The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-29
IMPORTANT ITEMS
OF AN INTERESTING NATURE
From All Parts OF tho state and vicinity.
Criminal Notes Occurrences
of ,unusual Note Glsnnings from
the Exchanged, Ec., Etc.

Several very fine deer have already heen
killed this season in PoCahontas county.
Nearly s., 900 has been secured for the
erection Of new Presbyterian church III
Little Washington.
The car shops Of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad Company ~ CoGnellsville
are crowded with work.
Raleigh county is building new Jail.
Wyoming county il also having one built
that will cost upwards Of S., 900.
The salt manufacturers at Pomeroy Bend
are reported TO be very busily engaged,
and the activity is OF a very encouraging
nature.
One night last week some inhuman
wretch cut au ear of horse belonging TO
Mr. Yancy johnson, Of CircleYille, Pen
dleton county.
The cooperative pottery at East Liver
has orders enough to keep them busy for
several weeks.
Esis are being taken out OF the Potomac
river at Harpsr's Ferry by the hundred
every night Some Of them arc wonder
fully large fellows.
The taxes aud damages due on the
land returned delinquent in Clay county
and to be sold neXs month amounts to
something near $780,
A few days since at Huntington, W. F.
Mari, railroad engineer, was stricken
with paralysis while on his engine. One
side was completely paralyzsd.
The "Still8ell" oil well III Wood county,
about which so much has been written Of
late, ia evidently only still well. 1t is
not probable that it will ever amount to
paying well.
The confirmation OF the sale OF tho West
Virginia portion OF the Ohio Central road
will take place at Charleston during the
November term OF the United States Dis
trict Court for this Stete.
At Clarksburg, Forbes Davis, during hia
mothers absence, broke opeu trunk, ab-
stracted $3.50 Tote sold it to Mr.. Edgar
Dawson for S300,Nud Immediately went
West to grow up with the country.
G. X. Lord, general passenger agent OF
the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad, has been
appointed general passenger agent Of the
Cincinnati, Washington q Baltimore rail-
road, vice Thomas 7. Barry, resigned.
William G. Lang, editor Of the Moore
field Examiner, was married recently to
Mics May MOoman, of Pittsburgh. all
the newspaper men in the State will join
10 wishing Brother Laug and his bride q
long life Of prosperity and happiness.
A man named Gardner opened a new
saloon in BarnaBvile Saturday, aud signal
lied the event by distributing the ardent
among his friends without moGey or price.
Monday he was iaed S25 and costs for
giving liquor to persons in the habit OF
becoming intoxicated.
The Ensign Car Works at Huntington
has on hanI orders for 400 box, so gondola
and % improved cattle cars. The COM
pany has been obliged to secure number
OF new bands to keep up with their orders,
and the full force in addition to working
ten hours every day are on every, other
night until 10 o'clock.
A Temperance Law and oder league
has been formed in Lewis county. The
meetings are to be held on the first day of
Circuit Court, three times year and
oftener il necessary. Its members are
pledged to assist, uphold and support Off
GERS III their efforts to rigidly enforce the
laws and punish violators.
Two boys. named Frank Howard and
James Nichols, arc in jail in Cambridge,
o, awaiting trial for breaking into the B.
& O.'s depot at Quaker City and steal
ing about eighty railroad tickets. Howard
was sent to the reform school some two
oil
time. Both boys will probably get term
in that institution.
There are very few OF the State ex-
changes at present that are not bowling
for money duo on back subscriptions.
The people Of this State wrong themselves
even more than the printers by not keep
ing we'll paid up. 1t takes but little to pay
for yeSi'd subscription or IN advertise
ment compared to the good that ia reaped
by reader and advertiser in return.
A few days since in Randolph county,
as the Children OF Robert Scott and those
OF Eugenius Isner were returning from
school one Of them aged eight years was
chased about forty yards by snake. One
OF bis brother, aged u, ran to the rescue
and dispatched his snakeship. 1t meas
ured three feet in length and was very
thick. 1t was supposed to be viper.
Alexander Ii. Good, OF Clay county, has
sworn out warrant against his wife and
three step sons charging that they had as
ssulted and maltreRted him, and claim
ing that he was afraid OF his life. The old
gentleman bore on his person marks Of
violence. On the hearing oil the case the
warrant was quashed, and pending further
proceedings, the husband and wife made
friends and mutually agreed thencefor-
ward to live in peace together.
Rev. John 4. Willetta, of Midway,
Washington county, Pa, who has become
famous as faith healer, has withdrawn
from his regular work, and will enter the
evangelistic field. He will conduct his
meetings after the Moody style, and,
while not abandoning his faith cures, will
not devote his entire time 10 that feature
OF his work. Rov. Mr.. Willots is vigor-
Gus and earnest exhorter, and only awaits
a call toprove that his theory will stand
the test.
The Barnesvilie Enterprise gays: "Thcre
is quito demand for sheep and tho coun-
try is being occurred by buyers, the price
Offered being fully 81 per head more than
was oGersd two monthsago. The stock OF
sheep in this neighborhood has been
greatly reduced and but fewSte offered
Tor sale. The farmers arc just beginning
to realize that they were prematurely
scared, and that at the present price OF
wool, sheep raising pays better than ordi-
nary farming"
David Conrer, the Monroe county man
who so brutaIly murdered his wife some
time ago, was tried Tuesday, the jury find
ing him guilty Of murder in the second |
degree. Yesterday morning Judge Kelly
sentenced him to the Penitentiary for life.
The defense set up the insanity dodge, but
were not able to establish their claim.
The general impression previous to the
trial was, that Conger would swing for his
crime, as 1t was most brutal and unpro-
voked murder.
The NIorgantown Centennial commenced
yesterday, but to-day is to be the big day.
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