Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-14
Maryland and the Virginias

| Cumberland. Md.-That James NJ
Sloan. president of the Homecoming Saw
ings Bank will be elected president
of the Maryland Bankers Association
at the twenty-first annual convention
/ at Atlantic City. May % to May IS, in
elusive, is the talk in banking circles.
| Mr.. Sloan is now first vice president of
the association. 1t is customary for
! the president to serve but one term.
| Mr.. Sloan will succeed Harvey l.. Coop
| er. president of the Denton National
| Bank of Denton. Md. The election of
Mr.. Sloan will mean that the lead of
the association will shift from the east
| ern shore to western Maryland.
, Gate city. Na.-Reuben Wyatt is dead
/ near Hilton. Va, at the age OF los
years. Court records show that his
| first marriage occurred ninety-tWo
| years ago when he was sixteen. HIS
! entire life was spent in Scott county.
| Newport News. Na.-1'hef of Police
| T. A. Mitchell will close the segregated
! district June 49, the anti-redlight law
enacted by the legislature becoming eff
fective on that date. Where the women
| will go is not known. They them
selves say they have not the slightest
idea how they will make a living.
| Dunyille, Sa.-The discovery thai
| three escaped negro iunatics. missing
from the Petersburg asylum for the
| last five months, had been hiding at a
! little place named Rock Springs about
| five miles from Danyillc. has almost
! throl.n that neighborhood into a panic,
I especially as one of them. Cary Wiles.
! killed his father last Sunday and an
| other already has two murders to his
| record. Cary was arrested and search
! is being made for the other two men.
| Piedmont, W, ya-As T. Tucci was
leaving his home at Baryl. just west OF
here the cther morning az o'clock 10
go to work he discovered p bundle of
| what appeared TO be ordinary sacktne
used in carrying ccai on his porch He
| gave il a kick, which brought forth
! cries, and upon opening the bundle he
discovered a naked baby girl. few
| hours old. but lusty luneed ana ap-
| parently in the best of health.
! williamsburg. Va.-The board of WISH
tors OF William and Mary College has
| decided to erect dorrnitory to cost
100000 The building will be ready
September l. the beginning of the next
college year. This dormitory will be
| built in four units, the first unit to cost
$4,000 and three additional units to
ter equip the school to increase its
scope of usefulness.
Newport News. xa.-An event of I'M
| usual Importance for the Catholics OF
| Newport News occurred last week.
when ground was broken for the cree
| tion of a handsome and costly new
| church. that will be in keeping with
rapid progress the city seems destined
| to make in the near future.
HarrisOnburR. Va.-Jacob A. Swartz
| of Mount Clinton collided with A run
| away bicycle on the Rawley turnpike last
| Sunday and was knocked fifteen feet
| against a culvert. He sustained q bro
| ken leg above the knee and severe
| knee, hand and scalp wounds. Hinton
/ Whitmore. who was riding the wheel.
| was badly bruised about the face.
| Cumberland. Md.-The trial and SEN
tence Of Buck Raymond. negro. indict-
ed for the murder of Peter Pennick,
| also colored, consumed but twenty min
| utes in court here Wednesday. He was
| found guilty Of murder in the second
| degree and was given sixteen years IN
| the penitentiary. The men had quar-
relied over game OF cards and APP
| parently had made up, when Raymond
] felled Pennck with an ak as he was
| rolling "A cigarette. He struck his VIC
| tim over the head five or six times as
the man cried for mercy.
| Bristol. Va.-The hosiery mill at Bluff
City, near here. is in ruins as the result
| of a fire. believed to have resulted
| from stroke of lightning. The loss
| of $4,000 is partially covered by in
| surance. Machines, yarn and 1000
dozen pairs of hose were destroyed.
| Richmond. Va.-The Richmond Auto
mobile Club has undertaken a strenu-
Gus campaign for the completion of the
Richmond Washington highway. But
tons have been placed on sale at dol
lar each. and several hundred buttons
have already been sold in Richmond.
The clubs in Fredericks burg, Alex
andria and Washington are also expect
ed to take part. The road between
Richmond and Washington has been
completed except for a stretch of
twelve miles between Fredericksburg
and Occoquan. other efforts to con-
struct this part of the highway haV-
ing failed. the Richmond club under
took a plan looking 20 its completion.
RrookvilIe. Va.-Brookville magis-
terial district. Campbell county. voted
in favor of "A good roads bond issue
amounting 10 100000. the vote being
PAS to A. About 90 per cent of the
voting strength of the district par
ticipated.
EIkins ". ya.-Felice Amore, TWEEN
ty years old. an Italian. who is alleged
to have shot to death his roommate,
Alfonso AmatO, aRe0 tWenty-SeVen, III
local boarding house. was captured
after an eighteen-hour base. Both
were from the same province in
Italy and had been here together four
years The cause of the shooting is
unknown Coradio opposite. an alleged
accomplice, also is in jail.
BristoI Vn.-Since King College of
Bristol is to be made the central
male school Of the new Appalachian
synod embracing portions of south
west Virginia east Tennessee, western
North Carolina and eastern Kentucky,
the board of curators, voted to raise
a fund of 100000 for new plant on
a site of forty acres in a Bristol suburb,
which was recently donated to the
school by Rev. isaac s. Anderson, ID. D..
of Rose Hill. Va. The amount to be
raised. added to the present properties
of the institution. will make an invest
ment of about 100000.
Lynchburg. VA. F. Roberts, thirty
wears old. treasurer of the coal opera
lions of the Virginia Iron. Coal and
Coke Company. at 1nman. Wise county.
was shot 70 death at the office of the
company by Ezra Craft, miner.
Words passed between the men con-
corning certain credits on Crafts ac-
count and when the treasurer turned
his back, Craft sent bullet through
his body. Roberts died in a few min
utes. Craft arrested and sent to