The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-10
A VERY MEATY BATCH
or sGAgE AND NEAR1Y NEws.
Sensations in Several Counties Of West Viz
EtuiA : Violent Deaths in Different
FOrmS-wOuld-bs AISaaSAuS Fooled.
Red Men AEniR- Other News,

summers county has purchased q pau
per farm for her poor for 5000,
Organizer MUM instituted a mixed as
sembly Of the x, OF L. at New Cumber-
land last Thursday.
It is estimated that three hundred car
loads Of bark will be shipped from Rom
ney by rail this season,
Aman named Cooper, liyingnear Penns-
boro, was found dead near that place.
Heart disease 10 supposed to be the cause,
1t Is reported that over Eve thousand &C
Cessions to the N, L. church in West Vir-
ginta have been made during the past
year.
George DRhiner, q lunatiO confined in
the PendletoR County jail, committed sui
eide by hanging himself, He was 9 quiet
man and leaves q family.
The w. Va, O. & P. road Henry G.
Davis's road) has secured Col, W. =. Por-
ter TO superintend the construction OF its
extension to Cumberland,
Aday or twosince an unknown woman,
about so years old, was run over by q Bal
timore 4 Ohio freight train at Deer Park
and killed. Both legs were cut of,
John Pose was instantly killed in the
Thomas mines, Tucker county, by having
his head caught between q car and the
wall, He was married at Rowlesburg a
few weeks ago.
Richard Oanty, who resides near Pied
mont, while under the influence OF liquor
was struck by q cRbooss in the yard at
Ksyser, and fatally injured. He leaves a
wife and six children,
George Burns, a resident OF Tucker
county, who Is quite deaf, was walking
down a hill in a lumber clearing when he
vas oyertaken by q large rolling log and
instantly killed. He was about 20 years
old.
Rev. Father Duffy, OF the Lewlsburg
Catholic Church, a brother Of State Audi.
tor Duty, was in Charleston last week
securing plans and drawings for a new
church to be built at the White Sulphur
Springs,
The old BlaCkshire homestead at Man
nington, with a fine barn aud a large
warehouse standing near, we're destroyed
by q fire Of inCendiary origin. Loss $1,000;
no insurance. The property was owned
by Frank BlaCkshire,
The West Virginia Freeman, the Prohib.
ocrat organ published at Parkersburg, has
changed Its name to The Freeman, not that
Ii loves West Virginia less, but hopes To be
able to work the ProhiboCrats OF other
States to better advantage.
Mrs. Mary Andrews was almost instant.
ly killed two miles west Of Piedmont. She
was standing on the track when a train
struck her, cutting and managing her in q
horrible manner. She leaves four chill
dren and q husband. SheNw a 3S years
OF age.
A company ia being organized by VIM.
Sharpe, Of Kanawha county, called the
Black Diamond Coal Company, to operate
the coal mines lately worked by the Mac.
larlane Coal Company. The stock Is own.
ed principally by Q. W. Boyd, Of Ripley,
Ohio, and VIM. Sharpe and other practi.
cal coal men.
Ellsworth Riley, aged 80, an employe Of
the Baltimore 4 Ohio, jumped from a rap.
idly moving train as 1t was entering the
bridge at Harper's Ferry, missed his foot.
ing, and was precipitated into the Ohesa.
peake 4 Ohio canal and drowned. He re.
sided in Loudoun county, Va, and was re.
turning from home.
Preparations had been made for a wed.
ding near White Day, Taylor county, the
contracting parties being a young ma
named Carothers and a daughter Of Jacob
Rogers, but when the hour arrived 1t was
discovered that the young mans heart
had failed him and he had skipped. The
match was declared oil.
It has been as~Certained that the person
who attempted to murder the Misses
Bartlett, Of PoCahontas county, by firing
at night through a window Of q room in
which n Of the sisters was lying sick,
being attended by the other, was their
brother Ledford. The sister who was
acting as nurse was wounded In the shout.
der. Ledford has been arrested. There
Is said TO be q good sized sensation behind
that has not yet come out.
At a meeting OF the directors OF the
Chesapeake &0hio Canada Washington It
was determined that the canal must not
be allowed to fall into decay, but must be
thoroughly repaired and put In good Con.
dition Tor navigation. A resolution was
passed authorizing the president to ad.
yertise for the sale Of 100000 Of repair
bonds, for the purpose Of putting the ca
nal In navigable condition. The recent
floods greatly damaged the canal.
There Is now no doubt that the muir.
derer Of Frank Heatwole, who was shot
while acting IS nightwatchman in q tan.
merry near Romney, was q Colored man
named John H. Bowen. He has been
arrested and locked up. In bis pockets
were found rough slugs, such as were used
10 shoot Heatwole, and there Is much
other evidence. 1t Is probable that Bowen
supposed that the regular watChman was
on duty and that he desired to kill him
because Of favors shown him by O certain
woman.
At the October, 1886, term Of court In
Writ county William Qreel had some al.
legged Redmen indicted for taking him
nun hl9 Auubo hhN ulpplub ulut uu6t
before the last term Of court, In March,
whom the cases were to be tried, Creel was
induced 10 leave home by friends OF the
Redmen, 80 that he would not be present
10 testify against them. Money, II is said,
was paid him to do this. Anew days since
he returned, was arrested and put in fall,
where he will remain until the cages are
concluded.
John W. Price, Of Wayne county, aged
about 40, married, q man OF Considerable
means and exemplary conduct, eloped
last week with Mn. Nicholas Wort, aged
about 20, and the mother Of two email
children, She - said to be a very pretty
woman and has always been considered
perfectly proper. Her husband was one
Of Prices tenants. Inquiries %havelreveaIed
the fact that they left together Ia the dl.
rectlon Of Kentucky and are probably
gone 10 stay. Mr.. Wort discovered bis
Wite's unfaithiulness and her intimacy
with Mr.. Price q few days previous 10
their departure, aud charged them with II
on the same day they Left
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