Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-08-20
State Odds and Ends.
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ana IL was mutually agreed by the
delegates that the convention be adj
journed until Saturday. August 80.
The body of young Charles Smith.
OF Nessebroad. has been found in
deep ravine near Ravenswood. The
top OF his head had been blown of by
the discharge OF the gun with which
he had gone hunting.
With the signing OF the scale by the
Merchants Coal Co. of Tunnelton, it
is thought that the miners strike in
that district has come 10 an end. The
miners gained all they asked for
Floyd Cooper. aged II years. who
escaped from the reform school at
Huntington. May 10. surrendered to
Chief of Detectives Charles Bartho-
low, of Fairmont He said he was
tired of roaming.
VIM Anderson was held at Wheel.
ing on the charge of shooting at Henry
Truschei the weighmaster at the
mines in Mlller's Station. o. The bull
let hit Truschel. Lawrence Niehart and
also an Italian miner. Anderson will
not return TO OHIO without requisition
papers
young Colored woman was arrest
ed for masquerauing in male attire at
Kenova. Later a message was receiv-
ed by the chief of police to hold her
for robblng residence in Charles
ton.
Mrs. Mary Link. of Pittsburg. and
babe, who. with others of the family
have been visiting in Wheeling. were
knocked down and run over by heavy
wagon OF the Architectural Iron and
Wire Works Co With motherly in
stinCt. Mrs Link held the child she
carried out of harms way while the
wheels were rolling over her own
body. The child did not receive
scratch. but the mother was badly
crushed. Her injuries are serious.
When the national guardsmen were
awaiting their train for the east the
other afternoon at Parkersburg two
members of the Terra Alta company
got into a quarrel One Of them hit a
member of the Martnsburg company,
and the Martinsburg men took il up.
The Terra Alta men all joined in. and
for 10 minutes all the men OF both
companies were in a lively scrimmage.
Many were dubbed over the head with
guns, severel were bayonetted and
two or three were severely cut. Mai.
Moore, of Martinsburg, rushed into
the fight and stopped it. The two com
panies were then hustled into separate
cars. Guards were placed at the doors
and the train pulled out. 1t is not
thought that any were dangerously in
jured, but a dozen or more were cut
over the station.
b. Johnson and a brother are dead
at Anderson, a small mining town pc
tween Fairmont and Clarksburg, and
William Douglass and his son are fu-
gitives from Justice, charged with the
crime. According to the story brought
to the sheriff the four men were drink
ing and quarreled over a trivial mat
ter. Finally the Douglasses jumped
mp and, drawing weapons, fred direct
~ at the two Johnson boys, the SHOTS
ta+tfrg effect in the breasts of each
and producing instant death The
Douclasses then fed with officers in
pursuit.
The other night the dwelling of NJ
c. Hediestone, at Willow, near ST Ma
~ = '"uSh' H4c lIOIH Ihe hltcheh
stove and was totally destroyed. The
family OF eight persons were asleep in
the upper story and all made t1eir es-
cape 10y ieaping from the windows eX-
cept George. aged 10. who persisted in
the flames. Mrs Hedlestone was the
last one 20 leave the house, and she
ana three OF the other children were
severely burned.
Near Genoah station. on the Norfolk
& Western railroad. p miles south of
Huntington a head-end collision of
freight trains occurred the other morn.