Evening star., 1916-09-17

Is composed of George w stevens
Rorer A. James. Joseph Button. i. w
Peyton and L. w Printon.
Annapolis. Md.-Automobile Commits
sioner E. Austin Baughman has an
nounced that beginning December 1 he
will send his deputies into all the
county seats in the STATE to examine
applicants for licenses. and issue auto
mobile drivers cards without the
necessity of the applicants appearing
before him at his office in Baltimore
city. The commissioner thus expects
to expedite the convenience of appli-
cants as well as the details of his Of
flee. The deputies will go to the sew
eral county seats on specified days, and
notice of the dates on which they VIII
be in the various counties viii be sent
out in advance.
Danville. Va.-The courthouse of
Caswen county, at Yancyville, \. c..
was for more than an hour threatened
with destruction by fire when, at the
height of a severe storm, the pinnacle
Of the belfry was struck by bolt of
lightning and set on fire. bucket
brigade composed of 100 men finally
| quenched the fire after long fight, and
only after the bell tower had been de-
stroyed. The courthouse is 100 years
old, a two-story brick structure.
SnuEIesIOu. w. ta"JuOSe
Kellar of the United States district
court here granted the petition of Mrs.
Martha Hearne of Welch, Mcdowell
county, for a writ of habeas corpus to
compel military authorities at Kama
wha City to release her son, Clifford
| Roach. member of Company F. I'd
West Virginia National Guard. In her
petition Mrs. Hearne sets forth that her
son was only eighteen years old when
I! he enlisted without her consent.
Harrisonbure. Va-William Houch-
en-, fifty-two years old, was found dead
| in the stable on the farm of Capt
Charles J. Brock, near Lacey Spring
| Numerous bruises and cuts about the
body indicated that he had been tram
pied to death by the horses. He was q
native of Rockingham county and
| leaves one sister, Mrs. Erasmus Lawson
| of Zenda.
| Annapolis. Md.-Three hours after
his wife died at the home of her sister
here, Tilghman c. Tucker aged sixty
six, died in an Annapolis hospital He
had willed a forty thousand dollar es-
| tate to his wife.
| 'Luray. ya.-During the absence of
! its mother from the room the three
| year-old son of Charles f. Ramey, who
| lives four miles west of Luray, craWled
to the top of the dining-room table
/ from which it pitched headlong to the
| floor, breaking its neck, dying in a few
| minutes. How the baby reached the top
Of the table is a mystery, as it was just
! beginning to walk. Mrs. Ramey was a
wife by a former marriage Of the late
| Samuel G.Smith. for many years chief
guide of the Luray Caverns.
! Clarksburs, w. Va.-George W. Cor
| Frank NJ. Clausson. forty-five years old
a driller, died Thursday morning in a
| local hospital from burns received when
| a gas we'll on which they were working
near West Milford exploded. A pocket
| of oil and gas was struck which flowed
over the derrick, caught fire from a
forge and caused an explosion in which
| the men were burned.
Richmond. Va-James n Gordon, q
farmer, whose home was at Wistar Sta
ton, near here. was found murdered at
the home of his wife, with whom he had
not been living. He had been shot
| through the head from inside the house
as he sat on the front porch. The police
are searching for George Wade his
stepson. who has not been seen since
| the shooting. Wade, who has served
| time in jail for attacking his stepfather
with an AK, is wanted as material w.t.
ness.
| Frederick. Md.-A suit has been filed
| in the circuit court for Frederick coun-
| ty asking the court to issue a writ of
mandamus compelling Mayor John T.
Martin of Brunswick to administer the
| oath of Office to Frank L. Splitter as
! councilman from the third ward of
Brunswick. Splitter was returned elect
ed to succeed Councilman George w.
Nuce. but petition was filed by Mr.
Nuce and Morgan s. Rice protesting to
| Mayor Martin against swearing in the
successful candidate. When Mayor
| Martin. who is a democrat, refused to
Il
entered protest against c. r. Marker,
! who was returned elected in the sec
, ond ward. In the mandamus case
against Mayor Martin, Splitter charges
| that the action of the mayor is arbi-
! trary and despotic and alleges that he