The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-11
From all over the state.

In THIS state have been caught in
sums varying from $500 to $4,000
Col. Jim Peterson, who is home
from Honduras on go days leave
of absence was banquetted, Saturday
night, by local republican politicians
of Huntington.
Lawyer P. S. Crogan, of King.
wood while returning home from
Petersburg one day last week ran
across deer, and after long chase
succeeded in getting a shot at it
and killed it.
John G. Daley, a farmer of Lin,
coin county has been arrested by
the q. S. authorities for sending
improper matter through the mails
He wrote some letters to his son in
law that wouldn't look we'll in print,
Senator Henry G.. Davis. sum
mer residence and bank at Elkins
are both well under way. The
residence, it is claimed, will be more
elegant than the Steve Elkins pal
ace recently completed at the same
place.
Steel a. Hawkins, one of the Re-
publican lights of Charleston, de-
MES that he resigned the janitor-
ship of the custom house and post
Office of that city. He says he was
fired out bodily without explana
ton.
Some one struck policeman Hern-
don of Huntington with a stone the
other night. He gave chase to his
assaillant who, opened fire with a
revolver, but escaped when the of
ficcr answered with several shots.
The Gilmer County Fair Associa
ton has been incorporated. The
capital is $500, with the privilege of
increasing to $4,000. John S.
Withers and others of Glenville, are
the incorporators, and the principal
Office is to be at Glenville.
a party of New York ladies and
gentleman who came to Webster
Springs to stay only few weeks
early in the season werere so well
pleased with the place that they re-
manned there until last week when
the biting frost drove them home.
Geo. II. Throop for many years a
resident of Raleigh county, and who
left there several months ago, on a
tramp, has turned up in Boston
where he discovered sou from
whom he had been separated over
40 years ago. The son is wealthy
and will take care of the old man.
AT every term of the Cabcll CO.,
Circuit Court from six TO twelve
damage suits are Instituted, mostly
for SANDER, and the remainder
against the railroads $4,000 each
being about the figure sued for.
However we have yet to see or
hear of the parties winning a case
of this kind.
Grafton has lived so long in one
end of the cabin with the COW and
the pig in the other that she looks
upon her mud-covcred streets with
all compIacency. 1t is the stranger
who drops in on us and after taking
one Mortified glance jumps the next
train and gets out of town.-.Sen-
tinel.
A widow named Osbourne, resid-
ing at Wayne C. Fl. has good
neighbors. Recently her house
burned down and at once subscrip-
tons were taken to help her rebuild
it. 1850 was the amount raised last
week. Material has been donated
and carpenters and others will do
nate work and build the house.
Last week at Hebron little two
year-old child of VIM. Martin was
burned so badly that it died in few
hours. The inmates of the house
were out milking and left the child
alone in the house. Its clothing
caught fire from a stove in some
mannar. avarx- o,arroan+ ,,as 49,,
sumed, burning the whole body of
the child into crisp. Itsuffered OK
cruciating agonies until DEATH
Richie ReveiNe.
The Morgantown Electric Light
and Power company, with principal
Office at Morgantown, has been in
corporated. The capital is $500,
with the privilege of increasing to
100000 in all, and the stockholders