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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
NEGR0RREHIHER NNGHEl

sWAINsBoRo; Gas My 2s Rev
Ben Smith, the aged Header 81 Lhe ne.
gro race in this section, was Hanged
to the limb OF d tree aud his body rid
died with bullets by mob p white
men at an earlyglh yesterday be-
cause he had wounded Deputy Marshal
Canady. Smith had had trouble Wllh
his young wife ana the inter had com
planned to tie authorities Canady
went to the Smith hofle 3 arrest ihe
preacher. The latter resisted and shot
the officer, inalcting setious wound
Smith fled, but was pursued by a.
posse with bloodhounds and was caps
tured at daylight in d swatlip near ihe
town, brought back and Hanged %
tree in sight Of his home.
Smith was very old being White
headed and toothless biit for years BILE
word had been law "a The negro popu.
lation. He was noted Tor hlH oralory
While the mob was chasing Smith
unknowing parties d8nanited The me-
gro odd Fellows hall tentirel destroy
ing It.
The lynching and use 81 dynamite
have terroTized the negroes aud many
are fleeing. A genera exodus rs
threatened, which win work great
damage to the planters
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
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SENATOR KNuTE NELSON SAYS
Bsgs E;sE slRI ss'll ~ !

Y WASHINGTON, May %. In a brief
speech before the Senate Committee
on Finance today explaining and de-
Tending his proposed amendments to
the Canadian reciprocity bill, Senator
Knute Nelson, Of Minnesota, a regular
Republican, attacked President Taft,
declaring that the President was ques-
tfoning the right Of the Senate to
amend the Canadian agreement and
was thereby treating the Senate lln,
fairly.
Such expressions as "eyading his
constitutional duty. and "beating
around the bush" and "trifiing with
the Senate were used by the Senator
to characterize the Presidents alleged
acts OF interference.
Th Senator from Minnesota declar.
ed that the Canadian matter was in
the nature Of a treaty and that the
Senate was recognized in the consti-
tuition sa apart OF the treaty.making
power Of the government.
Treaties had been amended In the
past by the Senate after being nego'
tiated by the executive branch OF the
government. They would be amended
again, in the opinion Of the Senator
from Minnesota. In trying to present
the Senate from exercising It's full
power in the matter OF making amend.
ment the President was denying the
Senate its constitutional rights and
eyading his own constitutional duty"
said Mr.; Nelson.
The Minnesota senatof was not ques.
toned BY members Of the committee
but allowed to make his statement and
criticisms unquestioned.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
COL N'GRANI
Home AGAIN
ARRIVED HOME FROM CHARLES.
TON SUNDAY, WHERE HE AD.
DRESSED TIE LEGISLATURE.

GRAFTON, w. Va, May 2S.-Col.
John Il. MeGraw returned Sunday
from the State capital at Charleston,
where he addressed the members Of
the legislature, and urged the pas.
sage OF the primary election law at the
special session without delay. While
in the capital Col, McGraw met a
number Of loyal friends over the State
both in the Legislature and among the
visitors 10 the capital.
In urging the passage of the prl.
mary election bill, Col. McGraw told
the Legislators 1t would be worse than
crime to scorn the pledges made by
both PARTIES to the people, and he
made an earnest plea for the Demo.
cratic party to redeem itself by keep
Ing the faith with those who elected
1t OF power in the State.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
.EITHlgT SERVICE
RKsaURH CARS WE'RE OUT
OF COMMISSION FOR TWO
E4ouRs LAST EVENING.

\ t'he city III ClaFksBatg was without
street. car service last evening for two
lh6tlfs AL severe storm swept over
Csgfsy and that vicinity. A large
Vas blown across the Incl at Rey'
16ls & swapping the high tension wire
the trolley. There were no cars
operated from Gypsy nor in clarks'
burg until the line could be repaired
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
'TllPBRl|.|0NI
ARE GRANTED
BY GOVERNOR { |. | |
ATTORNEY coNLEY GETS ARso.
LUTON OF SENTENCE AGAINST
ROWE E4ERRoN AND PERRY
WlLElS.
PUNISHMENT WAS VERY SEVERE
THE. GOOD NAME OF PRISONERS
HELPS TO persuade C tilEF Ex-
EcUTlVE TO REACH coNcLu-
SION.

g.s "
Rowe Heron. and Perry Wiley. the
two young men that were convicted
Of atoning a street car being operated
by the Fairmont and Clarksburg Trac-
tion Company, have been nardoned by
Governor Gldsscock.
These young men were tried at the
last November term of the Circuit
Court and upon their conviction they
we're given the minimum sentence Of
two years in the penitentiary. Every
person that was in the court room at
the time these young men were SEN
tenced will never forget the touching
address made by Judge Mason at that
time. The words Of the court were
as tender as the gentle rain OF spring
and were freighted with the most
wholesome advice. He told the boys
that by nature they were not bad.
That the same good blood that coursed
through the veins of their fathers and
mothers was a part Of their make up.
They had inherited a good name. The
boys in thoughtless moment en-
gagged in taking from the cup that in.
ebriates and brings sorrow TO .the one
that drinks to intoxication. me court
advised them that when they nad
served The time in the penitentiary that
the law fnposed.iunoh them for the
offense committed that they come
right back 10 their homes and taere
live doWh the stigma that ana eeeh
placed Upon them in an hour wnen
their better imanhood and Judgment
had given way to the evil OF strong
drink. The court said that II was here
that they had done wrong and, II was
here that they should prove lthat tney e!s
ie6sses ssedYf the qualities that were IN
them. 1(ai9ll'.if yiilo ~ ''i@
The offense for stoning cars or IN
'terFering with them in any way IS a
very Serious offense and the penalty,
attached ,totit upon conviction is not
less than twonor oramore than ten years
in the penitentiary. ,1,r ~
Since their conviction their attor'
ney, Rollo j. Coniey, has been Interest,"
ed in obtaining a. pardon for them
The good name OF the boys anu the
fact that they had never been IN trou'
bic before and that the deed was COM
mitted while they were under the IN
fluence Of liquor were things that
worked to their advantage even
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
2os Chinese Killed.

WASHINGTON, May 23.- Consular
Agent crothers at Torreon, Mexico,
egrSphed the State Department to-
day that 206. Chinese were killed dur
iiig race riots there ON Monday, May
i5l Insufrectos alleged that the Chi
nese had beea armed by the federal
government and shad fired on the in
slIfgents.
No&isl now restored. No Americans
were attacked.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
ON BOARD.

Ex-Sherllf III. n. Furbee has been all.
pointed d member OF the board Of re-
view ana equalization for Marion couts
.ty. The apoplntmelt was made 3hiy
Governor ella sse1e elts To- flIl the 5gsIc;ltcy
caused hy the yplratlon oI Tie short
term nelbe the board
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
BE1lRRE..L|..sIl|N
'T0PREABHB.h.l.
sermon SUNDAY !. |
OUTLINE OF PRO RoeRAMME IN HON
OR OF THE VETERANS OF ,THE E.
CIVIL WAR GIVEN OUT LAST
EVENING.
DECORATION DAY ON TUESDAY.
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS BEING
MADE THIS YEAR TO HAVE I'M.
( .PREssivE AND ELABORATE AF-
FAIR FOR HEROES.

Though the entire official programme
will be ready for publication in a
few days, it was, however, announced
last evening that the Rev. ]. P. Tur-
kelsoi. pastor OF the First M. P. church.
Of the First ward. would deliver the.
memorial sermon to the veterans Of
the Grand Army OF the Republic on
next Sunday morning at the regular
church hour.
The members Of the Meade Post will
assemble at their headquarters at 10,
o'clock in the morning and headed by
the silver Drum and Fife Corps VIII
march to the First ward where they
will be Joined by the members OF the
Pierpont Post, totaIfing about 150 vet
erans, who will go to the church where
the Rev. Turkelson will deliver the
sermon. The programem will be very
impressive and beautiful; the choir
wiz render appropriate music TO the
occasion and the interior of the edi-
flee will be elaborately decorated IN
national colors and flowers. Dozens
of,the front seats viii be reserved tor
the veterans, who win enter the.
church in pairs, It SIS likely tbattte
Rev. Mr.. Turkelson VIII be assisted
By. another local minister who VIII
read "a few passages from the Bible
and offef prayer. "A, special egert. (, y
being made upon the paftspl the
church people, the Ladies q; ines. a.
r. and the committee 70 have Ibis 70
be the most elaborate ana most I'M,
pressiye occasion for the OLD 'seldlefls
ever held in this cityl for it's q Known
fact that It VIII not be q grea1 many
years until such memorial exercises
TO bel attended bg the boys. VINO %ole w,
the blue will be onlyia memory y y
likely that a. number OF men VINO
fought in the Civil war andgwno are
not members OF any post. residing NJ
this vicinity, will attend the exercises,
and a cordial invitation is extended % :,
these men by their comrades, as wen
asttofthe public inIgeneral togattena
the services next Sunday morning,
and 1t is probable that a large number "
of laymen will be present out OF re.
spect to the veterans OF the war .ol
the sixties.
DECORATION CdS'
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
BLACK HOMESTEAD
SOLD T0MR. bowen
THE PROPERTY WILL, BE lMPRoV
ED AND WILL MAKE AN IDEAL
! HOME. a5a

THE PROPERTY WILL BE lMPHONs
ED AND WILL MAKE AN IDEAL
HOME.
Mr.. Anthony Bowen has closed a
deal by which he becomes the owner
OF the Black Homestead, a very val
liable piece OF property on the East
Side near the Fair Grounds. Mr..
Bowen has begun the Improvement Of
the property and will have an ideal
home, with plenty Of ground and COM
Portable roomy house, combining coun.
try life with all city advantages.
Mr.. Bowen has for the past few
years been the industrial agent for the
Board OF Trade and the Industrial
Company and has done much towards
locating factories in Fairmont. He
has also disposed OF considerable prop.
erty for the Industrial Company and
now that he assumes the roll Of pur.
chaser himself 1t makes positive the
proof chat he was really In earnest all
the time he has been preaching" Fair.
mont to others. There Is no doubt OF
the wisdom al Mr.. Bowen's choice TO
cast his permanent lot with Fairmont
and make thlsshis future home. Either
as an investment or as a ,homeslte
there are few properties near the city
that are more valuable than the Black
property.
The sale was made by Mf. w. ID.
straight the we'll known local real es;
j
tate man.
20 7S75ei z n .i.lsi ~ " & ti
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
BRUTAL NEGRO HANGED AT
PlTTsHuRe THIS MORNING

PITTsBURG, May 2S. John TYRE,
the negro who killed his common law
wife with n ball club on July IL, 1910,
lwas hung here toduy, 1t being the Sec
ond hanging in Allegheny county
within two months.
Two witnesses Of the execution, one
a policeman, tainted. Tyrte went to
4his death quietly.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23
ENGINEs ARRIVE.

The engines for the new jail have
arrived ana we're put inside of the en-.
cine room gj.9 !. t.; l2it ;ass y
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23

The silVery tones ota graphophone
led Frank Kuroksi to seek an introduce
tiol to theyoung woman who sang for
the records, she proved to be Miss
Jennie CeSuski, of. lNhitinsyille, Mass.
A8marriage Ii6else yyasslssue1 TO Kll-
FokslS ana Miss Gezuskt yestefsay !
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
Too Much Webbing Over Liquor

The legislators of this state have had years in which to consider in dividually the liquor question and surely they must have convictions on the subject. Every man of them must know what he himself prefers, and he knows pretty well what his constituents want. And yet at Mont gomery the wrangling over the prob- lem goes on, and it may be kept up to the day of adjournment.
 What the people desire is dis tinct and positive policy covering the entire subject, difficult and complex as it is. The Parks bill committed the state to local option with the county as the unit.
 The legislature should either stand by the Parks bill or else it should adopt definite and positive policy to take its place. In other words it should cease to drift and to squabble over the liquor problem.
 The state is becoming very tired of struggle made up of succession of contradictions. Something def mite and straightforward and con- trolling is needed. All legislation is said to consist of compromises. Very we'll; let us have a consistent com promise that will govern all local bills. Anything that is straightfor- ward and consistent is better than the backing and filling that the leg islature has been indulging in day after day. Get down to brass Jacks, gentlemen of the legislature, by giv- ing us something consistent and con- elusive touching the states most vex- atious problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Drastic Prohibition UnpopuIar

Tn the south there has been de- cided change in sentiment concerine
 prohibition since I was last in this sec
 ton about three years ago." said B. W.
 Rockwell of Providence, R. I. | spent nearly three weeks in the south in 1908. dividing my time be-
 tween Texas, Alabama, Georgia and florida. l found great deal of hys- terra in Alabama, and that hysterical movement resulted a year later in statewide prohibition. The Georgia legislature had just adopted statutory prohibition, but in that state A loop hole was soon made for beer. In Texas there was good deal of agitation in faVor of statewide prohibition, and the same was true in Florida.
 To-day all through the south ultra prohipitionists seem to be few and far between. The statewide idea is un- popular. In Texas the prohibition lead CTS and agitators are making a mighty noise in the pending state-wide cam palgn, but statewide prohibition will be badly defeated at the polls. In Florida the local optionists defeated the constitutional prohibitionists last No vember
 The Alabama legislature has de- ciared in unmistakable terms for re- turn to local option. Georgia will soon follow suit, and so will Tennessee some day. l suppose. Virginia has steered clear of the statewide movement, aI- though the AntiSaloon league put up strenuous fight there year or more ago.
 All good people agree that temper ance IS one of the cardinal virtues. It IS an admitted fact too, that liquor has been greatly abused in this country and has caused a lot of crime. But there are thousands of total abstainers like myself, who for some years have been looking on with interest and who will gladly do anything to promote tenn perance, but who oppose statutory pro- hibition While many prohibitionists are perfectly sincere in advocating pro- hibition principles, I recall no so-called moral movement that has had so much hypocrisy and self-seeking politics mixed in 1t as this very movement in ques- tion. Like all fanatical waves it began to recede soon after it rolled high. Some other fanatical wave will roll round in the course of time, but statutory prohibition in states containing large cities has seen it's best days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
 Musical Festivals

''rhe music festival season is approach
 ing any many of the larger southern cities
 are busy with festival programmes and
 announcements,' said a member of the Birmingham Oratorio society.
 Some cities will have their festivals in April, soon after Easter. Others have announced May dates. While Birming- hams festival association has taken no definite action with regard to a festi- val this season, it Is understood that the matter will be taken up very shortly, and it is hoped that the action will be favor able. The only first class orchestra avail able for festivals in this part of the coun- try this spring is the New York Sym phony. Walter Damrosch, conductor. which was such delightful feature of last years festival.
 'Damrosch has been engaged for the Spartanburg festival, the most important festival in the south, and with the ex- ception of the Cincinnati festival, and possibly the Worcester, the most impor- tant in the United States. Damrosch has been booked for festivals at Jacksonville, Fla, Savannah, and other southeastern cities, and his only available dates for Birmingham are May g, 10 and Il, which are being held open until he can hear definitely from the festival association. The Theodore Thomas orchestra of Chi cago, which is one of the few fully en- dowed organizations, and, therefore, one of the few strictly in the first class, is planning a southern tour for 1912. The Philharmonic orchestra of New York, Gustav Mahler conductor, is also plan ming for a southern tour 12 months hence. The Cincinnati orchestra one of the largest and best, is likewise keeping its eye on the south, and 1t is more than likely that it will make a southern tour in 1912. But this season Damrosch has the festival field to himself. He is the most popular conductor that has ever visited this section."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
GRAND RAPIDS

From the New York World.
 The father of New York's own George w. Perkins, who wrote the famous let ter which guided his son to success came from Grand Rapids.
 Grand Rapids trolley cars carry one Of Uncle Sam's letter boxes hitched to each dashboard At the center of the town a postofrice employe waylays each car and captures the contents. A slick and easy way of gathering the mall and more versatile than lamp-posts.
 The river is Grand by name and the rapids are incidental but slight. There is enough drop to afford some fall water power. Electric current is sold at 11s cents per horse power hour.
 Perhaps without Grand Rapids many of us would have to eat, sit and sleep on the floor Here is the great furniture center of the United States, where Sher- aton and Chippendale see themselves out done and whose agents glean the forests of the distant tropics to find woods fine enough for their wares. Little Michigan towns try to vie with Grand Rapids, but few of them get further than dining room tables while Grand Rapids goes the whole gamut of spindle-legged elegance.
 The Mormons of Utah have become large buyers of costly Grand Rapids fur niture The western farm folks. gener- ally are taking to mahogany and Louis Quatorze stun.
 "Wm. Alden Smith Is carved in letters a foot high over the lintel of a block in Grand Rapids. It refers to the senior senator from Michigan, who put 1t there before he became great. The neighbors call him Billy"
 Grand Rapids is rivaling Detroit as an art center. Frank P. Paulus, who once worked for a Detroit newspaper and has achieved success as an artist, with his studio at Bruges, has just closed an ex- hibition with instructive series of talks on art to the furniture folks. Many fine works are to be found in the private homes of the town, the result of which moves the Grand Rapids Herald to de- clare that a city art gallery is conn ing.
 The Garrick theatre, supports stock company. Following Chicago style, the theatrical week begins Sunday evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
Vaccination Against Typhoid Fever

Vaccination Against Typhoid Fever
 A physician speaking recently in New York declared, You're exact ly twice as likely to have typhoid when you're not vaccinated as you are when the virus has been in- jected into your veins, and of those who get the disease the unvaccinated are four times as likely to die"
 In other words typhoid vaccina- tion is as effective as smallpox vac cination, and people that accept the latter should accept the former. The officers and nurses in hospitals are being vaccinated against typhoid fever. It does them no harm and as rule it protects them even when they are unusually exposed to the tenacious typhoid germ.
 The vaccination of thousands of men in the English and German armies against typhoid should lead Secretary Dickinson to take steps that will prevent any typhoid deaths along or near the Mexican border. Secretary Alger permitted thousands of volunteer soldiers to die in 1898 during the Spanish war. Surely the scenes of Chickamauga will not be repeated in the teeth of known facts and unquestioned tests along the Rio Grande. No army need be scourged by typhoid fever in these days. The simple means of vac cination will conquer the germ no matter how determined and long, lived it may be, and the government should insist upon vaccination when ever large numbers of soldiers are to be brought together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
The Military Maneuvers

Much interest Is being manifested in the military maneuvers on the Mexi- can border, and in the possibility of the state troops being ordered to the front" said an ex-militia officer yes terday.
 "The local troops seem anxious to go to the front and a ready response will be made should orders be given to re- port for this duty. I was amused this morning by a little conversation I heard on the car in reference to the Mexican situation. A middle-aged man was talk ing to young fellow who evidently be- longed to the state militia, and among things asked him was if he thought the national guard would be sent to the front, the young fellow said he didn't know, but so far as he was con- cerned he was raring to go.'
 "'Raring to go are your Yes, and you'll be raring to come back home again before you have been there many days drying remarked the man, which created a general laugh and discom- forted the young fellow so much that he was at a loss for a reply"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-16
The Negro in Politics

q have often asked myself said a citizen of Birmingham, just what may be the -chiefest desire. or rather the motive, of the few negroes who seek political recognition. If every colored man in tho country had vote l do not see where much benefit would &C., crue to the race, as a whole, therefrom. am more inclined to think that the negro seeks recognition for recognition's sake, but of course it is quite 8 rare case where a negro is very much con- cerned in the matter. He seems least of all people to be interested in the affairs of the government. was recent ly impressed with an idea, which if fol- lowed, I think. would eliminate in flu ture all the embarrassing situations such as was met in disposing of w. H. Lewis.
 ''The guests had been admitted to the banquet hall last Friday, at the Hillman hotel, just preceding the arrival of Col onel Roosevelt who was the guest Of honor at tho business mems luncheon. All remained standing at their places awaiting the appearance of the colonel whose vacant chair suddenly became the subject of dispute between the head waiter of the Hillman force and his as- slstant. Both were determined to have