The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-20
THROUGH THE STATE.
Items and Events Of Interest Cleaned from
Exchanges.

Exchanges.
The people Of Grafton have begun Or,
parations for Decoration Day.
Pestiferous ours have been playing ga
havoc with various aocks OF sheep Il
Greenbrier lately.
The work OF grading tue streets O
Central City began last week. Tw,
manufactures will be established ther,
which will employ 500 men.
Work on the big powder works a
Kellogg, Wayne county, will be com
pleted and the works will probably com,
mence about the middle Of May.
Hon. Eustace Gibson, who has beer
gravely Ill at his home at Huntington
for several weeks, Is reported somewhat
better, but 1t is not believed that he car
recover.
Any person who swindles a hotel OF
boarding house, or In other words
Jumps" board bill, Is liable to term
Of six months in jail, according to an act
passed at the recent session of the Legis.
lature.
Mrs. Collins, OF Richie county, at.
tempted suicide last Monday at her home
In Murphy district, near Hazel Green.
She swallowed concentrated lye. Trou.
BILE with Collins, her husband, is said to
be the cause.
1tappears that Will s. Armstrong Of
Bruceton, Preston county, who was in.
dicted at the late term OF the Circuit
Court for raising two promissory notes
of Samuel Forman, has left there for
parts unknown.
Mr.. 7. W. Bsale, OF Harper's Ferry,
took drink from q bottle which he
thought contained "rheumatism rem.
edy." II happened to be double ex.
tract Of ammonia, however, and Mr..
Beale has a very sore mouth.
The Charleston Mining, Manufactur.
ing and Improvement Company have
decided on Wednesday, May 10, as the
day for the distribution OF lots to stock.
holders and Thursday and Friday, May
IA and 10, as sales day-when lois will
be offered and sold tothe highest bidder.
Mr.. Wash Moore, living on Knapp's
Greek, Pocahontas county, has for years
kept an exact record OF the snowfall in
his viCinity-the number,of SHOWS dur.
lug the winter aud the depth OF each.
According to his record, twenty.eight
snows fell on Knapp's Greek during the
winter Just past. aggregating 10l inches
in depth.
Hon. Logan 0sbourn, one OF the best
known citizens Of Jefferson county, and
a wealthy stock.raiser, died on Monday
evening last at the National Hotel, in
Washington, where he had been spend.
ing the winter. Mr.. 0sbourn was a mem
ber Of the Virginia constitutional con.
vention Of lS60-6l, voted against the or
dinance, and was a decided Union man
throughout the late war. After the war
he served in the West Virginia Legisla.
ture.
The work OF repairing the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Is being pushed along at
a great rate, and over a thousand men
are at work along the line from Oumber-
land to Georgetown. AT Harper's Ferry
there is big force Of men repairing the
immense damage to the locks at that
place. The officials say that they will
have the canal in running order from
to Williamsport by May
10th, and by July lst they hope TO have
It completed to Georgetown.
The great Pocahontaa Colliery, which
turns out an average OF $500 tons Of
coal per day, furnishes a peculiar geo.
graphical complication, as its workings
are in two States and three counties.
The mine is in the Flat Top region,
which embraces portions Of West Vir-
ginia and Virginia. The opening from
which the coal Is taken ontisin Virginia,
while the works are ventilated from an
opening in Mercer county, West Vir.
gtuia. The workings also extend into
Mcdowell county, West Virginia, and
Taaewell county, Virginia.
Joseph Peck, OF Logan county, the
man who set FIRE to the Guyandotte Jail,
was taken to huntington. He was
taken before Squire Taylor, where an
examination was made, and he was ad.
judged insane. He was taken to the
county Jail to wait a commission from
the insane asylum managers for admis.
sion. Shortly after being locked up, he
made an attempt TO burn the jail, Just
in thesame manner attempted in Guyan-
dotte. The screams Of the prisoners at
tracted attention and brought help TO
the jail. Peck laughed heartily at the
situation and thought It was q great Joke
TO burn Jail or raise a great disturb.
ance. Peck is an ex.Sheriff Of Logan
county.