Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-11-27

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Fairmont.-Dr. ]. C. Broomfield, TO-
cal Methodist Protestant pastor, is en- |
route to China on a six months mis-
sionary trip. He will also tour Japan
and other countries.
Morgantown.-Dr. E. r. Allen,
graduate for former Univer-
sity of Michigan professor, has been
appointed assistant professor of Lath-
ematics in West Virginia University.
Charleston. - More than fourteen
thousand dollars inheritance ;axes
were paid into the state treasury on
a single day recently. OF the amount
$13,s77.75 was paid by the G. L. VIII
liams estate.
Charleston.-Levi Schultz, the Van
dalia man charged with shooting and
South Charleston, was released from
the county jail on $500 bond given
before Judge Black in intermediate
court to answer any Indictment fund
against him by next grand jury. ].
NJ. Robinson is surety on his bond.
Huntington.-After hearing all the
violence in the case of J. II. J. Erwin
1924 Ninth avenue, charged with har-
,oring vicious dog, Judge Newman
ordered the dog killed within twenty
four hours. The court stated that Mr..
Erwin would be held responsible If the
dog were not killed. The dog had Bit
ten several people passing the Erwin
home.
Huntington-Mrs Ellen Bromberg,
Il graduate of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Training School for Nurses, at the
railroad hospital here, has returned
from Virginia, where she has been EN-
ployed recently, and will Immediately
assume her duties as nurse in charge
of the medical ward. Mrs. Bromberg
was formerly superintendent of the
Clifton Forge Hospital.
Observation-Disclosures Joplin, the aged
man who was arrested by Police Chief
John II. Charnock and held for inves-
tigation by medical officials, Is still in
custody of police headquarters, an eff
fort being made to locate his relatives.
Joplin claims that he has immediate
relatives in Charleston but can not re-
member their names or where they
live. He came here from the coal
fields.
Keyser.-Lee ]. Whetzell, manager
Of the Mineral County Poor Farm, was
killed in a runaway accident in the
streets of Keyser when his team of
horses became frightened. He was
thown out and death resulted in about
half hour from crushed skull. He
is survived by his wife and five chill
dren. He formerly resided at Moore
field and had been farm manager two
years.
Charleston.-The ignition of leaking
gasoline from small automobile on
the fourth floor of the Triple State
Electric Company, Mcfarland street,
resulted in a fire in that building which
for short time threatened to become
serious. The central fire department
responded to the alarm, but employees
before the arrival of the fire-fghters
Little damage was done.
Charleston.-After he had led mem
bers of the police department merry
chase down Virginia street and had
hidden successfully away in the brush
| near the Elk river bridge, Horace Sto-
ney, 20, was arrested when he emerged
| too soon from his place of conceal
ment. Stoney is alleged to have been
caught in the act of stealing two re
volvers from the Slutsky jewelry and
pawn shop in Kanawha street.
Charleston.-D. FL. Bradley, conduc
| tor, and L. J. Murphy, brakeman, or
| the Baltimore & Ohio switch engine
| which collided with a Monongahels
Valley Traction car near Parkersburs
last August, killing fifteen people, have
been indicted by the Wood county
grand jury on charges of negligence il
failure to protect the crossing in wEicf
they were operating their engine. Thi:
is said to be the first indictment o.
the kind ever returned in the state.
Charleston.-William w. Lanham
! one of the party of hunters injured
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