Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-27
THROUGH THE STATE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF WEST vIR-
GINA LIFE.
Our Weekly Summary Of the Local Events Of the
Interior Counties, as Cleaned From
Our Exchanges.

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ing about two inches. In the absence OF
her parents she tried to pull the pin out,
but not succeeding in this, she went to her
nearest neighbors to have them remove it,
but they were unsuccessful. Mr.. Murray,
our informant, was sent for and succeeded
with the aid of a pair of bullet molds,
which he used as forceps, in extricating
the hairpin, and Miss McCandel Is now
is now doing well.
On Sunday evening of last week a. a
freight train in charge of Conductor Jim
Taylor and containing several car loads of
cattle, SAYS the Grafton Sentinel, was pull
ing out of the yard, Conductor Taylor no.
ticed a drover who was in charge of some
of the stock standing on top of one
of the cars and in danger of being struck
in passing under the wagon bridge. He
endeavored to attract the mans attention
but failing to do this he started to run over
the cars to warn him of his danger. In
doing so he fell through the man hole of a
cattle car up to his arms; three of his ribs
were broken and he was otherwise bruised
and injured. He remained ut his post
until the train arrived at Keyser, when he
was sent 10 Ills nome.
There is, near Mr.. Snyder Stickley's, on
the South Branch, this county, q hollow
sycamore tree which measures anywhere
between the ground and twelve feet from
its base over fifty feet in circumference.
Two old Confeds, returning from Oldtown
with groceries and family supplies
wrapped up in jugs recently, rode into it
abreast, and after going through with a
very important part of the Mcneil cavalry
drill stopping to take a drink turned
around and rode out. This tree is over a
thousand years old.-Cor. in Hampshire
Reriep.
Mrs. Newton Paterson, of Rush Run,
Lewis county, died Wednesday night Mt
10 o'clock, from injuries sustained by a
fall. About six o'clock in the evening she
was found by her husband unconscious in
q sitting posture at the bottom of the Gel
lar steps, Physicians were summoned i'm
mediately, and OH their arrival found her
skull was fractured and that she was be-
yond human skill. 1t is supposed that
she slipped and fell, striking her head
against the side OF the cellar wall.
A coal train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was boarded at Shepherdstown
Friday, by q man named John Allison,
who desired to 90 west. On the way,
when approaching Green Spring Run, his
hat was blown of, and jumping after it, he
was dashed against q pile of iron which
crushed his leg from the knee to the foot
in such q terrible manner as to necessi-
tate amputation.
VIM. McCreery, Deputy Collector OF
Raleigh Court House, took a posse with
him last Wednesday into n deep gorge in
Slab Fork District, Wyoming county, and
there fonnd Il still in operation, and in
violation of the Revenue laws. 1t being
impractical to move the still and appara-
tus. he ordered its destruction, which was
successfully accomplished with axes taken
along for the purpose.
The iron bridge companies will be una
BILE to furnish a number of bridges for the
Ohio River Road on time according to
contract. A temporary wooden bridge
will be thrown across Big Mill Creek.
Messrs. ALI. and Hiram Douglas, of Jack
son county, have received q contract to
furnish 80, 900 feet of lumber forthwith for
that bridge.
Miss Rosa Byers, of East Grafton, while
in the act of dipping water from the mill
race of her fathers mill, last Monday,
slipped and fell headlong into the water.
She helped herself out without calling for
assistance, filled her bucket with water,
and vent home and finished her work, rs
though she had not had q narrow escape
of her life.
The records at the pension Office show
that Morgan county has thirty-seven pen
~siOners, who receive monthly $267.
Berkeley county has g., who receive
$593. every month. Jefferson county
has 81, and they receive $541.25 each
month. Hampshire county has 26, who
receive 1928. every month.
During n race at the Clarksburg Fair on
Friday. n young son of Harrison Fletcher
attempted to cross the track before one of
the racers, and wa struck by the horse
and seriously injured. A physician was
Immediately called, and he is now in a fair
way to recover.
VIM. III. Lafevre and Calvin r. Tice
had n dispute about n fish-pot in the
Potomac river, below Falling Waters, in
Berkeley county, and the upshot Of the
affair was that Lafever shot Tice, pain
fully wounding him in the arm.
Mr.. Prince Lilly, of Raleigh county
while out squirrel hunting last Saturday,
~accidently shot himself through the hand,
the ball tipping his nose and clipping one
of his eyebrows. This was q very narrow
escape.
A curiosity in the shape of a four-wing
ed duck may be seen floating on the ponG
in the Hospital lawn, ut Weston. The
two other wings stand up straight over
the back, and are about five inches long.
Deputy Sheriff j. d. Shumah, of Wyom
ing county, was recently accidentally sho'
by VIM. Cook. Cook vas carrying a gun
when he tripped and fell, the weapon being
discharged with the result stated.
Three hundred colored citizens of Hardy
county recently held a characteristic all
night jolification by the light of q brick
kiln fire, at Brighton Farm.
There is a paw-paw tree in the court
uOuSe ydIu, III luullclu, Il ubLldin CDuHty
which is known to be sixty years old. The
tree is thirteen inches in diameter.
Emory Ball is said to have found a pail
of bullet moles and several other things al
the depth of eighteen feet while digging a
well on his farm in Calhoun county.
Hog cholera Of a very virulent form con
tinues to prevail in Allen and Sleepy creek
Districts, Morgan county. Some farmer.
have lost all their hogs.
At the recent term of the Randolph
County Court, Jesse Hedrick was find 81
for carrying a gun on Sunday.
A Harrison county farmer harvested fiv,
hundred bushels of peaches this year
and sold them for one dollar per bushel,
10 There were 1000 people at the Clarks-
burg fair last Friday.
Some of the Hardy county farmers art