West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-08-16

best and most prominent citizens,
arrived in Kingwood last Saturday
night and have been visiting friends
and relatives in this county this
week.
Senator Morley and wife left for
Baltimore last Thursday evening
where the latter goes for medical
treatment at the John Hopkins
Hospital. 1t is feared that she has
cancer of the breast and that an
operation will have TO be performed.
a very pleasant social party was
given by Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Crane
at their residence on High Street
last Thursday evening. There were
quite number of young people in
attendance, who passed the time
merrily till near midnight ere the
gay party broke up.
+. A. Williams. matchmaker of
Broadway. New York City, recently
accomplished a remarkable mechan-
ical feat-that of drilling a hole
through the entire length of a COM
mon pin. from head to Point, the
opening being inst large enough to
admit of the passage of u fine hair.
VIM. l.. Fansler of near Aurora,
Preston county, died on August I'd.
MIR. Fansler was we'll known to
many of our people here, who will
much regret to hear Of his death.
Preston county could boast of no
more honorable and upright citizen
than was Mr.. Fansler. Tucker
Democrat.
When the first day for court
comes on Saturday or Sunday, the
law provides that it shall be on the
Monday following. Circuit court
for this county begins Sept. LIST, but
as that is Saturday this time, court
will not begin till Monday the 3rd,
and only chaucerY matter then.
The grand jury will be summoned
for Sept. 9TH and the petit jury for
Sept. 10th. The session will be
very short one and likely not last
over two weeks.
The Kingwood Kid Nine went
to Terra Alta to play ball yester-
day and had hard luck. Charley
jackson, their catcher, got kicked
by horse and couldn't go, and
in the second inning their pitcher,
Brose Klauser, broke his arm. DR..
Daily reduced the fracture and
Brose came home and will be laid
up for some time. All this left
the boys in bad shape and they
got beat over two to one, about
the same as they beat the Terra
Alta club over here. 1t will now
be in order to meet at Albrights-
vile and play the rub game.
Sam Jones broke loose at Mt.
Lake Park last Friday again and
drew large crowd to hear him.
He lectured on liquor and politics,
good combination. He also gave
the pres chers Hail Columbia as
usual. a great many attended from
this county. Those from King
wood were Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ami
Martin and two sons, Mrs. Flo
Posten and two sons, Miss Belle
McMillen and mother, John ii.
Garner, III. ID. Carroll, Martin
Childs, Mrs. Mary Monown, Mrs.
Ella Morris and Mrs. Oliver Dunn.
The prisoners in the Jail here all
escaped again last Thursday after
noon about 4 o'clock. They dug
out through the wall i'm the water
closet and evidently had everything
ready to go that night. but got
afraid the jailor would lock them
In the cells and prevent 1T and so
made the break in broad daylight.
The two Clark boys from Pennsyl-
vania were seen going over Beverly
Hill and the escape was discovered
in about fifteen minutes afterwards.
| The Sheriff and Bert Bickford
found Yost laying down and hid in
the weeds in Charley Dorsey's lot
and captured him but the boys
made good their escape and it is a
good radiance to the county.