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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
3
In Wabash Indiana on Saturday night carpenter Joel F. Baker killed his companion widow Mrs Sylvia Hernice as they rode in a buggy. He shot five times and then killed himself after placing her body in the vehicle. A traveling man found the scene at a local livery stable early Sunday.
Col John T McGraw sent a dinner at Central hotel honoring the Grafton Baseball Club after their strong run in the Pawva league. Fred T Martin presided as toastmaster with Captain William King and players praised by local supporters and city promoters for backing professional baseball in Grafton.
The fourth Barnes family reunion at East Park Fairmont drew over two hundred descendants from Marion and nearby counties including Monongalia Harrison Taylor Braxton and Roane. Birthday celebrations for J Walter Barnes and Peter T Barnes marked the event along with talks by officials and a basket dinner. The next reunion was slated for Clarksburg with J Walter Barnes as president and J C Barnes as vice president.
Clerk C L Topping of the West Virginia House of Delegates has left Charleston for Ohio to climb in the Chicago balloon, arranged with aviator C L Bumbaugh. The ascent will occur somewhere in Southern Ohio in the moth balloon built by Bumbaugh Tor Coey. The Chicago is the largest balloon used in aero contests and recently set a Chicago to Clear Lake speed record at 75 mph.
W. Carl Dicken, engineer at the Fairmont and Clarksburg Traction Company, died from electrocution while inspecting machinery at the Jayenne plant. Assistant engineer Reno Fleming was shocked but survived. Dicken, a decade with the company, left a wife and two children and is survived by his mother and former Marion county resident wife Louise West.
Frank Zrinski, a boarder operator in Shinnston, faced expulsion after Deputy Marshal B D Hupp escorted him to U S Sheriff Lilly. He was told it would cost $500 to post bond and could not pay, leading to transfer to Clarksburg jail to await the federal grand jury convening in October.
The city of Grafton faces the loss of its largest industry unless local financiers contribute immediately. A committee of the Board of Trade has failed to secure the funds needed to restart the East End glass factory, threatening sale to outside parties and heavy losses to stockholders. President W. R. Loar urged businessmen to subscribe now to preserve Grafton Window Glass Company and the city’s prosperity.
Eight hundred quarts of glycerine aboard a Marietta Torpedo Company boat exploded near Bellville twenty miles below Parkersburg causing two injuries and wrecking four houses. George Spencer had just left a red signal light, which a steamboat overturned, igniting sawdust. Sed Randolph and family narrowly escaped as others warned. The blast also damaged nearby homes and prompted emergency response.
Duluth report details fires ripping through Chisholm Mesaba range and counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Winds subsided Sunday allowing Buh and Kashwank to be saved. Chisholm devastation includes scorched remains and $1,000,000 property loss with $750,000 in personal property. Governor Johnson calls for aid as 12,000 are homeless.
An elderly Grafton resident Dr J W Hull suffered a paralytic stroke while in his Coulehan House room. Relatives and Dr Ellis, with nurse Miss Kenny, provided care as Hull remained unable to move. He showed some improvement by evening and, if able, might move to his daughter Mrs Harry Jones in Belington.
Dr Elbert Jones veterinary surgeon offers services to horse and cattle owners in Gratton and vicinity. Treats all kinds of ailments and injuries with prompt day or night calls. Located at Ward's Livery. Phone 389-1mo-W-Oct.
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