Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-06-20
State News.

The bass fishing season opened June
10Th.
County Judge Brewster. of Welch. is
talking OF moving his family to Hunting
ton.
The Ricketts, feed store in Hunting
ton has been destroyed by fire. The
grocery department was saved.
st. Joseph'S Orphans Homo will be
erected ON 2Sth street, Huntington. The
institution will cost about S25, GOO.
VIM. Welch has resigned his position
as chief of Huntington : fire department
lie and the Lord Barnumites could not
agree.
Constable Alex Dublin, of Maiden. ac-
cldentally shot himself on Monday June
18th, while driving III buggy. He died
day later.
An unknown man was run down by a
Il, u .. train ut Lesages last Wednes
day. The mans skull was fractured and
an arm and leg broken.
Brakeman VIM. Bills. of Hnndlev. fell
III front of Il 6. * .. train at Montgou-
cry the 18th inst, and was instantly kill.
dc, his body being horribly mangled.
Raymond Baldwin, aged II, of Blue
sulphur, fell SIX weeks ago and broke
his left arm. While playing last week
he fell and broke the same member over
| again.
Anderson Early, aged 60 was found
dead IN Il field near his hOme at Spring
Hill last Friday morning. He had gone
after the cows when hc was stricken
with heart trouble.
julius d. Johnson. of HUNTINGTON. has
sued the American Car 81 Foundry Go.
! for 1000 damages for injuries sustained
while IN the employ of the aforesaid
company last September.
Unknown parties attempted TO assas-
slnate Detective Fcltz in the New Riv, I
coal fields one evening last week. Two
! loads of buckshOt were fired at him from
ambush as he was returning home.
The family of Captain Fred Klenzing.
of Guyandotte, were all poisoned. as
well as their guests, Mrs Harry Fowler
and children, of Mason, by eating ice
cream. A Aphyslcian saved their lives bv
using the proper remedies.
One night last week, Daisy .Jorden. an
inmate of Huntington brothel. at
tempted TO commit suicide by drinking
iodine. stomach pump saved her life.
Her lover had Tilted her, which is said to
be the cause OF her rash act.
John Il. Foster aged 40, made au nm
successful attempt at suicide at his home
IN Huntington last Friday. He ATTEMPT
cd TO drink caTbolIc acid but tho poison
was wrenched from him by an officer.
He was arrested and placed in Jail on a
lunacy warrant.
While riding in a skiT noar Guyau.
dotte, recently, John Gullion found tn
body OF boy babe floating on the Ohio.
stone weighing about fve pounds was
tied 20 the infants neck. The body had
been in the water for several DAYS and
was badly decOmpOsed
Clement Carver. q Gftcn-year old bad
residing near Sarah, Cabell county. had
his back broken one day recently by
being butted by q goat The boy was
doing chores around the barn and was
standing with his back 30 the animal
when the goat ran foil tilt across the lot
and struck the boy in the back and rem
dered him unconscious.
One Of tho saddest accidents i'm the
history Of that community, happened at
Gauley Mills last Wednesday morning
NAAns Aflllliifi tDltf Nfi W az kdAufTllW eVWa
with her baby IN her arms and saw her
little son ON the opposite side OF the rail.
road track i'm the way Of a team which
had started 20 run away, frightened by
the noise Of an approaching train. Mrs.
Snyder put her baby down aud ran
across the track TO her child she turned
and saw the baby following her nm the
middle Of the track. She ran back and
had gotten the baby in her arms when
the train struck her, throwing the moth.
or and child against the stump of an old
tree forty feet away. II was some time
before death relieved the sufferings OF
the mother, and during all this time she
held onto the child with a death grip
that was not released until life was ex-
tinct and the muscles relaxed. The
child was then taken from the dead
mother and found TO be uninjured. The
h0rses had run over the little boy. one
OF them stepping on his chest, in9icting
injuries that viii prove tatal.