Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-01-24
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.
A stock company has been formed
TO run a creamery at Terra Alta.

A stock company has been formed
TO run a creamery at Terra Alta.
A little boy named Williamson wa:
burned TO death near Parkersburg
on Sunday. His clothing caught
fire from an open fireplace
Lewisburg by large majority has
voted a subscription of $4,000 for
a railroad from that place TO Romeo.
verte, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Road.
A. p. Hill, of Charleston, has work
ed and saved for seventeen years 70
build house. He built it and last
week it was burned. No insurance
Loss, $4,000.
While party of young men were
out coon hunting in Randolph coun-
" the other night one of their guns
was accidentally discharged, killing
Claude Gaspel.
Rev. Samuel r. Wheeler, a superan-
nuated preacher of the NJ. +. Church
South, and father of Rev. V. w
Wheeler, of the Baltimore Confer
ence. died at Anderson last week.
Engineer John Wiley, of the b. &
O., was cut into pieces by his own en-
CINE at Wheeling last week. He
tried to get off the locomotive while
it was in motion and fell on the
track.
Because Wesley Stone, of Lewiston,
would not take his wife 10 a baptiz-
ing last week, the foolish woman
took two ounces of laudanum. She
came near dying, but a stomach
pump saved her.
Near Wheeling on Tuesday by a
collision of b. 4 o. freight trains Con-
ductor Monroe McFane was killed
and Engineer King and Fireman
Jones very badly hurt. Near the
same place Brakeman George Buck
harmon had his skull cracked by
striking post as his train went by.
Near New Martinsville Richard
Anderson and Enoch Roberts got in
to an alteration rs TO the proper To-
cation of a fence. While they were
disputing. Alfred Roberts, father of
Enoch, struck young Anderson on
the head with a maui, fracturing his
skull. Death Is expected 10 result.
Tharan Province, of Wetzel county,
IA married man, the father of five chill
dren, few days ago eloped with the
wife of Bub Golf, and started with
Mrs. Golf to go To the far West and
grow up with the country, Mrs. Prov
ince and Mr.. Golf are left behind to
mourn the loss Of husband and
wife, respectively.
One day last week Mrs. Mercer, of
Grant district, Hancock county, was
cutting up some cold mush, when her
nine-months- old child asked for some.
She gave him small piece, which he
put in his mouth. but before swallow
ing it something started him TO laugh
ing, and the mush went down into DIS
windpipe, choking him to death IN Il
short time.
Another new line of railroad has
been proposed, and it is thought VIII
be erected during the ensuing year, 10
tap the mineral deposits of this
State. 1t will run from Pltts6urg
Pa. through West Virginia, to Lex
ington Va, and it will be from $50 TO
300 miles long. At a meeting of the
stockholders in Lexington recently
ex-Gov. Fitzhugh Lee was elected
president of the company, which Is
composed largely of New York CAPT
talists. The road will be known rs
the Pittsburg and West Virginia
Railroad.
The case of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad against the State OF West
Virginia, an appeal by the Company
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, was dismissed by the appel
liant. This case was originally brought
bv the State to recover large arrears
Of taxes due the county and different
boards Of education in Jefferson. IL
was removed on petition of the rail
road to the Federal Court at Par
kersburg. and in 1886 was remanded
TO the State Court by Chief Justice
Waite. From this order the Com
pany appealed and when the appeal
matured, was dismissed on its own
motion.