Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-07-01

!: STATE NEWS ITEMS.


and his body placed on the railroad
\ track, near Keystone. When found his
money was gone. He had $40.
| Lee Marcum. a wealthy planter OF
Stonecoal. was shot and probably kill
ed by man named Messer while re-
turning from funeral. A posse Is
after Messer.
John Reed. who left Huntington for
st. Louis. fell beneath a train in Mum
Gle. Ind. and was killed.
| The Central Land Co. has closed a
deal with Charleston capitalists where
by the latter get possession OF all tho
land owned by the Central In HURT
cane. st. Adams. Handley and Hinton.
this state The consideration Is about
Sl00. 900.
| Black rain fell in Barbour county.
II is said The water ran I'm streams
so black that cattle refused to drink
IT, borses and cattle in the fields ap-
peared black after the storm. On
Stewards Run the water was so black
that many people thought the Berry
burg coal mine had been opened
through the HILL and that the water
issued from il. The black rain extend
ed all over the county. The clouds
were of inky blackness. and columns
OF black smoke seemed to rise from
them. There is much speculation as 20
the cause. Many were frightened by
the phenomenon.
Several days ago Howard Stewart.
a shoe merchant. OF Parkersburg. sold
stock of goods to G. s. Sloppy for 81
500 cash Sloppy sold II to NJ. Fried
| lander for $1,000. The other day the
Craddock Terry Co. sued Stewart and
Friedlander and attached the store al.
leging collision, and charging that
Stewart was about to- leave the state
with intent to defraud his creditors.
| John Bowles, night Waterman for
the Carren Bros. Co, Mont gumery.
was found dead at his home the other
morning.
Arthur Reese. colored. stabbed Pat
Rowan. white. In n row over sand
witch at Moundsville. Rowan can not
survive. II required the attention OF
the entire police force to prevent the
Negro from being lynched
| The Kanawba Water and Light Co.
OF Charleston. was granted franchise
by the Kanawha county court to build
an electric line along the roads in the
county, from st. Alabns to the ex-
treme eastern limit of the county.
This Is an important step in the com
pany's plans for an interurban line
connecting Charleston with the towns
up and down the Kanawha river.
| At Station Run man named Keffer
was shot and killed because he had
paid attention to Anna Clark, with
whom 1t is alleged Floyd Connolly is
in love. Connolly and his brother
George were arrested by Chief OF Pc.
lice Soulson.
Three hundred and fifty town lots in
various smaller towns east Of Hunt
mgton. on the Chesapeake q Ohio
railway. sold to Charleston capitalists
by the Central Land Co. OF Hunting
ton. Consideration sl50.000.
II Is announced from the adjutant
generals department that Huntington
has been chosen for the brigade en-
campment OF the West Virginia ma
tional guards. The encampment will
begin August 4 and continue ten days.
At Parkersburg j. NJ. Jackson, jr,
| aged so. son of the late Judge j. NJ
Jackson. died the other evening Of
heart trouble. He was president OF
the Citizens Trust and Guaranty Co.
vice president OF the Citizens National
Bank and Union Trust and Deposit
Co, and was identified with other bust
ness enterprises.
Early the other morning an electric
car on the Camden Interstate railway.
| AcI,I
ton collided with freight train or
the G. 81 o. railway in the western lin
its OF Huntington The car was turn
ed completely over. and was badly
wrecked. Thirty to forty people were
aboard. all being chiefly pleasure seek
ers. who had been in Cllffside park.
near Catlettsburg. Those injured are:
Charles J. Armstrong, Cincinnati, both
legs cut of and otherwise bruised
about body. Will die. Martha Staley.
Huntington. cut about the face and
head. Miss Maud TRULY Huntington.
badly bruised about body. Mrs Lew
Shuler Huntington. cut about the
body and arms. George Fahrlandef,
OF Columbus, o.. badly cut about the
arm and shoulder. Miss Jessie Stew.
art Huntington, bruised and right
hand seriously cut. Half dozen 9TH
ers were injured. but not seriously.
At Marmet. near Charleston Charles
Curry. deputy postmaster at that
place, was arrested by Post ONCE In
spectors Hooten and Allen on the
charge Of robbing registered letters
passing through the office. While the
officers had Curry in charge his father.
James A. Curry. was killed by train
on the West Virginia e. Southern rail.
road He parted from his son and
was going toward his home. apparent
ly overcome with grief. when In cross.
ing the railroad track he was run
| down and instantly killed nv n train