Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-06
STATE TOPICS.
THE USUAL SUMMARY OF INTERIOR HAP
PSNlNGS.
The News, as we Find it Chunielsd IN th
Columns Of the County
Papers.

Huntington will start her street railway
with six cars.
Mail carrier Colby was shot at in Jack
son county, Wednesday night.
William Smith, of Grant county, mar
rowly escaped drowning, a few days ago.
They have begun to kill snakes out in
Lewis county. This is pushing the season.
The residence of j. G. Stump, in Grant
county, was burned a week ago Saturday.
There are twenty steamboats, and four
hundred barges in the mouth OF the ka-
nawha.
The Jewish citizens OF Huntington are
accumulating funds wherewith to build a
synagogue.
The residence of K. B. F. Martin, near
Middlebourne, Tyler county, was robbed
a few days ago.
Messrs. Skies & Wright, of Huntington,
have secured a contract for building a large
hotel in Los Angeles, Cal.
John Turner, OF Keyser, was kicked in
the face by q horse, last Thursday, his jaw
being broken in two places.
The Department has ordered the mail
put on the Ohio River Railroad extension,
commencing February Goth.
John Anderson, of Monongalia county,
lost a fine horse a few days ago. The ami
mal fell over a bank and broke its neck.
Capt. Clarence L. Smith, of the Elkins
Guards, has received his commission as
L~ieutenant-C Colonel of the First Regiment.
The item going about the State to the
effect that Henry Merritt, of Huntington,
had been tortured and robbed by masked
men" is untrue.
One of the hues OF the NJ. f Church at
Medley, fell on Tuesday night Of last week,
during services, slightly wounding n or
two memberso OF the congregation.
Five suits are now pending against the
town of Hinton, by citizens who sustained
damages by reason of the arbitrary action
of the town authorities, aud more brewing.
Two Mason county men started TO Pt.
Pleasant with a load Of fodder. On the
way sparks from their pipes fell into the
stuff, and wagon and contents were con
sumed, the horses being saved with diff
Guilty.
Asa b. Flesher, who lived near Smith
vile, Richie county, was kicked in the
stomach by a horse on Wednesday Of last
week, from the effects of which he died ON
Monday.
VIM. p. Michaels, of Mount Savage,
Md was struck by a helper engine while
walking ON the track between Piedmont
and Bloomington, Md, last Thursday
week, and had one arm and one leg broken,
and received q severe cut on the back of his
head.
About thirty colored men, from Old Nir-
GINA, are at work on the line of the Ohio
River Railroad in Huntington. The COM
pany has purchased two and one halt
squares of ground Just south Of the passep-
ger depot In that city.
Mr.. Jesse Rice, living about two miles
from Alaska, Mineral county, met with a
serious accident on Monday Of last week.
A 10y in rolling from the top Of a pile OF
wood, caught his ley, MASKING it very Sc
verely, some OF the bones p%rotruding
through the flesh. Mr.. Rice, who is about
eighty years of age, is doing very well.
People in search Of curiosities in the way
of old currency can end at this office an
old Continental twenty-dollar bill, issued
in 171S, by virtue Of a resolution of Con-
gress passed at Philadelphia, September
&c, ITS. The owner is willing to part
with it for what it may he worth, not as
currency, of course, but as a curiosity. -
Green6rier independent.