Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-25
A COWHIDE
DEFTLY WELDED By AN INDIGNANT
CLARKSBURG WOMAN.
Another Dead Nan in Tucker Who May Have
Been Notwithstanding Arrays and
Accidents of a Week.

count Of an exciting episode in that
place, few days ago: "a handsome
little woman who has enjoyed abou
twenty-five summers and endt red as
many winters, fguratively spea 1tng,
caused somewhat Of sensation on Pike
street about 9 o'clock Tuesday night.
George w. Moore was the man in the
case and the little woman applied cow
hide to his back in the most improved
style. Moore came here some time since
and obtained employment at the black
smith and wagon shop Of Bud Siers. All
went well with him until Mrs. Laura E.
Hall arrived in town. She is the wife
of man named Hall who is employed
at Monongah, and stated that she was
raised at Peel Tree, in Barbour county,
but has recently been living In Indiana.
She is acquainted with Moore and says
that he has frequently made improper
advances to her and has circulated re-
ports derogatory to her character. She
also says that she consulted her friends
at Peel Tree and determined to chasttse
Moore, and after arming herself with
cowhide she sought him out on Tues
day night and at once proceeded to ap-
ply the rawhide to his back"
Mr.. n. Shutting, living in the eastern
suburbs of Hillsboro, Pocahontas coun-
ty, has been considerably annoyed by
mysterious noises coming seemingly
from underneath the floor of his house.
just after dark every evening for the
last week he and his family heard a
loud knocking that seemed TO be on the
underside of the kitchen floor. This
has always been followed by scraping
or scratching sounds. There are long
intervals between, and after o'clock
nothing can be heard. Mr., Shutting,
failing to discover the cause of the
strange disturbances, called in some or
his neighbors, and they, too, heard the
knocking and scratching, but could not
discover the source of it. On last
Saturday night the excitement ran
high, and quite crowd collected at
the house. The mystical knocking
was heard, and not few expressed a
belief that it was of supernatural ORR
gin. One lady firmly believed it was a
spirit" and asked in the name Of the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost what was
wanted, but there was no response from
the spirit" Neither was there any
further disturbance and everybody went
home puzzled, perplexed and nervous.
Mr.. Shutting is no believer in super
natural things, and says he is going to
make thorough investigation Of his
house and premises, and If he don'trout
the esprit rspper" there no Dutch in
Holland. There is a cause for the
noises at Mr.. Stulting's, and he will find
it, too.
On last Sunday morning the body OF
an unknown man supposed to be that OF
hunter was found near the "Red
House," Nd, short distance from the
West Virginia and Maryland line. When
found he was not quite dead and was
taken into house, and near the fire and
died few minutes later. There was
nothing on his person by which his iden-
tity could be established. At first it was
supposed to be the unfortunate hunter
from Thomas, but upon investigation 1t
proved to be different man. He is
now supposed to have been a
hunter who became lost in the
mountains about Bayard station,
on the line of the Davis railroad. Why
he was frozen to death IS mystery, as,
in order to be near the Red House" he
had to pass through a thickly settled
community. Several theories are ad-
vanced concerning the death of this I'M
fortunate man. Some suggest that he
was Rocked down and robbed, but the
probable theory is that of hiss being lost
and when he came 10 the settlement he
was so -bewildered that he did not know
where he was.-ItLcker County Pioneer.
Many OF our readers will remember
that Robert A. Travis, who lives in
Marion county, not far from Smith
town, was charged with forgery two or
three years ago, and that he left the
country then to escape arrest. A short
time ago he returned to his old home TO
see his wife, who was dangerously i'll
and who has since died. After the fu-
neral he was arrested by the authorl
ties of Marion county and taken to
Fairmont, where he gave bond in
three cases in the sum of $500 in each
case. He was then taken to Morgan
town, where he also gave bond for his
appearance at the next term Of Court.
This is a rather singular case. Travis
was an industrious fellow, and used the
money obtained on the forged notes to
buy land. When confronted with the
charge he failed to realize the enormity
of his offense and dismissed it as triv
ial matter. The notes have all been
Trhn cyiuon
TO the Merchants National Bank in
Morgantown and the First National
Bank of Fairmont.
The Tyler Democrat says: "Mr. Will
loughby, who purchased the old Eagle
hotel, has torn the whole inside Of the
building down. He purchased it for
$500, and was said to have paid good
round price for it. But in tearing the
inside away in one corner Of the build
ing, away in behind the ceiling, an old
essence of coffee tin box was found and
on opening il was found to be damned
full of paper money, which, when
Strengthened out, was counted and
amounted to the snug sum Of
fourteen hundred and seventy dol
lars. This was pretty rich find, sure.
Now the question is how and when and
by whom was it hid there IN the old tin
box. Some think it was Abe Cox that
did it, when he lived there manv years
ago, but this is only surmise. How
ever, the money was in good order and
condition, and is qite nice pile to find.
We might add, however. in this connec-
tiOn, that the bills were all old confeder-
ate money, which does not make the
find near SO interesting as it was at
first"
The February number of the Southern
Historical MdgnziTe will contain rare