The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-19
ADMINISTERS HOUSE.
RunNED ny AN INonNDrAnr
In Marshall County-A State Prisoner Dies
ofConsumpiion--.A Series of bad Acol.
it dcnts-Iind Luck Of II Gas Well
Dorer-Nows from tho State,

dcnts-llad Luck Of u Gas We'll
Borer-News from tho State.
Superintendent West paid short yisl
TO his former home in Harrison count
this week. '1Ng '.I
Doctor G. W. Bruce will spend the l,oli
days. at his old home near Winchester
Virginian. .' za
Doctor McGlumphy, Rock Lick's risin)
Young physician, was at the Court hous,
on business with Sheriff Hicks yesterday
Jacob 7. Cox, d prominent farmer o
Webster district, fell from load of ha,
some days ngo and broke one OF his arms
A young man named Pelley, from Rob
erts Ridge, fell and broke one Of his leg,
week. .8s'E-'
The Boston Museum was well patronlzcd
here Monday and Tuesday evenings last
The boys say 1t is the "biggest show on
Robert Daniels, from Wayne county,
serving a fye-year. sentence at the State
prison. died yesterday morning Of con.
sumption.
Lank Magers Of Wayman's Ridge, al.
most severed one OF his feet from tho
ankle with an axe while cutting flrewood
4 few days ago.
Several young men left here for Fair
mont Monday last to seek employment in
!he stone quarries and stone works OF
Kelley d Co., contractors,
"stullic" Young, a prominent farmer Of
Franklin district, has disposed OF his
property there, and will go to Kanawla
county in short time TO reside in the fu.
ture. - ,... -. u
Lookout for the cars and "railroad
crossing" signs arranged like the fans OF
old time wind mills were put up at the
several street crossings by the Ohio River
RAILROAD. -: :,
Sergeant Drannon informs municipal
taxpayers that q reduction of % percent
will be allowed on all bills paid prior to
January /, and that percent will be
added on all bills unpaid at that date.
Peter i. Cattett, the venerable grave
digger, has full and complete record,
with names and date, OF MI intermcnts
made ut both the old burying ground and
Mount Rose Cemetery since the year
1865, period OF nineteen years, About
100 persons have been buried here in that
time, ,4j>E5-s7.5l
Professor A.. L, Wade, Of Morgantown,
has been in this county for several days
past for the purpose Of inducing the dis.
trict Boards of Education to purchase die
tionaries for the Use of the schools. He
reports very tlattering success in the dis
trlcts visited by him. The Union district
board ordered II copies for the schools Of
that district.
The tools at the gas well astuck" OIL
Tuesday ut a depth Of $50 feet, and are
yet fastened at tho bottom OF the hole.
Mr.. Osborn is certainly fated to i'll luck in
the prosecution OF his work here, as he has
had to contend with al almost uninterupt-
ed series OF mishaps ever since he started
the drill, all OF which hayo been OF that
annoying CHARACTER that judgment and ex-
perlence furnish no means OF preventing.
: Theodore IIornbrook, the Powhatan,
Ohio, merchant who made an assignment
for the benefit OF his creditors q short time
ago, started with Ills family for the West
Immediately after completing the transfer
Of his property. Since the failure it is
discovered that Mr.. Hornbrook's liabili-
tics are much larger than was supposed.
he having borrowed large sums Of money,
aggregating, it is said, about $4,000, from
different parties Of the neighborhood.
VIM. Bush, Of the Fork Rridse, was Sc
riously and probably dangerously injured
Tuesday OF last week, by horse falling
on him. lie was moving family TO Lind.
sey's place, on Roberts Ridge, md one of
his horses getting sick OIL the way Mr..
Bush took the other animal from the wag-
OH and started to ride for another horse,
when the animal ho was riding slipped
over an abrupt embankment, about three
or four feet high, and turning over back
wards fell on the unfortunate mans body,
Two or more OF his ribs are broken and he
is also injured internally. MIR. Bush
himself insists that he is not seriously
hurt, and stubbornly refuses to have u
physician called, saying he is justas like
ly to get we'll without the assistance OF
physician as with one.
The residence Of Rev. V. Doty, of the
Winbrenarian church, in Franklin dis
trict, together with its contents, was des-
troyed by fire Sunday last, while the
family were attending church. Tie fire
was not discovered until it had gained
such headway that when the neighbors
reached the house it was impossible to
enter the building or save anything it con-
taincd. Tho origin Of tho fire is not
known, but is supposed 10 have been The
work Of an incendiary, as the family be.
fore starting to church took such precau-
tons ms would render it almost impossible
for the building 10 take fire from any
other source. The theory Of inccndiary-
ism'is also strengthened by the fact that
the.house had been visited n short time
ago., and further that Mr.. Doty had re-
ceived n considerable sum Of money the
day before'the fire for lot OF hogs sold.
ltis supposed the thief or thieves, ,enragcd
at failing to find the money, fred tho
building out Of spirit Of cussedness.
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