Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-07
A lIEATY COLUMN
OF THE BEST NEWS 00CrRRING THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

Clark-barr wants a town clock.

Clark-burg wants a town clock.
bio bo,eI l. talked Of at TerrI Alta.
Serious forest fires have visited several
counties.
The young ladies of Ruckhaunan have
organized Walking club.
Bass have begun to bite we'll in the Poto-
mac at ShePherdstnwn.
The new postoilice at Elkhorn, Mellow
ell county, - now open.
Greenhrier White SulpheT Springs Will
soon be open for the summer.
The .hirt,r for the Huntington Water
Gas Company has been Issued.
The arms and equipments for the Gov
errors Guard, at Charleston, have arrived
About forty horses were sod at HraN-
ton c. H. during the recent term OF
Court.
Stray counterfeit dollars, OF the Is
date have made their appearance 1T
Charleston.
Mrs. Malone, OF Cameron, Marshall
county, has been awarded -, 29' back
pension money.
freight train of forty loaded ears ar
rived at Pdrkersburg over the ONO lAVer
road few days ago
The Charleston Branch Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance UaiOn has elected
Mrs. W. J.. Moore President.
Granville Mcdaniel will have a hearing
At Charleston, Wednesday. on the charge
Of ,,,vr1ar3nt, St,nh-n St1UI
Decoration Day will be observed at
Chnrlestown June oh. Hon. ID. Il. Lucas
will read poem on that day.
4 proposition il on foot to erect five
story brick block, liO tttt iron, by lOO .
feet deep, this Summer, in Huntington
Doddridge county has the youngest bar
in the State II has six prachclnG attor-
news and none OF them over 30 years OF
age.
Tn. new Harrison county Court House
will cost ST.. uOD and il said 10 hea better
building than the $50, ooO government edit .
flee
competitive examination fol West .
Point cadetship will take place at Mar. .
shall College on the third Saturday OF thus
month.
The Chesapeake " Oaio has fifteen
wear old telegraph operator at Backbone,
Va. This may account for an accident one
of these days.
A shifting engine ran through freight
train at Echo, in the New River district,
Wednesday night QIite anumher OF coal
cars were wrecked
There was u dangerous incendiary tire
in the woods near lIunterSville, POcahon-
u,s county, lew days ago. Qileta large
area was burned over.
The West Virginia Central and Pittsburs
Railway company have made surveys Tor
"a branch road to extend up Abrdm creek
to the Elk Garden coal property.
While Capt. Geo. W. Ergle, OF Jefferson
county, was blowing last week, he nm
clrthed human skeleton. II was doubled
up in hole - feet long aud Il inches
deep
Huntington lodge Knight OF Pythias
will attend the Cincinnati celebration, 20
ing by Il special pullmm car over the Ches-
apeake and ONO and Kentucky Central
railways.
Proposals for building the water work1,
at Chrksburg, will hes received until May
- by the water works commissioners
John W Hin, Cincinnati uIjo, Is consult
iug engineer.
While JAIME, HIT, aged sevrnteen, WAS
assisting Nathaniel Eoyus, in cl airing a
piece OF lard at Beaver Dam, on Spring
Creek, EDane cnuuty, lac was fatally
crushed by 4 tree falling on him.
\ large vein Of lree-burning anthracite
coal has been discovered near MartinshUrg,
Ecrkcly county. The discovery was made
by -. John Shepherd, whp ha' harn
on the search OF The vein for several years
The &fth, DIST aud lg&.d Oljo, and the
lth aud Oh West Virginia Regiments pro-
pose to hold reunion ut GallIpols some
time next summer, and the tOwn-lolk Rrc
already making Preparations to receive
them.
William l. Morris, OF Richie county,
il certainly having a run OF bad luck Last
year his mule wa5 killed, hlS mill blew Up,
and he was not very we'll himself THIS
season is inaugnatel with the hurning 81
his house.
The Winchester Va. Pre-bytery ad
ipuIned at Charlie town, to meet vt Harp
els Ferry, Mag l., Mt % =. M, 10 hold
a two days session, to oriLn aud install
the Rev. II. G. V. CLmpprli plator OF the
Prcshytcriin Church OF iiaTper's Ferry,
Bartly King, trackwalker from Wilson
burg, Harrison county, west, has been at
that business for twenty gears aud walked
twelve miles day. THIS makes i,.'Nu
miles a year, or - 600 Tor the twenty
wears. Tor enough to have gone over three
times around the world
4 bed Of soft fire clay has boon found on
the lands OF Thomas f.. Watson, near Ooe
N-ka, Mneral county. Where 1t crops
ont 1t shows thickness 0t about nine
feet. II IL said 20 be admirably adapted
TOR paving brick There - also 4 bed OF
pott,r's clay in the sane ncIghhorhood.
Caprron Dean, WHO iI,ca near Green
brier White Sulphur Spring1, attempted To
commit suicide last Saturday, cutting his
throat with knlie. Fortunately the knife
WA too dull tn work well. He IL au III
valid aud the condition OF helpless fam
lIy weighed 10 heavily on his mind that
temporary alteration ~SI The IasTiJ.
Beckett, the detective who worked up
the case CA tn" Misses Harmon, Ol RIVER
side, has been dismissed from the Eureka
Detective Agency for cheating, forgery,
etc. The Agency is now working to get
him in the pnwor OF the law, claiming that
no convicted the negro Jefferson, in Nir.
ginil recently, on psriurcd evidence.
Al organized gang OF burglars il -aid TO
b. operating in Huntington They at
tempted to burn the Matthews block
Wednesday night, starting lrel IN two
plarea, which, fortunately, were discovered
and eKtinguished without much damage
h.jng done DR.. \ > C,rder'4 office was
entered and SEQ were stolen. U.icersare
tracing them up.
Isham Mullins the murderer Of J. Henry
Moore at Summervilr has secured
change of Venue from Nicholas TO kg-
awhu county The change WIS granted on
account Of threats OF lynchiug coupled
with the fact that the Nicholas papers had
published certain threatening resolutions
passed by the psople At the time OF the
murder
Miss Agnes Grimm, Of Hampshire conn