Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-05-04

school county in the state.
Harrisyille has new creamery
which win begin operation May !.
The Huntington Herald has been
sold to F. A. Mcdonald, Of the Y. s..
Marshalrs Office, a brotherin-law OF
Elliott Northcott.
st. Adams cast 50 votes for license
and 12S against it.
Col A. N. Sims, predecessor of Col.
A. s. Hutson in the adjutant generals
office, is spoken Of as his successor.
Fayette only sent seven prisoners to
the pen at the present term OF court.
The breaking of lock gate at Lock
No has stopped navigation on the
Little Kanawha river.
While her father slept, Eva B.
Greene, Montgomery girl of -,
climbed out window and joined Har-
ry w Eisenman They were married
at Covington, KY, before her father
knew she had left home.
Camp Jenkins, of Parkersburg, will
attend the Confederate reunion at
Richmond, May 30 to June 3.
John Heldreth, of near Clarks5urg,
who was threatened with prosecution.
by Mrs. Elite Loomis on charge of
attempted criminal assault says her
charge was an attempt at blackmail;
that she secured SOS from one man
and $40 from another by similar
threats and was ready to try still an
other. She has disappeared.
A three-year-old child was stuck by
lightning at Charleston. The hair on
one side of its head was burned or,
one foot was stripped of it's shoe and
the little one was rendered uncon-
scious. But in an hour it was a
right again.
The Star Lamp Chimney plant at
Randall, near Morgantown, has been
rebuilt since it was destroyed by fire
and will resume operations at once.
May IS will be Confederate memo
rial day at Charleston
s. c. Duckworth, indicted in both
state and federal courts at Parkers-
burg for alleged connection with a
scheme to defraud the Equitable Life
Assurance Society out of large sums
of money through bogus death certi-
ficates. transferred to his wife a GER
tificate of deposit in the First Nation
al bank for $1,000. Subsequently the
insurance company attached the funds
in the bank. The bank now refuses
to pay the 81 900 to the order of Mrs
Duckworth and she has brought suit
to compel it's payment.
Elkins, Fairmont and Charleston
are after the state encampment of the
National Guard to be held in June.
The decision will probably be made
next week
Work will be begun on May 1 on
Fairmont's new 10000 Y. NJ, C. A.
building
The fight between the Hoods and J.
F. Barnes, in which the latter was kill
ed at Ellensboro a few days ago, may
rescult in further trouble. A bitter
feeling between friends of the prin.
cipals has resulted
The widow of Jerry Barbour, alleged
that he was an habitual drunkard
and committed suicide while in a
state of intoxication. sued Zeigler &
Behrend Huntington saloon keepers
for $4,000 damages for having sold
him liquor. The jury disagreed
An expert team will be selected
from the West Virginia National
Guard to represent this state at the
national rife competition to be held
at Sea Girt, y. j.. next August.
The Guyandotte valley route, by
way of Huntington to the lakes, is
said to have been decided on by the
Deepwater railroad.
The seventh son of a seventh son
who held communion with planets and
stars, foresaw the future and revealed
the past at so much per. has departed
quickly from Morgantown but will re-
turn on May % with a state license
under the Iaw which becomes effective
on that date
A woman in a Charleston pressing
establishment was found to have
smallpox and now there is a demand
for many new suits by those who had
expected to make last years do an
other season.
Charles Dreamer was released from
the Montgomery Jail, where he had
been on charge Of drunkenness and
three hours later was run over by a
train and killed.
The machinists at TIE American Car
and Foundry company's plant at Hunt
ington are on a strike.
A clerk in a Piedmont store. return
ing to the store late at night, found a