Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-08

In his being cripple. but his return
was surprise, q glad surprise. 10 his
many friends and relations, who had
long thought him dead.-BruIto0 Dem.
Ocrut
Tho Lidgerwooi Manufacturing Com
pany, % Liberty street, New York
City, has just completed for McSSrs.
Smyth X Munford. Point Pleasant. the
largest Locke-Miller galloway in exist
ence. The span which is l,5O5 feet g
inches long, is erected over the kanaw-
ha river aud is so high that steamers
pass under Il at highest tides. The
main cable is 81 inches In diameter.
aud the load carried is four tons. The
galloway spans the lock aud dam in
the river which MesSrs. Smyth < Mum
ford are 70 build and the quarry from
which they receive their stones.
1t has just become known among
persons not Intimately acquainted with
the parties concerned that Miss Lily
Raymond, youngest daughter of the
late Judge Raymond, well and favor
ably known young lady OF Fairmont,
who on frequent visits had become
quite popular in society circles here,
was married as long ago As last July 10
Charles Chenoweth, . son OF Rev. !. +.
Chenoweth, who formerly lived at Fair
mont, but IS now Ia business At Rowles-
burg. The ceremony took place at
Oakland, Md, the bride 1T that time
being visitor with her parents az
Mountain Lake Park. The knowledge
OF the wedding was kept sec.et until
quite recently.
VIM. NJ. Ruckman, who lives a short
distance back OF -. Marys, on Broad
run, met with what may prove a fatal
accident on iast Saturday. Mr.. Ruck-
man was engaged in opening a coal
mine near his house, and had got some
distance under the hill, when large
rock weighing ton or more fell from
It's place, catching him under IL. His
wife Immediately ran for assistance, hut
II was some half hour before the rock
! could DC removed 50 that he could te
| eNtricated. DrS. Grimm. Watson and
Stecre were Immediately summoned.
and upon examination tucv found the
spine was fractured aud the lower part
, OF the body paralyzed. GA SUNDAY they
got MIN Ia shape and the bone to lis
place. At that time his chance was
| about one In a thousand. At tAis writ
Ing Mr.. hickman is resting easy, with
a prospect OF saving his life. st MurVs
/ Oruc'c.
There are now In Fairmont abou,
5000 medals, In charge OF Thomas a
Fleming ana Henry y. Rublc, awaiting
the claims OF the proper owners Those
medals were provided by the State OF
West Virginia. They are modelled aftcr
the usual style OF the army badge, and
bear the name OF our State. on the
edge OF the medal Is the name OF tho In.
dividual soldier. Very many of the
names arc spelled wrong, which makes
the work OF finding the owner difficult.
II is well to state that every person who
belonged TO q West Virginia regiment
or company In the late war is entitled
to one OF these medals, and II not
yet received by him, 10 is here
awaiting the proper address. II the
soldier be dead. then his widow or hl.
Oldest son or daughter, or any Of bi.
children, or next Of kin can have 10.
There are now many West Virginia
soldiers residing outside tho STATE, and
have been Tor years, whose addresses
cannot be learned by the gentlemen In
charge OF the medals, and they OF course
cannot deliver them. All West Nir-
ginia soldiers who have not received
their medals should write NJ once to
either Thomas A. Fleming, Fairmont,
w. Va, or Henry VI. Rublc, Palatine,
w. Va, who will Immediately send the
proper medal, with no cost TO the owner
whatever. They are leRacies left be.
hind worth preserving.