Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-06
DOWN In THE STATE.
LATE HAPPENINGS OF A MISCELLANEOUS
CHARACTER,
Picked Up Here and There By Local Reporters Of the
Interior Press, and EpinmiZed for
Register Readers.

Mr.. John Slane, an employee at the
Blatchley Pump Factory in West GRAFTON,
waslbadly injured on Wednesday morning.
He had placed a piece of poplar about ten
feet long and eight inches square In he
lathe preparatory to turning it to the proper
shape for a pump, and started the lathe,
which revolves at a high rate of speed.
The first time his chisel struck the timber
it burst in two, one of the pieces flying up
and striking him IN the face, knocking him
back on the floor and fearfully cutting and
bruising both his face and the back OF his
head. The chisel few from his hand and
struck his leg between the knee and ankle
cutting a long and frightful cash, sinking
into the marrow ofthe bone.
Two young farmers named VIM. Wilton
and Joseph Simmons, citizens OF Webster
county, went squirrel hunting last Satur-
day. They separated after getting into
the hunting district, proposing to unite at
a certain point. By some means Simmons
m~iscalculated the direction and crossed the
ridge about sixty yards in advance OF
Wilton, who mistoook Simmons gray
clothes for the body of deer and shot at
ST. LIE UuIIcl olluSh :"
the shoulders, creating q fatal wound His
Mortified companion upon discovering his
mistake ran to the nearest house, and Sc
curing assistance, returned to find his
friend lying dead where he had left him.
A12-year old daughter of W, NJ. Hahn,
living near Green Spring Run, near Key
ser, was a~ccidently shot Sunday. Young
IT,. IL L.a, nIaopi,n hfo rayplNpr q
Smith G. Weston. He took out the cart
tridges and after the cleaning, put them
back again. Forgetting that he had re-
placed the cartridges, he was handling the
pistol and raising it pulled the trigger.
The weapon was discharged, the ball
striking the girl in the side. 1t entered
the cartillages of the ribs about the ninth
or tenth rib, and ranged downward to the
right in the region of the right lobe Of the
liver, making an exceedingly ugly and
dangerous wound.
Walter Steel, of Feterman, has grown q
crop of grass which seems to be something
new on the mountain farms. In appear
ance it is not unlike corn and is said to be
lust as nutritious for feeding stock as the
other. 1t grows from aseed not more than
half as large as an apple seed, and yet one
of these seeds will often raise from 10 to ~
stocks, IL feet high, so that as MIR. Steele
expresses it, a man could winter q COW on
this grass for 10 or ID cents.
A few DAYS ago, Mrs. John Arrit, resid-
ing near Salt Sulphur, Monroe county, nad
a singular adventure with q snake. She
had been out riding and just as she
reached home, after a ride of four miles, a
black snake, about four feet long, slipped
from the saddle and made its escape. 1t
is supposed that the snake got inside the
lining of the saddle while it was hanging
in'the stable, and was unable to escape
during the ride.
Prof. /. c.. White, Of the State Uniyer-
sity at Morgantown, and his brother, Hon.
H. S. White, of Marshall county, are pros
pecting for oil and gas in Gilmer county.
Prof. White informed the Banner that he
thought gas could be struck in paying
quantities anywhere near Chenille. He
said that there were two chances, one at
500 feet and another ut 800 feet.
An emigrant was taken from q train at
the depot here this week, having been
struck by the bridge at Grafton while EN-
route West, he having his head out of o
car window. His head is terribly mashed,
his skull being broken and his windpipe
exposed. There is very little prospect of
his recovery. His name, destination, or
friends are not Misunderstanding 7ete-
gram.
James Cunningham, of Wyatt, Harrison
county, got into a fight on Buffalo about
a week ago, and q knife wa drawn across
his throat cutting it clear around In front
deep enough to expose the win dpipe, but
fortunately none of the large veins were
severed. The cutting was done by a man
named Amos of Marion County.
Thoburn Camp, Sons of Veterans of New
Cumberland, have ordered twenty-five En-
field rifles from Johnson's Great Western
Gun Depot, of Pittsburgh. They are ex-
pected to arrive in about ten days. The
camp also has money to buy uniforms, and
are now figuring on the same.
Mr.. w. T. Stewart is the largest land
holder and farmer in Berkeley county.
He has put his entire wheat crop into
market, which amounted to II 500 bush
els, llt lluu W uIiN6 bCtuOb, ILL VII uls
home farm near Martinsburg the yield was
thirty-five bushels per acre.
Last Friday Thomas Wilt, while coming
from ROwlesburg, accidentally fell from
his wagon, and the wheels passed over his
head. DR.. Baker was summoned and did
all he could for him; but it is thought
that medical aid cannot save him, though
he is yet living.
A thirteen year old son of Moses Ket-
tie, on Turkey Fork, Jackson county, last
Saturday, fell from a horse while carrying
a single-tree on his shoulder, and the sin
gle-tree struck him in the head fracturing
the skull so that some of the brain tissue
ran therefrom.
The Consolidated Fruit Company, of
Parkersburg, w. Va, d. B. Greer and Ly-
sander Dudley, proprietors, have handled
100, 900 m~elons-sixty carloads-and co.
600 barrels of apples. Besides, they have
sold 5000 barrels of apples to Eastern
parties. Smiths Inder.
Rev. Father +. J. Duffy, brother of Ap-
ditor Duffy was badly lhurt last week by
the qpturning Of a stage in which he was
travelling between Sweet Springs and Al
Station.
The thoroughbred short-horn bull own
ed by NJ. Beckett, Esq, of Sinks Grove,
Monroe county, was weighed q few days
ago and tipped the scales at 1000 pounds.
There has been more travelling on the
Balti more & Ohio Railroad this sum
mer and fall than has ever been known
since 1876.
The West Virginia School Journal will
begin publishing a series of biogra-
pixies ofeminent West Virginians, deceased.
IS Pieces Body Brussels at the lowest
price ever known. 9s cents: real value