The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-09-29
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Accidents and Incidents in West Virginia
and Vicinity.


Morgan county is reported to be over
run with wild turkeys.
The Moundsville Coal Comany is work
ing over City hands and doings good besa'
ness.
The new gray uniforms for the Mounds
vile Penitentiary guards were made by
Pt. Pleasant tailor.
Editor Lee Vance, OF the Clarksburg
NeirS, has been appointed U. 5. Revenue
Stamp Agent at that place.
Washington county, Pa, is being ran
sacked for buck sheep 10 be sent to Utah
and Colorado for breeders.
The Winchester Fair Association ex'
poets President Cleveland az one oil the
attractions at the fair this fall.
Reports from all over this and adjoining
States are to the effect that the mast crop
is the heaviest known for at least fifteen
years.
The well being sunk near Charleston
has reached depth Of | 400 feet, with the
very best indications OF either good now
Of gas or oil in fair quantities.
Dolphus Rightmire, who is supposed TO
belong to the anti-C Camden ring, got the
West Grafton postoftice after warm con-
test with one Of the opposition.
Thomas Laidley was the successful APP
plicAnt Tor admission 10 the Naval Acad-
envy at Annapolis at the examination
recently held in the Fourth district.
1t is reported that the Standard Oil
Company and Westinghouse Gas Com
pany have leased all available land in
Hancock county, for the purpose OF boring
for gas.
Alex. McComas and Alice Canterbury
were talking together In Huntington when
Alice Adkins came up behind and plunged
knife into the back Of the Canterbury
girl, inficting dangerous wound.
Rev. Mr.. Bib, OF Hinton, WAS called
upon to marry John Adkins 70 Miss Han
nah Gill. He found the couple under q
tree in a graveyard below town and at
once proceeded with the ceremony.
In turning over the Huntington Aduer-
tier to G. L. Thompson, Major Bennett
accepts in payment Cam Thompson's pa
per, the Hinton Herald. In other words,
they have merely exchanged papers.
A tramp who had heen prowling about
portion cf Tucker county, stealing roast
ing ears and sleeping in barns, was in
ducad TO leave by farmers who caught him
aud gave him q good thrashing with hick-
DRY withes.
Mrs. Polly Cremers, OF Mason county,
| is a great Erea. grandmother, and claims
to be lis years cid. She is remarkably
vigorous for an old lady, and remembers
| NIL
historical events.
At Stats Mills, Jackson county, is
year Old sou OF Robert Hight looked into
a loaded revolver with the usual result.
He still liyes, but, as the ball penetrated
the head through the eye, there is no
chance Of recovery.
Albert Dawson, Of Roane county, whose
term in the Moundsville Penitentiary for
mail robbing expired Saturday, was picked
up when released by Deputy U. S. Mar
shal Mehan, who was armed with capias,
and taken to P4rkersburg for trial on the
second count OF the indictment.
A few days since while Dories circus was
at Ronceyerte, the counterieites, or "shov.
ers of the queer" travelling with the show
piled their trade most successfully, taking
in many an unsuspecting native. Stories
OF these procedures coming to the ears OF
the county officials they pursued the gang
to Charleston and returned TO Lewishurg
with five persons, who were lodged in
jail. There is strong evidence against
them.
E. L. Eisenbarth, owner OF the New
Martinsville Ae~enger, who has been act
ing rs its editor since the retirement Of I.
Perry Jacobs, ESQ.,, has disposed Of the
property to N. r. Grouse, who will con-
duct II as Democratic advocate. Under
Mr.. Jacobs management the paper put in
some good strokes for Rspublicanism and
its influence viii be missed. Mr.. Grouse,
in his salutatory, makes fair promises, and
il he lives up to them he ought to sue
coed.
1t ia now believed that the man who
was found hanging to tree in an I'M
frequented place in Mason county, a few
days since, did not commit suicide, but
that he was killed and the body hung TO
allay suspicion. The remains we're ex-
humed and the skull found TO be fractured
and three ribs broken. He had, 1t is be.
lieved, a trace Of negro blood in him and
Is thought to have been foot peddler.
who had about $3.50 on his person when
last seen. Not cent was found in his
clothes, which lay in heap near where
the body was found hanging.
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