Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-01
OUTLAW KILLED.
he WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE COOLEY
GANG.
Logan County Criminals Under Arrest in Kentucky
New Industries for harhnsburg-A
Romantic Story-Genard
State News

| 'DaNl0 MyFeS, "e4!-tO-uO ASl A0''
lives in West Virginia, just across the
Fayette county line, up in the noun
tain near Bruceton. A few nights ago
a stranger came to his house and asked
! to be fed and housed for the night.
I Hospitality was extended him and later
when it was about bed time the strang-
er was shown to his room above. Only
a few days before Joseph Recknor had
been robbed, and Myres was afraid that
the man he was sheltering was spy
! there for the purpose OF helping to rob
| him. About ten o'clock MyTes heard the
man get out Of bed and went up TO see
what was wrong. The fellow drew a
revolver on Myres and the latter jump
| ed upon him and took IL from him, after
which he kicked him out Of the house.
! The next day the same man and another
! stranger returned and remaining on
/ down the road, called to Myres TO bring
/ down the revolver he had taken.
| Myres told them 20 come up and get 1t.
| The men then threatened TO burn
! MyreS' barn if he didn't bring them the
revolver. Myres refused and one OF the
men started for the barn, swearing he
would burn it.
Myres got his squirrel rife and started
! towards the barn also. The man he had
| kicked out of his house the night before,
drew q revolver az this time and fired,
the bullet striking the door jam at
Myres' side. Myres then pulled up his
long rifle and fired, striking the first
shooter glancing blow along the side
Of his head, knocking him from his
/ horse and cutting terrible cash.
| Myres then ran to him and began beat
| ing him with mis- gun. The other man
! did not show up and Myres would have
/ killed him had not his wife interfered
and told him the man was dead. MyreS
! said il that was the case he would quit,
/ but il he thought the man was still liy-
| ing he would finish him. The man was
left lying in the road, but the next morn
\ ing he had been carried away.
About the year 1911, DIR. Jos. Berry,
of Clark Co., Va, settled in Moorefeld,
a young man, tull of promise, just grad
| uated from the best Universities OF that
| day. At this time Miss Anne Vanme-
ter was a blooming, lovely young girl
aud the Doctor fell q victim to her love
| illness. The same old story was told
| again and in a short time the Col. was
| approached and the hand of his daughter
| asked for. Col. Jacob Vanmeter, man
Of few words, and those to the point,
asked the young Doctor what he had to
| support a wife on. Taking from his
| pocket shilling and showing it to the
| =, Il. fg " nd
| profession and brains" Mortified, hurt
and disturbed, DR.. Berry left Moore
| field and never returned. The war or
lS12-l4 finds Surgeon Jos. Berry in the
| U. s. Navy and distinguished in general
! orders, and he died in 1857, wealthy
| man at his old ancestral home, at Ber-
! rvs Ferry, Clark county, Va, true to
his first and only love, leaving his prop
/ erty TO his neice, Anne Vanmeter Ber-
| ry. In 1891 Miss Anne Vanmeter died,
! true to the man so true to her, loved,
| honored and respected, at the old fam
| lily homestead in Hardy county, and had
she lived until Christmas day, 1891
would have been 100 years old.
The Huntington Advertiser says: "For
| some time past number Of depreda-
| tions have been committed in Logan
county along the border line between
| West Virginia and Kentucky. The
railroad building in progress there has
| brought in rough pOpulaCe and fire.
Quent crimes have been the result.
! Railroad contractors have been much
ANNOYED by the acts OF these fellows
| who would fire into the camps on the
/ slightest provocatiOn or steal from them
and then take refuge In the wilds OF
Eastern Kentucky, just across the river.
| Not long ago while the Sheriff OF 10
gan county was at supper with his
/ family volley was fred into his house
| brea king glass and scattering it in
every direction. The marauders made
their escape, but were not long after
ward located by Deputy Sheriff j. B.
Buskirk, Of Logan county, in Martin
/ county. Ky, where they were arrested
and are now In jail. Requisition was
made last Saturday night by Governor
Fleming on Governor Brown, of Ken
lucky, for George Waller, James Starr
and Dump Duncan, who are under
indictment in Logan county and under
arrest in Kentucky. Mr.. Buskirk passed
| through here yesterday with the requi-
stion and will bring the prisoners back
20 this State for trial"
The directors of the Martinsburg In
provement Company have accepted the
| proposition of the Kilbourn Knitting
! Company and agreed TO give them the
necessary land and two buildings 150X45
for factory intended TO employ total
of / 900 persons. The new factory is to
| make from raw material, wool and cot
ton yarn, to supply present knitting
works and increases. The Knitting
/ Company will require SOS, 600 taken by
| citizens in stock. Mr.. II. c. Berry was
appointed a committee to confer
with the two Building Asso-
| Citations and reported that
| the two have agreed to furnish the en-
tire amount. The Baus Piano Factory
| is already organized with paid capital
of $50, 600. They propose to erect their
| own buildings and TO bring 200 families
Of skilled mechanics. They require
an additional $4,000, either taken
in stock or as loan. If in stock, to be
preferred before their original $50, 900;
or if a loan, TO be first lien on the en-
tire S1OO, 900. The Improvement Com
pany agreed to either loan or subscribe
1000 of this amount, providing the
citizens will raise the rest.
There seems to be an organized band
OF fellows on the Lincoln Boone county
line, says the Huntington Herald, who
have it in for Deputy United States
Marshals, and there are very few off,
GERS who care about facing the throDg
and the Winchester rifles they present
when called upon by the gentlemanly
deputies. Several of the latter have
hsan threatanad with THAR hvAs and