Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-01-11
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Rev. DIR. II. H. Morell, rector Of st.
Luke's p. f. Church, of Wheeling,
was found dead in bed few days
ago.
Jane Fosrd. a prominent farmer OF
Doddridge county, committed suicide
Monday by cutting his throat with a
knife.
Mr.. Harrison, of Hampshire coun-
ty. has bought the Joseph Vanmeter
home place, in the ''Old Fields,
Hardy county, for $4,000.
In Lincoln county, Lloyd Dingess
and VIM. Hale quarreled about a
woman, and Hale shot and killed DIN
CESS. They were brother-in-law.
Mrs. Henrietta Somerville, aged
eighty, was burned to death near
Point Pleasant few days ago through
her clothes taking fire from a CRATE.
Mr.. Lewis Hovermill, of Sleepy
Creek, while defending a hill near
Ernstville, fell under heavily loaded
wagon which passed over one of his
legs, crushing it badly in two places.
There is great deal of excitement
in the vicinity of Eureka, Peasants
county, through the discovery of
one-hundred- barrel oil well. A large
extent of valuable territory will be
opened up, it is expected.
Mr.. Stills. wife of Major Robert
Stills, of Richmond, accidentally got
hold of bottle containing poison
Gus drug instead Of her medicine,
few DAYS ago, and swallowed a suffi-
cient quantity to cause her death.
Mrs. Stiles. was a daughter of the late
Senator Allen r. Caperton, of West
Virginia.
The notice in the case of Fleming
against Golf in the gubernatorial con
test was served personally upon Gof
at Clarksburg last week by Hon. ).
w. st. Clair. Judge Fleming does not
make single technical specification,
but relies solely upon the acceptance
of fraudulent and illegal votes. The
number of illegal votes charged in the
notice is one thousand and forty-two.
1t is believed that there were three
times that number cast, want OF time
preventing thorough investigation
and ascertainment of the illegal votes
cast in the State not included in no.
tice.
The Tradesu,an, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, in a table showing the indus
trial growth of the South in the past
year, and giving list of new and
contemplated industries for 1888, cred
it's West Virginia with the following:
Brick works, 5; bridge works, l; car
works, 3; canning factories, z; cigar
and tobacco factories, /; cotton and
wooden mills, 2; flour and grist mills,
2: foundries and machine shops, 10;
furnaces, 1 gas works, 1; glass works,
/; mines and quaries, %; natural gas
and oil companies, 2; potteries, l.;
railroads, /; rolling mills, 1;street rail
WAYS, 4; water works, 3; wood work
ing establishments. 10; miscellaneous
industries, 20; total, 12l. 1t is very
probable the Tradesman has missed
few.
News has been received Of terri
BILE explosion at New Hope, Mercer
county, last Saturday. The farmers
of the neighborhood had congregated
at William Carriers steam grist mill to
obtain their usual supplies of flour.
About 10 30 o'clock William Jerome,
Thomas Carter, Joseph K. French,
Wade Shuf1lebarger, John WINNER.
Levi Shields and Eli Shields were sit
ting in the mill talking, when a terri
BILE explosion occurred. The boiler
had bursted. The mill was totally
wrecked and the following named
were instantly killed: Joseph E.
French, Thomas Carter, Levi Shields
and John Winner Eli Shields was
horribly scalded, and died the next
day. Wade Shufflebareer was badly
burned about the face and body, but
will probably recover. Jerome Carter
was injured about the head and face.
His collarbone was broken, and he
was considerably burned. William
Carter was seriously bruised and in
jured internally. The explosion was
of terrific force The heavy mill beams
were rent and broken into splinters,
horribly mangling the bodies of the
dead men. Pieces of the boiler weigh
ing at least two hundred pounds were
blown over three hundred yards. No
one present can assign any cause for
the accident, but it is thought it was
due to the negligence of the engineer,
Wade Shnffieba rper who allowed the