Athens Daily Messenger, The (Newspaper) - July 8, 1912, Athens, Ohio J Everybody Sees Them When Classified your Want be as to as anything in The Daily Messenger Want Ads Win THE WEATHER A t I LOCAL i OR ON tTHE HOME PAPER OF ATHENS AND ATHENS COUNTY OHIO VOL 187 ATHENS OHIO M Y EVENING J LILY 8 J After a deliberation of about an hour iud a half the jury in the Frame will contest case returned a verdict for the plaintiffs Saturday night at about thus giving to the chil hen ot Will Jones the estate left the late Jennie T Frame widow ot the late County Auditor Augustus J Frame The finding of the jury as To T M Wood of the Com- mon Pleas Court Athens County We the jury ease duly empaneled and sworn do find that the paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Jennie Frame deceased is not the valid last will and testament of the said Jennie J Frame de- ceased L Signed L A WHITMORE L Foreman I Athens 0 July G 1912 The Frame will contest case has heen in progress for a number of days during the heated season and into one of the hardest fought cases in the Athens county courts in years Only once before in the tory of Athens county has a will been broken in the oC James several years ago Because of the prominence of the in- the trial has caused spread attention Saturday afternoon the pleas of the attorneys began and continued for six hours in tho following ney Keenan for the defense neys J P Wood Jr I M Foster and J P Wood Sr for the plaintiffs and A M Lewis for the defense The charge of the court as well as the pleas of the attorneys were explicit in their explanation of the evidence and the law in the case The jury retired at o'clock and after an to the room to inform Judge Wood that an agreement could not be reached Ho sent them for further tion and in half an hour the verdict was returned It caused much ing on the part of the sympathizers with the contestants only one of whom Miss Anna Tones was present when the verdict came Her friends crowded about her with tions and it was found necessary to restore order in the courtroom after the verdict was read During the late afternoon and evening it was tie eral opinion of the audience that the Plaintiffs would win It is reported on very reliable an- t that on the first ballot taken k hy the jury that the jurymen were I eleven to one for setting aside tbe will and the only juryman dissenting on this vote was not seriously at ance with the others The jury in the case was Albert Whitmore Win Lake Ed Burke J H Herrold William Henry William erts W A Redding Frank ry E c Berry C J Martin O L Johnson and Robert Bingham More ihan sixty witnesses were examined during the trial i Tlie case will be carried to the er courts by the defense in case a new trial which will be at once ed for s not granted the verdict of the jury about in good stocks and bonds is awarded to the five children of the late Will Jones nieces and nephews of Framp It jg that about of this amount was the original sum owned by Mrs Frame she secured from the sale of Athens Journal which she edited a of years ago The rest is estate said to he that of her J Frame who left several children among them Carl of Fair font W Va and James of W Va Whether or not the heirs who hy law are entitled the wilt J the Frame children is not hut that this will be the case generally supposed since the mme children helped to fight the of figures m the was Miss Aana of who for seventeen years with Mrs Frame leaving her to for her mother in Columbus The fo OT the ground that years Mrs Frame had been i In alld mentally unfit I fe hcr estate and it should V e her blood relatives Neigh and intimate friends as to private life of Mrs declaring it to be one of an unsound mind while men and testified that possessed a brilliant miad in and club affairs By the terms of her will Airs Frame loft her to several local ple as trustees to act without bond and to dispose of her properly among i the poor needy and infirm The plaintiffs declared that this will alone was indication enough of an unsound mind since uo specific recipient of her bounty were they were in Athens or some other places Nearly every one was surprised at the amount of her estate when it was appraised as Airs Frame had edly declared to her close friends that she was poor Train Old Man Lima O July Mooney 53 was struck a I rain in the yards and injured Accident Victim Dies Wapakoneta O July vis was jostled by a crowd in the streets here liny 4 injured about his head is Photograph Showing How Lackawanna Express Excursion Train Killing Scores PERMIT TO WED K L Johnson 34 railroad man and a Shannon SI clerk both of Glouster LARGE TOURING CAR FROM PARKERSBURG DUMPED INTO DITCH A large Cadillac touring car to W A Hersch one of the proprietors of tlie Woolen Mills Co of turned turtle Sunday afternoon about 2 o'clock on pike near the Gus Linscott home The car was badly damaged but its five occupants Mr Hersch tho Misses and Soli Lasky the driver wore as though hy the intervention of The party drove to Athens from Sunday morning took dinner at Hotel Berry and started back shortly after 1 o'clock n the between the Linscott and Baird the pike tho turned iit for a carriage on a of road on one which is a steep bank with a long grade leading down into pasture and on the other a ditch about 20 feet deep Although road at this point is narrow bo- ng exactly 12 feet wide the driver of the car thought that there was room o pass the carriage The carriage turned out as far as possible one- wheel going partly over the bank arid the did likewise The weeds at the side of the road are large and thick and the left front wheel was driven on what the driver thought was the edge of the road bnt which proved to be weeds with nothing solid beneath The heavy car left the road with a crash and alighted bottom side up in the deep ditch in a second The carriage went on its way cerned as though a car had not dropped out of sight ing with it five human beings Gus Linscott and his son Warren car disappear from the road and ran to the scene only to find Hersch and his driver crawling from beneath it and assisted the three ladies from their perilous situation The ladies were taken to the scott home and were sent on to on No 4 from Athens None of them were injured beyond minor bruises and scratches The Athens Auto Company's force of men righted the large car and pulled it from the ditch later bringing it to or its power The damage to the car was about of a broken and acid eaten top the age battery leaked acid over thing a smashed steering wheel and other parts were ruined When the car turned it seems that its were away it and almost tree of its weight although the top supports proved strong enough to hold the heavy chine away from the occupants Mr Hersch stated that they vere driving very slowly as the result proved be- cause had they been hitting a pace all would have been The machine alighted on a fence OE TAXES IS NOW EAR BEHIND County stated day that less than of the county taxes have been paid The time limit for of July 20 one week from Saturday of this week The county treasurer go to to collect taxes or July The treasurer cannot account for the slowness of tho payment of and it is assured that there will he a rush to avoid the delinquent list the last few days of the receiving period Drunk Fined by Squire Horn Charles Wilson was arrested at yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Mulligan and Deputy on a drunk and disorderly charge It was claimed that he used offensive language in the presence of a lady Wilson was fined and costs by Squire Horn this morning Tho total amount was paid Batter Than the Average While Mr C L Smith was ing his wheat crop near Poston he was very much surprised on several heads of wheat that contained as high as S and SO grains each He nay's there are plenty which contain 70 and 75 grains Court in Session Tomorrow Common picas court was adjourned tomorrow morning after the will contest case the Chauncey bond cases which arose from trials will start A New Arrival Born to Mr and Airs Paul of East State street a fine daughter Saturday afternoon IS THREATENED Fire Discovered in Main Building Saturday Damage Done The first fire at the Athens State Hospital In a number of years curred Saturday S o'clock when a was discovered in a in Ward IS This ward is on second floor of tin large building of tlie and the east fire department out and made a fast run to was by Driver Hundreds of people on tiie street were excited started o the to When i r j i arrived rne department had the blaze un- der cortrel and Jour streams of ivere being thrown on the blaze The origin of the fire is not known Inn that on the bath room caught tire from an electric light bulb which was close to them The to the from fire was but much water was thrown and thus the loss was made hr from source For a time tho of a disastrous conflagration The will bo less than 5100 t -s thought There were on Ward who were to another par of the It was not found necessary remove any of ibc patients from the till was in readiness to do so in an manner The fire dis- covered when tho night watchman was at one of the ward and in a verv few minutes water was be- thrown A great volume of smoke poured from the building ins general alarm at ine institution J Order was soon restored the I inmates and the waft spent as usual Copyright 1912 Press Association The recent wreck on tho at Corning N V was one of the most complete instances of In history A insL sixty-five hour curye nnd crashed into hn sioti tram winch had A dense foK prevailed nt the rime Impossible to see fur more than AUTO STRUCK BY A TRAIN Tourists in Bad Smash r IS ear Beebe Earl j This Morning O July and Mrs I O Alcorn and two children a son about IA urid a daughter Ji were the occupants of a touring car which by westbound B it O train No near farm below o'clock this The in he machine passed through Athens j this morning and were bound to having driven through from their home in Illinois The car was driven over the road crossing near this when the train emerged from a a curve and hit tlie front end of the machine front of was and the were thrown out The car when it slopped was headed in the opposite direction The train was slopped and the ore family was pi cited up and brought to place where Or gave Thf escaped with and scratches Mr ami rs wrere terribly scratched a'Kl cut Mr Alcorn was most seriously very severe bruises and and on had the Mrs was bruised and n severe For a time it Mr war verv seriously bun bnt Dr is of opinion t resl lie and Mrs recover within n The in train 14 this ind op io said that of rhe had just been driven upor the the the car She that noi see or bear I rain The crossing IK a very bad one DEATH CLAIMS Mrs A G Sutherland of Lancaster eral at W Va Virginia Sutherland iiS wife of A 0 Sutherland died at the family home on ter street about o'clock Sunday Pneumonia caused The body be to V tomorrow it the will held at ho former ol the deceased Sutherland AMIS formerly em- at State Mr Sutherland works flic She leaved a husband and her parents Athens Patrons of bandry to Have Outing on Fair C rounds Aeronaut Is D O July was his cut adrift HI iir in reservoir The regular of he Commercial Club will be held in the in the Athens Hank building tonight at o'clock It is important chat the membership j be t At a of Athens Orange tlie date 01 picnic of tin set tor the A speaker lie by A P secretary of the State Hoard of jre and havo their intention of for of Jire the new Athena County company The other four of the county lot been board The matter of a ground for come into I ai some and file need of a nj the younr arc ai lending I summer school There has beer seme in ens the plan to an The thai plan ol the that forty of forty-eight thus iie oi funds and the for a of I the of school and a conid net funds present the richer aid poorer the state lite unit wept on record as this plan it provide insuffi cent education for tne the rich county escape a part of which is due from it At tco next meeting of Orange in two will ve conferred STUDENTS TO GO ON A TRIP Five Hundred or More Will Visit and Other River Points A mealing of ho Bummer was held this morning in Kwing to the annual has made ments with the 0 O for a train Saturday which will carry the to where they will take the boat tor Marietta and Island The will the time OL and coming to suit Hi em selves Those who prefer may remain until Sunday Prof M K Andrews of Marietta has to conduct the crowd around and point out the historical places The crowd ex- o ho out of town lor one meal only The fa re to and from will be cents and from hurg to Marietta cents excursion will he open to tin public but the students may in- many of their friends as they please They expect about to will be an address by Prof Pearson the Ohio State School tomorrow morning at chapel in Hall Trial is Continued The trial of JeHne colored it charged with which was Bet for today has been another and Ibis date iias not set Tlie absence of an for tlie state liii cause r the ing o Supt Fordyce of tlie State Hospital has been o W Va bv the serious of nis WITHDREW CHARGE PRICE TWO CENTS PUT TO SHAME H Slavery In Peru Is Laid Bare to Public Gaze INDIANS ARE BURNED AT STAKE I vim on the a I rani for of his i on the of on Saturday the in withdraw the and this vv dene The were- all I ho suspicious of the case and to mix in affairs of tbe claimed to the officers that his and b became drunk on the Fourth and ran him away from their home He ed seven to Athens in his bare to secure their arrest Tortured In Every Conceivable ner by Barbados Placed In Charge of Rubber Collections by English Syndicate Casement Re- port Filed ind Other Nations Calt Upon Peru to Put Stop to Atrocities In Province of London July years no Han attracted much tion in diplomatic and philanthropic circles In this country M the mayo They have at i a lit been fully revealed to the lic by the report of Sir Roger Casement H M consul general at Rio de Janeiro since 1909 who waa tent by the government to the Amazon of South lea to investigate certain which had leaked out to the way In which an rubber company employing British B from Barbados had out the work of collecting lubber li Difficult of Access The territory of on the north bank of the Anacon up la the higher aad of the other aide of which lief the of the dominant with ita capital at Lima OB side Although by only aome 400 or a bird files from the capital the lory la really In from Lima hare to north Panama and of the up the riTer to town of of tte In the of a number of Indian It suggested they t waa equal lr were either or toward the white matt On con- trary they were trustful to good corrupted Under It Is perhaps a that so loaf by the worst of western dvi td them But to it waa IBM the attention of first became directed toward her of the country la that appeared on SCMM firm of A ran a Brothers who on aa with the Peruvian the of ex- and the work c f rubber collection tapping on the linea of aiming at Immediate profit without reference to the of the country or the Industry The only labor on the spot that of the natives and there In no mincing the t rade wao In bly Its worst gillse If any parallel In tory of this nefarious to the unrelieved horrors which introduced under the pretended of the for toll they compelled te perform In turning to profitable count for others their own erty which had without the slightest consideration been wrested from them The Congo crimes were as child's play to the atrocities oa inaro Fearing neither God aor lor the few Catholic in earnest ion but In vain white the Peruvian authorities either could aot or would not rubber employed the means of the reflnemenU of modern At first it was fortunate that neither uot he public had any part tot or re- in the campaign ereed lust and blood But tola waa all changed in 1905 some engaged to act deputies tbe Latin American Reign of Terror They not worse employed them but from time regime set in waa by dreadful of by crimes which in acts were aot denied bnt the excuse put forward that the Indiana had cred some white settlers and had their It would have been had they not so for the invaders armed youth tho tribes just aa waa Congo jind loosed
