The Raleigh Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 7

Francis J. Heney the Man Who Prosecutes Recovering from A bullet wound in the neck inflicted by Morris Haas, during the trial of Abe Beut, grafter, In San Francisco, two months ago, Francis J. Heney, the special prosecutor has been In York. He for a few days' rest and will soon start back to be ready tor the trial of Patrick Calhoun early in January. Heney said he was too Tmsy on the coast to even think about rgoing to Pittsburg to prosecute offenders there.

He said that the San Francisco people had begun to tire of the graft prosecutions, and that Haas' murderous assault revived their interest in the cases and aided greatly In the purification movement. "The papers opposed to me," said he, "had printed so many lies that maybe the people had begun to believe comes along this little job of doing for ine by the Ruef that may be news to you "back here, but I know along this little man and fires a bullet through my neck. In itself that is not much, except In so far as it con- me, but you would be sur- prised'to know how that roused -the decent folk of San Francisco and the sentiment behind me. see that man Haas pretty nearly got on the jury that was "hearing the Parkside bribery case -against Ruef. We got on to him a woman.

It seems that Haas had' a friend, the wife of a tailor named Cohen. Cohen knew it and couldn't help least he didn't "help it. Cohen overheard Haas telling Mrs. Cohen one day that he was to'get on the Rue! jury and Siang it up. After Cohen read that Haas had been accepted as a juror he squeaked to one of my men.

We had only twenty-four hours to look up his record and get his picture 4rom the rogues' gallery, taken when he was convicted of crime several -years before. "Well, when I started to walk over ito the jury box next day with that picture in my pocket when I anerely addressed Haas by name, phy, one of the attorneys for Ruef, whose only work in court had been ito call me a liar one day, jumped up yelled, 'Don't do that Mr. IDon't do what?" I said, and then Haas began to whimper, "I to get off this jury," he cried; 'I want to get off this jury right now. 1 have reasons. 'I'll help you get I said, the picture from the Togues' gallery.

That's the way Haas got off that jury, and the transcript -of testimony shows as plain as day that he had been put in the venire ty Reuf's men. "Well, in the last Reuf trial Haas "kept hanging around the court. I met him in the hallway several times and my have to have bodyguard out there, you know, lor I can't sec everywhere at once bodyguard, Jim Foley, who -used to be a warden in Washington Prison, told me that he didn't like the looks of Haas hanging Once Haas met the both of -us at the head of the stairs leading 'Into the court room, 'and he made a toward me, but Foley stepped "between us. Maybe he pretty nearly liad me that time. "After I was shot some of my men -discovered that one of Ruef's men a fellow who posed as a newspaper -man, had been with Haas constantly he was kicked off the jury 'boozing him up and nerving him to me.

There is no question of a doubt that it was framed up for 'Haas to get me by the thugs thai Ruef has in his employ." Coal Mine On Fire. Mr. Isaac Matheson, of Spruce, came home last week to spent! the holidays, informs us tliafne ex- --amined the so-called "volcano" on -the Arbogast place, near Dunmore. 'Pocahontas county, and says that it a coal vein on fire. The coal at this point comes to the surface of the ground.

The vein is on a ridge known the "Mine Bank." The Times says that the vein has been known for years, and a very fair grade of coal "las been picked up in the creek, but no effort has been made to uncover -the coal. Some time in the fall fire ran through the woods and after it "had been put out smoke was noticed from the bank. It gradually worse, and periodically the flames spurt to the tops of the surrounding timber. A crater is being and the trees are leaning as If ready to fall into It. No effort has made to extinguish the News.

Mewlut Has Been City of Din-. Among the disasters that have been visited upon Messina during the 2,700 years of its existence, since its foundation by Cumaean pirates, are these: Fifth Century B. by fugitives from Samos and Miletus. 396 B. by the Carthaginians, only to be rebuilt by Dionysisus of Syracuse.

269 B. into the hands of the Carthaginians under Hannibal. 831 A. by the Saracens. 1061 A.

by Normans. 1740 A. thousand persons died of the plague. 1783 A. almost entirely overthrown! by great earthquake.

1848 A. damaged. 'by bombardment. 1854 A. carries off 16,000 victims.

1894 and 1896 A. loss of life and property by earthquakes. PACTS ABOUT SICILY. The largest island in the Mediterranean sea. A part of the kingdom of utaly.

Of triangular shape, and has an area of about 9700: square miles. Population was 2,927,901 in '91, and 3,529,266 in 1901. Traversed throughout its entire length by a chain of mountains. Mt. Etna, near the eastern shore, rises 10,750 feet.

On the north and east the coasts are steep and well indented, affording several good harbors. On the 'west and south the coasts are flat and' unfavorable to navigation. The rivers are mostly short. and swift, and generally, dry up during the summer. There- are and other, mineral springs, were famous resorts in ancient times.

Temperature is moderate and seldom falls below the freezing point. Summers are almost rainless and the sirocco, a wind from Africa, brings intolerable dry heat. The interior is almost entirely deforested. principal source of the world's supply of sulphur, which is the chief mineral wealth. Exports of sulphur amount to to $10,000,000 a year.

Rock salt and asphalt largely produced for export. Once the "granary of Italy," and agriculture is still the main industry. Methods primitive. Extensive cultivation of the vine, almonds, olives, oranges, lemons, beans and sumach. Condition of large numbers of the laboring classes, particularly in the sulphur industry, is deplorable.

Railway lines have a total length of about 1,000 miles. Elementary schools inadequate, but higher education is provided for in' colleges at Palermo, Messina and Catania. Syracuse, now a heap of ruins, was in the time of Cicero pronounced by him the most beautiful of all cities. CHARGED WITH PEONAGE Italian Contractor on New Big Pipe tine in Toil of Court. A fashionable paper aayn that a man's overcoat should bo no longer nlno Inches more than half tho 'height of tho wearer.

You oan brush lip your mathematics and figure this lor Thomas Aloe, an Italian contractor, who makes a specialty of securing foreign laborers for construction work, and who was accused by several members of a gang that were taken to Huntington from Erie, last Sunday to work on the pipe line of the Columbia Oil and Gas Company, of illicitly retailing liquor without license and also holding laborers in peonage, was a-rested near the work on Camp creek in Wayne county, five miles back of Central City by deputy United States mar- hals Cunningham and Sam Davis, "ith Aloe, was arrested another foreigner, Thos. March, who was accused of having been an accomplice of Aloe in the peonage charges. The men alleging that they were threatened with being shot down if they tried to leave the camp. Aloe and March were given a preliminary hearing before U. S.

Commissioner John T. Graham at Huiit- ington. The charges made by the laborers were practically substantiated and Commissioner Graham held Aloe over to the grand jury on both charges, peonage and illicitly retailing liquor. March was discharged. Aloe's bond was fixed at $1,500, and this was furnished.

BAR ASSOCIATION Twenty-Fourth Annual Session Adopt Radical Resolutions. The twenty-fourth annual session of the West Virginia Bar Association was held at Huntingtou last week. Among the toasts at the banquet at which Hon. B. Mason Ambler of Parkersburg presided were: "Our Guests," Judge E.

S. Doolittle. "The Woman Client," Andrew Price, Marlinton. "The Law of Olden Times," W. Mollohan, Charleston.

"The First Year or My Practice," Wells Goodykoontz, "Fees and How to Get Them," Judge T. P. Jacob, New Martius- ville. "Judges I Have Known," C. E.

Hogg, Dean of West Virginia University. "Opinions Local and Otherwise," E. L. Nuckolls, Fayetteville. I Did Not Win My First Case," Hafold Rit'z, Bluefield.

Radical departures from the usual resolutions characterized by their amiability were made by Judge Tip Jacobs, chairman of the committee on grievances made before the session of the West Virginia Bar Association meeting at Carnegie auditorium, Huntington. IJt was the belief of the committee on grievances that the judges of West Virginia should participate not at all in poll- tics aud their recommendation that "Section 52" be appended to the State Code of Ethics, forbidding any judge in service to have any part iu political campaigns was unanimously not until after a spirited discussion as to just how far a judge must lose his own personality ill the office cloaking. The recommendation tliat the supreme court of appeals be so revised as to include a membership of nine or more was also unanimously adopted. Other features of the report were of a rather caustic nature and did not meet with so enthusiastic a reception. When the question of the next place of meeting was brought before the body.

from Webster Springs, White Sulphur Clarksburg, and-Wheeling were put on file. When a ballot was taken Webster Springs won, the votes for the others decreasing in the order named, Wheeling receiving only two votes. The next meeting will be held probably next July or August, subject to special call. The complete list of the officers elected were: Eresident, C. W.

Campbell, Huntington. Vice-Presidents district, Judge H. C. Harvey. Second district, Fred 0.

Blue. Third district, E. L. Nuckolls. Fqurth district, J.

W. Vandervort. Fifth district, L. C. Anderson.

Secretary, Charles McCamie, 'of Wheeling. Treasurer, C. A. Kreps. Executive council, W.

P. Willey, H. M. Russell, B. M.

Ambler, Elliott Northcott, John J. Coniff. Delegates to American Bar Gordon Matthews, Wells Goodykoontz, T. P. Jacobs.

A resolution was adopted recommending the appointment of a commission to secure national uniform legislation with broader scope than any yet secured. A resolution of appreciation for the hospitality extena- ed by the city of Huntington and to all who contributed toward making the twenty-fourth annual session of the association the greatest in thei history, was enthusiastically and unanimously adopted. Among those in attendance from Fayetteville were E. L. Nuckolls, J.

T. Simms, Ben D. Koontz, A. W. Hamilton, J.

C. Hamilton, A. J. Horan, W. L.

Lee, C. W. Osenton, C. W. Dillon.

THE YEAR'S RAINFALL, Amount for (lie Year 19O8 Much lie- low the Average. The United States engineer's office at Charleston has issued a table showing the rainfall for the year 1908, showing a total precipitation of 39.87 inches. The average annual ralnfal for the past twenty- three years Is 42.20 inches. The precipitation for the first six months of 1908 was much above the average but the last hn.v' the yrar fell far below and brought the total for the year much below the average. The precipitation per month is as follows: January 2.26 inches February 3.71 inches Vlarch 7.10 inches April 7.15 inches 4.50 inches June 2.50 inches July 4.25 inches August 1.94 inches September 0.40 inches October ..1.24 inches November 1.53 inches December 3.29 inches Total 34.87 inches An unconfirmed report got liere Monday, says the -Wyoming Mountaineer, that Ira Boyu of Barkers radge district struck Luke Milam on the head with a rock and that Milam went to the justice and swore out a warrant, against Boyd which was placed in the hands of Floyd Lusk, deputy sheriff, and Lusk went to arrest Boyd, that Boyd shot Lusk dead, and that Milam who was with Lusk, drew his gun and shot Boyd dead at the instant he shot Lusk.

It is too sad to believe and we cannot give the matter credence until it is verified. Later we have a report given us by Joe Simpson who tells us it was given him by Richard Mathews that Boyd and Milam had quarreled about Nancy Diven. She is a sister of Mathews who told the story. He said Milam hit Boyd with a stone and Boyd had sworn out a warrant for Milam's arrest and had same given to Floyd Lusk for execution and also went with him. When Floyd attempted to arrest Milam he drew a gun and shot him dead and Boyd, who was standing by fired on Milam and killed him.

Fractured His Skull Eugene H. Hartzell, a well known pressman at Charleston, died at the McMillan hospital in that city from injuries received by a fall while standing on Capital street conversing with some friends. He was seized with a fainting spell and fell to the pavement before he could be protected, receiving a fractured skull. He Is survived by a wife and child. Want Four ArmorlM.

The executive committee of the West Virginia National Guards met at Parkersburg "recently and changes In the military codo of the state wero agreed upon to make tho code conform with the Dick bill. It also decided to ank for armor- leu for Parkorsburg, Charleston, Iluntlngtoa and Fairmont, EaHliqiiakes'in Last Ten years. May, Pierre, Martinque. Earthquake and erun- tlon of Mount Pelee; 40,000 killed. India; 35,000 killed.

April, 19.05—San Francisco 0nd adjacent towns. Nearly killed. Estimated damage $250,000,000. August, Chili Estimated 500 killed. Estimated damage, $15,000,000.

January, Jamaica. Over 2,000 killed. Estimated damage, $15,000,000. April, Mexico. Four towns destroyed.

June, China; 4,000 killed. October, Russia, Turkestan; 1,500 killed. March, 1908 Coatepec, Conception and Te- tllla, In Mexico, destroyed; 100 to 300 killed. Within tho last three years there have been hundreds of slight earthquakes In various sections of tho world. There is no Quinine, nothing whatever, harsh or sickening in Preventics.

These little Candy Cold Cure Tablets act as by magic. A few and your threating Cold is broken. Candyliko in taste. Preventics please the they break the fev- erlshness, always. And least of all Is the economy.

A large Pre- cents. Ask your druggist. He knows! Sold by all dealers. A DOUBLE K1LMXC. Two Wyoming Citizens Alleged lo Have Been Shot Down.

New Secretary Named. The executive board of the Sunday School association of West met In Wheeling last week aud selected A. T. Arnold of Chicago as general secretary of the association of this state to succeed the late W. C.

Shafer, who died from the result of injuries received in a runaway accident some months ago. Mr. Arnold has already taken charge of the work. He is a man of much experience lu the work and was practically agreed upon as the successor to Mr. Shafer some time ago.

Struck Rig ftusser. The Carnegie Natural Gas Com- pany has completed a well on James Run, Harrison county. A test showed a volume of 15,000,000 feet of gas a day. The gas was found In the Big Injun sand. Competent engineers estimate that there is 2,000,000 which could be easily developed I from water power in this country.

This would save annually 225,000,000 tons of coal. McMillan's Hospital Charleston, W. Va. Accommodations for both Surgical and Medical Cases. E.

CANNADAY, M. D. GENERAL SURGERY. SiirRCon in Charge Shelter- Inu Arms Hospital. Hansfotd, W.

Va. W. A. MCMILLAN, M. General Medicine.

W. R. HUGHEY, M. D. Anesthetist P.

A. HALEY, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. W.

ROBERTSON, M. Bacteriologist. MISS MOLLIE MCMILLAN, Supt. Hospital. MISS CAMILLA NORTON, Head Nurse.

Sending Out Petitions. Theodore Alvord, it is said, is sending out many petitions for signers. Up to the present it is alleged that 12,000 petitions have been sent out by the Anti-Saloon League. The league declares it will fight local option. A great many people have kidney and bladder trouble, mainly due to neglect of the occasional pains in the back, slight rheumatic pains, urinary disorders, etc.

Delay in such cases is dangerous. Take DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Fills. They are for weak back, backache, rheumatic pains and all kidney and bladder trouble. Soothing and antiseptic, and act promptly. Don't fail to get DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills.

Accept no substitute. Regular size, 50 c. Sold by all druggists. The construction of a water-power plant has been started on the Escau- abo river near Flat Rock, Mich. Hinton Hospital HINTON.W.VA.

Distance not only lends enchantment, but It doesn't expect to be paid back. STAFF: O. O. COOPER, M. General Surgery.

R. B. MILLER, M. General Medicine. G.

L. PENCE, M. Surgeon. C. W.

ALBERT, M. Eye, Ear, Note, Throat. SOWARD CUMMINQS, M. af the Lunge. Capacity, 75 bcils.

Ambulance acrvtco. Training school for nurses. Nurses supplied for private Admits all discuses not contagl' A O. n'y emergency hospital. Specially: Appendicitis, woman, abdominal surgery.

Hospital fees, week. CAMPBELL HOSPITAL, Dr. J. A. Campbell, Surgeon in Charge.

BECKLEY, WEST VA. Women and abdominal surgery Rates $10. Per Week. THE HERALD CARRIES IN STOCK ALL KINDS OF BLANKS USED A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND CAN BE SECURED IN ANJT QUANTITY DESIR- ED FROM A UP. A HUNDRED OR MORB CAN BE SENT THROUGH THE MAIL AT A VERY SMALL COST.

A POSTAL CARD WILL HAVB PROMPT ATTENTION. GAS AND OIL LEASES ALSO CARRIED IM STOCK. RALEIGH HERALD BECKLEY, W. VA WHITE OAK RY, C. 0, RY, JOINT TIME TABLE, WHITE OAK BRANCH, STUART DIVISION In effect Sunday, Nov.

1, 1903. 167- 103' 161" I 162" I 5:30 5'40 6:60 6:05 0:10 6:17 (1:23 10:20 1' 10:40 1 10:55 1 11:00 1 1 I 11:10 1 11:18 1 1 1 7:03 1 7:08 1 1 7:17 1 7.22 STUART 1.7 4.1 OAK HILL 6.4 CAUUSL13 WHirPLB JCT 7.7 SGARuno 8.4 WINCJItOVE 9.8 WIIITIJ! OAK JCT. 9:50 9:40 9:30 9:15 9:05 9:00 g.rR 8:50 10:12 4:40 1 1 10:05 4:20 1 1 1 4:10 1 1 3:55 1 1 I 3:40 1 1 3:35 1 1 3:30 1 1 8:37 8:77 8:17 8:07 8:05 8:02 7:57 Dally except Sunday. only..