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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-30
"Cun Men, Dlsarmed.

New York, Dec. 30.--There is peace
today among the Tongs, not only in
New York, but all over the United
States. The gun men" have been
disarmed and ordered back to the laun-
dry tubs. The highbinders must seek
honest employment; they will no Ion.
ger be permitted TO MAIN and STAY.
The pact was signed last night in the
headquarters Of the On Leongs, in Mott
street.
In the centre OF the low-ceilinged
room stood high round table,
about which were grouped the head
men OF the two tongs, in bright raj
ment About them stood forty Chinese
merchants, preachers and students,
together with the minor officials OF the
tongs. At each end Of the room stood
two sltars OF the God oil war, before
whose wringled form burned two red
candles, with the embIems OF the tongs
painted in white on their sides.
Between the candles rested two fat
oiled roast pigs, banked about with
candied sugar loais. Burning incense
sticks quiyered in the hands OF the
joss. Behind the joss knelt two hok-
kah boys, bearing lacquer trays, upon
which were the Chinese ink pads and
bamboo ink brushes TO be used in sign
ing the treaty.
Under the terms OF peace that's to
extend 10 the remotest section OF Ameri.
ca, each tong agrees 10 turn murderers
over to the Chinese Merchants Associa-
ton who are to deliver them to the
police and insure a speedy trial. All
gambling debts are to be liquidsted
promptly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-30
lower Court Sustained.

Trenton, n. j., Dec. 80. Sustaining
in every particular the opinion OF
Judge Ten Fyck adjudging that Caro-
line B. Martin, charged with murder
with the Snead bath tub case, is not in
sane within the meaning Of the act OF
July s, 1906, Justice Swayze today de-
MED the application for writ Of certio-
iari to review the order OF the Essex
Court OF common pleas. Justice
Sgayze held to be constitutional the act
OF 1905 providing for an inquiry into
the sanity Of prisoners, but pointed out
that properly construed the act was not
designed 10 change the long established
rule OF criminal responsibility.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-30

airy interest in Portugual's colonies that
she is bound to protect and should
Spain prove sintractable, follow
ing her absorption OF Portugal, Eng
land would take firm hand in PENN
sular affairs.
Any attempt by Spain, however, to
wipe out the struggling republic, would
in all probability lead TO revolution
by the republicans OF Spain, who look
TO the success OF the Portuguese repub-
lie as the sign OF their ultimate tri-
umph. 1t is this phase OF the situation
that leads sober Englishmen to believe
that the political disorders in Portugal
are likely to involve the whole PENN
suIa in revolution.
Disorders have already occurred in a
number OF places in Portugal in con-
nection with the monarchial movement
President Braga is ordering the arrest
OF scores OF malcontents. He declares
that the threat OF Intervention by Spain
will consolidate the people and weld the
republic more firmly than ever.
Should the republic be overthrow,
the duke of Oporto, uncle OF ex-King
Manuel, is believed to have the best
chance for the throue, although it is
certain that Dom Miguel, the pre-
tender, would oppose him. Manuel
has already demonstrated his incompe-
tency and it is not believed that he
would be restored under any condition.
London, Dec. 30.-A Bueter dispatch
from Lisbon says that numerous re-.
quests the British and even the, Portq-
guese residence OF that city have been
made for the dispatched an English
warship 10 Lisbon in the event oil
serious disorder.
The Portuguese legation this afternoon
issued an official statement that the
rumors OF a Portuguese conspiracy are
due to the arrest in Lisbon OF arman
Charged with spreading revolutionary
rumols throughout Portugal.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
SUPPLY
Of THE CITY
SOON BETTER
Work on New System is Go
ing Ahead, as Rapidly
as Possible,
RESERVOIR STARTED
RESERVOIR STARTED
New Main Along Hornor
Avenue Will Give Stron-
ger Pressure.
ger Pressure

Work is progressing as rapidly as
possible on the construction OF the
new water works and sewerage sys-
tenn of the city and within sixty
days at the most consumers will
have a better supply of water.
This news will be received with de-
vout thanks by the people of the
city as the most of them have under
gone considerable inconvenience
during the last few months on ac-
count of the small water supply.
Residents OF the hill districts espe-
cially have suffered great deal on
this account.
Practically all the excavattnE for
the new reservoir. the new filtration
plant aud the other improvements
in the vicinity of the pumping sta
ton has been finished. The exca-
waiting for the big reinforced con
crete reservoir, which will have a
capacity of one million gallons, is
doae and men are now working on
the concrete construction. Work on
the steel and reinforced concrete
part of the filtration system and the
new clear water wells is also under
good Roadway.
The intake basin in the West Fork
river is practically finished and pipes
have been laid from 1t to the pump
ing station. Workmen have laid j
big sixteen-inch water MAIN from
tho tanks to the head OF Horror
avenue ana have started 1t down
that avenue. This big main will be
laid within the next two or three
weeks and when it is. water will be
pumped into it, thus giving larger
supply and a much better pressure.
Most OF the new pipes have been laid
in the city by the l. C. Dick Com
paay, of Scottdale. Pa. which has
the contract for that part 9f the
work. and the company is now Civ
ing its, attention to the installation
of now fire hydrants and the repair
ing OF old hydrants in various parts
of tho city.
The new boilers have been Installed
at the pumping station and are now
being briclked up.
Everything possible is being done
by the city water works and sewer
age board and the several con
tractors who are installing the new
plants to push the work RAPIDLY.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
:. MINE men
Will Meet in Annual Conven-
ton in City of Washing
ton December 16.

The time for the annual meeting
of the West Virginia Mine Associa-
ton has been set for Friday morn
ing, DeceplIer 16. and the place for
holding it the New Willard hotel at
Washington, D. c.
The program has not been made
up in full, but at the morning ses-
sion there win be an Introductory
address by the president, William
y. Page. To this address. responses
will be made by men of prominence
in national affairs. and papers will
be read by E. w. Parker. statis-
titican Of the United States Geolog-
icaI Survey; Charles R. Townsend.
secretary of the industrial depart
ment Of the international commit
tee of the Y. NJ. c. A.; F. R. Wad-
leigh, of Washington, fuel expert OF
the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke
COMPANY: and Frank Haas, of Fair
mont, w. Va, consulting engineer
of the Consolidation Coal Company.
At the afternoon session John
LANG, chief of the West Virginia
Department of Mines. win review
the improvements in mining opera
tions and Neil Robinson. of Charles
ton. w. va, will read paper on
the dangers OF excessive air velocity
in mines.
Washington was selected as the
place for the meeting to suit the
convenience of the operators OF the
state as a whole, as they can reach
that-city by fast trains over the
Baltimore & Ohio, the Chesapeake
& Ohio and the Norfolk and West
crn railroads. and be absent from
their mines only one day. Arrange
ments are being made for large at
| tendance.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
SGA
ARE or %
FIRST NUMBER.
OF Entertainment Course Will
Be Appearance Of Kathar-
inc Rfdgeway Tonight


katharine RIdgeway tonight at 2 $50
o'clock In tho First Methodist church
VIII open the course OF entertain
ments the Ministers Union has ar
ranged for the year. An admission OF
Gpty cents will be charged.
iAfiss Rtdgeway IS not OF those who
believe that an evening devoted to
reading of single play or story. is
more effective and worth while than
the entertainment of variety She
does belieIa. however, that the varied
selections which form an evening can
and should be linked, as 1t were. by q
'definite idea OF life which in its in
Huence is an uplift.
.EJust as a speaker Illustrates his
points, pins them to the walls of our
memories, as 1t were. by stories and
a rrlllsing Incidents she says, so I
think a reader can have a Basic idea
which is expressed in the evenings
program by the diTerent selections.
which yet offer variety in color and
trea tment. 1t is the privilege of the
reader, and 1 count 1t a privilege. to
bring to some one an idea of life
which is an agency for good More
and more have felt this and have
tried to express 1t in my selections"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
COOPERATION
OF Teacher and Parent in
ChiId's Education Urged
at Meeting.

quite a number OF parents and
teachers attended meeting at the
First Baptist church Monday night
at 1880 O'Clock, at which addresses
were made by Mrs. Mary e. Teats.
of Chicago. ILL.,, founder OF the Cor
respoudence School OF Gospel and
Eugenics, and Ex-senator "A. X.
Thorn, of this city. Mrs. Teat's lee
ture was delivered on the subject,
The Responsibility and Co-opera-
lion of Parents and Teachers"
In her. lecture Mrs. Teats discuss
cd the proper education OF chill
dren and the Importance OF teach
ing them certain facts which they
should know, and must find out
sooner or later. BY the proper Co
operation OF the teacher and the
parent Mrs. Teats said the task OF
guiding the child in the right d.
rection could easily be accomplish
ed. she also discussed the respon-
spbtlity which rested on the parent
and the teacher in the child's train
ing. Mrs. Teats's lecture was fol
lowed by an open parliament, in
which various questions of interest
were discussed.
An account OF Mr.. Thorn's adj
dress is given in another column.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
EIAIElL
S Elected President of the
Ministers Association
at Meeting.

At a meeting of the ClarEssburs
Minister'S Association Monday after
noon in the First Methodist Episcopal
church, officers were elected to serNc
for the ensuing six months. The Rev.
John e. EwelI was elected president;
the Rev. L. d. oldaker. vice-president:
and the Rev. Paul L. Flanagan. secre-
tary. No treasurer was elected.
The time of meeting was changed
from the afternoon TO morning.
Meetings will be held hereafter on the
second and fourth Monday of each
month. The association also decided
to extend an invitation to the clergy OF
neighboring towns to join the union
At the next meeting a paper will be
read by the Rev. T. S. Wade.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
new STRIKE
In New Oil Territory on Rock
Camp Flows 20 Bar
re1S an Hour.

"A new strike IN new oil territory is
reported. on Rock Camp run. sar-
dis district. this county. ]. II. Moore
s Company have drilled test well
on tho ]. II. Moore farm into the
Gordon sand and the well is reported
moving at the rate OF 20 barrels an
hour. North OF this we'll 500 feet IS a
4asser on the NJ. e. strotlNr farm:
The nearest oil production is the Cor
don sand development on the DennI-
son fOrm. located one and one-half
miles to tho southwest The Moore
farm well is located in what has been
considered gas territory and has Eass-
ers In almost every direction from
the location. There is room for an
extension to the southwest. hut the
probabilities are that the Moore farm
test is freak.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
BUCKET SMASHED
Over Colored Woman's Head
in Fight with Another
Colored Woman.

Particulars OF battle between two
negro women Tuesday evening on
Monticello avenue were rchearsed by
the principals ana three witnesses
Tuesday morning In Justice w. p.
Camps court. A bucket was used in
the fight and 1T was smashed to pieces
over the head OF one of the women.
Edna Trippin was the defendant In
the case and she was charged by VIII
liam Bradshaw with assauIting and
beating tho latter's wife. It was
shown at the trial that Mrs. Bradshaw
first struck the Trippin woman over
the head with the bucket, breaking
the bucket into pieces. ana that the
Trippin woman then pitched in and
whipped Mrs, Bradshaw. In view OF
such circumstances the charge OF as
sault and battery against the TripPin
woman could not be sustained and the
Justice dismissed the case at the COM
.pIainant's cost.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
EXPERTS IN
THE TOTAL Of
ME-. LEWIS
Who is Charged with the
Theft Of Wool from a
Local Man.
AND RAILROAD MEN
Are Also Here as Witnesses
Against tfle Accused
Merchant.
RAILROAD MEN

Railroad men as well as experts
are here from Baltimore as wit
uesses in the case OF the state
against Charles A. Lewis, a Glen
Elk merchant, on trial in criminal
court, in which Lewis is charged
with others of the theft OF a large
amount OF wool from the Lowudes
wool house here
Waybills exhibited by clerk from
the Baltimore freight Office OF the
Baltimore and Ohio for goods sent
from Wolf Summit, C1arksburg and
Haywood, the boxes purporting to
contain other than wool. Identifica-
ton of Lewis as the man who took
the boxes away from the Camden
station there and sold the contents
to wool merchants was on the states
program and the experts were
brought here to" show that certain
correspondence by j. Rice, OF Wolf
Summit. to wool merchants in Bal
tlmore was in the handwriting OF
Lewis.
Baltimore wool merchants are
also here to identity Lewis as one
of whom they purchased wool.
The defense will not likely begin
its testimony before tomorrow.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
FARM EXHIBITS
IN FEz llGTgN
Is to Be Held tlle Next Three
Days with a Good
Program.

An agricultural exhibit is to be
neld at Flemington Wednesday
Thursday and Friday. The follow
ing program is announced:
Wednesday Evening 8 O'Clock.
Lecture-statc superintendent NJ.
p. Shawkey.
Thursday Forenoon.
S:Oo-1O: OO-E Entries.
9:OO-short Addresses to the pu-
Io:oo-12:oo-A Arranging and plac-
ing OF exhibits.
12soo-Noon internisston.
Afternoon Session.
1:3O-Judging OF vegetables.
2:15-Address-Pr D. W. works
S:15-ta) Round Table discussion
CD Judging culinary artt-
s:45-Judging poultry.
4:15-Adjournment.
Night Session.
7:3O-Band concert
S:0Q-Address.
Friday Forenoon.
9;Oo-scoring pOultry-lMr. Z. w.
1o:oo-ta1 Judging nve stock.
(lo) Judging fancy work.
11:OO-Address3Prof. G. A. Lue-
der.
m:3o-Address-A E. w. Sheets.
r9:00--tSoon tntermission.
Afternoon Session.
1:30-Parade.
1:45-ta1 Short address to pupils.
Cb) Judging agricultural
products.
2:3O-Address.
3:3O-Round Table discussion.
4:OO-Basket Ball game.
The lecture Wednesday evening will
relate to education. All other lectures
and addresses will deal with asricul-
tural problems.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
UNIVERSITY
Closes Down and Students
from This City Will
Come Home.

On account OF a threatened cpl
demic of typhoid fever. Washington
and Lee University. at Lexington,
Va. has already closed down for
the Christmas holidays. shortage
OF water supply is said to be the
cause. Several students are attend
ing there from this city. and will
likely arrive home tonight or tomor-
row. They are Robert Hood, Earle
Drummond. Claude Bush and Lee
tHornor. Frederick Wagner and
Arlos Harbert are already here ar
irving several days ago.
The Virginia Military Institute.
ncIghborinG Institution, has been
closed for some time for different
reason. All hut five cadets had the
pink eye.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
SBOB zen
SWEPT TO SEA
THURSDAY
Is the Day of Big Sunday
School Rally at First
Methodist Church.

The general Sunday school rally
to be held at the First Methodist
Episcopal church in connection with
"a religious census and membership
campaign of the city will be held
Thursday afternoon and evening in
stead Of wednesday afternoon and
evening as was enormously reported
Monday.
The programs OF the two sessions
are as follows:
Afternoon.
2:3O-Devottonal service. led by
o pastor.
a:15-sBuilding a Program. =
Miss Martha v. Graham, elementary
superintendent West Virginia Sum
day School Association.
3:4O-4address. Sunday School
Management in Its Relation to
Evangelism Mr.. Hugh Cork, as
sistant secretary, international
Sunday School Association.
Night.
7:30-Song service. conducted by
local leader. assisted by union choir.
S:OO-s'The Graded Lessons. .
Miss Martha v. Graham.
s:;25-.Parents Problems; Can
the Sunday School Help Solve
Theam?" AIr. Hugh Cork.
Offering.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
SPR0USE HELD.
BY United States Commits
sioner for January Term
of Federal Court.

Conversion Of a stable into blind
tiger is involved in charge preferred
against Henry Sprouse, Of Weston
which he will be required to answer
IN federal court at Parkersiburg in
January coming. sprousc was before
a. G. Moore. United states commits
siouer. today and the latter took
$500 bond OF him with W-hitson II.
Hurst surety. The bond is larger than
usual owing to the fact that he APP
pears to have done a wholesale bust
ness in the sense of magnitude all
though the real kind was retailing.
When Sprouse had no stable to sell in,
he used dark and divers corners.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
LIGHT SHOW
OF the Fluid So Far in South
PENIS Well on N'uzum
Farm.

In the shlnnston oil pool. the south
Penn OIL Company is drilling in the
ftfty-foot, at no. on the A. NuSNm
farm and has light show of oil.
In the same district, the South Penn
company's 30. 2 on the j. II. Thomp-
son farm is holding UP at $50 barrels
q day. The other wells in the district
producing 100 or more barrels day
are as follows: South Penn on Com
many 40. 4. y. a. Rector. 16O barrels:
No. 4 Dora Bartlett. 100 barrels; No.
a. Williamson. 100 barrels: PhIla-
delphSa Company 40. T. l.. swiger
100 barrels and Groves & Parish 40. .
Thompson heirs. 100 barrels.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
BOMB EXPL0lES
Wrecking Stores and Smash
ing Five Hundred Tene-
ment House Windows.

NEW YORK. Nov. 29-The most
populated block in New York City,
a solid square OF tenements in Eliza
beth street. in the heart of the East
Side, was the scene this morning of
bomb explosion which wrecked
Eve stores and smashed 500 tene-
ment house windows. Although
many thousands or terrified foreign
ers were routed from their beds by
the explosion. no one suffered seri-
Gus bodily harm.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
PORTS CAPTURED
And Government Forces Sent
to Retake Them Join
the Enemy.

SAN JUAN DEL SUR. Nicaragua,
Nov. 29-Advices from Teguctgalpa
state that Atlantic ports of Hon
duras and the department of Com
ayagua have been captured by revo-
rutIonists under the leadership OF
CORNER President Manuel Bonilla,
aud government forces sent to re-
take the territory. Joined the enemy
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 29-Man-
uel Bonllla. credited with leading
the revolutionist In Honduras. is m
this city and has been here some
time.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
GOVERNORS
Are Welcomed by Gov. Will,
son and Speech is Made
by Woodrow Wilson.

F'RAslKpFoRT. KY, Nov. 29-The
third conference of governors will
begin here this afternoon. Govern
or Wilson will welcome the chief
executives, the response being made
by Governor Pothier, of Rhode Is
land. Governor-elect Woodrow
Wilson, OF New Jersey, will speak
on the possibilities of the confer
cnces.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
BREWERS TO MEET
In Annual Convention at the
Chancellor in Parkers-
burg December 10.

The annual convention of the
West Virginia Brewers Association
will he held in Parkersburg begin
ming Tuesday, December 10. and
lasting through the next day.
The session this year promises to
be very interesting. The meetings
will be held at the Chancellor hotel
and will end with a banquet We'd
nesday night.
The Parkersburg members of the
ASSOCIATION are making elaborate
preparation for tho entertainment
200 guests. In addition to the
brewers Of West Virginia and the
members of the association there
will be visitors in attendance from
Ohio. Indiana, Kentucky and Penn
sylvania.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
DEEPER CUT
President Taft Says Must Be
Made in the Money
Estimates.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Nov. go
president Taft today informed the
cabinet oficers after scrutinizlng
the final drafts and estimates OF the
various governmental departments
for the fiscal year beginning July
]. 1911. that there must De a further
and deeper cut in them and that they
Will not do IN their present form.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
GREAT GATHERING
Is 10 BE the> Union Prayer Meeting in
the First Methodist Church.

The union prayer meeting in the
First Methodist Episcopal church to-
morrow night at 1880 O'Clock promises
to be one of the greatest religious
gatherings ever held in the city. All
the ministers, Sunday school workers
and others viii participate and there
will be fine music, The public sener-
ally is invited to attend. The coca
sion is to be preparatory to the TAX
ing Of the church census OF the city
Thursday morning.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
ROPKE GONFESsES
And is Sentenced to From
Ten to Eighteen Years
in Prison.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Nov. 29-Au-
Eustus Ropke today entered plea
OF guilty to five counts of an indict-
ment charging him with emDeEzle-
ment Of the funds of the Fidelity
Trust Company. The total OF his
dera1cations is 81 ,429.OOO. Ropke
was sentenced to from ten to eighteen
years IN the penitenttary.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
CHARGE AGAINST TEACHER.

George c. MCKINLEY, a teacher of
the graded school OF -Adamston, has
been recognized by Justice G. II.
Gordon for his appearance at Z
O'Clock Wednesday evening to be tried
ON charge OF assaultinE and beating
Kenneth Bocco, pupil Il years old.
The complaint was made by tho moth :
.er of the boy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
8 . 8. &c 9 {. s. 2.
t.BIG-El9.l c.5lIIIiIiIcS.'
u foTeiRner lltilIe ia q )

"a foreigner lleilI5s in subs
urb OF Glars recehtly-
went into the woods and shot
an owl Thin Ems Il was a
chicken. John had meal.
shortly afteryEai,a he was talc-
en- III and a dp6toE. was sam
1noned. When he doctor ask
ed John what tie matter was,
John replied: oh, / ate too
much big-eyed chick
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
Landing Stage is Blown Away.
win Three Hundred
aHlNlsn Aboard.
HOPE IS ABANDoNRD
Attempts to Rescue Dock
Workers on Russian
Coast Are Futile.

MsT'R.AEaPlAN. Russia. Nov 2s.-
During sudden tempest in the Cas-
plan sea today: landing stage on
which 800 Persian dock workers. was
dragged from It's .moorinss. and swept
out to sea.
tue, and all hope that any Of the men
could be saved was abandoned.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
COMES FROM NEWARK.

Mrs. sallie Glenn, of Newark, O.,
arrived In the city Monday evening
to visit Mrs. Susan j. ode1l, who is
III OF bronchial pneumonia. Mrs,
odell's condttion Is unimproved.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
BIG PUMPKIN CROP.

"A. NJ. Hursey, OF Salem. in the city
today, stated that he grew 197 pump
Rims this year on tract of ground
only two rods wide and three and
0ne-haIf rods lGnE. Hc has pumpkins
10; sell.