The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-10

Accidents tut Incidents In West Virginia
-a'tf mud Vicinity.

Accidents aud Incidents In West Virginia
mud Vicinity.
Tho Parkcrsburg Stntine1 wants Mar.
tinsburg given the go.by, And Is n favor
OF the Press Association meeting in this
city about January ).
Tho publisher and editor OF the St.. Ma
rvs Ordcc have decided TO suspend pub,
lication!or Il few weeks. They havesome
outside business they want time to look
after, St. Mary's is a lively, progressive
place TO publish a newspaper in.
Chairman Dave D. Johnson, OF the
State. Temperance Executive Committee
has once more sent out all over the State
thousands OF blank petitions to tho Legis.
lature asking the submission of the pro.
hibitory amendment. He wants 100000
sisners this time.
The Martinsburg Mraldsays: "Nothinr
has been made public yet about the will
and estate OF the late Hon. Charles James
Faulkner. We understand he gives his
valuable and extensive library and 81 900
to the town Of M%iartinsburg, provided
within three years the necessary means
are provided by the citizens for the cree.
ton Of u suitable building for u public
library"
a sad and serious accident happened in
Wcllsburg Saturday night that may ter.
inmate in the death OF William Blankin.
sop and George Ralston. They were
r!dinein an express wagon with the pa-
radc firing Il cannon. Spafks from q TO.
man candle ignitcd some loose powder
the explosion Of which threw them out Of
the wagon and seriously burned them,
while their clothes were torn from their
persons. ag
The Tucker County Pioneer says: The
United States Geological Survey has a
Typographical party, with W. y. Griswold
in charge, Sui veying and mapping the
country in this. vicinity. THIS is pre-.
paratory to an examination by the eeolo.
gists Of the survey, who require d good
map to be made in advance iortlleir work,
The entire Appalachian region is TO be thus
surveyed and examined, md there Rre
now seven typographical parties employed
in this section, the most southern being
in Alabama and Georgia. It is expected
that the biologists will take the field next
season, The party Of AtF. Grtswald viii
disband at Komnty in a few weeks.
Judge Holt, of Lewisburg, before whom
vas argued the rule issuedi in the natureo
a wrltoi prohibition against the Commits
OF the Fayctte County Courttoshow
why they should not be prohibit
ed from pureing the polls Of votes claimed
to be Illegally cast In that county at the
State election, at the close Of the
discussion Of the points involved In the
case, proceeded to render his decision.
was to the effect that the ruiz
shonld>be discharged-thus allowing the
Commissioners TO procsed with tho count,
The legal points in the cRse were fully
by G~overnor.elect Il. Willis wi.
on behalf OF the dismission OF the
and, onthe other hand, Judge James
II. Brown, presented a plausible md In.
senioAs argument in behalf OF the parties
Interest on the other side,
Tho Glenvillc Crescent says that the
in Il portion OF that county, Gil.
Iner, are greatly excited oyer what Is sup
posed to be n murder. It is said that re-
'ently a Mrs. Brush and her family, con-
OF several children living in a
lonely spot, heard cries Of murder, muir.
ler,"&c. They state that they heard the
:ries distinctly and thatthe same lasted for
l!bout three minutes, dying away with
oh, dear me-" This statement is corro.
by a number Of persons. A few
lays subsequent, so the story goes, a large
'lub, covered with blood, was foundin
he road, not far from where the noise was
'eard. The Cresceats theory about the mat
er is, that the noise was made by some
Wild animal and that the persons are mis-.
AIKEN about the utteranccs. Almost any
light for the past two weeks the unearthly
'rles Of a c%atalaonnt have been heard on the
Hills opposite Chenille, and at times It
,,eery much resembled a human being in
distress.