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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Mrs. Marshall Nurses Maid

Washington, d. c. March %
Mrs. Marshall, wife of the Vice
President, Cancelled all her social
engagements to-day ard prepared
to act as a nurse for an indefinite
period.
Her faithful maid, Miss Ida F..
Wake, who has been with the
Marshalls for years, became i'll
suddenly yesterday. Today he
ailments was dag nosed as cd
pendicitis and she was taken TO a
hospital for an operation.
Mrs. Marshall gave up ! e.
plans for the day and personally
will see that all her wants are at
tended to while she is unde going
the ordeal which the doctors az
cannot be avoided.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Election Officers Indicted

Jersey City, March 26.-Con-
victed of the charge of having
made false election returns while
serving on the Hoboken election
boards in the primary election of
September. 1913, thirteen cleo
ton officers, eight Democrats and
five Republicans, were today sem
fenced by Common Pleas Judge
Mark A. Sullivan and George ].
Tenant to serve not less than 18
months nor more than three
years in state prison.
The cases against two others
were dismissed on the ground
thai an investigation had shown
the errors in their returns to be
accidental. The Democratic e.
lection officers were found guilty
Of having counted opposition
votes for machine candidates
and the Republicans of having
counted in favor of former Gov
ernor Stokes votes cast for Rob-
ert Carey, gubernatorial nomi-
nation candidate.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Jeff Davis in Hall of Fame

A statue Of jefferson DaNi =.
president Of the Coniod .ra e
States of America. is likely to b
added soon to the collection in
statuary Hall in the Capt. O.
The statue will be a contrib i n
to the nation from the State of
Mlssippi, which Davis for nun =
Der of years represented in tie
federal Senate with great dis
tinction. In addition to the DA-
Wis statue Mississippi proposes t.
place a statue of James u. George
In the Capitol of Fan Mr..
George was a noted statesn a
and senator.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
American AyiatOrs Will Contend

New York, March %. Two
American aviators, Lincoln
Beachey and Bob Fowler. have
announced their intention of ell
tering the ound-the-world race
to start from the Panama-Pacific
Exposition grounds in San Fran
cisco next year, it was stated
here tonight by Arnold Kruck-
man, Manager of the contest.
The formal entry list will not be
opened for month or six weeks.
or until after the rules have been
finally adopted.
Besides the two Americans
the manufacturers of three lead
ing types of aeroplanes in Europe
have informed Mr.. Kruckman
that they will enter aviators and
machines.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
COxey'S Army Will Move

Cleveland. March %. -Presi
dent Wilson tonight was warned
of the departure for Washington
of a second "Coxey's" army
which, it is said, will start April
16 from Massillon, O, the start
ing point for the first army 70
years ago today.
General j. S. Coxey. of Massil-
lon, the Header, tonight mailed
the President a letter telling OF
his plan and enclosing a pamph-
let on the "Coxey plan of setting
the Idle to work on market roads
and other public improvements. g"
The army expects to arrive in
Washington May Il. Coxey says,
to petition the President and
Congress for measures which
will give work to the unemploy-
ed.
This will give you forty-five
days to inform yourself of the
march. " Coxey's letter SAID,
and to consider the practicable
ity and justice of our demand. {"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Boy Battles Fiercely

Terra Haute, Ind, March "a.
After a battle with the police,
in which fifty shots were fired,
Ernest McWilliams, Is, surrend
cred, when his clothing was soak
ed with the blood of many
wounds.
The boy was trapped in the
gunshop of Ed Tetzel, and when
called on to surrender, replied
with shots.
The police then armed them
selves with riot guns.
McWilliams barricaded hims self
in an automobile in the rear of
the store and kept up a continu-
Gus fire.
After he had been wounCed
many times McWilliams screamed
that he would give himself up.
and with his arms above his h ad
staggered out of the store.
Five loaded revolvers were
found in the boys pocket, and
ne had placed a number of loAded
rifles and shotguns in the auto
mobile, where he made the stand
against the police.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Walker Appoints Assistants

Washington, March %. Dis
trict Attorney S. w. Walker, for
the northern district of West
Virginia was here to-day in con-
ference with the officials at the
department of justice. Mr..
Walker has been pressing the
department for three assistants
instead of two, but he was denied
the increase. The ruling of the
department was final on this
matter. Had the request for
three assistants been granted.
Joseph O'Brien, of Wheeling.
Harry Dyer of PhiIippi, and C. F.
Seibert of Martinsburg, would
have been appointed. But since
that program was not acceded to
by the department, the first two
named will be appointed. Sci
bert loses out. O'Brien and By
ers were to have been appointed
to-day, but there was a techni-
cal delay. However, they wi
be appointed. The salary each
will get is 81, 300 a year.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Automatic Coin Testing Machine.


One OF the difficulties i'm connection
with slot machines has been prevent
ing the successful use OF blanks OF the
same weight OF the coins intended for
their operation. while another has been
the fact that coins OF other countries
Of the same weight can be used as sub
stitutes. while bad coins were not re-
jected. A machine has recently been
invented and completed in Blrming-
ham, England. which Is said to pre-
vent the extraction OF goods by the
use OF metal disks and coins Of less
value. and which rejects rubbish which
may be pushed into the slot. 1t is also
said that where the slot machine Is
used to deliver tickets and postage
stamps automatically the possibility
Of defrauding the machine is elimlnat-
ed. The machine is also constructed to
test coins, and 1T Is claimed will throw
out all counterfeits and retain the true
in.-COnsular Report
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
The National Capitol

The Capitol of the United States
has been located at different
times at the following places: At
Philadelphia from September 5,
TIA, to December 20, 1776; at
Baltimore from December 20,
1916, to March lit; at Philadel-
phia from March d, 1777, to Sep
TENDER, TIT: at Lancaster, Pa,
from September 81, TIT, to Sep
TENDER 30, TIT, to July, 1778; at
Philadelphia from July 2, 1778. to
June 30, 1888. at Princeton, N.
j., from June 30, 1888, to Nov
6mber 30, 1888; Annapolis, Nd.
from November 26, 1889, to No
vember 80, 1884; at Trenton from
November, 1884, to January,
1886; at New York from Janu-
airy IL, 1885, to 1880; then the
seat of government was removed
to Philadelphia, where it remain
el until 1900, since which time it
has been in Washington.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Boy Blown to Pieces

Moundsville, w. Va, March
"a. = Roy Stackhouse, a young
Proctor boy, was blown to pieces,
and Thos. Earlywine, son of
George Earlywine. his playma e,
was dangerously and it is believ-
ed, fatally hurt, about 1:25
O'Clock yesterday afternoon by
the explosion of a partly emf ty
nitro-glycerine can. with which
they are supposed to have been
playing, on the track Of the Ohio
River division of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, a few yards
south of the Proctor Greek bridge
at Proctor, twenty-one miles
south of Moundsville.
The force of the explosion was
so great that it tore up sect N
of the raj road track. A piece
three feet long was blown cut of
one of the rails Windows in the
houses in Proctor were shatter d
by the explosion.
The Earlywine boy, VIII n
found, was still able to talk, ard
told those who attended him that
the boy killed was Roy Stack
house.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Life Termer PardOned

Moundsville, w. Va, March
26. William Quill. regro life
term murderer, set foot outside
the prison walls at Moundsville
this morning for the first time in
twelve years, and departed at
HIS over the B. & o. for Wash
inRton a free man, He will re-
turn TO his home in Virginia.
Quill was one of the most no.
torious convic:s in the peniten-
tlary, dle to the fact that he
was serving life for a murder
committed in the institution.
He had been sent up for a short
term from Washington, d. c., as
a federal prisoner, in 1902
About the same time John Bur-
nett, a negro from Mcdowell
county, just across the state line
from Quilts home, came up for
a short term. Quill had long
suspected Buffet of being famiI-
lar with Mrs. Quill.
The men worked side by side
in the tailor shop and Burnett
frequently took occasion to taunt
Quill about the Iatter's wife. a.
rousing Quill to high pitch of
jealous rage The climax came
one day late in 1902. Barnett
term was to expire in a short
time and he angered Quill by tell
ing him he was going back and
take Quilts wife with him.
A scuffie followed in which
Burnett attacked Quill with a
tailor's knife, but guards parted
them before either was injured.
The next day Burnett continued
his taunts and Quill, at last driv-.
en- desperate, seized knife and
before either Burnett or the
guards knew what had happened,
severed Burnett's head almost
from his body. Quill was later
tried in Circuit court at Mounds
vile and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. He has been a mod.
ell prisoner, so far as conduct is
concerned, however, and attract
the attention of DR.. B. Nj. Spur,
of Moundsville. who interested
himself in in the case with the
result that he succeeded in secur-
ing a pardon for the negro from
Governor Hatfield yesterday.
DR.. Spur brought the pardon to
prison in person and saw Quill
released.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Man Burns to Death

Fairmont, w. Va, March %.
AS the result of an early morn
ing hotel fire here one man was
burned to death and lives of
scores placed in danger. Inves-
legations completed late tonight
established without doubt that
: James Means, aged So years,
was overcome by the fumes from
a gas stove which resulted in his
own death and the burning of
the building. Means went to his
room at loo o'clock last night.
He turned up the gas fire in a
small heating stove which has no
pipe to carry away the fumes of
the burned gas. Sitting over the
fire he was overcome by the
fumes and fell to the floor near
the fire.
At 5 o'clock this morning his
clothing caught fire. His body
was burned in a horrible manner.
The building was fired and at 7
O'Clock the guests were awakened
to find their rooms filled with
smoke.
The FIRE department was ca ed
and saved the building. 1he
guests rushed to the street in
their night clothing but none
were injured. Means last Sun
day joined a local church. He
had formerly lived a reckless
life but recently reformed and
joined church two days before
his tragic death.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
FOOLED BY BOGUS WEAPONS
Recent Incident in Brooklyn Only One
OF Many That Have Been
Placed on Record.

When Albert Smith of Brooklyn
fought burglar with an empty re-
volver the other day he only added
to long list of instances in which
the housebreaker has been put to
flight through a subterfuge. In
Smiths case his wife had taken the
cartridges from the revolver so that
their little-fve-year-old child, who
had taken the weapon from the bu-
reau drawer one day, should not do
it again to her injury. 1t was a
revolver just the same.
A bunch of keys more than once
has compelled a "bad crowd" to
"hold up their hands" when pulled
from the hip pocket ostentatiously in
the dark. A musician going home
one night in the suburbs of Chicago
flashed his fife at man who came
out of the shadows demanding money
and IN an instant the man fed A
piece of gaspipe declared to be a
bomb was sufficient on one occasion
IN Cleveland to dispense a fighting
mob near the river front. The man
who called it a bomb was a detective
engaged in keeping the peace during
a mill strike
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Hal Depue Closes Big Deal

Major Hal w. Depue and c..
w. Swisher have just concluded
dsalwith the Wayland Oil Com
pany by which the latter acquire
title to four hundred thousand
dollars worth of oil and gas prop
erty in this county and seven
hundred thousand dollars worth
in Lincoln county, making the
whole deal cover more than a
million dollars.
We are pleased to know that
Major Depue's commission rep
resents handsome sum and Hal
is again on easy street. Spencer
Bulletin.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30

New York, March %. There
Is a growing sentiment among
members of Councils that the
Liberty Bell shall not again be
permitted to be taken from its
resting place in independence
Hall. The mammoth petition
protesting against the venerable
relic being sent to the Councils
and referred to the Finance Com
mittee last Thursday, was said to
have greatly impressed the cham
bers. 1t will be rsei in oppoo.-
ton 70 any measure seeking to
send the Bell out of the city.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
LOADING CHUTE FOR ANIMALS.

drawing never causes trouble i'm this
way, says the Farm and Fireside. In
stead Of laying the floor I'm the usual
way the boards are each laid up over
the edge of the one just in front. This
makes the edge of each board n cIeat.
and these cleats do not break Off 1t
takes just little more lumber to make
such chute, but the safety OF it much
more than repays for the extra cost
When you come right down to it the
extra cost amounts to but little any
way.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30

Philadelphia, March %. The
superdreadnaught Oklahoma, one
one of the largest and most pow
erful American battleships afloat,
was launched today from the
yard of the New York Shipbuild-
ing company at Camden, N. j.,
in the presence of a large mum.
Der of invited guests.
The length of the Oklahoma is
583 feet and her displacement
will be q, 400 tons, or 500 tons
greater than the largest Ameri-
can fighting ship aAoat.
In both armament and armor
the Oklahoma will be far ahead
of present American ships. Her
principal weapons will be ten
15-inch guns, capable Of firing
shells weighing ], 400 pounds.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30

Charleston, w. Va, March "a.
That E. Graham Wilson. a
wealthy farmer of Charles Town
must serve fourteen years in
the West Virginia penitcntiary.
was dec ded by the SUPREME
Court of Appeals here today.
Wilson was convicted Of a
crime against Miss Kate Tur. err,
who was a guest at his country
hope.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
MEDICINAL MICROBES.
oiphtheris Overcome by an Antase-
nistic Germ.


nistie Germ.
An interesting experiment In the Geld
al what may perhaps be called mi
crobic therapeutics is being made by
"A Minneapolis doctor says the New
York Post Ii Is, as the doctor him
self insists, only an experiment and
will require far wider test before any
safe general conclusions can be drawn.
The experiment consists I'm the use OF
mold I'm the treatment OF diphtheria.
This minute little organism, which oc-
ours in nature as n parasite on the fly.
is placed in the throat OF the dipth-
theritic patient and allowed to grow
there. According TO DIR. Ten Broeck's
experience, its growth causes the de-
struction OF the dlpththeria bacillus
and thus brings about n cure OF that
disease. Its early use also helps to
prevent the spread OF infection. He
has treated a number OF cases success
fully with his mold achula muscaris
and without the use of antitoxin. He
finds. further, that the mold itself Is
quite harmless and can be readily re-
moved from the patients throat after
1T has done it's work by the use of an
antiseptic gargle.
1t Is perhaps worth noting i'm this
connection that some time ago pure
cultures of Tactic acid forming bacil-
lus had quite vogue for spraying
into certain forms of diseased threats
perhaps they have yet-the theory be-
ing apparently that the tactic acid
germs acted in very much the same
way as Dr. Ten Broeck's mold-viz.
by killing out the disease germs. 1t is
quite within the bounds OF probability
that these medicinal microbes may
eventually come to hold almost us iEl-
portant place I'm therapeutics MS do
the so called internal police OF the
body the white blood cells or phago-
cytes. Attempts to make new applica-
tons of them are incidents of very
general interest
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
kino of EIo\,ers

On the score of age alone the peony
should command the interest of all
flower lovers. 1t has a history which
began many hundreds of years ago.
The tree peony, Paenia moutan, is a
native of China. This peony, more
than any other flower, has been the
glory and pride OF the Chinese for near
ly l,5OO years and has been a subject
Tor their painters and n theme for
their poets. In China for more than
1000 years a record has been kept OF
the percentage of seedlings of this
peony and their characteristics. Its
great beauty and fragrance made It
centuries ago the favorite flower Of
China's emperOrs, and 1t was called
Hwa Wang-king of fiowers.-Subur-
ban Life.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
A Good Paint For iron.

An excellent paint for painting iron
that will stand very much wear ana
ls used by certain railways consists OF:
White ocher, ten pounds This f. mix
ed with one pound Of prussian blue
and one half pound Of lampblack and
gives an olive drab color The above
pigments are ground in raw llnseed of
and then mixed with eight gallons OF
boiled llnseed oil Gftcen gallons OF raw
Insect oil. three gallons Of tulpentins
md two gallons OF liquid drlers.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Brief Filed in Debt Case

Washington. March %. Fol.
Owing the determined refusal OF
the representatives of Virginia
to treat with the West Virginia
commission on the basis of com
promise of the old Virginia debt
at the joint conference in WISH
ington on March a last, when
West Virginia offered to pay
81, 327, 1876 81 in full settlement
of her share of the debt. Attor-
ney General A. A. Lilly, on be-
half of the state Of West Virgin
ia, appeared before the United
States supreme court today and
filed a brief in support of mo-
ton for leave to file a supple
mental answer to the bill of cum
plant of the commonwealth of
Virginia.
This is the first step to be TAX
en- by West Virginia to bring be-
fore the supreme court the new
facts which have been brought
to light in this mooted controver-
sy and which constituted the ba-
sis of the offer of settlement
made recently to the Virginia
commission. Upon these discov-
cries the West Virginia counsel
will make their fight to have the
entire controversy reopened by
the supreme court and referred
back, If necessary to a special
master for further investigation.
West Virginia, which has long
been on the defensive, has
brought about a complete rever-
sal of its position, and the moth
er common wealth, so long on
aggressive, is now called upon
to defend itself against the claim
OF the younger state. The more
than twenty million dollars of
assets, which West Virginia
claims, were secured by the State
of Virginia from the expendi-
lures of money secured by the
sale of bonds and stocks and
which resulted in the enormous
public debt of the old common
wealth, for which West Virginia
has been held to be liable 10 the
extent of23.5 per cent of the to-
tai, have been held in secrecy for
the several decades in which the
debt controversy has been waged
and it was only since the supreme
court of the United States rem
dered its opinion, on March 6,
1911, fixing West Virginia's
share of the debt at 81, 1872, 5O7. :
46, that the representatives of
the defendant state have gained
access to the archives where the
information, so necessary in or
der to reach an equitable conclu-
sion, was available.
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English papers announce that
the worlds biggest ocean liner is
to be built at Belfast. 1t wi be
OF 60. 900 tons, whereas the Va
terIand is of $4,000 gross tons,
the lmperator 52,171. the Brit
tanic $4,000, the Aquitania A.
600. and the Olympic 46, 369 tons.
Consul Sharp reports that the
Brittanic was launched at Belfast
on February 26; for safety it will
have AZ of the largest rfehoats
yet made, 2 of them fitted with
powerful engines.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
Fanny Crosby "a Years Old

Bridgeport, Conn, March "a.
Fanny Crosby, the blind wri e..
today celebrated her ninety
fourth birthday. She said she
felt IS young as at twenty-four.
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we could have settled our dim
cuities BY tossing q coin Instead we
spent a lot Of money ia going TO law"
'TWellf"
II understand the Jury settled the
whole matter by tossing q coip."--
Kansas City Journal
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-03-30
SAFE LOADING CHUTE.
Arrangement of Floor Boards Prevents
Animals From SIippino.

NhImaIs from Slipping.
Every live stock farmer knows the
need for good loading chute. but any
one who has had the misfortune to-
have an animal slip on chute realizes:
the great Importance OF having the.
floor so arranged that there is no
chance for the animal to slip even
when the boards are wet
Cleats sometimes break off. but the
chute shown in the accompanying