Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-03-26
State Odds and Ends.


Central mines. near Fairmont. oc-
Cured. All miners escaped without
injury. and the property loss was
slight.
At Wheeling. Joseph wildes. aged
10. was killed by terminal train. His
body lay in the rain three hours until
the coroner arrived
Jesse Stephenson. aged ~. was shot
from ambush at Clay. G. III. The
wound may prove fatal. There is no
clcw.
Ernest Hood. aged Z. fell from foot
| log while crossing Bonds Creek. near
Ellenboro. and was drowned. His
ten year-old brother. who accompanied
him. jumped in the water and recov-
cred the body. but the vital spark was
gone.
Bedford White. n young farmer who
was married recently. accidentally
Killed his wife at his home near Berne
White had just returned from hunt
ing and was cleaning his gun which
In some way was discharged. the bull.
| let penetrating the brain OF his wife.
who was seated on the other side OF
tho room. White is crezed with grief.
McMechin. was killed by II. a. o.
train at Wheeling. This was the third
| time he had teen struck by b. g. q.
train in IL years.
Two hundred thousand acres of coal
land in Clay. Roam. Kanawha aud
Jackson counties has been optioned
by Jackson county people. at So per
acre and they are now endeavoring to
| sell the entire amount to eastern capt.
| talists.
The notes in the Reese Wales for.
gerry case were stolen from the Office
of Stenographer Frame at Fairmont.
Wales pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to three years in the peniten-
| tiary.
Mary McDonough and Kathleen
Hickey of New York; Elizabeth Wren,
OF Dublin Ireland. and Laura Shelley.
of Omaha. Neb., took the veil ut
| Wheeling tho other day.
| A fearful tragedy was enacted near
| Oakville the other evening, when
Frank Atwood shot VIM. Melvin so
| badly that he died "A few minutes
| later. but not until he had inflicted
| fatal injuries on his antagonist ami
| rival with an AK. Jennie Williams. tho
woman over whom the tragedy oc.
CURED. is seriously wounded. Atwood
| went to the house of the woman. found
Melvin there and persuaded her to
| depart with him. Melvin. grabbing
| up an ak, rushed on Atwood. who fired
| with shotgun, part of the charge
| taking effect in Melvin's head. but fail.
| ing to stop him. Atwood drew n re.
| volver and fired twice, both bullets
entering Melvin's right temple. Then
| Atwood tripped and fell over some
slaves. and before he arose Melvin
was upon him. Raising his ak aloft
he brought it down with terrific force
upon Atwood's head. fracturing the
mans skull in two places and death
| resulted.
a. j. Estop. aged 20, while walking
across the Chesapeake e. Ohio rail-
road bridge over Cabin Creek. was
run down by a freight train AMI
knocked off the bridge into the wa
ter below, a distance of over 40 feet;
He was uninjured by the fall, and i'm
mediately swan TO the bank
Clara Harrison. comely blonde or
p years, has been arrested and con
fesses to thebirth of child which was
found in vault on the premises OF
II. l.. Moore. Williamstown. She
claims its death was an accident.
At Clifton. While Mrs s. Cochran
was visiting her four-year-olo son =
clothing caught fire from an open
crate. He is in a critical condition.
The Pittsburg train leaving Fair.
mont. the other day, was compelled
10 lay at Opekiska a small coal town
a short distance from Fairmont. until
orders were received by the trainmen
from Fairmont over the telephone.
The operator at that place was miss.
ing and the Office closed. There is a
mystery about the case that has nos
yet come 20 light. $50 trace of the
young man has been found.
Slowly gasping her life away ~
her home in WILLIAMSON. nes little
Helen Roe. the infant daughter OF
Captain w. u. Roe. OF the steamer
Kanawha. The cause OF this sal
state Of affairs Is probably the most
peculiar in the medical annals of
Wood county. Several months agJ
the child secured some shelled corn
and infant-like. put some OF the ker.
ncls i'm her mouth and one in her nose.
The kernel placed i'm the nose wa
drawn into one OF the lungs. where u
became fastened Later tho child
caught cold the cold developed into
pneumonia. the grain Of corn began
growing and the growth can not be
stopped The child is too young 10
stand an operation and is slowly dy-
ing.
Man Killed By Robbers.