Thursday, December 14, 1899
REWARD
One hundred dollars reward offered for one hundred and eleven head of sheep amiss, and the capture and conviction of the person or persons who have taken said property, described below: Mark of sheep, notch on top of right ear, left ear underside marked same; brand HD on left side.
Respect,
Wm. H. Dilley,
Dilley’s Mill, W. Va.
CHARLES APPERSON ARRESTED
Charles Apperson, who was indicted jointly with Jerome Kellison for the murder of Mrs. Julia Simmons, of Buckeye, was arrested last week in Springfield, Illinois, having disappeared immediately after the occurrence. Sheriff Hill received a telegram last Wednesday from the chief of police of that city and serving a requisition started for Illinois to bring him to West Virginia.
DRY KILN BURNED
Considerable excitement was caused in this town last Thursday after dark by the burning of a big dry kiln at King’s planing mill filled with lumber for G. F. Crummett’s new house. Charley Ivings was firing the kiln when it burned. If made a big blaze and the citizens in the lower part of the town thought it was somebody’s house burning, and they hit the plank walk for uptown for all they were worth. A hotel bell was rung and some of the women tried to render assistance by screaming, while an owl on the point of the hill hooted for rain. No assistance was possible, and the lumber was entirely destroyed. This is the second fire this town has had in its history; the first being in 1892 when a big dry kiln was burned on the exact site of the one destroyed last week.
WILLIS CARR KILLED
Willis Carr, aged 19 years, third son of Peter Carr, was killed by a blast while at work on the Greenbrier Railway last Friday. He was working as a shoveler at Camp No. 2 about four miles above Marlinton, situated near the deceased boy’s home.
About 15 men were at work in a gang and a stump was bored under to be blowed out. A rock was struck in the boring and the hole was drilled through it. Three sticks of dynamite were put down and the men retired to what they thought was a safe distance, and young Carr was the farthest away. When the blast was exploded a piece of rock weighing about 4 pounds came hurtling over the heads of the other men and struck the unfortunate youth on the head and crushed his skull. The blow was glancing and made such a wound as a cannonball might have caused.
He was about 200 feet away and was looking toward the blast which was between him and the sun. He was holding his cap to shade his eyes from the sun in order to see, and the stone came over and struck him behind the cap. He never regained consciousness though when he was being carried away, he muttered: “Lord, have mercy.” He was buried at the Friel burying ground last Sunday.
LOCAL MENTION
Elmer Jackson (colored) who was serving a sentence in the State penitentiary from this county, died there recently aged about 18 years.
Married November 21, 1899, in the Clerk’s office at Marlinton, Mr. Franklin Kincaid and Miss Mary White, daughter of Henry White near Driscol.
Sheriff R. W. Hill experimented with two hogs to see what they would lose in the butchering recently. A hog which weighed 420 lbs., gross, netted 352 lbs.; and another weighing 328, netted 308.
A four year old boy of Edray was asked the stereotyped question: “What do you want Santa Claus to bring you for Christmas?” “I want him to bring me a sled, but I expect he will bring me a lot of trash.”
Mrs. Nancy Galford, relict of the late Allen Galford on Back Alleghany, though 81 years of age, is in vigorous health and by way of pastime spun over forty dozen woolen yarns during the late summer and early fall, not to speak of many other ways she makes herself useful and helpful.
Died, at her home at the head of Stony Creek, December 1, 1899, Mrs. Rachel Curry, wife of Amos Curry, aged about 53 years. She was a member of the Terry family in Highland county, a much respected person and a great sufferer for several years, a devoted adherent of the M. E. Church, and death was a welcome relief.
A barn belonging to Wm. Gibson, on Elk, situated on the farm he purchased a few years ago was burned last Thursday about 5 p.m. with all its contents. With it was burned three stacks of hay, 100 dozen of oats, a load of meal just brought from the depot, a horse, a wagon and a lot of farming utensils.
Young Couple’s Predicament
Some time ago, a young bridal couple stopped at a metropolitan hotel on their honeymoon and accompanying them was an Irish valet who had been for years in the employ of the bridegroom.
The latter had instructed his valet not to tell any of the servants at the hotel that they were newly married and on their honeymoon, as the young bride was very sensitive and did not care to encounter the notice and stares which would be sure to be forthcoming.
Notwithstanding these instructions, the young couple found that they seemed to be the entire attraction, and the waiters, porters and bellboys ogled the young woman until she felt positively uncomfortable.
The bridegroom therefore blamed the valet and supposed that he had disobeyed his instructions.
Calling him before him he said severely, “Tim, I thought I told you not to tell anybody that we were newly married.”
“Sure, sorr, an’ I tould thim all you wuzzent married.”