Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-19
MORGANTOWN NOTES
Items of Interest from the states CHIEF
seat OF Learning.


Items of Interest from the states CnisA
seat OF Learning.
SDeeiat CorrssDondsncs or ne REGISTER.
MoRGANTowN, w. VA. July lS.-lne
professors who have been out OF Town
are coming in rapidly to be present our
ing the meeting of the Board OF he
gents, which commences THURSDAY
Every one is at sea as to what action
will be taken By the Board In the case
OF President Turner and Prof. OSoeh.
No one seems to know whether or LOT
the two new Regents are in favor OF OF
opposed TO President Turner, but IL Is
generally believed that the Board VIII
not be In session more than two or three
days and that one or more heads VIII
fall into the basket.
HE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Fletcher Pratt, an oil driller at MI
Morris, attempted to commit suicide oy
taking laudanum. He was discovered
in his room and pumped out by the ooc-
tors. Dependency caused by oad
health was assigned as a reason Ior the
the act. He left Saturday for his home
in Pennsylvania. Pratt was a we'll
known and popular young man.
Capt. Franklin L. Hurry died al MS
home here Wednesday. He was master
of boats on the lower Ohio and Missis-
sippi for thirty years, but retired In
1852. He was 20 years Of age, and Tor
forty wears resident Of LonslSYllle,
XIV. The funeral was conducted by the
Masonic order. He was native OF
Morgantown and one OF her most hlghiy
respected citizens.
RAILROAD WORK PROGRESSING.
The work OF laying rails on the Fair
mont, Morgantown and Pitts6urg rail-
road extension between Morgantown
and UniontoWn, Pa, is going forward
rapidly, aud trains VIII De running
| over the road inside Of five or six weeks.
The surveys for the Pittsourg, VIZ
GINA and Charleston railroad have oeen
| completed on both sides OF the Monon-
| gahela river from Brownsville, Pa, TO
Lock No. 0, in West Virginia. 1t has
not as yet been decided which side OF
the river the road will be built on, but
| il Is confidently believed by those In
position to know that the road will soon
be built TO Morgantown.
w. p. Turner, who was badly hurt
by his horse running off on the 4th,
at which time his wife and child were
killed. on Peddlers' Run, this county.
left for Pennsylvania, Friday, to attend
the funeral Of his wife and child, whose
remains were embalmed.
A barn belonging TO Marion Zinn,
near Reedsville, was struck by light
ming, took fire, and with the outbulld-
| ings and contents, grain and farm i'm
pIements, was totally destroyed. Loss
about $1,000; no insurance.
The new Science hall at the Univer-
sity will be completed in three weeks.
Hundreds of PittSbutgers are camp
ing out on the Monongahela and Cheat
rivers near here.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
The Farrow Arms company, located
here, has commenced the manufacture
of firearms.
Miss Myrtle Dorsey, a prominent
young lady of this place, has gone to
Wheeling for treatment for lung trou-
bic in the hospital. Her aunt, Miss
Sarah Lazier, accompanied her.
DR.. d. b. Purinton, President OF the
Granville University and brother of
Prof. Aaron Purinton, ef North Caro-.
lima, arrived last night and will spend
the heated term on Cheat river. DIR.
Purintou was formerly professor IN
the West Virginia University and also
vice president.
Capt. and Mrs. John Mcclure, Of
Wheeling, arrived yesterday on visit
to the Captains sister, Mrs. Z. G. La
| Ter.
; Mrs. Lawrence Sands, Of Wheeling,
/ will arrive to-day and be the guest OF
her auntS, Mrs. Tbos. Evans and Mrs.
Prof. VIM. P. Wiley.
Rev. DR.. w. r. White, OF Fairmont,
was here Thursday and conducted the
funeral services OF Mrs. Frederick
Dering.
Miss Alice Aultman, OF New York
City, is visiting her uncle, Or. l.. ).
Brock.
II. Ray Wiley, of Washington, D. c.,
arrived yesterday on visit TO his faith
err, eX. Senator Waitman 7. Wiley.
Judge John A, Ollie left yesterday to
attend a meeting Of the Board OF Direc-
| tors Of the Asylum at Spencer.
| Rev. DR.. Day. OF the Morgantown M.
+. Church, has returned from Weston,
where be delivered an address before
the Epworth League
Prof. 4. L. Wade and granddaughter
Ada aud Albert Wood, wife and daugh-
| ter left for the Worlds Fair Saturday.
Prof. l. C. White, formerly geologist
| OF the University, now one OF the prom
| inent oil operators of this State, has
! been elected president OF Worlds Fair
: Judges on awards in the mine and min
/ ing department. 1t Is considered a
/ high honor, not only for Prof. White,
but West Virginia.
DR.. NJ. L. Hamilton and wife, w. +.
BaSnett and wife, Misses Berry, Stewart,
Margaret Coulter and Messrs. Charles
| Johnson, c. G. BaSnett and w. j. Rex,
of ManniSgtOn, are camping out on
Cheat river near here.
Mrs. John Wagner and Guy r. G.
Allen, Esq, of Wheeling, were here
| last week to attend the funeral of their
aunt, Mrs. Frederick Dering, who died
on the 18th inst VIM. w. Dering, Of
Louisville, KY, and Ray Dering, of
Chicago, assistant general passenger
agent OF the Pennsylvania railroad, sons
OF Mrs. Dering, were also here.
James Chalfant, an employe on the
F.. REGISTER, arrived last night. being
called here tY the death Of his mother,
Mrs. NJ. r. Chalfant, one Of the most
highly esteemed ladies in the town,
Hon. Geo. c. Sturgiss and wife have
gone 10 Mountain Lake Park, VIII ere
they have a cottage, for the summer.