Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-22
THENETS0f lHE week
As REPORTED IN THE dLUHNS OF THE
COUNTY PBIS
Matters Of General In;elligenc3 Serious Casualties
and the Miscellaneous Occurrences Of
the Pas, Six Days

"A
mont.
The tax valuation Of Point Pleasant
is s775,031.
The proposition to vote bonds for
water works carried az SisterSville By
a big majority.
The town of Elkins is now seeking to
come 10 an arrangement with West
Virginia Central railroad TO have that
town lighted by electricity
Mrs. Sidney Jones, OF Elk Garden,
confined In Jail at KeySer on account OF
INSANITY, was found dead In her cell
Monday morning, having died sudden
" from the bursting Of blood vessel
IA the brain.
During the last month 377 barges
passed lock 6. The barges contained
1000. g25 bushels Of coal. The lock
men say this is tue larges. run Of coal
during any month in the history OF the
Kauawha river.
Fayette county is IN county seat
removal middle. Since the burning Of
the Court House and jail at Fayette-
Vile, a movement has been started 20
move the Court House 20 some town on
the railroad. MONTGOMERY, Deepwater
and Kanawha Falls ara the towns com
peting with Fayetteville for the loca-
ton.
Araxa f. Shirer, the we'll known and
popular merchant of Fetterman, died
very suddenly on Wednesday morning.
He was taken ill with cramps about
o'clock 10 the morning and lived but
short time. Mr.. Shirer is one OF the
Oldest and best known citizens OF the
county, having been In business In
Fcttermsn for more than forty years
and at his death was more than 60
years old.
Green Thompson. white man, was
arrested In COvingtOn last week charg-
!. ed with the crime Of horse stealing, In
ASummers county, w. Va, and was
ken back there Tuesday morning by
Sheriff Byers and Il. B. Brown, Esq.
After stealing the horse in Summers
county a few months ago, he came TO
Wayne county, where he eluded arrest
until he came to COyington with load
u shingles.
The pipe line between the Sisters
vile and Mcdonald oil fields has been
completed. There will DO three pump
stations on the line, one a. SiStersyille,
one at Littleton, and one ot Little
Washington. The line is reported 20
have been put down as quickly as any
on record, the time being about q
month. Oil is now being pumped 70
LlttletOn, where considerable tankage
has been erected.
M N - Oo,,.tv commissioners
Of Marion County have purchased the
old Mountain City Hotel property,
which adiOius the Court House grounds.
The price pad was sell 200. 1t is to be
torn down. and the lot, corner one,
added 20 the present Court House
square Upon the splendid site thus
created, the county will within the next
yesy build one OF the costliest and
bandsOmest Court Houses 10 the State.
Il will cost 100000.
The boys were on rampage last
night They stole several chickens
from ye editor, and visited the onion
mech OF J. $. Miller and carried Oh a
urge portion Of his crop, and then
turned COWS into the garden OF Mrs.
Emily Lawson, destroying q great deal
OF her property. This work must be
stopped at once, as people do not like
to have their property destroyed In this
manner. -LOgGn Banner.
There was fearful wreck on the
KenOva Division OF the n. & w. on
the night of the 18th inst, at \ station
known as NorthfOrk. A train Of freight
cars broke loose near Turkey Gap and
ran down to the former place and
when they got TO that point they were
running, it was estimated, at a mile
minute. There they ran into q freight
engine and part OF them jumped the
track and struck the depot and entirely
demolished it, and the track was torn
up FOR more than two hundred feet.
Two men were killed.
For some time an Item has been 60
ing the rounds among newspapers, tell
ing about 8 mans face being photo
graphed on pane OF glass In the win
dow OF q MOrgantOwu house. The Post
Of that place has the following exDls-
nation. The sQulb In last weeks Post
about the face of an old man photo
graphed upon a window pane OF Rev.
Prices office Is now easily accounted
for, and the "miracle(?)" has been eX-
ploded. Mr.. Price had been mixing
some paints, oils and turpentine, and
the chemicals settled upon the glass in
the window and "set," thus forming, to
the highly imaginative minds, outlines
OF faces, ETC., on the glass. Only that,
and nothing more; and the nine days
wonder(?) is now al an end.