Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-10-05
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

DIR. L. II. Logan, Appointment Wheel
ing citizen, was found dead in his bed
Monday morning.
Whether or not the State Press AS
ISOLATION will hold a meeting this
year seems to be very uncertain.
Bad whiskey and political excite
ment caused a row in Mercer county
last week, in which two colored men
were fatally hurt.
While crowd of men were skylark
in a Wheeling saloon Tuesday night
n revolver was accidentally discharged
instantly killing Dan Reitz.
Alexandra Coquelet, a Belgian min
er, killed himself near Charleston on
Monday. His wife and child are now
on their way from Belgium.
The Democrats of the seventh judi
cial circuit have nominated for circuit
Judge :. 5. Green. a nephew OF SUI
preme Court Judge II. &. Green.
William Williams, aged so years,
living at Nuzums Mills, Taylor county,
beat his wife so savagely Friday that
she died of the injuries received.
A child of Albert Vickers, Of Kama
wha county. aged twenty months, was
burned TO death Friday evening by It's
clothes taking fire during the absence
of its mother.
Some of the Republicans having
made charges that Postmaster Simp-
son. of Wheeling, had withheld and
DELAYED their documents, that gentle
man has asked for an investigation.
The assessors books of Jackson
county show that son born July Z,
1887, to David Wesley and Mary Sayre
bears the name of Thomas Alexander
Hendricks John Endicott kenna Gro
yer Sayre.
Isaiah Byers, an employe at Cooper
Mills. at Tyner i'll moment OF curl
osity attempted to see if the saw was
warm. He fell in front of the saw,
which cut of one foot and terribly
lacerated his leg. He will probably
die.
Two candidates for county commits
sioners Of Tucker county have made
u bet of $1,000 with each other that
he would be elected. The money has
been put up by each, and lively tus-
sic between the two asplrantS Tor the
office may be expected.
An order was entered by the circuit
court in Charleston last Saturday, also
i'm court at Richmond, Va, taking the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad out of
the hands of the receiver. President
Ingalls, has taken full charge of the
road. and it will be reorganized with
out delay.
4 new religious sect has been started
in the wilds of Nicholas county. The
new sect is called the New Lights. >
The sect is said to have arisen from
the influence of Rev. Russell, of Allie
gheny CITY, where he conducts a news
paper called lions Watch Tower The
members of the New Light sect pro
fess to believe that there is no hell.
Louis Hildebrand, a Wheeling man,
killed his wife last Saturday night.
Going home drunk, he refused to give
his wife money to purchase food for
Sunday, and upon her insisting there
was nothing to eat and that several
small bills must be paid he drew re-
volyer and fired three shots at her.
One ball penetrated her back, near
the spine, as she was fleeing for her
life, and death resulted. The husband
is in jail
7. S. Riley, chairman of the Demo
cratic State Executive Committee, and
w. j. w. Cowden, chairman of the
Republican committee, have made the
final arrangements for the joint dis
cussions between Gen. Nathan Golf,
Republican candidate for Governor,
and Hon. w. l.. Wilson, Democratic
member of Congress from the second
district. as follows: Martinsburg, DC
tober -; Wheeling, October p; a point
in the Kanawha Valley, to be hereaf-
ter fixed, October 80, and Parkersburg,
October 81.