The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-04-26
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Martinsburg-A petition in bank
ruptcy was filed voluntarily by Mrs.
Edith S. Darby in Federal District
Court Liabilities consisting chiefly
of endorsements on notes are $14,610.
Assets are listed at $50.
Huntington-E. S. Tinsley, driver
of an automobile which was wrecked
at a grade crossing near Ashland,
Ky, was held responsible for the
death of five persons in the smash
when the coroner's jury reviewed the
tragedy Tinsley's wife and child
were among the victims of the crash.
Wheeling-Parked by it's driver at
Sixth and Market streets, a small de-
livery truck, owned by H. +. Parshall,
started down the grade with no hand
TO guide it. The hill accelerated the
speed of the car. Its journey came
to an abrupt end when q telegraph
pole was encountered. The truck
was nearly demolished.
Huntington-Music dealers Of Hunt
ington and the vicinity have organ
lied the Huntington Music Dealers
Association. j. II. Keeney has been
elected president. The organization,
which is to be affiliated with the Ma
tional Association of Music Dealers
will have as its general aim, the ed
ucation of the public 70 the value and
appreciation of music.
organtown-Charged by a repre-
sentative of the state fire marshal's
department with having been instru-
mental in destruction by fire of their
general store and adjacent buildings
at mining settlement on Wade's Run
in Cass district, Joseph Martin and
his wife, TereSe Martin, have been
held under bonds of $4,000 each by a
magistrate for grand jury action. The
property which belonged to them, was
insured.
HuntingtOn-Paul, four-year-old
son of Stanley woodward of this city,
was fatally injured when struck by an
automobile driven by John G.. Todd,
prominent glass manufacturer of
Huntington. The accident occurred
on the Ohio river road twenty miles
north of Huntington. The child was
strck by the Todd automobile when
he ran into the road as the Todd car
passed a taXicab parked by the road
side, according to eye witnesses.
Clarksburg- of murder in
the first degree, but coupled thereto
a finding that the defendant be CON
fined ip the state prison, was the
word that jury in Harrison county
Criminal Court brought to James Bry-
an, p, young garage worker, who was
tried for the murder of Elizabeth
Knight, 30 restaurant worker, on
the morning of March Of this year
The verdict means that the young
man will be sentenced to serve life
time in the state penitenuary.
Clarksburg-The mangled remains
of Charles Gibson, 26, 300 North Sew
enth street this city, chief electrician
for the Simpson Creek Coal Company,
at Galloway, near Simpson, were
found in coal tipple No. at Galloway,
36 hours after he had last been seen
alive. The theory is that GibsOn's
top coat caught in a gear of a fast
whirling machine and that his body
was ground in. The body indicated
this as his entire side, including his
arm and shoulder, were completely
ground away.
Clarksburg-James Shock, foreman
OF the city crematOry on the Bridge
port pike, is now in st. Mary's hos
pital suffering from a bullet wound in
his knee received in an unusual man
ner. While he was working near the
opening Of the inclneratOr, Mr. Shock
heard muffled explosion inside, then
he felt his knee sort Of give way.
Later II was discovered that a load
ed revolver had been dumped I'm the
incineratOr with q load Of garbage
and that II had been discharged by
the heat, the shot leaving the inciner.
Btof through the door and striking the
foreman in the knee.
Huntngton-A proposal 10 build a
s1OOO,OOO hydro-electric dam and
power plant on New River below Hin.
ton, has been made by the Virglnian
Power Company, Charleston, to the
Federal Power Commission, the Unit
ed States engineers Office here an
hVuH'tu. 1ue OdUu ana power plant
will be the largest Of its kind in the
east Specifications call for an III
innate capacity OF 12j,OOO kllowats.
The dam will be built on New River
f. and one half miles south Of Hin
ton. u will back up the water 80
miles on New River and o miles on
Blue stone River and up indian Creek
s miles a transmission line will be
built TO Becklcy, q distance of p
miles The ultimate development ln-
cludes other dams and power plants
above and below Montgomery
MOrgantOwn-Whe a high tension
electric wire fell acrots lines Of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company, more than p toll wires were
put out Of commission
Grafton-Owing to increased car
repair work occasioned by recent
heavy freight and coal transportation,
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
Issued a call for 10 more car shop
workers at the Grafton and Fairmont