The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-30
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Accidents aud Incldents in: we.t Virgin
nnd Vicinity.

Accidents and llnridents In: West Virginia
and Vicinity.
]. L. Fry, a Charleston stationer, has
made an assignment TO L. b. Dyer for the
benefit OF hls creditors,
A number Of PArkersburg's young men
have formed 9 canoe club and can turn
ont Q respectable aized fleet.
Mrs. Alexander Elliott, Of MRrtinsburg,
was horribly burned by an explosion OF
coal oil and will probably die.
James s. Jennings, editor OF the Demo-
crGl at .Waynesburg, Pa, has been nom.
inated by President as postmaster at that
place.
Matthew W. Ewing, Of Gllmsr county,
who was reported TO have committed Rui-
eide by taking morphine, 1t now appears
did not take It with suicidal intent,
Professor B. D. Purinton, OF the West
Virginia University, has composed the
music and words Of q gong entitled "West
Virginia Hills" that is q very clever
thing,
U,B. Gould, OF Gould's Station, Jeffsr.
son county, Ohio. while working on his
farm was bitten by o large Copperhead
snake and was 80 badly poisoned that he
is not expected to recover,
1t Ia said that at the Sum
mora county Democratic primaries at
Hinton, Saturday last, the Congressional
delegates were instructed to vote as a unit
for Major ], W. Harris against Congress-
man Phil Snyder, or, as he Ia now called,
"Butterine Phil"
The handsome brick church recently
built at Wellsburg for the First Presby"
terrain congregation is not to be sold at 9
Sheria's public sale as 1t was advertised
TO be-, At the sale Of the sittlngs over
500 was raised and the claim against the
church paid of.
The court house OF Mcdowell county 10
q large log building at one end Of which
Is q small log cabin used as The clerks
office. At the other end Is another log
cabin over which hangs the Rign "Prnt-
ing Office" meaning that there are hopes
for the County's future prosperity,
EnoCh Burns, an old citizen OF Burr's
Mills, has, 1t ia reported, been taken to
the lnarmRry by the Township Trustees,
The atory ia that q few years ago he
decided his property to his sous with the
understanding that they were to keep
him, but he is old and childish nov, and
this is his reward.
Superintendent Martin, Of the Ohio
State Camp Meeting Association, writes
that the Wheeling & Lake Erie road will
give excursion rates from BoweTstown to
0rrville during tue camp meeting at that
place, which is now in progress, and will
be until August 4th. Tickets arc good re-
turning on the 9th.
The police Of Washington, Pa, have
been instructed 10 arrest all en%glnGerV, TO
haul them from their locomotives II need
be, who persist in blowing their whistles
within the towns limits, in violation Of q
recently passed ordinance prohibiting 1t.
The authorities are said to be very much
in earnest in their determination to stop
the nuisance.
A special from Hamlin, Lincoln county,
says: Jim Dean, q witness before the
June term OF tho Circuit Court, In several
criminal cases, left for the farm Of John
Black on which he was employed and has
not been heard from since. Dean was
known to have q considerable sum OF
money on his person, and as blood has
been found on tho road taken by him
and his companions, 1t Is feared ho has
been loully deal with. Great excitement
prevails nthat section.