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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
Second e explosion at the Lick
Branch Mine Within
Half a Month:
ONE HUNDRED b KILLED.
And Possibly Many More as
Three Hundred Men
Were in Mine

BLuEFIBLD, Jan. 12 AS the re-
suit Of another explosion at the Lick
Branch mine at Witchbacls. twenty
miles from here. between So ana 100
miners were killed this morning
The number may DE largely IN
creased as from 2s0 to 500 miners
were at work at the time IN the mine
and II was not ascertained at noon
how many. survived.
on December 2s fifty miners were
killed in an explosion In the same
mine.
Up to this time the mine was re-
garded as a model mine and Is owned
by the Pocahontas Consolidated Cpl-
lierles compans.
Most Of The miners at work today
were Americans -
Up TO i o'clock this afternoon the
rescue party. was not able to enter
the mine, on account of the Intense
heat.
It's thought that following the ex-
plosion the mine canght afire, al.
though but little smoke Is finding
its way to the exterior
The officials refuse 10 give an esti-l
mate of the number that may have
met death but at the mouth 81 the
mine II is now believed over TOO
The miners plaee the bisf1e Tor n
explosion on some foreign miness
who It Is believed entered the mine
with an open lamp.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
FATHER IS JAILED
In Default of a Fine Imposed
for Violating the
School Law.

William Ward. of PhoenixviIle, was
arrested and brought to the county
jail Monday evening by Constable
Lewis NJ. James to serve an imprls-
onment IN default Of the payment of
a fine imposed by Justice John r.
Flynn. of Wilsonburg. Ward was
convicted Of violating the compulsory
school law by failing to send a
daughter to the public school ana
was fined s. and costs. He was given
opportunity of paying the line but did
not and the magistrate ordered his
imprisonment.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
COLLECTIONS
For the Relief. of Italian Suf.
ferers is Being Taken
by Italian Consul.

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scription list staTted nv. m, 81 I..,.sss H. &
Consular Asent NJ i ~ ~ .T.,.s. &, y, I
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tonators wishing infor5ns t,on 81 ts
where.and how this nonay s,,s,I s. s
expended or apy other faats,rs = Il ~ IS
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
SNOW STORM
Prevails in Several States
Along the Ohio River
and Other Places.

CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 12-The
heavy snow storm which prevailed in
this city and vicinity last night is re-
ported today as raging furiously fur
ther up the Ohio valley, and the en-
tire state of Kentucky, southern Ind
lana, Ohio and West Virginia are
covered today with several inches Of
snow.
Sleet and heavy snow occurred to-
day generally over the district south
OF the lake region, in the Mississippi
valley and the southwest, The tenn
.perature is at freezing point as far
south as Galveston.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
FIGHTERS FINED
BY Mayor in Police Court for
Engaging in Two
Bouts in Street.

In police court this morning at the
regular term whch was conducted by
Mayor Edward J. Wood John wor-
thy and Frank Kee!en were fined $40
and costs each for lighting In pike
street late last night. They had one
eight IN the street in front fthe Met
ropolitan hotel and were arrested BY
policemen who took them to head
quarters. The y gave bond for Their
Appearance in police court ana we're
released but were arrested aesia
short time afterward Tor engaging
III annthst hghtai6 PIKE strgt id
aSlse m 'is gelsase1 ln,qn
fes4n4nf ~ taeI1 AnNs inis morning
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
FINE PROGRESS
5 Being Made by Fairnont
and Clarksburg Councils
of THE National Union.

Thes genial grand deputy u the
National Union. c.7s. Stanton, has re-
stirned from Fair1nont where d look
sed after interests Of the ordcr Mr..
stanton reports the Fairnor. coun-
seil as progressing very nicely having
Initiated several new membrs dur
! iflg his stay III Fairmont While in
elarlSshurg M stanton Nj ia the
lpcaI council Ia llesecuring q Il, rs and
new memberab The al ,bnrp
Council, No t1O5, is cor of
som 0 fthe leading busin : ,cn Of
the city, and n great fut rom i
social, as well as frate 4tand.
point. Is confidently look ward
10 ry It's many members.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
CHINA USURPER
Of Full Control Of the Pekin
Telegraph Office and
Protest is Made.

PEKIN, China, Jan. 12-The dip
lomatic corps today made strong
and collective representation to the
Chinese government concerning the
board OF Communications having
usurped full control Of the Pekin
telegraph office, which the Chinese
government in 1891 agreed should
be under tdrelga sapsrins
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
MAccABEE MEETING

The Knights Of the Maceabees will
hold their regular weekly meeting
tonight in Eagles han In the Traders
annex. and a class Of twelve eandi-
dates viii be Initiated. after which
the installation Of officers for the en-
suing year viii rake place. followed by
social session and oyster suppar,
state CdmInanIef G. 6. showa1ter. 81
arlset ltg. WIN be- present and exs
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
MONEY ACCEPTED
BY Turkey and Every Posi-.
bility of War is Thus
Said TO Be Removed.

CoNsTANrINoPLE. Jan. l'2-
The Turkish government today mott
fed Austro-Hungary that it accepts
the offer ofNs1o,sOO,OOO as indem-
nifty for the annexation OF Bosnia ami
Herzegovina. This removes every
possibility of war.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
HAMS CASE CLOSING.

FLUSHING. y. Y, Jan. 12--Tae
defense summed UP in the trial Of
Thornton j. Hains today. The
prosecution will sum up tomorrow
and Thursday the case will be given
10 the jury.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
7caprAIy pRITcHAl

Captain A. n. Pritcha
i'lagton. has been cutie
home Tor the last few
Captain numbers numero
c!arksburg who hope to
his recovery. He Is one
and most iaonored citiae
county
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12
.ATTENDs FuNERAL or AIENr

= As.N ~ FNINNAN.AI Ot7 sAIENI
Charles W. Furbee went to Man
nIngton Tuesday to attend the
funeral Of his aunt Mrs. George L.
Furbee. aged SO years- who died at
her home here suada5 afternoon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12

9. " Nse of Flat woods. was
q city ,isil 9llal nis6y
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-12

When those hasheesh eater took my
tip Of q friendly alliance between
Senator Scott and Mann. the coal
bank sbaron 81 Princeton. and added
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The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
AYHAWKER JOTS

"Of the 10000 known varieties of
fishes" says Bent Murdoch, "only
three kinds-black bass crappie and
channel cat-are suitable for Kansas
streams" If Mr.. Murdock ever be-
comes fish commissioner he will quit
trying to grow Goldfish, herring and
oysters in the Kansas rivers, says
Charlie Blakesley.
The Arkansas City Traveller urges
the Commercial club to wake up
ganization to do. There never was a
time in the history of the city that
Arkansas City needed united action
and the use of good common sense
like the present. 1t is time to get
busy, says the Traveller.
Daisy Chambers of Edwardsville,
was carried past her station on the
Union Pacific railway, and when she
made roar, the conductor called her
a dummy. She had to walk eight
miles in the darkness to reach home.
So 1t would seem that she is entitled
to the 1000 for which she has sued
the railway company.-Emporia Ga
zette.
Conway Springs boasts of having
the incest telephone girls anywhere
around. Now we wonder If Conway
thinks Clearwater is going to let any
body think she is second to any town
when it comes to "hello girls" Why,
our girls are so sweet tempered a per-
with them over the telephone at the
same time and they only smile
Clearwater Courant.
Walt Mason sings in the Emporia
Gazette: There was a man in Abb
lene, who quenched his thirst with
kerosene. The neighbors viewed him
with alarm and called upon him at
his farm, and asked him if he didp t
think he'd better change to purple ink.
or DIR. Kendall's Cure for Mango, or
try ammonia for change; and some
quite fretfu1 grew and cross, because
he ball5ed at pepper sauce. They
bored and worried this poor man, be-
cause he liked his coal oil can; they
camped so often on his trail that he
grew sad and wan and pale; so finally
he bought a gun and shot himself; ere
life was done he murmured: This
poor life would be a better thing for
you and me- for all whose deeds are
right or wrong-if peoples noses
weren't so long"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07

among the women themselves, who
will not believe that it is possible that
every woman can transform herself
into a Venus, despite these positive
assurances from Chicago but
there can be little doubt that every
woman hopes that she is exactly right
and that she will have many disciples
almost goes without saying. And af-
ter the women, or most of them, have
become like unto Venus, the men will
not be found lacking in offering
worthy tribute of some sort to the
woman who opened the eyes of her
sisters to the marvellous possibilities
before them. For If there is any
thing more pleasing to man than
beautiful woman 1t is another beauti-
full woman. But it must be remem-
bered that most men are discrimin-
ately discerning and that many of
them are prone to find and see great
beauty in a woman whose face and
figure may be anything but Venus
like.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
EVERY WOMAN. a VENUS.

Boston is more or less rightly famed
for her erudftion, the culture of her
people and a few other things along
that line. But when the medals are
distributed to the place deserving of
the name of the home of new
thought" Chicago will certainly get
more than her share of them. New
thought of one sort or another just
fairly oozes out of the Windy City all
the time. 1t covers every conceiv-
able topic and is disseminated on ev-
ery possible occasion. So it is not sur
prising that a woman has risen who
has put forth a new propaganda. 1t
is that every woman should be We
nus.
There is no doubt from the way the
most of them primp up and tack on
furbeIows that every woman, would
like to be a Venus and no doubt they
will raise up on a high pedestal this
one, who presumably, is most
passing fair and who will make de-
lectable object to worship. The Chi
cagoan not only insists that it is every
woman's sacred duty to become We
nus, but that it is possible for every
woman to attain the physical per
fections of the goddess of feminine
beauty.
"GIossy hair. pearIy teeth, the glis-
ltening eye," says she, "are
not signs of woman's vanity. They
are the powerful tools that she may
WELD for good, and it is her duty to
use them. Beauty is educative. A
graceful statue, a beautiful landscape,
educates and inspires Why should
not the graceful form or the beautiful
face do the same? I have seen people
who were rudely shocked by the dis
play of shapely shoulders and arms
due to the wearing of decollette
gowns. Decollete may be ennobling
or it may be vulgar. 1t all depends
upon the point of view. Is there any
thing more vulgar in the human figure
than in statue?
Nowadays men haven't the time to
visit art galleries. but women can
bring the beauties of the art galleries
into the home. Every woman can be
Venus. You can't change bone, to
be sure, but you can change the mold
of the flesh to suit yourselves. Right
living, right thinking and good morals
will do It, A woman should go to
sleep each night with a beautiful
thought in her mind
Probably skeptics viii arise, even
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
LFrom the Atchison Globe.1

L
A man can't be insulted as a woman
can.
Whisky is not as bad as the men who
drink it and sell it.
When a man has a mean dog, he US
ually takes pride in it.
In winter, children hear little except
Study your lessons!
There are few women who don't pass
around apologies with their compli-
ments.
Some men are so full of conceit that
they constitute parade when walking
by themselves.
The remarkable man is the one who
does something remarkable without
wasting lot of time telling about it.
When a town woman has very fine
home, she becomes as crazy about it
as a town man becomes over a farm.
When a woman announces that kin
are coming to see her. she always adds
I'm so glad" She may not be glad,
but she says she is.
Many women who can stand any
abuse at home, without shedding a tear.
always cry at weddings, funerals, and
Uncle Toms Cabin" shows
When a man announces at home that
he has made a dollar. and his wife i'm
mediately wants half of 1t, he is con-
vinced that he talks too much.
If a man does any business at all, half
same fix as the woman who has COM
pany. a crying baby, and ironing to do,
and dinner to get.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who met you, and said: 81
had a peck of fun yesterday?" And
then he would tell you how he had the
fun, and you couldn't see anything
funny about 1t.
These hard times a good cook is the
economical cook. The woman who
wastes should be kept out of the kit
chen. The men have such a hard time
scraping up the dollars that a woman
is an angel when she does her part by
watching the scraps in the kitchen.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
A PILGRIM SONG

All little Inn of Sorrow
What of thy bitter bread?
What of Thy Sghostly chambers,
So be sheltered?
'Tis but for night. the freight
That gaSpS on thy cold hearthstone;
Tomorrow my load and the open road
And the fair light leading on!
All! little Inn of Fortune,
what of thy blazing cheer
Wnere glad through the pensive evening
my bright doors beckon clear?
Sweet sleep on thy baIsam pillows,
sweet wine that will thirst assuage-
b9t send me forth DER the morning earth
strong for my pilgrimagei
An; distant End of the Journey,
What If thou fly my feet?
what e thou fade before me
IN sDIendor wan and sweet?
Still the mystical city lnreth-
The quest is the good knights part,
And the pilgrim wends through the end of
the ends
Charlotte Wilson.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
g. Don't strike a man just because he
says he is your match.
The people with the most cheek
dc MT do the most blushing.
1t is quite right that a church bell
should always do as 1t is tolled.
When fellow writes with his left
hand his left hand is really his write
hand.
Unfortunately the things worth do
ing are the things someone else has
done first.
The success of foreign opera singers
is sometimes more pronounced than
their names.
1t may be impossible to buy happi-
ness, but a woman comes pretty close
to it when she buys her clothes.
Never tell a girl, as an inducement
to marry you, that she shall want for
nothing. No girl ever wants to want
for nothing.
The man who says nothing and saws
wood may some day trade that occu-
patton for the more agreeable one of
cutting off coupons.
''All the worlds a stage" quoted
the Wise Guy. yes" an operatic
stage" added the Simple Mug: "and
all the people are either sharps or
fats''
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
KANSAS COMMENT
IN SUNNY .TENNEssEE.

Prlsoners by the wholesale, guard
ed Dy men with fixed bayonets and
! loaded rifles; across the street a
grand jury working away on more
indictments, that the list of prison.
ers may be increased. How well the
description fits Russia, or Persia, or
any other blood-Soaked Eastern des-
'potlsln. But, in this Instance it ap-
pnes TO a community in a free state
IN the most libery-loving country on
EARTH And these Tennessee Night
Riders, to whom the description ap-
pnes' are not in prison because of too
httle HDerty, but because of anarchy,
which we so despise in foreigners
But these men are chiefly Americans
OF American ancestry for many gen
eratlons back. This fact makes their
crime seem worse to the predominant
ing better element; to those who be-
lieve in law and order, and the pro-
tectlon or property. 1t may be ex-
pecting too much to ask man newly
arrived from scenes of bloodshed and
revolution, more used to throwing
bombs than bouquets, to behave him
self, but surely Americans have had
time to learn the lesson Not all of
them have, however, and the country
looks on with interest to see if the
Tennessee authorities have courage
enough to punish towards who. COM
ndt their crimes in packs that the
blame may not attach to an individ-
ual.-Atchison Globe.
THAT REVOLUTION IN VENEZUELA
The successful politician or statesman.
as you may please to cal him. makes
his first fatal mistake when he ccn-
cludes that he is bigger than his party.
1t is the mistake of the creature assum-
ing to be greater than it's creator.
President Castro Of Venezuela not only
made up his mind that he was greater
than his country, but that he was one
of the wisest of rulers. He would have
involved the United States in grave
complications in defense of the Monroe
Doctrine" If the wisdom of the Roose-
welt administration had not guarded
against such calamity. The American
government gave European nations to
of Castro's bluffs. but that such chas-
tisement must not go to the extent of
acquiring Venezuelan Sterritory. That
was what broke the back of the Castro
power in Venezuela. He was a great
buffer, but he had neither army nor
navy to sustain his position. When a
few little Dutch warships made their
appearance. in Venezuelan waters Cas-
tro had already deserted his country. 1t
was than that the people of Venezuela
for the first time seem to have discov-
cred what a deficient statesman their
tyrant really was. The people arose in
their might and Venezuela would have
had real rebellion and revolution and
the country might have been drenched
in blood but for the fact that there was
not enough of the Castro power left to
make a fight. There has been no real
revolution in Venezuela. The Castro
government has simply fallen to pieces
and the people, or rather the peoples
leaders, have set to work to build an
other government on the ruins of the
Castro failure.-Wichita Aagle.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
FRON OTHER PENS
OUR AMusING COUSINS.

The United States is still an un-
explored land to a good many of our
friends across the Atlantic. The Illus
trated London News prints a fair por-
trait of James S. Sherman and labels
it James S. Palmer. vice president
elect of the United States" The News
also recalls that when Mr.. Mckinley
died Mr.. Roosevelt. "who was then
vice president, succeeded automat-
icalIy to the presidency without op
that if anything should happen to Mr..
Taft, "Mr. Palmer would probably. if
precedent were followed. take his
place"
Another recent English publica-
tion, the Girls Realm. has an article
by a man who proclaims himself a
public entertainer. in which he de-
scribes the great success of a song he
once wrote entitled when Father
Laid the Carpet on the Stairs" He
says it is sung all over the world Tex
cept the United States. where they
don't use stairs. but only elevators" I"
Tho singular oversight of the English
editor in permitting the word "ele-
vator" to be used in place of ''1ift"
may be explained by the supposition
that he did not recognize the meaning
of the antiquated word elevator" >"
1t is not conceivable that there can be
even a copy reader in London who
does not know that in the United
States, nowadays, every house, down
to the humblest laborer's cottage. is
provided with an escalator.-Buffalo
Express.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Humility is a virtue we all admire
in others.
You may know some men If you
know the people they know.
Greatness that is thrust upon people
seldom lasts long.
Most men are more prompt about
paying a grudge than a debt.
Better do nothing than do man
who has a mania for getting even.
Self esteem never lets up until 1t
reaches the jumping off place.
Few wives can understand why their
husbands need any pin money.
The wings of riches are not the kind
that angels use on their headgear.
If you would make a hit you must
strike out-unless you are baseball
player.
A man is seldom as black as he is
painted or a woman as white as she
is powdered.
Some men think their ability to
dodge the consequences is even better
policy than honesty.
If one-half the world doesn't know
how the other half lives 1t isn't be-
cause it doesn't spend a lot of time
trying to md out.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among the near relatives of the un-
desirable variety are those who are the
closest.
A sick man is never really out of
danger as long as pretty nurse is TAX
ing care of him.
Just because a woman will not tell her
age that's no certain sign that she will
keep any other secret.
y \ y
The real beauty of many pictures is
never appreciated by ordinary mortals
until they are told Of their great cost.
n u
AS soon as a girl says good-by for
ever she begins to fix up SO that she
will be looking her best when her dis
carded suitor returns.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
Nailine Broken Bones.

Another medico-surgical wonder is
described in one of the Paris newspa-
pers. It is the use of nails for the cure
of simple fractures. For a fracture Of
the shin bone or of the thigh bone a
nail of nickel, aluminium or magnesium
preferably aluminum-is used, and is
driven in to hold the two pieces of bone
together, much like two pieces of wood.
Some time ago nails Of ivory and bone
were used, but it has been found that
the aluminium and magnesium nails are
absorbed by the system soon after they
have done the work required of them.
1t is believed that the mailing of broken
ends is the quickest way to repair a
fracture It does away with the old
system under which a patient had to
lie in bed for three weeks with his foot
attached to 50-pound weight. Never
theless. it is doubtful whether the new
method will be used except for simple
fractures.-Dundee Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07

The supreme court of the Upited
States has decided that the New York
statute fixing the price of manufac-
tured, or artificial gas in New York
city at 80 cents per thousand cubic feet
is valid. This decision is of i'm
portance to the entire country. Gas
at this price ought to be profitable,
for experts have figured it out that in
New York city the manufacture and
distribution of this sort of gas costs
but about Sc cents per thousand cubic
feet
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-07
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

EF'rom the New York Press.l
Girls are awful deceitful to make you
think they aren't.
The reason woman can be so happy
is she knows how to think she is.
A man never gets over admiring how
smart he is to have so nearly made a
success at anything.
If SPECTATORS had all the best seats IN
a church to sell on the sidewalk men
would be just as crazy to go.
The comGionest disease is how many
men think they had good singing voices
before they smoked so much.