Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-07-10
State Odds and Ends.
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giant cracker thrown by n boy. He
was badly injured i'm the side aud il
not expected To live.
David Bosworth. while walking on
the T.. IL. RAIDER farm. near Ripley.
discovered swinging i'm moose OF
rope hanging from tree tho herd OF
James stephens, who had been miss
ing from Mr.. RAIDERS for two weeks.
The decapitated body. partly decon-
posed, was found beneath the head
ON the ground. No explanation il Civ
en- but IL is supposed stephens COM
mitted suicide. as his money and
watch were not taken. and there were
no marks of violence
number of boys. aged 10 to 10,
U:tending the festivities at Graham
ven. drank mixture of tincture of
belladonna and wood alcohol. which
had been taken from DIR. ID. A. Sayre's
drug store 10y small boys. who
thought IL was whisky. stephan Kay,
IL. Ia dead; Marvin Files, George Rick
ard, Okey Rice, Frank Finley and Con-
rad Sayre became violently III. but,
with the heroic efforts of DIR. Sayre
and physicians telegraphed from
Pomeroy, are still alive.
John w. Sisson, at one time one of
the most prosperous farmers i'm Ka-
nnwha county, committed suicide at
his home in Sissonsville by hanging
himself To rafter in his barn. Ilo
used trace chain, md when found
his head was half severed from the
Aig4nn l.u o.. Il
children, and was IS years old. The
loss of his property i'm recent law
suit was the cause of the act.
Arnold Muir was shot to death at
Ioup Creek 10y William Hairless, i'm
an argument
In Boone county Minnie Maddell.
IL years old, shot and fatally wound
ed burglar attempting TO enter the
house while every one was absent ex-
cept her two sisters.
Sylvester Green. OF Mcdowell coun-
~, fatally stabbed his wife and beat
ont the brains OF his child with n rock
because the wife refused him money
with which TO gamble. Green escaped
TO Kentucky.
AZ Montgomery James Jackson, col
orcd, while drunk, started out with
n pistol 60 kill everybody and wound
ed three men. two fatally. before he
was himself killed by his first victim,
who went after him with shotgun.
At an early hour the other morning
the magnificent home of Samuel
Wright, wealthy bachelor. who lives
near Ravens Eye, was discovered on
hsf lii
the scene the building was burned To
the ground. Wright could not he
found, and the supposition was thnt
he had been burned. Late i'm the aft
ernuOn Wright returned 10 the scene
Of the confagration. and tells thrill
ing tale. IL was about O'clock i'm
the morning when he was awakened
by the flames, and the odor of kero-
sene was very strong. lie ran from
the building. and i'm the moonlight
saw two men standing ON the hillside
in the rear of his home He started
toward them, when they ran To the
woods. Wright, believeing that they
were the incendiarics. pursued them
in his bare feet. and chased them
across mountains and valleys until al
PEELED TO give up the chase, as he
was exhausted.
Augustus Pollack. of Wheeling. vol
unfairly increased the wages of his
200 cigar makers % cents per 900,
beginning August /.
John Hartman and Isaiah Davis. Me-
grOes, at Falrmont, were sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary for
bnrglarly
The most severe electrical storm
ever known at Huntington visited
That vicinity the other night. II con-
tinucd for two hours. Dozens of
houses were struck and number OF
barns on the Ohio river. opposite there.
were burned. scores OF horses and
COWS were killed. Robert McWilliams.
son Of Circuit Clerk II. w. McWilliams.
was Knocked down by bolt of light
ming, and was unconscious for hours.
lie will likely recover. The telephone
exchange also suffered severely.
AZ Wheeling stranger. said 20 ba
from New York. was arrested by a
United States Marshal, charged with
using the mails 10 dcfrnud. lie Is
sued letter-heads bearing the name or
prominent merchant, Edward Wng-
ner. and sent orders 10 many commits
sion houses for goods. The goods
were sent and the real Wagner was
called upon 90 pny for them. "Wag-
ner' denies his guilt; says his name
Is Wagner and that he only discov-
cred there was another Wagner in
the same line OF business here after
he had begun business. and that he
often intended TO retire from that bu-
siness and deal in secondhand goods
His lctterhcads gave his office address
as the Center Wheeling Bank Build
ing, but he had no Office there. "Wag-
ner" was held for the United States