Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-11-14
STATE NEWS

IT, ;hiE !. d., W. VA, Nov.
NY jury In the case of.Rio Pm
Kinney, on trial for the mnrs Dill.
barney Doyle and his daurhtar o.
west Union, in March. 1881. rat,r a'
verdict Of not guilty todar
ae former trial his nephew t .Ooas.
s aS a Little ! Bill Kinney, was convict.
Gu as an accompliee in the crime aUd
I be- : to the penitentary, where
nc IS now serving out his time.
The Grand Chapter of ROYAL Aro,
Masons of West Virginia beIJ ia a,sa
eeenth annual convocation il w ~ ut
ing Monday. III wheel
AT the afternoon session the eloo
zion OF officers for the ensuinS . roor
was held, resulting as follows: se"r
odel >. Long, Charleston. Grand
High Priest. "r'nu
King. '0"' urand
Scribe. s' "rahd
Treasurer. "i"nu
Will Ii. Riggs, M~artipsbnrn
Grand Secretary
John w. Grantham, Middlewov
Grand Chaplain.
William Il. Rose, Wheeling, Grand
Lecturer. ""u
X. ID. Walker, Fairmopt. Grand
Captain of the Host.
J. w. Morris, Wheeling. Grand
Principal Sojourner.
Geo. Brinkman, Grafton. Grand
Royal Arch Captain.
Chas. E. Pratt, Charlestowp.
Grand Master of tho Third Veil.
N. B. Newton, Weston. Grand
Master of the Second Veil.
JAS. j. Peterson, Huntington.
Grand Master of the First Veil.
Thos. S. Spates, Clarksburg.
Grand Marshal.
i. w. Bliss, Wheeling, Grand
Tyler.
The selection of Mr.. Riggs, of
Martinsburg, as Grand Secretary.
was n splendid one. 1t is doubtful
if a more thoroughly competent man
could have benn found to fill the place
so ably filled by Mr.. Long ever since
the origination ofthe Grand Chapter
of this State. Mr.. Long positively
declined to serve as the Grand Sec.
rotary longer. In electing him to
the Office of Grand High Priest the
Grand Chapter honored itself and
paid Mr.. Long a deserved tribute for
the faithful manner in which he has
served. There is considerable talk
of making Mr.. Long Grand Master
Of the Grand Lodge. He refused to
serve longer as Grand Secretary of
that body. 1t is highly probable
that Mr.. Riggs will be made Grand
Secretary Of the Grand Lodge. Mr..
Riggs is one of the best posted Ma.
sons in the State. AT present he is
Grand Eminent Commander of the
Grand Observation-Disclosures
Quantities of walnut logs are being
shipped from Jefferson county.
They ire shipped bp rail to Jersey
city, and from there are sent to Eur.
ope. The prices paid for the logs
range from $40 to $50 each.
The Grafton Sentinel says : Mr.. |
DAVIDSON was in town last Saturday
attending to the shipment of two
hundred A l fat cattle. They 60 to
New York and thence to Liverpool,
England. A finer lot of cattle is sci
dom, if ever, put on the market, the
average weight being about fifteen
hundred pounds. Three hundred
thousand pounds of Taylor county
beef will make many a square meal
for some of our English cousins.
A strange thing happened at the
late reunion at Moundsville. Over
20 years ago Sergeant G. G. Mathews,
of Company A, Twelfth West Viz.
ginia, lost a book while that regi-
ment was making q charge on Fort
Gregg on the I'd of April, 1865, which
was found by a comrade of Company
K, named Samuel Beall, and as the
wal soon closed they lost sight of
each other until they met at the re.
union, when Beall gave him the book,
saying, 81 have kept it 20 years for
you.D 1t is priced highly by Mr..
Mathews, not so much for its worth
as for the associations surrounding it.