Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-09
OUT OF TOWN NOTES.
News Nuggets Gathered In the state and
vicinity.

A suit in foreclosure against the Wheeling
and Lake Erie Railway was entered in the
United States Circuit Court, at Cleveland,
Monday by Parker Handy and John Patton,
Of New York, trustees Of certain mortgage
bonds issued by the company. The Wheel.
ing and Lake Erie and Cleveland and
Marietta roads entered into . freight and
passsngG sgrssmone March % 1884
ed M s2eosQp ssd ekhE yal2aele
mortgage on The fosd luf III - j.
Under this agreement the Clnolnnet -
Marietta issued one thousand 81 900 bonds.
of which Messrs. Handy Patton became
the trustees. These bonds, the trustees al
lege, are q lien upon the property OF the
W. 4 l.. E., second only to the first mort
gage bonds. When the coupons for the first
payment Of interest were presented to the
W. 4 l.. L. payment was refused, whence
arises the present suit.
A very sad shooting affair occurred ct
Pocahontas, near Princeton, Mercer county,
last Saturday evening. A young man
named Reynolds was regarded as very
quiet, steady, intelligent miner. On Satur-
day evening, however, he was drinking
little, and was seen by policeman Tom
Brewer to have pistol. Brewer demand.
ed the pistol and Reynolds (who turned
out to be a detec.ive) replied
that he had as much right to
carry q pistol as the policeman had, and II
Brewer would 60 with him 10 his room be
would show him his authority. Brewer told
him he didn't want any Of his "foolishness"
and started TO take the pistol from him. In
the scufile that ensued the pistol wa, dis
charged-it is not known how-and Rsy.
nolds was shot in the abdomen, and died
from the effects Of the wound on Sunday
night. Brewer WAS arrested and discharged
Reynolds had been looking after three
negroes charged With rspe, and said before
he died he had found them.
One day last week DR.. Gny Fairfax, Of
Reedsville, Preston county, found in his
meadow land~turtle that mus. be Of great
age. On examining his tur,lesh:p he found
the bottom shell laid off in sections that
had evidently been done with q penknite.
On one Of these sections was cut in bold
letters, ID. NJ" David Menear) 1877"
on another Up. NJ" (Peter Menear) "l8l7;"
on another, "L B. NJ" (Lem b Meaesr)
1929" on another, I'D. R." (Unknown)
1862" on cnother, -. D." (Johp HlD
1879" On the back OF the turtle George
Ashburn had cut his initials in 1870. The
Doctor cut bis name alongside with Ash
burns, and let the old fellow 90 to be found
by sone one else in after years.
The Charleston Star says Mr.. Stevenson,
a Clay county merchant, sent . canoe load
Of produce TO that city recently, in charge
of three Elk river boatmen names unknown.
The canoe arrived three days ago, and an.
chored alongside the upper wharf boat, the
freight being transferred to the latter, since
which time nothing has been heard OF the
men com posing the crew. A return losd Of
merchandise was to have been tnhen back
on the boat.
Hiram Underwood, Of Tyler county, met
with q seriore accident on last Monday
whilst trimming Q tree; in cutting OF limb
it struck him on the leg and broke it just
above the knee.
The store Of Kinbal Tyler &Co', .. Har'
risviYe, Richie county. was burglarized on
Sunday night and goods to tho amount OF
5000 stolen. Thee is no clue 10 who the
thieves were.
Mr.. James B. MsLamore, book keeper for
J. Il. Franklin & Co, wholesale grocers,
was drowned at Pardon's dam, Summers
county, last Thursday.
A. B. Smith, editor Of the Tyler cocnty
Star announces that be will sue the pro
prieto, of the Siste-ssiile independent for
libel.
James Miller. Jr, Of Beallsville, Washing.
ton coapty, the largest merchant in the east
ern end Of tie county, has failed for go.
900.