Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-07-13
State News Happenings.

CuAiloN PAuL and Al Cooper are iu
jail at Petersburg. charged with a..
sault to kill Al Wilson,
HARRY DEtN. aged "a, while ridins
on street car az Parkcrsburg. swung
his body outward and was scalped hy
his hcad striking pile OF bricks
Tnf Nomens Union benevolent 40
cicty. Of Wheeling. had a street ca,
day. The railroad company turnee
It's services over 10 the women for
sweet charity's sake.
A moRRinLr disaster occurred near
farkcr>hnrg the other night bv a gns
explosion on Whisky run A new OF.
well had been drilled and passed free.
| ~ All lights Ina the city were put out
Mrs Harry rroutmnn lighted match
u prepare supper Her houSn wn> lust
across tho road FROM thu we'll aud the
drillers we're boarding with hcr. IN.
IRE irnited the gas and in an instant
everything was i'm flames Mrs Trout.
p'an and child arc fatally burned and
four oil mon arc badly burned. two OF
whom viii die. The house, oil well.
dcrr'ck and two tanks. the barn aud
all the out6uildings were burned
AZ the democratic conrrcsstonai
committee meeting OF the Fourth dis
trict at Ripley. Spencer, w Va was
named on the twelfth ballot a. the
place for the next congressional con-
vention The date was set for sep
tembcf !.
HUI ROLLINS. "a Jackson county
school teacher. shot and instantly
killed himself the other day because a
Miss Harrison, 10 whom he was nav
| ing attention, refused 10 leave her
household duties and converse with
him.
ON Boil creek. 10 miles from Mont
gomcry, john Johnson aud the divorced
wife OF Sam Hess were found murder.
ed. The particulars AFRO not obtain
able
IEoRGE MuNN, JH. sou OF George
Mum, ESQ, OF Pari>crsburp, who IA n
bugler In Company =, lat West Vir-
ginia' Is missing. The other day MIR.
Mum tclegraphed 10 Capt Cramcr.
and Capt Cramer replied that Young
MUM had bccn missing for several
Jays soldier was reported shot by
provost guard about that time
and ~ ~ feared that the victim was
young Mum
Al. the companies to compose the
nent had been mustered Ia the other
day except the company from Shep-
ardstown Co be commanded by Senator
H. G. Getzcndhnner Forty more men
are needed TO complete the required
quota. Several men who had como To
join this command went into the other
In order to get into the service as soon
as possible, The health OF tho camp
y excellent in the main with the ex-
ception OF Capt ;. u. Avis. OF Company
n. OF Charleston. who Is quite IN In his
tent New uniforms are coming ia for
the men, and the officers, too, will soon
be completely equipped
An Sewali Faye tie county. Wiley
Taylor was killed by Patrick Dean: at
Shelly junction, Clay county. George
Rhodes was killed by ). r. Ayrshire,
aud Albert Wilson was fatally shot In
the back by Paul or Albert Cooper.
both under arrest at Mineral Wells.
Wood county.
Two ousifEns--a thing hitcrto un-
known, and great surprise 10 OLE
men--wcrc struck In Writ county N
fcw days ago. The Creston Oil Co.
operating ON Parish Fork, Of Standing
stone, which had intended TO 20 down
to the Big injun sand, struck the first
Cow Run sand at only he feet, aud has
well which n making 80 barrels per
lay. The other surprise Is on the Kid.
well farm on Dcvoor's Fork, aud wna
struck by the Bridgcwater GaS Co.
This well Is only nine miles irons
Elizabeth
JoHN O0LE, coun terfcitcr, brothero Of
Miles ORle. the noted Ohio coniacler.
who died In the penitentiary 81 that
state, was found guilty by q Jury ~
Parkcrsburg in rs minutes time. OQle
confessed 20 having served term IN
the Kentucky penitentiary for iAilInT
a neiRbbor
THE infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles J. Livengood. Of Reading road.
Cincinnati. died OF cholera infantun Ia
the ears as the east bound nlQbt ex-
press reached Parkcrsburg at 9 o'clock
the other morning Mr.. aud Mira Lsv-
engood (nec Miss Lily Foster) were
married In Cincinnati a year ago last
fall Mr.. Ltgengood's brother was
drowned on La Bourgogne.
THE following West Virginiaua were
pensioned "a few days agos Original
Isaac w. Siggins, washburne. * In
crease-N Nathan T.. Idle. ApQah. s. TO
So' james Conrad, Wheeling. - 70 si2.
oaththiei samples, Porter 80 10 81
Original Widows, Etc. Elizabeth Al
len. Calhoun, g; Lucy Devonshife.
She pardstown. s.. Katherine Ae.sar-
man, Wheeling. s..
IHE second district congregational
convention viii be held az Bisins
August 10.
a PLAN 10 assess working school
teachers in West Virginia is on foot.
with the object 10 view 81 pensionine
aged and infrm tenchera
LKwIs COHLEY. an inmate 81 the
poor-house az PbiiHpi suddenly dis
appeared
y r. PIgEcY. who was robbed ~
81. 500 BY three masked men At Glaa-
vile, and who WA Candidate for
sheriff n Gilmer county, has with.
drawn from the race.
AZ the convention 70 select delegates
20 the Fourth district rcpu biifan con.
Rressi0nal convention AZ Parssrs hurry
Gordon D. Gibbons received ibe in.
structious.
IAArieEa Bros. drilling ia their
well on The nefucr farm. 81 Barr rili.
have just started Boa .biV Isl inn So