Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-06
OVER THE STATE.
Items of Interest Clipped From West Vir-
Cinia Exchanges.

Items of Interest Clipped From West Nir-
ginia Exchanges.
On Friday morning of last week, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock, Mr.. John
H. Broll, of MOorefeld, went to his peach
orchard on Pills Knob, about five miles
from MOoretield, for the purpose of gather
ing the crop. He took of his coat and
laid it on a log and placed his pistol on
top of his coat, and then went into the
oarchard to find the ripest peaches and re-
turning to the spot where he had left the
articles above mentioned, he discovered
two men with their faces blaCkened, one
having false whiskerS made of SPUR
rel's tail The two men seized Mr..
BIOll and commenced to maltreat him.
choking and beating him III fearful man
ner. They had some difficulty in throwing
Mr.. Broll, but finally threw him Overa log,
one jumping on him while the other shot
him Just above the left temple, saying at
the same time, give the S of a b. an
other shot and that will fix him, and fired
the second time, the bullet striking about
an inch and a halftrOm where the first ball
struck. The two men then left Mr.. BrOll,
suppOsing ne was dead Some time after
Mr.. B. regained strength enough to get to
u house about four or five hundred yards
distant from where he was shot, in which
there was woman living, who took him
To ncighbOr by the name of wilkins, and
he conveyed him to his home in MOOretield,
where he now lies i'll critical condition,
although the doctors think he will recover.
The Macksburg oil field, from which
Parkersburg secures the most of her large
oil supply, seems to be dwindling. During
July the Macksburg pipe line runs were
-, 40 barrels; outside shipments, 1850
barrels; average daily production, 2,Ol6.
There were completed in the MackSburg
field during the same month ii deep and
shallow wells, with new production OF
PIT barrels No wells were completed out
side of the defined limits of the field. The
production shows n decrease of 259 barrels
day from the June figures; while June
increased III barrels per day over the May
yield The number of producing wells on
the first of August was 439, and the aver
age production about 4.6 barrels On the
last day of the month there were ten wells
drilling and II rigs up and building inths
field
Nicholas Schupbach, an aged citizen
residing near st. Mary's, came TO his death
under ratherpeculiar circumstanceS. About
four o'clock last Saturday evening he left
the house and went to the spring for
bucket of water. As he did not return,
his daughter Carrie and another young
lady, who were the only ones about the
house, started out in search of him. They
found him lyingwi his face in the spring,
dead. He had probably been dead about
an hour. The deceased had been in feeble
health for some time, and he had in q
measure lost his mind-a mere weakening
of the intellect. 1t is not known whether
his death was caused by drowning, or
whether he fell dead from some other
cause He was about seventy-three years
of age, and leaves wife and five children.
Odus Davis, a third division brakeman,
fell from an east bound freight train ut
Swanton last Sunday morning and was
killed. He fell on the north track and
was not discovered until the first section
of No. had run over him and terribly
mangled his body. He was % years of
age, and leaves = wife and one child. He
had not been railroading long, having only
come on the road last December.