The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-15
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THROUGH rue STATE.
Accidents and Incidents in West Virginia
aud Vicinity,

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Accidents and Incidents In West Virginia
aud Vicinity.
The young men Of Tyler county are
organizing Accompany Of State militia.
Two horses were killed by lightning
near Ripley Landing, Jackson county,
last week,
Last week, in Richie county, q little
child OF James Powell's was burned TO
death, and q child Of Waldo BrOadhead
was drowned,
The people Of Lewisburg are ~agitatiug
q, proposition to supply the town with
clear, cool water by piping II from a
spring in q cave, about a mile distant
from the town,
An increased flow Of gas Is reported
from the "Granny Parker" yell near
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Interest In the dis
coYery OF natural gas in the Barnesyille
field Is increasing.
The Pocahontas Times has again chang
ed hands, Laury 4 Moore having sold
out to John +. Campbell, a progressive
young journalist, who promises to make
the paper better and brighter than ever.
The grist and ssw mill belonging to
]. l.. L. Vanmeter, near Berryville, JET
terson county, was destroyed by fire last
week. The loss was several thousand
dollars, on which there was no lnsur-
ance,
o, W, Foster, a fireman on the Kama,
wha 4 Ohio, was found dead Ia his bed
at his boarding house in Charleston last
Friday, The supposed cause was apo
plexy, He was about 80 years OF age
and resided at Pomeroy, Ohio.
Two acknowledgement Koutz,
charged with a felony, and Anthony
Underwood, a lunatic-managed TO esr
cape from the Nicholas county jail by
lifting an outside door Off its hinges, The
iailer offers q reward Of $25 for the appre-
hension OF Kountz.
While a raft Of timber was floating
down the river at Piedmont Saturday 1t
struck u pier OF the bridge and was bro
ken up, The crew were p~reCipitated
into the river and ono Of their number
named Robinson was drowned, The
others made their escape.
Able Van Sevy, OF Doddridge county,
was arrested on complaint OF Ills daugh-
ter, who charged him with having had
criminal relations with her, He was
discharged, however, at tho preliminary
hearing, the evidence not being consid-
cred sufficient to hold him on.
The West Virginia Central Railroad
has received from Wilmington, Della
ware, two handsome Combination" cars
built to their order, and designed to &C.
commodate the increasing passenger
traffic Of the road. The company Is also
havinga handsome new officers car made
at Wilmington.
Louis, a tlve-ycar.old son Of James
Lorinash, Of Weston, swallowed q fish
hook. Four days afterwards the parents
were much relieved to know that the
hook had completed It's passage through
the %alimentary canal, This is a most
remarkable case, and probably would
not again occur once in hundred times.
The stone house ut Midway, Putnam
county, occupied by Y. X. Hanna, was,
together with all It's contents, destroyed
by fire at q late hour a few nights since,
The origin Of the fire is a mystery. The
stock ofgOods was estimated to be worth
5000, and was insured for $4,000. The
building was the property Of A. Martin
and was insured for $500.
Shepherdstown Is about to treat itself
to q new town hall. Shepherd Brooks
has given a part ofthe Shepherd College
grounds as location, and the Ladies'
irnuru Hall and thraHv Auunntatta1
which has the matter In charge, expects
to begin work on the foundation within
q few weeks. The hall will be centrally
located, and will be a comfortable and
creditable looking brick structure,
Another shooting scrape is reported
from Richie county. Jack Ice, q noted
character OF Pennsboro, had for some
time been making threats against some
brothers by the name OF burgess, and
finding them at work in the woods one
day last week, made an attack on them.
They had their guns with them, and
opened fire on Ice. One shot took effect
in his stomach, and made a very serious
wound.
At Berkeley Springs las Wednesdaythe
jury in the case Of Samuel A. Moone,
charged with the murder OF James NJ.
Statler last fall, brought in a verdict Of
not guilty. The case was on trial eight
days, and throughout 1t all the syinpa.
thies Of the people were with Moone.
lie was carried from the court room after
the verdict was rendered, and the ladies'
OF Morgan county are raising a purse OF
money for him.
The people Of West Fork, Writ county,
are greatly exercised over the appear.
ance OF what they claim to be a ghost in
that ]neighborhood. This ''spook" is
seen in about one or two houses every
night and all efforts to capture 1t Is
baiEied by his ghostship in some way:
Several nervy men have seen 1t and
shot at 1t but Claim it cannot be killed.
II looks like a man and only appears
about n or two houses, always after
night.
Henry johnson, who lives near Ben.
dale, Lewis county, WINS confined In the
Jail with Dick Dowell, the Weston muir.
derer, who escaped and was captured
last week in Dakota. johnson made his
escape with Dowell, but was afterward
captured. Last week he again figured
in the courts Of Lewis county, this time
for attempting TO shoot, with intent TO
kill, his fathor.in.law, who was inter.
fcring in his daughters behalf in q do.
meRtic quarrel.
Harry Gage, employed In the SdtesmGn
office, at Martinsburg, has for years been
an inveterate cigarette smoker, using as
many as fifteen a day. A few evenings
since he left the composing room for a
moment, and several minutes aiterward
was found in the.hall In an unconscious
condition. A physician was summoned,
and after three hours work with him,
restored him to consciousness again. lie
was unable TO walk home. The doctor
attributes the direct cause Of his attack
to cigarettes, and says they will kill him
II he uses them again.
Annie, a two.year.old daughter oil
William Kelly. Of near Sutton, was