Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-09-24
State News Pl6k-uDS.
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tho Tribune Printing Co. OF Charles
ton. His bid was $2O.2S5. The con.
| tract for tho state binding was award.
ed TO J. G, Upton. OF Huntington. at
S7.699
The recount of the vote cast in Fay.
| cite county at the recent election re.
| suited in tho election of Grafton re-
publican. for sheriff over Snyder.
democrat. by 20 majority Deemans.
democrat, for county commissioner.
has majority OF 80 votes over Kirk
patrick. republican. The latter will
contest tho election.
Deputy Marshal Jackson arrested
Wick Gibson. aged is. near Elkins
and brought him To Clarksburg. charg.
ed with entering the post office I'm
Randolph county on tho night of No.
Nember 81 and stealing stamps.
/ Joseph Friedman. dry goods mer-
| chant OF Charleston. filed papers OF
voluntary bankruptcy. Liabilities. Sill.
6S5.0i: no assets.
Thcrc Is n mild sensation brewing
with the nearly completed and very
handsome capitol annex ut Charleston
as the central figure IL is claimed
that portion OF the ground which
| affords site for this structure Is not
the property Of the state. but is vested
In the name OF City Recorder w w
WertZ. who purchase tho property a
year ago at sac by he sheriff for
delinquent taxes. \ This development
has created furry and the adjust
ment OF the matteA so that the state,
may secure title te-Sbe property n a
question that~wlH HlW prove inter
est4ifffAs Before It Ia CONCLUDED.
An explosion occurred \ the EhIen
mines OF the Fairmont Coal on In tho
suburbs of Shinnston. in which fivo
men wcro badly burned The Aexplo;
sion is supposed to have been causAd
by dust In the mines. which was ign -
cd by blast, Tho injured are: Fred
Randall. Frank Long Tom Wharton.
VIM. Baker and Slav whose name
could not be learned.
Mrs. III. c.. Dayis. wife OF ex-UnGed
| states Senator II. c. Davis. died at
Elkins the other morning OF heart fail
urc. She had been suffering fer sew.
eral weeks. All her children ere at
her bedside when she passed away.
Mrs. stephen b. Elkins having arrived
from Washington the day before.
| a fire at Moundsvile the other night
caused n panic among the prisoners
Ia me pShitentiary. and quiet was re-
stored with much difficulty. The flames
destroyed the flower house with all tho
ported plants belonging TO the institu-
ton The ioss is partially covered by
insurance.
Returns received In Wheeling at the
nP
Indicate that the laurel. nor Rhedoden-
dron. received the majority OF votes
cast by the school children OF tho
state. their parents and patrons IN chtE
contest to select n stato flower
AT the republican, primaries held i'm
Wheeling for tho purpose OF placing a
| city ticket in the field the following
wore nominated: Mayor. Harry G..
Mcclure; chief of police. Samuel X.
Johnson. city clerk. Walter Worls:
wharfmaster w. G. Thomas The DO
lice had to be called to- quell trouble Mt
the principal polling place. 1t took all
night In some precincts TO count the
vote.
Toledo IL Ohio Central train No. /.
north-bound. ran into the rear OF an
extra freight near Woods Station, 10
miles south OF PIT Pleasant Engineer
William O'Brien. OF the passenger. anN
his fireman saw the danger in time an
jumped, the former sustaining sevq
sprains. while the latter escaped
jury. The passenger engine CRASH -
into the cabOOsc Of the freight. com
pletely dcmolshing II and several
freight cars. Conductor Elmer Nc
Chung. of the freight. is said to- be Sc
riously injured He was I'm the ca
boOse His home Is at Montgomery.
None OF the passengers were injured.
John T. McGraw. a capitalist OF
Grafton, has purchased the Dry Fork
railroad. a feeder of the West Virginia
Central e. Pittsburg. The line con
meets with the latter road at r. n
bricks and extends 80 m
and timber district
The people Of Wet
gained a hunting pd
bear which is roaming
New Martinsyille Sevd
the bear. but were too
get near IT, The animal Is
ing bear. which escaped from
Of Italians a few nights ago.
LOWS L. Warren. aged 60 wa
over and killed by train at Tha,
Laton Shank. a sub-foreman for
Wade Sloan Co. contractors on tn
g. o. cutoff at Martinsburg. was bI6N
to pieces by an explosion OF dyI