The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-03-01
Taken from Our Exchanges.

a new paper Il to be started 1t Charleston
IN opposition TO the Mail.
\ strong flow of gas has been struck At IN,
Woodford well in Lewis county.
]. /. ITurst, of Cascara, has been jailed
accused of buiniH, seaeolhotisesS
The town of Point Pleasant il said to b,
in urgent need of more tenement houses.
whipping-post for the correction o
bad boys has been set up al Evansville Ind
rich vein of gold has been found in
Taylor county, two miles from Pruntytown
The West Virginia Bridge Works a,
Charles Town have assigned. Assets. S75,.
0OO
One of the board Of inquiry into the
Maine disaster is Morgantown man, Com.
mandcr +. +. Chadwick.
Some of the capitalists in and around
Leon are discussing the question of starting
Il bank in that hustlir & town.
The clothing of Mrs David Weed, of
Clarksbnrg, caught fire from an open fire
place and she was fatally burned.
Final SIPS in the federation of the en-
meeting at Grafton some time in April.
The contractors, builders and carpenters
of Parkersburg have forr ed Builders Ex-
change, and have applied for u charter.
Rufus Schaifer prominent and wealthy
citizen residing on Spurlock Creek, Cabeil
county, was assassinated last Monday night
The county court of Marion county ha,
postponed the election on the proposition TO
issue 800, 900 in bonds to build Il new court
house.
The organization of battalion of artillery
at Berkeley Springs has been authorized by
the governor, with Harry Goidon Strong As
captain.
The Appropriations Committee of the
House recommends the sum OF 100000 for
the improvement of the Monongahela river
in this state.
The tonnage men of the Benwood plant of
the Wheeling Steel and Iron Company, are
striking for an advance, throwing the en-
tire plant idle.
number of prominent physicians of
Wheeling have organized a medical library
association, and will furnish Il medical Ii
brary at the city hospital.
Charles Colratt, n conductor OH the West
Virginia Central, tried to board train
while it was in motion. lie slipped and
fell and was instantly killed.
Morgantown il enjoying a great building
boom. One firm has contracts for SAG OO1
worth of building. The boom is due to the
location of industries recently.
The work of organizing the st. Luke's
Hospital Association in Parkersburg, under
the patronage of the Ohio River Railway
employees, has been completed.
\ company Of Young men of Gallipolis.
Ohio, have organized the "Gallia Guard -"
and offered their services to President Nc
kinley in case of war with Spain.
james Stevens, an aged and wealthy far
mer, who killed his nephew, Hardee Comp
ton, in the Slate district about two. years ago.
died last week at the Spencer asylum.
S.W. Anderson, the cattle king of Green
brier county, has shipped 10, 600 cattle and
over 10000 sheep during the past year and
has checked out $4,000 for the same.
Spencer's new three-story hotel, built of
brick, with all modern improvements, in
Guiding its own waterworks system, il finish
ed and will be called the Grand Hotel.
Oil drillers have bored to depth of g.
300 feet on the farm of ex-senator johnson,
at Camden-on-the-Gauley but have struck
nothing but six-foot vein of camel coal.
Wade Mack, who shot George Brown in
a fight overa game of cards in Mcdowell
county last Christmas, has just been SEN
fenced to sixteen years in the penitentiary
John Faircloth, a young farmer near
RidSely, was shot i'll the head and instantly
killed by John Laraway, who lives near
him. Laraway says the gun was accident
ally discharged.
FLOWS buSiness?' l asked Of the printer
And he said, without looking up
From the case of type he was Setting" from,
with me it is picking upv'
A landslide occurred near Harris Ferry.
on the Ohio River railroad, last Monday
that delayed the trains some time.
The slide covered the track with mud for
eighty feet to a depth of ten feet.
Lee Mcfarland, who embezzlcd something
like $4,000 from the Parkersburg Second
National Bank Il little over year ago. was
by Judge jackson Tuesday morn
ing to five years in the penitentiary.
In the circuit court of Mercer county, the
verdict in the case of George j. Thompson
against DIR. K. NJ. Mctiuffin was yet aside.
Thompson sued McGufin for so. 700 for
the alleged alienation of his wife's affections,
and received II Judgment for IS, 900.
Replies to 4 circular mailed by State "a
Dor Commissioner Barton, of West Virginia,
indicate great prosperity. Eighty per cent.
OF the manufacturers replying report an in
crease in the number of employees and coke
anG coal operators general increase.
Robert Davis, aged 96, died at Camp,
'oddridge county, leaving eight children,
siXty-four grandchildren, and ninety-six
great-gr grandchildren. Eight children, sew
enteen grandchildren and twenty-nine
great grandchildren had died previously.
a new road, to be named the Hinton.
New River d Western, is to be built from
Pearisburg, Virginia, to Charleston, this
state. The proposed road will run down
New river to Bluestone ard Coal river, and
thence to Charleston. Work will be begun
at once.
Eva Ray, n dome site employed at the
Ncill boarding house, Charleston, attempted
suicide by taking morphine. After four
hours effort OF the part of physicians her
life was saved. She is said to be i'm love
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