The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-31
THRouGn THE STATE.


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For years, Dolph Work, Of Point
Pleasant, has boon inthoilhbit Of Walk!
Ina n;hIs sleep, and last Monday night
he camc near walking into eternity.
Ito was sleepipsin the front room, Of
the second stoty 56 tliotnew jail bnild-
Ing, md while dreaming he: was sleep.
Ing In a room no recently occupied
while In Baltimore lie also dreamed OF
4 fro, and whilc itrying to escape by
means OF. q supposed' fire escape on tho
outside he foil tottIe gtoundga,distance
OF about twenty oct, striking on MI iron
flower vase, andIwhen he gained con.
scionsncss ho had his mouth buried in
tho sand. No bones. were broken, but
he wins pretty badly brushed up.--
Clarksbur1 MEs. 5 T'Yi 20
A most remarkable incident occurred
about six miles below this place last
Saturday. The gravel train on tho up
trip struck q COW, cutting the body in
two Immediately behind the shoulders.
The parts OF tho COW wero thrown at
least ono hundred foet apart 1t so
happened that tho COW was near caly.
Ing. and when the train was stopped
and tho trainmen went back to tho
scenc Of tho accident, they found tho
calf lying near the track unhurt.l The
cutting Of tho COW in two parts had in n
most miraculous manner delivered tho
calf as sound as u.Moxican dollar. The
calf Is well and hearty and kicks up its
heels as though II came Into existence
in the regular way Wayne NtlrS.
The Braxton Central has this: There
was n shooting scrapo on Big Otter last
Sunday. II seems that some cattle be-
longing to a man named lIamrick got
out Of his folds and went 10 tho farm Of
J.. II. Wills. Hamrick's son Henderson
went after the cattle, and when he ar
rived Wills was chasing them with a
dog. 1Iamrick drew q revolver and shot
the dog. This so angered Wills that he
drew his revolver and fired Mt lIamrick.
Fortunately tho ball struck n knitc in
lia,nrick's pocket and did no damage
beyond making n bad bruised place.
Other shots were exchanged, but all
went wide OF their mark.
We understand that n hundred and
fifty or two hundred hands arc Mt work
on tho railroad on Ganlcy, between
Gaulcy Bridge and Twenty Mile. Tho
road, 1t Is said, will DO built up Gauley
10 n connection with the W. Va. &Pitts-
burgh near the mouth OF Cherry. Tho
kanawhai & Michigan has begun work
on the extension Of its road from Nal
den. 1t Is stated that tho road up
Meadow river will not be built for some
time ut least, but tho road TIP Gauley Ia
a cortaintv--thAt work will bio begun
this eason -Nicholus Chronicle.
There was u very, shocking accident at
Charlestown. Tie mud plug Of tho
boiler at Mr.. Frank Weller's. foundry
blew out and caused fatal injuries 10
two Of Mr.. Woller's children. Ills two
little boys, aged respectively 7, and 8
years, were playing near whore tho
plug blew out. Iii IN instant they were
literally cooked by theSescaping steam,
and when rescued they were most
dreadfully scaldcd ; oh.1 every part of
their bodies Ono; Of the little boys
died the same night and the other is
not expected to ecover. Tho colorcd
engineer, whose name is Brady, is also
supposed TO DO fatally scalded.-Shep-
herdaoun Register.
On Spruce Fork, Roane county, re-
Gently, Joe StollinCs; who was drunk in
front OF .Powell,s store, kicked .a,goods
box down over Il bank. Susan Jeffrey
reprimandcd him for SO doing and
Siollings kicked and struck her for in
terfering. Her brother ALA undertook
10 defend hor and Stollings struck him
with n threo-inch bladed. knife, which
he LETT buried sto%thc2hilt inthe' boys
back. Young ~JeGrer-%was. struck with
n rock by Powell, knocking out four
teeth.
Tho work On Belington's remarkable
coal vein is being pushed rapidly for
ward, n large number OF men being at
work. Buildings are going up, and
from n townFoi one, house butra short
time ago. it'has become a village full oi
the hum OF industry. Tho natu ral re-
ourcos will insure q steady growth for
years to come. until the beautiful valley
and the low hills around arc covered
with buildings and streets. -Bererly En-
tcrpriss.
The Elizabeth Transcript says: One
among the saddest accidents that ever
occurred ut GreenvilIe, this county, &C.
Cured last Friday evening ut Mr.. Zoe!
Beckwith's stave mill. pashal EQUITY,
who was operating the elevator. by some
manner was caught in tho cog wheel OF
the elevator and was whirlcd around
several times, almost tearing his arm
oil, and seriouslyinjuring him inwardly,
from which he died Saturday morning.
Rev. Charles r. Taylor; OF the Meth
odist Protestant church, who now lives
in Williamsburg, Greenbrier county,
Inns walked on fourteen legs during his
life. lilo lost one OF his legs in the
White Sulphur battle. weighs about 200
pounds and is about sixty years of age.
Anderson Lewis, son oi Sanders Lewis,
colored, who lives two miles west OF
Princeton, was run over by 4 train on
tho Bluelieldyard lastSaturday mud torn
all to pieces. Ills romans were brought
here on Sunday ior Recommendations
weN Monitor.
The actual work Of construction on
:hc Fairmont, Morgantown Il Pitts
burgh railroad was begun last week, six
and 4 half miles from Morcantown, and
everything indicates that tho road will
be completed BY October.
The State Board OF Examiners will
hold examinations as follows: At
Wheeling. Ravenswood and Martins.
burg on Juno . and 3. at Clarlisbnra
June ii and 10, Mt Huntington June Is
and is, Mt Grafton Juno % and 20.
A rich copper mine has been liscoy-
cred in rendlcton county. The ore ia
plentiful in quantity, according to anal
ysis, and tho owner, Mr.. J. G. Bogus, ia
ncpntintinn with nnrthnrn cnn;.nlintr L.,