The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-16
Whesling, August IA, 1886,
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Accidents and Incidents In West Virginia
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IlihOGNlA 41lE S1a1E,
Accidents and Incidents In West Virginia
and Vicinity,
Hon. A. G. Thurman, Of Ohio, Is at
Deer Park.
Mrs. Governor Wilson and daughter are
at the Salt Sulphur Springs.
A X, Of P. lodge has been instituted at
Terra Alta, under very favorable clrCum.
stances.
Peter Mace, OF near Arnoldsburg, Roane
county, Is the father OF sixteen daughters,
twelve Of whom are married,
Two logo, one 270 feet and the other 200
feet long, were recently shipped from
Cassville, Monongalia county.
Congressman Wilson has appointed
Robert Hamilton, OF Huttonsyille, q cadet
to the West Point Military Academy.
The Sanitary Engineer Of Chicago has
been employed by Steubenville to draw
plans OF sewer system for that city.
The name OF the postofice at McCoy's,
opposite New Cumberland, has been
changed 10 Empire to correspondent the
town,
The country press is beginning 10 TEEN
with the announcements oil those aspiring
citizens who want "otlis" Of one kind and
another.
A knight Of Honor lodge has been
formed at Philippi. 1t starts oil with
twenty.seven members, composed OF that
towns leading citizens.
James Cole, while whipping balky
mule ut Simpson, struck himself in the
eye with the whip lash, decorating the ball
and destroying the sight.
Hugh Derning, who has been selling
whisky without license at Cairo, has
been arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal Mehen, oil Parkersburg.
Work has been begun on the abutments
Of bridge on which the new railroad OF
Hon. Henry g. Davis, the Piedmont 4
Cumberland, will Cross tho Potomac.
The Democrats Of Marion county have
nominated George w. Kinsey Of Man.
nington, and N. s. Raymond OF Fairmont,
as candidates Tor tho House OF Delegates.
An unknown man was run over by aB.
& 0. train in Wood county Saturday al.
ternoon and instantly killed. There was
nothing by which he could be identified.
"Uncle" Bob Pine an old man who for
number Of years has been one OF the
harmless inmates at the Weston Asylum,
dropped dead on the streets there few
days since. .,I r.n
Gen. Phil Sheridan and staff passed
through Bsnwood las. On the same
train was body Of troops being sent TO
Texas ready for service against Mexico, II
necessary.
The Acme Glass Works at steubenyille
will blow In both OF Its furnaces and start
up full to-day. Last week pots were fitted
in and fittings put in for the gas from the
Royal Natural Gas Company.
A call has been Issued to the ex.Con.
federates Of Barbour, Upshur and Lewis
counties 10 take part in the reunion Of
ex.Federal soldiers to beheld at Buckhan-
non September Sand 0.
A farmer Of Berkeley county named
Sewers was attacked by o savage boar,
which knocked him down and then gored
him frightfully about the legs, tearing the
muscles away. Sewers is in q very critical
condition.
The delegates To the coming Congress.
ional Convention In the Second district,
chosen by the Mineral county Democrats
on Saturday, are largely for Wilson while
the Senatorial delegation is solid for Hon.
George E. Price.
James Williamson, OF Huntington, q
brakeman on the Chesapeake & Ohio road,
was found dead on top OF car, having
been struck and instantly killed by q
bridge the train passed under and which
he failed TO notice. 10
The DEMOCRATS Of Preston county have
instructed their delegates 10 the Second
District Congressional convention TO be
held OF Keyser this month, to vote solid
for that county's iavorite Democratic son +,
William g. Brown.
Among the guests at the Berkeley
Syringe Hotel Ia General Joseph i.
Johnston, the distinguished Conieder.
ate general, who from his fame,
military bearing and courteous manners
attracts general attention.
William G. Grove, OF Ronceverte, aged
II, employed on . Chesapeake & Ohio
freight train, In getting on q moving train
missed his footing, and, falling under the
wheels, was 90 badly manRled that I'D
right leg had To be amputated.
The Parkernburg Sen tinst says that the
betting men, whose opinion IL never led
agtray by their prejudlces or feelings, are
Offering wagerS Ia any amount In that
Sectioo, that Judge Jackson will be nomi.
mated for Congress over Gibson.
Christopher Robinson, an aged and re.
spectacle citizen Of Pfunlytown, who Lost
his reason some three months ago, hanged
himself In his cell at the Weston asylum
last week. Lie was worth about $4,000
and leaves q widow and family Of four
grown children.
The Democracy OF Grant county did
not turn out very strong Ut its county
convention, for the reason possibly that
there 10 not much Of II 10 turn out, but
those that did meet, instructed their dele.
gates 10 the Congressional Convention 70
vote for Hon. W. L. Wilson from first 10
last.
Daring the war General B. +. Kelley,
the we'll known old veteran, had occasion
10 capture Romney, the county seat Of
Hampshire county, Last week Romney
captured the old General. He went there
Thursday 10 Gee an old friend, and The cili.
gems taking him In charge rendered him a