The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-08
4 BUDGET OF BRIEFS.
Of uNusuAL iNTEREsT
Ia tbs stats ard Aons the pOrs,rs-B.llAIts asd
AArtInl psrry-R,esptars ofths Riklns Mar,
tsrn-A Rleh Plnd Ia FaI.tis County.
DtA.hs-PAtAl Accident, Ste., etc.

a reunion oil eX.CJnieueraIe sOiuieIS was
held at Anderson, Monroe county, Saturday,
that was well attended.
The smallpox panic OF lest summer has
not operatedIn theles7t against the attead-
ancs at the Concord Normal School.
The prisoners in tho jan at New Martint-
vile endeAVorOd to work their way out last
week, but were fortunately discovered and
their plans foiled.
About forty new houses in wellsburg
proper AID about fifteen III the Of suburbs
Of Midway and Lszearville, Is the count 70
this date since January.
Editor Mile, Of the Grafton Eagle, has
brought snit against the editor OF this Clarks.
burg Telegram, for 50 900 for SANDER. John
w. Mason has, 1t 10 Understood, been re-
tanned by Mi. Miller.
Issac N. Smith, Esq prominent lawyer
OF the Charleston bar, died Saturday morn.
ing very suddenly at his reSidence in that
city, aged about so. Mr.. Smith was one OF
Ksnawha county's most progressive citiz ms.
An ordinance has been adopted by tue
council Of Huntington, giving the Hunting
ton Heating Company the exclusive right for
30 years TO lay pipes In the streets and alleys
for the purpose Of furnishing gas for heating
purposes, work TO commence In one year.
At therecent term OF the Circuit Court OF
Fayette county, according 10 the Democrat,
the grand jury found 223 indictments; OF
this number 2l7 we're misdsmeanors aud O
felonies. The greater part Of them we've for
selling liquor, as one man vas indicted in
sixty-tour cassa.
On Friday evening last as gravel train
arrived ut the EasksrSburg B. & 0. R. R.
shops, young man by the name OF Frank
Shne, an employe OF the road, IN attempting
to jump from the train missed his footing
and fell on the track. A yard engine was
booking at the time and ran over him. horri.
bly, msnsling him and causing iustantaneou'
A cavalry company hes been organized at
Harper's Ferry, With Geo. ". Green, cap
tain; ]. Garland Hurst, first lieutenant
and A. Spencer, second lieutenant; A,
Stump, third lieutenant The company has
adopted cadet gray uniforms, with vel ow
facings, soft black regulation hats, With
black plumss, aud United sllteJ pattern
cavalry boots.
In Saturdays steubsnville papers appeared
alsngthy card from Rev. W. N. Grimes, oil
that city, until recently President OF the Sec.
ond Amendment COMMITTEES, aud who recent.
ly came out as candidate for the Legisls.
t1re on the Second Amendment or Prohibi.
ton ticket, withdrawing his name from the
same. Bis action IN allowing b name to. be
used for the Legislature caused considerable
feeling, and censure was heaped upon him.
The arrangements for the annual meeting
OF the West Virginia Press Association al
Petersburg on the % and 9th insts, are
very complete, ana the meeting will un-
doubtedly be highly enjoyable The Pr<s4sx.
c1rgioD to Eastern points under the snperyi.
sion Of Editor G 4som, of the Piedmont 0bScneri
Is also assuming proportions, aud II all the
applicants for passes so, 1t will take a spacial
train. Eighty persons are on the excursion
list at present, Including twenty-elght ladies.
John E. Spangler, a well known merchant
Of Princeton, W. Va, WIS found dead 10 bis
room at the Niagara Hotel, Baltimore, at c
o'clock Saturday morning, A waiter In en-.
deaV0ripg to awaken Spspgler datectsd the
smell OF ge1, aud thinking something was
wrong, foTcedopen the door. TIE room was
filed with sa1 aud Spsngler was found iyirg
upon his back, apparently In tranquil
slGep, but an examination proved him 10 be
a corpse. 1t wss evident the gas had been
blown out instead oil turned OF.
A correspondent OF the Fayette Eutcrpriae,
writing from Caperton, in that couuty, say
that while some men were working In qun:.
ry near that place they opcntd into place
that seemed to be q cave, aud upon entering,
TO Their surprise they found hugeiron chest,
nearly eaten up with rust, and upon the
chest was skeleton, which from thsSiz ofihe
bones must have been peTson OF enormous
size, and upon opening the chest they found
some odd.shapsd coins which had the appear.
ance Of being very 81 lieut.. Italso conialu.
ed some sort OF .oIs, which might have
been used by an ancient race Of people who
msy have onos inhabited this country. TIE
discovery has caused great deal OF excite
ment, The articles found arc In the poe
sion OF +. l.. Dooeer and Alexander Hax-
well, the parties who made the discovery.
John Smith, colored, the condemned muir.
derer OF JOSH ID Harding, at Elkins last Nay
who escaped from Oakland j4il Thursday ".
ternoon, found himself 80 closely surrounded
es TO prevent escape, and at daybreak Fsday
morning went tot Q Jail and surrendered 10
Sheriff JamiEon. Soon after Smith escaped
Sheriff J4mison called on Ospt. Wardwell, OF
Company 8, Garrett Guards to assist in the
recapture Of the fugitive. Capt. Wardwell
responded promptly, bis men going on duty
at O'Clock Thursday evening and remain
ing out until O'Clock Friday morning. A
detachment OF 10 men, under Lieut..
Msson, were put on picket and patrol duty
on tne country TOau DetWeen OhRIAnu
and Daer Park; ten men, under Lieut..
Chisholm, ptcketed the railroad fom Oak
land 10 Deer Park; ten men, under Sergt
White, picketed the road crosJing from the
unity road to the railroad, beyond Noun
tain Lake Park Smith was thus surround
ed In the thick Jack" oak woods, where he
remained concealed until morning., when
finding escape impossible he surrendered at
the jail. Smith wa cut three times in the
abdomen with a penk1ifs by Tailor Crop IN
the struggle when he broke jail. The wounds
bled freely, and may prove ssrious He also
fell into q brook, and, the night being cold
be was much benumbed. He Is now safe In
custody and will no doubt be more carefully
guarded. The guards were ss1isted by a
number Of volunteers, including twenty-five
men on horseback.