The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-12
THE CURSE OF CRIME
DOWN IN THE OLD THIRD DISTRICT.

" DOWN IN THE OLD THIRD DlsTR.c'
c The Sitk'nias 8tosy ofa uoans County aurdl
:. The utll, Dod,op, Spusleek Garr. and Their
Oath-Nsmsrou, firts In the HiAt.-A
!. Wnt vlrsialsa Fls,a iato tho River.
! A cherry tree recently felled In The vioinit
! OF Elk Garden furnished Is. 700 feet OF th
i valuable lumber. l. \ A.
, The Woo..GrowerJ Association OF Tyl,
) county will meet a: Little Buffalo Oh Ii
, i7sh Inst, when topics Of vital interest are I
be discussed. II ,.U.l..
The Haunis Dis,ilisry. at Martinsburl
has until lately hal $50 hogs In Its pens, bu
disease has broken out among them on,
from three 10 five are dying daily. It iB no
Known What the disease is
The grand jury Of Roane county foun,
40 indictments at the recent term Of th,
Circuit Court. One hundred aud forty two
were Tor hiademeanors and thYeo for felony
Seventy were against one r. Beaseley, for re
falling whisky. lt nm II
The members OF the bar Of Raleigh county
mat last week. and passed resolutions In
memory OF Ex-Governor II. M. Mathsws.
Very appropriate and expressive resolutions
wore prepared by Messrs. ]. NJ. French, J,
d. McGinnis and J. W. McCreery, and sey.
esal speeches wers made. re
a hall storm Of considerable violence swept
over Wit county one night laat week accom-
panied by considerable lightning Every
thing In the way Of garden stu II suffered ma.
terially, much OF 1t being beaten down and
almost entirely destroyed. The hail lay In
some places two inches deep, and sems OF 1t
was as large es ordinary marbles.
The Misses Logan. maiden sisters, lived
three miles west OF Little Washington, Pa.
Saturday morning Mary found Margaret
dead In bed from heart disease. Bho WAS
aged about Us years. Horace G.Johhion took
hemorrsGe Friday evening In his father'a
yard at Little Washington, and died before
hs could be placed In bsj. He WAS II years
Tho large two.stoly franc houss at Rem
Fool, short distance east Of this. city, in
Brooke county, caught fire. yesterday about
z O'Clock. and was totally destroyed. 1t was
comparatively a new house, having been
built about three years. The household
goods we're saved. Cause, the old story-a
defective lue. No insurance., as his policy
had only expired short time since.-Ste,i.
1earile Herald. -.
According 10 the statement. OF Charles
Spurlock, now In the kauawha county Jail,
the band to which he, the Dohsons aud the
Hills belonged, coasisted OF twenty-five cut
lhroass, bound together by fearful oaths and
blood.drinking covenant 10 rob, murder
and plumber, and their headquarters appear
10 have been at William Spurlock's house,
tho father Of Charles. The ekull mud cross.
bones was blszoned on their banner, and
murder and robbery was their pas.ime. This
is the gang. that has been numbering and rob-
bing In tie valley for the past year. The
Hills, it will be remembered, were lynched.
William Bradford, who ia said to live either
at Petroleum or Volcano, Wood county, went
70 Marietta last Friday. Along in the even.
ing he became intoxicated, and became bois-
ferrous and disordetly. Two policemen at.
tempted to arrest him, and as he resisted
they clubbed him, when he became furious
and broke away from them and fled, The
officers pursued and fired at him. Bradford
returned the fire and kept on running,
When no came to the river, nesr the wharf
boat, he jumped IN, and Officer Dan Hill fol.
lowed him. at this point the account of the
affair Is rather mixed. Hill saws thai
Bradford tried to drown him. At sny rate
one thing is certain, Bradford himself was
taken from the river dead. rr
Several houses and barns throughout the
Slate were burned during the past week.
Among them were the following; Tho d dysll.
Ing house of J. 8. Smith near st, Mary's. and
several outbuildings; loss $1,000, no irsur-
ancei cause accidental. The house and ell
Its contents belonging to John W. plyman Of
LsWis county were destroyed the cause being
detective tlue. The barn OF Ec,keley
county farmer named Foos caught tire from
sparks from some brush that was being
burned and together with 200 bushels OF corn
and threshiug machine were totally de-
atroyed. The loss was over 81 600 and there
was no insurance. The sparks from the
burning barn were blown q long dis,
tance and Get fire to somo woods
and hard work was necessary to save
come buildirga in the woods. An uncccu.
pied houtc in Doddridge county owned by
W. b! Cheuyront was fired by an incendiary
and totally destroyed. A. E. Wolf has, been
charged With the crime but nothing as yet
has been proven against him.
t3..s BaUTAL MURDER.
About two weeks ago horrible murder
was committed in Roane county, OF which
only meaere reports have been received up
| to the present time. II appears that 1t was
about sundown., Thomas Duskines and Van
Elmo wore grubbing In a field for John
Thompson, whose farm is inst across the Ia.
nawha line In Roane county, They were
working about IL. or 90 fe0t apart when the
report Of a gun was heard. Duskiugs threw
his hands 10 bis breast and exclaimed !:
Lord, haye mercy, l am killed." Elmo
looked in the direction from which the gun
was fired, but could see no one. Both Of
them ran. About sixty yards ftom where
they started they came TO fence. Duskinps
was . unable to get over it, and holding
on to 1t with his hands to keep from falling,
Tor he had lost much blood, hs told Elmo to
20 to the house and tell i hompson's people
that he had been shot. Elmo ran on in The
direction OF this house, and when be got some
distance from Duskings he heard him cry
ont loudly in the most piteous manner. r.
mo went on further and then turned and
looked back, but could see no ous. Arriving
at the house he told Whist had happesed,
and Mrs. Thompson and her son and
Elmo started to the field, where Duskiprs
had been left, and arriving there found him
lying on the ground. about si1 feet from the
fence be had been holding To. His feet were
toward the fence, hnd be was found to be
dead. There were five wounds on his head,
the skull being mashed in and a terrible hole
in the back part Of his head where he had
been hit with five pound rock. Tracks In
the field showed that p1skings had been fol.
lowed by two men to the fence to which be
was holding: The diatrsssing outcry which
Emo heard soon after he lett. him, wul
caused by tho blows IL tiictsd upon DuskiDgs'
head with rocks. Further examination
showed that be had been shot In tho riebl
breast, near the nipple, the bali coming oui
near the right shoulder blade He was shot
it was thought, with rias. Daskings had
made bimsslf obnoxious to many people In
Roaue and other counties by testifylnl
against thom before Federal Court Grand
Jutl.s and causing them to bs indicted. i
ia,eyen hinted that threats had been mad,
against his life by some.
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