Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-08-09
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

A catfish with silver spoon in its
stomach was caught near Parkers-
burg recently.
A train ran over Thomas Lyons at
Parkersburg last Saturday and cut
both his legs off,
Mrs. Mary Isenbarth committed
suicide near New Martinsville by
jumping into cistern.
Charles Kemmer and Henry Arnett
were drowned while attempting to
cross a flooded stream in Braxton
county last week.
The lynchers of the negro Carter,
near Lewisburg, are to be arrested.
the man whom he shot, Constable
Reynolds, is getting we'll.
The Town Council of Berkeley
Springs has accepted the proposition
of having that place lighted by cleo
tricity, at the rate of $500 year.
Three hundred and fifty bushels is
the largest crop of wheat raised by
any one farmer in Tucker county this
year. So says the Tucker Democrat.
The Orrel Coal Company, which
has mines at Newburg, Tyrconnell
and Fairmont, has shut down work
and discharged its 600 employees.
The managers say the mines are not
paying.
For some time large sewer, drain
ing prominent section Of the Mar
ket in Wheeling, has been blocked.
1t was dug up one day last week and
the novel source of trouble was found
to be large pile of counterfeit silver
dollars.
A son of Ezra Miller's, of Endicott,
this State, was bitten by copper
head snake, last week, and died from
the effects of the poison. A few
months since the same child was near
ly killed by stroke of lightning, and
had Just sufficiently recovered from
the shock to be able to get about
when he was bitten by the snake.
Friday night band of fifteen mask
ed men entered the residence Of
George Brown, prominent Wetzel
county citizen, after his family had re-
tired. They were dragged from their
beds, and while two men held them
the others ransacked the house.
After getting all they could they took
a pot of tar and covered the heads
of MI and Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown,
whose golden tresses were much adj
mired, has been compelled to shave
them close to her head. Some of the
miscreants have been identified and
their arrest will follow.
Ex-senator Camden has decided to
extend the Clarksburg and Weston
Railroad to Braxton G. H., forty miles
from Weston. The extension is to be
q narrow gauge, and the material of
the Clarksburg and Weston is to be
used thereupon as far as it will 60.
The latter road is to be converted in
to a standard guage. 1t is expected
the road will be completed and in OPP
Grafton within twelve months. A
charter has been issued to the Gauley
and Eastern Railway Company, or
ganised for the purpose of construct
ing and operating railroad from the
mouth of Gauley river toHuntesville,
Pocahontas county, VIVA. This road
when constructed willrun through one
of the finest coal and timber regions
of the State.
~ Illt iletllbS vi tlic ctdle Dur AS
ISOLATION of West Virginia at White
Sulphur Springs last week the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
f. B. Knight, of Charleston; Vice
Presidents, J. d. Ewing, of Wheeling,
George E. Price, of Keyser, Judge
Okey Johnson, of Charleston, and H.
G. Simms, of Huntington; Secretary,
w. p. Wiley, of Morgantown; Treas
urer, F. p. Reynolds, of Keyser; Elk
ecutive Council, John A. Hutchinson,
of Parkersburg, d. G. Gallaher, of
Charleston, HI. NJ. Russell, Col Rob
ert White and &. w. Atkinson, of
Wheeling; Delegates to the National
Bar Association, Col. j. w. Davis, of
Lewisburg, Judge Samuel Woods, of
Philippi, and Col Il. L. Brown, of
Charleston; Delegates to the Ameri-
can Bar Association, Col Robert
White and A. j. Clarke, of Wheeling,
and Jas. NJ. Payne, of Keyser