Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-12-14
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

A fire at Coal Valley, in Kanawha
county, last Sunday, caused a loss OF
| $4,000
May Christie, aged nine years, was
| burned to death in Kanawha county
a few days ago.
Taylor Addison was killed at Blue
| field, Mcdowell county, few days
ago by a locomotive.
Thirty Mormon converts have been
| secured i'm Grant county by an elder
| of that church named Williams.
John, Joseph and William Payne,
three notorious illicit distillers of Wy
| oming county, were captured last
week by revenue officers and lodged
in Jail.
A new town, to be called Oil City,
| has been laid out at the mouth of
Glady river. on the Little Kanawha.
Forty dwellings and large hotel are
already under contract.
About two weeks ago, James Wiles,
of Tucker county, was seized with
| hemorrhage of the nose, and despite
all medical care, it continued until
death was caused, last Sunday. The
cause OF death is rather unusual.
The three year old son of John
Santamine, who lives near Romney,
was burned to death recently. Mr..
and Mrs. Santamine had only left the
house for a few minutes. When they
returned home they found the child
burned to ashes.
Col. Elihu Hutton, of Randolph
county, widely known throughout the
State as one of our most energetic cit
liens, has been forced to make an as
signment TO w. S. Dewing Il Son for
the benefit of his creditors. His liza
bilities are placed at S25, 900.
The Meadow Branch Anthracite and
Cumberland Coal Company, of Balti-
more city, has been. incorporated by
Messrs. John +. Ehlen, Joseph Will
kins, Charles F. Winter, James NJ.
Rawlings and John NJ. McElroy. Cap
ital stock. S3.00O,000. The operations
will be carried on in West Virginia,
with the principal Office in that city.
About a dozen persons, all Republi-
cans have been arrested for illegal
out for many more. In Mercer county,
where the Republican majority
reached proportions plainly indicat-
ing fraud, the grand jury has returned
700 indictments for illegal voting, one
of the returns, embracing two counts,
being against the prosecuting attor-
ney of the county. The excitement
there is very great.
4 horrible accident occurred at
Steubenville, near Wheeling, on Mon
day. Lawrence Seigmund, an engineer
of. the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st.
Louis Road, was crossing the bridge
over the Ohio in his engine. when a
dependent rope, attached toa derrick,
caught him aroung the neck, dragged
him from the cab, and swung him ont
over the river at height of one hun
dred feet. When rescued his neck
and right arm were found to be broken
Death must have been instantaneous.
An indianapolis dispatch says
Miss Harris, the daughter of an ex-
soldier, at Wheeling, w. Va, who is
here visiting relatives, has been made
insane by political excitement. She
was appointed a clerk in one of the
DEPARTMENTS at Washington under
Garfields administration, but was dis
missed when the Democrats came in
to power. She evinced great interest
in the late campaign, and came to
Indianapolis several weeks ago, and
has frequently called upon Gen. Har
rison. Within the last two or three
DAYS she has shown evidences OF in
sanity, and il has become necessary
to place her under restraint"