The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

PERsoNAL--T- Stribling, Esq,
returned Saturday from a trip East.
! Mr. John A. Armstrong, Jr., is
suffering from bono felon on his
right hand.
Mr. Homer Smith left Monday for
Now Orleans.
Mr.. f. D. Hoy went to Charles
ton Sunday evening, accompanied
by his daughter. Miss Mary, who
will remain there to attead school.
Capt Joe. Helm, Mrs. C. f. Hess
and Mr.. A. f. Kisar, accompanied
by Misses Freda and josie Hess and
Miss Maude Kisar, left for Licking
ton, Ohio, Sunday, where these
young ladies will be placed in a
Catholic school.
On last Thursday night Miss Alice
Neale gave riding party, to some
eight couple, which was greatly en-
joyed
Prof Myers, of the Experimental
Agricultural Station, Morgantown,
was in town Sunday.
Mrs. Lizzie Henderson, of Ur-
bana, Ohio, accompanied by her
children, is here on visit to her
father, Col G. B. Thomas.
Mr. David Price and family NOV
ed last week into their handsome
new residence on the corner of First
and Decatur Streets.
Miss Mary Jones, of Charleston,
is visiting relatives in this place.
Mrs. E. B. Clark, of Parkersburg,
is the guest of Mrs. Judge Guthrie
this city.
Editor P. C. Stevens, and wife, of
the Winfield Irrepressibte, were in
our city Monday.
A BAD WRECK. = Friday night
about 10 o'clock, a bad wreck oc-
Cured to a freight train going south
on the Ohio River Railroad. The
train was made up at this place,
and was heavy one taking helper
to push it along the heavy grade to
the bridge. Just at the scales above
the depot, one of the cars jumped
the track run along the ties until it
struck the cattle, guard just before
the trcstle is reached. Here the
trucks became deranged and the
work of destruction commenced.
The train ran onto the trestle and
the lead engine and a number OF
cars got over safely, but when the
derailed car reached the trestle it
tore up the guard rail and ties and
knocked out several bents in the
trestle. Some sixteen cars were
preciptated into the creek bottom
in a shapeless mass. This will be a
heavy loss to the company, and twill
take several days to clean away the
wreck and repair the trestle and
ties along the road bed. No one
was killed, and only one man injur-
cd, and he only slightly.
The Asiatic cholera is steadily
making its way westward from
Russia, and on Wednesday the pa
pers announced that it had made its
appearancei in London. The disease
has a firm foothold in Germany,
and is on the increase. In the city
o. Hamburg alone on Tuesday $40
new cases of the cholera were re-
ported and 319 deaths. In Berlin
and Bremen the plague is also pre-
valent, though it is not SO bad as in
Hamburg. Despite precautions,
the cholera has been carried into
England, and in several seaport
towns it has gained a foothold.
The first case occurred in London
on Tuesday, having developed in a
Russian emigrant who had just ar
rived from the infected district.
There is little doubt that the
disease will be brought to this
country, either through the mails,
or by freight, or by immigrants or
passengers. Itis gratifying to note,
however, that the most stringent
measures are being taken by the
health authorities at all seaports,
and no vessels will be allowed to
land either passengeres or goods
until all have been closely examin-
ed and thoroughly disinfected.
The steamship lines have practically
suspended the carrying of immi-
grants from the infested districts.
The progress of tho dreaded
scourge will be watched with in
terest-and alarm.
Charles Town Free Press: AS
Mrs. JAS. Law. Hooff and her
daughter, Miss Daisy, wcrc return
ing from town to their home in the
country on Tuesday, the horses