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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18
Yale Ball Player Badly Hurt.

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, June 1S-Ralph
A. Barrett. Yale 1905 S, OF Cleveland,
Ohio, who came here for the commence
ment festivities at Yale, is today in a
local hospital. seriously injured as the
result of a class base ball game at Wood
mont, a nearby town. While sliding for
a base he collided with player and was
rendered unconscious. He was brought
here In a semi-cOhscious condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18
TWO ARE ELECTROCUTED
IN PRISON At AUBURN
BurqIars Who Murdered Roch-
ester, N: Y, Grocer Pay
the Death Penalty.

AUBURN, N. Y, June 1s.-The second
double electrocution in the history of
Auburn prison took place this morning,
when Ralph Friedman and Jacob Kuhn,
the Rochester. burglars, who murdered
George A. Schuchart, a grocer. paid the
penalty. Friedman went to the chair
first without losing the remarkable nerve
that has sustained him from the mo-
claimed: I'll go to the chair with a
smile on my face. They won't see me
finch" The smile was absent, but calm
resignation and mild interest in the
final adjustment of the electrodes
marked his departure.
Kuhn, who had lost his nerve during
the past few days. and had insisted that
his execution would be an injustice be-
cause he did not fire the revolver that
killed Schuchart, changed his demeanor
during the last hours and went to his
death smiling. Sustained by the voices
of the priests at his side reciting the
litany Of the saints, he surprised his
attendants by stepping directly from the
group that entered the chamber. going
almost eagerly straight to the chair.
His eyes wandered over the witnesses
and he uttered Goodbye. father" as he
threw q last glance toward Father
Hickey. the prison chaplain, aud Father
Schellhon Of Rochester.
Given 1900 Volts.
Tho electrocutions progressed rapidly.
Friedman taking his seat a minute after
the witnesses entered the chamber. One
contact Of 1900 volts at fron seven to
eight amperes was administered and held
for a minute, followed later by second
contact Of ten seconds duration.
A contact of the same power adminis-
tered to Friedman raced through Kuhn S
body a moment later, and after one min
ute's duration was cut Off. Some doubt
existed as to his death. and the second
contact was given for ten seconds. At
6:25 the physicians pronounced him dead.
Both men confessed their part In the
crime, but the details were not made pub
lie The bodies of both men were claimed
bv relatives in Rochester.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18
TAFT STAYS AT HIS DESK
SERENE AND CONFIDENT
Will Attend Ball Game This
Afternoon, Regardless of
Chicago Contest.

President Taft went right on with rou-
tine work at the White House today as
If no such a thing as a national conven-
tion were being held. He did not go to
the executive Offices early, remaining at
the library in the private part OF the
White House. where he talked over the
long distance telephone with Represent
ative Mckinley and Secretary Hilles.
situation the President went to the execu-
tive Offices and began going over papers
and giving directions The White House
officials stated that the President would
go to the ball game in the afternoon. de-
spite the bowling fight that would be 60
ing on in the Coliseum at Chicago.
All who saw the President said that he
was as unruffied as ever, and pointed to
the fact that yesterday afternoon. while
Col Roosevelt raved and threatened, the
President played full game OF golf al
the Chevy Chase Golf Club, being en-
tirely away from connections with Chi
cago.
Cabinet Session Held.
The cabinet meeting was held at the
usual hour, IL o'clock, departmental
business being taken up and disposed Of
Vice President Sherman, too. was
more interested in base ball than In
politics. Mr.. Sherman rode all night
from Clinton, N. Y, to be in Washing
ton to attend the base ball game today.
He yesterday delivered the address at
the centennial celebration at Hamilton
College, in Clinton. and took the first
train to Washington, despite the fact
that the night was torrid.
Couldn't Miss the Game.
"why didn't you stay through the
celebrations" Mr.. Sherman was asked.
Because today is the day the Wash
ington ball club plays at home.' replied
the Vice President. promptly, land ]
couldn't miss that game under any cir
cumstances."
MI Sherman will attend the game with
President Taft and Secretary of State
Knox. The Vice President called at the
White House early to talk over conven-
ton politics witheMr Taft. but the Presi-
dent had not reached the executive Of
fees and Mr.. Sherman did not walt to
see him.
"It is nothing important. anyhow" he
said. 81 think it looks all right at Chi
cago. l am perfectly satisfied with the
way things are going"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18

ator Crane. anxious and perturbed. mods
approval and Representative Olmsted OF
Pennsylvania. is parliamentary sharp to
help Rosewater out, and a wise old owl
is he.
Just before the convention met the band
played The Rosary to put a softening
mood upon the crowd. II is surplusage
entirely Why, you would think this was
IA meeting of the Mount Pleasant Home
Missions Society.
College Boys in Evidence.
There come the bol-weevils, those pests
of life. young men with the college cry.
just as if people were not peevish enough
already without having a racuous vocal
saw applied to their tympanums
Not a picture of any great republican
adorns the hall. There is nothing but
bunting.
Il think they might at least have taken
a chance on Lincoln said the old fellow
with the Horace Greeley whiskers. who
sits 'on the platform above me.
Victor Rosewater is having the time OF
his young life. presiding over the most
unique convention that has been held in
this land. Yet a little while and he will
turn the gavel over to another and step
down and out.
Ii Is high noon, the convention comes to
order, the chaplain offers prayer. We
are off and may Heaven have mercy on
our souls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18
Three Children Perish in Fire.

DETROIT. Mich, June 1S.-Three chill
dren Of Tollington Banks. colored, were
burned to death in a fire which DESTROYED
his home, at $40 Rivard street. early this
morning. The dead are: Orville, aged
fifteen: Adolph, ten, and Obal, four. Ollie
Brooks, twenty-one years old. a boarder,
Jumped from an upper window and was
taken to hospital perhaps fatally in
tured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18
Explosion Of Bottle Fatal.

NEW YORK. June 1a-Miss Jennie
Weiss, IN eighteen-year-old German s4fi.
who was TO have been married next week.
died in a downtown hospital here early
today from an injury received when Q
seltzer bottle exploded In her hands -
she was placing II In the refrigerator. A
fragment Of the giass out her jugulae
vein.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18
NOTABLE FIGURES HAVE BEEN LAID
LOW BY AK OF THE PROGRESSIVES
Scott, Rosewater, Vorys, Burton and Others Who
lowered High in the National Committee
Are Succeeded by Roosevelt Men, and
There viii Be More to Follow.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

CHICAGO June 18.The convention will open with prayer
and the chief of police the peoples choice chairman
We going make history today have break heads the
doing of it.
Six hundred policemen with night sticks will that
kidnaps convention Half of the
Of oughouing the meeting first dash of the box while the
other half while upon getting the child aboard the ugge
counsel mo violence
NATIONAL COMMITTEE UNMOVED BY THREATS.
Through and general nvective
unmoved AT a roundup
decided that
proceed orderly and the be played according
IIoyle.
intended adopt gag rule and all gentlemen will be al
lowed steam they will have keep hands off
the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18

Copyright by George Grantham Bain.)
band finished.
A small striped tiger-cat. the Coliseum's
mascot which or who. as you please,
scorned all the police rules and ran in
and out among the legs Of both the
policemen and the chairs (ith evident
good-humored scorn OF the whole busi-
ness about which all the bipeds in the
hall were on the qui vive.
sprfnkling of people, including some OF
the New York. mississippi and Texas
deleg ations. in the hall. And still. outside
in the streets were hundreds of people
more or less prominent In republican
councils, who round II Impossible to get
into the big hall
THE repeating system has been killed, :"
said one of the assistant sergeants-at-
arms. and they have found no way to
overcome it"
Every ticket holder passed muster three
times before he found his place In the
convention hall. At the last he surren-
dered his days coupon. and no means
a doorkeeper OF the Importance OF the
ticketless ones outside.
AS the seats began to I'LL up the most
marked sign Of the grip the police intend
ed to keep upon the public peace" was
had been sitting in the front row Of dele
rates' seats stood up and bout faced, so
as to front upon the arena" where so
soon the bitterest factional struggle In
recent political history was expected to
| break into action.
Quiet Marks Assemblage.
Thus far there had not been a ripple
| Of any sort. The occasion for which the
people were gathering might as well have
| been a horse show or theatrical perform.
ance. The proportion OF women pres.
| ent was comparatively small and there
was a rather marked absence of conspicu.
Gus gowns and millinery.
| A silver water service was placed a,
| the chairman's table. An assistant ser
geant-at-arms carefully unwrapped the
three pieces from layers Of tissue paper
polished them until they shined and
/ placed them where the presiding officer
could easily reach them.
big mahogany gavel and sounding
board were placed near where Tempo
| rary Chairman Rosewater would sit, to
be resigned presently TO whoever the con-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18
WEATHER.

Unsettled and cooler; probably
showers tonight or Wednesday;
light to moderate northerly winds.
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CONTINUED On Second Page,l
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Quiet Marks Assemblage.

CONTINUED on Second Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-18

The Star is the only afternoon
paper in Washington that prints
the news of the Associated Press.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
History OF Southwest Virginia.
CONTINUED from last week.

4
Neither of the officers ranked
higher than captain. and as Mr..
Thomson was the senior officer
of the three, he was honorod with
the chief command.
( Captain Thomson lived in the
vicinity of Seven Mile Ford, Cap
tain Campbell at Black Fort, and
Captain Shelby lived at where
T, the fiourish1ng city of Bristol
now stands.
The three with their minute
men crossed over the ridges be-
fore the Indians arrived at Long
Island. The captains and sol
dlers concealed themselves be-
hind logs, trees, and tall canes,
and awaited their coming.
1t was a trying situation that
calm summer morn for the little
handful OF mountaineers, to fight
that painted army, whose chief
breathing fire and slaughter, and
whose skill, courage and cruelty
had made his name terror
throughout the borders.
Yet the little handful Of SOL
dlers determined, for the sake Of
their jewels left in their cabins
along the Holston, and in the
green valleys along the hills.
each pledged himself to the 9TH
er that they would turn the enc
my to their wigwams, or leave
their own bones to bleach upon
the plains.
In about an hour the thirsty
warriors were seen winding theiI
way like. q serpent among the
timber.
When they came into position
each white man raised his rife
and fired. The first volley killed
and crippled SO many of the In
dams a panic soon seized the bal
/ ance; not a white man was kill
ed or seriously injured.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
Mountain Valley.

Rev. M. NJ. McFerrin filed his
regular appointment Sunday ev-
ening at Union Chapel.
Maine Hall spent Sunday with
his cousin, Bryson Heldreth.
Misses Maud and Stella Merid-
18th spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Dick Heldreth and family.
CLARK Hacker spent Sunday
night with w. A. Buchanan.
Miss Mary Pierce spent satur-
day night and Sunday with
Misses Ella and Ruth Phillippi.
Mrs. Angeline Buck and her
little granddaughter, Mamie Buck
are visiting Mrs. Lydia Hall and
family this week.
Miss Annie Heldreth spent
Saturday night and Sunday at
home.
Mrs. A. Ward has been on the
sick list for the past few DAYS.
Mrs. LET Hurt and family from,
w. Va, are visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. G. Meredith.
Roy Heldreth was headed to-
wards Mrs. Halls again Sunday
Look out boys you will get left.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
Chas e. Lambert was Iii town

CIlbS II. AalDeFG Was Ill town
Monday.
Miss Ina Doak, and little broth
err, were iii Atkins Sunday
j. s. Etter returned Sunday
from q business trip down South.
Miss Lettie Doak spent Sunday
at Gloseclose, visiting relatives
and friends.
Herbert Eiffert, Of Roanoke,
spent Sunday with his mother,
Mrs. j w. Elffert.
Mrs. j.. Il. Shalitz, Misses Lizzie
Hudson and Neva Sharitz, spent
Sunday evening at Groseclose.
Miss Annis Norman spent Sat
urday night and Sunday with
Misses Verde and Berdie Shuler.
Greek and Roy Dutton spent
Saturday night and Sunday
with their sister, Mrs. E. M.
Lindamood.
John Howard, Chas. Baughman,
Chas. BACKYARD, and Bud Litz at
tended the exercises at Crosse
close Tuesday night.
Mrs. Jno. Z. Huddle, Misses
Mabel and Ruth Tilson, ATTENDED
b baccalaureate sermon a t
Groseclose Sunday evening.
Eli Daniels and daughter,
Miss Willie, spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Isaac
Hawks and family.
The Missionary Society Of the
Methodist church will meet with
Mrs. E. L, Arlington on Thurs
day April II at $3.50.
William Buchanan, OF near
Groseclose, was in town Wednes-
day. We are always glad to see
him as he is one Of our best
friends.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
Mldflle.

Bev- Brooks delivered an inter
|estlng sermon on the lessons of
nature at Groseelose Sunday
Joe Heldreth and wife took
dinner with G. P. Simpson and
family Sunday
Asa Willard set out about eight
thousand cabbage plants Wodnes
day They will soon be ready te
cut out.
The Sunday School at Fulton
church was e-organized Sunday
Rev. A. I. Lowery preached a i
interesting sermon a t Fulton
church Sunday night.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
Dsith Of MrS. Lou (VerStFeel

Groseclose, Va, April I. 1912.
On Saturday, March s3, tho death
angel entered the home OF Mr..
Edward 0yerstreet, and called
from that home the wife n d
mother, Mrs. Lou Overstreet.
She was born in Scott county
ia the year Of 1881, aged 81 years.
She was a well known lady Of
this place, and was loved by all
who knew her
She was brought here at the
age of about six months, aud
lived here until marriage. She
made her home most of the time
with her brother, w. A. White,
after which she moved to Giles
county, and lived there until
death.
She was highly respected for
her KIND and loving disposition.
She leaves a husband, one lit
tie daughter, three brothers, and
two sisters to mourn her loss:
w. A. White, Of this place; f..
M. White, Of Marion; Robert
White, Of Indiana; Mrs. Mary
Beverly, of Atkins; and Mrs.
Dora Steffey, Of Fairview neigh
borhood.
She had one llttlo girl who was
c,tiled to that eternal home about
six months ago. She was not ta-
ken from her mother, but merely
gone before.
They are not lost to you who
is found in Christ; like a star
they have vanished from your
sight, merely to shine brighter
in another and far senerer cline.
Think of her not as dead, but as
living; not as a flower that has
withered but as one transplanted
and touched by Divine hand. Is
blooming in richer colors and
sweeter shades than those of
earth, and he who loved US when
our flowers Of youth was bloom
ing, will not forsake MS when the
nowsof winter gather around the
brow.
Safely, safely gathered in; far
from sorrow, far from sin; no
more burdens, griefs or fears.
No more sadness; no more tears,
for the life SO dear and fair, now
hath passed from earthly care:
God himself the soul will keep,
giving his beloved sleep.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05

Mrs. Lydia Hall was in town
Saturday shopping.
Miss Ottie Hutrot from At
kips, is visiting Miss Ina Phllli-
ppi.
Mesdames Dick and Bryson
Heldreth were at Rural Retreat
shopping last Friday.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
Honor Roll.

The following are new sub
scribers:
Mrs. Add Grubb
A. M. Foglesong
Margaret Heldreth
@. G. Currin.
Renewals:
G. R. Pepper
Miss Bessie Currin
j. w. Repass
T. G. Huddle
Mrs. G. Z Buck
G. r. Coldicott
X. G. Grubb
H. F. Harkrader
Oden Neff
Mrs. Kate Crenshaw
G. Q. Catron
Mrs. J. NJ Hicks
Mrs. Barnes Gillespie
H G.. Gollehon
d. #. Steffey
Mrs. j. A. Weaver
w. W. Buck
). S. Etter
j. r. Buck
Alex Huddle
Jas. e. Houdashell
w. G. Staley
Marcus staley,
Geo. P. Kesner
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
Tribute OF Respect.

With sadness and sincere sym
pathy, we draft these resolutions
to the memory of Miss Alice
Rosenbaum who departed this
life on March ID, 1912. There
fore resolved.
l. That while we will never
see her smiling face among our
Sunday school again. Yet we
will endeavor by the grace of
God to meet her in the sweet
bye-and- bye"
2. That though we deeply
mourn her death. we submissive
ly yield to the will of our Heav-
emily Father.
5. That the members of St.
Paul's Sunday school, Rural Re-
treat, Va, in this way, send ex-
preston of heartfelt sympathy
to the bereaved family.
4. That a copy of this tribute
be sent the family of the deceas-
cd, and also published in the
Lutheran Chulch Visitor and
Rural Retreat Times
Mrs. A. L. Snavely,
Com. I Miss Carrie K. Brown,
Miss Ella B. Huudl @.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
Baby Roll.


Those who lead in the Mite
Box Collection this quarter are:
Howard King S2.05.
Virginia King Las
Elsie Tarter 1,25.
We have 80 on our Baby Roll
and this speaks well for tho above
little ones for almost every one
had nice little mite in their
boxes.
Oh! if the parents and the
children could only realize what
these pennies, which they mss
so little, mean to the work how
readily they woIld fill the boxes
to overdowing. They are collect
ed OH the first Of April and first
of Oct. and ! hope that every
box will be full when | call for
them again.
Very Sincerely.
Mrs. Maria Woodward,
Supt. Baby Roll
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05
ACQUAINTANCE
And CONFIDENCE.

People doing business together
especially financial business,
must have confidence in each
other.
You wouldn't loan money to
anybody on ten minutes acquain-
lance.
Your confidence in people
grows on acquaintance: it's the
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05

If this circle is marked with a
red pencil your time expires with
next number; with blue. time
expires with this issue.
Please do not make us cut you
off. SO send in money promptly
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05

Miss Buchanan, who has been
visiting. Miss Crockett, left
Wednesday.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05

same with this bank.
We want to be in position to
loan money, when needed, e. re-
sponsible borrowers.
There is no better way to cs-
tablish an acquaintance tEau to
deposit your funds here regular
ly.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-04-05

Mrs. A. l.. Snavely,
Com. Miss Carrie K. Brown,
Miss Ella B. Huadl O.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-21
WHICH STREET NEXT?

Now that we are soon to resume
street paving, the question arises:
Which streets will be paved next?
In The Herald's opinion, the people
who are putting up the money are
the ones to be consulted as to which
streets shall be paved. Taken as a
general proposition, it probably may
be we'll to have at least one street
paved throughout its full length. On
the other hand, however, any scheme
which does not include an extension
of the paving around the new coun-
ty court house will be a big mis-
take. There is no other town in
South Texas which. if it were erect
ing such a magnificent temple of
justice as ours will be, would not
make the most of it. The cour,
house will be one of the show places
of the Valley, and if the streets
about it are not paved, the failure
to do so, when other streets are be-
ing paved will excite wonder and
unfavorable comment. Naturally
the county would be expected to pay
its third of the cost of paving the
streets about the court house block
and, of course. the work could not
be undertaken otherwise. The city
standing with the county upon the
subject, and if satisfactorily ar.
ranged, the paving assuredly should
be extended around the court house
square.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-21
SATURDAY. SEPT. 81, 1912.
THE RAINY DAY PHILOSOPHER
JUSTIFIED.

Cold statistics tell us that there
are no less than 1,125,000 men and
women in the United States past the
age of So who are dependent upon
either public or private charity. OF
this number 800, 900 are in homes
for old men and old women the
maintenance of which costs $50
100000. This is not a very pleas
ant picture for Americans to con-
template. These people are classed
by the statistician as former wage
earners.' Most of them doubtless
are men and women who always sup
ported themselves and doubtless
also supported families, as long as
they were able to work. When no
longer capable of maintaining them
selves they became dependent. In
fact, they are paupers.
The reason why these men and
women should be thus unfortunate
in the winter of their lives IS merely
a matter of guess-work, or of theor-
izing. 1t is set down by some Of
those attempting to solve the prob
lem as being due in the large major
ity of cases to spendthrift habits in
earlier days,ssIt is quite likely that
this is the true solution. Accident
and ill health may account for many
Of these aged paupers, and perhaps
many may be the victims of dis
honesty on the part of rascals who
have robbed them. But the mass Of
them very pdobably failed, in those
days when they were earning a
livelihood, to lay up anything for
the proverbial rainy day, and so,
when the stormy season arrived,
they found themselves unprovided
for. The contemplation OF this vast
army of INDECENT old people
1,125,0OO of them-is enough to
give those who lead a butterfly ex-
istence pause for a moment at least.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-21
There'll be Some Dead Ones.

Houston Post.
The Brownsville Herald thinks J.
Pierpont Morgan may find some dead
and buried things to unearth in this
country after November ). Let us
hope, though. that he will confine
his search to foreign countries.
There may be grounds for uneasi-
ness on the part Of the common peo-
pie, however, as other moneyed
magnates arc seeking to do that very
thing. Now, for instance, take
George w. Perkins-but, Of course,
he is to be excused upon the ground
that his efforts are those of the
idealist. There are others who are
dreaming now who will be awakened
upon the date mentioned by the
Herald.