Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-11
CUPID AND SATAN.
CONTINUED from Fourta Page.


vance payment, one-third, would be
Forthcoming the first of January. We
now learn that the time for this pay
ment has been prolonged six months,
ana mat the payment will be made the
hrSt.oI next July. Abstracts OF nearly
al the titles have been made, and the
deal Is about in shape to close. 1t is be-
leVed by some that the deal will not
materialize, but we know not upon
what they base their presumption. Six
months more will tell what there is in il.
On last Saturday deaf and dumb
man, who works at making cheese,
/ spent some time in New Martinsville
Late In the evening Harve Harrlgan, a
well-known tough OF that town, bor-
/ roWed Skitf In the absence Of the owner
and put the man across the river.
After landing he walked across Bow
mans field, and when they arrived In
/ suitable place he stepped behind the
deaf man and struck him with a club,
/ inhicting painful wound. The man,
as he fell, fired his revolver, when the
well-known tough fled. The injured
man is now at Isaac Gehring's, confined
TO his bed from the injuries. The OBJ
| Ject was robbery, as he had about $3.50
on mis- person.
Some time ago the United States
authorities arrested girl some distance
above Hamlin, Lincoln county, named
/ Mcclure, for Illicit diStilling, and she
/ was taken before a Commissioner at
( Charleston, and gave bond for her APP
pearance in the sum OF $1,000. Her
brother is now wanted, but defes ar
rest like his sister, and says he will
massacre any one that comes to take
/ him. The lad will be pinched, how
eAer, and il won't take regiment Of
soldiers TO do it, either. Mr.. Mcclure
/ Is wanted and must come to time. The
| place where Mcclure lives, who is about
thirty, is on the edge of Boone county,
and very rough place, situated on
/ Slab creek.
The Herald recently heard a report
/ from Justice Rhodes court at Cottage
| VILE, similar TO the judgment Ct the
| Dutch Squire dismisSing the case at the
| cost OF the constable. After hearing
| the case through Justice Rhodes an
nOunced that the plaintiff had no canSe
| for action, that the suit would never
have been brought except for collu-
/ sion between counsel, and that the case
! was therefore dismissed at the cost of
! the attorneys. each of whom should pay
| fee bills against his client. Rather than
/ incur the i'll will of the fiddler, the
counsel, we'll known to COttageville
/ luminaries, danced to the music.-JdCk-
| SON Herald.
A Mr.. Fordyce, of Detroit, Mich.
| said to be a very wealthy capitalist, and
| representing other capitalists, was at
| Huntington several days recently, look
| ing after franchises and rights of way
for an electric road to connect that city
/ with Ashland and intermediate points.
| II built, it is intended to cross the Big
| Sandy on their own bridge. In Hunting
| ton they ask for q franchise over
number of streets. Franchises have
| been favored and filed at the Hunting
| ton, Cabell county, Court; Ceredo,
Wayne county, Court; Catlettsburg,
Ashland and Boyd county, KY, Courts.
On Monday some Of the Lewisburg
| boys gathered up an empty bomb she'll
| and charged IL with powder, with a view
/ to having a Christmas "crack, as they
/ called it. They carried it TO what they
/ thought a safe distance from any ones
/ house, and fred il by means Of fuse.
/ Ii exploded with a terrific report that
/ was heard for miles around, and threw
/ pieces of the shell in every direction.
/ One piece struck 3 window In DR.. j. A.
| Lsrue's house, about $50 yards away,
/ breaking up the sash and scattering
| glass over the floor on the inside.
u. 5. Court Stenographer Z. c.. Frame
/ met with u narrow escape a few days
ago while going from Parkersburg to
| Grafton. Jus. as the train was coming
! out Of a tunnel two large stones rolled
\ down the steep embankment, one of
\ them passed through the window in
\ front of and the other crashed through
\ the window immediately behind Mr..
/ Frame. The occupant of one Of the
/ seats was struck on the arm and badly
/ injured. II was a, close call for Carl.
In Anderson Watts saloon at Hunt
/ ingtOn, Monday evening, a sanguinary
difficulty occurred between Merchants
! Policeman Griffith and Anderson Adkins,
| of Guyandotte. A discussion arose be-
tween the two over some trivial matter
\ that eliminated in blows. Adkins
| knocked Griffith down and then kicked
! him Shamefully, breaking his nose and
| generally distiguring his face.
What proved fatal cutting ARRAY
| took place in 2. S. Dyer's saloon, in
! Buckhannou, Christmas night, in which
/ Willis Merriman was stabbed in the
stomach, letting his entrails out, by
/ Frank Brown, both colOred. Brown
/ !. a Tofl 70 hn
Of the grand jury for his nefarious act
/ aud Merriman died at the Phoenix
| Hotel Thursday night.
Last Sunday morning James Carpen-
ter and Miss Nancy Farris undertook TO
cross Elk In Lochinvsr style, both
/ riding the same horse. When about
midway in the stream the horse lost his
/ footing and fell. Being unable TO re-
| nount. the couple had quite long
wade TO the shore. They were nearly
frozen when they reached the house OF
Mr.. Berri McCourt.-WebSter Echo.
The body Of Henry Reck, b. Il o..
brakeman, was found along the railroad
tracks az Weverton the day after Christ
mas IL is believed by some that he
| was murdered, as he had been in quar-
rel short while before. He was from
Nsrtipsburg, where be leaves a wife
and little child hGpherdSlOtrn Reg
| lister.
Mrs. Lucy Poe, relict Of the late
Jonathan Poe, died at the home OF her
! step-grandSon, Jonathan Lucas, AT
| Grafton. on Thursday morning at the
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