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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
ENGLISH AND INDIANS
MAKE A BRAVE RUSH

lunches and charged, wheeled and
rode back through them, as might
have been done In the NaDOleonIc
war. Thus. for the first time In
eighteen months Of continuous warfare
on the western front, with It's con-
tinuous bayoneting, bombing, gassing
and Smelling. an enemy was impaled
from a horse.
The surviving Germans who had
not forgotten their drill, tried to re-
celve the horsemen in their sweep
back with the bayOnet
At another point, as the cavalry
swept across the wheat fields the sur
prise of the Germans WIS as manifest
as II some apparitIon had appeared
The cavalry went ahead until they
found the infantry had not yet taken
Delvllle and High wood and were sig.
nailed to fall back and dig in until
relieved by the infantry. They
brought back more than thirty prls-
oncrs the survivors of their charges
At one time, when a machine gun
was troubling them, British aviator
in n monoplane. flying at a height Of
800 feet. circled four times as he
poured the contents Of his machine
gun into the Germans
One division whose loss was only
one man in the capture OF section
of the six line on It's front, was not
so happy as the cavalrymen, who at
MORE TO COME
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
CASTRO is HELD
AT ELLIS ISLAND

volv!ng moral turpitude. General
Cairo appeared greatly perturbed
when informed by the immigration
authorities upon his arrival here that
he would not be permitted to come
ashore. He denied that his visit was
Of a political nature.
Reports that | have come for po-
litiCaI reasons or for conferences
with Latin-AmerIcan leaders," said
General Castro, are absolutely un-
founded. | have no political inter
csts whatsoever, and happen to be in
New York simply because / could not
20 direct from Trinidad to where my
family now Is. intend to take the
first boat | can get"
General Castro said that a revolt
ton in Venezuela at this time could
not succeed for many reasons. de-
spite the fact that the condition Of
the country was bad, both politically
and financially. He deprecated the
possibility of war between Venezuela
and Colombia over the boundary dis
lute,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
PERSONALS

C. D. Weidenhammcr of Morgan
town, is a prominent business yisi-
tor here.
Allison Bartlett was here Saturday
evening from Hep2ibah,
Ira c. Post was here from Ro-
mines Mills Saturday evening
Captain James H. Hurry, OF
Bridgeport, visited the city Saturday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert II. Wilson and
children, of Pittsburg, are the
guests of Mrs. Wilson's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Koblegard.
Earl Carskadon returned Saturday
evening from a weeks fishing trip
spent on the south branch of the Pc,
tomac, near Petersburg, Va.
b. L. Roberts, of fleetwood, is a
business visitor here.
A. L. Walker is here from Fair
mont.
Charles Heston. of Fairmont, is in
the city on a brief visit
p. C. Dick is here from Charleston.
Mrs. C. E. Meredith, OF Salem, is a
visitor in the city.
w. NJ. Fricker, manager of the Ma
tioual Wooden Mills Companys local
branch, will go to Parkersburg Mon
dav to attend a meeting Of cutters
of the company, which will last three
days,
Mary, returned home Saturday even
ing from Weston, where they visited
relatives and friends two weeks.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
On Charges the Same as Three
Years AGO Involving Moral
Turpitude.

NEW YORK, July 15.-General
Cipriano Castro. former president of
Venezuela. who was admitted to the
United States in 1913 after being
detained by the immigration author
tiles for six weeks on Ellis Island,
again was denied admission to this
country today. when he arrived on
the steamship Vauban from Spain to
Trinidad.
His detention was upon orders re-
celved from Washington. General
Castro was permitted to remain
aboard the Vauban to await the out
come of hearing before special
board of inquiry tomorrow.
Assistant Commissioner of Immi-
grafton Byron p. Uph, asserted that
the charges against General Castro
were the same as three years ago in
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
FIFTEEN INJURED
When an Interurban Car Runs
into a Switch Engine at
Granville.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, July 10.
Fifteen persons were injured tonight
when an interurban ear, bound from
Holland for Grand Rapids, ran into a
Perre Marquette switch engine, at
Grandville. fifteen miles west OF here.
There were about seventy persons
in the interurban, Several Of the
victims, who were brought TO loca!
hospitals, were seriously crushed
The interurban swung around a
curve and plunged into the engine
which, It is charged, was on the in
terurbans right-ot-way. Railroad
officials claim that a block sign which
told of the presence of the engine
had been set on the right-of-way and
that the motorman ignored 1t.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
RUNS MOWER FOR HER AND
WEEDS HER WITHIN A WEEK

HARTFORD CITY, Ind, July Is
Mrs. Nancy Hamilton, aged 66, and
Enoch Newton, aged 60, were marri-
cd after a courtship of week.
The bridegroom is employed at the
Wayne paper mill, and to and from
his work passes the Hamilton home.
one evening he noticed Mrs. Hamll-
ton running the lawn mower.
,"That's pretty hard work for a
lady. isn't it," Newton inquired.
Get me do it for you" he said, as
he laid off his coats and moved the
lawn. And from this unusual intro
duction sprang a courtship that cul-
minated in a proposal and marriage.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
RAILROAD PROBLEMS
Joint Sub Committee Creating
Bill from the House Passed
by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, July ia joint
resolution passed by the Senate last
February creating a joint subcommit-
tee from the membership of the Sen
ate and House commerce committees
to investigate various railroad prob
lens, including government ownership
and regulation, was adopted by the
House today without a recording vote
The resolution authorities inquiry
into the dcsirabillty of government
ownership Of all public utilities, in
Guiding telegraph, wireless, express
companies and railroads engaged in
interstate and foreign commerce.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
Events of Washington. D. T.,
Are Reported by TeIegram'S
Correspondent There.

WASHINGTON, July ia case
that Is attracting an unusual amount
of attention. both in Washington AMI
in the various states is that of Dis
trict Guardsman Brockman. Brockman
was released from the District mill
tia on habeas corpus proceedings in
stituted by his parents The war de-
partment Immediately made appllca-
ton for the setting aside of the order
OF the court directing the releace and
while the hearings this week have
been technically on the motion to set
aside the order, the representatives
of the war department and the at
torneys for the parents OF young
Brockman have been permitted to
argue in regard to the status OF the
guardsman.
The case is considered to be of
great Importance, as numerous ha-
beas corups proceedings have been
brought in many parts of the country
since the mobilization order Of the
president, by parents who are anvil
Ing for their minor sons to be mus
tered into the military service OF
the United States. The case Of
Young Brockman, having risen in
the national capital, where the war
department may have close scrutiny
over it, It is believed that the de-
cision will form an important prece-
dent.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
TO SELECT HEADQUARTERS

CHARLESTON, July 15,-The new
Republican state committee today, af-
ter selecting Hunting as the place
for a state convention to be held Au-
gust l, empowered Il special com
mittee consisting of 7. J. Sherrard,
L. f. williams, DR.. S. S. sutton,
Charles G. Coffman, W. +. Baker, II.
G. Scherr and Fred G. King to estab-
lish headquarters for the coming
campaign.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
EXPORTS
Of War Munitions and General
Merchandise to Europe Are
Increasing Greatly.

NEW YORK, July 15.-EXports Of
var munitions and general merchan-
/. disc from the port Of New York for
he week ending today amounted TO
$S9,325,O49 compared with $47,645,-
992 the week before.
Total exports from New York to
date for the calender year amounted
to $1,436,240741.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
GEERS MUCH IMPROVED.

CLEVELAND, July l5-Ihe con-
dition of Driver Edward F. Geers,
who was injured in a smashup at
the North Ranall track Thursday
morning, shows constant improve
ment. Gcers is at local hospital
and his physicians state that he
should be able to leave the institu-
ton within a few days.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
WHOLE FAMILY KILLED.
When Twentieth Century Limit
ed Crashes into Automobile
near Butler, Ind.

DUTLER, Ind, July 15.-Otto D.
carry, aged 40 years, his wife and
two sons, Laughton, aged years,
and Paul. an is months old baby,
were instantly killed at 1890 o'clock
tonight when a five passenger auto
mobile in which they were return
ing from Butler to Hicksville, o., was
struck by the Twentieth Century Lin
ted train on the LAKE Shore railroad
lalf a mile east of here.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
TRAVELLING CARDS
Will Be Necessary before Chill
dren Can Leave the City
of New York.

NEW YORk, July I5.-FedeTaT
health officials today began regulat-
ing interstate travel of children out
of New York in an effort to allay
alarm occasioned in other states by
the epidemic of infantile paralysis in
this city.
Dr. Charles Z. Banks, surgeon OF
the United States public health ser
vice, announced the children leaving
New York will be examined and GER
tlfcates of travel Will be Issued to
safeguard other states from danger
of the epidemic.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
BELLRAN KILLED.


CHIHUAHUA CITY, July Is. -
]. Bellran, one of Villas chief lieu
tenants and a participant in the mas
sacre Of eighteen Americans al Santa
Ysabel, Chihuahua, last January, was
killed in the engagement at Cerro Be
lance, on July II, reports to General
,Jacinto Treyino today indicated.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
MORE REFUGEES
Including Family of British Vice
Consul Arrive in San Diego
from Mexico.

SAN DIEGO, CaIif., July 10
Fifty-fve more refugees arrived here
today on the collier Nanshan from
Guayamas and La Paz.
A number of mining men and
merchants were in the party. Mrs.
Frank w. Moore, wife of the British
vice consul at Lapez. and her four
children, were among the pashen-
gers.
Max Marks, miner, says every
consideration was shown to Amerl'
cans in that district by Mexican Of
ficials.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
GO TO THE MINES

DOUGLAS. Ariz.. July 15-Ar.
rivals from the South say discharged
volunteer soldiers are passing there
at the rate of at least 1000 daily,
to take their places in the working
forces of various mines in that dis
trict and to the ranches further
south.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
OLD SNUFF BOX.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 15.-Jos-
eph A. willard, Of Delmar township,
Pa, has been exhibiting an ancient
carved ivory snuff box. On the cover
is inscribed Susanna Willard, 1906"
This heirloom is said to have come
over In the .Mayhower and has been
handed down IN the Wi,la.j Iamily for
900 .rears.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

In the omnibus buildings bill
which is being made up in committee
and which is to be reported early in
the week, there isn't a West Nir-
ginia congressman except Judge
Moss Cand he has no place In his
district, asking for piece of this
so-called "pork") but will get recog-
milton for his district.
Nicely, Of the First district, is to
draw down $4,000 for building in
New Martinsville. and a sum for a
site for a building at Warrington
Littlepage, of the Third. is to get
an appropriation for Princeton sure,
and probably an additional one for
Williamson.
Bowers, of the Second, is listed for
appropriations for buildings at Berk-
eIey Springs and Keyser,
Sutherland, at-large, has Elkins
and Philippi coming to him"
The House may, and then again
it may not. pass the bill. Should 1t
reach the Senate, a strong fight
against it is predicted, and it may
fail of passage.
The Indications are now that no
such bill is going through. but all
signs of this kind have been known to
fail when the congressional elections
are pending,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
VILLA Is SEEN.

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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
TO TIE PUBLIC.

This is to notify the public that
will not be responsible for any debts
contracted by my wife, Agnes Keller,
she having left my bed and board with
out any just cause.
ERNEST KELLER.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
DESTROYER SUNK.

ROME, via London, July LIT is
officially announced that the Italian
destroyer Impetueso was torpedoed
and sunk in the lower Adriatic July
10 by submarine. Most Of the
crew were saved.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
WEST VIRGINIA
TAKES PART IN
CAPITAL NEWS

Va. according to an official notice
sent Congressman George NJ. Bowers
by the pension bureau, has had ms
pension increased to $50 month,
the increase to date from last De-
cember.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
REAL STORY OF WRECK
OF HECTOR lSNOT TOLD
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ORDERS TO ENTRAIN.


ALEXANDER, L. l., July Is.
Officers in command in the
Louisiana concentration camp
tonight received orders to pre-
pare to cntrain for the border
within forty-two hours. The
First regiment Of infantry will
80 to San BenitO, Tex, and
cavalry troop and a battalion of
artillery to Mercedes, Tex. The
movement probably can be
started Sunday night.
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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
GREAT RAIN FALL.

CHARLOTTE, y. c., July Is.
"A rain fall OF SOB inches, the
greatest for twenty-four hours
ever recorded by the weather
bureau here, caused the rivers
in this section to reach flood
tide and creeks and small
streams to overflow their banks
today. Passenger trains on
some lines ran ten hours late.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

Congressman Edward Cooper has
gone to his home at Bramwell to
spend n week and longer if possible.
The length OF his stay depends on
when the whip" on the Republican
side of the House wires him to get
back on the job. This is Mr.. Cooper's
first absence from the House since he
became a member. No member is
more constant in his attendance upon
his official duties than the able and
popular Fifth district representative.
Isaac NJ. Lodge, of Thornton, W.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

Among the important early arri-
walls from the Elks national cOnven-
ton was Lyle o. Jones, of Parkers-
burg, who is at the Raleigh. Mr.
Jones is well known through his eX-
cellent service to the order both in a
local capacity and as state official,
and it is rumOred, that he has ambi-
ton to serve in the national official
dom. Mr.. Jones was not candidate
for any office at this time, but it is
expected that when the hour is ripe
he will enter the race for office on
the national board, a movement in
which he will be ably supported by
the hundreds of brother Elks who
are urging his suitability for such a
position.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

A. Spates Brady, of Piedmont, has
requested Congressman sutherland
10 do what he can to improve the
mail facilities at Mabie, lumber
town
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
CBy Associated Press)

HARRISBURG, July 10
Some idea of the extent of the
recruiting which must be done
to raise the ten regiments Of the
Pennsylvania National Guard
now in the federal service to
; war strength became known
) here tonight when 1t was learn
; ed that a camp for about 5000
) men is contemplated at Mount
Gretna this summer.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

Congressman Sutherland has had
a shipment Of fish despatched 10 b,
II. Crouch, OF Spangler, Randolph
county.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

A new rural mail route. eighteen
miles long, starting from Poca, has
been requested from the postoflice
department by Congressman Little
page
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

In an effort to expedite the work
of filling up the ranks of the various
national guard units modified and
OF hurryihg them to the border, the
war department has authorized the
various department commanders to
appoint special recruiting officers
from men of the militia not hereto
fore called into service. Each de-
partment commander has been in
structed to call up the adjutant
general of the states in his depart
ment to telegraph names of well
qualified national guard officers to be
mustered into the United States SER
vice as recruiting officers. Officers so
named are not to be above the rank
Of major, and should be willing to
serve and should be active members
of the national guard exclusive of
those already mustered into service
as part of the states contingent UNI
der the presidents call.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

FOunt G.. Outright mas Deen appoint
ed a rural carrier for route No. l, at
Sage, w. Va, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation by Baker Caste.
Taking advantage of the AUTHORIZE
ton granted by the recently enacted
army reorganization bill, the war de-
partment will employ large number
Of graduate nurses for the Mexican
border. In accordance with its policy
TO take the best care OF the natioSI
guard the medical department of the
army has established a series Of base
hospitals along the Mexican line at
which these nurses are to be stationed
1t is announced 276 nurses are need
de. Their pay will be $40. a month
with an increase of $1,000 for service
outside the United States, If they
should be called upon to 90 across the
border. Graduate nurses who desire
TO make application can obtain full In
formation from the superintendent
Army Nurse Corps, at the Office of the
surgeon general of the war department
in Washington.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

The House committee on claims
has voted to report Congress Suth-
erland's two bills 10 reimburse a
couple of ormer postmasters whose
Offices we're burglarized Of money
and stamps when they were in the
postal service.
One bill is to reimburse Isaiah
stephen. of ATcMechen, Marshall
county. to the extent of $2,o7O.5S.
This was the amount of money and
stamps lifted from the McMechen
office by yeggs when Stephens was
postmaster in 1910, He has never
paid over to the government the loss,
but a suit against him is pending.
The other bill is to reimburse S. 5.
Buzzard. of Berkeley Springs. That
Office was touched" for S12O.SO
which Buzzard long ago paid over to
the government.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16

Baron Chinda, who until quite re-
Gently was the japanese ambassador
at Washington, has been seEt to Lon
don by his government to urge the
British to permit Japan to keep the
islands captured by the Japs from
the Germans in the early days Of the
war. Baron Chinda is recognized as
one of the ablest men in the Japanese
djDlomatic service
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
Henry Belknap has been named as

Henry Belknap has been named as
Dostmaster for Bender, BraXton
county. to succeed Miss Hattie l..
Meyers. resigned; Martin L. Carr,
for the Office at Sully, to succeed e
W. Roy, resigned; Mrs. Sarah 4.
Meek, at Flaxton, Mason county, to
succeed Jasper n. Meek. resigned;
Alvin L. Vogel. at Helyetia, Randolph
county. to succeed Jacob Zumbach'
removed; Albert K. Hinter for the
new office al Epperly, Raleigh coun-
tv; Emmett Turner at Woodruff,
Marshall county, to succeed Wiley M.
Miller, resigned
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-02
Administration Will Take a
Week or More to An
swer Carranza
THREATENING NOTE
is RESENTED
Pershing Said to Have Had
Very Satisfactory Talk
with Gen. Gavira

Washington, d. c., June "A week
or more will be taken by administration
officials in replying to Carranza's note
threatening war if the American troops
are not withdrawn from Mexico, it was
said to-day. President Wilson is away
and mo active preparations are being
made to draw up an answer.
Army officers are looking for a report
from General Pershing on his conference
yesterday at Golonia Dublan with Cen
eral Gavira when cooperation OF troop
movements was thought TO have been
described. General Pershing has described
the meeting as very satisfactory.
General Funston reported to day that
10000 Carranza troops are mobiliZed near
Chihuahua City, being disposed appar-
emily for an active campaign against
the bandits over territory extending for
800 miles from Madero to Ojinaja. He
feels no uneasiness over the number,
Secretary of War Baker reported. Gen
eral Treyino. commanding the Chihua-
hua City forces, has ordered all foreign
ers TO be treated with consideration.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-02
TALK OF THE TOWN

John p Corcoran of Short street has
resumed his duties in the postoffice, after
passing several DAYS in Swanton. Enos-
burg Falls and St. Adams, having at
tended the annual meeting of the state
postal clerks in the latter place Memorial
day.
Negotiations for the transfer of the
wood yards owned by the estate of A. 5.
Martin in North Barre. Burnham's mead
ow and South Barre are in progress. II
is understood that two Barre dealers con
nected with the coal and wood trade are
interested in the transaction. H. G..
Woodruff i administrator of the estate.
A final agreement with the Barre Citi-
zens' band has been held up by the spe-
cial aldermanic committee appointed by
Mayor Gordon pending the petition of
Christopher Columbus band members for
share of the 81 900 that is yearly di-
verted to the older band men for the mu-
sic they furnish in City park
Efforts on the part of the aldermanic
lighting committee to alleviate the be-
nighted conditions in Depot square are
held in allowance, pending the discovery
that the city does not own that section
of the square where new high-power
light had been projected. II is said that
cooperation on the part of the two rail
roads will be necessary before the square
can be adequately lighted.
Barre Shriners in number went TO the
capital this afternoon to participate in
the special meeting Of Mount Sinai tenn
pie. which was TO begin with a business
meeting in armory hall at o'clock. The
ceremonial following the banquet will be
held in the city hall. The imperial po-
tentate..J. Putnam Stevens. j. 10 be pres
ent to review the work. Plans will be
completed for the Fourth Of July cele- 1
bration Of Arab patrol, which is to be 4
held at Intercity park.
A shrill toot from q Montpelier & 4
Wells River locomotive in the Granite 4
street wards aroused from its lethargy n
lrav horse tethered on North Main street 4
sis forenoon and before the driver. who
s,as discussing the price Of veal outlets
rith a household nearby. had time 70
each his steed. the animal was Of on a
anrent up Brook street. Three men. at I
intervals. essaycd the customary arm
iourizhes that are supposed to put a
.orse On the low speed. but the gymnas- i
s-s were futile IN this instance. Two
elephone poles were bsrked by the waz-
N a. fhr charger swayed from one SIDE
4 the street % the other. and the race
rafnst time did not end until she city
lamp uss reached A Moutpelier bufch
~ boz called af the dump reirht-7rhoof /
nd claimed the CutfL