The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-03-21
rnRouGu.TnE II STATE.
Accidents and Incidents in West virginia
and vicinity.

Rev. Robt. Morgan has been re.engage
as pastor of the Presbyterian Church 9
Ravenswood.
Tom Hall, merchant, OF Austin, Levi
county, has assigned. Liabilities an
assets unknown.
Last Sunday forty-three person unite
with the NJ. I. and fourteen with the NJ. T
Church at Fairmont.
"Buck" Musgroye, sawyer in Robinson
mill, at Logansport, Marion county, had
hand cut of Monday.
The Peasants County Court has beel
called in special session to provide relic
for the suffering poor.
On Sunday last Henry Moats, an aget
citizen Of Ritchie county, died suddenly
while sitting in his chair.
Pine Grove, Wetzel county, Is in feyel
Of excitement over the greatest revival 0
religion ever known there.
a rouslng railroad meeting was held a
Ravenswood Tuesday night Ia the interes
Of the Ohio River railroad.
The owners Of the tin mines in Mason
and Cabell counties will begin work u
soon as the weather will permit.
Col. Foster, the railroad contractor al
Morgantown, has had to make an assign.
ment. Liabilities &, 500; !; assets s. 600.
Jonathan Moore and Ben Armstrong, Of
Jackson county, recently shipped thirteen
hogsheads Of AL tobacco to Cincinnati.
The Etna and ono or two other fire In
surance companies have Cancelled all their
policies held in Wellsburg on account Of
the danger from natural gas. The parties
reinsured in other companies.
The Richie Gd<eltc says great suffering
exists in Murphy district, Ritchie county,
on account OF the drought last summer.
A special term OF the county court will sit
next Monday to consider the case.
Ingle Atha, young lad OF Ritchie
county, about six weeks ago ran an awl
into his leg. The wound apparently healed
up, but q short time ago, broke out
afresh, and blood poisoning set in. The
result was fatal.
The PAGER, Fredericks, record 2.27!!, and
the trotter, Harry Spaulding, record 2.42,
have arrived nj Steubenville. They are
in charge OF Oh. Eisinan, who will put
them in training ut the Hill Top Driving
Park as soon as the weather opens.
The store Of D. B. Brooks, at Mt. Zion,
Calhoun county, was recently destroyed
by FIRE. The origin OF the fire Is unknown.
The building and contents we're total
loss. Insurance $1,000. The Sycamore
postoftice, which was in the building, was
also destroyed.
The Stale Journal In a strong article de-
clare5 that there is great distress among
the people In the interior counties, and
says false pride has prevented much OF the
true condition Of affairs from being known.
II prints letter from Rev. A. D. Hodam,
Of Eyalyn, Writ county, asking for aid.
The Journal concludes by saying the neces-
sity for action is pressing, and assistance
should be furnished speedily.
The Hta Firgisia freeman, the tenn
perance paper OF this State, published at
Parkersburg, Is to be continued, the need
ful financial backing having been assur-
red. ]. II. johnson is to remain as editor
in.chief, with Rev. w. NJ. Weekly as as
sistant. The paper is to be issued from its
own press and in new. form. New life
generally has been Infused into the CON
cern, and it will be even moro spirited in
its fight for temperance that ever before.
George Stephens, who resides near Rock
port, Ohio, met with terrible accident
recently, which in all human probability
will terminate fatally. He went to the
harm TO feed the stock, and, in getting
down from the hay NOV, he jumped on
the handle OF q 2itchfork which had been
broken and afterwards Whitfield to point.
The handle entered the thigh and ran up
wards into his abdomen, making ghastIy
wound. He bled internally in profuse
manner.
A very mysterious affair happened at
Coal Valley, Kanawha county, this State.
Wm. Jarret suddenly disappeared from
his home; few days later his body was
found in the woods near by. Jsrret's wife
and her paramour, VIM. Motion, were ar
rested on a charge Of poisoning Jarret.
They were examined before Justice and
acquitted. A little son OF Jarrets told
some one that "Mamma did not poison
papa; Motion hit him on the head with q
stick" Mrs. Jarret and Motion were re-
arrested and re.examined before justice
and held for trial in the Circuit Court.
Tho people are very indignant over the
affair. s5.s
Tho little town Of Newport, Monongalia
county, was thrown into state OF wild
excitement a few evenings since by a ter.
rife explosion Of dynamite. The house OF
Emery Ham was badly shattered and the
bed in which his wife and children were
sleeping broken, and they were blown out
on the floor with such force as to severely
injnre them. Mra. Ham has been un-
conscious ever since. Parties inthe adjoin-
ing room were thrown down BY the force Of
the concussion. The dynamite had been
placed about nine feet from the end of.the
house, and practical railroad men say
irem the report oil the explosion and the
effects, that from six to ten sticks OF the
stuff had been used. Marshall Lawson
was arrested on suspicion, but after hear
ing by Squire Mark Morgan was released.
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