The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1921-03-03

ParkerSburg.-Har Lemon. arrest
I'd recently on charge OF threatening
an ofiicer'and lodged i'm the county Jail
here, confessed To the killing of Sted-
man l.. Bryan, prominent Parkersburg
business man who was shot to death
as he entered his home at the country
club on the night Of December 20. ac-
cordinS TO a statement given out by
the prosecuting attorney. Lemon has
also implicated another youth, Glenn
Devol, Of Belpre, o.. it is alleged. De-
vol is in custody here also
Wheeling. miners in tho
Windsor mine Of the American Gas
and Electric Company at Beech Bot
tom, w Va, twelve miles north OF
Wheeling. were killed The accident
was caused by weakened tmberS sup
porting thickness of twenty feet Of
earth. The great weight OF this was
too much, and the timberS broke with
crash and buried the three miners.
Other miners engaged i'll a frenzied
rescue and succeeded in recovering the
bodies of Randall and Chandler
CharleStOn.-The supreme court OF
appeals granted a peremptory writ Of
mandamus in the petition OF W. II.
WcStfall and others against X. S.
Blair mayor, and other former Off
Gals Of the town of Harrisville,
Ritchie county, ordering the latter TO
certify the election of Westfall and
others as members OF the town coun-
oil
criticisms of road work and municipal
improvement done under the direction
of the former officials. who resigned
and later when WeStfall and others
were elected, refused TO act to certify
the elections.
WhceliHg.- Baltimore * Ohio
railroad employees were killed when
locomotive exploded near Littleton, w.
VA. The men who lost their lives were
Matt Walsh, road foreman of engines,
of McMechcn; G. j. Carpenter, cngi.
ncer, Of McAIcchcn Z. Grogan, fire.
man, Of Benwood: J. Wilfong, brake
man, of Holley's Grove. The accident
occurred Broad Tree Tunnel, ON the
Wheeling division. The men were rid
in@ on IA big engine attached to a heavy
train, which was approaching the tun-
mel ON the grade. According to reports
received here. the boilers gave way
without warning, reducing the engine
to "a mass of wrcckage and killing all
of the men.
arleSton.-DamaGeS in the sum Of
$1,000 was given David Dick i'm the
court Of common pleas i'm his suit
against the Kanawha county court
which has been on trial before Judge
A. s. Alexander for the past two DAYS.
Motion for defense to set aside the
verdict and grant a new trial will
come up for argument within week
or ten days. Mr.. Dick claims
to have made a set Of plans for the
court house addition in 1919 and was
paid 5000, that his plans were used
in the construction of the building
though rejected by court and that he
did not know they had been used until
last summer, when he at once entered
suit for . per cent of the amount used
in construction Of the building. amount
ing i'm all To $1,000, as his share.
Charlcston-An important confer
cnce ON child and community welfare
with special reference to rural condi-
iionS in West Virginia was held mt the
office of the state department of health.
The conference was held for the pur-
pose of forming plan of visual in
ftructiUn through series of llu>trat-
cd charts OH various phases of physi-