The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-27
STATE NOTES.
Matters of Interest Cleaned from West
virginia Exchanges.

virginia Exchanges.
/. D. Taylor. in the Elizabeth Times,
gives the following account OF bear
fight in Writ county: "0n the llth Of
this month | went to tho three forks OF
the Gauiey river on hunt accompanied
By Mr.. Price and William S. Hall, Of
Standing Stone, Writ county. he
second day after we arrived at the hunt.
ing grounds Hall went ont by himself
and said, Boys, will get bear to-
day. Sure enough, no came upon
three-an old one and two cubs. He
had Winchester rifle and shot one cub
when the old one came at him. He
shot hor twice, which was all the loads
he had in his gun, but he would not
run. He went in on her with hia empty
gun, and it was n fight for life, but Hall
killed his bear, after he had been bittoh
in several places. We all went out to
see the place and take in the two bear,
and had Il good time eating and chat.
ting over the fight. Hail ls no coward
or lie would have been killed. He says
he don't want any more bear fights"
The Fairmont West Vuginian says:
Last Friday Frank, the son OF Mr.. John
|. Swindler, discovered gas in his
fathers well. He stuck a match to 1t,
and the result was the curb was badly
shattered and the pump blown sky
ward and demolished. The explosion
was terrific. The gas, as well as the ex-
plosion, was readily accounted for, as q
leak was found in tho gas pipe, which
is buried close to the well curb. Frank
had a narrow escape, but came ont with
out scratch. Several others were
standing near and also escaped injury.
1t may be well enough to remark that
gas, like kerosene, can't be monkeyed
with.
Tho personal property OF Stephen B.
Elkins in New York City was appraised
in 1891 and 1892 at $1,000 His tax
upon it was fixed at $3.50 for 1891 and
at SlS5 for 1892. He did not pay the
tax and Thursday he was required to
show cause before Judge Andrews. An
affidavit was presented in behalf OF Mr..
Elkins, in which he stated that since
1889 he had been resident. OF Elkins,
W. Va, and had no residence in that
city. The judge decided that no was
therefore no. liable to taxation in New
York.
The Elizabeth Times has this: A very
sad case of accidental shooting occurred
Wednesday evening up near erosion,
this county, in which Floyd Vandall,
aged about twenty years, and son OF
Marshal Vandal, shot himself in the
throat with Winchester rife, the ball
ranging upward into his head. He was
on his way home from Creston, and
shot bird, and, in. reloading the gun,
it is supposed that he left it cooked,
and an accidental jar produced the dis
charge, with the result above named.
There is no hope OF recovery.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, through NJ. V. Richards, land
and immigrant agent, has sold tract OF
land in Hampshire county, on the line
OF the road, containing over three hun
bred acres, to party from Western
Pennsylvania. The purchasers are
farmers who think the land especially
adapted to their work, and will settle
upon it in short time. They report
that many other families are DESTROYS
OF moving to the same locality in West
Virginia if land can be purchased at
reasonable price.
The president OF the West Virginia
Conference Seminary at Buckhannon
anrounces that jubilee service will
be held at the seminary Friday evening
and night, December l, 1893, celebrating
the payment Of the debt OF $4,000 that
.nn,ninnI ,V,nn Paw Int nj, inanr fnnk
charge. He has certainly done splen-
did work in clearing the institution OF
debt in such short time.
The widely published reports 81 the
existence of smallpox in Harrison and
Taylor counties are said by responsible
citizens OF both counties to be untrue.
There is not, nor has there been, q case
OF the disease in either Clarksburg,
Pennington or Grafton, while the sus-
picious case at Bridgeport, it is now
stated, is simply chicken pox.-Fair-
mont Hest Tirsinian.
There is a patient atthe hospital for
the insane who says that he was very
well acquainted with Noah Of biblical
fame. he described the ark as an ordi-
nary flatboat, and says that the flood
was nothing more than freshet. This
same individual also irreverently insists
that he husked corn with Jesus Christ.
On Saturday the city OF Keyser cele-
brated the installation OF her new water
works. Addresses were delivered by
Rev. ]. II. Moore, Hon. G. W. Daley
and Rev. J. 0. Thompson. There was
display OF the power and effectiveness
OF tho water works alter the speaking
and - campfire in the evening.
The lumbermen on the line OF the
Baltimore & Ohio and West Virginia &
Pittsburgh railroads met at Buckhan-
non November 9 and effected an organ
ization. W. S. Price, OF Ciarksburg, was
elected president and A. II. Winchester
secretary. An adjourned meeting was
appointed for the 22d ut Weston.
At Craigsville, Nicholas county, Miss
Rachel Roe while standing in front OF
the fire her clothing caught fire, and be-
fore the flames could be extinGuished
she was seriously burned about the
body, from which it is feared she will
not recover.
Hon. G. G. sturgiss and Judge R. L.
Berkshire, OF Morgantown, have dis
solved their law partnership, after IN
association together for thirty=years.
Fairmont is paving'her streets and is
to have two new $4,000 hotels.
THE healthy people you meet have
healthy liyers. They take Simmons
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