The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-28

A Wcllsburg Herald correspondent
writes rs follows: Several months ago,
MS Il few Of you may remember, wo cop.
led from remnant OF newspaper tho
advertisement OF Miss Rctta Bailey, OF
San Bcrnardino, Gail, asking papers to
copy and thus assist her III finding her
father, who had been lost to her for
many years. We received, recently, Il
letter from anoilicial oitlio above place
q very nicely Awritten. gentlemanly let.
ter, in which he states that the iacts are
all rs stated in the adj; and now VIC
come to where there is Q tinse OF 70.
nance connected with tho case. a we'll
to.do lawyer seems to have taken an in
terest in her iorlorn condition, and
whether attracted by her nd or not, We
are not prepared to say; but ut any
ratio, "Retta" and tho lawyer are mar
ried and living happily in San Bcrnar-
dino; and us stated in the letter, they
arc considered vcrygnice people and
well thought Of We mention the turn
OF affairs to lot you know OF her good
fortune in securing home OF her own,
and also, the great help her lawyer hus-
band will be to her i'll trying 10 find her
father.
Charles X. Greene and W. II. Stark,
real estate dealers OF Chicago, were in
town recently looking after land mat
tcrs. They were here in the interest OF
O firm that purchased what is known as
the Haskell survey OF 100000 acres OF
land on the little kanawha river, in
.Braxton, Gilmcr and Lewis counties.
Thomas S. Moilat protested TO own the
land and is said to have sold it to these
parties for. two dollars per acre, aud
they sent these gentlemen here to invcs-
tigate the title. The fact is that Nloaat
has not the shadow OF Il title to the land.
II anybody has purchased it they have
been badly taken in.-Brarton Democrat.
n. j. Brown, merchant Mt Mill
Point. in Pocahontas county, was rob-
bed OF $3.50 one night recently. As he
was closing his store two masked men
cane i'll and demanded his money. One
OF the robbers knocked Mr.. Brown
sensc!css to the floor and the two rihed
the safe OF TIE above amount. They
then went to the stable OF man named
Serels, where they stole q horse each
and fled.
Edgar kimberling, OF Union; district,
Blacksmith, who has been subject to
fits, OH Saturday evening fell into his
forge furnace, and was so badly. burned
about tho feet and legs, that l;hdied on
Sunday morning. 1t is supposed he had
gotten upon his forge to warm, when he
was overcome by fit and fell into the
fire. lie was married and leaves wife
and four children to mourn his unfortr-
nate anu terrible dcath.-PL. Pleasant
Register.
X remarkable divorce suit has just
been instituted at Romncy. Mrs. Sallic
Ann Shoemaker, OF Mill Greek district,
whose age is sixty.iive years and has
been married forty-siX years. living all
the time agrceably with her husband,
has now brought suit againsf him for
divorce, on the ground of alleged cruel
treatment. She is the mother OF eleven
children, all OF whom arc grown.
Last Sunday night some thieves en-
tered the telegraph Office OF the West
Virginia Central, at Kcyser, by letting
down the top sash OF window. The
safe, weighing something over a hun
drcd pounds, was taken about two hun
drcd feet from the building and blown
open by filling the key hole with pow
der. The safe had little silverwarc in
it. In all not more than so was taken.
Some strange iellow;entcred the First
National bank one day this week and
asked changefor five dollar gold piece.
While it was being glanced ut the fellow
became alarmed and decampad, lcavin
the coin in the possession OF the bani:
officials. 1t turned out to be copper
penny gildcd.-Hmtingion Commercial.
Kenova has three railroads already,
and is to have another by the 9TH OF May.
The contracts for the construction OF tho
Ohio River road cali for its completion
to that point by that date, and this will
be its terminusfor time ut least. Then
after awhile the Hooking Valley will be
bringing up.
An order for nine car loads OF bottles
has just been received at the West Vir-
ginia Bottle works from a.Louisville
firm. Another firm in Louisville wants
TO contract for Mi the Mason fruit Jars
the company can make between now
and the first OF July-Huntington Com.
mercial.
Two weeks ago some devil lay in am
bush and shot the mail carrier who car
ries tho mail between hurricane and
Byrnside, this county. The bullet struck
q book in the. carriers pocket and
glanced of, making. only slight flesh
wound.-Pu.nam Democrat. t2.
AS train No. on the West Virginia
y Pittsburgh railroad was going down
the Buckhannon railroad one day last
week, some miscreaut fired shot into
the train and narrowly escaped killing
q passenger from Wheeling whose name
was not learned.
Thomas Corners, a brakeman On the
West Virginia Central, had one OF his
legs badly crushed last Saturday at
Dobbin. He was about to board his
train when his foot slipped and he icll
between the cars. : =
1t is said that line of TWENTY-FIVE
miles OF railroad, up ;thd east fork Of
Twelve Pole, would open up tho way 10
moro cubic, feet of coal than road the
same length; anywhere else in the state.
The aggregate capital OF the three
glass iactorios in Central City lis $780,
600. Their annual output will reach
the handsome sum OF about 100000.
Hundreds Of gallons OF oil was seen
flowing down East river a few days since.
1t is supposed the oil came from the
ground atAda; ". Va.
One hundred and ninety students are,
snrolled.at the: Fairmont State Normal
School
Weston;is; enjoying tho best building
boom in its history.