Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-10
HEAVY FAILURE.
COL. BL1HU HUTTON, OF RANDOLPH. MAKES
AN ASSIGNMENT.
Hi. Liabilities Placed at S25,0C0-Caualtes and
Grimes Of the Past Wssk-Gsnsral
State Intelligence.

The Tucker County Democrat is author
ity for the statement that Col. Elihu Hut
ton, of Randolph, has bsen forced by his
financial troubles TO make an assignment
for the benefit Of bisereditors.
The assignees are W. S. Dewig & Sop,
and the amount of Col. Hutton's lisbill-
ties are placed at SOS, 600.
This news will evoke general sympathy
throughout the State. Col. Hutton Is
known far and wide as an energetic n
valuable citizen, and his misfortune Is to
be sincerely regretted. The details OF the
business embarrassment which has over
taken him r not known at this writing.
STILL A MYSTERY.
The mail carrier between this city n
Elizabeth who disappeared so mysstriously
last Monday has not been heard from
since. No one appears to Rave seen him
after he lett his boarding house on lower
Market st,est, when he said he was going
10 the post Office for the mail, which he
said he would take on horseback as the
roads were too bad for q team. No reai on
is assigned for his MISUNDERSTANDING
Seminal.
RESULT OF A FIGHT.
A son of Martin Douglass, of the West
Fork, went to mill a couple of weeks ago.
and while there got into a difficulty wilma
bow from Braxton county. In the tight
their clothes became entaDgled around the
shafSof the mill wheel, which makes l4O
revolutions per minute. The Douglass
bow got both thighs broken and the other
boy got his arm broken. At this writing
the Douglass boy is doing as well s5 conld
he expected under the circunstsnces.-Cat
hOun Chronicle.
CAPTURED.
jesse Carpenter, the fiend who raped
the nine-year-Old daughter of Buuyan
Morrison, in Webster county, seve-
raj weeks ago was captured
last week in Calhoun county, and
taken to the Braxton county jail. Excite
element was too high to take him back to
Webster county, as he would most likely
be lynched.
THIS SHOWS WHAT WAS WRONG.
The Greenbrisr Independent says a letter
received by its editor from Mercer county
CONVEYS the information that the grand
iury of Mercer county has already brought
in 700 indictments for illegal voting. m
editor further says that from another
source he has information that the prose-
cutting attorney of the county was himself
indicted on two counts.
ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING.
E. L. Merrifeld, of Pennsboro, was &C.
riously shot in the right hand while out
hunting one day last week. The cause
was gross negligence on the part of his
companion and will likely cost Mr.. MeTri'
field his hand.
KILLED IN MCDOWELL.
The Mcdowell Progress says Taylor
Addison YVES killed by a locomotive at
Bluefeld, Mcdowell county, q fsw days
ago. He stepped on the track directly in
front of q backing engine, ard was hOril'
bly, mapgled.
DEATH FROM NoSE-BLREDING.
About two weeks ago. James Wilea, Of
Tucker county, was seizsd with hemor'
rhsge of the nose, and despite all medical
care, it continued until death was caused,
last Sunday, the I'd inst. The cause Of
death is rather unusual.
FATALLY CUT.
On the night of the lst inst, George
Roach became involved in a drunken quar-
rel at Powellton, Fsyette county, and wai
fatally stabbed by some one az yet un
known.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Mary Christie, aged niue years, Wa
burned to death at her home Eelr Charles
ton, on the lst inst. Her clothes caught
fire from an opan crate.