Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-09
THE STATE AT LARGE.
THg RESULTS OF OUR WEEKLY CLEANING
OF THE COUNTRY PRESS.
The Cream Of tie News as Ii Come
From The Bills aii Valleys Of
the Interior Counties.

They are surveying for the street rail
way at Parkersburg.
The Grand Lodge K. o. H., meets .
Morgantown tomorrow, the 10th.
The prisoners in the Wayne county jai
we're caught manufacturing false keys,
few days ago.
The Grand Commandery K. T., viii
meet In Huntington on May 9th, and tn
State Medical Society meets on the 10Th o
May in the same city.
Up to date about 4 500 acres Of coal LIANT
has been leased by the agents Of TIE corn
pany who propose building the railroad
from Rowlesburg TO F~airchance.
There were something like 125 lockage'
of timber run ont of Hughes river on tn
late rise; also about 10, 600 railroad ties
They were sold 81 Greenville for % cent
per tie.
The Knights of Labor, Of Piedmont
have leased Reh's Park for the summer
season Of 1888, and propose to make 1t NJ
attractive place of amusement for the pub
Lie in general.
George Kettle, of Randolph county, re
Gently killed an eagle on the Black Forl
of Cheat river. It's wings from tip 10 tiI
measured 8 feet, and it carried q lamb,
half grown, $50 yards.
Lieut Col. W. p. Craighill, of the United
States engineer corps, was in Charleston
the past week, il consultation with A. NJ.
Scott, the resident engineer Of the Great
Kanawha improvement.
The Governor is asked to pardon Thomas
Graham, convicted in jackson county Of
rape, and sentenced to ten years in ths
penetentiary. Late developments prove
almost co~nclusively that the mau was il
nocent.
VIM. Heater, q young man residing
three miles below BraxtOn @. H., while
chopping trees with two of his cousins,
had an arm broken by a falling tree.
Other injuries were sustained, but none Of
q serious character.
Ellis johnson, Of Pennsylvania, who has
been operating u numbering camp at Alpi-
M, Randolph county, for some time, left
for parts unknown a few days ago, and
leaves numerous creditors to mourn their
loss TO the tune of about 1850.
Overton Caperton, a we'll known citizen
of Summers county, fell q distance of ii-
teen feet into n culvert between the depot
and upper Hinton, on the night Of March
"a. His thigh was broken and his skull
fractured. Hedied on the following night
at IL O'Clock.
Chas. Werninger, engineer ut Hoffmau's
mill, at Elizabeth, met with n painful,
not serious accident at the mill lat
Monday. Ia some way bis head came in
with a cog wheel which was in
motion, laceraiing his scalp in a frightful
The Hsrper's Ferry Sentinel says that o
fracss occurred one days ego on the
other side OF the Shenandoah river between
the Mobley and Foreman families. George
Washington Foreman struck one Of the
hobleys in the eye with q stone, knocking
senseless and almost destroying his
sight.
A wagon road is to be constructed from
Alepens to the Tucker county line, at or
near the West Virginia Central railroad.
The distance will be fifteen or twenty
This Is one of the richest sections
the county, and its proximity to the
railroad will cause il to he settled by ener-
,etic and progressive farmers.
The Board of Directors of the Grafton
md Greenbrier railroad met in Grafton
week for the purpose of providing for
The payment of the interest due OF the
mortgage bonds Of the road. The Board
S., 500 TO be paid on the interest
appointed q committee TO arrange for
the time extended on the balance
IF $1,000. The whole amount due is
b6, 700.
As a result of the recent rains and the
snow in the mountains, Cheat
liver wN very nigh the first of last week.
An immense amount OF timber was tloated.
About eight millions Of feet went ont Of
,he Winchester camp alone. Later re.
ports say the Winchester logs are damned
md the river has cut a channel around
hem leaving them 10 the dry. 1t is
to be impossible to break the jam.
Fl. II. Potter, Of Kingwood, is in pos
'ession Of a stone pipe half finished. II
made by an Indian on what is now
known as the Reuben Morris farm, in the
line Of David Morgan, the great Indian
While the Indian was making
his pipe, Morgan shot and killed the Iu-
The pipe has Been thrown around
since az a door stop, OF something Of
he kind, but is now in Pottor's store On
exhibition.
DR.. Byrd, Of Tucker county, had rather
/ thrilling adventure 10 Blackfork n few
ago. He WAS crossing il, when q wave
-esultiDg from the opening Of a splash dam
his horse, knocking him down and
the Doctor in the water. IL was
,nly by getting below o large rock. which
broke the current, that kept him from be-
ng wasbed away. After about half an
patient waiting he was rescued, bis
'nly loss being his saddle bags.
There is some disposition In certain
says An exchange, TO contest the
Of the appropriation for the new
lsylum at Spencer. The argument against
t is that the appropriation was made at
he special session of the Legislature, and
hat it was not one Of the snbj ects men,
Toned in the proclamation OF the Cover
,or assembling the Legislature. If this
De the true state of the case, then it ap-
,ears that the appropriation wss contrary
the Constitution Of the State.
As passenger train No. 4 had gotten near
halt way through the Big Bend tunnel, on
he c. 80, last Wednesday, the engineer
discovered q large rock on the track in
Of him. He stoppsd the engine be-
ore the rock wa struck. As soon az he
up q mass Of timbers fell in lust
'ehind the train. travelling man by the
lame Of G. B. Summerville, Of Baltimore,
vas overcome from ~sufIocation, and il was
III the passengers could do TO resuscitate
lim. Fortunately no one was injured.
s. =. Elkina ia getting bis plans ready 10
'uild q great house at Franklin, as soon as
he West Virginia Central rups on there
I is inst over the mountains from Deer
Park. Mr.. Mott, the architect, says there
vas to he q central hall Of enormous size
up through two stories Of the
tructure, the fire place in which will be
omethiDg marvellous in size and copstruc-
ion. "Yes, said Mr.. Elkins, laughingly,
few days ago, 81 intend to erect the