Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-18
NEWS FROM THE OIL CITY.
Local Happenings Of the Hustling
Town Down the River.
Two Very Serious Accidents Yes
terday - One Man Reported
Dead General News Social and
Otherwise From the Oil MetropO-
lis Of West Virginia.

Special Correspondence OF the Register.
Sistersville, July IA telephone
message received here this afternoon
from Centerville stated that J. B. Form
er, superintendent Of the Jolly Oil Co.,
was seriously injured at Pennsoro this
morning by a lot of tubing falling on
him from car that was being loaded
there. The workmen were loading the
stuff and had put some small pieces of
scantling up as standards The weight
of the pipe being too much for them,
they broke and let about a dozen pieces
of the pipe roll off. Mr.. Former was
standing close by and was hit and
knocked down. Il is not known wheth-
err the pipe hit him on the head or his
head nit the rail, but when picked up
it was found that his skull was very
badly fractured The men rushed to his
assistance and quickly removed the pipe
from his body and carried him to a
hotel nearby where medical attention
was secured. The physician worked
with him for some time before con-
sctOusness returned. At the time the
message was sent il was not known how
badly Former was hurt Last night late
a dispatch was received from Parkers-
burg stating that he had been so badly
injured that he died at noon. Mr.. For
ner was about IS yearSOf age and was a.
resident of Manaka, Pa. He has been
connected with the jolly OIL Company
for s0me time and is well known here
c. A. Wade and r. H. Adair, of Park
ersburg. and John A. Dopler ESQ, of
Proctor, were prominent arrivals in the
city to-day.
Word was received here this evening
that a man named Franklin, who was
working in a stone quarry near Wick,
IN the back part of the county, had been
seriously injured by the premature eX-
plosion of a blast of powder, The acct
dent happened about 8 o'clock this al
Jernoon. The worbmeu were preparing
a blast when, in some manner, the
powder exploded burning Franklin in
a very painful maner about the head
and body. A physician was called at
once. and after an examination OF the
injuries received by Franklin pronounc-
ed them very serious. His eyes were
badly burned, but with careful treat
ment he will not lose his sight.
The license cases are now virtually
i'm statu quo. Since The meeting Of coun-
ell the other evening there has been
little or nothing done toward looking
to q settlement Of the affair. The only
new developments since was the report
that ]. W. Mcintyre, the crusade law
yer" had gone TO West Union where
Judge T. p. Jacobs Is now holding Cir
cult Court. and that it was the inten-
ton of Mcintyre to ask the Judge for
an Injunction to restrain the city authorl-
ties from collecting any more fines, as
was mentioned exclusively in the Re
gister yesterday morning. What the
Judge will do Is q matter of conjecture.
The legal fraternity here outside Of the
crusade people. are still Of the opinion
that the Judge will not grant the in
junction asked for as ii would be a
direct violation of the statute. If these
people. they claim, are selling Illegally
until the question OF whether the II
censes granted are valid or not, they ara
amenahle to the law and should be fined.
It Is the intention Of the parties con-
cerned to fight the matter just as hard
as they know how, and stenographer
was kept busy tO-dGJ preparing The
petitions for writs of certiorari which
viii be presented to Judge Jacobs in a
few days.