The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-13
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Accidents and InCidsutS In West vIrgInil
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Accidents and accidents In West virginia
and Vicinity.
Clarksburg will pay of her indebtedness
this year. 1t ouly amounts to about
81 800.
James A. Mcdowell, aprosper0uBiarmer
OF Monroe county, living near Union, had
twenty head OF sheep killed by dogs. Ere.
quent depredatious Of this nature have
been occurring OF late in Monroe county.
AT Barbonrsville, Oabell county, Steve
Patterson was badly cut by Il knife In the
hands Of man named William Burks
Too much bad whisky was the cause
Burks was arrested. Peterson is likely to
die.
The Hallam Bros, Of Little Washing.
ton, a short time since purchased u pair Of
valuable Kentucky horses. During the
past week one died OF the epizootC, and
the other falling in a hole broke Its back
and had to be shot.
The Spencer and Burning Springs tele.
phone line Is now in working order. The
rates are as follows: One cent per word
up to twenty-five words; all additional
words one half cent; no message sent for
less than ten cents; conversations twenty.
five cents for five minutes.
The harrisburg Telephone company has
reduced It's rates and now rent business
telephones for So per month and private
ones for 81 per month, giving the cheap.
est service In the country. The calls now
average 200 day. This week the com.
pauy expects to complete Ito line to Wes-
ton.
The Braxton county Democrat says:
James T. Beall took the best poplar rsft
to Charleston on the late rise that was
ever run from this section. The raft con.
tanned twenty-five logs and aggregated
twenty-five thousand feet This would
be an average OF one thousand feet per
log. He sold the raft for $500, or $40 per
log.
a new paper has been started at Point
Pleasant. II is called The Mountain STATE,
and Is owned and edited by Lon T.
PllChard. Politically 1t Is Republican,
with perChanCe a tendency IN be at times
Independent. The frat number ID bright
and newsy, and gives good promise for The
future. Like all papers II claims to come
for the purpose Of filling a long felt want
The Princeton Journal says that at Brain.
well, Mercer county, a few nights since, q
general melee took place al q festival given
BY negroes. Ben Watkins lColoredJ was
shot first In the thigh and then through
the body, and died almost instantly. A
crowd Of five men, Tom Cash, Charles
Beech, Dennis Wood, YanCie Cannaday
and Jim Chambers did most OF the shoot.
Ing. These have all been arrested except
Cannaday and lodged In jail at Princeton.
Joseph u. Whitman was buried In the
West Alexander cemetery last Tuesday,
He died at his residence after brief III.
ness, one mile north Of Valley Grove, and
was in the forty.eighth year Of his age,
He leaves a wife and three children. HeI
was an upright christian man and was
highly esteemed by his neighbours and MI.
netOus acquaintance, lie was brought
up near West Alexander oil the farm Of
the well.known Whitman 4 Brother, near
Gilmer crossing,
W. i. Davis Of Doddtidgs county, was
crossing a creek In boat when II struck
q log that was under the water. Davis
was thrown backwards Into the water, aS
he fell an iron spike In the side Of The
boat run through hispants, fastening him
with his head Under water, lie caught The
gunwale Of the boat, raised hls head out
Of the water, aud by exciting himself
managed at last to tear the stout goods
and save himself from drowning.