The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-17
THROUGH THE STATE
AND IN NEloHsoRiaa COUNTIES
OF AsIslalns stAt..-Frs,h New. and Gossip from
Htllsburg, AOuadIrIlls, Martins Ferry and
BtllAIre-GAs Struck at BtliaIrs-Ia.
tersstlug Stories Elsewhere.

2 Ex-senator Henry q. Davis and wife are
visiting Senator Harrison, OF Indians.
Reports come from Summers county that
during the early part OF this week the Their
mometer registered below zero several morn.
ings.
John Kirkhart, OF Proctor, o few days ago
met with q painful accident that may prove
fatal. He was about to mount his riding
horse when revolver In his hip pocket was
accidently discharged by the rstrikinR
against the saddle. The ball entered his hip
aud, passing upward, could not be found.
Capel Weems, OF Caldwell, who made some
notoriety as the "boy orator" by presenting
the name OF J. NJ. Da'zsll as 8 candidate for
Congress at the st. Ulairsyille convention,
was married last week to Miss Nay, OF Cald-
well.
A few days ago Samuel Valentine, OF Pal
atine, while working In coal mine was @
badly crushed by fall Of about o ton Of
coal that he died In less than an hour after
the accident. He leaves wife and four
small children In very destitute circumstan.
COS.
The Richie Gazette says: "0a Monday
night, as some young men were returning to
their homes from protIacted meeting Of
Mt Zion, free fight was INDUCED In the
number engaged being about eight Several
shots were fired, while rocks and clubs CON-
bined to make the scene lively one. Pete
Foster was seriously injured BY being stabbed
with knife. Others sustained rj1Iies, but
generally slight"
The University reporter Of the Morgan.
town Pos! says that cadet ]. T. Robinson
who has been 30 anxious to 90 home has fin'
ally been discharged for neglect Of duty. We
regret to learn this, ss he would have been q
credit to the corps II he had stuck TO 1t. he
Is our first representative from Brooke coun
ty. II will be remembered that he came as .
cadet last spring, stayed one day and de
camped In the night. Since that time hi
and was, Siucs his return, keeping house In
the SWisher house, West Side"
A number CT railroad capitalists, it is re-
ported, recently met in Baltimore and con
Guided tine purchne Of the Was ,ington City
Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company
The project Is to build arcai from Linwocd
Va, to a point on the Shenandoah Valley
railroad, to Harris 0nburg, and thence west
ward about 100 miles through the Dor coal
mines and into Pacahontas and Webster
counties, West Virginia. The purchasing
syndicate includes Col. Boyoe, Vice President
| OF the Shenandoah Valley railroad; II. D.
Cooke, OF Washing Cd; A. N. Martin and
other New York capitalists
LAST Tuesday morning Adam H. Wamsley
living near Huttonsville, started out on Q
bear hunt. He took with him four dogs 8
small boy carrying an ex "a gun. 1t was moi
long before the dogs beyed btar, aud on the
arrival OF Mr.. Wamsley at the tree, he fired
one shot at the bear wounding him and
causing him to come down the tree. TIL
dogs attacked the bear vigorously aud ger
eral rough aud tnmhleihght began. Fearing
the wounding Of the faithful dogs, Mr.
Wamsley reserved his fire, but finally got ar
opportunity and fred at the bear and missed
him. He then dubbed his gun and br. k4 II
over the bear, the dogs meantime fighting
furiously. They rolled over an embankmeni
aud the bear got one OF the dogs under him
Mr.. Wamsley fearing that his dog would be
killed unsheathed his knife and took hand
in the ight himself, rolling bruin over and
giving him few telling thrusts In the neigh
borhood OF the heart. This Is the second
bear that has been killed with knife, son
OF Mr.. Waus,ey having killed bear with a
per knife short time since. The spirit oil
Dayy Crockett will never die as long rs there
Is Wamsley livins.-RGmiOlph Enterprise.