Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-26
A GLASS EATER.
A HUNTINGTON IAN IN TRAINING FOR A
MUSEUM CAREER.
A Boone County Citizen Narrowly Escapes
Being DsyOured BY 3 BearIOhsr In
teeSfng State News.

Hotel. Huntington, q colored boy eighteen
years of age, named Worick Wright, who
is quite a curiosity. Having seen a glass
eater operate in Cincinnati some time ago,
he concluded to make the effort and see If
he couldn't become a uniformed attraction
in some dime museum. So accordingly
about two weeks ago he tackled a lamp
chimney, because of its lightnesS, and suc-
ceeded in disposing of a considerable part
of it. Having turned up the follow
ing morning in his usual excellent con-
dition, he determined to try heavier glass
and a larger quantity, and tackled a beer
bottle, making quite a respectable lunch
from it. This remarkable lunch was east
" digested, and he did not discover any
ANNOYANCE in any respect from having en-
veloped the peculiar repast. At present
he is capable of ~devouring q considerable
quantity of anything in the glass line,
even with apparent relish. On Sunday
evening, last, before a large gathering of
people at the St Nicholas, be ate q lamp
chimney, and proved conclusively that he
swallowed every bit of it.
The village of Racine, Boone county, has
been excited over the report that James
| Midkiff had been deyOured by q bear. For
some time Mr.. Midkiff had been losing
sheep by a huge bear killing them, and he
determined to put q stop to him. He had
heard that Mr.. Stephen Asbury had sue
1911 -. an,fprnr fuonfu-ainhf u1l1 |
turkeys by feeding them corn soaked in
brandy, thereby making them drunk, when
they were easily caught. Mixing some
brandy and honey he placed it with some
mutton near where the bear had been, hop
ing to make his bearship drunk, when he
thought he would have no difficulty
in capturing him. But in this he was
disappointed. The bear refused to eat
the honey and brandy, but did eat the
mutton. Mr.. Midkiff secured a Mr.. Kirk
to help him in the tussel with the beast,
he having been recommended to him as
a brave man. They sat up all night
watching for the bear, when early in the
morning they discovered and proceeded to
take him. Mr.. Kirk becoming excited ran
for his life, and alarmed the neighborhood
by saving that Mr.. Midkiffh had been killed
and dev0ured by the bear. Accordingly
forty or fifty men, and as many dogs
started in search for him. After spending
several hours in the search they came
across Mr.. NJ, in a deep %ravine, busily en-
gagged in skinning the bear. 1t Is thought
that Kirk will recover from his fright, al
though his condition is very critical.
MIR. Tilberry Orndorf, of Moorefield,
Hardy county, has in his possession several
Sharps rifle cartridges taken from the cart
ridge box of o Union soldier who was shot
in the campaign of 1861. This soldier be-
longed to Keys cavalry company from
Pennsylvania. The company was out on
a scout between ROmney and Blues Gap.
Captain Leps, with Mr.. Warden, of Clark
county, Va, and some eighteen or twenty
other men, only about q third of the enc
my's force, successfully ambuScaded this
party at French's tannery, taking them COM
pletely by surprise and routing them. 1t
was only n bushwhacking skirmishing, but
q pretty sharp affair while it lasted. Sew
eral cavalry men were killed, among them
the one shot by Mr.. Warden. His name,
w. III. Hartsranit, was rudely cut on the
stock of his rifle. The cartridges taken
from his dead body are still stained with
his blood. Such relics are sad mementOes
of the dark and bloody days Of the late
struggle.
Last Saturday, near Frankfort, Green
brier county, q four-horse stage containing
twenty-three persons, EN- route to a picnic,
upset at a steep point in the road, and a
dozen people were more or less seriously
injured. W. II. Ballard received q pain
full sprain of his right ankle, which is on
hning him to crutches. Marian Robinson
had an arm Spraiued. Estey Perkins had
her left wrist badly mashed and lacerated.
Fannie Perkins had q large splinter
pierced entirely through her nose. Sallie
Hackett received q large cut or two on the
head. Alex. BaSsell was mashed and
bruised up internally. An infant was hurt
about the head, and several Others of the
party were slightly injured.
Mai. j. II. StrattOn, of LewiSburg, hired
a horse and buggy to n negro doctor several
weeks ago, to make 4 trip into the interior
of the county. A week passed and hearing
nothing of the negro, STATIONS suspicion
was that the horse had been stolen. lnquir-
les resulted in finding the horse near Heal
ing Springs, in Bath county Va, with one
lou CulOl. III uil MY WIN "bo "ibh 1HN
Doctor, states that the horse cut his foot
off on a cutting knife in the stable and that
then gave him away and left for parts UNI
known,
A gentleman by the name of Duffy, who
lives in the East End, Parkersburg, has
sworn out q warrant for the arrest of a
man by the name of Gill, also of the East
End, charging him with a villainOus deed.
He claimed that Gill invited his brother
out walking on last Wednesday evening,
and when he got him out on the high h. &
o. trestle he pushed him off and left him
living there unconscious. Duffy is now ly-
ing at home unable to move, and it is
thought that he may be MANNED for life.
According to Deputy U. S. Marshal
SehOn, of Parkersburg, the Government
has been treating the U. S. Court of this
State rather ~shabbily. Mr.. SehOn says:
During the entire year not one cent has
been received from the Department to de-
fray the current expenses of the courts,
and the result is that the treasury is de-
pleted. Marshal Sehon has been obliged
to borrow all the money needed, giving
personal security for the same"
On Friday morning last between 9 and
10 a. NJ, Mrs. Thomas n. Davis, of Glen
Elk, Kanawha county, missed her little
two year old child, and on a search being
instituted, found the body of the little
one floating in the cellar of the house,
which contained about two feet of water.
When rescued the child was apparently
l~ifeless, but the neighbOrs were called in
and restoratiyes applied and the child is
now doing well,
Persons in ~POcahontas county are talk
ing seriously of incorporating a railroad
company with o view to building q mar
row guage rOsd from HunteBville, in that
county, by way of Beaver creek, An
thongs creek and Dry creek, TO connect
with the C~hesapeak 4 Ohio railway at
White Sulphur Spring. The distance is
about thirty-ive miles, and the country
through which the road would pass is
heavily timbered.
Mrs. Kittie, Leftwich, wife of James
Leftwich, who resides at Maiden, oppo-