Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-11
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Col. J. A. Lockwood, of Moundsville,
was fatally injured at Wheeling last
week by being struck by train.
Felix Kampf cut his son William
and daughter Mary to death Friday
night at his home, near Charleston.
He was drunk and the children refus-
ed him shelter. Kampf was arrested.
Thursday last, Bluff Myers eloped
with Mrs. Oscar Silly from their home
near Peerless, Kanawha county.
Mrs. Myers pursued the clipping
couple and shot Mrs. Silly. 1t is
Thought the wounded woman will die.
There is every prospect now OF a
railroad from Wheeling to the Con-
nellsville coke region. The Wheeling
Union Bridge and Terminal System,
in which Eastern capitalists are put
ting about So, 900, 600, will continue the
road.
Frank Morris, Of Worthington,
Wood county, is the owner Of horse
whose shoes literally dropped from
the heavens. Some years ago mete-
oric stone fell on the banks of Jennys
creek, in Wayne county, land was dl-
yided up among the people in the
neiehborhood as soon as 1t was dlscov-
cred. The aerolite contained large
percentage of iron, and some OF the
fragments were produced by Morris,
who had a blacksmith friend work
them up into a set of shoes for his
horse. The iron is very hard, and the
shoes have outlasted two or three sets
of ordinary shoes.
A remarkable accident at shooting,
followed by an almost successful at
tempt at suicide, occurred at INITIALS
burp a. small station on the line OF
the Chesapeake Il Ohio Railroad, last
week. A helper engine, on which
William Layton was engineer and
George Steele fireman, stopped at the
station, and Layton got out OF the cab
and began to practice with revolver.
Steele looked out of the cab window,
when Layton asked permission to
shoot through his hat. Steele assent
ed when Layton fired. The ball
struck Steele in the head, and he died
in few minutes. Layton then at
tempted to shoot himself, but was pre-
vented lust in the nick of time.
The celebrated case of the late United
States Senator Allen II. Caperton
against Berry, Rich and others came
up before Judge Jackson, OF the Uni
ted States Court, at Parkersburg, w.
Va, Saturday last. The suit was
brought to clear title to immense
tracts of land which are in Webster,
Upshur, Braxton and other counties.
Something like 200, 900 to 300, 900 acres
of land is in dispute. Judge jackson
granted a decree in favor of the Cap
erton heirs on the Rich suit, clearing
the title in about 100 900 acres of land
IN the suit and settling the controversy
as to the other large tracts. The land
in dispute is well timbered and also
contains great coal and mineral beds
This land had all been sold to Senator
Camden and others, with the agree
ment that it was to be taken and paid
for when the title was cleared.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed i'm the office of the Secretary of
State, forming one Of the largest coal
companies ever orgaized in the State.
The incorporators are known through
out the United States and have ample
capital, being Abram s. Hewitt, of
New York; Levi p. Morton and his
partner, Mr. Bliss, New York bankers
and VIM. N. Page, of Ansted, Fayette
county, w. Va, the location of the
works. This company, through their
president and general manager, VIM:
n. Page, have leased the property of
Hawks Nest Coal Company, in Fay
cite county, w. Va. The G. and o.
Railroad will at once construct
broad-guage railroad to take the place
of the narrow guage now there from
Hawks Nest Station to the mines on
Gauley mountain, distance of four
and a-half miles, and the mines will be
at once enlarged to the capacity OF
five thousand tons per day.