Semi-weekly herald., 1909-03-22

SlllOu W db ObCS a hatOPShb
conference to act on the Balkan situa.
ton. This conference will have a
strictly limited program and win
merely ratify accomplished facts.
The official replies OF the powers to
this proposal have not yet been re-
ceiyed.
PARKERSBURG. w. Va, Mar. 49,
Three persons were killed, three 9th
ers fatally injured. and many more
slightly hurt, ten or more houses com.
pletely wrecked and forty more badly
damaged when two large water tanks
supplying the city with water burst
this morning.
The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Waggle and small child. The bodies
were found In the ruins of their home.
Those seriously injured; Mrs. John
Maloney, both legs broken and hurt
internally; probably will die. Mrs.
Kate Karnees, an invalid, badly bruls-
ed and shocked: may die. Clara Jones,
colored. hurt internally; will probably
die.
The immense stream OF water re
leased rushed down Prospect Hill,
sweeping everything before 1t. Houses
were swept into the street and resi-
dents knocked from their beds. One
whole family was carried down the
street for seventy yards, their house
being split almost into ribbons, yet
all escaped except one girl. who suf
fered broken collar bone
The two tanks contained the entire
city supply of water and famine
| Is now imminent. The damage Will
amount to a quarter million.
st. James Lutheran church was com.
pletely demolished but through Its sac
rifice many lives were spared and
much more damage prevented as It
was directly In the path of the water.
| The breaking of the tanks is be
lieved to have been caused by some
miscreant.
| CULPEPPER, Va, Mar. 19.-After
numbering his wife by Draining her
with an AK, Henry C. Wheatley. a
Culpepper farmer. placed her head or
a block of wood and almost complete
ly severed 1t from the body. Wheat
ley was placed in the Culpepper jai
early this morning.
The crime occurred at Wheatley's
home. near Elkwood, this county, Wed
nesday night. but was not discovered
until yesterday when Wheatley's IL
year-old son made the grewsome dis
covery Of his stepmother's body. Be
side 1t lay the blood covered az ant
with II note from Wheatley, con
Tossing TO the murder of his wife a,
the result OF difficulty over theil
property. Subsequently Wheatley'i
apparently lifeless body was found II
a well on his place. He was takeI
out by a crowd of neighbors who hat
been summoned by the son, and h,
WAS soon revived Later he was ar
rested. taken to jail, and charged witt
the murder of his wife.
Wheatley was formerly deputy coun
ty treasurer. He is a well educate,
man. bears a good reputation and 4
known as quiet and peaceable citi
zen. Neighbors regard his act as tina
of an insane man.
NEW YORK. Mar. 19.--In the issu,
of outlook today appears the first o
series of articles by Theodore Roose
welt on Socialism. After discussin,
the position of scientific socialism O
communism the ex-president says:
"On social and domestic side tn,
doctrine of socialism would replac,
the family and home life by glorl
fled state. a free lunch counter an,
state founding asylum. deliberatel,
enthroning self Indulgence as the idea
with, on its darker side the absolute
abandonment OF all morality as be
tween man and woman"
NEW YORK, Mar. 19.-Fire starte,
at nine o'clock today In a six.stor
brick building at 1s1 Broadway oe
cupied by the hat store Of Dunlap 1
Company and on the upper floor b
an optIcian and tailor. The blaz
) spread through the building an
burst through the roof. The burnin
building stood In the middle Of bloc
of five-story buildings between Corr
land and Dey streets, on the west sid
of Broadway, only few hundred fee
from the thirty-seven story City In
vestment building and the SINCE
building. which. however. were no
threatened by the flames. Traffic Ii
J the downtown section on Broadwa
approaching the financial district, wa
blocked while the fire was in progress
SHARON, Pa. Mar. 19.-Frank II
: Buhl. the millionaire iron and stee
man. uncle Of William whltla, tn
/ kidnapped boy. today stated that h
would spend a hundred thousand do
lars to recover the boy. Notwithstand
: Ing rigid search all last night b,
many officers in western Pennsyl
vania, eastern Ohio and West virgini,
and as yet no trace has been found O
the kidnapers OF the S-year-old son o
James p. Whitla, a prominent AMI