Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-22
News Briefs.


it is reported. many miners wee hurt.
News Briefs.
\ movement Is on foot for the trans
fer Of the United States marshal's once
from Parkersburg TO Wheeling. w. Va.
II is argued that Wheeling is more ac-
cessible and that the most important
| sessions Of the, federal court are held
there.
Fire destroyed the two-story house in
Cameron. w. Va, owned by Glenn Mich
DIS and occupied by his sisters. Mrs.
Krauslough and Mrs. Clendenning. wild
ows. who lost everything. The building
vas valued at $500, with $500 insur-
ance.
pr.etor of the Roanoke Times and for five
years owner OF the Evening News. at
Roanoke. Va. retired from active news
paper work last evening. having recently
sold both properties. He gave banquet
the operating force OF both papers.
Argument in the case OF the receivers
Of the jamestown Exposition Company
against LOO subscribers to exposition
stock. alleged to be delinquent In pay
| nent. was commenced yesterday before
Judge Waddill in the United States court
n Virginia.
The marriage in Rocky Mount last
week OF James HI. Ka.bler Of Lynchburg.
Va. and Mss Helen Cooper OF Rocky
Mount is announced. The marriage was
/ surprise to friends.
John Rowley. Junior member Of . large
milling firm in Chincoteaf ne, Va. and
Miss Florence White OF Baltimore were
married last Saturday. They will reside
n Chincoteague.
OF the four persons granted pardon
from the Connecticut state prison Mon.
day by the state board Of pardon0 one
was Mrs. Catherine NELL. formerly known
as "Goldie" Neill. New York actress.
3n
slaughter. She was accused OF having
slain her husband at Greenwich Hotel by
| a thrust through the eye with q nail nle.
Lorents Stats of A.yantown. W.
Va, and Miss Bessie Matheney: daughter
Broad Oaks, near Clarksburg. w. Va.
eloped to Akron. Ohio. where they were
married. Monday.
| Matthias A. Cassell and Miss Marie
Ei1aSs.h Gar Ssrre Mon wsrS % nS Rev r.
| Richardson Of st. Pauis Lutheran
Church.
| Army and navy recruiting stations
throughout the country should DO turned
Eads How. who is In Chicago to make
plans for a convention OF ''hoboes" to DO
| held next month. The muifonaire
tramp proposes to invite President Taft
Secretary of War Dickinson and Score.
tary OF Commerce and Labor Nagei to
attend q meeting In Chicago.
In conformity with the avowed policy OF
helping the Anti-saloon League 70 en-.
force the liquor laws. the brewers OF Inc
diana are closing many saloons oy re"
fusing to sell beer to them
Mrs. Grace B. Guggcnheim Of New
York Med yesterday IN the circuit court
in Chicago a bill OF review. wheyen sne
asks the dissolution Ct decree OF divorce
on the ground that Il was obtained
through fraud upon the court, In the
bill for review she recites the sane
charges contained In former pieadiness
W. G. Epiller. the American who wac
expelled from Panama territory by decree
CT Pre- sident Obaldia for alleged recruit.
ing OF labor from the Canal Zone. left the
steamer Magdalena at Kingston. JamGcas
tention on board the vessel OF coming TO
washington In a few weeks to protest.
against his deportation.
Because OF the high prices OF poultry
particularly turkeys. the New York state
authorities are experiencing Tor the nrst
time considerable dficulty In apportons
ing funds for the Christmas dinners OF
inmates Of insane and charitable institus
tons.
Two large manufacturing plants %
York, Pa, took fire Monday a.most at
the same time. They were the New York
wire cloth factory and the York Card
ancient work Of the employees at bo:h
plants a serious connagration was avesss
ed
Edgar Hubert sibert. a resident OF
Rockingham. Va. trave ing salesman ZOE
died Sunday afternoon At his home ae
Craney Island. He was forty-three years
old and the youngest SON OF the late Col.
WIN am n seer fra at one Pactin ms m sn ns
a member OF a prominent valley family.
William Howard Wood. thirty-eeven
years old. secretary-treasurer OF the VIII
liams Slate Roofing Company. died last
night at his home In Richmond. Va he
men Of Richmond. He 8 survived by
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Wood.
ST.; a widow and one SON. Walter Harris
Wood. He is also survived by three
brothers.
Mrs. Sallie B. Wilson died at an early
hour Yesterday at the Virginia Hospital
Of pneumonia. She was daughter OF
the late Gen. Philip St. George locke OF
uel NJ. wi son of Portsmouth. She leaves
one son, State Highway Commissioner r.
ST. Julian WILSON, and one daughter, Mrs.
Mazyck Wilson Shields.
Mrs. Sallie A. Ross. widow OF Rev. w;
O. Ross, died this morning in Richmond
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph
witt She was NJ ss Walker OF Fort
Defiance, to which place the body VIII be
sent for burial.
At conference Monday night between
the Hagerstown. Md. mayor and council
and the officers of the Washington Coun-
~ Water Company President Edward W.
Mealey of the water company made the
announcement that the company pur-
posed at once adopting the meter system
Of supplying water to all consumers.
with the exception of the manufacturers
and the railroad companies the water
company has been furnishing water to
consumers at a schedule based on the
rental value OF the property.
Mrs Sadie vass Van Wagner of Dam
vile. Va, and r. A. Schoolfleld. president
of the Riverside and Dan River Cotton
mills, the largest plant Of its kind In the
south. were married in New York yester-
day afternoon. Mr.. Scheduled is one OF
the wealthiest men of tn s section and has
been identified with cotton mi Is and
other large enterprises for many years.
He is also prominent In church circles.
Joseph p. Self and Miss Mary Naomi
Roller Ready, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
lanes Ready. were married at the homo
OF the bride in Cumberland. Md.
Morris Siblin. thirteen years old, OF
Clifton, a small place on the mountains,
twenty-three miles from Wilkesbarre. Pa.
had an encounter with a black bear
Thursday, in the heart of a swamp. He
was armed with q single-barreled shotgun
ard shells loaded with buckshot- With his
first shot he broke its left hind leg Fir
ing three more shots he killed the huge
animal. 1t weighed more than 200
pounds