West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-08-02
SOME TRI-STATE EVENTS.

During an electrical storm light
EYng struck the home Of John Sim.
mons, on New river, near Hunting
ton, w. Va. The building was badly
damaged. Two members of Mr.. Sim
mons family were seriously injured.
one daughter being unconscious all
night from the result of the shock.
The boiler in the sawnil, located
en the George Neff farm. ia Monroe
county, near Bellaire, O.. exploded,
instantly killing Engineer John Shaw
and Fireman George Wheeler and
fatally injuring Charles Supper. The
entire mill was wrecked.
The Panhandle officials have given
cut that they will erect a new pas
senser station at Steubenville, O.
The large kiln sheds of the Amerl.
can Porcelain works, in New Brigh.
ton, Pa, were entirely destroyed by
FIRE. The less is about $4,000.
Alta Meyer, a 16-year-oId guards
man, member of Company E, Six
tCenth regiment, national guard of
Pennsylvania, received probably fatal
wounds while scoring ON the coma
rany's rife range at Cooperstown,
near Franklin. Pa.
At Akron, o. Mrs. Catherine
kryder sued J. Harvey Kryder, a
wealthy business man, for alimoAy.
Her petition alleges that Kryder has
disposed of all his interests here, and
that he said he would never live with
her again.
The boiler of a sawmII belonging
to Charles Suppes, eight miles east of
Woodsfetd. o.. exploded, killing
Charles Shaw, aged "a, aid George
Wheeler aged S. Edward SappeS,
aged Is, was badly hurt.
In fight at the hamlet of Browns
sole, near Wellsville. o.. John Wag-
Lle. aged 20, was struck On the head
with a wrench by Summerton Pyles,
fellow workman, and died in few
hours. Pyles escaped.
The funeral Of Rev. w. n. Leather.
man, of Degraff. o.. who was drowned
while trying to save the life of Ear!
Needham, who also persisted. WIS
held at Degraf, o.
Complaint was made to the police
by the Citizens league against wheels
II fortune and other gambling de
vices in operation at the Driving park
Columbus, D.
The little 15-months-oId baby Of
Ernest GertZ, of No. 1878 Superior
street, Toledo, O., was scalded to
Gcath by pulling pan of water from
The stove.
Robert Thompson, aged SO, cashier
for the Woolsen Spice company, liv-
ing at 716 Yates street, Toledo, O.,
Has found dead in his room from gas
asphyXiation.
killed by a train were identified as
J. NJ. Anderson. of Kenton, O., and
ODE Jones, Of Columbus.
At Washington Court House, O.,
burglar was frightened away from the
home of Mrs Mary Dewitt by the
screams CT her daughter, Mrs. Clara
JegAigar.
At Lima, O., a southbound freight
train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton, at the North street cross
ing, jumHd a switch and was
wrecked.
BY the explosion of a sawmilI
boiler near Crown City, near CALI.
polls, O., Joseph Hardesty was killed
and his son was fatally injured.
Arthur shuIz, city salesman for
Adolph Feiss & Co., of Toledo, O., is
missing. His accounts are being
checked up.
At Toledo, O., John Crook, ct Lock
Haven, Pa, aged 80, was hit by a
Lake Shore train and killed.
Michael kradei. of Springfield, O.,
was killed in a runaway accident in
Denver, Colo.
BY the overturning of motor car
G. B. Gideaut, foreman Of the KanaW
la and New River Fire Brick com
1any's works, at Kanawha, w. Va.
was killed, and Elijah Steen. the su
perintendent, badly injured.
The sheriff of Hancock county, w
Va, is looking for Summerten Pyles
yonted on the charge of striking John
Waggel, aged 20, with a wrench and
inflicting a wound that will cause his
/ death.
| At Weston, w. Va, Charles Knight
brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio
fell under an engine. Physicians say
| he cannot recover.
Thomas Delay brought suit agalns
John A. Coyner, wealthy farmer, o
Frankfort, O., for $4,000 en- tn,
ground that Coyner circulated steriet
that he was a bigamiSt.
Partly affected by the heat ant
partly by incipient dementia, induce,
by drinking some whisky last Wednes
day evening, Waisley Dulerenski
aged s., cat his throat and was dyinj
at the st. Johns General hospital, Al
legheny City, Pa
Frank Patterson, dapper younl