Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-06-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

| Fruit trees were blown out by their
roots. barns and fences laid fiat and
| great damage was done TO wheat
crops. The citizens were frightened
for 20 minutes The dust was SO great
and thick in the air that no one could
see ten feet. Rural districts report
heavy damages.
The other evening Tom Browning
brought fourand-s, half-foot black
snake into Hockberrys salem at Sis
tersville. While fooling with the rep
tile II struck Hockberry in the face.
and he dealt Browning a blow with
Deer bottle. breaking his jaw.
On account of technical Irregular
ties in drawing the juries the June
terms of the criminal court of Pleas
ants and the circuit courts If Writ
counties have all been abandoned and
seven alleged murderers are compelled
10 lie In jail in the three counties
awaiting trial till the next term
Charles Mcconnell. an engineer on
! the Ohio River railroad. returned
home TO Parkersburg from his run to
ma the house empty and locked. ev.
cry Dit OF furniture gone and his wife
missing. He investigated and found
the furniture was at the depot, all
packed and ready for shipment He
recovered it and took it home Later
he found his wife had sued for divorce.
alleging cruelty. 1t is said that a
| Wheeling fortune teller told her She
would soon be divorced and she sued
before her husband had chance to do
| SO He had no intention of asking for
| a divorce.
AT Morgantown, the directors of the
Union Gas and Water Co. voted to
spend s250,O0O in improving the serv-
ice and $4,000 to assist in building a
railroad bridge over the Monongahela
| river for the purpose of reaching sites
for factories, whose employees will add
| 10000 population TO the city. Expert
biologists stated to the company that
the natural gas in it's fields would in
sure gas for at least ten years.
Riley Able and Melville Munroe.
alias "Dodd," it is charged. fatally
beat Thomas Sullivan an old soldier.
at Clarksburg. The men were on
horseback and made their escape Po-
lice are on their track. The two men
insulted Sullivan's daughter Sulli-
van went into his home and got a shot
gun. The two men pounced on him.
and with his own gun literally beat
his skull into pieces.
Mrs. Bridget O'Connor, the oldest
! resident of Randolph county. and prob
| ably in the state. died at Womelsdorf.
aged 105 years. She lived in Randolph
| county fol 81 years.
Homer j. Beaudet. David Levy.
Charles H. Becker. of New York city:
| VIM. {. Merritt and VIM. r. Thomp-
| son. OF Huntington, incorporated the
West Virginia & Kentucky Railway
Co. The capital is 81 5000 The
company will buih a line from SUIT
ton, w. Va, to Ironton, o.. passing
through IL counties in West Virginia.
| four in Kentucky and one in Ohio.
The headquarters will be at Hunting
ton
William c. Minear was found dead
in his barn near kingwood. having
died of heart failure while at work.
He was the last of four brothers. all
or whom died of heart failure wfthfn
the last four years, each dying sud
denly and alone while at work.
Col. j. Mitchell Fuller was brought
to Huntington from Welch. where the
| other day he acted as chairman of one
wing of the rival republican senatorial
convention, which ended in a riot II
is now thought he will recover
Oficial returns give Charles Swisher
90 majority in Taylor county for the
state senate over George C. Sturgiss.
or Morgantown. which is considered a
victory for Henry Schmulbach for the
United States senate in the Morgan
town district. although Mr. Sturgiss an
nounces that he will endeavor to beat
Swisher in his own county. Marion, in
the primary.
Jessie Taylor, 10 years of age. while
looking through a spyglass. saw rat.
tlesnake on some cliffs near Peters.
burg in the act of swallowing a SPUR
rel. It's tail alone was sticking out the
snakes mouth She took a hoe and
killed the snake, which was five feet
long, saving the life of the squirrel.
The Seneca glass factory. which
went to Morgantown several years ag3
from Fostoria. o.. was burned the
other night so badly as t. neccssitate
rebuilding. The loss will reach $50
600, covered by insurance Three hun
dred and fifty men are thrown out OF
employment. Firebugs are suspected.
United States Deputy Marshal Dan
X. Jackson brought to- Clarksburg two
prisoners, George and Bud Martin.
brothers. who are charged with be-
ing implicated i'm the robbery of a post
ONCE at Claude, Taylor county. four
years ago last December They we're
siYen a preliminary hearing before
United states Commissioner Spates
F. Kent Loomis managing editor
OF the Evening News. Parkersburg.
formerly a Cincinnati newspaper man.
was married to Miss NIiIdrnd Afnuhnn