The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23
STATE PRESS anEANINes.

8lr. E. D. Bowley, who knows more
about catching carp, perhaps, than any
other man In this neishbOrhood. has
been catching some of these giant fish
recently-serving two purposes thereby:
Kidding the river Of an enemy to the
gamy bass and at the same time pro-
vidlng food supply. Last Friday Mr..
Bowiey broke his record at Dam No. 4.
when with a rod and line he landed u
carp that weighed thlrty-five and one
half pounds. 1t was a mighty fighter,
and gave him hard struggle before he
landed It. Mr.. II. B. Maddox, who Is
another expert fisherman, recently
caught number OF very large carp, the
biggest Weighing thlTty-fOur pounds.
Mr.. Maddox has probably caught more
carp than any other person hereabouts.
-shepherdstown Register.
Turkey season opened last Friday.
says the Hampshire Review, and Rev.
G. A. Gibbons was at the opening. He
had a blind prepared in advance and
hied himself to It early Friday morning.
Presently two fine RobbIers came and
began taking the bait With one shot
he killed them both. He got back in
his blind and waited patiently. Pres
emily four more gobblers came. One
shot brought down two of them and the
third shot on the wing dropped the fifth
one. Mr.. Gibbons lugged two of them
home and with Alex Orndorh went back
after the other three. Alex weighed the
lightest one Of the five and 1t weighed
seventeen and one-half pounds. Mr..
Gibbons has completed the Job by KILL
ing a twenty and one-half pound COB
bier He went out Monday and return
ed In the afternoon with this. the lar
gest one OF the six. The aggregate
weight Of the six, killed In two days.
was 10 pounds. We doubt II this re-
cord, especially for weight, has ever
been equalled in the country.
W. C. Bierkamp has shown US tre-
mendous rattlesnake hide, brought from
Mingo county by Melvin Murphy, a
deaf boy, who is one of Mr.. Beir-
Ramps pupils in the cabinet shop. The
hide shows that the snake was we'll
proportioned, being evidently some four
or Ave inches In diameter at the lar
gest part Of the body. No bigger one
was probably eve- killed in the state
Hampshire Review.
Henry Miller. of Wheeling, Of the
firm of Miller & Stein, was in the city
a couple of days during the week at
tending to business matters. His firm
has the contract for furnishing the
iron work for the new opera house now
in course Of construction here.-Sisters-
Vile Tribune.
A woman living somemiles from Hor-
ton was feeding her flock of twenty
seven chickens. She accidently drop.
ped a diamond out of her ring, which
was Immediately Sobbled up by one Of
the chickens. In grabbing for the dia-
mond she lost sight of the chicken that
got It, so she had to kill and examine
the crnws OF the entire twenty-seven,
which she did, but she did not find the
diamond. She then began looking in
the grass again where she had dropped
II, and she found 1t, the chicken having
dropped It as soon as 1t picked 1t up.
The woman now mourns the loss Of her
fowls, but the family is just spreading
themselves on fried chicken.-Inter-
State Courier.
Isaac Nelson. of Kantner. Somerset
county. Pa, and Miss Berket, of Boone
Postofice, in the same county were
married at Cumberland. Nd, last Sat
urday. Mr.. Nelson, was a wldower
and is elghty-fve years OF age. while
the bride is only fourteen years old.
Her parents gave their written con-
sent to the marriage. The strangely
mated couple were given reception
upon their return to Boone. They will
reside with the brides parents Mr..
Nelson Is well-to-do.-Blueheld Tele-
graph.
The F6int Pleasant Register con-
taIns the startling announcement that
Hon" ]. B. Menager will accept the
Democratic nomination for governor II
1t Is rendered him. Well, we should
think so! Who ever knew him to de-
cline anything that was rendered him?
Who ever knew him to fail to seek to
have rendered TO him any office which
there, was the slightest possibility OF
getting? Yes, indeed: he'll accept. And
the Registers own Mr.. Hogg ornculnrly
declares that "McKlnley's administrn-
ton has been a nat failure" Say, Mr..
Hogg, has II been any fatter failure
than your career as a member OF Con-
Echo.
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PASSING PLEAsAN7RTEs.
wheels.-"I feel rs II had wheels in
my head!" groaned the man. 1T must