The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-10-21
AL OVER THE STATE.

Five divorces We're granted by
the Cabell county circuit court OF
Saturday.
The shepherdstown. Register i.
27 years old. and very much like
whiskey.
Guyandotte riveris so low that the
canoe lines have suspended nayiga-
ton.
The West Virginia Baptist Gen
eral Association meets in Hunting
ton next Wednesday.
Hon. W. L. Wilson has been in.
vited to make series of speeches
in Massachusetts this fall.
Henry Williams, a twelve year
old boy, was run over by coal
cars at Winifrede Saturday and
killed.
The pressure of gas of the Harris
vile well is 765 pounds-said by
men who know to be the biggest
gas well ever struck in the world.
A new iron bridge is to be erected
over the river at Monongah, to cost
$4,000, of which the county pays
s1O,0OOand the coal company So, 600.
-Ne,o Dominion.
The West Virginia and Ohio Gold
and Silver Mining Company has
been incorporated with an Office at
Parkersburg. The capital is s4.4OO
with the privilege of increasing to
$4,000. T.. N. Boss, of Belmont,
and others are the incorporators.
Italians are doing the principal
part of the work in the building of
the water works at Fairmont. Nc
Kinley's bill is thus protecting
American labor, and COTS broad
shield of American law is getting
in its work.
James Johnson, a former pros
porous merchant in Oklahoma, who
went broke in the general business
smash up in that Territory after the
rush was over, was tramping his
way back east to his former home,
and fell off c. & o. freight train
near Ceredo, and received such in
juries as may cause his death.
Mrs. Jane Schoolcrafl, of Kama
wha county, a gay young widow of
but fifty years, has just launched
her bark for the eighth time upon
the sea of matrimony. She has
buried seven husbands, but believes
in perseverance, and tonight was
welded to Philip Adkins, a spright-
ly youth of sixty-one years.
Officers GULL and Rusk arrested.
last Sunday morning, VIM. F. Wig
gins, near this city, who is wanted
in New York for forgery. Wig
gems was the guest of a young lady
who resides three miles from here.
and to whom it is said he was short
ly to have been married. He bade
the young lady an affectionate good
bye and was brought to Charleston
and put in Jail where he awaits an
officer from New York, who will ar
rive to-day to take him back. The
officers received a telegram from
from New York Saturday morning,
to arrest Wiggens and by 9 o'clock
a. m. Sunday they had him. This
was quick work. Wiggens is said
to be a newspaper reporter.-Kd-
na,chd Gazette.
NJ. V. Chapman, whose store was
robbed last Friday night, was in The
city yesterday. He says that the
thieves took $500 in money and
about 5000 worth of goods. The
postoffice is in the same building
and small amount of money and
some postage stamps belonging to
the government were taken.
Mr.. Chapman's horse and buggy
was also taken, but it was found
standing near the bank of the Big
Sandy about four miles from the
scene of the robbery. Where the
horse and buggy were standing a
skiff had been taken, and presum-
ably, the goods transferred 10 the
boat. U. S. Officers are now work
ing on the case, and Mr.. Chapman
also has several other officers on the
case.-AdUertiser.
There was great excitement at
at noon Saturday out at the Camden
works over the close call of one of
the workmen.
w. G. Wright, one of the machin
lists at the works, had terrible ex.
perience. While eating his dinner
he choked on a piece of beefstake so
badly that it was thought his time