Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-02-10

LEWIS county, lie is q SOn-lH-laW OF
Creek Jones, Weston marble dealer.
Wheeling.-Leo Balinski and VIM.
Meyers, OF Benwood, apprehended in
connection with the fatal rioting In
Benwood. when one steel striker was
killed, another seriously hurt and
Sheriff Clayton and deputy wounded.
were given preliminary hearing at
Moundsville on charges of conspiring
to precipitate the riots. They were
held for action by the grand jury.
untington.-Harvey Johnson, 20,
colored, living at HOG rear of Seventh
avenue, was arrested by Detective
Spencer charged with raising a $40
bill to $40 bill. Johnson was trying
to pass the bill when he was caught
by the officer. The counterfeiter was
taken before U. S. Commissioner j. P.
Douglas for. hearing and held for the
action of the federal grand jury under
$500 bond.
Huntington.-Be the man from
whom 1t is claimed she stole $3.50 is
dead, Millie Blankenship, %, held ON
a grand larceny charge in the Cabell
county will be tried. The man who al
legged the Blankenship girl had robbed
him Of his roll was John X. Breates,
%, native Of Greece, and formerly
merchant of Williamson, w. Va. He
was asphyxiated in New York hotel
by artificial gas.
b. Huntington.-A federal revenue
agent is now investigating the bogus
butter situation in Huntington, the as.
si3tant United States district attorney,
f. w. Mccullough, announced. City
officials recently analysed pound of
butter and found it vas fifty per cent
moisture. According to a telegram
from Washington received by Mr.. Nc
Cullough, such butter may be in vio-
lation of certain federal pure food
statutes.
Huntington.-Two automobiles driv-
en- by Walter Sliger, Seventh street
and Washington avenue, and A. NJ.
Taylor, 1913 Eighth avenue, came to-
gether at Fourth avenue and Thir.
teenth street. No one was injured. al
though the Taylor car was badly dam
aged by the smash. The cause of tina
accident was unknown. Mr.. Sliger was
driving east on Fourth avenue when
Mr.. Taylor suddenly came out Thir-
teenth street and hit the Sliger car.
Charleston.-V. T. Harrison, recently
convicted by jury in intermediate
court of killing Henry Camp on elec-
ton night in 1918, has been released
on $4,000 bond from the county Jail,
where he has been confined since the
verdict was returned. Samuel E. Bow
en-, U. G. Young and Leroy Swinburne
are surety for the bond. Harrison
was admitted to bail by Judge H. D.
Rummell in spite of the vigorous op-
position of the prosecution, pending a
stay of execution during which a writ
of error is to be asked before the cir
cult court. Harrison is under a four
year, sentence imposed by Judge H. K.
Black at the end of the last term Of
intermediate court.
Charleston.-Ernest Moles, of Artie,
Raleigh county, alleged army deserter,
was brought to Charleston on
stretcher and with serious bullet
wound in his body, being arrested at
his home by party of five United
States deputy marshals and ten state
police. Moles is charged with having
deserted from Camp Lee in Virginia
two years ago, and since that time his
home has become stronghold against
attempts of officers to arrest him.
Sheriff Foster and his deputies of
Raleigh county were driven away
from the premises when they tried to
serve warrants against him. He was
accidentally shot by a companion a
few days ago, the bullet lodging in
the left breast below the heart, and
when the posse went to his home they
placed him under arrest without OPP
position. His condition is not consid-
cred dangerous.
Observation-Disclosures state aid
amounting to $337, 5000 has been dis
tributed to lit districts in the state
which were unable to maintain their
schools fol a minimum term of six
months and pay minimum salaries to
their teachers from their own school
funds under the maximum levy provid-
ed by law. Completion Of the distribu-
ton of the supplemental funds was an
nounced by Superintendent NJ. P.
Shawkey, of the state department of
schools. OF the total amount distrib-
uted, $279, 41S.41 will be used for pay
ing teachers salaries, and S58, 117.S2
for making up deficiencies in the dis
trict maintenance building funds. Ore
hundred and SIX of the III districts
received aid for their teachers funds,
and 67 for their maintenance building
funds. The districts receiving he mid
were in 35 of the So counties. and rep
resented 1874 per cent Of all the dis.
tricts in the state.
Morgantown-Farm their wives
and children, gathered here from all
parts of the state for the opening ses-
sion of farmers week being held at
the College of Agriculture Of West
Virginia University. The boys and
girls, who are attending are prize VIM
ners of various boys and girls contests
held throughout the state. The week
will be occupied in instruction with