The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-03
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The INTRLLlaEScER has already sew.
eral times referred to the imaginative
correspondents in this city who send re-.
ports, either grossly exaggerated or made
out Of the whole CLOTH to the press Of other
cities, detailing horrible tragedies or prom
inent scandals, alleged to have occurred in
some part Of West Virginia. Language is
too weak to properly characterize tho per-
SONS who manufacture these libelous sto-
ries for paltry fees. The result is 10 give
the State bad name abroad. Eventually
the abuse will die Of Its own rottennees.
The papers which are imposed upon by
mendacious correspondents will in time dis.
cover the fraud that is played upon them,
and stop paying a premium for lying. The
matter is suggested at this time by indig.
nant denials by State papers Of recent sto-
RES. For instance, the Greenbrier hide.
pendent says:
The old adsge which gays that you must 60
from home to get the ne WI Is s:rikirgly illut-
trated In sensational elopement story which
Is now going the rounds. Of the newspapers,
the location Of the romance being at point
somewhere on the Grsenorier river in this
county. We have taken pains to ascertain
the true inwardnets Of the story and find that
1t has no foundation in fact-manulactured,
as it were, out Of the who'll. cloth.
This. story had the clipping lover and
the irate father drowned. The brain which
originated the romance must have been a
fertile one.
The Charleston Times OF recent date
says:
The 7inu, has moro than once had occa.
sion 10 call attention to the visionary stories
d of lawletsnetB in Kanawha and aojoiniDg
counties, telegraphed by special correspond
ents 10 the New YORK press. The latest and
most elaring lie that has been perpetrated
upon the people OF this section is taken from
the columns Of the New York Tribune 1t is
not at oil unlikely that the Times could give
the name Of the man who wrote the dispatch,
but for the present 1t torbsars.
After quoting dispatch under Wheel
ing date, Of which the gist is that last
Tuesday night three masked men visited
the dwelling Of John Carlos, in an isolated
spot on Little Mud River, and called him
to the door. When he appeared they
seized and gagged him, and went through
the premises. The family were absent at
the time. The outlaws got $500, but this
did not satisfy them. Believing that Car
los had more money hid somewhere, they
demanded it, He declared that he had no
more. This so aDgered one Of tho robbers
that he blew Csrlos' brains out. They
then set fire to the house and disappeared.
Carlos remains were discovered by his
Mortified family next morning. The Times
continues:
II Is pity the correspondent who sent the
above dispatch cannot lind means Of making
living without vilifying batter people. The
item ia enterely devoid Of truth. No such
occurrence has ever been heard OF here or sny
! whore else, aud the publication Of such news
will but hurt the reputation Ct the TiJune
for truth and vsracity.
A crusade against this sort OF profession.
al lying would be worthy movement, and
we hope the press Of West Virginia will in.
augurste it. Other recent stories were that
James Hall, Sheriff, had chained his wife to
rock in the woods Of Webster county to
die, and taken up with an abandoned
woman; that his crime had been discovered
and would be followed by lynchins-
that two young ladies OF Mineral county
bad administered poison to young man,
and alter recovering from it he had horse.
whipped one ofthem, had in turn boon tar.
red aud feathered, and out OF the difficulty
murder had arisen-that (this in yester-
days Pittsburgh Dispatcl) for years Witt
county has continually been the scele Of
violence and bloodshed between two con.
apicuous families, named Boggs and
Thompson, over the boundary. line, where
their lands join, and that on Sunday while
going to. church John Thompson met
Charles Boggs and in quarrel about the
matter, Doggs was killed.
This last story illustrates the methods OF
these professional liars. The true story
was printed in yesterdays .ISrHLLlagScER.
Boggs was not killed, nor did the affair
occur on Sunday, but several days before.
1t twas chronicled in a local weekly,
reached Wheeling by mail, and was ex-
aggerated and and located on Sunday 10
:, make the story fresh and salable.
Surely this is contemplate way 10
make q little money.