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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
TRUST FIGHT.
is NOT ENDED
Tan Announces Campaign Against
MonopoIies viii BE Continued.
v. s. NOT ANTAooNIzINe
LEGITIMATE BUSINESS
Tariff, Trusts, Monetary Situation and
Supreme Court Decisions Ex-
planned by President.

WATERLOO. Ia, Sept. 2s.-Presi-
dent Taft today. in a speech defining
the relation of government to bust
ness" announced that the trust prose-
cutions beguh by the department OF
justice at Washington would continue
despite the recent criticism that busi-
ness was being made to suffer. He
served notice that the big business
interests" OF the country must be
brought within the law Just as the
railroads have been. and declined to
admit that there exists any discretion
which would enable the attorney gen.
eral to stay the hand of the govern
ment.
At the same time the President
made an earnest appeal for reasonable
consideration OF the railroads and Tre
big industrial corporations on the
ground that their reformation was be-
ing brought about steadily and salts
factorily. and that nothing was to be
gained by ''vindictive hostility"
Mr.. Taft bitterly denounced those
politicians who seek to arouse the
preiudices of the people and to array
one section of the country against
another. Such utterances he de-
CidItu 10 Dt lnOSe OF the DnnueSt OF
men"
Trust Prosecutions. \
The trust prosecutions. Mr. Taft
said. need not be long continued. be-
cause he believed the business COM
munity was rapidly taking in the ef-
feet of the recent decisions OF the
Supreme court and were preparing to
square themselves with the law.
I'VE have reached the point" he
said. where We can call a halt: not
in the progressive movement to keep
business free from abuses. but where
we can call halt against appeals 10
a spirit OF pure hostility TO prosperi-
] ty on the theory that no.one can be
I prosperous without being dishonest
/ Or a violator of the law"
Let us reason together" ex-
claimed the President Let us be
charitable and kind. Let us not be so
suspicious and ascribe corrupt mo-
tives 10 every one in the community,
but our particular friends and polit-
! tcontinus on Tsnth Page.)
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
DIEGLE CASE
Appeal Of ohioan Convicted Of erib-
cry Reaches Circuit
Court

CCLTNBTS. o.. sept gS-Thc case
Of Rodney J. pieglc. convicted former
scrg'ant-at-arms - the ohio state
~trat.. recently sentenced to three
N"Hrs IN the p~niteutiary for aiding
nd abctfinr in legislative bribery.
reached the circuit court to-day.
Charles D.. ifelch,r. of counsel for
the defense. contcnd.I that IN. in
... .I.i.r. une .tulih 300 that 70 did not
a.IsrD that Il"EIo knew thnt senator
D. DO Andrews fuT whom hc was con-
htrfri of soliciting brlhc was a
member 0f The SENATE. ana that tho
use ~ fhr eNUr' -sIou might o., then
ful tr.t irIl'r.ru w..z such 90 10
'.tIa. I..rf as fu whether or not
Do. would t- iuuIsn..d
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
StepmOther Accused
OF Numbering Two
Charleston Detectives Say Mrs.
Thumrn Was Slayer Of Her
Stepsons.
WOMAN'S ARREST MAY
CLEAR MYSTERIOUS CASE
Boys Died Six Years AGO Very Sud.
denly; Alleged Poison Was
Placed in Coffee.

Special Disratch to the ynteIligencer.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Sept 2s.-
Charged with numbering two stepsons
Is the allegation against Mrs. Dora
VI. Thumm. wife of John Thumm, a
merchant OF this city. The crime Is
alleged TO have been committed in
1865. at which time Herbert and WAL
ter Thumm died. presumably from
ptomaine poisoning. Another stepson,
Romie. now l. years Of age, was
also taken ill, but recovered.
The stepson that recovered vas o.
he opinion that he had been poisoned
by some coffee he drank. He did
not drink all his coffee. while his
brothers did.
suspicious OF poison were strong at
the time. bat the coroner did not con-
duct al investigation. on the belief OF
a physician thai the two boys had
died Of ptomaine poison.
Romie. who was the older Of the
three boys. thought other attempts
had been made on his life. and left
home.
For some time a local detective
agency. has been working on the case.
and from remarks Mrs. Thumm is re-
ported to have made. n warrant was
Issued for her arrest. and she was
taken before Justice Atkinson, but on
motion OF the state the case was set
for Friday evening.
Mr. Thumm married his present
wife in 1895. She Is reported 10 have
stated that the three boys would
come day die OF mysterious causes.
This was prior 20 the death OF Her
bert and Walter. Her husband. John
Thumm, is a merchant on Crescent
road. and is possessed Of considerable
means
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
PRICE TWO CENTS
A Statement From Judge Golf

special Dispatch Inteigencer
NEW fORk Sept 2s-Judge Nathan Con
eral days leaving take
neligencer
interview in which he his
Tor the United States
carefully
ument on this subject Here is the exactly
The lntelhgencer
you during our last conversation
There string
friends doubtless unintenny when they at
ast intimate that am saying thing
wish TO be distinctly understood am
Senatorshp that do not that do
my considered
DO appreciate the favorable
individuals of
dcating public sentiment would be
and deeply indeed do
render the
given II is best frnds
personal-to
Senatorial election
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
Ultlmatum Declined.

ROME, Sept 2S.-Sometime during
Tuesday night the Italian Minister OF
Foreign Affairs. Marquis di San Cult
ano. addressed to the Italian charge
laffaires at Constantinople. Signor di
larinO. a note, which says:
During a long series OF years the
government OF Italy never ceased to
make representations TO the ports
Ipon the absolute necessity OF cor
Getting the state of disorder TO which
he government Of Turkey had aban.
Toned Tripoli and Cyrene. These re-
lions should be admitted TO the bene-
nus Of the progress realized by other
parts of the Mediterranean and AT
rica.
This transformation. which Is i'm.
posed by the general exigencies Of
utilization. constitutes for Italy a
vital interest OF the first order by
leason os the slight distance separat-
ilg these countries from the coast of
ifaiy Notwithstanding the attitude
taken by the government OF Italy,
which has always accorded its loyal
suppOrt TO the imperial government
il the different political questions OF
recent times. and Notwithstanding the
moderation and patience shown by
he government OF Italy. its views
concerning TripOli have been badly
eceived by the imperial government. (.
out. more than that. an enterprise on
he part OF Italians In the regions
mentioned has been systema'ically
opposed and unjustifably crushed"
No Terms Due Now.
The note continues.
The imperial government which
% the present time. has shown con.
ant hostility towards all legitimate
ictivity in Tripoli and 100 Cyrene. has
.. an act in the last hour proposed 90
he royal government 90 come 10 ar
isreerneut. and has declared Itself
isposcd 10 accord 80 fhr cc0n0m ic
1ncessions compatible with the
-reaties in force ard iu accord vItn
rr dignity and superior Irfsrr-f- 0I
frrkey buf fia r0faI government
'uas not tsIin.. .r u.a.gra. taken If
Die hour Hhi.U .rrhi. fHe rrau
...tnr- OF nfa his fsI stD,I
nee ir fh' past Hh.rh hl.n r.mYI
frafrI th.Ir fItUfr. and Hh.,h r.
rfe from constituting rho e.lfanfes
.rr thr future rul.d No 'f.u.a.sa.
I.-r mont rrl.a. rf f.a..rrrm.nf
rrI conflict
Deter0l ne On C--upa'
Tho italian Er.ar. rsr. Ntr..s ...
intention f.r..f.r'H .r lrr... .t. ..
.rf.'. and ". ..rrt. H... .a..IaI r
.r.-.sl fI ..r rIfsr. occupation ..
.rrrI afH trr.rs
t.. .rr .r. tt
.. r.. I.... r1aar fl .-... fs.. d..
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
Fowler EeaaY 10 Ely.

EMIGENNT GAP. Cal. Sept - -
Strong cross currents. with twenty.
milc wind blowing down Carpenter
Meadow. prevented Aviator Robert
g. Fow ler from resgmiug hts mans.
continental hIfLt to-day. fii4 cicsfin.
spare is hedgcd ahouf uith taT tre...
and he cannot rise Dut 0. tlc 1sr-.-
sion iu which fh" machine I.. u..--
fhe wind .e blowing gp flo gag or fb.
1.r o. tf.i &c., -.|I Do. rnuI raf
away 0u fhe fr.f favorable m1rru.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
IA ENTOMBED
Miners imprisoned in Alaska Mine $50
Feet Underground-AiI Are
Likely Dead.

FAIRBANKS. AlaTka. Sept. 2S.-A
shaft $50 feet deep in the Shakespeare
placer gold mine on Dome creek caved
in Yesterday afternoon. imprisoning Il
miners. mostly RussiSns. one hundred
men are seeking TO enter the mine
through an old shaft. This is plugged
with thirty feet Of ice at the bottom.
There Is a possibility that the inter
mediate shafts have settled II so. the
eniombied men probably are dead.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
". VA. PRESBYTERIANS
State Statistics Issued In Annual
Report Of the General
Assembly

CHICAGO. Sept 2S.-The annual
report OF the general assembly Of the
PrcshyteriauS church. just issued.
Gives tho following statistics on the
West Virginia synod Presbyteries.
3; ministers. 55: churches. II: com.
municants. S.S42: bapusms. 45i: Sun.
day school membership. s.523.
In the Wheeling rresbytery are 21
churches. "a ministers. 2.Os0 com.
municants. i.642 IN Sunday school. 263
tagtlsms last year.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
Turkey May Declare War

VIENNA, Sept. 2S.-Thc Neue Freie
Presse learns from an authoritative
source that the minute Italy lands
troops in Tripoli Turkey will declare
var. expel all Italians from Turkey
within "a hours, abrogate the capitu.
ations and commercial treaty, insti.
ute a boycott against Italian goods
md oppose by armed force any fur.
her attempts TO land troops on
Turkish soil,
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29

NEW YOFk, sept 2S--NeVs was
received o. the ofce of the Whae
Star iine tonight of the death % for.
ms. United States Senator Charles
Frederic Wauderson. of Omaha. Neh..
Cr h1arf tho steamer Cedric. Which
tued from Liverpool today
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
g, 1000 TO Strike ON Hartman Lines
ShoPmen Waiting Word For Gigantic
Walkout on Entire
System.
SEEK RECOGNITION
OF LABOR FEDERATION
Crisis on Road Caused by Refusal of
Company to Deal With EN-
ployes as a Unit.

CHICAGO. Sept 2s-More than
$4,000 shopmen in the employment
Of the Hartman lines are awaiting
the word to strike. according 10 the
i've presidents of the international
unions. TO which most Of the men be-
long. These officials have not yet de-
cid"d upon the hour at which is to
begin struggle. according 20 the
sam" officers. which will. to a great
extent determine the future attitude
~ tho railways In dealings with their
employees
The shopmen will strike. they say.
not b@cause of any dissatisfaction
with wages. nor conditions ~ labor.
but 70 establish the newly organized
Federation Of shop Employees as a
means az negotiating disputes be-
tween employers and employees. The
railroads refuse to recognize the fed
Grafton. because they say 10 would
n"an practically placing all op.rat-
Ing affairs in the hands of the fed
Grafton and would turn railroad man
agemtnt into chaos
Climax Reached.
The dispute reached % climax to-
DAY. when Julius Kruttschnitt vice.
president al the Hartman lines. re-
iterHtcd th" determination ~ the
roads not tn meet with the federation.
j. ". Kline. president 81 the Int,rna-
tionai llacksmifns and Helpers
union. cummuui,a,.d this decision 10
other union heads and then author
ized STATE rn'nt that strike would
Do" oallrI as soon as tho dle and
hour could Doc agreed upon Later it
was said three uf th. five union
heads Including th. frachInIsts.
hitherto tho chief restraining force.
..tf. fEI. % fH .H.I a strike. SH|Irflay.
not later thin noon
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
MRS. HENKLE
EXONERATED
Former Wheeling Woman Freed Of
Charge OF Attempting 10 Poison
Step Daughter.

DELAWARE. a.. sept c9-Nirs
jessie II Hcnkio. arrested last June
on charge uf administering poison
to her sfsp-daught-r. Miss Morlc
Henklo. was fred 10 tho charca hy
tho nrand irrt fo iar Two anaiys es
No. 'f-d .a aubs-anfiaf, charF,s .rainst
Mrs Wenklr. who war HlI.-eu 60 hove
been Jealous nf NisF Hcnhiy The llt-
tor refuFtrtd
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-29
May Delay Occupation.

ROME, Sept. est is stated that
If Turkey replies TO the ultimatum be.
ore noon tomorrow il is possible that
the occupation may be delayed another
a hours, unless the reply is a fiat re-
iusal
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TURKS APPEAL
T0POWERSFAILS
Refusal of Italian Ultimatum Will
Be Followed by Italian
Occupation.
LITTLE HOPE FOR
PEACE REMAINING
If Italians Land Soldiers in TripOli
War Will Be Declared
by Turkey.

CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 2s.-1O
.. m.-The ministerial councI is still
sitting. meeting OF seventy deputies
tonight adopted resolution asking
the government to convene the cham
ber at the earliest moment possible.
The deputies manifest a very hostile
feeling towards the cabinet
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CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 2s.-
Italy has presented her ulumatum.
demanding an answer within "a hours.
She will accept only the immediate
evacuation of Tripoli and Benghazi.
The Italian charge presented the ulti-
matum at the usual weekly reception
10 the foreign representatives at the
foreign office. The Grand Vizer i'm
nediately went to the palace. where
The minister was summoned to a spe-
cial council, which sat later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-17
Internal or External?

That is the question within the cof- ferdam in the harbor of Havana to- day. In three or four days the hulk of the battleship Maine will lie in the mud fully exposed to view with no water to hide its secrets. It can then be explained as fully as if it were in dry dock. Its warpings and marks will tell the story that the United States and Spain at least are inter ested to hear.
 If the explosion was internal-if the ship was destroyed by its own magazine-it is inevitable that in- fcompetency will be charged upon Sigsbee, the American commander, who let motley crowd fill the ship sn period of excitement and fever.
 But that will be all. The navy of today is not the navy of thirteen years ago, and the results of the war with Spain cannot be unsettled by any hulk raised thirteen years too late. Cuba owes her independence to the sinking of the Maine, and Cuba will remain free, no matter how the battleship was sunk.
 The ship should have been raised iong ago. The ghastly relic of the war with Spain is about to be dis closed on the principle, no doubt, of better. late than never It has no lesson to teach that reflects on the present navy of the United States, and it has no evidence that will change in any respect the war of 1898.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-17
Switzerland's Initiative

The home of the great reform which Oregon is trying to gain credit for is Switzerland. The Swiss have had the initiative ever since 1845. They have no intention of parting with it, and yet it is not often re- sorted to.
 The British minister to that coun- try recently rendered a report on this measure. "At first sight," he says, "it might seem that the powers of the general and formulated initiative are 80 great as to turn the grand councils of the cantons into mere drafting and registration committees, but in point of fact this is by no means the case. For although the initiative is a great power in the hands of the people, yet it has been very rarely used in the cantons; and, in fact, the grand copn- cil is the place where nearly all bills originate. This also applies to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bu.lness rmproying stendlI

''rhe volume of general trade in the spring months was not as large, per haps, as last year, but yet it was larger than some of us had expected said s. l.. Hale, connected with Chicago manufacturing concern.
 There has been a steady improvement in business during the past two or three weeks The splendid crop outlook has contributed largely to a bullish feeling, and what will add materially to revival of activity is the announced plan on the part of the railroads to start great deal of new construction work this sum mer. The railroads have bought com paratively little In the way of rails or rolling stock for some time past, but now that they have decided to go ahead with extensive Improvements the metals trade will be the most favorably effected.
 "The iron market, which is one of the business barometers, has been eXtremely dull, and prices have been so low as to yield little, if any, profit to the furnace Over-production has been re- sponsible largely for the unsatisfactory condition of the iron market, but with the railroads making large purchases of rails and equipment the price of iron will certainly move up. l think we will see a SIP iron market before the first of August"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-17

From the Hammer for June, Fftgburg,
 Mass.
 Note: The editor attended the hardware convention at San Antonio last month and the following thoughts were inspired by the trip.
 You have seen one of these chrysalis affairs-a dull, dun little roll of dust: you have seen emerge therefrom a gloriously painted butterfly.
 The south had always seemed to me to be very much on the chrysals order-a country Of tragic and hopeless problems; people sapped by poverty of vitality, ambition and courage.
 Perhaps that impression was all wrong it was largely formed by lugubrious ar ticles in the magazines-but anyway, the chrysalls days of the south. if there ever were such. have gone, never to return.
 The south is old-she is rich in tradi- tions and noble ancestry she labors under the problems and complexities of an old civilization-but her people are young, The south pulsates' today with the virill- ty. bouyant, dauntless ambition and splendid idealism of glorious youth.
 From the pain and sorrow of the past, from the bitterness, from the ruins of a noble race-there has emerged-like the butter1y-a finer spirit of Americanism than exists in any part of this great na- tion.
 We in the north had our era of trans cendentalism, of fiery progressiveness, but we are just a big, colorless work shop now, doped with industrialism; the west had her picturesque boom days, but the west has quleted down; the central states, with all their canny insurgency, are too prosperous to blaze the way to better things
 The next chapter in the Romance of America will be written in the south. The next great national uplift move ment will radiate from a southern cen ter
 Am fo' proh bition in the south, gentl'- men, yassa.
 On that convention trip we dallied with Dudley Juleps; we histed many hardware special high balls; we bested Birmingham beer QI2O);- Price nearly put us away; we gazed into the dainty deviltry of a 6dHlpS pHlEZs we WdlCHSu lAe DuDDltS in the stem; we slipped absinthe; we bathed in beer-we absorbed beer On trains, river boats, ocean going steam ships, in glasses, mugs, schooners, steins, tin cups and bottles at clubs, hotels, pri- vate homes, picnlcs, parks, barbecues, badger fights, Dutch suppers, Mexican dinners; we quaffed deeply from Graham's tc,r cta ,4vit turers, jobbers, retailers, old guards, young guards, governors, silver tongued orators, mayors official boosters, real es- tate men, cowboys, army men, miners, promoters, politicians and plain gentle men-and now we accede cheerfully to prohibition in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-17
In n Race With AfIantn

Richmond has been growing and im- proving faster in the past five years than in any previous like period in it's history" said Alexander Dixon of Washington, D. C.
 T have visited Richmond and Atlanta frequently within the past 10 days and l never expected to see the time when the Virginia capital would catch up with the Georgia capital, either in population or large building operations. Atlanta with it's population of 154,0O0 in the last census was ahead of Rich mond by about 25,OO0, but today, from all appearances, the latter city Is do- ing more building of every kind than Atlanta, and by 1920 the census takers will probably find as many people in Richmond as they will be able to count in Atlanta.
 "Richmond has led most southern cities in accumulated wealth ever since the war, but in the matter of public spirit it was easily outclassed by At lanta. Now the 'get-together' spirit is as much in evidence in Richmond as it is in Atlanta or any other city. The old Confederate capital has certainly got a move on it that I had never eX- pected to see, but that am glad indeed esting cities historically in the United States, but I fear that in it's present forward movement commercialism will dominate and will crowd out the few landmarks that are left
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-17

stairs a great, fierce comet swept across the sky. To Ivan it was a sign that his own days were numbered He shrank from the sight, and with trembling limbs sought his chamber. His death soon fol- lowed.
 Sophia's historical place on the Bloody Stairway is written in a chapter of ca- price and intrigue. She was the second daughter of Czar Feodor. Her own brother was an Ivan. Sophia was sur rounded by fatterers who dedicated son. nets as we'll as heroic verse to her, and quite turned her foolish head with the cajolery. A day secretly was set for the assembling of the pike bearers within the kremlin walls. They pressed on to the stairway. Sophia was told that her ambi- ton for power was about to be gained. word from her to the assembled sol diers was all that was needed to estab- fish her as ruler. She went out upon the stairway, arrayed in jewels and flnery, and made such a speech as a princess cutup might be expected to make. It operated like torch to powder.
 Soldiers immediately fell upon each other with bikes, they pressed to the foot of the staircase, fighting along the way. One of the ministers of the late czar, seeking by gentle speech to pacify the belligerents, was thrice thrust through with bikes. A member of the ruling fam fly was dragged from a hiding place and cut to pieces. From the staircase Sophias followers pointed to those whose lives were to be taken, and the soldiers, zeal ous for favor and normally bloodthirsty, triumphantly produced one victim after another amid huzzas from the titled on- lockers. When the massacre or combat 1t is called by both names--was at an end 69 dead bodies covered the 60 steps of the Blody Staircase and an ensan- guined rivulet ran from top to bottom, where it formed a stream.
 Sophia died a prisoner in the dreary monastery at Verich, deploring her past and looking into the unknown future with some hope and more misgiying.
 Standing at the foot of the Bloody Staircase this snowy morning one sees whte-bearded beggars shuttle in from the shadows and take their places in the sunshine, where already there are assem- bled other mendicants. Every third per- son, by the count, is a woman. All num- ble as they stretch out their hands for alms If a crust is tossed upon the plaza the beggars and the cawing crows fight for it-a spectacle not to be easily for gotten.