Evening star., 1916-10-01

staunton. va.-Henry Thaise. civil |
war veteran. of New Market. was a |
visitor at the Staunton fair and looked |
up an old comrade in arms OF the |
Staunton Artillery are three surviv- |
ing members, according to ]. NJ. Black
burn. who keeps the records Of the
Stonewan Jackson Camp. They are
Henry Thaise of New Market. John
Burford of Highland Park and William
Woolfrey of Staunton. Mr.. Thaise and
Mr.. Woolfrey met at the fair for the
second time since the civil war, when
both were members of Capt. Imboden's
Staunton Artillery. This battery went
away from Staunton April II, 1861. and
returned at the end of the war, shot
to pieces and much changed in makeup
and under other officers but retaining
the same name with which * went into
active service.
HaRerstown, ,Md-Twenty-th three suits,
aggregating $11950O, have been filed in
the circuit court here against twenty
three insurance companies. including con-
Germs in Europe. by ]. w. Myers & Co.,
wholesale grocers of Hagerstown and
Chambersburg, Pa, for insurance alleged
to be due them as the result Of fire losses
at one Of their warehouses in Hagerstown
last December. The individual amounts
range from $1,000 to 100000. The firm
claims that fire starting in the cellar and
weakening the supports caused the build
ing to collapse. The insurance Compa-
nies. it is alleged, will claim the build
ing first collapsed and the fire then
started.
Charleston. w. Va.-Intoxicants lit
orally flowed in the streets here one day
VIZ HhnnSecle2 ming a
police headquarters. Contraband wet
goods"-216 pints of whisky and $50 pint
bottles Of beer-were poured into the sew
ers. The liquor had been taken from
bootlegging establishments.
Richmond. Va-John T. w. Curtis
and Allyn B. Tunfs have been named
Richmond. Commissioner Parsons also
announced the following other appoint
ments for the cities of the state: Bris-
tol. Harman Crundey; Buena vista ~ p.
Durrett: Danville. Capt. John g. Lea;
Fredericksburg, F. NJ. Aldridge; Lynch
burg, Nicholas ]. Smith; Newport News,
B. B. semmes; Norfolk. Roland Bu-
". II. Herzog: Portsmouth, Charles L
REYNOLDS: Roanoke, DIR. w. H. Saun-
ders; Staunton, Winchester. W. p.
Jones. These appointments were made
ted from previous appointments; Camp
bell, S. n. Arthur. Gladys, and w. r.
Wood, Concord: Caroline, D. c. smith,
Woodford; Dickinson, D. c. Owens
Mart; Elizabeth City. e; lrpy g,nIon Jonns1n, son
tion, and John Kirk, Jonesville; Lou
doun, w. E. Tyler, Aldie.
simpsonviIle. Md-Fire starting in
an old building on the farm of William
F, Myerly near here destroyed practl-
cally everything on the place except
the home. The barn, barrack, corn
house, stable, $50 bushels of new wheat.
| thirty tons Of hay. lot of grain and
fertilizers and farming implements
were lost All the live stock was saved.
| The fire was caused by sparks from
threshing engine. which was pulilng
away from the farm, having finished
threshing.
Princeton, va.-Several persons wit
messed the strange spectacle OF a 1ox
hound owned by James Mcpherson saw
ing itself from death under a train on
the Virginia railroad bridge at Black
Lick, four miles west Of here. the
bridge is 207 fleet high. one OF the nigh
est in the United States. The dog was
pursuing fox across the bridge when
the train came along. witnesses
| thought the animal had been killed,
but the owner found the animal hans
ing down between the ties, suspended
by its forelegs.
Huntington, w. Vain the United
States district court here the de-
murrer to the indictments against Gen.
Edward O'Toole of Gov. Hatfield's
staff and nineteen Others for con-
spiracy in the June state primary cleo
ton in Mcdowell county was sus-
tanned. The decision announced IN a
written opinion by Judge Charles a.
Woods of the United States circuit
court of appeals holds that the federal
government has never undertaken to
exercise control over the method OF
selection of candidates for nomination
by political parties and. that the right
to be candidate does not arise un-
der the federal Constitution or laws.
The decision means the case will not
come up for trial unless an appeal is
taken to the federal appellate court.
Middletown, Wallis left foot hang
ing by a thread after his leg was
crushed under a Baltimore and Ohio
railroad freight train, Charles Ed
monston, sixteen years old. this place,
picked up his foot and hobbled to an
embankment, where he remained until
given medical attention. The lad was
taken to the Winchester Hospital, where
surgeons completed the amputation.
Railroad men said that the boy was
riding a car while the train was go
ing on a siding. and that he struck
against a switch lamp.
Cumberland, Md-Runzy Casteel,
aged thirty-two years, died at the
Western Maryland Hospital here from
burns received when a boiler of a
thrashing engine exploded on a farm
at Centerville, fourteen miles north of
Cumberland, a week ago. Surviving are
his widow and two children.
Suffolk. Va.-Sora hunters have been
out in full force recently, and some of
the biggest bags of several seasons
were brought in. From the accounts Of
the hunters in the marshes this is a
banner season for sora. One hunter
came in after morning spent on the
marshes with bag of ia birds.
Wheeling. w. Va.-George W. Hand,
Wheeling rural mail carrier, who is
said to have been the first carrier of
| Uncle Sans rural routes in this state
to employ the automobile for delivery,
constructed an ingenious bridge which
he carries with him to cross streams
| to be used in cases of washout.
Newport News, Va.-Clarence Lee. a
lumberman of this section, is preparing
| to ship 600 cords of poplar wood to Bal
timore to be used by West Virginia
concern for the manufacture of pulp Gum
and a number of other trees in this COM
munity are used to manufacture pulp,
but poplar makes a better grade of paper
and is more easily obtained in this sec
tion.
Richmond, Va.-The administrative