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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
CRUSHED
TO Death is Railroad Man
Who Formerly Resid-
ed Here.

Word has just been received here
announcing the death of NJ. w. Sha-
fer, formerly of this city, but lately
a resident OF Wood county, o. He
was employed by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. When coming into
Ellen spreading rail caused the
engine to go over an embankment
of fifty feet. and Mr.. shafer was
crushed to death.
The deceased man was we'll known
in this city. He is survived by a
widow, an infant child, his mother
and several brothers and sisters.
The obsequies will be held Friday at
his late residence.
MIR Shafer was member of the
Odd Fellows and the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, and both
orders will turn QUITO pay their last
respects to HIN.
"A girl baby was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Sharcr last Tuesday morning.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
ANDERSON
And His Bunch Of Ball Toss
,ers from Wheeling Will
Play Sunday.

The Wheeling Central League team
will be the attraction at Union park
Sunday afternoon; and when the UNI
pire calls play ball Manager Goat
Anderson, and the regular lineup
which will open the league season a
little later in the week will appear
upon the diamond at the park for
the inspection Of the local fans.
In a letter from the Wheeling camp
TT was,stated that Emmitt Moran, the
Clarksburg boy who went there sew
eral weeks ago to try out for first
base, had failed to beat Duke" Ser
vatIous out of his job but he had
landed a place in the outer garden
Of the Smoke team and will play in
the game here,
According to the Wheeling papers
Moran has been playing star ball ever
since he Joined the, Wheeling team
and has made many friends among
the fans who will fight for him ii
Manager Anderson should want tc
farm him out.
The local boys have been practlc-
ing hard every evening and Manager
Smith is getting the team in good
shape "A number of the new recruits
were let go Wednesday evening and
the remaining ones Will be held for
several days.
'Danley, who pitched for the local
team last year and who has been at
Fit. Wayne trying out with that team,
has been released and win return
home today. He will pitch the game
against the Wheeling team Sunday
He wants a chance to show the Fl
Wayne team that he can pitch good
enough bali toSplay in the Central
League.
The team WILDE almost the same
as last year with the exception of
Moran, whose place will be filled by
Manager Smith. who at one time was
a star first sacker.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18

the party and whereas, the action of
the Republican Executive Committee
of Harrisop' County at meeting ON
the 4th day of March, 1912, in passing
and adopting certain resolutions for
holding and conducting the two pri7
mary elections in this county this
year and in refusing to pass and
adopt certain resolutions and pro-
visions necessary and essential to a
free. fair, and impartial expression
by the voters and members of the Re-
publican party in Harrison county at
said two primary elections is denial
by the said committee to the mems
bers of the party of an honest pri-
mary election and of a fair, honest.
and impartial expression of their
choice and preference for delegates
and officers to be chosen at said pri-
mary, and
Whereas, the condition of the Re.
publican party in said county is such
that there are how two we'll recog-
nized divisions or factions in said
party, the one designated as "Regr-
lars or Stand-patters." and the other
as the Insurgents or Progressivcs. F."
Now therefore, in order to secure
harmony in the Republican party in
Harrison county and party success at
the polls in November the members
of that division Of the party desig-
mated as Insurgents or Progressives'
demand.
l. That the said County Executive
Committee shall meet at the earliest
date possible and adopt the following
resolutions, or one to the same pur-
pose and effect:
IF a voter desires to receive as
sistance from the commissioners OF
clerks in the preparation of his bal
lot, as provided in section eighteen
of the Rules and Regulations covering
the Republican primary elections, he
shall, except in case ola mute, in
dictate verbally to the commissioners,
or clerks, the names of the candi-
dates for whom he desires to vote;
and in no instance shall the com.
missioners, or clerks. while assist
ing a voter in the preparation Of
his ballot, accept, honor, consider. OF
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
VOTE BUYING.
In the Primary Elections is
Charged against the
Roosevelt Forces.

WASHINGTON. D. C., April 49,
Director Mckinley of the national
Taft bureau today issued a state
ment calling attention to the use OF
of money in the Roosevelt cam
,paign.
Were the victories of Roosevelt
in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma due
to great popular demand for his
denomination or to the lavish use of
money!" asked the statement.
Mr. Mckinley declares that the
Roosevelt forces spent large sums
in Oklahoma; that they distributed
100000 In Allegheny county, Pa,
including Plttsburg. by using 20, 600
pieces OF scrip in IS denominations
to messengers; that the total Roose-
veTt' expenditures in Pennsylvania
were between $25O,OOO and $780,
900: and that in New York county
alone $4,000 was spent in an en-
deavor to influence the primaries
and efforts were made to buy out
precinct captains in New York.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18

fractional differences in the Repub-
ilcan party in Harrison county have
been harmonized and the party is re-
united, the adoption of the above res
olution by committee Of ten ap-
pointed with power to act accomplish
ing a much. desired result on the part
of all persons interested in the sue
cess Of the party in the county.
Tho Harrison County Republican
Executive Committc met March 4,
1912, and adoIIed resolutions calling
for a primary election to be held
June 4, 1912, for the purpose of nom
mating candidates for county offices,
and a primary election to be held
April 25, 1912, for the purpose Of
olecting delegates to the district del
cgate convention at New Martinsvil!e
and the state delegate convention at
Huntington. The committee also
passed a resolution increasing the
number of the county committeeman
giving Coal district five and Clark
district six in the place of two each
as was heretofore the rule and with.
out increasing the representation OF
any Of the other districts.
Soon after this action by the county
committee the insurgent or progress
sive Republicans held several con-
ferences in relation to the action
taken by the county committee as
above stated, and as to other party
differences, and DR.. D. P. Morgan,
DR.. S. NJ. Mason, Harvey w Harme:,
Howard Post, Charles w Furbee, John
B. Strother and Scott H. White were
appointed a committee to present to
the chairman of the county commit
tee the following paper which had
been agreed upon by the conference
making four demands of the county
committee:
To Honorable Arthur b. Thorn
Chairman OF Harrison County Repub-
licau Executive Committee:
Whereas. the object and purpose
of every Republican is. or should be
the PRONUNCIATION of the principles OF
his party at the polls and
Whereas, these ends can be accom-.
pllshed only by the harmonious and
concerted action of the members Of
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
CAR. PlATHIA WILL R CEI
NEW YORK CITY To-
CLARENCE MOORE
AMONG ROWlVED
t is Believed BY Brother,
Who Goes to Meet the
Carpathia,

Clarence Moore, OF 174S Massa-
chusetts avenue, Washington, d. c..
one of the best known sportsmen In
America, and brother of Mayor
Frank R. Moore, of this city, is be-
lieved to have been drowned when
the huge transatlantic: steamer, the
Titanic, sank off the coast Of New
foundland. Neither Mayor Moore
nor Mrs. Clarence Moore, who is at
her home in Washington, have as
yet received any word of assurance
that the latter's husband is among
those who were rescued. The
mayor departed Wednesday night
for the Moore residence in Washing
ton.
Clarence Moore has country
place known as Rock Creek kennels,
in Montgomery county, Md, adjoin-
ing the farm OF ICY" Cummings, OF
that county, who was a member of
the House of Delegates of the last
Legislature of Maryland, On afr,
'Moore's visit to England, from
which he was returning on the
Titanic, he is said to have purchased
twenty-five brace of hounds from the
best packs in, the north of England
and was probably bringing the PACK
home with him. Mr.. Moore had a
pack of hunters that were good at
following a drag, but when wild
foxes were followed he usually used
the pack belonging to OR, Cum
mings. Mr.. Moore is Master of
Hounds of the famous Chevy Chase
Hunt.
1t is believed that Major Archi-
bald w. Butt and Mr.. Moore, both
of whom were friends and members
of the same clubs in. Washington,
were returning as companions on
the same ship.
Clarence was born in Clarksburg,
w. Va, in 1865, and when he I'm
ished his education in Dufferin
College, in Ontario, he interested
himself in the development Of min
eral wealth of this state. Since
1890 Mr.. Moore lived in Washing
ton, having business connection with
the banking and brokerage firm OF
Hibbs and Company.
Mr.. Moore's first wife was Alice
Mclaughlin, daughter of Franklin
Mclaughlin. of philadelphia. She
died in 1897, leaving two children.
Frances Sarah Preston and Samuel
Preston Moore. He married Miss
Mabel Swift daughter Of the late
e. C. Swift, of Chicago, June 90,
1900. BY his second marriage he
had two children, Jasper and clar-
ence, Jr.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
MRs..SNISRER +,
Candidate for Republican
Nomination for Governor
is in the City.

Charles w. swisher, of Charles
ton, candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor, arrived
here Thursday morning from Par
kersburg to spend several days in
this part of the state in the interest
of his candidacy. He has visited all
but five counties in the state and
made an aggressive personal cam
paign. He expects to complete his
tour of the state this trip.
Mr.. Swisher is confident he will be
the winner at the statewide pri.
mary June A.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
Committee Of Ten Members Appointed to Bring about Party
Harmony Agree on a Resolution Pronounced Perfect
ly Satisfactory to All Elements Of the Party.
SPELLS PARTY VICTORY I'M BIG LETTERS
and Mckinley and Roosevelt and Taft Will Rout the
Enemyof Progress and Prosperity This Fall

Pursuant call by the chairman the committee
No. 42S in the Empire Building at $500 O'clock 19ls
There present Of the committee, " /. Highland NJ G.
Sperry, Frank Haymaker COman, Furbee II.
White Harvey W. Hammer Howard Post Law
B. Moore.
motion unanimously that following
and regulations be and the hereby adopted for control
and management and Of the Republican Harrison
County In the holding Of the primary elections called for April s
and June 4, 1925
l. II voter desires receive assistance
sOners clerks in the preparation Of his ballot
section eighteen Of the Rules and Regulations governing Repub
ncan Primary Election he shall except mute,
for whom he desires vote; and in instance
soners clerks while assisting In the preparation
ballot accept honor, consider consult written printed
memorandum or other scheme Device Indicating the
Of Of the candidates for vote
except In Of may desires known as best
he may.
That the action County Committee whereby
Clark District given six members and Coal District five
Of the County Executive Committee be hereby
TOked and cancelled and each magtera district Harrison County
shall have equal representation said committee be entitled
to tB55mefnbers each. r
That in the appointment commissioners clerks to hold
the two primary elections the April
1872 that faction the "Insurgents Progress
eS ne allowed to name al least commissioner
each voting place at said primaries urged requested Sec
ton Twelve of the Rules Regulations by the State Com
mittee governing the State Primary June A. 1912
V. L. HIGHLAND Chairman.
+. B. HAYMAKER.
l. WADE COLEMAN.
FRANK r. MOORE.
N. G. SPERRY
J E. LAW Secretary.
HARVEY W. IIARMER
s. H. WHITE.
CHARLES W. FURKEE.
HOWARD POST
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
REP BLICANS GET IOGET FIER TN IIAI2RIS0N
FACTIONS HARMONIZE
AND PARTY REL MITES

consult any written, or printed men,
orandum, or any other scheme, or de-
vice as indicating the names of any
OF the candidates for whom a voter
desires to vote, except in case Of a
mute. who may make his desires
known as best he may"
2. That the Committee rescind its
action calling for district primaries
for April 25th for the selection of
delegates to the Congressional and
State Delegate Convention. and pro-
vide in lieu thereof for primary to
be held on the -. day of April, 1912
for the purpose of electing delegates
to said conventions to be governed
by the same rules and regulations as
that for the nomination Of other can
didates to be nominated at what is
known as the state primary, and pre-
scribed by the State Committee, and
that the Committee shall authorize
the names of all the presidential
candidates and candidates for judges
of the supreme court to be placed on
the ballot to be used at said primary
election, as we'll as list of delegates
equal to the number to which each
district is entitled to the congress
sional and state delegate conventions,
and that the delegates so elected to
each OF said conventions shall stand
Instructed to vote for such candidate
for president or delegate to the ma
tional convention, representing such
candidate for president and for
Judges for the supreme court as
shall receive the greatest number Of
votes in the magisterial district from
which said delegate is elected.
8. That the committee rescind It's
action whereby Clark district was
given six members and Coal district
five members of the Count Executive
Committee, and that said committee
re-establish and re-adopt the rule
which has SO long maintained in
this county whereby each magisterial
ICo,+;,l -
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
MANY COUNTIES
Are to Select Delegates Sat-
urday to the Con
ventions.

CHARLESTON, April 1S-Either
by primaries or conventions, twenty
nine counties will select their dele
gates on Saturday to the state and
congressional convention. In an
other, Calhoun county. delegates
will be selected in one district, each
district selecting different days. The
counties that will select delegates
Saturday are as follows:
Barbour, Braxton, Greenbrier,
Grant, Hardy, Jackson, Lewis,
Marion Mason. Monongalia, Mar
shall. Mercer. Mineral, Monroe,
Mcdowell, Logan, Pendleton, Put
nam, Peasants, Preston, Randolph,
Raleigh, Tucker, Taylor, Tyler,
Webster, Writ and wetzel.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
PRAYER
Day Next Sunday is to Be
with the Sunday Schools
in the State.

Next Sunday, April 81. has been
appointed as day of special prayer
for Gods blessing on the Sunday
school work in this state and for the
success Of the annual state Sunday
school convention which will be held
in Wheeling April 80, May and 2.
All pastors and sunday school SUI
perintendents, as well as all inter
ested in the work are requested to
remember this cause in their pri-
yate deVotions and in public prayer.
1t is expected that the day will be
generally observed throughout the
state.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
BIG ORDER
OF West Virginia Coal to Be ship,
ped to Egypt

The Consolidation Coal Company
has received an order to ship $4,000
tons Of coal to Egypt to be used in
the state railways. This is the sec
cond such order this company has
filed recently. The company is still
shipping coal to England in spite Of
the fact that the coal strike there
has been declared on. The order
for Egypt Will be shipped in a few
days from Baltimore.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
NEW SYNOD
Is Formed at a Affecting of the
Lutheran Clergymen at
Fairrnont.

FAIRMoNT, April 1s.-The West
Virginia Synod organized here by the
election of the following oticers;
President, the Rev. L. K. Probst,
Fairomnt; secretary A. F. Richard
SON, Grafton; treasurer. W. T. Mitch
ell, Wheeling. Grafton was chosen
as the place Of holding the first meet
ing, to be held October "a to q, in
elusive.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
PICTURES OF TITANIC.

Photographic reproductions of the
White Star liner, Titanic, which sunk
in the Atlantic ocean causing the
death OF more than a thousand per-
sons, will be shown Friday afternoon
and evening at the Star theater on
Fourth street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
DAMAGE SUIT.

NIoRGANToWN, April 1S-A
case is up in the circuit court here
in which Harry Cunningham is
suing the Wadestown Telephone
Company for $4,000 damages for
three teeth he lost by having them
knocked out by hanging wire,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
Mr.. TAFT
Gets Another Bunch of Dele,
gates to the Chicago
Convention.

Connecticut gave President Taft
fourteen delegates this week and
Colorado added two more to the Taft
column. The standing now is as fol,
lows.
Taft 87S, Roosevelt IFS. LaFollette
thirty-six and Cummins five.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
+. TO ENLIST MEN.

Sergeant ], y. Frisby received
word this morning to enlist men for
the white cavalry and infantry. Those
wishing to enlist should apply to him
at the local recruiting station in the
Irwin building opposite the postofice.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
CASE is DISMISSED.

No one appeared against Clyde
Rector, a Meadowbrook coal miner.
when he was arraigned before Jus
tice G. H. Gordon Thursday after
noon on a charge Of criminally as
saulting his stx-year-old daughter,
Pearl, and the Justice dismissed the
case, Rector was in jail awaiting
a hearing
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
wOODMEN MEET.

Owing to the rain last night, the
attendance at the meeting of the
woodmen of the World was small and
4 was decided not to unveil a monu-
ment in their hall until next wednes-
day night. David Wilkinson was
elected to membership.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
MOVES TO NEW HOME.

George L. Anderson. member of
the clerical force of the county clerks
Office, has moved from West Main
street to his new home which was
recently completed in the stealey
Heights addition.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
ADDITIONAL BOND.

James II. Hurry as guardian of
George W. Hart has given an addi-
tional bond of $4,000 with the Fidei-
ity and Deposit Company of Maryland
surety.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
CONVENTION Called.

GRAFTON. April 1s-c1airmun
Fred T. Martin, OF the Second con-
gressional district Democratic exec
ptiye committee, Of this city, has
named July as the time for hold
ing the next convention, and Grafton
as the place
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18

wlAsHINGpoN. %. q. April
officials are suspending 5ndgment
on the conduct OF the Carpathia of-
fcers who have treated with scanS4
courtesy requests for information
transmitted from the cruisers, sa-
lem and Chester Whether the re-
sponsibility rests with the captain
of the Carpathja or President IsmaY
OF the White Star Line, who Is re-
ported as survivor Of the Titanic
on board the carpathia, Is. a matter
Of conjecture,
Senator William Adm Smith, BE
Michigan, chairman OF sub-conna
mlttee Of seven appointed TO take
testimony in the Titanic disaster;
left today for New York accom-
panied by the Senate sergeantsat.
arms to summon witnesses. Prest
dent Ismay. Of the white star Line,
will be among the first asked to test.
fy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18
Refuses to Answer All Calls
for Details If the
Disaster
RUMoR NOW 81
That 7os Survivors Only
. Are Aboard the Res,
cue essel

NEW YORK, April RE Cars
pathia with shiPwFsoiIsd survivors
of the Titanic aboard is due Is dock
here tonight At ii O'Clock, She wsIs
ON the Nantucket iightship, t9s
miles from New York, III & o,closk
this morning.
A wireless report that there are
only 195 survivors o. the Titanic
aboard persists but no word AZ far5
as can be learned has come from the
Carpathia within the last twenty
four hours regarding tine exact nun
Der saved. From Hgpres ayailabIe
at the White star Lane otaees, Ii is
probable that the number that pers
ished is 1912.
The Carpathia g now IN & good
working wireless zone ana riina5
Der of private messages from sur
yiyors and dispatches to the White
Star Line offices were constantly be-
ing received during the morning.
but no word came to repeated re.
quests for details Of the accident
The Carpathia has sent ashore the
names Of 125 nd class passengers
and has requested the White Star
to send tugs with sailors and otIlcers
to man thirteen OF the Titanic,s life
boats and indicating llat only
thirteen instead 81 twenty boats had
been found available for the cue
work.
All hope has been given up that
Colonel John Jacob Aster. Isadoro
Strauss, Benjamin Guggenheim.
George D. Widener Major Butt and
Charles NJ. Hays have been saved.
The carpathia sent word this morn-
ing that Colonel Aston was not OF
board and is operator said he did
not know about Tie others.
The cruiser, Salem, requested
word Of Major Butt. but the Carpa-
thia refused to answer. The Salem
operator sent ashore the following
wireless;
u can reach carpathIa, but he
won't take any business. from me-
Special arfange ments have been
made to care for the survivors when
the carpathia docks. The customs
regulations win be waived, and po-
lice reserves will pc stationed at the
cunard Line.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18

Geore T. Watson, general mana
ger of the West Virginia division OF
the Consolidation Coal Company. is
here from Fairmont on Official busi-
ness.
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Continued On page aye.l
4 MAR1.II ! IaoEssfs,.

"A marriage lieense has been iss
sued TO Burl GhRiSIip and Oiiis
Bright
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18

PHHLADELPHalA. Pa April 1s
Grave fears are entertainer for the.
safety Of John 3 Thayer. second
vice president OF the Penna givania
railroad, who with HIS wife and son
were on the titanic. A wireless
message received here today signed
by Mrs. Thayer, says She, her SON
and her maid are safe but she mas
no news Of Thayef It Is possible
the Pennsylvania officials here think,
that the message was sent before an
the boats had been picked mp BY the
Carpathia as Thayer was3teported a.
among the saved
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-18

Porter Maxwell, Of Peel Tree. was
a city visitor Thursday.
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