Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-08-20
STATE TOPICS.

An OIL tank factory Will ne etaIteu AZ
Mo,gantowu.
Two Mormon missionaries preached near
H8mtn, Lincoln county, last Sunday.
&c. Hale has about completed the ne
EQUATIONS with New York manufacturers
20 enlarge and run his bung factory, al
Elizabeth, Writ county.
An effort is now being made to build a
cross railroad from ShinnstOD, on tbs
Mononcgshela River 4. r., to some point
on the o X Z. IN Tyler county.
Ad. Johnson, who lived on Eighteen
Mile Creek, Putnam county, was kicked
by q mule one day last week, ana only
lived twenty-lour hours. He left a wife
AID six children.
The b. & o. Relief Association state
ment for April, May and June shows sol
cases Of accidental death and S25 cases Of
accidental injuries among employees for
the three months
A two-year-old child of Mrs. Lulu
I Weeks. of Washington, fell from car
window 81. Shenandoah junction on Mon
day and died from iDj uries received there
bv. at the Watson House, in CharlestOwn,
Tuesday morning.
A colorsd boy named James Allen, OF
Broadway. Rockingham county, Va, was
killed about Two miles west OF Martins
burg. no Tabb's crossing, on the B. q. O.,
on Sunday morning week. His remains
we're taken 20 Msrtinsburg and inferred.
Dl the arrival If a freight train at Rem
ovo. Monougaha county, few mornings
since. o woman Of thirty jumped out Of a
b-V car and asked where "hand-out
breakfast could be got for nothing She
frankly said she had been on tramp for
sx years.
At C-rsdc. last Saturday, while a party
of Huntington people were returning on
.he steamer Yirgie Ratclilf from q game Of
Dali so Ironton, Tom Noble, one OF the
party, walked on the roof Of the boat
while asleep, and was drowned before help
could resch him.
A cushing young widow of Coal Valley
will institute proceedings against pTOmi.
ntnt citizen of that town for breach Of
promise. and viii ask the modest sum OF
$25 eco damages. Rich and spicy develop
ments are expected unless the affair Is CON-
promised before ,hesuit isbrought-
Last Taesd,y near Torch, Wood county,
aC., W. Sc b. brakeman attempted to put
s. tramp Cl his train when the tramp
struck him q fearful blow, knocking him
clear of the car. The train stopped and
when picked mp the brakeman was tound
TO he pretty badly, but not seriously hurt'
According to the sworn returns Of the
sssessors 81 more persons voted last year
than could he found for taxation IN Lewis
county. AID in Brooke county the excess
of votes cast over voters returned by the
assessors was lis. These evident wrongs,
one way or the other, are a crying demand
for some system Of registration.
Mr. b. Delhcker denies the report
that be intends TO offer his resignation as
Superintendent Of ths Little kanawha
Navigation Company. He had asked Tor
an assistant. which was granted by the
Company, and Col. w. A. McCosh was
chosen as such assistant. The neS sssls1-
at Will have the immediate supervision oil
the work, and will prove valuable selec-
too.
The party Of Piltshurghers, VINO nave
been encamped on the Little Kanawhs,
have left for home. Their books show that
there was an outlay Of 500 for provisions,
etc. while the clubiwss in camp. They
bad ten tents, one used for cooking, ore
for a commissary and the Others were
sleeping tents luxuriously fitted up. They
hal full sets of china and glassware. They
built an ice house aud had large supply
of ice during their stay, and had the best
The country could AFFORD, which was oerved
bv a colored caterer.