Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-07
CLAY COUNTY'S SCOURGE.
Rkunher of Ao ditionai Deaths Re-
ported.
A Quarantine Being Established deaths
From Snake Bites in PrestOn---
Other State News.

and the county authorities nave set lneHi'
selves to work in earnest TO attempt TO a.
ford relief. Jpon the petition OF large
number Of citizens Of Union and Pleasant
districts, praying that relief measures be
set on loot the County Court has ordered
III D.. c. Carr, DR.. G. ". Brown and K.
+. Lesueur De, and the same are hereby ap-
pointed a special Board Of Public Health,
who are directed and required to take
prompt and decisive action for the proven.
ton OF the spread Of any infectious, conta'
gious or epidemic disease, They are re-
uuired TO visit all houses infected with any
such disease, or where they have cau.e to
believe there is such disease, and put in
force such sanitary rules as they shall
deem necessary. and they shall see that
all such premises are cleansed and
disiniectants supplied. They are to Put in
force rigid quarantine against all those
PERSONS and houses which they have reason
10 believe infected with such disease They
shall see that the mail carriers of the coun
" are prevented from stopping at houses
ard offices infected with such disease, and
ifrecet sorry they shall have any mail route
discontinued until such disease is abstcd.
They shall see that proper disintectants and
medicines are Supplied where patients are
unable to procure them, and oversee the
burial Of any dying of such disease, so as to
prevent it from spreading thereby. The
Elk River Progress says there were eight
f,aths in two days last week, and that the
disease shows no signs OF abating.
DEATHS FROM sNAEE GITEs.
The Kingwood journal SAYS: From the
number of deaths caused By rattlcsnake
nits in this State AMI elsewhere, this sea
-cn, it would seem that these reptiles are
more plentiful than formerly. And the
geople over to the GAINESVILLE community
10 say that they are more plentiful and
mere venomous and angry than ever before
SHOWN. Mr.. j. Allen Miller, who lives near
Bruccton, tells rs that last Saturday two
women from the GAINESVILLE country were
yisling at bis house and told his family OF
rErce deaths, that had occurred las, week, IN
the mountains, near GAINESVILLE, from rattle
snake bites. The first was that OF woman who
v bitten in t! e face, while licking buck
.e- cries. She died before she could D.
gc,ten home Another was Of girl who
sas bitten while picking huckleberries;
h also died before they got her out of the
led. Another was ihar Of boy raking
ats He reached his hand through the
nee 70 get some b'rreo, when a rattle
-: he struck him on the wrist, and he died
.lcteny 1t was reported at Mr. Milers
cue. ln.' eek that q little child was bit
~ ny snake in The mountain near Lees
Ferry, and died in two or three days after
\ SIMILAR ACCIDENT.
A few days age Mr. Bub Callahan, Of
Charleston, while toying with a broom
.traw, met with casually which has devel-
ypCd into o seriom matter lie was pick
,ug lis teeth with the straw when sudden
rLbalaIion OF bis breath forced the straw in
o his wiudpipe ard all etlor's to dislOige
It proved Intellectual His throat began 10
well and IN less uan twenty four hours the
main had become 50 excruc!atiug that q
physician had TO b. summoned, but no sue
.,ss was had in removing the straw Fear.
rg serious results, Mr. Callahan, accom-.
,anicd by his mother hastened TO Clncin
natl for relief. a p)stal las been received
2tm him stating that he was al the Marine
HcsTital, that bis suffering was intense and
hat The errst:c straw WAS still in his THROAT.
rr Is TEARS.
ErocL Smith, Of near Lowcsyile, Marion
.ounty, aged eighJytwo years, 3 doing lis
'alI blowing with horse thirtythree years
# age. Uncle Enoch is hale and hearty
s!d the Old sorrel kicks up its heels like "a
ping colt these cool mornings by the
Ray there are some old horses in and about
FsiImont. Squire Haydens dun mare
Aas a FLY away back in 1872, and Lawyer
NcCoys family steed was not youthful
core Of years ago Jimmy Halls family
Gag is somewhere about thirty years ofale,
and there are several other equine creatures
'tereabouts, who have lived far beyond the
Ac.age age OF the horse,
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
At franklin, Pendle;on county, list Mon
lay, George Dahmer made an attampj TO
rarg himself. An eyewitness says Mr..
Uahmrr came out Of an alley, looked arouod
carefully 20 see if any one was in sight, ana
iuciDg the coas, clear he drew rope from
MS Iocle ct, tried is strength, made a moose,
oct it around his mex and started for u
sirChirg pest near By. People who had
lttn watchirg him ran NJ aud took the
r,lp away from him. When asked what b.
meant b., SAID ne was just = foolng.
GREAT S, HONE.
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