Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-05-20
Observation-Disclosures
Stats Odds and Ends.
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great losses are sure To follow Al
ready the damage amounts To thou
sands oil dollars in the way OF sum
iner cottages lumber fences etc. The
Lakewood hotel and the Auditorium
overlooking Lake Terra Alta. were ON
Iy saved by heroic efforts
James Morris. OF Steele's Run near
IarkcrShurs. says he authorized his
son. Jonah. To sell a farm he saws
Jonah sold il for 5000 He SAYS oil has
been found in the territory and that
II is worth s25.oO0 He is taking legal
steps To annul the sale
White searching in a suspected
neighborhuod the other afternoon 20
lice discovered -four coffin handles Ira
skin in the Little Kanawha river
leading to the belief that systematic.
robbery OF graves is being conducted
1T Parkersburg The river will be
dragged near where they were found
James Smith. a Negro. who came to
Huntington from Monticello Ga was
arrested the other day charged with
the murder of wealthy planter near
Monticello two years ago Smith con.
fessed the crime He Will return to
Georgia without papers
The question whether or not an in
junction can be legally issued by teIe.
phone VIII he tested in HUNTINGTON
The wife of Judge Doolittle Of the cir
cut court. is sick with an infectious
disease and Judge Doolittlc is forbid
den by the quarantine officers to leave
his home. Capt. II. * Baxter. a ten
ant OF j. w. Burnett. started to make
some alterations in the building Bur
nett objected Baxter proceeded Bur.
nett applied by telephone TO Judge
Doolittle To issue an Injunction The
judge tclcphoned the injunction. All
the lawyers in the town are now de
batting whether or not the Injunction is
binding
rat Connolly was arrested at Holly
Junction on a charge of having at
tempted To murder Will BickeIl. of that
place. RiCkell who is n railroad sec
ton foreman. had received an express
package Ihc other day which contain
ed two bottles of whisky. The express
agent 81 the place was present when
Bickel opened the package and was
about leo take drink ont of one of the
bottles when the agent. who was al
ready suspicious Of Connolly ON ac-
count of the alleged attentions Of the
latter to the wife Of the former. told
him not 10 do it, as it might be poison
from Connolly. who was known 10
have gone to Weston a day or two be
FORE. The bottles were given to two
physicians, who analysed their con
tents and found that strychnine had
been placed in one and that the other
contained paris green. After Connolly
had been arrested man went to Yves
ton and made the rounds of the drug
stores to find. if possible, where Con
nelly had obtained the posons. if il
were he. He fOsInd that a man filling
very accurately the description had
procured from French Chichester. a
Clerk in the drug store Of j. IL Bart
the paris green, along with some 9th
or goods of a suspicion nature. II was
also learned that the same man took
the goods to The express office and
sent them to Bickell. He seemed re
mctant to give his own name but
wanted the paGkage sent to Brckell as
from himself. and then suggested that
they be sent in the name of John Hoo
yer. who was afterward learned to he
n brother-in-law of BickelI with whom
the latter had bitterly quarreled but
81 day or two before. Finally he gave
ms own name. and in that the package
was sent. Connolly is now in Jail at
Sutton, awaiting a preliminary hear
ing.
The business of wholesale LIQUOR
dealers and brewers in West Virginia
VIII be broken up to great extent
unless the two pricDal express com
panies in the state Tescind their or
ders. On account of the new law pass
ed by the last legislature prohibiting
the G. o. ID. shipment Of liquors, ex-
ceIh to persons who have license TO
sell liquors, the object of which was
to break up the Illicit sale I'm pTohibi-
ton counties. both companies have in
strUcted their agents not to receive
liquors for shipment at all. Beer and
whisky are being shipped by freight,
and suits are threatened against the
express companies by local dealers.
Fierce forest fires have been raging
I'm Laurel hill. a spur OF the Alleghe-
MES, for several days. Thousands of
acres of'valuable timber has been laid
waste. besides other great damages.
The fire continues to- rage, with small
prospects OF being extinguished Many
of the homes Of mountaineers are in
extreme danger Men are fighting the
flames.
Cans store at Cans station. Is miles
north Of Morgantown, on the Fair.
mont, Morgantown & PIttsburg rail.
road. was burglarized the other night
and a horse and buggy owned by 10.
seph Sturgiss stolen. II is thought
that these burglars did the job and es
capped in a buggy. Several officers are
securing the adjacent territory and
Cheat mountain for the robbers.