Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-20
THROUGH THE STATE.
Items of Interest Cleaned from Our State
Exchanges.

1t is said they now intend to proceed at
once to make developments in Mason
county which will soon settle the mooted
questions as to whether or not West Vr-
ginia has paying tin-bearing ore. This
has been denied and REDEEMED by many
and stoutly asserted and maintained by
the projectors of the enterprise. In de-
tense of their claims the gentlemen of the
company have made public for the first
time the following evidence. Chas. Deck,
an employee of the company makes oath
before a notary public that he reduced
thirteen pounds of ore taken from the
mines there, and secured eighteen ounces
of pure tin therefrom.
On Tuesday evening the body Of a young
man was found on the upper deck OF a
cattle train at Martinsburg. He was In
an insensible condition and had a pistol
wound in the top of his head. He was
taken into the hotel at that place and the
doctor prObed some three inches for the
ball without finding it. Upon the mans
person was found a letter which fixed his
identity as Harry Swergert, OF Baltimore
He wore q Knight of Labor badge. The
Knights there took the body in charge,
but it is evident he will not live long. No
weapon was found on his person.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, is said to be
an old West Virginia boy, having been
born and raised on Middle Island Creek,
TYLER county. He left home when q small
boy, because ofthe harsh treatment OF MS
stepmother, and west to expand with the
country. No wonder he talks vigorously
and independently to the Mexican GreaserS
when they insult the State through one OF
it's citizens. Any other West Virginlan
would do the same. Hurrah for Governor
Ireland!-Er.
A Beaver Run correspondent to the
Keyser Echo, says: 1t may be of lntereS,
TO your readers TO remind them of the
fact that Daniel Boone, the most adven'
furious pioneer of civilization, and the
heroic chieftain of Kentucky, was u native
of Virginia, and that he travelled over the
Beaver Run hills nintye-two years ago
TAYLOR Arnold recently found \ tortoise
on his farm, bearing Daniel BOOne's name,
dated 1871.
A short time ago Mr.. William Law
horne, an old citizen of Monroe county,
residing near Gap Mills, had occasion tc
rise from his bed in the middle OF the
night, and Just as his feet touched the Hoo
he was bitten three times by W copper
head snakes. Notwithstanding the appll'
cation of the usual remedies, the old mar
was, at last reports, in 4 very critical state
from the effects of the poison.
The Huttonsville girls are certainly un'
surpassed in some respects. when
mother earth was rocked by internal con-
vulsions on the 31St ult., a young lady
of that vicinity was aroused from the en-
brace of Morpheus, she seized a hoe and
hit the lamp and there is no telling what
she would have done if the occasion had
demanded it.-RdRdOlph Enterprise.
The Grand Jury that was in session at
st. George, Tucker county, this State,
last week, found an indictment of murder
in the first degree against Justice T. Is.
Joseph, who shot and killed Harry Robin
son at Davis in June last.
Montague Frazier, Winfield, Putnam
county, left home Monday evening with
$500 to pay off his threShinG hands, and
was waylaid and shot by robbers, whC
failed to get his money. His body was
found Wednesday night by his wife.
Next Wednesday the colored folks OF
Clarksburg, BuckhannOn and Weston vii
celebrate emancipation day at the IAN
grounds OF the latter place.
The Beverly, Randolph county Enter
prise is fighting hard for 4 railroad.