Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28
rHsoucH the STATE

Five fires occurred ct WelisbuHk. Brooke
county, last week. None senouA
A little daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Cox. Of Chenille, Gilmer county. had .
narrow escape from serious accident last
Saturday. She was warming By an open
crate, when her dress caught FIRE. The time
" arrival of her mother prevented her from
being seriously. if not fatally burned Mrs.
Cox was severely burned about the hands
and arms.
Last Thursday morning Miss Lulu Whit.
ing, Of Chenille, received q painful wound
on one of her wrists. by striking her arm on
piece of broken glass in q window.
VIM. M. Taylor, of Chenille, met with
painful accident last Wednesday. While
in the act OF splitting q block the knife slip
ped and sliced of the end Of the thumb on
bis left hand
Shack Pack, q colored man, working at
the round-house at Hinton, Summers coun-
ty, while attempting to run q dead engine
into stall the crowbars slipped and allowed
the engine to run back, and catch Pack be-
tween it and the doorway, crushing his body
badly and breaking his arm in two places.
His injuries are OF very serious character.
Col. a. w. Woodford, the famous cattle
king of Lewis county, as wella one of the
most prominent business men OF Weston,
shipped two steers East last week that
weighed 5, $50 pounds, one six years old the
other four. There was difference Of about
200 pounds in weight Clarksburg News.
The sevepty-two foot derrick for the gas
well at Morgantown, Monongalia county, is
finished. In day or two the setting OF the
machinery will be finished and the work OF
boring begun. The well can be sunk from
twenty Eve to seyenty-fve feet per day, &C
,cording to the nature of the SOIL A good
flow of gas is expected at depth not ex-
ceeding 1900 feet.
The Lincoln county Clipper has passed
from the hands of Mr.. E. ]. Holt into those
OF Mr.. w. s. Bowles.
Mr.. Samuel Lewis, living on Trace Creek,
in Lincoln county, was found dead in his
bed, Friday morning December 18th, age
Is years.
Judge Brown, of this city, fell through &
hatchway in the storeroom of Mr.. Burlew,
Wednesday morning, breaking his night arm
and fracturing RIB. He was taken at
once to his home and medical aid summon.
ed. Owing to Judge Browns advanced age
he is sixty years old-it will . be
sometime before he fully RECEIVERS. Charles
ton Times.
The coal trade at Fairmont, Marion
county, is reported active.
On last Wednesday evening, young
man named Owens, was killed while
.brakeing on local freight in passing
through tunnel on the e. l.. & b. S. rail
road
On Friday night at Sewell, James VIII
hanson had his foot badly mashed by the
csIs.
A little fve-year-old daughter OF Mrs. |.
n. Tough, of Pennington, Marion county
drank a quantity Of concentrated lye Oh
Monday evening last, and for time her
life was despaired Of. She is thought to be
out Of danger.
J. O. Watson, ESQ.,, lost about 81 500
worth OF timber Saturday night by the rise
in the West Fork river. The ice gorged
above it and forced it out, swapping the
cables which anchored the RATS, The tim
Der passed Morgsntown Sunday morning.
The chances are that little of it will be re.
covered.-Fairmont Index.
The school house in the town Of Winfield,
Marion county, was destroyed by fire on
Friday night Of last week. 1t is not known
how the blaze originated, but il is thought
that some OF the timbers of the roof caught
FIRE from the stove pipe. Loss estimated at
800.
The West Union, Doddridge county,
Record, asks: "How much longer is this
town to suffer from the effects Of whisky ?
Thursday last the conduct from those under
the influence OF the cursed stuff would have
been disgrace to heather community,
much less civilized and intelligent peo-
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