Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-11
THROUGH THE STATE.
THE CREAM SKINNED PROM THE LOCAL
COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES.
The Tobacco Crop In the Lower Counties Ruined By
Fust-Sevsral Accidents ola Distress
ing Nature.

ago, q son Of Reuben ID. Teter, aged one
year, was fatally shot by a son Of Asa
Harmon. 1t seems that three of Mr.. Har-
mons boys, aged Z, 10 and Is, respective
ly, were shooting at O mark with a 81
calibre pistol, in the direction of MIR.
Teter's house, a distance of23S yards. and
the child was sitting in the kitchen door
at the side of its mother. Two
shots were fired by the boys and when
the second report was heard the child
fell over and upon Investigation life
found to be extinct and blood poured
out of its left eye. 1t was found that the
ball had pierced the eyeball without touch
ing the lids and passing through the head,
had lodged against the skin on the oppo-
site side. Squire J.W. Summerfield sum-
moned a %coroncr's jury, which, after inyes-
tigating the circumstances found that the
child came to its death by a pistol shot fired
in the hands of Martin Hartman, Simon
Hartman or Asa Hartman, jr., by accident.
The boys say the youn5est fired the last
shot.
The store of Hon. c. Z. Wells and the
the Glover's Gap postoffice in the same
building were burglarized a few years ago
by one Dick Rice. Dick was convicted
and sent to the penitentiary for the store
robbery, and his time of Imprisonment ex-
pired last Saturday. On that day Deputy
U. S. Marshal Sine appeared in his cell
and took charge of him or n warrant is
sued upon an indictment in the U. 5.
Court for robbing the postofioe. He was
brought here the same day and on Monday
was taken to C~larksburg for trial. Dick
will probably &C back to Moundsville for
another term OF years. The burglar who
when burglarizing does not discriminate
between the store that has a postotlice at
tachment and one that hasn't, makes 4
serious mistake.
The forests Of this State are noted for
their large trees, also for valuable ones.
1t is not long since that a lumber company
cut a curly walnut tree in Wyoming coun-
ty valued ut So, 900; now that county again
comes to the front with a tree Of mammoth
proportion which was felled a few days
igo by Christian, Bockley & Co, a lumber
firm with headquarters at Ocenda The
tree was a poplar, SO feet long, with an av-
erage diameter of five feet and two inches.
1t contained 20, Isl feet of lumber, board
measure, or 1,l4l cubes of timber. The
most remarkable part of the tree is that 1t
was Sc feet from the stump to the first
limb, without any shake or visible defect.
The heavy frost last Saturday morning
caused wide spread devastation III Lincoln
county, being particularly destructive to
standing tobacco, many entire crops being
ruined. Reports from Turkey Creek, one
of the finest tobacco districts in the county,
are to the effect that the entire crop is laid
in ruins. AS this crop is almost the sole
dependence of many farmers, the loss falls
heavily. Early tobacco was generally
housed, and in some sections the frost was
not so severe rs to doany material damage.
On Thursday of last week, rs the pas
senger train was passing Grace station,
Hampshire county, n large buck cantered
gracefully along the river bank. There
wa a raising OF windows and every man
wished he had a gun. The rapid rush of
the train in one direction and the deer 60
ing in another, soon lost him to view.
For the past three years q panther has
been roaming through the mountain
ranges between the North and South
branches of the Potomac. 1t has been
seen several times above Cumberland and
in the Patetrson's Creek Valley, and on
Saturday night last was seen near Romney.
In the Vance Richards libel suit tried at
C~larksburg the Jury awarded $500 dam,
ages to the plaintiff. Richards complains
that his counsel put in the plea of not
guilty, and that he was prevented under
the plea from from proving the truth OF
his assertions.
Wilbur Bias, who shot aud killed Ed
ward Starkey, in Mason county, n short
time ago, has been arrested at Summers
Creek, Ohio, and is now in Jail at Pt.
Pleasant.
A citizen fishing in New river captured
a 4S pound catfish, which had six large
hooksin its mouth, showing that it had
been fooling with fisherman several times
before.
Olive Hane, the young Miss accidental
ly shot by her brother at Romney, last
Sunday week, is rapidly improving, and
is now believed to be out of danger.
Last Friday Jonn Pounds the alleged
horse thief, and two other prisoners named
Johnson and Dixon, escaped from the Nor,
gantOwn Jail.
SATURDAY afternoon Tobias Preston, a
miner in the employ of the Baxter mine,
near Piedmsnt, was instantly killed by n
fall ofstOnc.
Mrs. A. c. A. Holt, of Chenille, raised
a sunflower II feet high that had on it 81
blossoms.
Two new patients were admitted to the
Weston Asylum last week, and four dis
charges occurred.
The Grand Jury down in Wetzil will
have important business before it.
Circuit Court convenes in Brooke and
Marshall counties this morning.
Jackson county is q very unhealthy
place Tor tramps at present.
Marion county has Just held a fair, the
first for several years.
Wetzel county is to have q fair associa
ton.