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# STATE NEWS
No further spread of the smallpox is reported at Parsons.
Mayor A. E. Fredlock is a candidate for re-election at Elkins.
The Black Hand society has made its advent in Randolph county.
Friday night the Ohio University basket ball team will play the Y. M. C. A. team at Parkersburg.
Wyoming county is having considerable controversy over the location of a site for a new court house.
John H. Dillard, member of the house of delegates from Mercer county, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for attorney general.
Xiltha, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Williams was burned to death at Huntington Monday. Her clothes caught fire from an open grate.
From 18 inches to two feet of snow is reported from a number of the towns in the eastern mountain districts of the state.
A State Forestry Association has been organized at Morgantown, with J. H. Stewart, director of the State Experiment Station, as the head.
News of the death of Rev. J. T. Marley, a former Episcopal minister of Morgantown, at Townson, Md., on Friday, has just been received.
The suspension of the Citizens' Bank of Beckley, which closed its doors a few days ago, is reported to be only temporary by the officers.
The B. & O. is again endeavoring to have the negro named Ben Maupins arrested in connection with the murder of its operator at Clarington.
From Parkersburg and Grafton come reports that the B. & O. shops have been closed, and nothing is known as to when they will resume.
The West Virginia Veneer Door Co., of Parkersburg, has gone into liquidation, W. W. Waterson, P. O. Whitlock and George P. Morgan, trustees.