Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-13
WEST VIRGINIA STATE NEWS


TAYLOR county republ;cars In mas
convention have declared for Mckinley
for president
COMPANY A, w. Va. N. e., of Mason.
takes the place of Company A, of Blue
heic. recently disbanded.
SEo. III. TUCKER, aged ten, of Guyan-
dot, has been taken to the reform
school in Pruntytown. His father and
mother are dead.
IhE Catholic church at Moundsville
was formally opened after its restora-
ton consequent upon the fire Of Decem-
Der last
TnE State Sunday-school convention.
which was to have been held April "a
~ and 80 has been postponed indef.
initely owing to the fact that no In
vitauons To entertain the gatherina
nave been received.
Mrs. AGNES MoRRrsoN has bean Al
mitted To practice law ut whce,ina.
She is the first woman ever admitteI
TO the bar in this state. She graduated
from the West Virginia university.
COL X. r. FAST. commander Of thu
FIRST regiment of the West Virginia
NATIONAL guard, has announced that
.nere VIII be no school for officers In
ms regiment this year. None will bo
neiu In the Second regiment either.
Town MARSHAL G. NJ. MILLER, of
nunurca' captured two post Office rob-
oers near Littleton the other evening
"i.er an exciting battle i'm which about
uozen shots were exchanged and one
OF the criminals, George Patterson. was
o"uiy wounded. Thomas Hinermau
ran when the shooting began, but WINS
afterwards captured. They robbed the
post Office and the store of jefferson
Dye mt Jolly Town. Pa. few evenings
oetore. Patterson's wound is not fatal.
Inc prisoners were taken To Pittsburgh
on United States warrant
d. ID. SHAW Is making n rood mn.
per out of the Moundsyille EVENING
Echo.
Hon. GEO. +. EVANS has been noni.
mated by the republicans for mayor of
Martinsburg.
AT Moundsvillc Miss Clara Mozier.
the telephone central, who was in
Jured In the storm the other evening Ia
abe To resume her duties again.
l. Mckii.LEY, of Clarksburg. has in
vented machine To extract the sul-
phur from coal. This has heretofore
oeen the great trouble in coke made
outside of the Conceivable region.
The Ministerial union OF Wheeling
and vicinity has elected the following
officers; President, Rev. N. IL. John.
son; vice president, Rev. ID. A. Denton:
treasurer, Rev. j. ii. Littell; secretary.
John G. Lynch
HE report that reached Ccredo In
regard to the miners going out on q
strike i'm the Pocahontas and Flat Ton
regions proved to be false.
AN explosion occurred Mt Flint Hill
mines, near New Haven, the other
night, and five men and two bows were
badly burned. None are fatally hurt.
however.
JAMES Sins, n farmer living near Don.
was run down and killed by C. & O.
train the other morning
PETER CARROLL was the other day
appointed postmaster at Dismal.
CHAs DUNCAN, Abe Vickers. Sam
Williams and Fred Thomas were ar
rested and brought before III. E.
lhomas, Mt Bluefields. charged with
ihutiiating street cars at Flat Top
yards, on the n. and w. railroad. The
cars were i'm transit to Norfolk. Tho
Nphi tntUl unQcr bond.
FRANCIS Snow shot and killed WI.
nam Worth, huckster, at Six-Mile
crossing. The trouble was over n 90
cent debt for chicken. Snow Is I'M
der arrest. He claims that Worth at
tempted to cut him with n knife.
THE 16-year-old daughter of Walter
Hitchings, well to do citizen near
Jacksonville, o., disappeared about a
week ago and was traced to Parlers.
burg, but all clew was lost until the
other morning when Chief of Police
Heaton found the girl in the Jennings
house, in the east end, in the capacity
OF servant The girl does not give a
reasonable excuse for her conduct.
AT n meeting of the city council of
Ceredo, the other evening, Mayor Nc
Dougal and others were appointed as a
committee to act with the Kenova
council in regard to the removal of the
county seat from Wayne To that place.
mass meeting will be held there and
large and enthusiastic gathering is
anticipated.
AT Sistersville Chief of Police King
arrested Erin Duck on request from
the sheriff of Wood county, Ohio.
where Duck is wanted on n charge of
bastardy, attempting to produce an
abortion and Jail breaking Duck
comes from Breden, o., is 20 years old,
and married. He has secured an at
torney, and will not go back without a
requisition.
The agricultural experiment station
at Morgantown, Is going into the
blooded poultry business on n large
scale. There are now in the incubators
1000 eggs, procured from raisers of
fine breeds of chickens all over the
country. There are eight incubators,
each with n capacity OF 500 eggs. The
chickens, as soon as old enough, will
be taken 10 the station farm, two miles
from town, raised and sold 10 farmers
who desire the finest breeds Of layers.
The farm Is being planted with view
20 testing the different varieties of fer
filters on potatoes, berries, etc: and
farmers throughout the state will re-
ceive the benefit of practical experi-
ments conducted by intelligent men In
charge of the farm, which is under d.
rect supervision of DIR. Jno. A. Movers.
director of the station.
CONGRESSMAN MILLER the other dav
introduced a bill TO pension AZ con =