Evening star., 1916-09-24
IN MARYLAND AND THE VIRGINIAS

Chandler of Mud. w. Va. pierced two
small pimples on her face with Il pin.
Blood poisoning resulted and she died
within thirty-six hours.
Frcd-riclssburS. va.-okeIey farm. in
Eair;ax county. containing 40 acres,
has been sold by DIR. William D Mason
of Washington to Representative Rufus
Hardy of Texas This farm is a part
of the original Gnnston Hall tract
granted to George Mason By the King
of England, and the recent sale takes
it out of the Mason family for the first
time.
McyersdaIe. Md.-Dalton Cook of this
town was instantly Killed at Bedford.
Pa. when an automobile which he was
driving was struck at a crossing and
completely demolished by a Pennsyl-
vania passenger train. Cook leaves
travelling salesman for his father.
James Cook. wholesale confectioner
here.
reduction of crime and IS per cent re-
ducticn in drunkenness in West vir-.
ginia in the two years of the enforce
ment of the statewide prohibition law
is claimed in statement issued by
Fred o. Blue, state tax commissioner
and ex-officio commissioner of prohi-
bition. The total number of arrests in
the fifty municipalities for the year
ending June 80. 1914. a wet" year.
1857; total for year ending June 80,
1915. the first dry" year, 1856; total
for year ending June 80. 1915. second
dry" year. 1857.
Newport News. va.-only for the
quick action of her two-year-old brother.
who showed wonderful intelligence. little
Cara Cockey. the four-year-old daughter
of MIR. and Mrs. John c. Cockey. on Creek
avenue. would have been drowned in
cued, half dead, by her mother, after the
little brother had toddled to the house
and told Mrs. Cockey that Clara had
fallen overheard in water over her head.
Mrs. Cockey lost no time in running to
the creek and. without a thought of her
self. plunged into the water and saved
the child.
Hagerstown, Md.-Mrs Myrtle Sum-
mers. widow of Herbert Summers who
was killed last July in the collapse of the
Vivian Hotel fOre. has filed suit for $780,
600 damages against the city Of Hagers-
town, alleging the city neglected to ap-
point building inspector and failed to
give public notice that the hotel was un-
safe. Mrs. Summers also sued Owen D.
Sherley, owner of the hotel, for $4,000
damages.
shephcrdstown. w. vn.-Harry E.
master here, and prominent lumber
dealer, has filed voluntary petition
in the federal court at Martinsburg
asking that he be adjudcated a bank
rupt, Judge DAYTON will grant the
states in his petition that he owes ap-
proximately $4,000, but that his assets
are but $4,000. He has for years been
leading republican politician of JEFF
ferson county, and served as post
py1p O. or nf Chn phar 1ctD 81 4
ministrations of President Roosevelt and
President Taft.
Frederick. Md.-Mrs Mary A. Love-
younger days an intimate friend of
Barbara Frietchie, and is nearly a CEN
tenarian, was granted a widows pen
sion of $50 month under the terms
of the act of Congress approved by
President Wilson September 8. This
is the act which opens the pension rolls
to widows, of soldiers and sailors of
the civil and Mexican wars by grant
ing them $40 a month each. Mrs
Lovejoy is the first woman to be is
sued certificate under the new law
She is the widow of Samuel B. Love-
joy. a private of Company II, 5th Ohio
Infantry, and is to receive a pension
at the rate of $50 month from Sep
tember s. 1916. Mrs. Lovejoy was born
here, and when she was young she
knew Barbara Frietchie well. She was
married to the soldier in February,
1884, and is the mother of ten chill
dren, four of whom are living. She
is a great Observation-Disclosures and has
never worn spectacles.
Morgantown, w. va.-Although
Albert Liberatore succeeded in
eioping to Maryland and marrying
stella, fourteen-year-old daughter of
Frank Brewer Of this city, in the face
OF the fathers opposition, he has lost
his bride. The father preferred a charge
of incorrigibility against his daughter
before magistrate and had her COM
mitted to the State Reform School for
Girls at Salem. and she was taken
there by a matron.
Grafton. W. va-J. R. Trimble. Bal
crushed to death, and James Conley,
conductor also of this place, was
severely injured when the engine and
caboose OF the Pennington coal train
jumped the track near Davis siding.
Brakeman Trimble leaped for SAFETY
and was caught by the tender of the
engine as it overturned. His body was
badly mangled. Conductor Conley is
confined in a Clarksburg hospital and
will recover.
Frederick. Md.-Despondent and hav-
ing formed suicide pact with her
chum, Miss Wilmoth Adams, an en-
pioyS VI ehe OA Hpre mop Factory,
swallowed a small quantity of poison.
co-worker saw the girl take the
poison and notified an official of the
department. The girl was taken to the
office of DR.. L. A. Burch, the company's
physician. She will recover The chum
of the girl failed to keep her part of
the agreement.
Mnrtfnsburg. w. Va.-The Grand
Chapter of the Order of the Eastern
Star of Saskatchewan, Canada, has con-
ferred distinguished honor on r. S.
Bouic of this city by appointing him as
it's representative in the Grand Chap
ter of West Virginia. which will meet
in Clarksburg in October.
Richmond. va.-State food depart
ment inspectors have notified ice manu-
laws when they distribute ice which
has a taste of chemicals Consumers
are being advised not to receive or pay
for bad ice, but to report all such de-
liveries to the department. Commits
sioner Purcell of the food bureau SAYS
to the fact that the boilers are allowed
to become dirty.
CharIes Town. w. va-Democratic
National Committeeman c. w. Watson
has picked the following democrats for
members of the national finance COM
mittee for West Virginia: First dis
trict, John J. Contiff Of Wheeling; sec
ond district, E. G. Donley of Morgan
town; third district. Louis Bennett,
chairman. of weston: fourth district.
Thomas Graham of Parkersburg; fifth
district, Frank B. Enslow, jr.. of Hunt
ington; sixth district, DR.. Cory Hogg
of Harvey.
Richmond. va.-This city faces the
la situation hiS-