Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-25
WEST VIRGINIA STATE NEWS

MRS. CHARLES ELKINs. n well known
lady OF Guyandotte, gave birth to trip
lets, two boys and one girl. Mother
and children are doing well.
MOSES w. DoSNALLY. public printer
ana public stationer has notified the
board OF public printing that he will
cease to do printing for the state or fur.
nish 1T stationery after the lse of April.
lie claims that the state has violated its
contract with him in that Il has failed
to pay him for printing done and sta.
uonery furnished the state government
Inc state now owes Mr.. Donnally
over $4,000, and thee is no money ap
propriated to pay e. The board OF
public printing appear to be at a loss
10 know what TO do. 1t is believed that
IT can not force Mr.. Donnally To per.
form the contract on his part if the
state does not perform il on its part.
Auditor johnson, the president of the
board, has written 10 Attorney General
Riley Tor his opinion under the circum.
stances. If the attorney general finds
that ne can not be compelled to con.
clude the contract, the board will have
TO advertise for bids to furnish sta.
tonery and do the states printing.
The following fourth-class postmas-
ter was commissioned few davs ago:
i. IL. Toombs, Horseshoe Run. Preston
county.
REV. GIDEON MARTIN, ID. d., was
critically i'll at his home in Fairmont
The other day he was taken with hem
orrhage OF the bowels and other com
pllcations. DIR. Martin is about eighty
TWO years old, and is one of the widest
known ministers in the West Virginia
conference of the NJ L. church
AT Wayne the other dav. John n.
Terry. 26, applied for license to wed
ldelia Bocock, Is. They left on an
early train. The father of the girl
followed the couple TO bring the girl
back.
DOUGLAS DICKEY and Miss Lucy Row
land, nice looking couple from Mason
county, who wanted Judge Hanna to
keep their marriage secret because
they had given the old folks the dodge.
were married at Gallipolis Squire
Maucl< tied the knot.
MIR. HULING has introduced bill to
grant pension to Harvey Geyer, late
first lieutenant in Company C, One
hundred and Thirty-third regiment.
West Virginia militia volunteers.
MR. DovENER has introduced a bill
granting a pension to Benjamin F. Bat
ten late of Company Il, Tenth West
Virginia volunteer infantry.
THE supreme court the other day dis
posed of the following business: At.
kison VS.. Plumb, from Wood county.
motion to dismiss overruled. State vs..
swami, from Kanawha county. writ of
certiorari awarded to bring ND omit
ted portions of the record.
HE secretary of state has issued a
certificate of incorporation to the
Emerson club, of Bluefield. with an au-
thorized capital of s. ZOO. 1t is organ.
lzed for the purpose of keeping a Ii.
orary and reading rooms in the city OF
Bluefield. The incorporators are j. C,
Muncey, w. l.. Puckelt, C. l.. Cole. S.
NJ. Fox and j. c. Bowen. all of Blue.
! field
MANAGER SrALLINGs has arranged
the following schedule for the Uniyer-
sity baseball team: May ., with w. U.
r., at Morgaptown two games); Nav o.
with bethany at Morgantown: Nav 49,
with California Normal school at Nor.
gantown; MaJ2 with Holy Ghost col
lege at Morgsntown; May 80, with Wash
lngton and Jefferson, at Washington,
IA, 1.-TWO games);June /, with Holy Ghos,
at Pittsburgh; June 2, with Braddock as.
sociation, at Braddock, Pa. Other pames
are in progress of arrangement with
Marietta and the University of Vir.
ginia. The team will probably be Hill.
pitcher: Smith, catcher; Harding. first
base; Parsons, short stop: Pastorius
third base; Bawhead. right field: Rick.
man. center field, and Llewllyn, left
field.
The house of John johnson, of West
charleston, burned at 10 o'clock the
other morning. When the ire was dis
covered Eunice johnson was seen living
on the floor of the hall, evidently liv.
ing. A hook was thrown over her and
she was dragged to the front door
when the rope burned and it was i'm.
possible to rescue her. The origin OF
fire is unknown Miss johnson was the
only person in the house at the time.
She was subject to fits and had once
before fallen in the fire.
The state school book board held n
session at Charleston and adjourned
without doing any business of import
ance. No provision has been made for
the other books used in the schools and
not contracted for, for the reason that
the board has received no bids for SIM.
plying these books at the prices fixed
by the legislature and taking up the
books now in use, according 20 the pro.
visions of the school book act. The
books now remaining to be contracted
for are the spoilers, first. second. third
fourth and fifth readers, grammars and
written arithmetics.
Four derricks were blown down in
the Waverly oil field by the wind few
nights ago. The derricks belonged To
Messrs. Hoschtetter & Co., and are be
ing rebuilt.
THE towboat Il. Il. Kendall. belong.
ing 20 w. G.. Mohler. sank near the
wharf at Charleston, few nights ago
caused by oyercoaling. The boat can
be raised in good condition.
CHARLES MCCLURE. n well-known
contractor Of Huntington. is in n crit.
ical condition. the result of BEING
caught beneath falling lumber at the
{. q D. shops the other day.
EARLY the other morning fire wa,
discovered in the residence OF John NJ.
Hall. at Harrisville. Imperfect nat.