The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-19
TnROrGII IrlIR STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West Virginia
aud Vicinity,


ningham and Perry Drake, has again
been removed, this time to Kanawha
county,
Mrs, Benjamin Smith, OF Guyandotte,
assaulted Marshal John B, Hite when
he called upon her to collect corporation
taxes last week,
The W. Va. Central road are applying
the Westinghouse air brake to all their
passenger equipment this week, under
the supervision OF Washington Wood,
Esq, Of Pittsburgh.
A young society man Of Parkersburg
found on tho floor OF the inaugural ball
room at Washington a pair Of lady's
green silk stockings, with gold butter.
ilIes embroidered in the meshes, They
belonged TO u young lady oil Baltimore,
who, through the Bureau Of Information,
at Washington, has reclaimed her pro-
perry.
James Jacobs was killed on the farm
OF A. +. Parsons, on Parchment Jack
son county, last week, by the falling ola
tree, which was cut but little more than
halfway through when It fell, He and
another man were saving near when
the tree broke, falling without giving
any warning sounds. Mr., Jacobs lived
on Mud Lick, in Mason county, was a
respectable school teacher q or 70 years
old, and was unmarried.
A dispatch from ParkersburG says:
News reaches here that Detective Bald
win and IN armed posse who went into
the wilds OF Wyoming and Mcdowell
counties to break up the gang OF distil'
ers have been surrounded and that their
lives are threatened. The moonshiner
band Is made up Of noted desperadoes,
and for three years they have defed the
United States authorities. Thirty have
been jailed, and 1t was while attempting
to arrest forty more that the officers
were entrapped.
Rapid progress Is being made on the
new railroad between Martinsburg and
Winchester. Grading is being done and
the whole limo will DO ready for ballast
within the next six weeks. The new
depot Mt Winchester will be n commodi.
GUS building and quite handsome, Of the
latest style OF architecture, and will
meet the requirements Of the travelling
public in the neighborhood. This new
road will be one OF the greatest con.
yeniences that was ever erected in that
neighborhood, and bids fair to be n pro.
fltable investment to the stockholders
who embarked in the enterprise.
The Weston Democrat says: A report
came here Monday OF q serious accident
that happened oil Skin creek Sunday
night. As VIC gathered the facts the
particulars are as follows: Guy Duncan,
who was spending the evening with
Miss Carrie Radebaugh, a young girl Of
the neighborhood, was about to take his
departure when she discovered he had
pistol in his overCoat pocket, which
she endeavored 10 take from him. In
the sCuiile which ensued the revolver
was accidentally discharged, the ball
taking effect and inhicting Il painful
though not a serious injury in the girls
side. 1t was narrow escape from
death,
Charles Price jr,, young man OF Mar
tinsburg, who for some time past has
been making his home with his grand
mother near Winchester, Va, last week
while along the limo Of the new rail.
road picked up large stick Of dynamite
and several caps, and carried them home.
A few hours later in company with
another young man he went out from
the house, and after boring hole in a
pine tree, put the dynamite and caps
therein. Having no fuse they substi.
tuted a cloth saturated with coal oil and
gun powder, rolled in tho centre. Young
Price applied the fatal match, and the
explosion followed so suddenly that he
was unable to get out Of the way. The
tree was blown to fragments, and the
young man so badly injured that death
followed in few hours.
Last weeks Connellsville Courier says:
"ArtiCles ofinGorporation were recorded
last Tuesday in the courts OF Garrett
county, Maryland, by Joseph U. Craw.
ford and james Bayard Henry, OF Phila.
delphia, and L. j. D. Cross, Edward ].
silkman and George D. Penniman, Of
Baltimore, incorporating the Yough-Ma.
nor Land Company OF Garrett county,
The capital stock Of the company Is
100000, divided in shares Of 500 each,
This company comprises the capitalists
interested in tho construction OF the
new railroad from Confluence and the
development Of the timber and mineral
lands Of the Upper Yough region.
Tho main Office Of the land com.
pany will be at Manor Lands, Mary.
land. The same parties interested in
the above corporation will In iCw days
file articles incorporating the new rail-.
road. II will be known rs the Oakland
& State Line Railroad Company" This
railroad will leave the Pittsburgh divis'
ion Of the Baltimore & Ohio at a point
near Confluence, crossing tho Youghio-
gheny river below Sloan's Ford and con.
tinuing along the river on the Fayette
county side To Someraeld. From there
It's course TO Garrett county will DO
practically direct, After crossing the
Maryland line the road passes on through
Selbysport, Friendsville and the "Sang.
ing Grounds" thence, probably by way
OF Deer Park to Oakland, at hiCh point
II will connect with tho main stem OF the
Baltimore & Ohio road. II will pass
about six or seven miles from tho Pres.
ton county limo at Glade Farms and
GAINESVILLE.
An 1NTELLlGENcER special from Nor.
IantOwn says: Last Friday evening
was the time regularly set apart for the
purpose Of elGCting officers In the Par.
thenon Literary Society OF tho West
Virginia University. Two candidates
for tho Presidency Ind previously been
brought forward and for several days
the contest had bOOn aggressive and OK.
citing. At tho appointed hour q large
audience had assembled In the brilliantly
illuminated hall and everything ap.
peared to be moving along quietly until
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Okey Johnsonl, and =. 4. Reed Of Elk
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