Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-03-29
State Odds and Ends


tiers. that their charter taxes must he
paid May 1, or penalties will be added
This is i'm obedience to law passed
by the recent legislature.
Carl Goodman. of Summer county.
was caught in the act OF distilling
whisky in cave on the Little Blue
Stone river. by Revenue Ofhcer Dan
Cunningham. The latter had tracked
him FOR several days and finally dis
covered his hiding place under a large
Hat stone. The capture is regarded
as an important one.
Gov. Dawson reappointed as state
librarian Sam w. Starks n negro. who
held the place under Gov. White. A
hard hight was made to defeat Starks.
members of the supreme court quietly
| trying To knife him and many leading
attorneys who have business at the
library openly opposing him. f. H.
| Coleman, of Parkersburg, was reap
pointed member of the board of direc-
tors of the state humane society. A
new board of directors for the Third
Miners hospital. ut Fairmont, was APP
pointed. as follows: NJ. l.. Hutchin-
son. Il. A. Billinglea, Fairmont: James
l.. Pierce. Parkersburg; A. J. Bona
! field. Tunnelton.
Leading coal men OF the state met
at Charleston to consider the taxing
OF coal property under the states new
tax laws. The sessions were held In
the general Offices OF the Kanawha
Fuel Co. State Tax Commissioner Dill
Ion said that in addition to physical
property all leaseholds would be as
| sessed. This will also bring the oil
and gas leases to the tax books. re-
newing the fight that has ragged In
West Virginia for the past two years.
Three men giving their names VIII
liam Jones, Jess Osten and George
Silks were arrested Mt Huntington.
charged with having blown open three
safes I'm the city. The men admit their
guilt and claim they have committed
robberies I'm various parts OF the coun-
try. making good hauls at Cleveland
and Albany. n. Y. Less than 500 was
secured Mt Huntington. The places
visited were Mossman's coal Office. tho
Huntington wharfboat and the West
Virginia Brewing Co.
| A posse of officers are tracking their
way somewhere on the Big Sandy to-
ward Heaters Branch In an effort 10
catch n gang OF counterfeiters they
have reason to believe are hidden
away i'm a cave i'm the rock recesses
of the hills. Annie CAVITY. who re-
Gently gained notoriety through con-
nection with the Benedict murder
case, gave the officers number OF
lead dollars in support OF her assel-
tion that John Scott, of Heaters
Branch, gave them to her In payment
OF his board bill. She said she had
heard him talking about the work OF
| the gang in some cave on Healers
| Branch.
Harry Adams. aged H. died at the
home of his parents In Huntington.
while under the influence OF chloro-
| form given by specialist from Gin
cinnati, who was called there to per-
form an operation in the chlld's head.
His nasal passages were rapidly clos
ing and two carriages had to be re-
moved. He was placed on the oper-
ating table and chloroformed When
the specialist went to place the tiny
| saw In the boys nose he discovered
that instead OF sinking into uncon-
seriousness the child had died.
After wandering for days almost
naked in the wilds OF Wyoming coun-
| ty, Mrs. Andy Adkins, OF Fudge Creek,
| Grant district, has been found by a
rescuing party She had been cared
for at home by her family since her
reason became dethroned, more than
"A year ago, after the birth OF a baby
daughter, which died soon afterward.
| She imagined the baby was lost I'm
the woods and kept constantly asking
| To be allowed to- go find her. With
| this hallucination working on her
| mind. she slipped away from the
| house before daybreak, clad only In 81
| thin suit OF underc'othing and nigtt-
I gown, ana was swallowed up In the
| wilderness. When found she was al
most dead from starvation and was
! calling Anita" the name she insisted
on giving the baby she believed lost.
| She will be committed to the asylum.
Mystery surrounds the death or
Miss Hnlda Schubert. whose body was
| found lying in gulley about 20 yards
/ OF Chapline Hill road, near Wheel
/ ing. The CHASTITY find was made by
| Frank Smith an iron worker. who is
/ reported TO have been engaged to be
/ married to Miss Schubert The girl
was the daughter Of William Schubert.
| farmer on ChaDine Hill. She was
/ last seen alive when she left her home
/ the other morning To- 20 TO her place
/ OF employment in the city. The au-
/ topsy over the remains revealed the
| fact that one Of the arteries in her
| neck mad been ruptured. presumably
! while struggling with murderer.
whose motive was perhaps robbery. as
| the girls watch and chain and two
/ rings. which she is known to have had
ON her person when last seen, were
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