West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-03-09

Tunasltoa Items
Covvcsncuseucc of the Ar-us
Mis- Auaa Riley. OF near c adesvine,
IS >'opoiog at the Bishop House now.
Mr.. Thoma> Cruise WAS at Grafton
ON business ope day las: week.
Mis- stella Mllrr. " Grafton, -
visiting her parents. Mr. AMI Mes. Jos
A. Miller.
Mrs Michael lynch. of near noweS-
vile. Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. I.
NJ. kinney.
Bea,rice. the little daughter of Tom
Kinney. has ,.en right sick with grippe
for The past few days
AN our sick people reported hereto
fo,e. We arc glad u note. are again
welt. or recovering rapidly.
MIR. aud Mrs. Riley. OF Fairmont
was Wis tins Mrs Ri'ey'S prrents, Mr..
ana Mrs. West the past week.
Oscar G. Murray. receiver OF the u
q O., passed through town en- route to
Baltimore on Tuesday morning.
Zig meeting commenced here last
night and We hope they will accom-
plish nueh good. as soae OF the young
sters need a little spiritual advice
badly.
]. Morgan Watkins, one of our most
prom neut miners. came near being
caught under a heavy fall of rock in
the mines one day last week. 1t Is
about time for the boys to keep their
ewes on ,he Indicator.
Two contractors arrived here on
Monday To arrange for the archiug of
KingWOud Tunnel. They will ea ploy
about one hundred men and will take
about one year u complete the wor,;
They will start soon as the weather
viii permit
a car load of lumber arrived here
last week for the NJ. L. church. soon
to be erected. This looks like bust.
ness and should not have been delayed
so long, as II Is a bad showing for IA
town of oyer 800 population without a
church.
The outlaw that was in the cooler
here, left very ~lsisurly the ether day
and has not been seen since. This il
a good way to encourage crime and
disorder. The town had better de-
clare the Corporation a nuisasce and
kick IL out of town. Where are the
fathers Of the Corporation +?
4 bad little wreck occurred down
near the water tank on the w. Va. n.
Tuesday night, caused by three cars of
coal getting away from II Il. & o. crew
who were switching at Tunnelton.
The cars jumped the track and blocked
the w. Va N. and county road for
several hours. and was cleaned up by
Assistant Train Master. C. J. Welsh
with "a force OF X. & o. men aud Rig
gers car on the following morning.
The infant child Of Chas Weaver,
who lives near here, was found dead
10 ed one day last week. The father
and mother on getting up supposed the
child was sleaping and did not mind it
After Mr.. Weaver had gone to work
and Mrs. Weaver had done up her
house work, she went to see about
baby and to her horror found the little
one cold and dead. MIR. and Mrs.
Weaver have the sympathy Of the en-
tire community.
a dirty little ease was brought up
IL
before his honor, the Mayor, last
week between Lewis Baer and A.
Bergman. The latter haying Baer
arrested for committing "a nuisance.
There were n score OF witnesses on
both sides and quite a lively time was
had. After three or four knock downs
the authorities got things quieted
down, but for a time II was feared it,
would terminate in IL regular Hatfield
Mccoy feud, but was finally settled by
each party paying half the cost and
cleaning up his own filth.
Another bad accident occurred noar
Austen on Tuesday. Mr.. Clarence
Morris, Waterman at that point went
to take a package from an east bound
train and when returning across North
track was struck by "a helping engine
returning to Newburg. II struck
Morris in the head, knocking him
seven or eight yards, fracturing his
skull and badly brvisiHg his body.
Morris is about 22 years old and single.
Company physicians, Dent and Siyey
were summoned and treated the patient
He is doing as we'll as could be expect
ed so far.
POLLY GUYsANT.