The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-19
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Accidents and 1neIdssts IN West Wiz


THROUGH rHE STATE.
Accidents and IneIdsnts In West virginia
and Vicinity.
Twoyoung children Of W. P. Conrad,
otWebSter comfy, were burned to death
last week Blythe explosion Of a lamp.
The Moorefeld E9amiaer says that the
prospects for good peach crop In that
county are poor, but that there will be
plenty Of apples.
The g. A. r. Post at wellsburg has
secured Mr.. 7. ii. Mckee, late Lieutenant
Company B, First West Virginia Infantry,
now Document Clerk inthe United States
Senate, to deliver the Grafton on Decora-
ton Day.
P, g. Wallace, Of Monroe county, was
arrested last week ona warrant charging
him with shooting at q passenger train on
the O. & o. road. The officers started to
take him; to Hinton but he gave them the
slip and has not yet been recaptured.
]. w. Stump, Of Keyser, employed as a
brakeman on the B. & o., fell betweentyo
freight cars at Terra Alta Sunday night
while trying TO board his train, and had
one foot 50 badly injured as to necessitate
amputation.
Frank Helworth, OF Clarksbnrg, en-
ployed in the Despard coal mines, was
struck bya passenger train near the mine
Sunday night and instantly killed. He
was Alderman about thirty.fve years Of
ago and unmarried.
At the Pittsburgh Female College this
year, among the literary graduates Is Miss
Birdie Pinnell, OF Burkhannon; among
those in the department OF elocution is
Miss Ellie Brown, of Parkersburg, and in
the musical department are Miss Alice
Spriggs, Of Woodsfeld, O., aud Miss Cora
Atchinson, Of Weston.
To-day in all tho counties OF the State
outside Of the Independent school districts
a county school superintendent and a
county board Of education will be elected.
Ina number Of counties there is very
hot contest over this election and as much
bitterness has been aroused asthough the
issues involved were OF National import
ance.
Michael Harrington, Of New Martins
vile, was engaged yesterday in cleaning
out well at the residence Of Dr..
sfccomas, at that place, when
a distance Of about 80 feet. lie sustained
numerous injuries, among them q dislo-
Gated shoulders an q broken leg, Tits
feared that there are internal injuries that
will result fatally. @
julia McGinniss, OF Gilmer county, and
Sarah Curtis, of Bfaxton county, the lat.
ter q married woman, are two rather "hy"
young women who have been giving PEG.
pie considerable trosble in Up,hur
county. They broke into and robbed a
millinery store and then the same night
stole two horses. They were rapidly
getting away with their booty when over.
hauled by tho officers. They claim that
the thieving was done for them by two
;young'men, to them unknown.
James Register, Of East Bethlehem
township, Washington county, Pa, disap.
peared mysteriously last week. Intend,
ing to remove to Tennessee in a short.
time, he left home on the morning of.the
18th instant, to goto Washington TO set.
tie his business When last seen he was
about one-balf mile from home. For
several days prior to his disappearance he.
had been rather unwell, showing symp.
toms Of fever. His friends fear that he
was suddenly taken worse, and becoming
delirious, lost his way and is not able 10
give his name or address. A vigorous
seach through the county has failed to dis.
close his whereabouts.
At the Greene county Democratic pri-
mary electionin 1882 several candidates
were running for State Senator. John
Rinehart and Peter Colc made a bet Of
500 on the result, and placed the money
in William Wells hands. In pursuance
Of the 18th sectionof Acts Of 1880 the poor
house directors stepped In and claimed the
wager as forfeit aud instituted suit be-
fore q justice and recovered Judgment for
$500, the amount OF the wager. An APP
peal was taken, and last week the case
was tried before jury, and verdict was
rendered for the defendant, Wells, the
stakeholder. The court decided the case
upon the ground that primary elections
and nominating conventions were not
creatures OF the common law, and o
wager inside thereon could not be re-
coveredin an action at law.
A few mornings, since, while D. G. Mum.
gold, OF Grant county, was standing in the
yardof his father-tn.law's house, about
seven miles from Petersburg, he heard
shot fred; dirt was thrown in his face and
he looked down and saw that the ball had
passed under his foot. Three other shots
were fred, one cutting the rear OF his coat
and one near his boot top. When the
last shot was fred he saw smoke Issuing
from tho pines across the road, about
seyenty.hye yards from where he was
He rushed into the house for
his Spencer, intending to do some shoot
ing himself, hut was prevented by some Of
the family. A few minutes aiterward
Harvey Green, a noted negro. was seen
through the brush from where
tho smoke was Eesn. Some twelve ,or
fifteen men soon surrounded the hill to |
hunt him out but he gave them the slip.
A few nights afterwards as James @. VIII |
fong was riding along the road, near the
same place, he was shot at, the bullet |
grazing bis neck.
Plummera,
cabinet photographs are the best in the
city; only 81 80 per dozen. III
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