Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-11
CRINE AND CASUALTY
MURDERS lUSHAPS AND SHOOTING AND
CUTTING ARRAYS
Reported From Various Counties Of the Slala-Ihe
General News Of the Week as Cleaned
From ha County Press

idea OF a city hospital
Fred West, Of Jackson county, was
very dangerously hurt on tle Fourth,
by large 6recracker.
George c. Haldeman was killed by
train near Central Station, Dodge coun-
ty. on the night OF the 4th inst.
French Ellis, of Logan county, killed
crane last week, which measured o.
feet from tip TO tip and was 90 rect
high.
Squire w. o. Barrick died at Sisters
vile, on the seventh, Of heart failure,
dropping dead as be attempted TO Sit
down on a doorstep.
The contract for the new hotel at SUIT
ton has been let 90 Il. a. Black, OF Park
srsburg. The building will be three
stories and have fifty rooms.
A free fight between the negroes on
the extension OF the Norfolk Il Western
railroad, near the Marcum tunnel, oc-
Cured last week in which four negroes
are reported killed.
Hinton IS again a "wet town" The
town council on Saturday night last
granted six permits TO obtain license,
and the county court will be convened
az once 20 issue the licenses.
There was a right lively time on the
Fair Grounds at Ciar6sburg, on the
Fourth. Several men were badly hurt
and Oficor DeisOu had 90 fire sew
eral shots into the crowd before order
could be restored.
Duncan Criss, a young man about IL
years old, who resides with his grand
father, Mr.. Samuel Kelley, of West MIL
ford, was accidentally shot in the thigh
while handling a shot gun on the morn
ing Of the Fourth. His recovery is
doubtful
On Wednesday Of last week four prls-
Oners who were confined In Wyoming
county jail made their escape. The
Wyoming NeCs inclines TO the belief
that they were assisted from the out
side They were the three Roles and a
man named West.
Mr.. John w.. Honaker, while grading
wheat near Union last Monday evening,
July 4th, stumbled ana fen forward,
bis right knee striking SQUarely on the
cradle-blade. A terrible cash was cut
on his knee the effects of which will
disable him for some time TO come.
Il is rumored that a spring has been
found on the n. 81 W.. railroad, near
Naugatuck, that flows a LIQUID more eX-
hilaratinR and intoxicating than whis-
ky. A fellow can get on q good Jag"
and not feel the worst for 10. We may
expect 70 hear OF many people going 10
Naugstuck.-ChNrlCStOp Gazette.
John W. Fuchs, OF Germany, this
county, on Monday OF last week cut III
dozen Of wheat Who has done better?
Not ten or twenty-five years ago, but
recently It is always easy 20 find men
who have done wonderful things a CEN
tury ago. What we want is a man that
can beat that in an ordinary days work
without making a special effort-IWCr
Ger
Louie Yeager was badly though not
seriously hurt 40 Thomas one day asst
week His engine was being turned on
the turn-table as he attempted TO get of
70 OIL it, when be slipped and fell about
fift cen feet into the pit. Fortunately,
however. in falling no bones were
broken, but he was badly bruised and
shaken up. so that be has been confined
TO his room since.
On the afternoon Of the 4th Hon.
Franklin Maxwell was found dead near
his home near West Union. He had
gone out to weed a potato patch but
few minutes before his lieless body
was found. He was in his 79th year,
and a native Of Harrison county. His
wealth Is estimated at from $500. 600 20
1000, 600. He had large farming and
stock interests through the central part
Of the State.
Capt G.. NJ. Whitescaryer is putting
In large saw mill at PiCkons. The
raj Dad Is completed to Pickens and
DOil ing towards Marlint0n, aud we be-
lieve will soon be built there. Three
large coal banks have been opened one
half mile from the Alexander Station.
Messrs q. ID. ChOrDouing, @. b.
Broomfeld and r. Il. Rohrboah, engi-
neers, are now lying of a town for @.
B. SweCker, at Alexander -POcdh0ntoS
Times.
While Isaac Sayre, OF jackson county,
lay dying from the effects of his injur-
les in the railroad accident at Jackson
O. a., mention of which was made last
week, he asked C. z. Ruble TO write bis
will, but as a delay of fifteen or twenty
minutes had been Occasioned by search
ing for a book of forms, Just as the doc
ument was completed ready for the sig
nature-an hour and a half after the
unfortunate accident-the teStat0r
passed TO the great beyond.
At Beech Creek, Logan county
Ellison Prather was shot through
the hips with a 44-caliber pistol, by
his cousin, Levi Pratber. il seems
that they were engaged in game Of
cards, when a dispute arose with the
above results. Reports from that To-
cality state that Ellison Prather is still
alive. but the chances FOR his recovery
are very doubtful, as the wound seems
to be considered by the attending ply
sician as very dangerous.
saturday night about midnight a man
was found up near Holderby's grove,
Cabeli county, With his head caved in,
and suffering terribly from the bruises
and cuts inflicted by an assault. lie
was found by Officer HerndOn and taken
90 the Seventh avenue hotel at Hunt
ington. All night Saturday and sun
day be was unconscious, but later im-
proved enough 90 state that he was as
saulted by three unknown men, one of
whom struck him over the head with
coupling pin. He is vet In a bad cOndi-
ton and unable 30 speak his name iu-
telligibiy. He Is a stranger.
There was an ugly cutting affair at
ProctorFille on Monday. John Burns
and Peter WhiteleY quarreled at pic
mic, and Whiteley pushed a fight on the
F,rarar rnftfnu him down and