The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-09-27
state News.

Barboursville. CabelI county is
TO have water works
The County Superintendent of
schools of Fayette county says he
can find positions in that county
for 100 teachers.
Work has been commenced on
the new Jail at Fayetteville. Fay
cite county 1t will cost hen
completed about $4,000.
The Stork when visiting the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. g. P. Cloudy
in Petersburg last Wednesday
night. left an IS IA pound baby
IgiTl.
Fairmont, Sept 22.-oharles
Frank Wiley, of the First ward. a
popular brakeman on the ConneIls.
vile division, suffered the loss of
both legs in an accident at Mon
tana yesterday morning.
Ex-senator j. N. Camden has
bought of Mr.. Charles q. Kemper
the Cedar Grove farm in Fauquier
county, Va, which hes been in the
possession of the Kemper family
since colonial times. The farm
contains lob acres, and the price is
said to have been $4,000.
An epidemic of diptheria is
raging at Davis, w. Va. There
are nearly fifty cases in the place
and the schools have been closed.
The council last week passed an
order prohibiting children from
congregating at any place. Church.
es and Sunday schools will be
closed.
The American Gar and Foundry
Company, one of West Virginia's
large industrial Attachments, has
decided to build new plant at
Huntington. They say 14O0 adj
ditional men will be employed in
the new plant when completed,
and the capacity will be increased
to 30 steel cars daily.
In Huntington police court last
Friday. Henry Seward was 80.
sessed fifteen dollars for living on
a shanty boat in the corporation of
the city. Stewards said he didn't
know it was against the law to live
on shanty boat. but was told to
pay his fine and move his floating
property across the river as quick
ly as possible.
Henry Harmon. sentenced by
Judge John B. Wilkinson, of the
Logan Circuit Court, TO life i'm.
prisonment for the murder of Jas.
Newson, two years ago, cursed the
court, jurors and witnesses and
swore he would escape from the
pen and kill every one of them.
Harmon had eeven times been
tried for seven different murders
and was once before sentenced to
the pen for life but escaped
through technicslity. He was
years ago one of the field leaders in
the Hatfield Mccoy feud.
Attacked at the side door of a
saloon by man jealous of her,
then dragged down an alley and
beaten by hiE with a pair of brass
knuokles and left almost dead, was
the frightfnl experience of Rose
Parker. aged 10, in Wheeling.
She and her companion, Mollie
Anderson. aged 20. are under ar
rest at police headquarters, having
been brought in by officer Lunau.
while the same officer. with war
rsnt, is searching for George Boo
shans, young man who committed
the assault. Miss Parker says be
was jealous of her.
Ray. little son of Joseph b.
Bergdoll, nesr Petersburg, Grant
county, West Virginia. was caught
beneath a wagon carrying three
tons and held there for half an
hour. He had been thrown from
the wagon which could not be
drawn forward without breaking
the other leg, nor could it be
pushed backward on account of the
high bank behind. The leg was
frightfnlIy mangled and the boy
pleaded with those around him to
out his leg entirely off and free
him. The use of rail and a PEN
knife freed the boy. With the
latter the leg was dug from be-
meath the wagon.