Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-04-09
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lady in question early in the evening
and was setting out for home when
Brown met him with double-barreled
shotgun and emptied both barrels into
his body. Brown surrendered.
At TOllgate. east of Parkersburg. y
4 o. freight train No. 80 Jumped tho
track. and II cars loaded with cattle
were thrown over steep embank.
ment Much of the stock was killed
or injured. and the cars were com
pletely demolished. The engine was
also badly damaged. but the engineer
and hremen and all the brakemen had
TO jump to save themselves. All the
passenger trains We're delayed several
hours, as the track was torn up for a
long distance.
At Charleston as officer Armour Civ
ems stopped to kiss his 2-year-old son
MS revolver fell to the floor and was
discharged. the bullet striking the boy
In the left side. The wound is prob
ably fatal. The parents are almost
crazed over the accident
After serving five years i'm the West
virginia penitentiary for a crime of
which he has since been proved TO be
innocent Joshua Smith has been rec
commended for pardon. He was sent
to prison after conviction of grand lar
ceny.
At Morgantown Perry Baker & Co.'S
dairy house. with all of its contents
milk wagon and separator house were
burned. The fire started from gas
stove. Loss $1,000
One of the Montgomery Water
Works Co.'S tanks burst the other
morning when containing $4,000 gal
Ions of water. Laird Moore and Terry
Jaisley were washed down the hill and
injured.
Jacob Jones was shot and almost in
stantly killed at Winona. it is charged
by James Pruette. who then held mp
the bystanders with his gun and es-
capped.
Eugene Arnett, son of Col w. w. Ar
nett, who passed away recently, and
who was the most distinguished ora
tor and criminal lawyer in the state.
died in the county infirmary, at Wheel
ing, aged go
Some days ago man giving his
name as j. p. Moore and his home as
Dayton, o., came to Fairmont, rep
resentinS himself as an agent of the
Alpha Milling and Gold Mining Co. of
Boise City Ida. which company. he
claimed. owned 40 square miles of rich
gold land in the Bitter Root mountains.
which had never been worked. Sew
Cral thousands dollars worth of shares
wore sold here and certificates issued
for the same. and a company of 16
Fairmont citizens were organized to
20 to the gold territory. About the
time the company was ready to start
Moore claimed to have received a tele-
gram from Dayton. o.. that one OF
his brothers was dangerously i'll. He
left, but promised TO return. He left
with about $4,000. He did not return
and a committee was sent to Dayton
in search Of him. No trace could be
found of him or any of his family
there.
Charles Mathews, of Rendville.
stepped on a rusty nail some time ago
and died the other morning of te-
--taaus.
The other night, at II o'clock, Cord
an b. Gibbons took charge of the
Parkersburgh postoffice. with Henry
Harnish as assistant. Mr.. McCreary.
the late postmaster, has announced
his candidancy for clerk of the cir
cut court.
The indications point TO a pacific
settlement OF the recent mining
trouble at the Clarksburg Fuel Co. s
mines.
Judge TavenneT appointed w. ID.
Paden to fill the unexpired term as
clerk of the circuit court of Wood
county. caused by the death of Capt.
.. NJ. Clemens a few weeks ago.
At the city election held in Ben
wood Thomas, republican. was elect.
ed mayor; George Furbee. democrat.
marshal. and Charles Schane repu.
blican. city clerk. The republicans
elected FIVE of the eight counciimen.
The worst wind. rain and hailstorm
in years swept St Marys the other
day. Hail was several inches deep.
The loss Of oil derricks in that terri
tory runs into the thousands OF dol.
lars
Fred A. Olds and Miss Mamie l..
Reed. Of Clarksburg eloped to Oak
land at 3 o'clock the other morning
and were married.
William Douglas Fay Scott and
Charles Burcher. employed AZ the
MonUngah mines near Fairmont.
mounted the cab Of the shift engine
while intoxicated and pulled the throt.
tic. The engine struck string of
empty cars and an were hurt but not
fatally.
Newt Wells escaped from the county
jail at ParkcrsburC. and all efforts Of
the authorities 10 End out the hole
through which ne went or the locks
he tempered with has been unavailing
Samuel Quinsberry died at Coopers
on a truck. upon which he lay down to
rest II Is believed he was poisoned