The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-11
THROUGH TILE STATE.
Items mud Event. OF Interest Cleaned frUui
EXCHANGES,

iNCHitHEcH'
The pr0prirtors of the Huntington
Adriissr have formed a joint stock COM
pNny and propose ina short time to COM
menco issuing daily.
The Hon. Q. +. Dorr has sold the
Webster Springs Gait to L. II. Morton
and Banth Wooddcll who will enlarge
the sprishtIy publication.
The dwelling house Of Alfred Arm
strong, OF NichUlasCOunty, was destroyed
By fire few days since, together with
all It's contents, including S9,OO0in cash.
The Grcstartcd from detective lluc.
Harry Reeves. Of Marion county, had
Il Zine barn and its valuable contents de-
stroycd by n fire that was started by IL
little grand child Of his who was playing
with matches. There was no insurance
on the property.
Trnbert Il Mann, general merchants, OF
Coal Valley, have assigned for the bGnG.
tit Of their creditors. Liabilities $1,000;
assets, including accounts, about $1,000.
The assignment was forced by an East.
ern creditor, otherwise they could have
pulled through they say.
a little boy aged thirteen years, the
son OF Eugcnus Johnson, of Hendricks,
Fucker county, went out tishingin Black
Fork, and has not been heard of since.
lie is supposed TO have been drowned.
y diIigent search has heen kept up for
This body, but 1t has not been found.
Three prisoners escaped from the Mon.
roe county iail.onC night last week. One
OF them had not been locked in his cell,
and with n table knife that he had man.
aged to sequester, dug II hole through
brick wall, got ont, and then getting in
to the jailOrs room stole the keys and
let the other two prisoners out.
Commissions have been issued by Gov.
crnor Wilson to Gen. L. l.. Wood us Ad.
jutant General with the rank Of lirigadirr
General, and Hon. G. L. Snyder us
Brigadicr General OF the National Guard
Of the State. These appointments are
made under the new law passed ut the
last session OF the Legislature.
Captain llazen, of Parkersburg, De.
partmcnt Commander of the Il. A. K. Of
this State, has issued call to the sCv.
eral posts for supplies Of food, clothing,
provisions and cash for the sufferers at
Youngstown. All supplies should be for.
wardCd to Col. William V. Lawrence,
Assistant QuNrtGrmaster General, ut
JohnstOwn, Pa.
An Cight.year old daughter OF Renton
langlitts, Of Hancock county, WINS burn.
ed to death by her clothes taking fire
from burning gus well. She and her
brother were on their way TO bring the
cows, and stopped ut the well, which
was burning little. The boy turned on
the gus full force, md 1t flashed out and
caught the girls clothing.
The recent floods in Knnawha, Elk
and PoCn rivers did no damage whatever,
hut In Coal river the boom, which cost
81, 600, was washed ont, thereby letting
adriit about forty thousand logs, besides
a large lot Of slaves and ties, the greater
part Of which were caught before getting
out OF the knnRwha. The reports OF
losses in the KanawhN are greatly OK.
aggcratcd.
Robert Terrell, employed Ms watch.
man on the Chesapeake K Ohio road
near CcrcdO, was run Overland instantly
killed by u passenger train. lie was
lying on tho track when no was struck
and IL Is supposed that hO had been
drinking lie wns about twCnty.Cight
years old, was single and came from
nCnr Richmond, Va, where his remains
were sGnt.
A certificate OF incorporation has been
issncd by Secretary OF State Walker Il
"ThG Spring Manufacturing Company O.
: MRrtinsburg," with capital stock moi
exceeding Sl00,000. An actual subsCrip
ton OF $4,000 has already been made L
the stock Of the company, md this most
= by foreign capitalists. Tho object o
= tho company Ia ~ manufacture wagon
md all kinds Of agricultural implements
John Stevenson, n young mNn livinI
nj GuyRndOttO, was arrested about twt
years and half ngo for horse stealing
was convicted nj tho August, 1877, torn
Of tho circuit court and sentenced to
term IN the State pCnitGntlary. Til
=, poor fellow contracted lung trouble
y. while In the prison, and wan discharged
Il, from there few days HgO. llU wen
o. 10 hiB home In HuyNndOltC, where III
\, lived but two days. Stevenson said III
a 10 tho last TINT llG WIS innocent OF hi
'c crime hO had served two years In Stat
prison for committing.
~ Ed Wilson, who Inns been confined Il
IA the MiddObOurilc jail since liz aud ON
CafdOr were arrested for tho burglary u
= l.. l.. AtCalOy'B store, and who, At tho lnH
term Of court, were sentenced 10 n tern
\ Ui ak years In tho pOnilCnliAry, In
!, skipped. UardUr was transferred Il