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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
Man, ~
Attends
College
AGED Student of Engineering
Says He Had No Opportu-
mites When Young.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 3l.-0he
never gets too old to ;Lt.eld schoo! is
a principle strongly ad'oczfed oy JUS
anh Ciliet. Oldest "scnGufhoy' in the
engineering courses OF the continual
tion school. Mr.. Gillet has just turned
seyenty-two, but he has the appear
ance and memory of man or MY
Although he was denied opportunl-
ties of learning to a great extent, When
he was a boy he has tried 70 grasp
every opportunity in adult life. rms
is the eighth time he has matriculated
at a school which would offer him
advancement.
He was born in Alsace, where he
was graduated from the public school
at fourteen. Later he attended a pri-
yate continuation. School. after which
ne decided to learn the machinist
trade. From 1860 to 1854 he was an
apprentice. Three years later ne en-
tered a marine engineering school'
when he remained six months. Final
". before leaving France. he tried
sea diving.
When Mr.. Gillet landed in Montreal
in 1872 he at once entered an English
school His progress in the language
was SO rapid that in a little while he
became a teacher in night school. at
the same time studying steam eng1n-
eering and draughting. In 1906 he
began an electrical course at Mar
ouette College and continued it for
six years.
81 have always been accustomed to
much work" declared Mr.. Gillet, "and
have made 1t a point to take advan-
Aage of it. One can always learn
something new in the mechanical
trade / cannot be idle
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
WIRELESS
Used by Physician on Warship
to Doctor Man on An
other Vessel.

PHILADELPHIA, July 31.-Captain
Lane, of the steamship Bradford. ar
rived here from Tuxpan, Mex, and
told a story that on the second day
out sailor was taken i'll.
No physician being on board the
wireless operator swept the sea with
his wireless in search of one. A
British warship answered, but re
fued to- give her location. and said
she could not leave her post.
The mans symptoms were wire
lessed the warship's doctor, who dag
nosed the case as pneumonia. The
physician then wirelessed prescrip-
ton to Captain Lane. The treatment
was applied, but two days later he
patient died. The body was brought
here.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
CURIOSITY
Is Apple Tree in a Kansas
Orchard as 1t Bears Fruit
by the Compass.

fredericksburg. Kan. July 81
Noah Jones, a farmer living between
fredericksburg and Wheatley's camp
ground, has on his farm an apple tree
which IS very much of a curiosity.
The tree contains four branches which
point to the north, south, east and
west.
Last year the north and south
branches were laden with fruit. while
the east and west branches did not
bear a single apple. This year the
conditions are vice versa, the east and
west branches being laden with
apples while the north and south
branches are bare. :. -
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
MANY THOUSAND.
LIBRARIES IN
NATION
With a Total of $1,000, 900
Volumes, According to
Bureau of Education.

WASHINGTON. July 31.-There
are over 1900 regularly establish
ed libraries in the United States, con-
tanning more than 75.000,O00 vol
umes, according to statistics Just CON
piled by the United States Bureau OF
Education. The number of volumes Is
an increase of 20.O0O,0OO since 1908
OF the 2,849 libraries contatn1ng
500 volumes or over 1,844 are classi-
fed as public and society Libraries
and 1.005 are school and college IL
braries Public and society l1brar-
les have an aggregate OF over tifty
million volumes, with 100000 Dor
rower's cards in force; LAG OF these
Libraries were entirely free to the pub
lie.
Libraries reporting from 1000 tc
5000 volumes numbered 5,453, Oh
which 2,188 were public and society
libraries, and 1855 school libraries.
These libraries contained IL, 689, 942
volumes. Another group OF still
smaller libraries, comprising those
that reported from 800 to 1000 vol
umes. Increased the total by 2.961,-
007 volumes.
The distribution of library facili-
ties is still uneven. or the 1,S44
public and society libraries reported
for the entire United States. more
than half were In the NOrln AlldHllS
states, and they contained 24,627 .921
volumes out of the total of 5O.0OO,-
600; and of the 100000 volumes
added to library collections for the
year 1913, almost one-half were for
the same section. New York state
had 7,S42,621 volumes in her PA
Libraries: Massachusetts. 7,3S0,024 III
28S libraries; Pennsylvania. 3.72S.-
O7O; and Illinois, 3, 16S,765 volumes
Four-fifths of the borrowers cards
in use were in the North Atlantic
and North Central states.
Library activity for the last year
was marked, according to the bureau
of education report, by considerable
extension of the branch system, par
ticularIy in the granting of library
privileges on the part of cities to
neighboring suburban communities;
by further development of the coun-
try library plan in many states; and
in general by visible growth in the
spirit of service that Is character
istic of many of the formal educa-
tional institutions of today. The
period of the library as mere store
house of books seems to be safely
past: it has yielded to a period OF
direct community service"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
LIVE WIRE
Falls upon Girl Playing in Yarc
and Burns Off Her
Hand.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa, July 81
Timers working on the roof of the
Rosedale building here threw a board
to the ground which tore down an
electric light circuit carrying 1900
volts. The live ends of the wires fell
into the yard of Harry Alexander. His
daughter, Clara, aged z, took hold on
one side of the broken circuit. Her
father pulled her away. being himself
seriously shocked.
The child's right hand was burned
away and she was rendered uncon-
scious. Electricians say that but for
the fact that she stood on a solid
concrete walk she would have been
killed instantly.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
Snake
Coils Around Horses Leg and
Causes the Animal to
Run Away.

LAwRENcEBURG, Ind, July 81
stacking machine driven by Robert E.
Jammison. aged "a, a farmer of Jack
son township, ran away when a black
snake coiled around leg of one of
the horses.
Jammison was thrown to the ground
and his body caught in the machine.
He was dragged two miles before the
horses ran into fence and stopped.
Jammison's skull was fractured, his
spine was injured and probably he
was Internally injured.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
C|GARETS
Now Used by Aged Man Who
Has Smoked for Sixty
Four Years.

ABERDEEN. S. D.. July S.-start-
ing to smoke when but eight years
old. when he wrapped coarse plug"
tobacco into crude cheroots, Captain
j. L. Babcock, desk sergeant of the
Aberdeen police station. who VIII
pass his eightieth birthday next fall.
is now smoking on an average OF
thirty-fiye cigarets day.
Capt. Babcock estimates he smokes
100 cigarets year. Averaging TWEEN
ty-five each day from the time he be-
gan to smoke seventy-two years ago.
would number 655,O00. These placed
in a row would reach thirty-tnree
miles.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
nut egg"
Worn Around Mans Neck as
a Cure for Neuralgia,
He Says.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 81
James Elliott. colored, appeared in
city court. with a cure for neuralgia
tied around his neck.
What is that you have around your
neck?" Harry Jockey prosecutor. ask
ed Elliott. That" referred to nut
tied around his neck with string.
That's a nut egg" said Elliott.
What do you wear it for?" Elliott
was asked.
"oh. that's my cure for neuralgia
said Elliott.
Judge Deery. fined Elliott 81 and
costs for lettering and Elliott and his
neuralgia cure were taken away.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
LINGOLN'S DEATH
Recalled by Passing of Man.
Who Ran Ford's Theater
at the Time.

NEW YORK, July 31.-H. Clay Ford,
who was resident manager of Ford's
opera house at the time president
Lincoln was shot, died the other day
in Passaic. N. J.. following an opera
ton. at the age Of seventy-two years.
Mr.. Ford, who was known as the
"Nestor of Shakespearean managers
was associate manager with his broth
ler John T. Ford, in control of opera
houses at Baltimore and Washington.
His wife was Blanche Chapman, an
actress.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
For Better Or Worse
Stands, Says
Court

PORT HURON, Mich, July 31.-Be-
cause her husband is confined IN the
state hospital at Pontiac, Judge Law
refused to grant Care Mclean di-
vorce. The court learned that Mclean
had supported his family until he be-
came afflicted.
The court informed Mrs. Mclean
that she had taken her husband '.rol
better or worse" and the fact that
he had become mentally afflicted was
not proper cause for divorce.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
SUICIDE
of Widow of a Lusitania Victim
Thought to Have Been
Caused by Grief.

NEW YORK, July 31.-Grief over
the death Of her husband, George L.
vernon. a film manufacturer, who lost
his life when the Lusitania was tor
pedoed is believed to be responsible
for the suicide of Mrs. Inez Vernon,
whose body was found in her apart
ment here. She evidently had shot
herself several days before.
Mrs. Vernon was a sister OF Rita.
Jolivet, the actress, who was saved
when the Lusitania sank. =
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
FEW CRANBERRIEs.

WASHINGTON, July s1.-Reports
from the cranberry sections of Cape
Cod. New Jersey and Wisconsin state
that IN consequence of the cold wealth
err a few weeks ago the cranberry
crop will be short. Last season there
were 626, 900 barrels from these three
sections, but according to best esti-
mates now the coming crop will not
exceed 100000 barrels,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
MUNITIONS FACTORY
To BE Built in Moscow at Cost Of
S5,O0O,00O.

PETROGRAD. July 31.-The leading
manufacturers of Moscow have join
ed in furnishing capital for nation
al munitions factory there. The plant.
which will. start at once. is to cost
s5, 900 900 all of which will be raised
within a fortnight. Most of the man
ufacturers have agreed to subscribe a
sum not less than one per cent OF
their capital - L..,-.4. .-.--.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01
PASTOR BOYCOTTED.

ST. LOUIS, July s1.-Because ne
scored his congregation for playing
croquet on Sunday, the Rev. J. Il
Baker, pastor of the Christian cnurcn
at Ludlow, Ill, was boycotted. he
RESIGNED this week after he had
preached to empty seats.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-15

I did would make a big fuss over
his being away from me so much.
Truly, husbands don't like to be both
cred with ailing WiVes-even when it
means the coming Of much-wished-
for child.
To Be Continued TomoTToW.)
Paris has map showing where,
within its limits, tango may not be
danced.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-15
SLIM HOPE

SLIM HOPE
Wont you be very, very happy
when your sentence is over?" cheer
fully asked a woman of convict in
prison.
81 dunno, ma'am, dunno gloom
lily answered the man. -
''You don't know" asked the WOm-
an, amazed. ''Why not?" e4
'Tm in for life. Ladies' Home
Journal
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR
WEDNESDAY.

semi-official dispatches from Ber-
lin deny the Russian report Of heavy
German losses in the naval battle of
Riga, and assert that only one small
German gunboat was sunk, and two
damaged, whereas two Russian gun.
boats and a torpedo boat were sent to
the bottom.
Berlin announces that the outer for.
tiications at Brest-LitovslI have been
ierced. The Teutonic forces are en-
gagged in a swinging movement de-
signed to throw a ring around the
city.
Forty-one persons were killed or
wounded by bombs from allied aero.
planes which attacked Constantinople.
Paris reports a gain by British troops
of 500 yards of Turkish trenches on
Gallipol peninsula.
Austrian artillery has driven Italian
forces from the heights Of Monfal.
cone, Vienna reports.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
THURSDAY.

Berlin has announced the capture
of the fortress of Brest-Litovsk, in
south Poland. Petrograd admits the
retirement of Russian forces from
Bialystok, in north Poland, saying
Grand Duke Nicholas was unwilling
to join battle with superior German
forces. Dispatches from Switzerland
say that among the German trophies
on the eastern front is a large quan.
tity Of Japaneses guns and shells.
In the biggest air raid ever made,
sixty-two French aeroplanes dropped
$50 bombs upon the town of Dillingen.
in the Rhine region, an important
ammunition manufacturing centre.
London says that the recent British
advances on the Gallipoh peninsula
have enabled the allied forces to con
solidate over a twelye-mile front.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
MONDAY.

English military experts regard the
renewal Of the Austro-German often
sive in eastern Galicia as the prelude
to an attempt to execute a vast envel.
oping movement, the ultimate object
of which is possibly to drive through
Russia to the Black sea. The Teutonic
forces have pierced the Russian lines
on the upper Bug and Zlota Lipa riv-
ers and are reported advancing to-
ward the triangle Of forts at Lutsk,
Dubno and Rovno. In the north the
Germans have renewed their advance
on Grodno.
French artillery has damaged the
German trenches seriously at three
points in the Argonne region. Rumors
are Afioat in London and Paris that
the long-expected drive by the allies
on the western battle front may begin
in October.
The Italian expedition sent to aid
in the move to open the Dardanelles
is reported to have arrived at its base
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
FRIDAY.

A semi-official statement from vi
emit says Austrian cavalry has cut
the railroad line, near Kovel, which
connected the Russian armies in
southern Poland and those to the
southwest. Berlin announces gains
along the entire eastern front, and
reports that the fortress of Olita, on
the Niemen river, twenty miles south.
east of Kovno, has been evacuated.
Reports from Amsterdam say that
Germany has shifted 100000 men and
a quantity of heavy artillery to the
vicinity Of Verdun, APPARENTLY in pre-.
paration for a new offensive on the
western front. French airmen have
made frequent raids on the Franco.
German border.
Italians have made slight gains in
the upper and lower Isonzo region,
Rome asserts.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
SUNDAY.

French warplane flotillas, in spec
cular night raids, have bombardet
T ny German trench lines, ammuni
Il n and powder storehouses and pio
rcer shelters and barracks housing
t ousands of the kaiser's soldiers. The
r ids were carried out in the Arden
res region, in the Argonne and as far
as the frontiers Of Lorraine.
The Russian hold on the last part
of Galicia seems to have been com
pletely broken by the Austro-German
offensive. The Vienna war Office re-
ports that the Russian line on a front
Of 100 miles has been broken down,
that the Russians are in retreat and
that during the first two days fighting
Of the new campaign 10000 prisoners
were made.
The Turkish war office told Of gen.
eral attacks by the allies from the
Sulva bay district to Avi Burnu.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
SATURDAY.

The right and left wings of the Rus
sian army has been cut off from the
CENTER according to news dispatches
to Berlin. An official announcement in
Berlin says the Russian line has been
pierced in East Galicia, and that the
city of Narew has been taken. A spe.
cial dispatch says the Russian army
has become demoralized and that the
Germans now hope to reach Odessa
and Petrograd and end the war.
It is reported in Washington that
Germany has signified her willing.
ness to curb her submarines If the
United States induces Great Britain
to raise its food blockade against the
Germans.
Two German aviators were killed
by gunfre when a squadron of four
geroplanes attempted a raid on Paris,
The raiders were driven away without
accomplishing any damage.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
SIXTEEN MINERS KILLED
Overcome by Afterdamp In Gas Ex.
plosion In ColIiery Near Johnstown,

Overcome by Afterdamp In Gas Ex.
plosion In Colliery Near Johnstown.
Sixteen miners are dead as the re-
suit Of the explosion of gas in the
brenda mine Of the Merchants Ccal
company at Boswell, near Johnstown,
Pa. The names of fourteen of them
have not been learned.
Joe Mantok was killed by the ex.
plosiOn and John Beegle died of in
juries in a hospital. When the mine
finally was penetrated the bodies Of
fourteen Others, mostly foreigners,
were found. They had been overcome
by the afterdamp.
George P. Escutz, Frank Comalich
and James Berdalena, miners, are in
a hospital in critical conditions. Six
men burned slightly were given first
aid treatment from the grounds ana
went to their homes. Their names
were not taken.
The explosion was confined to a
comparatively small area. A heavy fall
Of coal occurred in one of the dips and
a gas pocket was ignited from an open
lamp. Most of the victims were work
ing in this dip. Others in communicate
ing chambers we're hurt by flying coal
and injured by stray runners Of the
burning gas. Three hundred men were
at work in the mine when the explO-
sion occurred.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03

We dealing with the
land
wealth When they fail the whole country
is should fully
not only for their commercial advancement
The farmers and the railways
It is difficult
firmly the minds
that suspicion
ways have fully recognized this relation
in
the birth nation within
that purbnd prejudice
dominated different
enterprise This condition
No statute written constitution
inalenable rights the individual
and varied for both the railway and the farmer
peculiarly dependent rapid and cheap
always comparatively bulky and frequently
worldwide
standing Of the fundamental improvement of railway transportation
wide markets made possible only by regular transportation
the farmer conclude that when the railroads,
his potent allies he is doing himself
there in the river,
The farmers and railways shall flourish forever"
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
GEN. OROZC0 KILLED
Mexican Leader Shot as a Horse THE
In Texas.


In Texas.
Pascual Orozco, famous as a revo
Iutionist and Mexican leader, hero OF
hundred battles in Mexico, died at
the hands OF a posse of Americans,
with the sting of "horse thief" upon
him.
Louis Holman. United States Gus.
toms inspector OF El Paso, positively
identified one of the five Mexicans
killed in the mountains as Orozco.
Holman was sent to the scene OF
the killing by Customs Collector Z.
L. Cobb, upon receipt Of a request to
send some one who could identity
Orozco.
Holman reached the scene of the
last stand of the five Mexicans and
positively declared one OF the bodies
to be that of the former Mexican
chief, once dictator of all northern
Mexico, and later one of the trusted
lieutenants of General Victoriano
Huerta.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
U. S. SHIPPING TAKES LEAP
More American Vessels In Foreign
Traha Ehnn Ii - 40 Nnarc

more American Vessels In Foreign
Trade Than In Last 42 Years.
The American flag floats over more
shlps in the foreign trade than at any
tlme since 1868, and the United States
Is pressing close on France and Nor
way as maritime nation.
Figures made public by the depart
ment Of commerce show a record in
crease in American shipping for the
year ended June 80. On that date
tnere were registered in the foreign
trade 276S ships, totalling 1,S13,775
sFoss tons, an increase of 1853 ships
ana 1888 tons for the year. Nearly
d 1.-The increases are due to the new
american registry law.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
GRODNO DEFENCES
FALL TO GERMANS
Take Outer Positions Of Rus
sian Stronghold.
TEUTONS STRIKE At WILMA
Berlin Reports Taking Of 5ialystok
Forest and the Capture o. $500 Pris-
oners.

Forest and the Capture o. $500 Pris
oners.
Continuing their drive against the
fortress o! Gr0dno, tae last stronghold
held by the Russians On Their sec,nd
line Of defense, the Germans h"v5
forced the cars forces to surrender
their outer positions near thaI tor,ress
on the eastern border CT the forest OF
Bialystok. The German siege guns are
bombardins the forts.
Serious resistance is not expected
from the forces holding the Russian
stronghold. They are expected to
maintain short action to stay as
long as possible the German advance
and then draw back to make connec-
tion with the Dyina line, uncovering
Wilma ana leaving in German hands
the greatest strate ic base within the
bounds Of ali Russia.
Wilma, according TO the plans now
made, will become the base of oper-
ations for he Teutonic allies. It is
topographi ally adapted to the most
important uses and commands the
routes both to Petrograd and Moscow.
A strike my be made in either direc-
tion from the great strategic base.
The German official statement fol
lows:
"The battle for the possession of
the brilgehead south of Friedrich
stadt still continues. South Of the
Niemen our troops are advancing in
the direction of the railway leading
from Gro5no to Wilma, They have
taken 2600 prisoners.
"On the eastern front of the Grod-
no fortress district NOvydvor and
Kusnica have been reached. The en-
emy, in the face of our attack, sur
rendered his positions on the eastern
order of the forest of Bialystok.
THE passage of the upper Narew
has been won step by step and the
right wing Of this army group is ad-
vancing against Grozana.
"The pursuit of the enemy has been
continued to the Muchawieco tribu-
tary. We defeated the enemy rear
guard ard 300 prisoners fell into our
hands"
A newspaper dispatch from Petro- |
grad says that the evacuation of Will
ma is being continued, thousands Of
people leaving the city. Refugees from
the Kovno district, who have reached
tell of their homes being
reduced to smoking ruins by Russian
Feverish energy, the dispatch
states, is being displayed in the man
lfacture OF munitions.
The question as to whether the Ger
mans intend an advance on Petrograd,
beginning with the seizure of Riga as
a naval base, is being discussed, it is
added. It is pointed out that the
equipment OF the German army in
Iourland indicates preparations for
operations on an extensive scale.
Milford chronicle., 1915-09-03
BRYAN NOT A CANDIDATE
Declares He Has No Plans For Hold
ing Office In the Future.

ing Office In the Future.
William Jennings Bryan issued a
statement in Chicago, declaring that
"the work which l have mapped out
for my remaining years does not in
clude the occupying Of any political
position"
"If Roosevelt decides" he said, in
talking of the Republican situation,
ito maintain an independent organiza'
tion and is either a candidate himself
or supports some other Progressive,
the Republican party will remain di-
vided and there will be little chance
for the success Of either branch as
long as it is divided.
"If Mr.. Roosevelt goes back to the
Republican party he will carry with
him those Progressive Republicans
who left the party out Of personal at
tachment to him, while the Demo
cratic party can hope to gain the sup
port OF the Progressives who are
really opposed to Republicanism as
represented by the leadership Of the.
regular Republican party. The Taft
branch of the Republican party has
made no concessions to the Progress
sives.
81 have no political expectations
whatever, and no plans looking to tie
holding Of any office in the future,
Mr.. Bryan said, referring to his own
program.