Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-13
READABLESUMMARY
OF THE STATE NEWS OF THE PAST SIX
DAYS,
COMPLIED from the Columns Of Our Interior Ex-
changes-lntsresing Events Of
all Kinds.

On Friday morning, August 9th, q
brilliant meteor or aerolite made its APP
pearance in the heavens, and was observed
by Mr.. Joseph McNemar and others who
arose early on that morning, near Lab
Evansville, Grant county. Mr.. McNemar
went out to his barn, about daylight, on
the morning mentioned, when all of a sud-
den a light flashed in his face from the
roof of the barn, resembling n lightning
fash, which almost blinded him for an in
slant. He noticed that the sky was clear,
and upon turning around witnessed q large
ball of fire, darting toward the earth, go
ing in and easterly direction, emitting
sparks, and as it passed beyond the noun.
tain he heard the report of an explosion.
Mrs. McNemar saw the light of the meteor,
as it was reflected from the roof of the
barn into her ROOM. 1t was a strange phe,
nomenon, the like of which was never be,
fore witnessed by the people ofthe locality.
For some time past Mr.. Martin CrcsaI
has been boring on his property near Old
town, Hampshire county. for oil and
natural gas. Many shafts had been sunk
en-, hut with little or no success, until re,
Gently, when, after reaching a depth OF
one hundred and thirty-f0ur feet, he drill
ed through Il vein OF coal six feet i'll depth,
Somebody cut the rope TO which was ut,
tached the drill, which weighed seventeen
hundred pounds, letting it drop to the
bottom of the shaft, where it stuck fast.
In the endeavor TO dislodge it Il stream OF
sulphur water was discovered, which
gushed forth in Il stream as thick rs 4
mans wrist, from the top OF which the oil
can be skinned with a spoon. With
these indications TO encourage him, Mr..
Cresap thinks that it only requires that the
well be sunk Il little deeper in order to
come to the pure article.
The Gilkerson correspondent of the
Wayne Aduocafc says: I'VE had Il little
war here the other day, which resulted in
the spilling of several pints of blood. Mr..
Commains, son and wife, all armed with
clubs and rocks, advanced on Mr.. Adkins,
and meeting him in the road, Father
Commians struck him in the head with a
rock, knocking him down and his son
threw and struck him again. He raised
up and threw and hit one Of them, and
knocked him down, and turning he
knocked the other down. The wife of COM
mians then threw a club and hit Adkins
in the face. They were finally parted,
each one being hurt very bad, Mr.. Adkins
so seriously that he was compelled to take
to his bed"
4 sad accident occurred on Armstrong
creek, Fayettc county, last Saturday by
which Floyd Tucker, Il deaf and dumb
man, lost his life. Our first report stated
that he was killed by 4 truck car, but from
a more authentic SOurce we learn alog was
rolled from the hill, which struck him,
breaking both legs and crushing the life
out of the unfortunate man. He was mar
ried, but for some years had not lived with
his wife, she having instituted proceedings
for a divorce on the grounds of nOn-sup-
port. Tucker was raised on kelley'S
creek, in kanawha county.
Last Sunday morningas the fast line was
going down the grade on to the bridge west
of Clarksburg, one of the drivers broke.
The fireman jumped but the engineer stuck
to his engine. He dare not reverse until
after passing the bridge, but fortunately
passed over safely on three wheels. The
train was a long one, filled entirely full of
passengers. 1t is almost Il miracle how the
train escaped going into the river, seventy
or eighty feet below.
4 short time ago Mr.. William Law
horne, an old citizen Of Monroe county, re-
siding near Gap Mills, had occasion TO rise
from his bed in the middle of the night,
and Just as his feet touched the floor he was
bitten three times by two copper-hcad
snakes. Notwithstanding the application
of the usual remedies, the old man was for
a time in a very critical state from the cf-
tectS of the poison, but he is now rccover-
ing.
A boy by the name OF Charles Stewart,
met with Il fatal accident on Thursday
morning, at the 4. q o. Depot, 1T Mar
%tinSburg, He was thrown from a freight
tain by a sudden jar, and falling under
the wheels had his leg crushed, rendering
amputatiOn necessary, from which he died
in a few hours, in the county Jail, the
people he was living with refusing to take
him in attcrthc accident.
The bOilermakcrs at the G.. x q. shops nj
Huntington made Il holy kick against the
foreman in that department, last week, de
handing that he be removed. Master
Mechanic Smith refused to comply with
their demand, and fourteen Of them went
out. Mr.. Smith says they will not he taken
back. Several bOilermakcrs from Richmond
were brought, but after comforting with the
strikers refused Ia 90 to work.
Master Albert Sandy, son of Mr.. John
Of West Grafton, while playing on
a car, last Monday, had the misfortune of
being thrown to the ground by the sudden
ofthc car by the regulating ell
CINE. He fortunately fell Oh the outside
the track and escaped being killed, hut
was terribly cut about the head and face
by the rocks.
The cX~-cOntedemtc reunion at Thorn
Pcndleton county, was attended
hy $500 people. A permanent society
was organized with a view of repeating the
reunion yearly. Lieut.. Sol. Cunningham
was elected President, Lieut.. Chas. Bluett
Secretary, and Capt. J. Ed. P%cnnybacker
Corresponding Secretary.
The Triennial Conclave of the Grand
of Knights Templar will be
held in st. Louis, Mo-, beginning on the
inst. Headquarters of the Grand
of West Virginia will he at
1896 Olive street, where all Knights
who may attend are requested to report.
A little son of Mr.. Harvey Adams. of
GAINESVILLE, Marion county, was struck on
the back Of the head with n stone by 4
playmate, on Wednesday, and badly hurt.
1t was thought for a time that his skull
was fractured, but his injuries are no worse
than a bad scalp wound.
Otis Davis, a brakeman on the third d.
vision of the Il. & o., fell from his train
and was killed last Sunday morning, near
Swanton. The remains were taken to
and buried Monday morning.
An old citizen of Gallipolis returns
thanks through the journal for a boquet
sent to him ION the anniversary of his
ninetieth birthday" This makes him one
hundred and eighty years old.
A Union Sunday School picnic will be
held at Mt. Pleasant Church, Monroe coun-
ty, on Tuesday, Sept. 2lst. The principal
in view is 10 organize a Sunday