Murder charge grows after Piney Fork shooting
Simbaldi Zappone, 21, a miner and boarding house operator at Piney Fork No 1, is jailed in Dillonvale and to be moved to Steubenville after Liberato Prisciutti, 32, was fatally shot by Zappone following alleged advances toward Zappone’s wife. Prisciutti died in Wheeling hospital two days after the incident. Coroner Campbell to conduct an inquest as the September grand jury weighs murder charges.
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Herald-Star
Liberate Prisciatti
Wheeling
Simbaldi Zappone
Dillonvale
Steubenville
Liberato
Liberate
Zappone
Fast Train Tle At Fernwood
Fast bound Pan Handle passenger train No 20 struck wandering cattle at Fernwood around 12:30 am on Tuesday, killing three fine stock belonging to Simon Loftus. The engine pilot was broken but the train sustained no other damage.
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Fernwood
Simon Loftus
Men Killed on Rail Near Mineral City and Malvern
Albert Ranft aged 10 son of Christ Ranft of Zoar station was killed on the C P Railway near Mineral City Monday morning. Watchman Thomas Jones pulled him off the track Sunday night at 16 36. Ranft’s body found at dawn with the skull largely crushed and a hand in his pocket, suggesting he lay down to sleep. Thomas McGinley aged 35 a day laborer was struck and killed Saturday evening by a southbound C P passenger train near Malvern while walking the track and not hearing the train.
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Albert Ranft
Christ
Ranft
Zoar
Mineral City
Thomas Jones
Thomas McGinley
Malvern
Populist Paper Bolts Bryan in Nebraska Taft Gain
The Schuyler Free Lance, Nebraska’s leading Populist paper, shifted allegiance from Bryan to Taft urging Populists to back Taft and ignore Watson. Editor John C. Sprecher, former state legislator and Roof leader, signals a likely defection wave, noting 20,000 Populist votes in the last election.
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Omaha
Neb
Bryan Democrats
Nebraska
Schuyler Free Lance
Bryan
Watson
John C. Sprecher
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