Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-03
STOLE THE TOMBSTONE.
A Curious Story Handed ia From
Grafton.
Various Accidents and Incidents of West
Virginia Life, Cleaned From In
terror Exchanges

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had to stand the expense. With moneyshe
earned as a hired girl she bought q lot in a
cemetery there. She saved out of her earn
ipps OF seventeen months enough to pay
$35 for o small monument which abe had
erected over the grave last Saturday. The
words carved upon the tombstone showed
the paternity of the child. aud on Saturday
night the monument was stolen from the
C, metery and has not since been found. OF
course suspicion ct once points to the father
OF the child. The young mans family con-
r~ec,ions both at Weston and Clsrksburg
stand high.
THE HARPER's FERRY PROPERTY.
The gentlemen from Wilmington, Del,
who recently purchased the old govern
uent property at Hsrper's Ferry, were in
that place last week making arrangements
for building and for developing their i'm
immense water power. They have appointed
Mr.. John Macarthur, of Pittsburg, Pa, general
superintendent, and Mr.. Alexander Murphy,
of Harper's Ferry, assistant. A large mum
Ter of men will at once be put to work to
get the dam and canal in repair, and, in the
meantime, will commence the erection on
the site of the old national srmory Of one OF
the largest wood pulp mills in the country.
Upon the completion Of pulp mill, it is said,
the company will erect six large paper mills
Il ia said that Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company contemplate some very important
changes in the roadbed at that point.
&" SUDDEN DEATH.
John MaDford, working in the yard Of the
B. & O., at Msrtinsburg, was found dead
near the oil house, last Sunday. Several
theories are advanced to his death. He
Rad been afflicted with sudden sickness and
| excitement of mind for some time, owing to
| injuries sustained through an accident. 1t
is thought that he either fell from the EN-.
bspkment and struck on the head, or was
seized with q fit and thus received his death.
F. d. Staley, Coroner, held an inquest, aud
the verdict was that he came to his death
by an accidental fall, producing a confused
wound of the right temple muscles about
| the ear, causing shock and conclusion OF the
rain, which terminated in death. He leaves
a wife and several children.
E BUG.
The editor OF the Independent Gazette, OF
Macon county, has discovered a new bug
&c says: ION last Monday a crowd sur
rounded one of the trees near R. S. Bickle's
residence examining an insect no one could
came. Its body was similar in shape to q
wasp-about two inches long-had six legs,
ard whsre a bee generally keeps his singer
we're three fine, overlooking things about
four inches long; these il s%moothed, or
stuck together with his hind legs, and when
in this shape wound them up like a watch
hair spring in a transparent, bladder-like
concern. This was the anger with which
he had bored hundreds of holes in the tree.
Old and young, learned and unlearned,
gazed at it in wonder, and as yet it is a to.
tal stranger to all
BIT BY A RATTLESNAKE.
Mrs. James Maloney, living on Mill Creek,
about six miles from Romney, was bit by a
rattlesnake on Tuesday, under the following
singular circumstances. She was out gather
ing whortleberries and observing a rattle
snake 90 into q hollow log, took her apron,
stopped up the hole and carried the log and
its willy freight home with her. On reach
ing home she shared the snake, when she
uncovered Iudl lucEC was q oCSOuu
in the log, and while she was trying to cap
ture it, the snake glided out suddenly and
fastened its fangs in her left arm. Whisky
vas administered as an sntidote, but al
last accounts Mrs. Msloney was in q preca.
rious condition.
FREAKs OF LODGE.
They had a terrible thunder storm at
Winfield, Putnam county, last Friday. One
bolt of lightning struck a l~ombsrdy poplar,
at the residence of Jos. Marshall, on Ferry
street, jumping from the tree to the gutter,
thence along the side of the house, across
the end, down the water spout, and finally
losing itself in the cistern. Ella Hummel,
Jos. Marshall and wife, Mrs. Blake, Ed
ward Dodd and Milton Peck, were pros
trated and severely shocked by the light
ming.
THE DROUGHT.
The Pocahontas Times says: 1.-THE ex.
tremely dry weather which has prevailed in
This section for the past three or four
months has not only almost ruined the hay
and pastures, but there are now serious
spprehensions in regard to the growing
coru. Unless rain falls shortly in sufficient
quantity to soak the ground, there is no
nelp for the corn, and with a material short
age in that crop our people will feel the
pressure Of hard times in q msnne never
realized here before"
RAFTING IN HI CHEAT.
The Rulings Lumber Company have I'm.
dertaken the job of blasting the rocks out Of
the Cheat river at the Narrow below
RoWlesburg, and at the mouth Of Sandy
creek. They do this in order to allow RATED
timber to float through from their timber
lands in the upper Cheat region to the
mouth of the river, where they have erected
a saw mill with q capacity Of twenty-five
thousand feet per day. IL will cost the com
pany $4,000 to complete the work.
LEFT ovER FROM LAST WINTER.
The comps. in the Martinsburg Herald
Office must be working down towardt the bot
tom OF the hook. We find the following
item in the issue of August /:
The ice on the Potomac river broke up
on Tuesday. AS the great masses of ice
passed down the river an inspiring sight
was presented. The bridge piers were not
injured"
AGooD ONE LATE IL THE SEASON.
A boy out hunting COWS on Big Sandy
billed a rattlesnake over four feet long and
four inches in diameter. He dragged it
home and left it lying in the yard. Next
morning he took his father out to show him
the snake and they discovered that its mate
had followed its trail, and was coiled on its
body keeping watch, and they promptly
killed it.
Low WATER,
The Potomac river at ShephardstoWn ia
lower than it has been for years, being from
FIVE to six feet below Its usual mark at that
place. 1t is clear as crystal, and for this
reason no fish of any consequence can be
caught. The dam below town is almost
entirely out of the water. Several cannon