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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-04-17
ACTION STARTED IN COURT ef
ADMINISTRATIVE OF THE LATE
ELMER J. COVENTRY.
NEGLIGENCE ALLEGED TO HAVE
CAUSED FATAL AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENT NEAR WEBB.
SIMILAR SUIT FILED FEW DAYS
AGO AGAINST THE MEAD TOWN.
ss5 Snip TRUSTEE BOARD.

George Sandrock, Franz Hagedorp
and Arch Kelsey, as commissioners OK
Belmont county. Ohio, were made de-
PENDANTS In q So, 700 suit for damages
filed at St. Clairsville by Edna CoVen.
try a. administrAtrix OF tho estate OF
Umer J. Coventry.
This suit Is the second OF this ma
ture for Q similar sum OF money, grow
ing out Of fatal automobile accident
on weegee creek last October, when
Elmer Coventry's car plunged into a
washout which encroached into the
roadway. The township board OF
trustees were made defendants in the
drst suit filed BY the administratri1.
In the suit against the county COM
missioners the petition alleges that
there Is a public highway located in
Belmont county and extending along
the Wegee creek through Webb and
connecting with the Belaire and We
gee pike south OF the village OF Shady
side, and commonly known as the We
gee creek road. That at point east
Of the railroad station house at Webb
and outside the Incorporated limits OF
any village or city. said road had ad.
jacent thereto in an unprotected con-
ditton a perpendicular wash bank
moro than eight feet mig. which had
immediate connection with said public
highway. Petition further alleges that
the defendants failed and omitted TO
protect said wash bank with guard
rails. stock proof hedge fence or other
wise, and that on October "a. 1921,
Elmer ]. Coventry. then in life. was
driving an automobile easteriy on said
road q shart distance east OF the said
station house, and that the machine
fell over the wash bank distance OF
u or IA feet to the bottom. thereby
killing and causing the death Of plain
tits decedsnt Damages for the above
amount are asked. Attorneys R w.
SoertSer and H T. Tyler represent the
plaintn-
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Dr.. Macdonald
Aids in Service
Former Pastor at Second Presbyterian
Church Easter Day

Rev. 7. 3. Ferris. pastor OF 'he
Second Presbyterian church. rester-
day was assisted in the Eeaster dero-
tons OF his church by Rev Charles
H. Macdonald, Of New York City. for
mer pastor Of the church here. In his
address TO the congregation. Rev. Fer
ria spoke OF the 1000 wears CT JOY at
tendant upon tho worlds progress
since the resurrection OF Christ.
The service was featured by the
baptism OF twelve children and the re-
ception OF new members. Special mu-
sic was sung appropriate to the sea
son BY the choir assisted by Mrs.
Edna Nesbitt DeProspero. soprano,
and Kenneth Ruble. violinist.. Mrs.
Nell Ebellng Nay sang The Song OF
Joy" and Mrs Schenerlein sang Clio
rious Easter Dawn
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pie Of the land. There should b many
times that number, and there win b
In the next con gross II workers sssost
themselves as they should and must"
When delegates OF the brewery
workers brought up tho prohibition
law, he said:
I'VE would only be running around
in circles trying to have thea msnd-
ment repealed. Thirteen states could
prevent il. Elect tho right men to con.
gress and we will be Gble 10 have the
volstead act amended % that the
worker can got Z sni6 1t Z glass OF
beer while the rich man who has his
cellar stocked with booze 10 watchinE
the ice melt in his highball"
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RNQE. G. ". Dl".

Steubenrille O.. April t6.--Strickcn
while putting his summer home Unread
mess at West Salem. O.. Prof. =. w.
Kline. principal OF Stanton school. this
city. and ono OF the best known educa-
tors in Eastern Ohio, died suddenly At
that place. according TO q MESSAGE re-
ccived tere ny his wife His death was
due To q stroke.
Prot Kline was in the best OF health
when NJ left this city last Monday to
go TO West Salem. According 10 the
message. he was taken suddenly III. and
survived tho stroke but few hours.
Deceased was horn at Lodi. O.. ~
years ago. and was a graduate OF EereI
and Wooster university. He came here
sixteen years ago az a teacher and with.
n a year was made principal OF stanton
school. His death caused universal re-
gret here. He was member or the
First VI. F.. church and was active in
church and Sunday school work.
He il survived by his wife. OF this
city. and his parents. ~ Lodi. Q.
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Mrs Fred King. who occupies suite
at tho Hotel Hadlcigh. has gone to
ParkershurS to visit her fa;her, Samuel
A. Hays. Midshipman j., Kent LOOMS.
L. 6. y. A.. spent the Easter vacation
with his mother. Mrs. Charles Brooks
Smith. and Mldshipman Joseph Holt
Gaines. Jr.. with his parents. former
Congressman and Mrs Joseph Holt
Gaines nj thei- home in this city. John
Marshall. we'll known parkerSburG at
torney. has hcen a visitor In the capital
for several days. having business with
officials at the department OF justice.
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G0MPERS IN
ATTACK UPON
THE PLOYERS

New Haven. Conn, April l6.-Sam
uel iompnrs. president Of the Ameri.
can Federation of Labor. launched a
vigorous attack against the interests
opposed IA organized labor" in an ad-
ress. at An open forum session of the
Connecticut Federation Of Labor here
today.
NJ. Gompers scored Chief Justice
Taft when he referred 10 recent de.
cision of the United States supreme
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WASHINGTON.
West Virginia News - Notes
and Gossip at the Nations
Capital
~ cxAnLBs s1ooxs sMTK

Washington, d. c.. April l6.-An or
der has been issued by tho postofhco
department establishing a new post
office in Pendleton county, W. Va. TO
be officially listed as Brood. John Z.
Raincs has been commissioned Its post
master.
The civil service commission has
withdrawn an official notice OF com
petitive examination to be hold FOR a
postmaster at Walton. giving as the
reason for 30 doing that tho present
incumbent, Mrs. Josephine Marks, has
Withdrawn her resignation.
Olaf c. Lytton has been recommend
ed by Congressman woodward for ap-
pointment as postmaster at Cay, w.
Va.
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Col Andrew Edmiston Of Weston.
and Capt. Len" r. Phillips OF Buck
harmon. spent several days in the capt.
tai. renewing old trinndshinY and re-
ceiviug r hearty greeting from all West
rirEinans. These two fnc old West
virginlans. widely known especially in
The central part Of the state. were on
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thetr way homo from H1orsdA. where
they spent the winter. = 10 an ANIMAL
CUSTODY OF theirs to escape tho Scvers-
dee OF winter weather In their own
state by trckinG Off to Florida to tho
palms and the sunshine and the oafmy.
tropical climate just, As soon as the
first heavy frosts sparkle on the West
Virginia hitls we do not admit" ex-
planned Col. Edmiston who is u now,
that We arc afraid Of winter at home.
Va tust don't care TO taunt and defy
It."
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Springfield RepublieaA-rhs ceaBrss-
sionallst records tho fact that In PREP
que Isle, Nc. four Protestant churches
and the Catholics recently united IN
ten days campaign for the spiritual -.
lift Of the community. Northern A8in0
furnishes an example Of 100 pr esot
cooperation.
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Mrs. r. o. Cook OF ClarksourG. whom
the ex-service men m that section al
fectionately call Mother Cook be-
cause she devotes herself 10 looking
after their welfare, especially those
who are i'll. injured. out Of work and
have rightful claims against the gov
eminent. has been here for several days
attending to the business or some OF
her boys" At the Veterans bureau.
Senator Sutherland placed Private Sec
rotary Hcffncr at her service. and they
have spent much time IN that ami
other departments having a part IN SOL
der welfare work. One OF the several
orders secured by them was TO trans
fer John W. Callff from hospital at
ClarksburE to>ar army hospital at FER
ryvillc. Md. providing for the expenses
Of his transfer. and reinstatinS his In
surance policy which had lapsed.
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Notice Of favorable action has been
received by Congressman Reed from
the Pension bureau in the claim o'
Mrs. Mary McNcmar Of Orlando. W.
Va. She has been awarded pension
at the rate of $50 per month, dating
from February |. 1921. IS month FOR
each OF her two minor children, and
accrued invalid pension due her ,ata
husband on tho date OF his death.
Departmental routine reported at
Senator Sutherlands office: Pension
bureau awards. James 7. McCltntic.
present address Soldicra' home at Day
ton. O.. SIS a month from October IL,
1920: increase. SIC per month from
Na rch 8. 1921. for Jacob Keller Of Gem;
.ame increase dating from February II.
1899. for Rufus McCutchen of Hunting
ton; SIC a month for Edward q. Friend
Of GaasawRy. The Veterans bureau
has awarded compensation at the ratf
Of IS month 10 Thos. I. Hines or
Manayka. from January 81. 1920. The
adjutant general OF the army has for
warded 10 James Hopkins OF fleetwood
certificate in lieu OF hts lost dis
charge from the service.
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MISS KATE MARSHALL
xtfs Long 1ss1dsns Of Vicinity pLsi
-" At Home Easesr Afesr-
noon-

Z MfsR Kate Marshall d;ed yesterday
Afternoon at her lH,c home. No "na Ma,
ffonal road. following a two months i'll
ness OF complications.
sns was the daughter or tho lat"
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Ohio County Medical Society
WHEELING, W. VA.
April Is, 1922.

April
Dr. W. II. Mr,ain, Health Commissioner, Wheeling W. Va.
largely attended meeting the Ohio County Medical Soc
for consideration the follow
ing the question::
hc question and clean for Wheeling the continued use
adncd determined the bond election
of and Importance; the
Of directly
Having positive knowledge of the havoc
drinking water, and of the
stantm the public health the supply:
Medical Society," desire to commend
filtration proposed 1t has unqualified en-
appeal of Wheeling to give
approval"
the medical professions attitude unanimously
endorsed.
Yours truly,
(Sened) NIB WILLIAMS, Secretary.
ccspadorb large numh o Wheeling
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BELMONT CO. COMMISSIONERS
SUED FOR $4,000 DAMAGES

James and Elizabeth Groves Marshall
and was life long resident OF tnls
vicinity She was member OF the
Steenrod N. r. church.
Deceased is survived by one sister
Miss Lucreta Marshall. at homo. two
brothers. Andrew Marshall, OF Fulton
and James Marshall of Cannonshurg, Pa
Funeral services will be held from nor
late homo Tuesday afternoon AT )
o'clock The Rev. Frank McCamie,
pastor Of the steenrod 81. f.. church Will
otficiate and intermcnt will be in Mount
Wood cemetery.
MuDKlauYE1 SERVICES
The funeral OF George Frederick
Nicdermeyer. who died Friday after
meyer, who died Friday afternoon at his
homo on BogSS Run. will be held this
afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home OF
his sister. Mrs. Charles Bohiman. Boggs
Run. The Rev. August c. Rasche. pas
t. OF ST. Paurs Evangelical church.
~. be In charge. and intermcnt VIII
be made in Greenwood cemetery.
Mr.. Siedermeyer was in his goth year
and was born and reared in Marshall
county. For q number, OF years he has
been employed at the Riverside plant OF
the National Tube company.
Decea sed Is survived by his mother.
ono sister Mrs Charles Rohlnan and
three sisters. Elmer. Ralph and Paul.
at home. He was member OF Evening
Star Lodge No. Is, Knights OF Pythias
at Benwood
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OFFICERS

OFFICERS
.. A. MacGregor. N. D.
President
". Turner Morris, N. u.
Vice President
". Il. williams, NJ. D.
Secreta?
". S. Fulton, VI. ID.
Treasurer
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y Foremost Publlcist.


Special cable rhe Star. Copyright, 1872
BERLIN, July 15.-walter Rathe-
nau and once sat beneath a cypress
tree near Fiesole. dreaming Of our
own and Of Germanys future.
While . painfully overwhelming
conviction forced me to break with
Rathenau in 1918. for twenty-five
years he always called me his best.
II not his only, friend.
Rathenau Contemplated abandoning
industry and finance and going to
Paris to develop painting talent
which he had in good measurA With
his always fiattering eloquence he
phophesied that some day Wilhelm
II would be forced to intrust me.
whom he hated, with the ministry OF
foreign affairs. This was to happen
as soon as Germany had a constitu-
tional government like England's.
The prophesy naturally sounded
fantastic to me, for / had taken this
italian holiday to recover from the
effects of Imprisonment for lese ma
jeste.
But now, what has become Of our
dreams IN Fiesole?
Rathenau, who enthusiastically sup
ported the monarchy and Prussian-
ism and aristocracy and who was
prevented his becoming an officer
finally, after hard striving, attained
the ONCE he had prophesied for me,
only to be shot by boy criminalA
Attacked From Behind,
A few days later and few minutes
from where he met death equally
young but more cowardly bandits
attacked me from behind. and here I
still am, with a torn and bleeding
body, with eight frightfu1ly painful head
wounds, scribbling these lines for the
cable in the hospital of Prof. Morftz
Borchardt, one of Germany's greatest
surgeons.
A mocking bird is singing in the
garden. What does Il say?
divine right, the imperial government
twice threw you in prison and tried
to ruin you physically and materially
by series of criminal proceedings.
Because you could not believe there
was a world wide anti German con-
spiracy in 1914, nor wallow in a VIC
tory delirium; because you disap-
proved of the invasion of Belgium and
of ruthless submarine warfare5s be-
cause you did not believe in the dew
astation of northern France and of
Poland, and because you disapproved
OF all the m1lltarlSt actS, from the
lying ultimatum to Serbia to the ex-
torted Brest-Litovsk treaty, the mill
tary censorship twice suspended your
weekly paper for five months and al
most ruined you by hundred con-
fiscations and petty prosecutions.
Attitude Toward Republic.
Because you matntained the con-
viction that the newborn republic
was mindless and soulless. its leaders
dilletantish and superficial, you are
hated by the new powers as by the
old who now hire scoundrels to muir
der you.
"The republic has not protected
you, and has not punished open ap-
peals to assassinate you which have
Evening star., 1922-07-16
26 AFRICAN CHIEFS FEATURE
OF FRENCH INDEPENDENCE DAY

, forty servants. the big chiefs are
lodged in barracks near the Rois de
Bouiogne, where once resided one OF
the princes of Dahomey, son of Gle
Gle, the Dahomian king, who first
ceded African territory to the French.
The chiefs. their wives, and follow
ers, Were so dazzled and bewildered
by the sights of the French capital
that a considerable number of guards
were required to keep them from GO
ing astray. When asked what was
the first thing they wanted to see
upon their arrival, spokesman, in
fairly good French. replied:
Big Chief Foch."
The marshal escorted them 10 see
the last resting place of another big
chief'-the tomb of Napoleon, whose
renown also has penetrated into the
African iungles.
The official program of their visit
will take them to see the battiefields.
where African rifiemen did yeoman
service for France, but some of the
chiefs already have made it known
that they would rather stay in Paris.
Evening star., 1922-07-16
HARDEN, ABE,D, PENS RAP d
ON LIFE WITH ASSASSZNS
Chided BY Mocking Bird in Hospital Gardens,
Publicist Recalls H. Omened Experi- y.
!. ences With Rathenau.

appeared again and again. You have
been UNANIMOUSLY slandered in tho on
cial newspapers, and even now they
have no single word Of regret for the
shameful deed Of July 8.
But look, your sick room is full
Of flowers sent by sympathizers the
world over. including many unknown
to you, and the flood of letters and
telegrams mounts higher and higher.
Your government, however, does
not betray, directly or indirectly, the
slightest grief or shame that only by
reputation has escaped death by as
sassination under tho very eyes OF
Its police and may. perhaps never
hope to be entirely healed Tho pub
lie prosecutor demands q hne Of only
ment to murder. and the grotesaue
reward Of 10000 marks (s2o) 10 Of
fered for the capture of a murderer
Obviously they do not desire the
criminals caught Don't you realize
now what a pitifully useless fellow
you are? Why cont you learn from
Swift that neither in the land OF
giants or dwarfs does the truth teller
get ANYTHING but distress for his re-
ward?"
Dear mockfng bird. have learned
my lesson. Numberless times I have
been threatened and warned. but I
have always thought why should
private political writar. whom nobody
is forced to read. be lSdered?"
Chief Criminal Hpeapea.
Well. they tried anyway, and the
accomplfce in the act was caught.
The chief criminal, twenty-one-
year-old lieutenant. was not taken.
However, the police learned from let
by q secret organization in Bavaria
(naturally) Of brave and loyal Ger
mane' to kill me. whom they didn't
even know. How brave and loyar It
was to attack an unarmed man from
behind! It seems that for weeks they
watched my path. meantime squan-
dering thirty-five thousand marks ad-
vanced to them on account. Needing
urgently the rest Of the money prom
ised them, they already had written
to cay 'Our orders have been pune
tually executed"
For people who in these hard times
can get money for riotous living from
secret monarchists' bands business is
business"
Rathenau, meantime, has had the
glorious death his ambition desired
and the government now is trying to
fulfill his dearest wish-a union with
the monarchist and industrialist "peo-
ples party" supposedly for the pro-
lection of the republic"
Everything is tottering. Only one
thing is certain. Murder continues
But until more capable murderers at
tack me / shall continue 10 cry:
God help you, German peop.s, OUT
of the morass of lies and the unscru-
pulous cunning Of those who seek
only power"
But you also, our enemies of yester-
day. come to tAe assistance OF this
poor misled people, which is noble
at heart. Help II save its self respect
through brotherly acts of human
Kindness.
Today my voice is weak. for IL the
good professor knew that his patient.
upon whom he has worked so skill
fully. was continuing to write dis
patches against his orders, I would
have bitterer truths to swallow.
So that is all. lest there be soon a
day of celebration at Doom Castle.
Evening star., 1922-07-16
MT. EVEREST CLIMB
FAILURE FORESEEN
London Not Surprised That
Explorers Were Unable
to Reach the Top.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July $50 far the year
1922 has not been a trium phant sea-
son for British explorations. The
failure of the Mount Everest expedi-
tion to reach the summit of the high
est mountain in the world was dis
counted by most authorities, who
said the greatest surprise had been
that the climbers were able to go as.
far as they did without oxygen and
that they were able to transport
oxygen apparatus to almost the high
est slopes.
News Was Anticipated.
The definite news that they were
returning was taken for granted be-
fore II reached England. Whethsr
the Royal Geographical Society VIII
renew the enterprise another year -
questionable. The expedition. with
i.s long caravans OF coolies and pack
animals, was one Of the most costly
ever attempted. and financial reasons
may make another Mount Everest
campaign impossible.
The late Sir Erneot ShAckletons
little ship Quest according to re-
ports, ie about to sail homeward from
the south Pacific. thus giving up ths,
long program for antartic explora-5
tions over which the explorer had,
STUDIED severai years. SON
Thought ship Too Small. ssI
Sir Ernest's death was not the on9y;
cause for the failure Of the enter
prise. Capt. Wild. Who succeeded TO
command after his chiefs death, con-
ciuded after consultation with ship
ping men that the Quest was not
large enough or strong enough to
fixht the southern ice nelds.
Considering Sir Ernests wide ex-
psrjencs and the fact that all Of Eny-
land's seafarin9 knowiedge Wa Set
HE disposal, Il now ssens strange 70
leadinT uhippang experts that the
ouUGf.n poo1tbyl5kaeo And fimstaS1ono
yes ned ssainsA bseeee sAe sxcsai-
Evening star., 1922-07-16
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
PARIS. July 15-The minuet, the
gavot. the mazurka and other old
favorite dances are coming back
along with the waltz and the polka.
and the "shimmy'' and similar freaks
have got to go along with jazz music,
in the opinion of close observers of
tendencies of the times.
French dancing masters already
have started movement to revive
the old picturesque dances dating
from the Seventeenth century, which.
they say, are the only ones that 80
gracefully with the old styles in
womens dress which are coming
back into favor.
jazz also is likely to suffer from
increasing restrictions exercised by
pleasure seekers. Although there is
nearly $4,000, 900 francs in paper
money In France, it is showing it
self with less and less lfberality in
places where people enjoy them
selves, and jazz. said the manager
OF one Of these establishments,
doesn't go with anything but fezz."
The municipal council. moreover.
has given notice that the jazz kings
from Dixieland must abdicate after
next New Year day. They will be
permitted to make only 10 per cent
OF the noise In Partisan pleasure re-
Evening star., 1922-07-16
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press-
PARIS, July 15.-Twenty-six big
chiefs of West African coast tribes.
who never before had left the slave
recruiting region whence the Ameri-
can black race came. constituted an
original feature yesterday. OF the
French Independence day. They rep
resented six different French colonies
as they marched up to be decorated
by President MiIlerand and to be
thanked for the 100000 fighters they
sent to France during the war.
They got as much applause as did
the poilus on their first appearance
on parade after the armistice. Incl
dentally, the gorgeousness of their
attire discouraged a good many wom-
en- who, with hand-painted gowns,
were trying to outdo the picturesque
ness of jungle fashions.
With their numerous wives, and
Evening star., 1922-07-16
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PARIS DCOMS SEzlfMY AND JAZZ:
I7fh CENTURY DANCES COMING BACK

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