Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-25
STATE TOPICS
BRIEF NOTES OF A MULTITUDE. OF MIR
ESII2G MATTERS
The Moro Important Events o. the Past Weak 0c-
curing Through the Length and Breadth
Of West Virginia

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Ethel RAIDER, a cOmely Chenille young
woman OF about u, who for the past
Few months has been residing in that
place. Loves fever consumed them 70
such an extent that discretion was
thrown 20 the winds and they resolved
70 fy. The bold young Lochinvar
hired q prancing livery nag, and,
placing his betrotheG behind him, to-
gether they gallOped away. Getting
wind OF 10, Skidmore, ST., sent dis
patches in hot haste TO Chenille and
other points authorizing the arrest OF
the boy upon sight, and c%sutiOning our
county clerk against issuing a marriage
license 10 him. After taking this step,
Mr.. Skidmore and an elder son started
after the runaWayS, aud cOnjecturing
that they had headed 10 this direction,
came on here and found the pair at
Miss Ethel's home, near town. Mr.
SEidmOre tried to reason with his son
on the subject OF marrying in child
hood. but Eddy would have none or It.
and then followed a ''sceDe." The
father swore he would use force in
making him return home with him,
and Ed. In return S@Ore that II his
father laid hands on him in violence his
blood would pay for it; that he was
going 10 marry Miss Ethel in spite Of
everything that could be brought to
bear against IL. Mr. Raider also in
weighed against the couple marrying at
such ages, but protests were Of no
avail, and so they were married"
MI. James I. Fulk and family, living
at the Big Springs on the Winchester
pike, near Martinsburg, came nearJos-
Ing their lives on Friday night last, by
as~DhyxistiOn. The stove in their bed
room had become too cool and the
draught had been turned on, and the
FIRE had been permitted to burn until
the stove had become quite hot. The
draught we're then turned OF and the
family retired, but before they went TO
sleep the little child In the cradle, being
on the floor where the deadly gas first
Rccumulates, began to make q noise.
The mother got up 70 look after the
child and &C OnCe fell over. Mr.. FUlk
then accepcd to rescue them, but also
fell over asu was unable TO move. Bis
sister, who was sleeping In another part
OF the house, heard the noise and came
TO their relief, throwing open the doors.
Hnd they gone 20 sleep or had not the
sister heard them, they wOnld doubtless
al have died before morning, the gas
being Odorless.
On Thursday Of last week Mrs. Kuy-
dendall. a very old lady, mother OF
High K~Uykendall, with whom she lived,
q few miles southwest OF MOOrsheld,
met with an accident which proved
fatal. She was sitting BY the fireplace
ia which q large fire was burning. Her
danghter-in-laW was also there and On
going to the kitchen told the old lady
20 be careful about the fire. Mrs. X.
hardly got 70 the kitchen when she
heard a scream and on running back
found the old lady's clothes % fire and
before she could put the fire out 10 had
burned nearly all the clothes of OF her
m0ther-inlaw, who vas also burned
fearfully about the body. The old lady
was relieved Of her suffering as far as
was In their power, but the following
day, Friday, she died.
The following items clipped from the
POCahOntas Times would seem 20 indi-
cate that game is plentiful in that cOun-
". Mr.. John Lewis Carpenter, who
has been hunting on Gauley, killed two
deer aad wounded two others. He says
game is plentiful. The Cheat Mountain
hunting party have killed two deer aud
two coons. Woods Dilley killed a wild
turkey the other day. w. B. Hill killed
four turkeys one day this week. He
has killed ten IN all, and helped TO kill
three deer. Mr.. James Mullins, Of
Nicholas county, says be has seen more
than a hundred deer hauled by his place
this fall. he lives on the old Nicholas
road.
In the Monroe Circuit Court, on mo-
tion Of Prosecuting Attorney Keadle, a
nOlC DrOSCQlti was entered In the case of
the State VS.. John +. Wiley, indicted FOR
the murder OF Powell Beckner az Sweet
Springs on the night Of August /. Mr..
Keadle stated that be took this action
because he had been absolutely unable
20 obtain any testimony sufficient TO
convict Wiley Of any ofense under the
indictment. Wiley was then discharged,
sSfte' having been In Jail four months
? sc neteen days. Immediately there
aft Court adjourned. Wiley has gone
TO Virginia.
A stranger, claiming to be q Western
miner out Of employment beating his
way east, was put OF a freight train
near VunneltOn and wandered into the
interior Of Preston county, reaching
Austin on Friday. After lingering
about the coke ovens for a few hours,
he became insane from Wanta hd expos
ure, threw himself into q blazing coke
furnace and was cremated before the
eyes Of the cOkers, who were unable TO
attempt q rescue cst Yjrgt9iGR
There is not another town on the
West Virginia Central and PitUsburg
railroad that is building up so rapidly
as Parsons, the new county seat OF
Tucker county. Lots a few months ago
that were selling 40 500 now bring 200
% 500 dollars. Parsons Is not one Of
those paper boom towns but has the
natural resources 20 back IL, and is
building permanently, and soon will be
one of the foremost business towns ia
Eastern West Virginia.
Old Mr.. Douglass Gordon and veneer
able Mr.. Warren, two relics Of the
Franklin period OF printing, are dis
cussing each others ages. The Gazette
was away when they arrived, but Mr..
George Sinnett, of this place, who was
born ia 179S, says be has heard his
great grandfather talk about getting
cheated at playing "nuckS" with them.
-Rhchic Gazette.
The Parsons Democrat says one day
last week a real deer strayed into that
town and was discovered by some one
who made haste to notify the town
nimrOds, and they started 10 hot pur-
suit. After shooting several times they
managed to so excite the deer that it
fed to the country, where an old farm