Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-10
IT is MURDER.
HUNTINGTON YOUTH DIES FROM TIN h.
FEOTS OF A BLOW.
Assailsns in Jail-EOund Dead-Intsrsstng
discoveries in = Tunnsl-esnsral News Of
the Week From Throughout the SIa!a

For a couple or more months past
ere had been no happier man in Jack
f, \ county than Calvin Thomas. Though
j had lived to be sixty-three years old
Ia been Woodworking man all his
NJ. he had never been able to accumu-
n G any Of the worlds gOodS-and be-
les. had a family Of children. This
smmer he was allowed a pension, with
Near or SOS arrearage, and at once
fgan ia high hopes 20 provide for old
Ia by buying him small tract Of land
"a making preparations to build on 1t.
IA e examining physicians had told him
tat he had bad case OF heart disease
Id in the absence OF proper care was
Able to die any time, but he felt no
hrm and was content. For several
.DnthS he had been living on the
nm OF J. II. and VIM. Taylor,
mile or more from town, and
las getting out ties for these gentle
Nm last Friday. At dinner of that
Ay he told his family be was working
4 excellent timber and proposed to see
.bw big a days work he could do.
|fter noon the family heard him chop
3ng until a tree fell, when his axe was
tilled. After some time Mrs. Thomas
.ent near enough TO see him, and sup
'bsinC he had been killed by the tree
slling on him, gave the alarm. Will
hivy and Charley Gillen, who were
.orking in a quarry in the vicinity, at
nee responded and found that Mr..
rhomas was dead but was untouched
y the tree. His axe was sticking in the
Inmp and his hat was on the ground
bar him. He had apparently stopped
! rest after the tree had fallen, and
.aS out Of breath, as a chopper work
Nd on a full stomach of July day
.ould naturally be, aud his heart
topped beating.
on the night OF the 18th Of July Will
,bildrey became involved In a difficulty
.ith one Tom Scott, a colOred man who
.aS engaged at the time in the sale OF
6ngS, i'm sheet form, on the
reetS OF Huntington, but hail
AZ from ClarkSbUrg. The affair
tcurred in the bar room OF Charley
rooms, and resulted in Childrey being
IA on the back of the head with a piece
a iron-an iron bolt some say-in the
'andS of Scott, who was at once ar
ested and after a preliminary ex-
'ninatiOn held in the sum OF $500 to
.nSwer a charge Of assault with in
ent TO kill. Lying In Jail a few
avs, he secured bond, and after sell
NJ his goods on the streets for some
he, left the city. Il the meantime
'oung Childrey was engaged in working
ln the streets. and the presumption was
hat he would not suffer any serious re-
ultS from the wound. But unfOrtun-
.tely he took a serious turn Sunday and
Led at about IL o'clock the following
norning. The wound resulted in
otanuS. The colored boy has been re-
.rfested and the charge against him
hanged to that of murder. There Is
.onSiderable talk OF him having acted
q self-defense, but that will be de-
'oiOped at the trial.
The Logan county Banner says: "Mr.
Ing, one OF the contractors on the big
|unnel from Laurel creek TO Twelve
Pole. on the Ohio extension of tim y. Il
" found a wonderful geological FOR
nation in a perfectly formed petrihed
rec imbeded in solid blue sandstone,
ear the middle of the tunnel about five
Inndred feet below and immediate
y under tho top OF the mountain. The
ree body, roots and branches, is appar-
,ntlv com posed OF the same substances
- the sandstone around il, but marked
l|fferentlY. This tree at the stump is
bout twenty inches in diameter, with
ranches from two TO six inches in
|lameter. The bark, by some chemical
)rocess. has been transformed into a
bin sheet OF very fine coal. The
hump Of this wonderful tree, about two
bet high, can be seen near the front
DOR Of Mr.. Kings commiSSary, on the
laurel side OF the tunnel, whore he
ISes il as a horse block and wash
hand. The writer went with Mr.. King
BIO the tunnel and saw whore IL had
ben imbeded in the rock. Several OF
b. branches can be seen yet in the left
Me OF the tunnel. He broke off part OF
be OF the branches two inches In d.
meter, which he has with him. He
.ISo noticed several other fine speci-
B lens Of animal and vegetable petrifca-
ons."
Lincoln county is again agitated over
be appearance and work Of a detach-
sent of White Caps, which got in its
rork last week about five Of six miles
fom Hamlin. There lives on the
liddle Fork OF Mud river an old
AN by the name Of Tyree, whose son,
Young man, killed dog belonging TO
im Afford. a neighbor. Some time
fer that there was quite crowd Of
,ersons In disguise who went to the
louse of Tyree and administered the
snail treatment adopted By the profess
ional White Caps, giving Tyree quite a
evere whipping. Tyree claiming to
now some five or six Of the crowd
,ade some ugly threats, which led TO
- being arrested under a peace war
.tnt and bound over TO keep the peace
~ twelve months. The neighborhOod
considerably agitated over the mat
and IL may yet result In there being
INC ugly work done in consequence
1ereOf.
The Fayetteville Free Press says:
aim HuddlestOn, Of Kanawha Falls,
and a curiosity IN the shape OF a
aake with two heads. 1t is OF the
after species, and about six or seven
.ehes long. The snake has for fact,
No heads, four eyes, two mouths and
ID tongues. One head seems 70 DC
raight, but about half an inch back
bm the straight head another pro-
Indes. While crawling one head
bnted to go straight forward, while
se other tended to guide his snakeship
one side, but the straight head was
e stronger Of the two, and assumed
1ntrol. 1t was alive when captured
owing to confinement died In rev
AyS Nr HuddlestOn has II preserved