Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-05-28
West Virginia Notes.


During the last meeting of the Board
of Directors of the State Insane Asylum,
at Weston, thirteen patients were dis
charged from the institution by the SUI
perintendent. They were considered
cured.
The miners of the Kanawha valley
and New River districts have agreed to
boycott all coal shipped by William wy
ant. of Eagle, who soundly thrashed
Knight of Labor who was interfering
with his men.
William Heeter, u seventeen-year-old
son of Mr.. Thomas Heeter, of Horse
Valley, was killed by Il falling tree III
Morgan county on Monday of last week.
He was peelng bark when the tree
lodged and then fell. The young man
was unable to get out of the way and
the tree struck him.
At Maiden, near Charleston, last
week. a man named Pink Brown went
fishing, taking with him giant torpedo
with which he intended to kill fish. lie
accidentally dropped the torpedo on the
edge of tie skiff which he was in, when
il exploded, SCATTERING his left arm near
the shoulder, putting out one eye and
otherwise injuring him.
Elisha Wigale, Wood county, caused
it to be published that his wife, who for
several years has been patient at
the Weston Insane Asylum, was dead,
md soon after married a Miss Agnes
Grogan. The authorities OF the asylum
now state that Mrs. Wigale is not dead,
but physically in good health. SO, wig
ale has undoubtedly committed bigamy,
and warrant for his arrest has been
issued.
Mrs. Jacob Reel, of Mil Greek, Grant
county, last week gave birth to three
children, all of whom, at last accounts,
were doing well. This is the second
time Mrs. Reel has given birth to trip
lets. During the Tilden and Hendricks
campaign she gave birth to three chill
dren, which she named Tilden, Hem
bricks and Reform, all of whom are still
living. Mrs. Reel has also given birth
to twins tw ice. Poor Mr.. Reel!
A dis atch from Apple Grove says:
Mrs. Jas. Guerin and sister are widows,
and each has several children. They
live near each other, and the children
ouarreled recently over the ownership
of stepladder, when Mrs. Thomas APP
neared and carried the ladder home.
Her nephew, Jimmie Guerin, aged 10,
folded her, and sruck her with a large
stone, crushing the back of her head,
the woman soon dying. Soon after the
dead woman's daughter, Eliza aged II,
secured gun, and, firing upon her
cousin, the boy murderer Of her mother,
riddled him with shot, he also dying in
few moments. The girl was arrested.
The locomotive shops of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad at Mt. Clare have re-
Gently completed four fine new locomo-
tiyes, said to be the largest and most
powerful ever built there. They have
54-inch boilers and 230 flues. This
greatly increased number of tiues en-
ables the formation Of much more steam,
and hence greatly increases the work
ing power Of the engine. The cylin-
ders measure Is by "a inches, and the
driving wheels measurs 60 inches. The
engines weigh fifty tons.
Washington q Lee University Com
mencement exercises begin by asermon
on Sunday, June 18th. by Rev. George
Cooper at IL. Address at night by Rev.
DR.. Sledd. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Final
Celebration of the Literary Societies.
Tuesday-Meeting of Trustees and of
Alumni Association, and Historical adj
dress by Rev. DR.. NJ. D. Hoge. Wednes-
day-Delivery of Diplomas, &C.. Annu-
al Address before Literary Societies by
Col. A. X. Mcclure; and ball.
James Barlow was put in Jail at Har-
risonburg, Va, on Monday, for brutally
beating his little step-daughter and then
cutting her throat near Elkton Station,
on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
The child has since died.
Mrs. Alice Pendleton, wife of Minister
Pendleton, United States representative
at Berlin, was thrown from her carriage
in New York last Thursday and fatally
injured, dying within ten minutes after
the accident.
Two infant children of James David
son, near Shelbyville, Ind, were burn
ed to death in their bed Sunday moning.
1t is thought that the explosion of a
lamp set the house on fire.
The business men of Winchester are
petitioning the Cumberland Valley
Railroad Company to extend its lines
from Martinsburg to Winchester.
Roanoke, City, Va, bya large major
ity voted a subscription of 500, 900 to
the projected Roanoke and Southern
Railroad.
These are Solid Facts.
The best blood purifier and system
regulator ever placed in reach of suffer-
ing humanity. truly is Electric Bitters.
Inactivity of the Liver, Biliousness,
Jaundice, Constipation, Weak Kidneys,
or anu disease of the urinary nruans