The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-10-14
POINT PLEASANT MASON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY,
ALL oYER THE sTATE.

vi Ec'|-fNiSF --hdie Acduemy.
a 'ydrant was left running one
nigl. last week in a Martinsbnre
stofe4nd destroyed 81 600 worth Of
goods
Elizabeth people are talking OF
establishing a bank. They think
the Writ county people win be well
able % support one.
There are five thousand acres OF
land within the corporate limits OF
Huntington, and yet the Hunting
tonians are after the earth.
Bob Dolliver, an old West vir-
ginia boy, and brother of Congress
man DolIiver, has been elected
President of the University of Utah.
119 Students have been enrolled
atty State University, and this
number Will be largely augmented
before the winter term begins.
Rev. VIM. Picklesimer, who was
sent to the Penitentiary for killing
a man in Logan county and whose
five year term has nearly expired,
will be taken back to Logan and
tried on another charge. He killed
two men and has three wives living.
Five females of Guyandotte en-
gagged in fight the other day. The
fracas lasted an hour, clubs were
used and they presented a horrible
appearance after the fight was over.
A crowd stood around and enjoyed
the disgusting spectacle.
The County Court of Raleigh
county offers reward of $500 for
the capture and conviction of the
first of the parties who murdered
Mrs. Cozart and her son in that
county recently and $500 for every
subsequent capture and conviction
provided more than one party was
implicated.
James Stone, who recently fed
from Huttonsvillc, Randolph coun-
ty, when about to be arrested for IL
legally selling whisky, is again in
trouble. Whilc in Highland coun-
ty, Virginia, last week. he started
to church, riding his brother-in-
laws horse. He did not stop at
church, however, but came to the
vicinity of Huttonsville, sold the
horse and left for parts unknown.
Alf. Conaway, a wealthy citizen
of Tyler county, was indicted two
or three times by the recent grand
jury of that county, for unlawful CO.
habitation with woman named
Till Rosenbeck, with whom he has
lived for several years, and who
has borne him several children.
Some say they are married, and
others say they are not. 1t has
produced an exciting sensation.
After court had adjourned it was
learned that Judge Campbell was
robbed of a note of 5000 and cash to
the amount of s12. Also, Jas. II.
Couch is reported to have lost some
small money. A thief visited Jas.
I'll. Hanly's, but was frightened
away. The party should be caught,
hanged to tree and shot.-Put-
nam Democrat.
A frightful accident occurred in
the Love block, late last Saturday
night, from the effects of which the
one year old infant child of Walter
Ferguson died in horrible agony,
about 3 o'clock Sunday morning.
1t appears that Mrs. Ferguson had
put pumpkin in pot to boil, after
which she took it from the stove
and laid it aside in a place to cool.
While in another room for some
purpose, the child pulled the pot of
boiling fluid over, the water scald-
ing its breast and upper extremities
in an awful way.-Huntington Times
A very great mystery surrounds
recent discovery at Sutton, Brax-
ton county. While working within
the corporate limits, and engaged
in removing rock and earth for a
new dwelling house, the laborers
were Mortified and astounded to find
buried in one pile the bones of four
human skeletons. The circum-
stances is indeed inscrutable and
strange. The only practicable hy-
pothesis ventured is the commission
of foul murder years ago, perhaps
antedating the war.
The striking miners at the Mar
met mines complain that they do
not get fair treatment in the news
papers, and that they have no
means of getting their side of the
controversy before the public. 1t
may be, as these people state that
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