The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-04-21
A AND VICINITY,
Recent DoinGs OF West Virgininns and
their N%eighbors,

Inc town OF kinRwood has $160 in her
treasury, and has reduced her levy from Is
cents In 1883 TO l6 cents this year.
Wyoming county now has a steam engine
and her lumbermen will not in the future
have to take their logs out OF the county Ia
have them sawed.
The Presbytery Of West Virginia will meet
Of Grafton on the 25:h inst. Several very in.
teresting meetings will be held in connection
with the Presbylery.
The Grand Jury Of Tyler county last week
returned eighty.four true bills, OF which
seventy-eight were against A. v. Slack, s
sistersville druggist, Tor unlawful retailing
Of the ardent.
Track laying on the Ohio River Railroad
progressed very rapidly las. week. With ia,
yorable weather there ought to be nothing in
Psrkersburg by June Is.
According 10 the Braxton Central. thai
county has a midget in the person of E. 8.
Re1road, % years OF age, four feat, four and
one-half inches high, and weighs si1ty.four
pounds. He is we'll proportioned and has q
timely developed muscle.
Nate Kiger, Of Morgantown, who made
quite q local reputation last season as pitche,
Tor the Rough and Ready club OF that place,
has gone 10 Baltimore to consider an offer OF
$40 . and expenses from Il professional club,
and Henry Hayes, Of Morgantown, has been
offered q position with a fat salary by the
Alleghenies.
United States Fish Commissioner Mcdonald
had his fish car at Cumberland, last week,
and placed $1,000 salmon trout in the Poto.
mac river. A great number OF fine fish, Of
various kinds. have been placed in the Poto-
mac recently, aud II they do not eat each
other up, a few years will see some fine sport
for fishermen.
Felix R.. Davis, OF Webster county, in
dulgedin unlawful retailing of the ardent"
He was indicted twenty times by the local
court, tried and convicted in each case, and
sentenced to jail sixty days and to pay u
line OF $50 in each cese, making 800, the
total fines, and three years, three months and
fifteen days Imprisonment,
The BraIton county Republicans at their
Convention to choole delegates to the district
and State Conventions declared their choice
TO be Blaine and Lincoln, but did not in.
struct their delegates. They all pledged
themselves to stand by the Chicago. nomi-
nees, being satisfied that the delegates OF
that Convention will make a wise and safe
choice" LOT ~ .ur
John n. Hall and Samuel Young, Of BUM
mer1 county, got into u difficulty a few days
since, regarding q horse that had broken into
Young's wheat field. Hot words passed be.
tween the men and Young finally drew his
revolver and shot Hall in the lett arm, shat
terlng the bone. A warrant Was issued but
at last accounts Young had not been appre-
hended.
The WellsbuIg Herald says: There seems
to be o possibility OF o legal tilt between the
original Welsburg Gss Company, which
claims under q grant from the town corpora
ton, certain exclusive privileges, and the
Rocky Point Company, that It appears In
making use Of their gas, will come in conflict
with them. A recent decision at Pittsburgh,
In q Eomewhst similar case, was in favor o.
the party claiming exclusive privileges.
The Republican Executive Committee OF
Barbour county has issued a call for a mass
meeting Of the Republicans and all voters OF
the county, without regard 10 past differ
ences, who are in favor Of eleyating and dig.
nifying American labor, protecting and e1-
lending home industries, giving free popular
education to tia pscses OF the people, secur:
ing free suffrage and an honest counting OF
ballots, effectually protecting all human
righ's IN every section Of our common coun-
try, and who desire to promote friendly feel
Ing and permanent harmony throughout the
State by maintaining a State and Rational
Government pledged to. these objects and
principles. The meeting is called for June 2.
Mrs. Thompson, the disreputable woman
Of Gilmer county who recently attempted TO
kill her neighbor with a carving knife and
later escaped from the rattle'trap Jail In
which she was incsrcerated, han bsen recap
turad. The Gllmer Crescent says: "Otacsrs
went. lsat Tuesday evening, In search Of
Mis-. %Thompson, who escaped from Jail re-
Gently. The scsrch at that time only gave q
clue to her whereabouts, but lest 1hursday
night Col. W. II. Powell and a posse OF men
surrounded her camp and captured her. She
had q nest prepared with a few boards BY the
side OF a huge log. She ives alone when can.
tured end offered bnt slight resistance. The
captors wsrsn nine III number and W6,s ION.
manded by Dol. Powell, who says be WENT
prepared to bring her H.. She Is now In }ail,
confined in one Of the cages, where she will
remain until the June term Of court. The
and conviction Of her will %undoubted.
ly bring to Justice n nnmba, o. her followers
who are wanted for different odenses.