Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-11
STATE TOPICS
BRIEF NOTES OF A MULTITUDE OF INTER-
RSIlNG MATTERS.
The More Important Events Of the Past Week Oc-
earring Through the Length and Breadth
Of West Virginia


at q. S. Court at Charleston last week.
The State Bar Association will meet
at Grafton the eighth Of next January.
John Hardy will be hanged at WEIGH,
Mcdowell county, on Friday, January
10, 1894.
-Four prisoners broke out OF the jail
at RavenswOOd. Two OF them were
captured.
The depot at Sutton was broken into
Thursday night and six gallons OF
whisky was stolen.
A new ten-room school house is to be
built az Elkins. It will be the best pub
lie building 10 Randolph county.
Achild Of Mrs. Clayton. living near
Hopkins switch, Braxton county, was
perhaps fatally burned last week.
Felix Sutton. Of BraxtOn county, has
been arrested by the U. 5. authorities
for using cancelled postage stamps.
Lieutenant Garrett Vanmeter, Of Illi-
nois, brought down a 2OS-pound hve-
pr0nged buck in Hardy county last
week.
Hon. Marion Cannon, Of California,
was born at MorgantOwn, and left for
the Golden Gate in an OK cart az the age
Of eighteen.
U. S. Mcneil has made an assign
ment az Marlinton, PocahOntas county.
Liabilities about $4,000; assets enough
to cover them.
A store on Williams river, belonging
~ % nh ~ n
was burned last week. Loss, Sl,sOO;
Insurance $500.
The store Of Capt. 5. A. Gilmore, at
Highland, Pocahontas county, was
burned last week. The loss is not
stated; insurance $4,000.
A ffteen-year.old boy from Mansfield,
Mass, who was bumming his way to
Baltimore, was killed on the b. " ..
track near Sir Johns Run.
The Petersburg Board OF Trade has
had its periodical reorganization.
Financially it is in good condition with
two dollars in the treasury.
Judge Faulkner has appointed Mr..
/ John M. Daniel Clerk Of the Circuit
Court of Jefferson county, 20 I'LL the
vacancy caused by the death OF i. w.
Latimer.
Howell, Shanklin & bowman, Of
Charleston, have secured the contract
10 do an extensive lot Of plumbing and
sanitary work at the Hospital for the
Insane at Weston.
Will A. Strickler, assistant clerk Of
the West Virginia Senate, has taken
the management and editorial control
Of the LeUCr, the new Democratic pa
per at PennsborO, Richie county.
We learn as we 90 70 press that in
removing the casing Of the RaVenswood
we'll a valuable quality OF oil was dis
covered. Ii was above the coal and had
been cased out Of the well.-JdckSoR
Herald.
Hon. Champ Clark, while not born in
West Virginia, might almost be claimed
by her, as he graduated at Bethany Col
lege In 1873, and was President OF Mar
shall. College at Huntington In 1881.
Farmers Advocate.
The exhibit OF the Piedmont Pulp and
Paper Company and the West Virginia
Paper Company, OF Piedmont, that was
on exhibition az the Worlds Fair, mas
been given % the Piedmont school.
The money value OF the exhibit is $3.50.
Besides the two Senators and four
Representatives 10 Congress from West
Virginia, all OF whom were born within
the present limits OF the State, there
are three other Representatives who
had the honor OF first seeing light on
West Virginia soil
An incendiary fire at Niddletown Fri
day morning destroyed the business
houses OF Eli Ketzebue and James
Smith, also the Baker hotel and three
other small dwellings. The loss is
placed at SIS, 900. This is the first
severe fire in the history. Of the town.
Rapid work is being done in piping
natural gas into Charleston from the
well near BrOWnstOWn. Mr. FOrman,
who Is connected with the Eastern Gas
and Oil Company, says that he will have
gas piped into the city this week.
They have a mile already down, and
will Dush the work as rapidly as posi-
bic.
An old stage coach passed east over
the B. g. o. last week. IL was built IN
1881 and was used for carrying the
mail over the States of Illinois and In
diana. 1t is very much battered up
and full of bullet holes, having several
times been attacked by highwaymeh
and Indians. 10 will bs placed in the
National Museum at Washington.
Sd. Portmess, a B. s. o. brakeman,
fell from his train near Harper's Ferry
last sunday and died In q short time.
While attending his funeral his sister
in-law, Mrs.J. n. Portmess, Of Parkers-
burg, contracted a cold, from the effects
of which she died on Friday. Mr.. Port
mess, Of Parbersburg, has lost SIX rela-
tives within a YeSr.
Hiram Wiegal and daughter, OF Riv-
erside, a suburb Of ParkerSburg, have
heen arrested for incest. The story re-
lated by the complainant is revolving.
He says they live in the utmost deprav-
ity, and that the woman cannot live
but a short time, on account OF sickness
and starvation. Another daughter, it
is alleged, mas died from the same
causes.
Let Us see-the Democrats nOmi-
mated a rascal for judge in New York
and the Democrats defeated him. The
Republican party nominated rascal
for governor in Iowa and the Repu5-
lcans elected him. This Is simply
what happened and 10 always happens
that way, and perhaps the party of
great moral ideas can tell as Why
WC,zel Democrat
The Parkersburg Liar" has at last
gotten himself into trouble. He tele-
graphed to the PittSburg Dispatch the
other day that there was trouble ia
Company E, Spilman Rides and that
Captain Morrison had been asked TO
resign but bad refused 70 do 50. Ihere