Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-20
STATE TOPICS.
THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM THE
INTERIOR COUNTIES. ,
The Registers" Weekly Array Of Facts ard
Parciss Cleaned From Its West
Virginia Exchanges.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad vii
build a new depot at Ceredo.
Morgantown people are working hard in
the direction of Town Hall.
Major Rurlew, of Charleston, Lost q ST..
900 blooded colt by death a few days ago.
The Parkersburg Electric Light Com
pany will soon have its plant in operation.
Henry Shearer, of Pocahontas county,
hiss four daughters whose combined weight
is 800 pounds.
William Fry, Of Berkeley county, re-
Gently lost thre fingers Of his right hand
in a cutting box.
James Stribling, of Martinsburg, was
badly hurt q few days ago by being thrown
from q vehicle.
An unknown man was thrown from q
train near Talcott, Summers county, last
Monday, and killed.
There are one hundred and forty cases OF
measles within o radius of eight miles Of
Edroy, Pocahontas county.
The Huntington insurance men have
made a reduction Of from Is to % per cent.
in the local rates Of insurance.
The citizens of Middlebourne, Tyler
county, meet tonight (20th) to elect del.
egates to the State Development Conven-
ton.
The first and only iron safe ever brought
to Mcdowell county was hauled into The
county seat last week. 1t created quite q
sensation.
A. NJ. Humphreys, Of Monroe county,
has brought a slander suit against the
Cincinnati Enquirer, placing his damages
st SO, 600.
Mrs. Bowen Belcher, Of Mcdowell
county, recently elOpsd with q railroad
hand named Dass. She left several chill
dren to the care OF her husband.
The indictment against Clarence Robin
son, Of Gilmer county, for attempting to
steal a hare. was dismissed last week after
the jury in his case bad disagreed.
The work ofgIading the Ohio River Iail,
read from Guyan river to the c. go. depot
at Huntington is heing pushed along rap
idly. At present the Ohio River trains 20
over the G. & o. track to GuyandOtte.
Sol. II. Reel, who was arrested at Point
Pleasant some few weeks aga by Post Office
Inspector Snead. of Cincinnati, and taken
to that city for some violation Of the postal
laws, was tried last week and honOrably
acquitted.
Thomas Geer, a young man living at
Oak Run, on the Ohio river, above Park
ersburg, wa accidentally shot and NOR
tally wounded on Tuesday. A loaded r.
volver fell from his pocket, striking against
o stone, was discharged, the ball lodging
near his heart.
Richard Johnston, a g'grntic negro, liv.
ing near Ensign's, Cabell county, was
found dead in his shanty, Monday morn.
ing. He lived alone, and no one was
known 10 be with him at the time of his
death. He is supposed 10 have died from
injuries received at the elevator explosion
last spring. He was unmarried.
Jerry Hensley, who lives on Whites
creek, Wayne county, shat h.nseli through
the heart last Monday. He took his gun
and went out ID the woods, and shortly
after his body was found, but life was ex-
tinct. II is not known whether il was a
suicide or IN accidental shooting, but is
supposed to be accidental. He was a sim
gle man.
Thursday Me-. Lee Montgomery, a
brakeman on the second division of the
B q o. road, was trying to pour water on
a bot DO. while the train was running
very fast, and fell OFF. He struck on his
feet, but with such force that he was
thrown down al e%mbankment and had bis
face cot and bruised terribly. He was
very fortunate in escaping serious piury,
as a few minutes before the train was pass.
ing through a cut where such q fall would
have been certain de atb.
Third Vice President Smith. of the Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad, W. II. Clements,
manager of the lines east of the Ohio, and
W. w. Peabody. manager Of the lines west
of the OHIO, were In conference with q
committee Of seven locomotive engineers
of the road recently in reference to q mod
flying the agreement under which the
men have been working for a year. II is
stated that the notifications asked for are
OF such q nature that they sFs likely To be
granted by the road. They relate mole TO
time than TO money.
One Of the worst cases Of freeze-out and
utter disgust in the west that has been
lately heard of Is the return of a Monon-
gala dog to his West Virginia home, after
q taste of three months lifs in that roar
ing co9ntry. AmaEiah Shsban left Monon.
gala county last fall and landed in Wash
ington Territory. He took his favorite
house dog, out the blarirg billiards were
too much for old Rover, and 90 he tucked
his tail between his legs and made o bee
line for his old home, strange as it nsy
seem, he arrived here a few weeks ago safe
and sound, and can now be found at Mr..
Shaban's old home-plsce, near Gladesville,
Preston county, none ''the worse Of the
wear? for his three thousand miles journey.
Capt. ALI. w. Burnett has returned to
Charleston from Ohio with John Moore,
wanted in Putnam county for shooting
Alex. Anderson, at Energetic, last Sep.
tember, in a f~actionsl fight being waged
there at that time concerning the possss.
sion Of o saloon and a coal yard. After
the shooting Moore fled TO Ohio, and
afterward returned and assaulted Squire
John A. Snell, about Christmas, at Poca,
after which he again fed. A reward was
offered for his arrest and Capt. Burnett
succeeded in locating him at Buchtel,
Athens county, Ohio. A requisition was
issued by Gov. Wilson and Capt. Burnett,
with the Deputy hheriI Of Athens county,
arrested Moore in the Buchtel coal mines,
Tuesday, and brought him to Winfield and
placed him in Jail 10 await trial.