Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-22
A SAMARITAN SHOT.
Joseph RsndricksoB, of Piedmont,
Fires Into a Crowd,
And Fatally Wounds Ellsworth Powell in
the Breast---0ther State
News.

At Piedmont Friday night about II
o'clock, as party of young men were
passing Richie and Arnoli's butcher shop,
near the Town Hall, they saw the form Of
q man lying in the street. Walking over
to the recumbent figure, they found it WAS
Joseph Hendrickson, who, for the past
month has been on a protracted spree.
Thinking he was utterly helpless they pro-
ceeded to assist him to his feet for the pur-
pose of accompanying him to his home.
when he drew pistol and fired one shot,
which few over the heads Of the gentle
men; a second shot grazed the cheek Of
Mr.. Ellsworth Powell, q son of the late
Robert Powell.
The drunken man not satisfied with the
injury he already had inflicted fred still
third shot which struck Mr.. Powell in the
right breast, the bullet passing through the
lung and lodging in the muscles OF the
back. This shot brought the young MAI
TO the ground, seriously, if not fatally
wounded. He was borne 10 his home AND
two physicians summoned, who are doing
ell that lies in their power towards altevia
ting his sufferings
Hendrickson wGs Immediately arrested
and now lies in jail where he maintains q
morose silence, refusing to answer ques
tions er make any statements. Ii has
been stated that at the time OF the shoot
ing he was laboEing under an attack of de
lirium t,euens. aud mis,ook the party who
tried to assist him, for some creation OF hi:
disordered brain. He will be held to wal
the action of the grand jury.
Homer Laughlin, of East Liverpool, hs:
been experimenting for some time in the
manufacture of pocelainware from Ane!i
can Ingredients exclusively and by Ameri
can workmen under his own immediate
personal direction, and has succeeded il
making ware that is pronounced By those
qualified to judge fully equal to any turned
out from the celebrated establishment Of
Hsveland & Co, France, in transparency
and weight.
1t is currently reported that there are
several illicit distilleries in operation il
Slab Fork district, Raleigh county. There
are seven in one neishoo.hood, part Of
them in Raleigh and part in Wyoming
and Mercer counties. There is no doubt
about these distilleries being in existence
and a good field of labor is presented to
the revenue officers.
A remarkable double death, occurred
last Thursday night, st RoWlesburg Henry
Moore, en- employee on the b. i o., died
at nine o'clock and his son at eleven. The
former died from csrbuucle on hls neck
but no cause can be assigned for the young
mans death. He was II years of age, and
his father was G..
The Black Diamond" directors are now
busi!y engaged in making pro rata es,i
mates OF the amounts to Do paid to the
capital sto; k of the company by the vari
ous COUNTIES through which the road will
pass There is 100000 altogether 10 be
provided for and eight counties to do it.
Eight double-edged knives, with blades
about foot long, have been found under
the hearth Of an old hoGse in Lewis coun-
~. The weapons are supposed to be
relics Of the late war.
The Clarksburg wooden mill is putting
in improved machinery.
United Statee Court convenes at Charles
ton tomorrow.