Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-27
Roosts Are Raided.

Turkey and chicken thieves have been
raiding roosts in Frederick county dur
ing the past week. London Calvert of
Reynolds store lost fifty chickens in one
night.
The West Virginia Anti-Saloon League
has begun an active campaign for an
amendment to the constitution to permit
the people to vote on statewide prohibi-
ton. Headquarters have been opened in
many places throughout the state and
10000 petitions have been sent out to be
signed by voters. The league expects
more than 100000 signers.
John Jones, just liberated after term
in the Moorefield jail for selling liquor
Illegally. was rearrested by Deputy Mar
shall Brown. who took him to Martins
burg to answer a similar charge before
the United States commissioner
While Mrs. Ann Mckenna of Cumber-
land was visiting her daughter. Mrs
Clarence F.. Martin wife of a prominent
Martinsburg CIV. Va attorney. she was
taken i'll. but recovered sufficiently to re-
turn home. only to suffer a relapse and
expire within few hours.
Mrs Katharine kerns. wife of Will
liam Kerns of IriWood, Berkeley county.
died early Christmas morning of con-
sumption. aged fortyfour years. She
leaves her husband and three children
Edward H. Jones, Il retired farmer
died at his home near kernstown Tues
day. aged eiShty-SiX years. He owned a
ITult farm Oh over ON acres In the heart
of the apple bell of the Shenandoah val
ley. He leaves one brother. Marcus
Jones. and number Of nephews and
n:eceS.
When Charles Nesmith told his young
son to light the candles on the family
Christmas tree yesterday morning the
lad set fire to the tinSel. with the result
that the flames spread rapidly and caused
consdera BILE damage before the firemen
got the fire under control.
Pounded on Dynamite.
While celebrating Christmas Hunter
Mckay. son of Edward Mckay of Cedar
vile. had his hand torn to pieces by
dynamite caps exploding when he
pounded on them with a hammer.
Standing in the passenger station Of the
Cumberland Valley railroad at Martins
burg this week. waiting for a train to
take him to HagerstOwn, r. Allen Nc
Cormick was seized with apopleXy and
fell over dead. He was a native of Cecil
county. Nd. and was fifty-fve years old
He leaves his wife, son and daughter
two brothers and one sister. His home
was in Baltimore Me-. Mccormick was
assistant general agent Of the Baltimore
offices of the International Harvester
Company of Chicago.
John Rehill. a telephone lneman, had
the lower part of his nose bitten off a
few nights ago during a fight with a
negro named Alexander Robinson
d. w. Williams. merchant of Floyd
county. has married his mother-in-laW
and she now occupies the dual violation
of stepmother as we'll as grandmother
to his two little children. His first wife.
who was Miss Mary Sours. died some
time ago. After brief courtship he and
his mother-in-law eluded opposing rela-
tives and cloped to Tennessee where
they were married.
While Il. T. Toppin of Broadway was
working on improvement to the South
ern railway bridge across the Shenan-
doah river AT Riverton recently. lie fell
SeventN-fvc feet into the river below. eS-
Gaping with Il few bruises, y few days