The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-02-22

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Morrison, of "olga, died as a result
Of burns received when her clothes
caught fire from an open CRATE.
Morgantown-The third floor of the
Kappa Alpha fraternity house here
vas quarantined for scarlet fever by
DR.. X. III. Edmonson, health officer for
he city. Two of the fraternity's
members were stricken with the i'll
ness.
Ellenboro-The Imperial oil and gas
company drilled in a half million foot
gasser in its second test on the w.
w. Moore farm on Stewards Run.
Tests on other possible sources on the
Moore farm are to be made in the
near future.
Richmond-P. S. Mullins claims to
be the champion bobcat hunter In West
Virginia. He lives on the Cherry riv-
er rock and lumber company proper
ty in Nicholas county and says that
for more than one month he has av-
eraged a bobcat a day.
Charleston-Nick Shaffer, of Coal
Branch, near the waterworks, was
killed when run over by Baltimore
and Ohio yard engine at the Coal
cred at the waist. He is survived by
his widow and four children.
Parkersburg-Lo police received
a message to be on the lookout for
Albert Whitley, alias "Chappie" Dun
bar, wanted in Detroit on charge of
Dunbar is said to have rel
atives here, and it was expected by Of
ficials that he would come here to
hide.
Weston-R X. Mcmillan, brake
man, was slightly injured when
Baltimore and Ohio freight engine on
which he was riding collided with a
landslide and was thrown from the
tracks near Dundon, it was reported
at the office of the superintendent Of
the Charleston division here.
Parkersburg-A verdict of accidental
jury in the case of James r. Kemper,
for a number of years a prominent
realtor in this city ard state, who was
found dead in the yard of his fathers
home. He had gone to the farm 20
take a rest because of nervous pros
tration and was cleaning his gun when
the accident occurred.
Charleston-A bill which would au-
thOrize the Kanawha county court to
lay levy extending over period Of
five years if necessary to collect
enough money to buy the toll bridges
which now control the east and west
entrances of Charleston, was introduc-
ed in the legislature by Senator Clyde
b. Johnson. Mr.. Johnson said that
he offered the measure by request.
The bill was drawn up by the Kama
wha county free bridge association.
Sutton-Spicer James, who has been
held in the BraXton county Jail here
for several weeks on a charge of hav-
ing inflicted wounds on Archa Sin
gleton, member-elect of the county
court, with a knife, which caused the
death Of Singleton a few days later
in a Charleston hospital, was given
a hearing before Magistrate Archie
p. Armstrong, and was held for ac-
tion of the March grand jury. No
evidence was introduced by the de-
fendant.
Morgantown-H. G. Luton, engineer,
died from injuries received when the
Fairmont-Pittsburgh express train on
the Monongahela railway struck rock
which lad been dislodged by heavy
rains. Four others, two passengers
and two crew members, who we're in
jured were removed to a hospital at
Brownsville, Pa. on a relief train. The
engine, combination baggage car and
smoker anc two passenger coaches
were deraiIed.
Parkersburg-M Martin, of Liv-
erpool, Jackson county, whose sentence
OF one year for assault, was recently
upheld by the West Virginia supreme
court Of appeals, is now an inmate OF
the Moundsvile prison. Martin, who
was allowed to make the trip by him
self without a guard. presented him
self to Warden Terrell and has begun
his sentence. He is probably the first
convicted man in this state who has
been allowed to 90 TO the prison with
out being guarded.
Wheeling When Mrs. Charles Wor.
kenhauer Of Benwood boarded a City
! Railway company street car in Wheel
ing, she discovered that her husband
was the conductor i'm charge Of the
! car on which she was passenger
/ Mrs. Workenhauer and her husband
have not been on friendly terms re.
Gently and while on the car they ar
/ gued. The car was stopped and the
| conductor cher husband) called Patrol