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The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 3

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IHE ROANOKE TIMES WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13 1913 THREE VI HSSRH REIGHT WRECKS STEEL CARS THINK IT 105 Jefferson St Roanoke Va 4 'H for cents ft bushel in Wholesale and Retail Good prints retail will iksellers Stationers Engravers GIST A PUZZLE iw 1 BIC 1 ed for $10 her Ia her fa Bettor Bags and Trunks uri or Less Money nt id Bachrach Co Inc include 1 9 Bt ave you 0 rdered a case of that amous 4 8 1 A of Phone CHICHESTER PILLS THE VUMOsn tin AM) I ro west Pitzer Transfer Co 3uJ Boars tho Signature of ieoV luei unconscious in a two men had at cents cents In in JonesMOlBOl 1602 Leal 'S'd Phone than half an which in said of a feud of on two wheels a one legged negro were locked up nn each for violating a colored was fined conduct Robertson id and the TRY HAMS HIELD HAMS BRAND HAMS PREMIUM HAMS MEN IE ON WAR PATH Inn edJ bu az i his rr en ak ini Ise ir crate lots 19 retail Scarce as and This department of our business is one of the best and most com plete in Virginia our stock in cluding Baseball GoodsWright Tennis Goods 'Abbey ishing Tackle Golf Clubs (also all other Golf Supplies) and Stand ard Croquet Sets These goods are all known as The Best the kind we want to sell and the kind 1 you want to buy and use sr 1 lied imt in i lor I ind anxt to IN CHARGE Mr Sites and Mr Moseley 'hviikwiilm i on ni iiihv iilt nickel to 10 cents cents to $125 a 'O io 8 '18 THREE ECLIPSED JN NEXT TWO MONTHS Three eclipses are scheduled to oc cur within the next two months from August 31 to September 23th On the first named date there will be a partial eclipse of the sun while closely fol lowing events will be a total eclipse of the moon on September 15tliand a partial eclipse of the sun again on September 23 This gives two of the sun within one month or at two successive new moons and an eclipse of the moon at the full moon which in tervenes between the two eclipses th sun PRO ANDERSON GOES TO ALABAMA Sporting Goods' and ishing Tackle Department eer? It is tho ichest and most healthful Iways the same should order now 30(101) Persons Publicly Recommend our Remedy Some are Roanoke people and tarr Mat $150 a quarter 20 cents I WEODIXG BOUQUETS Klllnrtiey Hoses Swrel Peas or Lily of Valley ALLON lorist Kotnoke NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY UNSOLVED New' York Aug 12 Thirty six hours have elapsed with hardly any progress towmd the l(lciitlllcntkn of a young woman found murdered Sun day night In a swamp In upper Man hattan The police Benin helpless in their search for clues of the mur derers but entertain the theory that the woman rn ty hate hern killed uh a part of a gang plot of Court at Big Stone Gap Judge Henry McDowell of the federal district court of Western Vir ginia has returned to the district after several weeks vacation In Kenutcky and this week is holding court at Big Stone Gap The Southwest session likely will continue into next week Judge McDowell holds court in Lynch burg early In September when several cases of importance are expected to be tried including that Of the negro ranklin charged with violating the white slave law ranklin was arrested recently after a series of exciting inci dents around the regular army maneu ver camp at Winchester Elm MARKET OB BUYERS TUESDAY the following behind the States in get record shows Alabama 45 Uonnecti nf a made by an unknown cturer lacks the confl the maker and should tmand yours a piano that has been ctured by the same con nearly three quarters ntury and has a record ability and sweetness of ver equalo 1 buy brings us more customers every day We have' proven that our 'work tn tho electrical Uno is the best By being? the oldest 'and largest electrical firm in the city we are to give best electrical work possible Our work is done without tearing or iniurihg tho property in any way and the work we 'do is absolutely Let us estimate with you in the electrical line We carry a full and complete' line of electrical supplies PHU In tCrd and Gala inetaHicxV Loxes sealed with Jilin ion Take vrn other Buy of your Drnit At5c for tKRTH D1AMOD HRALJl PIMA tilt years known as Best kafrt A Iways licKabJe SOLDBYDRUGGISSEVERYWXERE Wolfenden Electric Ccl Phone 635 130 Campbell ACTION ARMERS' BOARD CONDEMNED Richmond Journal: The ork Union branch of the Vir ginia armers' Educational and Co Op erative Union has adopted resolutions condemning the action of the executive board of that organization for the state of Virginia in endorsing one of the candidates Thompson Brown for commissioner of agriculture in the re cent democratic primary The action is declared to be inimical to the best interests of the armers' Union in that it introduces the question of partisan politics The resolution sets forth that every one should be left free and untram eled to vote as he may see fit that it is a basic principle of the order to avoid political debate and action as an organization that the circular sent out conveying the action was sent out very shortly before the primary of August 5 without time to have an expression of opinion from the various local unions and that the disruption of the Alliance in Virginia came through the introduction of partisan policies The resolutions were signed by Underhill A Melton and Snead as a committee Our Successful Work lies Chick KM OfMERC Uty will be remembered fter price is lutely true in the pur VIRGINIA WAR DEBT COMMISSIONERS MEET Washington Aug Commission ers met here today ns representatives of West Virginia and Virginia in an nf fort to adjust tho amount due Vir ginia by West Virginia as lie latter Commonwealth's portion of the Vir ginia State war debt The litigation has been pending for nearly a score otyeara and the supreme court of the United States in a recent decision suggested that the two States get to gether to settle tho exact amount West Virginia shall pay The com missioners have already had one meet ing here at which no agreement could be reached And abltsh a piano A dear at any price a unknown merit may poor investment a Sei vVa at 12 Salem Avejtue Rhone 501 CRUISER ORDERED IO REMAIN IN GUAYMASSan Diega Cal Aug 11 Radio grams received tonight trom the Uni ted States warship patrolling the Gulf of California report that the armored cruiser Pittsbwg which had started for San Diego with refugees was or dered to return to Guaymas and re main there pending further instruc tions from tho navy department The supply ship Glacier which was to have sailed today with refugees for San Diego and San rancisco has been or dered to remain at Guaymas indefi nitely Over one hundred thousand have recommended Doan's Kidney ills or backache kidney urinary ills Thirty thousand sighed testimonial! Are appearing now in public print Soma pt thent are Roanoke people Some are published in Roanoke No other remedy shows such proof ollow this Roanoke man's example Mason machinist 11 ourth Ave Roanoke Va says: suffered from dizzy spells during which spots floated before my eyes My back ached I has weak and could not do my housework Hearing of Doan's Kidney Pills I got a supply at Barnes' Drug Store and began us ing them The results wero all that I could have wished for Doan's Kid ney Pills have certainly been of bene fit to me 1 am glad to confirm the endorsement I have given them bc or sale by all dealers Price 50 cents oster Milburn Co Buffalo New York sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doan's and take no Advertisement is 14SH00 the steel mall cnrrlftr met the deceased in front of the post office ami with? no 'other warning it Is eaiii than the remark hear you are going' to kill me throw up your hands" drew a 44 calibre revolver and fired point blank at ho doctor who onions 75 cents a bushel 10 gallon 15 cents a gallon 10 cents a quart potstoes 25 cents a gallon Butter firm 10 cents packed 22 cents printed wholesale ed at 30 cents Eggs 20 and 21 cents wholesale 25 Chickens unchanged at retail weak undertone at wholesale ryers sold 20 to 40 cents each with snmo asking 50 cents for large At wholesale the av erage was about 20 cents around ew calls for wholesale lots Peaches plentiful $175 to $225 a bushel 30 to 40 cents a basket Some Inferior sold $1 a five gallon basket Apples sold 50 to 75 cents a bushel 10 cents a gallon Damsons 35 cents a gallon Honey 18 cents a pound Bananas 15 and 20 cents a dozen Cantaloupes Rocky ords bushel 5 cents each six for a Iarge sold $125 a dozen 5 to each The supply was good carry in stock one of st and most complete hams in the city ty more delicious boiled euffitovum for camp or picic Creamery Btter Chickens try Eggs Cream Cieesc VEGETABES iweet Potatcs Tew Potatoes Snaps 0tohs iquash Jreen AppH Uackeyed fcas Jutter Bea? Jabbage Tomatoes Corfl RVTS Vatermelas Jantaloujs Jananas Caches Lemons RESHMEATS Jeef Pork jamb ikankfiuers Jried Bsf Soiled hm ireakfst Bacon lologor Sausage th you next order let nd yoione of dur ice North Carolina Water is rigl off the ice il Win Grape Juice most opular and host of 18 season Very for diner can in stock a full com pie line of Col 's Sms and Toilet rt te fa on tf bl lr rs deputy to Dr ly from the three wounds inflicted West surrendered to a local constable in Artistic tieff The man who Is building a ho'vsetfor business purposes cr1' to live In will show good common sense if he pays close attention to the niatorlri'3 Ure QUALITY and PRICE are to le considered have you ever thought how hard it? is to compete with an est ment that leads ail competitors'! This we do Professor Williams A Anderson Jr returned from Huntsville Ala to alem yesterday afternoon Mr An derson has been elected principal of the Huntsville school and the Mer curv Ra nner says "Prof Anderson is a graduate of the I an institute ranking very high throughout tho South He has added to this tenchinl cal training several years of exper ience as teacher has a disposition nt tact originality good sense and breadth of character which will give some Idea of the work of the nuW principal Dr George II Denny president of the University of Alabama says every point of view: Professor Ander son is first rate He is the very best man that I personally know who is available for this position" Professor Anderson has tendered his resignation as principal of the high school at Princeton West Virginia and with Mrs Anderson will leave in a short while to establish a residence at Huntsville Mrs Anderson is the daughter of the Dev Dr Bushnell of Salem and is well known In Roanoke Lynched In Soutli Carolina Laurens Ct Aug Richard Puckett a young negro charged with attempted criminal assault near here vefterday was taken from the fall here at 1:30 o'clock this morning by a mobst linn ted to number 2000 men and hanged to a beam of a railway trestle near the Laurens depot Several hun dred bullets wero fired into his body end the mob dispersed leaving the body hanging to lie examined by a coroner's Jury today STIE I Branch Warerooms In Street Lynchburg Va WinTMORE Mgr in cemetery near her eraves unconscious body and face showed marks of a ter rinie neating Kohma rv 9 Tml nhAnod from home to the police that she was being murdered officers rushed to the house found it? in wild disorder and Miss Walters missing March 4 Miss Walters found in back yard of her homo unconscious claimed she had been1 kidnapped and terribly mistreated while held a prisoner by tour men June IS When Miss Walters did not show herself at her home for two days neighbors entered the house to find her bound to a sowing machine a chloroform saturated handkerchief near by The house had been fired Detectives from the district attor office assigned to the Case after the police had been unable to produce the least clue to the perpetrators of the mysterious attacks also failed Physicians who examined the girl after the attacks corroborated her stories of mistreatment On none of the occasions could Miss Walters give anything but the most meagre descrip tion of her assailants IELD SALESMEN Mr Tinsley and Mr Squires 1 John Crown In the Richmond News Leader: Washington' Aug 11 That tho work of inst illing Democrats in fed eral offices in place of the Republi cans is proceeding at a merry clip and that patronage is beingrapidly distributed among he faithful by the present administration is shown by the nominations which have been sent to the senate These nominations number about 3000 about 2000 of which are post masters Virginia ranks seventeenth among the States In number of federal ap pointments which have been 'given her Thirty nine jobs according to the official record have fallen to the sons of the late president's native State Texas leads with 167 with Iowa following with 1 09 'with Illinois close behind with 100 It will lie seen from that the South is 'far Northern and Western ting jobs The official the following changes: Arizona 4: California 37: cut 19 lorida 35 Idaho 20 In diana 61 Kansas 73 Louisiana 39 Maryland 5 Michigan 53 Mississip pi 40 Montana 1 tNevada 8 New Jersey 39 New York' 96 North Da kota 43 Oklahoma 69' Pennsyl vania 98 Soutli Carolina 30 Ten nessee 36 Utah 1 Virginia 39 West Virginia' 25 Wyoming 9 I'orto Rico 2 Alaska 2 Arkansas 30 Col orado 20 Delaware 10 Georgia 66 Illinois 100 Iowa 109 Kentucky 29 Maine 20 Massachusetts 27 Minne sota 52 Missouri 71 Nebraska 28 New Hampshire 7 New Mexico 8 North Carolina 74 Ohio 92 Oregon 30 Rhode Island 6 South Dakota 37 Texas 107 Vermont 7 Wash ington 34 Wisconsin 64 Hawaii 7 In list are some splendid appointments They include the am bassadorship to Rome given Dr Thomas Nelson Page the ministerial post to Spain' given Colonel Joseph Willard the first assistant secre tary of treasury to John Skelton Wil liams the deputy commissioner of the land office to Charles Morrel Bruce the auditor of the interior department to Robert ooiey and commissioner of fisheries Ernest Jones These appointments do not the post of assistant attorney general to Samuel Graham of Pennsylvania who is a native of Staunton nor the position of solicitor general known as "trust to George Carrojl Todd of New York who is a native of Smithfield Va ormer Common wealth's Attorney Williamson of Madison county has a place in the department of justice There also may be counted the offer of a post of assistant attorney general to loyd King of Clifton orge which he declined This recognition of Virginia and native Virginians show how kindly the president feels towards the State In which he was born No other State can lay claim to as many important appointments though it may claim more in numbers In this connection it is known that President Wilson had slated for the portfolios of secretary of war Harry St George Tucker of Virginia when he was making up his cabinet Mr selection was blocked at the last minute by parties who urged Sec retary Lindley Garrison Pullman coaches the framing at end and in tile middle being liuav arid the havy steel beam running entire length of the car the style construction being known among Adams Payne Gleaves I ROANOKE VA Down Town Office: Northeast Corner Jefierjon Street and Church Ave Mamnv Lynchbur Goode Miss Evelyn Gootle Goode Ivnchburs Mr house Miss Sara Moorehouse Detroit Mich Dr and Mrs Garthright Vinton Mrs Breazeal Mrs IL A Wilson Miss Mary Wilson Bedford City Miss Dorothy Hughes Miss Mil dred Hudson Mrs Whitaker Miss Su sie Whitaker Robert Wlnfree Max Barker Lynchburg Miss Lillian Wai ker Miss Willie Bell Walkrr Miss Gol die Anderson Miss annie Tatum Nor folk Miss Henrietta JI Dyer Hyatts ville Maryland: I Wade LWaie Vinton Mr and Mrs John Purks Re becca and Bcvery Burks Bedford the Rev and Mrs McCotkl' Lynch burg In the quiet of each Sabbath evening that man of God the Rev A Mc Corkle delivers a msage of peace comfort and encouragement I DOCTOR MURDERED ON CITY STREET Asheville Aug 11 Dr Clontz fifty nine years old of Alex ander eight miles from this city one of the best known physicians in this section of the country was shot and killed on the streets of Alex ander about 5 this evening by West three bullets any one ot which might have caustid death tak ing effect in the breast and left side Dr GJontZ' died Jess hour after the shooting to have the result four standing West who Is a rural The Norfolk Western has received its first nil steel car for passenger service and it is now lying in the car shed above the passenger station re ceiving the final touches at the hands of the simp experts preparatory to sending it out into regular service It Is a handsome piece of rolling stock eighty two feet in length outside meas urement seventy feet inside and la painted In dark red the standard color ot the pasaonger equipment of the Norfolk A Western This coach is the product of the shops of the Harlan Hollingsworth Corporation ot Wilmington Del and Is the first of nn order of thirty five similar cars ordered by the Norfolk Western Advices have been received stating that the second car had been shipped today from the shops Steel baggage cars ami ste uihII cars ns well as steel combination bnggage and mall cars have been in service on the local company for somev time but the all passenger cars are an inno vation the traveling public will appre Captain Crate 111 Captain Crute is very ill at fits home 34 Salrm avenue where he has been confined several days He has been very busy thia summer first arranging for veter trip to Gettysburg and later with preliminary arrangements for the meeting of the Grand Camp Confed erate Veterans of Virginia and it is believed ha has in a measure over taxed his strength aidwell Sites Co bf'tw the doctor and neighbors alleged that been frequently bandied doctor and the mail car possess is often contradicted by the Inher ent fear of a period of distress But there need be no such drend to lew of the fact that wb have a most nob a remedy in what I known as Mother riend This is an external application that has wonderful Intluetiee aud control over the muscular tissues of the atxlomen By its dally uw )ho muscles cords tendons and ligaments all gently expand without the slightest strain there is no mln no nausea no nervousness what was dreaded as a severe physical ordeal becomes a culm serene joyful anticipation that has its 1m Treas such as our foremost teachers ot Eugenics are striving to drill Into tho minds of the present generation In almost every community there uro women who have used Mother's riend and they are tho ones that recovered quickly conserved their health and strength to thus preside over families destined by every rule cf physiology and the history of suecesa ul men and women to repeat the story or greater achievement Mother's riend is prepared after th formula of a noted family doctor by th Bradfield Regulator Co 138 Lamar Bldg'writ's' them for their expectant mothers Vou will find Mothers riend on sale by all drug stores at $100 a bottle CASTOR I A or iL'antR and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought The deceased is survived by three children two marrifi daught ts anfi i son the Litter being unmarried ity Should i considered I 8 Than Price i Los Angeles Cal Aug 12 A dle of personality" because of the strange and unexplained series of mis haps and misfortunes which have fol lowed her in the past six months pret ty Martha Walters twenty years old today was put under observation by alienists employed by the State and a dozen nerve specialists of State wide reputation Miss Walters called "the girl of is apparently a normal healthy girl During the past six months she has figured in six sensa tional Incidents The experts are go ing to test her to see if she does not some times lose her real personality and inflict injury on herself for the effect it has on other people Here are some ot the incidents which have brought about the examination of the girl: January 1 Miss Walters' home was burned her two brothers incinerated and she herself badly burned This was the fourth time in three weeks the house had caught fire January a j'otina dark street claimed tacked her January 12 ound a deputy and lodged in Jail charged "with murder ball being re timed up to 11 tonight Va rious reports are all oat as to the cause of the shooting anfi the genera) drift of these point to domestic difficult les dating back four years ago just prior to tho death of Dr wife Dur ing this period it Is said "bad hto existed West and threats had b'otwen the Robert Portner Brewing Co Roanoke Virginia JOHNSON Agent I Bo 387 Johnson ights at MnrseJllcs Paris Aug Because Jack John son has been making himself objec tlonaXJo In the aris cafes revulsion of has caused the managers 1 of the Pa izar Johnson fight to stage it at Marseilles Instead of here as was for merly planned ight promoters fear reputation would set louslv hurt the game here since several Paris newspapers have taken up the cudgel against Pat is opening its arms to th" big Mack who had to Hee the United States on white slavery charges raming Lumber of AH Sizes Lath Mouldings Columns looring oiling Uricks Litne Plaster Sand Why Swr lter? Order from Baking Department and Keep Cool secure the 'finest home made edibles prepared fresh daily and have no need to swelter in the hot kitchen Phone and see what 4s be ing offered for ease any day very kli we Aft 4AlsUsviiet' ltvr 444X4 dUJV 40 axaViSlv 1 tlaement RESIGNATION APPERSON TEMPORARY The Lynchburg News of this morn ing contained the following relative to Mr Tt retirement from the presidency of the Lynchburg Traction Light Company mention ot which was made in the World News of yesterday Mr It Appe'rson left here this morning on the private Pullman car "Colonial for Santa Monica Cal which he hopes to reach next Satur day morning The car was here yesterday being provisioned for the trip besides taking on a thousand pounds of Ice and a supply of charcoal ami coke for cooking The car was to leave at 2:30 this morning over the Norfolk Western to Cin cinnati then by the South Western (Charlie road) to St Louis thence by the Rock Island and others to the destination avoid ing the desert because of the dust Mr Apperson was accompanied by his wife and son Richard by Mr and Mrs Miller and by Capt Daniel I Por ter the latter however only going as far as Kenova It is likely that oth er friends will join tho party at St Louis Although he has now been ill for three years Mr Apperson is cour ageous enough to believe that If he can get away from all business cares and take treatment in the delightful climate of California he will ho able to build up his constitution recover his health and ultimately return to work here In order to be free from all care he has retired temporarily from the office of president of the Lynchburg Traction Light Company a position he has held since Its formation a dozen or more years ago Mr Crowley who has been vice president of the company since it became allied with the American Street Railway Company has been elected to the po sition ot president during the contin uance of Mr illness Mr Apportion who has also been chairman of the boards of directors of the Lynchburg Traction Light Com pany of this city and the Roanoke Railway Electric Company of Roa noke does not relinqntsh those posi tions though It la nbt his purpose to give any further attention to business until his health is improved Rhoda Ester andMrs William William Moore The Gateway or All Travelers Is through Roanoke's Big Trunk Store where you ger anything made in bag gage and leather goods: or the old trunk or bag repaired at a reasonable Price nd Sample Case made lo order ROANOKE TRUNK CO 211 Jeftrrson Ktreei Phono 077 TVfth chickens In mndorat supply but weak eggs and butter scarce and firm and green goods holding at good prices ftHpeclally tomatoes yesterday'a market was brisker than was anticipat ed in view ot bad weather Cantaloupes peaches and apples were in go01 1 Up Ply but In other produce stock show ed effects of weather Tomatoes sold 75 cents tn $125 a bushel with a dollar the average for good stock At retail prices were 20 and 30 cents a gallon ew were left unsold at 9 o'clock Corn was not so plentiful and sold 10 to 15 cents wholesale 15 and 20 cents retail Some inferior corn retailed at 10 cents Beans were In fair supply 60 and 70 cents a bushel 10 cents a gallon Octo bers 20 cents a gallon in shell 20 cents a quart shelled Limas 15 cent a gallon 20 cents a quart imtterbeans 70 cents a gallon 15 and 20 cents a quart Blackeyed peas 70 Cents a gallon cu cents a quart Potatoes 65 and 75 cents a gallon Cucumbers 3 for a a dozen retail 75 bushel Green pepper 75 cents a bushel 10 cents a gallon Retail 10 cents a dozen small cents a Beets Okra fiweet vatlon the traveling public will elate BODY THE CAIL The body of tho car Is carried standard ail steel trucks of six each with independent brakes for each truck The advantage ot this ar rangement will be realized when it is considered that should either one of the brakes lie put out of commission tho other will yet be in working or der and the car will not be without braking mechanism a feature so nec essary when the weight of lhe car is taken into consideration The car Is lighted by electricity the power for which is furnished by gen erators geared to tho axles of the truck These are connected with sto rage batteries of the latest improved Edison pattern and should the gener ators bo disabled for any reason th batteries will furnish current for six teen hours without renewal The car will be brilliantly lighted there being five center chandeliers and twenty two side lights fitted out with Mazda lamps The side lights are arranged along the sides of the deck directly above the seats making It easy to read at nights The switch arrangements are sb devised that the center lights may be cut out and the side lights left burning or vice versa Or if it is desired the center lights may be turned out and half of the side lights making the car dim at night when the passengers may wish to sleep Lavatories and toilet rooms are lo cated at ench end of the car fitted up with the latest appliances and flushing closets Drinking water is furnished by the sanitary bubbling fountain with a spigot arrangement for passengers who carry their own drinking cups Wbter for use on the car Is supplied from a tank underneath being forced to the point of use by means of com pressed air A large smoking compartment occu pies one end of the coach in which the seating capacity Is sufficient for sixteen persons THE INTERIOR The interior of the car Is steel fin ished mahogany the only wood used in the construction being in the arms of the seats and the sills of tho win dows A feature of Interest connect ed with the windows is that they can not be raised more than eight Inches allowing plenty of ventilation but pre venting passengers putting their heads out the Idea of "atifetv first" being put Into practical application The seats are large aud comfortable and are upholstered In green plush A car pet to match covers the alalc the floor of the car being a granolithic com position The Wood ventilating system is ttsed and it is said to have some points of advantage oven over tle used cm the Pullman car The construc tion is more substantial than that of tho the far the of railroad men as the "fifth The weight ot in car noun Is or heavier than sleepers The car was designed by the mechanical department of the Nor folk Western practical suggestions being made by the operating depart ment trom their experience and in corporated into the construction by the former A bad frc lght wreck occurred at five minutes to six yesterdya morning on the Norfolk Western one mile aat of Wytheville In which thirteen cars were wrecked No 86 with twenty one loaded cars and nineteen empties was making its usual time when ft bent axle threw the cars from the truck nt the above polnt'and tore up and badly duinnged fully a half mile ot track Among tho wrecked cars wore four loaded with lumber three with merchandise and six empties Some of the cars were hurled clear down the bank at the scene of the accident' and were in bad shape and much of tho merchan dise was considerably damaged Wreck cars were called from East Radford and Bristol and three or four hours were required to clear away tho wreckage and open the truck fur traf fic Trains wero again in operation at 11 o'clock but several passenger trains were delayed among them be ing the excursion train from Bristol to this city TOLLS IN POLICE COURT A long docket faced Judge Berkeley in police court yesterday but produced no thrills and in the hour's session in terest never roseuibove the passive degree A number of merchants and others doing business which must be licensed were in court to answer com plaint of the commlasioner of revenue Seven were dismissed one failed to answer a second summons and six were continued for later hearing Two Swift and rhlllpot colored were fined five dollars Six trespassers were lockedup on' failure to pay fines of $6 i)ij Aiomanu and Leona Miller failure to pay $20 city ordinance Tom Robertson 820 for disorderly got drunk and cursed out everyone around a Salem avenue saloon about two months ago He made his get away after bluffing bystanders with a knife and was not captured until yes terday PULASKI MAN INED After brief hearing of a charge of petit larceny against Lowry armer and Joe Sams young white men who' came here recently from Pulaski a fine of $10 was assessed against ar mer The fathers of both the men were in court armer admitted tak ing a flashlight a pocketbook and sev eral lead pencils from another trunk in a down town rooming house When searched at police headquarters he had all the articles in addition to about a dollar in pennies and silver in his hose armer made no defense to the charge but his father and others tes tified that as a result of a spell of fever years ago the young man is not at all times responsible for his actions It is said this is the first time armer or Sams have been far from home armer's father paid his fine and Sams was dismissed there being no evidence that he was Implicated in the thefts Sergeant Rigney and Baldwin Officer Stiff arrested last night a colored wom an named Ensley who is wanted In Ridgeway a She is Being neiu officers from that place Three white men charged with sault will have hearings Thursday riday Ira Soloman white was fined far heine disorderly Victoria Reed colored was taken into custody last night as Insane Her howls have worked on the nerves ot peysons around the jail all day THIRTY DAYS OR STEALING Leslie Evans a colored boy was sent to Jail for thirty days for steal ing a suit goggles and gloves from garage A white man charged with petit lar ceny by passing a check when ho had no funds in bank will have a hearing tomorrow One plain drunk forfeited $250 A small colored boy paid a dollar for riding a wheel without bell after he had been warned Another sum moned on a similar charge failed to appear A white man charged with being disorderly will have a hearing ri day razier and II itch whitewere docketed on a charge of violat ing the traffic ordinance Mr itch passed the station house Sunday with his muffler open He explained that Chief Moore had called his attention to the matter when he applied for li cense and that his muffler "muf He is having it worked on Judge Berkeley dismissed him with a warning Mr razier will have a hear ing tomorrow 10(1 at Joplin Mo Pt Louis Aug 11 Joplin Mo ported a temperature of 106 and Okla homa 102 Although there were a few clouds visible tonight the local weather forecast said prospect of rain or relief from the heat ithin 'he next twenty four hours was very slight Common Sense Displayed i To The Young Expectant Mother Women of Experience Adri th Uta of Mother1 riend There Is a certain degree ot trepidation irt the minds of most woncn in aubjoct of motherhood Tlw longing to RTZER The best equipped TRANS ER and STORAGE WARE 15 HOUSE In the State Pianos and urniture moved packed 5 and stored Heavy hauling a specialty Wooden Bdxes for 6 sale Phene 2 03 769 ug 12 Official dispatchestoday that a camel corps native troops has been am two thousand Dervishers do Th British killed and nclude two officers and about Many thousand followers illah are on the warpath i lie Aniisepi icpowurr tliebces Mifr'u edy lot' the Sect ior a quarter in r'A Sabi everywhere 25c Sample a Allen Olmsted Lc Rcy TheMit' wtivUBUlthc S4 xi 3 Delightful Camping Apple Orchard Camp Va Aug' 10 The guests at this place are enjoying the scenery and delightful cool atmos phere The days are spent In walks to the mountain top forty two hundred feet above sea level from which point a magnificent view greets the eye The towns of Glasgow Buena Vista Buc hanan the hotel al Natural Bridge half a dozen counties and even tho Vision extends into West Virginia Little onion Mountain Sunset View Black Rock are points of interest Among the recent arrivals are Mr and Mrs II Howard and children Yow Baby 'ou Mn c'lre a teB sainutes with OR teething syrup io maxes tappy cables A sure remedy tor all infant comp Prevents Cholera Infantum Cures bowel troubles Babies like be cense it is pleasant to tale Mothers should no he i hout Ca be given to babies one day old rs cents at all druggists Trial batik hw ax you mcui ipu ims paper Made hv DE' DR li A iKsM ft mu SgHisKtr 5 snugjwWhc" in I ng to Eat Ej If ISM Jia rs I I I Jtf I i mH fc nH At LOAD'S 1X4 if I.

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