The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-13

y The fire at Piedmont last Friday nigh
was caused by an explosion Of Greel
FIRE stored in closet James o. Gar
man was burnt internally, and cam
= liVei Joseph P. Zanitz, OF Wheeling
head and hands badly burned; EdwIC
Harris is resting fairly well, He Is
member Of the Knights oi PythiAs, ant
being taken care OF by that order,
J A young woman Of TunneIton took
I, big dose OF poison one day last weel
with suicidal intent, but the dose wa
too large and instead OF killing her madI
her very sick 90 that but little trouble
! was had in getting her into good shapl
again, The cause OF the insane act wa
some scandalous talk the gossips werI
circulating about her relations with I
man.
! A large new building attached to thl
big tannery at Berkeley Springs, useC
for drying hair and other purposes, wa
destroyed by fire one night last week
The cause Is supposed 10 have been over
heated steam pipes. The loss was about
$1,000, which was covered by Insurance
u took hard work TO save the othel
buildings, Ht ....
George ziler, son OF the proprietor Of
zileRs Hotel at Paw.Paw, Morgan Coun.
| ty, has been arrested and lodged in Jail
at Berkeley Springs, charged with shoot.
ing with intent to kill, James Leasure,
one OF his fathers boarders, with whom
he had an alteration. Leasure is from
Everett, Bedford county, Pa, and is en-
ployed in tauneryi in Morgan county,
There Is q woman living on Cedar
creek, in Gilmer county, whose name Is
.Unus Conrad. She is 'l06 years OF age
and is living comfortably on a pension
she draws by reason OF her husbands
services in the war OF 1912. She is q small
woman and Is very active considering
her great age. She was baptized and
joined the Southern Methodist Church
last summer. H.'
DR.. John B. Grove, Of Grant county,
hss Q curiosity in the shape al o duck
egg with o fuse to 1t. It resembled q
dynamite bomb. The fuse extended
from the interior oil the egg and through
tile shell at the large end, and was about
two inches long Beht In the shape OF a
pigs tail, and was about quarter of M
inch In Gdlameter, tapering off to the
thickness Of the finest silk thread, doub-
led back and wrapped like the loop in q
horses tail iu muddy seasons.
Preparations are already under way at
Deer Park for the expected visit OF the
President this summer. A cottage has
heep secured for him, and II will DO
ready for occupancy at short notice.
Secretary and Mrs. Window have en-.
gagged apartments ut the hotel, and Com.
missioner Of Census Porter will map out
bis plans In the same elevated neighbor-
hood. Ex-senator Henry G. Davis Is
authority for the statement that Secre-
tary Blaine will also occupy q cottage at
the Park, The Presidents family Is ex-
peCted 10 arrive about the Goth inst, The
hotel will open Wednesday, June s,
nearly month earlier than usual.
Since the time OF the first settlements
representation df common fox on the
cliff known as the Gap Rock, in the
famous Petersburg Gap, has been
well known natural curiosity. No one
knew how the representation was caused
until few days since when q man from
Ohio, named Clean AcGill, Yha was
Yislting IN that neighborhood, had him
self lowered about 400 feet over the
sheer face OF the rock for closer ex.
animation He describes II as about
twelve feet long, and plastered on the
cliff with q substance resembling
earthenware glaze, hard as the rock
t::c!it, tt.Sc!t The surface 10 rough, as though
smeared on by hands before 1t hardened.
II is Of . dingy yellow, in sharp contrast
to the brown rock, and Is visible for
some distance. '' -
John 7. sites, Of Grant county, hung
himself with q rope In barn last week.
He was q widower, aged about IS years.
He had been dyspeptic for some time,
and addicted TO the use OF morphine,
which had unbalanced his mind. He
had frequently told his friends that they
must do something with him; that he
got out OF his head some times and was
afraid that he might kill himself or do
something bad. Arrangements had been
made to take him before magistrate
and have him sent 10 tho asylum; but
the tragic ending of his life put stop TO
this. Sites got DIP on a half bushel, put
the rope around his neck and fastened
the other end to a beam overhead and
kicked the half bpshel measure from un-
der him, When found he was dead with
bis feet touching the barn floor,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Conway, Of Ma.
rion county, lost their only child, a
little daughter, in sad and shocking
manner last week. They had gone out
TO do the milking, leaving the little one
in the house playing with It's toys. It
was seated in the kitchen near the stove,
In which there was fire. Not long ai-
ter they had reached the milk yard Mr..
Congyhy heard the child crying, but
thinking II was because II had Just no.
tiCed their absence, he did not hurry TO
the house. On returning TO It, how.
ever, he discovered his child under a
bed and itB clothes on Ere. TWAS seated
with It's little hands up over its forehead
and face, trying, II seemed, 10 prevent
that part ofits head from being burned.
Mr.. Conway soon extinguiShed the
flames, but the child was 90 badly In.