The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM THIS STATE AND vIcIN1TY.
Tree from a Historical spot-An Ez. Con.
Wet ReeaptaFed-oeneral News
s Notes on y variety OF Topics.
The soc Pr2hibitioa !! Convention meeIs

II The State Prohibition Convention meet
in Grafton on June 1926
Clifford Anderson, Of Fairmont, diedlast
Friday night from an attack of delirium
II Itremens. "
AT the end Of the present year just 100
young men will have graduated at the
Morgantown University since the begin.
ming about eighteen years ago.
From the Nacksburg oil region comes
the information that new tankage capacity
OF 250, 900 barrels Is being provided. This,
in addition to what Is now there, tells the
story US to what the Standard thinks oil
the Macksburg field.
The present number in the Weston
Asylum Is $50. During the past Ewoweeks
one male patientapparently well, escaped,
home in Monongalia county. Three male
patients died and there was one birth, the
mother being a woman recently received
from Logan county.
While louis Hess and Martin Flanagan,
OF Grafton, were amusing themselves with
a.bottle Of powder it caught fire and ex-
ploded in Flanagan's hands, cutting them
badly and blowing pieces OF glass In young
Hess face and neck. The surgeons have
been unable 30 far to remove one Of the
pieces which lodged near large artery.
& The Writ county Transcript contains the
following in relation TO the wheat crop:
The small amount Of wheat not frozen ont
by the terrible weather Of the past winter
Is showing some signs OF life under the
warm sunshine and showers Of the past
few days. The crop will be exceedingly
light many fields having been plowed up
to be cultivated m other crops.
The dates for the annualreunion OF the
Society Of the Army OF West Virginia,
which meets this year at Portsmouth, o.,
have eenfchanged from the last week in
August, as originally fixed, to September
16, 17and is. The committees having the
affair in charge are already actively, at
work. The citizens OF Cumberland, Md,
where the reunion was held last year, will
make an effort at this years meeting toll
have Cumberland selected as the place for
the meeting in 1886.
James Hui, who recently returned to
Wayne county from serving o sentence in
the penitentiary, was arrested q few days
ago on an Indictment pending at the time
Of his conviction, and is now In Jail.
While being taken there undor the charge
Of Deputy Sheriff O. F. Smith and Samuel
Erasher, he attempted TO escape, and was
fired upon by the Sheriff and guard. one
shot making slight flesh wound in his
leg, whenh gaye.up the race.
The Monroe county IPatchman says that
live stock owners in the.v vicinity OF Peters
Mountain Valley have met with consider
able loss during the lastfew weeks by their
cattle dying. The heaviest losers, 1t is
stated, are Mr.. John Brown, who had
twenty head TO die on his hands, and Mr..
!. A. Miller, who lost ten head. An in
suficiency Of food 1t is believed has
caused the misfortune. "Proyender has
been very. scarce in some localities, and
during the latter part OF the hard winter
itwas almost impossible to keep live
stock from suffering
B. II. Ramey recently hanledinto Shep-
lerdstown and sold animmense poplarlog,
sut from an elevation on his .afarqueeSt
farm, adjoining the celebrated "Brad-
lock- farm in Jefferson county upon
which Is located the well said TO have
bsen dug by Gen. Braddock's Amy in
the French and Indian war before the
American revolution. This immense log
Itis.four feetin diameter and girts about