Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-29

what the plaintiff alleges Huntington
Advertiser.
Mr.. Fraley, an old gentleman living at
Terra Alta, Md, fell from the plat
form Of a car, on train No. 5, at Kcs-
ler'S curve, about two miles west OF
No. l. Water Station. He was stand
ing with his son outside OF the car
showing him the ground over which he
had been during the war, when the
train, on making the curve, caused Kim
10 lose his balance, and fall from the
platform. His son stopped the train.
and had the patient taken to Cumber-
land. DR.. Carr says his left shoulder
is diSlocated, but no bones are broken,
and he will recover. He, with two OF
his sons, had the remains of his son
John, who died in Baltimore q few
DAYS ago. d0oard the train, on the way
home for burial. 1t is dangerous TO
ride on the platform.
A passenger fell off No. 10, Pittsburg
express, at No. II water station, above
MartuSburg, Tuesday morning, and
was killed. The man was a stranger,
with no means Of Identification. He
had ticket from PittShurg to New
York and one from New York TO
Queenstown, Inman Line. He was an
IriShman. well built and respectable
looking. dressed in neat, black suit.
He was aged about fifty or tfty-iive
wears. about five feet. five inches tall,
brown or sandy hair and beard. His
legs were cut and crushed and the
wounds about his head must have
caused his death.
At midnight last Friday night, Lee
Dillon and Alex ROden. employed as
miners at the West FairmOnt shaft,
went 10 the home OF Robert Thompson,
who lives on The Wheeling pike, gained
an entrance to his house, and used
Thompson up in fearful manner.
They each took stone and beat the
man over the head, and then shot him
i'm the left side with a 32-caibre revOl-
yer. The aSSailantS were arrested. The
trouble arose out of a difficulty about
ThompSon'S wife.
The great oil snake of West Virginia
is gone. One year ago half the born
dudes in the land were out in high
| boots. SLOUGH hats and dirty shirts,
tramping the penny royal through the
woods. hunting the greasy snake.
They found il; it bit 'em aud they died
They are gone aud the land that once
knew them and Smelt the snake is glad
that the serpent has crawled away and
| that the penny royal is waving over the
graves of the snake hunters. VctzcJ
/ Democrat
A Preston county correspondent says:
d. ). Gibson, returning from BrucetOn
a few evenings ago, was aroused by a
/ large black bear. which walked into the
road i'm front of him and stopped. Gath
/ ering up some rocks he threw at it, but
it stood its ground with the utmost
frmneSS, and he pelted away at it sew
erai times. when it walked out OF the
road and Mr.. Gibson pursued his way
homeward very rapidly.
There was double marriage in town
on Thursday. The parties were Stot-
/ lerS and CatlettS. Mother aud daughter
married two young men. In giving in
/ the ages of the brides matters got
/ slightly mixed. The daughter was Is
years OF age and the mother -, which
would make the mother years old
when the daughter was born, The
party and their attendants took the
street on the hunt for the parSOn.-
Berkeley Springs Nclcs.
Two young men recently chased a
rabbit into hole in Stonebraker'S
woods. at Funktown, near Shepherds
town. which led 10 the discovery Of a
small cave, into which they went. No
match wouldsburn in the place, but by
cropping around they picked up a num-
Der of large Spear-headS and some small
er arr0w-headS, all in splendid state of
preservation. The Spear-headS are
large, and clipped regularly, and with a
keen edge.
Bertha, the youngest daughter OF Col.
II. Z. Davidson, nj Pennington, about
nine years of age, accidentally shot her
self. Wednesday evening, with a revolt
YER she found in 4 bureau drawer, in
fictiug a dangerous wound. The bullet
entered under the right jaw and came
out AT the left ear. At last accounts
the little patient was resting compare
lively easy.
Mr.. Levy Henry, formerly an engineer
on the second division of the b. & o. r..
r.. but of late working on the repairs of
the road, vas found dead early this
morning. lying between the tracks near
his home at Great Cacapon. 1t is sup
posed he met his death during the night
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