Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-26
VS. OF THU STATE.
ENTS OCCURRING DURING TIE PAST
WEEK,
ieled in the Columns Of the Country
Ipsrs Intelligence Prom all Parts
Of the State.

week several slick negroes OF
ston conceived a plan by which
Re raise and in order 70 do so,
nc IL out that all arrangements
Zen made 10 have eX-United
Senator Bruce, 10 lecture In
city. As a matter OF course the
red people thought we'll Of the idea
III felt proud of the prospects OF meet
one Of their race who has become so
pdistingulShed. There was great bus
tie among the cOlOred people and many
OF them went 10 extra expense 70 nX up
for the occasion. The time set for the
lecture was Thursday night last, and
tickets were sold for $3.50 each, and a
good number were taken by various
colored people. Thursday came. but
Senator Bruce was not there, nor has
he come vet; in fact, be knew nothing
OF the affair,nOr did any one else except
the aforesaid slick fellows who got up
the scheme TO swindle their own people.
The whole thing was fake gotten up
TO beat the people, and they were done
up in great shape.
A. NJ. Scott, Resident Engineer Of the
Improvement OF the Great Kanswha
silver, nas been notified by the officials
OF the War Department that the bids OF
Zimmerman, Truax * Sheridan, OF Du-
luth, MINI, were satisfactory, and 10
them are awarded the contracts Tor
building locks aud dams Nos. 9 and 10.
No. II was given TO Thomas Munford,
OF Lock No. =, who built lock and dam
No. :. The work Of getting out stone
has already begun, the contract calling
for the completion OF the work by jan
uary l, 1897. Four government dred-
gers are at work on the various pools
in the Kanawha river, and the improve
mept of the stream is being carried for
ward rapidly. The Ward Steam Boiler
Works, OF Charleston, last week launch
ed q steam cutter 10 be used oy the
government engineers on the work; It
Is 40 IT, long, - IL. wide, and without
machinery draws only 4 in. OF water.
With machinery IN, IL is TO draw 10.
1t Is all Of street, and very substantial
affair.
Charley Vaught, alias Edward Muir
ply, forged five checks on the Beswlck-
Harris Milling Company, Of Hunting
ton, and succeeded ia getting rid OF one
at Broh Bros, one for SO so at 5. Zeig
ler's, and one for SlO.50 at A NJ. Clark
& Co.'S. At each place he did a small
amount OF trading. While attempting
TO work one for $1,000 on Phil. Herr
he came TO grief. Mr. Herr very sensi-
bly, asked Mr. c. b. Harold, who was
present, IL he knew the firm. Eyes"
replied Mr. H., land here is the head
of the firm" Mr. Beswick was intro
duced. shown the check, and at once
pronounced IL forgery. Officer
Bowen was called, aud the fOrger was
landed behind the bars. He will get
term in the pen beyond doubt.
One day last week while in Walnut
Bottom, Mr.. ). NJ. Mcneil saw some
thing sticking out Of the bank Of the
run, where the water had washed con-
siderably, and on pulling il out OF the
mud found 1t TO be some kind or an an
imalis horn, supposed to be half OF an
elk or deer horn. The horn had been
broken, but was still about three feet
long. with two prongs about 10 inches
long, which had also been broken.
Every indication shows that they were
a tremendous pair OF horns at one time
aud the animal which bore them must
have been monster. They must have
been buried for ages, as they were deep
under the surface Of the ground
Moorefeld Examiner.
On Monday night one Kit Hall,
gentleman Of color, with bad reputa-
tion, shot John Duplin, also cOlOred,
while he was asleep in one of the Shanty
cars which are sidetracked near Viii
Hanson, Logan county. 1t seems that
these two duSky gentlemen had dis
pute a few days before over the owner
ship OF hat, both claiming it. Kit Hall
thinking that he could kill his opponent
and gain possession OF the hat, went TO
town and secured SO calibTe revolver,
aud like a midnight assassin, crept back
in the dead hour Of night and shot his
victim while he slept, inflicting pain
full, though not serious puncture in the
thigh.
In the Blackwater mill fire WedneS-
day morning last ), +. Williams lost an
old war relic which he priced much. 1t
was dispatch from StOnewall Jackson
TO General TallafarrO instructing him
to attack the enemy in the woods on
the right OF the GAINESVILLE road. The
date OF the dispatch was August %,
1862, and was signed by Thomas j.
Jackson. lieutenant general. 1t was
found on the battlefield between Gains
Vile and Bull Run by Mr.. Williams,
who was a member Of company c. L. 5.
sharpshOOters, first corps, McDOwelps
command, army Of the Potomac. -DduiS
Times.
Last Saturday afternoon, the 18th
inst, Mr.. Wallace Moore, the book
keeper for Col. Driscol, at ROnCeverte,
went bathing with number of friends
IN Greenbrier river. After swimming
about for awhile, he suddenly sank and
did not rise. His friends succeeded in
getting him out IN few minutes, and
every effort was made to bring him
back to life, bus without success. The
doctor could discover little or no water
in his lungs, aud came 70 the cOnclu-
sion that be died of heart failure. He
was from POCahOntaS county, and sou
of the late Rev. James E. Moore.
A little six-year-old son of Henry BO- !
CART, OF MartinS0Org, was struck and
instantly killed by a freight engine 81
Kearneysvile, eight miles east OF that |
place, Sunday morning. The mother,
with her two sons, had just alighted
from the eaSt-bOund passenger train.
The child ran over the tracks, and see
ing the engine coming between him and |
his mother, attempted to recrOsS, when |
the awful tragedy took place before the |
mothers eyes. The lad being out OF !
her reach, she was unable TO rescue |