Evening star., 1916-09-24

Cumberland. Md.-Judge Robert r.
Henderson upheld the remonstrance
against the granting of a license to the
Cumberland Fair and Agricultural AS
sociation to sell intoXicants at the an
nual fair next week. Residents of the.
vicinity of the fair grounds. led by Will
liam. C. Montignaul.- secretaSy of the
Baltimore and Ohio Young Mems Chris
tian Association, made the protest.
Judge Henderson has refused consist
emily to grant licenses to sell liquor
below the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
and would make no exception in this
case. Liquor was sold at the fair
grounds last year
snffolk. vn.-A big motor truck
owned by the Shoop Withers Company,
loaded with ice. caught fire on Bank
street, and when the gasoline tank, just
filled with fifteen gallons of gasoline.
exploded. the two men jumped from the
department responded and put out the
fire. not, however, before the truck had
been badly damaged.
Charleston. w. vn.-A telegram from
the executive Office in Charleston to
Williamson brought about the release
from the Mingo county Jail of Andrew
Wise. seventy-two, who was being
held there on the charge of murder he
is alleged to have committed in Bun
| combe county. n. c., forty years ago.
Wise is alleged to have killed ]. C.
Rogers, but so far as could be learned
there are no witnesses living who
could testify knowingly about the mur-
der. The accused was never indicted,
but warrant for his arrest was issued
at the instance Of grandson of the
murdered man several months ago and
requisition from the Governor of
North Carolina on the Governor of
West Virginia was consequently not
honored, and an order was issued by
the latter for the release of the pris-
oner. Wise denies the murder charge.
HaEerstown. Md.-Six cars filled with
mixed grain are lying in the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal, one and quar-
ter miles west of Pearre, and eight
others are badly damaged, as the result
| of wreck on the main line of the
Western Maryland, which tied up traf-
fic on this section of the road for eight
cen hours. The freight was coming
grain cars broke. causing this and 9TH
er cars In the rear to topple into the
canal.
Hampton. Vn-The clerks of the
courts of Virginia, in session at Old
Point Comfort, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent. c. d. Dent of Roanoke county;
first vice president. A. H. Crismond OF
Spotsylvania county. second vice presi-
dent. G. w. Herring; third vice presi-
| dent. s. S. Brook of Roanoke city: sec
retary- J. N. DozanZ of Pu-
laski.
eighty years. tottered up to the judges
throne in criminal court here and
pleaded guilty to an offense for the
first time in his life. that of felonious-
ly cutting William Freeney. aged
seventy-two years; The fracas occur
| red at the county infirmary. where both
the old men are inmates. Judge Robin
son deferred sentence.
Cumberland. Md.-A carload of wheat
going east in a long freight train over
the Western Maryland railway burst
In the big cut west of the Casselman
| bridge. not far from Confluence. About
500 bushels of the grain was dumped
| out on the track and lay there most of
the day before being loaded and re-
shipped.
Baltimore. Md.-Suffering from q
| form OF poisoning due to an overdose OF
medicine since last Wednesday, Mrs Will
liam F. Browning, wife of the states at
torney, is reported to be out of danger.
Basic City, Vn--Whether Virginia
counties may collect toll Sunday will be
settled at the October term in Augusta
county. Under the custer law, a toll
gate keeper was fined by a local magis-
| trate and the county appealed the case
to the higher court.
MartinsburE, w. va-At the opening
Of the circuit court for Berkeley county
Judge John NJ Woods declared that cleo
tion conditions in the, county had become
intolerable through the venality of a large
proportion of the voters and urged the
| toward the ending Of conditions which
have prevailed here for many. years.
Judge Woods said that a careful analysis
led him to believe that out of the $500
registered voters of the county, approx
mately 2,200 were purchasable, and that
elections there had ceased to be free
expression of the will of the people, and
had degenerated into an auction wherein
the candidates with the most money were
able to elect themselves to office.
Hancock. NId-The barn on the farm
of Harvey Mellott, north of here, caught
fire while wheat thrashing was in prog
ress and was destroyed. with the en-
of wheat had gone through the ma
chine when the barn caught. The
thrasher was drawn to a place of safety
by the traction engine.
Morgantown. w. va-It was an
nounced at state headquarters of the
West Virginia Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton that John j. Cornwell, democratic
candidate for governor, has indorsed
the pending amendment giving women
the right to vote. His stand in favor of
equal suffrage will add much strength
to the movement. it is thought. His
newspaper, the Hampshire Review, for
many years has teemed with strong
articles favoring votes for women. He
mas made many speeches favoring the
subject In recent letter to Mrs. Ella
A. Yost. president of the West Virginia
man of the state campaign committee.
Mr.. Cornwell freely expresses himself
on the franchise amendment and says
he not only favors 1t. but will cast his
vote for it next November.
Leesburs, Va-George c. Carter,
postmaster, has received a letter from the
Post Office Department in which he is
directed to establish city delivery service
beginning November /. He is addressing
TO patrons of the Office circular let
ters requesting them to advise him at
once whether or not they will provide for
receipt OF mail at their houses or places
Of business, or retain their lock boxes. or
have their mail placed in the general de-
livery. 'e'
Martfnsburs, W. VA young busi-
ness man of this city. finding that his
stock OF drinkables was running low, de-
cided to make a hurried trip In his auto
mobile to Hagerstown for the purpose Of
repsenishing the supply Hiking out about
a.m.. he returned in about two hours
with twenty dozen bottles of beer, properly
labeled as designated. Having in mind
the recent raids by local officers, the
young business man was afraid that he
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