Huntington, W. Va., Nov. 1. – Peter Bowles, a moonshiner, and ex-convict, was murdered yesterday, and just before he died accused Thomas Trail and Albert Maynard.
Bowles throat was slashed, and his body riddled with bullets. The murder was committed at the home of Trail at Burnside. According to the statement made before he died, Bowles staled that Maynard and he were Infatuated with Trail’s daughter. The two met at the latter’s homes.
U.S. Marshall Geo. W. Castle, of Grayson and a posse, captured a large moonshine plant last Thursday. It was being operated by French [Frank?-mm] Stamper.
Lizzie Stamper, a young woman who went to Portsmouth, Ohio, about two weeks age from Lewis county, was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Prichard of Lewis county, Kentucky, on the charge of selling whisky without a license. The Marshal says the woman belonged
Ironton-Silas Hill and James Gossett were convicted of horse stealing in the common pleas court, and eleven persons were fined from $15 to $60 each for selling liquor.Source: The Vinton Record,...
GUYANDOTTE, VA. – We are glad to learn from the Guyandotte Herald, that the hand of improvement has at last reached that locality, and that it seems to be rapidly changing its former character. The editor is right in admitting that it was a ‘hard place’ a few years since, the hardest, that ever we planted foot in. We spent a day there in the summer of 1844, and must say, that of all the vile and abominable holes we ever fell into, Guyandotte was the worst.
It was then a mere cluster of rickety, tumble-down groggeries and dwellings, with grease, fifth, drunkenness, brawling and blasphemy within, and mud, discomfort and desolation without.
Bootleggers, liquor, and the making of moonshine – Most of the following stories happened in Southern Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia, with the focus being on the area of Lawrence County, Ohio, and the surrounding counties.
Charles Shafer who murdered his wife, mother – in – law, and little son at Rockwood, Ohio, near here yesterday afternoon was found lying dead in the woods a mile from the scene of the crime with his weapons at his side.
More Refugees of the RevolutionThe Herald-Advertiser, November 27, 1938Submitted by Brenda McClaskey Cook By R. C. Hall, Ph. D. Here are Reviewed the Trials, Tribulations, And Rewards That Came To...
Last Friday night, four Italians employed by Rosazza, Manuel & Co. on the Maysville & Big Sandy road-bed across the river, came over to Ironton in a skiff,
Ironton, Ohio-A break at the county jail was foiled by Sheriff Carl E. Rose’s deputies when it was learned a plan was under way to escape from the 100-year-old building.
Rome Township History Pioneers of Rome Township The Gardners, Morrisons, And Waltons All Contributed Heavily To The Early Development Of This Ohio Community. The Herald-Advertiser, 17 April 1938...
An Altercation occurred between a young man named Shamblin and some parties from the vicinity of Rockwood, Ohio, as last Monday, at Holderby Landing
At three o’clock yesterday afternoon fire broke out in plant of the Ward Lumber Company at Sixth and Ashtabula streets, Ironton, Ohio, completely destroying the plant an immense quantity of dry lumber in the yards.
As readers of these columns know, we have referred quite often in the past to the early settlement of Friends, commonly known as “Quakers” on the site now occupied by the village of Proctorville, Ohio.
The story behind your Leader Store in the Masonic Building started in 1912, when Mr. Joseph Cohen Come to Ironton and opened the original store in the Berg building. The original sales staff of this store was: