The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-06
THROUGH Ii STATE.
Accidents and incidents in West Virginia
and Vicinity,


Rnd Vicinity.
There is a probability that a Salvation
Post will be established at st. Clalraville'
Mayor.elecs Lloyd Campbell, Of New
Cumberland, declines to serve in that ca
paCity.
The Webster county Echo says that the
recent forest fires in that county have
greatly injured the ginseng trade.
A man named Darnell, employed in a
Gilmer county b~rickyard, was struck on
the head by a lever and had his skull frac-
tured.
Uriah Kimble and John Shively got
into a rumpus at the store at Van Camp,
Tyler county, which resulted In Shively
stsbbing Kimple twice in the breast, In.
1iCting severe wounds.
Tuesday, o number OF Italians employ.
ed on the Pk. Pleasant extension Of the
Ohio River road struck for higher wages.
The contractor told them to go to a place
warmer than their own sunny cline.
The Huntington & Ohio Valley railroad
has been incorporated at Columbus. 1t is
supposed to mean a railroad bridge OF
Huntington and a road down the Ohio
side oil the river to Petersburg, Lawrence
county, connecting with h eSCiota Valley.
The sixty negro laborers taken from
MarLinsburg to Mt. Pleasant, Pa., recently,
to work on q new reservoir being built,
struck for an advance OF 30 cents per day.
They were being paid 81 90 per day. As
the work had to DO hurried on to compile.
ton the advance was granted.
John Hoge, formerly Of the firm Of
Ewing & Hoge, now superintendent OF
Mountain Brook Shaft, Newburg, Preston
county, mines, where the disaster recently
occurred, has been In Steubenville engag.
ing miners. He sent two large delega-
tons to the mines from that vicinity.
The GAINESVILLE EnterpriSc has reached
It's twentieth birthday. II was established
by Its present editor, and under his care.
iul management has grown 10 be one OF
the largest and best papers In Eastern
Ohio. It ia one OF the most carefully
edited papers that comes to this office and
is noted for the variety and freshness Of
Its news.
Late Tuesday afternoon Judge Hance, OF
Steubenyille, sentenced George Eskey to
imprisonment for life for the murder Of q
man named Hall, and gave Frank Bone.
five years, for killing Henry Brindley, the
conviction in this case being for man.
slaughter. Last Sunday night both mon
attempted to escape from jail. They are
now In the Columbus "pen."
Too many school houses arc being
burned In this State. The last case is re-
ported from Monroe county, and, like q
large majority Of the others the past win.
ter, was the work Of IN incendiary. It
was the Waveland school, and the loss Is
$500. A gentleman named GilChrist was
conducting a private school there. The
citizens have gone to work To rebuild.
Two young men Of Tyler county, named
Mayheid and Mccormick, on their way
home from church quarreled about o
young lady. From words they came 10
blows, and it ended in Mccormick stab.
bling Mayaeld twice once the blade en-.
tered beneath the jaw bone and went
through to the roof OF his mouth. The
other cut is on his left side, and Is q very
serious and IL is feared fatal one.
Deputy U. s.. Marshal Elem RAIDER, Of
the Kanawha region, recently arrived ut
Charleston with Ave prisoners who are
charged with selling whisky and tobacco
without license. Three OF the parties are
from Summers county, one from Mercer
and one from Raleigh county They were
Jailed. The U. 8. District Court Is now In
at Charleston, and an unusually
large number Of offenders against the
revenue laws are TO be tried.
Secretary OF State Walker has issued q
certificate OF incorporation TO the Pied.
mont 4 Cumberland Railway Company.
This road Is 10 run from Piedmont, Min.
etal county, along the North Branch Of the
Potomac river 10 a point In Mineral Uoun.
", opposite the city OF Cumberland, Md.
The principal Office Is TO be at Piedmont,
and the capital stock is fixed at 100000.
The shares are $50 each and are held by
ex. United States Senator Henry 9. Davis,
Of Mineral county, Stephen D. Elkins, OF
New YORK, Thomas B. Davis, g. W. Har.
rison aHd H. 9. Bu1tor, Of Mineral Coun.
", and w. W. s. Moore, Of Marion. coun.
". Tblg Is an extension Of the W, Va,
o. 4 T. road.
Last summer the Standard Nail and
Iron Company began tearing down the
large mill at Clifton, preparatory 10 its re.
moval 10 Mlddlepoft, Ohio, OF which place
the mill Ia nov In operation. This mill
company owned several houses and a few
acres d land, Including the old mill site
II Clifton, which was disposed Of 10 Judge
]. b. Redmond. Since the Standard CotnA
psny abandoned the West Virginia shore,
rumofa are AHoat to the effect that an.
,ILna iaSoa totII wntlu ha aSnClndi n nlifIan