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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
MUTILATES MAN
Who ATTACKED WIFE
Doctor Says He Returned Home
and Found Music Teacher.

When DR.. Martin E. Griffith, a prom
inent physician of Monessen, Pa, &C
cording to his own statement, returned
home unexpectedly, he says that ne
found A. M. Robertson, Pittsburgh
music teacher, attacking Mrs. Grit,
fifth. = -
With one blow, he says, he knocked
him to the floor, and then slashed him
with knife. Robertson is in the Char
leroi-Monessen hospital, where ne was
taken in an ambulance said to nave
been ordered by DR.. Griffith. He Is IN
a serious condition, but will recover,
according to Dr. Griffith, who is watch.
ing his condition. He is injured for
life. 10
The case parallels in many respects
the famous Cudahy case in Omaha
Neb., when the wealthy meat packer
welded a knife on an intruder in his
home.
One of the remarkable features OF
this most unusual case is that Dr.
ITlIlLQ IS dUOuI ulIy JOoAo - $500
wife about forty-fve and Robertson is
said to be fifty-fve.
Eyes, l cut him." declared tie doc
tor in a booming voice, sQua.12g MS
broad shoulders, when asked What had
occurred. 81 have nothing to hide;
am sorry it happened, but am glad
that it is as it is. 1t is wonder 1t
was not worse"
The Doctor and Mrs. Griffith have
grown-up children, one Of whom is
Jesse, a twenty-year-old boy, who is
a student in the University Of Pitts
burgh.
No arrests have been made in the
case, and Chief of Police John Wheat
ley, of Monessen, declared that there
would be none until Robertson gets
we'll enough to attend to 1t or to ex
press his desire to have some person
in authority make one.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
STRUCK ON HEAD;G|RL
ROAMED ABOUT DAzED
Found Herself, 'ShOeIess and
Clothing Torn, in Woods.

Miss Mary Bierman, aged twenty
two years, who has been missing siCce
Wednesday night, told the police that
on Wednesday evening she had left
the school in Bethlehem, where she is
employed, to go to her brothers home
in South Bethlehem, Pa.
While crossing the old covered
bridge on Main street across the Le-
high river, she passed man, she said.
who. turned around and struck her
with club.
After that she says she remembers
nothing until the next day, when she
found herself in the woods near St.
Lulse's hospital, mile or two away,
with both shoes off and her clothing
torn. She was still SO dazed that she
was unable to find her way out Of the
woods all that day.
Miss Bierman can give no descrip-
ton of her assailant, but the police
have started thorough investigation
of the affair.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Ex-senator CulIom Dies.

Ex-senator Shelby NJ. ~Cullom, Of
Illinois, died in Washington after an
illness of more than week, during
which he lowered between life and
death.
His last words were dish that he
might have lived to see the compile
ton of the national memorial to Abra-
ham Lincoln, who was his personal
friend. He was the resident member
of the Lincoln memorial commission.
Death was due as much to debility
incident to age, Mr.. Cullom being in
his. eighty-fifth year, as to any par
ticular malady, although it was direct
ly due to a bronchial affection and a
weak heart.
The former senator's last hours
were divided between periods Of un-
consciousness and short intervals in
which he recognized those at his bed
side. Although his wonderful vitality
had sustained life from hour to hour,
it became apparent when he could
take no nourishment that the end was
not far off.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Will Parade With Statue.

Major Sylvester, chief OF the Wash
ington police force, has given to
John Jay McDeVitt, of Wilkes-Barre,
Pa, a special permit to parade
down Pennsylvania avenue on Feb. ),
when McDevitt arrives in the capital
with his statue, which ne will ask
congress to accept for the nation.
The permit does not give McDeVitt
the right to the capitol grounds, be-
cause Major Sylvester wants to know
what will become of the statue If con-
gress refuses to accept it. He informs
the millionaire for day. that the
statue cannot remain on the street or
in any public building over night.
Butch" declares that If congress
won't accept his image he will en-
gage a room at hotel for it and keep
it there during his stay in Wash
ipgton.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
plan All 10 Cent Movies.

The beginning of fight to raise
the price of admission to all moving
pictre shows in the country from
five to ten cents was started at the
convention of the National Moving
Picture Exhibitors in Cincinnati, D.
A resolution was adopted that tie
consenus of opinion among exhibitors
is that two reels should be shown for
cents, while 10 cents should be
,tarced for four reels.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Fire ImperiIs so Families.

Fifty wealthy families were rem
dered homeless and loss Of 100000
was caused when fire destroyed a
fashionable apartment building in
lakewood boulevard, Chicago. More
than 100 women and children were
carried from the b"rning building by
the firemen, who risked their lives in
rescue work while the boilers were ex.
ploding in the basement.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
csnture is chlnese stowaways.

Fifteen Chinese, presumably intend,
ed to be smuggled into this country,
were routed out Of the most unexpect-
led hooks and crannies of the ship
Chiswick, plying between Santiago,
Cuba, and Philadelphia, when she
passed up the Delaware river.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Names COCKTAILS
TO RULE CANAL
Presidents Order Puts Civil
Rule Into Effect April |
PRESENT BOARD TO GO

Steps Will Soon Be Taken to Reor-
aaniez the Government of Canal
Zone.
President Wilson signed al eXec'+
tive order putting into operation Of
April l a permanent government Ice
the Panama canal zone End Ldmla
Colonel George w. Goethals, ch.ef e :
gineer of the canal commission, DIS
first civil governor.
In some quarters this action is loo
ed upon as putting an end to conslo-
Grafton by Colonel Goethals OF accept
ing the police commissionership OF
New York city, post pressed upon
him by Mayor Mitchell.
Secretary Of War Garrison made the
announcement of Cocktails selectioI
as he carried away the executive or"
der from the White House. He salt
Colonel Goethasl had not been informs
ed officially, but that he would be a5
soon as his name was sent to tn,
senate.
Garrison said the cabinet meet lg
was devoted largely to d;scuS3irh
of the Panama canal government. i.e
added that the question OF tells ~
not been discussed and that thI Ay-
ecutive order merely makes pr>yi5i IL
for the collection of such tolls Is 2rn
provided by law.
The order puts into effect the ADAM
son act for the government OF t:i'
zone. Steps will be taken within TIA
next few days to prepare for the re-
organization of the canal government
under the provisions of the act.
While no announcement was made,
it is expected that the entire plan
evolved by the secretary of war re-
garding the disposition of Colonel
Cocktails lieutenants in the building
of the canal will be carried out. A
commission to have charge of the for
NAL opening of the canal will be APP
pointed, with Richard S. Metcalfe, at
present civil commissioner Of tho
zone, as its chairman, and with Colo
nels Hodges and Gorgas as its other
members.
The presidents order creates these
departments in the canal zone govern
ment: Operation and maintenance:
purchasing department; supply de-
partment; accounting department.:
health department, and an executive
secretary.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Robbers Dynamite Bank.

Robbers dynamited the vault of the
Bank of Lyerly, Ca, state institu'
ton, obtaining about $4,000. Posses
are searching the surrounding coun'
try for the robbers.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Twenty Gypsies Die of Poison.

A dispatch received in Madrid from
the town of Becerrea, in Lugo prov
lnce, says that twenty gypsies died in
horrible agony as the result of eating
poisoned meat which was intended for
wolves which infest the district.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
|GOMPERS DRUNK
CHARGES MINER
Throws Labor Convention Into
an Uproar.
ROW OVER COPPER STRIKE
Head of the A. r. of L. Heatedly Calls
His Accuser "Liar!" and ISLAM
derer!"


That Samuel Gompers, president OF
the American Federation OF LABOR,
was "gloriously drunk" at the Seattle
convention of the. federation, was the
charge made by Duncan Mcdonald, OF
Illinois, at the convention OF the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America in In
dianapolis.
During the prolonged cheers, Liar"
"Slanderer!"~ were hurled at McDon-
aid by Gompers, who sat on the plat
form.
81 am glad Mr.. Gompers is here so
I can say what I want to-" said Nc
Donald, in beginning his reply to the
speech made by Gompers. Il said
there were booze fighters in charge of
the American Federation Of Labor,
and I'll prove it. At the Seattle con-
vention l had a room with my wife at
a hotel next to the room reserved by
the resolutions committee. The first
Saturday night we could not sleep for
the noise made by a bunch of DRINKS
in the next room.
81 appealed to the clerk of the no.
tel, and the noise grew worse. Then
went down to the hotel office, and
the night manager called Jim Duncan
on the phone and told him they would
have to get out of the room, that they
were disturbing all on the floor.
1.-THE noise grew fierce, and finally
knocked on the door of the room. and
was asked to come in and have a
drink. When the door was opened
there sat Sam Gompers at the head OF
the table gloriously drunk with bot
tie of booze in his hand"
The statement threw the convention
in an uproar, and it was some. time be-
fore order was restored. While the
confusion was at its height Gompers
called Mcdonald a liar and a SIAN
derer.
Mcdonald charged Gompers with
maintaining a machine to perpetuate
himself at the head of the federation
and of assisting the Democratic party
even against candidates of other par
ties who are members of labor organi-
cations. He ridiculed the idea that the
unions could not pay a two-cent as
sessment to aid the Michigan copper
mine strikers.
eff a union would not meet the as
sessment," declared Mcdonald, why
I would rather they would get outside
the federation. If a two-cent assess,
ment can break up the American
Federation of Labor, then it is a
mighty flimsy institution"
Gompers followed Mcdonald and
denied absolutely the charge of drunk
enness. He declared the statement to
be "libellous, untruthful, vicious,
slanderous and without any form of
honor"
Gompers denied that he maintained
a machine to keep himself. in office
and as an illustration said he had two
offers of positions from the governor
Of a great state, one paying $4,000 a
year and the other $4,000, but had
refused both to continue in the labor
movement. E
Gompers reiterated his statement
that to levy an assessment would be
disastrous to organized labor and that
it could not be collected in time to
benefit the copper strikers. He denied
that the Democratic party had any
label on him.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Lion Kills HMovie" Man.

An encounter with lion caused the
death at Nairobi, British East Africa,
of Fritz SCHNEIDER, a member of an
American moving picture expedition,
engaged in taking pictures of wild an
tma,s n their natural surroundings in
Africa.
Schildler, with others of the expe-
dition, was attempting to photograph
lion in the jungle when the animal
sprang at him.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
please NEGRO Bill Passed.

A bill prohibiting white persons
from teaching in negro schools, a'>d
vice versa, was passed by the house
of representative in Columbia, s. O.,
and sent to the senate.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Thousands March In Religious Parade.


The combined Christian EndeaVor
Societies of Shamokin, Pa, several
thousand strong, marched over sew
eral streets to q tabernacle where q
five weeks religious revival is being
conducted by Rev. ]. P. Nicholson
During the parade the marchers sang
and prayed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Year For New Haven FIagman.

Charles H. Murray, the lagman OF
the Bar Harbor express, which was
wrecl:cd by the White Mountain ex-
press On the New Haven railroad, at
North Haven, on Sept. 2, 1913, plead
ed guilty to manslaughter in New
Haven, Conn, and was sentenced to
one year in the county Jail. Sentence
was suspended and Murray put in care
of the probation officer. The wreck
cost twenty-one lives.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
TWO Children Killed.

C. E. Cook, of Newport, Pa, driver
of one of the teams of the Atlantic
Refining company, was seriously hurt
and two daughters, seven and nine
years old, of Albert Hammaker, of
Watts township, were crushed to death
in Watts township.
The children were riding with Mr..
Cook, when the wagon skidded on the
ice covered ground and tumbled over
an embankment. One horse was also
killed
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
BANK ROBBERS GET $4,000
Masked Men Hold UP Logansport, La,
institution.

A report has just reached New CIR
leans that the Bank of Logansport, at
Logansport, La, was robbed of $4,000
by masked men.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
$3.50 600 Fire at Manila.

A $25O,O0O fire in Manila, P. l., de-
stroyed a portion of the Manila Elk
position buildings. .---
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Women See Negro Lynched.

A mob of 1000 men, women and chill
dren saw Jim Wilson, confessed ne
gro murderer, 1ynched near Wendell,
v. G.
A company of militia from Raleigh
arrived on the scene twenty minutes
late. Wilson killed Mrs. Mile Lynch
last Saturday.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Give Salary to Predecessors Widow

After accepting an appointment
from the court as supervisor of Ply
mouth township, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of John Finley,
il was announced in Wilkes'Barre,
Pa, by James Mccarthy that all of the
$500 he will receive would be turned
over to the widow of Finley.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Neqro Attacks Teacher as Pupils Watch

negro HlldCkS 90 eP''S SN~''
William Moore, colored, entered tho
school room of Miss Marie Strome, Ill
Hanover township, near Wilkes Barre,
Pa, and while fifty frightened pupils
looked on he attacked the young wo.
man.
After a fierce battle Miss Stroms
successfully fought off her assailant
and her pupils fed from the building
to spread the alarm.
Moore was arrested and taken be-
fore Alderman Frank Rowe, in Wilkes
Barre. who committed him to jail with.
out bail.
Shortly after school had opened for
the day, the door opened and in cama
Moore. He rushed at the teacher
and threw his arms about her waist.
She began to claw his face and arms
and screamed to the children to run
for their lives.
AS she fought she continued to cry
for help and when Policeman James
Evans saw the children fleeing front
the building he rushed into the school
room.
Moore made a break for door at
the sight of the policeman, but Miss
Strome held him fast after a great
struggle until the policeman arrived.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06

THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE COUGH syR"s
gEsHFDI)YY's LAXATIVE iIooHlSEEYEWlaf
Qed Clover Blossom sna honey Gee On fvcry sst''
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06

FO1EYs NEYzr6'rAR
ssSDs ska ceSSa and hoaas 1un3s
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Mother and Daughter Held For Murder

Mother and Daughter Held For muroer
Charged with the murder, fourteen
months ago, of Floyd Keller, Mrs. Eel
da Keller Gerhold and her mother,
Mrs. Reuben Kicker, were arresteu
and committed to prison in Chambers.
burg, Pa, without bail.
The first named woman was kei-
ler's wife, and since his death she mar
ried Gerhold.
Keller, prosperous farmer, died on
the night of Nov. 20, 1912, and chemi-
cal analysis developed that the sto'l-
ach contained enough poison 10 XIII
four men. The case was surrounded
with mystery until letters written by
Mrs. Keller to Isaac Hickman came
to light.
When arrested Mrs. Gerhold eS-
claimed: Isaac Hickman poisoned
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-02-06
Heir Guards Gold Three Weeks.

After standing guard, gun in hand.
over a treasure chest containing SlSOo
in gold for three weeks, John Enders.
twenty-five years old, of Dalmatia,
near Herndon, Pa, was overpoWerc l
by William High, constable, ami
placed in Jail.
Enders lived with Thomas Umber'
ger, his grandfather, who died thrf .
weeks ago. While a preacher said
funeral service Enders stood at the
stairway with his shotgun and threat
ened to shoot the person who would
attempt to pass him. He has since ~
fused to let anybody near the treaa-
ure under penalty of death.
Constable High put dog to barkir
at the rear, and while Enders was
watching it he stepped up behind ard
overpowered him. Enders is the so'e
beneficiary under the will and he "
bored under the hallucination that lie
was to be robbed of the money. His
sanity is questioned. He was hall
starved. He said he ate little during
his three weeks watch.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-09

AMA
county and it would be supplemented
By other funds, thus Offering to the
people Of the county at least $500 in
premiums. it being an open compete
ton so as to distribute the prizes jul
diciously and evenly over all parts of
the county among those who would
produce worthy exhibits and partici
pate in the fair, we cannot e how
the commissioners could refuse to re-
soond to this worthy movement IN
dertaken solely for the development
OF the county's interests and no mi
mans private business. The city
commissioners will also be asked 10
make a contribution to the fair, pays
bic next fall, and it is hoped they can
see their way clear to make q liberal
contribution.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-09

papers that had a week previous, ac-
cused him of treachery in taking issue
with the President on a question OF
public policy, referring to the offend
ing publications S "the jackal press
which had willIully and deliberately
perverted the truth. It is freely ad-
mitted by everybody that "Champ
Clerk evened up with his critics to the
Queens taste" And, furthermore,
that he is a real big man. The Speak
er had indicated to President Wilson
that he would make no speech against
the repeal bill, but critics drove him
to it and they do say he made the
Sseikin ring. The incident is deserib-
ed by the Washington papers as one
or the most dramatic scenes enacted in
the House of Representatives since the
stirring times experienced during and
immediately following the war be-
tween the state. Bully for Champ
Clark.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-09
MIR. SHIPMAN AND CONGRESS-.

Although Commissioned of Labor
and Printing M. L. Shipman's warm
political friends regret his definite an
ncuncemnt that he is not a candidate
for the congressional nomination from
the Tenth district, they must admire
his attitude with reference to holding
ore office and hunting for another, as
given more fully in another column of
the Democrat. Were this policy sub
acribed to by all oficeholders there
would doubtless be a marked differ
ence in the standard of official dignity
and efficiency.
Had Commissioner Shipman per-
m1tted his head to be turned from the
path of official duty by ambition for a
higher Office, he doubtless would have
made the fight for the nomination
more interesting since he has a host
of friends in every county of the dis
trict who would have stood firmly
behind him until the end.
He has the interests of Western
North Carolina at heart; has the abil-
ity to make friends and hold them and
would make excellent congressional
timber and although he is not in the
fight he will ripen with age, therefore
at the arrival of the logical time, wheT
he will not be hampered with Official
duties he will no doubt show the peo-
PIE of this district his fighting qualities.
Tor personal, political and business
reasons as we'll as from the standpoint
oil local pride we would have UNI
stintedly supported Mr.. Shipman for
congress, but since the circumstances
have not necessitated it, we have re-
Trained from urging him into the fight.
His declination leaves us wholly IN
committed as 10 our choice of congress
SIGNAL ~aspirants. We are entitled to
our personal views and will exercise
them according to our wishes, but the
Democrat remains uRcommitted.
Ink, white space ind type are our
stock in trade and if the aspirants
1gant themselves boosted through our
columns they will have to pay our
regular advertising rates. 1t is our
policy to give The news but leave the
boosting to others.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-09
SPEAKER CLARK REPLIES.


The individual or newspaper who
charges Speaker Champ Clark with
dialoyalty to the administration eft
President Wilson, or the democratic
party has another guess coming. And
the New York papers have learned, by
this time, that the Speaker possesses
the courage of his convictions. The
World took occasion to criJicise Mr..
Clark most severely for daring to,
take issue with the President on the
question of canal tolls. 1t character
lied his speech in opposition to the
rules limiting debate on the repeal
ELL as the utterance of a traitor and
self-seeker. The Speaker abided his
time and in closing the debate for the
opposition, handed the World some.
jolts it will not oon forget. Revert
ing to the base insinuation that he
was seeking to discredit the admins
tration Inc disrupt the party, in the
hope of advancing his own selfish am
bition to be President, the Speaker
er1phatically disclaimed any inten-
ton of becoming a candidate for that
of1ce again and declared no division
in the party exists. "The wish is faith
cr to the thought replied the Speaker
to the Worlds prediction of a split in
the democratic ranks. He, also, re-
futed the charge that either himself
or those who stood with him were dis
loyal to the administration.
The speaker handled himself admir-
ably ard y%ociferous applause greeted
his ~utterances from the moment he
took the floor until his masterful de-
tense of himself and the administra-
tion had been concluded. He did not
words in paying his respects to J
the New York World and other news