Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-18
THE STATE.
ELoPED WITH A MARRIED MAN.

ELOPED WITH A MARRIED MAN.
A man of about forty winters, named
Ben Swiger, Of Shirley, Tyler county,
eloped with Miss SophrOnis Ash, daughter
of Adam Ash, a farmer living four miles
from Weet Uniop, last Monday, according
to the Parkersburg Sentinel, taking the 4
o'clock train for that city. The young
lady is Of respectable family, handsome in
appearance, and q rosebud OF seventeen
summers. Swiger is q married man.
leaving a devoted wife and two loving
children behind. He decoyed the young
LADY to ParkersbuIg with the understand
ing that she was to live with DR.. Bland
az a domestic, and her parents knew
nothi1g Of the elopsment until Friday,
when they call to see their daughter and
found she had not been employed "a above
indicated. The father and brothers swear
vengeance when they see STiger.
PENSION FRAUDS.
George W. Halves, Of Hardy county,
who was charged with defiauding Mary
Brock, pensioner, ont Of one-hslf her pen
sion money for his services in pTocurr &
the claim, pleaded guilty to the charge IN
the United States court, IN session at
Martinsburg last Wednesday.
The Huntir gton electric street cars are
running
The masonry for the new bridge over the
Potomac river, at Point of RcckS, has bsen
completed, and the iron work will he com
menctd soon. 1t is expected 1t Will De n
isbed by February.
The South Branch Hltehigeacer isn't sure
the scheme TO improve the navigation oil
the South Branch river is a good thing
Il SAYS the B. & o. Company is bitterly op-
posed to the plan.
The Irondale furnace, in Preston county,
has gone out of blast.
The new charter for MOundsville, 10 be
presented at the coming session OF the Leg
i~slature, is being prepared.
Work on the No. . Hicks oil well, near
M~oundsville, is progressing rapidly.
The Hardy county Jail is empty, for the
first tins in ten years.
A h~fteen-year-cld son of Seymour
Dasher, of South Fork, Hardy county, was
dangerously hurt, on the Sth, inst. by s
runaway team.
Eli Tally, of Mile Fork, Ksnawba coun-
ty, while on his way home, fell over an
embaukment and broke his neck one night
last week. His body was discovered IN
the morning.
Some of the residents of Cairo, Richie
county, invested in the Harlem Common
Svr dictate, of New York, and are sDNiOu5'
" looking for o slice of the big fortune
they are to get, but which only existed IN
the minds Of some metropolitan schemers
George Taylor, of Austen, Preston Il
ty, while foOliDg with a revolver, on last
Tuesday, accidentally shot himself in the
knee, making 3 painful wound. DIR.
Powell was called and prohcI for the bali
but could not find 1t.
Thomas Il F0utz, contractors, who built
a bridge over Hughes river, in Richie
county some years ago, and for which the
county refused to settle, won their sun
last week and were awarded $l,OO2.3O.
The case had been in the courts for four or
FIVE years, ard has cost the county over
So 900. The bridge was burrtd down
shortly after it, was built.
The Supreme Court has decided the case
of some Of the stockholders against the
Parkersburg Gas Company in favor OF the
company, reversing the lower court and
dismissing their complaint. 10 the lower
court a receiver was appointed and the Gas
Company appealed. The Snprems Court
has relieved the receiver OF his duties aud
leaves the company masters Of the situa-
tom