Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-27
AN ITALIAN SHOT
FOR RAIDING TEE WHEAT STACKS OF A
FARMER.
How q Girls Fine was Paid-Rasal Accidents.
Inctndianss at W0k-Hsavy Storms.
Miscellaneous State Nsws.

IdOOIoIS UuTuiuB IuclI 1oHCllR duu
stealing their straw and wheat for bed
ding. Last Friday son of Bos. Brum-
field who lives four miles below Ceredo
found two Italians tearing down stack
Of wheat that belonged to his father.
He explained to them that it was not
straw but wheat and forbid them tax
ing it. Later in the day while Mr..
Brumfeld was out on his farm
with his shot gun he came upon
two Italians with the wheat
tied up ready to carry away. He or
dered them to drop the wheat, but in
stead they shouldered it and started off
with it. One got out Of the field with
his load, and made his escape, and as
the other climbed the fence Mr.. Brum-
field fired load of bird shot at him,
the charge striking him in the back.
He dropped the wheat and got away
the best he could. Afterward some of
the laborers came with hand car and
took him away. Mr.. Brumfield was
not arrested, nor is he likely to be. 1t
takes something like this for the farm
ers to protect their property against
the raids OF these marauders.
The Shepherdstown Register says: AT
noon on Monday forty blasts were set
within minute or two at the quarry at
the stone crusher. 1t sounded like war
times. Superintendent Ryan is pushing
the work right along, and the main
quarry has reached the edge Of the cliff
next to the river. Work has been
started on the high bluff on the west
side of the railroad track, and in few
months that will also have been leveled.
These quarries are carrying away his
toric hills, for it Is here that breast
works were formed during the war from
which many a spirited fight was carried
on with foes on the other side
of the river. The bluffs were
natural defenses, and when the Confed-
crates had thrown up the earth few
feet higher, they had very snug shell
ter from Yankee shot and shell.
1t has long been the ambition of
Col. Boteler to have monument to
Rumsey, the inventor of the steamboat,
erected on the bluff that is now being
attacked with dynamite, for here IL
would overlook the very spot on the
Potomac river where the first boat that
was ever propelled by steam was started
up stream against the current. But
the world has been tardy in doing JUS
tice to the great inventor, and once
more the historic and romantic is sacri-
feed to the practical. There are many
who hate to see the old hill go. Mr. q.
T. Hodge, Of Shepherdstown, Is furn-
ishing the ammunition" for all three
of the crushers operated by the railroad
company at different points along It's
line. Some idea Of the amount OF ma
terlal used may be had from the figures
for this month, when no less than 5000
pounds of dynamite has been furnished
by him, besides forty kegs of black
powder, fuses, etc.
Some three years since an italian who
is no W working at Montana, Marion
county, was blown up by a premature
explosion in mine in which he was
working and received an injury In the
right side Of his nose just under his eye.
He supposed that some horseback had
been blown in his face and paid but lit
tie attention to 1t. Since the accident
the fellow has suffered more or less with
his face. Last week the wound began
to tester and DR.. J. r. Cook, OF Rives-
vile, was asked to look at 1t. The ex-
perienced eye of the physician saw that
what was in the eye could be easily
Withdrawn, as Nature had begun to as
sist in the operation, and with but little
difficulty pulled out Of the face piece
of knsfe blade seven and one-elghth
of an inch long and nine-sixteenths OF
an inch wide, which had been embedded
in the bones and muscles Of his face for
three years. 1t Is supposed that this
piece of the blade was used in packing
tie fuse, and when the explosion oc-
Cured it was blown straight in the face.
The italian is doing nicely and will
soon recover entirely.
George r. Winchester, q young man
employed at the Ensign Works, at
Huntington, was arrested yesterday on
the charge Of attempted rape on the
person OF Mrs. Ida Taylor, who resides
with her husband, Mat Taylor, in the
East End. In the preliminary examn-
alton before Squire Simpson 1t was de-
veloped that Winchester, who boarded
with the Taylors, took occasion to lay
off on the day on which it is alleged he
attempted the assault, and In the after
noon he suggested rushing the growler,
which was not objected to by Mrs. lay
lor. Each partook of the beer, and
Winchester having added a little whisky
to his beer libations, perhaps became
little hilarious. At any rate, along
about the middle of the afternoon,
while Mrs. T. was engaged in ironing,
conversation sprung up in which familiar
talk was INDUCED. This induced Win
chester to fondly embrace his hostess,
but it appears she did not appreciate
this sort OF affection on his part and
ordered him from the house. Not going
as readily as she desired, Policeman
Bowden was called and Winchester ar
rested He was held in $500 bond for
the grand jury.
The Elizabeth, Writ county, Times
bills the following amusing story OF a
little racket in that county:
Quite fight took place just below
the mouth of fuckers creek Monday
evening. "Dug" Mercer and his best
girl, Ida Schoolcraft, came to town
few days ago together, and they made
a little boy by the name OF Mathess
agree not to tell it. The boy at first
denied it, but finally told it, and the
girl watched the road for the boy and
clicked" him for it. On Monday even
ing 'Dug" and his girl were passing
Henry Il. Smiths, near the mouth
of truckers creek and Mrs. Smith
the grandmother Of the Mathess boy,
asked the girl why she whipped him,
some words passed and she made for
the girl with fishing pole. Dug In
terfered and the old lady used the fish
ing pole over his head till he "sQualled