The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-22
WEST yIRaINIA aRIEFs.

pary, Of clarksbprg, has been incorpor-
atedS
Janaas il. Stewart, aged seventy, was
| gored to death BY . bull In Hancock
county. opposite Wellsyille.
Twenty-Five men have reported to
Captain Hodges, pf the West Virginia
University, for football practice.
Capt. JunMs w. Williamson, once a
prominent river man, is dead at his
home In Friendly, aged eighty years.
Judge Guthrie will not hold the fall
term of the Putnam county court on
account OF smnlIrAox near Red House.
Harvey Dusenbenry, Of Monopgalin
county, was killed at Elizabeth. Pa.
while working amopG some heavy TIM
bers.
The West Virginia Conference Semi
nary, at Buchhannon, hkls initiated the
work for 1900 under the auost favorable
auspices.
James Byrne. West Virginia trav-
cling man, who was supported to have
died ut Rowlesburg, is alive and well
at Charleroi. Pa.
George Wells, aged twelve, and VIII
Shaver, aged ten, were burned. to death
by using kerosene oil in lighting fire,
at Point Pleasant.
The Methodists Of Parkersburg are
anxious to secure the services Of Rev. j..
H. Miller, who recently received u call
from that church.
Nearly every saloonkceper in Pied
mont was indicted by the Mineral colin-
ty grand jury for selling liquor to a
confirmed drunknrd.
Capt. +. w. Smith, of BlueGeld, who
Is assistant surgeon in the Second reg
iment of the National Guard, has been
examined for promotion.
William Bowen, who was defeated in
| the Republican primary, has been made
| by the county court the successor Of
Sheriff White. in Mercer.
William Messenger, prominent resi-
dent of Davis, Is dead, aged forty-two
years. His remains We're sent to his
former home at Rtdgway, Pa, for in
terment.
The drouth has almost caused q sus-
pension OF navigation on the Mononga-
hela river. The regular packets now
transfer half way up navigation to
light boats.
Senator John NJ. Thurston will make
| three speeches In West Virginia. The
first meeting will be at Martinsburg on
the night OF September "a; on the 18th
at Piedmont; and at Clarksburg on the
o6th.
G. S. Good 6 Co., Of Lock Haven. Pa.
were awarded the contrac: for the ma
sonry fo- twenty-five mile5 on the Bal
timore & Ohio branch from Grafton to
philIppi. The contract calls for 1900
yards; ~ = .s4 3s4s:..5 ~
The first labor union TO be organized
| In EMorgantown was organized Thurs
| day night, by the American Flint Glass
Workers Union. The men to get IN the
| union are employees df the Morgantown
| glass works.
Allan Jones, OF Crane Ridge, Mellow
| ell county, was attempting, TO extract
bal. from a Winchester cartridge when
the cartridge exploded. The bulletpen,
etrated Jones head and the wound will
prove fatal.
Sam PIerson. who is charged with the
murder Of Alex. Dawson. near Yhlkee
Dam. in Clay county, was taken TO
Charleston Thursday evening and
placed In the Kanawha county jail foN
| safe keeping.
For the first time In years every ap-
poIntmens in the cadet corps OF the
West Virginia University is taken.
There are 144 of these appointments
and they carry along with them free
tu.tion and books.
Major Powell. who is in charge Of the
| Monongahefa river Improvement be-
tween Morgantown and Fairmort, has
acaln let the contract for the locks and
dams and announces that work Will be-
gin on them at once.
DR.. H, G. Meek has received advice
from the department. OF the interior
that he has been transferred from the
board OF examining surgeons Of Pleas
ants county to the board Of Tyler coun-
ty, to succeed DR.. G. S. Wells, resigned.
At Erbacon, on Birch river, Webster
county, within radius OF eight miles.
| there are eighteen saw mills and
twelve stnve cutters In active operation,
turning out 10000 feet Of lumber six
days in the week the year round. Web
ster county was Democratic In 1896, but
It Is not likely to be this year.
The Maryland Automobile Manufac-
turing Company, of Piedmont, has be-
gun the manufacture of automobiles on
nm extensive scale. The first was ship
ped to gentleman in New York. who
entered 1t In several speed contests. The
company is completing FIVE large deliv-
cry vans, one for n Pittsburgh laundry
| firm.
Cincinnati coal men, who ure largely
Interested. either directly or indirectly.
In the coal trade Of the Kanawha and
New River valleys, are preparing Pc
tItion to the.sccretary of'war, request
ing that the United States engineer be
granted permission to flood the Kama
wha when he thinks 1t necessary to
! help coal fleets out.
Bentley & Gerwig, W. NJ. Mitchell
and G. L. Hendershot, of Parkersburg,
and J, C. Copenhauer, of Pittsburgh,
have about completed the rebuilding Of
their immense lumber plant on the
Middle Fork river. In upshur county.
which was burned recently. The mills
| will begin running next week. They
own $4,000 acres Of splendid timber and
coal lands.
Theodore Fearly, 4 burly six-footcr.
known as the bully OF Pine Hills.
Berkeley county, was found guilty Of
an attempt to commit rape on Mrs. Sa-
rah Bowers. by n jury at Martlnsburg
yesterday. The case was tried at the
last term OF court. and the jury rem
dercd verdict Of guilty. The deed
was committed at the woman's home,
| in n lonely place in the pine hills.
March 20, 1900. The judge withheld
his opinion to consider 4 motion FOR
another new trial.
Will be Gagged Again.
Special Dispatch to the 1ntclliccncsr,