The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-15
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Items and Events Of Interest Cleaned from
Exchanges,

Exchanges.
A company will be- formed to develop
the lead mines supposed to be in Preston
county,
The engineers have commenced work
on the second survey oil the new railroad
across Preston county,
Tue still house OF Mr., ], W. McCor-
mick, near Sinks Grove, Monroe coun-
ty, was burned by incendiaFies, Loss
about $500.
Hon, William L. Wilson has returned
from Europe, where he spent the sum.
mer studying tho social and financial
condition Of England and Germany,
Frank Allen, OF Hardy county, Is en-
titled to the premium on large eggs,
He has one that weighs one quarter OF Q
pound, and six, laid by the same hen,
weigh one pound.
The Greenbrier Canning Company
have closed their canning operations for
their first year. The company has done
well, having put up something over
1900 cans, all told,
The county court OF FayeLte county
has offered a reward OF 500 Tor the ap.
prehension OF the murderer or murder
ers OF Samuel Farris, who was murdered
at Coal Valley two or three weeks since.
A boy named Thomas MunCey, from
Ushur county, was drowned 10 Green.
brier river, between Fort Spring and
Anderson, q few days since, He was
going down the river In boat when II
sank and he was unable TO swim 10 the
shore,
Mr.. @. II. Whetsell, OF the lumber firm
OF OiTntt 4 WhelselI, whose mills are
located on the Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad,
TWO miles west Of Oakland, was serious.
ly injured last week by being struck 10
the stomach by large plank which he
was feeding in the edger saws
], E. Kuykeudall a short time ago
married Miss Pet Zickaioose at Harris
vile, and the couple moved to Kansas.
He became insane and on September %
made a murderous assault on his wife.
She was shot in two places, but not IA.
tally. Kuykendall was In tho asylum at
Weston while in West Virginia, He is
now confined at Topeka.
Squire ]. T. Brodt, an old and prom:
inent citizen Of Charlestown, died last
week. He was q relative OF President
Van Buren,, and a near neighbor OF ].
Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, In bis
early life In New York. He located In
Charlestown in 1857, and was In the
Confederate army as quartermaster, and
drew the last dollar ever paid out Of the
Confederate treasury, the day preceding
the fall Of Richmond.
@. W. Beard, Of Pocahontas county,
met with a considerable loss, He was
having his wheat threshed, and had
threshed all that was In his barn and
moved to two large ricks in field near
by. When about half Of one Of the
ricks had been threshed q spark from
the engine fred 1t, and all was burned
down II was with difficulty that the
separator was saved from the flames.
Mr.. Beard estimates his loss at $50
bushels.
Mention has been before made OF the
discovery OF rich iron orc on Cheat river.
The ore shows along both sides Of the
river for two miles. Above 1t Is big
vein OF Limestone and q seven foot coal
vein. AT the mouth OF the Sandy the
ore is about 100 feet above the waters
edge. About the middle Of the two
miles In which the ore Is seen above the
water, the hill is 1,l60 feet. Here the
orc Is 500 To 600 feet above the river.
The vein Is fifteen feet thick and is very
81 al IN rms Ont,k Iron
The Kingwood' Era says that tho
0rrel Coal Company has resumed opera
tons ut Newburg, though not a large
number OF men are at work. The pro-
prietor Of the furnace at lrondale has
about completed the very extensive i'm.
provements 10 the plant. Many car.
loads Of fire brick from the Mount Say
aye yards have been received and put
into the new stacks. The new hot blasts
have been put in at a cost Of $50 900, and
various other important improvements
have been made. The orc miners go to
work the 10th, and business men and
working men are encouraged with the
prospect Of better times under prptec-
ton.
tADrRlam cuyuam, SnFeWu attorney
and a real estate Spectator, who, sew.
eral years ago, was located at Barbours-
vile, has been arrested in New York
city for swindling. Suydam made sale
Of several iarge boundaries Of wild cat
lands in this State, aud received several
large sums Of money on bogus title pa.
peers. lie afterwards got into trouble at
Chicago about some Of his fraudulent
transactions. He is as sharp as q tack
and can forge the signature Of a clerk so
that the clerk himself can hardly detect
the ungenuineness Of II. In preparing
his bogus title papers To lald In this
State, he forged the signature Of Joseph
s. Miller, then clerk Of Cabell county,
and 1t was such q clever imitation that
Mr.. Miller, at frat sight, believed 1t To be
his true signature.
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