Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-11-26
West Virginia Notes.

Diphtheria is reported to be quite
prevalent in Monroe county and several
deaths have occurred.
Henry Esterwin. farmer living near
Bethany, while cutting wood, cut OH
one of the feet of his four-year.eld
daughter. Her injuries are so serious
that her life is despaired Of.
The State Board of Regents have APP
pointed DR.. l.. S. Brock to the chair Of
anatomy and physiology in the State
University at Morgantown. to succeed
DR.. Allen, recently deceased.
Hon. &c. B. Hoard, of Ceredo, w. Va,
died at that place Saturday, aged 81
years. Deceased was a member of the
Thirty.fift FIJI and Thirty-siXth Congresses
from the twenty-third district OF New
York.
There are 80 coal mines tributary to
the Great Kanawha river, with arresent
capacity of six million tons yearly. and
the number is increasing. At two dol
lars ton such an out put would he
worth twelve million dollars at the
mines.
| [ Shelton l.. Roger gloried over the
election news, by putting offadynamite
bomb in the court house yard, at Phil
ippi. The people Of that staid village
thought they hal been struck by Il cy-
clone and shaken by an earthquake.
Shelf has paid $50 for broken window
glass, and the returns are not all in.
Last Saturday evening young man
named Anguish was entering the gate of
his home, some miles below Parkers-
burg, when he was shot in the abdomen
with revolver by young man named
Edwards. The latter claims that in the
dark he mistook Anguish, who had
white sack Of flour OH his shoulder, for
a ghost. Anguish will die.
At Kanawha Falls Il white man named
James Casey and John Smith, colored,
got into an alteration over their re-
spective lights to the society of dam
sci of i'll repute. After some words
Smith leveleJ shotgun at Casey, dis
charging whole load of buckshot into
him, from which he soon died. Part of
the shot struck the arm of boy named
Thurman, causing such injuries that "
had to be amputated. Smith fled, fol-
lowed by mob of armed men, who
propose lynching him as soon as caught.
A Young man by the name of Smith,
living near FairmOnt, went ou(at Eight
to set IA trap for Il rabbit. He did not
return Nothing was thought of his
absence at the time. Failing TO return
the next day or night, number OF men
went in search of him, finding his body
in the woods, suspended by the neck to
Il sapllng. There is no reason for his
committing suicide, and it is believed
that his death was caused by tie moose
of the trap slipping and catching him
around the neck, from which he could
not eXtrcate himself.
Grafton, this State, has bobbed up
with sensation which is iindinga very
nasty solution in the courts of that
county. l. A. Beverline, a furniture
dealer, a high member OF church and
man who has been foremost in the moral
reforms Of the town, left the woman
with whom he had lived twenty-four
years and whom he had always acknowl-
edged as his lawful wife, and Married
young and prepossessing woman. In
court last week he testified that he was
never married to the woman he had
been living with for quarter of CEN
Jury, and that all these years he had
been living III prostitution, and that the
growu-up children which were the is
sue of the illicit relation and who had al.
ways believed ia honorable parentage,
were Legitimate! The fact that he
bad deceived the community and the
church and had brought the highest dis
grace upon his grown-up family was
not enough to convict him of bgamy on
the first trial. The jury stood eleven
for conviction and one for acquittal, and
new trial will be ordered.