Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-08
THROUGH THE STATE.
rHB IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS In THE IN
TERROR COUNTIES
During the Past Week, IS Recorded IN the
Local Columns Of the County
Press.

The decision Of the Supreme Court OF
Appeals, rendered two weeks ago, in the case
taken ND from the Circuit Court Of Wood
county. in which Barna Powell was plain
tiff and the city of Parkersburg was de-
PENDANT, has almost completely upset the
government of that city. In fact, accord
ing to this decision, the Parkersburg peo-
pie have no lawful city government at all;
it is doubtful if any of the acts OF the
council are of binding effect. So long
as this decision stands unreversed, the
city is in q condition of uncertainty,
partly ludicrous and partly serious.
There was a dance the other night near
Roanoke. The participants were dancing
so hard that in the grand chain n of the
ladies ran against another with such force
that she was knocked over OIL the stove,
cutting a severe cash on top of her head,
and the second lady, falling herself, marred
her beauty considerably by breaking her
nose, which, until some n Strengthened
it up, remained flat on her face. Lovers
of the slight fantastic" must take warn
ing.
1t is reported that G. C. Hughes, q cit
izen of Summers county, was robbed Of 3d.
800 in Baltimore last Sunday night. He
had sold a let of fat cattle and had the
money in o pocket of his shirt when he
retired. On risingin the morning he found
the door of his room unlocked, the key lay
ing upon the floor, and q ~perceptible smell
of chloroform ~pervading the premises. In
stinctively he put his hand upon the peck
ct containing the money and found 1t there,
as he supposed. Later in the day, after
spending some loose change in his pocket,
he found it necessary to havca bill changed
and pulling the roll from his shirt found to
his amazement that his greenbacks had
been metamorphosed into n roll of worth
less paper.
Jas. Hogdin, John Evans and Charlie
Hill, of Petersburg, Grant county, went
out on Saturday last in search Of Mort
Ford and Charles Turner, the former hay-
ing broke Jail at Moorefield on the night
of the burning of Fishers barn, and the
latter supposed to be an accessory with
Ford, if he fired the barn. They captured
the two colored individuals near Mellow
ell, in Highland county, Va, and brought
| them into Petersburg on Tuesday evening
on their way to Moorefield. Turner is
thought to bea party wanted in Ohio, and
both are suspicioned of firing Fishers
barn.
On Saturday some unknown persons,
from w%antonness or malice, loosed the
brakes on ten fiat cars belonging to the
Chesapeake & Ohio railway, loaded with
iron, and standing on the incline just
above the Huntington wharf, and allowed
the whole train to run into the river. The
iron had just been brought down the road
and was awaiting the arrival of the steam
er Andes for shipment up the river. The
river being high, the cars and cargo, con-
| sisting of 100 tons, are under water and
cannot be reached until the tide subsidies.
A most distressing affair occurred on the
Cushing farm i'll Mason county, ". Va,
opposite Chambersburg, Saturday. A lady
named Mrs. Kane, asister Of Mrs. Gushing,
eighty-two years of age, was left in the
house by q member of the household, who,
when returning, discovered her leaning
over the mantel, the flames from the crate
having caught her clothing. The shoes
were burned from her feet. Mrs. Gushing
survived but a few hours.
A certain married woman and an I'M
married one, of Parkersburg, are exciting
a great deal of cOmment by their conduct,
and some persons with whom they have
been out ut improper hours, think they
are laying the ropes for a bold scheme of
blackmail, if they eau get the right kind
| of suckers to bite. 1t is certain that pub
lie opinion gives them credit for being on
a crooked lay, and the atmosphere down
there is full of scandal.
Mrs. Freder lex, n daughter of the
late Col. William Lewis Of Sweet Springs,
Greenbrier county, has recently been left a
large fortune by a gentleman named
Montgomery, who courted her in early life.
Disappointed he went To the East Indies,
and there acquired great wealth. lie died
recently, bequeathing his fortune to Mrs.
Frederick, on condition that she assume
his name.
Rev. William Michael, of near Green
land, Grant county, was seriously Injured
n day or two since and now lies in 4 criti-
cal condition. He WAS unloading wood
from 4 wagon when by some means he fell
and IN some way injured the back of his
neck. He has been for a portion of the
time since in an unconscious condition.
On last Saturday night the house Of
Harness Harper, on Dry Fork, in Randolph
county, Twas burned, also his granary
near by. He lost among other things q
pOckctbOOk containing 500, one hundred
bushels of wheat and other grain. The
house was new and he had moved into the
same but a few days before.
Thomas Delliard an pmnloye of the
Paint Creek Coal Company, fell from a
moving train near Blacksburg on Sunday
last, and was crushed to death by the
trucks. His head was cut in two, and his
body terribly mangled.
A large railroad meeting was held in
Petersburg, Grant county, last TUESDAY
night, in the interests of a road from Cum
berland, Romney OF Keyser to that point.
The epidemic of measles has run its
course at Harrisville, Richie county. The
disease ragged for three months, there being
in that time over one hundred cases.
The demand for railroad ties is brisk
along the line Of the Ohio river railroad.
About 200, 900 ties are advertised for in
Tyler county alone.
5. II. Goodwin, n Tucker county school
teacher, was found lying on a road in
Glover district, badly frozen and uncon-
scious.
Over 1900 pounds of walnut kernels
have been shipped from Pendleton county
this fall.
100 81 WASHING MACHINES FREE