The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-09
SEVERELY HURT.
On His First Trip as Railroad
Brakeman.

Brakeman.
Thursday morning about 10
O'Clock Will McClaugerty, aged
about %, was struck OH the back
of the head by the bridge at Poca
on the X. & NJ, and seriously if
not fatally injured. He was brok-
ing on No. 81, south bound freight
train, and this was his first trip.
j. Friedman & Co., arc out in a
new advertisement this morning,
announcing n reduction in Jackets
and Cnpes, besides Offering you
tempting Inducements in Holiday
goods. Read their advertisement
over carefully, and then go and SEQ
how cheap they will sell you goods,
and how nicely their polite and
gentlemanly clerks will treat you.
There ought to be an establish
ment in this town that would buy
all of the farmers products, no
matter of what kind or description.
Such an establishment would make
big money, and ut the Same time
be of great help to the farmers.
Let some one embark in the Pro
duce and Commission business at
this point
A Portsmouth minister has de-
vised plan TO get mon to attend
church socials, and it is said to work
we'll and we would advise our min
listers to try it here on our men
and boys. A room in the church
has been fitted up for smoking and
the gentlemen are invited to como
to the socials for tea and to adjourn
to the smoking room and enjoy Il
good cigar.
The oil fields are coming on
down tho river. Wood county is
now the great oil center. Jackson
county is showing up some oil, as
is also Mason. Soon we will be
known as the great oil belt of the
Ohio Valley.
Mr.. r. p. Liter has weanling
colt by Marquette, entered i'll the
Futurity races, the purse of which
amounts to $4,000. The colt has
trotted an eighth of a mile in %
seconds; a remarkable gait for
colt of this age.
Mr.. w. II. Howard, Chairman of
the Republican Executive Com
mittee of Mason county, is a can
didate for Clerk of the House of
Delcgates.-C Charleston Gazette
The above is true, and he has the
ability to make good one too.
Mr.. NJ. w. Donnally of tho Char
lesion Gazette, denies that he has
any interest in the Charleston
Evening Mail. Ho says one paper
is as much as he cares to manage,
at one and the same time.
The new woman is certainly com
ing if sho is not already here. Sew
eral hundred of her attended the
prize fight at San Francisco the
other night and appeared to enjoy
it immensely.
If the county people would take
pride in their county town, and
throw their business into it, it
would not be long until our merch-
ants would branch out ona much
larger scale.
A fight took place in Wayne
county, between Tom Copley and
James Thompson over the affect
ions of girl. Knives were used
and Coploy was dangerously hurt.
Dispatches from South Dakota
say that the recent blizzard caused
the death OF thousands of sheep
and hundreds of cattle throughout
the State.
There is good prospect for a
boom in real estate in this place
in tho spring. At least that is
what men who are interested in
real estate say.
Santa Claus buys nearly all his
toys and trinkcts from advertising
merchants. He says they keep
the largest stocks, and give the
best bargains.
The Ohio River Railroad has
about completed it's "Y" at this
place. After the first of the year
it is the intention of the company
to restore the Division here.