The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-26
THRouea WEB sTATE
Aeoldsnts'And Incidents In West VlFgini
and Vicinity.

Accidents ana lholuehA IN WeAs NNb
nj YlGinliy,
The Moorefsld EsaMiRsr says Z man
named Fundhauser living Ia Hardy coun-
ty, has q cat that gave birth 70 touF good
sized, healthy pups.
At a late term Of court In Pendleton
county Wade Crigler was sentenced 70
one years imprisonment for shooting and
Wounding q young man named Evtck,
The Superintendent Of the Calhoun
county schools Is blind, but the infrmity
does not keep him from being one OF the
best Superintendents in the State, accord
ing to reports.
Col. ]. E, Peck, Superintendent Of the
Penitentiary, at MoundsVille, has been
visiting at his home in Logan county dur
ing the past week, Before returning he
will stop in Charleston and pay the State
officers q visit.
Saturday, Governor Wilson appointed
John h. Holt editor OF the Grafton
Standard, q member Of the Board OF
Regents Of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind In
stitute at Romney, vice Hon. j, l.. Hall,
OF Barbour, resigned.
st. Mary's has been booming along very
nicely for some time past as Q result Of
the big trade done in railroad ties at that
point, About ten cars are loaded daily,
A large majority OF them pass through
here on their way to the Pennsylvania
GOmpany's system.
Aaron Smith, q wellto-do farmer OF
Writ county, attempted to commit suicide
by cutting his throat and repeatedly stab
bing himself with q pen knife. He in
Aicted fourteen different wounds and his
recovery is somewhat doubtful, Family
difficulties is assigned as thscause.
Tho IT. Gay correspondence Of the
Ceredo Advance writes that while the
steamer Jerry Osborn was, going up Tug
creek with q load OF bolsterous and par
TALLY intoxicated lumbermen, a row took
place on board and two men named Nc
Medley and MunCy were seriously cut
]. O.. freshman, Of Clintonville, Green.
brier county, had thirty Of a flock OF sew
enty sheep killed, wounded and scattered
by dogs last week, The same night A. ID.
KinCaid lost five head and Anthony Hen,
sen eight head from the same cause. all
OF this bad work was done by two worth
less ours,
The literary societies OF Washington
Jefferson College have elected the follow
ing performers for the annual contest;
franklin and Washington, debater, 7.
Frank Hill; orator, Arthur H. Ewing;
~essayist, Robert l.. Welsh, Philo and
Union, debater, Ohas, A. Lipplncott; ora
tor, 4. Il. MCLurei esSayist, George A.
Herriott.
The Times, published at Elizabeth. says
a lead mine Of considerable magnitude
and importance has been discovered on
the waters Of Lynn Camp in Writ county.
1t says further; Strange 70 say some OF the
citizens there have known 1t for fifteen
years and kept II secret until recently.
It Is said to be fifteen inches or more in
thickness.
A school house near Blandville, bod.
dridgecounty ,wasrecently destroyed by fire
supposed to have been started by an incen'
diary. The building, valued At 500, was
, not insured. A young man named Gray
.had been teaching a subscription school
in the building and there was trouble over
his occupying the building and repeated
threats have made 10 burn 1t.
The Preston county Journal Is %responsi.
BILE for the following: A mysterious and
fatal disease has made It's appearance In
RoYlesburg within the last few days
which battles the physicians Of Baltimore,
who were te%legraphed q minute descrip-
ton Of the disease. as well as the resident
doctors. The victims are first attacked
with o severe pain In the head and are
Corpses within twelve hours, after which
they become spotted.