The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-02-27
From Wednesdays Daily)
MURDER SUSPECTED.
The Coroner Causes the Arrest of the
Suspected Parties.

Suspected Parties.
Coroner, DIR. A. r. Barbee, was
yesterday evening, at late hour
notified that Elizabeth Shuts, aged
two years and three months, daught.
er of Mrs. Frances Shuts, whose
husband is unaccounted for, and
who is now, and has been living on
/ a shanfy boat, with one John Seeley,
at the mouth of Old Town creek,
just above our city, was dead
Strong suspicious developed that
the child, to whom reference was
made in our issue of January 18th,
had been fouly dealt with, as Sc
we're wounds on its person indicated,
bad suddenly come TO its death un-
der still more suspicious circum-
stances. a jury was empanelled
and after several witnesses had
been examined on the very small
shanty boat, and the hour growing
late, and other and still more i'm
portant witnesses, from distance,
to be examined, the Coroner ad-
journed the inquest until this morn
ing at . o'clock, at his Office
From the evidence already addu-
ced before the jury, the Coroner is
sued a warrant for the arrest of
John Seeley and the mother of the
child, Mrs. Frances Shuts, and they
were Immediately arrested, and are
now coufined in jail to await the
finding of the jury
Capt. c. f. Hess has converted
his large barn into an ice-house,
and is now filing it with splendid,
clear ice from the Ohio river.
There. will be plenty of ice here
next summer, and it ought to be
sold at a very low price to consum-
ers. Fifty and seventy FIVE cents a
hundred is rather a steep price, and
we hope it will not be that high
next summer.
ARBUcKLE, Feb. 49, Miss Fannie
Sterrett, of Henderson, returned
home to day after an extended visit
to J. w Long, ard family.
Miss Kate o Leary has returned
| to finish her school.
We are sorry to note that one of
our best lady teachers of South Side,
is thinking of matrimony in March.
The prudent man is he who
spends his leisure hours In caulk-
ing his Jnhnboat and preparing the
oars thereof out of timber stout and
strong For, although that j .hn-
woodshed until it's bottom warps
like the slaves OF n "busted" rain
barrel, yet, under present circum
stances, it is we'll that il is there
Wetzel Democrat.
What is going to be done about
our March election? No notice has
as yet been Published giving notice
of time of election and places of
voting, nor does there seem to be
any candidates hankering after the
town Offices. If any man is candi
date for Mayor, Clerk, Marshal or
Councilman, let it be known.
Moses Hatfield, one of the best
known citizens of this end of the
State, went out to his barn ut Bar
louisville on Tuesday morning to
feed his stock. His prolonged
absence excited his wife, who went
in quest of him, when his dead
body was found in the stable. Death
was due TO appoplexy.
a gentleman said yesterday of
our present Town Council. "For
the most part they are gentlemen of
ability, common sense and honesty,
serving the pnblic well, and for one
he was ready to endorse their every
act"
Sparks 4 Co, the proprietors of
the Adelphi Hotel, Huntingdon, w.
Va, made an assignment yesterday
for the benefit OF their creditors
The hotel is one of the finest in the
State. Asses and liaLi tiles un-
known
The thaws OF the past few day $
has left The stroe,s in II very muddy
condition. The street commission
er is around, hover, getting the
street crossings in passuUie condi-
ton
George Tully aud briIe, who was
Miss Mary Ellis, have returned
from getting married unceremoli i
ousIy without the consent OF Il Q
old folks Charleston Gazette.
The groom is brother of Capt.
Bill fully, of Henderson.
Minturn Lodge No. 10, A. F. &
a. NJ, SO we are informed, had a