The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-02-13
News Items Of General Interest.

Two little children were crem
ated as they slept in the burning
residence of H. G. Pyles, of Key
ser. and a third is burned SO bad
ly it cannot live.
DR.. G. Humble, travelling SUI.
perintendent of the Presbyterian
Sunday School Association and
who will be well remembered by
many people in this section, died
redently at Fredonia, Kansas, OF
acute indigestion.
Mrs. Chas. Osenton, wife of
the prominent Fayett politician,
has instituted suit for $40, 900
against Mrs. Margaret William
son, wealthy widow of the south
ern section of the state, charging
alienation of her husbands affec-
tions.
Chas. Powell, a negro, who had
assaulted young white woman,
was taken away from the officers
at Macon, Ca, and strung up to
a telegraph pole, The body was
then riddled with bullets and car
ried to the heart of the negro
section of the city where it was
burned by the mob.
When arranged before Justice
Butcher, of Parkersburg, on a
charge of stealing a pair of felt
boots from in front of store,
Mike Kelley pleaded that he had
always been under apprehension
that this was a free country and
that the boots were free for any
one who happened along to take
them.
A large part of the business
section of the city of Belington
was wiped out by fire one day
last week. The postoffice, opera
house, a grocery store, pool room
and barber shop were totally
destroyed, causing a loss of $780,
600, about half of which wss
covered by insurance.
The Blue Creek, Kanawha, oil
field continues to rank as the lar
gest producing area in West Vir-
einia. New wells are being
drilled in every day and the total
production is close fifteen thous-
and barrels daily. Storage facil-
tiles are limited and there is talk
of a refinery being built in the
southern part of the state.
James F. Boggs. formerly of
Pine Creek, this county, who
was arrested several weeks ago
by B. & o. Officer Frank Taylor
on a charge of obtaining money
under false pretense, entered a
plea of guilty, when arraigned
before Judge McGregor, of the
Wood county criminal court, and
was sentenced to serve two years
in the penitentiary.
Thirty union labor officials and
agents have been indicted by a
Federal grand jury in Indianapo-
lis, for criminal responsibility
with the notorious McNamaras
and Ortie E. McManigal, for
causing more than one hundred
explosions which have occurred
in cities all over the United
States. March 18th has been set
for their trials.
The Florida State Convention
split into two factions within a
short time after being called to
order, on the question of instruc-
tions to the National convention.
The Taft men organized the con-
vention and instructed for Taft,
while the boilers went to another
hall, and where delegates were
instructed to vote for the big
Noise" for a third term.
In a letter made public a few
days ago, Lawrence F. Abbot,
one of the editors Of the Out
look and a close personal friend
of Theodore Roosevelt, stated
that while the latter did not de-
sire the nomination and would
not make a fight for it, he would
no more decline the call of his
party than he would decline to
enlist if needed in case of war. y
Unless President Taft inter.
! yenes the second woman owe,