Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-12-23

| Carfels' dwelling adjoining were burn
ed. Insurance of $1,000 was carried.
Huntington.--Garland Chambers, age
rs years, of Twenty-ninth street, was
Instantly killed when struck by Ches-
apeake & Ohio passenger train. He
was reported to have been picking up
coal along the tracks. The body was
claimed by his son, G. L. Chambers, of
8139 Eighth avenue.
Keyser.-John Shears, 16, son of Pc
ter Shears, three miles from Burling-
ton, this county, was accidentally kill
ed while hunting. He had gone to his
traps and found possum, and in lay
ing the gun down to secure the pos
sum, the weapon exploded. The charge
entered the boys throat, killing him in
stantly.
Charleston.-The 1910 tobacco crop
of West Virginia is estimated by the
Department of Agriculture as being
approximately 100000 pounds, prac-
tically all of which was raised in Lin
coin, Cabell, Putnam and Mason coun-
ties. The crop last year was 10000
600, the 1919 decrease being due to an
unfavorable season.
Observation-Disclosures on an oval
shaped particle of wood, Judson Mont
gomery, is, employed at a saw mill
in farm in this county owned by for
mer U. S. Senator Charles J. Faulkner,
fell head first into a fast revolving
circular saw and met death. His head
was lacerated its entire length suffi-
GENTLY deep in the front to penetrate
the brain.
Charleston.-A rabbit, fresh from
the wildS of mountain life, furnished
the employees at the postoffice excite
ment when it jumped into the coal
chute and sought hiding place in the
stock of parcel post packages. After
brief game of hide-and-seek with sew
eral of the employees he was captured
by one of them and conveyed home to
make rabbit pie.
Charleston.-Order was issued by
the Public Service Commission direct
ing the city of Sistersville to satisfy
the complaint filed with the commits
sion by the West Virginia Light, Heat
and Power Co. against the municipal
corporation. The complaint states that
the city council threatens to shut down
the electric plant due to the pounding
of 2,000-horsepower engine.
Huntington.-Gle Cunningham, who
was held to the grand jury following
the killing of his mother, Mrs Mary
Cunningham, has resumed his position
in the office of the master mechanic at
the c. & o. shops. He is under bond,
having been released on the showing
made by his attorney before the Com
mon Pleas Court. He claims that his
mothers death was accidental.
Wheeling.-Three terrific explosions
which demolished the mill building of
the Scott Lumber Co. tore the side out
of building across the street, blew a,
porch off another house nearby, injured
three men, two of them probably IA
tally, and shook all of Bridgeport and
Wheeling Island, occurred at the Scott
Lumber Co.'S plant in Bridgeport. The
accident was caused by a gas receiver
on gas engine.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $4,000
worth of new road machinery, pur-
chased by the county recently, and an
eight-acre tract at Conway, Ark, owned
by the county and used as poor farm,
will be advertised for sale and sold at
public auction soon, to raise funds
with which to meet the county's ex-
penses, County Judge ]. A. Lea said
The county Judge said that this action
is necessary as a result of the failure
of the Quorum Court to make appro-
priations for the operation of the coun-
ty government. Funds derived from
the saiss, he said, would be in cash
and would be subject to appropriation
for any purpose he might see fit.
harleston.-Seyerai lives were
probably saved and a sensational shoot
ing ARRAY narrowly averted when Po-
lice Officer Marion Childers grappled
with John Robinson in a narrow cor
ridor of the Riverview Hotel, Kama
wha street, during a raid on the build
Ing. Robinson, one-armed man who
occupied one of the rooms, was point
Ing loaded revolver down the crowd
| ed hallway, his fn4,r clutching the
| trigger, when Officer Childers Sided
along the wall and, forcing the weapon
| downward, held him until other Off
| GERS could join the struggle and wrest
| the gun away from Robinson, who
was apparently crazed with excitement
| or drink.
| Charleston.-A further echo of the
recent trial in South Charleston of one
of the young women teachers of the
public schools charged with committing
an assault and battery on Kenneth
| Walker was heard when suit YVES in
| stituted in the Kentucky County Cir
cult Court asking damages in the
amount of $1,000 Of the teacher. Miss
Ora Harris, for trespass in the case.
The suit is styled Kenneth Walker, an