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20 get possession OF her husband,
David A. Mckee, was denied BY
Judge Hervey, In the Circuit Court
Friday. Samuel B. Mckee, father
II the husband of the petitioner, and
Rev. j. H. Littell, pastor of the Sec
md United Presbyterian Church,
10th Of them named as respondents.
we're present IN court and made an
,wer to the writ, stating that they
lid not know where David A. Mckee
g at the present time. The father
" the young man, however, admit
Led that he had given him mo26y to
Day. his fare to Beaver Station, Pa.
He denied that he was restraining
lis son OF his liberty and keeping
lin from his bride. Rev. Mr.. LIT
ell testified that he took young Nc
xee home with him on the night of
The wedding, after the bride had
been turned away from the Mckee
home. Mrs. Mckee said she had
been engaged to wealthy Balti-
more man and had evaded young
Mckee for months before the mar
rage; that she broke the engagement
With the Baltimore man after young
Mckee had repeatedly asked her to
marry him. She said that Rev Mr.
Litte1l had formerly elected her
from the home of her husbands par
snts, and that while she was waiting
IN the veranda of the home she~
heard her husband pleading with his
.ather to let him go to his wife, The
missing husband ID Is years old and
Mrs. Mckee Is 8 She has q daueh-
Ter IA years old and a son IL. She
Itated on leaving the court room that
she was satisfied. inasmuch as she
had located her husband.
Elkins-A notice was fled here
with Clerk G. ~ Wilson to the eff
feet that on October 10, the 1irst day
IF the next regular term of court, a
motion will be made by H. G.. Kamp,
prosecuting attorney for Randolph
county, asking for judgment of
$1,987,697 against the, executors OF
The estate Of the late Senator Stephen
B, Elkins, alleging that the Senator
failed properly to list, his property
kOAF toAcALAOA III 4COO, IAO ,IOIICO
points out, property to the amount of
$3,73O,000 was omitted and the
same amount in 1901 One-tenth
Of this amount is forfeitable under
the State laws If 1t can be proven
that it was omitted, and the State
will base its suit mainly on the re-
| port OF Appraisers G. F. Snyder, sec
Rotary TO Senator Elkins, at the time
/ of the latter's death; Colonel Colin S.
| Livingstone, of Washington, D. G.,
| former secretary to Senator Elkins,
| and G. M, Henley, private secretary
to Hon Henry Gassaway Davis. Their
1 report shows property valued at $4,-
O25, 900. The notice filed with the
Circuit Court clerk covers 20 pages.
| No statement would be made by
either the prosecuting attorney or
the executors of the estate. How
ever, it is, understood that a legal
battle will result
Fairmont- The seventh jail de-
livery within the last year was made
here when Walter Carpenski, Henry
/ Curtis, Mokineco Orourke, william
D. Heck, Luigi Vadis, Edward Yost,
Andrew Ciphley, French Hood and
Charles Esenski escaped. Carpenski
and Vadis were convicted of felony at
the present term of court and were
| awaiting guards from Moundsville to
take them to the penitentiary. The
i other prisoners were In Jail for terms
ranging from three months to one
year. They pried the cages in which
thew were locked from the floor,
! turned them over and then forced
their way through triple-locked
door into an adjoining room. They
broke a window and jumped a short
distance to the ground Bloodhounds
are on the trail The temporary
prison in which they were incarcer-
ated will soon give way to a modern
/ one, which is almost completed.
Clarksburg. IL. B. Price, alleged
check forger, who broke out of the
county jail May 20 and escaped with
1 six other prisoners, was captured in
4 Detroit, Mich, by Sheriff Michael j.
Francis, OF this city. Jesse Taylor.
accused of theft, who escaped atythe
same time, has also been captured
near Conway, Tyler county, by Jus
tice Grant Lowe, of Galmish, and
brought to Jail here. This makes
| four of the escaped men who have
been recaptured.
BluefeId. Nearly 200'people were
made homeless by fire which de-
stroyed 10 dwellings belonging to
| the Thacker Coal Company, near
Thacker. The blaze started late at
night and ragged fercely until noon
next day. The loss is estimated at
4 SIC, 900. No fatalities are reported.
Parkersburgs Fred Douglass, Of
Walkers. d Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road brakeman had both legs cut on
at the knees BY his traintat Tollgate.
He was brought to the hospital here
and cannot live.
/ Martinsburg During an electric
al storm that passed over Berkeley
county large barn on the farm OF
George R. Moler, near Hedgesville,
vas destroyed by lightning. together
with all its contents. "A valuable
horse owned by DR.. e. A. Ward, of
Hedgesville, was killed in the barn.
Wheeling Walter Neal, miner,
was killed and four others were seri-
ously injured In an explosion at Mine
mo. 8, Of the New River Galleries
Company, at Eccles-1 1t is said an