Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-16
THROUGH THE STATE.
Murder and LynChing in Mercer
County.
A Chicken Stealer KiIIed---Assaut on a
Judge---A Bad Shooting Scrape---
Burned to Death Strange
Accidents and Many
Incidents.

Guu AtdAu J. AOAaAf
lowed by the lynching Of the assassin by a
mob, comes By mail from Princeton, Mercer
county, in the extreme southern portion oil
the State. The details, which are somewhat
meager, are as follows: On Monday after
noon last, while Il man named John Perry
WAS proceeding along the road near Prince
Ton. he was fired at from a laurel thicket by
Arthur Jackson, a young colored man, aged
about eighteen years, and instantly killed.
Jackson then robbed the body Of his victim,
,ekipg most Of the clothing from the corpse,
in addition to the money he found in the
rocketp, and departed. The crime, Of
course. created much excitement, but no
clue was obtained by the identity OF the
murderer until Monday night, when Jack
son was arrested at a dance, charged with
he crime. Tuesday morning he had a
preliminary examination, at which he made
y full confession Of his guilt. This trial
and confession renewed the excitement OF
Tie day before, and that night a mob sur
rounded the Jail, took Jackson from the au-
,hori;ies and hung him to a tree.
A tin mine has been discovered at Milton,
Cabell county.
Shepherdstown has purchased n Silsoy
steam fire engine.
The T.. a o. depot at Parkersburg mar
rowIy escaped destruction by lire yesterday
But nine counties out of f%fty-four in this
State Grant license ior the sale OF liquor at
retail.
\ fourteen year old daughter OF Mary
Wallard, OF Roam county, was horribly and
fatally burned recently, her clothing catch
ing fire from all open CRATE.
1t is rumorcd that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company is about TO build a
7otel at Harper's Ferry after the style OF
heir fine hotel at Cumberland.
At the late term Of Fayette Circuit Court,
nearly two hundred indictments were made
by the Grand ~Jury-the great majority Of
the cases being Tor violations ofthe liquor
law.
Gen. Hazen, Of the Signal Service, has
appointed Major Field, of Parkersburg, OBJ
stryer at that point, and will forward instru.
nents, &c, TO be used in making obscrva-
lions.
Since the destructive fire at Weston, the
citizens OF that place have organized a ire
company, and will have ready Tor use a
. lumber Of hand grenades, used for eXtin-
luishing fires.
Little Falls, Monongalia county, boast Of
Il negro who swallows burning matches and
ls,l, l,p,n oil ,r,,p "a rn,ph nQsn and
relish as a toad swallows a fly or q thirsty
OK drinks water.
A few days ago the little three.yesr-oid
daughter Of Mr.. Black, who lives near Cen
t~erville, Wayne county, by some means
caught her clothing on fire, in the absence
Of the family, and was so severely burned
that she died the next day.
The Monroe County Waterman learns
that a fatal type OF scarlet fever Is prevail.
ing in the Jumping Branch neighb0rho0d OF
summers county. Mr.. Joseph Deeds lost
three children r~ecently and the disease has
temporarily broken up the schools.
Al nan named l a'terman, residing in
Hardy county, while dismounting from b
horse a few days since, accidentally dis.
charged one barrel of his shot gun and the
contents so shattered the bones OF one OF
his arms that amputation was found TO De
necessary.
One day last week o young man named
David Bum and Lucius Adkins, OF Lewis
county, who have heretofore been intimate,
had a Misunderstanding as to some matter,
and it resulted in Bum stabblng Adkins
pretty severely. Bum is supposed to have
left the State, shortly afterwards.
Wednesday of last week Jordan's Run,
q stream in Mineral county, took a sudden
rise and came rushing down in a terrific tor
rent, carrying drift ice and sweeping bridges
and everything IN its path. old residents
| say they dom remember Of it being so deep
| for years. The strange part of the matter
| is there had been no rain, and the Their.
mometer had been down to zero Tor several
DAYS.
This weeks issue Of the Point Pleasant
Register says that the Rev. Mr.. Dixon,
pastor OF the NJ. +. Church in that place,
received through the postotice last Satur'
ay an anonymous letter, warning him to
ave town within sixty DAYS of the receipt
hereof, under penalty of being tarred and
Gathered and rode on a rail and burned in
| ,tigy.'
A farmer named Priest, living in Berke.
.ey county, had beeh annoyed considerable
~ chicken thieves. he determined TO pro.
;ect his chickens and placed several dyna.
| 'aite torpeioe5 around the hen house.
about ten o'clock at night a terrible ex-
I%losion was heard by the family, and going
out he found the hen house blown to pieces
ard fifty feet away the dead body Of a negro
lady mGngled.
There was quite q rumpuS in the court
room at Harrisv.lle, one day last week be.
tween Judge Thomas l.. Stealey and attor-
rcy II. C.. Showaltcr. it was the culmina-
lion Of i'll feeling Of lorg standing between
the parties. Showalter thought the Judge
had been treating him badly on the bench,
and remarked to the Judge that he could
not talk TO him so off the bench. A chair,
a knife and fists then came into play, but no
blood was shed and the affair ended AMIGA.
bly,.
Verify, the man who playeth at the wicked
| game Of domino, N the righteous land OF
Pleasants county is having a hard row Of
| stulupS ~ LCei anu Is llNtl1 W nave ~ Seeh
recreation in som other way. No less
than eighteen in ,ictments have been found
against some Of the most prominent citizens
OF the county at the present term of court,
for having engaged in this game at a public
place. They cant even play ten pins down
there any more without fear of being in.
dicted for it.
About midnight one night last week a
serious shooting affair occurred at the Mont.
gomery Hotel at Coal Valley, Fayette coun.
y. 1t appears that John I.anahan, a miner,
got drunk and wanted to take possession o.!
the house Charles Jones, the night clerk
objected aud tried to put him out. Lauahan
went into the dining room and held the
door; Jcrss fred seven shots from a revol-
yer throrG oh the door and then got a double.
barrcled shot gun. and when Lanahan
rushed'in shot both barrels, the contents
striking him in the breast. Little hopes
are entertained OF his recovery.