The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-30
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Accidents and IReidsnts IN Wsst virginia
and Vicinity.

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and Vicinity,
George Lewis, Colorei, and JSmeB Dill,
white, both In jail Tor theft, have escaped
from the Berkeley county authorities,
Matt King, q citizen OF NsWburg, died
Monday morning from dose Of mOTphia
taken with suicidal intent, The cause Is
unknown.
The striking miners Of the New River
District have decided TO 20 TO work on
July !. This completely ends tue New
River strike,
AT steubenyille, Frank Hanna, colored,
charged with cutting Frank McSherTy
with intent 10 kill, was bound over 10
court in the SUM Of $500,
Wesley Sldebottoni, Of Harrison county,
suffered severely with q Carhuncln on his
neck and committed suicide by drowning
himself, He was about sixty years old.
The Hinton Herald says there is an In
tense popular feeling against the negro
Tom Cox, In jail there for criminal as
sault upon Mrs, Louise Meadows, Of
Raleigh county,
Hon. =. +, White, the newly elected
superintendent Of the Cincinnati schools,
and Professor o, H, Payne, OF Michigan,
are conducting q teachers institute ct
Fairmont this week for State superintend'
emit Morgan,
One night last week some one cut the
twenty odd telephone wires at the Hos
pital for the Insane at Weston, near the
point where they all converge in the filth
story Of the centre building, What the
purpose was in cutting them remains q
mystery,
Holly river in Webster county got on
high few days since there was In fact Q
regular water spout and great damage
mill and two or three bridges were
washed away. Several persons had mar
row escapes from drowning,
Judge Ralph King, an old and respect
ed citizen Of Clay county, while rafting
logs in the Elk, was killed by the raft
striking an obstruction and breaking In
two. The logs from behind piled up on
him, breaking bones and crushing hil
body generally. He leaves q family.
A dispatch from Iropton, Ohio, says;
Arden Dunkle and Jessie Hunter, an
eighteen.year.old runaway couple from
Huntington, w. Va, were married at the
NJ. E. parsonage to-day. The young lady
was to have been married In few days to
a sutton picked out for her by her parents,
but love o'ercame duty to parents, and
the fair Jessie fled with the man she
loved.
William Hickle, OF Taylor county, has
not yet been apprehended. He got into
a quarrel with George Gregg while they
were out rowing, and they went ashore 10
fight It out. Hickla got the worst OF It
and cried enough" but after being re-
leased, bit Gregg in the back Of the head,
frac!uring the skull, with piece Of scsnt
ling and Chen ran away. Both arc about
twenty years old. Gregg cannot recover.
Some ancient mounds near ST. George
have been opened aud several skeletons
found. The bodies had been buried In q
sitting position with their faces to tho
East. Several Of the skeletons were well
preserved. They were not much larger or
not much smaller than those Of ordinary
persons, and there was nothing peculiar
about them. No relics Of any kind wera
found. II ls said that IN old furnace was
ulnGuNeIou y low Sohlb akV uuI lhI run
these mounds; and in the mounds them.
selves the trace Of fire is plainly to be
seen.
There lives on Spring Creek, Roaue
county, Thomas Simon, aged o. years,
who was bugler for General Taylor In the
Mexican war. The old man Is blind, but
has clear mind and loves to relate his
knowledge OF the stern old warrior. He
takes great pride in telling how he used to
carry letters from JEFF Davis, later Presi-
dent OF the Confederate States, to Miss
Taylor, daughter OF General Taylor, and
return with the reply. He often drove
Miss Taylor out in buggy 10 meet JET
Davis, who aiterward married her. He
says they were very handsome couple,
but the father OF Miss Taylor was not an
admirer OF Davis and forbid him keeping
company with his daughter. Mr.. Simon
says the young folks were determined to
marry and he aided them all he could,
and the father was mover any the wiser.