Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-04-05
State News Pi6k.llnS


sons OF baltimore. Nd, died suddenly
OF nervous prostration in New York.
aged 81 years Mr.. Marcus was prom
inent among baseball men. and was
largely interested in the Baltimore
baseball club.
\ SERIOUS shooting affray occurred
on Morris creek near Montgomery.
IN which two men. Tou Ruster and
Iharles McGee were engaged. Rustcr
was shot in the left side and McGee was
wounded three times. the bullets tax
Ing effect in left side, shoulder and left
thigh. McGee's condition is serious.
SEVERAL years ago Brigham Ward.
an eccentricold merchant OF Charles
ton. died. leaving an estate valued at
$50 00O During his last illness he pre-
pared a viii, in which he bequeathed
$40, 600 TO the city hospital and $40. O0O
To the trustees of the kanawha Pres
tyterian church. Almost year ago
Wards relatives residents OF Massa-
ehuSetts, instituted proceedings to set
aside these requests. alleging that ut
the time the will was made he was not
capable of making a will.
THE Superior Coal n Lumber Co. has
contracted with j. +. Jarrett, as agent
for his wife. Mrs. q. T.. Jarrett. TO fur
nish the company 5000. 900 feet of lum-
Der. 1t will take three years to fill the
contract. The lum Der will be cut from
timber NJ Kelley's creek. Kanawha
county.
JOHN Nj. PARKER serving five-year
sentence in the penitentiary for burg
larry. was pardoned the other dav by the
governor. Parker was convicted in the
circuit court of Hardy county, in June.
1919. lie was pardoned because he
promised to reform and support his
widowed sister. The charge has been
made that 10 pardons were received at
the state penitentiary in one day from
Gov. Atkinson. He branded the charge
as false.
1T has just developed that l.. Bysing-
er, jeweler at Clarksburg. who has
become prominent in musical and So
cal circles. was married at Pittsburgh
in the fall of 1897 to Miss Jennie
CLANCY. of Parkersburg He is strange
~ missing.
has been appointed a special laborer in
the Newport News navy yard, Vir-
ginia-
a CHARTER was gaanted by the sec
rotary of state to the Blue River Co
ENcavating Co., principal office at
rankin, Pa The company is incor-
porated with 81. 900, 900 capital. Incor-
porators are: Isaac p. Lambing,
Col; Otto Garme, Erie.
Pa; w. III. Fobes, l.. q. Branen, l.. NJ.
c. X. Branen. Franklin. Pa.
! he company is organized to operate
In Colorado.
IN giving his reasons for a pardon
granted few days ago to James Bar
dine, serving a five-year sentence in
the penitentiary for larceny, Gov. At
s<inson says: His mother, mother like.
has written me perhaps "A score of let
ters, in which she insists at her son
was not guilty of the crime. and begs
me 10 pardon him. This is ON lv nat
nral. and is intended to appeal TO what
fympathy may be left in me after IS
years in political life"
Miss MAGGIE BERo. an ds-year-old
daughter of Joseph Bero. prominent
citizen OF Wheeling, died at the home
Of Ella McCnrdy under such suspicious
that the police arrested
the McCurdy woman. who kept herself
ma, and I'D j. Clark the other morn
ing The woman says Miss Bero was
taken suddenly i'll at her home and
died before medical assistance could be
procured Harry Bowers a mail car
rler, secretly married the girl, who al
ways bore a good reputation, a few
days ago.
IHE state Epworth league ,conven-
tion will be held at Grafton, June 81
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