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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09
CAPTAIN ICENHOWER
DIES OF PARALYSIS AT His HOME IN
MASON CITY.

Joseph Icenhower, president of
the Beech Grove Coal Company at
Mason City, and an honored ,itizen
of that vicinity, died at his home
Wednesday afternoon as the result of
paralysis, with which he had been
afflicted fer about four weeks.
He is survived y widow, three
sons and three grandchildren. The
surviving sons are Joseph, Brigham
and Frederick, the FIRST in the naval
service as chief engineer on the bat
tleship Minnesota, tie second en-
ployed as engineer on the B. & o.
railway, and the last named secreta-
ry of the concern of which the de-
ceased was the chief officer. A fourth
son, Frank, died four years ago,
leaving three children.
He was born at the .Kanawha Sa-
lires, six miles above Charleston on
the Great Kanawha river, in 1871,
and at that place attended an old
Field Virginia school of ante-bellum
times.
In 1855 his father, Joseph Icen-
hover, Sr. removed his large family
to the newly-founded town of West
Columbia, where he was engaged as
a laborer in the salt industry.
A few months later he removed to
Mason City, where he found similar
employment. Here, soon after, the
mother died, leaving the father with
the motherless children. These he
kept together, and they Jared the
best they could. And the deceased
kept in mind all his life the names of
the good housewives of that time Oft
en- told with tears in his eyes how
they had giyeo him great pieces of
bread and butter during the days of
his early orphanage. But he was
bright boy, aed even under these ad-
verse circumstances acquired fund
of info nation which afterward. ser
ed him well in his life work.
In 1872 he became charter mem
Der of Almedia Lodge No. 81 of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
at Mason CITY, and in Cincinnati re-
ceiyed the degrees of Blue Lodge
and Royal Arch Masonry. From the
lodges there he demitted and became
member of Clifton Lodge No. eS
Ancient Free and Aece- ted Masons
at Mason City, and of Point Pleasant
Chapter No. Royal Arch Masons.
Joseph Icenbower was good man
and true, and he will be long remem-
bered throughout Mason county.
The funeral services were held at
the residence, below Mason, Sunday
afternoon, Revs. Gilmore and Bau-
man officiating.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09
FRANK SHELTER HAS ACCIDENT.


While riding horseback from Let
art to Baden, little village over in
Mason county, Tuesday afternoon
Frank Smeltzer, travelling out of Gal
lipolis for wholesale grocery frm, ,sus-
tanned fractured arm and a dislocat-
ed shoulder. He was able to mount
his horse and ride back to Letart,
where DR.. Smith fixed him up and he
is now making his rounds again. Mr..
Smeltzer is well known to the mer-
chants of this bend.-P6meroy indie
pendent.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09
STEAMER VIRGINIA
HARD AGROUND AT WILLOW GROVE
BSAD TO Be BREAKING IN TWO

Telephone messages from Willow
Grove, some six or eight miles below
Ravenswood, brought the information
Sunday that the Steamer Virginia is
hard aground near there and that all
efo.ts torelease her were in vain. The
steamer may be a practical total loss,
The boat it IS understood, undertook
to make a landing Saturday night late
at Willow Grove, and in the dark
ness lost her position. She caught on
ground, crossways of the shallow cur
rent over the banks. and efforts to get
her off under her own steam were in
vain.
The towboat Volcano was signall-
ed, and worked hard good part of
the day, trying to pullthe Nirgisia off
the bar. She was wedged, however,
and after two or three lines were
broken the attempt was given up.
The boat is hard aground in William
sons corafeid, the water has rapi-
dly reeeded from her.
The extent ofthe loss will depend
on conditions. The boat may bea to-
tol loss. 1t is possible that with jack
screws she can be propped up So that
she will not break in two when the
water leaves here, and it is possible
too that enough water may come this
year to float her. Otherwise, it is
probably impossible to get the boat
back into the river, and she may de.
corate the cornfeld all summer.
The boat carried an extra large car
80 of passengers the result of the de-
moralization of train service.
The passengers were greatly alarm
ed and early Sunday morning they
were taken ashore on a ferry boat,
which was push d with poles, and
sent to their destinations by rail.
The crew worked with all possible
energy and removed the freight from
the hold of the vessel to the rear por-
lions of the decks. Thirty-fye han
dred barrels ofqueensware constftut-
ed the bigger portion of the freight
in the hold.
The work of moving the freight
was not completed moment too
soon, for, at II o'clock Sunday, a
hog chain broke, and the Virginia $
hull, which had already begun to
weaken, broke just in front of the
engines, and the whole front end went
down into the depression on the edge
of which the vessel was stranded.
This was not a creek but merely an
uneven place in the field. When
the vessel broke, Capt. Knox aban-
doned her, notifying the packet com
pany at Pittsburg to file protest for
insurance.
The Virginia was sister boat of
the magnificent Queen City. She
was built by the Pittsburg & Cinciu-
natl Packet Company in 1896 and
WIS, until the advent of the Queen
City a year later, the finest boat on
the river. Her original cost was
S6o,ooo. She was boat of great ca
pacity, having length of 2S5 feet
and n forty foot beam.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

J. Wallace Burdett, who had the
misfortune to loose his three fingers
on steamer Andrews, of which we
made mention at the time, is getting
along nicely, and will be able to go
to work in two or three days. He
is learning to be an engineer.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09
ANNUAL SALE.

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Presbyterian church will hold their
annual white Sale, Saturday, March
10Th. There will be small articles
suitable for Easter remembrances,
and dresses, aprons and underclothes
and children, dressing sacks and
shirt waists. Also all kinds of good
home cooking cakes, pies, bread,
candy, sc. Watch for place of sale.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

Miss Mae Lynch returned home
Sunday from the Charleston Gentle
hospital. She is improving slowly.
Mrs. D. E. Newton was the guest,
Monday night, of Mr.. J. S. Spencer
and family. She and her son, Mr..
win Newton, left on business trip
to Cincinnati this morning.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09
BLACK HAND AFTER CARUSO.

New York, March 4.-Enrico
Caruso, the tenor, is quaking with
something worse than stage fright.
The Blackhand has demand $4,000
or his life in two successive letters.
There is some disposition among his
friends to resad the letters as prac-
teal jokes, but Caruso is convinced
that his days are numbered and will
not venture out of his room without
a body guar.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09
FORY-FTVE FOOT MARK.

Astage of forty-five feet, was reach
ed here by the river on the recent rise.
Very little damage was done here
although a number of towns bOtts
above and below US suffered large
losses. The water was IS inches in
the stores on Front street, POmeroy
and Parkersburg and Wheeling
business districts were flooded.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

Mrs. p. G. Holloway and Mrs.
Henry Holloway returned Monday
from visit at Cincinnati.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

Mr.. Sim Hannigan, an old Mason
county boy, was here last week shak-
ing hands with his many friends.
Sim says he always has warm spot
in his heart for Point Pleasant.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

Miss RhOda steehbergen was the
weekend guest of Mr.. J. S. Spencer
and family.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

Mrs. E. B. Jones and baby have
returned from an extended visit to
her parents at Harrisonville, Va.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
ENLISTED MAN
Is A MILLIONAIRE
Corporal Albert Myer, Jr., Mixes in
Society to Embarrassment of
SuperiOrs.

Washington, April 1S.-Fort Myer,
near this city, is said to be unique
among army posts in the possession
of an enlisted man who is a million
aire He is a favorite in Washington
society, this somewhat to the conster-
nation of officers at the fort, who them
selves, sometimes through duty, but
more often inclination, are frequently
in attendance upon the very events at
which the rich enlisted man finds him
self
Corporal Albert Myer. Jr., of the
signal corps, is this anomaly of mil
lionaire soldier He is a grandson of
Brigadier General Myer. after whom
Fort Myer was named. Corporal Myer
decided upon a military life and de
cided to seek the top by way of the
bottom
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
TAFT OPENS D. A R.
ANNUAL CONVENTION

Washington, April 1S.-What prom
ises to be the most eventful conven-
tion of the Daughters of the American
Revolution opened this morning in
Continental hall, the handsome home
of the organization, just completed.
The presence of President Taft added
to the interest in the opening of the
session. during which he extended the
delegates a warm welcome to Wash
ington.
In presenting President Taft Mrs.
Scott said it had been rumored the
president was not in favor of woman
suffrage and that undoubtedly he
reached that conclusion, as matter
of principle, after careful co1sidera-
ton, but, be that as it may, the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, who
had been fond of Taft, the man. had
fallen in love with Taft, the president,
and welcomed him to their midst. In
the response to this echo of the woman
suffrage convention the president paid
a gracious tribute to woman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
Estimated Damage in
Iowa Alone May be
$1O,OOO,OOO.
MARK 22 ABOVE ZERO
Other Nearby States Exper-
iencing the Same Brand of
Weather.

Des Moines, Iowa, April 1S.-Secre-
tary Greene of the Iowa horticultural
department today estimated the loss
to Iowa's fruit and vegetable crop
from the freezing weather between
five million and ten million dollars.
Snow is falling in many parts of Iowa
today. A temperature of % above is
reported in southern Iowa during the
night and there the damage is thought
to be heaviest
Bad In other States.
Kansas City, April 18.-Tempera-
lures of from 81 to SO above accom-
panied by f1urries of snow represented
weather conditions in western Mis-
souri,, eastern Kansas and southern
Nebraska last night and today.
Indiana Feels Force.
Indianapolis, April 1S.-Midwinter
snowstorms are earmarks of the bliz-
zard sweeping over Indiana today. Sc
we're cold prevails.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
FOUR MAIL CLERKS
BURN In WRECK
Train on the Illinois Central Rolls
Down 15-Foot Bank and
Catches Fire.

Memphis, Tenn, April 18.-Four
mail clerks are dead and three train
men and a mail clerk injured as a re-
suit of a wreck of the through flyer
from New Orleans to Chicago on the
Illinois Central at North Jackson,
Miss, early today. The engine, bag
gage, mail and library cars and two
Pullmans went down 15-foot embank-
ment and caught fire. The bodies of
the dead clerks were cremated.
c. o. Craine of New Orleans, who
was officer of the day during the recent
Shriners' drills at New Orleans, was
on the train and organized a relief
crew, taking passengers out Of the
windows and procuring fire extinguish-
ers from the mail car. Craine and his
fellow passengers played streams upon
the flames in an effort to rescue the
mail clerks, without effect. None of
the passengers was injured.
Officials are convinced the train was
deliberately wrecked. The cause was
the removal of several fish plates at
the rail joints.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
ON TRIAL
FOR WANTON CRIME
Alleged Slayer of Ruth Wheeler Is
Brought to Bar Within a
Month.

New York, April 18.-Within less
than a month after the discovery of
the crime, the trial of Albert Wolter,
aged IS, charged with the murder Of
Ruth Wheeler, aged Is, was called to-
day. On March "a the dismembered
and partly burned body of Ruth was
found in gunny sack on a fire escape
outside VOTERS apartments. The
youth claims another man whom he
thought his friend lured Miss Wheeler
to his fiat, strangled her to death, and
attempted to conceal the crime by
burning the body
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
DIE IN DOUBLE SUICIDE

Bodies of Boy and Woman, Mother
of Four Children, Found Together.
Knoxville, Iowa, April 18.-Wil-
liam Crabtree. aged 19, and Mrs.
Catherine Slocum, aged SO, mother
of four children, committed double
suicide here Saturday. A neighbor
woman who chanced to enter the
home of Mrs. Slocum found Crab
tree dead, with the woman lying
across his body, her arm about him.
Blood flowed from a frightful cash
in her throat. Two half-empty
glasses containing strychnine stood
near by. Mrs. Slocum and her hus-
band separated some weeks ago af-
ter a quarrel over Crabtree.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
CAPTAIN CARTER'S
FORTUNE rs TAKEN
Former Army Officer Must Give Up
100000 That He Obtained
by Fraud.

Washington. April 1S.-Dismissed
from the army and put into the peni-
tentiary for alleged connection with
fraud in the improvement of the har-
Dor of Savannah former Captain Ober-
lin NJ Carter had a 100000 fortune
swept out of his hands today as a
further outcome of that transaction.
This was decreed by the United States
supreme court. The decree is based
on the claim against Carter for an
equitable accounting or the money he
had gotten fraudently, it is charged
Washington, April 1S.-The decision
of the United States supreme court
involving the constitutionality of the
corporation tax law was not announced
today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
AIMS BLOW
AT DEALINGS ON
COTTON 'CHANCE

New York, April 18.-United States
Attorney General Wickersham, having
ordered an inquiry into the terms and.
conditions of an agreement for the
purchase and delivery of 100000 bales
of Gotten in February last, a special
federal grand jury tomorrow will be-
gin a secret investigation of the pro-
ceedings entitled the United States
against Frank B. Hayne and William
P. Brown, prominent cotton brokers
of New Orleans, La
Eugene Scales of Texas and James
A. Patten of Chicago are reported to
be members of the bull cotton pool
which the government is investigating.
Publication of the reports threw the
local cotton market into a state of
great confusion. There was a severe
break in prices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
Women by Hundreds Go
to Present Petition
to Congress.
RIDE IN AUTOMOBILES
Congressman and Senators in
Panic, but Are Forced to
Face Music.

Washington, April 1s.-The army of
suffragists moved on Capitol hill today
and presented a monster national pc
tition of half a million signers, pray
ing for votes for women, to congress.
Ali delegates to the suffragists' con-
vention and many who were not dele
gates took part in the march upon the
national legislators. The petitioners
rode in scores of flag bedecked auto
mobiles.
No Getting Away From 1t.
Senators and representatives from
every state received some part of the
petition. There was no getting out
of 1t. Representative Wiley of New
Jersey announced he would refuse to
present the petition of the New Jer-
sey delegation because of the Kissing
Of Taft before the suffragists' conven-
ton. So Mary Hussey just marched
up to Wylie and thrust the petition
upon him with an invitation to do as
he pleased about it.
DOIIiver to the Rescue.
Some of the Iowa delegation were
frightened when they heard some
LUSluUSTS Vi JlO uOuS0 ISIuSSu W pre-
sent the petition. They sent for Sena-
tor Dolliver. 81 advise those members
to take day off and study the con-
stitution of the United States de-
clared the senator as he shouldered
an armful of petitions. II construe
that instrument to make the presenta-
ton of petitions mandatory, but 1
would present them gladly, even If no
such duty were Imposed upon me-
Senate Attends to Other Business.
Miss Fola La Toilette went to the
senate side to present Wisconsins pc
tition to her father, but found the SEN
ate in session, and the petition could
not be received until later. Some
suffragist construed this delay as an
indication of opposition and made
quite a noise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
SEND new FLEET
AROUND WORLD
President Taft Proposes to
Guido Feat Performed Un-
der Roosevelt.
WILL HAVE MORE VESSELS
Latest Dreadnoughts Expected to Be
Ready by 1912, When Start
Will Be Made.

Washington. April 18.-To close
his administration by sending around
the world the greatest battleship
feet ever assembled under any flag
is the ambition of President Taft and
his naval chief Secretary Meyer.
By 1912 plans will have culminat-
ed and the fleet will begin a trip
around the world which will over
shadow that which the 16 battle
ships made at the close of the Roose-
velt administration.
Depends Upon Congress.
Protection for the Pacific coast
and of our far eastern possessions is
provided for in the program. If con-
free hand and acts upon the recon-
mendations of the president and Sec
retary of war, by 1913 there will be
a fleet on the Pacific larger than the
entire American fleet at the time of
the Spanish-American war.
On July 1, 1912, the fleet will be
made up for the closing year of the
Taft administration, with 21 battle
ships, including the Wyoming and
Arkansas, the 200,0OO-ton dread
naughts just laid down.
BattIeships in the Fleet.
The fleet which will assemble in
Hampton roads for the special trip
will consist of the battleships Wy
oming, Arkansas. Florida, Utah, Del
aware, North Carolina, Michigan,
Louisiana, South Carolina, Kansas,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Georgia,
Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia,
Ohio, Minnesota, Mississippi and
Idaho, and the armored cruisers
Tennessee, Washington, North Caro-
lima and Montana-the 21 battle
ships and four armored cruisers. The
mmander-in-chief, it is hoped by
Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Meyer, will be vice
admiral or a full admiral.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
WILL TRY OUT
ALL THEORIES
New Mayor of Milwaukee Pro.
poses to Garry Out Views
of Socialists.
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED
Public Ownership of All Means of
Production Declared the Ulti-
mate Object.

Milwaukee, Wis, April 1S.-Victor
L. Berger, alderman, and spokesman
of the social democratic party of Mil
waukee, today. issued statement CIV
will guide the social democratic ad-
ministration of Milwaukee the next
two years, beginning tomorrow.
'The socialist party is the American
expression of the international move
ment of modern wage workers for bet
ter food, a better house, sufficient
sleep. more leisure, more education
and more culture" says the statement.
Economy as Well Liberty.
To insure economies, as well as po-
Iitical liberty, will be one of the aims
of the party. Municipal ownership OF
public utilities, among other things,
is advocated, but until this is reached
the best possible service will be exact
ed from these utilities. Competition
is objected to on the ground more
competition means more corruption" 3"
In brief the social democracy stands
for every radical change that bring
the means of production into the hands
of the people The statement says:
Give Money saved to Poor.
"The money made out of the city by
contractors will better go toward the
relief of the unemployed, first by i'm
provement of the streets, second by
the establishment of public coal and
wood yards and public ice house.
In this climate ice is as necessary in
summer as coal in winter. These ne
cessities should be sold at cost.
The city could easily harvest an
abundance of ice during the winter
months, thus employing many citizens
who would otherwise have to receive
public aid.
Best That Can BE Done.
We realize that giving work to the
unemployed can solve no industrial
problems, but it is the least that can
be done as a. humane duty toward
those in Distress
Slap From Mayor REESE.
Mayor Rose stated today he would
not be present when the ceremony of
installing Mayor-Elect Seidel was per-
formed. For 10 years." said the
mayor, certain socialist leaders of
Milwaukee have worked against me
on lines of personal villification."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
SOME REAL LIVE GOSSIP FROM
THE CAPITAL OF THE NATION

markable speech in his career, United
States Senator Knute Nelson of Min
nesota thus spoke of the Taft-Wicker-
sham railroad regulation bill. That
such an attack should be made by a
republican senator upon bill which
the president has declared to repre-
sent true republican policy and doc
trine, and support of which Attorney
General Wickersham and all the re-
actionaries have declared is test of
true republicanism, indicates how far
apart the stalwarts and progressives
really are.
The Minnesota senator was listened
to with marked attention The reac-
tionaries were so amazed they forgot
to even make Interruptions as is Gus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18

tomary when progressive republicans
have the floor 1t was so obvious that
Senator Nelson was deeply impressed
with forebodings of disaster to the
nation in the event of the passage of
such bills as the one under considera-
tion, that the speech was strangely
effective. The occupants of the gal
leries were silent and attentive. and
all eyes were centered upon the pic
turesque Minnesotan
Senator Nelson related how the
western section of the country had
suffered under railroad oppression and
the long fight that has been made, un-
til the legislation of 1906 was forced
CONTINUED on Page Four.J
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
WIRELESS SUMMONS
HELP FOR STEAMSHIP
Minnehaha Goes on Rocks in Scilly
Island but Passengers Are
Safe.

Hugh Town, st. Mary's, ScilIy ISL
ands, April 1S.-The steamer Mime
haha struck submerged rocks near
Bishop Rock at 2 this morning in a
dense fog. Its &c passengers were
removed safely. The vessel was badly
damaged. 1t has 20 feet of water IN the
fore holds. The passengers were rude
ly awakaned, considerably alarmed,
but were reassured by the officers and
suffered no harm. Wireless messages
brought assistance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
STRIKERS ARE DISORDERLY Y
Trouble Follows When 1000 Men
Quit Work in Car Shops.

Pittsburg, April 1S.-Practically
without warning 1000 men, mostly
foreigners, employed in the erecting
department of the Pressed Steel Car
company at Schoenville, quit work to-
day. An hour after the strike one
workman had been shot in the arm
and the chief Of the company's police
severely beaten by strikers and taken
to a hospital. Trouble started over the
discharge of four workmen Thursday
said to be members of the Industrial
Workers of the World
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-18
WANTS ONLY SINGLE TERM
Presidents Intimates He Will Not
Again Be Candidate.

Washington, April 1S.-One term
is enough for President Taft. He
himself said so Saturday night-on
two occasions. He was smiling
broadly at both times, but neverthe-
less there was serious trend to his
words. He spoke lightly, but SEEM
ed to regard his duties as chief ex-
ecutive to be heavy, indeed. The first
speech of the president was at the
annual dinner of the District of Col
umbia branch of the American Bank
ers' association, at the New willard
hotel. The second was at the ban
quet of the Psi Upsilon fraternity at
the Raleigh hotel.