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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1913
Page
2
Buffington engineer and G W Nicholson Arenmian of a Balt and Ohio railroad train were injured when their work engine backed into a freight train at Rinehart. Burlington sustained a bed cut on the right leg and bruises to the body and head. Nicholson had head and facial cuts and minor bruises. They were treated locally and not sent to a hospital.
Harrisburg Pa June 6 The State Senate approved a House bill to tax anthracite coal at two and one half per cent of value about five cents per ton The measure would raise an estimated five million dollars with roughly half distributed to the nine anthracite counties and the rest placed in the state general fund
An appeal by a mother of four dependent on her feeble father while her husband served jail time prompted President Wilson to commute the six months sentence of Martin J Steel, a Laurel Maryland postmaster convicted of a postal funds shortage in Baltimore.
Mrs R Cora Cottrill wife of Seattle’s mayor accepted service as a superior court juror for June. She said she would not seek exemption and did not wish to evade citizenship duty. The first calendar case, a damage suit against the city, had previously excused her from sitting.
Isaac Theise, a Maiden Lane diamond dealer, reported gems valued between 40000 and 50000 stolen from his business at 47 Maiden Lane. He was absent during lunch hour. The thief forced the door, took a single satchel, and left without a clue.
Mrs. Jennie Enoch 46? of Bridgeport died at 1 o clock noon Tuesday after a lingering illness of several diseases. Survived by son Elbert Noch, a telegraph operator at Bridgeport office. Funeral plans not set. body to be taken to Parkersburg for burial Wednesday evening or Thursday morning.
A severe hail storm covered Mt Clare with ice nuggets the size of hickory nuts. The same day a Burrows coal plant line fire started by contact with an electric cable endangered residents, blowing the switchboard and threatening nearby homes before wires were cut. Other notes report Prof Samples resuming school after measles, a road blockage from a Byron crossing, and local residents shopping in Clarksburg with several day visits and business trips recorded.
Lloyd Fetty and William Pitze of Meadowbrook are bound over to the term of the crim inal court for feloniously assaulting Nicholas Nagzlo in a recent drunken brawl. Justice T G Nicewarner held them for the grand jury after a hearing. Nagzlo was tried for assaulting his wife, but the charge was dismissed at the plaintiff’s cost.
John A. Parent, former Walker hotel proprietor on West Pike Street, gained control by purchasing the interests of Davie and Hall. He plans to refurbish the property and reopen the dining room, closed for three months, and run the hotel in a first class, up-to-date manner.
Martinsburg June 3 After fifty one years with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad David Shewbridge of Branswick has retired. He began as water boy and rose to engineer. In the Civil war he made cartridges for the Confederates at Harper's Ferry arsenal.
Great Mystic. Tomorrow a celebration at the Clarkabare lodge purports to confirm the statement. Italian Dott saw ers who severed the Holts on Tuesday night are sought. George D. Krause, an Eighth Street hardware dealer, allegedly aided by loaning bolt clippers for sewer work, becomes an innocent accomplice in a famed theft story. Randall’s act, framed as a bold puzzle, boosts his standing among Elks. Captain Warner and Harrisburg Elks pursued the key but were outpaced by Randall.
Alice Balice a Slavish coal miner from Mt. Clare died after a three month tuberculosis illness. Survived by widow and son Edward Balice both of Mt. Clare. He belonged to the Greatian Society which will conduct the funeral at the Slavish Church and burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Died Monday night at 9.
Mrs Alma Roger Loraine of Seattle Washington a noted artist visits the home of her cousin Reverend W M Long. She won one of the first prizes at the Seattle world's fair studied three years in Rome and has traveled extensively.
An experimental car from New York to Boston on the Edison system broke the record for storage battery autos. It achieves speeds up to forty miles an hour and can travel 120 miles without recharging the batteries.
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