The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-29
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| "A STRANGE CAsE.-The Grafton Sen
incl gives the following story Of q sup
posed murder which occurred in Tay
lor county (then Monongalia) many
years ago:
About the year 1903 John Sigans was
married to Margaret Louzader, and in
1907, his wife, one morning, was miss
ing-leaving child in the bed about one
year old. Sigans was Immediately sus
picioned for the murder Of his wife.
Martin Current testified that he heard
a gun 60 off during the night, and that
the murdered woman had been buried
in stone heap. The body was searched
for, but without success. Time passed
away, and no clue could be found to the
missing woman The suspicion, how
ever, that she had been killed by her
husband still existed; and this suspi-
clon was grated into the minds of her
children, who, after they grew up, per-
secuted the old man in various ways
and in such manner that he had no
peace the remainder of his life. The
old man died; and, in about forty years
from the occurrence above narrated, the
! long lost wife returned to her old home.
She stated that she had never been over
one hundred miles away, and that Sigans
had never done her any harm; that she
had moved away and had changed her
name to Cole, and had lived with an
other man, by whom she had had two
children.
What her object for this procedure
was we are not informed. The whole
affair is little curious, certainly.
We noticed in town a few days since
a young man Of our acquaintance, who
said he was on his way to the west. We
asked him why he was leaving West
Virginia, and he told us he wished to
seek the home of free man. Here he
saw law trampled under foot, men de-
MED their dearest rights and discor-
dant element predominating. He had
looked fer better things from his native
State, but was now compelled to seek
them elswhere. He told us he had met
three other young men on the train on
their way TO the West. The young
men are the bone, sinew and hope Of
our State, and yet they are driven away
by Radical misrule. These young men
would make the hills and valleys OF
West Virginia blossom as the rose, but
the damaging effect Of Radical legisla-
ton gives their labor, their influence,
and their wealth to another State. Is
it not time the people were shaking off
this incubus on our industry and pro-
gress.- West Union Herald
SHOOTING ScRAPE-On Monday even
ing, at the mouth of Davis creek,
man by the name Of Welch shot a man
hv the name of Hamilton, below the
ribs, in the side. DR.. Wagner went
down and removed the bullet. Mr..
Hamilton is said to he MORALLY wound
ed. Welch escaped. The difficulty
was about a blanket-hanawha Jour
nal.
ON Friday last as Mr.. S. Haynes
boys were returning from Charleston,
they stopped in Two Mile creek, at
Wesley Chapel, to water their oxen
unfortunately one of the exen fell over
the tongue of the wagon and broke his
neck, and at the same time forced the
head Of the other OK under the water
and drowned him. The oxen were
worth about Sl00.-hdna,0ha journal.
Man STABEED.-On Monday, the 18th
inst, man named Wright Franklin,
returning from the circus which had
exhibited in Charleston on that day,
stopped at the residence of James Sentz
three miles above town, and being I'M
der the influence Of liquor, created
disturbance. Mr.. Peter Turner, a
ncighbor of Mr.. Sentz, interfered, and
in polite manner requested the gentle
man to desist from further annoyance.
Franklin, thereupon mounted his horse
and rode of, apparently in a
good humor. He returned, how
ever, in short time and
called Mr.. Turner to whom he said
that he wanted to settle that diff
Guilty" Turner told him, we are in
formed, that they could settle it without
any trouble, and began to reason the
matter in deliberate and unexcited
manner with Franklin, who himself
betrayed no excitement whatever.
When Turner, not suspecting an effort
on the part of Franklin to injure him,
had gotten within reach of the latter, to
his surprise the intoxicated man drew a.
knife, with which he inflicted upon Tur-
ner two serious and painful wounds in
the neck and shoulders. Franklin, we
understand, escaped. Mr.. Turner is i'm
proving and it is thought will soon re-
cover. -Ch0rlcston Courier.
Municipal Election in Lewisburg.
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