Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-20
revolver. butMr. overall did not care

a revolver, butMr Overall did not care
to take it.
Sylvester Peacher a well known resi-
dent of the vicinity of Harper's Ferry,
was instantly killed last Friday at Wash
ington Junction. He was stealing q ride
/ on aB. & O. freight train, and in attempt
| ing to Jump of while the cars were IN
motion, fell under the wheels and was in
stantlY killed.
While Mr.. V. p Hill and lis wife were
! driving near Uvilla, Jefferson county, some
/ DAYS ago the horse took fright and ran
away. The carriage was upset and demol :
lshed and the occupants thrown out. Mrs.
| Hill had her shoulder blade broken and
Mr.. Hill was severely bruised.
The fourteen-year old son Of Ed. Hogsett,
| deceased, of Mason county, fell from
mulberry tree Monday at his home in
! MERGERS Bottom, and sustained such in
| juries that his life is despaired of. His
! fall was the result of an epileptic TT to
which he is subject.
On Wednesday, the lst instant, Mr.. Mar
J tin Holinsworth, of Falling Spring dis
trict, Greenbrier county, dropped dead
while working in his tobacco patch, it is
supposed of heart disease. He was about
: 90 years of age, and was a quiet unassum-
ing man.
A fourteen year old son OF the widow
Myers, of Ripon, was playing circus in that
village, by giving a tight rope performance
on the top board of plank fence, last sat
urday, and fell and broke his arm very
badly, so that the bones protruded through
the skin.
One day last week on Kiahs creek, thirty
miles above Wayne g. H., John Austin and
Sherman Paine got into row over game
of cards in which Austin shot Paine
through the heart killing him instantly,
Austin was arrested and lodged in jail.
The patriotic ladies Of Lewisourg pro-
| pose some day in the latter part of this
month that the usual floral tribute be paid
TO the memory of the brave Confederate
dead in the cemetery on the hill There
will be an Grafton and choice music.
Las: Wednesday night a bad break oc-
Cured ON the &. 4 o. canal on the four
teen-mile level above Cherry Run. II eX-
tended twenty feet below the banks, and II
was estimated that it would take two
weeks to repair 1t.
J 4 handsome map of the new town Of
tCamden, on the Gauley, has been issued.
tTbe future of this young town Is very
promising. It's location is good and 1t VIII
40 doubt become a place OF considerable
Importance.
Judge Faulkner overruled the motion for
4 new trial in the Smooth murder case, and
thursday morning sentenced him 10 be
sanged on Friday, October !, between 10
. IN. and , p. m. IN the Jail yard at Charles
town.
A terrible accident occurred at Four Pole,
CaDell county, while Minnie Williams was
playing along the creek when "A sand bank
CaVed in and buried her. When removed
she was unconscious, and soon died.
While Huntington has escaped smallpox,
so far yet the city is scourged with dlph-
liberia and scarlet fever, which the health
officer ascribes to the bad sanitary condi-
ton Of the city.
Col. George Dodds, Of Mcdowell county,
fell dead last Tuesday about ten miles be-
low the mouth of Ben creek. He was
native of England, where he was born in
1916.
The brick works at Ronceverte are in
operation, and when run at full capacity
will turn out 10000 bricks per day. Be
tween forty and fifty men will be employed.
Aaron Newman, a native OF Roxboro,
N. c., was killed at Moorman's lumber
camp in Mcdonnell county, few days ago,
by falling boom.
Charley the fourteen -year-old son of
Capt and Mrs H NJ Mitchell, was
drowned in Mud river Saturday, near
Ona.
The body Of Joseph Johnson, drowned
near Hamlln, TWO weeks ago, has been re-
covered.
The thermometer registered 1O4 in the
shade at Flynn, Jackson county, the other
day.
A detective agency has been organized
at Elkins.