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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-20
PITTSBURGH STOCKS
Live Stock Commission Co.
WHEELING, W. Va. Feb. ~. ~.
CATTLE

WHEELING, W. Va. Feb. L.. ~.
Furnished The 1ntclligcncrr h. y. +.
Mastcu 4 Co. members at ne ~, Soureii
Stnck Exchange National Bank Build
inr. Wheeling. W. Va.
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WEAKNESS IN
CORN MARKET

CHICAGO. Feb. l?.-Noticc that gov
crnmcut help III the export OF packing
house products was about to he VIII
drawn did Il good deal today 10 nuIlii!
strength in the corn market. Closing
prices were unsettled. X net lower to
~. advuuc" with May Si.2o"s /" l.2oH
and July Sl.165s to SLlGA. Ohl.i mn
ish"d :: off to ,, up. and PROVISIONS
IL 10 - cents down.
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STOCKS AND BONDS.
AIhin Eccznk. PittsburGh. Pa.
John p. rran. Cleveland, ONO.
Fred Gicrman. Cleveland. ohio.
Mikc Hcnahnn Cleveland. Ohio.
Erronoously Reported Missing In Action.
Jack Sruk, Youngstown, ONO
NIGHT LIST.

Died. from wounds ........'.'.. -
Died ~ disease. ..........: 49,
Wounded severely. ........- so
Total '-e'
Died Of Disease.
Reginald Vt. IIuthcs. Indianapolis
Ind.
Iriratcs: , n,
Edward g. Jackson. New Brighton. ia
Wounded Severely.
Jcsse M Barton, barton, Ohio.
Leslie ". ward, wilsouburg, ". Va.
rrirnt"s: o,:
Philip =. Graham, Oil city. Pa.
Horace NJ. Beatty. Washington. "a:
Albert L. Csnheid, Burnsviue, VT. Va
john r. G1rrieon, Jr., Huntington W.
Wnlrrr Mason. cleveland, ohio.
Stanley Ward Baldwin. liutlcr. Ia.
. Walter Newton, GAINESVILLE. Ohio.
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BOSTON COPPER STOCKS

Total sales $4,000 shares.
Bonds $S94T 900.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
American Plan of
Marriage Court Is
Tested i'm London
Private Hearings Given in
an Effort to Smooth Over
the Domestic Disputes;
Much Success Reported
New York Tribune
Foreign Press Buredn

LONDON, Oct 3O.-"It would be
good thing if we could have all over
England voluntary courts to which hus-
bands and wivo' could bring their dis
putes. The police court is by no means
an ideal place for dealing with such
matters. In America they have what
they call cat and dog COURTS and here
IN London, at Plaistow, we have court
run on similar lines and doing very
good work. said Clarke Hall, the mag
lstrate, who is perhaps best known to
Londoners by his connection with the
chidrcn's court in Old Street
THE magistrate" he said, 'has
neither time nor facilities for making
the Investigations necessary for d
proper decision. Husband and wife
come into court and talk or shout
against each other. 1t is very difficult
to decide which is telling the truth,
and where it. is the case Of the custdy
of the children it is Of the utmost i'm
portance that the truth should be
known.
Il may ask the court missionary 10
make further inquiries but he is q very
busy man; or | may on occasion ask
the repre- sentative of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
to do So Otherwise | have to depend
on what | elicit in court, and the result
often leaves me with an uneasy feel
ing"
Court Held Weekly
The Plaistow Court to which the
magistrate referred has been set up
by the Givens- Wilson Institute, very
progressive and unconvential social
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
East Side Wait
Faces CallOws i'm
Wild West Career
Fortune Hunting Tender
foot Is Held i'm Montana
ON Charges of Killing Girl
and Officer Making Arrest

On leaving the Childreu's AID So
ciety farm in Westchester County a
few years ago, William Stewart, who Is
now only twenty-one years old. started
" est in search Of fortune BE stopped
at Tongue River, Mont, where as a
cowpuncher and miner he learned to
handle "six gum" Then he went to
Alaska in further search of fortune
and there, to-day, in the United States
Court OF Valdez, he goes to trial on
two charges of murder-killing a girl
and shooting Isaac Evans, a deputy
marshal, who tried not to break his
record Of never having killed a nan,
and died at the hands of boyish ten
derfoot.
1: was the first killing of law Of
ficer since the last OF the Dawson bad
men were driven out of the territory
and mine claim jumping stopped, more
han ten years ago. Valdez has not
had a hanging since 1909. according to
ettcrs from Alaska telling of Stewart's
plight.
Can't Recall Stewart
Officials of the Children's Aid So
ciety here do not remember Stewart,
but he told officers st Valdez that he
vas born in one of the organizations
refugees on the East Side, and that he
lived until he was sixteen with Pop"
Wendell at the Brace Farm in West
chester When he left New York. he
said, his dearest ambition was to emu
late the adventurous lives of cow
punchers or gold miners, and with that
in view he stepped off at Tongue River.
There, in addition to becoming familiar
with q revolver. he also learned to
gamble, and became q 'gandy dancer"
CANDY dancer is a non-working in
habjtant of railway construction camps
who lives by an ability to stack" cards
or trim" opponents with loaded dice.
Making his way westward. he landed
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Strand Of Hair
Like Billy Dansey's
Found Near Swamp
discovery Strengthens Be-
lief Skeleton Is That
of Stolen Child; Inquiry
To Be Pressed, However

HAMMoNTON. N. j., Nov. ca
additional evidence was discovered to-
cay taht the bones found Friday in
tolsom's Swamp were those of Billy
Dansey. the missing thirty months
old child. A strand of hairs was
? eSed up by John Prasch jr.. near
vhere the small skeleton was found
and taken to Edna Dansey, the boys
assnt. who thought the hair was from
IL. Dansey's head.
1t was the possibility that the
szeieton was not Billy Dansey's, but
: at of another three-year-old child,
( at caused the withdrawal yesterday
the burial permit The postpone
fnent of the funeral is likely to be of
s. week or ten days duration. however,
site of the fNdinr Of the hair as
u Lewis l.. Souder, county physician,
) e.ded to-day t. the insstent demand
Coroner Charles Cunningham and
& ~ he would order an inquest
me Coroner. IN demanding the in
qrest. criticized the county detect YES
Ter inactivity and said there were sew
al men W ON he wanted to interro-
.S2te under oath, as he could do only at
A.. inquest. He declined to tell what
questions he intends TO ask
+. c Gaskell jr.. County Prosecutor,
reiterated his belief that the ske eton
VS. tNat Of lly Dansey. and the be-
iigf was strengthened further by the
statement of anatomists that the skel-
ston wHs that of boy about three
gears old
TH Is evening. however, the County
Prosecutor spoke mysteriouslv Of
picking un where he had dropped it,
clew which would lead to a city
where Billy Dansey's kidnapers held
am in captivity. This "clew" appar.
ert'y had been abandoned at first by
Nr GaSkill when the bones were found
& Fo' sons Swamp. The city to which
h refers is thought to be Philadel-
paia.
We had one clew in Particular
said Mr.. Gaskill. ''in which lad the
greatest ia tn. had so much faith in
f VS. surprised when l was notified
o. the finding Of the body Obviously
cannot go into details now, as I in
send to run it out regardless of Fri
day's discNverv. had thou~rt there
vas nothing left 10 be done but 80 senc
81 certain city and get the boy.
- teke up the thread where wf
dropped il"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25

IN Seattle, and then went to Alaska
with gangs of men going to work on
Tue government railroad. He previous
~ mad assumed the name of DEMPSEY
~ anchorage, one of the stations on
the road, he met Margaret Levor. a
glrl who kept tobacco shop. One
da. last July she disappeared. Friends
noted that Dempsey also was missing.
- search Tor him was made by Charles
nerron, editor of The Anchorage
limes, and the youth was found in
me Dig Matanuska coal fields, working
under the name Of Cummins.
Deputy Marshal Slain
deputy Marshal Evans was notified
and ne waited for Cummins when the
latter went to Seward for his nav o.,
August a. What followed " was pas wit. IT,.
messed by Robert Weir. a railroad con-
struction engineer.
stewart" he said, 'started eppar.
emily to pick up his bed roll, but in
stead. took from it gun. Evans. an
old hand told him not to be n fool
AS the marshal talked he moved to one
side, and stumbled. His own gun fell
from his pocket and exploded, and
Stewart opened fire"
Evans died four days later. Stewart
meanwhile commandeered hand car
."N i'toHC MS va. JNTec miles out OF
town, when he met c. Rrownell. an
other railroad official, coming in to
Seward on mo.or speeder Brownell
was hsl3 up and his car taken from
u" For our days thereafter Stewart
eluded posses of officers, but finally
surrendered to two guides, Alex Little
and Fred Mar'in.
Girls Body in Well
On the day he was arrested, Mar
garet Levor's body was found in a
well. She had been beaten to death
and. according to the United States
Attorney. Stewart confessed having
killed her with & monkey wrench. He
had invited her to his cabin to have
drink of whisky from an Illicit
store hidden there. and while she was
drinking he struck her. His purpose.
the prosecutor alleges, was to rob her.
Fer body then was thrown into the
we'll.
Stewards defence will be insanity.
The authorities ut Valdez received,
after his arrest, d letter from q man
in CLEVELAND, Ohio, who said he was
the father of Stewart and desired to
help him fight the charges.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Washburn Denounces Strike
Boston Car Walk-Oui %4Rclic
of Barbarism.~ He Asserts

BOSTON Nox- 24.-Ths strigs Of
street railway employees WAS chaa acter~
istic as "relic barbarism" by for
mer Congressman Charles c. Wash.
burn, chairman of the special street
railway commission, speaking before
the Legislative COMMITTEES ON Legal AZ
fairs to-day. he urged the committee
to report the commissions bill for reg
olation Of street railways, wh;An con-
tains an "anti-strke" clause
This BILL" Mr.. Washburn said,
seeks merely a square deal for the
pubic A strike is as fatal to en-
ployers as to employees. 1t is an in
human, unjustifable weapon when
combination Of street railway en-
ployees takes a community by the
throat and says, Surrender or you
die"
The committee viii hear opponents
of the bill later.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Prosecutor Urges
Radical Measures
In Handling Reds
of Head of So
Wet Bureau Here Before
Lusk Committee Told bv
Deputy Atty. Gen. Berger

Deputy Attorney General Samuel A.
Berger told Harlem Post, American
Legion, at the Harlem Board of Trade
rooms, 200 Lenox Avenue, last night,
some of the conclusions in regard to
handling Reds" his experience in the
Lusk committee has caused him to
form.
Radical measures must be adopted
in this country to check Bolshevism,"
he said. The word embraces the teach
ings of the anarchists, the l. W. W., the
Communists and all the motley crew
that would have us substitute the doc
trines of Lenine and Trotsky for those
of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt y
The speaker quoted from Bolshevik
military comMunlques concerning
movements against the enemy" and
then resumed:
Our troops are the enemy re-
ferred to. and these Bolsheviki have
the brazen effrontery to establish in
this city a so-called soviet bureau
avowediy for commercial purposes, bu,
as matter Of fact fruitful source OF
Boishevik propaganda"
Mr.. Berger related some Of the ad
missions of Ludwig C. Martens heat
OF the bureau. before the Lusk com
mittee, and a'so read to his hearer:
from various proclamations issued by
radical organizations, utlining theil
aims
THE followers of Lenine and Trotz
ky. not only in Sovie Russia but a:
we'll in this country and in every othel
civilized country of the world have a
their object the overthrow of demo
cratic institutions and theesubst tu OF
therefor of the dictatorship of the pro
letariat." Mr.. Berger said. "a dicta
torship Of the pro etariat and ruth
of every other element IN the com
| munlty.7
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25

however, and when, to add to her
troubles, little 10 was burned, She
nursed him with patient care and
finally pulled him through, weak ano
SCARED. Not until her husband died
did Esther lose her grip on things ant
break down. She was more sick than
she realized and the children were
found to be undernourished. Esther
needs not only money for clothes.
shelter and strengthening food, but
long medical treatment and g. great
deal of encouragement A good physi
clan has offered his services. VIII not
The Tribune readers 90 the rest
through the Charity Organization So
ciety? One hundred and fifty dollars
will take care of Esther C and her
family during the winter months
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Widows Family in Need
She Seeks Fund of $50 for
the Winter Months

There is nothing SO dreadful as see
ing day by day the gradual changing
Of a loved one from a normal person
to savage brute. Besides keeling an
anxious watch over her husband,
Esther C had to work to provide
for him and the two child IN. Added
to these worries was fear as 30 the
fate of her parents, for the little vii
lare in which she was born had been
burned to the ground and she did not
know whether they were homeless
wanderers or prisoners of war
Esther showed splendid courage.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Total Army Casualties
Now Total 293, 1872
Latest Official Additions Bring
Number Killed in Action
to 34.654

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-The fol-
lowing casualties are reported by the
commanding officer OF the American
Expeditionary Forces:
Died from accident and other causes,
2; died from disease, 6; total, 8.
The number of casualties to date, in
cluding those reported above. are:
Killed in action, including 382 81
sea, 34,654; died of wounds, 1850:
died of disease, 23.711; died from acci-
dent and other causes, 5,282; wounded
in action (over IS per cent returned)
215,522; missing in action (released
and returned l. 8; total to date, 2S3 3,I32
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25

done fine thing in forgiving his wife
and taking her back, and promised to
do all in his power to find a suitable
home for the child. The institute is
raising funds to open home for just
such unwanted children. Meantime he
asked the man to let the child remain
at home till another home could be
found. He is not without hope that
in the end the baby's winsomeness may
solve the problem.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25

settlement in far east London. 1t is
held every Saturday from $3.50 till 4:30
O'Clock in a small vestry at the back
of the Givens- Wilson Institute Build
ing, Pelly Road. two people are pres
ent, the barrister, Wells Thatcher. who
comes down from the temple to help
unhappy couples with his legal knowl-
edge and his wide experience OF natrl-
monial difficulties in every stage from
the preliminary to the acute and in
soluble, and the husband or wife who
seeks his aid.
He does not see them together. but
having heard one side of the story he
will arrange for the other party to
the dispute to visit him on the follow
ing Saturday and talk things over. No
group of idlers hangs about watching
the people, who enter by side door.
No one else is allowed inside the little
room unless it be, on rare occasions,
some solitary privileged person whose
observation may lead to the establish
ment of similar court elsewhere. The
nervous applicant is further safeguard
ed by the fact that this is also q place
for obtaining legal advice on much less
important matters. She may be COM
ing with some story Of unkindness or
infidelity, or she may simply be asking
for .advi ce about her rent or health
insurance.
One Of the Stories
Already, however, people are coming
in increasing numbers and from great
distances with stories that would 9TH
erwise remain untold or that would be
carried in desperation to the publicity
OF 8 magistrates court. Here is q
typical case:
The husband was soldier who came
home at the end of the war, TO dis
cover that his wife had been unfaith-
full TO him. She had child by an
other man. The husband forgave his
wife, but he could not endure the sight
of the baby-a beautiful little crea.
ture--and was so exasperated by it;
presence that at last he threatened tc
throw it out OF the window.
1t was case for intervention, but
they did not want to fiaunt their misery
in court, nor was it clear that {
magistrate could suggest any remedy
The woman went to Wells Thatcher
and he had a private talk with tn
husband He expressed his sympath.
with the man, told him that he ha
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
-Grecian" Cigarettes to
Take the Place of Turkish

LOND N. Oct. 2O.IFirecian cigar
st5es are to be manufactured near
london by an American concern. TIE
.omnany hes a stock of nearly $4,000
50O worth of Macedonion tobacco such
as is used in the manufacture Of
rkish" cigarettes.
Because the district in which this
,cbocco is erown is TO longer gov
srned by the Turks, the term Gre
:ian" is to be substituted for Turkish"
~ this organization.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-09
CREED r. COPELAND
Notice To Republicans, Democrats,
Socialists and Non-Partisans.

All Knoxville people asking about political faith
and have desire deceive them take pleasure stating
that and always have been Republican, but if elected
Gus 9uesodeI 9oedxe GeIso doed usAIes
political than would extend special
favos the Junior Order the Daughters America the Knights
of Pythias with all Of whom affiliated but pledge myself
political aiatOn, religious and shall the spirit
of the Knoxville City Charter this subject
In original announcement which appeared in all the
you will find platform.
the information public desire that have
large family and have been kept busy providing living
educating them Therefore, have not been position lay
by but little of the goods of this world.
My years Army with the Third
Tennessee Cavalry My Oldest in the World War;
and baby boy born Peace Day. November 11t last; while
was doing my bit in France to whip the Kaiser.
County Knoxville when about five years
exception years Mexico
three which fact
toned here that held trust before The
of early boyood days the farm and the first
Later after finishing school at the of eighteen
Knoxville secured Fire Insurance solicitor and since
that time have held many positions of trust Agent
having
for fire losses the time still in the Fire Insurance
and Real Estate business
have been friend of the aorng and the unfor
elected that will
representative the Board Of Commissioners and that will
stand solid the Rock Gibraltar in matters affecting the best
interest of all the people.
In conclusion to be guard lest
be deceived find certain corporations busy promoting the
interest of certain candidates.
And good ladies, would that will for
good Clean progressive efficient
City Government extend
your success in securing the ballot.
Pay your poll August forget
register August 18th 21st previous registration
certificates good.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-09
TO CLARK ] CKSON

Euzella jackson VS.. Clark jackson
State or Tennessee IN Chancarv
Court OF Knox county No. 1885
In this cause. 1t appearing from the
bill filed, which is sworn to, that the
residence of the defendant CLARK Jack
son is unknown, and cannot be as
certained up diligent inquiry SO
that the ordinary process cannot he
served upon him. 1t is ordered that
aid denfendant appear before the
Chancery Court, at Knoxville, Tennes
essee. on or before the first Monday
of Oct. next. end make defense TO
aid BILL or the same will be taken
or confessed and the cause set for
caring ex parta az to him,
This notice will Re published in the
Knoxville Independent for four sue
cessive weeks.
This 18th day OF August, 1919
j. G. Ford Clerk & Maste,
s. e. N. Moore, Sol.
Aug. 16 20 30 Sept s 1919
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NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
TO M AIRY ELLEN FISl Err

AZ M I'M GLhEN TO LIN
Park V. Fisher VS.. Mary Ellen Fisher
State of Tennessee, in the Circuit
Court of Knox County, No. 1882
In this cause it appearing from
The bill filed, which is sworn to. that
the defendant, Mary Ellen Fisher is
a non resident of the State of Ten
nessee, so that the ordinary process
cannot be served upon her. it j, or
dered that said defendant appear
before the Circuit Court, at Knox
vile, Tennessee, on or before the first
Monday of Septembe1next. and make
defense to said bill, or the same will
be taken for confessed and the cause
set for hearing OK parte as to her.
This notice will be published In the
Knoxville Independent for four sue
eessive weeks.
This 9th day OF August. 1919
Fred e Carter, Clerk. Circuit Court
G.. HI. Mynatt, Sol
Aug. 8 16 23 30r1919
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TO MARY FRANCIS FLANAGAN
Rose I Hackwor h Guardian, ct a.
vs.. Marv Francis Flanagan
State of Tenne. zee. In Chancery
Court OF Knox County. No. fr715
In this cause. 1t appearing from the
bill filed which is sworn to that the
defendant. Mary Francis Flanaganis .
nonresident of the State of Tenn
essee. SO that the ordinary process
cannot be served upon her, it is or
dered that said defendant appear
before the Chancery Court. at Knox
vile, Tennessee, on or before the
first Monday of Oct. next. .nd make
defense to said bill, or the same
will be taken fer confessed and the
cause set for hearing ex parte as to
her. This notice will be published
in the KNOXVILLE INDEPENDENT
for four successive weeks.
This 10th day OF June 1919
]. C. FORD, C. & NJ
Green & Webb, Soils.
Ane 16 % 80 1919
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NON RESIDENT ATTACHMENT
NOTICE.
TO A. C. COCHRAN

ct al.
State Of Tennessee. In Chancery
Court Of Knox County. NO. 1880
In this cause, it appearing from the
the bill filed which is sworn to that
the defendant A. G. Cochran lis inst'~
indebted to the complainant, L. Seilaz
Agent, and that he is a nonresident OF
tennessee, so that the ordinary pro-
cess cannot be served upon him.
and an attachment having been issued
ard levied on the defendants property,
it is ordered that said defendant ap-
pear before the Chancery Court a.
Knoxville. Tennessee. on or before the
first Monday OF Sept. nAvf end make
defense to said bill. or the same will
ne taken for confessed and the
cause set for hearing ex parte as to
him, This notice will he published
in the KNOXVILLE INDEPENDENT
for four successive weeks.
This 18th day of July 1919
]. G. FORD Clerk & Master
Turner. Kennerly & Cate. Soils
July 10 rs Aug. 2 3 1919
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-09

- --------- III
TO THE CITIZENS OF KNOXVILLE
mindful s p sa9ofi bs s G c W 3 s n as 9
m The original city contained -four square miles the present Great City Gon twenty
comply
STOOD
ss
street @ s' ss os hS sys n 'sn ns s a q
building
people maka large city
RETIABHIEATED DEPARTMENT.
m city had esn If furnished The s nh the Water s % finances
as spss's a. o @ % Si5s
sss 5 s; @ than bs S. ss s o5: i Ba%ss % ss
s s n t y had f s bn i" va
Although very expensive building twas
a s Dn Th sses poss maf
plying eighteen
tended e 5 r. ] e. v. s bss, n ssa gp s ]
sae Gs plant p thereby @ materially charged
REDUCTION OF Ns IS RANCE RATES lat , .., .n
q ' PS srs IS @ follows"
Property Property carrying r rs esnt n o1 q ss
the ws hs dss sbo V @ Ss sps e Bun
INCREASE OF RECEIPTS 4 OF THE WATER 1s Plant
sp afasR
q. T 4: @ ii @ ss ss considering 81 ass ss ;f %
n.,. @ Ct sss ss e. s 1 i; c a s. s plant '
butt
Commiim If l amir M assistance assured
estetsof at
hospital facilities absolute necessity and if entrusted with reelection will
5 ssg f s n th would have been s h f
he % sss' e z %
sp Ds a stas e1R a 5as sstns
purposes and ccrsfRes 5 OF many BoR fi y
due a the e a dealing snn the ss Conn
coninu
NONPA PARTISAN WITH ALL
profoundly thankful
already shown
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CREED F. COPELAND.

Respectfully,
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NON.pARTIsAN. CASTING LOT WITH ALL


my services as City Commissioner for the
then most profoundly thankful for the