Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-27
STATE SCRAPS.
Local Happenings of General
Interest.
Red Men in Writ County.

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Mentor
The Red Men to the number OF about
fifty visited the house OF Charles Court
ney, on Lynn Camp, this county, de-
mlndcd the person oil Sam Ring, whom
they got, took him and whipped
him severely with hickory withes
and ordered him TO leave the coun-
try. He came To- this place aud swOre
out warrant Tor Frank kyger and
William Steel, whom he saws he recog-
nized among the gang They have not
vet been arrested. Ring is charged
with being 4 refugee from justice. IN
Monroe county, Ohio, where he stands
charged with the attempt 10 commit rape.
Would il not have been much better to
have arrested him according to law and
sent him back TO OhiO2 Law and order,
gentlemen, must prevail.
A Dastardly Assault.
Union Border Watchman.
On Monday morning last, the Goth
instant. about or s O'Clock, Miss Ar
netta Baker, daughter OF Mr.. George NJ.
Baker, livingOn Peters Mountain, about
two miles from the Sweet Springs, while
a short distance from her fathers house
gathering some wild grapes, was seized
by tramp, and as he seized her, he
said he could do as he pleased with such
girls a. she. He tied a handkerchief
across her mouth, and attempted tO vlO-
late her person. lie also took out q
pocket-kniie, opened and threat
ened 10 use il ii she resisted.
In the struggle she received severe cut
across the palm Of her right hand, and
il is said she received several severe
gasheS i'm each arm. From the best in
formation We can get, IL seems that she
fortunately escaped h.S clutches before
he accomplished h 5 tiendish purpose.
As soon as the fOu' at was known, a
large number of persons went n various
directions in pursuit OF the perpetratOr,
but up 10 la,t accounts ne had not been
Overhauled.
Mysterious Disappearance.
Grafton Eag.e.
Frank Harris, a trusted clerk in the
store OF Frank Huffman, at Fairview,
disappeared last Saturday night. since
which time no intelligence has been re-
ceived OF him. He was a young man
who came 10 this county from New
York and was much liked by his en-
plOver and customers. There Is moth
ing missing or wrong in the store, and
his absence cannot bn accounted for,
except upon the theory OF ioul play.
wetzel County
Messenger.
We believe il is evident to the most
casual observer that this county is not
i'm such bad reputc as IL formerly was.
It has not been many years since Wetzel
was considered the synonym t9r all that
was horrible, and the adventurous tray-
eler who had visited the "wildS of
Wetzel' and returned safely home was
thought % have been specially favored
by Providence.
Those of Us who live here know that
this reputation never was deserved.
True, there were bad men in this coun-
tv. but il would be difficult To find a
county where there Is not, and the pro-
portion was not larger here than else
where.
But whatever NAV have been the rep
utatiOn of the county in the past, II
now, deservedly, stands as well as any
i'm the State, and We believe that the
good citizens of the county are going 10
preserve that reputation.
With a rich soil, pleasant climate, the
mineral resources, the finest timber in
the State. and genial, hOspitable citizens
we can imagine no reason why Wetzel
county has not fair and prosperous
future before her.