Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-25
A SAD CASE.
a Wood County Woman Burned
10 Death.
A ReSc Of Old John Brcwn---Fatally HUFF
APeouIiar Wagsr.--New Railroad
Shooting at a Train---
Geneai State News.

PdrkesbTs ErraL
An old rsan bent with sge and roughi
clad, may have been noticed on our street
Yesterday. Ills hanoswere both bandage
and he carried them in sings He apple
Tor aid, stating that he was sHHerhg. Ill
story awakened general sympathy anon
those who hear1it.
He lives in an obscure part Of the count
On Samuefs Fo-a, of Tygsrt creek Las
Monday, assisted By his wife, he was en-
Jagged in burning BRUSH on hrs patch o
ground.
IN the afternoon 1bout thyee o'clock Airs
RaiciS dress csught fire from one o.
the burning heaps, and before ths
flames could be e2tingrRshed
the unfortunate WON Va had been horribly
roasted, her clothes bc;ng burnedentirely of
her person. The hus'and in endeavoFiug
to save-his wife was badly burned about the
hands. The injured woman was carried to
the house, where she fingered for several
hours in swful agony, dying about S:o'clock.
The husband watched by the bedside alone,
being too remote from ne:ghbors !t,r them
to know anything of the accident. Alto
gether this,is one of the saidest epiaodes we
have cronieled for many a day:
ARELIC OF JOHN BROWN.
NGgerSio,rn, IIb., MaR
The other day little daughter IF Capt.
Middleton Thompson, conductor On the B.
& 0. railroad, while roofing upe violet,
found three pieces of pig lead buried on the
highest point of Maryland Heights which
overlook Harpers Ferry. The lead weighed
$50 pounds and is now in possession Of Mr.
Thompson. This lead is identified as that
belonging to John Brown. 1t is known that
pig lead was received by Brown about the
time of the Harper's Ferry insarrection, and
while he was besieged in the building at
Harper's Ferry now known a. John
Browns Fort" his son Owen occ lied the
pinnacle of the mountain where See lead
was found and which is just {, love the
school house where the pixies andtruSkets
which had been collected by Jota, Brown
were stored.
A short time since we heard d curious
story from Charlestown, Jefersot county,
W. Va, where John Brown was isied and
executed. A stock company haG been
formed, known as the John Brown Seafold
Company" 1t seems that when Brown was
to be hung the county authorities contracted
with a carpenter of the town to build the
scaffold, and he used his own lumber After
the execution he used the same lumber to
build porch to small house adjacent to
the town. A short time ago citlzeh who
would do credit to New England bough. the
house for $500 and Immediately organized
tie John Brown Scafold Company, with
capital stock of $1,000. He sold 5000 OF
the stock and kept the house and the rest Of
the stock. The resources OF the company
are the porch, which it is proposed TO manu-
ufacture into various articles for relics.
BLOODY FIGHT.
l!bt County Transcript
Thursday morning terrible fight, in
which knives and brickbats were freely
used, took place at Newark, this county, the
participants being James p. Burlington and
August Kelteau, a neighbor. The row was
started by a COW breaking into garden,
and the combatants came together twice
over the matter. In the first fight kelteaH
got the better of Burlington, who cried for
quarter. AS soon as Burlington found him
self free, he drew his knife and overtaking
Kelteau, another terrific fight ensued,
Burlington using his knife in vigorous
manner. Justice Merrill and others finally
and separated the men. 1t was
then found that Kelteau had some six or
seven ugly cuts on his person, besides minor
bruises and injuries, and Burlington had
three or four ribs broken, a terrible contus.
ION on the head, which nearly Drained him,
and number of serious bruises The af
fair is very ugly one, and from what we
near may result fatally TO both men, neither
of whom at last accounts was able to leave
bis bed.
SAD ACCIDENT.
81. AIJaas NOa,pdrieL
A sad accident happened in Loup Creek
Rapids, Sunday evening. 1t seems that
Messrs. George Shaun and Thomas Whar'
ton, of Eagle, with others, had been up the
river fishing, and were returning in skif.
They were gliding rapidly through the
breakers-where many lives have been lost,
v hen Shaun stood upright in the boat and
said there ia where Kincaid drowned"
Just as he finished speaking, the boat gave
a lunge turned over and threw them into
The water. They all chung to the boat but
Shaun, and he being good swimmer,
struck out for the shore, but was overcome
and sank the last time within twenty.feet OF
Tie shore The boat caught on q rock and al
though they had to remain in the water over
, YER an hour, the rest CT the company were
saved. Shaums body was found on Sun
Gay night.
SHOOTING AT TRAIN.
On,oc CouEiy Uo'cImGa.
Mr.. P. G. Wallace, Of Union, was ar.
rested on last Monday upon a bench war
rant issued in Summers Circuit Court,
charging him with shooting at passenger
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway
rear Lowell station. He was taken to
Hinton by Deputy Sheriff McClearn, to an.
swer the charge. His friends here much
regret the unfortunate circumstance and
hope that Mr.. Wallace will be able TO clear
himself. We understand that Mr.. Wallace
Will US dDlc W VIC
stand that Mr.. Wallace succeeded in making
his escape from the officers at Hinton on
Tuesday, and is now enjoying the sweets Of
freedom.
NEW RAILROAD.
FGyehe Enterprise.
We learn from gentlemen interested in
the coal fields of Raleigh county, that they
intend to build q railroad from the mouth
of Piney creek up that stream fifteen miles,
if the right Of way can be secured and the
people of that county will vote small 81 N
TO aid in the construction of the road. This
will materially help the people of that great
and growing timber and coal section Of
country and bring the county seat within
two and half or three miles Of railroad
communication.
WAR on The sPARROws.
ShtphSastora RgqiItr.
The town council Of CharlestoWn thinks
the English sparrow must go, and offers a
bounty of two cents head for each one