Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-08
NEWS or THE EFAYE
WHAT HAS HAPPENED DURING TIE PAST
WEEK.
A Long Record Of Casualties Including Several
ola Fatal Na,nrs-MisesllansOus Matters.
Notes and Gossip

Eleven retail licenses have been
granted at Grafton.
The first steamboat ever seen at Lo'
gan C. H. landed there Tuesday.
Dogs killed twenty-one sheep for II.
B. Davenport, of Jefferson county, a
few days ago.
A lump of coal ten feet square went
over the Norfolk and western Few
days ago bound for Chicago.
An iron Tag staff seventy five feet
high has been erected IN the nauonai
cemetery at Grafton.
floater was found in the river at
Letart. last Sunday. His name Is sup
Dosed 70 be Geo Dow, Of Marietta, who
was drowned March 2Osh.
The body Of Miss Emma Garland was
found in the Kanawha at Pt. Pleasant,
last Sunday morning. She had com
mitted suicide.
The PocahOntas Times says dwelling
house. belonging to Mr.. Levi Gay, about
ten miles above Marlinton, was burned
recently by an incendiary.
shower OF brown bugs is said to
have fallen along the line OF the West
Virginia Central Railroad last Monday.
They fell the thiekest about DOboin.
A professional man in Petersburg
mt in his time last winter building a
Yacht in his garrett. Now he can't get
the boat out unless he takes the roof
Of
On the night OF the 27th Of April the
evnress office AT White Sulphur Springs
was broken into and goods 10 the amount
of about 500 stolen. No trace OF the
culprit.
The &. & l. Co., Of MOrgantown, have
signed contract with an Ohio hrm Tor
the building Of a glass house 10 be erec-
ted on the company's land there, which
will employ $50 hands.
Mrs. Claud COT, of Beverly, owns
silver badge which is said 10 have been
worn at the inauguration Of President
Washington. II is about the size OF
silver dollar, has a mirror on one slde
and the picture Of Washington on the
other.
Iu the county seat fight in Tucker
county, Parsons was successful, and the
county seat will now be removed from
st. George to that point. This places
the metropolis OF that county upon the
railroad and makes it accessible to the
outside world.
We learn from the POcahontas Times
that Mrs. JOS. Gay, Of Elk, that cOun-
", caught in a steel trap an eagle that
measures feet 6 inches from tip 70 tip.
A heavy cloth was thrown over 1t, and
it was saved alive. II is eOntentedly
eating everything presented TO it.
About ten years ago Abe Rankin, Of
the lower part Of POcahOntas county,
was taking a young lady boat riding on
the sweet Greenbrier," and a small
boy OF eleven sDlashed them and was
promptly spanked by Rankin. The boy
vowed vengeance and that he would
thrash him on arriving at the age or
twenty-one. The other day he was OF
age, and made Rankin come up 70 the
scratch TO such an extent that the
young man was second time done up.
Mcdowell county boasts Of man
named WhOrton. So years Of age, who
has entered the state of a second child
hood in remarkable way. His hair
and beard, which for years have been
black again, while he is at the same
time cutting two jaw teeth. His eyes
are assuming their youthful lustre,
while his humOr and spirits are said TO
be assuming a thOughtless, cheerful
disposition, more resembling that OF
boy than man OF his advanced age.
The Charles Town Advocate says that
Miss Patty Wilson, youngest daughter
OF the late DIR. j. L. Wilson, and nice
of Hon. w. l.. Wilson, who lives with
her mother near Summit Point, went TO
sleep Sunday, April 10th, and all efforts
TO awaken her proved utterly futile I'M
I'll Sunday, the 23d, when she awakened
naturally, and seemingly well, except
possibly little weak. Physicians were
constantly In attendance, electric bat
terieS were applied with the current at
its maximum, bat the profound sleep or
stupor continued as above stated.
Some twenty-five gentlemen from
PittstOn, Pa, who represent quite
large amount OF capital, went up the
q. 4 B. TO BellingtOn on Tuesday morn
ing. They went up there with view
to organizing a company for the pur-
pose Of operating and developing the
coal fields in the neighbOrhOod OF Bel
ington, and belonging to Mr.. Sturmer,
of PittSton. III the outlook is favorable
some very extensive operations may be
looked for in the way Of coal mining, In
which case the Roaring Creek coal re-
gion will be connected with the G. II Il.
at BelingtOn by a line OF road TO be
built between the two points.
Last Sunday evening, Mr. NJ. j.
Fitzpatrick, who has been engaged in
and around Hinton, for sometime, TAX
ing orders for pictures, was In the
vicinity OF James Mill. In Upper Hin
ton, and was living down on pile Of
lumber when two little Urls came along,
whereupOn he beckoFWd 10 them 70
them TO come to hinf One OF them
went TO where he was,i nd be took her
on his lap; she discovek ne was int0X-
icatep and broke aw from him aud
ran to the house Of d prother-in-law,
Richard Beverly, VIII we'd near by,
and told him OF Il circumstances,
whereupon Beverly anne enraged
and Selling a rock app he'd EltzDat-
rick and began an ck on him
striking him on the h6 with the rock
and fracturing his sku Beverly IS In
jail.
All the Davis coal al coke cOmpa-
MES, except the Junior lal Company,
have been merged int bne large cor
poratiOn under the mai of the Davis
Coal and Coke Company The new cor
poration has a capital on B. 900. 600. and
owns about $4,000 acres valuable coal
aud mineral lands ~ Ia Mineral,
Grant Hardy Tucker 0Nnd Randolph