Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-13
WOMAN DuckED.
Thrown in a Stream by Disguised
Females.
A Rather Sensational Affair at Weston
; Serious Cutting Scrape---ht
With a Two Pound
Weight.

A letter from Weston gives details OF Q
rather sensational affair occurring IN that
own last Thursday night, in which q WIDOW
woman Jared rather badly at the hanos Oh
a party of females, who appear, for some
reason not apparent, to have taken serious
exceptions 10 the object of their wrath.
About II o'clock on the night IN question q
marty of halfs-dozen women, disguised so
"a 70 be un~recognizsble, appeared at the
door of the residence Of Mrs. Dodson, ana
knocked for admission. After some little
delay, the door was opened by Mrs. poG-
,on. who was at once seized by her unwei'
come visitors and, despite a desperate re-
s;stance accompanied by shrill screams for
help, was dragged to the edge OF the river
and thrown into the stream. ~ nKno~
ladies then made their escape, ana thus iar
have evaded detection. Numerous reasons
in regard to the matter are offered IN
Weston, and the affair has created no emo
of gossip.
PROBABLE MURDER.
A serious cutting afray, which may result
in the death of the victim, occurred IN the
house OF Newton Drown, on Four Pole
Creek, Wayne county, last Saturday. Two
BOYS named Topping attacked Tiff Bolden
with knives, and before the combatants
could be separated, Bolden had received mint
terrible cuts. The Toppings were arrested
and released on bail. Bolden Is In a dan.
gerous condition.
ERIoU AFFAIR.
On Saturday last, at Mcdowell, Va, just
across . the Pendleton county line, Ran.
Davis, a clerk in the store Of Mr.. Bradshaw,
struck and severely hurt j. W. Wilson, OF
Franklin, W. Va, with a twopound weight.
The weight struck Mr.. Wilson just behind
the ear, knocking him down and rendering
him unconscious for several hours. Drs.
Cook and Jones were called in and Dr.
johnson, of Franklin, hastily summoned BY
messenger. The news was conveyed 10
Mrs. Wilson on Sunday moving, when she
Immediately repaired to the bedside OF her
husband. DR.. johnson returned to Franklin
Monday night, and reported MIR. Wilson out
of danger, unless the case should take an
unfayorable turn.
From Mr.. Pent Mccoy, who was in Nc.
Dowell with Mr.. Wilson, the following par.
t~iculars are obtained: Messrs. Mccoy and
Wilson had gone to Highland county 10
purchase a horse for the latter. That even
ing Wilson had engaged some onions OF
Davis. The next morning they were getting
ready to leave and Wilson went to the store
to get his onions. He handed Davis fifty
cents to pay for them, Davis handing him
a certain amount of change, which Wilson
claimed was not enough. This led to a
dispute and Wilson called Davis a liar,
when he struck him as above stated. Davis
then ran around the counter and grabbed a
butcher-knife and attempted to get to Will
son, who was lying unconscious on the floor,
but was prevented by disinterested parties.
Parties carried Wilson to his stopping
place where he still lives.
NEW PosTOFFICEs.
Among the postofices whose establish
ment has recently been ordered by the
Postmaster General, we note that OF Lay
man, in Craig county, Va, with W. I. Lay.
man as postmaster; and the following in
West Virginia: Tale Creek, BraXton coun.
ty, with Geo. NJ. Mackey as postmaster;
New Hope, Mercer county, with Allen II.
Carr as postmaster; Bohon, Tucker county,
Matthias Bohon as postmaster; Stonecoal,
Wayne county, with VIM. Meade as post
master; at Belvs, Nicholas county, with
John II. Morris as postmaster.
GREESBACEs BURNED.
The Fayette Enterprise says: I'VE learn
that on Thursday the house Of Mr.. G. W.
Young, who lives about three miles from
Ansted, was burned, together with the house.
hold effects and about $3.50 in money. This
is O heavy loss, as Mr.. Young is old, and
the money was probably the savings Of
many years hard labor"
STATE NOTES.
One day last week, as Will Tracy, Of the
Weston Mills, was emptying a sack Of grain
which had just arrived BY rail from Chicago,
a huge Norway rat jumped from the sack
and scampered of to Join its country
cousins. 1t had ridden in the sack all the
way from Chicago, a distance Of about 500
miles.
On Friday, the Oath, the P~resbytery Of
West Virginia will assemble in the Kama.
wha Presbyterian Church, Charleston. The
church edifice will be dedicated on that day,
Charleeton will vote on May 10Th on the
question of erecting a new court house and
Jail.
A company ls being formed for the con
struction of a telephone line between Wayne
Court House and Ceredo or Huntington.
A correspondent writing from Elizabeth,
Writ county, to the ParkerSburg State Jour.
nal, bauls the Pittsburg Times over the Goals
at a lively rate for its sensational account
Of the alleged famine in the central portion
of the State.
The Calhoun Chronicle says there is no
more suffering in that county than there is
among the poor OF this city or
Charleston and invites a comparison be-
tween the way the poor people Of the cities
named live and the alleged sufferers Of Cal.
houn county.
The Salvation Army commenced work
at Elizabeth, Writ county, on the 18th Of
March, and, although the own only con-
tains some 500 people and p~rotracted
meeting had been held there ever since the
beginning Of the year in the various
churches, yet the Salyationists up TO April
4th, in three weeks Of service, had converted
forty-six.
There was a cutting ARRAY on Court
Square, last night, in which Tom Gill was
cut by Smeed Devol in the cali OF the leg
with pocket knife, inaicting a p~ainfula and
dangerous cut. Had the blow OF the knife
struck the poptteal artery, Gill would have
bled to death in three minutes. Devol had
a bearing this afternoon before Recorder
Burk, and was placed under bond Of $500