Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-04-27
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.


ing considerable attention throughout
the country.
DIR. George w. Cracraft, one of the
oldest residents of Ohio county, died
few days ago.
The County Court of Kanawha
county refused to grant liquor licenses
on Wednesday.
The Kanawha Gazette, published at
Charleston, has commenced the pub
LEGATION of daily paper.
A Grafton young lady thrashed a
Young man whom she found keeping
company with her sister.
A Lewis county statiStician figures
that West Virginia contains 34,291,-
0SS, $40, 900 cubic feet of coal.
Judge Chapman Stewart died in
Doddridge county last week. He had
a fine reputation as a criminal lawyer.
The State Bar Association will meet
in Wheeling on June Goth, when Sen
ator Daniels, of Virginia, will deliver
an address.
The LAWYERS are still wrangling over
the Hatfield Mccoy case. Everybody
but the legal gentlemen are heartily
tired of the affair.
1t is expected that the military COM
panies of West Virginia will receive
arms. uniforms. &C., to the amount OF
about $4,000 this year from the State
and the general government.
The President Of the Cabell County
Court. George w. Hackwort is out
in the Huntington papers in card,
i'm which he says the liquor traffic Is
highly pernicious and damnable in the
extreme and says he will grant no
more licenses.
DR.. NJ. S. Holt. editor of the Repub
Ican. and Mayor W. w. Brannon had
quite a lively fight at Weston a few
DAYS ago. An old feud between the
men on account of newspaper ar
ticle caused the fracas. Both men
were pretty well used up.
1t is stated that the Baltimore Il
Ohio Railroad Company has decided
to complete the extension OF its state
line" branch from Uniontown, Pa, to
Moreantown, W. Va, this summer
The road is completed from Morgan
town TO Fairmont where it joins the
main line of the Baltimore y Ohio
Railroad.
Barnes Beckwith, a prominent farm
err Of Wood county, set steel trap TO
catch a coon which he thought was
stealing the corn from his crib a couple
of nights ago. The next morning the
strong teeth Of the trap were biting
the hand of one of Mr. Beckwith's
nearest and best known neighbors.
Beckwith gave him some good advice
and released him.
John Rollins had quite an exciting
time the other night eloping with Miss
Celia Hudson, daughter of a Wood
county farmer. About the time the
Young folks had started off on horse
back after minister the old gentle
man discovered the state Of affairs.
The only horse he could get was poor
traveller, and by the time he caught
up with the clippers justice of the
peace had made the twain one.
Mr. Oliver Beirne died in New Or
leans Saturday, in the nth year of
his age. Mr.. Beirne was born in Mon
roe county, w. Va, in 1911, and was
twice married. Mr.. Beirne was the
owner of the Old Sweet Springs. and
possessed large tracts of land in Mon
roe county. Not long ago the late
John Burnside, the wealthy sugar
planter of Louisiana, made him his
sole legatee, which increased his
wealth to an estimated amount of ten
million dollars.
At midnight, on Thursday, the Tel
ephone Exchange at ClarkSburg was
closed by order of the Bell monopoly.
The exchange has been in operation
for over two years and has been
success from the start. After the re-
cent decision Of the Supreme Court,
the Bell Company came down on the
Clark sburg concern with both feet,
and TO protect their patrons the lat
ter decided TO close their Offices. They
made liberal offers to the Bell Com
panv in order to keep the exchange
running, but the Bell people wouldn't
accept them.
John Brodly and James Davis, Of
Monroe county, were killed n few days
ago in a peculiar manner They had
boarded train on the Chesapeake d
Ohio Railroad to go to Sewell, and
after getting on it found it was the
fast train that made no stop there.
They concluded to jump and take
their chances; so, when the engine
whistIed for Sewell, they rushed to
the forward platform of the smoker,
one taking each side, and jumped 1t
happened that on either side of the
track were piles of ties. As the men
jumped off, they struck these ties and
they were hurled back under the train
and crushed to death.