Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-27
STATE TOPICS.
THB USUAL SUMMARY OF INTERIOR HAP
PENINGS.
The News, as we Find it ChrOnielsd in the
Columns Of the County
e Papers.

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They have organized a base ball club at
MaItinsburg.
They have O School Board scandal down
at Charleston.
1t is understood that the Henry G. Davis
Railroad will certainly be built to Buchan-
non in the near future.
Mr.. Barna Wells, a we'll known citizen
of Tyler county, died at his home near
Sistersville on Tuesday.
James Patten, an sged and well-known
citizen of Brooke county, died at his home
on Short Creek q few days ago.
Charles Parrot was badly cut in the
arm, at Clifton Forge, o few days ago,
while scufling with a young man.
Liberal subscriptions to the Wellsburg
Test Oil and Gas Well continues. The
well Is row nearly $500 feet deep.
Alex. Miller had a narrow escape from
losing his left hand in q circular saw, at
Knobb's mill, Sistersville, q few nays ago.
The Martinsburg Independent says the
Grand Army Post at that place has arrang-
ed for a lecture there by Mrs. Belva Lock.
wood.
f. Rookie, Esq an Old merchant OF
Maiden, never was on a railroad train, and
has not been in Charleston for twenty-five
years.
Hamilton Collins, who has been confined
in the Randolph county Jail under indict
ment for felony, broke out Wednesday
night.
Mr.. George Dyche's dwelling house and
contents at Magnolia, Morgan county,
we're destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
There wa no insurance.
Some Of the advocates Of a Town Hail
at Morgautown want to put $4,000 in tie
building. Other friends Of the enterprise
claim 81, 900 is sufficient.
Pig iron can be made in Barbour county,
so says Pref. Cooke, Of Indiana, for only
S.. so per ton. Cheaper than anywhere
else in The United States.
Fifty more new cars have Just been add
ed to the Rolling Stock of the West Vir-
sinia Central Railroad, making sn add
ton OF $50 cars within the last sixty days.
NJ. l. Howe, an extensive lumber deal
er, doing business at Rowlesburg and re-
siding at Mountain Lake Park, WAS in
stantly killed on the b. d .. Railroad at
Eighty Cat on Wednesday night last.
A new Board of Pension Examiner, has
been established and organized at Sisters
vile. Dr.. j. l.. Gillespie is President of
the Board and DE-. West Secretary. The
third Examiner has rot yet been named.
Belle Hutchinson, d dusky maiden Of
Eagle, Kanawha county, was presented
with a fine ~.papoose a few days ago, and
she being a single maiden, tied a string
around its neck and ~strangled it to death
Everett McClellard, of Canonsburg, Pa =,
has challenged Curran Nelson, cf Wells
burg, TO skate three 10 five miles for o
purse Of 500, the race 10 take place in the
largest rink that can be found, and the
time to be set by the contestants.
It is probable that the suit of the Hels-
legs ys. the Gas Company. growing ont of
the explosion q couple of years ago, will
come up al the next session Of Brooke
Circuit Court. Otherwise, the docket is
said not to be of very much public inter
eat.
The largest cash purchase of real estate
that has been made ia Writ county for
somo time was made a few days ago by
George II. Textor, Of Baltimore, who pur-
chased / 453 acres OF land il Clay district
from Fleming Bros; consideration, $lO,-
O00.
Mrs. Eliza Maley, probably the oldest
person in Richie county, died at the home
Of her son, Thomas Maley, near town, on
last Thursday. She was in the 9ith year
of her age. Her father, Alex Shelton,
came TO that part Of the country in 1910.
James maley, her husband, died nearly
forty years ago, aud she never married
again.