Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-08-05
STATE TOPICS.

2Ith.
Two oil wells ere being drilled in Put
nam.
Buckhannon is anticipating big bust
ness boom.
A lsrgs iron bridge is to be built at
Alaska, Mineral county.
A gang of railroad tie thieves have been
arrested at Huntington.
The Kanawha Insurance Company has
been organized at Grafton.
Over two hundred students are expected
at the University next year.
Typhoid fever is still prevalent at Ma
sODtown, Aonongalia county.
The Logan Rifles, of Rocky Point, Mon
roe county, have disbanded.
1t is said Wellsburg people spend 500
per month TOR lottery tickets.
An organization of the Farmers Alliance
has been formed st MOoreield.
A. J. Estep, OF Maiden, is under arrest
on the charge OF attempted rape.
A catfish With silver spoon in its
stomach was eau BIT near Parkersburg re-
Gently.
Millard F. Welch, Of Mineral county,
had corn-etslks fifteen feet high on Au-
gust lst.
Sheriff Jackson, Of Preston county, is og-
itating the organization of County Far
for that county.
The B. & O. Co have been surveying for
a switch 10 the pulp factory across the
Potomac from Piedmont.
Rev Eli Powers, Of Grant county, was
thrown by horse. last Sunday evening,
and very seriously hurt.
Burglars went through the safe of the
Kanswha Paper Mills at Charleston last
Friday night and secured $40
Damp weather throughout the State has
interfered with thu hay harvest, and much
nay has been spoiled by the rain.
Point Pleasant has been asked 10 pur-
chase an interest in the electric light plant
at that place 10 help pull it out Of hole.
The town is liable TO 20 without light I'M
less this is done.
Lightning struck a flock of sheep be.
longing to Columbus Hardman, in Roane
county, and killed four Of the finest.
Miss Belle Fleming, of Morgantown,
and little brother were thrown from
buggy, last Sunday, and both painfully IL
juIed.
Charlie Cannon, aged twelve years, fell
under the wheels Of a wagon loaded with
bark, near Keyser, Friday, and was very
seriously injured.
The Town Council of Berkeley Springs
has accepted the proposition of having
that place Lighted by electricity, at the
rate Of $500 year.
Three hundred and fifty bushels is the
largest crop of wheat raised by any one
farmer in Tucker county this year. So
says the Tucker Democrat.
A Morgautown man bought lot Of tin
ware al auction for which he paid fifteen
cents. A coiIeepot included in the lot con-
tsined 12S buzzard dollars.
Mrs Robert Tracewell, Of Wood county,
was ruu over by a moving machine, and
came very near losing both feet. As 1t
was, she was badly cot on the ankles.
Constable L V. Reynolds, OF Hinton,
who was shot by the negro Garter on July
10th, az last accounts WAS still living, and
hopes are entertained Of his recovery.
One of the boilers in the kitchen Of the
Fiorentine Hotel at Huntington exploded
last week, badly scalding three persons,
one fatally, and doing other damage.
Seven ill-mated couples have applied to
the Jackson County Circuit Court for re-
lief from each others society, which has
become obnoxious 70 all the parties in
terested.
The engineers Of the Wast Virginia Cen
tral have surveyed the route down Gauley
and intersected another survey made seve-
raj years ago. They have stopped work
and returned 10 DAVIS.
4 big summer hotel will be built at
Three Forks, Upshur county, and will be
in operation next season. 1t will be con-
nected with Buckhannon by a narrow
gauge rsilrOad, twenty-five miles long.
The Posloffice Department has extended
the mail from Thomas to Parsons, over
the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg
Railway, and from August D, 1SS9, from
Parsons via Mon,Iose, New Interest and
Oflena to Elkins, increasing the distance
twenty-five miles.
Work on the shaft of the coal works at
NewbuTg having been suspend d indel-
nitely, the Company has commenced oper-
atious on G limited scale above ground;
but the supply Of coal is not sufficient to
Keep the hands employed for any consid-
erable length OF time
A con Of Ezra Miller's, of Endicott, this
State, was bitten By q copverhead snake,
last week. and died from the effects of the
poison. A few months since the same
child was nearly killed by stroke Of
lightning, and had just sufficiently recov-
cred from the shock to be able to get about
when he WAS bitten By the snake.
On June 90. ISL, Mr.. aud Mrs Joseph
Orr, living at LaRus, Marion county, hsd
a con born TO them, and second son was
born June %, 1887. June % Of the pres
eut wear another sou was born, making
three sons horn IN the same month, on the
same dsv, and the stfangest part Of all, |
they were all born az the same hour
Oa Friday OF last week negro girl |
about eighteen years Of years was noticed |
living in the field in the rear OF the Indus
trial World building, whsEs she bad been |
during the entire morning. Abont noon |
she was removed to tie hon-e Of Martha |
Miner, near By, where she gave birth TO q
child few hours afterward. She hailed
from one Of the railroad tOwns.-tdyette
Democrat.
TIE Putnam Democrat says the yarns
which have been going about in certain
papers. regarding the phenomenal
strength" of Matt Kramer, Of that county,
are false. The Democrat says: Twenty
fge or thirty years sgo Mr. Kramer "as
possibly the atrongesi man n The State
bat he il now quite advanced IN years.
n. hves lust across the uyer from here
,nd has not been ont Of the county io'
years" ,t
John DirtoB, ex-oonstab!e, OF Barbous-
vile district. isseventy-t years ofage nnd
never rode on a railroad lran. he always
o-.ferfed 20 walk when going any place,
s,d wien he visits this city, walks down
IN the morning and back in the evening.
Fortv miles a day is 10 distance for the
venerable gentleman 20 travel, bat the
men Of the ssme ege tbst can perform q
f-at of pedestrisnism Of ike character are
not very numerous hereabOuts. ts.-Hmting.