Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-08
SOME TRI-STATE EVENTS.

At New Brighton, Pa, ex-Chief Of
Police william Winter was fired SIS
tor assaulting his aged father.
While playing with matches in a
Ehed containing a leaking gasoline
:ank, at GAINESVILLE, O., Earl Wise,
aged years, set fire to the tank,
which exploded, burning him to death
In attempting to save him the boys
raother was fatally burned. while his
father and brother were badly
sccrched.
The hot mills Of the New Castle,
Pa, plant of the American Tinplate
company we've closed for an indefinite
period.
Undertakes of Mercer and Law.
renee counties, Pa, have formed an
association and will refuse to con-
duct a funeral for any family indebt-
I'd to any member of the association.
While Alphonso Snyder and Walter
Shirley, 15-year-old Huntingdon, Pa,
boys, were playing with a loaded re-
vdver, the weapon was discharged
and Shirley was killed.
Marion Veon, pumper, was sHffo'
Gated by gas in the mine Of the
Wampum (Pa.) Coal company. His
brother and a fellow miner narrowly
escaped death while recovering the
body.
Because the city council questioned
bis authority to appoint policemen
and threatened to make him pay
the salaries Of those he had named,
Mayor Buell. of Bar0erton, o., dis
Tllssed the entire force. The council
refused to replace the officers and
the town is without police protection.
The Sixteenth o. v. |. held its
twenty-seventh annual reunion at Ak
ION, O. The next reunion will be held
in Wooster, and the new officers live
there. They are: President, A. B..
Ranstetter; vice president, D. c..
Curry; secretary, Enos Pierson;
treasurer, S. Nubzler.
The Rapp Oil company has dis
rlsed of it's holdings in Auglaize
county, O., to eastern parties for a
consideration Of $4,000. The prop
crty consists Of CTS acres Of lease.
holds in Salem and Logan townships,
on which are located 80 wells.
At ChiIlicothe, O., Dick LaWhorn,
of Franklin township, was bound over
to court on a charge attempted as
sault on Mrs. Elizabeth Whaley.
Joseph Smith, aged II, died in
Springfield township, near Chilli
ccthe, o. He was a strong Democrat
and for 33 yeArs had been justice of
the peace.
An impure spring, from which a
score of families IN Marietta, o., have
Lcen getting their water supply, has
caused 16 cases of typhoid fever, with
several others suspected. The water
will be analysed by the state board
| oc health.
Word has been received at Chilli.
cothe, O.. that Lieutenant William i.
| Stafford. son OF Judge Stafford, CT that
city, has resigned his commission in
| the navy to accept position as
curator in the department OF asricul-
ture.
A man hunt is being organized by
The residents of Dorr street, near Oak
Openings. Toledo, o., to search for
| William Rex, who disappeared, leav-
Ing a note that he would probably
commit suicide.
At Piqua, O., the warrant against
attorney A. L. Marshall, sworn to by
Eolney Crone, charging Marshall with
embezzlement, has been withdrawn
and the case dismissed.
| At Macarthur, O., David Morris,
charged with killing his father, was
bound over on the charge of second
Gegree murder Bail, $4,000.
At Findlay, O., Grace Stachause
was arrested on the charge Of doping
! Charles Bradley, an oil man, and rob-
ling him of S2S5.
At Aberdeen, O., Miss Cora Pence
was thrown from her buggy against
a stone wall and sustained internal in.
juries.
At Upper Sandusky, O., Mayor SyI-
van issued orders that all slot ma
chimes must>be removed by Sept. /.
At Rome, O., Angelo Foster was
kicked in the head by a horse and
probably fatally injured.
Superintendent of Detectives Philip
Demmel, of Pittsburg. announced that
Joseph Allen had been identified by
several witnesses as the man who
was seen with Achsah King on the
cay she was stabbed to death. He