Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-08-17
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Stats News Happenings.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

mer Collins, of Huntington, to whom
he objected calling on his sister. Lii
lie Gray. aged 10. Undaunted. Collins
secured marriage license. and the
young couple were married. Deputy
Probate Judge Emmett McKeown set
out to recall the license. but arrived
at the minister's home Just as the GER
emory ended
Kenneth Mooring. of Algeria. whose
seven-year-old son Isaac died in Park
ersburg two months ago from eating
poisoned ice cream. has had the boys
body placed in a glass casket, filed
with alcohol. The latter has preserv-
ed the body. while the glass Gasket
enables the parents TO see the feature
OF their son at any time. The casket
Is In a mausoleum. and the parents
/ say the body will always be kept as It
Is now so that they can always be-
hold the face of their son.
| The senate committee appointed at
Gov. Whites suggestion TO investigate
Senator Kids allegation that there
had been jobbery in letting the con-
tract for furniture for the supreme
court chamber and Offices in the new
, capitol annex met the other night and
completely exonerated the state board
of public works. Senator Kidd. who
/ was one OF the three members. said
, there was nothing wrong. but he ask
ed the privilege of employing the ex-
pert to ascertain whether or not the
state had been charged an excessive
! figure. he to pay personally for the
, expert. and report at the regular ses-
sion OF the legislature. This was con-
CURED in.
The special session of the legisla-
ture passed the tax measure pro-
posed by Delegate Reynolds, requiring
liquor firms outside of the state to nav
the same tax as the firms located in
the state or else be barred from bust
ness. The tax proposed ranges from
$500 for wholesale liquor firms to S.
600 for breweries shipping into the
state. 1t is aimed especially at the
Cincinnati breweries it is said. as il
is alleged that they sell 80 per cent.
OF the beer in the state
In pitched battle between the Mas
sey and Woodrum families at Wini-
frede, mining town about seven
miles from Charleston. John Massey.
head of the Massey family. was killed
by Cleve Woodrum. The slayer e.
capped 20 the mountains and has not
yet been captured. though a sherif's
posse is pursuing him. II is thought
ne viii show fight and not submit to
arrest without making a stubborn re-
sistance. The killing of Massey was
the result of fight between the Mas
WnO1rnp
latter were getting the best OF the
fight the old man took a hand Irwin
Woodrum and Sylvania Dickens. who
were involved in the fight. were jailed.
inc special session of the West Vjr-
ginia legislature ended a few DAYS
ago. Among the bills allowed 10 die
on the calendar was one converting
into the auditors office and the state
treasury the foreign corporation at
torney fees now paid to the secretary
of state. This bill would have hurt
Dawson and former Secretaries of
state William a. Ohley and w. f..
Chiffon, and likewise the next official
whether he be Charles w. Swisher
republican. or w. G. Peterlain. demo-
crat. As both republicans and demo-
tickets political hopes killed the bill
Regarding the story that through the
state tax commissioner and his CORPS
OF assistant assessors he was trvine,
10 build machine to land him in
senator Elllins' shoes. Gov. White de-
clared il was ridiculous "In the first
place. he said, II will be out of the
governors Office before the tax com
missioner is named. Secondly. il
had such ambitions ] would never try
10 advance them through county as
SCISSORS. for III there is any one man
VINO is unpopular in community II is
the assessor"
{. ID. TIL. one OF the weaIthiest mon
IN inc country. with 40 producing oil
wells on his farm. some ten miles from
rarkersDurg. rs lying at the point OF
oeath. and the cause of his illness is
surrounded in mystery. He went tn
PaIkersburg recently and was taken
home the next day in an ambulance
apparently suffering from PARALYSIS
woman who alleges he had sDent tho
night with her over a saloon i'm Park.
ersbure appeared at his home and de-
hNered mp papers worth $4,000. to-
Fether with watch and money. ply
sicians who examined Mr.. UhI think
his Illness is not paralysis. but that it
was caused by some kind OF drug. and
INC Supposition is that he was doped
10 secure his papers. but that after
nc serious consequences were seen
the papers were returned. Mr.. Irhl is
40 years old. and has ten children.
Chief Of Police Morris Davis Lieut.
OF Police Sam Davis. United States
District Clerk J. w. Perry and Conn
Gilman George l.. Pickering. Of Hunt
ineion. were indicted by the Caben
county grand jury ON the charge OF
receiving money to conceal crime
The Jury began the other day to- in
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