Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-01-31

STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Two freight trains on the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and st. Louls Rail.
way collided near Golfers Station,
West Virginia, Saturday night, COM
pletely wrecking both engines and
nine cars.
A coon weighing sixty pounds was
recently caught BY d. Hathaway
and Enoch Leach, two Calhoun coun
ty hunters. The skin weighed about
ten pounds. The truth Of this is
youched for.
The Upshnr Handle Company, of
Buckhannon, shipped last Tuesday
75, 900 handles to j. G. Parks Il Sons,
Dublin, Ireland, via Glasgow and
Liverpool. This enterprise has PROV
en- big thing for Upshur county.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, Jan. "a
Roswell Grant, aged So years, died
at st. Adams. He was an uncle of
General u. s. Grant. During the
rebellion his sympathies were with
the South, but he predicted in 1861
that the South would not succeed,
because Ulysses, his nephew, was on
the other side and understood his
business. He voted for seventeen
presidents, all Of whom were elect
ed.
WHEELING, w. VA, Jan. 27.-
A freight train going west from Bel
laire this evening on the Central
Ohio division of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, ran into a 6 helper /"
coming east at Quincy station, kill
ing John Heslop, the engineer of
the freight, and badly injuring Clark,
the fireman. Tom Burke, the engi-
neer on the "helper.n is reported
killed, and his fireman seriously in
jured. The freight train was badly
wrecked, and all passenger trains
were detained several hours.
The proposition to open the Uni
versity to women is not meeting with
unqualified approval. The Kanaacha
Gazette, Democratic, and one of the
best balanced newspapers in the
State, says:
Better lend our energies toward
making the school a successful male
school than to experiment with CO
education. The discipline and sys.
TEN of the University are not favor
able to such an experiment, which
cannot possibly give the school high.
er rank and which may be its death
blow. Wait awhile.
If the atmosphere of the institu
ton is not fit for boys to live in it is
not wholesome for the young woman
hood Of the State. There must in
any case be a general overhauling
before the University can command
the confidence and respect of the
people. Without these its case is
hopeless and the institution burden
some farce.-IntelligenceT.
| Henry Fisher, an attorney, of Chi
cago, is the plaintiff in celebrated
case involving a fortune of 5000, 900
which has just been ended in the
courts at Point Pleasant, W. Va.
favorably for the plaintiff. Henry
G. Fisher, ST., was one OF the noted
men of that section-a shrewd finan
cier and successful in business
Henry j. Fisher, the plaintiff in The
case, it is said, unfortunately dlspleas
ed bis father and added to his dis
pleasure by entering the Confederate
army. He was promoted for bravery
and won fame on the field of battle
Fisher, ST., just before death, execut
ed a will, cutting off his son without
a dollar. The testator had endeav
ored to entail the estate in an accu
mulating trust before the investing
of the trust to a period beyond the
legal limit. Fisher, Jr., brought sui
to declare the will void as to the dis
position made Of the property. The
legal talent engaged in the suit EN-
braced the best talent of the State
and the case was conducted with re-
markable skill ON both sides. Mr.
Fisher will at once enter upon his
inheritance.