West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-09-19
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for a short visit to his old home in
Preston county before returning to
Boston, for which place he will de-
part on Thursday of next week.
Jos. III. Hawthorne, of Kansas
City, is visiting here, and will re-
main for few weeks, when he and
Mrs. Hawthorne will return to their
home. The lady proceeded him here.
Mrs. Lucy Derning has decli-
ned the appointment to the music
department Of the Normal, and that
position is therefore still vacant.
The executive committee hope to be
able TO fill il soon. Mrs. Gustave
Kaiser, wife of the book-keeper at
the Experiment Station, will leave
tomorrow for New York. when on
Saturday she will sail for Denmark,
her former hame, to spend the win
ter.--Sherry Shisler brought the
finest specimen of buckwheat into
this office last week that we ever
saw and it is from the finest crop of
that cereal ever raised in this part
of the State. Julius Keck raised it
on his farm near Reedsville. 1t is
the genuine Japanese buckwheat
and SO fine is itthat we would advise
its culture to all those who try to
raise buckwheat at all.
A valuable vein of iron ore has
been discovered on the farm of Mr..
Loeb Birtcher, in Grant District.
Preston county. Mr.. Britcher's
farm extends from the mouth of Big
Sandy up that stream three miles.
His entire farm of 400 acres is said
TO be underlaid with the mineral in
vein ten to fifteen feet thick. 1t
is believed that it will yield large
proportion OF metallic iron, as the
ore is very heavy. The farm has
been lclsed by the West Va. & Pa.
Railway Co.--The building of the
West Virginia Conference Seminary
of the NJ. Il. Church, at Buchanan,
is being carried forward towards
completion rapidly. 1t is to be
fine superstructure, over one hun
dred feet long, eighty-fve feet wide,
three stories high, the lower two
thirteen feet between floors and the
upper one fifteen feet The walls
are now up to the third story, and
the beautiful, massive structure will
be under roof in about twenty days,
and completed by early spring.
When done it will be superior to any
other educational building in the
State.-NeW Dominion.
Last Thursday young man ma
med lIedrick, IL years of age, was
instantly killed. He was working
at his fathers steam saw mill, in
Preston county, and in attempting
to put on the band without stopping
the engine was caught in the band,
which whirled him around and
around, dashing him against the en-
CINE. lie made some thirty or forty
revolutions before the engine
could be stopped. When taken out
he was frightfully mutilated, every
bone in his body except those in one
arm having been broken.-Sulli-
van and Kilrain fought for money
and what they termed glory, u. NJ.
Cochran was prompted to fight be-
cause of an injustice done his sister,
who loft Grafton this week for Min
nesota. Her trunk was stopped at
the Grafton depot because John IL.
Holt claimed a judgement against
Jas. Cochran who seems to have
been one of the ''Lop Ear" victims
in the "ten-cent" suits brought
against that neighborhood q few
years ago. Holt no doubt thought
the trunk belonged to Jas. Cochran,
but when gwen the facts in the mat
ter he refused to release it. She in
nocent woman Was on her way TO
the northwest with the principal
part of her clothing held in Grafton
for debt she did not owe. 1t was
too much for lied" They came
together in the Mccormick Block.
The principal scene, which was
closed by the policeman, represen-
ted Holt tumbling over the coal box
closely pressed by Cochran who had
Mr. Jas. Holt hanging to his coat
tail trying to pacify him. GraE
ton Le0der.