Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-12
70 miles from Huntersville. and robbed

TWO miles from dunLeTsVllles anu IOOOeO
it OF a lot Of clothing.
We learn from the Ronceyerte Nelcs
that Charles F. Cochran, Of that place,
accidentally shot himself on Saturday
night last with revolver. He STUN
bled and fell and the pistol in his pocket
in some way was discharged, the ball
cutting furrow across the right leg
and entering the left leg below the
knee.
The house of Mr.. Scott at Talcott,
Summers county, was broken into on
Monday night last by two men, who, by
threatening to hang Mr.. Scott, intimi-
dated him into telling where his money
was secTeted. They secured Sl40 in
money and watch. They have not yet
been apprehended.
The first wreck on the Ohio extension
OF the Norfolk and Western railroad &C.
cured In Wayne county Thursday. II.
Hamill, fireman, was killed, and n.
Fitzhugh, OF Charleston, and E. A.
Stock, Of Ceredo, were bruised. An
engine and four cars were demolished.
Caleb Breckenridge, colored, narrow
ly escaped death in the brick yard At
Ronceverte on Monday last, by the cav
ing in of clay bank upon him. He
was almost completely buried and his
hip was dislocated and shoulder severely
bruised.
At Sedalia. Doddridge county, the
other day, Willie and Augustus Coff-
man were knocking apples from a tree,
when a stone thrown by Augustus
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ing death in two hours.
James Robinson, of New Jersey,
railroad bridge workman, fell of the top
Of grder on the line OF the Norfolk
81 Western road last Monday, and,
alighting on his head, was instantly
killed.
Charleston Lodge, No. 202, B. P. o.
Elks is putting up elegant quarters, and
will soon give a grand banquet, ball and
reception, to which all the best people OF
the Capital WILDE invited.
Max Z. Palsene, Town Sergeant OF
Rsvenswood, has disappeared and his
accounts are short $3.50. he is also
short as Secretary OF Ravenswood
Lodge No. 10, l. o. o. F.
Some commotion was caused at Hun
tington, few days ago, by the dis
covery of a human hand lying in the
gutter. Where 1t came from was not
ascertained.
The boiler at the pump house at the
Beechwood mines, near MOrgantown,
exploded Saturday. No one was hurt
although several men had narrow es-
capeS.
William Underwood, who was shot by
the burglar at Overholt's store, In Po-
cahontas county, an account OF which
was given last week, died on Friday
last.
Mr.. Charles Lobb, one Of the best
known and most popular men in Hardy
county, died on last Thursday night,
October lst, In his eighty-second year.
A one-year-old infant Of Walter Fer
guson, Of Huntington, was scalded 10
death last Sunday morning by pulling
pot OF scaldlng water over on itself.
Four men, names unknown, were
wounded in shooting scrape on Harris
creek, Logan county, last week. Whisky
was the cause OF the trouble.
Henry Jordan, colored, has been
Jailed at Logan G. H., on the charge OF
numbering colored man at the mouth
of Mate creek.
The Pocahontas Times understands
that about 800 lots have been sold in
the new town of Marlinton, that
county.
A baby died in its mothers arms, at
the circus, at Grafton, last Wednes-
day. Exposure and sufrocation was the
cause.
Burglars attempted to rob the bank
at Union, Monroe county, on the night
of the 3rd inst, but were unsuccessful.
The Wayne county grand jury has In
dicted Hiley CommeGns and wife for the
murder Of their child, last summer.
William Thompson was badly hurt
in fight near the mouth OF Big creek,
Logan county, few days ago.
The annual meeting Of the State
Baptist Association will convene at
Huntington on the 14th inst.
A bung from cider barrel struck
Emma WOlI, Ol myoIstO"u, ia INC iHSo
and knocked her senseless.
A shaft $50 feet deep, has been sunk
at Davis City, and good vein Of coal
found.
The old Morgsntown jail, built in
1S4S, has been torn down.
They are offering Sl.20 a bushel for
wheat, at Middebourne.
A bank Is 10 be organized at Kenova
this weak