The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-01-17
THROUGH THE STATE.
The News of the Week Boiled
Down.

Wheeling is greatly exercised over
the question of natural gas for that
city. They have already sunk one
well to the depth of 1000 feet and
think of continuing it 1000 or 1900
feet deeper.
Two boys, each aged Is years,
cousins, sons Of Simon and David
Phillips, residing near French creek,
in Upshur county, were out rabbit
hunting on Saturday last, near their
home, when one (Simon's SOM drew
up his gun to shoot at game, and not
knowing the other was within range
and his fingers being benumed with
cold, his gun went off carelessly,
pouring the whole volley of shot
into the face Of his cousin, killing
him instantly.
At Grafton Thursday evening Mrs.
William Warner was fatally shot by
some unknown person. She was Wis
iting at the residence of a widow
named Courtney on the outskirts of
the town and was nursing small
child at the time, which was about
9 o'clock. The unknown person is
supposed 10 be the woman's husband,
with whom she has not been living
for some time on account of his
cruelty. 1t is said that he was seen
about Mrs. Courtney's during the
evening. The person who shot fired
through window, the ball taking
effect in the womans right temple.
FATAL CATTLE DIsEAsE.-A singu-
larly fatal, and heretofore unknown,
disease has made its appearance
among the cattle of the southwestern
portion of Marshall county which
threatens, unless means of arresting
it's ravages be discovered, to carry
off all the cattle Of that section.
The disease is first indicated by
swelling of the leg at the hoof joint,
and continues upward until the entire
leg assumes unnaturally large pro-
portions, resulting, in every case yet
reported, in the death of the animal
within twenty-four hours from the
time the swelling is first noticeable
Farmers have given this new cattle
plague the name of the "black leg"
from the fact that when the swollen
leg of animals suffering from it is
lanced, large quantities of fluid re-
sembling dirty black water runs from
the affected limb.
AS considerable attention has been
given to stock raising by farmers of
that portion of the county for num-
Der of years past, the appearance of
this new and destructive, and appar-
emily incurable disease among their
stock is serious matter with them,
as their losses threaten to be very
considerable. One farmer lost eight
head by the disease, and a number
of other losses are reported.-Intel-
Hgencer.
WHEELING, Jan. 9.-This afternoon
VIM. Warner, of Grafton, was ar
rest for the cowardly shooting of his
wife last Wednesday evening, as tel
egraphed yesterday. He was found
hiding in big lumber pile on a
farm about five miles from the town,
and was secured without resistance
and lodged in Jail. AS soon as he
was there he confessed to detectives
Writ and Lloyd, of the Baltimore &
Ohio secret service, that he was the
person who shot his wife from the
outside, as she sat nursing a child
of the widow Courtney's, but that
the shooting was accidental. As
soon as the facts became known,
public feeling ran very high, and fol
time it was expected he would be
taken from Jail and lynched. The
circumstantial evidence against him
is overwhelming, and there is nc
doubt that he will hang. Mrs. Var
ner is yet alive, but must die from
the effects of the shot which is in
the right temple Warner is but 2(
years old and his wife but IS. They
were married last July, but she left
him inside of month, not being
able to stand his brutality. He hat
a bad reputation.
A later report says that Warner
escaped from the Jail the same nigh
that he was incarcerated, and that
he is still at large.