Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-23
A MEATY COLUMN,
or THE BEST NEWS OCCURRING THROUGH
OUT THE STATE
4 Compilation Of The Happenings Of d
Past Week, Condensed From Our
Interior Exchanges

uc<hih6 OoAoPacseh.
The Baker case has so far cost Hancock
county over 5000.
The twenty-ninth volume Of West Vir-
ginis Reports is out.
The are talk of erecting water-works
at New Cumberland.
The Hinton Light Infantry Guard are
drilling twice week.
The Blackburg mines, Kanawhs county,
is working forty-6ye men.
Huntington has contracted for the erec-
ton of six fire alarm stations, at cost OF
81, $50.
The capital stock of the Ripley & NJ. O.
r. r. Co., has been increased from SIS, 900
TO 500, 900.
Barnes Beckwith, of Wood county, set q
steel trap in his corn crib and caught q
neighbor in it.
A Grafton young lady thrashed young
man whom she found keeping company
with her sister.
A Lewis county statistician figures that
West Virginia contains "a, 297, 0s8. SIC, 600
cubic feet of coal.
A considerable number of cases of ty-
phoid fever are reported from along Fish
ing creek, Wetzsl county.
The mad dog excitement in the southern
part of Lincoln county continues. The
CANNES are being shot by hundreds.
The Winnifriede Coal Company mined
900, 600 bushels Of coal during the month
OF March. This leads the record on Ka-
nawha.
Mr.. d. F. Gard shipped to the city Of
New York, from Hinton depot last week
at one shipment, Is car loads of walnut,
ash and poplar lumber, of very superior
lumber.
In Company B, Twelfth Virginia Cav
airy, @. s. A., raised in Jefferson county,
were eight Timberlake brothers. OF the
eight boys, one was killed and Eve wound
ed in the war.
The rumor that Senator Camden would
give the First regiment $500 to make their
summer encampment at Parkersburg was
net based on any proposition authorized
! by Mr.. Camden.
John Scott, negro, fell between the
cars while attempting to board q moving
freight train at Lowmoor, Tuesday, on the
C.. & O., and was killed, the trucks sever
ing his head from his body.
Joseph W. Rifle, of Braxtou county,
and Jesse Lanhap, of Calhoun county,
were indicted Monday of last week by
grand jury in Vinton county, Ohio, for
horse stealing and train wreckiDg.
A pike weighing so pounds was caught
iu the water-wheel of Snider's mill at
Queen Shoals, in Elk river, recently, kill
ed, and weighed by the owners of the mill.
1t is the largest fish caught this season.
A man named Johnson. an employee of
the Harvey paper mill, at Wellsburg, was
severely scalded wednesday by an over
dow Of hot water from bleaching tub,
against which he was leaning. His iDjur-
les are of painful and serious nature.
The President Of the Cibell County
Court, George w. Hackworib, is ont in
the Huntington papers in card, in which
he says ''the liquor traffic is highly per-
| uiciou5 and daninable in the extreme"
and says he will grant no more licenses.
Charles Billups, the man who killed
Pike on Judges creek, Cabell county, one
day last week in self-defence, and who
has been a prisoner at the county Jail
since, was released Monday evening upon
giving bail in the sum of $500 for his APP
pearance at the August term Of court.
A fight ut Burning Springs, this State,
one day last week, almost resulted in the
death of Jack Baker, q one-legged man.
Baker quarreled with William Murray and
hit Murray with his crutch. Murray then
took the crutch from Baker, knocked him
down and beat him so that for time his
life was despaired OF.
The dead body of man was found
floating down New river, near Hinton, one
day last week. The body was not identi-
| fed. Il is reported that dead mule
floated down the day before with bride
and saddle on, and it is supposed both the
man and mule were drowned while trying
to ford New river.
The employees at the West Fairmont
mines went out on strike last Wednes-
day. The men have been required to
leave 'bench" of about one foot of coal
on the bottom of the mines, and they
asked that this rule be abolished or an
advance of five cents per ton 10 allowed
for digging. The men are still ont.
:, On EsiSsycf 80 week, Earnest, son Of
I Assessor Trail, of Harper's Ferry, met
with painful accident. While reaching
aecross the store, attempting to place q
can of powder on the mantle, the can
dropped from his hands onto the stove.
The powder iguited and the boy was in
stautly enveloped in fame, which inflicted
ugly burns on his face and hands.
The Board Of Trade Of Harper's Ferry
have appointed committee composed Of
| MesHs. d. B. Lucas, N. @. Bracket, ].
| G.. Hurst, Fl. V. Daniels, George II.
Child, T. W. Beals, c. H. Trail. Daniel
Ames and John Macarthur TO go to WASH
ingtou en- mssse, call upon the members
of Congress from the State, and urge the
disbursement Of the appropriation for i'm
provement of Shenandoah river.
w. L. Rogers, who for more than three
score years has been prominently known
all over Taylor county, passed peacefully
away from mortal ken Mt his home in
Pruntytown, Saturday night, at 1l:30
o'clock. He died of pneumonia, having
been sick only two weeks and two days.
Eighty-one years ago be was born in Tay-
lor county, where he spsnt all his life,
sixty years of it having been passed in
Pruntytown.
A eolored man, known as Ben West,
who hes been living in PIT. Pleasant some
time, is charged with having killed man
about eight months ago out in Ohio, near
Corning, but has succeeded in evadirg ar
rest. Officers Tippstt and Hoover went TO
his home Friday morning TO arrest him,
when be opened fire on them in the house
and fed to the hill back Of the city, where
he is still in hiding, while officers are
searching for him.
A meeting of the staff and line officers Of
the First Regiment of West Virginia mill
tin will be held at Grafton to-day Mon
dayl 10 select place for the annual en-
campment, which will be held on the first
Tuesday in August next. AJunior Msjor
for the regiment will also be elected at the
Grafton meeting Captain A. Howard
Fleming, OF the Elkins Guards, will be
presented by his friends as candidate for
the petition.
Mrs. Fontain Smith, wife of Ex-Sena-
tor Fontain Smith, of Fairmont who
has been lying at deaths door for several
days, at the home of her daughter, Mira