The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-23
THE STATE.
Matters OF Interest Glenncd from STINT
Exchanges.


Exchanges.
The Logan county Banner gives tho
following account OF the murder and
lynching that occurred there a few days
since: On last Saturday night at Sur
peil's camp, on Laurel, q colored boy
named Lester was killed and robbed OF
a pistol and a few dollars in money.
Suspicion at once pointed to a negro
named Lee Williams. alias Red, who
had left the camp and gone in the d.
rection Of. the Ohio river. Andy Perry
and one or two others followed him on
Sunday morning and overlook him at or
near Wayne Court House, and the pis-
tol Of the murdered boy was found on
him. As soon MS Perry reached the
head Of Twelve Pole with him he turned
him over to Deputy Sheriff Mead, who
started with. him:to n Justice for exam
i%nation, butin; passing Snrpelps camp n
mob OF some two hundred armed ne
groes met him and took Williams
in their charge, and at once proceeded
to lynch him in regular western style.
He was placed on q mule and a rope Sc
curely fastened around his neck. Tho
mule was then led under,an overhang-
ing limb. to which the rope was made
fast, and then led out, leaving him
dangling in the air. Williams died
game, smoking 4 cigarette rs long as he
could breathe. The excuse given by
the negroes for the lynching is that be-
fore he could be brought for legal trial
they would be ut"of1the state and the
rope would lbe cheated out oil its due.
The following was pinned on the back
OF the negro:
"No ono allowed to take this body
down till 5 p. N.
5-l0.92. By THE PARTY"
The murdered boy had been with
Surpell for several years, and was in
every way trustworthy.
at Morgan Valley, Wyoming county,
last week, q Mr.. Workman, OF Catletts-
burg, KY, who was in the employ Of the
Little kanawha Lumber company, was
shot and killcdby one OF his men named
Stansbury, alsoa resident OF Catletts.
burg. 1t appears that the men had a
quarrel about some matter, and STAINS
bury went away, and after procuring a
revolver returned, and without any
warning shot Workman, the bullet en-
tering the back in the region OF the
kidneys. Stansbury made his escape.
The Monroe Wdtchmai says that the
c. & O. Railway Co. started a stone
crusher this week located on their line
two miles east OF Anderson, which has a
capacity for crushing fifty cars OF bal.
last per day OF the very first quality,
which will be used for ballasting the
new double track between Anderson and
Lowell, and other points on the line.
This crusher will give employment to
fifty or seventy-6ve men.
John Booth, a colored miner, was in.
stantly killed at Montgomery on We'd
nesday evening. As train No. 1 east
bound on the Chesapeake & Ohio rail
road was passing that place, Booth, in
attempting to board it, fell under and
his body was fearfully mangled, his head
being found at least seventy-iye yards
away from the body.
"A few nights ago solaeinuman wretch
placed an infant on tho track OF the
Cairo & kanawha Valley railroad in
Richie county. The child was not
seen by the trainmen and was run over
and crushed to death. Whose child it
was, or who put it there is not known.
In making tho excavation for the eel
lar for the Writ County Intirmary on
the poor farm, lei Elizabeth, they dug
into what was, supposed to DO an Indian
mound which had been used as a burial
ground. Bones, images, hair and relics
were found in abundance. .s
The jury in tho case OF S. E. Rouzee
indicted for tho killing OF Wheeler
Haines in Hampshire county, returned
a verdict OF guilty Of voluntary man
slaughter, and the prisoner was sem
fenced to two years in the ~penitentiary.
-Ktyssr Tribune. Ia !,
Mrs. Nancy Britton. who was posi-
bly, tho oldest person living in Berkeley
county, died at; her late residence last
week. She vas born Christmas eve,
l79l, and was Jour months over 100 OF
age.
Governor Fleming has appointed
Mr.. F.S. Lnndstreet, Of Davis, rs Com
missioner for West Virginia to the
National Nicaragua Canal Convention
to be held at St. Louis June I'd.
Fifty coke. ovens are being erected by
the Belington coal and coke company a
few miles above Beliugton, in Randolph
county.
DR.. Hosea Rymper shot a largo eagle
not long sincetin Richie county. 1t
measured between wing tips six feet.
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