Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-16
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Hon. w. l.. Wilson will make the
first address in his district at Phillip
pi, May %.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Sweeney, a promi-
nent Democrat of Wheeling, is dead,
aged "a years.
In a row in Logan county, between
Saunders and Mont. Stallings and
| Adair Adams about woman, the
latter was badly stabbed and will
probably die. His assailants were ar
| rested.
While attempting to board a NOV
| ing train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, near Bull Eye bridge, Mon
| day. an unknown man was killed
| and another lost an arm. They were
tramps.
Alexander Thacker was arraigned
| before United States commissioner
| at Charleston, charged with the forg-
cry of pension papers. He was held
| in 81 900 bond to await the action OF
the grand jury.
An attempt to eYpel a number OF
| suuatters from Mrs l.. G. Robinson's
large tract Of land in Wetzel county
| caused riot Saturday, during which
a mob demolished the home Of a
widow and burnsd her furniture.
Mrs. George Thornton, of Mason
county, while crossing her room few
DAYS ago, fell in a fit into the fire
place and burned to death in the
| presence of her two little children,
who were unable to pull her out Of
the flames.
The Lynchburg and West Virginia
Coal and Coke Company was organ
lied Monday by a number of Lynch
burg and West Virginia capitalists.
The company has leased large tract
of coal lands in Mcdowell county,
West Virginia, which they will de-
velop at once.
Mrs. James McGill, iof Richie
| county, whose husband recently de-
serted her, informed the authorities
on Saturday that he had been en-
gagged in countsrfeiting for four years
and turned over to them the moulds
and dies he had been using.
Miss Della Lyon, a well-known
school teacher of Jackson county,
| eloped with and was married at Pom
eroy, O., to Tommy Murray, one of
| her pupils. Tommy is 16 years old,
while his blushing bride and former
teacher confesses to 80 summers.
AT Stillwell, w. Va, Edward Mules,
the 1S-year-old son OF a prominent
! Baptist minister, was fishing, when
he discovered an unusually large fish,
| and secured his gun to shoot. He
| blew in the muzZle to test the load.
The gun was discharged and blew his
head of.
Governor Fleming has nominated
the following gentlemen as worlds
| fair commissioners to be appointed by
| President Harrison: J. w. st. Clair,
| OF Fayette county; j. ID. Butt, of JEFF
ferson county. Alternates, NJ. F. Fin
| lay, Of Ohio county, and w. Vroo-
man, of Wood county.
A little daughter was born to Mrs.
Henrietta Frail, on Slaughter's creek,
on April 16, that, though perfectly
| formed otherwise, has no eyes, nor
any indication in its face to show
where they should have been. The
little girl is doing nicely and bids fair
| to live to mature age.
In Wyoming county, Monday night
| Samuel Rhodes, a well-known citizen,
was taken from his house by a band
of regulators and severely logged.
| They charged him with undue init
macy with female domestic, but he
denies the charge. Rhodes had sew
| eral citizens arrested for the assault,
| but they proved an alabi.
A remarkable coincidence is re-
ported from West Virginia. A cen
sus of Elm Grove was taken Friday,
preparatory to Incorporating the vii
lage as a town, with the following re-
| suit Number of males over 81 years
of age, 14S number of males under
81 years of age, 14S; number of fe-
males over 16 years of age, 14S num-
| Der of females under 16 years OF age,
14S grand total, 592.
Wednesday night the house of VIM
p. Rodgers, in Plymouth district o.
Mercer county, was burned to the
ground, and the next morning the re-
mains of Mr.. Rodgers were found in
| the ruins, blackened and charred al
most beyond recognition. An inquest
was held over the remains, which de-
veloped the fact that threats had
been made against the life Of the old
man. 1t is believed by some that he
was murdered and the house fired to
cover the crime, while others think
the house was fired with the intention
of burning him to death. No one
has yet been arrested.
At Wheeling Wednesday afterno DON
of last week, while the naphtha yacht
Gertrude was crossing the Ohio river
the dress of Mrs. John Mendel JAM
med the tiller rope in a brass block,
and the yacht became unmanageable,
struck the upper end of barge
moored at the wharf, and capsized,
throwing all the occupants into the
river. The two ladies and ten of the
men were rescued promptly, as they
were not carried under the barge by
the current. E. w. Wells, d. A.
Brooks, Mr. Mclaughlin, and Will
liam English were carried under the
barge. Mr.. Wells was drowned, and
the other three were unconscious
when rescued, but were revived.