Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-11-22
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.


Judge Jackson opened his twenty
ninth year in the United States Court
at Charleston last week.
Two new bridges are to be built
across the Ohio river at Wheeling to
connect that city with Martins
Ferry.
The people of Wayne county, this
State, have emphatically declined TO
vote a subscription OF $4,000 to a
railroad.
Willie Buckalew, aged twelve years.
was run over by a B. and o. engine
and killed at Kevser, last Sunday
evening.
Moses Coffman, of Greenbrier
county, sold last week for expectation
fifty-four head of three-year-old cat
tie averaging 1, 400 pounds each.
d. B. Purinton, LII. D., vice-presi-
dent and the professor OF metaphysics
in the West Virginia University, has
been elected president Of Denison
University, in Ohio, to succeed DIR.
Galusha Anderson.
While Mrs. John Bowe, Of Catawba,
Marion county, was out feeding the
hogs, her three-year old daughter
was left in the house by the fire and
i'm the absence of its mother, its cloth
ing ignited and it was burned to
death.
Thomas J. Hammond has been APP
pointed postmaster at Moundsville to
succeed G.. r. Oldham. The Republi-
cans of that place are not very well
satisfied, because the new appointee
does not live in the town, but three
or four miles in the country.
The heirs of ex Senator Allen Il.
Caperton have transferred to ex-
Senator J. n. Camden 81, 900 acres of
land in Clay and adjoining counties
at the price of eighty cents per acre.
The land is coal and timber land, and
will be very valuable when the pro-
posed railroads are run to it.
Jas. Nichols, of Wellsburg, age fif-
teen years, died from exposure last
Sunday morning, after night of ter
rible experience. The boy, in COM
about his own age, went to Wheel
train, they started to walk home, a
distance of sixteen miles. When five
miles from Wellsburg Nichols gave
out His companions carried him
about three miles and then left him
lying on the road. Shortly after it
began to rain. When the boy was
found next morning he was uncon
scious. He died in few hours.
The Grand Encampment, |. 0. o.
F., of West Virginia, met at Wheel
ing on Monday and elected officers
as follows: Grand high priest, j. w.
Chambers, of Huntington; grand
senior warden, G. X. Smith, of Wheel
ing; grand scribe, HI. A. Uniman, Of
Wheeling; grand treasurer Henry
Seamon, of Wheeling; grand junior
warden, G. A. Hiehle, of Parkersburg;
grand representative for two years,
j. w. Bosworth, of Philippi. The
appointments by the grand patriarch
of Grafton; grand sentinel, r. H.
Hollis, of Rowlesburg; deputy grand
sentinel, d. H. Stein, of Morgan
town.
Boone Court House is excited over
the shooting of DR.. f. Jarrett. very
prominent physician of large practice,
by Joseph. Tips, a leading farmer and
stock raiser. For some time past
Tips has suspected an undue intimacy
between his wife and DR.. Jarrett, and
upon several occasions he set bear
trap for the doctor, hoping to catch
him while awaiting the wife at the
trysting place. His effort failed and
a few evenings ago he announced
that he was going away, to be absent
several days. He returned about 10
o'clock last night and discovered Dr.
Jarrett in a room with his wife. Tips
shot the Doctor three times, inflicting
very serious, but not fatal wounds.