Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-02-24
State News PiGk-upS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

were down in every direction.
The entire plant of the Penn Mirror
and Manufacturing Co, situated in the
suburbs of Morgantown, was burned.
The origin of the fire is a mystery
The fire department knew nothing OF
the fire until next morning. owing To
its remoteness from the main part of
town. All the books OF the company
were burned. The loss will be $685.
300. with about $4,000 insurance. The
plant will probably be rebuilt.
Webb Finnell. of Granville. is f-oth-
Ing at the mouth and barking Ike a
dog. II required four persons to hold
and strap him to the bed Two per
sons in the village were recently bitten
by mad dog. and it is supposed Fin
nell was also bitten.
An east-bound b. & o. freight train
ran away down a 17-mile grade the
other morning. and the engine and Is
cars were wrecked just west OF Pied
mont. Engineer Porter Kinney OF
Grafton, had his skull fractured and
leg broken. Fireman Deakins. of Row
lesburg. was instantly killed. Both
tracks were blocked
The telegraph operators and agents
or the Coal & Coke railroad former
ly the Charleston. Clendennin & SUIT
ton, are out on strike. their demands
being extra pay for overtime. General
Superintendent w. II. Bower. of Elk
ins. who is in Charleston looking after
the difficulty there. said the matter
would be adjusted in a few days.
Capt. E. NJ. Jones. one of the oldest
passenger conductors on the c. & o.
road died at Huntington of pneumo-
MIA. He was prominently known be-
tween Cincinnati and Richmond and
he was conductor OF the first passen-
ger train that came through the Allie
gbenies from Richmond.
Joe Newton Kelley's store and dwell
Ing burned near Hazelton. about ten
miles for Terra Alta. and he was burn
ed to death. Property loss, about So
600; no insurance
The Wheeling Security and Trust
Co, of Wheeling. was appointed trus-
tee in bankruptcy for the Jackson Tin
Plate Co, of Clarksburg The trustee
will operate or sell the property
The 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. A.
b. Butcher, of Williamson. drank car
bolic acid and died. 1t is said the car
bolic acid was sent to the house by
mistake in place of a prescription.
Burt Odell, letter carrier. and Lee
ander Gilkerson were probably fatally
stabbed in a street fight at Hunting
ton the other night with the three
Thompson brothers. The fight was the
result of a contest between Congress
man Hughes and w. F. Hite, for CON
gressional delegates. Bloodshed also
flowed at one precinct in Wayne ccun-
ty.
James LantZ, proprietor of the Wal
lace house. Morgantown, paid OFF all
employees and notified all guests that
the hotel would cease at noon on &C
count of the indictments found against
him fer selling liquor. He claims a
first-class hotel can not run without
either having license or running
speakeasy. The city is already short
OF hotel accommodations.
The w. r. Jones window glass fac
tory. Morgantown, which closed down
Saturday because the employees de-
manded the Philadelphia scale. started
the fires again and will run under the
Burns union scale of wages.
With his tongue frozen tight 70
boiler in an oil field near West Union
and his body frozen stiff. Floyd Nc
Kinney, boy. was found the other
morning by workmen. His tongue had
to be cut from the metal He was
taken to neighbours house. and. al
though still alive, his death is ex-
pected.
Burglars made a raid at Guyandotte
the other night. The first place en-
tered was the c. & O. ticket Office.
where they secured considerable mon
ey. From there they went to the Ma
tional hotel. and had just knocked the
tumbler from the safe door with a
sledge hammer. when Col A. F. Fry.
the proprietor, was awakened. and ran
into the office. The burglars escaped.
AS the last one was going through
window. Col. Fry grappled with him.
The burglar fired his revolver. the bull
Jet completely penetrating Fry's abdo-
men, making fatal wound. Col. Fry
is so years Of age. and was influential
in republican politics in that section.
Bloodhounds were on the rtail OF the
burglars
4 3. & o. freight train ran away on
Seventeen-Mile grade. the highest
point in the Allegheny mountains the
other morning. near Terra Alta. and
plunged over precipice 300 feet to
the rocky bed of Cheat river. Nine
cars and the engine were smashed
The wires are down. but IL is known
that the fireman. James Watson. and
the engineer were killed The train
got beyond the control OF the engineer
and das1ed at a frightfu rate down
the mountain side At the grade the
engine flew over curve.
Thomas Starks. prominent citizen of