Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-27

Accidents rnd Incidents OF west virginia

Accidents zna Incidents OF West virginia
Life.
Fsyeiteyi tsvanis a hotel.
Tie county levy in Summers is but IS
ceIts on the $ls9.
st. Adams reports q lively building boom.
The Capitol buifaing is about ready to
receive The lev turnSure.
The drought in Berkeley county Is doing
an enormous amount Of damage to crops.
IL is said wheat will not average thee bush
els per acre.
Bernard N. McCutcEen, of Nicholas
county, was killed on Tuesday OF lsst week,
By 8 limb from q fallen tree which he had
chopped down. He lived shout eighteen
hours after the accident.
At the close of the fiscal year June so;
1885, there was in the Eve grais distillehes
in West Virginia 642, 600 gallons of spirits.
Of this amount 639,S50 gallons were in the
warehouses Of the Hannis Distilbery Com
psny at Martinsburg.
Saturday evening a severe wind storm
struck BarboursEille and vicinity, upEooting
trees in the eours yard and at other places,
and doing other slight damage. 1t is said
10 have been the seyerest wind storm that
has visited that section within the memory
ofthe Oldest inhsbstant
Last Saturday evening while two little
children belonging to Patrick Manley, who
lives ABOUT three miles above Guyandote,
we're playing in the yard they were struck
By lightning. The clothes were torn from
their persons. but neither vas killed.
A number of men employed in building
the coal road up Armstrong creek, Fayette
county; entered upon a strike for higher
wages last Friday. Ten Of them were ar
rested and lodgedin Jail for interfering with
those who desired to work at the old figures.
The Commission appointed to look out o
suitable location for q new Insane Asylum
visited the Sweet Springs in Monroe county,
some days ago. The Springs property is
owned by Col. Oliver Beirne, and cost over
100000. He offers to sell it to the State,
for the purpose named, for $250,000, includ-
ing furniture, DO.
One day this week, on Standing Stone,
Writ county, a little six-year-od child OF a
Mr.. Cain hid in the grass Just in front of q
mowir g machine, and before it was discoV-
cred, The machine struck the child, cutting
off the greater portion of one OF its feet.
The child will recover
Saturday two men were seriously hurt in
a hand car accident in West Charleston.
The cor ran into a ladder, which was lying
On the track, throwing the men off with the
above result. One man, it is thought, Was
hurt internally; another had his ear cut of,
while the other occupants of the car were
more or less bruised. 9he ladder it is sup
posed, had fallen from q water tank and
vas not seen by the men in time to prevent
the accident.
On last Sunday Miss Mary Lawson, Is
year old daughter Of G. P. Lawson, near
Gandeeville,, Rosne county, who has been
sick with fever for nearly a month, while
lying in her bed, happened to look up at a
picture which was hanging over her bed
against the wall and seeing the head of q
good sized blscksnake peering out from be
lind the picture, commenced screaming,
and, al'hough very weak, was soon out OF
Ger bed. His spskeship was dispatched
add the lady put to bed in a much worse
condition. Fears are entertained as to her
recovery.
On the 18th instant, at Sunnyside, in
Fayette county, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway, some wretch placed a dynamite
cartridge on the frog Of the switch. The
engine drawing the way freight ran over it
and had its trucks badly damaged by the
explosion. The track was terribly torn up,
and pieces Of iron thrown one hundred feet
10 ON the side of the mountain. The won
Ter is that the engine was not wrecked and
The engineer and fireman killed. Diligent
,earch is being made for the author of this
disbolieal attempt to wreck a train and kill
innocent persons.
John Boles, a son of Anderson Boles, who
resides a few miles west of Fayetteville, met
With q trightful death on last Sunday after
uoon, The boy, in company with several
companions, were rambling in the woods,
and reached a point where two immense
cliffs occur, which are separated from each
other by an aperture of only a few feet
The young men came to this place in their
landings, and Boles being more venture
some than his companions, attempted to
cap across the chasm to the other side. 1t
vas q leap to death, for when he started to
Jump his foot caught between two rocksand
he was thrown down into the dark chasm, a
distance of fifty feet, striking upon project
ing rocksi in his rapid descent.