Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-25
THE LATEST NEWS.
RECENT STATE
HAPPENINGS.
T5s Record Of Crime. Casually and GeH'ra IL
.s.seacc Compiled From Our
Exchanges.

tg.gslce Compiled IRON VAF
Exchanges.
Philipi is organizing q military com
pany. =
The new Court House at Spencer ls
progressing finely.
The Weston D,mOrH rtioices over the
advent of silk hats.
There are sh-ut one hundred guests a.
the Greenbrisr White.
The State papers are full OF accounts OF
damage by bail storms.
The interior towns generally are making
big efforts for the Fourth.
The new Ma comic hall at Linden, Roane
county, is ebOut completed.
Work on the railroad at Berkeley
Springs Is progressing rapidly
Samuel Lamp, OF s.. Marys, had horse
killed Ivy lightning week ago
Work has bsen resumed at siackwateT
lock No :. OIL the Monongohria.
The Brown Guards, Of Mnrg1ntoWn,
have b-eu recruited up 10 fifty men.
James Scott, OF Beverly, fell dead few
DAYS ago. The cause was heart disease.
The Rosne county levy has been made
80 cents on tn 500 FOR county purposes
Miles Ford, colored, OF Mooref-!d, has
h ,ried two wives IN the past eighteen
IN lGths.
two year old child Of Jacob Groves,
Of PrerOn county, was killed hy COW
few day ago.
There il nothinr definite, as yet about
the suggestions to pipe gas from Mt
Morris to MoIgautown.
A six-year old daughter OF William Ar
bauyh. OF Anderson, had two fingers
bruised on, few days ago.
Russel Collins, of Glade district, Web
sicr county, was struck by falling limb
last Monday and seriously hurt.
John Dean, E.q OF Grafton, who had
his leg badly crushed by falling under .
train, diyd AZ his home on the l9;h.
J.LF T. Randolph, E.q, of West Salem,
at this writing, IL thought to be danger
ously i'll. Heis nearly elghty-slX yesIs c!d.
C. +. Weaver, Of Elh'on, Md n reilwa"
mail clerk, was killed ut Great CEp"n
bridge, on the J.. ~ o. RAILROAD, Tuesday
4 Lew post1fice hs been established al
S'rouGz. Webster county, eight miles east
Of p.lphi, with George W. Morton as post
master.
Ont at Grafton they are talking of a
strawberry. found on Mrs Rachel keci"r's
farm, measuring five inches in cream
ference.
A three year old child Of j. NJ. Fry, Of
Huntington, irll from q second story WIN
dow a tew days ago, sustaining very serious
injuries.
Can't. W. Z. O'Brien, Of Roano county,
is preparing uvid, nee TO secure his share
Of the Chas. Rogers estate, which IL over
$l2S,O O0
Peter Davis Pugh, an old and we'll
known citizen OF Hancock county, died
last Friday night Of paralysis, AT an adj
vanccd aye lie WAS feet i inches tall
Some boards A. inches wide were sent
out from mil at Elizabeth, Writ county,
short time ago. A sample shou,d be
sent in "a the Permanent Exhibition, here.
The Kelley boys, who committed the
Rush outrage near Cersio, Wayne county
got ten years IN the prri;entary. Mc'C-
dith Workman, TOR completely IN the affair,
got five years.
GA last Monday morning q woman
named Ara Peterson, Of Pitt-huGg, who
has hseu visiting Mary Brwlmr-. colorrd,
was luuad dead in her btd at the letter 5
Ie ,iG.nce IN Martiu-burg
MaItinshurg has been prey t. Thieves
recently, end a large body ol police has
been rmpuyri patrolllng the street,, hut
tie robbers have escaped detection. We
ho,c ths MnTtinhurgar5 will he captured
Tie Fourth Annual Free Exhibition Of
agricultural products, live stock AMI MS
cmncry will be held at Norgln's Grove,
nrar Shrphcrd-town, Jefferson county, W.
Va, on september TN, TIN and %th-
Thur.dly, fnd y aud Saturday.
The sri' Of Edward s Leayitt, an AT
torury Of Cincinnati, h,gun year ago
q. aims; Hanlon Bros Il Co, firm pun
| m-hlug paper in Blrur~vilir, ., called
the RarrSyIllc E,yUjhaa. after three
| DAYS ulri, resulted IN verdict IN favor OF
tue plauun.
Tn, seventh annual T. * O Employees
| Excursion tu Island Park will take place
from Cnarlrstown June 2p;h, lN"~. Rev.
A. c DrNun, d. -, OF Baltimore, will
deliver the address Several other promin-
ent speakers will be present and also de-
! liver ADDRESSES.
Nearly 300 men are now employed by
the Pulp Company on the Potomac works,
! Harpsr'~ Ferry The dam hetwecH tnc
Amory Yard and the island is completed,
and worEm,n are drilling tie Stone IN the
river bed preparatory 10 deepening tho
channel with dynamite,
I.iua, the giN.year-old daughter Of
Stewart Wamsley, of Mingo, Randolph
cauntv, was lost in the woods from
o'clock Thursday until o'clock Friday
evening. The child attempted 10 20 HON,
from the cnrriieli aud became loStln the
Wood 1t YVES found about two miles
from home.
At Charleston, last Monday, ChIlart
Buck, aged fourteen, and William Me
Vcv. aged twenty, went ont to shoot birds
! 4 &--saii5re revolver in the hands OF Me
Vev wa. Accidentally discharged, the bal
passing through young Bucks thigh ant
Injecting very painful and peIha2
dangerous wound
! GA Thursday Morning, as ". T. L
Wsnner, one of the b X o. hrakrmen a
Keyscr, was watching some MborerS en
gagged IN eXcavltiug in bank little be
low the stone house, the bank clytd il
upon him, huryiug him almost com
uleiely. lie was able to shake his hea,
, loose from the earth so that he was 70
? smothered, and was INN, lately dug ont
| 7st friday night week, Mr.. Wood
Jacob. OF ursenhirr county, while camp
iDg out in the mountain at a job Of work
fell in his campfire ami WA burned I
death. Il seems that he had been sujS.c
20 occasional tits, and 1t is thought in on
of these paroxysms he had fallen in til
tire. He was found the mex day by hi
friends.
. While Basil Ward, OF &sverl., wa
, Standing in his gard SATURDAY last, h. hs
hrs attention attracted byA rock abou, II
sizs of a silver dollar falling near bin.
i was powder cuiored and was cvidenti
X thrown into the cir by a blast. 1t is nc
known that there il any blasting bein