The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-25


Col. Mat Cooper's new daily pa
per at CIarksburg is called Erery
Day.
Charleston is to have another
National. bank with a capital of
100000.
The Ohio Valley Advertising
Agency has been established in
Huntington.
Eight or ten tough citizens driven
away from Parkersburg are inNthe
Huntington Jail for various INSIDE
meanors
Anna Boles, buxom lass of 10,
was arrested last week by U. S. Off
GERS in Raleigh county for amoon-
shining
Hurricane, Putnam county was
raided by gang of burglars one
day recently, who cleaned out things
generally.
The Raleigh Hnder says that a
bear weighing at least 400 pounds
was seen in that county recently.
Grant county last week voted
$4,000 subscription to the Hardy
& Mooreteld r. r., and the road
will be built.
The Martinsburg authorities ar
rest and fine the b. & o. freight
engineers who obstruct street cross
ings with their trains.
A man who says he is not able to
pay for his paper ought to go at
once to the County Court and have
his wife appointed his guardian.
James Welsh, an employee of the
w. Va. & p. Railroad, was so Sc
verely injured while coupling cars
at Buckhannon, last week, that nc
only lived short time.
NJ. f. Corley, farmer of. Duck
Creek, Braxton county, w. Va,
while handling revolver last week,
killed his 12-year old daughter. He
did not know the gun was loaded.
The Fairmont Investment and
Construction Company has been
incorporated, with the principal
Office at Fairmont, $500 capital and
the privilege of increasing to $780,
600.
Marshall Harness killed deer at
Petersburg with rock. The deer
was run to town by some dogs, and
Mr.. Harness greyhound caught and
held it until he came up and struck
it with rock which killed it.
o. G. Miller and wife last Febru-
airy bought tickets over the West
Va. Central to Elkins, but the train
ran on by to the next station with
out stopping and they were COMPEL
ed to walk back in the night. Mil
Ter brought suit and recovered s25
damages and cost from the company.
Philippi Plaindea'er: The editor
of this paper was the first posumas-
ter in w. Va. that was beheadcd
after the Inauguration of Harrison,
and is the only one of the Demo-,
cratic Commissioners in Chancery
that has been beheaded. 1t is
sign OF hatred from Republican
Charlestown Advocate: A horrible
accident occurred here last Wednes-
day night. Jas. Kennedy, of Har-
risonburg, Va, brakeman on the
Winchester branch of the b. & o.,
while coupling or uncoupling cars
on the switch at the station, was in
some way knocked under the train
and his body ground to an unrecog-
nizable mass.
Rumors are current of rich
strike made in "a we'll drilling at
Fellowsville, Preston county. An
investigation showed that the well
had made two or three flows from
hole 300 feet deep. The we'll was
drilled by firm which has taken
options in that vicinity. They
have already drilled through two
small seams of oil, and believe they
are now drilling the covering of the
great vein supposed to underlie
their land. This firm, with another,
is trying to secure options on $4,000
acres of mineral land, and if sue
ccssful, will build railroad from
Tunnelton to Fellowsville.