The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-30
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cealed behind u tree box. The skull
was crushed in an inch deep, Shy
cannot recover,
THE POTOMAC AND OHIO RAILROAD.
CHARLESTON, April 27.-The Poto-
mac and Ohio Railroad has been pay
ing oftliis week, which has placed
beyond a doubt that the road Is not
a humbug, as some were wont to be-
Ilieye. The road is nearly completed
to JarIett's Ford, aud rolling stock
will b placed on it by the 10th of
next month. Alarge force Of hands
arelat work, and the road is rapid
| ly beingpnshed through, and the con-
.nection with the Clarksburg and
Weston Road will be made this year.
This will place the future capital in
direct railroad connection with all
parts # The State.
Elk GAS COMPANY OFFICIALS INDICTED.
WEBBING, April27-T Grand Ju-
Try Of Tie Circuit Court, after being in
l.sessionlsince Monday last, last night
IirttafFad a true bill against John L..
MaxWeliand Andrew King, late Sec
Iretary pdAssistant Secretary at the
Gas Works, for embezzlement and
grand larceny, the indictment con-
tanning 800 counts for arson, in burn
ing the books Of the Gas Office. No
other true bills were found.
THEREscuE OF A CHILD FLOATING
IN A SkIFF Down GREENBR1ER RIVER
We learn from the Anderson Enter
prise that, on Saturday week, @as Mr..
]. R. Bcckner and family of that
place were preparing to cross the
river at point about a mile below
the town, they narrowly escaped a
serious accident. Mr.. B. had placed
one Of his little girls, about five
years Of age, in the skif and with
the other in his arms stepped with
one foot into the boat when it NOV
ed off from the bank. This.left him
no alternative than to fall into the
deep water with his child in his
arms, or return to the shore. He
chose the latter, thus leaving the lit
tie daughter in the skiif, which
foated off down the river.
The situation was observed by two
young ladies on the opposite side,
who running to boat about amile
below cut it loose from it's fastenings
aud before the chid-sailor had reach
ed that point by moving up the riv-
er met the floating craft, and brought
it and its precious cargo safe to the
shore where the alarmed parents
joyfully received their child"
ACCIDENTALLY K1lLED.-On last
Friday, Marshall Showalter, Il son Of
Jacob Showalter, who lives on the
farm of R. H. Dudley, in Pocahontas
county, went to the woods where he
had been chopping the day previous,
and in trying to unlodge a tree he
had partially felled the day before,
was by some accident caught and
Esthe tree fell across him, killing him
almost instantly. Our informant
tells us that the tree struck him near
the middle of the body and mashed
his hips and back in a frightful man.
Fner. There was young man with
him at the time by the name Of
Frank Dilly, who says that life was
extinct in a few minutes. Young
Showalter was little over 16 years
of age. His father moved to this
county several years ago from Au-
gusta. county, Va, in which latter
county he had lived with r. II. Dud-
ley, near Messy Greek. Grecnbricr
Independent.
A brute, by the name of George
Shrout, living in Preston county, re-
Gently beat and otherwise abused n
little girl, eight years old-and half
sister Of his wife-until she died.
The wretch has been arrested and
held to answer the charge Of murder.
He should suffer the full penalty Of
his henious crime.
Mr.. Ed. Cawthorn, near Newark,
lost four valuable lambs by the worth
less dogs that intest that neighbor-
hood. The lambs were worth 800
1t is strange that people, with APP
parent good sense, will vote to not
tax dogs. The farmers ought toshoot
the dogs on sight, and it would not
be much loss to kill an owner or two
Of the sheep eating curs.-Appeal.
In the case of the State against
Page Edwards, tried last week before
the Circuit Court Of Summers county,
charged with wife murder, the jury
brought in verdict of guilty, and
fixed his term of imprisonment in
in the State Penitentiary for life.
Independent
The Grant county jailor who,
through tarelesness, permitted Doug
lass, the murder of young Hiser, the
mail-earrier, to escape, has been tried
for his negligence and fined one cent
and costs. The costs are said to be
very heavy.
Preston County Journal. A tramp