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( Subscription $1.50 a Year in Advance Good Government, Pure Homes and Godly Hearts Published Every Thursday Morning Established June 12,1883 38th Year Whole No 1971 ' Grantsville, W. Va., Thursday, March 2, 1922. I West Virginia News Briefs BMomt hnpotrmnt fTl of mmtlrm mtmtm cohered 11 fry Mtr vtrrMp«ad«rta * * Morgantown—Sophie Jerome is dead as the result of burns received when her clothing cau#ht tire from an open grate. Clarksburg.—The need of a public park here is being urged upon the citizens by City Manager Harrison G. Otis. Huntington.—The 415 employes of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, who were recalled into service here includ ed 2G9 carmen. Princeton—It is reported that in ad dition to a hosiery factory to be es tablished here in the spring, a siik factory is also to be built. Parkersburg.—Walter Larue has been sentenced by the federal court to one year in prison on charge of stealing cigarettes from a freight car. Wheeling.—Three mills of the York ville, Ohio, plant of the Wheeling Steel corporation resunusl operations und3r the “open shop” plan with more men available than are needed, accord ing to company officials. Parkersburg.—The city is being urg ed to purchase new fire fighting np partus by Major J. H. Howland, of the national board of fire underwriters, who recommends the investment of at least $125,(XX) for this purpose. Fayetteville.—The mill property at Mount Lookout has been sold to the Mount Lookout milling company, which will soon be incorporated. The com pany is composed of I* E. Moses, J. L. Evans, Z. li. McClung and others. W illiamson.—ltodies of nine men killed in a dust explosion, in a coal mine on Pond Creek, Ivy., were brought here. Of the 12 men working in the small mine of the Marietta Coal com pany, the otfier three were injured, one of them perhaps fatally. Clarksburg.—Five nationalities are represented in the English class of the lied Cross cooperative night school bein^hebl in the Washington Irving high school. Miss Emma K. Davis, the teacher, has as students under her an Italian, a Creek, an Austrian, a Slav and a Lithuanian. Iveyser.—Potomac State School will he host for two big track meets the coming spring. On May 13 all the high schools of the eastern Panhandle will be invited to participate in the preliminary to the state meet. In this high school meet of May 1*1 Potomac State School will not compete because It is not a member of the West Vir ginia High School Association. Martlnsburg.—Walter S. Ilallanan. state tax commissioner, held a confer ence here with a delegation of fruit growers regarding valuation of orchard properties. The orchardists told the commissioner that a schedule of valua tions, taking into consideration the varying degrees of development, was acceptable to the organization. It was understood that $300 per acre for the best orchards was taken as a mini mum base. Morgantown.—“Wp have an active inquiry for road bonds of your state,” a Chicago bond firm wrote to county authorities in offering to take an entire Issue of road bonds here. The issue nmounted to $130,000 and was put out by Union district of this countv for Improvement of Croat River 'road between Easton and the river. The bonds, however, had been taken np by Morgantown banks, which divided the Issue among them. Charleston.—The Wilson line refrig erator ears is the only line that has refused to pay corporation taxes to counties of West Virginia, it was an ntranced by State Auditor liond. The company is willing to pay a state tax, but claims that it would he unconstitu tional for an Interstate line to lie fore od to pay tax to a county, in spite of the fact that railroads, including the Chesapeake A Ohio, pay county and municipal taxes, though that railroad Is In Interstate carrier. Morgantown.—West Virginia Uni versity's athletic hoard in session here adopted the freshman rule bar ring all first year student from com petition j.i any sport effective Keptom he 1, Urg.'{. The one year migration rflle ufleeting students from other col leges as well as other recognised rules has been in effect for several years and the adoption of the freshman rule now brings the Mountaineers' eligibil ity code up to that of all the huger universities. Clarksburg—Peter Italnah, miner, whose wife threw herself in front of a IV A O. train, has been Imprisoned in the local Jail, to prevent his com mitting suicide. Morgantown.—At the meeiing of the Morgan district hoard of education here recently (he plan of serving not lunches In the rural schools through out the district was endorsed and the board will assist In establishing the plan, according to a statement by Ly man G. Hastings, county superintend ent. Fairmont.—William IT. Racer, the first man to operate a pottery plant In Fairmont, Is dead. Morgantowm—Gail Simona, 22. of Elkins, was killed by fall of slate in a mine near Morgantown. Richwood.—The first session of the new city council was opened with scrpitural reading and prayer. Clarksburg.—Three thousand school children are to participate In the state pageant to be staged here May 5 and 0. Huntington.—The united slim* com pany has announced plans for opening a factory here and to begin manufac turing shoes in July. Dunbar.—The home of Mrs. Virgie Wilson at Dunbar, was destroyed by fire. The house was valued at $2,oOO. Effective firefighting prevented the flames from spreading to nearby build Huntington.'—An increase of 087 was Sliown in the enrollment In the public schools on the f'rst day of the ecoinl semester over the first (lay of the first semester. The figures were respective ly 10,280 and 0,553. Fairmont.—William E. Watson, of Fairmont, has been el< ted president of the Mononguhela coal association or ganized by the operators of 05 mines along the Monogahela railroad with an annual production of 8,000,000 tons. Williamson.—Otis Brachter, ».ho was Injured in the explosion at the Black Diamond mine on Pond Creek sometime ago, died recently at the local hospital. 11 is injury had appar ently healed, but a recent fall, while he was going up a llight of stairs at McVeigh, reopened the wound with fatal results. Wheeling.—H. W. and B. S. McClure awarded to the It. It. Kitchen company of Wheeling the contract for a ninety room addition to the McClure hotel. The addition will cost approximately $2.iO,<HX>. The McClure brothers plan to open their new hotel annex to West Virginia state fair visitors on Labor day, Mi is year. Marlinton.—Plans for a Pocahontas county fair have been made by the fair association, of which 8. It. Wal lace is president; Denny Callisnn, vice-president; C. K. Livesay. secre tary and treasurer, and F. It. Hill, at torney. The hoard of directors has been instructed to appoint various committees for the 11)22 fair at a meeting of the directors to he held in March. Huntington.—Judgment for $G1,G8r> .fH), tlie biggest verdict ever returned by a Cabell county circuit court jury, was awarded .1. .1. Boss by a jury in circuit court in his suit against the Lake & Export Coal Corporation. The damage was for an alleged violation of contract, the plaintiff claiming that flu1 Lake & Export Coal Corporation failed to accept coal for which they had contracted. Mart inshurg.—The adoption of a constitutional amendment limiting tax levies to $1.50 on the $100 valuation was urged by State Tax Commissioner Hallanan in an address at a dinner held in connection with the convention of the West Virginia horticultural so ciety. On tlie plea of respe<t for the law, lie also urged officials and citi zens to support his campaign for ‘true and actual’ In the assessment of property. Charleston.—Comities should pay for fencing rights of way and not the state, Attorney-dencral E. T. England ruled in answer to an inquiry from Julius K. Monroe, project engineer for the state road commission. The at torney-general in his ruling calls at tention to the section of good roads law which specifies that the county eoiirf shall pay the costs of all rights of way acquired for any state or coun ty district roads. Princeton.- Following a meeting of railroad men to discuss wages and the cost of living. XV, Wood, train dispatcher, has compiled an average monthly eost of cat a hies for a family of five for five years, as follows: 1017, $70.20; 1018, .<70.0.7 ; 1010. .<75.18 ; IfrjO* •<si.81; 1021, .<75.11; making an aver age of •<<•>.O.i. Figuring house rent at » month, he estimates that a sal ary of SI 10 a month is needed to pro vide a decent living for a family of five, ( hnrlnston. A decrease of approxi mately $2,000,000 is shown In the re sources of state hanks in the report of State Paul ing •'ommissinrner I fill, issued, as of ItecHinber 51, as compar ed with Ids report as of June 50. 1021. I»<•posits of all classes, according to Ids summary, (h-creased approximately $-i,ooo,ooo, t,nt loans and discounts amounted to atiout the same, 8150,000, ooo, on both dates. The reserves car ried by the hanks, represented l>y the cash on hand and balances with th'ir correspondents, amounted to approxi mately $20,000,000 on both dates. Institute. Elglit clubs have recent ly been organized at West Virginia collegiate Institute. Tim clubs are those formed of representatives of Clarksburg. Charleston, Montgomery, Huntington, Morcer-Mcl >owell, Me. Imwell, Parkersburg and Institute. Princeton.—More than 1.000 signs 1iin*s having been obtained for the petition to the county court for the establishment of a soldiers’ and sail ors' memorial, members of the woman’s club nrc confident that the necessary 20 percent of the voters will sign it. POWDER BLAST ROCKS CHICAGO Panic Grips Crowds Through the City as Magazine in Stone Quarry Blows Up CARS ARE BLOWN FROM RAILS Windows for Miles Around Broken— Street Lights Put Out and Thea ters Thrown Into Darkness— Flying Debris Strips Trees. Chicago. — Explosion of a powder magazine in a stone quarry in the southwestern outskirts of Chicago shook the entire city and caused con siderable excitement before the site of the detonation could be discovered. When windows were shattered in the south and the west portions of the city, excited calls were made to newspapers to discover where the ex plosion had occurred. Inquiries by telephone to many places failed to discover what had exploded, but by a curious freak of newspaperdom an inquiry by the Associated Press to Indianapolis soon brought a bulletin from Lafayette, Ind., that the explo sion had occurred at McCook, 111., on the edge of Chicago. This information led to the tracing of the accident to the quarry, which is in a secluded spot. So far as could be ascertained, no one was killed. The intensity of the explosion was so great that the street lights in Summit, two miles from the quarry, were put out and spectators in motion picture theaters in the southwestern pari of the city and at Argo, three miles from the quarry, were thrown into temporary panic. Nearly every window in Summit and Argo was broken and people ran screaming to the streets. Part of a train standing on a side track was blown from the rails and n switch tower a considerable dis tance away was shattered as if by shrapnel. Large mohnds of earth, excavated from the drainage canal nearby, were tumbled down in spots giving a true semblance to an earthquake. Trees lining the banks of the Des Plaines river which parallels the canal were stripped of branches by flying debris. Five Trainmen Killed in Crash. St. Paul.—Five trainmen were kill ed when Winnipeg flyer No. 10 col lided head on with a snow plow, three miles east of Waverly, Minn., on the Great Northern. Nine per sons, including one passenger, were reported injured. The Winnipeg flier was double-headed. The* three en gines and one mail ear plunged down a 20 foot embankment. Mabel Normand III With “Flu.’' Los Angeles.—Mabel Normand, film actress, over whose illness anxiety was expressed by her physician, was reported hy him to be slightly im proved. He said Miss Normand was seriously ill with influenza, aggravat ed by a nervous breakdown due to grief over the death of William Des mond Taylor, one of her closest friends, who was mysteriously slain February 1. Married Eight; Now In Jail. Cleveland, Ohio.—Mrs. Jessie Sea man. aged 38, who admits being the wife of eight men, whom she married without obtaining a divorce, was sen tenced to from one to seven years in the Marysville reformatory by Com mon I’leas Judge Walther. “I alone am to blame and all the punishment 1 get is surely coming to me,” Mrs. Seaman said when sentence was passed. Landru Guillotined. Versailles.—Henri Landru, the “Blue beard of Gambais,” has paid the pen alty for his crimes. President Miller and refused the petition of the con victed man's counsel to commute La mini's s^ntenco to death for the murder of 10 women and a youth. Man Blown To Atoms. Latrobe, Pa.—Paul Amoregough, 5f>, was blown to atoms and his home. at Hrenzier, In I>erry township, was almost demolished by an explosion It Is believed that dynamic which Ameregough kept in 'iis borne let go from some unde termined cause. Rooming House Destroyed By Fire. Cleburne, Tex—Three persons were •timed to death when an oil stove exploded and a large rooming hou e was destroyed by fire. There were 2tt people tn the house at thr? time. Bandits Escape With $8,000. Kansas City, Mo. Four bandits eld up Walter A. Estes, proprietor f the Estes Mercantile Company, •Tiortly after he left the Livestock Stat. hank and escaped with $8,000 in cash. Police Burn Hohoville. Hr own s Meadows, Conn.—Hohoville, the winter ramp of some of Connect! i iit's leading hoboes, has been burned off the map by the Waterhury police. A village with 30 crude sharks had been built by the Weary Willies in a grove near the Nagatur-k river. When tho workleas ones started making homebrew the police decided it would be a good thing for the community to destroy the village, ao a torch was applied to the shacks and the nomads were chased out of town. Brig. Gen. F. W. Sladen Brig. Gen. Frederick W. Sladen, at present in command at Fort Sheridan, has been appointed commander in chief at West Point, effective June 30, 1922. General Sladen graduated from the United States Military academy in 1890 and served in the Philippine war, Spanish-American war and China, and was in charge of the Third army, A. E. F., in the late war. He holds five of the highest decorations possible for an officer to have. AIRPLANES CAPTURE ' WHISKY SCHOONER Crew of 21 Offers No Fight in Initial Sky Raid on Liquor Smugglers Miami, Fla.—The British schooner Annabelle was seized off Jewfish Creek about 40 miles south of Miami with a cargo of 11,500 cases of whisky aboard, by airplanes of the prohibi tion squadron operating out of Miami and adjacent coastal towns, it was learned from officials here. The entire crew of 21 men was cap tured and is now being held under surveillance, while the confiscated liquor is under guard aboard the schooner, which is anchored off Jew fish. The crew offered no resistance when the flying machines, with their machine guns pointing at the schoon er from all directions, swooped down on the vessel. Eleven airplanes, painted a battle ship grey, gradually made their way down the coast, it became known here, one of them under the command of Captain Rogers, stopping at Miami. Some of the others stopped at St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Charleston, and other points. Advance information was furnished by scouts aboard sub chasers, which got the location of the Annabelle. A number of the planes gathered near Jewfish and at a signal swooped sim ultaneously upon the alleged whisky carrier. A Captain Johrtson, who brought the report here, stated the prohibi tion squadron was equipped with a new code which no other wireless ap paratus could interpret and this is used exclusively in the sending and receiving of official messages. In the stern of each airplane is a Browning machine gun, manned by expert gun ners. Troops Called In Rhode Island. Providence, R. I. — Two troops of state cavalry were dispatched to the Pawtuxet Valley to quell disturbances that arose when strike sympathizers stormed the otllce of the R. B. & R Knight Company at Pontiac, in an ef fort to prevent the removal of n quantity of cotton cloth. The troops were reinforced later by a machine gun contingent Fo§r companies of const artillery' were ordered mobil ized. Alleged Murder by Bootleggers. Steubenville, O. With four bullet wounds in his mouth, Frank Baron, 35 years old, mine operator and for mcr dry detective, was found dead on 'he Plney Fork-Newell road. It Is be lieved he was murdered by bootleg gers out of revenge Price of Sugar is Advanced. New York-—Arbuckle Brothers ad vanced their pi ice of refined sugars 10 points to 5.10 less 2 per cent for i cash. All orders are subject to ac- ■ ceptnnce and the firm Is not taking ! any city business. 5.000 Anthracite Miners at Work. Wilkes-Barre.—All collieries of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. with the ex ception of Butler colliery, have re umed operation. More than 5,000 men returned to work. Girl Shoots Brother. New York.—Alonso Russo was shot and seriously wounded by his sister, because be objected to her entertain mg a suitor, according to police re ports. The sister. Lena Russo, was ar rested on a charge of felonious as sault. Alonzo, a jeweler, returned to I hla home shortly after midnight and met the suitor departing He began upbraiding the girl. According to po lice reports she ran to his room, seiz ed his own revolver and 'fired five <hotg at him. 34 DIE IN WRECK OF CIANT AIRSHIP Huge Army Dirigible Crashes From the Sky and Bursts In o Flames ONLY 11 OUT OF 45 SURVIVE Millions of Feet of Hydrogen Gas Burns for Hours—Bodies Taken From Ruins Ars Charred and Unrecognizable. Norfolk, Va.—Thirty-four men were killed, eight were injured seriously and three were uninjured or only slightly bruised when the giant army airship Roma, with her service crew and a number of civilians, totaling 45 in all aboard, plunged from a thou sand feet or more in the air to the ground at the Hampton Roads naval base. The accident presumably was caused by a broken rudder and as the huge dirigible plunged to earth it capsized ucross a high tension elec tric line, bursting into a roaring fur nace of blazing hydrogen gas. Long after dark, many hours after her fall, the ship was still a mass of flames from end to end of Imr 410 foot mass. The Are fed on the mil lion cubic feet of gas which had dis tended the great bag for the flight and made all attempts at rescue work futile. Barely a dozen of those aboard were picked up alive and one of these died on the way to the hospital. All of those who survived the fire es caped by jumping as the ship struck. The others, penned in the hull of the fallen bag, were burned to death. The flames were finally brought in to submission by three fire depart ments who fought them with chemi cals and then derricks began picking up the wreckage, which consisted of scarcely more than the aluminum framework and the Six Liberty mo tors of the once proud ship of the air. »»■«-***** me wrecKJige lay me oouies, practically all charred beyond recog . nition. Rut before the night had passed 33 bodies had been removed, accounting for the last of those who ! were known to have taken flight on the fatal voyage. Every man who escaped alive was burned, bruised or both. Accounts of survivors and of eye witnesses as to what had happened appeared to agree that the huge kite like structure of the stern rudder, it self as large as a bombing plane, had slipped to one side as the Roma drove along 1.000 feet above the army base. She was making a trial flight with a new battery of Liberty motors. They were installed to replace Italian engines bought with her in Italy, but which have not proved satisfactory. Two Bags of Mail Stolen. Rochester, Mich.—Two sacks of registered mail from Detroit were stolen from the depot here. Sheriff James Butler and a half dozen depu ties are on the trail of the robbers. The mail was thrown from the De troit train. It was taken into the depot and the depot locked for the night. The loss was discovered when the station was opened the next morning. Corset Stay Pierces Heart of Girl. tieneva, Switzerland.—A whalebone corset stay caused the death of a Zurich young woman while skiing. She was making a steep descent with a party of friends when she fell over a ledge, landing 20 feet below in deep snow. Her companions attached no importance to the fall, but on reach ing her found the bone had pierced her heart. This is the second acci dent of the kind in Switzerland this winter. District Attorney Removed. Boston.—Joseph C. Pelletier was removed by the .Massachusetts Su preme court from the office of di*. trict attorney of Suffolk county. He was tried on charges of gross mis conduct In office ^brought by Attor ney General J. Weston Allen. Man Sees Family Burned. Aiken. S. C.—Trapped by tinmen, Mrs. C E Monts and throe of her children were burned to death In their home t>efore the eye* of the husband and father, who made des perate efforts to rescue thorn. Monts, seriously burned, was taken to a hospital Emergency Officers' Aid Bill. Washington.—The Rursutn hill, giv ing disabled emergency officers of the American expeditionary forces the same retirement privileges as regular army officers, was passed by the Sen ate, 50 to 14 .and transmitted to the House. Airplane Succors Hungry Folk. Reno, Nev.— Marooned from the rest of the world with no means of replenishing their food, a father, mother and two children living on a homestead 12 miles north of Reno were saved from possible starvation ' by the air mail service which sent a food-laden airplane to the district Three large sacks of food were drop ped in the yard while the plane cir cled the house. Heavy storms had made it Impossible to reach the house. LAWRENCE QUIGLEY n Lawrence Quigley, mayor of Chel sea, Mass., is only twenty-eight years old, and 15 years ago was a newsboy OPIUM DENS RAIDED IN N. Y. CHINATOWN Federal Agents and Police Seize Quantity of Drugs After Thrilling Battle New York.—Rudely disturbed In the peace that for years has brooded over its crooked streets and mysterious j dwellings, Chinatown awoke to Un sound of pistol volleys and the rend ing crash of barricaded doors as po lice raiders stormed a succession oi long-suspected opium dens. Eight persons were arrested, includ ! *ng a woman, whose back was thought to have been broken in a leap from a second-story window. A man, whose plunge for freedom she imitated, was only slightly injured. Two of the storming party had nar row escapes from injury. Bullets fired by unseen defenders passed through the hat of a detective and grazed the shoe of a federal narcotic agent I>arge quantities of opium, with pipes and other paraphernalia were confiscated. Under command of Ralph Oyler, chief of the federal narcotic division, a score of police and government agents first surrounded a suspected den on Mott street, in the heart of the ; Oriental quarter. Two of the party were stationed on the roof, with others on guard at fire escapes and other means of egress, while the main squad, led by Oyler. launched a sudden onslaught on the front door. Wielding heavy axeH, they chopped their way through the door, which was strongly barred and studded with iron. As the barricade yielded and crash ed to the- floor there was a shriek from within. With the first blows by the attacking party those inside had made for the fire escapes and John Duff, aged 17, and the woman, Ethel Kelly, 49, had leaped from the railing, striking on a stone pavement 20 feet below. Both were taken to Bellevue hospital under guard. T^he apartment, police reported, was a typical opium “joint,” equip ped with tiers of wooden bunks around the walls, and with empty or half-filled drug tins strewn about, the pungent fumes of cooking pellets ris ing from tiny alcohol burners. WANT DAY OF SIX HOURS Miners Override Leaders In Insisting On Clause In Agreements. Indianapolis. — Renewal of the de mand of union coal miners for a six hour day, five-day week, a proposal that was made before the 1919 strike, was adopted by the convention of the United Mine Workers of America as a part of the policy the union will seek to have included in new wage agreements, effective April 1 This demand had the united opposition of the union's leaders, including all dis trict presidents. In declaring for the six hour day. the delegates overrode the committee recommendations for an eight-hour day underground, and also voted down a proposal limiting actual work time to seven hours a day. Hitter criticism of the union's officers was made by delegates In urging adoption of the six-hour day, but several ofll cials took the floor appealing for f«v vorable action on the committee's eight-hour demand. Snow Sweeps Four To Death. Denver. Col.— Four employes of the Denver and Salt I-ike Railroad were killed when a snow slide struck an engine belonging to that road near Ixcop, Col. The men were swept down a canyon 700 feet deep. Their bodies have not been recovered. Diamond Importer Loses Wall*t. St. Iannis. Mo..—Sidney Krengel of Krengel Ilrothers. diamond importers of New York and Chicago, reported to police he had been robbed of dia monds which cost him $76,899, and which had a retail value of between $125,000 to $150,000. on an Illinois Central train which arrived from Chi cago. The diamonds were In a wallet which he placed under his pillow in the Pullman. Mr. Krengel said, and were insured for $50,000. A futile search was made on the Pullman car. DISASTROUS FIRE AT BROWNSVILLE Entire Business Section of Fayette Town is Threatened By Second Blaze STARTED BY CROSSED WIRES Department Store Fire. Breaking Out Anew, Destroys Other Structure*. Fireman Overcome By Smoke. - • Loss Estimated At $250,000. > . Brownsville. Pa.—The entire busi ness section of Brownsville waa ) threatened with destruction when a disastrous blaze, breaking out anew in the ruins of the department store of Harry Levy, Market street, near the Iron Bridge, spread to adjoining structures and shops. The total loss is estimated at be tween $250,000 and $300,000. One fireman. Porter Herberson, was overcome by smoke while fighting the flames, and was carried from the roof of one of the burning buildings. He was resucttated by physicians. Included in the total loss is the ' damage done the department store when fire, resulting from crossed wires, ignited that building. It is believed a fire smouldered in the ruins of the store which caused the blaze to break out anew. The largest of the buildings de stroved were those of the department store, Sharpnack & Conelly and the Wolf & Paul -Hardware. Company. All were of frame construction and burned like tinder when the flames blazed up in the ruins of the previous lire. Several of the fire-fighting appa ratuses of the Brownsville depart ment were out of commission, but firemen, responding on foot, kept it from spreading. $50,000 Robbery Is Called Fake. Long Branch, N. J.—Mrs. Sarah L. Robertson, who recently reported to the police that a dinner pa»*y at her Deal Bungalow hud been held up and jewels valued at $50,000 taken front her, was arrested charged with con spiracy in causing the holdup. A youth named John Bailey, told the police he had been hired by Mrs. Robertson to enter the bungalow and pretend to steal the jewels. In. real ity, he said, he got nothing but a bag filled with tissue paper. He said Mrs. Robertson paid him $1,000 to stage the holdup. Cigar Loaded With Liquor. Santa Barbara. Cal. — The "anti Volstead smoke” or “alcoholic cigar,” has made its appearance here. Its producer, a Del Carro cigar maker, paid a fine of $250 in police court, following a plea of guilty to the charge of having liquor in his posses sion contrary to law. The tobacco leaves were saturated with liq.uor be fore rolling and wrapping. The cigar thus treated does not contain a “kick,” it was contended in defense, although it was conceded that it car ried a heavy freighted fragrance. Explosion In Garage; $40,000 Loss/’ New Kensington. Pa.—An explosion,' . of kerosene oil, which occurred while an automobile motor was being clean. ed, caused fire in the garage of Krick & Kessler, which resulted in damage estimated at $40,000. Ten automobiles, including three new’ ma chines, and the storage batteries in the garage, were destroyed. Whisky and Oysters Kill Man. Denver, Pa John Hughes, aged 63 years, formerly of Camden, N. J., was found dead and John Sheetz, aged 50 years, of Pittsburgh, is critically, i ill at a hotel here Both are said j to have Imbibed home-matle whisky and eaten mnny oysters. Both men were employed here. Explosion of Still Burns Houses. Philadelphia.—The explosion of a whisky still in a garage here set fire I to four dwellings and drove ten fam ilies into the street. The garage was almost completely destroyed. Police in searching the ruins said they found five stills that apparently had been in operation when the explo 1 sion occurred. Ice Dams River; Town Marooned. Milwaukee—The upper Milwaukee river, dammed by ice, overflowed, ma rooning Sunny Point, a villwgfc'dortfi of tlfifl city. Rescue parties were j organized, and the struggle to fescue I the 500 villagers was started. Parachute Fail* To Open. San Jose, Cal.—Thornton Jenkfns, an aerial cirrus performer, fell $,700 feet when his parachute failed to open after he leaped from an air plane He died at a hospital several hours later. Leaps From Bridge to Avoid Car. Chester, Pa.— Facing death in two Vaya. Archie Bowker, 39 years old. is In Chester Hospital with a broken back and both legs dislocated. While crossing the Kapid Transit Company trestle, Ihe sudden appearance of a trolley car coming; out of a fog and the fear of death under the wheels caused Bowker to l«*ap from the bridge Into Ridley cgeek. a distance of 60 feet. Bowker was rendered unconscious, and was found by pass ing workmen, who rescued him.