Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-01
THROUGH THE HEAD.
4 FATAL AND MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING AP-
PRAY In MCDOWELL.
Two Men Dpwned-Two Children Burned 70 Daash
Bad Railroad Accident Lady
Fatally Hurt

the head and died in a few hours. The
circumstances, as near as we can learn, are
as follows: W. B. Payne and Albert Payne
left a neighbours house about dark, both
intoxicated to some extent, and in a few
minutes several shots were heard, and
upon going to the spot Albert Payne was
found dying and shot as above stated. W.
P. Payne was arrested for the shooting and
ACQUITTED before three Justices Of the Peace.
He stated that Albert Pavne was shooting,
as he supposed for fun, but it is thought
by some that W. P. Payne shot him acct
dentally. w. P. Payne is Prosecuting At
torney of Mcdowell County, and was a
candidate before the Democratic Conven-
ton of the Seventh District for State SEN
ator.
A correspondent of the Greenbrier In
dependent, writing from Big Clear Creek,
Greenbrier county. under date of the 10Th
instant, says: 1--WE had quite a row on
Mill Creek Mountain. A United States
officer came on the mountain on the 18th
and summoned Joe Zopp, Joe Smith, Claut
Zopp and Marsh ALLEN McClung as a
guard, to take Ben Manning, at the Per-
singer Place, about five miles down the
river. They captured him after a hard
struggle. They fired two shots at him
then he surrendered. They started with
him to Fayetteville Jail" The cores
pendent adds: ''Since writing the above,
the guard in the Ben Manning case have
hreturned. They got him as far as Sewell
Station; there he escaped. There is a re-
ward of two hundred dollars for him for
felony. Manning is a hard case"
Last Wednesday night, about half past
nine, two colored men, Washington Burk
and Peter Hayden, laborers of Strong &
Son, contractors for Lock No. ., or the
Kanawha, were drowned. They under
took to cross the river from the Coal Val
ley side to the lock, in an old abandoned
"jolly boat" they found on the bar oppo-
site the lock. 1t is supposed this boat
sank with them near the middle Of the
river. Cries were heard, but no one
knew what was the matter. The bodies
of both were recovered Thursday morning.
They were both good industrious men and
lived some where in Old Virginia.
Thursday night a freight train on the
C. W. & B., which left Parkersburg about
ten o'clock at night, RAJ over a horse Just
west of Guysville. The engine and two or
three cars went on''all right, but about the
fourth car was thrown from the track,
dragging the balance of the train with it,
and jumping on the bridge which spans
the Hooking river at that point, went
through the bridge, tearing that structure
down, and dumping about n dozen cars in
the river. No person vas hurt, but the
damage to the railroad company will
amount to several thousand dollars.
On Tuesday morning of last week as
Mrs. James Dandy, Of Cameron, was en-
gagged in sweeping off 4 rickety porch in
the rear of her residence, the posts at the
outer edge gave way, causing the floor OF
the porch to sink to an angle of about Al
degrees and thus precipitating the old
lady, barrels, boxes, tubs, maSons tools,
etc, to the ground below, a distance OF
about ten feet. As she was nearer the
edge of the porch than most of the above
mentioned articles, it is probable she was
hit by some of them rs she was uncOn-
sciOus for some time. She may die.
Last Wednesday evening Mr.. Peter Hill,
of Hills Creek, PocahOntas county,
brought to the Greenbrier Independent
Office the head of a ground hog, the teeth
of which were wonderful. The front
teeth-two upper and two lower-werc
more than two inches in length and had
grown into a perfect circle. One of the
upper teeth was over three inches in
length, had grown forward, turned back
ward and upward, penetrated the roof OF
the animals mouth, and protruded
through one Of its n~ostrils.
A little twenty-months old daughter OF
Mr.. p. +. Swisher, Of Mill Brook, Hamp-
shire county, met with q sad and fatal ac-
cident on the 18th instant. While she was
for a moment alone in the room, by some
means her clothing took fire from the
stove. Her little brother heard her cries
and went in the room to find her envelop-
ed in q blaze. He gave the alarm but be-
fore the flames were extinguished she was
so badly burned about the body, arms and
HUG maj ShC uiCu III III -SlA uOulS
thereafter.
The Grcenbrier independent says that last
week a fire broke out in
the mountains in the neighborhood
of Rennicks Valley, in Greenbrier
county, and did much damage to the
farmers in that section. For the past few
days the fires have been burning in this
county until the horizon presents an APP
pearance like Virginia and some of the
other States did during the great rebel
lion.
The work of grading the West Virginia
railroad from the Pennsylvania line
through Preston county to NewbuIg, on
the B. & o., is to be commenced at once.
The road will be forty miles long. The
Company has let a contract for 5000 tons
of steel rails with the Pennsylvania steel
works, at Harrisburg.
On last Thursday, in Slab Fork District,
Raleigh county, Dollie, little daughter,
about 7 years old, of George Bowlings,
caught her dress on fire and was burned
so badly that she died in about three
hours afterwards. The father and mother
were neither present when the accident
occurred.
The tannery of Fayerweather & Laden,
at Davis, is rapidly approaching compile
ton. This will be by far the largest tan
merry in the State, there being but one
larger in the United States, and will
furnish employment to five hundred
men.
The Ohio River Railroad Company Is
laying about 100 tons Of rails per day in
Jackson county. Work may have TO be
suspended shortly until a rise in the river
enables the contractors to get more rails
from Pittsburg.
A young boy, while putting pins on the
track at Clifton, some days ago, was run
over by an engine and his right hand cut
off Just above the wrist.
The distressing drouth which has pre-
vailed in Greenbrier county for a long
time has been ended by a copious shower
of rain.
Edray, Pocabontas county, has an cpl
demie of diphtheria on hand.
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