The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-10-07
FROM ALL OVER THE sTATE.

AoiH Ufautn saIe aI hlpley the
last day of the Fair.
Thirteen persons charged with
murder are now confined in the Nc
Dowell county Jail
John Rains of Charleston was
struck by C. & o. train Saturday
night and instantly killed.
The mangled remains of an un-
known person was found on the R.
R. track near Keyser on Thursday.
Father Duffy who has had charge
of several churches in Greenbrier
county for number of years has
been transferred by Bishop Kain
to Wellsburg.
What do our readers think about
colonizing the State now, with the
dirtiest, blaclest kind of ignorant
niggers2 This is no sport. Mar
met has Tennessee niggers, and an
other Kanawha mine is to be loaded
with niggers from the same State.
This will make many Democratic
voters. Putnam Democrat.
Thomas Burdett, serving an eight
year sentence in the penitentiary
from Kanawha county for murder,
has been pardoned. He has been
in prison since 1885.
The injunction craze has struck
Tucker county, and the county court
is now resting under one for issuing
bonds to buy a poor farm with
without letting the people vote on
the question.
James Welch who murdered his
wife at Newburg, on the night of
March 10, has been sentenced to life
imprisonment in the penitentiary
Judge Hoke over-ruIed the motion
for a new trial.
On Thursday last, on Sycamore,
Clay county, A. r. Brown was ar
rested by Detective Alf w. Burnett
and Constable Cruikshank charged
with embezzling $4,000 in cash be-
longing to A. R. Brown C Co., ex-
sheriff G; w. Arbagast being the
loser.
The man arrested by John II.
Crawford, Westernport, some weeks
ago, for passing counterfeit money,
giving his name as Frand Malowe,
was tried in Baltimore last week
and sent to the Albany, N. Y. peni-
tentiary for four years hard labor.
Piedmont Herald.
The circular saw in use in the
chipping room of the pulp mill at
Piedmont broke from its fastenings
one day last week, and striking a
young man named Crawford cleft
his skull from the end of his nose to
the nape of his neck, making hor-
rible wound and killing him in
stantIy.
The thirteenth murderer has been
placed in the Perryville, Mcdowell
county Jail. The last man placed
there is Frank Harden, who killed
Frank Ward, last Friday. In ad-
dition to these Is, are several per-
sons charged with attempted mur-
der and murderous assault. 1t is
the biggest record of any West Yir-
ginia Jail.
A correspondent from Potts creek
writes that on Sunday afternoon
last, while Mr.. Andrew S. Given and
his little child were standing at his
front gate, a large panther made
his appearance near them. Mr..
Given took the child to. the
house and returned with his
gun. The animal showed fight, but
was killed the first shot. 1t meas
ured % feet from its nose to the tip
of its tail.-AUegheny Sentinel.
a company of capitalists of Wes-s
ton will establish a wholesale gro
cery at that place.
The st. Lawrence Boom and
Manufacturing Co. has completed 3
miles of railroad in Pocahontas Co.,
to get lumber to the river.
Michael Giblen, watchman on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad east of
Rodamer's tunnel, beyond Terra
Alta, was instantly killed, last Fri
day, by train No. 6, eastward bound.
At Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier
county, very disgraceful outrage
was perpetrated by unknown par
ties, a short time since. A Mrs.
Martin was taken from her bed and
tarred while pistols were used to in
timidate her husband and keep him
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