The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-04
o THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents in WOSt Virginia
and Vicinity.

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A post Of the Salvation Army has de-
clded to locate in Martinsburg for a year.
1t is reported that several employees In
B. 4 o. shopsa al Grafton are to be dis
charged this week.
The Democrats OF Marion county are
%seriously Of running Judge bay
mond for the State Senate.
William Long, 8 prominent farmer Of
Greene county, has been found guilty Of
burning the church known as Asbury
chapel.
Lille, a 22.year old DAUGHTER Of Asa
Mitchell, Of Greene county, Pa, hung her
self with a bride rein. No cause Is as
signed.
Hon. j.. Hetzsl, Of Morgan county, is
to address the sherman lnvtnctbles," OF
Martinsburg, on the political issues oil the
day in the near future.
Forest fires became quite general the
past week in the mountainous and thick
ly wooded portions OF the State, and con-
siderable damage was done,
Jonathan Getz, Of Grant county, SUI
isred q loss Of about $500 last week from
the bursting Of a waterspout on his iarm'
1t was all over in about fifteen minutes,
Sunday night Michael Owen, a miner
In the Winifrede mines, while drunk,
went to sleep with his head so near the
Chesapeake < Ohio railroad that q pass
ing train killed him.
The farmers along the South Branch
have already turned large herds OF cattle
out to grazs until fall. Several car loads
OF fine stock have recently been received
in that locality from Chicago.
Deputy U. s.. Marshal A, +. RAIDER has
lodged in the Charleston jail Thomas De-
Long, OF Mcdowell county, and William
Ripley, OF Greenbrier county, charged
with violating the Internal Revenue laws
A young man named Shore, Of
ShinnstOn, became involved in a quarrel
with a ColOred man named Benson. The
latter picked up a club and hit Shore over
the head, intiCting a very painful and
serious injury,
W. T. Delay, OF Petersburg, found a
very singular egg. 1t WAS four eggs. in
one. After one shell was broken, another
egg, with an imperfect shell, was found,
and inside OF that an egg with perfect
shell, and next one with a soft shell.
Duff Rogers, an Upshur county farmer,
aged 10, while passing along the streets
Of B~uCkhannon, fell dead, Heart disease
was the cause. On the same day Jacob
Critics, another aged citizen OF that coun'
ty, while telling some Of his hunting ex'
perlenceS, fell dead.
At the meeting OF the Presbytery, OF
West Virginia at ParkeIsburg last Friday
and Saturday, Rev. +. j. Stanley, Of Char
lesion, was elected Moderator, and Rev
J. B, Reed, Of Fatrmont, and j. +. Jones,
Of Terra Alta, were elected delegates to the
General Assembly.
Three skeletons were found in a cave
opposite Ceredo 8 few days since, They
were those Of a man, woman and child,
They could not have been long dead, as
their bones had on them shreds Of flesh,
Some think they were murdered. Others
are OF the belief that they froze to death
James Bean, an estimable citizen Of
Grant county, died very suddenly last
week while sitting In q chair, He was 10
years old. Last winter he was severely In.
jured internally by the overturning Of q
sled loaded with fodder. His death is
thought to the result Of the injuries re-
Ceived then.
Over four hundred farmers In Jefferson
county, Ohio, have asked the County
Commissioners that no further expense
be incurred in the erection OF q Chill
dren's Home. Two years ago the people
voted for its erection, but many who
voted for 1t, now ask for It's suspension by
reason Of "hard times"
Five men, who gave their names az
Charles LinthiCum, Harry Shaw, Edward
Bowers, Edward MCDade and Albert Long,
have been arrested at Cumberland charged
with breaking into the Baltimore 4 Ohio
warehouse at Martinsburg, this State,
where the men are saidto live. They stole
a large quantity Of tobacco.
Peter Hickman who, 1t is alleged, fired
the barn Of w. H. Ramsey, OF Doddrldge
county, about one month ago, was arrest
ed last week in Monongalia county, near
the Pennsylvania line, by two officers who
had been following him ever since he
burned the barn. He Is in jail. He was
formerly q resident oil Tyler county and
was considered a terror there.
The Wayne County Adrocate says that
II Is strongly suspected than an organized
party OF horse thieves exists In Logan
county and the eastern part oil Kentucky.
Henry Brewer, Of Wayne county, had a
valuable horse stolen last week. The
thieves were pursued 80 closely that they
were forced 10 abandon tue animal In
Logan county just before crossing into
Kentucky.
About elk months ago Hon. George Q.
sturgiss, Prof. /. q. White and George W.
Johnson, Of Morgantown, purchased 1000
acres OF land on Cheat river for 81, 900. The
tract waB recently sold to Pittsburgh par.
ties for 10000, the three gentlemen retain.
ing a tenth interest in 1t. About l15 acres
Of 1t Is cleared; the balance Is heavily
timbered. 1t has 81 miles river frontage.
John DUR, confined in jail at Morgan.
town, secured a revolver, and when Tailor
Bailey went in to feed the prisoners,
threatened to shoot him unless he was re-.
leased. The Tailor managed 10 get him
into q cell and starved him until he gave
up the weapon. He was searched and a
large knife and some small saws found.
The articles had been passed to him by q
confederate outside.
The capacity Of the st. Lawrence Boom
and Manufacturing Company, at Romeo.
verte, Is 100000 feet per day. Not long
since they cut in twelve days 1926, 900
feet Of white pine lumber, and although
they ship car after car OF lumber each day,
have have stacked III their yards 10000, 900
ieet-Or 100 miles OF inch boards. 1t is
the largest concern Of the kind in the
State.
One night last week some one, evidently
bent on committing murder, fred two
shots into the house Of q family named
Bartlett, living In PoCahontaB county.
One OF The Misses Bartlett was sick In bed.
The first shot entered the house without
injuring any one, but the second shot
passed over the sick girls bed, striking
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