Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-10-22
West Virginia Notes.

Mr.. Edward Herbert, shipping agent
for The West Virginia Central Railroad
at Baltimore, made miss.stcp while
walking along q pier at Locust Point
last Monday, and fell through an open
ing to pile of rocks twenty feet below.
He was instantly killed.
A party of well-known "wild cat oil
men from Pittsburg have purchased
lease OIL 10000 acres Of land south Of
the Washington oil fields, in the State
of West Virginia, and will put down
number of wells at once. The price
paid was fifty cents per acre.
"The Independent State of Webster"
is county in West Virginia which de-
rives its name from the fact that during
the civil conflict it struck out for itself
and by itself. resolving itself into all in
dependent State, one and indivisible.
Hon. G.. NJ. Sawyer was Governor, and
the present auditor of West Virginia its
auditor.
Henry Arkwright, 4 farmer of Mar
shall county, w. Va, was literally
blown to pieces while using dynamite
to destroy stumps. He had arranged
charge when, accidentally, one of the
cartridges exploded, blowing his body
several rods and tearing il to pieces.
His remains were found some time af-
ter by neightor.
At Parkersburg on Tuesday last Mr..
A. A. Correll, deaf mute, who is con-
nected with the Buchanan Banner, was
united in marriage to Miss Fanny
Thompson, who is also deaf mute.
Miss Thomas is q daughter Of l.. +.
Thompson, an old official of the Balti-
more e Ohio Railroad. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Henry L. Ru-
mer, of the Presbyterian Chuch, who
wrote the interrogatories and injuno-
tions, to which responses were given in
the mute language.
A dispatch from Parkersburg says:
"News has just been received here that
the directors of the Ohio Railroad have
given orders to begin work at once on
the extension from Point Pleasant to
Huntington, w. Va. This road has
been in operation from Wheeling to
this city for the past two years. The
extension from here to Point Pleasant
10 so nearly finished that trains will be
running in two months. The further
extension to Huntington will give this
section competing road with the Bal
timore g. Ohio to Cincinnati"
Near Parkersburg last Sunday hight
while Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gillner were
returning to their home in carriage
in passing along dark and narrow
lane, the carriage struck a stump at the
top of steep incline. The jar threw
the carriage down the embankment, a
distance of forty feet, and in falling,
fastened the inmates to the ground. Mr..
Gillner was SO seriously injured that he
was unable to move. Mrs. Gillner was
seriously, but not fatally injured. He
is sixty-fve years OF age, and highly
respected citizen of Marshall county
One of the horses was killed and the
carriage demolished.
A terrible tragedy occurred In Raleigh
county, West Virginia. 1t seems that
George Mckinney aud Hugh Rinehart,
two wealthy farmers, have long been
enemies. Each selected every opportu-
nifty to annoy the other. On Saturday
Rinehart haG Mckinney arrested upon
some trivial charge, and while they
were at the Justices office the quarrel
was renewed. After some words,
Mckinney drew revolver and warned
Rinehart away, saying that he would
kill him. Rinehart replied, with al
oath, "To Shoot" when Mckinney fired
several times. two Of The bullets enter
ing Rinehart's breast. Just before he
fell, Rinehart drew his revolver and
fired, the ball fatally wounding Nc
Kinney. Both men fell at the same in
slant, Rinehart dying at once and Nc
Kinney in short time.