The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-20
WEST VIRGINIA BRIEFS.

Work has started at the Clarksburs
cooperative glass works. ss
Paul Bersky, aged 40, was Killed by a
train at Adelaide, Fayette county.
The Richie county fair at Ellenboro
was decided financial success this fall
Mrs. Sylvester Roberts has myster,
ously disappeared from her home at
Elkins.
The Union glass plant at Central City
has started. after being Idle for several
months.
No gambling Will be permitted at the
Parkersburg races, which begin mex,
Tuesday. =
10y Gooden. OF Parkersburg. has been
committed to the reform school at
Pruntytown.
J. A. Peoples. of Huntington, had a
splinter extracted from his hand which
he had carried for ten years.
The board OF trade OF Manrinstoa
will petition the. Baltimore & Ohio off.
cials for new depot at that place.
The ginseng trade in West Virginia
has revived rapidly since the improve.
ment Of the situation In China. Tas
sale of this article brings many thou.
sands of dollars into this state.
Mr.. A. ]. Bandy. formerly chief clerk
in the Ohio River railroad offices At
Parkersburg, has been appointed gen.
eral passenger agent OF the Omaha &
st. Louis railroad, the Wabash rocs
Two cases Of smallpox have bsa
reported at Winfield, Putnam cozs1
Both cases are in a family named RI
rus. who emigrated to that section ttra
New River. and live two miles baekd
Red House.
]. s. Gottschall, horseman Of New
Cumberland, reported to the police de-
paStment OF Columbus Tuesday this
his pocketbook, containing si23, va
taken from him at the Nell house sons
time Monday night.
A call has been issued for convea'
ton OF the Democrats OF the eleventh
senatorial district to meet In Grattaa
at II o'clock on the morning Of octo6''
6 for the purpose OF nominating can
didate for state senate In that district.
The West Virginia Oil and Gas Cor.
poration, Of ,Martinsburg, has been u.
corporated by W, c. C. Leonard. l. ".
Robinsn. James w. Noll. Ale1andtt
Parks and Margaret Leonard. all Of
Martinsburg. The subscribed capital .
$3.50, all paid up; authorized capital
$4,000
The drlll contest between the Charts
Rouss hook and ladder company, Of
Winchester. and the United drill asso..
Cation. Of Frederick. which was 70 have
been pulled OF at Martinshurg, tats
month. has been declared of. ow!Es u
Indifference in opinion between the i've
companies as TO the rules 10 regulate
the contest.
Hon. NJ. c. C. Church viii represent
West Virginia at the celebration Al
Sycamore Shoals. Carter county q"
Tennessee, September %. OF the one
hundred and twenty-flrst ann!rers'
of the day on which Shelby, Sewer. ana
Campbell. with SEQ Elrglasans, LEFT ia
Kings Mountain. where that famous
battle OF the war OF the Revolution VS.
fought.
L. J. Williams, prominent Go'a
Democrat OF Greenbrier county, has an.
nounced his intention OF suppoF'iHs
Mckinley, and has come out In a s'Foas
letter defending the administrators
policy toward the Philippines. HIS az.
cession to the ranks OF the Repuelieaa
party Is considered the most yalaaes
gain made by either party in the s'1's
during the present campaign.
Rev. Father Kelly. pastor OF $. "
sephs Catholic church. Mar:lnsou.s'
announced TO his congregation that %,
cording TO u letter received from u,
bishop OF Richmond, q collection WI, y
taken up on next Sunday FOR The shnss
ers at Galveston. Texas, in the chuFen..
throughout Virginia. in response 70 ~
appeal to Bishop Van de Nyreh v
Richmond. by the bishop OF Hoas'S"'
Texas.