Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-11
20.400,000. and the total capital stock
was S16,159,000, an increase of $4,000.

was S16.159.000, an increase of $4,000.
State Normal School building was open
ed formally Tuesday, with the regents.
student body, faculty and many citi-
Zens in attendance. President Joseph
Roster presided and talks were given by
Mayor Anthony Bowen. Prof. J. Walter
Barnes and others. The building cost
upward of s15o.0oo.
Clarksburg. w. va.-Dominick Pin
| Meta, his brother, Frank Pinnetta, and
, John Beafore, Clarksburg boys. ranging
in age from eleven to fourteen years. will
never see again. according to physicians.
The three boys. with Frank Beafore. aged
eight. found some copper wire to which
dynamite caps were attached. The caps
exploded when the boys attempted to burn
the insulation from the wire. All were
| burned seriously. but the sight Of the
youngest Of the four was not injured.
Richmond, va-The seventh annual
convention of the George Washington
Masonic National Memorial Association
will be held at Alexandria February
q and 22.-The object Of the associa-
ton is the erection of a permanent
memorial to Washington. the Mason.
which viii cost about $500 900. The
first days session will be devoted to
officers VIII be elected. and in the after
noon pilgrimage will be made to
Mount Vernon. At night the annual
banquet will be held. Those slated to
shipful grand master of Virginia. James
Aston Cabell; Representative A. j.
Montague. Representative Carter Glass,
| Representative Joseph q. Cannon. I'LL
| nois, and Representative ]. r Helm,
Alabama.
Charleston. w. Va.-A resolution has
| been Introduced In the house Of dele
gates providing that the West Virginia
legislature take no further action on
the Virginia debt until Congress had
disposed of Senator W. E. Chilton's bill
relative to the settlement of claims
| against the federal government grow
| ing out Of the creation of the northwest
territory. The resolution was referred
| to a committee. Speaker ]. B. Thur
| mond appointed the houses special Vir-
ginia debt committee, to which will be
referred all proposed legislation affect
1t is composed of seven democrats and
four republicans. Septimus Hall was
named chairman. A similar committee
| has been appointed in the Senate and
| plans are being made for a joint ses-
| sion of both committees soon.
| BreathedsviIle, Md.-The power house
of Antietam Electric Company, on An
when a large fiywheel few off and
crashed through the roof of the build
ing. Valuable machinery was wrecked
and the dynamos hurled from their
foundations. Sharpsburg, Keedysville
and Boonsboro. which are lighted by
| the company, was in darkness as re-
suit of the accident.
| Elkins, w. Va-Four prisoners IN the
Randolph county Jail, whose ages range
| from sixteen to twenty-one years. beat
| Jailer J. N Shreve into insensfbility.
| dragged him into their cell. took the
Jail keys from him and locked him up
| They then made their way through the
| Office to the street before the jailer's
| wife could summon help. Sheriff Stu
art L. Marstiller and q posse, after a
| chase in which several shots were fired,
| recaptured Clinton Webb, charged with
robbing a 1ewelry store, and Wayne
Heatherly, held on a grand larceny charge,
| Jennings Wees and Howard Kisner. al
| legged bootleggers, are still at large,
with the jailer's keys in their posses
sion. and a sheriffs posse is after them.
The boys had their plans well laid
| having made weapons out of knobs
taken from toilet fixtures and pieces
of broom handles. Young Heatherly.
corridor to see his mother. delayed eat
ing his supper. and when taking 1t into
| his cell dropped the pan. While Jailer
Shreve waited for him to pick up the
| Richmond. va-Three one-half pint
! bottles of what appeared TO be a fairly
| good grade of crude Oil were taken
| from bucket of water, Oil and sedi-
ment removed from the artesian we'll
being sunk on the grounds of the High
land Spring High School. The Well Is
being sunk under the direction Of the
Henrico county school board, and has
| reached a depth of S07 feet.
! LewisburE. W. va-Rev. John Robert
son. principal Of the summer divinity
| school here. will leave shortly for
! France to accept a military chaplain
ship in the British army, he announced.
DR.. Robertson was formerly pastor of
the Glasgow City Temple (Scotland)
and expected to be assigned to Scot
i fish regiment composed of young men
! who entered the church under his min
| istry.