Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-08-29
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Incendiaries have invaded the Bel
mont and Eureka oil fields, and have
DESTROYED a number of big oil tanks
and other property.
Governor Fleming has moved his
household goods from Fairmont to
Charleston, and his family will prob
ably settle down in their new home
next week.
There is to be Confederate reunion
at Franklin, Pendleton county, Sept.
9Th. Senator Faulkner, Congress
man W. l.. Wilson and ex-senator
Camden are expected to be present
and make addresses.
Elmer Mann and Nelson Saylor
were out hunting in Greenbrier coun-
ty last Saturday. when Mann's gun
was accidentally discharged. The bull
let struck Saylor in the heart, killing
him instantly.
There is an epidemic of typhoid
fever at the State prison at Mounds
prisoners sick with the disease, and
two of them died Saturday. The sit
uation is regarded as alarming.
J. II. Coulter, of Monroe county,
weighed a few days ago from his
flock Of sheep one thoroughbred
Cotswold buck, three years old, which
pulled the scales at 23S pounds. Twin
lambs, five months old, weighed 240
pounds, an average of 120 pounds each.
Charles P. Berkshire, Of Morgan
town, is making cane for the world s
fair at Chicago in 1893. which will con-
tain 132 pieces of West Virginia wood,
have gold ferule and a diamond
tipped head. He has made several
valuable sticks, and expects this to
be one of the finest works of wood
engraving to be seen at the fair.
A Wheeling dispatch states that a
syndicate, of which Stephen b. Elkins
and ex-senator Henry G. Davis are
the prime movers, on Saturday COM
pleted deal for 1000 acres of coal
land on the Monongahela river, near
Morgantown, paying $4,000 for it.
Similar deals to the amount of half
a million have been made in the same
section by the syndicate. They are
believed to foreshadow the extension
of the West Virginia Central Road to
the Monongahela Valley and event
ually to Pittsburg.
On Thursday morning of last week
Richard Sales, of Martinsburg, w. Va,
was found lying along the s. V. r. R.,
ton. Drs G.. Mccormick and s. S.
Neill were asked to look to his in
juries and found his thigh dislocated
and a bad cut about the ankle, result
ing, the injured person said, from an
attempt to board train the first part
of the preceding night, and in this
condition he had laid there until found
in the morning. After receiving sur
gical treatment he was placed on the
northward bound mail train for home.
-Beryrile Conrier.
There was serious and bloody riot
at a performance given by the Sun
ny South" Theatrical Company at
Ceredo last Friday night. One man
was shot and over dozen more badly
beaten, while the floating theatre in
which the trouble occurred was badly
wrecked. The trouble was inaugu-
rated by number of tough young
men who persisted in insulting the
people upon the stage during the sec
ond act. Three of the performers left
the stage with clubs and attacked
their tormentors. The men were at
once overpowered by the audience
and cruelty beaten. The remainder
of the company went to their assist
ance when some one turned out the
lights. Pandemonium at once broke
loose, and every man began an on
slaught on his neighbor in the dark,
while women screamed and men
called for help. The police arrived
and deputized a number of citizens to
aid in quelling the riot. but this only
made matters worse, and soon revol-
yer shots began to echo around the
hall. Finally the crowd charged on
to the stage after the fleeing perform
ers, who were unceremoniously flung
into the river, where they were stoned
in the darkness. Every one of the po-
lice and show people were badly
wounded by stones, and the condition
of seN eral is serious.