The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-05

town license and also that the city pay the
elate license. The town sergeant was ap'
pointed to receive the ticketsat the door.
The yater 10 we'll on the farm Of Q. N.
RAIDER. 81 Braxton county has become 90 tm-
pregnated with oil thst It cannot be us;d.
Trustees have been appointed to receive
and hold ten acres OF land one and quarter
miles west OF Philippi, upon which Is 70 ee
builta large and commodious school build
Ing, under the auspices OF the n. b. Church,
South. 1t Is propcssdto erect o building not
les than so by 40 feet, a1d two and ha OF
three stories high.
Last weak fight occurred in Clay county
between man named May aud Lon Bogss,
tough character. in which Boggs was badly
used up. Boggs IL an overbearing fellow and
was imposing on. May, when MAY Grew
knife and used him up badly, Bogs9 WIS
cut In about fifteen places, but his Injuries
are not dangerous. Boggs Is nearly aTayS
engaged IN something viIl9lnous. Not lo1G
ago he was shot by an ottiSer and seriously
wounded, but he seems to possess remarka'
BILE hold on Ifs that defss all stacks. ne
has In Lis career served two terms In the
Penitentiary.
In Guernsey county, Ohio, lsss Friday
morAing Mtllet's station and store, tnciudtng
TIMER Postofiice and stock OF goods worth
about s. 900, belonging to J. 2. Williams
were burned. No cause Of tho fire can be as.
signed. A train passed between midnight
and day without stopping aud 1t Is possible
that sraIks from u ~ fell upon the ROOF:
The family Of Mr.. Williams barely escaped
with their ordinary wearing apparel; Moth.
ing was eayed. The total ltsb Including the
building, Is between 81 900 aud $1,000. ~
surance In franklin, of Columbus, and MI
ami Valley, Of Dayton, for y, 400, on STOCK
and household goods The lc-1 on tae Post'
oitics wassmal.
Two little daughters Of Franklin Phillip,
OF Braxlou county, recently put powder IN .
stove to kindle the fire quickly, not knowing
that there was any Ere In toe stove a. tho
time, 0ue OF the girls had her finger owe
the no til Of the horn pouring the poTde:'
into the stove when the flash took place.
This frightened her aud caused her to move
her finger from the mouth OF the horn, when
tie whole thug exploded, burning the little
girls arm considerably, but not In Jar. NJ her
sight, although her face was burned badly;
The explosion was 60 crest that 1t Knocked
the little girl down, throw the stove plates
off, and Jared the hou!e. The eldest girl
saved her iace from burning much With her
arms. The horn blew into fragments.
Recently, according 10 the Philippi Repad.
iieqG, Jonah Martin, Of Randolph county, dc.
camped for paris unknown, and not content
with making the community sad for his de.
parlure only, left his uncle, Elias Vanscoy
doubly to mourn his loss, for the ungracious
nephew took with him his uncle's "worser
half and now Mr.. vsnscoy mo1rns tue
loss OF both wife aud nephew. Jonah was
a boy of about twenty, and she was about %
or 40 Yeas OF age. Mr. Vanscoy val absent
from home at the time. The womsn left Tie
usual message for her forssken children, writ
ten on slate, "for t. cru to be god children,
that she might never see them again In this
| world, and for themt TO meet her in Heaven"
The pair passed through Philippi on their
way 10 their future hume. This woman left
two children to mourn the unnatural taking
or They took Nth them about all tho bed
ding and everything else Of value about the
houie they coald manage to get away with.