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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-15

n stern. a furniture dealer at 1912
Third Avenue, drew up before a house
near the corner OF Fourth Avenue
While the driver was in the house the
horse ran sway. heading straight for
the children.
Jimmie Braun, realizing the peril
OF his companions, seized the trailing
reins and tugged away bravely until
the horse stopped. A few more steps
ana the animal would have dashed
INTO the unsuspecting children.
Jimmie was surrounded in a mo-
ment by half-hysterical mothers. who
tried 10 hug and kiss him. But this
was not to his taste.
Aw, dat amt nottin'," he insisted.
10 nave his name taken of the ballot
La roulette kept his skirts clear of
ooth AcGovern and Lewis, who OPEN
~ supported him. McGoVern was for
the vets and Lewis for the Cirys.
me insurgents gained one congress-
man; Henry +. Cochems. who defeated
w "A. stafford. Taft Republican. in
the Fifth District. SO far as the
state ticket is concerned, the Demo-
crStc party is believed TO be dead.
IN railing, as they are believed to
nave done. to poll twenty per cent.
OF their strength, they may lose their
right TO be represented
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KNOCKS BROTHER DOWN
IN MEMS NIGHT COURT

NEW YORK Special Infatuated
by being sentenced to the reformatory
on the complaint OF his brother Louis.
meyer Cellowich, seventeen, OF 4O6
East Ninth Street, knocked his broth
er out" with a blow on the Jaw in
front of Magistrate Appleton in the
Mems Night Court Monday night.
Meyer was arrested Monday after
noon. His widowed mother declared
that he is incorrigible. She told Po-
llceman Guilfoyle that Meyer. who
mad been sleeping on the roof against
her wishes for several nights, came
into her apartments yesterday morn
ing and smashed the furniture and
dishes. When Louis came home he
went to the roof, but Meyer nit him
with a blackjack and drove him away.
When the policeman arrested the
youth he carried the blackjack
To Magistrate Appleton Meyer de-
clared that he carried the blackjack
TO defend himself from his brothers
prosecutions. The magistrate took no
stock in the plea and sentenced him.
Ii was as Louis was stepping down
from the bridge, after making the
complaint, that his brother assaulted
him. He was helpless for few mo-
ments during which Meyer kicked him
in the back.
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DEFENDS NAME
OF SLAIN BROTHER
Brother of Murdered Man Prints
Book on Case of Samuel
Hardy.
FOLK, V A.-special.-

N o r F o L K, V A.-Special.-
]. Bunyan Jones. OF Norfolk, broth
er of Tiberius Cracchus Jones. who
was killed in Nansemond county by
Samuel Hardy. now serving a life SEN
tence in the penitentiary. has just
published a book of 500 or more
pages, which deals with the crime.
lts alleged motive and the subsequent
trial OF the accused.
AS nearly everyone who followed
this famous case recalls, the Jury
found Hardy guilty of murder in the
hrst degree, and he was sentenced to
De electrocuted- Governor Mann
however, committed the sentence of
the man to life Imprisonment.
In the book just out Mr.. Jones I'M
hesltatngly criticises the action Of the
executive and endeavors to show that
Hardy deserved the extreme penalty
Of the law.
The author, who acknowledges the
assistance or several newspaper men
In the preparation of his work, saws
that the object OF the publication is
neither to make money nor to estab-
nsh fame as producer of literature
He simply desires to vindicate the
name of his dead kinsman and to Law
before the public facts on which to
base its judgment as TO the guilt or
In nearly every case the evidence
OF the many witnesses is given verba-
tim, while the thread of the narrative
Is well woven together and is made
the more interesting by pictures of
the dead man, the accused, the law
yers and the scene of the homicide
The case went to the Supreme Court
or Virginia, which upheld the verdict
OF the lower tribunal. but at the last
minute strong pressure was brought
10 bear on the Governor to exercise
clemency
1t is unnecessary here to express
any opinion as TO whether or not
Hardy finally got his just deserts. Suf-
nee II TO say that the book in which
he stands out as the prominent fea-
ture is thrillingly interesting and its
literary workmanship is far from bad.
Inc chain Of circumstances leading
up TO the crime was most unusual
and the story Of the Holland will nti-
CATION, which preceded the homicide.
reads almost like a romance.
Lawyers, as we'll as Law readers
VIII md the volume particularly in
teresting, as the case was one in
which circumstantial evidence figured
TO great extent
In order to pay the expenses of the
publication which must have cost sew
eral hundred dollars, the book is sold
for so cents.
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SHOOTS BROTHER-N.LAW
WITHOUT PROVOCATION
ICHMO NDv snoo,o,

X H M o N d, V A.-Special-
FIRST awakening and summonine
MIN to the front door, L. A. Jackson
Whlte. hfty-fiVe years old, at 4 o'cIoct
inns morning fired the contents of
Doth barrels OF a double barreled
shotgun into w. b. Finnegan. white
forty years old.
F1nnegan fell unconscious and
upon the arrival OF the CITY amin
lance, was hurried to the CITY Hos
pital, where. at o'clock this after-
noon, he was said to be resting easv
The shooting occurred at the honf
or F1nnegan, 1909 Blair Street. What
prompted the deed could not be learn
ed TINS morning, as Jackson refuses
10 TAX and Finnegan's condition is
Such that the physicians will not let
him talk.
From what can be learned. how
ever Jackson made his way to the
nome or F1nnegan, who is said to be
ms Drother-in-law, at the hour stated
TINS morning, and, calling him to the
door, shot him without warning Fin
negan was treated by DR.. M. G.. Ha-
gen, of the city ambulance CORPS. and
rushed to the hospital
Inc police were aprpised OF the
shooting and Policeman r. w. Allen
ana w. II. Palmore were detailed on
the case. After a search Of several
hours, they located Jackson on lower
Main Street.
He was arraigned on q charge of at
tempted murder in the Police Court
but, to await the outcome of Finne-
gan's injuries the hearing went over
until September 18th
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BOY STOPS RUNAWAY.
SAVING MATES LIVES

NEW YORK Special.-A score or
more OF boys and girls owe their
safety. and perhaps their lives, to the
courage and presence of mind Of one
or their playmates, eight-year-old
Jimmie Braun, of 1877 East One Hum
dredth Street. Risking his own life.
he stopped a runaway horse yester-
day afternoon scant ten feet from
the corner OF East One Hundredth
Street and Third Avenue, where a
group OF his playmates were so intent
on blowing soap bubbles that thew
failed to notice their danger.
There Is a steep down grade from
Fourth to Third Avenue on this
street. This made Jimmie's feat more
perilous.
Yesterday afternoon a grocer an.
nounced that he would give awav
soap bubble pipes and soap, to pur-
cnasers or a certain amount of goods.
Naturally there was a rush of chill
dren to take advantage of the offer.
While twenty or more boys and
girls were blowing bubbles at East
one Hundredth Street and Third Ave
nue.. a horse and wagon belonging to
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STORY OF CINDERELLA
=. COMES TRUE IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK Special The story
of Cinderella, the shoe and the prince
has come true in New York city, with
variations.
Miss Mildred Mermelstein was
anything but a Cinderella i'm n,
home. 215 East One Hundred and
Thirteenth Street. She was a smar,
little stenographer.
Nor was the slipper made of glass.
1t was real American girls slipper
tiny and elegant.
The lover was not prince, either.
but he was wealthy and very much
in love. and all at first sight.
But the BAH was real and the slip
per was worn at it and was much ad-
mlred On its way home. on a Madi-
son Avenue car, ii slipped off Miss
Mildred's foot. Miss Mildred did not
miss IT until she put her silk stock
inged toes to the cold. hard pave
ment. She called to the conductor
but the car sped on.
ON the car was Samuel Newman.
shoe manufacturer. of $40 Wend-
over Avenue. He picked up the slip
per and fastened back. hoping to re-
turn 1t to its owner, but Miss Mildred
had limped away. Next day the
prince advertised for the maiden
whom the slipper would fit Miss
Mildred answered.
And, Just as in the story, too, the
prince found that the owner of the
StNPPSA as ldlE 10 gaze upon and
charming in her ways. That was
two months ago.
The announcement of their engage
ment was made Wednesday, The
marriage is to take place next week
Miss Mermelstein said to a re-
porter:
Yes, it is quite true about my los
ing my slipper. and l did feel so morti-
ned How was l to know that il was
gong TO bring me the prince! What
size was the slipper? What questions
YOU ask! 1t was No. 2. We are
going TO have it put in a glass case
IN memory of the happy occasion"
said:
There's a lot of character in a
shoe, even in a slipper. and 1 said /
must win the hand of the girl that
owns the FOOT that lost that slipper |
They say it's lucky to find a horse
shoe. l don't know about that; but
it's lucky to find a slipper"
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H0BBLED LADIES
NEEDN'T Be FROGS
CLUBS GYMKHANA PROVES 1T
WHEN 10 WOMEN LEAVE We
RANDA TO ENTER RACE.

NEW YORK Special.-Don't you
DeIleNe 1t the next time you're told
mat the frock of the moment re-
strlcts its wearer to the ambuIatory
methods of Calaveras frog. II the
obblephobe insists tell him what han
pened at the gymkhana of the Rock
away Hunt Club Monday.
Ten of the "smartest" women on
the Nerandas of the clubhouse. wear
ing ten OF the p-to-the-minute
TOOK part in hundred yard dash
ana they negotiated the distance i'm
seconds. Seconds, not minutes. The
start OF the race looked like a trunk
opening at the customs house, but
ne finish was like the Americas rnn-
away around the Isle of Wight. There
Wyckoff. -
The hundred-yard dash was an
added event. Well along in the af-
that he would give a special cun Tor
the sprint, and the way he was taken
up TOOK him very much aback. He
wasn't through his announcement he
Iore Mrs. Wyckof, Mrs. Raymond p.
X. Nelson, Mrs. Johnston I.ivinpstona
Jr., Mrs. Edward Stevens. Mrs. A16nrt
Erancke, Mrs d. c. Miller. Mrs. q
w. Bryce, Mrs. O. II. Gruner, Mrs. y
Slade and Mrs. J. p. Langdon had
lined up at the mark
80 tiiS me loSetner, and their
process over the first third of the
course was shriekingly funny. Then
MIS- Wyckon pulled out from the
ruck and finished with a good ten
yards 10 spare. The others were mass
ed together so that even the Roclra
way experts wouldn't presume TO say
Mhere second and third honors Went
BUT popular notions about the hobble
SKIRT got their coup de grace: there
were no eight ways about that
j. CheeNer Cowdin carried off the
nonors In the game. He began by fin
lshing second to Rene La Montarne In
the potato sticking race. in which
MISS Laura Hazard was third and +
Is. Noss fourth. Then Cowdin took
Hrst IN the thread and needle event.
with the assistance of Miss Burr. VosS
TOOK second, with the aid Of Miss Jes-
sic Hazard. while Raymond Chaupcev
was third, his needle having been
threaded by Miss Catherine Hazard.
Cowdin carried off first honors in
the LochinVar race also. helping Miss
Potter TO mount and riding about the
course, holding her hand. at such
speed that they won by ten lengths
over William Bolton and Miss Rosa |
mond Burr. Cowdin took first in the
egg and spoon race. winning by a |
narrow margin from Miss Potter
Rene La Montague won the apple |
race, as Well as the pig-Sticking The
latter form of butchery really CON
sisted of dabbing paint on a linen bag
dragged around the course. w r |
Bolton, Jr., won the sack race. with
A. w. Pearce second and c. w. Wick |
ersham, son of the Attorney General |
third.
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MRS. ASTOR MAKES VISITS
TO VILLA OF EX-HUSRAND

NEWPORT Special-Society is in
;terested in the visits of Mrs. Alva
willing Astor to "Beechwood." the
via OF her divorced husband, now
Dor.
When Vincent Astor, their son, was
mere he called daily on his mother
and spent much time with her up to
the time OF joining his father on the
yacht Noma for trip to Bar Harbor.
Muriel has been continuously with bar
mother, but she frankly avows her
eagerness to go to Colonel Astor this
month, when she may visit him in
conformity with the decree Of divorce.
Mur1el has her own automobile, the
Slit OF her father. Recently she has
driven her mother several times i'm
that vehicle to "Beechwood," the Will
liam Astor property. The visits have
been ostensibly to call on William
Boyd, gardener and caretaker for ten
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PENDLETON EXONERATFD
FOR DEATH OF SPENCE
RIG MOND. vA-snoo,o,

r c H ND, V A-snac,o1
Vlrginius Pendleton, Jr., the sav.
eh.een-year, son of Policeman Vir-
sIhluS Pendleton, was exonerated IN
the Police Court this morning fror -,
an blame for the death of Hnrh
spence; ffty-two years old. Wis
Upon oelng forcibly elected from
fehoIeton's grocery store by the lat
ter, struck his head upon the cnrh-
ing OF the sidewalk. receiving injuries
"nich later resulted in his death
spence, IT is alleged, was cursines
ana Otherwise acting in a (3jsordariSs,
way in Pendletons store. aside Tr ery
'resPasslng upon the latter's premiSns
Jury lmpaneled by Coroner va
c nam "a, dayior to investigate the cir
SSuLnstances attending the death re
spence returned verdict placino. III ot
u TSpoii Pa1y Tor the latter's demise
ING spence was painter by trade. be-
and Paperhangers' Union aihters'
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RICHMOND EXCHANGE
TO VISIT WASHINGTON

X L c H NJ o n d, V A-SpeciaI-
The Richmond Builders Exchange
mas received from the Washington FX-
on saturday, September 18th. The
washington Exchange will at the same
une De most to the Norfolk and Balti-
The programme includes a baseball
game, automobile rides and a recep-
ton at night.
The local Builders Exchange expects
10 carry large crowd on the date set
me members remember the good time
Ihey mad at Norfolk when the Rich
mona, Washington and Baltimore
builders were the guests OF that CITY.
an 1hey expect the same kind of time
II is probable that Baltimore and
hlchmond will be the next hosts in this
interchange of visits, which, il is ex-
pected, the four cities will establish as
a custom.
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MAY GUST FORMER
FORESTER PINCHOT
Possibility That Former Chief
Forester Will Be Thrown Out Of
Conservation Congress and
Ballinger Will Be Exone-
rated by Committee.

ST. PAUL. MIMI Special.-Many
State delegations 10 the conservation
congress are considering resolutions
endorsing Clifford Pinchot- Mean
time, however, the majority members
or the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating
committee are holding up a pro-Bal-
linger report declared to have been
decided on week ago.
The secretary's friends on the COM
mittee find themselves in the minori-
~, Senator Root, Senator Flint and
Representative Olmstead being absent
Tor the session there. The Democrats
on the committee, with Representa-
tive Madison, progressive Republic
can. have majority OF the quorum
present They demand an immediate
report. The reported eXoneration for
Ballinger may be lost in the discard.
senator Nelson has wired to Senator
Root and Representative Olmstead to
hurry to his aid. They may save the
SITUATION by a majority report, but
can hardly prevent its being publish
ed. with the minority report, before.
the fall elections.
Keep Their Opinions.
no warrant for showing a division in
me committee. I don't know how the
other members stand: and they DO not
make hnal report without Senator'S
Root and Flint, cannot say. Not any
one OF the committee has expressed an
oPInl0n. L have assurance from Root
that he might be here. We may wait
until Monday and possibly Tuesday.
nave wired to Root in care of tho
steamship company, and also to Flint
at his home in California"
- May Dust PinchOt.
Inc story goes that Senator Nelson
ana other members of the administra-
tlon nave expected Clifford Pinchot to
De lhcohunently thrown out of the Con-
serNation Congress by the combinatior,
OF western Governors and their friends
W men ,Iinchot was thus being Kicked
inNestigaung committee would give
nm me nnal boot by report exonerat-
IN baIhnger and castigating P!nchot
o clock today. OF "
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HURLS "YOU LIE"
AT ROOSEVELT
Socialist Declares the Nation is Paying
for the Colonies Cross Continen-
tai Tour.

FARGO Special.-A rough, dirty
looking man, wearing a battered derby
nat, with two days growth of beard
on his face, jammed his way through
the crowd at Island Park, where MIR.
Roosevelt spoke late yesterday after
noon, and demanded an audience.
IL was Just at the conclusion of the
Coloners speech to the laboring men
or the West. on the platform from
which Mr.. Roosevelt had spoken were
fully 1900 persons. They did not know
what IT all meant.
I've a question to ask" he yelled
as he pressed closer to the Colonel. Il
want to speak to YOU"
Mr.. Roosevelt, thinking that the
stranger was a laboring man. who
wished TO make himself clear on some
point in the address, asked him what
he wanted.
w, Who h: is paving for this trip of
yours?" the stranger cried. Who's
paying for it?"
Replies In Wrath.
The colonel was very angry then.
and he glared fierceIy.
That is very impertinent ques-
mind telling, however, that the Out
look magazine, with which 1 am con-
nected, is paying for it,"
The rough intruder stepped closer
10 Mr.. Roosevelt, while the crowd
stood and gaped. There were no po-
It's lie, 1 tell. you: it's a lie" the
man shouted. The nation is having
Tor ii; the country is doing it,
The colonel saw in a flash that the
man was a Socialist, and probably a
demented Socialist. He rushed to-
ward him, grabbed the mans right
arm, and jerked it upward, wrench
ing IT as he did so. He pushed the
intruder back from him in no gentle
and continued to push him
SO that the man had dropped to the
ground. The man disappeared in the
crush before an officer hove in sight.
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AMERICAN AVIATOR
ENDS GREAT TRIP
Daredevil Aviator Finally Makes Sue
cessfui Flight After Many Mishaps.

SEVEN OAKS, ENG Special
Three weeks after he left Paris on a
Eight to London with a passenger.
John b. Moissant, the daredevil
American aviator and soldier of for
tune, rose Tuesday in his Bleroit mo-
noplane and started for London. deter
mined TO finish the twenty-five miles
10 the Crystal Palace from Kemsing.
near Seven Oaks, where he was halt
ed by storms and a damaged plane
more than a week ago. With him
was his neutrality-suspicious., Albert
Fileux.
The news Of his departure spread
rapidly in London and crowds gath
ered about Crystal Palace. which he
had CHOSEN as landing ground. The
monoplane was running smoothly and
NJ olssant circled the field twice before
setting of.
When he reached the Crystal Pal
ace he circled the immense buIldine
eight times, then pointing his ma
chlne towards the North, he travelled
mile before he found a suitable
place to alight.
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ersenals. ETC., which are usually the
object OF attack by a mob, should he
noted thereon. and general plans for
their defense should be prepared and
be Immediately available.
1t IL quite as necessary to prepare
Tor Internal disorder as to guard
against foreign invasion. to provide
TOT suppressing mobs as to prepare
plans for protecting our coasts. il in
therefore highly essential that the ef-
hciency OF the National Guard shall be
maintained at the highest standard.
ana that the officers and men shall
nave as proficient knowledge OF what
WIN De required OF them in the quelI-
Ing OF domestic disturbances as can he
gained by systematic study and train
lng;-Harry Albert Austin, in Har-
per's Weekly.
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HOW Big LEAGUE
STARS GOT START
BY HARRY LORD,
Former Captain Boston Red Sox, Who
Was tho Central Figure Of the Sem
sattOnal Trade Between the Chi
cago and Boston Clubs.

i was kicked into professional base
ball When ! was a boy 1 played the
game, but never with any thought or
desire TO use baseball as a means OF
gaining a livelihood. l had ambitions
IN other directions I played at high
school, but never gave the game much
serious thought until 1 went to Bates
College. There 1 began TO study the
game, and also football, playing ON
both the varsity teams. 1 played the
games because 1 liked them. and the
further 1 advanced in baseball the
more of the possibilities in the line of
making plays 1 saw. The game inter-
eSted me beyond the mere physical en-
5Oyment There was a lot or pride to
be taken in accomplishing a play by
outthinking or Outwitting the Oppo-
nents. L began to study TO see how
the major league players did things.
and compared their ways of making
plays with the ways we had at coll
iege. Still l hadn't any idea Of en-
NerinB the game professionally until
near the end of my college career. 1
was young, and the necessity of max
ing a living salary was forced upon
me- 1 began to cast around to see
what my chances were in realizing
npon my experience and education de-
rived from a college course. The
prospect was not a promising one.
The fact is. l wanted to get married
and the realization that the career
had chosen would mean waiting four
or five years before could earn
enough to support myself. much less
n family, was not pleasant. Ny base
ball playing had attracted the atten-
Gon of professional club owners. and
baseball suddenly opened for me an
opportunity to earn a fair salary right
from the start. 1 had a hard fight
with myself. but finally decided to
abandon my career temporarily at
least. I Joined the Worcester club
under Jesse Burkett. One needs a
good drill master in starting in base
ball, and Burkett. no matter what
else people may think of him. is
good teacher. He is a natural instruc-
tor OF men, and has the power to il
lustrate his lessons. 1 learned the
finer points of the trade there, then
went to Boston.
While going into baseball almost ac-
cidentally, 1 have found il clean and
honorable profession and one likely
TO develop a man and make him not
only fight for his own rights. but re-
spect the rights of others. The only
objection L can see to the profession
for a man is the travelling. One be-
comes too much of a wanderer and
misses home life.
No boy should try to start in base
ball with the idea that it is fun" for
there is much hard work and a great
with il. 1t is wearing on the body
and on the mind, and the strain of
hard season wears quickly upon even
the strongest. Besides. there is less
of n place for the Joy man in base
ball than in any profession. They do
not belong and they cannot stand the
strain long.
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HDRYSr WIN IN FREDFRICKsRrrpn

FREDERICKSBURG, VA Special.
The local option election being held
orderly. At s o'clock this morning the
church bells of the city began to toll
the death knell of the saloons in this
city for years to come. IT is believed.
Prayer meetingo are being held in the
various churches. Every indication
points to large majority for the drys.
election to the dryz.
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FOUR MORE WITNESSES
IN BEEF TRUST CASE

CHICAGO, ILL Special-With the
nearing of four witnesses from the
East the beef trust investigation.
whlch has kept a Federal jury busy
LOT more IMAM month, will be COM
pleted. The jury then. II is reported
VIII make public their indictments of
the individual packers. The grand
Jury yesterday indicted eleven in the
Brandy frauds case. The accused men
"moonshiners