The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-01
STATE ATE PRESS eLEANIHe IS,

James Kerr and Mack Yeager, living
in the neighborhood of Parsons, W. Va.
are reported to have had q most cxcit-
Ing experience with two wildcats the
other day. Thinking their dogs had
freed q fox. they hurried to the spot
where the hounds were barking. The
hounds had cornered two wildcats, and
one dog had been killed. The men were
iunarmed, but they went to the aid Of
their dogs with clubs and succeeded in
killing the cats. after being more or less
scratched.
Abe Samuels Is raising q company to
be In readiness IL war is declared
against. Spain. He heads the list as
captain. Abe is as brave at sevcnty-onc
as he was at twenty-one. and when his
comrades In old Mercer hear Of It, they
will all send their names and enlist I'M
der his banner-Wcst Virginia News.
Nelson Smith. a hard-worklng color
ed man, OF Willlamsport, recently plac-
ed sum of money, consisting of paper
bills and silver coin, in an old unused
stove at his home, thinking It place OF
safety against burglars. On Monday
night he went home. and forgetting
about the treasure being placed In the
stove, proceeded to make n fire In It,
The paper money was. OF course, totally
destroyed, and the silver was melted in
to one large mass. He feels his loss
keenly and will send the charred and
melted currency to the .sub-treasury at
Baltimore for redemption.-Mar
burg Independent.
II. H. Brown killed two wildcats We'd.
nesday evening of last week on W. D.
sigler's farm. One weighed forty-two
and one-half pounds. and measured
three feet and one inch from the nose
to the end OF the tail; tusks one and
one-haf inch long. The smaller one did
not weigh more than twenty-five
pounds. He shot; both from q beech tree
with w. D. Sigler's Winchester, at
distance of one hundred and fifty
yards off hand.-Braxton Democrat.
The speech of Hon. S. B. Elkins on the
Teller resolution, made in the United
States senate January Is, and reported
In the Congressional Record the Sth
inst, is q most timely and manly de-
Tense of the nations honor in keeping
faith with her creditors, and of sound
national monetary system. No sophis-
try can impeach the facts or impair the
force OF the senator's burning logic. Mr..
Elkins Is proving himself to be one of
the. wisest, most conservative and able
senators In the upper house OF Congress-
He Is the pride Of West Virginia and an
honor to the natlon.-Morgan Messen-
ger.
The Monroe Waterman says that
young lady aged sixteen years died In
that county recently whose parents
We're fatalists. The daughter was not
necessarily sick OF an incurable dis
ease, but the parents deciding by some
occult means that their daughter was to
die, refused to give the medicine pre-.
scribed and Furnished by the attending
physician. though the patient begged
them to do so.
Some time ago Ed MILAN sold his
farm on the west side and went to
Wheeling. He returned on the train
yesterday afternoon. Several kilograms
had been received In the last few days
saying first that he was very sick and
then that he had died, and the next one
said TO meet his body at the station. A
large crowd was there when the train
came In ind they nearly fell dead when
the Corpse come off the train olive.
The dead" man said that he knew
nothing OF the kilograms and OF course
did not know who sent them. The fu-.
neral has been indefinitely postponed
Morgantown New Dominion.
DESIRE to attest to the merits Of