The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-23
MURDER AND FIRES.
IN ALL PARTS OF rHE srATH
And in Parts OF the Adjoining States
Shocking and U%nprOvOked Homicide in
DOddridgs County, which has Seen
Many MurdSrs-HouSOs BurnsdL

John Ehmann, editor OF the Ohio PdleS
BOyCOter, will address the workingmen Of
New Cumberland next Thursday evening
Eustace Gibson, the Fourth district
Congressman, is TO address the people Of
Mason couNty on the first day Of the May
term Of court,
The editor OF the Steubenvills Ohio
Press announces that he will start q simon
pure Republican daily in that city II he
receives sufficient encouragement.
During the recent ireshet a large log was
taken out at Piedmont that had been six
years in coming down the stream. II
q made a big load for four horses and cut
between 700 and 800 feet Of hemlCck lun'
Der.
The school house at Jacksonville, Lewis
county, was destroyed by fire, at an early
hour Tuesday evening. About midnight
the same night the church at that place
was also destroyed. Both fires we're In
Cendiary in their origin.
The Rouceverte >Mps Is the name Of
the first paper ever. published in that live
ly little Greenbricr county town. j. W.
Hess is the publisher and R. Burke the
editor, There is room for a good paper 10
that large lumber section.
Joseph Miller, indicted by q Berkeley
county grand Jury three years ago for a
felony, has just been captured. Judge
Faulkner made some pointed suggestions
in open court to the Sheriff that q little
energy be displayed, before the arrest was
made.
The school house at Pleasant Hill, Pres.
ton county, was destroyed by fire with lite
contents. The supposition Is, that the fire
was the work OF an incendiaiy. Last win.
ter there was considerable trouble at the
school and threats were made to tear 1t
down.
The First District convention Of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
commenced It's sessions In the Disciples
church at New Cumberland yesterday.
II will close this evening. The programmes
prepared for the convention are very in
tertstlng ones.
The Preston county grand jury failed
10 find any indictments on account Of the
Newburg coal mine explosion. State
Mine Inspector Tucker was before the
body and testified, but other Witnesses
could not DO had and the whole matter
was deferred until the next term.
The Board Of Directors OF the Insane
Asylum at Weston at their meeting Tues
day awarded the contract for supplying
beef during the ensuing. year to SobisCa
S~talnaker, at SO 20 per hundred pounds
The contract for furnishing flour and meal
for six months was awarded to George
Ross, the flour at 81 50 per barrel OF 200
pounds, and the meal at 10 cents per
bushel.
DIR. j. v. Simmons, OF Charlestown, was
rendered the United States Treasury
Agency at one OF the Aleutian or Seal Fur
Islands, Alaska. The position Is one Of
comparative ease, and the pay per annum
Is 5000 and travelling expenses. A gem
tleman who had lived on the island in.
formed DR.. Simmons thatit Is a delightful
cline after one becomes accustomed to It,
though the wind travels eighty miles an.
hour and the sun does not get through
the fog from October 10 May. THE Doctor
declined the position.
Another frightiul murder has transpired
In Doddridge county. Thomas True, who
lives near Robinson's Fork, and his vile
quarreled and at last he drove her from
the house In a most brutal manner, swear.
ing at the same time that he would kill
the man who would give her shelter. Mrs.
True went to the house OF q farmer named
Robert Miller living near by and secured
shelter. The %nextevening Tuesday True
having heard OF what Miller had done,
found him at work in a field and delibet.
ately fred q musket containing 20 slugs
into his breast. True fled and is at large.
Ii captured he will surely be lynched.