Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-02-21
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.


James W. Finley, a large cattle
dealer of Grafton, has made an as
signment.
Mr.. John Geary was thrown from
his horse and his neck broken near
Charleston the other day.
Hon. A. L. Sehon, of Mason county,
w. Va, died Sunday. He was a
brother of ex-United States Marshal
Sehon.
Will Friddle, of Moorefield, has had
his right shoulder dislocated eleven
times. The last occasion was last
Monday, and the cause was kick by
a cow.
The tobacco factory of Bloch Bros,
at Parkersburg, has been seized by
government officers. The firm is
charged with issuing overweight
packages.
VIM. II. Robinson, the mail-carrier
from Rawley Springs to Franklin, w.
Va. was drowned while attempting
TO cross Dry river at Rawley Springs,
which was much swollen from the
recent rains.
Ubrilla Matthews. a nineteen-year-
old girl was found dead in bed at her
home in Wheeling Tuesday morning.
An empty two-ounce bottle of chloro-
form was found by her side, and it
was evident she had committed sui
eide during the night.
The dead body of John Crawford,
of Raleigh county, was found in the
public road Wednesday near Hinton.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
that he came TO his death from apo
plexy, caused by intoxication. He
was aged So years, and leaves a large
family.
Friday morning Mrs. William Leon
ard, of Taylor county, left her home,
taking her little five-year-old girl, and
went to the woods. where she hid,
being under the hallucination that
some one was trying 10 kill her She
was not found until Sunday morning.
The little girls limbs were frozen TO
the knees, and both the child and
mother were nearly dead from cold.
In the Circuit Court of Hampshire
county, last Saturday, the jury in the
case of Samuel Price and his son Stan
lev, tried for being concerned in the
fight at a picnic near Forks of Capon
on August 10, 1889, in which George
A. Largeant was shot and killed by
Sherman Price, son of Samuel, rem
dered verdict clearing Stanley and
finding the father guilty of man
slaughter, punishable by from two TO
five years confinement in the peni-
Tertiary.
The bitterest discussion In the Leg
islature since the close of the .guber-
Material contest took place in the
Senate Wednesday over Mr.. Camp
bells resolution to adjourn that night
The Republicans, of whom Campbell
is one, advocated the joint resolution,
and the Democrats opposed it on the
ground that the Republican majority
of the judiciary committee still had
the australian ballot reform bill' in
their charge, and were endeavoring
to smother it in order to force Demo
Gratis to adjourn before the bill could
be passed. There were charges and
countercharges by each side and
some of the language used was very
undignified. The Democrats carried
their point and defeated the motion.
The Republican members Of the COM
mittee then decided to report the bill
back TO the Senate Thursday. Ii is
very doubtful if the bill can be passed
but the Democrats have determined
to put the Republicans on the record
in the matter.
The Red Men and White Cap spirit
seems to be coming to the front again,
in certain sections of the State. A
man named Smith, accompanied by
his wife and children, passed through
Parkersburg u day or two ago on
their way to Ohio. The man said
that he had been awfully whipped on
the bare body by the Red Men of
Rockport and told to leave the State.
The mans wife says that certain
well-known citizen of Rockport as
saulted her with criminal intentions,
and because she resisted and had him
arrested, the Red Men swore ven
geance on her and her family. After
whipping the husband, as stated,
they caught the wife, she affirms, as
she was trying to escape from an
upper window in the dwelling, and
whipped her scandalously. The
whole family were then told to leave
in twenty-four hours or they would
be treated worse next time. Smith
with his wife and children are now
somewhere in Ohio.