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HOPES RUN HIGH
Continued from page one.)

Commissioner McChord did not
so into details as to the condition
OF motive power in his letter to the
President. but it is known that re-
ports from federal inspectors on file
at the interstate Commerce Commits
sion today tell of condition of ex-
treme gravity. A marked accelera-
ton in retirement of defective loco
motives is expected within the next
few days as a result of the inter.
change of letters between McChord
and the President.
The nature OF the proposals which
the brotherhood leaders Will make 10
the executives at tomorrow confer
ence, was not disclosed today by
union heads, meeting here.
No Yielding.
1t was asserted with positiveness,
however, that there will be no
yielding by the striking shop craft
workers on the issue Of seniority
the rock upon which all peace eff
forts have smashed.
The brotherhood leaders will in
form the executives that it is only
with difficulty that they are hold
ing their men in line and prevent
ing general sympathetic walkout
OF engineers, firemen, conductors
and trainmen.
This fact, coupled with the now
officially announced bad order of
rolling stock. is calculated by I'M
ion leaders to make a deeper i'm
preston upon the executives than
has heretofore been apparent.
New York, Aug. IS. - Railway
executives refused to comment today
on the possible results of their meet
ing here tomorrow with the Off
Gals of the big four railroad broth
erhoods. From the few guarded
statements they made the impress
sion was gained that while thew are
keenly DESTROYS of reaching a set
Element, they are not hopeful of re-
suits from tomorrow's conference.
irrespective of whether the
strike is settled or not the railroads
will all have full compliments of
shop workers soon" Robert S. Blink
erd, assistant to T. Dewitt Cuyler,
chairman of the Association of Rail
way Executives said. The reads
ave putting more men back to work
every day"
Tomorrow's conference will open
at o'clock
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CROWD CHASES
MEN TO SHOPS

Three men. I'D to have been
strike-breakers employed in the To-
cal Baltimore and Ohio shops,
were chased by a crowd of men and
boys back upon Baltimore and Ohio
property where they were arrest
ed by officers and sent ont of town
last night No trial was held as no
one appeared against the men. 1t is
said by some that the strikebreak-
ers had been ordered to remain on
Baltimore and Ohio property and
these three came up to near the
City Hall. There they became in
volyed in an argument with three
other men and blows were ex-
changed. 1t is also alleged by 9th.
ers that the three town men rode
around in an automobile looking
for the strikebreakers.
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JR. REUNION
AT PEN MAR.

The annual reunion of the Jr. 0.
U. A. NJ. will be held at Pen Mar
Park tomorrow and it is expected
that it will be the biggest reunion
of that organization ever held.
There will be addresses by Con
gresham William f. Upshaw OF
Georgia. Congressmap Carl d. Res
Sc of Tennessee, Congressman f. N.
Zihlman of Maryland. National
Councillor; George A. Davis and a
number of state officers from Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and Mary
land The Junior Order Bind Of
Washington. composed of thirty in
struments will give a concert at the
park at II o'clock in the morning
and at other times during the day.
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90 REQUISITIONS

Governor Morgan issued requisi-
tons for ninety men in Washing
ton county, Pa, against whom COM
plants charging murder have been
brought. The men are wanted in
Brooke county to answer 10 indict-
ments which it is expected will be
returned by the special grand jury
there Investigating the Cliftonville
battle in which Sheriff Duyal Of
Brooke county was killed
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1t is understood that Prescott

1t is understood that Prescott
ing Attorney Williams. of Logan
county, was here Tuesday inyesti-
eating the alleged holdup Of Depu-
ty Sheriff Hollie Baker, OF that
county. Mr. Williams is said to
have stated that no stone will be
left unturned 70 prosecute the young
men said TO have perpetrated the
outrage. The statement that the
fifth man involved in the affair is
known and will be apprehended
could not be confirmed.
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YOUNG PEOPLE WE'D

County Clerk Martin issued a
marriage license to Miss Ethel
Virginia Slusher, daughter of
James and Annie Slusher and Phil
ip H. Perks, employed at the Ber-
kelley Wooden Mills. Both are ma
tives OF Charles Town. They are to
be married today
A license to wed was issued at
the county clerks office to Miss
Doll!e Pitzer, daughter Of NJ. V.
and Ella Pitzer, and Joseph Ken
meth Bohrer, both of Shanghai. The
groom, a native of Mccain, Ill.,,
IS a young farmer They will be
we'd at Shanghai on August 90.
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DEMPSEY-BRENNAN
FIGHT STOPPED

indianapolis, Ind, Aug. t6.-
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavy
weight boxing champion, will
not meet Bill Brennan, in a title
bout at Michigan City on Labor
Day, Governor Warren T. Nc
Cray decreed today, Acting
upon an opinion rendered by
the state Attorney General, the
Governor declared the encoun-
ter would not be boxing exhIb.
itlon, but prize fight and as
such in violation of the law of
the state of Indiana.
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SLIGHT BLAZE

The fire department was called
out about 4 o'clock Tuesday after
noon by a small blaze in an out
building on the property Of Mrs.
Elizabeth Binns. Commerce street.
Before they could arrive the FIRE
had been extinguished by crowd
Of railroad men who had been at
tracted to the scene
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GRIFFITH LAID TO REST AMID IMPRESSIVE
HCN0RS-TH0USANDS KNEEL IN PRAYER
AS ARCHBISHOP SAYS SOLEMN REQUIEM
Head OF Free State Goes To Last Resting Place Draped
Irish Tr-coor With Military Escort OF Patriots
Fresh From Fighting Front

Dublin in many years.
Business was suspended and
flags were at half mast.
Work Unfinished
Like irish patriots Of the past,
Griffith died with his work unfin-
ished, but succeeded in bringing
Ireland into the threshold of free
dom. He leaves two posts vacant
President Of the Dali and Foreign
Secretary.
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CHICAGO MARKET.

Chicago, Aug, .16.---Wheat opened
Is lower to Ia higher. Corn is to
S-s higher: oats unchanged to 1-S
lower; provisions unchanged.
Opening: Wheat-Sept. 100a100
IA: Dec. 1o1 3-4a102: May 106 5-sa
rs. Corn-Sept. SO IL; Dec. 81 lisa
IL; May 81 1-4a3-S Oats-Sept.
30 3-4a7.S; Dec. SO lass; May
81 is. Lard-Sept. 1910.
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GETTING TEAM
IN GOOD SHAPE.

Degree Master W. P. Snyder and
District Deputy Grang Master R. F
Mason, Jr., are whipping into
shape" the degree team of Tuscarora
Lodge, No. "a, l. o. O. F. Thursday
night the team will visit Caledonia
Lodge, Shepherdstown, to confer the
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Mr.. and Mrs. f. Weber Foreman
and son. Of Elizabeth, n. j.,
are spending several days here with
relatives.
Mr.. l.. +. Schmidt. of Staunton.
Ia spending the day he"e on bust,
noes.
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EXECuToRs ouAIlEY

!. W. s. Boyd and r. II. Boyd,
sons Of tine deceased, qualified as
executors Of the estate of the late
Col. John F. Boyd. No bond was
required under the will but the ex-
ecutors executed one in the sum Of
$40, 900.
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Thursday, AUGUST II.
LICENSES TO WE'D
IN CUM BERLAND.

A marriage license was issued In
Cumberland to William Roosevelt
Logue. %. brakeman, Martinsburg,
and Myrtle Agnes Norris, %, Cum
berland.
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CAUGHT BIG BASS

Attorney Allen B. Noll this morn
ing exhibited with justifiable pride
a large bass, weighing four and
three-quarter pounds. He caught
the big fish out Of the Potomac.
while fishing at Dam No. 8 with
~. A. KEGS and Arthur McCune.
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WHEELING FAIR

The West Virginia State Fair, at
Wheeling, will be held this year
September 4, 5, 6, T, 3 and Q, open
ing as usual on Labor Day.
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work upon a class of candidates
who are to tread the rough and
rugged road to Jericho"
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ARE PlCNICkING

Children of the First Baptist Sun
day school are picnicking fhis aft.
ernoon at Rosemont Park.
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wan tied

MECHANICS WANTED - Perma-
nent positions open for railrJa1
mechanics; will pay transporta-
ton; points in Western Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio; good living con.
s ditions; wages above standard
Address P. o. Box 1897, Pitts
burgh, Pa. Q-40'
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Charles Holiday. Of Greenville.
S. G., is visiting his brother, A. L.
Holiday.
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WANTED-Eoarders and Lodgers.
319 \. Queen. Q46F
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took a shot at Gore. that Gore fell
and shot from his Knees and that
another shot killed the Logan coun.
ty. Brinkman then showed a gun
which he said had been taken by
him from Gore after the fighting as
Gore was dying and that the clutch
OF the deputy about the gun was
deathlike, which Brnkman had to
break by sheer force Brinkman
had just come off the hill when
this conversation occurred, Harris
testified, and added that he saw
Brinkman in a crowd of fifteen or
twenty men coming from direc-
ton which indicated they were
leaving the mountain. There were
no other members OF the Wiburn
family in the crowd when Brink
man made tho statement so far rs
he knew. Harris said
Recall Mrs. Wiburn
Mrs. Nancy Wilburn, mother Of
the defendant, was recalled by tho
state yesterday afternoon after the
defense indicated it was ready to
rest, for the purpose Of impeach.
ment. Mrs. Wilburn admitted that
Mrs. Ira Wilson had been at the
Wilburn home between 10 and II
o'clock the day Of the killing, that
John and Frank were somewhere
about the house at the time or in
the neighborhood although she was
not sure whore Ike, another son.
was. But she denied the statement
that Frank had come into the
house at that time, while Mrs. Will
son was there, that she had greet
ed her son affectionately, that she
had asked whore their daddy" wac
and had asked about the safety Of
Our" men. that Frank had reas-
sured her as to the safety of all ex-
cept one negro who had been in.
iured slightly, that he had said
had killed "Old Man Gore" whom
Reverend Wilburn was stll In the
mountains and had told her they
he thought she would remember
Mrs. Wilburn also denied telling
Mrs. Wilson some two weeks ago.
answering a question from Mrs
Wilson as to which one Of the
boys had come in upon that occas-
ion from the mountains, that il
was Frank.
She said she did not hear OF the
Gore killing until about 10 o'clock
on August 3lst and that her first
news. She testified with evident
came to their home with four or
five other men. Brinkman told the
news, she testified with evident
bitterness against Brinkman who
has been one OF the chief wtnes.
ses against both her husband and
her son, with the boast that he
mad the honor of killing one --
thug"
A Questionable Roarder
Brinkman had boarded at the
Wlburn homc,-Mrs. Wphurn vac
not sure of his classification be
cause she could not remember that
he had ever paid any board money
and she knew him from associa-
tons with him there.
The state put Mrs. Ira Wilson on
the stand to testify as TO the con.
versations which she had had with
Mrs. Wilburn and which the latter
had denied. Mrs Wilson verified
the conversations
The state also put on the stand
yesterday Garfield Hunter, a Logan
undertaken, who took charge of the
bodies Of the dead deputies. He
testified as to the wounds which he
found on the bodies and to the alb
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David Miller left on trip t
Washington.
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WANTED-Second hand clothes,
go E. Martin St, oppositee B. &
o. Station Q-55
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THE LOCAL MARKETS
FOR SALE

FOR sALE-Rolled top desk, Al
condf-icn, 119 f. Mai1n. QG74
FOR SALE-Jergey Caw. fresh:
spring wagon top, aud piano. r.
D. Miller, Falling Waters, ". Va.
Q65-
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GALE NpAR OF
EVENTS FOR
w e Elk.
Wednesday, August 16.

Wednesday, August 16.
s p. m-Semi-monthly meeting of
the Fraternal Home Insurance SO
ciety.
Thursday, August II.
2 p. m.-Semi-monthly meeting Of
the Ladies Auxiliary to the Order
Of Railway Trainmen.
s p. m.-Weekly meeting of Vic
tory Council, No. I, Daughters of
America.
s p. m,-Very important meeting
of Tuscarora Tribe No. so, Imp Or.
DER Red Men.
Saturday, August 49,.
8 p. m.-Weekly meeting of the
Pythian Sisters.
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WANTED - Girl for dining room
work. Apply Kings Daughters
Hospital. Q66
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WANTED - Clerk Apply Peoples
Bakery. Q61
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LIBERTY BONDS
CLEANING, PRESSING
AND REPAIRING,

Neatly and promptly done Mems
Suits pressed zoe; mems suits clean
ed and pressed, Coo We also clean
and press women's garments. Work
called for and delivered aa
=. SPAnACClNI
lis w King st.
At Pol Laporini's Shoe Repair Shop
S 10 st rop pd
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FOR RENT

'FO1 RENT-FurnisAe6 room. bath,
for one or two men. P137nc
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STOP at Y. NJ. c. A. Choice rooms
= for rent at cheaper rates. Show
ers, swimming pool, gymnasium,
and other privileges. Ola
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Los

LOST-Automobile state license
1888 and city license sos. Return
Journal O-52@
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LosT-Truck license T-4349. Re-
turn to Journal Q-59.
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FOR REkT-House, 304 w. Burke
Street. Q64*
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FOR RENT-A front bed room, all
conveniencas. Apply 210 ". John
ST. Q-62s
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FOR REhT-s-rcom house. 200 W.
Burke Street O60s
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pil11pIes Keep
Young MeG,
Down.
They Make Women, Too, a Puzzle!
How s. s. S. Stops Skin
Eruptions Positively.

Pimplea and skin eruptions haVe o.
price,--you pay for every pustule,
black-head and pimple on your face.
pmpies produce prejudice and prevent
prosperity, Your heart may be gold.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-19
TUFTS CAMPUS LOOKS
LIKE A BATTLEFIELD
Boys Had Hot Old Time There Gale.
bratlng Downfall Of Harvard
at Baseball.

Medford Mass, June 19.-The cam.
pus of Tufts college yesterday had
somewhat of the appearance of a de.
serted battle ground as the result of
a celebration last night of Tufts de.
feat OF Harvard on the baseball dia-
mond.
John Harvard was burning In effigv
and police and firemen of Someryille
and Medford took a hand when brands
from bonfire ignited a dwelling.
Slight damage was done.
Sergt. Thomas p. Walsh was the
only casualty. With a detachment ~
police he rushed a group of students
who were trying to wrest hose line
from the firemen who were playing II
on the bonfire. Someone tripped the
otticer and as he fell others kicked
him. >'NN
Ihe firemen came to the rescue
with the hose and tho students we're
arlven back by the stream OF water
but not before the officer had fired
three shots into the ground In an Of.
Tort to frighten his tormentors No
arrests were made.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-19
TASTED MOONSHINE;
SOON UNCONSCIOUS
Physician Worked Two Hours to Save
Life of Federal Enforce
ment Agent.

Huntington. June 19-Federal Agent
John H. McCOubrey OF Springfield,
recovered consciousness two hours
after he had taken a drink at the
place Of Thomas Matthews. on the
Worthington road, late yesterday after
noon. McCoubrey. accompanied by
Federal Agent Edgar r. Davis, also
OF Springfield, succeeded in buying a
quart of alleged liquor from Matthews,
but claim that he insisted on tasting
II before he sold 1t. After McCoubrey
had taken taste and the bottle had
been paid for by the agents. they
took Mathews into custody and start
ed back toward town. They had Just
got started when McCoubrey collapsed.
He was taken to the Huntington
Inn. unconscious, and DR.. Charles II.
Mace, with his son, DR.. Ralph H.
Mace of West Springfield, worked on
the agent with stomach pump for
nearly two hours before he regained
consciousness. The agents believe
that the liquor sold them by Matthews
contained denatured alcohol and fusel
oil.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-19
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES

An unexpected, and very pleasing
feature OF the young peoples meet.
ying at the Methodist Episcopal
churei last evening was the present.
alton to the former president. Miss
Vera Hall, OF Bible and a framed
picture. Miss Hall has served sue.
cessfully as president of the En-.
worth League for two years and her
departure from the city is greatly re.
gretted by all. especially by those co.
workers In the society who nave
realized most clearly her enthusias.
tic devotion to the work among the
young people. The presentation NJ
the farewell gifts of the league was
made by Mrs. Nellie Spencer,
All women of the parish are invit.
ed to the business meeting of the
ladies' association. called for special
business, at the church tonight at
715. ~
The Standard Bearers society will
meet this evening with Miss Alice
Peters on Booth Terrace.
Men of the Brotherhood and c,eir
friends are anticipating really "bie
time" at the annual Hedges r.are
outing, Tuesday evening. The cara.
van OF the brothers will denart
from the church at $50 sbarn
2 enty of cars are assured for anv
WHO lack means of making the trin
Mrs j. w. Hurlburt 122 Union
street viii entertain Circle number
two of the Ladies' association on
Wednesday evening.
Glass meeting and prayer.meet.
ing are combined this week in a
great mid.week service conducted nv
the pastor assisted by leaders
Frank Center and Willard Stickles
Lessons from Judah's downfall" viii
be the theme "i'
the otheriaA class announces n
meeting to be held July 8, postponed
from the regular day June g4 m the
home of Miss Eleanor Palmer, Ben.
nington Flats. ''"
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BANNER OFFICE PICNIC
Took Advantage Of the Height OF the
Wet epeIl.

The Banner office undertook its first
annual picnic at Lake st. Catherine
sunday. II pr25ress continues along
the line indicated by this first effort.
II Will take good deal Of water to
accommodate Banner office picnic in
the course of very few years.
There were 2S in the party. Ave au
tomobiles and rations for ten days-
mostly in one car, so that when the
company got separated amid the fogs
ana bogs OF Rutland county some had
enough food to last a month while
others were reduced to root beer and
hope for the future.
1t rained before the company left
bennington, and kept at Il ali day,
Some OF the younger members OF the
party took their bathing suits,' but
didn't go in. They got the same effect
through standing around in the fields
and woods while the cars were stuck
IN the roadside mud or held up by
other troubles.
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HOLD THOMPSON
HARVEY SON-|N-LAW
: FOR GUN RUNNING
Charge Conspiracy to Violate
Nations Neutrality Laws
STEAMER SEIZED YEAR AGO
Rapid Firers Found in Coal
Bunkers Said to be Going
to Ireland

Trenton, N. j., Jun 19.--Col. Mar
cellus Thompson. yice-president and
active head of the Auto Ordnance
company Of New York, has been in
dicted by the grand jury on the
charge Of conspiracy to ship arms
to Ire and in violation of the neutall
ity laws.
Thompson is a son-in-law Of
George Harvey, American ambassa-
dor to Great Britain.
Indictments were also returned
against the auto ordance company
and seven other individuals on the
same charge.
The indictments are the results Of
q seizure last June of a steamer on
the East Side when five machine
guns were found in the ships coal
bunkerg.
The guns were alleged to have
been placed on board for the Sim
Fein in Ireland. They were made
by the Colts Patent Arms company
in Hartford, Conn, and are alleged to
have been sold to the Auto Orcnance
company.
Frank Williams, one of the men
indicted, claimed to own the guns.
e declared that he had purchased.
a number of guns from the auto ord
nance company aud had stored them
in a warehouse from which they had
been stolen.
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SHIFTING SAND-BANK
BURIES FOUR BOYS
Woman Witnesses Accident and Sum.
mons Help in Time to
Save Lads,

Pittsfield, June 2O.-Four boys were
entomed for 10 minutes under eight
feet Of sand in tunnel they had dug
in aniel j Walshs bank on Hollister
street this afternoon. They are in the
House of Mercy hospital. and Ed.
ward Sinclair, 10, OF 277 West street.
has a severe scalp wound inflicted,
II is believed, by shovel in the hands
of a rescuer. Four stitches were
taken.
The boys lives were apparently
saved by Mrs. Joseph Danahee of
S6 Hollister street, who, while sitting
on her porch, saw them playing on
the bank and scoot into the tunnel
The rain fell in torrents, and she saw
the tunnel covered in a landslide. She
called police headquarters and arous.
ed the neighborhood.