Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-26

miles south OF o. ed by fam
lily named Rose. No one was at home
but an old lady and girl, and the black
rascal made improper advances to the
latter Just about the time Mr.. Rose was
returning TO binder. Mr.. Rose grabbed
his musket and chased him down the
road for a mile, and had he caught him
the fellow would have had little chance
| to live.
Z. NJ. Lewis, clerk OF the County
| Court OF Marshall county, has asked
/ for bids for building a steel highway
bridge over Big Grave creek, at Ros-
by's Rock, in that county. The bridge
! is 10 have a clear span of 20 feet, and
clear width OF IS feet. Bids have also
been asked for a highway bridge over
| Boggs Run, 40 foot clear span, u foot
clear width, $50 yards excavation, and
800 yards rubble masonry for abut-
mentS.
The Keyser water works plant will
take 3S,4OO feet OF pipe, weighing
1.542, 600 pounds, 80 MIGRANTS, 1880
hounds special castings, 10000 pounds
| of lead, !, 200 pounds of hemp, one r.
| inch gate, four s.inch and twenty-five
finch gates. The reservoir will be $50
/ feet long, feet high, above surface, and
| , feet wide at the base, with filling In
| side OF Is feet in width Of clay, and
will hold $500, 900 gallons Of water.
The Sisterville toughs have control
! OF the town. One day last week two
fellows who run a speak-easy were ar
rested aud lodged in the Jail, but dur
ing the night, by assistance from some
\ Of their friends, they managed TO make
| their escape. The next night the touRhs
/ turned out, took the town and carried
on in regular Western cowboy style
/ Wetzel Democrat
Roger Hemple nearly lost his life
Tuesday night near Harper's Ferry. lie
was visiting his sweetheart at Jesse
| Viewers. Leaving about three o'clock
/ in the morning, he fell into pond and
would have drowned had not the lady
extricated him from his perilous posi-
| ton.
Having worked SO years with the
South Branch Intelljgencer, Mr.. John
j. Combs has decided that IL was time
for him TO retire from the case. While
he is in his eighty-frst year he is still
robust for that age and can set type
without the use Of glasses. he is with
out doubt the oldest active printer in
the State.
We learn from the Pocahontas Times
that at Camp Yeager on the Greenbrier
river in that county that the following
is the catch of two and one half days
fishing by the parties named: John A.
Whitelaw, l61; Peter d. Arbogast,
222: Gay Burner, 144, and w. A.
Slaven, 255 Total, 7s3.
Tucker County recently voted by a
large majority to move the Court House
from ST. George to Parsons. And now
we understand that all arrangements
have been completed to hold another
election in few weeks to move the
Court House from Parsons 10 Hen
bricks.
One Of the cowboys engaged in the
race from Chadron, Neb., TO the Worlds
Fair, is West Virginia boy. His
name is Oscar Flagg, and he is native
of Charles Town. He is said 10 be one
OF the most reckless riders of the whole
crowd.
At a special session OF the county
court of Wetzel county, the contract
was let to the Canton Bridge Company,
of Canton, o., for steel bridge over
Fishing Creek, at Littleton, to cost
SO, 900.
John Baston, eldest son of James w.
Baston, Of Webster, Taylor county,
committed suicide by hanging himself
at 4 o'clock last Monday afternoon. In
sanity is the supposed cause.
At the spring election Huntington
will vote on a proposition to issue $780,
600 of bonds for schoOlhouse. A
proposition to issue 5000 OF paving
bonds has just carried.
Guests are beginning to arrive in
large numbers at the White Sulphur
Springs and other prominent summer
resorts in the mountains Of this State
and Virginia.
Last Saturday was the thirtysecond
anniversary OF the evacuation OF Phil
ippi by the Confederates, aad the TAX
ing possession of the town by the I'm
ion army.
DR.. Mitchell, OF Hedgesville, Berkeley
county, was found dead on his front
door step, last Thursday morning.
Heart failure was the cause Of death.
Last Saturday all the prisoners in
the Gilmer county jail escaped, by saw
ing the hinges off the doors.
Fifty thousand dollars worth OF bust
ness buildings are being erected at
Weston.
A Masonic temple is to be erected at
Beverley.