The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-07

Accidents and Ineldents In West YirRinia
aaa Vicinity,
The Mt Carbon GOAL works, in the Ka-
nawha region, are to be connected with
the oheslpe q Ohio road bysix miles
Of standard gauge track up Armstrong;
creek.
Col. B. H.A Thompson Is anxious, II 10
understooa, TO .till the ehoesioi Postmaster
Mcbride, at Hinton, and n. @. Tatton, an
eS,member OF the Legislature, those Of
Postmaster Goshorn, at Piedmont
& Theindications are that bicycling 70
Ing TO be avery popular sport Will The
young men Of this State this year. The
State press nearly every week notes the
purchase OF one or more machines.
The Parkersburg STATE Journal says: "It
is ruinored here that Hon. Stewart L.
Woodfofd, OF New York has been called
10th Presidency oflthe Marietta Qolleqe,
and that he has ACCEPTED the position.
Probably the oldest man living in Ohio
is James Hissom, OF Jackson township,
Monroe county. He is 40 years old and
has been voting the Democratic ticket for
nearly ninety year,. He Is still enjoying
fair health and is ableta get about,
\ The Macksbmg oil region near aIariet..
Ia, has at the present time 45 drilling
wells, 1a figs up, l7S wells completed for
the month Of April, with new produc-
tlon Of 400 barrels for that month. The
total production Of the Macksburg field ii
now rated at l 800 barrels. '''e ~ -
Suit has been institntedtn the Circuit
Court Of Monroe county by Robert j.
Carter, of Allegheny county, Va, against
Messrs. James aud Carey Woadville, iof
the purpose Of recovering sl0, 900 damages.
Mr., Carter was shot and seriously wound.
ed in an encounter between himself and
the .Aiessrs. Woodyile eighteen months
ago. III
I. It Is reported that George Alfred Town.
send (Gathl intends building lne sum.
yaer residence on q tract Of fourteen acres
on the summit OF the mountain near Shep.
her,istown, w. Va, recently purchased by
him. The necessary ontbniidings have
already been erected. Native mountain
stone will be used in; the residence, which
will be large aud grand.
/ A man In Randolph county, some time
since, was using poison for some wild
DeA5tb WHICH were uoLneflHE nlHt when
be noticed that something had been eat.
ing honey ioom opeia iai his hives, and he
put poison In the hive. Shortly after the
hive was missing, and "a family living near
was taken sick with symptoms Of poison.
One boy, eleven years Of age, died,
Esther Ellis, the celesea woman who
fast foil attempted 10 kill by poison the
family oi Matthew Mann, at Fox Spring,
Greenbrier county, has been tried and
found guilty. She had formerly worked
for the family, but was discharged. In res
yenge she managed 10 poison milk set
aside for breakfast. Several members Of
the ialaily narrowly escaped death.
Tuesdays Parkenburg STATE Jounal
says that the test well being bored on
Friend Coehran's farm near Willow Is
land, by Messrs. Oyster, Boss 4 Brown,
was toFpedoed aud there Is now over 200
feet Of aoii In the well and they have COM
,menced to tube Il. The well Is not 90 I'M
portant in itself as in what IL indicates.
It Is believed to be on the western edge oil
the belt and opens mp possibilities almost
beyond conjecture. =