The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-20
STATE PRESS

"A dog that has eaten up a farm and
a set OF buildings has been found. This
dog killed a %neIghbor's sheep. The
neighbor offered to cali It square II the
dog was killed, The dogs master refus-
ed this and a law suit came next. To
pay costs and damages assessed by the
county, the owner OF the dog had to
mortgage his farm for $4,000. The
mortgage had a bigger appetite than
the dog and soon his farm was gone
and the owner had 4 move away. The
dog Is now Neutrality-suspicious. Monon-
gallan.
MIR. B%reiiahan, the agent at Fayette,
informs US that for the four months
ending October 81. 1897, the increase in
business at his station over the cores
pondIng four months OF last year was
Sl2,7lS 40. The number of ears shipped
during the four months Of 1896 wa $50,
and during the corresponding period in
1897 there were GO. This looks n little
like prosperity had struck Fayette
county, especially as nearly all OF the
stations in the county show q cores
pondlng increase.-Fayettevilie Repub-
llcan.
The assessors books show that the
valuation of the property of wetzel
county for 1897 exceeds that OF 1896 by
considerable over $500, 900.
The drift Of this state Is, we think,
Republican Notwithstanding a dlstln-
gulshed gentleman of jefferson county
In a recent interview advances the OPP
poslte view, and 1t is political suicide
to so into n canvass with the business
interests of the state largely against
us.-Berkeley News (Dem.)
The blizzard that struck us last FRI
day was a sumner. Snow fell to the
depth of two or three inches and in
many places about town It drifted sew
en- to ten inches. II that was a sample
Of the coming winter, what will the
real goods be?-Terra Alta Oracle.
Hon James C. McGrew, while in
Morgantown recently, consented to al
low DR.. Hartigan, of the University to
turn the X-rays upon his lower limbs.
The experiment proved n success and
Mr.. McGrew has Just received a photo
graph of each limb, showing the flesh
and bones, and they are extremely In
teresting, 1t will be remembered that
while in Florida a few winters ago
Mr.. McGrew had both legs broken be-
low the knees. That he recovered the
use of his limbs, being eighty years OF
age, has been a marvel 30 all the ply
siclans who know the circumstances.
The surgeons in Florida made a blum
dering job Of setting the limbs OF Mr..
McGrew, and the X-ray photograph
makes plain these errors, and shows
one that he did not know OF. The
smaller bone in the right leg was bro
ken and the surgeons never discovered
that fact. consequently 1t was never set.
The picture plainly shows the bone lap
ped over and grown fast, but the ends
ore past each other more than an inch.
The pictures were taken with all his
clothing on and the clothing does not
show, but the flesh makes plain the
shape OF the limb, and inside OF that yet
are the bones perfectly represented In
the picture. The marvellous progress OF
science is no more plainly verified than
by the Photographic results OF the X
rays. II brings the facts so plainly
within the knowledge OF any one,
While we may not understand the
complicated principles OF the expert
mcnt, we can see It's marvellous results.
These are the first X-ray pictures ever
brought to town and a be seen at the
Journal office by any who desire to ex-
anime them. DR.. Hartlgan was very an
xlous to have the pictures for scientific
purposes to show to the medical fra
ternlty that the bones Of an aged per-
son viii unlte.-Preston County Jour
mi.