Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-09
STATE NOTES.


Weston was when he was a boy fifteen
~ old, or about fOrty-tve years ago.
ysssvs his grandfather, Isaac Gregory,
h tbe first white man that ventured
va I'm the year 1901, after the masSa-
~ the West family by the Indians.
.,bat time Weston contained three
a.os-a church, a school house and a
ss",,Iinc house, which was occupied by
. west family, and the building stood
~ the West Virginia Hospital for
". Insane now stands, only closer
,,bers the Second street bridge
il The West family was
~, q, number and mostly small chill
5-,r and all were scalped and butch
80 sycept Mr.. West, who made his
Enc and spread the news of the hor-
80 outrage to his neighbOrS. Mr.
r.,,orv arrived shortly after the trag-
a., and saw the lifeleSS and mutilated
s-t,es NJ the mother and children, and
ySrr5 a tomahawk left by the red
t.yg'-rai murdererS, which which is To
he present day in the possession Of Mr..
D,4r,V Those were dark and stormy
.s,,gs i'm Weston'S history, and we may
Ss,rgIy glad that they are past. What
scbqnge in nlnetY-One yearS.-IVOTld.
The FairuOnt hJdcU says: There Is
.,,si5arable talk about the ''pluck-me"
,,CvsS said 70 exist at the mines of this
ss,riop. and we have taken pains to in
-,s-frqte the matter, and from informa-
,i,r derived from many sources we are
,rsr8red 10 deny that any such thing as
"p.gck-me" store is TO be found in
- lfc
10 Narongah and one at Montana mines,
-. Goods are not sold at any higher
1r-.s N these stores than at other places
h the vicinity, and at neither place is
work 40 the mines dependent upon pat
.7ri1tpg these stores. One gentleman
MA - that he had been working at
Ir7rarrsh for some months and never
,e,-opIzed the store, and the same, no
3o.7t. is true of Montana, and all this
ak about "pluck-me" business is sim
nv bgSh and used purely for campaign
purposes
Last Thursday morning as engine No.
Going south, was about four miles
,b5ye Wayne c. H., il COllided with two
bard-cars coming north. The hand-carS
Eare loaded with men who were engag-
=
,.dert occurred on sharp curve, aud
neither party saw the other until il was
TOO ate 10 sheck speed. The men on
tbsband-carS Jumped of, except a young
man named Turner. The engine struck
and demolished the haud-cars and
r0urr Turner was killed. The accident
iaDDened 50 quick after the approach
Irr DartieS saw each other that no one
seems 20 have any knowledge concern
ing lust how Turner was caught. From
tbe effects Of fractured skull and 9th
or injuries Of a serious nature, the young
nan died shortly after the acct
dent.
The Bank OF Huntington held an
election of officers on Monday. The old
officers and Board Of Directors were re-
elected Twenty-Five thousand dollars
were added TO the surplus fund Of the
bank, making the fund 100000, or
double the amount OF the capital. The
Bank of Huntington was established in
lS-9. aud as the surplus fund indicates,
has done a successful business for twen-
" years. Regular dividends have al
WAYS been made, and their only miStor-
tune in all those years was when the
James brothers raided IL and secured
$4,000. Gen. John II. Russell IS
president, +. f. y. EnSlOw vice-presl-
dent, and ]. X. Oney cashier.
The miserable habit that some Of our
people have gotten into OF carrying pis-
tolls and other deadly weapons, costs
this country as much trouble, almost
ss that other miserable habit OF selling
liouor without license. There are more
indictments for this evil than for any
thing else and il Is such q useless haOlt.
II looks cowardly TO see a stout, hearty
man stalking through the county with
the butt of a pistol sticking out OF his
hip pocket. There may be exceptions,
but. as a rule, the man who carries
deadly weapons is either "a coward or
bully. ~ elUe-POle Monitor.
The REGISTER last week made men
ton OF the sudden death OF Mr.. george
Johnson, who lived about hve miles
above Shepherdstown. Mr.. Johnson
was sitting at the dinner table alone on
Thursday, when his sister noticed tnat
he began TO cough violently. lie got
upand walked across the room, and then
turning fell 10 the floor, expiring almost
Immediately. II is thought that ne was
strangled by swallowing tooth, as ne
had A loose one that was missing aIter
his death. Mr.. Johnson, who was ABOUT
6S years of age, was well-KnoWn
Democrat, and had great influence IN
his locality.
Dick Stump, Of Sugar Ridge, was In
town this week trying TO get TO De a
witness in Court. Nobody had any use
for Dick because you could nave picked
I'D forty men in twenty minutes VINO
would swear they wouldn't believe DICK
on oath. But Dick determined 10 peat
somebody. so he got his work In on
hotel landlord and devoured eVerythlhe
down to the table cloth. DICK Is inc
same gopher who few years ago stop
ned with GrandpaD Mayors, ana AFTER
eating the table clean dropped oresk-
fast napkin into tumbler, poured sugar
and cream on il, and swallowed that'-
JFetzeL Democrat HItmOrtSt.
A wild story about the Cooley gang
was put i'm circulation throughout the
county this week. IL was reported they
had entered the county dozen strohs
for the purpose of doing about every,
BODY M who had anything they couiu
lay their greedy paws on. Inc STORY
caused considerable uneaSineSS aulons
the nervous people about town anu
elsewhere. but to those who are tamh-
lar with their mode OF doing CUISINES no
credit was given the report, when ol
course was q fake.-PrcStoR Cou''g