The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-18
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STATE NEWS

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The Fayette County Court has re.
duced the salary of sheriff to $3.50 a
year, the salary OF sealer of weights
and measures to $500 a year. refused
a raise to the circuit clerk and abol:
ished the office Of assistant prosecu'
ting attorney.
Acting uponfthe order of Judge Day.
ton in the United States district court
now in session, members Of the United
States Marshal's force removed Ed.
Morris, indicted for robbing the post:
office OF Rutherford, Richie county,
from3the Wood county jail to the st:
Joseph's hospital at Petersburg.
This action was taken upon the mo-
ton and approval Of United States
District Attorney Stuart, w. Walker.
It was announced in court that Morris
Is i'll with an attack of typhoid fever.
Anticipating another possible strike
in the eastern Ohio coal fields next
Spring, when the present wage seals
expires, the American Sheet and Tin
Plate company, of Wheeling, is prepar-
ing to convert part OF it's old Aetna.
Standard mill into a huge ~storehouse
for coal. Work on its preparation has
already started.
The war department has given for
the Isl Of the machine gun company
connected with the Second Regiment
OF the West Virginia National Guard
at Huntington, infantry property and
equipment valued at $4,000. Ambulan.
ces will also be furnished for use OF
the hospital cords of the state militia.
Adjutant John C. Bond has returned
from Washington, where he made his
annual report to the secretary of war
and reported on his return that the
state troops will be given every pos
sible aid by the war department.
The second anniversary of the or:
ganization Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Veterans association will be celebra.
ted with a reunion and feast at Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, on January %. The
celebration program will also include
an entertainment with the Baltimore
and Ohio Glee club, an organization
of 40 members picked from over s..
900 employees as the feature attrac.
tion.
In speaking OF the elections next
November, Howard 3. Williams, state
commissioner Of agriculture, said the
other day in Charleston, relative to
the question of Woman's Suffrage, If.
the men who r expressing them
selves as being in favor of. suffrage.
in the various parts OF the state have
visited, represents general sentiment,
the woman's suffrage amendment VIII
become a law in West Virginia"
Miss LottieI smallwood, a mere slip.
OF a school girl, Is the heroine whose
prompt action saved No. 48, the East;
bound trans.continenta1 express train,
from being ditched Tuesday afternoon,
when a landslide came down ~
mountainside and covered the tracks
of the B.f& O.. Just westSof Long Run,
between Grafton and Parkersburg.
The, home of Miss Smallwood Is; along
the Baltimore and Ohio tracks beyond
Long Run, and she was near her home
when she heard the noise of slide
starting on the hill above the tracks.
The steady rain Of several days had
loosened q large amount OF dirt and
loose rock and It tumbled down the
hillside onto the tracks She knew that
the express was due In q short time.
and ran down the Strak ct top speed
until she reached several track repair
men, who were notified Of the slide
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