Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-28
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

The directors of the Keyser Bank
have bought a lot and will put up
fine building in the near future.
Alexander James and Charles
Jones auarreled over five-cent piece
at Charleston on Monday last, and
James shot and killed Jones.
Lewis Baker, formerly of the Wheel
ing Register, has sold his interest in
the st. Paul Globe for a handsome
sum. and it is claimed he intends TO
return to West Virginia.
At Winfield, last Thursday, King
Bradley tried to part two men, who
were fighting. John Moore, one OF
the fighters, struck the peacemaker
with a stone and killed him.
Governor Wilson has appointed Ed
ward Robertson commissioner OF labor
statistics, under the law passed at
the last session of the Legislature.
Robertson has been superintendent
of the penitentiary for the past four
years.
A fast mail train on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and ST. Louis Railroad was
thrown from the track near New
Cumberland last week. resulting in
the killing of two mail clerks and a
brakeman aud the severe injury of a
number of other employees.
Governor Wilson has named as the
commissioners to select the location
and purchase the site for the State
Reform School: Colonel a. \. Franz
helm. of Ohio county; j. p. Scott, OF
Tucker; J. p. Shanklin, of Monroe;
Lindsay Merrill, of Writ, and State
Superintendent of Schools b. s. Nor
gan. .
The case of Mahew and others
against the West Virginia Oil and
Oil Land Company, which has been
in the courts for thirteen years, was
settled at Parkersburg Friday by
compromise on the distribution of
the costs, thirty-two thousand dollars,
the plaintiffs getting three-fourths
and the defendants one-fourth.
A dispatch from Charleston says;
There are grave fears here among
the friends of Hon. j. w. Parrish for
his safety. Mr.. Parrish, who was
member of the House Of Delegates
and a very prominent Republican,
mysteriously disappeared about two
months ago, after going TO Washing
ton. His family and friends have
been unable TO ascertain any trace
of his whereabouts.
At the annual convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of West Virginia at Hunting
ton last week the following officers
for the next year were elected: Pres
ident, Mrs. Jane b. a. Johnson,
Parkersburg; Vice President, Miss
Mamie r. Cameron, Fairnont; Cor
responding Secretary, Miss Maud
Montgomery, Parkersburg; Record
ing Secretary, Mrs. Jennie McClurkin,
Roney's Point; Treasurer Mrs. Jennie
Sisson, Roney's Point
Sherman Price, of Paw Paw, this
county, killed panther about 4 miles
from that place on the 18th inst.
which measured feet and 8 inches
from tip to tip. After being wounded
the panther attacked Price, who pro-
tected himself by using his gun as a
club to keep the beast off-the gun
was completely wrecked in the melee.
Price finally overpowered the ami
NAL, which was weak from loss of
blood. and cut its throat with his
pocket knife Morgan Mercury
James ID. Paul. a bachelor, aged
about sixty years, who owned several
farms in Putnam county, and who
had for a tenant Will s. Wheeler,
with whom he lived, was struck on
the head, last Sunday morning, by
Wheeler with poker, from the effects
of which he died. 1t appears that
PAUL was too familiar with one of
Wheeler's daughters. AT Plymouth,
in the same county, John Moore be
came involved in trouble with Henry
Bradley, which resulted in Moore
striking Bradley with club, which
resulted in death.
The gubernatorial contest commit
tee, now in session in Grafton, finish
ed the reading of the Brooke county
dispositions, and Of about 200 votes
challenged by Golf five were thrown
out. Judgment has not yet been
passed upon the votes assailed by
Fleming. of which there are also
about 200, but when it is the result
will stand even in Brooke county, if
not little in Fleming's favor. The
dispositions show a bad state of affairs
in Brooke, parties having voted there
promiscuously from Pennsylvania and
Ohio without even being examined by
the officers, and it is possible a whole
precinct may yet be thrown out.
1t has been discovered that young
Harvey Duncan, who was drowned in
the Ohio river near Belprie, Ohio, on
Friday last, and whose death was sup
posed TO have been accidental, was
deliberately murdered in daylight.
Duncan, with three other young men
and two women, had been living in
boat house by the riverside. On
Friday disturbance took place in
the house, and a few minutes later
three men were seen TO come out
holding Duncan between them.
They put him in small boat and
rowed out into the stream. An old
German, who lives near by, heard
the lad plead for his life, but they
deliberately threw him into the river
and prevented him from swimming
out. He struggled for few minutes
and then sank. The West Virginia
authorities are now investigating the
matter.
At the meeting of the West Virginia
Press Association at Wellsburg last
week the following selections were
made for officers for the ensuing
year: President, NJ. 5. Holt, Weston
Republican; Vice President, }. V Hen