Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13
Maryland and the Kirginias

| PETERSBURG, va.-Robert e. Beas-
| ley. thirty-six years old, a compare
lively new member Of the local police
force, was murdered early Sunday
| morning by a negro he had arrested.
While calling the police station at a
callbox, and while the policeman's at
tention was withdrawn for a moment,
the prisoner stunned Beasley with a
| blow Of a heavy club. and then beat
the policeman to death with the
bludgeon. The negro was afterward
| arrested after fight with the police,
| in which he was shot several times.
He is now in a hospital here in
serious condition.
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Gustav Bruder.
for forty-one years a. bandsman, and
for twenty three years a member OF the
Naval Academy Band, died here Mon
day. He served three enlistments In
army bands and one enlistment in the
Marine Band at Washington. He was
a native of Baden, Germany, ana was
seventy-one years old.
MORGANTOWN, w. Nd.-CHlSIdis
charged with the enforcement of West
Virginia's prohibition laws assert that
woman ''bootleggers" are giving them
much more trouble than male vlolators
of the law. The officers say that very
few men have been arrested recently
for bringing liquor into the state, but
that a number of women have been
caught trying to run the blockade with
intoxicants about their persons or in
their baggage.
HOPEWELL, Va.-The latest addi-
ton to the plant of the du Pont Pow
der Company here is laboratory
factory building in which the company
purposes to manufacture aluminium.
The new factory is not yet in opera
ton, but the company officials say 1t
will be ready for actual work within
short time, and that the purpose is to
make the production of aluminium a
permanent Hopewel industry.
ANNAPOLIS. Md.--Adolph Torovsky
has been appointed bandmaster of the
Naval Academy Band. to succeed the
late Charles A. Zimmerman. He is a
native of Austria-Hungary. having
served seven years as bandsman IN
the Austro-Hungarian army. After
entering the Naval Academy Band IN
1892 he was made assistant to the late
bandmaSter in 1893.
HOPEWELL. Va.-The du Pont COM
pany has announced that March ! the
company will put in operation a daily
PAYDAY system. whereby one- dse tn
of the total number of employees at
the big powder works will receive
their two weeks pay each working
day. AS the company is now employ
ing close to 5000 men. this means ans
be paid off each day of the week, in
stead of the entire 5000 being paid at
intervals of two weeks.
CHARLESTON, W. Va.-Reports of
the state geologist, just made public,
should remove from the mind of the
general public all apprehension of
exhaustion of the states coal depos-
it's in the immediate future. The re-
ports show that the soft coal deposits
of West Virginia are estimated as ca
pable Of affording a yield OF 1I4,o44.o
production runs about 70.0o0,000 tons
per year. But even If this average
should be increased to 100,000,000 tons
per year, or matter or about 80 per
cent, there is enough coal in our noun
tains to last seventeen centuries. So,
lif there should remain a demand for
coal during the coming centuries. the
industry will continue to be the main
stay of the state for many hundreds Of
years.
CUMBERLAND, Md. Miss Lulu
Mann, twenty years old, of Belle Grove,
Nd, was taking some freshly baked
bread from the oven of a range at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Perry Brink
man, of this place, when her hair came
in contact with fame of burner
on the top of the range The young
woman's head flashed into a blaze and
beforee the fire was extfnguished the
girls heavy suit of hair was complete
about the head and face. in addi-
ton to the loss of her hair, and her
condition is serious.
SUFFOLK, Va-The woman mem
bers of the new Main Street Methodist
Church are to place in the building a
handsome stained glass window as d
memorial to deceased pastors of the
church and who are now dead were
Revs. George Vanderslice. James
Twitty, Peterson, Boggs, Martin and
Cheatham.
ANNAPOLIS. Md.-A bill introduced
in the general assembly by Senator
Frank NJ. Duvall of Anne Arundel
county provides for the construction of
boulevard connecting Washington
and Annapolis, as link in the chain
Of preparedness. The length of the
roadway necessary to connect exist
ing roads is about twenty miles, and
Senator Duvalrs measure. introduced
as a joint resolution in both houses
provides that this stretch of boulevard
shall cost not to exceed 100000. If
built the boulevard would complete a
triangle of highways. as there is already
a state road from Washington to Balti-
more and one from Baltimore to Anna
polls.
wILLIAMsTOwN W. Va.-samuel
Biddle of this place has had his sight
for eight years An operation at a
Washington hospital for the removal
of cataract was successful, and Mr..
Biddle. who is far advanced in years,
is once more able to see almost as we'll
as ever.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va.-Frank Jay
Gould of New York oUpor NJ The cnot