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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-07-29
Man Killed

Neie Pavac. aged %. a eervlan IA.
borer. died A. The city hospital Sunday
~ midnight NJ fatal injuries he sus.
tanned while a. work ar -he onen
hearth plant ~ The la Belle Iron
Works Two hours earlier A. tho lime
b" vas hurt P1vac was riding buggy
mat carries scrap 20 tho furnace. and
"as accidentally struck b. another
buEEi and bis skull was crushed Wa
sustained o'her internal Injuries which
caused his death
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-07-29
Elk Grand
Musical Comedy Girls

Eight people and a good time
Monday. tuesday and "Wednesday.
PriceS-1Oc and loo.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-07-29
Nlrtlns EcrrN RrIrfs

James Mo- JT-cf. Who is working
io- p iarg" wholesale firm On pcfroif.
Wien. is FOO rho city. calling ON his pa.
rents
The Is ~ = lodge vii hold -egu.
block thfs evening
David Roadway. ~ Parkershurr is
IN fhc citv. caliiuE ON friends and rel
alive. fpr fow DAYS
William Wielham ~ MoundsviIic
"as 100 Tho city SUNDAY. visiting his
HT- tfla-euts on burlington road
ihn carnival band Uae on 'he street
h.' "tcnir- advertising flc show 3
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
10th Annual AS
sembly ofthe Jewish
Chautauqua Society,

Philadelphia, Dec. 29.-Questions of
difference between Hebrews belonging
to the Orthodox and Reformed
branches of american Israel" enter
ed into the discussion at today's ses-
sion of the goth annual assembly of
the Jewish Chautauqua Society.
p DR.. Julius r. Greensboro, a member
of the Gratz College faculty, recon-
mended that children of Reformed He
brews be given a knowledge of the
ceremonies, ritual and observances of
the Orthodox Hebrews, which have
been handed down from Biblical days.
Mrs. Max Margolis, who led the dis
cussion, said she could not see how
it would be possible to explain the
difference between the ceremonial
worship in the modern synagogue and
that sanctioned by tradition without
explaining why all are not the same.
She feared that to impress on a childs
mind the fact that such wide differ
ence in practice and opinion existed
among Hebrews would tend further TO
break down the autonomy of the race.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
$lO,0OO,O0O Damages Sought from
Quaker Oats, Western Cereal Cos.

Sterling Morton, T. R. Bliss, Jr., Ed
ward Fl. Stearns, S. T. Butler, Daniel
Peter, Daniel Morton, Mendell J..
Wright, ]. P. Gates. V. S. Lawrence
and F. P. Sawyer. Henry p. Crowell,
Robert Stuart, James H. Douglas. John
Stuart, A. Stamford White, John p.
yelling, ]. r. Mutt, James II. An
drews and Whiting G. Snow are nam
ed as directors of the Quaker Oats Co.
The declaration. charges that the two
companies controlled 80 per cent. of the
intcr3tate trade in oatmeal products.
1t charges that the transfer of brands
and the plants at Fort Dodge, o.. and
Joliet, H., was made by Joy Morton
without the knowledge and consent of
the stockholders.
The proxies of the stockholders were
obtained, it alleges, without disclos-
ing the purpose of disposing of the
property and were voted at a meeting
at which Joy Morton and Mr.. Sawyer
wore the only stockholders present. The
receivers allege the sale as void as
having been made without the consent
Ct tho stockholders.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
District Attorney Whitman Turns
Prosecution of NJ Y. Graft Charges
Over Gov. Glynn's investigators.

her pay withheld Evidence was also
adduced tending to show that pay
rolls for state road work in Ulster
county had been padded.
The refusal of four witnesses whose
names were mentioned in the testimony
to waive immunity from possible pros
eeution, when called to the stand to
day, was a feature of the hearing.
Truesdale said that through the in
f1uence of John Palace, Jr., of Roch-
ester, superintendent of elections, he
had obtained contract in 1912 for oil
ing road in Parma at seven cents
per gallon. in partnership with Pat
rick Kedian. Two weeks after the con-
tract had been completed Truesdale
said he sent Kedian to George Mills.
division superintendent of highways,
to get their money but that Kedian
returned and said those fellows"
wanted a $500 campaign contribution
before the money was paid.
Truesdale said he then went to Mills
Continued on Page Four.)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
MYSTERIOUS Murder Battles
New York Police.
ShabtiIy Dressed Body Of Rus
sian Pole Found in Trunk.
Two Men, According to Boy, Emp
tied Burden into Gutter of Street.

New York, Dec. ga murder mys-
terry, which promises to rival the fam
Gus Barrel murder of dozen years
ago, was brought to the attention of
the police today, when a boy notified
them that for half an hour he had
watched a trunk which two men had
unloaded from a push cart and left
in the gutter in Pitt street, on the
East Side. When the trunk was open
ed at a police station, the still warm
body of man about 40 years of age,
shabbily dressed and emaciated was
found in it. The body was identified
tonight by Joseph Molloy, a former
reg14 mate, as that of John KFamenz,
u, Russian Pole, formerly employed in
a coal mine at Charleston, ". Va.
According to the coroner, death had
been caused by strangulation, though
in forcing the body into the trunk the
neck OF the man had been broken.
stout ropes held the head and neck to
2 re knees. A red bandanna handker-
-Hief had been used as a gag and Il
Woman's petticoat, wrapped about the
head, had been used as an additional
precaution to prevent a return of life.
Marks on the lips of the dead man
have caused the police to accept the
theory that he had been drugged into
Inconsistencies by the murderer.
About 10 o'clock this morning Jo-
seph Cooper. an employee of a Push
cart stable" on Sheriff street nearby,
rented a cart to two men answering
the description given by the boy who
called the police to Pitt street, of the
men who asked him to take care cf the
trunk after it had been dumped into
the gutter. Cooper says that one of
the men was tall and we'll dressed.
The other man, a little shorter and
dressed in a dark sweater and cap,
wheeled the cart off, and is believed
to have. been merely the employee OF
the we'll dressed man.
When the cart reached Pitt street
the tall man gave his companion a
coin and then helped him unload the
trunk. After this the man in the
sweater returned the push cart to its
owner, while the other asked the boy
to watch the trunk.
At a late hour the police had not
learned where the trunk was obtain
ed or picked up by the push cart nor
had either of the men who carted it
away been apprehended.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
Mayor Fitzgerald Formally With
draws from Mayoralty Fight.

Boston, Dec. 29.-Mayor John F.
Fitzgerald tonight filed his formal
withdrawal as a candidate for mayor,
leaving in the field three candidates,
each of whose nomination papers were
protested during the day as containing
forged signatures.
Supporters IF Congressman James
NJ. Curley filed a protest against the
papers of Thomas ]. Kenny, president
of the city council. Protest was filed
by two other citizens against the sig
natures upon which Former Congress
man John A. Keliher depends for nom
ination.
Councillor Ernest e Smith, whom
the election commissioners declared
failed to secure the 5000 legal sigma
lures necessary to nomination, made
charges of forgery against the papers
of Congressman Keliher and President
Kenny. He also presented a petition
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30

Chicago, Dec. 29-The Quaker Oats
Co, its directors and the directors of
the Great Western Cereal Co., were
made defendants in a suit for $10,000,000
damages filed in the United States dis
triet court here today by William A
rvilden and Charles d. Thompson, re-
ceivers of the Cereal Company. TIE
suit was brought under the Sherman
antitrust law and was the result of
the sale of the trade names and prin-
cipal properties of the Cereal Conn
rany to the Quaker Oats Co., June p,
1911.
The $i,001000 realized by the sales.
it was charged, was taken by the hold
ers of $1,o00,000 of the Cereal Com
pany's bond, leaving the holders of S3,-
coz, 600 worth of stock only the name
Of the company and minor property as
assets. The law, it was held, provides
that complaining stockholders can
claim punitive damages in the amount
CT the capital stock.
Directors of the Cereal Company
named in the suit were: Joy Morton,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30

New York, Dec. 29.-District Attor-
ney Whitman today adduced evidence
at his John Doe" inquiry into state
highway graft of alleged crimes in Ul-
ster and Monroe counties and announc-
ed that he would turn the evidence over
to James w. Osborne, Governor Glynn's s
special graft investigator, and to the
district attorneys of these counties, for
prosecution.
The evidence of alleged crime in
Monroe county consisted of an affi-
davit by Frank w. Truesdale OF
Greece, that the amount he and his
partner were to have received for a
state contract for Cling road had
been increased, in order to permit
them to distribute $500 to the Demo-
cratic State committee; that in Ulster
county of testimony by Miss Mary
Diamond, a stenographer, that she had
been carried on the pay rolls of the
highway department as day laborer.
and that her signature on voucher
for pay had been forged and part of
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
INVESTIGATE INTO
Will OF CARDINAL,
Crown Prosecutor Enabled
To Act--The Relatives Re.
nounce 1889 Testament.
Duke of Campobello to Be
Prosecuted.

Rome, Dec. 2s.-The crown prosecutor
has begun an investigation into the mat
ter of the will of the late Cardinal Ram
polla. He has been enabled to take this
action because of the denunciation of tn,
testament of 1889 by relatives of the car
dinal who were excluded at benefciarie:
from this will on the ground that latef
testament has been stolen or concealed
One of the interested parties is IL
Duchess of Campobello, who is of tn
opinion that her children may be includ'
ed in a later testament the testament
of 1889 antedating their birth. The Duk,
of Campobello is to be prosecuted at ar
early date on charge of forging tht
signature of his uncle. Cardinal Rampot
la, as the guarantor of note.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
AUTOMOBILES
And Question Of Double
Taxation Is Discussed.
Annual Meeting Of Maine Au-
tOm0biIe Association.
Pres. Parker Reviews Ideas of the
State kishways.-Eyening session.

Portland, Me-, Dec. 29.-The ques-
ton of double taxation of automobiles
was discussed by President Walter B.
Parker of this city at the annual meet
ing tonight of the Maine Automobile
Association.
According to our present laws, the
owner of an automobile pays a local
tax on his car and is forced to pay a
graduated horsepower tax and pro-
cure drivers license from the State
in order to run it," said President
Parker. He said that recent court de-
cisions had shown this law to be un-
constitutional, and 1t would be well to
consider the question in Maine.
Mr.. Parker reviewed some of the
ideas incorporated in the new State
highway, together with some of its
Good points" which failed of passage
Two of the latter, he said, included a
law requiring lights on all classes of
vehicles and wide tires on freight car
riage vehicles. He suggested that toll
bridges throughout the State be abol-
ished as speedily as circumstances
would permit.
Secretary John C. Scates of West
brook advocated the employment OF
prisoners on highways in accordance
with the law enacted by the last Leg
islature. He suggested that a gener-
al field day of automobilists be held
next June. The present membership
was reported by Secretary Scates as
PAS, a gain of 726 for the year.
A resolution asking the State High
way Commission to use it's influence
with the county commissioners to have
the prisoners in the jails work on the
roads was adopted after some discus
sion, and board of directors elect
ed. They will meet later and choose
officers for the association.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
BROOKLYN MAN
IS INDICTED FOR PERJURY

New York, Dec. 22.-Edward H.
Grout, former controller of New York
City, once president of the borough of
Brooklyn, and a former law partner
of the late Mayor Gaynor was today
indicted for perjury. He is accused of
having made a false report to the su-
perintendent of banks of the resources
of the Union Bank of Brooklyn, of
which he was for two years president.
James P. Ashley, cashier of the in
stitution also was indicted on the
same charge Both waived examination
and were given ten days in which to
plead.
Their Indictment grew out of an in
vestigation by the state banking de-
partment of the affairs of the bank
after 1t closed it doors in April, 1910.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
EVIDENCE SUBMITTED AT INQUEST
|NTOCALUMET'S DISASTER.
Tends to Show Cry of ''Fire" Came
From within the Hall==Others Say
Man Wore Alliance ButtOn=-
Refute Meyer Charges.
THE MOVER DEPORTATION.

Calumet Mich, Dec. 29.-In efforts
to solve the puzzling circumstances at
tending the deportation of Charles H
Meyer, president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, last Friday night,
local interest today centered in the
untangling of statements bringing the
name of James MacNaughton, gener-
al manager of the Calumet & Hecla
Mining Co., into the case. o. N. Hill
ton, chief counsel for the Federation,
and Mr.. MacNaughton issued state
ment. Mr.. Meyer did not say that
he knew MacNaughton personally"
said Mr.. Hilton, ''and I believe the
statement that Mr. Meyer claimed to
have met the general manager Of the
Calumet & Hecla Co. In conferences
is based on Misrepresentation.
What Mr.. Meyer told me was sub
stantially this: That when the mob
had dragged him to the depot in
Houghton, a man who physically an
swered the description of MacNaugf-
ton, alighted from an automobile,
cursed him and searched his pockets,
taking two wallets, one containing
money, which was returned. and the
other holding private papers and q
ten dollar bill which was kept.
"This man was addressed by other
members of the mob as Jim and wore
a general air of authority that agrees
with MacNaughton's personality. The
man told Mr.. Meyer that If he ever
came back to the copper country he
would hang him.
Mr.. Meyer told me in Chicago he
Continued on Page Seven.)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
Rebels Start Campaign to
Clean Northern Mexico.
Center Attack on NuerVO Laredo
Then on 10 Ojinaga.
ConsiitutionaIists Plan Campaign
Towsra Mexico City, the Capital.

Washington, Dec. '29.-Confrming
private rumors, official reports reched
the state department today of renewed
insurgcnt activity in northeastern
Mexico with the announced purpose of
clearing out the Federals from the
whole northern tier of Mexican states.
Today the Constitutionalist forces are
reported as closing upon Nuervo La
redo, but the unders tanding is that IL
the campaign in that quarter is sue
1essful it will be followed immediate
Is by an attack in force upon Ojinaga,
where the remnant of the Federal gar
rison Of Chihuahua has taken its fl
nal stand. At Nuerva Laredo, the Fed
erals have 1900 men well armed with
machine guns and entrenched in earth
works and rifle pits. Closing in upon
them is Il force of 5000 insurgents, 5000
under command of Gen. Jesus Carran-
"a, brother of Gov. Nenustiano Carran-
"a, the present leader of the Constitu-
tionalist party and 2000 under the lead
crship of Gen. Gonzales.
AS there seems no avenue of retreat
left open in Mexico for the Federal
garrison, they must either defeat their
international line into the American
town of Laredo, where they would be
promptly disarmed. In Nuerva Laredo
are nine Americans besides Shelby
Thereaut, the American vice consul.
and there are p Americans outside the
city in this consular district.
1t was said at the war department
today that the general order to the
American troops still stands to return
promptly any fire Of bullets or shells
from across the line if they are salts
fed that the firing by Mexicans is in
territorial.
Related advices from Durango are to
the effect that the Constitutionalist
forees now occupy Gomez Palacio and
Laredo. Before the abandonment of
Torreon the reveiutionists are said to
have moved large qualities of pro-
visions, consequently the food supplies
are short. About so Americans remain
in Torreon About 5000 refugees com
posed of the worst element of the
population are said to have recently
entered Durango.
The American embassy in the City
of Mexico has been assured by the
manager OF the Bank of London and
Mexico that the institution is solvent
and that on Jan. it would meet all
obligations.
Terrible stories of the sufferings OF
the people in northern Sinaloa from
famine continue to reach the state de-
partment and like the preceding re-
ports they have been turned over to
the Red Cross.
Dr. Mensendieck in the little town of
Aqua Caliente De Baca, reports that
on Oct. 25, owing to the drought, in
habitants were not only starving, but
were without clothing, the well-to-do
as well as the poor, so that the women
and young girls were obliged to hide
in their shacks, absolutely naked, and
all were suffering terribly from expo
sure during the cold nights.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30

signed by 270 voters. who declared that
their names on the Smith papers were
genuine and that the appearance OF
their names on any other papers con-
stituted forgery. Allowance of these
names on Smiths papers would be suf-
f1cient to nominate him, but the cleo
ton commissioners tonight announced
that his only recourse was to the
courts, as the time for certifying sig
natures expired at P. M, today.
The election commissioners will give
hearing Thursday on the charges of
irregularities. Meantime detectives are
pursuing an investigation of the sig
natures on papers of each Of the three
remaining candidates.
Mayor Fitzgerald's formal withdraw
al followed efforts of friends to have
him remain III the contest in spite of
his previous announcement that on
account of i'll health he would not seek
another term.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
REV. NORMAN Me-
KINNON RESIGNS
His Pastorate at Middleboro,
Mass, to Accept Call to
Large Church at Utica, N.
Y.--pastor and Congrega-
tion Visi oly Affected.

Middleboro, Mass, Dec. 29.-(Spe-
ciaD.-With tears in his eyes and his
voice shaking with emotion, Rev.
Norman Mekinnon, pastor of the
Central Congregational church of this
town, read his resignation during the
morning service Sunday to a congre-
CATION as visibly effected as himself.
Rev. Mr.. McKinnon, who is the dean
of local pastors, has been here about
nine years and it was after great
deal of hesitation that he decided to
accept a call to Utica, n. Y. taking
charge of a church that has close to
900 members and new edifiee locat-
ed in the finest residential part of the
city. He has previously occupied pas
torates at ST. John, N B.. Foxcroft.
Me, and Augusta, Me.
During his Sunday morning ad-
dress. in which he spoke with some
length of his leaving, Rev. Mr.. Nc
Kinnon mentioned his former pastor
ate at Augusta with some feeling.
S!cca coming here he has done
some wonderful work. building the
church up to almost twice its former
size.
1t is rumored here today that
committee has been chosen to call
upon Mr.. McKinnon and do whatever
they can to have him reconsider his
resignation, which is to take effect
March l.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
THE INQUEST.

Calumet, Mich, Dec. 29-Two out of
a score or more of witnesses testified
before a coroner's jury today that the
man who caused the Christmas Eve
disaster wore q white button like the
badge of the Citizens Allience. I'm
mediately after adjournment of the
hearing, o. N. Hilton, the Denver at
torney in charge of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners legal interests, said
further development of this phase OF
the inquiry would be attempted to-
morrow.
The union lawyer did not comment
on the fact that the president and half
a dozen members of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Federation swore
that they saw no insignia on the man
and that union members, who stood in
the vestibule of Italian hall for an
hour before the panic started. said the
alarm came from within the hall and
no person wearing such button had
passed them
In the opinion of Anthony Lucas,
prosecuting attorney of Houghton
county, who conducted the examina-
ton of witnesses, the facts fairly we'll
established today was that an excit-
able member Of the audience raised
the cry, that there was not actual hre
in the hall and that the doors were
open and the stairway clear when
the panic started.
"All we want is finding based up
on facts developed at the inquest,
said Mr.. Hilton. 1.-THE identity OF the
miscreant who started the mad rush
for the stairs is of paramount i'm
CONTINUED on Page Seven.)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
A RETRACTION.
In the Case Of Harold E.
Lawrence Of Fairfield.

In it's issue of May 19, 1913, the
Journal in good faith published an
article in the course of which 1t was
asserted that Harold e. Lawrence OF
Fairfield, previous to working in the
Post Office at Fairfield, had been en-
ployed as conductor on the elevated
railroad in Boston, and served a short
sentence for financial difficulties in
which he was placed while working in
that capacity.
On Saturday last for the first time
the attention of the Journal was
called to the fact that this allegation
was untrue. After investigation the
Journal is satisfied that its correspon-
dent was misinformed, and that
the charge was made by mistake, or
through error, and is pleased to re-
tract the same, and to deny its truth
and takes this, its earliest opportun-
ity to make the correction, and set the
matter right before it's readers as
publicly and as fully as the publica
ton of the original article.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
Deserti0ns Among
Federals Frequent.

HermosilIo, Dec 29.-General Carranza,
the Constitutionalist chief, left here to-
day for Carbo midway between Hermo-
sillo and Nogales on the Arizona border.
The reason for his unexpected departure
for the north was not made known.
The insurgent campaign will be press
ed against Guaymas, the California gulf
port in southern Sonora, which has been
held stubbornly by Gen, Pedro Ojeda' S
Federals
This was announced from the military
headquarters here today simultaneously
with the departure for the south of the
entire First Regiment of Cavalry, which
set out on the march instead of entrain-
ing.
Already there are In the vicinity of
Continued on Page Seven.)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
Pittsburg Officer Killed and Wo-
man Mortally Wounded by Hen
ry Rokowski-He Escapes Posse.

Pittsburg, Dec. 29-Henry Rokowslsi,
aged %, shot and killed an officer and
mortally wounded a foreign woman
and man today, fought a posse in
woods at West Homestead, suburb,
has disappeared tonight. Constable
Martin windt was killed after he had
arrested Rokowski on a charge of as
sault and battery preferred by his
parents. After killing the officer, Ro-
kowski went to the home of M. ka-
kabik looking for his sweetheart ana
shot and mortally wounded Mrs. Haka'
blk and a boarder named Baukoski.
It was learned tonight that Rokow-
ski had planned to murder six men,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30
SLIGHT DEFECT IN THE
RIVADAVIA'S TURBINE

Quincy, Mass, Dec. ga slight de-
feet in the center turbine of the Ar
gentine battleship Rivadavia, which
was discovered today when the en-
CINE was turned over has caused a
postponement of two weeks in her sea
trials which were to have begun next
week.
1t was stated at the builders yard
that there was no accident in the en-
CINE room and that while the defect
would be remedied within the next day
or two, the delay would be extended
two weeks in order to await another
high course of tides needed to float
the Rivadavta out into the harbor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-30

bers of the Yakabik family, his sweet
heart, Mary Moose, Baukowski and
stepson.
Rokowski fled before officers reach
ed the scene. During the night posse
met him in woods. Shots were ex-
changed. Today Rokowski barricaded
himself in shanty, but while the
posse mapped out a plan of proce-
dure, either to blow the shanty up
with dynamite, burn it, or riddle 1t
with bullets, Rokowski, aided by
heavy fog, escaped. A large force OF
officers is scattered over a wide ter
ritory tonight looking for Rokowski.