Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-04-09

for fifty cents bushel at many point!
along the Ohio. Potatoes are being
sold in the local markets at from $1-5'
to 81 per bushel.
Wheeling awakened by the nigh
Waterman. the crew of the R. Dunbar
veteran Ohio river steamer, fought {
blaze for several hours The boat wal
en- route to Wheeling from Pittsburg
From some unknown manner flrt
caught in some furniture owned By
the w. F. Sharbaugh & Son, furniture
store, this city.
Clarksburg-For holding up and rob
bing three men on a Clarksburg cit,
bridge at night, Meigs McCray wai
sentenced in the criminal court t
serve thirteen years in the state pen
itentiary at Moundsville, and Harvey
Akire, his companion in the hold-up
was sentenced to ten years in the same
prison. Both are Weston young men
Morgantown.-Cash to the amount,o
$4,000 WIS alleged to have been stoler
from the local postoffice when it wa.
temporarily placed on counter by {
clerk who was preparing to make the
daily bank deposit. The money wa;
being assembled for deposit when the
clerk went to the safe to secure the
rest of the sum. On his return ht
found the $4,000 had disappeared.
Clarksburg. = Announcement wa:
made following a conference between
the Executive Committee and Clarks
burg Trade Board officers that the an
nual encampment of the West Virginia
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held May 81, % and % in Clarksburg
Invitations to deliver addresses have
been sent to United States Senator
Nathan Golf and John McElroy, o.
Washington, D. c.
Charleston.-Dr J. H. Holt, veter
marian of the Department of Agricul
ture, sent away for chemical analysis
contents of the stomachs of several
mules which died after their arriva
here in a shipment of animals from
St. Louis. 1t is suspected that the an
imals died from arsenic poisoning and
it was recalled at the department. that
a similar case occurred at Cincinnati
short time ago.
Charleston-Mi and western
states are buying seed corn in West
Virginia, said Cecil Wood, head of the
seed testing laboratory at the State
Department of Agriculture. Berkeley
and Jefferson counties already have
supplied several cars of high-grade
corn to Ohio and Illinois dealers. This
corn was bought after the announce
ment of termination tests made at the
state seed laboratory.
Parkersburg.- POSTMASTER w. E
Stout, Chief Registrar, in making the
registration of the alien German en-
emies in the thirty-one counties of the
Northern District of West Virginia
having made the registration in all
places except in the cities of five thou
sand or over, the city registration hav
ing been made by the U. S. Marshal is
ready TO make his report. One hun
bred and twentythree alien Germans
were registered in the thirty-one coun
ties.
Charleston laborers on a
special train over the Chesapeake a.
Ohio railroad destined for Nitro loot
ed the general store Of the George A.
Brown Co., at Handley, and carried off
what they could get away with regard
less of the protest of the manager and
clerks. There were about 800 men on
the train, gathered up in New York
by agents of Starrett-Thompson Co.,
which has the construction contract
with the Government at Nitro, and it
was difficult for those in charge of the
party to locate the robbers when com
plant of the occurrence was made to
them.
Crown Hill.-As result of wounds
received in a pistol duel here, during
which Frank Haggerdy was instantly
killed after he had wounded James
NUnley, the latter also died in the
Arms Hospital at Hansford,
near here.
ntington.-Samuel B. Montgom.
cry, state labor commissioner, who
was brought to a Huntington hospital
after having been taken i'll while in
will undergo an operation
to prevent recurrence of the attack,
1t was said here.
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