The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-24
THROUGH TIE STATE. a,
Items and Events of Interest Cleaned
from Our Exchanges

Fort" has been carefully packed aboard
the cars and shipped to Chicago, The
old building was purchased by Wash.
ington, D. g., syndicate, and will DO re.
cred for exhibition ut the Worlds Fair.
The "Fort" was cold by tho Pulp CON.
pany ut this place, and various reports
are current rs TO the price paid, ranging
ms high as $1,000. This part Of the
transaction, however, Is Kept pretty
quiet, for some reason best known to
those most interested. In tho taking
away OF tho Sort" Ilarper's Ferry
loses one OF hor strongest points OF his.
toricai interest. Tho ground, however,
is still there.
Fairmont will have natural gda soon.
Within the last week the develop
ment company has been negotiating
with some Virginia capitalists for tho
sale OF ono hundred lots on the now OK
tension upon the condition that those
gentlemen will oxpcnd upon those lots
the sum OF forty thousand dollars in
building during the year 1892. The ar.
engagements, willie they have not been
reduced to writing, have been agreed to
In detail, and no doubt will BE- carried
out. Tho lots are 10 DO OF average value
OF all tho lots OIL the extension, and
were sold to these gentlemen at Il very
reasonable figure. --E'airmom Mdsr.
Tho lust graded section Of the West
Virginia Central road Ia only two or
three hundred yards from tho southern
end OF the Grafton q Grccnbrier. road
ut Belington. The grading was COM
plcted to that point tho fore part Of last
week. The track has been laid almost
10 the town, and would have reached
there ere this but for the stone work
yet to be done OH several culvcrts. 1t
Is said that passenger trains from tho
West Virginia Central will DO running
into Belington by January l.-Eiki,ls
Netcs.
Tho first fatal accident during the
construction OF tho big Norfolk & West
ern railroad bridge, which is almost
completed. over the Ohio river just
below Ccrcdo, occurred abou: ha!!-past
seven o'clocl; Monday morning. Robert
/. Kelley, who was working on top OF
the traveller" made misstcp and fell
n distance OF nearly two hundred feet.
The unfortunate man breathed his last
few minutes after falling.
Senator Kcnna and General Anson
McCook, secretary OF tho Senate, were
quite successful, We hear, in their ro.
cent hunt for deer OIL Anthony's creek.
Tho senator was, however, SO uniortun-
ate as to have n number OF his dogs
poisoned. Possibly the parties who
poisoned the senator's dogs knew that
il was q violation OF law to hunt deer
with dogs in this state.-Greentrier hide
pendent.
At Hinton, ono day last week, Frank
Blankenship, n lad Of seventeen or eigh-
teen years, was on ono OF the makeup
trains which WAS in motion, and in at
tempting to jump from ono car to the
other by some means lost his iootin.
and fell between the cars. The whole
train passed over him, mansling the
body in q fearful manner and killing
him instantly.
Charles Miller, ono OF the oldest engl-
necrs on the Ohio River railroad, has
been indicted by the grand jury OF Jack
son county for manslaughter. He was
in charge OF special train bearing OIL
cials OF the road, OH September 10Th,
when blackboard was struck at road
crossing. killing the occupants, Lewis
Park and daughter.
The barn OF Jas. II. Davis, who resides
near Salem, was burned last Monday.
Beside the burn two stacks OF hay, q lot
OF fodder. other feed, farming implc-
lncnts, &c, were consumed. Some
small boys were playing in the barn
and it is supposed that they set the hay
OIL fire with d match.
The papers OF the state are comment
ing OIL the fact that there are seventeen
divorce suits entered in the courts OF
Wheeling. There are over twice that
many i'll our circuit courtat tho present
time, nothing to brag on, but somewhat
rcmarkable.-li Huntington .idvertiser.
Howard n. Roberts, a member OF the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad company's
engineer corps now working on the
State Limo extension to Norgantown,
committed suicide at Smithiield, last
"Wednesday afternoon, by shooting him
self through the head.
Track laying on the Galley extension
OF tho West Virginia & Pittsburgh rail
road commenced last week. Frank ii.
Blodgctt has the contract to lay the
track all the way to Gauley, and Mr..
Fries has charge Of the construction
force.
Prof. Milton W. Humphreys, n native
Of Monroe county, now OF the Uni.
versity OF Virginia, has been appointed
q member OF tho advisory council Of
tho Worlds Congress, auxiliary OF the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, on phil.
ology.
Mrs. Mckee and "Baby Mckee" lett
the White House Inst Thursday on q
visit to Mrs. Stephen B. Ekins, Of this
place. They were met at Cumberland
by Hon. II. &. Davis, who escorted them
to Elkins.-Eikins Ntrs.
Mrs. W. N. Lynch, ono Of West Vir.
ginia's lady commissioners OF the
Worlds Fair, is meeting with great
success in her work OF organizing
Worlds Fair clubs among the ladies
throughout the state.
Mr.. Virgil A. Lewis, secretary OF the
West Virginia Historical Society and
author of Il history Of West Virginia
Ann Bailey, etc., is Democratic candi.
date for the office Of state supcrlnten'
dent OF free schools.
The electric street cars in Martinsburc
arc well patronized and tho Investment
promises to pay the promoters OF the
enterprise handsomely.
Ira Moore, formerly editor OF tho
Tyler County Star, is now n minister O.
the Christian church.