Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-02
A LAND SUIT
IN WHICH PHILADELPHIA AND HARRISON
COUNTY PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED.
Narrow Escape From DOwning-Fatal Accident
A Severe St0rm-A FlOater FOund-Ms-
celaneous State News.

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A recent issue of the Philadelphia Press
had the following; Suit was brought yes.
terday by the West Virginia Bank, OF
Clarksburg, through Lawyer Logan M
Bullitt, against Frank B. Thompson, oec-
rotary and Treasurer OF the Cltizens trust,
Tax Indemnity and Surety Company, on
promissOry note for Sl5,OOO, IN favor Oh d
A Campbell, from whom il passed through
other hands TO the bank. II was dated
April IL. 1890. and made payable in thirty
DAYS The history of the note, as told by
Mr.. Thompson. is interesting. Some time
AGO - he said. Il negotiated for the pur-
bhase of a large coal field of 1900 acres,
near Clarksburg. Several persons, among
them a Colonel Wilson, still owned the
land. WANTED about 800 acres.
Il supposed that within that time Col
onel Wilson could obtain privileges from
his colleagues to sell, but he FAILED TO 90 SO.
NV note went to the West Virginia Bank,
and when it fell due it was sent TO the
North American Bank of this city Tor col
lection. / refused TO pay 1t, Col wilson
not having delivered title TO me according
10 an agreement signed by him which l
hold. am willing 10 pay for the land only
when the title is delivered. Several days
ago Colonel Wilson came TO this city ana
informed me that he could not get the
other owners Of the land TO agree 10 the
sale. | was told then that this suit was
about TO be instituted against me by the
West Virginia bank Colonel Wilson as
sured me that he would have the suit with
drawn
Rev. Nelson Kelley and daughter, of
HAMPSHIRE county, had a narrow escape
from death by drowning at Mechanicsburg
last Saturday. They undertook TO cross
run in "A buggy, but the stream, which was
swollen by recent rains, upset the buggy,
throwing the occupants out, and would
have washed them into Mill Greek had 1t
not been for the timely assistance OF
Messrs. J. s. Taylor and Hubert Moss,
who ran into the water after them ana
pulled them out on the bank The shafts
were broken off the buggy, and thus re
leved from his load the horse
reached the shore unframed. The vehicle
was carried down stream 10 the ford IN the
gap. where it lodged against some drift
The top was gone, and il was otherwise
damaged, though not entirely ruined. Kew.
Kelley's father, Mr. Henry Kelley, and
his daughter were drowned in Just such an
accident many years ago nj the fOrd III the
Branch a mile west of Romney.
The Norfolk and Western are pushing
the bridge across the Ohio as rapidly as
possible all the men being employed that
can work to an advantage. The bridge and
treStles along the line are being built wide
enough for double track. There Will not
bea wooden trestle on the road. When
ever practicable, stone culverts are being
put i'm and fills made. Where this cannot
be doRe stone foundations will be laid and
iron trestles built The road, when com
pleted. will be first-class in every particu-
lar.
At Guyandatte few days ago, Paris
Brumfield and Kane Adkins had differ
ence about some timber in the river at that
point, which resulted in assault and bat
terry. They were separated by the police
and fined by the Mavor. Adkins is the
father-in-law of the late Green Mccoy, for
the killing of whom, together with seven
Brumfields, he is indicted, and the feeling be-
tween the two is very bitter, and there
may vet be serious trouble growing out OF
it.
\ colored man known as Elem Richard
son, while intoxicated and sitting on the
steps of a coach of the excursion train that
visited Huntington, from Cincinnati, last
Sunday, was jOlted from his seat while the
train was passing over the Big Sandy
bridge. BY the fall his skull was frac-
tured and one eye gouged out. He was
taken TO Cattlettsburg, his home, where he
died shortly after.
The POcono Oil Company, who are drill
ling on the Rein Amos farm, near Fair
mont. met with a Streak of bad luck. Their
drill struck a crevice in rock at distance
of 80 feet. and despite all efforts the bit
followed the crevice-making the hole so
crooked as to necessitate abandoning IT.
They removed the derrick and commenced
10 drill in another place, short distance
away.
Edward Polling, father of Rev. II. L.
and Charles Polling, died at the residence
of his son, Rev. II. l.. Polling, at Hunting
ton. Sunday. Mr.. Polling was true
Christian gentleman and well liked by all
who knew him. He was born in Mary
land. June 4th, 1904, and had he lived until
the 4th of this month would have been 50
years old. His remains were Inferred in
jackson county.
A terrific wind and hail storm swept
over Summit Point, late Friday afternoon,
doing considerable damage Houses and
churches were completely demolished.
Telegraph communication was delayed sew
eral hours. Crops and fences were entire
II
hardest storm that ever visited the sec
ton.
The Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad Com
pany is considering a proposition, which
will probably be carried out. to increase its
capital stock from Sl5,0OO,00 to 81, 100000.
The 10000, 900 will be used TO buy termi
mails. dOuble-track the road where needed,
build new connections, add TO its equip
ment and make improvements generally.
\ panther, said to have escaped from
show two years ago in Shepherdstown, is
now frolicking about the eastern suburbs
of that city. The animal, we learn from
a reliable source, has been seen several
Engineers are making a survey from
BarbOurSville for Il railroad up the Guyan-
dotte Valley. II is said the survey is being
made for the G. & o. people, who will
build a road from BarbOursville to the up
per coal regions of the valley
The body of an unknown man was found
in pile of drift near the mouth Of the Big
Sandy, Tuesday. The body presented the
of not having been long in the
water.
\ little son Of Mr. B. Dick, of Milton,
Cabell county, stabbed himself in the face
with sharp case-knife, the point of the
knife entering the right eye.
\ vein of fire clay, twenty feet thick, has
been struck on the farm of Aaron Free
land, near Terra Alta.
Parkersburg has a weather prophet who
is said by the Journal to be quite an expert
in that difficult role.
The Irondale furnace, in Preston county,