Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1911-10-12

HatflnQlt--7-hoY. william Hiram
Wiley, aged 81. one OF the best-knownl
Methodist ministers in this State. died
here.
Elkins Former Senator Stark L.,
Baker. OF Beverly, one of the best.
known public men in the State, is
dangerously i'll at his home.
Martinsburg. DR.. w. e. Langford
was appointed by the Martinsburg
Board of Affairs to the position OF
chief fire marshal Of this city to sue
coed ]. p Talheim. He will have
charge of the entire fire department
Of Martinsburg.
Parkersburg = Judge Homer w.
Woods, of the Circuit Court, was
slightly injured, and his son, Homer
B. Woods, Jr., was seriously hurt at
Harrisville when an aeroplane which
young Woods had constructed col
lapsed. Judge Woods had assisted his
son to start the machine, which rose
rapidly to height Of IS feet and then
turned turtle.
Elkins.-The new Elkins Christian
church, which is nearing completion
in Hinkle's Addition, will be dedicated
on Sunday, October Is. Evangelist
George L. Sniyely, who has a national
reputation as dedicator, will have
charge of the services and will also
conduct three weeks evangelistic
campaign, beginning Sunday, Octo-
Der g.
Elkins. With a gavel made of wood
from the house in. which Stonewall
Jackson was born, Mrs. Jennie Stuart
Price called to order the fourteenth
annual session of the West Virginia
Division, Daughters of the Confed-
eracy Following prayer by Rev..
Frederick H. Barron addresses Of well
come were made by Mayor A. M. Fred
lock and Mrs E. D. Talbot, president
of the local chapter. to which Mrs.
Edwin Robinson, of Fairmont, re-
sponded. Sixteen State chapters were
represented.
Beckley -The mutilated body of N.
L. Crews, % years old, night watch
man employed by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway Company, was discover
ed on the track three miles from
here, having been run over by
freight train during the night. Every
Indication points to murder Officers
and bloodhounds have been sent-to
the place where the body was found,
and efforts will be made to trace the
supposed murderers. Crews had been
married, but was separated from his
wife.
Elkins.-A romance which began
through business correspondence ter
minated here in the marriage Of Miss
Flossie Genevieve Phares, stenogra-
pher of this city, to James O'Connor, a
lumber manufacturer with large op-
CITATIONS at Center. Wash. The mar
rage was solemnized at ST. Brenden's.
Catholic church, nuptial mass being
celebrated by Rev. John ]. Daily, the
pastor. After the ceremony Mr.. and
Mrs. O'Connor left for their future
home in Center
Clarksburg-David L. Henderson,
arrested by federal authorities in
Richmond, Va, few weeks ago, was
indicted by the Federal Grand Jury
here for rifiing mail pouch at Shen-
andoah Junction, August 20. The
government alleges that $4,000 or
$4,000 in money and checks was in
the pouch. 1t is also alleged that Hen
derson burned the pouch. He admits
that he burned a check for $1,500 and
had checks cashed, but found them in
the roadside and did not rife the
pouch. The theft was committed
while transfer of mail was being
made Henderson was the only Amer
lean member of an Italian construc-
ton gang at Shenandoah junction at
the time and he disappeared that
night.
Beckley.- James Pauley, negro
boy, 10 years old, was captured at
Stab Fork Monday night with stolen
horse belonging to Festus Scott, Of
this place, which the boy had ridden
at top speed for so miles. On Mon
day morning the boy went to Scott's
stable, saddled the horse and rode
away. The family noticed him, but
Scott had sent him for the
horse, paid no further attention to
him. Not until Scott returned home
to dinner at night was the theft OF
the horse discovered An officer was
at once sent in pursuit and he found
the boy negotiating for the sale of
the horse for S., saying it had been
left to him by his father, who is dead.
Pauley is very small and very black.
He drifted into town about ten days
ago, and at once attained prominence
In pickaninny circles by claiming to
be nephew of Jack Johnson.
An electric meter has been invented
for measuring the flow of steam in
pipes.
Laughter has been scientifically de-
fined as conyulsive action of the dia-
phragm.
There are upward OF million
Americans domiclled in the prairie |
provinces of Western Canada; and
It is conseryatively estimated that
this represents about SO 1-S per cent.
Of the whole population Such an in