The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-11-13
From Thursdays Daily.
THEY FOUGHT AT CHURCH.


An Old Grudge Settled Af.cr Services.
Centerville is q little village in
Wayne county, fifteen miles due
south from Ceredo. 1t is quite a
noted town owing to the many
crimes which have been committed
there. 1t was only a few years ago
that several Mormon ministers from
Central Ohio came there and began
a series of meetings in the Osner
Chapel in the suburbs of the village.
One night while in the height ofex-
citement, and the people were re-
spending to the call of the minister
to come forward, the congregation
was thrown into excitement by a
band of men on the outside who
began fusilade on the building
with boulders and number of
bullets were also fired into it.
This broke up the services for the
evening and it was decided best for
them to leave the section which they
did Immediately afterward. For
several weeks trouble has been
brewing in that village between
some young men named Hayton
and Newman on the one side and
the Smiths on the other.
Sunday night at 9 o'clock just
as services at the Baptist charch
were dismissed and the congrega-
ton were leaving toe building, these
factions began battle on the out
side. Shird Hayton and Clarence
Newman represented one faction,
and Beecher Smith, Sam Smith, Jim
Smith and Pearl Toney the other
side. Boulders, brass knucks, clubs
and revolvers were all used, and it
was necessary for number of the
church people to return to the
building to escape the missiles which
were flying through the air. None
of the combatants were seriously in
jured, however, but the good people
in that section are loud in their de-
nunciations against the people in
volved. Andy Burehett, a we'll
known church member was struck
in the back with stone and is suf
fering yet from his injuries. Yes
terday warrants were Issued by
Squire Riggs for the entire party
and today their trials are in prog
ress. a large number of witnesses
were summoned and the trial is
causing much interest.
1t was not the intonuon to init
mate, in ''local" that recently ap-
peared in these columns, giving a
short sketch of the superior harbor
equipment and enlarged facilities
possessed by Messrs. Armstrong
Bros, in the mouth of the Kanawha,
that they were solitary and alone
Below their docks, which they are
putting in thorough repair, and
making as efficient and Gas good as
new" are the dry docks of the
Kanawha Marine Dock Company,
over which our friend, Capt. Will
son Cole is the presiding genius; to
whose indomitable energy and
square dealing, is attributable the
great activity that has been mani
tested on them during the past
season, dull as the times have been.
We are informed that they have
"taken out" during this season,
about a dozen steamboats,, and as
many barges, almost entirely re
building some of them; besides they
have built several new scows for
the government work at Lock No.
IL, and number of barges and
flats.
They are well and powerfully
equipped and prepared for taking
ont" the large as well as the
smaller sized crafts.
With sawmills and lumber yards,
foundry and machine shops and
boiler works close at hand, and the
great facilities for docking, no point
on the upper Ohio presents equal
opportunities for prompt, thorough
and satisfactory docking, building
and repairing steamboats, and
barges as those offered at Point
Pleasant.
These facts should commend
themselves to Kanawha and Ohio
River boatmen, who, no doubt,
fully appreciate them.
In these times when every one
is putting up fruit" the following
WaV ig of interest tn Gome oF our