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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1916
Page
3
Mystery surrounds a man found dead at 1 oclock Saturday afternoon in an outhouse at Meadowbrook owned by Carl Myers. Authorities believe a sudden lung and heart attack caused the death. An inquest is not planned as unnecessary. Earlier that morning the man spoke with Frank Rawlings, a local builder.
A Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy and tributes after the death of John S. Carter. The report details an unidentified man found dead at a Meadowbrook boarding house after planning work at Grasselli Chemical and nearby sites. The coroner inquiry notes a 35-year-old male, 5'5.5", 150 lbs, with blue eyes, light brown hair, a blue tattoo on the left hand, and a two-toes-together anomaly, with no identification or personal items found.
Torred Miller, who fled the criminal courtroom last June as officers watched, is back in the county jail after being brought from Uniontown Pennsylvania by special county officer Clarence Vannort. He was arrested as a fugitive and will be sentenced under the guilty verdict for bootlegging by Judge James W. Robinson.
A large outbreak of measles near Weston Road two to three miles south of the city caused many residents to seek help. The illness prompted a revival at Stewart's Chapel Methodist Episcopal church to be cut short due to the rapid spread.
A young man gave the name Frank Hawkins and was jailed Saturday night by Officer Shahan on a charge of being drunk in the street. The case appears in a terse local police blotter item with minimal detail.
In a city during a cold wave and gas famine the court house office of I Wade Coffman the circuit clerk is used as a coal fire site. County Clerk J J Crews organized two wagonloads of old crosses hauled to the court house basement and split for furnace use, as the furnace cannot burn coal. The jail received less attention amid growing complaints.
Despite bitter cold, downtown streets and stores were crowded with Christmas shoppers Saturday night. Extra clerks worked in almost all shops, handling the rush with dispatch amid the busy shopping period.
Police headquarters report a Saturday night discovery of a lady's pocketbook containing money and other articles by a patrolman on West Pike Street near the Third Street corner. The owner may retrieve it at the police headquarters.
The West Fork river froze over Saturday for the first time this winter. Ice measured several inches, attracting numerous skating enthusiasts who seized the chance to enjoy the sport.
Montgomery Livingston, a former well known president of Pennsboro, was buried there Saturday afternoon. Hoowan, the victim of a railroad accident in North Carolina where he had been working, was accompanied to Pennsboro by Mrs. J. C. Harrington, with his sisters Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Uesy remaining in Sisteraville. all are surviving.
Nine men were arrested in a Fourth Street gambling room in Glen Erk after a police raid. Each faced a forfeit of 2 dollars for appearing at a Sunday police court session. another man paid 22 dollars for operating the room. Arrested suspects used fictitious names. Police collected 118 dollars from the group forfeit fund.
A Munich despatch in the Lokal Anzeiger quotes the Bulgarian king addressing troops on a peace proposal. He says he hopes it yields an honorable peace honoring two and a half years of war and safeguarding Bulgaria for years. If enemies reject it, they must be convinced by greater might and greater successes.
A. Viquesney, state forest fish and game warden at Belington, said seven of nine men arrested in the Cheat Mountains last month for violating the same laws were fined $1.78 and costs before a justice in Elkina. Two men are out of state and processes were not served.
Charleston December 16 The attorney general states the sheriff who also serves as county jailer is governed by 1915 code provisions fixing jailer fees for receiving and discharging prisoners and fifty cents a day for feeding each prisoner These fees go to the county fund while the sheriff may claim actual necessary expenses in addition to salary Mrs James Boche a 99 year old Melrose Mass says candy eating has prolonged her life.
Charles Hardman a Salem fireman was killed and H D Halley of Parkersburg injured when Baltimore and Ohio trains No 86 and No 77 collided head-on at 8 20 Saturday night two and a quarter miles west of Salem. The wreck blocked the line and caused detours for passenger trains and mail service.
Funeral services for Harriet Page, colored, found dead in a chair at her home on First Street, due to heart disease, were held at 2 PM Monday at Pride Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Interment followed at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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