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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-12-09

The train YOU take to the Point may
he changed in number or time so hike
to b. d y. station and see when your
supposed to leave.
The day book., 1916-05-06

Abatement law to be used in cir4
cult court against operation of fruit
store and hotel at northeast cOne1(
of Clark St and Grand av
Octave Qua, grand opera tenor,
freed of charge Of Ethel Deegan
that he rubbed her knee in movie.
WEATHER FORECAST
Generally fair weather Saturday
and Sunday, with continued mild
temperature; moderate southerIy
winds, becoming variable.
The day book., 1916-05-06

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Christian Socialist Fellowship has
discontinued its weekly meetings in
Masonic Temple for the summer, butt
meetings will be held fourth Sunday
of each month.
Rev. Chas. A. Gage, pastor OIiVef
Methodist church, will speak at civic
concert, Garfield Park refectOTy,
Sun. afternoon. Olivet choir will
sing.
DR.. Alex. J. McIvor-TyndaII will
lecture, 21O Masonic Temple, Sun,
II a. m, The Law of Transmuta-
ton; the Secret of the Mystics."
Sun. s p. m, THE Melting Pot, " with
dramatic Interpretation by Leslie
Wahl, New York.
Moody Tabernacle, North av. and
Clark, meetings every night. Mel
win TTOtter, Grand Rapids, speaks
Sun. morning and evening.
Herbert n. Scott, New ZeaIandeF
who served in Dardaneues campaign,
will speak at Golden Rule Spiritualist
society meeting, Sum-, p. m, $500
w. Madison.
Margaret Sanger lectures on birth
control, West Side Auditorium, Sun.
evening.
Performance and ball by Joint
committee of L W. w. locals. benefit
Of fellow workers who lost hand in
factory, WOrkingmen's hall, 1O15 w,
18th, Sun, $50 p. m.
Abatement law to be used in cir4
cult court against operation of fruit
store and hotel at northeast cOrnehr
of Clark St and Grand av.
The day book., 1916-05-06
LOEB WON'T LET ANYONE STOP
HIS FIGHT ON TEACHERS

Pride injured, his feelings hurt, ia
cob NJ. Loeb says nothing in the
world will make him drop the chip
from his shoulders and the fight he
is waging against the Chicago
Teachers Federation.
Latest of the many who have tried
to show the president of the board
of education the error of his way is
Congressman A. J. SABBATH. In his
letter to Loeb, Rep. SABBATH enclosed
kilograms he received from former
Mayor Harrison and VIM. L. O'Con-
nell, who urged SABBATH to use his in
fuence to get Loeb to drop the sense
less fight.
In trying to justify his stand, Loeb
pulled the old stuff about the fight
upon the teachers union being a
matter of principle for fighting
women tOilers. Loeb, in presenting
his excuses, never speaks of the in
terest Julius ROsenwald may have
in see the T. F. crushed in its fight.
Jake's brother, you know, holds job
with ROsenwaId's Sears-ROebUCk Co.
The day book., 1916-05-06
SOUTH AMERICA CONFIDENT OF
U. S.-MEXICAN MOVES

Washington. May $50 confident
has South America become as to the
good faith of the U. S. toward Mex
lea that any action this government
might take would not be questioned
there, said Sen. Fletcher today, back
from international high comm trip to
southern continent.
Formerly suspicion against the
L. S. pervaded all Latin-America,
said Fletcher. But South America
thinks that the patient course of the
U. S. with Mexico sample proof that
it does not seek to dominate all the
Americas"
-O-O
Evanston Y. NJ. c. A. started cam
paign to teach members to swim.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
JOE J. RUSSELL
HAS won, Hill
WIRES TRIBUNE
Republican Says He has been
Defeated by 339, But
Plurality is Almost 1000.
CONGRESSMAN SAYS
HIS LEAD is 1900
Discrepancies in Reports to Can
didates Certain-Big
Vote POlled.

David W. Hill. Republican nominee
for Congress from the Fourteenth
Congressional District, in a telegram
to The Tribune last night. admitted
! that he had been defeated by Con-
gresham Joseph J. Russell. While
returns from the various counties, re-
ceived by Congressman Russell and
Mr.. Hill do not tally in every parti-
cular, it is apparent that the Republi-
car nominee has been defeated by a
safe plurality.
Congressman Eussells figures show,
that Mr. Hill lost the district by 1866.
Mr.. Russell, however, wired The Ttib-
ure that his reports were not official
bat they are substantially correct. Mr..
Hill says he has been defeated by only
$50. but this estimate is not in keep
ing with the returns from several
counties, rs printed in the newspapers.
According to incomplete newspaper
returns, Mr.. Russell has been re-elect-
ed to Congress by a plurality Of APP
proximately 1000. The figures received
by both Congressman Russell and Mr.
Hill were from the various county
chairmen, and in some instances are
not exactly accurate.
The pluralities of the two candidates
in the district, as repOrtedtO Congress
man Russell, and which were wired to
The Tribune by the Congressman last
night. are:
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
g. Q. P. Cock Is
Shot AS 1t Pays
Wilson Tribute
Democrat, Thinking Rooster
Was Growing for Republi-
cans, Assassinates Him
Henry Suedekum, the
Owner, Sees Democratic
Joke.

Henry Suedekum ST., the well-known
farmer, who is an active Republican,
lost prize barred rock rooster as a
result of the victory of Woodrow Will
son.
A neighbor Of Mr.. Suedekum yester-
day sent The Tribune an account of the
assassination of the cockerel.
A Cape County Democrat, accord
ing to the statement, who knew the
political faith of Mr. Suedekum, shot
the bird as it was attempting to crow
the morning after the election. At that
time the indications were that Charles
+. Hughes had carried the country.
and the Democrat was passing the
Suedekum home when the rooster few
up on the fence and started to crow,
apparently in celebration of the Re-
publican landslide.
The Democrat removed a shotgun
from the bottom of his auto and fired
at the cockerel. The rooster tumbled
over the fence and ran as fast as it
could toward the barn.
The autOist fed his machine little
more gasoline and hurriedly disap-
pearcd.
The cockerel was Il Republican bird,
it is said, and had captured blue rib
bon at the Cape County Fair. But
since the complete returns of the cleo
ton have been received, it is believed
by Democratic neighbors of Mr.. Sue
dekum that the rooster was assassinat-
ed while attempting to pay barn
yard tribute to Woodrow Wilson. The
fact that the Democrat played a joke
on himself is the only satisfaction that
Mr.. Suedekum gets out of the incl
dent.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
ARRESTED" COW
EVAPORATES; IS
FOUND in WELL
PatrOlman GrOce Goes Into
Pitfall Looking for Vanish
ed Bovine.
"BOSSIE"LANDS ON HER
HEAD IN OLD DRY-PIT
Chief Hauls Out Lantern in
Search on West Morgan
Oak Street.
when is a cow not u COW >"

4 w - Il NON HOI 81 OON
That was the question that confront
| ed Patrolman Groce of the Haarig
beat last night when a bovine that he
was driving in from the southwest
part of the city went into eclipse in
the middle of the road-disappeared in
| thin air.
The policeman searched for the COW
for several minutes to no avail and as
he was about to give it up, he himself
went into eclipse. He fell into an
old abandoned, dry well in the middle
of Morgan Oak street between Pacific
and Ellis streets.
The COW did too, but into diff
ferent well, and Patrolman Groce's
search was not ended until he and
Chief HutsOn had procured lantern
and made a thorough investigation Of
the premises.
The disappearing COW is owned by
Adolph Seabaugh. The animal broke
her lettering chain late yesterday aft
ernoon and wandered to the southern
part of the city. Groce went after her
and was coming back toward Haarig
with the animal, when she became dis
contended with tts policeman's gait
and broke loose from him.
Mr.. Groce followed in the cows
wake up Benton street to jefferson
and over to Morgan Oak. As the COW
was charging down Morgan Oak
street, Mr.. GrOce was several PAGES IN
the rear. While his eyes were fasten-
ed on the roadway Immediately in
front Of him and he was not gazing
directly at the COW, the bovine started
across a small gully in the middle Of
the road and disappeared.
A sort of a matched roof of dirt,
leaves and sticks had been built over
the top of the old dry well, that once
had been a part of a brickyard. The
cow had stepped on the middle Of this
roof and went in head first.
Mr.. Groce went through the same
sort of covering into Il hole about
nine feet deep, as he was looking for
the COW. After laundering around at
the bottom of the hole, the patrolman
clambered out and went in search of
the chief. While searching for the COW
with a lantern, the two men heard
her breathing, but could not locate the
animal for several minutes.
She eventually was found standing
on her head in the bottom of the well
and in danger Of being strangled to
death. Henry Brunke, Mr.. Seabaugh
and George Meyer, together with sew
eral other men were summoned and
they finally succeeded in digging the
COW loose and hosting her out of the
hole.
When Seabaugh led the cow home,
she took long drink of water and was
little worse for wear.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
WEATHER PROPHET
Sees WILSON FROST
Col. Matt Morrison Says He's
Glad Hughes Muffed
Presidency.

Col. Matt Morrison, goosebone
weather prophet and pioneer politician,
announced the sleet storm four hours
before it it struck Cape Girardeau yes
terday afternoon and then turned his
attentions to the political outlook.
Il see the Democrats are going to
celebrate the Wilson victory with a
torchlight parade and a grand Jubilee -
said the goosebone prophet, looking
wise.
We'll, you can Just put it in the
paper that Col. Matt is glad the Re-
publican party got hooked. I'm a Re-
publican, mind you. l simply know
what's good for the party.
Just take it from me, the Demo
Gratis are going to have mighty hard
sleddin' during the next four years.
Why, if Hughes had been elected, we
never would have elected another Prsi-
dent.
an two years We'll all be tramps.
A silver dollar will look as big as a
doormat six months after that Euro
pean was is over. Them New York
bankers are sending all the money We
got over to the French and English to
help whip the Dutch, and when this
fighting stops, there wont be enough
change over here to start q fight
about.
when Woodrow Wilson gets out Of
the White House four years from now,
heel be tickled to death. He'll be the
last Democratic President we will ever
see.
"You know l have made study of
that tariff stuff, and when you haven't
got any tariff, the country's worse off
than a dog with the mango. Why,
We'll be trading calves for stray tom
cats in less than two years.
81 can't imagine what the Demo-
Gratis wanted to elect President now
for. If they had been wise, they would
have tipped Wilson off to lay down
and slip it to Hughes. l don't care
what politics the man had, he never
could make a success in the next four
years as President.
81 knew all along that if we elected
Hughes, we'd all be planted before this
administration was over, but l never
said much about it. l have been so
busy gathering my persimmon crop
that I haven't had much time for
politics. But | want those Democrats
who take part in that celebration to-
hight to clip this prediction out and
paste it in. their hats. Why, l tell
you We'll all be tramps in less than
two years.
81 want all the Democrats to read
what l have to say. l have hit every
weather prediction that l have made
during the last several years, and |
know what Pm talking about now.
Mark my word, we'er up against it."
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
WE'VE JUST BEGUN
TO FIGHT &C. G. n.
Attorney Hope Makes Statement
in Merriw ether Street
Case.

open Nerriwether street. We have
Just begun to fight" John A. Hope,
attorney for the C. G. G. n. Railroad,
declared last night while in the Cape.
Mr.. Hope was discussing the refusal
of the Missouri Supreme Court to is
isue a writ of prohibition against the
Common Pleas Court and its board of
commissioners who are to assess bene-
fits and damages in the improvement
of Merriwether street, restraining
them from carrying on their work.
mo, the litigation in the Merriweth-
er street case has Just been started,
and | don't believe it will be ended
now under four years"
Mr. Hope was sitting before the
fireplace in the lobby of the St. Char
les Hotel as he talked, and he shrug-
ged his shoulders as he spoke:
at is true the Supreme Court denied
our application for writ of prohibit
ton, but they handed down no opinion.
The court did not give any reason why
they refused to grant the writ.
"As a consequence, their refusal
does not necessarily mean that they
did not believe that our position is
right, but on the other hand, they may
have refused to grant the writ and
take uup this case at once, because
hey believe we are right but have rem
edy at law in another way.
"They are behind with their work
and they may have determined that
we must wait and come before them
on appeal, which is just exactly what
we will do.
"The Common Pleas Court and the
can go ahead with their
work, to all of which we shall enter ex-
ceptions upon the record and when
they are through, we shall appeal and
go right back to the Supreme Court.
eve believe we are right in our
contention and because it is an impor-
tant matter, we expect to have the
thing tried out to the end"
The Improvement of Merriwether |
street, which already has been pend |
ing for nearly three years, provides
that the hump just west of Lorimier
street be removed, the c. G. & n.
Railroad be forced to bridge the street
and the entire thoroughfare be paved
rom Sprigg to the extension of Main
street.
The Board of Commissioners who
lave been appointed by the court to
assess benefits and damages are A. {.
Iasterling, c. C. Hawley and Dennis
The railroad has opposed
o move since its inception.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
CAPE MARKSMEN VIE
FOR IA FAT TURKEYS
Arthur Bowman Gets First al
Shooting Match-Quail
Season Opens.

Fourteen turkeys - gobblers and
hens-yesterday afternoon were prizes
for which AZ Cape marksmen tried
their skill at one of the biggest shoot
ing matches of the fall season on
Sloan's Greek Just west Of the bridge
! in North Cape
The match was staged By Chris y.
Freeman. A pot of S42 at 81 per
entry was made up to pay for the
birds, pay expenses and provide for
three money prizes at the close of the
turkey choices.
About 60 men went out from the
Cape either to take part in the match
or to witness the shooting. 1t was the
first that had been held in the after
noon this season. All the shooting
matches conducted by the farmers close
to the Cape and which have been at
tended by marksmen from the Cape,
have been at night.
The result of the match was as fol-
lows: Arthur C. Bowman, city coun-
Gilman, first choice, who got q fine
large gobbler; J. Frank Lawler, sec
ond choice of the birds; Carl Powers,
third; Otto Vogt, fourth; C. II. Free
man, fifth for w. F. Koerber; Fred
Stammer, sixth; c. w. Weiss, seventh;
Walter Schlueter, eighth; Oscar Rue
digger, ninth; Fred Rouse, tenth; DR..
J. V. Braham, eleventh; w. F. Berg
mann, twelfth; Carl Powers, thir-
teenth, and w. F. Bergman, four
teenth.
Lawler, who got large fat bird on
second choice, won his choice on the
first shot he fired. The three money
prizes were for 81 each. Freeman
last night decided that next week he
expects to organize a shooting match
for beef to be held at the same, rela-
tive time as the one yesterday.
Turkeys alive now cost 20 cents a
pound delivered in the Cape, and this
month is the time when the open sea-
son for shooting wild turkeys starts.
Quail season opens today and lasts
ill Nov. 30. The squirrel season now
S open and duck season is open. Mayor
Rage, who obtains virtually all the
hunters licenses for Cape Girardesu
last night said that he has
hree on hand to deliver and in all, he
las ATTAINED about so for the season.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
Bet On Hughes;
Must Push Man
In Whee1barrow
Fritz Vorweg May Take Fred
Hartle Out for Joyride To-
day-Skninner Speak Will
Not Tickle. Peanut Until
Hughes Admits Defeat.

Fritz Vorweg announced yesterday
that ne had lost bet with Fred Har-
tie, and would therefore push Hartle
around the city in a wheelbarrow.
VOrweg had ''hunch" two weeks
ago that Charles f. Hughes had the
presidential situation pretty we'll sew
ed up. He offered Hartle the advantage
Of his political insight, urging him to
bet his bankroll on the Republican
nominee.
He won't get away from the post"
said Hartle to Vorweg.
You're just kiddin' me, Fred, amt
you?" replied Vorweg. The latter
looked Vorweg in the left eye and said
he was prepared to take care of all
the Hughes money Vorweg carried
about his person.
After taking an inventory, Vorweg
decided a money bet wasn't worth
while. He thereupon made this propo-
sition. "If Hughes is elected, you
wheel me about the city in q wheel
barrow, and if Wilson gets over the
plate, I'll shove you over the city"
The offer was accepted Hartle
called on Vorweg yesterday to remind
him of the bet. Vorweg agreed to take
Hartle out for the ioyride any day
Hartle suggested. If the weather is
pleasant this afternoon, the wheelbar-
row party will tour the city.
Skinner Speak, who will be COM
PEELED to shove a peanut up Broadway
with crowbar, if Hughes isn't elected
President, announced yesterday that
he would not pay the bet today. He
hasn't conceded Hughes defeat, he
said, and will not until the official
count is completed. If he loses, he
said, he would enter into diplomatic
negotiations in an effort to get per-
mission to use a whiskbro0m instead
of the crowbar in "goosing" the peanut
up the hill.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
SOCIETY DANCES AT:
HIMMELBERCER BALL.
Elks Dance Floor is Beauty Spet
Decorated With Big
Chrysanthemums.

With the Elks ballroom magnificent
ly decorated with great, large yellow
and white chrySanthemums, the Cape's
young society people danced till early
this morning at the function given by
Miss Kathryn Himmelberger in honor
of her guest, Miss Kathryn Crismond,
Of Logansport, Ind.
Dressed with the large flowers that
always bespeak the Thanksgiving foot
ball game, the ballroom presented a
sight never before equalled. Shivel-
bine's orchestra played.
Miss Crismond is a cousin VINO has
been visiting Miss Himmelberger for
several days. She was accompanied
to the Cape by her mother, Mrs. ].
Crismond, and her father also arrived
in the Cape last night for short
visit.
Miss Himmelberger was aided in
receiving her guests by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Himmelberger and
others who attended the dance were:
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Harrison, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chalres Himmelberger, Mr.. and
Mrs. Crismond, aIr. and Mrs. J. H.
Friant, Miss Hazel Stubs, Miss Paul
inc Byington, Miss Wills, Joe Stubs
Jr., and Herman, Henry of Sikeston;
Miss Frances Helmkamp, Miss Erna
Linxweiler, Miss Blanche Oakley, Miss
Josephine Keck, Miss Irene Williams,
of Jackson; Miss Irene Pott, Miss
Marie Friant, Miss Helen Vogelsanger,
Robert Beckman, George Bolz, Robert
Harrison, Harold Stubblefeld, Russell
Deal, Leslie Patton, Renfro Gibbs, |
John F. Lilly, Harry Gaines and Ben |
Moore of Charleston.
Late in the evening light refresh ,
nents were served, and the dance
broke up about o'clock this morning.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17
Shoe FACTORY Gets
A SUPPLY OF COAL
Car Reaches Cape in Time to
Prevent Plant From Shutting
Down.

4 shutdown at the shoe factory, tenn,
pOrarily throwing about 900 men anC
women out of work, which was threat.
ened yesterday by the prospective Goa
famine, was averted late yesterday
afternoon by the arrival of a carload
of coal.
The coal situation at the shoe fac
tory will be alleviated to a greater ex-
tent by the arrival today of even more
fuel, it was said last night, and the
factory, which now is working upon
Government shoes, will not have to
cease its operation.
On account of the lack of fuel, the
cement plant has been put on a part
time basis and other heavy fuel con-
sumers are running low with their sup
plies. Manager A NJ. Tinsley declared
Monday that the Public Utilities Com
pany has but a limited supply of coal
at this time. However, there is a sup
ply of gas coke that may be used in
the production of power.
The price of s. a ton on coal which
was established last Saturday, con-
tinued yesterday with a prospect of
further advance if the coal famine con-
tinues. The car shortage is blamed
for the difficulty in getting coal.
Many private families for the last
two days have been directing their
energies toward laying in supplies of
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-17

great that she could not recover.
She grew worse gradually and the
end came last Sunday.
DR.. and Mrs. H. L. Cunningham, who
reside about two miles west of the
Cape on the Jackson road, and who
had motored to Pennington the week
before to attend the funeral of Mr..
Cunningham's father, had returned to
the Cape when the news of the mo-
theirs death arrived.
They returned to Pennington at
once and their daughter, Miss Leona
Cunningham, who had accompanied
them on the first trip, remained in the
Cape.
The funeral of Mrs. Cunningham
was held last Monday afternoon, and
burial was at the side of her husband.
Mrs. Cunningham was born and
raised in Kentucky. As a girl, how
ever, she came to St. Francois County,
Mo-, with her parents and lived there
the rest of her life.
She is survived by five children, two
daughters and three sons. The duagh-
tiers are: Mrs. C. T. Poston, wife of
Dr.. Poston of Bonnie Terre, No, and
Mrs. Harriet Mcdaniel of Pennington.
The sons are: Dr.. Cunningham of the
Cape, Van Cunningham of Portland,
Ore, and James Cunningham, who is
a farmer residing on the old home
stead near Pennington.