The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-10-05
State NeUS.
Important West Virginia News All
About our Mountain State and It's
People, Clipped and CuIled from
Onr Exchanges.

f4NfY 4LOAbOhS INV 10 VIC 40NOi ltS
resort of clipping couples from
the lower portion of West yir-
gina. Four couples repaired to
that place one day last week and
had the nuptial knot tied. and all
had eloped.
Walker Carder, a prominent
young man of Charleston. was
shot down by one of three burg.
lars, whom he surprised at his
home at Charleston late one
night last week. He has been
lying in critical condition ever
since. Three men have been ar
rested on suspicion.
Mrs. Emma Ware, a young
widow of Beverly, whose hus.
band has been dead two years, is
in Jail charged with lnfanticide.
It is alleged that a week ago she
threw her newly born infant from
a second story window into a pen
Of a half dozen pigs. The chic
was completely devoured.
There is an incident connected
with the death OF brakeman
Chas. Reese that makes his un-
timely demise all the more
pathetic. Mr.. Reese had before
he met with the accident that re-
suited so fatally to him made all
arrangements for marrying
MISS Willard, of Fetterman and
it was TO occur this week. Miss
Willard is. very naturally, grief
stricken over the sad event. The
deceased was % years old, very
popular and known over the
whole road. -Grafton Sentinel.
Richard. the sixteen.year old
son of Hon. B. Elkins accidently
shot and seriously wounded Dan
Currence Friday evening about
9 o'clock, 5 miles above the club
house of the Cheat Mountain
Sportsman Association. Young
Elkins had sent Currence into
some beech brush, about sixty
yards away to scare out deer.
which was supposed to be there,
in order that he (Elkins) might
81 shot at it. Currence in GO
ing around shook some bushes
near a tree Elkins mistook him
for the deer and fired the ball,
which was a AZ caIiber. struck
Currence in the back, one inch
to the right of the spinal column
near the last true rib and passing
upward lodged about four inches
below the right nipple. DR.. Perry
Bosworth who was Immediately
summoned, extracted the ball,
and dressed the wound. Hopes
are entertained for his recovery.
-Elkins Nc,1s.
An accident occurred on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on
last Monday night which was at
tended with the distressing re-
suits. At Miller's Hill, about a
mile west of Cherry Run, train
drawn by engine 511 ran into the
rear end of another freight train,
and young man named Henry
Sham a brakemanin the employ
of thecompany. who lived at No.
10 Water Station, was in the ca
boose of the forward train, going
dead head to Brunswick, Md, to
report for duty. He was dread
fully scalded by the escaping
steam from engine No. 511, but
was brought on to this point for
medical treatment, which he re.
ceived, aDo was put on train No.
AZ, yesterday morning to be car.
ried back to his home, ami now
comes the saddest part of the
sad occurrence. The mother of
the young man, learning what
had happened to ner son, and
that he was coming up on that
train started from her house to
walk d ,wn the track to the Sta.
ton a No. II, a distance of few
hundred yards, in order to meet
and care for him, when passen.
ger train No. IL came dashing at
full speed around curve, and
before Mr.. John Potter the engi.
neer, could check his speed the
unfortunate woman was struck
by lie engine and instantly kill.
nd ba1 brains ho;nn, eaot.a,.sl