Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-22

million feet of timber in their boom' ~
Ronceverte.
Scarlet fever is raging with fatal effect
in portions of Summers county.
Can't John CLARK, of Grant district Ritchie
county, has inherited $500 by the death
of relative in England.
A little two year-old daughter OF l.. Z.
Wallace, of Mason county, was fatally ois'
ten by bull dog few days ago
Malicious people fred the grass in the
Morgsntown cemetery, doing much damage
to the monuments and grave stones.
The West Union papers say some OF the
farmers are becoming alarmed at the pros
poets of repetition OF last years drougin.
Arrangements are being made for old,
fashioned Fourth of July celebrations all
over the State on coming Independence
Day.
Mr.. E Frank Hill, OF Monroe county,
recently appointed postal route agent on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway has ten
dered his resignation.
The Shepherdstown Register says the
seventeen year locusts have bored several
holes through the bricks in Mr.. G. I. Lick
lder's residence in that place.
George L. Stewart, of Doe Run, bod
bridge county, was thrown uader q freight
train at West Union few days ago and
his head was completely severed from his
body.
oaite a large number of curiosities were
unearthed in an old mound near Ansted.
Several skulls, old fints, pottery and
larpe tooth six inches in diameter were
amongst the things excavated.
At Philippi, Wednesday, Ivy johnson
aged years, fell from second story win
dow, distance OF sixteen feet, and Bernard
?. Thompson, aged 4, fell twenty-five feet
from bridge, but neither were hurt.
Three little boya came to the cabin Of
Farmer P. Muchmire, the FIRST OF the week.
There was no trouble in getting names for
the triplets They 60 down Is future genera
tons as Cleveland, Hendricks and Reform.
Lincoln Clipper.
The Ensign Car Company, Of Hunting.
ton, have yet $50 wheels 10 make to fill the
order for 1900 recently received from the
Louisville l. Nashville railroad, which will
keep tie moulders in this concern busy for
some weeks yet.
Governor Wilson has forwarded to
Moundsville the necessary papers for the
pardon of Sardine Fogle, who, on the 3Oth
of March, 1878, was convicted in the Cir.
cult Court Of Upshur county, and sentenced
to ten years imprisonment for the killing
of VIM. A. Boastic.
The site of Davis City is now being clear.
ed of timber. One hundred acres of laurel
have been cut of, and large number OF
men are engaged in cutting the heavy tim.
Der. Everything that will make sawloy
is saved, and mill is kept more than busy
cutting lumber.
Last Friday, while some men were work
ing on road in Tucker county blast went
of Unexpectedly, and several men were in.
ured. George Shumaker was so badly hurt
by shattered rocks that he has not had HIS
eyesight since, and it is feared that he is
permanently blind.
Mrs. Ellen Call, of St. Clara, Doddridge
county, had her house accidently destroyed
by fire. She had had large amount OF
money hidden away in teakettle. The pa
per money was burnt, but the gold, amount.
ing to one hundred dollars was found mel
ed in the kettle after the fire.
There was terrific rain and wind storm
on the dividing ridge between Rocky Fork
and Kanawha Two Mile last Monday after
noon that did a great deal of damage to
growing crops. The rain fell in such tor
rents that it washed logs down the noun
tain side that it would take Two yoke OF oxen
to pull-kanawhs Gazette.
A corps of topographers from the United
States Coast Surveys arrived in Tucker last
Monday and will continue the surveys COM
menced last summer. Their field of opera
ton for this season lies between the Cheat
and Valley rivers. The country will be
mapped on scale Of two miles to the inch.
Enos L. Webster, a venerable and re-
spected citizen Of Richie county, was in
stantly killed on last Monday afternoon.
He was cutting down a tree, which, in fall
ing, struck him on the head. His brains
were knocked out Mr.. Webster resided
near Ellenboro, and the accident occurred
in the vicinity of his home.