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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
Women's Tailored Suits
,duced to se.75. s1a.75 and s1s.75

Reduced to $975, $13.75 and $1S.75
 At these prices we include all our lines ot fashionable tailored suits, in popular fabrics, such as serge, pop1in, Bedford cord, shepherd checks, eponge and mixtures. Plenty of blues and blacks and fine showing of beautiful gray and tan effects in exclusive models. Many of the lines priced at less than half regular prices
 Smart Linen Suits Now $975
 lust when they are wanted most we clip the prices on our attractive linen suits, in natural and white These are trim cutaway and Norfolk styles in plain tailored models, and very pretty suits with clever touch of color. Be prompt Tn choosing your linen suit.
 Dainty Voi1e Dresses, Now $3.75
 Pretty little dresses of striped and lowered voile in most attractive models, tastefully trim med, and perfectly irresistible at the reduced price of $375. Sizes for misses and women. Dainty White Lingerie Dresses, $5.9O
 captivating lot of dainty dresses of lawn trimmed with pretty faces and ennbrolder1es, much underpriced at $500
 Wash Skirt Special.
 $1.5O Skirts at 98c.
 special value offering of attractive tub skirts of white c1ose-woven 1nene, in two clever styles well tailored and to be sold out quick x ly, value is so7easlly seen.
 Special Values in Tub Skirts Natty new models of repp and pique in several styles, now at $2oo.
 Summer Silk Dresses Reduced
 to $12.75 and $18.75
 Handsome dresses of silk poplin, crepe de chine and soft c1inging messaline, in both long and short sleeve models of unusual beauty. Both wonen's and misses sizes included at two reduced prices The styles are exclusive, and the opportunity to obtain a rich afternoon or evening gown for little is to be taken advantage of promptly. Our experience has been that silk dresses are among the first lines to be sold out in previous sales
 Junior Silk Dresses, now $5.9O
 Decidedly youthful dresses of dainty striped Summer silks with dash of bright color at neck, sleeves and waist. Sizes I2. and IZ. suitable
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
COMMISSIONER BANTER AT FIRE BOARD MEETING FOR
 FIRST TIME TOMORROW

Malcolm Baxter, the newly appointed fire commissioner will attend his first board meeting tomorrow night At the regular meeting tomorrow the princi- pal matter of business will be the dis cussion as to the location of the new fire hydrants and boxes in the Black Rock district.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
VARIANTS SAIL FOR
 TOUR OF IRELAND

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tarrant and their family, of Atlantic street, sailed today from New York on the steam ship Baltic for a visit of eight weeks in Ireland. During their stay in the old country they will. visit Bishop Healey at Boyle, and relatives in Dub- lin. They will spend some time at Newmarket, County Cork, and will visit the Lakes of Killarney and other historical places in the Emerald Isle before returning to Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10

Green and other points throuehout the 10 own Ihe general public is cordial AnViIeo to attend the meeting. of the board this evening.
 ANNUAL PICNIC.
 The annual picnic Of inc Ra+h, Mission will be held at Compo beach Wednesday, July 16 Cars will leave Paradise Green and the Center.
 CASES CONTINUED
 The cases of Raymond Mcbride and Henry Rowland, bartenders at tbe -Stratford Inn, who were arrested for violation of the liquor law, have been continued until Friday morning at o'clock
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
Summer Silk Dresses Reduced to S12.75 and $18.75
Junior SIX Dresses, now $5.9O

Decidedly youthful dresses of dainty striped Summer silks with dash of bright color at neck, sleeves and waist. Sizes I3, I5 and I7, suitable also for women of petite figure. Special at $500
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
Smart Linen Suits Now $9.75

Just when they are wanted I prices on our attractive linen st and white. These are trim cutav styles in plain tailored models, suits with clever touch of color choosing your linen suit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
Our July Clearance Sale
 NOW IN PROGRESS
WOMEN'S SECTION

Every item of a woman's apparel may be bought in this sale at substantial saving from usual prices. Group after group of the most desirable wears are marked at quick-moving prices, and though we have room to mention but few of the numerous offerings, they indi- cate clearly our purpose to clean up all lines of Summer apparel as quickly as possible.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10

900 fine Or imprisonment for one year or both MT. Me1len is already under indictment in connection with the Westport wreck.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
ROLL or HoNon.
J. :. 49,: - 3 !:

The third and last period in the
Daily Telegram's Great $4,000 Prize
Voting contest started of with a
whirl yesterday. Each of the active
contestants seemed to be imbued with
the same idea, to start their third
period work with the final signal OF
ego" and gain the advantages OF
some few thousand votes while some
of the contestants are resting up and
accomplishing nothing.
The hardest fight of the entire
contest will take place in the third
and last period, and none appreciate
this fact better than the contest
ants themselves who are determined
to carry OF the splendid prizes. sue
cess requires the exercise of GER
tain amount of energy. The con-
tesiants who have the wit to proper
ly weigh the Importance or the lit
tie opportunities" which are over
looked by their apprehensive broth
ers and sisters, are pretty sure to be
leaders at the end.
One OF the most Important VI t
little opportunities of the contest
is the opportunity now existing to
forge ahead of ones rivals in the mo-
ment of their inactivity. If con-
testant already holds the lead over
his opponents, the work done at this
time will make that lead all the
greater and all the more secure. IL
a contestant at present stands back
in the lists, work accomplished at
this time will put him ahead of all
his rivals and give him the start
which may mean success at the end.
The advantage gained in these first
few days of the period may be just
the advantage needed to win out at
the finish.
The contestants showed by their
efforts Tuesday that they realize the
time is growing short in which to
make themselves the winners of the
valuable prizes offered by the Daily
Continued on page two.)
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
Will Give Mrs. Longstreet
$1,000 a Year to Be His
Assistant.

Colonel Albert E. Boone. head of the
Colonel Boone Companies. which are
promoting traction systems from
Charleston to Parkersburg, and from
Parkersburg clear to Lynchburg, Va,
by way of Clarksburg, today confirmed
Associated Press dispatches from
Washington that he had offered Mrs.
Helen D, Longstreet, widow Of the
noted Confederate general, a position
in his Office at $1,000 a year.
4 have not received Mrs. Long
streets acceptance said the colonel,
but likely her letter is in my Office
at Parkersburg. Dispatches say she
has accepted my ofrer. and l hope that
she has so decided
The position offered is that Of as
sistant to the president and her special
work will be to confer with financial
headlights in the large eastern cities
/ believe she will be o. great help in
interesting these capitalists and also
English capitalists in my enterprises
If her work turns out to be congenia
to her and satisfactory to the com.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
WITH GREAT WE1IRL
LAST PERIOD STARTS
INCREASED RATE
For Freight is the Object An
Application Made by
Eastern Railroads.
n. .ssoe,Arre .aEss,


WASHINGTON, d. G.. May IL
Eastern railroads took the first step
toward an attempt to Increase their
freight rates when representatives
of ffty-two lines east of the Missis-
sippi and north of the Ohio rivers
conferred today with the Interstate
Commerce Commission on a formal
application to reopen the eastern
advance case which was. decided
against the railroads two years ago
The application in effect is to rehear
the request for an increase. which
the commissioner formerly denied.
the old application asked for a uni
form five per cent advance on all
through freight on a basis of the
New York to Chicago rate.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
STRIKE
In the New Mining District
Depends on Action as to
Union Recognition.
az AsseeIArEn saEss,

NBY ASSOCIATED PNESol
CHARLESTON, May IA ut all
depends. The miners in the New
River and winding Gulf territory de-
mand but few things, chief of which
is the right to organize into body
for mutual protection and adyant-
age" said Thomas Haggerty, nation
al board member of the United Mine
Workers today on the probability of
strike being called in those sec
tions. Conservative miners declare
they expect a strike if'recognition is
necessary to prevent it. Mother
Jones, the labor leader, who has
gone east, is believed to be IN
Washington to confer with the
miners leaders with reference to an
investigation in the Kanawha, coal
fields. While she has not been for
mally released from detention by
the state authorities she has been
free to so when and where she
plcases for some time.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
According to the Govern
ment's Lawyer in Charge
of Prosecution.
LAWS TO BE PASSED.
To Prevent Internarriage of
Whites and Blacks in the
United States.
OF ArseelAIEp rasss,

! CHICAGO, May 14-That the COZ
vlction of Jack Johnson, negro prize
fighter, last night for violation of the
Mann act against trafficking in
women is the forerunner OF laws for
bidding miscegenatio1, was the as
sertion today of Assistant United
States District Attorney Harry
Perkins, who conducted the case
for the government.
This verdict will go around the
world he said. 1T is the forerun-
ner of laws to pc passed in the
United States which we may live to
see, laws forbiddmg mIscegenation.
This negro. in the eyes of many, has
been prosecuted. Perhaps, as an IN
dlvidual, he was but his misfortune
is to be the foremost example of the
evil OF permitting the intermarriage
of whites and blacks. He has vio-
lated the law. Now 1t is the rurc-
ton to teach others that Ne law
must he respected"
In his Instructions to t. jury,
Judge Carpenter emphasized the
fact that the character of the prose-
cutting witness must not ne CONSIDER
ed.
1.-THE fact that the prosecuting
witness is a discarded mistress and
an abandoned woman does MT AFFECT
the issue in this case said the
court eve have many unfortunate
people here such as she but because
CT their status in life the eevidencei
must not be Disregard"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
SUFFRAGET BONES
ARE FOUND IN CAR

premises.
"A bomb addressed to Henry Curtis
Senate. the police magistrate, who is
hearing the charges against the SUI
fraget leaders, was delivered by a
letter carrier at Bow street police
court today The package was
marked Immediate" but disliking
the looks of it the court officer took
it outside and immersed it in a pail
of water. When the package was
opened it was found to contain tin
tobacco box filed with gunpowder'
shot, cartridge. Attached to the
cap end of the cartridge was a fuse.
which if it had fred the bomb would
have exploded the contents.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
JOIN
Meeting of Woodmen and
Ladies Circles to Be
Held Here: r7

stohewan Jackson Camp Nd. I06' OF
the woodmen of the World is making
elaborate preparations for big joint
meeting of the camp and the ladies
auxiliary next Tuesday night in the
williams hall on Second street.
At this joint meeting, the degree
team of White Rose Grove No. p the
ladies' auxiliary of Grafton and other
members will take part and exemplify
the work for class of candidtes for
membership in the local grove, which
is White Lilly Grove No. 10. The
woodmen viii lalso transact import
ant business. After the joint meeting,
a social session will be held.
Arrangements for the affair were
made at largely attended and en-
thusjastic meeting of the local camp
Tuesday night, at which ten applica-
lions for membership were received
and i've candidates were initiated.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
OF a Crowded Local Train of
Passengers by the
Conductor.

CBY AsSo-tArEo PEEaS'
LONDON, May 14-Sumrase1
bombs were found today in one OF
the passenger cars of a local train
running between Kingston and Lon
don on the Southwestern railway,
making the third outrage of this
kind on the same line within two
months.
On the arrival at Waterloo
terminal the train, crowded with
passengers on their way to business
the conductor noticed in one of the
compartments three parcels which
aroused suspicion. Investigation
showed thatrthey contained ten can
listers filed with combustibles and
wrapped in suffraget literature. They
were handed over to the police.
A militant suffraget arson squad
DESTROYED a large untenanted house,
The Highland, at Sandssate-on the
Sea near Folkstone. last night. PA
cards addressed to the "dishonora'
BILE prime minister" and to the dis
honorable Mr.. McKenna, home sec
rotary, we're left lying about IN
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
ART works
Are Being Exhibited at Local
Bookstores by Baltimore
Gallery.

The w. Il. Jones art gallery, o.
baltimore, is conducting a splendid
exhibition OF art prints under the
personal supervision of Y. G. Vogt,
special representative. at the
James and Law Company's book
store on West Main street; and It
is attracting more than usual at
tention.
Included in the exhibition are fine
etchings, engravings and water col
ors of the work of many famous
artists or architectural. landscape
and dgurc subjects. There is an
especially fine collection of old Eng
ligh water colors and old English
sporting prints. Prominent in the
exhibits are new mezzotints IN col
ors, representing revival or an art
that is said to have been practically
lost for more than century. The
water color pictures embrace the
works of celebrated artists in the
English. Dutch French and Ameri-
can schools and is a comprehensive
collection
The exhibition will be continued
until Thursday night. All are In
vitcd TO attend whether expecting
to purchase or not.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
THEFT OF PLANS NOT CHARGED
TO ANY FOREIGN NATION SO FAR
VOTE ON KFRN'S RESOLU TlON is
NOT VERY LIKELY TO BE TAKEN
SALE
DEGREES and Other Orders of
Various Kinds by the
Circuit Court.

tn the circuit court Wednesday
Isaac l.. DAWSON, guardian of Autie
&c. Helm, was empowered to sell oil
and gas rights of his ward. A sim
liar power was given Daniel Ruble.
guardian of Melvin E. Ruble.
A divorce conditioned on pay
ment of costs was granted Annie E.
Goidsborough against William IL.
Goldsobough.
orders of dismissal were entered
in suits by the Clarksburg Insurance
Company against C. d. Howard ct ais
and Walter B. Conway ct ais
against the uIazrison OIL Company ct
ais.
Sales were decreed in the causes
Of Iona Conway against John Nc
Cloud ct al and the harrisburg In
dustrial Company against Louis De-
Rose.
A suit by the Hope Natural Gas
Company against William L. Hurst
ct ais was dismissed.
Answer OF che Ban4 of Cairo to
an amended bill was made in the
cause of Nimshi Nuzum ct al against
Grasselr Chemical Company ct ais
Demurrer was overruled in the
cause of George Taylor against the
GrasseIIi Chemical Company and
and the defendants we're given rule
to answer.
Answer and exhibit were made by
the Hope Natural Gas Company in
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
KILLS WIFE
With a Poker as a Result of
Domestic Troubles of An
Aged Couple.
~ As.eelArrp rnrss,

SPARA. Wis, May 14.-Because OF
family trouble, William Hogue, aged
20, a retired farmer, today killed his
wife with a poker, three times shot
his daughter, Mrs. Guy Wilson, and
seriously wounded his son-in-law, and
then committed suicide by cutting his
throat. Mrs. Wilson is dying. Her
husband may recover. Hogue and his
wife are said to have quarreled re-
garding the disposition of property
and Rogue is said to have conceived
a dislike for the daughter and her
husband because he thought they
symathIzed with his wife.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
FIGHT AND FIRE IS
ORDER TO POLICE
In the Street Car Mems Strike.
in the City of Gin
cinnati, o.


CINCINNATI, o., May 14-First
efforts to operate cars since the ne
gotiations with the strikers were
broken of was made by the traction
company at O'Clock this morning.
Surrounded by police on foot and
mounted three cars were started
from the Avondale barns for the
down town district.
Police and detectives were sta
toned along the route and Mayor
Hunt trailed the cars in his automo-
bile. The police were instructed to
act vigorously in case OF trouble.
They were told to meet force with
force and to fight fire with fire.
No efforts were made by the strik-
ers or their sympathizers to interfere
with the cars a sthey proceeded into
the city. The care operated slowly
and carried no passengers other than
the men placed upon them by the COM
pany. Mayor Hunt in a statement said
that during the day other cars would
probably be put out and that they
would be afforded full police protec-
ton.
No word came from the strikers
Headquarters and their plans are be-
ing kept secvret. The traction com
pany issued no statement today and
would not say whether cars would be
operated after nightfall. The situa-
ton however, is tense.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
.JOHNSON'S CONVICTION
IS WORLD IMPORTANT
CONFERENCES
OF importance Precede Joint
Assembly TO Be Held by
Presbyterians.
tuy AssoerArrp paGss,

ATLANTA, Ca, May 14-several
important conferences today occu-
pied the attention of delegates of the
Northern-southern United and Asso-
ciated Reform Presbyterian churches
who are here for a joint assempL5,
which will meet tomorrow. The ma
jority OF the 1900 delegates sched-
uled to attend the assembly. which
will continue ten days. had reached
Atlanta at noon. One of the topics
that interest them is a proposal for
the union of four denominations. 1t
is understood that such proposition
viii be presented to the assembly.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
And Missing Papers Do Not
Contain Secrets of Value
to Other Nations.
ALARM IS CAUSED
And War Secrets Will Be
More Carefully Guarded
Hereafter.

WASHINGTON ID. c.. May H.
Detectives investigating the theft of
plans for the electrical wiring of the
dreadnaught. Pennsylvania. declared
today that publication OF the leak
would hamper their work.
The department of Justice has sew
eral clues which may lead to arrests
Nothing has developed TO directly con-
meet any foreign nation with the sus-
poet. The fact that the ordinance
and steam engineering bureaus of the
navy department for many months
have been missing plans relating to
American vessels and their armament
has created alarm among officers and
will undoubtedly cause the military
authorities to surround the war Sc
crets of the United States with
greater safeguards. None of the
missing papers it was reiterated to-
day. contains secrets OF advantage to
foreign nations. Some officers were
inclined to believe that the losses were
the result OF carelessness of clerks.
further inyestiga tons at the navy
today revealed that the
second set OF plans of the Pennsyl-
vania to be stolen from the bureau OF
steam engineering was taken between
the evenings of March % and the fol-
lowing Monday The plans were du-
piicates of those stolen March 4. Sec
rotary Daniels today reiterated that
they would be of no particular value
to any one seeking naval information
and that they contained no military
secretsr
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
DR.. ABBOTT
Makes An Address to 800 Del
egates at Lake Mohonk
Conference Today.

MoHoNK LAKE. N, Y, May H.
Three hundred delegates to the nine
teenth annual Lake Mohonk confer
ence on international arbitration
heard DIR. Lyman Abbott, presiding
as chairman of the opening session
today, assert that disarmament was
yet a utopian dream; that the blow
of the fist. the CLEAN of tho sword,
the bark of the cannon viii continue
until some other power greater than
that of armed men is found to pro-
tect innocence from injustice"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
NEW STREET FLusHER HERE.

The new sanitary street flusher ar
rived IN the city from st. Louis We'd
nesday morning and was tried out
Wednesday afternoon on West Main
street. Although the mechanical part
of the machine was not in perfect
working order, it did good work clean
ing the street. The nusher holds 500
gallons of water and viii wash block
without being refilled.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
Comes Up This Afternoon in
the Senate as Unfinished
Business.
REPUBLICAN FIGH 7
For Public Hearings on the
5. Tariff Bill Continues
with Vigor.
eay nsseeiAJro paEsso

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May IL
Senate Republicans began at noon to
proIong consideration OF the public
hearings issue they have raised as the
opening wedge in their fight on the
Underwood bill.
Senator Penrose's amendment to
senator Simmons's reference motion
has now become the Penrose-La-
Toilette amendment. the Pennsyi-
vanian having accepted proposal
that manufacturers be required TO an
swer fifteen questions relating to pro-
duction and transportation cost here
and abroad and the percentages Of
duties that represent cost differences
and profit.
Democratic leaders deny that they
have any fear of letting the public
hearings amendment come to vote
In the midst of the debate yesterday
Senator Bacon moved for an executive
session and that gave ries to rumor
that the majority wanted more time 20
rally opposition TO the Republican at
tack.
Kern Resolution
When the discussion was resumed
at noon today 1t seemed unlikely a
vote would be reached on the Kern
resolution directing an inquiry into
the West Virginia coal field condl-
lions 1t was the unfinished business
to be taken up this afternoon.
Senator Kern presented in the Sen
ate today n series of resolutions and
petitions from labor union in West
Virginia. Indiana and Pennsylvania,
complaining of conditions in the Paint
and Cabin creek coal regions and urg-
ing the federal inquiry the senator has.
proposed.
The tarifr fight in the Senate was
renewed by clash between Senator
Ransden, who opposes the sugar
schedule, and Chairman Simmons.
senator Ransdell asked to have the
clerk read letter from Louis c.
Rowley, of Lansing, Mich, who de-
scribed himself as IAN original Wilson
man. a
Hell Bent.
over spirited objections the clerk
read the letter. which described the
leading Democratic opponents OF free
sugar as "accursed. objectionable
apostates of Democratic faith licking
the footsteps of tine predatory rich,
hell bent on lowering the cost of liv-
Ing even If the American standard Of
living and the standard of Democratic
principles are lowered with it."
Before the reading was half con,
Guided Senator Reed objected and
forced vote which was lost, Repub-
leans voting with some Democrats
against 1t. The clerk continued to
read the letter predicting death for
the American sugar industry when the
Underwood schedule became effective.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-14
FAVORABLE REPORT.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May a
Chamberlain's resolution
proposing an amendment to the con
stitution giving the ballot to women
was fayorabIy reported by Senate
today. Senators Thomas
and Owens. Democrats, and Suther-
land, Jones and Clapp. Republicans,
voted for the resolution, white Sem
ator Brandon, Republican, voted
againstit.