Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-11
OUGHT TO BE Gagged.
HELPLESS MARTINSBURG PEOPLE SWIM
DIED OUTRAGBOUSLY.
A OolOrsd Man jailed For ArsOn-ShesP Killed Oy
Dogs and wOlvss-Ssvsral Bad Accidents
Miscellaneous State News.

Miscellaneous oldlo N0"'-
The Martinsbu1g Independent tells an
interesting story of the operations OF d
rascal who has been rObbing the citizsn'
Of that town in a siugulsrly bold ana
heartless way, under the preiense OF oeing
an oculist. The independents story Is as
follows:
"a scamp has been at work IN TINS
county who deserves to be taiIeu anu
feathered. He called upon Mrs keDeccS
S )erow, near Broad Lane, now IN her lotn
year, represented himself as an eye ooc-
tor, and that be had been sent to her by
the family physician, and after throwing
some liquid in her eyes, went
through a rubbing process, and tnen
demanded 800 for his work. Mrs.
S. had nothing like that SUN III
the house, so he accepted So He then
took her gold spectacles, punched out the
lens, doubled up the rims, and, putting
them in bis pocket, placed a new par on
her nose, for which he charged and col
leoted 81 80. He then departed. DIR. Ley
master knew nothing Of the man, ana
when Mr. SperOw returned the scamp
was gone. He next called on MIR. ). ID.
Burkhart, ST., where he sgain represented
himself SO sent by the family physician,
and insisted upon removing from the lace
of Mrs. Burkhart some sort OF breaking
ont. A preparation was applied, for which
he asked 500. Mr. Burkhart gave him
S25. He then called upon Mrs Robert
Flaeg. and offered to doctor her eyes. She
refused to permit it. TheD, without rem
deripg services, he demanded $50. Mrs
Fiasg said she would come to town and see
about the matter He then left. He as
sumed the names Of Drs. Miller and Henry.
War, ants have bsen Issued for him"
On the night of February II, the houses
of DR.. J. A Wood and Mrs. NJ. L Evans,
together with a small grocery belonging to
Mrs. Evans, and DR.. Woods office, at
Charleston, were destroyed by fire entail
ing total loss OF about $4,000 There
WAS every reason to believe that the houses
had been robbed previous to the fire, aud
afterwards burned in order to prevent the
robbery from being discovered. A COM
mittte of cit'z.ns took hold of the matter
and made a thorough investigation which
resulted in securing some very strong evi-
dence against cOlOred miner employed at
the Belmont works, named Wiley Lewis.
He his borne rather bad character in
the past and has been in all move than
once for minor oTentes against the law.
Monday night Detective Aft Burnett was
nut on the case, and Lewis was arrested
in the mountains ard lodged in Jail at
Charleston 10 await the action OF the
grand jury.
There has been rumor atiOat for several
DAYS TO the fl ct that General Powell and
other eastern capitalists were coming TO
Clifton, for the purpose of building roll
ling mill and nail works. Whether there
is any truth in the report OF not we are
unable to say, but sincerely hope that the
report is true, 0n6 that the mill will be
built at an early day. The ground where
General Powell built the old mill some
thirty or more years ago is now vacant and
would be a splendid location for g new
one, with the Ohio River Railroad run
ming lear by. The river wharf is one of
the best along the slore, and Clifton can
furnish coal for such an institution for at
least two or three centuries to come. We
say, letter MddlpOn Herald
The employees Of the Winchester section
of the new railroad, inRugurated strike
on Friday last The grounds of the dis
turbance is the old story of desired in
crease in wages. 1t is said that some time
since they were promised an increase of 10
cents day to prevent a strike then threat
ened, and that this promise Of their EN-
ployers has not ( cen fulfilled. The bad
weather again started the spirit Of indie
pendence, which foreigners imbibe with
the air they breathe when they arrive in
America, and the strike commenced. None
have yet returned to work, and some have
left for other paris. This causes partial
suspension of work On that section. Those
in this part are still working at the orig
inal price of $1.10 per day.-Martinsbug
Herald.
The shipments from the miufs of the
Cumberland coal region for the week
ended March 2. 49, were 50, 2O9 tons, and
for the year Az, 564 tons, a decrease of
4,7s5 tons as compared With 'SS. The
shipments TO the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road and local points were for the week
40, 427 tons; for the year, 377, $50 tors, a |
decrease of 90 95S tons as compared with |
last year. The shipments to the Penn
sylvania railroad we're for the week, a. |
7S3 tons; year, 10000 tons; an increase
of 10, 173 tors Us compared with last year.
There are four prisoners in 81. Marys |
Jail awaiting trial. Two Of them are
1. L.
third one, was indicted some three years |
ago in two csses, one for disturbing re-
lieious worship and the second for carrying |
concealed weapons He had eluded arrest |
heretofore, but last week the officers sue |
ceeded in capturing m The fourth pris-
oner is Frank Merrill, who was indicted |
for an assault with attempt to kill. He, |
too, has evaded the officers for two years,
but was finally taken in
After the West Virginia Central passen-
ger train arrived at the Central depot Sat |
urdsy evening, a car was cut loose from
the engine end sent up the track at q |
rapid rate, in charge of brakeman, for |
the purpose of turning it at the turn-tabe |
When the car got up there tie brakes re.
fused to work, and it sped on, struck the
closed doors of the rouud-hOuse, breaking |
out center post, passing on through to
the brick wall in the rear of the building, |
Knocking ont twelve square feet of the
wall. The car was damaged, but no one
was hurt - Cumberland Times.
Saturday morning one of the Washing
ton excursion trains took breakfast at Al
derson, and during the meal 3 difficulty
occurred between n Kentuckian end one
of the Pullman car conductors. II SEEMS
that the Kentuckian took cup Of coffee
of the waiter as the boy was carrying it
around, which the conductor took as an
off,nse against himself. He struck the