The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-26
CTTYCHARTER
CASE TOICOME
upon MONDAY

UP Jun |V|UNuAy
Before Judge Raymond al
Fairmont to Be Decided on
Its Actual Merits.
FAIRMoNT, Dec. 26.-The suit
brought by. Reuben Anderson, jani-
tor Ut the court house In behalf OF
tie Democratic Organization Of Ma.
rion countysto test the constitutions
ality OF tine new Fairmont charter
created At q recent session OF the
state iegis:a sureiis scheduled for trial
on Its merits Monday before Judge
w. 3. Raymond in circuit court here.
Alter barring Republican attorneys
fiom appearing In court In defense
oil the Chatter, Judge Hammond last
June declared the charter uncohsti-
tutional ON the ground that IL was
Ieiau only twice IN the Legislature
when IT should have been read three
times. Republican attorneys secur-
ed q mandate from the supreme court
OF the STAG directing judge hay
mond to reopen the case ,and pormit
the Republican attorneys. to make a
defense. After many delays a hear
ing OF the case on its merits was set
for Monday. AS a result OF the re-
stratning order issued last June no
election was held as provided In tn.
new cnarter ana the F'aIrmont city
administration continued in Office.
Mrs. Genevieve Domani, aged 10,
the pretty wife OF Nicholas Domani,
who fled from his home In Fairmont
following the murder OF Anthony
schepis, died In a Wheeling hospital
this week from Tuberculosis. An
eighteen montiis old baby has been
ADOPTED by a Wheeling family. Mrs.
Domani, q school teacher before her
marriage. was sent to the Florence
.Crtttenton home In Wheeling after
she had begged for food and lod glng
In the Marion county jail.
Mrs. Mary c. Google, died while
sitting in chair in home In Jack.
son street last Monday. b
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad IA
planning to make q twenty-five foot
NIL on the east shore OF the Monon-
,gahela river beneath the public high
way bridge.
Fairmont will get splendid four.
story stone telephone building ac-
cording to well founded although un
Official reports from Pittsburg TODAY.
The proposed building will be erect
ed In Monroe street..
Arrested on charge Of assault
ing q prisoner with his mace aftef
the prisoner had been handcuffed.
james Ice. a Baltimore and Ohio
railroad Company detective, waived
nearing Wednesday before Justice
OF the Peace X. Leigh Fleming and
was held for grand jury inyestiga-
tion under 5000 bail. Ice furnished
pond and was released pending tho
meeting OF the grand jury. Ice. who
Is large. well built man, Is alleged
to have brutally beaten George
Compston, a timer of Morgantown
after arresting him on Baltimore
and Ohio train on c.iarge OF drurik-
enness. Compston Is held in tho To-
cal jail as a witness against Ice de-
spite Efforts OF Baltimore and Ohio
detectives TO take him to Morgantown
to stand trial on charge Of drunk.
enness. -
Fatrmont will be able to boast n
real metropolitan stock company II
the plans Of the manager of a local
theater at present devoted to yaude-
vile are carried out.
Passenger traffic between Fairmont
and Point Marion has fallen on
largely during the last week as the
result OF the Injunction which became
effective last Mon1ay restraining the
railroads from carrying as. personal
baggage labelled packages contain.
Ing more than swo quarts of LIQUOR.
City Attorney Walter Haggerty
appointed by Judge w. S. Raymond
to succeed Tusca Morris US prosecut-
ing attorney in Marion county has as.
sumed the duties of his new Office.
:, number OF applicants are being
boosted by their friends for the Of
fice OF city attorney rendered vacant
ny Mr.. Haggerty's promotion. Among
them are Attorneys Kenneth Barnes.
frank Raymond, George Ralphsny.
der. Sidney iteed and William Ken
NEEDY. The office pays $1,000 a year.
Bond issues aggregating $1,000
O00 for the construction OF roads In
Union. Lincoln and Paw Paw dis
tricts. may be sold to Marion coun-
" farmers instead OF In bond mar
kets In distant cities according to
plans under consideration by county
oiiicials. Preliminary surveys OF
roads in Union district have been
completed and surveys are we'll un-
der way in Loncoln and Paw Paw
districts. preparatory to submitting
the question of bond issues to the
voters. Many farmers of Marion
county have received large sums of
money for the coal underlying their
farms during the hast Jew years and
1t Is believed that the farmers will
welcome an opportunity to invest this
money in local bonds.
Workmen are busy Installing the
sixty-fve electric street lamps as
signed to the East Side as a part of