The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-01-20

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tain the release of another prisoner
on forged ill-health certificate.
Morganstown.-H. A Stansbury,
athletic director of the West Virginia
University, declined TO say whether
the University was negotiating with
Gilmour Dobie, coach of the Cornell
football team, as coach of the 1921
team, but added that a 1921 coach had
not yet been selected.
Wheeling. - James \. Matthew'S.
prominent WellSburg contractor. who
erected a number of glass factories in
England and Cuba, had one of his
limbs removed at a local hospital as a
result of his toe becoming infected aft
er pairing corn with razor. Blood
poisoning developed and physicians
are doubtful if they can save his life.
Morgantown.-A new publication by
the West Virginia geological survey,
at Morgantown, has just been issued
which involves the detailed county
survey of Webster county, together
with many maps OF that section of the
state. The survey is issued under the
name Of u. Il. Roger, assistant state
geOlOgiSt, and is said to contain valua-
BILE information.
ClaIksburg.- Martin, u.
was burned TO death. Harry Jacobs
and Samuel Mucka were injured, per
hapS seriously, and half dozen others
had narrow escape from death when
tire destroyed two-story frame
boarding house at Ocean mines, near,
Bridgeport. Fourteen men were sleep
ing in the house when the fire started.
It's origin is unknown
Charlcston.-Regardless Of strikes,
and all the other wailed-about causes
for non-productiou IN the country, the
mines of West Virginia, handicapped
as they have been by a serious lack
of cars, have Il surplus OF 3,157 ,S53
tons of coal over the total tonnage pro-
duced i'm 1919. What the total might
have been under favorable and normal
conditions no one can begin to guess
heeling.-While walking along side
the barge belonging to the Wheeling
Wall Plaster, H. A. Roberts, an en-
ploye of the company, fell overheard
and drowned in the Ohio river. Two
employees of the company dived into
the chilly waters in an effort to save
him, but the swift current carried the.
unfortunate man beyond their reach.
He was 2S years Of age, and leaves a
wife brilp pf ono Ns-aa1y
Fairmont.-Daisy Vincent, aged IS
years, died from burns received at her
home at Boothsville, when her clothes
ignited from an open crate. Her
mother Mrs. Radford Vincent, is at
the point of death, having been burned
about the head and chest while trying
to save the life of the girl The father
was slightly burned. He was some dis
tance from the house and heard the
scream of the mother and daughter,
but it was too late to save them.
Wheeling.-A reduction i'm wages Of
laborers from IS to 80 cents an hour
with only straight pay for overtime,
affecting approximately 5000 men, has
just been announced by officials Of the
Wheeling Steel Corporation The new
wage scale will affect every laborer in
all of The plants of the concern, in
Guiding the Whitaker Glessner, Wheel
ing Steel and Iron, and the Iabeler
companies, which recently merged into,
the Wheeling Steel Corporation.
Chareston.-Visited in the night by
two unknown men, who entered his
room, two hard blows upon the head
with revolver butt, q shot through
his thigh, and a trip to the hospital in
an ambulance, was the experience OF
James Stanley, 1OG Kanawha street,
after he had retired for a quiet nights
rest The motive Of the assailants is
unknown, as no robbery was Underta-
ken, and a. Stanley himself claims to
have no idea as to the reason for his
assault
Morgantown.- Fifteen hundred acres
of Pittsburg coal lands near Manning
ton. W. Va, were sold by the Flat Run
Gas and Coal Company to- a group OF
Morgantovn coal operators. 10 was an
$3575OO The tract is Iocatc1 one and
one-half miles west OF Nor1lufown, on
the baltimore & Ohio railroad. Jon nm
developed territory Shaft mining wiz
Doe necessary to produce the coal. as
the seam is $50 feet below the sur
face.
WhccIing.-M Major Mucom Elliott,
". S. Engineers, who has been ASST gn-
cd to the Wheeling district. arrived
from Florence Ala Major Elliott has
been in charge of The Wilson dam at
that point lie succeeds Col. g. w.
Otwell as engineer in charge of the
dams Of thc Wheeling district Col.
Otwcr has gone to Iakchurst Prov
ing Grounds a. D., To- take mp work m
hc chemical warfare section lie was
for many years .n charge of The Wheel
.rc district
Charleston Twenty homes were do
s'rolcd. tuo largest store foo Chat sec.