Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-08
Hon. p. A. Collins Opinion.
MOUNDSYILLE.

Mr.. Joseph Alexander, OF the Scotia,
stopped off on the down trip last Saturday,
10 attend the funeral OF his uncle, Col. VIM.
Alexander.
Capt. b. B. Dovener and Mr.. John Dav.
export, OF your city, were the guests OF
Capt Hanson CriSwell yesterday.
Prof Haines will open summer school
tomorrow for the acc Dmmodation of several
teachers of the county and several pupils
of town. Prof Hanes is good educator,
and he will be assisted by an able corps Of
teachers. He cannot help but make the
school a success
The citizens have been at last accommo-
dated with a good walk from Second street
TO the depot, as the pavement has been
finished.
Misses Effe and Emma Ewing, the hand
some daughters of Hon. J. Dallas Ewing, OF
Wheeling, who have been the guests of
Miss Grace Blake, of the Upper ward, for
some time past, returned home Saturday.
Yesterday afternoon seven year old son
of Mr. NJ Il. Price, residing near the prison,
met with quite a painful accident, which
may cost him his life. lie, with crowd of
other small children, whose ages range
from three years to ten years OF age, were
playing in Mr. John X. Logan's orchard,
and as several stories are told by the young.
sterS as TO the cause of the accident, il is
difficult to tell the straight story. Mrs.
Henderson. who lives on the place, and
whose horse did the harm, thinks that the
little chaps, who were playing on the plat
form used for dancing parties in the or:
chard, jumped down Off the platform and
scared the horse and the horse kicked up,
and as he was in reach Of the horses
reach, he received the lick. The
horse, Mrs. Henderson states, was
in the habit Of coming to the house, and
some one of the family would scare it,
when it would kick up and gallop away.
The little chap says his brother had hold OF
The horses tail and some one of the other
little ones hit the horse with q stick, while
others tell different tales concerning it.
The wound is very painful, and may prove
dangerous, rs the brain was laCerated in a
terrible manner by the skull bone, which
was about an inch in breadth and nearly four
inches in length. DrS. McKerrihan and
Stidger removed the piece Of skull and
dressed the wo.nd. The little child never
whimpered a word while the doctors were
dressing the wound, but the'pain must have
been intense. The doctors have some little
hopes for his recovery, while his parents
have but little hopes.
The funeral service of Gel. VIM. Alexan-
der, who died Saturday morning, took place
yesterday afternoon at . o'clock. The
following gentlemen acted as pail bearers:
James u. Morris. Joseph Harris, G. S.
McFadden, NJ. Dunn, f. Sulwell, Van.
Arnold. Samuel Riggs and John Kyle. The
funeral was one of the largest that ever
took place i'll the county.
The deceased was born in Ohio county,
May 10Th, lSl4, his father being of Scotch
Irish descent. His father settled near
Short Creek, where he married Miss Mar
garCt Davis of Irish descent. She died in
1858, and his father in 1870. Col. Alexan.
der received an education at a subscription
school and also attended one session at
franklin College, of New Athens, Ohio
In August 1885, he was sworn i'll deputy
sheriff of Marshall county.
He engaged in the mercantile business
in Moundsville in 1887, and followed it
until 1912, when he retired from business
and went back to farming. In October,
1912, he married Miss Ellen C. Tomlison, a
sister of Mr.. Alfred TomliSon. He actedin
the capacity of Deputy Sheriff of this
county from 1885 till 1852, when the consti-
tuition of the State was changed, and was
after that aid TO Ex-Governor Pierepoint,
and served under the restored government
until 1863, when he was then appointed aid
TO Gov. Arthur Foreman, was Colonel of
Cavalry, remaining in the service until
the close of the war. He was elected to
the Legislature in. 1861 and
reelected in lS65, In 1876
was elected presiding justice OF the county,
and was again elected in 1880, but owing TO
the adoption of the new State con stitution
which abolished the County Court system,
he did not serve the second term.
He leaves brother. Mr.. Jas. Alexander,
and sister, Mrs. J. IL. Lockwood, both of
whom are still living. Old Marshall will
soon loose all her old settlers and land
marks, as they are dropping off very fast.
Mr.. John Alex Ewing, delegate to the
Grand Lodge X. of H., which meets in
Baltimore Tuesday, left last. evening for
that CITY