The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-04
rHRouan THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West Virgin
and VIaInikY.

and Vicinity
MaItinsburg treated herself to Q sleigh
ing carnival Monday.
The Weston and Glenville telephone
line will be completed in few days.
Walnut trees in Wyoming and Nc.
Dowell counties, are worth from $500 to
$1,000 each.
The Philippi Presbyterian church has
called to that pastorate Rev. Mr.. Myley,
OF Virginia.
The Charcoal mill Of Smith & Hallam,
at Washington, Pa, burned Thursday
morning. Loss l,S0O.
The Elk Guards, Of FRirmont, will be
formally mustered into the service OF the
State tho 10Th Of February.
Capt. Ssoy, the well known musical d.
rector, Of Waynesburg, Pa, fell and frsc-
tured bone in his leg few days since.
The dwelling house owned and occupied
by ext Postmaster LATE Lewis, at Ripley,
took FIRE Monday evening about dark, and
burned down.
The report Of the Maryland State Mine
Inspector shows that in the past twelve
years there have been " fatal mine dis
astsrs in that State, or one for every 342, :
900 tons oil coal produced.
The Weston City Council has decided
that hog pens belonging to the State Asy'
lum for the Insane, are nuisances, being
detrimental to the health Of the citizsns Of
the town, and has 80 notified the Board Of
Directors.
Mr.. Thomas Spencer, one Of the men
working on the Kanawha river bridge, at
Point Pleasant, clipped and fell a distance
Of ffsy.aix feet, striking his head against
q piece OF timber below, crushing his
skull terribly, and producing instant
death.
A couple OF Mason county young men
we're riding on load Of fodder, both
smoking. Sparks from their pipes set the
fodder on FIRE and as the wind was high
the fodder and wagon were coon destroyed.
The horses were saved with considerable
difficulty.
Vice President Leonard, Of the Bllti-
more, Grafton d Charleston railroad, re.
turned from the East last week. He
seems much encouraged about his road,
and thinks We can go to Grafton over
LueiE IUau W tAG Otobo \ GA tAAo AtAAs
BuckhdnnOR Delta,
George Chandler, Of Arbuckle, on last
Wednesday committed suicide in the pub
lie road by shooting himself through the
head with shotgun. Domestic troubles
seem to have been the cause OF the rash
act. The suicide leaves q wife and two
children to mourn his untimely end.
William Il. Wallis, OF MERGERS Bottom,
Mason county, has recently had queer
experience with railroads. Frat, his
family horse broke his log crossing tres
tie; second, he broke his own leg in cat
tle.guard; third, his riding horse was
chased mile by gravel train, and
finally lesped trestle sixteen feet wide
without injury.
Isham MulIinH, who killed Henry Moore
at SummerVille, Nicholas county, has
been heard IRON by letter. He says he
intends 10 return at the April court to
stand his trial that be alone was respon-
siblc for the killing Of Henry Moore; that
no one else had anything to do with it.
The letter was dated December, 1887"
and was pos!marked Winchester, KY,
January 7, 1855"
The Monroe county, o., wool growers
have adopted resolutions to the effect that
the reasoning in 'the Presidents mes.
sage Is unjust, discouraging and fallscious,
that his message 10 intended to mislead
and ialsify public sentiment in regard to
wool growing in the United States" also
that i've believe in protection as princi-
pie, take pridein it as tho great American
aystem, and are willing to cooperate with
other industries in securing for them all
that we ask for ourselves"
The Huntington Times thus chronicles
the arrival at Huntington Of the first pas.
senger on the Ohio River railroad: "Mr.
Joseph A: McOla5y' a prominent mer-
last evening, being the first passenger over
the Ohio River railroad that came through
to Huntington. Mr.. McOlary came down
to buy goods Of our wholesale grocery
house, Harvey, Fuller & Hsgan, and his
freight will be the frst that will be ship
ped over this road. This Ia something
Tor his heirs in the future to talk Of"
A pamphlet recently issued from the
Gazette office, Charleston, showing the
present and prospective advantages Of
locks and dana on the Great Kanawha
river, shows that the number OF coal
mines in the valley below the Falla have
increased from s in 1875 to 81 in 1887.
In 1875 4, 04S,3 800 bushels of coal were Bhip-
ped by the river and 5,792,9 1925 busheIs by
the railroad. In 1897, %, 2SS,S74 bushels
wore shipped by river and 1S,160S99
bushels by railroGd-thiG being over ten
and one.hslt million bushels more than
had been shipped in any previous year
between 1876 and 1887.
The Point Pleasant Register booms the
old town in this manner: SIN this mount
ain State, as large as all Of New England,
we have some very fine towns and half
dozen cities, the largest being Wheeling.
But the time is approaching, and rapidly,
too, when Point Pleasant, at the mouth OF
the Great KanRwha, will be the largest
city in the State, and the greatest railroad,
and commercial centre in
the Ohio Valley. Her railroads, her
bridgee, and the improvement OF the
Great Ksnawha is bound to make her, and
Cloakers and toRies cannot keep her back,"
A few days ago the citizens Of Nicholas
county held an indignation meeting and
passed set Of resolutions rejecting
severely upon the official character OF
Sheriff VIM. G. Graves, for his failure to
capture Ishsm Mullins, who killed Henry
Moore, at Summer7ille, on New Years
eve. The Sheriff has brought damage
suit for 5000 against each Of the five