Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-09
AN ATHLETIC GHOST
WHO IS DISTURBING BARBOUR COUNTY Pho
PLR BY THROWING STONES
Several Serious Hunting Accidsnis-Disd From
Snake Bis-Gsnsral News From All
Over the Slaia

"A great deal has been SAID Dy
press throughout the country IN regard
20 the mysterious movements that have
taken place at a mill near Valley Fur
mace, In Barbour county, for the past
few months, all Of which the PlamdcaJcr
has doubted as being genuine until one
Of its reporters saw Gene Mcdaniel of
this county, who is we'll known as a
man Of the most sterling veracity. Mr..
Mcdaniel visited the haunted mill in
company with several gentlemen, and
spent the night there, all Of whom tes-
tify 10 the strange and miraculous
movements about the place. Before
they got their horses hitched they
could boar stones striking the mill, aud
on approaching nearer could see stones
weighing from q half to two or three
pounds start from the ground and strike
the side Of the mill some twenty feet
high aud fall 70 the ground again near
the mill. Mr.. Mcdaniel brought one OF
the stones to his home ana still has IL
for inspection. He says twas impossi-
bic for human hands TO have anything
to do with these mysterious movements
OF the stones; it occurred a number OF
times and within a few feet Of where
he was standing. Mr.. Mcdaniel, after
spending one night 90 the mill, is fully
convinced that the numerous stories
that have been told are true, ana that
the Valley Furnace mill is truly
haunted PlGiRdedler.
A man name Eskew, whose people
live back of Red House, prOfessed 70 be
a real snake charmer, and two weeks
ago brought to Winfield a box Of living
rattlers and copperheads, exhibiting
them on the street. He would for $3.50
allow or make the most poisonous Of his
species bite him on the hand or In the
temple. With his naked hand he
caught a copperhead back Of Red House
four miles and to all appearances had
it under control, handling IL with the
rest. The rattlers bit him as often as
TWO or three times a day, never even as
much as producing q swelling. Satur-
day the copperhead bit him on the
thumb, and sunday morning be was
training "snaiX" in q 'world hat is
fairer than day" Copperheads are bad
things 70 be ioOling with, as they are
loades 81 both endS.-PJtnGm Demo
crdt.
j. B. Martin and Thomas Robinson
prevented a wreck on the Western
MARYLAND Railroad near Martinsburg,
last Sunday night. They discovered
lying on the track near HsgerStOwn a
big boulder, and. thirty feet further on,
-F-.m-n - Hwnn oil Laid nnRnFnIIW
across the rails. Either would have
been sufficient 20 derail a train. The
two men had scarcely removed the OBJ
structions before an extra train for Bal
timore dashed by. There Is a ten-foOt
embankment at the place. There Is
also a sharp curve which would make 10
impossible for the engineer 70 see the
obstruction tn time. 10 is thought this
was an attempt to wreck a train.
NJ. /. Barnett found an old MIssIs-
sippi rife last week about 8 hall mile
below what IS known as the Aldrich
place, in Braxton county. IL was prob
ably dropped there by soldiers away
back 10 the sixties. The stock, which
was Of walnut, was badly d~ecayed. The
barrel, rammer aud tallOW box were 10
u good state Of preservation. The gun
was loaded, and upon being heated for
the purpose OF extracting the breech-
pin,the powder exploded with sufficient
power to force the ball from its resting
place Of the last thirty years.
We learn that SO persons took the
train at Ronceverte last Monday morn
ing for the Worlds Fair, and that there
were over 81, 100 worth Of tickets sold.
There were % got on at Fort Spring, 45
at Anderson and 60 at Hinton, making a
total Of 220 sc these stations. Ii has been
estimated that SIS, 900 has been spent
BY Greenbrier citizens to see the great
Worlds Fair, and that about $4,000 OF
this amount was spent by the citizens
Of Lewisburg. Verify, the money OF
the country is centsring at Chicago
GreenbrtCr Independent
William Martin, 13-year-old son OF
James Martin OF Dunbar, accidentally
shot himself through the heart Wed
nesday. The lad was looking for some
thing 10 a bureau drawer when he
found a 30 calibre revolver. BE began
to examine it when IL was discharged,
the bullet passing through his heart.
The noise Of the shot brought his
mother and when she reached the room
the boy was dying upon the floor. She
picked him up and he expired In her
arms.
Mrs. Harry II. Bernie sent this week
70 this Office, for examination, an Epis-
cOpal PRAYER book, published by John
Basket, at Oxford, England, in 1871,
and Is, therefore, 325 years old. The
book, she says, belonged 70 her great,
great, great, great-grandmOther, Mrs.
Ann Scott, aud though a few Of the
leaves have been somewhat torn aud In
jured, the print generally is as clear as
when the book was first published
Greenbrier Independent.
A few days ago, while the hands were
working the lower Cove road, near Lost
City, they killed thirty-seven snakes in
one day, thirty-fOur OF which were cop
per-heads, aRd several OF them very
large. Mr.. NJ. A. Ssger, who gave us
the information, says he killed thirty
two OF the snakes, and that they killed
one old cOpper-head that had thirty
two young ones about six inches long.
Must have been a good day for snakes.
-MoOrCfCld Examiner.
The last span Of the new iron bridge
across the Potomac at Brunswick Is be-
ing put ia position and the bridge will
sOOn be completed, some changes hav-
ing 70 be made yet to the Marland APP
prOach. 1t is proposed 10 celebrate the
opening OF the bridge. The bridge COM
pany has appointed John R. Ball, who
has been connected with the ferry for
years, toll keeper.
Mrs. j. o. Huey, Of Warrington, was
badly injured on Wednesday. She was
out driving with Miss Annie Burchinal.