The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-11

anu NOlAu1GAA hAN SHAS
stone in the river bed preparatory to
deepening the channel with dynamite.
Chief Engineer FiCkiuger and Civil
Engineer Pettigrew, OF the Ohio River
railroad with picked corps Of surveyors
and chainmen are engaged in finally
locating the route for the feeder from
Spencer, Roane county, to Ravenswood.
This is another move in the line OF devel-
opment for West Virginia.
Woods Jacobs, OF Greenbrier county,
while camping out in the mountains at
a Job OF work fell in his camp fire and
was burned to death. 1t seems he had
been subject to occasional fits and it is
thought in one OF these paroxysms he
had fallen in the fire. He was found
the next day by his friends.
A curious last-shaped rock was found
about two years ago on the farm OF
Thomas Barker, Clay county. 1t was
plowed up. It is complete last in
shape all but the heel, which is slightly
sharp. 1t weighs 3S pounds; is 2l3
inches long; 6 inches across the bal! OF
the foot; % inches in circumference, and
is right foot last.
The Point Pleasant Gd.ette has changed
hands, Mr.. T. L. Davies becoming the
editor, Mr.. Pilchard retiring. The paper
will continue as staunch advocate OF
Republicanism. The Gazette has done
much good for the cause in Mason coun-
ty, and, judging from the first issue
under the new management, Is going to
sustain its record. Mr. Davies is one OF
the Republican nominees for the House
OF Delegates.
Sunday afternoon George W. Chancey,
son OF Ilirman Chancey, on Grass Lick,
was swapping revolver supposed to be
empty, when a load was discharged
striking the young mans mother in the
chest; the ball passing through her right
lung and lodging in the posterior chest
wall, from which it was extracted by DR..
Post. Mrs. Chancey is still living, and
islikely to recover.-Jdckson Herald.
Last Monday, while force Of men
was engaged in hauling the dirt from
the site OF the old grave yard, on Main
street, they exhumed the body OF col:
ored woman, which had been buried
some forty-two years. The body from
the shoulders TO the knees was petriiied
and in a natural shape. The soil IN
which the body had lain was OF a sandy
nature and such discovery was great
surprise.-Fdirmont Index.
The largest saw logs that have been
manufactured into lumber at this place
for several years, were sawed on N
Hoffman's mill one day last week. The
boards measured AZ inches in breadth.
The timber grew on Fuii's fork OF Reedy
creek, in Writ county, and the lumber
cut from the logs was perfect. A sum,
pic should be placed on exhibition al
our State Fair this fall.--Wirt Trdn'criPt
G. Z. Willis, Of Booths Creek, Harri'
son county, authorizes the Clarksburg
Nrws TO say that he will wager one hun,
dred dollars that he has three-year-old
horse that can trOt faster than any othel
West Virginia native born colt OF the
same size. Time and place OF meeting
to arrange as may be mutually agreed
upon race to.be governed by the rules
OF tho National Trottipg Association
Dam OF Willis colt, "Polly Popkins.
Sired by McGrady-McGrady by Ar
nold-Arnold Goldsmith's Abdallah.
A serious accidental shooting occurred
on Elk, Friday, June 90, by which Mrs
Copley received a serious wound in the
face. Her sister was walking in front o
her carrying a 3S-calibre Remington
rife. md by some means 1t fired, tbs
bali entering Mrs. Conley's right cheel
lust below the eye, ranged downward
knocked out five or six teeth and shat
tered the under jaw, came ont and bare
ly marked the shoulder and passed u
the ground.
While W. E. Graves, of Culpepper
Va, was loading car at Bayard, Tucke
county, with timber, which he wa
taking from two piles, one OF the pile
fell upon him, crushing his head ant
causing instant death. The men at worl
in the neighborhood rushed immediatel!
to the spot, and extricated him as soor
Us possible, but life was extinct: Th'
remains were cared for by his fellow
! workmen, among whom ne had man!
friends and no enemies. He was abou
20 pears old, and was yard boss for til
lumber company.
The Cooper's, Mercer county, CORES
pondent OF the Princeton Journal says
, A colored man named VIM. II. Mills bru
tally murdered his wife here Sunday a'
ternoon about o'clock, 1t seems thu
Mills had been drinking, and ordere
} his wife to leave the house. While tn
poor woman was preparing to leave tn
: tnhuman wretch drew o heavy revolve
and shot her in the forehead, scattertn
her brains on the ground. Althoug
several men saw the shooting done the
made no attempt to arrest him. A
soon, however, as the hue and cry 6
mn a posse OF men, headed by w. /
Thomas and ]. +. Foreiines, started !
+ pursuit.. After following him TO Fa'!
i Mills, he managed to clude his punuer
and he is still at large. The body OF II
murdered woman was taken to Pulasl
City for interment. .
A boy by the name Of LeRgett vi
accidentally killed in Lewis county la
week by man named West. It seen
] that West was out huntlngground hog
and was watching the banks OF hit
stream near which his game trequente.
West had secreted himself behind q Il
= tie knoll, and there was only part
the creeks bank in full view. The lit
=. boy, Leggett, happened along, in scare
:. for a COW, and casually stopped to gath,
some ginseng, which he found grown