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WEST VIRGINIA

ciarksburs Fire broke ont - TIE
BUSINESS section Of BelIlngt0n aid de.
6troyed property valued At f6s.oQo
The Elkins Fire Department went to
the scene on = special train
CIArksbuTs The Clsrksburg and
Philippi Railroad Company has been
Incorporated with capital Of $500 900
to build : trolley line from Clarksburg
to Beliington and from eraigmoor to
Buckhannon
New MartinsvfIle Judge III. 81.
Willis. OF New Martipsvflle, who pre-
sides over the Second West Virginia
[ Judicial Circuit, has announced his
candidacy for the Republican nominal
ton Of judge OF the West Virginia
Supreme Court Of Appeals.
Elkins Capt. Thomas Eggleson for
seven years assistant trainmaster Of
the Western Maryland Railway at Elk
ms, has resigned to resume his duties
las passenger conductor on the main
line between Cumberland and Durbin,
Charleston Snit for 100000 was
filed, in the Federal Court against Mrs,
Margaret H. Williamson, a wealthy
widow of Glen Ferris. BY Mrs Charles
w. Osestons wife ofsa prominent Fay
cite county politician, who charges
Mrs. Williamson with alienation Of her
husbands affeetions She recently IN,
stituted suit Tor divorce. Mrs. Oseston
Is living with relatives in Virginia.
Clarksburg Col. +. Moore. Jack
son. aged so years, railroad promoter.
died suddenly here Of heart trouble.
He was engaged In building an electric
line from New Martinsville to Clarks-
burg, SO miles Iorg He built the
short line railroad between the two
cities. His; grandmother was daugh-
ter OF the late Governor Meigs, OF
Ohio, and his grandfather first wife
was daughter OF James Madison,
president of the United States He
was cousin Of Stonewall Jackson.
Martins burg Charles A.. Weston
lhaver who keeps restaurant, was
found guilty in the Circuit Court Of
ceiling whiskey and beer without q
license. About so witnesses testified,
and it was shown by the records Of
local railroad agents that about q, 600
bottles of beer, and $4,000 bottles Of
lWhiskey had been shipped to the ac-
eused from Baltimore, HagerstoWn
and Cumberland in. the six months
prior to his arrest and while the town
| was supposed to have been dry" The
penalty in each case is from two to
/ six months in jail and a fine Of from
$25 to 5000. Martinshurg went dry
lat the. election last spring, but there
was much drunkenness upon the
streets, and the Prohibitionists en-
ployed private detectives to investi-
| gate. A
Huntington Mrs Grazzion Scoglio
and Petro Brogiio, her Intimate, con,
fessed to having given the poison
/ which caused the death Of Mrs. Scog-
los husband, Dominica Scoglio, an
Italian railroad contractor, who died
Mt Wickham on January 2. The con.
1 fessions were made in the Raleigh
County Criminal Court at BeckIey,
Judge McGinniss sentenced the two
prisoners to life imprisonment, as
their counsel advised them to enter
q plea of guilty and throw themselves
on the mercy Of the court. While In
a friendly game of cards with his
wife's lover Mrs. Scoglio offered re.
freshments and in the glass given to
| her husband was large quantity Of
E,strychnine. The husband expired In
a short time and after an investiga
ton by the coroner Mrs. Scoglio and
Broglio were arrested. Scoglio was
wealthy and his wife expected to IN.
herit his large estate In her eonfes
sion she said she was madly infat;
uated with Broglio and it was their
plan to marry as soon as her husband
| was out of the way.