Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-16
MANY FATALITIES
RECORDED IN OUR SUMMARY OF STATE
NEWS.
Fatally Scaldsd-Shot and Killed. Fatal Epl-
dsmic-Grsat Loss by Incsndiariss-TwsnIy
Desperate Criminals at Charleston.
1! is aid the chestnut crOp will be large

O. 4 o. train last week.
The Greenbrier Canning Company will
pack so, 900 cans Of tomatoes.
Several Mormon Elders are lowering
about Petersburg, Grant county.
Mrs. Swami, a merchant of Huntington,
has made an assignment for the benefit OF
her creditors.
It is possible the Wood county authori-
ties may erect a draw bridge over the
Kanswhs, at the foot Of Market street,
Parkersburg.
Martha, the Swear old daughter of
Luther d. Rayenscraft, OF Mineral county,
was bitten on the foot by copper head
snake Monday last.
The first engine the West Virginia Cen
trail railroad ever had NO. / has been dis
mantled and consigned to the scrap pile, at
their shops above Piedmont
The tree on which Garter was hung in
Greenbrier county, is slowly dying. The
leaves on the fatal limb have already
shriveled and turned brown.
Daniel Flint, an employe Of the Parkers.
burg mill, had one arm caught in cog
wheel, last Monday morning, and the
member was terribly crushed.
A negro man was knocked off freight
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio, at
Hurricane Station. Monday night. and in
stantly killed His name is not known.
n. n. Whitaker, of Charleston, was
killed by G. IL o. train last week. He
vas 80 years of age, and was the first per
son born in the limits Of the present State
capital.
Cleavengsr & Lawreniz shipped last
week four or five car loads of cattle and a
lot of sheep. They inform us that cattle
are 81 80 lower now that at the same time
last year.-ROane Bulletin.
The contract for Building a wire sus-
pension oot-bridge across the river at the
B. & o. shops, at Piedmont, has been
awarded to Elijah Kemp and ]. P. Glea-
son, of that place.
There was calf at the Middlebourne
fair the body resembling the body of dog,
the leg5 resembling the legs of calf and
its head resembling the head Of calf in
part, and resembling the head Of man in
part.
Three prominent men of Monros coun-
ty have been compelled to make assign
ments for the benefit of their creditors.
Their names are Mr.. J. G. Young Of Pick
away, Mr. A. X Parker Of Hillsdale, and
Jas. Kounts near Union.
Brartown is the new and most import
ant town on the new railroad from Fair
mont to Olarksburg. II will be the center
Of the coke and mining region, and will at
once becoms an embryo city. It's name
will be changed to Camden.
The Irontown furnace in Taylor county,
was sold few days ago for s. 600, and
moved to the Stats of Ohio. When this
furnace was built it cost about one hundred
thousand dollars, and was one of the best
in this sectiOn OF the country. It never
did much good at ITOntown.
A serious sickness is prevailing at and
near Meadowville, Barbour county. 1t is
in the form of dysentery, and many are
confned to their beds In the family of
Mr.. Martin Sherman there have been four
deaths and others Of the family are seri-
ously i'll. Bad water is the probable cause.
A child named Moran, about five years
old, living at Tyreonnell, Taylor county,
met sad death last Monday. The lady
of the house had scslded a chicken and
left the water in the vessel The child
came along and pulled it over, receiving
the boiling water, which caused death.
About ten days sgo, while little son
of John o. Edwards, of Reno district, Pres
ton county, was hitching a span Of
horses to a sled, the horses stepped for
ward, and hook on a single tree tore the
boy across the bowels, inflioting o very
ugly wound. The bog, at lsst Gdvices,
was getting better.
On last Sunday Mrs. Annie McClanna-
han, whilst walking in front of third sec
ton of No. 80, at Meadow Greek Station,
Summers county, in company Of some
young ladies, was struck by the engine and
knocked about ten feet over the embank
ment. The engine struck her on the hip,
bruisiDg her considerably.
On Thursday afternoon Ed Floyd,
while working on a saw mill up on Water
loo, above French Greek, Upshur county,
slipped and fell on the cav while it was
running, and horribly mangled himself.
His left ankle was almost covered, long,
deep cash was cut in his thigh and the
walls Of the abdomen were cut through.
Race, youngest con Of John Stickley, Of
near Taylor, Mineral county, shot himself
on last Thursday. He was examining the
gun with Interpretation of buyingit when
1t slipped from his handle, striking board
which caused it to difcharge, The ball pass
ing through his wrist ana lodging in his
head, which caused death in forty min
utes.
ShOckley Davis, of Beech Fork, Wayne
county, was tried, last week, for cutting
Moss Baker with a knife, last summer.
The jury found him guilty of unlawful
cutting and the court fixed the punish
ment at two months in the county Jail and
assessed a fine of $50. The fine and casts
are to be paid before the prisoner is re-
leased.
On the 25th the citizens of Morgantown
will vote on the proposition to issue bonds
for So. 600 at five per cent. interest, pay
able in twenty-seven years, for the pur-
pose of constructing a system Of sew
erage and providing fire department. for
the town. The town has now an indtbt-
edness of 5000 and it is believed that
the new ordinance will be ratified.
A colored man named Ell. Williams and
white girl named Ellen Cutlip, both of
Gilmer county, walked all the way from
their homes to Marietta this week, dis
lance of more than sixty miles, to be mar
ried. Both are in absolute poverty and
they ate nothing whatever on their way
Squire B. E. GuytOn married them. They
could not secure license in this State.
At Mr.. Ireland's sale, at Richie @ H.,
Tuesday, Andy Wilson and George Pier
point got into a quarrel. Wilson advanced
upon Pierpoint and struck him. During
the fight, Pierpoint. who is smaller than
Wilson, used knife on him, stabbing him
twelve times. Wilson ia badly injured,
but he will get we'll PierpOint was ar
rested and was afterwards released on ST.
GOO bail.
The Coroner's jury in the Turner lynch
Jog case at Hinton last Monday, having
adjourned to that time on Saturday, Sep
TENDER 18th. A large number Of witnesses
have been summoned, and very damaging
testimony is said to be in their possession
with regard to several members of the mob.
They are still at work, according to last
accounts, and will make every effort to
bring the offenders to justice.
On Thursday last, as S. F. Ohalkley, an
engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio road,
was starting out towards Clifton Forge,
the men engaged in blasting the rock for