Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-12
STATE TOPICS.
Items OF Inherent from the Interior
Counties.

Items OF Interest from the Interior
Counties.
Hogs ara dying OF IN Gllmer county
for want Of food.
Wellsburg natural gas consumers are
kicking against the Introduction OF
meters.
A snake 10 feet long and inches
about the girdle was dug out Of a NOR
tar vat az Chenille.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Montgomery, Of
Parkersburg, were hurt in a. Indiana
railroad accident.
Calhoun county will hold \ fair next
year. A company with capital OF Sl0,-
900 has been organized.
The EOworth League OF the Parkers-
burg n. f. Church, south, fed 800 poor
children Thanksgiving day.
Mrs. Les Logan pulled thu tresses OF
Hattie Robinson, az Parkergburg, for
alleged iamiliarities With Mr.. Logan.
A COW belonging 90 u. ID. Emrick, or
TopDen's Grove, Jackson county, walked
into his barn and cheWed up about one
half pound Of tobacco which WAS hang
ing IN the barn drying. Tho COW died
painful death.
Jas. E. Neal, OF Parsons, Tucker coun-
~, who three weeks ago was sent home
from an insane asylum sc Philadelphia
Pa, 40 cured, has again become Insane
and dangerous. He locked his wife in
her room and going into his sister-in-
laws room began choking her, and had
it not been for a pasSer-by hearing the
screams and giving the alarm be would
undoubtedly have killed her.
Mineralized Rubber Company, OF New
York, was given the contract Tuesday
20 furnish Piedmont 600 feet OF hose 20
stand o pressure OF 400 pounds 70 the
square inch, for O. cents per foot. The
council also bought a reel watch will
cost about Sf4. Tails viii give the town
two good reels.
An old oil well Oh the Moore farm at
Burning Springs was being sand
pumped recently for a little OIL when It
suddenly began 20 Cow at the rate or
100 barrels Of oil per day, and the pres
sure of the gas became so great thar 10
blew an old sand-pump cut OF the well.
BY inquiry 20 was learned that the well
was drilled by Captain Padsn, Of Park
ersburg, TO 1861, ana the sand-pump,
which was made OF copper, had been IN
the well since that time.
Justice 2. L. Blan kinship, OF East
Lynn, who acted as coroner at the in
quest Oh the body Of Davis, was in
Wayne Wednesday. he informed rs
that the evidence shows three shots 20
have been fred, and three or the par
ties admit 20 have fred one shot each.
It's nos known which fred the shot
that took effect. The warrant in the
hands Of the constable is not much
protection, as the Justice who issued 70
lives in Lincoln county, as we'll as the
constable who was executing 10. The
shooting was done In Wayne.-WGgRe
NeiCS.
Last Friday night a constable Of LIN
coin county, with force Of mon, went
over into the edge OF Wayne 20 arrest a
Young man named Pig Davis, on war
rant of l1Ag standing for misdemeaaor.
Davis has been lodging she officers,
but slipped in home and was seen BY
some of the neighborS who repOrted the
fact 10 the officers. Tbs officers and
PARTY surrounded the house and when
they made their presence known, Davis
ran out and undertook 20 escape. The
marty opened IRE on him, one ball
striking him Ia the lower part OF she
body. The wound was fatal, and the
Young man died Sunday. An inquest
was held Sunday, but we have not
learned the result.