The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-30
tate needing state aid

state needing state aid.
United States Senator w. z. Chill
ton presents President Wilson with ~
violin.
Flood stage reached in Ohio
river.
West Fork river out Of banks and
town of Weston damaged by water.
Contract awarded by Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad for building twelve
mile branch in Boone county,
West Virginia Coal Operators ,Asso-
citation elects officers atsannual meet
ing which was held in Fairmont.
indictments returned by fed
eral grand jury at Parkersburg
against Twenty-Five employees who quit
their work In the postofice at Fair
mont
Judeg i. Judson Williams elected
president Of the State Supreme Court
of Appeals.
Appeal refused Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroads from Injunction restraining
them from carrying passengers hay
ing intoxicants in their possession.
13-PubIic service commission or
ders Capt. w. =. Roe, owner ofsthe
wrecked steamer Kanawha to expe-
dite the work OF recovering bodies.
State accountant shows that opera
ttons Of state government for fiscal
year which ended on June 30, 1915,
cost approximately $4.00O,OOO.
School property in state shows In
crease of seventy-one per cent in val
uation In five years.
17-Gov. II. D: Hatfield makes
public denial that he is candidate for
United Sttaes Senator.
TNI. n
state senate, announces his candida
dacy for the Democratic nomination
for governor.
Governor sets apart day for OBJ
tanning relief for suffering Jews IN
the European war area.
24Pub1ic service commission
grants permission to Western Mary
land railroad to advance its passenger.
rates from two cents to two and one
half cents q mile.
February. \
John j. CornweTl announces
candidacy for Democratic nomination
for governor.
A. 3. White, former governor, an
nounces candidacy for Republican
nomination for United States senator
Miners at Gary given increase Of
ten per cent In wa ges.
2--O Ohio river packet Lorenzo burns
at Point Pleasant; $4,000 loss; no
Lives lost.
Packet steamer Ohio burns At
PaTkers burg; loss $4,000; no lives
Host
Towboat. sam Brown sunk IS Ohio
river at Huntington as a result Of a
boiler explosion; ten killed, eight in
jured; $4,000 property loss.
Governor Il atfield witness In Man
1 ufacturers Light and Fuel Company
hearing at Charleston. Denies he
dominated the state public service
4 commission.
Investigation begun BY. public
service commission Of accident to
\ towboat Sam Brown
r.. 4--7=iE :htrty persons injured when
balcony in Wheeling high school COT
lapsed during basketball game.
Many. Kanawha district coal min
ers cecede from United Mine Work
ers Of America.
Cabin Greek miners and operators
4 agree on scale for three year period.
Defective wiring in state capitol
4 foundsto make old structure bad fire
hazard.
First complaints about coal car
/ shortage made BY Guyan valley oper-
Wheeling city council decides Il
abandon municipal gas works.
TOT junctions granted Ia Wheel
Il ing restraining property owners from
.Ispermitting intoxlcants to be stored
on their premises.
13J ohm Harrison, charged with
having participated in the holdup Of
a passenger train at Central Station
\ w. Va, brought to Parkersburg from
n Texas where he was captured.
q Railroad tramc IN eastern and
northern part of state crippled bJ
heavy rains and 1andslides.
Prohibition department awarded
injunction to restrain traction com.
pany ct Huntington from carrying
passengers With labeled tntoxcents II
N their possession.
Democratic state committee meet!
lin Parkersburg and endorses Presi
VI dent Wilson. ~ s
N 16-S State tax commissioner mott
n hes all national banks in state the
n dosnot have to pay special corporation
5E5excise tax.
NJ Pubic service commits Ion call ed 7
I.Wheeling to investig ate gas hortage
Charles r. Durbfn, formel
THANK president, Indicted at Grafton
rSallegedt embeZziement.l
est ~ rgInia d qnor cases, In
yolginss constit tut ona1tty Of the Webb
:lf1Eenyon law. Ind efnitelys postponed 81