Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-16
HERE AND THERE.
OUR WEEKLY BUDGET OF STATE NEWS
ITEMS.
sysnts Of Interest in the InsriOr Counties, as They
are Chroniclsd in the Ooun-
try Press.


An 10 900 barrel oil tank has been COM
pleted ut Morgantown.
Julius Cesar Holmes has neck scar
made of rattlesnake skin.
The Monroe county wheat crop Is re-
ported az unusually good.
West Union has elected Sam Kidd, OF
Clarksburg, town sergeant.
A parrot, apparently wild, was caught
near Morgantown on the 4th inst.
A Cleveland aud Thurman pole, 200
feet high. il to be erected at Charleston.
Mrs. Surstt, OF Charleston, took an
overdose of laudanum and came near
dying
The West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg Railroad was heavy loser by the re-
cent floods.
N. Y. Magee, of Jackson county, is
digging potatoes at the rata OF 4OO bushels
to the acre.
James Mcintyre, of Calhoun, has gone
to the psnitentiary for one year for unlaw'
ful shooting.
Twu fine horses belonging to Alopzo
Dix, of Nicholas, were killed by lightning
last Saturday.
w. Haney, of Stewartstown, Monon-
gala county, has buggy which has been
in use for 60 years.
Some enemy cut Major Rallies fish pond,
in Greenbrier county, letting out the water
and killing all the fish.
The enemies of Dabney Lee, mayor Of
Clarksburg, have preferred charges against
him before the council.
Some of the young men OF Berkeley
Springs got $3.50 out OF the Louisiana State
Lottery at the last drawing.
w. n. Walton, of Peasants, narrowly
escaped drowning few days ago while
crossing run in buggy.
About one hundred lots have already
been sold in the addition to Buckhannon
known as North Buckhannon.
The old Simms hotel, one of the ante
bellum landmarks at Winfield, was de-
stroyed by fire last Saturday.
There are near three hundred guests at
the GreenbrieI White Sulphur Springs, and
fifty at Red Sulphur Springs.
The replsyipg of the track with steel
rails on the Cumberland Valley Railroad
will be completed within short time.
A little daughter Of G. Campbell, OF Al
derson, Monroe county, came near bleed
ing to death from hsmorhsge Of the nose,
The B. so. Rolling mills at Cumber-
land, Md, have shut down and four hum
dred men are thrown out of employment.
A. J. Arnett, of Arnettsville, Monon-
gala county, and J. w. Perry, of Charity,
Lincoln county, have been appointed no
taries public.
George Goodwin, a young man from
Marietta, attempted suicide at Charleston
by the morphine method, last week. He
was unsuccessful.
James E. walkup, of Falling Spring,
Greenbrier county, had his right hand
nearly torn to pieces by the binding ap-
paratus of a reaper.
The Carlisle Manufacturing Company,
of MartinsbuIg, last week shipped eleven
engines to the West, also an engine and
boiler to Huntingdon.
The four Boise boys, Of Writ county,
seem to be working for a reputation. Their
latest exploit was the beating OF Graves
Smith until he was left in precarious
condition.
James Dundan, of Charleston, had q
narrow escape from being killed by bull
dog, last Sunday. His right arm was
frightfully lacerated in his attempt to
save this throat.
While engaged in moving on the farm
of the Goshorns, in Mason county, few
DAYS ago, William Bush, aged about 30
wears, was thrown from the mower and
had one arm broken and the other cut in
two twice. He received other wounds,
but the doctors have hopes Of saving his
life.
While David Smith, of Upshur county,
was blowing corn, one day last week,
some masked person entered the field and
shot several shots towards Mr.. Smith, who
was blowing, and his children who were
hoeiDg near. The mare took alright and
rau off with the pillow t. the house, followed
by the father and children.
Col. G. II. Beall, of Brooke county, has
shipped fine exhibit of wool to Mel
bourne, Australia, for exhibition at the
Worlds Fair, to which Col. Alex. Camp
bell is Commissioner on the part OF the
United States. Brooke county grows the
finest wool in the world, and Col. Bsali Is
lust the man to demonstrate this.
A new kind of clover has made its ap-
pearauce in the last two or three years from
Charleston up Elk for about twenty-five
miles, along the highways, up the creeks
and in old fields. 1t is regular tretoil
with only three leaves. No one seems to
know where it came from. Some call 1t
Chinese clover and some California.
George w. Watson, of Preston county,
beats the country on timber. A poplar
tree was recently cut on his farm that
made 5, 379 feet of lumber, sixteen feet Of
the tree yielded $40 feet. A white oak
tree was felled that made 2,295 feet Mr..
Watson, however, has trees on his farm
that beat either of these. One Of these
trees still standing measures 80 feet in cir
conference.
The Commissioners of Fayette county
met the Kanawhs County Commissioners
at w. S. Laidley's office in Charleston,
recently, to try to settle the line between
the two counties, but failing to agree,
they, under the provisions OF the Code,
agreed on William p. Hubbard, of this
city, as arbiter, and will appoint another
meeting when they hear from him.
On Saturday night of last week the store
of Benz. Chancellor, at Vienna, was
broken in and robbed. A man named
Perry Williams was arrested for the bur
glarly on Monday and had a preliminary
trial before Squire Prettyman the sameday
who held him for the grand jury. He
was brought here aud placed in Jail on
Monday, and the grand jury indicted him
the next morning. On Tuesday the pris-
oner was brought to court for trial, and
pleaded guilty 10 the charge.
Brown Wooddell, Of Lewis county, met
with very serious accident at the Jack
sonville picnic on the Fourth, from which
he came near bleeding to death. 1t seems
he had a knife in his hand, which he was