Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-17
NOT sY VIOLENCE.
The Bottom Drops From ths Mon
roe Sensation,
And Fucker Died from Natural Causes
Avsriety Of News from the Regions
Round About Us.


Some little excitement was occasioned,
last week, in Monroe county, Ohio, over
what was supposed to have been q murder.
Isasc A. Wilcox had struck John Fucker
with q poker, and the latter b ad died short
" afterward and was buried. Then the
body was sxhumed and marks Of violence
found and the presumption was he died
from the blow. A jury was impaneled and
an autopsy held, at which the following
facts were discovered;
At the place where the blow was struck
was q small lacerated wound, and on dis.
secting il the tissues beneath were found
confused and the frontal process of the
malar or cheek bone was depressed with
the fracture Of q small fragment OF the
same bone. The calyarium, or top part OF
the skull, was then removed, which re-
vealed an extravasatIon of blood between
the dura mater and skull, in amount about
one half ounce
No fracture Of. any part Of the skull was
found.
The brain was in normal condition as
well as meninges, except few small con-
gested spots in pia mater.
The chest was next opened, and the lungs
found Of q very dark or black color and en-
gorged with blood, both alike. except that
the left was Of q darker color than the
right.
The heart was in normal condition and
contained some blood.
Upon the eft side Of the neck was q
goitre or enlarged thyroid gland, filed with
fluid.
The abdominal cavity being n ext opened,
nothing abnormal was found.
The autopsy revealed some interesting
points, as the engagement OF the lungs was
sufficient TO produce death by asphyxia, as
weIl also as the extrayasation OF blood be-
tween the dura mater and skull, by pres.
sure, producing coma.
The position in which he was found
living would sussssst the idea that the head
being in such position as to press on the
enlarged thyroid gland might give rise to
asphyxia by closing the trachea which
would in that view account for the engorge-
ment of lungs.
His death was evidently the result Of one
or the other of the above named causes and
not by the blow which being below the base
of the brain could not have produced the
extrayasation found between the dura
mater and skull.
The theory of murder is certainly ex
plOded by the autopsy, as no sane man,
after reading this can entertain for mo-
ment such an idea.
This is a correct report, and can be re-
lied upon, and ought to dismiss from the
minds of all the idea that he was killed by
the blow.
The finding of the coroner was: That
the said John w. Rucker came to his
death in q natural way, and not By means
of any violence
The wheeling District Camp Meeting As
sOcistion had a business meeting on their
grounds at Moundsyille on Tuesday, at
which large amount Of business was dis
posed Of II was resolved to make the
coming summer meeting memorable one.
The campaign will open on July 4th and
9Th, with a grand temperance rally. at
which Mrs Ellen J. Foster, the famous
Iowa lawyer and lecturer, will be the prin'
cipal speaker, il her services can be pro-
cured for the occasion. The meeting is in
charge Of a committee consisting of Miss
A. Taylor, Mr., Wm, Hastings and 9th
ers. On August ID Sunday school
meeting, similar to the assemblies at
Chatauqua will be held, and August 10 the
campmeeting will be opened. An effort
will be made to secure Mrs. Robinson, the
great Indian revivalist, and one or two of
the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. for the campmeeting. On the
question of opening the gates on Sunday,
the members of the Board think cOmpro-
mise will probably be agreed upon, by
which the gates will be opened in the
morning, until after the arrival of the reg.
ular trains, and then close for the remand
er Of the day.
4 Western Pennsylvania Senator has in
troduCed bill which provides That here
after il shall be unlawful for any person to
treat or offer To treat another person to any
drink Of spirituOus, vinOus, malt or brewed
liquors or admiXtureS thereof, or to pay
for any liquors rs Aforesaid, used by another
person as Il beverage. and any person so Of
Tending shall De deemed guilty Of a INSIDE
meanor, and on conviction thereof be sem
fenced TO pay a fine OF twenty-five dollars"
Stogie cigars retail in Caldwell at one
cent each, and smoking is cheaper than
the present generation OF boys ever knew.
Us old fellows, though, can remember back
when stOgie cigars sold az 20 to - cents
per hundred.-CdldwcH Republican. 1t
seems remarkably strange that Bellaire
dealers are always higher than others. For
a year or two Wheeling cigar dealers have
been selling four stOgieS for nickel, and
now Caldwell is selling five, and the Bel
laire dealers remark that after TIE first of
May, even, not more than four will be
gwen. Inc lovers oil the fragrant ought
to strike Independent.
The strike for $3.50 per day by the brick
masons. has already had serious effects on
the building prospects in Steubenville.
This price makes il necessary for contrac
tors TO ask more for building and the re.
suit is that parties contemplating building
abandon the project. However, the con.
tractors have resolved to hold out against
the strike, claiming that they cannot afford
TO pay the price at present contracts, and
that if they add to the price builders will
abandon the work
The Panhandle maintenance of way has
been moved from Steubenville 70 Pitts
burgh. Panhandle eastbound business is
shehd Of the corresponding season year
ago, owing to the heavy movement Of grain.
Westbound freight shows a corresponding
falling of, on sccount of dizziness in the
coke trade. Generally, an improvement is
noticed in the value of business handled,
and rates are uniform.