Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-16
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Juha FIasagaa Hsld sbs u nesll
r. Murder
OF A WOMAN AND Hfa M
Near Bsysdy-A stabbiag Aetsy, M
Led to the lynchins Of Ershii
Desperate BY Maddsa.
ed Mob.
Special 10 Ae Register.

BEVERLY, W. Va, January l6-Clrcait
Court convened here on the third end -.
minated ,ts labors 10 day, after having u.
posed OF great deal Of businsss.
Judge Ice u hard worker and dsspatcA-
ed the business Of court with his usual
promptness and oelsrity. The 6raAd juSy,
Was in session four days, most ot thsir
time being taken up In the examinatioa e
witnesses in regard to the burning q
Fraucis Somsrfisld and child On D.1. losk
ofCheat River. They failed to linda trus btll
against John c. Flanagan, q the evidences
before them did not seem 10 warrant Il
But the court deemed Il sufficient 70 hold
him until the next term Of court In order
that the States Attorney may have The
time and opportunity to summons some
important witnesses whose evidences nay
shed some light on this mystsrious muir.
der. Judge Ice refused to release Flana-
durance vile until next May.
The Grand Jury
Aade Very Few laAietmsnts,
and those that were made were mostly a
tho usual class OF assault and battery. rhs
term OF court was very slimly attended,
only those who really had business In
court would venture out. The thermom.
eter fegistt red twenty and twenty.four de-
Grees below zero. The depth OF the snow
hss Lot been at any one time moro than
ten inchef.
Information has just reached here Of the
lynching OF A. ID. Atchinson BY mob ot
ten men al Monterey, Highland county,
Va, on the 5,h inst Montsrey 10
JuAs over the Alieghssys
from here and our citiz!nI are highly
exercised over il.
1t seems ths; Atchinson and Sidney
Rucs man All dispute at Rurood's store 90
Back creek on the 24th OF December end
Atchinson stabbed him with knife and
cut / m in such manner that his lie Vas
dt SPARED II Aicliscn was arrests aud
p'aC, j in jail ut Monterey. On the night
Of the 4th ten masked men vent 10 tho
jsil and aemsnded the keys Of the jailor.
bot he refused % give them up. They
conn ercsd pounding on the door and
gained IN entrance into the main building.
They fired into the cell and wounded Ato6.
insvn in several places, he In the meantime
Sonid' senida'DF Fbu. h'%.s" be fell FROM Ss' %:
loss OF blood, when the crowdlrushsd In
and dragged him 10 tree q half mile from
town aud there finished their work By
hanging him to IT, The masks OF pins 81
the men fell from their faoss. which On.
sbled the jailor TO identify them. High.
land county 10 terribly worked up over
this Outrage aud her ciiirens are datepr
mans wounds were serious but not fatal
and be Is slowly improving. He 10 promi.
nent Readjuster and was appointed county
Super intendent of free schools, but The
Virginia Senate refused to connrm him Q
short time ago. Atchison was from Yer.
mont and was
Knows ~ . Desperate Chssaetes.
He was in the Huntersvilie jail not great
while ago for horse stealing. The punish
ment was too great for the ofFsnss, bus ~
suppose the mob adopted this means Of
ridding the community Of q hardened
character.
In town at this term CT court. arrsnRing
the States for the various county ondoss,
but We venture the assertion that Q gteos
many OF them will bs smashed before slse-
tion dsy rolls sround. Ia oonnsctiou
with the above Q very amusing incident
occurred here q low days ago, which
10 too good TO be lost. and shows the sound,
min ching Democracy Of one OF the geo.
tlenen 10 question A gentlemen hep.
penej into the oiiics OF one Of our peomtn-
ent attorneys, who has held inauefiisl pe-
sitiops Of honor and trust In this and Sbs
old s'ats, who fought In vain, Ike . gnsat
many others in this section, for the "L9oo
Caus,. :" and like Uncle Jake Jackson, does
not ! ave much love for the RspubIican
party nor its illssitimate OF spring In this
the late Board OF Registratiop, and
whilst discussing the poliHcs Of the county
JAKE Piercy. . former Dsmbsr Of ths
Beard Of Rsgistrstion, stsppsd tn.
JAKE 10 mott very pretty man, q 10 appas.
eut ;OB cssusl observer, but from ths Gus
, biz glib be could have been
,~se,.d Ysoss . Ths0sasa Aes
70 have oiled his former position OF REG.
iIrrr sccsptsbIy 70 bis party. Oar iesai
f~rId tbd be did not expect 10 BE- Q cspdb
d,'e res,rn. be'iLer was he - espirant ~
sny of1ep JOKE spoke up aud said "ho
circuit sld hoped to So him elected"
Ou- tsrsl friends mind must have ~
yeIis bsck 10 the Time when Jake ~
scran hing OF the names OF some Of car
pr"r insnt riiizens from the rglstrotto0
list sim ply. btcanss they intspdsd % vote,
The Democratic ticket for hs promptly fe.t
sponded. by h-ll, II w., vosld sss6
you to lie penitsntiary the 6rst thips fes
being on that Id bard ot ReEistsatso1."
We DO not Know wbstbsT lake fslt change
Of btsTt sftsrvards % not.
The Valley Houss has been Ieovlde4
with good register. inclndlng buans1. !.
directdsy Of the town. The work ~
turned sut from the RsaisTss blnd0y,
and 10 eottsp up irs6nt chs styla
DIR. samuel J. Baird. ID. d., has beeA
called 10 the psstosats OF the Prsseytertso
Church ~ this plsos, and has entered upoQs
bis work, although be will not = instalIe4