Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-07-27
West Virginia Items.
POCAHONTAS COUNTy


}. q. Triton of Mnrlinton, stenogrf =
pier for MIR. I. NJ. McClintic. fell in
attempting to board train at Droney,
an broke his leg above tbs knee. Mr..
Triton has been liking on crntci es
for long time.
An Italian namah Cameron Bruno,
while hunting with a Conrad rear
Dnrbin, accid-n ally killed him 4 lew
days ago. He was brought To jlii at
MarlintOn, bu was rele lse AS the kill
ing was plainly occidental Other
Italians followed Bruno ard af'er be
was released set on him and III. d to
kill him.
John A. Young, who has been SICK
the past few weeks, is abb; 10 DC L and
around.
One of Mr.. and Mrs. 4. n. W lila % g
little twin children has b=+n danger
Ously i'll the past wsek.
Married, at the Valley Hotel, We'd
nesday. July IS, Cla,k MeCloud 10
Mrs. Mary Gragg, Rev VIM T
Price, d. D., officiating.
| Mrs. Geo Fl Moffett, of Parkers burg,
is visiting her moi her. Mrs. Isaac
Moore.
DR.. 8. b. Scott died recently in Bed =
ford county, Va, in his 18th year. He
was the father of Mrs. H. s. Rucker,
OF MarlintOn.
| The Assyran, under indictment for
burglary, who escaped from the cOun
ty Jail last fall, has BEEN captured at
Bayard. He and man named Wenger
and another prisoner made their escape
by cutting the bolts off patched cell
and digging out some bricks. The
Assyrian had broken into Book store
at Boyer and had stolen lot of jewe
Try.
Miss Myrtle Barlow, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Barlow, of Edray, died
at her home on Friday, aged II years.
For some weeks she had been suffering
from an aggravated case of appended
tbs, and had undergone an operation,
but was not strong enough to rally
from the shock.
Word has been received of the sui
eide of w. J. McKeever at Clarksburg.
He was the second son of Rev. A. l..
McKeever, who is native of Poca-
hontas county, and brother of George
McKeever. of Buckeye. He was "a
years old and druggist by occupation.
GREENBRIER COUNTY.
Chas. N. McWhorter left for Roam.
oke, Va, Monday. where be has signed
with that baseball team in the Vir-
ginla League for the season.
MAYNARD Harvey Best returned from
Ronceverte to New York this week
and will at once leave that city with
his bride for MOnrOvia, Cal, where
they will make their home.
Prof. l.. W. Burns has been engaged
as the Principal of the Marlinton
Academy for the coming session. For
the past four years Mr.. Burns has been
county superintendent of Greenbrier
county and has made good one. He
is young man, we'll equipped and
takes an interest in the work.
A. M. SLerrit, clerk in the G. & o.
offices at Hinton, was arrested recent.
ly and held under $500 bond On the
charge of forging signature to tick
ct over the G. & o. railroad. Sterrit |
was employed in the Office of the |
Greenbrier division at Ronceverte last |
winter.
The wife and daughters of Allen
CapertOn. who moved last year from
Monroe county to Newport News are
visiting relatives and friends at Union.
Jos. d. Logan, of Union. will soon
move with his family to Salem. Va,
where they will hereafter reside. He
has brother livirg there.
Last Tuesday Henry G. Ayers and
''Tobe" Flack had an alteration in
the road at Dick Livesay 3 near Frank
ford about line fence. 1t resulted in
a fight, in which Flack was terribly
mutilated with knife by Ayers. He
was both cut and stabbed.
Little Davis, the two-year. old son of
DIR. and Mrs. }. A. Arbuckle, died of
iysentery, at the home of his grand
father, MIR. John Davis Arbuckle, last
Sunday afternoon. The interment
was M ade in the cemetery here Mon
lay.
The assessed value of all property
n the county, including railroad, ex
,ress, telephone. Pullman car compa-
lies etc, is SIS, 627 ,205, on which, for ,
county purposes, the Court laid levy
If 16s cents on the 800 The county
evy last year was 33t cents. so that 9
be levy is reduced one-half and the as
essed value of the property is just Q
bout doubled. y =