Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-06
1900 Main ST.

is the largest of the kind in the State and
their wards are forest OF lumber piles 80
and 40 feet high. The average per day OF
lumber sawed has reached So, 900 feet. In
fifteen days after the logs are taken from
the river they are in the Boston market as
mercbantable lumber.
Word has been received at Parkersburg
that Mr. George Price, formerly well
known Young man of Wood County, acci-
dentally shot himself with a revolver at
his home in Colorado few days ago, from
the fleets OF which he has since died. The
wound was in the leg, but it affected his
entire system and proved fatal.
We learn that some Eastern wool buye
slipped into Harrison and Lewis counties
recently and purchased all the wool they
could find on the backs OF the sheep, pay
ing % cents per pound for the same. This
means that washed wool will be worth IN
the neighborhood of 80 cents this year.
On last Saturday morning Mr.. William
Wageley, who was engaged IN peeling bark
near Bsrnum, Mineral county, was struck
on the head by falling tree and instantly
killed. He Was about 80 years old, and
leaves wife and three children 10 mourn
his loss.
The West Virginia Central Railroad
Company RI fuses to employ any more hands
on its extension. The company has the
telegraph wire strung from Thomas TO
Parsons, Tucker county.
A log Jam occurred in the Cheat river
near Stafford's ferry last week. Over So
600 logs belonging to the large mills at
point Marion we're held in the jam, which
was several miles long.
Last Friday night a stranger while
crossing the bridge from WesternpOrt TO
Piedmont, was robbed Of gold watch and
chain and over $3.50, which he carried in
his pocketbook.
A three-year-old son of J. M. Crane, Of
KiDgwoOd, Preston county, swallowed
gold ring few days ago.
]. Milton Allen, OF KiDgwOOd, ran
stick up his nose, one day last week, and
almost bled 10 death.
The United States light house tender,
Lily, is in the Kanawhs, inspecting the gov
eminent.
There has been over 100 lots sold in the
new town of Elkins, Randolph county.
Several lumber RATS we're lost in the
Cheat river, last week.
The coal miners at Thomas, Tucker
county, are idle.
WEST VIRGINIA ANIMAL AND BIRD LIFE
Central, Doddridge county, has five
legged chicken.
Several wolves have been seen along
Grees brier river, recently.
Bears are snid to be killing good many
sheep in Pocahontas county.
A large eagle, measuring feet inches
from tip to tip, was killed near Driftwood,
Pocahontas county, few days since, by |
Mr.. Thomas Barnett.
Mrs Ssllie Pulliam, of Lewisburg, owns |
a ten-year-old hen which every few days !
lays two eggs at a time Both Of the eggs |
are perfectly formed, hard-shelled, one
being the usual sizs and the other the size |
Of an English sparrow's egg.
Last Saturday Jimmie Feamster shot on
the farm of A. w. Arbuckle, near Lewis
burg, strange but beautiful bird. 1t |
measured two feet ten inches from tip TO |
tip. 1t resembles the stormy petrel-its |
body white as snow, its head dark lead |
color, and its wings two or three shades
lighter with jet black tips. 1t has web feet |
and sharp bill. The recent storms likely |
blew it thus far from its native element.