Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-13

Accidents and rasldsnts OF wsss-vIrslnia

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Aeeidssts and rneIdsnts OF wsssvIrsinss
Lie.
Hinton voted down the water works pop
osition last week.
The Ensign Car Works, at Huntington
received an order last week for $50 ears
This win keep the works in fullblast for twc
months.
Congressman VIM. l.. Wilson has ap
pointed Jas. Edwin Chipley, of Hardy
county, q cadet at the naval academy 81
Annapolis.
One night last week some malicious
~scoundrel wrecked q moving machine be
longing to MIR. Isaac Google, Of neal Ar
nettsville, Marion County.
The Grafton and Greenbrier railroad did
q good business for the month of July, the
net earnings amounting to Sl,o4.45. The
little road seems to be in clover.
The recent meeting of the National Tab
ernacle of Galilean Fishermen in Charleston
drew thither several hundred colored dele.
gates, male and female, from various parts
Of the country.
For some time work has been suspended
at the wells of the Clarksburg Natural Gas
Company. One of the drills has become
fastened, and to this date every attempt has
been unsuccessful to remove it.
While doing some heavy blasting on the
New England railroad, one day last week,
a goodly sized rock was thrown across the
West Fork river and struck the house Of
Mrs. James Work, passing through the roof
and falling on q bed in one Of the rooms
Fairmont Index.
Near Pen.Mar, Saturday, Andrew Gels
nan while standing in his door watching q
storm, was struck by lightning and Instant
" killed. At the same place the electric
fluid set a house on fire, but the rain extin-
guished the flames before the building was
entirely consumed.
The Elk River Progress complains that
at Queen Shoals a few days ago q party OF
men and girls from Charleston visited that
place and conducted themselves in a dis
reputable manner. The Progress says:
I'VE had heard OF savages, but had never
seen any before. A good part Of the time,
when about the river, the gents" were
without clothing, while the girls, when over
heated, would occasionally disrobe, and, as,
sisted by the men, dabble around in the
water at q terrible rate. The yelling and
shouting was incessant. 1t was absolutely
dangerous for the citizens to attempt to
cross the river, pistols were firing and bull
let's flying at such a rate.
There was a saDguiuisry fight in the
classic village of StringtowR, near Sisters
vile, Tyler county. a few days ago. MIR,
Lohr built a pig pen against the dwelling OF
Henry Hissem. Hissem objected to it as a
nuisance. Lohr refused to move 1t, and
with a companion went into Hissem's yard
and asked what he was going to do about
it, when Hissem, after ordering him to de-
part, struck him on the head with a board,
cutting a cash about four inches long. A
man by the name OF Merle, who had accom-
panied, threw a rock and struck Hissem il
the mouth, knocking him senseless. An
otherE gentleman sailed in with nature
W weapons, and parslyzed Merle; thel
the women came cut and distorted the Eng
fish language, after which the smbulanc,
came along and carted of the wounded.
The Char eslon Star says: Between
seven aid eight o'clock last evening, two
dark blue clouds made their appearance ii
the western horizon, causing melted human.
ity to indulge in the hope that q fine shower
of rain was about to visit Charleston, but
this fond hope was not realized. By eight
o'clock the two clouds had consolidated and
appeared to remain stationed just in the
rear of Judge Ferguson's residence.
In rapid succession sharp detona
tiQLs of thunder rolled through
The clouds. while brilliant flashes
OF lightning ran hither and thither as though
playing hide and seek. While this beauti-
full display was in progress, a bank OF clouds
in the North were also engaged in celestial
pyrotechnics. At one time a huge ball Of
lightning appeared and instantly there radi'
ated from it millions of lesser balls which
quickly elongated and lost themselves in
space. In the East broad sheets of what is
termed sheet lightning danced and played
in the heavens for fully an hour and it was
far into the night before the beautiful dis.
play Of the evening had exhausted itself.
Hundreds of dead fish have been seen
floating IN the alley river Tor several DAYS
past. A gentleman who came down from
Grafton, Saturday, tells US that between
Valley Falls and this place he saw at lessi
two barrels OF fish carcasses floating in the
stream or lying on the banks, while the bot
tom of the river in several places seemed to
be full CT dead and dying fish. 1t isthough'
that the water is i~mpregnated with some
poisonous mineral substance, carried
from the coal mines along the
river by the trickling streams that
drain them. In 1879 and once since then
a similar but not go great a fatality among
the fish in the Valley river was noted. At
each of these times, we are told, the water
vas observed to be particularly transparent
and TO have q peculiar appearance. Wheth.
er or not poisoned water is the cause Of this
unusual NOR atty among the funy tribe
one thing seems absolutely certain; that BIT,
tween the dy uamiters and other agents Of
destruction, the fish in our rivers will soon