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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
JAPANESE CITY
SWEPT BY Fire
Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Down
1hC-e Who Loot On Sight-Fixe
Department Is Absolutely In
adequate-Fear Many
Lost Lives.

TOXIC, Special.-Fire swept the
city OF Osaka, on the Island %
Hondo, today. Thirteen hundred
houses had been destroyed and the
IRE was still raging early this Esern-
ing.
Thousands were rendered heuslezs
and the soldiers who attempAsd to
check the fire were powerless. n q
believed that hundreds or persons
persisted.
The bamboo buildings, which aana-
posed the city, burned like tinRsr
The Island of HOndO lies in the In
land Sea.
The population is estimated at 60
proximately $4,000.
Orders were given to shoot Iaatezs
on sight.
Later the authorities issued a STATE
ment that. including the innumcra1aEo
novels in the congested district. nero
than 5000 buildings had been bWrRsa
at that time.
The authorities estimated me
homeless at more than 30,eeO
The fire started in South Osaka
The panic of the pOpulace WaS
heightened when il was learned Cat
the fire was eating its way t0wuxh
several arsenals on the outsloirSa II
the city, and il was feared that e
this should explode the ensuing ex-
plosfons would wipe out the greater
part of the city. Thousands qeA fnt0
the open country.
II was estimated that the Ieaa
would be more than S5.0eaaeO
The local fire fighting force WAS
unable to check the flames and sd
diers were rushed from their bar
racks. BY the time the soldiers 5uRm-
ed the fight against the fire the Hazses
had spread over an area SO great 6aat
II was found impossible to check eho
onrush of the cOnflagratioR wteh
dynamite.
The greatest excitement prevailed
among the residents of the CITY
Panic-Stricken men and womea hAa
to be restrained from rushing hnko
the fire zone to get out their effects
and to save members OF their (aanl-
lies who had been left behind
Martial law was finally ordered aad
soldiers were placed about the Gro
zone with orders to drive back with
their bayOnets any who attempted to
get into the burning district
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BUZZARD'S LIVES
ARE In DANGER

r c H Nd o N D, v A, Special
Every buZZard in the State will
shortly be thrown upon the charitab BILE
institutions of the State. or will 9TH
erwise be in danger of starvation.
If bill offered by r. L. Brewer, of
Nansemond county, in the House of
Delegates today becomes law.
The bill requires that all dead ami
mails and fowls shall hereafter be
cremated instead of thrown down
the hill"
Should anyone fail to cremate any
animal or fowl which may die from
any cause" on his place, should ne
and 1t, he may be reported to a mag
iStrate and fined $40 for each offense.
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TEMPERANCE DOG
FELL FROM GRACE
IN OLD AGE PAT" TOOK TO THE
BOTTLE, WHICH RENEWED
HIS YOUTH.
(By J. \. Wright.)

(By j. n. Wright-)
BoXBURT. VA. Special.-There
than a mans dog. The writer of
this. your correspondent here. has for
seven years been the proud owner of
blue Bolton setter dog, given him
by his friend. Sergeant kerse. of the
Richmond police. just that many
years of age.
Seldom has n more intelligent ca
nine come under the observation Of
the hunters OF this section. Pat
was the name chosen for the setter,
and Pat kept that name untarnish-
ed by showing himself to be the best
hunter in New Kent county.
From the first Pat refused to as
sociate with huntsmen who used Ii
Quor in any shape. He would imme-
red eye was produced, and would
not associate with his own master if
a bottle was displayed.
During the past Christmas the
writer. as usual. had his Christmas
egGnog. He was glad to have a num-
ing the holidays. and before going
into the field the party enjoyed a
toast from the flowing bowl
Leaving the house in charge of the
dog. now too old to hunt. the egg
nog was left on the table. Pat"
-
taste not, handle not" First the dog
got up on the table and scented the
drink. Then Pat" tasted it. With
renewed youth the dog rushed to the
fields. where he found the huntsmen
and led the hunt.
Birds are now at the mercy OF this
dog. which is attracting attention in
his old age by wonderful work. 1t is
necessary. however. to take along a
flask of eGgnog. with a nipple on the
bottle. With the drink on hand the
once proud temperance animal, which
has so sadly fallen, will do the work
Of the finest of the younger dogs.
Since his period of intoxication the
dog has developed other qualities of
wonderful nature. In times past he
would observe the game laws with
the fidelity of a game warden. He
would prevent the capture Of young
partridges by other dogs or cats. and
a hawk could not alight when he was
in the neighborhood.
Since the cold weather and blizzard
the dog has developed human quail
ties. Realizing that the birds are
hungry and suffering. Pat" can be
seen taking crusts of bread into the
forests to feed the suffering part
ridges. He knows that no manly
sportsman would catch or shoot birds
out of season or take an undue ad-
vantage.
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negro WOMAN IS
BURNED TOIDEATH
RICHMOND. VA Special

RIG H M o N u, VA Special
Horrible eyond description was the
death of Eva Wade, a coiored woman
sixty years old, who was burned
to a crisp this morning about 1:15
o'clock when her bed clothes in some
unknown way became ignited from a
stove near which she was sleeping.
height ors early this morning noticed
smoke issuing from one OF the win
dows of the house and turned in the
alarm. The woman had evidently
rolled from her bed to the floor while
in a blaze, setting the house afire,
which was burning fercely when the
fire department arrived. The house
was a frame one, and famed by a
heavy wind the flames made great
Roadway. When the woman was
finally taken from the house she was
dead, having been burned completely
beyond recognition. The house was
entirely destroyed.
Fire Plug Frozen.
The woman was all alone in the
house at the time the fire occurred,
and 1t is presumable that no ope heard
her screams as IT was only ybhen the
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
OPENING GUN fired
in RAILROAD CASES

WASHINGTON, d. c., Special
The opening gun in the fight of the
State railroad commissions for exist
ence was fired by the filing in the
United States Supreme Court today Of
a brief by the Attorney General Of
Minnesota in the Minnesota rate
cases.
The brief, a bulky volume of sew
eral hundred pages, criticises the de-
crees OF the United States Circuit
Court for the District of Minnesota,
and contends the cases involve the
fundamental question whether the
States of the Union are to be upheld
in the exercise of their legitimate
rights.
The question, the brief states, is
whether the States shall be prevented
by the nation, on the complaint of
private interests. from exercising a
power which il concededly possesses
The rates prescribed by the State
of Minnesota and it's railroad commits
sion were held to be interference with
interstate commerce and conflscatory
under the Fourteenth Aemndment to
the Constitution.
The Attorney General. in his brief
states in effect the line Of cleavage
between interstate and intrastate COM
merce is distinct and the Federal
Government has no right whatever 70
interfere with the State in it's regula-
tion Of intrastate commerce.
The decision Of the court that the
rates prescribed were confiscatory is
attacked on the ground that the pro-
cesses employed in arriving at a con-
clusion as to what are reasonable
rates were entirely wrong.
The case involves many intricate
questions, all of which arise in the
roi
States which will be taken up by the
Supreme Court and heard before a
full bench next month
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WILL RID The STATE
.. - OF STOCK SWINDLERS
RIG MoND. vA-special-

r c. III M o n D, VA-Special.-
Persons who have been engaged in
Virginia in selling stocks and bonds
in concerns. many of which have
either an ephemeral or doubtful ex-
istence, are doomed to get q blow at
the hands of the General Assembly
which will make them shudder and
which will save thousands of dollars
to gullible citizens, who fall an easy
prey to INSCRIPTIONS men.
Delegate Old, of Norfolk county, it
is understood, has prepared a meas
ure which is patterned after the Kan
sas statute. and if II becomes a law
it will paralyze fakirs and sharks.
The bill will also squeeze the
water out of some of the stocks
of the big companies organized
under the laws of Virginia by
forcing the companies to put all
their stocks and bonds and all
forms of securities on a rock
bottom basis. In other words,
the watering of stock i'm order
that the rate of interest thereon
will be kept low will be n thing
of the past, heavy penalties be-
ing provided for attractions.
Other men besides Mr.. Old have
taken the matter up.
Speaker Byrd is understood to be
favorable to such a measure.
The concerns in Virginia will have
to obtain a certificate from the bank
ing department, showing their lCSiti-
mate organization, the amount Of
their capital stock, the character Of
/ the business. the names and ad
dresses and the financial standing of
| the promoters.
! a well-known business man is au-
thor for the statement that in Kan
| SaS. where the law is in full force.
the people Of that State have saved.
as shown by the savings banks. some
thing like S2O.OOO.OOO year since
the law became effective. The aver
! age amount taken from that State
| for many years was 100000. and
| there is good reason to believe that
in the last few years Virginia has
suffered to even a greater extent than
| has Kansas.
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AUTO SKIDDED
INTO The CANAL

TRENTON. n. Especial. Five
persOas, three young women and
two men, met violent death in joy
ride AT BroOl<viIIe, N few miles from
Trenton, early today when the big
LOzier touring car In which they
were riding skidded Oh the Icy
highway and plunged into the
water power canal there.
All the victims plunged through the
Donald Reed. a son OF former Supreme
Court Justice Alfred Reed, of Reed s
Manor; Chester A Van Cleft, an auto
Margaret Tindall. Miss Annie Hazel. an
unide ntIned girl.
Frederick NJ. Foster, who was driving
the car, had a miraculous escape from
death. He, with the others. was hurled
into the. icy waters OF the canal. but
managed to make his way to shore.
Foster is a member OF wealthy and
socially prominent family OF this city.
rate of speed when the wheels skidded
on the ice in the highN ay and those in
the machine had no time 10 jump:
Foster is in a serious condition as
a result OF his thrilling experience and
plunge into the icy water of the canal.
PEELED to run for more than a mile
through zero weather with his cloth
ing frozen stin upon his body before he
rescue party was formed and the
bodies OF all the dead, except the un-
tdentihed girl, were taken from the
Foster and his two male companions
naQ driven into trenton late last nigh
and met the women.
Drivers Hands Runab.
The accident occurred a sharp
curve. Foster made effort to pre-
vent the disaster, but his hands were
80 numbed from the cold, and the speed
of the car was so great that he was
poWerleGe Before he could cry a
warning to his companions the machine
plunged downward.
Fosters body was thrown some dis
tance from the ear when 1T struck the
Ice on the surface OF the canal Foster
had to break the ice before him as he
swan TO the bank. He could hear the
Ecreams OF tina frightened men and wo-
men who were struggling in the middle
~ the canal. BY the time the strug-
srfinE man reached safety the cries had
&e&8Sd and he realized that his COM
oanfon8 had been carried beneath the
lea The lamps on the auto, which re-
fnained above the surface. continued to
AZ the spot where the disaster oc-
<urred the road ~ hankec on either side
with dense woods and there are no
houses neerby. TIE nearest building
was the Wfibertha Inn, mile on.
roster set OF on dead run for the
f61o>. AIS hands. ears and feet were
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
HUBBARD'S Love
WORTH $4,000
Wife Sues Young Miss OFT For
Taking Away Husbands
Affections.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Special. -
Alienation of affection is charged in
a suit just filed here against Miss
Nettie Bryant OFT by Mrs. Josephine
Hubbard, who demands $4,000 dam
ages.
Miss OFT is a granddaughter of Sam
Bryant. the noted turfman, who own
ed and raced Proctor Knott.
Mrs. Hubbard claims that the
friendship sprang up when Miss OFT
hired Hubbard to exhibit her blooded
horses. The defendant is only TWEEN
ty-one years old.
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Ccnsors for Dance Halls.

DIES N1OINES, IA Special All
persons dancing the Grizzly Bear" or
the Turkey Trot" or the Moonlight
Waltz" in public dance halls in Des
MOines will be arrested.
An ordinance placing the public
dance halls under police regulation
passed the City Council Wednesday
night Men and women censors, en-
ployed by the police department, will
attend all dances, eliminating those
that are regarded as immoral.
The censors. who reported for duty
Thursday, will be paid out of a trust
fund which the dance hall owners
must pay the city weekly, besides
their annual license tax of 500.
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FEDERAL AID FOR
GOOD ROAD CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, d. G. SIN

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Special
Representing more than 1900. 900
persons in every part Of the United
States, 800 delegates to the Federal
aid good roads convention" of the
American Automobile Association as
sembled at the New Raleigh Hotel
this morning to decide upon the best
method of procuring good roads in
this country and then presenting to
Congress their plan for improving the
highways.
There are now pending in Congress
thirty-five different bills for good
roads, each bill providing a different
method for the Improvement of the
highways One calls for q 100000
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
Wealth a Bar to Ambition.

Wealth Is a serious obstacle to ambI-
uous young men, according to T. Z.
kruttschnitt, assistant superintendent
or the Tucson division Of the South
ern Pacific, and son Of Julius Krutt-
schnitt. director of maintenance 0c
way of the Hartman system.
The young man, who donned over
alls and acted as an engine wiper when
the shopmen struck. yesterday pot his
views in this form:
The rich mans son who starts out
in humble position as / did, Is not
taken seriously by his fellow work.
men. They think he is following SEINE
within"
To escape this handicap young
kruttschnitt says he never has any
thing to do officially with his father.
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PRESIDENT OF new ~
REPUBLIC MAY QUIT

NANKING, Specialize. Sun Vat
Sen, president of the republic OF
China, is believed to have pointed the
way 20 peace by assuring PrezaIer
Yuan Shi Kai that he will resign his
office in favor of Yuan. il the latter
persuades Emperor Pu vi to abdi-
cate.
DR.. Sun today telegraphed to Tang
Shao-Yi, the imperial delegate at the
recent peace parley in Shanghai de-
claring that he will relinQuish hIs
office If the premier will ioin the
republicans and bring about the ab(Yi-
cation of the throne. Yuan Is said
to be wavering in his allegiance to
the Manchus.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
NEWPORT NEWS ELECTRIC
LINE SOLD To NEW WORKERS
N-LyVNDODTN NEWS

The controlling interests in the New
port News and Old Point Railway and
Electric Company and it's three sub
sidiary companies on the lower pc
ninsula yesterday passed from the
hands of William ]. Payne, of Rich
mond. TO syndicate OF New York
bankers and electric railway men,
headed by c. LOOMS Allen, of syria =
cuse. and Edward +. Pick. OF Science
tady. These two now head the COM
pany as president and vice president.
respectively.
others associated with President
Allen are +. Howell Griswold and John
Upper, OF Baltimore, and Charles u.
Dickey and James May Duane of New
York city.
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MAY REDUCE ALL
EXPRESS CHARGES
WASHINGTON. ID. G.. SpeeiaI.-

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Special
Express charges throughout the
United States, il became known
today, are to be materially re-
duced by the Interstate Commerce
Commission as a result Of num-
Der OF hearings held by Commits
SiOner Lane at New York and
other places. This recommended
ton has been made to the COM
mission.
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Farmer Near Staunton Unable to
Reach Shelter Dies in
Agony.

STANTON, VA, Special. One
man frOze TO death here and two
others just escaped the same fate
by the timely discovery of passers-
by last night.
}. Lctcher Beard, n farmer, fell
from high railroad treStIe while
ON his way home early I'm the eve
ming, md, breaking leg, was un-
able TO crawl TO shelter from the
bitter cold. He frOze TO death I'm
mortal agony from his injuries.
Tive other men, both insensibIe
from drink. were found half buried
In snow, nearly frozen. The tenn
perature here was the coolest in
years, being two degrees below
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
Error ProIongs Life.

NASHVILLE, TENN, Special.-An
error in the death warrant will save
and has brought about unusual legal
complications. Rose was sent to Nash
Vile. condemned to be hanged on Tues
day. January 18th.
January 18th is Wednesday. Conse-
quently the prison officials are in a
quandarY. Attorneys say Rose cannot
be hanged under the present warrant
Rose is condemned to die for the muir
| der OF l.. Z. Miller. of McMinn county
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
Passengers Almost Frozen to
Death With Steam Connec-
tons Cut OFF.

MASON CITY, iowa Special
The coolest railroad wreck in history
was told about today by passengers
transferred here today from the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul train.
ditched at Britt, Ia. The locomo-
tive turned over, cutting off the steam
heat hose.
ty-three degrees below zero. Inside
the cars it fell to twenty-five below.
The passengers dared not go to sleep
and spent the long hours running up
and down the aisles to keep from
freezing.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
NEGROES BLOW UP
men And HOUSES
Negroes Take Revenge by Using
Dynamite Under Houses.
ASsailants Escape.

PARAMOUNT, w. VA-SpeciaI.
Negroes Monday dynamited two
houses belonging TO the Sackett
Company, at Cans, PA. One for
eigncr was blown to atoms, two
others were fatally and three
others seriously hurt.
The negroes Ind been released
but few hours from jail, where
they served sentences on n charge
OF stealing beer from the for
eigners who occupied the houses
which were destroyed. The ne
Eroes fled and a posse Is pursu-
ing them.
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frozen by the time he reached the inn.
After giving the alarm he sank un-
conscious.
Louis Schmidt proprietor OF the Inn.
telephoned TO the police in this city.
notifying them or the tragedy. The
police ambulance, with Coroner Bower
and A squad OF policemen. were hurried
to the scene and search for the bodies
was started a dawn
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
National Board Of Trade

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Special
The first session of the forty-secoad
annual meeting of the National Board
of Trade held here today took up the
reports of the president Frank ID.
La Laune; the secretary and the eKeCm-
tive committee. The reports Indicate
that the past year has been one OF
active trade.
One hundred delegates. represent
ing financial, comm ercial and induG-
trial interests throughout the United
States, were gathered at the mee&EGe.
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RICHMO ND. va. S.eciay-

X c II M o N ID. v A. Special
Judge f. s. Tavenner, Of Shezan-
doah, is at work on a bill which win
vest 1uries in the trial OF cases in
which the death penalty may be inn
posed with discretion to determine
either death or life imprisonment
Senator Tavenner is preparing the
Dill, not from any idea of maudlin
sentiment, but in order that where a
crime has been committed and there
may be question as to the sanity of
the accused, or where the jury may
believe from the evidence that guilt
is established and justice may be
meted by the sentence OF life impris-
onment, the jury can make such rec
ommendation.
1t is not known just when the bill
will be ready for presentation.
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DOUND CARTRIDGE
In HIS APPENDIX

LAWRENCEBURG, ND Spe-
ciaI. BENJAMIN Kremmer, strick-
EN- with appendicitis while on =
hunting trip, died during an oper-
alton today. The surgeons found
a loaded cartridge in his appen-
dix. which was distended TO eleven
inches in length. Kremmer, nine
teen years old, hunted rabbits
with a rifle and il is supposed he
held a cartridge in his mouth for
quick reloading and swallowed il.
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Suspend Freight Advance.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Special
Advances in rates for the transpOrta-
ton of freight originating and des-
tined to points on the Birmingham
Southern and on the Atlanta, Biz
mingham and Atlantic Railroad,
which were to have become effective
January 21st were suspended by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day until July 23d.
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Deaf Farmer Killed by TRAIN.

NlATtIINObU no, w va, SpecIdI.-
Ernest Stewart, aged nifty. a y, idelN
known farmer of Berkeley county, and
a member of a prominent family, was
struck and killed late yesterday eve
ming by passenger train on the Cum
berland Valley Railroad. He was
walking on the tracks near his home
at Darkesville, and being deaf. did not
hear the approach Of the train.
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Given Twelve Years.

LYNCHBURG, VA Special Al
Rustburg today Oscar Davis and John
Foster. who held up and robbed two
farmers east OF the city ten days ago
were sentenced to twelve years in the
penitentiary. The Jury's first vote
was from eight to eighteen years. the
verdict resulting In a compromise as
to the time.
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MOTHER FREEZING:
CHILDREN ARE DEAD

fiALAH1D, KY Spedal.~AfteF
having been snowbOund for a week
without food or fuel. Mrs. Nancy Al
len Fuzzy was found unconscious In
her home near here today and by her
side were her three children. frozen
to death. Mrs. Allen will likely die
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-01-25
BODY OF CHIEF FOUND.
NEW YORK, SDecfaI. The body

OF battalion chief william j.
Walsh was found this afternoon I'm
the ruins Of the Equitable building
between the third and fourth floors
on the Cedar StreeI side. Search
ers had been hunting for IL ever
since the building WINS destroyed.
Walsh lost his life after ordering
other flremen out of danger.
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BURSTED LAMMP KILLS TREE.

PITTSBURG, PA.-Special.-Byt the
explosion of a kerosene lamp at the
home of Michael Kovall at Ambridge,
Pa, Mary and Annie Kovall, aged six
and three respectively, were burned
to a crisp. Another child, eight years
old. and the mother, Mrs. Mary Ko-
VAIL are fatally burned, while six
other inmates sustained serious burns
and injuries
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Why don't some enterprising mov-
ing picture machine man take same
pictures of the mud-as soon as the
Ice melts-that will be nigh onto
waist deep in front Of the gas ofaEceR
1t sure would be pay dirt-Commoa-
wealth.
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Buro-OfS Is Minister

PARIS.-Special.- taat N.
Del Case would be the Foreign Min
lister in the new Poincare were dissi-
pated at noon today. when 1t was Of
ficially announced that that post had
been offered to NJ. Leon Burgois and
that he had accepted.