Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-04
THE STATE AT LARGE.
THE RESULTS OF OUR WEEKLY CLEANING
OPTHR COUNTRY PRESS.
The Cream Of the News IS Il Comes
From the Hills and Valleys Of tho
Interior Counties.

Grafton claims to have q. business
boom.
The new Roane county Court House will
be 67x60 feet.
Work on the new Wood county Jail has
been commenced.
Mr.. Gustav Brown has been elected
Mayor of Charlestown.
They are endeavoring to organize Fair
Association at Beverly.
A new 7O0.pound bell has been put in
the Lewis county Court House.
There are NO new developments in the
Morgan murder case, in Tyler county.
Mrs. Gilland, of Writ County, was dan
gerously stung BY bees, few days ago.
Business is lively in the Mcdowell coal
region. Many new companies are bssrs
formed.
Several new saw mills are being erected
on the line of the West Virginia Central
railroad.
Three hundred barrels of bungs were
shipped from an Elizabeth, Writ county,
factory one day last week.
There is some talk of changing the name
of Charlestown to Charles City, to avoid
confusion with the Capital.
Councilman Little, Of Charleston, was
seriously shocked, a few days ago, by the
fall of an electric light pole.
Gent Sprouse, of Elizabeth, Writ county,
Familiarity known as ''Commanche," died
very Suddenly few days ago.
1t is feared the B. & o. shops at Hsr-
per's Ferry will have to he removed to
some other point on the line Of the road.
William Mari, of New Martinsville, had
his jaw broken short time ago by stavs
striking it, through some disarrangement
Of the machinery.
Samuel Lyons, son of W. W. Lyons, Of
Eliz sbetb, shot himself through the left
leg, last Sunday while monkeying with o
% caliber revolver.
A snail ten inches in circumference was
recently discovered on Grassy Creek, Web
ster county. 1t has been sent TO the Gin.
cinnati Exhibition.
A bsrk.chopper named AL. Keener, near
~ cut one Of his feet of with an axe,
while working along the line Of the Davis
road, few days ago.
Thomas Gillispie was lately killed by
some unknown party, near Bradshaw, Nc
Dowell cou nty. He was shot and after.
wards beaten to death with o hoe.
An eight year old daughter Of Charles
Fl. Barnhart, of Dufislds, near Harper's
Ferry, was kicked By colt few days ago,
and her collar bone, arm, thigh and leg
broken.
Mr.. David Oats, OF Sedan, Hampshire
county, has a cat that lately gave birth to
two kittens and two squirrels She seems
to think as much of the latter as she does
Of the former.
The building of the foundation for the
Court House at Fayetteville, is being
pushed by the contractor and it will BE-
but short time until the brick work can
be commenced.
Gates Band, of Cbarlest has become
a part-of the Kanawba Rifle men, and will
hereafter be known as military band.
The band will drill with the Ri1emen, at
the Rink, each evening that there is drill.
John L. Duncan, while attempting to
cross the Little Kanawha river, at Stouts
Mills, in Gilmer county, few days ago,
was drowned and his horse with him.
His home was near Roanoke, Lewis county.
A rock-oak tree cut in Hardy county,
the other day, measured five feet eight
inches across the stump, and was over
ninety-fcur feet in length as it lay extend
ed On the ground. 1t Is thought that two
cords Of bark will be peeled from 1t.
The Parkersburg State Journal has in
jured its reputation for veracity by telling
of live fab being frozen in block on ice,
left there for four days, and then sawed out,
and found, when placed in tub Of water,
to be as lively rs ever.
One hundred and eighty shares of stock
in the Greenbrier Creamery Company
have been disposed at $50 share, making
$1,000. The President of the company Is
now in correspondence with an expert.
enced man to take charge of the creamery.
The company expects to open up next
week.
The body of a man apparently about 90
years Of age, was washed TO shore at
Bainerville, Ohio, Sunday. Fastened to
the body were two -four sacks filled with
sand and stonee, over the right ear was o
pistol wound and on the left temple was q