Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-11-28
STATE NEWS.

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Parsons is to have Republican
weekly newspaper in the near future.
The Charleston fire department has
made big net into which people may
jump from burning buildings.
The canvass for the new city direc-
tory at Charleston shows population
of r6, 900 in the State capitol and vi
cinity.
Geo. Leavy dropped dead last Fri
day night at Wheeling after drinking
a quart OF Irish whiskey in payment
of an election bet
The Otter Greek Boom and Lumber
Company have secured valuable lum-
Der interests at Hullings, Tucker
county, along the West Virginia ecu
trail railroad, which they will develop
at once.
i A lynching party visited the jail at
Farmville and made an attempt to
kill Elisha johnson, colored, who is
charged with highway robbery. One
load OF shot from volley took effect.
but Johnson was not seriously injured.
Ex-senator Johnson N. Camden
and other capitalists are arranging for
the erection of a 5000 hotel at Web
ster Springs, facing the town OF Adj
| olson and overlooking the Elk river.
. The location is said to be the finest
natural spot in the State.
At Watson, near Fairmont, a IL
year-old Italian boy was instantly
killed while trying to board train.
The boy had been warned frequently,
but paid no attention, and last Friday
evening had both legs and one arm
cut off, resulting in his imm diate
death
MAUI rock, about two miles from
Hamiin, Lipcoln county, which had a
wide reputation as anatural curiosity,
iias crumbled and fallen. It was a
sandstone monolith, about 100 feet
high and so feet in circumference in
some places. 1t was shaped like a
hammer, which gave It its name,
I The little three-year-oid child {.
Ben Jackson was burned to death last
Friday right at Harris Ferry. The
parents went a way from home and
locked the children In the house, and
upon their tetdfn were Mortified to
fad the little child literally roasted,
its clothing being ignited from the
CRATE.
! An east-bound B. & O. freight train
ran into another one at West Virginia
, Junction, neag Piedmont, Monday
evening, demolishing a caboose, coal
, hopper and badly breaking three gon-
} dolas and one stock car loaded with
cattle and hogs from Philippi for Jer
sey City. A few hogs were killed
and several others and some cattle in
: jured.
. The board of regents of the Wesl
Virginia School for the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind. which is located at Rom
ney, Hampshire county, has resolved
Ito ask the next Legislature to separ
ate the sehsN by cheating an institn
ton for the biind, to be located else,
/ where in the State. The students al
| the Romney School are increasing SC
rapidly that such move is regarded
as very necessary.
A large steam stock chest at the
West Virginia Pulp Mill, at Luke,
near Piedmont, burst because Of too
great pressure, and Frank Whey, the
fourteen year-old son of James Whey,
of Luke, was so badly scalded that he
died in few hours. John Burke and
Patrick Graney, two other boys. es-
capped by jumping through window,
but not before they were badly scald-
ed. 1t is thought that they will be
crippled for life. Young Whey was
so blinded by the steam that he could
not escape.
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Excuse me, observed the man in
spectacies, "but am surgeon. and
that is not where theliver is. I" Never
you mind where the liver is, 4" retorted