Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-25

killed in a very straDg manner st the
Little Cacapon bridge, below Cumberland.
Tire train Was going east and the engineer
turned to speak to the fireman after they
bad gotten well past the Oaesp)n bridge,
whsn ne was found to be missing. The
trsinmen went back for him and found
him suspended by the neck up among the
rod irons of the bridge, dead. He had one
very ugly cot over the right eye, and the
suppOsition is that be VAS upon the tender
looking back when his head struck the
bridge. The body was taken TO Martins
burg for interment
The Chesapeake and Ohio will put on
vesubule train soon, running from Ciucin-
natl 20 The principal points in the east.
This model train will he heated by steam
and lighted by electricity. The new cars
ere q great improvement over the old
stvle. and consist Of a ye5tibule or hallway
built on the front and reai platforms, max
ing the cars almost continuous from one
end Of the train 10 the other. This gives
additional safety to passengers passing
| from enc car to another, and obviates the
dsueer Of telescoping in collision. The
| four dining cars connected with the tram
will cost about SIC, 600.
A few days ago at Morgantown, Miss
Smith. a pretty young woman Of IS, was
adiudeed insane and sent to the asylum.
| The girl had been living for several years
az the wife OF a man named BarthioW, by
whom she had borne two children A
shor, time since developments disclosed
| the fact that they were not married. They
were then separated, and the man took the
children to the bone Of his people, and the
girl went to her fathers home. The wo-
man brooded over the loss Of her children
and har shame until she lost her mind.
George Christian, the negro who fired
TIE Guyan6Otts prison a few weeks ago,
and escaped, vas arrested At Lawrence
burg, KY, Thursday, aud brought to
Huntington AID placed IN jail. AT the
time wien he fired the prison there was
another negro, Frank Brown, lying in a
drunken stuper in the prison, who was
burned so badly that be died on the fol-
loving day. There are two indictments
against Christiau-One for murder ia the
first degree, snd one for arson.
c. A. McClintoch, of Dsmp:eytown, Pa,
on Wednesday purchased from DR.. L. 5.
Bufiugtc1 500 scres Of timber land
situated about six miles from Huntington,
almost due south. The consideration Was
SIS 600. Mr.. McClintock will at once
commerce the erection Of two stave mills
ard a saw mill on his purchase, and will
keep from fifteen 10 twenty teams busily
engaged in hauling slaves TO Huntington
uutil the timber is exhausted. The entire
supply viii 20 TO the Standard Oil Com
pany.
A man named Martin, en- whose land
the MorganioTn gas line crosses, thought
be would pillow the field, and got his son
and two daughters tosssist him in digging
a trench about three feet deep, IN order
that he could plant corn over II, ard they
got rails and prisd and pushed the pipe
into the trench, which caufed IL TO snap in
twain, and thus shut Of MUrgaut0wn's
supply last Friday fer four and half
hours, and caused several cuss words ana
numerous cold suppsrs.
A young man by the name Of Ball, OF
Pleasant Flats, Mason COdnty, ". Va,
excited considerable interest on the streets
here Friday. He is SIX feet and seven
inches tall, weighs $50 pounds and wears
: nat lie lie of Irish extraction, and
many OF his immediate blood relatives are
more than six feet in height. He was the
tsllest man who had been in town for a
year or more.-PomaOy Telegraph
The Grant District school house, in
Nicholas county, was entered a couple Of
weeks ago, and all the books and o:her
portable property carried Of. Constable
Floyd Walker found the missing property
at the house Of George W. Bale, and
WAS making preparations 70 arrest the
family, when Bale made his escape. The
vile and son were held in $500 to answer,
aud later Bale surrendered.
one day this week MT. A. B. Maxwell
while hauling coal from the bank Of Mr.
A. W. Warden, near this place, met with
a peculiar accident. one Of his horses, a
fac mare, became entengled in the har-
ness and fell over a precipice about one
hundred and fifty feet in height, and
strange 70 say, she ia still alive and Mr..
Maxwell says she will soon be al right
sgain. Raleigh Iader.
The Huntington Adrrfisa says Will
Bagby Jumped the town last week leaving
81 h'g lot Of debts behind him.