The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-11
STATE SENSATIONS
GATHERED AND Condensed
Into Readable Form from EVSTy Quarter
BrAGton County Furnishes n Probable
Murder and HOrls ThisfIs Captured
ini,s Wilds = General NSWa Notes.

The total timber loss by the recent cy-
clone in Raleigh county Is estimated at
10000, 900 feet,
Ex-senator Coburn, OF Barbour county,
has purchased land in Kansas and will
move his family there,
Us. Hall, Of st. Mary's, has had his
pension raised 10 S72 per month on aC-
Couut OF total blindness.
Henry Morgan, a MononSaliR county
boy, who left Morgantown several years
ago, is now General in South American
Republic and Commandant Of an army,
Alfred Cstlett, OF Wetzel county, whose
reputation has been somewhat unsayoTy
for some time past, has been jailed, charged
with assaultlng his own daughter in an
indecent manner.
The IPetEel Democrat wants to know why
the State's psnitentiary inmates are not
put at work on the public highways, 1t
thinks that it would be practicable to
work them in that way, and truthiully
saya that the State needs good roads.
The Piedmont and Cumberland Compa-
ny, which is to build between those
psinta an extension OF tho W. Va. q. &
p. road, has advertised for proposals to
construct the track. All masonry must
be done by September 20, and all grading
and bridging by October 20.
An alleged notorious horse thief, named
Robinson, was captured on Buffalo Greek,
Braxton county, last Saturday, by four
men who had pursued him from Barbour
county, and who had been on his trail for
eight or ten days. Robinson was placed
in Jail in default OF bail to answer in
dictment.
The Methodist PrOlestGnt, published at
Baltimore, warns the pastors and people
OF West Virginia against one Rev, John
II. l.. Cooper (ColOred) who is travelling
as q lecturer, claiming to be native
African, He is an unmitigated fraud /;
but he is sharp and his name appears as a
member OF the ColOred NJ, T, Conference,
The warning says people will do well TO
let him severely alone.
AIonzo Davidson, for years well-known
river man, but recently employed as an
Rxle-turner at the Ensign Manufacturing
Company, and living near BroderiCk, o.,
came over 10 Huntington Sunday evening,
lie was seen leaving for home about II
o'clock Sunday night in io.bOat, Not
appearing Monday, search was instituted.
lis boat was found against the break
water at Ceredo, seven miles below, with
the oars and his hat in it. Tuesday morn.
ing his body was found at California
Rocks, opposite the Ensign works. An
inquest was held and verdict Of drown.
ing was rendered.
Two men, named Addison Doddridge
and r. Jackson, citizens Of BraxtOn
county, living on BirGn river, got into an
alteration some time since over horse
trade. Threats were made by both par.
ties, but nothing came Of it, and every
body in the neiGhborhood began to think
that they had wisely dropped the matter,
until last Saturday, when they met on the
highway, What TRANSFERRED is not clearly
known, as there seems to have been no
witnesses but themselves present. Dod-
bridge was found during the afternoon
cut and stabbed in half u dozen places.
His wounds are believed to DO fatal. Jack
son has disappeared and can not DO found.