Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-10-12

Huntington-A moving picture ma
chine will furnish amusement and in
struction at noon hour In the high
schools here.
Morgantown-Rev. G. A. Isner,
Methodist pastor, was elected steward
In the West Virginia Methodist prot
estant conference.
Sistersville-Oscar Penn had mi
raculeus escape from death when he
drove his auto into B. & o. train.
The impact turned the auto around.
Martinsburg.--H. e. Babcock, fell
| organizer in behalf Of the w. V. Z.
| campaign for war memorial, Is here
| to organize Berkeley county branch.
Martinsburg.-Bondi issue in Falling
Waters district for $4,000 for school
purposes, reported as lost by one vote,
on recount was found to have carried
| by one vote.
Moundsville.-Tony Savio, prison
err in the state prison here, has been
| pardoned after serving two years OF
an 1S-year sentence for the Staying of
man in Morgantown.
Fairmont.-Thomas Weaver, coiored,
arrested here, had box of capsules of
cocaine, which 1t is alleged he had sold,
marked money being given him in or
| der to check up with when he was
| arrested.
Moundsville.-Owing to the escape
| of six TRUSTEES at the state penitentiary
| farm within the past month, Warden
Terrell announced that bloodhounds
will hereafter be kept at the insitu-
ton to run down the fugitiyes.
Hinton.-I. A. King, a young man OF
| Sandstone, was stabbed In the back
with knife In an alteration between
him and Guy Kersey, the trouble oc-
curing near that place. King was
brought to the Hinton hospital. He
will recover King is brakeman on
the Piney branch of the c. & o.
Hinton.-Four cases of supposed
eggs, broken by baggage handlers at
q West Virginia railway station, were
found to contain egg shells filed with
whisky. Each egg had been blown"
carefully from the shell, and after
that the whisky poured in the tiny
| opening was sealed with cement.
New Martinsville.-Two railroaders
were killed and three others injured,
4 one seriously, when the engine of
Baltimore & Ohio freight train on the
| Ohio River division, exploded at Proc
tor, near here. The force Of the blast
was so great that the locomotive boiler
was lifted from the truck and deposit
ed in a nearby cornfeld.
| Huntington.-Charged with cutting
to kill his brother, Bess Miser was ar
resed at Sixteenth street and Eighth
avenue following a quarrel with Nose
Miser, according to police reports.
Nose Miser was cut several tins on
the arms. He was taken to a local
hospital for treatment, but was re-
moved to his home later.
| CharIeston.-Perry Reed and Kethe-
| Blair, arrested at Portsmouth, o., and
brought back here on charges of rob-
bir4g Philip Blake at Spring Fork. pre-
ferred by Fred O. Singleton, county
detective, were arraigDed before JUS
tice Acres, waived preliminary exam
ination and were committed to the
county jail TO await next grand jury
sitting. They were unable to give
| bonds.
| Charleston.-Andrew Cody, aged 2S
years, who attempted TO take his life
at his home at 4l0 Lowell street, will
recover, physicians who attended him
at st. Francis hospital, asserted.
| Cody shot himself with revolver on
his left side and the bullet lodged near
his spine. 1t is said that the attempt
was Cody's third effort to take his own
| life. The first time he missed him
self altogether, while the second time
the bullet struck a rib and merely
bruised the skin.
Bluefeld.--A party of men enroute
in an automobile from Jenkinjones to
| Elkhorn, found the body of an IN
known foreigner lying in the county
road. An examination of the body dis
/ closed the fact that he had been stoned
TO death. All of the wounds were
believed to have been caused by stones,
as there were no such injuries as could
have been caused by knife or gun dis
| closed at the investigation. The head
had almost been beaten OF. There
were no Identification marks about the
mans clothing.
| Wheeling.-Henry SAMPLE, aged 90
years, of Beech Bottom, was brought
to the North Wheeling hospital suffer
ing with several broken ribs and other
injuries as a result of being squeezed
between ears while working in the
Beech Bottom mine.
! Piedmont.-Harry Nolan, aged about
80 years, was killed on the Western
Maryland railroad. His body was cut
| in twain. No one saw the accident,
but it is thought Nolan may have tried
to board the train. He resided on
Piedmont Hill. He leaves family.
orcandie Very Popular.
The uses to which organdie has
| been mt in making frocks are wholly