Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-14
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

John Miller has been appointed
postmaster at Keyser in place of K
H. Davis.
Thomas J. Matthews, of West Vir
ginia, has been appointed timber
agent in the General Land Office.
The contract for alterations, addi
tional repairs to the public building al
Wheeling, has been awarded to Nc
Carthy Il Baldwin, of Washington,
ID. c., at their bid of 500, 200.
AT Coal Valley, kanawha county,
an incendiary fire destroyed the store
house and stock of goods of j. ID.
Harris & Bro, a dwelling owned by
| James Elwood, and three tenement
houses owned by s. H. and j. w.
Montgomery.
A Wheeling young man named
Robinson recently became aware OF a
sore on his lower lip, and being a Gig
arctic fiend he continued to smoke.
Then the sore became very much
worse, and he had part of his lip cut
off, as it was found that the sore was OF
cancerous nature. Boys, take warn
ing.
At New Cumberland, on Tuesday
last, gravel train on the Plttsburg,
Cincinnati and St Louis Railroad col
lided with the south-bound passenger
train, killing Charles Rodgers and
fatally wounding VIM. Brown. Both
engines and five cars were demolished.
Conductor Prince and Engineer Mont
gomery of the gravel train are under
arrest.
On Thursday night two negro des-
peradoes went to a cabin near the
Turkey Run Coal Mines. Mcdowell
county, and, covering the inmates,
about a dozen Hungarian miners,
with revolvers, demanded their
wages. One of the Hungarians drew
a revolver and was shot three times.
dying in a short time. The others
fled, and the house was looted by the
negroes, who escaped. Two arrests
have been made on suspicion.
Job Smith, aged about forty years,
son of Elder Jonathan Smith, OF
Roane county, and who resided near
Walton, was shot and instantlylkil
by Sam. Cronhecker, alias Cum
mings, last Thursday evening. 1t ap-
pears that Smiths wife died some
time since and left six small children,
and out of sympathy Mrs. Cummings
and her husband took up their resi-
dence at the Smith homestead. All
went well until last Monday, when
Mrs. Cummings had row with her
husband and drove him away, which
resulted in his return Thursday, and
upon seeing his wife and Smith to-
gether in the yard he fired double
barreled shotgun at Smith, resulting
in filling the latter's body with lead,
from which he died in u few minutes.
Cummings was arrested and con-
fessed the killing. and said that his
wife had been unfaithful to him, and
that Smith was the destroyer of his
happiness. Cummings is in the
Roane county Jail.
1t has been ascertained that the
recent unprecedented floods of water
in the Potomac last week came
mostly from the South Branch. The
Moorefield Examiner says: 1.-The
most terrible scourge the South
Branch Valley has ever experienced
WAS NlSlltu upOll IL llSb
From one end of the valley to the
other the ravages of terrible waters
are seen upon every side. 1t is be-
yond the power of tongue or pen to
fully convey an understanding OF the
damage done by the mad waters in
single day. Those who saw the flood
of 1877 can fully appreciate the con
dition of our beautiful little valley at
this time, except that this flood was
far more destructive to the farms ly-
ing along the streams. The farmers
had their corn in-most of it had
been plowed the first time, some the
second time. All of this, in the bot
tom land, was either washed away
pillow depth or covered over with rocks
and sand 1t seems that wherever
the land was in grass, wheat or oats
it suffered very little from washing.
The loss is tremendous; in fact there is
no way of estimating it. Every
farmer along the valley is a sufferer
in land, crops and fencing. Nearly
all of the fencing along the valley
was swept off, but this is small loss
compared to the loss Of land. This is
the worst season of the year for a
flood The land is plowed up and in
corn, making it loose and easily
washed, the season is too far advanced
to put in another crop, the wheat
and oats are maturing and easily
ruined, and upon the whole the pros
pect for the farmers this year is any
thing but encouraging. So far as
heard from there was no loss of life.