Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-30
FACT AND FANCY
AS VIZ FIND IT IN THE COLUMNS OF THE
COUNTRY PRESS.
The Lassst and Most Interesting News Of he interior
Counties Collected and Condensed for
Hurried Readers.


The Salvation Army has just struck
Hinton.
The Ensign Band, ut Huntington, has
been r~eorganized.
There is talk Of q spoke and hub factory
being started at Berkeley Springs.
The wooleD mill at GAINESVILLE, Mineral
county, will soon be in operation.
n. N. Ship Pinafore" was recently
sung at PIT. Pleasant by home talent.
The Wilson Guards at Spencer, have
been measured for their new uniforms.
Seven new Postofices have been estab-
lished in Roane county in the last two
years.
Three-6fths Of all the bromine made in
this country is produced by the Chemical
Co, Of Clinton, this State.
The Montana Coal and Coke Company
will, it is reported, build one hundred
more coke ovens at Fsirmont.
A club of one hundred Lewis county
people purchased one hundred tickets in
the Louisisna lottery, and got-left.
Charles Kelly, a prisoner in the Wayne
county Jail, attempted to escs pc q few days
ago, and was shot throughthe hand.
A bald eagle measuring six feet four
inches from tip TO tip of wings was shot
last week By Z.ph Bane, Jr., of Charles
ton.
The invoice for the arms and acquire
ments for the newly organized military
companies has been received by the Gov.
ernor.
The residence Of VIM. Morris, six miles
south Of Richie @. H., was destroyed by
fire on the 2lst inst, together with its con-
tents.
OF the pensioners of the war of 1912,
there are fifteen living in Harrison county,
eight in Upshur county, and ak in Lewis
county.
The people Of Cairo, Richie county,
will soon have a bridge across the river ct
that place. 1t has been badly needed for a
long time.
The cement mills at Shepherdstown are
in operation and have a busy season before
them to supply the demands from WASH
ington City.
JEFF Clsgg was drowned at Poplar Fork
of Big Hurricane last Friday, while rafting
ties. 1t was supposed he took the crsmp
He leaves q wife and three children.
John II. Miller, a venerable and much
respected citizen Of Preston county. died
at the home of his son-in-law, near King.
wood, Wednesday evening, aged about 70
years.
Mrs. DR.. GOldesborough and daughter,
Miss Katie, have Just finished q drive
from Frederick county, Md, to Berry,
G%erardstown, MartiDsburg and sheppards.
town.
General Alfred Beckley, of Raleigh
county, is seriously i'll, and his recovery is
age, and is the oldest living graduate Of
West Point.
There is one hundred and seventy. five
thousand feet of lumber at the mouth of
Middle Island creek, Peasants county,
waiting for barges to be shipped in to
Pittsburg.
At PIT Pleasant a little daughter Of John
Sheline, during the temporary absence of
its mother, caught her clothes on fire, Mon
day, and was go badly burned that she died
in q few hours.
Philip Duffy, formerly one OF the most
prominent and Influential men of Braxton
county, died at his residence about four
miles south Of the county seat, Saturday
last at noon, in the eighty-fourth year Of
his age.
Charles and Frank Foreman, charged
with beating and cutting Mrs. Mobly, re-
were taken before Justice Briggs, of
Harper's. Ferry, and after q hearing were
to Jail TO await the action Of
the grand jury.
A draft for $1l, $50 has been received by
Prof. Harvey, Treasurer of the University,
that being rs per cent. Of the $l5, 900 sp-
propristed by the Government for the es.
of the Agricultural Expert
ment Station at the University.
There is some talk of paving a square or
two in New Cumberland, Hancock county,
with fire brick paving blocks. Some of the
m~snufac urers have offered to make a lib
sral donation of brick, provided a portion
the expense is paid by subscription.
A family consisting of two men, one
woman and two children have taken up
heir abode in q mammoth hollow syca-
more tree, which stands under the river
bank, on the Vaught farm, about four
niles up the Ksnawha river from Pt.
Pleasant. Il,
Last Saturday was payday at The Caper- .
on mines, and two colored men Of that
place proceeded TO celebrate the event by
illing up on mean whisky. The result
vas a row which ended in one Of them .
Ihooting the other, who may die from the u.
Of his wound.
G. c. Barker, a miner, was run over BY l
he cars at Upper Creek, two miles below I
Joal Valley, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, {
md was instantly killed. He was horri- S
'ly mangled. He leaves q wife and seven =.
hildren. 1t is supposed he was drinking !
nd had gone to sleep on the track. I
A serious difficulty occurred last Satur-
lay afternoon on the Kanawha, about a Z
nile above Henderson, between Liberty {
and James Wamsley, which came q
Iear resulting fatally. During the quar- ]
Ell, Booth struck Wamsley on the head (
a piece of plank, making an ugly a
nd dangerous wound, which may yet re. I
nit in his death. }
About twenty years ago Mr.. Jas. Damn, !
f Berkeley county, vowed that he would !
ot shave until a Democratic President !,
Tss elected. The style of Cleveland's pol !
tics did not suit him, 80 he deferred the :
till last Saturday, when he ex- .
ressed his satisfaction with Mr.. G. and '
'as shorn Of his hirsute adornment. His Z
lends hardly knew him after the opera 9
ion, so great was the change. =
There was an accident on the W. Va g. |
p. railway near Chaffee, on Monday last, q
, q northward bound train, by which b
cars loaded with lumber were b
from the track and three of them, Q
! least, turned bottom up in the bed Of 8
be river. The south bound train on Mon '
sy night was detained until daylight the o
ext morning before getting through to
avis.
Jerry Parsons, who was convicted Of
orss stealing, at the March, 1887, term Of
food county Circuit Court, and sentenced p
three years confinement in the peniten- :,
ary, has been hardened by Governor Will y