with the burdened
'tork upon it to the black-edged en-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17
EVERY TINE THE OLD
CLOCK TICKS-WHAT?

benefaction in the form of gifts and
requests for public objects looks truly
munificent-$2.S8 on every tick of the
clock the year round.
The whole world-as nobody ever
stops to remember-is in debt. Those
public debts, which seem to run so
smoothly by means of interest-paying
bonds, except in South America some
times, really measure the poverty Of
nations; Japan's, for example having
compelled her to refrain from giving
Russia anything worse than a mild
trouncing and now making her almost
helpless as distributor of the worlds
peace for years to come. The inter-
est on the worlds total debt amounts
to just $40 a second. ~.
A very moderate estimate of the
profits upon American manufactures
would be 20 per cent. One-half the
net profits on the goods manufactured
in the United States would nearly de-
fray the interest on the debt of the
world, for we turn $3.50 worth of man
ufactures second and are not sat-
isfied with that
Time and Travel.
Every second, such are the numbers
Of our populations close to deep
streams, eleven passengers board
American ferryboats. Every second
twenty-one passengers board the
country's railway trains. And every
second, over one railway mile we
haul $3.50 tons of freight.
The Statistics which, if measured
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17

where started" is the way he puts
it.
Joe Kelley got his first opportunity
as a major league player in Boston.
and though he won far greater fame
in Baltimore as member of the
three-time champions. he did his last
work in Boston as a big Lacquer hav-
ing managed the team there last year.
Pat Donovan is another similar in
stance. 1t was in 1890, as member
of the Brooklyn club, that he had his
opening experience of pitting his abil-
tiles against those Of the fastest
known company. He did not attract
any worldwide attention at that time.
but enough astute baseball managers
had studied his form to see that in
the lean, left-handed hitter there was
the making of future star.
Donovan Drifts Back.
Pittsburg wanted him, and Pat
eagerly went. Brooklyn had not at
that time the charms for him it came
afterward to possess. e..
Years spent in the Smoky City es-
tablished his reputation.' and then he
went to st. Louis to manage the Ma
tional league team.
Washington. also. had him as a
leader for season: but it was to
Brooklyn he went to wind up major
league career that had lasted for
close to score of years.
Donovan stayed three years before
he moved out of the limelight.
one OF the greatest characters of
baseball, Eagle Eye" Jake Beckley.
first became known to fame. as a
member OF the St Louis Whites, then
of the American association. He hit
the ball so hard that his prowess as
a batsman went all over the country
Pittsburg grabbed him first. He
played in Cincinnati. He had varied
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17

CY YOUNG TO END HIS CAREER
IN TOWN WHERE HE STARTED
Most Noted Pitcher in Baseball Has One Touch of Sen-
ment-Other Ball Players Who Felt
the Same Way
the Same Way.


In the interval he wandered far and
wide. st. Louis had him for a time.
then he went to- Baltimore and helped
to win some of the pennants that put
that city on the baseball map.
His pitching days passed. he turned
his attention to- infleld work, and be.
came star second baseman.
He went to New York and managed
the team there, then he went to the
Detroit Americans in the early days
of the American league.
But in the midst Of all his passings
from place to place his heart had
never wavered in its loyalty to the
club that had first given. him a chance
in the big show 49,
Finally he could stand it no longer.
He went to James Potter, then presi-
dent of the Philadelphia club and said:
"Mr. Potter want to come back.
Get my release
Mr.. Potter did, and for three sea-
sons Gleason captained the club and
played second base
Young Blood Steps In. .
Then came a time when a younger
and faster man. Knabe, proved he had
better right to the job than the vet
eran. Gleason never whimpered. He
stuck, and gave the youngster the ad-
vantage of all the knowledge he had
amassed in his years of service.
Other clubs wanted Gleason when
they found he had been relegated to
the bench, but Gleason declined to
consider any proposition while the
Phillies continued to want him, and
he is there yet.
Il want to wind up in the town
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17
HEROISM IN THE NAVY,
How Two Gunners' Mates Saved a Big
Battleship. a..

How Two Gunners' Mates Saved Big
Battleship.
When the powder began to blaze in
the handling room of the Missouri two
gunners' mates-M. Momssen and G..
S. Schepke, who were in the maya
zine, at the imminent risk of their
lives-prevented the flames from
reaching the powder there. This he
roic disregard for their own safety
was the miracle that saved the ship.
Why not call it by its proper name?
1t was the prompt action of brave,
cool-headed sailor men in blue shirts
that saved the ship, and if they were
miracles, then the navy, I am proud
to say, is full of miracles. Those
miracle workers walk about the decks
of our ships by the hundreds.
The first I ever knew of a bareback
came about in this way-and I believe
recognized as a danger in our navy.
T. was standing over the after thir-
teen-inch turret of my flagship, the
Kentucky, watching the firing of her
thirteen-inch guns at target practice
in Manila bay. Many shots had been
fired, when suddenly, as one of the
guns was discharged, sheet of flame
shot up through an opening in the
top Of the turret. This was so unu.
sual, and to me alarming, that 1 Or
dered the firing to cease until could
ascertain the cause Of it. The Off
GERS and men all wished to go on with
the firing, not realizing that they were
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17
Hioh Priced Horseshoeino.

Gen. St.. Clair Mulholland veteran
and historian of the Civil war, tells
an incident showing the utter worth
lessness of Confederate paper money
at the close of the war. K --
Shortly after Lees surrender"
says the general, 81 was short dis
lance from Richmond The Confeder-
ate soldiers were going home to be-
come men of peace again and were
thinking about their farms.
Zone had a lame, broken down
horse, which he viewed with pride.
Wish Ishad him, JIM said the other.
3What'll you take for him? I'll give
you $4,000 for him. .
No said Jim.
4 g Give you $4,000
No. said jim.
Give you 100000, his friend said.
Not much replied Jim. I just
gave $4,000 to have him shod.''',
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17
Immune from Arrest.

In Washington, in the capital of the
nation, there reside 200 men who,
with their households, have absolute
Immunity from the laws of the land,
even though they commit crimes of
the first degree. They may shoot down
the man who Injuries them; they may,
il they see fit, paint the new equestrian
statue of Gen. Phil Sheridan a vivid
pea green, yet the hands of Uncle Sam
must be kept from their shoulders,
and woe unto the unterrified police
man or other servant of the law who
undertakes to bring them to justice
once they have declared their official
connections. These men who are so
clothed in immunity, are the members
lof the diplomatic corps, and their
shield is international law. It is pro-
vided in the laws of nations that they
must answer before the tribunals Of
their own countries for the offenses
they commit here in Washington, but
that they shall not be tried by any
court of the United States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17
Bio Queensland Turtle

A party of men were reclining in
their tent by the sea near Bundaberg,
where they were surprised to see a
large turtle poke its head in the en-
trance. After they had recovered
from the surprise they set to work
to capture the turtle, and it took the
united efforts of two of them to turn
the. turtle over On its back, which they
did with the aid of a rope, and a
couple of spars. A rope was attached
and it was kept a prisoner till boxing
day, when the captors amused them
selves riding on it up and down the
sand. After the novelty had worn of
one OF the members of the party
mounted the turtles back and set it's
head for the sea, letting the rope 20.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17

velope that strikes gloom into every
eye that sees it, all go to make up the
worlds average of 951 letters mailed
upon every tick of the clock.
BUSY; please call off, Of course,
that's annoying when you have only a
couple of minutes left to reach your
wife and tell her you're ordered out
of town and can't be home tonight
But what can you expect when, on the
wires of single telephone company
in the United States, there are 1876
calls being made 40 every clock-tick
Some of them are bound to cross
sometime
If anybody's worrying about the
Panama canal. these days, it isn't the
fellows down there who are making
the dirt fly. Every time the clock
ticks, ii yards of dirt, according to
the latest reports, is ripped out That
doesn't look quite as impressive as the
statement that, in the twelve months
up to November last, the excavation
amounted to 35,O16O24 cubic yards;
but it lets one see, in his minds eye,
would look like, over one yard wide,
thick and high, which is passing out
of the canal at the rate of more than
two miles an hour, if the clock-ticks
are eliminated and the outpour be re-
garded as continuous. s-,-
The assidious American hen, to
which SO much of matutinal energy
is owing, lays 492 eggs a second,
averaging the year round. If she
could only be induced to work by the
clock in reality, instead of in the form
of general average, the anguish of
paying 40 and so cents a dozen for
breakfast eggs in winter would BE
blissful void in the American lolfse-
hold.
Probably the most imposing Single
figure applying to the occurrences
that happen upon the tick Of the
clock is the number of matches light
ed throughout the world Nh less
than $4,000 strike fire every second
of the day and night. SIG, 800, DOC, 900
during the year.
Probably the least imposing Is the
cost to the British people of main
tanning the British royal family Ills
cents second. They fairly ddte on
statistics over there. It king Edward,
pointing out that his loyal subjects
are getting him to balk the kaiser
at bargain rates anyway. were p sug-
gest that it would look less stihgy to
pay him the even Ia cents second,
the additional 2 mills would net him
a tidy $62.072 a year.
j. By contrast, what American rich
people are doing in the way Of public
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-04-17
would be reduced

by the clOcktick. would be reduced
to fractions, are striking enough when
we trace them on the dial by minutes,
hours and days.
Every hour, here, 1874 yearning low
ers are Joined in marriage-and ten
disguised ones are parted by divorce.
That looks pretty bad; but is is far
from the twenty divorces an hour es-
timated by some alarmists. the five
counted being deduced from the twen-
ty-year total Of 945,625 divorces in the
continental United States from 1887
to 1906, inclusive Z. ..H
Our national recklessness of life
and the profound Importance of the
employers liability laws-become ap-
parent when we note that, with more
than 100000 workmen injured in
year, the victims of "accidents'' large
ly preventable are mauled and MAIN
ed at the rate of four a minute, and
killed at the rate of four an hour.
We've measured even the lightning.
despite the commonly accepted fact
that it never strikes twice in the same
pAdCC. 4uOlC IllS average,
fifteen lightning strokes a day that
cause damage in the United States to
the extent of Sc minute, and three
people killed ever couple Of days.
While we are dying, of all the ills
our flesh is heir to, at the rate of two
minute, we are helping death along
by committing a murder every hour
Or so, and about fifteen suicides
day..
Yet we keep going right on getting
richer and happier than most of the
poor devils that have to put up with
life over in Europe, until today the
whole United States. at cash valua-
ton. is worth s116.OOO,OO0, 900. You
could buy Great Britain and Ireland
for only 100000 900, and the rest
of Europe for $4,000, OOO, 900.