Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-02-26
Personal

The estate OF Mrs. Caroline Haskell
Lee, of Newton, Mass. grandmother
Of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Is val
ued ut $4,000. Mrs. Longworth's
share is $4,000.
Uncle Joe Cannon has joined the
| ranks OF the Young Mems Christian
Association. 1t Ia not known whether
or not he took this step to refute err
ronsous Impressions that he Is some
times addicted to unchristianlike pro-
family.
A SON and heir was born to Viscount
and viscountess Chelsea at London
1t was reported that King Ferdinand
Of Bulgaria intends to visit America
In April.
Another seat on the New York
| Stock Exchange was sold for $4,000.
A blazing meteor fell near Albu-
querque. N. Nj.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad shops
1t Altoona, Pa, resumed operations.
Burglars broke into the Bank OF
Logansport, Pa, and stole 10000.
Fire caused loss of 100000 in
the business district of Manchester.
N. H.
The American Hide 4 Leather Com
pany's tannery at Woburn, Mass, was
destroyed by fire at loss OF 100000
Two girls and one man were killed
when wagon rolled down mountain
side near Harrisburg. Pa
The Cleveland Railway Company
announced one-cent increase in fares
effective March /.
Babies Row." an apartment in Chi
cago. was destroyed By FIRE. The loss
Is 100000
| Single fare on surface car lines was
put into effect in Chicago. A person
can now ride rs miles on one nickel
Fire, which destroyed the Walters
Piano factory on East Sixty-third
street. New York, caused damage es-
timated at 100000
Representative Ainey, Of Pennsyl-
vania, announced his candidacy for
United States Senator on tn Repub-
lican ticket.
General James Grant Wilson, Civil
War veteran and famous as writer
and lecturer, 10 dead In New York,
aged So.
Claiming that her husband has not
taken bath for two years, Mrs. Bella
Hurrell, Of Ann Arbor, Mich, is suing
for divorce.
Mayor Moore, Of Pittsfeld, Mass,
removed the board Of License Com
mfssioners The commissioners will
appeal to the courts.
Brigadier-General Alfred G. Grard,
chief surgeon OF the Second Army
Corps during the Spanish War, is dead
In Washington.
Lincoln Beachey, the aviator, was
Injured when his aeroplane fell into
tree from an altitude OF $50 feet near
Los Angeles.
During 1913 a total OF 150,1b9,291
pounds OF oleomargarine was produced
| In the United States, compared with
i3s. 606,341 pounds in 1912
Arrested on suspicion Of having stol-
IN IL parcel post stamps, Joseph Greg
Dry, Of Washington committed sui
eide by hanging himself In his CELL
Henry Detloff, crippled with rheu-
htism, was killed when he tried to
save HIS wife from fire in their
home in Brooklyn. She was rescued
BY policemen.
Police Chief Long, OF Newark, N. j.,
ordered the police to prohibit theatri-
cal performances or moving pictures
On Sunday.
Frank w. Jones, an eccentric mil
lionairc, was buried in a grave on
granite orag near his estate at New
Hartford, Conn
The Morgan Manufacturing Com
pany's furniture plant at Charleston,
". Va, was destroyed by nre The loss
Il 100000
The Old Dominion steamship Mon
roe, the stanchest vessel of the COM
pany's feet,. northbound from Norfolk,
Va, was rammed and sunk in thick
fog on the Winter Quarter Shoals
Lightship on the Virginia coast by the
Merchants and Miners steamship
Nantucket, bound to Baltimore from
Boston Forty-four persons on the
Monroe lost their lives. and ninety
eour vera saved