Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-10-07
State News PlCk-ups.


Psrkersburg. was struck by an engine
and instantly killed. His body was
cut to pieces.
{. +. Campbell. OF Portsmouth. one
OF the best known Jockeys of Ohio.
was probably fatally injured on the
Huntington race course while driving
Brown Joe. His horse was In the lead.
and was just finishing the race. when
II fell and Campbell had several bones
broken and was unconscious for
hours.
The Parkersburg Presbytery, in ses.
sion In Spencer, has sent an overture
to the Synod of Pennsylvania. asking
that three Presbyteries be created in
West Virginia and that there be made
a Synod to be known as the Synod of
West Virginia.
Aaron Bloch. for many years presi.
dent of the Bloch Bros Tobacco Co.
Wheeling. and until the time OF his
death heavily Interested in II. died in
New York OF nervous prostration. nc.
cording to a message received at
Wheeling.
During the noon hour In Smithfield
James L. Yates. IL is charged. shot
and killed Charles Richards. the pro.
prietor of the Smithheld restaurant.
The men began fight over the price OF
Yates dinner Yates made his es.
care
William T. Thomas. a milllner. was
Killed while crossing the X. & NJ.
track in carriage at Charleston. His
horse became unmanageable and the
| train. which was going backward.
struck the front seat of the carriage
and knocked Thomas brains out. His
son jumped and received no injury.
HIS wife was dashed down an embank.
ment with the carriage and was in
jured internally.
Train No. 5. on the Chesapeake g.
Ohio railroad, the express from New
York to Cincinnati. was wrecked at
Cotton Hill. two miles east OF Mont
gomery. Several were reported in
jured. but none seriously. The en-
CINE and Ave cars left the rails
In moment OF anger Mrs. Margaret
Cumpstone left the home OF her hus-
band. Jackson Cumpstone OF Mont
band and their children believed she
would return and thought she had gone
to her fathers home in Pennsylvania.
They were grief-stricken the other aft
ernoon to learn that she had been
found dead in an unused barn ten
miles from Montgomery and had been
buried by persons living in the com.
munity. The physician says she had
starved to death
Edward Voirs. well-known river
man. who has been pilot on the tow.
boat w. b. Calderwood for some time
committed suicide by jumping from
his boat into the Kanawha river near
Raymond City. 1t is said Voirs had
been drinking hard for week or
| more. and was acting in boisterous
manner. The captain demonstrated
with him. when without any warning
he uttered wild yell'and jumped from
the hurricane deck into the river. The
baby has not been recovered.
Fire broke out In bottling house
of a Williamson brewery and before
the flames were subdued almost half
the town was wiped out. Among the
buildings destroyed were the Norfolk
&c Western hotel. branch house OF the
Lion brewery. IA residences and sew
eral small stores. Will Turner, col
ored. was burned to death The loss
Is roughly estimated at 100000. one
fourth covered by insurance.
After hours OF suffering from being
impaled on an iron lever Robert vii.
lis, an employe OF the Mt. Carbon Co.
near Montgomery. died. He was leav-
ing the works and started down a steep
incline on a plank, which was grooved
to At the rails. Losing control OF the
impromptu toboggan. IT developed
high speed, and was finally up-ended.
landed on the iron lever, which passed
through his body
Crazed by jealousy. Mrs. Gllkerson.
wife OF Ieander Gilkerson. an expo
licemsn at Huntington. stabbed, prob
ably fatally Miss ida Johnson. dress
maker Mrs. Gilkerson, II Is said. had
been jealous OF the Johnson woman
for weeks. and she followed her hus-
band. When. II is alleged. he entered
Miss Johnson's parlor she rushed In.
stabbed the girl a dozen times. 1t is
charged. and then turned on her hus.
band. plunging the keen-bIaded dirk
into him three times. Miss Johnson
can not recover. Mrs. Gilkerson sur.
rendered
Three young men supposed 10 have
come from Wayne county did a thriv-
ing business at a religious gathering
ON Ten Mile creek. in Lincoln county.
by selling watermelons that had been
plugged From a pint TO quart OF
whisky had been poured into each
melon Almost hundred horse trad.
ers were on the ground. As is usual
with such gatherings in the rural dis
tricts Of West Virginia. these men
purchased freely. Before many hours