Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-08-02

State Odds and Ends.
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almost to death. His assailant> are at
large.
| On. squirting a. barrels an hour. has
been discovered in an abandoned Wirt
county we'll.
! TINS seventh annual conclave of co.
ored Knights OF Pvthias OF West V.r-
GINA elec,cG: :. W. S,arlSs Charles.
ton. G. c.; :. II. Guss. ClarSsburr. g..
V. c.: w. :. krarney, Huntington, &.
h. Il. \; y. NJ Davis, Montgomery. and
c. IL. Payne. Huntington. sup. reps.
GRANT MYERS was killed in the mines
at Function the other morning by
coal falling on him.
| TnEIE was an advance OF miners
wages throughout West Virginia Au-
gust |.
j. Il. CRAwFoRD. of Charleston. was
robbed of $40 in boarding house in
Allegheny Pa.
WHILE threshing on n farm of John
w. johnson, near Union, the thrcsher
set fire to the barn. destroying il, with
all its contents. Loss S.. 200.
The steamer Kanawha broke n shaft
near Moundsvillc. the Urania taking
her place in the Wheeling Charleston
trade.
JACK COMFY and Vireic Robinson. of
1 ispSh s'tNtH. WtIt To nave Decn mar
ried the other evening Mt s o'clock.
The preacher had the license and did
not come. The wedding party sat in
the church from 7:S0 until II The
minister had gone to Spring Hill to-
marry n couple. The minister gall
lopcd his horse eight miles to Lock
Seven. and performed the wedding GER
emony for the waiting couple just rs
| the clock struck midnight
| AT Charleston Isaac TAYLOR petitions
in bankruptcy. giving his assets as $50;
liabilities, S538
THE Office of assistant adiutant gen
eral is vacant since ID. Z. T. Casteel
has been ordered to report for Philip
pine duty. There are several candi-
dates.
An old well on j. V. Rathbonc's prop
crty. near Burning Springs, which has
been shut down for several years, is
again giving forth oil, with IA capacity
of l25 barrels daily.
CAIN OSBORNE, of Clark sburg, is the
first West Virginian to build and oper-
ate an automobile.
REV. W. l.. GRAvArT was chosen CO.
adjutor to bishop Pcterl>in.
MINERS are leaving the Pocahontas
mining district on account OF low
| wages.
BURGLARS who blew open the post
Office safe at Parsons and secured $500
were evidently cracks.
| AT st. Adams Whit and Dell Grass
and John Lindenauer were sent to jail
for cutting up watcrmcl on vines.
STATE troops are having their prac-
tice marches. One hundred men marh-
ed from Parkers burg to Elizabeth to-
camp for two weeks.
THE large saw and planning mills of
| III. Gordon were sold ut Huntington
the other day 20 Newman ~ Spencer,
of lronton, O. The mills are to bo
moved Immediately to IA point below
the mouth OF the Sandy river. They
have been idle for the past five years.
AT Fairmont the Bryan Coal IL
Coke Works miners struck for an in
crease in wages the other day for load
ing large cars recently given them
to load at the same price given for the
smaller ones. An oil-soalSed ball OF
cotton was thrown into the company's
barn, burning it, with its contents,
three mules hay, grain and other ar
ticles. No insurance. Loss about
$1,000 Whether the strikers did this
deed is not yet known, but is being in
vcstigated.
AT Warrington w. A. Batten, n coll
lcctor, was set upon, badly beaten and
robbed OF $500. lie was shot through
the elbow and received Il perhaps fatal
blow over the head.
RoBERT KECK. of st. Adams filed a
can with gunpowdcr. tampcd it with
mud and set fire TO n fuse The skin
was all burned off his faces he lost an
eye and was cut by flying tin, but may
recover.
Thy recevership case of the Webster
Coal and Lumber Co. and Consolidated
Investments Co. promises 20 rival the
Kingland suit in its tenacity to- remain
in the courts for years.
PETER BENNETT committed suicide
by hanging himself in the woods near
Elkins.
The Methodist Episcopal church con
ference. OF West Virginia. Will be held
at Parkersburg on September %.
The body OF Martin Runowitz n
miner employed in the Glendale mine.
near Wheeling, was found the other
morning under huge stone which had
fallen on him.
Mn AND Mrs. SIMS HALL, of Win
field. have a newborn daughter with
two heads Of equal size. The child Is
apparently in good health.
y. O.. Fox, operator for the n. e. w.
emptied his revolver at some colored
men who annoyed him at WEIGH. They
returned the FIRE, but no shots took
effect.
DR. J. l.. DEvOI- an aged physician
OF Parkersburg. who has been visiting
friends in the west, surprised his fam
lily the other day by returning home
with n new bride in the person OF Mrs.
Caroline Sterling, OF Nokomis, III.
The wedding occurred on July II.
AT Charleston Mrs. Gus Henderson.