Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-26
TOPICS.
m7TERS OF MOMENT FROM THE INTERIOR
COUNTIES
As ,ua.ei From the Columns Of tho Sh.s Press.
Oar Regular Weekly Budget Of West
Virginia News

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freight AID passenger train on the X.
Il NJ. railroad at Malpins, Mason
ronntv. Monday night about S o'clock.
A freight had taken side track in
order TO Leu the passenger train pass,
and after the freight had gone on the
sizing the switch was not closed. The
passenger, which has been running on
Tine, came in slow but fast enough TO
mash in the heads Of each engine when
the struck. Among the injured are
Chas. Snyder, OF Dayton, o., head bad
Iv cut; j. 7. Wilcox, OF Lancaster, o.,
head cut and other injuries; Lou An
derson, baggage master, of Charleston,
badly cut and bruised.
A sensational occurrence has Just
come 20 light az CiarkSburg. About
seven years ago Frank Male, from Bar
hour county. murdered Frank Menear,
and about year ago completed five
wears sentence ia the penitent.ary for
the crime. On his return be began Sc
cretly % pay some attention 90 Mrs.
Jack GaIner, q sister OF the man he
murdered. A short time ago they
canned the climax by clipping. Mrs.
Gamer has been married for 2I years,
NNA JAS EAhAa NAAlAANA lAA eHHt OF "a
rrandchildren. Six children, the old
est 10 years and the youngest a mere
baby, and left without a mother. Moth
ing is known Of the Whereabouts Of the
guilty party.
Gi.mer county can lay claim 20 some
thing out Of the usual order OF things,
we believe. For the last twelve years
the sheridalty OF the county has been
la the hands OF the McQUaluS, viz:
Hugh, Thomas and Alexander. Al
though 90 has been a kind OF a family
a1sir, Glmer never had q better sheriff
than she has had ia this period. Dur
ing the greater part OF the time A. 5.
NlQuain has been the deputy, and ne
has served the people so well that to-
day there is not q more popular young
man Ga the county than he, aud the
peop's would give him any Office he
might wish
Ground was broken for a new four
teeu-D0s furnace for the Rochester
tumb.lr works This will necessitate
the building Of an addition TO the pres
emit works 125x25O. The new furnace
win De the sixth in the plant. The
total cost Of the proposed Improvement
viii be about SO, 600 aud vii. increaSs
the output Of the concern about 25 per
cent. AT present the works have a ca
pacity for FIVE carloads, or about
$4,000 dozens day. The company
owns It's own gas wells and has an am
pie supply Of fuel.-HCnc0ck IpdcDead-
alt
The effort to have a Girls Industrial
H. h..fFr a. fha ~ poucn - the Gtafa
So that Little girls who are commencing
q lie of crime can have 4 refuge the
same as the boys have st PrUntytOWn,
has met with general approval. A bill
IS being prepared BY one OF the State
Senators who will introduce 10 at this
session OF the Legislature, and with the
aid OF friends OF the measure will have
10 passed, and many a little girl will be
saved thereby, after being snugly
Quartered in the Girls Industrial
Home.
The water was drawn from the Chess-
peak and Ohio canal last Saturday, and
ss soon as possible the work OF repairs
will be commenced 10 is said thar 4
large number Of new boats will be adj
ded On the spring and the management
will endeavOr 90 haul million tons OF
COS. the next season. The past season
has been she most successful the boats
mca have had for years. About 200
boats have been constantly running,
and over go, 600 tons Of coal have been
shipped.
VIM Bader, a patient at the Hospital
for the Insane, 40 Weston, committed
suicide Sunday morning about g o'clock
by tying two handkerchiets together
and hanging himself TO the iron guards
10 front OF the window. He was In hall
No 2, aud was found 10 = short time
after 10 occurred Ills people 40 Mason
City were notified Of the affair BY teie-
graph. This is the second suicide AZ
the Hospital within the past ten days.
AT Huntington two gamblers, Rush
Norman and Henry Collins, fought 3
strange duel. They Quarreled over a
game and agreed TO fight Il out with
beer bottles Aiming themselves &C
cOrdingly they went 70 a dark, Seclud-
ed place on Second avenue. Collins
vas badly hurt and Norman nearly
killed. His nose vas partly cut OF, his
left eve knocked out and his face cut
into shreds. Collins escaped 20 Ohio.
The Republicans of Wayne county
are making up joint stock company
for starting a paper at Dunlow. $1,000
have already been subscribed. There
has been a political opening ia this
county for a Republican paper for
years. 10 won't pay expenses at Dun
low but the proprietorS can have lots OF
fun.-WGHe NelrS.
We understand there has been a
typhoid fever epidemic sc the Dyer x
Ryrre saw mill camp ia Webster coun-
U. 10 the last few weeks four OF the
hands have died from the disease, and
there Stlll remain case or TWO. The
mill has had 90 close down on account
Of the unhealthy lOcatlon.-Bra1ton
Central
Two Grant county girls elOped with
lheir lovers last week AID were mar
Pied. one couple az Oakland and the
other AZ cumberland The first couple
were A. j. Welton, law student or
Petersburg. and Miss Cora Parker, and
the other Claude Wheaton and Miss
Leonora We,ton, both OF Petersburg.
Last Tuesday night the boom at Hull
ines. owned BY WEIGH Bros, broke, snd
also the one at Bretz, owned by the
Condou-Lans Boom and Lumber Com-
pany, letting az least 1000, GOO Ieet OF
logs and 600 cords OF pulp WOOD pass
The loss is estimated az S2o,OOo.
The Antiquarian Society Of This state
has acknowledged the receipt OF the
battle relies found on DroOp Mountain
Greenbrier county, by ID. T. GladwelI.