Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-15
TWO FEMALES FIGHT,
THEREBY CREATING A SOCIAL SENSATION
THEW NARTINSVILLE.
A Father and Child Killed by a Runaway-Burned
To Death-Oatls Killed-Disd Of
His Wounds.


saws: The town of New Martinsville has
another sensation, which is the all-absorb-
ing topic. Among the citizens Of first
class standing are the families of Travis
and Higgins, who have heretofore been on
a very friendly footing socially. A night
or two since Mrs. Higgins, mother Of Ed
ward Higgins, attacked and beat Miss
Temp Travis on the street, creating a
great sensation. Miss Travis Immediately
brought suit against Mrs. Higgins, charg-
ing her with assault and SANDER. Mrs
Higgins retorted by claiming that Miss
Travis and her son had been too intimate;
that she had caught them in a compro-
missing position, and that she had attacked
her for seducing her son. The affair has
caused the greatest sensation in the vii
lage, owing to the good standing Of all
parties concerned. At last accounts the
parties were trying to effect q compro-
mise.
The Low Moor Iron Works, at Low
Moor, Va, short distance out Of this
State, on the line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway, is one Of the best furnaces
in the country and has capacity to turn
out 140 tons per day. This company is
now putting in new plant that will have,
when completed, the same capacity.
This will make these works the largest in
the country, and perhaps in the world.
The coke used at Low Moor, is manufac-
tured near the furnace and is used while
hot. The coal from which it is made is
taken from the mines of Beury, Cooper &
Co., on New River, in Fayette county,
this State. Right here it may be proper
to add that coke made from New River,
w. Va, coal gives IL per cent better results,
by actual test, than the celebrated Con-
nelsville, Pennsylvania coke.
For several years Amos Bonar has been
known to the revenue officers of West Vir-
ginia as a willy wildcat distiller of the
ardent, doing business mostly in Richie
and Roane counties They have been after
him singly. in pairs and in drOves, but he
has always managed to give them the slip
and conceal himself in the mountain fast
nesses. A few days ago, Deputy Marshal
J. r. Mehen, of Parkersburg, started out
to look for Bonar, and, if possible, gather
him in. He got on his track in Tyler
county, and some distance below Grafton
he found him helping man butcher hogs.
Mehen promptly collared him, brought
him in, and dumped him in the Wood
county Jail to await trial
There is about six and half miles of
track laid on the Grafton and Greenbrier
Railroad. This puts the road something
like mile above the Buckhannon river.
The supply Of rails has been exhausted and
| the company have not been able TO make
arrangements for more until some time in
next week. The road will be extended to
| BelingtOn as soon as the rails can be Sc
cured and then it will stop and that place
will remain the terminus of the road for
years perhaps. The people of Randolph
who voted against the subscription to the
road with the expectation that "it would
be built anyway will find out that they
were mistaken.
Friday four-year-old daughter of Jacob
Cover, of Lamden, twelve miles north of
Pt Pleasant, was playing about the room
in the absence of it's mother, when its
clothes caught fire from the crate, and it
was so severely burned that it
died in the afternoon of
the same day. The mother of the I'M
fortunate child was in the yard at the
time of the accident and before she could
reach it and subdue the flames parts of
the child body were burned almost to a
crisp.
X. c. Astcrman, of BuckhannOn, started
with his wife and child in wagon for
Philippi a few days ago. On the way the
road runs by a high cliff. The next morn
ing hunter found at the bottom of the
descent the dead bodies of Mr.. ASterman
and his child. Mrs. fisherman is terribly
hurt, but may recover. She is able TO
talk and says that as they were passing
the dangerous spot the horses became
frightened and backed of.
Crooked Creek bridge, Just above Point
Pleasant, gave way last week, with drove
of twenty or more cattle, precipitating
them to the ground below, a distance of
more than thirty feet. Ten of the finest
were killed, and several crippled so badly
| that they had TO he killed The bridge
has been pronounce in dangerous con-
dition since the flood OF 1SSi, and it is
supposed that the county will be respon-
sible for damages.
Mrs. Anthony Hayes widow living at
Little Georgetown, in Berkeley county,
was accidentally shot q few days ago, by
her young son, who was handling shot
gun in the room. The gun went off and
the contents lodged in Mrs. Hayes knee.
1t was thought that amputatiOn would be
necessary, but the attending physician
concluded to try and save the limb, and at
last accounts she was progressing iavorahly.
u. T. Mckay, of Cottageville, took car
load of cattle to Baltimore couple of
weeks ago, which he sold and received the
purchasers check for $500. Mr.. Mckay
got the check caShed at a Parkersburg bank,
and since then he has received notice that
! it is iof no account, the party giving the
check, having made an assignment.-Rdr-
cnacoOd BugIe.
Last Saturday morning n small house
| in the Berlin addition of Buckhann0n,
owned by Miss Nancy Kidd, and occu-
pied by a family by the name of Gaddin,
was totally consumed by fire, together
with all its contents. The house of
Robert Rexford near by, was saved with
difficulty.
The Presbyterian church building at
New Cumberland having been pronounced
unsafe, the members of the congregation
are making efforts toward the erection of a
new edifice, and having already reac he'd
subscription of $4,000. The new build
ing will cost from Sl2, 600 to SIS, 900.
The residence of Newton Hawkenbery,
of Marion county, caught fire last Satur-
day night while the family were all
asleep. When they awoke the house was
all in flames, and his wife, two sisters and
himself barely escaped with their lives.
President f. NJ. Turner, of the State
University, reports one hundred and fifty
five students in actual attendance, and
seventy-fve cadets, the largest number
ever recorded within the first month in
the history of the University.