Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-05-18
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.


has fallen heir to S75, 600 by the death
of an aunt, in Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
Colonel d. F. Houston, of Roanoke,
purchased a few days ago 5000 acres
of coal land in Logan county, w. Va.
Rev. DIR. James d. Drummond, for
MANY years a prominent minister Of
the West Virginia Conference M. f.
Church, died last week.
Two students of the West Virginia
University at Morgantown were ex-
PEELED last week for having liquor
concealed in their room.
EA farmer in Logan county made
wager of five dollars that he could
lump off of a barn forty feet high.
His funeral was largely attended.
The Wellsburg Herald states that
some of the farmer of that county
plowed up their wheat ground this
spring and sowed oats, losing the seed
wheat and their labor.
At Weston, few days ago, P. j. Dyer
was arraigned, before Mayor w. w:
Brannon and fined one hundred and
eighteen dollars and costs for selling
whiskey to man in the habit OF get
ting drunk.
One day last week land terrapin
was found on John Vanmeters farm,
in the Old Fields near Moorefield,
which was marked as follows: ''G.
Vanmeter, Aug. 10, 1880" Next
August 10th will be fifty-eight years
since this inscription was put on.
Three little children of Wesley Jar
Wis, of Calhoun county, were trying to
get ground squirrel out of its hole
the other day, and to get it they pulled
up stump, releasing large saw log,
which rolled down and completely
buried one of them in the earth, in
stantly killing the child.
Mrs. Robert Milligan, of Bridgeport,
w. Va, gave birth TO her twenty-fifth
child Wednesday. The mother is 4S
wears old. and was married at the age
of a. Her children include five sets
of twins. OF the IS, 81 are now living.
The oldest is 80, and there are nine
grandchildren. The family is in poor
circumstances.
In Wayne county, on Big Sandy riV-
er, lives Joseph Davis, who has a
daughter, aged six years, who weighs
230 pounds. This is the largest child
for its age known in the world, is per-
fectly healthy and as intelligent as the
average child. The parents are of av-
erage weight, the mother weighing
but 100 and the father 100 pounds.
In Peasants county, last week
Jacob Morgan was murdered in his
own house in the presence OF his wife
by two men. He was shot and stab
bed in the breast and his throat cut.
Morgan had recently been paid 5000
pension money, and it is believed the
object of the murderers was robbery,
but there was only $15 in the house,
and they failed to find this.
At Winifred Kanawha county, on
Sunday, William Clendennin and
man named Sampler, whilst drunk,
assaulted a brakeman named John
Massie The latter attempted to defend
himself with Ratchet, when Hiram
Clendennin, brother of William, fired
four times at Massie, one of the balls
lodging in the spinal column. Massie
is in a critical condition.
The Wheeling Register says that the
farmers of that section report that the
wheat crop there will be almost to-
tai failure, owing to the severity of
the winter the plants having been
frozen out of the ground. This is es-
pecially the case along Short Creek
ridge, where the farmers they say will
not harvest wheat enough for seed
and to bread their families; some have
plowed their fields under and put
them in oats and corn. In the most
favorable localities the wheat is too
far gone to yield over half crop.
Joseph Beswick, of Elkins, was run
over and instantly killed by a West
Virginia Central and Pittsburg excur-
sion train near that place Sunday
evening. He was lying across the
track and the engineer saw him, but
too late to stop. Beswick was track
hand on the railroad. Foul play was
at first suspected, but coroner's jury
rendered verdict of accidental death.
1t is believed Beswick was intoxicated
and fell or lay down on the track,
being unable to rise when the train
approached.