Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-09
THE STATE.
THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE OF INTERIOR
HAPPENINGS.
The Facts and Ranciss Found BY the Register
in the Local Columns Of the
Country Press.
Charleston is now going to organize a

battery.
The Huntington street car line is now
running.
The Fair Grounds at Pennsboro are to be
greatly improved.
John Dean, of Keyser, was badly beaten
at Piedmont by three roughs.
Miss Myrtle Ward, of Putnam county,
aged fourteen, was married last week.
The South Branch Telephone Company
are making good progress with their line.
A cousin of the poet Longfellow resides
within one and one-half miles of Spencer,
Rosne county.
Charles Golf, of Clarksburg, is securing
privileges to bore for oil near Bridgeport,
Harrison county.
Some miscreant wrecked moving ma
chine for john Inkeep, Of near Moorefeid'
one night last week.
Albert Berson, of Wood county, was at.
tackled by dog, few days ago, and had
part of his nose bitten of.
There are two hundred and twenty
guests at the Greenbrier White. Kramer's
band, of this city, is heard daily.
The postoff1ce OF Hinton became Presl'
dental office on the LIST inst, and the sal
airy of the postmaster fixed at 81, 100.
Several workmen at Shepherdstow n had
a narrow escape from being buried alive
by the caving in of an old quarry, last
Monday.
The newly organized military company
at Bramwell, Mercer county, it is under
stood will join the Second West Virginia
Regiment.
An infant child of Rev. Griffith, OF
Moorefeld, narrowly escaped death few
days ago, by getting a safety pin fastened
in it's throat.
Daring heavy rain storm on Thursday
of last week, JEFF Cottle, who resided about
twelve miles west of Raleigh Court House,
was struck and killed by lightning.
A little six-year-old daughter Of Mr..
George Staub, residing near Charleston,
fell from a rail fence last Tuesday and
broke her neck, death ensuing instantly.
Mrs. Theis, the wife Of farmer living
near Waverly, Wood county, gave birth to
triplets one day last week. At last &C
counts the mother and babies were getting
along very nicely.
The Huntington Fire Department. will
compete for $500 prize with the depart
ments of Ashland, Lexington, Winchester
and Citlettsburg, KY, and Ironton, o.,
at Ashland some time in August.
1t is reported that a young man named
Jim Chinn, living in West Huntington,
attempted to commit suicide by drowning
on Friday. He hdd been sick for several
weeks, and the superstition is that he was
delirious at the time he made the attempt
on his life.
Last Saturday evening Paris Brumfeld,
q desperate character of Lincoln county,
and who has killed his man, met Canaan
Adkins on Harris creek and renewed an
old quarrel. Words soon came TO blows,
and it was but few minutes until Brum-
field bad beat the lite out of Adkins with q
club.
Godfrey Ksech, Parkersburg German,
stepped on q nail about two weeks ago.
The nail penetrated the foot but short
distance, and the hurt was considered
trifiing. Kaech kept on at work until
Tuesday, when lock jaw set in, and he has
been in a critical condition ever since. The
probabilities are that he Will die.
They have a sensation out on Little
Fishing creek. A prominent gentleman,
long since dead, and one of his sons are
charged, by person who has no kind feel.
ipgs toward them, with having committed
a murder many years since. The- alleged
victim was an old mau named Martin, who
used to manufacture wine casks on Little
Fishing creek. The report is not believed.
Last Monday while force of men was
engaged in hauling the dirt from the site
of the old grave yard, on Main street, they
exhumed the body of colored woman,
which had been buried some AZ years. The
body from the shoulders to the knees was
petrified and in natural shape. The soil
in which the body had lain was of sandy
nature and such discovery was great
surprise. nder.
When Officer Foley, of Charleston, re-
tired, Friday evening, the windows Of his
room were raised, but ~ it grew cooler
during the night, his wife let them down.
He was unaware Of this, and when awaken
ed by fire alarm be went TO the window
to look out, and stuck his head through the
window, breaking the glass out and cut-
ting an artery on his forehead Just above
his right eve. Medical assistance was
called in and the flow of blood was stopped.
1t was narrow escape from total loss of
his eye.
While W. E. Graves, of Culpepper, Va ,
was loading car at Bayard, Tucker
county, with timber, which he was taking
from two piles, one of the piles fell upon
him, crushing his head and causing instant
death. The men at work in the neighbor.
hood rushed Immediately to the spot, and
extricated him as soon as possible, but life
was extinct. The remains were cared for
by his fellow-workmen, among whom he
had many friends and no enemies He
was about 26 years old, and was yard boss
for the lumber company.
Speaking of the results of a recent
severe hail storm, the Greenbrier Indepen
dent says: 1.-THE hail fell in drops as
large as a hens egg and covered the
ground to the depth of six or eight inches,
destroying all vegetation in its pathway,
and 80 iDjuring the forest trees that they
have turned yellow, and now look as il
they had been deadened. The back of an
OK, caught in the storm, was so beaten by
the hail that it is now blistered and looks
as if it had been beaten with a heavy
withe. Not more than about one square
mile Of territory was covered by this
severe storm.
On Tuesday evening last Pete DOVE and
Chss. Elmer, alias Elmer Ellworth, were
arrested at Ronceverte, and taken TO Lew.
isburg the next day and lodged in jail,
charged with illegal retailing of intoxicat.
ing drinks. George w. Branham and
John ID. Horton were deputized to make
the arrests. They proceeded to the out.
skirts Of the town, and when the parties
were sccosted DOVE demanded to hear the
warrant read, and while Mr.. Branham was
reading it Dove knocked it up and ex.
claimed: mo, you don'tw and started to
run, whereupon Mr.. Horton fired at him
striking him in the shoulder, infiic.ing q
wound that may prove serious.
d. B. Minear, q wsll-to-do farmer LIVING
near Pullman, Richie county, one day
last week, was summoned from the wheat