Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Robert A. Spencer acquired the paper and renamed in the Raleigh Register.

The Journal ceased daily publication

F.R. Swann began published Charleston Evening Mail

Clarence Wayland Watson founded the Briar Hill Coal Company

Justus Collins opened Collins Colliery and the Greenbrier Coal & Coke

William Conley earned a law degree from WVU

John Dickinson moved to Charleston from Malden

Samuel Dixon and partner organized the MacDonald mine

The first Douglass High School graduated its first high school class

Legislature provided for two levels of teacher certificates

Aretas Fleming returned to practicing law

Henry Harrison Hunter won blue ribbon at World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago for quality of sand he mined and processed

Graceland was completed

The Great Bend Tunnel was lined with brick arching

Joseph Harvey Long arrived in Huntington to buy the Herald

John Jeremiah Jacob died and was buried in Indian Mound Cemetery

Chicago World's Fair has a West Virginia state exhibit

John Joseph Kain left the Diocese of Wheeling to become Archbishop of St. Louis

John Q. Dickinson moved Kanawha Valley Bank into a substantial new building

Virgil Lewis was awarded an M.A. in history from WVU

The N&W Railroad built its main line along the Big Sandy River

Joseph Long moved to Huntington to buy the Herald

Daniel Lucas left the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Uncle Jack McElwain won a fiddle contest at the Chicago World's Fair

Bill McKell built his home at Glen Jean

Johnson Camden McKinley moved to Wheeling

C. F. Millspaugh left WVU to become curator of botany at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

High-quality semibitumious coal from Davis' Big Vein was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair

Sistersville became the nation's premier oil-field boom town

Henry Schmulbach opened his Wheeling inclined railway to riders

William Edwin Chilton became secretary of sate

Pittsburgh's William Flaccus and Son bought a tannery along the Buckhannon River

Telephone switchboards were installed at Bluefield

The city of Parsons was incorporated

Charles Ward's boilers were showcased at the Chicago World's Fair

Ward Engineering Works built the Mascot for the U.S. Engineering Corp

Clarence W. Watson joined his father and brothers in the mining enterprises

Chitwood Hall was completed at WVU

The earliest Whipple Company Store was constructed in Glen Jean for Collins Colliery Company

The country began an economic depression

The Woodson family moved to Huntington

Land purchased for $24,757 for Cabell County Courthouse

Huntington established Chamber of Commerce

Reuben Gold Thwaites edition of Chronicles of Border Warfare was published, which provides corrections to some errors of fact or interpretation

Clay was incorporated

$20,000 appropriated for new academic building at what is now known as Concord University

John William Davis (originally from Clarksburg) graduated from law school at Washington and Lee

Bethany Chapter of Delta Tau Delta ceased activity

Distinct historic courthouse was built in Fayetteville

Jack Glasscock returned to Wheeling to manage and play for Wheeling Base Ball Club

Harrisville, the county seat of Ritchie County, was named in honor of Thomas Harris

The Montgomery Preparatory School (West Virginia University Institute of Technology) was founded

Lewis County's first high school was established

Joseph Long sold the Herald

West Virginia passed a law preventing railroad from engaging in the business of buying and selling coal

A formal community of Orthodox Christians was founded in Bluefield

Michael Owens had perfected machinery for blowing tumblers, light bulbs and lamp chimneys

Extensive timbering began along the Pocatalico River

A timber company began extensive operations on the waters of Pocatalico which added to Poca's growth.

Morris Shawkey came to West Virginia as professor of education at West Virginia Wesleyan College

E. M. Statler left the McLure House for Buffalo, New York

Ephraim Wells opened the Wells Hotel in Sistersville

The Virginia was built in Cincinnati

Ralph Weinberg was born in Baltimore

The McDowell County courthouse at Welch was constructed

Welch population was at 300

Agnes Westbrook Morrison was the first woman to graduate from College of Law at WVU

Agnes Howard Hall, now on the Register of Historic Places, was built as a residence for women at West Virginia Wesleyan College

Williamson became the county seat of Mingo County

William Wilson became postmaster general under President Cleveland's cabinet

Hurry-up Yost played tackle on the WVU football team

A.S. Withers wrote an early report of Betty Zane's save of Fort Henry in Chronicles of Border Warfare