Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-06
FOR FORGERY.
sONB MORE GOOD WORK BY DETECTIVE
W. G. BALDWIN.
A Tough Story About Skeleton at Buckhannon
Many Casualties RspOrtsd-lndustrial
and Manufacturing Notes.

W. r. Moses was arrested at his fathers
home. near Bluefeld, Wednesday night,
by Detective W. G. Baldwin. Moses is
wanted in Monroe county for forgery
Some months ago Moses was indicted by
the grand jury Of that county, and was
released on a $500 bond, with w. O.
Tincher, of Sewell, as surety, and about
two weeks ago he left Monroe county and
went to Bluefield. Tincher and consta-
bic from Monroe went over On the New
River railroad, on Wednesday night, and
met Detective Baldwin who was on his
way to Bluefeld from Roanoke, Va, and
gave him description of the man they
wanted, and in three or four
hours afterward Mr.. Baldwin located
Moses at the residence OF bis
brother, about mile from Bluefeld. MIR.
Baldwin went by the house and noticed
that the family appeared suspicious, so ne
went on some distance and waited until
after dark when he got three men, went
back TO the house where he had located
Moses and arrested him with very little
trouble. Mr.. Baldwin has arrested sixty
six "moonshiners" since he first made his
appearance in the Elkhorn country. he
has done more towards clearing up the
gang who iufest that section, than any
man in it. The Elkhorn country was
about as bad az it could be when he went
into il little over two months ago, but
now there is about as good order IN that
section as in any part of the State.
The BuckhannOn papers say they have
on exhibition in that town now, portion
of the skeleton of giant, which, when
living measured twenty-eight feet in
height. One-half of the jaw bone, extending
from the point of the chin 10 the back.
measures twenty-eight inches and weighs
sixty-fiye pounds Three front teeth are
missing, the balance, four molars, are i'll
tact and about the size of pint cup. The
tibia or shin bone, from the knee 70 the
ankle. measures about five feet; q portion
of the lower extremity, however, is gone.
The rib bone is abont thirty-three inches
in length. There is also on exhibition the
Jaw bone and shin bone of an ordinary
sized man. The depressions IN the one
correspond exactly with the other, as also
does the holes in the nerves, etc. This
skeleton was unesrthed by Mr. Morgan,
in the northern part of Louisiana, in 1878,
ard it is estimated to have weighed when
living, about eight thousand pounds.
Thursday evening, Gus. Rockenstein, of
the firm of Rockenstein Bros, the Park
ersburg butchers, met with an accident at
their slaughter house that nearly cost HIM
his life. He had been using long knife,
and had placed ii in a bucket of water
standing near, while attending to some
other duty about the place. On needing
the knife again, he approached the bucket
to get it, but when nearly in reach of 1t be
slipped on the wet floor. In falling he
grabbed for the bucket to save himself and
in doing so he struck the knife and turned
its blade up Just in time to fall on il with
all his weight The bucket broke his fell
and probably saved his life, for if he had
fallen clear TO the floor it might have
caused his death AS it WAS, the knife
penetrated the lower part of the mans
stomach 10 the depth OF nearly two inches.
inhicting dangerous and ugly wound.
Saturday morning about daylight the
towboat Joseph Stone, coming down the
Ohio river with several large RATS of tim
Der, ran into one of the channel span
bridge piers of the Psrkersburg bridge and
sustained considerable injury. One Of the
RATS first struck the pier, and recoiling on
the other parted the fastening of all of
them, and away they drifted at the pleas
ure of the tide. The water was high
and swift in the channel. and by the
time the steamer recovered from the shock
the tow of timber was scattered far ard
wide. She steamed down the river about a
mile, headed off the floating barges and
logs, and finally succeeded in getting them
nearly all together again. Some, howvyer,
got away and are no doubt now on their
way TO the Gulf.
The Greenbrier Valley is the natural
home of the sugar maple. In the three
counties there are enough trees TO justify
the statement that the yearly production
of sugar, if managed in business way,
would approach the round sum of S25, 600
The demand for this article is constantly
increasing, and to meet it vile counterfeits
are being constantly put on the market,
many of which do not contain single
drop of the tree-juice. A sugar camp"
rightly managed will pay any man as
much as the came area planted in corn.
From our New Creek correspondent we
learn that a certain party at Rees' Tsnnery
has really found gold ore on the Allegheny
mountain. A small piece Of the ore was
broken from larger piecs and sent TO the
mint at Carson City, and the returns was
that the ore sent was very valuable. The
discovery was made some time ago and has
been kept secret until now. Different
parties have nearly all the land in that
section procured by option.-Keyser Tn
bune.
The band of thieves recently operating
in this county and also about Markleys-
burg, Pa, WAS caught near Glade Farms
on last Sunday by officers from Pennsyl-
ysnis. Ten of them were caught-Jack
Sullivan and Charles Lewis being two of
them. They were taken to Confluence,
Pa, where they will be tried for their of |
lenses. The Preston county officers would
have made the arrests on Tuesday as they
had succeeded in locating all of them. =
West Va Argus
Willie Carr, aged IA. con Of Conductor
Carr, Of the Ohio River rail-
road, who resides at Parkers-
burg, was badly il not fatally hurt
last Friday evening, while playing with
some young companions. They had
huge holder which they were trying their
strength on by seeing who could throw it
the farthest over their heads. One hoy
threw it with great force, suddenly, before
young Carr could get out of the way, and it
hit him on the head, fracturing his skull.
Mrs. E. G. Hsrdesty, of Parkersburg,
burned her hard pretty badly Saturday.
One of her little boys, while playing
around the fire, caught fire to his apron.
Fortunately Mrs II. was near and grabbed
the apron with her hands and put out the
fire, which was blazing mp as far as the
child's head, and mad she done anything
else than what she did probably be would
have been fatally burned. As it was he
escaped with having his nose burned and
his eyebrows scorched.
Merchantsble timber along the Kapawba
is getting scarce. The forests along these
streams are fast disappearing and it is a
question of a few years only when they
will be entirely exhausted. The OUTPUT of
logs, slaves, ties, ETC., ia something extra.
ordinary, but itisalmost impossible to sup
ply the eyer-increaslnp demand proni-