Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-31
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Accidents and Incidents Of West Virginia
Life.
PIT. Pleasant warts to be made q port OF
entry.
Work on the Kingwood and Tunnslton
railroad il being rushed.
A couple Of severe cyclones passed over
portions of Mason county last week.
The Greenbrier Valley Industrial Exposi-
ton will be held at Anderson, October 10,
IA, Is and l6.
Lewis county citizens have e~njoinei the
collection Of the county levy, alleging Its
illegality, and now comes on o tax war In
the courts.
Rev. William Downtain, the aged father
of Editor Downtsip, Of the Putnam Demo
crat, died of heart disease, recently OF his
home in Spencer, Roane county.
A stack yard Of about twelve hundred
bushels of wheat belonging to Peter John
son, colored, near Charlestovn, was de
stroyed by fire, the work Of an ineendiary.
Mr.. George Norris, formerly Of Parkers-
burg, but now q farmer in Harrison county
is reported to have fallen heir to 100000
BY the death of q brother in San Francisco.
Lee Altman, Of Mpshur county, attempted
spicide o few evenings since by taking
strychnine, because his suit had been re-
jected by . lady. A stomach pump saved
him.
VIM. Moody aged twelve years, living on
Three Mile Greek, Mason county, was In
stantly killed by lightning, last Friday after
noon. He was out in q corn field Of the
time.
Miss Dufield. Of Braxton county, was in.
stsntly killed by lightning on last Thursday
evening. Neither her mother nor her SIS
ter, who were within o few feet OF her, were
injured. =
Incendiaries destroyed the grain house Of
William Martin, of Marion county, with all
its contents. Martin is in Strengthened cir
cumstsnces and had no insurance on the
building.
A cloud burst at Harrisville, Richie
county, last Thursday evening, flooded
everything. A horse was drowned and .
mans wagon, that was standing in o ~rivu!et,
foated of.
A resident Of Back Creek Valley, Berke.
ley county, is the proud owner Of @ hen
that has q regular set Of upper and lover
human teeth and toes. and three eyes. So
says a Berkeley paper.
John Hazard, of Lewis county, is the
latest one who claims to have discovered the
true secret Of perpetual motion. de has
been At work at bis invention Tor some
years, and now thinks he has it perfected.
Eark Trsger, Of Mason City, Waterman
on tbe steamer B. T. Enos, fell overheard at
G~alIipolis on Wednesday, the I'D inst, and
was drowned. His body was recovered and
his remains taken to Mason City for inter
ment.
A singular phenomenon was observed IN
the clouds, ct Huntington, at south decli-
nation of about sixty degrees, on Thurs
day, just after noon. Cpons small CIRCUS
cloud appeared bright %colors, resembling
tbose of the rainbow. The colors remained
for some time.
One day last week in Marion county O
young man named Lafayette Taught was
seriously if not fatally injured by being
struck on the head with a base ball bat in
the hands Of Jacob Taught. They were
playing ball and Jacob was at the bat while
the injured man was catching.
A short time since Michael Murphy, OF
Wilderness district, Nicholas county, was
shot in the arm and painfully, though not
seriously wounded, by Cyrus W. McClung,
who was teaching the school in Murphy's
neighborhood. The trouble grew out of
some difficulty McClung had with Murphy's
children. McClung had a hearing and gave
bond TO answer an indictment.