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WEST VIRGINIA

ms and Davis farms over the same
ioute which was taken by the funeral
party Of Senator Elkins some months
ago. Two hundred and fifty members
OF the fraternity were in line.
Charlsstown.-The Jefferson County
Camp Of Confederate Veterans have
Just completed. the publication Of
book explaining the location of the rs
battle markers In various parts OF
the county. By authority of the camp
Weston. Nancy Bush and her
daughter Della Conrad, were acquit-
ted Of the murder of an infant son
OF the latter. The body was found
in the swollen river two days after
the supposed strangulation of the
child.
Charlestown.-Engineer James X.
Hendricks Is surveying for an electric
power line from the Winchester and
Washington plant at Millville, this
county, to Brunswick, Md, to run in a
nearly straight line over the Blue
Ridge Mountains
Parkersburg Dick" Pritchard, OF
this city, who was arrested Friday
morning on Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad train at Pennsboro, Richie
county, on a warrant charging him
with the murder of w. "A. Pritchard,
his cousin, at that place October 20,
proved an alibi and was discharged
Wheeling. When Andrew Dulic
awakened from deep sleep and dis
covered that 500 he had when he
went to bed was missing, he is alleged
/ to have fred five shots at Anna
Brown, an inmate of the house. Each
shot took effect, and 1t was stated
at the hospital the woman could not
live. Dulic was taken to Jail.
Parkersburg suit for $4,000
damages was instituted in the
United States Circuit Court here by
the estate of Raymond H Brabham,
deceased, who was killed in wreck
below Galliopolis Ferry, last Deem
Der, against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. Brabham was a
fireman. His train was run into by
another and he was instantly killed.
Martinsburg Mrs. Elizabeth Muir
ply. of Hedgeyille, this county, and
John A. Richard, retired farmer, of
Berkeley county, surprised their
friends on Tuesday by clipping to
Rockville, Md, where they were mar
ried that day by Rev. S. r. White, a
Baptist minister The bride was for
merly a resident of Culpeper, Va, but
has lived in Hedgeville for the past
year.
Elkins.-All that was mortal of Col
Thomas Davis was laid to rest in
Maplewood Cemetery beside the body
of. his brother William and other
members of the family. "A special train
from Keyser, arriving at 1890, con-
veyed the funeral party and members
of the Keyser Masonic Lodge, Of
which the deceased was a member. At
the local station the visiting mem
bers of the order were joined by the
lodge and escorted the cortege to the
cemetery, marching through the Elk
~Parkersburg Jack Shropshire, of
Richie county, who was shot by
Patrolman G. M Callihan on Sunday
morning, died of tetanus at the City
Hospital Callihan, who resigned from
the police force on Sunday, was ar
rested and placed in the county Jail
to await the result Of Shropshire,s
wound and a formal charge of murder
will now be lodged against the former
policeman. Shropshire, while under
arrest, broke away from Callihan
while waiting for the patrol wagon
and the officer fred at him.
Wheeling. is stated here that
Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenck, who,
was tried early in the year on
charge of having attempted to poison
her millionaire husband, John O.
Schenck, will demand that the court
give her another trial without delay,
the jury in the first trial having stood
II to / for acquittal. In statement
Mrs. Schenck demanded that Prose
cutor B. Handlan bring her to trial
Immediately The case has been call
ed in court number of times since
the first trial and had been postponed
each time at the request of the prose