Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-03-25
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
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~ SCI Out vi the way OF n
car OF iron. struck his head against
the hot metal on a crane and received
fatal injuries
MAJ. John p. Glass. aged Sc died
at wheeling from organic heart trou-
Bile. He was formerly secretary of the
lnteliigencer Publishing Co, and was
prominent in West Virginia national
guard circles.
At Weston the grand Jury returned
$50 indictments. two-thirds of them
for Illicit sale of whisky. the balance
for gambling
Walter Schaefer. aged 80, of Park.
ersburg. was killed by train in the
b 4 o. yards.
+. n. Barnsdall. Pittsburg million
aire coal and oil operator. has closed
q deal for $4,000 acres of promising
coal lands in the Guyandotte valley
The property is to be developed at
once, and the mined product shipped
out via the Guyandotte Valley rail-
road
Detective Eugene Robinson captured
Charles Millner at North Fork. Mill
ner is charged with stealing S30O
worth of scrip from the Arlington Coal
and Coke Co. He had $3.50 worth OF
scrip in his possession.
At Ciarksburg Blaine Kittle. aged
10. was arrested and taken To- Buck
harmon. charged with the murder OF
Jesse Harper. colored. in September
1901. Kittle pleads self-defense.
Mary Brown, Is years old. was ar
rested at Bluefeld charged with kill
ing her infant The child was found in
a mudhole near Flattop. on the county
road.
Rev Bennett Murrill, 81. probably
the oldest minister in the country
died at his home in Huntington Ho
was prominently known over the state.
terrific explosion occurred on
Princeton avenue. Bluefield. where a
number OF workmen have been blast
ing for the construction of q ditch. :
box of dynamite in some manner as
yet unknown was exploded and as
result one man is dead and half a
dozen others are more or less serious
ly injured. John l.. Harris, employed
on the ditch. was struck by heavy
piece of flying timber and rendered
unCOUSClOuSs uNlIS SIOTllN dlleIWdTtl.
David Steele's right ear was torn or
and his right eye pierced. the vision
being destroyed. Others painfully in.
jured or bruised are +. G.. Davidson
2 travelling salesman: T. II. Miles.
travelling salesman; L. G. Reed and l..
d. Neel. Window glass four and five
squares away was broken and ten pas
senger coaches standing in the yards
had every window in them broken.
William Mckinley and Charles Mel
son, youths from Wellsburg it is
charged. stole a team and wagon from
w. III. Cook. of Wheeling. and with a
gallon of liquor broke for t1e country.
They were later apprehended lying
drunk in the bottom Of the wagon, and
brought back to the county Jail.
Samuel Hazlett. aged 46. cashier OF
the Peoples bank. OF Wheeling, died
OF typhoid fever.
At Moundsville. John Mayors. n car
penter. fell 30 feet from q scaffold.
His injuries are considered fatal.
The little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
W. A. Sands. of Parkersburg. one year
old, died of the effects OF eating pick
ftu DOIh. Which, 10 SupDOStu W nave
contained poison. All the members
of the family were made sick, but the
others recovered.
The greatest coal mine on New riy-
er. that of the Gauley Mountain Coal
Co. known as the Nova Scotia. is on
fire and is threatened with complete
destruction. All efforts to get the fire
under control have proved futile. and
the approximated loss now is 5000 600.
There are various rumors as 10 the
origin of the fire. but il was r.ore than
likely that it was caused by an ex.
plosion.
While fooling with guns at Clarlis-
burg Holmes Bowel. aged 49, shot c.
+ Hughes through the brain Hughes
died instantly. The coroner's jury eX-
onerated Bowel
William Helfenbine aged 50 years.
a farmer at Roney's Point. nea-
Wheeling. was struck by h. e. o
fast passenger train and instantly
killed. His body was cut in two.
The six-story frame building owned
by the Index Publishing Co. with all
the stock and machinery. burned to
the ground at Fairmont The loss will
reach 100000. The plant is heavily
insured.
John Gray colored, who was shot
by his son recently. is dead at the city
hospital at Wheeling and the son is
behind THE bars in the county jail
awaiting trial for the murder.
Miss Ann Whalen aged As. was
struck and instantly killed by train
over the Grafton & Belington branch.
Il. T. Luke. a hitherto prominent
and prosperous merchant Of Wheeling.
mysteriously disappeared after sell
ing his property and sending his fam.
lily to his wife's parents In Ohio.