The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-03-03
TEE STATE NEWS
CONDENSED INTO READABLE FORM.

I CONDENSED lNToAREAoABLIFoRN
4 Murder At ilaatisEtos, Horse Stealing Ia Bt,k
!. lsr Coaaty and . Variety Of Other Ist.r.st.
ink Notes Asost Recent il.pp.AiuKs
!, RI From al 8ssr the State.
The Methodist Episcopal church in KEY
ser, cleared Oft a fourteen yoars debt taa
Sunday. arD# lsi~
It is announced that President Andrew
Of Marietta College, will retire from tn
Faculty at an early date. g
| Burning Springs and Patkarsburg wan
to be ,ined by telephone. II is though
the line will be built In the spring.
Cassville, in WAYNE county, was til,
scene Of m incendiary FIRE last week. sev
c-al buildings were destroyed. Loas
8 1000. 1N
The citizens OF HnttonByille are consjt|
erlng the .propriely Of Building an Acadt.
my for the accommodation OF the military
school at that place. -
keyser is to have new school building
The new building Is 10 be ol brick, two
stories in height, and having five school
rooms, about 25 by IS feet in siz., on each
floor. 2gtEIGr7F l' -
The County Court Of Tyler county has
ordered that the proposition Of suoscrib.
ing $e5. 900 to = narrow gauge be submitted
to the people Of Ellsworth district Msrch
25.h. 1I ,T&a
Last Wednesday night horses were stolen
from Dr.. John B. Saodgrass, Charles
Matthaie, Hunter Small, Scott Couchman,
MIR. Merchant and Brown Morrow, all OF
Berkeley county. '* ~.
The Canton, Ohio, Bridge company have
contracted TO put up an iron bridge across
Little Fishing creek, with span OIL to 81
feet long, II feet roadway, open for travel
by March 20:h.s Contract price s., 400.
The Williamsport, Berkeley county, In.
lantry company was insulted and outraged
while marching on the streets in Ha9eIs.
town recently, by some miscreants throw.
ing eggs at them, besmearing their uni.
forms. 7'.'st r'', ,5rs 9. ..t-;Es r,s, -sl Z. ;,
Mr.. @. ?. Huntington, through his agents,
is buying up all the Big Sandy railroad tax
reCeipta he can lay hands on, paying ten
cents on the dollar for them. They will be
converted into stock which be worth con-
siderable: The Big Sandy is the connect.
ing link between the chesapeake & Ohio
aud Kentucky Central railroads.
MI. Alfred Hutton took to the railroad at
Philippl two very large cherry logs from
West Huttonville recently. j., They were
twelve feet in length and three feet in
diameter-regular bird's.eye cherry, as fine
IS any forest in the United States can pro.
duce. There is one more log back that be-
longs to the same tree; the whole contain
ing $500 ieet OF inch lumber.
VIM. Yeater, the last Of the noted conut.
erfeittrs, who were convicted in the Fed
eral Court at Parkersbnrg last winter, was
sentenced by Judge Jackson Saturday to
eighteen months III the Moundsville Peni-
tentiary. Yeater, though seventy years
old, is q hale and hearty man, and seemed
but little affected when sentence was pro.
nounced OIL him. He was yesterday
brought to Moundsville BY. Marshal Akin
aon and Deputy Ramp.
The preliminary trial OF Jos. shobe, Ed.
gar d. Shobe, Harvey Green, Ed. Reel and
Chas. Green, before Justices Hi and Feas.
ter, Of Grant. county, on the. charge OF
burning Harvey Yanxey's' barn, was con.
cluded last week. The trial lasted eight or
nine days some Of the sessions OF court
extendingiar into the night 2:eand attracted
great interest; Seventeen Witnesses; we're
examined: for the State and fifteen for the
Defense. The prisoners were remanded for
further trial and admitted to bail with pro.
per security in the sum OF $3.50 each. & I
The South Branch Gasette tells Of man
who calls himself Rev. Stewart Lambert. q
disciple Of the Campbellite church, in 'ad-
dltion to bis ministerial calling claims to
be kind OF inspired geologist, and claims
that the moment. he steps On mineral OF
any kind ho is shocked or electrified to
such an extent that he can tell with aeon
racy the amount oi mineral there s and
the depth at which it may be reached.
lie charges fee S. for going on land for
pereons to try his inspiration, and it ia
stated that he has made Rome believe bis
story. aEt.E .Il4;,
The Huntington Republican Of March
says: ""Lsst Tuesday night three pistol
shots in quick succession startled the resi-.
dents Of Upper Third avenue and an inyes-
tigation revealed the following facts: Will
liam BeBs, who has lived in this city for
some time past had difficulty with his
family last fall, which resulted in usepara-
tion from.his wife. Mrs. Bess and children
lived above::the college and made their own
living. At about nine o'clock on Tuesday
evening, Bee, being drunk, went to hia
wife's house, broke down the door, struck
her with a large oar and then attempted 10
kill her. The children gave the alarm by
screaming '..murder," which brought sever.
al persons to the house, among whom was
Alfred White. Bess having left, the men re-
mained q while, when all left except Mr..
White. who at the earnest solicitation OF
Mrs. Bess, agreed to stay, and protect her
from tho further attacks Of her husband.
In short time Bees returned and again
broke down the door, rushed in with a
club. and with angry imprecautiona made
| at White as II 10 strike him. Mrs. Bess
called upon White to shoot him, saying
that he would kill them all, when White
fired three shota, the last one striking Bess
in the head, whom he fell TO the floor dead.
The fret two shots took effect in the body,
but Bess continued TO advance until the
third ended his life. The jury rendered a
verdict that the killing was in self-defense,
but White WIS held in penalty OF $500 to
appear before the Grand Jury at the next
term Of the Circuit Court
| BELLAIRE.
MiSceilnnoous News GleaniuEn from the
Glnss City. VS. .a-S
J. W. Sellers has an excellent photograph
| of RallairA m avhihitton IN hio rinf]nu,