Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-05-05
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A rich strike il coal has been made
near Cassville, Wayne county.
Seventeen gas wells will be stsrte
in the Bengamon field this week.
The Heinz Pickel Co., has a man at
Grafto IN looking for a site for a bottle
plant.
Mrs. Sarah Mcintyre is dead at
Margaret. Marion county, aged 100
years.
The big jewelry firm of !. G. Dill
Ion, Sons and Company. of Wheeling
failed.
Paul Priest will install an electric
lighting plant at Franklin, Pendleton
county.
A fifteen inch cabbage snake was sent
to the experiment station by Mrs.
Mooney of Davis
The public school bond issue failed
to carry at the election at Weston,
!; S75, 900 was asked.
Charles Heise. a bartender, ended
his life at his home in Wheeling BY
taking carbolic acid.
A big plant to manufacture fire clay
products will be started at Teays
Valley, Putnam county.
Joseph Greanoki, an Austrian, was
killed by a fall of rock in the Rich
lad ,~..ar mar Uhoolinr
A son of Charles Gilbbaugh was run
over by a Baltimore and Ohio train at
Tunnelton and was killed.
Mrs. Lizzie Hile, lost everything in
the Frisco fire and and has returned
to her former home 10 Wheeling.
The search for burglars at Grafton
has been given MP, and the blood
hounds have been returned to Mounds
Vile.
The body of Samuel R. MCGOWAN,
and an empty morphine bottle were
found in the mans room. Both use
less.
Sidney johnson, an aged and well
known citizen of Adamston, vas run
over and killed by a passenger train
at Clarksburg.
Frank Stevens, charged with killing
Joseph Burke, of Parkersburg, at Can
ton, Ohio, has been sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Henry Wilson, his wife and Edgar
Smith were struck by a freight train
on the Norfolk and Western road at
Blnefield, instantly killing them.
The Monarch Tile company has
been incorporated at Weston capital
stock 500, 900. A plant is being fin
ished to make 10. 900 feet of glass tile
daily.
Three girls persisted aud a number
were more or less bSrned or injured
in the destructive fire of the Priscilla
Home for Girls at Lawson, Raleigh
county.
The store and dwelling belonging to
L. W. Thomas. at Graydon was de-
stroyed by fire. 81, 900 insurance was
carried, which will only partially
cover the loss.
~Bloodhounds have been placed on
the tracks of burglars who broke into
the store of Charles S%tolzenfe!s at
Grafton and robbed the store of a
quantity of goods.
Henry Mounts became epraQed at
his cousin, Charles Mounts, at Wharn-
cliff and shot HIM twice with a VIM
chester rife. The wounded man still
lives, but cannot recover.
Jas. Whalen, formerly star pitcher
in Parkersburg's best salaried base
bali team, was run over and instantly
killed while at work in the B. and o.
S. W. yards in Lovelsnd, Ohio.
Ernest Muse a railroad constructions
foreman. Of Charleston, was killed on
Cabin Creek extension of the Coal
river line of the @. and o. railroad bv
the premature explosion of a charge
of dynamite.
The Hotel Randolph at Elkins one
of the best known and most profitable
hotels in West Virginia. was sold to
Tucker W. Ward, a prosperous farmer
of Huttonsville. The consideration
was about $S5, 900.
The wholesale grocery house of the
Pennsboro Grocery company at Penns-
boro, a five story structure, carrying
a large stock of goods. was destroyed
by fire. The loss is about $40. 600,
and the insurance will not cover the
loss.
Melvin Scarboro was burned to
death near his home a few miles from
FAYETTEVILLE, while fighting forest
fires He was sixty-five years of age,
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