Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-04-03
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Preston Grant, aged 10, was caught
on revolving shafting at Parkcrsburg
and fatally hurt.
Governor White appointed Virgil A.
| Lewis. Mason City; John Il. Austin.
Red Mud. and Charles L. Bowyer.
Point Pleasant, trustees for the
Point Pleasant monument fund.
At Bluefeld. Henry Davis shot and
killed Marion Philton. neighbor.
In the circuit court at Wheeling
be fore Judge Hervey the mandamus
| application of the republicans to Gust
the new board of public works was
argued and the question held under
! advisement.
The body Of an unknown man was
| found in the Ohio north of Wheeling
clad in blue shirt, jeans trousers ami
vest In pocket was a silver watch
with chain and three-cent piece for a
| charm. The man was about rs.
Property owners of Wheeling have
| raised fund to- resist the Pan
| handle company's encroachment on
| the harbor lines of the Ohio river.
where they have built a 4O-foot en-
baDlmcnt into the river, to use il for
yards. The embankment has turned
| the course of the river
Creed Jones was shot and killed bv
some unknown person, who first shot
at him through Il window near Penns-
| boro, and then put four bullet holes
| in him when Jones followed him in
| to the yard.
The authorities at Wyoming City
received word that John Stewards.
colored. was murdered by two other
Negroes four miles east of here, and
his body thrown into Tug river. The
murderers escaped "a Kentucky.
Coal operators at Lick Run, Mingo
county, will endeavor TO operate their
mines with non-union men Strikers
may interfere.
| In the circuit court at Union the
jury in the case Of Charlie Crawford,
| the boy who shot and killed his 10
year-old brother Frank, because he
refused to let him have dogs to go
hunting, found him guilty of volun-
| tary manslaughter. and he was sen
fenced to the reform school until he
is y years old. The father OF the
boys Is serving l6-year term in the
penitentiary for attempting to muir
der his brother-in-law. and is also uu-
der indictment for forgery
Committees from the operators OF
| the kanawha and New river field and
the miners agreed TO continue for one
year the scale of a year ago.
{. f. Shields wrote from Tuppers
Plains, o., to the police at Parkers-
burg to arrest his wife who, he said.
had eloped with 5. L. Mitchell. n mar
ried man, both leaving families The
people were there, the other night, it,
is thought.
1t is reported at Charleston that
b. r. Keller has been appointed to
the iudgesIip of the new West Vir-
ginia district.
Ulysses Culloms, who fell under
moving train at EIIenboro. died of his
| injuries.
j. Orr Nickel, chairman of the Re
PnDhcan county committee, died at
Anderson, of typhoid fever.
The Norfolk & Western has com
plcted the big fan plant that is to
| furnish pure air for the East End
tunnel Mt Coaldalc. The plant CON
slsts OF three enormous fans, with
2oO-horse-power engines to run them.
| Inc plant has cost over 500, 900, and
VIII have to be kept in operation day
and night. This is the second such
plant in the world. the only other
one being in use in IL tunnel under
the Alps, in Switzerland. In IL years
seven men have been asphyxiated in
the East End tunnel, and twice "a
| many more have been carried ont nm
conscious and within a few minutes
OF death. The tunnel takes nearly
TWO hours TO clear itself of the pois-
onouS vapors left by passing trains.
Rev. DIR. Thomas Balph, of ST.
ClairsViile, Ohio. was installed AT
wheeling aS pastor Of the Second
United Presbyterian church.
AT Charleston Noah Fisher. aged
10 was arrested. charged with set
tlng fire to the home of Wash Mat
thews.
/ The body Of Harvey Legg was
found in creek near Charleston. H.
IS supposed he fell in while intosi-
Gated
hoatcr taken from the river srt
bridgeport was identified as George
McEItrcsh, of Warren, Ohio. missing
Tor two months There are two great
holcS IN his head. indicating foul play.
Clark Simmons, charged ,vith shoe
ing Rev John ReNroad at Weston, was
1diudgcd not guilty.
Mrs Della Hicks. wife Of William
Hicks. Of Mouudsvillc, and Lindsey
Long railway electrician, living at
McMechen. are missing, and Hicks
thinks they cloped.
The supreme court has issued a
mandaIuus writ ordering the CITY
council OF Charleston to bring before
the papers in the Morris-Wcrtz con.