The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-29
LATE LAWLESSNESS
ANp Other MArTERs IN rAE sTArE
Aat yidlIty-Tws FsSulsa 8. lelslrs Saturday
AHArri,ou County Han Buakssd- Foul Play
Alleged IN Connection with a west Viz.
sInIaa's Death in Baltimore.

The Clarksburg Neips Is agitating the sub
ject Of O telephone exchange in that place.
AZouaye company Is being organized at
MArtinSburg, with ". H. Riggs as captain.
The Bap.ists will hold their General Asso-
citation at Clarksburg, commencing Novem-
Der 10. 4.
". ]. Kester, OF Harrison county, was re
Gently swindled oat OF 81, 800 by three-card-
monte men while on his way to Ohicsgo.
The depot OF the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road, ct Nippon, Jefferson County. W. Va,
was burned q few nights since, together with
q carload Of wheat
The work on the New M~artinsyille Baptist
Church Is being pushed forward and the
members will soon have an elegant and ap-
propriate place Of worahip.
For the past week there has been consider
able excitement at Mountain Lake Park over
the large number Of wild ducks on 1.-THE lake.
They were killed tyg the hundreds.
Jake Reel, OF Grant county, has three chill
dren, triplets, born In 1870, two boys and q
girl, and he named them Tilden, Hendricks
and Reform. He Is also the father OF two
sets Of twins.
Last week Judge Charles ]. Faulkner, jr.,
gave an elegant banquet at his Martineburg
residence to the members OF the Berkeley
bar and attorneys who were attending the
court there from q distance. Ex-Attorney
General Robert White, Of this city, was one
OF the guests.
The Grand Jury which was In session Of
Writ acounty last week found q true bill
against Joseph Paul for the murder Of q Ger,
man by the name Of VIM. Honcher In thai
county over twenty. years $50. The. fate'
| ananN 60 ha auafnak pau1 az ha Ia rnuF In thA
Wood county jail awaiting bis second trial
for the murder of Reuben Marquis nearly
two yeas ago.
Last week aS a little nine year old daugh.
ter Of Marcellus Frame, Of Braxton county,
was going home from school, she was follow.
ed by one Of her schoolmates named William
Brock, an overgrown lad OF seventeen years,
who basely assaulted her, tearing her clothes
almost of. It 10 said that he made an at
tempt OF the same kind with another little
girl some time ago.
At Ksnawha Falls, on the 9Th inst, two
little boys, one named Blake and the other
named Wilson, were playing with pistols,
sns piping them at each other, when the one
in Blake's hands went OF, taking effect in
Wilson's head, killing him almost instantly.
The boy who was killed wsS eight ytars old
and the other ten or twelve.
The friends OF the late Mr.. spangler, OF
Mercer county, whowas suffocstei by gas In
q Baltimore hotel some time since, think
that he was foully dealt with. The Prince.
ton Journal Gays that when he left home he
was known to have had o considerable sam
Of money, but although he could have had
no possible chance to have deposited the
same, when found dead he only had three
dollals in money and q seven dollar check.
A few nights ago, 0 stranger rode up to the
house off Mr.. Light, at Bsdington, Berkeley
county, and c.llipg that gentleman to the
door, INTERCEPTED him IS 10 bis name. Being
courteously informed, the stranger drew q
revolver and fired two shots at Mr.. Light,
who retreAted into the house unframed, and
procuring q revolver fired q couple OF shots al
the retreating form OF the woul6-be assassin.
The whole affair remains q mystery to the
public and n ~fruitless attempt was made 10
identify the stranger.