The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-07-02

every Democrat in Mason county TO
take the REGISTER during the fall
campaign, and will send the paper
to any address FIVE months, for fifty
cents, cash in advance. We will
continue to advocate the principles
of the Democratic party, because we
believe the principles of that party
arc right. We are opposed TO any
and all kinds of class legislation, no
matter in what guise it makes its
appearance; whether it comes under
the moth eaten name of "high pro-
tective tariff" whether it calls itself
sweet little "bonus,' or whether
it tips its hat to us as "silver bill.
We endorse the Farmers Alliance
which is attempting to remedy the
, many evils which have befallen the
farmers of our land through the
pernicious system of class legisla-
ton which has obtained in the coun-
try for the past % years; the whole
system of protection is rotten and
must go. So much for our politics.
Aside from politics, we will keep
the paper up to its present standard,
and make it a reliable, first class
county paper, gathering all the
news we can within the town, coun-
ty and State. We do not propose
to reduce the price of the paper, the
price will remain s1.50 per year in
variably in advance. We offer the
paper ut a reduced rate during the
campaign, because we believe it will
be to the benefit of the Democrats
of the county and the Democratic
party of the county to read the
Democratic county paper.
FATAL RAILRoAD ACCIDENT
While passenger train No. 2, on
time, from Huntington to Wheeling,
at 7:15 a. m, 26th ult., about two
miles north of Gallipolis Ferry Sta
ton, on Ohio River Railroad, in
Mason county, two little boys, Lou
elsey and Henry, aged respectively
seven and five years, children of
Mr.. Eccm Mayes, living near Mr..
AL. Williams, and but short dis
lance from seattle guard" opposite
Gallipolis, were sitting on the ives
terly end of the ties of the cattle
guard, were not observed by the
engineer on the train until in such
close proximity to the poor little
boys that it was impossible to check
the speed of the train in time to
prevent the fatal accident which
necessarily followed. The little
boys were struck, each of them on.
the head with the cylinder hurting
them somersault off down into the
little ravine, under the timbers of
the cattle guard. The officers OF
the train Immediately dispatched
for a surgeon, who was promptly
on hand in very little time, but
found that the blows received on
the back part of each of the little
boys heads had fractured and crush
ed the skulls and scattered the
brains of each all around and about
the grounds where the accident oc-
CURED. Luelsey Mayes, the eldest
of the boys, died about $50 a. M,
and the younger, Henry Cleveland
Mayes, died about lis p. m. Mr..
Abbot, section boss on that part of
the o. r. r. line received instruc.
tions from the officers of the COM
pany to render all possible assis-
lance to the poor little boys and
their heart stricken parents, which
duty he and his employees gently,
kindly and delicately performed,
and when the little sufferers shook
off "this mortal evil he procured
neat Baskets and burial out fits and
laid them to rest till the morn of the
resurrection. The sympathies of
the community are felt for the be-
reaved parents, in this terrible blow
which has befallen them.
These sprightly little boys had,
however, been trusted too far
they had been directed to watch
their milk COW while she grazed
along the line of the railroad, and
had frequently been warned of the
danger by neighbors and had been
induced to get off the railway when
a train was nearing. The general
impression, as we learn it, is that
the little boys thought that they
could hold their position sitting on
the ends of the ties of the cattle
guard and bend heads westerly, so
that the train could pass them and
they remain unframed, but the
space was too close, hence they
were suddenly hurled into eternity.