The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-27
RESUMES
NEWS OF THE STATE AND VICINITY
Embracing NIL tho Important News OF
tho DRy-The state Mt LarEc-Notes
from B%ellaire, Moundsvillr.
and Various Other Towns.
q Work will be commenced on the Ohio 4
Guyandotte Railroad as soon as the weather

Work will be commenced on the Ohio 4
Guyandotte Railroad as soon IS the weather
viii permit.
The house Of Mr.. Isaac Holman, OF Marion
county, Was destroyed by Ere February q.
Loss 81 900, insurance $1,000.
The farmers and taxpayers Of Preston
county will meet In mas meeting at the
Court House, March Lat, 10 consider tho re-.
assessment not. (&g5
A meeting In tho interest OF the Mt. Yer.
nou, Coshoctoa d Wheeling railroad will be
held at Adena, Jefferson county, Ohio. next
Saturday, March lst.
A company Of capitalists has been formed.
composed Of some Of the best men OF Bum.
mers county, for the purpose Of prospecting
for oil IN that vicinity. NJ.
The assignment OF O.. h H. Whitman, The
Volcano merchants, has been placed in The
hands OF @. II. Shat!uck as trustee, The
creditors have all been placed on equal foot.
Ing.
General Temple, President OF the Washing.
ton K Waynesburg railroad, says the line Ia
a paying one and the reports that the Penn
sylvania company are negotiating It's pur.
chase are false. 1
Tbs city baoks chow Parkenburgt to have a
total bonded debt OF $50, OIL 40 sinkiugfuu
OF $77, 658 81, aud the Trustees have taken
care OF this considerable trust for t~wepty.six
years at a cost OF So 60.
The Episcopal Church at Petersburg was
30 badly damaged that 1t Ia thought II will
not be safe TO hold services In. The organ
was completely ruined, rs was also the or.
cans In the other churoheu. ISL
A joint stock company has been formed,
with all tho stock taken, for starting q wooden
factory at Waypesburg, Pa. The plant oiths
strosnidOs factory, ut Blacksville, West Viz.
gina, is 10 be moved to that place.
On the lower end OF the Ohio River road
there are 100 men at work. The engines
which were dumped OF the track are busy at
work again. The track up 10 Histersville Is
being put In order as fast as possible,
Tom Jones, a colored man and notorious
burglar, was captured at Parkeraburg, Mon.
day. Jones has made quite a reputation
around Athels, Ohio, where he Is wanted.
When arrested he had a large amount OF
stolen goods on bis person.
Randolph Fansler was found three miles
b>l9w New Interest, Randolph county, last
Friday morning frcz ,u until but little life re.
NAMED in him. He was taken 10 a neighbours
house where everything was d me to reatore
him, but he died in a few hours. It Is said
that he had bseu INDUCING too freely 10
whisky. So,
A meeting Of the wool growers Of Greene
county was held In the Court House ut
Waynesburg, Pa, Saturday afternoon.
Speeches were made by Editor stockdaie, Of
the Washington Herie,u and Examiner, and
by Mr.. Mcdowell, also of Washington, Pa.
The object Is the restoration OF the duties Oh
wool as provided for by tue tariff law Of 1907.
II is not often a man votes three times on
age, but this being a year Of strange happen
inEs, 1t would not be complete w%ithontsoue.
Holmes, OF West Alexander, is the man. His
birthday being February 2tst, he came OF
sga on the 10th, the day Of election last year,
and voted then, in the fail and on the l9:h