The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-06
THB STATE Az LARGE
AND sEVeRsL aoapgR co0STiEs.


yIcialty-prosprsu Tinss at wells
burg Bsilslts sAtter. etc.
On Monday the wages Of the men working
on the River Railroad were advanced from
$l26 to$l6o.
Three steam and one horse pile drivers are
at work driving pills for the o. Il, Il. Il. BIT
tween BenWood and Moundsyille.
The fist person 10 own a bicycle In and
appear on the streets Of Eairmont was the
Rev, Mr.. Cowan, Of the NJ. P. Church.
Suit has been brought in the Common
Pleas Court at stsubenyille by John Parks
against Joseph w. Peoples, claiming 800
damage for selling the plRihtihsneep which
he claims had the foot rot.
The Barnesviile InHpiSe says: 1.-THE Fair
thus year, although -e pest exhibition ever
given here, was 9 financial failure Two days
Of good weather afforded the people tihs
opportunities for attending, yet they did not
come, and the receipts are ons-third less than
in successful years. The Farmers Fair did
not draw the farmers"
VIM. Malcolm, the contractor on the Bell
aire, Z4uesville and Cincinnati Railroad At
Belle Valley, who abandoned lew weeks
ago without paying his employees, ives over
taken at Detroit, Michigan, by Detective
Linton, Of Zlnesyflle, and compelled TO dli-
gorge PAL Of the money he had taken away
with him.-lionroe Gazette.
A young boy aged about II year,, son OF
Edward CGlleldine, OF Brooke county, met
with q fatal accident on Wednesday last.
He ives picking apples, and in descending
the ladder with bag on his shoulder, by
some means slipped, falling on o snag, which
ran into his body, producing wound which
resulted In his death the same evening.
The Buckhannon BdMner in referring to J.
q. Campbell, the ascending Ohio River
Railroad contractor, says: Mr.. Campbell
was sub.con tractor on the w. d B Z. r.,
and we believe settled up his accounts pretty
we'll, but had contract on the Weston end
for getting out ballast for the road and 1t was
generally understood that he left large
number Of accounts unpaid.
A COW belonging 10 Eugenius stumm, Of
Monopgalia county, became helpless II lew
days ago, from some unknown cause, and
could not rise up or cot her food. She had
to be shot. When skinned 1t was di covered
that the bones OF her hips were literally bro
ken 10 pieces-crushed into small particles,
and modification bad set In. The only theo-
~ for the fatal Injury Is that the animal had
been struck by lightning.
A Royal Arch Chapter OF Masons has been
AstablisnAd recently 1t Weston by X. D. Wal
ker, OF Fairmont. II Is known as BigelOw
~ II. named IN honor OF the late Col JU-
siRh Bigelow, OF Weston. The officers Of the
UuaptUr are ID. L. W. g. Emmett, High
Priest; J. A.. j.. Ligbtbnrn, King; Charles
o'Hara, Scribe; Es. RalSton, Captain fHos;;
George Ross, Principal Ssjonrne; W. H.
Aspinall; Royal Arch CspraiD;J. Il. Will
liams, Master OF Sd Veil; ]. W. Keeble, Mas.
ter Of Cd Veil; P. NJ. Borgess., Mater OF Isl
Veil.
Several days since Mrs David Boley, OF st.
Marys, eloped with man nsmed Joseph
Darnon. Mr.. Boley is about "A years OF age,
and Is the motuer of lMgs family OF children.
Darnon lisa worthless p4lson, who has DESERT
ed three wives already With the last one
he leaves three children to support. He was
getting out cross-hes, aed Told his wife that
the money was TO buy winter clothes for her
and the chileren, and she believed him, and
worked out In the woods TO help him. But
the ungrateiul wretch ussd the money to
carry him away with another. MIR. Boley
received o letter from his faithleSs wife,
mailed at Marietta, Ohio, stating thst she
was of for Minnesota, and was gone to stay.
The Fayetse Eataprise says; Last Friday
evening about ak OciOckr Us the miners
working at the Hawks Nest Goal Company's
mines were coming down on the Short Line
To Ansted, the train bacams unmAnageable
and run Of the track on Double Bent tIestle,
precipitating fifteen cars down tha abyss,
about 90 feet. There were about forty miners
on the cars at the time they were runni1ga,
such high rate OF spsei, but most OF tnem
had jumped off before the trestle was preached.
Among the unfortunate ones who failed To
get of wsre Lee Roach, who wsg killed, Har.
vey Munly, W. Combs and Taylor Hess. Who
are seyerely,it not fatal hurt, aud John
W. Huffman and Grant Fox bally injured.
The cars were almost a tstil wreck. No Que
seems to bito blame for this lad affair, and
every atteation YES given the wounded men,
Goth by employers and employees.
In Lincoln county, q few miles from Hun
tingt9n, lives oeDtenRrian, who boasts OF
the ripe sge OF 107 years. His name Is
Thomas E4gltston, and he was bora in CJun-
ty Tyrone, Ireland, June 3, 1716 He left
Ireland at the age OF 43, tlrStsottlins in Penn
sylyania, but removing to West Virginia q
few years later. making this State his peFms-
nent home. He Is weaver by trade, but
has msde his living principally by farming
and teaching school. He IVES married. wnon
4S, and his wife and nine children sill sur
ylye, Mr.. Eagleston enjoys & nod health, and
has had very little sickness curing his long
and eventful life. He can see u read very
well with glasses, has rstentive memory,
aud is brilliant and lively Conversations
list HR never weighed more than 1a5 pounds.
He, q few weeks since, walked eighteen
miles before dinner, and did not sutIar from
any appreciabls fatigue, He hiss constantly
used liquor, but never has been hsrd
arinker, and has never used tobacco in any
form. The most remarkable statement Is
that for long period Of years no has drank
no wstef except In coffee or tea. Mr.. Eigle.
Ston bids fair TO live many year9longer, and,
as he laughingly said, Is great deal stronger
in his one hundred aud eighth year than
when he began his first.