The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-09-15
PossTBhE MURDER,

POSSIBLE MURDER,
At Gallipolis. Ohio. Tuesday.
Tuesday afternoon Gallipolis
became the scene of sensational
occurrence which may land one Of
those concerned in the grave and
the other in the electrocution chair.
Two men manned Andrew, (com-
monty called Doc Murphy, of
st. Adams, Kanawha county, and
VIM. Hayes, went about the city
during the day drinking heavily,
and, when in an intoxicated condi-
ton, went into Maude Daniels
yard near Pine street, ON Front.
An alteration ensued, but Muir
ply forced his way into the house.
A few minutes afterwards he was
forcibly elected struggling with the
woman Daniels. She was possess
ed of pistol which she fred with
out effect, and then the man
knocked her down, kicking and
beating her severely; the noise
of the scuffle brought several peo-
pie to the scene, when Murphy ran
off, but Maude gained her feet and
following him fred several shots
at his retreating figure, the police
came upon the scene and disarmed
and arrested this reyeneeful wo-
man and had her victim attended
to. He was shot in the left groin,
the bullet penetrating 8 inches;
lost a large quantity of blood and
is in a very precarious condition.
The following is an extract from
a letter addressed to Geo. M. Pull
man, president of the Pullman Pal
ace Car Company, by the Tax
payers Defence League, of Chica-
go:
"The rights of property are now
warning on the rights of man. Mo-
nopolies and trusts ON the destruc-
ton of the State. Capital and la
Dor may each organize, but when
capital corners the market on coal,
iron, sugar, oil, coffee. salt, ETC., and
is thus able to raise the price arti-
ficially to the consumer, it is a
crime under the statutes of most of
our states. But men of wealth are
now doing this very thing. They
keep the letter of the law, they vi
olate its spirit. They take from
the poor man a 1.-THE of his daily
food, and in return make gifts to
the public to satisfy the conscience
or to throw dust in the eyes of the
people. Society is between two
malefactors, the criminals above
and the criminals below, the trust
magnate in the criminals below,
the trust magnate in the place and
the Anarchist in the slums; the
plutocrat and the mobocrat. A
new study in crimes and crimino-
logy must now be written. Debs
would have no followers if men of
wealth were righteous"
To this might we'll be added, the
inevitable consequence, the only
solution of this trust tyranny, will
be an uprising of the oppressed
people as bloody and terrible as
that of the, French revolution.
Examples of the trust tyranny can
be seen every day and night in our
midst through the reduction of
wages and the advance in the cost
of living, all necessaries of life hav-
ing advanced, and all these neces-
saries being controlled by trusts.
The people who toll for their daily |
bread are slowly but surely being
driven to desperate measures for
self-protection and while the tyran-
meal methods of trusts may for
time be permitted to continue, the
oppressed people will some day de
eide to no longer submit to these
methods, and when that time comes
the result will be frightful to con-
tempIate.-Daily Oil Review.