Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-30
STATE TOPICS.
THE MOST RECENT HAPPENINGS IN THE
INTERIOR COUNTIES.
4 Large Assortment Of Facts and Faneies, Cleaned
From the Columns Of the Local Papers
Of the Past Week.


The Elkins Guards, Of Fairmont, have
received their uniforms.
A building is to be erected for the Shep-
erdstown fire department.
The recent grand jury of Wetzel county
found about 100 indictments.
The Harper's Ferry pulp mill is running
double turn, employing fifty hands.
William johnson, of Lewisburg, was
badly injured by fall a few days ago.
A Hardy county man has a hens egg
with five separate and distinct shells.
The Georges Greek and Elk Garden coal
field produced 1897, $50 tons in 1887,
1t is said a new equipment of rolling
stock will soon be ordered for the B. & o.
The old Potomac Grange, at Billmeyer
Mill, Berkeley county, is to be recognized.
A stone was recently quarried near
M~artinsburg, which measured 2Sx20 feet
and 1S feet thick.
Over fifty hogsheads Of tobacco were
shipped from Fayette Station, Fayette
county; week before last.
Mrs. John W. Tabb, living near Ger
ardstown, fell on the ice and fractured
both her arm below the elbow.
1t is reported that several citizens of
Logan county have been taken from their
homes and confined in the Jail at Pikeyille,
Ky.
Work has been commenced on the chan
mel span of the Ohio River railroad bridge,
which crosses the kanawha at Point Pleas
ant.
Measles are raging about Martinsburg.
Four children have died with the disease
in one family, that of Mr.. Green Broom
baugh.
Adam Bumgardner, of Upshur county,
was thrown from a horse a few days ago,
and so badly injured that his life is de-
SPARED of.
Capt. James Yates, Of Doddridge county,
had a narrow escape from death s. few days
ago. He was out driving and his team
went over a thirty-foot bank.
An infant child of John Carson, of
Marions Wetzel county, was found dead
in its bed a few days ago. Heart disease
is supposed TO have been the cause.
The Gallipolis business men are petit
tioning for a switch from the Ohio River
Railroad to the river, and also for a depot
on the river bank opposite the city.
A dwelling house occupied by Fleming
Harris, near Flat Rock, Mason county,
was burned a few days ago, and the occu-
pants left in destitute circumstances
During the year 1857, 50, 81 tons of pig
iron was made by West Virginia furnaces.
or this amounts, S35 tons remained unsOld
at the end of the year. The production
of Bessemer pig IN the State during the
year was 73, 100 tons.
The Owens well, at Wellsburg, is about
Zoo feet deep and the funds are exhaust
ed. Unless enough money is forthcoming
to push the we'll to 1900 feet, the enter
prise will be abandoned. The Ryql we'll
is about /, 900 feet deep.
The new wood pulp company at Harp
er's Ferry has contracted, so it is said,
with ex-senator Henry G. Davis for its
supply of spruce and poplar wood, which
will come along the line Of the West Vir-
ginia Central Railroad.
Frank Lagrange, au old hunter of Ran
dolph, is reported to have been attacked
by an old buck deer while going through
the woods to a lumber camp. Lagrange
succeed in killing the buck, but was in
iured so severely by the animals horns
and feet that he lay on the ground all
night before he was discovered.
The st. George Democrat says that 'Mr.
Thomas +. Hebb who held u $S331 policy
in the Louisiana Fire Insurance Company
was notified Wednesday, that said Insur-
ance Company had ''blown up" and had
been sold out over four menths ago. We
understand that there is a number of
people in Preston who hold policies in this
company.
About 4 o'clock Wednesday morning
Mr.. n. l. Dorm was awakened by a strong
odor Of coal gas. Upon investigation it
was found to be escaping from a stove in
his daughters room. The discovery was
made Just in time, as the young ladies
were nearly ~asphyxiated. DIR. McSherry
was called in, and after continued efforts
succeeded in resusc;tating them. -Wdrtins-
burg Independent.
The Swear old son of John Chisheld,
living in Putnam county, was burned to
death q few days ago. The little one was
left in a room alone, when by some means
its clothing caught on fire. The mother
rushed in to save it, but in so doing she
shut a door with a spring lock between
herself and the child. This was the only
entrance to the room, and she had no
means Of opening the heavy door. She
f was compelled to witness the burning OF
her child, powerless to save it.
At a meeting of the stockholders Of the
Piedmont and Cumberland railroad, heidi IL
Baltimore last week, the followingdirector
were elected: II. G. Davis, S. B. Elkius, J.
n. DuBarry, John P. Green, Vim. j. Reed,
VIM. II. German and f. ". s. Moore,
Hon. H. G. Davis was elected president,
and Harry G.. Buxton secretary and treas
urer. The road commenced operation:
some time in August last, aud for the five
months ended January !, earned enough
net to about pay the fixed charges for Sill
months
The Morgantown Post says: Mr.. VIM,
H. West, o few days ago, showed us {
half dollar, made in 1880, which he picked
ont of the ruins of theburned house of the
Misses Stewart, near StewaItstown. Dir
West said that the silver money melted il
!, the fire was much of i'll of very ancient
date, as the savings of the old ladies hac
been handed down for several generation
!, TO them. Who knows but that the miss
ing silver dollar of 1904, for which $SOt
are now offered in New York, wa
not among the silver money melted or de-
faced?
An indignation meeting was held q
Hookersville, last Friday, by citizens o
} Nicholas county, and resolutions adopted
condemning the action of Sheriff Grave
and Jailor Winebrener, with reference t.
the escape of Isham Mullins, who shot ant
killed Henry Moore, at Nicholas c. H., OF
Christmas morning. 1t is said Sheriff
Graves has threatened to bring suit fol
damages against the parties to the meet
ing, claiming that they misrepresented tn
|, facts in The matter. 1t is also said tina
the Sheriff is in receipt of a letter from
Mullins, who is in Kentucky, stating tina
he is ready and willing to surrender when
ever protection from mob violence is as
sured.
A bogus detective made his appearance
-. Croffoo lasf waaH onI n1avol a ppatf,