The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-25

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There seems to DO an organized band
OF fellows oil tho Lincoln-Boonc county
line, says tho Huntington Herald, who
have 1t in for Deputy United States
marshals, and there arc very few officers
who caro- about facing tho throng and
tho Winchester rifles that they present
when called upon by tho gentlcmanly
deputies. Several OF tho latter have
boon threatened with their lives, and
give the locality widc berth. For OBJ.
Rtructing United States official while
IN the discharge OF his duty is what
caused Mel Plumley TO got into tho
clutches OF the law, but the United
States authorities were weeks IN secur-
ing his arrest, rs his friends said he
should not be taken, and it required
posse to get him and take him out of
the. country, and then the mon who
composed it we're in the greatest danger
of their livOs and had to bc careful how
: they proceeded.
On Monday, thc4thinst., William lick
aioosc passed by J. +. Eierron's and In
Quircd iihe could cross the river there.
lie was directed to Powers mill dam,
4 where he procured boat and attempts
cd to row across the river, which WIS
then running with mush ice. About IN
hour and half afterwards his dead
body was found by his brothers, samp-
son and Aaron Zickafoosc, in the river,
como scventy-ave yards below the dam.
Squire Caldwell summoned coronors
jury and held an inquest. The jury,
from the evidence OF the mon who had
removed tho body from the river, de-
cidcd that the deceased came to his
death By. accidental drowning.-Ran-
dolph EntTpri%.
Tho organization OF the Hinton & New
River Railroad Company, says the
Huntington Advertiser, was completed at q
meeting recently at Hinton, aud the
directors authorized the president and
secretary to engage engineers to com
pletc the surveys and estimates OF the
cost OF construction. The treasurer has
opened the stock books at Hinton. The
intention OF the company is ITO build 4
line IRON connection with the Chesa-
peakc & Ohio at Hinton to connection
with the Norfolk & Western at the
mouth OF East river. The route will
begin near the mouth OF Greenbrier
river, following New river and thence
along East river 10 its mouth in Mercer
county.
Unrequited love was the cause OF
terrible tragedy at Shcphcrdstown, W.
Va, Thursday evening, by which the
people Of that town were thrown into
fever OF excitement. Harry NJ. Smoots,
young man about twenty-five years
old, shot and instantly killed Miss Susie
Ferrells, q prominent society young
lady, on the corner OF one OF the public
squares OF the town. For more than
year Shoots mad been desperately in
love with Miss Ferrells, who was about
twenty years old, and it is said that last
August she discarded him.
Four prisoners escaped from the jail
here last Saturday evening by digging
through the wall OF the structure 4.
P. Ritzell saw the prisoners and
attempted to check them but they made
show OF vigorous defense and escaped
up New Creek. The quartet escaping
were O'Donnell, the Shaw wifc-beater
and robber; Armes, who was held rs
,accomplice OF Nine, for robbery, and
Smith and Jones, incarnatcd for killing
L. G. Bright's' horse. The latter two
were rccapturcd.-Keyscr Tribune.
Coal transportation over the West
Virginia Central railroad for the eight
days ending January Q, 1892, was 1886
tons; year to date, q, 093 tons; increase
over last;year, ,257 tons. Coke trans
portation for same week was 1,26l tons;
year to date, 1,92S tons; decrease over
last year, G67 tons. Shipment from
Elk Garden mines Nos. /, 3, 5 and & was
1904 tons; year to date ll,020 tons;
decrease ,026 tons.-Pielmont Herald.
4 negro who confessed that he had
killed 4 man at Sewcll Station, in Poca-
hontas county, about the holidays, was
arrested in Baltimore and held by the
authorities there, but after waiting on
the West Virginia authorities for
three weeks to call and claim their man
without avail turned him loose. The
negro confessed the deed, but said that
it was in sell defense.
a desperate shooting ARRAY occurred
nj st. Adams Statute day night William
Lacy and Hanson Jones, well-known
citizens, have been infatuated with
Aliss,Snydcr. Lacy met Jones with the
woman. He demanded that she 20
with him and drew his revolver. Jones
did the same and both fired. Lacy was
shot dead and Jones was seriously
) woundcd.-Brdrton Democrat.
Another horrible affair occurred yes
tcrday some few miles up the Ohio 'riv-
or. Two young MISUNDERSTANDING
3 playing got into difficulty and the
! boys gotta lttls bit heated over the
controversy aud the former shot tho
latter to death. He says it was an acct
dent but there are some who say that it
was murder. No arrests have been
made SO far.-Llmtin9ton Herald.
e Buckhannon citizens have subscribed
q $4,000 toward the establishment OF 4
furniture factory at that place. Clarks-
burg Ttlcgrem
GREAT FALLING OFF