The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-03-14
II; THRo'UiJGH THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In west iyirEini
u. !nNgNi.Hc5 ana Vicinity. ~ 2t3piA ]

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Ascend large link Is in course. Of cree
ton at st. Claisyille, aize SOx150.. It ID to
Be made ot corrugated iron, and will be q
daisy. eflll,1T KY, ~ ~ Y r
y a few, days since uncle Zach LAWS, Of
Afonongalia county, aged 70, was married
70 2 Light coloted girl named Carrie Iathe,
aged II. girlst,oI,r /. I! iiar; q .iasa !
Ia fire broke out in Trinity Hal, X OF
Little Washington, one night this week,
and before it was extinguished, nearly
81, 900 worth Of books were destroyed. :
8 The residenceiof Henry .. Fisher, at
Mason iCity,gwa destroyed by fire q few
days since. The loss amounted to about
81, 500, on which there was $500 insurance,
in the Franklin, of this city, g,iL 3fi',i
]. F. Murphy has disposed Of bis paper,
the BFooks County Local, 70 William Tucker,
the Wellsburg poet and 'proprieto OF the
towns water works. Frank Tucker, his
brother, will assist him in getting out the
paper. x .,,s ~, (, ~,
Y The wife Of Mr.. Fielding Nay, who re-
sides at, or near Enterprise, Harrison
county, while engaged in replenishing o
lamp, this week was so badly burned that
she died on the following morning, at four
o'clock. 5d did I'LL l,1t;eass n Is ssil
|. The Mel otrsll Progress has completed its
second years existence ~ It's editor is de-
serving OF great credit. Mel owell county
Is not thetmost promising placefin the
world to start q newspaper, but Mr.. Green.
awaltby hard work and plenty OF It has
made q success ofthe Progress. ei.!Hagl
|osA few nights since, as Frank Archer4Sas
preparing to leave Jackson county, he
was overhauled and ';frightfully chastised
with hickory withes by band Of men re-
sembling the famous Red Men. IT is said
tina the ofense was being too intimate
with another man wife. AS soon as he
was released he mad bee line for Ohio.
The State press Is full Of congratulations
for Editor George Purcell, Of the Clarks-
burg Ne,ts,l who was married on theiSd
inst. To Miss NJ. Eunice Kerchiyal, at the
reside nse d the brides parents near Eel.
louisville, Preston county. The happy
couple left the same evening on q, trip to
Washington and other points east. q
The Baltimore & Ohio will shortly exi
tend the CASTOR coal 70 d from CASTOR to
South CASTOR, distance Of five miles. A
large iron bridge will span the West Fork
OF the Monongehela river. The road will
open up a tract OF 600 acres of the finest
gas coal in the United States not hereto;
fore. developed. The road crosses, the
Baltimore & Ohio one mile east Of Fair!
mont, seyenty-nine miles east Of Wheel
ing. ID IA .la6ti ,4ss.a5t ina silali'
81 Yesterday morning o tramp was steal
ing aride on an feastbound freight train
lying on the side track at the coal mines
this side Of Cambridge, o. In attempting
to, get of, the car he was struck by west
bound train and knocked into the creek
below. twas not learned whether he
was killed outright; but he was throwna
distance Of twenty feet before he,reached
the swift current Of the stream and ills
quite likely he received fatal injuries. as
Some time since Mr.. Frank Gabby, Of
WashingtonIc county, leased hisfarm'to a
Pittsburgh firm to bore for oil and they
paid him $500 10 hold it'll March LIST;
when that date expired they advanced
$500 more for an extension Of six months
time, making 500 he had received already
and will receive 5000 per acre Tor the!
.farmiiti the boring for toih goes on. Mr..
,Gabby 10 a lucky man in either the event
OF furtherp proceedings or sudden stopping.
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