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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-11-10

bat his friends have not rolled upon
his personal popularity 60 insure his
success. Tor a. soon a. hts nomination
was made eur party leaders In the
distrtct haUAn at once to secure an
organization In every city and county
80 perfect and complete IS never 20
have been surpassed by any similar
organization within my recollection in
the history or the politics OF Virginia
have never seen such accord and
hearty corporation as has character
lied tho conduct OF the Democratic
forces OF the Ninth District. and the
unaniuity and cordiality with which
they have worked together in this
campaign Is worthy OF the highest
praise
ITO me. one OF the most pleasing
features OF the campaign has been
the heartiness with which our party
leaders in the State, Irrespective Of
eformer differences. have united in
ence to further tho election OF Mr.
Stuart
Senators Swanson and Martin.
Representatives Flood, Glass and
Jones. Ex-Governor Montague, Attor-
neY General Williams, Judge William
+. Rhea, Hon. Harry st. George Tuck
or and others as worthy of honor
able mention. have all We'd with each
other as to who could render the
most cheerful and cordial support to
our party nominee. With such a COM
bination Of influences, I feel am
justified In anticipating that by this
time next week. we shall be able to
put Henry c. Stuart on the roll as
the representative of the Ninth Con-
gressiona District of Virginia in the
next House of Representatives"
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UNITED STATES
NEEDS AEROPLANES
General Bell Declared Country
Should Be Prepared for
War at Any Time.

WASHINGTON. d. c. Special
Twenty aeroplanes at least are imme-
diately needed for the army, accord
ing to the annual report of General
James Allen. chief OF the signal corps.
Citing the nations need for expert
enced army birdmen, he declared: 1T
must be remem bered that in 1897 no
one believed that this country had
any prospect of war. yet within a year
from that date. we were actually in
Volved in a war with Spain, without
any adequate military preparation.
which resulted in great confusion, eX-
pense and unnecessary loss of life.
Furthermore. experienced military
birdmen cannot be created after war
is declared, and the demands of this
new service undoubtedly will require
higher qualities of training judgment
and courage than any other branch of
the military service" He says TWEEN
ty aeroplanes would provide but two
for each camp of instruction.
To operate this number would re-
quire at least twenty trained officers
as pilots.
In addition to this. each machine
must carry at least one observer.
which. experience has shown, will re-
quire much training and actual prac-
tice before the usefulness of the heav..
ier-than-air machine is attained
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POPULAR PASTOR
RESIGNS CHARGE

c H M ND, VA, Especially
The Rev. D. X Walthall, pastor OF
the Mizpah Presbyterian Church,
Chestnut Hill. rendered his resigna-
tton Of that pastorate Sunday. an
nouncing to his congregation that he
had accepted a call to the Waynes-
boro Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. Walthall sewers his connection
with Mizpah Church after fourteen
years continuous service. Notwith-
standing the fact that his congrega-
ton has petitioned that he rescind his
action. Mr.. WalthaH announces that
his decision is final, and is subject
to the action of the presbytery.
Mr.. Walthali states that 1t is with
keen regret and reluctance that he
leaves Richmond and Mizpah Church.
1t is with distress that the congrega-
ton of MiZpah Church receives the
announcement of their pastor.
The Waynesboro Church has a
membership of $50 souls. The
edifice was recently rebuilt at a cost
Of $4,000 and is one of the finest
houses OF worship in the State.
Pending the action of the presby-
terry, Mr.. Walthall will continue in
charge of Mizpah. If the presbytery
DEGREES that he accept the call to
Waynesboro. Mr.. Walthall will short
ly remove his family TO that town.
A probable successor to Mr.. Wal
thail has not been considered as yet
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PRESIDENT KNOWS
NOTHING OF CHANGES

HARRISONBURG. VA Special.-A
Harrisonburg newspaper man wrote
a letter several days ago to President
TAFT, asking whether John Paul. OF
Harrisonburg, had been appointed
referee for the Seventh Congressional
District, as had been reported. and
whether John Acker. OF Edom, Rock
ingham county. had been removed.
as stated in the same report.
Secretary Norton answered the LET
ter, saying that the President had d.
rected him to say that he knew moth
ing OF the reported change OF Repub-
lean referees for the Seventh District
OF Virginia.
This referee controversy has taken
a prominent part in the factionaI
nght now going on between the Re-
publican candidates for Congress-
Lupton. for the organization. and
John Paul, for the anti-organization
forces.
IL appears that the antf-organiza-
uon forces have been anxious to have
John Paul recognized by the admin
istration. as IL would necessarily have
considerable weight with the voters
OF the district. And also il appears
mat John Paul has received no little
encouragement from leaders high in
state and national councils.
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EQUALIZATION is
GREATLY NEEDED

Agitation OF the subject OF eQualiza
ton OF taxes may be responsible for
the increase, but the books which are
now in the office of Auditor of Public
Accounts show that in the last FIVE
years a hotel ana five acres OF land,
formerly returned at $14 for the entire
property. and which yielded a total OF
IL cents in taxes. is this year returned
at $1,dOO. This former valuation serves
to give an idea of the work" done by
the assessors in some OF the counties
IL would make interesting reading TO
know who was the owner OF the prop
erty, and whether there was a COM
munity of interest" in the assessment
Another piece of real estate, in a
small town, which was valued at $500
for taxation purposes FIVE years ago,
ana which has not materially improved
in the last Ave years, Is this year found
to be returned for $4,000. Just an in =
stance of men doing their work and
doing IL in accordance with their oeths.
DR.. Douglas $ Freeman. the secre-
tary OF the State Tax Commission, has
unearthed several such instances so far,
and he is at work on some others that
Will serve to open the eyes of the mem
oers OF the commission and acQuaint
the people of the State with the condl-
lions that have existed in the past
"A so per cent. valuation for taxa
ton would enable the State 20 reduce
its rate of taxation one-haN," was the
declaration OF a member OF the Senate
last winter, and judging from what has
been unearthed so far, the gentleman
knew his subject.
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BLACK HAND GANG
DYNkMITES HOME
Crime Follows Refusal of Chi
cago Grocer to Give Up One
Thousand Dollars.

CHICAGO, ILL Special An ex-
ploS.ng bomb drove the occupants of
the crowded three-story brick build
ing at 217 South Clark Street the
center Of large Italian colony, into
panic at 2:05 o'clock Wednesday
many leaping from lower windows
and others plunging pell-mell down
stairs at the defamation.
The explosion, which is declared
by the police to have been the work
or "blackhand" miscreants, blew in
almost the entire front of the build
ing on the ground floor, which is oc-
cupled by grocery. Part of the
wall was demolished and all the win
dows were shattered. The shock made
the building totter, and those asleeu
believing IL was collapslng, were al
most helpless in their fright. BY the
time policeman, hearing the bombs
report had reached the building il
had been emptied entirely of it's &C.
cupants, many OF whom stood shiv-
ring in their night attire. A call to
a police station brought detectives
who. however. were unable to find a
clew to the perpetrator.
Inc detective learned that Antonio
tranzi. proprietor OF the grocery.
who, with his family, is an occupant
or the building, had received a num-
per OF threatening letters directing
MIN TO put $1,000 in a certain place
within a certain time, which had
elapsed.
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Isl, 900, 900 BURGLAR"
SAILS AS A FREE MAN

NEW YORK Special.-Robert Jel-
linek. alias Otto Brown, a former
clerk in a Wall Street banking house
and heir to one-third Of $1,OOO,OOO
who has been in the Richmond coun-
~ jail for four months, charged with
burglary, is now on the high seas.
He was taken, handcuffed, late on
Saturday to HOboken by Sheriff Col
Inns and placed in charge of the cap
tain of the steamship Columbia,
bound for Trieste. Once aboard the
steamer Jellinek became a free man,
and, well supplied with funds, imme-
dlately engaged first-class passage.
he was known on Staten Island as
the millionaire burglar"
Jellinek was granted a suspended
sentence by Justice Putnam. Of the
First judicial Court, in Stapleton,
Staten Island, last week. This de-
cision was made by the court on the
representation of Louis Boehm, of
$40 Broadway, counsel for Jellinek
that no case of actual burglary was
proven against him, that he was we'll
supplied with funds and that he
would never return. as his parents
in Prague, Austria, were wealthy and
would guarantee that he keep out of
this country.
Before leaving for abroad Jellinek
made this statement:
Il leave this country with feelings
of the most profound gratitude to
Judge Putnam. who has treated me
most fairly. l never stole a penny
in my life and was arrested in broad
daylight in New Brighton while in
the house of Pauline Tissuska in
search of a friend
I was Immediately east into Jail,
and had ii not been for my father,
who is very old man in Prague, 1
might have, been left to serve a Grim
inal sentence here.
My father is Adolph Jellinek, a
wealthy glove manufacturer of
Prague, with a branch factory in
Gloversville, n. Y. came to this
country several years ago to learn
American banking methods. L have
always paid my debts and have never
before been arrested"
Attorney Boehm told a World re-
porter yesterday that Jellinek has
Just come into possession OF $4,000,
part of a fortune of which his share
IS $4,000, left him by his mother,
recently deceased. With his two
brothers he is heir TO 100000 pos
sessed by his father.
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HUNTER WITH RIFLE
STABBED IN STREET

NEW YORK Special.-In a khaki
hunting suit and carrying a rifle of
large caliber, John Q. Warner. a Young
civil engineer, was set upon MONDAY
evening as he was walking up Sew
enth Avenue. near Thirty-sixth Street
he was stabbed four times in the hack
anu surgeons OF Flower Hospital fear
ms skull is fractured. The young en-
Slneer, the police think, NAV have
been taken by express company strik-
ers Tor a wagon guard. His rife dis
appeared.
warner, who lived in Hiehwood
conn, was employed by an engineer
ing concern in the Times Building. In
preparing to go on a hunting trim he
changed to khaki in his office and
stufred his belt full of cartridges for
the heavy rifle he carried.
AT Z o'clock he walked down Sew
enth Avenue to 495. where. in a res
taurant he had supper. At 1890 he
emerged and started to walk to Forty
second Street. He had not gone
more than half a block from Thirty
sixth Street when four men attacked
him. They vanished with the rifle. He
staggered on up Seventh Avenue.
warner found no policeman until he
got to Long Acre Square. There he
saw Traffic Policeman Gucian. War
7er fell at the policeman's feet.
Tn all in" he gasped; get me
to a hospital. ! think I'm dying"
Gucian called an ambulance with
DR.. Botsford, from Flower Hospital
The engineer was so weak he was IN
able to say much. He asked. how
ever. that his immediate superior i'm
the engineering concern, Harold Il.
Weaver, of II Irving Place, be in
formed.
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PRISON BOARD HAS
SHOE BILL RAISED
Cost of Keeping Prisoners In State
Penitentiary Causes Officials to
Demand Increase In Contract.
r MON vA-snec,aI

r G H NJ o N d, VA.-SpeeiaI-
The directors OF the State Peniten-
tiary have already begun the consid-
e-ation of the shoe contract with the
DAVIS Boot and Shoe Company, which
must be renewed prior to 1918.
The condcts have for years been
working under contract making shoes
for the Da is Boot and Shoe Com
pany at about 40 cents a day, and
the State has been feeding, clothing,
guarding and irving the convicts med
zeal attention Cor this munificent
amount
The directors r. - that when the
contract was madS bveraI years ago
there was a deart Vof labor; there
were idle men to beTound on all the
streets. Work was not to be had. To-
day the conditions are different.
There has been an increase IN the
cost of living; there has been an in
crease OF salaries, and the common
report is that at costs more to live
now than it did a few years ago"
What truth there may be in this can
best be answered by the housewives
and those who have to pay the bills.
rrue. this did not bother the men
Who were engaged in making shoes,
or the State was paying the bilie
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FEAR POND MET
WITH FOUL PLAY
RIG HMOND- VA

X { II NJ o d, VA, Especial. y
walter Pond. prominent grocer
or Ettricks, the little town on the APP
pomattoX. opposite to Petersburg, has
been missing from his home for about
ten days and his family is unable to
advance the slightest explanation as
TO his absence
Although the police throughout
Chesterfield county have been dill
gently searching, not the least clew to
ms Whereabouts mas been discovered.
The circumstances surroundfnp his
disappearance point quite positively
TO foul play. Pond conducts a -four
lshing grocery business at Ettricks.
zach Saturday night he brings home
the proceeds Of the week, which some
times amount to hundreds of dollars.
IL was while on his way home Satur-
DAY evening before last that he was
last seen. Pond is not a drinking man.
mas had no worries or sickness Of
late, no domestic infelicity or flnan-
cial troubles; he is known TO have
Few enemies and many friends. on
the whole there is not the sliRhtes,
reason for his disappearance except
that he met with foul play.
Description of Pond
Pond is man about thirty-six years
OLD; hve feet ten inches in height:
weighs about 1876 pounds: has dark
hair; is clean shaven: has light com
plexion and dark brown eyes
Pond was a member of the Chester-
held county police force for about
seven years. He has a wife and seven
children. who are greatly grieved and
AT loss as to his continued absence
lie was very we'll known in the county
and South Richmond
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Is Tracked by Horse,a shoe.

DANVILLE, ILL-Special.-F c.
Garner, twenty-five years old, was ar
rested yesterday and held without bail.
charged with the murder OF Mrs. Elsie
Cochrane. whose body was found in
a lonely woods three miles from her
nome on Friday. She had been taken
TO the woods in n buggy and shot.
A horse owned by Garner wore a
peculiar shoe that fitted the tracks.
found at the scene of the murder.
while break In one OF the rubber
tires or his buggy also fitted the wheel
tracks leading to the place where th~,.
body was found.
Garner denied knowing Mrs. Coch-
rane. but at the Jail he was Identifies
by the dead woman's three children
as man who had frequently called On.
their mother at her home.
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W0NDR0US CHANGE
AT STATE PRISON
RICH MOND. VA.

& II M o n ID, VA, Especial J.
Wondrous changes have been
tracts at the penitentiary since Major
j. Is. Wood took charge OF affairs there
on January IL, 1910.
Immediately upon assuming the
duties of his office as superintendent.
Major Wood announced a purpose not
cept as a last resort and then only
after the offenses of the prisoners had
1een carefully adjudicated.
The result of this determination
today is manifest by report of the
penitentiary, which is in the hands
Board OF Charities and Corrections.
This report shows that even con-
victs are susceptible to kindness. and
that they can be reached through an
appeal to their moral side.
In 1903 the total number OF cases
IN which corporal punishment had
been inflicted was S6I. For this wear
the inquire is only 1913. In February
OF 1910 there We're only 46 cases OF
logging. in March So, in April 8. in
May ,. in June II, in July 7 and i'm
August g. 81
Secretary Mastin is greatly delight
Cd with these figures. which. in his
opinion, are an eloquent argument in
FAVOR OF Major Woods policy.
The net earnings OF the State prison
III me uSCAi year just ended are So
goo less than those of the year he
lore-a fact easily explained-since
the prison population is SIS less than
during the preceding year. Eighty
lVe additional prisoners in the peni-
lehtiary would earn about $4,000.
Ana taen, too, the increased cost OF
provisions this year makes a difference
OF about $1,000. For 1910 the net
earnings of the prison are $7,Sss.4b.
me average daily population at tha
prison here is 1,265, and ii costs 81 26 =
% 20 year to maintain them. This
MAKES Ihe yearly per. capita $9aSO, and
me daily per capita 27.3 The daily
PROVISIONS OF each convict cost 81 cents
ana their clothes OF cents Think Of
lt.iess than 10 cents a day for food
ana less than cents a day for clothesi
, 4 me state farm of 1900 acres Yields
20 I,VdS,Io' and the quarry and dairy
Sy,e49.5l Total. $21.62S.27 The con-
vlct road force. which maintains four
zen camps, has worked 1920 ten
nour days, and the cost of maintaininc
Inc men daily was &c cents per eapita
mere is an average of forty-nfne men
70 camp, or total OF $50 a month
" the road working prisoners. 4eT
come from Jails and 420 from the peni-
5eenu2ry. The counties have paid $40
lOO Tor the prison road forces. This
money otherwise would go to callers
The States total criminal population
$ as follows: Penitentiary (dafly0 I
26S; prison farm daily, 2S7: convict
camps, including Jail men, 727: paroled
this year. 154. Grand total daily prison
population. 2,43S.
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MURDERERS WANT
STAY OF SENTENCE

RICHMO ND, VA, Especial. }
Governor Mann has agreed to re-
ceive w. M. Peyton, OF Martinsville,
one day this week, who wishes to
present some facts in connection with
the pending application for commuta-
Eccles. James Hairston and Tom
Bailey, a trio of colored men under
sentence of death for murder. The
men are scheduled to go to the cleo
trio chair November 18th, and unless
some very strong reasons are present
ed to Offset the verdict of the jury,
which heard the cases, the men will
go to death at the time named.
The three men are the principals
in a murder, a free fight, on a train
between Roanoke and Winston-Salem
nearly a year ago. They cut Sidney
Woods. a colored man. and his death
was almost instantaneous. Piggy
Penn, one of the men charged with
completely in the crime. was acQuit-
ted.
The Nor were tried in Henry Coun-
~ Circuit Court before Judge Harvey,
and the case was never in doubt from
the moment that they were arrested.
The men were on an excursion train
returning from Roanoke, where all
hands had imbibed freely Of the liquid
refreshments of that city. They be-
gan to fight soon after the train left
Roanoke, winding up when Sidney
Woods was killed. The men were ar
rested by the train crew and given
over to the county officers.
Letters have been received from
Judge Harvey and the attorney for the
commonwealth protesting against any
interference in the case, these gentle
men saying that the crime was one OF
the most dastardly in the history OF
the county.
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SHOULD ARREST
The PRESIDENT

CINCINNATI, o., Especial That
PRESIDENT Taft ought to be arrested
When he comes to Cincinnati to vote
on November Sth, and that he should
oe locked up as a common Vagrant.
the same as any other man on a
similar charge, is the statement made.
Monday by Louis F. Schweikart, candi-
date for Congress on the Socialist
ticket against Congressman GoebeI,
In the Second Ohio District.
Il would suggest that when Taft
comes to this city he be immediately
arrested for vagrancy and AFFORDED
the same kind of treatment as ia
meteo out TO workmen who are uA-
able 10 get jobs" was Schweikart'g
statement. Mr.. Taft has registered,
from No. 1886 Madison Road and will
vote at No. 2O35 Madison Road
winch is an unused storeroom.
oonWelkart says Taft does not live.
here. and therefore should have -
right to vote here
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sTeBRGAT SRuTAIY
TREATED BY CREW
knhced Aboard Vessel and Xhen
Beaten and Robbed by Pas
sengers and Crew.

NEW YORK SpSciA.-A story of
brutality and robbery at sea came to
light Wednesday when the Phoenix
Line steamer St Andrew arrived from
Antwerp.
She has on board q German stow
away, who said he had been assaulted
ana robbed by members of the crew.
me stowaway was beaten with an
iron bar over the head and also rob-
bed OF his money and watch. One of
the crew is locked up. another Is miss
ing and could not be found at muster
Wednesday morning.
Some horsemen travelling as pas
sengerS are also implicated in the as
sault on the stowaway. who declares
that he was enticed aboard the steam
er at Antwerp under promise of get
ting him ashore at this port.
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Seventh Street. Brooklyn. Pie auto
struck him and passed &rer his body
Ihofnas GoetzelUcS, OF COS Seventh
Street. the chauffeur, Aopped The
car, picked up the boy Ind hurried
with him to Seney HosT@tal Thern
II was found Wesley's skiGi was frsc-
tured ana ne was injureE internally.
The Goblins Did Gt& Her.
THE gobberlins II git Ter" laugh
ingly said eight-year-old Bennie I,iss
to ten-year-old escort Fkank I,ocuu
as they followed a procesEon IN PAT
erson. N. J. They were Il Main and
Clay Streets.
Look out. or the car m git Won.
warned Frankie. and trihd 70 push
her aside. She had on her big sis
ter's skirt and trtpped OVER the trail
ing garment. She fell forward an
front Of a Newark Patterson car and
life.
A half hour afterward her limp
FORM was removed. Her right hand
still clutched a bouquet OF artificial
roses Jennie lived at Stockholm, a
village on the SusQuehanna and west
ern Railroad.
Patrick McCran. of Ie2 Mill Street.
the motorman, and Nicholas Forshay.
OF IS Belmont Avenue. the conductor.
were paroled by Captain Taylor.
But the accidents OF the day had
humorous side, too.
Gangs of boys chased one another
with stockings filled with flour Mon
day afternoon on the West Side Ar
thur Cassidy, OF 449 West Forty
eighth Street. leader OF one crowd.
struck William Steuben. of 449 West
Forty-fourth Street, head of another
army. just above the left eye.
His Eye Ruined.
To the horror of all the boys the
eye left its socket and fell to the pave
ment at Forty-ninth Street and Tenth
Avenue. The eye broke into bits.
Steuben wept tears from his remain
whats the matter?" asked Patrol
man Ward.
Me eye is out" sobbed Willie.
An ambulance from Flower Hospi-
tai brought DR.. Allen.
me eye fell out" said Willie. "and
there's bit of glass in the lid
GLASS;" exclaimed the policeman.
Sure said Willie. 1T was a glass
eye"
John Green. fifteen. of S4s Trinity
Avenue. Bronx, thought il funny when
a crowi Of boys at one Hundred and
Sixty-third Street and jackson Avenue
attacked bulldog with bags Of flour
When the dog bristled up, all the boys
except John fed. He stayed, laugh
ing so hard he couldn't run
He sobered up when the dog seized
his coat by the lapel, yanked it off and
tore ii into strips. Johns trousers
next received the dogs attention and
soon were in tatters. BY that time
fright put action INTO Johns legs and
he made a record sprint to the Norris
ania Police Station. The police looked
him over carefully. but failing to find
a mark on him decided the dog must
have been actuated only by the spirit
Of the carnival.