Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-04-19

camps cpeneu up At Madison.
MAJ. LEE RAYMOND. IA descendant OF
the earliest settler in West Virginia.
died the other day.
AT Charleston set OF FIVE charters
were issued TO New York capitalists
the other day which are to buy out
several large Kentucky whisky CON
Germs.
1EN. 'IoE WHEELER has consented to
speak at Grafton IN Memorial Day
AN old ga we'll near Elizabeth. Writ
county. Logan producing oil the other
afternoon and II IL now flowing at a
hundred barrel clip. The strike has
caused con>idcra Ule excitement among
operators a. Parller>burg for the rea
Ion mat n unexpectedly opens up an
entirely new field.
fhANk CRAWFORD. John smith podd
ana rudolph Wills. arrested IN Parllers-
"urE anu taken TO Huntington. were
indicted the other dav.
MISS LAURA HEARNE MATTHEWS
Youngest daughter of the late GOV
AieN Matthews, of this state. died M
Lewisburg
SENAroR-EI ECT y. Il. SCorr endowed
the school OF oratory at the university
with an annual prize of 500. open 10
the young women students for the best
Grafton.
The West Fork x Southern railroad
has been Incorporated and tho ro,d
Will join the Monongahela River rail.
road and ue built at once.
MINISTER HART succeeded in interest.
ing several Wheeling capitalists in a
scheme 10 establish steel works at b.
gotta. Colombia, which will soon be
done.
FIVE iron ore drifts 800 feet thicI,
have been driven at Harper'> Ferry in
newly discovered veins.
FRANK KIsER fell go feet into bed
of rocks at Martinsburg and ESCAPED
without fatal injuries.
sAr Moundsville the opera house will
Toe occupied by the post Office and will
oe fitted up with $1,000 worth of fur.
niture.
AT Parkersburg Judge Jackson dis.
solved the injunction in the famous
case OF Archer vs.. the Baltimore build
ing and Loan association.
Gov. ATKINSON has been appealed Il
IN regard TO the employing of import.
ed workmen at the Wheeling street
railway strike
AT Parkers burg the Bell Tclcphon,
Co. voluntarily Gu; the rates i'm halo d,
surprise which the people have hardly
recovered from.
JAMES l.. CLAYTON. of Fairviey. has
hecn IN sscd from home for weeks. and
ms whereabouts could not bc asccr.
tanned. The other morning his bodv
was found in buffalo creek. near Farm
lhS'on' after having pcen IN the water
FOR six weeks. The body was recog-
hi|ed ~ the initials -. l.. {" ON one
arm and having no under teeth. NJ
inquest has been held. There are no |
indications of violence. He was "A |
nurse. Ii is presumed that he commit |
Ted suicide by Jumping off the Plum |
Ridge bridge. The body was buried AT |
Harrington.
AT RCmney the first conviction un-
der the compulsory school law has
been made. \ parent was fined at the
request OF the teacher.
DURING 1899 there will be $50 miles |
'f railroad built in the state as now
projected.
STATE ENToMoLoGIsT A. ID. HopkGXs
u Morgantown. has been detailed bv
ne government TO investigate the for.
'>ts of Washington. Oregon and other
western states.
IHE cap torch OF John Poole. work
ng IN mine near Morgantown. came
N contact with a lleg of powder the
Ither day. and the explosion blew,
Poole 20 yards, fatally iniuring him.
Hard luck has followed his family
lie had recently recovered from a
lrnken Collar hmm IL. L...l---- y.