Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-08-16
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.


ton asylum.
There is great boom in Monon-
gala county over the prospects for
great oil field. Seventy wells are now
going down.
George Christian has been found
guilty Of the murder of Frank Brown
i'm Cabell county and has been sent TO
the penitentiary for life.
Governor Wilson has pardoned
Harry Price from the penitentiary.
He had been sent up Tor housebreak-
ing in Ohio county two years ago.
A freight train on the p. c. & st.
l.. Railroad struck horse near
Wellsburg Sunday morning. The
engine and the cars were demolished.
Thursday morning James o. Hager,
who was recently appointed deputy
marshal by Marshal White, was seri-
ously if not fatally shot from am
bush near his residence, on Barker's
Ridge, in Wyoming county. A later
account reports the death of Hager.
At Wheeling last Friday eighty-fve
employees of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad were paid off and told that
the company had no more work for
them. The general repair shops at
Wheeling will be closed, and the
work will be thereafter done at Grafton
and Bellaire.
Wheeling about o clock Tuesday
morning incendiary fires were stimuli
taneously started at three points IN
the business part OF the city, and as
the fire alarm system was found TO be
out of order on boxes being pulled
great deal of excitement resulted.
The fires were soon under control.
Timothy Vanhorn, aged 70 years, of
Monroe county, and Miss Mary Queen,
aged IS years, of Harrison county,
were married last week. Vanhorn is
a well-to-do farmer and his bride is
the daughter of a respectable citizen
of Harrison. Their courtship was not
long one, they having met first at
church social last winter.
The following delegatest to the Farm
ers Congress of the United States,
which convenes at Montgomery, Ala,
November 18th, have been appointed
by Gov. Wilson: Col. w. A Morgan,
Shepherdstown; d. w. j. Bates, Jr.,
at large, Wheeling; Abram Wilson,
Short Creek J. q. Dickinson, Charles
ton; Hon. j. j. Crockett, at large,
Crump Bottom; Geo. McKendray,
Barboursville.
Gov. Wilson has appointed Thos. J.
Farnsworth, of Upshur county, and
Joseph Mooreland, of Morgantown,
regents of West Virginia University.
Mr.. Farnsworth is appointed for the
term of said office beginning June 30,
1889, while Mr. Mooreland is to serve
for the unexpired term of said office.
These gentlemen are appointed from
the tenth and eleventh senatorial dis
tricts respectively
4 horrible butchery is reported
from Mcdowell county. The particu
lars are meagre. 1t appears that
widow named ellis lived in remote
district of the county, with two daugh-
tiers about grown. They were poor
but respectable people. Friday neigh
bors found all three dead. They had
evidently been criminaily assaulted
and murdered. There is absolutely
no clue to the perpetrators of the
deed.
Judge f. A. Guthrie of the Kama
wba Circuit Court has disposed of the
case of Fleming. Democratic candi-
date for Governor at the November
election, against the commissioners
of the Kanawha County Court. The
court took the case on the record in
certiorari. and reversed the County
Court and remanded the cause to the
County Court of Kanawha CounJy to |
be therein tried according to the prin- |
ciples of the common law.
Albert Summerfeld, a miner EN-
ploved in the Black Bank mines, was |
taken suddenly i'll Monday morning |
shortly after eating lunch in the |
bank. a physician pronounced 1t
case of poisoning, with rough on |
rats Antidotes were promptly ad-
ministered and the patient is now out
of danger. Suspicion pointed to Mrs.
Baker, Summerfield's mother-in-law, |
and his brother swore out warrant |
for her arrest, but she had taken
alarm ana fled.
A sensational dispatch from the
western part of the State says that
the family of Il. j. Allen, of Knob
creek. Monroe county, narrowly rs
capped being burned alive by some I'M
known enemy Friday night. The
doorways of the house were blocked
by stones, kerosene was thrown over
the porch and other woodwork, and
the match We applied while the fam
lily were asleep. The lower story was
ablaze before they awoke, and all had
to jump from windows in their night
clothes. Serious wounds were the re-
suit.
The other day POstmaster-Genera
Wanamaker appointed North Car
Dina colored man as a postal clerk.
The letter containing his commission
was mailed to him. but upon looking
up the address of the new appointee
il was found that it had been changed
TO the State penitentiary, he having
since his application committed a
burglary and been sent up for three
years.
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