Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12


uals in need Of wheat have been boring
holes in the floors Of cars loaded with
the grain and standing on sidings at
| Pen-Mar and have stolen unknown
quantities. A string Of about 200 cars
| loaded with wheat have been on the
sidings there for some time. waiting for
I congestion of the Western Maryland
| railroad to be relieved sufficiently TO
permit them to go forward to Baltimore.
The grain thieves have operated by Dor
ing auger holes in the floors OF the cars
| holding bags under the holes and get
tflng all the wheat they wanted. 1t is
] believed the thieves drove to the rail-
road yards in wagons. which they loaded
| with filed sacks of wheat at their lei
sure. The quantity of grain stolen Is
unknown, but is believed to be large.
| Winchestcr, Na-CharIes Chase Mil
ler, reported to have been killed in the
raid by Mexican bandits headed by
! Francisco Villa on the town OF Column
place and a member of an old Winches-
ter family. He was sixty years old ana
had been in the drug business in Column
bus foE about five years. He was a son
| brothers and sister. Godfrey and Clar-
ence Miller and Miss Minnie A. Miller,
all live here.
| Bondsville, w. Va.-George Barnes:
f1fteen-year-old son of Philip Barnes OF
this place, tried to pick the illuminate
Doctors who dressed the boys injuries
| cut off the remains of the thumb and
two fingers from his left hand and fear
| it may be necessary to amputate the IN
| dex finger Of his right hand.
HagerstOwn. Md.-Wearing the straw
hat which he claims brought him good
luck in his campaign, Mayor George W.
| Hurd Of Wfllfamsport came here this
week and took the oatn of Office before
Edward Oswald. clerk of the circuit
has worn straw hat winter and sum
| mer, and on election day worked at the
polls wearing straw ma, and an over
| coat. He had intended DOMINIC other
| headgear for his trip to Hagerstown to-
day. but at the suggestion Of his friends
determined to wear his old straw hat.
Strasburg, Va.-At the annual meet
| ing of the North Shenandoah Fruit
| Growers Association last Saturday
| these officers were elected for the COM
ing year: Charles s. Hickman, presi-
| dent; E. H. Hammond, vice president,
| and c. NJ. Borum, secretary
| Charleston, w. Va-John Daniel Cole
man, who passed the century mark in
age fifteen years ago, is still actively
| engaged in work as the senior men,
Der of the firm of ]. D. Coleman & Son,
at Victor, Fayette county. He claims
| to be one of the oldest men living to-
| day, and is certain he is the Oldest
| now engaged in active work. He has
| always lived in the mountains, giving
| credit for his extraordinary long life
| and vigor to mountain air and plain
| living, with regular habits.
| Charlottesville. Va. L. Damron,
chief of police. is nursing injuries re-
| ceived when Johan Rotin. a prisoner in
| the Jail here, assaulted him with an
| iron bar. Chief Damron went to
Rotin's cell few mornings ago. and
as soon as he entered the cell the
| prisoner. believed to be a Scandinavian
| attacked him. He struck the chief be-
| tween the eyes with the short bar of
| iron, telling him to the floor. and when
| Damron tried to draw his club he was
knocked down again. Rotin took the
chiefs keys and locked him in the
cell that had been Rotin's. when Dam
| ron fired through the cell door, drop
ping Rotin with a bullet in the shoul-
| der Rotin was held for the action
Of the grand jury charged with felo-
NOUS assault.
Annapolis. Md.-By the provisions of
| a bill introduced in the legislature by
Delegate Shriver of Baltimore a tax of
| 20 cents a gallon would be placed on
coca cola and other soft drinks. as we'll
| as all drinks said to contain caffein
or other habit-forming drugs.
! Parkersburg. w. va.-Permanent or
sanization of the West Virginia Fedora
| ton of Insurance Men was effected at
a meeting here Tuesday. when the fol-
loving loving. officers and directors were
\ president; N. g. Keim, Elkins; William
i Lohmeyer, Charleston: Poe Park,
Parkersburg; William Jones, Charles
ton. vice presidents: J. G. Crook, H M.
| Taylor, A. A. Taylor. Joseph F. PAUL,
E. B. Bowie. Wheeling; Dan Holton,
Charles w. Commack. c. W. Thornburg,
Huntington: Jack Patrick. T. d. Germ,
Charleston: ]. H. Stephenson, Charles
B. Alexander Clarksburg; H. L. Smith,
A B. White. jr.: J. A. Mathison.
mont; E. E. Cook. Charles Town: Ray
| Evans. Bluef1eld: NJ. r Sisler, Morgan
town: M. L. Connolly. Clinton, and
Thomas K Jones, Fairmont. directors
Roanoke. va.-Maj. c. c. Taliaferro Of
| this city died suddenly in New York.
ralgia of the heart. He was sixty-nine
years old. Maj. Taliaferro had gone
to New York on business. and had just
alighted from the train when stricken
| Interment was at Hampden- Sidney,
Prince Edward county. the family
home. Maj Taliaferro was one of the
best known men in Virginia. At the
age OF fourteen he ran away from his
listed in Stonewall Jackson's brigade
| He served with Jackson until the latter
was shot at Charlottesville. and was
detailed as one of the guards which
accompanied the southern leaders body
to its resting place in Lexington, Va.
Maj. Taliaferro later Joined Gen. Lees
command, and was reported to have
been the generals truce bearer at the
surrender of Appomattox. He was
badly wounded in the fighting near
Spotsylvania Court House and given
| meritorious mention for gallantry as
courier and scout.
Cumberland. Md.-Many of the new
steel passenger coaches are being
placed in commission on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. The coaches are of
the 1900 series, and are said to be the
last word in modern railway passenger
coach construction. The company is
understood to have ordered about 500
of the coaches. Another improvement
by the company was the ordering of
1000 steel freight cars, deliveries of
which are now being made.
Charleston, W. ya.-By order of DR..
S. l.. Jepson, state commissioner of
health, physicians of the state will be
required to make more frequent and
accurate reports on contagious and in
fictitious diseases. Heretofore the re-
ports have been made quarterly, but
DR.. Jepsons order requires that they
must be made each month after this.
The reason for the order is that totals
last year showed that in every instance
except reports of cases of smallpox, the