Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-11-23
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

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10 per cent last Monday is officially
denied by the company.
Hon. James Morrow. Jr, died at his
home in Fairmont on Saturday last,
aged 81 years. He died of paralysis,
having been stricken last August.
The president of the West Virginia
Railroad, accompanied by a number
| of other officials, made an inspection
of the road and the industries along
its line, last Friday.
A half dozen or more West Virginia
editors have gone to San Antonio,
Texas, to attend the session of the
National Editorial Association. They
will make a tour of Mexico before re-
turning home.
A party of drunken white men bru-
tally shot and killed an inoffensive
colored man named Giles at Bluetield,
in Mercer county, last week. The
fellow that fired the fatal shot will be
lynched if caught.
Alexander Messef, one of the most
desperate Of the Hatfield crowd, was
arrested in Lincoln county, w. Va,
Thursday night, charged with the
murder of Ted Mccoy in 1882 Mes
ser has been lodged in Jail at Charles
ton.
On Harris creek, Lincoln county,
on the evening of the 18th, John Key
ser stepped outside the door of the
residence of Maxwell Adkins, where
he was visiting, when he was shot
through the left thigh with rifle by
some unknown party.
j. w. Coel and j. V. Verse, of Web
ster county, returned from the noun
tains on Thursday with four fine deer,
wild eat and twenty coons. Amos
Fa:rchild and his two sons killed two
bears, three deer and one wild cat in
two days hunt on Laurel mountain.
William Henslev, of Raymond City,
suicided by drinking an ounce of
laudanum. He was eighty years old,
and was man of large family. All
his children are grown up. He was
highly respected and the only cause
for the rash act was that his health
was not good.
On the farm of Mr. Taylor, situated
on the South Branch of the Potomac,
near Cumberland, there was found,
few days ago, u meteorite, weighing
over three ounces, imbedded six or
seven inches in slate rock 1t had re-
Gently fallen, and is an oblate spher
old, black and heavy, containing sui
phur and iron in small cubes.
A little three-yearold daughter of
J. G. Red, of Cameron, was found
drowned under very peculiar circum
stances Friday. Her mother missed
the child, and on going into the yard
to look for her discovered her stand
ing beside a tish-keg full of water,
with her head resting over the edge,
face downward. When the little one
was lifted it was found to be dead
At Alton, Upshur county, Saturday
evening, Samuel w. Bowles was taken
suddenly unwell, and, producing a
bottle which he supposed contained
whiskey, he took a large drink from
it, Three friends who were present
also took small sups from the bottle
1t was not whiskey, but a chemical
compound belonging to an amateur
Photographic outfit, and Bowles died
the same night in great agony, The
others were very sick, but will re-
cover.
A novel wedding occurred last Sun
day on the Pendleton county and
West Virginia State line, near Doe
Hill The parties were Mr.. John Raj
ston, of Highland county, Va, and
Mrs. Martha Propst, of Pendleton
county, w. Va. The Rev. Ct. ID. r.
Collins, not having license to marry
persons in Pendleton, stood on the
''borders of his land" while the con
tracing parties stood in Pendleton
and were made man and wife in the
presence of quite number of wit
neSSeS.
The Chicago express on the Balti-
more d Ohio Railroad was wrecked at
Fetterlnan, short distance west of
Grafton, about eight o'clock last
Thursday night. The track between
Grafton and Wheeling being a single
one, an east-bOund freight train took
the siding at Fetterman to let the eX-
press pass. BY some unaccountable
means the trainman who unlocked
the switch to let the freight train i'm
the siding failed to close it, and actu-
ally locked it open so that it could not
be closed. At this time the fast eX-
press came laundering down the road
at high rate of speed, and without
moments warming crushed into the
freight, which was standing on the
side track. Both engines, the postal
car and baggage car were entirely de
molished. Six men were killed. They
were the engineers of both trains,
Clinton and Dewire, the firemen of the
passenger train, postal clerk and
two tramps. None of the passengers
sustained any injury and the coaches
were not damaged The conductor
and trainmen attribute the escape Of
the passenger coaches to the fact that
the train was what is known as a YES
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